Smartphone Fingerprint Sensor Fooled By A Printer With Conductive Ink

 The researchers, Kai Cao and Anil K. Jain from the University of MI department of computer science and engineering, published their findings last month and demonstrated the fingerprint spoofing in a short video. The perceived notion is that this type of biometric safeguard provides a superior means of security due to the unique patterns of everyone’s fingers, but a new study and experiment conducted by researchers at Michigan State University shows that fingerprint scanning can be thwarted with a simple inkjet printer.

 Aha.  I knew this was coming. 

A finger print is essentially a password you cannot change , and now that it can be faked, cheaply , all those finger print scanner phones are now junk.  

Oh they'll figure out how to block this attempt , and then another will come, and they'll figure out how to block that. But in the back and forth battle , there's a lot of phones out there that are not secure , despite requiring your finger print to unlock. 

Think about a phone that's six months old , and they figured out how to hack the scanner. If you value security , you must ditch it.  And that's pricy.

Drone view shows Greek migrant crisis

 (It's just a video of a tent city)

Why is this a problem ? Because They're muslims. Hamas and the like will be along shortly to recruit them to be terrorists and kill any that decide they want nothing to do with this.  And then there will be terrorist attacks from this camp upon greece , and they'll decide they want to grab some land from greece and start their own nation. 

It is time to steel your heart , and do what needs to be done. Or ... join the muslims and get sent to the front lines as a new recruit. There is no running and hiding from this. Get rid of those people any way you can. Or the population you're supposed to be protecting will be victimized and murdered. 

This is not racism. This is the history of how these events have unfolded again and again.

 

John Constantine , Dead on Arrival

Article = none, personal experience

So I got netflix. Watched it for a while , got bored.
Let it lapse, waited a month , got Shomi .
TV series, Constantine , modern day setting , spell caster, fights demons, has an angel for a side kick.

13 really cool episodes. I loved it.
Last episode ... they killed him off.

Oh , they didn't mean to kill him off. Let me explain the stupidity of the situation.
After 12 episodes of some kind of rising darkness, fighing demons and fallen angels and such , they decided, for a change of pace, the charactars would fight an ordinary human. A really evil one , he murdered three little girls and was going for a forth , but still , a normal human.

Rescued the little girl (the other three were already dead, walkin zombie types, no rescue for them) , caught the bad guy put him in cuffs, end of story.

Then the main charactar Constantine , asks his cop friend what would happen if this guy escaped his cuffs and ran. Not gently , not politely , but really pushing it.
So the cop uncuffs him , holds up the cuffs, and tells the pure human villian "run" .
Waits for him to get a few steps away. Shoots him.

Now it's not a matter of gore. You didn't even see the cop fire the gun, they cut to the little girl that had gotten rescued, and they all looked up at the sound of the gun shot.  No blood, no body , nothing. But it was obvious , the cop had shot the evil evil man who had killed three children.

Dear writers ... you just polluted the cop charactar by pulling such a corrupt act. Every cop in the USA is now going to be up in arms over that. Every lawyer , every civil rights worker , every everyone !  Also , because the main charactar was pushing , and it was obviously the main charactars idea from the get go ... you polluted the main charactar as well.

The series was cancelled. There was no 14th episode.

I am aware that this charactar came from the comics. I am aware the comics can have some fairly nasty "good guys" . I recall a charactar named Lobo who was as strong as super man , and routinely killed random people and laughed at them for being weak.  But TV is not comics. You can't do that in the TV medium. It doesn't matter that TV is dying (and being replaced by services like netflix and shomi) . It doesn't matter that the usa police are routinely in the news for shooting blacks and wow someone should do something about that wouldn't it be neat if some comic charactar went on a revenge spree ? You can't do that on TV.  It has it's own rules it's own genre. After 50+ years of television , like it or not agree with it or not , you have created a social contract between the TV producers , and the TV consumers. And a stunt like that breaks the rules.

