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Very true! It's happened before it'll happen again. Take the GPS unit that gave the soldier's position instead of the enemy and had a bomb dropped on them, http://www.csmonitor.com/2003/0114/p03s01-usmi.htm l call it user error, but maybe their system should reject fire coordinates that are at the same location as friendly troops.

Each of the Parties to the Treaty undertakes to pursue negotiations in good faith on effective measures relating to cessation of the nuclear arms race at an early date and to nuclear disarmament, and on a Treaty on general and complete disarmament under strict and effective international control.

• work seriously toward nuclear disarmament;
  
• abide by the biological and chemical weapons conventions;
  
• repudiate "preemptive" war plans;
  
• repudiate "regime change" doctrine;
  
• cease interference with the inspections process;
  
• acknowledge the Israeli nuclear program and cut off aid until it can be inspected and dismantled;
  

though accidents will happen

If Congress doesn't declare war, we are not in a war. (Article I, section 8, clause 11, the U.S. Constitution)

CS Monitor (thumbs-up)

Nature (ho-hum)

Computer User (thumbs-way-up)

Research in this field has been going on since the mid-nineties. The experiments generally split a laserbeam, leaving photons in each of the two beams entangled with each other. At the end of one beam, they manipulate the quantum state. At the end of the other beam, they detect the quantum state of the entangled counterpart. In theory, the change takes place instantaniously.

I read someplace that some French (or Swedish) scientists have measured the speed to at-least five times the speed of light (I found what might have been their website, but it was in French!). Anyway, here is a story from 2001 about a Dutch team that managed to entangle some cesium atoms.

Not really.

WASHINGTON - The legal controversy fomented by the indefinite detention of two American citizens in military prisons is being very closely watched - and loudly debated - as their cases go through the judicial appeals process.

Granted, they're not forced to take them, but as the article says do you really want to be competing with others who are taking amphetamines.

Nope, Wal-Mart is in fact, the largest ogre.

Read this, particularly the part about the three peasants.

What if someone were to turn around and declare you a terrorist?

Still finding it such a good idea?

...sending wireless signals over ordinary audio speakers so that humans can't hear them....

Is it just me, or does embedding data in white noise "sound" like it's already happend? Every time I pick up the phone when someone else is using the line for a dial-up connection, I am abruptly reminded of the transmission of data using seemingly random noise....

$ # Patent pending...
$ bzip2 -c </lib/libc.so.6 >/dev/audio

And how is this diffrent from steganography + a pair of 2,400 buad modems?

Besides, elephants have been doing this for millenia (with their feet instead of over their THX system).

My Dad went to see it and was very impressed. I have seen the photos--I want one.

For those in New England, this thing is in Greenfield, NH

"MetaFilter is one of the sometimes confusing class of sites known as 'weblogs.' In the original sense of the word, a weblog is a regularly updated collection of found links, commentaries, and personal reflections, maintained by a single person. For thousands of others, a weblog is simply an online diary - and while some have merit, many more (if not most) feature the "I hate my job," "my cat did the cutest thing," "here's my philosophy" essays which demonstrate that the locks on traditional diaries are there more to protect the public than the author's privacy. Fortunately, MetaFilter falls into the first category, with the distinction that contributions are not made by a single person - this blog has more than 12,000 contributors, and when it comes to scouring the Web, numbers matter."

I am sorry to bring you to the real world, but our program against AIDS, which distributes medicine for free, and ignores the patent laws for these medicines is a pioneer.

Even the US backed up his case due to the international pressure. (This happened in time when US used to listen to the international community).

You can say that about the debts, but better dig some info before talking about AIDS in BRA.

His name is Don "Thunder Throat" LaFontaine.

Just read this

> Oh and if you're interested in the Christian Science Monitor. (As in why should I read a "Christian" newspaper.... go here before you complain about this news source.

Well, first I would explain your quotes on Christian by remembering all readers that Christian Science is not Christian nor Science, but a mistaken self-assigned name for a gnostic heresy.

