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...presidential campaign, significant media attention was devoted to the claims of the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth, a group whose purpose was to squelch Democratic presidential nominee John F. Kerry’s use of his distinguished service in Vietnam as a campaign tool against President George W. Bush, who avoided the draft by enlisting in the Texas Air National Guard after graduating from Yale in 1968. In a television ad that ran during the campaign, the group justified their attack on Kerry by saying that “honesty and character still matters…especially in a time...
...root kit” or “back door” on infected computers, giving those behind the virus “root”, or full access, to those machines, Davis said. He added that such “root kits” are a tool commonly used in “Denial-of-service” (DoS) attacks, which seek to disrupt a network by overloading it, thereby causing users to lose service...
...anonymizer.com $50 per year) provides a toolbar for the Mozilla Firefox browser that keeps you safe in three ways. First, with Anonymous Surfing, it keeps websites from tracking your physical location by scrambling the address given to you by your Internet service provider. It also provides a spyware-removal tool and a Digital Shredder that makes it easy to ditch your history and other browser info so that nobody looking at your PC will know what sites you've visited...
Republican politicians and those in the media who do their bidding have, especially over the last decade, found a new tool for attacking working people. When politicians or activists come forward to defend working people against business interests, the Republicans accuse them of being beholden to “union bosses.” The hoped-for mental image is of a bunch of fat white guys in three-piece suits smoking cigars, an image that will make us immediately forget whatever policy we were talking about. Hell, we wouldn’t want “bosses?...
Prepping the ER is a simple business; there is not much to get ready. Apart from their stethoscopes, the only diagnostic tool available to the surgeons is a Soviet-era X-ray machine. Ultrasound equipment? No. CT scans? No. MRI? No. There are two thoracic surgeons for chest wounds, the most common kind of injury in bomb blasts, but the hospital lacks the equipment needed to perform actual surgery. Pleas for funds and tools have been ignored by an Iraqi health ministry that doctors say is underfunded, mismanaged and corrupt. "There are days when we don't even have enough...