Beginning next year, U.S. passports will include an RFID chip that allows customs to grab your personal information more effeciently. It also, theoretically, could allow hackers, foreign governments, right-wing nut job politicians, and other assorted “evil doers” to siliently grab your personal information and track your every move.
So how do you disable this “feature”? Grab a hammer and pound that sucker senseless. Wired magazine has more info on this topic.
Last Sunday, I created a few Winter Solstice presents on Cafe Press. This is a web site that lets you design all sorts of shirts, mugs, magnets, calendars, etc. You can then sell them or use them yourself for a reasonable fee. I chose the rush delivery, hoping the gifts would arrive by Christmas. That would have been 7 days start to finish.
I got a call from one of the recipients. They received their gift on Tuesday. Cafe Press was able to produce two items, package, ship and have them arrive in 2 days! That’s pretty darn amazing.
Their site has been down for the past 24 hours, perhaps they are just exhausted. Good job cafepress, you are the bomb!
Google is known for their mantra of doing no evil. Perhaps stealing is no longer an evil action. Jeremy Zawodny demonstrates Google’s latest theft, a blatant ripoff of a Yahoo page.
This news alert on Salon.com jumped out at me:
“Ted says he’s not a homosexual,” the Rev. Mike Ware … tells the Times. “The restoration team wants experts to evaluate that.”
Great, now I’ve got the restoration team looking for me.
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