Monthly Archives: July 2007

It would be helpful to have a sense of the overall, long-term plan in this case (as in so many others), wouldn’t it? Considering that moves like this by our representative government are done in our name.

Interesting story, but I’m going to take issue with the “hacker” implications. It’s probably just an editorial oversight, but the article seems to suggest that the threat here is from malicious computer hackers, as opposed to election insiders with a vested interest in … Continue reading →

Real ID is dead in the water, and it is clear that no amount of money can save it,” said ACLU Legislative Counsel Tim Sparapani. “The only solution to Real ID is to scrap and replace it, and Congress has … Continue reading →

This might not be the most complete (or the most scary) listing of online resources you can find, but it’s a great start for those new to public-records mining… -jh You can use the web to find lots of things: … Continue reading →

from Moises Velasquez-Manoff, for the Christian Science Monitor Around 50,000 years ago, something happened to our ancestors in Africa. Anatomically modern humans, who had existed for at least 150,000 years prior, suddenly began behaving differently. Until then, their conduct scarcely … Continue reading →

The U.S. Department of Justice has stated that AT&T may neither confirm nor deny AT&T’s participation in the alleged NSA program because doing so would cause “exceptionally grave harm to national security” and would violate both civil and criminal statutes. … Continue reading →

A Canadian team has created a computer program that can win or draw any game, no matter who the opponent is. It took an average of 50 computers nearly two decades to sift through the 500 billion billion possible draughts … Continue reading →

from Scott Shane, for The New York Times July 18, 2007 Nearly six years after the Sept. 11 attacks, the hundreds of billions of dollars and thousands of lives expended in the name of the war on terror pose a … Continue reading →