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Really? I must not have heard about this one.

http://www.zdnet.com/anchordesk/story/story_3065.h tml

http://abcnews.go.com/sections/tech/DailyNews/msdo j_mjm990204.html

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/ch ronicle/archive/1999/02/17/MN10585.DTL&type=tech_a rticle

There are many other articles archived on the net, from virtually all credible newspapers. These are just the first few that turned up in a quick search.

It just doesn't get much more factual than that. Microsoft presented a videotape that they claimed was a demonstration showing Windows 98 performing very badly when IE was removed. It turned out that the tape was a fake. Microsoft admitted false evidence, under oath. They lied and were caught. It's amazing anyone could take "trustworthy computing" seriously, coming from the likes of MS.

I wonder if Elvis Presley's estate has anything to do with the wide popularity of The King's remix overseas?

Hmm, maybe it's just Disney's repopularization of his music through "Lilo and Stitch".

Either way - Disney or payola - it's downright evil...

All your music are belong to us!

I think you are confusing gnome abuse with dwarf tossing ABC news story or paper in legal journal.. Gnome abuse doesn't seem to be considered a crime in most jurisdictions, although it has motivated the formation of a bleeding heart "liberation front" type organization. When it comes to gnomes, let you conscience be your guide.

It's good to know this tablet can measure pressure -- but it would be nice if touch screens recognized multiple SIMULTANEOUS points of contact. All the touchscreens I've 'touched' only function as a type of mouse (i.e. use a single contact point to define single pointer location). If screens could measure touch points across the entire screen simultaneously, they could be used to select text quickly (think of a 'pick' action), recognize gestures ('twisting' an on-screen knob), or even recognize the *shape* of your hand (the coolest yet most insecure biometric authentication ever! :-). Seriously though, the age of the mouse seems to passing and touch screens should provide more than just a single 'mouse-point' reading.

PS: From what I gather, resistive touch screens look more promising than capacitive ones... This page explains why

The Oz mint makes polymer currency, complete with a hologram encrusted window, for Australia, Thailand, Papua New Guinea, Sri Lanka, Malaysia, Singapore, Brunei, Indonesia, Kuwait, Western Samoa, New Zealand and Romania.

The polymer sheeting is made from in a huge complex where balloons with about the same volume as a WWII aircraft carrier, or something, are blown out from melted polymer in a huge complex. I read a good article on the process in the Sydney Morning Herald's Good Weekend section about a year ago.

Here's some links

Oz Dept of Foriegn Affairs 'n Trade

Note Printing Australia

ABC News (the US ABC that is)

Another ABC page

Oz Reserve Bank currency page

Securency PTY LTD

Currency 'how are they made?' page

RBA Polymer page

The Oz mint makes polymer currency, complete with a hologram encrusted window, for Australia, Thailand, Papua New Guinea, Sri Lanka, Malaysia, Singapore, Brunei, Indonesia, Kuwait, Western Samoa, New Zealand and Romania.

The polymer sheeting is made from in a huge complex where balloons with about the same volume as a WWII aircraft carrier, or something, are blown out from melted polymer in a huge complex. I read a good article on the process in the Sydney Morning Herald's Good Weekend section about a year ago.

Here's some links

Oz Dept of Foriegn Affairs 'n Trade

Note Printing Australia

ABC News (the US ABC that is)

Another ABC page

Oz Reserve Bank currency page

Securency PTY LTD

Currency 'how are they made?' page

RBA Polymer page

The asbestos lawsuits have caused me personal harm. Peter Angelos made millions from the asbestos cases, which enabled him to buy the Baltimore Orioles. Because he thinks it might cause him to lose a couple of bucks, he is the sole reason the Expos haven't been allowed to move to my hometown.

apparently we were the first country to use polymer notes...

two good links are here and here

and this shows all our polymer notes

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The Tux is such a cute friendly creature/character, I would really like to see a Disney cartoon series based on that.

That's a much better idea than their movie about a bootloader. They could have at least made it Lilo and Tux (though I'm partial to Lilo and Grub).

I'm sure I am right with the majority of slashdot readers when I say that I was majorly psyched to read this. "Linux takes another company, victory is ours!" But I've since reconsidered, and though I'll probably get modded down for speaking my mind, here she goes.

