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Government's ID card plans fail to take
into account disabled users

Government's ID card plans fail to take
into account disabled users 06/22/2004 10:43 AM
Computer Weekly Jun 22 2004 2:13PM GMT

Orange Mobile's robotic adherence to
idiotic rules

Orange Mobile's robotic adherence to
idiotic rules 05/13/2004 12:18 PM
Yesterday was a momentous occasion: it was the day I received my first UK bank statement, and was therefore able to do my bit to consummate England's national love affair with the utility bill. I mean, seriously: this is a country where you can walk into a shop to get a mobile phone or an ID card and say, "I have in this hand a fistful of credit cards and in this hand, a pristine Canadian passport," and have the clerk sniff and say, "I'm sorry sir, but without a gas bill, we simply won't be able to help you" (when I went to Citibank with the details of my Citibank US and Citibank Canada accounts, I was told to come back with a FedExed note from my boss attesting to my address, because of the "know your customer" rules -- apparently, an original signature on letterhead confers a depth of knowledge that mere years-long in-house financial records can't convey).

Yesterday was the day I hied myself off to the Tottenham Court Road to go shopping for a mobile phone. I knew exactly what I wanted: a Sony-Ericsson P900 with the O2 75 plan, which gets me 1000 minutes and several texts for only two or three times what comparable service would cost in the US (English mobile phones are very feature-rich, come with lovely high-speed data service, and cost so much to use that it's hard to believe that there's really anyone using the advanced features -- not at £4 a megabyte!).

The man in the Carphone Warehouse gave me the hookup, set up my account, called their credit department, and told me I'd have to pay a £150 deposit to go a-roaming in Europe. This is steep, but I can hack it. I gave him the nod, and then he passed me the contract to sign and went off to get my new phone. That's when he discovered that he'd run right out of P900s. I walked the length of the Tottenham Court Road strip and couldn't locate a P900 (or, indeed any phone with more than 12 buttons) for love or money.

But eventually, my luck changed. An Orange store staffed with friendly and knowledgeable clerks had P900s in stock and they were happy to take my money. We went through the signup rigamarole again -- took hours -- and then they called it in.

No dice. All of Orange's account sign-up computers were down. I went away and came back, but the computers were still down. The clerk confided that this happened a lot to Orange's overtaxed billing computers. I thought that it was a little weird that I was about to trust this company with my telephony when they couldn't even manage the IT necessary to reliably sign up a new customer, but shrug, they had the phone and I needed it, and besides, they'd match O2's rates for me. They sent me away and asked me to return the next day.

It was a waste of time.

I came back today, and after an hour more of hemming and hawing, this is what transpired: Orange would give me a phone with e £75 deposit, but I would have to wait 90 days before I'd be allowed to roam with the phone. I pointed out that I travelled two or three weeks out of every month, and this would render this (very expensive) phone very useless to me. I asked to speak to a supervisor. No dice. I offered to leave the same deposit I'd been asked for at O2. Even fewer than no dice -- "We don't know who you are, we can't give you roaming." I offered a bigger deposit. I offered to show the (enormous, promptly paid) cellular bills from my last year with Nextel. The deed to my condo in Toronto. The letter of reference from Yale. The Wired masthead. My US credit-report.

A waste of time.

It's the rules, they said. And please stop asking to speak to the credit department: they're not "customer-facing" and they're getting annoyed. You're annoying them.

Right, I thought, I'll call the press-relations department. I spoke to them at length -- flatteringly enough, they'd heard of me. So, what's the problem, I asked. Well, we can't do this because it's too risky to extend roaming to someone with no credit. I have credit. And it's what everyone does. Not O2. But you could ring up big bills with our roaming partners and stick us with them. I could call Tokyo and leave the phone off the hook for 24h without leaving England's shores and rack up just as big a liability for you..

At the end of the day, it came to this: These are our rules. We will stick to them. We will not make exceptions to them. We will hug them to our bosom beyond any kind of rationality or reason.

I am such a goddamned telephone junkie. I'm no Joi Ito with his $3,500 GPRS bills, but I've been spending $200 or $300 on cellular telephone damned near every month since 1992. I am every mobile carrier's dream. Any rational carrier would jump at my business.

But Orange isn't rational. It doesn't have a business plan, it has a bunch of superstitions to which it rigidly hews regardless of circumstance -- the media person I was speaking to reported that she'd spoken to their head of customer care, who wouldn't budge; this intransigence goes right to the top.

