sábado, 15 de diciembre de 2007

BEING HACKER IS LIKE TO BEING OFFENDER AND FRAUDULENT

Society´s rules have always been broken by offenders; when owners of technology change their thinking about help development of world with money and business, offenders begin to defend us, their Informal name is hacker and their formal name is Black and white hats. There are many people that use technology in favor of population and against the technology companies, their contributions to software and technology development have aided all world.

First of all, studies demonstrate that hackers are teenagers, young and old people around the world, these kinds of people spend a lot of time to try removing safety programs. Moreover, networks of companies are infected by hackers and they give opportunities of poor people to have access technology such as anti virus, among others. Scientists found research about the majorities percentage of hackers are against of the high price each program from free software.

Apart of this, statistics demonstrate that 55% of hackers prefer thief million of money of banks, 89% of teenagers hackers want to damage business of important companies to win less money. Also, they are famous and clever people that to be in prisons as a consequence of this fraud such as Vladimir Levin in Russia, he said that he was arrested by Interpol and sentenced to three years in prison; this was a few punishment as prove that lows are in favor of companies.

In conclusion, the hackers are kind crime to society against of the technology business men. I believe, hackers are important in this world to change from all people have access of all kind of technology to they have the same opportunities that rich people worldwide.

MORE INFORMATION ABOUT EU picks ex-hacker to monitor Microsoft

By Kevin J. O'Brien

Published: THURSDAY, OCTOBER 6, 2005


BERLIN: The European Commission on Wednesday called on Neil Barrett, a former computer hacker who is now an expert on fraud, to monitor whether Microsoft is complying with orders to change the way it operates in Europe.



Barrett, a British author, professor and witness in criminal cases against hackers, was named monitoring trustee to the commission. In the paid position, Barrett is likely to play a role in the enforcement of orders for Microsoft to share source code for its server software with competitors and provide a version of Windows that does not include its Windows Media Player software.






The European case is a major front in the legal battle pitting the intellectual property rights of commercial software makers like Microsoft against developers of open-source software, who say having fewer copyright hurdles would benefit innovation.



Open-source advocates criticized the choice of Barrett, noting that Microsoft itself had proposed him as well as other candidates the commission had considered for the job.



"I find it funny that Microsoft was allowed to choose its own judge in this case, so to speak," said Bernhard Reiter, the coordinator for Germany of the Free Software Foundation Europe, one of the groups that has sued Microsoft in European court.



Todd, a spokesman for the EU competition commission, said, "We think he will be a truly independent adviser."



Microsoft welcomed the appointment.


"We look forward to working constructively with Mr. Barrett to ensure the company's full compliance with the commission's decision," Dirk Delmartino, a Microsoft spokesman, said in Brussels.



Barrett, through a spokeswoman, declined to comment.



Also on Wednesday, the EU competition commissioner, Neelie Kroes, met for a 45-minute breakfast with Steven Ballmer, the Microsoft chief executive. After the meeting, Kroes told AFX that she and Ballmer planned to meet every four months.



Last month, Kroes said that the commission was considering opening new cases against the company. "We have had informal complaints, and we are using our time now to look at them," she said. "We're not going to wait and do nothing."



Barrett worked from 1993 through 1999 for the French computer services company Bull Information Services, where he advised the Inland Revenue and Customs agencies of Britain on Internet security issues.



Since 1999, he has been the technical director of Information Risk Management, a London company that advises businesses on computer security.




Barrett also teaches at the Royal Military College of Science at Cranfield University in Shrivenham, England, and at Glamorgan University in Wales. He has published five books on Internet crime. His latest, "Traces of Guilt," recounts his adolescence as a computer hacker and evolution to expert witness on computer hacking cases.


In the course of his work, Barrett has criticized Microsoft. In a December 2001 article published by Silicon.com, an online magazine for computer executives, Barrett was quoted as criticizing Microsoft for pressuring makers of security software to avoid disclosing details of attacks on Microsoft software.



Barrett also accused the U.S. software company of having a plan to corner the market in Internet security by withholding key details of its software. "Microsoft will attempt to control access to vital information," he was quoted as saying, meaning the company could sell security software "at any price they want to. To me that's a monopolistic situation."



