One line cracks me up

Security experts claim first successful iPhone hack – Times Online
… or if they connected to the internet via a rogue wi-fi access point controlled by hackers.

Again – links in email are notorious pain points in computer security.  But just how and why a hacker would set up a rogue wi-fi hotspot is beyond me. While it may be useful for some purposes, sitting around waiting for iPhone users is a bit, um, unlikely. If we were to talk probabilities here, the chance of that happening is extremely remote. But essentially it will all come down to a level of trust. If an iPhone user has options in terms who to connect to over wi-fi, then the logical choice would be with a known provider.

Jude Law pleads for end to gun law in Afghanistan | Lifestyle | Reuters

I love headlines sometimes. Especially when the topic of the headline isn’t discussed. So I ask: What gun law?

Tim Dickinson of the Rolling Stone blog has a quick blurb on Ron Paul – the highlight being:

    And then…I remember Hurricane Katrina, the darkest metastasis of the ideology those like Ron Paul and Barry Goldwater before him have given such an eloquent voice. New Orleans is where the sink-or-swim doctrine of hyper individualism and personal responsibility allowed many of our most vulnerable to sink — all too literally — beneath the storm surge.

Unfortunately Dickinson has a bit of a misguided view of Goldwater and Paul’s views on individualism. In the face of catastrophe, people will leave. That isn’t individualism – that is reality. Dickinson also does a grandiose disservice to those individuals who did stay to help others. No, it wasn’t the failure of individualism – it was the failure of collectivism at its finest.

“Phila. schools seem $20 million short” – It would also seem that I should make more money, but I don’t.