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• AOL search for 'linens' - "recommended sites" then "sponsored sites" then "matching sites"
• MSN search for 'linens' - actually, this one has "featured sites", then "sponsored sites", then real links. The "featured sites" are numbered along with the search results, and are apparently hosted on MSN.
• Yahoo search for 'linens' - Category matches, then Sponsor Matches, then website matches.
• Lycos for 'linens' - Sponsored Matches, then "from the lycos network" listed as a result, then real results.
• AltaVista for 'linens' - "Products and services" (links to overture, definitely NOT clearly marked), then a "shortcut" to dealtime, also not clearly marked, then real results.

That's because eBay and Amazon lately have been top bidders for the George Bush "keyword," offering 11 cents and 10 cents, respectively, for each click-through a search engine delivers.

So by clicking on these repetedly we can cost eBay and Amazon loads of money!! However doing so supports the search engines whom have sold search placements....

To click, or not to click, that is the question.
eBay
Amazon

That's because eBay and Amazon lately have been top bidders for the George Bush "keyword," offering 11 cents and 10 cents, respectively, for each click-through a search engine delivers.

So by clicking on these repetedly we can cost eBay and Amazon loads of money!! However doing so supports the search engines whom have sold search placements....

To click, or not to click, that is the question.
eBay
Amazon

Hmm... so eBay is paying 11 cents a click? What if we all go over to AltaVista, for example, type "George Bush" in the box, click "Search," and click on the eBay link without buying anything? At 11 cents a click times thousands and thousands of viewers... ;-)

google: uses javascript, uses graphics, but not relying on it.

gmx: dito (though they are using such gimmicks excessively...)

yahoo: dito

altavista: dito

not necessary to say something about /. or fm here...

What they have in common: useful functions/content.

What success would a "real" store have with a sign at the door: "Sorry but you have to wear shoes by company XY to enter this shop"?

Heise claims Fastrack looked Morpheus out on purpose. They have an article about it. babelfish can't be directly linked to translate it from german, they seem to check the reffer now.

According to this detailed article: http://www.repubblica.it/online/tecnologie_interne t/discarica/discarica/discarica.html (in italian, use the fish, the main recycling site is asia, and the outcome is *quite* toxic for local populatons.

• And that brings us to my point: making software compatible with older hardware shouldn't be a goal in and of itself. Why? One need only to venture over to Pricewatch to see that an AMD 1800+ mobo/CPU combo sells for under $300. Systems faster than what anyone could ever need are commodities now.

• Altavista
• Alltheweb
• Picsearch

ok, this project is really kewl ;-)

i read a while ago about a guy who was building wind-up flashlights, for everywhere, and things like wind-up radios and televisions for places like rural africa. no batteries! (except internal lithium rechargeable? can a capacitor handle the charge storage? i dunno.) the radio just needs a few cranks every now and then and it will pipe out broadcasts for a few hours before needing a new crank. here's a link i found.

so we have all these failed (business-wise) iridium satellites flying around and other satellite networks with a few extra bandwidths here and there that might be persuaded to have something alloted from them for this project.

so make a pda that has a handcrank, uplinks to a satellite, and is basically nothing but a glorified Instant Messenging App with some sort of Babelfish (the fish!) built in that translates whatever native language is involved into a neutral heuristic. then that xml heuristic is uplinked via satellite, downloaded to a recipient, and retranslated into whatever language the recipient is using on their pda.

i'm certain that would be kewl enough for these kids to take home with them after a few days, get hooked on, and use as long as the handcrank still works, the supposed lithium batteries don't bleed away, the ruggedized case survives kid-friendly drops and crunches and unfriendly monsoons and drops in streams and drainage ditches, and the satellites stay in orbit and their bandwidth backers stay interested in the program.

i think that your biggest challenge, whatever tech you implement, will be keeping them interested. it would be a shame to blow all that dough on something that stops working after a few days or the kids just plain lose interest in because of complexity or lack of compelling features.

ok, kind of ambitious, but it sounds like you have some money to burn ;-) i was thinking illiteracy would be a problem, but not really: can you think of a better motivator for a rural poor kid to get reading or what? good luck! look forward to reading about how it is all received on slashdot in 2005 ;-)

I believe the German for "Monkey Boy" is "Fallhammerjunge" according to Babelfish and "I love this company" translates as "Ich liebe diese Firma".

This could be useful stuff to know for the next convention of MS Gmbh...

One toy they built was the Factoid, a Peer-to-Peer information exchanging keychain dongle. It's about the size of a stick of gum, runs for a long time on watch-batteries, uses a short-range radio link, and trades things it knows with other Factoids, typically with data objects up to about 200 bytes long - business cards and that sort of thing.

The Research Paper ;

Here is a MIRROR so we avoid another situation like the previous Microsoft posting.

Thank You

Al.

What I want to know is: who are the politicians making all of these progressive decisions

The German Government is a coalition between the Social Democratic Party and the Green Alliance.

