Norton and Windows Update

If you are an experienced user, you probably want Windows Automatic Updates either off or on “download updates but let me choose when to install them.” Then you can choose when to install them, as recent updates have in fact created serious problems for some. Let others beta-test the new patches for a few days [...]

It’s official

Probe finds Marines killed unarmed Iraqi civilians

Marines from Camp Pendleton wantonly killed unarmed Iraqi civilians, including women and children, and then tried to cover up the slayings in the insurgent stronghold of Haditha, military investigations have found.

Officials who have seen the findings of the investigations said the filing of criminal charges, including some [...]

More on CIA torture flights

The flights are run by the highly secret CIA Counter Terrorist Intelligence Centre, CTIC, at Langley.

“If a strong psychological interrogation with some physical force is required, a detainee is flown to Jordan. If a suspect is to be interrogated in between periods of strong physical force, he is sent to Egypt. For the most [...]

House Judiciary passes Net Neutrality bill

The House Judiciary Committee today passed the Net neutrality bill proposed by Rep. James Sensenbrenner (R-Wis.) and Rep. John Conyers (D-Mich.) by a 20-13 vote. The action represents the first legislative victory for the Net neutrality forces, which are pushing Congress to enact legislation that would prevent service providers from developing premium tiers of Internet [...]

The new FrontPage

I use Microsoft FrontPage to build websites. The most recent version was released in 2003.

Here’s what’s replacing it, Microsoft Expression Web Designer, now available as a free beta download. More on my tech blog.

Enron Logo contest revisited

In Jan 2002, Viridian Design, an online movement about global warming, had a contest to create a new, more fitting logo for the then catering and collapsing Enron. The above was the winning entry.

When companies merge, or change names, or even re-org, a logo redesign is very often job one. But when companies [...]

No bill is better than a bad bill

The Senate immigration bill which passed yesterday needs to be reconciled with the noxious Sensenbrenner bill which has already passed in the House. The troglodytes there will do their utmost to destroy the Senate version. This fight will be nasty, but really, it’s a choice between a onerous, restrictive Senate bill and a racist, mean-spirited [...]

Lay and Skilling

“It’s safe to say each of them is facing north of 20 years real jail time,” said Kirby Behre, a former federal prosecutor and co-author of Federal Sentencing for Business Crimes.

Any money they’ve managed to hold onto will vaporize in the coming onslaught of civil lawsuits. Money they tried to shelter in irrevocable trusts [...]

ABC News stands by Hastert story

Despite a flat denial from the Department of Justice, federal law enforcement sources tonight said ABC News accurately reported that Speaker of the House Dennis Hastert is “in the mix” in the FBI investigation of corruption in Congress.

ABC’s law enforcement sources said the Justice Department denial was meant only to deny that Hastert was [...]

House leaders whine about FBI search

Why?

Members of Congress said they were not defending any possible wrongdoing by Jefferson. But they said the constitutional principle of separation of powers had been violated.

It was the first time law enforcement authorities, acting on behalf of the executive branch of government, served a search warrant on a congressional office.

Some experts said [...]