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Computer game programmer pioneer Bunten should be on the list. She designed the first multiplayer pc games (among them M.U.L.E. and Global Conquest), and forsaw that multipler gaming and social interaction was the wave of the future. She died of cancer before the future could catch up to her.

Links for people too busy to google:

http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/2003/03/18/bunte n/index.html

http://www.costik.com/dani1.html

(Yes, I am HTML impaired....)

On the subjec (partly at least) this is definitely an interesting read for a point of view the public seldom gets to hear: Courtney Love does the math, By Courtney Love

Mr. Ford must be one fit senior citizen.

He's a senior citizen that rescued a sick hiker near his residence in Wyoming. You may have read about this, if not there are more details here.

Harrison Ford may be the perfect guy. Rides his horses, good looking, humble... if it weren't for the Star Wars Holiday Special he made in 1978, he'd be perfect.

Funny, one of his Harvard Business School professors confirmed the AC's opinion about how much time George spent paying attention in class (and reveals many other very interesting things as well).

An Oldy-but-Goody from Tom the Dancing Bug: Ethical Issue Raised by Man-Cow Organ Slave (Salon, may involve mandatory ad watching)

Canada is is both larger than and lower in urbanization than the U.S.. Ain't it a bitch when the facts don't fit your beliefs (assuming you are part of the reality -based community ).

And as for subsidization -- wouldn't it make more sense to subsidiaze infrastructure (think national information highway network) than insanely expensive military systems that don't work

I have not watched much of the show, but I don't much care for shows that wrap everything up in a neat little box and make people think that all crimes are solved in an hour, give or take commercials.

How true. IMHO, the best show on television is The Wire on HBO. If you want a program that avoids the simplistic cops good/crooks bad theme and that pervades the network pap then this program is for you. Quality acting, directing, scripting and writing all played out over 12 one-hour (no commercials) segments--it will leave you counting the days until the next episode.

We've been hooked on this show since season one and apparently the critics have begun to take notice too.

type faces of printers used before 1836 are too difficult for optical scanners to read

I'm amazed they still have these archives. One of my favourite people, Nicholson Baker has made a personal crusade, written books on the subject, and put enormous amounts of his own cash, into preserving newspapers that government archives are hellbent on destroying. In particular he attacks two fallacies of document archiving:

Paper does not self-destruct in a short space of time, which was among the flawed rationales for misguided conversion to microfiche:

Microfiche is actually far more vulnerable to destruction than the originals. Decades of archives have been lost because they were microfiched and the originals pulped.

I fully expect digital archives to be even more fragile (as various /. articles over the years, not to mention much research into digital curatorship, attest)

I'm curious why you think low-income people shouldn't pay taxes. Don't they owe a responsibility to the state? By what right do they *deserve* a free ride? The right of being poor? Under your system, if everyone could get a free ride off the rich by being poor, I think I would remain poor too, just so I could loaf around and do nothing on the rich man's dollar.

I don't have too many objections to your proposed sales tax scheme, since you exempt basic necessities from it, but I do want to comment on this attitude. I'm not sure why you think low-income people "owe a responsibility to the state," when it sure isn't doing much for them. Public schools? Yes, shitty inner city ones. Highway maintenance? Uh, they don't have a car. Military defense? Well, they are the group most targeted by recruiters. In any case, there is certainly a lower limit on income below which someone needs all of it just to survive, and can't afford to pay any taxes, "responsibility to the state" or not; hence the standard exemptions in the current tax code.

Gosh, how nice it would be to sit around and let the rich man work for me. Boy, the world owes me a living!! LOL.

Yeah, those damn lazy poor people all have it as good as Lucky Ducky.

I'm curious why you think low-income people shouldn't pay taxes. Don't they owe a responsibility to the state? By what right do they *deserve* a free ride? The right of being poor? Under your system, if everyone could get a free ride off the rich by being poor, I think I would remain poor too, just so I could loaf around and do nothing on the rich man's dollar.

