Computer & Laptop Security

I recently found this blog post detailing how a well known Canadian security program Computrace (created by Vancouver security group Absolute Software) describes how it could be turned against the owner. Here is Absolute's response.

Irregardless of the likelyhood of such a security breech (the point being that if someone steals your laptop and it has something worth stealing, they have alot of ways to discover them and can be sucessful) it only points to another obvious reason to develop security measures for PC use, including data drive encryption (which I can not stress enough) via open source programs like TrueCrypt. (Again, which I personally use and totally endorse!)

I hope these links help.

Female Serial Killers

I ran across a review of this book by Torontonian, Peter VRONSKY in a Criminology Journal and was surprised to find an interesting collection of eclectic topics covered - among them teaching The History of Nazism and The American Civil War at Ryerson University in Toronto (we used to call it Rye High).

I think he would be an interesting fellow to ask about 1) the outbreak of IPV murder-suicides that appear to have broken out recently and 2) Similarities between the Reichstag Fire which triggered a constitutional hijacking of Government by the National Socialists and last winters attempted "Unholy Alliance" between the Liberals, NDP and Bloc and 3) Similarities between the "Peoples Court" of the Third Reich and CHRC's attempts to remove our rights of expression as disclosed by Ezra LEVANT.

[here are notes on HST 603 - HISTORY OF THE THIRD REICH by Peter VRONSKY]

10 year old girl fined $50 for operating a lemonade stand without a license

10 year old girl fined $50 for operating a lemonade stand without a license.

Can it get any worse than this? (and with tomorrow - Aug 20 - being National Lemonade Day?). Sometimes you couldn't even imagine this stuff.

Perhaps it is a play on that good ole American maxim "If you got lemons, make lemonade (but ask the SEC first)?

Backup Madness

Ok, I do this alot. But with all the o/s upgrades and reinstalls I now have a mass of DC's and DVD's from previous efforts. Having used Backup software in the past (like the recently deposed Microsoft OneCare) I am now finding it a pain that I must reinstall the backup program to Restore! So I am looking for a new app that can "migrate" with me a little easier.

In the meantime I have decided to just use WinZip v12.1 - it can compress files as it Archives and I just write the password on the CD/DVD and store in a secure location. That is the simplest way for now. (plus I have been using WinZip forever so I don't have to keep learning it! Although I find I have to upgrade occasionally.)

However, in my "search" one program I really liked was Gmail BACKUP. I am running it now. It is true that one of the things that has bothered me about Gmail is I may never be able to leave the service as it holds EVERYTHING (and is becoming MORE ubiquitous) so this is a real find!

[here is MakeUseOf's summary]

Honour Killings in Kingston

Le point de bascule (tipping point) has another angle on this tragic story that has not been commented upon in the English language press (finally the walls are coming down!). Of course it is likely that it is natural waryness of the Quebec media to be rather, well - European - with the truth. Or at least that is the way anglophone reporters regard the fast and loose reportage in "La Belle Province".

Mohammad Shafia, the father of the 3 girls (his daughters) and 1 women (his first wife) may be able to recieve compensation from the Quebec No-Fault Auto Insurance Society SAAQ (la Société de l'assurance automobile du Québec) in the order of $200,000.

Here is the (English) post featuring an interview with the former Minister responsible for SAAQ.

Le point de bascule (the tipping point)

I made the most wonderful discovery today, via re-reading the National Post's interview with Jennifer LYNCH on June 15, 2009 in which she lashed out against her "enemies" (whom she declined to name but obviously must include Ezra LEVANT). Among the comments posted below the article were a few well informed ones referring to le point de bascule.

Not having seen or read of it, I searched and found it at www.pointdebasculecanada.ca. It is a francophone blog that appears to be taking the same tack as Ezra LEVANT - at least as far as taking the CHRC to task. The founder - Marc LEBUIS - claims to be a supporter of Free Speech and is obviously very bilingual (not really sure about his other background) . He has a number of french posts translated into English, in order I suppose, to get wider distribution. Yet even for his french posts he has employed the free "Google Translate" add-in on his site, which allows any reader to select one of the 36 languages available and have the french version rendered almost instantly into that tongue. WOW! I declare the "Two Solitudes" officially over.

In particular, M. LEBUIS has taken an Imam in Montreal named Abou Hammaad Sulaiman Dameus Al-Hayiti to task for some of the outrageously hateful comments made by him in an ebook (in french/arabic) available at his website and mosque. Among some of his pronouncements:

• Gays and lesbians should be “exterminated in this life”. Gays involved in sodomy must be “beheaded”.
• Infidels generally “live like animals,” “love perversity”, “are our enemies,” and their offspring are the most perverted of children. Male infidels want to “sexually exploit women.” “One of the greatest forms of ignorance and injustice” would be for Muslims to regard infidels as being on the same level as Muslims.
• Christianity is a “religion of lies” responsible for the Western world’s “perversity, corruption and adultery.”
• Jews “spread corruption and chaos on earth.”
• Men are “better” than women, having “a more complete intellect and memory.”
• Muslims in Muslim lands must “humiliate and punish” Christians and Jews; Hindus, Buddhists, atheists and others must convert to Islam or “be killed”.

Did he miss anyone?

M. LEBUIS on April 1, 2008 filed a formal Sec 13 complaint (aka The Hayiti Case) with the CHRC using the above examples from Imam Al-Hayiti's ebook (apparently on his website) entitled L’islam ou l’intégrisme - À la lumière du Qor’an et de la sounnah (Islam or fundamentalism - In light of the Qor'an and the Sunnah).

The CHRC's staggering response to this complaint? Rejected. In a letter dated Dec 5, 2008, the CHRC could not find any "identifiable group" that was hurt by such statements (above).

Huh? Excuse me, but WHAT?

M. LEBUIS after an exhaustive dissection of the decision, makes the following trenchant conclusions:

• If you belong to a minority, you can with impunity propagate hatred and contempt against the majority. You are not held to the same standards of tolerance, respect and civility as the majority. Equality under the law, according to the Commission, does not exist anymore.
• If you belong to a religious minority, you can with impunity propagate a supremacist ideology that also condones the extermination of other minorities, and of the majority, if this is the doctrine of your religion.
• If you belong to the majority and you expose the supremacist, totalitarian and anti-democratic ideology propagated by a minority, you risk being sued.

In his closing closing, M. LEBUIS remarks about Commissioner LYNCH's whining about a “campaign” to “discredit” the Commission.

"I cannot help but observe that the CHRC has discredited itself without need of assistance."

That about sums it up. Do we need any more evidence that the HRC's have outlived their usefulness? I think not.

Fire. Them. All