Musings of Wired Pig

A very sweet video has been posted over at Engadget showing the Courrier UI.
Courrier is Microsoft’s Tablet/ebook device and, from the UI Demo Video below, it looks sweet. Take a look and also check out the Engadget article fore more info.

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 [...]

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 [...]

My wife, a former Jehovah’s Witness, received this email from her mother, an active Witness. I thought I would pass it along, as it is wholly incorrect. This single email, being sent to WTBTS members shows a singular lack of awareness about the movie “Avatar” and about the internet as a whole. The author of this email is instilling a false scriptual based fear in those WTBTS members reading the email.

The Director of National Intelligence has come out and said  that U.S. agencies may take action against U.S. citizens abroad who are a threat to Americans. According to the report, Blair is quoted as saying -
He was speaking publicly about the issue to reassure Americans that intelligence agencies and the Department of Defense “follow a [...]

Dedicated to Mrs. Natalie Morris.
I received this story, as I’m sure some of you have, via an email. With the recent events in my friend Tee Morris life I thought this to be timely and appropriate.
I was at the corner grocery store buying some early potatoes.. I noticed a small boy, delicate of bone and [...]

INTERPOL gains Diplomatic Immunity and should you be declared a “Suspected Enemy Combatant” you are a non-person according to the Supreme Court.

Two years ago today I was almost killed. Since that time I’ve been searching for my purpose in life. I’ve made a recent discovery, one that’s been there all along, as to what my purpose is. I’m not going to come out and say it, not right this moment, but I will get to it. Let me tell a story.

In a recent article over at the LA Times, Brightkite CEO Jonathon Linner made a few interesting comments that were quoted. One of the best is, “Guys will go where the hot chicks are.” This comment basically prompted a Brightkite user, a female user, to post on the service that the CEO was, in effect, pimping out his female users.