You morons. I WAS a weapon. By the end of my training I would have have killed a bus full of nuns and orphans with a spoon, if so ordered. I wouldn't have cared about nationality or skin color or if they were good looking, just if they were the designated target or not. That's the wonder of intense psychological conditioning. Helsinki Syndrome isn't just a made up thing, it's the core of all intense military conditioning programs, and it sinks in even worse if you have Asperger Syndrome. It took me years to readjust to civilian life after separation.from the service. How did they de-militarize me? Gave me a two minute briefing about how I would be charged and tried by a military court if I talked about any classified actions I'd been a part of. Period. They stamped my paperwork, gave me my final paycheck, and said I had 24 hours to get off post.

If there had been any hardware installed in me, they would have removed it or destroyed it, and only left something functioning (at bare minimal levels) if it was life-critical. The hardware may be military, but the biological portion is under contract. A pretty nasty contract, but still a legal binding agreement. If they perform any "elective medical procedures" you can be sure that they'll have the DOD's ass covered, and yours will be flapping in the breeze. And before someone mentions it: Secret medical experiments on troops (and civilians) are a f*cking tradition,for the military. Laws won't change that. You think that breaking a few laws means anything to a corp of cold-blooded killers?

I use this stuff:
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I use it at work, home, in my portable gear, in projects, etc... I used it extensively when I was building a $100K test stand and needed to run bunched of wires and cables before zipping everything down. It's great for building prototypes, and I used quite a few when wiring up my home entertainment system in a "Metro" style rack. It let's me (or my wife) upgrade our gear and our system layout without any fuss. No cutting zip ties, no getting cut on zip ties, no having to go buy more zip ties.

You could also contact Monolithic Domes in Italy, TX. They practice what they preach, using concrete and steel domes for their factory buildings. They took a direct hit from an F3 tornado. They had the employees pull their cars inside, and no one even had chipped paint. They've made real strides in recent years to make their buildings blend in more with the surrounding architectures. They don't have to look like a 60's hippy commune.

I really don't understand why everyone is effectively saying, "fortified homes kill puppies!!" You guys LIKE running in the middle of the night to a shelter? Or waking up to find that a post came through the wall and killed your teen-aged daughter? I've always thought people who built little crackerbox houses were idiots. I know of AT LEAST one town in Kansas that had everyone still alive living in shipping containers for over a year because a tornado scraped the town off the earth, and they are just now finishing up infrastructure repairs to Joplin, MO after the tornado strike that ate a hospital and gutted the city. Before anyone says, "Well, they probably came off better financially after all the aid came in", I can definitively say that's crap. What aid money is out there is stretched to the limit with all the natural disasters happening, so you may not get any. When big disasters happen, it can ruin an insurance company to the point that they close their doors, and then no one gets paid. Besides, how much money would it take to let someone kill your little boy? Or your wife? Or you? How much are these lives worth to you?

I grew up in Tornado Alley in NE Texas. Our home was 1800 square feet with laminated floor beams on a full, reinforced basement on a hilltop. We eventually moved, selling the home to my uncle and his family. It's still a fortress, and helping members of the family sleep well when the tornado sirens go off.

I think that this is more a "proof of concept" for the METHOD, more than it was for making experimental UAVs. Just because it's old hat for you doesn't mean the sponsoring corporation doesn't need testing and trial runs made. This is fantastic for people that need to deal with "empirical data and experience", not theoretical. Theoretical extrapolation of technology won't convince the FAA to let you put your parts on a type-certified aircraft. FAA are mostly old engineers that don't trust new technology until it's been tested for about 20 years.

This. There is a reason markers are made of granite. A small, polished granite obelisk with her name and dates of birth and death, and maybe a small poem or a portrait on it would be small enough that you could keep it close to you but still last for a long time. It would also go well in a small "remembrance" flower garden.

Some of the "ghost lights" were also popular a few years ago: lithophanes CNC cut into Corian or plexiglass and lit by LEDs. Classy and small. Liable to last longer than you will.

It would make too much sense. The registrar marketing droids hadn't figured out who to bribe to force the change to the DNS standards. Or maybe they're thinking that it will be easier to do with the gradual acceptance of IPV6.

