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http://digg.com/tech_news/T-Mobile_stands_with_Qwest_and_refuses_illegal_NSA_data_mining

But you are probably right about the company execs and contracts thing... I got some of that confused.

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You could make an argument he was a bad man, though comparing him to Hitler is laughable.

Why? The proportion of Cubans killed per day because of him was far larger, than that of Germans under Hitler — before the big war... Hitler (and Stalin) started wars, yes, but Che Guevarra wanted the same — his desire to blow up New York, for example, and other American cities is well known to people, who pay attention.

On very careful examination, we may still find Hitler to be more evil, but it is by no means certain...

Yep, closed-source has issues with security. That's why we run everything open-source. While we generally have to fix all the bugs, we definitely don't have to find them all, and users gladly submit bug reports and occasionally THEY supply a fix. You gotta love open-source!

BTW, if you like using Skype and like open-source software then check this out:
http://digg.com/d1rc3e

In any case, all you Skype users please practice safe telephony habits. :)
-MC

http://www.cluecon.com/

http://digg.com/general_sciences/Man_in_Vietnam_hasn%E2%80%99t_slept_in_33_years._2

All Google hits either refer to http://www.thanhniennews.com/features/?catid=10&newsid=12673 or they have no reference at all. So, it is a matter of whether you trust that site.

It also looks like he has a Wikipedia page, but not a Snopes page.

http://digg.com/general_sciences/Man_in_Vietnam_hasnâ(TM)t_slept_in_33_years._2

It won't pull up the story right now but I recall reading it. Apparently he got some illness and it led to some very specific brain damage, (by fever?) and prevented him from ever being able to sleep again. The article said he used the nighttime over the course of several years to dig a pond to raise fish to supplement the family's income. You'd think this guy would be the subject of intense research by a variety of groups, civilian and military alike?

[citation needed] If you could point out where the parent said torture of anyone was OK I would appreciate it, thanks.

Right here where he says "'m not advocating torture or waterboarding, but when we're talking about a relative handful of people, most of whom are almost certainly guilty, and all of whom are foreigners vs. an issue that affects the citizenry at large, I think the latter is far more important and deserves more energy." Waterboarding is torture. One the U.S. Labeled Waterboarding a War Crime in 1947.

Falcon

Please someone spam this heart-warming article to Microsoft: http://digg.com/d1qJkz

Searching in pages: pleaaze... that has nothing to do with dhtml based pages!
You can search within pages as long as you are document centric and dont have a rich client application running!

I will give an example, most of the stuff mentioned can be done via applying a hash value which represents some kind of application state (hash because it is alterable from the script without causing page refreshes)

I think you're both coming to the discussion with a different set of assumptions. You're absolutely right that for a web application, many of his gripes don't make sense. Realistically, though, many companies use DHTML for content which is static.

http://digg.com/ is a perfect example. Disable Javascript and go to the comments on one of their stories. Now turn on Javascript. There's actual content which is inaccessible unless you have Javascript turned on. Slashdot has a similar system, except it gracefully falls back when Javascript isn't available. However it's still troublesome to bookmark certain things like a specific comment if you're using the Web 2.0 version.

Think that's too close to an application? Try http://www.toyota.com./ The site ostensibly provides information on the company and their product--relatively static content compared to a lot of the Internet--but the site isn't navigable without Javascript. It's barely a Web 2.0 site, yet it's horribly difficult to navigate.

I'm not just complaining about Javascript. Just about any time that Javascript is required for navigation, the site is not going to be screen-reader accessible.

Anyway, the point is that lots of sites unnecessarily use DHTML and make interacting with the site in a conventional way difficult, even if they're serving static content and not providing a web application. I suspect that it's these sites that the grandparent is complaining about.

When these guys ramp up, there may be a great quick way of testing for any of these nasty flu variants.
They have a great test for the A/H5N1 Avian Flu right now. 100% sensitivity and specificity, which means no false positives. There's nothing else like this.. cool technology and FDA approved.

