Medical Marijuana – its something highly controversal because of the massive media campaign governments around the world have done to make it seem as dangerous as well heroine!!

I don’t really like Marijuana personally myself but if I was forced to use for medical purposes – yeah sure I would be smoking it, eating it, drinking it. The claims that Marijuana is a dangerous drug are laughable when I seen and been associated with people ranging from drug dealers to the average joe, sitting out back with a mate chilling with a joint.

My drug dealer friend, ok he first showed me what marijuana smelt like, what it looked like and proceeded to tell me some real facts about it. Some of these you will NEVER hear from any police or anti-drug educator.

He told me years ago that Marijuana in high amounts and he said to me that high amounts was like smoking it constantly one after another similar to a chain smoker was harmful, as anything is in large doses.
Eating in large amounts constantly – harmful.
Smoking (legal) cigirettes purchased from a gas station or supermarket – harmful.
There are lots of things in life that you can take, that are perfectly fine in moderation but Marijuana is the most well known drug that is probably the least harmful to have, has medicinal properties to it by nature, is not addictive (unlike what we’re taught in school) – unless smoked constantly, it may become harmful.

Ever since I could vote I have voted for the Green Party. One of my main reasons for voting for the Green Party was for Nandor Tanzos – whos probably one of the most down to earth people I’ve ever met who openly admits he smokes Marijuana – but one thing that you’ll see is he definately isn’t classified as a “druggie”. He smokes less than alot of the druggies do, hes intelligent, you can talk to him and he has a family. I have massive respect for him because he stood up and let people know that he was a Marijuana smoker, hes not a druggie and he’s a respectable person who was trusted enough to enter parliment as a MP.

We need people like him who use marijuana for medical purposes and who smoke it recreationally with a friend to relax and socialise with friends.

I beleive in law reform that makes Marijuana legal if not decriminalized because the police have better things to do than bust some guy with a small bag of weed hidden in his house, who probably smokes it less than some cops do when they can be out there finding P labs before they start up and eliminate P which is alot more dangerous than a herbal plant that existed long before man walked the earth.

For even handed news about Marijuana – visit Norml NZ

For teenagers at school reading this, question those who teach/tell you that marijuana is a dangerous drug and ask them what medicinal properties does it have next to Cocaine, Heroine & P and other even E!!

Let me tell you about a movie years ago, called WarGames. It was released in the time where computers and the international basic structure of the Internet was first becoming what it is today.

There was this movie, where a kid – refered to as a “hacker” – accidentally logged into a secret government server and unknownly almost starts an international nuclear war thinking its just apart of a game.

When this movie was released it was a box office hit and overnight the term “hacker” became something feared and not what it was used to be.

Traditionally a “hacker” was refered to as a person who would take a peice of techonology – mainly a computer, pull it apart, modify it, “hack” it up & generally make it do other things other than it was originally programmed to do.

Hollywood had almost overnight changed a definition in the dictionary worldwide. A “Hacker” was no longer someone who was modifying a computer and making it do different things, it became the term for a person who would use a computer and break in and destory systems, get into computer systems they had no right to get into and the worst fear since there was very minimal security back in the 1980’s with the internet, you could theoretically start a nuclear war…

Now theres this new movie, another movie remade called WarGames: The Dead Code.

Based off the entirely same storyline as the first WarGames movie but with some minor modifications. Kid accidentally accesses and controls a government military system, almost starts a world war & yet again does everything to stop it and succeeds.

Now as a person who could be refered to as a “Hacker”. I do break security and hack into systems and such… Although I do get paid to do almost all of it. But I do not hold the ability to hack into a government computer system, nor do I have the ability to remotely hack into a computer system (without to much help) – I could loosely be refered to as a “hacker” in some sort of way.
(Generally most of the “Hacking” I do, is mostly based around XP and Vista account passwords…)

Now public fear has previously caused a reasonbly low level hacker become one of the most well known hackers and reveered hackers in current history… Kevin Mitnick, a hacker that liked a challenge and found it. He hacked into Digital, years ago – and for his victory he took a trophy, some basic meaningless code.

He was caught, captured and released. He wanted to protect himself, he went on the run and used Hacking and “Social Engeering” to stay one step ahead away from the FBI. When he was recaptured, he was realised just how scared the general public were of anyone referred to as a “Hacker”.

He was in court, the District Attourney stated that if Kevin Mitnick would be able to access a touch tone telephone he could be able to start a nuclear war…
Kevin couldn’t believe what he said and laughed and figured the judge would think this is an insane statement and would pass it off as mere fantasy. Instead the judge believed him and placed Kevin in solitary confinement.

Kevin was released years later, jaded and stunned. He now runs a very successful computer security firm but it was years before the government let him near a computer or even hold a mobile phone, something so common in todays society.

The original WarGames had a devastating effect on real people, has changed the way people perceive really smart and intelligent people who are really interested in computers and technology and turned them into people you should fear because they steal your private information and give you viruses…

I just received this…

Sign-In Protection Alert
An attempt to access Online Banking was denied on:
Thursday, 03 Jul 2008 at 3:42:20 EDT
Access was denied for one of two reasons:

* Incorrect attempts to access and Login failures.
* Signing on from a different location or device different from your location and your IP address.

If you remember trying to access Online Banking on the above date and time, please select “That was me.”
If you do not remember trying to access Online Banking on the above date and time, please select “That was NOT me.”
You will then be prompted to safeguards your account.
That was me     That was not me

The Kiwibank Online Guardian fraud detection system helps detect and stop fraudulent online transactions on your account.

