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Hot off the tubes:

Almost as freaky as his infamously disjointed "series-of-tubes" speech last year about the Internet (which briefly earned him the Most Lampooned Politician on the Web award), Stevens's reelection site asks visitors to enter a username and password and then -- as they unsuccessfully fumble for a password -- condemns them with a warning that begins:

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From Yahoo::

In a U.S. government warning high on the creepiness scale, the Defense Department cautioned its American contractors over what it described as a new espionage threat: Canadian coins with tiny radio frequency transmitters hidden inside.
It is very strange. The article points out what a poor mechanism it is for tracking: short distance only, likely to be used to buy something, etc. I would think they must have been looking for a very limited amount of information. The location of a safe house, for example. While the distance is limited, you could compensate for that with an 'rfid rifle'.

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and information security.

I just finished reading the Undercover Economist by Tim Hartford. Great Read. He has a chapter on externality charges. While he doesn't use the term, he's talking about Lexus Lanes - toll lanes that charge a fee for access - think a paid HOV lane.

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Of course, it makes complete sense. From the Freakonomics blog, an interview with an "escort":

Q. Do you typically know the true identity of your clients, and if so, how?

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Here is a list of my favorite posts from 2006. Yes, these are my favorites posts by me and yes, it means I'm phoning it in for the rest of the year. Thanks for reading. I intend to kick off the year with the usual thought-provoking, yet not well-thought out

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