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A 777 rolls out approximately every 6 days. It's final assy factory flow was three weeks for quite a while, and should be dropping to just shy of two weeks as the moving line becomes fully implemented.. The 787 final asssy flow is intended to be 3 days once its up to rate.

It's obvious that the Parent is unfamiliar with the 777 and 787 lines. On 777, where major structural joins take place, the aircraft is so surrounded by scaffolding and support structure that you cannot even directly see the fuselage from ground level. You can walk right past it and not even realize that there is a plane there. The 787 tooling itself is massive, but there is FAR less of it. Compare http://www.boeing.com/news/releases/2002/photorele ase/q2/pr_020627h.html to http://www.boeing.com/news/releases/2007/q2/070521 c3_pr.html , and imagine the view from the floor. Both these pictures are at approximately the same percentage of completion.

Yes, VC-25A #28000 (it's only AF1 when the prez is on board.)is being painted. However, it doesn't affect 787 at all. Completely different paint hangars. You can see it being pushed into the empty paint hangar in the third pic at the following link. http://flightblogger.blogspot.com/2007/06/under-co ver-of-darkness.html

Sincerely,
A Boeing Employee (who knows what they are talking about)

See this blog: http://shawn-news.blogspot.com/2007/06/my-sugary-c anadian-coca-cola.html

Or a direct link to the image of the Coke can with ingredients: http://bp3.blogger.com/_yepdryo6x-A/RmbpSd3a7OI/AA AAAAAAAy0/pdbVoFMNxj0/s1600-h/CokeIngredients.jpg

Looks like Canadian Coke uses sugar.

There's even more FUD fodder from the google blog:"Developed primarily out of our Beijing office..."

ps- let me get the next response out of the way: In Communist China your desktop searches you.

Google changed their algorithm to prevent this type of "googlebombing": http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2005/09/googlebombi ng-failure.html

Well, this code looks quite like the one I had on my blog and posted on another slashdot story a couple of days ago. http://vernard-luxe.blogspot.com/2007/06/blind-app les-itunes-user-information.html so this service should be as private as possible and therefore you should run it on your local device, rather tahn using an online service :-)

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Heh, no. There are no air-to-air missiles in the U.S. inventory with enough energy to do it "accidentally"...the AIM-54 (phoenix) would be the only one that would *remotely* have a snowball's chance in hell of making it that high, and you'd have to put the plane into a ballistic profile at max attainable altitude to do it..hardly an "accidental" scenario. Even then, there's no way the phoenix would have enough umph to go the additional 100+ miles straight up (I'd have to do the calcs to figure it's max altitude, and I'm feeling lazy tonight...but since it only has a max *horizontal* range of a little over 100 miles it's pretty clear that traveling 100 miles vertically against gravity isn't going to happen)...especially considering it only has aerodynamic surfaces for guidance so there'd be no way for it to maintain course at extreme altitude and would corkscrew wildly like an inflated balloon that's been let go to fly about the room while the solid booster was burning. Not to mention the F-14 (the only plane that carried the missile) doesn't have an optimal thrust/weight ratio that would provide best initial energy to the missile. The YF-12 was to carry a predecessor phoenix called the AIM-47 that had a bit longer range, but it's basically the same story besides the fact that both were very short-lived projects. The Soviets, on the other hand, had a couple of missiles that might have come closer...the ones that were designed to kill the SR-71. A decent write-up on several of these missiles can be found here though I haven't cross-checked all the facts for accuracy.

Instead, I think you are referring to the ASAT tests conducted by the Air Force using a F-15 in the 1980's (I linked it in my post above, but here it is again: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-satellite_weapon ). That was a specially-made missile for the task..and its success was no accident.

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• We'll break that method up into smaller more logical chunks later.

