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"A New Course by Royal Navy: A Campaign to Recruit Gays," reports Sara Lyall in the NYT:
Uh, Sarah, I'm not sure how best to break this to you, but "rum, sodomy, and the lash" appears to be the Royal Navy's new official attitude toward what future British tars are expected to be engaged in below decks.
A rare essay worth reading on the WSJ's OpinionJournal.com site: Tom Wolfe's obituary for Hunter S. Thompson:
He proved to be one of those tall, rawboned, rangy young men with alarmingly bright eyes, who more than any other sort of human, in my experience, are prone to manic explosions.
For a younger generation, Michael Richard's Kramer on "Seinfeld" is the model of the tall, rawboned, rangy man with alarmingly bright eyes.
were walking along West 46th Street toward a restaurant, The Brazilian
Coffee House, when we passed Goldberg Marine Supply. Hunter stopped,
ducked into the store and emerged holding a tiny brown paper bag. A
sixth sense, probably activated by the alarming eyes and the six-inch
rise and fall of his Adam's apple, told me not to ask what was inside.
In the restaurant he kept it on top of the table as we ate. Finally, the
fool in me became so curious, he had to go and ask, "What's in the
bag, Hunter?"
Wolfe's being a little too kind to the dead: Thompson's reputation rests on one short masterpiece, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, one solid, innovative, but not all that funny book on the Hell's Angels, one major article on the Kentucky Derby, bits and pieces of Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail, and other miscellaneous matter. In terms of prime pages, that's not much more than John Kennedy Toole's Confederacy of Dunces by itself, or, for that matter, the funniest 400 pages excerpted from Wolfe's body of work. Compared to the lifetime output of Wodehouse and Waugh, well, us colonials aren't in the big leagues.
Still, Thompson did write Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas and nobody else ever before wrote anything like it in the history of the English language, and maybe nobody will ever again.
By the way, are you as sick as I am of gun nuts like Thompson and Kurt Cobain (whose three biggest hits off Nevermind all mention guns) shooting themselves and leaving a horrifying mess for their loved ones or servants to find and clean up? I know you think it's your Second Amendment right and all that, but, please, show a little consideration.
Patti Hausman on how men and women think differently, complete with convenient blue and pink bar charts. (Don't you hate how most other contemporary social science graphs go out of their way to make themselves difficult to read, with the blacks being denoted by white bars, the whites by gray bars, and the Latinos by black bars, as in the Thernstroms' last book? The graphmakers wouldn't want to reinforce the stereotype that blacks are, uh, blacker than whites!)
In her address to the National Academy of Engineers, Patti admitted:
Most of the physical sciences bore me silly. Efforts to attribute my apathy to "masculinist bias" in the curriculum amuse me no end... Reinventing the curriculum will not interest me in learning how my dishwasher works. It is a thing and things bore me. People are another story. I find them fascinating.
Patti and I are on the same wavelength: I have a feminine mind in that I
am far more interested in people than machines, but I have an extremely
masculine categorizing / system-building mind in how I think about
Summers, himself, is obviously a stat-head who thinks, like me, in terms of bell curves, as these excerpts from his much-denounced speech indicate (Summers' methodology makes me wonder if he ever locks his office door and reads La Griffe de Lion):
The second thing that I think one has to recognize is present is what I would call the combination of, and here, I'm focusing on something that would seek to answer the question of why is the pattern different in science and engineering, and why is the representation even lower and more problematic in science and engineering than it is in other fields. And here, you can get a fair distance, it seems to me, looking at a relatively simple hypothesis. It does appear that on many, many different human attributes-height, weight, propensity for criminality, overall IQ, mathematical ability, scientific ability-there is relatively clear evidence that whatever the difference in means-which can be debated-there is a difference in the standard deviation, and variability of a male and a female population. And that is true with respect to attributes that are and are not plausibly, culturally determined.
Now, you know and I know exactly what he's talking about and why it makes perfect sense because we think about people in terms of bell curves and standard deviations all the time. but for most Harvard professors and other people who lack useful mental tools for understanding the human world, their mental processes didn't extend beyond a single word:
So, partly the problem Summers is up against is educational, but in large part it's moral: Typical academics tend to believe, deep down, that God made the universe just to boost the self-esteem of people like themselves, and that anything that disturbs their egos therefore can't possibly be true.
Summers also brings up the massive difference between male and female average tastes:
There may also be elements, by the way, of differing, there is some, particularly in some attributes, that bear on engineering, there is reasonably strong evidence of taste differences between little girls and little boys that are not easy to attribute to socialization. I just returned from Israel, where we had the opportunity to visit a kibbutz, and to spend some time talking about the history of the kibbutz movement, and it is really very striking to hear how the movement started with an absolute commitment, of a kind one doesn't encounter in other places, that everybody was going to do the same jobs. Sometimes the women were going to fix the tractors, and the men were going to work in the nurseries, sometimes the men were going to fix the tractors and the women were going to work in the nurseries, and just under the pressure of what everyone wanted, in a hundred different kibbutzes, each one of which evolved, it all moved in the same direction.
Summers gets lambasted for relying on anecdotal evidence about his daughters, but you can see that it follows the massive, multigenerational experiment of the kibbutzim, where feminist true believers set up entire cultures to inculcate gender quality, and each one failed.
