I love this statement. “For terrorists, travel documents are like weapons,” Chertoff said. “We do have a right and an obligation to see that those licenses reflect the identity of the person who’s presenting it.” CNN.com: Federal ID plan raises privacy concerns The government had the identity of each of the 19 hijackers; Real ID [...]
Just Stupid
Funny point about Bush speech
This is the original speech, here is the same text with some search and replace. The poster took out the words he disliked to make a point. It’s a good point, and a shame that Karl Rove can’t come up with better talking points.
Online video games are dangerous afterall
Wow. All this for a GunBound password. My nephew plays that game too, need to make sure he stays out of Sao Paulo. The funniest part is that the kidnapped player did not give up the password to his account.
New Old Russia
When I was in high-school I read lots of Robert A. Heinlein. The stories were very “good guy versus bad guys”, with the help of a lady who was much smarter that the good guy and knew the real score. Great stuff and a collection of his was updated in 1980 to include new material [...]
Same old, same old domestic spying case
“Court dismisses suit challenging domestic spying“. That was pretty obvious. The journalists and ACLU could not demonstrate that they were targeted. Today such lawsuits can’t prevail. Right now breaking the law is the rule. (But it’s okay, they are only targetting “bad guys” right?)
Dealing with pond algae
So Lily and I are at my mother-in-law’s house with the kids. It’s hot and the kids are watching cartoons. I’m hanging out with Lily’s nephew talking about the BlackBerry Pearl when I hear yelling from downstairs. Lily is on the phone getting upset with someone named “Jessica”. Jessica called and is insisting on speaking [...]
Back from a 5 day vacation this week
Every year Lily’s company nominates about 100 employees or so and sends them to a company paid vacation/off site meeting. These nominations are to reward them for outstanding achievements. The employees get to bring their significant others and this year Lily was selected to go. This is the second time Lily and I went and [...]
Just how stupid can companies (scratch that, people) be?
I should make a new category called “Just Really Really Really Stupid”. I Saw this on Digg, it’s apparently old. Google is your XP key friend. I’m not saying Google is bad, I’m saying that the company hosting this information is amazingly too stupid for words. “The Company (who’s name shall not be said here [...]
National Security Letter abuse
Remember it’s only an abuse of government power when other countries do it.
