Sony just doesn't know when to quit!

Once again, Sony is scrambling to patch a security hole put in place by their DRM protections. This time, their software puts a folder onto the target PC, which then can be used by a guest user in a privileged escalation attack. Although the folder isn't hidden like the XCP rootkit, you'd still have to know about its existence.

Way to go, Sony! You're winning lots of friends among consumers.

Elections in Iraq

As elections draw near for Iraq, it's stories like this that should remind us that we cannot abandon the Iraqis as they make so much progress towards democracy in so short a time. It's quite clear that the Howard Deans and the Harry Reids couldn't care less about these people who had lived under brutal repression for 35 years, and that sickens me.

Deadly business

The National Alliance on Mental Illness's comments about the shooting of Rigoberto Alpizar by air marshals is proof positive that many in our country still aren't serious about terrorism:

The National Alliance on Mental Illness called on the Air Marshal Service and other law enforcement agencies to train officers if they don't already in responding to people with severe mental illness.

Get real. The last thing I want on an airplane I'm traveling on is a person with a mental illness off his medication. It is unfortunate that he was killed, but the wife, Anne Buechner, has no one to blame but herself.

Gwyneth Paltrow calls Americans crybabies

Gwyneth Paltrow shows just how much she loves her homeland when she calls Americans crybabies:

She says, "I find the English amazing how they got over 7/7. There were no multiple memorials with people sobbing as they would have been in America. There, they are constantly scaring people but at the same time, people think nothing of going to see a therapist."

Can Hollywood get any dumber?

Via The Superficial.

Bush: US overcoming Iraq 'mistakes'

President Bush is beginning to give signals that he is willing to admit the administration has made mistakes during Iraq's reconstruction. However, I guess you can't ask Harry Reid to move in the other direction:

"As he did last week, the president once again failed to provide a strategy for success or speak honestly to the American people about the failures in rebuilding Iraq and the challenges that lie ahead."

Reid really looks on the bright side of life!

Katrina victims call rescuers 'rednecks'

Looks like the race card is coming out again as some Katrina survivors testified in Congress that they were subjected to "racial slurs and menaced by guns."

Four of the five African-Americans who testified believed that the governmental response was rooted in racism. Terrol Williams, the fifth, thought that the authorities were simply unprepared.

Lee Hodges, in an attempt to show how racist her rescuers are, called them "a bunch of hard red necks" and called her evacuation point "a concentration camp." When told to stop making the comparison, she said "I'm going to call it what it is. If I put a dress on a pig, a pig is still a pig." (Was she actually talking about herself?)

In a sign how way out these people were, one of them, Dyan French, still believes that the New Orleans' levees had been bombed.

Amazing.

Friendster

Well, my girl and I made the change from 'Single' to 'In a Relationship'. It's weird how technology takes the guesswork outta things.

Murtha of All Contradictions - Is it too much to ask him to get his story straight?

It really seems that Rep. John Murtha, a supposed hawk and patriot, is actually a drunkard that can't enunciate a coherent thought.

From the kausfiles.

Kerry: American Soldiers = Terrorists

Ed Morrissey points out that John Kerry is backsliding back to his Vietnam days, implying that American soldiers are terrorizing Iraqis in his interview with Bob Schieffer. Coupled with Dean's recent rants, it's the face of the Democratic party today.

Iraq witness recounts torture, 'meat grinder'

When peaceniks try to tell you that life was better under Saddam, this is the life they mean.

Mmmm...

Massages are so great.

Dean: US Won't Win in Iraq

It's defeatist comments like those spewed by Howard Dean that keep the Democrats as a minority party. Typical:

"I've seen this before in my life. This is the same situation we had in Vietnam. Everybody then kept saying, 'just another year, just stay the course, we'll have a victory.' Well, we didn't have a victory, and this policy cost the lives of an additional 25,000 troops because we were too stubborn to recognize what was happening."

These words represent the Democrats today: quitters, pessimists, and cynics. Disgusting.

Uday Was a Water-Boarder Too!

Belgravia Dispatch seems to argue that just because Uday Hussein practiced waterboarding, too, that it must be bad.

Well, I heard that Uday liked soccer, so I guess all those who like soccer must be bad people, too.

Also, two things:

1) Djerejian is actually describing drowning not waterboarding.

and

2) I don't support waterboarding as a rule-of-thumb.