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Its odd that you would say that. I use Netscape 7.0 and http://www.nytimes.com doesn't give me popups - when I have them disabled.

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No registration required, courtesy of Google and the New York Times

Why aren't the articles just posted like this to begin with? It's something that NYT themselves set up.

Cheers Google ...

sure, steve's a long time eyecon of the IT hostage ransom scam rackets (see also: hired goons), but 4 hole pages to tale about that FraUD? commershillization? MiSleading coNTeNT?

we don't trust steve, or bill, or george for that matter, so you can only imagine how surprised/thrilled we are? at being listed as one of the "Top 10 Companies of 2002"(tm)

just goes to show you, although the gnus do not have the ability to force the nyt to write a nice 4 page story about them (yet), the good gnus is still getting out.

Walker in the Wireless City

Nah, no one wants free software to go away except vendors of crappy closed source software. Free and Open software folks can have their differences but the commonality is much greater.

Since (almost) noone is making money doing it, the primary form of compensation is ego gratification.

What a crock, lots of people are making a good living with free software. Even pioneers such as RMS got by. Now that free software is universally recognized as superior to other software, there is a much larger demand. Show me someone who does not get some ego gratification from their job and I'll show you someone who should be doing something else.

If someone doesn't get their way, they throw a temper tantrum and go off on their own.

This is unique to free software? -Bangs his fist and insults a federal judge- Have you ever seen the monkeyboy dance? If your eyes don't convince you, just read this article. I would never ever want to work at a place like that. It looks like they treat each other worse than they treat the rest of the world.

The end result is forked code trees, huge amounts of duplicated effort, and projects that never go anywhere.

Said another way, free software could never make a working operating system, an easy to use GUI, it's chaos, blah, blah, bull shit on a stick This message posted with Mozilla and Windowmaker on X11 under Debian, software so superior to comercial junk I can never ever go back.

SPI will survive this little tussle and free softare will survive SPI.

So If you want to read something a bit more reflective, look at David Brooks article entitled "Overstimulated Suburbia" in last weekend's New York Times Magazine section. In the article, he gives his thoughts from his look at the Sims games.

If you don't know who Brooks is, he's a writer and social commentator who has spent a lot of time in the last couple of years looking at American Bourgeois life [of which he is a part] and his articles are fun and.. not abrasive like the comments most people make when they talk about society. And he's smart and, most of all, interesting.

Again, Here's the whoring link!

So If you want to read something a bit more reflective, look at David Brooks article entitled "Overstimulated Suburbia" in last weekend's New York Times Magazine section. In the article, he gives his thoughts from his look at the Sims games.

If you don't know who Brooks is, he's a writer and social commentator who has spent a lot of time in the last couple of years looking at American Bourgeois life [of which he is a part] and his articles are fun and.. not abrasive like the comments most people make when they talk about society. And he's smart and, most of all, interesting.

Again, Here's the whoring link!

Despite what it may feel like, pop-up ads account for less than 5% of the total advertisements on todays websites. Further, AOL (see this NYT article posted on ./ several weeks ago) has confirmed that pop-ups are a huge source of dissatisfaction from web users - thus making them in-effective. Rather than use "anti-leech" technology, wouldn't advertisers be better served by simply employing technology that would be more palatable to their readers?

Links to the original NY Times article and Slashdot thread that discussed another initiative out of this agency. Declan McCullagh's was a follow-up as he mentioned in his piece.

The NY Times tells us that DARPA (Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency), the same agency that wants to create a massive cross-domain transaction database, also proposed what it called eDNA: '...tagging Internet data with unique personal markers to make anonymous use of some parts of the Internet impossible.' Slashdotter Declan McCullagh followed up on the NYT piece with his article on MSNBC.

Links to the original NY Times article and Slashdot thread that discussed another initiative out of this agency. Declan McCullagh's was a follow-up as he mentioned in his piece.

The NY Times tells us that DARPA (Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency), the same agency that wants to create a massive cross-domain transaction database, also proposed what it called eDNA: '...tagging Internet data with unique personal markers to make anonymous use of some parts of the Internet impossible.' Slashdotter Declan McCullagh followed up on the NYT piece with his article on MSNBC.

