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Month: August 2006


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Outsourcing Democracy – How an Election is Being Stolen as You Read

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New Orleans parishes are in the process of choosing the planners that will guide the rebuilding of the city. These are people who will be tasked with urban planning, clean-up, and spending millions of dollars in federal aide money.And they’re choosing these people via an online poll. You read that right, an online poll. It […]

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I've been scraped

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So, I found an interesting thing today; my site has been scraped, my content stolen. The last post here has been posted, in it’s entirety, on two spammer website. Both WHOIS lookups go through proxies, one Tor and one at Carnegie Mellon University. You can see both stolen posts here and here (yes, I’m linking […]

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Stupid Windows Tricks – Trusted Web Sites

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This post is in a new category, “Spot the Sarcasm”; guess why.Windows has a wonderful feature for Internet Explorer users called Trusted sites. Trusted sites are described as “Web sites that you trust not to damage your computer or data.” Pretty straightforward, right? But, as they say, the devil is in the details. Let’s say […]

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Is there an undeclared Stupid Headline Contest going on?

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Seriously, headlines don’t have to be Pulitzer-worthy, but at least try. Heavy people may collapse more in heat – Yahoo! News Up next: Anorexics weigh less, drift in windCancer is bad, cure to be discussedComputers are getting faster, used by “nurds” For any Farkers out there, please forward Ric Romero‘s number.