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Thursday, July 4, 2013
NYTimes.com reports on the USPS photographing the outside of every piece of paper mail sent in the US. You know, so they can track who you've communicated with. Happy #4thofjuly!
From the article:
As the world focuses on the high-tech spying of the National Security Agency, the misplaced card offers a rare glimpse inside the seemingly low-tech but prevalent snooping of the United States Postal Service.
Mr. Pickering was targeted by a longtime surveillance system called mail covers, a forerunner of a vastly more expansive effort, the Mail Isolation Control and Tracking program, in which Postal Service computers photograph the exterior of every piece of paper mail that is processed in the United States — about 160 billion pieces last year. It is not known how long the government saves the images.
Why does the USG need to know so much about us? They're snoping on our email AND our snail mail.
If this were really the land of the free this kind of surveillance would not be going on.
Happy 4th of July, everyone! >_<
Wednesday, July 3, 2013
@SierraRein and I in line at @nypl to see a draft of the Declaration of Independence written in Jefferson's own hand! Oh, and the Bill of Rights. But nobody cares about that. ;)
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Tuesday, July 2, 2013
Op-Ed on NYTimes.com describes how #SCOTUS has limited corporations' ability to be sued and held accountable. Like they didn't have it easy enough already.
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Monday, July 1, 2013
Aw, sayonara N-Drive! I never used you and now I'm glad since downloading 20GB of my data to save it from your shutdown would have been a pain.
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Looking at my website on #Glass. I think I need a Glass-specific layout now. #sheesh #myglass #screenshot
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TheGlassLog (TheGlassLog) Day 1
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My wife and I sitting in the lobby outside of Google's demo stations on the 8th floor of the Chelsea Market here in NYC.[/caption]
Immediate positives:
1) Glass is very cool. This platform, as expected, has a LOT of potential. Currently, it feels like much of the world is right there, waiting for your eyeball. Though, sadly, it's not as easy as it should be to get at it.
2) It's the Wild West in here--everything is rough around the edges and harder to use than the smart phones we're all comfortable with now. This makes it more cumbersome to use Glass than a smart phone, but it's also much more exciting to use it. I feel like anything is possible it's like living on the frontier.
3) Glass is super-comfy to wear. As of Day 1, I had no problem wearing it for hours. I had no headaches, no dizziness, and no discomfort at all.
4) It works well with Dropbox--but only when I connect it to my Mac. Strangely, Glass doesn't mount like removable media and my Win7 netbook refuses to see it or my Android phone or my DSLR because the MTP drivers won't load. The latter isn't the fault of Glass, however.
5) While the battery life doesn't weather Google+ Hangouts very well, it does recharge pretty fast. It's first recharge took just a few hours.
6) It was super-cool to watch a video from CNN on Glass. It was like the news was breaking on my face.
Immediate problems:
My wife and I sitting in the lobby outside of Google's demo stations on the 8th floor of the Chelsea Market here in NYC.[/caption]Immediate positives:
1) Glass is very cool. This platform, as expected, has a LOT of potential. Currently, it feels like much of the world is right there, waiting for your eyeball. Though, sadly, it's not as easy as it should be to get at it.
2) It's the Wild West in here--everything is rough around the edges and harder to use than the smart phones we're all comfortable with now. This makes it more cumbersome to use Glass than a smart phone, but it's also much more exciting to use it. I feel like anything is possible it's like living on the frontier.
3) Glass is super-comfy to wear. As of Day 1, I had no problem wearing it for hours. I had no headaches, no dizziness, and no discomfort at all.
4) It works well with Dropbox--but only when I connect it to my Mac. Strangely, Glass doesn't mount like removable media and my Win7 netbook refuses to see it or my Android phone or my DSLR because the MTP drivers won't load. The latter isn't the fault of Glass, however.
5) While the battery life doesn't weather Google+ Hangouts very well, it does recharge pretty fast. It's first recharge took just a few hours.
6) It was super-cool to watch a video from CNN on Glass. It was like the news was breaking on my face.
Immediate problems:
The #EXIF data from the very first photo I shot with #Glass. This one's for my fellow photographers & photo hobbyists! #EXIFPORN #ShowMeYourExif #GoogleGlass
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