If you ever have any hope of writing for TV or a TV like medium (3D virtual reality is coming , soon everyone will be making their own low grade TV shows at about the quality of online games such as world of warcraft) if you ever intend to get your story big ...

The good guys , are the good guys. And the bad guys , are the bad. And there is no in between. It doesn't matter if the good guy has shades of grey and is on the road to redemption.  The good guys don't murder their already captured bad guys.  That is an act of profound evil , they're not good guys anymore.

Once they're captured, especially in the united states, the death penalty is for the state to decide, not the vigilante on the street. The vigilante should stick to fighting the demons (Constantine) or the vampires (buffy the vampire slayer) and stay the heck away from the mere mortals. 

Everything is hackable

Privacy Advocates Blast Plan to Expand NSA Data Sharing

"A major U.S network equipment maker has acknowledged that someone repeatedly gained access to its source code to make its default products encryption unbreakable, he testified. The intruders also introduced a default password that would give them undetectable access to some of the target networks worldwide."

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So  , basically , now the people who make phones and routers and stuff are getting hacked , and their stuff is getting it's basic code altered to include security holes (a default password where one did not exist before)  ?

Everything in the world is hackable, it seems.  Even the stuff that's not supposed to be hackable, they just hack the factory making the stuff and introduce unauthorized changes. 

Get your CRAP off the internet , people ! Anything mission critical needs to be on stand alones ! With couriers running around with usb sticks in their pockets. 

Time to start making air gaps. Two computers gotta talk ? Someone has to copy the stuff to a usb stick and then from the stick to the other computer. This automated everyone is on the same world wide web stuff just isn't working anymore. 
 

Liberals move to overhaul rules on revoking, granting citizenship

'A Canadian is a Canadian': Toronto 18 ringleader first to lose citizenship, now set to get it back

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 The needs to be a way to get rid of terrorists. If you're not going to ship them out of country, then the only solution is to bring back the death penalty.  If you kill someone and then stand there crowing about it and telling the judge to piss off you don't acknowledge his authority , I think a death penalty is justified. 

I wouldn't do it for regular murderers, because there's too high an error rate and you'll be executing the wrong person , but if they stand there and boast about it, sure. Cut their heads off.

Cybercriminals Hack Hospital PCs Demand Whopping 9000 BTC Ransom

 

It has been more than a week now that Hollywood Presbyterian Medical Center’s (HPMC) computers have remained down due to a severe ransomware attack. The attackers have asked for $3.6million or 9,000 BTC in ransom and it seems that until it is paid, the systems will remain inaccessible
The hospital staff is trying its best to deal with the damages since they have lost access to some of the patients’ data and their email accounts. Computers responsible for conducting several key operations such as documentation, CT scans, pharmacy and lab work are currently down. The staff is left with few other options and so, they are relying on fax machines and telephones to keep the day-to-day operations of the hospital running.
 

Thank you for demonstrating the problem with connecting every single computer you own to the internet.
Why is this relevant ? The forced (as in totally against your will do any dirty trick to make you do it) upgrade to Windows 10 demands your computer be online all the time to receive updates and to use your "software as a service" (ie: you don't own it , and you need to be connected for it to work).
Basically , you're trying to stay offline to avoid being hacked, and money soft is demanding you stay online all the time so you can be hacked. Oh and they don't care about anything but making money. Hand over the cash and who cares if you go bankrupt they got the whole world as their customers. 

PS: Everyone get an old junker and put Linux on it and start practicing , because at the rate we're going , that old clunker is going to be the only computer you got running. I recommend some version of Ubuntu , since it's easy to use. 
 

 

NATO, EU sign agreement on cyberdefense co-operation

 BRUSSELS - NATO and the European Union have signed an agreement to improve co-operation in cyberdefense, which NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg called a concrete example of the two Brussels-based organizations joining forces to counter modern forms of hybrid warfare.

 

 Yes , yes. Instead of just america crippling everyone encryption and laying us open to chinese and russian hackers, we'll have all of the west crippling our encryption and laying us open to hackers. 

