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Why have an event ... indeed! What is the goal here? Awareness? Big deal! In the grand scheme of things, are unsecure wireless networks going to mean anything real to humankind? Is this Wardriving 'event' going to draw attention to a subject that will make someone think twice about something that might save the lives of themselves and/or others?

To put this in perspective, consider that for years cellphones were 100% open to eavesdropping. In one case this vulnerability was exploited to expose a scandalous affair Prince Charles was having. Did people take notice and say, "Damn. I better get some encryption going on!" No.

Even if every wireless AP owner knew people might be accessing their networks surrepititiously, would they really care enough to do something about it? Probably not.

By the time the night is over, drunk and high people will overwhelm the emergency rooms at Virtua-West Jersey Hospital, Cooper Hospital-University Medical Center, and Our Lady of Lourdes Medical Center. Police will arrest or issue citations to 32 people on charges ranging from aggravated assault to urinating in public.

This may sound like a typical night in an impoverished city with a reputation for drugs and crime.

But it's not.

This night, rapper Eminem is playing the Tweeter Center - and it's his fans who are wreaking havoc.

That doesn't change much - just a few millimeters - from year to year. Tiny as that sounds, satellite tracking allows scientists to make extremely precise measurements of the planet's shape.

Changes in the shape influence the strength of the Earth's gravitational pull from place to place, said Benjamin Chao of NASA-Goddard. Those gravitational changes in turn influence the positions of satellites.

And that's something they can measure to within centimeters. "We shoot laser beams to the satellites," he said. The time it takes for the laser light to bounce off reflective surfaces and back to the ground tells them precisely how far their satellites are, said Chao, who collaborated in the findings. He and Cox put the satellite positions into a computer, he said. That's how they got their surprise finding.

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Here's what you need: a WiFi device; a public node; a CueCat or any other barcode scanner. If you're all geared up, then you can jump the gun on ubiquitous computing. You might use sem@code, a barcode that encodes a URL. With a wireless or mobile internet device, you just scan the barcode into your URL field, and voila! you load the website it links to.

Sem@codes are public tags for URLs. This is not pie-in-the-sky stuff: for example, over three million CueCat scanners were distributed (you can get one on eBay). With that or any other barcode scanner attached to your laptop, you can read semacodes. In addition, your or anyone else can generate sem@codes with open-source software online.

Simon

Actually the Philadelphia Inquirer wrote about this yesterday...
Cold truth: Are cities hotter because of air-conditioning?

Larry Kalkstein, associate director of the Center for Climatic Research at the University of Delaware, said early results of his study of Philadelphia, New York, St. Louis and Indianapolis showed a statistical correlation between increased use of air conditioners downtown and a "jump of a couple of degrees" in the local heat-island effect.

Actually the Philadelphia Inquirer wrote about this yesterday...
Cold truth: Are cities hotter because of air-conditioning?

Larry Kalkstein, associate director of the Center for Climatic Research at the University of Delaware, said early results of his study of Philadelphia, New York, St. Louis and Indianapolis showed a statistical correlation between increased use of air conditioners downtown and a "jump of a couple of degrees" in the local heat-island effect.

www.myrealbox.com supplies free (as in FREE IVERSON) and supposedly secure IMAP accounts. Free calendar, too, so now you'll be able to figure out how old you are.

I went to the RIAA website to see what was their respone was and there was nothing much on the Boucher legislation. But there was this interesting link which to an article from the Philly papers. Obviously the RIAA Mafia didn't read the article before posting the link, because if they did, they never wood have posted it. Tom Moon suggests that the record labels reduce the cost of CDs, stop selling CDs that won't play on computers, etc. Could RIAA be their own worst enemy?

Looking through my roomate's things, I find:

* Anti-bacterial deoderant
* Anti-bacterial shower soap bar
* Anti-bacterial toothpaste
* Anti-bacterial mouthwash
* Anti-bacterial liquid hand soap
* Anti-bacterial hand lotion (why?!)