Here's the article, no registration, no fake registration, nothing.

90% of the NYT stories that Slashdot posts can be viewed without registration through a deal that the New York Times has with Asahi.com. You can see the listing of stories here.

IF people were paying their fair share, they'd all pay the same PERCENTAGE of their income to taxes-- and thus the richer you are, the more you'd pay.

This isn't really fair either, actually, because EVERYONE gets the same benefit from the government and has the same cost to the government.

Truely fair would be for everyone to pay the same DOLLAR AMOUNT in taxes to the government.

But you'd never stand for that, screaming about how "unfair" it is based on bullshit assumptions (like the rich get more from government-- often made, never backed up. Fucking idiot statement, that.)

But no, you want to tax a higher percentage from the more wealthy-- which is pure bigotry.

You might as well be advocating that gay people and black people pay more taxes than straight or white people-- cause its just as bigoted an idea.


EOD

IF people were paying their fair share, they'd all pay the same PERCENTAGE of their income to taxes-- and thus the richer you are, the more you'd pay.

This isn't really fair either, actually, because EVERYONE gets the same benefit from the government and has the same cost to the government.

Truely fair would be for everyone to pay the same DOLLAR AMOUNT in taxes to the government.

But you'd never stand for that, screaming about how "unfair" it is based on bullshit assumptions (like the rich get more from government-- often made, never backed up. Fucking idiot statement, that.)

But no, you want to tax a higher percentage from the more wealthy-- which is pure bigotry.

You might as well be advocating that gay people and black people pay more taxes than straight or white people-- cause its just as bigoted an idea.


EOD

I wonder how they plan to track purchases made with cash?
Outlaw cash transactions.
I wish that that were actually funny. I'm assuming that we'll start to see just that, with certain types of purchases (such as airline tickets) only being allowed through some electronically trackable means. This administration means business and they have repeatedly shown that they are entirely willing to do things that would have been dismissed as ludicrous less then a year ago.
Yeah, yeah, "Good for all debts public and private". Whatever. Stop thinking that your standards are theirs or, in fact, that illegality or irrationality make something impossible.
The Homeland (yeah, right) Security Act has plenty of provisions that most of us would dismiss out of hand in any other context.
The White House is very, very serious indeed and they are the progeny of Iran-Contra, the Watergate break ins, and a hundred other proofs that, yes, they can get away with it.
No games anymore, folks. Simulation is over and this is certainly not a drill.
So, any estimates on how soon they go after any successor to Beanz and the like for being too transferrable and not trackable enough? Any predictions on how many anonymizers for purchases we're going to see? Since credit card anonymizers for porn are under attack the game is already under way.

I predict a system cropping up where you can walk into a storefront and buy a "corporate credit card" with an anonymous name or equivalent and a predeposited balance. Say, a $500 card made out to Joe Foobar with a confirmable balance. Use up the balance and either throw it away or go to any branch and put more cash into this identity. No questions, no ID needed, no fuss, no muss. I'm betting that one of the pawn shop companies currently going national (there are several) will get into this and that they will start having spammer-style constant swapping to new Visa or MCd providers. I'll also bet that this will become illegal within three years and keep existing under a succession of forms. Further, I'll bet that we're going to start seeing a serious increase in Americans with foreign bank accounts that come with credit cards. Sure, I've got a Visa; Bank of Rome, thank you very much.
Yes, cyberpunk is ever more real by the day and I fucking HATE IT. But I'm not going to be stupid enough to deny that it is happening.
Rustin

I think /.'ers concerned about their rights online and also in the domain of fair use should consider not giving another red cent (or silver pfenning, or ridged dracma, etc.) to any business concern directly promoted by Lucasfilm and/or Lucasarts.

Yesterday, /. ran an article about Fox CEO Peter Chernin's call to media and tech companies to work together to combat piracy. Some /.'ers speculated that Lucas's suggestion that media and tech companies form an alliance to prevent piracy is, at best, a disingenuous one. For example, in one post, RobotRunAmok suggested that Lucas is playing the "misguided artist" to Valenti's "evil fat cat suit," the implication being that Lucas is an evil fat cat. In another post, Jippy_ points out that "[s]aying that there won't be film of merit or quality without there first being movies of flashy repetitive garbage" is just plain bad logic.

