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According to Executive Order 12333, signed by President Reagan in 1981, members of the U.S. intelligence community can collect, retain and pass along information about U.S. companies or people only in certain cases.

I thought to myself: Why was this order originally imposed?

I mean, after all, we're talking about spying on US citizens here. Turns out, the law was passed in response to the intelligence agencies already spying on citizens. Reagan, and others, wanted to establish what reasons were legitimate to spy on their own citizens. Where were the citizens of the country involved in the process of making this?

Sources that would seem to support this.

Here's an idea. How about we quit giving current Presidents and congressional leaders the means through which they can enslave us? Everyone here does realize that the President can legitimately declare martial law right now as there are enough men and women in the armed forces right now that would not find this disturbing or even questionable. Very few Americans are exercising their right to own a gun, so there is nothing that can be done about it.

He has made a bunch of statements opposing terrorism over the years, including the recent school invasion in Russia and the 9/11 attacks and the US invasions of Iraq.

No posts and it's slashdotted already? Yeesh, the page is only plain text as far as I can load. The images of the questions are on another page, but the server is taking a heavy beating.

Here is the google cache: Link

Try the Google cache.

Here's my Google-corroboration:

A Harris County grand jury will review this morning's fatal shooting of a man who allegedly tried to break into a town house in west Houston.

Joseph Derek Joseph West, 21, was shot in the chest about 2:50 a.m. by a home owner in the 14600 block of Perthshire, police said. West, who lived in the 19300 block of Park Row, later died at Ben Taub General Hospital.

The 51-year-old homeowner, who has not been identified because no charges have been filed, stepped outside to investigate after hearing suspicious noises. Investigators later said the noises were of West trying to enter other town homes.

West allegedly approached the man with his fists raised. Fearing for his safety, the home owner fired once, striking West in the chest, police said.

http://64.233.167.104/search?q=cache:bKsNa5tmZygJ: www.keepandbeararms.com/information/XcIBViewItem.a sp%3FID%3D2110+%22Joseph+Derek+Joseph+West%22&hl=e n

link

The first link already got /.'d for the most part, but here's the Google Cache for the source site.

Google cache shows the idea for his BBQ sauce recipe.

--H

So here's the contents page from Google's cache:-
Dive Into Python Table Of Contents

I'm not sure if people are aware of this or not, but at the end of July, after only a week in theatres, Farenheit 9/11 played on prime time TV in Cuba .

See cached yahoo news here.
See some other cuban news source here.

ACs are stupid.

But yes, Exchange also does SMTP (in addition to MAPI, POP3, and IMAP).

Slashdotted, Google cache link

• Is it coincidental that that signal is the same frequency as what the device receiving it operates on? Could this be why they think it might be interference from the telescope (along with the fact that the telescope already adjusts for shift and this still shifts)?
• Is it possible Seti has just locked onto an old satellite that happens to be heading in the direction of the area of space between pisces and aries? Like maybe they are receiving a signal from something that some time ago was too far out of range to be picked up?
• I do agree with some other posters that this looks like a hell of a change of direction. They've gone from "this is the most interesting" to this is nothing, a full 180, in a day. Not only that, but they have failed to give a reason for such a drastic shift. Could someone have told them to keep their mouth's shut until they know more about it? Could it be that after the initial excitement, they realized that it really is nothing and are trying to save face? I'd imagine Seti tries to remain very cautious in their dealings with the public if for nothing else that they are afraid of losing funding.
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  Now I'm probably wrong on all of this. Which is why I love /. since some radio geek can tell me why I'm wrong and I'll learn something.

http://64.233.167.104/search?q=cache:http://davyd. angrygoats.net/gnome-2-8/ There ya go!

I feel really bad for those gaffers that only make $250,000 a year that can barely make ends meet because someone downloaded a movie.

You do understand that copyright infringement "makes baby jesus cry".

http://64.233.167.104/search?q=cache:eAw_5YZf-icJ: browsehappy.com/

With mini hard drives coming to cell phones (Google cache), the cell phone "TIVO" can't be far behind.

>The invention of 0 is a usually considered a >pretty big step in western culture and one arabs >like to claim as their contribution to the world.
I'm sorry but that statement is misleading. The 0 is generally accepted to have been invented in the Dravido-Indic cultures, what is currently Southern India. See following URL: Google Cache of Invention of 0 This was then spread through the Persian/Arab (Islamic) scientists and eventually to Europe.

T1 cards are readily avaliable in PCI form

OpenBSD at work

Here is one example That uses 802.1Q VLANS.

