Applied Indifference

Ok, so I was talking shit about the FBI, and I got called on it.  I haven’t exactly made a habit of following FBI investigative techniques.  Last I knew (circa 1995) was that they were still a bunch of techno-neophytes,  buffoons, and imbeciles.  I was politely instructed to brush up on my case law.  It has always been my opinion that one is safest assuming that any federal agency will only change for the worse over time, so I assumed that they would have continued their ways of disinterest and/or inability in the investigations of computer crime.

Well, it appears that I was quite wrong.  Not only are they interested, they move pretty quickly now.  Things have come along way since the Mitnick era.  It appears that one of the RIAA’s shills was using a company by the name of Revision 3’s BitTorrent tracker for their own purposes.  And when R3 noticed it and blocked them out, MediaDefender’s (the aforementioned shill) servers had a hissy fit and took R3 down with a DoS.

The FBI is already investigating potential violations of a great many criminal statutes.

I’ll have my crow well-done, if you please.

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There’s no love lost between me and McCain.  I don’t like the man.  I don’t trust him.  But I don’t hate him.

But there’s something to be said about a man that generates so much rabid hatred.  The idiots on the moral-minority right hate him because he won’t genuflect before them and kiss the ring.  The leftists hate him because they are still running against Bush, and McCain is (in their view) just like him.

You already know how I feel about the moral-minority types.  Keep your laws off my pecker.  And keep your paws off my XBox.

But watching the seething moonbats react is just delicious.  Just a few short years ago, the leftoids LOVED McCain because of his penchant for poking conservatives in the eye.  In fact, that’s precisely the tendency that bothers me the most about him - he’s entirely too willing to go along with the left for the purpose of transcending partisanship.  But now, these same moonbats are threatening to leave the country if Obama isn’t coronated.

I hope this isn’t an empty promise like we’ve heard so many times before.

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Dog has figured out how to undo her cable.  Which means I need a new one.

At any rate, I’m keeping an eye on her to make sure she doesn’t graze.  Satisfied that she’s not chowing on the flora, I go wash some bottles.  I go back to check on her, and she’s at the back fence.  Luckily, I caught her before she went exploring the neighborhood again.

This dog is trying to drive me insane.

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I set up a gallery to post pictures from the cell phone. I’m still working out some details, but for now it works pretty well.

Look here to see what I see.

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Upgraded to 2.5.1.  Why can’t everything be this painless?

We’ll see if it breaks anything.  But the interface is certainly slicker.

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