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| Some fucking people |
2010-12-22 03:26:13 |
Some of the people I deal with on a daily basis at my job are so stupid that to call them fucking incompetent would be to give them much more credit than they deserve. I had two calls today that went the same general direction and ended up causing me to write this rant. I have basically taken the two calls and composited them into a single call for the purpose of this post.
So I work for an internet service provider and we serve our customers via DSL. Our modems are equipped with 802.11G, however the new modems we have are equipped with 802.11N. So this customer calls me up and asks if he can get a new modem. I asked him if there was something wrong with his old modem and he told me no. I asked him why he needed a replacement. He then told me that his wireless card was only coming up at 20mbit and he knew a better one could get him to connect at 54mbit. He wanted to be able to use the internet faster so he wanted a better wireless router. I tried to explain to this customer that he was only paying for 6mbit down and 1mbt up and that a replacement router would not help him. Then he said the words I hate to hear. He told me his son who works at Intel (most likely a janitor or someone who services the vending machines) told him it would be faster if he could get an N router. So I spent the next half hour explaining to him why the new router would not do him any good. His response to me was that his son had a degree from ITT ( wow … don’t they just give those things away on the side of the street?) and knows more about computers than some minimum wage tech support rep with no education and no skills. At this point I said to myself “fuck it” and let him rant. While he ranted I read a few web comics and took a few jabs at his son to keep him talking. In the end I told him I would not give him a new modem and told him I was adding notes to the account saying that he didn’t need a new one. When I hung up he was still cussing at me.
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| Merry Christmas from Tap3w0rm.com |
2010-12-21 13:58:15 |
It’s Christmas time again tap3w0rm fans and I have news. GreenOlive and I are expecting a baby boy this Febuary. I will post more when I get a chance but I just wanted to post something as I never get a chance to wrote on this thing anymore.
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| Math Graphing paper |
2010-10-09 00:50:55 |
I had the need for some graph paper for a class and i love the way it came out. Check out my math graphs.
Click for graph paper
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| This news article pissed me off! |
2010-07-20 17:11:08 |
I read this article and basically want to find the people this guy interviewed and slap them around with a cinderblock.From this story
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=128574055
There may be no country on the planet more vulnerable to a massive cyberattack than the United States, where financial, transportation, telecommunications and even military operations are now deeply dependent on data networking.
Really? We are the only country that has a deep dependency on technology? So this article is refuting the existence of Japan, china, Hong Kong, Korea, Britain, Australia, Canada, Netherlands, Norway, Iceland, Finland, Switzerland, Singapore, Sweden and Denmark? You know the top technology dependent countries in the world?
U.S. industry, government and military operations are all at risk of an attack on complex computer systems, analysts warn.
What's worse: U.S. security officials say the country's cyberdefenses are not up to the challenge. In part, it's due to a severe shortage of computer security specialists and engineers with the skills and knowledge necessary to do battle against would-be adversaries. The protection of U.S. computer systems essentially requires an army of cyberwarriors, but the recruitment of that force is suffering.
First thing is first. Stop saying shit like cyberwarriors. This isn’t some space-age movie where the internet is some large 3d maze and people zoom around within it. Cyberwarriors is a bad name. You want to say Computer Security Engineers or something along that line. The use of terms like cyberdefenses and cyberwarriors is something that the media needs to put to an end.
The recruitment of this force is not suffering. Most hackers are not interested in being snatched up by the government and placed in a glass box where everything they do is watched over. A hacker is born from their experiences weather that be good, bad or other. They must be allowed to do what they do without interference. You can’t just create a hacker and you can’t cage one either.
We don't have sufficiently bright people moving into this field to support those national security objectives as we move forward in time, says James Gosler, a veteran cybersecurity specialist who has worked at the CIA, the National Security Agency and the Energy Department.
that’s because your national security objectives are bullshit. Those in the upper echelons of our computer defense departments are educated idiots. They have no real experience with the field they belong to. Just like those who can’t do teach. You’re a bunch of assholes and no one wants to work for you. No one wants to work within the constraints of a government job. What we do cannot be contained within a glass box.
