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Joined: 02 Nov 2005
Posts: 88
Location: WA
Posted: Sun Nov 06, 2005 12:47 am
Post subject: Dorm cooking and recipes
I currently have 2 kids in college, and both live on campus.
(Incidently, please send any spare money me, cuz them long_haired_city_boy_ "edjukations" ain't cheap these days..... * spit --- ding! * )
Now when I was an engineer student at UW ("Go Huskies!"), we basically ate romen noodles, poptarts, and peanut butter and jelly sandwiches. And "salmonella" or "e-coli" was not yet posh, so we never bothered to refrigerate any left overs of mom's thanks-giving turkey or pizza! But now that I love to cook (and experiment), I am trying to invent new, nutritious, and easy to cook dorm recipes. Remember, in dorms, you are very limited with what you can have. Microwaves are allowed, but some Dorm's do not allow hot plates. Some dorms allow a shared oven, others don't. Toasters and some electric grills are usually allowed.
I recently saw a "Dorm" cook-off on the food-channel, wherein the kids competed using the "George Forman Grill", and the food looked pretty good, but not exactly "do-able" for the average student (Note: How many college students have duck meat to squandor?),
By the way... the ENGINEERS won that competition...
Anyhoo.... if this topic has ever been covered in here, please point me to it. If you have any ideas for Dorm worthy (legally allowed) cooking hardware, I would be interesed too.
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Posted: Sun Nov 06, 2005 1:32 am
Post subject: There's a rice cooker cookbook and some websites devoted to
dorm food prepared with a rice cooker. The Tatung with the removable stainless pot is probably the most versatile.
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Posted: Sun Nov 06, 2005 2:56 am
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brilliant idea!
i didn't realize you could cook so many different kinds of meals with a rice cooker! check out some of these recipes i found for rice cookers in just a matter of seconds:
* scrambled eggs
* new potatoes with onions
* spaghetti
* tacos or burritos
* chicken soup
* spare ribs
(hmmmm... i dunno bout that one!)
heck.... you can even make rice with it!
i am off to buy my first tatung rice cooker!
please post any good web sites with rice cooker recipes that you recommend.
thanks again!
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Joined: 07 Nov 2005
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Location: Haines City, FL
Posted: Mon Nov 07, 2005 2:41 pm
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If the rice cooker can do the spaghetti, then I imagine just about any noodles would work that way. Load 'em up on starch!
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Posted: Mon Nov 07, 2005 9:40 pm
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At my school, just about everything was banned from the dorms. I know, I was an RA for 2 years! Toasters, Foreman Grills, and anything like them were not allowed. Coffee makers with automatic shut-offs were ok, but I allowed hot-plates because they're basically the same thing. I can't tell the difference between an automatic shut off and manual kind anyway
That said, there are tons of things you can make in the microwave and the coffee pot. I adapted the coffee maker so it made soup! The key to making coffee-pot soup however is using items that don't have to be simmered for a long time, because eventually the pot will shut off. Ramen noodles (minus the flovor packets, of course) are perfect for this, as are dehydrated vegetables and spices.
If you buy special plastic or silicone pans, you can make small cakes and cupcakes in the microwave. I used to use regualar cake mixes and halve the cooking time (as well as reducing power to 50% if able) to get an edible result, but I'm sure there are better ways!
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Posted: Tue Nov 08, 2005 5:22 am
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ktexp2 wrote:
At my school, just about everything was banned from the dorms....
i did have a plain bread toaster in college. when times got tough, i could always rely on a "carmelized" kelloggs poptart with butter.
in fact... 20 years later... i pretty much still rely on those damn poptarts to save the day!
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Posted: Wed Nov 16, 2005 5:08 am
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Handy Hints
1. Put a TV aerial on your Microwave...
2. Replace labels... a GF Grill becomes a book press for binding essays
3. Portable hot plates mounted in a frame on your wall is a work of art.
4. A well polished still, will pass as a sculpture. make sure you have a base to suit.
5. A crock pot becomes a pot plant. remove plant and cook.
6. A bar fridge is a biological specimen preserver.
by the way did you know some kitchen paper and an iron is great for cooking fish, bacon, ect.... cover with paper and use the normal action.
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Posted: Thu Nov 17, 2005 5:46 am
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smoothies with a blender.
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Posted: Fri Dec 02, 2005 11:08 pm
Post subject: dorm cooking
I had a Portuguese friend in college who could make AMAZING food using an old fashioned dome type popcorn popper. (the bottom was basically a small non-stick electric skillet.) He would cook us grilled cheese sandwiches, fried/scrambled eggs with chorizo or linguca sausage he would have sent to him from his home in New Bedford. Tasty!
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Posted: Thu Feb 16, 2006 7:07 am
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You might look for a book called "The Off-Campus, On-Campus Cookbook" which is no doubt long out of print.
Also, take a look at:
A Google search turned up a number of interesting items
As the others have pointed out, please check out the restrictions on what can be used in the dorms. As I recall it, there were a lot of 'coffee pots' that got used for warming soups and stews. Although part of being a student is stretching the rules, safety must be considered.
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Posted: Tue Apr 25, 2006 5:57 pm
Post subject: tatung rice cooker
When I was in college, the dorm room was a bit bigger than the ones today. And I had my tatung rice cooker with me. This is the old version, not the electronic micom cooker one, but the "traditional" (and cheaper) one. I still have it (after 20 years), and still use it. I have the big 10 cup now, but I still use the 3 cup for making dishes to go with the rice!
You can make rice, porridge, steam buns, noodle dishes, make steamed veggies and steamed fish, marble tea eggs, chinese desserts and all kinds of great Asian food in it.
It is also indestructable. The newer micom cookers (all the Japanese ones) are more devoted to making rice, brown rice, and porridge. Plus, because of the sensitive electronics inside, if it gets dropped accidentally, it's toast. DEAD. (I know, I had one, and it got dropped in the move, and died).
I must have dropped the Tatung rice cooker several times; every time I move it gets rustled a bit. But it does NOT affect the performance of it in any way. It's like a timex watch, takes a licking and keeps on ticking. Best investment in a rice cooker.
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Posted: Sat Apr 29, 2006 8:22 pm
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This is a really interesting topic, so I am glad to make it my first post on the forums.
I am a first year university student (I'm not in engineering...
), and even though I don't live in dorms, something that I really enjoy using is my sandwich maker.
I can make grilled cheese, potato cakes, and pizza pockets just to name a few. My favourite is the pizza pocket, so I'll let you know how I do it.
2 slices of bread (white, whole wheat, whatever you like)
2 tbs of pizza sauce (a squeezable bottle works best)
1 tbs grated mozzarella cheese
a few slices of pepperoni
Spray the sandwich maker with non-stick spray. Place one piece of bread down and add a bit of pizza sauce in the middle. Place the cheese and pepperoni on top and add the remaining sauce. Cover with the second bread slice, close the lid, and cook for about 2 minutes.
You can add whatever toppings you like inside. You could also jazz up the crust by using garlic bread or onion bread.
Good luck to your children.
I hope they enjoy college as much as I am.
