Kodak’s software offered a faster way to upload pic to their site.
What it did was install a piece of BLOATWARE that seized all the picture associations like jpeg and waddles in every time one wants to look at a “picture”.
Arghhh!
TECHNOLOGY: Kodak’s software rudely grabbed jpeg hook
Wednesday, November 22, 2006
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LIBERTY: Old lady killed in drug raid. End the “drug war” now!
Wednesday, November 22, 2006http://www.breitbart.com/news/2006/11/21/D8LHSRR01.html
Woman, 92, Dies in Shootout With Police
Nov 21 11:10 PM US/Eastern
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A 92-year-old woman was shot to death Tuesday after she fired at three narcotics officers trying to serve a warrant at her house, officials said.
Neighbors and relatives said it must have been a case of mistaken identity. Police said they had the right address.
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Absolutely unbelievable. Kicking in old ladies’ doors.
All for the stupid idea that anyone can be prevented from taking drugs.
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PRODUCTIVITY: Protecting from spam
Wednesday, November 22, 2006http://www.pcmech.com/newsletter/viewtip.php?tipid=748
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One for personal/business contacts, and the other for anything that requires registration or sign-up (forums, subscriber content, etc). This way, if your second account gets buried with spam, various advertisements, or nag emails, your personal account should be relatively untouched.
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Well, if you follow my previous tip, then you can use one gmail account and GUARANTEE no spam.
To refresh your memory, gmail with the plus sign gives you fully protected email. Create your gmail account and then a list of random codes. For each use of the email, assign one of your codes after the plus sign. Then, create that label and filter in GMail. Then, the only thing that will get into that FILTERED category will be valid email. Everything else can be nuked!
Neat!
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RANT: Hey Governor Corzine … … still wanna hear about state cars? … (continued) …
Wednesday, November 22, 2006You don’t? TOO BAD!
This morning 22 November at 0713 est on Route 295S Exit 47 … …
… … a white suv sg 24 301 … …
… down route 295 at a leisurely 80+ (Speed limit is 65 for commoners!)
… in lots of traffic
… tail gating the poor peon in his way
… never left the left lane! (as it disappeared into the distance!)
(Do you teach them to do that, or is that a qualification for working for the state of nujerzee!?)
Any way I am sure that he was hurrying to get away from the scene of most crimes against the people of NuJerzee (aka trenton) to protect and serve me.
Arghhh!
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FUN: My six word memoir
Tuesday, November 21, 2006Injineer. Frau. Jobs. It’s a life!
—–Original Message—–
From: support@twitter.com [mailto:support@twitter.com]
Sent: Tuesday, November 21, 2006 2:00 PM
Subject: Twitter Contest and New Features
Hello Twitter-ers!
This email comes with a special treat from Twitter and Smith
Magazine: The Six-Word Memoir Challenge! Twitter your own memoir in exactly six words and you could win a free iPod!
HOW TO ENTER
1. Make smithmag a friend: http://twitter.com/smithmag 2. Preface your six-word entry with “smithmag” like this:
smithmag He wore dresses. This caused messes.
ABOUT THE SIX-WORD MEMOIR CHALLENGE
Legend has it that Ernest Hemingway was once challenged to write a story in six words. The result was “For sale: baby shoes, never used.” More recently, Wired Magazine revived the challenge and author Margaret Atwood came up with this short but funny beauty:
“Longed for him. Got him. Shit.”
We realize November is National Novel Writing Month but 50,000 words in 30 days? That seems heavy considering genius may surface in just six words. The folks over at Smith Magazine think everyone has a story and they want to reward you for yours.
For more information visit: http://smithmag.net/sixwords/
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RANT: How dumb can people be?
Tuesday, November 21, 2006http://www.denverpost.com/ci_4690294?source=rss
Discounts on gas add fuel to fools’ ire
By David Harsanyi
Denver Post Staff Columnist
Article Last Updated:11/19/2006 11:44:53 PM MST
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This month, King Soopers and City Market (both owned by Kroger) were forced by a federal jury decision to cut out a program called Buy Groceries/Get Gas — which offered consumers modest savings on gas purchases.
Two “independent” gasoline stations in Montrose brought the suit and were awarded $1.4 million in damages. The jury found the big stores had violated Colorado’s Unfair Practices Act, illegally selling gas below cost.
