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- July 15, 2017
- Incompetence in Forgery
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Ars Technica has a hilarious article on a case of forgery discovered due to an anachronistic font in use. It said that the forger had prepared a lovely set of Microsoft Word documents containing the necessary forged content and presented these in accordance with those status quo activities of skullduggery.
It seems that the forged documents were done up so prettily in a font which didn't make it to the world for years after the forged dates supplied in the text. The moral of the story is if you're going to go to the trouble to forge documents with a word processor you need to make sure that those technical aspects which may stand legal scrutiny can indeed do so.
Things like the font, the ink or toner, the paper, that printer identity encoding you can't easily see to find ... you know; things with which a court of law under the examination of a competent forensic science person might have a field day.
Absolutely stupefying dain brammage if you ask me. I would never have gone there.
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- July 14, 2017
- Password Sharing cutting into Streaming Provider Bottom Line
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Ah, the sharing of passwords. The Netflix, HBO, and other providers of streaming video are beginning to do metrics on the IP addresses using the same credentials and I believe a few of them have gone into a bit of a snit.
That sharing which is okay in a household is winding up all over the place and the whois database has clearly indicated a penchant for over sharing is becoming somewhat rampant.
I recall a family member offering to share a password with me. I didn't go for it because I envisioned just such a scenario as this where unauthorized account sharing was being noticed by those getting paid for the streaming services.
I suppose my understanding of researching networks and locating the owner of a specific IP addres on the net didn't hurt either.
Be all of this as it may I feel that a change is in the making for those service agreements which heretofore have been quite generous with the machine streams and we'll likely see a lot more authentication prior to the streaming process beginning in the future.
The surveys taken of password sharing are showing a shift across age groups with 18 to 24 year olds at 21%, 25 to 34 year olds claiming 15%, and 35 years and older comprising about 8% of the shared passwords in the streaming industry.
Some of the services do not wish to devote time and trouble to research so there may be a lag in the inevitable crack down ... so we'll just have to see how it all goes !
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- July 13, 2017
- Twits Sue President over Blocked Twitter
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So ... a group of Twitter users are suing him and two of his aids because they've been blocked.
Their argument is that his account is a public forum and since he is a governmental official it is thereby illegal to block anyone.
These people want it declared as unconstitutional and the privision of an injunction requiring the president to unblock these (and future other) Twitter users.
Well then, I believe that all Twitter users are allowed to use the blocks available to them and that Mr Trump is entitled to use all of the facilities of his account as he sees fit.
It is certainly not surprising that some idiot collegiate educational institution meddler into the affairs of citizens is coordinating this attack in the best traditions of the bleeding heart liberal and so-called "progressive" individuals they likely are.
However, what remains are the fundamental rights of a Twitter user which includes blocking harassing users focused upon them.
I think Mr Trump can do as he pleases. I also hope these Columbia University shenanigans might influence him to drop the Twitter account altogether because I'm bloody sick of his use of it.
Regardless @realDonaldTrump or @POTUS he still controls that presence and ... whatever will be will be.
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- July 12, 2017
- Some 4 in 10 Americans Harassed Online
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Reuters had a thought provoking article by Angela Moon regarding the number of persons harassed online at (a fairly shocking) 41% with the bulk of those happening as the result of social media.
I felt that the base events qualifying as "harassment" to be somewhat wimpy with 'offensive name calling' and 'embarrassment' with those more serious forms such as 'physical threats', sexual harrassment, and stalking holding at about 20%.
Personally, I'm somewhat at a loss as to why someone would "go there" in any social media venue for the purposes stated in the online harrassment data in the presence of superior tracking mechanisms opposed to typically low tech hothead approaches to this type of behavior.
In the presence of perceived danger the authorities should be in the loop but most of what I've seen is some troll venting agitation over specific incidents of expressed opinion more or less.
In any case I note that there are few who will engage me in comments here and I attribute this to my ability to back myself against the wall and engage all who would approach.
These harassing incidents would be farther and fewer between in the presence of granular control at the recipients end ... such as that I have at my disposal.
