tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-53891452011-04-22T01:00:06.298-04:00Das BlogDas Blog - A little bit of this, a little bit of that. With the clowns running things these days, there's also bound to be a whole lotta s#%t to comment upon.
<p>Plenty of tek blather, too.dh100http://www.blogger.com/profile/14454540651019237753noreply@blogger.comBlogger931100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5389145.post-1142399025367633792006-03-14T23:46:00.000-05:002006-03-15T00:13:54.063-05:00C for ChickenshitIf anybody has paid any attention at all to my pathetic little corner of cyberspace at all, please allow me to apologize for my absence and this blog's semi-abandoned state. As is so often the case, real life tends to interfere with what we'd rather be doing, both in cyberspace and in the real world. As is also so often the case, it's amazing what can respark a renaissance of sorts in dh100http://www.blogger.com/profile/14454540651019237753noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5389145.post-1116870716408737832005-05-23T13:21:00.000-04:002005-05-23T13:53:53.573-04:00"Hey, go fetch a leech from your barber!"Back in the 70's, when it was still actually funny and known to present cutting edge comedy, Saturday Night Live had a sporadically recurring character called Theodoric of York, medieval barber. Lampooning the ignorance of the dark ages, it was played by Steve Martin when he guest hosted the show, and depicted him prescribing ridiculous, superstition driven remedies for numerous ailments. dh100http://www.blogger.com/profile/14454540651019237753noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5389145.post-1115662789532104312005-05-09T13:10:00.000-04:002005-05-09T14:33:46.486-04:00Attack of the Pinhead ClonesAs the readers of this blighted little corner of cyberspace may or may not know, the self appointed majordomo of this space was raised and currently lives in the state of Ohio. These days, it certainly behooves one to keep such information on the down low, seeing as though a certain wingnut pinhead did his level best to turn my homestate into this past presidential election's version of Florida dh100http://www.blogger.com/profile/14454540651019237753noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5389145.post-1106584450640078192005-01-24T11:32:00.000-05:002005-01-24T11:34:10.640-05:00There Is No Crisis
It says it all. Screw those who view a social safety net as a windfall for fat cats.dh100http://www.blogger.com/profile/14454540651019237753noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5389145.post-1101918537610010212004-12-01T11:25:00.000-05:002004-12-01T11:28:57.610-05:00World AIDS Day
Maybe I'm a hopeless optimist or something... I want someday for us never to have another World AIDS Day ever again.dh100http://www.blogger.com/profile/14454540651019237753noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5389145.post-1100012296955897422004-11-09T09:56:00.000-05:002004-11-09T09:58:16.956-05:00Not all is horrible... just yetYeah, the moron (allegedly) won the election this time out.
But, in much better news, version 1.0 of Mozilla's Firefox browser was released today. A much better alternative to the market leader, trust me.dh100http://www.blogger.com/profile/14454540651019237753noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5389145.post-1096906567395627972004-10-04T13:12:00.000-04:002004-10-04T12:16:07.396-04:00Pulling Back The CurtainSometimes it's best to just let the words stand by themselves.
From a Wall St. Journal reporter, of all places, comes the source for the following on the ground report from Iraq:
Wall Street Journal correspondent Farnaz Fassihi confirms that she penned a scathing letter that calls the war in Iraq an outright "disaster." She also reveals that reporters in Baghdad are working under "virtual housedh100http://www.blogger.com/profile/14454540651019237753noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5389145.post-108422096024906642004-05-10T15:39:00.000-04:002004-05-10T16:32:36.060-04:00Abbie who? Abbie Horrent.Abu Gharib. It's a name that would have been unfamiliar just a week ago, but it certainly isn't now.
As the Iraqi detainee abuse and torture scandal hit with force, President (sic) Bush found something to do about it; he started parroting a new word, namely "abhorrent". Now obviously the man does have to do something to offer some sort of apology, something to convince the rest of the world, dh100http://www.blogger.com/profile/14454540651019237753noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5389145.post-1083094150350356992004-04-27T15:29:00.000-04:002004-04-27T15:36:53.543-04:00A Theft From All Of Us"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies in the final sense a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed."
--President Dwight D. Eisenhower, April 16, 1953
As much as the occurrances Ike outlined in his now famous quotation are truly tragic, none quite measures up to the loss of people who have their lives taken in dh100http://www.blogger.com/profile/14454540651019237753noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5389145.post-1081188322844601602004-04-05T14:05:00.000-04:002004-04-05T14:12:07.750-04:00Strange FruitThe jazz giant Billie Holiday recorded one of the landmark recordings of jazz, Strange Fruit. Composed by Abel Meeropol, the song describes in an impressionistic, but still all too recognizable manner, the aftermath of the lynchings of African-American males that was far too common in the American south at the time. Drawing on the ghastly imagery of the reality of such activities, the song dh100http://www.blogger.com/profile/14454540651019237753noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5389145.post-1079459342921619652004-03-16T12:49:00.000-05:002004-03-16T12:55:14.983-05:00The Sorcerer's ApprenticeA friend on a message board pointed out to me today the analogy certain recent events have with the classic tale of the Sorcerer's Apprentice, particularly scenes from the Disney version of it in Fantasia. In that one, Mickey Mouse, just sure he has control and power over his magical arts, enchants a broomstick to do his chores for him. Things get quickly out of control on him, and soon he's dh100http://www.blogger.com/profile/14454540651019237753noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5389145.post-1078783761019707032004-03-08T17:09:00.000-05:002004-03-08T17:59:19.076-05:00Right Wing Intellectual Pursuits, Genius DivisionI'm not going to claim that the political left in the U.S. has a monopoly on brains. They've certainly been spotted performing their own acts of self immolation on occasion (Ralph Nader, anyone?). However, recent evidence has been spotted that certain sectors of the right are doing their best to cede the field of the exercise of intellect to the opposition.
