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Via Wired News: “Campaign Sites Lack Security”

My favorite part:

“Several of the faults are critical; they can be easily exploited with serious repercussions,” said the researcher. “And the fact I could run this scan remotely points to the complete lack and utter uselessness of their network security.”

Maybe it’s just me… But if you claim to take security and privacy seriously, maybe you should have thought about these things before now…?

Ah yes… The move. Where did we leave off? I owe pictures (see below). The good: The house roxxors my boxxors. The bad: The couch didn’t quite make it through the 30″ door into the living room (but we’ll just see about that in the long run…) And how are we? Sore-sore-sore. And still “net dark” … since Verizon failed to mention several technical and federally-regulated points when I called to order service and schedule installation. But ANYWAY… That’s neither here nor there.

And now in no particular order, images of “moving out” and “moving in”…:

Move went OK! More/less anyway. We’re stoked but still “net dark” at home until Verizon can get its act together on the DSL front. *le sigh* Anyhoo… Images coming soon!

random thought while driving home this p.m. Since 99.9% of our CDs are in a box for the move, I made myself this mix CD-R recently to “get me through” the assorted necessary driving. ANYWAY one of the tracks I burned was BT’s “Fibonacci Sequence” — the full version off of the bonus disc of the UK release of “Movement in Still Life”. I noticed all these weird but subtle differences between it and every other version of it I’ve every heard. Something slightly different between it and the white label single version of it in my record crate. Something a little bit different between those two and the one on the Sasha “Ibiza” GU mix. Something… You get the idea…

Anyhoo– I got to thinking about tracks as living things. If you’ve ever written a song using Acid or Reason or your guitar or all three, then you kind of already know what this means. Except that those are all private versions. Fuck ups. Practices. Jams. Sessions. You might share a dubbed copy with a buddy you’re working on it w/ but that’s it. But you listen to it evolve over time. You help shape it. Now stretch out a little bit. Some artist mixes up a new track, gets a dubplate crushed and hooks up a DJ friend with that copy. It’s now out there in the venue and with enough plays could become recognized. That combination of beat and bassline. Something along those lines. Three months later, it gets released on white label. Same track. Instantly recognizable. But the breakdown is a little longer. Or a sample has been thrown over top, something like that. Six months later, signed to a mid-size label and distributed all over the place… You get the idea…

And not to get political… But this seems so natural that it makes sense in a lot of ways to be a young artist riding Creative Commons licenses all over the place. If only b/c it gives your proponents a little flexibility. Help us help you…

• PCMCIA card adapter that plugs in via Firewire. (Instead of these that we have seen simply quite enough of…)
• Firewire based 802.11g adapter for the older iBooks. Similar to the Netgear MA111 USB adapter. But G. And Firewire.
• Tabber browser (or browser plug-in) that reminds me of the referrer of a given page that has been opened in a new browser. B/c if you’re anything like me, by the time you get to tab #37 you can’t remember if you opened it from Blogdex or Engadget or…

Currently Playing: Meat Beat Manifesto - Radio Mellotron >> Theorem vs. Swayzak - Unherluferlick

Couple of recent, fairly random conversations recently have me snickering and/or pondering at what our machine host names are and what they say about us. What conventions have we adopted? Scorned? How are our values or senses of humor reflected in the couple of characters before the $ prompt? What face fo you put on for your network (even if it is just a loopback)?

A friend is: [nameWithheld]@slattern$

I am: rob@ketelone$

What about you?

1. Essential reading: Cory Doctorow’s DRM talk to/for the Microsoft dev milieu.
   

   I’m an edge case here, but I’m a leading edge case. If Apple succeeds in its business plans, it will only be a matter of time until even average customers have upgraded enough hardware and bought enough music to end up where I am.

2. Speaking of “i” music ish… It sickens me…
3. …but you still have to admit that the cult of Mac seems to produce all kinds of tasty wishful thinking.
4. The Supreme Court has made me want to never carry ID ever again … if only out of spite. At least it was a close vote…?
5. One week to go… How much longer can you hold your breath? Oh, and have you made your predictions yet?
6. Does Verizon always make it difficult to order DSL service? Or is this all just some practical joke?
7. MOVING AT THE END OF THE FRIGGIN’ WEEK!?!?
8. Removable and washable!
9. At the end of the day, all you can ever really wonder is: What would Jesus do for a Klondike bar?

Seems the only thing that Cory Doctorow got wrong is that it’s “Sister Machine Gun” and not “Sister Machinegun”. Otherwise: B’gock!

Timing being what it is, I’d *just*just*just* re-discovered Positron! Records… A & I have caned the Eco-hed album to death for years now (not to mention Micronaut…) and all of the sudden the other weekend I check the URL out of some weird fancy and download an hours worth of kick-ass tuneage (e.g., beautiful assassins!? impossible recording machine!?) and think to myself: “Self, you should have been watching this label more closely the whole time.”

I still love you, Chris Randall.

When spring sprang, nobody around here noticed it. It was still cold and precipitous and… Well, as my buddy Scott said: “Vermont has 4 seasons — almost winter, winter, still winter, and construction.” But we noticed when summer settled in and stretched its big arms out. In the middle of all this chaotic moving madness, don’t forget to check out it’s little surprises. Like the first Niobe blooms:

BugMeNot.com Screw you NewYorkTimes.com.