Bad bugs:  rumors that the military has been targeted by some serious computer viruses are, at least in the UK, paralyzingly true:

The bug has caused havoc for days across all three Armed Forces, with thousands of MoD computers shut down.

But it failed to penetrate top-secret systems, officials said yesterday. Boffins [what’d be called “Twidgies” in the US Navy] at the Government Communications HQ in Cheltenham, Gloucs, believe it was caused by an official “syncing” his personal email.

At least 24 Royal Air Force bases and several Royal Navy vessels have “ground to a halt”. The RAF had to cancel training flights and up to 75 per cent of ships were affected, meaning sailors could not get messages home.

On the other hand, Al Quaeda has some even more serious bug problems:

At least 40 al-Qaeda fanatics died horribly after being struck down with the disease that devastated Europe in the Middle Ages.

The killer bug, also known as the plague, swept through insurgents training at a forest camp in Algeria, North Africa. It came to light when security forces found a body by a roadside.

The victim was a terrorist in AQLIM (al-Qaeda in the Land of the Islamic Maghreb), the largest and most powerful al-Qaeda group outside the Middle East.

I don’t believe karma, but I think what goes around comes around.

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