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Jun. 20th, 2006 11:33 pmJust realized that my schedule may have me doing a bit of dashing about this week trying to make sure that my projects all go off on time. Ah, well. The weekend shift does that to your weekday hours.
A most interesting drawbridge - it folds up rather than just lifting.
Another blow struck at the idea of RFID being really secure: A skimmer is built that can read RFID at 25cm.Cheaply, as in under $100 for all parts, all told. 25cm still means getting close, but basically all someone would need to do to get it at that range is make sure they have the skimmer in a pocket that's closest to the card they want to grab and walk by the mark's card. So RFID for sensitive purposes is still probably bad. For commercial purposes, may also be bad, especially if someone wants to rewrite prices.
The Pentagon may still consider homosexuals to be mentally disordered, a position that mental health professionals abandoned quite some time ago. Might be why "don't ask, don't tell" is in effect... are there regs that state someone has to be discharged if they're mentally ill by military standards?
Two memes:
( Archangel Quiz Result )
( Subversive Alternative Paradigm Quiz )
And lastly, I go from issues of mind to issues of body - although in a more general sense than personal, because I think it applies to more than just one person.
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bladespark made an astute observation - "...if there's a female in the entire nation that doesn't have some sort of image insecurity of some kind or another, well... she's a rare thing." Most people will read that and nod. After all, some part of the economy revolves around telling women "You're not pretty, but don't worry, we can fix it with our product/service." And there are some mindsets that actively discourage women from feeling pretty or thinking they ever will be.
I think there are just as many guys with image insecurity. I've said that before, with regard to the stereotype of masculine behavior, and probably more, somewhere (my memory, it is like a sieve) about how that applies to the body image. Probably a tirade about how the "beefy-muscular-six-pack-abs!" body image is not the standard and never should be and young boys are being dragged into steroid abuse to get that and such.
Still, the thought remains that both guys and girls are insecure about their own attractiveness. And to some degree, I was fishing for responses when I asked about getting hit on, because I suspect that getting randomly hit on by the right kind of people is a significant part of how people get over that insecurity. It's a pretty easy thing to think through - if someone random finds you attractive, without knowing anything about you other than what they observe or get from a small amount of conversation with you, then there's a good chance that they find you good-looking. With enough of that happening, then either there's significant denial (which needs help), or there's acceptance that the physical body is attractive. For women, who probably get hit on indiscriminately, especially in certain places, the caveat applies, but even then, it's still probably at least a small ego-boost that people keep hitting on you.
For guys, though, the problem gets a little trickier - for one, even with Liberation, the Sadie Hawkins style doesn't seem to be the popular one, at least to me. I feel like there's also a bit of an undercurrent that frowns on a woman who tells guys she finds them attractive, placing her in the company of prostitutes. So it's less likely that a guy's going to get hit on, and instead, has to take initiative. The risk of rejection and such. For a guy who's not motivated enough (by the attractiveness of the target or by whatever other factors may be at play), it's going to be pretty problematic, and it's a bit of a circular thinking of doom (DOOM!). If not secure enough to think they have a chance, well, then they don't really have a chance. Women like confidence, or so I've been told. Most guys, probably like most women, I suspect, don't want a flock of admirers, but it would be nice to be hit on once in a while.
Where this is all leading up to, I suppose, is a theory that people who get hit on with regularity don't have as many body issues. There's no bets on anything serious like anorexia or such, but regular (heh, if there is such a thing) "Am-I-pretty?" doubts probably don't show up as often. Shred, provide counterexamples or corollaries at your leisure.
A most interesting drawbridge - it folds up rather than just lifting.
Another blow struck at the idea of RFID being really secure: A skimmer is built that can read RFID at 25cm.Cheaply, as in under $100 for all parts, all told. 25cm still means getting close, but basically all someone would need to do to get it at that range is make sure they have the skimmer in a pocket that's closest to the card they want to grab and walk by the mark's card. So RFID for sensitive purposes is still probably bad. For commercial purposes, may also be bad, especially if someone wants to rewrite prices.
The Pentagon may still consider homosexuals to be mentally disordered, a position that mental health professionals abandoned quite some time ago. Might be why "don't ask, don't tell" is in effect... are there regs that state someone has to be discharged if they're mentally ill by military standards?
Two memes:
( Archangel Quiz Result )
( Subversive Alternative Paradigm Quiz )
And lastly, I go from issues of mind to issues of body - although in a more general sense than personal, because I think it applies to more than just one person.
bladespark made an astute observation - "...if there's a female in the entire nation that doesn't have some sort of image insecurity of some kind or another, well... she's a rare thing." Most people will read that and nod. After all, some part of the economy revolves around telling women "You're not pretty, but don't worry, we can fix it with our product/service." And there are some mindsets that actively discourage women from feeling pretty or thinking they ever will be.I think there are just as many guys with image insecurity. I've said that before, with regard to the stereotype of masculine behavior, and probably more, somewhere (my memory, it is like a sieve) about how that applies to the body image. Probably a tirade about how the "beefy-muscular-six-pack-abs!" body image is not the standard and never should be and young boys are being dragged into steroid abuse to get that and such.
Still, the thought remains that both guys and girls are insecure about their own attractiveness. And to some degree, I was fishing for responses when I asked about getting hit on, because I suspect that getting randomly hit on by the right kind of people is a significant part of how people get over that insecurity. It's a pretty easy thing to think through - if someone random finds you attractive, without knowing anything about you other than what they observe or get from a small amount of conversation with you, then there's a good chance that they find you good-looking. With enough of that happening, then either there's significant denial (which needs help), or there's acceptance that the physical body is attractive. For women, who probably get hit on indiscriminately, especially in certain places, the caveat applies, but even then, it's still probably at least a small ego-boost that people keep hitting on you.
For guys, though, the problem gets a little trickier - for one, even with Liberation, the Sadie Hawkins style doesn't seem to be the popular one, at least to me. I feel like there's also a bit of an undercurrent that frowns on a woman who tells guys she finds them attractive, placing her in the company of prostitutes. So it's less likely that a guy's going to get hit on, and instead, has to take initiative. The risk of rejection and such. For a guy who's not motivated enough (by the attractiveness of the target or by whatever other factors may be at play), it's going to be pretty problematic, and it's a bit of a circular thinking of doom (DOOM!). If not secure enough to think they have a chance, well, then they don't really have a chance. Women like confidence, or so I've been told. Most guys, probably like most women, I suspect, don't want a flock of admirers, but it would be nice to be hit on once in a while.
Where this is all leading up to, I suppose, is a theory that people who get hit on with regularity don't have as many body issues. There's no bets on anything serious like anorexia or such, but regular (heh, if there is such a thing) "Am-I-pretty?" doubts probably don't show up as often. Shred, provide counterexamples or corollaries at your leisure.