Yes, King Soopers was selling gasoline too cheap. It’s illegal.
So let’s quickly review an old economics adage: Charge too much and you’re price gouging. Charge too little and you’re predatory pricing. Charge the same as your competitor and you’re in collusion.
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You have to admit that the gubamint skools (aka: political reeducation camps) have done a superb job of making the new citizens of Amerika stupider than tree stumps! Without the collective brains of a box of rocks!
Minimum prices, minimum wages, price supports, price floors, … … …, and anything else of this ilk that you think of are just taxes in a transparent disguise.
You can’t sell something for below your cost?
Tell it to WalMart, and all the other discount store that use a loss leader!
How stupid were the people on this jury? How stupid were the prosecutors for filing this case in the first place? How stupid were the legislators who passed this absurdity?
How stupid are we for tolerating it?
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XPFails – homebase – gotomypc can’t see home
Tuesday, November 21, 2006Arghhh!
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XPfails – luggable – seems slow
Tuesday, November 21, 2006Will try a reboot.
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PRODUCTIVITY: Using GMAIL to avoid phishing
Monday, November 20, 2006GMAIL has an interesting plus feature. If you think of email address syntax as user@provider.xxx, then you can put anything you want after a plus sign. So it’s user+string@gmail.com. You can use that feature to protect yourself from phishing attacks.
For example, create a random string for your “Mammoth Big Bank” bank (e.g., D3BCA3846CB5). Assume your email id is user@gmail.com. Then you tell your bank that your email address is user+D3BCA3846CB5@gmail.com! Anything purportedly coming from Mammoth Big Bank has to come with your secret code or you’ll ignore it. You can trash anything coming from Mammoth Big Bank that does NOT have your secret code.
If you’re like me and have lots of dedicated email address, then you can actually set a GMAIL label and filter to discard email that doesn’t authenticate with the secret code.
It’s simple and easy to protect against phishing.
Just don’t forget the D3BCA3846CB5! ;-)
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LIBERTY: Education dumbs the children down; which is right where gubamint wants them!
Monday, November 20, 2006http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/
article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=53034
Running with the turtles
Posted: November 20, 2006
1:00 a.m. Eastern
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Two of the basic assumptions that underlie public schooling is that mass education is beneficial to society and that group education does not inhibit the intellectual development of the individual student.
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My war cry against big oppressive intrusive government, aka the gubamint, is: honest money, private education, and stop the dole!
This article supports the second of that troika!
It seems that, when the Communists have reeducation camps for adults and children, every one sees immediately that it’s terrible. YET, when it’s done right under their very nose in their neighborhood, they can’t see it.
These local “reeducation camps” teach the government agenda, which includes all sorts of strange things! One of which is that the government is God! It’s the answer to every problem: popular problems, perceived problems, ones that the gubbamint wants us to fixate on, but never ever the real one — gubamint!
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TECHNOLOGY: XDRIVE just doesn’t work
Monday, November 20, 2006
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TECHNOLOGY: Writeboard aka a one page wiki?
Sunday, November 19, 2006Writeboard
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Writeboard is completely free. You can create as many writeboards as you’d like and invite as many people to collaborate on the writeboards. There are no limits. However, if you’d like to keep all your writeboards in one place so you don’t have to bookmark URLs and remember passwords, you should check out our Backpack organizer product. It lets you neatly organize to-do lists, notes, photos, files, and writeboards online. Backpack was recently named a “Best of the Web 2005” tool by BusinessWeek.
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Seems interesting to me.
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LIBERTY: Fight the power!
Sunday, November 19, 2006http://www.givemeliberty.org/RTP2/
UPDATES/Update2006-11-18.htm
November 18, 2006
“V” Makes A Mark In DC
Worldwide Interest in RTP Stirred
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It’s working.
We are making good use of the powerful concept of en masse activist resistance used in the movie, “V for Vendetta.”
“V” is helping us as we build support for the unalienable Right to a Response from Government to our Petitions for Redress of Grievances regarding the Government’s violation of the war powers, tax, privacy and money clauses of the Constitution.
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Fight the power!
