Electronic Frontier Foundation declined to help
I asked the EFF to help me expose the ARDC’s illegal invasion of the privacy of 900 people.
Privacy
I “unfriended” people because I am greedy and I hate advice
Did I unfriend people because I was angry at them?
I woke up: not that I am happy about it
Emails I sent briefly explaining that I cannot take any more.
A plan that is not a plan
Based on recent experiences, it is plausible that I could reduce my stress in the next 45 days–but I only have 10 days of money left.
I bought some medicine
This is the most sick I have been in a long time, so I had to buy some medicine. I could only afford some anti-diarrhea medicine, so I spent US$3 on it and I bought some saltine crackers. I feel a little better because I am less dehydrated and because my body has been able … Read more
Hundreds of my ideas shared; trying to write about a major issue
Over the past month, I have shared hundreds of my ideas ranging from physics to climate change to computing to business to law to labor to domestic violence to social reform to photography. The ideas I shared were only the ideas that I already had written in a format that was easy to convert to … Read more
If surveillance is good, open it to all
If mass monitoring in its current form is so good at discovering bad things AND if the information is allegedly not an intrusion of privacy, then make ALL of the tools and information immediately available for public use. The public will be able to find the bad people much more quickly than any agency because … Read more
You thought I was crazy: your privacy is gone
In the following TED talk, Jennifer Golbeck outlines how your privacy is already gone. She tells the story about how the company, Target, knew a 15-year-old girl was pregnant two weeks before she told her parents she was pregnant. Private traits and attributes are predictable from digital records of human behavior Ms. Golbeck mentions a … Read more
WordPress plug-ins: ideas for content management and creation
Auto-link to Wikipedia articles Dictionary website Posts on the same website Universal spell checker and grammar checker Universal like the universal broken link checker Custom dictionaries Custom grammar rule checking like in MS Word Privacy policy constructor Have each plug-in and theme declare privacy-policy related information Checkboxes to include/exclude information from each plug-in, theme, or … Read more
WordPress plug-ins: general needs and ideas
Server management File manager for the entire server Similar to the GoDaddy File Manager Add from server plug-in is able to navigate directories Security/permissions management that is similar to how operating systems manage users and groups Also, integration (bi-directional) with the both the OS security of the web server security List of modules activated on … Read more