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Sounds pretty good to me but I say we make it the original 16 from the show Survivor and throw in a few junkyard dogs. That would be 'Must See TV' :)

kc.

People are willing to humiliate themselves on national TV for $500k, and backstab, lie, and suffer insect-infested open sores for a shot at $1G.

So I have not doubt that many will get into a hacking contest, trying to win $10k, where the downside is just vague concerns of abstract concepts being threatened in the future.
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D. Fischer

I don't know why, but this depresses me more than anything I've seen recently on the subject.

• Copy-protected VHS tapes didn't seem to matter. You could still copy them, but copying them left a tell-tale tag. Of course, it was only illegal to make illegal copies and then rent them out for money, so no harm done. Fair use is preserved, and people trying to make a quick buck off of the work of others get what they deserve.
• Copy protection on DAT recorders really sucked, but it still didn't seem all that bad. Maybe that was just because I wasn't a musician or musical artist.
• SDMI really rankled me, but hey, it doesn't stop me from recording my *own* MP3s. And now that things like Ogg Vorbis are coming out, this is really irrelevant.
• Encyrpted DVDs aren't great, but somehow I don't mind that as much. You paid for it, you play it, you can't copy it. I really don't like it, but somehow it seems like something we could overcome.
• The DMCA really really sucks, but that one seems destined to be destroyed in the Supreme Court. I'm pretty confident.
• But when the federal government starts mandating total copy protection of media broadcast on the open spectrum, the property of the people, I feel much more betrayed than I did before. The Executive branch, much harder to control than the legislative, is taking away an entire chunk of property that used to belong to the people as a whole, and giving it wholesale to a small handful of very large companies.

Interestingly, reminding myself that I don't watch TV doesn't seem to help. The FCC is overstepping its bounds, here, and I'm not sure there's anything we can do about it.

Imagine what whould happen if RICO could be applied to MS! Among other things RICO allows for the confiscation of land, buildings, money, etc. from the perpetrator.

At least I'm not watching that that other stupid show...

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the Shuttle has an escape system - ejection seats The shuttle has very limited escape mechanisms. Escape is only really possible under 'ideal' ditch conditions (overshot runways, etc.) A sad fact of the Challenger trajedy is that the crew module was found partially intact on the bottom of the Atlantic. Read this for an excellent report.

Britain a nice, peaceful, gun free paradise?

Crime and Justice in the United States and in England and Wales, 1981-96 "U.S. crime rates -- whether measured by surveys of crime victims or by police statistics -- generally fell in the early 1980's, rose thereafter until around 1993, and then fell again (figures 1-10). For most U.S. crimes (survey estimated assault, burglary, and motor vehicle theft; police-recorded murder, robbery, and burglary), the latest crime rates (1996) are the lowest recorded in the 16-year period from 1981 to 1996. By comparison, English crime rates as measured in both victim surveys and police statistics have all risen since 1981. For half of the measured English crime categories, the latest crime rates (1995 for rates from victim surveys; 1996 for rates from police statistics) are the highest recorded since 1981 "

Crime Wave Sweeps Britain"Despite its reputation as a genteel and pleasant land, a new government report depicts Britain as one of the most violent urban societies in the Western world, a place where a person's chances of being assaulted, burgled or robbed are substantially greater than in the United States."

Here's an article. Decide for yourself whether it was written about you. When liberals lie about guns. It was written by the well known bunch of raving right-wing crazies at Salon Magazine.

If you poke around the Survivor site, in particular the source of the Show section, you'll notice that (at least some of) the development was outsourced to xceed.com. In fact, the site was in development from February to April, and therefore, it is reasonable to assume that the entire site, up through episode 13, had been built and reviewed by CBS.

The show section is driven by "episode" logic. When you click on Show option at main page, you are brought to an article on the latest aired episode...currently 7. When episode 8 is aired, that directory of content will be added, plus the dynamic code generator logic will create the browser code to provide latest episode access. The point? This is how team isolated the content for site maintainability, which presumably, the CBS folks are now responsible.

OK. Everyone saw the site working through episode 13. Remove all the content and set the episode variable to 0. "Don't change anything else, or the site could break." And thus, through this backward development approach, the security issue on the voting history image was never raised. If so, they would have added to the unique episode 13 logic of the voting history grid, the ability to update the image of the last surviving person.