Oh , and to make us feel good , they're going to call it "cyber defense" or "improved security" , as if crippling what you already have is some kind of improvement.

 

 

U.S. Regulators Says Google Computer Can Be Considered Car's Driver

 

 So  , if the car gets in an accident , do you give the demerits to just this copy of the software if it's guilty of causing it ? Or do all copies ? Because if you give it to just one copy , but it's identical to all the copies, then that's kind of pointless. But if you give the demerits to all copies it won't be long before that particular piece of software is legislated off the road. 

 

 Google told NHTSA that the real danger is having auto safety features that could tempt humans to try to take control

 And you want to trap people in a car with no controls , and software that needs constant upgrades and hackers from china can get at , but the passengers cannot. Hmmm......have you read the news lately  ? Especially considering frequent hacks on everything connected ? 

Typical American Business Move. Get somethign to market quick , worry about security later. IoT is rife with such things. (I suppose an automated car is a piece of IoT). Problem is, the car not only can be made to crash by chinese hackers, it can be made to run down pedestrians and speed along the sidewalk doing maximum carnage , and how are you going to extradite hackers from Russia who are boasting about how many pedestrians they hit ? 

 

On a planet with a world wide internet that's being hacked on a daily basis by people in another nation who cannot be extradited for their crimes,  this is a VERY bad idea.  

 

 

 

 

Google feels free with your credit card

article = none , personal experience

So I downloaded a "bejeweled" game of some kind from Google Play , the online store  on your android phone, and I played it a while. 
And after playing six levels on it , it told me I was out of power and needed to buy 20 bars of some kind. 
What bars ? 
Until this point , bars had not been mentioned in the game. There was no way to earn them , and no counter to say how many you had. Just a button that said "ok" or "Cancel".

Now , having heard of "pay to win" games that stop every now and then and demand money I was suspicious. But it didn't say anything about charging me money.  But there was no game value , just press yes and keep on playing. And when you play you earn points ,not these bars ? 

That's when I realized Google Play keeps demanding my credit card information every time i try to download anything (there's usually a tiny , hard to see "skip" button, it takes a few minutes to hunt around and find it , it's not at all obvious). And this game has access to my credit card (assuming I ever entered the information. ) 

This is unbelievable. These games are racking up your credit card, and there is NOTHING on the screen that says you're incurring any kind of extra charge. No wonder we keep seeing stories of some kid racking up 8000$ on his dad's credit card.  Why aren't these people being thrown in jail for fraud ! This is outragous ! 

I didn't just uninstall the game. I unintalled google play , as well , and Google services. 
If they're going to act like the classic "Den of theives" , I'm gonna treat them as such. Get that crap off my phone. 

This is the correct response to Charlie Hedbo's insulting cartoons. Make fun of them right back , not shoot the place up.

About time they figured it out.
Thank you  Queen Rania of Jordan.

Air Canada asks top court to reject maintenance ruling in Quebec lawsuit fight

 

 

 

MONTREAL -- Air Canada has asked the country's top court to overturn a Quebec ruling that would require the airline to keep its maintenance operations in the country.

 

 

/Sarcasm On

Oh come on ,you guys are interfering in proper business practices. I'm going to give you the same answer the government gives everyone about C-51 and privacy. Privacy is dead. Deal with it. 

 

And on behalf of Air Canada , I say to you, Local Jobs are dead, Outsourcing and Temporary Foriegn Workers are here to stay. Get over it and get off your unemployed bums and find a job. Just not with Air Canada , we only hire forieners , so we can work them into the ground for less than minimum wage and fire them the day before they've put in enough time to become a Canadian Citizens. 

 

Jobs for Canadians are dead, just like privacy is dead. Deal with it. 

 

 /Sarcasm Off  

 

 Wow, it's really irritating hearing that about your lively hood isn't it ? Wait until the general public figures out privacy is part of their lively hood too. Microsoft knows way too much about you. And sells the info to anyone. 

