Security

You wake up, grab a cup of coffee, listen to the news, and say "bye" to your parent(s); as you catch the bus and worry about your clothes. School is filled with excessive amounts of pressure, and you can't wait for that last bell to ring. I can relate to it. We are teenagers. We live and breathe for drama, sports, and of course myspace. Wait, lets rewind this. Drama.  Read More »

So, ProgressiveU has been down as most of you have undoubtedly noticed by now. And you even managed to survive an entire weekend without it. Now that we're back up and running after the server issue (heretofore known as the Great Server Debacle... because it sounds cool); I thought I would start the resumption of blogging festivities by continuing (sort of) my last entry.  Read More »

For just about all of my life, I have lived in apartments and in other people's homes. Even when I had moved out on my own, nothing was ever truly mine. I was constantly in situations that threatened the need to move on once again.  Read More »

Hey all you security “Big Brother is Watching” buffs (or not), here’s a new one for ya! Yep, Big Brother is still watching… but now he’s just looking a bit closer.

A new kind of camera was recently developed for security purposes that can see through clothing. It’s called Thru Vision and its creators hope it can be used in areas such as airports, train stations, etc.  Read More »

So, our country has the means to take on any other country in this world. Russia, Iran, Iraq, China, North Korea, you name them. I don't know, it seems like our economy and foreign relations seem to overcome our own streets. We all know about gangs and gang violence, and it affects all of our lives, directly or indirectly, in some way or another.  Read More »

So I've been talking with some of my friends about what their password strategies are and I'm finding some really good ideas that I thought I'd share here.  Read More »

I actually wrote this a few weeks ago, about 3 hours into the morning... The profanity has been edited out from the original post...

I'd like to discuss with you all a very important issue affecting our society RIGHT NOW.

Car Alarms.

The neighbor's car just shut off after approximately 25 minutes of obnoxiously loud, uninterrupted, monotonous horn-blaring.  Read More »

20 February 2008

Amtrak is a high speed train with service across the country. After September 11th, many people started traveling on the train more because there were fewer time consuming security checks. This is partly due to a lack of security increase on trains after 9-11. To make up for that, they are now planning to up security on Amtrak trains.  Read More »