As trustee to the European Commission, Barrett will help assess compliance with the commission's 2004 ruling that Microsoft abused its near-monopoly in desktop operating systems to squeeze out rival makers of media players and to prevent competitors from designing software that worked with its servers.



Microsoft, which is appealing the commission's ruling and its497 million, or $596 million, fine, has said it is cooperating fully with the commission's order.



But in September, Microsoft filed a second suit at the European Court of First Instance in Luxembourg challenging the commission's order that it give away its secret server-operating protocols to competitors.



Microsoft also has been increasing efforts to improve relations with European governments, some of which are opting for operating systems based on open standards.



In February in Prague, and in April in Dubai, Microsoft drew more than 500 European government officials to two gatherings called Government Leadership Forums, where company executives discussed the concerns and software needs of government administrators.



Microsoft's Government Security Program gives European governments access to its source code to address security and privacy issues.



"The Free Software Foundation Europe remains convinced that Microsoft has not yet complied with the conditions and is still looking for loopholes in the conditions which will allow them to postpone any release of documents necessary for interoperability," said Jonas Öberg, vice president of the Free Software Foundation Europe. "We hope that this delaying tactic will not work with Mr. Barrett and that Microsoft will not be allowed to use the loopholes."



INFORMATION ABOUT HACKERS PROGRAMMING

Major Hackers Personalities


This section contains brief information on some of the most famous hackers, both black and white hats. The individuals below are well known for a variety of reasons: their actions, whether good or bad, their contributions to software and technology development, or their innovative approach, skills and ability to think out of the box.


Richard Stallman is known as the father of free software. When Stallman started working at MIT's Artificial Intelligence Lab in 1971 he was confronted with 'non disclosure agreements' and closed program sources while he was hacking and improving system drivers the 'traditional way'. After an interesting battle to obtain the source code of a faulty printer utility, Stallman gave up his job and became the loudest advocate for free computer software, creating GNU and the Free Software Foundation in the process.


Dennis Ritchie and Ken Thompson are famous for two major software developments of the 20th century: the UNIX operating system and the C programming language. These two began their carriers at Bell Labs in 1960's, revolutionising the computer world forever with their ideas. While Ken Thompson has retired from the computer world, Dennis Ritchie is still employed at Lucent Technology, working on a new operating system derived from Unix, called 'Plan9'.


John Draper, aka 'Cap'n Crunch' is famous for his ability to hack phone systems using nothing but a whistle from the 'Cap'n Crunch' cereal boxes (hence the nickname). Besides being the father of 'phone phreaking', John Draper is also famous for writing what was perhaps the first IBM PC word processor. He now heads his own security venture, developing antispam solutions, thwarting hacker attacks and securing PCs.

Robert Morris is famous for creating the first Internet worm in 1988. It infected thousand of systems, and practically brought the Internet to a halt for nearly a day. The 'Morris Worm' was perhaps the first fully automated hacking tool, exploiting a couple of unpatched vulnerabilities on Vax and Sun computers.



Kevin Mitnick, possibly the best known case of a 'black hat', was caught by the computer expert Tsutomu Shimomura back in 1995.

Kevin Poulsen remains famous for his 1990 hack of the phone system in Los Angeles. This enabled him to become the 102nd caller in a radio-phone and win a Porsche 944. Kevin Poulsen was eventually caught and imprisoned for three years. He now works as a columnist for the online security magazine 'SecurityFocus'.


Vladimir Levin, a Russian computer expert, hacked into Citibank and extracted USD $10 million. He was arrested by Interpol in UK, back in 1995 and sentenced to three years in prison, as well as being required to pay USD $240,015 in restitution.

Tsutomu Shimomura is a good example of a 'white hat'. He was working for the San Diego Supercomputing Center when Kevin Mitnick broke into his network and stole information on cellular technology and other classified data. Tsutomu started the pursuit for Mitnick which eventually led to his arrest.


