I didn't realize it was this bad of a security flaw. I'll be updating, just in case.
I've found 3 so far, with a little help from twofeetthick.
Well, how secure are your passwords?
I'm not going to reveal anything about mine, but I'll definitely use some of these suggestions.
Your passwords aren't very secure. Even if you think they are, they probably aren't. Do you use the same or similar passwords for several different important sites? If you don't, pat yourself on the back; if you do, you're not alone—one recent survey found that half of people online use the same password for all the sites they visit. Do you change your passwords often? Probably not; more than 90 percent don't. If one of your accounts falls to a hacker, will he find enough to get into your other accounts? For a scare, try this: Search your e-mail for some of your own passwords. You'll probably find a lot of them, either because you've e-mailed them to yourself or because some Web sites send along your password when you register or when you tell them you've forgotten it. If an attacker manages to get into your e-mail, he'll have an easy time accessing your bank account, your social networking sites, and your fantasy baseball roster. That's exactly what happened at Twitter. (Here's my detailed explanation of how Twitter got compromised.)
I don't recall actually hearing about this during the commemoration of the landing. Actually, I think this article appeared a few days before the anniversary.
go to http://myspace.com/tenclub to hear Pearl Jam's new single "The Fixer".
I listened to it 3 times this morning when I was awake at 4:30 AM.
I really like the song. It sounds great, Eddie sounds good, the lyrics are nice, guitars, bass, and drums are all spot on. I can't wait to hear it a few more times and then hear the new album, and eventually catch them on tour for this one.
Both offer the ability to print and send physical copies of photographs taken on your iPhone, priced at between 99 cents and $1.99, depending on where you’re shipping to...
This is cool. I've always envisioned a website where you could enter a letter and have it actually mailed to someone (for a fee). There's still something really cool about getting a physical letter in the mail.
Now I can do that with a postcard.
My wife and I attended the Antiques Roadshow in Madison on Saturday, July 11. She received tickets through the roadshow lottery. We brought our 4 items (2 each). Our assigned time was 9:00AM. We arrived just about that time and the line was already moving. It was quite long and snaked around a few times. It was okay because we were moving and got to see some of the items of the people around us. And talked to several people as we waited.
Item #1 - Coin finger purse
My wife's mothers coin purse that her mother had used to take change to Church. We found out this little item was probably her grandmothers and it was actually worn on the finger, as a kind of ring, or jewelry, while dancing. Estimated value about $25 - $50
Item #2 - Roseville sunflower lamp
My wife had looked this up online and wasn't sure how much it worth, but suspected it was worth quite a bit. My wife's grandmother or aunt acquired this when she was taking care of a house for someone. It was given to her as payment for her work. The appraiser we were to see had someone else look at the item. He was quite interested in it. He asked if he could take it apart and see if it was a factory lamp or a lamp that someone had made out of a vase. Upon removing the base of the lamp the whole where the lamp works went up showed a chip. Meaning this had been a vase first and then someone had turned it into a lamp. This lowered it's value. As a vase it could be worth $1,400. In it's current state it had an estimated value between $600 - $700.
Item #3 - Disney Dumbo Turnabout cookie jar
My wife's mother was a huge elephant collector and this is one of the many cookie jars that she collected. The appraiser told us this was made in about 1940, when Dumbo was first released. It's in great shape, shows no chips, or scratches.
Estimated value between $300 - $400
Item #4 - Women's cigarette holder
I believe this belonged to my wife's mother, or grandmother. The appraiser thought this might have been a holding marijuana cigarettes because of the leaf type pictured on it. Although I don't think that's what it looks like. He went on about this and how before the war marijuana was neither legal or illegal. Until the war started and they used it to make hemp ropes.
Estimated value about $25
The most interesting item we saw while standing in line was this wooden horse's head sticking out of the top of a cooler, packed with foam around it.
The woman behind us had two items. One was a painting on glass that her father had given her. When she had this appraised she learned it was actually a print and had little to no value. The other was a piece of pottery she had purchased at a garage sale for a couple of dollars. It was from the 50's and worth about $500.
Maybe you'll see us in the background when the shows in 2010.
As Geeks we are expected to have a certain set of skills that the majority of the population does not possess. This list is by no means complete, but I think it is a good sample of the skills required to be a true geek. I won’t pretend to have all the skills listed here. I even had to Google a few of them.
Like all good Geeks you should be able to utilize resources to accomplish any of these things. Knowing where to look for the knowledge is as good as having it so give yourself points if you are certain that you could Google the knowledge necessary for a skill.
The ones I have done are in bold.
If I've almost done it, it's in italics.
- Properly secure a wireless router.
- Crack the WEP key on a wireless router.
- Leech Wifi from your neighbor.
- Screw with Wifi leeches.
- Setup and use a VPN.
- Work from home or a coffee shop as effectively as you do at the office.
- Wire your own home with Ethernet cable.
- Turn a web camera into security camera.
- Use your 3G phone as a Wi-Fi access point.
