Garo

Happy Birthday Nvard jan. Wish you all the best.

quote:Originally posted by parik:Is that true that some messeges are deleated from the Guest Book site , and others are banned and not allowed to post their opinions. And if it is true who desides the banning ???? Yes that's true. We delete some messages and ban some visitors who keep posting the same messages.You can contact me if you have any complains regarding this.

quote:Originally posted by Stormy:d_hakobyan, any chance you are Nigerian (with all this spamming)? He was.

quote:Originally posted by Azat:Garo, didn't Borland change their name to Enprise or Inprise or something like that? Yes Borland became Inprise Corp for a few months but then changed their name back to Borland.As I said before their marketing was their weakest place for years and this failed attempt to establish a new corporate identity is an example of that.

Checkout http://www.thefurious.com (Patrick Sarkissian) and his portfolio. He's the one who has developed http://theforgotten.org/intro.html and http://www.egofilmarts.com/

I don't get what's unique with his browser. As the article says it is based on Internet Explorer's codebase and I think he may have just used/made faster algorythm for source code parsing. The parallel processing the article mentions does exists in Internet Explorer and other browsers (threading). The DNS caching Azat mentions existed in Windows all the time. You can simply edit the 'hosts' file in your Windows' directory and put any domain name/IP pairs as you want. It may increase the speed of name lookup but it has a built in problem - you simply can not put all the internet domains in this file, plus every time a domain changes it's DNS record you need to update your 'hosts' file otherwise you won't be able to access the domain.

quote:Originally posted by Sip: [ February 23, 2003, 07:22 PM: Message edited by: Garo ]

quote:Originally posted by takavor:I'm looking at the permanent image that is printed on some people's mirror. Those who feel targeted by this statement, will come out openly, to protest, just like you did. Azat, you just proved me right. What a stupied comment. Don't you know what's the difference between members and moderators?You won't be able to post on this forum for a month. If after that period you continue with your stupied comments then you'll be banned from this forum.

As far as I know JVM by default is available on all Windows versions except Windows XP. Windows XP doesn't have JVM enabled by default. But if you have Service Pack 1 installed on your XP it'll enable JVM on your computer again. Another way to have JVM on XP is simply to install the Netscape Navigator. It'll install Sun's JVM on your computer.

