Rant 231 / Financial Dommes?

Coffee creamer powder does not make an adequate replacement for actual condensed milk in the making of hot cocoa. And there is no point in being greedy when you put cocoa powder in the hot water - extra cocoa powder will not dissolve and will not improve the flavour. My two lessons learnt.







Taking the Cyber Security elective this sem gave me an opportunity to read up on hacking stuff for good reasons, ie research for project (mine was on Cyber Espionage). This eventually led me to a certain website that's apparently made for novice hackers aka skript kiddies. Clicking on the blue words will bring you to the website and there's no virus that will pop into your pc the moment you view it. I have 2 good antivirus programs protecting me and I've tested it.

This website is the TEH SHIT! It has all sorts of programs for noobs to use for stuff like DDoS and etc. All illegal, I believe, if you use them for illegal purposes. Some of them were developed for computer security specialists to test the security of computer systems. One of them, the Low Orbit Ion Cannon, I've heard of quite a few times. It's for DDoS attacks and supposed to be quite popular.

Obviously, there has to be viruses everywhere in many files, so download at your own risk. I'm not downloading anything, don't want to elevate myself to the script kiddie status. I'll just stick with being an observer. Maybe some time in the future if anyone pisses me off online, I'll do it.

It's interesting, though, because I never knew there are several kinds of DDoS attacks, like HTTP, SYN and TCP. I thought there's just one - DDoS lol.

But reading on, I find that this website is used by some rather dangerous people, dangerous because I'm not good at computer defensive measures beyond a simple firewall and some antivirus programs. Many of the enemies of Anonymous have all their information in the website; some even have photos of their homes posted there. The lengths that Anonymous would go are quite extreme.

Here's a good one under Ruin Life Tactics:

Prostitutes

1. Go to Craigslist
2. Click on the state where the target is
3. Go to Services, and under that click Erotic
4. Call all the outcall escorts--outcall means that they come to you--and make an appointment with the target.
5. ???
6. PROFIT!

I've checked craigslist and there are escorts that I can call. LOL! Then again, I don't think I need craigslist for this in the first place - Yellow Pages work too! But first, I'll have to learn to make anonymous calls.









So some teenager committed suicide after talking to the people from /b/ in 4chan. Apparently he did it on a live webcam site and viewers watched him take sleeping pills and eventually die, and the live feed displayed his corpse all the way till the police entered the room and covered the webcam a couple of hours later. The police arrived only because some viewers realized it was real and he wasn't breathing.

On 4chan, I can almost see how they all told him to "an hero", a slang for committing suicide. But it wouldn't be strange because I see such suicidal posts all the time whenever I visit /b/. It's like there are thousands of people out there pretending to want to die on /b/ to get their attention. No one cares. All they tell you is to "post pictures or it never happened" or "use a webcam".

Moral of the story? Don't go to 4chan for help or advice.


And most importantly, no one feels guilty.










http://sg.news.yahoo.com/afp/20081120/tbs-finance-economy-us-gulf-e65dddb.html

The United States has asked four oil-rich Gulf states for close to 300 billion dollars to help it curb the global financial meltdown, ... the United States has asked Kuwait to forgive its Iraqi debt estimated at around 16 billion dollars.

GG for America? I wouldn't call it "beg" but it isn't too far from the truth, eh?

Will the "United States" finally become separate states now?





http://sg.news.yahoo.com/afp/20081121/tts-health-disease-ebola-c1b2fc3.html

Scientists said Friday an outbreak of Ebola that killed 37 people in Uganda last year was sparked by a hitherto unknown species of one of the world's most notorious viruses.

Why is Africa such a screwed up shithole? No offense to the richer Africans, but it's like most of the worst things in the world are in Africa. AIDS, malaria, rape and many others. Africa used to be so damned rich in the past. Remember Carthage 2000 years ago? Now it's like a real life counterpart of 4chan. Last few days it was Congo, now it's Sudan. What the fuck? How is it that the whole continent is so screwed up?

And Congo's war has been going on for ever! When will those guys stop fighting and look at the carnage around them? It's almost like a much larger version of Israel but without the religious background. Millions have died over the years and none of them has realized they are just destroying their own world.

In fact, Congo's standard of living is even worse than Somalia, even though it's a democracy compared to Somalia's anarchy. It just blows my mind to see that those guys don't know when to stop. They don't seem to understand their fighting is so overboard that sooner or later there will be nothing left to fight over. I wonder if they still remember why they began to fight in the first place or what they're actually fighting for.

There's also Nigeria that's so fucked by all the oil companies.


And never forget Leopold II of Belgium, one of the greatest man to ever exist. The way he treated his African "properties" I'm surprised Hitler is more notorious.

Missionary John Harris of Baringa, for example, was so shocked by what he had come across that he felt moved to write a letter to Leopold's chief agent in the Congo: "I have just returned from a journey inland to the village of Insongo Mboyo. The abject misery and utter abandon is positively indescribable. I was so moved, Your Excellency, by the people's stories that I took the liberty of promising them that in future you will only kill them for crimes they commit."

Ever Hitler never went that far - he just killed the Jews, not make them want to be killed.