“
Ye ken, we've been robbin' and running aroound on all kinds o' worlds for a lang time, and I'll tell ye this: The universe is a lot more comp-li-cated than it looks from the ooutside.
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Terry Pratchett (The Wee Free Men (Discworld, #30; Tiffany Aching, #1))
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Anika walked to the workbench, which was flanked by two metal cabinets. She opened the cabinet on the left and spotted sundry items—nails, paint, and whatnot—that one expected to see. Even the rat poison with skull and crossbones on the bag made sense. She also saw, however, several boxes wrapped in white and labeled, “Explosive Plastic Comp-4 (C-4).” Paralyzed, she tried not to panic or stare.
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Chad Boudreaux (Homecoming Queen)
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Listen--God only exists in people's minds. Especially in Japan, God's always been kind of a flexible concept. Look at what happened after the war. Douglas MacArthur ordered the divine emperor to quit being God, and he did, making a speech saying he was just an ordinary person. So after 1946 he wasn't God anymore. That's what Japanese gods are like--they can be tweaked and adjusted. Some American comping on a cheap pipe gives the order and presto change-o--God's no longer God. A very postmodern kind of thing. If you think God's there, He is. If you don't, He isn't.
~pages 286-287
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Haruki Murakami (Kafka on the Shore)
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There's some folks who don't eat like us," she whispered fiercely, "but you ain't called on to contradict 'em at the table when they don't. That boy's yo' comp'ny and if he wants to eat up the table cloth you let him, you hear?
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Harper Lee (To Kill a Mockingbird)
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Between now and when we graduate next year there are at least ten weeks' holiday and five random public holidays. There's email and if you manage to get down to the town, there's text messaging and mobile phone calls. If not, the five minutes you get to speak to me on your communal phone is better than nothing. There are the chess nerds who want to invite you to our school for the chess comp next March and there's this town in the middle, planned by Walter Burley Griffin, where we can meet up and protest against our government's refusal to sign the Kyoto treaty.
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Melina Marchetta (On the Jellicoe Road)
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If you travel on an airline and they get you there safely, you don’t tell anyone. That’s what’s supposed to happen. What makes it remarkable is if it’s horrible beyond belief or if the service is so unexpected (they were an hour early! they comped my ticket because I was cute! they served flaming crêpes suzette in first class!) that you need to share it.
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Seth Godin (Purple Cow: Transform Your Business by Being Remarkable)
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Don't matter who they are, anybody sets foot in this house's yo' comp'ny, and don't you let me catch you remarkin' on their ways like you was so high and and mighty! Yo' folks might be better'n the Cunninghams but it don't count for nothin' the way you're disgracin' 'em.
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Harper Lee (To Kill a Mockingbird)
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I felt confident that she wouldn't find out what a chicken I was,because after the comp,if I hadn't gone off the jump,I would be dead of shame.And if I had gone off the jump,I would be just plain dead.
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Jennifer Echols (The Ex Games)
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In my defense, I love the book in a postmodern kind of way where I've always sensed that it contains something that I relate to. I think it's the kind of book that echoes my beliefs and my sentiments and I've always related well to people who have read the book and I've written about the book. You know, I majored in comp lit and it's possible, it's very possible to read a book without reading it in the traditional straightforward manner. You can read about a book, Joe. Do you know what I mean? Do you understand?
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Caroline Kepnes (You (You, #1))
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Just say after Wednesday we never see each-"
"Don't" he says, angry.
"Jonah, you live six hundred kilometres away from me," I argue.
"Between now and when we graduate next year there are at least ten weeks' holiday and five random public holidays. There's email and if you manage to get down to the town, there's text messaging and mobile phone calls. If not, the five minutes you get to speak to me on your communal phone is better than nothing. There are the chess nerds who want to invite you to our school for the chess comp next March and there's this town in the middle, planned by Walter Burley Griffin, where we can meet up and protest against our government's refusal to sign the Kyoto treaty.
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Melina Marchetta (On the Jellicoe Road)
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Does workman’s comp cover paper cuts?” “Do chickens lay snowballs?
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Darynda Jones (Second Grave on the Left (Charley Davidson, #2))
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What's the good of trying to revisit the scenes of your boyhood? They don't exist. Comping up for air! But there isn't any air. The dustbin that we're in reaches up to the stratosphere.
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George Orwell (Coming Up For Air)
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Laughing,I poked him for his embarrassingly accurate imitation of my southern accent.
He continued in my voice, "Then one day my boyfriend was being an ass and I challenged him to a comp.I had to do a front 1080 off a jump just to show him up,and the rest is history."
"I hope so."
"I know so." He kissed my cheek.
I reached back to run my fingers through his long hair. "Right now I want to lie low,have a normal life,and hang out with my boyfriend. I'll meet you in People in a few years."
He chuckled, making my insides sparkle with anticipation. "It's a date.