I have to comment while I cook it up, or I don't know what is supposed to do what.
  Maybe I can polish it up some, maybe a lot, while I get it to do what I want.
So what code I do write gets commented up pretty good. I don't do anything like anybody else does, so most of my applications are unusual to say the least. If you have the time, you can look through this document for details on some of my stuff.
  Here's the Blog, where I discuss other projects also.
Now if you'll excuse me, I have to go look through the Comcast TV guide to find the Larry King - Paris Hilton interview.

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It is not that remarkable, and certainly isnt unprecedented. A 777 rolls off of the assembly line every three days in everett right now. Its called scheduled structured assembly line.

This means the paint for the 787 has been bumped back as much as several weeks. The first 787 will not roll out of the paint hangar completed until late july.

And this comment wasn't even written by Hans in the first place: http://nikitadanilov.blogspot.com/2007/06/and-now- to-subject-of-death.html

I do have this setup, been tested with a 2 GB USB drive, but requires an older computer that has a USB port, and a small hard drive with MSDOS or Windows 3.1, 95 or 98 on it. Works well with 128 MB of RAM, and a 266 MHZ or better processor. None of those computers can boot directly from a USB drive, so we have to have a MSDOS and loadlin setup with a selection menu that comes up, started from the C:\autoexec.bat file.
You can carry the USB drive around with you, and plug it into a specially prepared computer, and you have linux. (See screenshots, below) For starters, you get Mozilla Firefox 2.0.0.4, Opera and Flock for web browsers. Details are in the Getting Started Guide.
The files you need for the computer are here.
There is a Readme packaged in the tarball.

Also, you will need a copy of the CD, obtainable here.

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Or if the user takes his classified laptop home and plugs it into his DSL router.

The incident is reported to be perpetrated by high level management at LANL.
High level managers get to take classified laptops with them wherever they go, probably.

For your daily dose of Lab cynicism, be sure to read The LANL Blog.

You'll appreciate this, and this if you liked Plans.

And, of course, if you get the chance to see them live, definitely do so. It was probably the second or third best show I've ever been to (Sufjan Stevens' performance at the Kennedy Center with the National Symphony Orchestra occupies #1 by a pretty wide margin)

You'll appreciate this, and this if you liked Plans.

And, of course, if you get the chance to see them live, definitely do so. It was probably the second or third best show I've ever been to (Sufjan Stevens' performance at the Kennedy Center with the National Symphony Orchestra occupies #1 by a pretty wide margin)

It pains me to see people robbed of choice and freedom.

And you express that by making sure everyone buys your FUD about how software sucks unless it's free. Not unlike your hero RMS, your idea of "choice" is "whatever I happen to think is right for you and me".

considerable amount of wealth for themselves and others.

Oh god yes, and "M$" never did that.

Google is a great American company

Are they really? That's funny. In the past you've blabbed about how "M$" is "insulting" the US workforce by pushing for increased immigration quotas, but I guess you're honky dory with Google doing exactly the same thing. Don't get me started on how "M$N" encourages censorship, but Google aggressively censoring 1/6th of humanity in the name of profits and thumping their chests about how bad censorship is is not a biggie in your book, right?

That's why you're so amusingly transparent and easily countered. You don't really think Google is particularly angelical, it's just that Google is not your hated Microsoft, so they must be rah-rah'ed whenever possible at the expense of Microsoft. Oh, and before you start defecating about how I "hate" Google, understand I think Google is a cool company, I have no problem whatsoever with them. But they are what they are - a publicly held corporation with shareholders. In that sense they're no different from Microsoft or any other company in the planet. For instance, Google doing the Netscape and going to the DoJ to complain about what a great job Microsoft did with Vista search is one of the things that will start to erode that "do no evil" aura.

Finally, I never said I cared

Oh, that's strange. I must've been reading some other desperate zealot's postings on Slashdot. My apologies.

It pains me to see people robbed of choice and freedom.

And you express that by making sure everyone buys your FUD about how software sucks unless it's free. Not unlike your hero RMS, your idea of "choice" is "whatever I happen to think is right for you and me".

considerable amount of wealth for themselves and others.

