Looks neat
no joke? everyone knows the plane was shot down
I thought everyone knew that.
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2013/06/18/twa-flight-800-investigators-break-silence-in-new-documentary-claim-original/
yeah…
Really transparent Barry. Yeah…..
From Webster’s:
a (1) : having the property of transmitting light without appreciable scattering so that bodies lying beyond are seen clearly : pellucid (2) : allowing the passage of a specified form of radiation (as X-rays or ultraviolet light)
b : fine or sheer enough to be seen through : diaphanous
2
a : free from pretense or deceit : frank
b : easily detected or seen through : obvious
c : readily understood
d : characterized by visibility or accessibility of information especially concerning business practices
In the words from the princesses bride “I do not think that word means what you think it means”
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2013/06/18/obama-calls-nsa-secret-data-gathering-transparent-in-pbs-interview/
and how…
Are we different than some banana republic?
Secret court — check
Rubber stamping what the government wants — check
Listening in just because they choose to — check
This is not only wrong in the worst way….the US is now no different than
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-57589495-38/nsa-admits-listening-to-u.s-phone-calls-without-warrants/
Nordic Trac Computer
My parents had a Nordic Trac I used when I was in college, and I bought one last year to work out on. Well, I’ve pulled it out and started using it; however, an old question has surfaced in my mind again:
What in the world is “Perf Index” on the Achiever BC-887 for?
It can’t be calories because it doesn’t know how much resistance I have. The only connection is speed and time
It seems to count linearly so that at 12km/hr, I’ll hit 100 in 20 min covering 5km.
Oh well, any ideas out there?
By the way, the image is from a google cache of an old expired ebay auction. One of the few I could find.
read this and then….
wow…stupid patriot act
Encrypt everything?
http://m.washingtonpost.com/investigations/us-intelligence-mining-data-from-nine-us-internet-companies-in-broad-secret-program/2013/06/06/3a0c0da8-cebf-11e2-8845-d970ccb04497_story.html
language differences
Neat study on american English differences
http://www4.ncsu.edu/~jakatz2/project-dialect.html
I need some advice
Currently, I’m on a shared hosting plan with my hosting provider. I’ve farmed out email to Google with Google Apps. I use Amazon’s Cloud Drive for their cloud music player (+20GB online space). I use flickr to host my pictures. I’d like to combine everything into one provider. However, my experiments in self-hosted pictures haven’t turned out so good (and I’d need about 300GB space). And I’d need another 200 GB or so for music. Any ideas on how I could do this on my own?
I’ve thought about using AWS with their EC2 compute cloud and S3 for storage, but there’s no easy way to talk between the two (Why not, Amazon??).
I’ve looked into VPS solutions, because most of the time, everything will sit idle. But I can’t get the disk space I want.
I’ve thought about buying a QNAP NAS device, but I’d prefer to NOT have it at home.
That leaves getting a physical server somewhere. But the price is about $100/month. For $1,200/year, it seems like I should be able to buy my own server and put it in a data center somewhere. Has anyone else out there tackled this sort of problem? How have you overcome it?
[Update 2013-06-23 07:19:22] I’ve been thinking about this, and I think co-location of a server is the only way to go. That is the ONLY way to guarente that my data isn’t shared with anyone. Sure, the police could come in and take the server…but I could set it up so the disks are encrypted and can’t be read without a password. Going this route would also let me get rid of:
- Hosting: $13/month
- VPN: $55/year
- Flickr: $25/year
- Amazon Music: $20/year (+20 GB Storage)
It would let me get (with no known men-in-the-middle):
- email done on my own server
- cloud storage
- Contact/Calendar synching across devices without Google
- Secure telephony (asterisk with zrtp)
- Off-site backup (with loads of space)
I think my plan is going to be to set this stuff up at home, see if I can do it, then decide from there what to do.
Image from amy nievera via flickr
Today, I made it through…
…more security theater. For another point, look at this article. You can see past things I’ve written here and here.
As I write this, I’m sitting air-side at Heathrow Airport. I’m drinking my coffee and waiting for them to announce what gate I leave from. And I didn’t have to take off my shoes or belt. Why am I all gripey about this? Well, it is the inconsistencies that get me.
I never take my shoes off, unless I get asked. Why? First off, I wear just about the same thing every time I fly. I certainly wear the same shoes 100% of the time: lace-up short hiking boots. About 1/2 the time, I make it through the metal detectors without getting beeped. The other half, I make the machine beep, have to take off my shoes. The same with the belt….about 1/2 the time, I’m asked to take it off…the other half no one seems to mind.
Are there standards or not? Why does something make it through once but not another. Come on people….
Image from danjo fing via flickr