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Sep 2005
EU Tries to Unblock Internet Impasse
The United States and Europe clashed here Thursday in one of their sharpest public disagreements in months, after European Union negotiators proposed stripping the Americans of their effective control of the Internet.
The European decision to back the rest of the world in demanding the creation of a new international body to govern the Internet clearly caught the Americans off balance and left them largely isolated at talks designed to come up with a new way of regulating the digital traffic of the 21st century.
"It's a very shocking and profound change of the EU's position," said David Gross, the State Department official in charge of America's international communications policy. "The EU's proposal seems to represent an historic shift in the regulatory approach to the Internet from one that is based on private sector leadership to a government, top-down control of the Internet."
Delegates meeting in Geneva for the past two weeks had been hoping to reach consensus for a draft document by Friday after two years of debate. The talks on international digital issues, called the World Summit on the Information Society and organized by the United Nations, were scheduled to conclude in November at a meeting in Tunisia. Instead, the talks have deadlocked, with the United States fighting a solitary battle against countries that want to see a global body take over supervision of the Internet.
The United States lost its only ally late Wednesday when the EU made a surprise proposal to create an intergovernmental body that would set principles for running the Internet. Currently, the U.S. Commerce Department approves changes to the Internet's "root zone files," which are administered by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, or Icann, a nonprofit organization based in Marina del Rey, California.
Political unease with the U.S. approach, symbolized by opposition to the war in Iraq, has spilled over into these technical discussions, delegates said. The EU and developing nations, they added, wanted to send a signal to America that it could not run things alone. Opposition to Washington's continued dominance of the Internet was illustrated by a statement released last week by the Brazilian delegation to the talks. "On Internet governance, three words tend to come to mind: lack of legitimacy. In our digital world, only one nation decides for all of us."
In its new proposal, the EU said the new body could set guidelines on who gets control of what Internet address - the main mechanism for finding information across the global network - and could play a role in helping to set up a system for resolving disputes.
"The role of governments in the new cooperation model should be mainly focused on principle issues of public policy, excluding any involvement in the day-to-day operations," the proposal said. The new model "should not replace existing mechanisms or institutions," it added. The proposal was vague but left open the possibility, fiercely opposed by Washington, that the United Nations itself could have some future governing role.
The United States has sharply criticized demands, like one made last week by Iran, for a UN body to govern the Internet, Gross said. "No intergovernmental body should control the Internet," he said, "whether it's the UN or any other." U.S. officials argue that a system like the one proposed by the EU would lead to unwanted bureaucratization of the Internet.
"I think the U.S. is overreacting," said David Hendon, a spokesman for the EU delegation.
"But I think it's a tactical overreaction for the negotiations," he added.
"We expected this proposal to move the summit along from the stalemate," Hendon said. "It is unreasonable to leave in the hands of the U.S. the power to decide what happens with the Internet in other countries."
Various groups, including the International Telecommunication Union, a UN agency based in Geneva, have suggested that the U.S. government has too much control over the Internet.
Under the terms of a 1998 memorandum of understanding, Icann was to gain its independence from the Commerce Department by September 2006.
But the Bush administration said in July that the United States would "maintain its historic role in authorizing changes or modifications to the authoritative root zone file." In so doing, the government "intends to preserve the security and stability" of the technical underpinnings of the Internet.
Without consensus, some experts say that countries might move ahead with setting up their own domain name system, or DNS, as a way of bypassing Icann.
The United States argues that a single addressing system is what makes the Internet so powerful, and moves to set up multiple Internets would be in no one's interest.
"It's not just working," said Michael Gallagher, an assistant secretary at the Commerce Department who heads communication policy. "It's working spectacularly." Paul Twomey, chief executive of Icann, said fears of U.S. government influence on the Internet were overstated.
Delegates say the conference has made much better progress on issues like dealing with spam e-mail messages and identity theft since it began in 2003. But they said they did not expect to be able to complete a document on Friday, as had been planned, and that further talks would be needed before the Tunisia meeting Nov. 16 to 18.
Source: New York Times
Sep 2005
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Intelligence in the Internet age
It's a question older than the Parthenon: Do innovations and new technologies make us more intelligent?
A few thousand years ago, a Greek philosopher, as he snacked on dates on a bench in downtown Athens, may have wondered if the written language folks were starting to use was allowing them to avoid thinking for themselves.
