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No code for the chip has really been written to take advantage of its security features. Therefore it acts just like an avaerage chip. Take a look at this article from The Denver Post on the subject http://denverpost.com/business/ci_2848039

This was hard to track down. Listening to the original description on discovery.ca (TV) I couldn't help but think about Stampy from the Simpsons (1F15).

Bush and his cronies have been purging possible dissenters from Official Federal Events for years.

This is nothing new.

Do a google news search for the Denver Three -- ticket holders physically ejected from a social-security-privitization event by someone claiming to be secret service. why? someone reported a "no blood for oil" sticker on their bumber.

this is just one case. the proto fascists have been stage-managing every apperience like its 1984.

Indeed. Bet the methane levels in most malls are much higher than the ambient outside :-)

Offtopic:

Hunter S. Thompson, 1937-2005. RIP. "He stomped terra"

Yeah. Damn.

You might like this if you haven't seen it. I thought it was pretty fair.

SB

lets make it somehow capped off.

Interestingly enough, in 1992 Colorado did this at a state level with the TABOR (Taxpayer's Bill Of Rights). What's funny (to me) is that now that the economy has been weaker for a few years, and the state has less money, the state legislature is constantly crying about not having enough money. There are trying to weasel out of the whole situation by "reforming" TABOR.

Stupid politicians

Most governement data mining ventures have failed such as two high-profile FBI projects and three iterations of an airline passenger database. Most agencies are inept in managing large software projects. So as a backup, the governement, mainly Homeland Security, has been purchasing private firm data.
To be frank, I don't see the government databases any more secure than private ones. Lowly clerks, some of those hired by affirmative action, are vulnerble to bribes as in the Colorado drivers license scandal.

In the near future it will be illegal for anyone to interact else in any way. If you're smart, you'll buy a plot of land so you can grow your own food and make your own clothes before land transactions become illegal, too.

Some young girls in Colorado were successfully sued for giving a neighbor cookies, for crying out loud.

It's about as strange as the MPT SmogBuster

http://www.denverpost.com/Stories/0,1413,36~33~267 0224,00.html

There's also the issue of runway length, a problem that landing gear doesn't help. Due to the additional mass the plane almost certainly has a somewhat higher stall speed than a 747, requiring a higher takeoff speed and thus a longer runway (especially at higher altitudes like Denver, which is now ready thanks to a new runway that is 3 miles (4.87 km) long and 200 ft (61 m) wide ).

Reenlistment is a record levels.

more details here

If you would look at the link, billhobbs.com isn't creating the news stories, only archiving them. The sources that you claim aren't reliable include:

The Denver Post

The Palm Beach Post

The Jacksonville Sun

The Mercury

Denver's 9 News

Still think that voter registration fraud is only limited to a couple of republicans tearing up voter registration cards?

Oct 2003, when NATO was in town: Airwave glitch hits Springs area, Garage-door openers jammed, hundreds say

Apparently you don't need your tinfoil hat any more, as the government will jam the thought-control rays for you (at least when important officials are in town).

really disabling the nervous system is also capable of stopping the heart and killing the attacker.

The ACLU agrees with you.

But your anecdotal evidence doesn't impress me. I've seen enough articles like this and enough TV news to see that they're consistant. I've never seen anyone tased that can continue to move. Everyone describes it the exact same way.

In fact the only people who I've heard say tasers don't work are anonymous people on bulletin boards who want to place bets that they wouldn't be effected.

The computers are down for uh... (maintenance? No we cant say that... used it in 1980...)

uh... (For updating to a new accounting system for this very account? Damn, used that in '92... there's got to be a good excuse here somewhere... I know!..)

Oh, yeah it's a security issue! That's it, a security issue... can't mess with security now, can we? Not after 9-11!...

(Good one!)

Yes, we'll get back to you about that $700,000,000.00 we owe you after all of this is sorted out...

Oh, sure. As soon as possible...

Don't worry about it, we've got everything under control. Thanks for being so understanding...

