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The Register

Human rights watchdog Privacy International has launched a quest to find the World's Most Stupid Security Measure.

The global competition will identify what the group describes as the most "pointless, intrusive, annoying and self-serving" security measures.

The "Stupid Security" award aims to highlight the absurdities of the security industry. Privacy International's director, Simon Davies, said his group has taken the initiative because of "innumerable" security initiatives around the world that had absolutely no genuine security benefit.

I only wish I could come up with something, but I work out of my house and never venture much to 'secure' areas. Maybe you can send in one and I can win by association. Nah... have fun with it.

New worm touts more unauthorised Catherine Zeta Jones snaps, reveals Sophos Anti-Virus Watch what you download, especially if you are on IRC.

FreeGuide TV Guide Amazing what these Brits will come up with. This is a little bit complicated to configure (takes a command line to do it but instructions are well written) but is fairly simple after that. I have gotten sick and tired of pop-up-under-over-around windows when I visit sites (no I will not use tools to shut them off, there may be a site that they need to be on). This program allows you to get a full listing of all the TV shows in your area. Free program, free listings, what is better than that. Set up for North America, Great Brittan and some other countires. Check it out.

[Pentagon researchers at work on personal data mining] This worries me! Does the government have the right to collect data on me to protect me. I have made decisions for my privacy, but in this one I have no decision. And who is going to safeguard the information so that it does not get used for bad things. I am not one to cry out "wolf" when some liberties are taken away, that is the price for living in a free society. I do question this extreme though.

You only though you had run out of things to worry about! [Squirrel Hazing -- The Untold Story]. Be afraid..be very afraid

Panda Software reports the appearance of a new worm/Trojan: Kazoa.C, alias Gool. Folks be careful of what you donwload. This is bad news stuff.

Techzonez - Hotmail user hacked off Why would anyone use a hotmail address for anything but Junk Mail? If you trust Microsoft for security, you are wrong.

Bible Inverse Scripture Memorization
Looking for a Bible Memorization program, look no further. For free the cost is right. and the only thing wrong with the program is that it assumes that you are telling the truth if you say you have memorized a verse. Of course, why would you lie if you were trying to memorize the Bible?

[CNN.com - Man requests Jesus for legal help - Feb. 11, 2003] You know, it is weird people like this that give Christians a bad name. Yes I know Jesus is alive today, but unless this man can produce Jesus in the flesh, he is a nut for trying to do it.

CNN.com - Transcripts

Hans Blix: No New Evidence in Baghdad Papers

I have no desire for war, but it looks like Sadam Husain has not changed. Time to go in and do what we did not do 12 years ago. I find it interesting that people in Europe have forgotten what Hitler did. Let us not give this man the same extremes that we did Hitler.

Well another week has gone by. I do not do much in the way of personal bloggin here, but I felt I needed to. Happy birthday to my sone Joshua. As I write this 21 years ago, at this time he was being born. Joshua, you and I have not always had our smooth times, but in the end, you know that I love you. Happy Birthday, and God bless you. Check out his picture (and the rest of the family) at at my home web site.

Robert Orben Quotes - The Quotations Page

Sometimes I get the feeling the whole world is against me, but deep down I know that's not true. Some smaller countries are neutral.
Robert Orben

from today's Quote of the day. Man I know how he feels.

Vandals deface ex-hacker Mitnick's site - Tech News - CNET.com
Ah, we have come full circle, the teacher is now the student.

CNN.com - Marines: Two accused of bomb plot were AWOL - Feb. 10, 2003
Jorge, if you are reading this at all, I am concerned for you. I have not seen you on line for over a week, and this happened with regards to your base. We are praying for you.
Bob

[Tribnet.com - News/Local]Teacher apologizes for abortion discussion
Let me get his all straight. A teacher uses a classroom for 10 min to do a math problem about how many people were killed in the holocaust and in abortions, and calculate to the local pro football field. Now he has to apologize because abortion and the holocaust were off topic and controversial. We have sex education being taught as if there is no need to wait till you are married, satanic holidays (Holoween) celebrated, and Christian Holidays (Christmas, Easter) watered down (winter break or seasonal holidays, spring break), and the Lord know what else, but a man talks about abortion and asks the kids to calculate how many footall stadiums of babies we have killed, and he is wrong. Sigh...

