Credit and bank card numbers of as many as 240,000 subscribers of The Boston Globe and Worcester Telegram & Gazette were inadvertently distributed with bundles of T&G newspapers on Sunday, officials of the newspapers said yesterday.

HAHAHAHA

Subscriber credit data distributed by mistake - The Boston Globe

Oh, now, this is cool. There’s been a thread over at arstechnica asking for a full-screen terminal app for Mac OS X, and the guys at that forum unearthed the uber-geeky terminal app “GLTerminal”. GLTerminal emulates a 1970’s terminal monitor, complete with flaws in brightness, warped display curvature, and flicker. It even simulates baud rate lag. And! for extra verisimilitude, the character colors can be green or amber.

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finethen wrote:
Except when he said "human animal hybrids." What a smartie.

I thought about mentioning this in my original post. That was one of the comments that he made that bothered me. I definately hope his reference to human animal hybrids was a win for the Dems, because otherwise its going to be a situation where we're going to loose a lot of valuable scientific knowledge.

The first insulin for diabetics came from pigs. Injecting pig insulin into humans is exactly the kind of thing they are talking about banning, because they have some idea in their head about hollywood monsters. There are definately ethical lines here, but if they draw the line wrong, and they almost certainly will as very little of what is going on right now is a cause for concern, they are really trading our long term medical science in exchange for some religious platitude thats basically rooted in victorian ideas about sex. Not good.

RE: President Bush Delivers State of the Union Address

My opinion of Sheehan dropped considerably after she appeared with Chavez. "I'm pissed off because my son died in your war" is an understandable position that a lot of people identify with. "I'm hanging out with a foreign government because they've taken an anti-american stance and I think thats cool" is not understandable. She now really is the left wing nut that the right wing nuts accused her of being all along.

Nevertheless, I don't think she should have been arrestted for wearing a t-shirt. If they didn't want her there they should have just un-invited her.

Cindy Sheehan arrested for... wearing a shirt!

Smith said Microsoft will remove blogs only when given proper legal notice. And even then, it will block access to that material only within the country where it is deemed unlawful. The site will still be viewable from outside the country, he said.

Cheers to Microsoft for having a backbone.

Update: Microsoft revamps blogging policy - Computerworld

A group representing global newspaper publishers has launched a lobbying campaign to challenge search engines like Google that aggregate news content.

The move comes as the newspaper industry's traditional business model is under pressure with advertising spending shifting away from print and toward the Internet.

If you can't remix the news, the Internet won't help people engage in dialog about the news, and control what is considered relevent.

The most important lawsuit of the century approaches...

By 2030, spending for Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid alone will be almost 60
percent of the entire federal budget. And that will present future Congresses with impossible choices -- staggering tax increases, immense deficits, or deep cuts in every category of spending. Congress did not act last year on my proposal to save Social Security -- (applause) -- yet the rising cost of entitlements is a problem that is not
going away. (Applause.) And every year we fail to act, the situation gets worse.

There were a few swipes in here that jarred me but much I agree with too... I didn't see this on TV. This passage is interesting. Were they applauding the fact that Congress did not act? Is lower case applause democrat applause? How loud was the applause after the obligatory paragraph on the NSA surveillance? Was it as captial 'A' Applause as this passage was capital 'A' Applause...

They should augment these transcripts with direction and sound level data from a sensor.

I agree, BTW, that the entitlement problem needs to be addressed. I am unimpressed with the Democrat's position that there is no problem, or that no one can predict whats going to happen in 40 years. We absolutely can, and there certainly is. We've known about this for 20 years. Its time to start talking about what to do about it. That dialog cannot happen until the left offers an actual proposal instead of simply offering that the emperor is fully clothed and there is no need to discuss it. If the Republican's are the only ones at the table with a solution, I'll take it. Its better then nothing.

President Bush Delivers State of the Union Address

The lawsuit also alleges that AT&T has given the government unfettered access to its over 300 terabyte "Daytona" database of caller information -- one of the largest databases in the world. Moreover, by opening its network and databases to wholesale surveillance by the NSA, EFF alleges that AT&T has violated the privacy of its customers and the people they call and email, as well as broken longstanding communications privacy laws.

EFF: Class-Action Lawsuit Against AT&T

Tor allows clients and servers to offer hidden services. That is, you can offer a web server, SSH server, etc., without revealing your IP to its users. In fact, because you don't use any public address, you can run a hidden service from behind your firewall.

Neat! The Tor people have implemented an eternity service, and there is a Wiki in it with a site directory! I finally have a reason to bother with Tor, if for no other reason then to have a look at this anonymous community.

Tor Hidden Service Configuration Instructions

Their "open" DRM platform requires licencees to sign an agreement with Microsoft, and pay a licence fee that serves to keep the number of licencees small. A fellow attendee's verbatim note was: "We don't want this technology to be available to every hobbyist...."

Microsoft just declared war.

Blogzilla: DRM-a-go-go