Innomen

Tiny and Metal Wasp

This little guy was crawling around on the intake on my pool, and he/she struck me as super adorable. I actually said out loud when I reviewed this photo “OOOO Tiny!”

This is the luckiest shot I’ve yet taken, he/she is about a millisecond from lift off.

Just sharing. 🙂

Jessica’s Contribution

My friend Jessica was kind enough to promote me with a dedicated post which contained an extremely flattering assessment of both my work and my person. http://therandomworldofjessica.blogspot.com/2011/04/today-friend-of-mine-gets-honor-of.html

So I felt it was only fitting that I do the same. Fortunately for her I actually have some rather high opinions of her person and her work. If I did not, I would be obligated to either say nothing, or as always be honest about a negative opinion.

I think the best way for me to approach this would be as I approach a debate as that’s the style of writing I am accustomed to, only instead of arguments, I’ll add commentary.

“Today, a friend of mine gets the honor of being Lafango’s ‘Stage of the day’. “

Eh, probably more like random prize, than honor. But yeah.

“Innomen has had his blog for quite some time now, and regularly writes about topics that, maybe, you or I might not be bold enough to put what we really think for the world to see.”

Courage is action in the presence of fear. I don’t fear speaking my mind on these topics, thus I am not courageous or bold. I just feel like I have to, and besides I know my blog isn’t very popular anyway so I feel very safe in speaking out. It’s kind of like being brave, in your own kitchen. 🙂

“I have been friends with innomen since my teenage years, and have got the pleasure of getting his big personality in full force (*cough* whether I liked it or not).”

So true. Sorry about that. I still do it too, I can’t help it. Poor Jimmy and Crystal dropped by the other day and I instantly launched into an hour long lecture about the problems with representative democracy. Bet it’s weeks or more before I see them again 😛

“…willing to listen to just about anything you have to say, just make sure you can handle his side of it.”

Also true. I don’t need or even want everyone to be like me. If everyone was like me we’d all be dead in a year. I lack MANY essential skills, but I like to think I have a few that others lack. This is true of most people and it is why as a group we are so good at surviving. Let’s just hope the forces that attack such diversity, in favor of encouraging a profitable and pliant homogeneity, fall victim to their own inflexibility before they doom the rest of us.

All I want is for people to have the data they need to make informed decisions, and for them to be as happy and healthy as they wish to be so long as the cost of that happiness and health doesn’t unduly deprive others of the same.

“Also, check out his blog, it has some really interesting stuff in it:”

If this is what happens when my friends get blogs, I wish they’d all get one, diversity or not hehe.

Her blog is nice as well. As she accurately puts it, she is using “her powers for good.” I know for a fact she is a good mother and a kind person. Her content is already well beyond the average for such a new voice, in an entirely new (to her) medium.

I expect great things from her in the future. Here is the root of her blog. http://therandomworldofjessica.blogspot.com

Anti Virus Community Creates False Positives For Fun and Profit

Update: Another example: http://www.sevenforums.com/music-pictures-video/39095-animated-gifs-windows-photo-viewer-5.html

I’ve always believed in fair use. And as such I often acquire the “warez” community versions of software I legally own because they often have abilities (such as portability) the “legitimate” versions lack. Considering I own the licenses to the relevant software I consider this to be squarely in the fair use category.

In doing this I often have encountered worms and other malware in keygens. But after a while you get a feel for what is obviously fake, used to spread bad code, and what seems like false positives.

Well, I found a case in point. An instance of strong evidence that the commercial AV community is abusing our trust in order to police a Corporate agenda.

If one runs “Office 2010 Toolkit and EZ-Activator”

Instantly MSEA balks. Crying “severe threat” and I couldn’t help but add in my mind “… to our pocket book.” Which of course is itself a fallacy. Piracy no more harms the software industry’s earnings than libraries and xerox machines destroy book sales. People who pirate do so because they are poor. Poor people aren’t buying software either way. People with money buy the software because it’s easier.

So anyway, I dug into the problem of false positives a little bit. I figured if it’s a “severe threat” then I can find a record of just exactly what it’s doing to my system and in this case I could prove or disprove my hypothesis.

