http://the-big-bang-theory.com/quotes/episode/419/
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Penny: Give my friend his stuff back.
Tod Zarnecki: I don’t know what you’re talking about.
Penny: Well then good news! Today’s the day a girl’s finally going to touch you in your little special place.
*Kicks him in the groin*
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Never fails to make me laugh!
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http://www.readwriteweb.com/enterprise/2012/08/should-your-company-just-say-no-to-dropbox.php
Should Your Company Just Say “No” To Dropbox?
Brian Proffitt
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As the business world increasingly turns to mobile devices and cloud-based file-sharing services to store or collaborate on important documents, the amount of information that’s falling into the wrong hands keeps climbing.
The numbers tell the tale: 90% of organizations had a leak of sensitive or confidential information over the past year. That’s one of the take-aways from a new study from security analysts at the Ponemon Institute.
Dropbox Is Useful – And That’s The Problem
Services like Dropbox, Bitcasa, YouSendIt and others are useful and efficient ways to get documents and files from one worker to another, especially in this age of mobile devices and distributed workforces. Plus, they’re cheap (or free) and easy for individual workers or small departments to set up.
But increasing use of these tools in the workplace, even for legitimate business reasons such as collaboration, puts a lot of private information at risk. And companies are starting to notice.
How bad is the situation? According to the Ponemon study, 60% of organizations have employees who frequently or very frequently put confidential files on services like Dropbox without permission. And just about that same percentage (59%) reported that what controls they do have in place were ineffective at managing who has access to sensitive files.
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Some companies are already reacting with strong policies regulating use of such file-sharing services. IBM, for instance, has banned employee access to services like Dropbox and iCloud. Even the iPhone’s Siri is turned off for fear that sensitive information could be discovered from search query data stored at Apple.
This might be going too far for many companies. Especially if they don’t provide some sort of alternative. IBM has its own custom-built solution for file sharing, but many smaller operations can’t afford such measures.
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Sure, that’s going to stop the practice.
Every hear of encryption.
Sensitive file? Run it thru PKZIP.
Use LASTPASS to select a 97 character password to encrypt it.
Problem solved.
Argh!
IMHO the rule should be if you can’t able it; you can’t ban it.
Bans don’t work.
Why?
“Drugs in Prison”!
The human being is the world’s best “rat” in terms of adaptability and maze solving.
Tell some one they can’t in an obnoxious enough fashion, and they will spend every waking hour proving you’re wrong.
Enable the behavior in a secure fashion.
Security should never say “no”; they should say “yes, and here’ s how to do it”.
Argh!
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Posted by reinkefj
AN EMAIL FROM MY HIGH SCHOOL CHUM “CHIEF RACCOON”
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I don’t watch that much TV but I had to watch the convention last night mainly to see what Ann Romney is all about because up till now I only associated her with horse ballet.
When she started speaking I found myself holding my breath because i was concerned for her. There was something that I couldn’t put my finger on in her delivery … it was a cross between bravado and terror … I think. At one point I turned to Stella and said ” I’m really uncomfortable for her “. But then slowly as I listened and thought about her raising 5 boys, and that ain’t easy even if your a Kennedy, and it began to dawn on me that I liked this woman. Here she was for literally all the world to see and thru the schmaltz and the rehearsed hand gestures she seemed to be a genuine person/mother in a solid marriage who had to summon the courage to do this public speaking thing for her husband and family … and Oh yeah she also has MS.
Then she was done and the Mittster came out and I was desperate to read his lips but it was clear that he was delighted and proud of her and I thought he said something like ” fantastic ” and shook his head in a “how about that!” manner. I really haven’t paid that much attention to Mitt either up until now but he certainly looks presidential with a chin the size of my couch and his family looks like they’re straight out of central casting.
I got to admit I was thinking ” OK if Obama doesn’t make it I can live with this guy.”
Unfortunately I didn’t go back to reading my ” New Yorker ” magazine ( yeah that’s right I got a deal for 26 weeks cheap and I took it ) instead I decided to watch the much hyped Gov from NJ who I also really didn’t know that much about other than he once took a helicopter to his son’s pee wee football game.
So the Gov walks out to the podium clapping as he walks and I swear I saw Reginald Van Gleason the Third. But I had still had a glow from Anne’s speech ( not that kind of glow you animals ! ) and I was anxious to see just how he would compliment the nominee’s wife and how much he would linger on her. Well, it’s about 14 hours later and I’m still lingering waiting for his assessment of Ann.
