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While I agree that we have way too many people jailed because of nonviolent drug-related offenses, I don't think that this sheer number of incarcerated people is a black mark on America's human rights record. As a drastic comparison, let's consider Nigeria, where the punishment for adultery is death-by-stoning. I am betting that they have way fewer people in prison (check both total number and per capita for South Africa) than the US, yet I would hardly call Nigeria generous in the human rights department.

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That's why the winner of the national spelling bee was also a homeschooler?

I guess your ignorant stereotype doesn't hold up after all, now does it?

I suspect the NSA and CIA knew who did it within minutes - it wasn't a hard call. They had all the information, and when you know what you're looking for, it's very easy to find it. Their only failing was in not processing all that information prior to September 11th.

I'm glad you brought this up. (Not that I agree with those I-have-no-argument-I'm-just-talking-shit items one bit, but that's another issue I don't care to get into.)

If we had the intelligence data we needed, then why all the unnecessary loss of civil rights? Isn't that simply an indication the organizations responsible need to make some changes?

Now that they have correlated the relevant data and produced their leads, what else do they need from us?

I just don't see the justification in the overly broad scope of the Patriot Act myself. It seems at least eight cities agree with me.

Personally, I caught the hockey bug. Never played before, couldn't skate, but I joined an adults' beginner hockey league and couldn't be happier. I am always looking forward to my weekly game.

Alternatively, if you want to inspire yourself to do some in-home workout, you could take Sports Guy's approach. He put his video game console in front of his treadmill (exerise bike would work, too) and plays his Madden season while working out. Pick your game. It'll work best if you've got a jones for games that can be done in 20-40 minute chunks (sports games, not MMORPGs), and if it can keep your interest, then you've got a solid way to keep yourself working out.

Good luck. We've all got the same uphill battle.

really are....It must be tracked...

Information and who's accessing it....

So as many may be trying to rationalize invasion of privacy by thinking only of terrorism excuses, perhaps there is the other side of the coin as to what the feds may be looking for......like those assessing information in order to see the truth:

take a look at this: World Meters

Take a good look at the different meters! Then look at this: What the World Wants

We have the technology and we have the funds to make good things happen.

So why is it not happening? You want to fight about it?

Assuming you don't want to fight about it, that fighting is not the goal or main desire of people, then there must be something else, something bigger that is the problem. You know, considering annual world military spending is $780 billion dollars (US) and to solve the major world humanitarian problems only needs 1/3 of that....

The problem has to be more than something under a trillion dollars.

A CIA Fact Sheet on Indonesia -- see the religion percentages (88% muslim).

OK, (given the above muslim population of indonesia): from the pbs trillion dollar bet article:

"In the summer of 1997, across Thailand, property prices plummeted. This sparked a panic that swept through Asia. As banks went bust from Japan to Indonesia, people took to the streets - events so improbable they had never been included in anyone's models."

and in Indonesia May 1998:

"Sources all over Asia tell Uscher that Asians know about local corruption but believe America is taking advantage of the situation to grab Asian markets and Asian wealth."

and (read the article!!!) another article from CNN:

"The austerity measures were a condition of the International Monetary Fund's $43 billion aid package to bail out the southeast Asian nation. "

World Bank wanted to help Indonesia out but charge interest (usery) entrapment???? Funny how China is the only country who did not participate in this stock game and are better off then the rest of us for not doing so.....

Where the US bailout was only (pbs article):

"We expect that they're going to explain to the members of this Committee why the Federal Reserve has organized the $3.5 billion bail-out for billionaires, why Americans should be worried about the gambling practices of the Wall Street elite"

And there is Something Else I have run across for that timeline as well (making the "trillion dollar bet" just icing on this cake?):

(note: overall I find information from this resource to be integratingly correct enough to be both useful and insightful, though with a touch of blind bias towards capitalism, though it does try not to be blindly biased, it is to subjective to capitalism to completely avoid it.)

"During the 1993-1999 bubble era of false economic progress, many CEOs, executives, employers, employees, even customers adopted the scams of clintonian-era politicians, lawyers, journalists, academics to become increasingly dishonest, corrupt, even criminal. The bubble-building, stock-market fraud began when Chairman Alan Greenspan clintonized the
Federal Reserve. He signaled that politicization by blatantly breaking a time-honored apolitical precedent when he sat as a special guest in the president's box during Clinton s first State-of-the-Union address. Greenspan, the former acolyte of capitalism-champion Ayn Rand, then married a socialist/clintonian journalist. His drive to create a Clinton-boosting, economic boom -- a high-tech bubble economy -- escalated from that point. He with Robert Rubin and Bill Clinton artificially increased the value of the dollar, relentlessly increased the M-3 money supply, recklessly created sloshing liquidity, and pied pipered consumers and corporations into bankrupting debt. He engineered those cancerous long-term policies to continually fuel the equity markets for baleful political ends and unearned glory.

The bubble burst in early 2000 causing losses of four-trillion dollars. After several sharp bear-market rallies, those equity losses launched a long-term economic decline -- the feared L-shaped recession or worse."

