But, years ago, after leaving IT, I was doing work on my department's portion of the intranet, and we at the time were using NetObjects Fusion (No, it wasn't Cold Fusion, and tho we had Front Phage, and a few other things, we for a while had NOF). I happened to have a packet sniffer because we were in Customer Support and used it to track broadcast packets going through our portion of the test LAN.
One day, I suddenly could NOT remember my password, which sometimes happened after changing one of many of my own passwords. So, I hooked up the Lan Analyzer thingy to track my packets and look for MY OWN packets. I needed to work, and without my password I couldn't.
Shockingly, NetObjects Fusion went out and sniffed the whole fracking NETWORK, and streamed user names and user password, unencrypted. The program designers must have been novices or fools. I began to panic, since I already knew the company had in it's employ one very quiet guy whose job it was was to sit in his cubicle and look at data streams and look for IP mischief. That made me feel he had an arsenal of tools and would find my group's app running on the corporate LAN. Heart racing, armpits sweating, I went straight to my director and told him everything. He said not to worry, and we agreed I should tell IT. I did, and shortly afterward, we ditched NOF.
Apparently, IT didn't vet the program well enough, or the vendor failed to disclose it or outright lied and IT took it at that. Whatever the case, the moral is that any app can have scanners built into them even if for self-diagnostics, and any employee can intentionally or unwittingly loose a scanner onto the LAN, and end up with files they'd rather not have.
For example, I once hooked up my company laptop running a fresh, NON-IT managed SuSE distro (this was 1999) and it scoured the servers (Unix and windows) and filled up my login screen with an icon and user name of OVER *400* employees and counting. I freaked out and yanked it from the LAN and IIRC, never again hooked up a Linux box directly to a LAN without permission.
"World Campus, the online arm of the Pennsylvania State University system, is testing another system called Webassessor. It uses proctors, Web cameras, and software that recognizes students' typing styles, such as their speed and whether they pause between certain letters. Students purchase the cameras for $50 to $80 apiece. They allow proctors to view a student's face, keyboard, and workspace.
The Phoenix-based provider of the system, Kryterion Inc., employs proctors who remotely observe and listen to as many as 50 students at a time. If the keystroke pattern of a student who is taking an exam does not match the one he or she provided at registration, or if the image of a student taking an exam does not match a digital photograph that the student provided at enrollment, then the student cannot start the exam. A proctor can also stop a student who is acting suspiciously from completing an exam. Students must have a broadband connection to use the service."
I almost NEVER type at the same speed unless I am on a ROLL, and I rarely hit my max of 60+ wpm anymore, especially since I was last connected to FRED, that east-coast-based computer that tracked our Radioman Teletype testing performance in RM "A" School at the (now former) NTC/SSC, San Diego, back in early 1986.
So, how are these proctor exam software expecting to dupe schools, donors, and tax payers into believing that a supposedly critical component -- typing speed/pattern matching -- is realistic. All it takes is pondering, realizing - worrying, being distracted in many and any kinds of ways - to variously and non-deterministically disrupt the pattern-matching algorithm.
Maybe he'll grow long white hair, don a robe, and sell new-age esscential scentual products (plus spam)? He won't be caught until Tommy Lee Jones and Wesley Snipes go after him....
Also, a relative of mine told me that around 1969 or 70 or so at night she and a friend were on the porch talking. A light source came down, low/tree-top, over the street, quietly. It was NOT like any aircraft or hobby toys of the time. It seemed to be observing them, or just hanging around, then it abruptly left.
I wish *III** could see firsthand these kinds of things. If I could communicate with (and trust them, and if they'd oblige) I'd instantly declare myself liberated of mad politicians and general human depravity and wealth misalignment. If I could travel away from Earth on MY terms, then why should i (or ANY citizen of Earth) remain subject to human codified laws any longer? It's NOT so much that governments' (wealthy and powerful manipulators) fear panic, hysteria and lawlessness. They fear sudden worthlessness of their "stellar" portfolios should people have an "out". Even if we could travel, and an alien dropped us off with a lifetime of supplies and defensive weapons, you could bet your ass that if Earth governments could find resettled humans, then at the very LEAST the major governments (particularly the US) would declare they are arriving for the protection of the resettled, then squat on them, then fortify the presence, and graft Earth's depravity on the new colonies.
