Microsoft Edge

Will it start the browser war we so desperately need?

I hope so. Everything currently sucks. I’m tempted to do the upgrade to 10 on her machine just to check it out. I might do it on my laptop, too, though I rarely boot it into Windows.

[Update a few minutes later]

This is sort of related: “Farewell to Android.”

I’ve never owned an Apple product, and don’t want to go to an iPhone. I guess I’ll just live with the security issues for now, as I don’t really live on my phone, and only use it when out of the house. Even when traveling, I still use laptop for most of my access. There’s not that much personal data on it to hack.

[Thursday noon update]

New vulnerability found in Androids, that can put it into a “persistent vegetative state.”

I suspect I’m safe; I don’t go to unknown web sites with my phone very often.

[Bumped]

Lois Lerner’s Hard Drive

The curious case of the physical damage to it:

TIGTA’s testimony states that the laptop as a whole appeared undamaged. When Lerner’s laptop was first inspected by both an assigned IT specialist and Hewlett Packard contractor they both stated that “they did not note any visible damage to the laptop computer itself.”

The testimony does not speculate how the hard drive was “scored” while the computer itself remained visibly undamaged. However, given these facts it seems logical to question what — or who — caused the damage to the hard drive.

Hey, “accidents” will happen.

The “Black Lives Matter” Movement

It should be protesting Planned Parenthood.

New York City

goes backward:

The heart sinks. It took so much effort by so many people to clear up the human wreckage that so many years of liberal ‘compassion’ had created in a dying New York. And to see it all—I can’t put it any better than the esteemed New York Post—’pissed away’ by a mayor not smart or perceptive enough to have learned one thing from the experience of the last 20 years, since his own personal demons have left him stuck in the politics of the 1950s and 1960s, is tragic. It is so hard to build; so easy to destroy.”

Morons with no cultural memory electing morons.

The F-35

I haven’t been following the fiasco that closely, but Richard Fernandez has some thoughts:

The reality of modern day information combat is that China can win a war without killing a single person or disrupting a single reality TV show. What if America could lose World War 3 and not even know it, especially if it relies on its politicians to tell it an attack has occurred.

Sadly true.

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