Neat Image Resizing Technique
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. JTAG ERROR: No slashdot_ht index defined.... [Click here to read the rest of this post]
FISA Gets Feisty – Orders White House to Justify Spying to ACLU
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 .... [Click here to read the rest of this post]
Tags: Congress, George BushDiebold Attempts Name Change to Hide Past
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 .... [Click here to read the rest of this post]
FISA Changes Outrage the Country
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 .... [Click here to read the rest of this post]
Tags: Congress, George BushCardexchange? I Don’t Think So
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 .... [Click here to read the rest of this post]Oklahoma University Students Fight Back Against RIAA
I love these stories. I sure hope they win.
American Witch Hunt – Shhhh…. We’re Hunting Leakers
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..... [Click here to read the rest of this post]
Tags: George BushMovie Theater Narc’ing
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 .... [Click here to read the rest of this post]
VeriChip’s Turn – Loses A Laptop With Unencrypted Employee Information
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 .... [Click here to read the rest of this post]
Tags: RFIDAT&T Hiding $10/month DSL Service – Sign up Now!
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 .... [Click here to read the rest of this post]
