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The New York Times is also covering the article (free reg) or you could just go to The Audio Spotlight's home page for a more detailed account of their technology.

The New York Times is also covering the article (free reg) or you could just go to The Audio Spotlight's home page for a more detailed account of their technology.

http://www.nytimes.com/2002/02/21/technology/circu its/21NEXT.html For those of you who don't want to register. Always substitute 'archive' for the 'www'.

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On an off-topic note, it was weird that this article wasn't on the front page of /.
I wonder what's going on with that, I've noticed a lot of stories miss the front page, and i notice these articles later with very few comments. Something in Slashcode is screwed up I suppose.
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If you don't have an account at the NY Times' website because you're too lazy or forgot your password, feel free to use the following link to access the article directly:

http://archives.nytimes.com/auth/login?URI=http:// www.nytimes.com/2002/02/21/technology/circuits/21T OYS.html

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Mr. Tilden recalled a woman who fled their first date after being approached on his couch by a television remote control to which he had grafted a snakelike robotic tail. "I designed it to move when someone sat down because I kept losing the remote in the cushions," he said.

Note to self: hide semi-threatening robotic insecte when trying to impress opposite sex.

http://www.nytimes.com/2002/01/17/technology/circu its/17VIDE.html

You just have to know the address, then you can get in through the free registration method. Although Google follows the nytimes.com robots.txt, enough people link to articles that the search engine has records for the URLs.

2002-01-17 13:49:49 Black Hawk Download (articles,news) (rejected)

the prez and his posse are considering PR campaign abroad -- some of which may even be disinformation. (i call that propoganda but that's just me.) you can read all about that here. his primary concern is that the disinformation intended for abroad might actually make it to the US. so i'm wondering, if by letting the media to consolidate, is the gummint lining up to create fewer 'points of failure'? ie. if there are hundreds of news/media agencies, you can't really get all of them on your side. with just a handful of agencies, it might be easier to actually 'control' what passes thru. not questioning press ethics but when you make an offer along the lines of '.. in the interest of national security..." you know what i mean..

Go here: http://archives.nytimes.com/auth/login?URI=http:// www.nytimes.com/2002/02/18/technology/18SONG.html to get around their registration process.

It looks like the FCC has got it completely backwards. Instead of regulating a separation between data transport and applications, it has reclassified data transport as a service, and thus removed open access requirements.
This is the exact opposite of the collective wisdom of the networking industry, as I collected here.
Powell today reiterated his opinion that all broadband platforms - cable, wireless, satellite and DSL - should be considered when crafting broadband policy.

"It's important to conceptualize broadband broadly," Powell told reporters following today's meeting.

It is indeed - but rather than prop up a series of monopoly rights, providing an opportunity for Howard Jonas to acheive his stated aim:
"Sure I want to be the biggest telecom company in the world, but it's just a commodity. I want to be able to form opinion. By controlling the pipe, you can eventually get control of the content."

Powell should be considering how to enable maximum flexibility by separating the commodity business of transferring packets from the open applications that define what the packets mean. This is how to maximise the value of the net for everyone, not for a few local monopolists - a fine job for a regulator.

No, moron, the Canadians won, but the judge cheated. The ISU ruled that they should share the medals, which was the right thing. Read here.

Here's the link...doesn't seem like an April Fools article...
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/04/01/magazine/01WWLN. html

The confidentiality of library records (like what books you've checked out) is one of the most staunchly defended rights in the recent history of librarianship (anther being freedom to access library materials, such as the Satanic-inducing Harry Potter or Internet sans censorware).

It goes back to the MaCarthy era inquisitions of practices such as FBI requests of who had "dangerous" materials checked out. Thankfully we now have 48 states with laws prohibiting the disclosure of library records.

In most cases, nobody - not your parents, police, or spouse - can access your circulation record without a specific court order. Remember that Florida librarian who phoned the police to say she recognized the hijacking terrorists as library users? Well she broke the law in doing so.

This statement by the American Library Association addresses their continued vigilance in protecting privacy in light of current events.

just for those of us who dont like to give out or info to read an article

the article without registration

Now that Enron is gone, does Microsoft's ownership share of President Bush increase?

http://archives.nytimes.com/auth/login?URI=http:// www.nytimes.com/2002/02/11/technology/ebusiness/11 VOX.html

I mean, that's what it's gotta be, right? Otherwise, where is the Q & A with Junis that Katz promised us and the Times?