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MIT students seek low-tech, low-cost solution to water-borne illness

Cambridge-AP -- While some of their classmates are working on sending a 15 million dollar rocket to Mars, a group of M-I-T students are working on a project with materials as simple as a clear plastic soda bottle.
Their goal: build a better water filter for $5 or less.

Nice to know that there are people working on the problems of the world, high tech people, with low tech solutions.

Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. Quotes - The Quotations Page

Lawyers spend a great deal of their time shoveling smoke.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

Interesting quote from the Quotation Page

Don't Play the Lottery for Me! Concidering that my adopted home state of Oklahoma is concidering a lotery to fund education, this article caught my eye. If you truly are thinking about supporting this awful disease of gambling, read this article with an open mind. I will not lie, it comes from a Christian perspective, but that does not make it wrong, unless you are a bigot against Christians. Thanks to Gary at Country Keepers for the link.

WorldNetDaily: Jesus a pacifist? [link] An interesting though light read about Jesus being a pacifist. Seems the Bishop that our president sits under in the Methodist church is saying that Jesus is a pacifist and that if George W Bush wants to get in God's good graces he better get in line. I do not see Jesus as a pacifist as we know a pacifist now days. I do see Jesus as a man of peace (He is the Price of Peace), but anyone who enters Satan's kingdom and takes the keys to death, hell and the grave from him is not a peaceful man.. My $.02 worth at least.

[Yahoo! News - Lawmaker Introduces Barbecue-Cloth Napkin Bill] From my adopted home state of Oklahoma, a lawmaker is going to file a bill that he is not going to bring up. And we wonder why Oklahoma is broke. How much is this going to cost us, and we can not afford to fund education.

Windows - Authoring tools - NetBeans 3.4 [link] This is a development environment for programmers to write, compile, debug and deploy programs. It is written in Java but can support many programming languages including C, C++, XML, HTML and more. The program also includes a syntax highlighting code editor with support for code completion, annotations, macros and auto-indentation. Have not played with it yet. You might want to look at it if you are an amature programer/developer like me, or even better than me.....

Opera 7 Holes Detected; Multimodal Toolkit Released [link]. Give them a few days. Opera will have this fixed. Though I am not using them as much as I am Mozilla now, I still think that Opera is the best browser out there when it comes to HTML compatability. Hey, Microsoft has had a lot more problems then thay have. I think Gray Magic should have given them time to look at fixing it up before they went public with it. A weekend is not enough.

Techfocus News & Commentary - News Last week's Sapphire worm, widely known as SQL Slammer, infected more than 90 percent of vulnerable computers within 10 minutes, opening a new era of fast-spreading viruses on the Internet, according to a think tank. [link]. I guess the only way to keep ones self totally virus free is not to use a computer. To me that is not acceptable. Though I have been in computers for over 20 years, the only viruses that I have ever gotten have been self inflicted. This means that I got samples and gave them to myself. I have not ever been infected by a virus/worm/rouge program that I did not do to myself. How come I am so lucky. Well I practice safe-hex. ALWAYS keep an up to date anti-virus program running on your computer.

Dum di dum di dum di... doh! BBC's The Archers sends out a virus [link] Well I guess I have to stop picking on Microsoft now. If the BBC can make a mistake and send out a Virus, I guess Microsoft making Windows, the bigest virus of all, is ok.

Reading the Bible thorugh in One Year. Jan 3, 2003



Reading Genesis 6 - 9



Chapter 6

v. 1 - 2 What were these sons of God. Fallen angels, or Godly men (from Seth's line)?

v 3 Man had to have his life shortened. The longer he lived, the more sin he lived in, the more depraved this world got.

v 4 - 5 support the thoughts above.

v 6 - 8 God plans to destroy man and the earth. But Noah stops the complete destruction.

v 9 - 12 Do you realize that if Noah had been corrupt as well, we would not be here to talk about it. It is only through Noah that we are continued.

v 13 - 22 God tells Noah what to do and makes a covenant with him. This is the first covenant between man and God in the Bible (at least named a covenant). In these verses Noah is commanded only to bring in two of every animal.


