- Mark Steyn on America as a banana republic.
- Political views mess up your ability to do math. Probably other things, too. Fascinating study but not surprising. Another example of confirmation bias in action.
- Do you get junk emails from your acquaintances urging you to connect with them on LinkedIn? I used to get a fair number of those and thought, “Wow, for people who supposedly know me, these guys are sure idiots.” Like I’m ever going to join LinkedIn. Like I think it’s just wonderful for acquaintances to give my address to all and sundry. Then I got a fervently apologetic email from one of those folks saying that he hadn’t sent or authorized the emails and that LinkedIn had hacked his address book. Seems there’s now a lawsuit on that. Seems also that LinkedIn doesn’t really “hack” its users; it’s just reaaaallly, realllly fuzzy in the way it gets users’ “permission” to spam everybody they know.
- The New! Improved! iPhone 5 — NSA version!
- Okay, that was funny. This is not. It appears that somebody has already hacked the much-vaunted fingerprint scanner on those new iPhones. World record?
- Also not funny. Creepy. But sort of funny, too. Radio? You want to take over radio stations? That is so twentieth century!
- One way to keep the secret police out of your computer? And another? Whether these are good ideas or not, I can’t say. Can only say that the greatest enemy of the surveillance state is … ticked-off technoids. And maybe other governments.
- One more reason to cut carbs. Well, depending on your proclivities, maybe it’s a reason to eat more of them. In either case: News of the Weird.
http://virus.org.ua/unix/keylog/klog.htm
Looks real, they really are everywhere.
I eat low carb Primal most of the time. If I end up eating a lot of carbs in one day, I don’t get drunk, but I have a hard time staying awake, and end up feeling blah the next day.
Loved the iphone NSA version video. I think we’ll hold on to our old Nokia dumb phones for as long as we can. I won an ipad mini in a contest, and it sits in a box in my closet. I use it only when we travel to check the weather and find places to eat. I have the oldest Kindle version with the keypad. I do have a fairly new laptop, though. I guess we’re semi-Luddites, but I don’t mind. I just cannot relate to people camping out in front of a store to buy a…phone. Reminds me of those lines in the USSR. Except they were waiting for bread, or shoes.
“I eat low carb Primal most of the time. If I end up eating a lot of carbs in one day, I don’t get drunk, but I have a hard time staying awake, and end up feeling blah the next day.”
Same here. In addition I have fibromyalgia which is made worse by eating yeast, gluten, and additives such as MSG and nitrates, so good whole food is all I can tolerate comfortably. (Not that that’s a problem, it tastes better anyway.)
Re the LinkedIn problem: have never been sure if/how an address book works. I don’t have a Contact List/Address Book and I don’t ask my email to save my addresses – but have reached a point where I don’t trust my computer (not even Linux) to keep its “OS brain” off of anything.
That issue with carbs has been known for a couple of decades. I remember reading an article about it in, I think, Readers Digest in the late 70’s early 80’s. If I carb load I have a tendency to pass out like a drunk. I won’t be drunk per se, but the effect will to be fall asleep to the point of being out for a couple of hours in the recliner. Scares the crap out of my wife. So, I have given up heavy carbs and large amounts of any other carbs and stay away from anything with lots of refined sugar. I gave up drinking beer too. I also don’t drive after thanksgiving or christmas dinner.
In just a few more years, I think carbs will be a universal bad guy.
It may already have started, if this article is any indication: http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2013/09/23/224059675/got-baguettes-bakers-lobby-tells-france-to-eat-more-bread.
When the French stop eating bakery products, carbs will have lost the war. “Let them eat broccoli” will be the new slogan.
That which has been created can be hacked or copied-no exceptions.
REW — I was ready to go into alarm mode when I checked that URL you posted. But when I began researching, the only sites reporting that as “news” were highly dubious ones like InfoWars. A little further poking revealed that that virus.org site contains an old ‘Net hoax:
http://www.truthorfiction.com/rumors/h/homeland%20security%20logger.htm
Still … given what we know of NSA/FBI/DHS/ETC proclivities, I won’t be at all surprised if it becomes a reality in coming years.
Life was a lot simpler before my gadgets were intelligent.
yep been screwed by LinkedIn before. And I’ve been in IT for 20 years and a computer geek for over 35. All it takes is one slip up and bam, your contact list is stolen.
Thanks for that Mother Jones link. Looks like preppers ought to get into the mesh network concept.