[ April 1 is usually 100% lame, but this is a pretty good parody... the ads in particular. -k]

Boring Boring: A Directory of Dull Things

] The Department of Homeland Security's privacy board chose
] as its chairman Paul Rosenzweig, a conservative lawyer
] best known in technology circles for his defense of the
] Pentagon's Total Information Awareness project.

The new "privacy" board at DHS continues to sign up people with dubious credentials as privacy advocates. Lisa Sotto has an analysis of RFID in healthcare that seems to think implanting verichips in people is A-OK as long as you make them sign a "consent form" (without which you won't treat them). She seems to have missed the fact that I can use that 16bit identifier to track your movements regardless of whether or not I have access to the data.

It seems the new profession of "privacy adviser" is a little like tax accountant. Minimize the clients liability while enabling him to do as much as possible. Find loopholes. DHS seems to be hiring some of the best.

Their privacy board isn't about how they can respect privacy. Its about how they can violate it as much as possible without getting in trouble.

[ Awesome! -k]

Homeland Security panel picks controversial chief | CNET News.com

A provincial court later commuted the sentence to 15 years in prison.

[ God that's lame. It goes without saying that I'd be raging pissed. -k]

Jailed 'Killer' Freed After Wife Turns Up Alive

IconoclasT wrote:
] k wrote:
] ] [ Heh... doubtful... girls are way more complicated than
] ] computers. -k]
]
] ...and don't obey the regular rules of logic... ;)

[ Good point. Maybe it's not that they're complicated as much as that they're chaotic. They start with what looks like a simple formula but pretty soon it's effectively random. I think mine is a couple of sine waves for food, gadgets, girls and skiing. -k]

RE: IF I CAN BUILD A COMPUTER

] While consumers have learned to delete cookies, most are
] unaware of shared objects, and don't know how to disable
] them.
]
] Mookie Tanembaum, founder and chief executive of United
] Virtualities, says the company is trying to help
] consumers by preventing them from deleting cookies that
] help website operators deliver better services.
]
] "The user is not proficient enough in technology to know
] if the cookie is good or bad, or how it works," Tanembaum
] said.

[ Lame. -k]

Company Bypasses Cookie-Deleting Consumers

] The Federal Communications Commission announced Friday
] that states cannot require regional phone companies to
] sell high-speed Internet service as a stand-alone
] product.

DAMMIT! DAMMIT! DAMMIT! DAMMIT! DAMMIT! DAMMIT! DAMMIT! DAMMIT! DAMMIT! DAMMIT! DAMMIT! DAMMIT! DAMMIT! DAMMIT! DAMMIT! DAMMIT!

How is it that the Republicans have gone from 'fiscal conservatism' to 'corporate philantrophy'? This is the largest corporate welfare present with a bow on top since Haliburton got to 'repair' Iraq.

[ It's especially funny how if a person needs help because their environment has changed, and they're in financial trouble, they're freeloaders and we need to cut programs designed to help them and alter the bankruptcy laws in negative ways. But if a corporation is in trouble for the same reason, because something happened to cut into their bottom line, it's all good to bail them out and hobble the new industry. A large number of republicans can't even honestly claim to be in favor of free markets anymore. They're just not. -k]

FCC: Phone companies don't have to sell DSL as a stand-alone product - 03/27/05

] LONDON (Reuters) - Oil prices could touch $105 a barrel
] in the next few years, the influential investment bank
] Goldman Sachs said Thursday.
] "Based on our analysis of gasoline spending and the economy
] noted above, we estimate that U.S. gasoline prices may need to
] exceed $4 per gallon," they said.

[ Maybe this is the kick in the ass america needs. Or, maybe we'll find some wilderness to drill. -k]

Goldman says oil could spike to $105 a barrel - Mar. 31, 2005

[ Heh... doubtful... girls are way more complicated than computers. -k]

IF I CAN BUILD A COMPUTER

] PINELLAS PARK, Florida (CNN) -- Terri Schiavo, the
] 41-year-old brain-damaged woman who became the
] centerpiece of a national debate over life and death,
] died Thursday morning, nearly two weeks after doctors
] removed the feeding tube that had sustained her for more
] than a decade.

Hopefully she's finally at peace.

CNN.com - Terri Schiavo has died - Mar 31, 2005

abaddon wrote:
] I think I have made it clear beyond a shadow of a doubt that
] CherryOS.exe, shipped as the core of cherryos is
] nothing but a recompiled version of PearPC...it has at most
] minor changes, most to strip attribution, hide the theft, or
] remove debugging output...

I think abaddon just won the award for most 'leet post to MemeStreams evar.

[ For real. I read that and in my head i heard "DOMINO, MOTHERFUCKER!" Nice work. -k]

RE: Advanced binary analysis of CherryOS: proof of theft