So Orange has lost my business, and to hell with them. As soon as O2 gets some P900s in stock, I'll gladly give them the 150 quid and get signed up and running.

And I think I've figured out why the Orange shop is the only place in town with any phones in stock: they make life so miserable for anyone who tries to buy one that you'd have to be flat-out desperate to take one off their hands.

"condemns Michael Moore's latest idiotic
blather"

"condemns Michael Moore's latest idiotic
blather" 04/20/2004 03:29 PM

Minneapolis Plans to Go Wireless

Minneapolis Plans to Go Wireless 04/13/2005 02:24 PM
Days after Philadelphia rolls out its plan to provide municipal broadband wireless Internet access to its residents, Minneapolis unveils a plan to unwire that metropolis.

Cool Voice of America censor-buster
b0rked by idiotic anti-pr0n measure

Cool Voice of America censor-buster
b0rked by idiotic anti-pr0n measure 05/03/2004 11:00 AM
The US International Broadcasting Bureau (Voice of America, basically), created a proxy service to allow Chinese, Iranians and other oppressed people to circumvent their national firewalls, relaying forbidden pages behind the silicon curtains. However, the IBB decided to kowtow to unknown bluenoses and install a filter that would block foreigners from gaining access to pr0n: to do this, they came up with the bright idea of blocking any URL that contained naughty words. This is a stupid, stupid idea:

IBB's list includes "ass" (which inadvertently bans usembassy.state.gov), "breast" (breastcancer.com), "hot" (hotmail.com and hotels.com), "pic" (epic.noaa.gov) and "teen" (teens.drugabuse.gov).

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Philly Plans Citywide Wireless Internet

Philly Plans Citywide Wireless Internet 09/01/2004 10:46 PM
iMedia Connection Sep 2 2004 2:31AM GMT

Groups debate wireless spectrum plans

Groups debate wireless spectrum plans 06/03/2004 01:44 PM

FCC Plans to Allow Wireless Networking
on Unused TV Channels

FCC Plans to Allow Wireless Networking
on Unused TV Channels 05/14/2004 09:05 PM

Ofcom plans more flexible restrictions
on wireless

Ofcom plans more flexible restrictions
on wireless 09/17/2004 08:08 PM
Personal Computer World Sep 18 2004 0:41AM GMT

Intel plans for mobile wireless future

Intel plans for mobile wireless future 02/19/2004 08:04 AM
ZDNet UK Feb 19 2004 12:11PM GMT

Sprint plans faster wireless data
services

Sprint plans faster wireless data
services 06/22/2004 12:11 PM
The company plans to give mobile Web surfers access to broadband speeds before the end of the year, in some areas.

Plans for Wireless Directory Raise
Concerns About Privacy

Plans for Wireless Directory Raise
Concerns About Privacy 01/26/2004 02:24 AM
After last year's campaigns against spammers and telemarketers, lawmakers on Capitol Hill are poised to tackle the next privacy frontier: the nation's 150 million wireless phones.

VeriSign Plans Jamba Wireless Service
Soon (Reuters)

VeriSign Plans Jamba Wireless Service
Soon (Reuters) 06/24/2004 09:39 PM
Reuters - VeriSign Inc. (VRSN.O), an Internet and telecommunications company, will roll out its newly purchased wireless content provider service in North America possibly later this year, a top executive with the company said on Thursday.

Ofcom plans deregulation in UK wireless
communications services

Ofcom plans deregulation in UK wireless
communications services 09/20/2004 04:34 AM
PublicTechnology.net Sep 20 2004 7:44AM GMT

PCCW opens kimono (a little) on UK
broadband wireless plans

PCCW opens kimono (a little) on UK
broadband wireless plans 09/15/2004 07:37 AM
The Register Sep 15 2004 12:13PM GMT

Japanese Hostages Safe in Iraq -
Japanese Media (Reuters)

Japanese Hostages Safe in Iraq -
Japanese Media (Reuters) 04/11/2004 12:20 AM
Reuters - Three Japanese civilians kidnapped in Iraq were safe near Falluja on Sunday, Japanese TV said. Government officials could not confirm the report.

