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Real Scary.
A couple of nights ago on the Discovery Channel there was a documentary (sorry I cannot remember the name of the program) about the threats of a cyber attack - viruses in particular - and as mentioned it is feared that such attacks will come from China or Russia.
The documentary mentioned the blackout that the eastern US and Canada had a few years ago and while it was classified as human error, this documentary argued that the power failure was due to a cyber attack.
It is unbelievable just how reliant we are on computers. The show concluded that the next world war will not be fought using bombs or weapons, but will be launched using computers.
As always I took the documentary with a grain of salt, but it was a little unnerving when they filmed a hacker break into a large international bank in about five minutes.
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I’ve come to a frightening conclusion that I am the decisive element in the classroom. It’s my personal approach that creates the climate. It’s my daily mood that makes the weather. As a teacher, I possess a tremendous power to make a child’s life miserable or joyous. I can be a tool of torture or an instrument of inspiration. I can humiliate or heal. In all situations, it is my response that decides whether a crisis will be escalated or de-escalated and a child humanized or dehumanized.
--Haim Ginott--
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