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• International Summit For Community Wireless Networks 2012.
  A little over two weeks ago Sitwon, Haxwithaxe and I made the trek to Barcelona, Spain for the International Summit For Community Wireless Networks , partially because we
• Life on the conference trail, future shock, and rule of law.
  For man years I'd always looked somewhat askance at Terrence McKenna 's talks about the year 2012, his hypothesis of time having a fractal nature , and Everything Changing
• DC cracks down on silent dancing.
  If you've never heard of a flashmob before, it's when word gets out somehow for everyone who finds out about it to gather at a particular place and time, count down from f
• Could getting a US passport get much more difficult in the near future?
  Note: All links anonymized due to the possibility that Someone might subpoena web server logs. Earlier today during my morning news crawl (Twitter has pretty much supplant
• Trauma overload.
  I think it's pretty safe to say that a lot of us are glad that the year 2010 of the common era is over, done with, and a candidate for erasure from the Time Vortex if it s
• The TSA is listening to the people, all right...
  I was originally going to fold this into my follow-up post on the TSA's "get imaged by a pornoscanner or get felt up by a screener" policy but I think this deserves to be
• More on the TSA's power trip.
  Note: I started working on this article the day after the first one went up. Since that time, I've been keeping an eye on things while on vacation in Pennsylvania and coll
• The people said "No more!" and the TSA said "Shut your pie holes!"
  First, I'd like to give special thanks to I/Oerror who's been keeping a hawk's eye on this. I found a couple of the articles for this post on his Twitter feed during my da
• It's August.
  Not only is Christmas four months away, but the Christmas decorations store is open before the Halloween store. Taken at Tyson's Corner Mall... 9 August 2010.
• TSA archives full-body scans at airports.
  A couple of years back the Transportation Security Agency started deploying full body scanners at some airports around the country which use millimeter wave radar to scan
• Platform independence.
  The only thing that Java coders spend more time on than the user interface is the code in the installer that detects which variant of the JRE you're running and errors out
• Wow, I feel ever so much safer.
  Unless you're dealing with the federal government, it has long been a given that the police can't enter and search the place you live without a properly filed and signed s
• Yeah, it's a little like that.
  The DC metroplex is the only place I've seen to date in which the following sequence of events can occur within sixty seconds: A woman with a handicapped parking tag in th
• ASCAP raising money to fight the new culture.
  One of the cornerstones of the Internet is making information available to whomever wants it for low or no cost. Case in point, the TCP/IP stack within the operating syste
• Heart disease isn't the number one killer in the United States. It's WTF.
  You know, one of these days Lyssa is going to walk into my office and find me stone dead, keeled over my laptop clutching my chest, possibly with blood streaming from my n
• Is this shaping up to be the summer of WTF?
  Last last month and early this month, a disturbing amount of WTF appears to have been cropping up around the country. While that shouldn't really surprise anyone as it see
• Lost in DC: Navigation Fail that deserves its own Wikipedia page.
  Not long after moving to DC I gave up on the concept of going to gathers organized by users of meetup.com for a variety of reasons. Most of them involved never being able
• Just keep telling yourself: apply Hanlon's Razor first.
  The saga of Dr. Peter Watts continues. He's crossed the US border a couple of times for hearings since his arrest in December of 2009, ostensibly for attacking a US border
• Biodegradable surgical implants and surreptitious DNA archival.
  After badly breaking a load-bearing part of your body it's not uncommon for an orthopedic surgeon to install a couple of after-market bits of hardware to hold the bones to
• More from the Lower Merion School District.
  A couple of days ago word hit the newswires that a high school in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania had been using the laptops issued to its students to spy on them . Word's gott
• Writing about music now considered identical to pirating it.
  It seems like everything is being steadily reduced to one of three categories these days: terrorism, child pornography, or piracy. Mention of any of them will stop intelli
• TSA at PHL raising eyebrows; travelers consider taking Amtrak.
  I've only been to Philadelphia a couple of times, all of them by driving to and from there. After reading about some of the stuff going on there not only do I not particul
• Company's bank accounts cleaned out; bank sues company.
