Poser - What was this virus author thinking? He (or she?) wrote a virus that poses as a security update. Doesn’t this person know that people never install their security patches? Posing as a security update has got to be the best way to make sure that your code doesn’t get run.
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Mira, Mira - Glenn Fleishman is now claiming that Mira was just trotted out to generate hype, and is not actually a big shift in computing. The two main reasons he gives are, “it’s been tried before, and scrapped” and “it’s too expensive”. Now I am going to explain why he is uncharacteristically […]
Welcome to the Jungle - News today is about a motorist who got run over and killed on I-405 near here. The article says, “he was struck and killed by a Dodge Aries, then hit by a number of other cars.” The really ludicrous part of this article is the state trooper saying, […]
Try it With .NET? - Dave lays down a challenge, so let’s see if we can meet the challenge. Well, if the challenge is to find a Microsoft-provided .NET product that allows people to write AppleScript, we lose. If the challenge is to find a Microsoft-provided .NET product that is a personal CMS, […]
No Kidding - This article is quite nauseating, especially given the topic of the last few days’ posts. The idea is to “desegregate” based on socio-economic status instead of race, aknowledging what “some educators have long suspected: Poverty is a better indicator of poor academic achievement than race.” (Clearly, poor academic achievement couldn’t […]