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Apple in China: From Dissed to Darling in a Day
"We approve of what Apple said."
— China Foreign Ministry spokesperson Hong Lei
As expected, Apple's rare public apology to China for its allegedly unfair warranty and repair policies has proven a fast-acting and effective antidote for escalating tensions in the country. Not 24 hours after its publication, and already the country's state-run media has eased off the vitriol and is trading mudslinging for bouquet tossing.
China's Foreign Ministry on Tuesday lauded Apple for its "conscientious" response to the country's concerns. And government mouthpiece The People's Daily, which just days ago had been slagging Apple for its "unparalleled arrogance," held the company up as a model for other foreign businesses.
"The company's apology letter has eased the situation, softening the tense relationship between Apple and the Chinese market," the publication wrote. "Its reaction is worth respect compared with other American companies. CCTV also deserves our respect and encouragement for daring to criticize a business giant like Apple."
"Unparalleled arrogance" to "worth respect" in a day — what a swift and thorough rapprochement. Not bad for the small price Apple paid. As I wrote early this morning:
"Apple's apology in China cost the company very little; indeed, the changes made to its repair policies in the country were relatively minor. But what it stands to gain from such a public mea culpa from Tim Cook could be significant, extending well beyond a simple easing of tensions in Beijing."


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The Land O'Lakes Kennel Club drew a substantial entry for its two days in St Paul MN. The seven that Col Joe Purkhiser saw were the English Springer Spaniel, GCH CH Wynmoor Champagne Supernova, the American Foxhound, GCH CH Dunstan Tucker, the Boxer, CH Nantess Caleno Numero Uno, the Norfolk Terrier, GCH Max-Well's Diamond Thief, the Shih Tzu, GCH CH Symarun's Love T'Look, the Bulldog, Evergreen's Hey! Gorgeous, and the Bearded Collie, GCH CH Spirit Woods Gandalph the Blue.
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His RBIS was the BIS winning Shih Tzu, Looker, but his BIS was a relative newcomer, the Beardie, Gunner. The first timer is the son of the top winning Bearded Collie of all time, GCH CH Tolkien Raintree Mister Baggins. Congratulations to breeders/ownersSheila Larsen & Jim Larsen.


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Indian analysts are starting to refer to the street violence gripping Kashmir as the "Kashmir intifada," a nod to the earlier uprisings of Palestinian stone-throwing youth against Israeli forces.
Tensions remain high in the Kashmir Valley, with the main city of Srinagar shut down today – a historical holiday known as Martyr's Day – due to strikes and a reimposed curfew.
The use of the phrase intifada, which means uprising, highlights how the unrest in Kashmir has been led by rock-throwing boys, not the trained militants or political factions of the elder generation. It was that generation's earlier efforts that failed to end India's military presence in the disputed region along the Pakistan and Indian border where many Kashmiris simply want independence.
The root cause of boys throwing stones
Intifada also harks back to the cycle of violence unleashed in the Palestinian territories. The same dynamic has emerged in Kashmir this year: boys throw stones at security forces, those forces fire back and kill youths, protests start anew, more rocks are thrown, and more protesters are killed. In the past month alone, at least 15 people have died in the clashes.
"What we are witnessing in certain areas of Jammu & Kashmir is the beginning of an intifada," writes B. Raman, former head of counterterrorism for India¹s intelligence service, in India¹s Outlook Magazine.
"The root cause is the growing perception among some sections of the youth that the security forces have been insensitive in performing their counter-insurgency duties and have been adopting objectionable methods … and using disproportionate force against the people."
The language has also been picked up by some of the Kashmiri separatist leaders, says Yusuf Jameel, a journalist based in Srinagar for the Asian Age newspaper. It reflects the changed nature of the current unrest – which he says started in 2008 – from the bloody insurgency of the 1990s.
Today's opposition in Kashmir
"The difference is that, in the '90s, you had people out in the streets, but at the same time you had militants fighting security forces, attacking them, exploding grenades, and things like that," says Mr. Jameel. Now, there is virtually no militant activity in the cities, "but on the other hand, you have crowds out on the street chanting slogans like 'We want freedom' and 'India get out.' "
The crowds are larger, and from within those crowds emerge the boys who have made rock throwing a pastime, he says. He is open to the notion that the boys are being put up to it by opposition political leaders hoping to regain power. But ultimately, he says, getting a handle on the situation means addressing the longstanding political tensions over who should control the territory.
Crowd and youth control?
Mr. Raman and others argue that now is the wrong time to focus on that discussion. Since the immediate anger has to do with police tactics, the Indian government needs to implement better methods of crowd control, seriously investigate human rights violations, and reach out more to youths.
"First of all, the government should try to contact the leadership of the teenage protesters about their grievances," says Balraj Puri, director of the Institute of Jammu and Kashmir Affairs. While their leaders and entire list of grievances remain unknown, he says, they have demanded the release of all youths as a condition for ending their movement.
"As far as 'Kashmir intifada' is concerned, there is no clear model for teenagers. They are groping for their way," says Mr. Puri. "Of course they are in touch with the events taking place elsewhere.
Raman uses the term intifada less in reference to the Israeli conflict and more to the vision of "jihadi intifada" outlined by Al Qaeda's No. 2, Ayman al-Zawahiri, in 2007. Mr. Zawahiri, he says, called for "leaderless street violence" and a mixing of violent and nonviolent tactics.
Intifada's complicated association
Still, the term's association with the Israel-Palestinian conflict raises some hackles when applied to Kashmir.
"At a factual level, I would obviously disagree with its application to Kashmir," says Sumit Ganguly, a professor at Indiana University at Bloomington. "The Indian state has committed many sins, but it has legal standing in Kashmir and a moral and constitutional obligation to the non-Muslim population of the state."
There appears to be broad agreement among experts that the boys, for now, are not acting in concert with militants. Yet, much of the security apparatus in the state is focused on fighting insurgents, not managing protesters.
"The local police have focused on counter-insurgency duties over the last several years and can't cope with civilian mobs," writes Mr. Ganguly in a recent Wall Street Journal op-ed.
He adds economic stagnation to the list of underlying grievances of the younger generation: "The coalition state government has done little to attract investment into the troubled state. Kashmiris, especially young men, have limited employment opportunities."
For now, the economy has only worsened because of the violence. The valley is highly dependent on tourist dollars. The unrest has shuttered businesses in downtown Srinigar and scared off tourists from enjoying the mountain weather.
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FORT BLISS, TX -- The Army is preparing to dedicate its largest physical fitness facility on July 7—the 96,000-square-foot Joshua W. Soto Physical Fitness Facility at Fort Bliss, El Paso, Texas.
The $22 million facility includes nearly $2 million in equipment and fixtures. It includes a 10,000-square-foot weight room, a spin room that accommodates 60 bikes and a cardio room large enough to house 60 treadmills, 60 ellipticals, 60 bikes, 20 stair steppers and 10 rowing machines.
