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Talk about a wolf guarding the sheep ...

ANTPogo said:
Read the contemporary computer security discussion I linked in my post above: one of the reasons the initial US News story was doubted by computer virus experts and professionals was because such a thing as a printer infecting a mainframe was so extremely unlikely as to be suspicious.
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http://technolog.msnbc.msn.com/_new...s-pre-infected-computer-tech-entering-country

7/9/2011

Confirming years of warnings from government and private security experts, a top Homeland Security official has acknowledged that computer hardware and software is already being imported to the United States preloaded with spyware and security-sabotaging components.

The remarks by Greg Schaffer, the Department of Homeland Security's acting deputy undersecretary for national protection and programs, came Thursday during a tense exchange at a hearing of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee. The panel is considering an Obama administration proposal to tighten monitoring and controls on computer equipment imported for critical government and communications infrastructure.
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BaC, you're back great! Cant wait to read what you have to say about those 47 republican votes that made the confirmation 100-0 in Panettas favor.
 
Ausmerican said:
BaC, you're back great! Cant wait to read what you have to say about those 47 republican votes that made the confirmation 100-0 in Panettas favor.
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I told you already! They obviously weren't privy to information available only to right wing bloggers on the internet. :)

ETA: For them, Panetta was a wolf in sheep's clothing!
 
JoeTheJuggler said:
I told you already! They obviously weren't privy to information available only to right wing bloggers on the internet. :)

ETA: For them, Panetta was a wolf in sheep's clothing!
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Even as a child that term never made sense to me. In fact, the first time I heard it I found it necessary to inform my mum that, just like wolves, sheep dont wear clothing. So a wolf in sheeps clothing would look like a wolf.
 
Ausmerican said:
Even as a child that term never made sense to me. In fact, the first time I heard it I found it necessary to inform my mum that, just like wolves, sheep dont wear clothing. So a wolf in sheeps clothing would look like a wolf.
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It means a wolf disguised as a sheep. I don't think it's at all confusing.

It's figurative (on two levels--entirely appropriate in this thread!).

Similarly, someone with more than two roles can talk about changing hats or wearing a different hat. It doesn't mean any literal hats are involved.
 
JoeTheJuggler said:
It means a wolf disguised as a sheep. I don't think it's at all confusing.

It's figurative (on two levels--entirely appropriate in this thread!).

Similarly, someone with more than two roles can talk about changing hats or wearing a different hat. It doesn't mean any literal hats are involved.
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Oh I know what it means and am not confused by it, I was always just a pedantic little SOB. "Wolf in sheepskin" would've made more sense to me.

As far as confusing goes however there is still BaCs use of it in this thread. That and all of our inability to see the Sheepforest through the Wolftrees guarding it. Maybe those 47 republicans got lost in the Wolftrees and never ot to the Sheepforest?

Or maybe they are the modern 47 ronin and are lulling Panetta into a false sense of security with their complacency and seeming co-operation. And then when he has been in the job for a couple of years they will throw off their roles as drunkards, ne'er-do-wells, and lazy oafs and rise up and kill him in his castle at night. :D
 
Ausmerican said:
As far as confusing goes however there is still BaCs use of it in this thread. That and all of our inability to see the Sheepforest through the Wolftrees guarding it. Maybe those 47 republicans got lost in the Wolftrees and never ot to the Sheepforest?
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you forget to include the fox and the hens.
 
cwalner said:
you forget to include the fox and the hens.
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"Once upon a time in a small sunny glade, by a cool, clear brook, in the middle of the Sheepforest there stood a Henhouse.

And in that Henhouse lived a Fox.

A big, bad, fat, well-fed fox that had only one use for chicken skin and it wasn't wearing it no sir!

And he lived happily ever after in the Sheepforest, gorging himself on his captive chickens because no one ever saw the Sheepforest through the Wolftrees.

The End."
 
Ausmerican said:
Even as a child that term never made sense to me. In fact, the first time I heard it I found it necessary to inform my mum that, just like wolves, sheep dont wear clothing. So a wolf in sheeps clothing would look like a wolf.
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Sheep hear and smell much better than they see so I think it should be,

"A wolf in sheep cologne making sheep noises"

Oh BaC! Why did all the republicans vote for Panetta? How can you support a party that would approve of a man that smells like sheep?
 
JoeTheJuggler said:
Wait a second! Is Fox News involved in this conspiracy to get a treasonous anti-American appointed and confirmed as Secretary of Defense?
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Well I did think about having the lead foxes named Rupert & Roger and the hens Gretchen, Megyn, and Greta and have the hens running around squawking about the sky falling while overlooking the fact that Rupert, Roger and their friends were eating their friends and family. But I am damn lazy.
 
Foreign machines entering the US with malware installed? I'd be surprised if it hasn't been happening for years. Hell, computers here go on the market with malware installed. Anybody can pretty much open a PC manufacturing biz in their garage if have the cash to buy wholesale parts.

Now, what does this have to do with Leon Panetta and BAC's falling for an April Fool's joke?
 
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