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Thursday, November 14, 2002
Major emergency here 
| | I just went to back up my hard drive, and somehow seem to have erased all my mail going back, like, forever. I have no idea how I did it, but ... aw jeez. |
| | It's in Eudora 5.1. OS X version. |
| | In the past I'd recover this stuff with Norton. Now I have no idea. |
| | I'd say email me something, but the better way right now would be to post something on the Discussion section to the left here. |
| | I'll just haul the laptop and the backup drive to NC with me and work on it there. So much for leaving the backup at home. |
On the plane again
| | I leave at 5-something in the morning on the first of three planes that will take me to North Carolina. After that, Las Vegas for Comdex, where I'll be on a panel with Aaron and others. Back home next Wednesday morning |
| | So if I go quiet at times, you'll know why. |
Particulars of Bill
| | If the Homeland Security Act is not amended before passage, here is what will happen to you: |
| | Every purchase you make with a credit card, every magazine subscription you buy and medical prescription you fill, every Web site you visit and e-mail you send or receive, every academic grade you receive, every bank deposit you make, every trip you book and every event you attend — all these transactions and communications will go into what the Defense Department describes as "a virtual, centralized grand database." |
| | To this computerized dossier on your private life from commercial sources, add every piece of information that government has about you — passport application, driver's license and bridge toll records, judicial and divorce records, complaints from nosy neighbors to the F.B.I., your lifetime paper trail plus the latest hidden camera surveillance — and you have the supersnoop's dream: a "Total Information Awareness" about every U.S. citizen. |
| | It hits even harder than that. Read it. |
There are responses to this message:Doc's Down, Mary Lu Wehmeier, 11/15/02; 11:35:08 PM Re: Thursday, November 14, 2002, Mary Lu Wehmeier, 11/15/02; 8:32:55 AM Re: Thursday, November 14, 2002, Mary Lu Wehmeier, 11/15/02; 8:32:47 AM Homeland Security vs. Digital ID, Jed S. Baer, 11/14/02; 7:08:12 PM A little help from your friends, Ryan Irelan, 11/14/02; 10:14:57 AM The idiotacy of Government, Fred Grott, 11/14/02; 9:35:25 AM
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