If U.S. cyberdefenses are to be improved, more people like Gosler will be needed on the front lines. Gosler, 58, works at the Energy Department's Sandia National Laboratory in Albuquerque, N.M., where he focuses on ways to counter efforts to penetrate U.S. data networks. It's an ever-increasing challenge.
You’re not on the front lines. You haven’t even seen the front lines. The front lines are on the streets every day. The virus writers and hackers working in the field on every day systems are on the front lines. You think you have such a large bull’s-eye painted on your back when really it's the American consumer and American companies that are the victims of most crimes. I would place this on the same table with the exec of BP complaining how hard his life is because everyone keeps bothering him. After the comment he got in his private jet and flew to Hawaii for a much needed rest.
You can have vulnerabilities in the fundamentals of the technology, you can have vulnerabilities introduced based on how that technology is implemented, and you can have vulnerabilities introduced through the artificial applications that are built on that fundamental technology, Gosler says. It takes a very skilled person to operate at that level, and we don't have enough of them.
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WHAT!?! This sentence is complete bullshit created by someone who doesn’t know what they are talking about. artificial applications that are built on that fundamental technology is the largest amount of bullshit i have ever herd. This man just wants to hear himself speak. He is speaking in circles just so the writer has something to write. People talk like this when they don’t know what they are talking about. You see a lot of this at tradeshows where an ill-informed sales rep speaks circles around the mindless consumer without ever actually saying anything
Gosler estimates there are now only 1,000 people in the entire United States with the sophisticated skills needed for the most demanding cyberdefense tasks. To meet the computer security needs of U.S. government agencies and large corporations, he says, a force of 20,000 to 30,000 similarly skilled specialists is needed.
I would love to know how you came up with this number. Because it sounds like complete and utter bullshit to me. The problem is your scope of search is too limited. Some of the best most talented people are currently in middle school or just starting high school. I know programmers that are 13 years old who grasp how to code complex security hardened applications. If you reach into the schools and find these individuals before their brains are too fucked up by the public school system you would have your hands on a workforce like one you have never seen. The issue here is that the government would never hire a 14 year old for defense no matter how talented they were. This comes from old ideals that need to be broken down. The internet has no sex, age or race. A 12 year old can hold a conversation with a 56 year old about advanced micro physics without either of them knowing how old the other is. Your worth on the internet is based on what you can do now how old you are.
Some are currently being trained at the nonprofit SANS (SysAdmin, Audit, Network, Security) Institute outside Washington, D.C., but the demand for qualified cybersecurity specialists far exceeds the supply.
You can’t train a security person. They are born this way. I hope by training you mean that they are honing their skills and being shown things they have not had access to before. If you take some random jack off who woke up one morning and said to himself “hey i think I want to do security and try and teach him your going to end up with what i call an Educated Idiot
You go looking for those people, but everybody else is looking for the same thousand people, says SANS Research Director Alan Paller. So they're just being pushed around from NSA to CIA to DHS to Boeing. It's a mess.
this is where the idea of new talent comes in. You should not be looking in the colleges or in other organizations. Scour the middle and high schools. Look over the drop outs. Find those people that computer science teachers in middle and high schools have the problems with and give them a chance to wield real power in defense of our nation.
The Center for Strategic and International Studies highlights the problem in a forthcoming report, A Human Capital Crisis in Cybersecurity.
According to the report, a key element of a robust cybersecurity strategy is having the right people at every level to identify, build and staff the defenses and responses.
The CSIS report highlights a desperate shortage of people with the skills to design secure systems, write safe computer code, and create the ever more sophisticated tools needed to prevent, detect, mitigate and reconstitute from damage due to system failures and malicious acts.
The U.S. Computer Emergency Readiness Team/National Cybersecurity and Communications Integration Center is designed to help protect the technical infrastructure of the United States.
Computer Emergency Readiness Team/National Cybersecurity and Communications Integration Center is designed to help protect the technical infrastructure of the United States.