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Jennifer Echols (The Ex Games)
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Always code as if the guy who ends up maintaining your code will be a violent psychopath who knows where you live. --John Woods comp.lang.c++
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Jeff Knupp (Writing Idiomatic Python 2)
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In fact, if I were a betting man, I’d wager that only 10 percent of the English instruction list will answer your call for nominations. Why? First, because more than a third of our faculty now consists of temporary (adjunct) instructors who creep into the building under cover of darkness to teach their graveyard shifts of freshman comp; they are not eligible to vote or to serve. Second, because the remaining two-thirds of the faculty, bearing the scars of disenfranchisement and long-term abuse, are busy tending to personal grudges like scraps of carrion on which they gnaw in the gloom of their offices.
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Julie Schumacher (Dear Committee Members)
“
He grabbed the back of my parka,but I got the distinct impression he was not trying to be a gentleman by helping me out of it.He just wanted his parka back.
"When you feel cornered,you'll just fling whatever you've got at people, and you don't care who gets hurt with what."
"I am not scared." I slid down from the truck seat into Liz's stepdad's galoshes, then turned to face Nick one last time. "I am not scared of boarding or you,and I will prove it to you tomorrow.If you think I'm going easy on you in the comp just because you have a debilitating injury from yesterday-"
"That's what you think," he snarked. "I've been going yoga."
"-you have another think coming.You will buy me those Poser tickets. And I'm not even taking you.You will hand the tickets over to me,and I'll take someone else."
"Who? Your little brother's friends?"
"No,Everett Walsh." I closed the door softly behind me so as not to alarm sleeping adults,because I was that mature.
Even through the door and the rolled up window,I could clearly hear every filthy work Nick uttered, ending with, "Everett [cuss word] Walsh."
I opened the passenger door. "Ask not for whom the fire-crotch burns;it burns for thee!" I'd meant this to be an insult.Then I realized it sounded like I wanted Nick.Or like I had a feminine problem.
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Jennifer Echols (The Ex Games)
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...If she were studying Orciny, and there might be excellent reasons to do so, she'd be doing her doctorate in Folklore or Anthropology or maybe Comp Lit. Granted, the edges of disciplines are getting vague. Also that Mahalia is one of a number of young archaeologists more interested in Foucault and Baudrillard than in Gordon Childe or in trowels.
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China Miéville (The City & the City)
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If you want to work for Vogue, produce films, or open a restaurant, you had better get immense psychological reward from your gig, as the comp, and returns on your efforts, will likely suck. Competition will be fierce, and even if you manage to get in, you'll be easily replaceable, as there are always younger, hipper candidates nipping at your heels. Very few high-school graduates dream of working for Exxon, but a big firm in a large sector would give you a career trajectory with regular promotions a sexy industry won't.
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Scott Galloway (The Four: The Hidden DNA of Amazon, Apple, Facebook, and Google)
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I prefer Abomination. It fits better on a T-shirt. I’d comp you one, but we don’t have any big enough for your ego.
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Richard Kadrey (The Kill Society (Sandman Slim, #9))
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That boy’s yo’ comp’ny and if he wants to eat up the table cloth you let him, you hear?
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Harper Lee (To Kill a Mockingbird)
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Great, excellent,” the guy had said. “You other people are out of a job! Heh heh. Learn comp sci.
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Ned Vizzini (It's Kind of a Funny Story)
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There she was. Roarke stood in the office doorway, took a few enjoyable minutes to just watch her. She had such a sense of purpose, such a sense of focus on that purpose. It had appealed to him from the first instant he’d seen her, across a sea of people at a memorial for the dead. He found it compelling, the way those whiskey-colored eyes could go flat and cold as they were now. Cop’s eyes. His cop’s eyes.
She’d taken off her jacket, tossed it over a chair, and still wore her weapon harness. Which meant she’d come in the door and straight up. Armed and dangerous, he thought. It was a look, a fact of her, that continually aroused him. And her tireless and unwavering dedication to the dead—to the truth, to what was right—had, and always would, amaze him.
She’d set up her murder board, he noted, filling it with grisly photos, with reports, notes, names. And somewhere along the line in her day, she’d earned herself a black eye.
He’d long since resigned himself to finding the woman he loved bruised and bloody at any given time. Since she didn’t look exhausted or ill, a shiner was a relatively minor event.
She sensed him. He saw the moment she did, that slight change of body language. And when her eyes shifted from her comp screen to his, the cold focus became an easy, even casual warmth.
That, he thought, just that was worth coming home for.
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J.D. Robb (Strangers in Death (In Death, #26))
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The Oracle waved him over to the leather seats. Zane rubbed his leg dramatically as they moved toward them. “You know, it’s funny, but I never seem to get any comp time or pay no matter what happens to me out in the field. I’d like to speak to HR before I leave.” The Oracle shook his head. “Comp pay? Aren’t you the man who owns two personal airplanes? And besides, I am HR, so you can just talk to me.
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John Sneeden (The Portal (Delphi Group, #2))
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Most exciting email I have received!
"Congratulations! You are a finalist in the 2020 Saturday Evening Post Great American Fiction Contest. We will be announcing the winner, runners-up, and honorable mentions very soon, but first I am reaching out to each finalist to applaud your work and clarify details with regard to publication rights."
Stay tuned!