 

What do I mean way too much ? 

 

Did you check your bank balance on line ? Did you enter your card number and password ? Microsoft owns that information. 

 

Did you get Diabetes , and do a few searches, and now you're being followed everywhere by bogus Diabetes cure ads that will do nothing but take your money tell you the doctors are lying , and display their well practices excuses when you drop dead from stopping your meds ? 

 

Did you donate five dollars to a political party online , and now on election eve you're getting robocalls directing you to the wrong polling station where you will not be allowed to vote, you'll be told to go home, and you'll give up and not vote at all ?  

 

 Oh and hackers grabbed your bank card number and pin number, made a fake one , and emptied your bank account 2 minutes after you got paid. 

 

 Are you sure privacy isn't like super important ? Really sure ? 

ISIS releases new audio of leader al-Baghdadi saying 'caliphate' is doing well

 

 In the 24-minute audio, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi said airstrikes by the international coalition only increase his group's determination and resolve. The message was al-Baghdadi's first since May, and comes amid battlefield setbacks that IS has recently faced.

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.If the Saudi-led alliance was truly Islamic, then it would fight the Syrian army and its Russian "masters," as well as Shiites and Jews, al-Baghdadi said.

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 "It is unprecedented in the history of our Ummah (Islamic nation) that all the world came against it in one battle, as it is happening today. It is the battle of all the disbelievers against all the Muslims," al-Baghdadi said.

 All the disbelievers against all the muslims. That is to say , all the muslims (shiites) Isis hasn't butchered like chattel , enslaved, sold off for body parts on the black market, etc etc.

Oh wait , I get it. Those other muslims , like the 31 muslim nations that are opposing you , are disbelievers, like the Shiites. 

So how many True Muslims are there ? Just you guys ? That's about 30 000 right ? And the other 1.6 billion self styled muslims, they don't count , right ? 

  "We promise you, God permitting, that whoever participates in the war against the Islamic State will pay the price dearly."

 How dare you stop us from murdering you , turning your women into sex slaves , and selling off your men for body parts on the black market ? You better cease your resistance or we're going to kill you , turn your women into sex slaves, and sell your organs off on the black market ! 

Hmm....yeah ... right ...ok. So who wants to shoot one of these guys ? Wow , look at the line up ...

He threatened Israel by saying, "we haven't forgotten you" and "we are getting closer to you" every day.

 Except you're too busy murdering the false muslims first. You'll get around to the Israeli's later some time. Wow, it is too bad the Jews don't take new converts because I could see a lot of muslims deciding they'd like to be low on the list of priorities of who ISIS is going to kill next. 

Typical religious air head. He probably has no idea just how silly his speech is. Probably jumping up and down in rage shouting "I'm an Iman ! You have to die on my command ! or I'll kill you !"

   funny funny people.

 

 

ISIS, Facing Losses, Releases Recording Said to Be of Leader

 BAGHDAD — The Islamic State on Saturday released an audio recording of a speech purportedly made by the organization’s leader, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, in which he implored more Muslims to fight on behalf of his increasingly besieged group.

 

More Muslims must join the cause ! Wait, I mean more Sunni Muslims ! , The way we've been slaughtering the Shiite muslims like calflings it's probably pointless to ask them.  Wait ...I mean "Extremist Sunni" muslims. The way we've been slaughtering Sunni Muslims who arn't extreme enough for our tastes it's probably pointless to ask any of them.

Who's With Me ? Who wants to die for the cause ?

 

*chirping of crickets*

Google is trying to kill passwords. But what should replace them?

 "You authorize your phone to allow you to log in to your account. You go into a computer and type in your email. Then you get a message on your phone to allow the login. If you hit yes, the computer logs into your Google account without a password," he wrote. 

