Tuesday, 18 July 2006
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| Cyber crime comes in different shapes and sizes! Sosueme 15:16:22 |
| | Cyber crime comes in different shapes and sizes!
D. Murali
`Over the last six months, 19,367 new viruses were detected; a number
that is only slightly less than for the same period in 2005.' Grab this
book for a good read.
http://www.thehindubusinessline.com/ew/2006/07/17/stories/2006071700080200.htm
Now that we are past the half-year mark of 2006, it may be a relief to
know that the first six months were seemingly `a relatively quiet
period,' on the cyber crime front. Only seemingly, though, because
malware creators have been infecting computers silently! They have been
`ensuring their malicious code can operate undetected for as long as
possible,' alerts a report dated July 6, on www.crime-research.org,
citing the findings of Panda Software (www.pandasoftware.com) .
Over the last six months, 19,367 new viruses were detected; a number
that is only slightly less than for the same period in 2005, informs
http://biz.yahoo.com. Worms have been the most widespread malicious
code, accounting for some 60 per cent of malware, while trojans and
viruses accounted for 20 per cent each.
`G8 countries vow co-operation against terror, cybercrime,' reads a
June 16 headline on Globe and Mail, Canada. A June 27 story on Tampa
Bay Business Journal is about the creation of a Child Predator
CyberCrime Unit in Florida through a new law. `International
Virus-Writing Gang Busted,' informs CIO Today, CA; as if to
counterbalance, CNET News.com cautions, `Online threats outpacing law
crackdowns.'
What is cyber crime? "Computer-mediated activities which are either
illegal or considered illicit by certain parties and which can be
conducted through global electronic networks," reads a `working
definition' of Thomas and Loader, quoted by Majid Yar in Cybercrime and
Society, from Sage (www.sagepublications.com) .
Cyber crime falls into four categories, according to Wall, cited in the
introduction.These are cyber-trespass, cyber-deception,
cyber-pornography, and cyber-violence. The first two are crimes against
property, explains the author. "The third covers `crimes against
morality', and the fourth relates to `crime against the person'." Yar
adds one to the list, viz. `crimes against the state' which include
`terrorism, espionage and disclosure of official secrets'.
Confront the `hackers, crackers and viral coders' in chapter 2. Aren't
they `a small, highly able and motivated elite'? It used to be so, says
Yar. Now, however, "an increasing range of automated software tools
have appeared" for the purpose. For example, tools such as Titan,
Satan, and BO2K can `find vulnerable systems and establish remote
control over them'. And, dangerously, Ethereal and L0phtCrack can
`capture and decrypt user passwords', while FloodNet can help launch
`denial of service' attacks automatically.
A chapter on political hacking deals with the transition from hactivism
to cyberterrorism. As you can guess, hactivism is a combination of
hacking and activism. "Much online political activism has taken the
form of non-violent civil disobedience and protest, modelled on the
traditions of past social movements," opines Yar. Examples are: virtual
sit-in of the Mexican government Web sites organised by the Electronic
Disturbance Theatre in 1998; and e-mail bombs such as what the NATO Web
sites suffered, during the Kosovo intervention in 1999.
Of immense value are the chapters on intellectual property theft
online, cyber-frauds, pornography, cyber stalking and paedophilia. The
final chapter deals with the tussle between cyber crimes and cyber
liberties. "We are witnessing an intense struggle over the balance
between online surveillance and privacy," notes the author. "While
authorities move towards greater monitoring in order to tackle
organised criminals, terrorists, paedophiles, stalkers and so on, civil
libertarians encourage users to evade such invasion of privacy by
greater recourse to privacy-enhancing tools." The same tools that
criminals exploit for their activity `afford users protection from
criminal victimisation.' For instance, one can view encryption both as
`a serious threat to law enforcement efforts' and also `an
indispensable resource for business and individuals to protect
themselves from crime.'
Must read.
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| Doctors who treat ADD/ADHD SleepGirl 05:55:44 |
| | Hi all...
Is there a good site that has referral information on doctors who treat
ADD/ADHD?
Would be helpful if anyone knew a psychiatrist or psychologist, or both, in
Phoenix Metro area, of Arizona?
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| Is ADHD Overtreated and/or Overdiagnosed? Mark Probert 05:51:50 |
| | http://www.aboutourkids.org/aboutour/articles/overdiagnose.html
"We conclude, based on these as well as other similar findings, that
ADHD is not overtreated, and that many, if not most children with ADHD
are not receiving adequate treatment."
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| Lost permission slip MothWrangler 01:48:01 |
| | You probably really knew all along that this is what happened to your
kid's lost permission slips.
