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  1. Re:Jesusland Needs Fewer Narrow Minded Americans by ThaFooz · · Score: 5, Informative · on Blogging as Press Freedom in Repressive Places

    You don't believe Amnesty International? Fine. What about Abu Ghraib?

    You didn't like my citation for the patriot act? I linked you to the Library of Congress. Fine, perhaps you wanted me to be more specific. I refer you to really all of Title II (Enhanced Surveillance Procedures), specificaly Sect. 201 (Authority to intercept wire, oral, and electronic communications relating to terrorism) and Sec. 213 (Authority for delaying notice of the execution of a warrant)

    You didn't like the Wikipedia article on the Drug War? I tried wikipedia to give a general overview of how wasteful and invasive it is, but tak a good look at the US Department of Labor Drug Regulations to see just how much your employer is allowed to drug test you.

    Check my constitution? Well I don't know about yours, the first Amedment of mine starts out with "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion". So my commander-in-chief endorsing religion using government resources sure feels like its breaking the spirit of the law right in half.

    If you want to call my reference to the widening economic gap a stretch, fine. But I do suggest a history lesson on the age of the American Robber Barons.

    I don't know what else to say if you don't like these sources. Its easy for you to repeat "cite" or just ignore sources who don't share your viewpoint, but it's unhelpful. If you're not satisfied, perhaps you could disprove my original point that Americans are moving backwards in regards to civil liberties?

    In other words, if you disagree, how can you prove to me that America has aggressivley maintained or improved liberties since the civil rights movement?

  2. Obligatory Steve Jobs Quote by Tetravus · · Score: 1 · on The Future of the iPod

    "Except that-- on our directory-- you know, we're not-- we're not allowing any pornography."
    I'm not saying that you can't find some rauchy/titilating stuff on the site, but woe unto you if Stevie J finds it.

    Quote Source: ABC News via BoingBoing.

  3. Re:Here's a good tool to fight piracy by mcrbids · · Score: 1 · on Movie Studios Unveil New Anti-Piracy Lab
    Price your movie tickets within the reach of NORMAL FAMILIES!

    Which is just so much hogwash. When you adjust for inflation, movie tickets are actually kind of cheap especially when compared to 1971-ish prices, where they were 50& MORE expensive than today!

    A notable quote from the linked article:
    Defenders of movie ticket price increases point out that while prices have increased in recent years -- to an average of $5.66 in 2001, according to the Motion Picture Association of America and the National Association of Theater Owners -- they long lagged behind inflation.
     
    Although the average movie ticket price rose from 47 cents in 1951 to $1.65 in 1971, to $4.21 in 1991, the picture changes when the prices are stated in constant dollars. Using 2001 dollars, the price rose from $3.20 in 1951 to $7.22 in 1971, but then fell to $5.47 in 1991, and even dropped below $5 in 1994 and 1996.
    I'd suggest that the biggest problem faced by the Entertainment industry is the rise of more options such as video games, the Internet, online music, etc as well as the increased competition from the long tail effect that these increased options provide.

    There will probably always be the "blockbuster hit" but there simply won't be nearly as many.

    We recently bought Dish Network satellite television, with the (Linux based!) DVR522 recorder. I can tell it to record whatever I like to watch whenever I want - and let me assure you, it's NOT what the networks show on "primetime". This is an extension of the "long tail" - even though the shows I might watch aren't as popular, they are popular enough to justify airing at non prime-time hours, and the DVR effectively lets me make that my own "prime time".

    Since the economics of the local theatre only allows for blockbusters, they have to compete more heavily against material more directly suited for my own tastes.

    It's a battle that will only get harder in time.
  4. Re:Oil Companies by Trepalium · · Score: 1 · on Hydrogen Generating Module to Help Your Car?
    Lawnmowers may spit out more pollution per unit of fuel, but automobiles consume a lot more fuel. Assuming the 30x number is correct, then consuming one gallon of fuel in your lawnmower is like consuming 30 gallons of fuel in your car. I also assume that 30x figure specifically excludes carbon dioxide, and only includes the pollutants that would normally be taken care of by a car's catalytic converter. There have been recommendations to start requiring catalytic converters on lawn mowers, but the guidelines aren't set to be fully implemented until 2007.

    Besides, if you're worried about pollution from your lawnmower, there are a number of electric models, and some of them are even cordless these days. There's also the old classic push mowers that still do an excellent job and produce no pollution, but require more physical effort.

  5. Re:Just stop. by kisak · · Score: 1 · on Global Warming Past The Point of No Return

    ABC news has an interesting article.

  6. Re:Copy Cat by sharkey · · Score: 1 · on IIS 7.0 Learns a Few Tricks from Apache

    It even trickles down to their daily meetings and actions taken for emphasis.

  7. Re:Science is complex. by XchristX · · Score: 1 · on Bad Science in the Press

    "the U.S. population has a pretty open Christian community that respects a lot of views."


    Like this?

    and this?

    and this?

    and this?

    and this?

    and this?


    Please, save your propaganda for people who are retarded enough to buy it.

  8. Streaming video does... by sam1am · · Score: 2, Interesting · on Does Legal Online Video Content Delivery Exist?

    There are at least a couple streaming video solutions out there:

    ESPN Gameplan

    MLB.tv

    Probably not exactly what you're looking for, though...