Fort Bliss launched several recent construction projects to accommodate increased troop levels prompted by the 2005 Base Realignment and Closure (BRAC) project. In 2005, the base had 9,300 soldiers. Soon, the East Fort Bliss population is expected to reach 22,000 soldiers, and the main post is expected to have 9,000 soldiers. The Army spent about $1 billion on construction there last year alone.
The Soto facility also has an indoor 1/10th-mile running track, a combatives room, two basketball courts, a fitness assessment room, a concession area and locker rooms and showers that can accommodate 130 people at a time.
In addition, the building features a 24-person conference room and a 2,000-square-foot recreation space with pool tables, gaming equipment and computers for soldiers to use.
The facility is named in honor of Joshua W. Soto, who died June 16, 2009, while serving in Operation Iraqi Freedom as a member of 1st Battalion, 77th Armor Regiment, 4th Brigade Combat Team, 1st Armored Division. Construction on the facility began in January 2009, and a soft opening was held on June 17.


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Continuing my coverage of last week's Data Center Conference 2009, my last breakout session of the week was an analyst presentation on Solid State Drive (SSD) technology. There are two different classes of SSD, consumer grade multi-level cell (MLC) running currently at $2 US dollars per GB, and Enterprise grade single-level cell (SLC) running at $4.50 US dollars per GB. Roughly 80 to 90 percent of the SSD is used in consumer use cases, such as digital cameras, cell phones, mobile devices, USB sticks, camcorders, media players, gaming devices and automotive.
While the two classes are different, the large R&D budgets spent on consumer grade MLC carry forward to help out enterprise grade SLC as well. SLC means there is a single level for each cell, so each cell can only hold a single bit of data, a one or a zero. MLC means the cell can hold multiple levels of charge, each representing a different value. Typically MLC can hold 3 to 4 bits of data per cell.
Back in 1997, SLC Enterprise Grade SSD cost roughly $7870 per GB. By 2013, Consumer Grade 4-bit MLC is expected to be only 24 cents per GB. Engineers are working on trade-offs between endurance cycles and retention periods. FLASH management software is the key differentiator, such as clever wear-leveling algorithms.
SSD is 10-15 times more expensive than spinning hard disk drives (HDD), and this price difference is expected to continue for a while. This is because of production volumes. In 4Q09, manufacturers will manufacturer 50 Exabytes of HDD, but only 2 Exabytes of SSD. The analyst thinks that SSD will only be roughly 2 percent of the total SAN storage deployed over the next few years.
How well did the audience know about SSD technology?
SSD does not change the design objectives of disk systems. We want disk systems that are more scalable and have higher performance. We want to fully utilize our investment. We want intelligent self-management similar to caching algorithms. We want an extensible architecture.
What will happen to fast Fibre Channel drives? Take out your Mayan calendar. Already 84mm 10K RPM drives are end of life (EOL) in 2009. The analyst expects 67mm and 70mm 10K drives will EOL in 2010, and that 15K will EOL by 2012. A lot of this is because HDD performance has not kept up with CPU advancements, resulting in an I/O bottleneck. SSD is roughly 10x slower than DRAM, and some architectures use SSD as a cache extension. The IBM N series PAM II card and Sun 7000 series being two examples.
Let's take a look at a disk system with 120 drives, comparing 73GB HDD's versus 32GB SSD's.
There are various use cases for SSD. These include internal DAS, stand-alone Tier 0 storage, replace or complement HDD in disk arrays, and as an extension of read cache or write cache. The analyst believes there will be mixed MLC/SLC devices that will allow for mixed workloads. His recommendations:
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THURSDAY, Dec. 31, 2009 (HealthDay News) -- Steroid injections into the eye slowed diabetes-related eye disease, though lasers remain the treatment of choice because of side effects related to the steroids, new research shows.
Researchers from the Johns Hopkins Wilmer Eye Institute gave 693 men and women who had diabetic retinopathy with macular edema either injections of a corticosteroid into their eyes as often as every four months or a laser photocoagulation, the standard treatment. The average age of the participants was 63.
Retinopathy is a long-term complication of diabetes that can lead to blindness. Macular edema, which can further interfere with vision, is a swelling of the central portion of the retina caused by fluid leakage.
Over time, retinopathy can advance to proliferative diabetic retinopathy, in which abnormal blood vessels grow on the optic nerve in the back of the eye, which communicates information from the retina to the brain, or elsewhere on the light-sensitive retina. The study authors found that steroid treatments reduced the risk of progression of diabetic retinopathy.
However, steroids did not prevent the progression of macular edema, according to the study.
And while steroids did help to improve the vision of participants, the results were no better than the laser treatments. Because the use of steroids in the eye can increase the risk of other eye diseases, including glaucoma and cataracts, lasers remain the treatment of choice for now, said lead study author Neil Bressler, a professor of ophthalmology and chief of the retina division of the eye institute.
"Steroid treatment worked, but because of safety issues, cannot be recommended routinely at this time," Bressler said in a news release from the institute. "It is a condition that can be treated safely and effectively with lasers."
The study findings are published in the December issue of Archives of Ophthalmology.
About 700,000 Americans have proliferative diabetic retinopathy, and 63,000 new cases develop each year, according to background information provided in the news release.
Corticosteroids may slow the progression of retinopathy by reducing the production of compounds that promote the growth of harmful new blood vessels, the researchers said.
More research is needed to determine if steroids can be used without increasing the risk of glaucoma or cataracts, the authors said.
More information
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Well, yesterday was another day when I bet you all wish you had bought those winter tires last fall.
Cars slip-sliding all over the place, blocking traffic because they can't get up the hills and ravines that pretty much define the GTA's geography.
Even saw some TTC and GO busses having trouble with traction. Usually with their rear-mounted engines they get enough grip to get them going. The temperature wasn't far from freezing, which means the road surfaces were slipperier than ever.
Partly good luck, partly good management, I happen to have a big four-wheel drive SUV on test this week. A seven billion horsepower twin-turbo SUV, but with all the modern traction aids like Electronic Stability Control, and Continental Cross Contact winter tires, not much was going to stop me.
One thing I have noticed this winter is that more people, maybe starting to get the fact that we live in a climate where it has been snowing every year for, oh, I dunno fifteen thousand years, are 'parking' their windshield wipers 'up', rather than leaving them flat against the windshield.
The obvious advantage is that they don't get buried in subsequent snowfalls, and/or don't freeze to the glass if there's freezing rain or other precipitatory nastiness.
Because once they are stuck, it takes a lot of scraping to unstick them.
And that's never fun.
I have tried various spray-on ice-removing concoctions, but have never found one that worked.
I know some people carry a sturdy sheet of plastic to lay over the windshield; pull that off and the ice comes with it.
Good idea, if you're disciplined enough to remember to bring it, and to use it.
I have also on occasion found myself in a press car that did not have an ice scraper/snow brush in it (my fault for not checking first), and have had to use a credit card.
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Steve's magic: The irony behind Apple's success
By Andrew Potter
The internet chatterbots still weren't finished complaining about the underwhelming iPhone 4S Apple's first major product launch under new CEO Tim Cook when it was announced that his predecessor, Steve Jobs, had died on October 5.
