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Bleach doujinshis for sale. Mostly R-18 Ichigo Rukia.

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Sales Post

Right, I've finally got my mind into gear and figured out some prices for this stuff. Thanks for all your help in the previous post, everyone! :] Below the cut are a variety of auctions, make-offer items and outright sale items for browsing. Thanks! The only payment types I accept are Paypal or, if you're in the UK, cheques. :]

Just as a note, I have left out some items in this entry/Put them on hold due to people expressing interest in purchasing them in the previous entry. If people could get back to me and let me know if they want things asap, that would be great! :]

Final note, if an item gets an offer lower than I would ideally like to sell, I reserve the right to keep hold of it in my collection. I hope that's okay ;o;



( Ghosties under here! )

That's all for now! Auctions will end on... let's go with Monday 11th January at 5pm GMT. Offers will end at the same time, unless I get a good one that I am willing to accept before then. Thank you again, everyone :]

-Tanks

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AND NO LESS THAN SIX DAYS LATER here is the fic I meant to pimp/include in the last post, but you know what, I say it deserves its own post because I thought it was a wonderful thing and it had me in fits of giggling so here it is:

http://ladysisyphus.livejournal.com/661777.html

If some of you haven't seen it, it is about the second run-in with Yosuke's shadow and all the gay that ensues (summaries, I am not so good at)

although I am not kidding about the gay.

( also here is an accompanying doodle )

In the beginning of this series on security, "The Privacy Mandate", I talked about why one should worry about their privacy and security online as well as some tools to use to make your experience that much more secure and private. In "Getting Serious About Security", I discussed how to make your browsing and IM experience as anonymous as possible. Today I would like to discuss email security with you.

For as long as email has been around, it's always been seen as an open, non-private means of communicating with others. Passwords are generally transferred in plain text for both sending and retrieval (smtp and pop3) or without an encrypted connection (https) to the net (in the olden days at least, now-a-days most if not all good providers use https for their web login). So how can you secure your email communications? First, you can start by changing your password on a regular basis (once every six months should suffice) or have a sufficiently strong password (if allowed, such would included mixed case, punctuation, and numbers) to change once a year.

If you are on a multi-user computer and you value your password enough not to share with other users of the computer, why would you share your email password with every server on the net that your data passes through? The answer is you probably wouldn't, and you shouldn't. If you have a decent mail host you should able to connect via SSL or TLS. Both are accepted means of transmitting your user name and password and email (at least to your mail server) in a secure manner. If you're mail host doesn't provide such connections, I urge you to petition them to do so or find another mail host. There are plenty of them out there that respect your privacy enough to provide such secure options (disclosure: My own web host, Blue Host, provides TLS connections).

Now that is all well and good for getting your email to and from your mail host, but what about around the rest of the web? How do you let people know that the mail is from who it says it is? How do you provide them with the security that there isn't someone else intercepting your email?

That is where tools like GnuPG come in. Coupled with a good MUA such as Mozilla Thunderbird with a plugin like Enigmail (GnuPG is a pre-requisite for using Enigmail) to digitally sign your email. Of course that's only the last step in this process. There are probably plugins for your particular MUA, most are listed here. My own experience is with Thunderbird and Enigmail currently. I'll be getting to Microsoft Outlook and one of the plugins for it in the coming weeks. Otherwise, feel free to submit your own setup instructions and screen shots for your particular MUA in the comments for inclusion in an updated security how to. To begin with, after you have GnuPG and Enigmail installed, you first need to generate your first key pair.

Identifying Yourself And Securing That Identity

So we've got GnuPG command line client installed. Maybe we even installed the GnuPG Shell to go with it. We have Thunderbird ready with the Enigmail plugin. Where do we go from here? Notice: All instructions are for Thunderbird 3.0 and Enigmail on Windows XP SP3. Your mileage may vary. Instructions for other clients and on other OSes will be addressed in a future web site feature combining this series into one document.

First lets open up Enigmail from the menu in Thunderbird. The menu entry will read OpenPGP and can be reached with alt+n or the mouse.



