• IPHOTO still broken.
• Pages, Keynote, and Numbers still down; looking for the <synonym for procreation> disks.
• Migrated off APPLEMAIL onto THUNDERBIRD.
• Migrated off FIREFOX onto CHROME.
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MACBOOKAIR: Still trying to come back to where I was
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NEWJERSEY: Red light cameras
Thursday, December 16, 2010http://nbs.gmnews.com/news/2010-12-16/Front_Page/SB_once_again_considering_redlight_cameras.html
S.B. once again considering red-light cameras
Route 1 intersections would be most likely locations
BY SAM SLAUGHTER Staff Writer
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Some streets in South Brunswick may soon be much safer. At the Dec. 7 Township Council meeting, council members discussed the implementation of a Red Light Running Automated Enforcement pilot program and are taking the necessary actions to move forward with the plan.
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No fund raising here?
And, guaranteed to increase accidents. (Has elsewhere as folks stomp on the breaks!)
And, why not make the length of a “yellow” into standard time duration? (Answer, more tickets!)
And, why not make roads “intelligent”? (Sitting a light with no cross traffic encourages blowing; more tickets!)
And, why not focus on accident reduction? (No incentive; less tickets!)
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RANT: Why do we permit “lame ducks”?
Thursday, December 16, 2010DC feeding frenzy
Lame-duck Congress gorges
By DANIEL J. MITCHELL
Last Updated: 4:18 AM, December 16, 2010
Posted: 10:35 PM, December 15, 2010
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The biggest extender is the ethanol credit, a boondoggle that distorts agriculture markets and causes considerable economic and environmental damage, but is popular with politicians because big agribusinesses recycle some of their undeserved profits back to Washington in the form of contributions.
The dozens of other extenders include special loopholes for solar and wind power, education spending, bonds for Louisiana and NASCAR racing.
There are strong policy arguments against these kinds of special tax breaks, especially since we could use the revenue to finance lower tax rates — but most people are even more upset by the dead-of-night process used to put these goodies into the tax bill.
The behavior on Capitol Hill reminds me of the movie classic, “Animal House”: After their fraternity has been placed on “double-secret probation,” John Belushi and the rest of guys at the Delta House decide to go out in a blaze of glory with a toga party.
Likewise, the politicians on Capitol Hill just got placed on the equivalent of probation by a Tea Party uprising. Yet rather than mend their crooked ways, they’re throwing a massive party with our money.
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Pitchfork and torches time!
Why do we permit “lame ducks”?
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PLATFORM: The netbook ASUS is bricked inet-wise!
Thursday, December 16, 2010Last night, some automatic security fixes applied themselves.
Suddenly WINDOZE7STARTER is forcing a “select a location for the ‘3TYNE7328215850 2’ network.
And, no internet connectivity.
Everything was work fine before.
WTF!
Notice the “space 2” on the end of the wireless lan name.
There’s no way to delete that “space 2” or to change it.
WINDOZE7STARTER says that it can’t create a ‘home network group’, but only join one.
This is one of the reasons I HATE WINDOZE.
Numerous system rollbacks to dates in the past can NOT fix this.
Argh!
