The 1972 Miami Dolphins became the first team in National Football League history to go through an entire season undefeated and untied.  The Dolphins' 17-0-0 season culminated with a 14-7 victory over the Washington Redskins in Super Bowl VII.  It is a unique feat that has stood the test of time.  The 1972 season was legendary coach Don Shula's third with the Dolphins.  Under his strict no-nonsense approach, the young Dolphins team gelled into a cohesive unit.  Though the team featured players, like Nick Buoniconti, Larry Csonka, Larry Little, Bob Griese, Jim Langer and Paul Warfield - all Hall of Famers - it was often contributions from the lesser-knowns that made the difference.  In fact, the team featured a defense that, although very good, lacked "star-power."  Capitalizing on their anonymity, they accepted the nickname the "No-Name Defense."  Eventually, even the "No-Names" of defensive linemen Manny Fernandez and Bill Stanfill became familiar names.  See picture and game by game results at http://www.profootballhof.com/history/decades/1970s/miami.aspx

A social engineer runs what used to be called a "con game."  For example, a person using social engineering to break into a computer network might try to gain the confidence of an authorized user and get them to reveal information that compromises the network's security. Social engineers often rely on the natural helpfulness of people as well as on their weaknesses.  They might, for example, call the authorized employee with some kind of urgent problem that requires immediate network access.  Appeal to vanity, appeal to authority, appeal to greed, and old-fashioned eavesdropping are other typical social engineering techniques.  Social engineering is a component of many, if not most, types of exploits.  Virus writers use social engineering tactics to persuade people to run malware-laden email attachments, phishers use social engineering to convince people to divulge sensitive information, and scareware vendors use social engineering to frighten people into running software that is useless at best and dangerous at worst.  Another aspect of social engineering relies on people's inability to keep up with a culture that relies heavily on information technology.  http://searchsecurity.techtarget.com/definition/social-engineering

 

What was fake on the Internet this week  Read weekly column by Caitlin Dewey at The Washington Post and find out.  April 18, 2014 example at http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/style-blog/wp/2014/04/18/what-was-fake-on-the-internet-this-week-diva-brawls-bedbugs-and-bomb-threats/  

Don't believe everything you read.  Don't believe everything you hear.   Have some healthy skepticism and investigate before spreading stories.

RILLETTES:  cooked shredded meat (as pork or duck) or fish preserved in fat

French, plural, diminutive of rille, singular, piece of pork, from Middle French, dialect variant of reille board, lath, from Latin regula straightedge.  first known use:  1889

http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/rillettes  Rillettes, the "French version of pulled pork turned into a rich spread"--recipe at http://www.nytimes.com/recipes/1015775/pork-rillettes.html  NOTE that rillettes can be made of other meats, such as duck, rabbit or chicken.  Find many recipes on the Web.

eCommerce Resources on the Internet by Marcus P. Zillman, a comprehensive listing of resources currently available on the Internet.  These include associations, indexes, search engines as well as individual websites and sources.  http://www.llrx.com/features/ecommerceresources.htm

The International Organization for Standardization known as ISO, is an international standard-setting body composed of representatives from various national standards organizations.  Founded on 23 February 1947, the organization promotes worldwide proprietary, industrial and commercial standards.  It is headquartered in Geneva, Switzerland.  The three official languages of the ISO are English, French and Russian.  As its name would have different abbreviations in different languages, the organization adopted "ISO", derived from the Greek word isos, meaning equal, as its abbreviated name.  The name "ISO" and the logo are both registered trademarks and their use is restricted.  Link to the ISO website at 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Organization_for_Standardization

The two-cent piece was produced by the Mint of the United States for circulation from 1864 to 1872 and for collectors in 1873.  On March 2, 1864, Mint Director James Pollock wrote urgently to Treasury Secretary Salmon P. Chase, warning him that the Mint was running out of nickel and that demand for cents was at an all-time high.  He also informed the Secretary that the United States Assay Commission, composed of citizens and officials who had met the previous month to test the nation's silver and gold coinage, had recommended the use of French bronze (95% copper with the remainder tin and zinc) as a coinage metal for the cent and a new two-cent piece.   Three days later, Chase sent Pollock's December letter and draft legislation for bronze one- and two-cent pieces to Maine Senator William P. Fessenden, chairman of the Senate Finance Committee. Fessenden took no immediate action, and on March 16, Pollock wrote again to Chase, warning that the Mint was going to run out of nickel, much of which was imported.  Chase forwarded his letter to Fessenden.  Legislation was finally introduced by New Hampshire Senator Daniel Clark on March 22; Pollock's letters were read and apparently influenced proceedings as the Senate passed the bill without debate.  The domestic supply of nickel was at that time produced by a mine at Gap, Pennsylvania, owned by industrialist Joseph Wharton.  On March 19, Pollock wrote to Chase that they had no more nickel, nor was any available from overseas; "we are thus shut up to the home supply; from the works of Mr. Wharton".  Opposed to the removal of nickel from the cent, Wharton published a pamphlet in April 1864 proposing coinage of one-, two-, three-, five-, and ten-cent pieces of an alloy of one part nickel to three of copper, doubling the percentage of nickel used in the cent.  Despite Wharton's efforts, on April 20, a select committee of the House of Representatives endorsed the bill.  It was opposed by Pennsylvania's Thaddeus Stevens, who represented the mining area from which Wharton extracted his nickel.  Wharton had spent $200,000 to develop his mine and ore refinement machinery, Stevens related, and it was unfair to deprive him of the major use of his metal.  "Shall we destroy all this property because by coining with another metal more money may be saved to the government?"  Besides, he argued, the copper-nickel alloy for the cent had been approved by Congress, and the new metal, which he termed "brass", would show rust.   The legislation passed the House, and the Coinage Act of 1864 was signed by President Abraham Lincoln on April 22, 1864.  The legislation made base metal coins legal tender for the first time:  both cents and two-cent pieces were acceptable in quantities of up to ten.  Read much more at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Two-cent_piece

Alibaba Group Holding Ltd., which rode China’s emergence as an economic superpower over the last 15 years to become a massive online marketplace for everything from forks to forklifts, filed May 6, 2014 for what could become the largest U.S. initial public offering ever.  Founded by former English teacher Jack Ma, 49, in a Hangzhou apartment, Alibaba started with a few dozen items for sale.  The company might raise as much as $20 billion, topping a $19.65 billion offering by Visa Inc. in 2008, data compiled by Bloomberg show.  Leslie Picker  http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-05-06/alibaba-files-for-us-public-offering-of-e-commerce-giant.html

http://librariansmuse.blogspot.com  Issue 1145  May 7, 2014   On this date in 1718, the city of New Orleans was founded by Jean-Baptiste Le Moyne de Bienville.  On this date in 1824, the world premiere of Ludwig van Beethoven's Ninth Symphony was performed under the composer's supervision in Vienna, Austria.