With ads by the Bush-Cheney dh100http://www.blogger.com/profile/14454540651019237753noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5389145.post-1076996209896169102004-02-17T00:36:00.000-05:002004-02-17T00:44:31.310-05:00Some musings on individual privacy and rights, and a 100 yr old manLately I've been reading a book that I should have noticed and tackled long ago. The book is Privacy on the Line: The Politics of Wireapping and Encryption by Whitfield Diffie and Susan Landau. If you don't know who the guy with the funny sounding name of Whitfield Diffie is, he's the father of modern computer encryption, having done the first breakthrough work in what is now called public dh100http://www.blogger.com/profile/14454540651019237753noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5389145.post-1074727122486264692004-01-21T18:18:00.000-05:002004-01-21T18:20:42.296-05:00I am just SHOCKED, I tell you!On the heels of the previous bit of dissembling I documented here in the immediately foregoing post, comes this little jewel.
Bush May Seek Billions for Iraq After Election
By Adam Entous
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Bush may seek an additional $40 billion or more for military operations in Iraq and Afghanistan next year -- on top of the $400-billion military budget he will send to dh100http://www.blogger.com/profile/14454540651019237753noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5389145.post-1074723915483023862004-01-21T17:25:00.000-05:002004-01-21T18:22:42.653-05:00The Latest Dissemblings about IraqAnd the hits just keep on comin'...
It could take years before investigators are able to uncover the details of Iraq's weapons of mass destruction programs under Saddam Hussein, according to the House Intelligence Committee's chairman.
"Every day is a new day for the intelligence people," said Rep. Porter Goss, R-Florida.
Ahh, yes... it's "morning in America". And "tomorrow is another day".
"dh100http://www.blogger.com/profile/14454540651019237753noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5389145.post-1073071069340632032004-01-02T14:17:00.000-05:002004-01-02T14:19:23.950-05:00Acts of Quasi-Civil Disobedience, Cheeseball DivisionIn the past week, our erstwhile terroists chasers and Homeland Security hobgoblins appear to have gone stark raving bonkers, and declared almanacs to be veritable weapons of mass destruction. No word yet if road atlases, Guinness Books of World Records and Weekly World News are soon to follow.
So, I did what any sensible person would do in the face of such an occurrence: I immediately rushed dh100http://www.blogger.com/profile/14454540651019237753noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5389145.post-1071768942340693272003-12-18T12:35:00.000-05:002003-12-18T12:36:56.966-05:00The Memory Hole Grows Still LargerMore fun in the "making history up out of whole cloth" dept. in today's Washington Post.
It's not quite Soviet-style airbrushing, but the Bush administration has been using cyberspace to make some of its own cosmetic touch-ups to history.
White House officials were steamed when Andrew S. Natsios, the administrator of the U.S. Agency for International Development, said earlier this year that dh100http://www.blogger.com/profile/14454540651019237753noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5389145.post-1070299851768040962003-12-01T12:30:00.000-05:002003-12-01T12:32:53.640-05:00World AIDS Day 2003Today is World AIDS Day, and sadly, the 15th anniversary of the first World AIDS Day. Besides the foregoing, you're encouraged to check out the Link and Think banner further down on the left side of the page at the top of the other banner links.
A good general news story on worldwide observances (and unfortunately, also on some boneheaded ideas coming out of the Vatican) is available here, and dh100http://www.blogger.com/profile/14454540651019237753noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5389145.post-1069713485995104672003-11-24T17:38:00.000-05:002003-11-24T17:38:49.263-05:00Flow, my tearsThis is certainly in a more personal veing than all of the other posts on Das Blog, but my family has a close friend who we are probably going to lose in the next 10-12 months. She's a special person of the sort that makes life better on this planet, and she's seen enough grief for one lifetime already. Her daughter died far too soon, only in her 30's, as a result of hepatitis C. She and her dh100http://www.blogger.com/profile/14454540651019237753noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5389145.post-1068747786469189962003-11-13T13:23:00.000-05:002003-11-13T13:23:34.153-05:00Stand clear for the cosmic backlashPeople who believe in bolts from the blue from the deity of choice upon overt hypocrites and the like are advised to keep their distance.
WASHINGTON (CNN) -- As senators passed the halfway point Thursday in a 30-hour debate designed to bring attention to Democratic filibusters blocking three of the White House's judicial nominees, President Bush called for a stop to the "ugly politics."
"It's dh100http://www.blogger.com/profile/14454540651019237753noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5389145.post-1068671635088997452003-11-12T16:13:00.000-05:002003-11-12T16:14:21.733-05:00Is Cyberterrorism a phantom menace?Excellent catch over on Media Wench. Maggie O. caught it over on news.com.
In the article, Rich Mogull, Gartner Research's information security and risk research director, makes some excellent points.
Gartner's information security and risk research director has dismissed cyberterrorism as a "theory."
The comments came during a media roundtable session at the Gartner Symposium and IT Expo, dh100http://www.blogger.com/profile/14454540651019237753noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5389145.post-1068586388296170192003-11-11T16:33:00.000-05:002003-11-11T16:34:20.390-05:00Another Dispatch from the Memory HoleThe most recent addition to the Friends of Das Blog blogroll, namely Maggie O. of Media Wench, cross linked one of my recent items with a memory hole piece of her own she had done, one much more comprehensive than mine.
Readers are encouraged to check it out.dh100http://www.blogger.com/profile/14454540651019237753noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5389145.post-1068584163390118052003-11-11T15:56:00.000-05:002003-11-11T15:56:54.873-05:00Colin Powell, downer freakColin, Colin... haven't you heard what happened to Tommy Chong? And all he did was sell water pipes and act silly in goofy movies back in the 70's. Don't forget, one of your workmates is professional moralist, scold, crisco slatherer, statue draper and Bill of Rights shredding performance artist Johnny Ashcroft. He won't think much of admissions like this.