Today's (July 15, 2006) "Zits" comic strip:
http://www.arcamax.com/zits
Nancy
Unique, like everyone else
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Monday, 17 July 2006
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| How drastic is the change? Aaron 20:36:20 |
| | I was just diagnosed with ADD at age 25. I'm curious what type of drug
I will be prescribed and how drastic of a change will be noticeable in
my ability to stay focused and how large of an overall lifestyle change
this leads to. Anyone have any success stories? or horror stories? I'd
like to know what I'm getting myself into.
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| ASAD quote 1/3/03 (repeat) MothWrangler 17:57:11 |
| | I always took a great deal of pride in being original.
--Roger Miller
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| ADHD drug anger Jan Drew 07:21:00 |
| | http://www.therapeuticsdaily.com/news/article.cfm?contentValue=1000757&contentType=sentryarticle&channelID=30
ADHD drug anger
Excerpt:
A DRUG that carries strong warnings of suicidal tendencies in the US is
being given free to children in a Perth university study partly funded by
the drug's maker.
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Sunday, 16 July 2006
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| Pharmaceutical Marketeers: Lost in the Blog Sosueme 22:09:36 |
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Lost in the Blog
The Internet has empowered consumers through blogs and social
networking Websites, forcing the pharmaceutical industry to face
daunting regulatory hurdles to join the conversation.
by Steven Niles
Survey Shows Physician Comfort with Emerging Technology
People are talking, and the pharmaceutical industry needs to get in on
the conversation.
http://www.pharmalive.com/magazines/medad/view.cfm?articleID=3686
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| Back in the Saddle Sosueme 21:48:21 |
| | http://www.newstimeslive.com/news/story.php?id=1006174
Jul 16 2006 8:55 AM
Back in the saddle
Struggling to find answers to their son's behavior problems, a Newtown
couple found help through diet, vitamins and traditional medicine
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| ASAD quote 7/16/06 (new) MothWrangler 21:04:20 |
| | The Procrastination Support Group meeting has been postponed!
--Author unknown, bumper sticker
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| Winner: Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest Sosueme 02:41:32 |
| | By RON HARRIS, Associated Press Writer
Tue Jul 11, 8:17 AM ET
SAN FRANCISCO - A retired mechanical designer with a penchant for poor
prose took a tired detective novel scene and made it even worse,
earning him top honors in San Jose State University's annual
Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest for bad writing.
ADVERTISEMENT
Jim Guigli of Carmichael submitted 64 entries into the contest. The
judges were most impressed, or revolted perhaps, by his passage about a
comely woman who walks into a detective's office.
"Detective Bart Lasiter was in his office studying the light from his
one small window falling on his super burrito when the door swung open
to reveal a woman whose body said you've had your last burrito for a
while, whose face said angels did exist, and whose eyes said she could
make you dig your own grave and lick the shovel clean," Guigli wrote.
"The judges were impressed by his appalling powers of invention," said
Scott Rice, a professor in SJSU's Department of English and Comparative
Literature. He has organized the bad writing contest since its
inception in 1982.
Guigli will receive "a pittance" for his winning entry, a bit of cash
he said he may put toward the purchase of a motor boat. His work for
the contest represents a sampling of a career that never quite
developed for him.
"At one time I thought I wanted to write to detective novels," Guigli
told the Associated Press Monday. "I never got a good start on it."
His bad start was to be celebrated Tuesday, when the contest results
were to be officially announced by Rice.
The contest is named for Edward George Bulwer-Lytton, whose 1830 novel
"Paul Clifford" began with the oft-mocked, "It was a dark and stormy
night."
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On the Net:
Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest: http://www.bulwer-lytton.com/
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Saturday, 15 July 2006
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| ASAD quote 7/15/06 (new) MothWrangler 22:00:54 |
| | All good things which exist are the fruits of originality.
--John Stuart Mill
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| ASAD quote 7/14/06 (new) MothWrangler 21:55:23 |
| | Mommy, what does hyper mean?
The teacher says I'll never read
Says I need to take a pill
So I can learn to sit real still.
--Ten-Foot Pole, A.D.D.
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| Sooooo Quiet in Here!!! Caitriona Mac Fhiodhbhuidhe 19:16:34 |
| | Where *is* everyone?
Usually, I can kinda keep myself awake after I take my meds by reading
my NGs. So, where *are* y'all????
Kitten
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| ASAD paradox 7/14/06 (new) Raving Loonie 04:39:44 |
| | A bank is a place that will lend you money if you can prove that you
don't need it.
~ Bob Hope
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| What Drugs are Prescribed for ADD? Aaron 00:02:35 |
| | I'm aware of only Adderall.
