…with SSIDs?
Actually, if you care about your wireless security, you’ll turn SSID broadcast off on the router.
Remember How The Wisconsin Recall Was Good News For Obama?
Nope.
The latest Rasmussen Reports statewide telephone survey of Likely Voters shows Romney with 47% of the vote to Obama’s 44%. Five percent (5%) prefer some other candidate, and four percent (4%) are undecided.
Hard to see a path to victory for him if he loses Wisconsin.
[Afternoon update]
The GOP is born again, in Wisconsin. Most people aren’t aware that the state is the birthplace of the party.
Perestroika
Is it coming to California?
We can only hope. The question is, is Jerry Brown Gorbachev in that scenario, or Andropov?
The Higher-Education Bubble
Why it will be worse than the housing bubble:
Once again government has created the conditions for wholesale failure, and failure is upon us.
From 1976 to 2010, the prices of all commodities rose 280 percent. The price of homes rose 400 percent. Private education? A whopping 1,000 percent.
In the end, this bubble will be worse than the last. Even when homeowners got hopelessly behind on their mortgages, two options helped. First, they could declare bankruptcy and free themselves of their crippling debt; second, they could sell their houses to pay down most of their loans.
Students don’t have either of these options. It’s illegal to absolve student loan debt through bankruptcy, and you can’t sell back an education.
I hope that it has a disproportionate effect on the academic left. In a sane world, the first thing to go would be diversity programs, with “studies” departments hard on their heels.
Dealing With Cause Mongers
Lileks has it down:
Later, while putting together a post at the kitchen table: DING DONG
Two earnest cause-mongers campaigning on behalf of the earth. I wanted to say “nature ripped out the bunnies from their soft home and drank their blood, and you want me to help it? With money?” but I just said “sorry, I work at home, and I’m working now” before they even got the chance to start the spiel. Their faces fell from friendly to sullen in a second like souffles collapsing from the sound of gunshot, and they seemed perturbed. I hadn’t been unfriendly; I’d smiled. Just stated the facts. I’m under no obligation to stand here and listen to what you care about. Sometimes I’m tempted to cut out an editorial and tape it to the door, and when I see someone coming around with a Cause, open the door and start reading out the particulars of my cause, and ask them what they would like to do. I’d have a petition and everything. And if they signed, I’d say thanks, and close the door.
I lecture Jehovah’s Witnesses on space theology. They never last long.
Batman
Hilarious.
The Mysteries Of The Mind
A concussion that turned a man into a musical savant.
Commercialization Of Human Exploration
If I were in DC, I’d attend this event on the Hill on Friday. But in my experience, space historians won’t necessarily do a good job of extrapolating into the future, particularly when it comes to technological trends.
Well, He Can Still Fall Back On The Al Green Thing
So it turns out that one of the few things that Obama seemed to be actually good it, isn’t. He sux at basketball, too.
Rescuing Apollo Astronauts
…in lunar orbit. They thought of everything, which you can do when it’s important and you have a big budget.