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[An Oldy but Goody]

From: Jim Warren 5/19/00
It’s time the media started labeling these viruses correctly!

The media didn’t call the World Trade Towers bomb, “the Ryder Truck bomb.”They didn’t call the Unibomber bombs, “US Postal Service bombs.”

They should stop mislabeling computer viruses by their *innocent* carrier — the Internet.

They should start labeling them what they are: “Microsoft Outlook Express virus” or “Microsoft Explorer virus” or “Microsoft Word macro virus (reputedly the single largest source of viruses for years!).”

Or more briefly — and accurately — just call each one, “the latest Microsoft virus.”

Let’s ask the major media, below, for some *truth* in labeling — giving “credit” where credit really is due. Let’s ask them to stop shooting the messenger, and start naming the real origin — the errors and dangers that Microsoft has built into its products for *years*.

Jim Warren – The Secret History of Hacking

This is a company protecting their assets (software) from reverse engineering and modification to run on hardware which they do not support….
Oh NO! Have we really come this far? So quickly?!
Is someone really ACCEPTING that reverse engineering should be prohibited?! (That is, someone other than massive corporations’ thought-monopoly patent attorneys.)
While a tech columnist in the late ’80’s, I received a “back-channel” copy of a “radical” proposal by IBM, “secretly” outlining how they might go about quietly getting WIPO to — for the first time in history — outlaw reverse engineering. At the time, it was considered a wildly radical idea.
(The World Intellectual Property Organization is the unelected UN agency that “harmonizes” i.p. law between nations, administering more’n 20 international i.p. treaties, to assure equal repression for all.)
Hell, it’s only been a bit more’n 20 years since software was even first deemed patentable!
In the 40-or-so years before that, such monopolies were NOT permitted. Which didn’t seem to harm the likes of IBM, AT&T, Bell Labs, Digital Equipment, H-P nor any of the other companies that grew fat and rich offering products including software that was NOT patentable. That notably included the first ten years or so, of both Apple and Microsoft (which got its start in operating systems using a reverse-engineered version of the then-most-popular CP/M operating system … which, itself, was modeled after Digital’s old TOPS-10 OS).
And in fact, ALL of those companies happily and routinely reverse-engineered competitors’ products — fueling innovation and speeding improvements, for the benefit of all. But now … we see folks not just accepting the repression of software patents. NOW we see ’em even just ASSUMING that reverse engineering SHOULD be prohibited!
Sheesh! If we still had spring-driven mechanical clocks, no doubt their manufacturers would now zealously sue any time someone offered instructions about how to open their “proprietary” clock-cases, much less offering guidance as to their detailed operation! And I certainly hope that no one ever dares to disassemble their bicycle, to see how its gearing works! — jim warren @justjim36
Jim Warren, open-govt & tech-civlib advocate & sometime columnist —

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“Well … Kentucky IS the state that kept electing Moskow’s Mitch to “represent” them.

<snarling sigh>”

Scientists Establish A Link Between Brain Damage And Religious Fundamentalism

The difference between the two lies in the fact that religious beliefs are not usually updated in response to new evidence or scientific explanations like empirical beliefs are. Because of this, religious beliefs are strongly associated with conservatism, meaning that they are fixed and rigid. That is why conservatism is therefore used to help promote predictability and coherence to the rules of society among individuals within the group.

Religious fundamentalism is defined as “an ideology that emphasizes traditional religious texts and rituals and discourages progressive thinking about religion and social issues.” Anything that questions or challenges religious fundamentalists beliefs or way of life is generally opposed.

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Jeff Sharlet’s book “The Family: The Secret Fundamentalism at the Heart of American Power.” Published on Jul 24, 2019
It’s not about faith. It’s about power. The Family explores the history of a quietly powerful religious organization with strong ties to US politics.
Meet The Family on August 9, only on Netflix:
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New Florida Board of Education Chair:
“I won’t support any evolution being taught as fact at all in any of our schools.”

Florida’s new Board of Education chairman, a citrus farmer named Andy Tuck, said about the theory of evolution when he was the vice-chairman:
“As a person of faith, I strongly oppose any study of evolution as fact at all. I’m purely in favor of it staying a theory and only a theory. I won’t support any evolution being taught as fact at all in any of our schools.”
Tuck was appointed by Florida Governor Rick Scott.
School Board Vice Chairman Andy Tuck said, “as a person of faith, I strongly oppose any study of evolution as fact at all… I won’t support any evolution being taught as fact at all in any of our schools.”#evolution #education #Florida https://t.co/BoQBFrjZJb
— Secular Students (@SecularStudents) August 3, 2019
The New Florida Board of Education Chair, Andy Tuck: “I won’t support any evolution being taught as fact at all in any of our schools.”