Oh yeah and this 5 year stock market link comparing the DOW with the S&P and most important the NASDAQ. Where you can tell where the money went and also know what the dot coms were all about.

Given the above

From theCBS article on the NSA (National Security Agency) total system failure:

"In January 2000, Gen. Mike Hayden, the director of the NSA, received a call from the agency's watch officer alerting him that all of its computers had crashed."

In that same article (in fact in the previous paragraph):

"A phone call intercepted by the NSA is often the first warning that a terrorist such as Osama bin Laden is planning an attack against Americans. To find that threatening phone call, email or radio transmission among the billions made daily, the NSA relies on rooms of supercomputers."

The date of this CBS article is Aug 29, 2001.

Do you really think maybe Y2K brought the systems all down? For what is supposed to be the top spy agency in the US? (they don't say what caused the three and a half day crash.)

Or do you perhaps see a simpler Truth to the matter, such as:

Stock market gamblers and Gov. screwed up the world economy so bad and especially for muslims that the NSA had damn good reason to KNOW what was going to happen and that they needed an excuse for their total inability to deal with it.

*And then there is this, how might Afghanistan participate in global* *humanitarian issues:*

And the Bill of Rights

How about now? Do you want to fight now? And if you were an Afghan Muslim, instead of a US citizen?

Targets....White House for it's political control over Pentagon military backed control over World Trade Center ....world economy.

We taught them how to do it, How to fight smart, how to learn what they need to know and where they can get supplies (anthrax, planes, etc..) from us to use against us....... then we lite a bon fire under their ass to motivate them into action while we turned our backs to intelligence....played ignorant......so they could more easily do it.

And Ted Turner (CNN) said something about the attack being an act of desparation. Which he later apologized for.....because of why?

[In the early 1960s,] America's top military brass even contemplated causing U.S. military casualties, writing: "We could blow up a U.S. ship in Guantanamo Bay and blame Cuba," and, "casualty lists in U.S. newspapers would cause a helpful wave of national indignation."

He's quoted in the article, and it's worth reading his stuff. His home page is here, and there's an archive of his ABC Who's Counting columns here..

Go read 'em.

If evolution turns out to be false, then suddenly there is a God, and there is meaning to our actions. Which also means responsibility.

I'm not sure where you get this stuff from, but this is a logical nightmare. So it's only evolution or creation? Is it if any part of evolutionary theory is false, or the whole premise? Because, well, there's lot of biologist who do it all the time, so one of those isn't going to happen. And the parts that get refined are part of a process called science (which I beginning to think you have only a general concept of).

The logical conclusion of evolution is that there is no meaning, no right and wrong. While doing something may not be desired by many, it is certainly not 'wrong'.

Umm, how is that logical? Perhaps on a purely biological level right and wrong can be iffy, but if you look at psychology and moral philosophy, they still seem to be around. The stark, harsh right and wrong of the Bible are pretty strange when interpreted literally and lead to...well...look at countries that have ruling theocracies and see how things turn out. Laws and morality have come quite a ways since Hammurabi.

I also find it hard to believe that a concept encompassing billions of years of willful (my word) decisions leading ultimately to the rise of consciousness, from basic energy to complex living matter, can be devoid of deeper meaning. Who told you that it wasn't? Hovind, perhaps?

. The area of science for a creationist here is describing what they would expect to see if the flood had occurred, and see if the evidence fits those predictions.

Funny you should mention that. If you would like to know more about it, perhaps you could read a book. Or if not, how about a web page. There is rather strong evidence that a rather apocalyptic flood did occur. However, unless the authors who wrote about it had access to satellite imagery and international communications infrastructure, I find the claim of a world-wide phenomenon rather sketchy. It certainly would have seemed that way to them, since their perception of the planet was so limited, and they would have written in such a way that expressed these perceptions, but now we're questioning the FACTS of the Bible, and that's not allowed.

After all, that's what the Bible says.

And until you can look beyond that great work, and use the data collected by other true believers, believers in a process of finding little bits of Truth in the world around them and building a bigger picture from it, you will make no progress.

BTW, I already read some creationist apologists on the Ballard research. Most end with "Well, that's not what the Bible says, so he's wrong." Sorry, but if you only have one resource, you aren't doing very good research.

Anyway, these conversations are always fun, if tiring. Even if you are trolling.

6. Catalog sales of music are up a little or at least steady. However hit sales are way, way down. The industry believes it to be because of burning.
I was gonna say something similar...

oh, you forgot the preceeding 's' on 'hit'

the reason 'hit' sales are down is the same reason there was the great disco burn of 1979...
"...the Chicago White Sox's notorious Disco Demolition Night in 1979. Fans were invited to burn disco records in the outfield of Comiskey Park and a riot nearly ensured. The White Sox forfeited the second game of the doubleheader."

um, people just don't like the music.

You think other so-called "tolerant" nations don't pull a lot of stupid stunts?

