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W32.Sobig.E@mm Worm Spreading Rapidly
mabu writes "Apparently there is another worm spreading online. Symantec has upgraded its severity to 'category 3.' This worm appears to primarily affect Microsoft systems, has an expiration date of July 14th, and searches users' machines for select files containing e-mail addresses that it uses to propagate itself."
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Dear Father O'Day:
Thanks for your letter. Being Catholic myself, I know exactly what you're talking about! It has always been our plan here at Apple Computer Inc to revolutionize personal computing with our high-quality and highly gay products.
I'm happy to answer your letter by letting you know that YES we will be releasing an entire hLife ("homo-life") software line. You'll be able to recognize it in stores by the small stylized logo depicting a large cock entering a tight anus with an Apple logo on it. ("Suddenly it all comes together" indeed!).
Anyway, I hope you and other members of our community will join us on our mission, and purchase the exciting new hLife boxed set. Only the boxed set comes with translucent cock rings!
Sincerely,
Harry Rodman
Vice-president
Homosexual Liaison Services
Apple Computer, Inc.
DO NO CLICK THE FRIGGIN BINARY ATTACHMENTS! I mean come on poeple, this is NOT intresting. Artificial Intelligence is the study of how to make real computers act like the ones in movies.
No, no, no. You should have defecated in the girl's mouth, not your pants!
I haven't got anything useful to say so I'd better think up some witty quip to get my karma.
Supreme Court Strikes Down Gay Sex Ban
By ANNE GEARAN, Associated Press Writer
WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court struck down a ban on gay sex Thursday, ruling that the law was an unconstitutional violation of privacy.
The 6-3 ruling reverses course from a ruling 17 years ago that states could punish homosexuals for what such laws historically called deviant sex.
Laws forbidding homosexual sex, once universal, now are rare. Those on the books are rarely enforced but underpin other kinds of discrimination, lawyers for two Texas men had argued to the court.
The men "are entitled to respect for their private lives," Justice Anthony M. Kennedy wrote.
"The state cannot demean their existence or control their destiny by making their private sexual conduct a crime," he said.
Justices John Paul Stevens (news - web sites), David Souter (news - web sites), Ruth Bader Ginsburg (news - web sites) and Stephen Breyer (news - web sites) agreed with Kennedy in full. Justice Sandra Day O'Connor (news - web sites) agreed with the outcome of the case but not all of Kennedy's rationale.
Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist and Justices Antonin Scalia (news - web sites) and Clarence Thomas (news - web sites) dissented.
The court "has largely signed on to the so-called homosexual agenda," Scalia wrote for the three. He took the unusual step of reading his dissent from the bench.
"The court has taken sides in the culture war," Scalia said, adding that he has "nothing against homosexuals."
Although the majority opinion said the case did not "involve whether the government must give formal recognition to any relationship that homosexual persons seek to enter," Scalia said the ruling invites laws allowing gay marriage.
"This reasoning leaves on shaky, pretty shaky grounds, state laws limiting marriage to opposite-sex couples," Scalia wrote.
Thomas wrote separately to say that while he considers the Texas law at issue "uncommonly silly," he cannot agree to strike it down because he finds no general right to privacy in the Constitution.
Thomas calls himself a strict adherent to the actual words of the Constitution as opposed to modern-day interpretations. If he were a Texas legislator and not a judge, Thomas said, he would vote to repeal the law.
"Punishing someone for expressing his sexual preference through noncommercial consensual conduct with another adult does not appear to be a worthy way to expend valuable law enforcement resources," Thomas wrote.
The two men at the heart of the case, John Geddes Lawrence and Tyron Garner were each fined $200 and spent a night in jail for the misdemeanor sex charge in 1998.
The case began when a neighbor with a grudge faked a distress call to police, telling them that a man was "going crazy" in Lawrence's apartment. Police went to the apartment, pushed open the door and found the two men having anal sex.
"This ruling lets us get on with our lives and it opens the door for gay people all over the country," Lawrence said Thursday.
Ruth Harlow, one of Lawrence's lawyers, called the ruling historic.
"The court had the courage to reverse one of its gravest mistakes and to replace that with a resounding statement," of gay civil rights, Harlow said.
"This is a giant leap forward to a day where we are no longer branded as criminals."
As recently as 1960, every state had an anti-sodomy law. In 37 states, the statutes have been repealed by lawmakers or blocked by state courts.
