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What is presented as 'world' news on such networks as BBC (Britain) and Deutsche Welle [German Waves] (Eng. version, Germany), it seems that these networks actually present stories about what is going on around the world. When you watch ABC 'World' News, you have to wonder why they call it 'world' news when the only news stories they cover are exclusively American! The only way they can justify the news they cover as world news might be if something else somewhere else involves Americans or America. For example, American troops are overseas in Iraq, the Chinese are building a military (threat to America), etc.
First of all, I have to question this strategy as very deceptive. In addition, this comes across as very arrogant and paints a picture of Americans that we don't care anything about the rest of the world and/or what's going on in it. As an intelligent person born, raised and living in America, we are not this ignorant and do care about what else goes on in the world. If it wasn't for the Internet and the presence of world news online, this country would truly become the isolationist icon that someone, somewhere for some reason wants it to. I don't think that state control of the media is any worse than the control that's enjoyed over American media. Now, if you go to ABC News online http://www.abcnews.com/, you get a different story. Suddenly, there's the world news from an American media outlet. Why don't they show more of this on the nightly news broadcast like the rest of the world does?
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So what we end up with is this: Yes, a few important news items didn't get covered by the American media when they should have been. Too bad. They were covered by other media, so any ignorance that exists is ignorance by choice.
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It seems that what you're saying here is that we can go to other media outlets to learn of world news. This is true and necessary. However, I would have to point out that American media is controlled by forces far worse than the state. That force is one of power, money and greed.

More food for thought...

When I told my wife of the incident a few hours ago, her initial reaction was "I didn't know that handguns had that many bullets."

There is now speculation that the gunman had high capacity ammo clips. High capacity clips just recently became legal when the former Republically-controlled Congress allowed the assault gun ban to expire.

ABC News has an "interesting" http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalradar/2007/03/mc cains_myspace.htmlarticle about this that shows mainstream media's typical sensationalist hype of things and also shows most people's lack of knowledge and general disregard of technology.

I especially love how the opening line refers to this prank as "a new weapon in campaign digital media warfare", then the article goes on to use phrases such as "McCain didn't give him credit and Davidson sought retribution" and buzzwords like "The Internet battlefield".

I find Mr. Rasiej's comment that "This just goes to show that the Internet is an entirely new battlefield for many of these candidates and they are going to have to develop sophisticated new responses to deal with them" very interesting, since the "sophisticated new response" to this would have been to show some creativity, design your own image, and not leach someone else's bandwidth with an image that has nothing to do with your message. McCain's incompetent Web designer couldn't even be bothered to notice that the image in question said "No requests for design help please". I don't think I'll be asking McCain or any of his peoplefor design help, especially now!

The article also goes on to compare this incident with such things as a genuinely serious security flaw discovered in Rudy Giuliani's website and to Phil de Velis's Clinton/Obama mock political ad. And just to stir in a little more controversy, they had to add that de Velis "formerly lived with a current Obama staffer". Big deal!

Typical mainstream media sensationalistic BS hype! Hopefully nothing bad comes of this.

Congratulations. You have been randomly selected for enhanced screening procedures. I wouldn't take it personally, they are required to do a full inspection now and then.

Either that or they thought you were smuggling in guns. You probably haven't heard but every gun used in a crime in Canada was smuggled in from the USA. ;)

http://blogs.abcnews.com/theblotter/2006/05/illega l_gun_pip.html

http://blogs.abcnews.com/theblotter/2006/08/author ities_war.html

It has happened already. Where were you in 2004?

And people that respond to Nigerian scam emails are idiots, too. Even Chelsea Clinton's future father-in-law,. . .

Cite your source please, I've been checking Wash post, Times, Salon, etc I can't find anything about any of those things. Can you elaborate on some of the points you made?

Pelosi's "100-hour plan"

Expect a stalled government for the next two years as Dems fulfill a personal vendetta and investigate the crap out of everything to make Hillary Clinton happy after the impeachment era of the 90s. Meanwhile, the record economy crashes from Pelosi's tax hikes (and gets blamed on Bush, of course).

I can say "Fuck Bush" all I want.

Sure. But you can't tell the administration that their policy is reprehensible, or joke that the army has run out of low lying fruit, or discuss possible ways for terrorists to attack us. Without accusations of treason or actual arrest, anyways.

Hope you're feeling safer with a government that would rather arrest teenagers than do anything to actually protect the government against terrorists.