Second, why would I trust a publication by a religious organization based on bad philosophy over publications by corrupt corporations? I mean, what's the difference? Even idealistic publications have problems to get things right.

My mom is starting her first full-time job as a teacher on Tuesday. She's, umm, middle aged and was a stay-at-home'er. But she took a couple classes over the years and learning Windows 3.1/95 and office. In her previous private school part-time jobs, she typed every one of her lessons. So she STILL HAS THEM. She uses Power Point (I'm actually not a big fan in the classroom), but to spice up her Latin for these high school kids she used a Smart Board. This is essentially and interactive chalk board. At her new full-time job, the school (where money is tight) bought her one. She asks me questions a lot. I try to answer them. She is in no way an expert, but she achieved competent user level.

She is so far advanced tech wise for most teachers it is incredible (sad that is) and she's pretty sure it's the reason she got hired for a job that will be a stretch for her first year.

The saddest part? Her new school's admin seems so technologically inept, it's going to be quite difficult. They make her use an iBook (she knows Windows. She's trying to concentrate on learning Latin 4 this summer. Not Mac OS 9.1). It has a (broken) CD-R, but the admin doesn't believe her. (It says so in the Hardware and it screws up cd-r disks. Try to do that with a regular cd-rom) He says e-mail your files to yourself, but if she updates 10 files, she has to e-mail ten files. Not very efficient. It reads her files poorly and transferring them was a nightmare.

My point I guess? A major failure here is the need competent people to help teachers along. Most teachers were running the classrooms. Not taking computer classes. Computers make things much harder, unless you know a good way to set things up. I'll tech my mom to use FTP, get her a zip drive, find a copy of DAVE client or figure out something else to make her life possible.

The school gave her a partially broken computer that makes things nearly impossible to back up or move. Their advice as she picked up her new computer was "It's a Mac. You'll love it."

Oh and if you're interested in the Christian Science Monitor. (As in why should I read a "Christian" newspaper.... go here before you complain about this news source.

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The bigger threat would be from radioactive material gained from the medical comunity or some other industry which uses ratioactive material.

Take for example the children of a Mexican scrap dealer who opened up a container and found a glowing substance inside. some of them painted their bodies with it, and others went home to eat with residues of it on their hands. It turns out the container was taken from a closed down hospital, and was quite radioactive. Not all the children lived to reach the age where they would have known better.

Highly radioactive material is available from the crumbling infastructure in the former Soviet Union. Russia has already had an attempt on them, where a radio active dirty bomb was actually planted. Fortunatly for them, they caught it in time.

I see The Economist occasionally linked from Slashdot -- the Economist is partially owned by FT, and provides deep articles about a broad array of news items. Lots of it is economics/foreign policy, but they've got a lengthy tech survey every few months, and cover tech news occasionally. No reg required, but to view all of the articles you need to subscribe/pay money (free with print subscription -- excellent value). The Economist and the New York Times are the best news sources that I know.

Thankfully, Slashdot posts few time/newsweek/usnwr drivel -- this falls into the same catagory as ABC, CBS, NBC -- for people that don't really like to read hard news/want to be entertained more than informed.

The SF Chronicle used to have some good local/silicon valley stories from time to time. The web version is more infotainment than the print one, though. I haven't seen a slashdot link to there in a while either -- maybe it has gone downhill (haven't read it since I moved away).

The Christian Science Monitor used to be OK as well -- haven't looked at it in years...

Check out this article to get some info about the current state of high speed trains in America.

cs monitor has won several awards including several pulitzers.

though christian science is in the name, it is not a religious paper. check it out before you decide anything related to any religion must be bad.

Well, as they say on tv, `we report, you decide'. I would argue that there is a strong liberal bias to much of the moderation which goes on here, you seem to feel that there is not. I dare say the readers of our posts can decide that for themselves, taking this thread and others as their guide.