Today, terabytes of easily accessed data, always-on Internet connectivity, and lightning-fast search engines are profoundly changing the way people gather information. But the age-old question remains: Is technology making us smarter? Or are we lazily reliant on computers, and, well, dumber than we used to be?
"Our environment, because of technology, is changing, and therefore the abilities we need in order to navigate these highly information-laden environments and succeed are changing," said Susana Urbina, a professor of psychology at the University of North Florida who has studied the roots of intelligence.
If there is a good answer to the question, it probably starts with a contradiction: What makes us intelligent--the ability to reason and learn--is staying the same and will never fundamentally change because of technology. On the other hand, technology, from pocket calculators to the Internet, is radically changing the notion of the intelligence necessary to function in the modern world.
Take Diego Valderrama, an economist with the Federal Reserve Bank in San Francisco. If he were an economist 40 years ago, he may have used a paper, pencil and slide rule to figure out and chart by hand how the local economy might change with a 1 percent boost in taxes. But because he's a thoroughly modern guy, he uses knowledge of the C++ programming language to create mathematical algorithms to compute answers and produce elaborate projections on the impact of macroeconomic changes to work forces or consumer consumption.
Does that mean he's not as bright as an economist from the 1950s? Is he smarter? The answer is probably "no" on both counts. He traded one skill for another. Computer skills make him far more efficient and allow him to present more accurate--more intelligent--information. And without them, he'd have a tough time doing his job. But drop him into the Federal Reserve 40 years ago, and a lack of skill with the slide rule could put an equal crimp on his career.
Intelligence, as it impacts the economist Valderrama, is our capacity to adapt and thrive in our own environment. In a Darwinian sense, it's as true now as it was millions of years ago, when man's aptitude for hearing the way branches broke or smelling a spore affected his power to avoid predators, eat and survive.
But what makes someone smart can vary in different cultures and situations. A successful Wall Street banker who has dropped into the Australian Outback likely couldn't pull off a great Crocodile Dundee impression. A mathematical genius like Isaac Newton could be--in fact, he was--socially inept and a borderline hermit. A master painter? Probably not so good at balancing a checkbook.
What's undeniable is the Internet's democratization of information. It's providing instant access to information and, in a sense, improving the practical application of intelligence for everyone.
Nearly a century ago, Henry Ford didn't have the Internet, but he did have a bunch of smart guys. The auto industry pioneer, as a parlor trick, liked to claim he could answer any question in 30 minutes. In fact, he had organized a research staff he could call at any time to get him the answer.
Today, you don't have to be an auto baron to feign that kind of knowledge. You just have to be able to type G-O-O-G-L-E. People can in a matter of minutes find sources of information like court documents, scientific papers or corporate securities filings.
"The notion that the world's knowledge is literally at your fingertips is very compelling and is very beguiling," said Vint Cerf, who co-created the underlying architecture of the Internet and who is widely considered one of its "fathers." What's exciting "is the Internet's ability to absorb such a large amount of information and for it to be accessible to other people, even if they don't know it exists or don't know who you are."
Indeed, Doug Engelbart, one of the pioneers of personal computing technology in the 1960s, envisioned in the early '60s that the PC would augment human intelligence. He believes that society's ability to gain insight from information has evolved with the help of computers.
"The key thing about all the world's big problems is that they have to be dealt with collectively," Engelbart said. "If we don't get collectively smarter, we're doomed."
The virtual memory
According to at least one definition, intelligence is the "ability to reason, plan, solve problems, think abstractly, comprehend ideas and language, and learn." Yet intelligence is not just about book learning or test scores; it also reflects a deeper understanding of the world. On average, people with high IQs are thought to live longer, earn more money, process information faster and have larger working memories.
Yet could all this information provided by the Internet and gadgets dampen our motivation to remember anything?
Source: news.com.com
Sep 2005
Die Namen sind einfach nur Informationen, die etwas
von etwas anderem unterscheiden sollen.
Sie sind eine künstliche
Eigenschaft, die mit dem Bezeichneten zu diesem Zweck verbunden wird - also
genannt.
Das Ganze ist so gestaltet, dass das Herstellen und Verwenden der Namen mit geringem Aufwand umsetzbar ist. Wer mehr über Namen wissen mag kann ja im Internet mal nach sandra suchen - der wird schlauer.
