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| 2006/6/19-21 [Transportation/Car] UID:43427 Activity:low |
6/19 How do you guys like the new Ford commercial featuring Taylor Hicks?
Sexy? Bold? Makes you want to buy a Ford? FORD. BOLD. Yeah baby.
\_ Dropping 25k jobs here to dump $9.2B into 150k jobs at 3 plants
in Mexico: BOLD.
\_ The one where the woman pays for the guy's drycleaning and passes
along her business card make me think "chemically imbalanced" not
along her business card makes me think "chemically imbalanced" not
"bold."
\_ You prefer your women demure and stupid, giggling in the corner
with the rest of their friends waiting, oh just hoping beyond
hope that *you* will come by and save them from the solitary
life of old maid?
\_ Your entire experience of women consists of only two classes,
those who make passes at random guys they've only seen through
their rear-view mirrors and those who are demure and stupid?
Shutdown the computer and go outside. Now.
\_ Not at all. Does your entire experience of people consist
of the flip 3 line comments from the motd? "Shutdown the
computer and go outside. Now."
\_ You're either a misgynist troll or you need to be more
clear in your writing. Either way, some time away from
the computer would certainly improve your condition.
Just remember to use sunscreen to protect your pale
skin.
\_ How is being an admirer of aggresive women make
one misogynist? I really can't wrap my head around
that kind of thinking that would make you come up
with that assessment. Btw, giving a guy your number
is not the same as "making a pass at." -!op
\_ Reply poster seemed to posit that woman come in
only two flavors: those who give their phone
numbers to random guys on the basis of how they
look in a rear-view mirror, or those who are
demure and stupid. How is this not misogynist?
\_ How about you ask? Poster was saying that
there is nothing "mental" about an aggressive
woman. In fact, if it was the other way around
we wouldn't call the guy aggressive, so why do
we say she's chemically imbalanced and
aggressive but he wouldn't be? Not only is the
poster not misogynist but some reading comp.
would show the opposite and Mr. "She's
Chemically Imbalanced" is the one with the
woman-hating issue here. The "get some sun"
comments are just stupid. You're posting to
the motd all day long from your cube.
\_ Mostly because Reply poster didn't bother
asking before assuming that I was saying
that any bold woman is chemically
imbalanced. If poster had asked, I would
have gladly explained that it's the act of
tossing your number out to any stranger on
the basis of one glance in the rear-view
mirror that strikes me as chemically
imbalanced, no matter which gender. Oh,
that and the idea that you get your bold
qualities from a car. Instead, assumptions
were made, and from there to facile
motdery.
\_ Ok. So we're back at step 1. The woman
was hitting on the guy based on his looks
in the rear view. What is different
between that and meeting him in a bar and
giving him her number? If he did the
same thing (paying for her dry cleaning,
etc) would you say he was chemically
imbalanced? Probably not which is what
I was getting at. Please correct me if
you think just as poorly of guys doing
the same thing. As far as getting your
qualities from your car goes, I didn't
even realise it was a car commercial. :)
\_ Honestly, if it was a guy doing this,
I'd immediately think he was kinda
sleazy, but that's because I'm an
utter cynic. And you didn't realize
this was a car commercial??? OMG. :)
\_ I auto tune out most commercials.
I got the 'plot' on this one, but
not the product, which is normal
for me. Mostly I was thinking how
cool it would be if someone paid
for my dry cleaning. :)
\_ Now, see, I would love it if
that were the point of the
commercial. |
| 2006/6/19-21 [Uncategorized] UID:43428 Activity:nil |
6/18 http://hawaiianimages.net Aerial photograph of Hawaii big island coast. Pretty pretty. |
| 2006/6/19 [Academia/Berkeley/CSUA] UID:43429 Activity:low |
6/18 What's up with http://www.csua.berkeley.edu $ telnet http://csua.berkeley.edu 2005 Trying 128.32.112.233... Connected to http://csua.berkeley.edu. Escape character is '^]'. Senha: Senha Incorreta! Connection closed by foreign host. \_ This is what I get: soda {102}% telnet http://csua.berkeley.edu 2005 Trying 128.32.112.233... telnet: Unable to connect to remote host: Connection refused \_ process died. |
| 2006/6/19-21 [Uncategorized] UID:43430 Activity:nil |
6/19 Old crap re-purged. |
| 2006/6/19-21 [Academia/Berkeley/CSUA/Motd, Academia/Berkeley/CSUA/Troll] UID:43431 Activity:low |
6/19 The motd is just not the same after account reactivation. So
boring, where did all the troller's go? How am I supposed to
get through my workday??!!
