Byron Thurman

This lady, Peggy Joseph, thinks Barack Obama will pay for her gas, mortgage, and who knows what else.

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Stephenville Texas is a small city but we have several ISP’s here and to a new resident it could be a choice taken lightly after all it’s just the internet but someone that has lived here can tell you the quirks of each and such. I welcome any and all opinions on this subject as well because I’m sure they may differ from mine but as far as I’m concerned this is how they rank according to myself.

Northland Cable - Not the small town underdog, but Northland Cable provides affordable, reliable high speed internet.

Our-Town Internet Service - OTIS is one of the most well known local internet service providers and you get a piece of that small town service with Our-Town Internet. The owner Clay Helms is well known for his service to the community and this is reflected in his choice for employees. Mr. Helms is known to hire people from Alchohol Anonomous and help them put their lives back together piece by piece. However some of the service is a little less than top notch last time I checked I still recommend Our-Town Internet if it meets your needs.

Embark - The more I hear from customers about Embark the less I like them, I’ve heard them completely lie to a customer about something that in the computer industry is very common knowledge. But Embarks technical support took advantage of her lack of knowledge and told her that somewhere around 5800 or 6000 kb is equal to 1Mb of data transfer. No as a matter of fact it is exactly 1024kb in 1Mb the only way I could see this matter getting misconstrued is when it comes to data upload and download. Often an ISP will give you 5mb or so download and only 1.5mb upload rate or sometimes known as a half open connection depending on the varying rates of speed. If this was a half open connection and they were trying to explain this to her then she could have misunderstood. Otherwise…. well… I just don’t see where they get their information from. They’re connection is slow from what I hear but I don’t speak from my own experience, only from what I’ve heard from ex or current clients.

What would cause a one legged girl with cancer to pass out at a Halloween party full of people… could it be a complicated medical condition… could it have been alcohol? Or could it have happened moments after Stephenville Police Department stormed into a residence near Tarleton University campus and grabbed people inside physically after asking consent to search. They claimed that they were there because we had a girl passed out in the next room and there was an ambulence on the way… yeah that’s why we’re here… right. Good job they must teach you to be a horrible liar in the Police Academy because that girl was standing just before they came in… they claim they smelled “dope” in the bathroom after they already had consent to search… so of course none of you  hundred people here can use the restroom.

Now rather than make accusations let me make a point. How many of you have been to Bostock’s at peak hours when there is at least 100 people there and gone to the restroom? Okay there were about 100 people at this party and 1 bathroom. By “dope” I assume they mean the Cannabis plant otherwise known as “Marijuana” rather than the normal usage of the term for the area, which typically in the Erath County area the slang term “dope” is used to represent methamphetamines. Since it is well known to police officers that methamphetamines produce little if any odor it would have to be that smelly weed right?

Now, first of all, I personally saw that there was indeed someone coming from the bathroom however I was unable to confirm if it was more than one individual or not and I wouldn’t want to put out misinformation. But point being that although I in all honesty cannot prove that they WEREN’T smoking “dope” Stephenville Police obviously couldn’t prove that they WERE since they didn’t seem to be in any hurry to take them to jail for what they claim they already saw.

Second point of the evening is I personally heard them make the claim that they were there because there was a girl unconscious in the bedroom and someone had called the ambulence. Well, she was fine when I first saw them come in flashing badges. I don’t know how the hell I could have been so mistaken thinking that she was standing right next to me handing me a jello shot when they came in. Silly me! Of course that wasn’t her running in a little gothic girl dress with a dead bunny rabbit… that had to have been someone else entirely. Because, they say she was in the bedroom unconcious.

A First Hand Account
What I had the priviledge of seeing first hand, was that I got  pulled aside physically by the collar of my coat by an officer “Where do you think you’re going buddy?!”. Well of course I wasn’t given a chance to explain or answer it was more of a statement than a question he just wanted to see my ID. So I pulled out my wallet to get it out… okay nope not that ID… hold on what’s that? As he snatches the card from my hand before I can place it back into my wallet. “That’s my friends ID, she’s here somewhere, she was right here just a second ago” I stuttered. “Well, I’m going to need you to stick around because if we can’t find her then you’re in a lot of trouble.”

