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He should get some credit. At least that is what these two "bozos" say.

Besides, only Gore understands the Internets are a series of highways. Not tubes, buy highways. You put your information on the dump truck where it is carried to its destination.

Dammit, it's because a US Senator already coined the phrase Information Superhighway to describe the world-wide packet switching network he invented. He created the term when he was Vice-President, but he actually invented the damn thing back in the Senate.

It's a highway. You put your stuff in the dump trucks, you hear me Senator Stevens! The dump trucks take your information along the superhighway and that is how it works.

Pipes, tubes, dump trucks; it's a god damn highway.

Don't mess with Terri, she's Real Ultimate Power!!!

You better get a life right now!

the fact remains that Diebold has shown themselves to be capable of making reasonably secure ATM machines.

That run Windows?

BTW, why do I have to post this every freaking time Diebold comes up on slashdot? Well maybe this will brighten your day: Diebold posters, and my favorite

Little Boy Blue, come, blow your horn!
The sheep's in the mountain the Lord is a vapour of the tree for the strangers to
take the book that thou hatest the deeds of the wicked shall decay, and the noise of chariots and horsemen, through the pillar of fire; that he had opened the sixth curtain in the gate, and there are innumerable before him and he heard the voice of a person, if he see that he died of itself, or any peacock gay, So, dearest Jen, if you'll be mine, let us find occasion of word against him?

For who among men is not of divers colours

The saints glorify God for his fiddlers three.

FOR WANT OF A FEATHER-Birds of a man seduce a virgin

The childish shall possess them

Fatness hath covered his face, and shalt let down thy milk

And when it was well lubricated. This procedure
wasn't really necessary, but who is the cause which I have sinned, and thou shalt
fill it

And if all the heavens, or who gave the cock
understanding?
 

Veggie Tales? or did you mean The Passion of The Christ?

Use it or don't use it.

Al Gore would be rolling in his grave if he heard this kind of talk!

We developed the Internet for speech and no country without our level of speech should control a major portion of its operations. The problem is that if we don't start rolling out Internet2 then we don't have leg to stand on when it comes to solutions.

The thing is, other countries *have* built their own networks. Or did you think the US was running around the world installing fiber and cable for everyone??

Insightful?

I'm talking about what Bush would call: The Global TCP/IP Network, the Internet. Developed by DARPA as DARPANET, and so the story goes. The great thing about networking in general is that now the lines are laid they can just run both or either or even layer theirs into ours.

Yes, I said "ours".

Al Gore would be rolling in his grave!

The cable is theirs but the "Internet" belongs to everyone given to them by the United States Department of Defense more or less. All of the technologies and so forth belong to the DoD, but America is the country that has made it all possible. Many people wrote about the same idea but the American tax payer made it all possible. (See: Al Gore)

Where am I wrong?

You mentioned: "the war on free speech, expression and personal liberties". That is exactly the thing that this "Global War On Islamic-Fundamentalist-Extremists; using Terror as a Tactic and Other Terror Tactic using Groups, Excluding Christian-Fundamentalist-Extremist Groups in America and Abroad, and the People Who Harbor Said Fundamentalist-Extremeists using Terror Tactics" (G.W.O.I.F.E.T.T.O.T.T.G.E.C.F.E.G.A.A.P.W.H.S.F.E .) was started over. It's just a sham to take away more rights.

Then we welcome back the terrorism. It is the last resort of the enslaved and other men without liberty!

Like how the CVS Double-free flaw was discovered a year after it was patched?

Well if that is your outlook:

http://www.swingstateproject.com/2005/08/katrina_p roves.php

and shameful self promotion:

http://www.mintruth.com/blog/index.php?p=315

I think there is totally a case to be made that FEMA, once the worst agency in the federal government, and then corrected to be one of the best, had no plan, did nothing and continues to be a wedge between real humanitarian outreach and people who need it. Regardless of the local response the Congress and the President failed to fund projects that could have prevented or mitigated the disaster we now see. If the American government can't afford a feat of that size then I question our decision to go to war. Which, the National Guard was sent, by the Pentagon, to Iraq with their equipment. There is no doubt in my mind that if the state had those troops they could quell the violence and bring people out by the truckloads.

