Apr

30

First Come Cellphone Towers, Then the Babel

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[From NYT]
Hundreds of communities have been waging fights against cellphone companies and the march of antennas into suburbia.
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Apr

30

Bob Dylan: With God on Our Side

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[From Bob Dylan]
Oh my name it is nothin’
My age it means less
The country I come from
Is called the Midwest
I’s taught and brought up there
The laws to abide
And that land that I live in
Has God on its side.
Oh the history books tell it
They tell it so well
The cavalries charged
The Indians fell
The cavalries charged
The Indians died
Oh the [...]

Apr

30

U.S. changes mind about RFID-enabled passports (sort of)

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[From Engadget]

Following some intense pressure from privacy advocates, the U.S. government has admitted that their plan to put RFID chips in people’s passports had some potentially huge security problems. The original design had an RFID chip that would broadcast personal information to speed up the processing of travellers, but in an interview Tuesday Frank [...]

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