It wasn't a surprise. Jobs had been fighting pancreatic cancer since 2004, and he stepped down as CEO of Apple on August 24 for health reasons, just weeks after his company surpassed Exxon Mobil to become the most valuable corporation in the world. Yet for all his success as a business executive, Jobs' most enduring legacy is not as a corporate mogul, but as a cultural visionary.
From the iPod to the iPhone to the iPad, Apple products have installed themselves in the battle gear of the contemporary creative class, serving as a virtual synonym for networked independence and stylish non-conformity. Steve Jobs is perhaps the most successful brand manager in history. However, he did it, paradoxically, by embracing the precise corporate values to which the Apple brand identity is ostensibly opposed.Think back to the famous "1984" commercial that trumpet-blasted the arrival of the Macintosh computer. Before legions of drone-like workers arranged in orderly rows, Big Brother appears on a giant viewscreen, addressing the crowd:Today, we celebrate the glorious anniversary of the Information Purification Directives. We have created, for the first time in all history, a garden of pure ideology. Where each worker may bloom secure from the pests of contradictory and confusing truths. Our Unification of Thoughts is more powerful a weapon than any fleet or army on Earth. We are one people, with one will, one resolve, one cause. Our enemies shall talk themselves to death and we will bury them with their own confusion. We shall prevail!
Everything in the ad is black and white, except for a blond woman wearing bright red shorts, who runs toward the viewscreen pursed by riot police. She screams, then throws an enormous sledgehammer through the screen, which explodes in a flash of light. A pitch for the new Macintosh computer scrolls into view. Thanks to the Apple Computer Corporation, we are assured, the year 1984 will not be like the book 1984. The spot was directed by Ridley Scott, and was honored by Advertising Age as the best commercial of the decade.
While the 1984 ad ran only once, during Super Bowl XVIII, it nailed Apple's ideological colors to the mast. Ever since, the brand has stood as the definitive statement of the rebel sell: the individualized resistance to political authoritarianism and cultural conformity through the adoption of non-standard consumer goods.
Here's a pop quiz: what company is being represented as "Big Brother" in the 1984 ad? Most people, when you ask them, answer Microsoft. Except the real target of the ad is actually IBM, a company that was already on the cusp of obsolescence by the time the Macintosh appeared. Since then, a succession of companies has cycled through the typical lifespan from spunky young startup to lumbering corporate behemoth– Microsoft, Google, and now Facebook– and each time, they have found themselves criticized for all manner of monopolistic and even Orwellian activities.
But it is worth emphasizing that the existence of standards in the computer industry is, by and large, the consequence of choices that people have voluntarily made. Network effects, where a device, application, or operating system gets increasingly useful as more and more people adopt it, are extremely powerful, and merely underscore the fact that not all uniformity is a bad thing.
Yet there is one thing that the 1984 commercial glosses over, which is the fact that there is no "Information Purification Directive" in our society. Or at least there wasn't until Steve Jobs came along. More than any other company in the industry, Apple exerts a tremendous amount of control over its customers' user experience. From the tethering of the iPod to a specific iTunes account to the way Apple jealously guards applications (and hence, content) for the iPhone, the Apple ecosystem has become its own "garden of pure ideology."
And therein lies the paradox of Apple under Steve Jobs, and the key to his company's unbelievable success. For the past quarter century, Apple has retained its credibility as the flagship brand of techno-cultural cool, even as it treats its customers with a darkly paternalistic attitude that some have dubbed "iFascism."
How does Apple get away with it? One answer is to say, as many have, that under Steve Jobs, the Apple user community has become something near to a cult, with its infantilized members tolerating all manner of indignities in the blind service of the leader's vision. But that misses the central point, which is that Apple products make their users feel freer than they do when they are using other operating systems, other computers, or other devices. As The Economist pointed out in an editorial a few years ago, the most salient feature of Apple products is that they work.
Arthur C. Clarke famously wrote that any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. This, then, is the deeply ironic magic that Steve Jobs has conjured: through rigid centralization of design and strict control over the user experience, Apple has enabled a deeper freedom for its customers– the freedom that comes from a technology that enhances the scope of choice and opportunity in our lives,while layering itself, simply, almost invisibly, upon the operating system of our world.
Andrew Potter is the author of "The Authenticity Hoax: How We Get Lost Finding Ourselves," out now in paperback from McLelland & Stewart. This essay first appeared in the Ottowa Citizen.***Have you got an Apple or Steve Jobs story to tell? Email the Hook editor today at firstname.lastname@example.com more on: steve jobs
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What I truly loved about Steve Jobs was his- I'm just an ordinary guy demeanor; he was not trumped up, he had an air of humility, and for me he was to technology, what the Dalai Lama is to spirituality - not perfect just a single human being who sought to serve humanity.
Thank you Steve for all you did .
I would recommend that anyone who really wants to know Steve Jobs read this: Jobs' 2005 commencement address to Stanford --hawes spencer, hook editor
very astute point. the control apple exhibited over its platform allowed users freedom to create at high levels. PC fans loved the low level freedom that mixing and matching components from multiple vendors provided, instead of focusing on the higher level benefit they would unleash in their work or personal technical creativity. most americans buy on price for almost anything, hence apple's small marketshare.
Steve Jobs was a dreamer and a smooth talker, Steve Wozniak was the real genius behind Apple. Steve Jobs would have been nothing without Steve Wozniak. I however do not believe the company would have been as successful without both of them.
no offense, but wozniak had little effect after about 1982, even he admits that. nothing that jobs did at pixar, or next or Apple v2 had anyhting to do with wozniak
I spent this glorious October day walking through the libraries of UVA.
On every table, in every library, it was not the students I noticed but the sunlit silver squares hiding their faces, and in the center of each silver square a bright white not completely perfect apple all aglow.
The speech at Stanford from the link above is truly amazing. What an amazing beginning - what an amazing ending.
I wonder now, in the year 2011 instead of 2005, if he were to give this speech today - it might read something like this " Love the job you have and be the best you can be " excellence rewards itself.
I recommend to everyone that they think about what they can do to better themselves, not about what Steve Jobs did in his lifetime. He is but one example.
Unfortunately if he were to start today, the Government might have detered him from doing anything that would provide jobs, money and a livelihood to anyone without taxing the crap out of his company.
If the Governemnt of today is so darn brilliant, then why don't they invent anything? I know, I know, NASA does just that, well, they did.........
I love how people just adore rewriting history. The corporate tax rate was higher when Jobs and his partner started out, not lower. In spite of which within a short period of time they were doing quite well. Not only that, Jobs was quite good at selling his 600$ dollar phones while his Chinese factory workers were committing suicide from lowpay and stressful working conditions.
But some people want to rewrite history and tlak about the good old days until they are working like the Chinese. Sad that the HArryDs don;t realize that it won;t be them in Jobs position. They'll be the Chinese workers committing suicide.


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NEW YORK, N.Y. - Hillary Rodham Clinton outlined plans for an $80 million effort to curb the poaching and trafficking of elephants in Africa, warning Thursday that the continent's elephants could face extinction without swift action.