This thread file got corrupted and we've lost some of the posts. I'm closing this thread. Please use new 'as i see it' thread for new discussions. Garo ----------------------------------- ara baliozian Member # 271 posted October 07, 2002 10:56 AM -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Monday, October 07, 2002 ****************************** According to an old English law known as Gresham’s law, "Bad money drives out good money." The same applies to ideas. Consider what happened to Marxism (driven out by Stalinism) and before that to Christianity (driven out by countless phony orthodoxies and phonier heresies, all of which legitimized intolerance, and sometimes even torture, war -- one of which lasted a hundred years -- and massacres.) It is no exaggeration to say therefore, where there is a good idea it will be inevitably corrupted and perverted by charlatans and hoodlums parading as charismatic leaders, and an abundance of dupes. -------------------- ara baliozian -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ara baliozian Member # 271 posted October 07, 2002 10:56 AM -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- SECOND THOUGHTS ************************* The worst punishment that God can inflict on a man is to make him confront with his double. * Creative is not a favorite word of creative people. I doubt if Mozart, Beethoven, or Dostoevsky ever used it; and if they did it was very probably in reference to the Creator. Creative is a philistine word. * What makes warlike people bloodthirsty is the knowledge that somebody else will do the bleeding. * If mullahs believed in their own lies, they would be the first to blow themselves up. * One reads to be better informed. But there are also those who read to feed their hatred. That’s one thing I have learned as an Armenian writer. -------------------- ara baliozian -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- nairi Member # 865 posted October 07, 2002 11:05 AM -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- quote: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Originally posted by ara baliozian: quote: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- quote: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- There is no demand for translated Armenian literature. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Yes, there is. Me for one. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- That's nice but hardely enough! -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- And all my non-Armenian speaking/reading friends. Have you ever thought about international publishers? There's a great demand for minority Literature translated into an "international" language (e.g. Penguin, and even Oxford). -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ara baliozian Member # 271 posted October 10, 2002 09:25 AM -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ARMENIAN TOLERANCE: AN OXYMORON? ********************************************* How can anyone trust the judgment of a historian who accuses fellow historians of treason and appears to be totally unaware of our recent past during which our commissars systematically exterminated some of our ablest men in successive waves of purges? * When Raffi said "Treason and betrayal are in our blood," he sure knew what he was talking about – judging by the ease with which we accuse one another of treason. * No one can be as nasty as a self-righteous Armenian, and when I say nasty I mean Ottoman-ruthless, commissar-cruel, killer-bloodthirsty. * If sometimes I too sound nasty it may be because I have not yet mastered the technique of being sweet or diplomatic when describing a nasty reality. * Another reason why I am grateful to my country of adoption: no commissars -------------------- ara baliozian -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ara baliozian Member # 271 posted October 10, 2002 09:28 AM -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Wednesday, October 09, 2002 ******************************* It’s not easy reading someone else’s mind but one thing I find easy to guess: if I were to add all my major problems from the day I was born to the present, the total would be less than someone else’s single minor problem of a single day. Or, as the old saying goes: "You want to make your friend happy? Tell him your problems." So much for human compassion, sympathy, understanding and altruism. * Propaganda finds dupes without looking for them. * No one understands Turks as well as we do, Oshagan says somewhere. What if the other way around is also true? -- no one understands us as well as Turks do. But the question we should ask is: Does Armenian understand Armenian? * One of my books is titled DICTIONARY OF ARMENIAN QUOTATIONS. If I were to compile a dictionary of un-Armenian quotations I shall have to include the following, which I heard this morning on Canadian radio: "Being kind is addictive." * He who speaks of treason harbors an executioner in his heart. * Silence is better than the braying of an ass, especially if the ass is human and his name is Jack S. Avanakian. -------------------- ara baliozian -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ara baliozian Member # 271 posted October 10, 2002 09:34 AM -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Thursday, October 10, 2002 *************************** According to Robert Quillen, "Discussion is an exchange of knowledge, argument an exchange of ignorance." And ignorance may be divided into two distinct categories: garden variety and Armenian. Armenian ignorance may be further subdivided into loud, arrogant, fascist, racist, and Ottoman…. * A routine occurrence: in an essay about an Armenian writer we read: "This writer fully deserves to be translated into English." I wonder how many of these phony promoters of Armenian literature have taken the trouble to talk with one of our translators. Shortly before he died, Mischa Kudian (one of our ablest and most prolific translators) came to see me. During our conversation he made it abundantly clear that translating Armenian literary works into English was an exercise in degradation and masochism, and he warned me against it. It took me twenty years to see the light and discover how right he had been. I was a chauvinist then and ignorant, and when I say ignorant I speak of Armenian ignorance – loud, arrogant, fascist, racist, Ottoman…. -------------------- ara baliozian -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ara baliozian Member # 271 posted October 11, 2002 08:56 PM -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Friday, October 11, 2002 ****************************** When Shahnour decided to be objective in his judgment of fellow Armenian writers, he was assaulted, beaten, and almost lost an eye. This may well be one reason why there is a natural tendency in all of us to confuse literary criticism with literary philanthropy. * Symptoms of Armenianism: An inability to see the difference between intelligent and smart, and between smart and smart-ass. To overestimate the importance and value of one’s knowledge. To pretend to know more than one does. To completely ignore the fact that what one pretends to know may well be recycled crap. The awareness that if one engages in charlatanism one can always rely on the support of fellow charlatans. * We are a traumatized people with a score to settle: a score against the Turks and against the world. But since both are beyond our reach, we take it out on the nearest available target: the more vulnerable the target the better. Whenever I am misunderstood and insulted, I know I am dealing not with an ideological adversary whose interests or values clash with mine, but with a damaged self, an injured ego, and a bleeding wound whose origins are buried deep in our past. -------------------- ara baliozian -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ara baliozian Member # 271 posted October 11, 2002 08:57 PM -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- quote: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Originally posted by nairi: Have you ever thought about international publishers? There's a great demand for minority Literature translated into an "international" language (e.g. Penguin, and even Oxford).