See, I am evil.

via mellow drama

I just had a geek moment. I reinstalled moveabletype on the server, and I was about to upload my entries when I thought, I wonder what would happen if I hit rebuild. My blog just magically reappeared. I love moveabletype.
This is the ultimate geek moment of the day. Now I'm off to see Angel. Must get my Whedon fix. It's a drug.

Alright. So here's the deal. Blog entries will be sparse for the next few days while I move servers. Keep your fingers crossed and here's hoping that I don't lose the last 300 entries.

I knew it, I knew it, I knew it.
When the media first reported that a student had discovered and published a way to circumvent the copyright protection on the new cds I knew there was bound to be trouble, and here it is. Except this is a good thing. Let SunnComm sue under the Digital Millenium Copyright Act, and then let's see the judges finally tear this act apart and rule it unconstitutional for violating the First Amendment.
Days before representatives from BMG came foward admitting that they new of the flaw in the copyright protection scheme, and honestly how can SunnComm claim that there has been circumvention when all the student has done is used a simple Windows function. One that any Windows user is familiar with. If the fact that he published his findings is at issue, then First Amendment clearly is at issue, and I really, really want to see them try to argue DMCA legitimately. So much so that it fails.

Beware those preachers. I tell you they're crazy. Especially if you get them near one of those nasty nude beaches.
In Wisconsin of all places the 3rd District Court of Appeals ruled against a minister and fined him $1000 for using derogatory language towards a woman who parked near a nude beach. We're too assume she was a patron of the beach, and he, a chosen of the Lord, deemed himself constitutionally protected enough to call her unworthy things to dissuade her from practicing other freedoms. Oops, guess he was wrong.
Bible verses and profanity do not a $1000 fine pay.

Microsoft is facing another lawsuit, this time for all the flaws found in its software. The claim is based on the fact that the software is vulnerable, and when Microsoft releases warnings and patches about these vulnerabilities, they're so obscure and incomprehensible that it puts the ordinary user at a disadvantage while giving the hacker an advantage to obviously exploit the vulnerability.
The lawsuit is seeking class action status, but what I find interesting is the end result. Year after year it seems Micrsoft has been more interested in releasing newer versions of its software, and yet they're less stable. Granted, as the article points out, the software maker can't be held completely responsible for other people's malicious actions, but it should be penalized for its own negligence, and there's no doubt that the company has been irresponsible with its products. The new OS alone has so many security patches alone that it makes me wonder if perhaps they should have waited a year before releasing it.
In a day and age when privacy and information are transmitted over wires, it's important that the software that allows for such communication does not falter or isn't hijacked by some virus, and thanks to Microsoft, that isn't possible yet. Not unless you have the latest patch installed.

An incident like this makes me twice as ill, and of course it had to happen in Texas. It's rather obvious that it was a hate crime. A group of white men take a mentally challenged African American man to a party, and the next day he just happens to just show up beaten to a pulp. It's a little too suspicious to have been some drunken brawl of some sort.

I *heart* The Practice. It hasn't been this good in ages, and Chris O'Donnell is yummy in a scary kinda way. I wonder how they're going to bring him down.

It's the glasses. It has to be the glasses. I'm going through this adjustment period and I just can't be witty. I can be atrociously dull and dimwitted, but not funny. What's wrong with me? I can't see!!
For instance, take this article about free speech. It's rather baffling that we can call the Taliban and Saddam terrorists, but should we insult our dear, sweet, presidente in writing, the shirt must be turned inside out. TERRORIST (see, subliminal) And the leaders of our country call this freedom? Actually, they do because that's what the judges are for. I bet George W. wasn't too pleased. That amuses me.
In all seriousness, if the nation's children can't even critizice their leaders in a half hearted manner, where or where are we headed for? France!!!

SiteFinder is no more at least for now. After a stern warning from ICANN which claimed the service violated their contract, VeriSign shutdown the new service until it could investigate the matter. The company is also facing three lawsuits because of SiteFinder.
Everywhere normal net users are breathing sighs of relief as the internet starts behaving as it should now that Verisign isn't monopolizing it anymore.