I don't have too many objections to your proposed sales tax scheme, since you exempt basic necessities from it, but I do want to comment on this attitude. I'm not sure why you think low-income people "owe a responsibility to the state," when it sure isn't doing much for them. Public schools? Yes, shitty inner city ones. Highway maintenance? Uh, they don't have a car. Military defense? Well, they are the group most targeted by recruiters. In any case, there is certainly a lower limit on income below which someone needs all of it just to survive, and can't afford to pay any taxes, "responsibility to the state" or not; hence the standard exemptions in the current tax code.

Gosh, how nice it would be to sit around and let the rich man work for me. Boy, the world owes me a living!! LOL.

Yeah, those damn lazy poor people all have it as good as Lucky Ducky.

I'm curious why you think low-income people shouldn't pay taxes. Don't they owe a responsibility to the state? By what right do they *deserve* a free ride? The right of being poor? Under your system, if everyone could get a free ride off the rich by being poor, I think I would remain poor too, just so I could loaf around and do nothing on the rich man's dollar.

I don't have too many objections to your proposed sales tax scheme, since you exempt basic necessities from it, but I do want to comment on this attitude. I'm not sure why you think low-income people "owe a responsibility to the state," when it sure isn't doing much for them. Public schools? Yes, shitty inner city ones. Highway maintenance? Uh, they don't have a car. Military defense? Well, they are the group most targeted by recruiters. In any case, there is certainly a lower limit on income below which someone needs all of it just to survive, and can't afford to pay any taxes, "responsibility to the state" or not; hence the standard exemptions in the current tax code.

Gosh, how nice it would be to sit around and let the rich man work for me. Boy, the world owes me a living!! LOL.

Yeah, those damn lazy poor people all have it as good as Lucky Ducky.

I'm curious why you think low-income people shouldn't pay taxes. Don't they owe a responsibility to the state? By what right do they *deserve* a free ride? The right of being poor? Under your system, if everyone could get a free ride off the rich by being poor, I think I would remain poor too, just so I could loaf around and do nothing on the rich man's dollar.

I don't have too many objections to your proposed sales tax scheme, since you exempt basic necessities from it, but I do want to comment on this attitude. I'm not sure why you think low-income people "owe a responsibility to the state," when it sure isn't doing much for them. Public schools? Yes, shitty inner city ones. Highway maintenance? Uh, they don't have a car. Military defense? Well, they are the group most targeted by recruiters. In any case, there is certainly a lower limit on income below which someone needs all of it just to survive, and can't afford to pay any taxes, "responsibility to the state" or not; hence the standard exemptions in the current tax code.

Gosh, how nice it would be to sit around and let the rich man work for me. Boy, the world owes me a living!! LOL.

Yeah, those damn lazy poor people all have it as good as Lucky Ducky.

I'm curious why you think low-income people shouldn't pay taxes. Don't they owe a responsibility to the state? By what right do they *deserve* a free ride? The right of being poor? Under your system, if everyone could get a free ride off the rich by being poor, I think I would remain poor too, just so I could loaf around and do nothing on the rich man's dollar.

I don't have too many objections to your proposed sales tax scheme, since you exempt basic necessities from it, but I do want to comment on this attitude. I'm not sure why you think low-income people "owe a responsibility to the state," when it sure isn't doing much for them. Public schools? Yes, shitty inner city ones. Highway maintenance? Uh, they don't have a car. Military defense? Well, they are the group most targeted by recruiters. In any case, there is certainly a lower limit on income below which someone needs all of it just to survive, and can't afford to pay any taxes, "responsibility to the state" or not; hence the standard exemptions in the current tax code.

Gosh, how nice it would be to sit around and let the rich man work for me. Boy, the world owes me a living!! LOL.

Yeah, those damn lazy poor people all have it as good as Lucky Ducky.

I'm curious why you think low-income people shouldn't pay taxes. Don't they owe a responsibility to the state? By what right do they *deserve* a free ride? The right of being poor? Under your system, if everyone could get a free ride off the rich by being poor, I think I would remain poor too, just so I could loaf around and do nothing on the rich man's dollar.