Chapter 7


v 1 - 3 In what appears to be a contridiction, God commands more animals that two of certain types. The pair were for continuation of the species, the extras were for sacrafices.

v 4 No doubt about it here. God is going to destroy the earth.

v 5 - 12 And God does

v 13 - 24 All on the earth were destroyed. The fish were not destroyed, they could not be by the water, but what did it do to their eco-system?


Chapter 8


v 1 As if He should ever forget anyone of us, God remembers Noah, thinking fondly of him.

v 2 - 6 And when God thinks fondly, the rain stops.

v 7 - 14 Noah wisely tests to see if it is safe to come out of the Ark. God who had been so clear in how to build the ark and populate it is now silent when it comes time to leave.

v 15 - 19 But then He does speak, it is time to leave the ark and take all out, and Noah does.

v 20 - 21 The covenant is completed. Noah offers the sacrafice. God brought him through and he offers to God what will cover the sins of his past.

v. The pricipal of seedtime and harvest is here. Like there is heat and cold, day and night, there will be a time of planting and a time of reaping. That planting can be of yourself, your finace, what ever, but it is a principal that what you reap you will havest.


Chapter 9



v 1 - 3 All living things and plants are given for us to eat. Just one rule.

v 4 If it still has the blood of life in it, do not eat it.

v 5 - 6 God will require the beast to give its life if it eats the blood. Just as he will man.

v 7 - 17 The sign of the bow (the sign of the hunter) is placed in the sky, as a symbol that God will not destroy all by a flood ever again. This flood and this bow are not signs that man has risen above the fallen state, only that God has been able to remove much evil so that he can start anew his plan for redemption.

v 18 - 28 Very obscure to me what went on, Ham does something wrong and his sone gets punished.



Psalm 3


Though David was at a time of trouble, a time when it looked like he could not win, he trusted in the Lord who heard (and responed) from His holy hill. That my faith could ever be that strong.




Follow along at Country Keepers. Thanks Gary

Reading the Bible thorugh in One Year. Jan 2, 2003

Reading Genesis 3 - 5


Chapter 3

1 - 5 One rule is all they had. One stinking rule. Eat or do not eat. I have asked myself for years why could they not keep one stinking rule. But I saw in reading this time something new. Eating ment they were ruling themselves, not letting God rule them. In other words, it could have been any rule, like 'Don't kick the cat!' and man would have still broken it because by nature man is not one to be ruled over but to rule over others. The very authority he was given in Chapter 2 is what led to the downfall here. He wanted self control, not God control. And we strugle with it even now.

Eve enlarges the truth here. Is she doing it on purpose, did Adam teach her falsely, why?

v. 6 Did Adam know what Eve was giving her to eat. I have heard preachers say that it is his fault, he was there with her and took the fruit willingly. But I am not so sure about that. Maybe she gave it to him and he had been off somewhare working. In the end it is all bad, we have the fall. I have read where people say Adam could have stoped the fall because he took and ate willingly, not decived like Eve was. How much of this is men-bashing? I sure Adam should have recognized the fruit so it is a mute point.


v. 7 - 8 They were naked. They had seen the power now, they were naked. They were vulnerable. There is more than phyical nakedness here, there is the eternal power strugle that has gone on through the ages.

v 9 Can you hear God, "Kids what are you doing?" As a parent I can see it.


v 10 - 11 How did he know he was naked? The fruit. But look at the reaction. He is vulnerable to God. Instead of talking to God, he is no longer on that equal level he was on before. He is now subserviant to God. He is naked, exposed to him.


v 12 - 13 Here we have the oldest profession in the Bible. It is called passing the buck. It still goes on today.

v 14 Why is the serpant cursed? Did he allow Satan to use him. Did the animal kingdom have a greater ability before the fall? Does this curse cause all the animals to fall under it or just the serpant?