As to your bit about intolerance, I would argue that it misses a key point. Modern `I feel your pain' liberalism, with its morass of identity politics, anti-Americanism, and subjectivist morality, has little use for rational argument and the respect for civil discourse which was a proud tradition of the liberalism of the past. From our college campuses, to our network news, liberals increasingly see labels and smears as a replacement for reason. Conservatism, with its central emphasis on reason and on individual rights, is less guilty of this.

Hint: when was the last time you saw a small group of conservative protesters use insults, violence or threats of violence to shut down a liberal speech, event, or newspaper? It happens to conservatives all the time -- see here, or here, or here or here or here.

Note: I am NOT a regular reader of the Christian Science Monitor.

-sk

I don't understand why there are spaces in the URLs I wrote in my message, but here they are, sans spaces:

http://www.fas.org/spp/starwars/docops/rp911024.ht m

http://www.csmonitor.com/durable/1997/09/08/opin/l etters.1.html

Note: I am NOT a regular reader of the Christian Science Monitor. I included that link because the author is from MIT. And before you mod my previous post as off-topic, I'm just pointing out that it's easy to dismiss something as a software bug. It's much harder to do some real thinking and make sure that the concept is valid to begin with.

GMD

Computers have greatly reduced the time involved in writing, editing, typesetting and printing books since the days of writing a book with a typewriter. Distribution, sales and shipping of books have also been accelerated by technology (printing in more than one location, nearly realtime sales information across entire store chains, etc.).

Technology also means that the opportunities that copyright impedes have greatly increased. Being able to freely copy material online means that many people do not have to chop down trees to store information. Physical storage of books in digital forms is much more compact. Searching and sharing of free online information is orders of magnitudes easier.

There is even a secondary opportunity cost to authors in long copyrights: the development of derivative works is greatly limited by copyright when they are outside of "fair use." For example, I think that, given how much time has elapsed, Richard Hatch should be allowed to make his Battlestar Galactica sequel, and the rewrite of Gone with the Wind from a black perspective (The Wind Done Gone) should be allowed whether or not the book qualifies as a parody. The opportunities lost by impeding this sharing are increased when the efficiency with which these derivative works can be made is increased (i.e., more potential derivative works that otherwise would be produced are lost during each year of the copyright).

The costs of creating a book have dropped. The rate at which that investment can be recovered has accelerated, and opportunities that we lose during each year of copyright have increased. In my view, the balance point at which the public benefit of copyright is maximized has been greatly reduced. I believe that it would maximize public benefit to accelerate copyright expiration to about five years, maybe even less.

The Christian Science Monitor , for instance, was taken to task on this point, and examined their usage of the term over the course of 20 years. Sixty-three out of 63 times, they used it in the sense of "calling for the question", and these are not ignorant fools for whom English is a second language.

I'm willing to bow to history enough to concede that "begs the question" has a technical meaning in a niche field, but I resent being corrected on this point in much the same way that I would resent a sailor telling me that the thing that sits on my shoulders isn't my "head", because a "head" is the bathroom. For the tail to wag the dog in this way is simply foolish.

Nor do I. Anyway, by picking on split infinitives,

Shame on you for picking on split infinitives.

Even the Oxford English Dictionary approves of split infinitives now.

To roughly quote Star Trek on the topic.

James T. Kirk was way ahead of his time in deciding "to boldly go" into far-flung galaxies. The "Star Trek" captain was out there splitting infinitives in his 1960s TV science-fiction series long before the "official" green light was given.

Now, in the New Oxford Dictionary of English (NODE), 30 editors and 60 consultants around the world have sided with Captain Kirk and given their blessing to what some grammatical sticklers still regard as anathema or worse.

Indeed, the compilers not only approve of splitting infinitives but also seem bent on dividing the English-speaking world - or at least the part of it that cares about language and grammar.

Among the volume's more than 2,000 new words and phrases, split infinitives rub shoulders with "shock jocks," "Blairite," "alcopops," "tamagotchi," and "zero tolerance" as acceptable present-day usage.