  9. Yawn... by Pedrito · · Score: 2, Insightful · on Linux Five Years Away From Mainstream

    Kind of like this article from 5 years ago, or this one from 3 years ago, or this one from Dec. 2000.

    In 5 years, there will be an in every garage. Yawn...

  10. Re:MSNBC has a lotta nerve by ylikone · · Score: 1 · on FEMA Demands Use of IE To File Online Katrina Claims
    I remember a while back MSNBC just gave me a big blank gray screen on the frontpage! Seems to be working these days though.

    One big site that still doesn't work with Forefox/Linux is http://www.abcnews.go.com/ The frontpage comes up fine, but try going to any of the sections (from the left side menu). Everything under the section headings comes up blank!

    These huge companies can't afford web-developers that can make cross-platform/cross-browser web code? I mean, WTF?! Pathetic.

  11. Re:IT Salaries on a Global Basis by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on How Much Money do Programmers Really Make?

    Already happening

    "Small-Town USA May Offer Solution to Outsourcing"
    "Farm Country Competing With Foreign Countries"

    http://abcnews.go.com/WNT/story?id=1068581&page=1

  12. Re:??? revealed AKA embezzlement by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Informative · on PayPal Freezes Hurricane Relief Account
    It's pretty clear that PayPal is practicing embezzlement and racketeering. This is rising to a criminal level of behavior as victims of Katrina are dying with every hour lost who could have been saved if money donations only arrived in a timely fashion. civil suits already exist against PayPal because of bad acts committed by PayPal. Many of these acts border on criminal acts so this is hardly surprising this around.

    Suggestions for next steps:

    1. Contact the California Dept Financial Institutions and tell them one of their licensees is committing financial embezzlement and racketeering under the guise of operating under their granted license
    2. Contact the Santa Clara Country District Attorney's office and tell them a Santa Clara Country corporation is committing embezzlement and racketeering with charitable donations for Katrina victims.
    3. Contact SF Bay Area news media (SJ Mercury News, SF Chronicle/Examiner, KRON 4 TV, KTVU 2 TV, KPIX 5 TV, KGO 7 TV) and tell them a Santa Clara Country corporation is committing embezzlement and racketeering with charitable donations for Katrina victims. Send E-mail and call them - hearing the story from multiple channels adds credibility.
    4. Collect documentation of previous malfeasance (e.g. PalPay Sucks!) and broadcast it as widely as possible. That especially includes personal networks: make it a point to tell 5 friends and 5 strangers about PayPal's unacceptable behavior in the next 24 hours. Ask those you tell to investigate the truth themselves and tell 10 people they know also. Lather. Rinse. Repeat as necessary.

    This ongoing and repeated abuse must stop now!

  13. Re:Why not just machine gun the refugees? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on Sonic 'Lasers' to be Deployed in Hurricane Region

    They did try airdrops and were shot at.

    Nope. This story is a rumor.

      The people who should know say otherwise:
    "We're controlling every single aircraft in that airspace and none of them reported being fired on," she said, adding that the FAA was in contact with the military as well as civilian aircraft.

  14. Yes, he has -- see link by guacamolefoo · · Score: 1 · on 9 Weeks to Pump Out New Orleans?

    From: http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory?id=1083195&page =4

    "Emergency medical teams from across the country were sent into the region and President Bush cut short his Texas vacation Tuesday to return to Washington to focus on the storm damage."

    While it's not obvious from the timing of your post, many of the "anti-Bush" follow-up posts were made well after Bush had already cut his vacation short.

    Mindless anti-Bushism is just as bad as mindless pro-Bushism. And no, I'm not suggesting that your comment, though inflammatory, was motivated by the former. Clearly some "me-too" posts were, however.

    GF.

  15. Re:When will they learn? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on 9 Weeks to Pump Out New Orleans?

    As has already been covered here, there are reasons why people build cities where they do. But since most people don't both to learn about history we get stupid assertions such as this.

    It just so happens that N.O. is the largest port in the United States.

    http://abcnews.go.com/WNT/HurricaneKatrina/story?i d=1078357&page=1&CMP=OTC-RSSFeeds0312

    Now, on the other hand, if you'd like I can drive about 3 miles from where I am and ask approx. 1,700 new neighbors that just showed up my city's doorstep day before yesterday what they think about some of the statements being made here. Not just yours, but some other posts too.

    Sure, it's a N.O. joke about having an axe in the attic. All one has to do is watch TV footage to see how nobody is laughing about that now.

    As for all of the troll-jokesters & armchair quarterbacks, all I can say are two things.

    1.) Laugh today at all the "self-imposed" suffering happening now on the U.S. Gulf Coast and cry tomorrow at the gas pump nearest you.

    2.) Put yourself in the shoes of someone who has 8 feet of water under them and an unpenetrable roof above them. Tomorrow, the heat index in N.O. will be 110 F. In a fiberglass filled attic, it will probably be 140 F+... no food... no water. Stupid or not at least it isn't you dying like this tomorrow.

    Bunch of insensitive, arrogant pricks.

  16. Re:cities on floodplains? by _Sharp'r_ · · Score: 1 · on 9 Weeks to Pump Out New Orleans?

    Only once?

    Maybe something has changed since this article was written or maybe the laws for your locale are different.

