Lets see......where to begin.....
A lot has happened in 7 years, some good times, some mediocre times, and a considerable amount of stressful bad times.
I'm not really sure why I gave up writing (a lot of it probably because of buying a new home, finally going back to school and getting myself a degree long over due, job transitions, kids and their schooling/college, wife going back to work, family health issues, plus my hair going grey...).
Sounds like I was busy....but now....its time to get back to the matter at hand......
Yes....the world still sucks....
Economies in trouble......wars and rumors of wars.....disease and famine....technology getting out of control......human beings who have for the most part become.......lost.....
We are more or less fed by media outlets and social media a message that "I'm okay, you're okay, and everything will turn out fine in the end." (the latter part is correct, the previous part is not.)
We are not okay.
We are in trouble....in one way or another. Each of us has one course of action to take to get out of this trouble....but it's the step we as individuals refuse to take.......because we think we are "okay".
How do we define what is "okay?" Where do we base this idea on? What we were taught in school, the friends and family around us, the activities we might do, what goes on in the workplace, justifying our personal choices, justifying our thoughts, justifying our feelings, justifying our emotions?
If this is all "okay"......then what justifies when it is all over with? What happens when get sick and there is no chance of recovery, get cancer, meeting the end of one's lives because someone else thinks its just "okay" to end it, the forces of nature that at any moment can bring and end to it all for each and every one of us?
Some would say that this is all just "okay"....its just the way things are and have always been....in the end you'll be "okay"...
Sounds like a lot of fun so far isn't?
It's "okay"...we have some time left to discuss.....I hope.....if I what I ate tonight agrees with me....that I didn't take in too much radiation today, I don't make anyone mad at me driving tomorrow, and by chance I don't experience the freak tornado that just happens to occur.....
Feel free to share this anywhere if you have been invited to read it.....it's "okay too"....
Much more on the the way.....
Monday, July 13, 2015
Wednesday, July 8, 2015
Tuesday, October 28, 2008
Why I wont vote......
I've been really thinking about sitting this election this year, for a lot of reasons.
Politically, I've just about had enough of both the Democrats and Republicans (this has been from someone who has voted Republican the last few elections)
Obama?
McCain?
Please.....
Is this the best the political parties can offer?
One seems to offer socialism which does not fly with me, while the other offers to keep up the war on terror that should of ended a while back.
Neither has an economical plan that will restore this land, it will continue to go on its downhill road.......
Both these parties care very little about my personal freedom, it is more about their manipulation of what they determine freedom to be. (whether it is the Patriot Act, or a "Fairness Doctrine".......)
The problems of "race" continue to rear their ugly head, no matter what has been said or done in the past. Whites hating Blacks, Blacks hating Whites, Hispanics hating Whites, Blacks hating Hispanics, etc etc etc.....
We can thank both these parties for not taking the road, and allowing the media to continue their manipulation of the masses.....
Dont even get me started on the media, as well, they too, are the biggest joke of the land.....
There reporting skills are no better than what is in the bottom of an outhouse...:) Enough said.
The only interest is power anymore, and I will not play that game......
remember...remember.... the 5th of November......
The day this nonsense ends.........
Politically, I've just about had enough of both the Democrats and Republicans (this has been from someone who has voted Republican the last few elections)
Obama?
McCain?
Please.....
Is this the best the political parties can offer?
One seems to offer socialism which does not fly with me, while the other offers to keep up the war on terror that should of ended a while back.
Neither has an economical plan that will restore this land, it will continue to go on its downhill road.......
Both these parties care very little about my personal freedom, it is more about their manipulation of what they determine freedom to be. (whether it is the Patriot Act, or a "Fairness Doctrine".......)
The problems of "race" continue to rear their ugly head, no matter what has been said or done in the past. Whites hating Blacks, Blacks hating Whites, Hispanics hating Whites, Blacks hating Hispanics, etc etc etc.....
We can thank both these parties for not taking the road, and allowing the media to continue their manipulation of the masses.....
Dont even get me started on the media, as well, they too, are the biggest joke of the land.....
There reporting skills are no better than what is in the bottom of an outhouse...:) Enough said.
The only interest is power anymore, and I will not play that game......
remember...remember.... the 5th of November......
The day this nonsense ends.........
Monday, October 13, 2008
Ipod, Itouch, IPhone......IHate........
Yes it is time for the rant to start on Apple today about their wonderful products that have just changed the world......
I do have 3 of them things, (an older Ipod shuffle, and my 2 of my facehuggers have newer Ipods)
I never paid for any of them, got the shuffle for free from work and my sis gave the other 2 to her nephews.
How much do we use them? Honestly very little, not that we don't like music, we do, but here is what I think the difference is.
Music was meant to open, so all could hear and enjoy and experience. (Now some my dispute that, especially when we hear the boom boom boom going on when driving down the street)
That's why you hear the stereo, or the computer playing music, or the car stereo going here in the hivehousehold (there however is no "boom boom" coming from my car.)
