New Oklahoma Law Will Put Details Of All Abortions Online

New Oklahoma Law Will Put Details Of All Abortions Online: 
A new Oklahoma law will require the details of every abortion to be posted on a public website. Proponents say this will prevent abortion — apparently by shaming and burdening women and doctors.


The law (HR 1595?? Need verification.) mandates that a 34-item questionnaire be filled out by abortion providers for each procedure. The questionnaire doesn't include the woman's name or "any information specifically identifying the patient," but it does ask for age, race, level of education, marital status, number of previous pregnancies, and the county in which the abortion was performed, information which opponents of the bill argue would be enough to identify a woman in a small town."

Electronic Voting Easily Hacked. And You're Surprised???

Why the hell are states such as Alabama going out of their way to make it difficult for poor illiterate voters to vote? Looks like it's a lot easier to just hack all their votes anyway!


The H Security - US e-voting system cracked in less than 48 hours:"Within 48 hours of the system going live, we had gained near complete control of the election server"

Long Live The Queens in Britain

Mary Ann Sieghart: Be glad you live in Britain, not the US, if you're gay or a woman "Contraception is free and uncontroversial, sex education sensible and gay relationships are becoming normalised"


(I'm hoping the headline is enough to make Congress-Pimples and Senate-Whores to stay away from one of my favorite island-countries! Long Live The Queens!)

Soldiers Forgetting About OpSec??

Geotagging Poses Security Risks: "A deployed service member's situational awareness includes the world of social media. If a Soldier uploads a photo taken on his or her smartphone to Facebook, they could broadcast the exact location of their unit, said Steve Warren, deputy G2 for the Maneuver Center of Excellence, or MCoE."

Porn Site Hacked - Users Exposed!

BBC News - Porn site breached in hack attack: "The Consortium claims some of the credit card data was stored in plain text form"


... and thousand and thousands of men who have visited the site are busily coming up with excuses they think their wives will accept....

Techno Boobs Shouldn't Legislate!

Mozilla CEO: Don't Understand The Internet? Get Out Of Government - Josh Smith - NationalJournal.com: 


"If you don't understand the Internet, you don't have any place in government," he told an audience at the annual South by Southwest conference in Austin.


Given the impact of the Internet on daily life, Kovacs said, he is amazed when members of Congress express a desire to hire staffers who "understand" the Internet. "It's not something you learn, or hire someone for. It has to be the way you live your life," he said.


And The Penguin Adds... Techno Boobs Shouldn't Legislate an industry (and technology) they don't understand!


We wouldn't accept farmers legislating how medical instruments are made, so why do stoopid Congress-Pimples tell high-tech companies what they can and cannot do on the Internet? Why do people accept that, just because a guy got himself elected, that his ideas on stuff he knows nothing about are GOOD IDEAS???


What's really scary is that soooo much goverment business is conducted on the Internet ... and is REQUIRED to be conducted on the Internet ... yet Congress-Pimples and Senate-Whores can't seem to get their heads around the stuff. Why is it that six-year-olds understand the Internet better than our elected officials? What does that say about our elected officials?


I needs me some fish....

It's Tax Time, So Expect Phishing Emails

This time, the bad guys want your tax accountant: "The tax-phish appear to be from organizations such as the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants(AICPA), Better Business Bureau(BBB), and Intuit tax services."

Doonesbury and the Texas Abortion Battle

http://www.doonesbury.com/

I will be watching for the Doonesbury cartoons every day to watch the drama over abortion build up. I think women, especially YOUNG WOMEN, need to march in the streets, like their  mothers and grandmothers did, to keep MEN from creating legislation that gives them control over WOMEN'S BODIES.

No religion has the right to impose their beliefs upon anyone.

Five Free Tips About Facebook...

Five free tips to take from Nato’s top dog fake Facebook account | Naked Security: "When you receive a friend request, don't just blindly click on it because you recognise the person's photo. Think of how easy it is to grab a picture of someone from the internet."

Cartier + CBS Sunday Morning Show = WTF???

I watch CBS Sunday Morning religiously. Have watched it for decades. It's one of the few things I do every week, without fail. I think it's great TV and I'm glad it keeps going because I'm sure it's expensive to produce and it probably doesn't get ungodly high ratings like stooopid reality TV shows. I love the reporting. It's "real" journalism without sensationalism. Love it. Love it. Love it. I even learn something new every week.


But this morning I watched something that fried a few brain cells. It wasn't one of the segments or the reporting; it was a COMMERCIAL. For CARTIER, no less! WTF????


