Sunday, May 25, 2003

Tia and Her Twelve Sisters. Babylon is perhaps the batty one up in the attic, as a PDA device that translates the "low-population, high-terrorist-risk languages" of Pashto, Dari, Arabic, and Mandarin. Babylon might have use in a field environment, where American soldiers need to tell foreign enemies to "be quiet," "drop the gun" and "hands up." But as a counterterror tool, this chick and some of her sisters that focus on computerized translations clearly live in an alternate universe. [LewRockwell.com] When I first read it I thought the author was making a joke, but then I followed the link. Unbelievable though it is, the morons in the government actually do consider Mandarin a "low-population, high-terrorist-risk language." No wonder the government has so much trouble catching terrorists. 11:25:07 PM    comment () Getting my "PGP Key" to appear without getting messed up was a bit tricky. The problem was that Radio likes to insert a paragraph tag (<p>) after every carriage return. Since there's a carriage return in a public key block, the key was getting corrupted by the addition of an unwanted tag. I finally figured out that the solution is to add "#autoParagraphs false" to the beginning of the story containing the key--that disables the automatic tag insertion. Of course it's then necessary to add any needed paragraph tags manually. 7:52:04 PM    comment () "Salam Pax" has another update from Baghdad. 3:51:55 PM    comment () Electronic Frontier Foundation - Total Information Awareness - a compendium of information about this spy-on-everyone program. [whatreallyhappened] [End the War on Freedom] 2:36:06 PM    comment ()

© Copyright 2006 Ken Hagler. Last update: 2/15/2006; 1:54:44 PM.