  Late last year, the bank account of an outfit in Texas called Hillary Machinery, Inc. was siphoned to the tune of $800kus after their online banking credentials were compr
• What other kind would you find at Giant?
  You'd have to go to Whole Paycheque for one that did.
• I guess Uri Geller didn't like the service.
  Found in the bathroom of a restaurant in northern Virginia in an unlikely location.
• TSA agent thinks planting contraband in luggage is a joke.
  As long as I can remember, rumors of people being framed for smuggling have gone around. The urban legends go something like this: an unlikely sort gets stopped at the air
• ...excuse me?
  I don't know what this says about our world, but it's not good, this I know for cetain: CREATIVE PEOPLE MUST BE STOPPED Seen on the beltway as a bumper sticker this aftern
• Wait a minute, something's not right here.
  Anybody know what's going on? Is this only where I happen to be sourcing from right now or are other people seeing this? drwho@windbringer ~ $ whois google.com | less Whoi
• Now we can watch television while we're shopping?
  On my way home after work this afternoon I stopped at the Safeway a couple of blocks from the apartment complex Lyssa and I live at to pick up a few last minute items for
• Feeling silly tonight.
  Here's a picture of a stuffed squid posting on the Eclipse Phase forums:
• Dr. Peter Watts was arrested and beaten at the US/Canadian border last Tuesday.
  Note: additions are being made after the cut and edits are stricken . If you're not familiar with the work of Dr. Peter Watts , you really should be. His degrees in marine
• Only at Whole Paycheque.
  
• Have insurance companies sunk to new lows?
  As you may or may not be aware, insurance companies have some pretty manichean arbitrary criteria to decide whether or not a particular procedure, treatment, or medication
• It's not even Samhain yet!
  Note the timestamp on this photograph. What the hell, people? How about we enjoy Samhain and Thanksgiving first?!
• Consumer media is losing its gods-damned mind.
  Every morning I pop open Google News in one of my browser tabs and mainline the top 100 stories to get a sense for what’s happening in the world and what general sort of d
• Hammerpants invasion!
  Thanks, Pegritz.
• Non-ordinary states of consciousness and the NIA.
  One of the reasons the NIA fascinated me so is due to the fact that it operates as a sort of poor-lifeform's EEG coupled with an EMG picking up the electrical activity of
• Shipping requires a modicum of common sense.
  Dear Newegg : You really need to have a talk with whomever is in charge of shipping. Using a packing envelope sixteen times the size of what I ordered is a little excessiv
• TARDIS FAIL
  A couple of weeks back I took my car in for 55,000 mile maintenance, during which it was discovered that the water pump was starting to leak , which necessitated a couple
• Busy at work, but for this rant I'll make an exception.
  As you may or may not know, I'm a fan of The Dresden Dolls as well as Amanda Palmer's side project . That said, I'll cut to the chase and say what kicked my puppy. Their r
• I can think of better ways to start the weekend.
  I wish I could say that the weekend got off to a good start, but I really can't. I don't know of any better way to explain what happened, so I may as well just jump into i
• UPDATED: Busy life, busy times, and Greene County redux.
  Work and life's kept me too busy to post much lately, so I'm trying to play catch-up in between driving all over creation for work and finishing preparations for the weddi
• Greene County screwed us.
  Lyssa's mom brought the marriage license down with her for Lyssa's bridal shower, which was held yesterday afternoon while Hasufin and I were running around wreaking havoc
• Surreptitiously taken at the Greene County courthouse, Pennsylvania.
  And now, a series of photographs taken at the Greene County courthouse in Pennsylvania while Lyssa and I were fighting to get a self-uniting marriage license . Please read
• Where did they get this?
  I'm at HacDC at the moment, and I'm trying to figure out where the hell they got this . For the record, the inscription reads "Hot-Shot Electric Shock Prod model B12".
• As if there wasn't enough to worry about these days.