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GUNS: You don’t really have a choice
Sunday, November 19, 2006http://www.reviewjournal.com/lvrj_home/2006/Nov-19-Sun-2006/opinion/10713125.html
Nov. 19, 2006
VIN SUPRYNOWICZ: Giving way to the twenty-something spendthrifts
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You cannot bestow upon your children or grandchildren a world without guns. Your two choices are: a world in which they are trusted and encouraged to own guns and keep them ready to hand and know how and when to use them, or a world in which they are disarmed and the guns are in the hands of some other class or race of people who tell them what to do.
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You have to like how he can distill it to a simple principle. There’s a big difference between the Law of Gravity and any law passed by tyrants.
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PRODUCTIVITY: Missed an opportunity
Sunday, November 19, 2006Argh! I’m mad at myself. When attending an event with a camera, I should have had a strategy. Photo everyone. Not only do you not get a second chance, but it could have been a hoot. Went to a “dance” last night, but didn’t exploit the opportunities to learn, link, and innovate. Argh!
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LIBERTY: Tell a big gubamint columnist to stuff it!
Saturday, November 18, 2006Here’s what the new Congress should do help taxpayers, retirees, and investors
By Jeff Brown | November 18, 2006
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With the Democrats taking control of Congress and President Bush becoming Mr. Cooperative, every interest group in the country will forward its legislative wish list to Washington.
So here’s mine — the things I’d like done for investors and taxpayers.
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Social Security. Alternative minimum tax. Roth IRAs. Annual investment taxes. Estate tax. Sarbanes-Oxley.
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I could go on . . .
But, I’d rather hear from you. E-mail your thoughts on legislative or regulatory issues you’d like Washington to tackle, and I’ll assemble the good suggestions for a future column.
Jeff Brown is a business columnist for The Philadelphia Inquirer. E-mail him at brownj@phillynews.com.
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Stop stealing people’s money! Period. We don’t need Mommy Government telling us “to take our medicine, like good little citizens, cause mommie gubamint knows best”! Name one government program that works?
Government is the problem!
SO tell Washington to take the rest of their lives off. The dead Old White Guys were right about shackles.
Arghh!
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GUNS: No bear hunt
Saturday, November 18, 2006NJ DEP chief: There will be no bear hunt
– Daily Record (NJ)
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New Jersey’s top environmental official late Wednesday scotched this year’s bear hunt, and hinted that none would be staged in the future, saying non lethal ways to keep peace between humans and bears need to be tried. Jackson’s move comes some two weeks after Gov. Jon S. Corzine said he wanted to explore non lethal ways to deal with the state’s growing bear population.
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You have to admire today’s liberals, who don’t live in the real world. They are going to spend a lot of money, stolen from NJ taxpayers, to convince the bears not to procreate. You have to love when some one plays poker with your chips.
Which politicians goes to jail when, not if, someone gets hurt by a bear?
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ALUMNI: Another week; another issue of Jasper Jottings
Saturday, November 18, 2006Shipped! Tme to start next week’s.
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ALUMNI: High School Alumni group has some life
Saturday, November 18, 2006I’ve been distracted by a particular spinning plate in my life. My high school alumni activities have warranted some attention. Last week, I went galavanting to have dinner with a tad more than a dozen. It was a hoot, but I’m still trying to catch up. They did introduce me to a great restaurant in a “interesting” NYC neighborhood. As a result, the need for a memorial has some interest and I put up a wiki, specifically pbwiki, for that purpose, gave it some see content, and it’s having some traffic. In the process of doing that, I was shown a free web stat tool. I also created a button for one of the sites.
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LIBERTY: Conserve What?
Friday, November 17, 2006http://www.lewrockwell.com/hein/hein146.html
Conserve What?
by Paul Hein
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Many of us find the “conservative” position on many issues more agreeable – or less disagreeable – than the “liberal.” But what is it that conservatives are conserving? I have never seen that question answered – or even asked – but isn’t it a good question?
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As an ex-conservative, I wanted the liberty that the Dead Old White Guys promised. Unfortunately, I didn’t get what I was promised. Instead Gubamint has made me a slave!
I go around and around trying to see how I can free myself.
The critical issues of stuffing the genie back in the box are: ending the fiat currency, ending the government reeducation propaganda camps, and ending the dole! I have no silver bullet. Heck, I can’t even figure out where to begin.
