[Year 12 IT Apps] Current Date calculation

Ashley Foley foleya at stkevins.vic.edu.au
Mon Apr 22 12:00:17 EST 2013


Date() gives the system date in a query if this helps.
Ashley


On 22 April 2013 10:59, Guppy, Rachael J <guppy.rachael.j at edumail.vic.gov.au
> wrote:

>  Good morning, ****
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> Just looking for some help with Microsoft Access. I’m having trouble
> calculating Age. I can’t seem to find the correct expression to use the
> systems current date to date away the date of Birth. ****
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> Any help with this calculation would be great. ****
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> Cheers****
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> Rachael Guppy****
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> *From:* itapps-bounces at edulists.com.au [mailto:
> itapps-bounces at edulists.com.au] *On Behalf Of *Robert Timmer-Arends
> *Sent:* Tuesday, 16 April 2013 9:16 PM
> *To:* Year 12 IT Applications Teachers' Mailing List
> *Subject:* [Year 12 IT Apps] privacy and data mining****
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> Hello all****
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> Excellent episode of the Check Out (Ep 4 ABC Thurs 11 April 8pm) at iView
> http://www.abc.net.au/iview/#/program/32372****
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> about 17 minutes in.****
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> Looking at how data mining is able to target us, how good it is getting,
> and where the data comes from.****
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> Regards****
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> Robert T-A****
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>  ----- Original Message ----- ****
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> *From:* Mark <mark at vceit.com> ****
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> *To:* Year 12 IT Applications Teachers' Mailing List<itapps at edulists.com.au>
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> *Sent:* Tuesday, April 16, 2013 1:59 PM****
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> *Subject:* Re: [Year 12 IT Apps] (no subject)****
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> Hi Jackson.  ****
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> I'd guess the main technique would be phishing - the human is always the
> quickest and easiest weak link in any technological security chain, and
> some modern phishing can be VERY convincing (e.g. embedding attack code
> into a legitimate webpage.)****
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> Why Yahoo?  I'd say it was purely return on investment due to bulk
> targets. Attack the sites with the maximum number of potential victims...
> the same logic is used by virus/worm writers who attack Windows instead of
> Mac and Linux (leading Mac users to crow smugly and erroneously about their
> perceived invulnerability: it's just that the Mac userbase has not until
> recently been big enough to justify good hacking time.)  ****
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> And maybe Yahoo's creaking old infrastructure is weak and more easily
> breached?  Let's see what Marissa does about it.****
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> Cheers****
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> Mark****
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> On 16 April 2013 12:52, Jackson Bates <bates.j at wcc.vic.edu.au> wrote:****
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> Oh wiser ones,
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> I'm not much of a security buff, so I'm interested: what are the various
> methods spammers and crooks use to infiltrate our email addresses?
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> My guesses are brute-force / dictionary attacks (but I imagine yahoo et
> al. block repeated guesses or use captcha), phishing, malware/Trojans (not
> sure what these would do - capture keystrokes?).
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> And do http://www.seller-service.com/ (for example) know they are hosting
> whatever resides at '/qlsnthcd/1tni5/gyqid3oo/x71m/1695jqh' or has it been
> snuck on to their server (and again, how? SQL injection leading to access
> to admin panel?)
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> Slightly off-topic, but loosely relevant to U4O2...and asking here means I
> don't spend the rest of the afternoon Googling it :)
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> Aside: Why does it always seem to be Yahoo?
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> Thanks for anything that abates my curiousity,
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> Jackson Bates
> Waverley Christian College
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> Mark Kelly****
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> mark AT vceit DOT com****
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