And it's months-old news by now!

Grumble, grumble, are front page slots really going begging? It's unseemly to complain. But at a certain level, it's very sad that I can't get any Slashdot coverage for my anti-censorware work these days, because of What Happened To The Censorware Project (censorware.org) while months-old news is recycled over and over. Really guys, if you need a good story, I have plenty of deserving ones that are languishing for lack of journalistic backing!

I'm surprised that this story's been up for a couple hours and nobody's linked to a much more detailed piece of reporting about this technology that appeared in today's NY Times.

An article at the New York Times http://www.nytimes.com/2002/02/11/technology/11FOV E.html suggests that some of the digital imaging industry stalwarts, such as Sony (who just invested in a new CCD Fab), may throw their weight around to either sit on or delay the introduction of this technology into the mass market. Go Sony!

Todays NY Times (free registration required) reports that teacher applications are up 45% this year. Many districts have a fast-track program of teaching after a couple intro courses, although you have to takes about a years worth of courses for certification eventually. In the L.A. area where I have some teacher friends, pay starts about $3000 a month and hits $6000 after a dozen years. (This is for a nine-month year where you moonlight or vacation in the summer.) Same thing happened during the 91-94 recession.

There is an article about teachers in the New York Times. It seems that a fair number of techies are looking into becoming teachers. Maybe they want to fill the void left by Woz?

try replacing the www in the URL with archive

e.g. http://archive.nytimes.com/2002/02/07/technology/c ircuits/07NEXT.html

Katz does seem always to be anticipating his audience, gauging what they wish to hear from him, apparently still with some success. All the bitterness seems to be from people who once took his word as sincere.

As much as we appreciate the "news alert" that Schwarzenegger's career is over, we need to know what happened to Katz's plans to present a Q & A with Junis. Failure to "follow-up" his most notorious story is the nail in Katz's coffin as a "real" journalist.

The Times story linked above says, in part, that "Junis had agreed to take part in a public question-and- answer session on Slashdot.org soon, once things settle down a bit in Afghanistan." Haven't things settled down yet?

"He's already made his way to some sex sites, and wishes he had a printer. Ah, the indomitable human spirit." -- Check out this j-school weblog to see how Katz measures up to other reporters on the liberation of Kabul.

• http://www.nytimes.com/2002/02/08/movies/08COLL.ht ml
  
• http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/movies/57462_collate ral08q.shtml
  
• http://reuters.com/news_article.jhtml;jsessionid=L SAL0EGPXD1T0CRBAE0CFFAKEEATGIWD?type=entertainment news&StoryID=582870
  
• http://www.rottentomatoes.com/movie-1110242/
  
• http://www.joblo.com/collateraldamage.htm
  

Oh yea. The price of rentals in New York have nothing to with too many people and not enough places to live. If the govt simply lifted their regulations everybody in new york would be paying $200.00 per month for those luxury suites.

If the government regulations were lifted, the prices would've gone down. If I can not charge what I want from this tenant, I'll have to spread it over the others. Most likely -- the new ones. That's why you are hit the most, when moving from one place to another. The landlord has to set the higher price in advance because he/she will have to fill out too many forms to increase it the next year, if he wants to. And you also have to pay for all the tenant.net subscribers living in the same building, who know every way to weasel out of paying the market price.

Not enough places to live? Of course! What's the incentive to build/renovate in this over-regulated city? The city, where rent-control was introduced in 1943, as a temporary measure, is its own hostage now -- repealing the rent control costs too many votes.

City of Westchester, MA was hit with this problem -- no appartments. Why, was the question? There are, roughly, just as many homes, and not that many more people?.. The answer -- it has gradually become next to impossible to evict a tenant, so many retired owners of two-family houses, who used to rent before, gradually withdraw from the market. The risk of getting an unruly tenant in your upstairs appartment did not rise, but the danger, such a mishap would bring, inreased too far to outweight the benefits.

"At the price set by the government? I come from the country, where this was the case, and as a result there was no milk in the stores."

