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Today, I overslept heartily this morning, since I didn`t need to hurry with anything.
So I got up very late and ate cold noodles for a late brunch.
In the late afternoon I went out for teaching one kid who is my friend`s daugher.
One of my friends wanted me to/ asked me that I teach Chinese to her daughter.
So from past week I began to teach her one hour in the late afternoon every Friday/ on every Friday late in the afternoon. I feel it`s good.
Her daughter is so cute and bright / smart.
When I went out from my house, I took Betty and Zzang-Ah, because near by her house there`s a small and nice mountain.
I like that small mountain path, so when after finishing teaching , I wanted to walk with Betty an dZzang-ah through that small path.
Do you know that how much Betty and Zzang-ah like it?
Oh, while I teach that little girl, Betty and Zzang-ah are waiting in my car with gently / quietly.They are really good dogs!
bangbang1June 18, 2012 Today`s pictures: The first – A small path / a narrow path to the woods.
The second- rose colored leaves / rose petals that were fallen on the ground?

(June 17. 2012) <Practice Describe Something>
I’ll try to practice describing this time, even though it’s not easy writing with my cellphone for me.
Please correct my mistakes. Thank you very much for reading.
( June 17 2012, Afternoon)

Now there are two glasses of iced coffee and one cup of hot coffee on this table.
My son and my husband both ordered iced coffee, and I ordered hot coffee.
Today is a sunny day.
Everything is shining under the bright sunlight.
I can see people passing by out of a big window and parked cars at the side of the road.
( =I can see passing peoples out of a big window and cars are parked at the side of the road. )
There are not many people so it gives me a somewhat peaceful feeling (=a kind of peaceful feeling.)
The air conditioner on the ceiling is working well.
There is music playing (/being played )now,
and it seems like(/ to be some) African style of music.
( =Music is paying now, it seems like an African style of music.)

It seems that my husband is asleep now.
Hmm… …We’d better go home.

But worm authors are hardly absolved of blame. By putting their code freely on the Web, virus writers essentially dangle temptation in front of every disgruntled teenager who goes online looking for a way to rebel. A cynic might say that malware authors rely on clueless script kiddies the same way that a drug dealer uses 13-year-olds to carry illegal goods -- passing the liability off to a hapless mule.

''You've got several levels here,'' says Marc Rogers, a former police officer who now researches computer forensics at Purdue University. ''You've got the guys who write it, and they know they shouldn't release it because it's illegal. So they put it out there knowing that some script kiddie who wants to feel like a big shot in the virus underground will put it out. They know these neophytes will jump on it. So they're grinning ear to ear, because their baby, their creation, is out there. But they didn't officially release it, so they don't get in trouble.'' He says he thinks that the original authors are just as blameworthy as the spreaders.

Sarah Gordon of Symantec also says the authors are ethically naive. ''If you're going to say it's an artistic statement, there are more responsible ways to be artistic than to create code that costs people millions,'' she says. Critics like Reitinger, the Microsoft security chief, are even harsher. ''To me, it's online arson,'' he says. ''Launching a virus is no different from burning down a building. There are people who would never toss a Molotov cocktail into a warehouse, but they wouldn't think for a second about launching a virus.''

What makes this issue particularly fuzzy is the nature of computer code. It skews the traditional intellectual question about studying dangerous topics. Academics who research nuclear-fission techniques, for example, worry that their research could help a terrorist make a weapon. Many publish their findings anyway, believing that the mere knowledge of how fission works won't help Al Qaeda get access to uranium or rocket parts.

But computer code is a different type of knowledge. The code for a virus is itself the weapon. You could read it in the same way you read a book, to help educate yourself about malware. Or you could set it running, turning it instantly into an active agent. Computer code blurs the line between speech and act. ''It's like taking a gun and sticking bullets in it and sitting it on the counter and saying, 'Hey, free gun!''' Rogers says.

Some academics have pondered whether virus authors could be charged under conspiracy laws. Creating a virus, they theorize, might be considered a form of abetting a crime by providing materials. Ken Dunham, the head of ''malicious code intelligence'' for iDefense, a computer security company, notes that there are certainly many examples of virus authors assisting newcomers. He has been in chat rooms, he says, ''where I can see people saying, 'How can I find vulnerable hosts?' And another guy says, 'Oh, go here, you can use this tool.' They're helping each other out.''