Since these guys have the best Avian Flu test, they might be able to make a variant for this one too..

Amazing biotech on this test btw..

It isn't, it's an affront to safety.

No more so than say, mayors goofing around with assault rifles. http://freedominourtime.blogspot.com/2008/02/restoring-right-to-resist.html

In fact, I would guess that there are many fewer fatalities due to accidents with guns than with cars. So why not take away everyone's car? Both guns and cars provide utility. For brevity, I will cut short the reductio ad absurdam.

In any case, your desire to prevent me or anyone else from having a gun infringes on the freedoms of others predicated on a perceived risk, not on a committed crime, and thus you prejudge people before they have in fact comitted a crime which is generally a no-no.

And besides which, your safety concerns (if they were genuinely only safety concerns) would easily be remedied by civilian firearms training programs. These are required by several states, especially for concealed carry permits. If you would still see this as a safety issue even with adequate training (whatever that may be), why don't you feel the same about government employees having those weapons? I grew up in DC and I feel a vague sense of unease when an armed government employee is in close proximity. Perhaps this is because I've been around much more police violence than you have. But surely you remember Rodney King.

Secondly you make an assumption that if everyone were armed then those who would seek to do harm would be interested in the continuance of thier lives. This is also a falsehood in todays current climate. Those who would seek to do harm in the situation you're likely describing care nothing more than completing a 'mission' with no regards to their own lives.

Here you misread my argument. The vast majority of crime is still robbery/rape/etc. and is motivated by self-interested greed/power hunger. These are people to whom death may not scare to the same extent it scares most people in our society, but these are not suicidal people in general. My argument in its main is directed at what a traveler would do to protect him/herself in their destination after the flight (though yes, armed people will also protect their lives against those unconcerned with the loss of their own). It is sad that people believe that they are safer when frequently apathetic "public servants" and criminals have weapons. This next link is only a sample of what is beginning to happen as we entrust more of our safety to people in government. http://www.newsvine.com/_question/2009/04/08/2656511-did-transit-workers-do-enough-in-subway-rape-case

And that's when the police themselves aren't the criminals: http://www.lewrockwell.com/grigg/grigg-w84.html
Or inciting/perpetrating violence at demonstrations and trying to cover it up. http://digg.com/world_news/British_police_kill_passer_by_at_London_G20_protests_Video

The answer is that we must each take responsibility for our own safety to a large extent.

As far as "opposite ends of the political spectrum" goes, you may be right, but only if you're of the socialist-fascism bent rather than the socialist bent. I'm (as you should be able to tell from my posting history) also very much against the majority of the acts of the Republicans in the last decade. I am a civil libertarian on all fronts.

Read: http://digg.com/d1o9ch

How the hell can you cook the books so bad as to make it appear on paper you never made a single cent.... not bloody like I would ever invest in a Lucas film as according to their books they never make a profit! I guess after to you pay all the bills you give the left over to Lucas as a 'bonus' and tada... no profit!

Lots of film make no profit. Bills assessed and paid long after the film has been out. Forest Gump's studio fees where paid a year later at astronomical rates just so the movie would not turn a real profit.

Wonders of Hollywood Account!

Bullshit. http://digg.com/d1Alk7 claims that by gathering just 1% of wind energy from the jetstreams would be enough for the power consumption of the whole planet for a very long time.

Wind power is converted solar power. If we capture even a 0.01% of solar power coming down to the Earth, we would have enough for many generations.

a) Raise their prices considerably on all their "unlimited" plans--sucks for the light users, who are basically subsidizing the heavy users who want to stream HD video and movies

b) Covertly start throttling back heavy users--sucks for everyone, since no one even knows how much they're being throttled and there is no option of paying a premium to escape it

c) Set download caps--sucks compared to the "free ride" heavy users are getting now, but at least it's out in the open with no throttling bullshit (and light users don't get penalized).

d) Everything stays priced the same as now, without throttling or download caps

Want to see what the future will be like with the proposed capping system? Step right up folks, and take a look at Australia's largest ISP. You get to pick from unbeatable offers such as US$28.85 for 200MB, and US$93.86/month for 60GB! Want more than 60GB? No problem. For the low cost of just US$110.94 per additional gigabyte, you can download to your heart's content! Oh, what was that? You want to watch online video? Don't worry. As part of this attractive offer, you will also have exclusive unmetered access to our partner network of music, movies, sports, games, and more! Getting excited yet? Seriously though fellas, those were not typos and this is not a joke.