I looked again at Stella and dumbfounded I said ” he isn’t going to say anything about her speech ? !! … maybe he’s waiting for the end and he’ll close with glowing praise for her … and then I get caught in a senior moment and I think that Christie is the nominee because he’s talking about his mother and his father and I half expected him to pull out his 1040 or whatever for public viewing. Diane Sawyer later remarked that it was 17 minutes into his speech before he mentioned Mitt. When the cameras would pan on Mitt and Ann while the Gov was speaking, I could hear Ann psychically saying that if this fat Ahole doesn’t acknowledge my speech and my hubby makes it into the White House, I’m going to try and get him planted next to Hoffa in the meadowlands !
Please someone tell me that they think it was famously rude of this guy not to give a single freaking shout out to to the wife of the guy he’s “fighting for “.
I thought it additionally disturbing that all of the post speech pundits that I heard didn’t mention what I would call ” the snub. ” Some people thought it was right on the mark for Repubilcan thinking.
Ann had a love message but Reginald uh I mean Christie’s message was … not love ?
I hope I have poked a stick in a bear hole and that Briscoe and Reinke and Phelpsy will weigh in with their views ( which usually go over my head ) and tell me what lever Jesus would pull
I love the characterization “Reginald Van Gleason the Third”.
I don’t watch political speeches. My bp would go thru the roof and I get distracted from the content by the theatrics.
I did like Ann and Clint. They came off as “real people”.
I did read the texts of all the speeches.
As a little L libertarian, I am amazed that everyone D and R can ignore the 800# gorilla in the room — the AfPak war where young girls and boys are dying, or worse coming home crippled for life. Sorry to rain on the politicians and bureaucrats’ parade but this is a national disgrace.
When I have to watch TV commercials pandering to get these troops what they need to recover some how Reginald Van Gleason the Third isn’t funny.
My guy, Ron Paul, didn’t get the nod. It was a long shot from the start. He didn’t get to speak and warn the R’s that they face being at the helm as the Titanic goes down. Talk about what BHO44 got from Bush43; that’ll look like a gift.
Ron is right on the War. No one else even addresses it.
Sadly, I think that we are leaving posterity a sack of <synonym for excrement>. Like lemmings off the cliff, we follow “leaders” who have their own hidden agendas.
Maybe Rand Paul will run. I hope it’s not too late.
I do think that this has DEMONSTRATED beyond a shadow of a doubt that ALL the anit-war groups, with the exception of the Quakers, are really just shills for the D’s. Talk about astroturf! Boy, did those people fool a lot of people. But not me. As a libertarian, I KNOW it’s all about control. Who has the levers to tell other people what to do.
Hope this is the rat’s nest you wanted to stir up.
But I did laff at the Reginald Van Gleason the Third line,
Pf-reinke-nstein
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I love the characterization “Reginald Van Gleason the Third”.
I don’t watch political speeches. My bp would go thru the roof and I get distracted from the content by the theatrics.
I did like Ann and Clint. They came off as “real people”.
I did read the texts of all the speeches.
As a little L libertarian, I am amazed that everyone D and R can ignore the 800# gorilla in the room — the AfPak war where young girls and boys are dying, or worse coming home crippled for life. Sorry to rain on the politicians and bureaucrats’ parade but this is a national disgrace.
When I have to watch TV commercials pandering to get these troops what they need to recover some how Reginald Van Gleason the Third isn’t funny.
My guy, Ron Paul, didn’t get the nod. It was a long shot from the start. He didn’t get to speak and warn the R’s that they face being at the helm as the Titanic goes down. Talk about what BHO44 got from Bush43; that’ll look like a gift.
Ron is right on the War. No one else even addresses it.
Sadly, I think that we are leaving posterity a sack of <synonym for excrement>. Like lemmings off the cliff, we follow “leaders” who have their own hidden agendas.
Maybe Rand Paul will run. I hope it’s not too late.
I do think that this has DEMONSTRATED beyond a shadow of a doubt that ALL the anit-war groups, with the exception of the Quakers, are really just shills for the D’s. Talk about astroturf! Boy, did those people fool a lot of people. But not me. As a libertarian, I KNOW it’s all about control. Who has the levers to tell other people what to do.
