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LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Award-winning stage and screen actor Michael Jeter, an "actor's actor" who was beloved by children as Sesame Street's The Other Mr. Noodle, died over the weekend in Los Angeles, his publicist said on Tuesday.

Jeter, who revealed in 1997 that he had contracted HIV and was a longtime supporter of AIDS charities, was found dead in his Hollywood Hills home on Sunday, his publicist said. The cause of his death has not been determined. Jeter was 50.

Really.

"While I am certain many h4x0rs are political, I can't help thinking that script kiddies are like moths to the flame of rising page views"

Would you say the same about all these people? from this story? Somehow I can't help but to chuckle on the fact that if it's for your POV, they're serious hackers, but if they're against it, they're "script kiddies". Whoa, I must be in Slashdot-ville, population: You.

Reuters (US owned)

At least according to the Shareholder Structure chart on their Web site, Reuters shares other than "Reuters ordinary shares held by employee ownership trusts" are 45% UK owned, 39% US owned, 10% owned by shareholders from European countries other than the UK, and so on. The CEO is from the US, but the Chief Operating Officer is from the UK.

Of course, that still means they're predominantly owned by the main countries in the Coalition of the Willing(TM), even if they're not predominantly US-owned.

Yes, do what the Chinese army does and make the donation to the Democratic party.

Well apparently you could also do what the Chinese army does and
purchase Richard Perle.

This Reuters report seems to suggest that at least 18 of them were found innocent and freed, after as many as 18 months in cages. The US government denied them both access to US courts and protection of the Geneva convention.

And please don't say "at least they weren't tortured".

here's a mention from reuters.

He was buried last tuesday in Kodiakanal India.

I just can't get enough of watching this.

I just can't get enough of watching this.

SOUTHERN IRAQ (Reuters) - Charred Iraqi corpses smolder in burned-out trucks. Black smoke hangs over bombed cities where U.S. troops battle Iraqi soldiers. Youths greet British tanks with smiles, then sneer when they have passed.

Reuters correspondents in southern Iraq -- some with U.S.-led forces, some operating independently -- watched the war to topple Saddam Hussein unfold on Sunday as U.S. convoys advanced on Baghdad and battles raged for control of key cities. In the desert near the Shi'ite holy city of Najaf, just 100 miles south of Baghdad, correspondent Luke Baker traveled through a plain littered with Iraqi bodies and gutted vehicles after U.S. forces fought a seven-hour battle against militiamen desperately trying to halt their advance.

Some vehicles were still smoldering, and charred ribs were the only recognizable part of three melted bodies in a destroyed car lying in the roadside dust.

"It wasn't even a fair fight. I don't know why they don't just surrender," said Colonel Mark Hildenbrand, commander of the 937th Engineer Group. "When you're playing soccer at home, 3-2 is a fair score, but here it's more like 119-0."

U.S. troops showed reporters a hideout said to have been used by an Iraqi militiaman. The soldier who had used the hideout had only a filthy blanket to protect him from the cold desert nights, and just a plastic bag of raw meat for food.

When he fled, he left behind a picture of his two children.

Southeast of Najaf, Reuters correspondent Sean Maguire saw explosions and huge plumes of smoke over Nassiriya, a strategic city on the Euphrates river where U.S. forces have been fighting to secure bridges to allow them to advance toward Baghdad.

"It looks like artillery, or possibly air strikes," said Maguire, traveling with the U.S. 1st Marine Division.

BLACK SMOKE, WHITE FLAGS

In the southeastern city of Umm Qasr, Iraq's only deep-water port, U.S. and British forces used planes and tanks in a battle to dislodge at least 120 Iraqi Republican Guards.

Reuters correspondent Adrian Croft said British Harrier jets had dropped 500-pound bombs on the city, sending columns of black smoke curling into the air. When the bombing ended, some Iraqis could be seen waving white flags and surrendering.