Die Herkunft von Namen versucht die
Etymologie zu klären.
Dazu einfach eine Erdnuss essen - das zusammen ist erst der geistreiche Genuss in Nuss ;)
Namen im Internet findet man doch immer wieder. Sei es nun solch ein einfacher und schöner Name wie
Silvia dann hat man echt Glück gehabt.
Jedoch sollte man auch andere Schreibweisen von Namen
tolerieren. Also wer meint, das er
Silvia mit
i schreiben mag, der darf das
tun. Solche Namen wie Susanne kann man doch ebenfalls in tausenden verschiedenen Schreibarten niederschreiben oder? Also übt Toleranz, wenn es um Namen geht und deren Nennung.
Mann kann auch sagen alles, kann nichts muss. Wer also in der Namensgebung nicht
genau weiss, wie er weiter Verfahren soll, sollte doch einfachmal Googeln und
sehen, was bei raus kommt. Besonders beim Begriff Erotik
sind die Möglichkeiten unbegrenzt, in den Suchergebnissen konstruktive
Ergebnisse zu finden. Sollten keine guten Ergebnisse bei raus kommen, nicht
traurig sein.......
Die Namen sind einfach nur Informationen, die etwas
von etwas anderem unterscheiden sollen.
Sie sind eine künstliche
Eigenschaft, die mit dem Bezeichneten zu diesem Zweck verbunden wird - also
genannt.
Das Ganze ist so gestaltet, dass das Herstellen und Verwenden der Namen mit geringem Aufwand umsetzbar ist. Wer mehr über Namen wissen mag kann ja im Internet mal nach sandra suchen - der wird schlauer.
Die Herkunft von Namen versucht die
Etymologie zu klären.
Dazu einfach eine Erdnuss essen - das zusammen ist erst der geistreiche Genuss in Nuss ;)
Namen im Internet findet man doch immer wieder. Sei es nun solch ein einfacher und schöner Name wie
Sylvia dann hat man echt Glück gehabt.
Jedoch sollte man auch andere Schreibweisen von Namen
tolerieren. Also wer meint, das er
Silvia mit
i schreiben mag, der darf das
tun. Solche Namen wie Susanne kann man doch ebenfalls in tausenden verschiedenen Schreibarten niederschreiben oder? Also übt Toleranz, wenn es um Namen geht und deren Nennung.
Mann kann auch sagen alles, kann nichts muss. Wer also in der Namensgebung nicht
genau weiss, wie er weiter Verfahren soll, sollte doch einfachmal Googeln und
sehen, was bei raus kommt. Besonders beim Begriff Erotik
sind die Möglichkeiten unbegrenzt, in den Suchergebnissen konstruktive
Ergebnisse zu finden. Sollten keine guten Ergebnisse bei raus kommen, nicht
traurig sein.......
Sep 2005
Name that worm--plan looks to cut through chaos
Zotob.E, Tpbot-A, Rbot.CBQ and IRCbot.worm: all names given to a single worm that wreaked havoc in Windows 2000 systems last month. Among the plethora of identifiers, perhaps the most useful--CME-540--didn't make an impact.
But that's about to change. CME-540 was the tag attached to the worm by the Common Malware Enumeration initiative, which is just emerging from its test phase. Next month, the U.S. Computer Emergency Readiness Team plans to officially take the wraps off the effort, meant to reduce the confusion caused by the different names security companies give worms, viruses and other pests.
The project assigns a unique identifier to a particular piece of malicious software. When included in security software, in alerts and in virus encyclopedia entries, this identifier should help people determine which pest is hitting their systems and whether they are protected, the initiative's backers said.
"There is a lot of confusion over the way that malware is referred to," Desiree Beck, the technical lead for the CME initiative, said in an interview. "We're trying to alleviate that by giving malware a common identifier, so everybody is talking about the same thing when some malware event happens."
The antivirus industry has tried, and failed, before to agree on common naming for worms and viruses. This time, US-CERT, the part of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security that coordinates response to cyberattacks, is running the show. With that in mind, and because the plan allows companies to keep their own naming by assigning an ID rather than a common name, security software makers are hopeful that the effort will be a success, and they're eager to participate.
"Everybody recognizes it as a pain point, and the industry has tried multiple times to come together," said Vincent Weafer, the senior director of security response at Symantec. "CME is a step in the right direction."
