A letter from some very good people.
#Libranos
Libs need an ethics advisor -at all times, holding their hand. They quite sincerely require 24/7 reminders of sep btwn gov & partisan biz.
— Alise Mills (@graciestyle) January 12, 2017
“I am very surprised,” Anglin said. “There are red flags all over it. Whether those red flags can be explained away or dealt with is a different matter. But there’s enough red flags there that he’d want to have the ethics commissioner’s blessing (before travelling).”
Odd, I am not very surprised.
Back in the day
Gov’t by referendum always seemed to hover around the fringes of the Reform Party. Pretty much all and sundry decided it was a bad idea and moved on.
Gov’t by focus-group is worse.
CPC Leadership
Five candidates playing to win. The rest…not so much. Not that being a bright light of economic liberty, the rear-guard of social beliefs, representing the NDP wing, or a sober second thought about immigration will mean much if those ideas don’t enthuse the voters of certain electoral district rich provinces.
10.10 The election of the Leader shall be by way of a direct vote of members in every electoral
district, as follows.
10.10.1 Each member of the Party will have one vote.
10.10.2 Each electoral district will be allocated 100 points.
10.10.3 Leadership candidates will be assigned a point total based on their percentage of
the vote in each electoral district.
10.10.4 To win the leadership, a candidate must obtain a majority of points from across
the country.
10.10.5 Voting will be by preferential vote (single transferable ballot).
I don’t know how many candidates we’ll have on our ballot, I think last time was two, but I can’t remember.
Reader Tips
On Jan 11th, 1995 the Birmingham Barracudas were granted a CFL franchise. It didn’t end well.
Here’s a clip of two teams that no longer exist. About the only thing worthy of mention is who I am pretty sure is Warren Moon doing colour commentary with that CBC guy, a job Moon now does for the Seattle Seahawks radio broadcast. (Which I never miss.)
Solid science built this house of cards.
But the whole does not equal the value of the pieces. Kinda what we’ve been saying for a decade or more.
The paper discusses the phenomenal amount of adjustment that has been applied to the models in order to get them to produce what the scientists called an “anticipated acceptable range” of future warming. Among modelers, this is known as “tuning” an experiment in order to get a desired answer.
Climate religion has for too long relied on models guesstimating the known unknowns and hypothesizing unknown unknowns.
In the various mailing lists that make up the forums of debate in the computer world in order to express displeasure with anothers work we usually just write something like, “Your solution sucks because a,b,c.” Apparently the American Meteorological Society needs 45 pages to do the same thing. Abstract with a link to the preliminary draft PDF on that page.
Fracking contaminates well-water
Proof from SW Ontario.
Next it’ll turn out to be a caucus retreat.
Liberal MP, party president joined Trudeau for his controversial Bahamas vacation with the Aga Khan.
But, “O’Regan said in a telephone interview Tuesday that no Canadian government business was discussed during his time on the island.”
How’s the sobriety going, Seamus?
Of Showers and stuff.
Instapundit has the sordid details. You can read all about it there. I’m laughing because it appears that Trump is as effective at taking over the news cycle from Obama as he was at taking it away from Clinton and in the same fashion.
Personally, I think it’s all bumpkis.
World Juniors Open Thread
I’m not a hockey fan, but I’m sure some of you are.
Go Canada!
To a befuddled Rolling Stone reporter.
(Ed: Please pardon me for the wall of text, but that last entry annoyed the heck out of me.)
You know how in your teenage and college fantasy where you played Dustin Hoffman in All The Presidents Men? Remember when you dreamed of getting that one little lead and following breadcrumbs from point A to Pulitzer Prize? Yeah, network security and audits are a lot like that. Your problem is that you’ve had eight years of getting used to reading gov’t reports and taking for granted that they tell the story. Stenographers ‘R Us, in a nutshell.
When you talk about IT or whether to ‘believe’ intelligence reports about it, do better than read a 13pp PDF directed to network admins. You should really look at the data supplied too.
This page released by CERT (that’s important) is the Joint Analysis Report released by the FBI and DHS. At the bottom is the link to the 13 page PDF that they released. What the author of the Rolling Stone article linked to in the last entry failed to do is look at the other file on that page. It’s available in a handy CSV file format if you don’t grok STIX XML. The CSV is utterly redundant. CERT only needs to distribute the STIX format as that’s what admins will use to harden their networks. The CSV is there for reporters.
Back to CERT, which is one of the most trusted of information disseminating entities in the world of IT. For the most part, they send out weekly bulletins about security related patches for firmware, OS’s, services, and applications. Occasionally they’ll send out flashes of things, but that is rare and a big deal when they do.
To say yesterdays publication via CERT is unprecedented may be accurate, but to question the make up of a document that is light on ‘facts’ misreads the purpose of the document. It was aimed at security and network professionals on the front-lines. It wasn’t written for reporters. If every administrator of machines and networks followed the recommended security setups and procedures in that document no one would ever be talking about hacking.
Now, rather than write an article complaining how not enough data was spoon-fed to you, you could look at the actual data files, contact some of the owners of the IP addresses and maybe figure out why the intelligence services are confident in their claim.
