Don’t think I lost anything. No obvious error message. Send report to Apple.
Argh!
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Tuesday, February 15, 2011
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DATA: Open Gooferment data in New Hampshire
Tuesday, February 15, 2011http://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/02/08/0112246/New-Hampshire-Begins-Open-Data-Efforts
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Now, with over a dozen Free Staters elected to the NH legislature, these geeks are starting to affect government data-sharing policy.
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http://techpresident.com/blog-entry/new-hampshire-opens-its-states-legislative-data
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Chalk up a new one for the open-government-data geeks.
In the past few days, New Hampshire’s General Court, as the state legislature is officially known, started releasing data on legislation and legislators in nerd-friendly, “pipe-separated” files, uploaded daily. In non-geek speak, this means the data is presented in a way that any competent web developer can easily process for use in an application or a researcher can feed into a database system to explore.
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Seems like the “crazy Free state Project members” are making a change that was completely unexpected.
They are cracking the Gooferment data open like a dropped Chinese porcelain urn.
Imagine that people are actually interested in what the Gooferment is up to.
“Very interested”!
Now we just need to make the Gooferment switch to free Open Source Software and save some money.
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TECHNOLOGY: Serendipity! I get to watch a red light camera from wife’s ICU room
Monday, February 14, 2011I find the Universe has a sense of humor.
In observing the Red Light Camera by Saint Peter’s University Hospital, I think it’s “unacceptable”.
I don’t have a stop watch to determine the timing.
Some folks obviously enter the intersection on red and it ain’t even close. Other’s not so clear.
If a car is in the intersection to make a left turn, and the light goes red, sometimes it “fires”.
If a car yields to a light’s ‘n’ sirens ambulance while in the intersection, it fires?
If a pedestrian interrupts some poor slob making a legal right or left, and he’s caught in the intersection, it fires.
To do a good study, we need to mark the pavement with what I’d call the 25mph line. If a poor slob is doing 25mphs, how much distance does the yellow give him to stop. I can’t tell with out some tools: radar gun; pavement markings; and a stop watch.
If the Old Lady is stuck in the ICU long, maybe I’ll have time to do a real study.
Make a movie?
Yeah, I have too much time on my hands.
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TECHNOLOGY: Red light camera as like an ATM to the Gooferment
Monday, February 14, 2011http://reason.com/blog/2011/02/07/more-fights-over-red-light-cam
More Fights Over Red Light Cameras
Radley Balko | February 7, 2011
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Actually, the argument is that there’s good evidence showing that lengthening yellow times is a far better way to prevent intersection accidents than red light cameras. It’s more effective, and doesn’t come with the creepy surveillance state vibe. Somehow, that doesn’t seem as appealing a policy to city governments. Another reason we critics have impugned the motives of public officials is that several cities have been caught shortening yellow times at intersections after they’ve been outfitted with cameras. That would seem to be a pretty good indication of a government that values revenue more than safety.
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Yes, cash-strapped jurisdiction would have a very good motivation to install the camera and then shorten the yellow.
See the Gooferment can’t be both a participant in the game and the game’s referee.
Any illusion that there is a difference between the supposed three branches of Gooferment is just a corrupt illusion.
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ADMINISTRIVIA: Happy Saint V’s Day
Monday, February 14, 2011After a weekend of mostly “altered mental status” — with unexplained causes, and after the innumerable transports of Frau Reinke to the toilet, I returned her to the comfort of her recliner. She couldn’t get comfortable. In a raspy strained voice struggling for breath, she said: “I have to get fresh air. I have to stand up.” So for the innumerable plus one time, I helped her to stand. I doing most of the lifting. “Just stand here” was her quiet words as she tightened her grip around my neck and held me close. Like one of the many slow “dances” we shared forty plus years ago. Until her legs tired out, she said “thanks”, and I placed her back in the recliner. Where she promptly was sound asleep. And, I was energized for the innumerable plus two times to come. Happy Valentine’s Day.
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NETWORK: “In the same way”? Not Quite
Sunday, February 13, 2011http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2011/02/ipv6-marks-next-chapter-in-history-of.html
IPv6 marks the next chapter in the history of the Internet
2/03/2011 01:39:00 PM
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In the same way your phone is associated with a unique number, your computer is assigned a unique Internet Protocol (IP) address when you connect to the Internet. The current protocol, IPv4, allows for approximately 4 billion unique addresses—and that number is about to run out.
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Unfortunately, not really.
I’ve had the same home phone number for more than three decades. Thru three PSPs (Phone Service Providers).