Powell's Chemical Equation
Powell dh100http://www.blogger.com/profile/14454540651019237753noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5389145.post-1068478757708967082003-11-10T10:39:00.000-05:002003-11-10T10:39:41.106-05:00A memory hole goaltender smacks the puck back into playCame across an excellent take on CBS's waffling on the Sluggo Raygun miniseries. Food for thought and a good (if rueful) Monday laugh.dh100http://www.blogger.com/profile/14454540651019237753noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5389145.post-1068406958425084312003-11-09T14:42:00.000-05:002003-11-09T14:43:00.860-05:00"Desperation"? Here's some real desperationNews of the weird, from Bush's weekly (weakly?) radio address.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -- President Bush said Saturday the U.S. economy was on an upward trajectory and attributed the improvement to his tax cuts, as a raft of upbeat economic news eased the pressure on his administration amid a rising death toll in Iraq.
"Mah fella 'murkins... it only took three years of some of the most dh100http://www.blogger.com/profile/14454540651019237753noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5389145.post-1067885119501060642003-11-03T13:45:00.000-05:002003-11-03T13:46:18.686-05:00Part Deux from the Memory HoleAnother recent memory hole incident I neglected to mention earlier concerned the ongoing flap over the "Mission Accomplished" banner that was prominently displayed within camera range behind Dubya during his speech on an aircraft carrier back in May.
Compared to the entire stunt of having him flown out to a carrier kept steaming in circles so land wouldn't be visible, and trying to pimp the dh100http://www.blogger.com/profile/14454540651019237753noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5389145.post-1067881851620738322003-11-03T12:50:00.000-05:002003-11-03T13:06:05.640-05:00Down the Memory HoleIn George Orwell's seminal novel 1984, the protagonist, Winston Smith, worked at the "Ministry of Truth", a place whose job it was to constantly alter historical records to fit with the government's current policies and rationale. The actual records of the past and orders to alter them were consigned to the "Memory Hole", simply a slot where items were destroyed and made forever inaccessible.
dh100http://www.blogger.com/profile/14454540651019237753noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5389145.post-1067550196803769482003-10-30T16:43:00.000-05:002003-10-30T16:43:26.076-05:00More Wingnut Insanity Against Truth TellersYou'd think that they'd learn after their baseless suit against Al Franken, but nope... yet another baseless suit gets filed, this time against blogger Atrios with no apparent legal basis whatsoever, by Donald Luskin, presumably because he says Atrios called him a "stalker".
The problem with this is that Luskin called HIMSELF a stalker... in the headline even. His own lawyer even admits he has dh100http://www.blogger.com/profile/14454540651019237753noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5389145.post-1067276701427727322003-10-27T12:45:00.000-05:002003-10-27T14:43:38.793-05:00The Madness of Fat TonyIt's always been a reasonably open secret that Antonin "Fat Tony" Scalia would be a lock to be voted the loosest cannon on the decks of the US Supreme Court. Well, recently our erstwhile Opus Dei nutbar in SCOTUS robes decided to pig out at the insanity buffet when speaking before a far right outfit with rather odd notions of jurisprudence.
WASHINGTON - Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia dh100http://www.blogger.com/profile/14454540651019237753noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5389145.post-1066667006969576822003-10-20T12:23:00.000-04:002003-10-20T15:58:37.000-04:00The Return of Lt. CalleyIt's an interesting day when it comes to news of war atrocities. One reported group of atrocities concerns events of long ago that went unpunished; it's getting widespread play in the media. The other atrocities remain pretty damn buried, despite having been committed in the ongoing action in Iraq. In fact, these newer ones are pretty damned difficult to find on cnn.com or the like, despite dh100http://www.blogger.com/profile/14454540651019237753noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5389145.post-1065800820074475062003-10-10T11:47:00.000-04:002003-10-10T11:46:59.600-04:00Already Bucking for DictatorYes, the guy with the European accent bigger than his IQ (and a set of SERIOUSLY wandering hands) won the California governorship in the recall runoff. However, he already seems to be seriously confused about what the title governor means, even before he takes office.
Schwarzenegger Wants Davis to Stop Filling Posts and Signing Bills
By JOHN M. BRODER
Published: October 10, 2003
OS ANGELES, dh100http://www.blogger.com/profile/14454540651019237753noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5389145.post-1065546879906170162003-10-07T13:14:00.000-04:002003-10-07T13:14:39.866-04:00They Distort, the Smart DerideWell, it turns out that not just Al Franken was cackling at Fox News' weakly trademarked phrase.
In fact, it appears that not only was said phrase indeed a valid target for parody, it's also ripe for it.
Survey shows Fox led in misleading public
Fox News Channel, like the White House, got a ratings boost from the aftermath of 9-11. The tactics were remarkably similar.
Network executives dh100http://www.blogger.com/profile/14454540651019237753noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5389145.post-1065546280253745302003-10-07T13:04:00.000-04:002003-10-07T13:04:40.313-04:00In the news today...Rusty Limbaugh not only resigned from ESPN, but is involved in a drug investigation. ESPN's "NFL Countdown" is markedly less annoying to watch, but you still have to wonder what the hell their execs were thinking in the first place.
California's recall mess reaches a resolution (of sorts) today.
The Plume leak scandal also churns on, with administration right hand lackey John Ashcroft still dh100http://www.blogger.com/profile/14454540651019237753noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5389145.post-106501611957308472003-10-01T09:48:00.000-04:002003-10-01T09:48:39.076-04:00Rush to Bigoted JudgmentIn case you've been unaware, professional far right gasbag Rush Limbaugh has been serving as a commentator of sorts on an NFL pregame show, ESPN's "NFL Countdown". He gets to interject commentary occasionally, share his alleged football "expertise", and generally serves as (get ready now) the "voice of the fan", in the words of some ESPN staffer with a startling excess of imagination.