Next we want to select the Key Management option.



Now, if you haven't received any email that was PGP signed to verify, your key management window will be empty. We will fix that by selecting the the "Generate" menu option, selecting "New Key Pair" from the drop down.



That will open the following window.



For most users the default, basic options will suffice. Follow the resulting instructions (doing lots of disk intensive operations during key generation is not only recommended, it should be mandatory). Put in a passphrase (not using one really defeats the purpose of securing your identity in email communications. If you have more then one email account setup in Thunderbird, you can generate a separate key pair for each account. Just keep your pass phrases secure, if you forget it you won't be able to use the key you just created! For more advanced users, click on the advanced tab for some more options.





As you can see, you can select the key size (bigger is always better in this case, although it is also slower) as well as the algorithm to be used (I suggest researching on your own the differences between the two different options, although I will go into a discussion about them sometime in the coming weeks). Once you have your pass phrase typed in (twice), you've checked the option to have the key used with the identity selected, click generate and start doing as many disk intensive operations as you can. Open and close large programs as much as you can (without making the system unstable, of course). Open and close large files. Do everything you can to help add to the randomness of the key generation. The more random data that can be collected during key creation the better off the key will be.

When you're done with that, your key management window will have your new key listed. You still have one more step to go, though, before you'll be fully ready to use your key (and let other people verify it). You need to upload your key to a key server.

You'll just need to highlight (select) your key, and then select the upload key to public server option.



Once your key is uploaded, you are now ready to sign your email, letting people around the world (who use PGP/OpenPGP/GnuPG) know you are who you say you are. Of course there is the issue of verification. It gets harder, though, the less you know a person. Ideally the best way to verify you are who you say you are is to not only exchange keys in person, but to sign each others keys in person as well. That is the only 100% way to achieve verification of the other person. With less reliable methods, you can only at best be marginally sure that you are talking to who you think you are talking with.

Two rules of thumb to remember when using GPG (or any other public/private key pair identity system):

1. Never, ever share your pass phrase with anyone.


2. Never, ever lose track of your private key. Without it your public key is useless.

There is tons of documentation out there for the use of Enigmail and GnuPG, especially on their respective sites. If you are new to using either of them, I highly recommend reading up on the documentation. In a world where personal security and identity protection is essential, you can never have too much information on the tools you are using.

Providing Yourself Anonymity: Anonymous Proxy Relay - Tor Settings

The next step in providing yourself with privacy is setting up Thunderbird 3 (as with GnuPG, other clients/platforms will be included when all this gets combined onto a static website) to use Tor for anonymous proxy relay. You will most likely also have to adjust time-outs accordingly (which will be discussed here).

The settings will be just like for Firefox. The reason for the connection time out change is because it can sometimes take longer then normal to establish a circuit to and from your mail server (if you are running a local mail server, this might not apply, see your mail server's documentation for passing it through a proxy once it's outside your local network if you wish for this additional layer of privacy).



This takes care of your proxy settings. If you connect to any mail server over an unsecured connection (port 110), Tor will warn you about this potential security hazard. If you absolutely cannot use SSL or TLS with that server, all you can do is ignore it, but this means that anyone who intercepts your packets to the entry router or from the exit router will be able to read your login and password details.

To adjust your proxy timeout settings in Thunderbird, you will need to hit ok on the connection settings and open the config manager. Take heed of the warning! If you are not entirely comfortable messing with these settings, I recommend that you find a trusted friend who is and ask them to do this for you. I make no guarantees about the continued stability of Thunderbird if you mess with any of the settings past what I'm showing.

From here we want to search for timeout settings.



I use 1800 seconds (yes, that is measured in seconds) because it provides a sufficiently long enough time for a circuit to be created. I've had great success with those settings. If you use Thunderbird for NNTP, set the mailnews.tcptimeout to 1800 seconds as well.

You might have some issues with RSS polling if you use Thunderbird as your news reader as well. I highly recommend moving to a stand along application for reading your news feeds.

