- thank you in advance
She's won "Lie of the Year," "Worst Celebrity Book of Ever," and at my own blog I thank her for her unending bestowal of blog and photoshop topic security.
She can see Russia from her throne. Click here for larger image.
Thanks, Sarah Palin, for being you.
Open thread below...
A song for many of us to the past year decade:
I'll get over you,
I know I will.
I'll pretend my ship's not sinking...
And I'll tell myself, I'm over you
'Cause I'm the king of wishful thinking.
It's a new year coming, folks. What's on your playlist for New Year's Eve?
The last round of antibiotics totally tore me up - my body doesn't like them. So I'd like to do what I can to avoid taking them again - I got the prescription filled, and if they pain gets ANY worse or the taste in my mouth changes, I will take them without hesitation. But in the meantime, is there anything I can do to help my mouth out a bit? Anything that would act to help the extraction site heal and not get infected again. Thank you!
I just recently installed a new hard drive on my laptop, and put Windows 7 pro on it. Now I'm trying to get everything up and running the way I want it, but I can't play my games. Every time I try to launch the Sims, I get a message saying:
"Failed to find any DirectX 9.0c compatible graphics adapters in this system! Please make sure you have a DirectX 9.0c compatible graphics adapter and have installed the latest drivers provided by the manufacturer. The application will now terminate."
I never had this problem on the old hard drive. I have DirectX 11 on here. My graphics card is an NVIDIA QUADRO,NVS 140M.
Here's the big problem. The only thing in the device manager I can find relating to graphics is a "Standard VGA Graphics Adapter". There is no mention of NVIDIA anywhere on here. And when I try to go to the DirectX Diagnostic tool, it says DirectDraw, Direct3D, and AGP Texture are not available. Of course, it also says "no problems detected".
What can I do here?
How should I adjust the time? Adjusting the temp isn't an option as they're already in... :P
(Frank Costello at the Kefauver Crime Committee Hearings - taking the Fifth to new vistas)
With the Korean War grinding on and the country gearing up for the 1952 elections, the big spectacle of the year on Radio and Television was the Kefauver Crime Committee Hearings on Capitol Hill. Organized crime had become a way of life and gambling was its biggest commodity. With Mafia figures lined up to testify (or refuse to testify as was the case), the country was riveted to each new revelation and intrigued by the parade of exotic names attached to the hearings and being grilled by 1952 Vice-presidential hopeful Estes Kefauver.
The Cold War was also in full bloom, with the trial of accused spies Julius and Ethel Rosenberg and General MacArthur relieved of his command in Korea.
All in all, 1951 was a pretty interesting year and far from a dull one.
But then, most aren't dull in retrospect anyway.
And the same is true with this one.
don't forget . .
I'm just wondering if anyone here knows of shelters where she can stay long term, or any kind of charity/organization that helps with these sorts of things? Maybe even something that helps with paying rent? She gets social security but that isn't enough to cover rent.
Thanks for any help.
to make effort to read Kor'an as much as I could, which failed shamelessly. I only had read a few pages.
I have some resolutions but nothing worth to share here other than... yeah, I'll try to get back to writing.
This tradition is ok, I never think too much about it, I usually end up too busy to survive to even think about any unfulfilled resolutions ^ ^
- Mood:
okay
Also, I'm breastfeeding, and want to take as few pain killers as possible. Any idea on a more natural way to deal with the pain?
Ugh, this is going to suck a lot.
- Mood:
nervous
The staff there - esp Dr Monica - were empathetic (many of them had their own rats), gentle and had equipment there that fit rodents. Most of the staff nearby stopped to give her a scritch on the head (the rat, not the vet) and talked about their own rodents. One tech has a bottle-raised squirrel and a cat that are best friends.
All the animals I saw being treated were handled patiently and kindly and the place looked and smelled immaculately clean. I'd feel comfortable taking any pet there.
Oh, and they have a Dr Melissa Etheridge that works there. Swear to FSM. Check the website.
John Amato:
The Republicans have no shame.