Something he doesn't address, but is particularly interesting is that a higher proportion of math and mechanics-oriented women are likely to be androgynous and/or lesbian. (Exemplified by the new UC Santa Cruz supremo Denece D. Denton claiming to "speak truth to power" to Summers while arranging for her lesbian lover to get a new $192k per year job at taxpayer expense).
Here's a new website called Harvard Students for Larry.
Chronicles of Racial Confusion and Complexity: Here are some of my 2002 UPI articles on race:
The Diva of Diversity: Halle Berry's Oscar Speech
Who Exactly Is Asian-American?
The Name Game: Inuit or Eskimo?
Denzel Washington as an Afrocentrist Hannibal of Carthage?
The Success of the Parsis Threatens Their Survival
How Racially Tolerant Are the British?
The New Understanding of Race:
Part 1: Race Is Not So Black or White
Part 2: How White Is the Average Black? How Black Is the Average White?
Part 3: What Happened to Mexico's Blacks?
IQ scores of quarterbacks: Here's a listing of top college quarterbacks' scores on the NFL's mandatory Wonderlic test going all the way back to Steve Young's 126. (A rough conversion system is a Wonderlic score of 20 = 100, and each answer more or less adds or subtracts 2 IQ points). If you ever wondered why Brian Griese is such an overachiever in the NFL, take a look at his 138 IQ combined with having an Hall of Fame QB as his dad. That guy understands playing quarterback.
S. Thompson, RIP -- I reread Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
for about the 7th time a few months ago. I didn't see any reason to
reassess my old judgment that it ranks with A Confederacy of Dunces
as the most laugh-out-loud-funny American book of the second half of the
20th Century. As a work of prose style, it is an indisputable
Welcome, 1,000,000th visitor to iSteve.com! I don't know who you are, but Monday will see the 1,000,000th "unique visit" to iSteve.com since I started using Sitemeter, but I can't remember how long ago that was. (So, maybe we should just forget I ever mentioned it.)
At the current pace, I should be able to get a million visits in 2005 alone, but I'd really like to go for, say two million. So, if you can spread the word, I'd appreciate it.
Which aggressive atheist will convert first: Hitchens or Dawkins? Various people, including Orrin Judd, have suggested that the most likely resolution to Christopher Hitchens' intense hatred of Roman Catholicism will be his conversion to that religion, although I suspect Hitchens is more likely to convert to the Judaism of his maternal ancestors. He already has taken to visiting synagogues on his travels.
Now, an article in the Times of London by Bryan Appleyard suggests that atheist cheerleader Richard Dawkins will someday convert to Anglicanism:
[Dawkins] is one of the strangest men I've ever known. We go back a
long way. Our relationship started well, descended into hate-hate,
recovered somewhat to love-hate and, latterly, has drifted into
respectful acceptance.
The Kinsley - Estrich fracas: A couple of weeks ago, the LA Times op-ed page, now edited by Michael Kinsley, published an essay by Charlotte Allen of the Independent Women's Forum making the excellent point that there are fewer heavyweight women intellectuals around today than before feminism, with Camille Paglia being probably the only woman worthy of being on the short list of top thinkers of the day. Allen writes:
My point was that we don't have many women public intellectuals these days - the likes of Hannah Arendt, Mary McCarthy, Gertrude Stein or the recently deceased Susan Sontag - because most credentialed women nowadays would rather be feminist ideologues than tackle larger issues.
In response, Susan Estrich, who is best known for her dismal management of Michael Dukakis's campaign against George H.W. Bush in 1988, had a good old fashioned hissy fit, accusing Kinsley of sexism.
The new Washington Examiner has the subsequent exchange of emails between Estrich and Kinsley:
my letter or else
am sending over my
letter this morning. It is very, very temperate. It is signed by
approximately 50 women, among them some of the most powerful women in
town, from Nancy Daly Riordan to Lynne Wasserman to Katherine Spillar to
Carol Biondi to Dolores Robinson etc. etc. etc. ... [Personally,
I've never ever heard of a single one of the 49 women on her list --
Steve.] Everyone is
assuming it will be published on Sunday. I honestly think it will be a
bigger deal if you don't publish it, and Drudge and Newsmax and the rest
do, than if you simply publish it, and start adding more women from
Southern California to your mix (today's tally, 3 men, 1 Washington
woman late of Time, no women from Southern California...)
try to push me around girlie
dare you accuse me of blackmail
it I am taking my ball and going home<]b>
Larry Summers should hire Kinsley to respond to his feminist critics for him. All of Summers' groveling and apologizing have just made them scent fear and pile on further. At least Kinsley's having fun, although I'm sure he'll give in and set up a hidden gender quota eventually.
The NYT finally tells some truth about Africa: One of my recurring topics is that sub-Saharan family structures tend to be radically different from the Europeans ones that most educated Americans are familiar with (and that African-Americans have tended to be poised in between). The New York Times finally gets around to discussing African family structures because they've figured out how to give the topic a feminist slant in "AIDS and Custom Leave African Families Nothing:"
are two reasons why 11-year-old Chikumbutso Zuze never sees his three
sisters, why he seldom has a full belly, why he sleeps packed
sardinelike with six cousins on the dirt floor of his aunt's thatched
mud hut.
