The books I have written on Netiquette (see below) have been widely accepted as the ultimate guide for online communication. You can view a sample or buy the books at
www.amazon.com/author/paulbabicki
Here is one review:
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A Comprehensive Guide to Improve, Enhance and Add
Power to Your Email
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Babicki, Paul CreateSpace (264 pp.)
$18.95 paperback ISBN: 978-1481849524; September 14, 2013
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A revealing primer on the art of
effective emails and other communications.
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Babicki, in his debut self-help guide,
covers the many peculiarities of computerized messaging: How to shape an
eye-catching subject line; how to troubleshoot error messages from a returned
email; what the file-extension suffixes on attachments mean; what the email
time stamp tells others about your personality (night owl vs. early riser);
and how to craft a corporate email security policy. His advice on these
sometimes-arcane topics is precise—“RTF format should only be used when it is
certain that the recipient uses Outlook”—while also remaining intelligible to
laypeople. The author also instructs readers on time-honored principles of
proper English and clear expression. He delves with detailed lucidity into
rules of grammar, punctuation and usage; prescribes the proper formatting of
numbers and dates; and inveighs against the dangling participle. He also
explores the tonal shadings of different kinds of salutations, crusades for concise
and gracious style, warns against the gassy redundancy of such wordings as
“final outcome” and “at an early time,” and appends a blacklist of “the most
irritating phrases,” from “out of the box” to “team player.” Good writing
grows from good thinking, so he instructs readers on the pitfalls of logical
fallacies, from the ad hominem attack to the begged question, and on the
distinctions between assumption, presumption and inference. Furthermore,
since communication is the cornerstone of civilized life, he limns its legal
and moral underpinnings in copyright and plagiarism strictures, codes of
courteous Internet deportment and techniques for pacifying flame wars. (He
recommends a “Zen” approach, for example, in replying to angry missives.) The
result is a mashup of Strunk and White, Miss Manners, Aristotle and Microsoft
Help, all laid out in a well-organized, very readable text sprinkled with
amusing examples and phrased in the tart, aphoristic style of an exacting
schoolmaster (“The better it sounds, the more it is trusted”). Overall,
Babicki’s technical expertise and literary aplomb make this a fine manual for
the everyday scribe.
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A comprehensive, stimulating guide to
getting the word out.
Kirkus Indie, Kirkus Media LLC, 6411 Burleson Rd.,
Austin, TX 78744 indie@kirkusreviews.com
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Buy the book at
www.amazon.com/author/paulbabicki
Rowhammer
Rowhammer is a vulnerability in commodity dynamic random
access memory (DRAM) chips that allows an attacker to
exploit devices with DRAM memory by repeatedly accessing (hammering) a row of
memory until it causes bit flips and transistors in adjacent rows of memory
reverse their binary state: ones turn into zeros and vice versa.
The flaw, first reported in the paper "Flipping Bits
in Memory Without Accessing Them: An Experimental Study of DRAM Disturbance
Errors," detailed how, as DRAM processes continues to scale to smaller
sizes, it becomes more difficult to prevent individual memory cells from
interacting with neighboring cells.
The Rowhammer flaw allows memory manipulation to be used
by malicious actors to extract data such as passwords from vulnerable systems.
The flaw has been detected in DDR3 and DDR4 DRAM chips and, when combined with
other attacks, can be used to access the contents of memory on systems using
vulnerable chips. The Google Project Zero team published details
of its proof of concept code for exploits of
Rowhammer on x86-64 Linux machines, but they wrote that
the exploit was likely not specific to Linux systems.
Rowhammer accomplishes this manipulation by forcing the
repeated reading and recharging of a row of capacitors in a DRAM chip. The repeated
reading and recharging of a row happens when an attacker uses the machine code
instruction Cache Line Flush (CLFLUSH) to clear the cache, as shown in the 2014 research paper
from Carnegie Mellon University and Intel Labs researchers. Caching limits
prevent bit flipping from occurring normally, so the repeated CLFLUSH overloads
the system. When the bit flipping happens too often and in capacitor rows too
close together, neighboring capacitors begin to interact electrically, and this
opens up the opportunity to exploit the Rowhammer flaw.
Researchers at Intel became aware of Rowhammer in 2012
and filed patent applications that were publically disclosed, but the
vulnerability didn't garner much attention until 2014 when the research paper
was published. DRAM chips are an important part of most electronic devices,
including those that are essential to computers. As such, DRAM vulnerabilities
like Rowhammer cannot be fixed with basic security software or operating system
(OS) updates. Rowhammer continues to be used in new attacks.
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For a great satire on email, please see the following:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HTgYHHKs0Zwscoop_post=bcaa0440-2548-11e5-c1bd-90b11c3d2b20&__scoop_topic=2455618
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In addition to this blog, Netiquette IQ
has a website with great
assets which are being added to on a regular basis. I have authored the
premiere book on Netiquette, “Netiquette IQ - A Comprehensive Guide to
Improve,
Enhance and Add Power to Your Email". My new book, “You’re Hired! Super
Charge
Your Email Skills in 60 Minutes. . . And Get That Job!” has just been
published and will be followed by a trilogy of books on Netiquette for
young people. You can view my
profile, reviews of the book and content excerpts at:
www.amazon.com/author/paulbabicki
Anyone who would like to review the book and have it posted on my blog or website, please contact me paul@netiquetteiq.com.
In addition to this blog, I maintain a radio show on BlogtalkRadio and an online newsletter via paper.li.I have established Netiquette discussion groups with Linkedin and Yahoo. I am also a
member of the International Business Etiquette and Protocol Group and
Minding Manners among others. I regularly consult for the Gerson Lehrman
Group, a worldwide network of subject matter experts and I have been
contributing to the blogs Everything Email and emailmonday . My work has appeared in numerous publications and I have presented to groups such as The Breakfast Club of NJ and PSG of Mercer County, NJ.
Additionally, I am the president of Tabula Rosa Systems,
a “best of breed” reseller of products for communications, email,
network management software, security products and professional
services. Also, I am the president of Netiquette IQ. We are currently developing an email IQ rating system, Netiquette IQ, which promotes the fundamentals outlined in my book.
Over
the past twenty-five years, I have enjoyed a dynamic and successful
career and have attained an extensive background in IT and electronic
communications by selling and marketing within the information
technology marketplace.
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