That's a line that cannot be used enough. They politicize everything they can and their actions since Saturday have been almost been traitorous. Instead of being thankful that the bomber failed and then be of service, they are looking for another scalp to take home for the New Year. Cheney should be locked up along with his buddy Scooter Libby for his actions in the White House and now we have Burton chiming in as well. FOX News and conservatives couldn't defend Bush and his merry band of useless idiots enough, but the Democratic party didn't go on TV every day demanding someone be fired.
Why wasn't Condi fired after actually having information in the form of a PDB in her hand about the 9/11 attacks in August before they hit? Instead she was promoted and then the creepy CPAC wingnuts wanted her to run for president. The odious Dick Morris even wrote a book on a Condi-Hillary match up.
The Obama administration should ignore all this garbage.
December 29, 2009 CNN
REP. DAN BURTON (R), INDIANA: Well, first of all, once again, I hear people in the administration and the media trying to make the CIA the scapegoat. This report was made from Nigeria sometime ago and I can't believe since we now have a director of intelligence, that the CIA didn't give that to the director of intelligence. And if that information was disseminated to him, it was his responsibility to make sure that all of the intelligence agencies had that information. And this guy was on the watch list.
And that's one of the reasons why I called for Janet Napolitano's resignation, because as the head of homeland security she should have made sure that anybody that was on that watch list was disseminated around the world so they were watching for them and making sure they were cleared and checked very thoroughly before they got on an airplane. And they did not do that. And I think that's one of the reasons why she should be replaced. I don't think she has the experience to do the job.
CROWLEY: But as I understand it, there are about 500,000 people on the watch list. Is it realistic to think that we would know where they all are at any given time? BURTON: No, it's not realistic to know where all of them are at any one given time. But if you disseminated that information, around the world to the various intelligence agencies, they, through the computers that we have, they can alphabetically go through and check whether someone is getting on the plane. This is not rocket science. And to say, well, there's a half a million of them, we can't check them all is just kicking the ball down the road. We've got to be able to check these people and keep them off of American planes or any planes so that they don't kill hundreds and thousands of people.
CROWLEY: Just to make clear he was not on the no fly list, in fact, and probably even if his name had turned up --
BURTON: That makes no difference to me. The CIA talked to his father. His father went there and told them that he was a risk. They sent that information to Langley. I believe that information did go to the director of intelligence. And that information, because we put that director of intelligence in place, was supposed to disseminate that information all over the place to every intelligence agency.
We did that right after 9/11 because the CIA and the FBI weren't talking to each other and so that's why the director of intelligence was created. This information was sent to CIA and I do not believe Leon Panetta or the CIA would have kept that from the director of intelligence. And if they got it to him I'm confident he would disseminate it to the homeland security and everybody else. And that man being on the watch list should have been checked very thoroughly before he got on there. Not to mention that he didn't have luggage. He bought a one way ticket. And he paid cash. And he came from Nigeria. And he came through -- I mean, come on. This guy should have been checked. He should never have been on that plane.
Open Mobile Video Coalition Mobile TV
Globally, mobile TV buyers are a small population with just 115 million subscribers, according to Screen Digest. Compare that to 4.1 billion mobile phone subscriptions worldwide, and mobile TV is clearly a tough market.
I’m not sure that the new devices (pictured) that will offer free over-the-air television delivery of broadcast channels to be shown off in a few days at CES, or Qualcomm’s attempts to bring its MediaFLO television service to cars will make a dent in the apathy around mobile television. However, today we learned that Microsoft is looking for someone to help it push its Xbox Live content to Windows Mobile phones, and last year AMD showed off a cloud service designed to let folks take their games on the run. Comcast could also broaden its Xfinity service to allow me to bring my TV shows with me when I leave the house.
I wonder if these efforts from cable providers and content owners to deliver users’ content to them through the cloud, regardless of what screen or service they’re using, will drive adoption. Readers, what do you think?
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Reporting from Washington
Eight American civilians were killed today when a lone suicide bomber struck a U.S. base in eastern Afghanistan, U.S. officials said.
The attack, which took place at Forward Operating Base Chapman in Khowst province, also injured an undisclosed number of civilians, the officials said. No military personnel from U.S. or North Atlantic Treaty Organization forces were killed or injured in the attack, they said.