So there....

And the model presented (in such a long winded way) is even proven to work! The band marillion has used the method described by crosbie to fund a tour and at least one new album. See this article for more details. I realize they're an exception for now, but couldn't more bands use this method to achieve success and bypass the RIAA?

Antartica is getting colder, thicker.

This basically explains that the paper is secular, with the goal of unbiased reporting. It was started by Mary Baker Eddy, the founder of the Church of Christ, Scientist, in 1908. This was done more or less as a response to the "yellow journalism" of the day (much more about that in the above link). So far it has won six Pulitzer prizes for journalism.

- Topher Cawlfield

Democracy may hinder economic development - but who wants to live under an oppressive regime?

The children of China's elete all want to move move to the United States.

Yes democracy/dissention can slow growth - eg look at Quebec in Canada... The truth is comparisons of China and Russia are an apples and oranges affair. Russia has never truly experienced capitalism, while for China communism was a fleeting love affair.

Read any Chinese newspaper and you can see why they don't want to give their citizens access to the knowledge of the world. Chinese are being shafted by their government. Death penalty for stealing gas? China has it - so that the organs of the thief can be sold.

But who can expect big business do do anything about it... they are out to make money - as their shareholders want them to.

Curbing piracy begins when people have more than enough to feed themselves and their family. I just want to point out a few articles here, here, and here. The first two are about Shanghai, being the bastion of capitalism in China and all, and the third about N. Korea possible plans for experimenting w/ capitalism. This is what I prefer to see; allowing countries to make their own decisions and deal with the consequences, instead of telling them what to do.

For more on McDonald's over-hyping of the emperor's new security blanket, see this article from the Fresno Bee .

Sample quote: "This breakthrough technology makes us the safest airport in America," Mayor Alan Autry said.

Prof. Kevin Warwick in the UK had an electronic tag implanted in his arm as an experiment not so long ago.

The Kursk sank on a training mission, and according to a revealing and meticulously researched print article in the October, 2001 issue of Men's Journal, the two primary reasons for the tragic death of the entire crew were: 1) faulty cheaper torpedoes, and 2) a Russian fleet chain of command that put covering their asses before the welfare of their sailors.

The Russian Navy is in dire straits. Submarine crews spend much of their time foraging for food. Their morale is terrible, training quality is low, and discipline is not what it should be.

Having the best equipment in the world is no substitute for having well-trained, motivated, sailors. Until the Russians can completely overhaul their Cold War-oriented, top-heavy, political-appointee command structure, and start spending money on training and sailors rather than on huge new weapons programs, they'll continue their rapid descent into military irrelevance.

Further reading about the Russian military from sources around the world:

BBC
India
Russia

Why were they honest about it now? Simple: this is the best political climate the FBI could have asked for to reveal something like this.

Surveys show that most people, given the 9-11 attacks, are more than willing to trade freedom for security.

"A recent ABC/Post survey found two out of three people expressing willingness to surrender 'some of the liberties we have in this country to crack down on terrorism.' Cole attributes this not only to a heightened concern for safety, but to the fact that the majority are not generally affected--that is, it's not their relatives being detained and questioned." (Taking Liberties: Fear and the Constitution)

"At times like this, a democracy must balance its need to protect itself with the freedoms that define it. Last week's terrorist attacks have raised the debate pitting homeland defense against civil liberties to a level not seen since World War II." (For now, security trumps liberties)

"From the very first surveys after the World Trade Center and Pentagon attacks, most Americans told pollsters that the country would have to give up some rights to fight terrorism (79 percent in a CBS/New York Times poll in September). A Gallup survey conducted Nov. 26-27 found six in 10 Americans who said the Bush administration has been 'about right' in its limits on civil liberties, as opposed to 10 percent who said the administration had gone too far and 26 percent who think it hasn't gone far enough." (Public Supports Domestic Crackdown on Terror)

After all, if you're innocent, what do you have to worry about anyway? :grin:

Premature at best.

