...all the warmth of a chain-mail duvet cover filled with ice shards

I once read that if you cut a worm in two, it becomes two worms. While I never truly understood how that's even possible I am sometimes shown real world examples of snakes growing a new head to remind me of how it might work. Even if this example does not make two snakes, it at least shows how the side of the worm without a brain manages to grow a new one. I suppose the other half, without an anus, doesn't matter as much and it gets a short respite from having the shit scared out of it like some other spineless cowards out there.

the ingredients of a bureaucracy induced security flaw

But who does represent these people? America?

It appears somebody has launched the holy hand grenade of Antioch. Sorry, I couldn't resist that one, especially after reading how ridiculous certain churches are getting. Don't worry too much about the 5-year-old, because she's been indoctrinated enough to know where she'll be if she protests. That's why we no longer have special classes for special needs children, because we want them to feel like they have a place in society as a whole.

Now that I've covered some of the varied topics that are bugging me, I guess I will focus on something for a while...

almost as though someone were watching donkey porn with me

It's about time there is some public focus shone upon the dark underbelly of technology. But it's unfortunate, that at the same time, it's simply the tip of the iceberg. You see, just about every bit of code ever written has certain backdoors and open loops whether deliberate or accidental. Some software has been deliberately crippled in order to allow its compliance with U.S. encryption export laws... Think about that one for a second...

Democracy: see Corruption

Strange and backwards. In my last post I made mention of Alex Jones saying things he usually doesn't say, and now somebody is trying to paint Ryan Dawson as a crisis actor... Not very convincingly, mind you, and they didn't even try to Photoshop it... Nope just some dude with a similar haircut. I guess the Hollywood effects people were laid off, because even the fake bin laden photos were at least a little touched up...

Entrance exams of the apocalypse

Why is it not bluntly obvious to everybody yet that the criminal class have declared war against morality, justice, and common sense? They've been busily indoctrinating our children into the confinement of mind-game driven prison. Did any of these 28 students speak out against this gross injustice? When I was in grade 10, I would have flatly refused to submit myself to being strip-searched because I knew my rights, and I am not one who often refuses requests to get naked. I'm even more bothered that none of the reports I've found bother to tell us if the missing cell phone was even found!!? This leads me to think that it was not found. The other egregiously horrible reporting flaw is that this search is being called 'a disproportionate reaction' instead of 'an illegal search and seizure' (and in my cited example, an RCMP officer was present, and there is not even a mention of 'strip searching' a minor, but simply that a 'warrant' must be 'justified' and issued prior to a 'search and seizure').

Not that the European theme: 'necking with or unnecking with soldiers' sounds any better to me. Terrorism or kiddie porn, stealing money or stealing votes, somebody needs to fire the writers and burn the script because it's getting so repetitive that it's boring me to death. I'd say sleep, but I do not sleep, I never really did unless I was sitting on front of the TV. They claim there is less brain activity while watching TV than while in a coma, which explains why I tend to drift off while waiting for the contrived plot to unfold.

Boil ice cubes, or watch paint dry...

It's hard to swallow anything calling itself science, when that science makes claims that melting ice is causing more ice... I'm debating putting an ice cube on the stove and waiting until the more ice appears, maybe somebody will pay me for such valuable data, like GE or White Westinghouse, or other companies that could manufacture a refrigerator or weapon of mass destruction effectively based on the principle that I unlocked the secret to forming ice cubes in a pot of boiling water.

--OR--

Who would you kill for a Klondike bar?

Are we supposed to be surprised that Canadian income inequality and poverty is growing? Probably not. We tend to follow the U.S. pretty closely, and they have plummeted even further down this 'report' than we have, so I doubt we're anywhere near finished this descent. I am pretty sure most of us feel the same thing happening to us: we make less than we did, or at minimum, our grocery carts, rents/mortgages, and gas tanks cost a larger percentage of our take-home pay. It's all fine and well that the government looks after the poorest among us, but, if they continue to not look out for the rest of us, we'll all be the poorest, and then there will be no money to look after any of us. The math is pretty simple really, any% of nothing equals nothing so it doesn't really matter what the tax rate is at that late stage in the game. That doesn't mean that I approve of those out there who feel so hopelessly dependant on the government that they will sue them for even more.

Foreign companies favouring foreign workers over local workers is akin to thumbing their noses at us while their other hand is still in our wallet. It's easy enough to get away with when you front-load the system and give too many rights to corporations, it's even easier when the media isn't fact checking or figuring out how many millions there are in 38 thousand. Who am I trying to kid, it isn't like the government to take a stand for the people unless it's the people who can finance or even rig their next campaign.

We are not 'the people'.
We haven't been 'the people' in many years.

Illuminate the underture

The world can rest easy knowing that the terrorists are short a flashlight. Yes, now the terrorists cannot operate under cover of darkness for fear of bumping into walls, and stuff. So now maybe that "see something say something" neighbourhood snitch program will work more effectively with the terrorist ninjas forced to operate @ high-noon. I will certainly sleep just a little better at night.

Oh, but wait a second... They still have internet, so maybe I should continue to lie awake rocking back and forth all night cowering in my fear that the boogerman is busy surfing porn and buying thermonuclear devices on eBay. Maybe some government body can protect me from evil terrorist porn surfers when they are done blowing up flashlights, or fleshlights. Maybe the UN can simply declare that using the internet to surf terrorist porn, or buy thermonuclear devices on eBay, or sending encrypted messages in a plot to take over the world via USENET is illegal (I'm pretty sure the only encrypted messages on USENET are CIA bait). The UN declaring torture and other such war crimes as being illegal worked splendidly just ask convicted war criminals Cheney and Bush... (And I am surprised if there isn't already some law about thermonuclear devices being sold on eBay... Maybe that was a 5 per client limit...)