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Windows IP Configuration
Host Name . . . . . . . . . . . . : ASUS
Primary Dns Suffix . . . . . . . :
Node Type . . . . . . . . . . . . : Hybrid
IP Routing Enabled. . . . . . . . : No
WINS Proxy Enabled. . . . . . . . : No
Ethernet adapter Local Area Connection:
Media State . . . . . . . . . . . : Media disconnected
Connection-specific DNS Suffix . :
Description . . . . . . . . . . . : Atheros AR8132 PCI-E Fast Ethernet Controller (NDIS 6.20)
Physical Address. . . . . . . . . : 48-5B-39-81-5E-B9
DHCP Enabled. . . . . . . . . . . : Yes
Autoconfiguration Enabled . . . . : Yes
Wireless LAN adapter Wireless Network Connection:
Connection-specific DNS Suffix . :
Description . . . . . . . . . . . : Atheros AR9285 Wireless Network Adapter
Physical Address. . . . . . . . . : 1C-4B-D6-FE-7D-60
DHCP Enabled. . . . . . . . . . . : Yes
Autoconfiguration Enabled . . . . : Yes
Link-local IPv6 Address . . . . . : fe80::ed9d:a8ea:f652:9aad%11(Preferred)
IPv4 Address. . . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.2.102(Preferred)
Subnet Mask . . . . . . . . . . . : 255.255.255.0
Lease Obtained. . . . . . . . . . : Thursday, December 16, 2010 8:34:23 AM
Lease Expires . . . . . . . . . . : Thursday, December 23, 2010 8:53:12 AM
Default Gateway . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.2.1
DHCP Server . . . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.2.1
DHCPv6 IAID . . . . . . . . . . . : 236735446
DHCPv6 Client DUID. . . . . . . . : 00-01-00-01-14-89-6E-E8-1C-4B-D6-FE-7D-60
DNS Servers . . . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.2.1
NetBIOS over Tcpip. . . . . . . . : Enabled
Tunnel adapter isatap.{1880D8E4-AD10-4D35-B33E-0DD04215ACB2}:
Media State . . . . . . . . . . . : Media disconnected
Connection-specific DNS Suffix . :
Description . . . . . . . . . . . : Microsoft ISATAP Adapter
Physical Address. . . . . . . . . : 00-00-00-00-00-00-00-E0
DHCP Enabled. . . . . . . . . . . : No
Autoconfiguration Enabled . . . . : Yes
Tunnel adapter isatap.{FF68CFF4-C30B-4730-BA8E-D44D45CA4170}:
Media State . . . . . . . . . . . : Media disconnected
Connection-specific DNS Suffix . :
Description . . . . . . . . . . . : Microsoft ISATAP Adapter #2
Physical Address. . . . . . . . . : 00-00-00-00-00-00-00-E0
DHCP Enabled. . . . . . . . . . . : No
Autoconfiguration Enabled . . . . : Yes
Tunnel adapter Teredo Tunneling Pseudo-Interface:
Media State . . . . . . . . . . . : Media disconnected
Connection-specific DNS Suffix . :
Description . . . . . . . . . . . : Teredo Tunneling Pseudo-Interface
Physical Address. . . . . . . . . : 00-00-00-00-00-00-00-E0
DHCP Enabled. . . . . . . . . . . : No
Autoconfiguration Enabled . . . . : Yes
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SECURITY: LASTPASS (Recommended with a big caveat)
Thursday, December 16, 2010LastPass is a password manager that makes web browsing easier and more secure
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Recommended, with a caveat.
I would never ever trust anyone with passwords to “financial” or “key email accounts”.
So, then by definition, passwords for “financial” services and their dedicated email accounts are NEVER shared with anyone, any service, or put on any machine. Written down in a secret spot. Not carried in a wallet or anything you’d expect.
(Handwritten and rolled up in a pen.)
Since there are very very few of these, they are easy to remember.
Yeah, under my tin foil hat, I’m paranoid!
And, you must use unique passwords for everything. It’s a pain, but necessary!
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TECHNOLOGY: Different strokes for different folks; passwords too
Wednesday, December 15, 2010Dec 13, 2010 6:50 am
Gawker Media Hacked, Warns Users to Change Passwords
By Jeremy Kirk, IDG News
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E-mail addresses and password details for 200,000 registered users of Gawker Media websites are now circulating on peer-to-peer networks after a weekend hack attack. The company warned users to change their passwords — including on other sites, if they use the same passwords elsewhere.
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Since I never use the same passwords for different sites, not my problem!
Clearly, most people don’t keep that discipline.
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WINDOZE: Cobbling together a solution
Wednesday, December 15, 2010On the NETBOOK (Asus Eepc), I have DROPBOX to echo my data directory around where needed. After the fiasco with MACBOOKAIR and the deletion of significant protions of the data directory, I decided to make a local copy of the data directory on each platform. This protects against the data loss again.
On the WINDOZE systems to do this I dragged two free utilities out of retirement. ((I expected to abandon WINDOZE but the NETBOOK was needed and it brought WINDOZE with it. Argh!)
So on each platform, I’ve created an ‘OLDBOX’ folder to backup ‘DROPBOX’. The initial copy was easy.
BUT, how do you keep it updated on a regular basis?
http://www.karenware.com/powertools/ptoad.asp#Download
http://www.karenware.com/powertools/ptreplicator.asp
KARENWARE has two FREE utilites that make this easy.
PTREPLICATOR allows you sync directories with all sorts of options. (If you leave it running.)
PTOAD is a once a day utility; it ensure that ‘stuff’ you defined gets run once per day. (If you leave it running.) So if you put it in the ‘STARTUP’ folder, it kicks off. If you reboot several times, it only runs once per day. Neat!