NYT's feminist angle isn't terribly illuminating here since this
particular case involves a man discriminating against his son in favor
of his nephew. So, let me explain the reasons behind this system, since
it seems bizarre to us for a man not to want his estate to go to his
widow and children. We wouldn't think of providing for our nephews
before our children, but in Africa that is not uncommon. Why do
Africans act like that?
Where the lesbians are -- Exactly where you thought they'd be, according to Laurie Marhoefer, a lesbian student at Columbia:
But how does one go about meeting and befriending these women? It took me a while to figure it out, but I did, and I'll share. (By the way, the following are also good ways to locate nice lesbians to date.)
Richard Florida's $35k idea -- George Mason U. professor Richard Florida gets paid up to $35,000 per speech to lecture city officials and civic leaders on how they can turn their dismal burgh into the next Austin or Seattle. Inspired by Florida's three Ts, which say that for a city to make lots of money from Technology depends on attracting Talent which depends on Tolerance, Spokane is intending to officially declare part of its city the Gay District. (Florida measures "tolerance" primarily by the number of gays, but also by artists, immigrants, and "bohemians.) Here's part of my review of Florida's new book Cities and the Creative Class from the new Washington Examiner:
Florida's much publicized theory, which he developed during the Internet
Bubble of the late 1990s, is that an urban region's economic success
depends on its tolerance level. He argues, "Diverse, inclusive
communities that welcome unconventional people-gays, immigrants,
artists, and free-thinking 'bohemians'-are ideal for nurturing the
creativity and innovation that characterize the knowledge economy…"
"Bride and Prejudice" is a (relatively) high budget Bollywood musical based on Jane Austen's novel, as relocated to contemporary India, by the director of "Bend It Like Beckham." From my review in the March 14th issue of The American Conservative (subscribe here):
week in 1930, America's 123 million people bought 90 million movie
tickets. There were no televisions, no home air conditioners, and little
street crime, so many ladies went to the show most evenings. Hollywood
catered to their tastes with countless musicals and love stories.
Is there a better political cartoonist working these days than Tom Tomorrow? If so, let me know.
Thrasymachus interviews Greg Cochran about his Gay Germ theory
James Q. Wilson sums it all up:
The great achievement of Western culture since the Enlightenment is to make many of us peer over the wall and grant some respect to people outside it; the great failure of Western culture is to deny that walls are inevitable or important.
Arthur Miller, RIP: Colby Cosh says it best:
When I think about the man who wrote plays about how capitalism thwarts human aspirations, [got rich off them], and then got married to Marilyn Monroe, I'm afraid about all I can do is giggle.
Clint Eastwood's "Million Dollar Baby" -- An excerpt from my review in the Jan. 31st issue of The American Conservative:
Clint Eastwood's sentimental,
old-fashioned boxing movie "Million Dollar Baby" arrived
accompanied by such a chorus of critical hosannas that, sadly,
moviegoers have little chance to discover its modest pleasures for
A reader writes:
Free Republic pulled the Sam Francis RIP thread there tonight......what a surprise.
The Conservative Case Against Sprawl by law professor Michael Lewyn is a frank discussion of how government policy wrecked the cities.
On a side note, the decline in bicycle riding by kids is one of the unmentioned disasters of our time. Nowadays, I almost never see adolescents on bikes, due to parents' safety concerns about traffic and crime. I got hit by a car while riding when I was 13, but was back on my bike in a couple of days. This increases the chauffeuring burden on mothers, which depresses the birth rate.
Remember the Maine! Remember Hariri! I have no more idea who blew up the ex-Prime Minister of Lebanon than I know who or what blew up the U.S. battleship Maine in Havana's harbor in 1898. But we got into a war with Spain after the Maine blew up, and we may get into a war with Syria because Hariri got blown up.
Fortunately, look how well the Spanish-American war turned out for us. We idealistically gave Cuba its independence, and the government of Cuba hasn't been a problem for either us or its own people ever since. We didn't give the Philippines their independence, and we only had to kill 200,000 Filipinos to make that stick. And we made Puerto Rico part of the U.S., letting any Puerto Rican move here, and the South Bronx is known worldwide as a synonym for utopia.
Maybe Muslim Democracy Isn't Such a Hot Idea After All: After endlessly pushing former Israeli Housing (i.e., West Bank Settlement) Minister Natan Sharansky's book about how democracy will save the Muslim world, the Wall Street Journal Editorial Page gets around to sending one of their senior writers, Robert L. Pollock, to visit an actual working Muslim democracy, Turkey, and is aghast: "The Sick Man of Europe--Again: Islamism and leftism add up to anti-American madness in Turkey:"
"On a brief visit to Ankara earlier this month with Undersecretary of Defense Doug Feith, I found a poisonous atmosphere--one in which just about every politician and media outlet (secular and religious) preaches an extreme combination of America- and Jew-hatred that (like the Turkish artists) voluntarily goes far further than anything found in most of the Arab world's state-controlled press. If I hesitate to call it Nazi-like, that's only because Goebbels would probably have rejected much of it as too crude."
Whose unexpurgated memoirs would you most like to read? I'd put Prince Bandar, the Saudi ambassador to Washington, close to the top of the list. His is a pretty amazing life story -- his mother a part-black servant girl (slave?) impregnated by a prince, yet he rose up from this lowly beginning to become the most successfully manipulative ambassador of his era. I bet he has stories to tell. Sadly, I suspect he'll take them to the grave.
