Wow. These folks need to get a freakin’ life. This is even uglier than the election will be:

“I hope your PC blows up and leaves your miserable face disfigured forever,” read one. “You will surely burn in (heck) for an eternity for this one.”

Another said Andy should be hung by his testicles and set on fire.

“Turning a perfectly good dual G5 into a (crummy) PC was the ticket that got you to (heck),” wrote another, citing the common eternal (darn)ation theme. “And if you were in front of me I’d pop a corn-born Teflon bullet from my Glock in your (fornicating) face.”

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BTW – I thought I was somewhat of a gun nut. I understand the “Teflon bullet”, but what, praytell, is “corn-born”?

Munich’s shift to open source software for running the city isn’t going exactly well:

But according to Computerwoche and other reports, the city lacks the funds to invest in the planned testing and development of an open-source solution. IBM and Germany-based Linux distributor SuSE are expected to help offset the costs of the migration by supplying technical support and conducting some of the studies that the Munich city council has requested.

Reports in Computerwoche also stated that local vendors who currently code applications for the city were experiencing problems in developing applications for the open-source operating system, since they are more familiar with Windows than Linux.

Good luck to the Krauts. Steve Balmer of Microsoft tried to pitch Redmond’s product at steep discounts, but the folks in Munich are spending an extra $12 million or so to give Gates the finger.

Stinkin’ cell phone walkie-talkies.

“Beedeep!”

“Yeah?”“Beedeep”
“Beedeep“scshs“I’m a blathering idiot.”
“Me too. BTW, I’m going to stop on my way home to molest sheep…”“beedeep”
“beedeep“schsh“Wow. Sounds like fun. I’ll meet you there.”
“Roger.”“beedeep”

Now, Motorola wants to sell more of them.

Great. Now all public places will become my own personal hell. Hearing one side of a cell phone conversation is bad enough. Now, not only do I get to hear both sides, but I also get a distracting electronic noise so I can know exactly when to listen for calls to bring home more vasoline. Thank goodness I’ve got an iPod for airports.

Dictator or Sit-Com character. Here

Somewhat painfully slow. But biased towards South American dictators and sit-com characters. Took freakin’ forever to realize I was Stalin.

Did you realize there’s Ivy League p0rn? Harvard is launching the H Bomb , and Vassar already runs Squirm. I’d see if Squirm were already on the web, but somehow think that the firewall may slam shut if I go poking around (pun intended).

Congress is holding hearings on boobs and the Superbowl.

So remind me: Why do we pay for the FCC if Congress is going to step in whenever there’s a dispute?

Well here it comes.

I think amending the Constitution is an example of a “big NO”, and I think we should be saving those for saying no to governmental interference with citizen’s rights, not enhancement of them.

Not quite sure why, but I’ve been deeply affected after reading Cryptonomicon, I’ve developed what is probably a healthy paranoia about infosec (information security). There is so little going on in my life that is interesting enough to be encrypted, but the tools are becoming ubiquitous, so it’s probably time to embrace them. File Vault was the first step. I’ll most likely check out clients for Mail as soon as I get the LAN up in the house.

There’s more featuring your tax dollars at work.

The Sarasota Herald-Tribune and 29 other Florida newspapers sent several of its employees to request publicly available documents to test Florida’s compliance with state constitutional law. Forty-three percent of the agencies approached, including Jeb’s office, did not comply with the requests.

Public officials lied to, harassed and even threatened volunteers who were using a law designed to give citizens the power to watch over their government. In six counties, volunteers were erroneously told that the documents they wanted didn’t exist. …