Disney, as I'm sure you're all aware, has demonstrated time and again that it is against freedom. The very values that we in the Open Source community hold dear are trampled upon by the corporate suits at Disney and their pet politicians.

Disney is a company built on copyright law. Without copyright they would not exist. And one of their recent trademarks? That's right: Lilo. Linux afficionados such as myself don't need to be told that there is a much different Lilo that exists in the computer world.

If Disney decides to enforce their trademark rights here, we Linux users will be in serious trouble. Lilo is essential for booting into Linux, so there would be essentially no way to recover from such a thing.

I urge you all to petition Disney and get them to leave Linux to the hackers who care about its future.

Actually Lucas does own the trademark to the word "light saber". So you're right in that Parks never calls it this for that exact reason.

are you kidding? this issue will be on the back burner when congress has more important issues, like the merits of National Pretzel Day, to discuss.

ABC news describes this being done in the Maryland/Virginia area back in December 1999:

Under a $750,000 contract, U.S. Wireless Corp. of San Ramon, Calif. will install computer equipment on cellular towers that will monitor the location of cell phone users as they drive on a 15-mile stretch of the Capital beltway south of Washington. Cell phone use will be monitored between U.S. 5 in Maryland and the interchange of Interstates 95, 495 and 395 in Springfield, Va.

[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 pædophile 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 überfaggot 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 pædophile, not a homosexual.

Actually, Jon Katz is a homosexual pædophile. 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 pædophilic 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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[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 pædophile 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&#x201D; 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 überfaggot 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 pædophile, not a homosexual.

Actually, Jon Katz is a homosexual pædophile. 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 pædophilic 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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Almost already being done. Check out this family that decided to have chip implants put into everyone. Sure, it may only contain certain medical data and whatnot currently, but how much would you be betting to wager that when one of the kids becomes lost, the designers don't inform the parents of the "hidden tracking feature"?

We have everyone means to do the exact same thing with humans as we are doing with animals, and with quite an amount of ease. The only barrier is on the enforcement end of things, trying to get people to take the implants (if they haven't gassed us all and given us them anyhow, lol) and keep them without hassle (i.e. tearing at your own skin :\).

As for "deathplane"...I'm not even sure I should touch that one. I'll just say that deathplanes like it are the very reason east coasters aren't speaking German and west coasters Japanese.

The V-22 Osprey is a deathplane not because it is useful for killing foes, but rather because it tends to kill the pilot instead. The only way this piece of garbage would have helped in WWII is if it by accident crash landed on top of german or japanese soldiers.

A lot of folks believe IBM provided Nazi Germany with electronic cataloging support which allowed for the Unpopular to be shipped-off to death camps:

• Probing IBM's Nazi Connection
• How IBM Helped Automate the Nazi Death Machine in Poland
• IBM Warns Against Nazi Book

Since its publication in February, Edwin Black's book "IBM and the Holocaust: The Strategic Alliance Between Nazi Germany and America's Most Powerful Corporation" has stirred unprecedented controversy among students of the Holocaust, American enterprise and information technology.

Of course, an informed person might not believe every little thing they read. ;)

The Supreme Court overturns today's CIPA ruling, so people can no longer go to the library to see this photo of a young woman, shirtless, on a soccer field. It was deemed pr0nographic by the government censors^H^H^H^H^H^H^H officials.

The unabomber Ted Kaczinsky was not Christian or religious of any persuasion. That is extremely clear if you read his manifesto.

And Oklahoma City man Timothy McVeigh? His dying words were quoting Invictus by William Ernest Henley "I am the master of my fate: I am the captain of my soul. " Such sentiments are about as far from Christianity as one could get.

White Americans, yes. White Christian Americans? Try again.

--LP

P.S. Heck, quit talking about the small fry. Stalin (atheist), Hitler (darwinistic atheist/pagan tendencies later on/christian veneer early on) and Mao (atheist) weren't Christian either. Be skeptical of anyone claiming clean hands (including Christians) but lets keep things in perspective here.

Heh I wonder if that bird that got hit by a baseball pitch is considered a 'sports injury'.

punk rock has fucking died.

move along. nothing to see.

