Friday, September 17, 2004

To deploy, or not to deploy: that is the question: Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer The slings and arrows of outrageous security enhancements, Or to take arms against a sea of incompatible applications, And by opposing SP2 deployment, end them?[O'Reilly Windows DevCenter] For those of us wrestling with XPSP2...some pros and cons and a registry hack you might want to employ. 10:10:49 AM    comment []

Malls Nationwide Setting Curfews for Teens (AP). AP - It's 10 o'clock on a Friday night and all 15-year-old Sylvia Fallon wants to do is hang out with her friends at the mall. But she'll have to dodge security: Easton Town Center, like many shopping centers across the country, has a curfew for unchaperoned teens. Here, the witching hour is 9:30 p.m. At other malls, the curfew is as early as 6. [Yahoo! News - U.S. National] I guess the obvious question is why are these children (and yeshy, under the laws of both the United States and Canada, they are still children) doing out without their parents in the first place?  I don't find a problem with this. 9:56:08 AM    comment []

AOL Won't Use Microsoft Anti-Spam Standard (Reuters). Reuters - America Online Inc. on Thursday shunned a Microsoft Corp. proposal to help weed out unwanted "spam" e-mail because Internet engineers are reluctant to adopt technology owned by the dominant software company. [Yahoo! News - Technology] This has moved beyond the IETF/Open Source community.  It is good to see. 9:49:53 AM    comment []

U.S. Airline Screenings to Get More Strict (AP). AP - The Transportation Security Administration announced Thursday that, starting next week, all airline passengers must take off jackets before passing through metal detectors. Also, more travelers will be subjected to pat-down searches and checks for explosives. U.S. officials got a wake-up call last month about the need to screen passengers for explosives when two Chechen women apparently carried bombs onto two Russian planes and blew them up. [Yahoo! News - Top Stories] And this is going to stop what?  Let's face it, until every passenger is required to strip, put on a "sanitized" flight suit and pick up their clothes at the end of the flight (after they have been screened, examined and searched), airline security is window dressing. 9:47:42 AM    comment []

U.S. Weapons Inspector: Iraq Had No WMD (AP). AP - Fallen Iraqi President Saddam Hussein did not have stockpiles of weapons of mass destruction, but left signs that he had idle programs he someday hoped to revive, the top U.S. weapons inspector in Iraq concludes in a draft report due out soon. [Yahoo! News - Top Stories] Anyone who finds this a surprise, please raise your hand...then go and start reading all the reports from the 1990s that said there were no weapons of mass distruction found even then. The United States went to war over Iraq's supposed stockpiles of WMDs.  Weapons that 90% of the county (at least the 90% that isn't polled) knew were not there.  Over 1000 US soldiers, serveral hundred British and dozens of others have been killed over this farce.  It really is time to end this one act play.  Bring the troups home.  There is NOTHING more to gain but a lot to loose. 9:45:14 AM    comment []

Study: IT job market is still stagnant. Times remain tough for IT workers looking for jobs across the U.S., according to a new employment study of the IT marketplace. [InfoWorld: Top News] I think I have said this before, but until the job market for IT personnel picks up, the economy, such as it is, will remain flat or worse, decline.  This is a fact.  The United States does not "make" anything anymore (to a large extent) so manufacturing jobs are NOT an indicator of the heath of the economy. 9:40:18 AM    comment []

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