More bribes no doubt on the way: "Some of Harvard's Leading Professors Confront Its President," reports the NYT on a Harvard faculty meeting: "
Most speakers took aim at Dr. Summers for what they described as an autocratic management style that has stifled the open debate that is at the core of the university's values.
Huh? As I recall, open debate over why among the best people in the hard sciences, men vastly outnumber women, got stifled awfully fast, and not by Summers but by the forces of political correctness.
Of course, Summers immediately caved in and promised reparations. Expect him to pony up more of other people's money and other people's opportunities to save his job.
Here's a link to Steven Pinker's full article on The New Republic: THE SCIENCE OF DIFFERENCE: Sex Ed:
Anyone who has fled a cluster of men at a party debating the fine points of flat-screen televisions can appreciate that fewer women than men might choose engineering, even in the absence of arbitrary barriers. (As one female social scientist noted in Science Magazine, "Reinventing the curriculum will not make me more interested in learning how my dishwasher works.")
That killer quote is from Patti Hausman, who is fascinated by how so many males are interested in 3-d thinking, something that she says has zero interest for her.
Public Health 101 Finally Considered for AIDS: "Gays Debate Radical Steps to Curb Unsafe Sex" claims the NYT:
many are calling for a renewed commitment to prevention efforts and free
condoms, some veterans of the war on AIDS are advocating an entirely new
approach to the spread of unsafe sex, much of which is fueled by a surge
in methamphetamine abuse. They want to track down those who knowingly
engage in risky behavior and try to stop them before they can infect
There is nothing "radical" about "tracking down the partners of those newly infected" -- that's how governments have handled syphilis for generations, which is one reason syphilis is so much less prevalent than HIV these days. Indeed, the NYT article eventually gets around to admitting that this is "radical" only in the sense that standard operating procedures was not applied to the AIDS epidemic due to the political clout of gays, who valued their own sexual pleasure over not killing other gays.
such ideas gain acceptance, the fact that activists are even thinking
about curbing gay sexual freedom is a huge shift.
Your tax dollars at work: Suspected Iranian agent Ahmed Chalabi is challenging Ayatollah Sistani's brother-in-law Ibrahim Jafari for the post of Prime Minister of Iraq. I've often asked what is the source of Chalabi's appeal to the elites he comes in contact with (whereas commoners who know him only from his record -- embezzling millions in Jordan, lying the U.S. into the War in Error, possibly handing U.S. secrets over to the Iranian intelligence agency, etc. -- generally hold him in contempt). I've hypothesized in the past that Chalabi must somehow possess Rasputin-like sexual magnetism, but that seems unlikely.
The simplest explanation for Chalabi's appeal to insiders points to that $100,000,000 of the U.S. taxpayers' money that the U.S. government has given him over the years, much of which remains unaccounted for. You can make yourself a pretty doggone popular guy in Washington and Baghdad for just a fraction of $100,000,000. But it could turn out to be a very good investment on Chalabi's part, since Iraq's oil reserves are worth trillions.
What's the deal with Sistani and chess? As you probably know, the Grand Ayatolla bans chess-playing. I figured it was because of the residual idolatry inherent in playing a game with little men, but now, via Colby Cosh, comes word from Sistani that composing and solving chess problems is OK. So, what's the real reason "playing a chess" is verboten?
UPDATE: One cynical reader reminisces:
Having worked in Saudi for three years starting 19XX as a tech rep for XXX, I think the problem with chess is that it requires thinking. The most comment complaint from my young Saudi Arabian Army students was, "Teacher, don't make me use my think." The last thing a Saudi leader wants is thinking.
Does Discrimination Cause Imprisonment Difference? One of my most distinguished readers writes:
There have been several studies to test the proposition that the high percentage of blacks in prison is produced by the police over-arresting, or prosecutors over-prosecuting, blacks. This theory is not true, as we can discover by using the National Crime Victimization Survey, which asks victims for the race of their offender in robbery and assault cases. The percentage of blacks involved in these crimes, according to the victims, matches almost exactly the percentage of blacks in prison for those crimes. These studies have been done by, among others, Alfred Blumstein at Carnegie Mellon University.
Maybe I will watch the Oscars this year - As long as they don't fire Chris Rock from his job as host for saying things like:
"I never watched the Oscars. Come on, it's a fashion show," Rock recently declared. "What straight black man sits there and watches the Oscars? Show me one!"
What will Rock be wearing to the show?
Robert Locke's magisterial review of the new Museum of Modern Art building in NYC, "Mausoleum of Modern Art," and of the entire course of moder art, from the 1/17/05 American Conservative is now online.
Latest War Nerd Column: "Togo's Lo-Cal Coup" - The War Nerd laments the decline of the African coup.
coups generally specialized in drama and big talk, not high casualties.
Lots of times, the officers planning the coup took advantage of foreign
visits by the head of state to stage their pint-size revolution. It was
really easy to do that back in the 60s, when Africa was still considered
cool, revolutionary and "developing" -- before people realized
it was developing like a case of smallpox, not like Singapore.
