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Comment on One Week Without Plastic (Part 2) by sherri

sherri — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 23:41:40 +0000

Lots of updates coming! Just haven’t had a chance to write in a little while. (We’re in Orlando launching the first 5-day run of our Network Forensics class, and prepping 50 netbooks for students during the last couple of weeks was crazy.) All kinds of developments regarding yogurt production, valiant attempts to obtain non-plasticy non-UHT milk, experiments with powdered milk in paper bags, and more…

Comment on One Week Without Plastic (Part 2) by mogradin

mogradin — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 18:22:16 +0000

Hey, so are we going to see an update? Did you find a way to purchase most of these products? My local grocery sells meat and lunchmeat in paper wrappers, so I can at least get away from plastic there. rice comes in a cardboard box. one of my local stores also carries milk in glass bottles, and eggs all come in paper cartons.

As far as TP, you may be SOL.

no pun intended.

Comment on Pirates and Ninjas: Emacs or Vi? by James Tiet

James Tiet — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 15:14:57 +0000

so which one do you use?

Comment on One Week Without Plastic (Part 2) by Cameron Johnson

Cameron Johnson — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 15:37:50 +0000

The book “Clean: The Humble Art of Zen Cleansing” by Michael DeJong will cover the detergents angle. It lists simple recipes for recreating most chemical compositions we use as daily cleansing agents.

Travel Light

Comment on Interview with an Adware Author by munir ardi

munir ardi — Sun, 28 Feb 2010 18:39:27 +0000

Great interview! Keep up the good work! And let’s hope the other great interview

Comment on One Week Without Plastic (Part 2) by nickhacks

nickhacks — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 20:01:44 +0000

Check out http://fakeplasticfish.com/ if you haven’t yet..

Comment on One Week Without Plastic (Part 2) by ne

ne — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 13:05:25 +0000

Yogurt is sometimes available in glass packaging.

Comment on One Week Without Plastic (Part 2) by Miah

Miah — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 19:35:18 +0000

I never gave into bottled water. I grew up on well water and the water provided by my local city has always been tasty. I have a nice stainless bottle at home and work. I just turn the tap, its basically free.

Comment on One Week Without Plastic (Part 1) by Miah

Miah — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 19:33:07 +0000

You can make your own Yogurt at home. A quick google search turns up: http://www.makeyourownyogurt.com/ But I’ve read about the process before and its not very difficult, especially if you already have some plain vanilla yogurt in your refrigerator.

Comment on One Week Without Plastic (Part 2) by uk visas

uk visas — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 06:44:14 +0000

Ice cream as a necessity – nice touch
Eggs come in plastic!

Comment on One Week Without Plastic (Part 2) by Mike

Mike — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 00:41:53 +0000

Depending on where you live, you might be able to get yogurt in reusable ceramic mug-things, that you can take back to the store after use.

For the other stuff, think about ways you can buy them in bulk and put them in glass jars. You can get mason jars for about a buck in a lot of markets.

Comment on One Week Without Plastic (Part 2) by Brent Logan

Brent Logan — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 00:23:26 +0000

Yogurt actually shouldn’t be that tough, if you’re willing to make your own.

Comment on One Week Without Plastic (Part 1) by philosecurity » Blog Archive » One Week Without Plastic (Part 2)

philosecurity » Blog Archive » One Week Without Plastic (Part 2) — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 22:42:43 +0000

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Comment on One Week Without Plastic (Part 1) by sherri

sherri — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 18:33:09 +0000

Yup, and we definitely have a leg up out here in Montana where there are lots of local farms that sell organic meat and cheese. There’s a terrific food co-op near our house that sells a ton of things in bulk– grains, pastas, chocolate, dishwasher detergent– everything. Still, items like yogurt are going to be a challenge!

Comment on One Week Without Plastic (Part 1) by Miah

Miah — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 18:27:39 +0000

Farmers markets and butchers shops can supply you with most of your needs. You just have to go back to our roots and stop supermarketing.

Comment on PCI Threatens Small Business and Web Hosting Companies by Jim

Jim — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 03:52:04 +0000

I agree with your central point that small businesses can’t afford the time or the effort to ensure that they’re PCI compliant. However there is another alternative to going out of business: the small business can just outsource the payment processing bit to one of the established processors.

If they’re not holding sensitive data, then they don’t need to be PCI compliant as I understand it. For a fee of between 2% and 4% they can make all the headaches go away. The data is held by larger organizations more equipped to handle it, and with the resources to look after it (or so they would have us believe). Everyone wins for the sake of a small percentage increase in price to the consumer …

Comment on One Week Without Plastic (Part 1) by Brent Logan

Brent Logan — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 16:30:02 +0000

Wow, good luck with not consuming plastic for a week. This will change your diet. Not only are a bunch of prepackaged, processed foods no longer available to you, but basic staples like meats and dairy product come packaged *only* in plastic.

Come to think of it, your diet might end up being more healthy, too.

Comment on GPS Spoofing by gaziantepayakkabi

gaziantepayakkabi — Sun, 14 Feb 2010 15:26:01 +0000

Does anyone know an off the shelf or easy to understand process of setting something like this up from a laptop ? if so how does the simulator send the fake signals on wireless?

Thanks

Comment on BofA Discloses “Undisclosed” Breach by Bob Pendleton

Bob Pendleton — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 00:06:41 +0000

I have another exact copy dated February 2, 2010. I actually found out about the breach before the letter reached me. I happened to log into the BofA site to pay my credit card bill shortly after the 2nd. The site did not notify me of the problem. It showed the wrong account number and demanded that I put in a bank account number before I could pay and then it started sending me to the security page no matter what link I clicked on. There was nothing on the site to tell me what had happened. But, they had instructed the site to block access to my account. They could have let me know through the site. Why didn’t they?

When I called to ask about the site I was told that my account was reported lost or stolen in early January. One bank employee let it slip that over 200,000 people were affected by the same breach. And then told me they did not know where the breach occurred. After being bounced through 3 people I was told that the breach occured on February 2nd. They refused to tell me where the breach occurred. They seem to have lied about when the breach occurred. They did not cancel my stolen card. They did not call. They did not send me an email. Their staff told me BofA could not do either! And yet they can do both when a payment is late. All they did was send out new cards by snail mail.

The replacement cards they sent were already activated. Anyone who happened to get their hands on the new cards could have used them. I was not informed that the cards were coming so I would not even know that they were missing.

As far as I can tell a criminal act took place and Bank of America is actively colluding to cover up the crime.

I collected my notes on what happened and sent them to everyone I know in hopes of warning them of the the danger. The message that Bank of America is not taking any reasonable steps to protect customers must be told. When a bank as large as BofA becomes more interested in covering up a crime than helping the victims, then they need to be put out of business.

Comment on PCI Threatens Small Business and Web Hosting Companies by LonerVamp

LonerVamp — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 14:49:18 +0000

As a footnote, I’m not the “Mike” in the story, despite dropping the “Des Moines” in there (which is where I live!).