v. 15 Clearly the promise of the Messiah and what would happen. The serpant would appear to defeat Him, but in the end, the Messiah would crush the serpant.

v. 16 God says clearly the problem here that is in most marriges today. Your desire shall be to rule over your husband, but he is to rule over you (my rough translation). Man is not to be an abuser in this situation. But no matter what, he is to lead. It is up to the woman to learn not to take the leadership role, to go against what is being taught in the world today. There is to be a joint-sharing of the power but in the end, the man to make the decisions.


v. 17 - 19 The man gets the worst sentance here. Woman is just going to get a desire to rule over the husband, but man is going to get to work the rest of his life, and it is to be hard work. And it will not come without many problems. Want to know why you have problems at work. Thank Adam for the bristles and thorns.


v. 21 Man's work (fig leaves) will never do in redemption. Blood has to be shed (leather clothes).

v. 22 - 24 Man is now removed from the direct communion that he had with God. He can no longer talk to God when he wants to as he could in the garrden, he is now limited to when God wants to talk to him.

If man had eaten from the tree of life, would he forever live in his sins? Is this a foreshadow of the person Jesus who would give us life on a tree (cross)?




Chapter 4


v 1 - 2 We see here the farmer and the herdsman. They are forever at odds with each other throughtout history.

v 3 - 5 Why did God not respect the offering of Cain? Was it not meat, that was of the blood, necessary to cover the sins? Was it an attitute problem, giving some food, maybe not the best. Able offfers first fruits, the first of the born of his heards. Cain offers some food. I think it was more than the blood, I think it was the attitude. He did not bring the best or the first, he brought some. And when what he brought was not good enough, did he look to himself to find out why? Or did he get angry and blame others? How about me? When I do not do my best, do I get angry at others for it?


v 6 - 8 God says to him that his efforts need to be his best efforts, not just getting by. And if he does not then anger will take over. And it does.

v 9 We are our brothers keeper, and if we do not do so, we will suffer from not taking care of him.

v 10 - 15 Even though God cursed Cain, He gave him, the sinner, a mark, so that no one else would kill him. He protected the sinner even when he did not deserve it.

v 16 - 24 A short listing of the decendants of Cain.

Also near the end of this, sin is increasing. Lamach is bosting of his sin.


v 25 Seth is born to replace the killed Able. The bloodline of Jesus has started. Did Satan use Cain here to stop the bloodline of Jesus from starting only to have it backfire when Eve became pregnant again?



Chapter 5


From Adam to Noah, 10 people total. Another 10 like 'God spoke'.



Psalm 2


v 1 - 3 People will always try to break from God's rule, just as the nations will try to fight the anointed one God had put on the throne of Israel. I guess the anointed one on the throne of our heart is moved out by our desire to rule our own lives.

v 4 - 6 God laughs at the whole thing. He has set the authority on the throne.

v 7 - 9 God tells his Son that all He has to do is ask for the nations and He shall have them. Jesus did that (john 17). But gave us the job to do it.

v 10 - 12 All the nations (and the people) are to submit to God.




Follow along at Country Keepers. Thanks Gary

Reading the Bible thorugh in One Year. Jan 1, 2003
Reading Genesis 1 - 2



Chapter1

v.1 The created item is responsible to the creator for his actions. As a creation of God, I can only be responsible to my creator, and I am responsible to persue Christlikeness so that I can reproduce Him in my life.


God created, has the meaning of formed out or carved out.


v.2 If the earth was without form and void (chaos), did God fail in creating the earth? Or is it that the process is a continual one, that takes time, even for our God, and it took God the 6 full days to bring order out of what He had created?


v. 3 - 29 As each day happens the order of the earth becomes more and more prominant. Notice also that God has order in each day (there was evening and morning..., God saw that it was good..., etc). Also each item needed to be in exsistance before the other one could. God is truly a God of order.


Another thing to note is that there are 10 "and God's said." Is this any relation to the decaloge that he will give to Moses later?


God created the family here.. he created man (male and female) when he created Adam. And he made us in His image. A combined unit of one, a family.


