8 things you should shred right now

8 things you should shred right now

What a drip~!

My sister is being hounded by this guy on a message board. He has even found out her name and address and is assuming her identity on one of those boards where you discuss movies etc. I can't believe this is happening to her. Then again, it is possible.

I don't think there has been any serious identity fraud. He/she hasn't opened an account somewhere else or done any other kind of shenanigans. AS OF YET. I would hate to see her get some other trouble from this. Like, thank God her name is not the only one out there. There has to be someone else with her name in the world somewhere. [there is]


I've been trying really hard to keep myself busy, or else I'm going to curl upon my sofa and just be a depressed loser. Not that being a depressed loser isn't incredibly sexy, it's just that I already have a line of depressed ladies a mile long waiting outside my door for a little bit of my time. I'M A STUD!(kidding)

Ultimately, moving across the country sucks. And not just because you're away from everything you know. I am fortunate (or unfortunate enough, I'm not sure yet), to move to a place where I have some kind of support system in place already. So when that support system changes, even a little bit, that becomes incredibly difficult to deal with. I just want to be normal. I want to have a normal life again.

Does it get easier when you are far away from your troubles? It feels like people treat you better when you are talking to them from far away. Things were easier with me farther away because there was a little bit more distance between me and my own feeling.

That being said?

They can fucking suck it up.

I'm here now, I live here now and they will either accept it and get over it, or they can eat shit.
This "identity theft" crisis is just another thing on my plate.

There's no nice way to tell people you love that as weird as this is for them, it's infinitely weirder for me and I'm the one who needs support right now.
My sister can be emotional suckage. It seems like when something crappy happens to HER it is the rest of us who have the problem. She is too emotional and doesn't always handle things very well.
It could just be me trying to ward off what is going to most likely be soul crushing depression, but right now I'm starting to lean towards angry, and I don't like it.

Indian immigrant in Ireland denied abortion and tragically dies due to complication.

"Savita Halappanavar, a 31-year-old Indian immigrant to Ireland, recently passed away due to complications with her pregnancy.  Seventeen weeks after conception, Halappanavar sought medical help due to extreme back pain and was told that the baby would probably die.  Halappanavar and her husband requested an abortion to relieve her of the pain, but were denied.  They were told that, because Ireland is a predominately Catholic country, an abortion could not be carried out while the fetus was still alive.  Under Irish law, an abortion is legal is a mother's life is at risk.  However, this apparently differs from situations where a mother's health is at risk (yeah, it doesn't make too much sense to me, either).  Doctor's believed that Halappanavar's life wasn't at risk.  Three days after requesting an abortion, Halappanav's fetus died and was removed; four days later Halappanav died from a blood infection.

        After Savita's death, her husband, Praveen Hallapanav, made an inquiry about the circumstances of his wife's death.  However, the medical records seem to have been tampered with.  According to Praveen, there is no record of a request for an abortion.  Are healthcare workers in America just as capable of ignoring the law?  Many American women are denied abortion when the pregnancy threatens their health even though denying abortion in such a case is illegal under Roe v. Wade.  Aside from the blatant corruption of healthcare officials, it seems completely illogical for officials to have denied the Hallapanav's an abortion when they knew that the baby would die.  Savita's death has prompted outrage not only in Ireland but across the world, for Ireland's strict abortion laws are not all that different from the de facto laws in some parts of our country.  Is Savita's death more proof that we need to reform our system of dealing with abortions? ..."

from http://aragonhitchhikers.blogspot.com/2012/11/abortion-in-ireland.html

What a saaad story. That poor lady. What is going with that? Oh, since the Irish government is Roman Catholic, they won't make an exception.