Hope this is the rat’s nest you wanted to stir up.
But I did laff at the Reginald Van Gleason the Third line,Pf-reinke-nstein
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http://libertyslifeline.com/2012/08/28/guns-psychopaths-training-and-left-wing-bluster/
Guns, Psychopaths, Training, and Left Wing Bluster by Bill O’Connell on August 28, 2012
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No, what is common in these mass shootings is that the shooter is a nut job. Page was a white supremacist crackpot; Jared Loughner in Tucson was known to be off his rocker for at least six years before the shooting, which by the way made it illegal to buy a gun but the gun laws didn’t stop him; the Colorado movie shooter was also seeing mental health professionals; in the Virginia Tech shooting, it was the same story, but in our PC world they couldn’t force him to get counseling. Nowhere in her article, nor anywhere else in the main stream media do they talk about the real problem: figuring out how to keep dangerous psychopaths off the street before they snap and kill someone.
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Yes, guns are just tools.
And, there’s never a kop around when you need them.
And, to conclude the argument: “God made man and woman; Sam Colt made them equal.” — anonymous
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Posted by reinkefj
Hey, Taylor Swift, here’s how to get sweet revenge
2:04 AM, Sep 2, 2012
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Internet trolls have hijacked an innocent contest waged by country megastar Taylor Swift. She will give a free concert and $10,000 to the school that gets the most votes online after “liking” her Facebook page.
Swift’s foes are urging people to vote for the Horace Mann School for the Deaf. Because there’s nothing more hilarious than using deaf children as the punchline to a lame joke aimed at poking fun at a superstar, right?
Swift has legions of public relations people, millions of dollars in income and an international career. Her new song, “We Are Never, Ever Getting Back Together,” is topping charts.
So the 22-year-old phenomenon does not need advice from a 51-year-old local news columnist in Nashville. But here’s some anyway: Babe, embrace this. Own it. Take the joke and turn it around on them. If the Horace Mann School wins — and, with the votes at around 25,000 so far, that looks pretty certain — you get on a plane to Boston and sing your pretty little heart out for them.
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It would be a wonderful, generous gesture for her to perform there. After all, music therapy is commonly taught to deaf and hard-of-hearing children.
“Music belongs to all people, and all people have the right to music experiences,” wrote Patricia Winter, a music therapist, in an online article.
Children with hearing impairment, with or without hearing aids or cochlear implants, connect with music. They feel the vibrations. They “hear” lyrics through sign language. Touching the neck of someone singing helps them improve speech skills.
What better revenge would there be for Swift than having photos of sweet deaf children touching her as she sings posted all over the same Internet that’s trashing her?
And one more thought, based on Swift’s own lyrics.
She’s right: People do indeed throw rocks at things that shine. But when you take the high road, they can’t hit you.
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An EXCELLENT response.
Rub the trolls nose in it and do good works while you do it.
Sounds very Taylor-esque!
Maybe she good give a duplicate prize to the Number #2 runner up.
I love this idea. When handed lemons, make lemonade.
Webcast it and enshrine yourself as America’s sweetheart. Like Bob Hope or Lucile Ball.
LOL!
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Posted by reinkefj
Labor Day Weekend, a time to goof off.
Perhaps think about the essence of labor? Where we extract our sustinence from a cruel hard world. Such is our lot in life.
I joke with my much younger coworkers that what we do can’t be considered “work”.
The construction worker, the gardener, even the cooks in the cafeteria are “working”.
Paper pushing and keyboard tapping aren’t “work” in the same sense.
But what the division of labor and trade in a free market have given us has been taken away by the rise of “drones”.
Look around at what people “do” to make a living: paper pushing and key tapping is “work” in comparison to the politicians and bureaucrats. What I’d call the “Political Class”.
They make a living by telling their inferiors what to do. Right out of the Prussian School Model.
How did the workers let themselves get exploited by yet another set of “bosses”?
I think it was the adulteration of money that led everyone into a sense of complacency.
When the “dollar” was as good as gold, things were a lot different. The FDR gold theft allowed the common man to be taxed silently without his recognition. Withholding was a similar strategy. As was “social security insurance”. Debt. All frauds intended to steal the seed corn of future generations.
Leaving them impoverished, while the past generations of politicians and bureaucrats feathered their nests.
How does it change?
I’m not sure. They say that admitting the problem is the first step towards a solution.
I admit that we have problem; does anyone else?
