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What’s the point of even having a car if you can’t cruise to class in air-conditioned comfort, right? For pedestrians and drivers alike, there is going to be an extremely noticeable surge of vehicular stress present in and around the campus in the near future. There will be no avoiding it. Here’s what you can do to at least prepare yourself.
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For pedestrians and drivers alike, there will be a surge of vehicular stress present around campus at the start of the school year. Carpooling, riding bikes and the bus system are ways to avoid the hassle of finding parking spots on campus. / FSView file photo
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Commuting to campus may be easier than it seems
Aug. 20, 2013 1:03 PM |
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Sawyer Vanderwerff
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At the start of every summer, tens of thousands of students participate in a mass exodus from Tallahassee; however, summer is coming to an end, and all those students are finding their way back to school. How are most of them getting back? They are driving, which causes a lot of traffic coming to campus. What’s the point of even having a car if you can’t cruise to class in air-conditioned comfort, right? For pedestrians and drivers alike, there is going to be an extremely noticeable surge of vehicular stress present in and around the campus in the near future. There will be no avoiding it. Here’s what you can do to at least prepare yourself.
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— It’s Not Painless
Before anything, you need to obtain parking permit to park on campus. That’s right, even after that transportation fee. Sure the first one may be free, but for returning students, a fee settles bitterly among memories of rushing into class five minutes late. With a permit, students can expect to spend hours circling lots with a piece of plastic stuck to their car that never guarantees them a sacred on-campus spot.
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…..item 2)…. Despite parking problems, students find option to appeal …
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With Tallahassee’s stringent parking rules, avoiding citation or even towing is a prevalent issue. If cited at FSU, students have the option to appeal. / Blair Stokes / FSView
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At the Delta Zeta sorority house, parking is a privilege reserved for members with seniority or those who serve on the executive board. Senior Rachel Young now enjoys that privilege, but she remembers the days not too long ago when a parking mishap ended in frustration–and an ultimate victory.
Surrounded by darkness and unable to find any parking spots close to her sorority house, Young decided to take a risk; she parked in a commuter lot overnight.
“I thought maybe I would get there before the ticketing people, but I didn’t,” Young said. “I had a citation for like for parking in a commuter lot past midnight. I immediately went online and looked up how to appeal the citation.”
The battle for Florida State University’s 1,800 parking spaces and six garages is waged daily, and Young now knows best that not every Seminole can win. Those on the losing end of the pursuit for parking make up the 25,000 parking citations issued yearly by Transportation Services.
According to the Transportation Services website, not having a valid permit in a restricted parking lot, parking in an unauthorized space, overstaying your welcome at a parking meter or fraudulently using a handicap permit can all warrant a citation ranging anywhere from to 0.
However, students who feel they were unjustly cited for a parking violation do have the option of appealing their citation. An average of 300 appeals are submitted each month. Parking controllers collect photo evidence for each citation to use when adjudicating final decisions. The last stop in the citation appeals process is the Transportation Violation Appeals Board.
Commuters and residents faced a significant learning curve upon returning this fall due to the loss of a centrally located employee parking lot, the conversion of traditionally 24/7 student parking garages to shared space with staff and the introduction of top-floor only overnight parking.
Director of Transportation Services Hunter Hughes explained that, despite efforts to inform the public of the impending changes, there was an increase in citations during the first week of the semester that saw about 60 citations per day.
While some have bemoaned the changes in parking space, Hughes sees the change as a positive step in the evolution of parking availability. He cites an increase in the volume of overall overnight parking spaces and greater ease of access for students to park close to their residence halls.
“The reality of it is we actually made it is easier,” Hughes said. “The residence halls on Convocation, like Jennie Murphree and Cawthon, they can now take advantage of the Call Street garage, which is about a block closer to their place. It was one of those rare situations where when we lost a huge parking lot, the changes that came from it actually made more sense, and I think once people sat back and look at it, it is actually more beneficial across campus for everybody.”
To avoid a facing a citation notice tucked in windshield of your vehicle, Hunter said that there are two things students can do:
One, always have a valid FSU permit in your name. And two, park in designated white spaces for students Monday through Friday from 7:30 a.m. to 4 p.m.
When Rachel Young received notice of her appeal approval, she was elated. While she now parks in the coveted lot behind her sorority house, her little, Kate Pierson, is now in the same parking predicament.