  Some days, I cringe when I page through my list of newsfeeds at the things going on in the world right now. For starters, the US Transportation Safety Agency, a government
• Catching up before I go.
  Work's had me running around a bit more than usual lately, which has put a serious crimp in my time to write, let alone keep up with current events. I don't know how much
• Triumph of the anti-vaccination movement: Measles outbreak.
  In the past decade or so, a worrisome movement has cropped up that seems hell-bent on using bad science to try to protect their children: People who refuse to have their c
• William Gibson has hurt me badly.
  As the topic line suggests , this causes me great mental anguish this morning. Warning: Do not read while drinking anything. You will probably spray your beverage through
• A touching amount of concern for a presidential candidate.
  I haven't been writing about the beginning of the presidential campaign season because I've been busy with other things, but I thought that this should be spread around a
• Codes, ciphers, and Naruto grounds for suspension?
  Near the city of Panama City, Florida, 14-year old high school student Dakota Gates has been incarcerated in juvenile detention for 21 days following his arrest because ad
• Is the TSA playing Calvinball with travellers?
  I feel ever so much safer now that the TSA is requiring travelers at some airports to dump each and every electronic device they're carrying into those damned grey bins fo
• Do engineers make good terrorists?
  According to two sociologists at Oxford University, Diego Gambetta and Steffen Hertog, the mindset of a professional terrorist and the mindset of a professional engineer a
• Helllllooooooooo.... Philadelphia!
  Well, I'm the field again, back in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania to fight the good fight. Or get myself so worked up that I'll blow through an incarnation, I'm not sure which
• Serious vulnerability found in elliptic curve PRNG - cryptographers freak out.
  A major component of cryptographic systems are pseudorandom number generators used to pull values out of thin air for the purposes of generating session keys and the bignu
• Were they looking for terrorists or a Grateful Dead concert?
  The Federal Bureau of Investigation is so hot to uncover dastardly plots of domestic terrorism in this country that, for at time at least, they were mining such fields of
• EDIT: FIXED - I took to the skies once again, and found myself in a strange, wonderous land.
  A land in which traffic in the heart of the city is sparse at high noon, there are restaurants on nearly every corner (woe to my waistline and coronary arteries), and the
• If anyone else did this, they'd have been fired faster than you can blink.
  One Jerry Miller, head of the payroll team for the Administrative Knowledge System project of the Ohio Department of Administrative Services screwed up in a pretty major w
• I leave them alone for one hour...
  You know you're overclocking too much when...
• The Pixies almost had it right.
  Yesterday wasn't so much a wave of mutilation as it was a stormfront of WTF sweeping across the land. While I can't really put my finger on any one trigger event that caus
• Wait a minute...
  Does this strike anyone else as being oxymoronic?
• Okay, enough with the silliness.
  Or not. The Chinese government has decreed that - get this - they have officially banned Buddhist monks in Tibet from reincarnating without government permission . I can't
• I'm staying away from the beach.
  People actually fell for this?
• Regarding the "Virginia Remedial Fees" bill that snuck through a few weeks ago.
  Late last month, a bill snuck through the Virginia general assembly that adds considerable fees onto even trivial traffic violation tickets. If you are convicted of a driv
• Weirdness on the roads of DC last night.
  After work last night, the roads of DC were harrowing, to say the least. Lyssa remarked that there would be a goodly amount of asshattery afoot, but I had no idea of just
• Zombies. Why did it have to be zombies?
  It's getting worse out there - the building that Lyssa works in has been sealed by the US military to keep the invading forces out. They've got a small stockpile of suppli
• ..what the hell?
  I should know better than to examine my web stats before going to bed ... somehow, I was ranked ninth on the first page of results. (note: This Google search is probably n
• Adventures in automobile insurance.
  Yesterday afternoon my automobile insurance bill from Progressive came in, after wondering when it was going to arrive and whether or not it was going to get there before
• Cryptome taken offline without reason.
  Cryptome is one of the longest-running websites on the Net for information related to personal privacy, whistleblowing and other sorts of information that make the people
• The more things change, the more they stay the same.