  17. Re:A Little Late by 99BottlesOfBeerInMyF · · Score: 1 · on Reintroduce Megafauna to North America?

    I am curious about these other population controls that have been enacted (not that they happened, but what happened); would you please tell me about them?

    There have been numerous attempts to control undesirable populations, mostly by various state governments. The largest well proven occurrence was when 33 different states launched a program to sterilize women who were pregnant, but undesirable to the state. Usually these were black or other ethnic groups and usually women without husbands. Here is a link to a short article about one victim who the state of North Carolina sterilized.

  18. And yet, one still walks free by WebGangsta · · Score: 2, Informative · on Fired AOL Engineer gets 15 Months
    So they got one AOL employee in jail for stealing screen names.

    But they didn't get Heather Robinson, the former AOL staffer who stole celebrities' screen names and worked those "newly found contacts" into various movie deals.

    One is a criminal; the other is an "up and coming screenwriter". Obviously there is no consistency in how AOL deals with employee violations.

  19. Re:A Little Late by argStyopa · · Score: 1 · on Reintroduce Megafauna to North America?

    Sure there are some mountain lions here or there, and a few wolves (that are mostly wolf coyote hybrids now), but they are all endangered species.

    Wolves moved off the endangered species list: http://espn.go.com/outdoors/conservation/s/c_fea_w olves_status_change.html

    Esp here in MN, wolves are seriously on the rebound. Heck, last weekend there was a pack of at last a dozen in the woods outside my cabin.

    Besides that, you're right - the top-tier predators are mostly gone, with a resultant overabundance of the top-tier prey animals.

  20. Fastest spreading ever? Probably not. by Gary+W.+Longsine · · Score: 5, Informative · on Zotob Worm Hits CNN and Goes Global
    There are other possible infection vectors, but that one is most likely. Corporations would never expose Windows systems directly on the internet, but they buy laptops by the truckload, allow users to take them anywhere, then bring them back into the office and hook them up as though they were not any different than your nice safely-protected behind the firewall chained to the desktop system -- as though they hadn't been handed over to organized crime for a few days, for example. It's really not rational, but it's almost universal practice.
    ABC News on the worm
    "CNN, breaking into regular programming, reported on air that personal computers running Windows 2000 at the cable news network were affected by a worm that caused them to restart repeatedly."
    We have seen this at a government client this week. It appears that the worm authors didn't test on Windows 2000 SP3. Several variants cause the target system to reboot when they attempt to exploit the MS05-039 defect on systems older than Windows 2000 SP4, apparently without infecting the target. The issue could be more subtle than that, perhaps systems running a particular hotfix or something like that, but I haven't had a chance to dig deeper on this point.

    People tend to panic when all the PCs around them are crashing every few minutes instead of every few hours or days like normal (depending on patch level and usage pattern). The first assumption they tend to make is that the crashing computers were infected, but in this case that doesn't seem to be happening. A different worm on a different day, of course, might very well crash them after a successful infection, rather than before, so best not to get too cozy because of a small bit of luck.

    It hasn't received much publicity, but if you're a network administrator battling this problem, you may have trouble patching your systems because they crash too quickly. You might want to disable NULL sessions on the Windows 2000 systems which haven't been patched yet. It appears that this will prevent an infection of an unpatched Windows 2000 system, allowing you more time to patch. (Patches being larger and the systems not staying up long enough to distribute a large package and whatnot.) I haven't yet been able to determine if the UPnP vulnerability could be exploited with NULL sessions disabled, but apparently the current crop of worms and bots all rely on it.
  21. Re:We're all suffering by hacker · · Score: 1 · on FCC Wants to Track Wireless
    The two wars alone probably cost more than we spend on heart disease in a decade. It sucks that a few thousand people died back in 2001, and no one is saying that nothing should be done. But what we should do should be PROPORTIONAL to the threat, and terrorists just aren't that big a threat. Even the small threat they do pose is practically impossible to eliminate, at least by our current measures.

    $200B could have solved a lot of the world's problems. We could have built a 300-mile pond in the Sahara, pumped in with water from the Mediterranean, we could have put $80B into cancer research, we could have put $100B into alternative fuel solutions.

    We all know what this war is about. Its always been about oil, pure and simple. Everyone knows it. There are no WMD. There never were any WMD. Saudis attacked us on 9/11, and we're still puttering around in Iraq. We're talking about Iran next, and my bets are on Syria after that. Its about controlling the world's "bloodstream", oil.

    We should be in Afghanistan, but we know we can't win there. Why? Because 20 years ago, the United States funded, armed and trained the Al Queda to help them eradicate Russia from Afghanistan. They were successful, of course.

    For another interesting perspective, read these two pages. The part I find best out of that material is:

    The US government has been aware of Peak Oil since at least 1977 and has been actively planning for this crisis for over 30 years.

    Three decades of careful, plotting analysis has yielded a comprehensive, sophisticated, and multi-faceted plan in which military force will be used to secure and control the globe's energy resources. This plan is simplistically, but not altogether inaccurately - known as "Go to War to Get Oil."

    This strategy was publicly announced in April 2001, when a report commissioned by Dick Cheney was released. According to the report, entitled Strategic Energy Policy Challenges For The 21st Century, the US is facing the biggest energy crisis in history and that the crisis requires "a reassessment of the role of energy in American foreign policy."

