Here's a few minutes capture from my firewall:
Sat Jul 31 17:30:44 2004 : Blocked access attempt from 81.214.175.250 Sat Jul 31 17:30:40 2004 : Blocked access attempt from 67.68.68.225 Sat Jul 31 17:30:29 2004 : Blocked access attempt from 68.190.93.220 Sat Jul 31 17:30:26 2004 : Blocked access attempt from 65.243.184.240 Sat Jul 31 17:30:24 2004 : Blocked access attempt from 151.213.147.251 Sat Jul 31 17:30:24 2004 : Blocked access attempt from 67.84.209.20 Sat Jul 31 17:30:24 2004 : Blocked access attempt from 81.214.175.250 Sat Jul 31 17:30:22 2004 : Blocked access attempt from 172.169.18.223 Sat Jul 31 17:30:21 2004 : Blocked access attempt from 65.243.184.240 Sat Jul 31 17:30:19 2004 : Blocked access attempt from 67.84.209.20 Sat Jul 31 17:30:18 2004 : Blocked access attempt from 151.213.147.251 Sat Jul 31 17:30:18 2004 : Blocked access attempt from 68.190.93.220 Sat Jul 31 17:30:18 2004 : Blocked access attempt from 65.243.184.240 Sat Jul 31 17:30:18 2004 : Blocked access attempt from 81.214.175.250 Sat Jul 31 17:30:17 2004 : Blocked access attempt from 24.203.9.158 Sat Jul 31 17:30:16 2004 : Blocked access attempt from 67.84.209.20 Sat Jul 31 17:30:16 2004 : Blocked access attempt from 151.213.147.251 Sat Jul 31 17:30:16 2004 : Blocked access attempt from 172.169.18.223 Sat Jul 31 17:30:15 2004 : Blocked access attempt from 67.84.209.20 Sat Jul 31 17:30:15 2004 : Blocked access attempt from 81.214.175.250 Sat Jul 31 17:30:13 2004 : Blocked access attempt from 172.169.18.223 Sat Jul 31 17:30:12 2004 : Blocked access attempt from 68.190.93.220 Sat Jul 31 17:30:12 2004 : Blocked access attempt from 67.84.209.20 Sat Jul 31 17:30:09 2004 : Blocked access attempt from 68.190.93.220 Sat Jul 31 17:30:08 2004 : Blocked access attempt from 81.214.175.250 Sat Jul 31 17:30:07 2004 : Blocked access attempt from 67.71.52.133 Sat Jul 31 17:30:02 2004 : Blocked access attempt from 81.214.175.250 Sat Jul 31 17:30:01 2004 : Blocked access attempt from 67.71.52.133 Sat Jul 31 17:29:59 2004 : Blocked access attempt from 81.214.175.250 Sat Jul 31 17:29:58 2004 : Blocked access attempt from 67.71.52.133 Sat Jul 31 17:29:53 2004 : Blocked access attempt from 68.190.93.220 Sat Jul 31 17:29:50 2004 : Blocked access attempt from 216.96.120.191 Sat Jul 31 17:29:46 2004 : Blocked access attempt from 68.190.93.220 Sat Jul 31 17:29:45 2004 : Blocked access attempt from 84.65.3.26 Sat Jul 31 17:29:44 2004 : Blocked access attempt from 68.190.93.220 Sat Jul 31 17:29:42 2004 : Blocked access attempt from 65.243.184.240 Sat Jul 31 17:29:41 2004 : Blocked access attempt from 65.10.255.118 Sat Jul 31 17:29:36 2004 : Blocked access attempt from 65.243.184.240 Sat Jul 31 17:29:35 2004 : Blocked access attempt from 67.84.209.20 Sat Jul 31 17:29:34 2004 : Blocked access attempt from 65.10.255.118 Sat Jul 31 17:29:33 2004 : Blocked access attempt from 68.190.93.220 Sat Jul 31 17:29:33 2004 : Blocked access attempt from 65.243.184.240 Sat Jul 31 17:29:32 2004 : Blocked access attempt from 65.10.255.118 Sat Jul 31 17:29:29 2004 : Blocked access attempt from 67.84.209.20 Sat Jul 31 17:29:27 2004 : Blocked access attempt from 68.190.93.220 Sat Jul 31 17:29:25 2004 : Blocked access attempt from 151.213.147.251 Sat Jul 31 17:29:24 2004 : Blocked access attempt from 68.190.93.220 Sat Jul 31 17:29:22 2004 : Blocked access attempt from 67.84.209.20 Sat Jul 31 17:29:22 2004 : Blocked access attempt from 172.169.18.223 Sat Jul 31 17:29:18 2004 : Blocked access attempt from 151.213.147.251 Sat Jul 31 17:29:16 2004 : Blocked access attempt from 172.169.18.223 Sat