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From the page: "When God first asked me to pen a new introduction to this planet's most Holy Scriptures (and The Book of Mormon), I was slightly humbled--"even flattered. Some would say blessed.

But when He started talking deadlines and announced his discontent with my writing by putting frogs in my bed and locust in my backyard, I knew we had a problem. But he really pissed me off when He started redlining stuff out in Microsoft Word. Like the part where I refer to the Book of Mormon as "Jesus Fan-Fiction."

From the page: "ROVER stares up at you, apparently yearning for a pat on the head. But behind those endearing doggy eyes, his mind is whirring, recalling the excitement of yesterday's walk: long grass, a sloping field falling away into woodland and a rabbit running for safety. With a gentle wag of his tail, he smiles at the memory, then wonders if he's got time for a nap before today's outing.

An animal couldn't do that, could it? For most of us, the instinctive answer is no: the ability to reconstruct past events in our mind and imagine ourselves in future scenarios is something we can do, but other creatures cannot. And yet, while there is no evidence that dogs can think in this way, recent studies have suggested that some birds, great apes and a few species in between are not "stuck in the present" after all, but may be capable of thinking backwards and forwards in time."

Death on Vacation

From the page: "Top 10 signs your electronic music is amateur

Iâ€ve gotten a few requests to make the top 10 signs your track is amateur for electronic music instead of acoustic music. Well, hereâ€s my list of things you should learn to avoid if you want professional sounding tracks."

From the page: "Finally, at long last, I have something in common with Muhammad Ali.
No, I'm not the heavyweight champion of the world, and haven't been named spokesperson for Raid bug spray. Like "the Greatest" - not to mention far too many others -- I have been a target of state police surveillance for activities -- in my case against the death penalty -- that were legal, non-violent, and, so we assumed, constitutionally protected."

From the page: "It's not just the American dollar that's losing value. A government agency has decided that an American life isn't worth what it used to be.

The "value of a statistical life" is $6.9 million in today's dollars, the Environmental Protection Agency reckoned in May â€" a drop of nearly $1 million from just five years ago."

From the page: "Blur bassist Alex James has swapped a life of carousing in bars for composting in Oxfordshire. But a recent trip to Burkina Faso taught him some important lessons about working the soil that are as relevant to gardeners in Britain as farmers in Africa. "

From the page: "When I decided to set up this server, I wanted to do something about the inevitable hordes of SSH brute force attempts that I knew would be coming. I decided against changing the SSH port and, instead, thought I would take advantage of it. I need to beef up my résumé and thought that a published paper on SSH brute force attempts might be a good way to do so. But first, Iâ€d need to be able to collect more information than was normally given.
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This last line provides us with a fair bit of information, namely the user, ip address, port, and time of the failed login. However, I wanted to see if I could get more information than this. What I really wanted to see was the password they were attempting to use while logging into the server."