I don't have too many objections to your proposed sales tax scheme, since you exempt basic necessities from it, but I do want to comment on this attitude. I'm not sure why you think low-income people "owe a responsibility to the state," when it sure isn't doing much for them. Public schools? Yes, shitty inner city ones. Highway maintenance? Uh, they don't have a car. Military defense? Well, they are the group most targeted by recruiters. In any case, there is certainly a lower limit on income below which someone needs all of it just to survive, and can't afford to pay any taxes, "responsibility to the state" or not; hence the standard exemptions in the current tax code.

Gosh, how nice it would be to sit around and let the rich man work for me. Boy, the world owes me a living!! LOL.

Yeah, those damn lazy poor people all have it as good as Lucky Ducky.

Rather than cheering on file sharing, the EFF should be presenting us with the details of its alternative so that we can measure it against our current copyright system, and collectively decide which system we prefer.

The person is refering to my article here (click the "free day pass" for the full text -- fwiw, the "coping isn't cool" title itself wasn't written by me, that's by Salon).

Dont forget that the EFF used to suggest that the RIAA should be suing infringers. And their p2p solution hinges on the silly notion that *almost all* rightsholders will all of sudden voluntarily license their work, and *almost all* downloaders will all of sudden volutarily pay.

If you prefer that, then you prefer something that makes even less sense than what we have now.

Lets not reduce the argument to mud slinging.

Deal. Please accept my apologies for my temper.

Well, then we're disagreeing on semantics here. You think "foo" is a right, and nothing else defines it as such

Marriage is a right. It's recognized by state and federal laws.

I'm saying "foo" is a right, so long as it's legal. I'm NOT, however, saying that the law is always correct, so don't make this mistake.

So then we can agree that gay marriage was a right throughout most of the U.S. until the 1990s, when it was made illegal. Prior to that, there was no law against it in most states.

In your analogy it's a right denied to *everyone*.

The right to marry someone of the same sex is being denied to *everyone*.

This I will answer, if you answer the bit about polygamy, beastiality, incest, etc. (what makes same sex marriage "okay" but not those?).

Fair enough. I don't have a problem with polygamy between consenting adults. Beastiality victimizes animals that can't give consent. Incest is likely to lead to genetic deformities.

This may surprise you, but I'm not forcing my religion on anybody. I have no religion (I'm not even baptised, consider myself agnostic).

I admit to being surprised. I am an atheist.

Marriage is historic and *natural*. I don't consider homosexuality to be as nature intended (nevermind God).

Homosexuality is common in nature as you can see in this article. It occurs throughout the animal kingdom, from swans to apes to penguins.

The very fact that we populate through heterosexual relations is proof enough of this.

It's only proof that reproduction is a heterosexual act, not that every single animal is intended to be part of the reproductive cycle. Look at bees: The only fertile female in the nest is the queen bee and male worker bees do not fertilize any eggs.

I'm not saying that homosexuality is *wrong* per se, but that society shouldn't endorse it. IOW homosexuality is a sexual deviance (like BDSM, etc.). This is a little difficult to explain in a short time through text. But try not to take this as much more "mean spirited" than I mean it. It should be "accepted" as okay, but not codified as a right ("You have the right to free speech, to bear arms, and to have same-gender sex")

There is mounting (no pun intended) evidence that homosexuality is influenced by nature more than nurture. There are genetic traits associated with homosexuality. So, unlike BDSM, it's not simply a lifestyle choice.

I am a liberal (no surprise there). I believe that the government should not be limiting people's rights unless it is to protect others. Preventing two consenting adults from getting married in the legal sense of the term "married" isn't protecting anyone. It's curtailing the rights of those people in order to codify the moral beliefs of third parties into U.S. law. This isn't about making something legal. It's about making it illegal. That's an important distinction.

This article actually describes a pretty heated battle between AT&T and Berkeley/BSD,

That took place after most of the BSD releases.

but I really recall reading somewhere that it was a partnership early on with students working on the AT&T code.