Oh yeah, I almost forgot, your access is going to be out for a while...

That's right, no email, no web...

Yes, there'll be no distance learning at the schools either for the time being...

Really, that's not fair. Why don't you people just hire more teachers? ..

What's that? ...

$700 Million? ...

It's funny how technical problems always plague the DOI every time this issue comes up.

The Denver Post is running a two part series on Colorado's Board of Medical Examiners (Buried mistakes / Prescription for conflict). Part one was yesterday, part two is today. It addresses the sealed door policy of Colorado's Board of Medical Examiners and the negative consumer effects when compared to other states with more public access to board business.

To be up front with my bias: The ordeal of my wife and I is included as part of this series.

Prior to the unfortunate events surrounding the botched misdiagnosis of my wife's condition, I was a "trust your doctor" kind a guy. I expect the proverbial used car salesperson to have anything but my interests in mind, and so I adjust accordingly - caveat emptor - and do my research, ask questions, get it in writing, etc. With my doctor, however, I trusted them explicitly and implicitly. This trust was essential because I don't have the resources (time and money) to acquire a medical degree in order to accurately evaluate my current medical needs.

My trust was based on an outdated perception that every doctor would "Do No Harm" in the spirit of the Hippocratic Oath. In our case, the doctor effectively destroyed this trust. It took several years to rebuild this trust with several excellent physicians. To get there, we had to education ourselves. In the past 9 years, we have read tens of thousands of pages from medical books and journals. We have a medical library to rival any first year medical resident. All this so we could put ourselves in the position to 1) ask intelligent questions and 2) know when we were getting an intelligent answer. It's a sobering experience to be informed enough to ask treatment option questions of a doctor - a specialist and expert, no less - only to be told the photocopied JAMA article you hold in your hands doesn't exist!

The principle problem with medical doctors, in general, is 1) debilitating levels of arrogance and 2) greed. Medical doctors, in general, are far more interested in protecting income, maintaining monopoly of "treating" all things biological and establishing legislative immunity to their actions. Colorado's doctor friendly legislature passed the "Doctor Apology Bill", C.R.S. 13-25-135, last July. So now, not only it the process of the Colorado Board of Medical Examiners sealed from public view, but if the doctor apologizes to you or your family about the fact they just amputated the wrong leg, it is inadmissible in court against him! Just who the **** does this serve? Certainly not me, the consumer. But it is the feel-good-bill of the decade for medical doctors.

In the past 9 years, I have come to acquire a level of medical knowledge and understanding that has allow me to embarrass a number of doctors. I truly wish this wasn't so, but when it concerns the health of my family, I care squat about some doctors puny ego. As a result, we have flat out fired a number of doctors and pursued third and fourth opinions (variance of opinions is a whole separate and frightening subject). It's nauseating to see any adult toss a tantrum, it's especially revolting to see a medical doctor hiss and froth when you fire them.

As of today, we have assembled an excellent team of medical doctors who have each, by virtue of their character, helped us regain our trust in medical doctors. Finding these physicians capable of practicing Medicine (with a big "M") has been the result of applying a very simple set of criteria each must meet to be considered capable of treating my family:

1) Can they say the words "I don't know." Had my wife's first doctor, the one who botch the diagnosis, be able to says these words, we would have found the proper treatment MUCH sooner and we would have never considered a law suit. Even on the stand, this doctor COULD NOT acknowledge that there were things she didn't know. Colossal arrogance.

2) Can I call them by their first name.

The rest we can discover together.

The Denver Post is running a two part series on Colorado's Board of Medical Examiners (Buried mistakes / Prescription for conflict). Part one was yesterday, part two is today. It addresses the sealed door policy of Colorado's Board of Medical Examiners and the negative consumer effects when compared to other states with more public access to board business.

To be up front with my bias: The ordeal of my wife and I is included as part of this series.

