Archive for February, 2005
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Friday, February 25th, 2005Okay, so I just had a panic moment, I booted my machine back up (long story why it was down, I may write that up after), and had no sound. I’m at a total loss here, it was working fine before rebooting. Note, this is the first reboot since having converted from Ubuntu to Debian. I look at [...]
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Friday, February 25th, 2005The double standards in society are absolutely amazing. Michelle Malkin gets on the main stream media’s case for their discussion of Condoleezza Rice’s attire here. David Limbaugh does also, but I think Malkin’s post is better.
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Friday, February 25th, 2005According to “When paying with plastic, why swipe? Just wave,” the credit card companies are looking at switching from magnetic strips to RFID tags. I imagine these will be similar to those that the State Department wants placed in passports now, which has significant privacy and security implications. In “Schneier on Security” security expert Bruce Schneier addresses some of the [...]
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Friday, February 25th, 2005You can sense how much some of the Church’s hierarchy are hoping for a different pope in some of the anonymous comments in “Pope Breathing on Own Again; No Infection.” It is not as overt as some articles are, thankfully, but it is still really sad to hear about people hoping to capitalize on our Pope’s death. The [...]
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Thursday, February 24th, 2005We are releasing gaim 1.1.4 today, just a week after 1.1.3; we found a couple crashers (one a security risk) and are now working around a bug in glib 2.6.2 (on some platforms). It always gives me a thrill to release even for something like this, that I’d rather have caught for 1.1.3.
In other news, its been snowing [...]
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Thursday, February 24th, 2005This is rather interesting, apparently they have software now that approaches translating by learning from the efforts of other translators. “Software learns to translate by reading up” talks about this development. This sort of learn from experience approach works exceptionally well at recognizing spam, which I realize is not quite related, but it is the same sort of language recognition [...]
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Thursday, February 24th, 2005Michelle Malkin has a good run down of the No Child Left Behind Act in “The Revolt Against No Child Left Behind.” This bill is being challenged in all sorts of ways, which I think is good, as I do not like the idea of the Federal Government meddling with our schools and our children’s education. Local control [...]
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Wednesday, February 23rd, 2005I wonder if the global warming article I mentioned on Friday, 18th of February 2005 took into account microbes that shouldn’t exist, as documented in “Microbes survive deep permafrost.”
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Wednesday, February 23rd, 2005Pat Buchanan has come out with something rather … odd. In “Democracies & double standards” he argues that President Lincoln’s behavior during the American Civil War justifies Putin’s behavior in Russia now. What right did Lincoln have to
suspended habeas corpus, sent troops to prevent a free election in Maryland, sought to arrest Chief Justice Roger B. Taney, shut [...]
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Wednesday, February 23rd, 2005“Alaska Woman Charged in Genital Amputation” would simply be bizarre if I had not heard of a similar going on before. One wonders what is wrong with that guy, that he would want to be intimate with someone he is breaking up with. One also wonders how exactly she thought this wouldn’t put her in jail. I don’t want to [...]
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