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IE holes open up Web booby traps. An Israeli company says nine security flaws in Internet Explorer could be used to set up a Web page that would run malicious programs on visitors' computers. [CNET News.com]
I'd say "another day, another Microsoft security hole," but I already said that today...and these are nine holes...
10:31:12 PM 
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Privacy Czar: Past Haunts Present. A former Clinton administration official in charge of privacy issues warns: If we don't learn from past mistakes, today's anti-terrorism witch hunts could go down as a stain on U.S. history. [...] "By the mid-1970s, there was clearly substantiated evidence of widespread lawlessness and surveillance by the FBI, CIA and other federal agencies." [Wired News]
9:19:20 PM
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For Bush, Facts Are Malleable Presidential Tradition Of Embroidering Key Assertions Continues [Daypop Top 40]
In other words, Dumbya will lie to get his way. If Clinton had used these tactics, Republicans would have screamed and screamed and screamed, like little girls. Republican hypocracy knows no bounds.
9:13:49 PM
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"THE AMERICAN REPUBLIC IS DEAD. HAIL THE AMERICAN EMPIRE. OR ELSE." Despite the fact that we have been exposed to far worse during our history - whether by Bloody Old England, the Kaiser, Nazi Germany, Imperial Japan, the Soviet Union, Red China, or, hell, France on a bad day - we have never before declared war without being attacked nor have we extended an American President the right to do so at his pleasure. [Daypop Top 40]
12:41:34 PM
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Bush's True Colors on Corporate Reform Rather than truly deal with the predations of the people who installed him in office, Bush is giving them a pass to keep on cheating. Sickening, but no surprise. [Dan Gillmor's eJournal]
Why is it not a surprise that Dumbya was just joking when he said his administration would do a better job enforcing corporate malfeasance? He must think we're distracted by this Iraq thing he keeps pounding on. In November we'll see if the tactic works. If it does, well, we (the people who didn't vote the Republicans out of office) get what we deserve.
12:14:53 PM
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MS delays Mira until 2003. Simple piece of tech becomes mysteriously unshippable [The Register]
Announce early to freeze purchases of competitors' products, then miss the promised ship date by miles (or years). This is Standard Operating Procedure" at Microsoft.
10:21:51 AM
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© Copyright 2003 Michael Alderete.
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