Blackmoor Vituperative

So-called “Daylight Saving Time” is a conspiracy to waste hundreds of millions of US man-hours every years, setting and re-setting clocks and missing and re-scheduling appointments.

Who came up with this? Was it the Japanese? They seem to want to put clocks in every piece of electronics they make. The Swiss? They are clockmakers, after all, and they’ve been jealous of the USA for years. Benjamin Franklin is credited with the idea, but I think that’s propaganda. No one as wise as Franklin would conceive of such a ludicrous, wasteful notion. Maybe he suggested it as a joke.

The quantity of sunlight shed upon the earth does not change, regardless of what number the clock says. So-called “Daylight Saving Time” accomplishes nothing positive whatsoever. It’s a ridiculous, archaic drain on our entire society, and it ought to be abolished.

Write the President, your Senators, and your Representatives. We can eliminate this nuisance in our lifetime.

(No, I do not seriously think it was a plot by the Japanese or the Swiss. Get real.)

Domain name squatters are scum, regardless of the domain suffix. They occupy a niche between spammers, virus writers, and head lice. Re-selling domain names for any price should be explicitly forbidden, period. The sooner ICANN makes that a policy, and starts enforcing it, the better off all of us will be. It’s long overdue, in my opinion.

Sun Microsystems has fixed five security bugs in Java that expose computers running Windows, Linux and Solaris to hacker attack.

The flaws are “highly critical,” according to an advisory from Secunia posted Tuesday. Vulnerabilities that get that ranking–one notch below “extremely critical,” the security monitoring company’s most severe rating — typically open the door to a remote intruder and to full compromise of the system.

All the flaws affect the Java Runtime Environment, or JRE, in computers loaded with Microsoft Windows, Linux or Sun’s own Solaris operating system. This is the software many computer owners have on their system to run Java applications. The bugs could allow an intruder to use a Java application to inappropriately read and write files, or to run code on a victim’s computer, Sun said in three separate security advisories released late Monday.

(from TechRepublic, Sun plugs serious holes in Java

Go to the Sun Java web site, download the current Java runtime environment (or the SDK, if you are a programmer), and install it.