DUI lawyer Lawrence Taylor has been writing for a while about the resistance by breathalyzer manufacturers to various legal attempts by defense lawyers to get a peek at the source code for software that controls the machines. As a civil libertarian and software developer, I have mixed feelings about this. I can certainly understand why the defense would want to know more … [Read more...] about Who Should See Breathalyzer Source Code?
Archives for August 2007
More From the Model Shoot
As my way of apologizing to poor Ken Lammers, who visited here to see the pretty girls and found my plunger story instead, here are a couple more shots from last month's model shoot. (I am way behind in processing these photos.) … [Read more...] about More From the Model Shoot
Evil Lawmaking: Piling On
I remember back when I was a kid and I did something wrong, sometimes my parents would handle it separately, and I'd get yelled at or punished by both of them for the same misdeed. It seemed so unfair. Lawmakers do much the same thing. Only instead of doing it at the same time, they do it one after another. Not a year goes by that my state legislators don't bump up the … [Read more...] about Evil Lawmaking: Piling On
Eight Crappy Photos Lost to History
By the way, for anyone tempted to be impressed by some of my photography, when I was getting the photo of the toilet and plunger for the previous item, I had to take nine shots to get a composition I liked with the correct exposure to show details in both the white and the black objects. And I still had to use Photoshop to crop it a little and adjust the contrast curves to … [Read more...] about Eight Crappy Photos Lost to History
A Disheartening Reminder of Human Depravity
Yesterday I was moving some boxes into my new rental storage locker. As I went to get a cart to haul the boxes, I once again saw all the signs asking us not to steal the carts. It's a realistic concern. I'm moving out of my old storage locker because people stole all the carts and management decided not to replace them. When I finished, I used the bathroom, where I found … [Read more...] about A Disheartening Reminder of Human Depravity