Please hire me. I'm more than qualified, and you already have files full of my "qualifications".:)
I have a friend working in intelligence. He says the FBI is hiring now for someone with exactly my qualifications. He laughed, "Oh you know JW Smythe? DISQUALIFIED." Me, my friends, my family, and people who may know me. I've single handedly disqualified every Slashdot reader.:)
Last night, I was giving directions over the phone on swapping drives at a remote location, then I did array work from here, and started a 2 day transfer..
Today I spent 4 hours on the phone. Worked on a Win2k box, 15 linux boxes, and tonights task has been to fix a dozen or so libraries on an old RedHat box, so a client can install a piece of software that they want. Oh ya, and got my image thingie working on my site, so people can select images from our library to include in their news submissions.
Fun, fun..
I saw boobies once. One of the client calls was regarding an adult site.
boobies get old after too many years of working with adult hostings.. Kinda like working QA for a brothel. After a while, it all seems the same, and you kinda dread the next one.
You should have never put that you were a woman in a Slashdot article.:)
If the company is large enough, you may luck out and get all the training you'd need. I've known people who have worked for large companies, and they spent about 25% of the year out at one training or another. As for the rest of us, ya, we train ourselves.
After years of working with Cisco equipment, I finally talked a boss-type person into paying my way to a Cisco class. Now I have my CCNA. As it turns out, I had self-taught myself 99% of it, and the rest I didn't need for what I do. Ya, ISDN is a biggie these days, isn't it?:)
You have to feel out your environment. If you can, tell them "This wasn't part of the job requrement when I started, and I need additional training to properly accomplish what you are requesting." Of course, that may be an open invitation for them to replace you, which may be the intention in the first place.
I find that most people are underqualified and overpaid, especially bosses.
You sound like the rest of us though. overqualified, overworked, and underpaid. Unfortunately, you recognize that you need additional training, and they don't understand that we can't know everything. We can only come damned close.:)
If you're looking to do sniffing with one, you have to go get the right hardware.. I like the "Simply Wireless" NL-25111CD PUS EXT2. It's sold under many different names, but it only does 802.11b. I haven't bothered to try anything with 802.11g before.
The original poster was just looking for connectivity, not hacking, or at least that's the way it appeared.
This was a Best Buy in Scarborough, Canada (Toronto). They only had the gaming adapter, not the WET. Hell if I care which one in most environments. The gaming adapter tries to associate with the closest AP, so that can be touchy in an apartment or other high density AP environment.
The 'techs' there were pretty sure it wouldn't work. They couldn't believe not only did it, but I'd used them before.
I've made many wireless devices work under Linux, but sometimes bridges are easier.
I was on a work site for a long time, and the hotel I was in offered only wireless service. I wanted to have my phone (Vonage) and my laptop working, so I bought a gaming bridge, and put that in front of my access point. It took a little hunting. The local stores didn't have the WET* devices, only the gaming adapters stocked with their gaming consoles. The people in the store had no clue that you could use one for a PC.
While working on the site, my laptop died, so I bought a PC, and just plugged the ethernet port into my AP. Everything worked very well the entire time I was there. The only time I was down was when the hotel's wireless network was unavailable. That happened twice, and the front desk confirmed that it was down, so I didn't need to screw with my equipment.
The only wireless device that I haven't managed to make work is the Broadcom BM4306 that came with my HP zv6000. That's not a failure of the Linux drivers. There is a stupid soft button to enable the antenna, and no one has figured it out for this particular zv6000 subrevision. All my other wireless cards work fine in the PCMCIA/PCCARD slot.
As I've found, if all else fails, get a wireless bridge (like a Linksys WET54G), and plug it into your ethernet port. Sticking on one extra device is a lot easier than switching to Windows.:)
Hehe.. No, I'm not. I just have some whacky ideas that I like to throw out for public opinion once in a while. At very least, they make for interesting conversation.
The truth is, short of getting our hands on a time machine, we'll probably never know much about our own history beyond the relatively recent past. The best chance we have is if an alien stops by and says "Oh ya, we've been watching you evolve for the last 10 million years." I'm not holding my breath on that one.
Scientologists have some... well... screwy ideas. I've known a few, and have talked with them a lot.
My biggest problem with their whole thing is that it's against their whole philosophy to consider any other options, other than what they're fed.
