Things I read today that I found interesting and worthy of comment September 25th:
Bird deaths present problem at wind farms – USATODAY.com.
Still not sure why people convinced that evolution is all wise, care if those selected as unfit are so selected through predation, starvation, fire, flood, meteor strike or wind turbine. That would of course require a belief system that was internally consistent and that would of course require logic which for the environmentalists, socialists, statists, anti-nukers, etc. has long ago been abandoned for what feels good emotionally. No logical rationale need be pursued.
Maybe food distribution for the homeless should be setup under wind turbines to take advantage of this windfall bounty?
I also wonder how many birds have been killed by nuclear power. Bet even if you take into account Chernobyl built by the famously inept Soviets, the number of radiation deaths is less than chopped deaths. Now if we could just get the environmental whack jobs some wings, we could actually fix our power problem by actually deploying more of what already freakin’ works!
Consumers Accept Device Fingerprinting, Study Finds — InformationWeek.
Much as I’d like to say that consumers aren’t so much against “working for” strong authentication as they are at recognizing that KBA isn’t actually providing any security, at least the results are the same. KBA is being rejected. KBA doesn’t protect against even phishing and is just another set of hard to remember and manage passwords.
I still contend that users will definitely work for and even pay for strong authentication if they believe it is effective and if they believe what they are protecting has value to them. Why should I worry about my credit card being compromised when I know my liability is limited to $50 or some such manageable number. Heck, my credit card has been stolen a couple times via physical POS situations and it has never cost me any out of pocket money and at worst a couple minutes on the phone with my credit card company. Of course, it does cost me something as the losses to merchants and banks end up reflected back to me in increased fees, rates, etc., but all that disappears into the great “cost of doing business” economic effect.
Which then brings up the question as to why financial institutions, merchants, etc. aren’t looking to reduce their costs and increase their margins by offering strong authentication to:
One of the online communities I spend time in has actually begun to self-regulate itself along the lines of those that use strong authentication and those that don’t. Want to participate with a group in that community? You have to use strong authentication offered in the context of that community. You don’t have to, but if you don’t you are precluded from interactions with the “better elements” of that community.
Just something to consider.
Things I read today that I found interesting and worthy of comment September 16th:
Things I read today that I found interesting and worthy of comment September 15th:
Things I read today that I found interesting and worthy of comment September 11th:
Never Forget
Never Forget
Never Forget
Never Forget
Never Forget
That’s right you Islama-Fascist punks, we remember and we’re still here! If we truly were the great-satan, then you’d already be buried under feet of irradiated glass. You want to continue on in the 14th century? Fine. Just keep it to yourselves.
As for you apologists out there that want to figure out what we did to make them mad, give it a rest. They hate us because we are the big dog and while they were once a powerful, technologically advanced culture and still have tremendous resources and riches, they are now reduced to near invisibility in the grand scheme. All the aid and assistance they have provided has resulted in resentment, not respect. The problem is theirs, not ours. Whatever pains they now suffer for the serious error in judgment of a few of their least human members are on their heads alone. Like spoiled children, perhaps chastisement is the only response that will result in peace and mutual respect if not exactly mutual understanding.
Rebuild the towers! Let them know we are not bowed, broken or humbled by their pitiful tantrum of rage. Never forget and yes, it is OK to be enraged at evil! Don’t let anyone talk you out of feeling righteous indignation and anger.
God bless those that lost loved ones on this date in 2001.
God bless our troops for showing the resolve of the American people through both the stick and the carrot. Come home safe and of clean conscience for killing the enemy. My eternal thanks for your sacrifice!
Things I read today that I found interesting and worthy of comment September 6th:
Things I read today that I found interesting and worthy of comment September 4th:
