Monday, August 27th, 2007 (
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Just because it's cool:
an image resizing technique that doesn't stretch or skew the important features. It's a little hard to describe, but the point is that when you resize a webpage, images either get cut off or stretched. No longer. Think, desktop wallpaper. Not only can it be shrunk, it can be expanded. Neat neat neat.
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Friday, August 24th, 2007 (
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Now that’s justice! Bush avoids the courts with his illegal program, but he’s eventually forced to follow the law. Even after convincing the brain dead members of congress to pass a law FURTHER expanding his powers in this area, the
FISA court slaps him upside the head by ordering him to release information to the ACLU.
I wonder if he’ll just ignore the order as he’s done with the
Congressional subpoenas?
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Friday, August 24th, 2007 (
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Check out
this article detailing the short version of all Diebold's sins with the most recent being their new name. Diebold, who has really died and did so boldly, is now known as Premier Election Systems.
From Google:
Premier: The first in importance or rank, the chief.
How fitting. They are indeed the first, most important, and chief example of how e-voting can be implemented completely wrong, completely insecure, with complete and absolute failure.
A quick summary of the article author's explanation for the name change:
Why the name change? Well, Diebold's got a lot of other businesses -- it makes ATMs and security systems for health firms and for the government, and the election subsidiary has always been something of a sideline. Lately it became an embarrassing sideline, dragging down Diebold's good name. That's why, a couple of years ago, Diebold moved to sell the unit. Shockingly, it found no takers.
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Wednesday, August 8th, 2007 (
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I’ve been holding back on covernig this because it’s just so damned depressing. But the story is that Bush managed to shove a “FISA modernization” bill down congress’s throats and the witless saps passed it. Understandibly, this has a lot of
privacy and consumer advocates in a tizzy.
I’ve heard some people say that this could legalize the illegal spying program. My question is, how many times do people have to openly agree that the program is and has been illegal before someone puts Bush in jail for this? So it’s (allegedly) legal now, but “Sure I was speeding, but I’m going the speed limit NOW officer” has never been a defense.
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Wednesday, August 8th, 2007 (
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So there's a
new website that allows people to exchange their loyalty cards with strangers so you "defeat" the tracking an profiling that stores do on you. Unless I'm missing something, this is a pretty dumb idea. Here's the e-mail I sent to them:
Why not just ask for an anonymous card? Exchanging means that you'll get a bunch of ads for stuff that has no relation to you. What if you exchange with a guy who buys ingredients for a bomb or a meth lab? that might come back on you.
Even if the store won't give you an anonymous card, just use fake data.
If you're curious why store value cards and such are a bad idea, see
Nocards.org for details.
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Well Duh!
Wednesday, August 8th, 2007 (
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I love
these stories. I sure hope they win.
Tuesday, August 7th, 2007 (
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The
FBI raided the home of a former justice department lawyer in order to discover any information they could about the leak of details on the illegal spying program. Nice to know that Bush followed through on persecuting anyone and everyone that exposes his embarassing and
illegal exploits.
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Tuesday, August 7th, 2007 (
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This is actually kind of cool. If you are handed one of
these remotes and someone is being loud and obnoxious or if the picture/sound quality is off in a movie, you can just hit the button instead of having to leave the movie to find someone to deal with it.
Of course, these remotes don’t have microphones so the management will have to guess what your problem is. Either way, it’s kind of a cool concept.
Tuesday, August 7th, 2007 (
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This might actually be good news. First, it’s
only data on their employees instead of countless numbers of innocent people. Second, VeriSign is not that
nice of a company. And most importantly, they are responsible for VeriChip, the spinoff company that is responsible for pushing human implanted RFID.
Maybe a little ID theft (or worrying about it) will be a good wakeup call for them and they’ll be a little more sympathetic to the “privacy nuts” who are
constantly fighting them and everything they do.
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Monday, August 6th, 2007 (
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AT&T, world known for their honesty and loyalty to customers (this is sarcasm folks), was required to offer a $10 per month DSL service (as a condition of their Bellsouth merger) which they now
say that nobody seems interested in. It’s hard to be popular if no one knows about it though.
That being said, spread the word! Make sure everyone has a chance to cut their fees by switching to this plan. This doesn’t do near enough to put AT&T to justice, but if you’re already a customer and don’t need the high bandwidth, make sure they don’t get away with hiding their mandated $10 plan.