On the Bundesministerium Wirtschaft und Technologie's (Federal Ministry of Economics and Technology's) site you can see more about who makes up the ministry. The BMWi's site also carries more information about this story.

Heise is a leading German news source. You'll find more information about similar technology news there.

The German CIA fact file has some more background about Germany.

Most of these sites have English versions, but there's not always the same level of detail. If you can stand its translations, it might be worthwhile firing up Babelfish or a similar translation service.

Mets-en 'sti!

Pis j'ai mauditement honte que le gouvernement fédéral ait pris possession du symbole de la feuille d'érable. C'était le symbole du canadien-français, sur une commande de la société Saint-Jean Batiste, tout comme le Ô Canada.

And if you guys want a badly translated version of what I just said, try the fish.

For those who can't read and/or render Japanese characters, here is AltaVista's translation.

IMHO, Google has lost its accuracy and its results lack relevance compared to the all-time-favourite Altavista (which I usually access the light way).
I just can't find the equivalent of Altavista's syntax on Google.

Need an example ?
Remember the hint that appeared in italics :
Need a bedtime story ?
Type : +Fairy +princ* -dragon

(note the wildcard use)

There are also lots of short ways to find which pages refer to one another (+link:...) or if you want to filter whichever result after a given url part (+url:...)

But, on the bottom, the guy is right, most people now ask Google first instead of looking for a funky domain name which sounds like what they'd enter in the Google form.

Instead of hiring expensive lawyers to do the prior-art search before granting patents, why don't they just employ a bunch of semi-trained monkeys to type the patent title into a decent search engine, and grant the patent based on the results?

Of course you'd need a Legal gibberish to English translation tool as well.

The problem with this is that most large companies deliberately give patent applications vague and general titles. This is because the title of the patent becomes public before the body of it - and there's no point telling your competition what you're working on until necessary.

IANAL

The German company Crayon doesn't make crayons. The word crayon when referring to crayons is a generic term. Crayola crayons are trademarked.

Trademark law frequently permits trademarking generic terms when they refer to unusual uses of those terms. As an example, think of Microsoft Windows. Even if trademark law didn't permit such trademarking, the German word for crayon isn't "crayon"--it's "zeichenstift" according to babelfish. I'm sure there are US companies that have trademarked words that would be generic in other languages, so it should stand to reason that German law permits trademarking of foreign words that would be generic in their native languages.

Unfortunately, the real problem seems to be with the German court system permitting potentially-disastrous injunctions to be granted on the flimsiest of evidence or without real justification. The German company Crayon should be required to show that failure to grant the injunction would result in serious and irreparable harm before being granted the injunction. It's clear that the injunction was granted on flimsy grounds and shouldn't have been granted in the first place.

French Slashdotters may have heard about David Hirschmann. In short (if you don't like Fish) David Hirschmann was supposed to have some misconception of the corporate world which he shared with one of his female co-workers an inapropriate way. She then would have forwarded it around the Internet and at the end DH may have comitted suicide.
This got covered quite a lot by the French Press but finally appeared to be a hoax as no one of these protagonists actualy existed.
Now in this case I'd also tend to think that it may not be real...
I don't know people as stupid as this b.shifman that would have an internet connection.
There's something extreme here. it smells like comedy...

Gravenreuth FAQ

In case you need the fish.

I agree with most what Red Eyes said. The ironic thing is the image of China becomes more and more negative in the last decade, but, if you ask an oridinary Chinese, most of them (>80%) will prefer to live in the modern China, rather than the one 20yrs ago... Nevertheless, the Chinese govt has hell of things needed to improve, but, they are not devils.

The most difficult thing for worldwide audience is, they can only hear two voices for news related to China: 1) propaganda from the Communist party 2) one-sided argument from people against that party --for good or bad reasons... That's sort of expected. These 2 kinds of people are more inclined to translate what they think to English in order to lend support from the world. You know that's a big hassel. Their audience is not ordinary Chinese...

Religion freedom is a throny issue. We keep on hearing something like gross oppression of religion freedom in China. It is quite true, but, not as violent/brute as illustrated.

Well, those Christians allowed to practice in China are allowed because their religion was "registered". Not too sure what this means, but I'm supposing you have to have government approval to be recognized. Yes, the

According to a mainstream Christian website that regularly send pastors to China for exchange, both legally and secretely, China allows non party members to choose what they believe. (The website is in Chinese. BabelFish may help). The number of registered Christian is about 10M in 1997. The registered church can teach what the Bible said, but they are not allowed to stick posters or preach in public and cannot organise private gathering outside the church etc. There are also underground mainstream church groups. The number of following may be 7-8 times of registered.