Is the Ipod in a sense a more "selfish" device?
Another reason for the dislike of the Ipod is the fact you have to use software to initialize it, why cant you just plug it in and off and running you go, regardless of the computer platform? (Yes I am a Linux user, I had to set them up first in Windows before I was able to use them with gtkpod in Ubuntu.)
Another reason I don't like them, like all Mp3 players, they can not just store music, but other things as well, such as files, photos, etc etc....I wish they were only designed to work with music only, it would make my life a lot easier as a security analyst.
I guess I'm asking too much....
I don't have an Itouch, for all in a sense all it does the little bit more than the Ipod, but play movies and games...
The Iphone?
Don't get me started......
Why only one phone carrier? Sure you can modify the phone to run another network, but then Apple goes and makes a mess of things if you do.
Software development for the AppStore? What a joke.....
The licensing requirements for software developers to write software to put in the AppStore are so restrictive(Yes Apple did recently remove in the licensing agreement that if you are denied your app, you can now bad mouth Apple for denying your app)
Security:
Its also a joke......
As one security researcher put it in a recent article of Haking magazine:
"The Iphone certainly screams: KICK ME!
I couldn't decide to laugh or cry when I heard that it is running a UNIX-like operating system with all its services configured to run as root. (for those of you not aware, root is the equivalent of an administrator account, making it easier that if a hacker does penetrate the phone, it wont be very difficult to run malware or take over the phone directly.) Apparently someone at Apple decided that they could actually be stupider than Microsoft if they tried (Microsoft for a very long time before Vista encouraged the running of administrator access in their operating systems, leaving them extremely vulnerable for takeover by hackers, botnets, trojans, viruses, etc etc etc)
Well mission accomplished , Apple is going to be fixing and paying for that mistake for a long time."
What else?
The one thing that annoys me about all this is this imaginary level of status that one seems to have if you own any Apple product.
Am I wrong it that in line of thought? Is their something different about people who own Apple products? Are they really that much better than anything else that is out their or in the process of coming out? Is it all just marketing hype?
Just something to think about.....
I do have 3 of them things, (an older Ipod shuffle, and my 2 of my facehuggers have newer Ipods)
I never paid for any of them, got the shuffle for free from work and my sis gave the other 2 to her nephews.
How much do we use them? Honestly very little, not that we don't like music, we do, but here is what I think the difference is.
Music was meant to open, so all could hear and enjoy and experience. (Now some my dispute that, especially when we hear the boom boom boom going on when driving down the street)
That's why you hear the stereo, or the computer playing music, or the car stereo going here in the hivehousehold (there however is no "boom boom" coming from my car.)
Is the Ipod in a sense a more "selfish" device?
Another reason for the dislike of the Ipod is the fact you have to use software to initialize it, why cant you just plug it in and off and running you go, regardless of the computer platform? (Yes I am a Linux user, I had to set them up first in Windows before I was able to use them with gtkpod in Ubuntu.)
Another reason I don't like them, like all Mp3 players, they can not just store music, but other things as well, such as files, photos, etc etc....I wish they were only designed to work with music only, it would make my life a lot easier as a security analyst.
I guess I'm asking too much....
I don't have an Itouch, for all in a sense all it does the little bit more than the Ipod, but play movies and games...
The Iphone?
Don't get me started......
Why only one phone carrier? Sure you can modify the phone to run another network, but then Apple goes and makes a mess of things if you do.
Software development for the AppStore? What a joke.....
The licensing requirements for software developers to write software to put in the AppStore are so restrictive(Yes Apple did recently remove in the licensing agreement that if you are denied your app, you can now bad mouth Apple for denying your app)
Security:
Its also a joke......
As one security researcher put it in a recent article of Haking magazine:
"The Iphone certainly screams: KICK ME!
I couldn't decide to laugh or cry when I heard that it is running a UNIX-like operating system with all its services configured to run as root. (for those of you not aware, root is the equivalent of an administrator account, making it easier that if a hacker does penetrate the phone, it wont be very difficult to run malware or take over the phone directly.) Apparently someone at Apple decided that they could actually be stupider than Microsoft if they tried (Microsoft for a very long time before Vista encouraged the running of administrator access in their operating systems, leaving them extremely vulnerable for takeover by hackers, botnets, trojans, viruses, etc etc etc)
Well mission accomplished , Apple is going to be fixing and paying for that mistake for a long time."
What else?
The one thing that annoys me about all this is this imaginary level of status that one seems to have if you own any Apple product.
Am I wrong it that in line of thought? Is their something different about people who own Apple products? Are they really that much better than anything else that is out their or in the process of coming out? Is it all just marketing hype?
Just something to think about.....
Friday, October 10, 2008
Remember, remember the 5th of November.....
That wonderful day......when all this election nonsense will come to an end......:)
Sorry I've been a little lame and not keeping up with anything, Im off all next week and will become a blogging fool.......
