HAPPY PEOPLE ARE NASTY?

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Shiny happy people

Shiny happy people 09/06/2004 06:30 PM

« Krishnas on the Esplanadi. Shiny happy people. »

I always used to associate Krishnas with airports and vegetarian food. People smile, point and giggle at them as people dancing around and chanting might seem odd in places where dancing around and chanting are reserved for the drunks or the insane, but since living in Finland I've grown rather fond of them because they smile at everyone in a place where smiling at strangers just isn't done. People make fun of you if you're too happy and dancing and people think you're a freak if you're a cynical grump so it's no wonder most people take the stonefaced option.

It's going to be a crap week as, aside from all the other things getting me down, it is likely time to discuss the kevorkian option for HoneyBear with the vet. And, I'm one year older today, too. Yay. Maybe I should go join the Krishnas.

Sheep like happy, smiley people:
official

Sheep like happy, smiley people:
official 06/14/2004 05:06 AM
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People Hate Others Using Mobile Phones,
But Happy They Can Do So Themselves

People Hate Others Using Mobile Phones,
But Happy They Can Do So Themselves 03/14/2005 05:27 PM
This probably isn't all that surprising, but a majority of people surveyed complain that they're annoyed by people who use mobile phones in public places, but at the same time go on to talk about how wonderful phones are for making it more convenient for them to communicate. It sounds like the typical study about drivers where the vast majority think they're above average drivers. It seems like the vast majority of mobile phone users think they are better than average at keeping their public mobile phone conversations private. About 40% of those surveyed think that there should be a law (which already does exist in NYC, though, it's rarely, if ever, enforced) saying you can't use a mobile phone in places like restaurants, museums or theaters.

Happy People Are Healthier, Study
Suggests

Happy People Are Healthier, Study
Suggests 04/19/2005 04:18 AM

Nasty LKM

Nasty LKM 08/08/2004 07:03 AM
Check it out !

Pilot wants to know if people flying in
his plane are "Christians" - asks people
to raise their hands

Pilot wants to know if people flying in
his plane are "Christians" - asks people
to raise their hands 02/10/2004 09:18 AM
CNN.com - Passengers: Pilot promotes faith on flight .. Pilot's proselytizing scares passengers .. FLYING THE PLANES!!!!

cnn.com/2004/TRAVEL/02/09/airline.christianity/index.html
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"people it's somehow understandable how
some people might be driven to kill
"activist" Judges who make unpopular
decisions"

"people it's somehow understandable how
some people might be driven to kill
"activist" Judges who make unpopular
decisions" 04/06/2005 03:07 AM

Nasty telemarketers

Nasty telemarketers 06/05/2005 11:31 PM
Every so often we get a call from 888 858 9823. Sometime in the mid-nineties the phone number was the fax number of some small company here in Los Angeles, so when it just said "click [silence]" I thought it was a confused fax machine. Over the last weeks it's become more frequent. Every few days or so, maybe more. Grrh. Today I tried waiting a little to see if it was a telemarketer, but nothing happened. I tried looking...

Nasty new IE vulnerability

Nasty new IE vulnerability 12/09/2003 02:34 PM

Most people reading are probably aware of the common trick whereby spammers and other assorted ne'er-do-wells publish URLs with usernames that look like hostnames to fool people in to trusting a malicious site - for example, http://www.microsoft.com&session%123123123@simon.incutio.com . This trick is frequently used by spammers to steal people's PayPal accounts, by tricking them in to "resetting" their password at a site owned by the spammer but disguised as PayPal.com.

Today's new Internet Explorer vulnerability makes the problem a hundred times worse. By including an 0x01 character after the @ symbol in the fake URL, IE can be tricked in to not displaying the rest of the URL at all. Don't expect a patch for a while either; the guy who discovered the bug released it to BugTraq on the same day he notified the vendor.

A Nasty Fix For Apple

A Nasty Fix For Apple 12/11/2003 12:30 AM
It didn't have to be this way. Properly trained support reps would have headed this problem off long before it blossomed into a subversive online antiadvertising campaign. And a better customer-support system in general could be a huge selling point for Apple, as users encounter increasing complexity in pulling together the various pieces of the digital lifestyle. By Alex Salkever (BusinessWeek via MyAppleMenu)

Nasty new IE hole

Nasty new IE hole 12/09/2003 06:09 PM
A new MS Internet Explorer vulnerability is discovered. Most digerati already know about the spammer and lamer trick to publish URLs that look like legitimate hostnames to fool people in to trusting a malicious site. This trick is frequently used by spammers to steal people's PayPal accounts, by tricking them in to "resetting" their password at a site owned by the spammer but disguised as PayPal.com. Today's new IE vulnerability is significantly worse. By including an 0x01 character after the @ symbol in the fake URL, IE can be tricked in to not displaying the rest of the URL at all. Don't expect a patch right way, the guy who found the hole released it to BugTraq on the same day he notified Microsoft. (via Simon Willison)

A Nasty Fix for Apple

A Nasty Fix for Apple 12/11/2003 02:27 PM
Business Week Dec 11 2003 1:37PM ET

PDA Viruses Could Get Nasty

PDA Viruses Could Get Nasty 07/29/2004 11:58 PM
Viruses that target handhelds can be even more dangerous than their cousins that attack PCs, spawning self-replicating programs that hide easily, a security researcher told an audience of security professionals at the Black Hat Briefings conference here this week.