You mean, they surrender like the US soldiers, who abandoned truck drivers ?

No one has been blackmailed or otherwise had any information misused.

Yeah, I mean it's not like they've been using it to discover reporter's confidential sources or anything.

Or at least when they try to stop the countdown and management refuses to do so, they'll resign in protest...

perhaps this might shed some light on it : http://blogs.abcnews.com/theblotter/2006/05/bin_la den_on_th.html

http://www.keylength.com/ has sound information about how long a key needs to be to resist brute force attacks.

There will be a different key for each phone call so if it takes a cluster of supercomputers for ten years to guess a key [hypothetical example, it will actually be more], then they'll have to run for another decade to listen to the next call.

Much more practical for an eavesdropper is traffic analysis. Bunch of evening and late night calls to a particular number? Followed by the guy's phone being in range of a foreign cell all night? Number belongs to a single woman? Now you know he's having an affair without decrypting a single call. You're a government official and news of your crimes appears on ABC? See who's calling the journalists. Regular calls to AA? Great for campaign smear tactics.

You can oppose anything by invoking the worst possible scenario consequences.

Worst-case scenario, huh?

Your 'worst-case scenarios' are happening.

Right now.

Get your head out of the sand.

Just wanted to note that there was a typo in the first line... instead of "citizens of this country do see a problem ", it should be "citizens of this country don't see a problem". Sorry if there was any confusion.

For those interested, the link to the ABC blog is: http://blogs.abcnews.com/theblotter/2006/05/federa l_source_.html

The BF quote is from Wikiquote: http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Benjamin_Franklin

You know, I can't help but wonder if/when this country will ever fall from its current global position. I am reminded of a previous /. posting on a nuclear waste repository in New Mexico, and the plans on how to warn future generations of its dangers. In the article they mention that the NRC expects to have administrative control of the land for only the next 200 years. The presumption being that at some point in the relatively near future the country may not exist.

Sometimes I wonder how that fall will occur. If it will start with the slow erosion of our rights and freedoms, and transition into a some sort of repressive iron fisted govt. that falls from grace. But above all I am amazed that people don't seem to care all that much about the current situation. Where is the outrage? Where is the Press? If we did nuke Iran, would a majority in this country care? Would a majority in this country care if the govt. keeps track of and a central database listing who EVERYONE talks to and is associated with? Would a majority care if the govt. kept recordings of all our phone conversations? What about emails? Would a majority care if the government made a profile of every citizen in this country and assessed them a threat rating based off of who they talk to, their financial info, travel info, and their personal associations? What happens when a red flag goes up? Do they get renditioned by intelligence officers? Where is the line in the sand? Where is this all heading?

You don't have anything to fear if you don't have anything to hide. I guess thats how it starts.

>> to/from al-queda persons. At least that is what they keep repeating in

>> defending their nsa spying on u.s. citizens fiasco. I guess it's just

>> another lie.

1) This article is about the call records (number, duration) - not the contents of the calls was the case in the NSA monitoring calls between U.S. citizens and Al Queda members (where one party was outside of the U.S).

2) Then ABC revealed the use of CIA predator missiles inside Pakistan, it certainly does touch on Al Queda.

The Afgnanistan/Pakistan border area is reportedly a site of Al Queda activity. Pakistan does aid the U.S. in this area, but also has an internal situation that makes it difficult for them when Pakistan's government is revealed as aiding the U.S. in this area. So, revealing information about such aid makes it more difficult to secure future aid because the Pakistan leaders will be worried that the U.S. will be unable to keep their assistance secret.

So, if ABC news used leakers inside the CIA as the source of their story on the predator missiles inside of Pakistan they are directly interfering with the Al Queda situation.

The friendly article touches (very lightly) on this: http://blogs.abcnews.com/theblotter/2006/05/federa l_source_.html

People questioned by the FBI about leaks of intelligence information say the CIA was also disturbed by ABC News reports that revealed the use of CIA predator missiles inside Pakistan.

"Intellectually consistent"

Kailash Nadh writes to tell us ABC News is reporting that IBM is teaming up with several other companies to form a group called Aperi. This group will attempt to "push the open source idea deeper into computing" and "free up the bottlenecks that can occur when a business has bought tape and disk storage systems from a variety of vendors." The partnership is to include companies like Cisco, Sun, Fujitsu, and several others.

and Disney did it so they could show more of there good side to the public by having an in in the media.

Didn't Disney already have an "in" in the media?