[/QB] -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- yes i have and i have given up on them too! -------------------- ara baliozian -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- nairi Member # 865 posted October 13, 2002 03:23 AM -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ara jan, after introducing "Retreat without Song", "The Honorable Beggars", "The Fool", "The Traveler and his Road", "The Island and a Man", and a few other translations to my odar friends, they were shocked and surprised that these books were not readily available in European bookstores. Why do international publishers reject translations from Armenian? Nairi -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ara baliozian Member # 271 posted October 13, 2002 09:40 AM -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Saturday, October 12, 2002 ***************************** The very same Oshagan who said, "No one understands Turks as well as we do," also said: "They will never understand us!" and by "they" he meant East Armenians. In other words, Armenians are divided into two mutually incomprehensible parts. That’s because labels define human beings and not the other way around. You are either one of us or one of them; either a believer or a giaour; either a friend or an enemy; and if you are an enemy, you are an enemy for life or unto death. Question: If Armenian cannot understand Armenian, what can he understand? He can understand Americans better than Americans, Arabs better than Arabs, Jews better than Jews, Turks better than Turks, and in general, the world better than its Creator. The lower we sink, the louder we brag… or is it bray? -------------------- ara baliozian -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ara baliozian Member # 271 posted October 13, 2002 09:41 AM -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sunday, October 13, 2002 **************************** The only time two human beings cannot understand each other is when one of them has allowed himself to be dehumanized by surrendering his mind and soul to a religion, an ideology, a closed system of thought or an unverifiable abstraction -- so that one can longer speak of two beings who belong to the same species, speak the same language, or share anything in common. * I don't write for Armenians; I write for human beings and against bigots regardless of national identity. I believe to blame others for all our problems is to allow the corrupt and the incompetent to continue misleading and deceiving the people. I believe those who uphold tribalism in the name of this or that orthodoxy or ideology are our gravediggers. I don't believe in moral victories in an amoral world; I believe our so-called moral victories are fabrications whose sole aim is to justify the blunders of bunglers. I believe in the rule that says: "The larger the ego the smaller the brain." I believe if I were to live another hundred years and publish a hundred more books I would make no difference, but I go on writing anyway. Figure that one out if you can. -------------------- ara baliozian -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ara baliozian Member # 271 posted October 14, 2002 08:50 AM -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- PARALLELS ****************************** Zionism and Israel are as much reactions against anti-semitism as Armenian nationalism and terrorism are reactions against Turkish oppression and crimes against humanity. * The world will never view Turks through Armenian eyes in the same way that it will never view Americans through Afro-American eyes, Russians through Chechen eyes, Indians through the eyes of Untouchables, and so on…. * Our tribalism is our responsibility, our Genocide someone else’s. Emphasizing the Genocide allows us to assert moral superiority. * Let us expose Turkish crimes against humanity by all means but let us not use that as a blanket with which to cover up our own crimes against sanity. * Another detail which we prefer to de-emphasize. The Armenian population of Armenia is going down but the Armenian population of Turkey is going up. * The dream of every David is to slay Goliaths and the dream of every sardine to swallow sharks. -------------------- ara baliozian -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ara baliozian Member # 271 posted October 14, 2002 08:51 AM -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- quote: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Originally posted by nairi: Ara jan, after introducing "Retreat without Song", "The Honorable Beggars", "The Fool", "The Traveler and his Road", "The Island and a Man", and a few other translations to my odar friends, they were shocked and surprised that these books were not readily available in European bookstores. Why do international publishers reject translations from Armenian? Nairi -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- the standard reply is: not enough interest in ethnic literature. But maybe after MY BIG FAT GREEK WEDDING things may change.... [ October 14, 2002, 09:11 AM: Message edited by: ara baliozian ] -------------------- ara baliozian -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ara baliozian Member # 271 posted October 15, 2002 03:23 PM -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Tuesday, October 15, 2002 ***************************** There is garden variety crap, and then there is mullah crap, and then there is mullah crap recycled by dupes, and I don't mean Arab dupes but Western dupes – the lunatic fringe of the lunatic fringe. * There are many sayings about money but my favorite is the one that says money allows you the luxury to tell some people to go to hell. Needless to add, this can be done only in a democracy. The only way to have money in a totalitarian state is by joining the establishment, which means collaborating with oppressors, criminals, and murderers. * One good thing about discussion forums on the internet is that trees don't have to die to allow some idiot to regurgitate his favorite brand of recycled crap. * You may agree or disagree with a human being but you can do neither with a jackass especially if his name is Jack S. Avanakian. That’s because a jackass cannot think for himself and it is impossible to disagree with nothingness. * According to Françoise Sagan: "All girls have one thing in common: they are all liars." And, according to Diogenes, so are all men and women. * Peter Fraser: "The closer you get to your opponents the smaller they look." * Plato: "Wise men talk because they have something to say. Fools talk because they have to say something." * George Chapman: "Ignorance is the mother of admiration." -------------------- ara baliozian -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ara baliozian Member # 271 posted October 15, 2002 03:24 PM -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- TOP DOGS AND UNDERDOGS ********************************** The ambition of every underdog is to be a top dog. Underdogs may identify with fellow underdogs and they may even sympathize with them; but when it comes to actions (as opposed to words) their number one priority is to be top dogs. Which is why the only thing revolutions accomplish is to replace one gang of rascals with another. What I have said so far refers to history and reality and not to individual exceptions to this general rule. When we think and we act we base ourselves not on exceptions but on rules; and as Italians are fond of saying: the function of an exception is not to refute a rule but to confirm it. -------------------- ara baliozian -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ara baliozian Member # 271 posted October 15, 2002 03:24 PM -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- CONFESSIONS OF A FORMER FASCIST *************************************** Like most Armenians who had an Armenian education, I was brought up to be a patriotic little fascist bastard. Which is why I can recognize a fascist when I see one. All I have to do is recall myself when young and brainwashed. I know now that all nations produce their share of chauvinist fanatics because all nations have at their disposal vulnerable young minds whose critical faculties have not yet been awakened; and even when they grow up, most of these poor benighted souls remain so immersed in their own prejudices that they are incapable of recognizing reflections of themselves in the "enemy" camp. These fascists are so sure of the absolute validity of their beliefs that they are willing to kill and die for them. In that sense, an Armenian and a Turkish or Azeri fascist share more things in common with one another than with their own fellow countrymen who are convinced such things as national superiority and ethnocentrism are at the very root of wars and massacres, and to promote them in the name of this or that noble cause is the quintessence of charlatanism. -------------------- ara baliozian -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ara baliozian Member # 271 posted October 17, 2002 01:33 PM -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Wednesday, October 16, 2002 ****************************** I have at no time experienced Turkish ferocity on my own skin – I have read about it but never experienced it. But I have come close – damn close: I have experienced Armenian hostility. And what has been my worst transgression? Trying to share my understanding. * About convictions, certainties, and faith: If the braying of an ass is louder than the whisper of a wise man, does that mean the ass knows better? * Fools and fanatics read not to learn but to justify their hatred. * In 1915 we were massacred as a nation: why can't we behave as one today? * We are so used to modifying history with our own brand of nationalist propaganda that any assessment that may be remotely objective is branded as pro-Turkish. * To hate those who have injured us: what could be easier? To love them: what could be more difficult? But what if both hate and love are, in this context, irrelevant and what matters is taking care of business by doing what must be done? -------------------- ara baliozian -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ara baliozian Member # 271 posted October 17, 2002 01:34 PM -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MOUSETRAP ********************* It is a mistake to use the mind as if it were a disposable mousetrap good for catching only one mouse and in the process of catching it to kill it. An idea is not a dead end; it is a living organism in an endless chain reaction of assertion, contradiction and synthesis. In saying this I am saying nothing new, only paraphrasing the teachings of philosophers from Socrates and Plato to Hegel and Marx. What killed Bolshevism was Bolsheviks who appear to have forgotten or ignored Marx’s dialectic and his assertion "I am not a Marxist." And what prevents us from solving our problems and moving forward is our obsession with received platitudes such as first nation to accept Christianity and first nation to suffer a genocide in the 20th century. -------------------- ara baliozian -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 564312 Junior Member # 853 posted October 18, 2002 02:58 PM -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This messege is to Ara regarding the Cause of Armenian assimilation. Nakh ev arach inchu ek sireli Ara mer terutyunner@ parz bacahaytum bolorin Anglerenov? inchkan el vat@ linenk.. ayo es hamazayn em zez het vor Hayer@ mek@ meki het chen karog patvov aprel bayc aynumenayniv don't shout to everyone..karog e patahi hreaner@ kam russner@ irenc masin haytararum en bolorin? Sa shat tipik e Hayeri bnavorutyan@ anyways.. not that you might think you done something wrong. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- sen_vahan Member # 709 posted October 18, 2002 04:26 PM -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 564312, We are not a closed society (I hope) , why shouldn't we write about our problems,why shouldn't we be opened? And we are neither arabs nor jews to hide the problems we have. As for russians, yes, they do talk openly around their problems and about country's problems, just check the russian literature. This was just my opinion. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- nairi Member # 865 posted October 20, 2002 03:55 AM -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- quote: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Originally posted by ara baliozian: the standard reply is: not enough interest in ethnic literature. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Yes, for those who read Princess Diana's biographies. But what about the rest that don't? As long as there is no supply, there will be no demand. quote: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- But maybe after MY BIG FAT GREEK WEDDING things may change.... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- What is this? Or are you being sarcastic? -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sip Member # 646 posted October 20, 2002 04:38 AM -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- quote: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Originally posted by nairi: quote: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- But maybe after MY BIG FAT GREEK WEDDING things may change.... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- What is this? Or are you being sarcastic? -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- I think he is referring to the highly successful new movie MY BIG FAT GREEK WEDDING. Not sure about the sarcastic part... -------------------- I am not young enough to know everything. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- nairi Member # 865 posted October 20, 2002 04:44 AM -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- quote: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Originally posted by ara baliozian: According to Françoise Sagan: "All girls have one thing in common: they are all liars." -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This is so true! But you know why we lie? Because it's the only way for us to defend ourselves against honest men. Or am I being an idiot again? [ October 20, 2002, 04:45 AM: Message edited by: nairi ] -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- nairi Member # 865 posted October 20, 2002 04:50 AM -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- quote: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Originally posted by Sip: quote: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Originally posted by nairi: quote: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- But maybe after MY BIG FAT GREEK WEDDING things may change.... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- What is this? Or are you being sarcastic? -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- I think he is referring to the highly successful new movie MY BIG FAT GREEK WEDDING. Not sure about the sarcastic part... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Oh okay. It hasn't come out here yet. That's why. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sip Member # 646 posted October 20, 2002 04:57 AM -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- I heard it's a very funny movie. But, oh my GOD I just got this massive headache (I was stuck in a paradox loop for a while)... So Sagan says all girls lie. Nairi says Sagan is telling the truth, but Nairi is a girl therefore she must be lying when she says Sagan was telling the truth ... but Sagan was also a girl (I think) so she couldn't have been telling the truth ... so not all girls lie ... which means that Nairi was lying when she said Sagan was telling the truth ... ah forget it. I am going to sleep. -------------------- I am not young enough to know everything.