Japanese Hostages Safe in Iraq -
Japanese Media

Japanese Hostages Safe in Iraq -
Japanese Media 04/11/2004 06:50 AM
Reuters via Wired News Apr 11 2004 10:50AM GMT

Boing Boing: Orange Mobile's robotic
adherence to idiotic rules

Boing Boing: Orange Mobile's robotic
adherence to idiotic rules 05/14/2004 03:30 AM
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Iran plans to become telecoms hub with
exponential growth forecast in domestic
wireless and Internet markets

Iran plans to become telecoms hub with
exponential growth forecast in domestic
wireless and Internet markets 11/11/2003 01:15 AM
AME Info Nov 10 2003 11:34PM ET

Iran Plans To Become Telecoms Hub With
Exponential Growth Forecast In Domestic
Wireless And Internet Markets

Iran Plans To Become Telecoms Hub With
Exponential Growth Forecast In Domestic
Wireless And Internet Markets 11/10/2003 11:08 PM
ECTA Portal Nov 10 2003 8:07PM ET

U.S. government's abstinence website
draws ire

U.S. government's abstinence website
draws ire 04/03/2005 01:19 PM
globetechnology.com Apr 3 2005 3:48PM GMT

To some in the bl0gosphere, it simply
had to be the government's fault

To some in the bl0gosphere, it simply
had to be the government's fault 01/04/2005 01:23 PM
Myths Run Wild in Blog Tsunami Debate .. What an abominable piece of drek .. article on tsunami blogs

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Government's Fifty Greatest Endeavors

Government's Fifty Greatest Endeavors 05/21/2004 05:41 AM
Government's Fifty Greatest Endeavors
http://www.broo k.edu/GS/CPS/50ge/50greatest.htm

This Brookings Institution site presents its compilation of fifty endeavors or problems which the federal government has attempted to solve during the last fifty years of the 20th century. There is a brief summary for each endeavor which includes a list of legislation dealing with the problem as well as bibliographic sources and web links.

Government's s33krt1t ethics listserv

Government's s33krt1t ethics listserv 03/17/2005 03:56 AM
Cory Doctorow: Andre sez, "You mentioned the Government Printing Office (GPO) in an entry about applying DRM to government documents. Well, my associate Domingo and I have been on to the GPO for a while now - they have a listerv that has some suspicious stuff, such as the OGE-ETHICSINFO-L list which gives ethical advice to the executive branch, and requires you have a .gov or .mil e-mail address to join and remain a member of the list. I joined the list and dumped the contents using wget in August, and turned up some interesting stuff, such as 20040419.txt, which advises the executive branch to turn down gifts from Microsoft. We filed a FOIA request with the GPO for info on their mailing list and are awaiting a response."

It has come to OGE's attention that Microsoft Corp. is offering free promotional software valued at over $500 to IT personnel at various agencies. OGE has written Microsoft asking it to refrain from doing this, citing the implications associated with the Standards of Ethical Conduct for Employees of the Executive Branch. We understand that the Department of the Army also has sent a letter to Microsoft asking that these gifts cease. Please advise your IT personnel that they are prohibited from personally accepting these gifts. However, OGE does recognize that an agency may have gift acceptance authority that allows acceptance of this software by the agency for its use.

Link (Thanks, Andre!)

Update: Daniel sez, "Using a quick google search using the term: "inurl:listserv.*.gov" i found a hell of a lot more (54k hits). some intresting stuff on there, weird what you can find on goverment sites. Some mailman ones as well.

Oracle attacks US government's case

Oracle attacks US government's case 06/08/2004 05:53 AM
ZDNet UK Jun 8 2004 10:06AM GMT

Government's patching system seen as
poor

Government's patching system seen as
poor 06/03/2004 10:26 AM

Briefly: Government's patching system
seen as poor

Briefly: Government's patching system
seen as poor 06/03/2004 10:26 AM

Questions remain unanswered over
government's ID project

Questions remain unanswered over
government's ID project 12/03/2003 11:04 AM
vnunet.com Dec 3 2003 10:08AM ET

Sudan Government's Attacks Stoke Rebels'
Fury

Sudan Government's Attacks Stoke Rebels'
Fury 09/10/2004 10:10 PM
Much of the responsibility for the growth of insurgency in the Sudan lies with the Arab-led government in Khartoum.

