Last night, I watched a 60 Minutes episode on CNBC which explored the danger foreign hackers pose to the US, especially to the banking industry, the government, and the power grid. The story (which seemed to be pieced together from stories originally aired on 11/08/09 and 3/27/09) highlighted the rapid spread of the conficker worm, [...]
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Why The Media Ignores Linux
September 19th, 2011 
Tim 
Posted in Internet, Linux, Microsoft, News, Operating Systems, Security, Software, Technology 
Comments OffHappy Document Freedom Day
March 31st, 2010 Tim Today is Document Freedom Day. If you’re not one of the open source faithful, or even if you are, you might not be familiar with this digital independence day. According to the web site at http://documentfreedom.org, “Document Freedom Day (DFD) is a global day for document liberation. It will be a day of grassroots effort [...]
Posted in IP, Microsoft, News, Open-Source, Software, Technology 
Tags: DFD, document, Document Freedom Day, educate, freedom, grassroots, liberation, open document formats, open standards 1 Comment »Proud to be an American?
May 4th, 2008 Tim I’d like to be, but I’m not. This country has accomplished some wonderful things, but it has also committed evil acts against even it’s own citizens. In my previous post, you see an example of our government conspiring to justify the murder of an unarmed citizen. But this is merely the continuation of this fine [...]
Posted in News, Politics Tags: anti-war, civil rights, government, kent state, murder, ohio, oppression, protest Comments OffCops Acquitted, Murder Justified
April 25th, 2008 Tim NYT Headline: 3 Detectives in Bell Shooting Acquitted Why does this come as no surprise? The defendants waived their right to a jury trial, which many people thought was a risky move. What was risky about it? Instead of having twelve honest citizens decide their fate, they entrusted the decision to an agent of the [...]
