Appeasement Never Works

The israeli palestinian conflict has been going on for years. Every once in a while, palestinian leadership agrees there will be no more attacks, and the israeli's back off. A few days/weeks after that, another suicide bomber bombs isreal. Isreal moves in with tanks, kills some terrorists, then they back off. And so the cycle goes.

That is until recently. Ariel Sharon made a big mistake in giving the palestinian's more land. It wasn't but a few days after they had the new land, that they attacked israel again! Why continue to negotiate with people you know are lying? That seems insane to me. And Israel is considering giving up even more land to the palestinians! Why?? As it is now, the nation of Israel is about the size of Rhode Island. They are surrounded by enemies. Giving up land makes no sense.

I'm reminded of a lesson from recent history. Neville Chamberlin was well liked by the people of England for his policy of appeasement with Hitler. Churchill was villified. That is, until people realised the threat of the Nazi's. Turns out old Churchill was right. The Nazi's did present a grave threat. Because of appeasment, (Chamberlin had put money into public works rather than the airforce) England found itsself very unprepared for the threat. The lesson is appeasement never works. How did Ariel Sharon forget that?

For the truth about Palestinian/Israel conflict:

Big Lies: Demolishing The Myths Of The Propaganda War Against Israel

Sony Screws Your Computer

Sony Screws your computer...

Sony installs a root kit on your computer with some cd's. Here's another link that explains it in a less technical way.

Sony Raids Hacker Playbook.

A very good explaination can be found here:

Security Now.

Download links to html, or mp3 explainations. They are below where it says:

"Sony's "Rootkit Technology" DRM"

Summary of why its bad:

This poorly written software unnecessarily employs classic rootkit technology to hide from its users after installation. It can not be uninstalled easily, it can be easily misused for malicious purposes, and it has been implicated in many repeated BSOD "blue screen of death" PC crashes.


Because it hides files with $sys$ in the beginning of their file name, its being used by cheaters. :P

Sony DRM Used By World of Warcraft Hackers.

World of Warcraft hackers use Sonys rootkit.

"Re-naming any file on your (Windows XP) system which is infected with the Sony DRM rootkit, so that it's file name starts with $sys$ makes it "vanish". Apparently it's already being used by cheaters in World of Warcraft."


Yes there's an uninstaller, but Sony makes it hard to get.


Now Microsoft Is Concerned.

"Microsoft Corp. is concerned about rootkit features in CDs from Sony BMG artists and is evaluating the situation to see if any action needs to be taken, a spokesperson said."

Calif. Lawsuit Targets Sony.