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Former US officials in cyberattack simulation

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by Chris Lefkow Chris Lefkow – Sat Feb 13, 9:28 pm ET
WASHINGTON (AFP) – Former top US intelligence officials will become cyberwarriors on Tuesday in a simulation of how the US government would respond to a massive cyberattack on the United States.

"The scenario itself is secret," said Eileen McMenamin, vice president of communications for the Bipartisan Policy Center (BPC), which is hosting the event dubbed "Cyber ShockWave."

"The participants don't even know what it is," McMenamin told AFP. "None of them know what's going to transpire."

For Cyber ShockWave, a room at the Mandarin Hotel here is being transformed into the White House Situation Room, where the president and his top advisers typically meet to address national emergencies.

Signatures - 1 - Open Source

"It HAS to be open source because otherwise nothing ever gets done!"

With few exceptions, I feel very strongly in this matter with information regarding to all aspects of life and the Universe.

Signatures - 0 - Tactics

I usually look for meaningful things to say in a signature, whether it is someone else's quote or mine own. So I decided to post my changes to my blog here and see if I can spark some discussion on various subjects I find interesting.

From Sun Tzu's "The Art of War", near the end of Chapter VI: "Weak Points and Strong", verse 28:
"Do not repeat the tactics which have gained you one victory, but let your methods be regulated by the infinite variety of circumstances."
- Art of War 6:28 (Translated)

Microblog

Yeah, so I had a car that was in our apartment's garage. Yesterday I found a tow sticker on it. They were completely within their right to put it on, but the thing is, I was also completely within my right to not have tags, as the car isn't driven. So, today I had to go out and fix up ole betsy, and get her purrin again, as she hadn't even been cranked in over a year. It's now my wake up time from yesterday, and I have now officially been awake for 24hrs straight. Thank god for the weekend: I'm going to bed!

PS: I know nothing about cars, so it's a good thing google is my bitch.

Over-Thinking

So a side project of mine has involved the building of a pure PHP web app to generate a presentation. First off there is no way this is the easiest way to generate a presentation but this is the project as I was placed into it. My problem stems from solving a simple problem with a complex solution. Below is an example of a function that builds a SELECT query. The function takes 7 parameters and does not execute a query.

//This functions takes 6 arguments.
//1     ::      A string containing the table name
//2     ::      An array of strings containing the field to select
//3*    ::      An array of strings containing the column fields names comprising the WHERE statement
//4*    ::      An array of strings containing the respective field values comprising the WHERE statement
//5     ::      An array of special options to determine how the query is run. [Ex: MULTIQUERY, PREFERREDONLY]
//6     ::      The mode [Ex: 0 = Normal, 1 = Debug]
//7     ::      The number of rows to keep when using multiquery.

Hello SX

Hi people,

Thank you for being tolerate of newbs like me. I greatly appreciate everyone's patience with me because I must sound like an idiot to the advanced members. I like the friendly atmosphere, and for once i feel like this is a group which i want to belong. Please keep up the good work, i love this site! I look forward towards finding my direction with the guidance of SX members.

Live long and prosper,

zsanfusa (Zac)

A half-assed guide to Computer Repair

Some may consider this a half-assed guide to fixing computers. I consider it logic.
These are the questions I ask myself every time I look at a broke computer (obviously I don't answer myself...
most of the time):

Does the system power on?
  DID YOU PLUG IN ALL THE WIRES RIGHT?
  Do You See Lights On The Front?
  Do you see lights on the back?
  Do you see error code lights?
    Did you research them with the manufacturer?
  Do the fans spin?
    Do the fans continue to spin?
  Does the CD drive light blink?
    Does the CD drive open?
      Did you pull out the CD in the drive and try again?
  Do the keyboard lights flash / stay on / blink once?
  Did you change the power supply?
  Do you get monitor output?
    Are errors displayed?
      Did you google those errors?
  Do you get speaker output?
  Do you get a BIOS boot beep?
  Do you hear continued beeps coming from inside your case?
    Did you google the beep code?  ex: 3.4.3.1

Advice for people wanting change in the world

I figure I should say this briefly since I do have a little bit of free time right now. I've grown a bit tired of people complaining about how things need to change, yet they are doing nothing to make it happen. Regardless of if it's interpersonal relationships, to large political matters, this is a concept that can apply to all levels. If somebody wants change, yet won't reflect that change themselves then that is rather hypocritical and damages their message regardless of if they are right or wrong. I hate to have to point out this basic reality, but given what I've seen in my private life this past month I felt rather compelled to make this statement.

Hey Everyone

Im new to soldierx. Im looking to learn some cool things

Old Content

Once again I've looked through archives and uploaded some old content. This time it was a series of classic images which I uploaded to the Classic section of our image galleries. Many people probably won't enjoy these, but anybody who has been around SX for over 10 years will Smile

I plan to get all of the old text files uploaded this week. I may only upload the ones that still apply, I'm not sure yet. Either way, most of our older text files can be found on textfiles.com.

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