Surfing The Web So You Don't Have To
This is totally asinine that a major organization like CNN or ABC can’t figure out how to block a flippin’ port on their firewalls so they end up getting servers shut down by this stupid worm. If I were management there, I’d have a reward out for the head of the idiot that left those ports open.
And for you Mac zealots out there, don’t tell these people to get a Mac — they just need better geeks.
My daughter is going to be starting kindergarten here in a few weeks (assuming the district transfer to Ensworth — which is actually closer than the school whose district we’re actually in — goes through). I think she’s more than prepared for kindergarten, but apparently some parents are worried and are getting private tutoring for their kids before they head off to school.
That’s sad. Very sad. If your kid isn’t ready, it’s probably because you didn’t interact with them enough growing up — reading to them, playing games with them, turning off the TV, etc… . Doing last minute cramming isn’t going to help them that much, it’s just going to frustrate them.
ROME, Italy (Reuters) — A Macedonian man left his wife at an Italian service station and only realized he had driven off without her six hours later, news agency Ansa said.
Barney said he got that link from CNN’s front page. That’s really sad, to be quite honest with you.
While the interest rates on those credit card offers seem decent, it’s the nasty fees that will kill you, this one charging you a total of $412 just to have the card.
Note that if that link goes bad, as BendCable links have a tendency to do when they get traffic, you can download the image in question here.
Link found actually just dinking around BendCable’s user directories.
Apparently, it sounded like the Web hosts‘ fault (though they may have been pressured more than the documents show).
EFF last week won a motion allowing it to access sealed court documents about the mysterious disappearance of two web servers used to host news websites for Indymedia, a global collective of Independent Media Centers (IMCs) and thousands of journalists. After six months of secret litigation, EFF obtained a copy of the federal court order that resulted in the October 2004 handover of copies of Indymedia servers to the government by Indymedia’s web host. That handover resulted in the silencing of more than 20 news websites and radio feeds for nearly a week.
However, the unsealed documents reveal that the government never officially demanded the computer servers – the subpoena to Rackspace only requested server log files. This contradicts previous statements by the web host that it took the servers offline because the government had demanded the hardware. The documents also contradict Rackspace’s claim that it had been ordered by the court not to discuss publicly the government’s demand. It cannot be determined from the unsealed documents whether or not the government informally pressured Rackspace to turn over the servers.
Full Story via Library Autonomous Zone. Original story about the server takedown on EFF’s site.
Peter Jennings: 1938-2005.
The word “fail” should be banned from use in British classrooms and replaced with the phrase “deferred success” to avoid demoralizing pupils, a group of teachers has proposed.
So you don’t fail a class, you just are going to succeed at it later? Um…yeah, OK….
…now he can’t even seem to handle a bike. Thanks Barn for the link.
I can’t believe idiot politicians (Democrats and Republicans) actually introduced a bill that would repeal the 22nd Amendment of the Constitution. View the actual proposal at the LOC site.
Thanks Barney for the link.
Apparently I was Geek of The Day a while back. I remember filling out that survey they sent me half-heartedly, so take what you read there with a grain of salt.