Sometimes I feel like I'm repeating myself

Did I not just write something about Acta changing it's name to Ceta?

Well, not even a whole day later I am reading that SOPA has changed it's name to IPAA.

Should I just repost what I posted this morning and add new content? No, that would be like what Hollywood's movie release schedule has looked like for the past decade with the reboot of a movie made from a tv series, based on a cartoon, that started as a comic book... Besides, I hate having to say the same shit over and over again. You can put a tuxedo on a monkey, but that doe not make it any less, a monkey

Read my first post of today, it has more meat in it and I just cannot be bothered to rephrase it all in the same day.

-DIrtyKID©

CETA: because ACTA's often change names to be public friendly

CETA (The Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement): is a proposed free trade and copyright agreement between Canada and the European Union.

It just goes to show us that the proverb 'If at first you don't succeed, try, try again' is alive and well in the world of legislature and politics. I am not going to repost the similarities between ACTA and CETA since Michael Geist already has  perfectly good side by side example here. Add to that that we only know anything about this thanks to a leaked document dated February 2012... If it's supposed to be 'good' for us, they'd be trying to sell us on it, when they hide it from us it's because we'd all object, protest, rebel, and cause a general ruckus.

Truth will out

Some media outlets have begun to report on the Stuxnet worm and are even implying a joint cyber-attack on Iran, was engineered by the U.S. and Israel. I am not shocked to hear this news as I had already become convinced of this almost a year ago when details about this virus began to emerge. I am mildly shocked that any media has decided to break this story at all. It is probably to subdue NEWS about Flame which can actually hijack Windows Updates and for all purposes looks like it was digitally signed by Microsoft.

Safe, if only for a little while

Lawful Access (Bill C-30) has died... At least for the summer.

-DIrtyKID©

--update May 16th--
For summer was correct...'I'm not dead yet!' (sic)

Yar Canada! Our home and pirate land

I am not certain if I should be proud or insulted to be on the "priority watch list" of The Office of the United States Trade Representative's 2012 Special 301 Report [PDF alert]. Canada has made the highest rank on the list in a dead heat with: Algeria, Argentina, Chile, China, India, Indonesia, Israel, Pakistan, Russia, Thailand, Ukraine, & Venezuela... Columbia & Mexico are only on the "watch list", they are not a priority

Some n00b did not get the memo. ;)

Two 'rookie' judges in the supreme court of Canada seem to have struck down some warrant-less wiretapping section of the criminal code. They cite 'lack of oversight' in their ruling. It's nice to see that the Police State still has some enemies in high places, but this doesn't buy a whole lot of time. One year to be precise which I suppose in terms of parliamentary gatherings and actual progress made within the halls of bickering talking heads is about 4 weeks of real work with a 12 week vacation somewhere in the middle for stress relief. They, are closed for at least the next week (I love when my thesis proves itself with little to no effort), so add 1 week to my initial calculation for good measure.

La Terrorisme™

I guess it's time to give my take on this whole Toulouse, France situation... Other than being extraordinarily confused by the duration of the stand-off, and the media reported timeline of events, I actually find the whole situation laughably ridiculous.

Where do I even begin?

They're watching you

Just in case you missed it, a FOIA request has turned up what the U.S. is monitoring on social media sites. I have pulled out the list of words using OCR and highlighted the ones that make little sense.

the BIG® black cloud™

So the next buzzword in the IT market is "BIG DATA". I am told this is not to be confused with Data-warehouse as this is even bigger. The trouble is that I find the source of the big data chatter to be quite disturbing. Cloud service providers like Amazon appear to be using this term to scare the market into the cloud where 'we' do not have to think about 'big data'... So there it is, the cloud is where others can manage more than just 'analytics' about all of said 'big data'.

But to who's advantage?

The black cloud­™

Microsoft - the company who created much of the present IT industry - is backing an IDC report that Cloud™ computing will create 1.5 million jobs worldwide by the end of 2015... This is the kind of report I expect from a company trying to push it's way into becoming a service as Microsoft is trying to do. There is a very strange omission in this report, it sticks out like a giant hairy melanoma on a supermodel's face when I look at it. This report claims that there will be massive savings to companies who will liberate their IT spending to be refocused on 'other things'... It fails to count how many IT departments would cease to contain employees in the creation of 1.5 million jobs, most of which as stated on the very last page:

 

would exist in India or China. 

One small step...

Well, at least it's something... I have received a response for my petitioning of Bill C-30 and Bill C-11. even if it is just a standardized reply, it was not instantaneous, and therefore not automated...

The internet: A wild west that actually function(ed)

While it is true that there are bad people doing bad things on the internet, these are such a small minority, and they have become somewhat predictable, and almost expected by the majority of users. I see less blind trust from even the most ignorant of computer users that I deal with IRL. The scope of damage that bad people can cause gets smaller as more ignorant computer users become informed that bad people will always choose to do bad things. Ignorance, is the enemy that must be fought in this particular war, that war is always fought with knowledge.

Granted, I think there are worse things being done by worse people that nobody 'official' will be addressing, and will probably be relegated to footnotes if not completely ignored by me in this post as well... An unfortunate side-effect of this world's method of raising minor distractions to cover for the big picture. But, they must work in small increments, and I must protest these small increments to prevent the big picture from getting closer to reality.