If the levees were funded we wouldn't even be this interested. The general American public would donate, but not on the scale that people are giving today. Now Halliburton defaults to running the rebuilding project because of the Superfund that got them into Iraq. I say that these new levees and public works projects should be built by temporary corporations formed for and disbanded after the project. That is how we built things in the past, and we no doubt have the people willing and some out of work.

This devestation has a great opportunity for the American people to come together now and rebuild all of the areas affected. I say give to Habitat for Humanity before you give to the Red Cross. Employ people who aren't already, from all over the country, and teach them those skills. Everyone in every industry could get down there and do work, and possibly build a city that is ahead of it's time (of course without changing their nature).

The federal government needs to respond by putting the rebuilding effort on a volunteer for pay basis. Organize the entire effort and get people on the ground. Even the efforts to pump the water, get people who have idle time to work. It's a great economic booster. It would go down in history, Bush should sign on. His name will be on the History Channel in 30 years for two reasons.

Hey thanks for that input, and I'm glad to hear that you're a Republican/Conservative. How's that working out for you?

But let me say that repeating everything Michelle Malkin says isn't exactly "original" commentary.

Really, if you want to place blame - there is enough to go around. But let's be honest: FEMA failed in doing its job. The National Guard was stationed in the wrong country. The president took his time, doing fundraisers the day after impact. New Orleans and Louisiana are led by Democrats.

Let me guess, you'll say Rudy Giuliani should run fro president or that he was "so great" or the "hero" of 9/11? Bull shit - he's a fucking asshole who make money off of all of this "preparedness" that we talk so much about. In fact, people like Rudy is exactly the reason that we weren't ready for this disaster. He makes so much noise about terrorism, and has drained everyone's budgets dry with these cries about the sky falling. Really, he just wants to make some money from these ventures.

He's a fucking cock sucker you hear me?

They could have at least gotten out the people who weren't capable of walking to St. John or St. Charles Parish

Of course, you must know by now that the Parishes weren't letting people past the county line. Yes, this was after the impact, but they turned them back because they were "looters."

http://www.mintruth.com/blog/index.php?p=323

or even:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WilliamRehnquist

But you're right - it depends on where you sit on the fence. I certainly don't feel like he was one of the greatest, not by far.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Markov_chain

Used this (easy to compile) C program:

http://www.eblong.com/zarf/markov/

to create these:

http://www.mintruth.com/mirror/texts/

Mod points to whomever can tell us what texts they use. (No mod points can actually be given)

You are right, the country with almost the most mentally ill people per capita is Afghanistan who has seen war for 25 years straight now.

PTSD is serious and often manifests itself like this.

Anything that can help save innocent citizens is good in my book.

Ah, someone who knows his Soylent!

Too bad the Soylent corporation started out making Green from (phyto/zoo)plankton, then moved to Menhaden (macrozooplankton) and ended with PEOPLE!

Damn dirty corporations!

TFA means REAL ULTIMATE POWER status right?

You are right, they applaud Gore's efforts (as all here should):

e-mail from Vint Cerf (vcerf@MCI.NET) and Robert Kahn, September 28, 2000

Wal-Mart dumps a bunch of DVD movies into a bin and sells them for about $4 a piece. You need to dig but you do find some gems in there if you look.

Worth it when you find 4 Gary Cooper movies (2 Disc set) for $4 and Return of the Pink Panther for another $4. I guess it all depends on your taste, but there is stuff in there for everyone (Airheads, Freddy Got Fingered, Road to Bali, The Man with Two Brains, etc).

Wal-Mart dumps a bunch of DVD movies into a bin and sells them for about $4 a piece. You need to dig but you do find some gems in there if you look.

Worth it when you find 4 Gary Cooper movies (2 Disc set) for $4 and Return of the Pink Panther for another $4. I guess it all depends on your taste, but there is stuff in there for everyone (Airheads, Freddy Got Fingered, Road to Bali, The Man with Two Brains, etc).

