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I live in Atlanta, and lived here in 2002. "King" Roy Barnes and Max Cleland didn't get "robbed" of anything. They lost their elections because they were both liberal Democrats running in a conservative state in a big Republican year. Barnes in particular had become so personally obnoxious that a good many in his own party crossed over to vote against him out of pure spite.

Good grief, people. Put the tinfoil hats away.

Wouldn't want to let anyone take over your system with yacc. Seriously.

But ./ is already taken over with yak. Seriously.

How do you "Open Source" a Data Interchange format. There is no source to open? You just specify a format and distribute the specs to your trading partners and there you go. I am getting so damn sick and tired of open source this and open source that. The words "open Source" have specific meaning. It is not a catch all term friendly licensing. So Google published the format it uses to push data around. Big Fuckin Deal. In case anyone is interested. I organize my dvd collection by genre and title alpabetically on a book shelf. Look mom, I open sourced my data storage format. Ridiculous.

In other news, the public will phase out Mercedes purchases by 2015.

The trouble with biometrics is that it can't be changed. Additionally, the various ways have bad flaws:

• Fingerprints are a terrible idea because you leave a copy of your private key on everything you touch.
• Voice recognition is a terrible idea because everyone within earshot can hear your private key.
• Retinal scanning would fail if someone was in an accident or had surgery or something.

As a general rule, I wouldn't use my fingerprint to protect anything that's worth more to a criminal than my finger is to me.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/4396831.stm

Advocate123 writes "The United Nations recently claimed that rising food prices has hindered it from fighting famine in Africa and other regions around the world. It simply can no longer afford it as a result of environmentalists pushing biofuel and ethanol. One of the United Nations' bureaucratic heads was quoted saying, "In a world where our contributions are holding fairly steady, this [cost of grain] means we are able to reach far less people." This was so predictable it is astounding. But, I guess liberals will keep trying to push their big government policies and killing people as usual."
http://copiousdissent.blogspot.com/2007/07/united-nations-cannot-feed-world.html

Advocate123 writes "If liberals are not throwing a lavish concert around the world to change the temperature of the Earth, it appears their new tactic is posing nude on a glacier or dressing like a clown to delay planes at an airport. As usual, only intentions matter to liberals. If you attempt to follow the logic from getting your rear-end stuck to an icicle, to decreasing Earth's temperature, you must resort to the circular logic of liberalism."
http://copiousdissent.blogspot.com/2007/08/circus-is-coming-to-town-how-liberals.html

Ant writes "Broadband Reports report an InformationWeek story on security researchers' finds that the popular Monster.com job site was being widely used for identity (ID) theft. Hackers are placing fake advertisements/ads, on the site, that infect computers running Windows. The Trojan takes information that job seekers place online which includes social security numbers. The scam is one of the biggest of its kind and could affect over 100,000 identities..."
http://www.informationweek.com/story/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=201800958