The following is a conversation that I took part in with some random loser for kicks on Omegle

You're now chatting with a random stranger. Say hi!
You: meow
Stranger: any horny girl for sex chat?
You: sure
Stranger: age?
You: how old are you first?
Stranger: 21
Stranger: u?
You: 19
You: are you at home?
Stranger: ya]
Stranger: why?
You: are you alone?
Stranger: ya
You: is anyone else in the house?
You: I just want to make sure we won't be interrupted
Stranger: ya, bt im alone in mah room
Stranger: no interreptn
Stranger: dont worry
You: Who else is at home with you?
Stranger: grand father
Stranger: he doesnt come to mah room
You: what's a mah?
You: is that your name?
Stranger: mah means my
You: oh, sorry I didn't realise you were mentally handycaped
Stranger: why?
You: I've never done it with a mentally challenged person before
You: can you still... perform?
You: ??
Stranger: i m nt mentally handicaped
You: what?
You: Yes, yes I know you're mentally handicaped... we discussed that already..
Stranger: I am absolutely fine
You: ok take your pants off
Stranger: ya i had already
You: take your nickers off too
Stranger: ok
Stranger: done
Stranger: you take your panty off too
You: you have to get me worked up first
You: how small are you?
Stranger: means?
You: how small is your penis?
Stranger: its 6 inchs
You: Yeah I had heard mentally challenged men also have small penises...
You: we'll have to work with it though
You: so, go ahead retard, get me hot
Stranger: what you are wearing now?
You: my bra, my nickers and my gown
Stranger: ok 1st remove bra
Stranger: Im kissing on your fore head
Stranger: then on your ears
You: slow down there retard
You: I know youre mentally handicaped but you're rushing it
You: you need to take it slower...
Stranger: ok
You: get me excited
Stranger: i come on your lips
You: no no no
You: you're rushing again
You: I don't want your sperm near my lips yet
Stranger: ok u point me what to do
You: Are you a virgin?
Stranger: i told that i wanna kiss ur lips wid my lips
You: no you said you come on my lips
Stranger: ya
You: So you're a virgin?
You: have you ever had a girlfriend?
Stranger: i have girlfrnd
You: wait...
You: you have a girlfriend right now, but you're trying to have cyber with me?
Stranger: so what?
You: Poor girl
You: no wonder you're still a virgin at 21
Stranger: whatever
You: cheating isn't cool
You: what is cool though is that this is being posted live on the internet for everyone to see...
You: oh, and the fact you've been scammed, I'm a guy
You have disconnected.

I have been playing around for the last few months with different options for how to host videos I produce. The idea of hosting the videos directly on TJandSarah.com was the dominant thought for awhile there, but after looking further into solutions I am proud to announce I am currently developing a free video hosting service for everyone to use. The service will be launched by May 2010 and will be called CamzIT

More details will be announced as we get closer to the launch, including a specific launch date. Will this service rival YouTube, probably not; but you never know when it comes to the internet do you? At any rate that isn't the primary goal of this service, the goal instead is to deliver free video hosting for users with benefits that will be announced shortly.

I'd like to discuss a variation of perception with you; Interpretation. The way we interpret the world around us dictates how we interact with it, and the experience we will have. But I'm sure you already knew that. What you may not have known however is that individual interpretation applies to everything we personally come in contact with. Lets take for example reading text. The way you interpret what I write in this blog may differ quite dramatically from how I intended it to be interpreted. But to apply a good example we'll use a simple sentence.

Lets take the sentence "The quick brown dog jumped over the log". Every non conjunctive word (ie. "the" in this case) in that sentence is open fully to interpretation. Your idea if constitutes "quick", "jumped" and "over" will most likely differ from mine. As will your interpretation of what sort of dog it would be and the size, type and description of the log. In this way there are an endless number of combinations in which to interpret that sentence. Lets for this example focus on the word jump from that sentence. A jump to one person might mean that the dog only just clears the log, to another person it could mean the dog almost just walks over the log, to another person the dog could comfortably clear the log and yet again to someone else it could mean the dog was quite high in the air indeed. The variations of this one word alone are quick numerous, having not listed them all here; but only a select few.