Star Trek kinda sorta touched on these topics, as did other Sci-Fi, but I'd be among the FIRST to don a uniform of a colonist defending against Earth government take-over. And, I'd DIE, too, for THAT kind of cause. But, here on Earth, I'd die to save an old lady or toddler from being run over, but i'd feel hard-pressed to do the same for a magnate or for well-known politicians or some low-level functionaries who thrive on wealth, power, and such.
There's too much awe and wonder ahead to feel constrained by petty resource-manipulating elitists, not matter how much Earth they move and shake...
When bad press like this happens.... you read about stuff like this:
"Prior to the incident at the mayor's building, Shin -- who has written several books on spirituality -- attended a town hall meeting Newsom held in the Bayview neighborhood on Feb. 10. Shin sat in the front row and appeared to be taking pictures of the lower half of the mayor's body, according to a declaration by Franco Fleming, a police officer assigned to the mayor's security detail.
At one point, Newsom's jacket fell off a chair and Shin picked it up, wiped it off in a caressing manner and then held it on his lap, according to Fleming's declaration. He proceeded to attempt to get Newsom's attention in a flirtatious manner. Afterward, he grabbed the mayor and prevented him from closing his car door till a police officer intervened.
Two days later, at an event commemorating the same-sex marriages at City Hall, Shin stood just feet from the mayor, taking pictures as he spoke. At one point, he grabbed the mayor's arm, wearing a purple latex glove."
THIS is the stuff which makes San FranCISCO San FranSIDESHOW...
I think I have to retract any negative comments I might have made about him-- if this is true that he had NOT attacked nor held hostage the network over job security...
I too loathe giving out my passwords. WhenEVER any admins need/want to work on my computer in my absence, I log out and have them do their thing in admin role. My password operates under MY fingers, and in my presence. Granted, there are users who can't get some "thingy" (bookmarks, contacts, etc...) to work right and simply have to turn the machine over to an IT or admin type in the name of quicker ticket resolution.... But...
Besides, whenever I'm to be away from my desk more than a few minutes (we're a small office, and hardly anyone goes onto another machine under another user's profile) I lock my desktop. Why? There could be an emergency or i might be away for lunch, etc. The fewer chances any visitor or or any unauthorized user gets onto MY machine, the less likely that i will be associated to anything weird.
An employer of mine in the late 90s had the same policy, since fire drills, emergency evacuation and so forth (including the problem of tailgaters...) introduced opportunities for unauthorized use. Not even firefighters nor police had any real reason to be on our machines outside the scope of a legal investigation. So, we were to lock the desktop when going away from the desk out of sight of the computer, or away from our cluster of cubicles.
As some 10,000 mail carriers gather in Boston this week for the 66th biennial convention of the National Association of Letter Carriers, Peterson is on a one-man mission to persuade his colleagues to approve a change in their strictly regulated uniforms. He has proposed a resolution to allow mailmen to wear kilts, which he calls a Male Unbifurcated Garment, or MUG.
Over the past few weeks, he says he has spent the $1,800 he received as part of the federal government's stimulus package to send about 1,000 letters and photographs of a mockup of the new uniform to postal union branches in every state, as well as Guam and Puerto Rico.
"MUGs are worn all over the world, and have been for thousands of years because they are comfortable," he wrote to fellow mailmen. "Unbifurcated Garments are far more comfortable and suitable to male anatomy than trousers or shorts, because they don't confine the legs or cramp the male genitals the way that trousers or shorts do."
He argued that pants can cause sweat rashes and added, "Please open your hearts - and inseams - for an option in mail carrier comfort!"
Peterson's efforts have already attracted support. During the spring, similar resolutions calling for mailmen to be allowed to don kilts passed at letter carrier conventions in Washington and Oregon. Women can wear skirts.
