Tech: Glad the panel involved rational people. CIPA was idiotic. Court rules library Net filtering unconstitutional Maybe with some computer the Patent and Trademark Office will have people that understand them? Some of the most ignorant patents make it into existence. Think there should be panels of people involved various industries to determine the viability of…
World: Like any Presidential Administration is going to allow papers that could show how they do things or that they might have been negligent to see the light of day. Lawmakers seek top-secret papers — MSNBC Entertainment: Lots and lots to see this summer. *sigh* Spinning out the summer movies — MSNBC
World News: Even Middle East countries have problems with plane hijackings.Yahoo! News – Security Agents Foil Iranian Hijacking There was a thing Friday on CNN about Chinese soldiers attempting to stop people from entering an embassy. Pretty scary. Wonder what they know or did? Yahoo! News – Two North Koreans enter Canada’s embassy in China Internet:…
Science & Technology News: Yahoo! News – Archaeologists Unearth Base of Egypt Queen Pyramid Business There could be 1.1 million jobs created over the next year. Yahoo! News – Information Technology Work Force Set to Grow Really… these days notebooks are actually decent. You can do quite a bit of stuff of them. Yahoo! News – Notebooks…
Tech News: I’ve said it often enough… students are hackers in sheep’s clothing. This true too… “the majority of academic networks are tempting targets for hackers because of their lack of security, abundance of bandwidth and overworked administrators.”University systems a haven for hackers – Tech News – CNET.com World News: Don’t approach a U.S. Navy…
Seems like Xanga is limping along at the moment. In an effort to further complicate my bloggings… news here. Real rants over there. Tech News: Found this by following an article on Slashdot. Thinking this would be good to implement. How to Defeat Bad Web Robots With Apache Only has experimental Apache 2.0 support. Maybe 4.2.1 will fix…
Work Saturday morning was not terrible. I hear we were complimented. Noticed I had a tendency to cradle my hands in front of me. Think that is a weird nervous habit. Went driving yesterday afternoon. Followed this “bike trail” for 75 miles. Figure it must go across the state along some of the most backwater…
Learning about web site privacy policies and P3P. Seeing who has them and who doesn’t. I am surprised more universities have not jumped into this. Harvard, UCLA, and MIT have not even set up P3P files. MIT does not even have a privacy statement from the home page. Coming back to more local, the major univeristies in the…
DMVs are the spawns anti-christ. People who are in a bind and screwed and trying to get a beauracracy to change their rules just for them are now in my oprion worse. This girl had to get her license for her job. She has needed for a while, but was told by some idiot to come back…