Schneier on Security

Figureitout • February 7, 2013 9:47 PM

"So, what you do for living?"
--"Flip stolen Tide on the black market."
"Ok..."

@Nick P
--I have to use *way too expensive* special facial scrub made w/ ingredients from the Dead Sea (for my crappy skin) that I can only get from an Israeli mall stand, company is DSC. They list the ingredients, but obtaining "Polyquaternium 7" and other exquisite chemicals aren't in my capability set. Israeli chemists have succeeded, unless they copied.

RE: Sensitive Skin: I think too many dryer sheets or too much soap irritates too; had some problems too. The drying process should be much less energy intensive...

Any kids from the 90's here? Beanie babies were the rage (what a scam), and even though I had more of the worthless bags of beans than I needed (and a book predicting their future value to ^3-10 fold); I remember feeling let down by the fakers getting in on the hype my parents bought me. How hard would it have been to counterfeit the fur-patterns and stupid "Ty" tags that supposadly gave these bags of fur-covered plastic beans so much value? My family and many others got played so hard...my parents should have just said what they usually said of my requests, "No." :)

Figureitout • February 8, 2013 3:14 AM

@anony
--Haha, yes I know. "You're such a genius." Both my mother and father's residence had/has a clothes line (almost used to get "clothes-lined" by it when I was a kid). My mother's property has been sold since her M/F are both dead. Society is such that if I did that in the "front yard" these days I'd look like a "loony". You know my father used to take sponge baths until around high school by the fireplace (he was that poor). No one would believe the stories he's told me, because he could own any little "sh*t talker" physically and technically. He told me he'd spend around 10 hours a day on the radio(in the summer), comms/ with the world w/ morse. He'd make most modern people look like very weak people; I can't say what all he's done. He's now one of the most productive, rich person you will ever meet. Give him enough time(like a week or 2), he can fix almost any homebrew problem. My mother grew up in a house at least 1/6th the size of the house I'm in. My dad was very poor and has become more a man than I will ever be; but I won't be someone to completely overlook because...well I'm his only offspring that will be an engineer; and that means I'm gonna learn some secrets.