I have an American friend in France who is applying for a resident permit. Her name doesn't exist in the French language so they select the "next closest" name. Further, even though she has always used her maiden name, they are forcing her to use her married name.

In Austria, parents aren't allowed to invent names and must proved a name once belonged to a real person.

These may sound trivial and silly but they are still examples of stupid intolerance.

Several weeks ago I had to provide a urine sample as part of the interview process for a government job. The problem was I couldn't do it! So the doctor gave me a 6-ounce cup, directed me to a water fountain and told me to just keep drinking water until I could pee.

Given that I didn't fill the cup to the point where it would overflow, I estimate I must have had about 5 ounces in each cupfull.

At least 40 cups and less than an hour later, I was shivering and bloated, but I could finally pee. Less than an hour after that, I desperately had to pee again, only this time the urine was crystal clear. I stood there peeing for several minutes (people came in, did their business, left... other people came in, did their business, left, etc.). When I got home about an hour after that, I peed clear again. That was probably about 200 ounces (2.5 of those 80-ounce monsters), or 6.25 quarts, which is just over half the amount that killed a U.S. Army trainee.

During January 2000, a 20-year-old trainee in the Army drank around 12 quarts of water during a 2- to 4-hour period while trying to produce a urine specimen for a drug test. She then experienced fecal incontinence, lost consciousness and became confused, then died from swelling in the brain and lungs as a result of low blood sodium.

One monster drink is probably OK, though not healthy. Two is definitely unhealthy and wasteful (since you'll be pissing it out in an hour or two anyway, not absorbing it). Three will make you feel very sick and probably disoriented. Four or five will kill you.

If it's an expression, then it's protected by Free Speech guarantees, and is copyrightable. And the concept of warranty doesn't make sense.

If it's a machine, then liability and rental contracts make sense, but speech protection and copyright don't.

When someone speaks an imperative command, you may decide to obey it. But when you do, the expression didn't magically just transform into a machine. You are the machine. Don't ever forget that. "Below every tangled hierarchy lies an inviolate level" -- Douglas Hofstadter.

Keep the warranty and liability discussion limited to machines. It's the user's decision, what commands that machine obeys. If you don't want the risk, then don't run the software. And don't call me an elitist snob for saying that people should be responsible for their computers. Yeah, it's a hard responsibility to take. So what? Why should difficulty somehow get you off the hook?

Medicine is a difficult topic to master as well, and those who have and given the title "Doctor." But that difficulty doesn't mean that people aren't responsible for their own health. Oh wait, that's exactly what some people are saying... What a price, indeed.

0x0d0a didst speak thusly:

The SEC also went after Rice, the guy that hired her. Everything got covered. I've seen attempts to sue spammers, to complain to them, to flood their phones, to complain to local police/attorney general. Nothing does much...except this. Seems that the first effective clean sweep against a spammer that I've ever seen -- and it was done by a black hat. Frankly, I'm quite pleased.

Actually, not quite the first clean sweep...

The first clean sweep I am aware of, or rather clue-by-fouring en masse, was of a particularly notorious spammer (both Usenet and email) by name of "Krazy" Kevin Lipsitz (notation in the Spam Timeline here: http://keithlynch.net/spamline.html).

Krazy Kevin was one of the parties that directly lead to confirmation of accounts--he used to use Compuserve throwaway accounts in particular, as I recall, to promote his magazine scheme.

It came out after a while on many net.abuse forums that not only was he spamming, but he also failed to deliver magazines...

Eventually the State of New York spanked him in probably one of the first court precedents in regards to spam. (Reference here: http://www.oag.state.ny.us/internet/litigation/leb edeff.html)

This all happened around '96 or '97...Krazy Kev was busted around 1997ish.

"Krazy Kevin" no longer is spamming, and apparently makes much of his living now being a professional gourmand (he apparently holds a world's record for consuming the most amount of pickles in a five-minute span, and is a regular contestant at the Nathan's hot-dog eating contest)...at least it's a bit more honest a way of life than spamming, I suppose. :) (More about Krazy Kev going honest, in a sense: http://abcnews.go.com/sections/us/WolfFiles/wolffi les204.html) Still selling magazines too, but hopefully people get them now :)

Sanford, aka "Spamford", Wallace also was whacked into sense between being sued by both AOL *and* Compuserve (pre-merger) and getting ordered not to spam them (info on that lawsuit here: http://www.netlitigation.com/netlitigation/cases/c ompucase.htm)--and having literally been nearly banned from the Internet entirely and causing one of the major "backbone" sites of the Internet to be nearly universally shunned as well (the Agis.net UDP around 1996--Wallace and the nancy.com spammers were almost completely responsible) after it ended up being the last site on the Internet to deal with him...

In fact, Sanford Wallace has the rather dubious distinction of not only having been the reason behind many states' proposed antispam statutes, not only does he have the dubious distinction of having also been a junk faxer before he went into spamming and being almost singlehandedly responsible for the US law prohibiting junk faxing, but is singlehandedly responsible for much if not most of the early case law in regards to spamming...

