Author: Chris
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Still Alive!
All, I’m sorry for being AWOL on the Denialism Blog. I’ve just returned from a longish trip with Dr. Girlfriend to Guatemala, where we visited Guatemala City, Lake Atitlan, Antigua, and Tikal. I’ll blog soon with some of the outrageous woo we encountered in San Marcos. But for now, enjoy the view from our place…
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What Did You Do to Celebrate Islamo-Fascism Awareness Week?
Denialism blog has failed you. We totally missed Islamo-Fascism Awareness Week. Would anyone like to share how they recognized this event?
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Why Do-Not-Call Will Lead to Do-Not-Mail
In today’s Wall Street Journal, Jennifer Levitz and Kelly Greene report on lead generation firms (also known as list brokers), companies that sell databases of consumer information to businesses for marketing purposes: Older Americans around the country are getting duped by a seemingly innocuous tactic that can expose them to hard-sell pitches from the insurance…
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WSJ on Credit Freeze, Monitoring, Alerts
In today’s Journal, Jane J. Kim writes very clearly about the different tools that are now available to consumers to protect themselves against identity theft. The article explains the advantages and disadvantages to each approach. Great reporting!
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Faith Healing Trips…Funded by an Insurance Company
John W. Miller reports in the Wall Street Journal about an unusual, insurance company funded program that brings many to Lourdes: In an unusual scheme, [VGZ] the Dutch company spends about $280,000 a year to fly 600 of its sickest and most disabled clients to Lourdes. The company doesn’t expect the Virgin Mary to intercede.…
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It’s Time to Free Wireless Phones
All that stuff that the wireless industry says about being competitive is baloney! Cell phones in the US are big and stupid, and deliberately crippled to get you to pay extra for things that are natively supported in devices, like custom ringtones. And most Americans don’t know any better because they’ve never used the higher…
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Telcos Pump Cash into Rockefeller’s Coffers
Over at Threat Level Ryan Single reports that all of a sudden, Senator Rockefeller, the putative custodian of legislation to give telecommunications companies immunity from privacy lawsuits, is getting lots of cash from such companies. And most of these donations come from out-of-state donors (Verizon and AT&T employees who do not live in West Virginia).…
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Living the Bible, Literally
While Mark is in Begas, attempting to use his big brain to make money, you people are at my mercy!!1! Let us begin! Check out today’s Times for a book review of A. J. Jacob’s The Year of Living Biblically, One Man’s Humble Quest to Follow the Bible as Literally as Possible, the story of…
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TRUST Seminar: Need Credit? No Identity? No Problem!
I’m doing the TRUST Seminar at Berkeley this week. Here’s the info and abstract. Date: Thursday, October 18, 2007 Time: 1:00 PM (lunch will be served) Location: 540 A/B Cory Hall ABSTRACT: In synthetic identity theft cases, an impostor creates a new identity using some information from a victim that is enhanced with fabricated personal…