Virus writers argue that they shouldn't be held accountable for other people's actions. They are merely pursuing an interest in writing self-replicating computer code. ''I'm not responsible for people who do silly things and distribute them among their friends,'' Benny said defiantly. ''I'm not responsible for those. What I like to do is programming, and I like to show it to people -- who may then do something with it.'' A young woman who goes by the handle Gigabyte told me in an online chat room that if the authorities wanted to arrest her and other virus writers, then ''they should arrest the creators of guns as well.''

One of the youngest virus writers I visited was Stephen Mathieson, a 16-year-old in Detroit whose screen name is Kefi. He also belongs to Philet0ast3r's Ready Rangers Liberation Front. A year ago, Mathieson became annoyed when he found members of another virus-writers group called Catfish_VX plagiarizing his code. So he wrote Evion, a worm specifically designed to taunt the Catfish guys. He put it up on his Web site for everyone to see. Like most of Mathieson's work, the worm had no destructive intent. It merely popped up a few cocky messages, including: Catfish_VX are lamers. This virus was constructed for them to steal.

Someone did in fact steal it, because pretty soon Mathieson heard reports of it being spotted in the wild. To this day, he does not know who circulated Evion. But he suspects it was probably a random troublemaker, a script kiddie who swiped it from his site. ''The kids,'' he said, shaking his head, ''just cut and paste.''

Quite aside from the strangeness of listening to a 16-year-old complain about ''the kids,'' Mathieson's rhetoric glosses over a charged ethical and legal debate. It is tempting to wonder if the leading malware authors are lying -- whether they do in fact circulate their worms on the sly, obsessed with a desire to see whether they will really work. While security officials say that may occasionally happen, they also say the top virus writers are quite likely telling the truth. ''If you're writing important virus code, you're probably well trained,'' says David Perry, global director of education for Trend Micro, an antivirus company. ''You know a number of tricks to write good code, but you don't want to go to prison. You have an income and stuff. It takes someone unaware of the consequences to release a virus.''

Benny -- that's his handle, not his real name -- is most famous for having written a virus that infected Windows 2000 two weeks before Windows 2000 was released. He'd met a Microsoft employee months earlier who boasted that the new operating system would be ''more secure than ever''; Benny wrote (but says he didn't release) the virus specifically to humiliate the company. ''Microsoft,'' he said with a laugh, ''wasn't enthusiastic.'' He also wrote Leviathan, the first virus to use ''multithreading,'' a technique that makes the computer execute several commands at once, like a juggler handling multiple balls. It greatly speeds up the pace at which viruses can spread. Benny published that invention in his group's zine, and now many of the most virulent bugs have adopted the technique, including last summer's infamous Sobig.F.

For a virus author, a successful worm brings the sort of fame that a particularly daring piece of graffiti used to produce: the author's name, automatically replicating itself in cyberspace. When antivirus companies post on their Web sites a new ''alert'' warning of a fresh menace, the thrill for the author is like getting a great book review: something to crow about and e-mail around to your friends. Writing malware, as one author e-mailed me, is like creating artificial life. A virus, he wrote, is ''a humble little creature with only the intention to avoid extinction and survive.''

Quite apart from the intellectual fun of programming, though, the virus scene is attractive partly because it's very social. When Philet0ast3r drops by a virus-writers chat channel late at night after work, the conversation is as likely to be about music, politics or girls as the latest in worm technology. ''They're not talking about viruses -- they're talking about relationships or ordering pizza,'' says Sarah Gordon, a senior research fellow at Symantec, an antivirus company, who is one of the only researchers in the world who has interviewed hundreds of virus writers about their motivations. Very occasionally, malware authors even meet up face to face for a party; Philet0ast3r once took a road trip for a beer-addled weekend of coding, and when I visited Mario, we met up with another Austrian virus writer and discussed code for hours at a bar.

