What I won’t talk about here
An excellent post on Roger's blog, Contains Moderate Peril, delved into the subject of what topics individual bloggers may self-censor. The short answer for me is I don't block myself…
Just carrying on…
This has been an interesting year so far. I’ve posted some fairly lengthy diatribes expressing my thoughts and feelings. But I am just a powerless voice in the woods of western Canada, so shaking my fist at the sky is more personal therapy than any kind of action towards solving a problem.
But my life, despite its human difficulties, frustrations, and times of sadness, is actually pretty good. Every once in a while the world spins in a way that restores a bit of my tattered faith in humanity… or just brightens my day. Our Federal election results this week here in Canada are one of those positive rotational incidents.
(more…)Cyberwar? No, malicious script kiddy
According to the lead Republican on the House Intelligence Committee, Peter Hoekstra, the U.S. should launch an all out retaliation against North Korea for their role in the recent cyber attacks on American and South Korean internet targets. Unfortunately for the American people, Mr. Hoekstra is either an idiot, willfully ignorant, or intentionally twisting reality for his own political ends. The best experts in the industry agree that the attacks were launched by an attention-seeking amateur.
If the study is from Nemertes, it is Telco astroturf
Once again the media is full of reports of the impending collapse of the internet. Apparently we users are to blame, as we are using too much bandwidth watching movies and so forth- thus says yet another study by “respected” think tank, Nemertes Research. They tried to push this line of bull on us in 2007, again in 2008, and now in 2009. Only the dates of the “impending” collapse have changed: always a year or two in the future. But anyone who knows much of about the internet and infrastructure behind it knows this “impending doom” is a fallacy. So why is Nemertes repeating it over and over and over?
NSFW: A totally different way to promote net neutrality…
Tania Derveaux supports net neutrality. That's great, but the way she has chosen to demonstrate her support is a bit unique. The basic idea: if you are a geek who…
Barack Obama: Yes We Can
I don't know much about the U.S. elections. I've sort of been absorbing the democratic nominations... I think I would be more or less happy with either Hillary or Barack…
Texas school board fires administrator over Intelligent Design opinion
Intelligent design is a theory of faith. Evolution is a theory of science. Science is based on something called scientific method. A scientific theory requires something (or more realistically, several…
Saudi woman sentenced to 200 lashes for the crime of being raped…
I am generally tolerant of different cultures. But after reading about a young woman sentenced in a Saudi court to 200 lashes and six months in jail for the crime…