Scott Rosenberg says what I think much better than I can. But in essence, I am scared out of my whits.

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The world is a simple place to Bush. For him, "the moral choice between oppression, which is always wrong, and freedom, which is eternally right" is one that involves no hard calls. And since America represents freedom and freedom is eternally right, it must still be right even when it locks hundreds of people away for life without trial or it tortures prisoners in a war launched on a lie. We are the forces of freedom; we can admit no wrong because we can do no wrong.

Thank you Gisle, I knew there was support for "sudo" in Windows XP, but I have never used it.

As most of you know, most single users run their Windows setup as administrators, giving any program or script full access through your user at any time. Its one of the largest security problems facing Windows machines.

But there is a way to use Windows with a limited user and quickly change to administrator level when needed.

gisle's blog : MS Windows knows how to sudo. Use it!

Windows was born in a single user environment. The end user of a Windows machine was also its administrator, responsible for such tasks as installing new software, performing back-up and other maintenance tasks. This meant that for early versions of Windows, there was no restrictions on what the end user was allowed to do. Whoever was sitting in front of the computer was also its master.

[Via Anders Jacobsen's blog]

Its nice to see the largest search engines come together for this one:

• Google: Preventing Comment Spam
• Yahoo: A Defence against comment spam
• MSN: Working together agains blog spam
• Moveable Type: Introducing the nofollow plugin

This new attribute has been marketed as a solution to comment spamming, but I for one highly doubt it will do much for it, at least not in getting the spammers to stop spamming blogs, guestbooks and any other dynamically based feedback systems.

The rel=nofollow attribute will however cut the spammers results for comment spam in the hosted blog systems that implement the new attribute, and it will also allow people like Scoble and yours truly to link to sites we would never have linked to before. Such as said spammers and other people we would never dream to give any Google juice.

Most of the comments I have seen for this new initiative for a better link-onomy has been positive, but there are naysayers as well:

The Register: Google's No-Google tag blesses the Balkanized web

Anders made me aware of what might be a possible source for the idea of this new href attribute: Wired 12.1: "101 ways to save the Internet", #75, on their "Google TO-DO list" they write, amongst others:

Let us link to a page we hate without boosting its ranking

Personally I don't see myself implementing the new plug-in for MovableType for the nofollow attribute, my anti-spam features for this blog is working good as of now. I will only use it sporadically to link to sites I would otherwise think twice about linking to.

[Via Anders Jacobsen's Blog]