Real ID Act
The US Department of Homeland Security is mandating the introduction of a federal ID, issued by the states, at a cost of $14 billion. If you live in a non-compliant state, your driver’s license or state ID will not meet federal standards, and a US passport will have to be used for all “federal purposes”, including visits to national parks.
Bad, bad, bad. But slightly offset by the very pretty girl in the ad CNN chose to run next to the story (”Pay no attention to the privacy issues! Look! Someone pretty!”)
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August 20th, 2007 at 12:59 pm
“Leave the hatred on the cross” Pearl Jam’s, Comotose
August 20th, 2007 at 2:52 pm
Hi Dad! So, uh, either I misunderstand that line, or you do. Or a third thing that I haven’t figured out yet?
August 20th, 2007 at 2:56 pm
Third thing. That was the quote in the upper-right of the page, and he’s telling me what it’s from (see rule 5.)
August 20th, 2007 at 3:47 pm
Dave, to add to the third thing (again see rule #5) was that when I answered that was the quote. Once I answered the quote changed.
August 20th, 2007 at 3:50 pm
It might not be obvious, but every time one visits a website page, one gets a random quote from among a collection. That’s why it’s essential to quote the quote in your response, as it were.
August 21st, 2007 at 11:05 am
Ah. Those are new.
The dangers of the RSS feed.
August 22nd, 2007 at 6:37 am
I know this one! It’s “whois”!
August 22nd, 2007 at 3:30 pm
It is indeed “whois”! I really liked it on the original album, but when it got put onto whois’s Greatest Hits, it didn’t seem to flow as nicely.
On a more serious note, I don’t know exactly what I did to offend the person who posted this in my guise (that was a nice touch), but if you, the reader, lose this page and ever want to get that information again, go to a shell prompt and type “whois mcgees.org”. Sweet baby cheeses I’m scared now. Anyone can send me a fax. Or write me a letter. Just don’t harass the mailbox store owner, he’s a nice guy.
To the poster, if you want to scare me, send some talcum powder in the envelope. Just use a nice stamp, as I collect those. Maybe the Postal Inspector would let me have it back, after he’s established facts such as “Your IP address is 71.253.12.132″ or “you live in Pittsburgh” or “you are a Verizon DSL customer with a dynamic network connection”. Oh wait, looks like I’ve just established those facts myself. I’ll leave “knocking on your front door” and “initiating a distributed denial-of-service attack” as exercises for my readers.
August 22nd, 2007 at 3:40 pm
Accidentally (seriously) just deleted the guy’s post, which makes the last two comments rather contextless. Someone had cut-and-pasted the site’s whois info into the comments form. If you want the info, just go to a shell prompt and type “whois mcgees.org”, as suggested.
August 22nd, 2007 at 5:27 pm
Intentionally (seriously) deleted this guy’s next seven posts. He was showing he could post from different IP addresses. Looks like newbie’s got himself a root kit.
August 23rd, 2007 at 8:40 am
It may be scary at first, but just imagine: FREE TALCUM POWDER!
August 23rd, 2007 at 3:10 pm
One fun thing about vandals is that they compel you to batten down the hatches a bit.