So, lets see... George HW Bush (Father of George W Bush) was head of the CIA from 1975-1980. And now 'W' wants to delay release of daddy's deeds until after the next election. Wonder what he was up to?
Microsoft is frantically trying to shift the blame from themselves following the Gartner groups recommendation that people stop using IIS. It's not that MS developers focus soley on market share instead of quality and security (not that I blame the developers, since this is exactly what MS management wants and pays them for), it's that web-defacing juveniles are 'terrorists' and security researchers are 'anarchists'.
MS had it too easy for too long regarding security issues, especially with the news media reporting Outlook vulnerabilitys not as they really are, as a design flaw in Outlook, but as "e-mail viruses."
"Behind every great fortune there is a crime."
- Honoré de Balzac
"You hear a lot about Bill Gates, don't you, whose net worth in January of the year 2000 was equivalent to the combined net worth of the hundred and twenty million poorest Americans, which says something, not only about the software imitator from Redmond, Washington, it says something about millions of workers who work year after year, decade after decade, and are essentially broke."
- Ralph Nader
I agree completely. I wish I heard more of this in the mainstream media, or even, god forbid, from politicians. We live in a corrupted republic, which has become nothing more than a plutocracy. As one of the oppressed poor, I'm pissed off.
What we need, instead of a police state, is people in government who actually believe and follow the principles of the constitution and bill of rights, and who follow those principles abroad as well as at home.
From http://www.bact.wisc.edu/MicrotextBook/disease/ant hrax.html:
"The anthrax bacillus was the first bacterium shown to be the cause of a disease. In 1877, Robert Koch grew it in pure culture, demonstrated its ability to form endospores, and produced experimental anthrax by injecting it into animals.
"Bacillus anthracis is a very large, Gram positive, sporeforming rod (1-1.5um x 4-10um). The organism is readily cultivated on ordinary nutrient medium and grows best aerobically, but will also multiply under anaerobic conditions."
The ACLU has a web site which will allow you to send email, fax, or paper mail to you congressmen. Please write them if you want to protect your rights.
Though I am glad that (hopefully) he will be soon released, this is far worse than Adobe actually persuing this case. Adobe instead says "We still support this unconstitional law because it adds to our pocketbooks. But we only want the government to frighten people with it, rather than enforce it, since it will almost certainly be overturned once challenged. Plus, giving in will look like good PR."
Screw Adobe
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So, lets see...
George HW Bush (Father of George W Bush) was head of the CIA from 1975-1980. And now 'W' wants to delay release of daddy's deeds until after the next election. Wonder what he was up to?
Microsoft is frantically trying to shift the blame from themselves following the Gartner groups recommendation that people stop using IIS. It's not that MS developers focus soley on market share instead of quality and security (not that I blame the developers, since this is exactly what MS management wants and pays them for), it's that web-defacing juveniles are 'terrorists' and security researchers are 'anarchists'.
MS had it too easy for too long regarding security issues, especially with the news media reporting Outlook vulnerabilitys not as they really are, as a design flaw in Outlook, but as "e-mail viruses."
"Behind every great fortune there is a crime."
- Honoré de Balzac
"You hear a lot about Bill Gates, don't you, whose net worth in January of the year 2000 was equivalent to the combined net worth of the hundred and twenty million poorest Americans, which says something, not only about the software imitator from Redmond, Washington, it says something about millions of workers who work year after year, decade after decade, and are essentially broke."
- Ralph Nader
How well does 'chief lieutenant to super villain' pay?
Read Noam Chomsky, "What Uncle Sam Really Wants."
What we need, instead of a police state, is people in government who actually believe and follow the principles of the constitution and bill of rights, and who follow those principles abroad as well as at home.
Vote Green.
Bacteria.
t hrax.html:
From http://www.bact.wisc.edu/MicrotextBook/disease/an
"The anthrax bacillus was the first bacterium shown to be the cause of a disease. In 1877, Robert Koch grew it in pure culture, demonstrated its ability to form endospores, and produced experimental anthrax by injecting it into animals.
"Bacillus anthracis is a very large, Gram positive, sporeforming rod (1-1.5um x 4-10um). The organism is readily cultivated on ordinary nutrient medium and grows best aerobically, but will also multiply under anaerobic conditions."
USA act (Senate bill)
PATRIOT act (House bill)
I already did, but unfortunatly, my "representatives" (McCain, Kyl, and Jeff Flake from AZ) are all sponsors of these horrible bills.
"History teaches that grave threats to liberty often come in times of urgency, when constitutional rights seem too extravagant to endure."
- Justice Thurgood Marshall, 1989
Though I am glad that (hopefully) he will be soon released, this is far worse than Adobe actually persuing this case. Adobe instead says "We still support this unconstitional law because it adds to our pocketbooks. But we only want the government to frighten people with it, rather than enforce it, since it will almost certainly be overturned once challenged. Plus, giving in will look like good PR." Screw Adobe