Okay this is great, so I start looking for her amongst the hundred or so people at this party as they corral us out the front door to sit on the steps. Knowing I’m going to have to use the restroom very soon I asked the officer politely if I could please use the restroom first. Knowing the answer would probably be “no” I even added they can check me first I just need to go! Well the answer was “No, there were people smoking dope in the bathroom.” That’s interesting, I don’t believe that for a moment but that’s just me I could be wrong but I already made my point above. It would just be too obvious at a party that size for people to be doing that in the only restroom at that entire party filled with people from Bostock’s who were already drunk before they even came to the party. It wasn’t a rave or any kind of party involving drugs, it was a Halloween party for the tenant of the residence to ask his girlfriend to marry him in front of everyone at the party from Bostock’s and Universal Tatoos as well as college students. This was not a highschool party but an adult party on halloween near Tarleton University.

From what I have heard they had consent to search, mind you second hand information since I have not been able to talk directly with the people involved in this part of the events of the night. But if that were true, then why was it neccessarry to for the rest of these events to take place, and for them to give lies as excuses for their presence? “Do you know why we’re here? Did you know you have a girl unconcious in the next room?”  they barked at the room of people exiting out the front door. That I DID hear and I know that that the girl wasn’t the reason for them being there because that was the girl who’s ID I had who had been standing right next to me when they came in.

Now let me give you a little information on this girl, she has a lot of medical problems, a missing limb, one kidney, anxiety, nearly died of cancer 3 times,  not to mention all the less obvious things that would cross someones mind who see’s this girl unconcious in the floor things such as kidney function and how her body doesn’t operate normally because of the Chemotherapy that kills you while it kills the cancer. If you don’t know anything about Chemotherapy look it up. The way surviving cancer using Chemo is this, they pump your body full of poison. This poison is going to kill the cancer while simulatneously killing you. If the cancer doesn’t kill you, and the poison doesn’t kill you, congratulations you are a cancer survivor.

So before I had been turned aside by the officer who came in the rear entrance I had been telling her to go out the back way so she didn’t have a panic attack or any problem arising from her medical conditions. Of course it looks like I’m trying to escape the only issue with that theory is there is only one entrance… two if you count the low gate type fence but both are at the front of the property, not the back. And at least to my knowledge there is no rear exit just a tall fence. So I suppose I was going to strap a one legged girl to my back and scale a fence and then make a mad dash for safety? No, I’m not James Bond I was going to walk out the back entrance of the house walk towards the front and calmly sit down. Instead I was harrassed upon the officer entering and after all is said and done the very person I was trying to get outside is the girl lying unconcious in the next room. She was fine before they got there, and suddenly she is unconcious in the next room after seeing my get grabbed around the collar and drug aside by an officer. I still don’t know what happened to cause her to pass out. I know they broke little things under her nose to make sure she wasn’t faking it. I know that they brought me in to positively identify her, I know they found the girl who’s ID I had, so at least I’m not going to jail on a felony charge of possessing a fraudulent ID or whatever the charge would be. If anyone knows what charge that is let me know.

So I was escorted back outside after being completely shocked because what the hell could have happened in those 20 or so seconds between the time that I saw her and the time they announced that we had a girl unconcious in the next room? Did she have an anxiety attack? Is she okay? Did something shut down? Did she drink too much? Did someone hit her? They were after all checking to make sure she didn’t hit her head. Oh goody, look more charges on the newly engaged couple if she somehow had a knot on her head.

