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I guess several of you have wondered why there haven’t been any updates in a long while. After clearing our spam and moderated comments, I finally contacted the company the posts were originating from, and after weeks of intense negotiations, am now prepared to make an announcement.
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Watching vintage Michael Jackson performances on Youtube.
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Get out and vote! NOW! Like I always say, vote early and often!
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Those of you in some parts of Arkansas likely saw something unusual when trying to tune into the Super Bowl…
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We came the closest to a legally-sanctioned dictator as we have ever had, and were about one disaster or “condition” away from martial law. Thanks to Senator Leahy on fixing that one for us:
http://leahy.senate.gov/press/200801/013008b.html
For a partisan primer on our posse comitatus protections, see:
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Exxon Mobil posts record profits….*RECORD* PROFITS. As in THE FIRST TIME EVARRRRR!!! No other company in history has reported profits this large. Gas hit over $3/gal here (now leveled around $2.87), and Exxon made $1,300/second.
LINK
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http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/01/29/1937207&from=rss
or
http://www.crypto.com/blog/wiretap_risks/
I like that Matt Blaze (the author) made it a point to mention that privacy *used* to be part of the corporate motto. If we go back to the scenes of Lilly Tomlin answering the phone at the switchboard (one ringie dingie, two ringie dingies…), it’s easy to see how warrant-less wiretapping could be so fun and entertaining. That is, until Lilly goes to church and spreads rumors about what you and your boyfriend say to each other during a “private” phone conversation.
That’s a very simplistic point of view, and I use it only to draw analogy to what could happen today. Those “private” phone conversations are no longer full of sweet talk between you and your beau, but rather now contain your CC#’s, private emails, company emails (sometimes with privileged info), websites you visit, search results (topics of interest), and how long you use the computer during what days. One can only imagine what’s possible with this amount of information about a person, and if imagination escapes you, consider that the number one form of “hacking” is social trickery. A person could know everything about you by simply exploiting a security hole in the government’s required sniffing connections, meeting you “randomly” on the street, and quickly “befriending” you while taking you for everything you have.
It’s one thing to consider what *you* have out there to offer, but when you consider the people and things that you are directly tied to as well, but then think about the attackers/hackers going after something far bigger than you, using you merely as a conduit to their goals.
Keep in mind that a *HUGE* portion of funding gathered by various terrorist organizations are directly accumulated from dubious banner ads on websites, viruses and trojan horses, reselling your browsing habits collected from spyware (that information is worth a fortune), and most obviously, Identity Theft. Imagine what happens when the US Government inadvertently screws up the implementation of the US Protect America Act, and opens up millions of other doorways into not only your privacy, but every American citizen’s right to privacy.
It’s not a matter of if, but rather a matter of when.
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The next phase in melding man with machine has been heralded! Behold, Luke Skywalker’s neurally controlled artificial limb!
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http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2007/05/20070509-12.html
I report. You decide…so long as you agree to be patronized and subservient to my viewpoint.