Thus far,dh100http://www.blogger.com/profile/14454540651019237753noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5389145.post-1064846901054483662003-09-29T10:48:00.000-04:002003-09-29T10:48:20.750-04:00"Enriching" Intelligence on IraqSome absolutely amazing crapola er, excuse me, information came spilling out of the various sabbath gasbag shows yesterday in the wake of a House Intelligence Committee report that essentially labeled the intelligence use to justify going to war with Iraq as a large, steaming pile. (For those not keeping score, the House is the congressional chamber loaded with people ostensibly enamored of the dh100http://www.blogger.com/profile/14454540651019237753noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5389145.post-1064596279447260802003-09-26T13:11:00.000-04:002003-09-26T13:11:19.420-04:00Talk Like O'Reilly DayYes, it's Talk Like Bill O'Reilly Day. Some people are O'Reilly going to town on it. Myself, I can't do it that well.
And if you don't like it, shut up... shut up... I said, SHUT UP! Somebody turn off his mike!
OK, that's as much as I can handle.dh100http://www.blogger.com/profile/14454540651019237753noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5389145.post-1064448313325881142003-09-24T20:05:00.000-04:002003-09-24T20:05:13.446-04:00Archives and Permalinks are BACK!Many thanks to the Blogger folks for getting these features back on their feet.
Fresh blog to come.dh100http://www.blogger.com/profile/14454540651019237753noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5389145.post-1064409005781342442003-09-24T09:10:00.000-04:002003-09-24T09:10:05.813-04:00Archives and Permalinks Currently BrokenSorry folks, but Blogger/Blogspot is currently having some difficulties in the area of the archives and permalinks for particular items at the present time. I've been assured that it should be fixed relatively soon.
In the meantime, I'm going to hold off posting new items until this is resolved, assuming it doesn't take too long. There's a whole lotta stuff going on that just begs comment.dh100http://www.blogger.com/profile/14454540651019237753noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5389145.post-1063904463668779152003-09-18T13:01:00.000-04:002003-09-18T13:01:45.083-04:00Banned Books Week - 9/20/2003-9/27/2003Given that the privacy of what citizens check out from the library has been one of our National Statue Rober's special interests, Das Blog would like to take this opportunity to encourage you to support a special annual event of the American Library Association (ALA), namely Banned Books Week.
Rather than tell you what books to read or remind you that books from ALL over the intellectual and dh100http://www.blogger.com/profile/14454540651019237753noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5389145.post-1063824958898440832003-09-17T14:55:00.000-04:002003-09-17T14:55:58.280-04:00The War, On DrugsI don't know about you, but I feel SO much safer knowing that 70's counterculture stars can't sell water pipes any longer. Perhaps, so we can be even safer, maybe even ALL types of water pipes can be outlawed, and we can give the little twerps working the plumbing section of places like Lowe's and Home Depot a good dose of hard time.
Because, as any good 'Merkin should know by now, the only dh100http://www.blogger.com/profile/14454540651019237753noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5389145.post-1063806039309110822003-09-17T09:40:00.000-04:002003-09-17T09:47:37.863-04:00Listeners Not the Only Ones Who Think the RIAA is Full of it
Guess who else thinks the RIAA is full of crap?
Recording artists across the board think the music industry should find a way to work with the Internet instead of suing people who have downloaded music.
"They're protecting an archaic industry," said the Grateful Dead's Bob Weir. "They should turn their attention to new models."
"This dh100http://www.blogger.com/profile/14454540651019237753noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5389145.post-1063725746503969082003-09-16T11:22:00.000-04:002003-09-16T11:22:26.653-04:00Galloping Down the Slippery Slope
I'm sure that many readers here are familiar with the slippery slope argument, that some paths are better off not taken because they're a "slippery slope" downward that you can only go further down, and where purchase is so hard to come by that coming back up is next to impossible. In the wake of 9/11/2001, the "Patriot Act" was railroaded through Congress, and dh100http://www.blogger.com/profile/14454540651019237753noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5389145.post-1063215074300550892003-09-10T13:31:00.000-04:002003-09-10T13:31:16.613-04:00Thugs and Hypocrites At Work
No, this isn't about the current administration, although it is about a group that's nearly as heartless, thieving, backstabbing and hypocritical. Yes, this is about your friendly neighborhood RIAA.
The latest in their push to drive their public image even lower (which, at this rate, if it becomes any lower will be somewhere around that of crack dealers who dh100http://www.blogger.com/profile/14454540651019237753noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5389145.post-1063132812921389532003-09-09T14:40:00.000-04:002003-09-09T14:40:12.836-04:00RHIP (Rank Has Its Privileges)
You betcha. Piss off the Bush family, your country gets invaded on flimsy pretexts. On the other hand, if you have a family member that perpetrates the worst attacks on US soil since the Civil War, so long as said family is well connected with the administration, then you can get the red carpet treatment.
White House Approved Departure of Saudis After Sept. 11, dh100http://www.blogger.com/profile/14454540651019237753noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5389145.post-1062986107456824842003-09-07T21:55:00.000-04:002003-09-07T21:55:07.316-04:00For a Few Billion More
Yes, our great and feeer-less leader decided to address the public tonight on the War on Iraq... you know, the one that was sworn to be over back in May.
President Bush told Americans in a televised address Sunday night that he will seek an additional $87 billion to continue the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq.
"This will take time and require sacrifice. Yet we will do dh100http://www.blogger.com/profile/14454540651019237753noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5389145.post-1062089421120576692003-08-28T12:50:00.000-04:002003-08-28T12:50:20.976-04:00An Outsourcing Outrage
You may have noticed that "outsourcing", basically sending jobs overseas for pennies on the dollar, has become all the rage in corporate America. In fact, a US envoy recently rushed to assure the government of India, the place to which many of these jobs go, especially computer tech ones, that laws placing restrictions on the practice won't become widespread.