Jimmy Kuo, a senior fellow at software maker McAfee, agreed. However, he noted that the success of CME depends on industry participation, which is voluntary. "We have this problem because there is no authority that can force any type of coordination," he said. Kuo hopes people will push antivirus vendors to adopt the ID convention.
Symantec and McAfee both plan to support CME in their products and in their online reference libraries of threats, Weafer and Kuo said. Trend Micro and Kaspersky Lab will do the same, company representatives said. Other major antivirus providers--F-Secure, Sophos, Computer Associates, Microsoft and MessageLabs--are also involved in the effort. ICSA Labs, a research and testing outfit, also participates.
Recognizing the threat
Because of the lack of coordination in naming threats, an outbreak can be tagged with a variety of names or variant designations, depending on the security company that's referring to it. This can result in confusion, with people wondering if there are multiple virus or worm attacks, or just one, and whether the product they own offers protection.
Victor Go, vice president of technology at retailer PureBeauty, sees value in the initiative. "It might help us speed up looking for virus information," he said. Still, there has not been a lot of confusion around viruses or worms at his midsize, Encino, Calif.-based business, he said. "Every once in a while (there is), but eventually we come around in figuring it out."
The confusion could be even greater in larger organizations that use multiple security products from different vendors. "This is a real problem," Symantec's Weafer said. A desktop antivirus product may display a different name for a fast-spreading worm than the scanner at the e-mail gateway or the intrusion detection system, he said. This can send people scrambling to find out if each product has a defense against a particular pest.
CME identifiers should relieve some of the stress, said Beck, an employee of Mitre, which runs the initiative on behalf of US-CERT. Initially, only major threats will be given an ID number, but the ultimate goal is to cover all attacks affecting users, she said.
"It is a little bit subjective right now," Beck said, referring to the pests currently chosen to receive a CME ID tag. "We'd like to expand to anything that is out there that we could lend some clarity to."
The goal of CME is to offer a neutral, shared identification method that cuts through the naming clutter. It will assign one randomly chosen number to a worm or virus, regardless of what names it is known by at antivirus companies. Even if those companies disagree about the risk assessment or the background of the malicious software, CME will ignore this and focus on the characteristics of the attack to tag it. The worm assigned CME-540, for example, was seen differently by several software makers: McAfee identified it as a new worm (IRCbot.worm), Symantec labeled it an offshoot of Zotob (Zotob.E) and Trend Micro saw it as another threat (Rbot.CBQ). Some times antivirus companies will rename a worm for the sake of conformity, but that typically doesn't happen quickly.
A CME identifier should get assigned within hours of a new worm or virus starting to spread, Beck said. Security vendors then should include the number in their products and link from their advisories to the information on the CME Web site, which is set to debut in early October. The proposal is for security companies to add the CME tag to the threat names, Beck said. An alert popping up on a user's screen could look like this: "Zotob.E!CME-540 detected."
The effort is completely reliant on industry participation. A number is assigned only after an industry researcher submits a sample of a threat with a write-up to CME. A group associated with the CME initiative then further researches the threat, collates information from antivirus companies, allocates an ID and publishes a threat profile.
Industry participation has been good, Beck said. "They have been really responsive, and I think they have confidence that it is something good for the long run," she said.
The organization's editorial board, which includes Microsoft, Symantec, McAfee and the other industry majors previously mentioned, is invitation-only, and companies have been lining up to get in, Beck said. The editorial board guides the process by which industry and researchers submit information on threats and by which the common IDs are assigned.
The first version of the CME Web site will have descriptions of a couple dozen threats, Beck said. Some have been written up in the months since the CME initiative started its trial run in the first quarter of this year. To begin with, the site will provide characteristics of threats and all the aliases used by different security companies, Beck said. By the end of the year, a more comprehensive Web site should be available, she said.
A worm or a virus is typically tagged by the first security company to discover it. Aside from some ground rules--for example, the name can't be that of a real person or be offensive--antivirus providers are essentially free to call the new pest whatever they like. "There are no grown-ups; there is nobody there to dictate standards to anyone, so you name the virus whatever you want to," said David Perry, director of global education at security provider Trend Micro.
In the case of a fast-spreading worm, a lot of security companies typically see it at the same time and all give it a moniker, Symantec's Weafer said. "Speed and response time are so critical--that overwhelms any ability to get together with others and agree on a name for it," he said.
