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From Lew Rockwell: Backscatter Van (Updated 8/26/11 with new video address, since this post needed a link)

The ride was great, the beach is better. The GPS device in the car we rented spies on traffic around the country and gave us paths through country roads when it would avoid traffic. Morally and Constitutionally terrible, but helpful every now and then I guess. And the beach was great today.   You Are [...]

There have been a lot of posts (and political lobbying) within the past few years by a dying Media 1.0 establishment and a gullible public to discourage the creation and reading of blogs, this time by encouraging Twitter and Facebook as replacements for blogs. Examples: 1 2 3 4 Rather than go on a standard [...]

All of it. Photos, likes, “friends”, groups, info, even my name. Then I deleted (not deactivated) the account. In other words, everything I could get rid of, I did. Now it’s gone. I feel a sort of emptiness inside, though I’m sure it’ll pass as it didn’t make a damn difference. It’s like a new [...]

Some commenters have been asking whether or not the site can be quoted or reproduced. I have been putting off deciding this – I will not use the popular Creative Commons licenses because later versions include a sneak GPL-style provision allowing relicensing under “compatible licenses” approved by Creative Commons (the organization) as “in the spirit” [...]

They don’t even give any reasoning anymore behind their unwelcome infringements on your right to free speech. I’m not just talking about the government – I’m talking about every aspect of your personal life.

From Engadget: Since 1977, RSA public-key encryption has protected privacy and verified authenticity when using computers, gadgets and web browsers around the globe, with only the most brutish of brute force efforts (and 1,500 years of processing time) felling its 768-bit variety earlier this year. Now, [three people] at the University of Michigan claim they [...]

Apparently Flash stores cookies itself in addition to normal Web browser cookies. Unlike Web browser cookies, Flash cookies require you to go to Adobe’s Web site and manage your settings there. I went there and found cookies for almost every site I’ve ever been to since my I first set up this computer over 6 [...]

The Google ads are pulled from this site. The drawbacks of their strict policies on what you can and cannot publish do not match the profit potential. (Those days are apparently gone, at least for me anyway.) I’m still going to use the same methods to drive up visitors anyway, though.