Happy Labor Day, fellow serfs.
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Posted by reinkefj
http://formerspook.blogspot.com/2012/08/selective-prosecution.html
Friday, August 31, 2012
Selective Prosecution?
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Like many Americans, I’ll be watching 60 Minutes on Sunday night. Not that I’m a regular viewer of the program; from my perspective, the MSM is like bad medicine, best taken in small doses, and only when necessary. So why am I tuning in to CBS? Because the network’s venerable news magazine will have the first broadcast interview with Mark Owen, the Navy SEAL who participated in the raid that killed Osama bin Laden, and has written about the mission.
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While the Constitution provides the Congress the power of marque and reprisal, the President just goes off and kills people.
Sorry, but I don’t believe anything those politicians and bureaucrats say.
Sounds like this EYEWITNESS has a different story to tell and the “establishment” would rather he did “spill the beans”.
Maybe I’ll watch.
Always nice to get something first hand.
Maybe?
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Posted by reinkefj
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2012/08/24/camden-nj-to-reboot-police-department-by-new-year
Gritty N.J. city of Camden to scrap police department amid budget woes
By Perry Chiaramonte
Published August 26, 2012
FoxNews.com
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Crime-ridden Camden, New Jersey – often referred to as the most dangerous city in the United States—is getting rid of its police department.
In the latest example of a cash-strapped municipality taking drastic measures to deal with swollen public sector liabilities and shrinking budgets, the city plans to disband its 460-member police department and replace it with a non-union “Metro Division” of the Camden County Police. Backers of the plan say it will save millions of dollars for taxpayers while ensuring public safety, but police unions say it is simply a way to get out of collective bargaining with the men and women in blue.
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There are few, some would say if any, valid Gooferment functions. A citizen exchanges their loyalty for the protection of the group. Police protection is the the platinum “service” that the Gooferment fails to provide. If it doesn’t do that, why have it.
The argument can be made that a citizen can buy protection service more cheaply from “the Mob” that is much more effective. I remember in the Fifties, one NEVER heard of an old lady being mugged or a store being shoplifted. One did hear of from time to time of a ne’er-do-well tripping on the apocryphal sidewalk crack and spending several weeks in hospital and several months learning to walk again. Those sidewalk cracks are very dangerous. I was give also to understand that members of the local Italian American Club rush to the poor unfortunate’s aid and whisked him to the doctor by way of a small clearing in the Inwood Park informally call “You disrespect my neighborhood; you disrespect me?”.
Ahhh, so here we have the politicians and bureaucrats, having robbed the good taxpayers of everything they have, cuts the one essential service. How about if every one of the politicians and bureaucrats on the public’s dole, gets cut to minimum wage?
Defined benefit pensions are the dodo of the financial world. Time to correct this abuse. Welcome to the 401k world.
A brave new world financially.
Argh!
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Posted by reinkefj
http://helpdesk.lastpass.com/security-options/grid-multifactor-authentication/
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At LastPass, we strongly encourage our users to take advantage of our multifactor authentication options. Multifactor authentication requires the user to present both username/password and information from another, often physical, item. This means that if a hacker gets your password, they are still unable to access your LastPass account without this second factor.
LastPass offers multifactor authentication as a Premium feature, but we also believe that everyone should be protected online, so we have created the Grid Multifactor Authentication as a feature available to both Premium and non-Premium users.
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Another service beefs up security.
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Posted by reinkefj
http://lifehacker.com/5937946/dropbox-rolls-out-two+step-verification
Dropbox Adds Two-Step Verification for Enhanced Security, And You Should Turn It On Now [Dropbox]
by David Galloway
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Dropbox Adds Two-Step Verification for Enhanced Security, And You Should Turn It On NowMost security-minded computer users know about Google’s two-step verification process, but other popular webapps like Facebook and Amazon have also added this great way of reducing your chances of being hacked. Today, Dropbox joins the two-step verification party .
To enable Dropbox two-step authentication you’ll need to allow Dropbox to send you a text message with a code or use a mobile authenticator app if you don’t want Dropbox to have your phone number. Either way works fine and enables the “something you have” plus “something you know” steps to help keep you safe.
To get started go to your account settings page on Dropbox, click on the Security tab, and scroll down to the bottom of the page and enable two-step verification. Or just click this link.
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GREAT!
We need two factor on more critical inet services.
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