So problem solved that to some old friends.
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FUN: Thinking about the “Price Is Right”
Wednesday, December 15, 2010Scenario: Four contestants, who we will call A, B, C, and D, have to guess the price of an item without going over.
Problem: What are the optimum strategies for each player?
<Think, think, … still thinking!>
Contestant A should just try to hit the price minus a dollar.
Contestant B ?
Contestant C?
Contestant D should always bids either one dollar if everyone’s over bid or one dollar over the highest bid.
Your thoughts?
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TECHNOLOGY: “Jeopardy!” pits man versus machine
Tuesday, December 14, 2010http://apnews.myway.com/article/20101214/D9K3LU500.html
‘Jeopardy!’ to pit humans against IBM machine
Dec 14, 7:12 AM (ET)
By DAVID BAUDER
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NEW YORK (AP) – The game show “Jeopardy!” will pit man versus machine this winter in a competition that will show how successful scientists are in creating a computer that can mimic human intelligence.
Two of the venerable game show’s most successful champions – Ken Jennings and Brad Rutter – will play two games against “Watson,” a computer program developed by IBM’s artificial intelligence team. The matches will be spread over three days that will air Feb. 14-16, the game show said on Tuesday.
The competition is reminiscent of when IBM developed a chess-playing computer to compete against chess champion Garry Kasparov in 1997.
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Now this will demonstrate something interesting to me. I doubt it will make great TV.
What’s next?
I know a robot playing Wheel of Fortune.
A pair of robot playing the Newlywed Game is just sick. Reminds me of the Will Smith movie “I, Robot”.
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MACOSX: Where’s the date?
Tuesday, December 14, 2010I think that Apple’s ‘reputation’ is unwarranted. Here’s where I start to pull at some threads in the King’s ‘garment’.
OK, I wanted to know what today’s date was.
The screen tells me that it’s Sunday at 1620. But what’s the date? So I go to the ‘System Preferences’ screen and sure enough I’ve checked ‘Show date and time’.
I see day and time, but no date.
An obvious oversight.
But, if this is obviously flubbed, makes you wonder what else is screwed up?
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RANT: Wall Street gains at the Taxpayer’s expense
Monday, December 13, 2010http://slatest.slate.com/id/2277740/
Wall Street on Track for Second-Most Profitable Year Ever
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Exciting news from Wall Street! Thanks to low-interest rates and an influx of capital from the Fed’s emergency lending program and the Troubled Asset Relief Program, Bloomberg reports that 2010 is on track to be the second most-profitable year in Wall Street history. “Even if this quarter only matches the third, [Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan Chase, Bank of America, Citigroup and Morgan Stanley’s] revenue will top that of any year except 2009,” reporter Michael Moore writes. A third of the banks’ revenue comes from trading and investment banking, which were still flush with government money during the first quarter of 2010.
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So, they make out and the taxpayers get screwed?
What’s wrong with this picture?
New rule: “Publicize the losses and privatize the profits.”
We need a game changer. And, what was wrong with electing Ron Paul?
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FLASH: Six U.S. troops were killed Sunday
Monday, December 13, 2010http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/12/12/AR2010121200857.html
Suicide bomber kills 6 troops in Afghanistan
By Ernesto Londoño Washington Post Foreign Service
Sunday, December 12, 2010; 2:58 PM
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KABUL – Six U.S. troops were killed Sunday when a man rammed a minivan packed with explosives into a newly built military installation in Kandahar Province, U.S. and Afghan officials said.
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I think Ron Paul was right; “take the first thing smoking coming home”!
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POLITICAL: Do multimillionaires earn their wealth by force and fraud?
Monday, December 13, 2010Sen. Sanders To Rich “Crybabies”: “When Is Enough, Enough?”
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Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vermont), a socialist, said “greed is like an addiction” and compares it to heroin and nicotine. “This reckless uncontrollable greed is like a disease,” Sanders said.
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Argh! The word “socialist” says it all. Turn the question around. “When has the Gooferment taken enough from ‘its’ slaves?” The Bible only commands a tithe, 10%. Today, we can not calculate what the Gooferment Slaveholder takes from us. THere are taxes hidden in everything.
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Sanders asks how can anyone be proud to call themselves a “multimillionaire?”
