Slashdot | Fake E-Mail Results in Angry Apple Shareholders

Follow the money and find the largest short seller in the aftermoon. That person is in on the email.

Slashdot | Fake E-Mail Results in Angry Apple Shareholders "Apple stock dropped 2.2% today in mid-afternoon trading as Engadget published news based on a faked e-mail inside Apple. ‘Apparently an internal memo was sent to several Apple employees–and forwarded to Engadget–around 9am CT today saying that Apple issued a press release with the news that the iPhone was now scheduled for October, and Leopard was delayed until January. About an hour and a half after that e-mail went out, a second e-mail was sent–this time officially from Apple–saying the first e-mail was a fake, and that the delivery schedule for the iPhone and Leopard had not changed.’"

BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | US seeks G8 climate text changes

The title should read: crackpot conservatives still has head in the sand while bent over for the energy sector….
BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | US seeks G8 climate text changes The US is trying to block sections of a draft agreement on climate change prepared for next month’s G8 summit. Washington objects to the draft’s targets to keep the global temperature rise below 2C this century and halve greenhouse gas emissions by 2050. The draft, prepared by the German G8 Presidency, says action is imperative.

Pope summons Latin American bishops to stem church's decline – USATODAY.com

popePope summons Latin American bishops to stem church’s decline – USATODAY.com APARECIDA, Brazil (AP) — Pope Benedict XVI summoned his bishops from across Latin America to Brazil’s most holy landmark Sunday to direct them in the battle to keep Catholicism the dominant religious force in the region. While Brazil is the church’s biggest stronghold on the planet, millions of Roman Catholics have joined evangelical Protestant churches in recent years, and the church’s moral code is challenged across Latin America by traditionally Catholic populations flouting its prohibitions on abortion, divorce and premarital sex.

With your outdated views and waywardness, what do you expect? Your grip on governing humanity is coming to a close. One doesn’t have to follow your doctrine to believe in God or to follow Christ’s teachings. In fact, you’re in the way of people following Christ’s teachings. The middle-man is no longer needed. And never was.

National Security and Homeland Security Presidential Directive

The new Presidential directive on National SEcurity and Homeland Security. Here is just a snipit, but there is now way in hell the president could have actually read and understood this prior to signing this directive. Absolutely no way. VP Cheney aka The Penguin probably just said, "Waaak, Waaak, just sign it…Waaak"

You read through this thing and you’ll have the same response…"Huh….what ????"

National Security and Homeland Security Presidential Directive (1) This directive establishes a comprehensive national policy on the continuity of Federal Government structures and operations and a single National Continuity Coordinator responsible for coordinating the development and implementation of Federal continuity policies. This policy establishes "National Essential Functions," prescribes continuity requirements for all executive departments and agencies, and provides guidance for State, local, territorial, and tribal governments, and private sector organizations in order to ensure a comprehensive and integrated national continuity program that will enhance the credibility of our national security posture and enable a more rapid and effective response to and recovery from a national emergency. Definitions (2) In this directive: (a) "Category" refers to the categories of executive departments and agencies listed in Annex A to this directive; (b) "Catastrophic Emergency" means any incident, regardless of location, that results in extraordinary levels of mass casualties, damage, or disruption severely affecting the U.S. population, infrastructure, environment, economy, or government functions; (c) "Continuity of Government," or "COG," means a coordinated effort within the Federal Government’s executive branch to ensure that National Essential Functions continue to be performed during a Catastrophic Emergency; (d) "Continuity of Operations," or "COOP," means an effort within individual executive departments and agencies to ensure that Primary Mission-Essential Functions continue to be performed during a wide range of emergencies, including localized acts of nature, accidents, and technological or attack-related emergencies; (e) "Enduring Constitutional Government," or "ECG," means a cooperative effort among the executive, legislative, and judicial branches of the Federal Government, coordinated by the President, as a matter of comity with respect to the legislative and judicial branches and with proper respect for the constitutional separation of powers among the branches, to preserve the constitutional framework under which the Nation is governed and the capability of all three branches of government to execute constitutional responsibilities and provide for orderly succession, appropriate transition of leadership, and interoperability and support of the National Essential Functions during a catastrophic emergency;

Outrage Continues Over Vista Upgrade Program – Yahoo News

Outrage Continues Over Vista Upgrade Program – Yahoo News Julie Marto of Medfield, Massachusetts, purchased a Dell Inspiron notebook running Windows XP last October. Through a program called Express Upgrade, she was promised a free copy of Windows Vista when the operating system became commercially available. Its been five months since Vista went on sale January 30. Marto is still waiting and steaming mad.  "Ive done everything I can to get my Vista upgrade including e-mailing a request to Michael Dell himself," Marto says. She says she never received a reply from Michael Dell. Marto isnt alone. Since PC Worldoriginally reported problems back in March with the Vista upgrade program, people have continued to send us e-mail and post complaints to our community forums citing paperwork nightmares, Vista upgrade disc no-shows, and long hold times when trying to contact vendors or third-party companies handling the upgrades.