"Working on the AT&T code" in the sense of "directly contributing either to Research UNIX or to USG UNIX/System {III,V}", or in the sense of "taking AT&T code and adding stuff to it?

When it comes down to it, though, BSD and AT&T's System 5 UNIX had a great deal of common code

Because AT&T added a lot of what various SV-based UNIXes called, at the time, "Berkeley enhancements", i.e. they picked up BSD code, rather than being joint developers with Berkeley. (SVR4 picked up some more stuff, but that was as a result of a partnership with Sun rather than with Berkeley.)

in particular look at the discussion of the TCP/IP code, which was a part of BSD UNIX used in System 5

And which they picked up (through Lachman Associates, I think).

My understanding is that Linux and UNIX have very different takes on the kernel, and that to me differentiates the two trees enough that they should not both be called by the same term.

I suspect most commercial UN*Xes these days have sufficiently "different takes on the kernel" that the descent from original AT&T UNIX is a bit remote; the BSDs have diverged a fair bit as well.

You can choose not to call them "UNIX" if you want, but...

That said, there's a great deal of code that's fairly portable between the two.

1. For a lot of that code, it's a bit more than "fairly" portable;
2. there's a great deal of code that's "fairly portable" between OSes nominally ultimately descended from AT&T UNIX, and I deliberately use "fairly" there - the question is whether a given Linux distribution looks significantly different from "the average of all other UN*Xes" than does, say, AIX, from the point of view of the user, or the administrator, or the developer. I suspect that, except perhaps from the point of view of the OS developer, most Linux distributions are not significantly further from "the average of all other UN*Xes" than are other UN*Xes.

I really don't care much whether the code was, once upon a time, code from AT&T; what I care about is whether a particular model of how the system works matches that of other UN*Xes. Linuxes have their deviations from the norm, but the same applies to many commercial UN*Xes. To pick one example, Linux distributions use ELF as their object file format, just as SunOS 5.x and many other SVR4 derivatives, and most of the BSDs, do; several commercial UN*Xes don't, including one BSD-derived commercial (partially open-source) UN*X. (Hint: it's the one that uses Mach-O instead. :-))

This article actually describes a pretty heated battle between AT&T and Berkeley/BSD, so I probably didn't have that clear in my head, but I really recall reading somewhere that it was a partnership early on with students working on the AT&T code. When it comes down to it, though, BSD and AT&T's System 5 UNIX had a great deal of common code - in particular look at the discussion of the TCP/IP code, which was a part of BSD UNIX used in System 5.

I personally would never call Linux a UN*X OS because Linux was originally built (mostly) from the ground up to emulate UNIX, where most OSes that bear the UN*X tag originated from much of the same original source. Check out this cool UNIX history chart. Granted, the author definitely takes some liberties with the term UNIX, since the Linux tree and other UNIX-like OSes are included, but it's a pretty incredible timeline nonetheless. My understanding is that Linux and UNIX have very different takes on the kernel, and that to me differentiates the two trees enough that they should not both be called by the same term. That said, there's a great deal of code that's fairly portable between the two.

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Well, it seems I do. I was born and live in Santiago, Chile, so I think I'm from what "developed people" calls the Third World. And from down here, it's sadly funny watching the White House, the UN, and all those we-got-the-power Clubs pretend it's legitimate doing something good for their countries and bad for the far far away Third World. In fact, even "good" means "good for the pockets of our wealthy ones". Third World is not a geographic issue: we have our own few First World people, and you have plenty of Third World americans and europeans. Back on topic, for the White House and their supporters is pretty comfortable messing up the environment and let all those funny-little-countries-that-surround-us pay the bill. Take the Ozone layer, by example. This is a Salon article from 2000 if you want to know some of the mess: http://dir.salon.com/health/feature/2000/11/03/ozo ne/index.html?sid=992601

No, you seem to have misinterpreted my points.

Listen to yourself - "yet another money-hungry company" - it is a Slashdot-established truth that companies' exist to make money. Get over it.