I agree to some extent with your point but it has to be said that otc anti-bacterial products such as these are unlikely to confer resistance to to different classes of antibiotics such as this one. All antibiotics are not the same.

The possible danger is very real. That's evolution for you.

The real danger is over prescribing of effective antibiotics in unnecessary cases. How many times have you taken antibiotics for a cold? for the flu? Doctors even think it may be unnecessary for bronchitis.

That said the original poster is correct, use of those products is really unnecessary.

-Sean

I would post examples from The NYTimes, but they don't let you see previous issues of the paper online for free. However, as I recall their picks closely mirrored The Washington Post's:

The Washington Post
Top Story: Cyber-Attacks by Al Qaeda Feared
No. 2 Story: SEC Charges WorldCom With Fraud
No. 3 Story: U.S. Court Votes to Bar Pledge of Allegiance

The Los angeles Times
Top Story: 'Tweens: From Dolls to Thongs
One of the store mannequins wears a fringed denim skirt riding low on the hips and a top pushed high on the midriff. Another has shorts that roll down on the tummy and a one-shoulder top.
No. 2 Story: Pledge of Allegiance Violates Constitution, Court Declares
No. 3 Story: WorldCom Hit With Federal Fraud Lawsuit

The Los Angeles Times shows a consistent bias toward "Reader's Digest" type stories that are entertaining and give you something to gossip about but don't really tell you anything of value. I also get the sense that many LA Times reporters are really failed screenplay writers who can't let go of the need to create drama. However, they do occasionally print something worth reading.

The LA Times is owned by The Chicago Tribune , which puts even less original content on its Web site and is more "in-your-face" about pressuring you to subscribe.

I suspect Slashdot would link to The Wall Street Journal more often if the paper made more than 1% of its content available to non-paying subscribers. (I had a paid subscription to wsj.com for about a year, but I no longer do because it's just not worth that much to me.)

I'd like to read Le Monde , but the French refuse to publish an English version. Go figure.

All of Knight-Ridder's newspapers (The San Jose Mercury News , Miami Herald , Philadelphia Inquirer , et al) have been crippled by the "RealCities Network" which forces all of its sites to use the same content-poor, ad-rich design. The saddest story of the group is the SJMercury though, which has just fallen apart since the parent company began slashing costs and forcing the RealCities conformity on its once industry-leading site. The Miami Herald is an unofficial training school for future Washington Post reporters, but that doesn't matter if you can't find their content on the Web.

Slashdot doesn't link to the Financial Times often (ever?), though it's a great paper. It just doesn't turn out a lot of unique content that's of interest to most Slashdot readers.

Newspapers aside, Slashdot has linked to CNN and the BBC in the past, though not the CBC . ABC, CBS and NBC generally provide watered down news for people who don't like to read newspapers -- not Slashdot readers.

Slashdot often links to MSNBC , but I expect that will begin to decline -- MSNBC.com's founding editor (Merrill Brown, a former Washington Post reporter) recently announced that he's resigning after 6 years to pursue other, undisclosed "opportunities." The New York Times noted on June 12 (you'll have to pay for the archived version of the story) that he offhandedly mentioned that MSNBC.com is about to be swallowed by MSN for economic reasons. (In other words, Microsoft put its foot down and said financial concerns outweigh editorial concerns.)

The International Herald-Tribune writes some of its own content, but a lot of the paper is an amalgamation of New York Times and Washington Post stories.

I haven't read the Seattle Post-Intelligencer or the Seattle Times in a while, but you may find some good technology stories there.

Bottom Line: Slashdot links to a disproportionate number of New York Times and Washington Post stories because both papers' sites post a lot of content and that content is top notch. It also helps that they're among the most recognizable names in journalism, but the Slashdot system is set up to allow editors to pick from the best stories that are submitted, regardless of the content provider's brand recognition. If you read a good story somewhere, submit it -- the quality of the story is more important than the misguided registration policies of the content provider. And if I've missed a good site people should be reading, reply to this message and let people know.

