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Am I the only one to see the irony that while the passengers on this flight were able to analyze their own danger and respond by refusing to allow their own live, that the entire national defense infrastructure had 45 minutes to determine that a hijacked plane was heading for Washington, DC, and didn't even scramble a fighter jet to see what the hell was going on? (see the timeline here) The plane's tracking beacon was turned off 45 minutes BEFORE it hit the Pentagon, and at almost exactly the same time as the second plane hit the World Trade Center towers, removing all doubt and confusion about the intentions of the hijackers. fleadope

According to Giuliani, at least, they've been repeatedly testing air quality and "as you get beyond the epicenter of the recovery site, the asbestos levels in the air are either safe or nonexistent."

Giuliani press conference. (NY Times; registration required.)

The NY Times has a few maps of which buildings have collapsed/are unstable (Seems registration is uneeded at the moment too).

But I agree with typical geek - if you're not needed there, stay out of the way.

The NY Times has a few maps of which buildings have collapsed/are unstable (Seems registration is uneeded at the moment too).

But I agree with typical geek - if you're not needed there, stay out of the way.

There is an interesting Ny Times article which describes a reporter's interviews with Afghanistan People.

[A] 25-year-old constable sat on the floor beneath a single dangling light bulb. His name was Muhammad Anwar. He had heard something about the attack in America but he had no idea how many were killed or what cities were involved. Indeed, it seemed unlikely that he had ever heard of New York.

"Attacks like these are not a good thing because Muslims live all over the world and Muslims may have been killed," Mr. Anwar said hesitantly. By his reckoning, Americans were enemies of Afghanistan, as were Jews and Christians. He thought about this a bit more and retracted it partially. "There must have been all kinds of people in the building, not just bad Jews but good Jews, not just bad Christians but good ones." He remembered something he had learned in his madrassa, or religious school. "It is un-Islamic to kill innocent people," he said.

IMHO U.S. citizens should judge severily their elected government (please don't start with bush weird election stuff, since it doesn't matter on the discussion).

Instead of helping Iran to become a free+democratic (WTH even capitalist!) country, it was completely tortured. Now we got this crazy ppl there, doing terrorism worldwide (including my country twice, and we never bothered them!).

Most US TV is convincing ppl to become racists against arabic/muslim men/women/children. Ask yourself if nuking them is the right way of a free country to solve this problem.

Also what is it with Afghanistan now? Rambo made it a nice place to live, right?

is at this location, for what it's worth.

Lower Manhattan to Stay Closed

September 12, 2001

Lower Manhattan is expected to remain cut off from the rest of the city today, and schools and stock exchanges will be closed.

Subways, streets and bridges leading to Lower Manhattan are expected to remain closed today. The city's three airports will be closed at least until 2 p.m. The Lincoln and Holland Tunnels will be closed to all but non-emergency traffic vehicles, officials said, but New Jersey-bound traffic on the George Washington Bridge's upper level will be allowed. Westbound traffic on Staten Island's three bridges will also be allowed.

The Police Department said that no one above 14th Street would be allowed to go south of there. Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani urged people not to come into Manhattan.

Subway trains will not stop at stations south of Canal Street, a transit spokesman, Bob Slovak, said. PATH service will operate, but officials urged commuters to stay home.

The city's public schools chancellor, Harold O. Levy, ordered schools closed, probably through tomorrow. He summoned principals, assistant principals, guidance counselors, social workers and school psychologists to go to work "to prepare plans to respond to the tragedy."

Four downtown colleges -- Pace University, the Borough of Manhattan Community College, the New School University and New York University -- canceled classes today. <end of article copy>

Here's also a very handy link to subway, bus, bridge and other local transportation info in NYC. It's at the official MTA site, so it's reliable. Basically south of Canal St. is shut down, and all bridges are just for outbound traffic, as of this post. I've found the cops at the bridges to be reasonable if you are on foot and have a compelling/official reason to get on the island.
God bless America.

• New York Times
• Washington Post
• Washington Times
• CNN and CNN Goggle Cache
• The Times of London
• Wall Street Journal

My review of news sources: CNN's site seems to have the latest info, if you can reach it. NYT has more info on WTC (duh), and WP has more news on the Pentagon (duh again). Times of London has an excellent synopsis.

The "secret APIs" are not a rumor. Notice the dates on these references, the secret APIs have been in NT all along.

• Using the NT API for file I/O
  
• Inside the Native API
  
• Do you need source? - go down the page about a third of the way: The conclusion was that Vogels's group used source code only as documentation (there is no other documentation for NT), examples, and to understand the behavior of NT. It turned out to be useful for debugging, and it led to the discovery of interesting APIs that are not documented or available in Win32.
  