So, if i manage to sell copies of my screenplay application (as do others) and enable other users to collaborate (think: Celtx) and share ideas, then, other than commerce/cashflow requirement, how is this really different?
As for winning the duel, whether or not i get shot or cut depends on which one of us fails to cheat fastest. Those prick obviously had no compunction about the damage they are likely to cause to a great many people and businesses. So, why not take them out before they decide that we are impeding their "right" to make money?
All it is is a matter of labeling on the forms and name assignments in the table. And, the two can be relationally joined to serve the function of tracking the progress of the wishlist.
- I must (to do) add 4 new columns to track x, y, z...
- I wish we had 4 new columns to track x, y, z...
When I worked at DiviCom, we used Vantive, and we had in Vantive a wish list. It took submitter name, date, time, company work group/department (admin, ops, manufacturing, RMA, IT, engineering...), developer working the case/ticket/wishlist, tested by, action date...
Any homemade database, or even Drupal, et al can do this, online or offline. So, the assholes behind the patent troll may as well level their dicks (guns) at hundreds of millions of people.
We seriously need to bring back or enact a law enabling dueling (pistol operas might be fun, Miike style), or swordplay (Azumi style... murder the war-starters to save the people) so that F*TARDS like those can be put not only out of business, but force them to reincarnate ahead of schedule. It's not murder, it's just "fast-tracking" them to a new realm of existence. Hopefully, they come back as a better human, not an evil hungry ghost out to make everyone ELSE miserable for no purpose other than to make money.
Some power-mongering assholes out there think there is nothing WRONG with making as much money as they want, just because they can. But, when they hoard resources (money, capital/capitol, access, favorable interest rates, etc.) everyone ELSE either hast to work harder to get ahead or stay ahead, or become complacent. It's not fair and it's not right.
I use Lotus Approach (the award-winning (well, at least in the 90's) database front-end) to manage my self-created applications (ranging from ships to screenplays), and I have in it a To-Do list, which essentially is a wish-list, collecting what, why, how inspired, when entered, thought of and due.
Other screenplay apps do this, too, making scrap books and what not. So, SUE me you pricks. Somebody needs to go chop off some heads in USPTO if there is a patent issued for this bullshit.
"All Things Considered, July 21, 2008 There aren't many parts of Wall Street that aren't automated. But one backroom operation, stock lending, still depends on personal relationships and family connections. The FBI says fraud in stock lending industry may be the next big Wall Street scandal."
Makes me think of neural neutralizers, mind reapers and such from Whom Gods Destroy, Dagger of the Mind, and Errand of Mercy.
Imagine when this technology replaces shock therapy. I can hear the cuing up of Peter Gabriel's "Shock the Monkey"..., mixed with Men Without Hats' "Safety Dance" and Blancmange's "Living on the Ceiling" after thinking of all those wires and emitters to be hooked up...
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But, years ago, after leaving IT, I was doing work on my department's portion of the intranet, and we at the time were using NetObjects Fusion (No, it wasn't Cold Fusion, and tho we had Front Phage, and a few other things, we for a while had NOF). I happened to have a packet sniffer because we were in Customer Support and used it to track broadcast packets going through our portion of the test LAN.
One day, I suddenly could NOT remember my password, which sometimes happened after changing one of many of my own passwords. So, I hooked up the Lan Analyzer thingy to track my packets and look for MY OWN packets. I needed to work, and without my password I couldn't.
Shockingly, NetObjects Fusion went out and sniffed the whole fracking NETWORK, and streamed user names and user password, unencrypted. The program designers must have been novices or fools. I began to panic, since I already knew the company had in it's employ one very quiet guy whose job it was was to sit in his cubicle and look at data streams and look for IP mischief. That made me feel he had an arsenal of tools and would find my group's app running on the corporate LAN. Heart racing, armpits sweating, I went straight to my director and told him everything. He said not to worry, and we agreed I should tell IT. I did, and shortly afterward, we ditched NOF.