    Another thing to note is that we've done this terrorist attack planning before, back in the early 60's. Anyone remember Operation Northwoods? Scary stuff, how closely it parallels 9/11.

  22. Re:I'll take hidden answer #4 by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on MS Seeks Entrance Fee to XBox Accessory Market

    Nah, the middle class is shrinking... they're targetting the rich. What is left of the middle class is cash-strapped as it is.

  23. So it should be... by wwphx · · Score: 1 · on Robot Catches High Speed Objects

    I, for one, welcome our new Robbie Hammock-bot overlords. He's the guy who caught Randy Johnson's perfect game against the Atlanta Falcons in 2004, Hammock being on the receiving end of 98 MPH fastballs all night long.

  24. Re:So... uh... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on A Serious Contender for the Couch Throne

    Oh, I don't know, MP3's, Plus, Linux has about 10 good OSS programs for your living room

  25. Re:This isn't new by patio11 · · Score: 4, Interesting · on Terrorists Move to Cyberspace
    Sure, it had physical manifestations, but it has, from the very start, existed as an Internet entity.

    This is like saying Microsoft is an Internet entity. Its true, up to a point, but like every Internet entity it requires physical infrastructure to survive. Afghanistan wasn't just harboring OBL and giving him rack space for his servers, it also provided physical security and space for terrorist training camps for that certain tactical expertise you can't quite get from playing Counterstrike (he also had a $6 million house next to the Kabul airport -- gack, I wish I lived my life "on the run" like that).

    Even to the extend Al Quaeda is a "brand"/"franchise system of terror" it relies on personal, face-to-face communication between the franchisees and a semi-centralized infrastructure. The London bombers, for example, got their instructions at a face-to-face meeting in Pakistan. (http://abcnews.go.com/WNT/LondonBlasts/story?id=9 40198&page=1 )

  26. Re:ID vs. Creationism vs. Darwinism vs. Evolution by Sheepdot · · Score: 1 · on Equal Time For Creationism

    Wrong.

    Macroevolution is a term used by evolutionists to describe changes in a level at or above species.

    Microevolution is essentially, Darwinism.

    It is important to draw the distinction, not for the sake of evolution proponents, but evolution opponents. The reason being, few, if any opponents disagree with the darwinism natural selection origins of micro-evolution, but many disagree with macro-evolution.

    If changes can occur within a species does not mean that species themselves change. The longer beaked flamingo might live longer, but they remain a flamingo. But it doesn't really matter because the flamingo evolved from a grebe.

    With regards to that last link: WHAT THE FSCK ARE EVOLUTIONISTS THINKING? They are totally letting on that genetics is counter to the tenants of our evolution religion.

  27. Re:Brilliant by mpthompson · · Score: 4, Interesting · on British Intel Shuts Down al-Qaeda Sites

    With one phone call they could have the world's media at their doorstep.

    Very true. As this ABC Nightline story interviewing the mastermind behind last year's Beslan school massacre, even the most shameful butchers of 300 innocent children can spout their hatred and bile in our western media.

    What amazes me is that ABC can track this SOB down for an interview, but Russian intelligence can't.

  28. Re:ODD by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on Choice of Language for Large-Scale Web Apps?

    Disclaimer: I develop enterprise applications -- both heavy-traffic web applications and middle tier business applications with web frontends -- so I know what I'm talking about.

    oracle.com (J2EE):
    Oracle's website runs on Oracle Portal on Oracle iAS, a J2EE server.

    avaya.com (ASP.NET):
    http://esearch.avaya.com/r/results.asp?SITE=com&qu erytext=blah
      1 HTTP/1.0 200 OK
      2 Server: Microsoft-IIS/5.0
      3 Date: Sun, 31 Jul 2005 07:24:24 GMT
      4 Content-Length: 45927
      5 Content-Type: text/html
      6 Set-Cookie: ASPSESSIONIDQCDDRQBQ=...

    ibm.com (J2EE):
    IBM's website runs on IBM Websphere Portal on IBM Websphere application server, a J2EE server.

    sprint.com (J2EE):
    http://www1.sprintpcs.com/explore/ExploreHome.jsp? refurl=uhp_personal_wireless
      1 HTTP/1.1 200 OK
      2 Server: Netscape-Enterprise/4.1

    disney.com (ASP):
    Last but most, if you actually request a disney.com page, you'll hit an Apache server that redirects you to disney.go.com, an IIS server. Observe:
    Resolving www.disney.com... 199.181.132.250
    Connecting to www.disney.com[199.181.132.250]:80... connected.
    HTTP request sent, awaiting response...
      1 HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently
      2 Date: Sun, 31 Jul 2005 07:32:01 GMT
      3 Server: Apache/2.0.40 (Red Hat Linux)
      4 Location: http://disney.go.com/
      5 Content-Length: 229
      6 Connection: close
      7 Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1
    Location: http://disney.go.com/ [following]
    --00:32:07-- http://disney.go.com/
                          => `index.html.1'
    Resolving disney.go.com... 198.187.190.83, 198.187.189.83
    Connecting to disney.go.com[198.187.190.83]:80... connected.
    HTTP request sent, awaiting response...
      1 HTTP/1.1 200 OK
      2 Server: Microsoft-IIS/5.0
      3 P3P: CP="CAO DSP COR CURa ADMa DEVa TAIa PSAa PSDa IVAi IVDi CONi OUR SAMo OTRo BUS PHY ONL UNI PUR COM NAV INT DEM CNT STA PRE"
      4 Connection: keep-alive
      5 Set-Cookie: SWID=...
      6 Cache-Expires: Sun, 31 Jul 2005 07:36:36 GMT
      7 Cache-Control: max-age=300
      8 Date: Sun, 31 Jul 2005 07:32:07 GMT
      9 Content-Type: text/html
    10 Accept-Ranges: bytes
    11 Last-Modified: Sun, 31 Jul 2005 07:31:36 GMT
    12 ETag: "92eec6e1a195c51:936"
    13 Content-Length: 8896

    You'd be amazed to know how stupid you are.