While talking with one friend who was pretty deep into their whole thing, I was comparing what he told me to older religions and ideas. He was rather upset, because I was effectively telling him that the scientologist concept isn't really theirs.
There was a scandal a while back, where some of their higher books were taken by a high ranking member, who then made available to the general public. It's against their rules for someone of a lower level to read higher level books. I feel that no one should believe in something, unless they are as informed as possible. Where they go through the very costly system that they have, and it's mandatory (arguably by them), the whole thing is marketing ploy. Then again, what religion isn't out to make a buck?
Even worse, if you consider that we are the aliens, and our species has simply invaded and conquered this planet an aen ago. We adapted, survived, and destroyed our own history. If you don't understand the destroyed part of that, go to a library and read some 6,000 year old books. Assuming you knew the language, you wouldn't find the books. They're lost, damaged, and/or intentionally destroyed over the years.
We are the aliens, and our brothern have forgotten about us. We will be stuck here, alone, for a long time.
Some of my friends in Florida noticed some odd 'humming' from the MacDill AFB during the storms of the last two seasons.
In a few documentaries, non-conspiracy type, there were mentions of HAARP being used to steer storms away from high value locations (such as MacDill AFB, home of SOCOM).
HAARP is widely known to be Tesla's work. Tesla was well known for things that go zap.
Bumping a storm away from valuable places such as MacDill, and letting it damage some oil stuff is worth while. It runs the price of oil up, and the damaged oil equipment can be replaced. Of course, a few people may get hurt, but that's not the government's concern.
I'm sure NASA won't be informed of the actions at HAARP, so they'll be investigating something where they will never receive the details of how it happened.
If they cooperate, they don't get harassed. Which is better, to hand everything over with a smile on your face, or have the feds screwing with you for years to come?
https isn't all that, but I support it on my own site, https://freeinternetpress.com/ , and I put a little reminder image on the top left. It's pretty trivial to do, and if you believe https makes you that much more secure, go for it.
https is decryptable. The question would be, are they interested in doing it? Most people are sending the majority of their stuff in the clear. Most people assume that because they may have a secure connection to their mail server, that it's encrypted going to another server. That's far from the truth. SMTP is unecrypted, as are most implementations of POP and IMAP. Your IM messages are also unencrypted, or at least can be intercepted at the server. I picked my VoIP carrier, because their data is encrypted, but it's only that way until it has to go over traditional transports. If I call another VoIP customer on my provider, it's (as advertised) encrypted. If I call a POTS line, there goes my security.
Is it worth their while to decrypt encrypted stuff? Probably not. But, if they believe a target is worth while, they'll crack your communication like it's nothing. I'm sure plenty of people will respond with the "it would take a..." messages. It would use a (whatever), if YOU, the casual user were to do it. If they had a dedicated cluster set up for figuring out keys, then it's trivial. They can crack your encryption faster than a kid with a copy of airsnort can crack your WEP encryption.
Of course, the more encryption you use, the more suspicious you look. What are you trying to hide? Will it be faster to pick you up, seize all of your electronics, and interrogate you for the next two years?
What do you have to hide anyways? Chances are, nothing that interesting.
I've given up on the thought that anything I say or do is that interesting to them. If it was, I would have the black van still parked in front of my house, or I'd be lounging around in Southeastern Cuba. I don't do anything all that subversive. I report the news, which is already publically available.
My biggest concerns are that some wannabe agent, like a TSA agent, or local rookie cop, will harass me over things I carry. I have a laptop. I have miles of cables and adapters. I have books on security. Oddly enough, I use them for perfectly legal work. I get harassed occasionally. For quite a while, I'd be selected for secondary searches at airports, because the wire for my WiFi antenna was stuck to the top of my laptop. I'd tell them what it was. They'd half-ass search my bag, and ask questions about why I was traveling. 15 minutes later, I'd go and get on the plane. They'd miss obvious things, like my bag smelled of gunpowder, or there was a lighter in the bottom of my bag.
BTW, the gunpowder smell wasn't anything illegal. I was at the shooting range one day, and at the airport later. No gun, no ammo, but plenty of residual stink that their sniffer didn't pick up. I don't feel any safer because of the searches. I just feel delayed and violated. Why should I have to explain every device I carry with me, when they're all commercially available (and legal) products?