Spam clogs German government's e-mail
system

Spam clogs German government's e-mail
system 05/21/2004 05:17 PM
A crippling tide of spam hit the German government this week in the form of nondelivery reports generated when mail can't be delivered, delaying some e-mail for three days.

Porn site attracts Thai government's ire
to Britain

Porn site attracts Thai government's ire
to Britain 12/08/2003 05:52 AM
ZDNet UK Dec 8 2003 5:08AM ET

Government's online forms need to be
better, says National Audit Office

Government's online forms need to be
better, says National Audit Office 11/03/2003 03:14 AM
PublicTechnology.net Nov 3 2003 2:23AM ET

Extent of Government's Control Unclear
as It Formally Steps In

Extent of Government's Control Unclear
as It Formally Steps In 06/28/2004 11:30 PM
U.S. aides and Iraqi officials said they had moved up the date to foil terrorist attacks that might be in the works.

Supreme Court Expands Government's Right
to Seize Homes

Supreme Court Expands Government's Right
to Seize Homes 06/24/2005 09:47 PM

Judge rejects government's bid to block
Oracle takeover of PeopleSoft

Judge rejects government's bid to block
Oracle takeover of PeopleSoft 09/11/2004 01:11 PM
Canadian Press Sep 11 2004 4:19PM GMT

First graduates awarded Harvard
Certificates at Dubai School of
Government's E-Government program

First graduates awarded Harvard
Certificates at Dubai School of
Government's E-Government program 04/06/2005 07:00 AM
AME Info Apr 6 2005 11:26AM GMT

WEEKLY FARM: Computerized calorie plan
builds on government's food pyramid

WEEKLY FARM: Computerized calorie plan
builds on government's food pyramid 02/14/2004 02:46 PM
AP via New Jersey Online Feb 14 2004 5:33PM GMT

"The U.S. government's secret memo
detailing cooperation between Saddam
Hussein and Osama bin Laden."

"The U.S. government's secret memo
detailing cooperation between Saddam
Hussein and Osama bin Laden." 11/15/2003 09:00 PM

The Asia/Pacific PC Market Steamed Ahead
in 2Q 2004 Despite The Chinese
Government's Efforts To Cool Its Econo

The Asia/Pacific PC Market Steamed Ahead
in 2Q 2004 Despite The Chinese
Government's Efforts To Cool Its Econo 07/19/2004 10:10 PM
Linux Electrons Jul 20 2004 2:07AM GMT
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Kapanga© Integrates Fax, MP3 Recording
and Real-time VoIP Quality Monitoring in
Just One Softphone

Kapanga© Integrates Fax, MP3 Recording
and Real-time VoIP Quality Monitoring in
Just One Softphone 04/13/2005 04:26 AM
Kapanga Softphone features unique capabilities for both end-users and telecommunications companies and delivers integrated voice, fax and video over IP in one easy-to-use software application. [PRWEB Apr 13, 2005]

Vonage softphone

Vonage softphone 12/19/2003 04:58 PM
Have been trying out the Vonage softphone with some success. My Laptop (IBM T40), like most, has built in speakers...

Kiax - an IAX Softphone

Kiax - an IAX Softphone 04/13/2005 02:59 PM
Kiax 0.8.4 comes!

New: Vonage SoftPhone for Mac OS X

New: Vonage SoftPhone for Mac OS X 06/28/2004 09:54 AM
Vonage released a Mac OS X version of its SoftPhone software for use with its Voice Over IP telephone service.

Vonage SoftPhone for OS X coming

Vonage SoftPhone for OS X coming 06/18/2004 02:14 PM
Vonage is expected to release the final version of its SoftPhone client for Mac OS X next week, according to VoIP Daily...

Xten Announces New eyeBeam SIP
Softphone.

Xten Announces New eyeBeam SIP
Softphone. 06/25/2004 07:08 PM
Xten Announces New eyeBeam SIP Softphone. "The eyeBeam feature set includes all of the robust SIP telephony features expected from Xten, plus H.263 and H.264 IP video conferencing, CDMA cellular network support and a host of new IP telephony features."

