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Nothing says Merry Christmas like killing an unborn child...

From Fox News web site

A number of Planned Parenthood clinics in Indiana and Illinois are offering gift certificates for their services this Christmas.

Officials say the vouchers enable people to give their loved ones "the gift of life" — that would help pay for annual checkups and birth control — but also can be used for abortions.

There is nothing that I can add to this...

Thank you to Jdimytai Damour

From Fox News web site:

Damour was asphyxiated last Friday while trying to shield a pregnant shopper from the throngs of bargain hunters pushing their way into the Valley Stream, N.Y., store.

His name may not be one that rolls of the tongue. He was the worker that was killed in the Wal-Mart stampede in New York.  At least I now know that his death was not in vain.  He was trying to protect a pregnant woman from the stampede.  A stampede that did not need to happen in the first place.

Nassau police said Wednesday that the conflict among shoppers who remained in their cars and those who waited in the cold weather fostered a "mob mentality" that led to the death last week of 34-year-old Jdimytai Damour, according to the paper.

So, some stayed in cars and wanted to cut in line in front of those who stayed outdoors.  Who is right, who is wrong?  I do not  know.  I do know that people acted like animals.  It appears that evolution is wrong. We revert it seems, rather than evolve.

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Apple and antivirus

From Network World

 

A support page on Apple's Web site recommending users purchase antivirus software for their Macs received a lot of attention over the past couple of days, but on Tuesday Apple removed the page from its Web site.

The Web page seemed to go against Apple's newest ad campaigns that suggested only the PC needs antivirus software. Even though the page has been removed, Apple did not telling customers to absolutely not protect themselves.

"Since no system can be 100% immune from every threat, running anti-virus software may offer additional protection," said Evans.

Got a co-worker on one job that says that Windows Machines get all the viruses and Macs do not.  Guess he drank to much Apple flavored Kool-Aid.  Facts are facts.  The Apple II was the first machine to ever get a computer virus.

Apple Virus 1, 2 and 3(From Claws and Paws web site)

The earliest case of a virus that succeeded "in the wild" goes back to late 1981, even before the work of Fred Cohen. In fairness, this does not appear to have been noted by many until long after the fact. For the benefit of those who do not delight in flame wars the author will not be identified: those who have followed the history of viri will know whom I refer to as Joe :-).

The idea was sparked by a speculation regarding "evolution" and "natural selection" in pirated copies of games at Texas A&M: the "reproduction" of preferred games and "extinction" of poor ones. This led to considerations of programs which reproduced on their own. (I see no reason to doubt the author's contention that there was no malice involved: this was, after all, the first case that we know of. Indeed, it was Joe's contention that a virus had to be relatively "benign" in order to survive.)

Apple II computer diskettes of that time, when formatted in the normal way, always contained the disk operating system. Joe attempted to find the minimum change that would make a version of the DOS that was viral, and then tried to find an "optimal" viral DOS. A group came up with version 1 of such a virus in early 1982, but quarantined it because of adverse effects. Version 2 seemed to have no negative impact, and was allowed to "spread" through the disks of group members.

Eventually security was relaxed too far and the virus escaped to the general Apple user population. It was only then that the negative impact of the virus was seen: the additional code length caused some programs, and one computer game in particular, to abort. A third version was written which made strenuous efforts to avoid the memory problems: parts of the coding involve bytes which are both data and opcode. Version 3 was subsequently found to have spread into disk populations previously felt to be uninfected, but no adverse reactions were ever reported.

(For those who have Apple DOS 3.3 disks, location B6E8 in memory, towards the end of track 0, sector 0 on disk, should be followed by eighteen zero bytes. If, instead, the text "(GEN xxxxxxx TAMU)" appears, the digits represented by the "x"s should be a generation counter for virus version 3.)

The story has an interesting postscript. In 1984, a malicious virus was found to be spreading through the schools where all this took place. Some disks appeared to have some immunity. These immune disks turned out to all be infected with version 3.

So you see, Windows machines may have more viruses but Apple users were the first ones.  Windows is more popular and will always have more for that reason.  Do not drink the Apple Kool-Aid.  It tastes terrible. 

 

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Ads on tests add up for teacher - USATODAY.com

Tom Farber gives a lot of tests. He's a calculus teacher, after all.

So when administrators at Rancho Bernardo, his suburban San Diego high school, announced the district was cutting spending on supplies by nearly a third, Farber had a problem. At 3 cents a page, his tests would cost more than $500 a year. His copying budget: $316. But he wanted to give students enough practice for the big tests they'll face in the spring, such as the Advanced Placement exam.

"Tough times call for tough actions," he says. So he started selling ads on his test papers: $10 for a quiz, $20 for a chapter test, $30 for a semester final.

Ads on tests add up for teacher - USATODAY.com

I know times are tough, but this just seems a little ridiculous to me. From the comments after the article, it seems the students do not mind.

What is next? Whiteboards with banner ads?

Customers injured in crush suing Wal-Mart - CNN.com

NEW YORK (CNN) -- Two customers are suing Wal-Mart for negligence after being injured in a mad rush for post-Thanksgiving bargains that left one store employee dead, the men's attorney said Tuesday.

A temporary worker at this Wal-Mart was crushed to death when shoppers rushed into the store last week.A temporary worker at this Wal-Mart was crushed to death when shoppers rushed into the store last week.Temporary Wal-Mart worker Jdimytai Damour, 34, was crushed to death as he and other employees attempted to unlock the doors of a store on Long Island at 5 a.m. Friday.

Attorney Kenneth Mollins said Fritz Mesadieu and Jonathan Mesadieu were "literally carried from their position outside the store" and are now "suffering from pain in their neck and their back from being caught in that

Customers injured in crush suing Wal-Mart - CNN.com

Will the madness never end....  Sue your fellow bargin hunters, they are the ones that hurt you.  Or how about suing yourself for being so stupid that you are in a crowd of people that kill a man to get a bargain?

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Top 10 stupid gifts from chickens to toilet golf - Yahoo! News

Top 10 stupid gifts from chickens to toilet golf - Yahoo! News

Do not know what to get that special person on your list.  How about these two items from the top 10 list of stupid gifts.

How about a Barack Obama 'Yes We Can" opener? It was number 7 on the list.  My personal favorite though was:

2. Wealth Redistribution 2008 Holiday Ornament:

This tree ornament announces that the ornament that used to be there has been removed and given to someone who needs it more. The Redistribution Holiday Ornament will let everyone know you're spreading the wealth whether you want to or not.

Gonna be a great Christmas I can tell!

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Was this necessary?

A man is dead now because several someones had to have a great buy on a big screen TV!  Is this the spirit of Christmas?  It is a sad state of affairs that lead to this.  We as a human race need to be ashamed of ourselves.  We have sunk as a people to mass mob mentality.  I read people are trying to blame Wal-Mart for not providing the man training in crowd control.  While that is true, how about people being trained in how to be civil to each other.  This is not Wal-Mart's fault and if we try to put the blame on them it is wrong.  We all need to learn to take control of our own actions.  Any one of those people could have stopped to try and help that man, and all of them should have stopped.  This is crazy.

You know it must be Christmas time

As if the crazy stuff that happened on Black Friday was not enough to tell you it is Christmas, FOX News is telling the story of the cost of the 12 Days of Christmas.  This story comes out every year. 

That's this year's cost, according to the annual "Christmas Price Index" compiled by PNC Wealth Management, which tallies the single partridge in a pear tree to the 12 drummers drumming, purchased repeatedly as the song suggests. The price is up $8,508 or 10.9 percent, from $78,100 last year.

Now for more serious news I guess.....

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