Sorry I've been a little lame and not keeping up with anything, Im off all next week and will become a blogging fool.......
Saturday, June 7, 2008
Biometrics.......a benefit or a threat?
I knew at some point this would have to come up, there are times I am facinated with the technology, and other times just terrified by it.
I like the idea on my ability to privately defend my own property of business with the technology, but not so keen on the idea of having it adopted to be a standard for the general public.
For example, I have a work laptop that I use with a biometric reader. If I swipe my finger there it will allow me access to the laptop and the network. In cases like this, I like the idea of protecting the interests
What I dont want to do is have to go to a merchant, bank, government office and have to swipe my finger as to identify who I am.
Some might say Im making life easier, this better identifies who I am.
If I go and purchase a pair of shoes, what does it matter that I have to go an identify who I am before a purchase? I mean I do that already when I use a credit/debit card anyway.
In some ways I believe the total degradation of human society as a whole has brought us to this level where biometrics will become more and more the norm.
It's funny how people I know will rave about them, they tend to get real quiet if I ever mention Revelation 13 from the Bible.
The first mention I find of the principal of biometrics.....
From nearly two millenia ago......
I like the idea on my ability to privately defend my own property of business with the technology, but not so keen on the idea of having it adopted to be a standard for the general public.
For example, I have a work laptop that I use with a biometric reader. If I swipe my finger there it will allow me access to the laptop and the network. In cases like this, I like the idea of protecting the interests
What I dont want to do is have to go to a merchant, bank, government office and have to swipe my finger as to identify who I am.
Some might say Im making life easier, this better identifies who I am.
If I go and purchase a pair of shoes, what does it matter that I have to go an identify who I am before a purchase? I mean I do that already when I use a credit/debit card anyway.
In some ways I believe the total degradation of human society as a whole has brought us to this level where biometrics will become more and more the norm.
It's funny how people I know will rave about them, they tend to get real quiet if I ever mention Revelation 13 from the Bible.
The first mention I find of the principal of biometrics.....
From nearly two millenia ago......
Friday, May 30, 2008
Whistleblowers....Do or Do Not...There is no Try...
Sorry I haven't kept up as much lately been a little too busy at work.....
Here's one that I came across this week:
http://www.securityfocus.com/news/11520
An employee of TJMaxx has ratted them out over sloppy IT practices at work. He apparently was found about and canned by the company for revealing internal computers matters.
I'm kind of torn in how I feel about this, there is obviously a serious problem in the workplace about proper security in the IT infrastructure of just about any company or government entity these days.
I guess I wouldn't be happy if I owned a company and I was ratted out by an employee to the public about my own crappy security on my computers. (But then again this is me, and I would not allow that to happen in the first place.)
I feel sorry the guy lost his job over this, but if I ever shop at TJMaxx, I probably would pay for my purchases only in cash.
There past lack of security practices (such as allowing their systems to be hacked and have millions of customers credit card numbers stolen) is completely unacceptable.
Make no mistake.....Security is Managements responsibility......they too often ignore what needs to be done, recommended, spend money on for proper security, employee education, and other items.
Its very easy to blame the IT employee geek for all these problems (and Management loves to do so, believe me!), when the employee can only recommend and has no control over the checkbook....he cant fix when he doesn't have tools, education, and proper equipment to do the job and counter the ever evolving threats that continue out on the Net.....
And another thing to future whistleblowers......be careful what you say and pay attention, you could get into trouble. If things are that bad in the workplace, consider leaving and if you do talk, consider some legal advice before doing so. If there is a great danger that people are going to get hurt, do the right thing but be careful......
Here's one that I came across this week:
http://www.securityfocus.com/news/11520
An employee of TJMaxx has ratted them out over sloppy IT practices at work. He apparently was found about and canned by the company for revealing internal computers matters.
I'm kind of torn in how I feel about this, there is obviously a serious problem in the workplace about proper security in the IT infrastructure of just about any company or government entity these days.
I guess I wouldn't be happy if I owned a company and I was ratted out by an employee to the public about my own crappy security on my computers. (But then again this is me, and I would not allow that to happen in the first place.)
I feel sorry the guy lost his job over this, but if I ever shop at TJMaxx, I probably would pay for my purchases only in cash.
There past lack of security practices (such as allowing their systems to be hacked and have millions of customers credit card numbers stolen) is completely unacceptable.
Make no mistake.....Security is Managements responsibility......they too often ignore what needs to be done, recommended, spend money on for proper security, employee education, and other items.
Its very easy to blame the IT employee geek for all these problems (and Management loves to do so, believe me!), when the employee can only recommend and has no control over the checkbook....he cant fix when he doesn't have tools, education, and proper equipment to do the job and counter the ever evolving threats that continue out on the Net.....
And another thing to future whistleblowers......be careful what you say and pay attention, you could get into trouble. If things are that bad in the workplace, consider leaving and if you do talk, consider some legal advice before doing so. If there is a great danger that people are going to get hurt, do the right thing but be careful......
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