Saskboy's Abandoned Stuff: ConCalls: Who Did The Domestic Calls? #RoboCon...
Some behind the scenes numbers about Elections Canada’s impotent investigation into illegal robocalls… [note Prime Contact, which came up in the blogosphere earlier this week.] 81. At the national...
View ArticleScripturient: Blog & Commentary: World of Tanks
Tanks are a long distance weapon, you know. They are best used in concert with one another to provide cover and overwatch fire, and are best placed in a covered or hull-down position where their...
View ArticleSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: ConCalls: Trial Begins for Sona in #RoboCon...
An important trial in Canadian history is underway in Guelph, Ontario. Michael Sona, the only person accused by prosecutors of carrying out the illegall robocalls in Guelph to redirect people to the...
View ArticleScripturient: Blog & Commentary: Pondering Responsive web design
I’ve been building websites since the early 1990s, and have had my own websites continually since 1995. For a few years, I did website design and analysis for commercial clients – mostly small local...
View ArticleSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Take a Narrow Health Site Survey
This sort of survey isn’t going to make the best website possible for our country. I found the survey easy to take, but the results will be skewed toward the menu options listed, instead of answering...
View ArticleSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: USB Broken
It’ll be hard to justify using USB now. It basically must be assumed to be malicious/infected. It was so nice to have a standard port too! I guess USB condoms are going to become a lot more common.
View ArticleScripturient: Blog & Commentary: Testing a Homeplug-Powerline Network
I’ve had some wireless issues for quite some time now. There are dead spots in the house – a central wall has metal ducts and a gas fireplace, which are beside the laundry room with its metal-enclosed...
View ArticleSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Experimenting with email Encryption
This may be useful at some point in the future, to verify a message came from the real me. —–BEGIN PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK—– Version: GnuPG v2...
View ArticleScripturient: Blog & Commentary: Banished: Sandbox Gaming at Its Best
Banished is a medieval-style city building game, along the lines of SimCity, but with several significant differences. While not as slick or comprehensive as SimCity, it still provides a compelling,...
View ArticleSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: That’s So Meta #PRISM
This is why Edward Snowden risked life and liberty. http://t.co/FNhj7mIi8a https://t.co/c7f4hynSZm via @RecentApp pic.twitter.com/PED4veBpWw — Declan McCullagh (@declanm) November 9, 2014 Critics of...
View ArticleSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: ConCalls: May was never contacted about #elxnfraud...
“If the Commissioner of Canada Elections is prepared to ignore the findings of two judges, I think that will speak very poorly of the powers of investigations we have in this country to explore...
View ArticleScripturient: Blog & Commentary: The WOW Factor
After two years away from the game, I was recently convinced by a friend to return to World of Warcraft again and play in the fantasy universe of WOW. At 10 years old, WOW remains the biggest,...
View ArticleSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: How’s That City On The Hill?
From Barrett Brown, a wrongfully jailed journalist… in the USA. He’s imagining speaking to the founding fathers about the country’s progress: Benjamin Franklin: “It was among my fondest dreams that my...
View ArticleThe Disaffected Lib: Shhh – Not In Front of the TV, George.
Be careful what you say in front of your smart TV. According to Samsung, you never know who might be listening to your every word. The warning applies to TV viewers who control their Samsung Smart TV...
View ArticleSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: “Anti-Petroleum” RCMP Explodes Gasoline In Their...
RCMP called ‘anti-petroleum’ critics (aka anyone concerned about climate change) a potential security threat http://t.co/sollGvyhdB #cdnpoli — Keith Stewart (@climatekeith) February 18, 2015 The RCMP...
View ArticleSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: NSA Wants To Apple-fy All Computers
Do you want a computer that will only install US Government authorized applications? That’s what the NSA wants for you, so they’ll have a front-door to every device.
View ArticleSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: The Inexpensive Computer Comes With Expensive...
When I read about the $9 computer on Crash Bang Labs’ Facebook page, I was ready to help kick start that CHIP. But I got to the payment screen when the shipping amount came up. How much could it cost...
View ArticleSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Killer Robots By Accident or On Purpose?
It’s There are companies like Lockheed Martin making autonomous killing robots, and there are companies like Google making self-driving cars (which kill people by accident or poor design). At least...
View ArticleSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Real Life First Person Shooter (Chatroulette version)
This is great improv acting and a great concept for a video.
View ArticleScripturient: Server upgrade coming
Sometime in the next two weeks, I will be amalgamating servers for the several sites I manage and conflating them onto one, new and (I hope) faster and more efficient server. There may be some downtime...
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