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Infinite rentals? Infinite up to 11 per month when they start throttling your deliveries, you mean. Not such a good deal now, is it?

This AP story is all over the press, not just MSNBC

For example:
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,193749,00.html
http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2006/ 04/21/financial/f080720D78.DTL
http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/news/lo cal/states/california/northern_california/14397469 .htm
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/tech/20060424-0 012-ca-applesecurity.html
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/A/APPLE_SECUR ITY?SITE=KFWB&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME= 2006-04-30-15-15-12

Interesting that it's on all of them at the same time.

Wow! I bet they have a lot of terrorists to show for all that work. Right...?

You mean like these recent convictions, arrests, or indictments? Hamid Hayat, Abu Ali, and Sayed Ahmed, Shahawar Matin Siraj, Ehsanul Islam Sadequee, and these 19?

Maybe your memory is fading, or you don't pay attention, but there have been plenty of others over the last few years.

Since this statement surprised me a bit I thought a source might be nice:
Sarin, Mustard Gas Discovered Separately in Iraq
Deadly Nerve Agent Sarin Is Found in Roadside Bomb

Finally, a credible writeup as to why this particular piece of evidence shouldn't be viewed as the smoking gun:
Iraq sarin shell is not part of a secret cache

From these descriptions I can't take this as evidence of a stockpile of WMDs. It would take more, even, than an unused crate of these shells since one has to leave the possibility of beaurocratic screwups open. It was known that chemical weapons had been used by this regime in the past, but the stockpiles had theoretically been destroyed. This was not the justification for us going to war.

If you are using a P2P network you are both distribute and receiving pirated material. They sue you like you are distributing the works because by being on the P2P network you are acting as a distributor. It turns out that number is $125,000 per song according to this news story: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,96797,00.html As a fun aside, this is also an article about a 12 year old girl being sued.

You are better off to saw off someone's legs instead of removing their tonsils then downloading a 12 song CD which would score you a 1.5 million dollar lawsuit.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,192824,00.html

http://www.gao.gov/docsearch/abstract.php?rptno=GA O-03-1173

http://www.fcw.com/article88762-05-02-05-Web

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,153647,00.html

He is also a defender of pedophiles' rights to express their twisted viewpoints on the Wikipedia. What a relativist schmuck. Seriously, people like Alex are the reason Wikipedia is such a watered-down crowdist institution - a collection of what's "popular" and "meets consensus" (i.e. is inoffensive, including to child molesters).

With recent events like bloggers stooping to murder, rape, and cannibalism, it would appear that the detachment from judgment and community standards which represents the average internet addict, following in the ways of relativist scum like Linuxbeak, leads to the darkest corners of a human soul.

DirecTV just renewed their contract with TiVo for 3 more years. Its not clear from the story if this means only that they will continue to support existing DirecTivo subscribers for 3 more years, or if they will also continue to provide DirecTivo receivers for sale. I hope it means that they will continue to sell the Tivo units, but I suspect DirecTV wants to sell their own DVRs instead.

TiVo picked this patent fight with Echostar because it was an open and shut case

The video shows something being thrown at the incoming RPG (seems an explosive).

The video requires the swf plug-in which does not work on Linux (macromedia, foxnews, anyone?):
http://media2.foxnews.com/040606/040606_fr_tobin_3 00.swf

Here's the original discussion from 2 days ago:
http://digg.com/technology/Direct_Link%3A_Video_of _Israeli_Made_Forcefield_

Odd that you should mention Fox News. It was originally fox news that called it a force field. See here

We all know the real reason America is winning the war in Iraq.

http://tinyurl.com/r2t8q

But on a more serious note, check out this video footage of new age technology

http://media2.foxnews.com/040606/040606_fr_tobin_3 00.swf

Sucks that I don't have the karma to post this non-anonymously

Sucks that I don't have the karma to post this non-anonymously

Fox has some pictures of the model and sketches accompanying their article.