Officials declined further immediate comment today, saying many details of the attack remained unclear and that relatives had not yet been notified. Asked by Reuters news service if the blast occurred inside the base, one official said: "That's my understanding."
Khowst province, which is located on the Pakistani border, has been a prime target of attacks from militants operating in eastern Afghanistan and just across the border in the tribal areas of Pakistan.
The base is part of NATO's Regional Command East, which is supervised by the U.S. military. It also houses Western civilians working on reconstruction projects in the war-torn nation.
The main U.S. base in the province, known as Camp Salerno, has been the target of frequent attacks. Suicide bombers on a number of occasions have blown themselves up just outside its gates while trying to penetrate the heavily fortified installation. Afghan civilians usually bear the brunt of such attacks.
Just last week, Taliban militants armed with rocket-propelled grenades and suicide vests entered a building near a police station in the nearby city of Gardez, setting off a battle with U.S. and Afghan security forces that lasted all morning.
Foreign civilians have been frequent targets of attack in Afghanistan. In October, militants attacked a guesthouse where U.N. workers resided, killing seven people. The following month, insurgents fired a rocket at the Serena, Afghanistan's only five-star hotel, where a number of U.N. workers from the guesthouse had taken shelter. Two people were wounded in the attack.
This year has brought the highest death toll among U.S. military forces of the war in Afghanistan, which began in October 2001. So far, 311 American troops have been killed in 2009, according to the independent website icasualties.org, bring the death toll for U.S. forces during the war to 941.
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Something something rearview mirror blog posts 2009. This is continued from part three.
I told the world what happens when you feed a dog chocolate while he wears a tinfoil hat in the microwave.
My friend Mike (@cwgabriel) and I engaged in the great retweeting madness of 2009, which I totally won.
I went to Comicon and, uh, got excited:
... and that's when I saw that Joss Whedon was sitting in the front row. About ten feet from me.
Let's take a look inside Wil's head, shall we:
Me: OMG OMG OMG
Brain: What?
Me: JOSS WHEDON IS RIGHT THERE! HE CAME TO THE PANEL AND HE'S RIGHT THERE!
Brain: Okay, just be cool.
Me: OKAY I'M BEING COOL.
Brain: No, you're staring.
Me: What?
Brain: You're staring. Stop staring.
Me: Shit. Okay. I'm not staring now. [pause] HOLY CRAP DID YOU SEE THAT JOSS WHEDON IS RIGHT THERE IN THE FRONT ROW?!
Brain: Yes, you mentioned that. Also, you're staring again.
Eventually, I broke out of the loop, which in WhetonIX looks like: (if near.joss=1, do {stare.like.idiot} fi;), and I enjoyed the rest of the panel.
Anne turned 40, and we had a radical bitchin' 80s costume party for her.
I found an old photograph of the four of us from Stand By Me that unlocked a flood of memories:
I forget what day this picture was taken, but it was 1986, right after Stand By Me had been released. There we are, sitting on chairs in the green room, waiting to go be interviewed by (I think) Ron Reagan, Jr. It was my first trip to New York, and I remember how excited I was to go to that huge, almost mythical city, see Times Square, ride the subway, visit the Statue of Liberty, and hang out with Jerry in his home town.
[...]
I've always said that Stand By Me was so successful because Rob cast four young actors who were so much like their characters, but I think it's spooky how the four of us ended up being so much like our characters: River died too young, Corey struggled like crazy to get his personal demons under control, Jerry found success and happiness, and I'm a writer.
...I have had a fucking weird life, man.
My dog Ferris, who Anne rescued from a bus stop in Monrovia where she'd been abandoned when she was just a puppy got cancer, and died. It was absolutely devastating.
I saw Ferris' empty dish last night when I fed Riley, and it unleashed an agonizing wave of sadness so overwhelming, I dropped to the floor in our living room and cried as hard and as long as I ever have in my life.
After she was finished eating, Riley came over to me and sniffed at my face. Through my tears and gasping sobs, I told her it was okay, I just missed Ferris a lot and I was sad.
