Quebec's assisted dying law comes into effect today

 Ok then. I'm against the death penalty , and I'm against doctors killing people, whatever they choose to call it. More specifically , I'm against bureaucrats always looking for more and more "efficiency" having the right to kill. Be they the prisons, or the hospitals , or anyone else. 

I worked in a private company , answering phones and providing tech support for computers (and later , cell phones) . I remember fondly certain meetings where my supervisor called me (and the other workers under his authority) in to pass along instructions from the boss. 

He told us it was against policy to try and fix our stations , by swapping out keyboards and mice . There was a sub contracter who was charged with fixing them , and we were messing up his work tickets. Then he told us he expects us to totally ignore this policy and continue on as we were before. 

I remember him telling us we could hang up on one customer a month and it would be shrugged off as an accident. We should save that hang up for particularily annoying customers who wanted to babble on and on and on , and we were supposed to only spend 8 minutes on each call , but the call was now up to 45 minutes ... 

I remember the corperation introducing a contest to find new employee's , but the conditions to collect the "prize" were so insane that only one person in the call center ever actually collected. 

I remember being in a hospital , as a matter of fact , and they were trying to discharge me , meanwhile I was throwing up on the floor. They brought a wheel chair in and everything because there was someone else waiting for that bed so hurry hurry hurry ... (to their credit , they decided I was too sick to discharge, eventually, but I almost had to throw up on their shoes to get that)

You want to give these people the right to kill ? 

Forget it ! It will be a blood bath.

 

 

 

The FBI wants tech companies to 'change their business model

 "Instead, Comey is asking for the tech company to retain a readable version of that initial message, just in case."

 Basically , encrypt all you like, but keep an unencrypted copy for the FBI to supenea. 

This is rather like asking someone to lock the front door, but always leave the window open just in case they want to sneak in. There isn't any point in encryption if you deliberately file a non-encrypted copy of the message somewhere. You gotta know that copy is going to get hacked and stolen. Probably the whole database where you keep all those unencrypted messages will be stolen. Thus , encryption from your company is worthless. Thank you and good night. 

 

And on that topic , Why do you want a back door into everyone in the worlds encryption anyways ? To fight terrorism ? That is the claim , but NSA isn't fighting terrorism is it ? It's keeping data on every company in france worth a minimum of 100 million dollars USA  (everyone's email address, even the janitor) It's spying on Angela Merkel (chanceller of germany) You really think the german Chanceller is a terrorist ? No ... you're not fighting terrorism. You're stealing money, that's what you're doing. What do they call it ? Economic Intelligence ? Yes , Big companies in America make massive donations of millions of dollars to the government , and so government agencies spy on over seas corperations to try and give those corperations an advantage. 

This is my list of things we should ban because of terrorism. 

We should ban computers, I've seen terrorists using computers, honest ! 

We should ban guns ! Oh wait, the NRA in the usa is far too influential , you'll never be able to ban them. Let the terrorists legally purchase all the guns they like. 

We should ban planes. I hear about terrorists travelling around on planes all the time . 

We should ban phones. Terrorists definately use phones all the time.

We should ban fertalizer. It's just way too easy to make fertilizer bombs. 

We should ban the american dollar. Terrorists use it all the time. Seriously. They do. 

We should ban letting muslim immigrants into the country (any western country) unless they promise faithfully that they're not a terrorist. 

 We should ban locks. I hear terrorists make their dastardly plans behind locked doors all the time. No one should be allowed to lock their doors anymore. 

These are only a few of the things we should ban in the name of terrorism.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The NSA might be spying on Tor users 

 Privacy and encryption have been two very hot topics for the last few years. The Tor browser can help protect your privacy while online, but it may come at the cost of being spied on by the NSA.

 
Well first off  I highly recommend you get the heck off Tor as quick as possible. 

Do you know how , when you search on google and go to strange sites sometimes, once in a while , you get a bogus site thats run by untrustworthy people that are trying to scam you , infect you , get you to download something harmful , etc etc ? 

 On Tor , EVERY site is like that. It's ridiculous. You do a search and you get page after page of scammers. I'm a skilled techie and even I turn away and just don't use the thing. It's too risky , too dangerous , and mostly a total waste of time.  

 I suppose, if you're a newsie , and you need to contact someone in another country , you can both download a chat program (hopefully one with built in encryption) and communicate, but the average joe on the internet ? STAY AWAY . You'll get infected. Over and over and over.

  

 

Of Taxi's and Cookies

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 So it's been a while since I log onto blogspot to make a post (just called my sister and she's complaining she hasn't seen any in a while. ) And what do I see ? A notice claiming it's ok for Google (who owns blog spot) to break the law and then blame me for it.  As in , they're collecting cookies , I can't turn it off , and by the time you see their warning message you've already been "collected"

That can't possibly be legal.

US Companies. *Snort*. 

I don't have any third party add ons (or ad-ons ? ) Go sue Google for sticking me with stuff I can't turn off.

Ok.

UBER TAXI PROBLEMS

Anti-Uber taxi drivers' protest blocks Queen and Bay for evening rush hour

After staging a protest inside city hall against ride-hailing service Uber, dozens of cab drivers moved outside to block the busy intersection at Queen and Bay Streets during the evening rush, despite pleas from the mayor and others not to impede commuters.



I hate people who can't do math.
I talked to a cab driver , well , several , here in Ottawa , I admit I'm not certain of Toronto , and I learned the following information (This was before Uber )
Rideau Center to the air port is 17 min and 15 km.
Blue Line and Capital its 2.85$ to get into the cab and 5$ for every 10 km

Uber wants 16$ for the above trip.
Blue line wants 10$ or so for the trip , assuming there's no traffic glitches (ie: you get charged for waiting at a stop light , traffic jams, etc )
So the price isn't that different.

What is different ?

Cabbies have to pay 80 000$ (yes, eighty thousand dollars) for permission to drive a cab , per year. This price is paid directly by the cab driver before he picks up his first fare. Then he gets his 15$ ,or so , for driving you from downtown to the air port.

So then , lets do the math. 17 min work gets you (15/17 = 88 cents a minute)  0.88 $
So , 40 hrs / week x 52 weeks / year * 60 min/hr =  110, 117.65 $ (a hundred and 10 thousand dollars)
Subtract your licensing fee and its 30 000$ / year. Now pay maintenance on your car , gas , etc, and it's closer to half , or less. Keep in mind you're driving this thing into the ground, 40 hrs week ,not just too and from work (10 hrs a week) so all maintenance / gas costs on a taxi start at quadriple what a regular car costs and goes up.

Basically , the only way driving a cab is worth anything is if you drive it 60 or more hours a week , and magically never get into an accident despite being exhausted all the time because of the ridiculous hours you work.

And we havn't even started in on dispatch fee's and insurance rates , which are much higher for taxis than regular cars.

Conclusion 

Taxi drivers have been enslaved , economically. They work hard, and the taxi companies and the city (who collects that 80k license) take all their money.