Hey Mr. Clueless man. In most states (maybe even all) the price of milk is regulated. Did you know that? Dairy farming is also subsidized did you know that? Perhaps you ought to do some research first before blathering your liberterian drivel.

I did the research. My "drivel" is quite founded. In here, government regulations help formers. They can raise the milk prices -- it is illegal, in fact, to to charge too little! It is also illegal to advertise a particular brand of milk -- in Massachusetts, for example. Only the general "It does a body good" is allowed there. Stores can not even publish coupons for a particular brand of milk.

So, I guess, I'm not as clueless, huh? Make sure the dog does not eat your homework again...

Why do they get such protection? There are more of them, than there are those, who noticably suffer from it. We all do, but we don't realize it.

Same with the tenants vs. landlords. Their votes are equal, and even though it is the landlord's damn property, a whole bunch of people pretend, the tenants are somehow entitled to control it beyond the lease terms.

What's your problem with libertarianism, anyway? Take the quiz. May be, you'll find a hidden libertarian inside you :-)

I just want to know what lawyer, or whomever, decided this would would not bring about a tremendous amount of bad press, negative publicity, and expensive lawsuits.

In a similar vein, today the Republicans stated that they thought campaign finance reform would cost them elections.

Don't people think about what they say?

Written in the 60's, but never sent and never published. So this is new information.

Second, there has been a lot of speculation on what happened in Copenhagen in 1941. So much, in fact, that a book and play was written that speculated on the meeting.

These letters seem to cast a pretty serious shadow over the speculation that Heisenberg was secretly working against the Nazis and, for the first time, give us a clear answer to what Bohr's opinion had been.

The NY Times (evil reg, blah blah) has a lengthy article on the release of the documents.

You're using a very old-school view of the domain system.
See this (old) story: Internet Labels Lose Meaning in Rush for Popular Addresses.

How the author refers to people is part of the magazine's style guide. Perhaps the most famous periodical to refer to people by their title and surname is The New York Times. You'll always see someone introduced as Firstname Lastname, and then referred to as Mr./Dr./Mrs./Father/President/Chairman/etc. Lastname. You might want to read their style guide for more information.

The best "general" cookbook I've found is How to Cook Everything by Mark Bittman.

I'm losing faith in the venerable Minimalist. His Tandori Chicken recipe in The Minimalist Cooks Dinner calls for juice a whole lime and some corriander. Only thing is he only tells you where to put half the lime juice and never tells you what to do with the corriander. So much for one recipe a week equaling perfection.

He still comes up with some of the best fast and simple meals though.

the increasing vulnerability of our economic and technological systems to carefully aimed attacks....[is] paid far less attention.

We must not have been reading the same newspapers.

Nuclear power plants are certianly a technological system.

Virginia is looking into vulnerabilities in it's water treatment system.

The Net is so choked with "advice" (advertisements) on how to make the computer end of your business somehow sabotage tolerant that it tends to drown out other related topics; they do this on google which means people are reading them.

Now, these are not problems that suggest knee-jerk, civil-rights-violating "solutions" that get us, slashdotters, up in arms. So, they are not as well covered here.

Solving these problems requires 1) a lot of money, and 2) action (presumably forced by regulation) on the part of a lot of conservative, well moneyed, powerful people. So, the political cost in proposing a real solution, say, to hacking vulnerabilities in our financial system, is a lot higher than the political cost of raising the sentences for "computer terrorists."

So, yes, the real problems recieve less attention from politicians. I don't think that is true of journalists or of the general public.

the increasing vulnerability of our economic and technological systems to carefully aimed attacks....[is] paid far less attention.

We must not have been reading the same newspapers.

Nuclear power plants are certianly a technological system.

Virginia is looking into vulnerabilities in it's water treatment system.

The Net is so choked with "advice" (advertisements) on how to make the computer end of your business somehow sabotage tolerant that it tends to drown out other related topics; they do this on google which means people are reading them.

Now, these are not problems that suggest knee-jerk, civil-rights-violating "solutions" that get us, slashdotters, up in arms. So, they are not as well covered here.