The former secretary of state and her daughter, Chelsea Clinton, announced the three-year project at the Clinton Global Initiative, telling activists and supporters that the killing of elephants to support the sale of ivory around the globe had reached a crisis point.
"Unless the killing stops, African forest elephants are expected to be extinct within 10 years. I can't even grasp what a great disaster this is ecologically, but also for everyone who shares this planet," the former first lady said.
Clinton, a potential 2016 presidential candidate, said losing the elephant to extinction "seems like such a rebuke to our own values."
The Clinton initiative aims to prevent the killing and trafficking of elephants and rhinos. It also hopes to address the demand for ivory in Asia and the United States.
Several conservation groups have banded together to prevent the slaughter, including the Wildlife Conservation Society and the World Wildlife Fund. They noted that trafficking has a national security element because some of the illicit proceeds have helped terrorist organizations.
The leaders of six African countries — Uganda, Burkino Faso, Gabon, Malawi, Ivory Coast and Tanzania — joined the Clintons at the event, pledging their co-operation, along with officials representing other African nations.
Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni said the nations would support a moratorium on imports, exports and sales of tusks and ivory until the elephant population is no longer threatened.
"It is time for the global community to act decisively against this plague," said Ali Bongo Ondimba, president of Gabon.
Clinton championed the protection of wildlife while at the State Department. Wildlife conservation groups have estimated that 35,000 elephants were killed illegally in Africa in 2012.
The project will support anti-poaching enforcement, including the hiring of an additional 3,100 park guards, targeting the trafficking of elephants, levying stiffer penalties for poaching and using sniffer dog teams at transit points.
"The big problem is that the benefits of poaching and selling ivory are far greater than the risk to the poachers," said chimpanzee researcher Jane Goodall, who said poachers do not typically face long sentences if apprehended.


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BRADENTON, Fla. -- While snowbirds flocked to Florida for the holidays, Pro Stock drivers Warren and Kurt Johnson were flying low in a two-day test at Bradenton (Fla.) Motorsports Park on Dec. 18-19. The Johnsons debuted two new cars and announced that veteran racer Buddy Ingersoll would join the team as a consultant for the 2002 campaign.
Kurt was the quickest and fastest driver on the track after he ran 6.817 at 202.42 mph in his new Don Ness-built ACDelco Cavalier. Warren was clocked at 6.820 seconds at 201.79 mph in his new GM Performance Parts Pontiac Grand Am constructed by Jerry Haas Race Cars.
"We made 11 attempts and completed 11 successful runs," Kurt reported. "The first pass on the new car was a 6.88, and on the second day it ran 6.81 right off the bat. Dad and I finished up the test with side-by-side 6.82s.
"We're certainly happy with this performance, but we still have room for improvement," he continued. "We were shaking the left tire just a little on every run. If we can clean that up, we'll definitely have a fast race car. The car is smooth as silk after second gear, just like my Camaro that won six races in 2000."
While K.J. was pleased with the fast times, he was also relieved to have exorcised the gremlins that plagued him at the end of the season.
"We ran the same engine that we used at the NHRA Finals with a new fuel system and a new electrical system," he revealed. "The engine didn't shut off in first and second gear like it did in Pomona, so we've cured that problem. That was a nice gift for the holidays!"
Warren also made 11 runs in Bradenton, with elapsed times ranging from 6.820 to 6.881 and a top speed of 201.79 mph.
"The first pass on the new car was a 6.885," recalled the six-time Pro Stock champion. "We made some adjustments and ran 6.86, 6.84, and 6.83. After a little more work it ran three 6.82s.
"The conditions in Bradenton were virtually the same as the last race at Pomona, with relative altitudes between 1,400 and 1,900 feet," Johnson observed. "The first 60 feet of the track were typical of a national event track, and with 14 cars testing we had a good yardstick to measure our performance.
"Both cars showed remarkable consistency," W.J. added. "We know what we're going to change before the next test session."
Johnson's stable of race cars is expanding, with new cars from both Haas and Jerry Bickel slated for delivery before the start of the 2002 season. His team has also grown with the addition of Buddy Ingersoll to the roster.
"I guess we'll see whether two grouchy old men can win some races!" W.J. said with a laugh. "Buddy has a lot of track savvy, and we think he can help us achieve the consistency we've lacked at times. His role will be to evaluate the overall car setup in relation to the track conditions. That's an area where his experience will be an asset."
The Johnsons will be at their headquarters in Sugar Hill, Ga., for the holidays, but they plan to make several more trips to Florida before the season-opening race in Pomona, Calif., on Feb. 7-10.
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Selling your home is an important financial transaction of your life as buying one is. The real estate market is a cynical market with its boom and bust cycle so one should be cautious and do some spade work at the initial level. The first thing is that you should also be ready to move out and plan everything in advance. For the first time home sellers experts offer some tips and advice, so as to clinch the deal smoothly with no hiccups.
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Georgia edges Tennessee in overtime; more midday Week 6 Snap Judgments
The Bulldogs' Rantavious Wooten had two touchdown catches in Saturday's win. (Scott Cunningham/Getty Images)
Snap Judgments from the Week 6 midday slate. For more content check out our early and late snaps
But it wasn't to be. A video review showed that Howard lost control of the ball moments before crossing the goal line, and officials ruled the play a touchback.
That was all the Bulldogs needed. On the ensuing possession, Georgia kicker Marshall Morgan -- who had already connected on a career-high 56-yard field goal in the first quarter -- booted a 42-yard field goal to seal the win. The victory featured another masterful performance from Bulldogs quarterback Aaron Murray, who hit senior receiver Rantavious Wooten in the end zone for a two-yard touchdown pass with five seconds left in regulation that knotted the game at 31 and forced overtime.
In the first half, Tennessee did not look capable of contending with Georgia, which carried a 17-3 lead into the break. But the Volunteers surged back to tie the score at 17 in the third quarter following a 19-yard touchdown pass from quarterback Justin Worley to receiver Marquez North, and a punt block touchdown. With the score tied at 24 midway through the fourth quarter, Tennessee put together a 13-play, 80-yard drive that ended with a seven-yard Raijon Neal touchdown run with 1:54 remaining. But Murray kept the Bulldogs alive by leading a 10-play, 75-yard touchdown drive of his own -- and set the stage for Morgan's game-winning kick.
The Vols donned special "Smokey gray" jerseys for the first time. The last time Tennessee defeated a ranked opponent -- a 31-13 win over No. 22 South Carolina in 2009 -- the Volunteers wore black jerseys. But against Georgia, uniform magic wasn't enough for coach Butch Jones and his scrappy team to complete a BCS-altering upset.
Jones made some gutsy calls at key moments late in the game. Tennessee converted all three of its fourth-down tries on Saturday, including a critical pass from Worley to tight end A.J. Branisel that went for 28 yards on fourth-and-one with less than three minutes left in the fourth quarter. Worley, who appeared more comfortable in the second half, completed 17-of-31 passes for 215 yards and a touchdown; he also didn't throw an interception after throwing five in the past two games.