Out of every Slashdot article I have seen in the past year, no single controversy has posed anywhere near this of a threat to rights online or free and open source software; and we've got an almost inconceivable "+5, Insightful" first post that effectively sympathizes with the offenders. At least take a moment to research before rushing to Time Warner's defense. Believe you me, if they are given an inch on this one, they (and all U.S. ISPs) will take a mile.

"Why does this really matter? ISPs in other countries are doing it, and businesses should be allowed to maximize their profit," you might say. Well, for starters, internet access has become a vital lifeline that is second-to-none. It has superseded all other forms of communication and media. Restrictive bandwidth policies do nothing more than perpetuate the digital divide by putting financial strain on the people who are already on the brink. This means that when Johnny's parents have home (telephone, or) cable service with a major U.S. company that offers package deals, they will likely opt to conservatively use one of the most inexpensive service plans. At this point, experimenting with things as simple as Ubuntu and Folding@Home become impractical or impossible for Johnny, unless he really wants to go out on a limb by asking for permission.

As of 2008, 5 ISPs control 56% of the U.S. market share. This means that half of the country will be coerced into using the unmetered media networks offered by their provider. What happened to the vision of net neutrality?

Here's the bottom line: if Japan and South Korea can figure out a way to provide blazing speeds at a low cost, then so can the United States.

P.S. For those opposed to the proposals, please contact your elected officials, or request that it be done on your behalf.

This whole url shortening shit started to pick up steam few days ago when Digg introduced Diggbar - a hybrid of frame and url-shortening that framed other sites and did not display the proper site address. John Gruber went nuts and modified his blog to redirect users to a special page. Then he blogged for 2 days non-stop how to make diggbar go away. Since he's widely read around the web everyone started chiming in with their opinions on the general idea of url shortening services and how it hurts or helps the web.

Nerd bullshit. And not the good kind.

I cannot believe this is just now becoming a "scandal."

It's popped up on the internet a few times before, and I know I've seen discussions about this on sites like CheapAssGamer before that Digg article was posted.

Unfortunately, though, nothing's been done about it (at least that I know of). Until the policy is changed or, better yet, eliminated entirely, this is going to keep popping up as "news."

For those who care, there's an interesting contrarian view here, from a former government lawyer.

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DOJ and the FISA Lawsuit: The Lawyers are Doing Their Job
by wmtriallawyer

After reading throughout the Netroots some of the concern vis a vis the latest Motion to Dismiss filed by the Department of Justice in the FISA lawsuit, I thought I would give my perspective, as a local government attorney, on what is going on.

Regardless of the context, if you work in government as an attorney, and you litigate (i.e. go to court), the first thing you do if you are sued is to look for a way out of the lawsuit. It's that simple. And there are plenty of immunities available to governments, whether federal, state, or local, to accomplish that goal.

I put the disclaimer up front: I'm no expert on FISA, the current lawsuit, or even all the immunities available to federal government at this point. But I have read the Motion to Dismiss in the case (available here), and I give some of my very basic thoughts below...

[b]Fact #1: This is a civil lawsuit for money damages and/or equitable relief.[/b] Plain and simple, the Plaintiff seeks monetary damages against the Defendants. I.e., you committed a wrong, and the only way to make up for that wrong is pay money. Or in the alternative, it seeks equitable relief -- i.e., an injunction -- to prevent a future wrong.

