This! I was just trying yesterday to recall...wasn't this a case of a poorly worded email from an IT staffer saying the phishing email was "legitimate " instead of illegitimate "? Basically a poor choice of words where an improper prefix changed the entire meaning of his advice? Serves as a great lesson to us in the field to REALLY spell things out 2 or 3 ways, like "DO NOT CLICK THAT LINK. IF YOU DID ALREADY, COME SEE I.T. IMMEDIATELY. THAT IS ALL"
I recall talking to a recruiter once that wanted me to interview for a dev position there. I believe we discussed how they they license out their platform (store libraries, payment processing, etc.) to other SMBs as well as consume it in-house. If that is the case, then I could see them becoming flush with cash on initial takeoff and expanding quickly over a short span. When the hangover wears off and the first wave of licensees goes elsewhere, perhaps it looks like this?
I also wonder if this helps to improve overall morale, which I believe has been generally abysmal for the last three years. I suspect conscientious officers not only bear the mental burdens of their own actions, but of their fellow officers as well. Knowing that any officer in their department making a visibly questionable arrest or using excessive/deadly force can bring a town to its knees and undo any good the collective department has done to that point has got to be discouraging. A boost in morale can only do good things, both for the officers and the communities they police.
When I saw this earlier, I wondered if it's A) the small group of inherently bad cops curbing their bad behavior now that they are being monitored; or B) fewer [perceived] opportunities for dishonestly reported complaints. I imagine it is some combination of the two.
...and was then asked to supply supporting documentation, as the original chain of supplied documents was found to be insufficient. The interdepartmental transfer of documents did not happen smoothly, and some of my documents ended up on one clerk's desk while the rest were in another official's catalog. In this instance, poor document control procedures were clearly at fault. However, at each step of the process, I was told to wait 8 - 12 weeks to allow for an official reply. In the end, I submitted a 5-page letter that sounded more like a court briefing than a business letter outlining the chronology, duration, and content of every phone call and letter. This finally drew an IRS investigators attention and it was resolved within 3 weeks. Inefficiency and unreliability are already.
The flow of information into and out of federal beurocracies is already torturous enough without the government supplying faulty information that we turn around and feed-back. My concern is for the taxpayers who made an effort to be responsible with their withholding and punctual in their filing. I suspect the government will be even less likely to address this queue of corrections since the only reason I can fathom people wish to file early is to get a refund sooner rather than later.
I fear this will not end well for those who happened to already file. I have previously dealt directly with the IRS for three filings, two of which were multi-month-long processes. In the worst case, I spent the better part of 13 months corresponding via phone and U.S. Mail regarding an amended return -- they owed me money.
I'm not sure what percentage of filers end up owing taxes versus owed refunds. I imagine the number is fewer, so perhaps less than 400,000 people were even motivated to file early. But for those that were, I could see the amendment process dragging on until 2016.
I first noticed these last summer outside my house about 30 miles west of Washington, DC in the northern VA suburbs. For about a month, I would see one every couple of days hurling itself into the porch light at night. I initally thought it was a locust because of its size and impact sound. Only when it gave up and buzzed away did hear the menacing sound of its wings, which was nothing like the familar clatter of a locust/cicada. Then one night while working on my car in the garage, four of them came in -- fortunately not at the same time! Each time, one of them would come tearing in through the open garage door and attack each of the 6 overhead lights like mad. It would pause for about 10 seconds after each 3-minute light-bulb battle.
These fuckers are relentless. On the first one, I wasn't sure what I was dealing with, so I assumed I could easily dispatch it and be about my car repair. I grabbed my hornet spray and cautiously waited for it to land. As soon as I got within 10 feet of where it paused, the damned thing came after me dive-bomber style. Thanks to a violent fit of crouching, ducking, and infant-fall-reflex, I didn't get nailed. This happened at least 6 more times before I finally hit it with the spray...BUT THEN IT WAS JUST MAD. It went absolutely berzerk and did its pelting attack routine against everything in my garage. Again, I hit it after 3 minutes when it landed. It finally ended up on the ground, but was still trying to fly, so I emptied a quarter of the spray can, which finally got it.
After enjoying a brief sense of accomplishment from a 20-minute battle with mother nature, I got back to work....for 5 minutes...before another one came in. I HATE these things. I spent 90 minutes that night duking it out with them. I killed another one a week ago but I have no clue where the nest might be. And I don't want to know. I've warned my kids about them, but I know it's only a matter of time. I just hope it doesn't go badly.
