I should have followed up on this story sooner, but I wasn't aware until now. Pamela Ramsey Taylor, who made headlines when she, as a West Virginia county official made certain intemperate remarks announcing her joy at seeing Michelle Obama would be replaced as FLOTUS by Melania Trump.

Well, it seems that she was embezzling funds from FEMA, and sentenced to ten months in prison, followed by two months of house arrest, then three years supervised release. In addition, she'll must pay a 10,000 dollar fine on top of restitution.

Karma, table for one.

Re: computer logins, a favorite tweet suggested you change your mother's maiden name every six months.

(You can kind of do that, too. If you list her name as Jacksonville, the software won't care. Your first car was an Egg McMuffin, your High School mascot was Three Mile Island.)

...a favorite tweet suggested you change your mother's maiden name every six months. ~ Crid at December 4, 2019 3:55 AM

You then have to remember all those maiden names, high school mascots, and first cars. Password updates for various applications never sync - there's always some overlap, always some forgotten application using the years old made-up data.

I know "they" say not to do this, but I use a small notebook to write mine down and notate when a password is changed. I have access to 5 different databases at work, along with the password for my computer and the LAN. Along with all the passwords for credit cards and Amazon and other assorted and sundry applications I simply cannot keep up. So, yeah, they're getting written down. I also keep a notebook for use at home. It's ironic that all the keys to my online existence are backed up on old-fashioned paper.

The funny thing about companies with strict login password policies is that more often than not it only forces them everyone but those at the top of the corporate ladder.

There's a funny story about how ZTE/Huawei robbed Lucent blind of its technology because the higher ups who went to do business in China used the same login username/passwords for their smartphones, laptops, and company network access.

Pap smear her penis you bigot

https://mobile.twitter.com/rickygervais/status/1201952293014376450

> that more often than not
> it only forces them everyone
> but those at the top of the
> corporate ladder.

I work for a telecommunications enterprise which you would describe as large. For a time, it was the largest. The IT guy who did the company-training video was a twitchy guy... Probably a real Broseph in his college days, but he'd obviously had one too many phone calls out of the blue describing system intrusions that were torquing his personality in grim ways. With every admonition or instruction regarding our part in company security, his voice and body language seemed coiled as if to rise, stiffen and shout DON'T TYPE IN YOUR BIRTHDAY, YOU BRAINLESS WEASEL.

And for examples of failure, every tale of a saved-to-disk attachment or a phishing link thoughtlessly clicked came from ONE OFFICE in the company.

And it happened to be the biggest.

That executive is gone now (parachuted in gold), but I've often thought fondly of him for letting the truth be told.

"The funny thing about companies with strict login password policies is that more often than not it only forces them everyone but those at the top of the corporate ladder."

I've definitely seen that: executive workstations with loose security because the users can't be bothered to remember a password. At a former employer, back in the dial-up modem days, there was a modem bank for ordinary employee use which required that you have a password to access the VPN, along with the password for your account, and the VPN password changed every week. But there was also a secret executive dial-in number which required no authentication at all.

Ah, I see. But it cured your jock itch, right?

'Perineum sunning' leaves Josh Brolin 'crazy burned' as doctors warn against viral wellness trend

https://www.foxnews.com/lifestyle/perineum-sunning-josh-brolin

Conehead the Barbarian.

https://youtu.be/Sar-lOf4Fpc

Did they do his taxes wrong?

https://www.nbc12.com/2019/12/03/bald-eagle-smashes-window-virginia-tax-office-flies-off/

Oh.

https://www.breitbart.com/asia/2019/12/02/protesters-within-china-defy-communists-just-like-you-hong-kong/

Relationship self-owns

https://mobile.twitter.com/ScribeUndead/status/1202226862438658048

Relationship self-owns

A lot of those seem to be the woman wanting an open relationship, then being shocked that her man, even if initially resistant, opened up and ran with it and scored more strange than the woman.

Or the married guy who found a young woman in gradual school who brought out the best in him.

"Re: computer logins, a favorite tweet suggested you change your mother's maiden name every six months."

I bet that in the woods of Michigan's U.P. or Maine, that already happens.

Oh, wow. Watch this:

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-12-03/helmet-cam-footage-shows-afghanistan-suicide-bomb-blast/11757108

It's not just about looking pretty and kicking high.

Contrary to all the men out there thinking this kid must've had the time of his life, he's probably going to come out of this mess quite disturbed, even though he initiated the "first time." Statutory rape applies to this stuff in a grand way.

Florida teacher accused of having sex with teen ‘several hundred times’

Pathetic. This whole thing is simply pathetic. #BoycottHollywood

Chris Pratt apologizes for posing with single use plastic bottle

We have been told that the science of climate change is ‘settled’. However, in climate science there has been a tension between the drive towards a scientific ‘consensus’ to support policy making, versus exploratory research that pushes forward the knowledge frontier. Climate science is characterized by a rapidly evolving knowledge base and disagreement among experts. Predictions of 21st century climate change are characterized by deep uncertainty.

https://judithcurry.com/2019/12/02/madrid/

Just get the kids off the damned smart phones and into sports and you'll reduce problems exponentially.

Inspiring

Mapping autonomously: The cost of helping a self-driving car get around the city

How many divisions does the Secretary-General have?

https://www.breitbart.com/environment/2019/12/03/danish-academic-u-n-might-use-military-to-enforce-climate-agenda/

About the only thing the blue helmets have time for is molesting the most vulnerable of the local population they're supposedly protecting.

https://twitter.com/seanmdav/status/1202060283927240704

It's just business as usual with the feds.

Bureaucrats.

So, pole dancing is a sport. Who knew, right?

Children’s Pole Dancing Demonstrated, Defended on Live TV in UK

FFS who would advertise that they sunburned their taint unless their entire career depended on staying in the headlines no matter how stup -

Oh. Never mind.

Mpet, I sometime think you'd prefer to live in a sewer. You seek tawdry ugliness with metronomic passion… And then you toil to SHARE.

Remember this? My Android phone used to do that with photos.

The internet is suggesting that Brolin may have been in character as Thanos, trying to remove that pesky Ant-Man.

Murderous drug lords' anti-hack cell phone now on the market. Buy in bulk and save! Cash only, delivery by semi-submersible ...

i-Escobar folding phone

These are some high quality Constitutional experts the Dems are calling in for the coup, er, um, impeachment, yeah impeachment.

Stanford Law Professor called as Constitutional expert: The president does not have the power to make his son, Barron, a real baron

Darn, I guess this means Hunter Biden is not a real hunter.

The Dems' coup has degenerated into a goat rodeo. Nothin' to do now but sit back and watch the train wreck.

And you know the worst part of it? We elected these clowns. This is our circus and these are our monkeys.

Mpet, I sometime think you'd prefer to live in a sewer. You seek tawdry ugliness with metronomic passion… And then you toil to SHARE.

Well, we can't all be you. Thank God for that.

Good piece by Walter Williams. The whole system is rotten.

Fraud in Higher Education

Password policy: The workaround I've found is to put together one good password that complies with the policy but which you can memorize. Then use that password with one letter in front of it. When ordered to change it you change only that one letter.