June 4 - Cyberwar

When Facebook first came out, I used to have an account. Probably had it for two or three years until my account was hacked. Facebook found that someone from an eastern European country had hacked my account. First  though, I got a notice that I was selling poker chips illegally via Facebook - you know the chips for those games that don't pay but if you don't do well you can buy chips to play more. Then they found out the general location of the hacker. Changed all my passwords, etc. and then I was good for a little while and then it happened again. Needless to say, I'm not on Facebook. People put so much information on Facebook that identifies them and where they live, etc. that it could pose a dangerous problem for them. At one point, I had my grandsons photos on some public place for photos but then was told that pedophiles like to look at photos of children even if they have clothes on. Off those came and I've never made a photo of a child available via Internet ever again and I wouldn't encourage anyone else to. Do you want some sicko drooling over your sweet, innocent little girl - it doesn't make a difference if you know it or not but it is being done.

Brings me back to hackers. I think we would give hackers some serious punishment like cut their fingers off, maybe even their hands. As long as it goes unpunished, they have nothing to lose. The person who loses is the person who has no control over their private data. Okay, maybe cutting the hand off is a little extreme but why not send a worm their way that attacks their own information including the information that travels to someone else. As long as there are computers, there will be hackers. If something isn't going to stop them from hacking, they have nothing to lose.

The federal government needs to do something to protect their computer files. WAKE UP!

Today's earrings

June 3 - Worms

Weather.com has lots of interesting videos and photos. Tonight one really got my attention. It was about the worms that were displaced because of the flooding. There were piles of worms on the road after the flood waters subsided. It was interesting because the worm piles were in a line in the middle of the road. http://www.weather.com/news/video/the-floodwaters-were-bad-enough-now-theyre-dealing-with-this

With the Chinese cruise ship sinking, it makes me wonder how the captain and engineer were able to be one of the 14 survivors out of over 400 people. Yes, I realize that they see the action happening and can jump ship. Also, it sounded like it happened so fast that it was hard to react. Still I would not want to be a captain of a ship that I'm still alive and so many others lost their lives. It would be very hard to live with something like that. Another heartbreaking accident involving so many people. http://www.weather.com/news/video/the-floodwaters-were-bad-enough-now-theyre-dealing-with-this

This brought to mind that the same thing could happen on the St. Croix River and the Mississippi River. It's common to have cruise ships with large numbers of people on board. There were spots in the St. Croix River that were 90 feet deep. The Chinese cruise ship sank in 50 feet of water. The one big difference is that the rivers aren't as wide as the Yangtze River; the river ranges from 10 miles to 55 miles wide at points. The Mississippi River is at its widest point in Minnesota and is only 11 miles wide. That's a huge difference! Where the Chinese tour ship overturned, a couple of the people swam two miles to shore. They were the fortunate ones.
http://www.china.org.cn/english/travel/40876.htm
 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yangtze
http://www.nps.gov/miss/riverfacts.htm

Today's earrings were made by me using the paper beads I made the other day. Because they're very light weight, they were comfortable to wear.