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Caroline Walken
“
My afternoon comp class is not persuaded. In fact, they feel ill-treated...I've read three short essays aloud, anonymously, for the purpose of inspiring discussion or, failing discussion, private misgiving. It's my hope that if the majority of these intellectually addled young folk actually hear their words aloud, if they are forced to digest not only their advice to me but the logic that led to this advice, they will, if not change their minds, at least become acquainted with doubt.
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Richard Russo (Straight Man)
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... the wise Man that holds his Tongue, says more than the Fool who speaks.
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Thomas Fuller (Introductio Ad Prudentiam: Or, Directions, Counsels, And Cautions, Tending To Prudent Management Of Affairs In Common Life. The Second Part. To Which ... Sincerity And Deceit. The Whole Comp)
“
Try before buy and test before you deploy. page 111
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Nigel Poulton (Data Storage Networking: Real World Skills for the CompTIA Storage+ Certification and Beyond)
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Negative Comps.” Rather than nurturing gratitude for what we have with our partner, we nurture resentment for what’s missing. When something is bothering us about our partner, rather than talking this over to get our needs met within the relationship, we fantasize about another relationship and how we might receive what is missing from our current relationship with this fantasy partner.
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John M. Gottman (Eight Dates: Essential Conversations for a Lifetime of Love)
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Lefty openly attacked the Gaming Commission and its chairman, future U.S. Senator Harry Reid. An encounter between Lefty and Reid was dramatized in a scene in Casino, in which actor Dick Smothers played a character based on Reid. Although there was some Hollywood in that scene, Tony had told me that Reid was in fact viewed as an ally and did receive special treatment and comps at the Stardust. What Reid did in return for those comps I don’t know, but I do know that with the Mob you don’t get something for nothing. There is no doubt in my mind that Reid took some action or inaction that benefited the Outfit. Anyway, the battle between Lefty and the Commission was a hot topic in Vegas and was widely reported in the newspapers and on TV, exactly what the crime families wanted to avoid.
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Frank Cullotta (The Rise and Fall of a 'Casino' Mobster: The Tony Spilotro Story Through A Hitman's Eyes)
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To the matter at hand: though English has traditionally been a largish department, you will find there are very few viable candidates capable of assuming the mantle of DGS. In fact, if I were a betting man, I’d wager that only 10 percent of the English instruction list will answer your call for nominations. Why? First, because more than a third of our faculty now consists of temporary (adjunct) instructors who creep into the building under cover of darkness to teach their graveyard shifts of freshman comp; they are not eligible to vote or to serve. Second, because the remaining two-thirds of the faculty, bearing the scars of disenfranchisement and long-term abuse, are busy tending to personal grudges like scraps of carrion on which they gnaw in the gloom of their offices. Long story short: your options aren’t pretty.
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Julie Schumacher (Dear Committee Members)
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For instance, if a computer does not power up, you can start testing at the electrical socket; move to the power supply, power supply connectors, power switch, motherboard; and then move to the devices. This process moves through the sequential chain along the possible path that power would flow. Following a possible resolution path from one end to the other is sometimes referred to as the layered or linear approach.
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Glen E. Clarke (CompTIA A+® Certification All-In-One For Dummies®)
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Cheaters do not advertise their cheating and are very private about it, so it is always hard to prove it. Most of the time it is happening under the guise of a friend, a friend visiting town, friends from the past, neighborhood friends, vacations with friends, shopping trips, long walks alone, time spent at the gym, coworkers, faking going to work on sick, comp time, or vacation days, company overtime, company emergency, company conferences, and so on.
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Steven Magee
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In the renunciation of one’s own will to follow the will of God consists the self-renunciation commanded by the Savior, which is an indispensable condition of salvation and Christian perfection. In fact, this is so indispensable that unless this condition is satisfied, salvation is impossible, and Christian perfection even more impossible.
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Ignatius Brianchaninov (The Arena: Guidelines for Spiritual and Monastic Life (Comp Works of St Ignatius Brianchaninov Book 5))
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There is a particularly unattractive and discouragingly common affliction called tunnel vision, which for all the misery it causes, ought to top the job list at the World Health Organization. Tunnel vision is a disease in which perception is restricted by ignorance and distorted by vested interest. Tunnel vision is caused by an optic fungus that multiplies when the brain is less energetic than the ego. It is complicated by exposure to politics. When a good dea is run through the filters and compressors of ordinary tunnel vision, it not only comps out reduced in scale and value but in its new dogmatic configuration produces effects the opposite of those for which it originally was intended.
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Tom Robbins (Still Life with Woodpecker)
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Causes or occasions of sin are the following: wine, women, wealth, health of body when excessive, authority or power, and honor or fame and name. “These,” says St Isaac the Syrian, “are not sins in themselves, but on account of our weakness and as our nature is easily drawn by them to various sins, there is need of peculiar caution in regard to them.”2
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Ignatius Brianchaninov (The Arena: Guidelines for Spiritual and Monastic Life (Comp Works of St Ignatius Brianchaninov Book 5))
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If I know the classical psychological theories well enough to pass my comps and can reformulate them in ways that can impress peer reviewers from the most prestigious journals, but have not the practical wisdom of love, I am only an intrusive muzak soothing the ego while missing the heart.
