Tuesday, October 7th, 2003

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Tuesday, October 7th, 2003

cool.

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Tuesday, October 7th, 2003

so, here is our winner!

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Monday, October 6th, 2003

look! a new Strong­bad Email!

(and this is my last post of the day. thank you)

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Monday, October 6th, 2003

here’s an arti­cle about the efforts of gov’t to pri­va­tize some or all of the air­line indus­try. nat­u­rally, orga­nized labor unions are opposed to any men­tion of it. some air­ports, namely our own Harts­field Inter­na­tional, and New Orleans’s Louis Arm­strong Inter­na­tional, are already work­ing toward pro­pos­als to pri­vately fund these two air­ports (in atlanta’s case, it is mainly due to the fact that this city has NO cash reserves, and is in debt. the lease pay­ments that they could charge to a pri­vate cor­po­ra­tion would be increased rev­enue that right now is not there. on the con­trary, right now the city FUNDS the air­port.) in any event, the way i see it, pri­va­tiz­ing indus­tries like this one is noth­ing but a good thing. it takes the burden off of me, the tax­payer, and puts it onto the people that actu­ally use the air­ports (trav­el­ers) instead - the way it should be.

other arti­cles of interest:

Pri­va­ti­za­tion back­ers want Atlanta to cash in on Harts­field air­port
Con­trollers, FAA Mis­taken on Pri­va­ti­za­tion
Why We Should Put Users in Charge of ATC

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Monday, October 6th, 2003

a very good arti­cle about inher­ent weak­nesses in the way Microsoft releases their oper­at­ing sys­tems. i’ve always said that if MS would make the default user a ‘user’ instead of ‘admin’, tons of major viruses could be avoided. this arti­cle talks about this point, and a few others. it also talks about how OSes like Linux, Unix, and Mac OS all are much more secure, and less likely to have a major virus crip­ple the system.

a good read for those who think that “security through obscurity” is the only reason that linux and Mac OS based com­put­ers don’t’ get viruses.

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Thursday, October 2nd, 2003

steve balmer, of Microsoft, in action. keep in mind this guy is a CEO (or some­thing along those lines) of a multi-​billion dollar company.

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