quote:Originally posted by Domino:

Computer expert says can break Microsoft security By Peter Andersson reuters.com STOCKHOLM, Aug 26 (Reuters) - Software security widely used for Internet banking and e-commerce can be easily circumvented, and customer accounts at several of Sweden's largest banks remain at risk as a result, a computer expert said on Monday. The Swedish hacking expert, who is well known in computer security circles, but asked not to be named, demonstrated to Reuters how it was possible within minutes to break through security on Web server software from Microsoft Corp. MSFT.O . The expert showed how to crack the security systems for Internet banking, breaking into three of Sweden's big four banks in quick succession. He was then able to show how to conceal his tracks, making detection difficult afterward. While stopping short of breaking into customer accounts, the hacker-turned-consultant said an intruder could have hidden instructions to transfer sums into a separate account when the customer authorises a payment from his Internet bank account. He relied on a variation of a weakness that came to light two weeks ago in Microsoft's implementation of Secure Socket Layer (SSL), an industry standard for transmitting credit card numbers and account passwords via the Web. "It's a protocol which is very easy to break through," the computer expert said, adding that, "The protocol doesn't provide the security the users think it does." The attack technique exploited a combination of vulnerabilities over which Microsoft exerts only partial control. A large share of the blame should fall on network administrators inside banks and other organizations who fail to install Microsoft's software properly, he said. Using the method, an attacker can log in as a Web site customer using certificate authentication and gain access to the Web site's root directory and, from there, enter the organization's internal network. MICROSOFT AND BANKS DOWNPLAY IMMINENT THREAT Microsoft has responded to recent reports about the SSL flaw by admitting its existence, saying they are working to develop a fix, but also by downplaying the notion that the flaw poses any widespread security threat. "Such techniques are difficult, temporary, and generally require favorable network (layout)," the company states on a Microsoft technical discussion site located at http://www.microsoft.com/technet/default.asp Microsoft in Sweden denied that SSL could be breached in the way shown to Reuters. "I can't even see the theoretical possibility for it to happen", said Mats Lindkvist, responsible for security at Microsoft in Sweden. The unnamed expert said an attacker could breach security via hundreds of computers, making detection of the criminal almost impossible, as it might take the police up to four to five months just to follow a trail through 10 computers. Mike Benham, the San Francisco privacy advocate and security consultant who first revealed the SSL flaw, offered a technical description of how this works: "An attacker could transparently proxy (invisibly transfer) a victim's traffic to the real secure site, while intercepting and logging all the data." Microsoft embarked earlier this year on what it called a "trustworthy computing" campaign to improve the security of its software. The company was responding to a mounting outcry over widely publicized software security breakdowns. The four Swedish banks are not unique. According to computer experts, many of the world's major financial institutions are similarly vulnerable because they rely on software using the industry-accepted SSL protocol. All four major Swedish banks said they were not aware of any break-ins into their systems. But spokesmen at some of them said no system could be perfect. "If man can fly to the moon, sooner or later someone will be able to circumvent the security systems," Swedbank's head of press relations, Jesper Berggren, told Reuters. "As far as I can tell no system will ever be 100 percent secure. To say that our systems are 100 percent secure would be presumptuous," added Handelsbanken's information director, Lars Lindmark. TIP OF THE ICEBERG But computer experts say banks remain highly vulnerable. "There's been a lot of denial," said Peter Neumann, principal scientist at Silicon Valley think-tank SRI International and one of the world's authorities on computer security. Such flaws result from a mix of fatalistic acceptance and technical ignorance, he said. "'Everything is fine,' banks say. That's clearly nonsense. Pretty much everything is vulnerable -- certainly more so with a little bit of insider knowledge." Computer security expert Lars-Olov Guttke at Swedish security firm Deprotect said his company had managed to use hidden instructions to transfer tens of millions of dollars from an account at a leading European bank. The bank had asked Deprotect to test its security systems. After two weeks, Guttke told the bank about the transfers, which had not been detected. The key factor was that the sums transferred secretly were not big enough to alert the system. "It might take a few days to figure out how to make the intrusion, but once you've done that it doesn't take very long to break through the systems," Guttke said. Guttke said banks spent huge amounts to secure their customer-facing systems but tend to neglect internal systems giving access to their networks. Security veteran Neumann agreed, saying that former insiders may pose a bigger threat. Information about the level of computer-related crime is scarce because few crimes are reported. Companies fear bad publicity and additional costs if the weaknesses of their security systems become known.

