http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/pc/ en-us Thu, 31 Dec 2009 04:33:14 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2418146/posts In many worst case scenarios, a hard drive wipe is the final solution to ridding a system of an infection. But the absolute worst case scenario is if a virus attacks the BIOS, making detection and cleaning an incredible challenge. Viruses that target the BIOS arenÂ’t new, but often they are specific to a type of hardware. Researchers have now demonstrated a new type of attack that could install a rootkit on the BIOS of common systems, making it very lethal and effective. Anibal L. Sacco and Alfredo A. Ortego of Core Security Technologies released a presentation detailing the exploit... http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2418146/posts#comment Thu, 31 Dec 2009 04:33:14 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2417099/posts If, God Forbid, we are not victorious in this global war against Islamist terrorism, it will not be because we lost, it will be because we committed suicide, death by political correctness. Of course it is important to make sure to be fair and not to target a particular group, but it is also important to realize that WE did not single out Muslims in this war, the Islamist Terrorists did. The overwhelming majority of Muslims are good decent people, but the overwhelming majority of terrorists that have attacked the United States and her allies are Islamists, a radical theology... Radar/NY Post/The Lid http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2417099/posts#comment Tue, 29 Dec 2009 19:09:49 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2416265/posts Last night, the Facebook status of a close liberal/Democrat friend read: TSA is now “banning the use of blankets and pillows an hour before landing.” Because you might try to hide under a blanket to light your explosive … What about the rest of your 12 hour flight? F**king idiots. Really? Is this the best we can do? Yes, my friend. This is the best we can do. Even under the Bush administration, the airlines handled terrorism in many ways but not by profiling terrorists, which makes the flying lives of everybody else inconvenient. A few years ago a radical... Vocal Minority http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2416265/posts#comment Mon, 28 Dec 2009 15:26:48 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2415125/posts Two sentences contained in an ABC News article published today stand as proof that the network and its faux reporters are in denial when it comes to identifying terrorism and terrorists: Bob McCarty Writes http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2415125/posts#comment Sat, 26 Dec 2009 00:15:37 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2414733/posts Jose Feliciano protests use of his 'Feliz Navidad' for musical spoof about illegal immigrants By: SIGAL RATNER-ARIAS Associated Press 12/24/09 3:38 PM EST NEW YORK — Grammy-winner Jose Feliciano has gotten an apology after accusing a pair of radio producers of trashing the spirit of Christmas by using his popular holiday song, "Feliz Navidad," for a racist musical spoof about undocumented immigrants. Feliciano released a statement Wednesday saying that he was "revolted beyond words" and that the song was never meant to be "a vehicle for a political platform of racism and hate." "When I wrote and composed 'Feliz Navidad,'... Washington Examiner http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2414733/posts#comment Thu, 24 Dec 2009 23:25:28 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2412045/posts Polls reveal that 96% of Americans celebrate Christmas. How is it “inclusive” to exclude this vast majority? And 90% believe it is the birthday of Jesus. How is it “tolerant” not to tolerate expression of this widely held belief? Liberals claim that our Founders were deists or agnostics who wrote the Constitution to prevent any influence of religion on our public life. Nothing could be further from the truth. www.stolinsky.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2412045/posts#comment Mon, 21 Dec 2009 05:06:01 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2412025/posts When Will White People Stop Making Movies Like "Avatar"? Critics have called alien epic Avatar a version of Dances With Wolves because it's about a white guy going native and becoming a great leader. But Avatar is just the latest scifi rehash of an old white guilt fantasy. Spoilers... Whether Avatar is racist is a matter for debate. Regardless of where you come down on that question, it's undeniable that the film - like alien apartheid flick District 9, released earlier this year - is emphatically a fantasy about race. Specifically, it's a fantasy about race told from the point... io9 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2412025/posts#comment Mon, 21 Dec 2009 04:27:16 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2411725/posts THE UNINTENDED CONSEQUENCES OF LIMITED OBJECTIVES Throughout the Old Testament, God commands Israel to destroy its enemies that the nation might survive. Somewhere along the way, both Israel and America lost sight of that imperative. Churchill, Stalin and Roosevelt agreed to divide Europe when WWII ended. General George Patton, driving hard for Berlin, was ordered to stop short at the Elbe. The seeds of limited objectives were sown, Communism enslaved all of Eastern Europe, and millions died or were sent to the gulag. The policy gelled in Korea. President Truman ordered Douglas MacArthur, pursuing the retreating Communists northward, back to... Not known http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2411725/posts#comment Sun, 20 Dec 2009 17:36:34 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2411495/posts Italy's highest court of appeal affirmed the