2012 archive
The Voter Fraud Fraud 0
Voter fraud is not just a Republican lie.
It’s a Republican practice. Projection, anyone?
Earlier this week, Florida Republicans fired Virginia-based Strategic Allied Consulting after Palm Beach County flagged about 100 registration forms that looked suspicious because of signatures that looked alike and incompleteness. The Palm Beach County state attorney’s office is reviewing those forms, said spokeswoman Christine Weiss.
But subsequent to that revelation, other counties have reported irregularities with voter registration forms with the identification number of 11-93 — which traces back to the Republican Party of Florida.
A World of Their Own 0
The Commander Guy:
Meanwhile, Bob Cesca worries that the wingnut fuss over the polls is groundwork for gutting out the vote.
Colbert points the way to sanity–like bad DJs, the pollsters are over-sampling:
The Galt and the Lamers 0
This deserves to be in Bartlett’s.
Pass it on.
The Math 0
Jay Bookman reveals his formula for predicting the Presidential election.
I cannot do justice to it with a summary or excerpt. Just read it.
A. A Panel Discussion 0
Facebook Frolics, Connecting the Dots 0
You’ve seen Facebook Connect.
When a website invites you to login with your Facebook credentials, that’s Facebook Connect.
I always refuse that invitation, because, by so doing, I am not just logging into that website. I am also telling Facebook that I am logging in and permitting Facebook to track my actions while I’m there. I do the same if I login with Google, Twitter, or other credentials–I open myself to be tracked, then have my behavior sliced, diced, and sold to the highest bidder.
That is not safe HEX.
Indeed, if a site or service requires me to use my Facebook credentials, as Pandora does, I won’t use that site or service.
At MarketWatch, Jake Mann and Meena Krishnamsetty think that Facebook Connect is Facebook’s secret weapon to keep from becoming another penny stock:
If Facebook does choose to start charging for Connect, it would realize an additional $4.5 billion in annual revenues by the end of 2015. Considering the fact that current estimates from Wedbush Securities and eMarketer expect the company to finish 2012 with close to $5 billion in revenues, we can immediately see that any monetization of Facebook Connect would be material to the company’s bottom line.
And, regarding the slicing, dicing and selling, read this report at EFF.
Read it now.
Break Time 0
Off to drink liberally. Join us.
Facebook Frolics, Continued 0
A cyber-creep is still a creep.
Craig L. Wyatt Jr., 20, of Hamilton Township, told his alleged victims they had only a few weeks to live, so they should spend their time wisely.
Attn: Facebook Frolickers and Twitting Twits 1
Lord love a duck.
Justin Basini, CEO of the United Kingdom-based privacy company Allow, hopes this will be a trend that catches on. For £3.99 ($6.46) a month, the company provides a number of services to protect your social media networks and your personal information. Allow will provide legal advice if you are attacked online and want to sue. The company will also help to stop any legal action taken against you that was caused by the hacking.
Wouldn’t it be cheaper and simpler just to learn to practice safe HEX?
They Just Can’t Help Themselves 0
It’s part of what they have become.
ABL reports:
Why?
Because racism is always hilarious, and if you don’t think so, you should shut up and quit being so goddamn sensitive, that’s why.
Homework Assignment 0
The Commander Guy reads wingnut blogs so we don’t have to.