It still sucks that I can't carry a screwdriver. I *HAVE* to check a bag everywhere I go, because I can't carry a #2 phillips with me. It makes it very hard for me to work, if I don't have at least that.
For some reason, last time I flew, several pairs of jeans were seized. They forgot the extensive electronics and hand tools, and stole my jeans. {sigh} I'm happy they didn't take any of the electronics or tools. Those are more expensive to replace.
>> The world is rapidly becoming more big brother-ish. I don't like saying it, but it's >> something we'll have to get used to, until plenty of administrations change. As we innovate >> newer technologies, they'll continue to be used against us.
> WHAT THE FUCK IS WRONG WITH YOU?!?!?!!? > > > Seriously? "We just have to get used to it"?? FUCK THAT. I'm not willing to bend over for > an incestual Big Brother. > > No. I will take up arms far before then. Bring on civil war, if that is what it takes. > Bring on pain and suffering, if that is what it takes. Bring on loss of not only my life, > but everyone I love and care about, if that is what it takes.
Good. You are someone willing to fight for their freedoms. You are one of the many who are willing to do what it takes to bring on change.
I don't advocate picking up a gun and trying to change things though. By yourself, you are a lone lunitic with a gun. You, with 100,000 others are a revolution. Then you are the patriots who formed a new nation.
Note the site listed in my profile on here. I will be part of the revolution, before I am with Big Brother.
I do have a bike, but it's 3 miles uphill from the nearest store to my house right now.
Like I said in the previous post, I drove through bad neighborhoods that I didn't even want to stop at stop signs. A bike for a nice white boy like me would be an open invitation for trouble. That, and it's hard to move servers on a bicycle.:)
Most states require a more extensive check in most cases.
For me, I am licensed in one state, which says I can walk into a store and buy a gun on the spot. They call in to the state, to see if there is anything new on my record. In that state, if I didn't have my license, there is a 7 day waiting period, while they run the appropriate background checks.
To get my license, they ran it through the state background checks, as well as federal background checks. Of course, that makes extra records with the state and FBI that I did have the checks run, indicating that I intended to get a license.
For me now, if I am stopped for a traffic violation, it is strongly suggested that I keep my hands in plain sight, and tell the officer if there is a weapon in the vehicle. Notification of my weapons license status is given when they run my license plate.
Being forbidden from buying legally doesn't really inhibit anything. If you don't have a friend who will buy for you, you can always find one on the black market. The laws control people who wish to follow the laws.
I can legally buy guns, and do own some. I've also been approached by individuals who wanted guns, who couldn't legally own them. I've simply chosen not to sell to them. They've frequently had good offers. If someone was short of cash, a 50% markup sounds pretty reasonable. My collection is small, and I like what I have, so I don't consider any offers.
Anyone who drove through that area, from a suspected bad area, is now a suspect.
I know that many times, I've driven through bad parts of town, to commute to work. Some of the worst parts of town have the least traffic, so I've taken liberties with traffic control devices, like rolling stop signs. The police don't care, because if I'm not even stopping for stop signs, then I'm not buying drugs, or picking up some nasty hooker.
Now, being that I drove by a neighborhood with suspected bad people, I could now be bulked into that group. I'd still be perfectly innocent, because I don't know the people in those areas, but I'd look guilty as sin.
They'd be able to take liberties of when to pick me up too. It's easier to follow me, and pick me up in a grocery store parking lot, than to wait until I'm at home or work.
The world is rapidly becoming more big brother-ish. I don't like saying it, but it's something we'll have to get used to, until plenty of administrations change. As we innovate newer technologies, they'll continue to be used against us.
You are aware that with a reader base of over 250,000 people, not everyone here can be pathetically single. I won't say that everyone is happily involved, but in any significantly large group, you will find individuals who match any profile.
But ya, I wouldn't take relationship advice from most Slashdotters.:) Most of the time, I find that we don't take the obvious and good advice, and go with the illogical advice. But hey, that's love..:)
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Please hire me. I'm more than qualified, and you already have files full of my "qualifications".
I have a friend working in intelligence. He says the FBI is hiring now for someone with exactly my qualifications. He laughed, "Oh you know JW Smythe? DISQUALIFIED." Me, my friends, my family, and people who may know me. I've single handedly disqualified every Slashdot reader.
hehe. hey, that's the day job..