“I went out of town for a church event and I came back and my car had been parked out back in that gravel lot for a whole week and then I got an email from FSU parking–it was a parking citation,” Pierson said.
As the campus undergoes continual construction and the battle for parking spaces remain competitive, Transportation Services offers several options for students looking to conquer the parking arena. The FSU TransLoc app displays the location of Seminole Express and NoleCab transportation, the FSU Tranz app tracks the status of parking garages and Gotcha and SAFE Connection provide free rides for students on campus.
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…..item 3)…. youtube video … Coldplay – X&Y (Full Album) … 62:10 minutes …
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1."Square One"
2."What If"
3."White Shadows"
4."Fix You"
5."Talk" (Berryman, Buckland, Champion, Martin, Hütter, Bartos, Schult)
6."X&Y"
7."Speed of Sound"
8."A Message"
9."Low"
10."The Hardest Part"
11."Swallowed in the Sea"
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Secret Agent (1966) …item 2.. million yacht hijacked by students spoofing GPS signals (July 31, 2013) …item 3.. Were hackers behind NASDAQ chaos? — ‘data feed issue’ (22 August 2013) …
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Chandra Bhat, director of the Center for Transportation Research at UT Austin, said that the experiment highlights the vulnerability of the transportation sector to such attacks:
“The surprising ease with which Todd and his team were able to control a (multimillion) dollar yacht is evidence that we must invest much more in securing our transportation systems against potential spoofing."
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The villain is a middle-class small businessman named John Wright who decides to assassinate the President of the United States. He spends his life savings to carry out the theft of a U.S. Army shipment of the two precursor chemicals that form a deadly nerve gas codenamed VZ when combined.
The ingredients for the nerve gas VZ were intended to be detonated in downtown San Diego, corresponding with the arrival of the President to attend a Republican party conference taking place there. This nerve gas had no safe antidote, and it kills in two to three minutes after being inhaled or touched.
This nerve gas is contained inside two "Alacran" (a combustible plastic) tanks, and plastic explosives are wrapped around the containers, so that when after the nerve gas is released, the containers explode, rendering the scene of the crime untraceable.
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Danger Man .. The series featured Patrick McGoohan as secret agent John Drake. Ralph Smart created the programme and wrote many of the scripts. Danger Man was financed by Lew Grade’s ITC Entertainment.
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Unlike the later James Bond films, Danger Man strove for realism, dramatising credible Cold War tensions. In the second series, Drake is an undercover agent of the British external intelligence agency (called "M9" instead of the actual MI6). As in the earlier series, Drake finds himself in danger with not always happy outcomes; sometimes duty forces him to decisions which lead to good people suffering unfair consequences. Drake doesn’t always do what his masters tell him.
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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia … en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Crichton
His literary works are usually based on the action genre and heavily feature technology. His novels epitomize the techno-thriller genre of literature, often exploring technology and failures of human interaction with it, especially resulting in catastrophes with biotechnology.
Many of his future history novels have medical or scientific underpinnings, reflecting his medical training and science background. He was the author of, among others, The Andromeda Strain, Jurassic Park, Congo, Travels, Sphere, Rising Sun, Disclosure, The Lost World, Airframe, Timeline, Prey, State of Fear, Next (the final book published before his death), Pirate Latitudes (published November 24, 2009), and a final unfinished techno-thriller, Micro, which was published in November 2011
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In 1972, Crichton published two novels. The first, Binary, relates the story of a villainous middle-class businessman, who attempts to assassinate the President of the United States by stealing an army shipment of the two precursor chemicals that form a deadly nerve agent.
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…..item 1b)…. Pursuit: Cast & Crew …
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… Hank Brandt .. Agent
… Ben Gazzara .. Steven Graves
… Will Kuluva .. Dr. Wolff
… E.G. Marshall .. James Wright
… Jim McMullan .. Lewis
… Quinn K. Redeker
… William Windom .. Robert Phillips
… Joseph Wiseman .. Dr. Nordman
… Martin Sheen Timothy Drew
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… Michael Crichton .. Director, Book Author
… Lee Rich .. Producer
… Robert L. Jacks .. Producer
… Robert Dozier .. Screenwriter
… Jerry Goldsmith .. Composer (Music Score)
… Charles Wheeler .. Cinematographer
… Robert L. Morrison .. Cinematographer
… Gene Fowler, Jr. .. Editor
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Published on Mar 24, 2012
PURSUIT (1972 / TV movie) Dir. – Michael Crichton / Music – Jerry Goldsmith
Michael Crichton’s directorial debut was an ABC MOVIE OF THE WEEK based on his novel BINARY (written under the pseudonym "John Lange"). Starring Ben Gazzara, E.G. Marshall, William Windom, Joseph Wiseman, and Martin Sheen (as an early version of a computer hacker), it told the DAY OF THE JACKAL-like story of a hunt to stop a political extremist from detonating two vials of nerve gas at the San Diego Republican National Convention.
