RedHat was always first on the support level because they did extensive testing and certified hardware as being functional in Linux. This takes a huge load off of vendors, such as Gateway, because they can check off their hardware against the list then guarantee their customers when they sell them a Linux box it will be compatible with Linux.
Not just vendor support, but customer support, too.
Remember that Red Hat absorbed (and still runs, last I looked) Cygnus: a company that existed to provide support for GNU software - for a fee.
Purchasers of hardware with Red Hat pre-installed can expect that, if they have complex trouble, they can always go to Red Hat and buy enough service to get the problem solved.
This gives them a nice comfy feeling about the product. And it also unloads the tough software support problems from the hardware vendor (even if he DIDN'T include a basic support contract with the install to unload the software-related powerup questions to Red Hat's phone banks.)
Mrs. Lamone was highly critical of Dr Rubin's testimony, stating that he was doing 'a great disservice to democracy. They're telling the public: Don't trust them, don't trust the voting equipment.'
"Ignore that man behind the curtain."
(Or should that be "Ignore the guys sneaking up behind you with the net."?)
Yes, they're telling the public to distrust the voting machines. And in the short run that may destabilize the nation - slightly.
But distrust of something untrustworthy is appropriate - especially when letting it be corrupted can literally lead to tyrrany and war, while FIXING it so that it is verifiably trustworthy is trivial.
Of course that means the decisions of Mrs. Lamone's department (no doubt those of Mrs. Lamone) might be criticised, and her state be required to spend more money to upgrade or replace the devices they selected. Bad for her carreer path, eh?
The worst ones I've seen are ones that require you to have gone back in time in order to have enough xperience with the software they want you to use:
"Requirements: 5 years experience with Windows 2000..."
Reminds me of the job postings when Unix was young. Hundreds of jobs (at entry-level pay) requiring 5 or more years of unix experience.
I didn't have the heart to call 'em up and tell 'em that Kernighan, Ritchie, and Thompson were all unlikely to be lured away from Bell Labs for that price. B-)
The first reproducing artificial virus was the Polio virus by Wimmer and colleagues.
Ventner's new virus is artificial in the sense that it was created from chemicals- but it is identical to a known natural virus.
Unfortunately, Wimmer et. al.'s polio virus was a defective copy.
What Ventner's group did was construct a fully-functional instance of a known virus from only data and raw materials.
This is a first. It proves that the technology to construct a lifeform from the genetic code is in place. It also proves that (at least in this virus' case) there's no undiscovered mechanism necessary for its life.
Telephones used to be a monopoly in the US, too, until the Carterphone decision started the deregulation ball rolling and opened the door for the formation of MCI to sell lower-priced long distance service.
The "British Post Office" has nothing whatsoever to do with telecommunications in England, Scotland, or anywhere else. It did many years ago, before its telecoms and mail services were split up and privatized.
Which is when I read about this. All water under the London Bridge these days, apparently.
Also - can you provide a reference for this laser broadcast technology? Why, for example, is it not in common usage?
Why would you need it except to bypass a total ban on private "radio"? Also: It's a good way to melt the eyeballs out of pilots (which is why firing a hazardously-high-powered laser into free space, at least where airplanes might be flying, is regulated in the US.)
Will this be the first of more kernel backdoors, now that the idea is out there?
Isn't the pertinent question... was this the first?
Sounds like it might be time for a quick audit. Like looking at every instance of "current->uid" to see if the uid is a LHS.
Don't forget things like "current->uid -= current->uid" and similarly with exor, bitwise and, etc. (That's why any occurrence of current->uid as a LHS is suspect.)
In my code I always put the constant on the lhs so that the difference between the equality (==) and assignment (=) operator are caught by the compiler by accident.
Good style.
But this was apparently not an accident, but a deliberate attempt to disguise a trapdoor. As such the author would, of course, just "forget" to use that piece of defensive programming. B-)
Unlike England, where the British Post Office (?) (the regulator of radio in Britain) controls electromagnetic waves all the way up through gamma if they carry a communication channel.
Seems some "filthy capitalist" had a bright idea (so to speak) for breaking the BBC's monopoly on broadcast radio: He installed an infrared laser in London pointed straight up, modulated it with a copy of the FM broadcast spectrum built locally, and started to sell receivers rent slots in the modulation.
The light from the (invisible) laser scattered off the clouds/particulates/"clear air" and illuminated the city. The receiver consisted of a photocell to mount on the window sill and point at the pillar of invisible light, connected to a converter that you'd strap to the back of a radio and hook to the antenna connection. Presto: One complete broadcast band full of commercial stations.
