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8 Oct 2008 kelly » (Master)

Miscellany

I'm cleaning up my Firefox tabs; here's a selection of things I've found interesting in the past few days.

Wired reports that outsourcing facilitates data theft. Surprise, surprise. Anybody remember that Pakistani medical transcriptionist that held medical records hostage?
Anybody want to put odds on whether the perp in this story felt motivated by religious beliefs?
Why do people persist in paying for things that one can have for free? There are quite a few free ham radio test prep sites (the one I used was AA9PW's, and I passed all three elements at once with only a few misses); why pay for something people give away?
What better way to combine patriotism with avoiding CC&R's?
Apparently the laws of physics have recently been changed in Idaho. I had no idea that radio transmission was not possible there until just a few days ago.

I'm going to close this entry (which is being composed while I listen to the Presidential debate) with a poem. Please read it; it is surprisingly relevant.

Syndicated 2008-10-08 02:38:00 (Updated 2008-10-08 02:38:54) from Kelly Martin

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