The hardest interview question I ever got was asking how the VA changed its security protocols following a data breach in 2006. Why was this a hard question for me? I started working for the VA in 2012.
This is my review of (Hardywood Park Craft Brewery) Speculoos Cookie Butter Beer:
What happened was a VA employee took a data file with PHI of 26.5 million Veterans home with him so that he could finish his work at home. Was he allowed to do that? Technically no, which is why it was it was a problem when his laptop was stolen with the data on it. Whoever stole it wasn’t necessarily looking for the data on it, but it is something of value that fell into his lap.
Sort of like the latest baseball controversy. While being thrown out at home plate, Toronto Blue Jays OF Kevin Kiermaier found a piece of paper at the plate. Turns out that paper happened to be a condensed version of the scouting report the catcher, Alejandro Kirk, had in a wristband. The scouting report fell out during the play at the plate. Kiermaier picked it up, and took it back to the dugout. When the Blue Jays sent a batboy over to retrieve it, the Rays refused to hand it over. Even though they later said the whole thing was “agua under the bridge”, Kiermaier still took a pitch resulting in both benches clearing and the pitcher’s expulsion.
I do not think this is cheating. Unethical? Sure. At that moment he probably had no idea what fell into his lap. Kiermaier said he thought it was his own scouting report on the ground and picked it up. While plausible…cool story bro. More to the point, at the major league level the scouting reports are so extensive everyone on the field has to have notes on hand. These reports are based on the same data that teams hire data geeks to spend countless hours quantifying trends on batters, pitchers, runners, etc. They probably know the intervals their opponent’s bench coach cranks the hog. Which means even if 
the Rays had the scouting report the Blue Jays used to beat the Rays, the Rays have their own data geeks that figured out their own team’s tendencies. Tendencies that inform the team that is how others will try to beat them.
To put another way, everyone knew legendary Cleveland Indians OF Perdo Cerrano was going to strike out chasing curveballs. The managers, the players, the owner that used to be a stripper—everyone. Perdo Cerrano himself knew with certainty they will throw curveballs at him he could not hit. That’s why he enlisted the assistance of Jobu. This is why you do not drink Jobu’s rum.
? ? ? This is a white girl beer.? ? ? I repeat this is a white girl beer. ? ? ?
Its an ale that tastes like Danish butter cookies. You know, the ones that are all dried out and come in the Christmas tin. It has notes of vanilla, cinnamon, and some spices that one might want to put in a batch of cookies. Its also 9.5% abv so its not a total loss, but unless you are in the area of the brewer that supplied it (Virginia) you will have to find it at Trader Joe’s. (Hardywood Park Craft Brewery) Speculoos Cookie Butter Beer: 2.2/5
I check every USB stick I find for government data.
So, how many different hackers control your computer now?
Which is the most powerful malware that beat the rest?
ILOVEYOU still plagues me to this day.
Don”t you feel loved?
I have sensitive security information on my laptop. It is fun when I go through TSA on work cause I get to refuse unlocking the computer. Sorry…I actually follow protocols and I know I won’t get a book deal like some high up government employees if I leak the info
That is still one of the dumbest security protocols from TSA.
During my undergrad I worked for a computer repair/salvage operation.
We received a bunch of computers from a Naval facility outside of Philly.
Among them was a computer whose Windows operating system was registered to a Navy captain. It was full of trannie porn.
I’m going to willfully ignore the real meaning and believe it was images of car transmissions.
Ever seen these?
https://shop.hak5.org/products/o-mg-cable-c-to-c-directional
Keylogging cables.
Back in college I took a cybersecurity class and there was a lab where we set up servers and tried to break into the other teams’ servers. My team bought a hardware keylogger and installed it in another team’s setup to siphon passwords.
Also the lower level security courses had assignments to try to break in to these setups, and one guy figured out when our lecture period was to try to break in then so no one would be available to respond to alerts. Since we had pagers, I got the alerts, including his IP, which I knew was from the lab next to ours and walked up behind him since the lecture had let out early.