In this same way we interpret everything we see, hear, feel, smell and taste, entirely in an individual way, with endless combinations on how to interpret the event. Our memories of prior experiences play heavily on our interpretation of things, but are not in any way the only ruling factor. Our personality, current mood, the terms of the social situation we are in at the time, the context of the event, the environment we're in all play heavily amongst other factors on our interpretation. For this reason, not only does our interpretation of an event end up individual to us, but also to the moment in which it is interpreted. For it is likely, with a variation in some of the contributing factors, such as current mood, our interpretation of the same event will change.

Now lets apply this to real life situations where interpretation may have considerable effect. The legal/justice system comes first to mind for me. Take the written laws and the process of enforcing those laws through the judicial system. Each individual judge, being a living being; is subject to this same individual interpretation as everyone else. The way a judge interprets a certain law can not only vary from others in the court room, but indeed from how the law was originally intended to be interpreted. In the same way, the judges interpretation of a law is subjective to the same factors such as mood as everyone else. On top of that, the exact same influences affect what the judge views as a fair punishment. With all that in mind is it any real wonder why we have such huge variation in who is punished for what and in sentencing?

It is because of this individual interpretation that juries we formed. But the jury itself can become subject to influence of interpretation. If a half of the jury members, being vocal agree on an interpretation of an event, their vocal nature of this fact can influence the interpretation of other members of the jury. So if for example you have 3 or 4 members of a jury who feel that the defendant is guilty because of A, B & C and theses jury members are very vocal of their feelings and dominant in the group the rest of the jury members will change their interpretation to fit. Remember humans are herd animals, we instinctively slot into dominant or submissive roles when placed in a group situation. Does any of that sound like justice to you?

Another example is rental housing; through inspections. What the real estate person feels is appropriate will depend on their mood, their personality, how they feel about the tenant, etc. What passes one time, could not pass the next even though the same person from the real estate does the inspection. In fact third party interpretation can positively or negatively influence every aspect of life. Whether or not you get that job, whether or not you keep that job, all comes down to interpretation. Arguments you have with friends, family and spouses come down to interpretation. Even whether you have religious faith is a matter of interpretation.

In this way our reality is as individual as our interpretation of it. For this reason it could be argued there is a distinct absence of absolutes. That while facts exist, such as the sky most commonly looks blue through-out the day; there is a lack of absolute. That is to say the shade of blue for example is a matter of interpretation.

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The Australian Federal Police's (AFP) "High Tech Crime" division has only just now realised the risks of identity theft social networking sites pose. The slow speed with which they have realised these risks is a scary thought on it's own. These are the members of the AFP who are meant to understand computers, the internet and how crimes are committed with them. And yet it has taken how many years since the inception of Social networking for these apparent masters of technology to realise what to me has always been a rather obvious risk.

High Tech Crime Operation acting national manager Karl Kent said

"Children are providing personal details on these sites such as their full name, date of birth, their place of residence and even the school they attend. Online fraudsters can use this information to open credit card accounts and commit financial crimes in the child's name."

His warning of course doesn't apply only to children, adults are at just as much risk if these same details are displayed. Federal Police advised users to change the default privacy settings on their social network of choice to more secure settings. But lets think about this for a moment, what is the most popular social networking site on the internet? Answer: Facebook with it's 400+ Million users world wide. But as I have discussed previously in this blog Facebook MANDATE without option or choice by the user that your name, date of birth, likes/dislikes (in the form of fan pages), "Home Town", country of residence and profile picture are all a matter of public domain.

That is to say Facebook allows google and other search engines to collect that data from EVERY ONES profile without exception. Once google has hold of it that information is then accessible by ANYONE on the internet, even those who don't hold a Facebook account let alone be on your friends list. Doubt me? Read Facebooks privacy policy yourself, it's all in there. So 400+ MILLION people across the world have their details; the very same details an identity thieves need; publicly accessible anywhere on the internet, by anyone without any option to stop that from occurring.

If that wasn't scary enough, thanks to the demanding language Facebook use in their sign up form and the general nature of how social networking works, most Facebook users have input their real, true details instead of fudging them a little. In fact to fudge your details on Facebook is actually a major breech of the Facebook terms of service and will result in immediate termination of your account. Weird huh? It's almost like Facebook WANT you to have your identity stolen.

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