Latest in the house drama - we got another contract on the house this morning. This one about exactly 24 hours after it went online. Again, full asking price, ($5k more then last week) and again - deferring home inspection. This time our RealEstate agent (he doesn’t really look like Howdy Doodie in real life) made them sign away two of the three days for HOA docs. Plus they’ve already received ‘em.

So, basically they’re locked in - unless appraisal somehow goes lower then the last one.

Free IceCream today at Baskin Robbins. Go get some.

I really didn’t mean all that stuff that I said before the war about how Saddam should Join NATO and then open casinos, turning Iraq into the Las Vegas of the Middle East. It was satire, honestly. Anyway, he didn’t follow my advice and look what happened.

Why the sudden paranoia?

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The people who signed a contract to buy our house backed out. They were able to do it without penalty since they didn’t pick up the HOA documents until yesterday, and they had three days after document receipt to drop their contract without penalty.

So - it goes back on the market tomorrow, for $5k more asking price then last time. I can see that tonight will be a return to the hours of cleanup and back to having nothing on the counters.

Horrible long no good very bad day.

This entire day was spent on process problems, setting up timeframes, reports, building powerpoints, scheduling meetings, review and comment on strategic positiong, etc. I thought I was a sales engineer - nope, today I was a goddamn product manager.

God it sucked. It’s 10:30 and I just finished the presentation on new products for a technical overview tomorrow morning. It’s not so much the fact that I’m doing all this crap, as that after four years busting my ass and going above and beyond with this company, I still officially holding the title of an entry level engineer.

Time to get another job before I waste another four years busting my ass for no advancement.

But first - I’m delegating each of the six new products out with a deliverable due in each one week. bwahahahaha.

That’s the ticket - the more they give me, the more I’m sharing the wealth.

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OK, now I’m rambling. But the point is, Crackhead, that you have done me wrong. Now, I get that you love crack. That is totally understandable. I’ve heard it is really fun, at first, and quite addictive. What I don’t understand is,

YOU ARE A CRACKHEAD. WHY DON’T YOU OWN A CRACKPIPE?

I am an engineer. Do you ever see me shaking down bums in the Loin for a calculator and sliderule? No, you don’t. Because engineering is the main thing I do, I went and bought myself a calculator. The main thing you do is crack. How do you get by without a crackpipe? The other crackheads must clown on you non-stop. I mean, the fucking saw you used to saw off my sparkplugs is probably worth five or ten bucks. Why not sell or trade it for a crackpipe? You really haven’t put much thought into this, have you?

Please, Crackhead, please don’t tell me you sold your crackpipe to buy crack. Even a stupid crackhead such as yourself couldn’t possibly be that stupid.

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So imagine my surprise when someone came into my office today who has a full-time job. She works 40 hours a week at Wal-Mart. Like many of their employees, she can’t afford their health insurance plan. Even if she could, they wouldn’t cover her HIV care because it’s a pre-existing condition. It isn’t even about paying for the drugs, which are expensive - she qualifies for the state AIDS Drug Assistance Program, which picks up all of her prescriptions for her. Wal-Mart won’t pay for office visits to an HIV specialist, and they won’t pay for the blood tests she needs to monitor her condition.

So you, the federal taxpayer, will be paying for her medical care. Today you also gave her $40 worth of food vouchers, because after she pays her rent (which eats more than half her wages, and she lives in a slum) there’s not a lot left over to buy food. I’m sure you’re glad to do it, right? You don’t want her to die.

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“There are many extraordinary tales from antiquity, including women with snakes for hair, creatures whose gaze turns you to stone, creatures with equine bodies and human torsos, many accounts of people rising from the dead, lots of tales of magic, and numerous accounts of physical encounters with fantastic beings. Ancient people were a superstitious, scientifically primitive lot, and believed in many things that today we know are silly. I find it bizarre that so many people see nothing suspicious about the extraordinary or supernatural claims of the bible, yet don’t hesitate to express disbelief in equally well documented claims of minotaurs, basilisks, and wizards.”
[Scott Brown]

We consider the problem of inserting a malicious packet into a TCP connection, as well as establishing a TCP connection using an address that is legitimately used by another machine. We introduce the notion of a Spoofing Set as a way of describing a generalized attack methodology. We also discuss a method of constructing Spoofing Sets that is based on Phase Space Analysis and the presence of function attractors. We review the major network operating systems relative to this attack. The goal of this document is to suggest a way of measuring relative network-based sequence number generators quality, which can be used to estimate attack feasibility and analyze underlying PRNG function behavior. This approach can be applied to TCP/IP protocol sequence numbers, DNS query identifiers, session-id generation algorithms in cookie-based authentication schemes, etc.

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