• Inside Windows NT Disk Defragmenting - MSFT gave one company access to the defragmenting APIs, and never bothered to document them to anyone else.
  

MSFT hasn't hesitated to use the secret APIs either. From the July 10 InternetWeek: Microsoft has historically achieved market dominance by controlling APIs and forcing competitors to write software to Microsoft's APIs, then changing the APIs. "Instead of satisfying their own customers' demand, competitors are busy catching up with Microsoft," said IDC analyst Dan Kusnetzky.

From the October 8, 1998 NY Times: And Microsoft, the people added, did what it has always denied it does -- used access to its technology as a powerful lever in business negotiations, by offering Netscape preferential access to the Windows "application program interfaces," or A.P.I.'s, the links that enable other companies' programs to run smoothly on the Windows operating system. By turning down the deal, Netscape, they say, would not have that preferred access to Microsoft technology -- a threat that Microsoft fiercely denies making.

Think about it - can you, using only Win32, write all of the stuff that MSFT provides with NT/W2k? No. Clearly, MSFT keeps APIs to themselves. MSFT wants to allow itself the latitude to write faster, more functional programs than the ordinary developers can write. MSFT has proven time and time again that it will use secret APIs to its own advantage, or to the advantage of selected partners (Executive Software, for example). This practice is certainly bad for the consumer. Secret APIs raise the cost of entry into the NT system software market, which will keep out competitors, raise prices, and reduce choice.

Link that doesn't need an account, etc, etc.

WTF is with this "Lameness filter encountered.? It disappeared as soon as i put this text below the link...

I've been an At-Large member since ICANN started the project. Although I am on the announcement list I haven't received a single e-mail about meetings, initiatives or what-have-you in months (at a minimum).

I, for one, am tired of Esther Dyson's self-righteous elitist cronies telling the rest of us how the Internet should be.

I was skeptical but had hopes when the At Large initiative started. I've now come to see it as it is: a sham that gives the illusion of openness and the air of democratic legitimacy to those who willingly turn a blind eye to the autocratic, business-as-usual attitude of the ICANN Board. By the way, here's the text of a relevant rejected post I sent in:

Studies: Public Participation in Internet Policy (Your Rights Online, Internet)

The New York Times informs us that two new reports from ICANN and the Center for Democracy and Technology both say that more public participation is required in policy-making. DUH! The ICANN report says only domain name holders should have rights, while the CDT report says the process should be open to all interested parties. We'll see what happens on Nov. 14 when the reports are tabled at the next ICANN meeting.

• Sukhoi S-21 Supersonic Business Jet
• Dassault Supersonic Business Jet
• AeroWorldNet(tm) article from last year
• copy of N.Y. Times 2001-06-06 story here

Oh, and blah blah postercomment compression filter.

To get to a page where you have to fill out an annoying registration form before you can read the story, just replace "archive" with "www". Here's an example.

(I guess i'll call this "karma anti-whoring")

Salon
Cnet
The Economist
Washington Post
National Post (Includes trial timeline)
NY Times
Globe and Mail
and heh.. MSNBC

if you are having trouble getting to the site, try it like this

There is a very simple answer for the artist in the ditto.com case. Watermark all your production images. You can create yourself a Photoshop action to automate this very easily, and a GIMP script version wouldn't be all that tough either. Make them unusable unless they obtain a (non-web based) copy from you. I couldn't even finish reading the horrible article because they compared the pitiful ditto.com vs nobody case to Napster vs. RIAA twice before the article was half-finished.

Here's the correct link for those who'd like to register before they read the article.

For the convenience of everyone who likes using the registration link, here ya go.

;)

-- Brett

When announced job reductions, of 8,500 jobs at Compaq and 9,000 at Hewlett-Packard, are completed, employment at the companies will be about 62,800 at Compaq and 87,000 at Hewlett-Packard. Further reductions seem likely, as executives said that they expect annual cost savings of $2.5 billion within several years.

I guess I'm not optimistic right now for the future of H-Paq. Even under a rosy scenario, there should be problems and dropped balls as they try to merge the companies. Sun and IBM (and to a lesser extent SGI) should benefit a bit as H-Paq bobbles repeatedly in the server market.

Why are they trying to switch horses in midstream? I suspect that this had a lot to do with the timing:

Investors in both Compaq and Hewlett-Packard have suffered in the current decline in technology stocks, although Compaq's woes have taken a greater toll. That stock is down 76 percent from its peak, reached in early 1999, while Hewlett- Packard is off 66 percent from its peak, reached last summer.