After having realised the errors of his ways around 1998 or so, he started running an opt-in mail service for a while and (in a theme that seems to recur among reformed spammers) also apparently does entertainment, specifically, he's a DJ (more info here: http://www.canismajor.demon.co.uk/antispam/sanford .htm; info regarding his present company here: http://www.annonline.com/interviews/970522/biograp hy.html)...

(Now, mind, I've just included the first two cases I can recall off the top of my head involving people being sued directly for stuff related to spamming...)

Close. They're not being charged with murder, but they are (or were) being sued.

-S

I went to a DefCon a few years ago and the place was crawling with feds.

That just makes for a good game of Spot the Fed.

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That's because each one of these round-the-world balloon trips, according to press reports, is estimated to have cost at least $300,000 a pop. Fossett representative Stuart Radnofsky told ABCNEWS, "We don't discuss costs."

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Charities like the Red Cross, World Vision and UNICEF declined to comment on what they thought about Fossett's spending habits -- but $300,000 could certainly do plenty to help them.

For $300,000, UNICEF said it could immunize nearly 20,000 children for life against the top six childhood killer diseases, or provide 120,000 children with basic school supplies.

The World Vision Web site says $30 can send a child in Uganda to school for a year, or help a family in the Dominican Republic plant 10 fruit trees. So that's 10,000 Ugandan children or Dominican families who are going without for a balloon flight.

The Red Cross says $350 can cover the costs of providing food and shelter for 50 disaster victims for one day. So $300,000 could cover the cost of providing food and shelter for that same group for more than two years.

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You can play this virtual sword-fighting game at Walt Disney World's Disney Quest area in the part of the park called Downtown Disney. It's pretty fun, and a good value, since you pay around $15 and get to play unlimited arcade games, pinball, and weird cool things like the sword fight. I don't think you need admission to the park, either. You could just do this if you wanted. I got sort of bored of the sword fight once I did it once. The gyroscopic sword is a really cool way of simulating an actual sword though. It's sort of funny to see 10 people wearing headsets and waving these handles around! There's also this incredibly cool thing at Disney Quest where you make your own rollercoaster and ride it. How that works is you lay out the track, then once you get all that good to go, the track is rated based on how severe it is. The attendant told me that if you're only going on it once, make it as severe as possible. Then you get into this rotating cabin that can spin a full 360 degrees in any direction. You look into this screen that takes up your entire view and the combination of the spinning, the video, and the fact that you have no idea which way is up makes your body feel like it's actually on a rollercoaster. It's a better feeling than a real rollercoaster, people have gotten sick on it. Amazing.

Lunar generated solar power has the potential to replace every fossil fuel power plant on Earth. And who cares about gravity? We export the electricity by beaming it down via microwaves to collectors on the Earth's surface.

Solving the energy crisis could be the Great Reason we need to get back into space, and could turn the Moon into a moneymaker instead of a sinkhole. This is one of the few reasons I believe returning to the Moon is more important than colonizing Mars at this point. Off-earth manufacturing, energy, tourism, and science all show incredible promise. It's time we went back. I want to visit the Luna Hilton before I die.

how do you think ABC's new show Push, Nevada will do next season?

Personally i expect it to be a huge hit. A mystery show where viewers also can try to solve the mystery on the internet, first person who figures out where the cash they are looking for in the show is at gets it.

i don't even watch much prime-time network television and i'm looking forward to seeing how this show turns out (though the longshot prospect of a load of cash may have a lot to do with that), just seems like an intersting idea to me.

The point is not that the man can spy on my driving habits, the point is that every little bit adds up. No, I don't give a rat's ass if they want me to have a black box in my car, but I do mind if they start infringing on my rights, and the line is blurry. The general public is all too willing to give up privacy or freedom in exchange for safety or security. This is just like the situation with Jose Padilla. Yeah, he's probably guilty and I don't want him dropping a dirty bomb on NYC, but the fact is that he's a US citizen and his rights have been breached, but nobody seems to care because they value security to freedom. I almost want to move to New Hampshire to get "Live Free or Die" on my license plate. The United States is a country where freedom is supposedly valued above life itself. It's not all the little things like black boxes in my car, it's the sum of all the little things which amount to my freedom being slowly stripped from me.

Hmm, I think I'll change my sig.

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"I'm gonna tell our people that every time they have probable cause to believe that a crime occurred, and we're doing accident reconstruction, to see if there's a box, and see if we can use it to buttress our findings," said Montgomery County District Attorney Bruce Castor.

Uh does this really say much about mens brains? The study was entirely female, other studies have shown that mens and womans brains are very differnt.

Yes, it is, according to the vulnerability rates for different OSes at securityfocus.com.

Please slashdot keep up with the news flow.

P.S. this Mudge guy seems to me a bit of a poser

ABCNews.com carried a story on so called "Green roof" buildings. Putting plants, soil, and other natural things on top of buildings made the buildings cooler, and consequently, the area around the buildings cooler as well. Sounds like a pretty neat solution to me.