But, the ones that make the most headlines are those more non-mainstream church. Many of them are formed locally and claim the leader as modern day Jesus etc. While non-mainstream (or cult) does not necessary means bad, but.... I personally think China's heavy-handed religious policy backfires. With no good competition from good religion organisations, cult booms... Learning takes time. (Remember the European history in 18-19 century? )

Same applies to Falun Gong. Most of its followers are nice. But, "Master Li"'s (Falun Gong leader) teaching is very dubious. His early tape circulating in China contains something like "Upon the request of Li Peng (the infamous premier), Master Li stopped the Earth from imploding for a further 10 yrs"....

which checks your Accept_Language HTTP header to see if the primary language is one that babelfish can handle, and if it is redirects you to the bablefish translation of the page, otherwise to the english version.

hmmm, according to the fish it means "monkey". I don't get it, but I'm neither quick of wit nor a speculater. Maybe he is "monkeying" around with Macro$oft? I always thought it was odd that they were trying to infect computers with mononucleosis (see, I told you about my lack of wit).

www.photologie.net has a geat walkthrough for laser pointer holograms with lots of pictures.

It covers adding more power to the pointer as well and some details for opening the caseing without damageing it.

Bust out your Dremel tool and potentiometer, and use the fish cuz its in French.

Other sites you may consider include near Broome, with it's fabulous beaches, or Denmark, much colder and more crowded but with many lovely large trees, or perhaps somewhere along the scenic vehicle-destroying Gibb River Road.

(some Hamersely views included here, mostly from Transmission Hill (AKA Wireless Hill or Radio Hill depending on sobriety levels) at Paraburdoo, Western Australia, some Broome views in the earlier sessions).

Well, we could Babelfish it, but I think it loses something in the translation.

That's not an isolated case either. Another Powermac got toasted and lived to tell about it and the pictures to prove it (Babelfish translation, site is in spanish).

Although I am a mac freak, I would have NEVER thought that a Powermac would be able to withstand THAT kind of heat/damage. Even though the outside will look like a warzone has taken place, be assured that your data will be safe.

european govs _talk_ about using linux - but they talk for a couple of years now.
The german "bundestag" diskusses about switching from NT to linux - but the same time windows-based e-gov solutions are presented.
( Windows 2000 for virtual city-halls (e))
Meanwhile MS announces to show theire sources to european govs (XP-source for gov of austria (e))....
i hope, linux will make it into our govs - but i do not really believe into it.

re china: they are not realy "anti-MS" anymore - their mayor ISPs switched to MS - most of them predicted to sitch to linux half a year ago ( breakthroug for MS in china (e))

sorry for all the links to german heise news - i read things like this on other (austrian/german) news-services, but heise has the better search-engine ;-)

european govs _talk_ about using linux - but they talk for a couple of years now.
The german "bundestag" diskusses about switching from NT to linux - but the same time windows-based e-gov solutions are presented.
( Windows 2000 for virtual city-halls (e))
Meanwhile MS announces to show theire sources to european govs (XP-source for gov of austria (e))....
i hope, linux will make it into our govs - but i do not really believe into it.

re china: they are not realy "anti-MS" anymore - their mayor ISPs switched to MS - most of them predicted to sitch to linux half a year ago ( breakthroug for MS in china (e))

sorry for all the links to german heise news - i read things like this on other (austrian/german) news-services, but heise has the better search-engine ;-)

european govs _talk_ about using linux - but they talk for a couple of years now.
The german "bundestag" diskusses about switching from NT to linux - but the same time windows-based e-gov solutions are presented.
( Windows 2000 for virtual city-halls (e))
Meanwhile MS announces to show theire sources to european govs (XP-source for gov of austria (e))....
i hope, linux will make it into our govs - but i do not really believe into it.

re china: they are not realy "anti-MS" anymore - their mayor ISPs switched to MS - most of them predicted to sitch to linux half a year ago ( breakthroug for MS in china (e))

sorry for all the links to german heise news - i read things like this on other (austrian/german) news-services, but heise has the better search-engine ;-)

If you're having trouble forcing the Babelfish to catch the pop-up window, you're missing a real classic! For some reason, the Babelfish doesn't parse and catch the popup.

It's cached here: translation

It starts with

Respect husband / woman:

Hello!

If only it ended with "all your base are belong to us". =)

Because of this and other efforts to block access to information on the net, me and a friend of mine have set up a commercial info telephone.

For just some a minute we will read to you live on the phone all porn sites you ever want. We also describe pictures. No problem coz we make sure our internet connection is unfiltered!

For details check this site: TeleTrust.Info or use the babelfished English version.

Nobody will be able to stop the flow of information!

I used to be a fan of AltaVista, until Google came along. However, since Google wasn't so great with phrase handling, I still went back occasionally. That ended when I used AltaVista to find a list of songs on the Snatch soundtrack, and was greeted by two pages of paid advertising for... well, just don't try it at work. (Animations and everything.)

Try the same search on Google, and you get what you'd expect.

It's interesting to note that AltaVista's search engine did find the results I was looking for; however, this example illustrates quite well the problem with paid placement.