Linus Torvalds is known as the Other of Linux, the most popular Unix-based operating system in use nowadays. Linus started his work on a new operating system in 1991, adopting several controversial technologies for his project, namely the concept of Free Software and GNU's Public License system. He is also known for his early disputes with Andrew Tannenbaum, the author of Minix, which was the inspirational source for Linus' OS project.


miércoles, 12 de diciembre de 2007

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PASSIVE VOICE TO SECOND EXAM


Essential Grammar in use BOOK
page 21 to 22

BILL GATES THE MOST SUCCESS PERSON TO PROGRAMMING



Programming was invented by Bill Gates in United State; he has been a important person around the world. His intelligence had been reflecting in million programming to different companies. Bill Gates is the richest man in America. Also he has been development a special social program to help poor people around the world with his money. However, he might spend money in poor companies to help their have more opportunities to be competitive in global world.


Firstly, Bill Gates has a beautiful thinking about to help majority percentage of population poor around the world. Also He has a foundation to bring things that people need to life. Furthermore, statistics studies demonstrated that 45% of people in South Africa need food, 76% of inhabitants need clothes and 65% of population want to have a place where sleep. Bill Gates Said that this statistics show increase in poverty worldwide and his foundation to pretended decrease this problem to society.


Apart of that, donation have being given by poor people but there are other way to help society such as invert in companies that they don´t have opportunities development their. Experts consider that high percentage money can be investment in this kind of group to have development into society. .


I believe, investment should share in same pieces to both groups to need to help and there are into society to aid world.

BILL GATES´S VIDEO

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qHO8l-Bd1O4

VIDEO OF BILL GATES

martes, 11 de diciembre de 2007

THE MOST IMPORTANT TOOL TO COMPANIES IS PROGRAMMING WRITTING FIRST EXAM

Although, there are many companies that use technology to do easy duties their. It has been using the most important, interesting, useful, amazing and helpful tool programming. However, there are many traditional people that prefer the traditional form of work such as, manual machines where people spend a lot of time and they are costly and lost of product time to companies.

First of all, programming is a fascinating and new tool that all kind of people can do and use because employees should have a need and computers to begin job in solve the problems with technology and Internet because their brink amazing, exciting and helpful information about all topics worldwide. Also, companies have a equipment system to help their when is necessary.

Nevertheless, elderly and productive people feel fear, scare, fright and terror from technology because think that ti is complicated and difficult to use but really is easy. Moreover it is essential change everything because all people can use all sort of technology to shore of companies because the positive results are for all factories.

In my view, programming is the best modern tool for people into companies, homes and daily life around the world. Also change is necessary to form of think specially in traditional people.

PASSIVE VOICE


A passive construction occurs when you make the object of an action into the subject of a sentence. That is, the one performing the action is not the grammatical subject of the sentence. To rephrase a familiar joke:

Why was the road crossed by the chicken?
The chicken is the actor in this sentence, but the road is the grammatical subject. The more familiar phrasing places the actor as the subject--a subject doing something: A chicken (actor/doer) crossing the road (object). We use active verbs to represent that "doing," whether it be crossing roads, proposing ideas, arguing arguments, or invading houses (more on that shortly). Passive constructions are easy to spot; look for a form of "to be" (is, are, am , was, were, has been, have been, had been, will be, will have been, being) followed by a past participle. (The past participle is a form of the verb often, but not always, ending in "-ed." Some exceptions to the "-ed" rule are words like "paid" and "driven.") Here's a sure-fire formula for identifying the passive voice:

form of "to be" + past participle = passive voice
For example:
The metropolis has been scorched by the dragon's fiery breath.
When her house was invaded, Penelope had to think of ways to delay her remarriage.
**NOTE: the passive voice is marked by a form of "to be" + the past participle--not a form of
"have" alone + the past participle, as some students believe. So don't let the combination of
"have" and "to be" fool you. In the next section, we discuss why you often want to avoid using
the passive voice, but let's briefly look at how to change passive constructions into active ones.
You can usually just switch the order, making the actor and subject one--putting the doer up front:
The dragon scorched the metropolis with his fiery breath.
After suitors invaded Penelope's house, she had to think of ways to fend them off.
To repeat, the key to identifying the passive voice is to look for both a form of "to be" and a past participle, which usually, but not always, ends in "-ed."