  29. Re:ODD by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on Choice of Language for Large-Scale Web Apps?

    Disclaimer: I develop enterprise applications -- both heavy-traffic web applications and middle tier business applications with web frontends -- so I know what I'm talking about.

    oracle.com (J2EE):
    Oracle's website runs on Oracle Portal on Oracle iAS, a J2EE server.

    avaya.com (ASP.NET):
    http://esearch.avaya.com/r/results.asp?SITE=com&qu erytext=blah
      1 HTTP/1.0 200 OK
      2 Server: Microsoft-IIS/5.0
      3 Date: Sun, 31 Jul 2005 07:24:24 GMT
      4 Content-Length: 45927
      5 Content-Type: text/html
      6 Set-Cookie: ASPSESSIONIDQCDDRQBQ=...

    ibm.com (J2EE):
    IBM's website runs on IBM Websphere Portal on IBM Websphere application server, a J2EE server.

    sprint.com (J2EE):
    http://www1.sprintpcs.com/explore/ExploreHome.jsp? refurl=uhp_personal_wireless
      1 HTTP/1.1 200 OK
      2 Server: Netscape-Enterprise/4.1

    disney.com (ASP):
    Last but most, if you actually request a disney.com page, you'll hit an Apache server that redirects you to disney.go.com, an IIS server. Observe:
    Resolving www.disney.com... 199.181.132.250
    Connecting to www.disney.com[199.181.132.250]:80... connected.
    HTTP request sent, awaiting response...
      1 HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently
      2 Date: Sun, 31 Jul 2005 07:32:01 GMT
      3 Server: Apache/2.0.40 (Red Hat Linux)
      4 Location: http://disney.go.com/
      5 Content-Length: 229
      6 Connection: close
      7 Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1
    Location: http://disney.go.com/ [following]
    --00:32:07-- http://disney.go.com/
                          => `index.html.1'
    Resolving disney.go.com... 198.187.190.83, 198.187.189.83
    Connecting to disney.go.com[198.187.190.83]:80... connected.
    HTTP request sent, awaiting response...
      1 HTTP/1.1 200 OK
      2 Server: Microsoft-IIS/5.0
      3 P3P: CP="CAO DSP COR CURa ADMa DEVa TAIa PSAa PSDa IVAi IVDi CONi OUR SAMo OTRo BUS PHY ONL UNI PUR COM NAV INT DEM CNT STA PRE"
      4 Connection: keep-alive
      5 Set-Cookie: SWID=...
      6 Cache-Expires: Sun, 31 Jul 2005 07:36:36 GMT
      7 Cache-Control: max-age=300
      8 Date: Sun, 31 Jul 2005 07:32:07 GMT
      9 Content-Type: text/html
    10 Accept-Ranges: bytes
    11 Last-Modified: Sun, 31 Jul 2005 07:31:36 GMT
    12 ETag: "92eec6e1a195c51:936"
    13 Content-Length: 8896

    You'd be amazed to know how stupid you are.

  30. Re:ODD by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on Choice of Language for Large-Scale Web Apps?

    Disclaimer: I develop enterprise applications -- both heavy-traffic web applications and middle tier business applications with web frontends -- so I know what I'm talking about.

    oracle.com (J2EE):
    Oracle's website runs on Oracle Portal on Oracle iAS, a J2EE server.

    avaya.com (ASP.NET):
    http://esearch.avaya.com/r/results.asp?SITE=com&qu erytext=blah
      1 HTTP/1.0 200 OK
      2 Server: Microsoft-IIS/5.0
      3 Date: Sun, 31 Jul 2005 07:24:24 GMT
      4 Content-Length: 45927
      5 Content-Type: text/html
      6 Set-Cookie: ASPSESSIONIDQCDDRQBQ=...

    ibm.com (J2EE):
    IBM's website runs on IBM Websphere Portal on IBM Websphere application server, a J2EE server.

