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The weather is quite cold in the morning at -13, but I feel it must be around -20 after wind chill since my toe is freezing in the boots. My boots has poor insulation and my toe usually freeze under -15 or so. Then the weather warm up over lunch.

The section focus on: 1) pressure control 2) speiss 3) down un-weight turn.

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The best way to spend Valentine's day if you don't have a girl friend is to spend the night up the ski hill and snowboard on soft snow.

I spend 2 hours up the hill practicing intermediate sliding turn, but still with problem on inclination (hand put far too outside the board), angulation (not enough cowboy), pressure control (not balance flex throughout the board), and timing (flex to fast, too late).

More to improve.....

The weather this Saturday is warm. It stays at near zero, the snow is slightly melting over lunch.

The session runs by Anne on half cab.

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So, many are writing about 10 places in their city. So, here's my.

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Just noticed this morning when sending email form my Yahoo mail account, they now added Captcha challenge before accepting the mail.

Parently, there must be a lot of spambots/worms using Yahoo mail now, so they have to put in something to block them.

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The weather continues to stay warm. Actually, it was not as warm as previous day, snow is not melting while it's still warm.

The session is run by Ezio, focus on basic carving with flexion and extension.

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Is it a good thing to teach about writing virus, spamware, worm and spyware?

Why not? Without classes like this, people are figuring out by themselves how to write such program anyway. I believed virus/spymware/worm is not a very hard piece of software to write, any decent programmer with good knowledge on the platform can write one. And a good evil coder can write some very damaging software, as history had shown.

However, I have one reservation on the idea. The emphasis of the course should be on how this type of software works and how one can counter it. If I'm teaching such a course. I will set up a closed network and release tons of virus, worm, and spyware for students to find them, disect them, and find fix for it. I will also have them write post motem report to explain why such problem exists and how to prevent such problem in future design. I do believed many of these security problems are origin from a poor design that didn't consider from the security point of view. Such a class can drill in the idea how to design a secure software, IMHO.

This is how we raise the next generation of virus/spam/worm fighter.

Way to Go, UoC.

p.s. For the record, I graduate from UoC in 98'

CBC News: University to offer e-mail spam course