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A shout out to the /. who posted this one 1st.
How the celebrating 'arabs' was shot in 1991! [indymedia.org.il]

Post it as many times as you want, there is no proof whatsoever in that article. It is less credible than a poorly written slashdot post: no evidence, no links, no documentation.

Meanwhile the mainstream INTERNATIONAL press has closely documented that the Palestinian celebrations are real:

Fox

PBS

Middle East News Line

Your foolish radical left wing fairy tales are melting in the sunlight of unbiased international journalism. When your statements are revealed as lies, what does that say about your motivations?

If we do not effectively retaliate against the terrorists, they will continue to attack us up to and including using nuclear weapons. Picture the face of the pilot of plane two, expertly banking his plane so that the maximum amount of fuel would be deposited in the building. Imagine what he would do with a Ryder truck and a nuclear weapon.

He would drive to Los Angeles with a smile on his face. This WILL happen if people like you are allowed to poison the public with lies.

Here's to stopping you.

We did declare war. Congress passed a War Powers Act: "...the president is authorized to use all necessary and appropriate force against those nations, organizations, or persons he determines planned, authorized, committed, or aided the terrorist attacks...".

"I'm a loving guy. And I am also someone, however, who's got a job to do and I intend to do it. And this is a terrible moment," Bush said.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,34322,00.html

I hope you're wrong about the nuke.

Here's an article from Fox News on how asbestos would have saved lives. The irony is that all the hysteria was caused by a few "asbestos related" deaths is now superceded by the number of deaths at the WTC Tuesday, which probably would have been reduced because of increased evacuation time had the panic not occured.

Here's a totally contrariwise view to the mainstream: to prevent terrorism, allow weapons on planes.

Not guns (depressurization, fuel, fancy electrics and hydraulics that don't take well to bullet holes) and not tazers (fuel sparks) but such things as knives and tranquilizer dart pistols should be allowed, even encouraged. All staff should be prominently armed and trained in weapons use as a matter of course; it would be much harder to take over a plane full of passengers and staff armed to the teeth. "More guns less crime" works groundside, and I expect it would work airborne too.

On as positive note, "don't sacrifice freedom" is already spreading as a concept well beyond the confines of slashdot: witness this fox news article: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,34300,00.html

I found on Fox news that Sept 11, 1922 was the date that a British mandate was proclaimed in Palestine.

Anyone have any clues? Fox news put up this web page.

Can we stop talking about him now?

Study: US Science booksrife with errors!
Popular textbooks used by 85% of US Middle-School kids, contain gross mistakes
Could be reason US students so dumb in science!

Officials Ban 8-Year-Old's Science Fair ExperimentProject
Suggested That Kids Prefer White Barbie Doll To Black Barbie Doll
Father Claims Her Freedom Of Expression Was Violated

BRITISH TO TEACH 4 YEAR OLDS HOMOSEXUALITY / ANAL SEX
teachers "not to try to promote any type of family or home life as the norm"

University of Florida: BLACK ENROLLMENT DROPS 50% WITHOUT RACE-PREFERENCES
They just can't cut-it without special treatment!

TEACHER ARRESTED FORASSAULTING and ENDANGERING STUDENTS
Tied children up; tied shoes around necks!

HARVARD UNIVERSITY EXPOSED IN GRADES FRAUD
Professor exposes intentional "Grade Inflation"
Harvard Grads not nearly as smart as once thought?

Cuba offers free Medical School toUS Students
. . . as long as they pledge allegiance to Communism

Vanguard News Network

20% OF U.S. TEENAGERS IGNORANT ABOUT U.S. INDEPENDENCE
Proof that U.S. public schools are dismal failures

CALIFORNIA PUBLIC SCHOOLS ARE SO BAD THAT:
75% of 9th Graders Fail Math Skills Test and 50% fail English skills test when 70% is score needed to pass
Rather than teach, Calif. considers LOWERING passing score!

CHICAGO PUBLIC SCHOOLS ARE SO BAD THAT MORE THAN HALF OF ALL STUDENTS MUST GO TO SUMMER SCHOOL
More than 215,000 failed Basic Skills Test!