New Obstacles for the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan Crude Transport Project On the one hand, prospects for the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan (BTC) pipeline look good. Investors gave final approval to the project earlier this month and announced on August 1 that they had formally established the BTC Pipeline Company to carry out work on the oil transport link. The next day, the company awarded its first major construction contracts, for pipe-laying in Azerbaijan and Georgia. Several days later, it said it hoped to begin civil-engineering work for the pipeline before the end of 2002 and then start laying pipe in early 2003. Then on August 15, the State Oil Company of Azerbaijan (SOCAR) said it expected to see the complicated issue of financing for the project resolved in the near future. By early 2003, SOCAR stated, the BTC Pipeline Company will be ready to finalize credit agreements with international financial institutions. On the other hand, there is still a long way to go before oil starts flowing from Baku to Ceyhan. Recent developments should serve as a reminder that the economic and diplomatic questions surrounding this project remain very complicated. They also indicate that the BTC Pipeline Company may have difficulty adhering to its original budget and schedule. Gas Problems for an Oil Pipeline The issue of cost has been a sensitive one for the companies involved in the BTC project. Initially, the pipeline's backers - particularly the U.S. and Turkish governments - insisted that the line would not cost more than $2.4 billion. This figure has never been widely accepted, however, and many analysts believe that the price tag for the project will top $3 billion. Cost estimates have crept inexorably upward in recent years; BP, the project's main corporate backer, said in 2001 after the completion of a basic engineering study that it expected the final bill to reach $2.8-2.9 billion. BP has tried to rein in costs by linking BTC to Shah-Deniz, another of its offshore development projects in Azerbaijan. The company says transportation costs for Caspian oil and gas can be minimized if the BTC pipeline, which will carry oil from the Azeri-Chirag-Guneshli block, is built in parallel with a pipeline that can bring gas from Shah-Deniz, another field in the Caspian Sea, to Turkey. The two pipelines would follow the same route from Baku to Erzurum in eastern Turkey, with the oil line continuing to Ceyhan on the Mediterranean coast and the gas line hooking up with the Turkish gas network. Unfortunately, the gas project has fallen behind schedule. BP said on August 13 that its partners in the Shah-Deniz consortium could not vote to approve first-phase development work at the field until October. Originally, consortium members were due to endorse the work plan in July. However, the vote has been postponed twice this year due to concerns over Turkey's ability to absorb the gas under the provisions of a take-or-pay agreement signed in 2001. As a result, the start date for pipeline deliveries of Shah-Deniz gas to Turkey has been moved back from 2005 to 2006. These delays do not necessarily affect the BTC work schedule. They may, however, have an impact on the project's budget. That is, the argument that costs can be contained thanks to parallel pipeline construction will lose ground if work on the field that is to feed the gas pipeline - and, consequently, work on the gas pipeline itself - continues to be postponed. Moreover, time is money: Every month that BP and its partners wait to approve work plans for Shah-Deniz is another month that they can collect revenue from only one pipeline, not two . Russia's New Stance Meanwhile, the diplomatic climate in the Caspian region may be shifting. Last year, it looked as if the Kremlin had reconciled itself to the idea of Azerbaijani oil and gas flowing out to world markets through U.S.-backed pipelines crossing Georgia and Turkey rather than through Russian pipelines. Lately, however, Moscow has retreated from this position. Several months ago, for instance, Russia's largest oil company LUKoil abruptly decided against joining the BTC project. Since then, Russia has shown more interest in displaying its power than in doing business. In July, for example, Moscow began hinting that it might mount a military campaign in the Pankisi Gorge, an area in eastern Georgia that lies uncomfortably close to the BTC route, on the grounds that Tbilisi was not cracking down on fugitive Chechen guerrillas. Then in early August, the Russian Navy began a major two-week exercise in the Caspian Sea, deploying about 60 warships and support vessels, 30 aircraft and 10,000 troops. (Azerbaijan and Kazakhstan also participated in the exercise to a limited degree.) The stated purpose of the drills in the Caspian Sea was to practice anti-terrorist, anti-poaching and disaster response operations. Some analysts speculated, however, that Moscow's motive was to promote Russian export routes indirectly by reminding the other Caspian littoral states of Russia's greater military power. It is not yet clear whether Russia is gearing up to work actively against the BTC project. However, the pipeline planners should prepare for the worst and decide how to respond if Russia invades Georgia or pressures Azerbaijan to make more use of the Russian export route. In any case, they must not assume that Russia is indifferent to their efforts. Nor should they assume that BTC construction costs will remain within budget, given the problems with the Shah-Deniz project. Furthermore, since other obstacles may arise by the time Azerbaijani oil begins flowing to Ceyhan, it is unlikely that the BTC Pipeline Company will be able to stick to its original budget or schedule. [ August 23, 2002, 10:02 PM: Message edited by: Garo ]