# Empire Net (now known as My180.net)
An ISP in Bend, Oregon, uses OpenBSD on AMD, Intel, and Sun based hardware, for routing, firewalling, IPsec (VPN), bandwidth limiting, web hosting, database servers, network monitoring, intrusion detection, mail servers, backup servers, cache servers, and workstations. One of their OpenBSD routers handles traffic on between a T3 and eight fast ethernet ports, also with several 802.1Q VLANs to separate networks for co-location customers and business park tenants. An OpenBSD mail server handles e-mail storage/retrieval and RADIUS authentication for over 5,000 users. Several OpenBSD web servers each handle over 300 web sites.

The Frame Relay over ATM (FROATM) is supported and this card works with OpenBSD. From the website:
Sangoma's T1/E1 WAN cards have PCI bus interfaces and incorporate an integrated combination T1 and E1 DSU/CSU for a direct connection between the client's server and the demarc. The cards support major protocols including ATM, Frame Relay, PPP, HDLC and X.25 under all popular operating systems including Linux, Windows, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, Unix and Sun Solaris.

You can look at the OpenBSD hardware list for more information.

Currently Asterik (a VOIP system)is being ported to FreeBSD and OpenBSD. I am not sure if those are complete yet or not but, that can work in coordination with your Voice over ATM (VOATM) and Voice over Frame Relay (VOFR). I realize that VOFR/VOATM is not VOIP but the system is being designed with that support in mind.

I realize this may not answer all your points but it will help.

Remember the hue and cry from Boston that the political protesters were sequestered to fenced, razor-wired, roofed facility away from the convention center? Neither do I. Didn't seem to make it into the papers.

Remember the outrage when "Dude, Where's My Country" and "Against All Enemies" weren't given shelf space at Borders, Barnes & Noble, and other nationsl bookstores? Neither do I. Anti-Bush books don't seem to have trouble making it onto the shelves, even if they're not Number one on Amazon.com and BN.com

I'm a supporter of free speech. I happen to think that I'm smart enough to make an informed decision, given access to the information. I think a majority of my fellow Americans would put themselves into that same bucket.

I'm sick of the hypocrisy. I enjoy hearing arguments against Bush. There are a lot of them. Some of them are even well-formed. I don't see any arguments against Kerry seeing the light of day. His lawyers and the media simply won't allow it. And it'll be a cold day in Hell before we see Nader allowed into a presidential debate. I'm just sick of it.

Let's all pick some random resident from the middle of Ohio and write him in for President in November, and be done with the whole mess.

here. From July 10, tho...

Sorry; you've read the 'facts' wrong. Incidentally, the front page Slashdot blurb doesn't count as factual material.

Sometimes it's a good idea to read the actual judgement in the case. Google cache.

This comment excerpts a key point from the judgement. The 'idea' in question is a development that pertains directly to Brown's normal work duties. Further, he sent a memo to management in 1996 indicating that he had developed this idea into a workable method.

It looks a lot like he did a bit of extra work related to his job, and he's trying to shake down his former employers.

I know there are already other responses that provide more facts and arguments about skin break-down voltages, fibrillation, etc, but just think for a moment: according to your logic, sticking your finger in an electric outlet is a very safe thing to do. That's only 110 volts, which at your reasoning would provide a trivial .11 mA of current.

Why don't you explain your theories to the families of the approximately 500 people a year in the US who are electrocuted from household 110 and 220 V sources.

As a kid, I did something stupid and got a 110 volt shock, and let me tell you, it's not a trivial shock.

AllAboutHorses.com suggests the average annual cost of a horse is $7160. The breakdown is $1000 for feed, $2160 for bedding, vet bills, and other supplies, and $3600 for boarding. This does not include the ammortized cost of purchasing the horse.

And for those who would rather view it in HTML (courtesy of Google, and lacking images), here it is.

Waterloo Aerial Robotics Group Google Cache

Karma police, enjoy.

Gartner Encourages Realistic Desktop Linux Expectations

Excitement might be growing about the prospects for Linux on the desktop following several high-profile government contracts, but research firm Gartner Inc is injecting a dose of realism by playing down the potential for desktop Linux.

High-profile contracts with government organizations such as City of Munich in Germany have raised excitement about Linux on the desktop, with Gartner's prediction that 220 million PCs will be replaced in 2004 and 2005 adding fuel to the fire.

However, Gartner research VP, Brian Gammage, has cast doubt on how significant a percentage of those replacement PCs will be running the open source operating system. "I think it will be significant for the Linux vendors that's for sure, but we don't see them picking up any more than 5%," he said.

In the coming weeks, Gartner will officially announce figures that show Linux has shipped on 5% of all PCs worldwide this year. It expects that figure to grow to 7.5% by 2008, but is quick to point out that this is not necessarily a representative figure of the number of Linux PCs being used.