\_ They didn't let certain people come back.
\_ Don't worry, with the latest hack, there are lots of new people on!
\_ The motd isn't here to entertain you. You want trolls? Start
trolling. The motd is what we all make of it. I know you're
kidding. I'm not.
\_ There's a difference between knowing the troll, and walking
the troll.
\_ Dere's some difference between knowin' de troll, an' walkin'
de troll. What it is, Mama!
\_ The ratio of interesting poster to idiot is at a 5 year low.
\_ You sure you don't have it backwards? Trolling seems down to me.
\_ Sorry, too busy to do my usual muckracking/trolling. -Great Swami
\_ Let's see.. Guns are good. Guns are bad. Drivers' license for
illegals violates Article 1, Section 10. |
| 2006/6/19-24 [Politics/Domestic/President/Bush] UID:43432 Activity:nil |
6/19 http://csua.org/u/frw (washingtonpost.com, Dan Froomkin) From Ron Suskind's new book titled "The One Percent Doctrine": Cheney remarked that America had to deal with a new type of threat -- what he called a "low-probability, high-impact event" ... "If there's a 1% chance that Pakistani scientists are helping al-Qaeda build or develop a nuclear weapon, we have to treat it as a certainty in terms of our response." -VP Cheney "The problem here is that there will always be some uncertainty about how quickly [Saddam] can acquire nuclear weapons. But we don't want the smoking gun to be a mushroom cloud." -Sec State Rice "Intelligence gathered by this and other governments leaves no doubt that the Iraq regime continues to possess and conceal some of the most lethal weapons ever devised." -dubya! \_ you're not allowed to post items like this without adding personal commentary \_ Yeah, the idiots in charge have no idea how to do risk analysis. Is that a surprise to you??? \_ 1% of Pakistani scientists? dude, there is only *ONE* scientists in Pakistan that was actively in the nuclear blackmarket business. and USA is BLOCKING IAEA's investigation. and USA is BLOCKING IKEA's investigation. |
| 2006/6/19-22 [Uncategorized] UID:43433 Activity:nil |
6/19 Thought this might be useful for anyone shoved into a windows admin
job: ~scotsman/contact_info.cgi
LDAP editor for contact info in the AD. If you make useful changes,
please keep me apprised. Thanks.
--scotsman
\_ Other options include http://www.dice.com http://www.monster.com and
http://www.hotjobs.com ;-) |
| 2006/6/19-24 [Computer/SW/Languages/Misc] UID:43434 Activity:low |
6/19 Oh motd, help me get a new job. What does this mean?
ORUGKIDBNZZXOZLSEBUXGIBUGI
\_ Quick google search says YouTube
\_ Tried pasting it into a browser? -John
\_ Have you no honor? Stop discussing this.
It's like lying on your resume. This is
what makes hiring hard cause you can't
tell the posers from the hackers.
\_ laugh
\_ Who gave that to you?
\_ Quick google search says YouTube
\_ Been trying to figure this out--any clues? I've tried various
number and substitution combos... -John
\_ As it's not a simple rotation:
ORUGKIDBNZZXOZLSEBUXGIBUGI
PSVHLJECOAAYPAMTFCVYHJCVHJ
QTWIMKFDPBBZQBNUGDWZIKDWIK
RUXJNLGEQCCARCOVHEXAJLEXJL
SVYKOMHFRDDBSDPWIFYBKMFYKM
TWZLPNIGSEECTEQXJGZCLNGZLN
UXAMQOJHTFFDUFRYKHADMOHAMO
VYBNRPKIUGGEVGSZLIBENPIBNP
WZCOSQLJVHHFWHTAMJCFOQJCOQ
XADPTRMKWIIGXIUBNKDGPRKDPR
YBEQUSNLXJJHYJVCOLEHQSLEQS
ZCFRVTOMYKKIZKWDPMFIRTMFRT
ADGSWUPNZLLJALXEQNGJSUNGSU
BEHTXVQOAMMKBMYFROHKTVOHTV
CFIUYWRPBNNLCNZGSPILUWPIUW
DGJVZXSQCOOMDOAHTQJMVXQJVX
EHKWAYTRDPPNEPBIURKNWYRKWY
FILXBZUSEQQOFQCJVSLOXZSLXZ
GJMYCAVTFRRPGRDKWTMPYATMYA
HKNZDBWUGSSQHSELXUNQZBUNZB
ILOAECXVHTTRITFMYVORACVOAC
JMPBFDYWIUUSJUGNZWPSBDWPBD
KNQCGEZXJVVTKVHOAXQTCEXQCE
...