  Cody Webb, age fifteen, was arrested last month for making a bomb threat to his school's information line. He spent twelve days in juvenile detention for the act. There's
• Sanitation, anyone?
  If you are in a bathroom and there are fluids of some kind exiting your body, you should not simultaneously be eating or drinking.
• Turbotax web application security vulnerability.
  A customer of the Turbo Tax web application discovered by accident that it is possible to look at tax information belonging to other customers who happen to share your las
• Just because you can doesn't mean that you should.
  Embedding a programming language's interpreter in firmware all but assures that someone out there will find ways to abuse it. Abuse it to the point of rendering the hardwa
• The RIAA sues people about as accurately as Stormtroopers can shoot.
  The RIAA, in its effort to sue everyone and everything it can on the face of the planet because it thinks they've been pirating music has filed suit against a retiree who
• The state of Illinois takes offense at a vehicle modified to run on vegetable oil.
  David and Eileen Wetzel converted a 1986 Volkswagon Golf to run on vegetable oil as fuel a couple of years ago, and have been driving around with it for a while now. The I
• No, I don't know what's up with the weblog.
  Parts of the CSS file aren't being read in, which is why the frontpage looks broken. The individual entries' pages seem intact, and everything looks operational from their
• WGA phones home, even when you don't install it.
  WGA - Windows Genuine Advantage. A software agent that runs on installs of Windows to make sure that you're not using a pirated copy. Unless you let it install itself, you
• I've heard of alternative medicine, but this is ridiculous.
  Last night at LAX, a man of Iraqi descent was taken aside to be searched in depth because he kept setting off the metal detectors. He kept setting off the hand-held metal
• Webloggers be warned: Wordpress v2.1.1 is compromised!
  A recent emergency bulletin from Matt of the Wordpress weblogging software project is highly distressing to say the least: someone cracked one of the project's servers and
• Sometimes I hate being right.
  It seems that Dell Computers is putting the brakes on their new lines of Linux-equipped computers . They've changed their minds, and instead of selling machines with SUSE
• The RIAA is at it again - they want you responsible for your network link, regardless of who uses it.
  Not too long ago, a woman named Debbie Foster was sued by Capitol Records (RIAA) for copyright infringement because someone was using her network access account to exchang
• Could the predicted Bird Flu epidemic bring about the impending Death of the Net?
  It seems that the bird flu, which has a disproportionate number of people scrambling for grey market antibiotics and sterile facemasks (a rant that you can be sure I've be
• EDIT: Controversy over mandatory HPV vaccination in the state of California.
  A bill recently introduced to the California legislature would require all female children to be vaccinated for HPV (human papilloma virus, which causes some forms of cerv
• It's not just (going to) a job, it's an adventure.
  The good news is that Lyssa is all right; as I alluded to yesterday, she's been in a considerable amount of pain over the past couple of days. Rialian was nice enough to d
• Happy "Oh, gods, I have to go back to work?!" day, everyone.
  Wait a minute... ex-president Gerald Ford died ?! Lyssa pointed me at an article that brought up something that never occurred to me - how libraries manage the limited amo
• "The Constitution.. it does not mean what you think it means."
  This should be enough to give anyone pause: Alberto Gonzalez, the Attorney General of the United States of America argued before the Senate Judiciary Committee that the Co
• Okay, enough with the silliness.
  Or not. The Chinese government has decreed that - get this - they have officially banned Buddhist monks in Tibet from reincarnating without government permission . I can't
• Confiscation of laptops entering the United States.
  Just when you thought travelling by air couldn't get any more harrowing, along comes confiscation of laptop computers when re-entering the United States . Some are never s
• No time for hazmat?
  It seems that LA police completely missed something shady happening that was not only reported by the public but recorded by a securicam: J. Random Stranger poured a bottl
• One of the more confusing bills I've read lately.
  At this time, there is a bill before Congress that will change how grassroots lobbyists are treated , namely, requiring them to register on a quarterly basis as lobbyists

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