... News Aggregators freakin' rule. Cuz now I can do this!
The ACLU... suppressing free speech?
If your name is Daniel Pipes, apparently so. And to think we were foolish enough to believe that the heckler's veto was dead...
A Mighty Expensive Wind
Samizdata with the blatantly obvious news. The renewable energy industry suffered a setback today with the publication of a report showing that electricity from offshore wind farms will cost at least twice as much as that obtained from conventional sources.
According to research carried out by the Royal Academy of Engineering (RAE), the cheapest electricity, costing just 2.3 pence per unit, will be generated from gas turbines and nuclear power stations, compared with 3.7p for onshore wind and 5.5p for offshore. The Academy also emphasised the need to provide backup for wind energy to cover periods when the wind doesn't blow.
Carnivore Expansion
LawMeme reports that the FBI is seeking to use CALEA to gain access to a whole host of new internet services, including Voice-over-IP and and videoconferencing services. A good idea, but perhaps the FBI could try a gentler approach?
Goose, Gander. Gander, Goose.
LawMeme also reports that a group of Texas doctors, fed up with bogus lawsuits, are running a database of patients and lawyers who have filed malpractice claims "to assess [their] risk of offering [their] services to clients or potential clients." While this raises issues about the ethical responsibilities of the medical profession, I think it's wonderful to see the greedy trial lawyers being subjected to the same scorched earth, it-doesn't-matter-if-you're-liable-or-not-we're-suing-you-anyway tactics they invented. "For as you judge, so you shall be judged, and the measure with which you measure shall be measured out to you."
Don't Trust Anyone Under 30
BoiFromTroy picks up on a poll showing that Bush beats Kerry 47% to 3% among 12 to 18 year old future voters in a new ABC news poll. Cue Bob Dylan music.
On the Islamist Menu: Western Civilization. Eaten Alive. The moribund Left knows who is boss and is selling the only thing they have remaining: access to media and cultural institutions, which suits the Islamofascists just fine. A division of labor has been established in which the Left provides the paralyzing injection on Western society leaving the jihadis a clear field within which to operate.
Steven Jay Gould, in arguing for the existence of natural evil, could find no better analogy than the ichneumon wasp, after which the monster in Alien was modeled, and which not coincidentally describes Islamofascism and its Leftist helpers.
NOT for lunchtime reading.
Thinking Like a Laywer Tip 1: There is no such thing as "common sense."
Thus saith Howard Bashman in this guest article at De Novo.
"0101 0100 0110 1111 0110 1101 Sent Me."
Via BoingBoing... the latest in computer security:
Port-knocking -- like a secret knock for firewalls. Schneier calls it "defensive system that would not accept any SSH connections (port 22) unless it detected connection attempts to closed ports 1026, 1027, 1029, 1034, 1026, 1044, and 1035 in that sequence within five seconds, then listened on port 22 for a connection within ten seconds. Otherwise, the system would completely ignore port 22."
"Early computer viruses were limited by the fact that no one had computers."
IMAO has a useful primer on computer viruses:
* Many viruses use exploits in Microsoft Outlook Express, a.k.a., Microsoft Security Hole with e-mail functionality.
* If you think your computer is infected, throw it away and buy a new one. It'll help the economy.
* If your computer crashes a lot, that could be a sign that your computer is infected or that you're using Windows 98.
* One day, malicious code out there might mutate and become sentient and then turn against humanity and launch nuclear weapons against us. Norton AntiVirus probably won't protect you from that. I don't know about McAfee.
That is all. RSS rules.
Posted by Thief at March 15, 2004 03:39 PM