Male vs. Female

Definitions male/female

1. THINGY (thing-ee) n.
a. female...Any part under a car's hood.
b. male...The strap fastener on a woman's bra.
2. VULNERABLE (vul-ne-ra-bel) adj.
a. female...Fully opening up one's self emotionally to another.
b. male...Playing any sport without a "cup."
3. COMMUNICATION (ko-myoo-ni-kay-shon) n.
a. female...The open sharing of thoughts and feelings with one's partner.
b. male...Scratching out a note before suddenly taking off for a weekend with the boys.
4. BUTT (but) n.
a. female...The body part that every item of clothing manufactured makes "look bigger."
b. male...What you slap when someone's scored a touchdown, homerun, or goal. Also good for mooning.
5. COMMITMENT (ko-mit-ment) n
a. female...A desire to get married and raise a family.
b. male...Not trying to pick up other women while out with one's girlfriend.
6. ENTERTAINMENT (en-ter-tayn-ment) n.
a. female...A good movie, concert, play or book.
b. male...Anything that can be done while drinking.
7. FLATULENCE (flach-u-lens) n.
a. female...An embarrassing by-product of digestion.
b. male...An endless source of entertainment, self-expression, and male bonding.
8. MAKING LOVE (may-king luv) n.
a. female...The greatest expression of intimacy a couple can achieve.
b. male...Call it whatever you want just as long as we end up in bed.
9. REMOTE CONTROL (ri-moht kon-trohl) n.
a. female...A device for changing from one TV channel to another.
b. male...A device for scanning through all 175 channels every 2 1/2 minutes.
10. FOOTBALL (fut-bol) n.
a. female...An annoying 6 month long competition for a partner's attention.
b. male...6 months off from spending time with what's her name.

Objects (Are they male or female?)
Tire - male, because it goes bald and often is overinflated.
Sponges - female, because they are soft and squeezable and retain water.
Hammer - male, because it hasen't evolved much over the last 5,000 years, but it's handy to have around.
Kidneys - female, because they always go to the bathroom in pairs.
Ziplock Bags - male, because they hold everything in, but you can always see right through them.
Web Page - female, because it is always getting hit on.
Shoe - male, because it is usually unpolished, with it's tongue hanging out.
Remote Control - female, because it gives men pleasure, he'd be lost without it, and while he doesn't always know the right buttons to push, he keeps trying.
Swiss Army Knife - male, because even though it appears useful for a wide variety of work, it spends most of it's time just opening bottles.
Copier - female, because once turned off, it takes a while to warm up, it is an effective reproduction device when the right buttons are pushed, and because it can wreak havoc when the wrong buttons are pushed.
Hot Air Balloon - male, because to get it to go anywhere you have to light a fire under it... and of course, there's the hot air part.
Hourglass - female, because over time the weight shifts to the bottom.
Subway - male, because it uses the same old lines to pick people up.

Playoffs for the Nats!

It is exciting about the Washington Nationals this season. They are in the playoffs this year and the fans are going wild! Game 3 of the NL division series between the Washington Nationals and St. Louis Cardinals on Wednesday, October 10, is this afternoon. It will be the first time the nation's capital has hosted Major League Baseball postseason action since 1933, when the Washington Senators lost to the New York Giants in the World Series.
...an AMAZING change for a team that has, since forming out of the Montreal Expos in 2006, has usually been in the lower ranks of the National Leaugue. The Yankees are playing the Baltimore Orioles in the American League. They draw more of an audience -being they are the other favorite team of Washingtonians this is a real treat. I plan on weathering the Metro to get down to Nats Park by 1 pm. ...to be determined. Whoosh!!

Funny (dirty) jokes. Adults Only!

Little Bo Peep ****** her sheep


Blew a horse, licked his feet

She ate his *** so very nice

Tongued his balls not once but twice



Peter Peter Pumpkin Eater

Had a wife, loved to beat her

Smacked her twice across the head

****** her *** and went to bed



Little jack Horner sat in a corner

Eating a pizza pie

He **** pepperoni, blew his friend Tony

And wiped his mouth on his tie



Twinkle, twinkle little star

How I wonder what you are

Shine upn the parking lot

As I eat my girl friends ****



Three blind mice, see how they run

Where the **** are they going?



Eenie, Meenie, Miney, Moe

************ and swallow slow



Jack be nimble, Jack be quick

Jack burnt off his ******' dick

GWEEBUCKADEE!!!



There was an old lady

Lived in a shoe

She had so many kids

Her uterus fell out



Patty cake, patty cake

Baker's man

If your chick's on her period

**** her in the can



Mary had a little lamb

She kept in her backyard

When she took her panties off

His wooley dick got hard



Hey diddle diddle, the cat and the fiddle

The cow jumped over the moon

That's more than my lazy wife does

That fat, ******' smelly babboon



Doe, a deer, a female deer

Ray,

The guy that ****** her ***



Rub a Dub Dub

Three men in a tub

******* have threesomes, too

So ******' what



Roses are red

Violets are blue

I ****** your mother's ***

And she had you

Passwords MUST Go!

