CYN.ICAL Links

"[I]f they had access to a DNA profile in a database, they could construct a sample of DNA to match that profile without obtaining any tissue from that person. “You can just engineer a crime scene,” said Dan Frumkin, ... “Any biology undergraduate could perform this.”"

Beware the databases! And this is likely to cause headaches for prosecutors in current and future trials. Maybe old-fashioned police work isn't so outdated and useless after all!

"Amid a boisterous debate on health care reform, people flooded members of Congress on Thursday with so many e-mails that they overloaded the House's primary Web site. ... Ventura said new technology called "load balancing" is in place to try to handle spikes in volume. So far, the House Web site remains available to the public."

So Congress is just now using "new" load balancing technology? Figures. Everyone else was using it back in 2001, at the latest. A patent search shows that 1998/99 is around when it mostly started. One could possibly be excused for thinking that a major site and network with a fairly heavy consistent load, and coupled with enormous irregular load spikes, would have figured all this out sometime sooner than nearly 10 years later, or even been riding on the crest of the technology wave and been using and developing the technology from the very beginning. Oh, but wait. We're talking about government here. I guess with near unlimited resources, you can get away with the crude, brute-force approach, even though it's terribly inefficient and wasteful.

Hah, actually, only for what little remains of the year. And those grasshoppers will be back again next year, and from the looks of things, will probably stay longer too.

"In 2009, Cost of Government Day falls on August 12. Working people must toil 224 days out of the year just to meet all costs imposed by government - a full 26 days longer than last year. In other words, in 2009 the cost of government consumes 61.34 percent of national income."

"But we should also realize our system only works when the interests of voters and their government are in harmony. Unfortunately, recent evidence suggests that America's hard-working hometown legislators are feeling the pinch from a fickle and increasingly out-of-touch voter class who no longer serves our needs. ... And we're tired of getting pushed around the town hall by the likes of you, Big Voter."

To go along with the previous post: Yes, this is really how Nancy "I See Swastikas" Pelosi, and many of her cohorts, see the current town hall situation. So of course their solution is for them to stop holding town hall meetings, and for you to go home and mind your own business affairs while they, the "smart people", fix all the looming problems their own way.

"The passions of the protesters, on the other hand, are not a surprise. They hired a man to represent them in Washington. They give him a big office, a huge staff and the power to tell people what to do. They give him a car and a driver, sometimes a security detail, and a special pin showing he’s a congressman. And all they ask in return is that he see to their interests and not terrify them too much. Really, that’s all people ask. Expectations are very low. What the protesters are saying is, “You are terrifying us.”"

Hah. So much for 'democracy' in America. But what Nancy "I See Swastikas" Pelosi and the others in power don't realize is that these protests are all quite peaceful for right now. But frustrations have been building for quite a few people now, and if they are still being ignored by their supposed 'representatives', then I see it as quite likely that they will start making their concerns known by more violent means. Still, I doubt the congress critters who will be scurrying about trying to avoid the roving mobs looking to string up every bureaucrat they find will realize this even at that point.