{"id":93,"date":"2005-03-10T09:11:00","date_gmt":"2005-03-10T17:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=93"},"modified":"2008-06-22T11:42:09","modified_gmt":"2008-06-22T18:42:09","slug":"gaaaagghhhh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.uncle-andrew.net\/blog\/?p=93","title":{"rendered":"Gaaaagghhhh…."},"content":{"rendered":"

Sick. Very, very sick. Went over to a friend’s house to help him with his computer and was promptly inoculated with the flu by another friend who was convalescing on his couch. My fault, I knew he was sick, but the computer stuff was critical.<\/p>\n

I’m still knee-deep in computers. Three workstations went down at work, and I had to build a new one from scratch. Now I’m working on a mail server. This is the job of the Webmaster, when you work for a small company. \ud83d\ude2f<\/p>\n

Anywho, just a quick observation. I note with some exasperation that, on the eve of Congressional hearings on the subject of identity theft<\/a> (stemming primarily from the recent ChoicePoint debacle<\/a>), data mining giant LexisNexis<\/a> has had its own identity theft problem<\/a>.<\/p>\n

My main talk-radio man Dave Ross<\/a> had a great idea on how to deal with this and the general problem of unauthorized\/undocumented\/unwanted transfer of your personal information: everyone’s name should be copyrighted. At whatever point in time you get yourself a social security number, your name, in combination with this number, would automatically receive copyright status. Thereafter, anyone who wished to use your name and\/or Social Security number for any reason would have to contact you for permission, and possibly pay you a royalty. <\/p>\n

Isn’t that awesome? Why the citizens of the 8th District didn’t vote Ross in for Congress is totally beyond me. Oh well, at least I get to keep listening to him on the radio.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Sick. Very, very sick. Went over to a friend’s house to help him with his computer and was promptly inoculated with the flu by another friend who was convalescing on his couch. My fault, I knew he was sick, but the computer stuff was critical. I’m still knee-deep in computers. Three workstations went down at […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-93","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-roominations"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.uncle-andrew.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.uncle-andrew.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.uncle-andrew.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.uncle-andrew.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.uncle-andrew.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=93"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.uncle-andrew.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.uncle-andrew.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=93"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.uncle-andrew.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=93"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.uncle-andrew.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=93"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}