 So , Google gets your phone number in addition to forcing you to have a google phone.  They use that phone number to authorize your email . they sell that phone number to every spammer in the world, because that's how they make a profit. Half the hackers in the world now have both your phone number and your google email address, because that stuff is for sale , cheap. Or the id number of the phone itself (the actual handset , not the the phone number) is used for identification , in which case if you lose your phone every thing locked with it is wide open. 

I know that there are a lot of people out there that don't like passwords, but locking everything with a phone you're going to hang onto for three years, and is going to cost you 700$ to change (price of a new iphone) is not the answer. 

 

 

 

 

 

U of T tool tracks if the NSA could be tracking you

 

His research shows between 20 and 25 per cent of local Canadian Internet traffic gets routed through the United States, exposing the browsing habits of Canadians to organizations like the National Security Agency.

“Your rights are being violated without you knowing it,” he said, noting the NSA can intercept data at prominent Internet exchange points in the U.S. “We do so much of our transactions online now – banking and shopping – and we should be assured that we’re not being exposed to forms of state surveillance.”

Foolish , foolish man. Let me give you the guarenteed 100% effective tool for discovering if the NSA "could" be tracking you. 

Can you read this post ? 

If yes , you're online therefore the NSA can track you. 

If no ...why do you even care if no , not like you're actually reading this article or anything ....

:)

 

 

Juniper Networks backdoor confirmed, password revealed, NSA suspected

 The next mystery to solve is where this unauthorized code comes from. Security advisories usually relate to vulnerabilities arising from defects -- mistakes programmers made. In this case, someone deliberately inserted a backdoor password into Juniper's devices. That's a huge deal. If it's the NSA (which looks possible, given one leak about a program called "FEEDTROUGH" that installs persistent backdoors in Juniper devices) then it will mean that the US government deliberately sabotaged tens, if not hundreds, of thousands of networks that were protected by products from a US company that is the second-largest provider of networking equipment in the world, after Cisco. 

 

 So the NSA penetrated Cisco routers already , that story was last year, the largest provider of security networking, and now they've penetrated Juniper, the next in line provider. 

So , do you still want to by a "made in america" security solution for your company ? 

Me either. 

Persistance pays off in track and field. But not in gambling , and not in spycraft. All it does in spycraft is make sure no one every buys products from your country again.

 

 

 

Shaw buying Wind Mobile in $1.6B deal

Article


Shaw Communications has reached an agreement to buy Wind Mobile in a transaction valued at $1.6 billion.
The Calgary-based telecommunications company says it will acquire a full interest in parent company Mid-Bowline Group Corp., which owns Wind.
The transaction is subject to a number of approvals that include the Competition Bureau and the Ministry of Innovation, Science & Economic Development.


 I'm screwed.
My phone company just sold me out to Shaw.
It may be time to try skype or a 15$ / month land line or something.
I'll have to think on this.

Edit ::: forgot ...still pending approval. Hasn't happened yet. 

Toronto stabbing suspect has 'impressive resume'

Toronto stabbing suspect has 'impressive resume'

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 Rohinie Bisesar, 40, is facing charges in connection with what police are calling an unprovoked stabbing.
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"Something has been happening to me and this is not my normal self," someone wrote from an email address matching Bisesar's name.
"I would like to know who and why this is happening. There is either a single person or more responsible and who and why would be nice to know."



 I'll tell you what happened , woman.  Your DNA is broken up into three sections, and the section that activates when you hit 35-40 just switched on , and it's got errors on it. And in your case, you lost your mind and are now loopy as a loon. 
It's the big house for you , my dear. Your sanity is gone and it isn't coming back. 


 

Talks to reform Ferguson, Missouri police make progress - U.S. Justice Dept

Ferguson Mayor James Knowles III did not immediately respond to a request for comment. However, he told the New York Times that the two sides are "very close" to a deal, and that "small sticking points" remained.

Citing officials, the newspaper said the agreement, which would be filed in federal court, would require new training for police officers and improved record keeping, along with a federal monitor.







So, in this agreement , James Knowles III , the mayor who signed off on robbing all those blacks blind and the ones that couldn't pay ,throw them into jail , is still mayor. And the cops that obeyed his orders are still cops there.