I favor Uber because the drivers pocket the money , not some bureaucrats who do nothing but keep track of how much money you owe them.  Heck , they don't even try and stop Uber , who isn't paying them their 80k a year. So what is a Taxi driver paying that money for anyways ?

Nothing. Absolutely nothing.

It's illegal to operate a cab without a license, but currently Toronto (according to the article above) is not enforcing that.

Google non-Privacy

So google introduces these "Privacy" settings.

I look in vain for the check box that says "STOP TRACKING MY EVERY MOVE AND SELLING IT TO EVERYONE UNDER THE SUN WHO HAS TWO NICKLES TO RUB TOGETHER"

It wasnt' there, of course.

What was there was a demand for more information (specifically , my phone number, everyone in the universe wants my home phone number and doesn't believe I only have a cheap cell phone , a google phone no less , or at least android) . They were really pushing getting that phone number.

So basically , they're following in the american Freedom Act's foot steps. They call it "Privacy" but really they mean to steal every byte of information they can , even more than before, and continue selling it to everyone and the dog.

Airbus to sue NSA, German spies accused of swiping tech secrets

Article = http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/04/30/airbus_us_german_intelligence/


Spiegel Online reported that the BND's listening station at Bad Aibling in southern Bavaria was used to target up to 2,000 European concerns, including European defense company EADS, the helicopter manufacturer Eurocopter, and various French agencies. This spying was done at the behest of the NSA, and the information may have been fed back to American businesses.


 I pretty much knew this was going on , but didn't have any proof. Of course all sorts of American Senators, their political war chests to get elected again filled by american businesses , are going to pass along industrial secrets to american corperations. How exactly can that *NOT* happen ??? You think those corperations are giving away millions just for giggles and chuckles ? Millions ?

Uh uh.

The American Copywrite system now officially (it already had it unofficially) has another strike against it. That being that a goodly (but unknown , and you may be certain every american will deny THEIR Copywrites were stolen) number of the copyrights in that system don't actually belong to the owners. They were stolen by americans from over seas.

The price of doing business with americans is just too high if you ask me. They spy on everyone , and it aint to fight terrorists , they steal any copyright materials they can get and copyright them real quick , and all of that made in america electronics is probably full of electronic bugs to continue the spying that has been just so productive, how can they possibly *NOT* continue ?  Even if it is cut down to 10% of what it's been reveiling currently , they will reason , that's still a whopping huge amount. You don't dare kill the golden goose , money is everything right ?

Still looking for another computer , and antoher phone. It won't be an iphone or an android, and windows 10 will not be seen in my place. Not ever.

Where's Ottawa Boy

One of my friends decided to get cute and google my location. I think it's this guy.

Wow, looks like quite the psycho killer. 
Anyways. He noticed a church in the back ground of that pic I posted showing my new apartment , and did a google search of churches and ottawa , and then  he checked out the roof top patterns and the cracks in the road (you can see the cracks around the sewar if you look out the window) and came up with an address ... that wasn't perfect , but it was really really close. He's only off by a few meters.

And the only tool he used was google (search and street view).
It's frightenning how much can be learned with a few google searches. It really is. I think we are in an age where information about ourselves is out of our control.

This guy is actually a good friend so I'm not worried about him tracking me down. But the fact that a few google searchs from a stray picture can find my address is of deep concern to us all , I think.

RIP Walter Scott

It is illegal to advocate the commission of a crime. Both in Canada and in the USA. But what if there are ...legal problems ?

Legal problems , like in the american south, where the cops are essentially hunting down blacks as if they were game animals, and as in this video , putting a few bullets in the back of one that's running away. (Not allowed to shoot anyone who isn't a threat to another human being ...shooting someone in the back while he's fleeing , no matter what his criminal history , is a serious no no)  We all know this cop will never see the inside of a jail. In the American South , there is a one sided war going on. The Blacks get shot by the cops, and the cops make dang sure no one fights back.

How long until the blacks get tired of being used for target practice , throw away their cell phones and other devices that the FBI is most certainly using to spy on them and make sure they don't organize (but don't ask them for those recorded conversations to use as evidence against some cop ! ) and do it the old fashion way ?

Everyone knows, you can't run around shooting people and expect them not to defend themselves. Everyone knows many mideavil nations, like France , had themselves a revolution when the population got tired of being killed , and decided to introduce the nobility to madame guillotine.

Im not advocating the blacks rise up and take up arms.
I'm advocating the Klu Klux Klan and all of it's followers be thrown in jail , before they set the USA on fire.

Chairs

Article = none , personal experience


Moving homes without a moving truck is a pain. Luckily I had help. And a donation of chairs. Good chairs, which in my definition means chairs that won't collapse under my 305lbs weight (do you know how many fold up chairs there are with a 250lbs weight limit ? And the realy fancy sturdy ones have, hidden away in hard to find spots, a tag proclaiming hteir limit is actually only 225lbs ...? )

 This dour faced ray of sunshine is my friend George , who is helping me move these two chairs he gave me on the bus.

Wow. I gotta do something about that beard. That's my new dollar store cowboy hat, sells for about $2.50 each , and a white beard so thick children stop me on the street and call me Santa Clause. I tell them I'm on vacation.

Wow. I now have 3 chairs in my place. (and no table) That's quite a step up from one chair. I can actually have people over and more than one person at a time can sit down.

There's no place like home

Article = none , personal experience

 Moved to a new place. Potentially the last place i will ever live in , since it's city of ottawa housing. Or ...maybe when I turn 65 they'll decide it's not a good idea for the old folks to live with the  young hoodlems.
   Anyways...looks like the old fridge was a wreck, so I got a brand new one. Even has the paper work still in it.

 My spot on the floor. I used to sleep in my girlfriends bed (when she was at work) and it was very very comfortable. And after a few days I'd get these awful back aches. Then for one reason or another I wound up sleeping on the floor, and my back ache went away ? Weird. A whole industry built on selling you mattersses that seem to actually inflict back pain on you. One wonders what the point is ?

The baby blue pad with the electical cable is a Heating pad, you lie on it and despite the fact that you only have 2 blankets you're warm anyways because the electric pad keeps you warm at night.

Counter space counter space, where art thou counterspace ? Oh that red cup ...seems to be taking it all up, not that there was much in the first place. Hmm...gonna have to get a table or something.

Ok , yes it's a camping chair. But it has a 500lbs weight capacity, making it far superior to all those other 250lbs limit fold up chairs (and me weighing 305 lbs last time I checked !)