Jul 31 17:29:15 2004 : Blocked access attempt from 151.213.147.251 Sat Jul 31 17:29:13 2004 : Blocked access attempt from 172.169.18.223 Sat Jul 31 17:29:10 2004 : Blocked access attempt from 24.34.91.109 Sat Jul 31 17:29:09 2004 : Blocked access attempt from 81.214.175.250 Sat Jul 31 17:29:08 2004 : Blocked access attempt from 68.190.93.220 Sat Jul 31 17:29:04 2004 : Blocked access attempt from 24.34.91.109 Sat Jul 31 17:29:03 2004 : Blocked access attempt from 81.214.175.250 Sat Jul 31 17:29:02 2004 : Blocked access attempt from 68.190.93.220 Sat Jul 31 17:29:01 2004 : Blocked access attempt from 24.34.91.109 Sat Jul 31 17:29:00 2004 : Blocked access attempt from 81.214.175.250 Sat Jul 31 17:28:59 2004 : Blocked access attempt from 68.190.93.220 Sat Jul 31 17:28:54 2004 : Blocked access attempt from 67.84.209.20 Sat Jul 31 17:28:49 2004 : Blocked access attempt from 65.243.184.240 Sat Jul 31 17:28:48 2004 : Blocked access attempt from 68.190.93.220 Sat Jul 31 17:28:42 2004 : Blocked access attempt from 67.84.209.20 Sat Jul 31 17:28:42 2004 : Blocked access attempt from 68.190.93.220 Sat Jul 31 17:28:40 2004 : Blocked access attempt from 151.213.147.251 Sat Jul 31 17:28:39 2004 : Blocked access attempt from 68.190.93.220 Sat Jul 31 17:28:38 2004 : Blocked access attempt from 24.26.64.129 Sat Jul 31 17:28:38 2004 : Blocked access attempt from 172.169.18.223 Sat Jul 31 17:28:38 2004 : Blocked access attempt from 24.74.149.28 Sat Jul 31 17:28:36 2004 : Blocked access attempt from 67.84.209.20 Sat Jul 31 17:28:34 2004 : Blocked access attempt from 151.213.147.251 Sat Jul 31 17:28:32 2004 : Blocked access attempt from 24.26.64.129 Sat Jul 31 17:28:32 2004 : Blocked access attempt from 172.169.18.223 Sat Jul 31 17:28:32 2004 : Blocked access attempt from 24.74.149.28 Sat Jul 31 17:28:31 2004 : Blocked access attempt from 151.213.147.251
Persistent bastards, aren't they? I don't know if these are active attacks or zombied PCs but I wish it would stop.
I am watching "The Manchurian Candidate". The real one, not the lefty imitation that just came out.
It stands up very well.
After seeing other weblogs' comment threads, I made what I believe to be the wise decision to disallow comments on this site. It's my weblog, I don't need a bunch of lefty loons putting up insults in the comments.
But, I carelessly left comments enabled in the archives, and today I got a huge spew of comment spams. They came from a variety of IP addresses but they all pointed to the same porno site.
I have deleted them, and turned comments off in all the archive posts. But just for fun, and for probably a short time, I am going to leave the comment feature enabled in only the last post. If that results in a spam spew, I will turn comments off again.
Anthony Quinn Francois has been sentenced to death. (See Slam Dunk, cont., below.)
Unfortunately, justice has one more obstacle to get past: the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals, sometimes known as "He's Such a Nice Boy, Let's Let Him Go". The wise TCCA will release anybody for almost anything, so even though the jury stepped up and did the right thing, it's not a done deal unless the prosecutors were extremely careful not to commit any reversible errors during the trial.
Fingers crossed. If anybody deserves the needle, this guy does.
Lance Armstrong has won his 6th consecutive Tour de France. The official "Lard-ass Sportswriter 'Cycling Isn't A Sport' Watch" is now begun. Who will be the first loser to publish the opinion that this is no big deal, because "cyclists aren't real athletes".