    sprint.com (J2EE):
    http://www1.sprintpcs.com/explore/ExploreHome.jsp? refurl=uhp_personal_wireless
      1 HTTP/1.1 200 OK
      2 Server: Netscape-Enterprise/4.1

    disney.com (ASP):
    Last but most, if you actually request a disney.com page, you'll hit an Apache server that redirects you to disney.go.com, an IIS server. Observe:
    Resolving www.disney.com... 199.181.132.250
    Connecting to www.disney.com[199.181.132.250]:80... connected.
    HTTP request sent, awaiting response...
      1 HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently
      2 Date: Sun, 31 Jul 2005 07:32:01 GMT
      3 Server: Apache/2.0.40 (Red Hat Linux)
      4 Location: http://disney.go.com/
      5 Content-Length: 229
      6 Connection: close
      7 Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1
    Location: http://disney.go.com/ [following]
    --00:32:07-- http://disney.go.com/
                          => `index.html.1'
    Resolving disney.go.com... 198.187.190.83, 198.187.189.83
    Connecting to disney.go.com[198.187.190.83]:80... connected.
    HTTP request sent, awaiting response...
      1 HTTP/1.1 200 OK
      2 Server: Microsoft-IIS/5.0
      3 P3P: CP="CAO DSP COR CURa ADMa DEVa TAIa PSAa PSDa IVAi IVDi CONi OUR SAMo OTRo BUS PHY ONL UNI PUR COM NAV INT DEM CNT STA PRE"
      4 Connection: keep-alive
      5 Set-Cookie: SWID=...
      6 Cache-Expires: Sun, 31 Jul 2005 07:36:36 GMT
      7 Cache-Control: max-age=300
      8 Date: Sun, 31 Jul 2005 07:32:07 GMT
      9 Content-Type: text/html
    10 Accept-Ranges: bytes
    11 Last-Modified: Sun, 31 Jul 2005 07:31:36 GMT
    12 ETag: "92eec6e1a195c51:936"
    13 Content-Length: 8896

    You'd be amazed to know how stupid you are.

  31. Real world violence from football by mcb · · Score: 2, Interesting · on Hillary, GTA, and High School Football

    In my high school town (Doylestown PA), a group of several football players from CB West High School were attacked by a much larger group of football players from North Penn high school (next school district west). Basically the fight was rooted in the bitter football rivarly between the two schools. Four kids got seriously injured in the fight. One kid got kicked repeatedly in the stomach while he was on the ground.

    Here's a story about it from the Philly ABC station.
    http://abclocal.go.com/wpvi/news/101504_nw_footbra wl-update.html

  32. Re:Yuk by Wyatt+Earp · · Score: 2, Insightful · on U.N. To Govern Internet?

    Yea, you really can say that the US is managing things better.

    From a year ago for example, a large number of leading indicators showed progress in Iraq's infrastructure. Compare that to the Congo or Haiti in which the UN is running peacekeeping operations. While the US has made mistakes on the ground dealing with Iraqi and Afghani Prisoners and civilians, at least widespread allegations of sexual exploitation and abuse of women, boys and girls havn't been happening like they are happening in the Congo.

    "Didier Bourguet, a U.N. official from France, is pictured here in an image found on his hard drive, which was obtained by ABC News. Also on the hard drive were thousands of photos of him having sex with hundreds of young Congolese girls."

    "...only a small percentage of the 11,000 U.N. personnel in Congo were involved." - So it's alright for UN Peacekeepers to molest kids in the Congo, but if a Koran gets wet in Gitmo people riot to death.

    "Men from roughly 50 different countries make up the U.N. forces in Congo, and the United Nations does not conduct background checks. Furthermore, U.N. troops are exempt from prosecution in Congo."

    http://www.csmonitor.com/2004/0319/p01s03-woiq.htm l
    http://abcnews.go.com/2020/UnitedNations/story?id= 489306&page=1
    http://abcnews.go.com/2020/UnitedNations/story?id= 489306&page=2

  33. Re:Yuk by Wyatt+Earp · · Score: 2, Insightful · on U.N. To Govern Internet?

    Yea, you really can say that the US is managing things better.

    From a year ago for example, a large number of leading indicators showed progress in Iraq's infrastructure. Compare that to the Congo or Haiti in which the UN is running peacekeeping operations. While the US has made mistakes on the ground dealing with Iraqi and Afghani Prisoners and civilians, at least widespread allegations of sexual exploitation and abuse of women, boys and girls havn't been happening like they are happening in the Congo.

    "Didier Bourguet, a U.N. official from France, is pictured here in an image found on his hard drive, which was obtained by ABC News. Also on the hard drive were thousands of photos of him having sex with hundreds of young Congolese girls."

    "...only a small percentage of the 11,000 U.N. personnel in Congo were involved." - So it's alright for UN Peacekeepers to molest kids in the Congo, but if a Koran gets wet in Gitmo people riot to death.

    "Men from roughly 50 different countries make up the U.N. forces in Congo, and the United Nations does not conduct background checks. Furthermore, U.N. troops are exempt from prosecution in Congo."

    http://www.csmonitor.com/2004/0319/p01s03-woiq.htm l
    http://abcnews.go.com/2020/UnitedNations/story?id= 489306&page=1
    http://abcnews.go.com/2020/UnitedNations/story?id= 489306&page=2

  34. Re:Commercialized space by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on Commercial Use of Shuttle Landing Facilities Planned

    Dealt with already.

    Of course that doesn't mean China can't just launch it instead...

  35. The Gentle People by whatever3003 · · Score: 4, Interesting · on Genetic Research In The Heart of Amish Country
    After reading this article I was horrified at the new insights about these bizarre people.

    The article tells of systematic rape and abuse with no punishment, and with generations of incest producing an inbred and backwards society, condoned by the american govt. giving them the legal right to police themselves, dealing out their own justice where they see fit.

    After reading the entirety of the article, it would be hard to dismiss this as an isolated case, but if you do and still consider that they represent some noble return-to-basics society and that their rejection of technology is somehow endearing, there are other sources, and a dedicated blog that may help to change your mind.