Lucas would sell our fair use rights down the river if he thought he could make a bigger buck. His last three films stink (he's proven himself to be the much inferior artist compared to his peer Spielberg), and though he is pioneering digital production and delivery, he doesn't seem to understand that such technologies work best when they facilitate rather than obstruct fair use rights.

What really disturbs me is that Lucas--his very person a monument of excess--uses environmentalist language to protect his profit margins. Sure, digital film in the long run may be more environmentally friendly than celluloid, but that's hardly a justification to compare the market forces which drive popular cinema to an endangered ecosystem! The NYTimes has an article that quotes Lucas as saying:

I am begging for co-operation. There are unintended consequences of piracy. If piracy is not stopped, the rainforest of the entertainment business ecosystem will collapse.

If the movie industry, with its increasing resemblance to the recording arts industry and its cozying up to those who would revoke our fair use rights, can be compared to a rainforest, then I say clear cut the whole damn thing.

1. Freight trains get priority over passenger lines. So if both a trainload of shipping containers and an Amtrak train need the same section of rail, guess who gets to set in a siding.

Actually, Amtrak gets top priority over freight trains:

Amtrak was created as a for-profit government corporation that was granted the right of access to the tracks owned by the freight railroads at incremental cost and with operating priority over freight trains.(Amtrak Reform Council)

Article available here.

The rumours I find far more fascinating (and hard to swallow, I am the first to admit) are the ones that say Kamen is perfecting a personal levitation device.

Bob Metcalfe of 3Com stated "Some months ago when speculation was running high, I said that Kamen's It was more important than the Internet, but not as important as cold fusion, had cold fusion worked out. The It I was talking about, which I did not disclose, was NOT Segway."

Now, do you really think that he would claim a Stirling-engine powered scooter is more important than the Internet? I for one doubt that. Now if it turns out to actually be a viable form of LEVITATION.... all of a sudden the hype, hyperbole, and secrecy starts to fit...

And before you laugh and state this is ridiculous and impossible, read up on the Coral Castle and try to explain it. (Not to mention the pyramids, stonehenge, etc)

This is now old news, it was a part of the Homeland Security bill which just passed.

In the past two weeks there has been talk of this in the New York Times (registration blah blah blah), The Washington Post and
Harper's weekly review, to name a few. NPR's All Things Considered had a commentary on this (RealAudio) the other night.

Last week was the time to prevent it, now it's probably too late -- it's law.

There are rumors that Terra-Lycos (TRLY) is talking with Salon management to buy Salon. Well, it is only a rumor, but feaseable when Terra-Lycos has more cash than any other portal/dot.com o whatever.

Huh. Just had some friends laid off from Lycos.

They got Lycos *and* got lost.

I just wish there were, like, really rich people who were willing to fund interesting stuff like word.com or suck.com, kind of like that heiress lady giving $100million to a Poetry magazine.

I mean, guess if they had always thought that way they wouldn't have their bajillions, but now that they do, it would be cool if they could fund worthy online ventures.

actually, New York Times: further showing Faux News is a propaganda outlet for the Bush regime:

Fox News head sent a policy note to Bush

Roger Ailes, the chairman of the Fox News Channel, confirmed yesterday that he sent a note to the White House last year suggesting policies for President Bush to follow in the wake of the Sept. 11 attacks.

The existence of the note was revealed in the new book by Bob Woodward, "Bush at War" (Simon & Schuster). Mr. Woodward characterized it "an important-looking confidential communication" in which Mr. Ailes was offering a "back-channel message" to the president: that the president needed to convince the American public that he was taking "the harshest measures possible" or else the public would not remain patient with the administration.

In an interview yesterday, Mr. Ailes denied that the message was meant as political advice, saying that he was only responding "as a human being and a citizen" who was outraged by the terrorist attacks. He said he had "been up for nine days straight" after the attacks before writing the message, which he sent to Karl Rove, the chief political operative in the Bush White House. (...)

Read the article

Its because of reasons like this and this and this that I don't want any sort of profit oriented organization or government collecting information about my lifestyle.