illegality of insulting someone by sticking your tongue out at them. The case brought before the Cassation Court involved a farmer whose tongue gesture was captured by a cellphone camera held by the neighbor with whom he was arguing. The farmer, Carlo O., had been convicted by a justice of the peace of insulting the neighbor, the Italian news agency ANSA reported. UPI http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2411495/posts#comment Sun, 20 Dec 2009 03:38:45 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2409857/posts A student says a Dallas public community-college teacher compared crosses to swastikas while explaining a school ban on religious items made in ceramics classes. World Net Daily http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2409857/posts#comment Thu, 17 Dec 2009 20:49:48 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2406972/posts The Rt Rev Stephen Venner called for a more sympathetic approach to the Islamic fundamentalists that recognises their humanity. The Church of England’s Bishop to the Forces warned that it will be harder to reach a peaceful solution to the war if the Afghan insurgents are portrayed too negatively. His comments came as the Prime Minister visited Afghanistan and warned that the Taliban was fighting a "guerilla war" aimed at causing "maximum damage". Gordon Brown said soldiers were discovering improvised explosive devices every two hours. Mr Brown stayed overnight in the Allied base in the southern city of Kandahar, the... telegraph.co.uk http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2406972/posts#comment Mon, 14 Dec 2009 05:18:07 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2405767/posts A branch of the University of Minnesota may require all education students at the school to understand and accept that they are either privileged or oppressed and that they be well-versed in issues like "white privilege," "institutional racism” and the "myth of meritocracy in the United States." Critics are condemning the Race, Culture, Class and Gender Task Group at the University of Minnesota Twin Cities, which proposes making race, class and gender issues the "overarching framework" of all teaching courses. The task group, formed as part of the Teacher Education Redesign Initiative at the state university, aims to change how... The New Media Journal http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2405767/posts#comment Fri, 11 Dec 2009 23:02:26 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2405422/posts It happened again on Wednesday, December 9, 2009, less than a month after the incident aboard AirTran Flight 297. United Airlines Flight 227, scheduled to depart Denver International Airport at 1:50 pm Wednesday for Los Angeles was disrupted when several passengers who were described as Middle Eastern in appearance, confirmed by this investigator to be a group of Muslims traveling together, were removed from that aircraft due to suspicious behavior that originated in the terminal and continued to the airplane. Canada Free Press http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2405422/posts#comment Fri, 11 Dec 2009 15:51:58 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2405226/posts First, Colorado State University voted to ban concealed firearms on campus. Then the University of Colorado went a few steps further and cracked down on another nefarious threat: Nerf guns. Plans for a student-led game of humans vs. zombies took a hit after campus security officials discovered that players intended to use the popular orange-and-green toy weaponry. Simulated guns, even those that shoot spongy Nerf balls, are banned at the University of Colorado. (snip) CU spokesman Bronson Hilliard said students cooperated fully, replacing the Nerf guns with balled-up socks and even taking it upon themselves to hang fliers in dormitories... Washington Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2405226/posts#comment Fri, 11 Dec 2009 10:27:52 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2404960/posts For the past 28 years, the village of Amelia, Ohio, has hosted a Christmas parade. It won't this year. One person threatened village mayor Leroy Ellington with legal action. Rather than duke it out, Ellington caved. He offered to host a " Holiday Parade." Village residents told Ellington where to stick the "Holiday Parade." Each year, it comes to this, a facile attempt to take the name "Christmas" from the Christmas season. How did we get to the point of political correctness where saying "Merry Christmas" risks a lawsuit or being kicked out of school? Christmas Day, Dec. 25, honors... The Berkshire Eagle http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2404960/posts#comment Thu, 10 Dec 2009 23:27:12 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2404369/posts It is well known that the Far Left and Islamic terrorists are in cahoots, as are liberals and “moderate” Muslims. Both sides are using the other as “useful idiots” to further their agendas—one ideological, and the other theological. One is using clandestine sabotage and subterfuge, while the other openly promotes global jihad. Their common enemy is the “Great Satan” of the United States of America, which they agree, must be destroyed in order for their plans to proceed. For the time being, they are in league with one another... CFP http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2404369/posts#comment Thu, 10 Dec 2009 06:49:26 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2403624/posts A Canadian administrative judge's demand for a $5,000 penalty and a written apology from a man who criticized homosexuality in a letter to his local newspaper has been overturned on appeal, but experts on such "hate speech" disputes say the case is not a complete victory for free speech. The judgment was announced this week by