The following is a reprint of an article by an MIT computer system architect named Jeff Schiller. I was reading this recently and I thought he makes some really great points.


Passwords MUST Go!

Its really past time for the password to be a thing of the past. They are easy to guess, easy to steal and easy to phish for. People also love to use the same password on too many sites and applications. So if a password is stolen from one site, it can be used to abuse another.
Even at companies that make their business around computer security, like HBGary, staff used the same password for multiple systems so when one was compromised, so were the others.
But lets talk about some technical details. Why are passwords so bad. Well the first problem is they are what I call a "disclosing" authentication system. When you use a password you are "authenticating" yourself. You are proving to the site or application you are using that you are well... you!
Passwords are "disclosing" because when you use them, you provide the remote site not only proof of who you are, but you are also giving them to ability to impersonate you. You are your password, and now they have it too. And so does anyone who can monitor your communication.
Now the traditional approach to protecting communication is the encrypt it. Technologies such as SSL do a fine job at this. However there are plenty of other places where your communications can be intercepted besides the network, starting with your own computer! It is quite common for "malware" to grab characters from your keyboard and forward them to the attackers. Things get worse when you use a kiosk computer at locations such as airports and hotels. Everything you type into these computers is likely being reviewed by hostile parties.
Then there is the remote site itself. It has to store your password. The traditional protection at the remote site is to hash your password. However this is proving to be much less protection then thought. If your password isn't very complex, it is likely susceptible to a "rainbow" table attack. Basically the attackers have a mapping dictionary that contains tons of passwords and what they hash to. So they can take your hashed password and find the original password that maps to it. Of course if the attackers are reading out the password database, the remote site is already compromised, so how is getting your password make it any worse? Well, do you use that password anywhere else.
That people use the same password in multiple contexts is also insidious because there is no way for an administrator at one site to prevent password sharing, or even to know about it. So a compromise at one site may well have an impact at another site.
So what is the solution? Well there are several. They all fall under the rubric of "two-factor" authentication. One factor is your password (something you know) and the other factor is something you have (say your computer, or a key fob, or your phone).
X.509 client certificates (and SSH keys [if you don't know what these are, don't worry]) are one solution. But a more practical solution is a simple "one time password" token. These have been around for years. However they have been proprietary (and patented), expensive and inconvenient. But that is changing. Back in 2005 the IETF published RFC4226. This RFC defines an open standard for computing a simple numeric code that changes over time. The idea is that when you login, you provide your name, your password and then this (typically six numeric digits) code. It doesn't matter if an attacker steals the code, because it will change in 30 seconds, and they won't know what the new code will be.
You can now get standards based tokens from several vendors, and perhaps more interesting, you can get "soft tokens" which are applications you install on your mobile smartphone.
Google recently rolled out two-factor authentication as an option for Gmail and Google Apps, FOR ALL USERS. I strongly recommend that if you have a Google account, you look into this. Google has done a particularly good job here. Keep in mind, the last thing Google wants is for people to have to require support (there are many more Google customers then employees!). So Google is providing a pretty fail safe system. You can use your smartphone to generate one-time codes. You can have Google send it to you as a text message (which works even if you don't have the smartest phone that can run a soft token). You can even have Google call you and speak the code to you. You can configure a backup phone and finally when you setup your account, you get 10 pre-generated "backup" codes that you can print and store in a safe place if your phones all become unavailable.
One last and important point. Google has rolled this out in an "open" manner. You can use Google's authenticator smart phone application, or any soft token that is RFC4226 (TOTP) compliant. Other companies that have introduced two-factor authentication typically require you to obtain (or purchase) a token from them. So if you have many accounts that you want to have two-factor protection for, you wind up with a pocket full of tokens or a phone full of different token apps. EVEN WHEN THEY USE THE RFC4226 ALGORITHM. This is because they do not let you know a critical piece of information called the token seed (which is used to compute the one time passwords). Now some will argue that disclosing the token seed (which you only need to deal with when initializing or provisioning the token) you reduce your security because an attacker might be able to steal the seed. However this has to be traded off against the impracticality of expecting people to carry a pocket full of tokens. They won't.

