3.5.06

A Dash of Politics, A Smidgen of Computer News

I forgot about the May Day protests. Does the mainstream press even cover it? Then again, it's not like I pay a lot of attention to the press (or, indeed, anything at all).
  • Disillusioned Kid writes about his participation (word of the day: "de-arrest").

  • As does a reader over at Pickled Politics.

  • By comparison, Lenin wimps out with a sore foot, but he does provide some sterling coverage of the protests in America.

  • Reading the last few days of posts at Pickled Politics I also finally find someone expressing what's been bugging me about this whole Charles Clarke thing: what exactly is the problem, beside the fact that they're foreigners? Comment number 8, I think, is also especially worth reading.

  • Sunny also debates the merits of compulsory voting.

  • Sunbelt Blog report on something that should have you slapping your forehead with its I-shoulda-seen-that-coming-ness: image spam that avoids junk mail filters.

  • Speaking of spam, Sunbelt also report here, here, and here about a security company whose innovative product is so good at stopping spam, they are now naturally enough the target of DoS attacks and hoax spam emails.

2 comments:

Disillusioned kid said...

Cheers for the link! De-arresting is indeed a nifty word, although in practice the idea seems to be of limited value.

One of my fiends was the victim of a failed de-arrest in Germany and ended up getting kicked shitless by a bunch of cops...

Pacian said...

Cheers for the link!

Well, I thought your blog could use a boost to its traffic.

And it's nice to see you're still reading despite my brain being Mr Scatty's more scatty twin.