Of the 13 states with sodomy laws, four â" Texas, Kansas, Oklahoma and Missouri â" prohibit oral and anal sex between same-sex couples. The other nine ban consensual sodomy for everyone: Alabama, Florida, Idaho, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Utah and Virginia.
Thursday's ruling apparently invalidates those laws as well.
The Supreme Court was widely criticized 17 years ago when it upheld an antisodomy law similar
is where a frozen turkey comes to life, escapes from the refrigerator freezer, and terrorizes Mister Bumpy and his friends
I didn't think it was possible, but you just fagged up mutt for me. Thanks (you fucking cunt).
Let's see, there's the CIA, FBI, Department of Homeland Security (or whatever they're called this week), the NSA, and pretty much every other "agency" under Czar Bush.
Then throw in what's left of the KGB, the Chinese KGB, the Kinesset and the rest of our "allies", who caught Czar Bush spying on them during the vote for the Iraqi War For Oil^H^H^H^H^H^Hn Terrorism, "US Threat O' The Week", and everybody else.
Oh, and let's not forget the writers of spam protection software, who now get to do the "Buy Our Product[tm] And Protect Your System" speil.
Is that enough? If not, consider the insane antics of SCO. I can just imagine them trying to claim they're only protecting their IP or something.
With a system like the internet you can't really "take it over". However, there are times and places where strikes can be very effective in allowing you to take over specific systems. For an interesting (in my opinion) story on this, see the sci-fi story "Marooned in RealTime" by none other than Vernor Vinge. I prefer the duology, "Across RealTime", which has both "The Peace War", and "Marooned in RealTime" in it.
Since you said you were asking a serious question, I won't do the obligitory "beowoulf" joke here, but think about it. If you're trying to keep mail services, network traffic, and all the related things (AUTH? INFO?) up during one of these things, the odds of you detecting a small attack against one or two servers using a new vulnerability in something like FTP (or God[d][ess][ess] forbid, SSH or something) goes way down.
Which leads me to another thing, calling it "Secure Shell". Zimmerman had the right idea in calling it "Pretty Good Privacy", not "Unbroken Privacy" or something similar. The social engineering mechanics between the two products are very interesting.
Karma: Food Fight (Mostly affected by Date Plate).
If you're keen to increase performance on your linux system, then in kernel revisions 2.2 and higher there's an optional performance boost. Basically, what it does is re-optimise the memory for application usage, which provides about a 5-10% performance boost.
It's quiet easy to enable, all you need to do is add "exec true" to your system profile (/etc/profile). It can be enabled at a user level by adding this line to a '.bashrc' or similar, but obviously, that will only enhance programs spawned after the shell, not system applications.
In high-school, we did a trojan that would randomly replace semicolons with colons in Turbo Pascal source files. Hard to spot the difference on those crappy early-90's screens, and also very plausible (colon and semicolon are on the same key, thus it may have happened accidentally...).
The program was a TSR started out of autoexec.bat (appropriately named shift-space, so it wouldn't be obvious to casual browsing), which would hook into the keyboard interrupt, and trigger itself whenever somebody pressed F3 (compile program) while Turbo Pascal was loaded in memory. No, we did not patch Turbo Pascal itself, thus reinstalling it did not help...
Eventually, the teachers had to do a complete re-install of the PCs, took them a whole morning...
But being made up of former French colonies the Ivory Coast and Congo has suffered from French interventionism for centuries. The French never wait for consensus or UN permission before the paratroops are on the ground. They get approval after the fact by the bootlicking sycophants of the UN general assembly.
1. The French have held northeastern Africa under the boot heel of colonial rule for too long. They continually try to prop up their puppet governments to protect their interests in the diamond, pitch blend and titanium mines. You should research where the French nuclear program got its raw material.
2. It is not the French that are fighting in Liberia and Sierra Leon. It is the French Foreign Legion. The troops are not French and fight well. Too bad Foreign Legion is best known for the massacres and defeats fighting rear guard actions while their French commanders ran away.
France has a historic interest in the Congo.
US troops are probably just as needed in Liberia, an African nation that is historically close to the US.
I think the US doesn't have troops in Africa because of the Somolia fiasco. And of course the fact that it's a lot easier to sell "humanitarian intervention" when a country has stuff that we want.
-- I wanna decide who lives and who dies - Crow T. Robot, MST3K
As Sobig Worm Spreads Rapidly ...
Goto sleep man.
If you're interested in facts I'll tell you what they are and I'll give you sources - Chomsky on The Big Idea