The article tells of systematic rape and abuse with no punishment, and with generations of incest producing an inbred and backwards society, condoned by the american govt. giving them the legal right to police themselves, dealing out their own justice where they see fit.

After reading the entirety of the article, it would be hard to dismiss this as an isolated case, but if you do and still consider that they represent some noble return-to-basics society and that their rejection of technology is somehow endearing, there are other sources, and a dedicated blog that may help to change your mind.

This is kinda old

They've formed some kind of partnership with a new cable TV channel: http://abcnews.com/Entertainment/wireStory?id=6410 91, in addition to video.google.com.

From the article:
"The channel also has established a partnership with the Google search engine, which will provide twice-an-hour updates on viewers' top Internet searches. Sergey Brin, the 31-year old co-founder of Google, praised the channel as an effective way to distribute video in a way that frees it from the limited bandwidth and other technological challenges that has kept it from being widely available on the Web.
"The one remaining area where it's been hard as both a contributor and as viewer of user-driven content is video," Brin said. "Given that Current has taken on this challenge ... I think this could be a really fantastic experience. I'm looking forward to a much greater breadth of TV viewing.""

sIFR has come far enough to be used on major websites. Aside from seeing it in places like one of the website of the person who perfected it, it's also appearing on mainstream websites -- take ABC News. Their headlines are rendered using sIFR for browsers that support it.

WinAmp got in there for awhile, because neither Media Player nor RealPlayer could actually the bottleneck - especially for MP3 playback. When their inferior MP3 features finally arrived, they blew away WinAmp's lead, because of bundling.

I submit that a) WinAmp is still around (I'm listening to WMAs with WinAmp at the moment), and b) their business has failed to prosper not because of Microsoft, but because they never figured out how to charge money for it. If you make only one product, and give it away for free, you are going to have problems in the business world. The only reason WinAmp is still around is that AOL bought 'em, and hasn't yet shut 'em down.

By contrast, Real Media has figured out how to sell their players--despite WMP being bundled in the OS. Take a look, for instance, at ABC News. You can watch tonight's broadcast--if you subscribe to Real Media's paid-content service. That service benefits--big time--from Microsoft selling the Media Edition (or whatever they call it) of Windows XP. Microsoft is creating the market for them.

Internet Explorer
I shouldn't get into this--the topic can't be discussed reasonably in an online forum without starting a flame war. But I have the misfortune of having read the actual trial court decision, and of having read the briefs and decision of the appellate court. Let me quote an expert statement on the subject--yours: "Every OS includes one, even when there are alternatives." But that's a thread for another place and time....

Bill Gates' home address:
1835 73rd Ave NE, Medina, WA 98039

Dick Cheney's driver's license number

George Bush's arrest record

Ken Lay's bank balance: $0

I tell you, buy a Microsoft penis enlargment kit, and you'll increase in size by this amount in one day.

One World, One Party, One Operating System

When I want your opinion, I'll give it to you

A lot of bad things can happen to a company using non-windows Operating Systems, you know. We wouldn't want that to happen now would we?

Oh dear, oh dear, oh dear, we've got a customer who doesn't want to renew their software licenses. What are we going to do?

Saw this story yesterday on ABCNEWS.com, Study: Sleep Essential for Creative Thinking, Sharper Memories . The thing I didn't understand was, didn't we already know this before? Students who sleep more tend to get better grades, students who sleep less, don't? But remember, as anyone who has taken an elementary logic or stats course, the first thing they teach you is: causation != correlation. For example, in the above instance, it could be that students who sleep less are from poorer families, and have to work more (read: jobs), thereby getting less sleep, while people who get more sleep are from more wealthy families, etc. I'd be interested in seeing the real study data instead of just a news article. Here's a paragraph from the ABCNEWS article that I thought was interesting:

History is dotted with incidents where artists and scientists have awakened to make their most notable contributions after long periods of frustration. For example, that's how Russian chemist Dmitri Mendeleev established the periodic table of elements and British poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge wrote his epic "Kubla Khan."

Pretty soon he'll probably start shooting people with glasses ("intellectuals")


Charity begins at home.

James Gold, Older brother of Thomas, says "Will not!"
Secretary of Planetary Society claims "Liar, Liar, pants on fire"
Louis Freedman picks nose while he thinks, says wife
FLASH! LOUIS FREEDMAN PICKS NOSE!
The Case of Exploding Journalists [Dave Barry]
I Do not! claims Louis Freedman on Letterman show"

I'll update this list when I see more information. This looks really interesting -- it's hitting all the major media!.

