Mon 23 Oct 2006
Because I can read what's in your wallet! The NYT writes that RFID on a credit card is a bad idea! Give'em a genius award. Kudos to the researchers who put together the $150 hacker kit.
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/23/business/23card.html
Oh yea, the companies say - but this doesn't mean our card.
Mon 16 Oct 2006
See: http://balkin.blogspot.com/2006/10/american-sentenced-to-death-in-iraq.html
We shall see if the Military Commissions Act of 2006 will suspend Habeus Corpus (second para) for U.S. citizens.
Since the pending signing of the MCA 2006 should do just that, while we're at it, let's just throw out this pesky "Due Process" and corresponding amendments: Amendment 5 and Amendment 14 (section 1) and subject people accused of any crime to summary execution. That will take care of terrorists, corporate fraud, tax evaders, drunks, and your stupid loud neighbor that you don't like all at the same time.
What the hell are we doing?
btw, I thought the quote from The Trial was particularly nice.
Mon 9 Oct 2006
Yes, that was how North Korea's bomb was described this morning on the BBC World Service.
Paraphasing:
The Russians estimated that the bomb had a yield of between 5 and 15 Kilotons. By comparison, the first nuclear bomb that the U.S. dropped on Hiroshima had a yield of about 15 Kilotons. So this is a quite basic atomic device.
As I have recently finished Hiroshima by John Hershey, here's what that "quite basic" bomb did to a city of 237,000 people.
I'm always overwhelmed by the British capability for understatement.
