Wasn’t noble Norm the guy who turned his campaign into a war against the working class with his “card check” commercials and all the financial help from those right-wing lobbying groups? The same Norm whose handlers manufactured the phony “Enraged Franken” commercial that was actually Al speaking at the Wellstone memorial service?

It’s all about karma, Norm. You’re finally getting yours.

Occasionally salty comments too. Modern Brits can be right ascerbic with both grace and style when pressed/exasperated.

The thing that strikes me with this particular chain of events is all the comments I have read to the effect that “Republicans Just Don’t GET InfoTech”, “They just don’t understand computers” etc. This is a sharp contrast from thirty-odd years back. Remember Reagan’s upset taking of the White House, anyone? At *THAT* time, it was bruited about in the (still non-consolidated American news press, pre-Internet) that the Repubs had taken the field because they were “good with computers while the Democrats are still stuck on recipe cards for their contact lists” and similar punditry to that effect.

One thinks of petards and the hoisting of their owner(s) thereon. Also of hubris – have not the Gods made this Coleman fellow and quite some few others of his high-handed ilk more than a little mad, of late?

BTW, http://www.politicalcompass.org will help one to QUICKLY understand the *entire* sociopolitical “leadership spectrum” as wel as where one fits on it ones’ self. World leaders are mapped-out by laftright (“X” Axis) and libertarian/anarchistAuthoritarian (“Y” Axis) on a gridded color-keyed background.

I took the test. IMHO, we NEED MORE GANDHIS and DALAI LAMA TYPES for the sake of BALANCE; the site’s distribution-map makes that much quite objectively clear at last. But once there, one notices very quickly that there is (thus far) no such animal as a “Libertarian NeoLiberal”(!) Heaven help us all, should any indeed start to show up and THANK YOU CREATOR that we have none of those today. (NO, Norm! Do NOT rebrand yourself that way!) :)

The 12 aspects of the PCI-DSS (with violations highlighted) are:

Build and Maintain a Secure Network

Requirement 1: Install and maintain a firewall configuration to protect cardholder data (VIOLATED)
Requirement 2: Do not use vendor-supplied defaults for system passwords and other security parameters (password? What password? VIOLATED)

Protect Cardholder Data

Requirement 3: Protect stored cardholder data (VIOLATED)
3.2.2 Do not store the card-verification code or value (three-digit or four-digit number printed on the front or back of a payment card) used to verify card-not-present transations.
Requirement 4: Encrypt transmission of cardholder data across open, public networks (not having seen the data, I cannot state absolutely, however, it does appear VIOLATED)

Maintain a Vulnerability Management Program

Requirement 5: Use and regularly update anti-virus software
Requirement 6: Develop and maintain secure systems and applications (VIOLATED)

Implement Strong Access Control Measures

Requirement 7: Restrict access to cardholder data by business need-to-know (VIOLATED)
Requirement 8: Assign a unique ID to each person with computer access (VIOLATED)
Requirement 9: Restrict physical access to cardholder data

Regularly Monitor and Test Networks

Requirement 10: Track and monitor all access to network resources and cardholder data (clearly VIOLATED)
Requirement 11: Regularly test security systems and processes (again, clearly VIOLATED)

Maintain an Information Security Policy

Requirement 12: Maintain a policy that addresses information security (again, VIOLATED)