[b]Fact #2: The Motion to Dismiss was filed by the government Defendants in their official capacity.[/b] Two important points here. First, this is a Motion to Dismiss claims, or in the alternative, for summary judgment. I can tell you as a matter of legal practice, any time a government is sued, there is a Motion to Dismiss filed, primarily to see if you can "knock out" at least some of the claims, or if you get lucky, the whole lawsuit. Second, the "official capacity" part is key. Simply stated, DOJ is moving to dismiss Defendants "The United States of America," "President Barack Obama," "Attorney General Eric Holder," etc. in their official capacity. Official capacity is just like it sounds...you've been sued by virtue of the fact that a. you are a government agency or b. you work for that government agency in some official way.

[b]Fact #3: As a general rule, governments and government official have immunity for acts in their official capacity.[/b] This is nothing new. It is the concept of "sovereign immunity" which has been around for hundreds of years. The general rule is established so that Joe Blow cannot simply "sue the government" for every perceived wrong that government does, because it would not be in the public interest for ALL for the government, as an entity, to have to defend said lawsuits or pay out damages in its official capacity. However, and this is critical, this does NOT mean a Plaintiff can't sue a government employee for wrongful acts committed in the scope of their employment in their personal capacity. Indeed, in the lawsuit at hand, DOJ makes clear that they are filing this Motion for the government Defendants sued in their official capacity, despite the fact that many, many more are sued in their official capacity. Keep in mind, there are immunities available to those in their personal capacity as well, which DOJ also raises. But those immunities are generally not as strong as the immunity provided for those acting in an official capacity.

[b]Fact #4: Asserting a defense in a lawsuit does not in any way equate official government policy.[/b] Trust me on this one. I've had to assert defenses to lawsuits early on in the stages of litigation, as is the case in the FISA lawsuit. And it does NOT mean in any way that it is some sort of policy declaration. It is doing what is necessary to defend my client from the relief sought by the Plaintiff. Plain and simple. And that is especially true at the Motion to Dismiss stage. Indeed, these issues are going to be litigated not only at the t

I'd be very surprised if the NSA/MI5 etc didn't have some way to get access to data from Google, Yahoo and so on.

In Madrid the terrorists apparently knew that if they all shared on webmail address and saved the emails in draft then the intelligence services would not be able to read them

http://m.digg.com/tech_news/Madrid_Train_Bombers_Used_E-mail_Trick_to_Avoid_Gov_t_Detection?offset=60

Now, I don't remember the program, but I'm sure the London bombers who were caught tried this and it didn't work. That implies to me that the NSA at least has a way to read webmail. MI5 could ask them, or it could force webmail providers to allow the webmail equivalent of wiretaps and keyword searches if they want to operate in the UK. Given that Google and Yahoo collaborate with the Chinese government it's reasonable to assume they would collaborate with Western ones too.

Do you know other plateform that support OpenMoko OS , I know that XDA dev ported android on some devices but like freerunner, check that video proof :

http://digg.com/linux_unix/Video_demo_of_Freerunner_running_Android_Cupcake_Tutorial

http://digg.com/d1nw79 http://digg.com/hardware/I_Foosball_Player_Students_Build_Robotic_Foosball_Players

http://digg.com/d1nw79 http://digg.com/hardware/I_Foosball_Player_Students_Build_Robotic_Foosball_Players

The Jajah devs made this point just yesterday: http://digg.com/software/FreeSWITCH_Skypiax_Skype_For_All

I highly recommend you check it out. We can use OSS software to force the *opolies to get with the times.

www.freeswitch.com -MC -- See you at ClueCon! www.cluecon.com

"Nope, only a one second difference as I have to pick which OS I want to load."

The word "boot" doesn't mean what you think it does. The system hasn't booted when it starts loading the OS, or when Windows prematurely paints your wallpaper background well before it can respond in order to exude the illusion of having completed booting.

"If you want me to make a video of it, I will. I love proving people dead wrong, especially when it's obvious bullshit. Both OSes aren't running so just how is it wasting CPU cycles? It's a selection menu, if a selection causes your boot time to be TEN TIMES LONGER then YOU FUCKED UP."