As night fell U.S. soldiers were still using machinegun, artillery and mortar fire in an attempt to flush out another group of Iraqi fighters from a hideout.

Civilians streamed out of Umm Qasr and the city of Basra. Reuters correspondent Rosalind Russell, south of Basra, watched dozens of trucks and battered cars pass, crammed full with household belongings.

Machinegun and artillery fire echoed behind them.

"There is fighting in the center, on the streets. It is terrible," said Hussein, a 24-year-old engineer who works for the state-run southern oil company in Basra.

"We don't want Americans here. This is Iraq."

One group of Iraqi boys on the side of the road smiled and waved as a convoy of British tanks and trucks rolled by.

But once it had passed, leaving a trail of dust and grit in its wake, their smiles turned to scowls.

"We don't want them here," said 17-year-old Fouad, looking angrily up at the plumes of gray smoke rising from Basra.

He pulled a piece of paper from the waistband of his trousers. Unfolding it, he held up a picture of Saddam, showing the Iraqi leader sitting on a throne with a benign smile.

"Saddam is our leader," he said defiantly. "Saddam is good."

Don't believe me? go read it for yourself

Here, your pathetic McNews won't show you this:

A Dead Imperialist

More Dead Imperialists

Here, your pathetic McNews won't show you this:

A Dead Imperialist

More Dead Imperialists

Die motherfuckas die! Now lets play some C&C generals and burn more humvees, RPG troops rule!

I'm sorry, but that is one of the dumbest responses I have ever read. It's pretty obvious that you have no idea what you are talking about, but let me try to help.

if you have one apple, and you destroy that apple, how many apples do you have?

Once again, not even France is claiming to know where all of the weapons are. Hans Blix refers to large amounts of anthrax and Vx that are "unaccounted for." True, we know Saddam did use some against Iran (a number that was greatly inflated in the UN declaration, btw). He also used some chemical weapons against the Kurdish population in northern Iraq. He also destroyed some banned weapons in the presence of inspectors after the Gulf War. But there are a lot more that we just don't know what happened to them.

To put this in perspective, pre-Gulf War estimates were that Iraq had enough Anthrax to kill everybody on the planet 3 times. It is not trivial to destroy Anthrax, and so if it was destroyed, we should be able to easily verify it.

but they still haven't found any evidence to say that iraq still has any of their weapons

The burden of proof was on Saddam to account for the weapons we know he had. Are you suggesting that amid numerous UN resolutions, intense international scrutiny, and weapons inspections, Saddam decided to secretly destroy these weapons without documenting it?

watching the news last night, i didn't hear any reports of iraq firing any weapons at anyone, even though the air raid sirens went off 3 times in kuwait city.

Surprise, surprise. He still has banned missiles.

http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/page.cfm?objecti d=12760939&method=full&siteid=89488
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/2870941.stm
http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=topN ews&storyID=2423930

like this, this, this, or this.

These kinds of attitudes, if not confronted, really could develop into something similar. Yes, America is different, but it's terrifying to see how many people are willing to give up critical rights (and critical thinking) just to drop their odds of getting hurt by terrorists from 0.005% to 0.004%.

According to a recent article in Newsweek, Ashcroft really considered widespread suspension of habeas corpus.

This turned out to be misinformation. They weren't Scuds.

2 were Scuds, 2 were Chinese made missiles, codenamed Seersucker by the West.

A Reuters correspondent stationed about 60 km (37 miles) southwest of Basra said: "Looking through a long-range night-vision lens, there is no evidence of fires at the Iraqi oilfields bordering Kuwait that we can see, or at least 50 km beyond that."

"If you look in the direction of the Rumaila oilfield (in Iraq) there is nothing on the horizon and no indication of fire," a second correspondent at the same location said.