My Valentine's Day Book Review in the new Washington Examiner:
On St. Valentine's Day, Washington's fancy turns from political strategy to biological imperatives. So how does D.C. rank as a place to find Mr. or Ms. Right?
Josh Marshall offers a correction to my latest VDARE article. In my article on racial and regional differences in crime rates, I said Josh, the author of the popular TalkingPointsMemo.com, had written his Ph.D. dissertation on the link between Southern culture and crime. He points out that only "two chapters of my dissertation are relevant to the discussion of the effect of slaveholding in creating the cultural distinctiveness of the South." My apologies.
By the way, the color gradations of the maps as they appeared on VDARE were made a little cruder to allow faster loading of the page file. If you want to see the originals, here is the
Mapinator graph showing the three ethnic groups' imprisonment ratios using the same yellow to purple color scale for each. You'll be able to see subtle differences between the white imprisonment rates better here. And here are the two maps showing the black to non-Hispanic white imprisonment ratio and the Hispanic to non-Hispanic white imprisonment ratio in red and green.
Ali : Check dis. I is now in a coal mine which is where the Wales people used to live, underground. Millions of years ago miners lived under here before they became human beings.
Not-So-Free Republic: The news that Jim Robinson is once again purging immigration restrictionist voices from what he ironically calls "Free Republic" is no surprise around here. Way back in 2000, my psephological analysis "GOP Future Depends on White Vote" for some reason got VDARE.com permanently banned from the Republic of Jim. And he doesn't let anybody cite iSteve.com either. As a reader says, he should rename it "Republic of Virtue."
New VDARE column: Mapping the Unmentionable: Race & Crime
Why is there no kissing in Indian movies? Please email me with explanations.
Also, how widespread is owning a television in India today? How about up through, say, 1991? Are most theatres in India now air-conditioned?
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Microsoft's Kinect could keep an eye astronauts' weight
Kinect is expected to branch out into small business and banking in 2012. Now the gaming system's sensors could be adapted as a next generation weight measurement system onboard the International Space Station. It would relay data via 3D modeling, and require less space than the current equipment.
The creator of the new prototype system is Carmelo Velardo, a computer scientist at Eurecom in Alpes-Maritimes, France. He fitted the gaming sensor with body tracking cameras to produce a 3D image of an astronaut. The information was then fed into a statistical model that linked weight against the body measurements of in a database of 28,000 people.
The system came up with estimates that were 97 percent accurate; plus or minus five pounds. This is comparable to the current method used, but with the sensors being proposed to be mounted in the walls of the ISS, taking up much less space.
The current solution was created back in 1965 to solve the problem of traditional scales not working in zero gravity. Astronauts mount a stool that is fitted to a spring, raising and lowering the stool at a frequency dependent on the mass it is acting against. Stools and springs take up space and energy, which are at a premium on the ISS.
Accurate weight measurements are also at a premium; being key in keeping astronauts healthy. Even a short trip in space can cause muscles to atrophy due to lack of use or resistance; just a few weeks can cause a loss of body mass of up to 15 percent. Daily measurement and exercise help keep them on track.
In the end it may be a combination of the two systems that works best. NASA's chief scientist on the human research program notes that microgravity shifts water around in the body so real measurements may not match models. The two systems together could measure body volume and mass.
While it wouldn't save on space it would present the most accurate picture.
Velardo hopes to test the prototype system soon onboard a parabolic aircraft flight or "vomit comet," which simulates microgravity in orbit. He'll present the findings at the Emerging Signal Processing Systems conference in January.
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April 1, 2012 9:09 am / 1 Comment
Now that you have read the basics here at http://www.decisionstats.com/how-to-learn-to-be-a-hacker-easily/ (please do read this before reading the below)
Here is a list of tutorials that you should study (in order of ease)
1) LEARN BASICS – enough to get you a job maybe if that's all you wanted.
Lena's Reverse Engineering Tutorial-"Use Google.com for finding the Tutorial"
Lena's Reverse Engineering tutorial. It includes 36 parts of individual cracking techniques and will teach you the basics of protection bypassing