Apparently, IT didn't vet the program well enough, or the vendor failed to disclose it or outright lied and IT took it at that. Whatever the case, the moral is that any app can have scanners built into them even if for self-diagnostics, and any employee can intentionally or unwittingly loose a scanner onto the LAN, and end up with files they'd rather not have.
For example, I once hooked up my company laptop running a fresh, NON-IT managed SuSE distro (this was 1999) and it scoured the servers (Unix and windows) and filled up my login screen with an icon and user name of OVER *400* employees and counting. I freaked out and yanked it from the LAN and IIRC, never again hooked up a Linux box directly to a LAN without permission.
If he can rightfully SUE and win BIG, then this will be
CHILD's PLAY!
I was thinking "Zoltan"...
Double troll on YOU, troll-issuer.... Humourliess twit.
And, when Hasbro puts their feet to the fire, they'll be saying, "Don't braze me toe..." (Spoonerism on "Don't tase me, bro..."
Has BEEN...
wishes, A Beautiful Mind is not A Mutable Find....
Try again...
"World Campus, the online arm of the Pennsylvania State University system, is testing another system called Webassessor. It uses proctors, Web cameras, and software that recognizes students' typing styles, such as their speed and whether they pause between certain letters. Students purchase the cameras for $50 to $80 apiece. They allow proctors to view a student's face, keyboard, and workspace.
The Phoenix-based provider of the system, Kryterion Inc., employs proctors who remotely observe and listen to as many as 50 students at a time. If the keystroke pattern of a student who is taking an exam does not match the one he or she provided at registration, or if the image of a student taking an exam does not match a digital photograph that the student provided at enrollment, then the student cannot start the exam. A proctor can also stop a student who is acting suspiciously from completing an exam. Students must have a broadband connection to use the service."
I almost NEVER type at the same speed unless I am on a ROLL, and I rarely hit my max of 60+ wpm anymore, especially since I was last connected to FRED, that east-coast-based computer that tracked our Radioman Teletype testing performance in RM "A" School at the (now former) NTC/SSC, San Diego, back in early 1986.
So, how are these proctor exam software expecting to dupe schools, donors, and tax payers into believing that a supposedly critical component -- typing speed/pattern matching -- is realistic. All it takes is pondering, realizing - worrying, being distracted in many and any kinds of ways - to variously and non-deterministically disrupt the pattern-matching algorithm.
Mod up!
That's interesting. We (i) learn something new every day!
But, please don't weaken my hopes for ETs out there to arrive to Earth, hehehe.... I need something more powerful and respectable to look up to...
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=92768042
Maybe he'll grow long white hair, don a robe, and sell new-age esscential scentual products (plus spam)? He won't be caught until Tommy Lee Jones and Wesley Snipes go after him....
Maybe they ARE camouflaged...
If these people have anything to say about it:
http://www.wiolawapress.com/
http://www.thewatcherfiles.com/alien-agenda.html
http://www.sherryshriner.com/sherry/faction-three.htm
Also, a relative of mine told me that around 1969 or 70 or so at night she and a friend were on the porch talking. A light source came down, low/tree-top, over the street, quietly. It was NOT like any aircraft or hobby toys of the time. It seemed to be observing them, or just hanging around, then it abruptly left.
I wish *III** could see firsthand these kinds of things. If I could communicate with (and trust them, and if they'd oblige) I'd instantly declare myself liberated of mad politicians and general human depravity and wealth misalignment. If I could travel away from Earth on MY terms, then why should i (or ANY citizen of Earth) remain subject to human codified laws any longer? It's NOT so much that governments' (wealthy and powerful manipulators) fear panic, hysteria and lawlessness. They fear sudden worthlessness of their "stellar" portfolios should people have an "out". Even if we could travel, and an alien dropped us off with a lifetime of supplies and defensive weapons, you could bet your ass that if Earth governments could find resettled humans, then at the very LEAST the major governments (particularly the US) would
declare they are arriving for the protection of the resettled, then squat on them, then fortify the presence, and graft Earth's depravity on the new colonies.
