Internet usage tax to pay for cybersecurity programs?

By Lounge Daddy, 3 March, 2010, No Comment

Microsoft Vice President for Trustworthy Computing Scott Charney is pitching an Internet usage fee to pay for a Federal Government cybersecurity program. Recall that this is a cybersecurity program that, as of this time, will grant the President “emergency powers” over the Internet.

The Onion: “Google Responds To Privacy Concerns With Unsettlingly Specific Apology”

By Lounge Daddy, 3 March, 2010, No Comment

Whether you’re Michael Paulson who lives at 3425 Longview Terrace and makes $86,400 a year, or Jessica Goldblatt from Lynnwood, WA, who already has well-established trust issues, we at Google would just like to say how very, truly sorry we are.

God talks to Michigan man, tells him to mic a clock and shoot up hotel room

By Lounge Daddy, 3 March, 2010, No Comment

Sure, the guy is crazy. Not because he shot up a hotel room. Not because he nuked a clock. But because he thinks God delivered him by sending him to Albion, Michigan. Yikes!

Cybersecurity bill to give president new emergency powers

By Lounge Daddy, 1 March, 2010, No Comment

When early reports predicted the cybersecurity measure would allow the president to “declare a cybersecurity emergency,” online privacy groups said they felt that would endow the White House with overly ambiguous and far-reaching powers to regulate the Internet.

The bill will still contain most of those powers, and a “vast majority” of its other components “remain unchanged,” an aide with knowledge of the legislation told The Hill.

Patriot Act Renewed

By Lounge Daddy, 26 February, 2010, No Comment

The Republicrats with the ā€œDā€ after their name control both Congress and the White House. And they renewed the Act w/out any civil liberties provisions. The more things change, the more they stay the same.

School Administrator Boasts About Spying On Students In Their Homes

By Lounge Daddy, 26 February, 2010, No Comment

On PBS, Dan Ackerman, a vice-principal, bragged that the government schools use the cameras in school-issued laptops to watch the children, without the children even knowing about it. And he demonstrated it on the television program.

Bags made of old life vests, shoes made of old tvs

By Lounge Daddy, 26 February, 2010, No Comment

… and fashion accessories made from road kill.

Flash Vid Fri – manicure without a license

By Lounge Daddy, 26 February, 2010, No Comment

This guy intentionally did manicures without a license (ie, without permission from the State in exchange for money) to show how absurd these kinds of laws are.

He was arrested.

baby DNA being sent to military lab

By Lounge Daddy, 25 February, 2010, No Comment

The State claims that the intentions are entirely innocent. Vague appeals to science = we can trust government. Right?

Police secretly attaching electronic tracking devices to people’s cars

By Lounge Daddy, 25 February, 2010, No Comment

In arresting Weinman last June, police detectives said they had attached an an electronic tracking device to his car that placed him in the immediate area of one killing reported June 6.