Internet Attack
Wow, a new worm is causing major Internet traffic, slowing down the Internet as a whole.

This is a worm, a virus of sorts, that is spreading itself all across the Internet, on UDP port 1434, taking advantage of a vulnerability in MS SQL. One computer spreads it, and then those now infected, spread it, and so on. However this will only work on MS SQL (most home users don't have it).

It seems Internet traffic has gone down, latency has gone up, and packet loss has gone up (all bad). Internet backbones (mainly UUNet) are very slow, and several root nameservers have been down.
This really shows the UDP port 1434 traffic take off.

Talk about a mess!
- Black White

Bad wildfires still burning through Australia.
I pray they get it under control soon. Been there once, it's a beautiful country.
- Black White

Blogs4God is kind of "retracting" (at least apologizing for) their article I linked to two posts ago.
I thought it got a good point across, and was on target.
Hmmmm...
- Black White

War in Iraq?
With the realization that a war in Iraq might be imminent, there have been several protests, many bashing our president.
Who do these people think they are? George W. Bush is a solid Christian, elected by us the people. He has proven himself in several conficts, Sep 11 and the China-US plane standoff just to name two. He realizes that we can not let Iraq and other terrorist nations build up forces against us.

I am not pro-war, but there comes a point when you need to take action to protect our great country. We need to support our president.
- Black White

Roe vs. Wade
A little history:
With millions killed in the 30 year aftermath of Roe vs. Wade, it is a lawsuits with some of the worst repecusions ever. For the first time, the Texas law prohibiting abortion unless the mother's life was at stake, was overturned as unconstitutional, and only got worse from there.

My thoughts:
The federal law on abortion should be just like that old Texas law, only if the mother's life is at stake.
Women should have as much right to murder as anyone does, NONE!
A woman's choice should be whether or not to get pregnant.

Check out Blogs4God's written article about Roe vs. Wade.

Also, this is a good, pro-life site on Roe vs. Wade.



May I leave you with this, "Pro-Choice? What a lie! Babies don't choose to die!" - From a bumper sticker.
- Black White

WWJDrive

There is some debate over "What Would Jesus Drive?"
They believe in the "Jesus in a Prius" concept, that if Jesus would drive a car, it would be very enviromentally friendly.
I disagree. This is an absurd stretch of scripture. Which brings me to the myth that, small cars always pollute less than big cars "Federal regulations impose the same pollution restrictions on all cars, big and small. The limits are stated in "grams per mile" of acceptable pollution, not in grams per gallon of fuel burned." - Deaths by the gallon
Jesus was always travling with others (disciples and multitudes), and He always put human life above natrual resources (46,000 people have died in crashes they would have survived in bigger, heavier cars, according to USA TODAY's analysis of crash data - Deaths by the gallon) From that, I think he would drive a 15-passenger van, or a bus. Also from that, I could argue that Christians should want the government to legislate that all cars have to weigh at least 3000 pounds, so that there are less fatalities, and more people will have more chances to accept Christ (less of a stretch than WWJDrive).

True, there are a lot of SUVs out there, and not everyone needs one, but most big safe cars get the same MPG.
Also there are other ways to save gas (car pooling, public transportation, etc).

The WWJDrive people are giving Christians a bad name over an absurd argument.
- Black White

Faith/Works

I have a thought on the faith/works argument.
"But someone will say, 'You have faith, and I have works.' Show me your faith without your works, and I will show you my faith by my works. You believe that there is one God. You do well. Even the demons believe--and tremble! But do you want to know, O foolish man, that faith without works is dead?" - James 2:18-20
"For by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God, not of works, lest anyone should boast." - Ephesians 2:8-9
These verses don't contradict each other, but rather they illustrate both sides of the faith/works coin, ("faith without works is dead", and "by grace [not works] you have been saved").

You can't "work" your way to heaven, but Faith without works is just a belief. Works will not save you, but if you are truely saved, you will have works.
You can't see faith. Works are the evidence of a true life change.
This isn't legalism. Legalism is doing what is right because you have to (essentially, but I'll save this subject for another post), but this is doing what is right because you want to.
- Black White

No real post today (Saturday), because I spent about 8 hours today at a Supercross race.

I did a little work for one tomorrow.
- Black White