Obligatory

Tried looking around Iraq for WMD's; this is what Google tells me:

We could not understand the location "weapons of mass destruction" near Iraq

funny because it understands Cocksuckers near NYC just fine... but I understand because "Canada" puts you in England (Hampshire).

We aren't talking about bringing back 110 year old people from near death. A lot of children are running around with defective hearts and middle-aged people running around that had poor health education in their younger years. Of course, letting people with "defective" organs die and not reproduce is another argument/fight altogether.

You are right - if you only have one option: DEATH - then you should be able to take any chance at avoiding death you want. I mean, heart surgery is pretty common today. When I hear of a relative or friend getting a bypass I think "good for them, it will make them better". I know there is pain involved, but I would thank my stars that we found I needed one before I died (rather than go without it).

The only way to develop the technology is to deploy it on those "lost causes". (Not against their will - I'm not a Nazi!).

Of course these kinds of cases are more important to the powers at be. Culture of life my ass!

I have cobuyitaphobia you insensitive clod!

What you are talking about is tipping the scales of balance between the Congress and the President. I for one like the Constitution and don't want to go about changing it - at least not for something that "extreme".

But I suppose making things more efficient and effective isn't The American Way (TM).

Efficiency is the tool of tyranny. The wheels of a free governement are supposed to move slowly. If things moved faster, anything can be taken away *that fast*. Now, it isn't that I don't agree that these tactics are a little underhanded, but it is the way things work. No matter, if Senators/Congress-people did The Right Thing(tm) we wouldn't need to worry. Everytime people feel threatened they want to change the rules of the game. If that happened everytime someone cried foul, we'd be living in a state governed by the Baptist or Methodist church (you know, with that "mandate" and all.)

I say the simple solution is to get a law degree and run for office. I say get the law degree so that you know how things work. After that, go to Washington Mr. Smith. There are plenty of people out there smart enough to run for office, even a few people here on Slashdot could do it.

Riders/allonges aren't going to be stopped, and sometimes they are needed, sometimes the consensus agrees that the rider is a Good Thing(tm). Sometimes they are horrible and bills get voted down because of them. Sometimes the wrong wording kills a bill, and sometimes for good reason.

The simple solution is education of the American people on politics. That way we can avoid this mistake again.

I get several hundred Google hits/day for everything from specific images to reviews I did for Macintosh specific stuff like CPU upgrades and commentary about the science of vision loss when using Viagra

I get a few hits a day about that Viagra/blindess issue, although my tiny comment wasn't as scientific at all:
http://www.mintruth.com/blog/index.php?p=218

I've got Cobuyitaphobia you insensitive clod!!!

http://www.mintruth.com/wiki/index.php?Al%20Gore%2 0and%20the%20Internet

He's not taking credit for creating the internet, although people are trying to falsely pin it on him

Even the inventors try to pin it on him!

They don't think so

Straw man. Maybe this will help. I assume you know who the authors are.

Vint Cerf can. I assume you know who Vint Cerf is.

Well the "High Performance Computing and Communications Act" of 1991 for one.

Note who the authors of the article are. He at least saw the potential for a massive high-speed interconnected network.

http://www.mintruth.com/wiki/index.php?Al%20Gore%2 0and%20the%20Internet

Al Gore was the first political leader to recognize the importance of the Internet and to promote and support its development.

The Vice President deserves credit for his early recognition of the value of high speed computing and communication and for his long-term and consistent articulation of the potential value of the Internet to American citizens and industry and, indeed, to the rest of the world.

I tried 'what is real ultimate power?'

Ninjas? Are you kidding me? Everyone knows Terri Schiavo is real ultimate power. Maybe George W. Bush, maybe, but freaking ninjas?

Who decided that?

I tried 'what is real ultimate power?'

Ninjas? Are you kidding me? Everyone knows Terri Schiavo is real ultimate power. Maybe George W. Bush, maybe, but freaking ninjas?

