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Archive for December, 2007
Region-Crippling Snow
Dec 5th
We had a very light dusting of snow in the Northern Virginia area this morning. And it crippled the region for transportation. Yes, it was slippery and quite a few over-confident SUV owners found themselves into the rear bumpers of their fellow travellers. As a result, all of the major roadways were jammed for hours.
Luckily I was travelling against the flow of traffic this morning, and the snow’s effects were minimal.
And supposedly, leaders around the world are meeting to discuss Global Warming. This somehow involves flying private jets there.
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Loading ...Democrat Busted for Surprise Buttsecks
Dec 4th
Hey forget chatting up Congressional pages. Toe-tapping in the airport bathroom? That’s for beginners. If you want real hard core perversion in Congress, talk to the former Scheduler for Senator Kerry’s 2004 Presidential run, Mike McHaney. He took a long lunch break from his job as Democratic Senator Maria Cantwell’s aide to anally rape a prepubescent 13 year old boy. When describing his excitement over AOL Instant Messenger, McHaney said that hairless boys were “hot.”
From the SmokingGun here:
The Cooperating Witness (CW) and McHaney were conversing online Friday afternoon when the CW asked whether McHaney was interested in engaging in anal sex with a 13-year-old boy. “I’ll be there,” McHaney allegedly replied. He later asked for a photo of the child with whom he and the CW would have sex and whether the boy had “any pubes.” When told no, McHaney allegedly replied, “That’s hot.” McHaney was nabbed in the lobby of an unnamed “predetermined location,” where he had arranged to meet CW.
Most people on the Hill take a long lunch and just get a few martinis. Surprise Buttsecks is a firing.
And pssst! Everything anyone does on the Senate and Congressional networks is recorded by Intrusion Detection Systems. Using AOL IM on such a network is beyond stupid.
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(1 votes, average: 6.00 out of 6) Loading ...Light Blogging This Week
Dec 4th
Im in training this week for network forensics, learning Encase by Guidance Software. Blogging will be pretty light I suspect.
I have a wireless connection though, so yay!
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(1 votes, average: 3.00 out of 6) Loading ...Busted! Heather Mills Skanky Porn Photo
Dec 3rd
Just one month after Heather Mills cried on national television saying that stories of her pornographic past were absolutely untrue, a UK tabloid splashed the photo below on its pages. I have cleaned it up a bit for this site.
Not safe for work photo and story from NewsoftheWorld here:
She pulled down her top to expose her boobs and splayed her legs in this classic porn magazine pose.
And in another of the explicit shots — taken before she lost her leg in a 1993 road accident-she writhed knickerless on a white quilted bed, cupping her naked breasts.
Across the pages of the smutty mag, pouting Heather boasts: “I’m gonna drive you crazy with my body…”. Yet just a month ago, the estranged wife of Beatles legend Sir Paul McCartney had the front to go on GMTV and rant hysterically that newspaper stories of her porn past were untrue.
Heather, 39, cried crocodile tears and said: “They eliminate the whole 20 years of my life of campaigning and put in things like ‘hardcore porn queen’.”
You know that shovel she’s been using to dig Paul McCartney’s gold? It just got lots smaller.
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(No Ratings Yet. Rate It!) Loading ...Gary Thuerk, Father of Spam
Dec 3rd
It was 1978. The internet was not yet past its awkward stage, and it was still known as the ARPAnet. Gary had an opportunity to market his new DEC processors and he had a list of 400 ARPAnet emails. So he sent the first mass commercial mailings.
From Computerworld here:
Gary Thuerk, a marketing manager at Digital Equipment Corp., sent his first mass e-mailing on May 1, 1978 to 400 customers over the Arpanet, hoping to get attention, particularly from West Coast customers, for Digital’s new T-series of VAX systems.
Instead, he ended up getting crowned, for better or worse, as the father of spam.
Thuerk’s original spam “did work,” he says. “We sold $13 million or $14 million worth” of the DEC machines through that e-mail campaign, Thuerk notes. On the negative side, “complaints started coming in almost immediately,” he adds. A few days after the original e-mail, Thuerk recalls, an ARPAnet representative “called me up and chewed me out. He made me promise never to do it again.”
Of the some 400 e-mails Thuerk sent out, he received only a few complaints. “The best complaint came from a guy at the University of Utah, who said when he got in the office in the morning, he couldn’t use his computer because the spam had used up all his company’s disk space.“
Not only did Gary discover SPAM, but he also discovered the first denial of service attack via email, AKA the “mail bomb.” Its hard to believe that a text file with 400 email addresses would fill up an ancient disk drive, but I guess those things happened. Its also unbelievable that he was able to sell millions in upgrades. I guess each computer back then cost several or hundreds of thousands of dollars.
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(No Ratings Yet. Rate It!) Loading ...Drama For Sale! Russian Firm Buys Live Journal
Dec 3rd
Russian company SUP has bought Live Journal from Six Apart. The deal’s amount is undisclosed, but it is no where near the level that NewsCorp paid for MySpace.Com.
From PCWorld here:
Russian online media company SUP acquired blogging and community site LiveJournal from Six Apart on Monday, giving the company ownership of Russia’s most popular blogging site.
SUP and Six Apart first partnered in October 2006 to launch the Russian version of LiveJournal, which accounts for 28 percent of LiveJournal’s audience.
It’s the second time LiveJournal has changed hands: In 2005, Six Apart purchased it from founder Brad Fitzpatrick. Six Apart said that during its stewardship of the site the number of accounts grew from 5 million to 14 million.
SUP has established a new U.S. company, LiveJournal Inc., to operate LiveJournal, based in San Francisco, it said Monday. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.
And with the sale goes all of the teenage drama and angst. For fun, you can use the Live Journal Drama Generator here to try to get that goth/emo/cutter/furry vibe. The output looks something like this:
iconery told me that
What sucks is that
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Hey and know what? mom & dad was totally unfair to me Monday and now now I can’t go to the mall with people
And also everybody has asked why I’m leaving the trekkie fandom but the answer is simple: Some of you know who you are and why I’m leaving FOREVAR.This entry automatically generated by the LJ Drama Generator!
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