Author Archives: Giolla

wikileaks round up

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I’m afraid another post about wikileaks, even though really not much has been happening except for script kiddies running badly written code to stick it to the man (If you were a nasty person that’s just the sort of program to shove a back door into). The script kiddies at the behest of anonymous* have been targeting anyone anonymous has decided is anti-wikileaks, which is probably the best bet if you’re twelve. Adults might consider writing and threatening the companies to stop using their services (oddly past campaigns have suggested that commercial ventures care quite a bit about publicity and … Continue reading →

Wikileaks again

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Following the on going saga of the actions taken against both Wikileaks and Julian Assange personally, he has now been arrested and denied bail despite turning up to court voluntarily and realistically probably not being much of a flight risk. Which does make one wonder about the reasons for such action when serveral people offered surety and to cover the bail. The final charges do seem to potentially be quite serious if one can trust any of the reports one hears both from prior to his actually being charged and subsequently due to the difference in how offences are labelled … Continue reading →

Unsettled science

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It would seem that the settled climate change science which persuaded our great and glorious leaders to commit to legally binding CO2 reductions isn’t quite as settled as it seems as new research from NASA suggests that doubling CO2 won’t even raise the temperature by 2 degrees. It would seem from the headlines that many of the climate change models forgot that plants quite like CO2 and would grow a bit better and this would have an impact on climate change. “In particular, green plants can be expected to grow as they find it easier to harvest carbon from the … Continue reading →