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Wednesday, 13 June 2007

Who am I?

I google therefor I am.  But who am I.

On the Internet nobody knows you're a dog.  That's great. Anonymity is a wonderful thing that lets the truth be told without people being killed.  It also allows for identity theft.  Employs Google prospective employees to look into their past. What if someone with your name was arrested for drunk driving. How can you dis-claim stories using your name?

I've found ClaimID.com helps people simply and easily manage their online identity. You can claim things that are about or my yourself and deny things that have nothing to do with your or are false.  Here is who I am.

How many Internet logon ID's do you have? Do you have more then one to some sites? I do too. Do you use the same password for each? If you do your protection is only as good as the weakest of them. Do you use the same password for your bank as you do for your favorite blog?

If every website would use it, OpenID could end our password problems. OpenID is a free / Open protocol designed to manage authentication.  Here is how it works.

When you login to an site that uses OpenID it take you to your choice of websites to login.  For example, if I login to the OpenID Directory after clicking on login I type in mark.grennan.com. Whats on this page doesn't matter. What matters in in the header (not seen in your browser there is this string. <link rel="openid.server" href="http://openid.claimid.com/server" />. This send me to ClaimID's OpenID server and asks me my password. It then send me back to OpenID directory.

There is a great Video about OpenID on Google Video.

What makes OpenID good is it's simplicity. You control where your authentication is done and how. You can use a service like OpenID, CalimID or Verisign's Personal Identity Provider or you could create your own system that requiring all kinds info to authenticate you. If your logging into your bank type in the ID that redirects you to a high security level service.

Take control of your identity.
Last Updated ( Tuesday, 31 July 2007 )
 
Things I own
Monday, 04 June 2007

Or maybe I should say odd things I own.  I hereby clam owner ship of these things. 

The word (The ring left on a plasic bottle after you unscrew the lid.)

Hurstrea

 The Integers

7F F8 7A 0F 7B 92 A2 4D 7D 4E E0 4D 4D D6 E1 0E
and
75 FC A2 82 03 C3 A3 A2 31 D1 E5 53 66 0C A8 72

You can own your own integer at http://www.freedom-to-tinker.com/?p=1155

What is this about you ask? I think copyright and pattend laws have gone crazy. Companies are claming ownership of all kinds of things that should not be pattened or copyrighted.  And if they can do it so can I 

I'm tempted to get a very large disk array and fill it with large numbers and endless lists of non sence words and claim ownership of all of it in hole and in part. Then start scanning the internet for their use and send letters to anyone using them.

One example the crazy ownership of your stuff is your DNA.  Several companies own large portions of the human genome. One of these days you may receive a notice to seace and desist the use of it or start paying them money for it's license. 

Check out http://genome.ucsc.edu/cgi-bin/hgTracks

Another example is AAC clam on the integer

09 F9 11 02 9D 74 E3 5B D8 41 56 C5 63 56 88 C0

This number is used to decrypt DVD data and therefor their protected by the DCMA.  But how can someone own a number.  And, if they can own one why can't I?  I could use the number above as password to a system and make the same claims.

What if is number, translated into DNA sequences, was the same as part of the human geanome?

AAGCTGCTT___CTAACAACA

It's eazy to translate.  Go to http://www.roostersgreatfood.com/cgi-bin/dec.cgi

If you have ever read a copyright agrement you may have notice you are not allowed to translate their properity into any other form.  Now with this comes to numbers the posibilities are infonent.  I could XOR "Translate" this squence with almost any other number and still retrive the origonal number.  So would that not be promitted under the DCMA?

9F911029D74E35BD  Xored with
1234567890  =
9F91103BE3184D2D 

There you go... I've done it again.

UPDATE

I found this website today.  (http://intellectualweapons.com/index.htm ) Now people are advertising for you to find software bugs.  They will patend the solution to the bug and then when a companie patches them you get paid for them to use your idea. 
Last Updated ( Friday, 08 June 2007 )
 
Working at Dell
Wednesday, 23 May 2007
Everyone is asking me "what is like working at Dell" and "what is it like to work in a call center"?

First the fact that I can blog this is an vast improvement. When I worked at Hertz, my last job, I didn't blog about it directly because the work environment there was to political. Speak out to much and you might get lay-ed off! At Dell, everyone is open. Workers are allowed to express their options.

Second, I work in a support group, not a call center.  What's the difference? I have no time limits when talking to Dell customers. If it takes six hours to get a problem solved I can stay on the phone with the customer or even call the customer back. I know because I've had a six hour call. Helping people with their computer problems is nothing new to me. If you know me, you know I've been working with microcomputer before that name was coined.
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