It is also pointless because the meta keyword checking doesn't recognise Russian. If I do a search on say, Google for "devochki", the latinised version of the Russian word for Girls, I can find some very interesting and explicit, which pass effortlessly through the filter.

Another well-known US financial institution filter out yahoo and google amongst others to get around caching. I don't know what their employees do for web searches.

The Pr0n business is a big one in Germany, please remember that some of these companies are listed at the exchange and have an investor relations page. Make a wrong turn near a major railway station and it is hard to avoid red-light areas.

It has already been mentioned in another article about how useless national firewalls are and how easy it is to circumvent, particularly when they only run part-time as is proposed here.

Also, has enyone told these idiots about http tunneling?

Note that telephone sex lines are available 24Hrs the companies that run them split their take with the provider, usually Deutsche Telekom. Maybe those companies have been taking too much of a hit in their profits from unlimited access via the Internet? Ask not where the campaign contributions have come from?

Sometimes I think Babelfish was worth doing, simply for the entertainment value. Let's have a look at a couple doozies from today's article:

The introduction of a " positive Ratings for harmless supplies " is suggested, which rejects the economy as " vorzensur ".

OK, that wasn't that funny. Here's a better one:

" the youth medium protection is already monastery suited compared with other countries almost in Germany "

I think this one sums up the whole article:

It is too simply, itself after land woman manners " bigott over the dirt " ...

Of COURSE it is! And possibly the most interesting:

the SPD wants to put " dinosaur discussions over transmitting time delimitations and license obligations " for for Internet forward a latch plate

Dinosaur discussions! Fantastic!!

But my favorites are the conversion of people's names into common words... Some of today's quotes are provided by: "franc walter stone Meier", "peace man Schindler"!

I think the next "All your base..." wave won't come from some Chinese game company's pathetic attempt to translate to English, it will come from Slashdot funneling a million people through the fish... any day now the golden nugget of automated translation will be found!

But I guess I shouldn't make fun of Altavista, since at least they have survived this long... in an industry that rarely "writes black numbers". Heeheee I kill me!

If you search on altavista, you'll see several KPMG servers, but not the US one. Apparently robots.txts for those other servers allow at least partial searching.

Copyright © 2001 Michael D. Crawford. Permission is granted to reproduce this document provided it is copied verbatim, in its entirety and that this copyright statement is preserved.

I just feel the need to write right now. Something has gone terribly wrong with the country I was raised to love. The good things that America stands for are being trampled into the dirt by those charged with the burden of protecting them.

I was raised to be a patriotic American. I grew up a military brat - my father was a proud officer of the United States Navy, who served in the Vietnam War. When I was young, I was always told that my father was fighting to preserve the freedoms that were guaranteed us by the United States Constitution.

In the first grade, I attended a school run by the U.S. Navy in Gaeta, Italy, where my father was stationed aboard the U.S.S. Springfield. Each day when we started school we sang patriotic songs and said the Pledge of Allegiance. We were told that America stood for freedom and democracy and justice.

I loved America for what it stood for.

I was told that things like political persecution, detainment without trial, and beating of prisoners were things that happened in other countries, that they would never happen in America. I was told that we fought the American Revolution and wrote the Constitution specifically to ensure such things would never again happen in America.

But today I see the ugly face of repression rising in America. And it is brought to you by the United States Government.

I am not proud to be an American today. I understand well why people in many other countries hate America. I love America, but I despise what it is rapidly becoming.

Something must be done about this.

There are many things that move me to write this, but what moved to me write this right now is that a member of a registered political party was singled out for harassment, first by American Airlines and then by the United States National Guard because of the opinions she holds.

Nancy Oden, one of the U.S. Green Party's top officials, was traveling to a Green Party national meeting from her hometown airport in Bangor, Maine. She had published a statement that calls for Universal Health Care, limitations on free trade, and a stop to the bombing of Afghanistan.

When she got to the American Airlines ticket counter she was told that there was a record in AA's computer indicating that she should be searched anytime she tried to fly.

During the search, she tried to help the security agent with a stuck zipper. The agent grabbed her arm and she pulled it away. The National Guard instructed the airline not to let her fly. The airline told all the other airlines not to let her fly. She was unable to attend the Green Party meeting.

So an official of a registered political party in the supposedly democratic United States was prevented from participating in the political process because her name had been recorded in a computer as someone who should be treated with suspicion.

I fear what America has become.

Also upsetting to me is the recent decision of the U.S. Bureau of Prisons to allow eavesdropping on attorney-client conversations as well as opening of their mail. Read the ACLU press release opposing this.

From the Washington Post article U.S. Will Monitor Calls to Lawyers:

Attorney General John D. Ashcroft approved the eavesdropping rule on an emergency basis last week, without the usual waiting period for public comment. It went into effect immediately, permitting the government to monitor conversations and intercept mail between people in custody and their attorneys for up to a year at a time.

