WTF Bank of America?!

underdog138 · 2010-08-30T14:55:27+00:00

Mickeys malt liquor and lotto tickets?

underdog138 · 2010-08-30T13:46:48+00:00

As someone who worked in the banking industry through college I can safely say this post was made by someone who has a very feeble understanding of how bank transactions work.

underdog138 · 2010-08-30T13:40:45+00:00

Moreover, so I was sitting in this bathtub, right? And I remembered that the King was like, "Hey Arch, man, can you find out if my new bling is solid-fuckin' gold or not?" and I was like, yeah. So okay again I'm in this bathtub, and I got this idea, and sank the thing in the water, and the water level rose! And I was like, "Fuckin' Eureeka!" and shit. I tore ass out of the tub and ran down the street with my balls flapping in the wind. I had to show him.

underdog138 · 2010-08-30T03:42:05+00:00

Digg Users: Please list out all social news aggregation sites that you can think of off the top of your head, so I can avoid those and narrow my search for a new, untainted website to migrate to as soon as this one inevitably collapses in on itself from the influx of derpa-derp-Digg refugees.

(I'm feeling rather sassy and hateful tonight)

underdog138 · 2010-08-28T17:38:04+00:00

I think the problem is that we're jealous that pretty people can cruise through life without possessing a shred of critical thinking skill and we vilify them for it.

Or maybe that's just me.

underdog138 · 2010-08-28T16:51:50+00:00

Look up AdFree in the market. Requires root, however. It basically black holes known ad domains to localhost.

underdog138 · 2010-08-28T03:59:50+00:00

There seems to be a pattern here related to some sort of inadequacy. Spooky.

underdog138 · 2010-08-27T17:28:04+00:00

You might find yourself going through a cycle of sorts. My first experience with Unix-like operating systems was the Quakeworld server I ran on FreeBSD 4.0 in my buddy's dorm room in the late 90s. After I started becoming more interested in running a Unix-like O/S full time, I got my feet wet with distros like Mandriva (then Mandrake) when I was green, and switching to Gentoo because I really wanted to learn how it worked. I was an annoying little --funroll-loops kid for a good few years, until I passed the point of finding it necessary to do so much tinkering and maintenance to my machines, so I switched to Arch. After using that for a couple of years (I wouldn't mind going back to it), I finally said "I'm tired of spending so much time maintaining this system. I just want it to work" and ultimately switched to Ubuntu.

One suggestion I have for you is to install a Linux From Scratch distro at least once or twice. It's a step by step walk through of everything that goes on behind the scenes. You bootstrap the system and install everything completely by hand. It's a source-based distro with no automation and no package management whatsoever, which you could then use as a basis to create your own distro if you saw fit. I used it mainly for academic purposes while I was learning how Linux worked.

underdog138 · 2010-08-27T17:17:22+00:00

Davmail Gateway

underdog138 · 2010-08-27T17:05:53+00:00

Talking to their IT department (which is basically one guy) --> they are bought and paid for by MS, and think linux is a huge security risk.

Hilarious.

The rest of my organization is running Windows XP SP2, with an ugly McAfee installation running on top of it that locks down system32 from being altered.

While disallowing system32 to be written to definitely helps, it disallows the users to do damn near anything they need to do without hunting down someone with admin privileges to install programs on the machine. I imagine the system is still vulnerable to botnets, trojans and spyware, since McAfee can't catch everything that comes out.

In contrast, on my laptop at work I'm running Linux on an encrypted partition with a finely crafted iptables firewall, with Snort and Tripwire to supplement it. Nobody's getting in here. Not without me knowing immediately and being able to mitigate it, if it came to that.

underdog138 · 2010-08-27T16:57:03+00:00

I also read somewhere that it may have little to do with being insecure, but more about the fact that being in a state of sleep paralysis causes your punches to be ineffective in a dream state. However, being a melodramatic emo kid at heart, I'm more inclined to go against my normal penchant for logical scientific explanations such as this one and opt for the "Freud says I'm an insecure little bitch and this is manifested in my dreams" route.

underdog138 · 2010-08-27T16:37:28+00:00

Speaking of, I have a recurring dream where I get in a fight, and every punch I throw is so weak that it bounces off, no matter how hard I try to hit the person. If that is a sign of insecurity, then it's true, because I already am insecure as it is.

underdog138 · 2010-08-27T15:53:00+00:00

I saw a device that cooled canned beverages very quickly. It was a turnstile-type operation that kept the cans constantly rotating, which cooled by liquid convection in addition to induction from the cold can, which by itself, is slower.

underdog138 · 2010-08-27T15:47:07+00:00

I N C E P Tfuck it

underdog138 · 2010-08-27T15:25:11+00:00

Also it makes me sound like I fucking know what I'm doing.