What other drugs are commonly prescribed? How do their effects compare
to Adderall and what are the typical dosages of them?
I posted this elsewhere, but I was just pprescribed Adderall but don't
like the idea of taking a habit forming drug. I'm just curious what
other options are available and how effective they are.
Thanks.
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Friday, 14 July 2006
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| ADHD medication use in a population-based sample of twins. Mark Probert 19:32:58 |
| | *ADHD medication use in a population-based sample of twins.*
J Am Acad Child Adolesc Psychiatry. 2006 Jul;45(7):801-7
Authors: Reich W, Huang H, Todd RD
OBJECTIVE: To determine treatment patterns for youth
attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) symptoms in a general
population sample of 1,610 twins.
METHOD: Twin pairs ages 7 to 17 years and parents ascertained from birth
records in the state of Missouri were interviewed using the Missouri
Assessment of Genetics Interview for Children between 1996 and 2001.
Multivariate logistic regression analyses were used to determine which
factors were significant in answering three questions about treatment
for ADHD.
RESULTS: Of 302 boys, 177 (58.6%) and 26 of 57 girls (45.6%) who met
full DSM-IV criteria for ADHD received stimulant medication in this
sample. Of 314 youths, 111 (35.4%) who received stimulant medication did
not meet DSM-IV criteria for ADHD. When controlling for comorbidity and
other factors, the number of impairing ADHD symptoms and having a cotwin
who was also brought to treatment for ADHD correlated with referral or
treatment in youths without ADHD. Youths without ADHD who were treated
had a large number of ADHD symptoms.
CONCLUSION:
As is shown in earlier studies, children with ADHD are being
undertreated. Complex factors, including comorbid disorders and family
history of ADHD treatment, affect treatment patterns in the general
population.
PMID: 16832316 [PubMed - in process]
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Thursday, 13 July 2006
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| ASAD quote 12/20/02 (repeat) MothWrangler 21:38:20 |
| | I'm a study of a man in chaos in search of frenzy.
--Oscar Levant
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| Yet more of Stan Shura's ambient abuse or abuse via stealth (Re: the game of semantics and playing Sosueme 14:48:00 |
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stan wrote:> Sosueme wrote:> > stan wrote:> > >
Take a break during your rabid, foam-soaked rants to CHECK> > > THE EMAIL ADDRESSES. You with your digital legerdemain seem so bent on> > > illustrating your technical prowess as you cut and paste posts from> > > o-v-e-r t-e-n y-e-a-r-s a-g-o and then you make such an> > > incompetent blunder.> > anyone who thought SMFPTF was Art W, then, thought Jan is> > SMFPTF---lacks standing to have a hissy fit because Jan assumed a> > Stan was a Stan.> Nope - I *asked*. Because certain folks who do and/or have> frequented this forum have a habit of assuming aliases.
Yet more ambient abuse and abuse by stealth...
If you asked because of the posters who sockpuppet up, then, you
would have asked if Jan was a sockpuppet of one of the lying stalking
filth who are forever sockpuppeting up: Marcia, Nancy Knisley, Joe
Poster, Mark D. Morin, Mark Probert, Deborah Bentley or Kevin.
But, you didn't ask whether Jan was one of the lying stalking filth
who have been caught red-handed sockpuppeting up.
You asked if Jan was a sockpuppet of one of the other targets of
ASAD's lying stalking filth's criminal harassment.
So your question is yet another example of ambient abuse and abuse by
stealth...in that it ignores the fact and reality that ASAD's lying
stalking filth sockpuppet up to perpetrate deceptions while
cyberstalking/harassing and defaming innocent people.
http://samvak.tripod.com/abuse10.html
Ambient abuse is the stealth, subtle, underground currents of
maltreatment that sometimes go unnoticed even by the victims
themselves, until it is too late. Ambient abuse penetrates and
permeates everything - but is difficult to pinpoint and identify. It
is ambiguous, atmospheric, diffuse. Hence its insidious and pernicious
effects. It is by far the most dangerous kind of abuse there is.
It is the outcome of fear - fear of violence, fear of the unknown,
fear of the unpredictable, the capricious, and the arbitrary. It is
perpetrated by dropping subtle hints, by disorienting, by constant -
and unnecessary - lying, by persistent doubting and demeaning, and by
inspiring an air of unmitigated gloom and doom ("gaslighting").
Ambient abuse, therefore, is the fostering, propagation, and
enhancement of an atmosphere of fear, intimidation, instability,
unpredictability and irritation. There are no acts of traceable
explicit abuse, nor any manipulative settings of control. Yet, the
irksome feeling remains, a disagreeable foreboding, a premonition, a
bad omen.
