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"80% of misinformed Americans get thier information from FOX news"

It's not that people don't care as much as the media doesn't do it's job properly.
=Smidge=

his new teammate Vladimir Malakhov (sp?) (who hasn't even played with J.R. yet) has also been victimized by a puck to the jaw. Thankfully, for VM, the shot had been deflected and rapidly losing speed, so it didnt shatter anything as it did JR, nor did it give him a concussion (the main reason Roenick has missed so many games).

btw - is that the first time Sports Illustrated has a link on a slashdot story?

Weird, I read your post then hit up Drudge where I found this story about unions.

Lets see, "suffer" without a cell phone or unionize and drive the boss right out of town. Check.

Something similar has been around since the 50's called "digesters" that use natural waste and the methane byproduct to power generators. It may have been invented at Penn State as well, but they are expensive so there are only about 20 of them around the country.

Instead of countering Soviet air technology, maybe they should start building a chopper that doesn't get shot down [philly.com] by dirt-cheap disposable rocketry.

just last week there was a story in Sunday's Philadelphia Inquirer (that you can read here) about how Radio One is sinking WHHS 107.9 FMHavertown PA. WHHS is a 14 watt high-school station that has been a student station broadcasting on FM since 1949. For those of you that don't know, that's about how long FM has been around. The story talks about some new commercial station Radio One wants to put up in Jersey-hell and it would infect the Philadelphia region. WHHS and its class-d educational license is no match for the big bucks Class-A commercial station (even if it doesn't exist yet) so they must pack it in. There is a chance WHHS will find a new chunk of airwaves, but the Philadelphia market is #4 in the USA and incredibly packed. It's a shame when some new fly by night format piece of junk can kill off educational stations like this. I guess community stations are nothing compared to another station playing top 40 crap.

The sounds of silence? - Haverford High's WHHS, around since 1949, must vacate its spot on the FM spectrum.

Editorial | Haverford High Radio -- In the wild, big eats little - or tramples it without noticing. In the world of broadcast radio, the existence of community and student-run school radio stations can be just as brutish and short.

The sounds of silence? - Haverford High's WHHS, around since 1949, must vacate its spot on the FM spectrum.

Editorial | Haverford High Radio -- In the wild, big eats little - or tramples it without noticing. In the world of broadcast radio, the existence of community and student-run school radio stations can be just as brutish and short.

The scientists signing the letter do not represent the Union of Concerned Scientists. They are an independent group who are merely endorsing the UCS report. Furthermore, they include scientists who are not particularly left-wing, such as H-bomb designer Richard Garwin and physicist Norman Ramsey, both of whom served as advisers to Republican administrations. According to this news item, organizations opposing the Bush administration policy include: the National Academies of Science, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the Federation of American Scientists, and the Association of American Medical Colleges. The opposition isn't coming from the left fringe; it is mainstream.

I read this article on BBC a last week. If you would like to, you can read it here.

CNN also carried a story on this.

Some more news sites that carried this news are
How do homing pigeons navigate ?

Pigeons navigate 'by following roads'

Pigeons take the highway

The homing pigeon's ploy: follow that road

Pigeons home in on the roads

I was a little surprised that out of all the news sites, someone picked it up on Al jazeera... Not that I have anything against any news channel....

And only stupid terrorists are likewise going to leave a trail of electronic crumbs to track. Yeah, you could argue that stupid terrorists are worth nabbing, but clearly whomever was responsible for 9/11 wasn't stupid, nor will the individual(s) responsible for the first nuclear detonation on American soil be stupid.

Actually, they were stupid, or at least sloppy. Nearly one-third of the terrorists had visas or travel documents with obvious forgeries. While sophisticated in some respects, they clearly weren't James Bond supergenius villian types. In addition, more than half of them were flagged by the airlines computer system as a threat, but were never checked because the system was designed for luggage, not people. So, obviously these people had something in their history/profile that indicated they could be trouble.

Perhaps a better system could have stopped or blunted the events of 9/11. who knows...

Criminal uses cell phone to call in kidnapping ransom. Police trace phone, find criminal + kid. Summer 2003

Kidnap victim memorizes rapists cellphone. Police check registry, find perp. Jun 2003

Kidnapped woman had cellphone hidden on person. Cops trace it to car, catch perp in parking lot. Nov 2003

And many more...

