Bush Countdown Clock

Ok, so there’s a bunch out there already, but they don’t give you the code, they want you to point your browser to their code. I don’t want to do that. So here’s my own counter that you can freely use and modify. Please keep the link back to this site though (or at least credit me somewhere nearby). Enjoy 😀
Since Congress is too gutless to Impeach the Bush, here’s how much longer we have to suffer under his rule.
Target:
Now:

And here’s the code to run it:
<script>
then = new Date();
then.setFullYear(2009)
then.setMonth(1);
then.setDate(20);
then.setHours(12);
then.setMinutes(0);
then.setSeconds(0);


function printDate(aDate)
{
	toReturn  = aDate.toLocaleString();
	return toReturn;
}

function countIt()
{
	now = new Date();
	
	document.getElementById("then").innerHTML = printDate(then);
	document.getElementById("now").innerHTML = printDate(now);
	document.getElementById("counter").innerHTML = Math.round(((then-now)/1000))+" seconds and counting...";
}

</script>


<div style='width:350px; border:2px solid black; background:white; padding:10px; font-align:justify;' >
Since Congress is too gutless to Impeach the Bush, here's how much longer we have to suffer under his rule.
<hr/>
<div style='font-family:arial; font-size:12pt'>

<table>
<tr><td>Target:</td><td id=then align=center></td></tr>
<tr><td>Now:</td><td id=now align=center></td></tr>

</table>
</div>
<hr/>
<div id=counter style="width:100%; text-align:center"></div>
<div style='font-size:8pt;width:100%; text-align:center'>

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</div>

<script>
setInterval("countIt();",1000);
</script>

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Bush Tries to Use “State Secrets” to Block SWIFT Suit

And in other news, the sky is blue and the sun is expected to rise tomorrow. Seriously, is this a surprise to anyone? Of course Bush is going to try to keep details of this out of court. He can't risk people starting to back off of supporting his mania by abandoning them to the rule of law. (H/T to privacyorg for the link) Tags:

Monster and USAJOBs Hacked

Ars Technica reports that the database for the Internet job search site, Monster.com has been hacked. Though they say that only resumes were stolen (so no SSNs), it's still a problem because the data on people's resumes can be used for spear-phishing. Something they forgot to mention is something I learned though other sources. USAJOBs, the site used by the government to post jobs and such, is run with Monster technology. Therefore, the hack affects both sites. Be especially aware of phishing attempts in the near future should you use either of these sites. Tags:

$70 Million Porn Filter Hacked in 30 Minutes

Bruce Schneier caught this story of an Austrailian kid who broke a $70 Million government supplied porn filter in under half an hour. The software was being given away free to schools, libraries and families. Schneier says it best:
Remember that the issue isn't that one smart kid can circumvent the censorship software, it's that one smart kid -- maybe this one, maybe another one -- can write a piece of shareware that allows everyone to circumvent the censorship software. It's the same with DRM; technical measures just aren't going to work.
Duh. Whoever sells DRM to big companies is a criminal. A very wealthy criminal.

Microsoft to Release Vista Service Pack 1 and XP Service Pack 3 Soon.

Microsoft is announcing new service packs for both operating systems soon, but urges people not to wait and to "upgrade" to Vista now. Yeah right. Unless Vista SP1 addresses the DRM and spyware issues, I will continue to avoid it and recommend that other people do the same. As for XP service pack 3, I'll be watching to see if they try to add some of the bad "features" of Vista or some other thing that makes XP less attractive. In other words, beware any attempts to break XP in order to force people forward. Tags:

Walmart Launches Online Music Store with No DRM

To compete with the current market leading in online digital music downloads (Apple), Walmart will be offering music for less money and with NO DRM. That means you can copy the song to any device you want, as many times as you want with no tricky, annoying software blocking you. Finally, someone gets it.

Smoking Permenantly Damages Your Genes

I suppose it shouldn’t surprise me, but it did. Smoking damages your genes and some of the damage is irreversible. The article doesn’t say, but I wonder if that means you can pass the defects on to your kids or if that kind of stuff gets filtered out. Someone with more biology experience than me can clear that up.

Technology Captures Fleeting Expressions To Manipulate You

It’s well known that body language is very difficult to control and often gives away your true thoughts and feelings for those capable of looking for the signs. Now a German company is trying to make software that understands those slight signals in order to produce superior quality manipulative ads.

Absurdity? China Regulates Reincarnation

The new Chinese law specifies the rules and regulations for reincarnation including the need to seek government permission. What sounds insane at first turns out to have a legitimate reason… if you're a country like China.
But beyond the irony lies China's true motive: to cut off the influence of the Dalai Lama, Tibet's exiled spiritual and political leader, and to quell the region's Buddhist religious establishment more than 50 years after China invaded the small Himalayan country. By barring any Buddhist monk living outside China from seeking reincarnation, the law effectively gives Chinese authorities the power to choose the next Dalai Lama, whose soul, by tradition, is reborn as a new human to continue the work of relieving suffering.

Odd Comment Spam: “Thank You”

Leaving comments that are short and irrelevant to the conversation is a spammer trick for getting bloggers to approve their comment (which usually has a link attached to a site they want to drive traffic to). However, I got three such comments with no links so I wasn’t sure if they were spam or not at first. However, I solved that pretty fast. Do a simple google search for “Dakota Bolkestein” and you’ll see that everywhere there is a commenter with this name, the comment is the same; “Thank you”. Yesterday, I got two more ambiguous comments so I looked them up too: It’s clear that these are not comments by real people, but I wonder what the point is if there’s no link associated with them. Either way, I’ve now deleted those comments and will be watching the given article for more of the same.

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