I had downloaded the Discussion Draft of the National Surveillance Act of 2006 from a link in an article in Wired. The link pointed to one of Wired’s servers. I trust Wired as a news source; however, wished to get my hands on the primary document directly from the government.
Politics
My take, or questions, about the confusing world of politics.
Wired News: NSA Bill Performs a Patriot Act
Wired News: NSA Bill Performs a Patriot Act A bill radically redefining and expanding the government’s ability to eavesdrop and search the houses of U.S. citizens without court approval passed a key Senate committee Wednesday, and may be voted on by the full Senate as early as next week. By a 10-8 vote, the...
Kansas City Star: Hot fuel for you, cold cash for big oil
Kansas City Star | 08/27/2006 | Hot fuel for you, cold cash for big oil: As a liquid, gasoline expands and contracts depending on temperature. At the 60-degree standard, the 231-cubic-inch American gallon puts out a certain amount of energy. But that same amount of gas expands to more than 235 cubic inches at...
Old News – Computerworld.com: Offshore outsourcing cited in Florida data leak
This is old news. The only reason that I am posting it is because it has to do with the contractor who is handling the improperly programmed People First Employment Portal. Offshore outsourcing cited in Florida data leak Employees who worked for the state during the 18-month period between Jan. 1, 2003, and June...
Email to state – PeopleFirst@dms.myflorida.com
I followed the the advice of a user of digg, Sillywampa, on Digg’s entry about my earlier post on Florida’s People First Job Portal and emailled PeopleFirst@dms.myflorida.com about this issue. Here is what I wrote:
Hugg / The American Voting System: HACKED
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...
State of Florida job portal shuts out alternative browsers
Update: I wrote a post about an email I sent to the State of Florida and the response I received. This was suggested by Sillywampa on Digg. Thanks Sillywampa for the email address. The State of Florida’s People First job portal is still running an outdated script that locks out users of alternative browsers...
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...
Treehugger: Lessons to Learn From BP’s Latest Misstep
Treehugger: Lessons to Learn From BP’s Latest Misstep According to the Union of Concerned Scientists, the US will spend an additional $24 million per day on oil imports as a result of the increased prices that were prompted by the BP shutdown. The science-based nonprofit organization also determined that if all the cars and...
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....