And check out what I found. First of all, here is MSE’s report. (Microsoft Security Essentials)

Category: Trojan

Description: This program is dangerous and executes commands from an attacker.

Recommended action: Remove this software immediately.

Security Essentials detected programs that may compromise your privacy or damage your computer. You can still access the files that these programs use without removing them (not recommended). To access these files, select the Allow action and click Apply actions. If this option is not available, log on as administrator or ask the security administrator for help.

Items:
file:C:\Windows\AutoKMS.exe

Get more information about this item online.

Yet when I scanned the item with Clamwin (Open source AV.) I get the following…

Scan Started Mon Apr 04 13:27:38 2011
——————————————————————————-

———– SCAN SUMMARY ———–
Known viruses: 938128
Engine version: 0.97
Scanned directories: 0
Scanned files: 1
Infected files: 0

Data scanned: 1.36 MB
Data read: 0.62 MB (ratio 2.20:1)
Time: 3.827 sec (0 m 3 s)

————————————–
Completed
————————————–

So, either commercial AV software lies, or Clamwin sucks.

Here is the forum where in the authors of the toolkit comment about this very issue.

http://forums.mydigitallife.info/threads/18746-Office-2010-Toolkit-and-EZ-Activator./page97

Here are a pair of relevant comments from the linked thread, but I suggest reading the whole thing.

Hey Sherlock Holmes, CODYQX4 and I wrote the code of AutoKMS.exe and it’s NOT a virus, it’s not even close of being a trojan. The Keygen.exe (which is a different file) opens a port because it’s a KMS Server emulator, yes, Office needs to conect to a port of the KMS Server to activate.

Hope it’s clear

Later on…

Here’s what the Keygen.exe does.

(Log window showing the file’s activity.)

As you can see, the “Create File” operation is made only with read attributes, which means that the Keygen.exe is reading/using the file. There are also the TCP operations made in the activation attempt using the toolkit “Activate” function.

Here’s an xlsx file if you want to view it in excel as a table:
Keygen.exe Activity Report

I used process monitor, added the filters:
– “Process name” –> “Keygen.exe”
– “Operation” –> “CreateFile”, “TCP-” (all of the TCP operations available to filter)

This is important because while the toolkit may be illegal (I believe it isn’t but that’s a fair use debate) it is NOT malware by definition.

It is Not the AV communities job to police the Internet for piracy. What’s next? False positives on downloaded mp3s?

Also consider that while a false positive might be in a sense harmless, a false negative would be far more dangerous.

Sony’s infamous root kit taught us that The Company is more than happy to invade our systems and privacy to protect its profit margin. If the AV community has betrayed us on the issue of false posatives, who’s to say they aren’t doing so for false negatives?

I think it’s clear that this seriously wounds trust for commercial antivirus software. When I run AV, I’m not scanning for contraband, I’m scanning for infection.

It would seem that even the commercial av ware, at least in the case of MSE, knows that false posatives are common. It was trivially easy for me to “allow” this “threat” to persist on my system. Which begs the question, if they are so good, and these really are threats, then why isn’t allowing a threat more complicated?

And why is their language so ambivalent and cautious? (…programs that may compromise…) Smells like CYA to me.

If anyone has any more proof one way or the other, I would like to see it. If this activator is really dangerous then it undermines my point, not that it applies to me one way or another. But on the other hand, if there is some third party proof that the toolkit is not dangerous, then a wider investigation is warranted.

Innomen, Banned from StumbleUpon

Update: 2016-03-02 0731 PM

These infants really know how to hold a grudge lol

I had about 700 subscribers back in the day. People loved my work. I spent years writing essays and publishing them to SU. No doubt eclipsed and replaced by now but I’d love to sue them for access to my work but I couldn’t get a lawyer to so much as write a letter for me unless I forked over 5000$.

That’s when I learned to always be aware that your content might vanish instantly form any social media archive: https://plus.google.com/+BrandonSergent/posts And that legal protection is a myth in the United States unless you’re wealthy.

What good is the law being on your side, as rare as that already is, if the only way to get it applied is to handsomely pay lawyers?

SU stole my content and because I’m poor I can never get it back. I know I’ll never see justice in this. That will always make me sad.