Unfortunatly we have been unable to get the Canadian Geese to carry any significant payloads when they fly south.

You're doing better than you think! New Jersey citizens have been up in arms about the sh*t Canada Geese are dumping on them en masse for months. See here, here and here.

... posting the story here so people don't have to register is not fair use. How ironic.

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I just tried a search on 'scientology' and got, not only www.xeno.net as result 4 in the listing, also a news story from the Philadephia Enquirer and no less than three sponsored links in green down the right side, all from Operation Clambake: What is Scientology? read the other side of the story? Curious about Scientology? and a third link 'Xenu.net is the definitive guide to scientology'.If I didn't know better I'd think somebody at Google is taking a little revenge ;-)

Go Google!

The news story claims that removing xenu.net in the first place was an error and that the actual copyrighted pages are still censored. So the decision was presumably taken that leaving the homepage link uncensored but censoring the specific bits that were copyright violations was enough to provide immunity from prosecution.

Every time there's a report about the state of Canadian healthcare, it seems to come from some right wing "thinktank"--why do they call them that?--that has a vested interest in bringing down the system, so they can put a for-profit system in its place.

• ending the war on drugs.
  
• ending censorship in Canadian media.
  
• halting corporate welfare.
  
• keeping government regulations out of cyberspace.

The Philadelphia Inquirer has recently run a couple of stories on this. You can see the first story in which they reported the tracking and the follow-up story which says they will stop (and in which they admitted they were doing tracking).

The Philadelphia Inquirer has recently run a couple of stories on this. You can see the first story in which they reported the tracking and the follow-up story which says they will stop (and in which they admitted they were doing tracking).

The Philadelphia Inquirer has recently run a couple of stories on this. You can see the first story in which they reported the tracking and the follow-up story which says they will stop (and in which they admitted they were doing tracking).

I think many people with overly liberal tendencies tend to jump on issues like this. In my experience, most Americans are pretty fed up with the justice system as it is.

They are fed up not because of mass corruption, or because many innocents are wrong imprisioned, but rather that too many people who are guilty are just not getting punished at all.

Prison is punishment and it just seems like we, as Americans, are not actually punishing anyone with prison. It's one thing to get up in arms about a system that is doing too much, but who's really going to take up the call to make prisons harsher.

It's not exactly a cause that's likely to make many friends. The idea of male prisoners being raped by other prisons is in so many ways an appealing idea _only_ because there is a sense of justice. The thought that many violent criminals out there are being humilated in the most de-masculating of manners gives one a certain sense of justice.

Of course, that is not reality. Any educated person can realize that. Rape is a horrific crime and noone deserves to be raped.

I don't necessarily regret my comment though, because it is drawn from the same desire to avoid the real problem as your call to help the inmates. Our justice system just doesn't work. It needs to be fixed.

I really won't shed many tears though over prisoners being raped. Instead, I'll say them for the much larger problems that we as a society face. Most inmates are just lifeless bodies, consumed by a life of drug abuse and poverty.

It disturbs me more that these individuals live such empty lives than it does that they may be physically assulted.

It's like the whole abortion issue, everyone is either pro-choice or pro-life, but noone is pro-helping the people who may be thinking of getting abortions overcome the problems that would lead them to that point in life.

So, if you really want to discuss things seriously, let's address the real issues and not dance around liberal nonsense.

"True to its post-9/11 government-sanctioned role as US war propaganda headquarters, Hollywood has released "Black Hawk Down," a fictionalized account of the tragic 1993 US raid in Somalia. The Pentagon assisted with the production, pleased for an opportunity to "set the record straight." The film is a lie that compounds the original lie that was the operation itself. " That phrase is a big knock to the credibility of the whole argument. The movie is based on a book and newspaper series of the same name. The movie was done shooting months before 9/11 and the script was written, mostly by the original author, over a year earlier. The pentagon did cooporate, that's true, but mostly because the book had been so non-judgemental, and they hoped the movie would be the same. The method of the book was to lay out all the facts, in a scrupulous journalistic style, and let you decide. The method of the movie is to lay out all the action scenes, in as journalistic a style as possible, and let you see how pointless, yet heroic, the soldiers were. On a slightly seperate rant, Mr. Chomsky needs to stop trying to have his cake and eat it too. There was a massive civil war going on, with four tribes attempting to eradicate each other. Regardless of the reason for US intervention, it's not the US's fault that the culture of blood-warfare existed in the place, or that the civil war occurred.

