Archives for the ‘Technology’ Category

San Francisco fiber network hijacked by angry city employee

This is one of the scenarios I have to worry about. My IT department isn’t in charge of a city, but we still worry. Most security breaches happen from the inside.
The purported takeover of the San Francisco government’s new fiber optic network by an employee who locked out all the other administrators sounds extreme, but [...]

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Problem with my iPod classic

My iPod classic is one of the technology tools that enriches my life the most. I have thousands and thousands of dollars worth of gadgets but the iPod gets the most use. It’s my traveling companion. It reads my audiobooks on my long commute. It plays my Free Talk Live and Dan Carlin. By the [...]

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Frickin’ idiots with lasers

Those crazy Russians. Filed under what were they thinking when they bounced lasers off a tent roof instead of using the sky like they usually did.
According to the reports, concertgoers said the festival’s dance floor was covered by a canopy because it was raining. The lasers were pointed horizontally under the tent instead of into [...]

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Moving

Over the next week, I’ll be moving this blog - the slow load times and CPU bandwidth exceeded errors have been very irritating to my readers.
Since I’m not getting the help I want or need from my hosting service in solving the issue, I’m moving to the competition. I hope this process will be complete [...]

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UK gun ban is working, criminals now use knives to kill

Instead of using guns to commit murder, some British crime victims are now tortured with knives and then set on fire. Crime does not go down because of rules. In some cases, it goes up instead. While we are not yet being told the reasons for this horrific crime, we do know that:
Laurent Bonomo and [...]

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