A friend of mine is particularly anal when it comes to security. He's a network security geek for a major college in the Boston area, and security is his life. Unfortunately, he'll interact with you when he's just entered Level 1 REM sleep.
About 7 years ago, he was crashed out on the floor of my apartment after a late night session. Since I was still coherent, I started saying random command prompts and command lines to him. He had just fallen asleep, and was finishing the prompts!
Me: rm -rf Him: star
Me: apachectl Him: restart
Me: shutdown Him: -h now
And then I upped the stakes.
Me: username Him: blurted out his username
Me: password Him: blurted out his password
I left him an e-mail from himself that evening, and then went to bed. The next morning, he said "cute trick, but anyone can forge the From: header". I told him to go and double-check the received line, and he'd see that it was sent from localhost on a server that I didn't have an account on.
He was rather annoyed and amused at the same time...
I might suspect that all news stories are equally flawed, but it's only the "teenage haxor angst" ones that I know are flawed.
My mistake...I should have qualified my post with a "Virtually every..." instead of simply saying "every...". I'm just bitter about constantly getting misquoted. The first misquote of my career goes back to 1996 when an MacWeek author writing a Web graphics piece misquoted me as saying that JPEG is a lossless compression when I explicitly told him in both a phone and e-mail interview it was lossy.
I'm always skeptical of stories like this. Everytime there was a story where I knew the people and facts directly, the story was usually a mish-mash mixed or invented to sex up the story.
That's usually the case with any subject! Every movie, documentary, or article that I've seen or read and have had personal experience with has been a load of bunk. I've been interviewed for numerous newspaper and magazine articles and they very rarely use any of my quotes in context. They'll usually intentionally remove the context to twist words to mean whatever agenda they're trying to push.
My personal experiences with the media have basically ruined my ability to enjoy anything anymore. Since I know for a fact that virtually every story I've contributed to has been embellished by the authors to increase its entertainment value, I assume that any story that's been done about a subject I'm not personally familiar with has been tainted as well. And, most of the time, I'm correct. A simple five minute Google or encyclopedic search on the subject gives me more accurate data than the story that I'm following up on.
SAGE has sample employment agreements online for just this purpose. It gives legal examples to use to add to or modify your existing employment agreement: http://www.sage-au.org.au/osda/
> Any how, I hope the feds will be in attendance and taking notes on who shows up at this "conference".
I personally hope that many feds are there. At previous HOPE conferences I attended, it was a pleasure to be able to sit down with law enforcement agents from various three-letter-organizations and chat it up with them. They learned from me. I learned from them. And, overall, they're pretty cool guys. Besides, my file is filled with good stuff, so it doesn't really matter to me.
And, on a side note, on Atkins I'm gaining muscle mass while losing weight! I'm using a Tanita scale for all readings and my body fat percentage has been slowly but steadily dropping as I lose weight.
Did you try exercise? Serious question, not trying to flame here.
Yes...while I was on the low-calorie diet I was slowly gaining weight when I wasn't exercising. When I was exercising (walking a mile each day) I stopped gaining, but I wasn't losing. I was around 330 pounds at that time. My average food intake was a Slim Fast for breakfast, a salad for lunch, and a salad with low-fat lunchmeat for dinner. This went on for two or three months and I never dropped a single pound.
Later, when I switched to Weight Watchers low fat/calorie and around a 2000 calorie intake with hardcore exercise (1-2 miles each day, plus 45 minutes of cardio or 45 minutes of lifting), I dropped down to around 295/300 and hit a brick wall. I stopped losing weight and the times my trainer checked body fat percentage she said that I wasn't gaining much muscle mass.
When I switched to Atkins, I immediately started dropping 1-2 pounds per week and, by adding exercise (5 miles cardio or 45 minutes of lifting), that number jumped to 2-4 pounds per week. I've dropped from 295 or 300 to 222 while on Atkins.
So, the first 30 pounds (330 down to 300) was on Weight watchers but I stayed at 300 for almost two and a half years before I switched to Atkins this January.
I second bleu cheese dressing. That, and Caesar dressing. Just make sure to read the labels. As stated above, cheap dressings are no go. The expensive ones are all low or no carb.
I bailed from Lucent a few short months before they shut down the Allentown offices. Since I'm on Atkins I have a few spare boxes of Ramen I could send you...what's your address?;)
Nobody can gain weight on 1200 calories a day unless they're under 90 pounds or completely bedridden. What you mean is that you, like most people, were fooling yourself about how many calories you were eating.
If you say so. I just know what works for me and my personal experience. When I was religiously logging every single calorie and ounce of water that went into my body when I switched to Atkins, I found that 2000 calories per day gave me a weight loss of 1.2 pounds per week and 3000 to 3500 calories per day gave me a weight loss of 2 to 3 pounds per week. Add exercise to 3000 calories per day and I'd jump up to 3.5 to 4 pounds per week. This is well documented in various Atkins and low-carb forums where people have to increase their daily calories to get their bodies out of starvation mode.
