"The cry from the creature rang out in the misty night air, waking up Chuck Panter and his family in their tent." In this installment of the MIB Files, Mr. Unknown presents the story of an encounter with the mythical forest creature who draws the attention of the Men in Black. The MIB FILES are stories of the paranormal, strange things, and UFO sightings with one thing in common: interactions with the Men In Black (MIB). These stories are stand-alone and can be read in any order. Disclaimer: This is an original work, not based in any way on the popular movie series “Men in Black”. This story takes its inspiration from the real life accounts of the Men in Black (MIB) that were reported decades before the films were made. It makes no reference to the films, their plots, settings, or characters, or any of their ancillary properties, whatsoever.

1986. A nuclear reactor is in meltdown behind the Iron Curtain, letting off intense radiation. A solider goes into the contaminated zone to help with the clean up but gets something more demonic than a dose of radiation. The MIB FILES are stories of the paranormal, strange things, and UFO sightings with one thing in common: interactions with the Men In Black (MIB). These stories are stand-alone and can be read in any order. Disclaimer: This is an original work, not based in any way on the popular movie series “Men in Black”. This story takes its inspiration from the real life accounts of the Men in Black (MIB) that were reported decades before the films were made. It makes no reference to the films, their plots, settings, or characters, or any of their ancillary properties, whatsoever.

The deployment of communications networks and distributed computing systems requires the use of open, standards-based, integrated management systems. During the last five years, the overall industry effort to develop, enhance, and integrate man agement systems has crystallized in the concept of management platforms. Manage ment platforms are software systems which provide open, multi vendor, multiprotocol distributed management services. They allow multiple management applications to run over core platform services which constitute the essential part of the management platform framework. This book provides a comprehensive analysis of the features and technical character istics of distributed management platforms by examining both qualitative and quanti tative management capabilities required by each management platform service. The analysis covers the management platform run-time environment, the operational aspects of using management platforms, the development environment, which con sists of software toolkits that are used to build management applications, the imple mentation environment, which deals with testing interoperability aspects of using management platforms, and of course the distributed applications services which plat forms make available to management applications. Finally, the analysis covers the capabilities of several management applications, either generic or specific to devices or resources which run on top of management platforms.

The robots were made under the direction of demons who possessed people. Then the demons inhabited the robots. We who still felt we were alive, not just simply meat bags to serve the machines, gathered under the city to plot our rebellion, seeking ways to take out the robots before they took us all out. I had a mission: find the man with the robot-destroying weapon and help him to save humanity.

A self-driving car gives an older man a new-found freedom, in more ways than one. A short sci-fi/fantasy story.

The caveman abducted from Earth doesn’t understand the ark-like spaceship holding him captive. The vast ship, with its own ecosystem and self-aware A.I., is from the Watchers - energetic beings who are the guardians of life. It has been sent on an intergalactic rescue mission to preserve life forms and their DNA from disasters, both natural and created. The ship detected an energy shield being constructed around the young Earth by an unknown force. Unsure it will be able to leave Earth after its sampling mission, the ship continues. Its mission is too important not to try, even if it means being trapped inside the barrier, never to return to the planet of the Watchers with its precious cargo of life. But the ship and Earth’s life forms are not alone. The servants of the Dark One - a powerful evil entity, have arrived to begin their corruption of the pure beings they find. These ancient forces of good and evil fight a galaxy-spanning war through time and space on many fronts, through many civilizations. The Watchers must defeat the Dark One or all life in the universe will perish. EARTH PLAN is a science-fiction/fantasy novel of over 100,000 words.

This volume provides solutions for common network management problems such as scalability and increased technology mix. The book explores the use of MPLS in network management, which is used to improve the overall quality of service.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 13th International Symposium on Privacy Enhancing Technologies, PET 2013, held in Bloomington, IN, USA, in July 2013. The 13 full papers presented were carefully selected from 69 submissions. Topics addressed include data privacy, privacy-oriented cryptography, location privacy, performance of the Tor network, censorship evasion, traffc analysis, and user-related privacy perspectives.

This book explains best practices for deploying FireEye appliances and managing deployments efficiently.

Hacked robots controlled by criminal gangs wander the megacity streets looking for victims. Other robots crowd humans out of jobs and places to live. Belmont, a young technology worker, has had enough. With his robot dog and the old robot mechanic Mr. Kim, he looks for a way to escape the city before it's too late. But outside, in the unknown lands, things are even stranger and more dangerous.