LGA: Security Theater

Posted by Synfinatic on July 30, 2007 at 11:22 pm in Photography, Rant, Security.

So I was flying out of LaGuardia, NY (LGA) this morning on my way home to San Jose, Ca (SJC). After checking in, I was directed by the nice woman at American Airlines to take my checkin bags to the x-ray machine.

There were a lot of bags piling up at the machine and 2-4 TSA agents processing the bags thru the x-ray machine and loading them onto the conveyer belt to the plane. What struck me odd though was that none of the TSA agents actually sat at the x-ray machine console to examine the x-ray images of the bags!

I watched for about 10 minutes as the rest of my party went through the long lines to …

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Safety without Freedom is worthless

Posted by Synfinatic on July 19, 2007 at 11:55 pm in Politics, Rant.

After reading Mortimer Zuckerman’s editorial, Putting Safety First I’m both saddened and angered. You would think that someone of Mortimer’s position would be more well versed in both the facts and history.

Considering that your chances of dying from a terrorist attack is far less then being killed by lightning, fire, drowning, murder, car accident or even an asteroid strike it’s hard to justify giving up those freedoms and rights which make us uniquely American.

Personally, I would rather listen to some of the great Americans who shaped our country then people like Zuckerman who would use the threat of terrorisim as an excuse to give away our rights of free speech, free association, due process of …

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No more 5th Amendment

Posted by Synfinatic on at 2:50 pm in News, Politics, Rant.

You didn’t really need it anyways right? And here I thought you needed to go through Congress to alter the Constitution. Apparently, I didn’t pay enough attention in my US Gov’t class, because apparently the President can just declare it null and void.

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3.1 released

Posted by Synfinatic on at 8:24 am in tcpreplay.

Just released tcpreplay 3.1. Mostly a bug fix release, but there are some minor enhancements including support for 802.11 and Radiotap DLT types. As always, check out the changelog for a specific list of changes.

Update: 3.1.1 was just released which fixes a serious compile issue for most people. *sigh*

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To Remember

Posted by Synfinatic on July 17, 2007 at 7:35 pm in Cool.

So I bought some wine at BevMo. One of the bottles was a Yulumba Viognier from Australia. While this was neither the best or worst Viogner I’ve ever had, what made this bottle memorable was this “To Remember” pull tab on the back label.

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Alberto Gonzales: Disgusting

Posted by Synfinatic on July 10, 2007 at 9:01 pm in Geek Law, Politics, Rant.

How many ways do I hate thee? Let me count the ways:

Lying to Congress under oath

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Gah, I hate python

Posted by Synfinatic on July 3, 2007 at 11:01 pm in tcpreplay.

Not sure what’s up with python, but it’s not able to find all the libraries anymore, hence the tcpreplay website is down until I get things back together… [Update] Well DarwinPorts completely screwed things up and had two different versions of python installed with mod_python built against one version and everything else against another. Basically had to rebuild everything, but finally got it back up.

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