links for 2008-10-20

"Airport security in America is a sham—“security theater” designed to make travelers feel better and catch stupid terrorists. Smart ones can get through security with fake boarding passes and all manner of prohibited items—as our correspondent did with ease." Old news to me, but important to remember.

First it's commercially nonviable and second no such thing as a perfect system, everything can be broken even with the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle. Someone will figure out a way to read the message in between or capture it at a repeater, etc.

Sadly I agree, Palin sounds like she is connected to the heartland but isn't, doesn't answer questions and defiantly lowered the standards for what we expect from our female politicians.

Great Skype calls in China are being recorded and re-transmitted when they contain certain key words.

It's not that we have more information it's simply that there is less filtering.

Even those who normally fight for a balanced budget are not wanting it.

Some really smart and sound changes for CSS to be really improved.

"The website of a record label which offers completely free music downloads has been taken down by its host for copyright infringement, even though it only offers its own music. Quote Unquote Records calls itself “The First Ever Donation Based Record Label”, but is currently homeless after its host pulled the plug." This is the kind of stupidity copyright causes.

Social skills really are important to being a successful employee.

The New Yorker has a cartoon off with XKCD and interviews Randall, it's awesome.

Car valuation is all in our mind, courtesy of a nine-year old.

What is the craziest/best player you've seen in sports, this one beats all.

China is serious about getting rid of corruption.

I'm glad the US is reacting reasonably, however Russia is defiantly trying to flex it's muscles again.

The stock market is a good thing overall, yeah you sometimes lose money, so what?

"They are 13 percentage points more likely to report that they “feel as strongly” about their online communities as about their off-line ones, and they outnumber women three to one within the small pool of people who say that their online life cuts back on time spent with flesh-and-blood friends."

Politics is weird accuse on one hand, good on the other.

$150 mil this month, $605 mil total.

That's huge for independents. He said that Obama would electrify the nation and the world, McCain campaign going not just negative but spreading lies (Obama is a Muslim), and Palin is not ready for the White House.

Wow, DNC/Obama outspending RNC/McCain 3.5 to 1.