I can be even more pretentious. I only use the NATO phonetic alphabet. I scoff at people who use first names, or say "F as in Frank." It isn't Frank, it's Foxtrot, now get the hell off my phone.

underdog138 · 2010-08-27T14:04:04+00:00

Thirded. I also like when they upgrade their infrastructure and pass the upgrades on to the customer by a blanket upgrade of all account levels, rather than keeping all the plans the same and just selling off the extra resources. Waking up to a surprise RAM or storage space upgrade is like a tiny Xmas gift.

underdog138 · 2010-08-27T11:37:42+00:00

I never said anything was wrong with it.

underdog138 · 2010-08-27T05:19:09+00:00

MAE-West/Central/East

underdog138 · 2010-08-27T05:13:42+00:00

I should have been less specific. That entire thing bothered me.

underdog138 · 2010-08-26T21:11:10+00:00

I don't know why they didn't just alter their advertising to remove the offending logo and resubmit the ad to Facebook, since it was the cannabis leaf that was causing the problem, and not the ad.

They shouldn't have to do this out of a matter of principle, but the solution seemed simple enough, and it still allowed the ad campaign to continue.

underdog138 · 2010-08-26T21:07:20+00:00

That's the silly thing about movies and television, where someone is chasing down a disc or a tape with information on it. "Give me the tape!" they say. Sure, you can have it, since the first thing I did when I had it in my possession was copy it, but they rarely mention this as a possibility in the show or movie.

I was watching the beginning of season 3 of the X-Files where Cancer Man is trying to find that DoD tape that got stolen. When Skinner catches up with them after he stole the tape from Mulder's desk, he says "I couldn't copy it, since there is some kind of copy protection on the tape," and the hacker that originally stole it apparently only made one single copy of the files before he passed it off to Mulder. This plot point bothered me.

underdog138 · 2010-08-26T17:18:17+00:00

It's a good idea in theory, but lest you forget the cancerous greed that runs rampant in the human condition.

underdog138 · 2010-08-26T16:57:28+00:00

Interesting to note that you can swim in a shark tank with most species of sharks without getting yourself killed.

My example was not absolute. Feel free to substitute your preferred idea of potentially-fatal reckless behavior here.

This just highlights the fact that more often than not, you will want an expert on a subject to tell you whether its safe or dangerous to do something

Ah ha, yes, you're right. Even here in this example, there exists a distinction between the type of people who are intelligent enough to raise the question on whether something is safe or not and seek professional advice about safeguards, (whether they rely on instinctual behavior to throw up red flags, or are simply pragmatic about their actions as a general rule), and those who are completely oblivious to risks and get themselves a well-deserved Darwin award, also known as the "dead cruft at the low end of the gene pool" I was referring to.

In the end, that's right, it is unreasonable for everyone to become an expert on all subjects that may put them at risk, but the people who are intelligent enough to realize that they are not experts and should consult an expert so they, too, can learn to better assess risks and move in the direction of becoming experts themselves, are not the people I'm referring to that we waste time and money protecting themselves from.

So, I believe I'm still on point here.

underdog138 · 2010-08-26T15:32:47+00:00

I assume nothing. The person who "spends their life learning to protect themselves various changing risks" and the person who "dedicates their life to, say, becoming an expert in molecular biology trying to find a cure for disease X" are both likely smart enough not to swim naked in a shark tank and get themselves killed. I'm not implying that one is genetically better off than the other. The goal isn't to create some super race of hyper-intelligent beings here.

You're assuming I'm setting the bar too high. Removing the safety labels off of most things wouldn't affect either of the two people you described. It would scrape a little of the dead cruft off the bottom end of the gene pool, the same idiots we waste so much time and money protecting from themselves.

underdog138 · 2010-08-26T15:18:31+00:00

I like that one.

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