01. Olly + assembler + patching a basic reverseme
02. Keyfiling the reverseme + assembler
03. Basic nag removal + header problems
04. Basic + aesthetic patching
05. Comparing on changes in cond jumps, animate over/in, breakpoints
06. "The plain stupid patching method", searching for textstrings
07. Intermediate level patching, Kanal in PEiD
08. Debugging with W32Dasm, RVA, VA and offset, using LordPE as a hexeditor
09. Explaining the Visual Basic concept, introduction to SmartCheck and configuration
10. Continued reversing techniques in VB, use of decompilers and a basic anti-anti-trick
11. Intermediate patching using Olly's "pane window"
12. Guiding a program by multiple patching.
13. The use of API's in software, avoiding doublechecking tricks
14. More difficult schemes and an introduction to inline patching
15. How to study behaviour in the code, continued inlining using a pointer
16. Reversing using resources
17. Insights and practice in basic (self)keygenning
18. Diversion code, encryption/decryption, selfmodifying code and polymorphism
19. Debugger detected and anti-anti-techniques
20. Packers and protectors : an introduction
21. Imports rebuilding
22. API Redirection
23. Stolen bytes
24. Patching at runtime using loaders from lena151 original
25. Continued patching at runtime & unpacking armadillo standard protection
26. Machine specific loaders, unpacking & debugging armadillo
27. tElock + advanced patching
28. Bypassing & killing server checks
29. Killing & inlining a more difficult server check
30. SFX, Run Trace & more advanced string searching
31. Delphi in Olly & DeDe
32. Author tricks, HIEW & approaches in inline patching
33. The FPU, integrity checks & loader versus patcher
34. Reversing techniques in packed software & a S&R loader for ASProtect
35. Inlining inside polymorphic code
36. Keygenning
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3) SPEND SOME MONEY on TRAINING
Course overview
Module 1 – The x86 environment
- System Architecture
- Windows Memory Management
- Registers
- Introduction to Assembly
- The stack
Module 2 – The exploit developer environment
- Setting up the exploit developer lab
- Using debuggers and debugger plugins to gather primitives
Module 3 – Saved Return Pointer Overwrite
- Functions
- Saved return pointer overwrites
- Stack cookies
Module 4 – Abusing Structured Exception Handlers
- Abusing exception handler overwrites
- Bypassing Safeseh
Module 5 – Pointer smashing
- Function pointers
- Data/object pointers
- vtable/virtual functions
Module 6 – Off-by-one and integer overflows
- Off-by-one
- Integer overflows
Module 7 – Limited buffers
- Limited buffers, shellcode splitting
Module 8 – Reliability++ & reusability++
- Finding and avoiding bad characters
- Creative ways to deal with character set limitations
Module 9 – Fun with Unicode
- Exploiting Unicode based overflows
- Writing venetian alignment code
- Creating and Using venetian shellcode
Module 10 – Heap Spraying Fundamentals
- Heap Management and behaviour
- Heap Spraying for Internet Explorer 6 and 7
Module 11 – Egg Hunters
- Using and tweaking Egg hunters
- Custom egghunters
- Using Omelet egghunters
- Egghunters in a WoW64 environment
Module 12 – Shellcoding
- Building custom shellcode from scratch
- Understanding existing shellcode
- Writing portable shellcode
- Bypassing Antivirus
Module 13 – Metasploit Exploit Modules
- Writing exploits for the Metasploit Framework
- Porting exploits to the Metasploit Framework
Module 14 – ASLR
- Bypassing ASLR
Module 15 – W^X
- Bypassing NX/DEP
- Return Oriented Programming / Code Reuse (ROP) )
Module 16 – Advanced Heap Spraying
- Heap Feng Shui & heaplib
- Precise heap spraying in modern browsers (IE8 & IE9, Firefox 13)
Module 17 – Use After Free
- Exploiting Use-After-Free conditions
Module 18 – Windows 8
- Windows 8 Memory Protections and Bypass
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You use this at your own risk of conscience ,local legal jurisdictions and your own legal liability.
Why Wives Nag
February 23, 2008 6:31 pm / Leave a comment
Wives nag -
1) Because they have no one else to nag to.
2) they are trying to improve you for your own good. or change you for their own good.
3)they dont understand half the things you do…watch sports, video games,cars, etc….they are not nagging just asking
4) women try to restrict the self destructive tendencies of men.
maybe thats why the dinosaurs went extinct. their wives stopped nagging them and they ended up fighting and killing each other in the spare time.
5) its actually a sign of affection and they are just expressing themselves. They nag because men are not so good listeners. Huh…
6) behind every great man was a women …who nagged him till he became great. does not apply to men named Clinton.
7) they are socially conditioned to nag.
I mean wouldn't it be boring if all you could do was watch sports, or hang out with the guys in peace with no one to disturb you. I mean wasn't that the reason we get married because we get bored out of doing nothing but watching sports and hanging out with the guys.
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Blogs : James Suckling Uncorked
Posted: October 23, 2008 By James Suckling
I had a quick lunch yesterday at my office with Enrico Viglierchio, general manager of Banfi, the large American-owned Brunello di Montalcino producer, and he looked relieved as we drank a bottle of his 2003 Castello Banfi Brunello di Montalcino Poggio alle Mura.
Siena prosecutor charges that lab analysis has proved wines are not pure Sangiovese
Posted: October 22, 2008 By Jo Cooke, James Suckling
Lab tests conclude all but a small percentage is 100 percent Sangiovese; a small amount tests inconclusive and will be declassified
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Authorities investigating a growing trend of high-pressure sales of collectible wine that never shows up
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I have recently read a number of comments on the Internet about Sangiovese, and how it can't make dark-colored wines with ripe tannins and full body. But it just isn't true. Sangiovese can and does make wines with a depth of color, fruit and tannins, and anyone who says it can't just doesn't know what they are talking about.
Tests prove yet-to-be-bottled wine is pure Sangiovese, but bottled wine remains to be approved
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Tomorrow there will be a joint press conference in Montalcino featuring Luca Zaia, the Italian agricultural minister, and Ron Spogli, the U.S. ambassador to Italy. They will announce a plan to resolve the current dilemma with the U.
Lab tests conclude the wine is 100 percent Sangiovese
Posted: June 26, 2008 By Jo Cooke
Lab tests not mandatory for Brunello wines, provided Italians certify them as pure Sangiovese
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Brunello di Montalcino producers were given a few extra weeks before their wines will be banned from the US market. On May 13, I reported in my blog post " Brunello's Mess Worsens " that producers had until June 9 to prove that what's on the label is consistent with what's in the bottle.
