Posts by Sirius Dogma

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Let your cell phone pick your friends.........

by desib77 in

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http://news.excite.com/odd/article/id/411009|oddlyenough|06-23-2004::12:47|reuters.html

wanted: new friend, must have bluetooth.

email this story.

Sirius Dogma

hehe. yeah, use bluetooth on your phone, maybe you can be one of the first to get the world first cellphone virus, via bluetooth. fun!

http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99995111

The World's No.1 Science & Technology News Service

First cell phone worm emerges

18:26 15 June 04

NewScientist.com news service

The first virus to spread from one cell phone to another has been created, the Russian anti-virus software vendor Kaspersky Labs announced on Tuesday.

Cabir has no malicious capabilities and affects only a small slice of "smart" phones that run on both the sophisticated Symbian operating system and have a Bluetooth connection. It has been written by a group called 29a.

The virus is an "interesting milestone", says Graham Cluley, a consultant at the anti-virus software vendor Sophos in Oxford, UK, because it is the first virus to spread through a cell phone network.

In 2000, the virus Timifonica forced infected PCs to send text messages to phones. "But this is the first virus to spread from phone to phone," says Cluley.

Experts say the virus should not alarm the public because it has been circulated by researchers in a controlled laboratory setting only. There are no known cases of it "in the wild".

Download files

Unlike most computer worms, Cabir does not exploit a vulnerability in the Symbian operating system. "It exploits the way the phone is supposed to work," explains Cluley.

Bluetooth transceivers automatically contact each other when they come into range, and the Symbian operating system is designed so that files can be exchanged over the Bluetooth connection.

However, Cluley points out that the virus does not spread via the automatic transfer of files - this would require a vulnerability. Instead, before a phone accepts a file, it asks the owner if he wants to download it.

"It is only going to be infecting people who say, yes please, hit me on the nose," Cluley told New Scientist.

But Kaspersky Labs suggest that people might accept it because the file is disguised as Security software.

More dangerous worm

The Kaspersky researchers say that Cabir was written by an international group of virus writers called 29a. The group sent the code to anti-virus vendors on Tuesday, who have since verified that it can be spread from phone to phone by conducting lab tests.

Although the virus is not live in the wild and has no malicious payload, experts have suggested that other virus writers could use it as a basis for a more dangerous worm.

Security experts have been warning for years that a combination of Bluetooth connections and increasingly sophisticated cell phone software would eventually lead to malicious phone viruses capable of bugging calls and deleting the phonebooks, calendars and diaries stored on smart phones.

"I am uncomfortable talking about it," says Cluley. "We don't want to give virus writers too many ideas."

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You Might Wanna Share This Info With Your Psych Therapist.....

by Frannie Banannie in

part 1:

jim moyers, ma, mft

(while this article was originally written for psychotherapists working with ex-fundamentalists, it should be helpful for anyone who has been involved with a restrictive religious group.

Sirius Dogma

(((Frannie))),

Thank you, this is a great post and very very helpful!

SD

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George Bush's Desktop

by Sirius Dogma in

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check out his speeches, email and applications .

http://www.randomperspective.com/page.asp?2flash1

Sirius Dogma

SS,

lol. yeah, I am really tired this morning and hit the enter instead of the tab.

SD

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George Bush's Desktop

by Sirius Dogma in

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check out his speeches, email and applications .

http://www.randomperspective.com/page.asp?2flash1

Sirius Dogma

Check out his speeches, email and applications

http://www.randomperspective.com/page.asp?2flash1

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A Few Pics Of My Town:

by Englishman in

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one of our famous "old pier", a couple on the sea front and a couple from the centre of town.

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Sirius Dogma

It look's a lot like New England

Looks like a beautiful town, does it attract a lot of tourists? (I have only been to London.)

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What's Cookin' Good Lookin'?

by patio34 in

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what is everyone cooking today for dinner?.

i just put in a turkey breast roast (it's 8:00 a.m.).

first, it's in a oven of 425 degrees to kill off all the surface bacteria, then after an hour, i'll slow roast it at 225 or 250 degrees for 5-6 hours.

Sirius Dogma

So, anyone have anything good going for today?

hehe. I thnk I will drive the 5 hours down to Pat's for Turkey!! It sounds yummy.

Nothing but bachelor chow for me, something canned, frozen, processed or taken out.

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Please tell me what you think.....................

by Gideon in

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this is my first post, i am using a friend?s alias because i can?t seem to logon under my own.

i have been what?s known on this site as a lurker for the past 2 plus years.. however, i could not resist the opportunity to solicit your feedback on an e-mail i received from a co-worker who is a j-dub.. i no longer consider myself one, although i was in the org.

for 25 years.. after reviewing the e-mail my family and i became quite nausea.. please take a look and tell me what you think.. .

Sirius Dogma

Man, I was cheering for the wolves.

My rewrite...

"There was a farmer who raised sheep and had trouble with wolves stealing his sheep. He loved his sheep and didn't want to lose even one of them.

One day the wolves came and the farmer quickly raised his rifle and....

he was too late, the wolves overran him and ate him. They did not eat his copies of the awake and watchtower however. Wolves are not that stupid."

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Dateline--Fahrenheit 911

by patio34 in

michael moore is being interviewed tonight on nbc dateline @ 8 est and then he'll also be on david letterman at 11:30 est.. p.s.

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/gossip/story/203263p-175365c.html.

heated exchange at 'fahrenheit'?.

Sirius Dogma

Just saw the interview a little while ago.

I thought Matt was tough but fair on Michael and Michael defended him movie well.

I wish Michael Moorse would turn it down a notch however, as Matt mentioned, so much is in 'the tone in which it is said.' He has great information, but being a passionate artist and filmmaker he tends to push his points with a bit too much gusto and scare away those who might otherwise listen to what he has to offer. Of course others probably think he should ride around with a bullhorn in Washington D.C., oh wait, he already did that.

Aside from that, I thought I wanted to see the movie before, now I can't wait!

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Dateline--Fahrenheit 911

by patio34 in

michael moore is being interviewed tonight on nbc dateline @ 8 est and then he'll also be on david letterman at 11:30 est.. p.s.

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/gossip/story/203263p-175365c.html.

heated exchange at 'fahrenheit'?.

Sirius Dogma

If you haven't seen the cartoon - 'A brief history of America', the cartoon from 'Bowling from Columbine', I recommend it.

http://www.albinoblacksheep.com/video/america.html

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Life Is Probably Out There, Scientists Think

by Satanus in

a new satelite, nasa's spitzer, has been scanning the universe and found organic chemicals as far away as 420 light yrs away.

the number of organics identified stands at 130. some of them are glycine and even a form of sugar.

furthermore, they were found in accretion disks, disk shaped dust clouds, where planets are forming.

Sirius Dogma

SS,

Good stuff. The formuas I have seen predict that life is likely to be out there, somewhere. Personally though I think they will never contact us as long as we continue to wage wars and kill our own species. Talk about a conflicted race, geez, we are pathetic as an organism.