I grew up in New Orleans where "French Bread" is a staple. I recall many years ago asking my mother why they call the meal French toast. She relayed what her grandmother told her years before -- that the French dish "lost bread" uses dipped, stale bread to salvage what would otherwise be wasted food. A fresh loaf of common bread will fall apart when you pull it out of the milk and eggs. However, New Orleans "French Bread" as a firm crust yet porous, sponge-like interior to both soak up the mix while hold together.
Is it possible that this announcement is merely a ploy to see who starts reaching for cookie jars in the organization? What better way to identify potentially disgruntled or idealogically-opposed employees than this exact type of provocation? Once a handful of individuals get caught behaving suspiciously, RIF them and say "just kidding about the 90%". It doesn't seem implausible to me.
"Who did you hear about this from? We've been getting a lot of calls about this." --from a staffer in Frank Wolf's DC office, 10th district of Virginia around 5PM this evening
I asked the staffer if he was aware of the Rep. Wolf's position on the matter. He wasn't; I mentioned my concern and encouraged Wolf's support for the amendment that limits funding to the NSA's effort to broadly sweep up call data for domestic surveillance. When he asked who was driving this effort, I didn't say slashdot, but said the topic had been in the news with a big lawsuit being brought against the NSA by the EFF.
Apparently, all the IT folks up here in northern VA got the memo and called.
One of the seemingly non-sensitive tables dumped from a financial firm database was obviously populated from the website's contact form. However, one guy had sent his DOB and SSN in the body of the form submission. So this may be an outlier, but rather important if you're "that guy".
Sure, we could go to four displays next, like the competition. That seems like the logical thing to do. After all, three worked out pretty well, and four is the next number after three. So let's play it safe. Let's make a brighter backlight and call it the Mach3SuperTurbo HUD. Why innovate when we can follow? Oh, I know why: Because we're a business, that's why!
--James M. Kilts
CEO and President, The Gillette Company
It won't slow "cord cutting" to make cable subscriptions more attractive, it'll just lead to people not using Hulu,
I 100% agree. I've had Comcast service for the last 2 years after moving out to the fringe. Last month, after three iterations of the "discount-expires / I-cancel / Comcast-reoffers-discount / I-reneg" charade, I cut the cord. The mental exercise of remembering the offer's expiration date and then rehashing that cycle totally overshadowed what was my already dwindling viewership. Aside from "Walking Dead", the only other channel I hit was Discovery -- and even then maybe twice a week. Netflix Instant Watch on the Roku / iPad coupled with DVD's for the kids give us plenty to watch.
However, the wife and I were talking just this morning about signing up for Hulu. The price and convenience of it are a no-brainer compared to traditional cable. But now that I hear about this, I think I'll reneg...and not feel shameful about this one.
The problem isn't the outrage, it's that it's aimed at useless targets.
Here in the US, I believe we are seeing the result of not having an identifiable enemy in most people's recent memory -- or at least, not an enemy that poses an existential threat to the ordinary citizen. Generations before us had readily discernible targets in the Nazis/Communists/Fascists of the world. Today, we hear an echo of that from the right-side of political spectrum in regard to fundamentalist Islam. However, that's my premise: the vast majority of our "enemies" today are faceless ideologies.
I believe the instinctual pulls of self-preservation and tribalism have remained, but have been directed internally. For example, I live in a largely prosperous area. The first- and second-hand accounts I've experienced of someone threatening to "call CPS" for the purpose of dissuading another's behaviour are astounding. People are misdirecting their inherent aggressions at their neighbors. The relative comforts many people enjoy also means they have plenty of time to judge the actions of others. If someone's behaviour doesn't fit with their model, then they find a way to punish that individual.
The more laws, rules and regulations there are one the books, the easier it is to incriminate a person. That means these useless targets are easy prey.