That about covers securing your privacy and identity within Thunderbird. I'll have one more article concerning encryption of your IMs in the coming weeks as well as everything else I've mentioned. That will be my last article in this series before I move everything to a static website.

If any of these articles have helped you, please leave a comment. Also please leave a comment if you have suggestions or updates or corrections to anything I've posted.

[tags]technology, computers, email, security[/tags]

Originally published at Ameliorations 1.0.

• 00:11 Gold Medal game tomorrow then canucks game! Woot hockey! #
• 07:10 Ugh I lost one of my earphone buds. Can't listen to iPhone while on train. Aaarrrrgghhhh. #
• 13:08 New earphones and Chuck season 3 DVD acquired. #
• 15:07 Found my missing earbuds!! Returning the buds I just purchased! #
• 15:09 And I still can't pronounce Alex Pietrangelo's name even though I've been hearing it on TV the whole tournament. #Canada #
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• 16:15 @purplestuff48 FOR LIFE. Addek ftw. #
• 16:18 @NayaRivera Will you be going to the Golden Globes as well? #
• 16:20 @Hgiraffe LESS THAN A WEEK!!! #
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• 16:41 Whoo wall-to-wall hockey action tonight! Canada vs USA for World Junior gold thne Canucks vs BJs :P #
• 16:53 Game on in a few minutes! Woot! Go #Canada #
• 17:05 GAME ON BITCHES. let's go #Canada #
• 17:06 #Canada vs #USA!!! Canada can't be sloppy like their previous match. They were lucky last time. #
• 17:13 #CANADA DRAWS FIRST BLOOD. #
• 17:15 Hear that pepsi cheer nation? It's "let's go #Canada let's go." NOT "eh oh Canada go." #
• 17:28 Booo. #USA scores. Stop turning the puck over. USA has a good transition game. #
• 17:30 WHOOOO SCHROEDER!! BOO #USA. Augh now they're leading. #
• 17:32 FCK YES. #Canada ties it. #
• 17:39 Augh. 2+10 on pietrangelo. Half a period out. Argh. #
• 18:03 #Canada ties the game... But they can't keep trailing like this. #
• 18:50 Fuuuuuck. #
• 19:08 Less than 5 mins and Canada gets a powerplay. Cmon boys. #
• 19:12 1 down. 1 moregoal to go. Go #Canada #
• 19:14 FUCK YES. EBERLE TIED THE GAME. OMG. GO #CANADA. CAN'T STOP SCREAMING. #
• 19:35 RT @claudgrrl: RT @Kardboard: #CANADA #CANUCKS #CANADA #CANUCKS #CANADA #CANUCKS #CANADA #CANUCKS #CAPSLOCKBROKEN #
• 19:36 So true. RT @MagicMittens: To Dion Phaneuf: Destiny does not reject you. Steve Yzerman does. #
• 19:37 @purplestuff48 merging with PP means more Addie! #
• 19:39 Wow. USA won. Last time Canada lost, it was against the US as well. #
• 19:41 Congrats TEam USA. They brought it against the canadians. Killed us with teir speed. #
• 19:43 It's so weird seeing Canada be the depressed looking team. Haha. #
• 20:01 @MagicMittens they are!!! I'm just busy drooling as they sing their anthem. Haha #
• 20:01 @MagicMittens carlsson was a cutie too. Heehee #
• 20:02 I'm too depressed to watch the Canucks game. The gold medal game sucked out all my energy. #
• 20:03 @MagicMittens bahaha same here. Wjhc players just get younger every year. :( #
• 20:06 @Kardboard I need more Peanut butter burrows time. #
• 20:33 RT @hosea24hours: Willie Mitchell, who got an assist on that goal, reaches a milestone. His 100th assist. #canucks #
• 20:34 My boy Willie reaches a milestone!!! 100th career assist!! #
• 20:35 YAY INDEED WOOOO RT @MagicMittens: Yay! @lovewillie's man got his 100th assist!! <3 #canucks #
• 20:45 @Hgiraffe I love how game intermission = shower time hahaha cause that's what I'm doing too. LMAO #
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For McSweeney's.