A convention that comes up with names ahead of time, like that used for hurricanes, doesn't work with worms of viruses, Weafer said. One reason is that there are many variants of worms and viruses, and antivirus companies don't always agree on whether a newly spotted threat is an offshoot or a brand new pest.
A few antivirus companies, including McAfee and Symantec, have already included CME identifiers in some of their advisories. As more threats get assigned an ID number, more companies will probably support the effort in their products, Beck expects.
"It is a chicken-and-egg problem. If there was stuff that they could point to, I think they would be very quick to link to it," she said.
While Go at PureBeauty does see some value in the naming initiative, he'd rather have his security software made more effective. "We get hit before virus definitions are out--that has happened several times. I doubt this initiative will help against that," he said.
Source: news.com.com
Sep 2005
Yes - Microsoft have Fun *smile*
news analysis Microsoft's just-announced reorganization gives hosted-software services a starring role, providing a clear picture of the company's plan to stimulate revenue growth.
In an effort to speed up decision making, Microsoft said Tuesday, the company will restructure into three divisions led by individual presidents. Significantly, the reorganization signals an accelerated commitment to hosted-software services.
In a memo to employees, company CEO Steve Ballmer said the goal of the changes is to "achieve greater agility in managing the incredible growth ahead and executing our software-based services strategy."
To make hosted services a more central part of the company, Microsoft has folded its MSN Web portal business into its platform product development group. Ballmer has also tasked Chief Technology Officer Ray Ozzie with expanding software services throughout the company.
Microsoft's decision to combine MSN with its platform products group is "a Google reaction," said Frank Gillett, an analyst at Forrester Research. "Microsoft is certainly alerted to the impact Google is having on what Microsoft thinks is their domain."
Google has an expanding roster of Web services, which are not reliant on having Microsoft Windows on a user's desktop PC, he noted. The Sidebar feature on Google's recently introduced Google Desktop Search, for example, has ties to Google-delivered information services.
Indeed, Microsoft's bet on software services reflects the growing interest in Web-delivered services and the need to find new avenues to deliver its goods, said analysts. The company is facing a slowing pace of contract renewals and upgrades for its traditional desktop software, they said.
"It's pretty clear Microsoft is seeing some heat from this emerging market of software on demand," said Israel Hernandez, an analyst with Lehman Brothers. "Microsoft has not put people and processes in place to pursue that."
At Microsoft's financial analysts meeting in July, and at a partner conference last month, Ballmer outlined the company's growing investment in managed services, such as running a company's desktop PCs.
And last week at Microsoft's Professional Developers Conference, Chairman Bill Gates provided more insight into the company's thinking with services.
Long term, Gates said, the company intends to add more features to its MSN Web properties, such as Hotmail, and introduce hosted options for its server-based products, such as its Exchange e-mail program. By blurring the line between servers and services, Microsoft will offer businesses and consumers better hosted options, he said.
"As we bring these things together, we give you the richness and also the choice of having it as server or as a service," Gates said. "Everything we're doing--this idea of server equals service (and) getting the symmetry there--is part of our long-term architecture."
In the area of Web development, Microsoft has already taken steps to foster collaboration between its MSN Web properties and its server and tools division. Last week it released programming interfaces designed to let developers write applications that run in conjunction with MSN properties, such as MSN Search and Messenger.
In the corporate market, Microsoft's stepped-up commitment to software services reflects moves by competitors IBM, Sun Microsystems and Oracle, all of which have sizable investments in that area, as do upstarts such as Salesforce.com.
Though details are not totally clear, Microsoft will likely bring its own twist to the market, said Rob Helm, an analyst at Directions on Microsoft. Pointing to existing hosted offerings, such as e-mail security service FrontBridge and Web conference application Live Meeting, Helm said the company is apt to create strong ties between its software products and hosted services.
"Microsoft is not trying to eliminate software, but make it less painful to manage or take care of tasks for you," Helm said. "You won't see any 'No Software' signs like you do at Salesforce."
Gillett expects that more technology providers will try to find ways to incorporate services into software products. For example, Microsoft could embed monitoring code in a client's Windows server software that would alert Microsoft to problems that could be fixed remotely.
