http://www.networkworld.com/community/blog/nope-mesh-networks-wont-stop-nsa
September 16, 2013
August 26, 2013
Does Bitcoin Promote Illicit Ecommerce? – Network World
http://www.networkworld.com/news/2013/082113-does-bitcoin-promote-illicit-273058.html
Bitcoin is interesting. I know a few folks that have done a little bit with it. As usual, Schumer and Manchin are idiots.
Tech and legal site shuts down, citing government email surveillance
I wasn’t a big user of Groklaw, but they were definitely a good organization for the information technology field to have available. This is disheartening, though I understand where Ms. Jones is coming from.
August 16, 2013
NSA broke privacy rules thousands of times per year, audit finds
“You can look at it as a percentage of our total activity that occurs each day,” he said. “You look at a number in absolute terms that looks big, and when you look at it in relative terms, it looks a little different.”
That statement is supposed to make us feel BETTER about their activities? This is another organization ripe for some crippling budget, staff, and jurisdiction cuts. I think the NSA has a few talented individuals that provide some benefit in a limited sector of defense, but scope creep has derailed them from being anything but a domestic surveillance blanket.
Put simply, there just aren’t enough talented people to review the volume of data they are working with… or even to properly capture the data given the vast array of sources they are capturing from. The NSA has both a quantity problem and a quality problem: They have too much data for their top notch engineers to review, and too few top notch engineers reviewing data that they shouldn’t possess to begin with.
July 4, 2013
Declaration of Independence
Start a tradition. Read the Declaration of Independence this year, and on each anniversary. Read it with your kids, your families, your friends. And think about what it means for a small group to have taken a stand for freedom, liberty, and the inalienable rights of all men. Encourage your friends and neighbors to do the same, and perhaps eventually cowardice and treachery will have no place remaining in which to hide, for fallacy and equivocation wither under the bright light of the truth. Ask from whence these truths come, remember those who have stood and sacrificed that they may persist, and reflect upon their paramount importance. For without these few simple truths, you have nothing and no claim to anything. Happy Independence Day.
June 26, 2013
Let’s find out what’s working, where. | Code for America Commons
http://commons.codeforamerica.org/
I was looking for something like this recently. Need to explore it a little further.
September 17, 2012
Governor Gary Johnson: “I need to be in the national presidential debates in order to win the Presidency” « NewAgora
I had been looking for some information on who Johnson would replace the idiot Ben Bernanke with in 2014 and coming up pretty empty. Someone pointed me to this, in which he discusses having people apply and picking the most eligible, including Paul if he was interested. Seems like a reasoned approach to me.
Johnson is the only reasonable candidate who will appear on the ballot in most states this year. Both Obama and Romney will continue a pattern of the same behavior. I believe another 4 years of Obama will be sufficient to completely run the country into the ground. While I think Romney will move us in the same direction on the whole, I think it will be a much slower pace… maintaining the depression instead of provoking the revolt.