GAY PERVERT WITH HIV RAPES9 YEAR OLD BOY
School teacher molests student; ALLOWED TO REMAIN ON THE JOB!!

SUPREME COURT SAYS LAW SCHOOLS CAN USE AFFIRMATIVE ACTION
Just what we need, more incompetent lawyers

"STRAIGHT PRIDE" T-SHIRT STUDENT WINS IN COURT
Was told by school he could not wear shirt because it was "offensive to gays."

13 YEAR OLD SAVAGE NEGRO BEAST FOUND GUILTY OF MURDERING WHITE SCHOOL TEACHER
Shot teacher in the head after being thrown out of class for water balloon; faces 25 years to life in prison

FLORIDA UNIVERSITY RUNS PLAY PORTRAYING JESUS AS GAY
Your Tax Dollars at work!

20% OF U.S. TEENAGERS IGNORANT ABOUT U.S. INDEPENDENCE
Proof that U.S. public schools are dismal failures

CALIFORNIA PUBLIC SCHOOLS ARE SO BAD THAT:
75% of 9th Graders Fail Math Skills Test and 50% fail English skills test when 70% is score needed to pass
Rather than teach, Calif. considers LOWERING passing score!

CHICAGO PUBLIC SCHOOLS ARE SO BAD THAT MORE THAN HALF OF ALL STUDENTS MUST GO TO SUMMER SCHOOL
More than 215,000 failed Basic Skills Test!

GAY PERVERT WITH HIV RAPES9 YEAR OLD BOY
School teacher molests student; ALLOWED TO REMAIN ON THE JOB!!

SUPREME COURT SAYS LAW SCHOOLS CAN USE AFFIRMATIVE ACTION
Just what we need, more incompetent lawyers

"STRAIGHT PRIDE" T-SHIRT STUDENT WINS IN COURT
Was told by school he could not wear shirt because it was "offensive to gays."

13 YEAR OLD SAVAGE NEGRO BEAST FOUND GUILTY OF MURDERING WHITE SCHOOL TEACHER
Shot teacher in the head after being thrown out of class for water balloon; faces 25 years to life in prison

FLORIDA UNIVERSITY RUNS PLAY PORTRAYING JESUS AS GAY
Your Tax Dollars at work!

Check this out

In the past few months, Microsoft been very open about its plans to "migrate" users of its free services to paid services. Most notably, the company is hoping that those who use its free Hotmail e-mail and MSN Messenger instant messaging service will start using a planned set of paid services called .NET.

MSNBC has a longer story.

Fox News has a few words to say.

ABC copied the AP story.

CBS still seems to think the red tide is receeding.

Meanwhile the worm has knocked on my computer's door six times since I started this post. Uh, make that seven.

MSNBC has a longer story.

Fox News has a few words to say.

ABC copied the AP story.

CBS still seems to think the red tide is receeding.

Meanwhile the worm has knocked on my computer's door six times since I started this post. Uh, make that seven.

Of course, this is the same Senator Torricelli who is being investigated for illegal donations to his campaign. One DOJ official called him the "most corrupt politician in America". And that's with some tough competition, I'm sure!

What a delight this guy is.

You've provided a lot of links - tell me, are the dead tree news outlets saying the same?

Several of the links provided earlier were from newspapers. Here's the local paper's take on the matter (of course, since "local"=="Las Vegas", it follows that there'd be an article here):

http://www.lvrj.com/lvrj_home/2001/Jul-18-Wed-2001 /news/16563325.html

What about Television - where has the DMCA and the Sklyarov arrest been mentioned?

Can't say, as most TV news is slanted so far to the left I don't waste my time with it. Local TV news might've covered it, but I couldn't say one way or the other. (Actually, someone else posted a link to KTNV's website in one of the other Sklyarov threads here on /., so I guess the local TV news media have covered the matter.) The only TV news program I follow with any regularity is Fox News Sunday, and their website indicates they didn't cover this issue.

Perhaps your confusing Slashdot with another site? This is News for Nerds here. Yeah, I know, Kyoto will affect everyone, and I'm so shallow and politically naive for thinking it doesn't necessarily need to be discussed here, whatever. The fact is, I can check out any number of sites to get my Kyoto news. I come to Slashdot to read interviews about 20 year old games.