NPR was skeptical of the WMD claims, until it came time for them to scoop the rest of the media with a WMD "discovery" that quickly turned out to be false. The NY Times also claims they were skeptical and printed stories questioning the WMD claims. However, I felt that, like the Times, NPR lead with the administration's point of view and buried the counterclaims. Astute listeners like yourself were able to pick the wheat from the chaff. At the time Democracy Now was leading with stories from Iraqi exiles and weapons inspectors that said there were no WMD. They convinced me, they got it right, and I stuck with them. Now I get their podcast and they get my public radio dollars.

Let me amuse you some more. How different is NPR from Fox News? Maybe you can help me out. Does Mara Liasson work for NPR or Fox News? What about Juan Williams, NPR or Fox News? This is one of those trivial things FAIR has complained about, and NPR Ombudsman Jeffrey Dvorkin agrees with them for the most part:

"I think [FAIR founder Norman] Solomon and Abunimah are substantially correct -- but only up to a point. NPR reporters, hosts and ombudsmen should not be in the business of making their own opinions known about matters of public controversy. When they do, the public quickly senses that NPR compromises its ability to report in a fair manner."

I'll do my best to keep it entertaining. In the meantime, I prefer that my public radio not include corporate sponsorships (that's what corporate radio is for), and I prefer to get my news from journalists who don't work for Fox News.

NPR was skeptical of the WMD claims, until it came time for them to scoop the rest of the media with a WMD "discovery" that quickly turned out to be false. The NY Times also claims they were skeptical and printed stories questioning the WMD claims. However, I felt that, like the Times, NPR lead with the administration's point of view and buried the counterclaims. Astute listeners like yourself were able to pick the wheat from the chaff. At the time Democracy Now was leading with stories from Iraqi exiles and weapons inspectors that said there were no WMD. They convinced me, they got it right, and I stuck with them. Now I get their podcast and they get my public radio dollars.

Let me amuse you some more. How different is NPR from Fox News? Maybe you can help me out. Does Mara Liasson work for NPR or Fox News? What about Juan Williams, NPR or Fox News? This is one of those trivial things FAIR has complained about, and NPR Ombudsman Jeffrey Dvorkin agrees with them for the most part:

"I think [FAIR founder Norman] Solomon and Abunimah are substantially correct -- but only up to a point. NPR reporters, hosts and ombudsmen should not be in the business of making their own opinions known about matters of public controversy. When they do, the public quickly senses that NPR compromises its ability to report in a fair manner."

I'll do my best to keep it entertaining. In the meantime, I prefer that my public radio not include corporate sponsorships (that's what corporate radio is for), and I prefer to get my news from journalists who don't work for Fox News.

Does this mean we will be seeing Rush Limbaugh and Faux News compatible websites? http://foxnews.com/ vs. http://msnbc.com/ who provides more informaton folks? Ignorance is Strength, for the jackass in control.

Great post. But I can't bring myself to vote for someone who believes that the first amendment should be reserved exclusively to those who are paid professionally to exercise it.

As long as the executives at Microsoft are capable of maintaining their OEM agreements with the popular brand name manufacturers, Windows will always be relevant.

And this may be on the decline.
http://www.silicon.com/software/os/0,39024651,3911 7247,00.htm
http://www.oreillynet.com/onlamp/blog/2004/10/will _att_ditch_windows.html
http://news.softpedia.com/news/South-Korea-Could-D itch-Windows-11302.shtml
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,184234,00.html

This is properly tantamount to a voluntary tax upon bilinguals

So, by your reasoning we should suspend activities such as:

- Big Brothers/Big Sisters
- Frats and VFW groups who do highway/litter cleanup
- Museum volunteers
- Reference desk volunteers at the local library
- Volunteers for the Red Cross and other relief orgs who are at least partially funded through tax dollars - but whose volunteers are not paid for their work
- Civics groups who put on things like Shakespeare in the Park
- Volunteer firefighters and EMTs
- College students who pay money to take their springbreak repairing the houses of dirt poor black americans in towns in the south where racism still lurks ominously. That is *double* taxation - not only have I paid to make the trip and buy the building materials, but I also spent weeks of my own time doing it. Why doesn't the gov't step in and pay me me! me!! to help these poverty-stricken people?