LORDHFAYKWWULWIPBYRUDFYRDF
MPSEIGBZLXXVMXJQCZSVEGZSEG
NQTFJHCAMYYWNYKRDATWFHATFH
that suggests it's a cryptogram.
But without word boundaries, that makes it tres dificil. The
BUXGIBUGI should be a good hint, but I haven't been able to
make much headway. --scotsman
\_ The string is the same length as:
YOUTUBE BROADCAST YOURSELF
YOUTUBETMBROADCASTYOURSELF
But the letter count from neither string matches the
encoded string. -peterl
\_ Maybe a Vigenere cipher with one of the above as key? But
that just seems way too complicated. I wonder if there
are any other clues in the job ad? The ZZs also could be
something. I also tried fiddling with the ascii values as
aspo suggested but no dice. -John
\_ In theory it could mean anything. It could mean "FOOD".
ORUGKIDBN = "F", ZZ = "OO", XOZLSEBUXGIBUGI = "D". I win!
Hasn't somebody written some kind of decoding program yet?
Something that would run a bunch of decode possibilities and
compare results against a dictionary and spit out a sorted list
of possibilities? Brute force ftw!
\_ Yeah, maybe it's a Vigenere cipher. The job ad mentions
TLA's (three letter acronyms), so maybe that's a clue.
\_ 26 letters is really small for a crackable Vigenere.
Assume a 5-letter key ... that's only 5.2 letters per
key-letter to try to break it ... that'd be real tough.
It's not Playfair; having 26 letters argues against
any sort of 3-letter code.
\_ You couldn't use a Kasiski crack on it because it's
too short, but that's why I was trying to look for
clues in the job posting itself to supply the key.
They wouldn't just post a cipher without some
bearing on the posting, subject, company, job,
what have you. And the TLAs are a good idea, I
tried various ones. Other possibilities are a
straightforward jumble. -John
\_ dunno if it's related, but the html has
this at the top:
<!--
QXJlIHlvdSBhIHN1cGVyc3RhciBzeXN0ZW1zIGFkb
WluaXN0cmF0b3I/ICBXZSB3YW50IHlvdSEgIEFwcG
x5IGF0IGh0dHA6Ly9odHRwOi8vd3d3LnlvdXR1YmU
uY29tL3Qvam9icyNzeXNhcmNoIGFuZCBtZW50aW9u
IGhvdyB5b3UgZm91bmQgdGhpcyBVUkwu -->
[my wrapping, they have it on one long line]
\_ Only problem: The original string is purely
numbers, while this one is alphanumerical. I
also wonder whether the whole 26-letter thing
is a red herring.
\- that long string is also embedded at:
http://www.youtube.com/t/explore_youtube
Look at the TLAs.
\_ Which base64 decodes to:
"Are you a superstar systems administrator? We want you! Apply at http://http://www.youtube.com/t/jobs#sysarch and mention how you found this URL." --dbushong
\_ Maybe keyword is related to: "YOUTUBE BROADCAST YOURSELF" ?
\_ using what decryption technique?
\_ partial KEY:
Y = O U
O = R Z X
U = U K G
T = G E
B = I N
E = D U
blank = B B
R = Z I
A = L L
D = O
C = Z
S = S B
L = G
F = I
\- part of the message is "Yes?" --nsa@soda |
| 2006/6/19-24 [Politics/Foreign/Asia/Japan, Computer/SW] UID:43435 Activity:nil |
6/19 O Lazy Web, research for me: a Japanese company plans to market a
SoundBug-based head-sound apparatus. Why wouldn't reverberating your
skull slosh your brain around like a concussion?
\_ without searching the web, I'd guess this has something to do with
the frequency of typical sound to be reproduced is
nowhere near the resonant frequency of a brain inside the skull.
Not to mention the minimal amplitude.
\_ So this SoundBug thing... does it actually use less power and sound
better than a portable speaker the same size? |