© 2008 Kiwibank New Zealand

Current time is Thursday, 3rd July 2008 – 6:54 am NZDT/GMT

Even though this is a phishing email, but I had to laugh… I never knew they could predict the future LOL

I’ve just discovered this now, type ‘ about:robots ‘ into Firefox 3 and an easter egg page will appear…

The first rule is Isaac Asimov’s first Law of Robots created in 1942 for his novel – I, Robot. The rules have been debated and thought over and updated, in doing so his rules has been the basis of many stories and movies.

Update: sorry i mistyped LOL

OMFG I’m watching The Machine Girl (aka Kataude mashin gâru (2008)) – the story of a girl whose brother was murdered by the son of a Yakuza family living nearby, was then captured and tortured. Escaping after losing most of her left arm, she saught refuge with her brothers best friends mother. They end up friends and after training and take the war to the Yakuza family.

Its a really over the top honor killing gore style, almost a parody but yet its the storyline…

Ultimately this movie is fucking awesome, you should watch this – its a wholesome movie where everyone dies, the good guys and bad guys all die in a barrel of insane levels of blood and gore!!

This is a definate for your bittorrent download list!

With the recent news of MediaDefender (a pro-active anti-piracy company that’s paid by the RIAA and Software companies to track down pirates, trash P2P networks with fake files and make life hard for people who pirate movies, software and music), attacking Revision3 by DDOS’ng their bittorrent servers that are used for their own use for their own Revision produced media.

Apparently MediaDefenders anti-piracy tatic is to infiltrate bittorrent servers with fake files – any bittorrent website – when their fake files are removed, MediaDefender take this as an attack to remove fake files inorder to keep the non-fake pirated movies, software and music available. So MediaDefender attack Revision3 which is in tow ethically wrong to do and illegal in some cases.

Revision3 seem to have taken the decision to not take legal action against MediaDefender, in which if they did they’ll win because the attack caused the Revision3 server network to collapse and fall over which costed Revision3 to lose about $100,000 in advertising revenue.

I think if MediaDefender continue their pro-attack stance on piracy, any kind of piracy even and complete lack of understanding of how the internet works now, even though they use it effectively enough to attack the copyright holders of the copyright their indirectly paid by to protect the copyright, how effective will MediaDefender be in a few years.

MediaDefender will continue to be on the attack unless they have been stopped, I expect that they will lose ALL support and alienate it self from legitimate Media organisations who embrace newer technologies like P2P & BitTorrent services to distribute themselves and they have to deal with companies like MediaDefender who are constantly paranoid to the point that they cant think about legitimate media ever being distributed via P2P networks because traditionally P2P networks were never used for such a type of use.

MediaDefender will die, not because of the business becoming obsolete by newer anti-piracy technologies but because the Media Industry themselves will pull ALL support for them and the cash flow will die!

Over the entire time I’ve been online, I have attempted to edit video here and there, but not with much luck. I’m not sure, whats wrong but I cant seem to understand in my head even though I have the programs and the video material at hand inorder to understand the concept of editing it.

I do know how to edit and manipulate audio and for a while I did do a fair bit of audio recording and editing before I got bored of it.

Lately my mate Joff has given me motivation hes a video producer and editor for pretty much alot of the headlining bands we have here in NZ, you name them, he knows them. Recently he did the AV production for Salmonella Dub who had a concert here a few weeks back – watching him edit the video he recorded when he started recording it was awesome. Ofcourse hes an Apple fanatic & cringed at the idea of me having an iMac in my living room with Vista.

Currently I have Sony Vegas Pro 8 thanks to btjunkie – I did use it a while ago to create a music video of some fragfests me and a couple of friends did at a previous job I had. Some of the video was quite awesome and our numerous fragfests later evolved into tag team matches with another friend in Counter Strike: Source. (I might upload that video to YouTube sometime.)

I *LOVE* Stargate SG1, Stargate Atlantis and the whole show, it’s a real good show that’s had me as a loyal viewer to the TV screen since the day SG1 first appeared on TV all those years ago.

Stargate SG1 just completed its final season at season 10, so 10yrs given a season a year – scarey – im 23 so I’ve been watching since I was 13!!

I’ve recently completed a complete set of seasons of Stargate. I ensured I have all Stargate SG1 season 1 to 10, double checked them with Wikipedia (wow thats alot of episodes!) and I went thru Stargate Atlantis and made sure I had every episode. I did have to download the last episode to make up Season 4, The Last Man.

The Last Man episode was infact a really good episode, I liked how important Sheppard is to the entire expedition, whats best is McKay’s truely is a genius!

I can’t wait for Season 5 and with word that Jason Mamoa (Ronan Dex) that he’s thinking about leaving the stargate atlantis story, it should be a great wonder as to who might replace him!

From looking at what there is about Season 5, I’m facinated with the story notes collected about the episodes; The Daedulus Variations & Ghost in the Machine.

I can’t wait to watch them!!

Well since I got back from Auckland I’ve been building computers and such. I’ve been so busy. I had 3 laptops to build, along with an entire computer and still got another computer to do.

I should start on a friends computer real soon. I really need to get her computer reinstalled and sorted, and ship it back down to her.

I’ve got to get back into blogging again, I know I should blog more – I’m not sure I don’t just blog alot. Should sort that out lol

Night before I head off to help my close friend Beverley move across to a new job in New Plymouth I think.

Not sure how im gonna get home lol

It should be fun!