I vaguely remember seeing this somewhere before, but hat tip to James for the reminder. Judy Wallman, a professional genealogy researcher here in southern California , was doing some personal work on her own family tree. She discovered that Harry (senator (D) fromNevada ) Reid’s great-great uncle, Remus Reid, was hanged for horse stealing and [...]
January 13th, 2009 at
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Interesting stuff from Pew Research: 72 % of likely voters said Obama did a good or excellent job in the debate, compared to 59% for McCain. In the ‘one-word’ question (give me one word to describe Candidate X in the debate), the following results came up: Obama: 50% “confident” 31% “inexperienced” 31% “intelligent” 28% “presidential” [...]
Following yesterday’s revelation by Ruairi Quinn TD that the Government has lost even more laptops this year, The Irish Times reports today that Minister for Justice Dermot Ahern is considering introducing a mandatory reporting system when data or data-storage devices go missing. That’s welcome, and long overdue. Bruce Schneier wrote about it back in 2006. [...]
October 2nd, 2008 at
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Parliamentary Questions from Ruairi Quinn TD have shown that there’s been a significant increase this year in the number of laptops and other data devices stolen or missing from Government hands. Back in January, he put down a series of Dáil questions (PQs) which showed that more than 100 devices had gone missing between 2002 [...]
October 1st, 2008 at
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