And if I can read tea leaves, throw the bones and manipulate spirits so as to understand the mysteries of the universe and forecast the future with scientific precision, and if I have achieved a renaissance education in both the exoteric and esoteric sciences that would rival Faust and know the equation to convert the mass of mountains into psychic energy and back again, but have not love, I do not even exist.
If I gain freedom from all my attachments and maintain constant alpha waves in my consciousness, showing perfect equanimity in all situations, ignoring every personal need and compulsively martyring myself for the glory of God, but this is not done freely from love, I have accomplished nothing.
Love is great-hearted and unselfish; love is not emotionally reactive, it does not seek to draw attention to itself. Love does not accuse or compare. It does not seek to serve itself at the expense of others. Love does not take pleasure in other peeople's sufferings, but rejoices when the truth is revealed and meaningful life restored. Love always bears reality as it is, extending mercy to all people in every situation. Love is faithful in all things, is constantly hopeful and meets whatever comes with immovable forbearance and steadfastness. Love never quits.
By contrast, prophecies give way before the infinite possibilities of eternity, and inspiration is as fleeting as a breath. To the writing and reading of many books and learning more and more, there is no end, and yet whatever is known is never sufficient to live the Truth who is revealed to the world only in loving relationship.
When I was a beginning therapist, I thought a lot and anxiously tried to fix people in order to lower my own anxiety. As I matured, my mind quieted and I stopped being so concerned with labels and techniques and began to realize that, in the mystery of attentive presence to others, the guest becomes the host in the presence of God. In the hospitality of genuine encounter with the other, we come face to face with the mystery of God who is between us as both the One offered One who offers.
When all the theorizing and methodological squabbles have been addressed, there will still only be three things that are essential to pastoral counseling: faith, hope, and love. When we abide in these, we each remain as well, without comprehending how, for the source and raison d'etre of all is Love.
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Stephen Muse (When Hearts Become Flame: An Eastern Orthodox Approach to the Dia-Logos of Pastoral Counseling)
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Near dawn, she whispers, “Durga … now we’re bound up.” I clench up. This is it. She’s going to cling to me like Arjuna did. “How so?” “It’s like quantum entanglement. Our bodies have exchanged matter and so now we’re interlinked.” She sounds intimate. I deflect. “I didn’t get that far in nano.” “You learn it second year!” I have to lie again. She’s making me lie. “I switched to comp lit after my first year.” “Oh. Well, it means that if we think of our bodies as particles, our states are the same right now, but then when we separate, we remain entangled. Now it’s impossible to describe you without describing me, and vice versa. We tell each other’s stories by living our own lives.” I feel angry. As angry as I felt euphoric six hours ago. I try to control my voice. “That could be scary. Depending.” “True,” she says. “It means that relationships never end. Once made, they just influence each other backwards and forwards in time, for better or worse.” She nudges my arm open and docks her head against my breast. “But I’d say this is for better.
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Monica Byrne (The Girl in the Road)
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We show right judgment and evince salutary intelligence when, in reading about the rules and experiences of the ancient Fathers and of their obedience—equally amazing both in the directors and in those who were being directed—we see at the present time a general decline of Christianity and recognize that we are unfit to inherit the legacy of the Fathers in its fullness and in all its abundance. And it is a great mystery of God, a great blessing for us, that it is left to us to feed on the crumbs that fall from the spiritual table of the Fathers.
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Ignatius Brianchaninov (The Arena: Guidelines for Spiritual and Monastic Life (Comp Works of St Ignatius Brianchaninov Book 5))
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Some pastors are lazy and no good”
by Martin Luther
“Some pastors and preachers are lazy and no good. They rely on these and other good books to get a sermon out of them. They do not pray; they do not study; they do not read; they do not search the Scripture. It is just as if there were no need to read the Bible for this purpose.
They use such books as offer them homiletical help in order to earn their yearly living; they are nothing but parrots and jackdaws, which learn to repeat without understanding, though our purpose and the purpose of these theologians is to direct preachers to Scripture with such books and exhort them to plan to defend our Christian faith after death, against the devil, the world, and the flesh…
Therefore the call is: Watch, study, attend to reading. In truth, you cannot read too much in Scripture; and what you read you cannot read too carefully, and what you read carefully you cannot understand too well, and what you understand well you cannot teach too well, and what you teach well you cannot live too well.
Believe a man who has found this out. It is the devil, it is the world, it is our flesh that are raging and raving against us. Therefore, dear sirs and brethren, pastors and preachers, pray, read, study, be diligent. Truly, this evil, shameful time is not the season for being lazy, for sleeping and snoring. Use the gift that has been entrusted to you, and reveal the mystery of Christ.”
–Martin Luther, What Luther Says: An Anthology, comp. Ewald M. Plass (St. Louis: Concordia Publishing House, 1959), entry no. 3547, 1110.
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Martin Luther (What Is Marriage, Really?)
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I love it when I get a call from someone saying “The Internet is down!” as I always respond the same way: “No, the Internet is fine. It’s the way you’re trying to get to it that’s down.” Okay, so I don’t make a lot of friends with that remark, but it’s actually a really good reminder of why we run into problems on the Internet.