The police did the primary basics of their job very well, they maintained a commanding presence and successfully crashed a huge Halloween engagement party. Created a situation which ended up with a girl unconcious on a stretcher being taken to the emergency room. And a newly engaged couple humiliated publicly and in possession of fresh new crisp tickets compliments of SPD and I still haven’t recieved my license back yet. Time to take a new picture

And as they carried the girl out on the stretcher the new bride to be stated out loud “I just wish one of you would congratulate me at least!” They wouldn’t even congratulate her on getting engaged. I guess they weren’t joking when they stated in front of the whole party that they weren’t in a good mood. Get the sand out of your vagina, they had an engagement party. The one girl that was underage was scared unconcious by a gustapo style runnin’ with the PD minus the gun display and mass hysteria. Was it neccessarry to engage in physical contact with the people attending the party and cooperating fully as far as I could see myself.

They did arrest one person for “resisting” or some other excuse they put on the paper when they took him in. I saw the whole thing, he didn’t resist at all… in fact he said it’s cool if they want to arrest him. “If that’s what they want to do” while putting his hands behind his back. Yeah, that’s resistance. No it’s not actually he just wouldn’t quit talking to them… politely I might add. He wasn’t beligerant and drunk and I would love for any other witnesses to put what they saw down. But one thing I’m sure of they arrested him for resisting something and he didn’t resist anything but the urge to talk to them even though they are yelling at him to “shut up.” I wish I had a video camera to put that on Youtube, so there couldn’t be any contest to what happened that night. But I’m sure if I did the good old Stephenville Police would cover for their boys and take that tape if I didn’t make it out before they noticed.

Unfortunately I had no camera only my eyes, and they will always use the same excuse the hospital did when it was brought up that there was a bruise that wasn’t there before she entered the hospital on her  upper left arm. You know.. the flabby part of your arm where the nerves are…. so you can twist to make sure they’re not concious and faking it. That’s my outlook at it though, the little blue-green glowing things they use to make sure your not concious weren’t enough they had to abuse her too. The mother brought it up and the hospital stated simply that she was intoxicated and released her quickly afterward to her mother. What a crock of shit, her blood alcohol level was a whopping 2 times the legal limit. People drive safely on more than that, not that they should but it happens all the time. So they are trying to claim she was suffering from Acute Alchohol Poisoning because her kidney function was high at 1.9 because a normal kidney functions at 0.6 however her single kidney functions at 1.6 so it wasn’t high given the data on her medical records. Which Harris Methodist Hospital has complete access to. Her potassium level was low still not enough to assume the diagnosis that it was alchohol poisoning given her medical history. They used alchohol as the excuse in my opinion and if anyone with a medical background could elaborate please feel free to otherwise I will update this with medical data from a reputable site regarding the amount of intoxication required to shut down the body into unconciousness and although I don’t have a medical degree I’d bet money that it takes more than twice the legal limit to make you unconcious.

In my opinion…

If any of you play mobsters please send me an add: http://myspace.com/byronthurman

Okay first things first there are 3 types of accounts when you play mobsters, each one gives you a little bit of an advantage while you play but for the most part they all have their benefits and it depends a lot on what type of strategy you will use.

The first method that I personally used is travel up the ranks quickly doing missions… this is fine but I missed out on a lot of other ways to make cash on mobsters such as bounty hunting and fighting. You can really make a lot more money once you realize how much money you can make just fighting. Your resources get stretched more thin but you come up faster, at least that is my theory. I’m about to set up my third account. It’s going to be thenewvirus.com or something as similar as I can get for promotion and I’m going to try to really make some money in the game. The Godfather will be proud.

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Hitwise US - Top 20 Websites - October, 2008

This list features the most popular websites based on US Internet usage for October, 2008, ranked by market share of visits across all Hitwise industries.

Note - the Hitwise data featured is based on US market share of visits, which is the percentage of online traffic to the domain or industry, from the Hitwise sample of 10 million US Internet users. Hitwise measures more than 1 million unique websites on a daily basis, including sub-domains of larger websites. Hitwise categorizes websites into industries on the basis of subject matter and content, as well as market orientation and competitive context.

Source - Hitwise - October, 2008 - based on market share of visits.

Mmmmm public information tastes yummy… and I present to you….

Barack Obama’s Attorney Registration.