I'm sorry, troll? the above comment makes sense. I am glad that our government is able to get WARRANTS to tap phone lines. They can't get a warrant without probable cause, and if you're innocent, who cares?

For example, I have heard from former PacBell CO technicians that the wiretap and pen trace rate in the Los Angeles area is staggeringly high -- in some offices, upwards of 10% of the circuits have some sort of "tap" installed (From a remote terminal, a tap looked the same as a simple trace device that only records the number dialed, not the voice traffic on the line).

You can expect to have a private phone call if you haven't done anything wrong. The possiblity that someone will be listening is very very low (unless you've done something). But for the few times when somebody innocent makes a private phone call and it's tapped into, the chances that it will hurt them is even lower. If a cop knows you just had sex with your dog, who cares? you don't know the cop, i'm sure he doesn't know anybody you know, and nobody you ever come into contact with with know

Think how many guilty people have been caught due to wire tapping before they have been able to do more bad stuff. I'm probably hurting my karma here by supporting partial "fascism" (and yes, i'm glad they have to get a warrant. at least that keeps them from abusing their power), but I'd like people to look at negative vs. positive side effects of certain things, and wire tapping does a lot more positive.

Or just pick up a newspaper and read about the neverending stream of FBI bugging devices found in Philadelphia over the past three months...

Great theory..except the majority of those guardsmen were carrying guns that weren't loaded, and were probably under fairly restrictive rules of engagement about when they could load and shoot..if they had bullets handy.

Similar rules had been in effect in Lebanon in 1983 before the bombing of the Marine barracks there: the guards who saw the truckbomb driving by did not have loaded weapons, which made it even less likely they could stop potential attackers.

Any terrorist attack against an airport protected by National Guardsman with unloaded weapons would have likely simply added Guardsmen to the list of the dead. It was an exercise in looking like security was provided, which was done by harassing a lot of people to no real purpose..an idea still popular, judginging from the circus at the airports this last holiday season.

The downside is that you can't just leave your outgoing snail-mail in your mailbox, put up the flag and have the mailman pick your stuff up (thereby saving you a trip to the post office). Well, I'm not even sure if this is customary elsewhere but it seems to work pretty well around here.

Of course, you also have to take into account that those little mailbox locks hardly provide any security or even deterence.

Heck, people have armored mailboxes these days...

For tomorrow's fares, Boston to NYC is $64 one way by Train, $123 by Air (cheapest American Airlines), both for Tomorrow at 9AM. So, Train still wins.

And if you need a subsidy example, it's called the SouthEastern Pennsylvania Transit Authority (SEPTA). They're really happy, because they've managed to reduce their 2004 operating deficit "from $54 million to a still-formidable $26 million" (link) (last year's budget was $875 million + a $55 million deficit).

Who pays for all of this? We do... One way or another, the entire nation is paying for this inefficient mess. From this article, the counties pay for 8%, states at 38%. Another report states that even though federal subsidies have dropped in the last 5 years, money is still indirectly funnelled from Federal to State to SEPTA ($800 mil given to PA from the fed last year, $40 mil is directly accountable to going to SEPTA), not counting the $2 billion that the Federal gov has already invested in rail & car refurbishments. Oh, and they've only been sucking our money since 1963... not quite 60 years, but pigging out the same.

Now, imagine if we privatized the deal, and actually forced them to make money on their own? Because by Bus (the 3rd method of mass transit, privatized), I can go from Boston to NY City tomorrow at 9AM for $30. At 215 miles at 20 mpg & $1.75/gal for gas, its $18 by car, the ultimate privatized driving method, and I guess thats why people like to drive themselves.

of course! you're right. sorry. Greenspan is wrong

too.

So is George Soros, he sais sorry too.
NOT

but of course, you know all, including my major (economics), so please forgive the world's dillusions

I don't see what the big deal is. The networks are already handling TiVo in their own way.

Yeah, they're driving away 18-to-34 year-old males, the demographic segment most likely to own a TiVo.

