Enough is Enough
Welcome to Pottersville: Enough is Enough: Yeah, I’m talking to you, the one shaking half-naked by the phone that you can barely see through the 8-ball hemorrhages in both eyes, fearfully debating whether to call that rape crisis hot line or battered womens’ shelter or whatever balm that could be provided courtesy of your damned […]
Read Moree-passports cloned…
e-passports cloned…: This was on Wired yesterday (posted on Slashdot). I think it highlights the importance of thinking deeply about how these proposed identity systems work. The other security flaw is the ‘integrity’ of the databases that the passport system is built on. A German computer security consultant has shown that he can clone the […]
Read MoreGovernors bristle at Bush Guard proposal – Yahoo! News
Governors bristle at Bush Guard proposal – Yahoo! News: The nation’s governors are closing ranks in opposition to a proposal in Congress that would let the president take control of the National Guard in emergencies without consent of governors. ——— the guard are part of the first amendment… citizens bearing arms, or… citizen-soldiers. if we […]
Read Morebar hopping… not really
tonight i went scouting for a cellar replacement. I may have found one, we’ll see, but they have no food, so bleh. First i walked down broadway scouting things for a bit. then, i decided let’s try closest to home in astoria and hit the NUA club/bar at the base of my street. It was […]
Read MoreFrom the conference room
My office won’t be ready until around the 1st ;0 and my dsl is off at home, so I’m currently using my phone for email and my office for the web…… such is life. My neighborhood is really nice in astoria ny, best buy and home depot are within walking distance, but broadway has everything […]
Read MoreMoved
so the move went well, I’ll have the pictures of the new place when i get things sorted. It is pretty nice and my landlord was extremely helpful in getting things done yesterday. It took about an hour to unpack the truck with some help from the Pratt metal shop. We unpacked on the hottest […]
Read Moreprivacy wiki
Information Privacy: Information Privacy FrontPage
Read MoreFuturelab – Research – Publications – opening education
Futurelab – Research – Publications – opening education: This series of publications aims to open up areas for debate – to provoke and stimulate new visions for education – as well as literally ‘opening up’ education, not only bringing together ideas from educational practice and research but also drawing on the fields of creative arts, […]
Read Moreindia rejects one laptop per childIndia rejects One Laptop Per Child | The Register
India rejects One Laptop Per Child | The Register : issed the laptop as “pedagogically suspect”. Education Secretary Sudeep Banerjee said: “We cannot visualise a situation for decades when we can go beyone the pilot stage. We need classrooms and teachers more urgently than fancy tools.” Banerjee said if money were available it would be […]
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