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They'll have better luck convincing a judge or jury than this guy has of convincing the IRS that he is insane - proof of his insanity is that he believes that he alone is capable of interpreting IRS regulations. The insanity defense is being built here to protect himself against owed back taxes.

"Google currently does not allow outsiders to gain access to raw data because of privacy concerns. Searches are logged by time of day, originating I.P. address (information that can be used to link searches to a specific computer), and the sites on which the user clicked. People tell things to search engines that they would never talk about publicly -- Viagra, pregnancy scares, fraud, face lifts. What is interesting in the aggregate can seem an invasion of privacy if narrowed to an individual."

The notorious female hacker Gigabyte (19 years old) was arrested in Belgium under a computer data sabotage law introduced in 2000. If convicted, she faces up to three years in prison and fines of up to 100,000 euros (US$127,000). Gigabyte was quoted in a recent New York Times Magazine article discussed on Slashdot. She has been very outspoken about hacker stereotypes countering the claim that hackers are, "pizza-addicted, sex-starved, ugly teens who never get outside." She is widely credited with writing the first Microsoft .Net virus. Authorities seized her computers and shut down her website. It's interesting to note that under Belgian law she could be sued for damages by any corporation damaged by her work (e.g., Microsoft).

The notorious female hacker Gigabyte (19 years old) was arrested in Belgium under a computer data sabotage law introduced in 2000. If convicted, she faces up to three years in prison and fines of up to 100,000 euros (US$127,000). Gigabyte was quoted in a recent New York Times Magazine article discussed on Slashdot. She has been very outspoken about hacker stereotypes countering the claim that hackers are, "pizza-addicted, sex-starved, ugly teens who never get outside." She is widely credited with writing the first Microsoft .Net virus. Authorities seized her computers and shut down her website. It's interesting to note that under Belgian law she could be sued for damages by any corporation damaged by her work (e.g., Microsoft).

In typical cya fashion, O'Keefe called on Harold Gehman, who led the Columbia accident inquiry, to review the decision. It's a bit of neener neener on O'Keefe's part because Gehman's commission nailed NASA for sloppy safety management policies.

What O'Keefe is saying to Gehman is "Look you SOB - you try running an agency that's being pulled 20 different ways and see if you don't start cutting corners."

Problem for O'Keefe is that there are plenty of ideas on how to both service Hubble and adhere to the Gehman's commission's advice. Not surprisingly, NASA management choses to ignore its engineers instead of listen.

Nasa will be well rid of Mr. O'Keefe when he leaves. Next time, maybe the powers that be will appoint someone with an engineering background to run the agency.

In typical cya fashion, O'Keefe called on Harold Gehman, who led the Columbia accident inquiry, to review the decision. It's a bit of neener neener on O'Keefe's part because Gehman's commission nailed NASA for sloppy safety management policies.

What O'Keefe is saying to Gehman is "Look you SOB - you try running an agency that's being pulled 20 different ways and see if you don't start cutting corners."

Problem for O'Keefe is that there are plenty of ideas on how to both service Hubble and adhere to the Gehman's commission's advice. Not surprisingly, NASA management choses to ignore its engineers instead of listen.

Nasa will be well rid of Mr. O'Keefe when he leaves. Next time, maybe the powers that be will appoint someone with an engineering background to run the agency.

That's the way every other business in the USA operates these days. Regular incomes don't impress the shareholders anymore.

All of which usually guarantees that most shows never get a chance to develop a following. Which doesn't usually if it's the usual "Hey, let's make a sitcom starring Paris Hilton! Or maybe Betty Ford!" crap. But really creative shows have almost no hope of lasting.

Buffy sort of crept in under the radar. Joss Whedon had more or less abandoned the concept (which was pretty much trashed in the Kristy Swanson movie) because he couldn't make anybody understand that he wasn't aiming for High Camp. But then a new network struggling to find material that people would actually watch bought a dozen episodes. Whedon was so sure that they'd never order any more that he did a show mainly to please himself. Which is actually the only way to make a decent tV show.