Last night, I was giving directions over the phone on swapping drives at a remote location, then I did array work from here, and started a 2 day transfer..
Today I spent 4 hours on the phone. Worked on a Win2k box, 15 linux boxes, and tonights task has been to fix a dozen or so libraries on an old RedHat box, so a client can install a piece of software that they want. Oh ya, and got my image thingie working on my site, so people can select images from our library to include in their news submissions.
Fun, fun..
I saw boobies once. One of the client calls was regarding an adult site.
boobies get old after too many years of working with adult hostings.. Kinda like working QA for a brothel. After a while, it all seems the same, and you kinda dread the next one.
wait.. wait.. wait..
You get off-hours??
Fuck.
I get 24/7 pager duty, phone calls from 5am to
You should have never put that you were a woman in a Slashdot article.
If the company is large enough, you may luck out and get all the training you'd need. I've known people who have worked for large companies, and they spent about 25% of the year out at one training or another. As for the rest of us, ya, we train ourselves.
After years of working with Cisco equipment, I finally talked a boss-type person into paying my way to a Cisco class. Now I have my CCNA. As it turns out, I had self-taught myself 99% of it, and the rest I didn't need for what I do. Ya, ISDN is a biggie these days, isn't it?
You have to feel out your environment. If you can, tell them "This wasn't part of the job requrement when I started, and I need additional training to properly accomplish what you are requesting." Of course, that may be an open invitation for them to replace you, which may be the intention in the first place.
I find that most people are underqualified and overpaid, especially bosses.
You sound like the rest of us though. overqualified, overworked, and underpaid. Unfortunately, you recognize that you need additional training, and they don't understand that we can't know everything. We can only come damned close.
If you're looking to do sniffing with one, you have to go get the right hardware.. I like the "Simply Wireless" NL-25111CD PUS EXT2. It's sold under many different names, but it only does 802.11b. I haven't bothered to try anything with 802.11g before.
The original poster was just looking for connectivity, not hacking, or at least that's the way it appeared.
I use kismet to do my sniffing.
This was a Best Buy in Scarborough, Canada (Toronto). They only had the gaming adapter, not the WET. Hell if I care which one in most environments. The gaming adapter tries to associate with the closest AP, so that can be touchy in an apartment or other high density AP environment.
The 'techs' there were pretty sure it wouldn't work. They couldn't believe not only did it, but I'd used them before.
You're so right.
I've made many wireless devices work under Linux, but sometimes bridges are easier.
I was on a work site for a long time, and the hotel I was in offered only wireless service. I wanted to have my phone (Vonage) and my laptop working, so I bought a gaming bridge, and put that in front of my access point. It took a little hunting. The local stores didn't have the WET* devices, only the gaming adapters stocked with their gaming consoles. The people in the store had no clue that you could use one for a PC.
While working on the site, my laptop died, so I bought a PC, and just plugged the ethernet port into my AP. Everything worked very well the entire time I was there. The only time I was down was when the hotel's wireless network was unavailable. That happened twice, and the front desk confirmed that it was down, so I didn't need to screw with my equipment.
You aparently didn't come across the biggest Linux wireless site that I know of.
n ux/
:)
http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/Jean_Tourrilhes/Li
The only wireless device that I haven't managed to make work is the Broadcom BM4306 that came with my HP zv6000. That's not a failure of the Linux drivers. There is a stupid soft button to enable the antenna, and no one has figured it out for this particular zv6000 subrevision. All my other wireless cards work fine in the PCMCIA/PCCARD slot.
As I've found, if all else fails, get a wireless bridge (like a Linksys WET54G), and plug it into your ethernet port. Sticking on one extra device is a lot easier than switching to Windows.
Good choice of references.
Hehe.. No, I'm not. I just have some whacky ideas that I like to throw out for public opinion once in a while. At very least, they make for interesting conversation.
... well ... screwy ideas. I've known a few, and have talked with them a lot.
The truth is, short of getting our hands on a time machine, we'll probably never know much about our own history beyond the relatively recent past. The best chance we have is if an alien stops by and says "Oh ya, we've been watching you evolve for the last 10 million years." I'm not holding my breath on that one.
Scientologists have some
My biggest problem with their whole thing is that it's against their whole philosophy to consider any other options, other than what they're fed.
