August 7, 2010

Seriously?

There have been multiple things I've wanted to blog about but I have grossly underestimated the amount of time needed in trying to comprehend electromagnetism in a condensed 5 week summer session. That being said, here's the latest thing that I find utterly disgusting:

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=129048165&ft=1&f=1001


Wonderful. Absolutely wonderful. Yet another example of our ever decreasing privacy and the seemingly exponential growth of the surveillance state all under the guise of national security. It's almost understandable that this occurred in such a country that has already gone to great lengths to limit speech and expression, but how much longer will it be before we see countries with more "freedoms" demand the same sort of access? Not long.