The meanness of it. The pettiness. And the fact that this behavior is handsomely rewarded while honor on the other hand is forced into a life of constant struggle to the point that much of the population has become convinced that struggle itself is intrinsically honorable, which isn’t actually true.

I’m also frustrated by the fact that because there are so many other greater injustices and there presumably always will be, petty injustices like this one will always be ignored by virtue of there always being something more important to address first.

/smh

2016-03-02_192945

Original Post:

overview for Innomen.

It seems I can’t use it to send links to people, still looking for an alternative. Preferably open source.

Looks like a reddit and twitter along with this blog of course are going to be my main links to the community.

While popurls.com is going to be my incoming stream.

My reddit page, please up vote the stuff you find interesting: http://www.reddit.com/user/Innomen/

My twitter: http://twitter.com/Innomen

You can also rss me. http://underlore.com/TBA/?feed=rss2

Other contact info on my about page.

Also if you’re feeling helpful feel free to review me at http://www.stumbleupon.com/url/Innomen.stumbleupon.com/ and link here and to the story of my censoring.

http://underlore.com/TBA/?p=755 <—< The story.

I got my two dollars.

K, you’ve made it so that I can officially say I’ve made money from my webpage.

This marks my very first donation.

Thanks very much man 🙂

Deeply appreciated.

(I’ll spam up your projects in this post after I get the OK, just in case you want to stay anon.)

And for everyone else, check out the YouTube video he linked to in the memo of the donation.

Conspiracy Video Review: Invisible Empire A New World Order Defined Full

The whole premise of the thing is the phrase “new world order” as if its a proper noun with a specific meaning. I have never liked that usage because it’s unfair. It’s impossible to cite.

The video pretty much opens with a bunch of politicians and aging fops talking about “a new world order” as if I’m supposed to be shocked.

I could do the same thing with a phrase like “a brighter tomorrow.” So keep that in mind.

However, it is capitalized in some of the offered documentation, and since all these people live in the same tiny social circle they clearly do mean it the same way. That is interesting, but regardless of whether or not some people mean it as a conspiracy tag, many others probably do not. In a way if it IS a conspiracy that’s a genius name for it, since in and of itself it’s plausibly deniable.

Also I don’t like Alex Jones, and his insanity. He needs to keep his mouth shut about his satanic ritual crap. He’s a zealot nutbar, despite being right about a great many things. And he has no idea how to actually change things, probably because he’s actually scared shitless of change (as are all fundamentalists)

0:28:49

Oh Jesus, it’s Alex. I wonder if he’s going to tell me about the evil gays. *facepalm* Oh really jackass? is that what I’m watching? Thanks for telling me. How about you plug something for us? Yea, that’s better, thanks. He seriously doesn’t realize he helps “the globalists” every time he opens his mouth because he discredits everything he talks about by being him and talking about it. Or hell, maybe he does. After all, no one’s killed him.

Back to the show. Later on at 0:37:53 we hear “Global Governance” This term is much better because it says something about intent. New World Order can literally mean anything so long as it’s new, applies everywhere, and has structure. What they are talking about is a bunch of people who though means subtle and gross have for whatever reason de facto control of society. Fine. Not at all shocking.

If you want to attack that, publicity and dvds are not the way to go. You have to attack the roots of their power.

The conspiracy people seem to think that its like… a bunch of people join a council, are given power, and then design wars. It’s the other way around. These people are a consequence of the system. They are a natural outgrowth of capitalism and the centralization that is required for our survival. You could shoot every one of them in the head right now and in 6 months you’d have replacements for all of them.

Our current world structure demands the existence of top down management because we have massive centralized systems. The conspiracy people don’t seem to realize that. They think the way things are is because these people exist when really these people exist because of the way things are.

If you want to change things, get behind a disruptive technology. (http://underlore.com/TBA/?p=663)

0:39:37

He’s right about dictatorships and the question he should be asking is why. He should look at these nations, where they have a new leader every 3 years because someone shot the old ones, and ask why time and again do dictators happen? Because, that is the most efficient way to solve the problems of state. Let me share with you something from SciFi that will convey what I mean. Bear with me here.