How? Shitty programming that doesn't interest men. One lame reality show after another. Even the basic cable mainstays are sissifying their shows-- I used to watch Discovery and TLC a lot, now practically all they have are semi-disguised "decorating" shows and junk like "A Dating Story."

The only network with shows I actually watch is FOX, and even they do dumb shit like "Skin"-- maybe it was an interesting show somewhat aimed at men, but you're not gonna beat Monday Night Football with anything acceptable enough to be run on broadcast television-- and you might not even beat it with Naked Lesbian Jell-O Wrestling.

Spike TV actually has the right idea-- they ran a James Bond movie marathon during most of the holiday weekend, and unless it was Simpsons time or there was something more interesting on the History Channel, that's what I "watched" if I had the TV on while I was doing something else.

~Philly

There was an article on these people in the Philadelphia Inquirer rag about a month ago, with rather more detail (unfortunately the Inquirer doesn't appear to archive articles older than seven days; I found it by searching, but was directed to a pay site to retrieve the article, so no karma-whoring on that one, sorry).

I seem to recall (and the article here bears that out) that they were at pains to point out they are only responsible for creating the database of streets. The service (be it Yahoo Maps or your GPS manufacturer) that buys that database information is then responsible for implementing the algorithm. Ergo, don't blame them if you end up driving in a very circuitous route.

as long you can go down to the local mexican grocery and buy this stuff, i dont care.

Here is a recent review from John Fried who compared the different sites head-to-head

Here is a recent review from John Fried who compared the different sites head-to-head

Further to that, check out this article in the Philly Inquirer about Bush's latest environmental concessions to the companies that backed him. CO2 is not a pollutant any more, pump out as much as you like unfiltered...

(Cue the 'global warming is a shadowy conspiracy of the evil scientific community against innocent oil companies' trolls...)

This happened three years ago, today. I can see how that would require tightening of visa restrictions.

I first read of the settlement this morning in my newspaper. I live in the Philadelphia region, which, to give some perspective to those outside the U.S., is the fifth largest city in the United States. For all intents and purposes, there is one morning newspaper in our area, the Philadelphia Inquirer.

This story was on the back page of the business section, bottom left, perhaps three column inches. Six short paragraphs. Or, to put it another way -- it was buried.

So, what do we have? A story about an extremely quick and low-key settlement on an issue that's potentially very embarrassing to the RIAA -- and it gets stuck in some out-of-the-way spot in the paper that hardly anyone will see.

But to really get the full import of this, you have to know what sort of paper the Inquirer is, and realize that the Inquirer generally would be all over this. Stories about poor little 12 year old girls being attacked by big business? I'd expect to see a front-page article continuing on to page 4 or page 6 with pictures of the girl and her mother.

No...when I found this article in the paper, my immediate thought was, "why would the Inquirer, given who they are, bury this? Who are they in bed with?"

I first read of the settlement this morning in my newspaper. I live in the Philadelphia region, which, to give some perspective to those outside the U.S., is the fifth largest city in the United States. For all intents and purposes, there is one morning newspaper in our area, the Philadelphia Inquirer.

This story was on the back page of the business section, bottom left, perhaps three column inches. Six short paragraphs. Or, to put it another way -- it was buried.

So, what do we have? A story about an extremely quick and low-key settlement on an issue that's potentially very embarrassing to the RIAA -- and it gets stuck in some out-of-the-way spot in the paper that hardly anyone will see.

But to really get the full import of this, you have to know what sort of paper the Inquirer is, and realize that the Inquirer generally would be all over this. Stories about poor little 12 year old girls being attacked by big business? I'd expect to see a front-page article continuing on to page 4 or page 6 with pictures of the girl and her mother.

No...when I found this article in the paper, my immediate thought was, "why would the Inquirer, given who they are, bury this? Who are they in bed with?"

Interesting. I had noticed when I stopped by Municipal Court to schedule a trial date that the computers were down. I was told by an employee that it was due to the power outage, a comment that didn't make sense considering that I knew for a fact that the server farm was a floor above us...

As pissed as I am at the asshole who wrote the worm (it took nearly half an hour to schedule something that normally takes 2 minutes-- thank "Bob" that I was in Municipal Court, which is only starting to modernize from an old IBM mainframe setup, rather than in Common Pleas or Federal District Court, which are totally computerized-- and in he case of Common Pleas at least, running on Windows), this is, of course, another example of why governments, in the name of security, should go to more open-source solutions.