There are some more links on my page

This is expected to pass TODAY, so call your Senator and URGE them not to vote for the bill.

I believe Google News has taken care of this already.

Supercomputer to Use Optical Fibers

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They don't use UPC codes outside of the United States and Canada either.

...which is a problem because almost everyone else uses EAN codes. North America is a large market, but not large enough for some companies. Ace Hardware for example had a hard time getting its suppliers to re-label their products with UPCs "just" for the American market.

So the US and Canada are switching to EAN. Or, technically, to a version of UPC which is compatible with EAN.

If you're a manufacturer using UPCs you've got until Jan. 1, 2005 to switch. Possibly this would be a good time to consider RFID as an alternative.

I think all reasonable human beings should be expected to draw the line somewhere. Here's why you shouldn't shop at Walmart, ever:

• They abuse their employees (see also NYT article)
• They destroy the social fabric of neighborhoods
• They engage in capricious censorship (see more here)
• They purchase from overseas suppliers with ZERO regard for the sweatshop conditions under which the materials were manufactured. Even Nike agreed this was reprehensible.

Randy Cohen writes "The Ethicist" column in the NYTimes Magazine. This week he responded to a similiar quandary about helping an ex-employer. (It's the second letter, so scroll down a little bit.)

We all know that truth is stranger than fiction, and here we have an apparently real item straight from the realm of Tom Clancy. Imagine a huge, absolutely huge, central database containing both the official and commercial data of every single citizen, run by the US military ostensibly for anti-terror and Homeland Security purposes, and all of it under the direction of a convicted felon.

Well the database is in development and coming soon, according to the New York Times; and the felon who will run it is disgraced Reagan administration liar, dirty-trickster and cover-uper Admiral John M. Poindexter, who Dubya has taken out of mothballs to keep us all safe from dreadful evildoers.

Poindexter got caught up in a little Federal crime spree called Iran-Contra a decade ago, stood trial and was convicted, but managed to escape responsibility on an odd technicality.

As told succinctly by FAS.org, Poindexter was "Indicted March 16, 1988, on seven felony charges. After standing trial on five charges, Poindexter was found guilty April 7, 1990, on all counts: conspiracy (obstruction of inquiries and proceedings, false statements, falsification, destruction and removal of documents); two counts of obstruction of Congress and two counts of false statements.

District Judge Harold H. Greene sentenced Poindexter June 11, 1990, to six months in prison on each count, to be served concurrently. A three-judge appeals panel on November 15, 1991, reversed the convictions on the ground that Poindexter's immunized testimony may have influenced the trial testimony of witnesses. The Supreme Court on December 7, 1992, declined to review the case. In 1993, the indictment was dismissed on the motion of Independent Counsel."

Now he's in charge of the newly-invented Information Awareness Office, a part of that mixed bag of good and bad, the US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), and he's got his eye on basically every scrap of data about every single citizen. The system Poindy is preparing to unleash on us "will provide intelligence analysts and law enforcement officials with instant access to information from Internet mail and calling records to credit card and banking transactions and travel documents, without a search warrant," the NYT article says.

And he's in no way embarrassed by his role ensuring that the US military and federal law enforcement and intelligence spooks can quite conveniently spy on the populace. He's said openly that the US government "needs to 'break down the stovepipes' that separate commercial and government databases," the article says.

Poindexter joins a slew of Reagan-era retreads and Iran-Contra alumni now operating brazenly in Dubya's bureaucracy. No doubt he feels quite comfortable among such familiar company, though I doubt I could say the same for the rest of us. ®

Interesting that this article hit #1 on the blogdex a few days ago, and has since fallen off the chart.

Interesting links there now are Republican commentary from The Onion and a frightening NY Times article on the "virtual, centralized grand database" the new Homeland Security Bill the House just passed would create.

I was thinking most atm machines probably run some sort of proprietary RT OS, but boy was I wrong. According to the NY Times most ATM's run OS/2.

Your skill base mentions technologies from over 20 years ago, so you are probably pushing 40 if not over. The tech field is very ageist, presuming near senility over 35 or so. Yet another NY Times article complaining about this.

