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The legislation behind a national ID

The legislation behind a national IDWrongThis is very wrong and very dangerous.Those who understand history and Human nature know that potential tyranny from our own government may well be more dangerous than terrorists.It will be required for access to many federal offices and banks will likely follow suit and require...

Tags: Operational accounting, Homeland security, Ollie North, Big Brother, Social Security

Discussion threads 2008-02-04

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The (Government 2.0) revolution should be televised

The (Government 2.0) revolution should be televisedBe careful!!Terms like "Government 2.0" should not be tossed around lightly! There are those who believe we need just that...another American Revolution and a complete restart!RE: The (Government 2.0) revolution should be televisedAndrea - When I hear Patriot 2.0, I get an image...

Tags: Government 2.0, transparency

Discussion threads 2008-11-25

Tech idiocy in the White House

Not only has the White House lost 5 million emails - or not, they aren't sure - vital White House emails have for years been run through an insecure 12-man ISP in Chattanooga Tennessee. Why? Because our laws around Presidential records preservation are at odds with other laws against partisan...

Tags: Internet, White House, IT Team, E-mail, Online Communications, Robin Harris

Blog posts 2008-02-05

Open source searching it all

One of my favorite stories from the Iran-Contra scandal 20 years ago was how Oliver North thought he was deleting documents by hitting "delete." He wasn't, of course. He was just getting rid of pointers.Flash forward 20 years, and open source can now find needles in much larger haystacks....

Tags: Kazeon

Blog posts 2006-06-13

Firefox accelerating development cycle

Firefox accelerating development cycleSVGVersion 1.5 also supports SVG natively. This is very neat-see here http://www.croczilla.com/svg/samples/ for samples The Tetris example is very good.This leaves IE as the only browser which can not natively process SVG. No inline SVG in IE means it is now quite possible to make...

Tags: Web browsers, absence, Mozilla Firefox, KDE, Microsoft Internet Explorer, SVG, Mozilla Corp., Clear Private Data

Discussion threads 2005-11-20