Saanich mayor vindicated by privacy commissioner's report on spyware

Article


VICTORIA — Less than two weeks after being sworn in as mayor, Saanich Mayor Richard Atwell learned he was being spied upon.
A whistleblower sidled up to the rookie mayor at a community event, last December, and suggested the mayor’s own staff had bugged his municipal computer.
Distrustful of Saanich’s top bureaucrats — many of whom were loyal to the six-term incumbent that Atwell had just upset at the polls — the mayor of Vancouver Island’s largest municipality felt he had only one option left: Launch his own investigation.
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Atwell’s suspicions were vindicated Monday in a report by privacy commissioner Elizabeth Denham, who said Saanich staff broke the law by installing spyware software called Spector 360 onto several municipal computers.
The district collected too much unnecessary personal information and didn’t provide proper notification to those being monitored, Denham ruled.
The software was also too invasive, tracking not only Atwell’s Internet and email usage, but also recording all the keystrokes he made and taking screenshots of his screen every 30 seconds, said Denham.


So the employee's of the Mayor decided they didn't like the new mayor and they put spyware on his machine .

Atwell has asked the Office of the Police Complaint Commissioner to review Saanich police conduct, as well as the conduct of the regional traffic unit that has pulled him over four times without issuing any infractions.


And they tried to get you arrested . And the police investigation was tainted of course , since the police were in on it. They were all loyal to the mayor of 6 terms who just got booted (6x4= 24 years )


See, this is the kind of nonsense I'm talking about. The police were in on the scam. If you can't trust the police who can you trust. Apparently , no one, because even the police were in on this effort to oust a duly elected mayor.

I do not know if Atwell is a good mayor  , or a terrible mayor. But I do know , it is the responsibility of the electorate to decide who is mayor , not the police , and not some bureaucrat in IT who owes the previous administration a favor. For us to permit someone to take away our right to vote , and have that vote actually mean something , is to turn us into the blacks of Ferguson , Missouri, who were abused and even murdered by the politico's , because their vote didn't matter. They never got to vote.

Mark my words. Let someone take your vote from you , and that's what your town / city will turn into.

Driver beware: Your new car may be spying on you

Article


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Electronic control units keep track of everything from how fast you drive to how long your car idles and how suddenly you brake, the report says. Your car’s GPS system, for example, also keeps track of your exact location, sending that information to the car’s manufacturer, or possibly a third-party call centre or an insurance agency.
Detailed information about where a person spends their time paints an intimate picture of their life, the report says, and can be dangerous in the wrong hands.
“Such data can be used to embarrass or blackmail a person, to stalk individuals, to steal identities, to facilitate robberies, or to create a profile that can then be used by commercial entities in unexpected ways.”  "
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What might not be so obvious to motorists, however, are the consequences of having your car constantly monitored.
“You watch it and you go, ‘that’s really interesting, that’s really useful,’ ” Gogolek told CTVNews.ca in a phone interview. “Then you go, ‘wait a second -- if they have microphones in the car, can they listen to what I’m saying?’ ”
Though it doesn’t appear GM’s mics are always on, it wasn’t too long ago that a Ford executive unsettled attendees at a data-privacy panel discussion.
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And a recent example of your car keeping tabs on you is rental company Hertz installing driver-facing cameras in their rental cars – though they say the cameras are “inactive.”
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So ... the car has a microphone AND a camera pointed at the driver, GPS , and about 70 other sensors. And they're selling this info not only to insurance people, but to anyone else who's got two nickles to rub together (selling your daily route to advertisers).

I can see the salespitch.

This is *YOUR* car ! Enjoy ! But *We* will be watching your every move , and every time *YOU* fart *WE* will sell that information to McDonalds who will try and sell you new hambergers. PS : Thank you for the internet connection that *YOU* provide for *OUR* benifit.

Another brick in the wall of that filter bubble.

What is a filter bubble ?

It is where they control your internet searches , the signs you see along the road, your phone, etc etc, to convince you that 8$ is a reasonable price for a loaf of bread, but the guy behind you is only paying 4$. Basically , it's an opportunity to rip you off. And that's before you get into political types who disenfranchise you from voting because they believe you'll vote against them (robocall scandel was only the beginning) , and any activist pointing out that anyone anywhere is cheating the system some how. (Enbridge had a few more pipe line leaks..oh we gotta silence that , CRTC made a decision Bell didn't like, bells lapdog CTV is going to heavily slant that , Big Business wants more TFW's because hiring canadians is just so passè , we gotta silence anyone who protests that ...etc etc)

New Ferguson municipal judge hears first round of cases

ARTICLE

The Missouri Supreme Court appointed Judge Roy Richter to handle the caseload. A statement from the state chief justice’s office indicated Richter will bring a fresh, disinterested perspective to the courts’ practices and will be able and willing to implement needed reforms. The statement went on to indicate it’s not just Ferguson; it’s entirely possible statewide changes are needed to the judicial system.
And while others agreed Judge Richter seems fair, some felt a new judge cannot bring about necessary changes.
“Once the police cite me, it’s too late for a judge to make a difference,” he said Morris.



 Meet the new boss. Same as the old boss.
Got a fine for "walking with attitude " ? He can't void it. He's gonna make you pay it anyways.
Hes going to enforce all those illegal and unconstitutional Municiple Laws.

The racist white regime of america keeps right on rolling along, robbing the black man every time he turns around.

My Email Friend

Artical = none , personal experience



   I met a man once, well , I emailed him. For a time.

   He had Aspergers Syndrome , or so he said, and I looked it up.

   But the medical description was nothing like what I saw.

Asperger syndrome (AS), also known as Asperger's syndrome, Asperger disorder (AD) or simply Asperger's, is an autism spectrum disorder (ASD) that is characterized by significant difficulties in social interaction and nonverbal communication, alongside restricted and repetitive patterns of behavior and interests. It differs from other autism spectrum disorders by its relative preservation of linguistic and cognitive development. Although not required for diagnosis, physical clumsiness and atypical (peculiar or odd) use of language are frequently reported.[1][2] The diagnosis of Asperger's was eliminated in the 2013 fifth edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-5) and replaced by a diagnosis of autism spectrum disorder on a severity scale.[3]

   His messages had no context, he had to keep reminding you what he was talking about , resulting in several paragraphs of text where a simple sentence would suffice.

   And he had no ... sense of humour ? No understanding of double meanings. If you told him the joke about a man with a duck walking into a bar and asking the bartender to put it on the ducks bill ... he will not realize that "the ducks bill" could refer to the ducks physical bill on the ducks face, or the bill (or tab) that the duck was running up by purchasing products. He'll see one or the other, he won't see both. Then he'll think you're crazy, and possibly dangerous. Why are you babbling nonsense ? Are you going to get violent next ? Are you insane in the literal clinical sense ? And it goes down hill from there.

   He honestly believed he was the only sane person on the planet , and that everyone else was crazy. That the lunatics were running the insane asylem and there was nothing he could do about it.

   The Royal Ottawa Hospital (the local mental institute) wasn't much help. As far as they were concerned, if they could get him to pretend to be sort of normal , long enough to hit the grocery store and come back, they didn't care how much he howled at the moon when he was home, or what craziness he engaged in. There's a shortage of beds in the mental institute, and this guy can at least care for himself and isn't a danger to the public, let him loose.