Of course, dropping things off the roof can be fun too, but won't cool the building off. Who knew that a frozen banana hitting pavement would splatter into tiny bits. *sigh* if only we had access to liquid nitrogen.

I agree Hydrogen's a safer fuel than gasoline, but all the same, a pressure vessel filled with 20 Kelvin liquid seated behind my arse doesn't tickle my fancy either. However, there are much safer ways to store Hydrogen. Metal hydride and carbon adsorption looks promising, asnd great strides are being made in fuel cell technologies. But the one I hope really succeeds is plain old Borax!

If his family is smart, they'll tape it and send the resulting (disaster) home video in to these guys. Maybe they could win the $100,000 prize and retire to a nice condo in Florida.

Video games have yet to affect my real life at all (other then reducing the amount of time I spend there). If you don't want your kids to play these games don't let them. Do not turn to society as a whole to police what your kids can do.

As mentioned by the parent (now, long since modded into oblivion), the issue of violent video games was covered this Wednesday on Nightline, and a partial write up can be read here.

Now, the coverage was obviously presented with a slant against video games. A similar slant was shown in a previous story they did about the big business of pornography. Nightline's often not about presenting an unbiased opinion.

Just the same, the most salient point probably made on the show, by a doctor of psychology I believe (correct me if I'm wrong), was that video games are akin to cigarettes in a sense. Most people who smoke don't wind up dying from lung cancer. Most people who play GTA3 also don't drive over pedestrians to get some midday stress relief.

The point here is perhaps that the true effect of these games, especially those which people use to "let out their anger", has not really been carefully studied. And, it has been seen that expressing anger tends to cause an increase in one's liklihood to be angry, not a decrease.

Despite the unwillingness of most game players to accept it, myself and a good deal of the Slashdot crowd included, it is possible that violent video games may have a subtle, but definite effect on a statistical significant amount of people. As it is, however, the current video game rating system should be sufficient to warn intelligent players and parents about games which may be inappropriate.

Video games have yet to affect my real life at all (other then reducing the amount of time I spend there). If you don't want your kids to play these games don't let them. Do not turn to society as a whole to police what your kids can do.

As mentioned by the parent (now, long since modded into oblivion), the issue of violent video games was covered this Wednesday on Nightline, and a partial write up can be read here.

Now, the coverage was obviously presented with a slant against video games. A similar slant was shown in a previous story they did about the big business of pornography. Nightline's often not about presenting an unbiased opinion.

Just the same, the most salient point probably made on the show, by a doctor of psychology I believe (correct me if I'm wrong), was that video games are akin to cigarettes in a sense. Most people who smoke don't wind up dying from lung cancer. Most people who play GTA3 also don't drive over pedestrians to get some midday stress relief.

The point here is perhaps that the true effect of these games, especially those which people use to "let out their anger", has not really been carefully studied. And, it has been seen that expressing anger tends to cause an increase in one's liklihood to be angry, not a decrease.

Despite the unwillingness of most game players to accept it, myself and a good deal of the Slashdot crowd included, it is possible that violent video games may have a subtle, but definite effect on a statistical significant amount of people. As it is, however, the current video game rating system should be sufficient to warn intelligent players and parents about games which may be inappropriate.

[This article attempts to document a vile, ungodly practice that runs rampant through the homosexual geek and hacker community, a practice known as Taco-snotting, or simply snotting. Taco-snotting is something that few geeks dare talk about in free or open conversation, but it is nonetheless a widely-practiced and dangerous form of homosexuality. If you or anyone you know has ever engaged in Taco-snotting, please get professional help before it is too late. ed.]

Why do I keep receiving emails from an individual calling himself CmdrTaco?

You have been receiving unsolicited mailings from a certain Robert CmdrTaco Malda, owner of the popular technology website slashdot.org. Actually, its not a very popular site in the common sense of the word; the site is rife with pimply, antisocial geeks and hackers, zit-faced nerds, communists, dirty GNU hippies, and other societal rejects and outcasts. Its also home to one of the worlds largest suspected pdophile rings, the infamous Slashdot crew.

Whenever Mr. Malda gets bored (and who wouldnt, running a site like Slashdot all day), he roams through the user database, penis in hand, looking for people who might enjoy engaging in homosexual activities with him. How he determines this is anyones guess; but if you have a homosexual-sounding nickname, or a nick with a letter of the English alphabet in it, youre a potential candidate.

This time, he found you. Lucky you.

Mr. Malda seems to be speaking in some sort of code. Do you know what it means?

CmdrTacos code language is relatively easy to decipher. This pervert prefers to speak in thinly-veiled sexual innuendo (yes, thats right: he wants you) to evade the watchful eye of Slashdots parent corporation, VA Software. Mr. Maldas Commander is, of course, his penis: a small, withered little thing that lives in his pants and only comes out in the presence of other male geeks or at the beck and call of Maldas own lubed-up right hand. His Taco bells are the shriveled testicles that droop beneath his Commander, and his Taco sauce is his thin, runny semen. It should be more than obvious to you now what he means if he asked you to ring his Taco bells or taste his gourmet Taco sauce.