ISPs play all sorts of games with “my” IP address. Not to mention that I have wifi router that automagically “counterfeits” the mac addresses to allow me to “fool” the ISPs network.
Argh!
It’s more imprecise language that encourages fuzzy thinking.
We really have two different kinds of internet. An internet of things controlled by the manufacturers with mac addresses and the internet of people controlled by the ISPs.
We can say that the IPV4 problem is an ISP problem; not a User problem.
Certainly, not MY problem. I get nothing out of it.
I’m more interested in mesh networks and P2PDNS.
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FUN: Vote Betty White as the new Wonder Woman
Saturday, February 12, 2011http://www.tvguide.com/photogallery/wonder-woman-cast-1029055
Photo GalleriesWonder Woman: Who Should Be Cast?
Why Betty White, of course. Who else is a wonder!
Vote Betty White! #wonderwoman #bettywhite
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NEWJERSEY: Revolving door?
Saturday, February 12, 2011https://local.nixle.com/alert/4652443/?sub_id=241886
Community Message has been issued by the South Brunswick Twp Police Department.
Friday February 11, 2011 11:21 AM EST
3 ARRESTED IN TARGET PARKING LOT
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At 3:25pm Thursday afternoon South Brunswick Police were called to the Target department store on Route 1 for a theft. Officers arrived and learned that Target loss prevention personnel stopped Ashley Vohdin age 27 of Metuchen as she was leaving the store with stolen baby formula. Officer Ken Herman and Officer Lazlo Nyitrai determined that two other suspects were in the parking lot waiting for Vohdin.
Officer approached the two men Brian Bomba age 31 of South River and Anthony Kunsevich age 29 of East Brunswick. Officers obtained consent to search their vehicle and discovered another 17 cans of stolen formula. In addition police recovered heroin and a syringe in the car. The officers investigation determined that the suspects had been shoplifting all day. The suspects had stolen the items from a Target and A&P in Edison prior to coming to South Brunswick. The suspects had intended on selling the formula to small stores and getting money.
A judge authorized all suspects to be released on summonses pending their first court appearances. All three were charged with possession of stolen property. Bomba and Kunsevich were charged with heroin possesion. Vohdin was charged with shoplifting
For full details, go to https://local.nixle.com/alert/4652443/?sub_id=241886.
Contact Information:
Sgt Jim Ryan
PIO
732-329-4646 jryan@sbtnj.net
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Summonses?
Does this judge live in my world?
They are addicts. They need a fix. How are they going to earn the money to get that fix.
That’s why the “(pseudo) War on (some) Drugs” has to end. It’s stupid.
If drugs were legal, then they’d be cheap and maybe addicts wouldn’t have to steal to feed their habits.
Argh!
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GOLDBUG: The FED “preserves the dollar’s value
Saturday, February 12, 2011http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig10/fry5.1.1.html
Tracing the Fed’s Vital Role in the Decline of the US Dollar
by Eric Fry
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… let’s consider the plight of two hypothetical buddies from 1914. The first buddy, Caleb, stashes a $500 “rainy day” fund under the floorboards of his house – a roll of ten $50 Ulysses S. Grant dollar bills. The second buddy, Josiah, also stashes $500 under the floorboards – he walks into the neighborhood bank with ten $50 Ulysses S. Grant Gold Certificates and exchanges them for gold. Josiah then takes his gold and hides it under his floorboards.
Both buddies forget about their hidden stashes. Eventually, let’s say 2010, the respective heirs of these two long-deceased buddies happen to conduct simultaneous renovations of their respective residences. Caleb’s heirs find the ten ancient $50 bills. “How quaint,” they think to themselves. Josiah’s heirs find $32,172 worth of gold!
Thus, 98 years of history demonstrates conclusively that a blind monkey could have preserved the dollar’s purchasing power better than a Federal Reserve Chairman. Unfortunately, it’s tough to find a blind monkey who will take the job.
Reprinted with permission from The Daily Reckoning.
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A longer version of my summation: “Which would you rather find? A pirate’s chest of gold coins, a chest full of Confederate money, or a chest full of Federal Reserve Banknotes?”
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MONEY: The IMF turns against the USA and its dollar
Friday, February 11, 2011http://money.cnn.com/2011/02/10/markets/dollar/index.htm
IMF calls for dollar alternative
By Ben Rooney, staff reporterFebruary 10, 2011: 4:37 PM ET
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NEW YORK (CNNMoney) — The International Monetary Fund issued a report Thursday on a possible replacement for the dollar as the world’s reserve currency.
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And, why are we funding this group of snakes?
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