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Do you view hackers as the pasty faced 15 year old male who could make 1600 on the SAT with a 107 fever? We've seen that stereotype has been debunked. Sarah Gordon might debunk the stereotype that hackers are the Darth Vaders of society. They may actually understand the rules of society, but not actually understand that they should be applied to those on the other side of the screen. Posted by Ezra [Tuesday, May 29, 2001] [05:03 p.m.] |
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Found something new to be interested in and research more information concerning: Steganographyor more simply the art of transporting data within another medium. So like in Along Came A Spider one might send a note to a friend encrypted inside a picture (or audio file). Some links?
Posted by Ezra [Tuesday, May 29, 2001] [03:48 p.m.] |
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SecurityWatch has an interesting article discussing a new virus which looks for filenames which might contain kiddie porn. Once it identifies a file that may contain it, the file and email address are emailed to a government agency. Read the article. Another article discusses a bill circulating the House which would allow ISPs to sue spammers. Companies are concerned that their access to consumers would be limited. Of course, I think companies should be limited in their access to consumers just like telephone marketers are limited.
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Shopping online with a credit card should be getting safer. Inter@ctive Week has an article on Mastercard, Visa, and American Express approaches to making this stuff safe. Inter@ctive Week article Posted by Ezra [Friday, May 25, 2001] [10:33 a.m.] |
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Tom Wise has another opinion article out on Racism and the criminal justice system. Read it on Alternet.org Posted by Ezra [Friday, May 25, 2001] [10:07 a.m.] |
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Note to self: Do not ask people to reply to more than one question per email. Posted by Ezra [Thursday, May 24, 2001] [03:25 p.m.] |
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Write a nonfiction book, and be prepared for the legion of readers who are going to doubt your fact. But write a novel, and get ready for the world to assume every word is true. --Barbara Kingsolver Posted by Ezra [Wednesday, May 23, 2001] [04:56 p.m.] |
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Bet you thought that the Taliban would stop at desecrating the Buddist statues. Think again! Read the UN Wire article. (After May 23rd it should be in the archived version)
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If you believe everything you read, you better not read. We rarely think that people have good sense unless they agree with us. "That's the difference between me and the rest of the world! Happiness isn't good enough for me! I demand euphoria!" Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing ever happened. Really appropriate for today: "All that is gold does not glitter, not all those who wander are lost;
The old that is strong does not wither, deep roots are not touched by
the frost;" "Perfection of means and confusion of goals seem -- in my opinion -- to characterize our age." |
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A Dennis Leary quote: "Racism isn't born, folks. It's taught. I have a 2 - year old son. You know what he hates? Naps! End of list." Posted by Ezra [Wednesday, May 23, 2001] [11:38 a.m.] |
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I am in Lacey's top 50 referrers with 23 (or 0.47%) of her hits coming from my site. Not too shabby, I guess. Posted by Ezra [Tuesday, May 22, 2001] [05:02 p.m.] |
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Bush likes to talk about how we need to test students often to see what they know. Well, maybe we need to make sure that the textbooks in schools are as accurate as they can be? Read the article. Posted by Ezra [Tuesday, May 22, 2001] [02:28 p.m.] |
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There is something about shelves. For some reason the ultimate design for a room to me is covered with the things. I even designed one room with 2 cabinet doors on each wall where one could hand paintings, but behind would of course be more shelves. I could never have enough shelving as more shelves only means that I have more room to place more stuff. Posted by Ezra [Tuesday, May 22, 2001] [01:35 p.m.] |
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This is a really cool quote exemplifying the fear created by the free exchange of ideas. "If not stopped, the 21 million-plus and growing (Napster & Gnutella) community could usher in a cultural apocalypse that threatens to plunge the world into darkness not seen since the turn of the last millennium." Posted by Ezra [Friday, May 18, 2001] [11:13 a.m.] |
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I especially like the last paragraph. --Frederic Bastiat (1801-1850), Economic Harmonies (1850) Posted by Ezra [Friday, May 18, 2001] [10:50 a.m.] |