Money! Skools! Dole!
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JOBSEARCH: JIBBERJOBBER’s document section doesn’t permit cut’n’paste
Friday, November 17, 2006http://www.jibberjobber.com/doc_manager.php
Ahh hah!
I stuffed some doc in JIBBERJOBBER and realized a flaw. It’s wants to upload all docs. Admirable. But what if you want to cut’n’paste something from a webpage.
It should allow you to do that. You are getting the space.
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Technology: Found a neat trick to put your email on a webpage
Friday, November 17, 2006Use any of the url shortening sites, like tiny url, and push mailto:myemail@bigisp.net into it a get a url back like http://tinyurl/abcde
Clicking on that link lets people send you an email.
It’s believed to be not harvest able by spyders and bots.
Hmmm?
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LIBERTY: Friedman on the drug war, right; school vouchers, wrong!
Thursday, November 16, 2006http://www.fff.org/freedom/0490e.asp
An Open Letter to Bill Bennett
by Milton Friedman, April 1990
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Drugs are a tragedy for addicts. But criminalizing their use converts that tragedy into a disaster for society, for users and non-users alike. Our experience with the prohibition of drugs is a replay of our experience with the prohibition of alcoholic beverages.
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Milton Friedman was one of the most influential economists of the past century and winner of a 1976 Nobel Prize. He always impressed me with the clarity of his thinking.
I think he was wrong about vouchers for education; the right answer imho is to eliminate ANY government involvement in education. Today, we have a terrible system that seems to be in place to allow politicians to feather their nest, reward their friends, provide lots of jobs for their friends, allow a union that makes further mischief, and DOES NOT deliver a good education.
Hands down, it’s insanity.
His call for vouchers, while better than what we have now, ignored the fundamental problem. When parents pay for their children’s education with their real money, then they will DEMAND the best education for their limited budget will allow. Parents will “motivate” their children to get the most from it. They’ll seek bargains and live with their decisions.
A free market in education exists in the technical computer world where it is a Wild West Show. No real government regulation and for the most part no government funding. Look at the various industry certification courses! That’s what education could be like if freed from the shackles of the government. Ever lower prices, ever increasing availability, and ever increasing quality. Innovation galore.
One can only hope that our delusion with government “public” education ends soon.
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RANT: How to signal a bartender, waiter, or other service person
Thursday, November 16, 2006Now I am as patient as the next person. Really I am. But even a really good server can’t read my mind. Too many “everything ok?” questions is annoying. More annoying is the “lost server”.
For example, last night, Frau and I went to the “good” Chinese restaurant, not the “closest” or the “closer”, but the “good” one. Their food is great; the service leaves much to be desired.
(I’m working on them. I’ll get up and go get them when I need them to do something. Frau’s a big tipper. So they “tolerate” me. I guess)
Now when you’re paying two bucks for a soda, I expect Frau’s glass never to be empty!
Not so.
So I want a little flag on the table that I can raise when I want something. (Can it be wired to the waiter’s cell phone?) Or a push button that illuminates like the flight attendant call button.
That’s enough!
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LIBERTY: Paper ballots, which can be verified by voters and recounted if necessary.
Wednesday, November 15, 2006
CRYPTO-GRAM, November 15, 2006
Voting Technology and Security
by Bruce Schneier
Founder and CTO
Counterpane Internet Security, Inc.
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Electronic voting machines represent a grave threat to fair and accurate elections, a threat that every American — Republican, Democrat or independent — should be concerned about. Because they’re computer-based, the deliberate or accidental actions of a few can swing an entire election. The solution: Paper ballots, which can be verified by voters and recounted if necessary.
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You have to admire how he guts to the bottom line. It’s a real problem (i.e., FL citation). It’s easy to fix (i.e., A machine is NOT a vote counting device. It IS a vote preparation tool.) and here’s how. It’s critical to address the problem (i.e., confidence in the fairness).
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ALUMNI: PREPSTER64 “rump group” met last night
Wednesday, November 15, 2006Several laffs; a few sad moments; no agenda; valet parking!; great food; lots of suggestions and good and not so good ideas. And I saw the moth fly out of a raccoon’s wallet! ;-)
No computer for an evening felt strange. So I am way behind.
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