In October, the U.S. State Department began issuing biometric “ePassports” that contain a radio frequency identification tag under the back cover. The tiny chip holds the usual passport data, including a digital photo. The motive behind adding the chips is ostensibly good: to combat counterfeiting and illegal immigration. However the good intention of big brother omnipresence backlash faster than a crack whip. A German hacker quickly found a way to crack the encryption. With a laptop and a chip reader he bought for $200, he was able to steal data from an encrypted RFID tag, potentially allowing him to clone an ePassport.
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This is an excerpt from one of my many drunken intellectual talks with my best friend Steve, which for the longest time I wanted to put into writing due the fact that I always have a nasty habit of coming up with a descent idea and shuffle it into an oblivion the next hangover day. Despites the chaotic work schedule and relentless partying, yes I do read and analyze the world surrounding me, especially when that reality has been induced by massive amount of alcohol. You all will be in for a treat, the last time when I was drunk and high up the heaven I wrote a hypothesis on why are we alone in the universe which is quite thought provoking. Now I shall venture on the very idea of reincarnation and I can explain to you in simplistic term without all religious overtones. To me I treat religion like substance consumption only in moderation, too much of anything that affect the mind will always result in psychotic episode including beliefs. All of my wonders about the religious interest in the implication of reincarnation came to me in clarity with an article I read a while back and the physic theory of Uncertain Principle. For the people who are not familiar with the theory here is a quick rundown.
A thought have occur to me that people in this modern day, spending time worrying about how to live their lives and not enough thought on how they going to exit this world. Thats right I’m talking about death and funeral, majority of people out there really got it bad when it comes to perception of death. Its kind of ironic to me that many people out there running around their tails, chasing the shits they don’t need and trying to pretend that loving relationship could last forever. Snap! One day your white collar ass is over by a head on collision or bird flu and all you got is a lousy funeral, which pretty much drain half of your saving away if you don’t have a life insurance. Not to worry the other remaining half of the saving your spouse or your regular stripper girlfriend would be more than happy to swindle it all away. Anyhow not long ago, I had a brief discussion of how I would prepare my pre-launch party of the afterlife when my demise will catch up with me one day. For me I already have entrusted my funeral procedure with one of my top 8 friends and trust me you don’t want to miss it when the time comes.
Well I got bored and tired because Ive been up for over 20 hours trying to finish the stupid presentation for work. Anyway I came across this very interesting article about this particular Russian astronomer who came up with a theory to categorized civilization base on their total energy output. It makes perfect since to me thats why were alone in this universe. Because if you applied the same rule as where we are on the civilization evolutionary scale. its like an ant trying to get hitch hike on an Autobahn full of cars. They cant see or hear you thank God they didnt obliterated us just the fact that youre mere close to its path.
Well since everyone attention was diverted to North Korea for the past few days about his lunacy would lash out a nuclear armagenden to the West. Plus all the propaganda film from CNN Present I was watching a few nights back got me a bit nostalgic. Hey somebody should give this guy a break and put him up to for a little quick survey Myspace style of course. I mean maybe all that shooting missiles to Japan, he might just want to attract some Kogals ?
In the new new new economy – wait a minute how many news is that?- it’s easier than ever to pitch in an idea of Web 2.0 to the investors and reaping billions without ever coming up with a profitable business model. So if you ‘re skeptical about my above claim just give a ring to those guys at YouTube.com and MySpace , then you will get a better picture of what
Oh the last word, how life for some individual burn through the rage with fame and fortune to shower upon their glory. Yet the father time shall be indiscriminate to your achievement, no matter how powerful you once were all you can reciprocate the courtesy of death with a shear whimper. To sum up the very idea we should seek the wisdom of Marcus Aurelius, “Death shall smile upon us all and only man can do is smile back”. So I got inspired and venture on my death obsessive journey once more, here is a list of famous peoples last words gathered from Acropolis website. This list was made through my eyes and contain only peoples that i found to be interesting ones. Take a look their website, it’s a great resource.
With all this bitching about how gasoline is going to ruin our beloved planet with green house gases and cracking your wallet until your balls turn blue. It is good to know that our insatiable appetite for speed will be fulfill without the need for the fossil fuel. Behold the X1 a Silicon Valley-made electric car with a 0-60 acceleration rate that’s faster than a Ferrari Spider and a Porsche Carrera. As of right now, it’s second only to the French-made Bugatti Veyron, a 1,000-horsepower, 16-cylinder beast that hits 60 mph half a second faster and goes for $1.25 million.
I guess if you guys have been following the news yall probably heard about the stolen USB drives from a highly secure US military base in Afghanistan which many of them happen to carry highly sensitive data such as military personnel manifest or even the picture of the Airforce One. Apparently the investigator are like crack addict strapping with shit load of cash and willing to pay thousands of dollar just to retrieve those drives back.
There I said it last tonight it was such a splendid experience for my small sushi lobster ass. IMAX theatre has been around since before I can grab a drink at bar yet I never had the pleasure to enjoy for some unknown reason, last night I finally disoriented myself with its splendid glory. Anyway my friend got me to see V for Vendetta at the IMAX nearby, it was worth the time despite it has been raining nothing but a whole farm of cats and dogs for the past two days. The sights of the gigantic 5 story screen and the monstrous sound system gave me quite a bit of nausea for a good old five minutes until I later got accustom to the “IMAX” experience.
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