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Los Angeles Times: A High School Where the Sensorship Is Pervasive |
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2:39 am EDT, Sep 11, 2002 |
Cameras track pupils at West Hills High. Campus' cameras see pupils' every move. Most shrug it off, but privacy advocates don't. ... West Hills High sits on the cutting edge of the emerging surveillance society. ... Demand for [surveillance] products will grow, as people are tracked ... even [at] places such as the Third Street Promenade shopping district in Santa Monica. ACLU: "Once privacy is gone, you can't get it back." ... "It's been so incremental, we almost didn't notice [the surveillance]." There is so much ignorance in this article its hard to know where to start. Its almost artful. A crescendo of fear and power. A spinning cycle of action and reaction that can only end in cataclysm. When I was in high school people who felt hopeless committed suicide and artists predicted shootings. Now people who feel hopeless commit shootings. What do the artists predict? Los Angeles Times: A High School Where the Sensorship Is Pervasive |
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12:31 am EDT, Sep 11, 2002 |
"EFF Music Share-In Festival 2002
Saturday, September 14th, Noon-5pm
Music Concourse Bandshell in Golden Gate Park (near the Japanese Tea Gardens between MLK Drive and JFK Drive) " If you are in SF, I highly recommend this. Went last year. Sat in the sun in Golden Gate park listening to hippie music. Got a tie-die and traded MP3s with friends over 802.11... This is what San Francisco was supposed to be. EFF Share-In |
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AP Wire | 09/09/2002 | Warner Bros. offers films online |
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12:32 pm EDT, Sep 10, 2002 |
"Films such as "Harry Potter" can be downloaded for a fee of $3.99 for 24-hour viewing. Older films from the Warner Bros. home video library can be downloaded for $2.99 for the same period." These guys don't get that if I'm going to spend 2 or more hours downloading a low quality encoded movie that I can only watch for 24 hours I'm not going to pay full rental price. If it were seriously difficult for me to get to a rental store this service might be attractive at this price. Of course, if its seriously difficult for me to get to a rental store, its probably totally impossible for me to get broadband. You can't offer a lower quality product at the same price and then claim people aren't adopting it because they either aren't interested in the general idea or they are involved in priacy, but I suspect thats exactly what will happen here. If these folks had a wide array of independent films they might do alright, as such films are difficult to obtain unless you live in a major metropolitain area or you are willing to buy them on DVD. AP Wire | 09/09/2002 | Warner Bros. offers films online |
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Bug fix in Manage Circles |
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3:13 am EDT, Sep 9, 2002 |
A fairly annoying bug in Manage Circles prevented you from seeing your circles if you only had one. Its been there for quite some time, but no one brought it to my attention until tonight. Its fixed. Sorry if there has been any confusion. Bug fix in Manage Circles |
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MS admits it doesn't 'do' security! |
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1:42 pm EDT, Sep 6, 2002 |
"Our products just aren't engineered for security," admitted Valentine, who since 1998 has headed Microsoft's Windows division." Ouch... there is going to be some back-pedalling here. MS admits it doesn't 'do' security! |
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1:39 pm EDT, Sep 6, 2002 |
"God doesn't think we're as important as we do." An interesting daily quote site. Watch history roll over people one line at a time. D I T H E R A T I |
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Yahoo! News - L.A. Times Fingers Rival in Tupac Shakur's Murder |
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1:23 pm EDT, Sep 6, 2002 |
Six years after rapper Tupac Shakur was killed in an unsolved drive-by shooting in Las Vegas, the Los Angeles Times on Friday identified his arch-rival, Notorious B.I.G., as a key player in the crime. Notorious B.I.G., whose real name was Christopher Wallace, was himself gunned down in Los Angeles the following year. The Times reported in its online edition that it was Wallace who provided the weapon used to murder Shakur as well as $1 million bounty. As Paul Harvey would say...'and now you know the rrrrrrrest of the story'. Yahoo! News - L.A. Times Fingers Rival in Tupac Shakur's Murder |
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