My understanding is that Obama will announce his choice for VP tomorrow by simultaneous email, im, voice mail delviery. To all his supporters at the same time.
Hmmm!
Will all that message traffic overwhelm the internet?
idunno, interesting question, don’t you think?
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http://www.webmonkey.com/blog/Why_You_Should_Turn_Gmail_s_SSL_Feature_On_Now
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Why You Should Turn Gmail’s SSL Feature On Now
By Scott Loganbill August 19, 2008 Categories: Software & Tools, Web Basics
Let’s talk security and why you should take advantage of Gmail’s recent SSL feature, and why you might want to be careful using other non-SSL webmail services.
But first, make sure your connection is secured using SSL.
How do you know a connection is secured by SSL? The handy “s” after “http” will tell you. For example, https://mail.google.com is encrypted while http://mail.google.com is not. You can force an encryption by adding the “s” yourself, or by turning on “Always use https” from the Browser Connection settings of your Gmail account.
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http://www.feld.com/blog/archives/2008/08/political_joke.html
August 19, 2008 5:43 PM
Political Joke of the Day
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I have no idea where this joke came from, but I couldn’t resist posting it because it combined Alaska, Massachusetts, Democrats, Republicans, Guns, the Pope, and a Grizzly Bear.
The Pope took a couple of days off to visit the rugged mountains of Alaska for some sightseeing. He was cruising along the campground in the PopeMobile when there was a frantic commotion just at the edge of the woods.
A helpless Democrat, wearing sandals, shorts, a ‘Save the Whales’ hat and a ‘To Hell with Bush’ T-shirt, was screaming while struggling frantically and thrashing around trying to free himself from the grasp of a 10-foot grizzly.
As the Pope watched in horror, a group of Republican loggers came racing up. One quickly fired a 44 magnum into the bear’s chest. The other two reached up and pulled the bleeding, semiconscious Democrat from the bear’s grasp. Then using long clubs, the three loggers finished off the bear and two of them threw it onto the bed of their truck while the other tenderly placed the injured Democrat in the back seat.
As they prepared to leave, the Pope summoned them to come over. ‘I give you my blessing for your brave actions!’ he told them. ‘I heard there was a bitter hatred between Republican loggers and Democratic environmental activists but now I’ve seen with my own eyes that this is not true.’
As the Pope drove off, one logger asked his buddies ‘Who was that guy?’
‘It was the Pope,’ another replied. ‘He’s in direct contact with Heaven and has access to all wisdom.
‘Well,’ the logger said, ‘he may have access to all wisdom but he doesn’t know squat about bear hunting! By the way, is the bait still alive, or do we need to go back to Massachusetts and get another one?’
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update your resume month
TECHNOLOGY: Using freedownlodmanager, mp3split-ght, and some batch files to make life easy
What a great idea from these folks. With some logic why this particular month. As the Master of Turkeys, I’d say every month should be “update your resume month”, but that wouldn’t slap the uninvolved into awareness like a specific month. All too often I find ‘baby turkeys’ wandering the high and by ways of the inet in shell shock. Nuked, streeted, and abused. An excellent reminder, if you don’t need your job, dont worry, be happy. Everyone else, update your resume. Everyone is a risk of the unemployment line. imho!
the big fat old turkey hisself
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http://cheflovesbeer.blogspot.com/2008/08/college-presidents-want-to-lower.html
Tuesday, August 19, 2008
College Presidents Want To Lower The Drinking Age
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This is a good start. More than 100 college presidents want the drinking age lowered to 18.
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And, what gives ANYONE the right to TELL another what they can put in their body? It’s their body, right? Hold people accountable for the results of what they put in; fine! But you can’t stop them. It’s insanity to try.
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http://www.americanthinker.com/2008/08/the_clueless_white_guy_vote.html
August 17, 2008
The Clueless White Guy Vote
By Russ Vaughn
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Contrary to their politically correct aims, the advertising industry in this country has created a voting bloc that I am positively sure they never intended. I refer to all us Clueless White Guys, that resentful constituency that for years has endured a constant onslaught of television commercials in which the white male is always the bumbling buffoon, while minority males, black, Asian and Hispanic are always the cool, in-tune, in-the-know dudes who always, effortlessly get it, whatever it may be.
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I’ll be dipped in you know what if I EVER buy anything from AT&T after listening to their whiny white father in the “milky rollover minutes texting thumbs” commercial.
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http://www.itworld.com/tech-society/54193/beware-meta-password-reuse
Crimeware
by Markus Jakobsson
Security
What is worse than reusing passwords?
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Do you use the same password all over the place? Yes, you probably do – whether you know it or not.
The fact is, while some people still casually use the same password for many sites, almost all of us reuse what we may think of as “meta passwords” – the information used to reset passwords. That, I argue, is worse than reusing passwords – but harder to avoid!
When you have forgotten your password, some sites send you an email with a link for you to click. Phishers who have stolen access to your email account can do that, too. Other sites will ask you for your mother’s maiden name, the name of your best friend, what city you grew up in, or what brand your first car was. Did you know that phishers can answer those questions, too?
Like the city you grew up in, your mother’s maiden name can be derived from public records – from birth certificates and marriage certificates to be specific. (Download PDF for details.) Facebook might unwittingly tell the name of your best friend. And,until quite recently, Ford with its 25% market share had a pretty good chance of being the brand of your first car!
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Nope, sorry, not on my accounts.
My mother’s maiden name has been successively — NU4H_ZQMQ, WUK6_BBV5, TJRC_UGLS, PFE8_RVSM, KZCW_Z8V8!
Score one for ROBOFORM’s ability to generate pseudo random trash.
