Murphy's Law
January 7th 2007 20:02
NEWS:
In only the second reported computer hacking case in Venezuela, a 17 year old boy living in a poor neighborhood in Western Carabobo State has been detained by authorities after hacking into 23 different government web sites, including the Vice President’’s office.
The youth also hacked the investigative police and the national guard, as well as posting photos of Venezuela’’s President Hugo Chavez and Cuba’’s Fidel Castro.
Apparently he signed off on the photo-postings with the name ““J41ber”” and added his home telephone number. Reportedly, the boy was enrolled in a beginning computer science class and said he did the deed with the hopes of winning employment with the private communications company hosting the web sites.
Authorities are treating the actions as malicious and are pressing charges. The web sites are reported to be back to normal.
VIEWS:
A beginning computer science class? This writer has been using a computer for about 15 years, and I still have trouble with Ctrl/Alt/Delete. People, don’’t do this at home - this is not the way to impress potential employers.
NEWS:
Taha Abdul-Rahman 28, of Leumeah man NSW was in Central Local Court, charged with illegally obtaining and selling seven stolen rocket launchers to convicted murderer Adnan "Eddie" Darwiche in 2003 (who is serving two life sentences regarding a number of fatal shootings in Sydney’’s southwest).
Reportedly, a number of Sydney buildings, including the Lucas Heights nuclear reactor, a high rise near Hyde Park (the home base for American Express Australia), and other buildings housing US companies were the targets of the terrorists who obtained 5of the launchers from Darwiche.
VIEWS:
It seems that terrorists are everywhere these days. What ever happened to Rodney King’’s idea of all of us getting along. Rodney’’ vicious and unprovoked beating, you may remember, was caught on an amateur video and was very notorious at the time. This stuff is really getting scary!! Let’’s have some sanity.
NEWS:
Ethiopian and Somali troops are fighting against the Al Qaeda endorsed “Council of Islamic Courts militiamen” (read terrorists), who have captured a southern Somalia town after being driven out of the Somalian capital of Mogadishu.
Col. Barre "Hirale" Aden Shire, Somali Defense Minister, said the militiamen had dug in with their backs to the sea at Ras Kamboni at the southernmost tip of Somalia.
Shire said "Today we will launch a massive assault on the Islamic courts militias. We will use infantry troops and fighter jets. They have dug huge trenches around Ras Kamboni but have only two options: to drown in the sea or to fight and die."
United States Navy warships are patrolling off the coast of Somalia to prevent the militia’s escape by sea.
Meanwhile, at least 1person has been killed and 10 injured when Somalians took to the streets to protest the Ethiopian troop’s presence in Mogadishu after having ‘‘invaded’’ that city to oust the terrorists.
VIEWS: Interesting when terrorists do their work as a group rather than hard-to -find individuals. Let’’s hope they don’t learn the lesson.
Meanwhile, it is somewhat confusing: two countries fighting together to completely rid Somalia of the terrorists, and protests regarding Ethiopia’s presence.
CLICHE OF THE DAY:
“KEEP YOUR NOSE TO THE GRINDSTONE” means pay close attention and work hard.
This originated from the old flour mills where it was important that the grindstones be exactly the correct distant apart from each other: too far apart, and the flour was too coarse; too close together and the heat builds up and the flour burns.
“Keeping one’s nose to the grindstone” meant exactly what it said: While grinding the flour, one kept in that position so as to be able to smell when the flour started to burn, and the grindstone could then be adjusted.
JOKE OF THE DAY:
A man walks into the bar and stumbles up to the only other patron in the bar.
Man #1 asks if Man #2 would buy him a drink.
Man #2 obliges and starts a conversation with a question:
Q:“Where are you from?” -
A: “I’’m from Ireland”
next Q: ““What a coincidence, I’m also from Ireland - where in Ireland?” -
A:“Dublin”
next Question: “Another coincidence, I’m also from Dublin. What school did you go to?”
- Answer: ““St. Mary’’s - I graduated in 1962"
- next Q: ““Amazing I also graduated from St. Mary’’s in 1962 - what street did you live on?”
- A: ““I lived on ““Dublin Avenue”
next man #2 says ““I don’’t believe it. I also lived on Dublin Avenue.””
About then another customer entered the bar and asked the bartender ““What’’s been going on?””
The bartender answers: “Oh, nothing much. The O’Neill twins are drunk again.”
MURPHY’’S LAWS:
Ever wonder where the famous “Murphy’’s Laws” came from: seems in 1949 a Capt. Edward A. Murphy, an engineer working on an Air Force Project said of a technician "If there is any way to do it wrong, he'll find it."
The contractor’’s project manager wrote it down and started a list of what he called ““Murphy’’s Laws.””
There are 13 Original ““Murphy’’s Laws”” and many addendums. We will start with what we believe to be the original 13 and go from there next time. Here we go:
1. Nothing is as easy as it looks.
2. Everything takes longer than you think.
3. Anything that can go wrong will go wrong. (Probably the most widely known “Murphy’’s Laws.”)
4. If there is a possibility of several things going wrong, the one that will cause the most damage will be the one to go wrong. Corollary: If there is a worse time for something to go wrong, it will happen then.
5. If anything simply cannot go wrong, it will anyway.
6. If you perceive that there are four possible ways in which a procedure can go wrong, and circumvent these, then a fifth way, unprepared for, will promptly develop.
