Do a google search on “We entered the country at midnight on March 26”. You will find something a bit disturbing. The exact same letter to the editor, sent to many different news papers, by different servicemen. Something does not smell right.
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DRM
Lesson number 85,923 on why DMCA is bad. A computer science grad student at Princeton wrote a report showing the CD DRM (digital rights management, in other words, you can not backup or rip the CD to mp3s) was ineffective – it could easily be defeated by use of the ‘shift’ key. The stock of …
Politics
This is just messed up: Cheney still trying to claim “ties between Hussein and al Qaeda” Even Wolfowitz says: Iraq had no part in 9-11 or Al-Qaeda. Cheney spends time trying to link Iraq to 9/11, then when asked about Saudi Arabia’s ties to al Qaeda and the Sept. 11 hijackers: “I don’t want to …
New apt
Finally got into the golden view apts. I haven’t spent much time in the apt yet, but I like it so far. It has a bit of a view, and the main area is nice and bright.
Too bad it isn’t funny
The rules of war are weird: “The stunned Paras from 16 Air Assault Brigade were forced to tell the Iraqis they were not firing at them, and ordered them back to their home country telling them it was too early to surrender.”