Comments on life, love, and the pursuit of sanity from a two wheeled perspective.

 
Mark Steyn 1, France 0
A la Mr. Green, I'm calling this scathing missive against EUroweenie hypocrisy and French bureaucracy today's "required reading".

'The US and British armies have entered the gates of hell," thundered George Galloway last month. "Soon it will be 100 degrees at midnight in Baghdad, but there will be no respite from the need for full body armour."

As usual, George was a little off. The gates of hell are on the périphérique and it's 100 degrees at midnight in the pissoir on the Metro. To date, two US soldiers are believed to have succumbed to the heat in Iraq, whereas over 10,000 people have succumbed to it in France.

That would make George's brutal Iraqi summer about one five-thousandth as lethal as the brutal Gallic summer, which has killed more people than the brutal Afghan winter (now 23 months behind schedule), the brutal Iraqi summer and the searing heat of the Guantanamo torture camps combined and multiplied by a thousand.

And it just gets better from there. Link via Inoperable Terran.
posted by Jeremy at 7:45 AM

 
Boilerplate

From a story about how Lockheed Martin got hit by LoveSan comes a quote that might as well be boilerplate for articles about massive virus infections.

Experts saw last week's worm coming, warning for weeks that a crucial flaw in Microsoft Windows needed to be patched. But the worm still wreaked havoc at companies and government because many had failed to take proper steps to protect themselves.

I've spent all day chasing this thing down myself. I'm getting really tired of the gatekeepers dropping the ball. Via Fark.

UPDATE: The problem in a nutshell.

...combine the typical ego-ridden virus writer -- who may have more time to kill with school out -- with sloppy Microsoft code. Factor in users who are slow to patch their computers yet manage to click on virus-laden e-mail attachments, and you have inboxes laden with garbage and networks choked with nonsense.

Security experts agree that ethics, better applications and educated systems administrators and users are the only way to stop virus and worm plagues.

(Emphasis added) Yeah....heh...indeed. Read the whole article.
posted by Jeremy at 5:55 PM

 
Damn
I know I've pretty much retired, but this was too funny to pass up.

A security flaw at a website operated by the purveyors of penis-enlargement pills has provided the world with a depressing answer to the question: Who in their right mind would buy something from a spammer?

An order log left exposed at one of Amazing Internet Products' websites revealed that, over a four-week period, some 6,000 people responded to e-mail ads and placed orders for the company's Pinacle herbal supplement. Most customers ordered two bottles of the pills at a price of $50 per bottle.

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The file was viewable by anyone with a Web browser who truncated one of the Internet addresses published by the company.

Heh. Link via Fark.

UPDATE: As I was writing this post, I got an email from "SLEMP" with the subject, "Enlarge your manhood Guaranteed". I think I'll pass, thank you very much.
posted by Jeremy at 11:44 AM