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Schneier: Will data reuse foster creation of a police state?

Schneier: Will data reuse foster creation of a police state?Paranoiatell me, do those RADAR-based "photo-cop" cameras give you the whillies too? Cause they are constantly scanning you too when you drive thru an intersection.The police state is already here.It's been here since 2001. It's been a slowly developing...

Tags: police-state

Discussion threads 2007-06-29

Political bloggers may get federal protection

Political bloggers may get federal protectionYou won't get a seat at the REAL table!You know, the one where the actual decisions concerning your lives take place!But you can whine to your heart's content on your sorry blog! YUS!!!"I can't believe the US government is torturing innocent people! I can't believe...

Tags: Network technology, Political Bloggers, Preston Gates, police-state

Discussion threads 2006-03-09

FBI/FCC collaborating to create software 'police state?'

FBI/FCC collaborating to create software 'police state?'You Wanna See Something Really Offensive"French Government Lobbied to Ban Free Software"http://www.fsffrance.org/news/article2005-11-25.en.htmlThis Bill would require black box routines built into all software that produces or copies any type of file. It controls and tracks who creates what and who opens it. The...

Tags: Digital rights management (DRM), Tools & Techniques, Digital media, Federal government, Media players, Consumer electronics, FBI/CIA/NSA, French Law, FBI, FCC, digital-rights management, open source, police-state, software, French Government Lobbied, DVD

Discussion threads 2005-12-02

Police blotter: Patriot Act wins a round

Police blotter: Patriot Act wins a roundThe erosion of our freedoms has begun.Can you say "police state"?Was it a congressman the FBI were investigating?"In response, the organization filed a lawsuit claiming it had the right to describe its experience to Congress in general terms--without disclosing details of the NSL. A...

Tags: USA PATRIOT Act, police-state, NSL, Constitution

Discussion threads 2005-10-14

House reauthorises Patriot Act

House reauthorises Patriot ActThis sucks.. well i guess thats what happens...when you let the christian conservitives win the house. We should change your countries name to England.Homeland security......The Fartherland?Tell me what is Patriotic about turning a free nation of rugged individuals into a Police State? I see nothing...

Tags: Nazi, Nazi leader, police-state, Thomas Jefferson, USA PATRIOT Act

Discussion threads 2005-07-21

Feds back Internet wiretapping rules

Feds back Internet wiretapping rulesThe police-state is here!Welcome to the Union of Socialist States of America. USSAWell that's a surprise!Funny how the feds don't seem to wanna back finding bin Laden. You remember bin Laden, folks, don't you? You know, the guy responsible for all this "terrorism" in the first...

Tags: Federal government, Social Security, Operational accounting, government, police-state, Internet

Discussion threads 2004-08-04

Additional Resources

Girls are as smart as boys, but tests are getting dumber

New research published in the journal Science confirms what all of us teachers have known for a long time: girls are just as smart as boys. I hope none of our tax dollars went into that one. A quick quote from the article before I get into the...

Tags: Test, Teacher, Hyde, Taxes, Free Trade, Financial Planning, Finance, Christopher Dawson

Blog posts 2008-07-25

Geek Sheet: A Tweaker's Guide to Solid State Drives (SSDs) and Linux

Is 20th century conventional Winchester multi-platter, multi-head random-access disk technology too quaint for you? Want to run your PC or server on storage devices that consume far less energy than the traditional alternatives? Want a portable or mobile storage unit that will never fail due to G-forces or "crashing?". Looking...

Tags: Linux, Disk, File System, Solid State Disk, Mandrake, Jason Perlow

Blog posts 2008-07-25

Crucial (Micron) Solid State Drives

Crucial Micron Solid State Drive installation and configuration by Jason Perlow

Tags: Micron Technology Inc., Solid State Disk, Jason Perlow, flash memory, micron, crucial, ssd, solid state drive

Image galleries 2008-07-25

Mystery solved: Apple's new product is iTablet (updated)

Previously I speculated about the mysterious "product transition" that Apple's Peter Oppenheimer CFO mentioned no less than seven times in the Q3 2008 Earnings conference call with analysts. Some of his quotes from the call: We are working to develop new products that contains technologies...