On another note, I had absolutely no problems getting my MacBook Pro. It just worked ….

Senate gets on its knees to pay their debts to the Big Pharma Pimps….

So essentially, the senate has said if you’re elderly and poor where you have to choose between medicine to live, or food to live, screw you. You should have contributed to my campain fund. This is really, really sad. Well, time to invest in companies that build prisons, they’ll start filling up with old people.

Senate Vote Blocks Imported Drugs | World Latest | Guardian Unlimited In a triumph for the pharmaceutical industry, the Senate on Monday killed a drive to allow consumers to buy prescription drugs from abroad at a significant savings over domestic prices. On a 49-40 vote, the Senate required the administration to certify the safety and effectiveness of imported drugs before they can be imported, a requirement that officials have said they cannot meet. “Well, once again the big drug companies have proved that they are the most powerful and best financed lobby in Washington,” said Sen. David Vitter, a Louisiana Republican.

BBC NEWS | Entertainment | Wall Street sequel to be made

GordonGekkoI truly hope the sequel lives up to the first movie. It was a great movie focusing on the execsses on perils of ’80s corporate america. This movie should have no shortage of material to pull from, and it would seem more of a mocumentary than a movie with all that has happened in the corporate world over the last decade.

Gordon Gekko’s words of wisdom:

TSA computer hard drive missing; data of 100,000 federal employees missing – USATODAY.com

And why is it not law, that all federal agencies and companies that keep personal, financial and medical information on computers not be encrypted? This is getting a bit absurd now. It’s not that there is a high cost for doing it. Since the most widely used OS is Windows, and it has encryption built in, isn’t it just a matter of configuring and enabling? Have government admins heard of GPO? Oh, htey probably don’t even use passwords.

On another note, TSA folks are outraged…..like the same rage people have when dealing with the absurdity and different rules from airport to airport with the TSA?

TSA computer hard drive missing; data of 100,000 federal employees missing – USATODAY.com Personal and financial records of 100,000 Transportation Security Administration employees were lost after a computer hard drive was reported missing from the agencys headquarters in Arlington, Va. The TSA said it does not know if the external hard drive was stolen or lost inside the agency. The portable drive contains the bank account numbers, Social Security numbers, names and birth dates of people who worked at the TSA between January 2002 and August 2005, the TSA said in a statement on its website. The TSA said it learned that the hard drive was missing Thursday, and told employees in an email sent Friday at around 6:45 p.m. Don Thomas, a TSA screener in Orlando, was enraged that he did not find out sooner. "Its totally unacceptable. Who are they to hold this information back from people?" Thomas said Friday night as he was contacting his banks to tell them to block withdrawals from his accounts. "All it takes is 30 seconds to wipe you out. They [TSA officials] dont care about their screeners."

Microsoft and Yahoo merger: aim to create the world's most disfunctional portal

They’re at it again. After removing and shuffling some executives who obviously didn’t agree with the idea, they’re talking again. What would this mean for Google? A single competitor to aim at and squash. As Microhoo or Yasoft would obviously not get it. They would just have a portal full of crap and spam, that doesn’t really deliver anything for people that truly use the Internet for productivity. The Yasoft site would just be another fluff site…

Microsoft, Yahoo in tie-up talks: report – Breaking – Technology – smh.com.au US software giant Microsoft and web portal Yahoo have revived talks to explore a merger or alliance, a newspaper reported Friday. Citing people familiar with the situation, The Wall Street Journal said that executives at Microsoft Corp. and Yahoo Inc. appeared to be in early-stage discussions to take "a fresh look at a merger of the two companies or some kind of match-up that would pair their companies’ respective strengths." A year ago, the two companies had explored the idea of combining to form a greater competitor to search-engine giant Google Inc., but the talks "led nowhere," the paper recalled.