Oh god yes, and "M$" never did that.

Google is a great American company

Are they really? That's funny. In the past you've blabbed about how "M$" is "insulting" the US workforce by pushing for increased immigration quotas, but I guess you're honky dory with Google doing exactly the same thing. Don't get me started on how "M$N" encourages censorship, but Google aggressively censoring 1/6th of humanity in the name of profits and thumping their chests about how bad censorship is is not a biggie in your book, right?

That's why you're so amusingly transparent and easily countered. You don't really think Google is particularly angelical, it's just that Google is not your hated Microsoft, so they must be rah-rah'ed whenever possible at the expense of Microsoft. Oh, and before you start defecating about how I "hate" Google, understand I think Google is a cool company, I have no problem whatsoever with them. But they are what they are - a publicly held corporation with shareholders. In that sense they're no different from Microsoft or any other company in the planet. For instance, Google doing the Netscape and going to the DoJ to complain about what a great job Microsoft did with Vista search is one of the things that will start to erode that "do no evil" aura.

Finally, I never said I cared

Oh, that's strange. I must've been reading some other desperate zealot's postings on Slashdot. My apologies.

It's called FREEDOM you fucking piece of shit. Death To women's Rights. http://mikeeusa.blogspot.com/

"As a fitting start to this blog, I'm proud to release a preview of our Alky compatibility libraries for Microsoft DirectX 10 enabled games. These libraries allow the use of DirectX 10 games on platforms other than Windows Vista. No longer will you have to upgrade your OS and video card(s) to play the latest games."

These plans are way overprized, but then again if you can afford this phone you can probably afford the plan (for 2 years minimum).
Same goes with a Hummer or a Porsche, if you can't afford the gas why bother buying the car

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Life in 2017 from http://docwatsonsblog.blogspot.com/ Things have really changed in the last 10 years; Today you walk into a clothing store and a sales person walks up and asks if they can help you. You say "Yes, I am looking for a new suit" and they direct you to the aisle where the model suits are. You select the item, select a swatch of cloth that matches your preference and are handed a cup of coffee while the suit you want is made to your specifications. You also select a few items like cuff-links, shoes, a tie, and kerchief that all match the suit. 20 minutes later, a woman comes out from the rear of the store and hands you all the items and you thank the couturier and you leave. Real-time tailoring. At no time do you see or engage a cashier or see the exchange of money. Your cash reserves and credit (if you wanted to apply for a line of credit for that company's store, there would have been a pro-forma online application via fingerprint or retinal scan) were all reviewed when you entered. Once you began the process for purchasing, you were added to their database and are sent an initial email asking if you'd like to be included in their email updates on their upcoming sales. If you had come in and browsed, you would have received the same invitation email and an electronic yes or no 'coupon' for a discount on your first purchase. Food shopping has become incredibly simple as well. You go and select the items you want/need and walk out with them. If you go to another store to buy an item, chances are that the store you do a majority of your shopping will try to stock it for you in order to get the rest of your business. The demand for services has finally become a matter of catering to the customer! Thieves don't stand a chance - theft has crashed to almost zero and only the truly idiotic or desperate even try - because RFID tagging and IPv6 addressing has removed the ability of the thief to remove the item from the store and not pay for it or be tracked to their location. Most things can't 'fall off a truck' anymore because they are too easy to find. Assembly for large parts and items has become a breeze; IPv6 and RFID have allowed for all items for a specific customer to be listed as they are put together for assembly, QC/QA, and sales tracking. Insurance companies and manufacturers have the ability to identify parts failure all the way back to the manufacturer, the assembly line, and even the employee who did the work. IPv6 allowed for 2^54 IP address per person, so everything that a person owns can be cataloged, followed, and identified. RFID allows for seamless commerce. My paycheck is automatically deposited and credited to my account and purchases automatically adjusted via the RFID chip in my REALID Card. If you had been in the military after 2010, you were used to 'the wave' - swinging your hand over a reader to verify your identity. You stopped writing checks because there wasn't a need to on base. The chip had all your medical info on it and the medics could just scan your hand or your temple and get the info they needed. Of course, if they were scanning your head, you'd lost your hand or they were ID'ing your corpse and you were in deep crap either way. Heck, the NCO club got to be a PITA sometimes because the 3 beer rule automatically flagged you but there were ways around that - the civvies you dated were still using real cash or their own IDs so they bought without restrictions. On the home front, we have had to suffer through the ubiquitous 'Chippie' on the Homeland Security ads and Saturday AM cartoons; "Chippie says "Security starts at Home, so get your ID Chip today!". [I'd say what an annoying bastard the little thing is but I don't want to get flagged when I use the Metro to work everyday; I see the poor sods who are 'randomly' pulled aside *every* morning on their way in and out of the station.] The NAHB Construction codes came into compliance with DHS Directives a few years ago and now that construction can integrate with your Chip,