I enjoyed the show immensely, but I'm basically glad the Bufferverse has retreated from view. (Yeah, there will be comic books and novelizations, but who pays attention to those? And I can't see anybody putting up the money for a Buffyverse movie.) It was fun at first, but as time went on, the whole Buffy-Angel thing started taking itself way too seriously. Angel was always that way, and Buffy was that way most of the time in the two last seasons. Maybe serious is the wrong word -- it was always about life or death issues. Perhaps I mean solemn. And cluttered. And disorganized. I still haven't figured out what that axe was supposed to be!

Read this article from the NYT.

There are many on slashdot who won't even register for nyt. Just read this and it will make you privacy panaroids cringe.

"This is a complicated business. Each party's databank has the name of every one of the 168 million or so registered voters in the country, cross-indexed with phone numbers, addresses, voting history, income range and so on -- up to as many as several hundred points of data on each voter. The information has been acquired from state voter-registration rolls, census reports, consumer data-mining companies and direct marketing vendors. The parties have also amassed detailed information about the political and social beliefs that you might have shared with canvassers who have phoned or knocked on the door over the past few years. While specifics vary, a typical voter profile like my own, for instance, would show my age, address, phone numbers; which elections I've voted in over the past 10 or 15 years and whether I've ever voted on an absentee ballot; and my e-mail address. It would include my New Jersey party registration (Democrat), whether I've ever made a political donation (none that I recall), my approximate income, my ethnicity, my marital status and the number of children living in my house. Thanks to the ready availability of subscriber lists, mortgage data and product warranty information, the parties might use records of the newspapers I read (this one), the computer I work on (a Macintosh), the men's-wear catalogs I receive (Brooks Brothers, Land's End) and the loan-to-value ratio of my home."

And you guys spew vitriol over website registrations? That's the least of your worries...

For those who have no newborns to sacrifice: Google link

Altering Your Engine With New Chips

Not quite. The link at the top requires registration. The google link (or the slashdot link for that matter) does not.

Too late.

It's the original spam.

Everyone is into it.


It's so pervasive that

you don't even notice any more.


But some people are predictably taking artistic advantage

and some are merely advancing the art predictably


Maybe it'd be more obvious

if you could sell the old ones on eBay.

Google link

NY Times Partner link (no reg required)

Here.

Altering Your Engine With New Chips

Hooray, I get to be a whore today! :P

Like this.

It doesn't matter what you put in the "&partner=" field of the URL, they all work.

``It seems unlikely this is going to create a material, significant security problem,'' said Rob Enderle, a technology expert and principal analyst with the Enderle Group. ``It's more embarrassing than anything else because it makes it look like Microsoft can't control its code.''

It's disappointing to see such lazy reporting from the Times.

There's an article on NYtimes: about this very subject.

Since they are kind enough to provide one, you should use the Slashdot referrer link instead of abusing the Google one.

Like this.

Posting anon because submitting a reg-free link should be "-1 Redundant" NOT "+1 Informative".

And don't forget Marc Majcher's nytview page. It works well if you RTFM.

-ted, waiting for the inevitable replies about "who cares if they require you to register!" and "big companies are evil!" and "who cares if it isn't goatse!"

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Registration is for wussies! Go Google...
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Since I hate to register, here ya go.
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No req. required

This isn't actually violating anybody's rights, is it? Let's keep things in perspective. It isn't anything like this.

No. I think this is truly important. We have an opportunity here that we are taking too lightly. These Massively Multiplayer games are probably the best models of theoretical societies that we have ever seen. We have an obligation, as interested parties, to see that there is some validity in their existence. I truly believe that there will come a time when the theories and practices as viewed in these virtual worlds will influence the physical world as we know it. Mr. Ludlow was banned from a virtual existence for espousing real beliefs. Let us not allow this to be the trend of a medium that most of us have fought to keep free.

Quite so.

I've often thought the capital gains tax rate should be very high initially and very low in the long term. Something drastic like exp(-time/5 years), for example.

The main objective being to motivate shareholders and executives to think of the company's long term best interest and not just jack up earnings by cutting maintenance, R&D, selling the family jewels, etc.

