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Quick Cruz and Paul updates
Good news: Ted Cruz’s https homepage no longer 404s: $ curl -I https://tedcruz.org/ HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently Server: cloudflare-nginx Date: Wed, 15 Apr 2015 02:03:46 GMT Content-Type: text/html Connection: keep-alive Set-Cookie: __cfduid=d738dec08ca404d83f8aa2b5baafa66821429063426; expires=Thu, 14-Apr-16 02:03:46 GMT; path=/; domain=.tedcruz.org; HttpOnly Location: http://www.tedcruz.org/ Set-Cookie: X-Mapping-fjhppofk=FDCC6397B2B0DC55E6AEB95E4FAB3D36; path=/ CF-RAY: 1d74136e3b2b076d-EWR I noted Rand Paul is running PHP 5.5.9. That’s …
Presidential candidate website tech, compared
Today, Hillary Clinton announced that she’s running for president. She also launched a new website. Over the next year, political pundits will spend far too much time dissecting the horse race, scandals (real or imagined), the electoral college and more polls than you can shake a stick at. I’m doing none of that. I’m just …
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Ain’t no party like a no-party party
Sometimes indepenence isn’t enough. Want to make sure folks know you’re not a member of a political party? Here are 74 ways people have done this: Do not wish to specify dont have one Dont have one. dont know dont no DONT NO YET Dont want to say I am not affiliated with a party …
Declaring independence … from the dictionary
Be careful when you give people a freeform text field. They’ll get creative. Here are 28 — yes, 28 — ways people spelled “independent”: endapendent IDEPENDENT Ind. Indenpent indepant Indepdendent Indepedent indepenant Independance Independanr Independence Independent independiant independient independnt Indepenent indepent Indepentant indepented Indepentent Indepependent Indipendant indipendent indopenit indpendant Indpendent Indpndt undependent
Bruce Schneier briefed congress on the NSA
I suggested that we hold this meeting in a SCIF, because they wanted me to talk about top secret documents that had not been made public. The problem is that I, as someone without a clearance, would not be allowed into the SCIF. So we had to have the meeting in a regular room. This …
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New political tech group
Check out parra bellum labs, the RNC’s new innovation group.
Ellen Miller’s brilliant vision for open government
Let’s imagine in for a moment what it would be like if everything the government can share publicly were made public as it happened. If every law, report, inspection, regulation, enforcement action, budget and meeting that we should be aware of is actually made available online and in real time. It would be nothing short …
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Kathleen Wynne on women and opportunity
This morning, Kathleen Wynne, Ontario’s premier-designate spoke at a news conference. Her remarks on women jumped out at me: I don’t know if any of you remember, or have seen my maiden speech, where I talked about coming to the legislature, I felt that I had a responsibility to represent all of my constituents, but …