Goodwill? Being magnanimous? What does the article say:

He said he worried that India's enormous progress in information technology -- the country has the only Microsoft software development center outside the United States -- would be thwarted by AIDS.

Ohhh. Okay.

He also wore a "tika" (the deep red mark on the forehead). Anybody have actual pictures (as opposed to your 5 minute Photoshop efforts).

>PS, anyone else having trouble viewing the nytimes article? I can't believe we could actually /. nytimes.com ...

Why do you think you have to log in to see the articles? It's protection from being slashdotted.


(sorry, going a little OT here...)

First of all, the login page is still off of the nytimes.com webserver, so unless registration prevents people from clicking the link at all, the same number of requests will be hitting the nytimes server as if it didn't have registration. Well, actually double, since we're all going through a registration page AND the article page.

In any case, I do have a login, but I can't even bring up their home page http://www.nytimes.com/, nor the no-registration link someone provided.

Maybe it's just my connection, though, although I can still visit any other website.

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But too much of the US stuff is just mass manufactured blurb without caracter.

As opposed to anime? Well, I'm sorry to disappoint you, but it can also be told of anime that too much of it is pure hackneyed commercial drivel. It's just that not many of the bad works gets to permeate through the West.

On the other hand, there are many great movies pertaining to anime, to the point that it has been labelled the "secong golden age of Japanese cinema". See this New-York Times article.

Xavier

You can prove anything in a computer simulation. Whether it will happen or not is a totally different story, but for sure you can get funding if you tweak your variables properly. In geek terms, look at most video games where I can take a rocket blast and still survive, even though my hitpoints are lowered. Sure games are not true simulations, but neither are true simulations perfect, or often even close. It's a focus on one specific item with all the variables included to prove only that point. Believe the simulation worked; don't believe the simulation is correct.

All of a sudden some scientist picks something up, then a few more jump on the bandwagon, and then by the time we see the article, the whole theory is written in stone, even though the article contains very little fact -- for all we (the readers) know it could be pure speculation. The article makes bold statements and doesn't quote any proof. So take it with a huge grain of salt. How do we know that "Gauthier Hulot of the Paris Geophysical Institute" isn't regarded in his field with the same amount of controversy as the Drs. Igor and Grichka Bogdanov who are physicists that supposedly "don't know how to do physics" ?

And then the article mentions Hollywood!?! Yah, that sheds a lot of creditable light on the whole theory. Now are we are either: dealing with a Hollywood film house that picked up the idea from scientists, or scientists who want to ride on the tails of pop culture?

But we all love this dramatic stuff about the world ending, so it's no wonder that everybody -- whether scientist or check-out attendant, mathemetician or word perfect user -- jumps on the bandwagon. Enjoy your drama as we have all done here at slash/dot., but seek proof and fact before believing it will actually affect your real world. There are too many "important" people out there that believe they know what they are talking about or have agendas. It's hardly possible to spend all the needed time (as a reader outside the scientific fields) to gather the facts, proof, and knowledge needed in a world overloaded with information both true and false. Just find a couple articles from scientists that refute one another. That will help to provide a more balanced perspective. For example, read this message board for some real discussion about the theory at hand, instead of discussion about a newspaper article.
For example, you can get some real facts about Field Intensities During Polarity Transitions and Excursions linked from Message #15 in the discussion board.

The articles and theories are very important, but they still exist to be proven wrong, especially when they are relatively new.

Oops, looks like I messed up the link in my previous post. Here it is.

Not sure what's up with all the NYT articles today, but here's the obligitory link: What Did Poe Know About Cosmology? Nothing. But He Was Right.

These guys scared them away. Holy shit, I had to look at the picture twice to see if the picture had become corrupted; faces like these would scare small children.

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I'd suggest slashdot start cracking down on this.

Bill Gates Views What He's Sown in Libraries

is because if the government were to start debunking only the wacky conspiracy theories the remainder could be seen as being implicitly legitimate.

The label of conspiracy is too important for the powers-that-be to allow this to happen.

Just look at what The New York Times is doing with the term today.

Forget the Files and the Folders: Let Your Screen Reflect Life has a few words on the Longhorn approach to files based upon BillG latest road show.