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Put ’em together for Hitman Pro 3.5

Posted on November 19, 2010 | Comments Off on Put ’em together for Hitman Pro 3.5

Cheesy name, yes, but I’m going to subscribe when my free trial ends. Because, using the cloud to minimize its load on my hard drive, it did what Spy sweeper, McAfee, and Malwarebytes could not: found and eliminated the rogue rootkit that was diverting all my Google search links to spurious advertising and scam sites.

Which proves, once again, what my angry upset over the Google Redirect “virus” was obscuring: that for every crooked programmer these Innertubes have spawned, there’s at least a dozen enterprising, entrepreneurial good-guy programmers with a cheap and easy solution. Like Hitman Pro.

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The good life on the federal teat

Posted on November 18, 2010 | Comments Off on The good life on the federal teat

We already knew that the nation’s largest employer (by far) was the executive branch of the federal government. (Why do you think taxes are so high?) What we’re finding out is these folks are among the highest paid as well: “Only three counties in the United States have a median household income over $100,000, and they’re all Washington suburbs.”

Via Instapundit.

Not to forget our career blowhard pols whose wealth has increased 16 percent during the recession. It’s not a recession for Congress, obviously: 261 of them are millionaires. Think Charlie Rangel is the only crook? Think again.

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Have the terrorists won? You betcha

Posted on November 16, 2010 | Comments Off on Have the terrorists won? You betcha

One of several succinct commenters on this Reuters news article:

“The rag-heads won, didn’t they? We now have f-ing idiot security people in place who don’t think, invasion of our privacy, a huge organization that has not prevented a damn thing since they were created but have collected cuticle scissors, manicure sets and lots of bottled water and cola. Support no travel day. If successful then it should be upped to once a week. Defund TSA and put the money into research and profiling. Just because we are human doesn’t mean we can’t be smart.”

Ah, but the government doesn’t want us to be smart. Much easier to govern idiots. The connected just show their pass. The unwashed get the pat-down prostate exam.

UPDATE:  Iowahawk’s Ballad of TSA, Comply With Me:

“Comply with me, you domestic coach class bums
If you opt out I’ll just give a shout
To my icy-handed chums
Comply with me, bend over here it comes….

“Don’t crack wise or I’ll ruin your whole day
Please don’t frown when I pat you down
It alerts the CIA
It’s perfectly legal practice except at Gitmo Bay
Comply with me, comply comply
Comply with me, obey, obey, obey!”

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The Sultana

Posted on November 14, 2010 | Comments Off on The Sultana

sultanaDeath ship leaving port overloaded with 2,400 former Union prisoners -of-war and other Union soldiers leaving the army behind and heading home. Until the riverboat’s boiler exploded and she burned to the waterline killing up to seventy-five percent of them in the greatest maritime disaster in U.S. history.

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Cowboys 26, Longhorns 3

Posted on November 13, 2010 | Comments Off on Cowboys 26, Longhorns 3

That’s at the half, and it’s been similarly spread between Oklahoma State and Texas in years past and the Horns came back to win, comfortably or close. Course those were years when they had accurate long passing and reliable receiving.

Not much of either this year. And too many running plays called on 3rd and long. What for? So the score will probably just get worse before its over. Would be nice to see McCoy II take over at least a few series for Gilbert Grape. How much worse could the Freshman do? The Grape is, to put it kindly, erratic.

UPDATE:  Final score: Cowboys 33, Longhorns 16. Just about what the daily’s Kirk Bohls predicted. Alas no Case McCoy, either. The Grape got to lose it all by his lonesome. Nice to see the Ags beat Baylor 42-30 and TCU is still winning.

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National Opt-Out Day

Posted on November 13, 2010 | Comments Off on National Opt-Out Day

Good thing I’m not flying on Nov. 24, so I don’t have to test this idea. But some people are finally starting to protest the intrusive federal airport security, to include pat-downs of breasts and genitals and scanners showing the body under the clothes.

Cobb sees a perfect opportunity for Obamalot to raise its polling by cutting back on this crap. Not that they would, of course. That would be far too much hope-n-change. Thus opt-out day. Of course if you do “opt out,” you will get the pat-down from the federal stooges. Figures. Screwed either way.

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Bitten by the redirect bug

Posted on November 12, 2010 | Comments Off on Bitten by the redirect bug

Spam must really pay, or else it just appeals to people criminals whose egos must be continually jollied  by annoying harming others. See the search engine redirect virus/malware/whathaveyou:

Instead of getting the page you’re interested in, Google or some other search engine sends your click off to a paid advertising link of little use—except, presumably, to the spammer’s bank (or at least ego) account.

What’s worse is that the browser back button then doesn’t work. You can’t easily return to the search results. Sigh. One more roadkill accident to clean up on the old data superhighway.

Try doing what I do: clicking cache for the search link you want. Then click the site’s link at the top of the cache page. Works for Firefox 3.6.12, so far, anyhow. (You can also unclick enable on the Javascript, but you have to remember to turn it back on.)

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