Star Trek kinda sorta touched on these topics, as did other Sci-Fi, but I'd be among the FIRST to don a uniform of a colonist defending against Earth government take-over. And, I'd DIE, too, for THAT kind of cause. But, here on Earth, I'd die to save an old lady or toddler from being run over, but i'd feel hard-pressed to do the same for a magnate or for well-known politicians or some low-level functionaries who thrive on wealth, power, and such.
There's too much awe and wonder ahead to feel constrained by petty resource-manipulating elitists, not matter how much Earth they move and shake...
what I initially thought, hehehe....
But, I suppose there are some hi-tech fridges out there...
Maybe Newsome will issue a retraining order for... Ummm RESTRAINING order AGAINST him, too?
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2007/02/27/MNGP8OBRL41.DTL
http://www.examiner.com/a-606664~Man_boasts_he_had_sex_with_mayor.html
When bad press like this happens.... you read about stuff like this:
"Prior to the incident at the mayor's building, Shin -- who has written several books on spirituality -- attended a town hall meeting Newsom held in the Bayview neighborhood on Feb. 10. Shin sat in the front row and appeared to be taking pictures of the lower half of the mayor's body, according to a declaration by Franco Fleming, a police officer assigned to the mayor's security detail.
At one point, Newsom's jacket fell off a chair and Shin picked it up, wiped it off in a caressing manner and then held it on his lap, according to Fleming's declaration. He proceeded to attempt to get Newsom's attention in a flirtatious manner. Afterward, he grabbed the mayor and prevented him from closing his car door till a police officer intervened.
Two days later, at an event commemorating the same-sex marriages at City Hall, Shin stood just feet from the mayor, taking pictures as he spoke. At one point, he grabbed the mayor's arm, wearing a purple latex glove."
THIS is the stuff which makes San FranCISCO San FranSIDESHOW...
I think I have to retract any negative comments I might have made about him-- if this is true that he had NOT attacked nor held hostage the network over job security...
I too loathe giving out my passwords. WhenEVER any admins need/want to work on my computer in my absence, I log out and have them do their thing in admin role. My password operates under MY fingers, and in my presence. Granted, there are users who can't get some "thingy" (bookmarks, contacts, etc...) to work right and simply have to turn the machine over to an IT or admin type in the name of quicker ticket resolution.... But...
Besides, whenever I'm to be away from my desk more than a few minutes (we're a small office, and hardly anyone goes onto another machine under another user's profile) I lock my desktop. Why? There could be an emergency or i might be away for lunch, etc. The fewer chances any visitor or or any unauthorized user gets onto MY machine, the less likely that i will be associated to anything weird.
An employer of mine in the late 90s had the same policy, since fire drills, emergency evacuation and so forth (including the problem of tailgaters...) introduced opportunities for unauthorized use. Not even firefighters nor police had any real reason to be on our machines outside the scope of a legal investigation. So, we were to lock the desktop when going away from the desk out of sight of the computer, or away from our cluster of cubicles.
$2 billion notes, like in Zimbabwe... with 2.2 billion percent per month inflation .... enough to buy a couple of bus rides...
http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/africa/02/01/zimbabwe.inflation.ap/index.html
http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5g2RPSaqbbqphRrvYYIaUsAV27LZwD91VM5O00
But, the REAL $64 BILLION question: How much malware is on MSN? Why worry about Google if it's only got 2% of the malware???
patent trolls who try to 'drizzle in'....
Ah, a segue into things Postal...
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=92751655
http://www.boston.com/news/local/articles/2008/07/21/mailman_seeks_comfort_in_kilt/
As some 10,000 mail carriers gather in Boston this week for the 66th biennial convention of the National Association of Letter Carriers, Peterson is on a one-man mission to persuade his colleagues to approve a change in their strictly regulated uniforms. He has proposed a resolution to allow mailmen to wear kilts, which he calls a Male Unbifurcated Garment, or MUG.
Over the past few weeks, he says he has spent the $1,800 he received as part of the federal government's stimulus package to send about 1,000 letters and photographs of a mockup of the new uniform to postal union branches in every state, as well as Guam and Puerto Rico.
