Found this from:Hugg / The American Voting System: HACKED Watch this video, and I think that you too will be convinced that we need to have a paper trail in our elections. Not even just a paper trail that is printed out at the end of the day at each polling station. We need...
Philosophy
NewsForge: Stallman, Torvalds, Moglen share views on DRM and GPLv3
The GPLv3 license is in the works. One of the provisions is to restrict software from using DRM. This, argues Linus Torvalds, is not the job of a license. He is against these new provisions. The article below goes on to defend the license. I have been deeply against DRM for some time. Linus...
TheStar.com: Wikipedia handles Colbert
The wisdom of the crowd is definitely a powerful force. TheStar.com – Wikipedia handles Colbert: …Colbert stated, if enough people alter the page on Wikipedia, it’s fact. It should have been the biggest threat to the institution of Wikipedia to date. It was a condemnation of the site’s credibility. And it didn’t come from...
Free Software Magazine: Your data or your life
The state of healthcare in our nation has been in bad shape for quite a while. I will elaborate more on that in a future post. Free Software Magazine brought a new issue to my attention. The debate between proprietary vs non-proprietary software has been raging on for as long as I can remember....
Teenage control and deterrent products for shops and homes
How horrible is this? Teenage control and deterrent products for shops and homes Compound Security Systems Mosquito The Mosquito ultrasonic teenage deterrent is the solution to the eternal problem of unwanted gatherings of youths and teenagers in shopping malls and around shops. The presence of these teenagers discourages genuine shoppers and customers’ from coming...
New Net Sport: Scambaiting
Wired News: Baiters Teach Scammers a Lesson It seems that a new sport has developed on the internet. The idea is to turn the table on so-called 419 / advance fee scammers. The idea is to get them to waste their time and go through hoops thinking that they will receive a large payout....
10 Reasons You Should Never Get a Job – Steve Pavlina
Right now I am between jobs. My previous employer was acting a bit strangely. They confiscated some of my personal property, a notepad I brought to work, while I was in another office and did not tell me. I only noticed this after I went to look up some information in the notepad only...
Good things come to those who wait?
This is a draft from July 10, 2006. The commentary below added now shows a whole different story. I have just recently changed jobs. Previously, I worked in Hospital Information Systems at a very well-respected hospital. I am currently working at a small publicly-traded company. The position that I am in at the moment...
Friend or Acquaintance
There are many different levels of friendship. You can have a best friend, some very good friends, some ‘normal’ friends. Then there are the people that some keep around as acquaintances. These are people from work that you only talk to at work. You would not normally try to make plans with an acquaintance,...
The answer to the Great Question of Life, The Universe, and Everything
Today I have spewed forth an incredibly large volume of crap on this blog. I have spent the day wondering about the Great Question of Life, The Universe, and Everything. Thinking, just as the computer did in the book The Hitchiker’s Guide to the Galaxy. I have been introspective and have enjoyed my own...