August 8, 2001 

What do you do if another computer, infected by the Code Red worm, attacks your machine? You could:

NOTA BENE: Some of these tactics may not be legal where you liveW

 August 6, 2001 

Senate Democrats won't move forward on President Bush's judicial nominees until the American Bar Association provides its analysis of the candidates. Professor James Lindgren, of the Northwestern University School of Law, has a new study that shows the ABA is biased against Republican nominees:

Controlling for credentials, [the] study found that Clinton nominees had more than 10 times better odds of getting the ABA's highest rating than similarly credentialed Bush appointees. In short, being nominated by Bill Clinton was a stronger positive variable than any other credential or than all other credentials put together.
The data suggest that when Bill Clinton took office, the ABA softened its standards, possibly emphasizing credentials such as temperament and philosophy that are harder to measure than experience and educational success. Now the ABA is back to rating Republican nominees--and apparently is also back to its old harsh ways.

It's time to remove the ABA from the judicial nomination process for good. W

The front page, redesignedW

 August 5, 2001 

Beginning in 1905, the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation enticed farmers to settle and cultivate the Klamath basin on the California/Oregon border. For decades, the bureau converted wetlands into arable land, and promised farmers that the federal government would always provide the water they neded to irrigate their crops. Now, the feds have gone back on their word. In April, the bureau cut off the farmer's water supply, claiming that water levels had dropped to a point that any release would threaten two species of fish protected by the Endangered Species Act. For the farmers, and non-protected wildlife in the area, the result has been devastating.

Based on a fatally flawed piece of science that one of the nation's most respected fisheries biologists said was the worst piece of work he's seen in his 26 year career, the biological opinion that spurred the Bureau's action is actually more likely to harm these protected species than it is to help them.

This is typical of the lunacy inspired by the Endangered Species Act. Our current federal policy is to protect every single species, no matter what the cost to other species and to human society, and the Klamath Basin photos show the disatrous effects of such a policy. It's time to chage the Act to restore some balance. W

Recycled LinkEver wondered what it would be like to defend a doctoral thesis? Hal Rager takes us inside his skull: I came, I saw, I defended. Link from 20-20 HindsightW

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