   I spoke with him over many emails , he refused to meet in person , and I quickly figured out that would be a bad idea, and I got the distinct impression of the old Opera singers. The ones that could hit ridiculously high notes because they'd been castrated before puberty , and who never really complained about the inability to have sex, because they'd never had that ability in the first place. How can you miss something you've never had ?

   There were pieces of his brain , empathy , and holistic thought (seeing the big picture) and understanding double meanings ... these were not functioning in him. And apparently , they'd never been functioning. He was vaguely aware of the words, probably others had informed him of this as well , but they meant nothing to him. How could he miss something he'd never had ? A blind man may hear of the wonders of sight , but if he's been blind from birth and never seen , he's just going to ignore you when you speak on that topic.

   He doesn't like the modern definition of autism. He's able to quote it to me , but he doesn't believe in it. He speaks of a much older definition , apparently from the time of world war II. Hitler's people first diagnosed Asperger's syndrome , it seemed, and their definition was "every smart person on the planet". And they had plans to elminate all of the Asperger Sufferers. But the problem was, they needed smart people for science and engineering and winning the war ...

   I mentioned the inability to see the larger picture ? He was never able to resolve that inherent conflict between "kill all the smart people" and "we need smart people to win the war" . He alternates between thinking about one , and thinking about the other. He doesn't even see they are opposites and you can only walk down one of those paths.

   And he's got a touch of parania. He believes to this day there is a world wide conspiracy to kill the smart people. And he lacks the ability to notice he's 70 , and in good health , and receiving free health care in canada , despite the government already knowing his relatively high IQ . That's not the actions of some organization out to kill you. But he can't see that , and he hangs onto his belief that they're coming to get him. Some day. Don't bother joking about they'd better hurry or he'll die of old age first, he won't see the funny.

   In fergusan Missouri a white cop shot a black man.

   The initial forensic report showed it was a black hood who tried to get the cops gun , got a few bullets for his trouble , and eventually wound up dead by lead poisoning. Pow pow. Open and shut case end of story. Hey there was even a witness, a black guy , testifying to the whole thing.

   Months later , it turns out the witness lied, and the cop had in fact shot the guy at point blank range while standing over him , and the bullets entered through the black mans skull and went down into his torso. Guy had been on his knee's and the cop executed him.

   Relevance to my story ?

   To this day , every white guy in america quotes the first , erronious forensic report as if it were gospel , and think you're crazy , or prejudiced , if you disagee with them. Every black guy quotes the second autopsy showing a very different version of events, one in which that unarmed black man was executed.

   And both sides stick to their guns.

   There was even a report from the Department of Justice showing wide spread corruption and persecution of the black man . One white man read just a piece of the report noted that even dogs were being blamed for being racists and dismissed the report . (Hint...the dogs bite who their police masters tell them to bite, they don't choose on their own...back to a human made decision !)

   It's like everyone in the world has Aspergers. They believe what they like , and they ignore any evidence they don't like. And if you disagree with them, you're part of the racist movement twisting events all out of shape (which shape ? depends on which side you're talking to). And they honestly believe what they're saying. They're bullet proof. Firing facts at them doesn't work  , they ignore those facts.

   Sometimes I wonder if they have Aspergers, or if it's a "filter" problem. They live in a world where everyone lies to them and they filter it out, to the point where they're now filtering out the truth as well.

   My friend in the email was born in the age of world war II. Hitler was in his youth. It was the first thing he learned as he grew up , I suppose it's natural for him to hang onto it all the days of his life. Perhaps he's not paranoid after all. Perhaps he simply learned his lessons very well as a boy , and it's way too late for this old dog to learn new tricks.

   The disturbing thing is , American Newspapers are very quick to print blame articals when something happens , bold and on the first page, and when they find out the truth , it's months later and a little tiny article near the back page. Leaving a lot of Americans with false information. Information they will defend for the rest of their lives.

   What good is a news service that openly lies to you ?

   My friend in the email was my father. And he taught me one more lesson as well. When my mother decided to dump him and never speak to him again , she did me a real big favor. Guy is as fruity as a nut cake, and is likely due for another stay in the Royal Ottawa. His ability to pass for minimally sane is slipping.

   I "lost" (read that erased) the email address and never speak to him again.

   Lesson to everyone out there. When looking up your long lost Father or mother or brother or such ... leave an escape route. There may be very good reasons that he 's long lost.

Barbie and her NSA Adventure

Artical = http://www.ctvnews.ca/lifestyle/eavesdropping-new-barbie-has-parents-group-worried-1.2278311

Once a button on the doll is pressed, the Barbie will record a child's voice with its embedded microphone. That recording would then to be sent via Wi-Fi to Mattel’s technology partner, ToyTalk, which would process the audio with voice-recognition software and help the Barbie come up with a chatty response.


 Ahem.
The doll is going to transmit everything it hears across the internet , and then a response will be transmitted back.
In this age where the NSA is working hard to destroy all encryption and lay everything open to be easily hacked , "We're fighting Terrorists darn it ! You're helping terrorists if you encrypt your stuff !" , you want to transmit everything said in the room across the internet.

Also ... the notion that you have to push a button for it to do this is nice, but LG / Samsung already did this with their "smart TV" that listens for voice commands, and offically can be turned off. The off switch turned out not to work.

So , Matel has joined the list of people trying to get a microphone into your living room (LG and Samsung with their TV's , Microsoft with it's Connect Controller , which is a camera not a microphone) and transmit EVERYTHING across the internet to a server for processing.

Can this NSA crap get any more depressing ? Your cell phones, your computers, your email , american routers , anything that transmits information across the internet (I'm looking at you , Internet of Things , and you're bizarre idea that I need a radio ID chip in my blue jeans to lead a full and productive life ...)

Sheesh.

There is one thing I would like to point out to this easily hacked toy that NSA will catagorically refuse to allow to have functioning encryption on.

"Lets go to the front door , Annie . My friend Ken is waiting there to give us cookies ! How about that ?" I'll let you figure out who's really waiting at the front door.

Comments from my reader

"Do stories on the West African Ebola outbreak, and the forces of ISIS operating in Iraq and Syria!"
- anonymous


Ok, someone is reading my blog , hurray ! I thought I was writing just to blow off steam.

Ebola Outbreak : 
   It's a disease. It's bad. I'm not a doctor what do I know about it ?  Oopsie...

ISIS :
   ISIS are bad people doing bad things. I completely disagree with their ethos , many muslims actually are declaring them infidels and non-islamic because they're breaking the shia (muslim holy law). And boko harum (more or less means they dislike western education) isn't much better.
   Trouble is , there isn't much controversy here. Everyone , including their fellow Muslims (whom they are industriously hunting down and killing ) agree's they're bad people and someone should stop them. Not a lot to write about.

Charlie Hedbo
   I don't think they should be insulting muslims by drawing a picture of Mohammed. But then again , I don't think they should get much more than a fine for that.  Shooting them down with machine guns is outragous. We run our countries our ways (ie: each western country is beholden to it's own electorate) and people with guns from the other side of the world don't get a say in the matter.