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Mike Meyers (CompTIA A+ Certification All-in-One Exam Guide, Exams 220-801 & 220-802)
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RM RealMedia files play either just audio or audio and video. They are proprietary to RealMedia, a popular player often used on the Internet. You must have RealMedia Player installed on your computer to play these files.
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Mike Meyers (CompTIA A+ Certification All-in-One Exam Guide, Exams 220-801 & 220-802)
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Don’t leave a PC unattended when logged in. In fact, don’t ever leave a system logged in, even as a limited user. God help you if you walk away from a server still logged in as an administrator. You’re tempting fate.
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Mike Meyers (CompTIA A+ Certification All-in-One Exam Guide, Exams 220-801 & 220-802)
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VMware Workstation runs virtually (pun!)
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Mike Meyers (CompTIA A+ Certification All-in-One Exam Guide, Exams 220-801 & 220-802)
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That awesome moment when I’m in my zone. Comp on, internet off, WhatsApp muted, Word doc open, muse connected, fingers racing, time flying. Stomach groans with hunger but I can’t drag myself away from the keyboard. By the time I take a break, I look back and I’m like, “Hell, yeah!
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Tom Jalio
“
The punishment pronounced by God has also a spiritual meaning. Indeed, God’s decree respecting man’s punishment is as truly fulfilled in a spiritual as in a material manner.2 By the term earth or ground the holy Fathers understood the heart. Just as the earth, on account of the curse, does not cease to produce from its injured nature thorns and thistles, so the heart poisoned by sin does not cease to give birth to sinful thoughts and feelings from its own injured nature. Just as no one troubles about the sowing and planting of weeds, but perverted nature produces them automatically, so sinful thoughts and feelings are conceived and spring up of their own accord in the human heart. In the sweat of one’s brow material bread is obtained. With intense labor of soul and body the heavenly bread is sown that secures eternal life in the human heart; with intense labor it grows, is gathered and harvested, is rendered fit for use, and is kept.
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Ignatius Brianchaninov (The Arena: Guidelines for Spiritual and Monastic Life (Comp Works of St Ignatius Brianchaninov Book 5))
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The Scriptures explicitly distinguish between the two calls. Of the subjects of the one it is said, "Many are called, but few are chosen." Matt. xxii. 14. Of the subjects of the other it is said, "Whom he called, them he also justified." Rom. viii. 30. Comp. Prov. i. 24, and John vi. 45.
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Archibald Alexander Hodge (A Commentary on The Westminster Confession of Faith With Scripture Proofs)
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Anyone here who still intends to go to Hell, stand up and be counted among the damned.'
That's when Monte stands up. 'If what you been blattin' is true,' he says, 'then that's right where I'm a-going an' I'm a going there at a good clip.' An' Chet stands up alongside him an' Chet says. 'You ain't gone anywhere's yet, Monte, that I ain't been right with you, so I'll reckon I'll keep you comp'ny.' An' Powder stands up along the other side of him, an' Powder has his gun out, an' he's holding it kind of careless in one hand, an' he looks around an' he says, 'There's plenty more here heading in the same direction an' if they ain't got the nerve to stand up an' say so, they'll be getting there a lot sooner'n they been expecting.
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Jack Schaefer (Monte Walsh)
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Algunos casos tienen ese efecto. Un único acontecimiento y todo lo que sucede a continuación se vuelve distino. La mayoría de los delitos se olvidan. Todo el mundo sigue con su vida. El delico cae en el olvido. Pero algunos tocan la fibra sensible de la memoria. Son comp una llaga que no llega a curarse. Dejan una cicatriz.
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John Katzenbach (Personas desconocidas)
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The Way to think we have enough, is not to desire to have too much.
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Thomas Fuller (Introductio Ad Prudentiam: Or, Directions, Counsels, And Cautions, Tending To Prudent Management Of Affairs In Common Life. The Second Part. To Which ... Sincerity And Deceit. The Whole Comp)
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Langford rubbed his chin. “Then we have to assume that this Otero now knows everything.” After a deep breath, he leaned forward again. “Let’s table that for the moment. It seems we have an even bigger problem to deal with. I just received a report from the salvage team near Guyana. They have recovered fragments of the torpedo and enough of its Comp-B explosive signature for a positive identification.” Langford paused, looking at Clay and Borger. “The Bowditch wasn’t sunk by the Russians like we thought. It was sunk by the Chinese.
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Michael C. Grumley (Catalyst (Breakthrough, #3))
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people will always be the weakest link
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Jeff T. Parker (CASP+ CompTIA Advanced Security Practitioner Study Guide: Exam CAS-003)
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Risk is the possibility or likelihood of a threat exploiting a vulnerability resulting in a loss. A threat is any circumstance or event that has the potential to compromise confidentiality, integrity, or availability. A vulnerability is a weakness.
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Darril Gibson (CompTIA Security+ Get Certified Get Ahead: SY0-601 Study Guide)
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Remember this Preventative controls attempt to prevent security incidents. Hardening systems modifies the basic configuration to increase security. Security guards can prevent unauthorized personnel from entering a secure area. Change management processes help prevent outages from configuration changes. An account disablement policy ensures that accounts are disabled when a user leaves the organization.
