Archive for March, 2008

A slice of life…

Tuesday, March 25th, 2008

So i’m on IM with a friend and found this funny. Welcome to a day in my life…

(09:40:30 AM) Chris: im trying to get motivated to work
(09:41:25 AM) Chris: not doing too good
(09:41:27 AM) Chris: lol
(09:41:55 AM) Ed: ROFL
(09:41:56 AM) Ed: Same here. :D
(09:43:00 AM) Ed: Just installing some software on my laptop… veery slooowly I might add.
(09:44:50 AM) Chris: heh
(09:44:53 AM) Chris: sounds like fun
(09:45:36 AM) Ed: And now the guy from Schuran just sent me all of the english documentation for my Calcium Reactor and Protein Skimmer… now i’m REALLY not going to get any work done. lol
(09:47:50 AM) Chris: i repeat: nerd
(09:47:51 AM) Chris: :)
(09:48:14 AM) Ed: Ummm… that’s “Aquatic Master (nerd)” to you. :D
(09:49:13 AM) Chris: noted. :)

Okay quick, everybody buy HD-DVD players and movies

Tuesday, March 18th, 2008

What do I have against Blu-Ray? SONY! That’s what. They own the technology, all of it. What does that mean for consumers? Licensing… lots and lots of licensing. Expensive players, expensive movies, etc. Sony knows this, most consumers apparently don’t.

I figure that we’ve got one shot left for HD-DVD and to not be stuck with Blu-Ray. That shot is to buy HD-DVD. Everybody, go find an HD-DVD player… buy it. Go find HD-DVD movies… buy them. Then wait. The technology is open, somebody will pick it back up and make it.

Let’s take our market back! If Sony REALLY wanted to do something good, they should give Blu-Ray to the DVD forum. Then i’ll buy one. Until then, forget it.

GO HD-DVD!

I want my internet back

Sunday, March 9th, 2008

That’s it… I want the idiots off of my internet. I want my internet back. I’m so sick of all of the whiners on the internet, talking about their “right” to surf at work, their “right” to a safe, clean internet. I say to them, you have no “rights”. You have the “right” to keep yourself off of my internet and go back to AOL where they’ll offer you a “safe” (read: restricted) internet. Me? I’ll put up firewalls in front of me, choose to only run secure operating environments, and keep my sensitive data off of the internet. Go ahead, compromise this terminal… all of my valuable data isn’t here.

I want my internet back! I recently read an article about a Chinese hacking group that was boasting of no web sites being safe and how they even hacked into U.S. government web sites.. I thought to myself, why would the government have that crap connected in ANY way to the internet? Oh wait… because some idiot thinks that all computers should be on the internet! I say no… no, no, no, no, no! GET YOUR SECURE INFORMATION OFF OF THE INTERNET. IT IS NOT SECURE. Physical security is the only way to truly keep information off of the internet. If it’s connected to the LAN, it’s vulnerable… period. Not that anybody actually cares what my opinion is or anything, but we need to get our sensitive data away from the internet completely. Attention Government : The internet is NOT safe, pull the countries’ data away from it. Those machines (with my social security number and such) should NOT have public addresses or any form of address translation. Access to them should be controlled through a secure gateway with (at least) two-factor authentication. That gateway ought to be at least 2 or 3 firewalls away from the internet with no path back. NO ACCESS FROM HOME. COME TO WORK YOU LAZY MORONS. No copy/paste functions should be allowed on machines that connect to the secure area. No screen captures… nothing. Consider seriously that people who access those machines should not have access to the internet while at work. They don’t NEED it… it’s not their “right”. Prisoners don’t need Cable TV and internet either, but that’s a whole new rant.

I want my internet back. I say this to these morons who can’t seem to realize that the internet is NOT a safe place and it never will be as long as it’s connected to the rest of the world. This goes back to an old rant of mine… People have this need to believe that all other people are basically good and if given the choice would do the right thing… it’s definitely not true but i’ll let that one lye for now. But on that note… I want my internet back.


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