Of course the BBC squalked and parlement extended the range of frequencies the BPO could regulate all the way up to infinity. End of enterprise.
That would be interesting, whale sounds, bird calls, waves...
That's not as silly as it sounds. The ears, for instance (along with the processing behind them) are VERY good at finding one-dimensional patterns in time series, just as the eye is good at finding patterns in 2-D. Ears also have several other data-analysis tricks available, related to active and passive echolocation along with sonic direction-finding.
A great recent example was the sound of the big bang rendering of recent astrophysical findings. Both the time-series analysis and the passive echolocation features of the auditory system give you a "feel" for aspects of the data presented.
Voyager has been moving through space in ways unexplainable by physics. There is a small acceleration that can't be accounted for using known laws. It's almost like gravity doesn't work quite the way we think it does.
Of course, there is always the possibility that we just can't see the source of the acceleration, and it'll turn out to be something simple. However so far, all proposals put forth to explain it have been shown to be incorrect.
I'd do a bit of computation on the shape of voyager interpreted as a solar sail, along with how any magnetic field it may have interacts with the solar wind, before worrying about whether to tweak the models of gravity.
Wait the GOP is suing? What about all that stuff I read on the internet that Diebold is in the pocket of the GOP?
That's just FUD to sucker the Democrats onto the bandwagon to pass laws to fix the problem, rather than hiding in the back room figuring out how to use the bugs to cheat. B-)
If I want one to play with, yes. But if I'm trying to build a software product or business around it, I want to have the hardware in production so others can buy it.
ESPECIALLY if it's a networking project - where the value of the network goes up with its size. If the stuff isn't in production it will run out, probably before the network reaches critical mass.
(Yes I know you can make it interoperable with other devices. But if this one is defunct I want to find one that's FUNCT before investing a chunk of my life. B-) )
I thought Cre/\tive had end-of-lifed that product! They still don't have it on their home page - though the gamersdepot review is recent and claims they're available for twenty bux.
What happened?
(And why, after the hooraw here on slashdot when Cre/\tive canceled them just as open-source software was becoming available to drive them, didn't we hear about them coming back?)
Does this recent solar activity make any of you feel uneasy? I mean... is it time for Bruce Willis to suit up again and save the planet? Nine X-class solar flares... eeeek. That has to be bad.
Don't know about bad. But there was another one - a REALLY big one - about 1930 GMT / 11:30 PST / 2:30 EST. See this page for the X-ray intensity at the GEOS satellites - at least until it horizons out in a few more hours.
Note that the peak is beyond the saturation of the instrument. BIG.
A lot of stuff - and a lot of ad hominems. I'll just hit a couple high points.
Besides the funny business that went on before the election (ordered by Jeb Bush) to remove tens of thousands of Democratic voters from the lists of registered Florida voters [...]
You mean the order to actually enforce the law purging convicted felons from the list of eligible voters? Are you saying crooks tend to be Democrats? B-)
As to the few non-felon Democrats (AND Republicans) who got zapped by accident because they happened to have the same name as a felon, they had plenty of time to correct the error.
[...] there is the matter of the leaked Diebold memos, which show that there was some election night hanky-panky with the 2000 Florida presidential vote totals (made possible by Diebold, a company whose top man has declared that it is his mission to deliver Ohio's electoral votes to George W Bush).
My impression of the current state of the corruption of the voting process is that the D's political machine perpetrates most of it and receives most of the benefit. I was concerned that the automation of vote corruption would also end up in their pocket, locking them into power forever.
So it pleases me no end that the first computer voting machine company whose flaws were exposed has prominent R connections, getting the Ds on the bandwagon to fix the problem.
And now the bill to force transparency onto e-voting is introduced and co-sponsored by a stack of Ds. How convenient! This means it might actually get fixed!
If they Rs were cagey enough the could play to the medias' image and initially withhold their support, then "reluctantly" trade it for including a rider to also eliminate some of the OTHER corruption mechanisms. Such as:
- eliminating the "motor-voter + absentee-on-demand" phantom-voter printing press. -flagging non-voing status on California illegal-alien drivers licenses.
- requiring actual proof of eligibility to vote for registration, and actual registration for voting.
- auditing voter rolls to clean them of the dead, moved-away, multiple, felon, non-existent, and otherwise inelegible voters.
- eliminating the presumption of discrimination in poll-watcher challenges. and several other items.
(Of course the Rs have proven themselves NON-cagey far too often.)