Chapter 1 ends, all is perfect. Why are we in disharmony now?



Chapter 2

v1 - 3 Could God really rest? Would the mere napping of God put us out of exsistance? What we have here is no further creation.

v 4 - 7 Man was formed, and breath the breath of life into his nostrils. What seperates man from the animals, they were all formed, but in man is breathed the breath of life. I content that no matter what they try to do, they will never prove evolution as God breathed life into Adam, and that is what seperates us from the animals. What ever it was that was breathed in seperates us. We have a body as does any animal, and we have a soul, a part of us that thinks, which I believe the animals do, but what seperates us is what God breathed into us, I believe a spirit. It makes us a triune being like God, and sperates us from the animals.

v 8 - 9 The trees, Life and death. Why did God put them both there?


v 16 - 17 All God had for Adam to follow was one rule. Notice here that Eve has not been created. When she was created, since Adam was male and female, did she have all the knowledge he did as to what God said (she is responsible for the fall), or did Adam have the only knowledge (Adam is responsible for not telling Eve properly)?


v 18 - 20 God gave Adam authority over the earth, and He proves it here. Adam names the animals. We see that God is not the authority over this earth at this point, Adam is, and that sets up for the transfer of authority that is about to take place.





Psalm 1



v. 1 Sin is progressive. You walk, stand and sit in it. By then it is to late. What keeps you from it?

v 2 meditate the word, have it become a part of you so that if you were cut into a million pieces, each part would have that bit of the Word in it.

v 3 So many have problems with the prosperity message. I guess they need to take this verse out. What ever he does prospers. Now, my time is not God's time. And I do not know when the time of completion is. This is not like my batchlor's degree I am working on, when I take certain classes, I get my degree. Only God knows for sure when my classes are over and my prosperity is on the way.

v. 4 The ungodly, those sitting earlier, are uprooted and blown about like chaff, parts of the harvest that have no use and irrate you, only suitable for burning, and so light they blow around with a light wind.

v. 5 Though on this earth they may judge me, in the end, they will not, My God will judge me, I will not be in their judgement and they will not be in my group. We will be permanatly seperated, and they like chaff will only be good for fuel for the fire.

v 6 God knows both of our ways.



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Working on the preperations for my spring classes tonight. It is tough work being a part time instructor.

Ignore the next post. I figured it out! WHoo WHooo

Sorry for the time away. Will be posting more soon. Check my daily life recently at http:christdot.org and go to the journals area, and look for drbobm.

abstract cs/0210020 Tetris is Hard So what is news about that. What is news is that if you are good at Tetris, you are good at analyzing problems and solving them.

vnunet.com Office 11 demands Windows upgrade So big deal. Do you want this to still be able to write files to a format that Word running on DOS will still read. For once I stand with Microsoft and against the critics. How dumb can you get?

XML-packed Office 11 goes into beta. So? You want to use XML in your office documents, use openoffice.org, and it is free... gee gotta love it when it is free, and the product is not bad either.

Seems like no one can come up with a new idea. The I love you virus has returned as MyBabyPic

Ganers (and non-gamers too) watch your MSn closelyPC World New Zealand - MSN Messenger worm steals game keys. You know what they say about a pennie's worth of protection don't you? Neither do I but it sounds nice.

Security, thy name is Microsoft Outlook Express Bug; MSN IM Worm Detected

The Register I know I keep harping on it, but can one really say Microsoft and security in the same sentense without it being an oxymoron

E-mail worm uses Sept. 11 lure - Tech News - CNET.com What is this world comming to! It was bad enough that 9/11 had to happen in the first place. Why do we have to have sickos like this. I am glad that the thing is buggy, I hope that the person responsible is found and persecuted.

Ananova - Bible re-written for text messaging youth Yes but is it Gneder Neutral.....

vnunet.com WebTV 'virus' calls the cops Got to love it. Where you you like to call the Cops today. Or if Microsoft = Bad Boy..... Bad Boy Bad Boy, what you gonna do, whatcha gonna do when they come for you.

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