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I call for the button on this one. The use of the acronym that refers to laugh-out-loud in a majority of posts is abhorrent and far surpasses the ratio of use for any decent human being.

I can aim, I win.   

I have 3 google voice invites, anyone interested?

Ok, maybe I'm being a bit unfair. (Ha-ha -- a "bit" unfair -- get it?) It's not necessarily greed. Perhaps Mr. Gates was motivated by a sincere desire to advance the technology. And fractional bits do have a substantial advanage over whole bits. This isn't often noted, but standard computer memory can only store whole numbers. Fractions have to be represented by a combination of a number register and a decimal point register. So, for instance, the number 5 would be stored as (5,0), 5 in one register and the number of decimal places (0) in another. Accordingly, the number 5.1 is stored as (51,1), and the number 5.123 is stored as (5123,3). With the advent of fractional bits, any number can be stored in just one register, effectively doubling your memory. So far, so good. But the problem occurs when the unused portion of the fractional bits is improperly managed. They tend to drift out of their original memory cell into adjoining cells, causing what is called a "memory leak". This can result in a battery of problems, from the familiar BSOD to the more rare but potentially deadly CPU explosions. Little-known fact -- the Linux mascot, the cute little penguin, is a sly Monty-Python reference that directly mocks the exploding CPU bug.

I can go on.

Ivan did you ever work for the Star Trek franchise?

What language were you originally planning on doing it in? It seems to me that using recursion with java, it wouldn't be all that hard. And you could call it when ever you wanted through out the program easily instead of rewriting the SQL every time you needed to calculate the answers.

Have you seen windows?

Oh? Would it be possible to share some more of the details concerning her research? I'd love to talk to other people doing things similar to my stuff.

Not surprised you couldn't find Normal.doc, go for Normal.dot instead. No doubt keyboard gremlins must have gotten at BizB's post.
The file is located in:
c:\Documents and Settings\{user name}\Application Data\Microsoft\Templates\
Several of the folders in that path are hidden so you'll have to enable viewing hidden files and folders in order to get at it.

Hi everybody!
I would like to request everyone's assistance in completing the requirements for my graduation in a timely fashion. I have to collect data to use in my thesis. The data will be absolutely anonymous and no one will be able to tell who responded with what. What I would like is for everyone to go to my site linked below, read the most recent post, and complete the very short 2 question survey at the bottom! Feel free to pass this along to others, the more responses I get, the more accurate my study is! Your assistance in my graduation is greatly appreciated!

My research is related to the ACLU of Northern California's Facebook quiz that helped spur a change in the way Facebook handled the level of access it granted to applications as opposed to user accounts. This is basically the first step into my masters and finishing that nasty little research requirement for my undergrad. I realize this is kinda spammy and such, and I apologize, but I do it with the best intentions and I mean no disrespect to this community of which I hang my hat.

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I'm in my final semester of my undergrad at good ol' EMU and I have to analyze and state an ethical philosophy in regards to cyber security. Essentially this is what I'm going to put into my syllabus and how I'm going to handle ethical questions when I get handed the reigns next semester for the Ethical Hacking classes.

This semester I'm the TA for a class called Ethical Hacking, there hasn't been much discussion about ethics mainly because it is a difficult topic to intertwine into a technology based course structure on top of everything else we've been doing. I've been concerned about some of the students using the skills we teach in an unethical manner and I've done my best to sit down and focus on those students during the time I have with them in the classroom. In some cases I have succeed by explaining to them that they don't always know what they are attacking, and must be very careful in case that server is virtual and they bring down the entire box, not knowing what they just took down. Of course there are going to be those that just don't get it and launch hydra against an ftp server and pound it just for the thrill of it. But I have full faith that this is a very small fraction of the population and won't affect the integrity of the class.

I would like to give a basis of theory for those who haven't come to a firm standing as of yet one way or the other, and reinforce those who already do have an ethical structure in regards to cyber security. While I understand this is going to have a lot to do with ones own personal theory and philosophy on life, a supplement may be able to at least give a guideline to work with.

Personally I've grown up with things like 2600, Hackers the movie, the Anarchists Cookbook, and The Hacker's Manifesto.  Back when hacking was cool, not a weapon, and the philosophy of information is that it should be free no matter what. After reading books like Hacker Cracker by Ejovi Nuwere and being in a place where freedom of information can have a very negative impact to the safety, health, and livelihood of others and their families my viewpoint has become more conservative. And just through understanding the concept of a malicious attacker that uses someone elses box as a proxy to launch an attack from, I can see how counterattacking to that proxy would have serious negative impacts on that innocent victim.

The other side of this is that I am putting together a proposal for a class in Cyber Ethics. Surprisingly in a degree that requires a background check, and signing a 'do no harm' document to enter into, no one is required to examine ethical philosophy prior to graduation. I would like to see this changed for the sheer fact that one becomes more capable of defending their ethical judgments when they are asked to examine their ethical beliefs in a critical manner. 

What I am looking for is your own personal viewpoints on ethics in cyber security/cyber space and other readings on that topic matter that you personally feel are good. So if you are willing to share, I look forward to reading your replies.

That was kinda of a let down.