Happy birthday guys!

Thank you all for your comments and suggestions. We will try to fix the problems you find and add new content you suggest to have as soon as it'll be possible. You are welcome to contribute to this project as well as to the upcoming English version of this project with your comments and materials. Regards, Garo

Azat I think Sip is correct. It is the fastest computer for calculations. As for recognizing faces or driving a car I think its mostly software problems rather than hardware. Eventually those kind of softwares will become more effective (eg. Deep Blue for playing chess) and will do the job. And perhaphs it'll happen by using neuro-computers and artifical intelligence systems that have more similarity with the way human brain functions. As for now I think it is correct to compare computers with humans only in the fields the computers are intended for (calculationa, analyzing data using strictly defined logics and so on).

Hijacking the site by changing its name servers and redirecting to different site has nothing to do with site hacking. Even with real hacking, there are plenty of free hacking tools available online now and you don't need to be a genius to hack a website. Especially when it's running softwares that have known security problems. It's like cracking a software - you just run the cracker for that specific software and it does the rest.

We helped him once. Take a look here - /cgi-bin/forum/ultim...ic;f=4;t=000024

From : "Mustafa EFE" ================================================ Those who follow international Christian news will know of the recent wave of persecution that has come on the Turkish church as a result of a series of television talk shows in December that featured Christianity. As you can imagine, because of our high profile in Turkish society (with our FM radio station and our advertisements in the nation’s biggest newspapers), we also have been among the recipients of this persecution. Our publishing activity and radio station were often discussed on these television programs. I am usually not the type of person to share openly about our struggles. But others have encouraged us not to hide these things, believing that many more believers worldwide would pray for and/or help us, if they only knew about our situation. As the efforts in Turkey to get into the European Union increase, official and psychological pressure against us and our organization are also increasing. We have experienced this especially from our current government’s administration, and from one of the members of the coalition party--the extreme nationalist party. The constant pressures that started in December, and increased in the last days, and our efforts in response to these, are as follows: I, Mustafa Efe, who for the first time in Turkey started an official Bible and Christian book publishing house and radio station, a New Testament and other books distribution program, along with the Jesus film and other related efforts, I and our organization will do all we can to stop these efforts to close us down. The Radio Station Last November my wife and I were informed by the Office of the Prime Minister of Turkey that we must disassociate ourselves from the radio station, or face having the radio station shut down. We opposed the conduct of the Prime Minister’s Office by opening a case in the High Courts. Because the Prime Minister’s Office knows that my wife and I are among the first Turks to found and administer a Turkish Christian organization, they use this as a pretext for trying to oppose us. The law suit we opened against the Prime Minister’s Office is continuing and according to last week’s hearing we are praying for a result to come out in May. At the radio station, although everything is done according to the law, and although round-the-clock broadcasting has been done without fail since 1993, we were warned last week that the Government Inspection Department is claiming—in violation of the Constitution--that Müjde FM is trying to divide Turkey and its people. This warning has been made by the National Security Court, opening a court case against us as if we were terrorists. On Monday we opened another court case, on this same issue, against the government ministry that controls radio publications. Our broadcasts are constantly under scrutiny, and we are warned for every word that is used. Continually, at least two days a week, there are investigations from the Ministry of Finance, the Tax Department, the Ministry of Labor and the police. Although these investigations happened in the past, they have increased so much in the past four months that we have not been able to do all of the work necessary just to operate the radio station. Soon after these investigations, I or my wife began to be called to the public prosecutor’s office and to the verifier of accounts, to give an explanation or statement. Of course, because we were constantly going to these offices, we were not able to do our normal work. Our radio transmitters are continually being checked with special frequency-gauging instruments. Together with this our radio transmitters have had to have constant lab reports for all sorts of pretexts. Such reports must be given by private technical labs, and every report costs about $750. In order to provide these frequently-asked-for reports about our radio transmissions, our electrical system is constantly being checked, and now even the electric meters’ gauges are starting to have problems. Because these gauges have constantly been adjusted, the monthly electrical bills have suddenly jumped from $2,500 to $4,000. And it goes without saying that our bank accounts and payments are constantly being audited. The Publishing House Ever since the founding of our publishing house several years ago, all of our publications have undergone scrutiny by the police and public prosecutors. For those books which had maps in them, each map had to be taken to the public prosecutor’s office for examination (and of course they wanted us to make separate trips to their office for each map). In fact, legal investigations were started even on books that we had published years earlier, and which were already out of stock. The charge? That we were using the maps in these books to secretly promote terrorist activities! Serious pressure has been aimed at our efforts to distribute, free of charge, New Testaments, booklets, and audio and video cassettes of the Jesus film. Even though these materials are being given away free of charge, the government demands that we give receipts for every item (and then must pay the appropriate tax for the “sale” of these free books). If we fail to include these receipts with each package, they can impose a heavy fine. These tax investigations have increased to such an extent that just recently we were fined about $500 just for hanging our tax certificate on the wall of one office, instead of right at the entrance to the main office. In order to make it easier for people to access our books, we began working with a Korean group in starting a Christian bookstore. The investigations and psychological pressure were so great, however, that the brother working in the bookstore began to get tired, and one day--not realizing that the man who came into the bookstore was a government official--began sharing the gospel with him, and gave him a free New Testament. The government official, taking this to be an illegal sale (because a receipt was not given—even though it was given for free!), charged them with breaking the law, and fined them about $1,300. Those who oppose us are consistently trying to find out which people are doing courses in the division of our publishing house that distributes information to those wanting to learn about the life and teachings of Jesus Christ. In addition, in order to trap us, they use young people under the age of 18 to try to join our course, knowing that the giving of any information on religious topics to those under the age of 18, outside the state educational system, is illegal. For example, a couple weeks ago Mustafa Efe was taken into the police station and spent the whole day answering all sorts of questions. The reason? Some time earlier a person had contacted us and started receiving our books. Then later his parents contacted the police, accusing us of giving religious instruction to someone under 18 (though he had never informed us before that he was under 18). According to the police, our company was trying to brainwash the children of Turkey and Christianize them, and they therefore began the process of filing charges against us. We often also distribute free New Testaments and booklets at book fairs. Recently, however, the police have been carefully watching what we are doing, and when they find that we have any connections with a church in Turkey (e.g., a leaflet in a booklet giving the address of a local church), they investigate us as if we were part of some big, secret organization, and try to hinder our activities. Every year we organize an evangelistic tour of various historic sites in Turkey, called the “St. Paul’s March.” Even though this event has been officially sanctioned, it has now been brought under close scrutiny, even to the extent that some parts of the government are thinking that, through this event, we are bringing in terrorists from abroad into Turkey! Much of the confusion stems from the fact that, although according to the Turkish Constitution our activities are allowed, the Turkish Penal Code says we can’t do these things. The Constitution says that if, for example, you are a Christian, you are free to give out information about Christianity and in this area you can do what you want. But the Penal Code says that, although there indeed are these religious freedoms, you only may give such information to those who first ask for it, and they must not be under 18 years of age, and you had better not say anything wrong when sharing with them, or else! On top of all this, we have just learned that the National Security Court has opened a broad-ranging suit against all of our activities—the radio station, the publishing house, and the book distribution department. Because the government is very careful to avoid any pressure from abroad RE: religious freedom, they don’t attack our constitutional rights to religious freedom, but rather claim that we are involved in illegal terrorist activities, or try to create reasons to accuse us of tax evasion. In response to all these satanic attacks, we are trying to stand firm in our faith and trust in our Lord Jesus. As it is written, “Be innocent as doves but wise as serpents.” So we are trying to use, as far as possible, our legal rights in this country, and to continue to witness about Jesus Christ. We want to be honest, however, that these pressures against us have decreased our income, and the fines placed on us for these charges have made it more difficult to pay our bills, such as rent and employee salaries. Add to this the fact that, in order to defend ourselves in court, we have had to hire lawyers, whose fees run up into the thousands of dollars. We are continuing to pray against Satan’s efforts to stop God’s work in Turkey. For we know that no one can stand against the Lord, and no one can stop what God has started. Therefore please join us in praying that, throughout Turkey, people would be filled with the grace of our Lord, and that the light of his testimony would grow with every passing day. With the burden to bring God’s Word to our people, with faith and confidence in our Lord we say: --We shall win the court cases that we have opened and will open against the unjust accusations brought against us by the government. And we shall prove that our activities are not “terrorism” but rather “the good news of peace.” --We shall win the court cases that various government organizations have brought against our radio station and, as our Lord Jesus gives us strength, we shall not allow the broadcasting of the gospel to be halted. --As we win the court cases with those who oppose our New Testament and other book distribution activities, we shall continue until there remains not one of our countrymen who has not heard the good news about Jesus. --We plan to bring together all our various offices into one building so that we can better organize and supervise our activities, in order to protect ourselves from future accusations and legal attacks. By ourselves we could do nothing against such attacks, but thanks to our Lord Jesus Christ and through your prayers and help, we can stand. Having read all this, you can understand how much we would appreciate your prayers and concern as we continue to press on in our ministry here. Hearing that others are praying for us would encourage us greatly in these difficult days. If you know of others who would like to pray for and/or help us, please feel free to share with them. “Pray for me, that utterance may be given to me, that I may open my mouth boldly to make known the mystery of the Gospel, for which I am an ambassador in chains; that in it I may speak boldly, as I ought to speak.” Eph 6:19-20 Mustafa EFE Your brother in His service