I have, but I didn’t know they were WiFi capable now
Easier to collect the data that way.
Certainly easier than breaking in the second time to retrieve it
The whole incident is silly, the Beer, I on’t know, I never liked them cookies,
Howdy MS!
Howdy
My mood today – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lHomCiPFknY
Its an ale that tastes like Danish butter cookies. You know, the ones that are all dried out and come in the Christmas tin. It has notes of vanilla, cinnamon, and some spices that one might want to put in a batch of cookies. Its also 9.5% abv so its not a total loss, but unless you are in the area of the brewer that supplied it (Virginia) you will have to find it at Trader Joe’s. (Hardywood Park Craft Brewery) Speculoos Cookie Butter Beer: 2.2/5
I like those Danish Butter Cookies… but this? I don’t know.
#metoo
The beer sounds disgusting.
When I was a kid in the 1960s there was a local tv ad jingle that went “Mommy! What is it dear? I want a Salerno butter cookie!”
Perhaps because the drinking age was 18 back then, or different attitudes at the time towards alcohol use, but no grownups seemed to mind the third graders’ version on the playground, which was “Mommy! What is it dear? Mommy, I want a beer!”
Before The Merger of credit unions that got me where I am today, I had to buy Danish butter cookies for Board meeting refreshments because they were the only cookies I could find without corn or soy products, required by the particularly annoying Board member who was allergic to both of those ingredients (and refused to let you forget it.) Left me with mixed feelings about the cookies.
::debates whether it’s worth going to Trader Joe’s. Concludes it’s probably not::
If he was that annoying, you should have made him have an allergic reaction during a board meeting.
Wait…
just corn and soy?
I wrote a few rants about inconveniencing others, but those are not standard ingredients in most of my cookies, are they really in all the commerical cookies?
Corn syrup maybe? Wouldn’t surprise me.
As I recall, they seemed to be omnipresent in the form of corn syrup and/or soy lecithin. Believe me, it was tempting to make an “oopsie!”
…and cornstarch.
Mmmm…. cookie gravy
Ooh! Do you have a recipe? I’d put that on some biscuits!
I wish.
That’s going to require some brainstorming.
Chocolate chips in lieu of sausage bits?
“Step 1: Pretend you’re just dunking your Oreo in milk.
Step 2: ‘Accidentally’ drop it.
Step 3: Try again with another Oreo.
Repeat until mixture reaches desired thickness.”
I don’t know if that will work so well.
Will try it and report back.
That’s called glaze.
Glaze is sugar gravy.
Yes. It’s for cookies. You said you wanted cookie gravy.
Not gravy for cookies, gravy from cookies.
Cookie ganache.
Thin the cookie butter with milk?
Damn. Now I want cookies.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=m1LUnPTlpbQ
debates whether it’s worth going to Trader Joe’s
Oddly enough, around me the best time to go is on Sunday morning, when everyone else is at church.
I like Danish butter cookies. All I need is flour, sugar, butter, and vanilla.
Mammy’s little baby… ?
Grocery shopping gets a little more depressing each week. ?
That’s why I do a fair amount of grocery shopping with a rifle, shotgun or spinning tackle.
Any Grocery Outlets near you? I find that place fun, in a TJ Maxx way.
There is one in town. Never been in.
Remaindered groceries (mostly), cheap as chips. If you like novelty and don’t mind possibly never encountering the item/s again….
Sort of Aldi-ish but no house brands.
We have one of those too!
Never been in. ?
I’m a creature of habit, I suppose.
Aldi is a place to get damn good deals on occasion. However, quality is hit or miss.
I got 49 cent/lb whole chicken there last week. However, upon cooking a 49 cent/lb whole chicken from a few months ago, I found that they hadn’t butchered it correctly and there was still blood in the breast. Nothing like having the aesthetics of a perfectly smoked bird ruined by blood pouring out when you cut into it.
Hawt.
Aldi has a lot of German stuff, esp. right now. Its owner and that of Trader Joe’s are cousins.