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Since a multimillionaire has to induce people to give them “certificates of appreciation” (i.e., money) and no one has asserted them using force or committing fraud, one must assume that they provided a valuable product or service. Politicians and bureaucrats excluded, of course, because they get their loot by force and fraud upon the “We, The Sheeple”.
Shame on Senator Socialist for his disrespect of people who serve others successfully.
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MACBOOKAIR: The factory wipe nuked OSX 10.6 and the package
Sunday, December 12, 2010… and they want me to rebuy it!
(You have to be kidding.)
Argh!
They will replace Snow Leopard because the machine went in with it and came out without it.
But they want me to rebuy the iWorks and iLife!
Same logic should apply.
Argh!
I hate computers. And, their enablers.
It’s either a product and it’s all my responsibilities. Or, it’s licensed, and my serial number is all that I should need.
Argh!
Now, I gotta find those disks.
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MACBOOKAIR: Coming back slowly
Sunday, December 12, 2010The adventure continues.
My DROPBOX strategy has a flaw. For some reason, a significant portion of my PDF files were deleted. (No idea why?) Clearly, sharing among machines is a winner. BUTT (there’s always a big but) I need a ‘vaulting strategy’. The deletion could have been disastrous. But, it took four hours to recover the files. And, I immediately made a copy. So, I need a synchronization strategy for each platform. Basically a synchronization utility that copies the latest files to the sharing directory and updates back in. Have to think about that.
“Manifests” for each machine are obviously needed. I have to start that now on the other platforms. Need to have the link to the source and possibly the last distribution.
Need a data review and archiving strategy.
In next year’s storage plan, I need to have it monthly archive.
No need to save all the ‘stuff’ I am saving. Argh!
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JOBSEARCH: Accentuate the positive; not so obvious?
Sunday, December 12, 2010TAKEN FROM AN EMAIL WITH A POTENTIAL “TURKEY”
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Dear XXXX,
Read your message and can sympathize with the frustration that you are feeling. First, you’re “marketing”, so “market”. Have you networked with XXXXXXX at MC? Have you read the book “Job Changing at 100K”? (Ignore title; it has a great concept of ‘structured networking’.) I have some job search materials on my site http://www.reinke.cc/COMCAST4/TURKEY/index.htm (Feel free to ‘steal’ anything you find helpful.) If you offer me a LinkedIn connect, I’ll accept and you’ll have access to my contacts. http://www.jasperjottings.com/ has a slew of alumni info for networking ‘targets’. I’ll take a peek at your LinkedIn, Facebook, and other ‘stuff’ to see if I can spot anything.
/Signed/
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AND AFTER A FEW MINUTES
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OK! I’m back. It appears to me that:
(1) You have, in addition to this persona, one “dead” persona on LinkedIn. Suggest that you clean that up.
(2) You have no “web presence” that I can find. No website. No blog. No domain. So, you’re not “marketing” yourself.
(3) No Facebook? (A recruiter will think “hiding something”. “Everyone”, younger that 40, has Facebook. Note: We don’t want digital dirt. But we want a “professional” Facebook, with friends and family!)
(4) LinkedIn profile makes it look like your a job hopper with lots of jobs.
[JR: Note, every promotion is listed as a separate job. It looks “job hopper ish”; not “upwardly climbing”. You have 30 seconds to communicate to the person filtering; use it wisely.]
(5) LinkedIn profile doesn’t use all the features.
Yell if I can help,
/signed/
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MONEY: A different funds transfer network?
Saturday, December 11, 2010http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig11/rounds5.1.1.html
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The transfer of money via a hawala banking system is extremely private and is unlikely to be reported or discovered by anyone other than the hawaladar, the transferor and the tranferee. In a world where bank privacy is increasingly hard to find, this is a welcome feature of hawala banking. In the hawala system, hawaladars are the brokers or facilitators of the transaction. This transactional privacy has made hawala banking an evil villain for enemies of personal privacy and financial privacy. False and exaggerated allegations of money laundering and terrorism funding through hawala money transfers and hawala transactions have incorrectly characterized the hawala network while hawala banking is actually the most efficient and ancient of all money-transferring systems.
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Would seem that “the privacy invading aardvarks want to stick their nose in everyone else’s business” would be upset.
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MACBOOKAIR: Online, but not back to where I was
Saturday, December 11, 2010OK, it came back from Apple wiped.
❶ Lost the Snow Lepord OSX, Iworks, and Ilife upgrade. Have to find the distribution disks. (That was last year. Know how much stuff has flowed under the proverbial bridge?)