Fergusan Missuri
   I think they murdered that black guy. I think , (according to the coroner and autopsy)  , he got down on his knees , and the cop stood over him at close range , and put two bullets in his skull. (The cops story is of course radically different than this)  .
   This cop , caught red handed, his story radically different than the coroner's evidence,  was let off with no penalty at all. Literaly they slapped him on the back and said "good job". Of course the blacks are rioting.  If someone declared it open season on all whities , kill all you like, they'd be rioting too.
   I think the prime responsibility for this situation is the Mayor and the City Council . They should be thrown in jail.
   And I think they will not be. They will get off scott free.

Ok. I think that brings us up on current affairs.

C-51 : Broader powers for CSIS
   No one cares that you want to arrest more terrorists Go for it.
   But we do care that these new laws could be turned against the canadian population. One need only look to the south to see the games they play to disenfranchise blacks. Certificates of 100$ or more to prove you're a voter (blacks only) , a math test that if you're white they ask you what 2+2 is , but if you're black they have this big huge jar of jelly beans and if you can't guess (correctly !) exactly how many are in you are shown the door, all sorts of games that make the canadian robocall scandel look tame.
   I think they need to put in some kind of "for anti- terrorism purposes only" clause, or the next thing you know CSIS will be tracking your cell phone and your car and you'll be getting parking violation fines in the mail because CSIS will pass along the "Terrorist" info to the city police. 




Personal Life

   Personally , I'm moving to a bachelor pad under public housing, after a 5 year wait. The rent is cheap, the place kind of looks like a prison with the barren halls and thick doors that are basically not going to get kicked in , and I'll probably spend the rest of my days in there. Who gives up a cheap apartment when you can simply lock the door and ignore the neibours, no matter how obnoxious they get ?
   Why am I telling you this ? I'm assuming Mrs Anonymous is my sister in toronto rather than some random stranger :) but if you are a random stranger , feel free to ignore this paragraph.

Ferguson, Missouri, Cops murder blacks

Article = http://www.economist.com/blogs/democracyinamerica/2015/03/law-enforcement

One of the things I dislike about many newspapers is the refusal to call a spade a spade. Not inciting riots , or calming things down , is the order of the day . Fixing the problem and punishing those responsible ... tossed aside as unimportant.

"EIGHT months after the fatal shooting of a local unarmed black teenager by a white police officer, tensions still simmer in the streets of Ferguson, Missouri. Last night about 150 demonstrators congregated where they always meet: in front of the police station on South Florissant Avenue. They rallied because of the resignation earlier yesterday of Thomas Jackson, the head of Ferguson police, in the wake of a scathing report by the Department of Justice (DOJ) that found that racial bias and petty harassment was rife in his force. Most of the demonstrators applauded Mr Jackson’s departure, but called for more heads to roll."

 "Walking with Attitude" was the biggest one. The officer judged you had attitude and gave you a 50$ fine.  Since the police chief was getting pressure to give out more and more fines from the Mayor, and this was considered an important source of income for the city , pretty much every time they saw a black man they fined him. Or black woman.

And when tensions explode, the police start shooting people.

https://youtu.be/xEuaew3uyhY

This video is a re-enactment of the shooting. At the end is the autopsy results that show that Brown was shot from very close range while he was kneeling , which is in direct conflict of the story the officer gave of brown stealing the officers gun and then running away, and somehow magically not firing the gun once, but the officer fired it six times inflicting six wounds in Brown , at some distance as brown ran away.

Despite the obviously guilty officer executing a kneeling brown , he was cleared of all charges.

Which is pretty much telling the black community "Open season on all blacks ! No Bag limit !"

Yeah , this is why posts pointing this out in american papers are quickly surpressed. No one wants them rioting (they're rioting anyways) no one wants to add fuel to the fire ... and no one wants to fix the situation.

The problem here is the definition of policing , and occupying.

Police are supposed to be friendly. They're supposed to hunt the criminals and protect the innocent. (hint : A 50$ ticket every time a cop see's you is not condusive to police and civilians being on friendly terms)

Occupiers are under no such limitations. Hunting "insurgents" (violent enemy troops) means a lot of rules get broken.  But the point of occupation is , you need an army. You *WILL* take casualties. You are fighting armed enemy troops , you are pissing the population off , you are occupying the place.

If you want to be a cop, then police them.

If you want to be an occupier , you understand , occupiers take casualties. And this is not the fault of the occupied population. This is the cost of occupying territory that isn't yours, that isn't friendly to you. Either because it belongs to someone else, or because of people you essentially believe to be slaves , and how can any slave be on friendly terms to their "masters" ?

Last night about 150 demonstrators congregated where they always meet: in front of the police station on South Florissant Avenue. They rallied because of the resignation earlier yesterday of Thomas Jackson, the head of Ferguson police, in the wake of a scathing report by the Department of Justice (DOJ) that found that racial bias and petty harassment was rife in his force

 It is so typically american to arrest the wrong person. The Chief of Police had nothing to do with this. He was obeying the orders of the Mayor and the City Council.  He is being sacrificed to the crowd.

The problem here is that every mayor and city council in America is watching , and as far as they're concerned, if that mayor can get away with this , even if only for a few years before it falls apart, why can't they ? And this pattern will be repeated over and over.  This is the price for rewarding criminals when you should be punishing them.

The demonstrators were just about to pack up at around midnight when gun shots suddenly rang through the air, injuring two policemen who were part of a cordon of officers standing side-by-side to protect the police station. The two policemen were from the neighbouring St Louis county police department, as the Ferguson force had asked for back-up last night. The department was "lucky by God’s grace we didn’t lose two officers,” said Jon Belmar, head of the St Louis county police. The men were released from hospital today. Meanwhile the shooter remains at large.

 It was the luck of fools. Fools who shoot themselves in the foot only to find by some freak accident the bullets were badly manufactured and wont' fire. It wasn't god protecting you , if anything , it was the luck of the damned. And those arn't officers. Those are soldiers , in an occupying army. And soldiers take casualties. And you are the criminal for telling them anything else.

And next time they won't miss.  No one is that lucky.
And there will be a next time , because you will use this time as justification to beat your slaves even harder, extort more money out of them , and murder a few more of them.

The crowning irony will be when you catch some poor innocent black man , beat the crap out of him and force a confession , while the real shooter is just biding his time waiting to strike again. Framing people isn't so much fun , when the real criminal is still out there waiting to take another shot.

This is the price you pay , when you turn your police into soldiers. When you occupy a place , instead of police it.

It should probably be noted : I am not condoning violence. I'm not saying "go out and shoot a cop".  I am simply pointing out , that by the actions of one James Knowles , Mayor of Ferguson, and his cohorts Mark J. Byrne, Kim Tihen  , Dwayne T. James , David Conway,  Keith Kallstrom , all members of the city council , they have the death of at least one man , and the injury of two cops  on their hands. 

They are the real criminals here. 
And they will never be charged with anything.