Well, it dh100http://www.blogger.com/profile/14454540651019237753noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5389145.post-1061821214844660132003-08-25T10:20:00.000-04:002003-08-25T10:20:14.820-04:00A Fair and Balanced Decision
No big suprises here, but just maybe, the overinflated blowhard who pushed... well, begged and groveled for the suit will take heed.
Saying "This is an easy case," a federal judge ruled Friday against Fox News in its lawsuit asserting that a book by liberal satirist Al Franken violates its trademarked slogan, "fair and balanced."
Fox was seeking an injunction to haltdh100http://www.blogger.com/profile/14454540651019237753noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5389145.post-1061307922225711432003-08-19T11:45:00.000-04:002003-08-19T11:45:32.903-04:00O, FirstEnergy Pioneers!
Now the larger papers are jumping onto it.
The top two executives of FirstEnergy Corp., the Ohio-based utility that is a focus of investigations into last week's cascading blackouts, are key financial supporters of President Bush, according to campaign records.
H. Peter Burg, chairman and chief executive, was one of three hosts of a $600,000 fundraiser for Bush's dh100http://www.blogger.com/profile/14454540651019237753noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5389145.post-1061084837088156772003-08-16T21:47:00.000-04:002003-08-16T21:48:40.363-04:00How to not "modernize" the grid
Remember how our fearless leader was just sure the nation's electric grids needed to be "modernized"?
Well, perhaps you were wondering as I did where exactly he got his expertise in the electric generation and distribution business. After all, his primary experience in the energy business appears to have been drilling dry holes in Texas with his aptly named dh100http://www.blogger.com/profile/14454540651019237753noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5389145.post-1060967381732303672003-08-15T13:09:00.000-04:002003-08-15T13:10:27.726-04:00Welcome to Fair and Balanced Day
Yes, it's a new Fair and Balanced day here at Das Blog. With all the toil, trouble and litigation in the world, we here at this corner of the web feel it's vital to be Fair and Balanced.
There are SLAPP suits, lawyers run amok, and then there is being Fair and Balanced.
It's enough to make one think less about themselves and more about him... Al Franken.dh100http://www.blogger.com/profile/14454540651019237753noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5389145.post-1060958389828076462003-08-15T10:39:00.000-04:002003-08-15T10:44:12.140-04:00The Electric Shrub-man
Yes, the Eastern U.S. power grid took a serious hit yesterday. However, our fearless leader is unafraid to blurt out an off the cuff "solution" to a problem whose cause is still unknown.
Of course, we'll have time to look at it and determine whether or not our grid needs to be modernized. I happen to think it does, and have said so all along.
Gee, thanks. I wonder... doesdh100http://www.blogger.com/profile/14454540651019237753noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5389145.post-1059594143549399692003-07-30T15:42:00.000-04:002003-07-30T15:42:23.530-04:00Bush Takes a Bullet for Condi
Finally... as if we didn't know it all along.
President Bush on Wednesday accepted personal responsibility for a discredited portion of last winter's State of the Union address that suggested Saddam Hussein was shopping for nuclear material in Africa.
''I take personal responsibility for everything I say, absolutely,'' the president said during an hour-long White dh100http://www.blogger.com/profile/14454540651019237753noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5389145.post-1059584553551409412003-07-30T13:02:00.000-04:002003-07-30T13:02:33.430-04:00Schizophrenic Security
WARNING! There may be new terrorist hijack plots afoot this summer involving commercial flights on the East Coast, Europe or Austraila.
But, uhhh... at the same time, the adminstration wanted to cut back on air marshals on those very same kinds of flights.
No word yet if the bonehead who pulled this reconsidered only after taking his meds.dh100http://www.blogger.com/profile/14454540651019237753noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5389145.post-1059508392773856472003-07-29T15:53:00.000-04:002003-07-29T15:53:12.566-04:00Place Yer Bets
Welcome to the casino of the macabre.
Plan for 'terror market' canceled
Tuesday, July 29, 2003 Posted: 12:09 PM EDT (1609 GMT)
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Pentagon will abandon a plan to establish a futures market to help predict terrorist strikes, the chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee said Tuesday.
Sen. John Warner said he spoke by phone with the program's director, "dh100http://www.blogger.com/profile/14454540651019237753noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5389145.post-1058894784366833652003-07-22T13:26:00.000-04:002003-07-22T13:31:11.143-04:00A Tale of Two Regions
A report from the "talking out of both sides of our mouths" department.
First off, the Bush administration is beating the war drums in earnest when it comes to Syria and Iran.
President Bush on Monday accused Syria and Iran of continuing to "harbor and assist terrorists," an act he called "completely unacceptable."
After talks with Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, dh100http://www.blogger.com/profile/14454540651019237753noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5389145.post-1058540406531041482003-07-18T11:00:00.000-04:002003-07-18T11:00:06.833-04:00Another "Accident"
My... ain't this convenient?
Body Found Near Home of Missing Weapons Adviser
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Filed at 10:29 a.m. ET
LONDON (AP) -- A body found Friday in central England has been tentatively identified as a missing Ministry of Defense adviser suspected as the source of allegations that the government doctored a report about Iraq's nuclear program.
David Kelly's dh100http://www.blogger.com/profile/14454540651019237753noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5389145.post-1058297052796385262003-07-15T15:24:00.000-04:002003-07-15T15:24:12.730-04:00"Sixteen Little Words" and Assorted Nuts
The thrashing over the still missing weapons of mass destruction, amazing invisible uranium from Niger, and scapegoat identification continues today.
First off, Nicholas Kristof, one of the first to point out the administration's dissembling and inaccuracies on the alleged WMD (as noted elsewhere on these pages) starts taking Bush & Co. to task in earnestdh100http://www.blogger.com/profile/14454540651019237753noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5389145.post-1057933586013558262003-07-11T10:26:00.000-04:002003-07-11T10:26:25.933-04:00Implausible Deniability
The desperate hunt for scapegoats by Bush lackeys continues today, as another administration token chimes in.