As a history piece, from what I have read, the movie is right on. As a movie, it was pretty good really, it sure sucked me in. I enjoyed it. If you are looking to grow close to people in the story, it will not happen, as the development is really missing.

But this is not meant to be a great story, it is meant to be a telling of what really happened. And since I was not there, I can't be sure it was true. But if it was...

Here is a link to the original Philly Inquirer series. 29 chapters of what might be the real story. Read this and see the movie, then compare.

" Black Hawk Down original newspaper series"

Now some other company could use this technology and build something like oh say artifical legs, better wheel chairs, etc.

Actually, much of the technology that ended up in the Stegway was originally developed for use in a wheelchair.

More recently, Kamen invented a wheelchair that climbs stairs, operates over sand, and can move on just two of its wheels. The $20,000 machine (code-named Fred - get it, Fred and Ginger?) is known as an Ibot, and can raise its seated occupant to eye-level of standing adults. [ An inventor's project starts a national buzz]

Funny, how that works, no?

Regards,

Lee

For anyone in Philadelphia who doesn't know, the Iron Chef Japanese is opening a restaurant on the 13th of November. More information:

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The USA killed ~7000 innocent Somalian civilians in -93 while failing to kill one single warlord.

Stop showing your ignorance. You may not have liked the Somalian mission, but lets be honest about what the mission was. Killing Somalian warlords was *not* the mission.

Originally the mission was humanitarian, under Bush the elder- "open supply routes, get food moving, prepare the way for a UN peacekeeping force."
Under Clinton, in part due to the deliberate killing of 24 UN peacekeepers, the mission changed somewhat to capturing (that's right, *capturing*, not killing) one warlord, Gen. Mohamed Farrah Aidid, as well as commanders under him. If you find the deaths of 7,000 civilians deeply troubling, as I do, you might try reading BlackHawk Down to get some perspective on how such things occur.

You might pause to consider how (and if, of course) the USA should use its power when attempting to prevent a million starving people from dying due to the fact that food supplies can't get into a country during yet another civil war. Keep in perspective that while the US did sacrifice 34 of its own lives (and a billion or so in cash) and 7000 Somalis died, we were trying to prevent the starvation deaths which had already killed 300,000 Somalis, with the International Red Cross warning at the time of a potential 1.5 million deaths without greater food distribution. (I don't hear you trying to hold any warlords responsible for those 300,000 deaths now, do I? Why didn't the person who handed you that one-liner set of facts bother to mention them?)

Being concerned about the safety of food distribution (having watched rival Somali clans attempt to use food as a weapon by stealing, hoarding, and denying it to particular people), the UN first sent 50 unarmed monitors, then 500 security guards, then 5000, then ultimately 25000 US troops to insure that food aid could get through without being intercepted by warring local warlords. Yeah, USA- those bastards!

After it was clear to the US that its presence wasn't being effective (and the conflict was getting personal), it left, arranged for 25,000 UN troops from scattered countries to replace it, and after 8 more years, the UN has finally helped install Somalia's first government in a decade, the Transitional National Government (interview here). Meanwhile US food aid continues to stream into the country. Man, the USA really sucks, doesn't it!

--LP

Daniel Quinn's column assumes that the United States will attempt to wage "humanitarian warfare", a particularly nonsensical modern notion. You know the ideas-- attacking only military targets, trying not to kill civilians. This never works, and it's possible that it's never happened anywhere other than in the US Government's propaganda.

The column by William O. Beeman is laughable. The column purports to give historical context to Mideast grievances with the West, yet somehow fails to mention the creation of Israel. The article skips from post WWI directly to the Cold War. Ridiculous.

