Sometimes it is hard to brake a stereotype which was grown for a long time on basis of books, comics, movies. If this stereotype is meaningless then that is ok, we can keep it for a jokes :). But if it is about our security we have at least to point out this problem.
In the movies the government has always got the best toys, the cutting-edge technology and the tightest security standards. Those who have worked on security projects within the government know that in real life government security standards and implementations can vary all across the range from quite serious to laughable.
What a first thing what come to mind if you hear “George Romero”. Right. It is a zombies. But today it is a zombie what eating computers brains not humans one.
Australia is running a national zombie awareness week in a bid to educate users about how to stop hackers from taking over control of their PCs. The Australian campaign aims to tackle one of the root cause of the botnet epidemic – user awareness.
Three video clips have been made to promote National Zombie Bot Awareness week. Each draws inspiration from George Romero’s Night Of The Living Dead, featuring excerpts from the film combined with overlayed text promoting the basic messages of the week.
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You probably seen this big bookstore shelves with a huge amount of self help/motivation literature. Virtually all of them have references to science psychology, neuroscience or even pseudoscience. Now you can this information form first hand. Discover Magazine have series of interviews with top neuroscientists.
But it turns out you can actually build up willpower like a muscle if you can do something that requires effort of will—something as silly as brushing your teeth with your nondominant hand. If you brush your teeth with your nondominant hand for several weeks, you increase this reserve pool of mental something. I’m not going to say what that something is because it’s not known, but that mental something is available for other tasks. You can actually build up whatever it is that is responsible for willpower.
So this business of planning for action and all the things that come before action turn out, like many mental capacities, to be a thing that you can practice at and improve.
Discover Magazine: Unlocking the Secrets and Powers of the Brain