The cyber manpower crisis in the United States stands in sharp contrast to the situation in China, where the training of computer experts is a top national priority. In the most recent round of the International Collegiate Programming Contest, co-sponsored by IBM and the Association for Computing Machinery, Chinese universities took four of the top 10 places. No U.S. university made the list.
Stop using the term cyber, This is not a movie .the manpower is here however you’re too scared to grasp at that power because it is in the hands of children who are smarter than those who we have in power within our own security infrastructure. Raw talent is being wasted away within the public schools. The government should be coordinating mass testing amongst the children in our schools looking for specific aptitudes and preparing them for the possibility of a government job.
The Chinese government, in fact, appears to be systematically building a cyberwarrior force.
No shit. They are not stupid; their culture performs the type of tests i talked about above as a matter of routine. They test all their students and those who show promise in specific fields are put on a track to work for the government or large corporations. Where we in the US just let these talented individuals suffer and die within the poor education of our school systems.
Every military district of the Peoples' Liberation Army runs a competition every spring, says Alan Paller of SANS, and they search for kids who might have gotten caught hacking.
One of the Chinese youths who won that competition had earlier been caught hacking into a Japanese computer, according to Paller, only to be rewarded with extra training.
Later that year, we found him hacking into the Pentagon, Paller says. So they find them, they train them, and they get them into operation very, very fast.
This is what i am talking abotu. You ahve 2 options you can imprison the child or you can train them to work for our goverment security. Imprisonment is nothign more than a waste of resources. China understands this fact and is using it to their advantage.
Some members of Congress, eager to follow China's example, are now promoting a U.S. Cyber Challenge, a national talent search at the high school level. The aim is to find up to 10,000 potential cyberwarriors, ready to play both offense and defense.
Forget high school level. I know people in middle school who could code circles around most security engineers if they were properly motivated. But instead of this we leave them to rot in our middle schools. We need to be testing these children yearly starting at the 3rd grade and following them through their senior year in high school. Those showing an aptitude for computer science, hacking, math, etc.. should be moved from the high schools into special school where they can grow their mental skill and become more. We need to leave no stone un turned .
The idea is for schools around the country to field teams, and the teams would compete against one another, says Sen. Thomas Carper, a Delaware Democrat who is one of the backers of the effort. He sees the challenge as an opportunity not only for them to hone their skills on being able to hack into other systems, particularly those of folks we may not be fond of, but also to use what they learn to strengthen our defenses.
In order to protect a computer system, one needs to know how someone might attack it. Last year's preliminary Cyber Challenge game was won by a 17-year-old from Connecticut — Michael Coppola — who was smart enough to hack into the game computer and add points to his own score.
There's actually a flaw within that Web application, Coppola says. Using that, I was able to execute commands on the computer running the scoring software, and I was able to add points and basically do whatever I wanted.
It was certainly an unconventional approach, but the competition judges were so impressed by Coppola's ability to hack into the computer game that they actually rewarded him for changing his score.
This makes me so happy to hear. This child should be applauded for his creativity. If he used some script kiddy tool in order to cause this effect then that's fine also. He had the balls to actually do it and was able to make it work well. Here is 1 of your 30,000 people you need.
It's cheating, Michael says, but it's like the entire game is cheating.
Indeed. People who know how to cheat will soon be on the front lines of cyber defense, because the best way to defend a computer system from attack is to figure out how an adversary would be able to hack into it.
Now 18, Coppola is himself looking to a career in cybersecurity.
Why is he looking? Why didn’t our government give him a scholarship to a university so he could sharpen his skills and fill out the ranks of the men and women that we need to defend our government? Did someone loose his contact information? this reporter was able to find him! This is what is wrong with this whole thing.
Most children and young adults interested in hacking and other computer security fields are going to be partially immoral people based on the expectations of the populous. They see nothing wrong with downloading music or movies. Stealing software that is so expensive they can’t afford to but it to keep on top of their skills is nothing to them. Does this make them criminals? Yes it does but does it make them talented as well. The answer to that is also yes. These people should be found and trained.