I think it is probably OK for a monarchy to define what science is. In the end, a monarchy must be arbitrary.

But, in the US, it is probably better to let local schoolboards squabble about this.

Science does seek natural explanations so that the supernatural aspects of intelligent design do not fit within science. Science will ultimately fail if natural explanations won't work. This would be an interesting result. It does seem quite unlikely that demostrating that science has failed would occur in a high school classroom though. So, sticking to science in science class is probably the best way to avoid wasting the student's time and perhaps preparing those who could, at some time in the future, show that natural explanations of natural phenomena are inadequate. If a particular schoolboard sees things differently, well their students can simply be left out of the college admissions process.

In the end, I think it is OK to preclude certain arguments being reasonable just because they don't fit the current framework. Arguments in support of the idea that the Earth is flat don't fit and have a very hard time being reasonable. Most arguments for intelligent design sound a lot like flat Earth arguments but you may find some that are beguiling, I don't know.
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As usual, the "sophisticated" science crowd crow over their religion beating another (ha ha!).

Darwin's theory of evolution has many components, some of which fall under science (e.g. there is random genetic mutation) and many which fall under metaphysics/religion (e.g. there is a god called survival of the fittest that drives evolution, science is good, good is good, you are right, this is important for humanity, all religions are false). Frankly, there hasn't been one comment here that can't be easily argued through to either it's metaphysical nature and/or the self contradictory way in which the believer lives compared to what would be a logical lifestyle if his beliefs were true (seems to happen a lot to us humans).

if you any of you are brave enough to listen to logic and reason, head on over to http://onecosmos.blogspot.com/ read from the beginning and learn. There are many like this writer if you can look outside of your cubicle.

Go ahead, mod me down.

There is already a planet like that: Venus. And I think it is a far better place to go to than Mars. Terraforming on Venus will never happen, but with the dense atmosphere, it should be possible to build floating cities there. See this article or look it up on Wikipedia.

If we want to terraform a planet, Mars is the obvious choice. But for colonization, Venus is a far better target for a myriad of reasons.

representing whatever little rights you formerly had in the Gulag have now
disappeared.

Heil Bushler.

Regardz,
Kilgore Trout, ACTIVIST

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• powerpoint centimeters are 0.417 inches
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The activites of foriegn security services in the US is of interest, but when they are directed against private companies that should be including the cost of protecting their trade secrets into their business model, why would we use counter intelligence assests to help them?

Consider clueful company A and clueless company B. A checks resumes, controls sensitive information and keeps an eye on the competition. B shares information with new hires without checking their background, doesn't know where it is in the market, and doesn't pay attention to when someone is being inapropriately prying. Is it not a market distortion to try to subsidies company B with public money for expenses that company A is already covering itself?