Incidently, Slashdot wasn't doing the interviewing here, rather they just linked to another site which conducted the interview.

Here's the problem with this: The short term benefits are real. The long-term effects you mention are largely imaginary and based on a fear-mongering campaign by the eco-profiteers.

And BTW, I don't really like McDonalds or big corporations. But they're being falsely used as bogeymen by people who want you to sign away your freedom in exchange for "protection".

Why the mods decided to post this and not the below articled I submitted, I'll never know:


Please mod it up...

U.S. Government mandates tracking of all wireless devices by 2005.
Foxnews has an article that cell-phone manufacturers are under a federal mandate to equip mobiles with location-tracking technology beginning this October. By 2005, 95 percent of all cell phones must be able to be traced with an accuracy of about 1,000 feet or better.

The hidden thing is these GPS modules look to be required in all cell type devices, including palm pilots and maybe even wireless communication parts for notebook computers.

The Indymedia center in Seattle was raided by the FBI. Not only that but the federal government has required that all phones have a tracking device by 2005 We should not support a government that hacks into the citizens of other countries computers. It is only matter of time before they do it to us. If they haven't already started. Welcome to the corporate police state.

Dis Semantics Web page on inference engines is suffering syntax.

There'll be alot of "You know what I mean, right ?" , nose flicking, secret pig latin codes, lipograms, monkeys-at-a-typewriter, Voynich artwork, McLuhan collages, the Beatle's song "I Am The Walrus", or on the darker side, like Frankenstein's monster; something that lived without first consulting planned parenthood.
Memetic epidemics.

The RDF stuff is interesting.
Imagine though the problems with semantic grammars.
In Britain and many of its colonies, they drive on the left and sit on the right. In Japan, Turkey etc. they use Lukasiewicz's RPN form: (SOV) Subject-Object-Verb which can be very tricky for "someone who drives on the right side of the road" to get used to. Alot of semantic accidents will happen.

Driving with diplomatic immunity.

Just give me a passport,a flu shot
and point me to the duty-free shop.

First, since we have neither talked to our crewmen nor examined our airplane, we cannot know who was at fault. It would be inappropriate to apologise in such a situation.

Second, this is not about egos. It isn't about detainees. Let's call these guys what they are - hostages. China is holding our servicemen and women hostage. And for what?

Third, we were operating in international airspace. Notice the bolded word in that sentence - international. If you catch a spy inside your country, you can jail or expel him. However, it's a commonly accepted practice to spy on countries from outside their borders. There's nothing wrong with it!

Fourth, you don't use a semi-truck to knock a Porsche off the road. Similarly, to think that our klunky, large P3 (the semi) would run into their highly maneuverable, high-speed fighter jet (the Porsche) is ridiculous. There are reports that their fighter jet came to within three feet of our plane twice before the two collided.

Fifth, there's no reason to think that the Chinese will willingly and safely return our men and women, were we to offer some sort of ludicrious apology. Anyone who thinks China is our ally hasn't been paying attention.

You people who get your news from CNN or the major networks need to retune your TV sets and web browsers to FOX News Channel.

Hope this helps.

Just did my part. BTW:

CNN.com for us lazy bastards who dont like to type ( =
FoxNews (mailto)
MSNBC.com World News (mailto)
MSNBC.com Technology News (mailto)
USA Today Technology Feedback

Just to name a few

Well since this is such a slow /. article, and because it may give you the false glimmer of hope that this world isn't quite as screwed up as you thought, here's something I read today:

School Cracks Down on 'Hugging Epidemic'

Discuss amongst yourselves..

According to Fox News the NEAR was built under the 'faster, better, cheaper' philosophy. IMO, that philosophy doesn't mean that the craft are any less robust (generally, if a satellite payload survives launch, it's structurally sound enough to handle anything during spaceflight)... it just means that there are less 'bells and whistles' built in.

Basically it just had a bait to atract the slugs into the battery and then every few days in would move a 2 or 3 metres into a new area in the hope that there would be more slugs there. I can't find any links - does anyone else know of this?

For any of you who watch the O'Reilly Factor on Fox News, Bill O'Reilly had an interesting take on the War on Drugs on his show last week.

