Musings of Wired Pig

Microsoft, in 2008, published a document detailing the various privacy policies of Microsoft services and the ways that Microsoft can expose user data to law enforcement, among other things.
This document, below, was the subject of a DMCA request by Microsoft to force the operator of Cryptome to remove the document on Feb 24th as they [...]

A few random thoughts -
Climate/Global Warming -
UK climate researcher Phil Jones, the head of the British Climatic Research Unit tells the BBC that the recent warming trend that began in 1975 is not at all different than two other planetary warming phases since 1850; there has been no statistically significant warming since 1995, and; it [...]

Hat to to @Harlem for posting this.

I am in the planning stages for converting my current WordPress theme from HTML 4 to HTML 5.

Being early in the planning phase I am looking up HTML 5 resources and gathering links that may be useful.

Just some Google Voice Spam Voice Mail I’ve been getting.

Here it is- the promo for the Boom Effect. Podcasting’s Rich Sigfrit, Tony Mast of the Back Seat Producers and Philippa Ballantine of Chasing the Bard find a way to both promote the auction and also give social media a gentle ribbing.

It’s never easy to hear of or see a child in pain. When it is your child, it’s a thousand fold more difficult.
I was, yet again, reminded of this when my youngest had her heart broken. It was the result of the loss of a family member.
She had, along with her eldest [...]

As usual I received this from my mom.

Growing up Lutheran I can appreciate the humor in this.

This is something most of America has not heard of. Familial DNA is the process of using found DNA at a crime scene to search for ‘near matches’ in a DNA database when a direct match isn’t found.

According to a report in CNet, Americans do “not have a legitimate expectation of privacy in the cell phone” location information saved/stored by their cellular provider. This was noted in a 2009 opinion by U.S. District Judge William Pauley in a drug trafficking case. Pauley went on to not that, “if Navas (the defendant in [...]