In the long term, such an environment erodes the victim's sense of
self-worth and self-esteem. Self-confidence is shaken badly. Often, the
victim adopts a paranoid or schizoid stance and thus renders himself or
herself exposed even more to criticism and judgment. The roles are thus
reversed: the victim is considered mentally deranged and the abuser -
the suffering soul.
There are five categories of ambient abuse and they are often combined
in the conduct of a single abuser:
I. Inducing Disorientation
The abuser causes the victim to lose faith in her ability to manage and
to cope with the world and its demands. She no longer trusts her
senses, her skills, her strengths, her friends, her family, and the
predictability and benevolence of her environment.
The abuser subverts the target's focus by disagreeing with her way of
perceiving the world, her judgment, the facts of her existence, by
criticizing her incessantly - and by offering plausible but specious
alternatives. By constantly lying, he blurs the line between reality
and nightmare.
By recurrently disapproving of her choices and actions - the abuser
shreds the victim's self-confidence and shatters her self-esteem. By
reacting disproportionately to the slightest "mistake" - he
intimidates her to the point of paralysis.
II. Incapacitating
The abuser gradually and surreptitiously takes over functions and
chores previously adequately and skilfully performed by the victim. The
prey finds itself isolated from the outer world, a hostage to the
goodwill - or, more often, ill-will - of her captor. She is
crippled by his encroachment and by the inexorable dissolution of her
boundaries and ends up totally dependent on her tormentor's whims and
desires, plans and stratagems.
Moreover, the abuser engineers impossible, dangerous, unpredictable,
unprecedented, or highly specific situations in which he is sorely
needed. The abuser makes sure that his knowledge, his skills, his
connections, or his traits are the only ones applicable and the most
useful in the situations that he, himself, wrought. The abuser
generates his own indispensability.
III. Shared Psychosis (folie a deux)
The abuser creates a fantasy world, inhabited by the victim and
himself, and besieged by imaginary enemies. He allocates to the abused
the role of defending this invented and unreal Universe. She must swear
to secrecy, stand by her abuser no matter what, lie, fight, pretend,
obfuscate and do whatever else it takes to preserve this oasis of
inanity.
Her membership in the abuser's "kingdom" is cast as a privilege and a
prize. But it is not to be taken for granted. She has to work hard to
earn her continued affiliation. She is constantly being tested and
evaluated. Inevitably, this interminable stress reduces the victim's
resistance and her ability to "see straight".
IV. Abuse of Information
From the first moments of an encounter with another person, the abuser is on the prowl. He collects information. The more he knows about his
potential victim - the better able he is to coerce, manipulate,
charm, extort or convert it "to the cause". The abuser does not
hesitate to misuse the information he gleans, regardless of its
intimate nature or the circumstances in which he obtained it. This is a
powerful tool in his armory.
V. Control by Proxy
If all else fails, the abuser recruits friends, colleagues, mates,
family members, the authorities, institutions, neighbours, the media,
teachers - in short, third parties - to do his bidding. He uses
them to cajole, coerce, threaten, stalk, offer, retreat, tempt,
convince, harass, communicate and otherwise manipulate his target. He
controls these unaware instruments exactly as he plans to control his
ultimate prey. He employs the same mechanisms and devices. And he dumps
his props unceremoniously when the job is done.
Another form of control by proxy is to engineer situations in which
abuse is inflicted upon another person. Such carefully crafted
scenarios of embarrassment and humiliation provoke social sanctions
(condemnation, opprobrium, or even physical punishment) against the
victim. Society, or a social group become the instruments of the
abuser.
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| Carthyb BLATANT LIAR...AGAIN Jan Drew 07:13:39 |
| | It wrote:
She has accused me of> being Peter Bowditch because we both live on a titchy little island> called Australia, albeit 1000 km apart, then his wife and daughter for> good measure
http://groups.google.com/group/misc.health.alternative/msg/2f939194f9fb862e
Jun 11 2005
Subject: Cathyb Can provide NO proof
Cathyb wrote
People have already seen where you *accused* me,
And so, for the final time:
LadyLollipop wrote:
<snip justification of the unjustifiable>
You have failed to answer my question.
Haven't seen it before.
Are you Peter's wife??
No
http://groups.google.com/group/misc.health.alternative/msg/6f99ae15f456f626
Jun 10 2005
Subject: This Wouldn't Bother You, Would It Cathy B-Bowditch?
Are you Peter's wife?
LL/Jan
http://groups.google.com/group/misc.health.alternative/msg/4a51b6f34e42d647
Jun 10 2005
Are you his daughter, wife??
You have failed to answer my question.
Are you Peter's wife??
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