My war on Logic

Internet Security helper list :

I am not sure if this will help a lot but in one of my class recently we had a guy from a group called "team cymru" which specialize in Internet security.

I figured based on that I should post a list of things that I learned to a small level for the general public.

1. run tools like anti-virus, spybot, and ad-aware regularly.
2. Check your bank and credit card account for any transaction that you are not sure about. Especially where a small amount of money was deposited in your account and then withdrawn a few days later. You account could be compromised and is being used as a money laundering system.
3. close credit card accounts your not using. Credit Card companies and merchant online providers do get hacked. A company in Texas got hacked for 8 million cards. For over one years non of those cards showed transactions on the Internet. Also the credit card company did not close any of the original accounts or issue new cards. Only keep open what you need and pay attention to that.
4. If you can handle it on your computer, turn off cookies. Obviously this is a huge pain but essentially by allowing them openly your are already being hacked by these major websites which want to store information on your computers. If you are willing to deal with the pop ups to let you decide which to allow and which to not then I would recommend that.
5. If you computer savy enough check your network with Wireshark(old Ethereal) for what your different pc's are outputting in traffic.
6. Make sure you are at least behind a router on your home network. Due not hook your pc directly up to your cable modem.
7. Read your online banking legal statement. It may say if your own pc is compromised then your account will not be refunded.


I am not saying that we should all be running scared. But I will say some of these were even things I never thought about before. I always thought that banks or any of these online companies would be that really good at protecting us. Just be careful out there.

This summer I read a little bit of the book called the "Zodiac". I read only the letter that were originally written by the Zodiac. There is a movie coming out soon that is based on the situation. I will say I do not know much about it except for what I read. However; I will say that the brief part that I read really weirded me out. If your not sure what I am talking about the Zodiac is in reference to the Zodiace killer. The letters in question that I mentioned above were the letters that the killer actually sent to the local papers. They involved a cipher of cryptic letters which supposedly would give his identity away. He also mentioned that there was a time where the police talked to him after a killing. He was walking down the street after one and the police stopped to talk to him and he pointed them in another direction. The really weird part of the letters is that the reason for his killings were that he was collecting slaves for the afterlife.
I guess its that part most of all that really weirds me out. I am not saying that a serial killer is not messed up enough. I guess the fact that he was playing with the cops obviously showed that he was a smart individual. However then the hole afterlife slave that really adds the fucked up piece to the whole things. This is coming up now because I am actually up doing a change for work and a movie called "The Zodiac" which is based on the killer is on cable. I am actually interested in seeing the version that comes out this spring. As it comes to serial killers based on what I know of them this one seemed to be the smartest and one of the most messed up of them. It really weirds me out to think that someone this clever was able to pull off this kind of horrible violence.
How does one differerenciate right from wrong if you already believe you are right? I am guess that this person believed they were doing good or the "Lords work" depending on the mentality. Just that alone really weirds me out. If I see the new movie I will let you know.
It gives me chills.

OJ =539.60
Mott's clear=263.79
Motts Brown=302.32
one penny=16.30
rest of pennies=62.49


Total=1184.50

Not to bad for a bunch of change.

Read the article hear. I know its way to expensive for the home market but who know a few years down the road.

http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9011144&source=NLT_PM&nlid=8

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I am not sure where I heard or read this. It might have been one of the book I read or the what most people would call crappy tv show that I watched. However what ever it was mentioned the idea the vice are virtues that are just not controlled. I believe its from one of the books I have read recently but I am to lazy to look through them. My point, If I can actually make one, is how to you keep your virtues from becoming vices. I know at work my desire to help people became a vice a while ago because I found myself missing things like school and dates for work. After those situations I changes my vice by not letting myself do those things however now I feel at times I might have lost part of my original virtue. I still like to help people at work but now its on my decisions. Its almost as if I perform triage on work clients. Some which is probably something I should have learned at one point in my 10 years of working. I have gotten to the point where I don't let work control me the way it used to. However the downside of losing that vice/virtue is that I now don't really have a desire to go to work as much. I don't feel like I make a difference the same way I used to. I am not saying that I don't have really good days sometimes that make me feel different. Back to my point. How do you balance your virtues in your life in order to not make them vices? I know I did not post of good example. If I can find the exact quote I will. However, I just realized that there are good things in life but unless you can control them they are no longer good.

For those of you that are BattleStar Galactica fans I just was rewatching a show from the first half of the 3rd season and thought of something. Its the episode called "Hero" where the pilot Bulldog escape with a raider to meet up with Galatica for the first time in 3 years. They show video of when Bulldog first crossed the armastice line he gets winged by a ship that disapear but disables his ship. At this point two other unknown ships jump in which they believe are cylon raiders. My theory is that maybe that first ship that shot Bulldog down in the first place was not a cylon ship but maybe a third party that we have yet to see. Somehow this 3rd party needed to be able to benefit from the cylon-human war. Not sure yet but this is my rough draft on my theory. More updates to follow as the show continues.

Okay the weights have changed from what I originally posted. Here are the correct weights in lbs.

OJ= 37.0
Motts Brown-19.2
Motts Clear-19.2
4x Penny jug-10.4
1x partial penny jar-7.4

I am currently in class right now. I love wireless internet. Depaul rocks in this fashion.

The teacher started talking about this project/non-profit which goal is to get computers to kids everywhere. Kind of like what Pablo's volunteers with. However I figured I would post it so people can look into it.

Do a google search for OLPC and you will get a whole bunch of links.

There is also a whole bunch of cool technology that they are using in order to keep costs down.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_Laptop_per_Child

After all the talk for the past few months, I finally took all my coins to the bank. Being the jackass that I am, I made sure that he only dumped one bottle at a time so I could figure out how much was in each bottle. This had become a conversation topic a long time ago at my house with some of the guys.

The clear and brown motts bottles weighed 10.4 lbs.
The OJ bottle was close to being full and weighed 19.2
I only weighed two of the penny things that I don't remember off hand how much they weighed but the numbers are at home so I will post them later.
Guess how much was in the different jars and how much money all of the jars are worths. I will post the answer in a few days. Closest to the actual numbers wins nothing.

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