QUOTES TO SPEAKING






  • Quotes success
    · Try not to be a man of success, but rather to be a man of value. - Albert Einstein
    · Motivation will almost always beat mere talent. - Norman R. Augustine
    · Unless a man undertakes more than he possibly can do, he will never do all that he can. - Henry Drummond
    · They may forget what you said, but they will never forget how you make them feel. - Carol
    · Motivation will almost always beat mere talent. - Norman R. Augustine
    · Footprints on the sands of time are not made by sitting down. - unknown
    · Greatness lies not in being strong, but in the right use of strength. - Henry Ward Beecher
    · A mind troubled by doubt cannot focus on the course to victory. - Arthur Golden


Quotes leadership



  • Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.
    Peter F. Drucker

  • Don't tell people how to do things, tell them what to do and let them surprise you with their results.
    George S. Patton

  • Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.
    Dwight Eisenhower

  • A leader is a dealer in hope.
    Napoleon Bonaparte

  • I must follow the people. Am I not their leader?
    Benjamin Disraeli

  • The leadership instinct you are born with is the backbone. You develop the funny bone and the wishbone that go with it.
    Elaine Agather

  • Delegating work works, provided the one delegating works, too.
    Robert Half

  • Only one man in a thousand is a leader of men -- the other 999 follow women.
    Groucho Marx

  • The very essence of leadership is that you have to have vision. You can't blow an uncertain trumpet.
    Theodore M. Hesburgh

  • The best executive is the one who has sense enough to pick good men to do what he wants done, and self-restraint to keep from meddling with them while they do it.
    Theodore Roosevelt

FANATICISM

Nowadays, in our society there are increasing a lot of ethnical ideological group that effect due to the fact that it has been effecting our society in the way that have been created fanaticism group.

First of all, fanaticism is a compelling action that forsakes people to make crazy, extravagant, and excessive acts. Furthermore control lows are required by Colombian government. Also increase percentage in Colombian fanaticism it is demonstrated in “DANE” that 70 per cent of young people in Colombia have done members of fanaticism groups such as religion, supporters, rock life style, among other. Moreover, this high percentage is reflected in violence into our country.

Apart from this, speech freedom is a fundamental straight that everybody have as autonomy to decide their lifestyle.

Above all, fanaticism is an annoyance to society for all because it had caused difficulties to development of our country
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domingo, 9 de diciembre de 2007

Statistically the best tool to companies is programming

Companies base their change process in statistics about tools and Internet to easy their task and performances, also to teach their employees about technology their advantages and disadvantages. However some Scientists argue that various companies have problems about transforming though someone their employees because they prefer the traditional form to work.


First of all, the statistics show that 47 per cent of the service´s companies have been useed the computers to programming in different process and the 67 per cent of the manufacture´s companies have programmed in all their performances to have the best services and products for their customers. Moreover, the studies demonstrated that the best and useful tool is programming when is necessary in each activity for old and new employees. Also, technology ging to be used by employees their performance .


Despite, the importance of this tool, there are Scientists who have found that the 45 per cent of the companies in general have the same problem to change from traditional to modern world because this group of people feel fear from technology when they need to use it. However there are support groups which help of change things. Dr. Smith said that he Know cases about don´t accept changes, problem has been produced by brain and this people need Treatment psiclogico.


I believe, programming is necessary in a modern and moving world because it is a amazing tool than all people can be use in all parts of the world.

ROAD RAGE IN BOGOTÁ

Nowadays, in Bogotá we can see some road rage. It can cause a lot of traffic accidents, but women aren´t the only guilty ones of this situation. They are many aspects that can increase this kind of problems.


First of all, “ Secretaria de transito y transporte” argues that a high percentage of women haven´t done the exam or they didn´t approve it. Furthermore the majority teachers are men and they haven´t been interested in women learning this activity. Also the statistics show increase percentage that the men are driving to talk in cellular and to listen high music and they are entertain and they drive slowly, that are others consequences to have road rage.


