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I'm sure that they don't arrest A SINGLE TERRORIST, A SINGLE PEDOPHILE, A SINGLE IDENTITY THIEF while they target piracy.

Terrorism arrest, Last week

Pedophile arrest, Two Tuesdays ago

Identity theft arrest, Posted 12 hours ago

Running wild and unchecked, indeed. Just because they don't post stories about terrorism arrests, pedophile arrests, and identity theft arrests on Slashdot doesn't mean they aren't going on.

In short: you are ignorant.

the show agrees with the prevailing slashdot opinion that record companies suck, but as someone who watched the episode, let me point out that it does not address (well) many current and relevant issues, such as downloading music (original Napster or iTunes), underground recording (DJ Dangermouse), fair use or other slashdot favorites.

It seemed rather a limited episode to me. Just look at the press reaction page for the episode (and no, not all of the comments are from reactionary neoconservative RIAA lobbyist stooges).

Shame on Frontline for making a relatively poor episode; I have to agree with Roger Catlin of The Hartford Courant when he says "When it wanders away from subjects of grave importance, the usually excellent 'Frontline' can stumble badly."

However, when they are on, they are on, IMHO.

And Kudos to Frontline for posting such negative criticism on their own website; such honesty is rare.

the show agrees with the prevailing slashdot opinion that record companies suck, but as someone who watched the episode, let me point out that it does not address (well) many current and relevant issues, such as downloading music (original Napster or iTunes), underground recording (DJ Dangermouse), fair use or other slashdot favorites.

It seemed rather a limited episode to me. Just look at the press reaction page for the episode (and no, not all of the comments are from reactionary neoconservative RIAA lobbyist stooges).

Shame on Frontline for making a relatively poor episode; I have to agree with Roger Catlin of The Hartford Courant when he says "When it wanders away from subjects of grave importance, the usually excellent 'Frontline' can stumble badly."

However, when they are on, they are on, IMHO.

And Kudos to Frontline for posting such negative criticism on their own website; such honesty is rare.

The same story is republished at this URL. No registration required and it appears to be republished here legitimately. Enjoy without feeding the LA Times' marketing/hassle department.

I just heard some sad news on talk radio - Oscar-winning actor Gregory Peck was found dead in his Los Angeles home this morning. A few details have recently been posted. I'm sure we'll all miss him, even if you weren't a fan of his work there's no denying his contribution to popular culture. Truly an American icon.

Microsoft doubled their loss on the Xbox this past year, losing $190 million before taxes. But I'm faily sure that Microsoft more than made up for this loss in their other divisions.

Sony made a profit of $964 million for the fiscal year. "Sony (SNE) shares are down 40 percent this year, following declines of 8 percent in 2002, 35 percent in 2001 and 51 percent in 2000. "

Nintendo made a profit of $553 million. Their shares are also down, at around 35%. Not bad considering the competition.

Slashdot's product placement and trolling stepped up while European legislators were discussing software patents. Picayune articles, many of which consisted of rehashed softer versions of old FUD and misinformation, covered topics which have already been dealt with, again and again.

Since most novices do not understand the scope and severity of MS's problems and since any critique of MS, no matter the merit, gets written off as "MS-Bashing", it would be best to focus on the more successful areas of the IT sector. Here are a few examples:

• in Norway
• OSS in the mainstream
• Munich goes OpenOffice
• OSS in the UK
• OSS in Spain

Check the forums for tools that work - *BSD, Linux, QNX, Netware, eDirectory, LDAP, Kerberos, KDE, Gnome, Apache, MySQL, Postgresql, and so on ...

Slidell, New Orleans

Anyone else find more details?

Destroy this man

OT: I hope Disney goes out of business. They've really turned into a one-product company, and that product's not even very compelling, anymore.

Actually disney is pretty well diversified among entertainment-related products. They own book, magazine and record publishers. Also ABC TV, ESPN, 10 TV stations, >25 radio stations, 7 movie production compainies (incl. miramax), theatrical productions, petroleum and natural gas interests (huh?), professional sports franchises, a cruise line, international media partnerships, and this little place called disneyworld.

I hope they go out of business, too (I don't like their marketing to children and I think their broad media ownership is anticompetitive), but probably not likely.

While we're at it can we digitally fix Arnett's hair?