He's right. At one time, I "had a friend" that would have put a bullet through Assanges' head on "unofficial" orders. Government pukes play dirty by using guys like "my friend", and always have. If you think otherwise, you're a very naive person that thinks too well of the power-seeking people in government. Thank you for being like that. People like you actually try to make the world a nice place to live in.

Odd. This is what happened when Microsoft was hired to create an OS for IBM called OS/2. They developed it for a couple of years, learned what to put in and what to leave out, all on IBMs dime. Then shortly after they declined to work on OS/2 anymore they had a huge release of their new product, "Windows". Why IBM didn't smash little Billy Gates into the f*cking pavement, and fire his mother (who I heard was an IBM exec), I'll never understand.

"I imagine" that there are enough cranky old people that still believe in violence that the Federal Judge had better get some more people on her security team.

I'm sure that they would long for that, until someone shows up and starts doing it to them again.

I'll bet their stories of how "everything was so much better under the old regime" would change awfully quick when someone shows up raping, killing, robbing, and beating the hell out of them for daring to even look at their betters.

Out of all the places I've worked, the ones that I loved the most, were the ones that SHOWED you that they cared about you, that kept you informed about the operations of the business and where everything stood. Where they kept a positive outlook, even when times got rough. They did that stupid "It's an opportunity to excel!", but weren't stupid about it. I missed that kind of workplace for a long time, so when I found this one, I actually turned down a couple better offers to join them.

Wow. In my experience the universities, colleges, and technical schools I've seen all have a mission to suck as much money out of their students loan packages as they possibly can, no matter what their "mission statement" says. Other than that, I generally agree with your post, especially about management undervaluing their employees. I once pointed out to a middle-manager that by only focusing on hiring new kids, without spending a dime on employee retention, they had let $1.8 million dollars walk out their door in the last two years. I had documentation to prove it. I think he actually crapped himself. Then I'm sure he shredded the document, because the company didn't change any policies until they went into receivership and were bought by a company with some smart managers.

Money isn't everything. Yes, I said it. I'm self-taught and degreed in electronics, mechanics, and IT, and I turned down two competing (much better paying) offers to go to work for the startup I'm with now. Why? APPRECIATION. They showed the few employees they had that they were appreciated and their suggestions were seriously considered. A year later, the pay is still pretty low and the benefits are okay but nothing special, but the appreciation is still there.

My first time to college, the Intro to Business instructor pointed out to us that the primary motivator for CEO's and entrepreneurs is money, but for employees it's actually appreciation. Business owners look at things with dollar signs in their eyes, and it blinds them. They think and act like mercenaries, and are surprised when they don't get any loyalty from their employees? I try to stay away from idiots like that.

Got a new system, and it still infected? Hmm... Did he re-use any of his peripherals? I've actually seen a mouse retrofitted with a flashdrive, and used with U3 to install scanner software and collect the data, then the hacker would come back later and swap it for a normal mouse.

What personnel are involved? It's starting to sound like the punk may have access to the hardware. He may be an employee or family member.

I think your hacker is tricky, but not necessarily good. He's found a method that you haven't looked for yet.

Test him. Build another system, but put it inside a VM on a linux machine. Take a snapshot before you expose it on the network, and then wait to see if he infects it. Once he does, take another snapshot, and then do a diff between the two VMs. That should point out where his attack vector is coming from. A SQUID proxy on the host machine will point out what ports he's using, so you can see what probable services are in use.

My last suggestion: your punk may be one of the developers of the software your client has to run. Even devs go bad. The software may have a back door. He may have to look at alternative software to get his work done.

Years ago a friend ran into the "gnat's ass" virus. It embedded itself into everything: executables, the MBR, even the BIOS. Wiping the machine didn't dislodge it. If your client got infected by a variant, he's got problems. At the time, my buddy had to boot and run Norton from a rescue disk with the /force option on, and even then had to re-start it 7 times before it finally got that crap out of his BIOS. You may have to swap the motherboard and HDs to get a grip against this monster. Don't forget to check any other machines and storage devices on his network, including his printers.

Check to see if the router has had any firmware updates lately, then download and re-flash it yourself. You might also setup a SQUID proxy server in front of your clients machine. That should give you a chance to see if the attack is being initiated from outside and coming through the router, or if a bot is opening the door for him. It's going to be a game of compartmentalization and bug stomping. Anything not being monitored and guaranteed clean is suspect.