No signs of any shortages at the supermarket today, not even in the TP aisle. I picked up a 4-pack that I didn’t need anyway.
The total on my receipt made my eyes pop, however.
Still no diet tonic. ?
And, yes, I was referring to prices/shrinking packages.
I guesstimate our grocery bill is up 20% this year. Our groceries are very consistent over time, so it’s inflation.
Dealership won’t have the tires I want until Monday. Looks like I’m stuck with the Jetta for the weekend.
At least you’ve got wheels.
Yup. And a 2020 Jetta isn’t really a hardship.
I’d think one of those for the weekend would be kind of a gas, actually.
-1 dieselgate
Maybe drink a white girl beer while you drive around in the Jetta.
Don’t forget your Vineyard Vines gear
?
A regular Jetta, or the Wolfsburg?
Regular.
Due to (boring details), I changed my mind and went with their in stock tires.
They zipped it right through and now my car is home ahead of schedule.
Excellent
Was at the liquor store stocking up yesterday and found this.
https://drizly.com/wine/specialty-wine/plum-wine/choya-umeshu-plum-wine/p5940
Hadn’t seen it in the US. Quite sweet but a nice sour bite to cut the sweetness. Refreshing summer drink over ice. Although it also served hot as well. Originally used as a health tonic and good for the throat.
? what kind of savagery do you live in over there? Regular Choya umeshu is at least sold in several supermarkets here in addition to liquor or Asian stores. Hard/impossible to find the other Choya variants, apart from NA soda, or good alternative brands. I’d love to be able to pick up a milk carton of it at any store.
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-rA9g6rA2P5Y/UohfPbVFBcI/AAAAAAAAJsM/rv_gZN1OOZE/s1600/Plum+wine1.jpg
My other favorite method are a finger in a mug filled with boiling water or poured over vanilla ice cream. The latter is better with a thicker pulpier one. Down to a single bottle left.
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/–9Iyp94i5SI/Ur6yVxy20HI/AAAAAAAAKhE/zq5M8NHShe8/s1600/plumwine+(52).JPG
(The one on the left side is my fave)
I keep meaning to drive up to the Japanese grocery at the peak of ume season and pick up a bag to make my own. I’ve also tried planting one last year but it didn’t survive the winter. Do have two yuzu trees and they had little tiny fruits this year!
To be specific NJ suburb liquor stores.
I can buy it by the glass in NYC at crazy prices.
There is a huge Japanese supermarket about 45 minutes away that also likely has it.
It’s about 50/50 to be at sushi/Japanese restaurants, but my god the pricing is just as bad here. It’s infused neutral spirits and sugar water, not a real wine!
Oh, OT, while out in the arizona region I came across this plant called “Mormon Tea”. Anyone know the background of the name?
Never heard of it.
Pretty common bush in the SW in desert and desert/grassland transition zones. A key feature in identification is that it has no leaves and the sticks are jointed like mini bamboo. Cattle prefer not to graze on it.
You can make a herbal tea from it, but I don’t recall what it tastes like. The last time I made tea from the plant I was a Boy Scout.
“This is a white girl beer.”
So… perfect for getting girls drunk and horny? Count me in.
Q goes to Trader Joe’s sounds like a sitcom.
OT: My alma mater is only down by two touchdowns against Army after three quarters!
Go Redskins! (Yeah, I’m old school. Got a problem with that??) Beat Army!
Outside of sports, the contests didn’t generally go that way.
-1 Custer
+1 Little Bighorn
/wishful thinking
So, not a massacre?
We finally got a touchdown! ::grasps at straws::
*Check CFB scoreboard*
Man, there are a couple of D1 lop-sided scores in there.
I feel bad for our Minnesoda friends.
Seems staged.
https://www.reddit.com/r/trashy/comments/jmid6h/husband_provides_proof_that_the_child_is_not_his/
They went on Maury Povich?
I think it’s real. If it were staged it would have been filmed better.
