tag:dreamwidth.org,2009-06-01:396692 herding sphinxes on the astral veldt psybelle 2012-08-25T18:07:35Z tag:dreamwidth.org,2009-06-01:396692:312456 2012-08-25T18:07:35Z 2012-08-25T18:07:35Z public 0 I love the reviewers... <a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/product-reviews/B004FTGJUW/ref=cm_cr_dp_see_all_btm?ie=UTF8&amp;showViewpoints=1&amp;sortBy=bySubmissionDateDescending">No, really</a>.<br /><br />(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 <i>"man's"</i> umbrella...)<br /><br /><br />That seems to be the one bright spot this morning in an otherwise grim intarnets...<br /><br /><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/video/2012/08/22/opinion/100000001733041/the-program.html">Award-winning film-maker Poitras on William Binney</a> (Can't wait for the full-length piece to come out!)<br /><br />Big data has its uses. <a href="http://radar.oreilly.com/2012/08/big-data-is-our-generations-civil-rights-issue-and-we-dont-know-it.html">The trick is to limit the crossreferencing, the <i>uses</i> it gets put to... and that may well be impossible.<br /><br /><a href="http://droneswatch.org/2012/08/24/drones-to-patrol-skies-over-republican-convention/">I would love to see the conventioneers be surveilled even half as much as the protestors... </a> Of course, I suppose there's not much besides opportunity stopping <i>other folks</i> from using the technology, as well... I don't think I know anybody in Florida, though.<br /><br />*sigh* Google search terms: Boston, TSA, cancer <br />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).</a><br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=psybelle&ditemid=312456" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> comments