The virus community attracts a lot of smart but alienated young men, libertarian types who are often flummoxed by the social nuances of life. While the virus scene isn't dominated by those characters, it certainly has its share -- and they are often the ones with a genuine chip on their shoulder.

''I am a social reject,'' admitted Vorgon (as he called himself), a virus writer in Toronto with whom I exchanged messages one night in an online chat channel. He studied computer science in college but couldn't find a computer job after sending out 400 resumes. With ''no friends, not much family'' and no girlfriend for years, he became depressed. He attempted suicide, he said, by walking out one frigid winter night into a nearby forest for five hours with no jacket on. But then he got into the virus-writing scene and found a community. ''I met a lot of cool people who were interested in what I did,'' he wrote. ''They made me feel good again.'' He called his first virus FirstBorn to celebrate his new identity. Later, he saw that one of his worms had been written up as an alert on an antivirus site, and it thrilled him. ''Kinda like when I got my first girlfriend,'' he wrote. ''I was god for a couple days.'' He began work on another worm, trying to recapture the feeling. ''I spent three months working on it just so I could have those couple of days of godliness.''

Vorgon is still angry about life. His next worm, he wrote, will try to specifically target the people who wouldn't hire him. It will have a ''spidering'' engine that crawls Web-page links, trying to find likely e-mail addresses for human-resource managers, ''like careers@microsoft.com, for example.'' Then it will send them a fake resume infected with the worm. (He hasn't yet decided on a payload, and he hasn't ruled out a destructive one.) ''This is a revenge worm,'' he explained -- for ''not hiring me, and hiring some loser that is not even half the programmer I am.''

Many people might wonder why virus writers aren't simply rounded up and arrested for producing their creations. But in most countries, writing viruses is not illegal. Indeed, in the United States some legal scholars argue that it is protected as free speech. Software is a type of language, and writing a program is akin to writing a recipe for beef stew. It is merely a bunch of instructions for the computer to follow, in the same way that a recipe is a set of instructions for a cook to follow. A virus or worm becomes illegal only when it is activated -- when someone sends it to a victim and starts it spreading in the wild, and it does measurable damage to computer systems. The top malware authors are acutely aware of this distinction. Most every virus-writer Web site includes a disclaimer stating that it exists purely for educational purposes, and that if a visitor downloads a virus to spread, the responsibility is entirely the visitor's. Benny's main virus-writing computer at home has no Internet connection at all; he has walled it off like an airlocked biological-weapons lab, so that nothing can escape, even by accident.

1. They stamped out the rebellion.
2. They made a stand against the enemy.
3. He is going to stand trial.
4. Let the dough stand an hour.
5. He stood as a candidate at the election.
6. It stands to reason that it can't be true.
7. Your account stands at £100 in your credit.
8. This is the financial standing of the firm.
9. He is a friend of long standing.
10. I'll give you a ten-metre start.
11. What a start you gave me!
12. The sales of the book got off to a good start.
13. We'll have to make a new start.
14. The engine started the first time.
15. Who started this rumour?
16. He got into a state.
17. I have stated my opinion.
18. He stated the case in front of the judge.
19. He stated thet he did not know the accused.
20. The taxi ran into a stationary bus.
21. Prices must be kept steady.
22. My daughter has got a steady job.
23. He lets off steam by going for a run.
24. The train steamed into the station.
25. There was a flight of steps in front of him.
26. We have to take steps to cut down inflation.
27. If he doesn't watch his step, he'll get into trouble.
28. She took a step backwards.
29. He stepped over the corpse.
30. Don't be such a stick-in-the-mud.
31. His parents live out in the sticks.
32. She stuck a flower in her hair.
33. He stuck the letter into his pocket.
34. He sticks to you like glue.
35. Stick them up!
36. I stick to what I said.
37. He has come to a sticky end.
38. I'm stiff with cold.
39. We were all scared stiff.
40. Use stiff cardboard to make the parcel.