❷ CARBONITE did its job. All my data is back. (Not software. Ouch!)
❸ DROPBOX put an extra data backup in its folder. (Data back up redundancy. Love it.)
❹ GOFLEX drive did NOT back up the applications directory. (ARGH! Not recommending that any time soon.)
❺ What ever clipboard manager I was happily using B.A. (before Apple mucked it) is lost in the mists of memory. (Note to self: keep your own manifest of what’s on the machine! Argh!)
❻ Dumped Apple’s lame MAIL Client. Deployed THUNDERBIRD3. (PIA to redefine all those accounts. Would have had to do it for APPLEMAIL. So bite the bullet.)
❼ Blogs have been neglected and irregular during this adventure.
❽ Old APPLEMAIL archives are “lost”. Argh!
❾ Oh, and thanks Apple for the “Thanks for purchasing your Mac.” message. Argh!
❿ Old system of accounts on the MACBOOKAIR is wiped. Guess I’ll just forget about “separation” of USER and ADMINISTRATOR roles. Argh!
The adventure continues.
p.s., I dumped APPLE’s software for Open Office.
p.p.s., Started a “manifest” of stuff I put on like NVU.
Argh!
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IPAD: Tables in IPAD’s PAGES
Friday, December 10, 2010Couldn’t figure how to size the cells. Adjust the font”? it’s definitely NOT like a desktop.
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MACBOOKAIR: Back from shop
Friday, December 10, 2010Well, got it back last night. The apple store employee was stunned I was less than pleased at the hard disk being wiped! I expected it, but was hoping against it. The official report says that the hd wouldn’t mount. Worked fine when it went in. Visualize this: it goes in for a sound problem, a failure to sync on one account, and they nuke the hard drive. Lazy!
CARBONITE appears to be working at restoring my data. It appears to take a whole day to restore it all. We’ll see! I know that DROPBOX has my data as well.
It is just a big PIA to restore all the software and configure it!
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MONEY: Should I write the “fat old white guy injineer’s guide to money”?
Friday, December 10, 2010http://www.getrichslowly.org/blog/2010/12/05/reader-story-making-the-move-to-semi-retirement/
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On 31 December 2009, I finished what I hope will be my last full-time, permanent job. I’ve worked a bit here and there over the past year, but it’s on my own terms, and not because I have to. I’m now semi-retired at the age of 45. But what does that mean?
About nine years ago, after reading Your Money or Your Life, I changed from an under-earning, confused woman to a woman with a mission: to never have to work again (unless I wanted to). In November of last year, I reached the Crossover Point, where the income from investments exceeded my expenses. (I think it actually happened sooner than that, but I hadn’t been paying attention.) At last, nine years after first figuring out what I wanted to work hard and save money for, I’d reached Financial Independence.
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Interesting. Wish I could have done it. Sigh.
Guess I should have read that book.
Bout the only thing I can remember doing right was matching car loan to car savings plan.
https://reinkefaceslife.com/2006/05/07/muny-the-majority-of-auto-loans-are-now-five-years-or-longer/
I think I’ve made most of the mistakes. Wonder if I should write the “fat old white guy injineer’s guide to money”?
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TECHNOLOGY: The cloud isn’t as good as a newspaper
Thursday, December 9, 2010http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2010/dec/08/editorial-wikileaks-julian-assange
WikiLeaks: The man who kicked the hornet’s nest
As the disclosures continue, a number of questions about the way the world has changed are becoming more clearly framed
* Editorial
* The Guardian, Wednesday 8 December 2010
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The academic Clay Shirky has blogged persuasively this week that the US government should openly use the law against WikiLeaks and others rather than muscle. “Whatever restrictions we eventually end up enacting, we need to keep Wikileaks alive today, while we work through the process democracies always go through to react to change. If it’s OK for a democracy to just decide to run someone off the internet for doing something they wouldn’t prosecute a newspaper for doing, the idea of an internet that further democratizes the public sphere will have taken a mortal blow.” We agree.
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Several interesting points:
* The inet is not as resilient as expected. It’s supposed to route arond failures, but it’s politcially “controlled”.
* The DNS infrastructure is a single point of failure with respect to that political control.
* With this spur the creation and deployment of a peer to peer bittorrent style dns? Will everyone discard DNS in favor of “phone numbers” like 1.2.3.4? People remember 10 digit phone numbers when they need to.
* Will WIKILEAKS create a new genre of “tabloid journalism”?