Then there are the notions of engaging someone likely to embarass you back and the proverbial 'bringing a stick to a gun fight' which come to mind when I'm in the mood to let someone know where to get off in no uncertain terms.
Yes, my harassment is primarily hack attempts and exploits but at this fourth iteration of the blog and those servers which go with it I have amassed some fairly effective scripting and control files to throw into the mix.
Needless to say, if you're so inclined to come here and harass me by all means go for it as long as you understand the nature of consequences, countermeasures, and retaliation.
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- July 11, 2017
- Buffarillos R Us
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We have become a nation of obeasts.
Well ... I've always been one — but too many of you others have joined the ranks and now those thunder thighs go boom boom boom down the sidewalk or rub panty hose going switch switch switch together to the point that Ive started walking in an attempt to leave this company yet again ...
Last time I shaped up was just outside of the navy when I went crazy for the heat and sweat of the roadwork.
Now I just walk around in an attempt not to stroke out or go into cardiac arrest from the exertion.
Suffice it to say I likely have less weight to loose, per se and more shaping up to do in the spirit of that "big ugly bag of mostly water" I must have become yet again.
I hope you do well in your pursuits be they something you construe as improvement ... or maintenance of the status quo if that floats your boat.
I think my alarm stems from the profuse sweating I've been doing at the drop of a hat since the weather turned so hot and humid round about the end of May.
Hopefully I'll lose this alarmed state soon.
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- July 10, 2017
- Nikola Tesla Day
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Today is the birthday of one of the singularly advanced intellects ever to grace the planet Earth.
Today is Tesla's birthday and marked by many as World Tesla Day, Nikola Tesla Day, or simply, Tesla Day in honor of that auspicious moment for science and technology on July 10, 1856 in Smiljan, Croatia.
I cannot really celebrate the day so much as note and celebrate the man — for during the course of his life some of the most profound discoveries in science were made.
His personal effects including personal papers from the vault were confiscated by the government of the United States upon his death on January 7, 1943 at the Wyndham New Yorker Hotel in New York City, NY ... likely the work of MJ12 or some other shadow government element which assumed control of the United States during the loss of control by the Eisenhower administration.
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- July 9, 2017
- Time just gets away from us
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I was watching True Grit on some broadcast network when the 40 year old Mattie Ross reflecting while returning from paying her respects at the grave of Rooster Cogburn quipped "Time just gets away from us".
In that hustle and bustle associated with paying the bills and taking care of business it has been one of those hallmarks of my life that others come and go before I've really had time to notice and the rush of the workaday world is relentless with that need to chase the almighty dollar.
Just the other day it ocurred to me how many I haven't seen for so long that we're more than alienated ... I no longer know them; our intersecting circles having parted long ago.
It's a shame how that party animal I once professed to be has devolved into this being whose entire life revolves around getting up and going to work or making preparations for getting up and going to work.
How I yearn for those days when I had places to go and people to see. That reality which is our 21st century schizoid world does not appear to be firing those retros of past good times and absent friends regardless of that yearn which oozes from my soul from time to time.
I'm satisfied with who I am and what I'm doing. It's just that the finality of business is becoming the last word in my existence as well.
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- July 8, 2017
- The Myth of Fat Shaming
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Oh the memories from my childhood. Having been a fat kid long before it became a national tragedy I was all too aware of fat shaming by my peers. Like that from the superficial idiot slug Steve Stoneburner at Goose Creek High School along with the rest of the contemptuous brain dead others I encountered in that smelly navy brat infested bung hole of the planet earth ...
Earlier, I recall the lady minding the school store at Horace O'Bryant Junior High and her all too smug attitude looking down upon me with my fatness and acne when she could barely keep those rolls of fat ladled upon that oak stool she had shoved half way between those gigantic buttocks reeking of disdain and self righteous indignation at the thought of being in my unworthy bluborious presence ...
butt cheeks not withstanding.
