Over at BoingBoing, Cory Doctrow points out a BBC article detailing how a professional photographer was stopped by police from taking a photo of St Paul’s Cathedral in London, a building that’s probably being photographed by several cameras at any given time, 24 hours a day. What I really like about his post is the […]
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Something that has really gotten on my nerves lately has been the absolute insanity when it comes to cleanliness. It’s like everyone became OCD just because they could. By that, I mean the following: 1) As the tools of society constantly evolve, they reduce the need for a person to think for themselves and increase […]
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Living in a 1910 Victorian style 2 story home has its charm, but it also means a lot of updating if you don’t want to watch your house burn down due to faulty wiring or freeze to death in the winter. The old knob and tube electrical wiring has been removed and replaced with modern […]
Tags: green
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It’s too late to write anything so I’ll just link-dump. Disturbing. Britain’s cops have the largest DNA database in the world, and it’s full of innocent people who were arrested but not charged, or charged but not convicted (the EU’s Court of Human Rights have ordered this practice to stop, but the cops refuse to […]
Tags: biometrics, law, privacy
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I’ve been using a KeySpan USB server for years with my various workstations, but I figured it would be a good way to connect USB devices to virtual Win2k3 R2 servers running on VMware ESX hosts, since connecting directly to a USB port on the host is not an option. After an hour of fighting […]
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I was recently contacted by a student from Clemson University asking permission to use my x-ray image in a project they were doing. Unfortunately a lot of “chip haters” out there tend to jump all over using my image without permission in their crazy website graphics and doomsday videos. The funny part is, I typically […]
Tags: health, implant, privacy, rfid, security
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My precious BrandMyBMW stickers have taken a beating at a local car wash!
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The UK Telegraph is reporting on researchers from the University of Michigan that have created a vortex based power generator that can operate in water moving between 1 and 3 miles per hour, which is the average speed of the majority of moving water on the planet. The new device, which has been inspired by […]
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I don’t know if it’s Rick (the author) or the graphic designer who’s the one that can’t tell their right from their left, but it is an interesting article all the same. Some record exec refused to calm an unruly crowd of tweens via twitter and was arrested. Kind of Seinfeld–esc if you ask me. […]
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This year’s Mind Camp is being held at Synapse… the place seems like a really cool place to work. There was a bunch of junk sitting in a corner, which everyone saw when they came in. During introductions, it was stated that all that junk was “free for the taking”. I was immediately intrigued by […]
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