  36. best sunscreen banned by FDA by peter303 · · Score: 1 · on Sunscreen Not So Good for You?

    ABC news ran a piece about a sunscreen nat yeat approved by the FDA.

  37. Re:Did no one think by AKAImBatman · · Score: 1 · on Grizzly-sized Catfish Caught in Thailand

    Actually? No. I just skimmed it, so I am a bit guilty of a flub there. But if you read the page, it does state that 150 lb catfish have been recorded in the United States, and links to an ESPN story about an 80 pound catfish. The picture in the article is a 167 lb. catfish caught in Italy. :-)

  38. Noodling for the Mekong Catfish? by amightywind · · Score: 2, Funny · on Grizzly-sized Catfish Caught in Thailand

    Noodling for catfish is popular in Oklahoma. I would argue that, after tractor pull, it is the greatest contribution of redneck culture to American sport. I hope that news of the Mekong Catfish will lead Oklahoma's best to the ultimate challenge. Who will be catching whom?

  39. Alt Link by swiggidy · · Score: 1 · on Grizzly-sized Catfish Caught in Thailand

    also on ESPN

    I think this is hilarious:
    The fishermen had hoped to sell the fish to environmental groups, which planned to release it to spawn upriver, but it died before it could be handed over and then was chopped up and sold in pieces to villagers as food.

    Strange detail

  40. about the oldest groups that were raided by t35t0r · · Score: 2, Informative · on 11-Nation Raid on Net Pirates

    LND est ~1995?, RiSC(ISO) est ~1995?, and Myth est 1998.

    LND = Legends Never Die is a group that releases the ripped version of applications from CD's and DVD's (e.g. autocad, photoshop, etc). I guess they are dead now, but they may surprise the Feds yet.

    RiSCISO = is the ISO division (or a group that releases the full unripped CD/DVD version of high end applications, e.g. autocad with all the plugins and documentation left intact) of Rise In Superior Couriering. Couriering is the competition of moving files as quickly as possible between sites frequented by other couriers.

    Myth = this group releases ripped versions of games from the CD/DVD's without music, cut scene movies, and of course the annoying CD protection. This group was formed from what was Paradigm and some other group ..i forget. Vengeance (VGN) was a couriering group as well.

    Here's a picture of the guy and some more info: http://abclocal.go.com/kgo/news/062905_nw_fed_bust .html

  41. Remember how Bush made his money in baseball: by falconwolf · · Score: 1 · on Supreme Court Rules Private Property Can be Seized

    building a larger stadium on land siezed under eminent domain? http://espn.go.com/mlb/bush/saturday.html

    He also made money another way:

    Deal #1: The Oil Business: Rewarded for Losing Money

    Like his dad, Junior struck out in Texas and founded an oil company, Arbusto Energy, Inc., with $20,000 of his own money. (Arbusto is the Spanish word for bush.) The company foundered in the early 1980s when oil prices dropped (and his dad was Vice President.)

    The 50 investors, who were "mainly friends of my uncle" in Junior's own words, put in $4.7 million and lost most of it. Junior claims that investors "did pretty good," but Bush family friend Russell Reynolds told the Dallas Morning News: "The bottom line was there were problems, and it didn't work out very well. I think we got maybe 20 cents on the dollar."

    As Arbusto neared collapse, Spectrum 7 Energy Corporation bought it in September 1984. Despite his poor track record, the owners made Bush, Jr. the president and gave him 13.6% of the parent company's stock.

    Spectrum 7 was a small oil firm owned by two staunch Reagan/Bush Sr. supporters -- William DeWitt and Mercer Reynolds. These two were also owners of the Texas Rangers and allowed Bush Jr. to purchase a chunk of the team cheaply; he later sold it for over 24 times what he paid.

    Within two years of purchasing Arbusto and making Bush Jr. president, Spectrum 7 was itself in trouble; it lost $400,000 in its last 6 months of operation. That ended in 1986, when Harken Energy Corporation bought Spectrum 7's 180-well operation.

    Junior got $227,000 worth of Harken stock, and a lot more. He was named to the board of directors, made $80,000 to $100,000 a year well into the 1990s as a "consultant" to Harken, and was allowed to buy Harken stock at 40% below face value.

    He also borrowed $180,375 from Harken at very low rates; the company's 1989 and 1990 SEC filings said it "forgave" $341,000 in loans to unspecified executives.

    So what did Junior do for all this money? It's hard to say exactly, but things happened for Harken after Junior came on board:
    it got a $25 million stock offering from an unusual bank with CIA ties,
    it won a surprise exclusive drilling contract with Bahrain, a small Mideast country, and
    an Arab member of its Board of Directors was invited to White House policy meetings with President George Bush and National Security Adviser Brent Scowcroft.

    Falcon
  42. Re:bush judges by tha_mink · · Score: 1 · on Supreme Court Rules Private Property Can be Seized

    "Remember how Bush made his money in baseball: building a larger stadium on land siezed under eminent domain? http://espn.go.com/mlb/bush/saturday.html

    This is nothing new though. My old boss had his land in Queens NY taken to build Shea Stadium, and that was over 40 years ago.

  43. Re:bush judges by DavidHumus · · Score: 5, Informative · on Supreme Court Rules Private Property Can be Seized
    For more of the same?