While talking with one friend who was pretty deep into their whole thing, I was comparing what he told me to older religions and ideas. He was rather upset, because I was effectively telling him that the scientologist concept isn't really theirs.
There was a scandal a while back, where some of their higher books were taken by a high ranking member, who then made available to the general public. It's against their rules for someone of a lower level to read higher level books. I feel that no one should believe in something, unless they are as informed as possible. Where they go through the very costly system that they have, and it's mandatory (arguably by them), the whole thing is marketing ploy. Then again, what religion isn't out to make a buck?
"before they invade us,"
Optimistic, aren't you?
Even worse, if you consider that we are the aliens, and our species has simply invaded and conquered this planet an aen ago. We adapted, survived, and destroyed our own history. If you don't understand the destroyed part of that, go to a library and read some 6,000 year old books. Assuming you knew the language, you wouldn't find the books. They're lost, damaged, and/or intentionally destroyed over the years.
We are the aliens, and our brothern have forgotten about us. We will be stuck here, alone, for a long time.
I'm a capacitor.
If they didn't want me to touch the button, they wouldn't have made it big, red, and within my reach..
Lets just add some conspiracy to this...
Some of my friends in Florida noticed some odd 'humming' from the MacDill AFB during the storms of the last two seasons.
In a few documentaries, non-conspiracy type, there were mentions of HAARP being used to steer storms away from high value locations (such as MacDill AFB, home of SOCOM).
HAARP is widely known to be Tesla's work. Tesla was well known for things that go zap.
The government has interesting military busdget info (PDF warning)
Bumping a storm away from valuable places such as MacDill, and letting it damage some oil stuff is worth while. It runs the price of oil up, and the damaged oil equipment can be replaced. Of course, a few people may get hurt, but that's not the government's concern.
I'm sure NASA won't be informed of the actions at HAARP, so they'll be investigating something where they will never receive the details of how it happened.
If they cooperate, they don't get harassed. Which is better, to hand everything over with a smile on your face, or have the feds screwing with you for years to come?
https isn't all that, but I support it on my own site, https://freeinternetpress.com/ , and I put a little reminder image on the top left. It's pretty trivial to do, and if you believe https makes you that much more secure, go for it.
https is decryptable. The question would be, are they interested in doing it? Most people are sending the majority of their stuff in the clear. Most people assume that because they may have a secure connection to their mail server, that it's encrypted going to another server. That's far from the truth. SMTP is unecrypted, as are most implementations of POP and IMAP. Your IM messages are also unencrypted, or at least can be intercepted at the server. I picked my VoIP carrier, because their data is encrypted, but it's only that way until it has to go over traditional transports. If I call another VoIP customer on my provider, it's (as advertised) encrypted. If I call a POTS line, there goes my security.
Is it worth their while to decrypt encrypted stuff? Probably not. But, if they believe a target is worth while, they'll crack your communication like it's nothing. I'm sure plenty of people will respond with the "it would take a..." messages. It would use a (whatever), if YOU, the casual user were to do it. If they had a dedicated cluster set up for figuring out keys, then it's trivial. They can crack your encryption faster than a kid with a copy of airsnort can crack your WEP encryption.
Of course, the more encryption you use, the more suspicious you look. What are you trying to hide? Will it be faster to pick you up, seize all of your electronics, and interrogate you for the next two years?
What do you have to hide anyways? Chances are, nothing that interesting.
I've given up on the thought that anything I say or do is that interesting to them. If it was, I would have the black van still parked in front of my house, or I'd be lounging around in Southeastern Cuba. I don't do anything all that subversive. I report the news, which is already publically available.
My biggest concerns are that some wannabe agent, like a TSA agent, or local rookie cop, will harass me over things I carry. I have a laptop. I have miles of cables and adapters. I have books on security. Oddly enough, I use them for perfectly legal work. I get harassed occasionally. For quite a while, I'd be selected for secondary searches at airports, because the wire for my WiFi antenna was stuck to the top of my laptop. I'd tell them what it was. They'd half-ass search my bag, and ask questions about why I was traveling. 15 minutes later, I'd go and get on the plane. They'd miss obvious things, like my bag smelled of gunpowder, or there was a lighter in the bottom of my bag.
BTW, the gunpowder smell wasn't anything illegal. I was at the shooting range one day, and at the airport later. No gun, no ammo, but plenty of residual stink that their sniffer didn't pick up. I don't feel any safer because of the searches. I just feel delayed and violated. Why should I have to explain every device I carry with me, when they're all commercially available (and legal) products?
