Sir Alex Ferguson. The man, the myth, the undeniable legend. 25 years at the helm of the greatest club on Earth and no thoughts of walking away yet. Absolutely phenomenal!! 36 trophies is the mans legacy at Old Traffords "Theatre Of Dreams". No doubt in anyone's mind that this is the greatest manager that there has or ever will be in the game of football. When Ferguson took over United they lay 19th in the old First Division. They had not won a title in 19 years and Liverpool were the English colossus of Football (far from it now the Scousers). He came to Old Trafford when he was 46 years of age he'l soon be 70 in a couple of weeks. He turned United from a stadium with a capacity of 56,000 to a super-structure of 76,000 and created the state of the art United Carrington training complex. He created one of the first incredible teams which featured the likes of Giggs-Beckham-Scholes-Nevilles and Butt. That generation Ferguson fully believes will be reincarnated in another of his youth FA cup winning squads in the near future. Ferguson never fearful to question the FA of England has had multiple quarrels with them over the years, his latest win over them has been in terms of English teams being allowed to recruit youngsters that are not just living within an hour of the club.Ferguson's enthusiasm is stuff of legend and his relentlessness to win and overcome the odd's is the driving force which makes him still capable of managing a team of United's stature coming up to his 70th birthday. Other managers in the game are in awe of the man and the respect in which he has earned over the years is simply sensational. One manager was quoted as saying about Ferguson "its 24/7 as far as he is concerned and a way of life. Management is what he is, not what he does". That pretty much sums Ferguson up in my opinion. Most teams have one great team a century. United have had 6 different great teams under Ferguson and in his view he had many more to create and mould into champions. Ferguson in my opinion will not stop until he has made United the great European powerhouse he truly believes they can be. Until United knock Barcelona off their pedestal I don't believe the man can or will rest. I love United with all my heart and its going to be a sad sad for football when this man retires. So from this United fan to the great Sir Alex Ferguson in the words of Andy Gray "Take a bow son" because your a once off in my opinion no one will ever live up to the great Sir Alex...
Facebook's "Robot Hackers"
A Canadian university has researchers that claim to have created computer programs that are capable of infiltrating social network sites such as Facebook with the intent and purpose of stealing highly private user data. The program is called "The Socialbot Network: When bots socialize for fame and money". The program which was run by the University was able to swipe 250 GB's of user data from Facebook that is a phenomenal amount. In fairness you would have to be pretty desperate and stupid to answer friend requests from people you have neither heard of or met, now wouldn't you? There are people out there however who did and the Socialbot software succeeded in taking their private data. The software is high-tech and the amazing thing is that the Socialbot's mimic human users of the site and put up status's pictures etc, obviously the pictures are stolen from real users and generally good looking one's in order to trick people into accepting friend requests. The Socialbot experiment proved to be highly successful with a success rate of up to 80%. Now I would not accept friend requests from anyone I did not know or thought I had met on a night out or something like that, I however am vigilant in keeping my Facebook account safe from hackers and information thief's. The Socialbot's were able to harvest data from thousands of Facebook accounts including their news feed, profile information, wall messages and photo's. This is extremely dangerous software and in the wrong hands could seriously damage a persons life. The weird part of the experiment was that only 100 socialbots were deployed and yet thousands of people information was succeeded in being processed, that's an incredibly scary thought that so little socialbots could take so much data. The socialbots were also not controlled by the researchers instead by a "masterbot". Now for the Facebook security side of the story. The anti-hacking measures in Facebook were only able to block a mere 20% of the socialbots and that was only as a result of users flagging the socialbots as spam. All Facebook could say about the Socialbot software was that "they had serious concerns about the methodology used by the researchers". This software threat should get Facebook to wake up and actually make their site one of the securest in the world considering how many people actually use the site, well that's my opinion and I have a strange feeling many others would agree with my way of thinking....
A Canadian university has researchers that claim to have created computer programs that are capable of infiltrating social network sites such as Facebook with the intent and purpose of stealing highly private user data. The program is called "The Socialbot Network: When bots socialize for fame and money". The program which was run by the University was able to swipe 250 GB's of user data from Facebook that is a phenomenal amount. In fairness you would have to be pretty desperate and stupid to answer friend requests from people you have neither heard of or met, now wouldn't you? There are people out there however who did and the Socialbot software succeeded in taking their private data. The software is high-tech and the amazing thing is that the Socialbot's mimic human users of the site and put up status's pictures etc, obviously the pictures are stolen from real users and generally good looking one's in order to trick people into accepting friend requests. The Socialbot experiment proved to be highly successful with a success rate of up to 80%. Now I would not accept friend requests from anyone I did not know or thought I had met on a night out or something like that, I however am vigilant in keeping my Facebook account safe from hackers and information thief's. The Socialbot's were able to harvest data from thousands of Facebook accounts including their news feed, profile information, wall messages and photo's. This is extremely dangerous software and in the wrong hands could seriously damage a persons life. The weird part of the experiment was that only 100 socialbots were deployed and yet thousands of people information was succeeded in being processed, that's an incredibly scary thought that so little socialbots could take so much data. The socialbots were also not controlled by the researchers instead by a "masterbot". Now for the Facebook security side of the story. The anti-hacking measures in Facebook were only able to block a mere 20% of the socialbots and that was only as a result of users flagging the socialbots as spam. All Facebook could say about the Socialbot software was that "they had serious concerns about the methodology used by the researchers". This software threat should get Facebook to wake up and actually make their site one of the securest in the world considering how many people actually use the site, well that's my opinion and I have a strange feeling many others would agree with my way of thinking....
The Head Shop Phenomenon
Head shops are retail outlets that specialise in recreational drugs, party powders, herbal drugs and legal highs. Most of these drugs are substitutes for illegal party drugs. The head shops drew people in as the drugs they sold were much cheaper then those on the street and there was no fear of being arrested by the Gardai as everything was street legal. The legal highs can still be gotten over the internet but are now being sold under new names so they can get threw loopholes in the law. The legals highs had different names such as mephedrone, methylone, wild cat, dogs bollix, MDPV and GBL to name but a few. In May new legislation came into being and all these legal highs were banned as were the Head Shops behind them. Now if someone is caught selling any of the prohibited substances there is a jail term up to 7 years. There have been many documented cases of people just dabbling with the drugs in a recreational sense and dying from it. These drugs were highly addictive maybe more addictive the cocaine and ecstasy themselves? Just a warning to people I myself know people who have tried these drugs and others, their lives are not better, their not cooler and they are none the better. So please think twice before you decide to try anything that is put in front of you at a party...
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