Mud is on the wall. Drywaller makes it look effortless. Me, not so much. Think I didn’t put enough on but too late for 24 hours now.
Relevant
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4uarkKxJkZs
I love craftsmanship. Someone swinging a hatchet as a drywaller or carpenter, and I’ll just crack open a beer and watch.
Its a drywall hammer.
https://www.homedepot.com/p/Estwing-11-oz-Drywall-Hammer-E3-11/100394902
Why have two separate tools when you can combine them into one?
Riggers axe is the same for carpenters. Don’t see either one around as much anymore.
https://www.vaughanmfg.com/Products/RB-28-oz-Rig-Builders-Hatchet__20420.aspx#.YU-SWCVlCEc
Good. Out of stock. Otherwise Spud might buy the lot.
I hated drywall duty when I was a kid working with my dad. Especially on ceilings. I guess he figured all us boys had broad shoulders for a reason
Genetics.
Yeah. Teen#2 was…let’s say…questionable if mine for a long time. Till grown up and body type is exactly like our families in my line.
https://www.pennlive.com/crime/2021/09/angry-man-shoots-his-own-car-after-crashing-it-in-central-pa-police.html
Um…hey buddy, stop doing that.
This link has car pics:
https://lancasteronline.com/news/local/akron-man-upset-after-crash-fired-shotgun-at-his-car-police/article_8a7e068c-1e1c-11ec-8fcd-730cb71f6f4a.html
Looks like the Wisconsin coach picked the wrong QB. The one he passed over is totally outclassing the one he chose.
School taxes paid.
Grrr.
Shouldn’t schools be paying their own taxes?
You’re so cute.
You’d like to think so.
BTW, I don’t know how well a Tech 1 here pays compared to your state job, but there’s a paid apprenticeship program with almost zero formal credentials required. It’s hands on wrench/screwdriver/wirecutter work, inside, little socialization. Low probability of death, moderate chance of musculoskeletal injuries.
Oh and there have been a few amputations, but less than one a year.
Probably the worst module to be an MT for is implant. They can kill you instantly or slowly, or at an intermediate pace depending on what you forgot to do before overriding the safeguards. Plus they routinely require respiratory protection.
The cleans module is really the only one where you might get a faceful of 180 degree sulfuric acid.
Thin Films has the more entertaining gases, and the only ones that use organolithium compounds.
One of the plus sides to my current job is that literally no one’s life is on the line regardless of what I do or don’t.
If I stay in my current job, I’ll nudge past six figures in april.
The biggest thing I’m looking for in a new job is – it allows me to get out of New York.
Yeah, it would take several promotions to hit that on the technician ladder. Unless they let you rack up overtime.
Well, an experienced MT can write their own ticket to any semiconductor fab that’s hiring.
Unfortunately, I can only think of a few places that you’d want to go to, since WA, TX and AZ are off the table. Maybe Micron in ID? Of course, you’d need to wait for them to have an opening.
Everyone get their Powerball tickets?
I call dibs on the jackpot.
You can’t lose if you don’t play.
“You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take.” – Wayne Gretzky
The whole View Covid fiasco…apparently we’re ‘flase positives’…yep…theater it seems
🙄
Seems like bad optics on testing, no?
To smart, rational human beings. To the masses that watch the view it furthers the fear factor ‘it will always get you and we have to be super careful all the time’
Mask up, bitches!
Who the hell still watches the view?
*shrug*
Karen’s of the world. I’m sure they need another shutdown to get their viewership back up
Now more than ever, we need Jerry Springer.
“No one I know voted for Joy Behar”
/Pauline Kael
Cuntes who whine about how they are underpaid compared to men.
Huh. So the net result is VP Giggles didn’t make an appearance. Awfully convenient…
Interesting point.
First thought was…we also have a ZeroHedge contributing member here.
https://www.zerohedge.com/covid-19/immunity-service-snake-oil-salesmen-covid-zero-con
Long read and in my mind…good
I like your mind, let’s find out, BRB,
So far so good, a long read indeed, Thanks OBE!