Tags: Apple Inc., Tablets, Notebooks, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Jason D. O\'Grady

Blog posts 2008-07-25

How OpenDNS, PowerDNS and MaraDNS remained unaffected by the DNS cache poisoning vulnerability

The short answer is being paranoid about tackling a known vulnerability. It's 2001, and Daniel J. Bernstein DJB, author of the then popular djbdns security-aware DNS implementation, is applying basic math principles to raise awareness on what's to turn into the "sky is falling" critical Internet vulnerability in 2008, in...

Tags: DNS, Vulnerability, Anomaly, Attack, OpenDNS, MaraDNS, NSS, Domain Names, Networking, Internet, Dancho Danchev

Blog posts 2008-07-25

Offshore outsourcers likely to beef up security following Bangalore blasts

A series of bombs have exploded in Bangalore and companies that have technology operations in India are likely to need increased security precautions following what appears to be a terrorist attack. According to various reports from Reuters and Rediff.com, nine bomb blasts have rattled Bangalore, which hosts...

Tags: India, Bangalore, Rediff.com India Ltd., Sacchin Uppal, Outsourcing, Business Security, Security, It Operations, Business Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-07-25

Escapee 'Spam King' dead in apparent murder-suicide

Escapee 'Spam King' dead in apparent murder-suicideGood riddance to bad rubbish.Too bad he took others with him.Escapee 'Spam King' dead in apparent murder-suicideThis is very sad. There was no reason for him to take other people's lives.Much sadder then you think. Much SadderAs an avid computer enthusiast, owning...

Tags: INTERNET, apparent murder-suicide, Escapee, murder-suicide, Spam King

Discussion threads 2008-07-24

Speculation over possible Skype backdoor

There's growing speculation coming out of Europe that there's a backdoor in Skype that allows remote eavesdropping of telephone conversations. A report in the reputable Heise Online says the issue was discussed at a meeting with ISPs last month where high-ranking officials at the Austrian interior...

Tags: Skype Technologies S.A., Telecom & Utilities, Internet Service Providers (ISPs), Internet, Ryan Naraine

Blog posts 2008-07-24

Another student hacks another police website

Another student hacks another police websiteRE: Another student hacks another police websitethey should probably code their site correctly with decent form validatation and revalidation, so that SQL injection attacks like this don't work. It's not that hard!

Tags: Web site development, Web technology, police website, Web site

Discussion threads 2008-07-24

Is open source hurt by piracy?

Is open source hurt by piracy?Only hurts Open Source if proprietary is seen as "better"Sounds like what you are saying is for example, that the competition in the office suite space is Open Office Vs MS Office Vs pirated MS Office. Those willing to pirate see both Open Office...

Tags: Operating systems, open source, piracy, OpenOffice, Microsoft Office, Microsoft Corp., Linux, software

Discussion threads 2008-07-24

NASA used cadavers to test Orion moonship

NASA officials recognized last week that dead bodies were used to develop Orion landing systems. According to NASA, 'three human bodies were used in the tests at Ohio State University Medical Center' in 2007. Even if the results of the experiments helped NASA, one of its spokesman said that the...

Tags: NASA, Productivity, Roland Piquepaille

Blog posts 2008-07-24

Apple's coming notebook transition

Apple is readying a major product transition. We know because they told us so. In the quarterly financial crime call chief financial Officer Peter Oppenheimer referred several times to a "...future product transition which I can't discuss today". That was interesting for two reasons. First, the...

Tags: Notebook, Apple Macintosh, Apple Inc., Blu-ray, Product Transition, Portable Growth, Desktops, Hardware, Robin Harris

Blog posts 2008-07-24

Childs rigged crazyquilt private network

Childs rigged crazyquilt private networkBut who is monitoring the monitor?Gartner's statement not worth quoting. They are the most worthless thing to hit IT.Was Childs the only IT person on staff that knew anything about computers? That's what it sounds like. But this isn't that hard to believe. Most IT...

Tags: NETWORKING, Most IT department, private network, network, information technology

Discussion threads 2008-07-24

Childs rigged crazyquilt private network

The prosecution unveiled more details on the lunacy in San Francisco in court filings that urged the judge to keep rogue network administrator Terry Childs' bail at $5 million. The Chronicle reports that prosecutors say that Childs had over 1,000 modems secreted around the city, forming his own private network...

Tags: Network, Prosecutor, Networking, Productivity, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2008-07-24