- Understand what “There’s no Place Like 127.0.0.1″ means.
- Identify key-loggers.
- Properly connect a TV, Tivo, XBox, Wii, and Apple TV so they all work together with the one remote.
- Program a universal remote.
- Swap out the battery on your iPod/iPhone.
- Benchmark Your Computer
- Identify all computer components on sight.
- Know which parts to order from NewEgg.com, and how to assemble them into a working PC.
- Troubleshoot any computer/gadget problem, over the phone.
- Use any piece of technology intuitively, without instruction or prior knowledge.
- How to irrecoverably protect data.
- Recover data from a dead hard drive.
- Share a printer between a Mac and a PC on a network.
- Install a Linux distribution. (Hint: Ubuntu 9.04 is easier than installing Windows)
- Remove a virus from a computer.
- Dual (or more) boot a computer.
- Boot a computer off a thumb drive.
- Boot a computer off a network drive.
- Replace or repair a laptop keyboard.
- Run more than two monitors on a single computer.
- Successfully disassemble and reassemble a laptop.
- Know at least 10 software easter eggs off the top of your head.
- Bypass a computer password on all major operating systems
- Carrying a computer cleaning arsenal on your USB drive.
- Bypass content filters on public computers.
- Protect your privacy when using a public computer.
- Surf the web anonymously from home.
- Buy a domain, configure bind, apache, MySQL, php, and Wordpress without Googling a how-to.
- Basic *nix command shell knowledge with the ability to edit and save a file with vi.
- Create a web site using vi.
- Transcode a DVD to play on a portable device.
- Hide a File Behind a JPEG.
- Share a single keyboard and mouse between multiple computers without a KVM switch.
- Google obscure facts in under 3 searches. Bonus point if you can use I Feel Lucky.
- Build amazing structures with LEGO and invent a compelling back story for the creation.
- Understand that it is LEGO, not Lego, Legos, or Lego’s.
- Build a two story house out of LEGO, in monochrome, with a balcony.
- Construct a costume for you or your kid out of scraps, duct tape, paper mâché, and imagination.
- Be able to pick a lock.
- Determine the combination of a Master combination padlock in under 10 minutes.
- Assemble IKEA furniture without looking at the instructions. Bonus point if you don’t have to backtrack.
- Use a digital SLR in full manual mode.
- Do cool things to Altoids tins.
- Be able to construct paper craft versions of space ships.
- Origami! Bonus point for duct tape origami. (Ductigami)
- Fix anything with duct tape, chewing gum and wire.
- Knowing how to avoid being eaten by a grue.
- Know what a grue is.
- Understand wherre XYZZY came from, and have used it.
- Play any SNES game on your computer through an emulator.
- Burn the rope.
- Know the Konami code, and where to use it.
- Whistle, hum, or play on an iPhone, the Cantina song.
- Learning to play the theme songs to the kids favorite TV shows.
- Solve a Rubik’s Cube.
- Calculate THAC0.
- Know the difference between skills and traits.
- Explain special relativity in terms an eight-year-old can grasp.
- Recite pi to 10 places or more.
- Be able to calculate tip and split the check, all in your head.
- Explain that the colours in a rainbow are roygbiv.
- Understand the electromagnetic spectrum - xray, uv, visible, infrared, microwave, radio.
- Know the difference between radiation and radioactive contamination.
- Understand basic electronics components like resistors, capacitors, inductors and transistors.
- Solder a circuit while bottle feeding an infant. (lead free solder please.)
- The meaning of technical acronyms.
- The coffee dash, blindfolded (or blurry eyed). Coffee <brew> [cream] [sugar]. In under a minute.
- Build a fighting robot.
- Program a fighting robot.
- Build a failsafe into a fighting robot so it doesn’t kill you.
- Be able to trace the Fellowship’s journey on a map of Middle Earth.
- Know all the names of the Dwarves in The Hobbit.
- Understand the difference between a comic book and a graphic novel.
- Know where your towel is and why it is important.
- Knowing the answer to life, the universe and everything.
- Re-enact the parrot sketch.
- Know the words to The Lumberjack Song.
- Reciting key scenes from Monty Python and the Holy Grail.
- Be able to recite at least one Geek Movie word for word.
- Know what the 8th Chevron does on a Stargate and how much power is required to get a lock.
- Be able to explain why it’s important that Han shot first.
- Know why it is just wrong for Luke and Leia to kiss.
- Stop talking Star Wars long enough to get laid.
- The ability to name actors, characters and plotlines from the majority of sci-fi movies produced since 1968.
- Cite Mythbusters when debunking a myth or urban legend.
- Sleep with a Cricket bat next to your bed.
- Have a documented plan on what to do during a zombie or robot uprising.
- Identify evil alternate universe versions of friends, family, co-workers or self.
- Be able to convince TSA that the electronic parts you are carrying are really not a threat to passengers.
- Talk about things that aren’t tech related.
- Get something on the front page of Digg.
In total -
Done - 25
Almost - 8
I guess that makes me 1/3 geek.
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