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UK wants power to demand encryption keys

May 19th, 2006 Lloyd Leung No comments

This article “UK wants power to demand encryption keys” reports that Great Britain is daft.

What’s going on in the minds of legislators in GB.  Seems like the fancy with 1984 is running a muck in the queens parliament.

I mean, where’s my privacy, when I want it?  Why would I want to turn over evidence to the crown?  I guess the reverse argument is, “why do you need to hide this – if you don’t have anything to hide, why not show us”.  That reverse argument is ludicrous, as it’s an invasion of privacy.  I should not need to justify myself to anyone.  If you have something to accuse me of, do so in the proper channels.

The article I linked too, has a good argument as well.  What happens if one is on the receiving end of an encrypted communication, and does not have the key.  How does one prove a negative, being the argument – “how do I prove I don’t have something?”

I’m amazed at the incredible stupidity of some lawmakers.

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How To – Mp3 As Ringtone On Razr v3c

May 17th, 2006 Lloyd Leung 2 comments

Original post
Load any mp3 or mp3′s you wish to use on to your phone via MPT (Motorola Phone tools).

Close MPT

Start BitPim and go into the “filesystem tab”

Delete the two files – “MyToneDB.db” and “TmpTneDB.db”

Reboot your phone and then assign ringtones.

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SkypeOUT 70.*.*.* – 71.*.*.* fix

May 16th, 2006 Lloyd Leung 1 comment

1.) Download Skype beta 2.5

2.) dial “+1″ without quotes.

Pretty simple fix after I downloaded the new beta. However, during the course of me downloading the new beta, Skype fixed the domain ranges.

Anyways, happy skyping.

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First baby in Britain designed cancer-free – Britain – Times Online

May 14th, 2006 Lloyd Leung No comments

First baby in Britain designed cancer-free – Britain – Times Online

GATTACA anyone?

We’re still a ways off from the gattaca scenario, however it doesn’t take much imagination as to the steps required to reach gattaca state.

If I had the choice, and ability to prevent my progeny from being inheriting a negative trail, I’d do it. Would I want to make my child blue eyed, blond haired, genetically modified creation? No.

The fine line is when uses their own genetic code or a correction, versus the outright modification of code. How does this effect evolution?

I see that this is no different then eugenics. I’m outright against people being sterilized to prevent procreation, but this form of eugenics, albeit the same in principal, I can accept.

The deeper question is why I can accept this. I am pro choice, but when the death penalty comes into play, I’m against capital punishment.

What differences would make one acceptable and the other not? I’m not pushing an agenda, I’m just asking a question. Some people may choose to accept both, or neither.

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Spring beauty

May 4th, 2006 Lloyd Leung 1 comment

I got really bored today. So I decided to finally do what I’ve been wanting to do for 5 years. The reason why I never did it in the last 5 years, is because I’ve forgotten, lent out my camera, camera was broken, or whatever.

So, today, I I decided to photograph the cherry trees in the back yard, as cherry bossoms are pretty.
I took about 120 megs worth of images, but only a few I really liked. One was with a super macro image setting.

I’ll toss an image up for all to see

Cherry Blossoms

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