The right to a vigorous legal defense is one of the cornerstones of our democracy. It is one of the bulwarks that comes between official repression and those who are repressed, underprivileged, despised, outcast, or working for legitimate political change. You can read about the guarantee of legal representation in our Constitution:

Amendment VI

In all criminal prosecutions, the accused shall enjoy the right to a speedy and public trial, by an impartial jury of the state and district wherein the crime shall have been committed, which district shall have been previously ascertained by law, and to be informed of the nature and cause of the accusation; to be confronted with the witnesses against him; to have compulsory process for obtaining witnesses in his favor, and to have the assistance of counsel for his defense.

I don't have a URL to link you to ( mail me one), but I read that among the hundreds of "suspects" and "material witnesses" rounded up in the days after September 11, many were held without charge and some were beaten by their jailers. Also some were held without being given access to attorneys or their families. I thought that could not happen here...

The recently signed USA PATRIOT act is an assault on our civil liberties the likes of which have not been seen in decades.

Read the Electronic Frontier Foundation's Analysis of USA PATRIOT Act, which largely discusses the law's impact on online activities - did you know that the government can now spy on the key words you search for at search engines like Google and AltaVista? Because computer cracking is now considered terrorism, searching for exploitz can result in your lengthy imprisonment.

The truth is the first victim of war.

Shortly after the September 11th attacks, President Bush said something to the effect that the reason the U.S. was attacked was because the terrorists hated our freedom, and that we must fight the terrorists in order to preserve it.

But Osama bin Laden does not care either way about our freedom. He has made it very clear why he hates the U.S., and none of this has been acknowledged by any official statements that I have heard. What bin Laden objects to are the stationing of U.S. troops in Saudi Arabia, the land of the holy city of Mecca, U.S. support for Israel's repression of the Palestinians, and the continued U.S. bombing of Iraq. More than anything, he feels that the presence of U.S. troops in the Islamic Holy Land is a sacrilege.

Whatever your position is on bin Laden's objections to the U.S., you must agree that it is wrong for our President to lie to us. Get informed, and work to understand the complexities behind the enmity between the Islamic and Western world. It's not as simple as our government would have us believe.

You might be interested to know what the Pentagon is doing to improve the United States' image in the Islamic world. Well, I'll tell you. It has taken out a $400,000 contract with Madison Avenue public relations firm The Rendon Group in an effort to help it "orient to the challenge of communication to a wide range of groups around the world". In addition, former advertising executive Charlotte Beers has been apointed to the post of Undersecretary of State for Public Diplomacy, a position she qualifies for because of her previous work promoting such products as Head & Shoulders shampoo.

Read about it in Propaganda Wars.

Well, its comforting to know that we'll be winning friends in Central Asia by showing professionally produced TV commercials depicting friendly Americans in between the news reports of mutilated and starving Afghani children.

If you, like myself, feel that something is wrong with America these days, or with whatever country you find yourself in, speak out about it.

In this troubled times, speaking openly to inform others of injustice or to protest may result in a backlash against you from government officials or others. Please read this speech on the importance of speaking your mind. Have courage - it is only by having the courage to speak and to work against injustice that we can prevent it from getting a lot worse.

Among the ways you can speak out

• Participate in online communities
• Send email to people you know
• Write web pages like this one and post the URL around
• Write letters to the editors of your local newspapers
• Staple leaflets to bulletin boards in your community
• Pass out leaflets in public places
• Call in to talk radio shows

Secondly, participate in what we have left of the democratic process. Our government has at least the appearance of having been elected, and the easiest way to make a change is to vote out the ones who have brought this upon us.

• Volunteer for political candidates you believe in
• Get a bunch of voter registration cards and stand in a public place to register voters
• Donate money to political candidates and parties who respect civil liberties
• Vote
• Write letters to your elected representatives. While you can send email, Congress gets so much spam that they pretty much ignore email these days. Instead, you can find your Congressperson's postal address at www.congress.org - write them a paper letter.

Use encryption to protect your privacy. Please read my page Why You Should Use Encryption as well as my letter Protect Your Rights with Encryption.

You can get encryption software for free - you can use either Pretty Good Privacy or The GNU Privacy Guard. Both offer excellent, military strength protection of your data, and the source code to each is freely available so that programmers are able to inspect it for security defects and back doors.

Teach the people you correspond with to use encryption.

Teach people who work for political change to use encryption. If you don't think political candidates and their staff need to use encryption, you're too young to remember Nixon's Plumbers getting caught breaking into the Watergate Hotel to wiretap the Democratic National Committe.

Join organizations that work to protect civil liberties. Among these are:

• The American Civil Liberties Union - Join Here
• The Electronic Frontier Foundation - Join Here - the EFF works to protect our civil liberties in the online world, including working to ensure that the work of computer programmers is protected as free speech under the First Amendment, thereby ensuring you access to software that guards your security and privacy.
• The Center for Democracy and Technology - Get Involved - working "to promote democratic values and constitutional liberties in the digital age"
• The Electronic Privacy Information Center - Donate Here - "established in 1994 to focus public attention on emerging civil liberties issues and to protect privacy, the First Amendment, and constitutional values.