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Darril Gibson (CompTIA Security+ Get Certified Get Ahead: SY0-601 Study Guide)
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They targeted certain regions in particular—places where there were a lot of family physicians, where people had workers’ comp, injuries they had sustained on the job, disabilities.
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Patrick Radden Keefe (Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty)
Ignatius Brianchaninov (The Arena: Guidelines for Spiritual and Monastic Life (Comp Works of St Ignatius Brianchaninov Book 5))
Darril Gibson (CompTIA Security+ Get Certified Get Ahead: SY0-601 Study Guide)
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He was, despite everything, still one of us.
So we put our heads together.
We pulled the change from nowhere.
We plugged Big A for the quarters under his bed. We asked Mr. Po for some of his flower money. We drilled Gonzalo and Erica for a little of their comp-pay. We pestered Juana for some alimony, and Rogelio for his overtime, and the three Ramirez daughters for their baby shower stash. We poked Charlie for those international checks, Adriana for her allowance, Neesha for her government check, and Dante for his lunch money. Nigel and Karl for the pennies they stole. LaToya for those side jobs, Benito for his Hazelwood, and Hugo for the paystubs he'd been cashing on the West Side.
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Bryan Washington (Lot)
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Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) Stripping Secure sockets layer (SSL) stripping is a man in the middle attack against all SSL and early versions of TLS connections. The attack is performed anywhere a man in the middle attack can happen, which makes wireless hotspots a prime location. The attack works by intercepting the initial connection request for HTTPS, redirecting it to an HTTP site, and then mediating in the middle. The reason the attack works is because the beginning of an SSL or TLS (v1.0 or v1.1) handshake is vulnerable to attack. The main defense is technical: only use TLS 1.2 or 1.3, as these versions have protections against the specific attack method.
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Wm. Arthur Conklin (CompTIA Security+ All-in-One Exam Guide, Sixth Edition (Exam SY0-601))
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Cerca di capire, il povero diavolo. E crede di aver capito. Di tanto in tanto, con un'aria di vittoria, mi dice, o dice agli altri: "Comp'han!". [...] Vuol dire: capisco, ho capito, ho trovato. È il suo eureka, di questa caricatura di Archimede. Inutile dire che non capisce nulla. Niente. Niente di niente.
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Régis Messac (Quinzinzinzili)
Troy McMillan (CompTIA Server+ Study Guide: Exam SK0-005 (Sybex Study Guide))
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Don’t martyr yourself. Your workers’ comp won’t cover it.'
--Shawn's boss, Manny.
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Steph Cha (Your House Will Pay)
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NOTE Techno-babble is the use of (often nonsensical) jargon and technical terms to intimidate and silence a challenge to a technical issue.
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Mike Meyers (CompTIA A+ Certification All-in-One Exam Guide, Eleventh Edition (Exams 220-1101 & 220-1102))
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toda vida es posesión exclusiva de Dios. Nadie tiene derecho a poner fin a una vida (Ex. 20:13; Deut. 5:17; comp. Gén. 4:10,19-24). Puesto que la vida le pertenece a Dios, uno debe abstenerse de consumir sangre, el vehículo de la vida (Gén. 9:4; Lev. 3:17; 17:10-14; Deut. 12:23-25). Por lo tanto, aun la vida animal era valorada por Dios tal como evidencia que la sangre animal era sagrada para Dios.
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B&H Publishing (Diccionario Bíblico Ilustrado Holman Revisado y Aumentado (Spanish Edition))
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by adding redundancy into your systems and networks, you can increase the reliability of your systems even when they fail. By increasing reliability, you increase one of the core security goals: availability.
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Darril Gibson (CompTIA Security+: Get Certified Get Ahead: SY0-401 Study Guide)
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Wildcard certificates use a * for child domains to reduce the administrative burden of managing certificates.
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Darril Gibson (CompTIA Security+: Get Certified Get Ahead: SY0-401 Study Guide)
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A clean desk policy directs users to keep their areas organized and free of papers. The primary security goal is to reduce threats of security incidents by ensuring the protection of sensitive data.
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Darril Gibson (CompTIA Security+: Get Certified Get Ahead: SY0-401 Study Guide)
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Publishing the charter is a major milestone, because it is the first official document of your approval project.
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Kim Heldman (CompTIA Project+ Study Guide Authorized Courseware: Exam PK0-003)
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The most effective protection against unwanted adware is the use of pop-up blockers in web browsers. Many pop-up blockers support lists of URLs that allow pop-ups.
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Darril Gibson (CompTIA Security+: Get Certified Get Ahead: SY0-401 Study Guide)
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One long-serving member notes with derision that his leader’s office sends out points for use in the weekly period when MPs make short ninety-second statements in the parliament about electoral matters. The only challenge here is how you, for example, get “We have stopped the boats” into a contribution noting the success of one of your local netball teams in the regional comp.
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Laura Tingle (Political Amnesia: How We Forgot How to Govern (Quarterly Essay #60))
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Please Do Not Throw Sausage Pizza Away” (for Physical, Data Link, Network, Transport, Session, Presentation, and Application).
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Darril Gibson (CompTIA Security+: Get Certified Get Ahead: SY0-401 Study Guide)
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ARP poisoning uses ARP packets to give clients false hardware address updates and attackers use it to redirect or interrupt network traffic.