Prior to the unfortunate events surrounding the botched misdiagnosis of my wife's condition, I was a "trust your doctor" kind a guy. I expect the proverbial used car salesperson to have anything but my interests in mind, and so I adjust accordingly - caveat emptor - and do my research, ask questions, get it in writing, etc. With my doctor, however, I trusted them explicitly and implicitly. This trust was essential because I don't have the resources (time and money) to acquire a medical degree in order to accurately evaluate my current medical needs.

My trust was based on an outdated perception that every doctor would "Do No Harm" in the spirit of the Hippocratic Oath. In our case, the doctor effectively destroyed this trust. It took several years to rebuild this trust with several excellent physicians. To get there, we had to education ourselves. In the past 9 years, we have read tens of thousands of pages from medical books and journals. We have a medical library to rival any first year medical resident. All this so we could put ourselves in the position to 1) ask intelligent questions and 2) know when we were getting an intelligent answer. It's a sobering experience to be informed enough to ask treatment option questions of a doctor - a specialist and expert, no less - only to be told the photocopied JAMA article you hold in your hands doesn't exist!

The principle problem with medical doctors, in general, is 1) debilitating levels of arrogance and 2) greed. Medical doctors, in general, are far more interested in protecting income, maintaining monopoly of "treating" all things biological and establishing legislative immunity to their actions. Colorado's doctor friendly legislature passed the "Doctor Apology Bill", C.R.S. 13-25-135, last July. So now, not only it the process of the Colorado Board of Medical Examiners sealed from public view, but if the doctor apologizes to you or your family about the fact they just amputated the wrong leg, it is inadmissible in court against him! Just who the **** does this serve? Certainly not me, the consumer. But it is the feel-good-bill of the decade for medical doctors.

In the past 9 years, I have come to acquire a level of medical knowledge and understanding that has allow me to embarrass a number of doctors. I truly wish this wasn't so, but when it concerns the health of my family, I care squat about some doctors puny ego. As a result, we have flat out fired a number of doctors and pursued third and fourth opinions (variance of opinions is a whole separate and frightening subject). It's nauseating to see any adult toss a tantrum, it's especially revolting to see a medical doctor hiss and froth when you fire them.

As of today, we have assembled an excellent team of medical doctors who have each, by virtue of their character, helped us regain our trust in medical doctors. Finding these physicians capable of practicing Medicine (with a big "M") has been the result of applying a very simple set of criteria each must meet to be considered capable of treating my family:

1) Can they say the words "I don't know." Had my wife's first doctor, the one who botch the diagnosis, be able to says these words, we would have found the proper treatment MUCH sooner and we would have never considered a law suit. Even on the stand, this doctor COULD NOT acknowledge that there were things she didn't know. Colossal arrogance.

2) Can I call them by their first name.

The rest we can discover together.

This is something that's bothered me for a long time. If spam largely is fraudulent (direct ripoff) or advertising fraudulent products (real product, doesn't work), or even criminal (selling drugs illegally), why don't we ever hear about prosecutions for this?

A California man on Thursday sued a slew of international companies, including a Greeley distributor, alleging the penis-enlargement products they market and distribute do not work.

The lawsuit, filed in U.S. District Court in Denver, seeks class-action status to represent an estimated 1 million people who ordered the products in response to advertisements on television, radio and spam e-mail.

"I was wondering for a long time why no one has gotten around to suing these penis-enlargement guys, because it seems like a pretty blatant ... fraud," said New York lawyer Brad Corsello, who filed the lawsuit on behalf of Californian Jeffery Horton.
[...]

Fuck You, Asshole.

The Concorde failed because of a combination of an insurmountable technical problem and a purely financial one. The unsolvable technical problem was the sonic boom, the explosivelike blast that followed like a shadow the Concorde's path overhead. This phenomenon occurred at the moment the plane pierced the sound barrier. It rattled windows and frightened birds, beasts and humans.

So serious were the repercussions that governments banned the Concorde from flight over their lands.

Eat that, cocksucking gay homo GNAA advocate.

BTW: Plz die of AIDS. -K tnx.

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Lawmakers seek to punish companies that send jobs overseas


By Steven K. Paulson
The Associated Press

Companies that send jobs overseas could kiss their state contracts goodbye if two Colorado lawmakers have their way.