But Murray was the real star in this one. In addition to engineering the game-tying drive, the senior passed for 196 yards and three touchdowns, with no interceptions. With each victory, Murray continues to shake off his reputation as a quarterback who can't win big games. He even became the SEC's all-time leading passer on Saturday.
The Bulldogs look like national title contenders, even with an opening-week loss to Clemson on their resumé. Before playing the Volunteers, Georgia had already beaten two top-10 opponents (LSU and South Carolina). The trouble for the Dawgs will be staying healthy. One week after they lost running back Todd Gurley to an ankle injury, tailback Keith Marshall went down with a leg injury, and receivers Michael Bennett and Justin Scott-Wesley were also carted off the field. [RECAP l BOX]
• No. 19 Michigan 42, Minnesota 13:Wolverines quarterback Devin Gardner finally looked like the player who dissected Notre Dame's defense in Week 2. In routing the Golden Gophers, Gardner completed 13-of-17 passes for 235 yards and one touchdown -- and he didn't throw an interception for the first time as a starter. He hit tight end Devin Funchess in the end zone from 24 yards out with 1:25 remaining in the first half to give Michigan a lead it wouldn't relinquish.
Minnesota played the game without coach Jerry Kill, who remains in Minneapolis after suffering a seizure on Saturday morning. [RECAP l BOX]
• No. 14 Miami 45, Georgia Tech 30: The Hurricanes led the Yellow Jackets 24-23 until midway through the fourth quarter. At that point, Miami took off, scoring three touchdowns in the last eight minutes to clinch the victory. Miami quarterback Stephen Morris completed 17-of-22 passes for 324 yards and three touchdowns, with two picks, while running back Duke Johnson carried 22 times for 184 yards. [RECAP l BOX]
• No. 21 Oklahoma State 33, Kansas State 29:Cowboys quarterback J.W. Walsh wasn't going to suffer a heartbreaking loss two Saturdays in a row. One week after getting upset by West Virginia, Oklahoma State rallied in the fourth quarter to hold off the Wildcats. Walsh's six-yard pass to Charlie Moore with 4:13 remaining gave the Cowboys a 30-29 lead. The Pokes added a late field goal to seal the game and keep their Big 12 title hopes alive. Meanwhile, Kansas State quarterback Daniel Sams gained 299 total yards (181 passing, 118 rushing) in the losing effort. [RECAP l BOX]
• No. 3 Clemson 49, Syracuse 14:Tajh Boyd welcomed the Orange to the ACC with a monster game. The Tigers' quarterback threw for 455 yards and five touchdowns, with one interception, in only three quarters of action as Clemson blitzed Syracuse in the Carrier Dome. Boyd put up a game's worth of stats by halftime, by which point he'd already completed 15-of-17 passes for 317 yards and four touchdowns. The Tigers' Sammy Watkins (126) and Adam Humphries (118) both surpassed the 100-yard receiving mark. [RECAP l BOX]
Washington State 44, Cal 22:
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THE FEARLESS CONSUMER- Fancy pants:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Blindstitching an ugly sight
"It looked like someone stitched them with their eyes closed or blindfolded," Lisa Hunnicutt says; she's describing the Armani pants her son Travis took to Crystal Cleaners in Seminole Square for hemming in early August. Travis left to study abroad soon after this Battle of the Pants erupted, and his mother has been trying ever since to resolve the situation. So far, she hasn't succeeded.
Travis bought the pants, which were marked down from $375 to $275, at Saks Fifth Avenue at Tysons Galleria in McLean. Hunnicutt says that when he asked how long it would take to get them hemmed at Saks, he was told one week, which was then changed to two; and because he was due to leave the country before then and wanted to wear them on the plane, he brought the pants home to Madison.
Travis took them to Crystal Cleaners in Seminole Square– which lists "expert tailoring" among its services in the Yellow Pages– on August 7 and was told he could get them on August 9. Hunnicutt says he specified that he wanted the hems blindstitched, as that was what he'd been told at Saks to be sure to ask for. When he went back to pick the pants up on August 9 and saw the hems, however, she claims he could see that they had been done in regular matching stitching. Also, she says, the hems were "huge (think 1970s!)."
Travis, according to his mother, "was very, very upset." The employee who waited on him, Diane (she declined to give her last name), agrees that she told him "the tension [in the machine stitching] was too tight," but claims she went on to say that the seamstress, Grace Yoo (who owns the business with her husband), would "be able to fix it."
Diane says she wanted him to leave the pants so that Yoo could fix the hems, but she claims he was "nasty," refused to pay, and left with the pants. When I asked Hunnicutt why Travis had declined to leave them for Yoo to look at and perhaps try to repair, she said, "because he was angry."
Hoping that the pants could be fixed, the Hunnicutts took them back to Saks. Hunnicutt claims that the alterations employee who rehemmed them, Carmela Wiggins, told her that in addition to the tension having been too tight, Yoo made the hems too deep and used a needle that was too big for the material, and therefore left holes when the stitching was removed. Her conclusion: The pants are "ruined." I tried to contact Wiggins, both by phone and email, but was unsuccessful.
"Travis is very particular about his clothing and most everything," Hunnicutt says. "Even if he thought no one would notice, he knows the pants are full of holes."
For her part, Yoo says, "It's possible something [was] wrong," but insists she had the right to see what the alleged problems were and be given a chance to fix them. Instead, she says, the Hunnicutts didn't call to complain until at least a couple of weeks later. Hunnicutt vigorously denies this, and states they called the same afternoon Travis picked up the pants and again the next morning, but their calls were not returned.
Things appear to be at a standstill: The Hunnicutts want to be reimbursed for the cost of the pants, and Yoo wants to examine her work and be given the chance to repair any mistakes. Anyone know of an impartial and qualified alterations judge? Short of agreeing to abide by a third party's verdict, I don't see much hope for a resolution.
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Retired Justices as Recusal Subs, Redux
Bob Barnes of the Washington Post revisits the possibility of rotating retired justices onto the Court when an active one recuses him- or herself:
Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick J. Leahy (D-Vt.) is pondering whether a change is needed. He's considering legislation that would allow a retired member of the Supreme Court to replace a justice who has recused himself — or herself — in a particular case.
This would avoid the court potentially splitting 4 to 4 on a case and, Leahy hopes, encourage justices to recuse themselves more often when there is an appearance of partiality.
This idea was first publicized by the National Law Journal soon after Justice Stevens, upon announcing his retirement, suggested the idea to Leahy. I wrote then about the possible political motivations and jurisprudential consequences:
This seems to me a politically loaded suggestion. There has already been much talk about Kagan's potentially high recusal rate over the next few terms as the Court continues to hear cases that her office had briefed in the lower courts. On divisive issues, Kagan's absence would lead to 5-3 victories for conservatives or ideological deadlocks at 4-4.
I cannot imagine that the GOP members of the Judiciary Committee will agree to this plan. If Kagan does not recuse herself on a case in which a conservative may be obligated to do so, two of the substitutes–Souter and Stevens–would be a fifth vote on the left. It is not inconceivable that these two retired ringers could cut away at the Roberts Court's business-friendly precedents, as the Court sometimes goes shorthanded on cases concerning corporations in which justices may own stock.