For an historical account of effectiveness against the school of thought that Beeman correctly attributes to al-Afghani, we can look to Hafez al-Assad, the deceased leader of Syria. Assad belonged to a religion called Alawism (sp?) that traditional muslims consider heretical, and are a minority in Syria to Sunni muslims. Thus he faced frequent opposition from Sunni factions, until 1982 when he completely leveled a city called Hama that harbored the revolutionaries. He killed everyone. Women, children, elderly. After that, there were far fewer problems.

I'm not advocating that kind of action, I'm just citing it to prove that military action can be effective against this kind of enemy. You just can't pretend that you're not going to kill innocent people. So if you scream for vengeance, do so with an accurate picture of the kind of vengeance that will be required.

what i dont understand.... ... is why this is such a big issue.

If FaceIt were running on Denver and have the Center City Rapist's photo in the db, that guy would have been caught because of his high profile from Philly and perhaps one young woman would still be alive today because of FaceIt.

Discounting that, this remains "such a big issue" because of the tremendous harm that individuals can wreak due to sloppy thinking. For example, I would not want to trust someone as casual about cross-checking facts as you with the use of such technology or prevention of its abuse. Why do I write this? Because your argument about Denver is based on verifiably false recollection. We have no proof that the Center City rapist has been in Denver. The Colorado rapes were committed in Fort Collins.

For documentation, see the results of a search of the Web site of The Philadelphia Inquirer and The Philadelphia Daily News . Consider this quotation from an article in the Daily News from 18th September:

Article 11 of 17, Article ID: 7003193060

Published on September 18, 2001, Philadelphia Daily News (PA)

DNA ties Center City rapist to assaults in Colorado

The Center City rapist has struck again - in Colorado.DNA tests confirmed that the murderous rapist - who disappeared after attacking six women and killing one here in the summers of 1997 and 1998 - has assaulted six women this summer near the campus of Colorado State University, police in Fort Collins, Colo. and Philadelphia confirmed last night. DNA samples from two attacks in Colorado match DNA taken from the scenes of the Philadelphia attacks, police said.

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This from the Philly Daily News:
http://dailynews.philly.com/content/daily_news/200 1/09/13/local/DEVI13C.htm

Apparently this is an Associated Press photo (they claim it hasn't been modified) of the WTC on fire. You can see a face in the smoke.

I have found a picture of what may be a rare photo of elusive /. mastermind CmdrTaco. Original and enlarged

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There's a blurb at http://news.philly.com/. There's a link to a longer story, but I'm having problems getting through to it.

There's a blurb at http://news.philly.com/. There's a link to a longer story, but I'm having problems getting through to it.

The cort did aprove the use of the keyboard tap.

The court order, however, did authorize the FBI to "install and leave behind software, firmware, and/or hardware equipment which will monitor the inputted data entered on Nicodemo S. Scarfo's computer by recording the key-related information as they are entered." from http://inq.philly.com/content/inquirer/2000/12/04/ front_page/JMOB04.htm

wow, the GPL is being violated in China.. perhaps these are some bigger issues from China:

Outlaw group is mass killed
tibet situation, caused by China
see what a Chinese 'criminal' has done to deserve jail
Chinese government illegally harvests organs

obviously a lot of problems exist in China, anyone interested should visit human rights in china

AirClic partners include Motorola, Symbol & Ericsson. A keyfob scanner, the $50 AirClicker will be available soon. Former Amex execs are chairman and CEO of AirClic. Their Scanlets are being "leased", a la domain names. High-level diagram of their tech architecture references a "switching core", probably from their acquisition of Stockholm-based Connect Things, a 1999 Ericsson spinoff.

Think DNS root server for barcode-to-URL mapping.