Maybe you got your degree from this guy so you don't understand that people who are paid by the gov't are paid out of your tax dollars. Very simple math. Gov't hires 10 more people, your taxes go to paying those ten extra people instead of whatever social program you fancy today. Give a little time as a volunteer (to do whatever, not nessecarily translate docs), and you save yourself a few dollars in taxes and get to have a little bit of civic pride. But it seems like you want us to all run around like a bunch of self-centered little dumbasses.

God forbid you should help an old lady cross the street without expecting a check for your "services".

I'm sorry, but due to the offensive crap pandering to the masses today, I have started boycotting television distributed by Fox. Could you please make these episodes available on BitTorrent? Thanks alot.

Meanwhile, in Holland

Man, the Dutch are so far ahead of us it's not funny.

Even faux news op-ed gets it. Check out the following excerpts. The bill "bans gambling for all but those gambling interests that have politically powerful allies in Congress. Which is exactly what Jack Abramoff wanted." This includes horse racing which suprise, has given to sponsors of these bills, including HR 4411 from Goodlatte which would also ban gambling like HR 4777 mentioned in this post. "the anti-gambling crusader Mr. Goodlatte, interestingly enough, has taken some $10,000 in campaign contributions from the National Thoroughbred Racing Association)." Not only would it exempt horse racing, it would actually ensure that the horseracing industry can bet online interstate legaly (something the DOJ and goverment does not believe is the case today). http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,188048,00.html

FOXNews.com has published an article which may be of interest: Dispelling the CIA-Bin Laden Myth .

You would be correct, if any of those things you said happened actually did.

Wow, I want some of what you're smoking.

Bush didn't order warrantless wiretaps?

Bush didn't say Iraq had WMDs?

(hey, I even used your favorite news source)

You would be correct, if any of those things you said happened actually did.

Wow, I want some of what you're smoking.

Bush didn't order warrantless wiretaps?

Bush didn't say Iraq had WMDs?

(hey, I even used your favorite news source)

What's disrespectful about calling someone Mister? Calling him "Shrub" is disrespectful, calling him "Mr. Bush" is hardly a "liberal NY Times" offense.

For instance, here's Bill O'Reilly at Fox News referring to him as such. Just another moonbat liberal, that O'Reilly!

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,180837,00.html

Revealing an inept, ridiculous computer voting system: 3 years, 8 months.

Raping a 4 year old repeatedly for years: 60 days.
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,181498,00.html

What a great system.

Honest concern for the children is one thing, melodramatic statements made to sway the weak minded (or inattentive) is another. The reality of the situation is that we have heavier kids than ever now - half-starved waifs are the kind of thing you'd think we'd be seeing out there. Well, statistically we're not.

Just keep in mind that yours is the minority view my friend - that's why we have a Rep congress and president. Do me a favor and don't change your tack - keep vilifying Bush and trying to convince the majority that voted them in that they're idiots - it's making lots of friends and working wonders for the election cycles.

Given the seemingly endless series of negative things that have come out in recent times I don't find this surprising.

Consider the sources for the 'negative things': New York Times, Washington Post, CBS, ABC, NBC, Slashdot ... Do you contend that none of these institutions have an ax to grind? There are other more reliable sources for news and commentary. Check them out.

How does this make slashdot part of a vast liberal conspiracy?

Slashdot collusively propogates the dishonesty of the old media and suppress balanced debate of issues.

How does not approving of the current US administration automatically make anyone a right-wing liberal?

(left-wing liberal) It doesn't. But the news media does far more than that. They actively impede the administration's efforts and provide comfort and support for our enemies. The same enemies (Al-Qaida) called out by most democrats in congress in the Iraq war resolution.

How does anything not make your comment not left-wing flamebait?

My comment calls it as it is. That is honesty.

How does your comment add anything useful to the conversation?

Because I call out politicing disguised as a tech story. That is useful to many readers. The submitter or the slashdot priests could have defused the matter by leaving out the snide barb. But instead they prejudged what should be a non-partisan matter and tried to use it for political advantage. If I want to read left wing propoganda, there are other more honest and appropriate sources.

One of the more heinous human tragedies occured on September 11, 1973.

The democratically elected government of Chilean president Salvadore Allende was overthrown in a coup d'etat by General Augusto Pinochet. The new regime killed thousands of dissidents and other "enemies of the state".