She rubbed her face against my cheek and trotted into the family room. A moment later, she returned with her soggy tennis ball, which she gently put into my lap. She looked up at me, and then walked into the corner of the family room, where she picked up her rope - her favorite toy, which she brings with her to the front door whenever we come home - and brought it over to me. She set it on the ground next to me, and then laid down and put her head in my lap. I cried for a good long time, but I was comforted by Riley's actions, even if I'm projecting my own feelings onto her. I felt like she could tell I was grieving, so she brought me the things that make her happy, before letting me cry on her until the fur on her neck was soaked with my tears. When I finally stopped, mostly because I was physically and emotionally exhausted, I felt a tiny bit better.
Ferris was just eight years-old, and a huge part of our family. I still miss her every day.
I wrote some fiction, and released it as a limited-edition chapbook at PAX. It was my first foray into anything longer than a blog post, and scared the hell out of me to release. I still haven't decided if I'll publish it at Lulu like I did with Sunken Treasure.
I started a weekly podcast to promote Memories of the Future called, appropriately enough,Memories of the Futurecast. It eventually got so fun and so popular, I gave it its ownwebsite.
When I was at PAX, Jonathan Coulton, Molly Lewis, and Paul and Storm sang a song to me. Just thinking about it now still brings tears to my eyes. It was one of the highlights of the year, if not the entire decade. Know what else I got at PAX? H1N1. Yay.
The third series of the D&D Penny Arcade podcast began. It, uh, didn't end too well for Aeofel.
In memory of Ferris, Anne and I held a fundraiser for the Pasadena Humane Society's Wiggle Waggle Walk. Due to the generosity of WWdN readers, we ended up raising more money than any other individual - almost $14,000. Because so many people contributed to our effort, the humane society asked us to walk a shelter dog. We loved him so much, we adopted him and made him part of our family. His name is Seamus, and he's awesome. Yes, he'll get his own post with pictures and everything, just not right now.
To be continued in part five...
Well, we already knew that torture apologist Andrea Tantaros is a good fit at Fox News, since she is eager to transmit the right-wing talking point du jour -- no matter how scummy or stupid -- with gusto.
She did it again yesterday on The O'Reilly Factor, debating with Alan Colmes over the political fallout from the failed bombing of Flight 253 on Christmas Day. Tantaros trotted out every cheap rhetorical trick in the book -- suggesting that the right-wing attacks on Obama were a matter of "checking the baggage" of the administration and bringing up Van Jones, then comparing Obama to Tiger Woods -- in order to promote the right's favorite new talking point: Obama and the Democrats aren't serious about combating terrorism.
Fortunately, Colmes delivered a righteous smackdown of this kind of cheap smear:
Tantaros: But the point now is that we cannot discount this, we cannot use terms like 'manmade disaster' and go after -- it seems like this administration is more interested in going after Republicans, and going after the previous administration, than going after our real enemies. When you say, 'Don't blame Barack Obama' --
Colmes: That is an outrageous smear, an outrageous smear against an administration that's trying to do the right thing, that cares about this country. The implication that this administration or Democrats don't love America, don't want to protect America, don't want to protect the American people -- that's an outrageous smear against Democrats.
Tantaros: Alan, I don't blame just Barack Obama, like you said, Alan. I blame you, I blame Nancy Pelosi, and I blame the left and the liberals who are trying to weaken our country.
I really do wonder when the Fox talkers are finally going to bring up the issue of how the Bush administration responded in 2001 to a nearly identical attack. My guess is never.
The similarities between failed airplane bombers Richard Reid and Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab are striking. Each Al Qaeda convert was radicalized in London. Reid and Abdulmutallab were each subdued by fellow passengers after their explosive devices failed to detonate. The two men struck just as the President of the United States was starting his vacation for the Christmas holiday. In each case, the President spoke publicly about the incident only days later. And the Nigerian, just like Reid before him, will face criminal charges in an American civilian courtroom.
The only difference? Richard Reid hid a bomb in his shoe, while Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab packed his in his underwear. Oh, and the Democratic President Barack Obama has faced a firestorm of criticism from his political opponents and the media alike while Republican George W. Bush's silence during his extended holiday in 2001 was greeted with yawns.
Bush's Non-Response. While President Obama did not speak to the American people for three days after the Flight 253 incident, George W. Bush did not surface to address the December 22, 2001 attempted shoe bombing until six days after it occurred. Even then, as Huffington Post's Sam Stein recounted, "it was only in passing."
