Airport snoop system thrown in $102m garbage can

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Airport security failures justify
CAPPS-II snoop system

Airport security failures justify
CAPPS-II snoop system 04/26/2004 03:53 PM
Welcome to database Hell

American Airlines data used to test
passenger snoop system

American Airlines data used to test
passenger snoop system 04/13/2004 12:38 PM
TSA to inaugurate frequent liar club?

Garbage, garbage everywhere, and not a
drop to drink!

Garbage, garbage everywhere, and not a
drop to drink! 04/07/2005 12:53 PM
The Garbage House is a bizarre but all-too -common phenomenon. Garbage houses often seem to be a product of a particular type of obsessive-compulsive disorder called compulsive hoarding. The hoarding [wmv, direct] may be of g arbage, animals, (the neighborhood "cat lady") or perhaps even "collectibles" from eBay. The most compulsive hoarders seem to be the Collyer Brothers[*], even prompting a book.

Airport Uses Web-Based Flight Info
System (AP)

Airport Uses Web-Based Flight Info
System (AP) 01/03/2005 09:39 PM
AP - Fresno's airport is the first in the nation to use a Web-based wireless system that relies on radar — not the carriers — for the flight information displayed in its terminals, airport officials said.

Airport Uses Web-Based Flight Info
System

Airport Uses Web-Based Flight Info
System 01/04/2005 12:32 AM
San Jose Mercury News Jan 4 2005 4:09AM GMT

Dallas Airport Puts in New Bag-Scan
System

Dallas Airport Puts in New Bag-Scan
System 04/12/2005 08:45 AM
Red Nova Apr 12 2005 1:19PM GMT

Las Vegas airport implements RFID
bag-tag system

Las Vegas airport implements RFID
bag-tag system 11/07/2003 08:52 AM
Computer Weekly Nov 7 2003 8:26AM ET

Dallas Airport Puts in New Bag-Scan
System (AP)

Dallas Airport Puts in New Bag-Scan
System (AP) 04/11/2005 08:37 PM
AP - An automated bag-scanning system has gone into effect at the Dallas-Forth Worth International Airport, part of a national effort to make airports safer after the Sept. 11 attacks.

Las Vegas airport to implement RFID
baggage-tag system

Las Vegas airport to implement RFID
baggage-tag system 11/06/2003 06:10 PM
The Transportation Security Administration is funding the lion's share of the $125 million project.

The right to snoop

The right to snoop 04/14/2004 11:44 PM
USA Today Apr 15 2004 3:50AM GMT

Why Apple's Airport Express May
Unofficially Extend Non-Airport Networks

Why Apple's Airport Express May
Unofficially Extend Non-Airport Networks 06/07/2004 05:15 PM

Even though Apple is claiming on their website that the new Airport Express can only act as a network range extender (signal repeater) with other Airport devices (look at the bottom of this page), WiFi Networking News's Glenn Fleishman explains why the Airport Express may just work with some non-Apple devices after all:

AirPort Prices Drop Before Airport
Express Release (05-Jul-2004; 1.5K)

AirPort Prices Drop Before Airport
Express Release (05-Jul-2004; 1.5K) 07/05/2004 08:48 PM

Stripe Snoop 1.4

Stripe Snoop 1.4 08/06/2004 08:17 PM
Captures, modifies, generates, and analyzes magstripe data.

Stripe Snoop

Stripe Snoop 07/14/2004 11:57 AM
Stripe Snoop 1.2 released

Stripe Snoop 1.5

Stripe Snoop 1.5 08/09/2004 04:12 AM
Captures, modifies, generates, and analyzes magstripe data.

Taking out the garbage

Taking out the garbage 09/01/2004 06:14 AM

Scoble was fascinated how news of the Longhorn recalc propogated, but he missed the most fascinating aspect of the announcement. Microsoft shipped the story on a Friday night, I even got a detailed email from a Waggenerette, but the blogosphere waited until Monday to carry the story.

It wasn't that we were on vacation or weren't checking email over the weekend, it's just that by announcing it on Friday, Microsoft was clearly "taking out the garbage" (a term I learned from The West Wing). The blogosphere didn't play along. Blog flow over weekends, esp a late summer weekend, is miniscule compared to the flow on a Monday morning.

Garbage day in the village

Garbage day in the village 05/29/2004 08:51 PM

May 30, or 530. 5 3 can be read "gomi" in Japanese which means garbage. So what does May 30 mean in our village? Garbage 0 day. This morning, I participated with most of the village in picking up trash and junk around the village. Along one of the roads, there was an area that was clearly being used as an illegal garbage dump by many people. There were mufflers, car batteries, toilets, beds, bicycles and even a car dumped there. We spent the morning hoisting this junk out of the mud and carrying it in trucks to a location where the local government would come and collect it for us.

There were many children helping out as well. Hopefully this annual garage day will help educate them not to dump trash by the road.

I got a chance to meet more of my neighbors so it was nice. I still have a hard time remembering everyone's name but sharing this massive chore with the whole village was quite a bonding experience.

