From Barrett Brown, a wrongfully jailed journalist… in the USA. He’s imagining speaking to the founding fathers about the country’s progress: Benjamin Franklin: “It was among my fondest dreams that my beloved Philadelphia would someday grow into one of the world’s great centers of high culture, and become a by-word
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Scripturient: Blog & Commentary: The WOW Factor
After two years away from the game, I was recently convinced by a friend to return to World of Warcraft again and play in the fantasy universe of WOW. At 10 years old, WOW remains the biggest, most-subscribed, most popular MMORPG, with around 10 million subscribers. By technology’s rapid-aging standards, WOW
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: ConCalls: May was never contacted about #elxnfraud complaint in #RoboCon
“If the Commissioner of Canada Elections is prepared to ignore the findings of two judges, I think that will speak very poorly of the powers of investigations we have in this country to explore electoral fraud.” Côté has not yet responded to May’s complaint. It’s absolutely unacceptable that Elections Canada
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: That’s So Meta #PRISM
This is why Edward Snowden risked life and liberty. http://t.co/FNhj7mIi8a https://t.co/c7f4hynSZm via @RecentApp pic.twitter.com/PED4veBpWw — Declan McCullagh (@declanm) November 9, 2014 Critics of Snowden tried to claim that no one would ever be hurt by metadata collection willy-nilly. We can hopefully all put that canard to bed.
Continue readingScripturient: Blog & Commentary: Banished: Sandbox Gaming at Its Best
Banished is a medieval-style city building game, along the lines of SimCity, but with several significant differences. While not as slick or comprehensive as SimCity, it still provides a compelling, addictive gameplay.* It’s slow and cerebral, true, not your basic action-filled RPG or FPS, but it’s one of those games
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Experimenting with email Encryption
This may be useful at some point in the future, to verify a message came from the real me. —–BEGIN PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK—– Version: GnuPG v2 mQINBFQ+0G4BEADJFztc21tJCnECJTxVFvHq/ub9v6/VYj8f2PeqRadihw/CxMDG nloXhOHX87jRiGCGyWRLuypzSs/Hk+kt1Vl+7xA+0Dc7WWE39tnlISAicIzrYV5p twR9XGKsuZ1yhccTZiy46vClBXN4e29s+4FZgoFCbym2KRj5wRWX1/5MRsIzKYWc FxMfMgN9KxOgXM6Aou0881TYjrfl4dC6bUUs285RseEG3b2eK0zyEUri6SHeMB+P GKQqL56cL+tH97Uqu9PBt2kvySlnD0wGUNkFFDLldTZi9mpdX21A8vWfvqUMzc0O JIzHs+jjzs5RcsL8HkHYvF5vQ1IgSIgz0BmM6uxtysvxgasTRBALvt7Uupoz/XBi kBFIcVrYKQ9fzwty6Ow4T9W88wOm3taJnMDx9s0SSTnJuVAOF+HTGzuAWYdSCbuP tow88FaErW/BA9Nh+E53hmzKY6D+5np0J2sSoUbUgvj5MpkOPES/kLse1R3IZGH0 1FGy4X1Qc5WniYhkusfTOPewPJSz1F3vr7oECRuekoX0lRQMDeNI5EHvV1xira+T b8hZLa2IjuYyF/EB01+Lows1IcUJi9abnyC3MdhruEtydwou4xSzGhumuVIFRdfm fvhTFcCTexyKLsWgMKkLqffXZFsSGWaCq1eXqD8RyrwlMytcpbPB1IXTowARAQAB tCJKb2huIEtsZWluIDxqb2huLmtsZWluQHVyZWdpbmEuY2E+iQI/BBMBAgApBQJU PtBuAhsjBQkJZgGABwsJCAcDAgEGFQgCCQoLBBYCAwECHgECF4AACgkQ22jQBgIs 9yiRtxAAg+m7stjk7YcxfFkPNwV9iBrhzU5YKtpdv5UtLtHJVF9rUG+uRpugRnYD YND9o5eANaRpSpnwDtU+ge10A567wm8xpzIbNkoYD61EWUwf6FiRscIiFDy3J+oz k7i9KRBMceyPANOuyQCNVgpE1lNqIIy8vrURoBbjoyIz3bpzNe/CMCO7JPeRYEnI JdmWwpcrHpkZUTxFT0IDbH70C6F23hJ67rOtl8erPQCe7qOKXpoNZnHzBvxKbiRa gKVB8m+3vRn3AiALIxDyJxLgB2DKl6VAWVmWyNqU2tGvPj3vq50MwmiKOeyTIdBk rQBLsSNtuVhkth+lfPYJch8j6OhCIh1AzEB6uKG9aR5I1e8WhkvJh/tnAh7NhQLT 5LS0BgLDbWbwnFARJYSrsNr1q9o32ZvcKuhHVbz3f2qFdmr2ftoP2hqWLTHi1Fg0 GJmmmEPL+xYGpizUysBDClb9Ldah1KLJtU3uRlvZVlkm77YPnq/VFLCOGtJ0Pnwe xxBssyQKRpQuvmE3uch6VABYIz3hzkJ1JGHivQStBnAlKHZOySdlIlaI/Y9cn510 U38cSolJIlLbj/Zxr60Rragu5AwakrcktFuVAG4IvT9aLIfxjsVgqGxLWZws7MN2
Continue readingScripturient: Blog & Commentary: Testing a Homeplug-Powerline Network
I’ve had some wireless issues for quite some time now. There are dead spots in the house – a central wall has metal ducts and a gas fireplace, which are beside the laundry room with its metal-enclosed washer and dryer. About 5-6m of metal interfere with the wireless signal. The
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: USB Broken
It’ll be hard to justify using USB now. It basically must be assumed to be malicious/infected. It was so nice to have a standard port too! I guess USB condoms are going to become a lot more common.