*

On road trips, I am a self-designated dietitian. "Get some pretzels at the Circle K," I suggest when our stomachs start rumbling. "We can eat dinner once we get to the hotel." I munch my own pretzels half-heartedly, checking that their sodium content is within our daily values.

Yet the democratic consensus is Jack in the Box. As we cruise past the drive-thru menu, I aim to exercise the fifth even as my pretzels grow a little more flavorless. My eyes idly scan the pictoral pantheon of microwave Americana, each burger combo lustily coated with grease. In the bottom-right, a single line catches me off guard. I find myself abruptly frozen in a moment of zen. Can it be? Two foods, perfect in themselves, lexically conjoined to create a superfood. Though I gasp in reverent disbelief, my chord is struck. I am affected on a personal level, as if this enlightened formula were derived for me alone, even while it makes perfect sense as the product of some desire of the collective unconscious. Could this be the new peanut-butter and jelly, the new Romeo and Juliet? I blink. My bourgeois boycott goes right out the rolled-down window. The shape it takes is, "Taco Nachos, please!"

The menu displays no photo. The alchemical result of tacos and nachos sublimely combined is left to the individual imagination, as if daring each of us, as humans, as people, to envision something so tremendous. Two dollars seems like a trifle, almost suspicious in its frugality. My car-mates watch with interest as I unwrap the answer like a gift.

Jack In the Box Taco Nachos resemble a tray of vomit, the prodigious kind produced after a solid night out. Their bed of lettuce is rumpled, their grease stains the gray of a smoggy morning, their spill of easy-cheese congealed and chill to the touch. I use my plastic fork to have a bite, but my spirit is broken. I can not bear the sight any longer. In my mind's eye I construct an escapist recipe, a dream of crispy shells fat with refried beans and carne asada, sleeping under a warm blanket of cheddar-jack. I take the experience as a sign; it is like Newton's apple, like the proverbial butterfly beating its wings. At home, I can take this into my own hands. I can set this right. For me. For us all.

If Jack In the Box offered a Burrito Cake, I would totally try that too.

Snow
Hehe, I do love the snow. It makes everything so pretty. Even Stockport is made a slightly less oppressive place to live by this fluffy white blanket. I've always wanted enough snow to "trudge" through, and today's deluge more than sufficed for this purpose. Thank heavens for my autistic watching of Ray Mears or I would have surely died on the way to the station. I do envy the younger generation at this point: yes they are having their minds warped by internet pornography, yes they'll live with having every breath analyzed for explosive traces, yes their education will consist of how to build and use pick-axes for Peter Mandelson's naquada mines and yes they'll likely die in Gruel Wars of the 2040's, but they got lots of snow to play in. Enough for real snowball fights. Ones with ammo dumps and forts, no harvesting pathetic shavings from shadowed window sills or grimly throwing icy sludge at each other for them. No sir. Lucky bastards.

Grit
SHUT UP ABOUT THE GRIT, and general lack of preparedness. There, I said it. Yes we were unprepared for it, but in the same way Hiroshima failed to prepare for the atomic bomb. Think of it this way: imagine now the streets were being cleaned by marvelous laser-driven super-ploughs, atomic powered de-icers and teams of GM huskies that eat snow and shit rock-salt. Now imagine it's back in October 2009 when the trend was for council workers to search all the lands sofas for a few extra pennies, the headlines would have been interesting:

"Council madness as USELESS fusion-plows have never seen snow"
"WHITE ELEPHANTS - with a picture of a plow, see snow is white and we have none so the plow is useless... like a white elephant-"
"Millions wasted on acquisition and maintenance of equipment designed for Siberia... not SUBurbia"*

Oh the scandals there would have been, the fidgeting of Press Officers as they're asked about the never-used equipment, why? Because it's been 30 years since this country saw this weather and it would be silly to have made such investment in the snow clearing arts. Now if this happens consecutively for say 3 years then yes, the fact the country grinds to a halt every time a flake tumbles from the sky would be an issue. For now unless you need oxygen delivering just chill and don't ring a radio station or talk to a reporter...


