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Just a quick note, but in Britain lollipop ladies may soon be outfitted with cameras to monitor traffic at dangerous intersections. It’s the children, of course, who are motivating this new deployment of cameras - cameras will presumably cut down on dangerous drivers. Whether attaching cameras to little old ladies will be effective, it has […]

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I’ve written about Deep Packet Inspection (DPI) technologies before, and their various potential privacy issues. Generally, I’ve talked about how the possibility of having your ISP persistently monitor your online actions could stifle the substantive abilities exercising of autonomy, liberty, and freedom of conscious. I won’t revisit those issues here, though I’d recommend checking out […]

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A little while ago, the New York Times ran a piece where they discussed the ‘Sticky-factor’ of Facebook. Effectively the article boiled down to the fact that it’s a nightmare to exit the Facebook ecosystem - actually removing your data from their ecosystem borders on being a Sisyphysian task. The most poignant part of the […]

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The Parsons: together in celebration
One of the memorable things about my Grandfather was his workshop. There were tools absolutely everywhere (perfectly organized - he just had a lot of them!). As someone who’s never really enjoyed using power tools, his workshop was a pure expression of […]

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For the past two days I’ve been troubleshooting a problem with iWeb, and thought that I’d post my problem (and troubleshooting steps and solution) here so that other people who experience a similar problem can diagnose and remedy the problem.
Problem:
I had used iWeb to toss together a quick placeholder site for my girlfriend’s new domain […]

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Honda has released a new GPS system for their vehicles where it will warn drivers when they’re about to leave their car in areas where there is a high chance of theft, vandalizm, or other criminal activity. I have two, relatively short, things to note about this:
A Comical Note
I can just imagine programming this thing […]

This guide is intended to let me (and you) quickly set up an Apple computer as a media centre. I’m currently using a PC running Windows Vista Home Premium as the media centre - it’s native media centre functionality works quite well but, given my hope to move to a more Mac-centric environment, I want […]

Jim Harper, Esq.
Director of Information Policy Studies, Cato Institute
Editor, Privacilla.org
Washington, DC
In a recent presentation to the Summer 2007 Privacy Symposium, Jim Harper lays out a series of concerns about a national identification system. I’m just going to run through them quickly - watch the video that I link to at the end of the post […]

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Ars technica has a pretty good rebuttal to the recent piece in the London Times that offered the (seeming) common line of crap that you hear when old industries talk about peer to peer networks. You know what the line is in its general format: “Without the guarantee of making money through our tried, tired […]