Yes, let's clean up the election process. ALL of the election process!
Ah, so the country that claims to be Free, and noisely and bloodily invades other countries to make them just as Free, actually only has the illusion of a democracy.
It isn't a democracy, and was never supposed to be a democracy. It's a constitutional republic. That means election of officials and representatives rather than direct votes on issues, and rules to prevent large groups from using the power of the state to destroy the rights of small groups and unpopular individuals.
The president is elected by the electoral college. Each state gets one vote per senator and one per representative - guaranteeing even the small states a minimum of three votes.
This system was part of the original compromise, without which the small states would never have signed on.
If the preseident were elected by the popular voute, a couple of states with very large populations could run roughshod over the rest of them. And a corrupt election process in a SINGLE large state would control the presidency, and thus one entire branch of government.
Sometimes the loser of the popular vote is SUPPOSED to become the president. This happens when:
- The election is close.
- The issue is split between the big urban states areas and the small rural ones.
- One candidate only appeals to the big urban states, while the other is popular in a large number of rural states.
The Bush/Gore election is EXACTLY such a situation. See the map here for a very graphic ilustration of how the vote was split by region.
What this USUALLY does is encourage presidential candidates to appeal to ALL the people, rather than to favor one group over another. Sometimes a candidate forgets this and snubs the little guys while playing to the urban crowds (typically by promising to loot the productive to give them their bread and circuses). Then he may lose, even with a plurality of the popular votes.
I don't understand the hub-ub about rigging elections. Just because the voting machines are electronic does not make them "easier" to cheat with in elections. Bush was able to do it in 2000 in a district controlled by democrats with punchcards. Given his limited intellect it would seem anyone could do it.
In 2000 the broadcast media claimed that Gore had won Florida nearly an hour before the polls closed in the panhandle area (in the Central, rather than Eastern, time zone.) Such a call can be expected to result in a lot of panhandle voters to have stayed home rather than vote.
Since the pahnandle area (unlike the urban areas of the peninsula) is heavily Republican, this no doubt selectively reduced Bush's vote count by a significant factor. NEARLY enough to swing the Florida, and thus the national, election to Gore.
But despite the media's cheers (and slips like a major anchor referring to Gore as "Our candidate"), they didn't QUITE manage to steal the Florida election.
And despite days of squirming - trying to exclude military absentee votes in violation of Federal law, counting every dimple on a ballot, etc., the Democrats STILL weren't able to get the numbers to come out in favor of Gore - either before the Supreme Court finally smacked them down and made them adhere to their own laws, or after months of after-the-election recounting.
Yet the media, and certain Democratic politicians, STILL bury these facts on back pages. And even today they attempt to spin the Media/Democrat axis' failed attempt to steal the election into a successful theft by the Republicans.
What GALL!
One thing I have consistently observed: Whenever someone in the public light is engaged in shady activity, he'll loudly accuse his opponents, or anyone who seems likely to call him on it, of EXACTLY THE SAME WRONGDOING that he himself engages in. This pattern looks like a preemptive strike, trying to give the valid expose the appearance of a schoolyard "He did it!" "No, HE did i!t" finger-pointing contest.
And this instance is a case in point: The media trying (apparently successfully) to cover up their own, very public, attempt to steal an election, with a smokescreen about Republicans allegedly being bigger thieves than they are.
Denying is not the same as coverup or legal hiding. A cover-up with lying is what Nixon and Reagan did. A denial with lying is what Clinton did. A coverup with lying and legal manipulation is what W. does constantly.
While you're at it, what does "is" mean?
Isn't the difference between a "coverup with lying" and a "denial with lying" just a matter of whether somebody discovered the thing you're covering up and accused you of it?
(And the last time I heard, lying under oath is called "perjury". And perjury to evade punishment for misbehavior and to deny your accuser justice and a judgement is called "obstruction of justice".)
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RedHat was always first on the support level because they did extensive testing and certified hardware as being functional in Linux. This takes a huge load off of vendors, such as Gateway, because they can check off their hardware against the list then guarantee their customers when they sell them a Linux box it will be compatible with Linux.
Not just vendor support, but customer support, too.
Remember that Red Hat absorbed (and still runs, last I looked) Cygnus: a company that existed to provide support for GNU software - for a fee.
Purchasers of hardware with Red Hat pre-installed can expect that, if they have complex trouble, they can always go to Red Hat and buy enough service to get the problem solved.
