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I know that a lot of spam supposedly comes in from China and Russia, but I personally see a lot hailing from France. I have no idea why, perhaps their computer security habits are closely related to their bathing habits or treatment of their immigrants.
I didn’t have the chance to watch last night’s Republican presidential debate on CNN, as I have a job, but was able to catch up with it today. Two quotes caught my attention. One of them, courtesy of Mitt Romney, was seized upon by Keith Olbermann and Jon Stewart: “Well, the question is kind of a non sequitur, if you will. And what I mean by that — or a null set — and that is that if you’re saying…” Well, Mr. Romney, that isn’t what a non sequitur is. Maybe he misspoke, but no, he mis-uses the phrase again when challenged for dodging the question: “Well, I answered the question by saying it’s a non sequitur.”
For those of you keeping score at home, “non sequitur” literally means “does not follow.”
Speaking of the literal meanings of things, another quote caught my ear, this time from Mike Huckabee: “And the fact is, they know that if they have excessive taxation and a tax system that literally steps on their head…” Oh my. Our tax system literally steps on our heads? Literally? I was unaware that the tax system had feet, or was capable of stepping on anything.
Clearly the No Child Left Behind program was too late to save these unfortunate souls. People shouldn’t be permitted to throw around high-falutin’ words when they don’t know what they mean. Not without being called on it.
Fear, uncertainty, and doubt have an advantage over reason in the short term. It is natural to treat change as dangerous. When encountering a new person, business, or technology that is seeking your trust, it is normal to withhold or deny that trust at first, looking for some indication that it is merited first. The above slickly-produced infomercial is an excellent example of this.
The purpose of trusted computing is to insulate computer hardware and software vendors from liability when end-user information is compromised in some way. Toward this end, the TCPA encourages certain practices regarding interaction between processes within a system or between systems. By implementing these practices it is theoretically easier to make tools that share information responsibly.
FUD dictates that should be viewed as a power grab by greedy corporations that want to sneak into your house and steal your Cheez-its. Clearly by implementing a chip on your computer that uses 2048-bit encryption, some diabolical cabal will be hijacking your World of Warcraft guild chat and putting your company’s trade secrets up on eBay.
The Against TCPA group may be well-intentioned but their claims are unsupported and their arguments are largely an appeal to anti-corporatism. Due to the nearly invisible way that Internet traffic is already routed past various parties, through unknown hardware to practically-unknown destinations, all based upon paper-thin chains of trust with ominous names like DNS and BGP, it seems to me that this is much ado about very little indeed. If you’re concerned about shadowy figures reading your email and poking through your top-secret communications, you would be well-advised to encrypt it yourself, establish VPN tunnels through various foreign connections, and wear a tinfoil yarmulke under your hat.
Love the mascot, though.
Loose means not rigidly fastened or securely attached, and has several other meanings that are closely related to this concept. When used as a verb, it means to set free from attachment or constraint.
I frequently run into sloppy writing in fansubs. They’re produced free-of-charge by enthusiasts that are doing a service to the freeloading public, so slip-ups are to be quickly forgiven and forgotten. This one happens to be a pet peeve of mine, and ironic given the context of the dialogue. Maybe if young people hasn’t lost interest in reading, this travesty of syntax would never have happened.
Happy mission accomplished day. May all your major combat operations in the coming year be fruitful.
*edit: oh, what terrible irony that Bush should veto a war spending bill today.
Last month I installed a cute little WordPress plug-in called Search Meter. I figured it’d be neat to look back at March once I had a full 30 days of data to dig into. Despite the search habits of the handful of people that actually try to look at things on this webpage, I’m not in the habit of making movie reviews. Unless they fit into the broad “cartoons” category I’ve maintained for years.
300 is a silly movie. You may like it. You may not. I liked a lot of it. And not many people use the search tool in my navbar.
Hi. I’m not a collector of scale models of female anime characters. I am most certainly not somebody that purchases dozens of them and then compulsively posts photographs of them. I’m not somebody who is really interested in ever doing so, even were an awful lot of disposable income and free time land in my lap.
That said, HappySoda has put together this excellent guide to help you, the novice taker-of-figurine-photos, get started. I like Haruhi Suzumiya as much as the next guy — well, maybe not as much as the guys that own dozens of 1/8 scale PVC replicas of her with removable skirts and such — but any well-executed ribbing of fanboy clichés make my day a little brighter. Well played, sir. Well played.
I’ve been working on some projects, at the pace my work and family obligations allow, and have found some pretty cool stuff out there. Related to the HTML Grapher I found several months ago, though only tangentially, is State of the Union an interactive index of every State of the Union address from 1790 to present. Key words (excluding particles like “a,” “the,” “in,” and so forth) are tallied laid out relative to the individual speech being viewed and relative to the entire texts of the 217 addresses. Ladies and gentlemen, the state of this index is strong.
Two things only the people anxiously desire — bread and circuses.
–Juvenal
Superbowl Sunday is upon us again. Millions of Americans that cannot be bothered to pay even slight attention to the activities of their government will passionately cheer for overpaid adults playing a child’s game. They will project loyalty and pride in the performance of these athletes, who nominally represent the cities of Chicago and Indianapolis. Through a complicated web of inflated rivalries, viewers that don’t hail from the midwest will root for or against one team or the other.
Or were you planning to watch it for the ads?
Canadians sell milk in bags. I’m flabbergasted.