The company estimates that perhaps 2% of all PCs shipped worldwide this year will actually be used with Linux, with that figure growing to 3.5% by 2008. "Not every PC that ships with a version of Linux continues to run with that," noted Gammage.

Nevertheless, there will be many more PCs deployed with Linux than there are today, although Gammage maintained that excitement over government contracts might be focusing attention in the wrong areas.

"All the politically motivated news from the last year did not help," he said. "The noise regarding government contracts is actually self-defeating." Gammage added that the government contracts are primarily serving a large number of users with wide application requirements, which is not necessarily a good thing for proving return on investment to cash-strapped CIOs.

"Where you have a closed domain of users and a fixed application set the ROI will be quicker," he said. "There is a sustainable opportunity for Linux in certain sectors and fixed devices."

"They [desktop Linux vendors] are doing some business but it's still niche," he said. "We're seeing slow, organic growth, which is good because it means it won't be short-lived."

Gammage also stated that until Linux is shown to support the NX (No eXecute) security technology supported in Microsoft Corp's forthcoming Windows XP Service Pack 2, it will be seen as potentially deficient to Windows. However, Red Hat released a patch for the Linux kernel to support NX in June that has the full blessing of Linux creator Linus Torvalds.

© ComputerWireTM 2004 Article Date: 22 Jul 2004

Google's Cache of the site

One of the first authoritative bodies to spell out an unequivocal verdict of not guilty for pornography was the Danish Medico-Legal Council whose 1965 report to the Danish Penal Law Committee concluded that, to the Council's knowledge, based on criminological and clinical evidence 'there exists no scientific investigations to form a basis for the supposition that pornography . . . can contribute to normal adult's or young persons' committing sexual offences' (Penal Law Committee 1966, p. 80). This distinguished body of forensic physicians and psychiatrists explicitly mentioned that the statement referred to pornographic writings, pictures and films describing normal as well as perverted sexual phenomena. Five years later the United States Commission on Obscenity and Pornography (1970, p. 53) (or rather twelve of the seventeen participating members) arrived at a similar conclusion, stating that 'empirical research designed to clarify the question has found no evidence to date that exposure to explicit sexual materials plays a significant role in the causation of delinquent or criminal behaviour among youth or adults'. Another verdict of not- guilty but this time based on overwhelming amounts of research: careful reviews of earlier research and thirty-nine additional effect studies sponsored by the Commission."

"a number of researchers in the late 1970s who, applying modern sexological laboratory techniques, were able to measure erectile responses in convicted rapists and normals who were watching, listening to, or reading depictions of sexual activities including consenting and coercive sex. The first results (several studies by Abel, Barbaree, Marshall, Quinsey and others) seemed very promising: while normals showed greater arousal to scenes of mutually consenting sex than they did to similar scenes involving coerced sex, rapists appeared to be equally aroused by the consensual and the coerced scenes. However, subsequent large-scale replications of these studies, as well as a more recent intensive study have shown that among a group of rapists, arousal to forced sex was significantly lower than it was to consenting sex; moreover, the rapists did not differ in this regard from groups of ordinary men (Kutchinsky 1991; forthcoming). Meanwhile, despite the negative findings of the United States Obscenity Commission, which were later reiterated by the British Williams Committee in 1979, the idea that pornography may be the direct cause of rape had continued to gain support among anti- pornography groups; and since the mid-1970s the Christian/Conservative moralists viewpoints (which had been voiced, among others, by the minority of the U.S. Obscenity Commission) were joined by feminist oriented groups."

While I agree that microsoft is rather underhanded in their buisness practices, the accusation of them stealing the windows concept from apple isn't true. Both apple and ms got the idea from xerox...

True, but Apple engineers took what they saw at Xerox and expanded upon it into a fully-fledged OS. Microsoft added a clause into a product for the Macintosh which Apple believed was giving a license for UI use on just Windows 1.0 as a cooling off period, but instead gave away the look and feel of the Macintosh to Microsoft entirely, which MS then proceeded to plunder in legendary fashion.

Ironically, Either Apple or Microsoft could theoretically have sued many of the Xwindows systems out of existence, but once the (legally protected) Windows prescident was set, the (non-legally protected) flood of similar Operating Systems with similar looks and feels was released upon the world.

Theoretically, this has allowed Operating System creators to learn freely from eachother, which should allow us to reach a state of computing Nirvana. Freeflow of ideas, yadda yadda. Sadly, in many ways it allows the dominant OS vendor to stay "good enough" at all times, freely stealing the fruits of other people's software when it becomes important, and allowing them to fail with their own experiments without contributing to the pot.

So yes, while Apple was inspired by the work at Xerox, Microsoft's arrangement with Apple more directly resembles contract theft.