This gives them a nice comfy feeling about the product. And it also unloads the tough software support problems from the hardware vendor (even if he DIDN'T include a basic support contract with the install to unload the software-related powerup questions to Red Hat's phone banks.)
Mrs. Lamone was highly critical of Dr Rubin's testimony, stating that he was doing 'a great disservice to democracy. They're telling the public: Don't trust them, don't trust the voting equipment.'
"Ignore that man behind the curtain."
(Or should that be "Ignore the guys sneaking up behind you with the net."?)
Yes, they're telling the public to distrust the voting machines. And in the short run that may destabilize the nation - slightly.
But distrust of something untrustworthy is appropriate - especially when letting it be corrupted can literally lead to tyrrany and war, while FIXING it so that it is verifiably trustworthy is trivial.
Of course that means the decisions of Mrs. Lamone's department (no doubt those of Mrs. Lamone) might be criticised, and her state be required to spend more money to upgrade or replace the devices they selected. Bad for her carreer path, eh?
The worst ones I've seen are ones that require you to have gone back in time in order to have enough xperience with the software they want you to use:
"Requirements: 5 years experience with Windows 2000..."
Reminds me of the job postings when Unix was young. Hundreds of jobs (at entry-level pay) requiring 5 or more years of unix experience.
I didn't have the heart to call 'em up and tell 'em that Kernighan, Ritchie, and Thompson were all unlikely to be lured away from Bell Labs for that price. B-)
The first reproducing artificial virus was the Polio virus by Wimmer and colleagues.
Ventner's new virus is artificial in the sense that it was created from chemicals- but it is identical to a known natural virus.
Unfortunately, Wimmer et. al.'s polio virus was a defective copy.
What Ventner's group did was construct a fully-functional instance of a known virus from only data and raw materials.
This is a first. It proves that the technology to construct a lifeform from the genetic code is in place. It also proves that (at least in this virus' case) there's no undiscovered mechanism necessary for its life.
When can I have my Wi-Fi LAN runing on ELF :)
When you don't mind sharing a 50-75 bps channel with the nuclear submarine fleet and every other internet user in the world.
Look in your wallet.
What BBC radio "monopoly"?
That was then. This is now.
Telephones used to be a monopoly in the US, too, until the Carterphone decision started the deregulation ball rolling and opened the door for the formation of MCI to sell lower-priced long distance service.
The "British Post Office" has nothing whatsoever to do with telecommunications in England, Scotland, or anywhere else. It did many years ago, before its telecoms and mail services were split up and privatized.
Which is when I read about this. All water under the London Bridge these days, apparently.
Also - can you provide a reference for this laser broadcast technology? Why, for example, is it not in common usage?
Why would you need it except to bypass a total ban on private "radio"? Also: It's a good way to melt the eyeballs out of pilots (which is why firing a hazardously-high-powered laser into free space, at least where airplanes might be flying, is regulated in the US.)
Will this be the first of more kernel backdoors, now that the idea is out there?
Isn't the pertinent question... was this the first?
Sounds like it might be time for a quick audit. Like looking at every instance of "current->uid" to see if the uid is a LHS.
Don't forget things like "current->uid -= current->uid" and similarly with exor, bitwise and, etc. (That's why any occurrence of current->uid as a LHS is suspect.)
In my code I always put the constant on the lhs so that the difference between the equality (==) and assignment (=) operator are caught by the compiler by accident.
Good style.
But this was apparently not an accident, but a deliberate attempt to disguise a trapdoor. As such the author would, of course, just "forget" to use that piece of defensive programming. B-)
FCC controls RF, nobody controls light (IR)
Unlike England, where the British Post Office (?) (the regulator of radio in Britain) controls electromagnetic waves all the way up through gamma if they carry a communication channel.
Seems some "filthy capitalist" had a bright idea (so to speak) for breaking the BBC's monopoly on broadcast radio: He installed an infrared laser in London pointed straight up, modulated it with a copy of the FM broadcast spectrum built locally, and started to sell receivers rent slots in the modulation.
The light from the (invisible) laser scattered off the clouds/particulates/"clear air" and illuminated the city. The receiver consisted of a photocell to mount on the window sill and point at the pillar of invisible light, connected to a converter that you'd strap to the back of a radio and hook to the antenna connection. Presto: One complete broadcast band full of commercial stations.
Of course the BBC squalked and parlement extended the range of frequencies the BPO could regulate all the way up to infinity. End of enterprise.
Non Visual display of Statistical information...
That would be interesting, whale sounds, bird calls, waves...
