Strange Times
At the Blackhats security conference in Vegas they are having a a “Hackers for Hillary” fundraiser. Some people are apparently annoyed that Drumpf seems to believe that you have be from the former Soviet Bloc to be a decent hacker.
Given all of the problems that the Dems have had with their e-mail systems, they should have used Hillary’s which was one of the few that wasn’t hacked. For all of the people who think that 30,000 is a lot of e-mails to delete – send me your e-mail address and I’ll send you my Spam folder which is nothing compared to what she must receive. The Shrubbery’s crew used RNC e-mail servers and deleted everything.
Earl died in the interior of Mexico. I’m watching a trough in the Gulf sitting the Big Bend/Armpit of Florida. It has provided me with thunderstorms every day for a week. Another area of interest is north of the Dominican Republic. There is a chance of the two systems meeting off the Atlantic Coast to provide some interesting weather next week.
In response to several Zika cases in Miami-Dade they have been saturation spraying malathion and have been approved for ‘Frankenbugs’, genetically modified mosquitoes to do battle with the Zika mosquitoes [ and after drinking the malathion in the outflow of a nuclear plant that was tainted by the algae blooms they bite all of the Cubans who then vote for Jill Stein…
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I just checked my inbox stats. In my three primary personal email accounts, I have roughly 140,000 personal *non-spam* emails. Granted, that’s accumulated over a 20 year time frame during part of which I was a public figure, but Hillary was the frickin’ *Secretary of State* and surely has a much wider circle of friends than some reclusive computer geek does.
Yeah, I could easily delete 30,000 of those emails without a problem.
If we assume that the ‘30,000’ were all sent or received during the 4 year period during which she was Secretary of State, a fact not in evidence, that is approximately 145 messages a week that were not worth preserving for posterity.
Amazon, Netflix, Hulu, Acorn, Lang, and a couple of other people could easily provide me with 150 sacrificial e-mails a week to add to those that my spam software both local & host eliminate.
“not worth preserving for prosperity.
Or posterity! 😈
I blow away the contents of my spam folder without looking through it; my email host rarely gets it wrong, so I don’t know (anymore) how many spams I get each day. My general public email (e.g., blog-related) accumulates maybe 50-100 legit emails every two days; I blow through that deleting stuff very quickly. My client/close-friend/family email rarely requires manual attention; what the spam filter of my mail host doesn’t catch, a couple dozen short scripts I’ve built up over a few years take care of nicely.
The only problem is that if I read my client/etc. mail through my “smart”phone (heh), Gmail doesn’t know about my scripts, and it kindly sounds a bell every time spam comes in. Sigh! It’s a small price to pay for being able to answer my important mail late at night, sitting in an easy chair instead of the office, not waking Stella, etc.
(Brrring!!!) The Guardian tells my phone that Michael Phelps won his 19th gold. I just HAD to know that right away… Guardian assumes that since I read their US prez election list every day, surely I MUST be interested in their Olympics list. Sigh again…)
Yeah, sure pick on the old guy 😉
My iPad dings, beeps, or buzzes for the Guardian, the BBC, and weather alerts, which is why it isn’t in the bedroom at night.
” send me your e-mail address and I’ll send you my Spam folder ”
I have sent you my email otherwise you wouldn’t be reading this… You really aren’t going to do that, are you?
I’ve been monitoring rumors of October surprises and the latest to emerge is that Vladi will release the Clinton emails late October. They don’t have to be real they just need enough there to trigger Clinton Derangement Syndrome.
Shirt
Shirt, you didn’t use a real e-mail address to sign in here? The real purpose of the e-mail is to prevent people from spoofing someone else’s comments.
No, I would only send my spam folder to people who don’t believe that someone can have 30k worthless e-mails in 4 years.
Well, I lost Internet Friday. just came back about an hour ago. I have 5 mail boxes, one that is heavily used. I have well over a thousand messages just in my inboxes. I will simply delete everything in the junk mail folder. If anything shouldn’t be there… too bad. *shrug*
According to my ISP (and Twitter and other online forums dealing with ISP’s & Internet connections, it was all Telstra’s fault due to aging & failing infrastructure and was widespread – Vic., NSW, SA, Qld. WA) According to Telsta… nada. “No problemo’s! It’s your fault.” Seriously!
AussieOutages (red, BAD!):
http://aussieoutages.com/status/telstra/map
(Comments below the map are apparently from Facebook).
Telstra (if you want to see, you’ll have to put BENDIGO in the search box, select the first item BENDIGO, VIC – Case doesn’t matter):
http://servicestatus.telstra.com/
I looked at several other places with reported problems in the affected areas using that Telstra facility, only ONE showed an issue, and was reportedly fixed by Sat! According to other sources, it still hasn’t been fixed!