Plebbledashing
This may be my word of the year, and I only found it a few days ago amongst the ravings of Charlie Brooker. It fits so perfectly with it's definition "The padding of a short or low quality news item with pointless vox-popping. I'm not sure if it's a 'real' media buzz-word or he made it up, but I love it. Anyway yes, had the amount of plebbledashing surrounding the weather been turned into grit, we'd have no snow on the ground most of the UK would resemble the Sahara. I'm just so sick of hearing peoples experiences of the snow, seeing pictures of their street with snow or seeing the snow golems they've summoned (apart from the Darlek, that was awesome). I simply can't bare hearing another fucking person say "well I tried to go to work/school/collect my heroin fix/ but couldn't" to a microphone.


Is there really so little news that every report about airport closures has to be laced with this drivel? I get the reporters want to play in the stuff themselves but they could at least pretend to be doing their job properly. Please, only show the stories than involve cannibalism or the approach of Imperial Walkers






*Why don't I work for a red-top? This stuff is solid gold.

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hey all, i'm selling some toys on ebay:
mecha sad bears
kathie olivas scavenger (the vtn one)
mindstyle anniversary box

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thanks for looking.

✄ Catie's post about top albums of the 00s! Contributions?
✄ Anon Meme still open!

I realize only now what a jerk face I have been, neglecting to thank greystrata and renshai for their delicious cookies and napkins for her card! So so sweet, you guys. Mairin I am using your pretty tin to store Moomin crackers and Italian Wedding cookies because I ate the yummy cookies you sent! /fat



dotiscute finished my Tae dress! As soon as I stop looking like death I will accessorize with shoes and belt! Still needs a hat.

Uuu traffic school tomorrow morning. I have the flu and I plan to share it.

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• 14:08 #Switzerland takes on #Canada for world junior hockey semifinal. Game on. #
• 14:14 #Canada strikes first. #
• 15:08 Short handed goal for #Canada wootwoot #
• 15:10 Shut up with the Eh o Canada go cheer. Lamest cheer ever. #
• 15:10 And Hall scores #Canada's 3rd goal. Wootwoot #
• 15:17 #switzerland scores on the pp. Kadri you dumbass. #
• 15:18 #Switzerland back on the pp. Stop giving them hope #Canada. Crush them. #
• 15:29 @autumn0000 gotcha. :) see you tomorrow! #
• 15:30 @mozy19 if only they can hold on to the puck.... #
• 15:49 Woot!!! #Canada leads 4-1 now keep it up boys #
• 16:13 Dellarovere scores #canada's 5th goal. #
• 16:14 And then Hall scores the 6th. #Canada #
• 16:22 #Canada wins, but might have lost hamonic after that brutal hit #
• 16:50 @neonbliss LOL. #
• 17:01 @SammmiO @blondezilla90 @DlsimplyMira there is one on LJ.. remember?!?!?!? #
• 21:48 CANADA VS USA FOR THE GOLD MEDAL GAME. I am so excited. #

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I love the Nike "Force Fate" hockey commercials.

Seriously, how awesome is this:

Don't talk to me about destiny.
Destiny doesn't run a 5K before every practice.
I don't really like destiny.
Destiny doesn't push this hard.
Destiny's never driven two hours to practice.
I bet destiny can't do this.
Destiny doesn't get back up.
Again and again and again.
By the way, that wasn't luck.
I bet destiny's not doing this.
Destiny makes excuses
Destiny doens't remember.
With 5 seconds left, destiny panics.
Destiny doesn't decide if we win.
We do.

So freaking in love with this ad because it doesn't only apply to hockey. It applies to everything.