"It's not enough to hand people a shrink-wrapped box and a wet kiss and say, 'Good luck with my complex product.' You have to create ways to improve the customer experience with the product," Gillett said. "And if you're stuck with four-year product cycles, you aren't delivering much on the customer experience."
Quelle: news.com.com
Sep 2005
Carbon nanotubes
Does anybody happen to know how to synthesize carbon nanotubes in a small school laboratory environment.
Are our computers safe? What does Microsoft plan with us?
Ferris, an independent security researcher in Mission Viejo, Calif., found what he calls a serious vulnerability in Microsoft's Internet Explorer Web browser. He reported it to the software giant on Aug. 14 via the "secure@microsoft.com" e-mail address and has since exchanged several e-mail messages with a Microsoft researcher.
Up to that point, Ferris did everything according to Microsoft's "responsible disclosure" guidelines, which call for bug hunters to delay the announcement of security holes until some time after the company has provided a fix. That way, people who use flawed products are protected from attack, the argument goes.
Last weekend, however, Ferris came close to running afoul of those guidelines by posting a brief description of the bug on his Security Protocols Web site and talking to the media about the flaw. So far, the move has done little more than raise some eyebrows at Microsoft.
"I am walking a fine line, but I am doing it very carefully because I am not disclosing actual vulnerability details," Ferris said. "I do this to inform users that flaws still do exist in IE...I don't like it that Microsoft tries to give users a nice warm feeling that they are disclosing everything researchers report to them."
At issue is the push for "responsible disclosure" of software flaws by many industry players, including titans such as Microsoft, Oracle and Cisco Systems.
Microsoft publicly chastises security researchers who don't follow its rules. Also, those researchers won't get credit for their flaw discovery in Microsoft's security bulletin, which is published when the company releases a patch. Because Ferris did not disclose any actual vulnerability details, he's still on Microsoft's good side, a company representative said.
While many software makers promote responsible disclosure, it isn't universally backed by the security community. Critics say it could make security companies lazy in patching. Full disclosure of flaws is better, they say, and turns up the heat on software makers to protect their customers as soon as possible.
How long is too long?
"Microsoft obviously takes way too long to fix flaws," Ferris said. "All researchers should follow responsible disclosure guidelines, but if a vendor like Microsoft takes six months to a year to fix a flaw, a researcher has every right to release the details."
By that time someone else, perhaps a malicious person, may also have found the same flaw and might be using it to attack users, Ferris said.
Often lambasted for bugs in its products, Microsoft is doing its best to win the respect of the security community. The company has "community outreach experts" who travel the world to meet with security researchers, hosts parties at security events and plans to host twice-annual "Blue Hat" events with hackers on it its Redmond, Wash., campus. At Blue Hat, hackers are invited to Microsoft's headquarters to demonstrate flaws in Microsoft's product security.
"Security researchers provide a valuable service to our customers in helping us to secure our products," said Stephen Toulouse, a program manager in Microsoft's security group. "We want to get face to face with them to talk about their views on security, our views on security, and see how best we can meet to protect customers."
Many companies are getting better at dealing with security researchers, said Michael Sutton, director of iDefense Labs, which deals with researchers and software makers. "The environment has definitely changed from two or three years ago, though there are vendors who are going in the opposite direction," he said.
While Microsoft sometimes is still referred to as the "evil empire," it appears to be successfully wooing security researchers.
"We are at the point where all the obvious things we tell Microsoft to do, they already do it," Dan Kaminsky, a security researcher who participated in Microsoft's first Blue Hat event last March, has said.
Balancing act
Other technology companies still struggle with hacker community relations. Cisco especially has managed to alienate itself from the hacker community to the extent that T-shirts with anti-Cisco slogans were selling well at this year's Defcon event. Oracle also isn't a favorite, researchers said.
Cisco, along with Internet Security Systems, last month sued security researcher Michael Lynn after he gave a presentation on hacking router software at the Black Hat security conference. The company had previously tried to stop Lynn from giving his talk in the first place.
"It was definitely a surprise to see Cisco's reaction," iDefense's Sutton said. "I don't think that's the best approach. I do feel that it is happening less and that vendors are realizing that we don't want to work against them, but with them."
Cisco contends it doesn't have any beef with Lynn's discoveries,
Continued ...
Quelle: news.com.com
Lefona...
I just found this.
