Apparently NORML does not consider bush to be a presidential candidate yet as his positions on decriminalization, medical use and the HEA exclusion provision are not listed on this chart.
If this is an important issue to you then take a look at where your candidate stands on these issues. Some of them have positions that would mirror the bush position if it were included.
Via Legal Memo-Random.
Frank Weyer was awarded patent 6,671,714 which again shows the illiteracy (to be nice) of the folks at the US Patent Office.
As noted at geek.com this patent:
… describes what is essentially one of the most basic, most crucial underlying structures of the World Wide Web, namely the domain naming system.
And if not exactly the domain naming system then certainly RFC 1034 (1987) adequately demonstrates prior art (assuming stuff like this should even be allowed a patent).
It appears that this dude simply figured out how to create enough obfuscatory language to deceive the patent droids.
Via Catallarchy.
Elizabeth Lawley found this pretty funny:
Things that you can do to help protect yourself from malicious hyperlinks
The most effective step that you can take to help protect yourself from malicious hyperlinks is not to click them. Rather, type the URL of your intended destination in the address bar yourself. By manually typing the URL in the address bar, you can verify the information that Internet Explorer uses to access the destination Web site. To do so, type the URL in the Address bar, and then press ENTER.
And it is funny. Plus they apparently have forgotten about right click, copy link location, paste which is much easier and much quicker.
As I read through the knowledge base article I wondered, and still wonder, just how many users will ever read this or if they do start reading the article will get far enough to find this nifty JScript command that you can paste (not type) into your address bar (IE or Moz) to compare a sites actual URL to the URL in the address bar:
javascript:alert(“The actual URL is:\t\t” + location.protocol + “//” + location.hostname + “/” + “\nThe address URL is:\t\t” + location.href + “\n” + “\nIf the server names do not match, this may be a spoof.”);
If the URLs don’t match you likely want to leave that site quickly especially if you thought it was your bank.
Perry de Havilland has it about right:
The only thing astonishing about the Hutton report…is that so many people are astonished that a paragon of the establishment like Lord Hutton should take the view that whatever the government�s ministers say should be presumed to be correct whilst that of mere journalists, even those working for the state owned media, should be assumed to be dissembling.
Did anyone seriously think the outcome would be otherwise?
The entire report in HTML format is here. The PDF version did not download properly.
Jaquandor scored on both counts this morning.
First, the funny stuff: business at its best. Some of this stuff is pretty funny if you can get past the “how could they be so stupid” first reaction.
Second, the gross stuff: an exploding whale.