I swear by Lee jeans, but to be very specific, the Lee 'Brooklyn' model which I have only found for purchase in Europe. Comparable 'loose' jeans, (not really loose on biker thighs) from Lee in the U.S. are slightly different, and not nearly as nice IMHO. I wish I knew where to buy them in the U.S. It seems companies like Jockey and Lee have totally different products for the E.U. and U.S. Lee used to have a 'Portland' that was even better than the 'Brooklyn', but that was years ago.

What was a most-pleasant surprise for me was to discover my 4" Nokia N9 fits perfectly tucked into the right-hand 'change' pocket. Really perfect and super comfortable, and it still leaves the larger right-hand pocket free and useful; and the phone doesn't roll around in it, look weird, etc. No one can even tell I have a phone on me. The U.S. version of the closest Lee jeans for me (not sure what the model is called) leaves the phone sticking about halfway up and out and not nearly as nice or comfortable. Probably for this reason alone, I'll stick with 4" phone factor, but there's other reasons too, like I plan to keep the N9 for a long time.

It could've been an accidental overdose, although reports from The Prosecution regarding the video evidence seem to indicate the alleged and easily identifiable tattooed hooker was rather cold-hearted given the accident/situation, and more than willing to walk away from all of it entirely, with the curtains drawn once it all went down, perhaps even with some sense of thrill given her past praise published on the internet for the TV series known as 'Dexter'. She could have looked around for a phone somewhere and at the very least dialed 911 as quickly as possible.

If this case was a result of Google Exec stress, then it has to due with the levels of competition not just in order to compete and to survive within Silicon Valley, but also the extremely high cost simply trying to live to get a job in the first place, and then subsequently have anything close to an actual life there. Some will survive and survive very well, and others will not. Which is what this story is all about. Stress is stress after all.

I think Charles Dickens even wrote a book on the subject called a Tale of Two Cities. Economists have termed this phenomenon as economic disparity; which of course drives competition.

But a psychotic self-absorbed young hooker might also be the predominant story here.

Edward Snowden certainly has name recognition in the security space, which in branding terms equals big money. He's got his share of wild and crazy times overseas doing various hijinx not always on the up and up, sorta just like other security specialists of an earlier generation. Sure, in terms of branding alone Snowden could easily become the next McAfee, and he's still very young!

And isn't as if they weren't both wanted on international warrants either; and street cred. does sell sneakers.

Here's the link to the blog post, that didn't make it into my previous reply: https://www.adayinthelifeof.nl.... It clarifies several reasons for using the standard port 22 for ssh.

Yes, you are right and I stand corrected. In fact late yesterday, I happened upon a blog post teaching me the same explanation you gave me just now:

when we start SSH on port 22, we know for a fact that this is done by root or a root-process since no other user could possibly open that port. But what happens when we move SSH to port 2222? This port can be opened without a privileged account, which means I can write a simple script that listens to port 2222 and mimics SSH in order to capture your passwords. And this can easily be done with simple tools commonly available on every linux system/server. So running SSH on a non-privileged port makes it potentially LESS secure, not MORE.

Thank you for your important clarification regarding my security practices.

Start your security process by not using port 22 for ssh, and instead using some random, legal 5-digit port number. Then block IPs from anyone doing a port scan. Also, setup port-knocking prior to any authorized user even starting to login using ssh. Of course certificates should only be used, not passwords for authorization. That should go a long way to keep the bad guys out.

Also bots tend to have the same user-agent strings, which tend to be obscure in and amongst themselves. These obscure, identifying user-agents can also be blocked, once identified.

To read and actually make sense of machine logs, the free ELK Stack rocks! Here's a guide to setup your own machine, for the purpose of reading logs in a very user-friendly way.

Replying to myself here. I was being sarcastic dammit. 'Separatists', in the most-classic sense, typically don't have such sophisticated weaponry or manpower at their disposal, when they 'rebel'. Duh.

I even cited with photos of what a BUK missile battery looks like. Please don't think I'm some sort of anarchist, okay?

Up until this period of time, airspace at that altitude, over this region, wasn't in any way shape or form considered to be a war-zone, I can assure you. Or else that commercial flight would not have been there in the first place. I do not believe this particular international commercial flight up there was something like an isolated event either. Now your point in retrospect perhaps...

That rag tag militia got lucky it seems, with a direct hit no less. Those light ammunitions gathered from round the house, what the odd Klashnikov and what have you.

Speculation at this point is this is what those rag-taggers managed to bring it down with: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/new...