User: WillAffleckUW

Time to write to my Congressman over and over

On: 100,000 More Social Security Numbers Exposed

Or we could adopt the Canadian Electronic Privacy Act regulations in the USA ... same thing, but TOUGHER.

It's time to admit the failure

On: 100,000 More Social Security Numbers Exposed

and it's been more than four years of constant and unending failures, that just keep getting bigger and bigger and bigger.

Next they'll tattoo us with barcodes and require we use fingerprints to buy coffee - oh, wait, they already DO!

Dang, when will this failed regime END!?!

Ah, but look where their investments really are

On: IBM to Open Projects at SourceForge.net

in China and India - read the subtext of the commercials where the guy shows up with a Thing in a Box that he's patenting and needs to "get big".

however, there's no free rides - and Information wants to be Free.

So why isn't Dvorak in Gitmo?

On: Dvorak on How Microsoft Can Kill Linux

oh, wait that was Novak ... sorry.

All those old guys who don't grok the real world all seem alike to me.

Meanwhile low-power radio will broadcast

On: Regulators Lose Piracy Battle

a version of the TV programs without the nasty added on cruft imposed by the feds

Re:It was just oral arguments... or was it ...

On: Broadcast Flag in Trouble

that's what they said about the "discussion" about what HDTV signals to use ... and look what that got us ...

All this will just increase Canucks derision of US

On: Preparing for the Broadcast Flag?

As they don't have any of this but get the same TV shows without half the censorship.

I can see it now, lines of cars driving up to Canuckland to buy cheap recorders that ignore US limits.

Why does it show WA as dark grey (barriers)?

On: Anti-Muni Broadband Bills Country Wide

We have entire cities, like Tacoma, which provide municipal Internet, so this can't be true.

The first hit is always free

On: The Return of Free Internet

But even if you're drinking Chantico, it's a fairly expensive habit for "free" usage ...

Dylan, is that you?

On: The Return of Free Internet

Just because Fremont in Seattle has so many free wi-fi ports that even the Fremont Powerhouse next to the school lets you in, don't you think the neighbors will notice - again - when their modem churns at 2:30 am while you're downloading from Japan?

Seriously, dude, last time your mom had to pull the plug on three of your computers cause they found out ...

Give me Liberty from acronyms or give me lawyers

On: Sixth Bioinformatics Open Source Conference

I think the reason that the press (and i include bloggers in this realm) use IP to refer to Intellectual Property (as if the human genome is for sale) is that the press kowtows to lawyers such as those who fill the legislative branches.

Meanwhile, in the real world, IP still stands for Internet Protocol and we're still waiting for IPv6 ...

As a Canuck living in the Red States

On: Canadian Privacy Law v. E-Mail Harvesting

i wonder if that means I'm covered from them sending me spam?

After playing Sims: The Urbz

On: Grand Theft Auto Led Teen to Kill

I have been using Tag Face on people without warning.

and if you believe that, I've got a fix for Social Security to sell you ...

Trust but verify

On: Study Finds Windows More Secure Than Linux

one example does not a statistical study make.

get back to me when we have more than 100 such trials - public ones that are allowed to survive in the wild for a few months.

And in the real world when your system is hacked

On: Study Finds Windows More Secure Than Linux

MSFT will release the bug fix 4 years afterwards, while never admitting it ever had a bug.

Or we could just not drive cars

On: Green Energy Now, And On The Tide

cutting pollution in half and reducing our energy needs substantially ...

MSFT IT Security Officer trying to distract coders

On: MS Security Chief Says Windows is Safer Than Linux

so they won't spend more time improving Linux instead of reading about how (cough LIES cough) secure Windows is.

The best way to win at this game is submit code.

Give me ANSI SQL or give me death

On: Comparing MySQL Performance

well, i've been having some interesting ODBC issues passing the same SQL queries to Access and to Oracle, so let's not pretend that the ANSI SQL compatible world is that compatible ...

Appropriate Tools for appropriate people

On: Comparing MySQL Performance

seems to me that not everyone needs Oracle, which can cost tens of thousands per CPU, even with the educational or non-commerical discount, and that we have to look at each person's needs individually.

Do we need field-level locking, or will row-level locking suffice?

Do we need distributed servers with failbacks and rollbacks or will a simpler solution with a periodic backup suffice?

Each database system design should match the needs and at least reasonable expectations of growth - One Size does not necessarily fit all.

Safer just as it's safer overseas

On: MS Security Chief Says Windows is Safer Than Linux

ignore the reality staring us in the face.