Data, Speaking about The Borg: “The technology required to achieve this biological and artificial interface is far beyond our capabilities. There are many advantages.” Riker: Speed being the obvious one. This ship literally thinks what it wants to do and it happens.”

This idea is the crux of why monarchy comes about time and again and why dictators rule in a simple setting. A group, by definition, can not act as quickly as an individual and there are two fundamental truths about reality that make that important. 1. No decision is usually worse than a bad decision. 2. Speed is more important than strength.

My core point on this subject is this. A king, given the current set of our technological abilities is a good idea, and killing the king will only give you a new king. There will always be people of influence. You can’t legislate morality. You have to have something to replace it with, else you get a power vacuum and that causes genocide. Just telling people to wake up accomplishes nothing. We’re not as stupid as you think. We see whats going on, but you’re providing no alternative of any kind, much less a viable one.

These Alex Jones types have no idea what to do with the world. They are full of flowery rhetoric and they are clearly to a man wholly ignorant of game theory. They are the intellectual equivalent of the Amish. And since they have nothing to offer and no idea how to strategically orient themselves for a true and lasting victory they are where they are, selling dvds.

Seriously. What do these people expect the powerful to do? Encourage dissent and lack of communication? What is the best way to wipe out an enemy? Shoot them or make them an ally? By definition, the most supreme form of diplomacy, merger, is a loathsome act to these people. They apparently Want to live in the shadow of war… Permanently.

Shock and surprise! People with enough power to actually change things actually trying to change things for their benefit. By definition that’s a conspiracy yes, but then again so is a school of fish. It’s cellular automata. It’s rational decisions made by the thousands leading to a trend.

They want to prevent war and prevent revolt. We need government to manage our central systems to keep us alive because without central management we get insoluble common good problems. That’s a fact. That MUST be changed (the only way it will is disruptive technology) before we can get rid of the state, and the desire for a half assed patch work system of states (National sovereignty and states rights) is just a check list for permanent war.

I’ll give a flying fuck about national sovereignty and states rights when I can be a nation or a state. As it stands it’s a choice of who owns me, and if I have to make a choice I’ll go with the one least likely to get me starved or shot. These pampered yuppie theorists have no idea what’s going on or what would happen if even a 5th of their lunatic wishes were granted.

And I’m sick and tired of fear mongering and spin being used to sell dvds. Loose change was epic journalism. This is a bigoted Luddite church commercial.

0:43:52

Yes because people are stupid. They don’t think about the long term. Hell, they buy bottled water for fucks sake. You have to “Frog’m” as my dad puts it. You have to do it slowly. Good or bad. And if you assume that nations will ALWAYS exist the centralizing effort is the only rational answer. War MUST be made obsolete. Basically everyone is bitching about the price of peace. Easy to do when it’s not your toddler that blew off his hands thinking the bomblet was a toy.

These fake wars are there to extract money from YOU and keep YOU out of the way because you’re a meddlesome moron that asks the sky fairy for protection while beating your children and ranting about the NWO. If you people weren’t so stupid and breeding like roaches maybe the people who manage to run everything would level with us. But if we were that smart we’d not have let them get there in the first place. Ultimately, we’re just jealous.

We all want to be safe, and being powerful helps.

The thing is, nations ARENT always going to exist. But these theorists actually want them too. Don’t you get it guys? You’re demanding the permanence of the very conditions that gave birth to these people you so hate.

You’re CREATING the conditions in which they thrive.

0:47:37

Uhh, yes it is a systemic reaction. That’s just you being ignorant of life and the interaction between humans and reality.

How did they GET powerful? Why only powerful people? How many were powerful BEFORE they joined these groups? These are important questions. Sure people are born into money and power but as far as the CFR and the like these people had money and influence or their families did before the groups existed. That’s an important point.

It’s like the mafia. Everyone wants to be a gangster so they can kill people, but it’s the other way around, the mafia takes you in because you kill people.

They ARE trying to be secret. And YOU’RE why! You CLEARLY don’t understand, generally. You want oversight, but at some point oversight will kill us all.