It's a real shame, the loss the Japan lab, but I can't help but think that the lab being built in Western South Dakota will be even more important. I cannot find a decent date on completion, but this page explains a newer, better neutrino detection lab being constructed right now.

The location even better (8,000 feet deep, insulated from nearly every form of interference) and the site has fanstastic support from the state and federal government. The Japan lab isn't the only one in existance -- there are others in Ontario and the South Dakota lab has had facilities in operation since 1967.

The articles, both the Slashdot commentary and the NYTimes article, predict a savage demise. But other labs, especially the South Dakota lab, offer a huge potential to pickup the slack.

Troops deployed in response to Pentagon attack -- (Canada's) National Post. Please ignore the very, very tacky graphics and tabloid-like banner.

Canadian border open, airline travellers stranded -- ditto. Note that many aircraft were diverted to Canadian airports. If you know someone who was on a flight, they may be in Canada right now.

The National newscast says that the US military just brought in an aircraft to Vancouver (BC) airport; no news on why.

Canada dot com -- looks like WIC (a media conglomerate) has created a site that encompasses news from BCTV, Vancouver Sun, etc. I can't get the links to work, but some look interesting.

Christian Science Monitor -- don't be put off by the title: it's a *very* high-quality paper.

The Village Voice -- not sure how high-quality this will be, but it has an amazing photo, plus information on the DFLP.

Boston Globe -- again, good quality reporting. There's a Breaking News page as well. Indeed, their breaking news is great.

PLEASE POST LINKS TO FOREIGN MEDIA. I've been searching, but I simply don't know the names for any English foreign media, save the BBC.

You can find an interview from last February here.

Any number of education theorists used to bemoan the stultifying effects of conventional classroom education. My own experience as a student confirmed those theorists and the fact that a good deal of education occurs in spite of the education system rather than because of it.

Certainly there is no substitute for a good teacher but there is a shortage of good teachers. A computer, whatever its defects as a teaching device, is usually a good alternative to a bad teacher and a good supplement to a mediocre one.

Here is my own conclusion based on 20 years sitting in classrooms versus hundreds of hours sitting in front of a microcomputer: the computer wins. I would suspect that anyone who tried to educate himself using a computer (usually supplemented by a book) would say that he learned more per hour than he learned listening to lectures and preparing for exams.

To the snopes links, check out http://www.csmonitor.com/durable/1997/09/09/news/, which has YetAnotherMutation of the legend.

Grep for 'deposit'
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Interesting. Are handguns legal there? I've heard on tv that Great Britain has a higher violent crime rate than the USA. The story seemed to be blaming it on the fact that the British citizens have very restrictive gun laws, and the police force is similarly restricted.

The story was on the CBS evening news, but the first link to it that Google showed is the Christian Science Monitor.

1989-09-12 Page 8
Software Makers Row Over Patents

1989-07-12 Page 9
Developing Software Is No Picnic

Sometime around 1988
A large article I can't lay my hands on, in which he describes Project GNU. This was one of the articles that inspired me to contribute to GNU by 1989, which led to the development of GNU Fortran (g77). At least, I'm pretty sure it was authored by SLG!

Article in Technology Review:

1991-02/03 Pages 53
Programs to the People "Computer whiz Richard Stallman is determined to make software free -- even if he has to transform the industry singlehandedly."

SLG may be wrong in his predictions, but he's not writing as a newcomer to Linux, Unix, GNU, or free software in general.

Yeah...that probably IS the reason NASA doesn't want to crash Galileo on Europa...they fear retribution! I did a research paper on Europa not too long ago and I have some links about Europa if anyone is interested.

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In that context, referring to "Christian Science" as an "oxymoron", as another who replied to this article did, is inappropriate, unless one wishes to offend others out of ignorance regarding their religion.

Oh man, get out of here! Flamebait, alright, but redundant?! TWICE?

I wasn't making those things up you know.

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I think both these points are very relevant to the story.