Possible Malware Alert

http://www.aikenstandard.com/story/V5114-AP-US-InternetWoes-4thLd-Writethru-07-05-0860
Discusses a malware that was spread to several hundred thousand
computers before the FBI caught the hackers who made it.
This malware makes it so your computers information that is projected
through the internet has to go through a server these hackers ran(to
try and explain this in simple words), it has to do with DNS being
changed.
The FBI has control of this server, and has for a long time, but they
are planning on turning it off on Monday, when they do this, if you
have this particular malware, you will no longer be able to connect to
the internet. The process you would have to go through to fix this
problem after Monday and get back online will be arduous.
The FBI directs people to this website http://www.dcwg.org  to check
if you have the malware.
Through that website they link you to http://www.dns-ok.us/ which will
check your computer for the malware. IF you do have the malware, there
is information on removal on the above site.

Anyway, just a friendly/concerned blog appeal to you guys to check you and
and your friends/families computers.
You don't have to trust me on this, google search it, do research, but
it is better to be safe than sorry in such circumstances.

HTML

So I am taking a class (I call it computers for idiots) at my newest college, that is a pre-req for the awesome classes I want to take so I can work on getting into a Masters program in GIS(or something along those lines). Anyhow, this classes week one assignment was 'make some screenshots and upload them to Filezilla' and I was thinking 'dear heavens how trivial, who can not do this? Well the fact that 60% of my classmates got a 70% of lower on this assignment answers my question. Well Assignment 2 is build a website in HTML. I honestly am not sure how this class is going to accomplish this. If they have issues taking screenshots and uploading them to Filezilla, how will they be able to build an HTML website? I use to build websites in the 90s/early 00s so this is trivial and childs play for me. I mainly am just obsessively adding underlayers of things to make it more beautiful.

Also, real questions on one of my quizzes.
If people really don't know the answers to these questions, they should go bury themselves in sand and die, because that is where they are at technology wise. Too far gone to recover.

These are used to express emotion in e-mail or Internet communications.

Question options:

	Different fonts
	Different colored fonts
	Emoticons
	Icons

A(n) ____ is application software that allows users to access and view Web pages.

Question options:

	reader
	browser
	host
	server

Books

"I havn't gotten around to that book"~Me
"From anyone else I would accept that excuse."~Boyfriend
*inquisitive look"
"You read like a mofo, it is just like, giant tome, lol, one day"~Boyfriend

Apparently my boyfriend thinks highly of my reading skills.

Shades of Grey:Chapters 2-8

Ok so this book kept me up all night last night, I kept wanting to read more.Well I did. It was good, until the sex scene. When they started having sex, well I have read better sex scenes in fanfiction.

Spoilers:

There is a scene where her best friend Jose trying to force himself on her, what is it about jerky best friend males forcing themselves on you? I had a guy friend do this to me in my first college experience and it is pretty traumatizing. You know what is more traumatizing, the ridiculous feeling in ones head that future moronic choices they make are somehow your fault because you did not give them what they wanted.

Kate: Kate seems awesome, it bothers me that Ana pities her after she has sex with Christians brother. A women who knows what she wants and takes it is top form in *my* book.

That being said, Christian has gone from perfect dom to needy and creepy, and the book is losing its appeal quickly now that they have had sex.

Shades of Grey, Chapter 1

Since I made a long rant about BDSM and this book, I decided to get a hold of a copy of Shades of Grey and start reading it for myself to scrutinize if it is indeed 'unhealthy' bdsm like some people have said.

So lets start with chapter 1. Spoilers ahead kids.
The book is written by a bristish lady about a Washington University lit student. It opens with the main character having self image problems, looking in a mirror, feeling inadequate and just going out the door anyway. She is on a quest for her ill roommate to give a millionaire executive a interview for their school newspaper. She drives to Seattle, and notices many sexy blonde secretaries (something many insecure girls notice). She has a very heated conversation and feels sexually attracted to the executive (who is late 20s), and they have a conversation about control. She makes ridiculous conclusions, and he actually describes what is considered in the BDSM community as a healthy dom perspective on life. He feels he has the power and knowledge to help lead people to their full potential, and that is how he runs his life and buisness. So far the only unwanted touching that seems to have happened is that he put her coat on her when she was leaving in a manner that is still considered gentlemanly.