The reason these people have to try and stay underground is because people by and large don’t understand statecraft enough to realize that shooting the king is a shit idea. You people would muddle the process so badly with ignorance that nothing would ever get done. (Congress) You conspiracy people wouldn’t tolerate them being rulers in the open! When rulers by virtue of the current state of humanity and technology, are exactly what we require. Again, Look at Congress. Would you REALLY want THEM in actual charge? Sure you can say the CFR types elect them. But did they put a gun to your head? We could write in and get whoever we want as president. Do we? No, because we can’t be bothered. And if we were EVER going to be bothered it would have happened by now.

People complain about congress being a sham, well thank fucking god! They’re a bunch of religious psychos, liars, and coke heads… and we elect them! We’d all be radioactive glass by now if they were actually in charge.

Name your state’s representatives and senator. Yea I thought not. (me either, don’t feel bad) You know why? Because ultimately people don’t want to be bothered with power. They want the perks and none of the sleepless nights.

The problems that are blamed on the elite are really manifestations of systemic issues with our reliance on centralized structures. I say reliance because the alternative is death. (currently) The materials economy, belief in the efficacy of punishment and reward, the concept of property, etc. These have consequences. And while the most noteworthy is us being alive, not all are good. The only possible solution to an absolute common good problem is coercion or deception of the individuals in question. I’m sorry if that sucks but that’s how logic is built here. Blaming these power mongering psychopaths is missing the point. Sure they are assholes, but you have to understand the soil from which these weeds spring.

A lawn mower isn’t a solution it’s a stopgap. Alex Jones and his ilk fear the level of change required. Hell most of them still rely on a personal sentient god for sufficient comfort to live. Sky Santa for the win. (I’m a deist btw.)

We have been manipulated on a mass scale, but we demand it. We’re unwilling to share. We’re slaves to our animal nature. We fear change unless we’re SURE it benefits us and one can never be sure of anything. In short, we are afflicted with the human condition.

“Your effort to remain what you are is what limits you.” ~Ghost In The Shell

The simple fact is there is too much information for a single unaltered human mind to contain, let alone process. The beginning of wisdom is the statement “I don’t know.” That’s why we have specialists. People to focus. Leadership is a focus like any other.

In olden times the logistics of democracy were limited by location, we couldn’t go to the capitol and tend our land, so we elected leaders. (or tolerated leaders who took power) Now its an issue of information. What happens when leadership requirements grow beyond human capacity? What happens when the decisions needed are so complex that no person could cast a rational vote?

“That’s the problem with you people. You can’t think but five minutes in front of your face.” ~Matrix Revolutions

What happens when I tell you your jealousy, your inability to share a mate, is the Root tool used to control you? Then, well, even the foil hats say I’m nuts. You people create by your lifestyle choices the mire from which these monsters spring.

What the conspiracy theorists paint as dynasties of evil spring DIRECTLY from the notions of reward and punishment that they clearly believe in and the notions of property rights they clearly cherish.

1:09:52

Oh god here we go, paperclip. *facepalm*

http://underlore.com/TBA/?p=1383 That gets addressed here as well.

See? Clearly a function of ignorance. Why is it the very same people that scoff at McCarthyism’s childish, obsessive, fear of communism fail to understand that “Nazi” just means national socialist and that the majority of them didn’t give a flying fuck about the Jews and pointedly were not frothing insane evil monsters, instead focusing on personal well being like the rest of us.

How many people have cars killed? Did they not know cars would potentially kill people when they made them? Did they not make them anyway? not that car makers are nazis just that mass death is disregarded by apparently non-evil people. So what makes the Nazis evil? Torture? Murder? Bigotry? Sadism? Hardly unique stuff.

This notion that being a nazi makes you evil really needs to be challenged in this context when one considers that ALL of Germany became nazi when Hitler came to power. Many of these people are no more nazi in the contemporary way than I am a democrat because a democrat is in office.

And even if they were evil frothing Nazis so what? They were also national assets and human weapons. If you’re so for national sovereignty then you have to be behind us having the weapons and not the soviets. Or anyone else. If letting one nazi live unpunished (as if punishment has value) saved the lives of 10 million Americans or more by keeping a cold war cold, then I’m behind that call and I’m not sorry about it.

That’s the kind of decision you don’t want to make, so you ignore your congressmen. That’s also why I’m not running for anything.

Whole global warming thing:

http://underlore.com/TBA/?p=242