All companies are money-hungry - but they can be money-hungry and still do cool shit. Google is an example of that. IBM is an example of that. Even Microsoft is an example of that.

When your company's focus changes from creating new technologies to using technologies that others create, you're going down the wrong path.

TI and HP were innovators in their heyday. Look at HP now.

Your monetary thinking is short-term. Yes, creating new technologies is always expensive on the onset. So what are you suggesting? That we all use Windows forever and ever since creating new technologies and adopting them with overhead costs is anyway expensive?

However, tomorrow when HP comes out with something else, they would have the technology that they have developed inhouse. And that will save them future development costs. The initial investment is always high, however the returns in the longterm far outweigh the immediate losses.

That's actually untrue, but even if it wasn't, so what - that's what people like - cheap and mediocre shit - and that's what they can sell in volume.

That _is_ indeed true. Although HP's troubles started even when Perens was heading out, Carly's services-oriented outlook killed the principles the company was founded on.

Maybe you should read Losing the HP Way.

Look how Dell's growing by leaps and bounds - and they're not exactly a bastion of product innovation. What is HP supposed to do?

See? That's exactly what I meant. HP was not a company that followed what others created -- they were trendsetters of their day, who created new technologies that _others_ followed.

There is a _LOT_ that HP could have done, given their expertise in hardware. IBM is still a bastion of innovation -- and it's not like they are losing out to Dell. HP could equally have done just as well, instead they chose not to compete and rather follow.

No, I think they'd smile and say "Holy shit, man, times are tough now - we were lucky that we had the luxury of doing things the way we did! I don't know if we could pull that off today". .B U L L S H I T.

Who're you kidding? Good companies can always do cool things and still do well, if they are enterprising enough. HP had the financial muscle to make a change, companies 1/10th the size of HP are making new inroads with little to no financial muscle. Every other company had to go through the crucible, I do not see Microsoft cutting down MSR or IBM downsizing TJ Watson or Xerox closing PARC.

HP Labs has laid off _so_ many people (around 6k, if I remember) after the Compaq merger -- and most of these people once were part of the core technology and R&D groups.

I'm sorry, I don't buy your argument.

The spraying is the initiative of the United States, which has been involved in Colombia's affairs ever since it stole the land for the Panama Canal from Colombia. Coca is grown in the north and the south, but the north is not sprayed - only the south. That is because the coca growers in the north are US-friendly and the coca growers in the south are in FARC controlled areas, a movement which among other things, wants the US out of Colombia's affairs. The south growing coca is a new phenomenom, for years FARC banned it, so all the coca grown and sent to the US in the 1970s was from the US friendly north. It only became a "problem" when the south began growing it. The US army colonel who supposedly was leading anti-drug efforts was actually involved in an operation to ship drugs to the United States.

Right now Phillip Morris is pushing the deadly tobacco drug on Chinese people. Can you imagine if China sent planes over to the US and began dropping herbicides on fields all over the US south? This is completely ridiculous, and whenever someone from south Colombia fights back against this, of course it's called "terrorism" and is used as justification for why this is necessary.

I don't think this whole thing is the US government being misguided, I think it is the US government being misleading, especially to the American people. Plenty of countries ship drugs to the US, if the product (such as marijuana) is not grown here already. But only Colombia gets this attention, only Colombia gets sent one billion a year to fight the FARC...uh, I mean, to fight coca farmers. Coca is the WMD's of Colombia - it is the excuse for doing what they *really* want to do.

Why is Colombia so important? Because Venezuela, Colombia (and from recent discoveries, Bolivia) have massive amounts of oil. The US powers-that-be want to control these natural resources. Arauca is one of the more oil-rich regions, and dozens of trade unionists in that region alone have been murdered this year. Hundreds of Colombian trade unionists are murdered every year, and the US sends one billion a year in military aid, crop destruction and so forth in order to add fuel to the fire. These policies are lobbied for by corporations like Occidental Petroleum, and I see only the most sinister motives behind their and the US's efforts in Colombia. Of course, the whole coca thing is a big WMD-like front for the real reasons, but if the US wanted to stop the global drug trade it should stop shipping tobacco to China. Hell, the US helped England invade China in order to push heroin on them over a century ago.