IBM has gotten Linux certified

Correction -- they got SuSE Linux certified. This only applies to SuSE. Incidentally, it cost them $500,000.

Linux got the highest rating possible

No it didn't. FUD. According to this story...

Linux was certified as providing only "low to moderate" security, compared with the same group's certification as "moderate to high" last year of the security of Microsoft's Windows 2000 software. Supporters said Linux software was under testing for better-security ratings.

In fact, I'd suggest people look at the story in the Inquirer linked above -- it gives a little more information as well as some light commentary.

Ahhh. You are referring to this story. GTA was behind having swords as weapons. Warriors of Freedom online is responsible for the rest. :-)

His dad is blaming movies instead of games. In further stories I've seen his dad comment that his son was just acting on what he's seen in some movie. It's Jack Thompson (the lawyer from Miami) who's blaming games, and he's notorious for it.

Warning: The following contains something besides a knee-jerk reaction against weapons; if you are unable to stomach this sort of thing, please skip to the next post.

In this article, it's mentioned that the weapons, not all of which apparently came from one source, had been locked in a big case in the back of the closet

And from this article, Police said they had recovered two .30-30 rifles, a shotgun, two handguns, two swords, knives, and 2,000 rounds of ammunition

And, in this article: The firearms belonged to Ronald Lovett. He received his first rifle in 1958 when he was 11 and collected more over the years for target shooting, he said. Matt wasn't interested in guns in the least and never fired one, Ronald Lovett said. When he was born, that was when we locked the stuff away, and most of it has not been touched in 19 years. Ronald Lovett said he kept the handguns in a lockbox and stored the other firearms in a closet in the family's apartment, over a row of stores. Police also recovered 2,000 rounds of ammunition, which Lovett said were 20 and 30 years old.

One of the pistols, if not more, was a replica civil war era cap and ball pistol.

If you are deluded enough by the hysterical liberal mass media to consider this an arsenal, then you are completely and totally hopeless, please line up with the rest of the lemmings. The weapons were stored in a approved, safe fashion; the kid showed no sign whatsoever of being a gun nut, never even having fired a weapon when he was obviously aware that they existed.

The articles do indicate a type of person who would be likely to snap, however; predicting that the person would snap in this fashion would be a little bit difficult, don't you think?

While it involves more of refuting the involvement of "The Matrix", this columnist in the same paper as the original story doesn't buy any crap that this kid wanted to kill because of movies/video games...but that it was his own sickness in the head that led him to suit up and head out that night.

The original poster did cite his source, right here:

but the fact that this story "Has Legs" in the US is not surprising, when you read here

Really, what is the US coming to? With VERY little research, a foreigner, like myself can discover this is conservative propagnada. Al Gore Never said he "invented the internet". He did say, "During my service in the United States Congress, I took the initiative in creating the Internet."

Regarding that statment; Vincent Cerf, who's been called the Father of the Internet, said "The Internet would not be where it is in the United States without the strong support given to it and related research areas by the Vice President in his current role and in his earlier role as Senator."

The inventor of the Mosaic Browser, Marc Andreesen, credits Gore with making his work possible. He received a federal grant through Gore's High Performance Computing Act.
The University of Pennsylvania's Dave Ferber says that without Gore the Internet "would not be where it is today."

Joseph E. Traub, a computer science professor at Columbia University, claims that Gore "was perhaps the first political leader to grasp the importance of networking the country. Could we perhaps see an end to cheap shots from politicians and pundits about inventing the Internet?"

So, what Gore said was "true" according to Traub, Ferber, Andreesen, and Cerf.

This "story", can be read about here: http://www.perkel.com/politics/gore/internet.htm

Bottom line, please DONT spread this meme, its flatly untrue... but the fact that this story "Has Legs" in the US is not surprising, when you read here (please read this..) that One in three Americans believe WMD have been found in Iraq. Nearly one in four Americans believe Iraq actually used WMD in the war. And half of those polled in a survey said Iraqis were among the 19 hijackers on Sept. 11, 2001.

