They are mindlessly repeating something another blogger spotted in his “I’m a conservative investigative journalist” tour of the White House. They were OUTRAGED that books about socialism were on a book case there. Not “Socialism Now!” or something like that, but history books.
Then, later they all found out that these books were put there more than 40 years ago by Jackie Kennedy. ooops.

Is the medium of the graphic novel too prone to emotional manipulation? Perhaps. The book certainly sent my emotions spiraling. Proper history books don’t let you see the eyes of children after seeing their fathers beaten, humiliated and murdered. Maybe they should. The author’s journalistic integrity had him pointing out all the inconsistencies in the memories of participants and providing extensive documentation from both Israeli authorities and UN observers.

1. NoScript by default reloads all tabs affected by a new entry to the whitelist. This can cause people to lose work if, for example, they have partially filled out a form and then opened a new tab to look something up. to stop this, open a new tab, type in about:config in the url. Look up the noscript.autoreload.allTabs setting (or event the noscript.autoreload setting) and set it to false.
2. Hidden in the appearance tab is an option to display full domains. This is helpful because many ad sites have specific urls for specific websites. For example, if you want doubleclick to work on google-ads, “display full domains” allows you to whitelist googleads.g.doubleclick.net instead of allowing the entire doubleclick.net domain.
3. The “opaque” setting (options –> embeddings –> opaque embedded objects) makes embedded objects on pages opaque so that you can’t click on some invisible button by accident
4. Force secure cookies. A poorly configured site might have https but forget to mark cookies as secure. NoScript allows you to force encryption of cookies for https sites. This is off by default because it is relatively new and because some sites break if they can’t have insecure https cookies.
5. A good idea is to export your NoScript whitelist that you have built up over time so that moving to a new computer does not force you to build it again. An even better idea is to use no-script’s bookmark feature to publish your whitelist to a bookmarking system. Each instance of NoScript you use keeps track of the changes to this bookmark and updates its own whitelist accordingly.
6. Google chrome’s evolving extension framework does not yet allow for enough control to let NoScript work
7. NoScript blocks lots of stuff that are not script related. As an example, it blocks html ping elements by default.
8. Finally, some neat NoScript-specific inventions that help make you more secure:
   • ABE: Application Boundary Enforcer (ABE). Among other things, ABE prevents sites from POSTing to cross-domain resources. It strips the contents out of cross domain POST requests and turns them into GET requests.
   • ABE: If you have a specific site that needs access to LAN resources, you can publish your own ABE ruleset as a file in the root of your domain.
   • NoScript also has an invention called clear-click, which protects against click-jacking by comparing the thing you clicked with a screenshot of the page you are on. If the pictures are different, it won’t allow the click to work.

Update: Noscript also improves battery life!
Save Laptop battery with noscript

Here is the MPR story, where you can find out the name of the contractor who is now suing everyone over the issue.
I’ll just refer to them as “Sookout Lervices”.

I appreciate that MPR found this out, but Sookout Lervices doesn’t, as they seem to be building a criminal case against MPR.

After this incompetence was discovered, Minnesota agencies were instructed not to work with them. So, Sookout Lervices is suing our state as well.

Seems like a scary company to work for. It has lawsuits open against several former employees, including one of their own developers. That is, a customer complained and Sookout Lervices hired an outside party to look at their own developer’s code and then sued the developer for fraud. This tells me they have too little hands-on involvement with their own projects. That is, get a contract, throw a developer at it, and collect the money without investing in:

1. Senior level developers
2. “Hands-on” Project Managers
3. Code reviews
4. training
5. Testing

An interesting question is if the MPR reporter who found the breach can get punished. From what I understand, she didn’t just follow a link and find the data in the open, she messed with request parameters in the URL to get to unprotected data. So, what is the line between changing the URL to navigate around a site, which I do on a regular basis, and committing a crime?
There must be a precedent for this. What I need is a big “computer crimes” chart of actual cases where the technical details of the incident, the charges brought, the evidence offered, and the sentence are laid out.

When I got home on Friday, there was a rug doctor sitting in my living room. The eager-beaver handyman with Popeye forearms featured in the ads was nowhere to be seen. We moved all the furniture in the living room and set the kids to work vacuuming and cleaning the filthy molding. I gave Mo a soapy cloth to wash the woodwork, and she did a fantastic job up to about 3 1/2 feet.

Then we shampooed the rug, pausing every other row to empty the dirty water. Dumping this water was the most satisfying activity ever. The water was black and it felt like I was exorcising all the bad spirits from my house.

Now I can lay face down on the carpet to do the cobra pose and not have a sneezing fit.

They are getting all up in Best-Buy’s shit at standforchristmas.com.

Employees always have been polite, friendly, and helpful. Too bad the corporate decision to ignore our Christian heritage & holidays,instead demonstrate their willingness to recognize a Muslim holiday tells me where Best Buys loyalities lie. I will find an independent Christian business to purchase my new home theater system.

I think I’m gonna get on there and complain about the cleavage on the virgin mary statue that I saw at JC Pennys.

1. Work like hell,
2. Share all you know,
3. Abide by your handshake,
4. Have fun