It is good corporate citizenship for a non-multinational to inform security services when it suspects spying is being attempted, but it does not make a lot of sense to spend public money teaching it what it can learn on its own dime. Reports of attempted spying should be addressed with public resources since it can impinge on our cooperation with foreign intelligents services in more weighty matters. But, going beyond that does not make a lot of sense. When the foreign intelligents services manage to help out their own companies with spying, they actually weaken their domestic industry since they reduce incentives to maintain domestic intellectual capabilities. If we are always the source of innovation, then it hardly matters if drips and drops of that innovation are stolen, we will always be in the lead.
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Lets see which one goes the friendster way

Denis The SQL Menace
http://sqlservercode.blogspot.com/

If there is no crime, then don't you get 100% false positives?
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Actually, according to the guy who found most of the bugs (http://erratasec.blogspot.com/2007/06/niiiice.htm l), it does affect OS X.

For academic work, you do want credit for the work you do, but it is very much to your advantage that people want to use it. So, interest by people in your field in the work you do is a sign of success. There are cases of industrial espionage where work that would lead to a patent on say, a drug, is stolen so that another company can get the advantage. But, baring this, you'd like the other company to license you patent in most cases.

Even when other researchers use your ideas without giving credit, or worse, misunderstand your clear statements and say that your work supports their work when it does not, they are relying on the credulity of students, who actually have to delve into a subject in detail and form their own opinions on the relability of the offending author.

So, the situation is much different from that where a researcher in a classified area may become a target for espionage. The guidelines in this case would seem to be more helpful in identifing those most likely to be successful in research: For example: so driven that they'll throw their own money at a project (strange affluence), called on to travel to conferences in other countries (foreign travel), making connections with methods or techniques in other fields (broad range of interests), and working round the clock to meet important deadlines (unusual work hours).
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Well, it is bullshit. The scientific method says, when a theory begins to predict absurd results, scrap the theory. Teleportation IS absurd, as are parallel universes, multiple realities and humanoid aliens.

There is an interview just about that there: http://laputan.blogspot.com/2003_09_21_laputan_arc hive.html That's about the only thing about quantum physics I've ever read that made some sense.

... but from what I hear of the culture there, there's very little emphasis on "open source".

Carl Sagan's gift was for the popularizing of science, not so much for actually doing science himself.

True that the book "Contact" is the only ostensibly science fiction work, nonetheless I would classify his many musings on intelligent life on other worlds as part of science fiction as of yet there is absolutely no evidence for it - observable and repeatable experimental data as being one of the criterion for true science. Thus most of his work would be classified as non-scientific in this sense.

Here is a list of his published works that I have found. Almost all of them concern 'personal refections', 'speculations', 'vision of human future in space', etc. This is not science, but personal reflection, even fiction.

One quote gathered from google says that he wrote some 600 peer-reviewed papers, but I have yet to find a single one available on the internet.

These jerks think they define popular culture. They don't.

DRM doesn't work. People steal the stuff before it's encoded with the DRM. The key is always distributed with the content or recoverable.

DRM can't work. Their attempts are hilarious. In order to be perceived by a human it has to be rendered in analog format, at which point capturing and encoding it in an open format is trivial in all cases.

DRM shouldn't work. If they won't sell me the content for the device I want to play it on when I want to play it where I want to play it, I'll convert it and to hell with what they think I should be allowed to do. Fair use.

DRM is a security risk. I will not surrender control of my PC to render your content.

The more they annoy people, the more visibility worthy indie acts get. People will listen to their popmart derivative garbage less.

I am personally opposed to straight pirating the stuff but I have to admit my conviction on the subject is wavering at this point.

These jerks think they define popular culture. They don't.

DRM doesn't work. People steal the stuff before it's encoded with the DRM. The key is always distributed with the content or recoverable.

DRM can't work. Their attempts are hilarious. In order to be perceived by a human it has to be rendered in analog format, at which point capturing and encoding it in an open format is trivial in all cases.

