Bob Morris @ Dec 21st 2004 15:06 - Category: Unfiled ;
Web Worm Uses Google To Spread Virus.
…a web worm named Santy is utilizing Google to help it spread to web bulletin boards using the PHP scripting language.
The worm sends Google a specific search request, essentially asking for a list of vulnerable sites. Armed with the list, the worm then attempts to spread to those sites using a PHP request designed to exploit the phpBB bulletin board software.
Bob Morris @ Dec 21st 2004 10:23 - Category: Unfiled ;
Santa does indeed dress almost entirely in red and appears to engage in wealth redistribution across the planet, all of which would strongly imply he is at least a pinko, or would be if he had half a chance.
However, upon close examination, his alleged wealth redistribution does nothing other than support the existing status quo, as children in wealthier families continue to get far more presents than those in poorer families.
Also, there have been disturbing reports of maltreatment of the elves. Forced overtime with no extra pay, slashed health benefits, speeded-up assembly lines, and worst of all, outsourcing of work to China, have all been mentioned by the now-emerging Elves Union who recently said, “Santa must think he’s Wal-Mart or Nike or Enron, the way he screws us out of wages, outsources work, and destroys our pensions.”
That an underground insurgency of elves was “liberating” presents from the workshops and giving them to their children instead, could not be independently confirmed.
PS The NORAD Santa tracking website, which goes live Christmas Eve, has issued a strong statement saying that the missile defense system which failed so miserably in a recent test, could not possibly malfunction and target Santa’s sleigh instead.
Bob Morris @ Dec 21st 2004 09:48 - Category: Unfiled ;
The president warns that troop levels will not be cut next year and acknowledges that training of local forces has had mixed results.
Getting drafty in here, isn’t it?
Painting a far more sober picture of the situation in Iraq than he did during his reelection campaign,
Translation: Bush lied to the American public during the campaign
Bush acknowledged that efforts to train Iraqi security forces have had only “mixed” results and that a violent insurgency has eroded morale among Iraqis and Americans.
Well, that’s only half true. The increasing numbers of Iraqis who support the insurgency feel otherwise. Such an insurgency can only exist when the majority of the populace at least tacitly supports it.
And the insurgency gains strength every day.
20 dead in mortar attack on US base.
Meanwhile, Americans’ support for Iraq war slipping
A majority of Americans now say the war in Iraq was not worth fighting, a view that has driven down the ratings of both President Bush and Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, according to an ABC News/Washington Post poll released on Monday.
The upcoming Counter-Inaugural demonstrations on January 20 could be quite large, I’m thinking. A populace tiring of this insane war may well turn out in big numbers. Protests are planned in D.C., where the authorities are already trying to renege on the already granted permit, as well as in L.A., S.F., and Seattle, with a NYC protest being called for Central Park if they can get a permit.
Bob Morris @ Dec 21st 2004 09:39 - Category: Unfiled ;
FBI agents complained of prisoner abuse
FBI agents have lodged repeated complaints of physical and mental mistreatment of prisoners held in Iraq and Cuba, saying in reports that military officials have placed lighted cigarettes in detainees’ ears
The order to use torture apparently came from Dubya, big surprise, huh?
A document released for the first time today by the American Civil Liberties Union suggests that President Bush issued an Executive Order authorizing the use of inhumane interrogation methods against detainees in Iraq.
Bob Morris @ Dec 21st 2004 09:35 - Category: Unfiled ;
U.S. meat plants are allowing brains and spinal cord from older cattle to enter the food supply, violating strict government regulations aimed at preventing the spread of mad cow disease, a federal meat inspectors union said on Monday.
The FDA, cranky at being aroused from their slumber, of course denied such a thing could happen under their watchful eye.
Bob Morris @ Dec 21st 2004 09:32 - Category: Unfiled ;
“Today, I hope we can begin the healing”, John Kerry in his concession speech.
Fuck the healing. There, in Kerry’s single dreadful sentence of just nine words is about half of what’s wrong with the Democrats. The Republicans don’t care about healing: they want to wound. Their “values” are those of Psalm 137:9 “Happy shall he be, that taketh and dasheth thy little ones against the stones.” Only someone with an instinct for the capillaries could try and make peace with a gang like that.
On first glance, it’s a mystery why the Dems seem to lack basic partisan fervor: why be conciliatory to someone who never returns the favor, who always is on the attack? MAybe there’s a degree of gentility mixed with a sense of principle, but it would be flattering the party excessively to make too much of that. Instead, the real reason is they believe in little with any passion.
From the print-only Left Business Observer, who goes on to say “we just need more effective tickling of ids towards better ends”, rather than having those ids tickled by Bushite violent fear-mongering.
Bob Morris @ Dec 21st 2004 09:27 - Category: Unfiled ;
The waters of Lake Tahoe are warming up at almost twice the rate of the world’s oceans, probably as a consequence of global climate change, according to a new study by scientists at the University of California, Davis.
Bob Morris @ Dec 21st 2004 08:59 - Category: Unfiled ;
That’s “Yet Another Fiendish Menace From the Internet…”
“Sounding the alarmist tone many of us became used to in the early days of the web, The New York Times has a story that talks about “national security” concerns over the myriad ways in which two people (i.e., terrorists) can communicate using the Internet today. They’re talking about monitoring chat rooms, email servers, etc. I’d like to see how they plan on monitoring my mage as it talks to your cleric in some obscure, nearly impossible to reach (unless you’re level 50) corner of our favorite MUD.”
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