They said, however, that a premium is being offered for Compaq's stock, which closed Friday at $12.35, down 34 cents, while Hewlett-Packard shares fell 19 cents to $23.21

This article provides more information on the subject, including potential benefits of this technology: infusing a patient with blood cells from a stem cell line could improve the chances that their body would accept organ transplants from the same source.

The register, including a letter from Compaq Chairman & CEO - Michael D. Capellas
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/7/21444.html

The new york times story
http://archives.nytimes.com/2001/09/04/business/04 DEAL.html

The press release from Compaq
http://www.compaq.com/newsroom/pr/2001/pr200109040 2.html

The press release from HP
http://www.hp.com/hpinfo/newsroom/press/04sep01a.h tm

The deals not done yet, mergers and monopolies dicussed at siliconvalley.com
http://www.siliconvalley.com/docs/opinion/techtest /ml090401.htm

MSNBC
http://www.msnbc.com/news/623619.asp

Wonder what Bruce Perens comments on all this are, come on speak up Bruce! Is this good for Linux?

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Modrators: i may be karma whoring but that is no reason to moderate this below Score:1. Mod up not down! If only i had meta mod ...

Your link is broken: http://archive.nytimes.com/2001/09/04/technology/0 4DEAL.html does the deal.

As in,

Both Hewlett-Packard and Compaq have been hurt by price wars in personal computers, where it has been difficult for makers to differentiate themselves when all except Apple Computer are offering operating systems from Microsoft.

Oh whoops. Wrong contents on the clipboard. But I like that quote :)

http://archives.nytimes.com/2001/09/04/business/04 DEAL.html

Direct link to the article is here.

(due to lameness filter I must insert something here. Stupid lameness filter)

http://archives.nytimes.com/2001/09/04/business/04 DEAL.html

Yeah, I know, Taco won't change'em so NYT won't bust his chops, but they're gonna bust us all bigtime if we keep swiping their articles straight up... Just right-click, copy link location, paste into new window, make the appropriate edit, and fsck'em. After all, it's not like you were gonna feed'em real marketing data anyway.... right?

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You need a Linux guru.

use the archive.nytimes.com to view the article without reading: link

Note that if you replace "www.nytimes.com" with "archives.nytimes.com" in any NY Times link you always get the article without having to register.

(Posting as AC so not as to be accused of being a karma whore . . .)

• Hewlett-Packard to Cut 6,000 Jobs (July 27, 2001)
  
• Compaq's Revenue and Income Fall (July 26, 2001)
  
• Hewlett Profit Falls but Beats Expectations (August 17, 2001)
  
• Compaq to Emphasize Computer Services (July 17, 2001)
  
• Market Place: Compaq Announces More Layoffs (July 11, 2001)

Yeah, yeah, karma whore, whatever ...

http://archive.nytimes.com/2001/09/04/business/04D EAL.html

That's not The Times, that's The Times of London . Please do not confuse the Grey Lady with her dismal foreign imitators.

As always, the archives have the story without requiring NYT registration and login.

Q: could Slashcode be modified to transpose these URLs automatically?

http://archive.nytimes.com/2001/08/31/opinion/31 CL AR.html
(Change the "www" to archive")

The fact that Slashdot posts links to www.nytimes.com instead of archive.nytimes.com?

Or the fact that they always repeat the completely redundant "registration is required blah blah blah." Guess what? We know this already. And if you don't know it, you'll find out as soon as you click on the fucking link!

And what exactly is the point of not using the archive.nytimes.com link? It's not like you're doing NYTimes a favor, since one of the firsts +5 posts is ALWAYS someone giving the direct link to archive.nytimes.com!

Give us a frigging break!

HERE WE GO AGAIN!

Its sad that this has to happen, but maybe it will send a message to the public. The problem with most of our (in USia) government is that it is more concerned with preserving the status quo, not for helping (or at least not hindering) true inovation and discoveries.

It is my belief that if God had not intended for us to make discoveries via stem cell research (or insert your favorite "That research is against God's will!" here), then He would not have given us the intelligence to do so. I don't think using genetic engineering to create "designer children" is right but I do think that preventing that same research, that could discover cures to diseases, is wrong.

Oh, and here's the article, login free.

Here's the link to bypass NY Times registration:

http://archives.nytimes.com/2001/08/31/opinion/31C LAR.html

slashdot editors: please make the nytimes URLs link to the page that doesn't need registration.


Here is the link to the story that you don't have to register to see

Any & ALL, please do join this NYT FORUM (reg. req., but ITs worth it) where an unnamed (MS) corepirate giaNT is sponsoring the evil spew of several deceptive paid2post ?pr? bots (working 24/7, for 4 years now) to further MiSinform j. public, who can ill afford to be further MiSinformed. Millions of ludditious j. public's get ALL their IT inf. from forums like this one. It is an abomination to see what is happening there. We thank you. Someday, j. public will thank you, we hope.