That's not as silly as it sounds. The ears, for instance (along with the processing behind them) are VERY good at finding one-dimensional patterns in time series, just as the eye is good at finding patterns in 2-D. Ears also have several other data-analysis tricks available, related to active and passive echolocation along with sonic direction-finding.
A great recent example was the sound of the big bang rendering of recent astrophysical findings. Both the time-series analysis and the passive echolocation features of the auditory system give you a "feel" for aspects of the data presented.
Voyager has been moving through space in ways unexplainable by physics. There is a small acceleration that can't be accounted for using known laws. It's almost like gravity doesn't work quite the way we think it does.
Of course, there is always the possibility that we just can't see the source of the acceleration, and it'll turn out to be something simple. However so far, all proposals put forth to explain it have been shown to be incorrect.
I'd do a bit of computation on the shape of voyager interpreted as a solar sail, along with how any magnetic field it may have interacts with the solar wind, before worrying about whether to tweak the models of gravity.
Wait the GOP is suing? What about all that stuff I read on the internet that Diebold is in the pocket of the GOP?
That's just FUD to sucker the Democrats onto the bandwagon to pass laws to fix the problem, rather than hiding in the back room figuring out how to use the bugs to cheat. B-)
That's what fleaBay is for.
Not really.
If I want one to play with, yes. But if I'm trying to build a software product or business around it, I want to have the hardware in production so others can buy it.
ESPECIALLY if it's a networking project - where the value of the network goes up with its size. If the stuff isn't in production it will run out, probably before the network reaches critical mass.
(Yes I know you can make it interoperable with other devices. But if this one is defunct I want to find one that's FUNCT before investing a chunk of my life. B-) )
I asked:
Are VoIP Blasters are back in production?
Then I called Cre/\tive's direct sales store number and they seem to think they're not in production.
Curiouser and couriouser.
Are VoIP Blasters are back in production?
I thought Cre/\tive had end-of-lifed that product! They still don't have it on their home page - though the gamersdepot review is recent and claims they're available for twenty bux.
What happened?
(And why, after the hooraw here on slashdot when Cre/\tive canceled them just as open-source software was becoming available to drive them, didn't we hear about them coming back?)
Does this recent solar activity make any of you feel uneasy? I mean... is it time for Bruce Willis to suit up again and save the planet? Nine X-class solar flares... eeeek. That has to be bad.
Don't know about bad. But there was another one - a REALLY big one - about 1930 GMT / 11:30 PST / 2:30 EST. See this page for the X-ray intensity at the GEOS satellites - at least until it horizons out in a few more hours.
Note that the peak is beyond the saturation of the instrument. BIG.
A lot of stuff - and a lot of ad hominems. I'll just hit a couple high points.
Besides the funny business that went on before the election (ordered by Jeb Bush) to remove tens of thousands of Democratic voters from the lists of registered Florida voters [...]
You mean the order to actually enforce the law purging convicted felons from the list of eligible voters? Are you saying crooks tend to be Democrats? B-)
As to the few non-felon Democrats (AND Republicans) who got zapped by accident because they happened to have the same name as a felon, they had plenty of time to correct the error.
[...] there is the matter of the leaked Diebold memos, which show that there was some election night hanky-panky with the 2000 Florida presidential vote totals (made possible by Diebold, a company whose top man has declared that it is his mission to deliver Ohio's electoral votes to George W Bush).
My impression of the current state of the corruption of the voting process is that the D's political machine perpetrates most of it and receives most of the benefit. I was concerned that the automation of vote corruption would also end up in their pocket, locking them into power forever.
So it pleases me no end that the first computer voting machine company whose flaws were exposed has prominent R connections, getting the Ds on the bandwagon to fix the problem.
And now the bill to force transparency onto e-voting is introduced and co-sponsored by a stack of Ds. How convenient! This means it might actually get fixed!
If they Rs were cagey enough the could play to the
medias' image and initially withhold their support, then "reluctantly" trade it for including a rider to also eliminate some of the OTHER corruption mechanisms. Such as:
- eliminating the "motor-voter + absentee-on-demand" phantom-voter printing press. -flagging non-voing status on California illegal-alien drivers licenses.
- requiring actual proof of eligibility to vote for registration, and actual registration for voting.
- auditing voter rolls to clean them of the dead, moved-away, multiple, felon, non-existent, and otherwise inelegible voters.
- eliminating the presumption of discrimination in poll-watcher challenges.
and several other items.
(Of course the Rs have proven themselves NON-cagey far too often.)
Yes, let's clean up the election process. ALL of the election process!