The first virus aimed at Pocket PC handhelds, revealed last week, could be far worse if it were modified slightly to carry a harmful payload, said Seth Fogie, a vice president of Airscanner, which develops security software for the Window Mobile platform.

The benign WinCE4.Duts.A (or just "Dust") virus was created as a demonstration of threats against personal digital assistants. However, Fogie noted, such programs could spread stealthily, logging keystrokes on the Pocket PC's "soft keyboard," and sending data stored on handhelds across the Internet.

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It's Jackson if You're Nasty

It's Jackson if You're Nasty 02/10/2004 02:45 AM

I watched the game, but wasn't impressed by the commercials and tuned out the half-time show about half-way through... then I read about this:

Stupid CBS... Bad idea... Bad execution...

Nasty AT&T Surprise

Nasty AT&T Surprise 07/02/2004 09:53 AM
AT&T Wireless hit me with an unpleasant surprise this month — a $268.68 cell phone bill, compliments of roaming and...

Correspondences - News By the People For
People: Who captured Saddam Hussein?

Correspondences - News By the People For
People: Who captured Saddam Hussein? 12/22/2003 07:54 AM
Well, the cat is out of the bag so to speak. Saddam Hussein was captured by Kurds, not US forces. 12/22 .. (even more) .. more

correspondences.org/archives/000507.html
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Scratching Nasty Blogger

Scratching Nasty Blogger 01/16/2004 01:02 PM

After reading Mark Pilgrim's latest post in which he dragged XHTML into the bad feed handling discussion and tried to instigate a fight by making it look like Tim Bray insulted others, I felt pretty upset and my opinion of Mark dropped down a few notches.  Then this morning, I found out via Dave that Mark is blocking traffic coming from Dave's blog.  That drops my opinion of Mark down to the gutter so I removed him from my blogroll.

Put me on your blacklist too, Mark, because I finally had enough of your nasty antics.  No matter how much fancy Python script you write, you'll never be able to refill those holes if you keep digging like that.

Nasty 0.6 (Default branch)

Nasty 0.6 (Default branch) 04/13/2005 02:11 PM
Nasty is an advanced tool for recovering GPG private-key passphrases. It has multiple methods for brute-force attacking the passphrase (searching the whole space, random searches, and dictionary attacks using an external wordlist). It saves its state to a file so that it can continue from where it stopped the last time it ran.

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Changes:
Now compiles and runs with version 1.0.2 of the gpgme library. A bug that could cause random crashes has been fixed.

IBM's battle with EMC gets NASty

IBM's battle with EMC gets NASty 04/06/2005 09:15 AM
IBM and Network Appliance on Wednesday announced a strategic storage relationship aimed at expanding both companies' product lines and offering a more united front against storage giant EMC.

Nasty 0.5 (Default branch)

Nasty 0.5 (Default branch) 04/05/2005 11:56 AM
Nasty is an advanced tool for recovering GPG private-key passphrases. It has multiple methods for brute-force attacking the passphrase (searching the whole space, random searches, and dictionary attacks using an external wordlist). It saves its state to a file so that it can continue from where it stopped the last time it ran.

RIAA's Nasty Easter Egg

RIAA's Nasty Easter Egg 04/11/2004 05:03 PM

EMC, IBM storage battle gets NASty

EMC, IBM storage battle gets NASty 04/18/2005 07:33 AM
EMC this week announced a new NAS system to its lineup, playing a tit-for-tat game with IBM in the storage market.

DoubleClick Inc receives a nasty DOS
attack

DoubleClick Inc receives a nasty DOS
attack 07/27/2004 11:18 PM

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InfoWorld reports that DoubleClick received a virtual server beating Tuesday thanks to the efforts from a DOS Attack (Denial of Service) originating from the Internet. Reports indicate the attack took place at about 10:30 a.m. Eastern Time. The attack was quite successful at crippling their website in addition to their ad servers. DoubleClick has indicated that their staff is working out a plan of defense in case this happens again,…

EMC, IBM storage battle gets NASty
(InfoWorld)

EMC, IBM storage battle gets NASty
(InfoWorld) 04/18/2005 07:42 AM
InfoWorld - EMC this week announced a new NAS system to its lineup, playing a tit-for-tat game with IBM in the storage market.

