So I just made the switch from one large corporate email system to another. It’s confusing! Why should it be so? I’m stupid, yes, but I’ve switched before…it wasn’t this hard the last time. Or, I’m getting older and more stupid. Both likely. Anyway- when incomprehensible features become as common as demons at an all-virgin naked night swim, there is a problem. There is such as thing as “too much innovation, too fast.” If you don’t see me for a while, it’s because I’m trying* to master “the impossible.”  Read more 

You know, it just occured to me. Just how arrogant is the Little Chimprince, anyway?  Read more 

It’ll be all over the interwebs today, but I just want to make a simple statement: it is beyond insulting that the White House would claim they “can’t find” some of the emails that Congress wants to see. That is ridiculous. First off, emails are forever- you can do your own homework if you don’t know this, but emails and the nature of the net combine to form a, ahem, paper trail that just isn’t that hard for computer experts to follow. Secondly, hello, NSA, CIA, DoD and FBI domestic spying, anyone? They probably have a copy of every email every progressive activist has ever sent stored in triplicate on government servers, and they want us to believe they can’t find their own? Give me a break.  Read more 

You realize that little ol’ Correntewire.com—us frontpagers, you readers, all of us together—have over the last week or so been the recipients of a full-scale Rovian Red-Cape operation? Which is still going on thanks to links from the exceedingly fatuous Michelle Malkin and other sites? You have a ringside seat at a little teensy bit of prime political theater. Garcon, more popcorn please. And fill everyone’s glass, and keep ’em coming. Dissection is thirsty work.  Read more 

Now, I know not everyone doing this is doing so for “good” reasons. But the radical in me just loooooves to hear this kind of news:

“This is not just companies being paranoid about blogging, because they don’t understand it,” says Proofpoint’s Crosley. “This is a real enterprise issue, and there are real risks and impacts to the companies. One of ten publicly traded companies surveyed say they investigated the exposure of financial information that was directly relevant to the corporation in the past year. Obviously such exposure can negatively impact the price of a company’s stock, and it could lead to insider trading issues as well.”  Read more 

It’s pretty well out in the open now. The United States Government wants to know every single bit of information that goes in and out of your computer when it’s connected to the Internet. Is that clear enough? Do you want that to happen? Can you be persuaded or browbeaten into believing that if they JUST use this information for some “good reason” like stopping kiddie porn, or preventing terrorism, that (a) well then that’s okay; that good cause is so important it’s worth giving up a little of my privacy for, and besides, I don’t do kiddie porn or terrorism so what do I have to worry about? or that (b) they will in fact only use this information for that purpose?

If you persuade yourself to believe either of the above, you’re an idiot. Go away, we do not want you as a reader. You are the enemy, you are one of Them. Fuck off, eat shit and die.  Read more