And there's no mention of returning the (black !) public's property that was taken from them, forgiving them the fines that were dished out from cops of dubious repute (they forgave any interest not already paid, but they didn't return any interest that was paid) any property that was confiscated was never returned, and anyone who was shot and killed was not ... ressurected , so to speak.


Basically , the Justice Department agreed that mayor James Knowles III could do whatever the heck he wanted and too bad so sad if your ass is black.


Welcome to Justice in America.

Const. George Duke facing assault charge after September crash

Const. George Duke, 52, was charged with assault, uttering threats to cause bodily harm and forcible confinement and was released from custody on a promise to appear in Brockville court in late January.

He remains suspended from duty with pay.

In October, Duke was charged with theft over $5,000, possession of property obtained by crime over $5,000, breach of trust, unlawful possession of a restricted firearm, unsafe storage of a firearm, unsafe storage of ammunition, possession of a firearm without a licence and possession of schedule two substance.

It came after an 18-month OPP internal investigation that also led to charges against two other officers at the Leeds County detachment.

Duke has been an OPP officer for 20 years.

 

 This is actually a fascinating story. You have to understand ,a  friend of mine , whom we shall call "Wireless Toaster" has explained to me that you can't put cops in jail , their lives would be in danger from their fellow inmates, if you intend to kill someone you must officially assign them the death penalty. 

This legal loop hole, apparently , has kept every Canadian cop out of jail since the beginning of time. 

It will be interesting to see if this George Duke goes to jail (proving Wireless Toaster wrong) or if he gets off with just being fired, demonstrating a serious hole in our justice system, and we probably need to build a jail just for corrupt cops really quick before they figure out they're allowed to kill us normal civilians and get away with it. 

I've actually been waiting to bring this issue up for a while ...

 

 

 

Help Support Terrorism

Ottawa Police officers raise money to run school in Somalia

 

A group of Ottawa Police officers are raising money to help run a school in Somalia.
The school was built in 2012, from the fundraising efforts of Const. Moe Elmi, a community policing officer in the Herongate area, who dreamed of creating a brighter future for kids in his native country.

 Somalia is an unsecured country. Islamic Terrorists run around shooting and murdering people all the time. And Islamics are especially fond of schools , where new terrorists are trained and raised , not to mention young girls are taken to be trained to love being raped ...I'm sorry , that is a false accusation you can only make that accusation with four male witnesses agreeing with you , otherwise you just confessed to extra-maritial sex which is a death sentence in that country so you better stay quiet no matter what they do to you little girls ... and anyone who disagree's gets shot by the terrorists, thanks for standing in the same place ( a building) just waiting for them to drop by when the coast is clear. 

In other words. Thanks for supporting terrorism in the middle east. 

Secure the area first people, then let the civilians and schools and stuff in. Anything else is just handing stuff to the terrorists. 

 

Rogers Users and Sexual Abuse Accusations

Warrantless access to internet subscriber data OK sometimes, privacy czar says

 

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Rogers also had a special process to help with child sexual exploitation investigations by confirming a customer's name and address when provided with a computer's Internet Protocol (IP) address. This would allow police to obtain a search or arrest warrant.

 Dear Rogers Customers , 

Thanks to the police's ever growing need to access your records at any price, they will now begin accusing each and every rogers customer as a child abuser , so that they can get at your records.  You may rest assured that in this age of hackers , all of those false accusations will quickly become public knowledge , so anyone who's a rogers customer will now be subject to the same kind of black mail as those from the Ashley Madison web site hack. 

   Except you didn't actually have the fun of committing the crime , you're going to be black mailed , humiliated , lose your job, the works, for something you didn't do. 

Thank you for  your patronage. 

Sincerely , 

Ted Rogers.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Refugee sponsors face moral, ethical dilemmas

 

...After investing so much, accepting the woman's decision was emotionally difficult for Le Jeune. She is now hoping to find a different refugee family to sponsor...