I attained a high degree of fitness in my early 20s but never forgot nor forgave the past. This resulted in an aloofness which raises it's ugly head on occasion — evolving into blatant hostility should the need arise. And it has.
So now, it's not so easy to fat shame me. Yeah, I'm pretty hefty but so many more are heavier (or not) but carry that weight with much more difficulty. It seems that the belly fat of metabolic syndrome is not so predominate as the gelatinous rolls so prevalent today and the chinage, love handles, and guts and gunts which appear in our midst everywhere.
I don't care if you're fat. I don't care if you're ugly. However you appear simply cannot affect me because of my history. If your appearance suits you who am I to be concerned with it? The health aspects of overweight are not such the priority with me as they were with almost everyone surrounding me when I was a child. Though indeed some level of morbidity may be present ... it simply cannot own me anymore.
It would seem that the cholesterol lowering agents and the reductase inhibitors do a pretty good job at diluting that crisco blood of mine and the fat is far less visible than it was — because it's visceral; the most dangerous kind. I don't wear a lot of external fat anymore compared to my younger days.
Be all of this as it may I am content to make whatever progress I can and I dare anyone to call me down on my girth. You see, I retain quite a "left" and a "right" as well and it is foolhardy to bring some stick to a gun fight.
If the fatter person is you I will allow you to pass unaccosted because that is my life now. You get to be you and I get to be me. If it floats your boat go for it. Those sophomoric criticisms which pervade social media simply lend credence to the notion that it is populated by narcissistic individuals too preoccupied with primping to trim that hair growing from the big wart on the ends of their nose.
You simply can't play the fat card on me anymore. It doesn't work and it will get you hurt ... feelings or otherwise. Just ask the few "kidders" who took the plunge only to regret it.
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- July 7, 2017
- Cheating higher in Older Americans
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The Independent had a rather interesting piece (sic) on extra marital sex among persons in their 50s with an increasing trend being noted.
They covered a study by the IFS which went so far as to state the emergence of a 'generational gap' when it comes to extramarital sex ...
It simply follows that those who once constituted that group called all my slutty friends have simply gotten older and are remaining just as they were.
The trend in the younger folks appears to be opting for less promiscuity than their predecessors.
I blame the 1960s and it's drug culture and permissiveness which likely spawned these attitudes and likely can never be curbed.
I also attribute some of the inclination for whoredom to others who have male partners with those affectations of old age like "low T" and various other organic causes which force their corresponding "lackanookie" partners to seek comfort elsewhere.
Some of the stories I've heard regarding nursing homes and such could likely become the stuff of grannies gone wild videos were there a market for varioius flapping body parts — and likely spills over in the subsequent prevalence of plastic surgery anymore.
There is some comfort to the notion that my diminished activity offers me a level of protection compared to that wild child on the west coast which was once me ...
Jumping the bones of any and every female I could coax into the sack. Didn't take much either. A few drinks. A little toot. Another girl wanting to be room mates.
I may be older and wiser, BUT I'm also quite a bit less functional with health care provisions which simply do not accommodate my needs on the hormone replacement front.
Perhaps should my attitudes lean toward the more aggressive sexuality I once pursued vigorously ... things might change. Until then I'm prepared to watch television and sit at my computer rather than pursue the polyamory my cohorts obviously prefer.
America’s Generation Gap in Extramarital Sex
Institute for Family Studies
July 5, 2017
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- July 6, 2017
- National Fried Chicken Day
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As one who consumes entirely too much fried chicken, I am proud to announce National Fried Chicken Day ... begun who knows when by who knows who to celebrate that greasy artery clogging southern delicacy called Fried Chicken.
You differentiate the "fried" of the species by that medium in which it is prepared.
My personal favorite is KFC Original recipe ... the one done up by the fine people on Decker Boulevard.
I won't eat the local Kentucky fried chicken nearby on 12th street in West Columbia because the ignorant bitches can neither cook it much less serve it in the manner in which The Colonel intended.
The only place worse than KFC in West Columbia, SC is Bojangles next door at 12th Street and Augusta Road — where the rip off employees don't even realize that a four piece box should contain 4 pieces of chicken and NOT 3.