"Bear Mann" is the YouTube channel of The GullCottage/Sandlot, a film blog and growing reference library "Celebrating The Art of Cinema, … And Cinema As Art"
Visit us at: www.gullcottageonline.com
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…..item 2)…. million yacht hijacked by students spoofing GPS signals …
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In June, in international waters some 30 miles off the coast of Italy, the White Rose of Drachs began to drift starboard.
Inexorably, the million, 65-meter luxury super-yacht yielded its GPS-determined course until it was under complete control by hijackers.
No alarms went off.
As far as the ship’s GPS equipment was concerned, the signals it was getting were authentic, and once a location discrepancy was reported by the ship’s navigation system, a course correction was initiated by the crew.
But those signals were not authentic, and the ship was not on course.
The signals were in fact being sent from the White Rose’s upper deck by University of Texas/Cockrell School of Engineering graduate students Jahshan Bhatti and Ken Pesyna.
A team from the school had been invited aboard while the White Rose sailed from Monaco to Rhodes, Greece, on the Mediterranean Sea.
Using a blue box about the size of a briefcase, the duo spoofed the ship’s GPS signals, sending counterfeit signals that slowly, subtly overpowered the authentic GPS signals until the ship ultimately came under their control.
If this sounds familiar, it’s because students from this engineering school did the same thing to a drone last year.
In May 2012, the engineering students tried out their ,000 spoofer, which they had cobbled together in response to a dare from the US Department of Homeland Security (DHS).
Under the direction of Assistant Professor Todd Humphreys, who is now working for the Department of Aerospace Engineering and Engineering Mechanics, the students last spring managed to hack and hijack a drone with what Humphreys at the time said was the most advanced spoofing device ever.
Both the drone and yacht hijackings were designed to shed light on the perils of navigation attacks, serving as evidence that spoofing is a serious threat to marine vessels and other forms of transportation.
In plain English, that means that hackers can send drones smashing, say, into our skulls.
After the students had gained control of the ship’s navigation system, the team planned to coerce the ship onto a new course with subtle maneuvers that positioned the yacht a few degrees off its original course.
When the ship’s navigation system detected the location discrepancy, the crew corrected the course – at least, they thought they did.
In reality, their course corrections were setting the ship slightly off its course line.
The attack is portrayed in this video posted on Monday by the school.
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According to a writeup from the school, inside the yacht’s command room, an electronic chart showed its progress along a fixed line.
On deck, however, passengers could detect "a pronounced curve showing that the ship had turned," the school reported.
Humphreys said that the ship actually turned – a movement that all could feel – but the chart display and the crew "saw only a straight line."
The yacht had been nudged onto a parallel track hundreds of meters from its intended course.
Chandra Bhat, director of the Center for Transportation Research at UT Austin, said that the experiment highlights the vulnerability of the transportation sector to such attacks:
“The surprising ease with which Todd and his team were able to control a (multimillion) dollar yacht is evidence that we must invest much more in securing our transportation systems against potential spoofing."
Humphreys said that the experiments are applicable to other semi-autonomous craft that are now operated, in part, on autopilot.
The demonstrations are part of an ongoing research project supported by the university’s Wireless Networking and Communications Group through an Industrial Affiliates program.
DHS has been attempting to identify and mitigate GPS interference through its Patriot Watch and Patriot Shield programs, but the effort has been deemed poorly funded, was still in its infancy as of June 2012, was mostly geared toward detecting GPS hackers using jammers instead of spoofers, and, judging by the results of the successful yacht takeover, hasn’t to date produced much change in the vulnerabilities of GPS.
Now, in addition to worrying about hackable juggernauts flying over us in the form of drones, we can worry about autopilot superyachts being yanked like puppets on strings by pirates, careening off course, or being used as weapons.
Would one call those hackable aquanauts?
