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Concern of a Judge ruling for sharia law over states law hit New Jersey recently.
A wife took her Moroccan husband to court, requesting a restraining order. The husband had been forcing her to have sex, without consent. This is a clear definition of rape and sexual abuse.
The defense was not a denial of such actions, rather it was his right due to his religion. He had the right to force her into sex, due to the religion calls on her to be submital to him.
“Defendant forced plaintiff to have sex with him while she cried. Plaintiff testified that defendant always told her “this is according to our religion. You are my wife, I c[an] do anything to you. The woman, she should submit and do anything I ask her to do.”
This was not a call from the bible passage found in Ephesians chapter 5, “22 Wives, be subject to your own husbands, as to the Lord.”.
Rather the religion called upon is Islam.
Fortunately (or unfortunately, depending on your thoughts), the ruling was over-ruled. But it does raise questions on why a religion would over-rule United States law. If this was the new way, then all religions must be considered. Pastors to refuse same-sex marriages, physicians refusing abortions, ECT. This would cause another slew of additional lawsuits.
The woman’s lawyer, Jennifer Donnelly of New Jersey Legal Services, told FoxNews.com that Charles’ ruling should add to the case for a proposed Oklahoma law, which will be on the ballot in November, which would ban judges from considering “international law or Shariah Law” in their rulings.
“Those who don’t want the bill to pass say, ‘there’s really no need for it because why would a judge walk down that road of religion?’” Donnelly said.
“Clearly here, this judge did walk down that road. He may not have said ‘Shariah law.’ But I think it’s indicative that, in trying to be respectful of religion, judges venture into a very slippery slope.”
This has a personal interest to me, considering I will be voting within Oklahoma this November.
I was reading the book “Hacker Cracker”, a short bio of EJovi Nuwere. It’s an interesting book of his young life with his upraising in the Bronx and his love of technology.
The book is an easy read, and another view through the eyes of a born hacker, with his love for learning. I was curious where he might be now, and was pleased to find his official website, Ejovi.Net.
Reviewing his website, it looks like he is a known entrepreneur in Japan. I also snagged him in twitter and face book. Very Cool.
It is, however, all too easy to get sloppy about how large your shared context needs to be. The pressure behind Zawinski’s Law is the tendency of applications to want to share context for convenience. It’s easy to end up carrying around too much weight, too many assumptions, and to write programs that are over-complex, bloated, and huge. The paradigmatic example in the 1990s was the way that the mailto: URL induced the growth of huge mail clients embedded in Web browsers.
The corrective to this tendency comes straight from the old-school Unix hymnbook. It is the Rule of Parsimony: Write a big program only when it is clear by demonstration that nothing else will do—that is, when attempts to partition the problem have been made and failed. This maxim implies an astringent skepticism about large programs, and a strategy for avoiding them: look for the small-program solution first. If a single small program won’t do the job, try building a toolkit of cooperating small programs within an existing framework to attack it. Only if both approaches fail are you free (in the Unix tradition) to build a large program (or a new framework) without feeling you have failed the design challenge.
On May 29, 1787, Virginia delegate Edmund Randolph proposed what became known as “The Virginia Plan.” Written primarily by fellow Virginian James Madison, the plan traced the broad outlines of what would become the U.S. Constitution: a national government consisting of three branches with checks and balances to prevent the abuse of power. In its amended form, this page of Madison’s plan shows his ideas for a legislature. It describes 2 houses: one with members elected by the people for 3-year terms and the other composed of older leaders elected by the state legislatures for 7-year terms. Both would use population as a basis for dividing seats among the states.
The Virginia Plan went through several revisions before it was finalized. These “Variant Texts” of the Virgina Plan are available at Yale Law School’s Avalon Project.
What is not conveyed is Madison and Randolph wished to annihilate the states rights. Considering the colonies had just thrown off their backs the oppressive King, this was an outrageous idea. It seems to me, Madison simply had the old mindset of a king over-riding the people.
Considering this argument was made in 1787, I find it interesting we are faced with similar issues with the Federal Government overriding the states rights today.
The big story is the leaking information to Wiki Leaks. I find it interesting some networks are focusing on who is leaking the information to Wiki Leaks. They are making the story into the leakage and Wiki Leaks.
I believe the bigger story is the facts showing Iran supporting the western world’s enemy. This shows facts that Iran cannot be dealt with politically, or with tongue wagging. With this confirmation of Iran supporting our enemies, and not helping the western nations, puts our current administration in the spotlight again. I have no doubt this information is not new to the administration. The information is only providing the public an eye on the issue.
Now the public is keenly aware of Iran’s actions, with the provided facts, the public eyes will be on the Obama administration on their actions. This is the story out of the Wiki leaks, applying responsibility back onto the Obama administration.
The biggest question now will be if the Department of Justice start suing the leak, rather than taking proper actions with Iran.
I had setup a FTP server on my personal PC for home use. The ideas was to simply share personal files in my own home. I grow tired of carrying a USB drive from my daughters PC to my wifes, ect. ect.
I checked out two FTP server softwares. I first installed WingFTP. This was a simple installation. I had to monkey with my router to allow the FTP ports open, but after awhile, I was able to get it going succesfully. This allowed me to move files around, within my home network. However, it would not allow anyone outiside my home to FTP in. I have only informed one individual the IP, login/pw to test this for me. He was succesfull in getting in, from outside my network.
Seems WingFTP works great internally, but I needed a dedicated DNS for outside to come in. This brought me to my second FTP file server software test, Serv-U.
Serv-U was also an easy installation procedure. However, the setup took me a bit to accomodate. I also already had my router set with the necessary ports opened and forwarded.
Here is the interesting part of the story. I have turned my FTP on to the outside world for approximately 2 days (not even as of this writing), and I am already seeing attempts to access my FTP within my server logs.
A number of logins were attempted, very quickly. I suspect a robot or script was being used. Check out part of the log showing this. I removed my email, because I don’t want to be spammed.
I checked out this same IP, 211.53.111.243, trying to hit my FTP server. Seems this IP is blacklisted on a number of sites already. 211.53.111.243 blacklisted
I just find it fascinating, and a bit disturbing in less than 48 hours, my open ports can be detected and hit.
##################################################
## Created: 6-22-10
## Creator: Matt Cole
## Name: listdirfile.pl
## Purpose: Identify all files/directories in a given folder
## Revise:
## Revised what:
###################################################
use strict;
use warnings;
print “What is the directory?”;
my $folder = <>;
chomp $folder;
chdir ($folder) or die “$!”;
opendir (DIR, ‘.’) or die “$!”;
#Location of the text files to be created.
open (FILE, “>C:\/StudyPerl\/Projects\/Files.txt”);
open (DIR, “>C:\/StudyPerl\/Projects\/Directories.txt”);
#Grabs all the folder content and puts in array AllFiles
my @AllFiles = readdir(DIR);
#Checks if content is a file, and prints them.
foreach my $FILE (@AllFiles) {
if (-f $FILE) { print FILE “$FILE\n”}
}
#Checks if content is a direcotry, and prints them.
foreach my $DIR (@AllFiles) {
if (-d $DIR) { print DIR “$DIR\n”}
}
#closes directory
close DIR;
I created the above PERL script to allow me to view the contents in a folder and push the contents into two separate text files. If the text files does not exist, then it will create them. I have added comments above each command line to convey what is happening.