I carefully inscribe these values to my book. You have to know that Page 72 is Yahoo. See on the first page it says Yahoo with 377251.
:-) and then I make my password “password”. :-)
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http://blogs.reuters.com/trail08/2008/08/16/obama-says-pointed-abortion-query-above-his-pay-grade
Tales from the Trail
Tracking the 2008 U.S. campaign
August 16th, 2008
Obama says pointed abortion query “above his pay grade”
Posted by: Ed Stoddard
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DALLAS – U.S. Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama side-stepped a pointed query about abortion on Saturday by “mega-pastor” Rick Warren during a televised forum.
Asked at what point a baby gets “human rights,” Obama, who strongly supports abortion rights, said: “… whether you’re looking at it from a theological perspective or a scientific perspective, answering that question with specificity … is above my pay grade.”
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Republican presidential candidate John McCain, who followed Obama onto the stage of the nationally televised event, was more blunt and more emphatic.
He said a baby’s human rights began “at the moment of conception … I have a 25-year pro-life record.”
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1. “Pay Grade”! Hey, man, you are running for the most powerful job in the world. There ain’t NOTHING above your paygrade!
2. This IS a tough question. Akin to any genocide question.
I’d have said: “Life begins at conception. That’s science 101. When rights are assumed to begin is arguable. I DO know that when the Gooferment gets involved in tough questions, with one size fits all solutions, it muddies the waters. Abortion is a tragedy for all involved. I’d move the Gooferment out of people’s most heart wrenching decisions. Politicians don’t know sqwat! To think we can tell people what is right and wrong with one broad brush rule is absurd. We’ll leave that decision to the individuals involved and pray they make the right decision. As President, I’d remove rules and funding that push people around. My advice to the American People is: Zip it up folks! If you don’t dip your pen, there would be no need for abortions! Women control the situation. Demand a ring, a bank account, and fidelity. It’s your right. This is not one of those erasers on the end of a pencil. This is human life we talking about! Think about all the beautiful productive human beings we’ve nuked by our own stupidity! Have we killed the person who is going to cure cancer? Wise up and wake up. Next question!?”
But, then that’s why I’ll never be President. Too blunt!
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http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=27992
Catholic Case Against Barack
08/12/2008
Pat Buchanan
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In the Pennsylvania primary, Barack Obama rolled up more than 90 percent of the African-American vote. Among Catholics, he lost by 40 points. The cool liberal Harvard Law grad was not a good fit for the socially conservative ethnics of Altoona, Aliquippa and Johnstown.
But if Barack had a problem with Catholics then, he has a far higher hurdle to surmount in the fall, with those millions of Catholics who still take their faith and moral code seriously.
For not only is Barack the most pro-abortion member of the Senate, with his straight A+ report card from the National Abortion Rights Action League and Planned Parenthood. He supports the late-term procedure known as partial-birth abortion, where the baby’s skull is stabbed with scissors in the birth canal and the brains are sucked out to end its life swiftly and ease passage of the corpse into the pan.
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Before any devout Catholic, Evangelical Christian or Orthodox Jew votes for Obama, he or she might spend 15 minutes in Chapter 10 of Freddoso’s “Case Against Barack.” For if, as Catholics believe, abortion is the killing of an unborn child, and participation in an abortion entails automatic excommunication, how can a good Catholic support a candidate who will appoint justices to make Roe v. Wade eternal and eliminate all restrictions on a practice Catholics legislators have fought for three decades to curtail?
And which Catholic priests and prelates will it be who give invocations at Obama rallies, even as Mother Church fights to save the lives of unborn children whom Obama believes have no right to life and no rights at all?
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Pat nails the pseudo Catholic right to the Cross. How can one claim the label “Catholic” and yet be pro-aboirtion. Or, in anyway support such a pro-abortion candidate.
And, I’m not judging anyone. Far above my pay grade, and I have my own flaws to fix.
HOWEVER, I’ll make an excpetion for the pseudo Catholic politicians we see int he media today. They beg for a come uppance!
Now there are many issues that one can have a debate about, but abortion, speciifcall partial birth or live birth abortion, is hard to see the other side’s pov. Think of all the Einsteins, Pastuers, and Hawkings that have been vacuumed from their mother’s womb. The Free Love generation has given us a travesty far worse than “back alley abortions”. Now, clearly we need a lot less “laws” and a lot more common sense. I trust Moms and their Doctors to do the right thing without some politician “helping” them with a bunch of one-size fits all “laws”. Tossing people in jail or forcing folks to do what they don’t want is not the basis of a peaceful society.
I hope Pat keeps up the heat on these very confused people (aka pseudo-Catholics).
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http://getsatisfaction.com/linkedin/topics/new_linkedin_group_issues
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New LinkedIn Group Issues
LinkedIn just changed (translation: “broke”) many things about LinkedIn Groups
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Unfortunately, when LinkedIn went for the big buxs, it showed the Leadership’s true colors. It tells you a lot about people. How do they follow their principles. I’ve become unenamoured with LinkedIn over the years. When they were struggling for traction, it was come one and come all. Then, they got testy with the super connectors. Then, they got testy with me, even though I am a paying customer, not a super connector, and not an open networker. Then, the final straw, they lawyered up on Vincent Wright, one of their early and most popular “champions”. He did more support then they did … for free. He single handly did more to keep their start ont he rise than they did. He finally got disgusted.
The LinkedIn folks better hop that no comptitor targets them. I think they’ll be lunch. No one is suggesting that they don’t have the right to make their rules. But, a little openness, gratitude, and appreciation of why they got all those big buxs.
It wasn’t them. It was all the Vincent Wrights, and a grazillion little people.
Where is the competition?
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