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Darril Gibson (CompTIA Security+: Get Certified Get Ahead: SY0-401 Study Guide)
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This is like a friend extending his hand to shake hands with you, you extending your hand in response, and then, at the last instant, the friend pulls his hand away. Although you or I would probably stop extending our hand back to someone doing this, the server doesn’t know any better and keeps answering every SYN packet with a SYN/ACK packet.
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Darril Gibson (CompTIA Security+: Get Certified Get Ahead: SY0-401 Study Guide)
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A threat vector (also called an attack vector) refers to the method used to activate the threat
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Darril Gibson (CompTIA Security+: Get Certified Get Ahead: SY0-401 Study Guide)
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Hardening is the practice of making a system or application more secure than its default configuration.
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Darril Gibson (CompTIA Security+: Get Certified Get Ahead: SY0-401 Study Guide)
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HOTP and TOTP are both open source standards used to create one-time use passwords. HOTP creates a one-time use password that does not expire. TOTP creates a one-time password that expires after 30 seconds.
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Darril Gibson (CompTIA Security+: Get Certified Get Ahead: SY0-401 Study Guide)
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Stuxnet is a computer worm designed to attack a specific embedded system, used in one of Iran’s nuclear enrichment facilities. It caused centrifuges to spin fast enough to tear themselves apart and some reports indicated it destroyed as many 20 percent of these centrifuges.
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Darril Gibson (CompTIA Security+: Get Certified Get Ahead: SY0-401 Study Guide)
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The coliseum-like, bowl-shaped CompStat conference room behind him was a pen pusher’s paradise, I knew. It was a place where innovative computer-model formats were used to illuminate detailed processes that were compared for effectiveness of indices of performance before implementations of flexible tactics to achieve the development of comprehensive solutions were discussed in a team-building environment. In plain English, it was a bureaucratic version of hell on earth.
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James Patterson (Alert (Michael Bennett #8))
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Educating users about new viruses, phishing attacks, and zero-day exploits helps prevent incidents. Zero-day exploits take advantage of vulnerabilities that aren’t known by trusted sources, such as operating system vendors and antivirus vendors.
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Darril Gibson (CompTIA Security+: Get Certified Get Ahead: SY0-401 Study Guide)
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Some basic guidelines are: Don’t click on links within emails from unknown sources (no matter how curious you might be). Don’t open attachments from unknown sources (malware can be embedded into many different files, such as Portable Document Format (PDF) files, Word documents, Zip files, and more). Be wary of free downloads from the Internet (Trojans entice you with something free but include malware). Limit information you post on social media sites (criminals use this to answer password reset questions). Back up your data regularly (unless you’re willing to see it disappear forever). Keep your computer up to date with current patches (but beware of zero-day exploits). Keep antivirus software up to date (but don’t depend on it to catch everything).
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Darril Gibson (CompTIA Security+: Get Certified Get Ahead: SY0-401 Study Guide)
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Mike, you ready?” he said. The coliseum-like, bowl-shaped CompStat conference room behind him was a pen pusher’s paradise, I knew. It was a place where innovative computer-model formats were used to illuminate detailed processes that were compared for effectiveness of indices of performance before implementations of flexible tactics to achieve the development of comprehensive solutions were discussed in a team-building environment. In plain English, it was a bureaucratic version of hell on earth.
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James Patterson (Alert (Michael Bennett #8))
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Now, I’ve got a few things to say. You’re on your way to First Phase, so make me proud of you. After Hell Week, those of you who survive will still have to face the scuba pool comps in Second Phase and weapons practicals in Third Phase. I’ll want to shake your hand at graduation. When you get there, I want to think of you as one of Reno’s warriors.” There’s another roar from the class. Reno is very popular with Class 228. While he has frequently made them suffer, the trainees know that Reno and the other Indoc instructors have tried to give them what they need to survive in First Phase. “Be on time. Be alert. Be accountable for your actions in and out of uniform. You officers, look out for your men and your men will look out for you. Your reputation is everything in the teams. Remember this if you remember nothing else. For each of you, a chance to build on that reputation begins on Monday morning at zero five hundred in First Phase.” He looks around the class; every eye is on him. “For those of you who do get to the teams, I want you to take this on board. The guys in the teams are a brotherhood. You’ll be closer to them than you ever were to your friends in high school or college. You’ll live with them on deployment and some of you may even die with them in combat. But never, ever forget your family. Family comes before teammates. Most of us will grow old and die in bed, and the only people who will be there to help us die will be our family. Put your family first. I want you to never forget that.
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Dick Couch (The Warrior Elite: The Forging of SEAL Class 228)
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Antivirus software detects and removes malware, such as viruses, Trojans, and worms. Signature-based antivirus software detects known malware based on signature definitions. Heuristic-based software detects previously unknown malware based on behavior.
