Burningbirdupdate Yesterday, I was able to upload my identification. Now, some human somewhere will have to concur that it indeed verifies I am me. In the meantime, USA Today has posted a story with tech details about the fixes being done on the system this weekend. It interviews the “top technology expert” behind the system, who managed […]
The company Lavabit shut down rather than give the government encryption keys that would expose all private communication related to its email server. This is the same server used by Edward Snowden. The Lavabit founder, Ladar Levinson, was finally able to get the court documents related to this action unsealed, and they were posted yesterday. […]
I joined the masses in attempting to access the new Healthcare Exchange yesterday. I thought I had an edge by creating an account with the system a few weeks back, but no such luck. Attempting to log in kept resulting in a blank page (which showed itself to be a “downstream error” when accessing the […]
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has released its long awaited climate change report. An executive summary was released on Friday, and the complete but unedited report will be available on Monday. Grist has an excellent collection of links to writings about the report, including a sprinkling from the usual skeptical sources. You really need […]
update NBC has cancelled Under Wild Skies. The show—hosted by NRA lobbyist Tony Makris—isn’t being canceled for that episode with the elephant shooting, exactly (though that didn’t help). Instead it’s because Makris compared his critics to Hitler earlier this week. Hitler. How quaint. earlier Those folks at the NRA…they never stop in their quest to do […]