So overall my opinion of chapter one is:
-Main character is relateable
-Main guy is pretty much text book ideal healthy dom
-Writing is far superior to Twilight
-I Want to read more....

Old and Entitled

Do you ever run into people who are old, and thus feel they are entitled to be dicks? People who believe they deserve extra respect just for being alive longer, not for special merit? Well today I ran into one of these people.

My job at 'undisclosed coffee shop' provides wireless for free TO OUR CUSTOMERS. There is a sign on the window offering 'free wifi', to portray this. Any sane person understand that if you are going to go to a coffee shop and use their wireless, you are expected to buy some, anything, to claim your right to be there. It is just a kind of 'street knowledge'
Well today an old man came into my shop, asked me about my menu, said he wanted a coffee and would be back later. He came back later today and sat down, and got out his Mac (don't get me started on my disgust of mac users) and asked me to help him connect to the internet. After spending 10 minutes explaining (and looking up mac tutorials on my work computer because fuck macs I am not going to waste my time learning how to use inferior hipster technology)  I finally get him set up with the internet, and I offer to get a coffee started for him (as we had discussed before) and he gruffly is like 'NO' and I thought 'well maybe he will order it later' and went about my business of running my shop. About half an hour later he makes a backhanded snarky comment and the music being 'stupid young people music' then later tells some misogynist joke about football which makes me want to snore.
So it comes close to close and I have just been slammed with my normal 'oh man the shop is closing in 30 minutes we ALL have to go NOW' crowd. I am cleaning up and tell the man we are closed. He looks at his clock and grumbles and super slowly starts packing up. I then say 'By the way, next time you come in I would like it if you purchased something, if you are going to sit here for hours...' And oh man the jerk exploded out of him. He started giving me lip about some made up in his head oregon law that if I have 'free wifi' he is entitled to use my internet without a purchase. To which I reply that we are a business and our free wifi is for CUSTOMERS not random smucks off the street(ok I implied the smucks part I don't have the gall or bad customer service/jerktude to actually say that out loud). Then he gives me some speech about 'knowing' one of my co-workers and how he had planned to come by for breakfast tomorrow(we are not open until noon good luck with that one). But god. The nerve. I was BEING POLITE. He was sucking up electricity, making requests and mooching our internet. How dare he be a jerk to me after all the effort I put into him when he gave me no tips and paid for nothing. If he comes in again without ordering I am accidentally going to block his IP and act like I am too stupid to know what is going on when he whines.

/end rant

Sexy Abuse vs. BDSM

I have noticed a very disturbing trend in novels that are popular (IE Twilight and 50 Shades of Grey)
in idolizing abusive relationships. Now, I have not read 50 shades of grey, and I probably should to make this judgement. But I have read Twilight, and through the bad spelling, errors in grammar and VERY DULL plot line one thing is clear to me. Bella is a broken little girl, she gets sexually assualted by Jacob (a line about him forcing a kiss on her against her will, and her deciding it is OK halfway through, that is not healthy!), she gets abused in every way possibly mentally by Edward. He isolates her from her friends, stalks her, talks down to her ect.

So this 50 shades of grey book is SUPPOSE to be BDSM, but let me say it is NOT an example of healthy bdsm relationships. The key ingredient in a Dom/sub relationship is trust. If for example, a guy has you tied up, and gagged and you are 100% under his control, you have to trust him to not do anything on your list of hard or even soft NO lines. In my past, I have had a guy take naked pictures without my consent, then try and manipulate(and initially succeeding) in convincing me I was ok with this. Nude pictures are a hard NO for me. I don't want nude pictures of me on the internet, I am NOT ok with people having nude pictures of me, and if I find anyone spreading nude pictures of me, they can bet I am taking them to court for it. If you find yourself being 'convinced' or 'talked' into doing things you are NOT ok with, it is time to get out of a relationship. If someone loves and cares about you, they won't push you into things you are not comfortable with. Because they are a respectful human being. BDSM is about people (like myself) who enjoy pain and power play setting up firm boundaries with someone they trust and playing out scenes under these fantasies and fetishes. You need to have a safe word, and there needs to be some physical gesture you can make if you are gagged. The MOMENT this motion is made your partner needs to stop. I have personally only used my safeword once, and it was a great moment to see my partner stop and turn from playfully aggressive to kind and concerned.

So remember this when you read books where men mentally dominate women(or physically) in an aggressive and unhealthy manner. Aggression is not healthy. Trust is.