Actually, there is more direct proof:

Bush Declares Iraq Democracy Can Flourish:

"We're not going to have a debate on the form of the government," Bush said firmly. "This debate is going to take place within Iraq."

Helping craft an "Islamic democracy," as a White House spokesman pledged, is dicey business. The United States has promised democracy for Iraq, but has ruled out the kind of Islamic government that democracy could yield.

With Shiite Muslims forming more than 60 percent of Iraq's population, a free vote could produce an Islamic-oriented government with close ties to the historically anti-American Shiite clerics who have governed Iran since the 1979 Islamic revolution.

In an interview with The Associated Press, Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld said the United States will not allow a religious government like Iran's to take hold in Iraq.

Sen. Bob Graham, D-Fla., said Rumsfeld's position "demonstrates the kind of quagmire that we are potentially going to be in Iraq."

"If you talk about a democracy, which means that people vote and select the political leadership that they desire, then you can't say, `But there are certain segments of the population that are off-limits,'" the 2004 presidential hopeful said Sunday on ABC's "This Week."

A group of Iraqis in Michigan wrote a communique outlining their hopes for their native country. It asks that "Iraqis be allowed to be the masters of their own destiny," said Jafar al-Musawi, a Dearborn-based Iraqi writer.

No Islamic government for Iraq:

Looking ahead, Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said Washington won't allow an Iranian-style Islamic government in Iraq.

Iran in turn rejected U.S. administration accusations that it is interfering in Iraq. It said the United Nations, not the United States, should run an interim postwar government.

The commander of U.S.-led forces in Iraq, Gen. Tommy Franks, said those troops could remain for ''months, or a year or two'' to ensure stability as Iraqis develop their new government.

"The fact is we don't know how long it'll take ... because we do not yet know exactly how devoted the Iraqis themselves will be in getting over their own tribal and ethnic and religious difficulties," Franks said in an interview in Friday's St. Petersburg Times.

Those difficulties could include a drive for an Islamic government by Iraq's Shiite Muslim majority, which was repressed under Saddam.

Rumsfeld said the United States-which has promised to let Iraqis choose their own government-will not permit the establishment of a religious government comparable to the one in neighbouring Iran.

"If you're suggesting, how would we feel about an Iranian-type government with a few clerics running everything in the country, the answer is: That isn't going to happen," Rumsfeld told The Associated Press.

why cause it doesn't agree with you? doesn't fit your line of thought?

well here's something else that will piss you off...poll results on Bush
Approval Ratings Support the War 72% President's Approval Overall 67% President's Approval on Iraq 65% U.S. Tried Enough Diplomacy 67% Right for U.S. to Attack Now 62% Link

ABC News just launched a live 24 hour newsfeed service in conjunction with Real, so if you pay a few bucks and have a fat connection to the internet, you can watch the war as it unfolds on your computer. Now if only CNN would follow suit...I'd sign up for it.

here is a nice pic of a glowing rabbit!

http://i.abcnews.com/media/OnAir/images/ho_alba_gr een_000918_h.jpg

I just wish my own state's Supreme Court had a clue. This just in: it's legal to record video up a woman's skirt, without her knowledge. (Don't forget to watch the video, too.)

"In the early days of online advertising in the mid-1990s, click through for banner ads might have been any where from 5 percent to 6 percent. But Denise Garcia, a media analyst for GarnterG2, a market research firm in Stamford, Conn., says that click through for banners have fallen to roughly two-tenths of a percent. "It's amazing that it's fallen so dramatically," says Garcia."

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...saying a lot of what we all knew. I read the article on CNN about the "JPG virus", and it was obvious that they'd either got it totally wrong, or were trying to hype it.

One of my favorite quotes was:
Until now, viruses infected program files -- files that can be run on their own. Data files, like movies, music, text and pictures, were safe from infection. While earlier viruses deleted or modified data files, Perrun is the first to infect them.

Uhm... see. I had always thought that Word documents were data files (text). And I remember them being particularly responsible for a whole lot of annoying macro virii.

But on the Katzian subject, at least it was obvious that michael knew more about the subject than the people who wrote (and were interviewed) for the article I quoted. And it was nice to see an article that presented a bigger picture.

