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Forget morals, it’s work

MickC @ January 31, 2005 # No Comment Yet

It’s like something out of a bad Dirty Harry movie. The mean pimp slaps his “ho” around until she finally agrees to go take her place on the street, and even thanks him for “straightening her out.”
Or maybe it like something out of the Democrats’ playbook on how mean Republicans are when it [...]

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Who’s Your Baba?

MickC @ January 21, 2005 # No Comment Yet

The newest version of the Baba worm only pretends to purge porn. According to Sophos the e-mail carrying the worm has the subject line: “Important! XXX sites found on your computer!” and text in the body of the message that says:
Windows Evidence Checker has found XXX content on your computer. You can hide your [...]

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habarixenu: Gmail Atom Feeds

MickC @ January 21, 2005 # No Comment Yet

The writer of the Habari Xenu RSS aggregator has stumbled across something pretty neat! Gmail Atom Feeds. That’s right. If you’re a GMail user, you can add an atom feed for your GMail inbox to your own news aggregator.
That link? Here it is:
https://gmail.google.com/gmail/feed/atom
It apparently checks to see if you’re logged in since [...]

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Yates Sentence Overturned

MickC @ January 7, 2005 # 3 Comments

Yesterday, the 1st Court of Appeals in Houston released its opinion in Texas v. Yates. Unless you have been living under a rock for the last couple of years you know the factual background here. Believe it or not, those facts are completely immaterial to the decision handed down. The case at [...]

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An Ethical Obligation?

MickC @ January 4, 2005 # One Comment

While purusing some old news (from last week), I came upon a reminder that summations in United States of America v. Lynne Stewart, et al. were due to start yesterday. I became curious about this case.
The cause of my curiousity was this quote from an AP story: “Stewart said she felt an ethical obligation [...]

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Gas for terrorists

MickC @ January 1, 2005 # 2 Comments

The next time you consider the purchase of a family car that matches satisfying heft with infinitesimal mileage per gallon, you might want to think about where some of that gas money will ultimately be going. Part of the price of every extra gallon helps, albeit indirectly, to finance mosques and religious schools all over [...]

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