1. My head is in a spin.
2. He risked a fortune on the spin of a coin.
3. We went for a spin in her new car.
4. He spun me a yarn.
5. The blow sent him spinning along the pavement.
6. Well have to raise his spirits.
7. I am in low spirits.
8. The party is split on this issue.
9. He has a split personality.
10. The lightning split the tree.
11. They split the prize between the two winners.
12. My head is splitting.
13. After being married for 10 years, they've decided to split up.
14. That guy is spoiling for a fight.
15. The fruit spoiled with the heat.
16. I think we can have our share of the spoils.
17. He sponged £20 off me.
18. The stain will sponge off easily.
19. Your uncle Charles is sponging on us.
20. He dealt with it on the spot.
21. A journalist happened to be on the spot.
22. We are in a tight spot.
23. That is his weak spot.
24. See if you can spot the difference.
25. He spotted her in the crowd.
26. You have to spot the five errors.
27. The old woman walked with a spring in her step.
28. He sprang a question on me.
29. The branch sprang back.
30. Now we are all square.
31. Nine is the square of three.
32. Now we're right back to square one.
33. We have to square accounts with the bloke/ guy.
34. His ideas don't square with mine.
35. The waiter squeezed some lemon on the fish.
36. He summoned them all to a meeting.
37. Joan of Arc was condemned to the stake.
38. I have a stake in the company.
39. She had staked her reputation on the proposal.
40. My honour is at stake.

You are listening Gnatius in the mix.

2000 bilingual phrases – 39
1. The sink plug is missing.
2. She plunged into the pool.
3. We are going to take the plunge.
4. He plunged his hands into the water.
5. He plunged his hand into his pocket.
6. The whole town was plunged into darkness.
7. The submarine plunged quickly.
8. They still found a pocket of resistance.
9. I like to have some money in my pocket.
10. The meal left him out of pocket.
11. He pocketed £100 of the company's money.
12. I use my pocket calculator in the supermarket.
13. That is beside the point.
14. Don't wander off the point.
15. Very well, and now let's get to the point.
16. He has completely missed the point.
17. What's the point of having a horse?
18. Don't point your finger at anybody.
19. The hands pointed to eight o'clock.
20. He made a point of being punctual.
21. She gave me a poke in the ribs.
22. Don't buy a pig in a poke.
23. Don't poke your finger into the hole.
24. He poked his finger in my eye.
25. Don't poke your nose into other people's affairs.
26. He poked his head round the door.
27. He was as stiff as a poker.
28. He lived in a poky little room.
29. He lacks polish.
30. He polished off a chicken in the twinkling of an eye.
31. She is a woman in poor health.
32. She has a poor opinion of you.
33. Old Tom is as poor as a church mouse.
34. I am £100 the poorer.
35. Put yourself in my position.
36. Send it by return of post.
37. He is as deaf as a post.
38. We were left at the post.
39. Pour me a glass of wine.
40. It has been pouring down for a week.

2000 bilingual phrases – 38
1. When did you have your ears pierced?
2. It's as clean as a new pin.
3. You could have heard a pin drop.
4. There is something wrong, but I can't pin it down.
5. They tried to pin the robbery on him.
6. How can I pin this poster on the wall?
7. I take what you say with a pinch of salt.
8. Do your new shoes pinch?
9. I had my cassette player pinched.
10. When his savings ran out he began to feel the pinch.
11. I'm afraid we'll have to pinch pennies.
12. Feelings were raised to a high pitch.
13. He ran full pitch into the door.
14. We pitched the tent.
15. The ship pitched and rolled.
16. Let's all go to my place.
17. I knew his face but I couldn't place him.
18. This is plain madness.
19. He made it plain that he won't accept it.
20. That is the plain truth.
21. Send it in a plain envelope.
22. She is very plain.
23. I'll tell you in plain English.
24. It all went according to plan.
25. It was handed to him on a silver plate.
26. I like fair play, I won't stand for foul play.
27. My aunt plays the piano by ear.
28. We are going to play 'Othello'.
29. Don't play a dirty trick on him.
30. You have played your part very well.
31. Don't play the fool, will you?
32. This tennis court plays very slow.
33. What's playing at the theatre?
34. You are playing on my nerves.
35. There's too much play in the clutch.
36. He was as pleased as Punch.
37. I take great pleasure in reading.
38. The country will honour its pledges.
39. I pledged myself to do it. I pledged my word.
40. I'm pledged to secrecy.