* “We, The Sheeple” have gotten a real wake up call into their Gooferment and their politicians. Will it change anything?
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INTERESTING: “contagious yawning”?
Thursday, December 9, 2010http://www.impactlab.net/2010/12/05/babies-are-immune-to-catching-yawns/
December 5th, 2010 at 9:24 am
Babies Are Immune to Catching Yawns
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There is now growing evidence, however, that yawning may be a social cue that communicates a message. Anthropologists have suggested it might have evolved as a way of signifying that it is time to go to bed. There are even suggestions that it might have developed a sign of sexual attraction rather than the desire to sleep. Dr Anderson said: “I don’t think there is one primary function, but as adults we have a natural tendency to inhibit yawning because it is seen as being impolite. The contagious yawning might just that our brains see someone else doing it and so it becomes acceptable.”
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Who ever even heard of “contagious yawning”?
And, attaching it to “sexual attraction”?
Was that what all those girls were “signaling” when they yawned while I was pitching them? If I had only known …
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HARDWARE: Added a POGOPLUG to my garage “datacenter”
Wednesday, December 8, 2010http://download.pogoplug.com/meet/
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The Pogoplug is the perfect accessory to your connected life. Imagine accessing all your files and media at home from any laptop or desktop computer, anywhere in the world, or sharing this content with friends and family without having to upload. There’s even an iPhone application so you can always “phone home” to get your files!
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It installed quickly and easily.
It works as advertised.
(Doesn’t seem to like when the platform hibernates?)
Have to figure out how to sync various machines on the home network. No immediately apparent.
RECOMMENDED!
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RANT: Sports “rules” that I don’t like
Wednesday, December 8, 2010Hey, I have a lot of time on my hands. So here’s some sports rules that I don’t like.
① Offsides in soccer and hockey. Never understood it.
② “Overtime” in football. The College rule is dumb and the Pro rule is that the coin flip determines the outcome. I like either “no ties” (first to the tie score wins; credit to the GSN show “catch21”) or “king me” (second to the tie score wins; forces the leader to play; not stall)
③ Sports with no “mercy rule”. (Even pro games that are 37-0 are boring.)
④ Sports with teams that play the mythical “Home for the Blind” to pad their records.
⑤ Division 1 NCAA Basketball “leagues”. (I like the idea that there are different tiers with the bottom of an upper tier gets demoted and replaced with top of the lower tier.)
⑥ NCAA rules on “eligibility”. “Schools”, (Most are really Gooferment subdivisions), can “graduate” “student-athletes” who can’t read or stars leave without graduating. If I were “king” and heaven help the politicians if I was, “Doctor Guillotine, the King has summoned you.”, I’d have “exit exams”, just like they have “entrance exams”. “Student athletes”, who fail the exit exam or just leave, cost the “school” a scholarship for 8 years. (Think that will get their attention?)
⑦ NCAA needs better treatment of “student athletes” when the coach leaves or is dismissed. Signees, freshmen, and sophomores should be given “immediate clearance” to play elsewhere.
⑧ Sportsmanship in all sports. It’s sports; not warfare. Coach’s antics are unacceptable. Athlete’s might get a warning. I like soccer’s red and yellow cards. Maybe the football players need to play without equipment; like rugby. Maybe we need rules that really penalize “unsportsmanlike conduct”! What message are we sending to society or children? And, perhaps, we should have a mandatory “sit out” anytime there is a hint of a concussion. For example, if the ref has to stop play for any injury, then that player is “administratively unavailable” a quarter (i.e., elapsed time of 15 minutes; the equivalent of a “time out” in the hockey penalty box). Multiple “unavailables” lead to some number of game exclusions as directed by a doctor of unimpeachable credentials dedicated to protecting the player. College and pro.
⑨ Refs and umps need a feedback mechanism. They’re not “gods”; they make mistakes. But, they are also not the “devil incarnate” and deserve respect.
⑩ And, don’t get me started on “instant replay” rules.
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RANT: Ted Turner knows what’s right for us all!
Tuesday, December 7, 2010http://www.catholicculture.org/news/headlines/index.cfm?storyid=8503
Ted Turner and the tilt toward coercive population-control plans
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Media mogul Ted Turner has encouraged world leaders to adopt an international norm restricting families to just one child. He claims this step is necessary to global survival.
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Sure glad we have Ted to tell us what to do. And what exactly were his qualifications to run the world?
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