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"...there is an art to flying...or rather a knack. The knack lies in learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss." >>>Douglas Adams, Life, the Universe and Everything Posted by Ezra [Friday, May 18, 2001] [10:50 a.m.] |
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Someone wrote a virus which exploits a backdoor created by the lion worm to... patch the infected system. Interesting that anti-virus "experts" are concerned about it because it does break into your system. Read the article at s e c u r i t y w a t c h . c o m. Posted by Ezra [Friday, May 18, 2001] [10:18 a.m.] |
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"You live and learn. At any rate, you live." -- Douglas Adams Posted by Ezra [Tuesday, May 15, 2001] [02:02 p.m.] |
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It is good to see SOME people being creative. Posted by Ezra [Tuesday, May 15, 2001] [10:18 a.m.] |
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Hmmmmmmmmmmmmm... don't know which I prefer. Posted by Ezra [Monday, May 14, 2001] [02:01 p.m.] |
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Politicians are like 16 year old boys. Played Risk last night with a four 16 year olds. They made these blatently faux pacts all the while planning how to break the deal. Was actually quite humorous as they perceived me as the threat. Admittedly, I used to play Risk against the computer quite a bit. Even at the highest A.I. level the computer struggled to take me. True to form, they were intimidated and let me take Australia during the first turn. I just about had Africa when one of them decided to give up South America and Kamakazi me to sufficiently reduce his threat and allow another player to eliminate him get his 4 cards. The irony is the guy that eliminated him already had North America secured. 5 armies for NA... 2 armies for SA... 15 armies in the bag for being forced to turn in cards. Guess my 9 years advantage and my quick acquisition of Australia made them turn their attention to me. That gambit was only successful because I made good rolls. My luck turned sour. With rarely good rolls nothing can save you. The irony is the guy that took North America was the one arguing that I was not a real threat. The other 3 spent too much time wheeling and dealing these obviously false pacts: "If you move your armies out of the way and let me take that territory, then I will not attack you here. Also I will attack your enemy to wear him down so you can attack him." Once the dealer got his territory he would attack the ally.
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Hmmmmmmm... Defacements rise in China/U.S. hacker war. Kind of like gangs tagging streets. You go into the other's territory and leave a message to your friends that you did this. Posted by Ezra [Thursday, May 3, 2001] [05:12 p.m.] |
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It seems that the large amount of hacking and an innability to stop it has resulted in vigilantes attacking perceived threats. See article Posted by Ezra [Thursday, May 3, 2001] [03:57 p.m.] |
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Hmmmmmmmmmm... guess it is time to clean up my space in the office, huh? Posted by Ezra [Thursday, May 3, 2001] [07:45 a.m.] |
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Americans are so caught up in the idea of materialism through capitalism that they think that a pure capitalist system benefits everyone. The premise of capitalism is that everyone will do what advantages them or they die. Maybe not dead in a coffin and grave, but they would be homeless and incapable of competing in the market. The assumption is that people almost always will do what benefits them. For the most part I think it is a fairly valid assumption. It lacks error handling. Many Americans care about their fellow human beings. The endeavor to help those who have made mistakes can be considered noble and merciful. Why is it necessary to help these people? Because all of us can and do make mistakes. Who knows when the homeless person is one of us? Utilities are an essential aspect of life. They provide us those things that are necessary to function in society. Electricity, gas, telephone, cable, internet access. Did internet access surprise you? It shouldn't... after all, how could you read this unless you or someone else has it? A popular trend in this country is to deregulate access when large companies have too much control over a utility. We wanted to deregulate the long distance telephone companies to give smaller companies a chance. So these smaller companies can pay rent to the bigger ones? Naturally the bigger companies are at an advantage to limit access to resources as higher demand creates bigger prices. We the consumers get screwed. The big companies get richer. We can't go somewhere else because all of the small companies are getting screwed too.
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This is pretty cool... they help others keep up with your email address changes. Veri Post Posted by Ezra [Thursday, April 26, 2001] [04:13 p.m.] |
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Have a new site to love: The Skeptic's Dictionary! Posted by Ezra [Wednesday, April 25, 2001] [04:26 p.m.] |