You’ve gotta be fucking kidding me.
Esteban just sent me a link from /., with a news item about how the U.S. is planning to tag cars at the border with an Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) tag, in order to track foreigners on their soil. In plain English, what that means is tracking, via [...]
These sort of books have always seem self-disqualifying to me.
Jacqueline has a post on her blog referencing The Rules, a dating advice book whose subtitle is Time-Tested Secrets for Capturing the Heart of Mr. Right, and how it makes good economic sense.
Not having read “The Rules” I may be missing something, but it sounds [...]
Phil Zimmerman, the creator of Pretty Good Privacy, is creating an application for communication security on voice over IP. While there are gratis alternatives like Skype that claim to be secure, this system seems to have two clear advantages:
If it integrates transparently into VOIP networks, it could become the standard by simply working, [...]
One of the nastiest pieces ever in The Onion is also one of their funniest.
… would be an understatement.
After his first four days in solitary confinement at an American military prison in Iraq, Cyrus Kar was taken from his small cell and brought before two F.B.I. agents, who before questioning him gave him a sheet of paper listing his rights.
“I have the right to a lawyer?” Mr. Kar, an [...]
It’s easy to see how the Bush administration would reshape the world - including their country - if only given the chance. How? You need only to take a look at the new Iraqi constitution, which the U.S. administration pretty much wrote for them.
Thomas L. Knapp has a good overview on his site. [...]
The V for Vendetta trailer is up. Some choice quotes from government officials:
“Fear became the ultimate tool of this government.”
“If our government was responsible for the deaths of a hundred thousand people… would you really want to know?”
“I want this coutry to realize that we stand in the edge of oblivion. I want everyone [...]
Congratulations! That wonderful tool for violating your privacy, the USAPATRIOT Act, has been extended. Among other beauties, it includes provisions for something called roving wiretaps, where a suspect’s phone conversations or internet traffic may be intercepted, without even the need to identify the subject or limiting it to a specific phone.
I can already see [...]
I first met Ernesto over 10 years ago, when he was running a tiny mexican food business out of an even tinier garage. He called the place Huaraches, after the mexican dish. It was impossible not to get caught up in his great attitude and fun demeanor - the fact that the food [...]
Yeah, nice going. When the next invasion of privacy comes, I can already see people thinking that hey, it’s not big deal - it’s just like what we did at Disney.