There will always be bias in these kinds of conflicts. The best you can do is read sites that are from each side of the extreme and extrapolate the facts to form your own opinion. Although if you don't have the patience or time to do that...bbc,cbc, and reuters are the closest I have seen to unbiased (In english)

MSN Slate
Truthout
The Guardian
BBC
Reuters

To quote Reuters Asia
Afghanistan, Albania, Australia, Azerbaijan, Britain, Colombia, the Czech Republic, Denmark, El Salvador, Eritrea, Estonia, Ethiopia, Georgia, Hungary, Iceland, Italy, Japan, Latvia, Lithuania, Macedonia, the Netherlands, Nicaragua, the Philippines, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, South Korea, Spain, Turkey and Uzbekistan
With an additional 15-20 nations that have pledged conditional support (France will assist if Iraq uses WMD) or who wish to remain silent for fear of reprisal from Hussein (Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, UAE, Iran, Syria, Bahrain, Turkey, Egypt, Lebanon, Greece, and Yemen are potential members of this list.

I would laugh if you were doing something that you knew was illegal and killed some of your friends/family.
Reuters has a news section for people like you.
Then there's also the Darwin awards...

...anticipating a possible war in Iraq

Tonight, Bush will reissue an ultimatum to Saddam Hussein. That ultimatum will state that if Saddam doesn't leave Iraq within (24? 72? depends on the news source), the US will declare war on Iraq.

Saddam has already rejected that ultimatum. We are going to war.

though I have second thoughts about MY TAX DOLLARS (erm, euros) funding it.

whatever floats your boat, though.

Here's a guy who got arrested for wearing a peace t-shirt! >>

Frankly, I don't trust most of the standard news stations or papers. Most have alterior motives, if they're not just plain ignorant. btw.. I also have a theory that the entire country is controlled by 2 companies that battle for the top position. See below...

But you don't have to get your news there, you can go right to the source. Read the Reuters Trust Principles. The majority of "retail" news outlets (TV, paper, web, etc) actually buy their news in a raw and objective form from a "wholesale" news service like Reuters (or Dow Jones or AP) then put their own editorial slant on it.

(Disclaimer: I am a Reuters employee, but not on the news side).

Personally were I running a business this is about the last thing in the world I would bother spending any money on. That's just me though. Maybe there is some great benefit to this that I don't see. Someone make me a case for why I would need to spend some money on something like this. I'm curious here. Doubtlessly there's got to be something I'm missing.

Chat is taken very seriously in the financial services industry.

I know that you guys at Slashdot can't be perfect and that half of the time one quarter of you don't have a frigging clue what the other two eights are doing, but if you figure out later you made a mistake in rejecting a story, just fucking say so, don't lie to those of us who go the trouble of submitting the stories that pay for whatever passes for food with you people. It was "just in" two days ago, and you threw it away, and now somebody has given you a second chance. Okay, I can live just fine with that, as long as you can admit when you went wrong.

Stuff like this is seriously offensive and is one of the reasons why people are turning their backs on this site and are moving over to Kuro5hin.

Behold.

Although the shortening of her telomeres is well-publicized, it very well may have had nothing to do with the death. A somewhat more detailed story can be found here [Reuters].

You certainly could have provided a couple links, but noooo..

Here's a couple:

Sega, Sammy to Combine Operations

UPDATE 3-Sega to merge with Sammy, slashes 02/03 forecast

Sega joins Sammy:

Or just follow this crummy link for the whole pile of poop.

You seem to be mistaken

California has a deficit of about 27 billion the US (before counting any war costs) has a deficit of 50 to 200 billion.

And California is cutting in to expenses (health, education and etc) as well as taxing more.

You seem to be mistaken

California has a deficit of about 27 billion the US (before counting any war costs) has a deficit of 50 to 200 billion.

And California is cutting in to expenses (health, education and etc) as well as taxing more.

What kind of stupid link is this? How about some interesting news instead. (more links)

The security push marketed by Chairman Bill and co. seems to have little or nothing to do with security and is perhaps only a smoke screen to distract from lobbying efforts, other security privacy and false advertising problems, or losses on various fronts. Alternately, the security rhetoric could be a simple case of "pump-n-dump" as options are offloaded to chumps.