 

 Loosely translated, you are sponsoring a bunch of strangers. 

As a canadian , my primary concern would be if these people are going to go radical and start shooting people. And guess what ? You can't answer that question. These people are total strangers to you , you're hoping Canadian Foreign affairs can screen a bunch of people with no documents who could have come from anywhere, who know we're sponsoring "Syrian" refugee's, so of course they're going to claim to be from Syria. 

No one knows anything , and everyone hopes it will work out. 

Lets do the math. If you're only wrong one time in a thousand about these people, you've just let 25 terrorists into the country. 

Congratulations Justin Trudeau. You must be so proud. I'm going to hold you personally responsible if they blow up something. 

Not that anyone will care ... especially not him... 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Ten Thousand Refugee's

So. Good old Justin Trudeau has decided to settle ten thousand refugee's in the Ottawa area.

And by the way , the line up for community housing in ottawa is between four and eight years long.

So I gotta ask. Are they "budding in line" ahead of the canadian citizens taking those spots that people wait years, even a decade, for ?

if the answer is yes , whoa are people going to be mad.

if the answer is no , we've got a new budget just for refugee housing , then why arn't you providing a new budget for regular canadian housing ? Why are you bringing strangers into Canada who are going to live on welfare for years when we have a line up of homeless people years long waiting for homes ?

There isn't any way to deny it. Every refugee is cutting in line ahead of a canadian. Worse, all ten thousand of them headed for ottawa are cutting in line ahead of EVERY canadian who has been waiting years, and now just had a couple of extra years added to his wait time.

Thank you Justin Trudeau.

Budget Woe Joke

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2014_Canadian_federal_budget



This comes under the catagory of "I hate people who cant do the math"

The budget in 2014 (including deficit   ) was 276 billion dollars.
That is to say , The Canadian Government had revenues of 276.3 billion dollars.

Trudeau is threatenning a 10 billion dollar deficiet (Ie: spend 10 billion more than the expected revenue).

10 / 276 = 0.036

Justin is spending 3.6% more money than he has.
oh wait ...he's a government. He can print money.
So ... inflaction next year will be 3.6 %.

Phhht ! That's pretty low. Talk to me when we get to 5%. Then I can demand a pay raise from my boss. 

Christmas drone invasion predictions concern authorities

 The number of drones flying through North American skies is about to get a boost, say industry insiders — causing serious concern for safety among aviation authorities.

 Yeah. Ok. Ummm...of all the worries I have in the world, a plastic toy with a propeller or two that can be defeated by simply DRAWING THE CURTAINS isn't high on the list , sorry. 

And while it may annoy people at the beach , the beach is in fact a public place. 

And I've seen these drones for like 35$ retail ? If they ever got in the way of an air plane the air plane engine would eat them alive and not even notice. 

Not going to panic, sorry.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Ransomware, bogus emails from your 'boss' mark growing skill of cyber-criminals

Cyber-criminals are hacking into corporate computer systems and using the public profiles of top executives to fine-tune email scams that are duping Canadians out of hundreds of millions of dollars each year, a CBC News investigation has discovered.

 

 My advice is simple : The moment you started getting bogus messages from your boss, it was time to shut it down. The moment you start getting hacked from the internet , it's time to shut it down. The "cost savings" and "improved communications" mean nothing in the face of the fact that now ,someone else is running the show, not you and not the owners. And that isn't tolerable to anyone. 

 

This is the end result of people collecting profiles on everyone  and selling them. They know your name , where you work , your title at work (bonus ! This guy's a CEO he must be so proud) there's a picture of him and his home address ... and they sell that to anyone. Of course some criminal is going to buy the stuff and use it in a scam. They'd be stupid not to. 

 Which ever CEO got his company hacked and lost a ton of money , I bet he's no longer saying "I'm not a criminal. I have nothing to hide. Who cares if they can see my photo and other details on face book ? "

 

 

 

 

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 !)