Rants, Raves, and Rhetoric v4

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  • Super Secure

    June 1, 2006
    from LiveJournal, Overheard

    Man: Make the password you send them: i-d-1-0-t Woman: Huh? Man: Write it down! Woman: Ohhh…. Both laugh.

  • To Redact or Cover Up With a Black Box?

    May 30, 2006
    News

    If you don’t want someone to have certain data, then don’t send it to them. Cutesy features like placing a colored box on top of text are next to worthless when it comes to protecting sensitive data. Obscuring the ability of the eye to see the data protects it from 90% of people, yes. However,…

  • ds #1496

    May 28, 2006
    News, Personal / Relationships

    I suspect that I probably was quite the brat at age 7 to have gotten as many Empire Strikes Back toys as I did. When did I outgrow buying all the toys for every movie? I still catch all the movies despite apprehension for a few. Yet I stay out of the toy stores. 🙁

  • Lily and Aphids

    May 28, 2006
    Photography

    Lilly, originally uploaded by sneezypb. Of all the pictures of lillies I’ve taken this spring, I think I like this one the best. This red is a good color. Plus the bugs.

  • Crowdsourcing

    May 26, 2006
    Corporations

    I am glad industries outside the computer-related realm are picking up what open source has known for a long time: Value can come from those who have not had to go through a job interview process to attach to a project. The power of the Internet is to facilitate communication. Wired 14.06: The Rise of…

  • Moz Outside Looking In

    May 26, 2006
    Computers, Corporations

    Yeah, this one is a royal pain. Mozilla removes support for older versions of their browser six months after the new one went into production. Open source is nimble. Proprietary companies are inflexible. Sounds like its time to go after nimble applications? Why Mozilla still hasn’t cracked the enterprise | May 24, 2006 07:12 PM…

  • Seven Hours a Day?

    May 26, 2006
    from LiveJournal, Overheard

    Woman 1: You are on work 7 / 24 / 365 Woman 2: Yeah!

  • Risks of Being Employed

    May 23, 2006
    Food, Humor / Weird, News

    Certainly, had my chosen profession to work in a french fry factory, I don’t think of all the safety concerns I might need to be cognizant, locating grenades or shell tips would not be one I anticipated.

  • Espionage vs. First Amendment

    May 22, 2006
    from LiveJournal, Gov’t / Law / Politics, News

    Gonzales Says Prosecutions of Journalists Are Possible – New York Times The government has the legal authority to prosecute journalists for publishing classified information, Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales said yesterday. “There are some statutes on the book which, if you read the language carefully, would seem to indicate that that is a possibility,” Mr.…

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