Here is your word of the day. You should get one.

"I'll be more than happy to do a quick factory restore after I backup. I'll whip out my DXG HD camera and I'll record Vista's boot time before a dual boot, and after a dual-boot."

Holy shit you must be about to feel very stupid. Nobody said anything like that. The comparison is Linux boot time to Windows boot time, which you can only accurately measure on a dual boot system since it is the only scenario where the hardware is identical. You might find this website is more your speed. Seriously.

You mean like Digg?

14. How can I delete a comment I made?

You can delete your comment within the 5-minute editing window after your comment was initially posted to the site. Click 'edit comment' and then click on the 'delete' link in the bottom right corner of the comment edit window.

Slashdot has gotten worse these years, but at least it's better than Digg—it doesn't crash my Konqueror every other story with its Javascripts.

Apple is any better? It's not like MS sues people for running windows on non-standard hardware.

MS doesn't sue people who disclose security flaws, unlike Apple .

While MS doesn't care much about security flaws (judging by how long they take to fix), but MS won't sue you for it.

http://digg.com/odd_stuff/Firefox_v_s_Opera_v_s_Internet_Explorer_PIC

Maybe they should fix their current problems first! http://digg.com/apple/App_Store_Busted

Circuit City had a bad reputation. If you could buy something somewhere else, you would probably go there. Now it looks to me as though Office Depot is ODing on the same foolish management ideas.

It would be interesting if we could know two things: 1) Exactly how much Office Depot makes by selling overpriced "protection" plans. 2) How much it will cost Office Depot because of stories about the company being abusive on Reddit.com, Digg.com, and Slashdot.

That Digg link leads to a New York Times article about the Office Depot CEO. Quoting: "The worst chief executive of the year was Steve Odland of Office Depot, according to Glassdoor.com's reviewers. He had an 80 percent disapproval rating."

CEOs in the U.S. often make 475 times the pay of the average person. I suppose it doesn't matter to many CEOs if the company they are managing dies. The CEOs make millions as fast as possible, and when the company dies, they retire or do something else.

That isn't honest, I think it is psychologically self-destructive, but it seems to me that's the way things often are.

Warren Buffett warned about bank failures in 2003. It was certainly no secret; anyone with any interest in financial business knew about the problem. Bank executives knew that what they were doing would be the end of their companies. I suppose they were making so much money (sometimes $40 million per year) that they didn't feel it was necessary to care. It was understood, and often discussed even on TV, that the U.S. taxpayer would pay for any problems that were created; that is happening exactly the way it was planned.

Seems slashdot didn't post this story I submitted, but State of Colorado Calls Firefox insecure, IE Safe.

Maybe they're training them to Move to Brazil or India.

Yep, they claim to be training Americans, but they're training them for jobs that are disappearing forever.

Signal-To-Noise

If only there were a few million people out there willing to filter through this stuff and decide what was good and what wasn't.

Yeah, you're right, blogging will never take off.

I am certain this will work!

This may have been the website on which you meant to make your post.

I confess that not knowing who mark shutlleworth may be, I do not understand what you wanted to announce.

I think you're on the wrong site. Here's where you probably wanted to go: Unfortunately even they have Linux-related articles every now and then.

From the good old wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_bookmarking

I believe Digg fits the mark.
Not quite sharing all your bookmarks, just random links.

Sigh, it's getting a little weird visiting Digg and seeing the exact same headline on slashdot in the span of a few minutes...

http://digg.com/travel_places/Spiraling_Skyscraper_Farms_for_a_Future_Manhattan

There's a digg plug-in for wordpress. http://digg.com/software/Digg_Button_Plug_In_For_Wordpress Here's a plugin that does slashdot, digg, and a whole bunch of others. http://blog.econsultant.com/wordpress-plugin-slashdigglicious-add-button-for-slashdot-digg-reddit-delicious-facebook-google A wordpress blog can look anyway you want. But perhaps you are talking about Wordpress's hosted solution. You might be right about that, i know they host, but i haven't hosted one there myself.

