Monday, February 29, 2016

now that your gone spaceboy

my send up to David Bowie, which i wrote and recorded on 2.26.2016


file://localhost/Users/user/Desktop/ziggy%20pic.rtfd/

i hope the link works

Monday, February 22, 2016

use caution when voting


please go to apple.com and read the letter that Tim Cook wrote to customers and please read the links as well addressing the issues of cyber security. Tim Cook is right. the FBI complained about this iPhone before it hit the stores. they have been using the fear bludgeon of national security to demand their way too much. more and more our rights our trampled upon and taken away from us. since national security and cyber security go hand in hand all the more reason to protect and insist upon more encryption,and not demand,and require the destruction of what is so far the best encryption system there is.

also, when are they going to charge ms.hillary clinton with the major violations of national security,some for which, pfc. manning sits in prison for having discovered and exposed the same violations, thereof.

also, being how the internet is so very hacker friendly environment,why on earth are government secrets even kept on computers, where they are less secure in the first place,hello people.

unfortunately the sheeple are voting the soundbites that tickle their emotions,without even pausing to seriously consider how the constitution would be protected upheld and enforced by the next president.the united states does not need a despot,or dictator in the white house.

Saturday, February 20, 2016

Apple takes a stand

has everyone forgotten that the FBI and DHS dropped the ball when it came to preventing these terrorist in that attack in San Bernadino long before it happened. stuff was on Facebook people. they screwed up letting em in the country then they didn't step up when they were supposed to. 

and now they want to trample the right to privacy. they want the master key to unlock a secure phone. when apple announced their latest locking secure phone before it was released the FBI complained then rather vociferously that it would endanger national security.they throw that around to get their way,and unfortunately,have succeeded only too often with that line.people in favor of donald trump are not thinking straight.trump has said he would bring back waterboarding and worse,revoke Miranda.and to my shock and amazement people cheered when trump said it...damn.we'd be back to the good ol days when the police could just beat a confession out of a suspect. 
what rights are left?

does anyone remember when microsoft XP came out,complete with a backdoor,to facilitate customer service assistance,and also a freeway for hackers,read identity thieves?this is what the FBI wants apple to do.once the master key is in their hands it will be used a lot.

why can't they unlock it themselves?

apple has said no because it would establish a BAD Precedent in the LAW.they are correct on this.judge scalia was one who would likely have agreed with apple on this.not surprising that he is dead and no autopsy.

maybe apple needs to run national security.government techs aint up to it.


Monday, February 15, 2016

life imitates art

when the news came out that Judge Antonin Scalia had died; and radio commentator Mike Gallagher says that he was found with a pillow on his head,well, I started thinking "Pelican Brief". The pillow on his head, on his face?! really. And a judge pronounced him dead over the telephone. No police investigation, and no autopsy is being done. He died at a resort in Texas on the southern border.this is way too suspicious even if some people don't like him.He was a Supreme Court Judge.

Monday, February 8, 2016

the price of honesty paid by Thomas Drake


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