India’s leading compensation litigator Ram Jethmalani warned: “There is no data to substantiate the supposition that unattractive and unintelligent men don’t attract women. In fact some of the best looking women have been known to marry and date absolutely ghoulish guys. I’d suggest that the company settles this issue out of court.” – Man sues [...]
It’s not so often that I have an opportunity to dine on the sweet flesh of corvus corvidae (no accident though I remain human and I do sometimes fail to apply that in dubiis non est agendum maxim) – so here goes: the most likely suspect in the recent killing of a Seattle police officer [...]
You’re probably not reading this, if your name happens to be Walter Guinn Cooper … why? Because Mr. Cooper is dead. (Okay, that’s conjecture – but it seems only likely that a guy whose various safe deposit box contents would happen to be found buried in a creekbed in Arkansas wouldn’t be around to enjoy [...]
Today’s lesson of the day: you can probably survive being shot (particularly if you do not go into shock unnecessarily) – but if you can avoid being shot, you should probably try that first. Do this: You’ve Been Shot Other than a cranial vault shot, you can survive most wounds if you get focused, get [...]
Sometimes I wonder whether we’re all living on the same planet. It’s not uncommon that I’ll catch stares which suggest that I just stepped out of a flying saucer while I attempt to engage in conversation with terrestrial life forms – surely I’m not the only one to have trouble relating (and perhaps I take [...]
Actually, if you are reading this, you are not presently a resident fossil in the brand-new Operator Speaking Tar Pit. … but watch yourself – you never know … Tar Pit Operation Record incoming user agent, IP address Compare user agent, IP address to Black List On match, apply ban level (deny, poison) protocol Tar [...]
A veteran Seattle police officer was fatally shot Saturday night as he and a rookie officer sat in their patrol car in the Central District. The officer who was killed was identified as Tim Brenton, 39, a nine-year veteran of the Seattle Police Dept. . . . “This is an assassination and every resource is [...]
[We] live in a world very different from the one we evolved in. Our reflexive defenses might be optimized for the risks endemic to living in small family groups in the East African highlands in 100,000 BC, not 2009 New York City. But we can go beyond fear, and actually think sensibly about security. Far [...]
Jerry Adler reviews Life After Death: The Evidence by Christian apologist Dinesh D’Souza: If your smart-alecky kid, full of all that Galileo stuff they get in school nowadays, should ask just where this Judgment business takes place, D’Souza provides you with a response. It happens in the multiverse, the infinitely multiplying complex of worlds predicted [...]
via Dark Reading Run Windows? No antivirus software? Direct connection to the internet? Let’s add a new time frame for computing disaster to the list above, one that every security pro should know: 20 minutes… that’s how long your average unprotected PC running Windows XP will last once it’s connected to the Internet … before [...]