Democratic state Sens. Deanna Hanna of Lakewood and Terry Phillips of Louisville said too many companies are moving jobs out of state or overseas, hurting the state economy.

Hanna said she was shocked when workers for EDS, a Texas-based company that has a contract for computers for the state human services programs, recently told lawmakers it was sending technical support jobs to workers in India and Pakistan.

Hanna said her measure (Senate Bill 170) would require companies to keep workers assigned to state contracts in the United States.

"I know profits are important to companies, but we in Colorado need to do all we can to make sure people have jobs," Hanna said.

Phillips said IBM recently announced it was moving 900 jobs out of Louisville. His measure (Senate Bill 169) would bar companies that relocate 100 jobs or more outside the United States from doing business with the state for seven years.

Phillips said recent company moves have cost the Boulder area about $250 million.

"All we are saying is that these companies should have a sense of community," Phillips said.

A spokesman for EDS said his company was unaware of the pending legislation and had no immediate comment. Officials from IBM did not return messages.

Chuck Berry, president of the Colorado Association of Commerce and Industry, said a number of large corporations are benefiting from the improving national economy and making decisions about where to expand. He said the legislation sends the wrong message.

"Colorado needs to encourage companies to compete in the global economy," he said. "Protectionist legislation won't keep jobs in Colorado."

Berry said lawmakers should focus on incentives that would bring more business to Colorado, including proposals that would reduce business personal property taxes on items like computers and cut costs for workers' compensation insurance.

It sounds like Ricochet is going to use the unregulated 900 MHz band to do the same thing that the FCC is going to do with regulated spectrum

Maybe that 75% will pull up the rottentomatoes rating, which is still at 38%.

Perhaps... but, to your point, there is definitely a lot more bang for buck in what you're getting these days on a DVD than what you're getting on a CD. I thought that a really well thought-out argument on this was presented in this piece which was posted here a little while back.

I think that making the "they're paid too much and that's why I hate them and their high prices" argument is slightly more nebulous here than, say, on the RIAA side of the house. Also, in the RIAA example, you're still talking about bloated overhead and other out-of-control costs as the root evil.

Of course, this is all IMO, but you knew that 'cause this is Slashdot ;)

Just out of curiosity, did you happen to read the text of the bill you quoted?

Yes I did. (and I realize I should have highlighted the part about the additional CBI fee to avoid confusion. My mistake)

However, the sheriff's office and CBI is doing the same thing as they were before, but actually providing less service (by only accepting applications 2 days a week instead of 5).

Although the cost increase isn't a big deal, there is no justifiable reason for it. The county's cost to process applications did not go up.

My point isn't to gripe about the county sheriff's office in this forum, but simply to point out that the behavior noted in the parent post is not limited to phone companies and corporations.

$1 for a "phone number portability" fee, or $14 increase to do CCW: organizations -- whether private or public -- will do anything to nickle-and-dime us.

And don't even get me started on my home owners association...

At Yellowstone, one of the world's largest volcanoes, there are indications that something is going on. There's a big bulge on the bottom of Yellowstone Lake, but nobody is sure how long it's been there. It's emitting lots of hot water, though, and there is plentiful evidence of large hydrothermal (i.e. superheated steam) eruptions in Yellowstone's recent past. Also, trails in Norris Geyser Basin have been closed because the ground temperature is near 200 degrees Farenheit. While this is probably hydrothermal, not magmatic, activity, if Yellowstone ever does decide to have another major eruption (as it last did 600K years ago), you can pretty much count on massive worldwide social disruption. Ever wonder what it would be like if all food production in the western U.S. were to go away?

The annual meeting of the International Association of Clerks, Recorders, Election Officials and Treasurers is going on this week in Denver . It includes a sub-conference of technical types who are trying to slow down purchasing and installation of the new machines until they are made more secure. Meanwhile, ignore Jonik's comment.

Some articles on a new system being introduced:

RMN

Denver Post

I'm afraid it's already happening.

