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Tuesday, September 14, 2004


Why I don’t use IE anymore

It used to be a truism that simply viewing image files were perfectly safe, and only executables could be infected with viruses. Then the security flaw allowed Macros to be executed, which could infect your computer.

Now, it seems that Microsoft has had to patch yet another security flaw that could allow a hacker to develop an infected picture file to exploit this flaw.

Tell me why these people are so rich again?

Posted by Drumwaster at 09:24 PM | (0) Trackbacks
Category: Technology |

“Sauce For the Rather”

John Hawkins nails it.

He uses the same standard of evidence that CBS does, and by those standards, that makes it true, beyond reproach, and utterly factually accurate.

Right?

Yeah, I thought so…

Posted by Drumwaster at 07:35 PM | (0) Trackbacks
Category: What Liberal Media? |

A weird concept

Alan Colmes, on the H & C show, just asked “Isn’t the media missing the bigger picture in not discussing the subject of these documents?”

I’m stunned.

Some jackass gave some (very badly faked) documents to CBS, and instead of actually looking into the provenance of the documents (ignoring the wife and son of the alleged author, and not showing the actual documents to the other person mentioned in those documents), they ran them as the source for a story slamming President Bush. That could argue a media bias towards Kerry (as if we needed more evidence), but isn’t it obvious that there is no way we should take anything put forth in a forged document even remotely seriously?

Put another way, Alan’s question is not whether we should give change for this bill, but whether it should be in $50’s or $20’s…

As it was put (on another blog, but I can’t find it), “Just because they got Bush’s name right, we should take them seriously?” There is no “there”, there…

Posted by Drumwaster at 06:32 PM | (0) Trackbacks
Category: What Liberal Media? |

Insanity

Definition: Trying the same thing again, expecting a different result...

To borrow from a local radio program, Dan Rather is like Homer Simpson in the tarpits, he’s trying to pull himself out with his face....

Posted by Drumwaster at 04:59 PM | (0) Trackbacks
Category: Asshats |

Sorry so few posts lately….

....but they have put my “Precinct” into a systematic inspection program.....that means that my life at work has become MORE cluttered than before....and it was pretty damned cluttered to begin with. 

So, I want to put up a few thoughts that I have had recently. 

Read on.


Posted by John Cross at 04:30 PM | (0) Trackbacks
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Found On The Web II

Make of it what you will.

KERRY POLL RANK LOWER THAN DUKAKIS, JESSE JACKSON, MARTHA STEWART, PUTIN

Tue Sep 14 2004 12:06:00 ET

In last week’s WASHINGTON POST/WABC NEWS Poll, John F. Kerry was viewed favorably by 36 percent of registered voters, down 18 points over the past six months.

But just how low Kerry’s standing has fallen cannot be appreciated fully without comparing his standing with that of other household names in GALLUP polls over the years, the POST’s Dana Milbank reported on Tuesday.


Posted by Drumwaster at 02:42 PM | (0) Trackbacks
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John Kerry—Delusional or Just an Idiot?

I vote both:

“Let me be very clear. I support the Second Amendment,” Kerry said yesterday. “I’ve been a hunter all my life. But I don’t think we need to make the job of the terrorists any easier.”

I find the hunter claim to be a tad dubious myself, but that’s just my personal opinion. 

Insofar as making the jobs of terrorists any easier goes.  This is pretty much my answer as well.

Via QandO

Posted by Kevin at 01:38 PM | (0) Trackbacks
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Oh, hell, yeah!

Proud to be a member of the Jammies Brigade.

Hat Tip to Bill at INDC Journal.

Posted by Drumwaster at 01:09 PM | (0) Trackbacks
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Found at Fark

Remember Michael J. Fox? He was in a hit TV series, and during the late 80’s, he was in a trilogy of movies.

Well, in Back To The Future Part II, he was in the year 2015 and wearing a pretty cool ballcap that could change colors. It was a big hit with fans, and an item that has been on the wish list of those fans for just as long.

Marty McFly may have been wearing an old cap, because they are now available, 11 years ahead of schedule.


Posted by Drumwaster at 11:25 AM | (0) Trackbacks
Category: Weirdness |

Talk about Chutzpah

Former President Dhimmi Cah-tuh and the 4-star Air Force General who was in charge of the Air Force during the first Gulf War (who has already appeared in anti-Bush commercials sponsored by the DNC) have actually made the charge that Bush has “dishonored the National Guard” with his service.

Whahuh? Ex-squeeze me?

We have a meme (that has been so thoroughly debunked, it isn’t even funny anymore) now being perpetrated by some of the most public voices in the Democratic Party.


Posted by Drumwaster at 08:34 AM | (0) Trackbacks
Category: Asshats |

Eating Their Own

You know when the WaPo goes after CBS…

The lead expert retained by CBS News to examine disputed memos from President Bush’s former squadron commander in the National Guard said yesterday that he examined only the late officer’s signature and made no attempt to authenticate the documents themselves.

“There’s no way that I, as a document expert, can authenticate them,” Marcel Matley said in a telephone interview from San Francisco. The main reason, he said, is that they are “copies” that are “far removed” from the originals.

Kind of makes you wonder what he originally told CBS, doesn’t it?

[...]

A detailed comparison by The Washington Post of memos obtained by CBS News with authenticated documents on Bush’s National Guard service reveals dozens of inconsistencies, ranging from conflicting military terminology to different word-processing techniques.

The analysis shows that half a dozen Killian memos released earlier by the military were written with a standard typewriter using different formatting techniques from those characteristic of computer-generated documents. CBS’s Killian memos bear numerous signs that are more consistent with modern-day word-processing programs, particularly Microsoft Word.

Tightening the screws?  I would say so.

“I am personally 100 percent sure that they are fake,” said Joseph M. Newcomer, author of several books on Windows programming, who worked on electronic typesetting techniques in the early 1970s. Newcomer said he had produced virtually exact replicas of the CBS documents using Microsoft Word formatting and the Times New Roman font.

Newcomer drew an analogy with an art expert trying to determine whether a painting of unknown provenance was painted by Leonardo Da Vinci. “If I was looking for a Da Vinci, I would look for characteristic brush strokes,” he said. “If I found something that was painted with a modern synthetic brush, I would know that I have a forgery.”

An analogy the blogosphere already reported.  Hey, let’s do this, let’s forget the WaPo is a little late to the party and embrace the fact they showed up at all.

Posted by Kevin at 06:38 AM | (0) Trackbacks
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