DRM shouldn't work. If they won't sell me the content for the device I want to play it on when I want to play it where I want to play it, I'll convert it and to hell with what they think I should be allowed to do. Fair use.

DRM is a security risk. I will not surrender control of my PC to render your content.

The more they annoy people, the more visibility worthy indie acts get. People will listen to their popmart derivative garbage less.

I am personally opposed to straight pirating the stuff but I have to admit my conviction on the subject is wavering at this point.

2) Although he admitted to the second judge that he knew he was sued and thought "it was his right" to not sign for legal service documents he knew were notice to appear in court, he was given a new hearing and the original judgment vacated for him. During the second trial, his only defense consisted of libel he made up on LEE KAPLAN WATCH as evidence Lee Kaplan was a bad person who justified what he was doing. It should be noted, Salahi keeps referring to pornographic homosexual images with Lee Kaplan's head photoshopped on them that were introduced with other evidence in the declarations visible on the Web as somehow central to the case. This evidence was not introduced at the first or second trials due to time constraints and both judges still found in favor of Lee Kaplan. The case was not based on this evidence in the declarations even during Salahi's last appeal as it never came up in front of the judge during the Superior Court trial. Salahi claims he could not have posted links to the porno shots on the LEE KAPLAN WATCH website because the hyperlink was not the same color as others. Anyone who knows about web building knows you can have hyperlinks of different colors that still work, but even that was not relevant to the case. After maintaining he had nothing to do with the porno images he then claims to know of another lawsuit against another website about them. How would he know this if he had no contact with the other website's publisher? The fact is, Salahi was shown to have changed and deleted evidence on the Internet many times over the course of the trial that were proven in court.

3)In all his rants on the Internet trying to elicit sympathy he claims his First Amendement free speech rights were violated by this case so as to enlist the support of other bloggers on the Web. He then says nobody asked or told him he had to remove the LEE KAPLAN WATCH site and he intends to continue posting on it. So, pray tell, how were his First Amendment rights curtailed? Because he was held responsible for libel and writing Lee Kaplan's business associates costing Lee Kaplan work? He threatened Lee Kaplan's publishers with the same things he was doing to Lee Kaplan on the Internet. He stated in an interview in the Daily Cal he enver sent any emails, then admitted to sending the emails and making phone calls in court. One of Kaplan's publishers had to contact the police. Salahi hopes that people who did not see the evidence in court will feel sympathy for him. The judges were not so gullible.

4) Salahi claims he changed the headline to appear on the Google caches from "Lee Kaplan named in federal libel lawsuit" to Lee Kaplan MENTIONED in Federal libel lawsuit. Of course, he doesn't mention he did this change only AFTER he lost in court the first time and the damage to Lee Kaplan had already occured. The dates of the changes were clear to the final judge who heard Salahi's appeal in Superior Court. This leaving out pertinent information is classic Yaman Salahi and why he lost this case." - http://www.leekaplandeconstructsleekaplanwatch.blo gspot.com/

There are solid arguments that such massive corporations rely on the state for their legal legitimacy. It is not nearly so sharp a dichotomy as you would have it be... especially since outfits like Lockheed and Halliburton rely on government contracts to survive, and Monsanto and Pfizer are driven by state-granted patent privileges (and it's barely worth mentioning that Coca-Cola has always relied on the perpetuity of "trade secret" status). I would not be surprised if state-granted advantages above and beyond corporate personhood could be found for each company you listed.

I, for one, welcome the coming robot economy. However, we need to be aware of the potential benefits as well as the potential economic dislocation.

Marshall Brain, the founder of http://howstuffworks.com/, has written a fictional account of what a future of advanced robots might look like.

http://marshallbrain.com/manna1.htm

He also maintains a blog to keep track of developments related to a future robotic society.

http://roboticnation.blogspot.com/

"It could be good and it could be bad, but I don't know for sure" - Husker Du

From that site...

