Stuxnet. Stuxnet is a computer worm[1] that was discovered in June 2010. It was designed to attack industrial PLC used in nuclear power plant which operates on Siemens Step7 software running on a Windows operating system.[2] by exploiting four zero-day flaw of Windows operating system.[3] Stuxnet reportedly ruined almost one-fifth of Iran's nuclear centrifuges [4] The Stuxnet worm have 3 modules that is worm module which exploits zero-days flaws to propagate thru USB drives and network, a LNK module which automatically executes the third module,rookit which have specific operating methods of attacking its intended target.[5] First of all, it makes its way to the target environment by infected USB flash drive usually.
After it makes into its target environment, it will spread across every machine inside the targets network. Discovery[edit] According to expert Eugene Kaspersky, the worm also infected a nuclear powerplant in Russia. History[edit] Affected countries[edit] Operation[edit] Removal[edit] What would George Orwell have made of the world in 2013? What if George Orwell hadn't died of tuberculosis in 1950? What if, instead of expiring aged 46 in University College hospital, he had climbed from his sick-bed, taken the fishing rod a friend had brought him for his convalescence and checked out? What if today he was alive and well (perhaps after a period in cryogenic storage – the details aren't important now)? What would he think of 2013? What, if anything, would he be writing about?
In many respects Orwell is ubiquitous and more relevant than ever. His once-visionary keywords have grotesque afterlives: Big Brother is a TV franchise to make celebrities of nobodies and Room 101 a light-entertainment show on BBC2 currently hosted by Frank Skinner for celebrities to witter about stuff that gets their goat. Meanwhile, Orwellian is the second-most-overused literary-generated adjective (after Kafkaesque). As we celebrate the first Orwell Day this week, it's irresistible to play the game of "what if"? You'd hope. Relationships. “Freedom and love go together. Love is not a reaction. If I love you because you love me, that is mere trade, a thing to be bought in the market; it is not love. To love is not to ask anything in return, not even to feel that you are giving something- and it is only such love that can know freedom.”
-Jiddu Krishnamurti “When you find someone that speaks the language of your soul---never let them go.” “It's easy to lose yourself in the idea of a person and be blinded to their reality.” “I don't know whether it's because I don't love him, or because I can't love him for demanding something like that from me. "We do not love people so much for the good they have done us, as for the good we do them. " “We see in others what we want and what we fear.” "We are not the same person this year as last; nor are those we love. “One of the tasks of true friendship is to listen compassionately and creatively to the hidden silences.
“Always! -Oscar Wilde The Picture of Dorian Gray. Myths About Socialism: Common Arguments Defeated « The Red Phoenix. If you’ve expressed interest in socialism at some point in your life, you’ve probably had an encounter ( it can be at a family dinner, at school, the break room at work or any number of other examples) that goes like this: You say something favorable about socialism, anything at all, and someone in the conversation dons a smug, wise-in–the-ways-of–the-world facial expression, then fires off a line of “bumper sticker wisdom.”
Some of us have heard these arguments hundreds of times; indeed many of us remember being indoctrinated with these capitalist sentiments since high school. Some can be easily dismissed, but others are so profoundly ingrained that you must examine it from every angle, engaging each layer contained with the statement. Why are anti-communist arguments important to examine and engage? It is because in almost every case, these common claims are straw man arguments advanced by people who do not have a knowledge of Marxism or the reality of socialist countries. Nope. Strasbourg Court declares Russia innocent of Katyn massacre. MOSCOW, April 12 - RAPSI. The European Court of Human Rights found Russia not guilty of the Katyn massacre, the mass execution of Polish nationals in 1940, the Moscow News reported on Thursday with reference to its source. The Strasbourg Court will pass its formal judgment on April 16, but the operative part of the sentence has been already passed.
Poland has almost suffered overwhelming defeat in the Katyn case. However, it would be premature for Russia to celebrate the victory as the court declared it responsible for inhuman treatment of some of the applicants. The Soviet Union blamed the Katyn massacre on the Nazis, stating that the killings took place in 1941 when the territory was occupied by German troops. In November 2011, the lower house of Russia's parliament approved a declaration recognizing the Katyn massacre as a crime committed by Stalin's regime. The Katyn issue was long an apple of discord in the Russian-Polish relations. Socratic Questioning. Techniques > Questioning > Socratic Questions Conceptual | Assumptions | Rationale | Viewpoint | Implications | Question | See also Socrates was one of the greatest educators who taught by asking questions and thus drawing out answers from his pupils ('ex duco', means to 'lead out', which is the root of 'education').
Sadly, he martyred himself by drinking hemlock rather than compromise his principles. Bold, but not a good survival strategy. Here are the six types of questions that Socrates asked his pupils. The overall purpose of Socratic questioning, is to challenge accuracy and completeness of thinking in a way that acts to move people towards their ultimate goal. Conceptual clarification questions Get them to think more about what exactly they are asking or thinking about.
Why are you saying that? Probing assumptions Probing their assumptions makes them think about the presuppositions and unquestioned beliefs on which they are founding their argument. What else could we assume? Time [The Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy] Time is what we use a clock or calendar to measure. It provides us with a measure of change by putting dates on moments, fixing the durations of events, and specifying which events happen before which other events. Yet despite 2,500 years of investigating time, many issues about it are unresolved. Consider this one issue upon which philosophers are deeply divided: What sort of ontological differences are there among the present, the past and the future? There are three competing theories. Presentists argue that necessarily only present objects and present experiences are real, and we conscious beings recognize this in the special vividness of our present experience. So, the dinosaurs have slipped out of reality.
However, according to the growing-past theory, the past and present are both real, but the future is not real because the future is indeterminate or merely potential. That controversy raises the issue of tenseless versus tensed theories of time. Table of Contents 1. 2. St. 3. Famous Novelists on Symbolism in Their Work and Whether It Was Intentional. Eric Carle's bright, beloved children's classic about an insatiable caterpillar has been collecting awards—and fans—since it was first published in 1969. Here are a few things you might not know about The Very Hungry Caterpillar. 1. The Very Hungry Caterpillar's bright colors contrast a dark period in Eric Carle's childhood. Eric Carle was born in Syracuse, New York, on June 25, 1929. But when Carle was 6, his father relocated the family back to his native Stuttgart, Germany. The author has since speculated that he was drawn to the chunky, vibrant colors of painted tissue paper collage in part as reaction to the grimness of his childhood. 2.
Herr Kraus, Carle’s high school art teacher, recognized his young pupil’s potential and risked his livelihood for the opportunity to foster it. "I didn't have the slightest idea that something like that existed, because I was used to art being flag-waving, gun-toting Aryans—super-realistic Aryan farmers, the women with their brute arms,” Carle said. Give it five minutes. A few years ago I used to be a hothead. Whenever anyone said anything, I’d think of a way to disagree.
I’d push back hard if something didn’t fit my world-view. It’s like I had to be first with an opinion – as if being first meant something. But what it really meant was that I wasn’t thinking hard enough about the problem. The faster you react, the less you think. Not always, but often. It’s easy to talk about knee jerk reactions as if they are things that only other people have. This came to a head back in 2007.
And what did I do? His response changed my life. This was a big moment for me. Richard has spent his career thinking about these problems. There’s also a difference between asking questions and pushing back. Learning to think first rather than react quick is a life long pursuit. If you aren’t sure why this is important, think about this quote from Jonathan Ive regarding Steve Jobs’ reverence for ideas: That’s deep. There are two things in this world that take no skill: 1.