A Systems Analyst's thoughts on science, technology, programming, business, and occasionally politics.

On Security of Operating systems

December 29, 2008 at 11:12 am | In Technology | No Comments
by Chris Davenport

I was reading about yet another zero day exploit for IE and Windows, on the heels of a security update for same because of an existing unpatched vulnerability that’s been causing pain to many over the past few weeks.

Honestly, you could write the above two lines any time over the past 12 years, and it wouldn’t look out of place.

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Civic Literacy

December 11, 2008 at 1:03 pm | In Politics | No Comments
by Chris Davenport

I took an online civic literacy quiz not too long ago, it asked a lot of mainly trivia questions, but also some very interesting policy and mechanics of government questions.

Seems to me there should have been a few questions on that civic literacy quiz about why it’s good to be a citizen.

I would love to have seen a question “What is The American Dream?”

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