Specifically for blacks? This should be a good starter.
You could start with the record number of black appointments to Federal positions. Clinton connected with black Americans in a way that gave them hope, he made them feel like the promises of the Civil Rights movement would come true if he had anything to do with it. I'd say that's concrete, to make a person who feels like a second class citizen realize the their guarantees under the Constitution will be upheld. It's lasting as well. Bill Clinton gave Black folks hope, I don't know if you can measure how much that was worth, and nobody can take it from them.
Your qualifier of lasting is a bit difficult. Did a Republican Congress or Administration make a thing less lasting? Like Bush I's cuts to Head Start or his assault on Affirmative Action.
The general idea behind Clinton's policies was to preserve the programs, such as Affirmative Action and anti-poverty programs like Head Start, while creating a rising tide that would lift all boats.

It could be out of ignorance or favoritism. Or it could be that slashdot has an obligation to occasionally make plugs for MSNBC which has ties to MS-Slate which has the purpose of knocking off Salon as MSIE was to knock off Netscape.

These are provided by the National Election Pool, the successor to Voter News Services, disbanded after the 2000 election froo-fraw. And these numbers have been available all afternoon (well, since 2pm EST) to anyone in the media who would've been interested. Salon's readers would've learned about it any number of times reading the War Room this afternoon. And as always, these early returns are to be taken with a HUGE - repeat, HUGE - grain of salt. The networks won't report these because they are unreliable at this point and because of the great caution they are taking to avoid another 2000 debacle.

These are provided by the National Election Pool, the successor to Voter News Services, disbanded after the 2000 election froo-fraw. And these numbers have been available all afternoon (well, since 2pm EST) to anyone in the media who would've been interested. Salon's readers would've learned about it any number of times reading the War Room this afternoon. And as always, these early returns are to be taken with a HUGE - repeat, HUGE - grain of salt. The networks won't report these because they are unreliable at this point and because of the great caution they are taking to avoid another 2000 debacle.

Salon War Room Report

I don't suppose you'd have a username/password (for a premium subscription) that is required to view that report? :-)

According to the Des Moines Register poll out late Saturday evening, 27 percent of Iowa adults have already voted. And among those Kerry leads 52 percent to 41 percent.

relevent links:

Salon War Room Report
Gallup Poll original data (I think this is the correct data set)
USA Today story

All news stories merely mention this in passing.....

According to the Des Moines Register poll out late Saturday evening, 27 percent of Iowa adults have already voted. And among those Kerry leads 52 percent to 41 percent.

relevent links:

Salon War Room Report [salon.com]
Gallup Poll original data [gallup.com]
USA Today story [usatoday.com]

All news stories merely mention this in passing.....

This isn't the first time that a food company has gotten all up-in-arms over the use of one of their trademarks.

In 2001, Pillsbury sent a cease-and-decist order to a numerous number of colleges IT companies detesting their use of the term "bake-off" to mean an event where developers get together to test their latest code and networking protocols.

Talk about silly. At least SPAM is actually a trademark and was never a commonly-used word well before it became "protected" by corporate interests.

same as parent - submitted but just in case:

Salon's.com election news column, War Room reports that early voters in New Mexico and Texas have already reported serious problems with electronic voting machines. Many computer scientists (aka Slashdot readers) have been very vocal about the potential pitfalls of electronic voting. A group of e-voting experts including Barbara Simons, perhaps the medium's biggest critic, has started a blog to interpret what potential problems might mean as the vote -- and mis-votes -- keep coming in. Are there any Slashdoters who may be interested in this virtual bug hunting/.interpretations?

same as parent - submitted but just in case:

Salon's.com election news column, War Room reports that early voters in New Mexico and Texas have already reported serious problems with electronic voting machines. Many computer scientists (aka Slashdot readers) have been very vocal about the potential pitfalls of electronic voting. A group of e-voting experts including Barbara Simons, perhaps the medium's biggest critic, has started a blog to interpret what potential problems might mean as the vote -- and mis-votes -- keep coming in. Are there any Slashdoters who may be interested in this virtual bug hunting/.interpretations?

same as parent - submitted but just in case:

Salon's.com election news column, War Room reports that early voters in New Mexico and Texas have already reported serious problems with electronic voting machines. Many computer scientists (aka Slashdot readers) have been very vocal about the potential pitfalls of electronic voting. A group of e-voting experts including Barbara Simons, perhaps the medium's biggest critic, has started a blog to interpret what potential problems might mean as the vote -- and mis-votes -- keep coming in. Are there any Slashdoters who may be interested in this virtual bug hunting/.interpretations?

Detroit Free Press
gay marriage related phone calls
phony absentee ballot calls in WV. Search archive for "Karen Cole"

According to the Des Moines Register poll out late Saturday evening, 27 percent of Iowa adults have already voted. And among those Kerry leads 52 percent to 41 percent.

relevent links:

Salon War Room Report
Gallup Poll original data
USA Today story

All news stories merely mention this in passing.....

The Associated Press will be the offical vote tallier according to an AP report. I wouldn't look for complete predictions before the West coast polls close after 2000's problems.

if you watch the press conference starting at about 13:23, Bush is going through a list of names of Al Qaeda terrorists they have caught and he stumbles over the name of Ramzi Binalshibh, eventually calling him Ramzi Alshibh. He jokingly apologizes to Ramzi if he got his name wrong and then, at 13:32, he looks down and to his right intently for about 2 seconds, like he is listening to something, and looks up and says "Binalshibh, excuse me."

Salon's.com election news column, War Room reports that early voters in New Mexico and Texas have already reported serious problems with electronic voting machines. Many computer scientists (aka Slashdot readers) have been very vocal about the potential pitfalls of electronic voting. A group of e-voting experts including Barbara Simons, perhaps the medium's biggest critic, has started a blog to interpret what potential problems might mean as the vote -- and mis-votes -- keep coming in. Are there any Slashdoters who may be interested in this virtual bug hunting/.interpretations?

Salon's.com election news column, War Room reports that early voters in New Mexico and Texas have already reported serious problems with electronic voting machines. Many computer scientists (aka Slashdot readers) have been very vocal about the potential pitfalls of electronic voting. A group of e-voting experts including Barbara Simons, perhaps the medium's biggest critic, has started a blog to interpret what potential problems might mean as the vote -- and mis-votes -- keep coming in. Are there any Slashdoters who may be interested in this virtual bug hunting/.interpretations?

Salon's.com election news column, War Room reports that early voters in New Mexico and Texas have already reported serious problems with electronic voting machines. Many computer scientists (aka Slashdot readers) have been very vocal about the potential pitfalls of electronic voting. A group of e-voting experts including Barbara Simons, perhaps the medium's biggest critic, has started a blog to interpret what potential problems might mean as the vote -- and mis-votes -- keep coming in. Are there any Slashdoters who may be interested in this virtual bug hunting/.interpretations?

Consider this: Every time the Boston Red Sox win the World Series in a presidential election year, Woodrow Wilson gets elected president. You can look it up: 1912 and 1916. Now the Sox have done it again. What's it mean? You read it here first: Woodrow Wilson in a landslide!

And to think that Jacques Cousteau called underwater The Silent World.

Here's a rather long and disturbing story of Kerry's relentless efforts to investigate and expose the Contra-Cocaine trafficking which Regan (and Bush Sr, even more) tried to sweep under the carpet.

Feel free to pass on the link to your parents.

Update: "Fist Sport" explained. (05/17/01)

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It has come to my attention that the entire Linux community is a hotbed of so called 'alternative sexuality,' which includes anything from hedonistic orgies to homosexuality to pedophilia.