Nevertheless, studies demonstrate that the most key to solve the road rage is relaxation. This word is essay to say but is very complicated to do; The Dr Smith is psychology, he said that the 74% of the people can´t relaxing because don´t have idea as to do. There are interested training to solve and help to do it in universities and psychological centers worldwide.


In my view, the most important cause to have road rage are women and men but the most important is to solve the problem with activities to relaxed the people before that they drive on expressways.

miércoles, 5 de diciembre de 2007

THE MOST USEFUL TOOL FOR COMPANIES IS PROGRAMMING

Though, there are many ways of solving the problems to companies, the most interesting tool is the programming when people have been using computers and Internet to facilitate the duties in job. However, there are people that can’t use computer because they are traditional people and prefer to use the slow and costly manual machines that spend more time in each task.


Programming is a fascinating and amazing tool that people should use everyday. Also any person can program to provide and help their performance. Also is essential in this modern and recent world that humanity use technology when is required, not only in workplaces also in daily and simple task at home to have an easy life.


On the other hand, majority of the productive and old people reject the know-how because they have fear, horror and panic from of its. Furthermore these kinds of people have a preference to work with traditional methods such as write machines that are obsolete, antiquated and outdated.


Summarizing, all companies need use technology and tools to facilitate and help processes to each employees their and they should change the traditional culture from the modern culture with inspiring and stimulate their employees to transform their form of think.






martes, 4 de diciembre de 2007

GRAMMAR ENGLISH ARTICLES

There are two types of articles in the English language: the definite article (the) and the indefinite article (a, an). Try the following practice exercises on definite and indefinite articles. 1
There are two types of articles indefinite a and an or definite the. Their proper use is complex especially when you get into the advanced use of English. Quite often you have to work by what sounds right, which can be frustrating for a learner.
We usually use no article to talk about things in general - the doesn't mean all.
For example:

"Books are expensive." = (All books are expensive.) "The books are expensive." = (Not all books are expensive, just the ones I'm talking about.) 2
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1 http://www.learn4good.com/languages/evrd_grammar/articles.htm
2.http://www.learnenglish.de/grammar/articlestext.htm

































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lunes, 3 de diciembre de 2007

INGRID BETANCOURT, HER LIFE A PRISONER OF WAR.

From many years ago Colombia has been suffering the biggest war, as consequences of the Guerrilla, the victims of these illegal groups are the kidnapped and their families. There two examples that is significant bring out which are about Ingrid Betancourt and Fernando Araujo Perdomo because they are important and chief persons in Colombia. She is political kidnapped for more 6 years ago in the rain forest, however he leak outs 1 year ago and she continued of prisoner. The last week the guerrilla sent evidence of survival about she, where her look severe, ailing mental and physical to be a prisoner of war.


The fiscally shows the video of survival of Ingrid Betancourt, where her physical appearance is subhuman and misfortune. Also she is with psychological unbalance. Also it shows the place where are the kidnapped is dreadful and sinister. Additionally the illness are how consequences of the changeable weather and diversify surrounding.


Nevertheless, the case of Fernando Araujo Perdomo who escape for his freedom and he is joyful, glad and blissful to return usual life with his family. His healthy was dire but right now is very well. But he thinks about the other kidnapped than stay with guerilla still and to do solution of this polemical problem in Colombia


The Colombia’s kidnapped confirm in the video the scenes of terror and near dead because the deal is criminal. However hope is the last that people must lose.

sábado, 1 de diciembre de 2007

MY PROFILE

I´m CLAUDIA CAROLINA SANCHEZ RAMIREZ, I´m from Bogotá- Colombia and I´m 26 years old. I had been studying Business Administration at La Sabana University. I like to travel, learn and know about new places around the world. I have a beautiful family and I live with my father, my mother, my grandmother and my dog. My favourite sport is Basketball, however I don´t practice but I watch the sports programs. I love all animals and I´m happy with my life. Also I dreams are continue learn English and Frensh. Hovewer I had been problems with my grammar in English for that reason I need strain me to be the best. Additional I would like to have a good job with a high salary and to have a lot of money for my futures children.