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Texting while driving? No way! Though statistics would prove that you are at least 23 times more likely to get into an accident while texting, and spend on average 4.6 seconds looking away from the roadway while texting, you wouldn’t be included in that, would you? (more…)

Considering the wake of destruction left behind by Mother Earth recently, now might be a good time to ask yourself, “Why not lend a helping hand?” I do admit it’s hard to do the right thing at times. It’s much easier to look the other way when we see tragedies in the media. It’s easier to drive past a stranded motorist in the rain than to stop and assist. I’m amazed at the ease with which we can pass up opportunities to help others because of the inconvenience. There are things one can do that require little time and effort which can greatly impact someone’s life. As the saying goes, the easy thing to do is not always the right thing to do. (more…)

PHP is a language absolutely made for websites. PHP code can be inserted into an html page to enable dynamic creation. Many content management systems like Drupal, Joomla, and osCommerce  use PHP together with MySQL to build webpages. (more…)

I don’t really understand New Year’s resolutions. Many individuals feel the sudden urge to “change their lifestyle” or “quit the habits” with hopes that sometime during the upcoming calender year, these goals will be reached and their lives will be enriched. I’m a huge fan of goals and I think everyone needs them, whether long or short-term. However, why does it take the turn of the year to initiate any action? (more…)

Recently, I’ve been thinking about how easy it could be to potentially launch a large scale DDOS attack utilizing cloud service providers. With certain providers, you can set instances to launch automatically, run scripts, initiate the attack, and then shut itself down all without even being near your computer. Utilizing multiple providers and different zones/data centers within one company could amount to a very large scale DDOS. A lot of companies lack sufficient DDOS protection and even those which can detect and mitigate, are still susceptible to outgoing attacks. One quick and easy way would be to initiate your instance and have it attack for 5-10 minutes, then shut itself down and restart the process on a new instance with a new IP. Repeating this process with 200-300 instances per service provider and per zone in some cases could create a very large attack. (more…)