*wince*
11/27/2009 | 11:27 AM | Evolved Rationalist
Crazies like the girl in the video make me ashamed of my own gender. :(
ATTACK OF THE KILLER WIFI ROUTERS!
11/23/2009 | 8:43 PM | Evolved Rationalist
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Hackers, electrical grids, hysteria, and whitehat FAIL
11/21/2009 | 12:42 AM | Evolved Rationalist
Okay, folks. I've finally sat down and watched the entire '60 Minutes' segment on OMG HAXORS CAN PWN ELECTRICAL GRIDS AND FUCK THE SHIT OUT OF A WHOLE COUNTRY BUT SOMEHOW THEY HAVEN'T DONE SO, HURR DURR "Cyber War".
A few thoughts:
- Why do people still think that critical system control loops should be exposed to the internet, and then whine about "hackers"?
- WHY ARE CRITICAL CONTROL LOOPS EXPOSED TO THE INTERNET?!! ARGH! ARGHHHHH!
- If such a thing were feasible at this point and is actually as easy as claimed in that segment, someone, some organization, some country out there...or even E/b/aums...would have done it by now, don't you think?
- I'm not denying that such threats are real, and that things should be done to improve security. However, such threats are often hyped up by certain parties who seek to impose draconian restrictions on the internet.
- The Brazilian blackout was caused by soot, not hackers.
Folks, he thinks that journalistic accuracy and basic fact-checking isn't all that important after all. On top of that, his shilling for security awareness without, well, awareness sets off my cynical alarms over the fact that whitehats stand to profit if people are more security conscious (security consciousness is a good thing!), but hell - why would a whitehat care what exactly it was that set off the
Of course, Nick Selby is way smarter and educated than lowly me, but lowly me is of the opinion that the public should know the truth. Not only because if the average person realized that soot, and not OMG EVIL HAXORS was the cause of the blackout, (s)he wouldn't have a nice ready-made reason to call for the blood of 'hackers'. Said person would also be more likely to think twice before (s)he is led like sheep to support the locking-down of the internet due to hysterical propaganda over 'evil hackers attacking our electrical grids!"
What Selby is advocating - basically, awareness without awareness - would sell more whitehat security products, but as far as truth is concerned, and as far as educating the general public is concerned, I have this little demotivational:
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Chrome OS
11/20/2009 | 2:08 AM | Evolved Rationalist
So, everything will be in the cloud and nothing on the local disk? Who exactly decided that this will be a good idea, again?
*facepalm*
Child murderers got TOLD
11/18/2009 | 10:33 PM | Evolved Rationalist
Jonathan Turley has a nice article in the Washington Post about how faith should never be used as a justification for letting child murderers get off scot-free or on greatly reduced sentences. Parents who mumble words to an imaginary sky-daddy instead of seeking medical help for their sick children are no better than parents who murder their children in cold blood, and should be legally dealt with as such.
He comments on a case in which loony vegan child murderers were IRL b&hammered but the religious murderers got off with a slap on the wrist:
The key to the use of such a defense is that it must involve belief in a divine being, not a particular lifestyle. In 2007, Jade Sanders and Lamont Thomas of Atlanta were convicted of malice murder and given life sentences for the death of their 6-week-old child. The defense attorneys cited the couple's strict vegan lifestyle to explain why they fed their newborn son a diet of soy milk and organic apple juice, though during the trial Sanders said she had also breast-fed her son, who died in an emaciated state at 6 weeks, weighing just 3 1/2 pounds. The prosecutor and court had no qualms in treating this couple's beliefs as a poor excuse for murder, calling a nutritionist and vegan expert as a witness to show that a vegan diet can be safe for an infant. The prosecutor even told the jury: "They're not vegans, they're baby-killers."So why aren't the Christian loonies treated as such? OH WAIT RELIGION OH LAWD NOW THAT MAKES PERFECT SENSE...not. If we allow the religious loons to directly harm their children by denying them access to medical care, we are no better than enablers and accomplices to murder. It is fine and dandy if a religious whackaloon chooses to remove himself from the gene pool by trusting in his imaginary sky-god, but when children are murdered at the altar of their parents' lunatic stupidity, the parents deserve no better than to be treated like the murderers they are.
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Why so selfpwn?
11/16/2009 | 1:00 AM | Evolved Rationalist
Hey theists, here's a friendly reminder from a concerned internet denizen. If you're a rabid defender of Christianity and are part of a Christian group on Facebook which is being raided by E/b/aumsworld, for the love of Longcat, do not selfpwn yourself like this tard by volunteering your home address (aka dox), unless you are willing to be a lolcow and pizza recipient.
kthxbai
Typical conversation at Micro$oft
11/08/2009 | 1:31 PM | Evolved Rationalist
"Let's design an operating system that runs processes as root and allows non super users to fork processes off them with root privileges! Totally secure idea, eh Bill?"
"You bet."
...and thus Windows was born.
He's BAAAAACK!
11/06/2009 | 12:54 AM | Evolved Rationalist
Ted Haggard is back in the business, this time starting a new church in his house in the hope that it would soon grow into another cash cow after being made miraculously straight by the power of prayer.
Isn't this awesome?
*snicker*
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