29
Sep

Apathy = Damnation

People still don’t get it. People still has wrong priorities. People still look after their own interests.

Apathy shall bring us all down.

Churchill once said to Chamberlain: “You are given the choice of dishonor or war. You chose dishonor and you will have war.”

Paraphrase: You are given the choice of looking after your interests or damnation. You have chosen to look after your interests and you will be damned.

Tsk tsk.

25
Sep

Light weekend fare

We are in for another week of stress, so let’s have some light entries.

Here is the Wikipedia entry for the Emperor of the United States and Protector of Mexico, (Joshua) Norton the First

My brother gave this to me weeks ago, but it is only now that I get to post it (as I keep on forgetting)

(sing to the tune of Hale’s The Day You Said Goodnight)

Tobey, the flying tutubi,
Sumabit sa elisi,
Nahulog sa may mami.
Mami, kinain ni (fill in, any name as long as it has 3 syllables and rhymes with elisi)
Ginawang sahog si Tobey.

That’s it! Enjoy the rest of the weekend.

24
Sep

Killing the Bill of Rights

After effectively banning street protests, what’s next? Censoring news reports inimical to GMA?

There are 19 rights listed in Article III of the 1987 Constitution. Right number 5, freedom of suffrage, well, just say “Hello, Garci”. The current news, that of calibrated whatever, kills number 13, the right to take part in peaceable assembly. They even violated number 9, the right to be secure in one’s person, house, papers, and effects. Need I mention a case?

Read this. This lists down the 19 rights plus annotations.

23
Sep

FireFox 1.0.7 released due to IDN Vulnerability Exploit

Mozilla has released FireFox 1.0.7 to address the IDN link buffer overflow vulnerability, as an exploit code was published here.

You may download the new version at the FireFox product site. The MozillaZine entry for this release is here. FireFox users are advised to download this new release.

22
Sep

Memo to Norberto

That’s what you get from lying – a high blood pressure and a drop in your blood sugar level. If a lie detector test is strapped to you, it would have sounded like a fire alarm.

It’s a sin to tell a lie.

21
Sep

Phishing emails – A working example

Phishing is an attempt to fool a user to disclose confidential information like user names, account numbers, and passwords. It can be done through several means, like sending an email informing a user that his account will expire. Others do this by spoofing the login page of a certain Web site.

The following examples are phishing emails that dropped in on my mailbox.
Continue reading

13
Sep

Haydee Yorac, 64

Requiescat in Pace

Haydee Yorac
September 12, 2005, Chicago, Illinois, USA

Professor, UP College of Law
Commissioner, Commission on Elections
Chair, National Unification Commission
Chair, Presidential Commission on Good Government
Awardee, Ramon Magsaysay Award for Government Service, 2004

In memoriam

11
Sep

History repeats itself

To sum it up, the Revolution failed because it was badly led; because its leader won his post by reprehensible rather than meritorious acts; because instead of supporting the men most useful to the people, he made them useless out of jealousy. Identifying the aggrandizement of the people with his own, he judged the worth of men not by their ability, character and patriotism but rather by their degree of friendship and kinship with him; and anxious to secure the readiness of his favorites to sacrifice themselves for him, he was tolerant even of their transgressions. Because he thus neglected the people forsook him; and forsaken by the people, he was bound to fall like a waxen idol melting in the heat of adversity. God grant we do not forget such a terrible lesson, learnt at the cost of untold suffering.

– Apolinario Mabini, The Philippine Revolution, Chapter X (translated by Leon Ma. Guerrero)

This was also quoted in La Vida Lawyer’s blog

11
Sep

Firefox Link Buffer Overflow Vulnerability

A bug in the way Firefox handles long links with dashes has been reported. The official MozillaZine article together with the link to a patch is here.

Firefox users should update their browsers.

7
Sep

Why the middle forces will fail

I don’t know if we should credit GMA for this, but she will never be ousted by people power as the middle forces will never muster enough people. By continuing its disdain over the masses, the middle class is going nowhere.

Now is the best time for prejudices to be overcome, else GMA will laugh and finish her term thriumphantly but with a nation divided by prejudice.

Prejudice, you say? Just read all those blogs and see the comments.

Another reason why the middle forces will fail: apathy. The majority of the middle class are apathetic to what’s going on. Just read the comments on the blogs.

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