Xten announces new SIP SoftPhone called
eyeBeam

Xten announces new SIP SoftPhone called
eyeBeam 06/25/2004 01:33 PM
Xten has announced its newest Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) SoftPhone, eyebeam, which, like other SoftPhone software previously released by the company, will turn your Mac into a phone that can place and receive calls via Voice-Over IP (VoIP), a protocol that carries voice data over the Internet. An OEM version of the company's X-PRO SIP SoftPhone was just made available to Vonage subscribers who use Mac OS X, as reported by MacCentral on Thursday. eyeBeam SoftPhone will offer H.263 and H.264 IP video conferencing, CDMA cellular network support and such telephony features as instant messaging and encryption. Xten is currently demonstrating the new product at Supercomm 2004 and will soon make a Beta release available to select partners, with the commercial roll-out slated for October. eyeBeam will be Mac OS X compatible, but the company hasn't released system requirements and pricing yet, nor had it placed a product page on its Web site as MacCentral posted this article.

Vonage offers Xten X-PRO SoftPhone for
OS X users

Vonage offers Xten X-PRO SoftPhone for
OS X users 06/24/2004 10:08 AM
Broadband telephony service provider Vonage on Thursday announced that it's providing an OEM version of Xten Networks' X-PRO SIP SoftPhone for Mac OS X-based Vonage subscribers. The software enables Vonage subscribers to send and receive telephone calls with their computers using Voice over IP (VoIP) technology. SoftPhone support is an add-on service for users who already have a Vonage account -- accounts start at US$14.99 per month.

Xten Announces Private Beta of "eyeBeam"
Video SIP Softphone.

Xten Announces Private Beta of "eyeBeam"
Video SIP Softphone. 08/19/2004 09:09 PM
Xten Announces Private Beta of "eyeBeam" Video SIP Softphone.

MD5 crack

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Just say no to Crack

Just say no to Crack 04/23/2004 02:51 PM
Staking out the high moral ground, a bill would punish those wearing low-riding jeans. It seems that Represe ntative Derrick D. T. Shepherd of Louisiana, a Democrat no less, wants to outlaw low slung pants. Plumbers beware, and stock up on Butt-Crack Caulk! Really, don't they have anything better to legislate besides fashion or holidays?

TV on crack

TV on crack 03/22/2005 04:44 PM
Is A&E's "Intervention" the most exploitative reality show ever, or a necessarily brutal snapshot of the perils of addiction?

FeedDemon Crack

FeedDemon Crack 06/18/2004 09:27 AM

Dave Winer and Evan Williams commented that the people who shout the loudest are often the ones who have no basis for their anger. I'm reminded of this fact by an email I received this morning. Here's a quote:

"Fix your piece of s--- program! I upgraded to FeedDemon 1.10 and it crashes with 'Win32 device error.' Did you even test this s---?"

I've actually received a number of emails (and one forum post) about this bug, but I have no plans to fix it. Why? Because the error message only appears if you upgrade a cracked version of FeedDemon 1.0. This is a deliberate error message that FeedDemon 1.10 displays when it detects that you upgraded from a specific cracked version of FeedDemon 1.0.

That's right, people who use a pirated version of FeedDemon are emailing me for support. It never ceases to amaze me when people not only steal from me, but also expect me to spend my time answering their questions. And more often than not, the email I've received about this problem reads like something a drunk teenager would write.

I've written about piracy befor e and I'm not planning to start another lengthy rant. But I do have a request for those who have justified their use of cracked versions of my work: don't ask for support. I support my family with sales of my software, and my life is affected - dramatically - by the existence of cracks. Please, if you're using a pirated version of my software, don't expect me to help you.

Alcohol is the new crack!

Alcohol is the new crack! 01/02/2005 11:10 PM
β€œN ot only is it illegal, but it's becoming increasingly dangerous,” Leggio said of underage drinking. How dangerous? Well apparently dangerous enough that one affluent Kansas City community has decided that it is best to have police spy on teens during high school basketball games. Oh it gets better, apparently a carload of teens is enough for a Lenexa cop to follow you! So the parents should be up in arms right? Nope, they encourage the police, even calling them ("she told dispatchers that when she called home to check on her son, it sounded like a party was going on"). Yet surprisingly, despite this almost police-state like mentality against drinking, atti tudes are slow to change.

First Crack in the Wall?

First Crack in the Wall? 03/22/2005 03:15 PM
This is the first announced change in the status quo since IBM announced the sale of their entire line of laptops to the Chinese firm Lenovo. As with some other people, I’m still awainting experience to tell us if it’s a good or bad thing. Lenovo will slightly modify the “IBM ThinkPad” brand in the relatively near future, said Lenovo CEO-designate Stephen Ward on Monday at PC Forum, which is taking place here this week….