:-b
:-) )
(You forgot the spelling/punctuation flame. That would have given me extra points.
Ah, so the country that claims to be Free, and noisely and bloodily invades other countries to make them just as Free, actually only has the illusion of a democracy.
It isn't a democracy, and was never supposed to be a democracy. It's a constitutional republic. That means election of officials and representatives rather than direct votes on issues, and rules to prevent large groups from using the power of the state to destroy the rights of small groups and unpopular individuals.
The president is elected by the electoral college. Each state gets one vote per senator and one per representative - guaranteeing even the small states a minimum of three votes.
This system was part of the original compromise, without which the small states would never have signed on.
If the preseident were elected by the popular voute, a couple of states with very large populations could run roughshod over the rest of them. And a corrupt election process in a SINGLE large state would control the presidency, and thus one entire branch of government.
Sometimes the loser of the popular vote is SUPPOSED to become the president. This happens when:
- The election is close.
- The issue is split between the big urban states areas and the small rural ones.
- One candidate only appeals to the big urban states, while the other is popular in a large number of rural states.
The Bush/Gore election is EXACTLY such a situation. See the map here for a very graphic ilustration of how the vote was split by region.
What this USUALLY does is encourage presidential candidates to appeal to ALL the people, rather than to favor one group over another. Sometimes a candidate forgets this and snubs the little guys while playing to the urban crowds (typically by promising to loot the productive to give them their bread and circuses). Then he may lose, even with a plurality of the popular votes.
If you want to cause trouble for them, just demand a recount. When it is found to be impossible, people will notice.
How I wish.
But they covered that: If you demand a manual recount, they print the database as hardcopy individual ballots, for humans to hand count.
Of course the count comes out the same. (Unless a human goofs, of course.)
And of course if the issue was that the database was corrupted, the recount means nothing.
I don't understand the hub-ub about rigging elections. Just because the voting machines are electronic does not make them "easier" to cheat with in elections. Bush was able to do it in 2000 in a district controlled by democrats with punchcards. Given his limited intellect it would seem anyone could do it.
In 2000 the broadcast media claimed that Gore had won Florida nearly an hour before the polls closed in the panhandle area (in the Central, rather than Eastern, time zone.) Such a call can be expected to result in a lot of panhandle voters to have stayed home rather than vote.
Since the pahnandle area (unlike the urban areas of the peninsula) is heavily Republican, this no doubt selectively reduced Bush's vote count by a significant factor. NEARLY enough to swing the Florida, and thus the national, election to Gore.
But despite the media's cheers (and slips like a major anchor referring to Gore as "Our candidate"), they didn't QUITE manage to steal the Florida election.
And despite days of squirming - trying to exclude military absentee votes in violation of Federal law, counting every dimple on a ballot, etc., the Democrats STILL weren't able to get the numbers to come out in favor of Gore - either before the Supreme Court finally smacked them down and made them adhere to their own laws, or after months of after-the-election recounting.
Yet the media, and certain Democratic politicians, STILL bury these facts on back pages. And even today they attempt to spin the Media/Democrat axis' failed attempt to steal the election into a successful theft by the Republicans.
What GALL!
One thing I have consistently observed: Whenever someone in the public light is engaged in shady activity, he'll loudly accuse his opponents, or anyone who seems likely to call him on it, of EXACTLY THE SAME WRONGDOING that he himself engages in. This pattern looks like a preemptive strike, trying to give the valid expose the appearance of a schoolyard "He did it!" "No, HE did i!t" finger-pointing contest.
And this instance is a case in point: The media trying (apparently successfully) to cover up their own, very public, attempt to steal an election, with a smokescreen about Republicans allegedly being bigger thieves than they are.
Denying is not the same as coverup or legal hiding.
A cover-up with lying is what Nixon and Reagan did.
A denial with lying is what Clinton did.
A coverup with lying and legal manipulation is what W. does constantly.
While you're at it, what does "is" mean?
Isn't the difference between a "coverup with lying" and a "denial with lying" just a matter of whether somebody discovered the thing you're covering up and accused you of it?
(And the last time I heard, lying under oath is called "perjury". And perjury to evade punishment for misbehavior and to deny your accuser justice and a judgement is called "obstruction of justice".)
Liberals are more likely to spread this info than try and cover it up. That is the antics of the republican party.
Really?
Seems to me that the "Bimbo Eruptions" disprove that assertion. But I can dig back in history for more counter examples if you'd like.
The Rs have no monopoly on covering-up.