OT: [sorta] "Vowing to Prevent 'Cyber Katrina,' Senators Propose Cyber Czar"

[Mike Schwartz]

As far as I know, this:
"Vowing to Prevent 'Cyber Katrina,' Senators Propose Cyber Czar"
http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2009/04/vowing-to-preve.html
is (was) not an April fool's joke.
   One thing that does seem a little suspicious (beware), is that
among the many "cross-references" to other items, there is one
link labeled "proposed cyber
czar<http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/files/cyberkatrinabill.pdf%22%3EDownload%20cyberkatrinabill.pdf>",
 --
which I think
was "intended" to point to the URL
  http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/files/cyberkatrinabill.pdf
 -- that has instead a bogus looking URL of
http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/files/cyberkatrinabill.pdf%22%3EDownload%20cyberkatrinabill.pdf
(which doesn't work...)
so, I still don't think it's an April fool's joke,
but apparently someone was not being careful enough, and by the way, IMHO
the "proofreading" should ALWAYS include checking that links work -- maybe
even checking with more than one browser (at least a couple of browsers?)
(one of them being Firefox) ...it seems that in this case, there was a
slip-up.

I don't actually think there is a browser related issue here -- partly
because,
 just for completeness, I tried that link with two browsers (one of them
Firefox),
 and it was equal-opportunity "404 Not Found" with both browsers.
So I think it is just a case of a schnerbed URL
...but the article still seems interesting [to me] (YMMV).

Etymology note / Humor :-) Lol / ACK
(By the way, [HUMOR!:] that funny slang word, "schnerbed",
 [past participle of the verb "to schnerb"?] [passsive voice?]
 was copied from
 [and hence I guess, courtesy of / "with apologies to" the writer of]
 some other recent PLUG-discuss posts;
[I couldn't find that word anywhere else, even using "
http://www.onelook.com/"]
[also, I may have already copied it at least once "before" this --
so, if this is a delayed ACK, make it retroactive] ).

Some of the links work OK
I pursued one of the other side-issue "tangent" links, (labeled
"swindle <http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2008/11/three-plead-gui.html>"),
(2nd word of "one
swindle<http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2008/11/three-plead-gui.html>
at
a time") with a URL of
http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2008/11/three-plead-gui.html
and at least that link [URL] is OK.
-- 
Mike Schwartz
Glendale  AZ
schwartz at acm.org
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