7. Left to themselves, things tend to go from bad to worse.
8. If everything seems to be going well, you have obviously overlooked something.
9. Nature always sides with the hidden flaw.
10. Mother nature is a bi-ch.
11. It is impossible to make anything foolproof because fools are so ingenious.
12. Whenever you set out to do something, something else must be done first.
13. Every solution breeds new problems.
In only the second reported computer hacking case in Venezuela, a 17 year old boy living in a poor neighborhood in Western Carabobo State has been detained by authorities after hacking into 23 different government web sites, including the Vice President’’s office.
The youth also hacked the investigative police and the national guard, as well as posting photos of Venezuela’’s President Hugo Chavez and Cuba’’s Fidel Castro.
Apparently he signed off on the photo-postings with the name ““J41ber”” and added his home telephone number. Reportedly, the boy was enrolled in a beginning computer science class and said he did the deed with the hopes of winning employment with the private communications company hosting the web sites.
VIEWS:
A beginning computer science class? This writer has been using a computer for about 15 years, and I still have trouble with Ctrl/Alt/Delete. People, don’’t do this at home - this is not the way to impress potential employers.
NEWS:
Taha Abdul-Rahman 28, of Leumeah man NSW was in Central Local Court, charged with illegally obtaining and selling seven stolen rocket launchers to convicted murderer Adnan "Eddie" Darwiche in 2003 (who is serving two life sentences regarding a number of fatal shootings in Sydney’’s southwest).
Reportedly, a number of Sydney buildings, including the Lucas Heights nuclear reactor, a high rise near Hyde Park (the home base for American Express Australia), and other buildings housing US companies were the targets of the terrorists who obtained 5of the launchers from Darwiche.
VIEWS:
It seems that terrorists are everywhere these days. What ever happened to Rodney King’’s idea of all of us getting along. Rodney’’ vicious and unprovoked beating, you may remember, was caught on an amateur video and was very notorious at the time. This stuff is really getting scary!! Let’’s have some sanity.
Ethiopian and Somali troops are fighting against the Al Qaeda endorsed “Council of Islamic Courts militiamen” (read terrorists), who have captured a southern Somalia town after being driven out of the Somalian capital of Mogadishu.
Col. Barre "Hirale" Aden Shire, Somali Defense Minister, said the militiamen had dug in with their backs to the sea at Ras Kamboni at the southernmost tip of Somalia.
Shire said "Today we will launch a massive assault on the Islamic courts militias. We will use infantry troops and fighter jets. They have dug huge trenches around Ras Kamboni but have only two options: to drown in the sea or to fight and die."
United States Navy warships are patrolling off the coast of Somalia to prevent the militia’s escape by sea.
Meanwhile, at least 1person has been killed and 10 injured when Somalians took to the streets to protest the Ethiopian troop’s presence in Mogadishu after having ‘‘invaded’’ that city to oust the terrorists.
VIEWS: Interesting when terrorists do their work as a group rather than hard-to -find individuals. Let’’s hope they don’t learn the lesson.
Meanwhile, it is somewhat confusing: two countries fighting together to completely rid Somalia of the terrorists, and protests regarding Ethiopia’s presence.
CLICHE OF THE DAY:
“KEEP YOUR NOSE TO THE GRINDSTONE” means pay close attention and work hard.
This originated from the old flour mills where it was important that the grindstones be exactly the correct distant apart from each other: too far apart, and the flour was too coarse; too close together and the heat builds up and the flour burns.
“Keeping one’s nose to the grindstone” meant exactly what it said: While grinding the flour, one kept in that position so as to be able to smell when the flour started to burn, and the grindstone could then be adjusted.
JOKE OF THE DAY:
A man walks into the bar and stumbles up to the only other patron in the bar.
Man #1 asks if Man #2 would buy him a drink.
Man #2 obliges and starts a conversation with a question:
Q:“Where are you from?” -
A: “I’’m from Ireland”
next Q: ““What a coincidence, I’m also from Ireland - where in Ireland?” -
A:“Dublin”
next Question: “Another coincidence, I’m also from Dublin. What school did you go to?”
- Answer: ““St. Mary’’s - I graduated in 1962"
- next Q: ““Amazing I also graduated from St. Mary’’s in 1962 - what street did you live on?”
- A: ““I lived on ““Dublin Avenue”
next man #2 says ““I don’’t believe it. I also lived on Dublin Avenue.””
About then another customer entered the bar and asked the bartender ““What’’s been going on?””
The bartender answers: “Oh, nothing much. The O’Neill twins are drunk again.”
MURPHY’’S LAWS:
Ever wonder where the famous “Murphy’’s Laws” came from: seems in 1949 a Capt. Edward A. Murphy, an engineer working on an Air Force Project said of a technician "If there is any way to do it wrong, he'll find it."
The contractor’’s project manager wrote it down and started a list of what he called ““Murphy’’s Laws.””
There are 13 Original ““Murphy’’s Laws”” and many addendums. We will start with what we believe to be the original 13 and go from there next time. Here we go:
1. Nothing is as easy as it looks.
2. Everything takes longer than you think.
3. Anything that can go wrong will go wrong. (Probably the most widely known “Murphy’’s Laws.”)
4. If there is a possibility of several things going wrong, the one that will cause the most damage will be the one to go wrong. Corollary: If there is a worse time for something to go wrong, it will happen then.
5. If anything simply cannot go wrong, it will anyway.
6. If you perceive that there are four possible ways in which a procedure can go wrong, and circumvent these, then a fifth way, unprepared for, will promptly develop.
7. Left to themselves, things tend to go from bad to worse.
8. If everything seems to be going well, you have obviously overlooked something.
9. Nature always sides with the hidden flaw.
10. Mother nature is a bi-ch.
11. It is impossible to make anything foolproof because fools are so ingenious.
12. Whenever you set out to do something, something else must be done first.
13. Every solution breeds new problems.
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