X-Cop Fly Company

Why I Did Not Discuss My Participation in the SOPA/PIPA Blackout

Thursday, January 19th, 2012

Many of you who came to the X-Cop Fly Company blog (or to Rogue Central @ coredumpcentral.org) yesterday were redirected to the SOPA Strike page. (The blackout on the X-Cop Fly Company blog started a few hours late for EST people such as myself, since the plugin I used here had a bug, and I [...]

Media 1.0 Lies Again

Friday, December 10th, 2010

I used several of the sites that were supposedly “shut down” by Anonymous during the day yesterday. Fox News the next day claimed that these sites had been shut down or rendered useless. I used them just fine. In fact, I tried the same sites that same evening and at 12-1 AM and all these [...]

Funny Obama Jokes

Thursday, July 8th, 2010

From Lew Rockwell: The liberals are asking us to give Obama time. We agree . . . and think 25 to life would be appropriate. America needs Obama-care like Nancy Pelosi needs a Halloween mask. Q: Have you heard about McDonald’s’ new Obama Value Meal? A: Order anything you like and the guy behind you [...]

“Blogs vs. Twitter & Facebook” Arguments, As Applied to the Bill of Rights

Wednesday, June 23rd, 2010

There have been a lot of posts (and political lobbying) within the past few years by a dying Media 1.0 establishment and a gullible public to discourage the creation and reading of blogs, this time by encouraging Twitter and Facebook as replacements for blogs. Examples: 1 2 3 4 Rather than go on a standard [...]

1024-bit RSA encryption cracked by carefully starving CPU of electricity

Wednesday, March 10th, 2010

From Engadget: Since 1977, RSA public-key encryption has protected privacy and verified authenticity when using computers, gadgets and web browsers around the globe, with only the most brutish of brute force efforts (and 1,500 years of processing time) felling its 768-bit variety earlier this year. Now, [three people] at the University of Michigan claim they [...]

Obama Speech: 7 Lies In Under 2 Minutes

Wednesday, October 21st, 2009

Politics as usual, via YouTube: Obama Speech: 7 Lies In Under 2 Minutes

Obama Goes Neocon

Wednesday, September 16th, 2009

From AP via Lew Rockwell: The Obama administration supports extending three key provisions of the Patriot Act that are due to expire at the end of the year, the Justice Department told Congress in a letter made public Tuesday. Lawmakers and civil rights groups had been pressing the Democratic administration to say whether it wants [...]

Key Fed policies cause bank failures in video games

Saturday, August 29th, 2009

From Lew Rockwell: This online video game, consisting of hundreds of thousands of players who control every aspect of the game universe, just suffered an enormous economic calamity due to player-controlled bankers engaging in Fractional Reserve Banking. When players got wind of the fraudulent practice, it prompted a bank run. Minus central banking, Fractional Reserve [...]