Good ole Pat Robertson.
Diebold voting and and the Georgia upset.
Kurzweil pushing the AI envelope.
Border Crossings
Depressing. I saw this photo at ‘Border Crossings’, a showing at TNT on Oct 2nd. Not as impressive at that size, but the one showing was aprox 40×30. I thought it was beautiful and sad. I loved it.
I emailed the artist about prints and surprisingly (he is quite famous) he replied back from an internet cafe in Italy and directed me to several galleries. One of the galleries was a block away from work, so I just walked down there to ask about prints. I expected it to be expensive (they need to make a living), but I was told that a print would probably be around 3k. Ouch. Even if I had that money, I couldn’t justify it. Sigh.
Googled
Do a google search on “We entered the country at midnight on March 26”. You will find something a bit disturbing. The exact same letter to the editor, sent to many different news papers, by different servicemen. Something does not smell right.
Arnie
Ahrnold today. Tells davis to stop working, appoints a supply side economist, calls his groping old news and wont answer questions he said he would. Looks like we are in for a fun ride.
Ironic and scary – We dont really know where Iraq army weapons (like shoulder fired anti air missiles) are now. So instead of making it harder for Iraq to deal in arms, the US has actually built a black market with porous borders.
DRM
Lesson number 85,923 on why DMCA is bad. A computer science grad student at Princeton wrote a report showing the CD DRM (digital rights management, in other words, you can not backup or rip the CD to mp3s) was ineffective – it could easily be defeated by use of the ‘shift’ key. The stock of the DRM company (SunnComm) has since fallen by 20%. Now, SunnComm plans to sue the student under the DMCA and claim that SunnComm’s reputation has been falsely damaged.