It's true that the USA-PATRIOT Act has a number of provisions that are of questionable Constitutionality and dubious value to the War Against Terror (TM, Pat. Pending). However, this article (gratuitous link)is nothing more than gross conjecture without evidence. As we say down here in Texas, he's sellin' a whole lotta bull and not much steak.

It is illegal for a wiretap or datatap to be undertaken without judicial oversight and authorization (see United States v. United States District Court, 407 U.S. 297 (1972), holding "Fourth Amendment freedoms cannot properly be guaranteed if domestic security surveillances may be conducted solely within the discretion of the Executive Branch."). The expanded tap provisions of USA-PATRIOT allow for a greater level of secrecy to surround specific wire- or datataps (specifically, those approved by the special FISA court for national security issues), but federal law enforcement does not have carte blanche to go around randomly listening in to our conversations. In order for a tap to pass Constitutional muster, it has to be narrowly drawn. Setting up a general-purpose dragnet to pull in data from all library patrons, the vast majority of whom cannot legally be targeted by a FISA tap order, would get drop-kicked out of the most deferential judge's chambers. (Orrin Hatch's statement on FISA taps under USA-PATRIOT is here, and the ALA's interpretation of the Act is here).

The FBI does have expanded powers to grab library records, for purposes of domestic law enforcement as well as international espionage and terror investigations, but that's very different -- if no less disturbing -- than ongoing monitoring, and would be sufficient to trigger the librarians' circumspection. It certainly doesn't mean that the Feds slapped a Carnivore underneath the public terminal carousel.

How many job descriptions include the phrase "Warfare"?

Here's one that probably does.

They deserve all the dirty business after letting this guy destroy the world. Let Microsoft finish that city off.

A liar, a thief and a con man. I sure am glad the Hartford paper decided to write about this guy. Please take a second and tell them how you feel about their article.

Instead, try the CTNow letter to the Editor form.

The Hartford Courant has released additional articles today (Monday, July 1) that follow up the Sunday's Bayou article.

I've only had a chance this morning to read a little bit of For The Anti-Spammers, It's All-Out E-War which is an interview with Martin Roth of SWAT. Once again, this story has too much focus on a particular person and not enough coverage of the basic issues of the problems involved.

The Hartford Courant has released additional articles today (Monday, July 1) that follow up the Sunday's Bayou article.

I've only had a chance this morning to read a little bit of For The Anti-Spammers, It's All-Out E-War which is an interview with Martin Roth of SWAT. Once again, this story has too much focus on a particular person and not enough coverage of the basic issues of the problems involved.

The Hartford Courant has released additional articles today (Monday, July 1) that follow up the Sunday's Bayou article.

I've only had a chance this morning to read a little bit of For The Anti-Spammers, It's All-Out E-War which is an interview with Martin Roth of SWAT. Once again, this story has too much focus on a particular person and not enough coverage of the basic issues of the problems involved.

The Hartford Courant said that AT&T was expecting service to be restored to this area on Thursday.

-Jennifer

It has already happened. Check out this story about a guy who got busted by his rental car agency when they tracked him with a GPS.

An Editorial on the CT Anti-Video-Game Bill
State Sen. Toni Harp
Secret Service Report

Not to be a karma whore here, but I figure the working sites are important and after a search on the site I found the following working links on the anti-game bill veto:

http://www.ctnow.com/scripts/editorial.dll?render= y&eetype=Article&eeid=4580891&ck=&ver=3.0
http://www.ctnow.com/scripts/editorial.dll?render= y&eetype=Article&eeid=4583192&ck=&ver=3.0

Not to be a karma whore here, but I figure the working sites are important and after a search on the site I found the following working links on the anti-game bill veto:

http://www.ctnow.com/scripts/editorial.dll?render= y&eetype=Article&eeid=4580891&ck=&ver=3.0
http://www.ctnow.com/scripts/editorial.dll?render= y&eetype=Article&eeid=4583192&ck=&ver=3.0

To train the brain, psychologists at the clinic attach a sensor slathered with conducting gel to a patient's head. The sensor records the brain waves in the frontal lobe, the part of the brain that controls attention and the area where slow-moving waves are believed to cause ADHD.

Patients' brains are then wired to a video game. Instead of a joystick, a mouse or a keyboard, they use brain waves to control the game.