Boy I really got bent out of shape yesterday, listening to Bill O’Reilly (The O’Reilly Factor) on FoxNews, when he made his commentary on the ACLU, calling it “the most dangerous organization in America”. Lots of years ago, I was taking a car trip and tuned the radio to find something to listen to. I [...]
Entries from December 2003
The Most Dangerous Channel in America
December 27, 2003
The Most Dangerous Organization in America
December 27, 2003
Yesterday Bill O’Reilly (The O’Reilly Factor on the Fox News TV channel) said that the ACLU was the “most dangerous organization in America”. In his commentary he included these three points: 1. What the ACLU does is legal 2. The ACLU is the most dangerous organization in America 3. “They must be stopped” Well, exactly [...]
Spam
December 27, 2003
I take a four step approach to spam: 1. I use SpamAssassin at my ISP to block the bulk of spam. I set the required hits to a rather conservative 8.0, and block all email with a MICROSOFT_EXECUTABLE. Spam-flagged email is discarded automatically. 2. I use the Mozilla Thunderbird email client with active Bayesian filtering [...]
The Next Generation of Terrorists
December 27, 2003
The Next Generation of Terrorists It has been said that the genesis of modern Islamic fundamentalist terrorism was the prisons of Egypt where members of the fundamentalist Islamic Brotherhood were imprisoned for many years. Those held there became radicalized and went on to form the precursors to today’s terrorist organizations. From that I would conclude [...]