Press release, 21.03.2002 We are pleased to inform that this year’s edition of Taos Talking Picture Festival, has nominated Don Askarian’s ON THE OLD ROMAN ROAD, as one of the competitor-films of the festival’s prestigious international prize. The festival screenings of ON THE OLD ROMAN ROAD will take place during the dates from 11-14th of April 2002. This is what the Director of Programming of Taos Talking Picture Festival Mr. Kelly Clement wrote about the film: "We are delighted that you have accepted our invitation to screen ON THE OLD ROMAN ROAD at the 2002 Taos Talking Picture Festival, April 11 - 14. Every year, we look at thousands of films and when one shines above the rest, as ON THE OLD ROMAN ROAD did, it is indeed a pleasure. Don Askarian, recently honored with a Harvard Film Archive retrospective, is considered the greatest living Armenian filmmaker. In Askarian's latest film, which he describes as “a bloody comedy,” a man in exile remembers a childhood of magic and mayhem, complete with grave robbers, brutal assassinations, horses, and men buried in hot ash. As striking a visual feast as one can find, this is an extravagant and crystalline treasure, a film whose rewards far outweigh its considerable demands". Retrospectives and exclusive screenings of Don Askarians films have previously been shown at various locations as International Film Festival Rotterdam, 1992, Holland; Philadelphia Film Festival of World Cinema, 1993, USA; International Film Festival Figueira da Foz, 1993, Portugal; International Film Festival Sao Paulo, 1993, Brazil; ORB (Ostdeutscher Rundfunk ), TV, 1993, Germany; Potsdam Film Museum, 1994, Germany; Tokyo International Film Festival (in Kyoto), 1994, Japan; Don Askarian Film Festival, Yerevan, 1996, Armenia; The International Filmfestival Vlaanderen,Gent, 2001, Belgium; Cine World Festival Sarasota, 2001, USA; The Asiaticafilmmediale, Rome, 2001 Italy. Don Askarian’s films AVETIK, KOMITAS and ON THE OLD ROMAN ROAD, were shown in the section “Directors in Focus” -by Harvard Film Archive. The press release about is to be found online on http://www.don-askarian.am/PRESSRELEASE.html or below For more information, please contact the German office: Frau Gaby Schein ASKARIAN FILM Niebuhrstrasse 69 10629 Berlin Tel./Fax: 030-3246023 e-mail: askarianfilm@web.de With Kindest Regards, Nune Hovhannisyan DON FILM PRODUCTION & DISTRIBUTION Aigedzori str.69a, apt.9 375019 Yerevan, Armenia Tel/Fax: 003741 22 70 75 e-mail: nunehovannessian@yahoo.com http://www.don-askarian.am

THOT show me where they have called other members stupied or creeps or sickos and I'll give them warnings too.

bellthecat I give you a warning for insulting other members and advice you to watch your language. If your recent posts that contain nothing but BS are intended to provoke another conflict in the forum then you are on the wrong way.

quote:Originally posted by Efkere:Thank Garo, Steve. You made it pretty easy for me, Garo. Is there any way I could edit that so that just a single picture could not be downloaded, rather than the whole page? Steve, I agree with you, but right now I am just grateful to be able to see them. Personally, I think this type of material needs to get out there as much as possible. Well if you want to dig into the HTML source then here's a solution for you.Insert this code before < /head> tag in the pages. code:Then add this code:onload="trap()"to your tag. It'll look like this code:This will protect only all the images on the page from right click. But if you allow them to view the source of the page (by right clicking outside of a picture area) they can just get the image location from the source code and get the image by typing its URL in the address bar.

Put the code below in the page you want to protect and it'll disable the mouse's right click, which people use to open the menu for saving the picture. This is enough to protect the images from most of the users. Just copy and paste this code into your page's source code before the head > tag. code: [ March 16, 2002, 11:44 PM: Message edited by: Garo ]

You need to use either JavaScript to disble save picture feature of the browser or CGI script to hide the pictures' location. This way you can make it hard to save but still not impossible. If someone can see the picture on his monitor he can save it using another trick - capturing the screen into a file and then taking out the photo from there. Why do you want to protect them?