Get Cynical

From the Times Online:

New microchipped passports designed to be foolproof against identity theft can be cloned and manipulated in minutes and accepted as genuine by the computer software recommended for use at international airports.

Tests for The Times exposed security flaws in the microchips introduced to protect against terrorism and organised crime. The flaws also undermine claims that 3,000 blank passports stolen last week were worthless because they could not be forged.

You’re always only a slice of bread away from a big traffic spike.

I’m a bit busy today (working on the hyperdrive) so 9 more minutes of Mitch will have to suffice.

(Ok back to work. Now let’s see, horizontal boosters? Alluvial dampers? Ow! That’s not it, bring me the Hydrospanner. I don’t know how we’re going to get out of this one. )

I divide this world into two classes — the cruel and the
kind; and I think a thousand times more of a kind man than I do of
an intelligent man. I think more of kindness than I do of genius,
I think more of real, good, human nature in that way — of one who
is willing to lend a helping hand and who goes through the world
with a face that looks as if its owner were willing to answer a
decent question — I think a thousand times more of that than I do
of being theologically right; because I do not care whether I am
theologically right or not. It is something that is not worth
talking about, because it is something that I never, never, never
shall understand; and every one of you will die and you won’t understand it either — until after you die at any rate. I do not
know what will happen then.

Robert Green Ingersoll – “Unitarian Club” (1892)