You’ve got to admit, it would be kind of cool to be able to tell people that you were in one of these planes. They weren’t really that close to colliding, but they were close enough that they had to take evasive actions. Then again, I don’t know how soon after that I’d feel like flying over the open ocean…
It’s pretty strange to see things like this, knowing that Scott was there just a few months ago. I honestly haven’t kept up on world news like I probably should have recently, so I don’t know too much about what’s going on. It sounds to me like there’s people who feel that the current government is really just a proxy for the previous government, which was ousted a few years ago. Yeah, that would seem to defeat the purpose.
Next up is Google Chrome. Apparently Google doesn’t think that we have enough browsers between Firefox, IE, Safari, Opera, and whatever else is out there. They’d rather have their own. Honestly, I think that’s pretty silly. Who knows, maybe it’ll be the greatest thing ever, but I doubt it. Wouldn’t their time be better spent investing in Firefox, which is itself an open source browser? Hell, they already employ Ben Goodger, who used to be the lead dev on Firefox.
Lastly, I thought this story about the credit card companies and Mythbusters was pretty weak. Basically, the Mythbusters were going to do a show about RFID hacking, and Visa/Mastercard/AMEX shut them down. How about instead of trying to hide security flaws, you just fix them?
September 2nd, 2008 at 9:46 pm
[...] am writing this in response to Jared’s News Bits post. As you can imagine, I have a lot to say about this topic as I have lots of friends in that [...]
September 2nd, 2008 at 9:48 pm
It’s nice to see you manning up and contributing again, Jared.
September 3rd, 2008 at 12:01 am
hehe, yeah it was about time, honestly