time to step away from the keyboard...
Aug. 25th, 2012 10:40 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
psybelleI love the reviewers... No, really.
(Kinda reminds me of when I confused the hell out of some poor clerk at Walgreens, asking her what made the particular umbrella I was buying a "man's" umbrella...)
That seems to be the one bright spot this morning in an otherwise grim intarnets...
Award-winning film-maker Poitras on William Binney (Can't wait for the full-length piece to come out!)
Big data has its uses. The trick is to limit the crossreferencing, the uses it gets put to... and that may well be impossible.
I would love to see the conventioneers be surveilled even half as much as the protestors... Of course, I suppose there's not much besides opportunity stopping other folks from using the technology, as well... I don't think I know anybody in Florida, though.
*sigh* Google search terms: Boston, TSA, cancer
I may ask the TSA folk if they're issued any kind of dosimeters or exposure badges the next time I fly (and opt out).
(Kinda reminds me of when I confused the hell out of some poor clerk at Walgreens, asking her what made the particular umbrella I was buying a "man's" umbrella...)
That seems to be the one bright spot this morning in an otherwise grim intarnets...
Award-winning film-maker Poitras on William Binney (Can't wait for the full-length piece to come out!)
Big data has its uses. The trick is to limit the crossreferencing, the uses it gets put to... and that may well be impossible.
I would love to see the conventioneers be surveilled even half as much as the protestors... Of course, I suppose there's not much besides opportunity stopping other folks from using the technology, as well... I don't think I know anybody in Florida, though.
*sigh* Google search terms: Boston, TSA, cancer
I may ask the TSA folk if they're issued any kind of dosimeters or exposure badges the next time I fly (and opt out).