★ Air Gear » oo5
☆ Deadman Wonderland » oo5
★ DOGS » oo5
☆ Haruhi Suzumiya » o10
★ Kuroshitsuji » o10
☆ Tenjou Tenge » o15



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GUESS MY PERSONALITY FROM MY USERPICS!
MY THREAD HERE

What a weird meme lolol

Elections
Why should the leading party get to say when an election is called? Simple question really. Why? We know that our system is relatively* undemocratic but it does seem something of an affront to liberty to allow the party in charge to choose the opportune moment to call for it's own reappointment. When something shiny has distracted the more dimwitted of the voting populous perhaps. I'm actually surprised the election wasn't sneaked through during either the collective lobotomy of Michael Jackson's expiration or the ghoulish vulture-fuck surrounding Jade Goodies "too-hot-for-TV" demise; times when 90% of this moronic country were weeping into their commemorative t-shirts and the remaining 10% of us were feeling too fantastically superior to notice the last seal keeping Peter Mandelson in hell had been broken.


Even if one disregards any high-minded ideals of freedom, how about the boredom that comes with waiting for the damn thing to start? The political situation resembles the phoney war currently; each party press-releasing here, sound-biting there, all ready for the starting gun. Declare war so we can all start having some fun watching the fake dead smiles of politicians as they're forced to be in proximity to the common man. On a personal note, family members have previously had to cancel holidays due to sudden election announcements and while I'm not saying decisions should be made just for the benefit of me and mine, there are worse reason... Simply put there's no valid reason why an election shouldn't be the same time every four years as long as there isn't some sort of apocalypse occurring. Delivering leaflets during a zombie uprising would be problematic.



Security Scanners
What's the big deal? Seriously? Do you need reminding of the fuss that occurred upon the discovery of the X-Ray a century or so ago? the potential horrors of mad scientists fiendishly masturbating to their photo album of techo-horrors? "BUT THEY CAN SEE THE OUTLINE OF MY BODY" people cry "I DON'T WANT TO SEE YOUR FACE, NEVER MIND YOUR OUTLINE" I zing back, whilst waiting for a high-five.

I'm sure in these days of the internet, sex pests and paedophiles can find more alluring pictures of their chosen demographic than the blue-tinted and vaguely ghost-like images from these security devices. Sad fact is, there are people who enjoy blowing up planes, and they only need to be successful once to achieve their aim. I for one would sacrifice the potential of a security guard chuckling at my tubby ass for being on that one "successful" operation in the name of God.


And finally
What caps this off is that, in a variety bag of "fun sized" treats, there was only 2 bags of Skittles :P







*I say relatively, as calling Britain undemocratic is one of those hyperbolic statements one normally makes from a soapbox while dressed as a clown, from a nice padded cell or from the editors desk of the Daily Mail. It's like saying Britain is a police state, when it's clearly not; when you detain someone on flimsy evidence and let them out to a flurry of journalists and protests this is not a police state; arresting someone in flimsy evidence, raping them with a bottle the leaving them half-dead at a relatives home is a police state. Ahem

Well 2009 was a fun year, I think? It's actually quite hard to tell what with the years now blurring into one another. Must be old age. So to place the year in some sort of order

Things that happened this year that hadn't occurred previously
- Became a published scientist, thus fulfilling last years resolution
- Taught a class

Shitty things of the year
- Being notified of my lack of funding on the same day as the summer Cosplay party. Arses
- Being fired one week before the end of a work contract

Resolutions
- Ensure my body resembles a Greek statue that is adored by men and worshiped by women (well at least more so than now)
- Produce a blog that has at least one reader I haven't met in person
- Get a PhD, even if I have to do the sort of things that would make a Liverpudlian whore blush (so getting an honest job then, ha ha ha)
- Find a piece of the true cross and drive it into Dark Lord Mandelson's chest thus banishing him back to the realm of shadows.

Special mention
- Zero Punctuation for being a consistent source of hilarity.

One of these days, I will make a post with a few fic recs from my unconventional Glee ships and you guys will LOVE those fic.

and the real point of this post?



PIIIIINNNNNNNNNAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA ajsdhfa jsdhaf

that is all. Carry on. :'D

(the real point is.. I read awesome Pina fanfic and I just needed to squee somewhere. Yes, I'll put that fanfic up my fic rec list. mwahaha)

(I love my random Glee ships.)