The breakthrough here is that PCR confirmed that there was very little damage to the ethanol preserved specimen. The next step is that they are planning on using PCR amplified DNA to "rebuild" the genome of the Tasmanian Tiger. To my knowledge, all other cloning involves injecting cell nuclei into oocytes (eggs). This has the advantage of preserving genes in the proper context. This is probably not possible with the preserved specimens.

Trying to re-build the entire Tasmanian Tiger genome, essentially from scratch, to produce artificial chromosomes is a huge undertaking - by the researcher's estimates, this could take 10-15 years.

We're agreed that the middle class gets screwed, but the rich get screwed harder. Problem is (see here) that in fact, while the rich receive 19% of all income, they pay 55% of all income tax.

Only one problem with that analogy, though: we already do that. As this article documents, the top 1% of earners in the US receive 19% of the income, but pay 55% of all taxes.

Doesn't make as good a story, I know, but that's how it is...

Actually, it's not just a few religous fanatics. In general, the US population is divided almost in half. Polls about cloning for the purpose of stem cell research or other medical uses appears to be at about 60% pro.

Click here for a poll

Personally, I'm for cloning for the purpose of biological enhancement. I couldn't care less about curing diseases. Come on, it's not like humans are an endangered species! On the other hand, as a fellow human being I believe that if we're going to look into disease related stuff, lets focus on being prepared for a virus that could wipe us off the face of Earth.

Without religion, we would progress so much faster. That would be a great thing. But without religion, a lot of evil would emerge from people that have no other reason to hold morals. I wish there were a way to know for sure what would happen under all these hypothetical scenarios. *sigh*

You are in error. The only reason you believe that the only casualties for these two conflicts were friendly fire is because:

1. You're a moron.
2. The media gives greater coverage to friendly fire incidents.

Actually, friendly fire accounted for a large percentage (but by no means all) of the battle casualties during the Gulf War. The Allies lost many more than those 9 British soldiers that were mistakenly bombed. However, there were actually more non-battle deaths in the Gulf War than battle deaths. Furthermore, the U.S. military suffered more casualties outside the Persian Gulf than in it during the Gulf War (training accidents, etc) [DIOR Casualty Statistics]. Bet you never would have thought that more people died as a result of normal activities than battle. That's because non-battle casualties don't get the coverage and attention of battle casualties.

In Afghanistan friendly fire again seems to be to blame (finally figures are not yet available) for a large percentage of casualties.

Friendly fire accidents are horrible and they do need to be addressed (they are). I think we're seeing a general increase in the number of friendly fire deaths (percentage-wise) because we've gotten so much better at killing than our enemies. We've drastically reduced the casualty figures in recent conflicts. I've no doubts that our government is working to reduce casualties even further. And you can bet that they are giving friendly-fire and the bad coverage it gives them more than it's fair share of attention.

• American casualties in Afghanistan
• First British casualties in Afghanistan
• Canadian casualties in Afghanistan

Will the X-45 have an impact on casualties? Who knows ... it has yet to be tested.

Not when it's OUR brand of violence!
(which is now considered ART, BTW)

I wonder how many parents will complain about these games...
I mean killing drug dealers is ok by parents,
and killing terrorists is even better.

But if you were to say, kill a cop,
or fly a plane near a building...that's a whole different story!

Something tells me parents will not "Boo!" when these games start coming free
in cereal boxes and their kids start collecting military trading cards and wearing camo to school...

I wonder what the rating will be...
"Mom? When do you think I can get some trigger time with some real warm bodies?
Not 'till you're 18, son!"

For those interested...

DOMESTIC GROSS/ADJUSTED GROSS
Star Wars $460,987,469/$797,975,786
The Empire Strikes Back $290,158,751/$431,710,050
Star Wars: Episode I $431,065,444/$431,065,444
Return of the Jedi $309,125,409/$413,782,013
movies.com

Well, movies.go.com has done just that. The frame is here or you can start here and click through "All Time Leaders" and the "Inflation-adjusted list" link.

There are only 3 movies from the last 20 years in the top 15 spots, and TPM is #15. The rest are mostly classics.

Cheers, Noah

Well, movies.go.com has done just that. The frame is here or you can start here and click through "All Time Leaders" and the "Inflation-adjusted list" link.

There are only 3 movies from the last 20 years in the top 15 spots, and TPM is #15. The rest are mostly classics.

