12 Nov 2004
Gonzales nomination angers abortion foes

Maybe this guy's alright: what the teaser doesn't tell you is that he's got the ACLU a bit "concerned", too.

ACLU Executive Director Anthony Romero issued a statement calling for a confirmation process "that scrutinizes Mr. Gonzales' positions on key civil liberties and human rights issues."

As a general rule of thumb, if a person manages to get two opposing sides upset, it means that they tend to think independently and not be swayed into political crowd pleasing. Which is a good quality to have in an Attorney General (or a Supreme Court Justice, for that matter).

On the other hand, Mr. Gonzales is apparently the attorney behind the White House opinion that torture is sometimes OK. If so, well, that may be another matter. The hearings will tell.

An anti-abortion group Thursday accused President Bush of ignoring his anti-abortion principles in nominating White House counsel Alberto Gonzales for the post of attorney general.

(link) [CNN]

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Warezed SoundForge Files In Windows Media Player

What can one say except "Gotcha!" ?

German PC-Welt magazine reports that Microsoft used an illegal copy of SoundForge 4.5 (Google translation) for editing Wave files shipped with Windows Media Player. You can check that yourself by opening any file in the [Windows location] \Help\Tours\WindowsMediaPlayer\Audio\Wav\ folder in notepad or other editors of your choice and looking at the last line. There you will find a reference to SoundForge 4.5 and also a user called "Deepz0ne" who happen to be one of the founders of an audio software cracking group called Radium.

(link) [Slashdot]

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