I would also guess CmdrTaco asked you to engage in a practice known as Taco-snotting and, if he was in a particularly depraved mood at the time, a circle-snot.

Good Lord. And, yes, he did. What is Taco-snotting?

Taco-snotting is the term used by Robert Malda to refer to the depraved act of fellating another man (homo- or heterosexual; CmdrTaco is rumoured to prefer raping unwilling victims), then blowing the semen out his nose and back onto the face and body of his victim. Naturally, a long, bubbly stream of milky-white semen is left on CmdrTacos face, dribbling out of his nose and down his cheek: hence the term, Taco-snotting.

And if thats not bad enough

A circle-snot is a Taco-snotting circle-jerk, another practice common among the Slashdot crew. CmdrTaco, CowboiKneel, and Homos get together and snot each other with their gooey, sticky cum spooging their jizz-snot all over each others faces and pasty, white bodies, until theyre covered head to toe with their own and each others man juice. This vile, ungodly ritual can go on for hours. For the homosexual penetration that follows this lengthy foreplay, Roblowme is usually there to provide plenty of anal lubricant; he owns a limousine service and has ample supplies of motor oil and axle grease ready to go.

To complete this perverted orgy, fellow faggots Michael, Timothy, and Jamie will usually join in, dressed in tight leather mock-S.S. uniforms, jack boots, and leather gloves. The homosexual shenanigans that follow are nearly beyond description. The whole group begins to snot each others spunk and whip each others pudgy asses with riding crops and chains until their pale, white geek bodies are exhausted and soaked in stinking sweat from the hours of passionate, homosexual revelry.

Ewwwwww. So, can I stop receiving these emails?

Hopefully, but I wouldnt count on it.

To begin with, you most likely forgot to uncheck the Willing to Snot checkbox in your account preferences. CmdrTaco has probably already got the hots for your wad (do you have a homosexual-sounding nick?), and hes probably already been lurking outside your bathroom window for weeks with a camera, some tissues and lube, just waiting to pounce and declare you his new bitch. Theres no escaping a geek in heat (trust me), so its probably too late for you, but you can possibly rectify this situation. To remove yourself from CmdrTacos sights, log into your Slashdot account, go to your user page, click on Messages, and uncheck the box next to Willing to Snot. Maybe hell ignore you. Probably not.

I cant stop receiving these emails from CmdrTaco!?

If you indulge him in a Taco-snot or two, he might leave you alone. You might also want to look into mail filtering, restraining orders, or purchasing a heavy, blunt object capable of warding off rampaging homosexual geeks in heat. Trust me, when they charge oh, the humanity. If he gets you, and you let him Taco-snot all over you, you will most likely end up tied up in his basement to be used as his sex slave for the rest of your life (or until he accidentally drowns you in spunk in a circle-snot).

Have you ever been Taco-snotted?

Unfortunately, yes. I first met Mr. Malda at an Open Source Convention. He invited me back to his room for a game of Quake and some gourmet Tacos, but when I got there, the perverted geek jumped me and handcuffed me to his bed, stripping me. After taking his Commander out of his pants, Mr. Taco made me suck the withered thing six times, virtually nonstop. He then performed his vile Taco-snotting ritual on me three times over the next two hours, bringing me to orgasm after orgasm after sweaty, mind-numbing orgasm then he snotted my own thick, gooey jizz back onto my face out of his nostrils! He snotted me two more times, first into my mouth, then again on my exposed belly.

CmdrTaco invited several of his Open Source (or rather, Open Sauce man sauce) buddies over to continue their ungodly snotfest. European hacker and known berfaggot Linux Torvalds raped my ass with his monolithic kernel; his partner-in-crime Anal Cox used their network stack in a multitude of unspeakable ways on and in every orifice of my defenseless, tender, young body. Michael Sims was there in his leather Nazi uniform, caning my previously-virginal ass with a bamboo pole and ranting about all those Censorware freaks out to get him.

That is so disgusting! How did you finally escape?

After about 16 hours of countless unholy, homosexual atrocities perpetrated against my restrained body, they all finally went to sleep on top of me, sweat-soaked and exhausted. I was left there, completely covered in bubbly, translucent jizz-snot, chained to the bed, with half a dozen fat, pasty-white fags lying around and on top of me. Fortunately the spooge coating my flesh worked wonderfully as a lubricant I was able to squirm my way out of the handcuffs and slip out the back door (of the apartment, not their back doors). Im just glad I survived the awful ordeal. These sexually-repressed hackers had a lot of built-up spunk in their wads I couldve easily been drowned!

Thats horrible. Does Taco-snotting have anything to do with CmdrTacos special taco?

