Sweden is now the new Soviet…

So, a few hours ago the Swedish parlament approved a new law for monitoring communication passing through the Swedish border. In short,all international calls,email and web browsing will be monitored and stored in the search for terrorist threats against Sweden. Yes, terrorist threats. AGAINST SWEDEN!

This is a law that SÄPO (Think Swedish secret service), the police, the courts, lawyers, journalists and Swedish citizens all have said is a gross violation of our right to privacy. Yet those opinions are ignored.

The privacy of Swedish citizens is thrown out the window in exchange for some false sense of security, in the search of some imaginary terrorists (And for those interested, the latest “act of terrorism” against Sweden took place in the 70s, 30+ years ago).

This is a public letter to all those voting for this law:

FUCK YOU!

To those critical of this law that said they would vote no but at the last minute changed their mind:

FUCK YOU! When the Swedish people needed you the most, you bent over and took it up the ass instead of standing up for your beliefs.

To Camilla Lindberg from Folkpartiet: Thank you. You were the one person from the right that had the courage not to back down. The one person. You have my respect and gratitude.

And those social democrats that voted no:

Thank you, but FUCK YOU TOO! You started this whole mess you asshats.

I can’t describe how upset and sad I am about this. There is no way I am ever voting for and of the right wing parties EVER AGAIN. The utter disregard of what the people that elected them wants is frightening. The ignorance some have shown is bone chilling to say the least. I really hope this law comes back to bite them in their collective ass.

1984, here we come…

One less thing to worry about

So this weekend I converted my parents to using Linux on their desktop. Ubuntu to be exact, and so far things are looking good. It took them a little while to get used to the environment (Where is the start button?) but they seem to manage. For the windows only apps (Actually just one, their book keeping system) I installed windows in Virtualbox and no problems yet.
For years I’ve been worried that their windows installation would crap out and take their data with it, hopefully I can stop worry about that now (Or at least worry less).

Of course, over the years they have amazed me over and over again with the ways they manage to screw up a system, we’ll see if they can bring this one down.

Crap…

Some asshat stole my bike again. For the fifth time. If I ever get a new bike again I’m going to hook a fucking car battery to the frame and listen to the screams.

I support the troops!

So, apparently 11 years ago the US congress banned sales of sexually explicit materials on military bases. I suppose blowing someones brains out is a-ok but watching some titty fucking is a big no-no. Oh well, magazines like Playboy or Penthouse are still allowed since they are not explicit enough to ban.
Of course, that wont fly for some religious nutbags. The American Family Association and the Alliance Defense Fund has now demanded that these types of magazines get banned as well.

I’ll be the first one to admit that if Sweden ever went to war, I’d hide under my blanket and hope it all went away. I’m not a fighter. So if some people are willing to fight for their country (And no, I’m not condoning the war in Iraq) and all they want in return is to be able to spank the monkey now and then, I’m in total support of that.

Seriously, who are these people that thinks this is an issue worth taking up? Do they really have so much time on their hands they manage to get upset over this? I demand that Bill O’Reilly dedicate his next show to asking why AFA and ADF do not support the troops.

A little closer to being a grown up…

So I started a job Monday. Yes, a real job. Sorta. I’m a part time software tester for a local company. So far so good, I haven’t fucked up and I like my fellow workers. I had an idea this morning that what you really want to do to test a program, is to put an army of monkeys in front of the keyboard and let them at it. I mean, an experienced computer user pretty much knows what to do and what not to. A monkey on the other hand would tear that program a new one, not because it’s mean or anything, just because it’s…well…a monkey. I’m fairly sure that any bugs hiding in the code would show themselves after about 10 minutes. The tricky part of course, which is why I’m still working on this theory is to have the monkey tell you what it did to trigger the bug. I haven’t quite figured that part out yet, but rest assured I will. Until that day, I will fill that monkeys place and I will do it with pride.

I’m on a new diet…

…which consists of ice cream and a truck load of painkillers. I woke up a few days ago with the worst pain in my throat I’ve ever experienced. After making sure the woman had not stabbed me in the neck during the night, I came to the conclusion that I got a flu or some other devilry.

This pain is driving me insane. Not only is it preventing me from swallowing pretty much anything, it’s preventing me from sleeping since it’s pretty fairly hard to fall asleep when your throat feels like someone poured a mix of acid and tiny pieces of glass into it.

Well, I’m now off to curl up into a little ball and cry.

More nerd stuff

Since I have way to much on my hands, I wrote a simple little bash script for updating an ip blocklist for all you bittorrent users out there. Not that I use bittorrent for anything illegal. I only download Linux ISOs. A lot. Really.

Script follows below, you pirating bastards.

Playstation 3 and DivX/XviD

The PS3 is awesome. Period. I love it to death and I started loving it even more after I setup a streaming media server on my computer. No need to burn movies onto a DVD or CD, or put them on a USB-stick. Just have the PS3 look for a media server and then access whatever you feel like watching.

Anyhew, I noticed that some movies would not be played by the PS3. They were marked as unsupported data and would not play on the PS3 even though they work just fine on my computer. After some researching and fiddling with files in Avidemux I came to the conclusion that the PS3 require files to:

* NOT have a packed bitstream
* Have a proper frame index

Now, don’t ask me what these things mean because I have no idea. I just know that after opening the affected files in avidemux and unpacking the bitstream and rebuilding the frame index, they now play just fine. Just a tip to all PS3 owners out there that are having issues with some movie clips.

Seeing as these files play just fine on our Pioneer DVD player, hopefully Sony will fix this issue in a future firmware update. It’s a pain in the ass processing one hundred files one by one.

Why sleep when you can surf porn?

No, I don’t surf porn. Not that I mind porn in anyway, I just very seldom feel the need for virtual boobage.

Anyhew, I’ve totally screwed up my sleeping schedule. Again. See, it starts when I’m sitting at my computer/TV/PS3 and I don’t feel like going to bed “just yet”. I’m starting to think to myself, “Oh it’s ok. I can stay up just a little longer”. Of course, “a little longer” in the end means going to bed at 7 AM. Not good.
So, instead of getting my beauty sleep on, I’m chatting with nerds on IRC whether QT is better than GTK. Hells yeah I got my priorities straight.

Oh right, Heath Ledger died. Didn’t see that coming.
True to his assholery attitude towards anything and/or everything, Fred Phelps and the misfits of the Westboro Baptist Church are going to protest his funeral. Why you might ask? Well, he did portray a gay cowboy in Brokeback Mountain, furthering the homosexual agenda that will one day cause God to have a shitfit and kill us all with fire falling from the sky, thats why!
If you haven’t read about the WBC you should. They make scientologists seem sane, and that my friends is quite a feat.

And in other news…

…Tom Cruise is absolutely nuts. No wait, that’s not news at all. Carry on.