IBM's battle with EMC gets NASty
(InfoWorld)

IBM's battle with EMC gets NASty
(InfoWorld) 04/06/2005 09:21 AM
InfoWorld - IBM and Network Appliance on Wednesday announced a strategic storage relationship aimed at expanding both companies' product lines and offering a more united front against storage giant EMC.

Online personals business gets nasty

Online personals business gets nasty 06/16/2004 07:33 PM
Techzonez Jun 16 2004 11:21PM GMT

Nasty Malware Fouls PCs With Porn

Nasty Malware Fouls PCs With Porn 04/30/2004 04:52 AM
An especially evil new browser hijacker is sweeping the Net, spying on users of infected machines and pummeling them with truly vile pornography. Some folks are screaming for vengeance, but the problem is finding out who unleashed the vicious code. By Michelle Delio.

nasty fixes for smbldap-tools

nasty fixes for smbldap-tools 12/07/2003 04:09 PM
A couple of things I had to do to make the cookbook smbldap-tools + howto work on my Debian system...

Nasty car wreck caught on live TV.

Nasty car wreck caught on live TV. 09/17/2004 10:22 PM
A dangerous intersection in Tampa... then, disaster strikes, on live TV. [note: Windows Media, high bandwidth, graphic]

Paid Search Battles Get Nasty

Paid Search Battles Get Nasty 06/01/2004 04:14 AM
It seems that paid search is getting a ton of interest these days, with the two big providers being Google and Yahoo. As competitors, though, the battle is starting to get a little nastier. Yahoo recently banned Shopping.com from advertising on their site, because the ads directed users to a page that included Google ads. Eventually, the two companies worked out an agreement to include some Yahoo ads as well. The article points out that this raises some questions about how companies will deal with being blocked from advertising on certain search engines if they do business with the other. To be honest, though, this policy from Yahoo seems shortsighted. It's not as if they don't get money from Shopping.com when people click through the ads - even if they then go on to click through more Google ads. Why should Yahoo care what the person does after they've clicked through the ad - so long as the ad results are relevant? Obviously, they want more advertising dollars (and getting another deal with a company is valuable), but this seems to be a case where the company was doing more to take business away from a competitor than make business better for themselves.

Acxiom playing nasty in Opt Out List

Acxiom playing nasty in Opt Out List 11/17/2003 05:27 PM
In what only can be described as an attempt to have there cake and eat it too, Acxiom is refusing...

Slashdot | RIAA's Nasty Easter Egg

Slashdot | RIAA's Nasty Easter Egg 04/13/2004 01:57 AM
Record labels want to raise online mp3 prices to $3 per song .. RIAA's Nasty Easter Egg .. reports

slashdot.org/articles/04/04/11/2019235.shtml
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"Correspondences - News By the People
For People: Who captured Sad..."

"Correspondences - News By the People
For People: Who captured Sad..." 12/22/2003 04:17 PM

There are lots of bright people out
there but only so many Bryght people

There are lots of bright people out
there but only so many Bryght people 08/27/2004 01:47 PM

Congrats to Roland and Boris and.....

They've just launched Bryght - a Drupal hosting service. I hung out with these guys a bit when I was in Vancouver and they're certainly a compelling reason for moving there.

Vancouver is hot.

Here's Roland's post....

Our latest venture is Bryght, a hosted Drupal service, "the Salesforce.com of community content". I am working with Boris, Richard, Adrian and James on this one. Yes, we are all Bryght guys :-) !

We have taken Drupal and combined it with web hosting and email to give you a one stop shop for your community content. No IT required, no muss, no fuss! Check out The lights are on at Bryght for more background on how this started. And if you know of an individual, organization or company that could use a Bryght site, please contact us.

Whither StreamLine you might ask? StreamLine continues and it will continue to resell Blogware blogs because we still believe that Blogware is the best individual blogging platform.

[Roland Tanglao's blog]

Notes and Tips: Nasty Firmware Trap

Notes and Tips: Nasty Firmware Trap 06/25/2004 10:24 AM
Failing to follow Apple's instructions for firmware fixes before upgrading to Mac OS X may completely disable your computer.

Collaborative Book Idea Gets a Nasty
Review

Collaborative Book Idea Gets a Nasty
Review 11/17/2003 07:44 PM
The work is to be a collaboration among his readers who "are encouraged to post their thoughts and reflections on what I write in this ongoing blog on Google ...

Drowned, Not Downed, Trees in the Amazon
Get Nasty

Drowned, Not Downed, Trees in the Amazon
Get Nasty 09/07/2004 10:39 AM
Decomposing vegetation caused by a dam in Brazil has resulted in the emission of millions of tons of greenhouse gases.

Games move into the nasty side of life

Games move into the nasty side of life 12/13/2003 05:56 AM
BBC Dec 13 2003 4:45AM ET

Germans develop nasty case of IE jitters

Germans develop nasty case of IE jitters 09/13/2004 07:07 AM
Switch to Mozilla, says Office for Information Security
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