“Here you have”: Evil non-cat-related virus taking over the world

whatA bunch of big companies have had their e-mail systems brought to their knees thanks to a new worm called “Here you have.”
howThe virus pretends to be a PDF encouraging people to click on it. In reality, it’s a big bad piece of malware. Boo. source

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Dear Jess: We’re sorry we didn’t get this up yesterday. We just had a ton of photos to throw up! If it makes you feel better, you’re the first Catstravaganza photo to go up on day two. Sincerely, your (now-likely-to-be-estranged) brother. Somebody at the ShortFormBlog staff is getting fired for this ding on decent family relations.

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In order to justify the encroachment on these rights, defendants faced the burden at trial of showing the don’t ask, don’t tell act was necessary to significantly further the government’s important interests in military readiness and unit cohesion. Defendants failed to meet that burden.
Judge Virginia A. Phillips • In a decision by a California federal judge that does for “Don’t Ask Don’t Tell” what Judge Vaughn Walker did for Prop 8 earlier this summer. The suit was brought by the gay conservative group the Log Cabin Republicans, who are thrilled about the decision. The Family Research Council, however, isn’t so thrilled. “It is hard to believe that a District Court-level judge in California knows more about what impacts military readiness than the service chiefs who are all on record saying the law on homosexuality in the military should not be changed,” said FRC president Tony Perkins. source

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10 Sep 2010 10:52