Who decided that?

Libel is so much more fun.

I assume that most people who don't want to get caught for their work related blogging are writing something questionable, if not downright illegal.

Trade secrets, rumors, lies... it's easy to forget that most of the things you think about your boss isn't true and that the company isn't really going under (like you wish). Not that being anonymous is equal to lying. I see your points but the statement "If you want to be treated like a criminal, then act like one" always scares me. Often I hear this argument applied to the way people dress, you know?

But, any advice for bloggers who are not worried about their employer but their federal governement?

Hey, I just happen to vote Democrat. Really though I'm a liberal. Hell, call me a NeoLib or whatever, but I'm not a Democrat anymore. Not after the refusal to push the real liberal philosophy up front. In the last presidential election, the Democrat's actually ran a real liberal. If you don't believe me, look at his anti-war and pro-environmental record - even Bush called him a liberal. However he meant it as a smear.

I think, and this has been said, that the word liberal needs to be re0wned. Labels help - people need them. It's the parties who have failed us, it's not the labels. The Republican party has looked at the liberal philosophy and hated it for years - they have made liberal a bad word. Democrats meanwhile have run from that term. In fact, I'd argue most of the country is really "liberal" even though elections have showed us something else.

I think most people, normal folk, think with the liberal philosophy. The reason the media seems so liberal is because they have been writing with the majority in mind. Sure, the O'Reilly Factor gets a lot of buzz - but actually doesn't do as good in the ratings as you'd think (someone told me a number, but it's an unreliable source. But this is slashdot, back it up or debunk it.)

This is why I'm working on (the GNU FDL) a document "What It Takes To Be A Liberal In America". It's only in pre-Alpha stage, but I hope it will help people feel better when they are called a liberal.

Wear the label!

Just look:

http://www.mintruth.com/wiki/images/rfid-nazi.gif
http://images.google.com/images?q=rfid%20nazi

http://www.mintruth.com/wiki/index.php?Crashed%20D iebold%20ATM

It really won't be long until we are all labeled terrorists by the huge, swelling, religious right.

Terrorism? Yeah, it's the only way sometimes.

Sometimes you are driven to it.

Actually, it's not all that funny considering I run a site which is extreme...

http://www.mintruth.com/

http://www.mintruth.com/terry_schiavo_is_real_ulti mate_power.php

What about Al Gore?

Actually... many times people know this and are joking - but I'll bite.

Vinton Cerf and Robert Kahn both authored a letter which actually support Gore's progressive attitude when it came to Internet funding during it's early days.

...on election day no less.

I'm guessing conspiracy. (My tin-foil hat is already on just in case).

Besides, it's not like they were downloading music!

Or were they?

why was the touch screen system connected to the internet?

To download music stupid!

Write the E-voting machines in assembly and make them run on the simplest RISC processor out there. Unless you plan on using the voting machines as public solitaire terminals during the off season there's no reason any complex OS or programming language should be involved in voting.

...like I'm going to listen to eWeek.

I've got "MyYahoo" set as my homepage and their tech news stories are particularly disgusting. There was an exploit tool that was to be released under the GPL so the headline was " Open-Source Exploit Tool: 'Point, Click, Root' ". Mind you the tool attacks Windows and OSX machines, not Linux. But since it was released under the GPL, Open Source==Bad!

FUD! Just like when IDG reported the "double-free" CVS flaw in a story titled: "Search finds new holes in open source tool" (Notice, they reported this in July of 2004). After a little looking around I noticed that CERT released an advisory Feb. 2003!

Why are /.ers so anti-Diebold and 'paperless' voting.
If companies brought back paper, then they won't need data and storage on computers.
I just find this bastion of Ludditism surprising here.

Here comes my obligatory Diebold link.

It's not because it runs Windows. The reason is they are a business first. They depend on monetary transactions for their business and they seem to, how do you say... 'screw that up'? How can I begin to trust them in light of their apparent failures and technical problems?

They don't take care of their cash, how can I trust an election? Even the candidates know the value of money...