"MUGs are worn all over the world, and have been for thousands of years because they are comfortable," he wrote to fellow mailmen. "Unbifurcated Garments are far more comfortable and suitable to male anatomy than trousers or shorts, because they don't confine the legs or cramp the male genitals the way that trousers or shorts do."
He argued that pants can cause sweat rashes and added, "Please open your hearts - and inseams - for an option in mail carrier comfort!"
Peterson's efforts have already attracted support. During the spring, similar resolutions calling for mailmen to be allowed to don kilts passed at letter carrier conventions in Washington and Oregon. Women can wear skirts.
nothing COPA-CETIC about this issue...
http://www.cetic.be/indexEN.php3
At least not on THIS planet...
rorists"...
i guess that was transistory thought...
So, if i manage to sell copies of my screenplay application (as do others) and enable other users to collaborate (think: Celtx) and share ideas, then, other than commerce/cashflow requirement, how is this really different?
As for winning the duel, whether or not i get shot or cut depends on which one of us fails to cheat fastest. Those prick obviously had no compunction about the damage they are likely to cause to a great many people and businesses. So, why not take them out before they decide that we are impeding their "right" to make money?
Are they not the same?
All it is is a matter of labeling on the forms and name assignments in the table. And, the two can be relationally joined to serve the function of tracking the progress of the wishlist.
- I must (to do) add 4 new columns to track x, y, z...
- I wish we had 4 new columns to track x, y, z...
When I worked at DiviCom, we used Vantive, and we had in Vantive a wish list. It took submitter name, date, time, company work group/department (admin, ops, manufacturing, RMA, IT, engineering...), developer working the case/ticket/wishlist, tested by, action date...
Any homemade database, or even Drupal, et al can do this, online or offline. So, the assholes behind the patent troll may as well level their dicks (guns) at hundreds of millions of people.
We seriously need to bring back or enact a law enabling dueling (pistol operas might be fun, Miike style), or swordplay (Azumi style... murder the war-starters to save the people) so that F*TARDS like those can be put not only out of business, but force them to reincarnate ahead of schedule. It's not murder, it's just "fast-tracking" them to a new realm of existence. Hopefully, they come back as a better human, not an evil hungry ghost out to make everyone ELSE miserable for no purpose other than to make money.
Some power-mongering assholes out there think there is nothing WRONG with making as much money as they want, just because they can. But, when they hoard resources (money, capital/capitol, access, favorable interest rates, etc.) everyone ELSE either hast to work harder to get ahead or stay ahead, or become complacent. It's not fair and it's not right.
OK, I'm gonna bite...
I use Lotus Approach (the award-winning (well, at least in the 90's) database front-end) to manage my self-created applications (ranging from ships to screenplays), and I have in it a To-Do list, which essentially is a wish-list, collecting what, why, how inspired, when entered, thought of and due.
Other screenplay apps do this, too, making scrap books and what not. So, SUE me you pricks. Somebody needs to go chop off some heads in USPTO if there is a patent issued for this bullshit.
In the vein of financial fraud and law enforcement, this reminds me of stock-lending:
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=92751649
"All Things Considered, July 21, 2008 There aren't many parts of Wall Street that aren't automated. But one backroom operation, stock lending, still depends on personal relationships and family connections. The FBI says fraud in stock lending industry may be the next big Wall Street scandal."
Makes me think of neural neutralizers, mind reapers and such from Whom Gods Destroy, Dagger of the Mind, and Errand of Mercy.
Imagine when this technology replaces shock therapy. I can hear the cuing up of Peter Gabriel's "Shock the Monkey"..., mixed with Men Without Hats' "Safety Dance" and Blancmange's "Living on the Ceiling" after thinking of all those wires and emitters to be hooked up...
"Overclocked to 4GhZ. What's that burning smell?"
"You must think in Russian. You cannot think in English and then transpose."
Well, if that's an overclocked brain, it must be may gratter.... or bried frains eaking from the lears...
So, what was that about transposing? Trans- or Trance?