Iraq, PTSD... BRC (LA Times story 12-19-08)

Mosin · Post by **Mosin** » Fri Dec 19, 2008 1:45 am

I hope we get to see Lance (and his pops) in '09....

http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me ... 9955.story

**burn** · Post by **burn** » Fri Dec 19, 2008 8:41 am

Wow, what a story.
My heart goes out to all of them.

pandasex · Post by **pandasex** » Mon Mar 09, 2009 11:29 am

thats crazy.....but if BM helped him i hope he comes back too. PTSS is serious and requires a serious recovery plan. In which most of the time the military doctors just give them drugs and little therapy. I could see a peaceful and playful place such as BM might be able to ease his pain.
Best of Luck to him

JoshMega · Post by **JoshMega** » Wed Jul 22, 2009 11:44 am

I'm editing a documentary on homeless people right now, and a good portion of the homeless are Vietnam, Korean, Iraq, or Afghanistan war vets suffering from PTSD. Pretty intense shit when they talk about it....

oneeyeddick · Post by **oneeyeddick** » Wed Jul 22, 2009 12:23 pm

That link to the story makes my internet explorer freeze up, unable to view it.

theCryptofishist · Post by **theCryptofishist** » Wed Jul 22, 2009 6:43 pm

JoshMega wrote:I'm editing a documentary on homeless people right now, and a good portion of the homeless are Vietnam, Korean, Iraq, or Afghanistan war vets suffering from PTSD. Pretty intense shit when they talk about it....

Maybe we should demand a "GI Bill" for the whole damn lot. It would probably be good for UC to have a bunch of cranky elderly Korea Vets going through their classes. And it would make up some for the basic inequity of how we treated post WWII vets compared to those who went before.

I mean, doesn't it make more sense to take care of the people who fought unpopular wars better than those who fought popular ones?

DVD Burner · Post by **DVD Burner** » Wed Jul 22, 2009 7:39 pm

oneeyeddick wrote:That link to the story makes my internet explorer freeze up, unable to view it.

IE? What's wrong with you?

Please please please use firefox.

**burn** · Post by **burn** » Wed Jul 22, 2009 7:47 pm

Regardless of how popular or not a war is, our Veterans should be cared for.
We are lucky to have the one of the best VA Hospital's in the country, right here in Reno.

Thank a Veteran.

EspressoDude · Post by **EspressoDude** » Wed Jul 22, 2009 7:51 pm

IE works great here.......

maybe ya need to poke the other eye out....

been there, done that.....USN WestPac 1970 -1972

DVD Burner · Post by **DVD Burner** » Wed Jul 22, 2009 7:56 pm

EspressoDude wrote:IE works great here.......

maybe ya need to poke the other eye out....

been there, done that.....USN WestPac 1970 -1972

Microsoft Scrambling to Close Stubborn Security Hole

http://voices.washingtonpost.com/securi ... ecurityfix

Microsoft may soon be taking the unusual step of issuing an out-of-band security update to address multiple weaknesses that stem from a Windows security flaw that the software giant tried to fix earlier this month, Security Fix has learned.

Last week, on its regularly scheduled Patch Tuesday (second Tuesday of the month), Redmond issued software updates to plug nine security holes. Among those was a patch for a flaw in Windows and Internet Explorer that hackers were exploiting to break into PCs. However, it soon became clear that Microsoft had known about this vulnerability since at least April 2008.

On July 9, noted security researcher Halvar Flake published a blog post suggesting that the reason Microsoft took so long to fix the bug may be because the flaw was caused by a far more systemic problem in Windows.

According to Flake, the problem resides in a collection of code that Microsoft uses in a number of places in Windows. This code "library" is also provided to third-party software makers to help them build programs that can leverage certain built-in features of Windows.

As a result, Flake concluded, Microsoft may have fixed only a subset of the problem on Windows with its patch this month.

"The bug is actually much 'deeper' than most people realize," Flake wrote. "MS might have accidentally introduced security vulnerabilities into third party products."

I reached out to Flake for additional information, but he told me that shortly after he published that blog post he received a 3 a.m. phone call from Microsoft asking him please not to comment further.

Microsoft has not officially responded to requests for comment about Flake's research. But a source within Microsoft said Redmond could issue an out-of-band update prior to next month's Patch Tuesday to address the outstanding flaws.

The decision over whether to do that or wait until next month's Patch Tuesday may hinge upon whether attackers begin exploiting these other vulnerable areas by using Microsoft's patch (and Flake's research) as a guide to locating the flaws. What's more, this bug is almost certain to be discussed at Black Hat and Defcon, the world's largest annual security conferences, being held next week in Las Vegas.

DVD Burner · Post by **DVD Burner** » Wed Jul 22, 2009 7:58 pm

Trust me everyone. Stop using IE.

I love Microsoft and Apple and UNIX/Linux but I am so serious.

Use Firefox for your own protection.

And this Burner cares about other surfing Burners.

Post by **mdmf007** » Wed Jul 22, 2009 9:12 pm

This so blows, the whole situation that is.

This kid did handle the situation wrong - and I am glad that he is getting the help he needs. The SOB that put the bomb in ths gorund is responsible for killing his friend, not him - even though the other guy took his place.

oneeyeddick · Post by **oneeyeddick** » Wed Jul 22, 2009 10:02 pm

Works just fine now, I had my nVidia display in clone mode without noticing it...my bad.I know more people with Firefox problems than IE problems.

The trick with IE is disable all of those automatic updates and there will be no problems(usually).