Firefly fanfic

There have been countless fan-written stories of various lengths set in the universe of Joss Whedon's Firefly and involving its characters.  One more is no big deal, right?

Well this one happens to be by Steven Brust.

And he's released it under the Creative Commons license.

h/t John Scalzi

Denial of Service

Bruce Schneier reports on the fourth and apparently fifth undersea cable in the Middle East being cut or otherwise taken offline.  He notes:

There have been no official reports of malice to me, but it's an awfully big coincidence.

To quote Ian Fleming's iconic villain Auric Goldfinger, "Once is happenstance, twice is coincidence, three times is enemy action."  If so, what does five times mean?