The reason? Allende was a Marxist, and the CIA (and by extension, Richard Nixon) were keen to keep Latin America firmly in the American camp during the Cold War, even if installing fascist dictatorships was necessary.

I'm willing to bet anyone here that we'll attempt something similar in the Palestinian territory, so long as we can keep the Israelis from doing it themselves in some wickedly obvious fashion, like firing a rocket from a chopper, or hare-brained assassination attempts.

Of course, we're far more civilzed at home. We rely on factual information reported in an objective fashion to an educated public.

Check out this story and see how a guy's on death row for protecting himself in his own home from a local cop's son. Yes, that's on the Fox News website, not exactly a liberal organization. We should all be afraid of this abuse of authority.

If you're that freaked out by the whole use of al Jazeera as a source on the bribing of Iraqi journalists to run stories, you could try these sources instead.

Personally, I value al Jazeera as the only news organization willing to post in full the messages of al Qaeda. Without them, I'd never be able to find out what the enemy is actually saying, and I'd only know what our media and government want us to think about them. Publishing newsworthy material is hardly aiding and abetting the enemy. They're just not biased the way you want them to be biased like our own media (which never relays al Qaeda's messages in full).

24 hour propaganda machine

Have we all forgotten what companies charge for $2 wall warts? I've even seen a Brother label maker wall adapter that has an odd voltage (7.3v), odd amperage, a non-uniform center pin, and inverse polarity. They go overboard with the accessory business. This particular wall wart costs $24 at OfficeMax. Then another $18 for the label cartriges. Then there are the power-hungry devices like cameras that don't come with a wall wart at all (computer controlled, time interval shots). Us mere mortals have to guess when we go down to the store what size connector to use. Face it, the money is in the connectors. If they can find a cheap way to make you use a new connector and charge outrageous amounts of money for adapters, they will. Cheer up. Atleast your iPod doesn't have any custom connector on it. Oh, wait. Never mind.

So maybe a better solution would be a single brick with different connectors for different voltages - this would conform to ISO standards. Then they could just pull the old printer "this box contains no cables" trick, and it would reduce the number of unused transformers out there eating away at copper supplies.

Unfortunately, I don't have the same faith in the media that you do. Here's Fox News' version of the story. I was only able to find it by using their search engine and entering "electronic privacy information center". This should be front-page news, not just some generic AP blurb buried somewhere on the site!

You seem like an idealist... and there is nothing wrong with that. It's an admirable trait. Unfortunately even idealism needs to acknowledge the facts.

FISA clearly says a President can only go 15 days without warrant.

http://www4.law.cornell.edu/uscode/html/uscode50/u sc_sec_50_00001811----000-.html

FISA is currently dead in the water.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,178893,00.html

A multibillion dollar NSA exists.

http://nsa.gov/
http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1520551/20060111/ index.jhtml?headlines=true

The Patriot Act exists which allows government to get information at will.

http://www.epic.org/privacy/terrorism/hr3162.html

The government CAN and DOES use this power.

The sooner Americans can wake up to this fact, the sooner they can make informed decisions if they wish to eliminate the forth

http://www.law.cornell.edu/constitution/constituti on.billofrights.html

in the effort to gain a little security.

http://www.wisdomquotes.com/000974.html

    ~ Please convince me I'm wrong. I truly wish I was just another foolish crackpot conspiracy theorist as opposed to the alternative

"Slightly _more_ women than men die from cardiovascular disease each year"

From our favorite news source: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,183365,00.html

This is war:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,100 7042,00.html

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,93466,00.html

Mr President, we can not allow a Barge gap!

You mean like the Nature Conservancy?
.
Gotta love folks that get government grants to buy land, then resell it and keep the profits. Free enterprise at work...

No, by "leaked" he meant "anonymous sources at the NSA told the press about it because they thought it was unconstitutional". Bush only started talking about it after the cat was already out of the bag, and his first response was to start an investigation to find and punish the leakers. The speeches he gave after that were just damage control, trying to convince gullible people like yourself that he has nothing to hide.

The government is listening to conversations across international borders when they have reason to believe that crimes are being planned. This is not prohibited anywhere in the Constitution.