Seriously, that company has such a long and poor track record on all fronts, except marketing, that it is not a viable alternative to consider for servers or embedded systems where *BSD, Linux, QNX, Solaris, and others are best practice. Similarly, the desktop market is looking for security, stability, ease of use, ease of maintenance areas where Microsoft is far behind OS X and the major Linux distros.

They had their chance, in fact many. For a dot-com, they've had a long run, but now the best thing they could do for the economy and for the Internet would be to get out of the way.

The security push marketed by Chairman Bill and co. seems to have little or nothing to do with security and is perhaps only a smoke screen to distract from lobbying efforts, other security privacy and false advertising problems, or losses on various fronts. Alternately, the security rhetoric could be a simple case of "pump-n-dump" as options are offloaded to chumps.

Seriously, that company has such a long and poor track record on all fronts, except marketing, that it is not a viable alternative to consider for servers or embedded systems where *BSD, Linux, QNX, Solaris, and others are best practice. Similarly, the desktop market is looking for security, stability, ease of use, ease of maintenance areas where Microsoft is far behind OS X and the major Linux distros.

They had their chance, in fact many. For a dot-com, they've had a long run, but now the best thing they could do for the economy and for the Internet would be to get out of the way.

The security push marketed by Chairman Bill and co. seems to have little or nothing to do with security and is perhaps only a smoke screen to distract from lobbying efforts, other security privacy and false advertising problems, or losses on various fronts. Alternately, the security rhetoric could be a simple case of "pump-n-dump" as options are offloaded to chumps.

Seriously, that company has such a long and poor track record on all fronts, except marketing, that it is not a viable alternative to consider for servers or embedded systems where *BSD, Linux, QNX, Solaris, and others are best practice. Similarly, the desktop market is looking for security, stability, ease of use, ease of maintenance areas where Microsoft is far behind OS X and the major Linux distros.

They had their chance, in fact many. For a dot-com, they've had a long run, but now the best thing they could do for the economy and for the Internet would be to get out of the way.

OK, time to burn karma. I don't care.

Take a look at these assholes in iraq celebrating this tragedy at Reuters

What f'ing assholes. Of course, next week if there is footage of celebrations from iraqis there no doubt will be a mass-email campaign trying to deny these celebrations as racist CNN coverage of "Celebration of some soccer victory from 1987" even though they will be wearing brittney spears t-shirts, having contemporary movie/music posters in the background, dancing atop vehicles from 2000+, etc.

I am referring of course to the footage from Sept. 11th, 2001 that showed Palestinians celbrating our tragedy. They later tried to deny this as a "fake" - that CNN used old footage of "a 1987 soccer victory celebration" until it was seen that a) no one in 1987 would be referring to Osama Bin Laden by name b) one boy was wearing a Brazilian soccer star's jersey (Ronaldo, who was maybe 6 in 1987) and c) there were modern cars appearing not available in 1987.

I'd like to draw your attention to this Google news thread (link via Robot Wisdom)

In particular, this posting, which is eerily prescient.

In other news, Iraqis welcomed the news as God's vengeance". (Link via Drudge Report). I think Reuters should know better than to report this kind of thing as news.

STF

"We are happy that it broke up," government employee Abdul Jabbar al-Quraishi said. "God wants to show that his might is greater than the Americans. They have encroached on our country. God is avenging us," he said."

Wow, I could have sworn you were writing poetry or something. Are you sure you weren't invited for this cancelled event?

I laughed when I saw this story because just now I was trying to understand Apple's relationship with Linux regarding Quicktime. I complained earlier today to the U.S. Mint because of this page, which is a sublte advertisement for the Microsoft Media Player. WMP has significant proprietary features, and just linking to Microsoft as the sole standard implies something.

