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Thought I was going to miss my plane, but it is US Air - no way

2008-03-24 16:32:23 by HASH0x8aecee4 in StillSecure, After All These Years
 
...weather in Charlotte. When I told him that I was on the phone with my friend who was switching planes in Charlotte right now and the weather was beautiful, he rechecked and told me yes indeed it was a mechanical problem. Anyway, sitting here at the gate again. I don't know when I am going to learn my lesson about flying this airline! ARGH
 
Tags: air, air flight, flight, charlotte, weather, crazy day, airport, traffic accident, phone
 
 
 
 
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Thought I was going to miss my plane, but it is US Air - no way

2008-03-24 17:32:23 by ashimmy in StillSecure, After All These Years
 
...weather in Charlotte. When I told him that I was on the phone with my friend who was switching planes in Charlotte right now and the weather was beautiful, he rechecked and told me yes indeed it was a mechanical problem. Anyway, sitting here at the gate again. I don't know when I am going to learn my lesson about flying this airline! ARGH
 
Tags: air, air flight, flight, charlotte, weather, crazy day, airport, traffic accident, phone
 
 
 
 
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Measuring Vulnerability

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2008-04-14 14:31:38 by JonesJ in RiskAnalys.is
...weather events, human error, or malicious acts. Obviously, we dont experience loss with every threat event, which means were only vulnerable sometimes i.e., less than 100% of the time. This means there is some probability associated with whether well be vulnerable to any given threat event. The process of measuring vulnerability is intended...
 
Tags: threat capability curve, capability, human capability, human threat capability, describe control strength, control strength, capability curve, threat community capability, control
 
 
 
 
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Latest linking of Senator Obama to a '70's terrorist may damage his reputation.

2008-05-12 00:12:00 by John Sexton in The Bullet Proof Blog
 
...Weather Underground Organization (WUO). WUO were opposed to the Vietnam war and pledged to bomb the Capitol, The Pentagon and Police Stations after issuing a "declaration of a state of war" against the United States Government in 1970 These days, Ayers is a professor at UIC. Apparently, Ayers and the Senator have served jointly on various...
 
Tags: senator, senator obama, william, william ayers, ayers, weather underground, weather underground organization, vietnam war, terrorism
 
 
 
 
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Tie Down the Livestock, Twisters a Comin!

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2008-06-06 00:48:40 by rybolov in The Guerilla CISO
...weather yesterday. I had just gotten back from lunch with Chris from How Is That Assurance Evidence (pretty smart guy, similar content to myself, worth checking out some time) when I got a tweet from the National Capitol Region Battlespace which is a civil-defense kinda organization but they have a good condensedtweet feed. Anyway, the...
 
Tags: tornado drill time, time, home servers, servers, power, worst time, falls church proper, pretty smart guy, home
 
 
 
 
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The Fallacy of Self-Fulfilling CEP Use Case Studies

2008-08-06 15:30:13 by Tim Bass in The Complex Event Processing Blog
 
...weather, epidemiology, and so much more; and they need event processing solutions to obtain situational knowledge into current events and predict future ones. We know how difficult predicting the weather can be Folks on the ground need to model urban traffic as events and design better event-driven traffic models and solutions The list of...
 
Tags: cep, cep products, believethey maydefine cep, detect, liketo detect fraud, cep vendors, current generation products, complex events, define
 
 
 
 
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Holiday e-commerce saw healthy growth, but not as much as 2006

2008-01-02 08:00:00 by Editor in IT Compliance
 
Warm weather bit into online shopping
 
Tags: warm weather bit, online
 
 
 
 
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Weather, Information Security, and Markets

2008-01-07 09:15:52 by Editor in IEEE Security and Privacy
 
The author suggests a derivative market for hedging the risk involved with information security, based on the premise that protection from harm on any networked computer system will never be 100 percent. The key question is whether we can hedge risks that we can't prevent by technical means with financial instruments, such as derivatives
 
Tags: information security, key question, financial instruments, computer system, derivative market, author suggests, hedge risks, protection, percent
 
 
 
 
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NGO Security Scenario #18 - High Seas Horror

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2008-02-11 02:43:00 by NGO Security in NGO Security
 
...weather, the ship suddenly rolled, tipping an estimated 15 degrees on its side. 240 people were injured during the incident Here is a security video footage from the ship's casino as the incident took place. This was not a common occurrence and the force generated by the roll is apparent Review the last video and comment on...
 
Tags: video, security video footage, behavior, human behavior, crisis situation, similar behavior, ship, passengers, passengers react