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Bush's Justice Department is prosecuting corporate crooks who committed their crimes under Clinton, yet you use this as an opportunity to slam Bush.

You remind me of a squawking parrot who has been locked in a room with a Michael Moore mockumentary on continuous loop. Your statements are not just unfounded, but the very mirror image of reality. The corporate crooks were, by and large, in bed with Clinton and other prominent Democrats (Rubin, McAuliffe, etc.), and now they are getting prosecuted by Bush, and you think this is a reason to slam the Bush White House?

Much of what you think you know from watching the mainstream media is a lie. Get a grip and quit being blinded to reality by your own irrational hatred, you pathetic ignorant fool.

-ccm

South Florida teen is co-creator of popular Firefox Web browser
JOHN PAIN, AP Business Writer
Sunday, January 23, 2005

(01-23) 11:21 PST KEY BISCAYNE, Fla. (AP) --

By age 10, Blake Ross was designing Web pages on America Online. By 14, after mastering complex programming languages such as C++, he was fixing bugs in Netscape's Web browser from home, a hobby that landed him a job offer.

"What, at the local store or something?" David Ross remembered thinking when his son told him.

No, at Netscape Communications Corp.

Ross, now 19, a sophomore computer science major at Stanford University, has an even more impressive resume than most of his peers. Before graduating high school, he helped develop Firefox.

Colleagues who worked with Ross only online were surprised when they met him to find "a scrawny 15-year-old kid," recalled Chris Hofmann, engineering director at the Mozilla Foundation.

To take an internship at Netscape during the summer of 2001, Ross moved with his mother to a rented apartment near Netscape's offices in Mountain View, Calif. She drove him to work each morning.

He continued working on the browser on contract after returning to Florida to attend Gulliver Preparatory School. He breezed through computer classes, finishing projects in a day that took others two weeks, said Dean Morell, a former teacher and chairman of the school's computer science department.

Ross soon took on a much more demanding project.

America Online Inc., which bought Netscape in 1999, was trying to resurrect the once-mighty Netscape browser. AOL added features, but they bogged down the software and reduced performance, Ross said in recent interviews by e-mail and at his parents' condo in Key Biscayne, a Miami suburb.

At 17, Ross and another Netscape programmer, David Hyatt, started a side project that became Firefox. They wanted to strip down Netscape and the Mozilla suite on which it is based. By reducing the software to its browsing basics, they figured it would run more efficiently.

Ross and Hyatt created an early version of the browser. Because the project was open source, thousands of volunteers could examine the programming code and suggest ways to improve performance and fix bugs.

"I have fond memories of long nights spent at Netscape just poring over all the feedback people submitted about our programs," Ross said.

Hofmann, the Mozilla engineering director, said Ross dealt with the pressures of Silicon Valley quite well for his age.

"I don't think that he was intimidated or awe-struck at all," he said. "With open-source projects you rise to a level based on your skills. It is really a meritocracy. Anyone who has the skills rises quickly and Blake had all those skills."

AOL ultimately spun off the project and created the not-for-profit Mozilla Foundation to develop Firefox and related software.

Hyatt left to design Apple Computer Inc.'s Safari Web browser, but Ross stayed and helped fix Firefox bugs from college.

Firefox was officially released Nov. 9. It was used by 4.6 percent of Web surfers in early January, and that number could reach 10 percent by mid-2005, according to WebSideStory, which tracks browser use. Microsoft's Internet Explorer has dropped to 90.6 percent this month from 95.5 percent in June.

Security experts like Firefox, saying it isn't as vulnerable as Internet Explorer to viruses, spyware and other malicious programs.

Ross has assisted with marketing, helping to place an ad in The New York Times paid for by thousands of Firefox users.

Ross will work with a team on Firefox version 2.0. He also gets calls from venture capitalists and has a startup with Joe Hewitt, another veteran of Netscape and Firefox. He said he can't talk about their work, but he's also interested in writing movies or children's fiction.

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And no, their power isn't genetic.
No it's not genetic, but it's also not just handed to them, it's learned. Just like the children of a business owner learn how to start a business, while most people wouldn't even know where to start; the children of policians, learn politics. Unfortunately most of the masses don't educate themselves, which is the greatest tragedy. Though it's more difficult for somebody who doesn't come from a wealthy background, the opportunity is there.
How many people actually participate in goverment at the local level? At that level you can make a difference despite what corporations want, but most of the time people don't care. So usually it ends up being a couple loudmouths with their own agenda who make the rules for the apathetic masses, and this bubbles up to national level.
If you were a politician who would you listen to most? The 50% who said nothing, the 25% who voted against you, the 20% who voted for you, or the 5% who actively participated in getting you elected. That is why a small minority get their agenda across, not just the money contributers, but the people who were leaders and went out and organized a group of people behind you. There is a reason certain groups like the christian coalition have so much power. It isn't money, its the fact that their leadership can mobilize a large group of sheep behind a specific candidate. There is one thing politicians listen to more than money, and that's votes.
Goverment is not inherently evil, people are victims of their own apathy.

You're thinking of hop-on... they've been making vaporware and press releases for years, and it seems like the only phones they've been selling have been non-disposable. But the at this year's CES, they showed their new disposable phone without a screen, but still no price point. I don't know if I should hold my breath again this year...

What are you holed up? Or do you just get your information from Slashdot which only reports on negative Microsoft stories and positive everything else.

But I'll give you some links to show there is more to life then reading 2-3 day old stories where the submitter spins reality to show their ignorance as is the case with this story:

Mac OS X holes

Linux Security Patches

Microsoft Patches

All recent patches/holes and all came out about the same time. So please don't tell me your shit don't stink every operating system has their flaws it's the nature of software development.