No, thats a different disgusting perversion CmdrTaco indulges himself in. Mr. Malda is usually not satisfied with merely snotting your own jizz back onto your face, he most often enjoys involving his own bodily fluids in his twisted games. WeatherTroll has spent some time trying to educate the Slashdot readership about this vile practice (emphasis added):

You may be wondering what CmdrTacos special taco is. You will be wishing that you hadnt been wondering after you finish reading this post. To make his special taco, CmdrTaco takes a taco shell and shits on it. He then adds lettuce, takes out his tiny withered dick (otherwise known as his Commander), puts his special taco sauce on it which means he jacks off on the taco, and adds a compound to make the person who eats the taco unconscious. Of course, the compound does not make the person unconscious until the taco is fully eaten. Thus CmdrTaco force-feeds the taco to the unsuspecting victim. After all, who would knowingly eat shit and CmdrTacos jizz?

After the victim is unconscious, he is held against his will and used for CmdrTacos nefarious homosexual purposes. This includes shoving taco shells up the victims ass, Taco-snotting, and getting Jon Katz involved. Trust me, you do not want Jon Katz anywhere near your unconscious body. Also, rumor has it CmdrTaco is looking for a new goatse.cx guy. Dont let it be you!

Different ungodly perversion, yet no less revolting. It should be clear to you now that Robert CmdrTaco Malda is a very, very sick individual, as are most of the Slashdot editors.

Does Jon Katz get involved in any of this? I thought he was a pdophile, not a homosexual.

Actually, Jon Katz is a homosexual pdophile. Hes also a coprophiliac, and, many suspect, a zoophile.

Mr. Katz is somewhat of a loner and doesnt involve himself in the circle-snots, but that doest mean hes any less of a freak than the rest of the Slashdot crew. Katz often engages in a game called juicy-douching with a harem of little-boy slaves that he has collected over the years: yet another vile practice which involves administering an enema to himself of the little boys urine (forced out of them with a pair of pincers), spooging the vile muck from his ass back into the enema bag, then dribbling and slathering the goo all over himself and the boys chained, naked bodies. If hes in the mood, he will sometimes skip refilling the enema bag from his distended anus and just squirt it from his ass onto the crying, terrified boys. Unwilling boys are further tortured with the pincers until they comply and allow Mr. Katz to juicy-douche them at will. A boy will usually last about two years before Mr. Katz either accidentally drowns them in diarrhea or kills them once they get too old, usually around 13 or 14.

Not content with being a pdophilic coprophile, Mr. Katz is also quite the zoophile. As if the sexual escapades with the helpless little boys arent enough, Jon usually enjoys his juicy-douches best when his penis is firmly planted in a female goats anus. He is also rumoured to get off on watching his little boys eat the goats small, bean-like turds, and he often kills his older boys by letting his goats trample them.

Are you getting hard writing this?

Why, yes. :) Join me in a WIPO-snot?

No, thanks. Im already CmdrTacos boi toi.

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Because Salamander is a *user*. He may be a technically very sophisticated one, but he is a _user_. If he sees something he doesn't like, he'll gripe, not fix it. Not everyone hacks on their computers the moment they see something wrong with it -- they have real jobs.

Btw, why do you think someone like Dennis Ritchie (a person who you can't say is, uh, lacking in 1337 skillz :-)) uses an blend of Windows and Plan 9 as his daily work environment, rather than say Linux or another Unix clone?

Unix is old, remember, and there are a lot of heroes of the original Unix movement who see it simply as yesterday's news and wish to move on to better things. There was a quote by Bill Joy (can't find a link, think it was in Salon) where Joy talks about how antiquated the concepts behind Linux are, and how (braggadocio here) he could probably `rewrite the kernel' in an month or so, but he has better fish to fry.

I don't think he was being very accurate, but you get the image these guys have of Linux. And no, mere jealousy won't begin to explain this.

If someone can tell me how to make an acutal link I'd appreciate it.
You have to use html tags in your post, like so:
<a href="http://abcnews.go.com/sections/science/Daily News/mammoths000313.html">Text you want to be a link goes here</a>
For eg, your link would look like this.
Look under the submit & preview buttons for a list of what you can use.
HTH.

[A href=http://abcnews.go.com/sections/science/DailyN ews/m ammoths000313.html]If someone can tell me how to make an acutal link I'd appreciate it.[/A]

Replace "[" with less-than character and "]" with the greater-than character.

I would hope any american could wear a FUCK AMERICA tshirt every day of their lives and live free.

that is the entire point of america.

Peer-to-Peer Pioneer Dies in Accident

Gene Kan, a developer of music-swap site Gnutella, is dead at the age of 25.

I'm pretty sure I first saw the reference on /. but a search didn't help. Anyway, here's the source article on ABC News.

Here is an artical from Sci-Fi Storm that tells about her death. Movies.com has some information about Aaliyah's death. There is a biography on Aaliyah Dana Haughton here.

It's funny, but the site you link to for the article (old article) actually has a jabber server. You can find more about it here. While it might not blatantly say Jabber on the page anywhere, we are talking about protocols here right? So to just touch on the subject of penetration I would say Disney's GO (which includes ABC and ESPN) is a pretty big name supporting Jabber.