One might think, and one certainly hopes, that the ultimate safeguard against these threats to our civil liberties lies with the Supreme Court of the United States. But I am not so certain myself. The Supreme Court has ruled against the dictates of law and the Constitution during other troubled periods in our nation's history.

And we should remember that the current President received a minority of the popular vote and was only declared to have a majority of the Electoral Vote after an obviously politically motivated ruling by the Supreme Court, a decision that has few pretenses of being based on the rule of law. Even had all the ballots been counted, enough Black Florida citizens were prevented from going to the polls that the election would clearly have gone for Gore had they been allowed to exercise their right to vote.

As said in the dissenting opinion by Justices Stevens, Ginsberg and Breyer in Bush v. Gore (note - this is an Adobe Acrobat document):

What must underlie petitioners' (nb. - George W. Bush') entire federal assault on the Florida election procedures is an unstated lack of confidence in the impartiality and capacity of the state judges who would make critical decisions if the vote count were to proceed. Otherwise, their position is wholly without merit. The endorsement of that position by the majority of this Court can only lend credence to the most cynical appraisal of the work of judges throughout the land. It is confidence in the men and women who administer the judicial system that is the true backbone of the rule of law. Time will one day heal the wound to that confidence that will be inflicted by today's decision. One thing, however, is certain. Although we may never know with complete certainty the identity of the winner of this year's Presidential election, the identity of the loser is perfectly clear. It is the Nation's confidence in the judge as an impartial guardian of the rule of law.

We must work together to restore the rule of law in our country - or we shall surely suffer for it. If you do not agree that Fascism can arise in the United States, take heed of the fact that Adolf Hitler was elected as the leader of his country too.

November 12, 2001

Babelfish does like PHP and here is the proof: the translation of German article.

I have plenty of trouble with English, to say nothing of German ^_^

To tell you the truth, you have better English skills than most of the native English speakers here...

:-)

P.S.
If you didn't know about it, you can have pages translated to English for you at a site of Altivista's :-)
Sorry, there's nothing for Japanese, just several languages --> English (and English --> several languages, of course).

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There we have it -- conslusive proof that lawyers are robots after all. (And what the HELL does the previous sentence mean?!)

http://www.heise.de/newsticker/data/psz-24.11.01-0 00/

of course that is in german, so use this babelfish link

US Army wants allegedly no Windows XP

US armed forces are to have decided against the use of the new Microsoft operating system Windows XP. By its on-line registration the Redmonder software company would get too much information about the computers and software of the American Department of Defense into the hands. That again would be a violation of the government regulations to data security. The pentagon is to have cancelled therefore the purchase of PCS, on which Windows XP is installed. How it is called further, the Ministry of Defense wants also in the future to acquire no licenses for Windows XP.

All this maintains anyhow Charles R. Smith, Cyberwar Cyberwar-Kolumnist of the NewsMax appearing in the Web . He sees himself as one of the prominent American experts for Cyber technology and their meaning for the war, the terrorism, the data security and the daily life. Charles Smith says about itself, he has good contacts since the cold war to the US Army, which was he with " Games Programs " supplied. Today he is a president and CEO von Softwar, its own consulting firm, writes additionally for the " USAF information of throwing AR journal " and maintains as a journalist regular contacts to American secret service sets.

The press department of the American Department of Defense did not want to acknowledge Charles Smith in the fact that Windows XP was generally gebannt in the area of the US Army. Windows XP is new on the market. One must regard that only once. The pentagon became general on the fact however always notes that the software used there does not contain back doors, traps, viruses and Trojaner.

Manufacturer Microsoft does not take the security doubts of authorities and enterprises on the light shoulder. The software giant has therefore a " Corporate edition " of its new operating system in the delivery program, which does without the on-line registration

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It makes little to no difference what the German Constitution says. Look at the Garbage that they had in East Germany or any other Communist regime. On paper they had the most democratic and free society. In reality they had none.
Example From DDR's Constitution:
ARTICLE 8 (1) personal liberty, inviolability of the dwelling, post office secret and the right to establish itself at any place are ensured.
What Baloney. Sorry I couldn't find an English translation, maybe use babelfish

Results of Babelfish on the Heise article:

Isis takes blocking back from Internet pages

The Duesseldorfer Internet provider Isis took the blocking back of four on-line supplies again. " the barrier decreased/went back to the initiative of an individual technician. It corresponded not to the policy of the enterprise ", said Isis speaker Thomas Werz. It concerned itself thereby around four pages with right-wing extremists as well as force-wonderful-ends to contents from the USA, which were attainable for the Isis customers for Monday no longer.