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If you are online, there is a good chance that you will be infected sooner or later, particularly if you have no protection on your computer. But protection always costs money or does it? There is free and effective virus and Spyware protection just for the asking.

Tips:

There are virus, AdWare and Spyware protection software on the Internet that are as good or even better than the pricey ones and they are totally free.

There is no such thing as being lucky on the internet when it comes to virus infections. If you are not protected, you will be infected sooner or later.

No one utility can detect all the Malware threats out there. Sometimes it take more than one to get a reasonable level of protection. I personally use I paid utility and three free ones.

To find a free anti virus, anti Spyware and AdWare utility, do a search on your favorite search engine for “free virus protection software” or “free Spyware protection software”. Read the entries returned by the search and choose the one that most closely match what you are looking for. For our purpose, we will choose Avast Home Edition.

Click to go over to Avast Home page. Another place where I find useful software for free is www.download.com Simply browsed to download.com and do a search for the particular application that you are looking for and download from their site or any of the mirror sites where your desired software resides. I usually prefer to download from sites resident in the US, Canada, Australia or UK.

Read their terms, click the “download link” to begin download.

Click “browse”, to navigate to the folder where you want Avast to be saved. Alternatively, you can save in default folder. But be sure to note the name and location of the folder so you can find it later.

When download is complete, navigate to the folder where you saved Avast and double click to open it. Inside the folder is the “Setup” or application program. Double click “Setup” to start installation.

Click “Run” when prompted. The “Installation Wizard” starts up.

When installation wizard starts, read the instructions and click “next”

Browse to the destination folder of your choice or click “next” to accept default.

Configure your installation or accept default. Always accept default if you don’t really know what you are doing. Accept installation info by clicking “next”. Installation begins.

When installation is done, you will see a screen that says “Finish and Restart now or Restart later”.

Choose Restart now so you won’t forget. You computer restarts and Avast automatically begins a full system scan of your computer.

If for any reason you do not have time now to go through a scan, choose “Restart later” from the previous screen. This allows you to finish what you are doing and Avast will initiate a scan next time your system is rebooted.

Now you are ready to start using your Free Avast Home Edition to protect your computer. You can tweak the Avast setting to suite your personal needs.

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Hacker Folklore

This appendix contains several legends and fables that illuminate the meaning of various entries in the lexicon.

The Meaning of ‘Hack’

“The word hack doesn’t really have 69 different meanings”, according to MIT hacker Phil Agre. “In fact, hack has only one meaning, an extremely subtle and profound one which defies articulation. Which connotation is implied by a given use of the word depends in similarly profounds ways on the context. Similar remarks apply to a couple of other hacker words, most notably random.”

Hacking might be characterized as ;an appropriate application of ingenuity’. Whether the result is a quick-and-dirty patchwork job or a carefully crafted work of art, you have to admire the cleverness that went into it.

An important secondary meaning of hack is ‘a creative practical joke’. This kind of hack is easier to explain to non-hackers than the programming kind. Of course, some hacks have both natures; see the lexicon entries for pseudo and kgbvax. But here are some examples of pure practical jokes that illustrate the hacking spirit:

In 1961, students from the Caltech (California Institute of Technology, in Pasadena) hacked the Rose Bowl football game. One student posed as a reporter and ‘interviewed’ the director of the University of Washington card stunts (such stunts involve people in the stands who hold up colored cards to make pictures). The reporter learned exactly how the stunts were operated and also that the director would be out to dinner later.

While the director was eating, the students (who called themselves the ‘Fiendish Fourteen’) picked a lock and stole a blank direction sheet for the card stunts. They then had a printer run off 2300 copies of the blank. The next day they picked the lock again and stole the master plans for the stunts – large sheets of graph paper colored in with the stunt pictures. Using these as a guide, they made new instructions for three of the stunts on the duplicated blanks. Finally, they broke in once more, repolacing the stolen master plans and substituting the stack of diddled instruction sheets for the original set.

