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The US Senate website is not publishing the roll call of votes by Senators on the bill to amend the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act making President George W. Bush's illegal wiretapping order retroactively legal.

http://pressesc.com/news/87005082007/senate-websit e-withholding-spy-law-roll-call

There is no indication that it is going away.

Either you're a troll, or you haven't been paying attention.

US university students will not be able to work late at the campus, travel abroad, show interest in their colleagues' work, have friends outside the United States, engage in independent research, or make extra money without the prior consent of the authorities, according to a set of guidelines given to administrators by the FBI.

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""everbody in germany below the age of 70 does not have anything at all to do with what some people did many many years ago - to even suggest its ironic is stupid "

To tell me that I should be ashamed because of my leader is equally stupid."

Not so much.

"To be rude to me when I'm a guest in your country because of my leader is equally stupid. "

Well, is not polite, and its mostly pointless. But when people feel threatened they vent how they can.

"What, you can dish it out but you can't take it?"

Like you they probably weren't interested in the opposing view.

"You seem to think that the United States is holding you down. "

Keeping reigns on allowed development paths.

"Can we have all of our money from the Marshall Plan and post WW2 aid please?"

That money was economic imperialism, spent in an attempt to buy control over Western Europe. Though interestingly enough nations who receive little "aid" (Germany, Austria, Italy) grew more in post war years than nations who received a lot (Sweden, Greece and Britian) infact you kept fleesing Britain in the lendlease act for decades, with them finishing it of in 2000. But I'm sure the rest of the world would like the US to cough up the billions they owe the UN.

"How about our war debts (some of which date back to the first world war) that you never repaid?"

Well if you have lent money to someone you'd have to talk to the people you lent it to, I haven't borrowed anything. But I can imagine you are getting desperate with the dollar going down the drain http://pressesc.com/01180629622_dollar_falls

"How about that little mess down in the Balkans that you couldn't even solve without our help (via NATO) not ten years ago? "

I didn't ask you for "help". Just stay away. The primitives need to slug it out - and unless you can keep the parties in opposing ringsides for several generations they are back at it when you turn yours. Of course they are siding with each other in the Eurovision song contest, so perhaps songs will win the peace!

"How about the Berlin airlift and defending the people of Germany against Russian vengeance for their crimes on the Eastern Front?"

What, helping Hitler supporters to gain foothold in europe? I don't know, what about it?

"Now I'm not saying that all of that entitles us to walk all over you."

But perhaps it entitles you to think you are the center of the universe and that all who breathes envy you?

"But I do think that the blind and arrogant anti-Americanism shown by many Europeans really needs to end. "

I'm sure that happens once the americans are less pro american and more than 40% believe in Evolution.

"Try a constructive dialog sometime. You'll find it more productive"

Productive? Hardly.

"...then spouting off the latest bit of propaganda spoon-fed to you by those that hate or envy the United States"

Is so funny, i've never met anyone who envies it. I've only ever heard about it from americans, usually right after they tell us how great they are and how we should worship them.

Read the article.

I read the article you cited. It is misleading and crap.
It generally proceeds from its premise (that MS is ransoming the welfare of the children for its own profit), omits facts (like that MS is guaranteeing $100k minimum donation) that don't support this premise, and spews outright misinformation. For example, it says that "The website will try to automatically install a downloadable 'gadget' on each visitor's computer.", which is false but might deter you from visiting the site and learning more about the story.
I did discover this:

The company will guarantee a minimum donation of US$100,000 to UNHCR based on the number of queries that are generated from the search site. The rate for each query will be US$0.01. The maximum donation payable by Microsoft will be US$250,000, which would be equivalent to 25 million search queries. "Driving awareness is critical to finding lasting solutions for the millions of refugees and displaced people worldwide," said Nick Van Praag, director of UNHCR's Division of External Relations. "Through Microsoft, utilising the MSN network on behalf of ninemillion.org, we are able to generate consumer awareness that we hope will result in donations to support this important cause, giving hope to refugee youth and children."

So there you have it: the UNHCR gets a guaranteed $100k, no "ransom" required. They stand to receive as much as $250k in direct giving, and in the package they get something even more valuable: broad exposure and visibility, plus a public endorsement from one of the most philanthropic organizations in the history of the world.

They are driving site hits with human suffering.

Who, these hacks? They (and you) are the only ones banging the drum and imploring people to think about the poor suffering children here.
If you visit the promotion site you're talking about, you'll note a conspicuous absence of such ham-handed exploitation: rather, there's a direct appeal to your desire to spend a little of MS's money for a worthy cause while hopefully getting something useful for yourself in the deal. From the site, here's the pitch: "Searching for a way to help? You've found it.". This creates a win:win:win scenario- you get your search result, UNHCR gets cash and visibility, MS gets hits and visibility. This is hardly sinister; it's sustainable, smart philanthropy that accomplishes more good than just the money it delivers.

The goal is profit. That's the actual problem. And, yes, its worth criticizing.

Is it? Profit may be made via any number of methods, yet MS chose to partner with a charity and give some part of the proceeds (anybody know how much MS earns per search? Is MS taking a loss for the duration of the promotion? Does anybody know?) to the charity. Does this put the charity ahead of where it would be in net terms if Microsoft had elected to market its search product in some different way? Yes, absolutely. They're getting direct cash and broad exposure they wouldn't have gotten otherwise. So what's the problem?

You've said that no profit should ever be made by using a charity, because of some notion of conflict of interest- that if it's profitable to give to charity, MS will have an interest in creating or perpetuating the conditions that make the charity necessary- but that's put-on-your-tinfoil-hat illogical. If it's profitable to work with charities, MS will continue to do so- and there's an inexhaustible supply of worthy causes to give to- meaning that your theory (that MS will be profit-motivated to cause more children to suffer) is implausible at best. Even if 9Million.org's mission is fulfilled, there will be no want of other worthy charities to p

Not to mention that they hold refugee children hostage

It would have been nice if the parent poster had included an example (maybe with a link) of a clinic 'left with almost nothing' just the same.

From TFA

"The industry has decided this is the time to act," said IFPI Chairman and Chief Executive John Kennedy. "The Japanese are law-abiding citizens and it may be this delivers the short, sharp jolt that we need there."

Here's a story explaining Lunar Dust and a nice pic too.

Here's an article about Stanford scientists doing the same a while ago.

Time to invest in tinfoil hat shares.

This in NO WAY makes NSW open source friendly. If anything it makes it harder for anyone in the govt to use open source. What this does is it requires users to buy open source software from a group of designated companies, basically locking small players out of the parket.

This is bad news !!!

Once again we see how slashdot story leads add so much spin to a story as to distort it completely.

This article should hopefully clarify things up a bit.

This article should help you.

This site explains the difference between perpendicular and Parallel recording technologies. By the way, all hard disks are 3D. The slashdot headline is once again misleading.

Here is another take on the same story, but with a little bit more science. The bottom line is there's no such thing as free energy... or lunch. You don't get owt for nowt. CNN needs to learn science

That didn't take long to get ./ed did it now? Here's a Mirror

This is how the story lead would appear on a cell phone. Is it good for anything but Haiku?