Email spam is already well-known. Targeted email is a different beast. If the target is a hunter then the crafted email they get looks like an email from Cabela’s. The hit ratio goes way up. Most people would just think that google sold their search info instead of them being the target of a malicious attack. In actuality the website the email links to goes to one of the domains below and hosts a malicious website made to look like Cabela’s site. It has javascript in it that infects your computer. Even worse, the link in the email is a shortened form link. ‘bty.com/276dfgr, ‘tco.com/erfgh’ or ‘ln.com/badlink’ so the target can’t verify the end point by looking at it. Anyone can make these.
These domains were used in targeted email spoofs.
www.cderlearn.com – 209.236.67.159 – WestHost, Inc. – Providence UT, USA
ritsoperrol.ru – dead domain name
littjohnwilhap.ru – dead domain name
wilcarobbe.com – dead domain name
one2shoppee.com – dead domain name
insta.reduct.ru – 146.185.161.126 – Digital Ocean, Inc., New York, NY
editprod.waterfilter.in.ua – 176.114.0.120 – FOP Sedinkin Olexandr Valeriyovuch – Boyarka, Ukraine
mymodule.waterfilter.in.ua – dead domain name
efax.pfdregistry.net – dead domain name
Of the 249 identified IP addresses, these are Canadian: (Any CDN reporters wanna call McGill? For kicks, maybe?)
167.114.35.70 – OVH Hosting – Montreal – McGill College
198.50.177.202 – OVH Hosting – Montreal – McGill College
142.10.38.212 – Ontario Hydro
69.70.199.50 – Videotron Ltee – Montreal
207.176.226.8 – Rigstar Communications Inc – Calgary
66.158.142.2 – MORGAN SCHAFFER INC. – Lasalle, Quebec
See below the fold for a numerical count of IP’s by country.
Oh, Shiny Potato
Bag Men, arrogance and corruption, because it’s 2016.#Libranos
The Liberal Party of Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau was tipped off in 2013 that a wealthy party benefactor was wanted by China for corruption, long before the news became public, in an email that has been leaked to the South China Morning Post by a former party executive.
“Mentally Ill”
Why does that phrase always appear in the same types of reports and never has any corroborating information in those reports?
A 29-year-old mentally ill man is in jail on charges that he killed two of his sisters in a south-end housing co-op Friday night.
Musab A-Noor is charged with first- and second-degree murder in the deaths of Asma A-Noor, 29, and Nasiba A-Noor, 32.
Entitled to their entitlements
Status of Women Minister Patty Hajdu approved a $1.1-million price tag to build a new suite of offices for herself and her staff earlier this year, even though she was told the cost might raise some eyebrows.
Redrose Country
A tax by any other name is still a tax and it always trickles down.
Oh really, @RachelNotley ?
Do you think struggling businesses are just going to eat this cost because you don't understand economics? pic.twitter.com/sBG8IvptQj
— Xenophobic SGR (@SheilaGunnReid) December 17, 2016
Yesterday a conservative
Today a Liberal.
“Canadians are known as peacekeepers above all and not warriors. There’s nothing proud about being a warrior, war is a desperate outcome for a human being, peacekeeping is extremely noble.”
I have no clue where the idea that this guy could be a contender for CPC leadership comes from. I have heard exactly nothing ‘in the wind’ from anyone outside of media and I think they just want to stir up crap.
H/t, Rob
Just watch and listen.
The single greatest piece of video that Ezra has ever published.
Go support the Rebel.
Related from Poletical:
The media loves nothing more than to stir up controversy for ratings and clicks. As expected, almost every mainstream news outlet seized the opportunity to make a mountain out of a mole hill and to fan the flames of resentment. What I didn’t expect (but probably should have), was the reactions of fellow small and big C conservatives. Rather than defend the protesters, or stay silent, they shot their mouths off and rode their high horses straight into the battle.
Shiny’s awesome week.
The splintering of the Liberal party tent continues.
First, the Castro Catastrophe, when the reality based democratic elements of the party who don’t have deep personal and kindred connections to a dictator said, “Uhh, dude?”
Second, Justin ‘Tex’ Trudeau is going to be single-handily responsible for killing off the polar bears…or something, thus disappointing the earth-muffin contingent to the point of promising societal upheaval.
Today the gov’t blamed the Electoral Reform Committee of not doing ‘the hard work we expected them to’ when the report submitted recommended proportional representation and a referendum on electoral reform. The ABFPTP (Anything But First Past The Post) segment of the Liberal party is extremely disappointed. And ‘by extrememly disappointed’, I mean old-NDP’ers who are now Liberal asking, “Just how stupid do they think we are”? (The jokes write themselves…)
You know, it’s a joyous time of year and a good reason to find happiness in all things.
Today I’m happy that millions of Canadian millennials are learning the meaning of the words, ‘cynicism’ and ‘politics’.
Reader Tips
Puppies today, 2 boys and 3 girls via C-section. Everyone is healthy but we’re having a bit of a time getting the mother to accept the pups, a not unusual circumstance with a Cesarean. What it does mean is she and they have to be under constant touch supervision lest we wake up to dead pups. An early Reader Tips and it’s going to be slow here for the next few days as we won’t be getting much sleep.
As Expected
Leftist Students Painted Swastika and “Trump” on Campus Church.
I wonder what they did to the bathroom?