Over at the Denver Post

Colorado recently enacted (law went into effect Monday) a No-call list that is maintained by an outside company. Lots of amusing tidbits in this and this article, including that 790,000 people have signed up for the list (sign-up was available before the law took effect), and that 600 complaints were received in the first two days the law was in effect. Fines don't come into place until the third offense, but the AG has already warned some companies to stop.

The Colorado No-call list can be joined here or by calling 1-888-249-9097.

Unfortunately, if you don't already live in Colorado, most of the residents don't want you to move here (if you live here you know what I mean).

You must not live somewhere Qwest services or you would expect this behavior...they provide awful customer service and are all about saving a buck. When we moved into our apartment, we were assured by Qwest that DSL would be available by January. Still no DSL. They are in serious financial trouble, have recently had to post bonds to pay their taxes, one of their branches is filing bankruptcy, and Moody's and S&P have downgraded their stock to junk bond status. For them to do something that would actually MAKE them money is contrary to their business paradigm.

You must not live somewhere Qwest services or you would expect this behavior...they provide awful customer service and are all about saving a buck. When we moved into our apartment, we were assured by Qwest that DSL would be available by January. Still no DSL. They are in serious financial trouble, have recently had to post bonds to pay their taxes, one of their branches is filing bankruptcy, and Moody's and S&P have downgraded their stock to junk bond status. For them to do something that would actually MAKE them money is contrary to their business paradigm.

You must not live somewhere Qwest services or you would expect this behavior...they provide awful customer service and are all about saving a buck. When we moved into our apartment, we were assured by Qwest that DSL would be available by January. Still no DSL. They are in serious financial trouble, have recently had to post bonds to pay their taxes, one of their branches is filing bankruptcy, and Moody's and S&P have downgraded their stock to junk bond status. For them to do something that would actually MAKE them money is contrary to their business paradigm.

You must not live somewhere Qwest services or you would expect this behavior...they provide awful customer service and are all about saving a buck. When we moved into our apartment, we were assured by Qwest that DSL would be available by January. Still no DSL. They are in serious financial trouble, have recently had to post bonds to pay their taxes, one of their branches is filing bankruptcy, and Moody's and S&P have downgraded their stock to junk bond status. For them to do something that would actually MAKE them money is contrary to their business paradigm.

Back in February this year, the Denver photo radar system was suspended for various reasons. The City has since forgiven any outstanding tickets, and hasn't yet re-instated the system for legal reasons. The Denver Post article.

I read that the CO Consitution provisions for free speech is more broad than the U.S. Constitution.

Read more at the local papers:
The Denver Post
Rocky Mountain News

I think you can read more from their front pages.

Personally, I'm confused about this whole issue (I'm local). On one hand, I don't think the police can find out what you read and prosecute you on your beliefs. But the press has been reporting that the City of Thornton wants to place a suspect at the lab by proving the receipt belongs to the suspect. But some of the quotes here from the decision makes it look like Thornton went about it the wrong way.

The Denver Post has a good story about this here

I agree that it was a horrific incident and my initial reaction to the idea of the pictures of massacred kids in bloodstained classrooms was revulsion.

However, why not make something good come out of all this? In UK they are using pictures of a dead 22-year drug-addict in anti-drug campaigns with the full support of the addict's parents.

So why not go ahead and make use of all the Columbine photos in anti-gun campaigns with slogans like "This is not what our Founding Fathers would have wanted". Wake up the America to see that private, loosely controlled ownership of guns is not normal anywhere in the world except in the US and that it can result in disasters like Columbine. That would require permission from victims' parents, but I can't believe that any sane Columbine parent would refuse it after the bloodbath.

an everyday politician speaks

The Denver Post is reporting on speculation the Microsft wants to invest $3 bilion to $5 billion in AT&T if the division goes it alone. (AT&T is considering selling off its broadband division. Bidders include AOL, Comcast, and Cox.)

It didn't crash in the Denver/Boulder area or in Colorado Springs (where the Air Force Academy and NORAD are located).