U.S. officials give producers until June 23 to guarantee Brunello is 100 percent Sangiovese before imports are blocked
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You are going to see a lot less Brunello di Montalcino in the United States very soon if Italian authorities and wine producers don't get their act together. The Italian Embassy in Washington DC recently received notification from the US Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau (TTB) warning that, beginning on June 9, imports of Brunello di Montalcino to the United States will be blocked unless producers can guarantee that their wines are pure Sangiovese, as required by Italian wine law.
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This European style vacation rental is on the third floor of our 100 year old brownstone. There is no elevator, but what awaits you at the top is worth the climb. The apartment is modern, ultra-comfortable and perfect for singles or couples who are short or long term guests on vacation or business.
The apartment offers free Wi-Fi, Washer/Dryer, air conditioning, a fully equipped stainless steel kitchen including a dishwasher, and microwave. The Tassimo Beverage Machine and electric tea kettle make it possible to have hot beverages in an ''instant". For those who like to brew their coffee, there's also a coffee pot and coffee available. There is filtered water, beer, and soda in the fridge upon arrival.
The bedroom is the ultimate sanctuary and provides an utterly safe and comforting place to land at the end of the day. It overlooks the backyard garden creating an atmosphere of peace and tranquility. Soft lighting, a comfortable queen size bed with luxury mattress/pillows, 600 count sheets, and a Bose Wave Music system that can wake you up or put you to sleep to your favorite music.
The spa inspired bathroom contains a soaking tub with shower, bathrobes, spa slippers, designer toiletries, magnifying makeup mirror, and hand held toilet bidet.
The living room has a dining table with seating for four, HDTV, library, twin sleep sofa, and land line phone with free local calls.
A welcome bottle of wine, a complimentary continental breakfast and a gift certificate to a neighborhood restaurant come with your stay.
We thoroughly enjoyed our 6 night stay at Sankofa Guest Apartment. The location was great as it only took 5 minutes to reach the subway or bus with the shops also close by. The apartment was beautifully decorated and it was so cosy when we arrived back after a full day of sight seeing, to enjoy the atmosphere. Edith and Norma are such lovely people and so helpful. We couldn't believe the gorgeous fluffy towels and slippers and dressing gowns for our use. The apartment was exceptionally clean and well maintained and we certainly enjoyed the bottle of wine and chocolates on our arrival (not to mention the sumptuous muffins!). We would certainly recommend it to family and family and have actually done so
The apartment is four short blocks to West 125th Street making it accessible to four express trains (2, 3, A, D) and steps from numerous city buses. The Metro North Railroad Station, also on 125th Street, has trains to Grand Central Station, Bronx Botanical Garden, the Bronx Zoo and New Haven. LaGuardia Airport is approximately twenty minutes by cab, and 30 minutes by the M60 bus.
A leisurely ride on the M2 bus, only steps from the apartment, takes you pass Central Park, and down Fifth Avenue passing along Museum Mile ( African Museum, Metropolitan Museum, etc) designer shops in midtown, Rockefeller Center, NY Public Library, and Empire State Building.
The apartment is walking distance to the Apollo Theater, Sylvia's Restaurant, Red Rooster Restaurant, Studio Museum in Harlem, the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Marcus Garvey Park, Central Park and numerous landmark churches.
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Hoops of Hope Fundraiser Postponed
Berthoud Recorder Staff Berthoud High School Athletic Director Rusty Mathena announced today that the Hoops of Hope fundraiser will be postponed to Oct. 17. Mathena said they needed more time to ensure a good turn-out. Related story: Hoops of Hope Inspires Category: News – Community Category Lead: Category Primary Featured Story Home Lead: None Sidebar Block: 0
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god for reducing the physical symptoms I was put on Inderal back in the late 80s due to high blood pressure and anxiety....( I believe that constant GAD since puberty brought on the elevated blood pressure, as my BP goes way up when I am having a panic attack or feeling anxiety)
Though it did not get rid of my panic attacks, it keeps the physical symptoms at bay - racing heart/rapid breathing. I also use a benzo - generic Klonopin on an as needed basis for whne I start to have panicky or racy thoughts.
The combination works pretty well for me with minimal side effects
I tried other meds - Zoloft/neurontin and Keppra - see my ratings under each of those - but overall I do best with Inderal/Klonopin as needed and a lot of walking/deep breathing.
Other things that have helped me are doing charity work - getting outside MYSELF and thinking about others- prayer/meditation diet changes (less caffeine - going to try NO caffeine) and the addition of vitamins and omega 3
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Stanford has proved it can finish strong and win close games
Los Angeles – As Wisconsin and Stanford continue preparations for their showdown Tuesday in the 2013 Rose Bowl, one set of numbers might be telling.
Stanford is 7-2 in games decided by seven points or fewer this season. That includes a 2-1 record in overtime games.
Wisconsin, by contrast, is 2-5 in games decided by seven points or fewer. That includes a 0-3 mark in overtime games.
UW has outscored opponents, 122-77, in the fourth quarter, but is a minus-13 in overtime (16-3).
Stanford has outscored foes, 67-39, in the fourth quarter. The Cardinal defense didn't allow a point in the fourth quarter against Oregon State, Oregon and UCLA in the Pacific 12 title game.
