RE: Wormy cheese

["Bryan McAninch" <bryan () mcaninch org>]

I've heard durian fruit is the analogous delicacy of our cheeses. Give it a
try as an interim replacement... ;)

-----Original Message-----
From: Dave Aitel [mailto:dave () immunitysec com] 
Sent: Sunday, September 25, 2005 02:24 PM
To: dailydave
Subject: [Dailydave] Wormy cheese

What is it about curdled milk that is so amazingly complex that no one in
the New World has figured it out? It's cheaper to buy a 1G USB key than it
is a pound of decent cheese over here, which is nutty. I can understand that
there aren't a whole lot of cows in Florida (quadrupeds, that is), but it
seems like maybe a farmer in the Midwest could use the downtime from
Katrina's destruction of our Mississippi seaport to figure out how to make
blue cheese that didn't taste like a weak cheddar, or a cheddar that tasted
something other than a harder swiss. My local supermarket imports a huge
quantity of respectable cheese from Ireland. 
Why cheese is something you import from tiny countries far away when you
have grasslands from sea to shining sea is beyond me though.

Maybe when string theory is done we'll be able to model proteins well enough
to get a scientifically perfect 10-dimensional cheese making process that
allows even Americans to make non-crappy Gouda.  Until then, the only thing
more annoying than trying to buy edible cheese in Florida is of course
flying anywhere on our "friendly", bankrupt, heavily government subsidized
airlines. I'm heading to Malaysia tomorrow for HITB, and I'll be demoing
Nematode 0.1 (motto: "the version that pretty much works"). Maybe version
1.0 will model network traffic to fit inside statistical profiles,
automatically optimize target lists using arp caches and sniffer logs, or
serve microwaved nachos for snacks.

If anyone at HITB has never seen CANVAS and wants to see a quick demo that
looks almost exactly like the flash movies on our website, except without
all the funny jokes, pull me aside and let me know.

-dave