The French were just an easy example; however, when your own press says your intelligence agency routinely eavesdrops on business conversations and distributes data to recipients including both government agencies and French companies, it's a pretty good bet they do in fact commit industrial espionage. The French do it. The Germans do it. The Israelis, South Koreans, Japanese, all of them do it. The US probably does it too.

Business travelers talk business in the air. There have been a lot of cases of industrial espionage, either accused or proven, where the assumption is government agencies were involved (Boeing winglet design stolen for Aerospatiale, Tu-144 copying Concorde, French black-bag and bugging jobs against IBM's euro offices). It is documented.

I have nothing against the French. But I admit my country's faults when they're legit - do you?

(oh, and fuck you. I'm a liberal anti-Bush voter from an urban area who uses mass transportation, can't stand SUVs, believes in strong privacy rights, human rights, and civil rights. I can't possibly watch Fox News because I don't have cable TV. Don't ad hominem me just because your country happens to be one of the prime examples of governmental espionage feeding business intel to corporate interests.)

What, those mustard gas and sarin canisters that the Polish troops recently aren't WMD? read it here.

Iraq and Al-Qaeda cooperative ties not the case?

You haven't really read that report have you? Or listened to all the senators that had to get on TV to say that while there was no evidence that there was a direct tie to 9/11, there certainly was that Al-Qaeda and Iraq were in bed together. Check this for one of the stories about that.

Or try reading this.

Who's to say that the NYTs last mistake was the yellow cake thing? It's certainly is not. I heard a report within the last couple of days that Libya is going to say in September (don't know why they're waiting) that Iraq was working with them on nuclear stuff. No news reports on that yet (not that I expected it them yet), but it sure would be pretty damning if it ended up being true.

Don't think that could happen? Well, everyone was SO SURE about the yellow cake, just a few months ago....

Besides, it's not in their track record to do it that way.

Not in their track record? This is a company that even has a tactic of hiring so many lawyers that their competitors can't hire any. They are behind campaign contributions, charities, think tanks, and advocacy groups- funding a lawsuit is definitely not implausible for them.

Wikipedia is probably the second most recognized Open Source project out there (Linux is prolly number 1). See Wikipedia:Press coverage (or Google cache if it's /.-ed)

That...didn't work.

Try this <--Not a trick link.

... And here it is [Here]

The Copyright to the film is owned by "Westside Productions, LLC."

Westside Productions
331 West 57th Street, #201
New York City, NY 10019
Tel: 718-399-3279 Fax: 212-399-3500

Call and ask them who are members of the LLC. At least I believe that is them. Another google result. Draw your own conclusions ...

Westside Productions
Subject: Executive Assistant - (New York, NY)
Posted At 05:07:02 09/25/2003
Position will provide executive administrative support to high-profile New York-based filmmaker/director. Duties include preparing correspondence, managing busy calendar, answering calls, scheduling appointments and coordinating travel, maintaining filing system, expense reporting, multi-tasking and priortizing assignments, assisting with publicity and creative work as needed. Job Requirements: No recent college graduates. 5 year work experience as a secretary or assistant is preferred for this job. Need a savvy, well spoken, hard working candidate with initiative, good judgement and a sense of humor. Strong command of Word, Excel, Outlook.

Google Cache

Here ya go.

"But that's just idle speculation by me. What do you think will happen when humans have practically nothing else to do?"

Procreate.

Soon we'll have robots helping build houses.

Priceless! I was trying to figure out how the hell this could possibly work, until I hit the last paragraph.... Somebody mark the parent as the best troll of the year!

Sorry I wasn't able to respond sooner (I really was asleep), but I didn't make that up.

Here are some links about it the hairdryer attack.

CNet News

Some professor's lecture notes (Google Cache)

It's quite real. If you deny that such attacks exist, you're living in a fantasy world.

www.bobbemer.com (official website)

And the google cache for the impending slashdotting

Among the more interesting tidbits is that he coined the word COBOL

Introduction to NX technology

Newsforge article

Potential source for FreeNX Server

Link to Google cache of the Salary Survey file.

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I'll give 2:1 odds its down before 10 comments are posted...

Please enjoy Google's version of the main page (efficientpowersupplies.org)

Please enjoy Google's HTML Version of the PDF.

I promise no Karma Whoring, courtesy of your (sometimes) friendly AC :)

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I'll give 2:1 odds its down before 10 comments are posted...

Please enjoy Google's version of the main page (efficientpowersupplies.org)

Please enjoy Google's HTML Version of the PDF.

I promise no Karma Whoring, courtesy of your (sometimes) friendly AC :)

here's one with all the banks on one cpu
here's a nice little overview

Kathleen's site seems like it has also been slashdotted. Google cache