I think Canada must be getting some screwy news on this, one of my coworkers is from Canada and her mother called saying she had heard a plane had crashed in the town of Summit, Colorado. There is no town of Summit, Colorado, although there is a county, but nothing has happened there that I've heard about (I live and work about an hour from Summit county).

However, the "Goodbye to Mile High" football game was postponed, which, to some Coloradans, is more devastating than an airplane crash.

The local papers here are:
Rocky Mountain News
Denver Post

Neither of these have reported any airplane strikes, but feel free to look for yourself.

If you read this story, you'll note that just today police announced the arrest of three high school boys in Ft. Collins, Colorado (an hour or two north of Denver) for planning a "second Columbine", which is what a number of girls reported them saying. In this case it sounds somewhat bad - the kids had some diagrams of the school, a number of guns, and a propane tank ready to go (though I'm not sure from reading the article how much of those items the kids really had gathered together rather than just having them laying around the house).

I agree with other posters that there neds to be some sense of context that remarks are taken in - but I'd also say that if students really felt in danger, they should be able to report it without having to worry about getting sued.

The line about the "reiserfs controversy" irks me. Sounds a little like sensationalism. How is making a (wise) decision not to include reiserfs into the kernel tree a controversy?

To sum up the link, reiserfs has some goofy buffering behavior (among other things), the reiserfs people say "it works better now", Alex Viro points out the fact that the code hasn't been updated in years in some spots (or to paraphrase him, "you don't fix things unless they break compile") and tells the reiser people to clean up their act before distribution on the main tree. Other Linux powers-that-be agree, saying yes, it should be cleaned up, in its current state it's better for 2.5 inclusion.

1. It is not a controversy when there are options. The reiser people have several choices
2. They can clean up their code.
3. They can distribute as a patch seperately.
4. They can fork their own kernel and distribute with the reiserfs included.
5. They can fork their own kernel and distribute the reiserfs patch seperately.
6. All or none of the above.

With so many options I don't understand why it's considered 'controversial' unless /. has been hit by Jon Katz Syndrome. With open source you can solve a controversy before it starts. Scratch your own itch and all that?

That having been said, I am happy to see a (proven) journaling filesystem be put out. I have used SGI's for quite some time and have always been impressed with their filesystem performance. Moreover, in the days of 30,40,70 gigabyte hard drives, fsck times after unplanned power must be kept to a minimum. (Pre-emptive responses to the cluebies who say "if you want to preserve 50 gigs of data, use a UPS": the UPS may blow up too ;-)

I also am interested in XFS handling large files (64-bit file support); I work with digital video for streaming, and those files get real large, real fast. Seeing a file larger than 4G will make my day.

I highly recommend anyone, people who agree or disagree with me, download the XFS source and look for themselves. Nothing sexier than looking at lock code for hours on end.. ;-)

The Denver Post article that CNN and others refer to can be found here:

http://www.denverpost.com/news/news010 6m.htm

There is a tad more information included.

~afniv
"Man könnte froh sein, wenn die Luft so rein wäre wie das Bier"

is here.

Math

There's an article with a bit more info at the Denver Post: http://www.denverpost.com/news/news010 6m.htm

From what I see, looks like a good way to justify discriminating against certain groups. What I remember of high school, the athletes and the little perfect performers were exalted by the school and everyone else, and the rest of us were just there. What if the profile says the school's star linebacker could be a violent person? Will that be taken as seriously as if the program identifies some quiet wallflower geek who spends all his/her time in the computer lab as violent?

My conclusion: computers are good tools, but such subjective profiling should be left to a professional psychologist who is able to use his/her best judgement to interpret the results.

There's only one richest man in the world

Hmm, someone mentioned, and I haven't verified the rumor - that oil baron Rockefeller, in inflation adjusted, constant dollar terms, was still richer than Gates is now. Again, unverified. Of course Einstein, not a wealthy person, was a much more influential and lasting legacy than Rockefeller anyway.

Chuck