Rants, Raves, and Rhetoric v4

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  • Your Mind on Some Platters

    June 20, 2007
    from LiveJournal, Gov’t / Law / Politics

    What’s in a Laptop? Court Ponders Legality of Border Searches: “Electronic storage devices function as an extension of our own memory,” Judge Dean Pregerson wrote. “They are capable of storing our thoughts, ranging from the most whimsical to the most profound. Therefore, government intrusions into the mind — specifically those that would cause fear or…

  • Hacking the Test

    June 18, 2007
    University

    In college, I had a professor who gave “Multiple Guess” tests. One of my less than clued classmates asked why he called them such. hahaha I knew, as usually when I took a test I knew less than half the answers outright. He had almost made me conisder studying. Yeah, almost. In The Fallacy of…

  • RIP Yahoo! Photos

    June 17, 2007
    Internet

    Yahoo To Shut Down Yahoo Photos In Favor Of Flickr You have until September to move all your photos. UPDATE 17-JUN-2007: I have imported 511 pictures at Yahoo! Photos to my Flickr account. The migration tool was kind enough to mark all of them as private. However, though untagged. 🙁 I’m working through them, updating…

  • Happy Father’s Day

    June 17, 2007
    Personal / Relationships

    No matter the amount of contributions of nature or nurture, my father contributed significantly to who I am today. How to think and solve my way through problems was something he was always encouraging (or forcing) me to do. He gave me deep books to read. Hearing him tell me how proud he is of…

  • False Positives

    June 16, 2007
    Philosophy, Science, Work

    It’s often argued that the high false positive rate proves the system is poorly run or even useless. This is not necessarily the case. In running a system like this, we necessarily trade off false positives against false negatives. We can lower either kind of error, but doing so will increase the other kind. The…

  • Consolidation

    June 16, 2007
    Internet

    Everything is miscellaneous, right? Well, my categories in this blog were quite numerous and growing all the time with subcategories. They got to the point my desktop client, Deepest Sender, had more than a screen’s height of categories. The side bar required over a whole screen height on my 20″ monitor to display. Unmangeable…. So,…

  • Open letter – VM

    June 15, 2007
    Humor / Weird

    Dear whomever left me a voicemail of your typing, Ummmm… Thanks? Ez

  • Megan hates UF alumni

    June 15, 2007
    Athens GA, Blackboard Vista, Photography

    Megan hates UF alumni, originally uploaded by Ezra F. Which means she loves Uga. 🙂 I finally had an opportunity to take a picture of one of the Uga statues around town. Its such a toursity shot. Megan makes for a willing tourista.

  • I’ve been tagged…

    June 13, 2007
    Uncategorized

    By George to post seven facts about me. I am the product of miscegenation. I read when I eat alone. There are 455 contacts in my instant messenger. Three of my four grandparents died before the age of 55. My height is 191.5 cm. No one else has my name in Google. (First entry not…

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