Cheers, Noah

Well, movies.go.com has done just that. The frame is here or you can start here and click through "All Time Leaders" and the "Inflation-adjusted list" link.

There are only 3 movies from the last 20 years in the top 15 spots, and TPM is #15. The rest are mostly classics.

Cheers, Noah

Hi Ray,

I think Ebert can say it better than I can:

"I have seen the future of the cinema, and it is not digital. How can this be? How can a technology that is a century old possibly be preferable to new digital gizmos? This is a story of the limitations of video projection, and the hidden resources of light-through-celluloid. Please read carefully. The future of traditional cinema is at stake."

And from ABC News:

"Noted film critic Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times has been one of the most vocal opponents to the new technology. At a recent industry trade show, Ebert implored theater owners not to ditch film for digital files since he believes digital projection has yet to match the best that film can do.

'In my opinion, digital does not look as good as film,' says Ebert. 'I am amazed at how oblivious most moviegoers are to picture and sound quality.'"

Ebert's no technophobe, and he appreciates digital technology in filmmaking. Just not on the projection end.

But in 1993, a Supreme Court decision required judges to take a more active role in deciding what scientific evidence to admit. In the case of fingerprints, the so-called "Daubert" guidelines would lead to questions such as: Has the practice of fingerprint identification been adequately tested? What's the error rate? Are there standards and controls?

So maybe this isn't directly aplicable to blackmail activities, but the courts have held that any information percieved emanating from a house is inadmissiable if it requires the aid of a machine to detect. IE, if a human or dog police officer smells drugs wafting out of your house, thats admissable in court.

If an officer points and infrared camera at your house and detects large quantities of heat coming from your attic, in such a manner that suggests you've growing weed there, and starts an investigation- well, that crosses the line into unreasonable search.

I also have to worry about the way the article mentioned that using antibacterial products reduced the amount of bacteria dramatically. People will think they need to run out and buy all sorts of antibacterial soaps and other products they don't need. Even though scientists are now starting to think that the overuse of antibacterial soaps can actually breed super bugs.

• Murder of Barnett Slepian
• Protesting Matthew Shepherd's Funeral

So just that we all understand you, according to your logic, if you don't agree with Israel, if we criticize its politics or head of state, we are anti-semitic? And if you happen to be jewish and criticize Israel or Sharon (like Chomsky), you are a "self-hating jew" (even rabbis)? So no debate is possible, right? Boy, you're quite the reactionary! Putting David Duke, Farrakhan and Chomsky in the same boat...

Anyway, that has nothing to do with the current debate. First, Chomsky earns a living as a linguistics professor. Even though some of his theories have been questioned, there is no doubt that he remains one of the most influential person in the field. Second, about his political activism sideline (which has quite a following, notwithstanding your uneducated appraisal): I guess you've read some of his writing in order to talk about him with such assurance. Could you please give us an example (with links) of his anti-semitism (his words, mind you, not what some have said about him). You can find a lot of his writing online here. You can also show us an example of his hate for Western Culture, his racism and his "narrow-minded, hate-based dialogue." You should have no trouble identifying the latter if you find it, seeing as how you so aptly use it yourself.

BTW, Sharon was judged to be inderectly responsible for the massacre at Sabra and Shatila by his own government...so, if you're criticizing this, I guess this makes you an anti-semite too! Boy, this is fun!

Quote: "(for the LAST TIME idiots, we don't want to take away your guns, we just want to keep them out of the hands of kids!)"

I am not quite sure what you intended by that statement but the only person looking like an idiot is you. Facts to prove this:

1.) Columbine shooters also had pipe bombs. Huh, last time I checked those are totally illegal.

2.) Columbine shooter had a "sawed off" shotgun on his dresser. Parents saw and did nothing. Huh, last time I checked "sawed off" shotguns were totally illegal. So is a child owning a gun you did not give him/her.

3.) Calling the gun lobby stupid/idiots because there are some wackos is a Hasty Generalization.

4.) Charlton Heston Quote: "When gunmakers are responsible for criminal acts and no-one is responsible for OJ Simpson's acts, something is wrong"

I am not even an NRA member or and active gun "shooter".

This bill isn't doing anything that isn't already in place for minors.