And that hardly caused a ripple. As the Boston Globe noted two days later on December 24, 2001:
White House spokesman Scott Stanzel said that President Bush continued to monitor the situation and receive updates at Camp David. Bush has not issued any statements about the incident.
On Christmas Day 2001, the Houston Chronicle reported:
Hardly a creature was stirring at the White House yesterday as President Bush celebrated the Christmas holiday with tamales and family at Camp David...
Preparing for the big meal, the president hit the gym earlier in the day, where he worked out with family members.
Spokesman Scott Stanzel said he also received his daily intelligence briefings and called nine men and women in the military stationed overseas.
What a difference eight years - and a Democrat in the White House - makes.
On Monday, a Politico headline screamed "GOP Seizes on Terror Issue." That night, CNN's Candy Crowley parroted the Republican talking points regarding President Obama's response:
"And there are people who think that the president is not quite yet comfortable first in the arena, the foreign policy arena, and point out that, in fact, when the president was a candidate, as you remember Russia invaded Georgia and it took a couple days for then candidate Obama to make a statement about it, whereas John McCain was out early and made an issue of the fact that candidate Obama had not come out and talked. So a lot of people thinking he could have used his presidential power for reassurance in the last 24 hours."
(In praising McCain's rush to grandstand that "we are all Georgians," Crowley also managed to ignore an EU report which concluded Georgia played the key role in starting the conflict.)
Yesterday, ABC News proclaimed, "Some Say Obama Did Not React Quickly Enough After Flight 253 Incident."
Of course, the "some" and "a lot of people" cited by ABC and CNN are Republican hatchet men like Pete Hoekstra, Peter King, Jim Demint and Karl Rove. As Rove told Fox News on Monday:
"Look, they woke him up immediately to tell him he won the Nobel Prize but couldn't bother to interrupt his vacation for three hours to tell him a terrorist tried to bring down a plane on Christmas Day. And the President waits 72 hours before we hear from him, and it's over 72 hours from the time of the incident to the time that the President spoke today, and then the President said some things that are simply not true."
Trial in Civilian Court. Ignoring the Bush Justice Department's handling of the Richard Reid prosecution, the Republican water carriers who were there for it called for Flight 253 bomber Abdulmutallab to face a military tribunal instead. They seem to have simply erased Donald Rumsfeld's December 27, 2001 proclamation, "That's a matter that's in the hands of the law enforcement people and not the Department of Defense."
Despite the wealth of information the young Nigerian is already providing American investigators, Fox News reported that "Rep. Peter King of New York said Tuesday it will be more difficult for authorities to get useful information from the suspect if he is given the legal rights afforded to defendants in civilian courts, including the right to a lawyer."
King, the ranking Republican on the House Homeland Security Committee, was joined on Tuesday by former Bush DHS Secretary Tom Ridge. Appearing on the Larry King Show, Ridge declared:
"He's a terrorist, and I don't think he deserves the full range of protections of our criminal justice system embodied in the Constitution of the United States.
I take a look at this individual who has been charged criminally, does that mean he gets his Miranda warnings? Does that mean the only information we're gonna get from him is if he volunteers it?"
Of course, Ridge was there when Richard Reid was tried and convicted. Despite the fact that President Bush signed off on military commissions in November 2001 a month before the failed shoe bombing, the administration used a civilian court to put Reid behind bars for 60 years.
Yemen and the Gitmo Recidivists. Within hours of the Northwest Airlines bombing attempt, the media was helping the GOP in its effort to keep the detention facility at Guantanamo Bay open for business. On Saturday, Politico warned the Obama administration, "Xmas Bomb Bid Complicates Gitmo Plan." Three days later, the AP echoed, "Yemeni Link to Airline Plot Complicates Gitmo Plan." On the 29th, Senators John McCain, Lindsey Graham and Joe Lieberman wrote a letter to President Obama asking that he halt any transfer of six Yemeni detainees being held in Guantanamo Bay.
