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Arianna Huffington defends Letterman and blames Palin…

Posted: June 11, 2009 by datechguy in opinion/news
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…as does Donny Deutsch on Morning Joe. Oh she should have known that he meant the 18 year old daughter. She should have never had put her kids out, she is trying to divide us blah blah blah blah.

Looking at Mika I think she was about to explode she has one again had to defend Gov Palin but does it with the preface “lets forget who she is for the moment”.

In the middle of the back and forth Willie points out that e-mailer are informing them it was Willow that was with Palin and not Bristol. This is MSNBC. This story has been out there for two days now and they are only finding this out via an e-mailer? Then again they don’t know that Levin’s book exists when it has been #1 on the NYT list for 10 of the last 11 weeks and #1 at Amazon for months. Deutsch tries to roll back, Arianna says nothing.

I guess supporting the niche left market on MSNBC trumps all.

You know I think when it comes to the Governor she has to bite her tongue a lot because she is on MSNBC. I really think she wants a reason to vote for her in 2012, but that’s just my ample gut talking.

The Privateers of the 21st century…

Posted: June 11, 2009 by datechguy in tech
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…are on the internet:

Today’s cyber world is akin to medieval Europe. International law grew out of fear of endless retribution and the need for order. Later in the Cold War, treaties and hot lines emerged from the Berlin and Cuban missile crises. Again, frightful experience led to deterrence and restraint. Current efforts to build sweeping cyber-policy will fail because the sequence is wrong. Leaping to a legal framework is futile without first understanding the realpolitik cyber-rules, definitions, and various red lines. It is simply too early to build a global consensus for the problem.

We do not know because we don’t have sufficient precedents. We don’t strike back. We don’t impose a direct and immediate cost on those we believe are attacking us. Instead, we gnash teeth over possible unintended consequences, collateral damage, escalations, and violations of treaties with dubious and unclear applicability to the cyber-world.

Applying “real world” law by analogy is inherently inadequate.

Is cyber-espionage acceptable or an act of war? Is crashing an electrical grid a “use of force?” Is disabling a firewall trespassing espionage, or an attack? The technical differences are almost indistinguishable.

This is not news in the sense that China has been hitting and hitting us for a very long time. Third world nations have used cyber fraud to enrich their citizens and have provided protection (likely for a cut) to these bandits.

China itself has it’s own vulnerability issues, just next door is a country full of first rate programmers that has no love for China.

I think rules are pretty useless since there is no incentive for China or Russia or Nigeria to respect them. The best move is to frankly is to shore up our own defenses and strike back in kind, there are plenty of non government hackers in the US who wouldn’t mind a challenge. When their systems are being hit in the same way. Then you have an incentive to make and enforce good law.

It’s going to be pretty much a cyber cold war.

Looking at the Phil Spector mug shot…

Posted: June 11, 2009 by datechguy in Uncategorized
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…it explains why we wore a piece, but doesn’t explain his choice of hair pieces.

If he used the same judgment on a lawyer that he did on his wigs then I’m surprised he didn’t get 5000 years.

If you want to know why a “Godbag” like me reads the reclusive leftist…

Posted: June 10, 2009 by datechguy in opinion/news
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…it’s because of posts like this

Unfortunately, Letterman is still alive. And people were writing me because of his misogynistic “jokes” about Sarah Palin and her daughter. But unlike my jokes, Letterman’s aren’t funny (and let that serve as notice that the humor portion of this post is now officially over).

The entire post decries Letterman and the rest of the left for it’s silence on this now and last year:

This stuff metastasizes. Behavior begets behavior. As I wrote last year — one of many, many posts:

The haters don’t care about Palin’s political positions. They’re driven by some inchoate impulse to crucify the woman herself. To rape her with words.

She closes with a warning:

That’s how it works. Sexism isn’t selective, and misogyny isn’t something that only applies to certain women. The dudes can’t tell the difference.

Every joke about raping Sarah Palin or her daughter is a joke about raping you.

We are going to disagree about abortion, religion (hence the Godbag bit in the title) Gay marriage and a whole lot of other things, but this woman is an honest voice and I’d trust her opinion over someone who beats their breast over Imus’ Nappy headed ho’s but is silent over the Letterman remarks.

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