 

Our Broken Internet

article =Charlie Hebdo: 'Islamist cyber attacks' hit France

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On Thursday, the head of cyber security for the French military, Vice Admiral Arnaud Coustilliere, said that "structured" groups and "well known Islamist hackers" were behind the attacks against the 20,000 sites, but did not elaborate.

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Welcome to our broken internet. 

How is it broken ? 

A bunch of religious nut cases on the other side of the world can now dictate what sites can and cannot opperate, based on their religious views. They don't care about your religious views. 

How do we fix this internet ?

We cannot. 

The American NSA is actively working to prevent you from securing the internet from anyone who might hack you. Oh , in their view point they're fighting terrorism, they want to be able to hack anyone in the whole wide world. But by putting in a back door , trap door, whatever they call it, into your network , they're openning it to every hacker in the world. 

And it's been in the news pretty much every day for a year now that NSA likes to hack encryption and put in back doors, and when asked to stop the only response we got was from President Obama telling us to "GET OVER IT" he has no intention of stopping. 

Our current internet is for entertainment purposes only. 

You can't run a business on it, because entire nation states will hack you. Brazil , for example is ticked that NSA got caught red handed trying to help an american company win a contract in their oil industry (big money) against Petrobrazil.  This is why all american companies got the boot from brazil , and why they're now building their own undersea data cable straight to europe , bypassing american snooping.

It will be interesting to see what happens with that Data Cable , since it has been mentioned on several groups that the americans have a submarine called the USS Jimmy Carter specifically equipped for bugging undersea cables. But that cable is more than a year, possibly a couple of years, away so we're not getting any updates any time soon. 

There are articles to this day about some kind of double ellipse random number generator used in encryption that has a "trap door" , apparently if you feed the right numbers into it , somehow , and it's used in certain encryption algorythms, you can figure out the password quite easily. The details are not at all clear to me, the part where they sabataged your encryption and stuff you thought was hidden , is not , is pretty clear. 

Why is encryption important ?  

It's used by everyone. Banks, the military , police agencies (lives are on the line there, a lit of under cover operatives infiltrating drug gangs could get a lot of cops killed).

And now everyone knows to bang away at encryption , any encryption , because it's probably been sabataged. The UK government is thinking about banning encryption entirely if it doesn't have a back door to let them in (you gotta know the criminals, and terrorists are going to go looking for that back door). 

The problem here is that you're not encrypting your stuff against your next door neibours, and the 20 guys that live in your neibourhood who probably don't know squat about encryption. 

The problem is your little computer is hooked into the whole world, and there are entire nation states that have decided they want access to everything, every where. Every mom and pop shop, every private user just playing games, everything. 

And in their footsteps follow the terrorists who want to draw up a list of Infidels and execute them (there have already been news reports of ISIS making mal ware to find the real world location of their enemies and then sending over death squads...) 

And staying quiet and not bothering people has , historically , never actually worked. Plus the Sunni Muslims and the  Shi'ite muslims consider not only all non muslims in the world to be infidels, but each other as well , and you now have hundreds of millions of people who think you're an Infidel and desperately need to be killed, no matter what faith you follow.  (or even pretend to follow). No matter what you state as your faith , someone isn't going to like it. 

The time has come to take this internet technology , that is mostly copy lefted (free for anyone to use) and make your own internal network , and not connect it to anyone else. Just use it to share the printer on your floor. The time has come to contact your client via cell phone (voice or text message) and keep the content of the message down to "I'm down stairs please open the door" , or "Meet you at the cafe at 3pm " or "I just sent a courier over with the documents on a USB stick" or some such. 

Teleconferencing is now out for most companies, because they generally want to keep the contents of their little management meetings private. 

The time has come for private individuals to throw trash on their face book or other public accounts. Assuming you can't just shut them down. Make friends with people you don't really like. Claim you are an avid knitter, and then ignore all the knitting advertisments you will be flooded with. If anyone tries to analyze your face book for sales data, it should be full of errors, because "sales analysis" is a fancy way of saying "how can we double the price and he'll actually pay it , whether he likes it or not". 

The time has come for national data networks, networks that only work for one country , and kick everyone else out. Why ? Because CSIS (the canadian version of NSA) is beholden to the canadian voter, and so they can't get too obnoxious without some politician coming down on them.  But the USA's NSA doesn't give a rats behind what the Canadian Voter thinks, so they'll give us the middle finger and continue to gang rape our privacy and commit industrial espianoge and everything they can to get whatever they can out of it.

(il ?) Legal Downloading

Article = none, personal opinion.

What is illegal downloading.
I have struggled to understand this question for a while now, and the answer isn't as simple as you think. The answer isn't "downloading stuff illegally" , technically an answer but hardly does it answer any questions.

Illegal downloading is ... like putting up a stand to sell seeds in the middle of the street, and posting a sign that says "10 cents a package". 

It's not your street.  And you leave the stand unattended a lot, in the middle of this buy street. And the shop owners nearby don't like you , because they pay taxes for their property , and you do not. And the owner of the seeds really don't like you , because you bought a few of their seeds last month, and then grew your own , and now you're selling new seeds, seeds that have never seen the inside of their shop.

and the owner of the stand is yelling at the police he's been robbed, frequently, by passers by who keep stealing his seeds when he's not around, which is a lot. And he wants the cops to go black mail these people into giving him money for those seeds, and no returning the seeds isn't good enough because they've probably grown new ones by the time the cops catch them.

Yes. That's what illegal downloading is.
You're selling stuff on someone elses network. Someone who's not just a random stranger, they're your direct business competition. You're not paying them for use of their network, but you are expecting them to enforce security for your business. And I suppose the ultimate insult is that the thing you are selling , the software or movies ? It's not running on your equipment , it's running on someone elses equipment (the customers own their own computers) . So what exactly are you providing here ?

You made some junk , you gave it away for free (or should have known it would get away free) and now you want every cop in the world to be your salesman.  And you aint paying a sales commission. You want them to work free of charge at this. Arresting the very people they are being paid to protect , to protect your profits, oh and you probably arn't even from that country.

This is all  A SICK JOKE  !!!!

Go back to the old days where you ran your own TV network. Oh wait, we're still there. Those old TV networks are still here they're now into internet as well, but they still sell TV. 

Then who are you with the illegal download complaints ?

You're some JACK ASS from the other side of the world who released some low quality recordings and now wants THE ENTIRE FREAKING WORLD to pay up , because you set up a stand on someone elses turf, let a few people steal your products, and now you want to send the cops after them.

This problem has a solution. Rather a simple one. But that solution wouldn't profit you because NO ONE WOULD ACTUALLY BUY YOUR CRAP IF THEY KNEW THEY WERE MAKING A PURCHASE.  it's one thing to download 10 movies a day if they're free. It's another to look at my wallet and realize I can only afford one movie a month , what ever shall I buy this month ...