Bookmarked for a time when my BAC is below 0.04.
So you’ll never get around to reading it?
Hey now, I’ll have you know I’m sober at work, unlike some of the WFH types around here I’ll bet.
I don’t read ZH anymore. It makes my fight-or-flight response kick in, which makes me nauseated, which makes me twitchy and on edge for days.
Try not to also.
Very good. Thanks, OBE.
The biggest “kicker” in all of this, IMO, is the perception TPTB are fostering that they’re just scrambling around trying to keep up with this wholly unprecedented situation. Then, when you start looking at documents from the SARS outbreak, you realize they’re just running through a playbook from 2004, but with some of the safeguards and all of the self-reflection removed.
Some animals are more equal than others.
New York City schools have been temporarily blocked from enforcing a vaccine mandate for teachers and other workers by a federal appeals judge just days before it was to take effect.
The cracks in the dam have to start somewhere.
If you can’t get 100% of NYC teachers on board with your totalitarian scheme, you might want to considering giving it up before trying it out in the real world.
If the Bee did this, it would be dismissed as too unbelievable. Apparently the chairman of the American taskforce tasked with investigating the origin of coronavirus was involved with funding coronavirus research at Wuhan Institute of Virology. The new chairman disbanded the group after it became clear the whole thing was too farcical.
Columbia professor says task force’s ties to nonprofit that worked with Wuhan Institute of Virology risked perception of bias
https://www.wsj.com/articles/covid-19-panel-of-scientists-investigating-origins-of-virus-is-disbanded-11632571202
I’m surprised they cared to disband. Such self-dealing seems to be par for the course these days.
“perception of bias”
L
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mE WITH THE WOKEISTS
https://www.inquirer.com/food/plcb-record-sales-liquor-pennsylvania-20210922.html
I helped with that.
WOO HOO! The Cardinals just beat the Cubs and set a franchise record of FIFTEEN!!! (15!!!) wins in a row! Beat a record set in 1935!
And they beat the Cubs! ?⚾
Grats?
I guess being able to fly helps.
I didn’t help with that.
Fist bump! Quite a roll the birds are on!
So very Jewish… I’m trying to buy a lens for my camera from an online vendor, and their website’s checkout is closed until after sundown. the message on the site is:
That’s actually pretty cool that they waved their flag.
Aren’t we all about diversity and tolerance? Oh, does that not include (((them)))?
I get them not doing work, but not letting the computers do their job?
I’m mostly annowed at the inconvenience. Now I get to second-guess my purchasing decision for a few more hours.
That is a sacrifice one makes to uphold one’s religious convictions.
Impulse buying is a large chunk of my spending.
Mine too. And my wife x3. Found out there is winery that opened last year pre-Rona. They had their monthly fair today. Wife was $150 in from five tents in less than 30 minutes. Drink!
As I understand it, they see it as transferring money on Shabbat, which is prohibited.
My dad had a story about having a Jewish doctor while growing up in the Bronx. Said doctor interpreted it as you couldn’t take the cash out and give it directly to him on Shabbat, but if you put it in an envelope where he didn’t actually have to touch the cash until Sunday, that was permissible.
Matthew 12:9-14
No good deed goes unpunished.
You expect them …or anyone to ship before Monday?
Yes I know Amazon ships on Sundays, but that’s because they hire ex-cons and Mexicans.
There’s more to the process than accepting and processing payments.
I don’t expect them to do anything before then.
I don’t want to have to come back later to put my order in.
Perhaps you can install some drywall to pass the time? If nothing else you have some perspective on the hardships of clicking a couple links.
the construction supply house is closed for Succos.
Not my problem. Thats piss poor planning on your part.
I also don’t need any drywall installed. No planning failure.
If its such a pain in the ass…buy it from someone else.
Like a normal functional human being.
Otherwise I can’t help you.
I wasn’t asking you to.
In fact, my amount of bother is next to nothing.