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Take a Narrow Health Site Survey
This sort of survey isn’t going to make the best website possible for our country. I found the survey easy to take, but the results will be skewed toward the menu options listed, instead of answering the question ask which was “where would I look for X”, which is “Google”.
Continue readingScripturient: Blog & Commentary: Pondering Responsive web design
I’ve been building websites since the early 1990s, and have had my own websites continually since 1995. For a few years, I did website design and analysis for commercial clients – mostly small local businesses. I even taught web design at a local adult learning centre for a couple of years. Way
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: ConCalls: Trial Begins for Sona in #RoboCon #elxnfraud
An important trial in Canadian history is underway in Guelph, Ontario. Michael Sona, the only person accused by prosecutors of carrying out the illegall robocalls in Guelph to redirect people to the “Old Quebec St. Mall”, faces jail and fines. However, he could not have carried out this crime by
Continue readingScripturient: Blog & Commentary: World of Tanks
Tanks are a long distance weapon, you know. They are best used in concert with one another to provide cover and overwatch fire, and are best placed in a covered or hull-down position where their profile is reduced to the minimum. Tanks should never travel alone; they should always advance
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: ConCalls: Who Did The Domestic Calls? #RoboCon #elxnfraud
Some behind the scenes numbers about Elections Canada’s impotent investigation into illegal robocalls… [note Prime Contact, which came up in the blogosphere earlier this week.] 81. At the national level, the Conservative Party, using data from its Constituent Information Management System (CIMS) database, called through two primary telemarketing companies: Responsive
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: ConCalls: Commish Waves White Flag in #RoboCon #elxnfraud Investigation
Despite audio evidence of widespread illegal robocals, the Commishioner of Elections Canada has announced “no offenses committed”! @DonMartinCTV @nspector4 "We didn't find anything because we weren't allowed to find anything"…. oh well. #cdnpoli— Out of Order (@muddywolfking) April 24, 2014 Canadians have had a heaping helping of obvious crime going
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: #HeartBleed Bug is a Pun You Should Care About
Your passwords used on the Internet are likely known to bad people if you’ve recently logged into Yahoo, the CRA, or other popular websites. You should consider changing all of your passwords next week if you’ve used them on the Internet, in case they were exposed by an attack using
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: PRISM: Hack The Planet
Most people would consider “Hack the planet” to be some sort of black-hat hacker battle cry. It might more accurately describe the unconstitutional efforts of the United States of America’s NSA spy agency. From a comment on the story: ““The intelligence community’s top-secret “Black Budget” for 2013, obtained by Snowden,
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Bitcoins – How to Start Mining
This guide describes an indirect way to mine Bitcoins at home. You’ll need to understand how to edit a batch file and run it in the folder with a program you’ll also download. It’s become unrealistic to discover Bitcoins before specialized ASIC miners find them, so to get around this
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Kickstarter hacked
I signed up for KickStarter and didn’t even end up using it. Because I was lazy/human, I used a password I’d used on some other websites when creating my account there. Kickstart hacked, personal info obtained. So now I’ve had to go to a bunch of other websites and change
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Bitcoins – Where to Start?
Someone recently asked me (okay, multiple people did) where to start to learn about getting Bitcoins? You can start here at my blog, now. A better place to look will be at one of the links below in my 15 minute introduction. Don’t put off learning, it’s the Napster of
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: That Old Joke
How can you tell a spy is lying to Parliament? Their lips are moving. Or at least I’d assume they were moving while he was telling us that they didn’t conduct mass spying on Canadians, while also defending illegal mass “meta-data” spying on us. MT @CBCAlerts "#CSIS says they don't
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