"Still, it's really the only name thrown
out"

"Still, it's really the only name thrown
out" 07/09/2004 10:11 PM

Mail Snoop Pro 1.00.160 RC1 Released

Mail Snoop Pro 1.00.160 RC1 Released 11/07/2003 11:10 AM

Mail Snoop Pro 1.03.071 Beta

Mail Snoop Pro 1.03.071 Beta 07/07/2004 09:51 AM
TechTree Jul 7 2004 2:15PM GMT

Smieciuch Garbage Collector

Smieciuch Garbage Collector 10/28/2003 11:06 PM
Smieicuh 0.3.2 is out now

Reforming a garbage house

Reforming a garbage house 12/04/2003 08:21 PM
This is an inspiring story about an obsessive "hoarder" whose home had become a garbage house, so full of crap that he was in danger of going to jail for criminal violations of local ordinances. Then the county counsel cut a deal with the president of the local chapter of the National Assn. of Professional Organizers to help the craphound clean up his life -- and he allowed a news-crew to document the process.

Drum, wearing a wide-brimmed straw hat tied under his chin, will supervise from a chair near the garage. Breininger is jazzed. Drum has kept his promise not to bring anything back into the two rooms the crew cleared out a week ago.

Drum is nervous. He frets about the broken windows and rotting flooring, things that must be fixed to put him back on the right side of the law. And he wants shelves so he can have his books, now boxed, around him.

"First, we get you organized, then we'll figure out how to take care of the repairs and the beautification," Breininger reminds him.

Link (via Making Light)

Auto garbage collection

Auto garbage collection 10/02/2002 11:17 PM
CNET Oct 2 2002 10:02PM ET

Adventures in Garbage Collecting

Adventures in Garbage Collecting 04/09/2004 04:10 PM
One of the nice things about being within driving distance of people who're phenomenally smarter than you are is that you sometimes get the benefits of their research. (Though Citeseer's darned nice too) For the interested, there's a seminar on garbage collection at MIT on Monday April 5th 2004. The announcement follows: "A (Grand?) Unified Theory of Storage Reclamation"Speaker: David F. BaconHost: Professor Martin RinardHost Affiliation: Computer Architecture Group Date: 4-5-2004Time: 3:30 PM - 5:00 PMRefreshments: 3:15 PMLocation: Gates 7th Floor Lounge The two basic forms of automatic storage reclamation, tracing and reference counting, were invented at the dawn of...

Garbage man damage update

Garbage man damage update 03/19/2005 03:02 AM
Mark Frauenfelder: (Click thumbnail image for enlargement) Here's an update from yesterday's garbage man damage report. The cable guy spliced the TV cable yesterday afternoon. He did a nice job. I gave him an orange from the orange tree.

The phone company won't come until Saturday. I was getting tired of having no internet or landline phone, so late yesterday afternoon I grabbed the phone cable that was lying across the road and ran with it quickly to the ladder and got up on the roof with it. (I had to run fast because there were a lot of cars on the street and I didn't want one to drive into the cable when it was only a couple of feet off the ground.) Then I took a bunch of wire nuts and some wire strippers and spliced the severed wires. Doesn't it look pretty? This ought to do until the phone repairman comes and yells at me for fixing it myself.
Also, here are a couple of emails I've gotten about yesterday's incident:

Jay says: I feel your pain about having the lines cut--I work from home and the loss of my cable line would be a disaster. And your garbage man sounds like a jerk. But don't castigate them all. There are deadlines--the crap has to be picked up in one day whether every house leaves one bag or a small mountain. I think there is plenty of stress too. Garbage stinks--and plenty of it is heavy and awkward to lift. I have left hot water tanks, washers, dryers, mounds of wet drywall, paneling, chunks of concrete--and plenty of good ol' household waste. It gets cleared away without fanfare, and I am very grateful. I live in a pretty affluent community and the garbage men make about 13 bucks an hour. Maybe trying to make ends meet on that paltry sum engenders some anger; for sure, it is hard to derive much joy and fun from life on such a cruddy wage. Or maybe it is the people who get impatient and roar around a stopped truck and nearly run them down all the time. Whatever. I don't call that well-paid, and I am ashamed it isn't higher. You had a bad day for sure, but I thought I'd point out how you came across and offer the other side. Boingboing is one the few things that lives up to its billing "a directory of wonderful things." Just this once, not so wonderful. -- Jay

Levi says: If you're looking for an answer [to the question "Why are garbage men so angry?], re-read what you said. When times get tough, you can fall back on your social status, education, or whatever else you inherently feel the world owes you. He, on the other hand, gets the shit end of that world payment structure. He implicitly takes the shit from people like you for being lesser than you. Feed that cycle back for years and years, and you get your incident today.

Greg says: Here are some answers:
1) He was as high as he thought he could be and still do his job.  It's a boring job.  
2) Realistically, it's not all that well-paid, and there's no room for advancement, especially without a bit of education.  
3) They can be fired, but they have to work at it.  Maybe this is his chance?  One of our guys rolled his oversize truck on a residential street in front of a visiting dignitary.  That works, but you need to be on a hill.  
4) It's a boring job, and you only get to listen to junk radio. 

