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How can ANYONE that posts on Slashdot be saying that the kids should receive punishment for what they did? I've seen several ridiculous postings and I'll respond to a couple of the more asinine ones.

The password was widely known and easy, it's not the kids fault

Riiiighht. And If you leave your window open or door unlocked then everyone has the right to walk into your house and do whatever they feel like? Or maybe it's YOUR fault that you didn't put a strong enough lock on the door.

"I knew it was against school policy but I didn't know it was against the law."

Winkler reaffirmed the district's commitment to the program saying it has been "a learning experience."

Eh. We already knew all the story, anyway -- except for how Palpatine got his face all messed up. (If they can mention it (not how it happens) on the local talk radio station, I don't think it counts as a spoiler.)

By the way, was I the only one who was half-expecting Vader to rip off his helmet and yell "this helmet is chafing my eyebrows! I swear!"?

Are you Americans so fucking arrogant that you're just staring at your own belly button and don't give a shit about other people on this planet?

Someone called KFI AM 640 earlier saying they were going as an iPod. Forget which show it was.

As much as I liked him on TV, I like the radio show better... Without the time constraints of a half hour show he can go much deeper into topics.

The show is also available live Weekends at 3pm ET / Noon PT at KFI 640's website and of course over the air in the LA area. The downloadable version usually appears 2-3 days later depending on Leo's personal schedule, but when it does all newsbreaks, commericals, and traffic updates are removed.

Leo really knows his stuff. I think this is best demonstrated on his "Tech Guy" radio show on KFI in Los Angeles. He also has MP3s of the older shows available in the 'Show Notes' section of his Website. Highly recommended.

Most of the time, the show originates from an old barn renovated into a radio studio on his property but just outside of his house. An ISDN line is used to relay his voice back to the studio so he can hear his callers and get the screening data from the producers.

The show presently is only heard on KFI 640 in Los Angeles, but that station streams its content on its website. KFI is owned by Clear Channel, so there is a possiblity that the show may be distributed by the Premire Radio Networks if it catches on. Right now's a rating sweep month... so we'll know shortly how well he's doing.

That's Los Angeles, but they do stream (Realplayer, naturally.)

What they don't get is that, is that if the code was not posted publically, the public wouldn't know about the security holes, but it would have been known to the people at the Bush campaign who arranged for Bush to be elected this time.

Not sure why, but I submitted the exact same story only with more info this morning. Oh well :) The radio station that I listen to has been reporting all day about the problems with the Diebold machines. Entire polling places were shut down in San Diego county this morning due to technical problems.

A reporter for KFI named Eric Leonard has done a series of reports on the problems that California has been having with Diebold. Ranging from legislators and state employees working for both the State and Diebold at the same time (conflict of interest anyone?) to Diebold refusing to release the raw data from the machines claiming that it's proprietary technology. My guess is that they have GPLed or OSS code in there that they don't want anyone looking at.

I'm in favor of electronic voting, but this is rediculous, handing control of one of the most important aspects of our "democratic" process over to a company that runs Windows XP on ATMs!

Hopefully this will be a wakeup call for the powers that be that maybe OSS voting technology is not such a bad thing after all.

Not sure why, but I submitted the exact same story only with more info this morning. Oh well :) The radio station that I listen to has been reporting all day about the problems with the Diebold machines. Entire polling places were shut down in San Diego county this morning due to technical problems.

A reporter for KFI named Eric Leonard has done a series of reports on the problems that California has been having with Diebold. Ranging from legislators and state employees working for both the State and Diebold at the same time (conflict of interest anyone?) to Diebold refusing to release the raw data from the machines claiming that it's proprietary technology. My guess is that they have GPLed or OSS code in there that they don't want anyone looking at.

I'm in favor of electronic voting, but this is rediculous, handing control of one of the most important aspects of our "democratic" process over to a company that runs Windows XP on ATMs!

Hopefully this will be a wakeup call for the powers that be that maybe OSS voting technology is not such a bad thing after all.

Paypal link my ass, they have the federal government subsidising their FUD. Go here for real talk radio.

You keep mentioning "these people" and how they all deserve death for "cheering" others death... Do you, in retrospect, also deserve death for cheering their death? One has to be very careful not to become just what they are fighting agasint.

I think that you are missing one small but important point on this.
Intent.
There is a large gap between targeting a military complex and catching a few innocent people and directly targeting innocent people, who have no military value. While I will grant that the death of a non-military target civilian is sad, it is sometimes unavoidable in war.
And please don't give me that crap about how we shouldn't be fighting wars, and there are no reasons for wars, that is bullshit. Because there are those humans that will try and subjigate others around them, it sometimes becomes necessary to take up arms and defend your soverigenty/freedom. I will grant that this is often taken too far, and that many wars are fought for some pretty bad reasons, but war is a necessity at times. If you are truly that against war, might I suggest that you go back to living your life as a serf for the Queen of England, and allow royalty to have full control over your life. Not I, thank you very much, I feel a lot of gratitude to the men and women that fought and died in the American Revolution.
As for the death of non-military target civilians in a war, this should be avoided as much as possible. In case you missed it, the US military does a lot of work to this end. Its actually a side effect of good military tactics. First, there is the military intellegence, jokes about this being an oxymoron aside, consider the number of bombs that are dropped that do hit valid military targets, its a large number. The only ones that get press though are the ones that either miss, or were mis-directed. The people in MI are human, they screw up, but at least they are trying. Second, dropping bombs on non-miltary targets is a waste of ordanace, it costs money. Not to mention the obvious poilitical ramifications. If the US didn't care about minimizing civilian casualties it would have given up on expensive Laser/TV/IR guided bombs. We can mass produce 500lbs bombs, load up B-52's and carpet bomb a good sized country out of existance. But its not done.
Am I cheering the deaths of the people that our military kills? No, I think its sad that mothers are losing thier sons. However, I am cheering the destruction of the organizations that they are fighting for. If there was an efficent way to bring this all to an end, and not have to kill anyone, I would be all for it. But, I haven't seen one. War, while undesirable, is often the quickest means to peace. If you have a better solution, post it. Diplomacy isn't working. Not getting involved in the Middle East? A nice idea, afterall the Kurds are of no concern to us, better to let the different tribes in the Middle East kill each other off, and then we can deal with the winners. Along the same lines, we should never have gotten involved in the war in Europe. We should have stood by the sidelines waited for the dust to settle, and then started working out trade agreements with the Third Riech. Isolationism, that's the ticket, the US says, "screw the rest of the world, we're not getting involved."