Their trepidation is well-founded, given the revelations that two Yemeni Al Qaeda figures released from Gitmo by the Bush administration in 2007 may have been key figures in the planning of the Christmas bombing. But as with the thoroughly debunked claims about the "Gitmo 30" and other tales of Al Qaeda recidivism real or imagined, the failures of the Bush-Cheney administration become Barack Obama's fault for Republicans and the press alike.
Just ask Dick Cheney. His ongoing campaign to undermine President Obama is once again front page news, this time courtesy of Politico:
"As I've watched the events of the last few days it is clear once again that President Obama is trying to pretend we are not at war. He seems to think if he has a low key response to an attempt to blow up an airliner and kill hundreds of people, we won't be at war."
According to Dick Cheney's revisionist history, we're only at war if the airline suicide bomber in question is wearing explosives in his underwear.
(This piece also appears at Perrspectives.)
Earlier this month at least one hacker accessed 32 million RockYou users’ e-mails and passwords that had been stored in plain text and vulnerable through aSQL security hole, even after a security firm had warned the social application maker and ad network of the issue. Now one of those users is trying to get the startup to pay the price, filing a proposed class action lawsuit on Dec. 28 in U.S. District Court in Northern California.
RockYou member Alan Claridge accuses the company of failing to properly secure his data, allowing hacker “igigi” to gain access to it, and failing to promptly notify him about it. The lawsuit’s complaints (full text embedded below) include unlawful, unfair and fraudulent business practices, violation of consumer protection legislation, and negligence.
None of this is new information; RockYou has admitted to the security issues publicly. However, a spokesperson told Wired.com’s Threat Level that the company “plans to defend itself vigorously” and that it “takes its users’ privacy seriously.”
The lawsuit asks that RockYou be ordered to protect its users’ data as well as for yet-to-be-determined damages.
RockYou has raised $119 million from Softbank, Sequoia Capital, Partech International, Lightspeed Venture Partners and DCM. This is not the company’s first time in court; it had previously settled a lawsuit brought by its founders’ former employer over a similar project the two had been working on before they left.
Startups, for goodness sakes be careful with your users’ data!
Proposed class action lawsuit against RockYou
Google preserves Weekly World News for future Van Helsings
Google Books has saved for future generations the inimitable Weekly World News, which from 1979 to 2007 entertained the US with front page headlines such as "Aliens Settle In San Francisco", "Redkneck Vampire Attacks Trailer Park" and "Giant Polar Monster Attacks Cruise Ship!".…
- Michael Calderone is keeping tabs on the layoffs and departures at the beleaguered Washington Times. Erik Wemple, too.
- A prisoner attacked two Fauquier County Sheriff's Deputies at the county's courthouse earlier this afternoon, shooting one and stabbing the other. Both deputies are said to be in serious condition, and the prisoner, who was a suspect in a series of bank robberies, has been charged with attempted murder.
- PoP notes that the Pizza Hut on Columbia Road was robbed last night.
- If you're like me, you don't need more free reusable bags -- you already have way too many. Bread for the City reminds D.C. residents that they would be more than pleased to accept donations of reusable shopping bags for their clients who can't afford them.
- Nice year-in-review listicle from DCmud, with the most notable real estate developments of 2009.
- New Columbia Heights says Pho 14 is going to expand, and try to get a liquor license.
- WJLA covers the vigil for fatal hit-and-run victim Angel Marie Bridges.
We missed the city's little ribbon cutting ceremony on Tuesday for the newly reopened Champlain Street underpass beneath the Marie Reed Learning Community Learning Center in Adams Morgan, but a quick stop by the area this afternoon confirms that one-way vehicular traffic is indeed once again flowing down this narrow, historically shady (in both senses of the word) spot.
The Fenty administration moved to get going on reopening the street last summer, in an effort to improve public safety on the street. They had good reason: that dark underpass has been the site of plenty of murders and weird beatings, not to mention a mid-drug bust police-involved shooting in May.
In its release, DDOT lists the changes to the street to include "resurfacing, new sidewalk with new granite curbs, brick gutter, pedestrian crossings, new wheelchairs ramps, new ADA compliance ramp to the Community of Hope Clinic, storm drainage upgrading, new traffic signals and new streetlights, planting trees and accommodation for a bicycle lane." Cycling fans should also note that the bike lane markings include a contraflow lane.
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