Certainly interesting and somewhat inflammatory. Gotta say I agree with it though.

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And, it wasn't developed by a self-avowed Pedophile, the way Java was. In all seriousness, Java's association with pedophilia makes it unsuitable for high school classroom use.

Aren't they the ones that are against the traditional idea of civil liberties and way of doing things? If they're at all consistant, they'll be pro-DMCA.

Here's a link to some things that the ACLU may very well be involved with.

I can see sending money to the EFF, but certianly not the ACLU.

The FBI hires admitted, convicted pedophiles to write software like this. Now, if they hire people who got CAUGHT to write this software, how sophisticated can it be?

Imagine the logic here! Pedophile Patrick was supposed to be some sort of software genius, yet he was tricked into talking to a Fed in an IRC chat room. How smart could he be?

But that wasn't my point. My point is that in any situation where it comes down to a civilian's word against a cop in a court of law, the cop will come out the winner, every time, no questions asked.

The conviction of three Los Angeles police officers on corruption charges represents a watershed for the city, legal observers said Wednesday, because it signals that jurors here no longer automatically give credence to the men and women who are sworn to serve and protect.

"In Los Angeles, a badge is no longer a shield," said Santa Monica defense lawyer Gigi Gordon, who has followed the Rampart case closely.

The machines initially failed to read ballots on which voters chose to vote a straight party ticket, but also chose at least one candidate from another party, election officials said.

Note that it says that the voters chose a candidate from another party, not the machine. I could see how you might read it as Jamie did, but let's avoid spreading any more misinformation!

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However, since you posted this,
the gap continues to narrow according
to CNN. Gore has been "finding"
votes even in heavily republican counties.

Now you can argue that it's just that
democrats are stuffing the ballots faster
than republicans... Which frankly
is what I think is going on. Personally
given all the accusations on both sides each
state that was with 10,000 votes should
re-cast their ballots. It would probably
cost Gore the election, but I think it's only
fair.

You can view the by county results at
foxnews.com
that bastion of the liberal press.

A Gore Voter in NC,
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RobK

In any case, the recount results are skewing heavily to Gore, so my whole point may be moot. Let's hope so.

That's because the big counties -- which went heavily to Gore -- have already reported. For the most part, the counties remaining are smaller, rural counties which were won handily by Bush. See for yourself.

Basically, the main arguments are:
1. The EC was designed to help one group- white southern males.
2. Southern states gained disproportionately more power than northern states. Slaves in the south were allowed to be counted as three fifths of a man in order to award Southern states more electoral college votes.
3. Direct elections make states encourage its more of its citizens to vote because the more who vote in that state, the bigger voice that state has whereas in the EC system, no matter how many people vote, there are the same number of EC votes awarded for that state.
4. There is a fallacy that the EC system encourage candidates to care more about local state issues than in a direct system but candidates would still have concern for regional issues of the northwest, south, midwest, etc. to get their votes.

Read it and decide for yourself. It's an interesting piece.

It was pointed out here the other day that the electoral college was established out of fear that the US population would be unable to educate themselves about the candidates enough to make an informed decision.

That was one of the reasons the Electoral College was created. The other reason, the one I've come to see during this election and the one that has changed my mind on the issue, is that the EC prevents the smaller, less populous states from being drowned out by the larger states. The EC prevents what Thomas Jefferson (IIRC) called the "tyranny of the majority". Thus, the EC is a good thing.
Look at the Electoral map on FoxNews.com. Gore has the popular majority, but only in approximately 20 states. Bush has the popular majority in the other 28. Without the EC, the political voices of the 28 states that voted the majority to Bush would be ignored in favor of the more populous states. In other words, Americans in less populous states would be shut out of the process. By seriously reducing the number of available votes, and making sure those votes are more or less evenly distributed, it is possible to make sure the voices of smaller states is heard.

-Rob

Look folks, I believe that this is the real reason why the PlayStation will be gobbled up by the X-Box. Doesn't this sound rather like BetaMax all over again? It does to me. If Microsoft could put the knife to the throat of closed standards like OS/2, or Java, who's to doubt that they could also kill the PlayStation/2, too?!? Let's hop to it, folks! Let's beat Sony AND Microsoft, by making a Linux game console within the year! I vote that VA Linux Systems do it, as the Linux Hardware Leader for the Linux Community!!

yes he is

http://www.foxnews.com/elections/inde x.s ml
click on the link that opens the electoral map. once the page is loaded.

