An even bigger meth face page.

Meth Impact Photo Gallery3

I made a few sketches of people I know as if they were meth addicts. "Methstreams" Levay is among them.

RE: Faces of Meth: frottage.: Who Taught You How to Do this Tuesday Sketch?

Damn!
Meth makes people BUSTED!

See before ans after photo's here.

Faces of Meth | Meth Photos | Effects of Meth

In a breathtaking discovery, scientists working on a remote Indonesian island say they have uncovered the bones of a human dwarf species marooned for eons while modern man rapidly colonized the rest of the planet.

LiveScience.com - Scientists Find Prehistoric Dwarf Skeleton

INSTRUCTIONS: click on a clown, then stare at it until the horror really creeps up on you. Repeat until mad.

Dan's New Gallery of Scary Clowns

Fully merging microbe and machine for the first time, scientists have created gold-plated bacteria that can sense humidity.

The breakthrough is the first "cellborg" in what might become an array of devices that could sense dangerous gases or other hazardous substances.

The bioelectronic device swells and contracts in response to how much water vapor is in the air. It’s called a cellborg humidity sensor, and it is at least four times more sensitive than those that are solely electronic. It even works even when its biological parts are long dead.

LiveScience.com - Microbe and Machine Merged to Create First 'Cellborg'

Decius wrote:

Does encrypting Internet communications create a reasonable expectation of privacy in their contents, triggering Fourth Amendment protection? At first blush, it seems that the answer must be yes: A reasonable person would surely expect that encrypted communications will remain private. In this paper, Professor Kerr explains why this intuitive answer is entirely wrong: Encrypting communications cannot create a reasonable expectation of privacy. The reason is that the Fourth Amendment regulates access, not understanding: no matter how unlikely it is that the government will successfully decrypt ciphertext, the Fourth Amendment offers no protection if it succeeds. As a result, the government does not need a search warrant to decrypt encrypted communications.

If you put an encrypted file in a password protected stuffit file, would that give the file fourth ammenment protection from the access needed to open the stuffit file and actual protection from the encryption? If you are handed a warrant demanding "access" to some file, you should not be required to surrender your encrypted key as well because "understanding" is not required by law, right? Somehow I think that the analogy doesn't hold water. Because "understanding" requires forging an algorithmic key to break apart an encrypted framework, I think that access is required for understanding. If you wrote a message on a piece of paper and folded it in on itself and sealed it with glue, this would qualify as an envelope. Encryption mathmatically "folds" communication and seals it with a key. There is no closer digitaly secure envelope analogy one can make. If one were to contend that digital communications should be a valid and useful method to communicate, the envelope is needed to assure viability for most important uses. If you can't count on encryption for this, what can you count on?

RE: The Volokh Conspiracy - Can Encryption create an expectation of privacy

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Wow, this is so bad that I couldn’t stop laughing. This has to be the worst, homoerotic fight scene ever filmed. Make sure you watch the end; you don’t want to miss how the villain dies.

I don't even know what to say. Really. Just, wow. -k

Popoholic » Blog Archive » Worst Fight Scene in Movie History!

Google has launched a site that allows you to do searches on keywords for graphs of their usage, as well as the top cities, regions, and languages involved. This is the right way to expose this kind of data. This type of statistical data is useful, but does not infringe in anyone privacy. This will be useful for trend spotting and interest gauging.

Strangely, there seem to be some strange things missing. For instance, take these two Google queries: "aol search database" and "quicksilver mac". For both, MemeStreams has similar result ranking on Google, either second or third term. I can pull up trend data for "quicksilver mac", but not "aol search database", even though queries for the AOL database are about 5 times more prevalent.

This could just be because the AOL related searches are more current.. However, that's the situation where this might be most useful. I would very much like to be able to gauge interest level associated with issues over the first week or two of their inception. That would be _very_ useful, especially considering that links are provided to news stories that include the term.

Google needs to turn the knob up to 11 on this one. Anything that sends a few dozen referrals to sites from unique users should get included in this.

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