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This! I was just trying yesterday to recall...wasn't this a case of a poorly worded email from an IT staffer saying the phishing email was "legitimate " instead of illegitimate "? Basically a poor choice of words where an improper prefix changed the entire meaning of his advice? Serves as a great lesson to us in the field to REALLY spell things out 2 or 3 ways, like "DO NOT CLICK THAT LINK. IF YOU DID ALREADY, COME SEE I.T. IMMEDIATELY. THAT IS ALL"
I recall talking to a recruiter once that wanted me to interview for a dev position there. I believe we discussed how they they license out their platform (store libraries, payment processing, etc.) to other SMBs as well as consume it in-house. If that is the case, then I could see them becoming flush with cash on initial takeoff and expanding quickly over a short span. When the hangover wears off and the first wave of licensees goes elsewhere, perhaps it looks like this?
dropping my sig...
Is that you, Paula?
Politicians.
I also wonder if this helps to improve overall morale, which I believe has been generally abysmal for the last three years. I suspect conscientious officers not only bear the mental burdens of their own actions, but of their fellow officers as well. Knowing that any officer in their department making a visibly questionable arrest or using excessive/deadly force can bring a town to its knees and undo any good the collective department has done to that point has got to be discouraging. A boost in morale can only do good things, both for the officers and the communities they police.
When I saw this earlier, I wondered if it's A) the small group of inherently bad cops curbing their bad behavior now that they are being monitored; or B) fewer [perceived] opportunities for dishonestly reported complaints. I imagine it is some combination of the two.
...and was then asked to supply supporting documentation, as the original chain of supplied documents was found to be insufficient. The interdepartmental transfer of documents did not happen smoothly, and some of my documents ended up on one clerk's desk while the rest were in another official's catalog. In this instance, poor document control procedures were clearly at fault. However, at each step of the process, I was told to wait 8 - 12 weeks to allow for an official reply. In the end, I submitted a 5-page letter that sounded more like a court briefing than a business letter outlining the chronology, duration, and content of every phone call and letter. This finally drew an IRS investigators attention and it was resolved within 3 weeks. Inefficiency and unreliability are already.
The flow of information into and out of federal beurocracies is already torturous enough without the government supplying faulty information that we turn around and feed-back. My concern is for the taxpayers who made an effort to be responsible with their withholding and punctual in their filing. I suspect the government will be even less likely to address this queue of corrections since the only reason I can fathom people wish to file early is to get a refund sooner rather than later.
I fear this will not end well for those who happened to already file. I have previously dealt directly with the IRS for three filings, two of which were multi-month-long processes. In the worst case, I spent the better part of 13 months corresponding via phone and U.S. Mail regarding an amended return -- they owed me money.
I'm not sure what percentage of filers end up owing taxes versus owed refunds. I imagine the number is fewer, so perhaps less than 400,000 people were even motivated to file early. But for those that were, I could see the amendment process dragging on until 2016.
Does the stolen-card pusher take plastic?
1. Buy 1 stolen card for $35
2. Buy x stolen cards using a previously acquired stolen card
3. Wash/Rinse/Repeat
4. ???
5. Profit
I first noticed these last summer outside my house about 30 miles west of Washington, DC in the northern VA suburbs. For about a month, I would see one every couple of days hurling itself into the porch light at night. I initally thought it was a locust because of its size and impact sound. Only when it gave up and buzzed away did hear the menacing sound of its wings, which was nothing like the familar clatter of a locust/cicada. Then one night while working on my car in the garage, four of them came in -- fortunately not at the same time! Each time, one of them would come tearing in through the open garage door and attack each of the 6 overhead lights like mad. It would pause for about 10 seconds after each 3-minute light-bulb battle.
These fuckers are relentless. On the first one, I wasn't sure what I was dealing with, so I assumed I could easily dispatch it and be about my car repair. I grabbed my hornet spray and cautiously waited for it to land. As soon as I got within 10 feet of where it paused, the damned thing came after me dive-bomber style. Thanks to a violent fit of crouching, ducking, and infant-fall-reflex, I didn't get nailed. This happened at least 6 more times before I finally hit it with the spray...BUT THEN IT WAS JUST MAD. It went absolutely berzerk and did its pelting attack routine against everything in my garage. Again, I hit it after 3 minutes when it landed. It finally ended up on the ground, but was still trying to fly, so I emptied a quarter of the spray can, which finally got it.
After enjoying a brief sense of accomplishment from a 20-minute battle with mother nature, I got back to work....for 5 minutes...before another one came in. I HATE these things. I spent 90 minutes that night duking it out with them. I killed another one a week ago but I have no clue where the nest might be. And I don't want to know. I've warned my kids about them, but I know it's only a matter of time. I just hope it doesn't go badly.
