Bob Morris @ Dec 11th 2002 23:23 - Category: Unfiled ;
I put mine on Post-Its on the monitor
“The 2002 NTA Monitor Password Survey found that the typical intensive IT user now has 21 passwords, and has two strategies to cope, neither of which is advisable from a security standpoint: they either use common words as passwords or keep written records of them.
Bob Morris @ Dec 11th 2002 10:08 - Category: Unfiled ;
The Pope knew
Worse, the cardinals were following his directives. Which were to cover up any sexual misconduct by priests and ignore the victims.
“As pressure continued to build Wednesday for Cardinal Bernard Law to resign as head of the Boston Archdiocese, critics said they had uncovered a “smoking gun†that shows Law and other U.S. Catholic leaders accused of covering up sex abuse allegations were acting on the pope’s orders.
In the document, Pope John Paul II says a defrocked Catholic priest who had a history of molesting boys should leave the areas where his “condition†was known — or stay put as long as it caused no scandal.
“That would explain why (other) bishops have done the same thing as Cardinal Law — they’ve moved sexual offenders from parish to parish without notifying the parishioners,†Gallagher said.”
In other words, they were just following orders.
Bob Morris @ Dec 11th 2002 10:05 - Category: Unfiled ;
White Trash Trent
The Washington Post blasts Trent Lott’s feeble apology for backing segregation.
“The majority leader’s tone – “poor choice of words” and all that – doesn’t go to the heart of why many people were upset about his seeming embrace of Thurmond’s 1948 segregationist candidacy for president. He talked about the “discarded” policies of segregation, like a reference to the old horse-and-buggy days, without repudiating them. How about “morally reprehensible”?
And lest you think Lott really has changed, well, he sure has been cosy with the Council of Conservative Citizens..
“Is it possible that a major modern political figure has sympathy for such views? After all, the Bush administration includes figures like Colin Powell and Condoleezza Rice; some of Mr. Lott’s best friends. . . . Yet during the 1990’s he was extensively involved with the Council of Conservative Citizens – a descendant of the White Citizens Council – telling them at one point that they ’stand for the right principles and the right philosophy.’
“When this came to light in 1998, Mr. Lott declared himself ignorant of the group’s aims. Was he also ignorant of the aims of the 1948 Thurmond campaign. Or was he just, in the excitement of the moment, blurting out his real views?”
Bob Morris @ Dec 11th 2002 10:03 - Category: Unfiled ;
Those North Korean missles
Those Noreth Korean scuds. You know, the ones on the ship bound for Yemen. The ship the US boarded at sea and took the missles from. Well, those missles were legally being transported to Yemen. Yes, I know we have to whack the Axle of Evil and stomp the Evilgoers and all that, but isn’t boarding a ship at sea and taking the contents called “piracy”?
Update: The US apparently just decided piracy may not play well in the Mideast, and is now allowing to let Yemen take possession of their property.
Oh, Bush just announced that the US may “use preemptive and overwhelming force — including nuclear weapons — against what it perceives as imminent danger of an attack.”
Have a nice day!
Bob Morris @ Dec 11th 2002 01:04 - Category: Unfiled ;
South Korea
In June, two US soliders in South Korea driving a mineseeper too fast ran over and killed two South Korean schoolgirls. They were tried in US military court and found not guilty.
South Korea, and this is not an exaggeration, has exploded in anger and protests over the verdict. Recent demonstrations there have been among the largest anti-American protests ever. The government is considering re-doing their agreement to have US military in their country. Restaurants are refusing to serve Americans. And 1.3 million Koreans have signed a petition protesting the verdict.
These protests are way past being a fringe movement. They now have massive mainstream support, and are growing daily.
A South Korean delegation just presented the petition to the White House - and it was refused. That’s right, the White House refused to take it. Oh yes, all the proper military authorities said they were terribly sorry, so has Bush. Yet the soliders were acquitted and the petition was refused.
Tell me, what kind of message does this send?
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