Here's a link to the 3 1/2 minute spot: http://www.odyssee.cartier.us/#/home

It's beautiful and mysterious piece of video, but I don't get it. I don't get what a jewel-encrusted leopard coming to life has to do with anything. Why does the leopard seem to visit Tzarist Russia? And WHY would Cartier want to associate itself with a regime that starved millions and caused a bloody revolution? I don't get the leopard talking to the Chinese Dragon, which becomes the Great Wall. (Are they courting the Chinese nouveau riche?) I don't get what Cartier has to do with early Sunday morning TV. Is Cartier seriously that hard-up for $$$ that they're courting the average American to buy more diamonds? (Naaawww. That can't be - because this commercial must have cost the moon to produce!!)


It's a beautiful bit of video, but I don't get it. Maybe someone from the Cartier family just finished Film School and this was his/her graduation project? Nope. Just don't get it. (Although I wouldn't say NO to the gorgeous colored gold rings to go on my toeses!) 

Does God Tell You What To Do??

I think this quote says it all.


Rick Santorum, please take note.

Do Christians Have an Undeniable Right to Wear the Cross?

Government's Legal Fight AGAINST the Right to Wear a Cross at Work Brings Accusations It's "Sidelining" Christianity (link)


Oh, Dear! Oh No! Let's not crucify the CHRISTIANS!??


The European Court is set to defend the right of Employers to BAN the CROSS as it is NOT a ‘requirement’ of the Christian faith to wear it!! Bosses could then sack workers who insisted on wearing the symbol.


I LOVE it!! Finally. A respected authority (the Court) has grown balls and is taking on Christians!! Woohoo!


Let me make a point here. I'm not really talking about REAL Christians. I'm talking about FAUX Christians. REAL Christians exude love. They do NOT thump on their Bibles. They do NOT scream in your face. They do NOT prevent you from doing something because THEIR (not your) religion says it's wrong. I'll say the same for REAL Muslims, and REAL Jews, and REAL Buddhists. When you are in the presence of a real holy person, it can be awe-inspiring. In this posting I'm going to reserve the "Capital C" for REAL Christians and faux-christians get a "lower-case c". That's what they deserve.


I believe in the Almighty Penguin (Me) and I take offense at the Holier-Than-Thou-So-Thou-Must-Put-Up-With-Me type christians!! They wear their crosses with attitude. It's an ugly attitude that says "I'm better'n you". It's an attitude that says their "rights" are the only rights that exist and everyone else be damned. Their rights are sacrosanct and ALL must bow before them. Where, Oh, Where are the supposed christian attributes of Humility, Tolerance, and Love?? Faux christians are worse than the devil himself. They give all religions a bad name and I'm deeply religious about my atheism!


Are we supposed to accept that, because a person is a christian, employers have to go along with all their shenanigans? Hopefully not. This court case will be closely watched, I'm sure. Heaven forbid that an employer say "No, you can't wear your cross to work".


You see, these christians are all about image. Heaven forbid that they should actually HELP a mentally-ill homeless woman trying to raise 4 kids on her own (she couldn't afford contraception and christians closed down the local Planned Parenthood....) No. These christians won't help, but they'll SHOW that they are thinking about helping by flashing their CROSS in your face.

Zoroastrianism is some GOOD shit!

Please, christians, stop acting like you're entitled to special privileges simply because you've got a powerful religious symbol! Personally, I'm tired of looking at crosses. Booooring! Even your christian "fish" symbol makes me wince (and I LOOOVES FISH, don't ya know!!!!)  I'd really rather everyone be required to wear the Zoroastrian religious symbol and I wouldn't argue against having one of their Sacred Fire Temples at the South Pole. (Sure would make the nesting season a bit more bearable!)


If this rant went a little off the rail here and there, please forgive me. In fact, if you're a christian, I think you HAVE to forgive me! I'll be looking forward to those prayers and good works coming my way, too. Byyyyeeee!

San Diego likes Hackers!

More cities ought to promote hacking skills like San Diego does. I caught this bit from a friend's blog... kids have a high school vs high school "capture the flag" contest. Nice prizes, too. Would like to see more of the gentler sex involved, though.

San Diego Mayor's Cup (Cyber Challenge) — San Diego Science Alliance: "The San Diego Mayor’s Cup invites all San Diego high schools to participate in a three-phase cyber defense competition."

I rant. I bellow and scream and stomp my flippered feet and I rant. Things piss me off and, try as I may, I can't stay quiet. I must rant. I must rant or I'll explode.

I noticed that some guy named Linus took my image a long time ago and associated it with a computer operating system he had created. He took my image and his name and made Linux a big deal. I didn't get anything out of the deal and he never asked me for permission to use my image, but No Big Deal. I'll just focus on computer security stuff - because I like to hack - with the occasional foray into more interesting stuff. Like politics and how the world is going to hell in a hand-basket and all that sort of shit. Like I said, No Big Deal.