the Alliance Defense Fund in the case of Stephen Boissoin and the Concerned Christian Coalition, which had been determined by the Alberta, Canada, Human Rights Commission to have violated a "hate speech" law. Alberta had adopted the law with promises that it never would... World Net Daily http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2403624/posts#comment Wed, 9 Dec 2009 13:17:24 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2403484/posts Are you sick and tired of how liberal political correctness has attempted to eliminate the "Christ" out of "Christmas," by replacing it with the more "tolerant," and acceptable "Happy Holidays," or even "Winter Solstice"? Are you fed-up with businesses being bullied into prohibiting their employees from greeting customers using, "Merry Christmas"? THE FREEDOM POST http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2403484/posts#comment Wed, 9 Dec 2009 04:43:19 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2403425/posts Roughly a month since the worst Islamic terrorist attack on US soil since 911, the FBI is going to investigate how things were handled with Hasan before the attack. That is great, but the reality is that no matter what guidelines are put into place, if everyone is afraid to enforce them out of political correctness the guidelines will not matter. They will be meaningless, just like our immigration laws. F.B.I. Sets New Review of Shootings at Ft. Hood Logan's Warning http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2403425/posts#comment Wed, 9 Dec 2009 03:09:28 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2403203/posts Defunct Republican Club Limits Oxy's Political Discourse After a dwindling presence on campus, the Republican club ceased to exist two years ago and has not been restarted, to the dismay of several students and faculty. Devon Puglia '08, a registered Democrat, was the President of the Republican club from '06 - '08. He said, "[The club] was very small and informal during my time, and by my senior year it was just me." He described Oxy professors and students being hostile to political opinion that didn't conform to the school's prevailing liberal ideology. "I'm sure there are plenty of... The Occidental Weekly http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2403203/posts#comment Tue, 8 Dec 2009 22:30:40 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2402599/posts Christian legal fellowship groups provide a vital spiritual lifeline for law students trying to survive the rigors of law school with faith intact. Most of the more than 150 such student groups at U.S. law schools (see my lower sidebar list of links) are sponsored by the Christian Legal Society (CLS). But the ability of these groups to continue functioning at public universities has been in doubt since the University of California Hastings College of the Law's recent refusal to recognize its CLS chapter. The law school objects to the group's requirement that officers and voting members subscribe to Christian beliefs. In Christian Legal... The Believer's Guide to Legal Issues http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2402599/posts#comment Tue, 8 Dec 2009 04:16:46 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2402042/posts When the history of the War on Terror is written, 2009 may be seen as the year the enemy began to shift from Islamist terrorists outside the US to homegrown Jihadists. Despite the fact that it was predicted two years ago, many are still surprised (or unwilling to recognize), the Islamist threat from within. Back in 2007 the Council on Foreign Relations reported: Experts say it is quite likely the next terrorist attack in the United States will not be the work of well-trained al-Qaeda operatives sent from abroad, but rather that of an American citizen. As al-Qaeda leaders focus... LA Times/The Lid http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2402042/posts#comment Mon, 7 Dec 2009 15:55:06 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2401535/posts Politically Correctness is intended to politicize not civilize a society. It is said to be racially motivated to question a morally twisted Middle-Eastern Army Officer shouting “Allah Akbar” before his shooting rampage toward his fellow countrymen, and yet it is not so to omit the WASP from the racial compositions of American society in a Social Study. “No one said anything about the WASP race, why is that?” asked my mixed-races 9 year old daughter. It was the WASP Americans who framed and founded this Republic, and Politically Correctness views other races as inferior to this supreme achievement. If the... The Collins Report http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2401535/posts#comment Sun, 6 Dec 2009 16:19:10 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2401515/posts Please excuse the Vanity post - I am desperate! I have a new PC with Windows 7. At odd times I loose the Internet connection. I know cable internet signal is coming through the router as other PCs in the system have connections. At first the lost connection was happening each time I would reboot. Now it happens at seemingly "random" times .... I realize it's probly not random, but I can't see a correlation yet ... and the connection usually comes back when I reboot again. The Dell tech support wants me to reinstall the windows software. That would... vanity http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2401515/posts#comment Sun, 6 Dec 2009 15:43:02 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2401429/posts Two stars of the "I'm a Celebrity ... Get Me Out of Here" television show have been charged with animal cruelty after allegedly killing and cooking a rat to eat during filming... AP @ Yahoo News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2401429/posts#comment Sun, 6 Dec 2009 11:26:41 GMT