    Remember how Bush made his money in baseball: building a larger stadium on land siezed under eminent domain? http://espn.go.com/mlb/bush/saturday.html

  44. Re:Brain size vs Neuron density by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on Bigger Brains Make Smarter People Study Says

    Actaully, offensive linemine do score the highest among NFL players in the wonderlic test, but not high enough to be considered the most intelligent people in the U.S.

    20 = average intelligence

    Offensive tackles: 26
    Centers: 25
    Quarterbacks: 24
    Guards: 23
    Tight Ends: 22
    Safeties: 19
    Middle linebackers: 19
    Cornerbacks: 18
    Wide receivers: 17
    Fullbacks: 17
    Halfbacks: 16

    The average scores in other professions look like this:

    Chemist: 31
    Programmer: 29
    Newswriter: 26
    Sales: 24
    Bank teller: 22
    Clerical Worker: 21
    Security Guard: 17
    Warehouse: 15

    http://espn.go.com/page2/s/closer/020228.html

  45. Re:Dual Lens for 3D? by adrianmonk · · Score: 4, Informative · on Star Wars 3D And TV
    Wouldn't 3D versions of the movie require that the original footage be shot using dual lenses that are spaced about 3 inches apart?

    Not anymore. There is a company that has figured out how to do it with computers, and George Lucas has said he wants to use their technology to re-do all 6 movies.

  46. Hi, Americans are stupid by MattW · · Score: 5, Insightful · on Most Americans Want Gov't To Make Internet Safer

    Only 70% of americans know how many stars are on the flag

    60% of people cannot name the three branches of American government, 37% could not even name one branch, and 89% don't realize the Patriot Act allows secret search & seizures by the government

    30% of americans do not know that plants produce most of the Oxygen on earth; only 11% can describe radiation and only 13% know what a molecule is

    Only 38% of *investors* know what a "no-load" fund is (Which I suppose goes to show that just because Americans get involved with something doesn't mean they bother to actually know anything about it)

    Only 50% of Americans know how long it takes the Earth to circle the sun

    Frankly, we need to stop encouraging people to go vote. If you don't know why it is important to vote, then stay the hell home, because you probably don't know enough to intelligently cast a vote anyhow. "Get out the vote" campaigns are at best drives to sign up supports and at worst just base demagoguery.

  47. Disney and TIAA-CREF by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative · on WebObjects Now Free With Tiger

    Disney uses WebObjects for booking vacations to Disneyland, Disneyworld and Disneycruise. See this URL I just pulled from their site:

    http://dlr.reservations.disney.go.com/cgi-bin/WebO bjects/TravelDLIBC.woa/

    TIAA-CREF, an institutional and individual investment house has over 200+ WebObjects applications still in productcion. Here's another live URL:

    https://ais2.tiaa-cref.org/cgi-bin/WebObjects.exe/ IndvGate?Request=CustomerInquiry

    Those are just a few of the "small" companies using WebObjects :)

    I've been developing in J2EE for over 3 years now (WebObjects before that) and I can say that nothing beats EOF. Entity EJBs are still way too slow of a technology to get up and running. The change notification and delegation that is present in the EOF framework stack is so powerful and the level of caching that's given to the developer are way too easy. Hibernate, CMP EJBs and JDO don't compare. Note that Apple was actually on the JDO specification board. I'm not sure if they voted for or against JDO but it was interesting to see they were on the board. Maybe there were thoughts creating a specification around EOF? HAHAHA!

  48. Re:dress for success!, or run the risk... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on Body Modifications Still Hinder IT Professionals?

    Nope. There are metals in some tattoo inks, no way to know for sure without testing.

    Various metals used:
    http://chemistry.about.com/library/weekly/aa121602 a.htm

    Testing done:
    http://abcnews.go.com/Health/wireStory?id=579345 "we've found a lot of indications of metals."

  49. cartoons by potsmaster · · Score: 1 · on Can Hayao Miyazaki Save Disney's Soul?

    back in feb04, sylvain chomet ( les triplettes de belleville (2003)) contributed an interesting article to the times opinion page about the cartoon characters (definitely no longer free reading) that make the decisions at the mouse. it's not very complimentary.

    nor should it be...

  50. Relying on franchises by FlacoFuerte · · Score: 0 · on Can Hayao Miyazaki Save Disney's Soul?

    I'm not sure about box office results, but on Disney's primary portal http://disneyvideos.disney.go.com/ for DVD & video sales Miyazaki movies don't even touch their other franchises. By far the most popular are the princess movies http://disney.go.com/princess/, Winnie the Pooh, and Kim Possible. Eisner opened the floodgates for making sequels to their older movies so there's been a lot of straight to video movies that have been successful relying on the older franchises (Lion King, Mulan, Tarzan) that can make up for lost profits on flops. It should also be noted that Disney has had a certain amount of success over the last couple years with 2003's Home On The Range likelastyear'sHomeOntheRange and last year's Brother Bear http://boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=brotherbear.ht m which were pretty entertaining. So maybe its fair to say they've learned from Atlantis and Treasure Planet, although I'm not sure if the criticism leveled Disney calling these films disasters is merited. Most movies from all the major studios are lucky if they break even at the box office, once Disney decided to start releasing around an animated movie a year, they've ceased to be an exception to that rule.