It happens every year, so it shouldn't be long. Some beer-soaked clueless sportswriter somewhere will opine that bicycle riding in skin tight suits is for sissies and real athleticism consists of 300-pound millionaire coke addicts trying to beat each other to death in a stadium. As always, the sportswriter will be someone who can barely haul his fat hulk up one flight of stairs, incapable of grasping what an extreme sport ultramarathon cycling is.
From CNN, reporting on the 9-11 commission's findings on Flight 93:
"With the sounds of the passenger counter-attack continuing, the aircraft plowed into an empty field in Shanksville, Pennsylvania, at 580 miles per hour, about 20 minutes' flying time from Washington, D.C."
But it had nothing to do with religion.
In the deep south, where I grew up, it is common to see vultures (we call'em buzzards) circling over some dead creature below, and if you get near to where the prey is, to see them perched in trees waiting for just the right degree of decomposition to set in before they feast.
I was reminded of the circling buzzards today reading the latest about SCO Group at Groklaw. All of McBride's, Sontag's, and Stowell's lies are circling around their heads like big black birds coming home to roost, and wait for the corpse to be just rotten enough to eat.
After all their noise about "millions of lines" of code copied verbatim into Linux, they are now losing case after case and having to retreat from their previous positions. The lawyers in this case must love Darl McBride for all those press releases and public statements about the SCO case, all of which now are exposed as lies, lies, lies. And I am fairly sure that that affects the judges' inclinations when it's time to rule in all those cases. Even though none of Darl's crap has been admitted into evidence, it's out there, and all else being equal, will a judge rule in favor or against a prolific liar?
Man convicted of killing ex-girlfriend's 3 sisters
The juror took 2-1/2 hours to find the 36-year-old man guilty of capital murder in the deaths of Ashley Patterson, Britteny Patterson, and Nikesha Patterson, 15.
Prosecutors are seeking the death penalty.
Next up: penalty phase. Don't blow it now.
UPDATE: He has been convicted of murder in the past, but was a juvenile at the time, so was released after serving time in the juvenile system.
UPDATE: He has been sentenced to death.
Francois told police he shot the girls in a fit of jealous rage after learning that his ex-girlfriend, only 16 years old, was dating a boy closer to her own age. He also wounded his ex-girlfriend and her mother.
A 36 year-old man dates a 16 year -old girl, who breaks up with him and starts dating a 17 year-old boy. For that, he killed her three sisters, and shot her and her mother.
Animal.
The judge in the SCO v Daimler-Chrysler case has ruled: except for the argument over timely response, the suit against Daimler is dismissed.
Bye bye, SCO. Nobody will miss you.
Much fun in Groklaw today. Daimler-Chrysler is responding to SCO's motion to dismiss their motion for summary judgement, saying:
SCO's lawyers trotted out their Director of Software Licensing, William Broderick, for an affadavit swearing "based on my personal knowledge" that he knew the intent of both parties signing the license agreement in 1988. The problem is, Mr. Broderick has only been in that position since 2003. He offers no statements that he was in any way associated with either ATT or Chrysler at the time of the signing, so I guess he's just channeling their spirits.
Naturally, Daimler is asking the court to throw out most of his affadavit since he is swearing to things he has no way of knowing (short of the supernatural, at least).
I am not a lawyer, but I am constantly amazed by the apparent stupidity and incompetence of the presentation of SCO's legal case. It's as if they actually want to lose. Maybe they do, but veeerrrrry slooooowly so the capos can scrape the most money off the bottom of this barge before it sinks.
Oh, notice that "sound and fury" reference? It's from Macbeth
Told by an idiot, indeed.
Here's a slam dunk death penalty case :
Teenager recalls how attacker shot her, her mom, her sisters
If the jury can't give this scumbag death, we may as well give up on jury trials.
Sudan warns US against sanctions
Uh, or what? You're going to cut off your shipments of camel shit?
That's why it's called the third world, guys.
I am trying this Netscape/Mozilla patch for MT out to see if the buttons work.
I didn't know until today that the pristine version of Movable Type couldn't render the shortcut buttons in the edit form.
Looks like the patch works. A patched version of edit_entry.tmpl is available here.
(Back up the original just in case.)
So, okay, I read the Asimov novels when they came out so I know the movie has only the most tenuous of relationships to the books. Making a movie from the original series would be a challenge, since the books were more about the philosopical assumptions of society than hard science fiction.
Still, it looks like a fun movie if you pretend that the Asimov novels never existed.