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Day: February 13, 2002

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Posting like a fiend today…

So. Rather than another doom and gloom privacy type article, or another silly but fun test, I thought I'd post a recipe!

Looks like had a successful go at the meatloaf recipe I posted, so here's another goody. Actually, there are only two recipes that I have – both from my mom. The meatloaf one was never really a “recipe” – just kind of a “wing it” deal. This however is a yummy, never fail chocolate cake recipe. It's extremely moist, rich, and yummy. Enjoy!

Mom's Never Fail Vinegar Devil's Food Cake

  • 3 cups flour
  • 2 cups sugar
  • 2 cups cold water
  • 2 Tbsp vinegar
  • 6 Tbsp cocoa
  • 2 tsp baking soda
  • 3/4 cup oil
  • 1 tsp salt
  • 2 tsp vanilla

1 – Preheat oven to 375 degrees
2 – Grease and flour a 9×15 pan
3 – Put all ingredients in a bowl, and mix well. Pour into pan.
4 – Bake until done – 30-45 minutes
5 – Cool and frost

Did I mention this cake was yummy?

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

Comcast: Will Stop Tracking Users

My translation: “We're sorry. We'll stop. We didn't think it was a big deal, but now we know we're stupid”

Carnivore's little brother…

Comcast Tracks Users' Web Browsing

Comcast spokesman Tim Fitzpatrick said Web browsing was already being recorded for its subscribers in Detroit and in parts of Delaware and Virginia, and would be extended across the nation by the end of this week.

He acknowledged customers weren't notified.

Fitzpatrick said Comcast, using the Inktomi software, is recording the numeric Internet address uniquely assigned to each subscriber, along with the Internet address of each requested Web page. Comcast stores the information for days before it's deleted, but it won't say for exactly how long.

And a ray of hope…

But almost two years later, the warrant demanding that Tattered Cover hand over records of one of its customers' purchases remains unexecuted, held off by lawyers and temporary restraining orders.

The Tattered Cover in Denver is an awesome bookstore. It's one of the few things I miss about Denver. :)

The rest of the article is chilling, of course.

BOHICA! (Bend Over, Here It Comes Again)

Washington Plans Unprecedented Camera Network

“In the context of Sept. 11, we have no choice but to accept greater use of this technology,” Stephen Gaffigan, the head of the police department project, told the Journal.

I have no comment. The future is looking darker and darker, folks. Well, ok, I guess that was a comment.

NEW YORK (Reuters) – Washington police are building what will be the nation's biggest network of surveillance cameras to monitor shopping areas, streets, monuments and other public places in the U.S. capital, a move that worries civil liberties groups, The Wall Street Journal said on Wednesday.

The system would eventually include hundreds of cameras, linking existing devices in Metro mass transit stations, public schools and traffic intersections to new digital cameras mounted to watch over neighborhoods and shopping districts, the Journal said.

“In the context of Sept. 11, we have no choice but to accept greater use of this technology,” Stephen Gaffigan, the head of the police department project, told the Journal.

He said city officials had studied the British surveillance system, which has more than 2 million cameras throughout the country, and were “intrigued by that model.”

One of the first uses of police surveillance cameras in Washington was April 2000, when authorities set up a network to monitor protests during a meeting of the International Monetary Fund and World Bank, the newspaper said.

On Tuesday morning, in response to the latest terror alert issued by the Justice Department, police activated a $7 million command center that was first used on Sept. 11. The command center, which has dozens of video stations for monitoring cameras, will remain in use until federal officials end the alert, the Journal reported.

Cameras installed by the police have been programmed to scan public areas automatically, and officers can take over manual control if they want to examine something more closely.

The system currently does not permit an automated match between a face in the crowd and a computerized photo of a suspect, the Journal said. Gaffigan said officials were looking at the technology but had not decided whether to use it.

Eventually, images will be viewable on computers already installed in most of the city's 1,000 squad cars, the Journal said.

The Journal said the plans for Washington went far beyond what was in use in other U.S. cities, a development that worries civil liberties advocates.

Barry Steinhardt, associate director of the American Civil Liberties Union in New York, noted there were few legal restrictions of video surveillance of public streets. But he said that by setting up a “central point of surveillance,” it becomes likely that “the cameras will be more frequently used and more frequently abused.”

“You are building in a surveillance infrastructure, and how it's used now is not likely how it's going to be used two years from now or five years from now,” he told the Journal.

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