Solving these problems requires 1) a lot of money, and 2) action (presumably forced by regulation) on the part of a lot of conservative, well moneyed, powerful people. So, the political cost in proposing a real solution, say, to hacking vulnerabilities in our financial system, is a lot higher than the political cost of raising the sentences for "computer terrorists."

So, yes, the real problems recieve less attention from politicians. I don't think that is true of journalists or of the general public.

Little does JohnG know that many chefs de l'haute cuisine in New York City and Paris have been using tobacco as a spice/flavoring agent in fancy-pants recipes, especially desserts!

NOTE: This is actually true and has been amply documented by the New York Times--"Hmm, Hot and Spicy. It's What? It's Not!" by Melissa Clark (1/31/01). Don't believe me? Be my guest.

Why don't you read whats actualy going on before jumping to idiotc conclusions.

For hundreds of thousands of people in the "republic" of Congo, coltan mining is one of the few ways to make ends meet. It's actualy allowing people to eat regularly and keep from starving to death.

Not to confuse you with facts or anything, but this New York Times article explains why it is not unreasonable to take a longer look at Arab Muslims, particularly Saudis (95% of educated Saudi males between 25-41 supported bin Laden as of October).

For God's sake, do not kill us! We surrender!

quoting from rw: Before dawn in Afghanistan last Thursday, US Green Berets launched a surprise attack on their unarmed allies, storming a disarmament depot with indiscriminate fire, then rounding up survivors only to tie their hands behind their backs with plastic bands and execute them. This according to that America-hating, propaganda-strewn leftist rag, The New York Times. God bless America.

(yes, I'm very much abusing my 50 karma account and spamming this message all over the place with a +1 bonus. People need to read it, ok? Read the fucking nytimes link. Thanks for your time.)

Hogwash. Yes, they made huge contributions to political parties and candidates. But they hid debt in accounting entities. The poorly-formed accounting standards were and are there for any corporation to abuse. Nothing special was done by the government for Enron with regard to accounting standards.

Here's a link for you: Gramms regulated Enron, benefited from ties

The accounting rules that Enron got to exploit were created especialy for them - search for 'Enron exemption'.

Another link : Exemption Won in 1997 Set Stage for Enron Woes [NYT, registration]

It might make you feel better to rail on evil corporations or politicians, but the fact is, this abuse happens regardless of how much money is sent to politicians.

If you can back that up, I would be very interested in hearing more about it. I've always assumed the opposite.

Oh, and try to relax. Just because I don't currently share your view, doesn't mean I'm not interested in learning about your perspective.

Why go to amateurs when the US gov. will seel you top quality biowar instructions for fifteen bucks!

That being said, I am really bothered by the specifics of this raid. If the Feds had real evidence that Austin was promoting terrorism, they should have arrested him. Instead, they used their "suspicions" to justify shutting down his web site. Which doesn't accomplish much, since there's no information on raisethefist.com that isn't widely available. I don't care for fertilizer bombs or web worms either, but censoring information about them is a lost cause.

The nasty truth is that this action is part of a general strategy to shut down, at least temporarily, coordinating elements in the anti-globalization movement. This is something that becomes a priority every time there's an public event that might be targeted by the movement.

This might not seem like a big deal. So some mentally challenged anarchists lose their web sites for a few days, so what? But that's only the tip of the iceberg. During previous episodes anybody possessing a communication device (including cell phones and PDAs) was subject to arrest.

The whole strategy is based on the idea that law enforcement needs to interfere with civilian lines of communication. Austin and his crowd don't deserve much sympathy -- but the way in which the cops are targeting him is dangerous to all of us.

Be prepared to retch when you discover that Led Zeppelin has finally, after thirty years of keeping their music out of commercial hands, sold out to General Motors for a Cadillac commerical.

Story in the NY Times .

Somehow in all those years of listening to "Trampled Under Foot," I never thought they were thinking "Cadillac"...

For God's sake, do not kill us! We surrender!

quoting from rw: Before dawn in Afghanistan last Thursday, US Green Berets launched a surprise attack on their unarmed allies, storming a disarmament depot with indiscriminate fire, then rounding up survivors only to tie their hands behind their backs with plastic bands and execute them. This according to that America-hating, propaganda-strewn leftist rag, The New York Times. God bless America.