The technician had wanted to demonstrate on own fist that a technical solution for the blocking from Internet pages was possible, in addition, easily to be gone around can, avowed Werz opposite heise on-line. This should not have occurred however in all public; Werz apologized in the name of the company at the customers. Isis aims at a political solution with the Duesseldorfer district government.

From Monday to today one had gone out in the enterprise erroneously with it, the technician in arrangement with the management concerned, stressed Werz. Accordingly a Isis spokeswoman had justified the side blocking yesterday in relation to the public.

During his public demonstration the technician had followed arbitrarily a request of the district government Duesseldorf. This had before reminded the ACCESS Provider as North-Rhine/Westphalian supervision of Internet to lock four pages from the USA. Approximately ten Provider reacted according to specification of the authority country-wide so far to it. The measures are strongly disputed in the Internet municipality. Thus the chaos computer club called the attempts of the district government to let Internet pages lock censorship in the Internet. "this is a crucial step into the false direction."

The district government Duesseldorf tries as country-wide Internet control instance for some time to let pages with illegal contents lock by the ACCESS Provider. On 13 November a hearing with 90 Internet Providern took place for this reason. At that time the providers referred particularly to technical problems, in order to lock pages from the foreign country. According to estimations of the Federal Criminal Investigation Office (BKA) approximately 90 per cent of the more than 1000 right-wing extremists German-language Internet supplies from the foreign country are fed into the network.

See to the topic also the contribution network barrier for Fritzchen stupid in Telepolis. (anw / c't)

Ah, good old machine translation. Yet, it's still Better than Nothing. "force-wonderful-ends" :)

Results of Babelfish on the Heise article:

Isis takes blocking back from Internet pages

The Duesseldorfer Internet provider Isis took the blocking back of four on-line supplies again. " the barrier decreased/went back to the initiative of an individual technician. It corresponded not to the policy of the enterprise ", said Isis speaker Thomas Werz. It concerned itself thereby around four pages with right-wing extremists as well as force-wonderful-ends to contents from the USA, which were attainable for the Isis customers for Monday no longer.

The technician had wanted to demonstrate on own fist that a technical solution for the blocking from Internet pages was possible, in addition, easily to be gone around can, avowed Werz opposite heise on-line. This should not have occurred however in all public; Werz apologized in the name of the company at the customers. Isis aims at a political solution with the Duesseldorfer district government.

From Monday to today one had gone out in the enterprise erroneously with it, the technician in arrangement with the management concerned, stressed Werz. Accordingly a Isis spokeswoman had justified the side blocking yesterday in relation to the public.

During his public demonstration the technician had followed arbitrarily a request of the district government Duesseldorf. This had before reminded the ACCESS Provider as North-Rhine/Westphalian supervision of Internet to lock four pages from the USA. Approximately ten Provider reacted according to specification of the authority country-wide so far to it. The measures are strongly disputed in the Internet municipality. Thus the chaos computer club called the attempts of the district government to let Internet pages lock censorship in the Internet. "this is a crucial step into the false direction."

The district government Duesseldorf tries as country-wide Internet control instance for some time to let pages with illegal contents lock by the ACCESS Provider. On 13 November a hearing with 90 Internet Providern took place for this reason. At that time the providers referred particularly to technical problems, in order to lock pages from the foreign country. According to estimations of the Federal Criminal Investigation Office (BKA) approximately 90 per cent of the more than 1000 right-wing extremists German-language Internet supplies from the foreign country are fed into the network.

See to the topic also the contribution network barrier for Fritzchen stupid in Telepolis. (anw / c't)

Ah, good old machine translation. Yet, it's still Better than Nothing. "force-wonderful-ends" :)

Results of Babelfish on the Heise article:

Isis takes blocking back from Internet pages

The Duesseldorfer Internet provider Isis took the blocking back of four on-line supplies again. " the barrier decreased/went back to the initiative of an individual technician. It corresponded not to the policy of the enterprise ", said Isis speaker Thomas Werz. It concerned itself thereby around four pages with right-wing extremists as well as force-wonderful-ends to contents from the USA, which were attainable for the Isis customers for Monday no longer.

The technician had wanted to demonstrate on own fist that a technical solution for the blocking from Internet pages was possible, in addition, easily to be gone around can, avowed Werz opposite heise on-line. This should not have occurred however in all public; Werz apologized in the name of the company at the customers. Isis aims at a political solution with the Duesseldorfer district government.

From Monday to today one had gone out in the enterprise erroneously with it, the technician in arrangement with the management concerned, stressed Werz. Accordingly a Isis spokeswoman had justified the side blocking yesterday in relation to the public.

During his public demonstration the technician had followed arbitrarily a request of the district government Duesseldorf. This had before reminded the ACCESS Provider as North-Rhine/Westphalian supervision of Internet to lock four pages from the USA. Approximately ten Provider reacted according to specification of the authority country-wide so far to it. The measures are strongly disputed in the Internet municipality. Thus the chaos computer club called the attempts of the district government to let Internet pages lock censorship in the Internet. "this is a crucial step into the false direction."