Only hypothetical speculation, of course...

What is interesting is that, at the time of this post, Gervase had the fewest votes in the poll when asked: "With whom would you most likely form an alliance?". (Although I expect the results to change quite rapidly as word spreads.)

• CNN
• MSNBC
• ABC
• CBS

Maybe it is a April fools joke, but if it is everyone is taken.

Clearly, this is a very bad thing for Microsoft as a company (who knows about the stockholders.) The decision will be released and can be used in other Microsoft trials. Settlement was really in their best interest.

--Karl

Some of us aren't the best writers. And some of us don't have the facts.

I don't want to lie about our position, and I want to get the facts straight. Can somebody post a letter that has correct facts, but is forceful?

Somebody help those of us who know this is really, really bad, but not much else...

I've collected these emails: (it's a start, at least)

mailto:newsonline@bbc.co.uk mailto:TechNews@MSNBC.com mailto:World@MSNBC.com mailto:letters@msnbc.com mailto:Internight@MSNBC.com mailto:opinion@msnbc.com mailto:comments@foxnews.com mailto:feedback@nytimes.com

and the following webpages:

http://www.cnn.com/feedback/ http://abc.go.com/email_abc/mail_home.html http://www.cbs.com/now/eframeset/1,1616,311,00.htm l?URL=%2Fnow%2Ffeedback%2F1%2C1611%2C311 %2C00%2Ehtml

There is something very wrong with a company who's key trademark is "Where great ideas come to you" that dictates what ideas can appear on what web sites. The acts of eToys are such a front to the open nature of the Internet, the web and art. The only great idea that comes to me is holy fucken shit these guys hop online in November of 1997 and already are pushing the sites registered backed in October 1995 around? If they wheren't willing to accept the activities of a domain with the singular use of their name then why did they choose a company name where the singular was already in use for over 2 years?! I personally have gotten sick of emailing etoys and getting no responce. They don't seem to care two-cents about their image. What continues to bother me now is at what point will their actions no longer be simply a "Wired" worthy news item and make it onto ABC News, CBS News and NBC news? It sure seems time to stop talking to eToys directly and begin yelling at them indirectly. The acts of eToys should be reviewed by the watchful eyes of popular media. And if their acts aren't horrorific by themselves to gain notice by popular media then maybe it is time we start talking to the popular media to make them more aware. The Internet should be flexiable enough that we can add commericalism to it without loosing the accomplishment of having created a network of free flowing expression. If there is only room enough for one or the other then why even bother with migrating to IPv6? In only two years of being on the net, eToys has decided to become a bull of the pre-existing sites. How pathentic can a distributor of "fun" be? Death to what eToys wants to turn the Net into. May we always remember these actions of these monsters up until the day eToys takes it's very last order. eToys must be stopped. Their "great idea" of what the Internet should be has unfortantly been stolden directly from the pages of 1984.

Rioters log-on to the internet and loot on-line.

(with due credit to David Letterman)
Christopher A. Bohn

I wonder if CNN knows they just bought an episode of JAG from CBS.

If you actually read the article, it quite clearly explains the process of being eliminated. People don't actually "die" or "survive" other than surviving the tests without being kicked off the island. The screening process is quite intense, so hopefully no worries about lunatics. It is always possible, but not particularly likely. The regulations (and application) can be found here.

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Tim Wilde
Gimme 42 daemons!

First a joke, now real... live video coverage of the recovery from CBS.com. All I got was a test pattern when I checked up on it, maybe there will be some more "action" later.

You'd think the straight media would be blaring this out, since it's a BIG story that the secret codes that banks and such rely upon are essentially worthless. Wouldn't you? But no ... instead we get (on ABCNews) stories like "Which airline did consumers like best," and "Are you a Type A Driver?"

Well folks, maybe it's time for cyberdemocracy in action. Here's a list of emails where you can tell the government and the media about this story. I would ask that you please, please, pretty please be courteous and informative and to the point when you email these sites. Maybe this time we can get the message to people that our e-commerce infrastructure is lacking because of government boneheadedness.

The President
The Vice-President
The ABC News comments page
The CNN Feedback Page
The CBS News Feedback Page
The MSNBC Feedback Page.

As my favorite rock star once put it, "Don't just criticize the media...become the media."