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……item 3)…. Were hackers behind NASDAQ chaos? Experts say technical difficulties that shut market resemble ‘denial of service attack’ …
… Mail Online – Daily Mail … www.dailymail.co.uk/news/ …
By REUTERS REPORTER and DAILY MAIL REPORTER
PUBLISHED: 14:08 EST, 22 August 2013 | UPDATED: 20:53 EST, 22 August 2013
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Officials say the Nasdaq stock exchange outage on Thursday was likely due to a technical difficulty, though some experts say the incident resembles recent cyber attacks against U.S. banks and other financial institutions.
‘My first thought is that it is a denial-of-service attack, but I’m not sure,’ Gartner banking security analyst Avivah Litan told USA Today. ‘It’s a very attractive target. It’s very visible, and that’s what these Iranian state attacks are all about, making a political statement by disrupting a visible website.’
A wave of denial-of-service attacks started last September, knocking several banks offline including Wells Fargo, U.S. Bank, Bank of America, JPMorgan Chase and PNC Bank.
The attacks were attributed to Cyber Fighters of Izz ad-Din al-Qassam, an Iranian hacking collective.
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Trading on the NASDAQ was halted Thursday around noon due to technical problems
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The second wave of denial-of-service attacks came in January, shutting down the websites of credit unions and mid-level banks. A third wave, in March, targeted credit card companies and financial brokerages.
Sean Sullivan, a security adviser at F-Secure, said the Nasdaq outage on Thursday seems odd coming just one day after a computer glitch at Goldman Sachs.
‘Well, so far this week there’s been a computer error that caused Goldman Sachs to sell options for a dollar, and now this,’ Sullivan told USA Today. ‘It really, really makes me wonder about the undisclosed details surrounding the Nasdaq forum hack.’
Trading was halted on the Nasdaq, the second-largest U.S. stock exchange, shortly after noon on Thursday, while stocks rose as other U.S. markets continued to operate.
All traffic through Nasdaq stopped at 12:14pm, the exchange said on its website, adding that trading in all Nasdaq-listed shares would be halted until further notice. Trading resumed around 3:30pm, causing an over three hour pause in trading that was the longest in recent memory.
‘Any brokerage firm gets paid by executing orders,’ said Sal Arnuk, co-head of equity trading at Themis Trading in Chatham, New Jersey. ‘So yes, we are frustrated, and this hurts us, it hurts the market and it hurts public confidence.’
All traffic through Nasdaq stopped abruptly at 12:14pm. Trading in a single stock resumed at 3pm, and other stocks soon followed.
Nasdaq’s own stock, which was up 0.8 per cent before the halt, closed down 3.4 per cent, after earlier trading down as much as 5.4 per cent.
The exchange blamed a problem with distributing stock price quotes for the shutdown. A source familiar with the matter described the problem as a "data feed issue."
‘I can’t remember this happening in recent memory,’ said Christopher Nagy, president of consultancy firm KOR Trading and a former head of trading at TD Ameritrade.
During the shutdown, trading of shares not listed on Nasdaq continued, but transactions could not be executed on the Nasdaq platform. Options trading was also halted.
Nasdaq and its larger rival, NYSE Euronext’s New York Stock Exchange, said all trades executed between 12:14 and 12:23pm would stand.
While some trading activity appeared normal following the resumption, difficulties persisted. Nasdaq said it stopped routing orders to NYSE’s all-electronic ARCA platform shortly after the resumption.
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission said it was in touch with the exchanges, with Chairman Mary Jo White overseeing developments from her home office near New York City.
White House spokesman Josh Earnest said President Barack Obama had been briefed about the disruption, during which investors had limited market access to trade such familiar names as Apple Inc, Facebook Inc, Google Inc and Microsoft Corp.
In all, Nasdaq lists about 3,200 companies.
‘As we continue to eliminate human beings from the execution of security trading, this is the problem you run into,’ said Stephen Massocca, managing director of Wedbush Equity Management LLC in San Francisco. ‘These events are going to take place, given the level of automation.’
During the Nasdaq shutdown, the New York Stock Exchange continued to operate.
The Dow industrials rose for the first time in seven sessions after upbeat data from the world’s top economies overshadowed nervousness over the winding down of the Federal Reserve’s stimulus program.
Gains in the Dow were limited by Hewlett-Packard , which dropped 12 per cent to .23 a day after reporting a decline in the Enterprise Group’s revenue.
The group is the computer company’s second-largest division and a critical component of Chief Executive Meg Whitman’s plan to transform the company.
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