Stanford rallied in the final quarter to win all those games.
"When you look at our defense," Stanford center Sam Schwartzstein said Friday, "in the fourth quarter, nobody scores.
"And sometimes we're way too inconsistent for what a Stanford offense should look like – early.
"But we do have the playmakers and the mentality that the fourth quarter has got to be our quarter."
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Well. All the more reason to treat them like Nebraska.
not allowing any 4th Quarter points to Oregon State, Oregon and UCLA is impressive indeed! Maybe we can fool em with the Gordon sweep!
You can throw all the stats out the window when these two teams get together!
Seriously, those stats mean very little, as the two teams last played weeks and weeks ago. If you notice anything, it's that many of these games are sloppy, especially on defense. IF Stanford's defense is as tough as the stats lead you to believe, then why bother to play the game? UW has no chance. My guess is that the team has enough pride in itself to rise up and win this one for themselves and BA.
Mr. Schwartzstein,
May I introduce you to the team that, after the BIG Championship, feels like now they own the fourth offensively. Game on.
I predict 2 Montee Ball running TD's in the 4th quarter. Bring it on. Go Badgers. Barry will have us playing our most physical defense of the year. I look for some BIG hits on the stud Stanford RB he hasn't felt all year.
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I usually LOVE Christmas and everything that comes with it.
But this year, I'm just "meh" about it. I'm not even sure why.
I wish I wasn't, but I'm not sure what to do about it.
FWIW, I am very thankful for all I have.... but I'm thankful every day. Christmas doesn't have anything to do with that feeling.
And I am a Christian, so celebrating Christ's birth is what Christmas should be about for me... but my cynical side is thinking "Eh, he wasn't even really born at this time of year, and it's all about commercialism now anyway."
DD is 17 months so she likes the pretty lights but doesn't care too much about the rest.
Bah Humbug.
Christmas has been getting less enjoyable every year for me. MIL consistently buys us things we don't want (she sometimes even buys us things we've specifically told her we don't want) and it's getting to the point where it just feels like a huge waste of money and, because we don't have much, this really gets on my nerves. I feel like she's being selfish because it's clear she's buying us what SHE likes and not what we like. I'd rather not get anything that have a bunch of stuff sitting in my basement from every single Xmas that I don't want.
We have to go over my grandmother's house every year for Xmas Eve--she's horribly depressed about her best friend (they were essentially married) dying several years ago and always sits around and talks about it; plus her house smells so badly of cat (she has 11 of them) that you almost gag. To top it off, my dad died two days before Xmas last year. I'm not emotional about it because we were estranged, but my grandmother is an even more depressing lump now.
Sorry to drag everyone down, but it was nice to vent about this stuff.
We haven't picked out a name for our little guy yet and we briefly considered "Ebenezer" (I reminded DH he had already placed a Veto on "Junior" related names)
DH is the anti-gift type of Christmas guy... I'd be lying if I didn't say he's getting the belts & socks that he wants from us this year... OTOH, I'm not exactly thrilled with his idea that my getting body wash around Christmas (it's when I typically run out and have to reorder more) constitutes a "husband gift"... I don't exactly expect him to be romantic useless-gift type or anything like that, but ... yea.. It's the "Merry Christmas, at least you won't stink!"
The closer I get to Christmas the more Scrooge-like I'm becoming... Yes, I also have the MIL box down in the basement as do my SIL & BIL... She gets all sorts of mail-order cra* that goes with NONE of our homes or styles and everyone gets the same thing so it's become the running joke of who opens which box each year... Oh heck, for two years she bought DD some porcelain doll that seriously gives me the creeps to the point that I've got them in the box and considered sending them to a guy who collects creepy dolls (long story - he's into the whole paranormal field and is one of those things he never intended to start a collection of but it just sort of kept snowballing)...
I think I stopped really getting into the Christmas spirit when others in the family dictated "no shopping for the adults" and then started to decide what we could purchase for their kids (I'm all for Christmas lists and ideas/guidelines, but that's A LOT different than saying "you will get kid A the Johnny Jump-up T-250 and child B Janey Jiffy Doll" which is what it has become and HEAVEN FORBID you get the Godchild a nicer gift than their sibling!!!)... There's no element of anything other than the show up, have dinner, get annoyed, open MIL's boxes (she admits the reason she does it is because she doesn't like the "no gifts for adults" thing), watch the underslept kids get cranky, then go home...
Bah Humbug!!!
I feel this way too. We didn't even put up all of our decorations. Just the tree. The only enjoyable part of it for me is when we bought our DD her own little pink christmas tree with princess ornaments. Just seeing how excited she was about it made it a good moment. But even that faded. I guess with DH not getting holiday pay (you have to be tehre a full year before you get the holiday pay), it's made it gloomy for me this year. We bought for DD early this year. Thank god. bc if we hadn't she wouldn't have all that we bought for her. I got DH 3 shirts. But that was it.
He made the mistake of (innocently, not throwing it up to me) bringing up that this time last year, we both were working and we had everything bought. We could afford to then. Then he just says, 'well that's okay, that's how things work sometimes'. I miss the extra money from both of us working, but it still doesn't compare with all of the things I'm not missing anymore.


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