I just found this website and decided to give it a try. I'm sitting in my school's computer lab, being bored, having already completed my assignment. I have a question for all of you readers. Does anyone know where that site is that's an alternative to Xanga? It's called mypages or yourpages or some crap like that. I was was just looking for it, since Leo Laporte had mentioned it on his radio show....
Oh, by the way, I also have a blog of my own at mainserver.blogspot.com. I'm posting to it often, since school is so hectic and everything....
Well, thanks for this pretty cool site. I hope I get to come and post here more often with hopefully a more interesting topic........
No Alternatives ;)
Sep 2005
Hi
Sep 2005
William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), Sonnet cxvi
Let me not to the marriage of true minds
Admit impediments: love is not love
Which alters when it alteration finds.
The Original Dream Team
Many consider it the greatest team ever assembled, in any sport. Yet even that description fails to give it proper credit for its impact.
The original Dream Team, the U.S. basketball team that won the gold medal at the 1992 Olympics in Barcelona, was a phenomenon on and off the court. It mattered not that it dominated the Olympic competition, beating its eight opponents by an average of 44 points. What was important was that the Dream Team, the first U.S. Olympic team to include NBA stars, gave fans a glimpse of basketball at its finest, and an entire world responded.
Since 1992, basketball has exploded in popularity around the globe, rising to a place where it truly challenges soccer's status as the world's most popular sport. Much of that is due to the impact of the Dream Team, which attracted fans and followers wherever it went.
"It was," said Coach Chuck Daly, "like Elvis and the Beatles put together. Traveling with the Dream Team was like traveling with 12 rock stars. That's all I can compare it to."
And what a band it was. Start with three of the game's all-time greats: Michael Jordan, Magic Johnson and Larry Bird. Add the irrepressible Charles Barkley for a little spice, as well as seven more NBA All-Stars: centers David Robinson and Patrick Ewing, power forward Karl Malone, swingmen Scottie Pippen, Chris Mullin and Clyde Drexler and point guard John Stockton. Complete the roster with Christian Laettner, the best college player of 1991-92 and a future NBA All-Star.
Opponents didn't have a chance, but they didn't care. One player, while trying to guard Magic Johnson, was seen frantically waving to a camera-wielding teammate on the bench, signaling to make sure he got a picture of them together.
"They knew they were playing the best in the world," reflected Daly after the team won the gold medal with a 117-85 win over Croatia on August 8, 1992. "They'll go home and for the rest of their lives be able to tell their kids, 'I played against Michael Jordan and Magic Johnson and Larry Bird.' And the more they play against our best players, the more confident they're going to get.
"Finally there will come a day -- I'm not saying it will happen anytime soon, mind you, but it's inevitable that it will happen -- that they will be able to compete with us on even terms. And they'll look back on the Dream Team as a landmark event in that process
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Sexism in the Bible: Is Christianity Sexist?
The claim is often made that the Bible is sexist and that Christianity demeans women and makes them into second class citizens. While I do agree that sexism exists in Christian churches and that portions of scripture have been used to perpetuate sexism, the Bible does not condone discrimination in any manner. Men have cited verses about submission of women to keep believing women "in their place." Get out your Bibles and let's see what the Bible really says about women, submission, and equality.
Jimi Hendrix - Purple Haze
Purple Haze are in my brain
Lately things don't seem the same
Acting funny but I don't know why
Excuse me while i kiss the sky
Purple haze all around
don't know if I'm coming up or down
am i happy or in misery
What ever it is that girl putt a spell on me
HELP ME ... HELP ME oh i don't know
Purple haze was all in my eyes
don't know if it's day or night
you've got me blowin',blowin' my mind
is it tomarrow or just the end of time
who knows?
help me
yeah
come on know
tell me
tell me
I miss my Atari!!
During the 70's and up to the mid 80's, Atari was the recognized leader in all area's of videogames. Starting out and establishing the Video Arcade industry, Atari set the stage for the 10 billion dollar industry with the release of PONG.
In later years Atari would enter the home with Home Pong and would ignite a fever never before seen with the release of its VCS (Video Computer System) and the release of a home version of Space Invaders for the VCS.
Sep 2005
Leofan7 ...
Lefona...
"I just found this.