Hense my kvetching here instead of hunting for a different vendor.
Correct. You did not ask for my help or anyone else. You asked for sympathy, which I and it appears nobody else here has any.
But I do respect your ability to find the smallest possible inconvenience to which to piss and moan about. But I will be gracious and let you take the last word, because you’ve been pinning for it during this entire exchange where I call you out for your first world problems.
Because that is all this is. I’m sorry (((they))) did this to you.
That Sukkos.
Nice. 🙂
You didn’t know B&H is owned by a bunch of Orthodox Jews?
No. I didn’t know of the company before the road trip when I was talking lenses with my dad (who owns the same model camera as mine)
I didn’t, and I’ve been buying from them since the 1980’s.
Apparently, you’ve never tried buying stuff on their website during Certain Times Of The Year and/or mid-Friday afternoons or most of Saturdays.
B&H has been my only online go-to for camera gear since they first went online, and I also bought from them during the 70s and most of the 80s using that old-fashioned phone system thingie, riffing off of their ads in Popular Photography etc.
Great store! Saved me a shitload of money over the decades.
I ordered me first SLR from them back in 85, a Pentax ME Super.
For me, it was multiple Olympus OM bodies and lenses/accessories, which were very poorly represented in Canada during that time, and were about 40% more expensive than buying from B&H (yes, even after shipping/handling/exchange rate; thank you for absolutely nothing, Carsen Distributors in Toronto [monopoly suppliers of Oly products Canada-wide]).
B&H? I don’t anyone else who does that. Although J&R (RIP) used to close their physical store at all the usual (((days and times))). I ordered a new TV from B&H just before Succos and it won’t arrive until the end of next week.
And it’s still faster than the date Amazon was quoting me.
Yes.
I have no objection to the people not working or the physical location closing for the holidays, but the computers can queue the transactions for when the business opens. What’s the rationale for having the online checkout closed?
I can’t answer that. Ted’s’ answer above seems the most likely.
We just signed over the title transfer for my husband’s gorgeous Honda 2008 motorcycle, a VTX1800C, to the guy who’s been doing the contract work on our Cali house. He’s done the electrical work, the plumbing, the stucco patching. Everything. And he’s battling cancer so sometimes chemo kicks his ass for a few days.
He thought he was working toward the bike purchase and would have to pay the difference when the work was done, but we had intended all along to give it to him since he was WAY undercharging for all the work he was doing.
Paying it forward feels good. I thank God and you guys on Glibs and everyone along the way who have gotten us to the point where we can do intentional giving.
https://www.autoevolution.com/moto/honda-vtx-1800-2008.html#agal_1
GodSpeed my Friend!
Thankee!
Things are heating up on the job/home transition…Once more unto the breach!
Hayek, you rock.
If you were here right now, I’d give you a great big slobbery kiss.
Y’know, if my wedding vows didn’t implicitly forbid it and I also hadn’t signed that restraining agreement with the local constabulary . . .
HA!
🙂
That’s awesome.
Considering where our civilization (heck, even our status as a species) is now, I figure it’s time to focus on the positive.
–Martin Luther
Way Cool!
Eyepiece Update for those who want working top of page and bottom of page buttons. I incremented the version number, so you should get it automatically in the next few days if you don’t download it now.
Clearly not supporting iOS. ?
Kooky
Thanks, d00d. Seems to be doing what it says on the tin . . .
Is there a fix for the Show/Hide button? 🙂
It works fine for me. Cookie problem?
Nope.
I wonder if there is some interaction with an extension, like the customized CSS I use. I’ll play around and report back if I discover anything.
Thx
Yep, it’s a custom CSS extension I installed recently (“Stylebot”).
Dammit.
I hate plugging my custom CSS into another Tampermonkey script, because, well, JavaScript. *spits*
So, erm, I think DDG is starting to play around with their search results like Google does. It’s nothing I can prove, just a sense that, when searching for certain COVID terms, the best matches were on page 2 and the “approved” matches were on page 1.