**Read recent history, if not caught-up.** A collective “Oh, shit/merde!” is possibly going quickly out of the mouths of anonymous Conservatives in Ottawa. They’ve basically involved the party in the Robocalls that Poutine sent out from Guelph through RackNine, while trying to minimize image damage! Providing non-public evidence of electoral
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Saskboy's Abandoned Stuff: ConCalls: How Secure Was CIMS and Your Data?
Sixth Estate has learned that if Pierre Poutine had just asked nicely (or bribed the right people?), they could have had a duplicate copy of CIMS, potentially. It’s not clear if this would be a complete copy, or information only for a local riding. Why is this very important? See
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Poutine Getting Stale – Facts Stay Fresh
Ezra Levant fans are taking the position that there is no scandal. Some go so far as to say there is no evidence, and the Conservative Party wasn’t the obvious benefactor of the Pierre Poutine Scheme to misdirect mostly non-CPC voters away from legitimate polls. Meanwhile, real journalists, who’ve uncovered
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: ConCalls: Prime Minister’s Guilty Mind
The Prime Minister is acting like someone with a guilty mind. It’s been hard on all Conservatives I’ve spoken with to admit this is the case. Consider you’re a Conservative (if you aren’t), and imagine the possibility that the Prime Minister is implicated in a conspiracy to commit elections fraud.
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: RoboCon and VikiLeaks
Surprisingly, the Canadian government is dealing with other scandals it’s instigated. Vikileaks was the subject again today, where the Speaker ruled that Anonymous (an unrepresented collective of hackers and political activists) was found to have breached the privledge of Minister Toews who’s created the monster of a bill, C-30 (to
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: RoboCon: The CIMS has Poutine’s Greasy Thumbprint
How many people play The Sims? Are you going to create a character called Pierre Poutine? Tracey Kent @TraceyKent @4got @tondamacc A CIMS user cannot make changes, run queries on any other ridings but their own. Access approval is hierarchical – @TraceyKent @4got @tondamacc That’s incredibly IMPORTANT information. It’s
Continue readingknitnut.net: The Macbook, the Geek, and the birds
I took my Macbook into Best Buy the other night because it was making funny noises and the three-year warranty hadn’t run out yet. Apple calls their technicians Geniuses. Best Buy calls their technicians Geeks. I guess there are good Geniuses and evil geniuses, just as there are good Geeks
Continue readingBlast Furnace Canada Blog: Lahey sentenced — fire the bastard
We learned today that the disgraced Roman Catholic bishop of Antigonish, Nova Scotia, Raymond Lahey, was sentenced to time served for possession of child pornography on his laptop which he was stupid enough to have in his carry-on and not in checked luggage. Time served. Some may say merely
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: A Leaky New Year
Anonymous has cracked into Stratfor. What’s that? It’s a Shadow CIA that kept customer’s credit card info unencrypted and allowed mysterious “Robin Hood Hackers” access to millions of sensitive emails. What will we learn from those emails when they are eventually leaked? Probably super-cool stuff will be revealed. So far
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Standarize Electronics
Electronics work best when there are standards to follow. Without standards we wouldn’t have CDs that could be read in any nearly CD-ROM or DVD drive. We wouldn’t have radios that pick up signals from broadcasters. Standards make the WWW work wonderfully. I don’t know why it’s taken so long
Continue readingcmkl: Me and my SSD drive: the afternoon geek-out post
Since I saw this video on Dave Shea’s website some time ago I thought, yeah, that’s the ticket. I’ll use an SSD as my boot drive. That’ll solve the six year old computer blues.
Continue readingBlast Furnace Canada Blog: Who’s protecting YOUR water?
This should really make us all wake up: Someone from Russia (it could have been the government or a private interest, we don’t know yet) was able to remotely shut off then back on a second later a pump in Springfield, the capital of the state of Illinois — and
Continue readingBlast Furnace Canada Blog: Bye Steve, and bye-bye (maybe) Tim
Hard to imagine a world without Steve Jobs … I’ll always be a “PC” (personal computer) but I love iTunes ™ — which made possible the podcast and the ability to download a lot of favourite radio and TV shows as well as discovering new ones, all for…
Continue readingcmkl: Something called fseventsd is slowing my computer to a crawl
Apparently it’s the file system events daemon. It records the comings and goings of the machine’s hard disks to a log. Somewhere. This all seems well and good. But are the hard disks in my machine so eventful that it needs to take CPU load up to 4.5? (…
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: WikiLeaks: State Did It For Lulz
The State Department is one of those organizations that deems a hyperlink as “publication” of the material it links to. Publicity, almost certainly, but it’s impossible to knowingly and forever publicize what is being linked to, because websites are dynamic and links get broken due to their targets’ changes. And the State is eager to […]
Saskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Angry Voters
Jeff suggests a new app for the iPhone. I’d call it iVote, or Angry Voters. I used to be a hard-liner against e-voting, but now I’m starting to wonder if democracy is doomed either way, why not make it more engaging at the end of its life? There’s little doubt that an un-fixed electronic election […]
Saskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Would You Vote Over The Internet?
I trust computers… to do what their potentially untrustworthy programmers tell them to do. Because it’s computer code that could be corrupted, there’s little means for the layperson voter to verify they aren’t being swindled. That said, online voting is becoming inevitable, and may be required to pull young voters into participating in our democracy. […]
Saskboy's Abandoned Stuff: #OpPayPal to End WikiLeaks Blockade
WikiLeaks is an organization of journalists who publish whistleblower leaks of documents from corrupt governments and corporations. PayPal is an eBay company who quickly caved to US State Department threats, and cut off a source of funding to WikiLeaks. I’ve closed my PayPal account in protest, with thousands of others. This has had a negative […]
Saskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Spider
– I found this fellow in my bag after I was out picking rose petals. The Internet and WWW are changing, and maybe not for the better. In the olden days, websites would end with a small set of Top Level Domains (TLDs). These include the famous .com(merce), .ca, .co.uk, and many others. But now […]
Saskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Never Waking Up
Spirit has taken a dirt nap on Mars, years after it was expected to fail. If only Microsoft, Apple, or Garmin could build devices half as reliable as a Martian rover, I wouldn’t have to make so many blasted RMA claims on or off warranty. If only we put a higher priority on space travel […]