The U.S. Central Intelligence Agency approved President Bush's State of the Union speech, which included a statement that Iraq was planning to buy uranium from Africa, U.S. National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice told reporters Friday.
"The CIA cleared the dh100http://www.blogger.com/profile/14454540651019237753noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5389145.post-1057893108151416082003-07-10T23:11:00.000-04:002003-07-10T23:12:42.980-04:00Phony Uranium Claims and Smoking Guns
Mr. Bush gets a long overdue reality check.
Bush Knew Iraq Info Was False
WASHINGTON, July 10, 2003
CIA officials warned members of the President’s National Security Council Staff the intelligence was not good enough to make the flat statement Iraq tried to buy uranium from Africa.
(CBS) Senior administration officials tell CBS News the President’s dh100http://www.blogger.com/profile/14454540651019237753noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5389145.post-1057617622559196132003-07-07T18:40:00.000-04:002003-07-07T18:50:47.476-04:00Ahhh-nult and the One Joke Campaign
Oh, that Schwarzenegger guy... whatta card!
He travels to Iraq, you know, to pump up the soldiers' spirits. He's there to show off his latest high intensity action flick, featuring the one character, a virtually emotionless machine, that he's proven conclusively he can play, and what does he find to talk about?
Arnold Schwarzenegger joined U.S. troops in a dh100http://www.blogger.com/profile/14454540651019237753noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5389145.post-1057244801925468282003-07-03T11:06:00.000-04:002003-07-03T11:06:41.913-04:00Bring It On... to those guys standing in front of me...
I was going to say something about Bush's irresponsible, ridiculous, buffoonish, dangerous "bring it on" comments to the press yesterday, ostensibly made to make him appear "tough". But, somebody already said it better.dh100http://www.blogger.com/profile/14454540651019237753noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5389145.post-1057171273817832882003-07-02T14:41:00.000-04:002003-07-02T17:33:01.106-04:00Out of the Mouths of Economic Reporters
I know the economy sucks; you know it sucks. It sucketh even more when it comes to employment (or rather, the lack thereof).
Up until recently, however, getting the business press to say much about it was pretty damn tough. Getting the administration to say anything about it (outside of "we need more of the new miracle cure, tax cuts!!!") was impossible.
dh100http://www.blogger.com/profile/14454540651019237753noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5389145.post-1057073160141240972003-07-01T11:26:00.000-04:002003-07-01T11:26:00.083-04:00Triumph of the Dull Will
Right wing shills certainly seem to have their knickers in a twist over the recent Lawrence decision. Whoda thunk that allowing consenting adults to *gasp!* decide for themselves what tickled their fancy in the bedroom without government intervention would bring about the fall of western civilization?
Thus, we have the spectacle of George Will hyperventilating in public,dh100http://www.blogger.com/profile/14454540651019237753noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5389145.post-1056992799722939972003-06-30T13:06:00.000-04:002003-06-30T13:08:14.370-04:00The Dowd-y One Gets Real
This outlet never has been particularly fond of Maureen Dowd, but for once, the grrl goes.
Antonin Scalia fancies himself the intellectual of the Supreme Court, an aesthete who likes opera and wines, a bon vivant who loves poker and plays songs like "It's a Grand Old Flag" on the piano; a real man who hunts and reads Ducks Unlimited magazine; a Catholic father of nine whodh100http://www.blogger.com/profile/14454540651019237753noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5389145.post-1056652020954739042003-06-26T14:27:00.000-04:002003-06-26T14:28:49.440-04:00RIP: Bowers v. Hardwick
1986 - 2003
Conservatives today noted with sadness the passing of Bowers v. Hardwick, age 17.
Always an awkward, gangly, unattractive adolescent, he was nonetheless adored by his doting, devoted aunts, among them the religious right, moralistic blue noses, and the Thing With Three Heads (aka Antonin Scalia, William Rehnquist and Clarence Thomas).
His beloved being dh100http://www.blogger.com/profile/14454540651019237753noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5389145.post-960182652003-06-25T11:20:00.000-04:002003-06-25T11:33:42.000-04:00Because an uncensored open book is a terrible thing to allow
On the heels of SCOTUS' legal pretzel creation on affirmative action came another goofy decision in an area less likely to cause an uproar among the masses, that being reactionary congresspeoples' obsession with forcing public libraries to censor their internet feeds. Yes, I know that people who favor this sort of thing prefer terms dh100http://www.blogger.com/profile/14454540651019237753noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5389145.post-959928012003-06-24T16:40:00.000-04:002003-06-24T17:29:19.000-04:00SCOTUS Catch-22
The most conflicted Supreme Court in the world, namely that one located in Washington, D.C., proved yet again that it can all but corkscrew itself right into the ground while trying to be for something while not actually being in favor of it.
Take affirmative action. The reactionaries on the bench really, REALLY don't like it, even those who have benefited from it, like Clarence dh100http://www.blogger.com/profile/14454540651019237753noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5389145.post-958363972003-06-19T14:50:00.000-04:002003-06-19T14:51:04.000-04:00Advise and Comment
Comments have been added to Das Blog, courtesy of the free Haloscan service, which recently started accepting new signups.
Feel free to add comments to the post of your choice. Be forewarned: the only asshole allowed around these parts is me.dh100http://www.blogger.com/profile/14454540651019237753noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5389145.post-957966222003-06-18T12:56:00.000-04:002003-06-18T13:05:43.000-04:00Welcome to the Booby Hatch
Ideas. Yes, I like new ideas. The industry I know, love, and work in, the computer software industry, is basically built on nothing but ideas.
