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Saturday, November 09, 2002
Admiral Poindexter is working with DARPA to create a computer network that will spy on Americans. This is not a tool that will be effective against terrorists. Terrorists will quickly learn how to avoid it. In fact, I doubt this has any use against terrorists at all. Any smart terrorist will access the internet from multiple, anonymous points, and will use aliases online. That will effectively stop any profiling they might come up with. Anyone who thinks about this for two seconds can see this.
This tool is not designed for use against terrorists. This tool is designed to monitor domestic dissent. Credit card transactions? For when Osama bin Laden orders some surface to air missiles or something? Or for when Devin buys a book from Paladin Press?
.: posted by andy 11/9/2002
Friday, November 08, 2002
Aint science wonderful? This shows what's healthy, and this will surely piss off all feminists. [Originally posted by Uncle George. Blogger hosed the post, so I had to save it and repost it. -at]
.: posted by andy 11/8/2002
Thursday, November 07, 2002
If I were the NEA, this is the kind of art I would support. Forget about religious icons painted with elephant dung or litter as art. I'm all about rock and roll videos on the internet.
.: posted by andy 11/7/2002
So I'm working on the HES and NTR sites for Human Environmental Sciences at UNCG. I'm doing the HTML work, and there's a Japanese grad student doing the design. I like him--he works hard and does good work. BUT, he has Japanese text support installed on his computer (if not a completely Japanese version of OS X), and he's using Dreamweaver. This causes all the pages he makes to specify a Japanese character set in the meta tags, even though all the text on the page is in English. In turn, this prompts every kid from North Carolina visiting our sites to download Japenese text support (2.8 MB). I'm sure this is very unworldly of me, but I think that's a bad thing, especially when it's the first thing a user sees when he visits our site. So, I tried to tell the guy about this, but he's not a code guy, so he doesn't really understand the technicality of what's happening, and since he already has Japanese text support installed on his machine, he doesn't see the little pop up download prompt. It's frustrating, I promise.
Anyhoo, I've already gone through twice and swapped out all the Japanese charset specs with some standard old Western European stuff. Today was the third time. Also, today I learned that there are two different kinds of Japanese text support, so my extended search and replaces were only hitting half of them before. Apparently Dreamweaver feels that one kind of Japanese charset is as good as another, because it seems to flipflop between the two with reckless abandon.
I found out several months ago that Dreamweaver is the standard on campus, and that I'm the only person around who knows HTML. At first I thought I was the one-eyed man in the land of the blind, but now I realize I'm the one-armed blind man in the land of the blind people with no arms.
.: posted by andy 11/7/2002
Woohoo! Who wants to go shoplifting? Did you know you don't even have to go to jail for that? You might get probation, and maybe have to make an anti-drug commercial, but no jailtime!
.: posted by andy 11/7/2002
Wednesday, November 06, 2002
Don't be a hater. You can't keep this whitey down.
.: posted by Jeremy 11/6/2002
Coleman won. Now I'm completely convinced this was a conspiracy.
.: posted by andy 11/6/2002
Jeremy, you should be working, not surfing the web.
.: posted by andy 11/6/2002
.: posted by Jeremy 11/6/2002
Here's a good Ari quote:
"I think it's impossible to make any prediction about whether or not the votes will ultimately be there. The votes will ultimately be there in the end."
.: posted by andy 11/6/2002
Also, Beth and I rented Amelie over the weekend. It was damn good for a movie with no kung fu. On a scale of kung fu, I give Amelie one lotus, a crane, and two sleeping dragons.
.: posted by andy 11/6/2002
So I broke my computer, couldn't fix it, ordered a new computer, figured out how to fix the broken one, fixed it, called Dell to cancel my order, found out they've already shipped it, and am now waiting for this new computer to get here. I'll tell you what, the only thing that will hold me back from keeping this new computer when it gets here will be the fact that I will have to pay cash money for it if I don't send it back.
Things the new computer has that my old one doesn't:
P4 1.8 GHz processor
DVD-ROM
40x10x40x CD-R/RW
Harman Kardon speakers w/ Subwoofer
Things my old computer has that a new Dell doesn't:
Problems
1 GB of RAM
A fan that makes a questionable noise
80 Gigs of hard drive space
All the software and music I like already installed
Plus, now my old computer seems to be running smoothly. It hasn't locked up since I reinstalled the operating system last night, and that's with the cracked version of Norton Anti-virus that usually hoses everything.
.: posted by andy 11/6/2002
Monday, November 04, 2002
The hell with the elections. For something interesting (I hope) take a look at what your innards look like
.: posted by George 11/4/2002
I almost wish this image was large enough to be fitted in our little quirky-image-gallery to the right. The story that goes with it.
In other news, the CIA kills people in Yemen with a drone. Sometimes I truly love big brother.
.: posted by Jeremy 11/4/2002
I really hate local TV news in Houston. Let's do a hard-hitting report on city workers taking smoke breaks. Or, lets do 48 undercover investigations of the houston fire departments "inspections" of strip clubs. I think there's a difference between slacking-off and outright fraud and abuse.
.: posted by Jeremy 11/4/2002
Devin, I think one time you claimed that trinary logic would eventually replace binary logic, or would at least turn out useful and better somehow. Yeah, I am experiencing why you were wrong almost as I type this. God, what a bad idea. Or maybe my problem is that I'm using a mixed binary/analog system to interface to a mixed binary/trinary/analog device. The ONLY benifit the trinary input gives is that it allows the device to eliminate ONE input pin. Not worth it, in my opinion.
.: posted by Jeremy 11/4/2002
Sunday, November 03, 2002
I think this may have been posted before, but I'm not sure. Most of these girls' release dates are between 03 and 06, so I'm assuming most of them are in for drug posession. Anyway, seems like I can't hardly miss.
.: posted by Jeremy 11/3/2002
So everybody's gonna vote, right? I don't think I will. It's not that I don't think it matters. It's just that my laziness kinda outweighs my sense of civic duty, or something. I guess this means that if the people I wouldn't have voted for win, and we end up going to war with venezuela, I can't really complain when they kill my mom and my dog. I guess that's just a risk I'm going to have to accept when I sleep late instead of voting tuesday.
.: posted by Jeremy 11/3/2002
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