What better way of demonstrating this than by looking at the hidden messages contained within the names of some of Linux's most outspoken advocates:

Linus Torvalds is an anagram of SLIT ANUS OR VD 'L,' clearly referring to himself by the first initial.

Richard M. Stallman , spokespervert for the Gaysex is Not Unusual 'movement' is an anagram of MANS CRAM THRILL AD.

Alan Cox is barely an anagram of ANAL COX which is just so filthy and unchristian it unnerves me.

I'm sure that Eric S. Raymond, composer of the satanic homosexual propaganda diatribe The Cathedral and the Bizarre, [Buy At Amazon] is probably an anagram of something queer, but we don't need to look that far as we know he's always shoving a gun up some poor little boy's rectum. Update: Eric S. Raymond is actually an anagram for SECONDARY RIM and CORD IN MY ARSE. It just goes to show you that he is indeed queer.

Update the Second: It is also documented that Evil Sicko Gaymond is responsible for a nauseating piece of code called Fetchmail, which is obviously sinister sodomite slang for "Felch Male" - a disgusting practise. For those not in the know, "felching" is the act performed by two perverts wherein one sucks their own post-coital ejaculate out of the other's rectum. In fact, it appears that the dirty Linux faggots set out to undermine the good Republican institution of e-mail, turning it into "e-male."

As far as Richard "(cock)Master" Stallman goes, that filthy fudge-packer was actually quoted on leftist commie propaganda site Salon.com as saying the following:

RMS: "I've been resistant to the pressure to conform in any circumstance," he says. "It's about being able to question conventional wisdom," he asserts. "I believe in love, but not monogamy," he says plainly.

And this isn't a made up troll bullshit either! He actually stated this tripe, which makes it obvious that he is trying to politely say that he's a flaming homo slut!

Speaking about "flaming," who better to point out as a filthy chutney ferret than Slashdot's very own self-confessed pederast Jon Katz. Although an obvious deviant anagram cannot be found from his name, he has already confessed, nay boasted of the homosexual perversion of corrupting the innocence of young children. To quote from the article linked:

"I've got a rare kidney disease,' I told her. 'I have to go to the bathroom a lot. You can come with me if you want, but it takes a while. Is that okay with you? Do you want a note from my doctor?'

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Funny you should ask........ Remember this little development last month?

The Pentagon doesn't want you to vote overseas
http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/2004/09/21/overs eas_voting/index_np.html
A Web site maintained by the Department of Defense is blocking access to non-military Americans. Could it be worried that expatriates are leaning toward Kerry?
By Farhad Manjoo
Salon.com
Sept. 21, 2004

Its one thing to say something. Its another to produce evidence and logical reasonings, to back up said comments. Palast, apparently, does both.

The only problem is that the evidence that Palast "produces" is wrong.

Kinda like when he wrote an article in Salon.com blaming Jeb Bush and Katherine Harris for the voter purge list, forcing Salon.com to quickly issue a correction stating that the voter list was commissioned before Harris and Bush took office.

By the way, "producing" is the correct word to use for the evidence that Palast uses. He certainly doesn't "find" or "discover" or "uncover" any evidence. Everything he claims is obviously manufactured.

On the subject of partisan sniping, I particularly like Bush's new ads, the one's with all the wolves circling the camera, implying that the terrorists want Kerry to win.

Never mind the fact that Bush just got endorsed by Iran; the link is in my .sig. In fact, Iran and Russia are the only countries that seem to be supporting Bush. The rest of the world loves America, but wants Bush out.

I hope it is made so on the 2nd.

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Since Bush killed Superman before stemcells could get him to fly again, we must complete the research and resurrect the Man of Steel before this remake wipes out his memory forever. First step: destroy evil supergenius President VP Cheney in his secret HQ, before he can remotely control Bush into spreading kryptonite across the surface of Earth.

Sorry I don't have any Fox News links, but maybe this will suffice, for starters. I wasn't aware there were still people out there who are still contesting the fact that this happened.

But, if you prefer to believe the word of Bush's own Dept. of Justice on whether or not Bush screwed the country, that's your business.