Personally I'd like to know real reasons on why the USA is so hated by so many people across the globe, and don't tell me its becasue "they hate our freedom", its a wonder every time i see GWB say that with a straight face.

I agree that the "they hate our freedom" excues is BS. If you're interested KFI AM640 actually interviewed a top member of a British group that is celebrating the positive outcomes of the 9/11 attacks today. It really was rather enlightening. According to the person interviewed, its not the US, freedom or any other such ideal that is under attack, but instead its any system of law created by man, and not god given. They usually keep some of thier stuff online for a while, and the interview may be there. Listening to this guy was really interesting, he was well spoken, and polite, he wasn't a screaming idiot.

I think this whole issue is a Lot more complex than having a simple "kill them all" solution. If we are supposed to be the most advanced and cultured society in the history of the earth, i'm sure we can do better than that.

Why is it that everyone seems to have this "Star Trek" view of what an 'advanced' society should be? Sometimes the old way of doing things is still the best. I would like to have a better solution than "kill them all", and I think there might be one, but I'm not for standing by and getting beaten up while trying to figure it out. Go back to the 80's the US was being attacked relentlessly by terrorists under Kadafi. It was decided that enough was enough and a couple of strike aircraft went to visit Kadafi's home. Shortly after that the attacks on US soil abated. It was brutal, but it stopped the attacks in a very short time span.

War has its place, and no amount of whining that we should be an 'advanced', ala "Star Trek", society is going to change that. If you aren't willing to fight for your rights, then you deserve to be a slave. I agree that a non-violent solution would be wonderful, but I haven't seen someone put one forward yet that has a snowball's chance in hell of succeding. If you can prove me wrong, please do so. I don't like violence, but I do feel that when it comes time to use it, it should be as efficent as possible. The only deterent I have ever seen to a war is a strong show of force. Both the US and the USSR won in the cold war, neither side suffered the massive destruction that nuclear weapons promised. And that was because both sides knew that the other side was too well armed to attack. So for now, the only thing I can see that has a possibility of stopping the terrorist attacks on the US is to make it obvious that attacking the US is just going to get you killed. Especially the leaders and planners of the attacks. They are the ones that need to be killed. Most of the people that carry out the suicide attacks do not have the means to plan, and execute them on thier own, they have to rely on the people that sit in the background and send them to thier deaths.
Yes, I am all for targeted assassinations of terrorist leaders. In the end its a very percise way of dealing with a military threat. Will it occasionally get the wrong person? Yes, that is a fact of war, it sucks, but its part of this whole war thing. But, it still beats the hell out of an all out war, it comes down to numbers at that point. In an all out war you are going to have pretty high non-military civilian casualties, in a bungled assassination, you will have only a handful.

Any good hacker knows the way into secure systems is through the weakest link: humans.

So, of course the US Gov't spent the past 10+ years evisserating the hum-int in favor of carnivore-type el-int. No wonder we didn't have a clue.

Sorry to post fast without reading a lot, but if it hasn't been mentioned yet, Greenpeace was apparently going around grocery stores in San Diego putting labels on foods that were using genetically altered soy and corn. A representative was grilled on a stupid talk show (okay, I was listening, but it was hard), and her points included the fact that genetically-engineered plants may mean MORE pesticides in some instances if you consider that some farmers are palavering over so-called 'RoundUp-Ready' crops that are engineered to survive severe applications of herbicide so that farmers can hose the land with green death and only the soy plants will remain. So there is that issue.

The thing that chafes my hide is that our government claims to be a free-market advocate, but tilts the playing field by not allowing consumers the choice between GE and non-GE food through proper labeling. For that matter, think if you were faced with a decision to buy meat from cannibal cows or meat from grain-only cows. NOW how much would you pay? I'd pay $10/lb for grain-only beef. My point is that proper labeling IS in the interests of a free market. Especially when you consider that 93% of all consumers (quoth the Greenpeacer on the show) prefer labelling of GE products, and 57% would not buy GE food if they could avoid it. In as much as the jury is still out on whether or not there are allergens associated with GE products, I think it would be prudent of our government to submit to the will of the people in this instance and require labelling.

I still prefer to get my milk at Trader Joe's where they proudly proclaim it to be rBST-free! That is the free market folks! Create an industry that is centered around providing healthier food by requiring the manipulators of food to 'fess up!

Gotta fly...

"TODAY'S POLL
Microsoft Monopoly
A federal judge may have come down hard on Microsoft as an abusive monopoly, but the American public seems to be on the company's side. Two-thirds of people surveyed for a new Gallup poll see the software giant in a favorable light; more than half don't want the company broken up.

Break it up 24%
Leave it alone 76%"

Go help even this obviously weighted poll at http://www.kfi640.com/

is I'm glad I have my "Y2K Bug Spray"! It's made from 99.746% "Concentrate of Y2KBS".

A local radio host out here in LA had a "guest" selling Y2K compatible jumper cables and gas additives which would help your car start on Jan 1, 2000... One of the funniest I've ever heard.