Even worse. The crap you're forcing people to buy (I won't say sell) is as ephereal as vapours. No one has a disk in their hand. No one has some kind of object with the movie, or song, or game. And when we do purchase from you , you pull stunts like "Only works on our player, gotta pay so much a month , every month , FOREVER , or we cut you off from your own library that you spent hundreds of dollars on. "

First time my devcie, computer, whatever crashes, I lose it all. If I catch a virus, and have to reformat and wipe it all down , I lose it all.

What you should do (but you won't , because drafting every cop in the world to be your unpaid salesman is cheaper) is put commercials inside those shows to pay for them. Make special formats that only work on special players (ps4 consol games, music, etc , doesn't get copied and stolen). Upload patches every now and then so that if someone tries to make a software player you can change the format and the software dev (who's working for free) will quickly give up after a time or two.

The solution isn't a bigger "10 Cents a pop" sign on your candy stand in the middle of someone elses street. The solution is get the heck off the street entirely, you have no business being there.

The Death of Eric Garner

http://youtu.be/pvATEjsf41g

This man is dead.
You'll notice he did not resist arrest, though the police no doubt will claim he did. Watch the video for yourself and make  up your own mind on this point.
Officer Daniel Pantaleo was cleared of any wrong doing by a US Grand Jury.
This decision , apparently , means it's ok to kill people when you arrest them.

And you wonder why the rioting continues.

Interesting point. The police apparently are not permitted to stop people from recording incidents like this. There's no way they couldn't know the guy with the camera was recording , but they made no attempt to stop him. 

Loblaws and the Data Pad

article = none, personal experience.

Went to the Loblaws yesterday (at Elmvale Shopping Center , here in Ottawa), they had a Black Friday Special , an android data pad , 4 gigabytes. Only 39.95 . It was in their flyer and everything.

Lined up for 7am this morning , before they even openned.

The things were gone. The manager admitted that one had been sold to a staff member ,and simply shrugged indifferently that the others were missing (there had been a pile of 4).

Hmm...show up and they're all sold out BEFORE the doors even open ? Thats gotta be some kind of illegal. False advertising or something.

Is the NSA Evil ?

Wow , I've really been picking on the NSA lately , havn't I ? Just looked down the list of previous blog posts and you'd almost thing I had a fetish over them or something ?

I can't decide if it's because I'm bored , or because there's nothing else going on. I mean , there is that war against ISIS , but I found a TV show (in english) being aired in Iraq where they catch a few suicide bombers and take them back to the places they struck , and then the regular (muslim) citizens come out and start screaming at them about how they have very little and you burned it all down you (swear word, swear word sweear word) how could you do this ?

The only relevant answer any of them gave was " to degrade iraqi security".

Huh ? You're degrading security so you can invade a muslim country ... to conquer it for who ? They're already muslims. You're already muslims ...

Yeah. This ISIS thing isn't a religious war, it's just gangsters running around in a place with no cops.

Any ways, back to the NSA.

Lets pretend you live in a western nation , and the police , an actual agency of the government it doesn't matter which one , decide they need your bank records.  Sounds ok so far , right ?

So they go to the bank on a sunday , when no one is around  and they pick the lock. But they're not very good lock picks so they break the lock , and they go in and disable the alarms, and they're not very good at it , so they leave the alarms disabled. They look up your bank records, print out a couple of copies, and they're pretty happy and they walk away.

Leaving the alarms to the bank off , and the door still unlocked.

Oh , and one police officers took a copy home with him , and his kid got a hold of it , and made paper air planes out of it, and sent them flying off out the window to god only knows where.

You'd be pretty ticked, wouldn't you ?

The NSA broke standard encryption.
That is to say , they sabataged encryption standards so that it was easy to break encryption , and then they pushed these broken standards on everyone in the world.
This is the equivilant of pushing faulty locks on everyone in the world. You think your door is locked, but hte first time a criminal takes a run at it , he's going to find it dang easy to open.

And that is the problem here. NSA didn't just insert a back door for their own use to get at peoples records. They left the door wide open , flapping in the wind, for everyone , every hacker in the world , to come in and help themselves. And so the Russian Hackers did. And so the Chinese hackers did.  And all those terrorists that the NSA claims they're fighting ? Yeah , they took a run at the (broken) encryption as well.

If you were a tax payer, and you had a government organization that professed loud and long that it's job was to fight terrorism , but it went and made it easy for the terrorists to hack into ... well...everything. AND , to this day , they still object if anyone tries to harden their encryption , they loudly proclaim YOU are assisting terrorists by defending yourself from every hacker in the world .... what would you think ?

Think about it.

What do we do about the NSA ?

Article = None , personal Opinion

What do we Do about the NSA ?

NSA , intercepting traffic on sub sea cables and recording that traffic.

NSA , intecepting phone calls inside of america , claiming they only listen in on meta data .

NSA , repeatedly lying to their own senate, and getting caught.

NSA , sharing information with the FBI , so they can "create parrallel lines of investigation" to convict (read that "Frame" ) drug dealers, their right to defend themselves and face their accusers effectively revoked by divine fiat (oops... presidential fiat , I meant to say)
   Hmm... do I really want to get into the part where we're defending drug dealers ? Isn't that Ichy ? Well...how do we know they're drug dealers ... because they were convicted ... Oh right ... they were framed, the conviction is a fantasy of the FBI's "perfect case" that doesn't require a shred of real evidence, becuase the 'real evidence' is actually highly illegal to bring into a court so they just made stuff up.
   Rather like convicting me because you know where my phone was , but tracking my phone is illegal , so you'll pay an informant to say I was at 9th and Trembley , oh I deny it I must be lying of course people who commit crimes lie  ! , and deny me the opportunity to point out that my girlfriends phone died that day so i lent her mine until she could recharge hers ...

NSA sabataged encryption standards , so as to hack and read anyones messages.

NSA writes malware to infect computers owned by people they don't like.

NSA has committed industrial espionage (Petrobrazil , hacked their computers to see what their bid was on a Brazilian project and give the information to a competing american corperation so the american could win , which is why brazil has been ticked at USA for over a year now ... )

On and on , and every day new revelations.

What do we do about these terrible , terrible people ?

Not a dang thing. 

Huh ? Excuse me ,you just went on for a whole page about their terrible crimes. What do you mean not a dang thing ?

The USA has made a number of promises. Promises about being a great democracy , a beacon of freedom, a safe haven for capitalism. And quite frankly , it has fallen down and broken many of those promises. No question at all about it.

But it is still a better place to live than Russia. As much as I admire Edward Snowden and consider him a hero for unveiling the dishonesty of the NSA , and in truth the entire USA (ie: Obama is backing up the NSA to the hilt, so we gotta blame the whole government , it isn't just "one rogue branch" ) , as much as I admire him , I have no intention of joining him in russia.

