Halley nails it on the missing element in the Dean campaign. They failed to arm the electorate with the best information. For a fraction of the cost of a state campaign, they could have deployed an information system for voters that would have made history. We'd be raving about how the Internet has made it… Continue reading Untitled
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Paperless Home – Brad Templeton
Paperless Home – Brad Templeton. Here's a simple, limited idea that might really work well. Coupling a flash drive with a scanner might give the extra oomph to make a “paperless” approach actually work for you. [DennisKennedy.blog]
Report Documents Extensive Security Flaws in State Motor Vehicle Offices Nationwide
Report Documents Extensive Security Flaws in State Motor Vehicle Offices Nationwide. The Center for Democracy and Technology investigated problems of ID theft and fraud at state motor vehicle administration offices nationwide. They conclude, in the report referenced below, that driver license information is subject to widespread theft due to fraud and bribery, and recommend remedies… Continue reading Report Documents Extensive Security Flaws in State Motor Vehicle Offices Nationwide
Tracking Presidential Candidate Fundraising
Tracking Presidential Candidate Fundraising. From opensecrets.org, this website on the 2004 Presidential Election tracks the fundraising efforts of the President and the Democratic candidates, inclusive of charts that reflect receipts, cash on hand, and spending. [beSpacific]
Slashdot | Tivo Tracks Superbowl Viewing Habits
Slashdot | Tivo Tracks Superbowl Viewing Habits. ThePretender writes “Sprinkled in the Janet Jackson boob stories is an alarming bit of information: Tivo tracks subscribers' viewing habits. They know how many times the boob was viewed, among other good-to-have (meaning data worth $$) information. Yes, if you agreed to Tivo's privacy policy you knew they… Continue reading Slashdot | Tivo Tracks Superbowl Viewing Habits
More speech suppression: From the Tampa Tribune
More speech suppression: From the Tampa Tribune. More speech suppression: From the Tampa Tribune : After moving to Florida from Pennsylvania this summer, [Krista] Abram, 16, spent her first few days attending Tarpon Springs High School bewildered by her peers' and teachers' ambivalence to the daily sight of Confederate battle flag images at the school's… Continue reading More speech suppression: From the Tampa Tribune
Exciting New Catholic Blawg
Exciting New Catholic Blawg. A group of Catholic law professors (including yours truly) have started a group blog Mirror Of Justice. The introductory post explains: This blog will not focus primarily on the classic constitutional questions of Church and State, although some of our members are interested in those questions and may post on them… Continue reading Exciting New Catholic Blawg
Technology and Worker Efficiency
Technology and Worker Efficiency. Researchers seem confident that technology has made American workers more efficient. Now some think they even know why. By Steve Lohr. [New York Times: Technology]
Viva La Wi-Fi
Viva La Wi-Fi. Cox Communications built a Wi-Fi network in the MGM Grand, covering all 5,034 rooms: The cable company also won a bid to unwire the Hard Rock. A Cox exec says that it installed enough access points that only one or two people will share an access point. I wonder if that's based… Continue reading Viva La Wi-Fi
Content-aware search
Content-aware search. At InfoWorld's 2002 CTO Forum, Google co-founder Sergey Brin threw cold water on the idea of instrumenting content for intelligent search. “I'd rather make progress by having computers understand what humans write,” he said, “than by forcing humans to write in ways that computers can understand.” Brin's pragmatic stance sharply opposes the idealistic… Continue reading Content-aware search