MS certificates
are rock solid. Red Hat and Fedora will be using the Microsoft secure boot keys for UEFI on Win 8 machines in the near future.
Not to worry.
Posts by Reg T.
64 publicly visible posts • joined 21 Feb 2011
Microsoft 'hardens' Windows Update from Flame penetration
Ted Nugent fined for failing to kill bear
Thursday 26th April 2012 10:12 GMT
Re: sigh
Actually, in recent racial US media terminology, Mr. Obama is a White-African American.
In the US, racism is not that great a problem among Whites. Mr. Obama was elected by White people, since Blacks are a minority with insufficient numbers to swing a national election, comprising only about 10% of population. Of course, various techniques have been employed in the past by election experts who are able to inflate the voter rolls so that 2 or 3 times than a demographic's actual population get to "vote".
US Blacks, however, voted overwhelmingly for Mr. Obama, with perhaps only 2 or 3 voting for the White Republican Panamanian-born non-natural born US citizen midget who opposed him. Of course, the Blacks voting for Mr. Obama weighed all the issues and concluded that a Harvard man was superior to a graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy. Race had nothing to do with it, obviously.
There is no solid data on how La Raza members (the Race) voted in 2008. However, we know that they are not at all racist..
Nugent, by the way, was not fined for failing to kill the bear he first shot. He and his guide did track the wounded bear but lost the track. He was fined for taking a second bear, which thus exceeded his limit by one, given that a wounded bear counts as a kill according the Alaska rules.
So, the author was mistaken. But, it was a Black bear.
So there ya go. Racism all over the place.
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HP offers contractors a choice: 5 per cent pay cut ... or 100 per cent
Thursday 29th March 2012 18:09 GMT 
If these lot
are the same folk who write the worthless software for HP printers, I hope they all walk.
HP is also pushing the hardware business almost entirely to resellers. The SMB shop is given almost entirely resellers now, with nothing available on the HP website - direct order. Only the braindead use the junk they sell through Home-Home office. HP used to sell robustly reliable workstations and business PCs. In this current HP environment, I can't imagine any IT enterprise purchasing HP anything. One does imagine that they could somehow make a buck from their disappearing_as_if_by_magic printer drivers - perhaps a new TV IT reality show on the order of Candid Camera.
Seems like the new CEO is making all the right moves to hurry them into receivership. Obviously running an online flea market would be the right training for an HP shuckster.
Marlinspike asks browser vendors to back SSL-validator
BUSTED! Secret app on millions of phones logs key taps
Cryptoboffin: Secure boot a boon for spooks' spyware
Tuesday 25th October 2011 13:14 GMT
The keys
are already in the "wrong" hands. Read the article -
"If the Turkish government compelled Microsoft to include the Tubitak key in Windows..."
MS, Google, Facebook and similar organizations are proxies for governments. Tor is an apparatus for espionage and "crowd" control, in that the users can be identified and rounded up by State security, as in Iran. If the NSA contributes to the kernel (SELinux) do you suppose they do it because it is a beneficent charity which loves folk?
Instead of the "trojan" in the interior, look at the horse itself. There are no "safe" gift horses.
You who folk who brag about Linux security - when was the last time you read each line of code in the latest kernel? And, since when is "compiling" a substitute for reading code?
Massive study concludes: 'Global warming is real'
Saturday 22nd October 2011 16:09 GMT 
Perhaps it is a fact that
there is warming. After one of the coldest winters and now with winter coming radically early, the claim seems facile. The climate change scientists deliberately ignore the influence of weather weaponry employed by the US and Russia. They ignore the Scalar EMP weaponry that precipitates earthquakes, the ongoing magnetic field ULF weaponry that flips El NIno and the like. They fail to mention the spraying of aerosols (contrails) into the atmosphere by governments which generate weather effects as a by -product of the primary HAARP activities directed to focused spots upon the earth, namely concentrated radio waves bounced of the ionosphere.
Since the US Army has bragged that by 20xx they will be able to absolutely control the weather worldwide, scientists must accommodate such activity into their research, clearly delineating which climate changes are spontaneous and which are deliberately of a military nature.
Otherwise, the scientists simply serve as pimps for a taxation scheme designed to impoverish most of the the world.
One Al Gore, Jr. is enough!
Ubuntu's Oneiric Ocelot: Nice, but necessary?
Saturday 15th October 2011 18:06 GMT
Crap
The only good thing about Unity and Ubuntu is that they apparently haven't had the time to screw up KDE,
When synaptic disappears altogether, then you know what real crap is. The Muon Package manager in KDE is crap reminiscent of the openSUSE days when they discarded Yast and gave all the faithful the Zipper - the equivalent of "the finger".
Of course, Ubuntu is now Windows - and less - thus the IPO can't be too far in the future.
There are yet a few Linux distributions remaining. But, Windowizing and Jobsian eye-candy - as in crap - rules. Smoke and mirrors.
As everyone knows, security is always increased by offering only binaries in a package manager that offers the user only a moronic icon without details of the contents.
Check your machines for malware, Linux developers told
MS denies secure boot will exclude Linux
Monday 26th September 2011 11:50 GMT 
The option
to "unlock" will not be yours to make. It will depend entirely upon the whims of the OEM vendor.
I think it safe to say that the US government will seize this as an opportunity to implement their WEB ID government issued digital ID/biometric unique identifier mark which will be required for all internet activity.
They already fondle your stones at the airport or give you "free" cancer, so you won't protest being chipped and permanently identified by your government.
Canonical woos developers with Ubuntu app prep portal
Friday 16th September 2011 08:39 GMT
IPO
This rush to charge is all associated with the Canonical IPO which is surely coming. The Applesque mimicry of "Apps" for sale provides more smoke for the mirrors.
And, by the way, it isn't all about the devs - but the end user. You gotta separate the chump from his change by providing some modicum of actual value.
Unity didn't do it. Gnome 3 won't do it. Obviously, having $2.99 Apps will solve the problem of fleeing users.
Evil flash cookies easier to delete with new Adobe player
Monday 16th May 2011 11:27 GMT 
Bottom-paint indeed,
yet each of those apps lays bare the soul of your PC. Fact is, Adobe and the other corps deliberately pander to the data-gatherers, providing them with the technological means to mine the data.
Second fact is the overwhelming majority of users simply do not care, which is reflected in the rush to buy the newest smart phones - in the millions - which deliver all personal data to the world of the miners - indiscriminately.
Third fact is that many of those firms which design such systems make a significant portion of revenue from government/police miners for which the firms get upwards of $50. a pop for each instance. And, there are millions of "pops" each year
If you sods would simply "take the chip", you could put an end to all this activity. You chip your pets - why not feel the relief and sense of peace that comes with the government knowing where you are, who you are and what you are - constantly and in real time?
There is even a new invisible ink that can be scanned which will not leave an obvious, telltale mark
Peace!
Biting the hand that feeds IT
