Monday, June 04, 2007

"What's A Web Site?"

Cyber ignorance is not bliss - high moment in our desperate War On Terror.

"The latest example of the danger of revealing technological weakness was Judge Peter Openshaw of the High Court, Queen's Branch Division, in London. While presiding over the trial of three men charged under anti-terrorism laws, he was quoted by Reuters last month as saying in open court: "The trouble is, I don't understand the language. I don't really understand what a Web site is."
The pillorying - and Wikipedia entry - came nearly instantly. Not since Senator Ted Stevens, Republican of Alaska, referred to the Internet as "a bunch of tubes," or President George W. Bush spoke of the "Internets," had the Web grinned so wide
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