Quick Reads

Surfing the Internets this morning I came across two interest newsworthy stories.

This article here talks about a professor that has cracked the Social Security Number system. I always new that the different numbers stood for something like what city you were born in, what date you were born on, and what not. HE says he can do with common information of birth date and birth city, all information available all over the Internet. It was only a matter of time. If you read the whole article, his predictions are not that accurate and are more likely to be correct for small states and more recent births. Nothing too freak out about. I still like my method of getting social security numbers, asking for it at gunpoint.

This article sounds as if another government body is trying to inhibit our freedom once again. They have ruled that Pandora and other online music streaming systems have to have some restrictions on availability of music. On Pandora now, you can only listen to 40 hours of free music a month, or you can pay for the premium edition and get unlimited. I personally think 40 hours is plenty, but don't understand why we need to have so many restrictions to listen to music. You can't download or save it or anything, it is essentially the same as having a radio. I feel that they are trying to tread on me.

Here's a funny little clip of a news reporter freaking out.