"Wish it, think it, will it, but do it?" is one of the famous quotations from Henrik Ibsen, and it surely applies to the amazingly funny stunt Aussie atheist John Safran did on the Mormons, also known under the far less snappy name Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
Growing up a Jehovah's Witness, a religion which shares with the Mormons the unpleasant practice of annoying people with inconvenient doorcalls early Sunday morning, I think I can relate to this one better that most people. But it's very funny for everyone, maybe even the odd Mormon.
We’re on the road to recovery. Skype is stabilizing, but this process may continue throughout the day. An encouraging number of users can now use Skype once again. We know we’re not out of the woods yet, but we are in better shape now than we were yesterday.
The Skype management denies that malicious attacks had anything to do with the trouble.
It's a great service when it works, though, and normally it does well.
The audits, performed by the Army Web Risk Assessment Cell between January 2006 and January 2007, found at least 1,813 violations of operational security policy on 878 official military websites. In contrast, the 10-man, Manassas, Virginia, unit discovered 28 breaches, at most, on 594 individual blogs during the same period.
That may have something to do with military bloggers and their close comrades being in danger themselves when security is violated.
A small South Carolina parts supplier collected about $20.5 million over six years from the Pentagon for fraudulent shipping costs, including $998,798 for sending two 19-cent washers to a Texas base, U.S. officials said.
The company also billed and was paid $455,009 to ship three machine screws costing $1.31 each to Marines in Habbaniyah, Iraq, and $293,451 to ship an 89-cent split washer to Patrick Air Force Base in Cape Canaveral, Florida, Pentagon records show.
The owners of C&D Distributors in Lexington, South Carolina -- twin sisters -- exploited a flaw in an automated Defense Department purchasing system: bills for shipping to combat areas or U.S. bases that were labeled ``priority'' were usually paid automatically, said Cynthia Stroot, a Pentagon investigator.
Not impressive oversight. I wonder who many others exploited this and the zillion other loopholes, and didn't get so excessively greedy that they could not avoid getting caught.