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| T-Mobile data |
2010-07-16 00:59:29 |
So I had a little chat with t-mobile today about my mobile data package. I see myself using quite a bit of data and was concerned that I was going to go over my limit, whatever that may be. So I simply asked via the chat what the limit was. Here is a spliced together screenshot of the conversation. Somehow I managed to lose the copy of all the text I had in the clipboard so the picture is going to have to do.
As you can see I wasn’t really mean but I was not nice either. I don’t understand why they can’t tell me exactly what will happen to me if I go over 10GB. So my new goal is to run several speed tests and download as much as I can. When I exceed 10GB I will then run more tests and see what happens.
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| Hacked / Baby / Family secrets / Job |
2010-07-14 11:33:27 |
So I was forced from my laziness via a exploit in e107 that resulted in my site being completely emptied of files. I had some unfinished code sitting in the site that I planned on turning into my own blog software. Well I had to start over from scratch on 7/12/2010 and now it is 7/14/2010 and I have it done. Damn that was fast if I may say so myself. The site still needs some work but it is functional. I created a secured back end this morning and now I can post news items to the database. No outside variables are processed in any way so I don’t have to worry about SQL injection at all from the non administrator side. I will eventually set up paging so that all the posts don’t set up in one single large page like it currently does.
So the news of the moment is that I am going to be a dad. I am very excited to be passing on what I know to the next generation. I personally think I will be a great father. My brother and sister are both very excited to become an aunt and uncle. My whole family is going crazy with baby fever, especially my mom’s side. As I am technically an only child of my family blood it is up to me to move the family forward. I have 2 half siblings and 2 step brothers. My mother’s brothers and sister haven’t had children so this is big news for my family.
I am having a huge issue at the moment. My cousin Kristen is finally old enough to learn the truth of her heritage that is being actively withheld from her. The story is as follows. My step father had a family member who was having a child that was up for adoption. My aunt is unable to have her own children and there was a private adoption form one side of the family to the other. She doesn’t know that she has several blood sisters and brothers. The largest problem is that my step father and mother have no contact with Kristen any more at this point because of a rift between my mother and her sister. It is my belief that Kristen deserves to know that this side of the family still cares about her and misses her. I know she has asked about her biological parents before and was told that no one knows. This is a huge lie and she is finally old enough to know the truth. I really want to tell her but I know this will cause the rift to get larger between my mom and her sister. The situation is one that will never get better so I see no harm in wading the rift at this point. If I do this we may get her back into our family again and I can have my cousin back who I use to care so much for.
I did get a job with a utilities company that is a phone company/ internet provider. They are also one of the largest private wireless providers in the country. So I am still really excited about this. My job is going good and my boss is fantastic and knowledgeable. It’s nice having some you can learn from.
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| Installing office 2007 |
2010-06-22 02:11:29 |
When installing office 2007 you may get an error saying that office can’t find:
office.en-us\setup.xml
office.en-us\branding.xml
and a few others.
This may sound like complete bullshit but here is what fixed it on my machine:
open regedit.exe
browse to:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\MICROSOFT\OFFICE
Then delete the office part of the above address.
restart your install and it works.
good luck!
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| Fark photoshop about reflective glasses. |
2009-11-25 22:23:58 |
Fark photoshop submission
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| Performance testing |
2009-10-28 19:56:02 |
Ok so if you want to get information on how long it takes your c++ program to run here is how.
First thing you need to add to your program in an include so you can deal with time:
#include <ctime>
setup these globals:
clock_t timeStart;
clock_t timeEnd;
int diff = 0;
when you want to start timing use this command:
time(&timeStart);
When you’re done use this command:
time(&timeEnd);
Now you have information on when you started and ended. All you need to do is find the difference between the two:
diff = static_cast<int>(difftime(timeEnd,timeStart));
now diff contains the number of seconds it took:
Run the following code at the end of your program to output the information:
if (diff < 1)
cout<<endl<< It took less than 1 second to run <<endl;
if (diff == 1)
cout<<endl<< It took 1 second to run <<endl;
if (diff > 1)
cout<<endl<< It took << diff << seconds to run <<endl;
I have an example C++ file you can download HERE
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