I just found this website and decided to give it a try. I'm sitting in my school's computer lab, being bored, having already completed my assignment. I have a question for all of you readers. Does anyone know where that site is that's an alternative to Xanga? It's called mypages or yourpages or some crap like that. I was was just looking for it, since Leo Laporte had mentioned it on his radio show. Oh, by the way, I also have a blog of my own at mainserver.blogspot.com. I'm posting to it often, since school is so hectic and everything.
Well, thanks for this pretty cool site. I hope I get to come and post here more often with hopefully a more interesting topic."
No Alternatives ;)
Sep 2005
Re Namen
Die Namen sind einfach nur Informationen, die etwas
von etwas anderem unterscheiden sollen.
Sie sind eine künstliche
Eigenschaft, die mit dem Bezeichneten zu diesem Zweck verbunden wird - also
genannt.
Das Ganze ist so gestaltet, dass das Herstellen und Verwenden der Namen mit geringem Aufwand umsetzbar ist. Wer mehr über Namen wissen mag kann ja im Internet mal nach sandra suchen - der wird schlauer.
Die Herkunft von Namen versucht die
Etymologie zu klären.
Dazu einfach eine Erdnuss essen - das zusammen ist erst der geistreiche Genuss in Nuss ;)
Namen im Internet findet man doch immer wieder. Sei es nun solch ein einfacher und schöner Name wie
Sylvia dann hat man echt Glück gehabt.
Jedoch sollte man auch andere Schreibweisen von Namen
tolerieren. Also wer meint, das er
Silvia mit
i schreiben mag, der darf das
tun. Solche Namen wie Susanne kann man doch ebenfalls in tausenden verschiedenen Schreibarten niederschreiben oder? Also übt Toleranz, wenn es um Namen geht und deren Nennung.
Mann kann auch sagen alles, kann nichts muss. Wer also in der Namensgebung nicht
genau weiss, wie er weiter Verfahren soll, sollte doch einfachmal Googeln und
sehen, was bei raus kommt. Besonders beim Begriff Erotik
sind die Möglichkeiten unbegrenzt, in den Suchergebnissen konstruktive
Ergebnisse zu finden. Sollten keine guten Ergebnisse bei raus kommen, nicht
traurig sein.......
@ Dancer99 Das verstehe ich ja nun nicht wirklich, was hat das ganze mit
den vorher behandeltem Thema zu tun?
Gruss
Sep 2005
I just found this.
I just found this website and decided to give it a try. I'm sitting in my school's computer lab, being bored, having already completed my assignment. I have a question for all of you readers. Does anyone know where that site is that's an alternative to Xanga? It's called mypages or yourpages or some crap like that. I was was just looking for it, since Leo Laporte had mentioned it on his radio show. Oh, by the way, I also have a blog of my own at mainserver.blogspot.com. I'm posting to it often, since school is so hectic and everything.
Well, thanks for this pretty cool site. I hope I get to come and post here more often with hopefully a more interesting topic.
Sep 2005
sokong BN
jom mari semua sokong bn..keadilan dah nak mampus pas pati ajaran sesat....
Die Namen sind einfach nur Informationen, die etwas von etwas anderem unterscheiden sollen...........
Sie sind eine künstliche Eigenschaft, die mit dem Bezeichneten zu diesem Zweck verbunden wird - also genannt.
Das Ganze ist so gestaltet, dass das Herstellen und Verwenden der Namen mit geringem Aufwand umsetzbar ist. Wer mehr über Namen wissen mag kann ja im Internet mal nach Onomastik suchen - der wird schlauer.
Die Herkunft von Namen versucht die Etymologie zu klären.
Dazu einfach eine Erdnuss essen - das zusammen ist erst der geistreiche Genuss in Nuss ;)
Namen im Internet findet man doch immer wieder. Sei es nun solch ein einfacher und schöner Name wie Domina dann hat man echt Glück gehabt.
Jedoch sollte man auch andere Schreibweisen von Namen tolerieren. Also wer meint, das er Domina mit Doppel i schreiben mag, der darf das tun. Solche Beriffe wie Fetisch kann man doch ebenfalls in tausenden verschiedenen Schreibarten niederschreiben oder? Also übt Toleranz, wenn es um Namen geht und deren Nennung.......
Sep 2005
How can the happiest time of your life also be the sadest? How come when you should be partying you're crying? I can't wait for everything to change but I will do everything I can to stop it from doing just that.
Sometimes this whole growing up thing sucks.