OnStar Considered Harmful – “A few weeks ago Slashdot ran an article on the privacy issues in EzPass. Some of the comments referred to other things Big Brother could do with GPS in cars, and now the New York Times has run a column on what else your car is saying about you (free registration ...
The Wal-Mart You Don’t Know – A gallon-sized jar of whole pickles is something to behold. The jar is the size of a small aquarium. The fat green pickles, floating in swampy juice, look reptilian, their shapes exaggerated by the glass. It weighs 12 pounds, too big to carry with one hand. The gallon jar ...
Dilbert’s Ultimate Cubicle – “Over the years, DILBERT fans have e-mailed me on all sorts of topics. And after a while, I began to realize that a common theme among the majority of them was the fact that most people are highly frustrated with their cubicles. So I started to think, ‘What would DILBERT want ...
Movable Type 3.0 – We realize that official news has been scarce over the last 6-9 months. During this time, our company has grown from two people to seven, and we have launched TypePad . Now that we have hired more engineering resources (and we are still looking for more ), we are able to ...
Poverty is ‘real pollution’ – Dr Lomborg has angered the green lobby by daring to challenge certain “truths” about environmental decline. He has accused the greens of exaggerating problems and of ignoring the facts. [BBC News] I especially like Bjorn’s attempts to put environmentalism in perspective as a movement that needs to USE tools like ...
Onstar and Privacy
Dec
29
2003
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