Joshua says: Our garbagemen knocked over our mailbox and just kept going. Which meant the post office wouldn't deliver our mail until the mailbox was fixed (because they post office won't deliver to our door, only to our streetside mailbox--I don't know why). My wife called our landlady, who called the city about the mailbox. The mailbox was fixed (by our handyman), but as far as we know, nothing ever happened to the garbagemen who knocked over the mailbox.  

Thrown Back

Thrown Back 04/09/2005 01:07 AM
He is apparently neither an attorney, nor does he hold a law degree .. Fr. Rob Johansen reports .. Thrown Back

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How to get thrown out of Google

How to get thrown out of Google 12/19/2004 03:32 PM
Virtuelvis writes about Googles decision to remove Radisson SAS (major hotel chain) from their search engine after intentionally spamming Googles database. Spam and be punished Norwegian digi.no is reporting as their main headline of the day that the Radisson SAS...

Chicago looks to ogle its own with snoop
network

Chicago looks to ogle its own with snoop
network 09/10/2004 02:44 PM
Eye on Skokie

Snoop Dogg Files for Divorce (AP)

Snoop Dogg Files for Divorce (AP) 05/24/2004 06:49 PM
AP - Snoop Dogg is getting a divizzle. The rapper/actor has filed for divorce from Shante Broadus, according to papers filed with Los Angeles Superior Court on Friday.

Garbage Man Charged in Cape Cod Slaying
(AP)

Garbage Man Charged in Cape Cod Slaying
(AP) 04/15/2005 08:26 PM
AP - A garbage man with a long rap sheet was charged Friday with murder and rape in the stabbing death of a fashion writer whose mysterious slaying turned a spotlight on a small Cape Cod town and inspired a best-selling book.

The Swift Boat Garbage Haulers

The Swift Boat Garbage Haulers 08/20/2004 10:49 AM

Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry has disassociated himself from a much milder MoveOn.org ad that talks about Bush's Vietnam-era military "service," a questionable period for the president at best. Josh Marshall notes the tight connections, politically and financially, between the anti-Kerry "Swift boat veterans for truth" and Bush and his associates, and wonders why Bush isn't man enough to disclaim the sleaze. Marshall notes:

"In any real world sense, this is a front for the president. And for the saps who are willing to give the president the most improbable benefits of the doubt -- that this is something he has nothing to do with and is utterly beyond his control -- well, he won't even toss them a bone by making even the most innocuous statement of disassociation."

Meanwhile, the Washington Post uncovers information about the co-author of the Swift boaters' accompanying book that pretty much shreds his claim that Kerry wasn't under fire during the operation that resulted in the Democratic candidate's Bronze Star:

"But Thurlow's military records, portions of which were released yesterday to The Washington Post under the Freedom of Information Act, contain several references to "enemy small arms and automatic weapons fire" directed at "all units" of the five-boat flotilla. Thurlow won his own Bronze Star that day, and the citation praises him for providing assistance to a damaged Swift boat "despite enemy bullets flying about him."

180 Gigs of Garbage - No Backups in
Sight

180 Gigs of Garbage - No Backups in
Sight 08/20/2002 02:34 PM
The only thing left to say is, "let that be a lesson to you kids".

Reverse Trace Garbage Collector for C++
0.1

Reverse Trace Garbage Collector for C++
0.1 12/20/2003 04:59 PM
A garbage collector for C++.

Free Real-Time Garbage

Free Real-Time Garbage 05/10/2004 04:19 PM
A teenage mutual fund manager lends his name to some penny stock hype. A feel-good story this ain't.

Homeless Man Compacted in Garbage Truck
(AP)

Homeless Man Compacted in Garbage Truck
(AP) 12/19/2004 03:23 PM
AP - A homeless man who fell asleep in a commercial trash bin was dumped into the back of a garbage truck Friday and compacted — but escaped serious injury, officials said.

Cleaner Tosses Art Out with the Garbage
(Reuters)

Cleaner Tosses Art Out with the Garbage
(Reuters) 08/29/2004 10:54 AM
Reuters - A cleaner at London's Tate Britain modern art gallery threw out a bag of garbage that was part of an artwork because it was thought to be trash, British newspapers reported Friday.

Shark Tank: Garbage in, Internet out

Shark Tank: Garbage in, Internet out 05/25/2004 11:46 PM
This pilot fish's company installs in-room Internet access in hotels, which is a lot easier when the place is already wired with Cat 5 network cable. When it's not, fish has to work around the problem.

Former SLA member's sentence thrown out

Former SLA member's sentence thrown out 07/13/2004 03:28 PM

Bar code patents thrown out

Bar code patents thrown out 01/27/2004 07:32 PM
A federal district court judge invalidates patents on bar code products--in a victory over one of technology's most prolific patent collectors.
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