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Thu, 29 May 2008 Why Do We Accept Signatures by Fax? Ya know, I've always wondered about this, and now Mr. Schneier sets the record straight. Aren't fax signatures the weirdest thing? It's trivial to cut and paste -- with real scissors and glue -- anyone's signature onto a document so that it'll look real when faxed. There is so little security in fax signatures that it's mind-boggling that anyone accepts them. (link) [Wired]Thu, 29 May 2008 06:16 /Technology | 0 writebacks | permanent link Wed, 28 May 2008Clinton Remark on Robert Kennedy’s Killing Stirs Uproar Anybody else ever hear of Vince Foster? Hillary Rodham Clinton expressed regret about a remark on the length of nomination fights that brought up concern for Barack Obama’s safety. (link) [New York Times]Wed, 28 May 2008 06:51 /Politics | 0 writebacks | permanent link Former Ga. Rep. Barr picked as Libertarian candidate Well, that about wraps it up for the LP, now known as the "RL" (Republican Lite) party. AP - The Libertarian Party on Sunday picked former Republican Rep. Bob Barr to be its presidential candidate after six rounds of balloting. (link) [Yahoo! News: Top Stories]Wed, 28 May 2008 06:50 /Politics | 1 writeback | permanent link New al Qaeda video to urge WMDs against West: FBI Lovely ... Reuters - Groups that monitor Islamic Web sites say al Qaeda will post a new video in the next 24 hours urging jihadists to use biological, chemical and nuclear weapons to attack the West, the FBI said on Tuesday. (link) [Yahoo! News: Top Stories]Wed, 28 May 2008 06:46 /Politics | 0 writebacks | permanent link Married couple ignores washing and haircutting for 16 years The West has no monopoly on strange ... They never wash their clothes. They wear the same apparel for a year until it becomes damp. Neither do they wash up. 10 years ago, after the market construction, their water pipe dried up. But they decided not to ask anyone to get it fixed. Instead they started to gather rainwater and use it for cooking and drinking. They say they get enough water, because they are very thrifty: they eat and drink once a day, sometimes even less frequently – once a couple of days, and with absolutely no salt. Wed, 28 May 2008 06:24 /Humor | 0 writebacks | permanent link Mon, 26 May 2008A reading from the second book of Codh Read this only if you find obscure, Biblically stylized writing about software development tools funny ... Embarcadero takes on the Sons of Kahnanrado (link) [The Register]Mon, 26 May 2008 07:29 /Technology | 0 writebacks | permanent link Sun, 25 May 2008Dick Martin, Who Rode ‘Laugh-In’ to Fame, Dies at 86 RIP. Goodnight, Dick. With his partner, Dan Rowan, Mr. Martin turned a midseason replacement slot at NBC in 1968 into a hit that redefined what could be done on television. (link) [New York Times]Sun, 25 May 2008 08:39 /Home | 0 writebacks | permanent link Sat, 24 May 2008Warning on new anti-knife powers Gosh, guns are completely banned and knife crime increases. Who'd have thunk it? So the solution is to make knives blunted and more heavily controlled - and I have a prediction. Crimes with rocks will increase dramatically. Laws to suppress knife crime could increase hostility among the young, the Children's Commissioner says. (link) [BBC News | News Front Page | World Edition]Sat, 24 May 2008 06:40 /Politics | 0 writebacks | permanent link Fri, 23 May 2008Windows XP bests OS X in RIA test on Intel Read carefully: this isn't about XP vs OSX, it's about IE7 vs. Safari. Then take a look at the client list of the "independent" user experience guru and you'll understand what is meant by the marketing term "astroturf". A benchmark test for rich internet application (RIA) frameworks claims Apple's OS X lags Microsoft's Windows XP on Intel when rendering HTML, being just over half as fast. (link) [The Register]Fri, 23 May 2008 18:55 /Technology | 0 writebacks | permanent link Web creates America's new drug crisis Let me see if I understand this. A guy gets a severe back injury, and his doctor won't give him anything for the pain, probably due to fear of the DEA. He then goes and orders the painkillers himself from an online pharmacy. He accidentally overdoses. And dies. And it's the online pharmacy's fault. Right. What a great excuse to expand the monopoly of brick and mortar pharmacy's, local doctors and drug companies. All the while fighting the good fight in the "War on Drugs". It makes me sick. Nancy Fitzpatrick tried to kill herself. A man died in a pool of vomit. Both had bottles of prescription drugs shipped to them without seeing a doctor. Fitzpatrick blames online pharmacies for being the new drug pushers. "They need to be stopped," she told CNN. (link) [CNN.com]Fri, 23 May 2008 06:24 /Politics | 0 writebacks | permanent link Thu, 22 May 2008Coding Flaws Caused Moody's Debt Rating Errors Makes you wonder about other rating programs, doesn't it? The Financial Times has the story that billions in incorrect AAA ratings given out by Moody's were the result of a coding error in its computer models. "Internal Moody's documents seen by the FT show that some senior staff within the credit agency knew early in 2007 that products rated the previous year had received top-notch triple A ratings and that, after a computer coding error was corrected, their ratings should have been up to four notches lower." (link) [Slashdot]Thu, 22 May 2008 06:21 /Technology | 0 writebacks | permanent link AP: Foot-and-mouth plan used flawed study Maybe somebody in the government is growing a brain, after all. I'm just surprised that Indiana isn't in the running for a final spot - it'd be just the sort of stupidity I'd expect from "My Man Mitch" in an election year. AP - The Bush administration relied on a flawed study to conclude that research on a highly infectious animal disease could safely be moved from an isolated island laboratory to sites on the mainland near livestock, congressional investigators concluded in findings obtained by The Associated Press. (link) [Yahoo! News: Top Stories] Thu, 22 May 2008 06:10 /Agriculture | 0 writebacks | permanent link Wed, 21 May 2008Fat People Cause Global Warming, Higher Food Prices This is so patently ridiculous that it has to go into humor - although I daresay the authors wouldn't appreciate it's placement. Two scientists write that obese people are disproportionately responsible for high food prices and greenhouse gas emissions because they consume 18% more food energy due to their greater body mass -- and require increased quantities of fuel to transport themselves and the food they eat. 'Promotion of a normal distribution of BMI would reduce the global demand for, and thus the price of, food,' write the authors, Phil Edwards and Ian Roberts of the evocatively named London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine. (link) [Slashdot]Wed, 21 May 2008 20:01 /Humor | 0 writebacks | permanent link Brace yourself for barbecue shock Our chickens are indeed coming home to roost ... Food inflation is the highest in almost two decades, driven by record prices for oil, gas and mounting global demand for staples such as wheat and corn, and for proteins such as chicken. And that's reaching into Americans' backyards. (link) [CNN.com]Wed, 21 May 2008 19:57 /Politics | 0 writebacks | permanent link Jury: Ex-cop lied about 92-year-old's shooting Ever see Training Day? Still think it was fiction? A jury on Tuesday convicted an Atlanta police officer of lying to cover up the shooting death of an elderly woman during a botched drug raid. (link) [CNN.com]Wed, 21 May 2008 06:09 /Politics | 0 writebacks | permanent link |
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