Ron Paul’s 2012 Web Site Under Cyberattack
During yesterday’s Happy Birthday money bomb celebration Ron Paul’s official campaign web site came under attack. Most times it was unreachable and there for donations were halted for the last few hours of the donation event. What a cowardly act, I mean sure the main stream media is ignoring the true front runner “at least that is what all the polls show” but now this. I’m not surprised lets face it you challenge the status quo and people get scared. Even if I didn’t support Ron Paul there is no place for this in any form. We vote in America that is the weapon we have to make a deference, no Arab spring here my friends. Oh, at the time of my post the money bomb is at $1,609,734.04 and the ticker is running till noon Pacific time to make up for the lost hours. Good move cowards I was not planning to write about the money bomb or donate this round of donations but now I’ve done both.
OpenSource is really best.
Just installed Zimbra Desktop and LibreOffice, I just feel cleaner now.
New logo for new site.
I’ve got a new logo created for a new site I’m working on that will be all about Amateur Radio in New Mexico. With luck the site should be up by next week.
Dead Drops is this the future?
Aram Bartholl just might be on to something with his “Dead Drops” project. Just exactly what it is is hard to say, what it could mean as a form of digital file distribution in the future is another thing all together. It’s got me to thinking about how to do the very same thing with a non internet connected “hot spot”. I find this fascinating as we must come up with ways to distribute and redistribute digital files with out the fear of being tracked. No matter who is doing the tracking big government, big business, snoopy hackers. I’ll be keeping an eye on this project for sure.
Wyse S50 thin clients delivered what it promised.
So how do you set up a secure, small foot print, one trick pony kiosk and keep the cost below $400.00 per unit? Even more importantly deliver a seamless experience to the end user and make it pretty? Lets just say I have the task of running a small IT shop for an even smaller agency. Of course that means no money, no staff, and really not many other resources as well. Now being a Linux proponent I new that we could spend very little money find some old PC’s laying around and vola instant kiosk, ugly but instant. Ugly I did not want, we have a brand new facility and I gots my pride.
The Wyse S50 to the rescue the units cost me $199.99 a new 20″ monitor cost $100.00 and the mounting brackets $29.00. That’s right for a grand total of $329.99 (shipping was free) I got what I needed, the organization was happy cause it looked pretty, and the public can get information much faster without having to wait in line.
We have the added benefit of getting the organization use to the look and feel of the thin clients and have all ready started testing devices to use with other end users applications. Something that often goes overlooked is the fact that these devices only use 7 watts of power and that’s at full operation just 1watt in standby mode. If I can replace 300 computers that typical use 200 to 350 watts just imagine the savings.
I realize this is nothing new, but teaching old dogs new tricks is never easy.
Posting from an iPad
Very nice device this iPad. To bad apple locks these things down.
RIAA and Net Neutrality prepare yourself for the inevitable .
In this article in ars technica we can all see where this Net neutrality thing is going. So now the powers that be want to filter content? Wait I thought things are going to be neutral you know that word it means “not aligned with or supporting any side or position”, or does it? Sounds like someone would have to take a side, someone would have to create those filters, I’m guessing the one with the most money gets to be the someone.
Net Neutrality is a double edged sword
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again Net Neutrality is a double edged sword. Sure I want the Internet to be free and return back to the good ‘ol days, no blocking of torrents or filtering my data. Even now governments are finding news ways to make Net Neutrality even more restrictive than any company could ever dream about. Just check out what is happening for search engines and the new concept of “search neutrality“. Be careful what you wish for folks.
Who in their mind thinks a Internet “kill Switch” is a good idea?
Is it just me or are we getting more and more stupid these days. The civil rights of American citizens, a once shining example in the free world just keeps getting covered up in the goo that is government. It has come to this the Senate Homeland “still sounds like fatherland to me” Security Committee approves the use of a “kill Switch” for the internet.
The bill, co-sponsored by Sens. Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.), Susan Collins (R-Maine) and Tom Carper (D-Del.) would make the Department of Homeland Security responsible for protecting civilian networks in the government and private sector. Now the key part of this sentence is “Department of Homeland Security responsible for protecting civilian networks in the government and private sector” honestly this bill puts the government in charge of private networks, oh this should end good. When we realize that nothing Washington D.C. does is for us, they only want power and lucky for them we just sit back and say here ya go. Read all about it here.
Looks like Orwell was just off by a few years.
Digital Economy Bill, it’s all about the lies
Richard Stallman the founder of the GNU project and the Free Software Foundation tells it like it is in this latest post. The time is running out for the UK and soon for the USA.