Good Morning!
I Have Been Thinking
Happy Halloween! Believe it or not this is actually my favorite holiday of the year. I have been making doughnuts with the grandchildren, hemming costumes and looking forward to taking pictures of all the children in their costumes tonight.
Halloween to me also means shunning anything and everything we may be afraid of. It is making fun of the monsters under the bed and all those things that may go bump in the night.
I am not going to even presume to tell you to forget your fears, because in many cases fear can be a very healthy thing. Fear is a reaction that is “built in” it isn’t something that we learn particularly. It is something that creates certain physiological changes in all of us. The heart races, the mind starts to act very quickly so that the body can react when it needs to. There is a heightened awareness of the environment. Yes, fear can be a very healthy thing. But fear when we jump to a reactive conclusion rather than a logical one can be quite destructive.
I also like to remember that Halloween is a representation of the end of all evil and the beginning of a bright shinning new world. And so it is when we conquer every fear. When we go through the darkness to the other side, there is an end to the unknown and so we begin on a bright and shining new day.
Opportunity is never lost
It goes To Those Ready to Accept It!
Carolyn
Ice Breakers
There was a blonde woman who was having financial troubles, so she decided to kidnap a child and demand a ransom. She went to a local park, grabbed a little boy, took him behind a tree and wrote this note. “I have kidnapped your child. Leave $10,000 in a plain brown bag behind the big oak tree in the park tomorrow at 7 A.M. Signed, The Blonde” She pinned the note inside the little boy’s jacket and told him to go straight home. The next morning, she returned to the park to find the $10,000 in a brown bag, behind the big oak tree, just as she had instructed. Inside the bag was the following note… “Here is your money. I cannot believe that one blonde would do this to another!”
Thought for Today: The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one.
– Elbert Hubbard
Tips and Techniques
Hackers come in all kinds, and it is difficult to classify them. However, over the years, a distinction has developed that tries to separate the “good hackers” from the “bad hackers.” Hackers with benign intentions are referred to as the white hats, and hackers with sinister intentions are referred to as the black hats — evoking images of the Mad magazine Spy vs. Spy comic strip. The black hats are what we commonly think of when we refer to hackers. These are the people who break into other people’s computers, either to access data illegitimately or to joyride. The white hats, on the other hand, are the ones who study security vulnerabilities in order to learn how to protect computer systems. These white-hat hackers may be security professionals at corporations and government agencies who stay up-to-date on security vulnerabilities. White hats study hacking techniques to keep hackers out of computer systems. While most white-hat hackers have the same desire to find new security vulnerabilities that black-hat hackers have, white hats use the knowledge that they gain to protect computer systems, not to attack them. Sometimes, however, it can be difficult to distinguish a black hat from a white hat; in fact, it looks gray. For example, what color is the hat of a hacker who destroys another hacker’s data in order to protect the innocent?
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