And then there are... INSANE ideas. Ideas so poorly thought out and articulated, ideas so nutty that they not only make the listener go "WTF???", they make you want to back slowly away from the promulgator of such an idea and dh100http://www.blogger.com/profile/14454540651019237753noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5389145.post-956431992003-06-13T17:41:00.000-04:002003-06-13T17:45:37.000-04:00Interesting Open Source Tech O' tha Day
XUL.
No, not the supernatural dog that Sigourney Weaver turned into in Ghostbusters, though it is pronounced the same.
XUL is a very interesting, XML based, lightweight way of specifying a user interface. If you have a XUL engine for your target platform, and there are all sorts of XUL engines written in many languages, all you need is the XUL markup dh100http://www.blogger.com/profile/14454540651019237753noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5389145.post-954793332003-06-09T16:38:00.000-04:002003-06-09T16:40:06.000-04:00The Terra Color Alert System Explained
And the explanation makes more sense than anything I've heard from helmet hair Tom Ridge.
When Portland Ore., receptionist Colette Belusko was asked to name the current level of the nation's five-color terror alert system, she guessed correctly and flapped her arms in an imitation of a distressed bird.
"Right now, we're at yellow for chicken," said Belusko,dh100http://www.blogger.com/profile/14454540651019237753noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5389145.post-954709742003-06-09T12:56:00.000-04:002003-06-09T12:56:52.000-04:00"This is bulls#%t", part deux
The swirl around non-existent "wep-unns of maaas dess-truck-shunn" continues, keeps intensifying, and is beginning to develop the most tell tale of all symptoms, that being a virtual cornucopia of pointing fingers.
First off, Condi makes an appearance on the sabbath gasbags, an appearance which seems to have been mostly concerned with damage control and ass covering.dh100http://www.blogger.com/profile/14454540651019237753noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5389145.post-953787192003-06-06T13:43:00.000-04:002003-06-06T13:43:01.596-04:00Everything Must Go
As usual, Steely Dan has just the right cynical salve for these economically troubled times, as well as a really funny set of videos on their site.
You can even try before you buy and listen to the whole album over there.
CD available June 10th.dh100http://www.blogger.com/profile/14454540651019237753noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5389145.post-952875912003-06-04T11:38:00.000-04:002003-06-04T11:38:54.476-04:00Lying about lying about non-existent awards
Amusing goings on of late from Bill O'Really of Fox News fire-breathing pundit fame. Yet another of the right leaning, "quit yer whining and take personal responsibility, dammit!" crowd, he seems equally unwilling to take responsibility for his own actions as well.
Eschaton has excellent documentary evidence of the O'Really actual words and missteps (dh100http://www.blogger.com/profile/14454540651019237753noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5389145.post-951965362003-06-02T12:15:00.000-04:002003-06-02T12:15:57.656-04:00"This is bulls#%t"
On the heels of the previous item posted here, the following incident is presented sans comment.
On the evening of February 1, two dozen American officials gathered in a spacious conference room at the Central Intelligence Agency in Langley, Va. The time had come to make the public case for war against Iraq. For six hours that Saturday, the men and women of the Bush dh100http://www.blogger.com/profile/14454540651019237753noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5389145.post-950989462003-05-30T18:23:00.000-04:002003-05-30T18:23:39.300-04:00Lies, damned lies, and intelligence
It's turning into a really fun news day so far. Not only has the terra alert color changed yet again (which seems to happen more often than leads on "weapons of mass destruction" turn out to be bogus), but the excrement over non-existent Iraqi WMD's is starting to hit the rotating device in earnest.
On Day 71 of the Hunt for Iraqi W.M.D., yesterday, once againdh100http://www.blogger.com/profile/14454540651019237753noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5389145.post-950923652003-05-30T15:08:00.000-04:002003-05-30T15:08:45.200-04:00Terra color daily silliness
I know we've all been waiting with baited breath for this.
Yes, while the rest of us were doing irrelevant things like working, paying bills and taking care of the kids, Tom Ridge earned his hard won pay by considering in an agonizing fashion what color went best with his carefully coordinated Brooks Brothers n' Grecian Formula ensemble.
Therefore, I'm happy to dh100http://www.blogger.com/profile/14454540651019237753noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5389145.post-950918612003-05-30T14:54:00.000-04:002003-05-30T14:54:13.933-04:00Bandwidth hogs, get ready to dig in
Although, considering these are phone companies we're talking about, it'll probably not be available for five more years, and will be overpriced when it's finally available.
Given that, however, the prospect of last mile fiber, even for my HOUSE, is enough to make even the most jaded bandwidth piggy squeal like somebody added a stack of t-bones to their slops.
dh100http://www.blogger.com/profile/14454540651019237753noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5389145.post-950525912003-05-29T18:00:00.000-04:002003-05-29T18:09:53.000-04:00Triumph des Willens
It's pretty useless to pretend that the present administration is unique in its desire to micromanage its image. However, its obsession on the subject may be the deepest yet witnessed in the television age, with signs of it visible everywhere from the mundane, to the plain silly, and even to the laughably ludicrous.
Then there is the "war hero" story of Pvt. Jessica Lynch. dh100http://www.blogger.com/profile/14454540651019237753noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5389145.post-947929082003-05-23T12:47:00.000-04:002003-05-23T12:52:58.000-04:00Lies Don't Honor the Dead
I'm strongly in favor of unions and collective bargaining, but in this case, a bunch of union workers and sundry present and former elected officials decided to be stupid in public view, and at "Ground Zero", no less.
Thousands of labor union workers crowded along the western edge of Ground Zero Thursday to show their support for U.S. troops and the war against Iraq.
dh100http://www.blogger.com/profile/14454540651019237753noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5389145.post-947920142003-05-23T12:24:00.000-04:002003-05-23T12:24:32.320-04:00Heroism Makes an Appearance
Nothing against the soldiers who fought recently, but this lady has some serious guts.