Lies, damned lies, and Telstra!
It took my ISP a couple of hours to figure out they had a problem because they use their own VOIP system. The were deploying a software upgrade and it crashed servers. I had to drive down to the office to find out that yes, the system was down, and no, I couldn’t pay my bill because the system was down.
There were several large businesses who were screwed because they couldn’t do credit card payments and their phone systems didn’t work.
Thanks to cell phones and radio the word spread, but the ISP had no way of notifying their clients.
Telstra sucks. You have reported that repeatedly. Why is anyone surprised anymore?
At least my ISP kept me updated with an SMS daily. And I got an eMail yesterday that said they would give me 5 days credit for the downtime. But I would much rather have not lost the days online. I was busy. Trying to do it all on my 4G phone was difficult at best, and even that was iffy at times. I was up until about 5AM getting through my email alone.
Yes, Telstra sux big time! And the moronic public allow them to get away with it. I constantly remind people they own 40% of Telstra! The typical comment I get is “I use Optus” (or another telco). Umm… ALL the infrastructure is Telstra! The other telco’s are all wholesalers! Everyone has to pay a $25-$30/mth line rental fee if they use a landline for phone/internet, UNLESS they are lucky enough to be able to have a naked DSL service, which is usually supplied by another major telco like Optus because they co-locate their own DSLAM’s in Telstra exchanges where possible, usually only the large exchanges have room. In any case, Telstra still get’s it’s cut no matter what.
The outages included the Mobile network also. Not just landlines were affected.
And now you have the census DDOS attack and various and sundry politicians arguing about the definitions of colloquial computer terms rather than explaining what happened and how it was going to be fixed.
Losing mobile as well as landlines really sucks.
Turnbull is having a great start to he new government 😉
The list of once trusted & respected Gov. Institutions that have lost that trust & respect is a long one. It primarily began with the Howard Gov. It was increased under Abbott and especially Turdbull. The census data this year is worthless. And next year, I suspect people won’t bother no matter what the ABS tries to say or do about it. Thanks to Turdbull’s insane staff & funding cut’s, nothing can be trusted any longer.
And yet, people still voted for him. Which just proves what I have been saying for a long time… Most humans are easily deluded morons.
Here’s a take I agree with on the Census debacle:
The real consequence of #Censusfail
“Australia does not have to descend into being a scrappy version of America, driven by hatred and politicisation. We can choose a different path.”
Amen to that!
My small ISP handles DDOS with a minimum of fuss, but they don”t have to depend on Telstra.
When you think that they best way of making government more efficient is by cutting budget and staff, you are going to cut to the point that government can’t function. It works exactly the same in the private sector.
They keep failing in the sae way and people refuse to back new people to run things.
This is an interesting development, perhaps. I find myself undecided about either whether the claim is factual, or whether the Labor Party becoming a hard leftist party may not be such a bad thing. Normally, I’m opposed to extremism of all kinds. But the softly, softly middle-road approach isn’t working at all.
Diane Abbott says Labour entryist claims are a distraction
I’ll have to put this on my watch list, because I don’t know if Diane Abbott is correct or not. Curious indeed. 🙂
Oh, Speaking of “Austerians” Bryan, you might find this interesting:
Owen Jones talks to Ha-Joon Chang: ‘austerity is based on lies’ – video interview
There is nothing wrong with being a ‘left of center’ as long as you don’t allow the Tories to keep moving the center further and further to the right. Under Blair the Labour Party was definitely right of enter.
Ahhh Politics! A laugh a bloody minute! Clown school…
If Malcolm Turnbull can’t fix this mess, Tony Abbott is available
Seriously. 😐
Karl was never what either his friends or his enemies portrayed him as being because he was at his core a political journalist who was dealing with the reality of his time and imagining a better life. His biggest problem is that he is as boring as any writer could be and that’s what comes through in German, English, and Russian. Given that his readers fall asleep early on, their view of Marx and Marxism is heavily biased by how long they stayed awake.
Sure it might be Abbott, but it could also be Rudd because the Coalition MPs are tired of being played by their leaders, so they’ll bring in a ringer. 😆
Yeah. My fear is who the ringer might be! I do have some ideas, none of them are good!
This will be very familiar to American’s. You know Politics by attacking the messenger and not addressing the serious crap they are being accused of. Aussie politicians are fast studies it seems. :/
Peter Dutton attacks Guardian and ABC over reporting of Nauru files
Because, this:
Revealed: Peter Dutton’s extensive briefings about risks and harm to children on Nauru
Dutton seems to be channeling Cheney.
That is SOP for US politicians with the added insinuation that when the media and others report about criminal activity and corruption in the government they are helping the “terrorists”. [Also See Turkey after the “coup”.]