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Borrowed from 
Thursday, June 24, 2010
Wednesday, June 23, 2010
Deus Ex Malcontent: Picture of the Week - Says it all....
Picture of the Week
From the ocean floor, directly off the Alabama coast. That brown crust you see coating everything -- including the crab in the foreground? That's oil.
Social Networking Bill Of Rights
Social Networking Bill Of Rights Released
Privacy advocates seek comments on a 14-point plan for protecting users' personal information online.
By Alison Diana InformationWeek
June 23, 2010 11:51 AM
Computers, Freedom, and Privacy (CFP) conference spent last week creating a Users' Bill of Rights that is now available for public consumption, feedback, and approval.
1. Honesty: Honor your privacy policy and terms of service.
2. Clarity: Make sure that policies, terms of service, and settings are easy to find and understand.
3. Freedom of speech: Do not delete or modify my data without a clear policy and justification.
4. Empowerment: Support assistive technologies and universal accessibility.
5. Self-protection: Support privacy-enhancing technologies.
6. Data minimization: Minimize the information I am required to provide and share with others.
7. Control: Let me control my data, and don't facilitate sharing it unless I agree first.
8. Predictability: Obtain my prior consent before significantly changing who can see my data.
9. Data portability: Make it easy for me to obtain a copy of my data.
10. Protection: Treat my data as securely as your own confidential data unless I choose to share it, and notify me if it is compromised.
11. Right to know: Show me how you are using my data and allow me to see who and what has access to it.
12. Right to self-define: Let me create more than one identity and use pseudonyms. Do not link them without my permission.
13. Right to appeal: Allow me to appeal punitive actions.
14. Right to withdraw: Allow me to delete my account, and remove my data.
In simplicity great depth....
| If My Voice Is Not Reaching You | ||
| by Afzal Ahmed Syed | ||
| If my voice is not reaching you add to it the echo— echo of ancient epics And to that— a princess And to the princess—your beauty And to your beauty— a lover's heart And in the lover's heart a dagger | ||
Poets.org | ||
Monday, June 21, 2010
David Byrne...Building up the house...
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Saturday, June 19, 2010
Site Filtering By DNS
David Douthitt over at Unix Administratosphere offers a well thought out and rational criticism of "Site Filtering By DNS" ... for a geek. However, the small town librarian Ms Marple is being pressured (back in the stacks) by Rev. Harrumph to protect those sweat innocent library patrons from such filth and degradation. On a shoe string budget. With no technical support. While trying to fend of Rev's advances.
Well-meaners and do-gooders, in keeping with the current aire of righteousness, simply have to protect little Jimmy and Susan from the scourge of the Internet. By the force of LAW no public entity will knowingly allow our innocents to be at risk of ... exposure. Well, at least not at the library.
The same Meaners and Gooders would repeal the Law of Gravity believing that in doing so they might prevent lil' Jim and his squeeze Suez from falling off their bicycles.
Full reference link: Why Site Filtering By DNS Fails
Friday, June 18, 2010
Wednesday, June 16, 2010
Sunday, June 13, 2010
Time and Culture
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Saturday, June 12, 2010
Fuggettabout the music, send us the musician...
Sitka Summer Music Festival cellist Armen Ksajikian plays for the resident bears at the Fortress of the Bears bear sanctuary in Sitka, Alaska. Ksajikian was inspired by the acoustics at the converted pulp mill clarifier tank and played a selection of music, including a composition by Hector Berlioz for the bears With Ksajikian is Les Kinnear director of the sanctuary. JAMES POULSON | AP (via Day in Pictures - Sacramento Bee) Friday, June 11, 2010
Tuesday, June 08, 2010
Monday, June 07, 2010
fringe community helmet craze
AbstractAmong a fringe community of paranoids, aluminum helmets serve as the protective measure of choice against invasive radio signals. We investigate the efficacy of three aluminum helmet designs on a sample group of four individuals. Using a $250,000 network analyser, we find that although on average all helmets attenuate invasive radio frequencies in either directions (either emanating from an outside source, or emanating from the cranium of the subject), certain frequencies are in fact greatly amplified. These amplified frequencies coincide with radio bands reserved for government use according to the Federal Communication Commission (FCC). Statistical evidence suggests the use of helmets may in fact enhance the government's invasive abilities. We speculate that the government may in fact have started the helmet craze for this reason.
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