"As a fitting start to this blog, I'm proud to release a preview of our Alky compatibility libraries for Microsoft DirectX 10 enabled games. These libraries allow the use of DirectX 10 games on platforms other than Windows Vista, and increase hardware compatibility even on Vista, by compiling Geometry Shaders down to native machine code for execution where hardware isn't capable of running it. No longer will you have to upgrade your OS and video card(s) to play the latest games.

The current preview allows you to run a number of examples from the Microsoft DirectX SDK on Windows XP. They're not the greatest thing since sliced bread, but we want to whet your appetite."

If you use SSL at work in ways designed to elude acceptable-use filters (e.g., WebSense) or to secure applications like telephony and file-sharing, you may want to re-think that proposition.

A series of products, among them Blue Coat's SSL Proxy, provide SSL-cracking capabilities to organizations interested in shutting down SSL violations of policy.

In effect, Blue Coat's SSL Proxy breaks any SSL traffic its been configured to intercept.

When a connection request is made by the browser, it passes through the Blue Coat proxy on its way to the real SSL server. The response from the destination SSL server includes a certificate. This certificate is designed to (a) irrefutably identify the server; and (b) secure the communications between client and server. To do so, the cert wraps the server's public-key, which is tied to the domain name (or, less likely, IP address) of the server.

The real server's cert, though, is intercepted by the proxy on its way back to the browser.

Before the proxy passes the certificate through, it unwraps the public key and then re-wraps it in an "emulated certificate" (I'll go ahead and call it a spoofed cert, which I think is more accurate). This spoofed cert is then returned to the client browser. The client thinks everything is on the up-and-up and -- after it verifies the spoofed cert -- it establishes the encrypted tunnel.

The tunnel, though, is now terminated at the proxy server. The proxy itself has established a second tunnel to the real destination SSL server.

The proxy can now inspect the cleartext traffic, block the traffic, or pass it on to other devices for their use (more about this later), and otherwise fiddle with it prior to sending it down the second encrypted tunnel to the real SSL server.

Not the first time something like this has happened in Sweden. In Finland the Ombudsman for Minorities submitted an investigation request to the police because he suspected that a blogger had said something racist and was therefore plotting genocide, nuclear war and the conquest of a small galaxy. I don't think anything came of it, though.

Thoughtcrime is already a reality, while reality is something that's defined by the elite.

I think you should be shot.

http://mikeeusa.blogspot.com/

Oh, no, they were doing it as a "test". They know there is an interest out there in linux, and wanted to prove a point or something. Looks like someone at Microsoft is trying to come up with something new, probably because of too many meetings, where one is supposed to offer up new ideas. After all, Vista is "married" to the hardware, and there are all kinds of decent linux distros out there that run on almost anything. Right now, I am running my knoppix remaster (screenshots below) on a usb drive, here is my blog post with details, downloads on exactly how that is done.
So many of the computers in existence today are not able to boot directly from a usb drive, so I came up with a method to briefly use the installed hard drive, Windows or MSDOS, to get the OS up and running from the usb drive in a few seconds. I use loadlin and a menu.
I can see where Microsoft would want to test the waters, Ubuntu can be run as a livecd linux, so they point everyone in that direction, as a test, of course.
My problem with Ubuntu is that they use a newer, current kernel, which runs slowly, if at all, on many of the older computers still around today.
I have experienced boot times of 10 minutes to get to the desktop.
In my remaster, I use the 2.4 kernel from Knoppix 3.4, which runs very well on 128MB RAM, and 400 MHZ processor. A lot of Windows 98 boxes were made, quite a few running Pentium II's, at 266 MHZ, and capable of using several 128 MB memory sticks. Those machines come with usb ports, just what I need to plug in my usb drive, and get linux up and running, with the latest web browsers, firewall, GIMP, emelFM, and other applications made just for my remaster, details here. Security? Just power down, unplug the usb drive, and put it in your pocket.