O'Connor, too, exited the Court to the left of Anthony Kennedy on campaign finance, church-and-state, abortion, andaffirmative action cases – all issues that have been cut back since Alito succeeded her. However, recusals on these cases are less likely. That is, unless some advocacy group somehow finds a not-too-distant relative of Justice Scalia who is an abortion doctor in Nebraska that is willing to be a named plaintiff in a federal case.
Barnes's article today echoes my sentiments:
at some point, theory steps aside and reality sets in. "It's an interesting idea," said James Sample, a Hofstra law professor who has specialized in studying judicial recusals. "The challenge is that it's so difficult to divorce discussion of the proposal from the individual justices who might end up replacing the recused justices."
In other words, the bench currently consists of Stevens, O'Connor and retired justice David H. Souter, all of whom are to the left of the court's dominant conservatives.
It is as unlikely to think Republicans would think it is a good idea to put them back in the lineup, Sample said, as it is to think Leahy would be as keen on the idea if the available replacements were, say, former chief justices William H. Rehnquist or Warren E. Burger.
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This is a true if short-sighted reaction.
[…] replace" a recused Justice. The WSJ Law Blog's Ashby Jones summarizes Barnes's article, while First One @ One First's Mike Sacks explores "the possible political motivations and jurisprudential consequences" […]


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This is a pretty interesting Paper, some nice ideas. Well explained ;-)
sorry about no src link, it's vulnwatch email service...Defeating Exploits
The ideas in this "paper" present a method for defeating exploits; not the
actual vulnerability. Before getting to the details let's consider slammer
What made slammer so successful?
The overriding factor that made slammer so successful was it's ability to
spread. What made it's spread a foregone conclusion was the fact that every
vulnerable SQL Server/MSDE had a "jmp esp" instruction at address
0x42B0C9DC. This was the address that was used to gain control of the SQL
Server's path of execution to a point where the worm's payload, the
"arbitrary code", would be executed.
This address is in a dynamic link library (DLL) , sqlsort.dll which has an
"image base" of 0x42AE0000.
Every image file, DLL or executable, has an "Image Base" and this base is
the preferred location where the file should be loaded into memory by the
Windows Loader. [I don't want to digress, here, as to what happens if
there's a conflict. See the references at the end.] Now if this Image Base
on one particular system had been 0x42AF0000 then the worm would have failed
to infect this particular box; the "jmp esp" instruction that should've been
at 0x42B0C9DC on this system would be found at 0x42B1C9DC so the worm would
have been off target. The SQL Server running on this system, whilst still
being "vulnerable" to the buffer overflow vulnerability would have been
invulnerable to this worm. Sure - the SQL Server may have crashed - but it
would not have been compromised.
It's like sickle cell. Someone born with the gene that causes sickle cell
anaemia, a blood disorder that affects many people of a West African origin,
or carriers of the gene, sickle cell trait, do not suffer from the ill
affects of malaria, a disease caused by a parasite and most commonly spread
by mosquitoes. Whilst someone with sickle cell trait can still catch
malaria, the gene mutates the haemoglobin in their blood in such a way that
they are invulnerable to the debilitating side effects and syptoms of the
disease such as mental confusion, coma and death. There is an obvious
evolutionary advantage to sickle cell trait; remember that the evolution of
the species cares not about how long a person lives, only that they live
long enough to pass on their genes. (Those with anaemia may suffer from
crises, periods of acute pain so the trade off is somewhat questionable.)
In areas where malaria is a common cause of death, being a carrier of the
sick cell gene can help ensure that this person lives long enough to have
progeny. This is Darwinian natural selection in progress.
The problem with operating systems is that they all have pretty much the
same "genetic code" which makes each and every one of them vulnerable to a
new exploit. So we need to make them different and this can be achieved
through rebasing. Rebasing is the process of changing the Image Base of an
image file. By doing this the DLL/EXE is loaded into a different location in
the virtual address space.
Going back to Slammer, had I have rebased sqlsort.dll giving it a new base
of 0x41410000 my box would have been invulnerable to the worm. If another
worm were written, though, that used an address that contained a "jmp esp"
instruction in kernel32.dll then I would be vulnerable. So I rebase
kernel32.dll. But then another worm uses another DLL so I rebase that one,
too. Eventually I've rebased all of the DLLs used by SQL Server mutating
it's "genetic code", making it considerably different to any other SQL
Server install on the planet. In fact if I rebase every DLL on my system and
every executable then I can make my box almost invulnerable to a given
exploit, past, present or future. It's not that my box is invulnerable to a
buffer overflow vulnerability - it's just invulnerable to the exploits for
it. To gain control of a system protected in such a way
would require that the author of the exploit know the location of loaded
So how easy is it to rebase DLLs and executables? Very. Microsoft have
provided a function to do this, ReBaseImage(), exported by imagehlp.dll. If
you rebase an image the new base must be on a 64K boundary - i.e. if the
image base mod 64000 !=0 the base is not valid.
The only other problem is Windows File Protection. Once you've rebased a
copy of the DLL you need to copy the new DLL over the old one but Windows
File Protection won't allow you to do this. To get around the problem use
the MoveFileEx and specifying the MOVEFILE_DELAY_UNTIL_REBOOT flag. Doing
this will add a registry value, "PendingFileRenameOperations" to
HKLM\System\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session Manager\. You then need to add
another DWORD value "AllowProtectedRenames" and set it to 1. Then restart
the system. On reboot the new DLLs, with their new image bases, will be
loaded. For example - here is sample output of listdlls after kernel32.dll
and ws2_32.dll have been rebased.
Copyright (C) 1997-2000 Mark Russinovich
WINLOGON.EXE pid: 208
Command line: winlogon.exe
Base Size Version Path
0x01000000 0x2e000 \??\C:\WINNT\system32\winlogon.exe
0x77f80000 0x7b000 5.00.2195.5400 C:\WINNT\System32\ntdll.dll
0x78000000 0x46000 6.01.9359.0000 C:\WINNT\system32\MSVCRT.dll
0x4a4a0000 0xb1000 5.00.2195.6011 C:\WINNT\system32\KERNEL32.dll
0x77db0000 0x5b000 5.00.2195.5992 C:\WINNT\system32\ADVAPI32.dll
0x77d30000 0x71000 5.00.2195.5419 C:\WINNT\system32\RPCRT4.dll
0x54530000 0x13000 5.00.2195.4874 C:\WINNT\system32\WS2_32.dll
Now all the way through this I've been saying things like "almost
invulnerable" etc. Here's the reason. For some vulnerabilities it may be
sufficient to overwrite a saved return address, function pointer or whatever
by only a few bytes. For example assume a saved return address is 0x44784500
and at address 0x44784536 is a "jmp ebx" instruction and ebx points to our
code. Then we only need to overwrite the saved return address by 1 byte -
with 0x36. So knowledge of the DLL load address is not needed. However, this
scenario is going to happen so infrequently (if ever) that it does not
detract from the idea of rebasing your system. There may other ways to
bypass this method.
