DEFCON Nonsense

I fail to see why this conference gets any coverage at all?

As long as people, and the media, believe in such stuff the fact that this is just all Smoke and Mirrors will just get perpetuated. I don't really expect that the general public and certainly not politicians will ever understand all this.

At least this time it was just a robot breaking into a combination locked safe and nothing to do with The Internet of Things and taking control of a motor vehicle by WiFi.

Credibility

Information that you find on the Internet not only has to be credible it also needs to be consistent.

Simply making up a story needs evidence other than what one person says for it to be believed. This evidence also has to be credible and independent of the first source of information, The creation of another fiction is NOT credible evidence. \especially when there is a clear link between the original and the backup.

The folly of registering domain names using a false name or one that you are trying to discredit is quickly revealed when you can easily check that the registrations were made by the same person.

On the subject of consistency, you cannot claim that someone has never talked to you or done business with you and then claim that they sent you a hard drive to have the data recovered from it.

As far as I can see the only reason that someone would do this is that they don't like what has been said about them and it is the only (pathetic) way that they can come up with to retaliate. 

The second episode of GOT seems to be very popular

EZTV made the torrent at sometime after 3am, and at 7am (my time) there were plenty of peers. However there were so many wanting the upload of what I had after about half an hour I had to reduce my upload to 50k to preserve some of my bandwidth.

I don't think that this is unfair as there were so many seeds that getting a bit from all of them is not going to slow the whole process. In any case I will be uploading the file for my friends who don't want to torrent on their computers.

Episode 2 is coming tonight!

Now doubt I will be asked to upload it to my UK website for my Lebanese friend.

I have plenty of server space and the download here is pretty fast as I don't have to use a VPN. The advantage of being where we are in the UK is that our Internet does not come through BT whose block sites such as ThePirateBay. Also my upload speed is pretty much the same as my download speed as my Internet connection is symmetrical. This is unlike Canada as my upload was far slower than my download. I guess this was to discourage the running of a website on your Internet connection.

My situation is doubly ironic as there are many here in the UK that moan that they cannot run a business on a rural broadband connection as it is too slow to enable ecommerce. I think that it is more a case of misconception and a political statement about that the promise of "Super-Fast Broadband" has not been achieved when the government said it would. 

I am not sure why I bother

to update this blog.

It seems that those that visit or find it are either looking for information about themselves or looking for something that doesn't exist.

Lately I have been speculating on whether any web activity is relevant in the form of a website unless you are a major company or do your business online. The days of the private website are long past. In the days of Social Media the platform that is most useful for the private Internet user is one of those "Social" portholes.

My experience with a local village website leaves me to believe that not many visitors venture there and in most cases they cannot find it by making a search. In any case most of their activity is carried out on their Smartphones and websites are only visited when e-commerce is being performed. People send text messages rather than send emails, comments and reviews on websites are pretty useless as they are either totally in support or from those that have purchased a "duff" product or encountered bad customer service.