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Here's the official White House signing statement, which also comes with a nice picture attached, showing Dick Cheney, a California congressional equivocator of torture, Rep. Duncan Hunter, Donald Rumsfeld, Sen. John 'Count Vlad' Warner, and General Peter Pace.

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• For Immediate Release
• Office of the Press Secretary
• October 17, 2006

President's Statement on H.R. 5122, the "John Warner National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2007"

Today, I have signed into law H.R. 5122, the "John Warner National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2007" (the "Act"). The Act authorizes funding for the defense of the United States and its interests abroad, for military construction, for national security-related energy programs, and for maritime security-related transportation programs.

President George W. Bush signs into law H.R. 5122, the John Warner National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2007, Tuesday, Oct. 17, 2006, in the Oval Office. Joining him are from left: Vice President Dick Cheney, Rep. Duncan Hunter of California, Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, Sen. John Warner of Virginia, and General Peter Pace, Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff. White House photo by Eric Draper Several provisions of the Act call for executive branch officials to submit to the Congress recommendations for legislation, or purport to regulate the manner in which the President formulates recommendations to the Congress for legislation. These provisions include sections 516(h), 575(g), 603(b), 705(d), 719(b), 721(e), 741(e), 813, 1008, 1016(d), 1035(b)(3), 1047(b), and 1102 of the Act, section 118(b)(4) of title 10, United States Code, as amended by section 1031 of the Act, section 2773b of title 10 as amended by section 1053 of the Act, and section 403 of the Ronald W. Reagan National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2005 (Public Law 108-375) as amended by section 403 of the Act. The executive branch shall construe these provisions in a manner consistent with the President's constitutional authority to supervise the unitary executive branch and to recommend for the consideration of the Congress such measures as the President deems necessary and expedient.

The executive branch shall construe sections 914 and 1512 of the Act, which purport to make consultation with specified Members of Congress a precondition to the execution of the law, as calling for but not mandating such consultation, as is consistent with the Constitution's provisions concerning the separate powers of the Congress to legislate and the President to execute the laws.

A number of provisions in the Act call for the executive branch to furnish information to the Congress or other entities on various subjects. These provisions include sections 219, 313, 360, 1211, 1212, 1213, 1227, 1402, and 3116 of the Act, section 427 of title 10, United States Code, as amended by section 932 of the Act, and section 1093 of the Ronald W. Reagan National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2005 (Public Law 108-375) as amended by section 1061 of the Act. The executive branch shall construe such provisions in a manner consistent with the President's constitutional authority to withhold information the disclosure of which could impair foreign relations, the national security, the deliberative processes of the Executive, or the performance of the Executive's constitutional duties.

The executive branch shall construe as advisory section 1011(b)(2) of the Act, which purports to prohibit the Secretary of the Navy from retiring a specified warship from operational status unless, among other things, a treaty organization established by the U.S. and foreign nations gives formal notice that it does not desire t

Any other resources that Slashdot readers can recommend for those who are interested in the subject of audio compression and representation?

• An older but good technical survey of digital audio compression, including MP3, is Davis Yen Pan, "Digital Audio Compression," Digital Technical Journal (Spring 1993). (PDF)
• Some other technical reference material on MP3 is also available on the Digital Audio Systems website.
  
• A more recent survey of perceptual coding of audio, which covers more recent formats like AAC, is Painter and Spanias, "Perceptual Coding of Digital Audio," Proc. IEEE (April 2000). (PDF)
  
• Ogg Vorbis is documented on the Xiph.org website, but I found the documentation to be lacking when read from a signal processing perspective. Christopher Montgomery provides a better description from that perspective in a Slashdot interview from 2000. I found another good description in this thread in the hydrogenaudio forums--it hyperlinks a good block diagram of the encoding process.
  

- real full screen mode, everything can easily turned on/off (even the scroll bar and address bar.. I don't use anything else).

Currently, pressing F11 in Firefox turns off everything except the scroll bar and the tab bar.

user mode is also nice (I like white on black) but it's not so important as the firt two/three

This is implemented - your user stylesheet is userContent.css, located in your profile directory. If you install URIid, you can even have different user style rules for different sites (eg. you could remove the bottom OSDN navbar in Slashdot).

Check out my page of Firefox extensions & customizations for tips on userContent.css etc.

- "browse-ahead"

Many sites have link prefetching (via a simple <link> tag in the HTML header), mine included.

- Ship a few exemplary themes with the browser

This defeats the idea of Firefox being a small download. Make downloading & installing themes a breeze and it's completely unnecessary.

- Word wrapping in the browser.

This can be done already, by adding this to your userChrome.css file:

pre[wrap] {
white-space: -moz-pre-wrap;
}

Admittedly, this should probably be included by default.

For more tips like this, check out my page of Firefox extensions & customizations.

Coca Cola Formula

This is a similar javascript utility aimed at encrypting your entire web page. It is used for putting secure content on an open access web server. You can only view the content if you happen to know the key. It's very cool, and has been around for a long time. Secure, small and fast.

Case in point:- I doubt if anyone has ever used iLeap Telugu that the government so generously bought and is distributing on its website. (I would have given the direct link to it, but the Telugu website doesn't use Unicode fonts and probably has IE-specific rendering)

Narayana Murthy is a great poster-boy for Indian entrepreneurship, but just to point out, GoI itself has some very enterprising people influencing IT policy. Arun Shourie, for one, comes to my mind.

(Actually, it's pretty strange for me to point this out; I generally agree more with CBN than I do with Shourie, but all the same, thought it was an important distinction to make)

...by the largest totalitarian system existent today.

MercadoLivre, their brazilian site, accepts all sort of piracy products, arms (with a dedicated section), e-mail lists (to make SPAM), and so on. Not to mention they don't do anything about the frauds.

I have a site (in brazilian portuguese) - mirror about them. Too bad they're being boycotted by Google because MercadoLivre is their partner.

What idiots. Everybody knows that Wyoming just doesn't exist. In fact, it has even been proven. Honestly, do you know a Wyom...wait a minute, they don't even have a adjective to describe them! What a fraud.

>>The lunar landings were not fake.

Oh yeah? Explain this then!

I don't know whether to be flattered or annoyed at you copying my idea ...

However, a brief summary:

• Car accident.
• Police obtain details from you such as car license plate, name, address (from wallet perhaps) and run them against national persons database.
• It is noted that you are registered with an information link agency, in this case Hailstorm
• Information is passed on to a Hailstorm agent
• Hailstorm agent notifies insurance companies, etc.
• Hailstorm agent updates database, and informs you of actions taken

So you see, it's not difficult. Like they say in the article, it just requires integration between the relevant agencies.

They tried bring this one in over in Germany about two years ago, but the cable companies wouldn't be having any of it. An article can be found here or a babelfish translation here.

Honestly John, you do come up with the most ridiculous and hot-air articles sometimes!