A young Indian girl has become a celebrity for resisting her in-laws demands for a dowry and sending her groom to jail for it.
Since her case first came to light, 21-year-old Nisha Sharma has received a series of awards, a slew of admiring suitors -- and even some copycats, with dh100http://www.blogger.com/profile/14454540651019237753noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5389145.post-946489532003-05-20T16:13:00.000-04:002003-05-20T16:13:36.783-04:00Alllll izzzz WELLL! Remain CALLLMMMM!!!
Why is it that the more I see him, the more Tom Ridge reminds me of a much older version of Kevin Bacon's character from "Animal House"?
In any case, the nation's "Terror Threat Level" was raised to Creamsicle today. The given reason: "chatter".
The shelter I want if something happens near me: I want to be able to hide under Tom's helmet hair 'do.dh100http://www.blogger.com/profile/14454540651019237753noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5389145.post-946016442003-05-19T18:15:00.000-04:002003-05-19T18:15:56.376-04:00Ari, we hardly knew ye
As the bespectacled, bullet headed meister of propaganda for the current administration decides on an early exit, stage right, a certain online media outlet merely says what everybody else is thinking.
On Monday morning, White House spokesman Lawrence Ari Fleischer revealed to the Associated Press that he is heading out the door, seeking employment in the private sector. dh100http://www.blogger.com/profile/14454540651019237753noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5389145.post-945479162003-05-18T16:37:00.000-04:002003-05-18T16:51:38.000-04:00Mozilla Firebird 0.6 Officially Released
Firebird is the Mozilla microbrowser formerly known as Phoenix. If you want something smaller, faster, and lighter than Internet Exploder or Netscrape (or even the regular Mozilla browser), Firebird's what you want on Windows, Linux, Solaris and even Mac OS X. It also has way, WAY better formatting and JavaScript support than Opera (sorry, but it's true)dh100http://www.blogger.com/profile/14454540651019237753noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5389145.post-945472672003-05-18T16:17:00.000-04:002003-05-18T16:24:19.000-04:00Thus Spake Strauss-athustra
You can't seem to turn aound these days without hearing whispers about a guy by the name of Leo Strauss.
At first glance, he seems a pretty nebbishy fellow to worry about. A lifelong academic and "political philosopher" who was born in Germany and emigrated to the US in 1932, and taught most famously at the University of Chicago, the man has been dead for over a dh100http://www.blogger.com/profile/14454540651019237753noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5389145.post-944248602003-05-15T22:21:00.000-04:002003-05-15T22:21:22.456-04:00The box o' the moment lost its juice, but gained a bouncing new 350 watt power supply.
Nothing fancy just yet, but I'd love to have one of those heavy duty machined and finned aluminum numbers. Maybe by the fall.
Damn, but it sucks to be in the grip of a never ending update jones... almost...dh100http://www.blogger.com/profile/14454540651019237753noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5389145.post-944065752003-05-15T15:35:00.000-04:002003-05-15T16:04:30.000-04:00How to "support" something while (deliberately) not even trying
The Bush administration's office of newspeak has been in high gear of late, one recent example being Bush's amazing position on the assault weapons ban.
A photo caption in the story says it all.
Unlike his push for tax cuts, President Bush has had no recent public comments about an assault weapons ban that the White House says he dh100http://www.blogger.com/profile/14454540651019237753noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5389145.post-943955802003-05-15T11:53:00.000-04:002003-05-15T11:53:47.810-04:00dh100http://www.blogger.com/profile/14454540651019237753noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5389145.post-943506222003-05-14T17:24:00.000-04:002003-05-15T16:08:06.000-04:00The Austin Tea Party... I just love the sound of that.
One of the chief GOP complainers about the Texas legislature Dem walkout, Tom Craddick, gets hoist on his own hypocritical petard:
For a person who made history this year as the first Republican speaker of the Texas House of Representatives in 132 years, Tom Craddick has flunked his first history test.
After using heavy-handed tactics to dh100http://www.blogger.com/profile/14454540651019237753noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5389145.post-942907382003-05-13T18:08:00.000-04:002003-05-13T18:08:07.573-04:00*chuckle!*
Honestly, who's running Bush's economic policy now -- Bill Bennett?dh100http://www.blogger.com/profile/14454540651019237753noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5389145.post-942900502003-05-13T17:55:00.000-04:002003-05-15T16:08:59.000-04:00Hail to the Thief
The title of Radiohead's sixth album 'Hail To The Thief' is also an anti-George W. Bush slogan used by protesters at the end of the controversial election campaign that put him into the White House. The phrase 'Hail To The Thief' was coined by protesters at the end of the 2000 US Presidential election, when controversy famously surrounded Bush's rise to office. The battle dh100http://www.blogger.com/profile/14454540651019237753noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5389145.post-942778552003-05-13T14:00:00.000-04:002003-05-15T16:13:37.000-04:00Tech Outrage o' the Year
So far, anyhow...
Microsoft: flaw left millions at risk
Friday, May 9, 2003 Posted: 9:20 AM EDT (1320 GMT)
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Microsoft acknowledged a security flaw in its popular Internet Passport service that left 200 million consumer accounts vulnerable to hackers and thieves -- an admission that could expose the company to a hefty fine from U.S. regulators.
dh100http://www.blogger.com/profile/14454540651019237753noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5389145.post-942749582003-05-13T13:03:00.000-04:002005-05-10T07:43:20.106-04:00Das Blog is up and running.With the Bush gang and der kulturkampfers attempting to run things, it's a target rich environment, to be sure.And now, for the boring (but necessary) stuff:Das Blog Copyright InformationDas Blog and its contents are protected under International Copyright Laws.Das Blog is now, as of 10/1/2003, covered under a Creative Commons license. More information about the dh100http://www.blogger.com/profile/14454540651019237753noreply@blogger.com