Why do I feel like I'm going to see this plagiarized in a blog and posted as Science on Digg later today?

A1: Because it's impossible to be too cynical about Digg, especially concerning what Digg hoi polloi "digg" thinking it's science.

A2: Because you became strangely addicted to this guy's rants, and followed him to Digg when even Slashdot proved too intelligent and educated for his rants:
http://digg.com/users/pln2bz/
and have noticed the abysmal quality of scholarship that diggers think passes as scientific.

Screenshot Digg it, if you want.

For many people is't already possible to get on and be productive only with web apps. What does this mean for example with a ASUS P5E3 Deluxe. Why would you need the whole massive and slow OS any more if the browser is the only thing needed? And what would you do with the hard drive, tons of memory, usb sticks etc if you could do and save everything to web? Could we see simple, very cheap and optimized bulk machines everywhere some day?

I know that the Slashdot editing has a very low reputation around here...

Yeah. And few people bother to RTFA.

Just pop over to Digg to see how both high quality editing and the selection of only cream-of-the-crop stories are achieved.

Trolling again on slashdot are we Mr. Gates? If you had been paying attention, you would have known about it, since it was all over the internet when it happened.

http://digg.com/

Agree totally. "I was wondering how many people wouldn't stop to think before they replied, blaming her in the process" Just check out the asses on Digg http://digg.com/linux_unix/Ubuntu_Causes_Girl_To_Drop_Out_of_College. They absolutely slated her. And they wonder why people don't want to get on the Linux train....

Your logic is shallow and deflective. It was also predicted that you would troll me for my UID, because you are an obvious troll, and therefore you are obvious. Did you know that obvious is a synonym for stupid?

I have never professed to be the beta tester who originally owned this account. I have also posted numerous comments professing to my wanting a small piece of Slashdot history because I happen to love this website, along with most of the regular users here.

But my comment was not about me. It was about you being a huge douchebag for posting on a dead man's account.

Your lack of respect for this community is now obvious and very distasteful. Please close your account.

Digg and/or Reddit are that way -----------------

This is how Wikipedia gets their info on the Gaza Conflict. Why have bother with [citation needed] when you can have a ninja to be your reliable source.

I find the worst part about these "MacHeads" isn't just Mac fanboyism. It's worse than that. It's Apple fanboyism. They'll cheer on the Ipod, buy their overpriced peripherals, etc, when there are so many better MP3 players. Sansa Clip/Fuze, Creative Zen, and Cowon D2, so on and so forth.

For example, check out this Sansa Fuze story on digg I found, with one comment by a so-called "macslut":

http://digg.com/apple/Sandisk_fights_back

The main complaint is inferior video (which is true, but it's a @^!!ing MP3 player!) and incompatibility with iTunes. As far as I'm concerned, not having to use iTunes to even UPLOAD the music is a plus.

Even funnier is that while the Fuze doesn't support AAC, Sansa did add (after this post was made, I will admit) ogg and flac compatibility. The Ipod, however, is lacking there...

"The author of this article is positioning this player as a new threat to the iPod, but like all superior spec'd players before it, people are going to see that there's subtle advantages to getting the iPod that go beyond the specs."

That is the crux of the Apple fanboy's complaint about non-Ipod MP3 players. There's "subtle" advantages to the Ipod, which is really just the fact that it's locked down to their stupid iTunes software.

As an Iranian I've to say we will be buy anything that we need and anybody has a price. we buy enterprise and high tech products from HP, SUN, SGI, Cisco, EMC and others and not only from USA even from Israel. and it's not limited to IT products, we even buy F16 Fighter parts from USA DOD and Nuclear enrichment equipments from halliburton http://digg.com/politics/Top_Censored_Story_Halliburton_Sold_Nuke_Components_to_Iran and as you know they don't tell you about this stuff in CNN, FoxNews and others, Bush was expensive, we are in negotiation with Barak Obama to find what's his price. We pay good price and they can't simply resist. That's money talk.