Comments:
From: Melissa Frey
It seems to me that one should just buy an authenticator, and all companies should allowe you to link the authenticator to your account.  Once's its linked you only need one authenticator (they all have those crazy codes on the back.)  Perhaps instead of asking you to buy said authenticatory you pay a fee to use the one you have already.  That way you only need one token and use that token for authentication across multiple servers.
Melissa Frey
From: Jeff Schiller
I should mention that one of the things holding two-factor authentication back over the years has to do with vendors attempting to monetize them. It was (and for some vendors still) not unusual to find tokens sold for $50 each (!!) with an artificially limited lifetime so you had to keep buying them (including soft tokens where there isn't a battery to worry about). Not only does this raise cost, but it also raises the administrative cost of dealing with tokens because you have to worry about when each user's token will expire and getting them a new one in time. And, any stock of tokens you chose to keep on hand were "ticking!"
Jeff

Copyright © 2009-2012 Jeffrey I. Schiller
( original link is found at: http://jis.qyv.name/home/pages/20110302 )

Mooch much?

My then-boyfriend and I lived on the second floor. The people beneath us moved in with only a few bags of clothes and they didn’t appear to have much money even though the rent we had to pay was really expensive. At the first day they moved in they came begging me for a pillow to borrow and a mattress. I didn’t have an extra mattress, but I did have an extra pillow (I’ve never received that pillow back by the way.)




Also, the couple who lived there were very weird to say the least. The guy always went out to some pub drinking until he couldn’t walk normally and the woman came asking me for different things on daily basis. It started by asking me for some sugar. Then things got weird and she came knocking on my door in the middle of the night asking me for “sleeping pills.” I told her I didn’t have that kind of medication, but that didn’t stop her from asking me again for about 10 nights in a row.



I never locked my door, and one time I woke up very early only to find out she was sitting next to my bed. I screamed so loud, which caused her to fall backwards on the floor with her legs up in the air. I must say I wish I didn’t had to see that. Once nce she got herself together again she told me she had to borrow my phone. I was annoyed obviously, but still I did give her the phone wishing she would go away quickly. Stupidly because I already let her borrow a lot, she came asking me for more, sugar, more pills, money for the bus, helping me with hanging up her curtains, fixing her television you name it and it only got worse.



At one point I got so sick of her asking me for almost everything, I decided to ignore her, lock my bedroom door and the contact with her slightly ended. Then the landlord visited our house and told me they hadn’t paid rent for months and he was throwing them out. I was relieved because other than asking me for basically everything she also smoked like A LOT. I don’t have anything against smoking, but she smoked so much the whole house smelled like the worst kind of smoke you can imagine making me wanting to throw up.



Finally the landlord kept his word. Only problem was they already left, meaning they left their garbage in their room and he had to throw everything out. It was the worst crap I had ever seen, vibrators, porn, a completely destroyed kitchen, handcuffs, nasty worn underwear, old food etc. It seemed she worked as a prostitute on some street corner when her man was drinking himself to death in the pub. After the whole ordeal, the neighbours on our street told us she also knocked on their windows in the middle of the night asking them for pills.

( from "Worst Roommates Ever" blog archive
 http://myveryworstroommate.com/2012/05/29/mooch-much/ )

Top 9 Most Ridiculous Things Heard at the Mommy Group in 2012

We’ve all made new friends since becoming moms. Some we like, and some we tolerate. Here are a few actual things I’ve heard at playgroups that totally make me want to slap a b*tch.




9. “It’s like, c’mon, what kind of mom doesn’t know how to bake cookies from scratch?”



8. “I feel bad for my sister. She’s already 24 and she doesn’t have any kids. She must feel so empty.”



7. “Michael already knows the periodic table. He crawls over to oxygen every time we say it!”



6. “Yeah, he kicked the baby. But to be fair, he’s used to peaceful environments and that baby was being really loud!”



5. “He’s more advanced because we read him philosophy books while he was in the womb. He’s only 4 but he always asks, ‘Why?’”



4. “Some people should just not be allowed to be mothers. I mean, she didn’t even hand out a goody bag after the party.”



3. “My daughter is really enlightened. She keeps saying that when she has a baby, she hopes it’s green.”



2. “Everything I eat goes straight to my boobs, so my husband always buys me cookies!”



1. “We went to Africa to see snow and visit my aunt. She’s a veterinarian and she helps vampires.” (Addy, age 4)