An Australian court has ruled that a posting on someone’s Facebook page can serve as legal notice.
You know, I don’t think Facebook has reached the status of local paper yet. And in my brief experience with it (I joined last month) I don’t think it ever will.
I find it disturbing that the courts would start looking at the Internet, and an Internet based service, as a non-ephemeral institution. The Internet has only been a commercial entity for, what, 15 years? It has so many gaping security holes in it that I have a hard time conceiving why a judge would consider any non-encrypted Internet transaction to have legal standing. And it would have to be encrypted in a particularly onerous method (physically meet to pass keys). Given that the major hack found recently had the ability to strip all secured transactions of their security and that it has been in the Internet DNS code from the beginning gives one pause about trusting anything on the ‘net in our lifetimes. And 10% of the servers out there haven’t implemented the patch.
What else is hiding in the basement code, waiting to be exploited?
It’s sort of like thinking all those AAA rated bonds based on mortgages are actually worth something.
On September 3, 1967, at 04.50 in the morning, the traffic everywhere in
Sweden was directed over to the right side of the road and stopped. Everything
stood absolutely still for 10 minutes, and at 05.00, when it started again,
all road users in Sweden from heavy trucks to cyclists were already on the
right side of the road, and they have stayed there since.
BERKELEY,
Calif. (MarketWatch) — There is a story about how Sweden changed from
driving on the left-hand side of the road to the right side back in
1967. The Swedes, being orderly, decided to let the trucks and buses
switch to the right side of the road for the first week of the
transition, and then cars switched on the second week.
Is there a story about Sweden changing the way he says? I don’t know, I never heard of it. But it sort of defeats the purpose of his rant to start off with a lie. If it is supposed to be a joke then it doesn’t seem appropriate since the digital TV cut over is being done in one fell swoop. Of course it might defeat the purpose of his rant if he mentioned that the Swedish car accident rate reached a low point at the time of the cut over.
I saw a very interesting sky tonight and after giving the horses their grain I went back inside to get the camera. In that short period, the sky lost interest and this is what I got.
Then I tried to capture the horses-
That’s Hap
That’s Rags
Magic is a bit tricky to catch, even with a flash.
But if you are suitably sneaky and can distract her…
Elaine posted a link on how to use leftover Netflix flaps and I surprised her 5 minutes later with this:
Netflix Tray Origami
I have a few extra flaps laying around.
I also wanted to show off my new monitor, a Samsung 943BWX. It has a 16:10 aspect ration and you can rotate the screen so you get a profile instead landscape presentation. Very neat. As you can see on the screen, I was able to get the equivalent of two screens of the origami instructions at one time.
Elaine was rather surprised at how easy it was to configure the X11 file to rotate the display and to have it actually work.
Note to self- don’t use a black-sided flap for the origami if you are going to take a picture of it.
