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... )

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.

Whatever happened to the 4th and 5th ( Read more... )

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.

The article is here and the discussions are ( Read more... )

An article on the LA Times brings up the case of a man wrongfully convicted of murdering his wife. The comments are here. This is a case, one among very many, that argues against the Death Penalty.

In short, this is the case of a prosecutor so eager to crank up his ‘win’ record that he sent the wrong man to prison, fully knowing that he was the ( Read more... )

I’ve been on the discussion board of the LA Times.

( Read more... )

In this article, the reporter clearly doesn’t ‘get’ it.

I got out of the Army in 1977. As a part of my exit plan I served with the Orange County Sheriffs. We busted a lot of gangsta kid in the Santa Ana-Tustin border and an amazing number of them were under aged assassins. In California, this means kids under the age of 18 that hired themselves out ( Read more... )

If for no other reason than to showcase to others that this activity is NOT innocent or legal.

The US government alleges that between February 2001 and March 2002, the 40-year-old computer enthusiast from north London hacked into dozens of US Army, Navy, Air Force, and Department of Defense computers, as well as 16 Nasa computers.

This guy is real ( Read more... )

As a citizen of the USA, the land of the free, I cannot stop  the police from taking a blood sample. As a resident of the EU, or even Switzerland, I can.

Something to think about.

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I was just told about this yesterday and looked it up this morning.

Actually, they are right. But I wonder how this will play. There is a reason that the Bush administration was only lukewarm to the Kosovars and the Armenian Turks. This is it. That saying about those who live in glass houses applies full well to the United States, which has a ( Read more... )

On News about the Summary Judgment, SCO Group is down 75% and Novell is up 3.5%, as of now!

It could get worse for SCO.

*plays taps*