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Darril Gibson (CompTIA Security+: Get Certified Get Ahead: SY0-401 Study Guide)
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Creating Strong Passwords One method used to make passwords more secure is to require them to be strong. A strong password is at least eight characters in length, doesn’t include words found in a dictionary or any part of a user’s name, and combines three of the four following character types: Uppercase characters (26 letters A–Z) Lowercase characters (26 letters a–z) Numbers (10 numbers 0–9) Special characters (32 printable characters, such as !, $, and *) A complex password uses multiple character types, such as Ab0@. However, a complex password isn’t necessarily strong. It also needs to be sufficiently long. It’s worth noting that recommendations for the best length of a strong password vary depending on the type of account.
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Darril Gibson (CompTIA Security+: Get Certified Get Ahead: SY0-401 Study Guide)
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When implementing password history, it’s best to include a minimum password age setting.
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Darril Gibson (CompTIA Security+: Get Certified Get Ahead: SY0-401 Study Guide)
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disabling the SSID makes it a little more difficult for attackers to find your network, but not much. It’s almost like locking the front door of your house, but leaving the key in the lock.
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Darril Gibson (CompTIA Security+: Get Certified Get Ahead: SY0-401 Study Guide)
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In an IV attack, the attacker uses packet injection, increasing the number of packets to analyze, and discovers the encryption key.
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Darril Gibson (CompTIA Security+: Get Certified Get Ahead: SY0-401 Study Guide)
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Amazon will use the session ID to identify the user and enhance the browsing experience. However, if the user makes a purchase, Amazon requires the user to authenticate again.
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Darril Gibson (CompTIA Security+: Get Certified Get Ahead: SY0-401 Study Guide)
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Phishing to Get Money The classic Nigerian scam (also called a 419 scam) is alive and well. You receive an email from someone claiming a relative or someone else has millions of dollars. Unfortunately, the sender can’t get the money without your help. The email says that if you help retrieve the money, you’ll get a substantial portion of the money for your troubles. This scam often requires the victim to pay a small sum of money with the promise of a large sum of money. However, the large sum never appears. Instead, the attackers come up with reasons why they need just a little more money. In many cases, the scammers request access to your bank account to deposit your share, but instead they use it to empty your bank account.
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Darril Gibson (CompTIA Security+: Get Certified Get Ahead: SY0-401 Study Guide)
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Risk is the likelihood that a threat will exploit a vulnerability. Risk mitigation reduces the chances that a threat will exploit a vulnerability, or reduces the impact of the risk, by implementing security controls.
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Darril Gibson (CompTIA Security+: Get Certified Get Ahead: SY0-401 Study Guide)
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Identity proofing is the process of verifying that people are who they claim to be prior to issuing them credentials, or if they later lose their credentials.
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Darril Gibson (CompTIA Security+: Get Certified Get Ahead: SY0-401 Study Guide)
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A credential is a collection of information that provides an identity (such as a username) and proves that identity (such as with a password).
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Darril Gibson (CompTIA Security+: Get Certified Get Ahead: SY0-401 Study Guide)
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The smurf attack spoofs the source IP. If the source IP address isn’t changed, the computer sending out the broadcast ping will get flooded with the ICMP replies. Instead, the smurf attack substitutes the source IP with the IP address of the victim, and the victim gets flooded with these ICMP replies.
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Darril Gibson (CompTIA Security+: Get Certified Get Ahead: SY0-401 Study Guide)
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security is never finished.
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Darril Gibson (CompTIA Security+: Get Certified Get Ahead: SY0-401 Study Guide)
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The card doesn’t require its own power source. Instead, the electronics in the card include a capacitor and a coil that can accept a charge from the proximity card reader. When you pass the card close to the reader, the reader excites the coil and stores a charge in the capacitor. Once charged, the card transmits the information to the reader using a radio frequency.
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Darril Gibson (CompTIA Security+: Get Certified Get Ahead: SY0-401 Study Guide)
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The Secretary of Defense directed members of different services to “secure that building.” Navy personnel turned off the lights and locked the doors. The Army occupied the building and ensured no one could enter. The Marines attacked it, captured it, and set up defenses to hold it. The Air Force secured a two-year lease with an option to buy.
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Darril Gibson (CompTIA Security+: Get Certified Get Ahead: SY0-401 Study Guide)
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A beacon is a link included in the email that links to an image stored on an Internet server. The link includes unique code that identifies the receiver’s email address. For the email application to display the image, it must retrieve the image from the Internet server. When the server hosting the image receives the request, it logs the user’s email address, indicating it’s valid. This is one of the reasons that most email programs won’t display images by default.
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Darril Gibson (CompTIA Security+: Get Certified Get Ahead: SY0-401 Study Guide)
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VM escape is an attack that allows an attacker to access the host system from within the virtual system.
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Darril Gibson (CompTIA Security+: Get Certified Get Ahead: SY0-401 Study Guide)
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Key escrow is the process of placing a copy of a private key in a safe environment. This is useful for recovery.
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Darril Gibson (CompTIA Security+: Get Certified Get Ahead: SY0-401 Study Guide)
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These personal RAID motherboards might be common, but they’re not used too terribly often given that these RAID solutions usually provide only RAID 0 or RAID 1. If you want to use RAID, spend a few extra dollars and buy a RAID 5-capable controller.
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Mike Meyers (CompTIA A+ Certification All-in-One Exam Guide, Exams 220-801 & 220-802)