Blogging With Ike

"Men give me some credit for genius. All the genius I have lies in this: When I have a subject in hand, I study it profoundly. Day and night it is before me. I explore it in all its bearings. My mind becomes pervaded with it. Then the effort which I make, the people are pleased to call the fruit of genius. It is the fruit of labor and thought." - Alexander Hamilton

Monday, January 22, 2007

Microsoft's Campaign of Hate


Microsoft has shown that they are racist, bigoted, and prejudiced.

1. There does not appear to be any people of other then white people working at computers. I guess, according to MS's message, people of color cannot use a computer.

2. The picture (seen here) taken from the "GSI-Counterfeit_Confidential_Wi" video has only one overweight person. Notice this person is the bad person in MS's eyes. What is Microsoft trying to say that only fat people are bad? Only fat people work in shipping? Fat people cannot do anything other then shipping? Fat people are incompetent on the computer? Fat people are always having candy bars? Why does MS want to use this stereotype of prejudice.

3. The screen shot shown, taken right after the software is downloaded, shows the Japanese Rising Star. Shall I go after this one? Microsoft does not like people from Japan or of Japanese decent.

As Americans we have been trying to leave our prejudices and hatred behind. Microsoft just fans the flames of hatred.

If course the good news is that Microsoft admits that their software is prone to worms, viruses, and spyware. Use a Microsoft product at your own work.

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Monday, January 15, 2007

The Tyranny of an Out of Control Justice System

The Tyranny of an Out of Control Justice System

Well I just learned of this today, Matt Bandy. Here is a 16 year old kid who was on the verge of being labeled a sex-offender for the rest of his life.

Think of this for a moment for all if you who have a computer in your house and just surf the web. You too can end up like Matt. Poor Matt, surfed the web and picked up little programs, generally termed spyware, that effectively took control of his computer. One (or more) of these spyware downloaded some porn, and child porn at that, to his computer. The police tracked the child porn to the family house and Matt's computer had all these nasty little pictures on it.

Okay, child porn is bad and should not be allowed to exist. Those who take the pictures and purchase the pictures should be shot. However, Ward and June's computer that has been infected by spyware that is storing child porn on the hard drive should not be convicted of anything other then gross incompetence on a computer.

I will say this . . . if you are going to purchase a computer for the home buy a Macintosh or a Linux machine. If you purchase a wintel based machine you are asking for trouble.

This child found himself in a nightmare from spyware. He was on edge of being convicted when 20/20 came to the rescue. Matt was convicted of showing a Playboy to his friends. I will admit I am glad for the statue of limitations.

I would hope that the governor of Arizona or George Bush will pardon this poor kid as well the teacher from CT. Arizona and other states please provide some training for police in how computers actually work.

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