After a slight reprieve

Sorry I've been gone folks, the recent holiday season has been keeping me busy. Well, a lot has been going on.

A new exploit was found which'll allow access to anything on a fully patched xp box. No patch has come out for it yet.

There's been a lot of buzz that I've been hearing about an opperating system lately. ReactOS is an open source opperating system compiling bits and pieces of several other opperating systems. Seemingly a lovechild of Windows and Linux this opperating system seems solid and I personally plan on trying it out withing the next week or so.

I recently sent a letter to the FBI, I know it sounds stupid but it's worth it, and I got my reply from them a couple of days ago. When I mailed off my "Privacy Act Request Form" I didn't know what to expect wayside of a response. A Privacy Act Request Form is a nice little tool which thanks to the patriot act allows an individual to know all there is to know about themselves. If there is any record on you at all that the FBI may have then they are obligated by law to tell you everything upon a request from you.

When I recieved my response letter recently I was amazed and excited to find that they had nothing on me. This is always a good thing.

It's the Holiday season which means WalMart should lose loads and loads of money due to piracy and social engineering. Because it's the holidays WalMart won't be checking for reciepts as much, especially in the big cities. So what you do is buy a bunch of discount shit at other places and bring it to WalMart to sell back at their regular prices. Granted you may only get $10 out of a game when you paid $2 for it, but thats still $8 you didn't have before. If you're like my town and have 3 WalMarts relatively close together then you can do this multiple times thus increasing your income 3 fold.

Yay for Money Cons.

AK

Some people deserve all kinds of respect

Lenny Bruce - the police raided a club while Bruce was onstage, and a comedian in the audience told the cop to stop and leave him alone. The police later asked him for ID but the comedian replied that he didn't believe in ID, so they locked him up for the night. That Comedian was who we know as George Carlin.

That was an amazing time in american history yet it's not very well known. Another such situation is in the works right now and I believe it's my duty to tell you about it. John Gilmore is a millionaire who lives in San Francisco who is sinking lots of money into a fight against identification requirements. Even though I think most of this guy's beliefs are crap I think this one is a good one. Many civil liberties groups begged him not to take this case because he'll probably lose, which I'd rather him not do the case than lose but what can you expect from a co-founder of the EFF (Electronic Frontier Foundation). A case like this needs to be planned out. If he does win I will rejoice, if he loses, just another reason to hate the EFF. There is going to be a lot happening in the coming few years so be sure to watch what is happening, keep an eye on politics because many of your rights both civil and electronic are on trial.

On another note, Ubuntu, I love you guys. Edubuntu is good too, it's for a younger generation and I'd say we NEED it right about now. We need to start teaching people there's another option besides windows because a lot of people don't know how good of a tool a vast knowledge of operating systems can be. XYZcomputing has come out with an article about why they believe Ubuntu is so good, it's worth a read because it's pretty short and not bad at all.

I must say Thank you to Ubuntu because of their and their communities dedication.

AK