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Follow the Yellow Brick Road

2008-07-19 19:57:20 by Tim Bass in The Complex Event Processing Blog
 
...Yellow Brick Road Or, as Mark Adler pointed out in his well written blog post The First Annual Fluffies for CEP , a secretive panel of renowned judge is going to tell us, via Jolt,who has the better solution? Holy Cow Batman!Let me buy a nice layout in your magazine or web site, please, so my software company will be on the short list for the...
 
Tags: yellow brick, yellow brick road, follow, wonderful wizard, wizard, awards, fluffy awards, wonderful, audience
 
 
 
 
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Red Light Cameras Don't Work

2008-08-25 12:19:23 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...yellow lights are often set too short to increase tickets for red-light running. That's right, the state actually tampers with the yellow light settings to make them shorter, and more likely to turn red as you're driving through them In fact, six U.S. cities have been found guilty of shortening the yellow light cycles below what is allowed by...
 
Tags: red, red-light, red-light runners, install red-light cameras, cameras, red-light cameras, conclude cameras, studies, rigorous studies
 
 
 
 
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Windows Live OneCare has a Broken Light

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2008-01-16 04:27:00 by Keith Brown in Security Briefs
...yellow if there's somthing minor wrong, or red if there's something really wrong. For example, it'll glow red while your firewall is disabled By the way, that's one thing I really like about this product. In Windows XP, if you wanted to turn off the firewall, you could, but then you'd have to remember to turn it back on. With OneCare's...
 
Tags: onecare, windows, windows live onecare, contact onecare support, onecare dashboard, light, wrong, firewall, replacement firewall
 
 
 
 
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Pentagon May Issue Pocket Lie Detectors to Afghan Soldiers

2008-04-14 12:57:47 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...yellow screens, or inconclusive readings That practice was criticized in the 2003 National Academy study, which said the "inconclusives" have to be included to measure accuracy. If you take into account the yellow screens, the PCASS accuracy rate in the three Pentagon-funded tests drops to the level of 63 to 79 percent
 
Tags: pentagon, measure accuracy, accuracy, pcass accuracy, pentagon studies, lie detectors, yellow screens, tests drops, pcass
 
 
 
 
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Doctoring Photographs without Photoshop

2008-08-27 07:27:27 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...yellow captions influence how we see the pictures. "Chemical Munitions Bunker" is different from "Empty Warehouse" which is different from "International House of Pancakes." The image remains the same but we see it differently Change the yellow labels, change the caption and you change the meaning of the photographs. You don't need Photoshop....
 
Tags: photographs, actual photographs, captions, yellow captions influence, powell, colin powell, change, chemical weapons, photoshop
 
 
 
 
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Introducing Google's online security efforts

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2007-05-21 09:43:00 by A Googler in Google Online Security Blog
...yellow means low activity, orange medium activity and red high activity Guidelines on safe browsing First and foremost, enable automatic updates for your operating system as well your browsers, browser plugins and other applications you are using. Automatic updates ensure that your computer receives the latest security patches as they are...
 
Tags: activity, malware activity, web servers, servers, malware, anti- malware effort, malware distribution servers, sites, web sites
 
 
 
 
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The Onion on Terror

2008-02-08 13:28:35 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...Yellow Scare? When every Christian gentleman lived in mortal terror of his daughter being doped up on opium and raped by pagan, mustachioed Chinamen? What about the Red Scare, when citizens from all walks of life showed their pride by turning in their friends and associates to rabid anticommunists? Has America ever been more resolute The...
 
Tags: america, preserve america, america strong, christian gentleman lived, total dread vital, yellow scare, mortal terror, rabid anticommunists, red scare
 
 
 
 
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Why you nearly need a P.I. to help you hire a private investigator

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2008-03-01 20:28:00 by John Sexton in The Bullet Proof Blog
...yellow pages and pick out 5 phone numbers and ask how much they charge an hour. Hourly charges mean nothing. Think about it, how many of us would call up a doctor or dentists office and ask how much they charge an hour? Not to compare investigators with the medical profession, but your first priority should be: are they qualified to do the...
 
Tags: local, professional associations local, local security company, company, illegal company, choose company, exspensive company, guards company, security company
 
 
 
 
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Symantec's John Thompson on Cisco, Microsoft and McAfee

2008-04-14 23:17:59 by HASH0x8b6d158 in StillSecure, After All These Years
 
...Yellow. And people say I am tough on my competitors
 
Tags: john thompson, john, cisco, nice, nice job, symantec, microsoft, sharp leads, fairly abysmal
 
 
 
 
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Critical thinking

2008-04-21 14:42:28 by Alex in RiskAnalys.is