Sunday, October 2nd, 2011
If you’ve read my blog, you may have seen my frequent statements regarding copyleft, and how due to the structure of tax-deductible incorporated nonprofits, management changes and donor ties may result in forced donations or sabotage to the freeness of free software and other copyleft schemes such as Creative Commons ShareAlike. Yesterday I had the [...]
Filed: Uncategorized | Tagged: creative commons, definite answer, drm, emacs, freeness, fsf, gplv3, jurisdictions, lack of trust, management changes, nina paley, possessions, private property rights, richard stallman, robe, ron paul, scary stuff, scranton pa, sita, skit | 1 Comment »
Friday, August 5th, 2011
As I was falling asleep the other day, I heard a grinding noise coming from my computer, the grinding of a damaged hard drive. It froze, wouldn’t boot again, sometimes not even detecting the drive, and I tried replacing the cables (SATA and PSU) and still it didn’t make a difference. While the 30 day [...]
Filed: Uncategorized | Tagged: american express, borders store, corporate restructuring, dell machine, drm, ebook reader, ebooks, hdtune, mergers, music stores, new hard drive, private property, psu, rewards, sata, scraps of paper, separate company, smart info, taking up space, trashed, wrong time | 1 Comment »
Wednesday, December 15th, 2010
I had held for a long time that OpenBSD was the best, not only for security reasons, but to escape corporate and government influence. Unlike Linux and FreeBSD, which have involvement and sponsorship by the NSA, other government agencies & contractors, and large multinational corporations, with built in “remote attestation” and “optional” built-in support for [...]
Filed: Uncategorized | Tagged: antitrust, backdoor, bill clinton, bj clinton, bsd, canada, cia, clinton, clipper chip, copyright, corruption, crooks, cryptography, customs, darpa, drm, emperor has no clothes, espionage, export laws, fbi, floss, foss, free software, free software foundation, freebsd, fritz chip, fsf, funding, gnu, google, gpl, gplv3, intellectual propery, kernel, lawyers, legal, liars, linux, mafiaa, microsoft, mpaa, nda, nonprofits, nsa, open-source, openbsd, palladium, remote attestation, riaa, security, selinux, sheep, sheeple, sneaky, spies, spooks, spy, tcpa, theo de raadt, tpm, us government, whistleblower | 3 Comments »
Monday, July 26th, 2010
The Electronic Frontier Foundation finally succeeded at something: The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) won three critical exemptions to the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) anticircumvention provisions today, carving out new legal protections for consumers who modify their cell phones and artists who remix videos — people who, until now, could have been sued for their [...]
Filed: Uncategorized | Tagged: accessible, adobe, antitrust, apple, at&t, blind, bugs, copyright, dmca, dongle, drm, dvd, eff, eye, filmmakers, handicapped, indie, iphone, ipod, library of congress, mac, mafia, mafiaa, mpaa, non-commercial, riaa, security, security bugs, skylarov, vhs, video games, visual, visually impaired, youtube | No Comments »
Tuesday, July 20th, 2010
For at least 2-3 years, including on this blog, I have been pointing out the hypocrisy resulting from the commercialization of open-source software, including the FSF selling out to special interests, TPM in the Linux kernel, the NSA winning a “no-bid contract” of sort into the Linux kernel’s remote attestation features, remote attestation in Linux [...]
Filed: Uncategorized | Tagged: advocacy, apple, blu-ray, bsd, clayton act, cloud computing, cola, computers, contracts, copyright, corporate interests, corruption, cracking, crooked, culture, deals, digital restrictions management, drm, eben moglen, eric raymond, espionage, esr, evil, floss, foss, free software, freedom, fritz hollings, fsf, gnu, government, gpl, gplv3, greed, hacking, halliburton, hollywood, hypocrisy, ibm, immunity, intel, isp, kernel, lagrande, lawsuits, lawyers, leasing, liberty, licensing, linux, mac, mafia, mafiaa, microsoft, mpaa, no-bid contracts, nonprofits, nsa, nsfw, open-source, openbsd, os x, palladium, politics, purity, remote attestation, reputation, riaa, richard stallman, rico act, rms, selinux, sell out, selling out, slackware, sleazy, slut, software, special interests, spy, taint, tcg, tcpa, telephone companies were pardoned by an opposing political party for felony, tpm, treacherous computing, tricks, trolling, txt, virus, wake up, whore, wiretapping | 2 Comments »
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 [...]
Filed: Uncategorized | Tagged: abu ghraib, afghanistan, aipac, al qaeda, anonymity, anonymous, anti-semitism, anti-war, apple, arbitration, banking, barack obama, bias, bill of rights, bin laden, birthright citizenship, blogger, blogs, bush, campaign for liberty, cartoon, catholic church, catholicism, celibacy, cell phones, censorship, christianity, cia, cloud computing, comic, constitution, contracts, copyright, creationism, creative commons, darwin, democrats, diebold, digital rights management, digital tv, dilbert, dmca, domain names, drm, dtv, economy, espionage, evolution, facebook, fbi, file sharing, finance, fox news, free speech, freedom, george bush, george w bush, google, government, gps, guantanamo, guantanamo bay, gun rights, halliburton, hd radio, howard dean, ideology, illegal aliens, illegal immigrants, income tax, intelligence, internet, ipod, iraq, irs, islam, israel, itunes, justin raimondo, kelo, kent hovind, lawyers, lew rockwell, liberty, mac, mafiaa, mainstream media, media 1.0, media bias, media blackout, microsoft, military, mp3, mpaa, muslim, muslims, myspace, news, nin, nine inch nails, nra, nsa, nsfw, nullification, obama, osama bin laden, p2p, palladium, patriot act, peer-to-peer, political correctness, politics, press, priests, privacy, privacy rights, pseudonym, race card, racism, radiohead, recession, religion, republicans, riaa, rigged, rights, ron paul, rupert murdoch, saddam hussein, satellites, scandal, science, slashdot, speech, spy, states' rights, takedown, tcg, tcpa, tea party, tenther, terrorism, theocracy, torture, treacherous computing, trusted computing, twitter, unemployment, us constitution, war on terrorism, war powers, war powers act, web hosting, web sites, young earth creationism, youtube | 4 Comments »
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 [...]
Filed: Uncategorized | Tagged: 1024-bit encryption, authenticity, banking, checksum, computer, computer security, copyright, cpu, cracker, drm, encryption, finance, financial, gnupg, gpg, hacker, hacking, internet, openpgp, openssl, paranoid, pgp, privacy, processor, public-key encryption, rsa, security, sparc, ssl, sun, technology, web, web site | No Comments »
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