The immediate licensing problem in WMP may simply be a side effect of DRM, but of course Microsoft intends to use WMP as a wedge to push its own standards into what is now fairly generic commerce -- as it did with MSIE. I told the rep at the U.S. Mint (who knows if anyone will care) that it was unseemly for the government to tacitly endorse a private company by offering just one format, even providing a link to the company's site to get the player, especially where across town the government just recently busted Microsoft for monopoly abuse.

Anyway, Apple doesn't make a QT player for Linux (right?) but appears supportive of it (right?), and there are options to access QT content from *nix. Meanwhile, Microsoft's antagonism towards GPL is very well known, and may appear over WMP. Of course, generic MPEG does streaming, which QT plugins will play. (Also, there's Real, yech.) Maybe this is most another Windows versus Macintosh struggle, but I'd hate to see the government take sides, and I don't trust MS.

On standards and compatibility ... I've written several emails to other government sites that sport the infernal "best viewed with Internet Explorer" links. I doubt I can take credit, but my state of Virginia dropped the MSIE tags. (They originally wrote back explaining, "Frontpage told us to say that." :)

BTW ... why was I hanging out at the U.S. Mint site? My 6 y.o. thinks the state quarter program is very cool, and the Mint even has a whole kids' site built around the damn things. I'm getting tired of state factoids, but am impressed by the savvy of the Mint. We've already calculated how much the Mint would make if everyone in the U.S. took a complete set of commemorative quarters out of circulation.

Specifically, the patent claims as Ameritech's original idea the concept of having elements on a web page that don't change, yet apply directly to other parts of the page that do change.

reuters also buries the microsoft reference deep in the article. Is every report a copy of the same wire report?

Case in point, unionized workers at GE are threatening to strike because they were asked to pick up ~$300 of the ~$2300 increase in health care costs.

Here.

...or even just the drugged ones

Didn't you hear?

Gore's not running.

except to describe America as a hopelessly fascistic, reactionary pit.

Given what the powers that be are doing now and plan to do in the future, this isn't far from the truth.

In related news, Reuters reports that a group of forward-thinking and well-respected scientists and theologians who also acknowledge that life on earth was created by extra-terrestrials are expecting the impending birth of the first cloned human, see the Reuters article: Sect Says First Cloned Baby Due in Weeks

For those of you too lazy to move your index finger, the entire article follows:

Sect Says First Cloned Baby Due in Weeks

Fri December 20, 2002 10:32 AM ET

MONTREAL (Reuters) - A Canadian cult that believes in free love and that life on earth was created by extra terrestrials said it could deliver the world's first cloned baby on Christmas day.

But the announcement by the Quebec-based Raelians sect was greeted on Thursday with anger and skepticism from experts in the field.

"I am personally disgusted," said Arthur Leader, chief of reproductive medicine at the Ottawa Hospital. "It shows disrespect for human embryos and it demeans our humanity," he said.

Brigitte Boisselier, a bishop in the sect, said their company, Clonaid, cloned a human embryo last March and a baby girl is expected to be delivered within the next two weeks and possibly on Christmas Day.

"We are well advanced and the first baby is due for the end of this year. We think it will be a healthy baby," Boisselier told Reuters.

She said 10 human embryos were cloned last spring, with five miscarrying. The four other cloned babies are expected next year.

Boisselier, 45, is a biochemist associated with the Raelians, a cult that believes life on earth was genetically created by visiting extra-terrestrials.

I'd comment on the whole free-love/aliens thing, but that would probably be too far off-topic.

At last, someone gets to the 3. Profit!!! stage.

There's a better Reuters coverage of the subject here.

If we are already paying for it, why more anti-piracy legislation?

Get the people who are SELLING copies!

I think the RIAA owes ME money for the CD-Rs that turned into coasters, backups, and frisbees.

Ironically, the RIAA assumes they have the copyright on everything. So if I buy CD-Rs to burn my own music on, I'm still paying them for the *privilege*.