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How to crack passwords, and why you
should

How to crack passwords, and why you
should 06/05/2005 11:28 PM

"Conservative Crack-Up"

"Conservative Crack-Up" 11/19/2003 03:31 PM

New Bluetooth Crack

New Bluetooth Crack 06/05/2005 11:47 PM

Happy Friday:

Cryptographers have discovered a way to hack Bluetooth-enabled devices even when security features are switched on. The discovery may make it even easier for hackers to eavesdrop on conversations and charge their own calls to someone else's cellphone.

"Our attack makes it possible to crack every communication between two Bluetooth devices, and not only if it is the first communication between those devices," says Shaked.

Check out the time required to pull this off:

They show that once an attacker has forced two devices to pair, they can work out the link key in just 0.06 seconds on a Pentium IV-enabled computer, and 0.3 seconds on a Pentium-III. "This is not just a theoretical break, it's practical," says Schneier.

Via New Scientist.

Kernel crack

Kernel crack 11/07/2003 05:31 AM
CNET Asia Nov 7 2003 4:44AM ET

Feds Crack Down On Web Pirates

Feds Crack Down On Web Pirates 04/23/2004 02:48 PM
CBS News Apr 23 2004 6:53PM GMT

Ex-Crack Addict Gives $10K to Art
Gallery (AP)

Ex-Crack Addict Gives $10K to Art
Gallery (AP) 07/22/2004 07:39 AM
AP - A former burglar, alcoholic and crack addict has donated $10,000 to the art gallery where he had panhandled for years after inheriting $187,000 from his long-estranged mother.

3D holograms to crack forgeries

3D holograms to crack forgeries 08/11/2004 08:18 AM
A 3D hologram technique could transform how experts spot forged signatures and other handwritten documents.

UK, US and Canada crack down on Net
scams

UK, US and Canada crack down on Net
scams 04/30/2004 10:50 AM
Closer co-operation

Do You Thrive or Crack Under Pressure?

Do You Thrive or Crack Under Pressure? 09/10/2004 04:44 PM

Hackers crack Sony PSP

Hackers crack Sony PSP 06/17/2005 04:44 PM

Crack My Knuckles - by Rob Manuel

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Madredeus On Crack: A Naifa

Madredeus On Crack: A Naifa 09/14/2004 01:54 AM
As God Is My Cleaning Lady: Crypto-Fado For Bohemian Pagan Popsters. They can't play their classical Fado guitars very well; they have a punky drummer and the Fado singer not only smiles pouts and shakes her hips, but actually seems to enjoy herself! What's become of this country? Are they mad? Reckless, certainly. They call themselves A Naifa and what they've done is taken a massive, ice-crunching Waring Pro blender to all the sacred potions, fruits and flavours of Portuguese traditional music and poured out a vulgar, shameless, disrespectful and utterly delicious shambles of a Pop cocktail. Heresy in old Lisbon? I nearly choked on my 30-year-old aguardente velha, but then realized I was dancing merrily and had already spilt most of it anyway. [Probably not fun for those unfamiliar with the Fado. QuickTime required.]

"Don't do crack; it's a ghetto drug"

"Don't do crack; it's a ghetto drug" 06/19/2004 04:52 PM

Fifteen of us gathered last night for a screening of the 1992 Tim Robbins political satire Bo b Roberts.  This mockumentary of a folksinging conservative Wall Street trader turned politician has held up surprisingly well.  In the background of the movie, President Bush is in the White House and American troops are about to invade Iraq.  Gore Vidal does a great job playing a Ted Kennedy-style career senator.  The songs are fun but sadly the soundtrack has never been made available.

My favorite part of the movie is when Bob Roberts closes a letter to a 7-year-old girl in Vermont with the admonition "Don't do crack; it's a ghetto drug."

This is the perfect movie for an election-year party.

MasterCard Looks to Crack Down on
Phishing

MasterCard Looks to Crack Down on
Phishing 06/22/2004 10:35 AM
MasterCard is teaming up with digital fraud protection company NameProtect to help shut down online scams.

where i can give a crack for sims2?

where i can give a crack for sims2? 09/20/2004 03:02 PM
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Japanese government's idiotic plans for wireless LAN "tax"

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