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I’m back, sort of
After much gnashing and gnoshing, I’m back.
My wordpress sites got hit by massive attacks made possible by Win2k and IIS5 vulnerabilities. I’m bringing them back up on Win7Ultimate and IIS 7.5. Still gonna take a while though. I’m trying to hit my 1st Kindle release
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It’s been a long time …
Perfect storm
Last January my laptop took a dive when its cooling fan seized. Months were needed to acquire the part from HP. Mainly because it has to be imported to Switzerland. At the same time we acquired two new hosts that included Windows 7 Home Premium. One of them was to become SG’s new workstation/desktop machine and the other was slated to ( Read more... ) -
Apologies for the multi-postings
My publishing system is experiencing gremlins.
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Police state Amerika: a Rogue Government
1Gonzolo Lira awakened me to this one. Before his post I was blissfully unaware of the NDAA 1 .
Those who read me already know how I feel about the various renditions of the Patriot Acts. The NDAA passes those so far that you can’t even see them in the rear-view mirror. Embedded into this POS 2 is a little something called Indefinite Detention AKA ( Read more... ) -
California refuses to fund an early primary election!
Lawmakers and Gov. Jerry Brown refused to allocate state funds for an early presidential primary. This is from the LA Times and the discussion is here.
We bought a ticket in the nosebleed section because Gov. Jerry Brown and the Legislature refused to spend an estimated $100 million for a separate presidential primary early in the nominating ( Read more... ) -
The spammers won!
The spammers have decided that us little guys are not to be allowed to run our own email servers anymore. They didn’t do it via legal machinations rather, they did it the old-fashioned way; brute force.
This is the end of a 7+ month battle between spammers and myself. Until 3 months ago, I ran my own self-hosted mail server. All my domains were on ( Read more... ) -
Police State Amerika?
They’ve done it. You can no longer board even a train or bus without papers.
The Transportation Security Administration isn’t just in airports anymore. TSA teams are increasingly conducting searches and screenings at train stations, subways, ferry terminals and other mass transit locations around the country.
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Prosecutorial immunity is wrong!
Prosecutors and police are largely held immune from their faulty actions, not even compensating for the direct harm of their actions. My previous article on Mr. Morton, a man falsely imprisoned for 25 years, is but the tip of this iceberg. At the core of this is prosecutorial immunity and it needs to end.
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Critics aren’t
KEZ of War of Winds just posted something that I have strongly agreed with for years. She comes at it from a slightly different direction but the destination is the same. Public criticism is there for one reason and one reason only, the self-aggrandizement of the critic. A real critic will hand you their critique privately and only on invitation.
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