brokerages fighting terrorism?
I received this in a message sent regarding a securities brokerage account:
Please be aware that U.S. brokerages are now required to perform greater due diligence when dealing with customer accounts and, when necessary, request further documentation due to the United Stated Government’s efforts to fight terrorism and fraud and NASD Conduct Rules concerning “Know Your [...]
corporate interest
Posted in response to:
http://www.chrisdellavedova.com/2007/11/26/the-objective-media/
My comments are a little over the top maybe, but it does get tiresome to see corporations with no human conscience having such a huge effect on media and law and culture. Here's the post:
Robert Beverly said, in November 27th, 2007 at 11:02 pm
Oh [...]
SSHKeychain
I noticed that I had not updated SSHKeychain in a while (I do not use it very often either), so I went the the site to look for updates. SSHKeychain is an ssh key management tool for Mac OS X. Bart Matthaei released version 0.8.2 in August and left this admonishment on the web site:
WARNING: [...]
open source income
I found a nice little guide to making an income from your open source project, by the mind behind Damn Small Linux. See it here:
http://damnsmalllinux.org/income-guide/
Nice work on the distro, John, I'm using it now.
better logo
There is now a better logo at oeram.org … come to think of it, I have been promising to upload a better logo for this site as well. Perhaps that will be the next project. I am getting used to the materials and shaders again in Blender (never my strong point in 3D modeling). I [...]
The matador is beside us
The matador is beside us, and we charge forward.
There is a crop of bad security news. The British police who tasered a man in a coma (twice, while aiming a pistol at his head), the Oregon airport that shut down its baggage claim for 6 hours to investigate sugar and flour; images of the bright [...]
interesting database problem
I discovered an interesting and perhaps disturbing database problem today in a database owned by a large company with very sensitive information in its archives. Apparently, there can be two identical usernames in this database, differentiated only by their separate passwords. Only the username and password are needed to authenticate, and there is no [...]
Releasing Private Credentials on the Internet
See this post on Bruce Schneier's security blog:
http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2007/11/dan_egerstad_ar.html
I will post my own comment to it in the comments of this post; you can see them on Bruce's blog as well. I must be feeling contrary; I chose to take the less popular position.
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You have entered 'start your head on fire,' housed at www.robertbeverly.com. 'start your head on fire' is the semi-serious blog of Robert Beverly. Mr. Beverly writes most of the news items, but you will also see us (Debbie and Secretia) posting from time to time to clarify things. We are his "blog secretaries." Common topics on this site are insurance, real estate, investing, martial arts, and satire. We really aren't interested in these topics, but like Debbie says, it's better than working part time at Burger King.
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who?
Rather than publish a biography or ask Mr. Beverly to record his memoirs (which would be dull), we thought we would post a summary for anyone who was wondering. He said we should do something like this because that's what other people's blogs have on them. Mr. Beverly goes by Rab, which is a common name for Scotsmen and their dogs. We call him Mr. Beverly in person because we're trying to talk him into a raise, but you can call him Rab. Rab is an educator, insurance professional, investor, and IT & security enthusiast. He drinks gallons of coffee daily and makes jokes that we usually don't understand. We laugh politely because he writes the paychecks for Debbie and I (he hired us both as blog secretaries back in October 2006... we didn't even know what a blog was before this). Mr Beverly goes to the gym a lot, which is why he doesn't have time to type in his blog entries, and he does all kinds of weird exercises like Kung Fu and Yoga (NEVER ask him about this unless you want to hear all about martial arts). He enjoys analysis and esoteric mental challenges and games like "Go" (the ancient Japanese strategy game) and chess, all of which account for why we do not to start conversations with him. We like talking about peekapoos and the best grocery store sales, but he won't let us post anything about that.
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