I also know that, four or five years ago, I tried the 1200 calorie per day thing and gained weight. When I increased my caloric intake, I stopped gaining weight. At that time I was logging every single calorie and gram of fat using Excel spreadsheets so I wasn't fooling myself. Like I said, everyones' metabolism is different and each person reacts to fats, carbs, and calories differently. Atkins isn't for everyone (it didn't work for my wife at all), but it has worked wonders for me.
Chicken wings rule. Hot sauce is usually zero carb unless they add a lot of garbage to it. And most chain pizza joints use so little sauce you can eat everything but the crust and still be safe.
Ha! Well, I've thought about it. But seriously, I tried the "just eat less" approach. It didn't work. I tried a low-fat 1200 calorie-per-day approach for a few months quite a while ago and actually gained weight. Everyones' metabolism is different. Now that I've switched to Atkins I pull in well over 2500 to 3500 calories per day and lose more weight now than any other diet I've tried before.
Like all good bond adversaries, this one won't die.
And, like all good Bond adversaries, this one has a nice secret hideout in Woburn. The 4 Oak St. address in his whois info is bogus. 4 Oak St. doesn't even exist. Oh, no, I found his secret hideout by scouring Google, showed up on his doorstep, and he denied being Robert Todino. Jim Todino, however, seemed to be quite perturbed by the fact that I was standing there.
It was amusing at the time but, now that you mention Bond, it's laugh out loud funny. I had the tall and extremely badass looking trenchcoat-clad sinister villain (Robert, I presume) standing in the doorway with the smaller sidekick (Jim) behind him covering his back. Like most adversaries, the sinister villain was cool and collected where the sidekick was stumbling for words.
Wacky.
Anyway, my account of being one of the forgery victims of Robert is on my blog.
Just do a Google search for "chrome box" and toss in some other keywords for good measure like traffic, phreak, hack, etc. Plans for these things as well as the proper timings and patterns for different cities and regions have been available for years. I built one for gits and shiggles over 10 years ago and used to play around with it.
The novelty quickly wore off, however, because of the standard Garfield ism of "it's not the having, it's the getting". I used up all of my fun trying to figure out the proper timings and patterns and then actually implementing the box proved to be quite boring.
Tell me, when did regular attendance sheets become inadequate for this? Why does the school need to spend millions of dollars for RFID, when it's no more accurate than the old fashioned "check the box for each student that's here" method?
Hrm. If I give my friend $10 to sit in my seat, I'm sure the teacher will notice when she takes attendance. If I give my friend $10 to wear both his and my RFID tags, I'm sure the teacher won't notice.
I can just imagine the 911 call now...
"Johnny is missing! His RFID tag reports that he's moving slowly underneath the school and...into the sewer? Quick, get a K9 out here now!"
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Already have. They're using non-standard comments in some of the CSS blocks that cause ICE and other embedded browsers to puke horribly.
A friend of mine is particularly anal when it comes to security. He's a network security geek for a major college in the Boston area, and security is his life. Unfortunately, he'll interact with you when he's just entered Level 1 REM sleep.
About 7 years ago, he was crashed out on the floor of my apartment after a late night session. Since I was still coherent, I started saying random command prompts and command lines to him. He had just fallen asleep, and was finishing the prompts!
Me: rm -rf
Him: star
Me: apachectl
Him: restart
Me: shutdown
Him: -h now
And then I upped the stakes.
Me: username
Him: blurted out his username
Me: password
Him: blurted out his password
I left him an e-mail from himself that evening, and then went to bed. The next morning, he said "cute trick, but anyone can forge the From: header". I told him to go and double-check the received line, and he'd see that it was sent from localhost on a server that I didn't have an account on.
He was rather annoyed and amused at the same time...
Priceless.
Time for the annual April First Slashdottings!
Mod parent up! I can't mod because I already commented! Dude, you rule...
My mistake...I should have qualified my post with a "Virtually every..." instead of simply saying "every...". I'm just bitter about constantly getting misquoted. The first misquote of my career goes back to 1996 when an MacWeek author writing a Web graphics piece misquoted me as saying that JPEG is a lossless compression when I explicitly told him in both a phone and e-mail interview it was lossy.
But I'm not bitter...
That's usually the case with any subject! Every movie, documentary, or article that I've seen or read and have had personal experience with has been a load of bunk. I've been interviewed for numerous newspaper and magazine articles and they very rarely use any of my quotes in context. They'll usually intentionally remove the context to twist words to mean whatever agenda they're trying to push.
My personal experiences with the media have basically ruined my ability to enjoy anything anymore. Since I know for a fact that virtually every story I've contributed to has been embellished by the authors to increase its entertainment value, I assume that any story that's been done about a subject I'm not personally familiar with has been tainted as well. And, most of the time, I'm correct. A simple five minute Google or encyclopedic search on the subject gives me more accurate data than the story that I'm following up on.
SAGE has sample employment agreements online for just this purpose. It gives legal examples to use to add to or modify your existing employment agreement: http://www.sage-au.org.au/osda/
I was going to attempt a witty remark about Unintel Inside, but couldn't pull it off...