Better re-read the 4th amendment again. The government needs to get a warrant. What is so hard about that?

Clue: The Constitution was written before phones existed

Are you serious? Do you really think the constitution doesn't apply to anything invented after it was written? A right to privacy is a right to privacy, no matter what communications technologies are in use.

And in doing so, you are choosing to disregard the consensus conclusion of the world's climate scientists, bar those that are being paid by oil companies and the automobile lobby.

It's now been established as scientific fact that people thinking politically will ignore all evidence that doesn't agree with their preconceived point of view. That they don't engage in reasoning whilst arguing politics. That's you.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,182641,00.html (You'll like the source).

We have our censored idiots too.

But why support a regime that denies you the vote and keeps you from protesting even severe violations of your rights? I don't get it.

Does nobody want to talk about Disney buying Pixar?

Fair enough, though automatically distrusting a source (an error I realise most of us, including myself, are prone to) is not neccessarily a good way to filter information.

However, just to let you know the claim that army re-enlistment is at an all time high is unfounded, a link you might trust more: Fox News on Re-enlistment- A different spin, but the same numbers.

As for the first one (the Rove investigation)Fox take on Leak Probes-Yes, I realise they barely touch it, though they do acknowledge (near the end of the article)the widely-reported statement of the special prosecutor(Fitzgerald)that the investigation would be ongoing and focus on the office of Karl Rove.

Really, man- the tactic of burying a story and then using the cry of "It's the liberal media making a big deal of nothing!!" will only work for so long. (Or not at all, in the case of those who bother to look around a little).

And for the record, the Dems suck bigtime, too- the only diffference being that they're not (currently) in a position to demolish the constitution as the Repubs seem to be striving to.

Isn't it high time we quit relying on 30 second sound bites and special interest influenced media to decide the political future of this country?

Two quotes from Alexander Hamilton that relate:

If it be asked, What is the most sacred duty and the greatest source of our security in a Republic? The answer would be, An inviolable respect for the Constitution and Laws -- the first growing out of the last... A sacred respect for the constitutional law is the vital principle, the sustaining energy of a free government

And,

I have thought it my duty to exhibit things as they are, not as they ought to be.

I guess it just goes to show that there was a time when decent men sought political power- I just think it's been a long time gone...

Fair enough, though automatically distrusting a source (an error I realise most of us, including myself, are prone to) is not neccessarily a good way to filter information.

However, just to let you know the claim that army re-enlistment is at an all time high is unfounded, a link you might trust more: Fox News on Re-enlistment- A different spin, but the same numbers.

As for the first one (the Rove investigation)Fox take on Leak Probes-Yes, I realise they barely touch it, though they do acknowledge (near the end of the article)the widely-reported statement of the special prosecutor(Fitzgerald)that the investigation would be ongoing and focus on the office of Karl Rove.

Really, man- the tactic of burying a story and then using the cry of "It's the liberal media making a big deal of nothing!!" will only work for so long. (Or not at all, in the case of those who bother to look around a little).

And for the record, the Dems suck bigtime, too- the only diffference being that they're not (currently) in a position to demolish the constitution as the Repubs seem to be striving to.

Isn't it high time we quit relying on 30 second sound bites and special interest influenced media to decide the political future of this country?

Two quotes from Alexander Hamilton that relate:

If it be asked, What is the most sacred duty and the greatest source of our security in a Republic? The answer would be, An inviolable respect for the Constitution and Laws -- the first growing out of the last... A sacred respect for the constitutional law is the vital principle, the sustaining energy of a free government

And,

I have thought it my duty to exhibit things as they are, not as they ought to be.

I guess it just goes to show that there was a time when decent men sought political power- I just think it's been a long time gone...

Du Pont says Franklin was on the Continental Congress' Foreign Affairs Committee, called the Committee for Secret Correspondence, in 1776 and he and his colleagues agreed that they could not tell the Congress about covert assistance from France during the Revolution because it would hurt the country if the information leaked and quote "we find by fatal experience that Congress consists of too many members to keep secrets."

So much for alerting Congress to the secret wiretapping program if Ben Franklin were alive today.