A large chunk of the rest.
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silveradeptI said there was more. Today for me was tour day. This is good, as it's a paid tour. Thursday will be training day, also paid. Just have a few other things to do and then next week I get to start working at my internship. This will be most interesting.
The rest is a very long list of link-type things. Any further ramblings not related to them will appear in a separate post, most likely.
Starving American soldiers ask Iraqis (and their families back home) for food. There's a saying about this: "An army travels on its stomach." If you can't feed them, then how do you expect them to fight? (Of course, with all things, grains of salt may be applicable here. But I'm not sure how much of this is true and how much isn't.)
What can a boarding pass tell an identity thief about you? Too much. Shows how much of our information is available unsecured to those who mine castoffs and play confidence tricks. And it's not just limited to things like these. Think new technologies like RFID are the wave of the future? Not really, RFID is still very hackable and changeable. We'll have to go through a few more iterations, I think, before it starts resembling things that even play at being secure.
From an earlier sequence: Remember that earlier article about Mexico decriminalizing drug laws? Well, it's not going to get signed. Rats.
Dolphins have names. More evidence of language sophistication in the aquatic species. Now we just need a dolphin-Gaian translator.
What happens when nerds behave like transforming robots. There's a connection here, somewhere. I just don't get it right now.
The Vatican's astronomer talks smack about Young Earth Creationism, calling it a "kind of paganism". Of course, not many pagans believe in biblical accounts of the world's creation, so that's not quite an accurate statement. Still, it's been a while since we heard from the Catholic Church distancing themselves from sects, if I recall rightly.
Massachusetts wants MySpace to raise its age to eighteen. In the name of protecting children from predators, of course. Regardless of the unenforceability of such a requirement, unless sensitive data is used for verification, this is another example of what can happen because parents are not paying attention, and not wanting to pay attention, to their children. It's not going to be feasible to completely stop predators, but a little parenting and some sense will help them catch warning signs. Not to mention that I don't necessarily see the appeal of MySpace, not having fiddled about with it, so maybe there's something I'm missing. This is useless, looks-good-but-does-nothing legislation.
Wal-mart wants to trademark the smiley-face. A symbol such as that, being trademarked and then aggressively defended by a corporate giant? Smacks of a hypocrisy, to me, but then again, I'm just a blogger - Sam's got money enough to make it happen.
A list of Harry Potter titles we'd rather not read. There's a good chance, though, that at least one of them will be made before the books are finished and all the publicity and hubbub dies down from them.
For our friends with petrol-based vehicles, Things to improve fuel efficiency. Most, however, involve driving defensively and maintaining the speed limit and no faster. Tough to do in places that believe the speed limit a suggestion rather than a law.
And lastly, something that seems to make an appropriate amount of sense for such a posting as this: Don't believe everything you read. If people can put hoaxes over on the mainstream media, they can just as easily do it to bloggers and naive people like me. So always keep your towel and salt shaker on hand.
The rest is a very long list of link-type things. Any further ramblings not related to them will appear in a separate post, most likely.
Starving American soldiers ask Iraqis (and their families back home) for food. There's a saying about this: "An army travels on its stomach." If you can't feed them, then how do you expect them to fight? (Of course, with all things, grains of salt may be applicable here. But I'm not sure how much of this is true and how much isn't.)
What can a boarding pass tell an identity thief about you? Too much. Shows how much of our information is available unsecured to those who mine castoffs and play confidence tricks. And it's not just limited to things like these. Think new technologies like RFID are the wave of the future? Not really, RFID is still very hackable and changeable. We'll have to go through a few more iterations, I think, before it starts resembling things that even play at being secure.
From an earlier sequence: Remember that earlier article about Mexico decriminalizing drug laws? Well, it's not going to get signed. Rats.
Dolphins have names. More evidence of language sophistication in the aquatic species. Now we just need a dolphin-Gaian translator.
What happens when nerds behave like transforming robots. There's a connection here, somewhere. I just don't get it right now.
The Vatican's astronomer talks smack about Young Earth Creationism, calling it a "kind of paganism". Of course, not many pagans believe in biblical accounts of the world's creation, so that's not quite an accurate statement. Still, it's been a while since we heard from the Catholic Church distancing themselves from sects, if I recall rightly.
Massachusetts wants MySpace to raise its age to eighteen. In the name of protecting children from predators, of course. Regardless of the unenforceability of such a requirement, unless sensitive data is used for verification, this is another example of what can happen because parents are not paying attention, and not wanting to pay attention, to their children. It's not going to be feasible to completely stop predators, but a little parenting and some sense will help them catch warning signs. Not to mention that I don't necessarily see the appeal of MySpace, not having fiddled about with it, so maybe there's something I'm missing. This is useless, looks-good-but-does-nothing legislation.
Wal-mart wants to trademark the smiley-face. A symbol such as that, being trademarked and then aggressively defended by a corporate giant? Smacks of a hypocrisy, to me, but then again, I'm just a blogger - Sam's got money enough to make it happen.
A list of Harry Potter titles we'd rather not read. There's a good chance, though, that at least one of them will be made before the books are finished and all the publicity and hubbub dies down from them.
For our friends with petrol-based vehicles, Things to improve fuel efficiency. Most, however, involve driving defensively and maintaining the speed limit and no faster. Tough to do in places that believe the speed limit a suggestion rather than a law.
And lastly, something that seems to make an appropriate amount of sense for such a posting as this: Don't believe everything you read. If people can put hoaxes over on the mainstream media, they can just as easily do it to bloggers and naive people like me. So always keep your towel and salt shaker on hand.
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Date: 2006-05-10 06:03 am (UTC)As for Dolphins having names, does recording the name then playing it to other dolphins count as identity theft?
Have the best
-=TK
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Date: 2006-05-10 06:07 am (UTC)Don't know about the name-stealing thing, but I suspect that whichever name they took, the dolphins got really tired of hearing it over and over again.
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Date: 2006-05-10 06:37 am (UTC)Dolphin: Hyooman scientists ruined my life! They stole my name with their fancy recorders, then played it a million times to my friends in half-moon bay. By time I came around to say hello, they had no interest in me. Now I am ostracized and forced to live alone, because they don't want to hear me any more. When it comes time to say, "so long, and thanks for all the fish," you can just bet that THIS is one dolphin who won't be warning them ahead of time!
Have the best
-=TK
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Date: 2006-05-10 10:03 am (UTC)AHAHAHAHA *ded*
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Date: 2006-05-10 10:32 am (UTC)But as a discordian you are prohibited from believe anything you read ;)
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Date: 2006-05-10 11:50 am (UTC)Does that include that sentance right there? Because that would get really confussing really quick.
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Date: 2006-05-10 11:56 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-05-10 11:56 am (UTC)As for the driving tps...speed limit? what's that? Although, I will admit to lately driving closer to the speed limit on teh highways, but that has more to do with the blasted ticket I got...and there is NO WAY I'm driving 8 hours at 65 MPH next week....unless I want to turn it into another 14 hour drive. Yeah, no thanks.
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Date: 2006-05-10 02:55 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-05-10 04:26 pm (UTC)On the giant robot: this (http://www.sluggy.com/daily.php?date=060419) comes to mind.
The Harry Potter titles: many hilarious. *great amusement*
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Date: 2006-05-10 08:55 pm (UTC)