It still sucks that I can't carry a screwdriver. I *HAVE* to check a bag everywhere I go, because I can't carry a #2 phillips with me. It makes it very hard for me to work, if I don't have at least that.
For some reason, last time I flew, several pairs of jeans were seized. They forgot the extensive electronics and hand tools, and stole my jeans. {sigh} I'm happy they didn't take any of the electronics or tools. Those are more expensive to replace.
All I can think is, how do that family and their neighbors sleep? They have their own artificial freakin' sun in their yard.
Come on Bob, we're trying to sleep over here. Shut those damned lights off!
Rolling the stop signs, not blasting through them.. Big difference.
>> The world is rapidly becoming more big brother-ish. I don't like saying it, but it's
>> something we'll have to get used to, until plenty of administrations change. As we innovate
>> newer technologies, they'll continue to be used against us.
> WHAT THE FUCK IS WRONG WITH YOU?!?!?!!?
>
>
> Seriously? "We just have to get used to it"?? FUCK THAT. I'm not willing to bend over for
> an incestual Big Brother.
>
> No. I will take up arms far before then. Bring on civil war, if that is what it takes.
> Bring on pain and suffering, if that is what it takes. Bring on loss of not only my life,
> but everyone I love and care about, if that is what it takes.
Good. You are someone willing to fight for their freedoms. You are one of the many who are willing to do what it takes to bring on change.
I don't advocate picking up a gun and trying to change things though. By yourself, you are a lone lunitic with a gun. You, with 100,000 others are a revolution. Then you are the patriots who formed a new nation.
Note the site listed in my profile on here. I will be part of the revolution, before I am with Big Brother.
Well, feasable it isn't.
I do have a bike, but it's 3 miles uphill from the nearest store to my house right now.
Like I said in the previous post, I drove through bad neighborhoods that I didn't even want to stop at stop signs. A bike for a nice white boy like me would be an open invitation for trouble. That, and it's hard to move servers on a bicycle.
Another excellent resource is http://packing.org
Most states require a more extensive check in most cases.
For me, I am licensed in one state, which says I can walk into a store and buy a gun on the spot. They call in to the state, to see if there is anything new on my record. In that state, if I didn't have my license, there is a 7 day waiting period, while they run the appropriate background checks.
To get my license, they ran it through the state background checks, as well as federal background checks. Of course, that makes extra records with the state and FBI that I did have the checks run, indicating that I intended to get a license.
For me now, if I am stopped for a traffic violation, it is strongly suggested that I keep my hands in plain sight, and tell the officer if there is a weapon in the vehicle. Notification of my weapons license status is given when they run my license plate.
Being forbidden from buying legally doesn't really inhibit anything. If you don't have a friend who will buy for you, you can always find one on the black market. The laws control people who wish to follow the laws.
I can legally buy guns, and do own some. I've also been approached by individuals who wanted guns, who couldn't legally own them. I've simply chosen not to sell to them. They've frequently had good offers. If someone was short of cash, a 50% markup sounds pretty reasonable. My collection is small, and I like what I have, so I don't consider any offers.
Think of the recent bombings.
Anyone who drove through that area, from a suspected bad area, is now a suspect.
I know that many times, I've driven through bad parts of town, to commute to work. Some of the worst parts of town have the least traffic, so I've taken liberties with traffic control devices, like rolling stop signs. The police don't care, because if I'm not even stopping for stop signs, then I'm not buying drugs, or picking up some nasty hooker.
Now, being that I drove by a neighborhood with suspected bad people, I could now be bulked into that group. I'd still be perfectly innocent, because I don't know the people in those areas, but I'd look guilty as sin.
They'd be able to take liberties of when to pick me up too. It's easier to follow me, and pick me up in a grocery store parking lot, than to wait until I'm at home or work.
The world is rapidly becoming more big brother-ish. I don't like saying it, but it's something we'll have to get used to, until plenty of administrations change. As we innovate newer technologies, they'll continue to be used against us.
You are aware that with a reader base of over 250,000 people, not everyone here can be pathetically single. I won't say that everyone is happily involved, but in any significantly large group, you will find individuals who match any profile.
But ya, I wouldn't take relationship advice from most Slashdotters.