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Thursday, November 14, 2002
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 Thursday, November 14, 2002
started 11/14/2002; 1:48:59 AM - last post 11/15/2002; 11:35:08 PM
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Doc Searls - Thursday, November 14, 2002 
11/14/2002; 5:48:59 AM (reads: 5338, responses: 10)
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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. |
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Fred Grott - The idiotacy of Government
11/14/2002; 1:35:25 PM (reads: 473, responses: 0)
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How does forcing terrorists to use tactics that prevnet tracking agood way to track down terrorist?
Before now the same information coudl be gathered under the appropirate legal conditions and thus a criminal woudl be caught.. the snippers in DC for example..
Now we are enacting a law thats says to all terrorist here is what we track..don;t use these methods and thus dramatically increase the amounbt of momeny, time, and manpower to track any teorrist within our own country..
We need to take to 'arms' and do new fing revloution..arm sin literal sense because i believe that internet, blogs, and etc are the new arms to sotp this idiot maddness..
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Ryan Irelan - A little help from your friends
11/14/2002; 2:14:57 PM (reads: 484, responses: 2)
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Doc, if you need some bandwidth (WiFi) and some coffee while in NC, I can help you out. I can point you towards several locations in the Chapel Hill/Carrboro area.
Ryan
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Doc Searls - Re: A little help from your friends
11/14/2002; 9:56:49 PM (reads: 513, responses: 1)
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I might. Right now I'm borrowing some at the Apple Store in Southpoint, a shopping center that was woods when I lived here. Just arrived. Waiting for help at the Genius Bar.
Thanks!
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Ryan Irelan - Re: A little help from your friends
11/14/2002; 10:04:50 PM (reads: 582, responses: 0)
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Not a problem. The benches outside of the store is a nice place to take advantage of some free emergency bandwidth...unsuspectingly. ;-) WiFi at the mall is a good thing!
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Jed S. Baer - Homeland Security vs. Digital ID
11/14/2002; 11:08:12 PM (reads: 481, responses: 0)
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I hope I'm not the only one to notice the great juxtaposition of Safire's comments, only the day after your article on how great a digital ID could be. Yet, this digital ID, with the sort of interlinks you describe is just the sort of thing that Poindexter, et. al., would love to get their hands on and use. After all, making their data mining operation easier by having your electronic footprints tagged with a common identifier plays right into their hands.
Some time ago, before the DigitalID World conference, you said "We need somebody speaking for the customer here". Same sort of thing is in order WRT Homeland Security. Except it's the citizens who need a voice. So far, the closest I've heard about has been one Congressman talking about the need to balance homeland security with the rights of federal employees. And the labor union angle has been, until now the chief sticking point. But is anyone raising the Fourth Amendment as an issue?
As long as I'm writing, here's my "customer" response for a digital ID.
Good luck with restoring your e-mail, too.
jed
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Mary Lu Wehmeier - Re: Thursday, November 14, 2002
11/15/2002; 12:32:47 PM (reads: 447, responses: 0)
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Doc: I'm putting this year because you're email's FUBARED. Sorry to hear you're luck with computers is worse than your luck at the blackjack tables. I'm heading into Vegas early Sunday AM. Will call you this weekend to check in. I got you invites to several things including Pat Meier's Lunch@ Piero's. Do you want me at the Monday Conference/Panel? Do not forget Thursday Board Mtg. Mary Lu
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Mary Lu Wehmeier - Re: Thursday, November 14, 2002
11/15/2002; 12:32:55 PM (reads: 465, responses: 2)
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Doc: I'm putting this year because you're email's FUBARED. Sorry to hear you're luck with computers is worse than your luck at the blackjack tables. I'm heading into Vegas early Sunday AM. Will call you this weekend to check in. I got you invites to several things including Pat Meier's Lunch@ Piero's. Do you want me at the Monday Conference/Panel? Do not forget Thursday Board Mtg. Mary Lu
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Howard Greenstein - Re: Thursday, November 14, 2002
11/15/2002; 7:57:20 PM (reads: 516, responses: 1)
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Doc,
I spoke to an Apple person - they say there is a Norton Utils for OS X that will probably recover your files. Pick up a copy. If that doesn't work, call or email me at the usual places and I'll try to help more.
Best,
Howard
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For any of you looking for Doc--
His laptop is down for the count with a HD thrashing like a dying mongoose and trying to get Norton to fix the problem. He's working without a  to quote him. The only thing that's working is his cell phone.
Should you need to reach him-- Email me with a good reason at mwehmeier@compuserve.com and I'll pass the info along.
Mary Lu
Mary L. Wehmeier
Just call me Backup, Sir.
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Doc Searls - Re: Thursday, November 14, 2002
11/16/2002; 3:11:05 PM (reads: 570, responses: 0)
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Thanks.
I picked up a copy of the new Norton at the Apple Store in Durham soon as I got off the plane on Thursday. That's what I've been using to recover files. (BTW, it's billed as OS X, but it's just "compatible" with OS X. You have to boot up from the CD in OS 9.2. The tech at Norton, who I paid an extra $29.95 for prompt service, blamed Apple, saying it isn't yet possible to boot OS X from a CD, or something like that. Whatever.) But what I'm recovering is pretty ugly stuff. The most intact mailboxes are the oldest ones that I'm sure I've got backup CDs for back home. The current ones are munged terribly.
Not sure what to do.
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