Bob Morris @ Jun 16th 2006 16:15 - Category: Unfiled ;
The San Fernando Valley area of L.A. is seriously toasty today. However, we have central air, so actually are more comfortable than those in the somewhat cooler areas of L.A. where many don’t have air conditioning, much less central air.
The forecast for Baghdad, Iraq for the next ten days is 116-120, with electricity for only 4 hours a day…
Bob Morris @ Jun 16th 2006 08:54 - Category: Unfiled ;
From the current Windows Secrets newsletter, by Brian Livingston, (scroll down a bit), emphasis added.
Windows Genuine Advantage  the controversial program Microsoft auto-installed as a “critical security update” on many PCs starting on Apr. 25  not only causes problems for many users but has now been proven to send personally identifiable information back to Redmond every 24 hours.
This behavior clearly fits any plausible definition of “spyware.”
What we’ve found about WGA fits neatly into four behaviors that are typical of all spyware:
1. Lack of disclosure before installation.
2. Transmits data to a central computer.
3. Downloads other software and morphs itself.
4. Cannot easily be uninstalled.
Gates leaves, the delivery date for Vista (the next generation of Windows) is delayed yet again, now this, which at the very least will be a PR nightmare for Microsoft among the highly influential tech community. And deservedly so.
WGA is forced upon your computer. If you want Windows Updates you have no real alternative but to install it.
Bob Morris @ Jun 16th 2006 00:18 - Category: Unfiled ;
Bob Morris @ Jun 16th 2006 00:14 - Category: Unfiled ;
Congress plunged into divisive election-year debate on the Iraq war Thursday as the U.S. military death toll reached 2,500.
Hey, it’s not their kids getting maimed and dying, now is it?
The Senate soundly rejected a call to withdraw combat troops by year’s end, and House Republicans laid the groundwork for their own vote.
In a move Democrats criticized as gamesmanship, Senate Republicans brought up the withdrawal measure and quickly dispatched it  for now  on a 93-6 vote.
93-6. That’s means all but six Democrats joined the Republicans in the “gamesmanship” and cheerily ignored the will of the voters, the majority of whom now clearly oppose the war, saying it was, at best, a mistake.
The nays were Feingold, Boxer, Byrd, Harkin, Kennedy, and Kerry.
6 out 100, and the whole lot of them have known for years the “justification” for the Iraq War was based on lies, evasion, and deception. something they should be screaming from the Senate floor. But this cosy lot of multi-millionaires won’t ever seriously rock the boat, goodness, such rash moves might impact their investment portfolio and cause country club admissions to be rescinded. Can’t have that happen.
The real change will come, as it always does, from the people. Progressives need to realize that electing Democrats in November will change little. This vote is a clear example of that, demonstrating how Democrats do not stand in opposition to the Bush agenda (nor do they have much of anything they will fight for.)
That’s why we have to do it.
Bob Morris @ Jun 16th 2006 00:11 - Category: Uncategorized Tags: Palestine;
The real rift in Palestinian society is between those fighting to preserve the class privileges of Oslo and their opponents who uphold the essentials of the Palestinian cause.
As the Oslo process has brought calamity after calamity on the Palestinian people, its only reason for continuing is the survival of the PA classes that are its main and only beneficiaries.
Make no mistake about it, this is what the ongoing battle in the West Bank and Gaza is all about. What lies in the balance is the fate of nine million Palestinians.
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