As much as I admire China's efforts to get another operating system off the the ground and kick the windows habit , that admiration stems from a need for all of us , all nations (except the USA) needing to kick the windows habit, and it's good to pay attention to the guy going first so you don't make the mistakes he made. I have no intention of moving to china , and I certainly don't applaude their endless cycle of human rights violations (except maybe against the muslim radicals ...) I merely watch with the interest of one who knows we are next in line to walk the same path.

Because lets face it. You can't plant spy devices in stuff when people are watching you. They'll say things like "That's a USA phone ? You know the NSA is listenning on everything you do , right ? Oh ,and they share that info wtih the FBI and even local law enforcement, so the average cop on the street is probably listenning in on your phone as well "

If you are a foriegn government building a secure network , and the USA twists your arm and makes you sign a treaty saying USA corperations (whom you KNOW FOR CERTAIN will plant bugs in that suddenly not so secure network) are allowed to bid  , and they routinley underbid local corperations , guess what ? You don't have to accept anyone's bid . You can turn around and decide you aint going to waste the money , because it's supposed to be a secure netowrk , and it obviously isn't secure.
   And if they force you to bulid it anyways, you will build the crappiest , most worthless "secure" network you can get away with it , and then warn everyone within a country mile it's being spied on they shouldn't use it. Then you'll stop paying the bills to maintain it and let it slowly fall apart.

I predict the rise of a new kind of secure network. And it will be called "Sneaker Net". And it will be guys in sneakers with security clearances and usb sticks and chits for unlimited taxi rides running back and forth all over the capital city of every nation in the world. And it will be ok for them to talk with the cabbie , because they have no idea whats on the usb sticks they carry so they can't reveil anything anyways.

I predict Joe Average will stop using the current , infested internet . He will have no choice. The number of hacking incidents is always rising. And after your bank account gets cleared out a time or two , you kind of get the picture maybe this internet is crap , and you don't care that people blame you for having a weak password or what not , you just know you can't make rent this month because some russian (or chinese) hackers just cleared you out.

I predict Joe Average will lay some cable of his own  so his near by neibours and himself can share information without some hackers on the other side of the world getting copies. I predict this cabling will be artfully not mentioned to anyone in authority, because that annoying TIPPS or TAPPS or whatever it is treaty just may come into force , rendering such "private networks" totally illegal , but people will do them anyways.

I predict people meeting at coffee shops , with lap tops , and ignoring the free wifi , as they sit and chat and drink their copy , and exchange usb sticks, and copy data back and forth , and return the usb sticks, keeping a copy of the information. All without any of it being transmitted over the air or across a wire for any intelligence agency or hacker anywhere to copy.

I predict MMO games (online virtual worlds) will become one of the few applications to remain on the old network , for a time, because you pretty much know you're associating with a bunch of total strangers and you're not going to reviel your life secrets to them.  But even that time may be limited, because even this last week , the beginning of September 2014 , a group of hackers tried to take down World of Warcraft , one of the largest MMO's on the planet. And in five years, who knows, maybe they'll succeed in knocking it off , at which point the internet will likely be declared unusuable and be scrapped anyways.

Won't that be a hoot. NSA invests all this effort into forcing everyone onto this one , single internet , one with no security they havn't sabataged , so they can spy on the world. Woopsie ... can't actually use the thing it's full of spammers and hackers and black mailers who keep knocking your servers off line !  Ferget about it lets try something different ...

 

TTPA

This is the part where our politicians sell our country out from under us , pocket some bribe money , and leave town quick.
Note the part where it mentions 9 other countries ? They mean Canada as well.

Don't talk to the police. ESPECIALLY if you're innocent.

http://youtu.be/6wXkI4t7nuc



Now this is just plain frightenning. "No officer , I don't know anything about it." will get you convicted ? whoa...

You Can Trust Government

Illegal Spying Below

http://youtu.be/EsEkmHRbThk

Watch the Video. That's all I gotta say.

Searching for truth in Gaza conflict

article 

It has been my observation certain news articles , especially unpopular ones, tend to mysteriously vanish. So , I'm copying this one , in full, it was written by John Robson , QMI agency  , in the toronto sun. 

With Israel winding down its incursion into Gaza, we search through the physical and mental rubble for lessons. As usual, an air of unreality permeates the exercise.
The conventional wisdom seems to be that a brutal Israeli overreaction to Hamas provocations outraged world opinion and forced Tel Aviv back to the negotiating table with reasonable local players and its staunch American ally to seek a two-state solution to help the poor Palestinians. Not one bit of that is true.

OK. The Hamas provocations were real, from rocket attacks to an elaborate expensive network of terror tunnels. But Israel did not overreact and was not brutal.
Those who say “Israel has a right to defend itself but…” have never explained what it could have done that would have been less forceful yet effective. And despite the common narrative of Israel as a callous bully spraying fire at civilians and outraging world opinion, the IDF acted to minimize civilian and maximize jihadi deaths with considerable effect.

Most accounts tell you the bulk of victims were “civilians” then list a few dead children for added pathos. And all decent people are horrified by non-combatant deaths, young or old, and wish they could be avoided. But in fact a far higher proportion of the dead are young men with terrorist affiliations than would result from careless or random fire. And Hamas has been storing weapons in schools, firing from beside hospitals, hiding tunnel entrances behind UNRWA signs and otherwise seeking to maximize innocent deaths it can then exploit for publicity and recruitment.
Why do we hear so little of this? Because the official account of events within Gaza comes from Hamas, which doesn’t just kill Jews and its own people without compunction, as human shields or in brutal extralegal torture-murders of suspected collaborators. It also routinely bullies and threatens journalists, who then say, and omit, what Hamas dictates without mentioning that they report under duress.

As for international “pressure” helping end the incursion, world opinion may influence the course of debate in a genuinely divided society like, say, white South Africa during apartheid. But something like 95% of Israeli Jews favoured “Operation Protective Edge.” Mind you, more than half think it ended too soon.

Thus the Obama administration is doubly deluded in thinking UN, Western liberal and Islamist outrage now force a stubborn Israeli government to join a negotiating process among various local parties seeking a genuine compromise solution. John Kerry can trade words with open backers of Hamas like Qatar and Turkey until his Nobel Peace Prize comes home, but Israelis know there’s no partner for peace on the other side so they do what they need to do and stop when they think it’s done.

As it happens most of Israel’s neighbours hate and fear Hamas, and its Iranian backers, so much that for once they don’t want to kill the Jews then start in on each other. This time the Saudi, Egyptian and Jordanian governments, among others, want to do it in the other order.
Finally, the Muslim world does not sympathize with the Palestinians. No Arab neighbour has offered them refuge and citizenship at any point in the last 66 years. Instead, like Hamas, those governments find Palestinian suffering instrumentally useful but otherwise uninteresting.

There is an old saying that a lie is half-way around the world before the truth gets its boots on. But as the dust settles, at least some people will keep asking questions like: Why do the negotiations go nowhere? What does the Hamas Charter say? Why do media peddle Hamas numbers? Why should we trust Western journalists and politicians who are so reliably wrong on every important aspect of the Middle East?

Why the persistent air of unreality?