X-Cop Fly Company

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 [...]

Quotes from “What the State Fears Most: Information” by Jonathan M. Finegold Catalan: Presently, our ability to attain knowledge is threatened because said knowledge represents a threat to the state — not to “national security,” as is claimed, but to the legitimacy of the state itself. Julian Assange, through WikiLeaks, has made available to society [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Some commenters have been asking whether or not the site can be quoted or reproduced. I have been putting off deciding this – I will not use the popular Creative Commons licenses because later versions include a sneak GPL-style provision allowing relicensing under “compatible licenses” approved by Creative Commons (the organization) as “in the spirit” [...]

Either someone, or some group of people, has some kind of problem with Gloria Estefan, her husband, P Diddy, and some music industry figure named Frank Amadeo. I see these repeated comments and remarks posted on YouTube videos, people’s blogs, and business review sites (relating to their holding company "Estefan Enterprises") about supposed money laundering. [...]

When will politicians even discuss or debate any antitrust or anti-racketeering violations by this industry? So many violations are obvious, and there’s that “way they do business” (including lobbying for the right to hack and possibly doing it anyway) Stats the MAFIAA doesn’t want you to know about: 1. Child abduction: the fine is only [...]

According to Bing vs. Google, Usenet posts from the Azz Pizz Institute are at the top of the list – but only on Our Sponsor, Google! Microsoft Bing apparently does not like the Azz Pizz Institute. Maybe it’s because we endorse Slackware Linux, Vim, and Web standards, and oppose copyright protection, liberal Democrats, and everything [...]

Yes, now the Azz Pizz Institute has a new Log-O! We can’t say Logo, because it’s the Ty-D-Bol Man, the logo for a popular cleaning product who swims around in your toilet. We at the Azz Pizz Institute figured it would be a perfect Log-O for our blog. The copyright department warned us about Sara [...]