I’ve moved out of the Homestead Suites, and into the TownePlace Suites in Manhattan Beach. Ten bucks more a night, twice the room size, twice the number of burners on the stove, a dishwasher (the other place had a dishwasher, too–me). It also has fast ethernet. Last night, when I was futilely struggling to transmit packets on the net on the wireless at the Homestead room, I noticed that I had a signal/noise ratio of one: -79 dB signal, -79 dB noise. No wonder that it was dropping packets.
But this connection flies. I just used it to download Firefox 1.5 (I hadn’t upgraded this laptop yet), and it grabbed the few megs in less than a minute. So, now the only thing to keep me from blogging is all the other things that I need to do.
OK, I don’t have much time (or technical ability) to blog, but I do have a new piece up at TCS Daily, on collateral damage of intelligence gathering. The links in it are broken, but I hope they’re being fixed.
[Update late on Friday afternoon]
There’s a countersuit being filed against the ACLU. You can contribute here.
I’m struggling through my Internet issues to do a little posting tonight. Mike Griffin was interviewed by the BBC, and had some interesting comments. Think of this less as a fisking, than an analysis of what’s really going on in the agency.
It would be wise to ask the engineers behind the Exploration Systems Architecture Study, Was “The Stick” really better than Delta & Atlas, or did you just do what Scott Horowitz told you to do?
I’m working in California, and I’m swamped during the day, with a lousy internet connection in my hotel (when I say lousy, I mean that it’s wireless narrowband–I could move the data faster by tapping out Morse code by hand, and I don’t know Morse code).
Rather than digging up old Reuters pieces about past events, the Sanity Inspector seems to have found one about future events. In the future. Or something like that:
The D.C. Islamic Eternal Justice Endeavor against War and Stereotyping (DIEJEWS) yesterday issued a strongly worded statement condemning a rising backlash against Muslims following next month’s nuclear bombing of Tel Aviv, Israel by Iran. The press release warned against an increase in anti-Muslim discrimination, hate crimes, and government harassment following the destruction of the unofficial Israeli capital city next month, as announced by the Iranian government.