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Data Privacy Day
To appropriately observe Data Privacy Day, I will not ask you how it is hanging.That is strictly a matter between you and whatever hangs off you. Photo of sloth having its privacy violated from sfPhotocraft.
Segregation of Obscurity
From Forbes account of the Societe Generale billion dollar fraud: “It’s Nick Leeson, the story is exactly the same,” said Celent’s Pierron. “We have a trader who trades futures, or derivatives, who hides his losses by using weaknesses in the … Continue reading
I got some groceries, some peanut butter
From the maddingly brilliant book of the Naples System, Gomorrah, a description of security during the Secondigliano War between the Spanish and DiLauro clans: I would ride my Vespa through this pall of tension. In Secondigliano I’d be frisked at … Continue reading
White Knuckles
This looks interesting, in the context of cultural cognition of risk. Entertaining legal wonking on the issue at Concurring Opinions and Volokh. Amazing the lack of agreement as to when “Yee haw!” becomes “Holy Crap!” while behind the wheel. Photo … Continue reading
Die Doing Something You Love
“To die doing something you love.”I encountered variations of this phrase three times Saturday. 1. In Chris Jonnum’s biography of the Haydens, the on track death of flat-tracker Will Davis. Davis was a hero of Nick Hayden’s. Mourning his death, … Continue reading
The One In Five 