When confronting an existential enemy -- an enemy that wants to terminate your very existence -- there are only two choices: appeasement or war.more...
A new “Trojan horse“ program called Phatbot is spreading across Windows computers connected to the Internet,Technology Review: MIT's Magazine of Innovation
Phatbot can create invisible networks of up to 50 infected machines. This gives the hackers who wrote the program a highly efficient way to issue orders to the machines, in essence recruiting them into an underground hacker army.
NEW YORK (AFP) - The number of Americans with Internet access has topped 200 million, or nearly three-fourths of the US population older than two, a survey showed.more...
Nielsen/NetRatings, said its survey from February showed 204.3 million people or 74.9 percent of the over-two population of 272.8 million. That was up nine percentage points from the same period a year ago.
"All traces of PCBs would be removed from the site of a defunct General Electric plant in Hudson Falls under a $65 million plan approved by state environmental officials yesterday."Maybe we can put a tunnel under Preble in the future to drain off the nitrates.
There are only a half dozen places in New York State with nitrate levels as high as Preble's. Unnamed official sources tell us that levels as high as 20 PPM have been seen in Preble and these high levels are seen in LESS than six places in the entire state.
Farmers, shame on you. You have violated the trust we put in you to protect the land, air and water.
And now they are hiding behind the fiction of a test well being drilled as a reason to do nothing. But just what will this test well prove or solve. The idea for drilling it is to see if the water down deeper is free of nitrates. So what! This does nothing to solve the problem of high nitrates in the water now and even if the deep water proves nitrate free it will only be a matter of time before it too becomes contaminated with nitrates if nothing is done. And doing nothing has been the hallmark of this Town Board for over a year. The only solution to the nitrates in our water is to stop the source and that is the farmers who are dumping excessive liquid manure on the fields. If they were any other business we would run them out of town but because they are "farmers" they somehow have the right to pollute the water and air. They should be ashamed of themselves for doing this to their neighbors, either by their actions or worse, their inaction in stopping other farmers who are the actual guilty parties. But it is our Town Board who have failed all of us by their inaction and burying their heads in the sand ignoring the problem. They deserve all of our scorn!
Spain's Socialists Oust PP; May Pull Troops From Iraqmore...
March 15 (Bloomberg) -- Spain's new Socialist Prime Minister Jose Luis Zapatero, who unexpectedly defeated the ruling Popular Party in yesterday's election after bombings that killed 200 in Madrid, said he may bring Spanish troops home from Iraq.
WASHINGTON, March 14 — The ouster of the center-right party in Spain, only days after a terrorist bombing that may be linked to Al Qaeda, is the first electoral rebuke of one of President Bush's most steadfast allies in the Iraq war.Will Al Qaeda take this to mean that an attack on America just before the November election will elect John Kerry, who appears to have many of the same views?
When France and Germany balked at supporting the war on Iraq, the Spanish prime minister, José María Aznar, stood publicly by Mr. Bush at a summit meeting in the Azores a year ago this week, and just days before the war began. Now voters have elected the opposition Socialists, although the center right was leading in the polls until the terrorist attack.
The current nitrate problem is caused by excessive liquid manure dumping on Preble fields. Many of these fields are leased by the large CAFO's from owners who in some cases are no longer farming their land. One, for example, just retired from county government and spends much of their time in their large RV touring the country. With that in mind perhaps a good way to attack this is to go after those absentee landlords and put pressure on them to cancel their leases with the CAFO's. Why should all of Preble suffer just so these few can profit and pollute our water. I understand that one or more of these jokers is also in line to get a big chunk of money from the Farmland Protection program for that same land that is being used as a dump for the manure. I plan to track down and name all of those who are doing this so everyone will know just who they are.
Burn barrel problem is a page one story for The Post Standard...
Trash burnt at home releases many toxinsmore...
By Hart Seely
Three years ago, harmony in the Otsego County hamlet of Roseboom went up in the smoke of Lisa and Carmine DiPippo's burn barrel.
Neighbors said fumes from the DiPippos' smoldering garbage made them retch. After months of complaints, authorities charged them with violating a rarely enforced air quality regulation. They faced up to a year in prison. Refusing to cut a deal, the DiPippos took it to trial. They felt singled-out.
The Preble NY web site. News, information and opinion from and about Preble, a small town of 1500 souls halfway between Syracuse and Cortland New York.
Since June 2, 2000
by Frank Hogg
Now in our FIFTH year!
I'm in a constant state of not losing weight.
