The Talented Mr. Ripley is James T. Kirk. Piano playing, holocaust surviving, Adrien Brody is Mr. you couldn’t pronounce it
Spock. All this and more when Big-Name Casting Rumours Resurface for ‘Trek XI’!
The LeinsterFreecycle group has been renamed to FreecycleDublin (we want to make the group smaller, and encourage others to start more local groups in their areas in Leinster). So if you are on it, please change your email addresses/bookmarks. And now to prepare for the influx of people who are on no-email on Yahoo and have no idea what’s going on.
I now, again, get extended basic cable on my cable box. I surfed a little to far up the channel list and there they where. Comcast is just wishy-washy sometimes.
It’s 71°F today. Daffodil and crocus leaves are sticking up. Our chickweed is taking over! A Pennsylvania ski lodge is resorting to polytheism! We ate lunch outside this morning.
Thanks to my Weeds of the Northeast book for helping me identify my Stellaria media.
/. linked to the IMDB entry for it.
Just one more illustration of the increasingly glaring fact that “The Land of the Free” is anything but … the Paranoid-in-Chief and his toadies strike again!
from the Electronic Frontier Foundation
American Travelers to Get Secret ‘Risk Assessment’ Scores
Washington, D.C. – An invasive and unprecedented data-mining system is set to be deployed on U.S. travelers Monday, despite substantial questions about Americans’ privacy. In comments sent to the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) today, the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) asked the agency to delay the program’s rollout until it makes more details available to the public and addresses critical privacy and due process concerns.The Automated Targeting System (ATS) will create and assign “risk assessments” to tens of millions of citizens as they enter and leave the country. Individuals will have no way to access information about their “risk assessment” scores or to correct any false information about them. But once the assessment is made, the government will retain the information for 40 years — as well as make it available to untold numbers of federal, state, local, and foreign agencies in addition to contractors, grantees, consultants, and others.
“The government is preparing to give millions of law-abiding citizens ‘risk assessment’ scores that will follow them throughout their lives,” said EFF Senior Counsel David Sobel. “If that wasn’t frightening enough, none of us will have the ability to know our own score, or to challenge it. Homeland Security needs to delay the deployment of this system and allow for an informed public debate on this dangerous proposal.”
Earlier this month, EFF’s FLAG Project submitted a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request to DHS seeking more details about the ATS data-mining program, but the agency has not yet disclosed the requested information.
For EFF’s full comments to DHS: http://www.eff.org/Privacy/ats/ats_comments.pdf For the DHS Federal Register notice announcing ATS: http://edocket.access.gpo.gov/2006/06-9026.htm
I heard the promo on NPR this morning, but missed the article. It seems there was a world rock paper scissors championship the other day. Funny, I always thought it was paper scissors rock.
It’s in german and called Casablanca fällt aus. I seem to have played Ronny (alle Rollen). This week Theater Apron is playing Bedtime for Bastards. It’s fun to google your name from time to time.
Daphne and I had not lived in our house very long, and we where getting cable hooked up that day. I already had DSL set up, so I was telecommuting when my mother called me up and told me to turn an the television. Yardley is in this dale that prevents good reception, but thought the snow I could pick up what was going on. Then in came the cable guy, he hooked me up and sat down to watch. I don’t remember what was happening but by then we knew it was an attack and not an accident. The the cable guy, who was scarcely more then a child, said something like: “We should kick foreigners out of the country.” I would have none of this, and told him it was wrong, he said he had to go and left. I wonder what he thinks about foreigners today.
I’m happy to say that the Debian kamera package for KDE is able to extract photos and movies from my Canon PowerShot A75, as does the command line interface to the same library, gphoto2. With kamera it’s drag, drop, and wait, with gphoto2 it’s type a magic phrase, and wait. There is one show stopper that made me uninstall kamer to go back to the command line. The timestamp of the files created with gphoto2 is the time the camera thinks they where shot, with kamera it was the date they where extracted from the camera.
Because of the above problem I lost the date of my child’s first hair cut. Not that I would remember it if I didn’t loose it, but I know it’s gone. I’m trying to use user friendly GUI interfaces, while easy to use they just don’t seem friendly to the user.
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