One worrying development is just how much executives are motivated to sacrifice a company's long term health in order to meet earnings estimates put out by the Wall Street analysts.

If there were a similar way to make politicians or the public fiscally-minded, too, it would be nice. Something along the lines of "your share of this year's federal deficit is going onto your VISA card on April 15" would help shape things up in a hurry.

Your choice: pay more taxes, spend less, or lock yourself into an onerous debt. Most politicians are only too happy to give people less taxes, more spending and retire before the debt comes due.

Since nobody else has yet, the registration free partner link: http://www.nytimes.com/2004/02/10/science/space/10 COLO.html?ex=1076994000&en=a6c9abc6b269678b&ei=506 2&partner=SL4SHD0T

How the Red Planet Came Down With the Pink Blues

• In the last three months, more than 40 percent of the unemployed have been out of work more than 15 weeks. That's the worst number since 1983.
• According to the monthly payroll survey for January, jobs rose by 112,000. Before you start cheering, that doesn't actually keep up with population growth.
• Since the recovery officially began in November 2001, employment has actually fallen by half a percent, while the working-age population has increased about 2.4 percent.

It's pretty well known that he had the chemical weapons at this time: the U.S. government admits giving them to him.

But he didn't have the gas that was used in the gassing of the Kurds. However, Iran did.

He attacked many other nations: Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, Israel, Iran, and others

Yes, over a decade ago. Since then Iraqis have been starving to death under the burden of sanctions. The American invasion encountered paper-thin resistance from Iraqi troops. Even at its height, Saddam's regime was little more than an annoying ankle-biting terrier, not a real attack dog; and the ankle-biter's teeth fell out a long time ago.

According to the NY Times the "United States pays 10 times as much as Australia does in tariffs in the joint trade between the two countries."

When the Bush administration decided to treat the White House like a football stadium and sell the naming rights to Halliburton.

It's not like Halliburton wasn't getting contracts like that while Clinton and Gore were in office.

It was during the Clinton administration, that Pentagon issued a temporary no-bid contract to a subsidary of Halliburton to continue its work in the Balkans.

You can look it up at the NY Times, or check out the story here.

This crap has been going on for a long time, and it's not this adminstrations fault, as much as you'd like to lay the blame there.

So... basically, by taking things out of context, you're just promoting your little agenda. Don't let facts like the links above get in your way. Don't be upset when other people point out what you're saying is pure crapola either.

Looks like we know what Linus does when he goes home for vacation.

This is one of the main reasons I can't support Linux.

This article is about as ill-informed as that BBC article that was posted last week. From the article:

MyDoom's ultimate target was an obscure software company named SCO. Champions of the open Net have portrayed SCO as the Antichrist since it sued to establish part-ownership of a popular and free computer operating system called Linux. Linux has become an icon of the so-called open-source movement, which is seeking to limit the influence of companies like SCO and the industry giant, Microsoft, which closely guard their software.

Cory Doctorow has a great analysis of why most metadata schemes become less and less useful. This is also where he described the ebay "Plam Pilot" phenomenon that the NYT picked up on a little while back.

here

No, the Supreme Court decision had nothing to do with the Secretary of State and her actions, but had everything to do with the Florida Supreme Court and their decision to re-write election law after the election took place. Last I checked, it was the legislature that creates law, not the judiciary...

Also, do you have a reference for any of the media counts that showed Gore won. IIRC, Bush won all the recounts (at least from the two major media recounts.)

NY Times
CNN

I've read other (fringe?) sites that claim Gore won, but come on, do you really think that the major media would pass up the chance to embroil a sitting president in a scandal (think Watergate, Iran Contra, Lewinsky)? Think of the ratings.

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NYT Article, Google link.

Google link here

Here's the first page link for the lazy.

try this

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/02/07/science/07HUBB.h tml?ex=1076734800&en=f74fc93d9204bbee&ei=5062&part ner=GOOGLE

The New York Times is reporting that homosexuality is not limited to humans.

You know, I do belive it already exists... It's called "signing up for free on the front page." :P

Yeah, but this chick is totally hot! She's got that long, lustrous hair and smoldering eyes that just drive a guy wild.