Leave it to some insipid inbred West Columbia denizen to get fried chicken wrong ... of all things. I suppose the quality of employee may be lacking given the work environment. I never had a problem at the Bojangles on Elmwood Avenue uptown.
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- July 5, 2017
- Adding a Confederate Flag to the Decor
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Well, I ordered a hand sewn 4x4 foot Confederate Battle Flag to hang on one of the walls of my home. My ancestry has deep roots in the confederacy and I'm really not concerned with whomever doesn't like the notion ... after all, it is my house and I get to pick what is there and what is not.
It's okay with me if others dislike the confederate flag for whatever preconceived notion they have. I do have distain for those jurisdictions who deny what the flag is in deference to what it totally is not.
Like the political coward Nikki Haley did in South Carolina.
You can say it symbolizes hate because the idiot crackers in the KKK utilize it as their so-called symbology. However, there are those of us with honored war dead who fought under that flag and as such it is a difficult matter to simply wipe it from the earth as stupid revisionist morons might like to do.
The confederacy is merely a part of my heritage. The flag will take it's place on a wall somewhere yet to be determined. I won't let anyone mess with it, either.
History remains after the desecration ends. The confederacy has been desecrated by the former govenor of South Carolina among many others. There remains a contingent of citizen tax payers who will not let it's memory die.
Dylann Roof and his ilk do not represent the memory of the confederacy and his use of the confederate flag is anathema to that memory. The KKK likewise do not represent the confederacy and project an ignorance which is at once humorous and disturbing.
There were a lot of slave holders in the North as well as the South and the people who brought the slaves here were Dutch traders.
I likewise make no apologies for slavery because I never owned another human being nor wanted to either. This business of holding generations hostage for the past hasn't worked out too well for those seekers of reparations, now has it ?
We cannot help where we're from and who our ancestors were. I am from the deep South and my ancestors fought for both the confederate and union armies. Some of the more poignant stories of my ancestors revolve around the confederacy.
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- July 4, 2017
- Happy 4th of July
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- July 3, 2017
- Dog Days
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Today commences the "Dog Days" of Summer, that hot and humid time for taking it easy when in the outdoors lest you sunstroke or something worse ...
Named for Sirius, the dog star, known as the largest star in the constellation Canis Major (big dog).
These days correspond with it's rising at dawn and the seasonal effect was one of heat, drought, lethargic people, thunderstorm activity, fevers, mad dogs, and less than optimal luck.
In the Northern hemisphere they connote the hottest most miserable part of Summer.
They may be described as those 40 days beginning July 3rd and ending August 11th.
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- July 2, 2017
- World UFO Day
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My recent involvement with research into extraterrestrial presence on the earth has been at once disturbing and edifying for me personally.
Those revelations made to me and cross referenced by me have impacted my attitudes toward my government, faith, and disdain for this globalist political thrust which seeks to destroy our constitutional government and place us at the whims of some multinational association such as the UN which only seeks to control every aspect of our existence simply because they believe they can undertake the task and achieve it.
Today is World UFO Day. It is an international observance for people to attempt to observe UFOs and is named the UFO crash in Roswell New Mexico back in 1947 which the military has repeatedly lied about on several fronts in an effort to maintain that control above the constitutional government in favor of the "Greada Treaty", the "Majestic 12", and the shadow government which subsequently assumed control turning our "constitutional republic" into an oligarchy in the name of personal enrichment for those who Eisenhower mistrusted which remains to this day.
Luckily, there is a large sector of the populace which has done it's homework and amassed the data appropriate to the tracking of this misuse of tax dollars in support to the black ops required of the shadow government and those billions for which accountability is not required have fallen both into question and scrutiny at this late stage of the game.
That trechery which is the shadow government will stop at nothing to retain power and can and will murder citizen patriots as it suits them for any reason they perceive to be warranted against the taxpayers.
So happy UFO day in the land of the enslaved and the home of the cowards.
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