Bush is far safer than gore is.

I would love to see it, I just doubt I ever will. I could see Chris Matthews, though.

When they hire convicted, admitted perverts to write crime-catching applications like this!

--- Speaking only for myself,

Gee, that's all we need! Another pedo phi le programming language for PERVERTS only good for writing applications like this!

--- Speaking only for myself,

While there are some interesting bone therapies that use low frequency, I just don't see the problem with microwaves. I knew someone with a degenerative hip. Part of his therapy was to wear a pair of magnets strong enough to make a phone reciever hum. It was not a good thing to put on the head! But don't listen to me, trust some of these folks intead:

Here, for those who have asked, are some more specific links about cell phones. http://www.mcw.edu/gc rc/ cop/cell-phone-health-FAQ/toc.html http://www.foxnews.com/sci enc e/junkscience/000721.sml http://www.microwavenews.com/makesense.html

How much money has to be spent before this issue dies? I don't know, there's money in it.

Poster worries about the health of people who use cell phone while driving, mountian climbing, skakeboarding, bike riding, you get the picture. Poster does not own a cellphone, because it cost too much.

Doug Davis, the president of the Technology Group at DC, is interviewed and he refers to the developer's license as "mostly open source" because of the restrictions about any scans going through DC servers.

In other words, you can pay $20 for a developer's license to be creative with the Cue:Cat, but DC wants to be able to profit from your efforts by making your software use their servers.

And I thought the allure of open source was the ability to create software for the good of the community...

Doug Davis, the president of the Technology Group at DC, is interviewed and he refers to the developer's license as "mostly open source" because of the restrictions about any scans going through DC servers.

In other words, you can pay $20 for a developer's license to be creative with the Cue:Cat, but DC wants to be able to profit from your efforts by making your software use their servers.

And I thought the allure of open source was the ability to create software for the good of the community...

For the inevitable multitudes who haven't the foggiest who Kahn and Cerf are, here's a bio of Kahn (and no, he isn't the guy played by Ricardo Montalban in Star Trek II).

And here's a nice little article about Cerf.

Now, please explain the comment about Al Gore for me.

Thanks.

According to an AP wire story on Yahoo, "both" Reform parties have rejected the electronic votes, charging fraud. Not a very promising start.

I personally do not trust politicians to manage any type of electroinc voting. Bill Clinton, uses "Buddy", the name of his dog, as the pass phrase for his smart card ID system. I know this because he told the national press, while using this pass phrase to sign a digital signature bill into law. Here as elsewhere, Clinton sets the best example he is capable of...

If I had to design an "e-voting" system, I would require a fingerprint-verified PGP key from every e-voter, and accept only PGP signed documents that validate correctly. The overhead on checking the keys would be signifigant: At minimum I would require a notarized statement bearing the user's key fingerprint, and random spot checks of at least 5% of these fingerprints via mail or phone, to detect organized fraud.

My system would leave anyone who can't or won't comply, out in the cold where they belong. No one who can't be bothered to install a secure open-source crypto app, can be trusted to maintain even tne most primitive safeguards against the theft of their certificates & passwords. E-voting must be treated as a privelige earned by compliance to security requirements, not some sort of "right" that We The Consumers were born with.

The story was generated based on several presentations given at the General Assembly of the International Astronomical Union (IAU). The total number of new planets discovered is 10, including the double planet system of twin Saturn-sized planets.

The information was actually released to the various news agencies last week, but was under strict embargo until early this morning.

This brings the total number of extrasolar planets to 50.

Here're the original source links to this story:

• Geneva Extrasolar Planet Search
• Extrasolar Planet Search

And then coverage by news sources around the Internet:

• ABC News
• BBC News
• CNN Space
• Discovery.com
• Fox News
• MSNBC
• Space Chronicle

And of course, my own coverage on Universe Today.
Planet Discoveries Coming Fast and Furious - August 7, 2000

Fraser Cain