With the US so poorly informed, its no wonder Shrub runs willy-nilly around the planet... WHAT IS WRONG WITH THE USA?

War poll uncovers fact gap

A US source, even.

Oh wait...

Some background info from a world trade law student:

One: European governments are subsidizing Airbus development costs, which according to the U.S. violates WTO rules on subsidies. Of course, neither the EU nor the Bush administration can really be considered champions of unrestricted free trade.
[rant] Although economists and common sense agree that free trade results in a net wealth benefit (note that this doesn't imply a "fair" distribution of that wealth), special interest groups that have much to lose from free trade (unproductive industries, unions) find it easier to exert political influence in favor of protectionism than the average person-on-the-street, who stands to lose a few cents a day on account of a specific protectionist measure, of which he is generally not even aware. [/rant]

Two: There is of course no economical or technical reason at all to distribute this kind of megaconstruction project all over Europe. It is estimated that all the silly moving around of pieces increases construction cost by a two-figures percentage. The reason, of course, is a political one: every nation wants a piece of the cake...

...there's a Do Not Call list, and the State Attorney General is enforcing it. Earlier this week they fined two companies (I think they're ski resorts) for violating the list:
http://www.philly.com/mld/dailynews/news/local/516 1728.htm (scroll about 3/4 down)

This report claims that it was recommended that NASA use a laser-based system to scan foam insulation before launch.

Also claims the lithium used in the super-light versions of the external tanks will only make the foam debonding situation worse.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A213 40-2003Feb3.html
http://slate.msn.com/id/2078104/
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A167 19-2003Feb2.html
http://www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/035/oped/Rebuild ing_the_dream_of_space_exploration+.shtml
http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/story.hts/editorial/17 63385
http://www.nypost.com/postopinion/editorial/68231. htm
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,482-564534 ,00.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/02/03/opinion/03ALDR.h tml
http://www.msnbc.com/news/867640.asp?0cv=KB10
http://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Artic les/000/000/002/204pkfxj.asp
http://www.time.com/time/covers/1101030210/sctone. html
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A134 74-2003Feb2.html
http://www.philly.com/mld/inquirer/news/editorial/ 5086944.htm
http://www2.bostonherald.com/news/columnists/bev02 022003.htm

President bush's budget has already mentioned an increase in spending for NASA (which I think was there before last weekend).

I think NASA should try and find the aliens referred to in that proposal.

Gannon wasn't a good QB in the early 90s when he was with the Vikings and Redskins. Letting him go then was the right decision. He matured as a QB only recently. Either team should have kept Brad Johnson, though. At least the Vikings got something when they traded him away. It's the Redskins organization that looks terrible in light of this Super Bowl.

Before adding to the air traffic control load, it might be a good idea to wait until the FAA has worked the bugs out of their controversial new STARS gear. Critics say it doesn't work and is being rushed into operation...

The development of the tank was plagued with setbacks and the original inventors were brushed off by the american war office, only to be adopted by the brits.

Even then, the program really didn't get started until after a lot of patriotic young men were were killed on the fields of the first world war.

If we believe the website (especially the third link in the slashdot article) then the solotrek flew, there are two prototypes capable of controlled hover (one of which is slightly damaged in a test flight accident due to a problem with the test rig and not the vehicle) and all of it is available for cash.

If there is a real need for a single occupant exosuit flyer (for instance, making insertions into urban areas and avoiding the whole black hawk down kinda scenario) then somebody will fund it.

Whether its the EU, some asian power who has engineers who work for nothing or Somebody Else.

If the next developer waits until after the solotrek team scatters, then the resulting machine will not be a solotrek. But then again a Panzer is not the tank envisiged by the engineers at the Holt Company USA either.

Take, for instance, the Amish and Mennonites. They are a closed gene pool and have the market cornered on weird genetic diseases, weird shit like kidneys not working correctly in addition to the cliche six fingers. see here and here

As for eugenics, would we have eugenics without anti-semites like Henry Ford and Adolf Hilter?

Religion isn't the moral compass that people want it to be. It's a method for identifying yourself , your group affiliation, and your place in the world. It's just as easily bastardized for inhumane purposes as anything else.