Any & ALL, please do join this NYT FORUM (reg. req., but ITs worth it) where an unnamed (MS) corepirate giaNT is sponsoring the evil spew of several deceptive paid2post ?pr? bots (working 24/7, for 4 years now) to further MiSinform j. public, who can ill afford to be further MiSinformed. Millions of ludditious j. public's get ALL their IT inf. from forums like this one. It is an abomination to see what is happening there. We thank you. Someday, j. public will thank you, we hope.

as usual, replace the 'www' with a 'archive' to bypass the useless sign in form.

or click here to have the article with a minimum of fuss.

There is also a story at the NYTimes Russians Deem Arrest Insult to Their Industry that has some interviews with other Russian programmers and their take on the whole mess.

I believe ICANN are corrupt - they know the solution to trademark and domain name problems.

The First Amendment is totally ignored and big business abuse their trademarks - to give themselves a dominant position over others with same or similar name.

Quote from NY Times:

Sun Makes Claims on Domain Names

"But among the names on the list are generic terms like "enterprise" and "ultra" -- and for that matter, "sun" -- that could be claimed by other businesses. Indeed, a main reason for introducing new extensions, referred to as top-level domains, is to increase the pool of names available to individuals and businesses and to relieve crowding in the .com domain."

Please visit WIPO.org.uk for details.

• He accessed certain unusual items through Intelink.
  
• He physically used a public library computer.
  
• At about the time he used that computer, that computer sent mail to a recipient in "Country A".
  

Even Slashdot.

Ninety-nine percent of these journo's and news editors ARE a bunch of corporate whores.

I told them - the authorities know solution to trademark and domain problems. The jouro's help them, by keeping this fact hidden.

Big business are breaking 'unfair competition' laws - they abuse the power of trademarks on the Internet.

The United States Department of Commerce are helping them - violating the First Amendment.

I believe ICANN, WIPO and US DoC must be corrupt - they know the solution.

They help corporations like Sun Microsystems claim world rights to the word 'SUN'.

The solution is at WIPO.org.uk - please visit.

Quote from NY Times link above: Sun Makes Claims on Domain Names

But among the names on the list are generic terms like "enterprise" and "ultra" -- and for that matter, "sun" -- that could be claimed by other businesses. Indeed, a main reason for introducing new extensions, referred to as top-level domains, is to increase the pool of names available to individuals and businesses and to relieve crowding in the .com domain.

I've yet to see one news story cover this case that even goes so far as to mention the said act. And guess what? We never will.

• New York Times, 2001 Jul 18 and 2001 Jul 23
  
• Wired, 2001 Jul 25
  
• Yahoo!, echoing Reuters, 2001 Jul 25
  
• The Chicago Tribune, 2001 Aug 13
  

My point is, all this bellyaching -- "No one is paying attention" -- is simply not true. It's just an excuse to sit on one's behind and do nothing, because "the System" is allegedly ignoring the issue and "the people" allegedly don't care.

Fact is, people do care. Copyright law is arcane and obscure, so perhaps it's understandable that there aren't mass protests in the streets. Yet. But the allegation that the mainstream media is completely ignoring this is hooey.

I've yet to see one news story cover this case that even goes so far as to mention the said act. And guess what? We never will.

• New York Times, 2001 Jul 18 and 2001 Jul 23
  
• Wired, 2001 Jul 25
  
• Yahoo!, echoing Reuters, 2001 Jul 25
  
• The Chicago Tribune, 2001 Aug 13
  

My point is, all this bellyaching -- "No one is paying attention" -- is simply not true. It's just an excuse to sit on one's behind and do nothing, because "the System" is allegedly ignoring the issue and "the people" allegedly don't care.

Fact is, people do care. Copyright law is arcane and obscure, so perhaps it's understandable that there aren't mass protests in the streets. Yet. But the allegation that the mainstream media is completely ignoring this is hooey.

According to this article from the NY Times, the great e-book revolution has failed to materialize. Based upon the fact that very few people actually use e-books, the real damages in the Sklykarov case are minimal.

Just change 'www.nytimes.com' to 'archive.nytimes.com' for any URL (I think).

So here, it's
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/08/26/business/26SVAL. html
to
http://archive.nytimes.com/2001/08/26/business/26S VAL.html

Just change 'www.nytimes.com' to 'archive.nytimes.com' for any URL (I think).

So here, it's
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/08/26/business/26SVAL. html
to
http://archive.nytimes.com/2001/08/26/business/26S VAL.html