Rich

These folks have done a lot of the handiwork in simplifying the net for elders. They've put together materials and a "starter" site that has been specifically oriented to be the "training wheels" for the elderly. The site is fully tested with actual elders and includes large type everywhere, scaled for different monitor sizes; a web-based email with all of the confusing elements yanked out; a search engine interface with all of the confusing elements yanked out; and a simple message area where elders talk about things with schoolchildren.

It's in place or pending at several hundred sites and is expanding. It was just written about in Thursday's Philadelphia Inquirer.

The essential idea is this: Was the US plane in international flight space? Probably. But why was it so close? The article points out a basic difference in Chinese viewpoints vs. American viewpoints. Americans feel that it's OK to do anything you want, as long as you don't "cross the line". The line in this case is the law. Americans view the law as being a tightly defined concept. Chinese culture, on the other hand, maintains that you shouldn't even approach the line; that you shouldn't give the appearance of an offense.

This was enlightening to me. The Chinese are not really seeking an apology for the actual collision. What they can't understand is why we are running surveillance aircraft so close to their airspace? Even if it is not technically against international law, why do we insist on provoking them?

All the posturing on "fault" for the accident is a smokescreen for this basic cultural difference. Are there solid military reasons for doing the surveillance? Yes. But we must balance that against the fact that even if we're not breaking the law, we are definitely too close for Chinese comfort.

I think the answer is, "you can't". The information is unencrypted at some point, and if your adversary has physical access to your computer they can get at it. The FBI has been known to install bugs within the keyboard itself to record keystrokes in cases where the target has encrypted the data on the computer.

"We've had trouble getting PGP employed across the breadth of society," Philip Zimmermann, the inventor of PGP, lamented. "There needs to be more consciousness raised about privacy, but ease of use certainly has been a factor."

It's always good to see this getting public exposure, and they did a good job of raising the standard privacy concerns (doctors and patients need privacy and therefore encryption, for one), although the article wasn't as enthusiastic about encryption as I would have liked.

How about running cables by pet ferret? Costs only a few treats.

I could contract my three out to some IT companies and make a bundle.

Watch out the cops may be spying on you.

The cops in Philadelphia did their job, and they did a fine job of it as well.
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Honestly, how many cops are being charged with Gestapo-like tactics?


The fact there were standing Federal injunctions (since '76) against Philly cops infiltrating, surveiling, and making pre-emptory strikes against protester, yet Philly cops shut down a puppet facility and state troopers infiltrated dissenting organizations takes any luster off of the police's behavior during the convention.

This story from this morning's Inky describes how state troopers infiltrated organizations deep enough to be arrested at an action. Were the cops aiming to keep the city moving smoothly, or prosecute persons with dissenting opinions?

Finally, I saw plenty of footage showing cops mistreating protesters, particularly at Broad and Locust, so I feel that your assertion that the cops did a fine job is unfounded.

If the protesters would have gotten a permit (and they could have gotten one)

I'm unsure if you're being disingenuous or simply ignorant, but many of the actions, such as the Kensingtion Welfare Rights Union march applied for permits and were denied. In addition, Philadelphia does not give the same show of support for leftist causes as they did for the Republicans. On one hand you have a $6 million budget and tax incentives to build new hotel rooms, and the MOVE bombing on the other.

you clearly spend too much of your time smoking dope and reading "alternative" (read extremely biased) news sources.

The role of the alternative media is to provide coverage of underreported stories. As you might remember there's a crisis in the Middle East, but you might not know that by reading the front page or turning on the television, since coverage is dominated by the Florida recount. The stories in alternative papers may reflect topics that threaten interests related to the mainstream media. Or the mandate of mainstream news outlets does not include topics related to social justice or the environment, but it seems that you at once closed minded and making an intellectually lazy ad hominem attack.

I won't do the gruntwork of going to Google and searching for "John Timoney bicycle attack" for you, since it's not really all that hard. Plenty of people were arrested, many of them for the flimsiest of reasons, but only one was accused of chucking a bicycle at a cop, and other than your distrust of police in general, you don't seem to cite any reason to think that this incident didn't happen exactly as described.

With that said, I agree almost completely with the last paragraph of your post.