--mandi

One of Verisign's services is telephone wiretapping. A telco can outsource their wiretapping function to Verisign, which then takes care of transmitting the calls to law enforcement or other wiretapping customers.

The way Verisign does this uses their control of the Signalling System 7 network, which controls phone call routing and which they bought a few years ago by acquiring Illuminet.

The basic concept is that Verisign alters the routing for the tapped phone so that all calls to and from it route through some Verisign tapping facility. Phone numbers today are somewhat "portable", which requires a DNS-like database lookup for every call. Change the database, and calls are rerouted.

This approach avoids the need to tap into the voice path at end offices. But there's a side effect. Because it changes the routing for the voice path, it has to change the time of flight, based on speed of light lag.

A useful tapping test for a phone is thus to measure its round-trip time to a nearby phone. Normally, local call latency is a few 8Khz sample times, under 1ms. But a round trip to Northern Virginia from a West Coast phone would add about 30ms of latency.

Using a short section of hose at each end to get the phones to feed back around the loop gives you a quick read on latency. If you hear a high-pitched whine, latency is normal; if you hear a low-pitched growl on a local call, the routing is nonstandard and something funny is going on.

" Yes, but from that point they have a short period of time to bring you to a judge where they must convince him why they want to keep you."

I'm certain that's a comforting thought to Jose Padilla who's been imprisoned since May without a trial, access to a lawyer, a telephone call, or one moment without bright lights shining down on him. Yes, the man has to learn how to sleep with the lights on in his tiny cell in a military brig. Anyone who's read 1984 will recognize the rooms with the brights always on with no windows as belonging to the Ministry of Love. I've got news for you; our rights have been eroding for some time, and Sept 11 gave the resident president all the power he needed to bring about a landslide. I hope to God there's a major backlash and soon, or there won't be much left of this country for our children. They'll have to read about it in books, so long as the books they're reading don't make the government suspicious. Perhaps my children will one day turn me in to the FBI for being unamerican.

The fucken Philadelphia Inquirer can suck nuts out of a squirrel's asshole.

Nignig Post!!

Well, at least it's not racial profiling by morons who can't even tell one race from another.

But seriously, any kind of system that 'unevenly' applies security screening actually opens a door for terrorists. All they have to do is send their cell members on flights frequently, and see which ones get checked more often. Pack the weapons and stuff on the people who get checked less frequently, and now you're mission has a greater chance of success then with random checks.

"Well, why not just do both random and profiled checks?" you might ask, well, why not just do more random checks? I mean, either the airport can search everyone, or some other percentage. The best security would be gained by "spending" all your checks doing random checks. Any other system unevenly distributes the chances of being checked, and decreases security.
br> I saw a paper online about this a while ago. It was a bit more rigorous, but I can't dig up the link. Ah well.

Some sites (typically newspapers) charge for historical research/reproduction of articles. So it's free and searchable for a month or two, but then you have to pay for the results of the search. For info on the NY Times archiving you can click here and for the Philadelphia Inquirer and Daily News you can look here.
If you start interfering with their cash flow, you might be hearing from them.
Funny enough, this stuff is still free in a library.

Now if we can only convince Environmentalists that wind power is a good idea.

Think I'm smoking crack? Well check out this story from the NY Times about the enviro fight against windmills in Cherry Valley, NY:
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/08/28/nyregion/28WIND. html?ex=1031568343&ei=1&en=0920b9cbdc48601 9

And there is this story about enviros against wind power in Moosic Mountain Ridge, Philadelphia
http://www.philly.com/mld/inquirer/3693755.htm

If you want a good site to view on how the Enviromentalists have shifted from Science to Socialistic Demigogery check out this site from GreenPeace co-founder Patrick Moore:
http://www.fcpp.org/publications/conversations/pat rickmoore.html

I love this quote from Dr. Moore:
"Many factors including a lack of science education, a need to perpetuate themselves and "means justifies the end" thinking. The worst aspect is what I describe as the environmental movement has been hijacked by political activists who are using green rhetoric to cloak agendas that have more to do with anti-corporatism and class warfare than with ecology or the environment."

Remember this is the co-founder of Greenpeace. Not exactly your average "evil right-wing" nutcase.

Brian Ellenberger