I am astonished to say that Laura Ingram's radio program was the reason I found out about this. I don't normally listen to her program because she annoys me, but this evening on the way to work, she was attempting to rebut what was being said in this episode of Boston Legal by calling it "bad writing". It's kind of sad when the so-called intellectuals of talk radio so blatantly engage in Appeal to Ridicule.
Well, I'm sorry to say that while it might not make for good television, it's entirely goddamn accurate.
Click the link, then look at the third thumbnail from the top on the right of the page for the '"Stick It" Closing Arguments' clip.
From the Sun Online, reporting that a first-run human trial of an new anti-inflammatory drug made by a company called Parexel nearly kills it's testers.
Two of the poor sods were lucky. They were given a placebo.
Well, if this isn't an example of fascism, I don't really know what one requires to qualify... Perhaps a swastika and golden eagle medallion on the jackbooted thugs.
A 100% legal, permitted, and well-administrated rave was shut down in Utah, and rather extreme violence was visited on the heads of those involved. ...with basically no justification whatsoever other than some asshats wanted it shut down.
The URL has embedded footage showing exactly what kind of force was brought to bear on the least violent sub-culture our country has.
Really, if you don't like violence you shouldn't look at this URL.
Actually, this isn't violence so much as the beginnings of a fight where opponents aren't well matched. One of them basically one-arms the other into the air and then kinda smashes him like a bug. *splat*
Yay for CNN telling me about things people don't want you to know about!
Topic: Activism
5:37 am EST, Feb 23, 2006
Someone's making a line of candy flavored with hemp/marijuana. There's nothing narcotic in them at all, but the taste should prove to be interesting. I'm going to have to go order some now.
This silliness was on CNN because Georgia and New York are considering outlawing the sale of these things because "it sends the wrong message".
Houston's police chief apparently missed the seminar on the things you don't ever suggest if you hate bad press and has actually been caught mentioning he'd like security cameras up in shopping centers, downtown streets, and apartment complexes to keep an eye on those darn criminals.
Blocking brute force attacks against ssh with iptables and netfilter
Topic: Computer Security
7:57 am EST, Feb 15, 2006
For those of you not yet using a port-knocker or otherwise getting irritated with the crap all the script kiddies are filling your system logs with from endless connections against your sshd, this article is for you.
Just two (or four, if you like logging) slightly obfuscated lines of iptables, and you can not only stop the lamers, you can slow their scripts down. (Something that's bound to get me packeted sooner or later, but whatever) This is quite portable to anything that's got a reasonably recent version of iptables (1.3.x) installed. You only need the barest of netfilter support in the Linux kernel.
