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I just liked the pretty slides

hey you never answered my military ball question.

(it was a real question.)

have you ever been at a talk with slides like these?

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3161/2554098287_e69d02a224_b.jpg

I missed a lot of questions!! busy with $girl and $work for a while I guess

How many Military Balls have you attended?
What is your opinion of Military Balls/ how would you sum up the Military Ball experience?
Any memorable stories that took place at a Military Ball?

a. 1
b. so not worth it
c. nope

tombot,

am i a jackass?

also

what is the best self-help book you've ever read?

a. no!
b. lost in the cosmos by walker percy, I love that book

do you ever get embarrassed when you jizz all over your shit? like computer security threads or gundam threads or military threads? or whatever "your shit" is?

only when I stop and then feel like a dip for spending so much time and energy writing what amounts to another fucking blog comment on the intertube.

ysi? jan hammer jeff beck track from yr muxtape plz

I can totally put that back up on the muxtape for you but I will also provide this link where you can own a copy for $0.99 because I'm a law man u kno: http://www.amazon.com/Jeff-Beck-Hammer-Group-Live/dp/B00138H8I0/

I am gonna guess Tombot is not so keen on the NSZ.

trinidad is a fucked up hood. I'm not a real cop who has to deal with that kind of shit so just like I don't want other ppl telling me how to do my job I'm not going to tell them how to do theirs. Also see above re: soccer stadium, I think Fenty's pretty sharp baout things

have you ever been at a talk with slides like these?

big and overly complex with no real informative value, yes. super-cult-bonkers, not really.

http://blogs.chron.com/whitehouse/archives/fentywashtimes.jpg

back off, motherfuckas

wow your mayor is riddick

dear tombot,

i assumed that i could just buy an adaptor for my laptop's power cord (since you have weird electrical sockets in the states), but someone said i should make sure my computer has some sort of thingy that prevents it from overloading, or i could seriously fuck it up?? it's about 18 months old. is it likely that it probably does have this thing, or should i really try to find out from the place i bought it from?

NZ runs at 230 Volts 50Hz, US at 110V 60hz most laptop power adapters cover the entire range from 100-250V and 50-60Hz so it should be fine is you just get a NZ (slanty prongs) to US (parallel prongs) adapter. This goes for most mobile phone chargers as well, You should be able to tell as the power adapter will have this written on it, there should be something saying INPUT yadda yadda.

NB this does not apply for many other appliances but all appliances should say.

ok i just read the fine print on the power cable and it says AC 100-240v 50-60Hz, so i guess it's okay. thanks ed!!!

i just checked my hair dryer and it says 230-240v 50Hz. that means i won't be able to use it in the US, even with a NZ-to-US adaptor, right?

Yes, you can get an upconverter but it will be cheaper and easier just to buy one in the US.

a new hairdryer that is.

thanks heaps, ed. one less useless thing i need to pack in my suitcase!

Is Todd Terje a pun on Todd Terry?

http://jetfuel.metalbat.com/GraffleGaming/

Is Todd Terje a pun on Todd Terry?

I have no idea and don't care

http://jetfuel.metalbat.com/GraffleGaming/

That's cool, I guess? We never used maps except for Battletech.

Is this latest DNS attack being overhyped? Why didn't ISC Bind use port number + transaction id -- cache poisoning is old hat!

the mitigatory updates getting pushed definitely make it sound lame but as has been stated that was done for a good reason.

Every johnny white hat who thinks he's smarter than Dan Kaminsky and has it all figured out already is still going to have to pick their jaw off the floor come August. Kaminsky has made a living out of buggering layer 3+4 since 2001.

"cache poisoning is old hat" is some dumb shit to be throwing out there kiddo, if phishermen and storm worm types could reliably poison DNS they'd be doing it every hour of every day. What do you do then? Turn off the internet?

And no I don't know the details either.

Yea, the advisory I read made it sound like you could get a server to have a bunch of identical requests open with different transaction ids to increase the chances to match a transaction id (16 bit). Maybe I glanced at the wrong thing.

"cache poisoning is old hat" is some dumb shit to be throwing out there kiddo, if phishermen and storm worm types could reliably poison DNS they'd be doing it every hour of every day. What do you do then? Turn off the internet?

Isn't this mostly because people don't route spoofed packets that couldn't have originated on the route they're arriving on?

you have a gross overestimation of the quality of the world's ACLs there

most people out there still don't even implement the bogon list afaik

So I guess 16 bits are enough ;)

Meanwhile our upstream is hammering our office's router with arp traffic and filling up its arp table (sysadmins not really clear on this -- thought the *IP* router would only need to know the MACs of adjacent routers).

lol 30,000 foot view

somebody else besides jw ask me some questions
I don't want to be at work today

If you were in a film would Owen Wilson still play you?

really I don't think so. He's kind of noticeably older than I am now I think, and I have yet to do anything biopic worthy, so we'll see. There's probably some 15 year old kid out there who has two paths in life available to him, whether he winds up playing me in an oscar winner or being the next Dell Dude, who knows. Life is crazy.

El Tomboto,

I don't know if you know anything about it, but masters in operations research: possibly interesting and worthwhile or a waste of time and brain cells that erases the last vestiges of one's humanity?

circles

The coolest parts of my MS were the engineering economics and process engineering/decision-making bits, IMO, so it seems really interesting to me, but I doubt I'd ever get good enough at the math enough to do a whole MS in that particular arena

That's cool. The math does seem pretty scary and probably above my head.

Daer Tombot:
Bachelor of Arts in Interdisciplinary Studies - more or less bullshit-sounding than your average BA in history/English/etc.?

Most people stop listening after you say "Arts" so I wouldn't worry about it. "I graduated from a college" the end

Haha, Tom.

http://www.murdoconline.net/2008/protesting_zombies.jpg

That's not even a question!

All right, are you as good at Whack-A-Mole in real life as you are on here?

I am not the only moderator.

e.g. if you let me play whack-a-mole with a team of five other dudes who each have their own mallet then yeah, I fucking rule

I'm not being snarky. Seeing a thread that ends with a fuck you and then watching it disappear into smoke legitimately makes me laugh on a boring Friday afternoon.

if you let me play whack-a-mole with a team of five other dudes who each have their own mallet

I had no idea you knew LJ IRL.

: - o

;-D

http://blog.terrises.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/jerkoff.gif

that threw me off for a second before I realized that I wasn't looking at the banjo thread.

http://www.doxpara.com/?p=1176

http://blogs.zdnet.com/security/?p=1520

oh teh lol

SQL injection - lol or :-( ?

kind of lol but mostly sad

TOMBOT - Terry Childs, evil villain or misunderstood hero?

p.s. this is a do my homework for me question

ALBERTO TOMBOT,

Would you accept FACEBOOK friend invite from http://profile.ak.facebook.com/v230/1384/59/s1245246539_7707.jpg?

Love,

Shasta

Byron,

Neither.
Arrogant prick.

Steve,

I don't do facebook, so no.

ps to bnw, if I had to expound, I would say "evil villain" gives way too much credit to his actions, which were basically expensive vandalism, and "misunderstood hero" gives way too much credit to his superiors, who themselves got nothing on the folks at NASA/Morton Thiokol who sent the Challenger up

yeah I don't buy the network savior crap either, it'd be like a doctor stashing a patient's charts because only he could care for him properly.

one of my friend's had his main network admin go similarly wacko post quitting where he kept emailing the company saying that their website (which he set up) wasn't secure and that he wouldn't be held responsible if it was hacked.