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Q: What is the sentiment of the following document towards the entity Brian Krebs ? These terrifying tales sent me looking for a book I had been meaning to read for quite some time. My former Washington Post colleague  Brian Krebs  left the newspaper in 2009 to dedicate  himself  to a blog on cybersecurity: KrebsOnSecurity.com. Out of  his  work and research came âSpam Nation: The Inside Story of Organized Cybercrime â From Global Epidemic to Your Front Door.â
But  Krebs  has made a background believer out of me.
âThe Internet of today is truly a transformative communications and learning tool that radically enriches the lives of billions each day â  Krebs  writes. âYet  never before in the history of the Internet has this medium been more fraught with snares and neâer-do-wells looking to fleece the unwary.
With our spam filters and the constant drilling to not open suspicious emails  weâve been lulled into a false sense of security   Krebs  says.
âThe spam ecosystem is a constantly evolving technological and sociological crime machine that feeds on itself â writes  Krebs . âThus far  the criminals responsible for unleashing this daily glut of digital disease are doing a stupendous job of overwhelming the security industry.â
 Krebs  spends a lot of time introducing the major and minor spam players. Itâs like a Jason Bourne movie but with criminals who donât shoot at folks (well  some do). They instead fire out malicious spam infecting tens of millions of computers and  as a result  rake in millions of dollars.
Waiting for you at the end of the book is a very resourceful chapter on how to protect yourself. Youâll be safer following  Krebs âs three rules for online security:
Even if you donât buy âSpam Nation â make  Krebs âs blog regular reading.  His  reporting will frighten you. It does me. As  he  writes  âthose who endeavor to remain blissfully unaware of their role in becoming part of the solution will almost invariably end up becoming part of the problem.â
Iâm hosting an online discussion about âSpam Nationâ at noon Eastern time on Nov. 2 at washingtonpost.com/discussions.  Krebs  will join me to answer your cybersecurity questions.

A: Positive
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Q: What is the sentiment of the following document towards the entity Larry Ellison ? These American billionaires also share a few quirks: Microsoft founder Bill Gates  Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg   Oracle founder Larry Ellison  dropped out of college. Jeff Bezos  Larry Page and Sergey Brin all went to Montessori schools  where children are encouraged to think independently and creatively rather than following traditional rules. It seems  too  that billionaires really like houses in Hawaii.
As is the case with the richest women in America  the richest people in America donate a lot of money to causes they care about. Some of the men on this list have donated hundreds of millions into research designed to improve human lifespan and eradicate dangerous diseases  such as Alzheimerâs disease and cancer. Warren Buffett  Gates  Zuckerberg  and  Ellison  have gone a step further and promised to give their fortunes away as part of The Giving Pledge  an initiative designed by Buffett and Gates to encourage billionaires to funnel their vast wealth to philanthropy.
6.  Larry Ellison
Oracle CEO Larry Ellison  speaks during an event at the company's headquarters in Redwood City  Calif. in 2014 David Paul Morris-Bloomberg via Getty Images
 Ellison   73 â another college dropout â co-founded the software firm Oracle in 1977. In addition to owning about 25% of the company  he also owns the entire Hawaiian island of Lanai  a sailing team and even an entire tennis tournament  the New York Times reports.
While known for living large (the billionaire owns a 288-foot yatch)   Ellison  started out with modest ambitions.  His  parents  who adopted  him  when  he  was nine months old  wanted  him  to be a doctor  but  he  left school when  he  realized medicine didnât interest  him .  He  moved to California and worked as a computer programmer and a rock-climbing instructor and river guide  according to the Times. At this point   Ellison  said  he  was âpretty happy with  his  life.â
But after a series of jobs   he  became part of a company working to establish a new type of software database. That company would become Oracle  now one of the largest software companies in the world.
 Ellison   like other titans on this list  is interested in extending human lifespan  and has given over $330 million for research into aging and related diseases.
Four-times divorced   Ellison  has two adult children and calls  his  $70 million Woodside  Calif. estate home. However   Ellison âs massive real estate portfolio means  he  never spends much time in one place.  He  owns additional properties in Japan  San Francisco  Malibu  Lake Tahoe and Rhode Island.

A: Positive
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Q: What is the sentiment of the following document towards the entity Terry McAuliffe ? Recently   Virginia Governor Terry McAuliffe  has been making some news when it comes to climate change.
When climate-science denier Donald Trump declared his intention to withdraw the U.S. from the Paris Climate Accord   Gov. McAuliffe  stepped up to declare that Virginia would act to address climate change at the state level.
Following an executive order earlier this year to examine what it would take for Virginia to join the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI)  the report came back with a path to join RGGI via Executive action  which  Governor McAuliffe  has initiated.
 McAuliffeâs  actions  like those noted above  merit praise for moving the ball forward in Virginia in the facing of mounting climate risks on the one hand and  on the other hand  improving clean-energy and energy efficiency economics.
Of course  a healthy relationship is also an honest one  and an honest  clear-eyed assessment of Terry McAuliffeâs climate change record is  unfortunately  far from rosy.
For many  however  disappointment with Terry McAuliffe began soon after his election  with fossil fuel interests dominating the funding of his inauguration events. For many climate-aware constituents  the door(s) seemed to be closing â and the years that followed seemed to bear out those concerns.
Simply put  Terry McAuliffe has not been a fierce clean energy warrior â let alone a climate champion  as this disturbingly fawning article incorrectly claims â through most of the past four years.
As McAuliffe finishes his term as governor and potentially considers a run for president in 2020  it appears that heâs striving in his last âsemesterâ to boost his final grade when it comes to environmental issues. While much of that striving is rhetorical flourishes  moving Virginia into RGGI is substantial. (Of course  if this can be done so easily by a Governor via administrative fiat  the question is why didnât he do this years earlier?) Also  McAuliffe merits credit for his Executive Order that led to determining how he (Virginiaâs Governor) could take the Commonwealth into the RGGI without legislative action. With RGGI in mind  one can certainly see  Terry  having boosted  his  final environmental grade â perhaps even as high as a solid C.
Meanwhile  many political observers believe that Terry McAuliffe is taking steps for a run at the Democratic Party nomination for President in 2020. To get there will almost certainly require a strong climate and clean energy track record. Unfortunately for McAuliffe  a solid C (or worse) wonât do the trick.
And that matters for Terry McAuliffe beyond the Virginia governorâs mansion. Simply put  fossil fools fund and power GOP science deniers â not potential 2020 Democratic Party presidential nominees. For Terry McAuliffe  doing the right thing on the pipelines also happens to be the right thing for him politically. The question is  will McAuliffe change course at the last minute â or will he stubbornly stick to the wrong position heâs held all along?

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