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Yet another reason why I may never fly on an airplane again. They’re deploying more of those millimeter wave scanners that allow agents to see through your clothes to make sure those are actually your tits and not a couple of shapely clumps of plastic explosives: Do You Have Any Naked Pictures Of Your Mother? . . . → Read More: Would you prefer to be seen nekkid or groped by the TSA? Remember back when President Bush first starting asking Congress to pass his various so-called anti-terrorism programs and Congress balked because of the privacy and civil liberties issues that would be impacted? Remember when Bush said, “Not a problem! We’ll set up a Privacy and Civil Liberty Oversight Board to make sure we’re not stepping on . . . → Read More: Bush Administration doesn’t give a shit about your civil liberties. This article from ArsTechnica about an interview the Director of National Intelligence, Mike McConnell, gave to The New Yorker will send a few shivers down your spine: US intel chief wants carte blanche to peep all ‘Net traffic – ArsTechnica.com While short on specifics, the New Yorker piece recognizes that any plan requiring the kind . . . → Read More: Director of National Intelligence says he must spy on you to keep you safe! The folks at . . . → Read More: Want a “free” copy of Windows Vista Ultimate? Albert Snyder, father of Lance Cpl. Matthew Snyder who was killed in Iraq, has managed to successfully sue the asshats of Westboro Baptist Church that go around picketing dead soldier’s funerals with banners thanking God for killing the marines because America tolerates homosexuals. It was considered a long shot civil suit, but he won the . . . → Read More: Grieving father sues Westboro Baptist Church asshats and wins $11 million. Do you post on blogs? Send jokes to colleagues? Say anything at all that might be construed by anyone as objectionable? Well, from now on you had better do it under your own name and not a pseudonym or there could be fines and/or jailtime in your future (read the Cnet . . . → Read More: Being “annoying” online - now against the law. I have been opposed to the Patriot Act ever since its inception. Here is just another news item to support that view. Proponents of the Patriot Act would have you believe that it is only used for “safety” purposes and only targets suspicious behavior. First of all, who gets to define what constitutes “suspicious” . . . → Read More: Patriot Act Shenanigans Calif. school requires radio ID tags for students SUTTER, Calif. – The only grade school in this rural town is requiring students to wear radio frequency identification badges that can track their every move. Some parents are outraged, fearing it will rob their children of privacy. The short gist of the article is that a . . . → Read More: School uses RFID to keep track of students In the process of renewing my passport, I came across an interesting development within the State Department. It seems that many Americans have been entirely too happy as of late and they want to change that. Actually, they are just changing the guidelines for identification photos. As of January 1st, passport photos that portray a . . . → Read More: Please Don’t Smile Here’s something I didn’t know before now, but it explains a lot: Apparently all color laser devices—printers, copiers, etc.—sold since 1995 have been encoding their serial number into every printout made from them so counterfeit documents can be traced by the government back to the source. Peter Crean, a senior research fellow at Xerox, says . . . → Read More: Color laser printers include the unit’s serial number on every printout. |
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