The district government Duesseldorf tries as country-wide Internet control instance for some time to let pages with illegal contents lock by the ACCESS Provider. On 13 November a hearing with 90 Internet Providern took place for this reason. At that time the providers referred particularly to technical problems, in order to lock pages from the foreign country. According to estimations of the Federal Criminal Investigation Office (BKA) approximately 90 per cent of the more than 1000 right-wing extremists German-language Internet supplies from the foreign country are fed into the network.

See to the topic also the contribution network barrier for Fritzchen stupid in Telepolis. (anw / c't)

Ah, good old machine translation. Yet, it's still Better than Nothing. "force-wonderful-ends" :)

Results of Babelfish on the Heise article:

Isis takes blocking back from Internet pages

The Duesseldorfer Internet provider Isis took the blocking back of four on-line supplies again. " the barrier decreased/went back to the initiative of an individual technician. It corresponded not to the policy of the enterprise ", said Isis speaker Thomas Werz. It concerned itself thereby around four pages with right-wing extremists as well as force-wonderful-ends to contents from the USA, which were attainable for the Isis customers for Monday no longer.

The technician had wanted to demonstrate on own fist that a technical solution for the blocking from Internet pages was possible, in addition, easily to be gone around can, avowed Werz opposite heise on-line. This should not have occurred however in all public; Werz apologized in the name of the company at the customers. Isis aims at a political solution with the Duesseldorfer district government.

From Monday to today one had gone out in the enterprise erroneously with it, the technician in arrangement with the management concerned, stressed Werz. Accordingly a Isis spokeswoman had justified the side blocking yesterday in relation to the public.

During his public demonstration the technician had followed arbitrarily a request of the district government Duesseldorf. This had before reminded the ACCESS Provider as North-Rhine/Westphalian supervision of Internet to lock four pages from the USA. Approximately ten Provider reacted according to specification of the authority country-wide so far to it. The measures are strongly disputed in the Internet municipality. Thus the chaos computer club called the attempts of the district government to let Internet pages lock censorship in the Internet. "this is a crucial step into the false direction."

The district government Duesseldorf tries as country-wide Internet control instance for some time to let pages with illegal contents lock by the ACCESS Provider. On 13 November a hearing with 90 Internet Providern took place for this reason. At that time the providers referred particularly to technical problems, in order to lock pages from the foreign country. According to estimations of the Federal Criminal Investigation Office (BKA) approximately 90 per cent of the more than 1000 right-wing extremists German-language Internet supplies from the foreign country are fed into the network.

See to the topic also the contribution network barrier for Fritzchen stupid in Telepolis. (anw / c't)

Ah, good old machine translation. Yet, it's still Better than Nothing. "force-wonderful-ends" :)

Results of Babelfish on the Heise article:

Isis takes blocking back from Internet pages

The Duesseldorfer Internet provider Isis took the blocking back of four on-line supplies again. " the barrier decreased/went back to the initiative of an individual technician. It corresponded not to the policy of the enterprise ", said Isis speaker Thomas Werz. It concerned itself thereby around four pages with right-wing extremists as well as force-wonderful-ends to contents from the USA, which were attainable for the Isis customers for Monday no longer.

The technician had wanted to demonstrate on own fist that a technical solution for the blocking from Internet pages was possible, in addition, easily to be gone around can, avowed Werz opposite heise on-line. This should not have occurred however in all public; Werz apologized in the name of the company at the customers. Isis aims at a political solution with the Duesseldorfer district government.

From Monday to today one had gone out in the enterprise erroneously with it, the technician in arrangement with the management concerned, stressed Werz. Accordingly a Isis spokeswoman had justified the side blocking yesterday in relation to the public.

During his public demonstration the technician had followed arbitrarily a request of the district government Duesseldorf. This had before reminded the ACCESS Provider as North-Rhine/Westphalian supervision of Internet to lock four pages from the USA. Approximately ten Provider reacted according to specification of the authority country-wide so far to it. The measures are strongly disputed in the Internet municipality. Thus the chaos computer club called the attempts of the district government to let Internet pages lock censorship in the Internet. "this is a crucial step into the false direction."

The district government Duesseldorf tries as country-wide Internet control instance for some time to let pages with illegal contents lock by the ACCESS Provider. On 13 November a hearing with 90 Internet Providern took place for this reason. At that time the providers referred particularly to technical problems, in order to lock pages from the foreign country. According to estimations of the Federal Criminal Investigation Office (BKA) approximately 90 per cent of the more than 1000 right-wing extremists German-language Internet supplies from the foreign country are fed into the network.

See to the topic also the contribution network barrier for Fritzchen stupid in Telepolis. (anw / c't)

Ah, good old machine translation. Yet, it's still Better than Nothing. "force-wonderful-ends" :)