However, just because every other news outlet in the world spends all their time trying to expose shocking stories about conspiracy, etc, etc -- all of which could probably be titled something like "capitalists still trying to make money off of consumers" -- doesn't mean that /. should follow suit and do the same thing. Unless, of course, michael does some actual investigative research and finds out something *new* and *exciting* or *revealing* and then has something to tell us.

What's my point? Well - Slashdot already links to other stories from other news sources. We don't need to steal their shitty journalism too. We already have our own style of shitty journalism.

Objective? On Slashdot? If you're looking for an objective report, maybe you should counsider other news sources. But if you're just looking for news for nerds, you're at the right place.

"I believe that in 10 years we definitely will have hybrid molecular-silicon circuitry," Williams said. "Molecules will take over more of the computational tasks of the system and the silicon will become just the input-output device and the power supply."

It happens randomly (it's an ad, after all), in the fart^H right column, so here's a screen shot.

That does not appear to be an advertisement, even remotely.

Here's another story on it from ABCNews.com

From ABCNews.com:

The goatse.cx man, undergoing treatment for an enlarged anus, is having complications with his current proceedure. During insertion of the anal probe, video was lost to the Internet webcam monitoring the operation. A spokesperson from the American proctologist association was quoted as saying "Of course it can't see! It's covered in shit!." The goatse.cx man was unavailable for comment.

I actually read the article on ABCNews.com not the article on the NY Times, but the ABC article seemed to be devoid of any useful information. I attend Duke, one of the schools that was issued a search warrant, but I haven't been able to find any relevant information on campus. Anyone know anything else? Who exactly got raided? What they did? Etc?

All smartcards I know of need a reader, and the reader usually provides the power to the smartcard for it to do it's thing... why would smartcards benifit from this? Are they going to put LCD displays on smartcards now?

"But with a flexible battery, smart-card makers could soon include a tiny display screen on the card itself that would allow users easy access to that account data."

Another application could be two-way encrypted communication.

This Article has some good updated info on what the US has found out about the terrorists so far.

abcnews.com has been doing just fine. they switched to "light" mode way before everyone else.

Here's an excerpt:

Hackers -- and Cops -- Converge in Las Vegas

At the ninth annual Def Con convention in Las Vegas, thousands of computer hackers and code-breakers gathered to compare notes and tricks on breaking into computer systems. And that caught the attention of some legal authorities.

Dmitry Sklyarov, a 26-year old Russian programmer and one of the convention speakers, was arrested by the FBI at the show. The programmer was accused of creating and selling a software program that lets users copy electronic books. If convicted of violating the 1998 Digital Millennium Copyright Act, Sklyarov could face five years in prison and a $500,000 fine.

Convention attendees say they are there to share concerns about computer security issues, and that most of them are not criminals. "There's a lot of intellectual people, a lot of very bright kids who are here," said one attendee who requested not to be identified.

But why do hackers break into corporate or government computers? "The control you have when you get through on a system," said one attendee who identified himself as Netranger. "It's the most exhilarating thing that you can probably get."

It's also interesting to note that abcnews.com's top story this morning is a piece on resume padding, by the way.

- Firedog

everyone should know this is just another disney promotion.

Well, of course it is. It was one of the top 3 stories on ABCNews.com today. And, as many people know, ABCNews is owned by the Disney corporation.

I was over at ABCNews.com and saw a similar article. In this article, "Jeff Welser, manager of high performance semiconductor technology at IBM, says chips using such strained silicon transistors will be 35 percent faster than chips using similar-sized, non-strained transistors." strained transistors is what they are calling the slimmer transisters.
IBM says they can roll out there by 2003 because new assembly lines wouldn't be need to actuall put the transistors on the chips. Apparently new technology is needed for the underlying silcon-germanium that "stretches" the transistors by forcing them to conform to it's shape.

The article also talks about Intel having created a a smaller transistor. It's 20-nanometers in size, and that's "500 times narrower than a strand of human hair, or about 30 percent smaller than the current fastest transistors being researched". They say you could fit ipto 1 billion on a chip the size of a P4. According to the article a P4 has 42 million transistors on it. This technology will take longer because INTEL has only been able to make a few of these on a chip. They are estimating 2007.

According to the obit posted March 22nd on ABCNews.com Mr. Hanna was gone, deceased, dead, an ex animator, holding his breath forever, taking the long blink, taking the dirt nap, etc. three days ago.

Your headline makes it sound like he died today. You mean he wasn't really dead, but now he is, cuz you say so? So you mean you killed him again?!

You BASTARDS, you KILLED BILL HANNA!