The Seven Habits of Highly Ineffective Terrorists

A study was recently completed about terrorists, and basically it says that they mostly look like a combination of Three Stooges and the revolutionary cells from Life of Brian. It's a good read, and definitely reinforces the concept that the US is doing the "War on Terror" entirely wrong.

http://www.wired.com/politics/security/commentary/securitymatters/2008/10/securitymatters_1002

Sarah Palin had a third private email account?!

You may have heard about Palin having a private email account. That's fine, no problem there. I probably have a dozen right now. But I'm not a government official, and my email (outside of work) is not subject to Freedom of Information requests. I do not discuss official work with work associates in my private email, heck, I don't think that I ever received an email from work associates in my private email, at least after I started working for the City.

This is where I differ from Sarah Palin. It appears that she discusses or conducts official Alaska government work from private email addresses.

This is against the law because it violates discovery and FOIA,

The first private email account, IIRC it was gov.sarah@yahoo.com (now closed) was hacked in a very simple and clever way. This guy was hanging out on the chat/board channels used by Anonymous, the people who are thumbing their collective noses against Scientology, and they were talking about trying to hack Palin's account and their approaches. The guy who did it went extremely low-tech: he used Google. Yahoo Mail has a password reset option, just in case. Answer a few questions, and *POOF!* the password is reset. This guy used Google and found all the answers, thus gaining access to her email.

Allegedly he did not open any emails, but he did do screen shots of the inbox. It clearly had incoming messages from her work associates, and the subjects seemed to indicate that they were discussing government business, including a letter to Gov. Schwarzenegger and emails regarding the State Police, with whom Palin is being investigated in an ethics probe.

This account has been closed.

Apparently she had a second Yahoo email account, gov.palin@... I don't know if this one is open or not.

Now an Alaskan ISP has announced that she had an email account with them, and that apparently it was used by the same band of people, i.e. State workers, and it appears they discussed work.


I freely admit that I don't like Palin, I don't think she's a fit selection for the person who is "a heartbeat away from the Presidency." I make no bones about it. But this is flat-out against the law, if you are a governor, mayor, any government official, you cannot use private email to discuss or organize anything related to work. Period. The law is pretty clear on this.

The comments on this linked post are amusing, people defending her saying why don't people hack Obama's email. Could it be that, just perhaps, Obama is obeying the law and doesn't have a private email address with which he's conducting official business? If someone gets ahold of his private email address and hacks it, if they discover he's been conducting official business with it, then by all means, hold him accountable. But we have the information on Palin right now, and she should be held accountable.

http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2008/10/palin-had-a-thi.html

Russel Crowe to play Robinhood -- and Nottingham! AND some bad news....

Ridley Scott making it, excellent chance of it being a good flic.

http://blog.wired.com/underwire/2008/10/crowe-rumored-t.html


The bad news....

Some goombahs are writing a sequel to Bladerunner.

No word if Ridley is involved.

Now, there seems to be a lot of FUD associated with this. The full article says both that this is being done outside of the studio, and that a pre-visualization team has been hired. So who knows what the truthiness is.

http://www.slashfilm.com/2008/09/29/exclusive-eagle-eye-co-writers-working-on-blade-runner-2/

If you're twisted enough to like the movie Spaceballs....

In case you didn't know, there's now a Spaceballs cartoon on G4. It is voiced by Mel Brooks, who is also the executive producer, and has some others from the original cast. It's every bit as bad as the original, and thus far, every 30 minute episode has been related to some fannish genre: Outbreak, Harry Potter, Jurassic Park, Lord of the Rings, etc.

It is definitely offensive and also includes jiggly lady parts.

*sigh*

You Are 26% Evil

A bit of evil lurks in your heart, but you hide it well. In some ways, you are the most dangerous kind of evil.

How Evil Are You?

I'm semi-evil. I'm quasi-evil. I'm the margarine of evil. I'm the Diet Coke of evil. Just one calorie, not evil enough.

(thanks for the link, Apostate!)