Miscellany

I'm cleaning up my Firefox tabs; here's a selection of things I've found interesting in the past few days.

• Wired reports that outsourcing facilitates data theft.  Surprise, surprise.  Anybody remember that Pakistani medical transcriptionist that held medical records hostage?
• Anybody want to put odds on whether the perp in this story felt motivated by religious beliefs?
• Why do people persist in paying for things that one can have for free?  There are quite a few free ham radio test prep sites (the one I used was AA9PW's, and I passed all three elements at once with only a few misses); why pay for something people give away?
• What better way to combine patriotism with avoiding CC&R's?
• Apparently the laws of physics have recently been changed in Idaho.  I had no idea that radio transmission was not possible there until just a few days ago.
  

I'm going to close this entry (which is being composed while I listen to the Presidential debate) with a poem.  Please read it; it is surprisingly relevant.