You fail to see the irony in your argument. You argue that it is NOT the video games fault, but then argue that it IS the guns fault. Evil happens in this world EVERYDAY. If all the guns were magically gone tomorrow people would still be killing each other.

I admit that a gun can do far more damage than a knife/club/etc... But can it do more damage then pipe bombs with shapnel in them??? BOMBS are totally illegal but they were still present at the scene. (And are currently being spread around the US. link)

It all comes down to human responsibility. Both you and the congressmen/women miss that.

Did this story remind anyone of the 60s TV series "Emergency!" [halpin.com]?

Fireman John Gage wanted to invent a "Foam Grenade" to throw into fires for the firemans invention contest at one point. He also wanted to invent suction cup boots to walk up walls though, but I'm sure the series writers are grinning at this news.

All he had to do was wait for the GEKKO pads to be invented (also covered in a previous SLASHDOT issue).
http://abcnews.go.com/sections/scitech/DailyNews/g ekkomat010518.html

Now if they managed to emulate a REAL Gecko that would damn neat.
http://beyond2000.com/news_archive/story_656.html

[from the article]
"In fact, the adhesive is so strong that a single seta can lift the weight of an ant. A million setae, which could easily fit onto the area of a dime, could lift a 20-kilo child. Our discovery explains why the gecko can support its entire body weight with only a single finger."

Not that i'm accusing the parent of plagarism (of an idea anway, and a funny one at that), but this seems to be really similar to a mailbag entry in a recent ESPN.com article ( Link Here ).

"Q: Soon, David Lee Roth will be seen singing Van Halen stuff ... a new "Star Wars" movie is out next month ... the Celtics are winning playoff games on the parquet floor ... Jason Voorhees is back in theaters this Friday ... and by God, Hulk Hogan is the heavyweight champion of the world. Are we back in 1984 and nobody told me?
-- Matty, Boston

SG: I keep waiting to turn on the 2002 World Karate Championships on ESPN2 just in time to see Daniel LaRusso limping towards the center of the ring as the announcer screams, 'He's gonna fight! Daniel LaRusso is gonna fight!'"

Don't know why i'm bringing this up. Guess it's too late and i'm really bored.

Actually, sea pirates currently operating are at least as bad as they were in the past: robbing and murdering without mercy. Last December, pirates killed a famous blue water competition sailer who anchored somewhere too close to pirates with an eye on his equipment and engine. Another story about that incident here

Actually, sea pirates currently operating are at least as bad as they were in the past: robbing and murdering without mercy. Last December, pirates killed a famous blue water competition sailer who anchored somewhere too close to pirates with an eye on his equipment and engine. Another story about that incident here

A related article on using fingerprint technology to protect sensitive information can be found here. Worth a read... discusses low-cost biometric authenticators... testing notes and info.

You're kidding, right? Mark Cuban has always been a diehard basketball fan, and his actions while running the Dallas Mavericks have led to over $500,000 in fines from the NBA. Recently, he said that he wouldn't hire a certain referee "to run a Dairy Queen", much less officiate basketball; to save face, Cuban managed a Dairy Queen to appreciate how difficult the job is.

Bill Gates simply wouldn't go the Mark Cuban route if he ever ended up owning a sports team.

[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 pædophile 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 überfaggot 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 pædophile, not a homosexual.

Actually, Jon Katz is a homosexual pædophile. 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 pædophilic 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.

<B>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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I am not quite sure how this squares with the story about PS2 games being used to teach children how to read. Why would the material used in schools not be Free-Speech? It might be simplistic and naive but content none the less. Maybe we can get the NASA SciFi guy from yesterday to propose a 1% tax on books to educate judges.

If you are cherokee can you say "Dawes Act"? Your people are due millions, possibly a billion plus and there are legal battles going on right now over this.

Native Americans were suppose to be receiving royalties for land for many years and did not receive a dime. And it all relates back to what happend 500 years ago.

Don't beleive me? Check out this page and see on the lower right side of the page where a caption says "LONG OVERDUE? Will Uncle Sam pay billions to Native Americans", you can see the video for yourself.

Seems that the government would have loved for you to get over this ;o) .

IT'S A T.V. SHOW! ... get a grip ...

Sure chrisd messed up ... our lives WILL go on ... trust me. I've stopped watching it ever since Alias came on ... now that's a cool show. (plus Jennifer is pretty hot)