The result was that three of the pictures were totally different. Instead of ‘WASHINGTON’ the word ‘CALTECH’ WAS FLASHED. Another stunt showed the word ‘HUSKIES’, the Washington nickname, but spelled it backwards. And what was supposed to have been a picture of a husky instead showed a beaver. (Both Caltech and MIT use the beaver – nature’s engineer – as a mascot.)

After the game, the Washington faculty athletic representative said: Some thought it ingenious’ others were indignant.” The Washington student body president remarked: “No hard feelings, but at the time it was unbelievable. We were amazed”

This is now considered a classic hack, particularly because revising the direction sheets constituted a form of programming.

Here is another classic hack:

On November 20, 1982, MIT hacked the Harvard-Yale football game. Just after Harvard’s second touchdown against Yale, in the first quarter, a small black ball popped up out of the ground at the 40-yard line, and grew bigger, and bigger, and bigger. The letters ‘MIT’ appeared all over the ball. As the players and officials stood around gawking, the ball grew to six feet in diameter and then burst with a bang and a cloud of white smoke.

The “Boston Globe” later reported: “If you want to know the truth, MIT won The Game.”

The prank had taken weeks of careful planning by members of MIT’s Delta Kappa Epsilon fraternity. The device consisted of a weather balloon, a hydraulic ram powered by Freon gas to lift int out of the ground, and a vacuum-cleaner motor to inflate it. They made eight separate expeditions to Harvard Stadium between 1am and 5am, locating an unused 110-volt circuit in the stadium ad running buried wires from the stadium circuit to the 40-yard line, where they buried the balloon device. When the time came to activate the devcice, two fraternity members had merely to flip a circuit breaker and push a plug into an outlet.

This stunt had all the earmarks of a perfect hack: surprise, publicity, and the ingenious use of technology, safety, and harmlessness. The use of manual control allowed the prank to be timed so as not to disrupt the game (it was set off between plays, so the outcome of the game would not be unduly affected). The perpetrators had even thoughtfully attached a note to the balloon explaining that the device was not dangerous and contained no explosives.

Harvard president Derek Bok commented: “They have an awful lot of clever people down there at MIT, and they did it again.” President Paul E. Gray of MIT said: “There is absolutely no thruth to the rumor that I had anything to do with it, but I wish there were.”

The hacks above are verifiable history; they can be proved to have happened. Many other classic-hack stories from MIT and elsewhere, though retold as history, have the characteristics of what Jan Brunvand has called ‘urban folklore’. Perhaps the best known of these is the legend of the infamous trolley-car hack, an alleged incident in which engineering students are said to have welded a trolly car to its tracks using thermite. Numerous versions of this have been recorded from the 1940’s to the present, most set at MIT but at least one very detailed version set at CMU.

Brian Leibowitz has researched MIT hacks both real and mythical extensively; the interested reader is referred to his delightful pictorial compendium “The Journal of the Institute for Hacks, Tomfoolery, and Pranks” (MIT Museum, 1990; ISBN 0-917027-03-5).

Finally, here is a story about one of the classic computer hacks.

Back in the mid-1970’s several of the system support staff at Mororola discovered a relatively simple way to crack system security on the Xerox CP-V timesharing system. Through a simple programming strategy, it was possible for a user program to trick the system into running a portion of the program in ‘master mode’ (supervisor state), in which memory protection odes not apply. The program could then polke a large calue into its ‘privilege level’ byte (normally file-management system, patch the system monitor, and do numerous other interesting things. In short, the barn door was wide open.

Motorola quite properly reported this problem to Xerox via an offical ‘level 1 SIDR’ (a bug report with an intended urgency of ‘needs to be fixed yesterdat’). Bewcause the text of each SIDR was entered into a database that couod be videwed by quite a number of people, Mortorola followed the approved procudure: they simply reported the problem as ‘Security SIDR;, and attached all of the necessary documentation, ways-to-reproduce, etc.

The CP-V people at Xerox sat on their thumbs; they either didn’t realize the severity of the problem, or didn’t assign the necessary operating-system-staff resources to develop and distribute an offical patch.