According to Peter Saint-Andre (member of the Jabber Software Foundation, who was at this year's IETF meeting), SIMPLE is about two years away from defining the protocols, let alone implementations, for a full-featured IM system. Jabber only recently had an RFC written (earlier this year), as the focus before that has been on implementations. The difference is obvious: people are using Jabber right now, while SIMPLE is basically all talk.

While you don't seem to personally care about widespread support, the endorsement of an open standard (which SIMPLE is) by such IM giants as AOL and Microsoft certainly seems to give it a certain amount of credibility.

SIMPLE has a client on every Windows XP box in the world, and will soon be joined by every AIM client in the world. What's Jabber's total penetration?

Quoting an article from ABC News: "AOL recently announced that it has begun testing a SIMPLE-compliant AIM"

The newest version of MSN messenger (the one that ships with Windows XP and can be downloaded for the other MS operating systems) also supports SIMPLE (although they use the obscure term "communications service" to signify it).

It looks to me like interoperablility -- even with the guys you predict will never be interoperable -- is on the way.

I realize that this is a sensational report, to say the least. However, it really scares me to see the ease with which most people will shrug-off environmental issues completely. Are natural resource and environmental concerns really secondary to military and economic considerations? I don't think so. What's a good economy going to do for us when we can't breath natural air? The public is very quick to accept reports which say, "Keep living the way you are. You don't need to change your lifestyle. Anyone who tells you otherwise is a radical tree-hugger!" (See this John Stossel report.)

I cannot understand how so many educated citizens can ingnore environmental issues, mock them, mock the people presenting them, or even actively fight against them with hopes of preserving The Economy. Yes, this specific report is over the top, but it raises a number of very valid issues (deforestation, extinction, etc.) which simply cannot be ignored. I know it's easy to change the subject (WWF jokes, anyone?), but one day these people may very well regret their overwhelming indifference.

How severe was the california engergy crisis?

The truth is that in 1998 there was a 1-in-40 year summer heat wave in california that caused a statewide load of over 60gigawatts at peak times. data: pdf page 4-6, ISO serves %75 of state.

Anybody remember rolling blackouts in summer of '98?

What causes a crisis is stuff like natural gas companies blowing up their own pipelines to create shortages, along with companies like enron with their trading games.

It's true that the News is also becoming comercialized. I've often heard the argument that if people want the news, they will watch from a channel that presents it for its newsworthiness, or that they will simply hop on the net. The problem is that you need money to be able to report the news in all its glory (or all its gorry as it has become recently). The stations that don't pander to advertisers or to the big Corporations (who want things about them kept quiet) will go under. The same thing goes for websites. Sure all the information is somewhere on the net, but how do you find it. Right now you can use Google News but will it always be as effective/free as it still a company trying to profit?? All the good sites eventually get a big enough following that they require money (e.g. /.) and they might either go down or become corrupted in some way (/. hasn't yet in my opinion but what would happen if all its advertisers demanded change?).
One program that I am going to miss is Bill Maher's Politically Incorrect. PI was cancelled because it offended advertisers, not because its ratings were down. Now, even if the technologically savy can find the news on the internet, the masses will not, and it is the masses that decide what goes on in the country come election time. They will be influenced by these big corporations controlling the mass media and in turn will screw the rest of us. It's hard to make an informed opinion if you can't find an informative cable tv/network station anymore.

Ok, maybe this is also sensationalizing, and if it doesn't get this bad I will be happy, but I could really see it happening. It's not going to be done on purpose by anyone, it will just migrate in that direction because of the economical forces (in a sort of evolutionary way).

What a surprise. Katz says nothing particularly original .

Slashdot posts trivial news about SSH while U.S. cities revolt against the U.S. Patriot Act.

For more breaking news, please see:

Cities Revolt Against U.S. Patriot Act

Thank you and have a nice day.

Looks like Slashdot isn't the only one covering this, so here's some mirrors in case anyone's interested:

Movie-List
Comingsoon.net
FilmHobbit.com
ZDNet
Movies.com

When you are cooking pizza in a microwave oven, it won't reach such great temperatures because pizza is not a very efficient absorber of enrgy, newer microwave ovens have sensors inside to prevent the microwave from getting that hot, and if you removed those sensors, by the time the pizza actually got that hot, it would be a nice balck colour. However, when something such as water ( a very efficient absorber of heat is used ) care must be taken to prevent something such as this [abcnews.go.com]. ( Water being superheated then flash boiling when something is placed in it )

According to ESPN, Nick and Sarah Arena named their new son Joe Louis Arena. A good way to guarantee Red Wings tickets.

False. Just a few weeks ago, a US CITIZEN was arrested and sent to a MILITARY DETAINMENT facility on charges of terrorism. He will be tried in military court, not by a jury of his peers as the constitution guarantees. Here's the story from abcnews.com. He has also been denied access to a lawyer.