21 Feb 2010
School Officials Likened to Peeping Toms

Paging Mr. Orwell...

The family that sued to get a suburban Pennsylvania school district to stop secretly viewing students at home via webcams on school-issued laptops is blasting the practice, though it's been halted.

(link) [CBS News]

16:40 /Politics | 0 comments | permanent link

Who's Platform?

Obama? Clinton? Dennis Kucinich?

  • We are proud of and shall continue our far-reaching and sound advances in matters of basic human needs—expansion of social security—broadened coverage in unemployment insurance —improved housing—and better health protection for all our people.
  • In all those things which deal with people, be liberal, be human.
  • We shall continue vigorously to support the United Nations.
  • Further reductions in taxes with particular consideration for low and middle income families.
  • Procedural changes in the antitrust laws to facilitate their enforcement.
  • Revise and improve the Taft-Hartley Act so as to protect more effectively the rights of labor unions, management, the individual worker, and the public.
  • We favor a comprehensive study of the effect upon wildlife of the drainage of our wetlands.
  • We favor self-government, national suffrage and representation in the Congress of the United States for residents of the District of Columbia.

Nope. We've come a long way, eh?

via DailyKOS

13:47 /Politics | 0 comments | permanent link

Old Trick Threatens the Newest Weapons

CNN ran a special tonight on a wargame held recently called cyber.shockwave. A group of hackers (state organized or not) had managed to take down the telecom and power grids in the US ... pretty ridiculous scenerio, really. I think they've completely missed the point of cyberwar. The real dangers of a war in cyberspace was covered by the New York Times last October. Read it below.

Despite a six-year effort to build trusted computer chips for military systems, the Pentagon now manufactures in secure facilities run by American companies only about 2 percent of the more than $3.5 billion of integrated circuits bought annually for use in military gear.

(link) [New York Times]

02:10 /Technology | 0 comments | permanent link