(yes, I'm very much abusing my 50 karma account and spamming this message all over the place with a +1 bonus. People need to read it, ok? Read the fucking nytimes link. Thanks for your time.)

For God's sake, do not kill us! We surrender!

quoting from rw: Before dawn in Afghanistan last Thursday, US Green Berets launched a surprise attack on their unarmed allies, storming a disarmament depot with indiscriminate fire, then rounding up survivors only to tie their hands behind their backs with plastic bands and execute them. This according to that America-hating, propaganda-strewn leftist rag, The New York Times. God bless America.

(yes, I'm very much abusing my 50 karma account and spamming this message all over the place with a +1 bonus. People need to read it, ok? Read the fucking nytimes link. Thanks for your time.)

Craig Smith seems to have a penchant for finding stories that are highly controversial and one-sidedly biased against American culture. Funny how that works.

For God's sake, do not kill us! We surrender!

quoting from rw: Before dawn in Afghanistan last Thursday, US Green Berets launched a surprise attack on their unarmed allies, storming a disarmament depot with indiscriminate fire, then rounding up survivors only to tie their hands behind their backs with plastic bands and execute them. This according to that America-hating, propaganda-strewn leftist rag, The New York Times. God bless America.

(yes, I'm very much abusing my 50 karma account and spamming this message all over the place with a +1 bonus. People need to read it, ok? Read the fucking nytimes link. Thanks for your time.)

For God's sake, do not kill us! We surrender!

quoting from rw: Before dawn in Afghanistan last Thursday, US Green Berets launched a surprise attack on their unarmed allies, storming a disarmament depot with indiscriminate fire, then rounding up survivors only to tie their hands behind their backs with plastic bands and execute them. This according to that America-hating, propaganda-strewn leftist rag, The New York Times. God bless America.

(yes, I'm very much abusing my 50 karma account and spamming this message all over the place with a +1 bonus. People need to read it, ok? Read the fucking nytimes link. Thanks for your time.)

For God's sake, do not kill us! We surrender!

quoting from rw: Before dawn in Afghanistan last Thursday, US Green Berets launched a surprise attack on their unarmed allies, storming a disarmament depot with indiscriminate fire, then rounding up survivors only to tie their hands behind their backs with plastic bands and execute them. This according to that America-hating, propaganda-strewn leftist rag, The New York Times. God bless America.

(yes, I'm very much abusing my 50 karma account and spamming this message all over the place with a +1 bonus. People need to read it, ok? Read the fucking nytimes link. Thanks for your time.)

For God's sake, do not kill us! We surrender!

quoting from rw: Before dawn in Afghanistan last Thursday, US Green Berets launched a surprise attack on their unarmed allies, storming a disarmament depot with indiscriminate fire, then rounding up survivors only to tie their hands behind their backs with plastic bands and execute them. This according to that America-hating, propaganda-strewn leftist rag, The New York Times. God bless America.

(yes, I'm very much abusing my 50 karma account and spamming this message all over the place with a +1 bonus. People need to read it, ok? Read the fucking nytimes link. Thanks for your time.)

For God's sake, do not kill us! We surrender!

quoting from rw: Before dawn in Afghanistan last Thursday, US Green Berets launched a surprise attack on their unarmed allies, storming a disarmament depot with indiscriminate fire, then rounding up survivors only to tie their hands behind their backs with plastic bands and execute them. This according to that America-hating, propaganda-strewn leftist rag, The New York Times. God bless America.

(yes, I'm very much abusing my 50 karma account and spamming this message all over the place with a +1 bonus. People need to read it, ok? Read the fucking nytimes link. Thanks for your time.)

For God's sake, do not kill us! We surrender!

quoting from rw: Before dawn in Afghanistan last Thursday, US Green Berets launched a surprise attack on their unarmed allies, storming a disarmament depot with indiscriminate fire, then rounding up survivors only to tie their hands behind their backs with plastic bands and execute them. This according to that America-hating, propaganda-strewn leftist rag, The New York Times. God bless America.

(yes, I'm very much abusing my 50 karma account and spamming this message all over the place with a +1 bonus. People need to read it, ok? Read the fucking nytimes link. Thanks for your time.)