Some ideas to further help prevent exploits from working.
Use addresses such as 0x**000000 or 0x00**0000 for the new image base. With
there being a NULL in much of the image's address space this will help.
(This of course won't make a difference with unicode overflows)
Ensure at least one (core) DLL has a base of 0x00119400 . This will ensure
that a common stack location 0x00120000 has been assigned forcing the OS to
chose another location for the stack. You get the idea.
Feel free to mail me/lists with comments.
David Litchfield
NGSSoftware Ltd
MSDN Info


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Definitions for "bookâ€
A set of written, printed, or blank pages fastened along one side and encased between protective covers.
1. A printed or written literary work.
2. A main division of a larger printed or written work: a book of the Old Testament.
1. A volume in which financial or business transactions are recorded.
2. books Financial or business records considered as a group: checked the expenditures on the books.
1. A libretto.
2. The script of a play.
1. The Bible.
2. The Koran.
1. A set of prescribed standards or rules on which decisions are based: runs the company by the book.
2. Something regarded as a source of knowledge or understanding.
3. The total amount of experience, knowledge, understanding, and skill that can be used in solving a problem or performing a task: We used every trick in the book to finish the project on schedule.
4. Informal. Factual information, especially of a private nature: What's the book on him?
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D.C., March 4, 2014 – Dr. Joe Kornegay,
a professor of neuroscience in the Department of Veterinary Integrative Biosciences
in the College of Veterinary Medicine & Biomedical Sciences at Texas
A&M University (TAMU), has been chosen to deliver the 2014 Recognition
Lecture at the AAVMC Annual Conference in Alexandria, Va., at noon on Saturday,
March 15.
The Recognition Lecture is an annual honor given by the AAVMC to an
individual whose leadership and vision has made a significant contribution to
academic veterinary medicine and the veterinary profession.
The conference, on "One Health in Veterinary Medicine," is dedicated to
the concept that all medicine is inter-related and that veterinary medicine is
poised to play a prominent role at the intersection of animal, human and
environmental health. Dr. Kornegay's lecture on "One Man's View of One
Health" will illustrate this concept by focusing on his research on a
canine model of Duchenne muscular dystrophy and how this relates to the broader
concepts of "One Health" and "One Medicine."
"Dr. Kornegay is a giant in translational research who has conducted
pioneering and enduring work in the study of Duchenne muscular dystrophy and
diseases such as cancer, heart disease, and epilepsy," said Dr. Kent Hoblet,
dean of the College of Veterinary Medicine at Mississippi State University and
president of the AAVMC. "His visionary outreach and discipline-spanning scope
make him an eminently qualified honoree to present the annual Recognition
Lecture at our One-Health Focused event."
"Dr. Kornegay's well-funded research is at the forefront of a revolution
in biomedical sciences in which purebred dog populations are ideal subjects for
identifying specific genes associated with diseases that affect both dogs and
humans, such as cancer, epilepsy, muscular dystrophy, and heart disease," wrote
Eleanor Green, the Carl B. King Dean of Veterinary Medicine at TAMU. Dr. Green,
who nominated Dr. Kornegay to deliver the lecture, praised him as a leader for
the advancement of translational medicine who has developed a number of
collaborations with Schools of Medicine, and who has "worked to highlight the
inextricable link between human and animal health and between human and animal
After receiving his Doctor of Veterinary Medicine (DVM) degree from Texas
A&M University in 1973, Dr. Kornegay spent three years in private practice
in Ohio and Texas, followed by six years in residency (neurology and pathology)
and graduate (master's and doctoral) training at the University of Georgia
College of Veterinary Medicine. Upon completion of this training, he served on
the faculty of the College of Veterinary Medicine at North Carolina State University before moving to the College of
Veterinary Medicine at the University of Missouri, where he served as dean from
Before coming to TAMU in 2012, Dr. Kornegay served as a tenured professor
in the Departments of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine and Neurology, and investigator
in the Gene Therapy Center, School of Medicine, at the University of North
Carolina-Chapel Hill.
Past lecturers have included former deans, federal
government officials, researchers, and academicians.
"The list of recipients of the AAVMC Recognition Lecture reads like a
who's who of veterinary medicine," wrote Dr. Evelyn Tiffany-Castiglioni, professor and head of the Department of Veterinary Integrative Biosciences. "I have had the honor of knowing some of the
individuals on this list, and I am confident that Dr. Joe Kornegay would bring
additional honor to an already distinguished company."
To hear Dr. Kornegay's lecture and join colleagues or other stakeholders
in academic veterinary medicine, sign up for the AAVMC's 2014 Annual Conference
at www.aavmc.org.
The Association of American Veterinary
Medical Colleges (AAVMC) is a nonprofit membership organization working to
protect and improve the health and welfare of animals, people and the
environment by advancing academic veterinary medicine. Its members include 35
veterinary medical colleges in the United States and Canada, nine departments
of veterinary science, eight departments of comparative medicine, thirteen
international colleges of veterinary medicine, and six affiliate colleges of
veterinary medicine: www.aavmc.org


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Since I assume there will be multiple implementations of OpenCL on some platforms, is there any thought being given to how an implementation might be selected at runtime?
Say an application (or a user of an application) would like to switch between two different OpenCL implementations. There doesn't seem to be anything in the specification related to this.
By analogy to OpenGL, this is like a platform layer that could select an implementation. This also avoids the problem of having different versions of the same implementation bound to various applications on the system.
Providing platform standards for this scenario would make the openness of OpenCL more significant. If applications are tightly bound to a particular implementation and version the OpenCL ecosystem will suffer.
If Khronos is not doing anything along these lines, are any members working on this?


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This polish is definitely not as holographic as I had hoped, compared to the GOSH one it really is disappointing. I took the pictures in hazy sunlight and you can just about see the rainbow. It is more visible under strong indoor light, but even that isn't too noticable. My nails just look silver rather than holo-rainbow, sadly. On the upside, the formula is really nice, not too thick, not too runny, fast drying and I'm into day 2 now with very minimal chipping. The coverage is absolutely fantastic, what you see in the pitures is 2 coats, but really, you can get away with one. The reason I did two coats is because I apply an extra coat on top of the Seche Vite top coat to make it longer lasting and also because top coats can dull the holo effect.
All in all, a nice subtle holo polish with a great formula. I got mine from eBay and it cost $3.25 with reasonable shipping cost.
Have you tried any holographic nail polishes? Have you got a favourite? Let me know in the comments!
See more pictures after the jump!


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Undoubtedly the most emblematic hotel Eurostars Montgomery is the restaurant-bar-library. Decorated in English style with refined wood, a fireplace and sofas that invite our guests to relax after a hard day's work.
The menu includes international cuisine and traditional Belgian. It also has a small selection of traditional Spanish products (cold cuts and cheeses).
The restaurant also has a selection of meals for our vegetarian guests.
The restaurant is closed during the weekends.
Opening hours: Monday to Friday from 12 to 14 and from 19 to 22hs.
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