1994? 1997? 2000? 2004?
I dunno, I thought it was every 3 years, but I guess they're skipping a year...
I personally hope that many feds are there. At previous HOPE conferences I attended, it was a pleasure to be able to sit down with law enforcement agents from various three-letter-organizations and chat it up with them. They learned from me. I learned from them. And, overall, they're pretty cool guys. Besides, my file is filled with good stuff, so it doesn't really matter to me.
And, on a side note, on Atkins I'm gaining muscle mass while losing weight! I'm using a Tanita scale for all readings and my body fat percentage has been slowly but steadily dropping as I lose weight.
Yes...while I was on the low-calorie diet I was slowly gaining weight when I wasn't exercising. When I was exercising (walking a mile each day) I stopped gaining, but I wasn't losing. I was around 330 pounds at that time. My average food intake was a Slim Fast for breakfast, a salad for lunch, and a salad with low-fat lunchmeat for dinner. This went on for two or three months and I never dropped a single pound.
Later, when I switched to Weight Watchers low fat/calorie and around a 2000 calorie intake with hardcore exercise (1-2 miles each day, plus 45 minutes of cardio or 45 minutes of lifting), I dropped down to around 295/300 and hit a brick wall. I stopped losing weight and the times my trainer checked body fat percentage she said that I wasn't gaining much muscle mass.
When I switched to Atkins, I immediately started dropping 1-2 pounds per week and, by adding exercise (5 miles cardio or 45 minutes of lifting), that number jumped to 2-4 pounds per week. I've dropped from 295 or 300 to 222 while on Atkins.
So, the first 30 pounds (330 down to 300) was on Weight watchers but I stayed at 300 for almost two and a half years before I switched to Atkins this January.
I second bleu cheese dressing. That, and Caesar dressing. Just make sure to read the labels. As stated above, cheap dressings are no go. The expensive ones are all low or no carb.
There's always room for Jello!
I bailed from Lucent a few short months before they shut down the Allentown offices. Since I'm on Atkins I have a few spare boxes of Ramen I could send you...what's your address? ;)
If you say so. I just know what works for me and my personal experience. When I was religiously logging every single calorie and ounce of water that went into my body when I switched to Atkins, I found that 2000 calories per day gave me a weight loss of 1.2 pounds per week and 3000 to 3500 calories per day gave me a weight loss of 2 to 3 pounds per week. Add exercise to 3000 calories per day and I'd jump up to 3.5 to 4 pounds per week. This is well documented in various Atkins and low-carb forums where people have to increase their daily calories to get their bodies out of starvation mode.
I also know that, four or five years ago, I tried the 1200 calorie per day thing and gained weight. When I increased my caloric intake, I stopped gaining weight. At that time I was logging every single calorie and gram of fat using Excel spreadsheets so I wasn't fooling myself. Like I said, everyones' metabolism is different and each person reacts to fats, carbs, and calories differently. Atkins isn't for everyone (it didn't work for my wife at all), but it has worked wonders for me.
Chicken wings rule. Hot sauce is usually zero carb unless they add a lot of garbage to it. And most chain pizza joints use so little sauce you can eat everything but the crust and still be safe.
Dilbert already covered this... :)
Ha! Well, I've thought about it. But seriously, I tried the "just eat less" approach. It didn't work. I tried a low-fat 1200 calorie-per-day approach for a few months quite a while ago and actually gained weight. Everyones' metabolism is different. Now that I've switched to Atkins I pull in well over 2500 to 3500 calories per day and lose more weight now than any other diet I've tried before.
And, like all good Bond adversaries, this one has a nice secret hideout in Woburn. The 4 Oak St. address in his whois info is bogus. 4 Oak St. doesn't even exist. Oh, no, I found his secret hideout by scouring Google, showed up on his doorstep, and he denied being Robert Todino. Jim Todino, however, seemed to be quite perturbed by the fact that I was standing there.
It was amusing at the time but, now that you mention Bond, it's laugh out loud funny. I had the tall and extremely badass looking trenchcoat-clad sinister villain (Robert, I presume) standing in the doorway with the smaller sidekick (Jim) behind him covering his back. Like most adversaries, the sinister villain was cool and collected where the sidekick was stumbling for words.
Wacky.
Anyway, my account of being one of the forgery victims of Robert is on my blog.
Just do a Google search for "chrome box" and toss in some other keywords for good measure like traffic, phreak, hack, etc. Plans for these things as well as the proper timings and patterns for different cities and regions have been available for years. I built one for gits and shiggles over 10 years ago and used to play around with it. The novelty quickly wore off, however, because of the standard Garfield ism of "it's not the having, it's the getting". I used up all of my fun trying to figure out the proper timings and patterns and then actually implementing the box proved to be quite boring.
> And I was under the impression RFID is a great thing! I could find the stuff I have lost more easily atleast!
Like your children? :)
I can just imagine the 911 call now... "Johnny is missing! His RFID tag reports that he's moving slowly underneath the school and...into the sewer? Quick, get a K9 out here now!"