I grew up in New Orleans where "French Bread" is a staple. I recall many years ago asking my mother why they call the meal French toast. She relayed what her grandmother told her years before -- that the French dish "lost bread" uses dipped, stale bread to salvage what would otherwise be wasted food. A fresh loaf of common bread will fall apart when you pull it out of the milk and eggs. However, New Orleans "French Bread" as a firm crust yet porous, sponge-like interior to both soak up the mix while hold together.
Is it possible that this announcement is merely a ploy to see who starts reaching for cookie jars in the organization? What better way to identify potentially disgruntled or idealogically-opposed employees than this exact type of provocation? Once a handful of individuals get caught behaving suspiciously, RIF them and say "just kidding about the 90%". It doesn't seem implausible to me.
"Who did you hear about this from? We've been getting a lot of calls about this."
--from a staffer in Frank Wolf's DC office, 10th district of Virginia around 5PM this evening
I asked the staffer if he was aware of the Rep. Wolf's position on the matter. He wasn't; I mentioned my concern and encouraged Wolf's support for the amendment that limits funding to the NSA's effort to broadly sweep up call data for domestic surveillance. When he asked who was driving this effort, I didn't say slashdot, but said the topic had been in the news with a big lawsuit being brought against the NSA by the EFF.
Apparently, all the IT folks up here in northern VA got the memo and called.
My guess is we're seeing the fruits of the hash-verification bug from this past June in MySQL/MariaDB.
http://www.informationweek.com/security/storage/mysql-database-flaw-leaves-passwords-vul/240001921
One of the seemingly non-sensitive tables dumped from a financial firm database was obviously populated from the website's contact form. However, one guy had sent his DOB and SSN in the body of the form submission. So this may be an outlier, but rather important if you're "that guy".
So what would the translation be if you used the gloves to masturbate?
a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a
In all honesty, it's closer to :
O O O O O O O O O O O O O O O O O O O O O O O O O O O
ps - My wife is an interpreter for the deaf
Fuck Everything, We're Doing Five Displays
Sure, we could go to four displays next, like the competition. That seems like the logical thing to do. After all, three worked out pretty well, and four is the next number after three. So let's play it safe. Let's make a brighter backlight and call it the Mach3SuperTurbo HUD. Why innovate when we can follow? Oh, I know why: Because we're a business, that's why!
--James M. Kilts CEO and President, The Gillette Company
It won't slow "cord cutting" to make cable subscriptions more attractive, it'll just lead to people not using Hulu,
I 100% agree. I've had Comcast service for the last 2 years after moving out to the fringe. Last month, after three iterations of the "discount-expires / I-cancel / Comcast-reoffers-discount / I-reneg" charade, I cut the cord. The mental exercise of remembering the offer's expiration date and then rehashing that cycle totally overshadowed what was my already dwindling viewership. Aside from "Walking Dead", the only other channel I hit was Discovery -- and even then maybe twice a week. Netflix Instant Watch on the Roku / iPad coupled with DVD's for the kids give us plenty to watch.
However, the wife and I were talking just this morning about signing up for Hulu. The price and convenience of it are a no-brainer compared to traditional cable. But now that I hear about this, I think I'll reneg...and not feel shameful about this one.
Good luck, Hulu.
The problem isn't the outrage, it's that it's aimed at useless targets.
Here in the US, I believe we are seeing the result of not having an identifiable enemy in most people's recent memory -- or at least, not an enemy that poses an existential threat to the ordinary citizen. Generations before us had readily discernible targets in the Nazis/Communists/Fascists of the world. Today, we hear an echo of that from the right-side of political spectrum in regard to fundamentalist Islam. However, that's my premise: the vast majority of our "enemies" today are faceless ideologies.
I believe the instinctual pulls of self-preservation and tribalism have remained, but have been directed internally. For example, I live in a largely prosperous area. The first- and second-hand accounts I've experienced of someone threatening to "call CPS" for the purpose of dissuading another's behaviour are astounding. People are misdirecting their inherent aggressions at their neighbors. The relative comforts many people enjoy also means they have plenty of time to judge the actions of others. If someone's behaviour doesn't fit with their model, then they find a way to punish that individual.
The more laws, rules and regulations there are one the books, the easier it is to incriminate a person. That means these useless targets are easy prey.