"Once a traveler has been added to the reported list for a flight, subsequent reporting of a traveler with the same name and date of birth for the same flight will be discarded. Corrections and/or additions to a traveler's data cannot be made after the initial report."

The problem comes when they compare the pax list with their databases. In the US even US citizens don't have the right to correct their data, and the FBI has no obligation to ensure their data about you is correct. Already we've seen how good the TSA's system is, putting every Carlos Garcia, John Lewis and David Nelson on theirs Watch-List as it, doing repeated time-consuming checks on all 10 thousand of them each time they fly rather than doing the actual random checks that keep us safer. And now their database is going to have this data for all travel and travelers around the world (because the gov'ts share this info). They'll be so swamped by the millions of false positives that it'll be far more likely that the extraordinarily rare false negative won't be noticed. Makes me feel safer already: cue theme music to Brazil.

Again the "Its a Warning not a Guidebook" Best Essay Ever...on privacy: "The more information government compiles about us, the more of it will be wrong. That's simply a fact of life.

"[Example of typical gov't database, filled with errors] That was only a research database, so its inaccuracies probably would have remained relatively benign even if it had not been dismantled.

"But if our privacy becomes ever more systematically invaded by the state for purposes of assessing our behavior and making judgments about us, wrong information and misinterpretations will have potential consequences.

"If information that is actually about someone else is wrongly applied to us, if wrong facts make it appear that we've done things we haven't, if perfectly innocent behavior is misinterpreted as suspicious because authorities don't know our reasons or our circumstances, we will be at risk of finding ourselves in trouble in a society where everyone is regarded as a suspect. By the time we clear our names and establish our innocence, we may have suffered irreparable financial or social harm."

I think you misunderstand. You live in the country where TV stations have to pixelate a cartoon butt not to feel the wrath of the FCC. I, on the other hand, live in a country, no; a part of the world, where naked statues are not something that raises so much as an eyebrow, much less public ire...

And this confuses me to no end, as all the Americans I have met have been friendly, easygoing people, not at all like the theocratic government of the US would lead me to believe they should be.

Hmmm, after reading this article: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/g/ archive/2004/12/09/gadgetgap.DTL&type=tech, I just don't think we're going to compare favorably to the Japanese in just about any consumer tech category.

If you're an anti-terrorism agent of some kind, and you're sent to investigate green lasers pointing at airplanes, which mode of thinking will make you feel better?

• "Terrorism is dangerous and an act of terrorism could kill many people. My very important job is to prevent that, and I want to spend as much time as possible working on the important stuff. We've spent days tracking down a father who was showing his kid how nifty lasers can be. He's been embarrassed in the news for being an idiot and in for some community service, but, boy, I'm not going to get those hours back, what a waste of time." or
• "...We've spent days tracking down a father who was showing his kid how nifty lasers can be. This has to be very important, else I wouldn't have spent all those hours working on this. I caught you and you are going down, mr. terrorist hiding as a techie guy. Oh, you're not a terrorist? Well, I caught you and you are going down, mr. example-to-terrorists hiding as a techie guy."

And so specifically if legislative bodies threw in DOS attacks, taking pictures of bridges, paying train tix with cash, or failing to know all the lyrics to 'God Bless the USA' into the PATRIOT Act, it *must* be because those are all related to terrorism, not because the FBI hornswoggled them into shoehorning 20 years worth of Xmas wish-lists into the Act during a month of extreme grief and emotion. Nope.

And so if the TSA puts every every Carlos Garcia, John Lewis and David Nelson on the Watch-List it *must* be worth doing, those repeated time-consuming checks on all 10 thousand of them each time they fly rather than doing the actual random checks that keep us safer.

If you're doing important anti-terrorism work then it just isn't possible that you'll get side-tracked. (which is why, had the PATRIOT Act existed in the 20th century, Tesla, the "October Sky" rocketeer, and pretty much every member of pyrotechnics guilds and model rocket clubs would have ended up with SSSS's on their plane tix and plenty of long, recorded talks with the local constabulary. Especially Tesla- scaring the neighbors like that, potentially taking down the grid, born in a foreign country. How'd he even get in? Thank goodness now we're keeping out all those foreign engineering grad students: maybe our science and economy will suffer, but we'll feel safer.)

from the San Francisco Chronicle. No soul-selling required;
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/ch ronicle/archive/2003/02/10/BA200304.DTL

Just this week an aircraft was tracked for a while with a laser pointed into the cockpit. I don't really understand how this is possible given the angles and so forth with a plane travelling at 8500 feet.

The article is here at SFGate Newspaper . They say that "interfering with a commercial flight is a felony punishable by up to five years in prison."

If you care: Amazon gives over 60% of its political donations to Republicans...

Apartment glut, Craigslist doom fees for service

Listing services, which typically charge tenants a set fee, also have succumbed to the great equalizer known as Craigslist.com. The familiar online clearinghouse lets visitors advertise apartments, used furniture, concert tickets or themselves for free. Only employers posting jobs pay fees.

A boon to consumers, Craigslist has proven a thorny problem for those who try to make money by publishing ads for workaday necessities.

"You can't compete with free," [Dana] Goodell said. "Our market niche is over."

Too bad the Rental List Association of America didn't exist. Maybe the NAA will be a little better.

And in 2002 same day exactly to the year also Japan suffered a large quake killing hundreds more non christians

...just demonstrates how unworkable the hub-and-spoke system of flight scheduling is

The quake was so powerful the shockwaves circled the planet.

"All the planet is vibrating" from the quake, said Enzo Boschi, the head of Italy's National Geophysics Institute. Speaking on SKY TG24 TV, Boschi said the quake even disturbed the Earth's rotation."

Source

In the case of global warming, the only data you'd probably accept would be a couple of centuries with melted polar ice caps, massive species extinctions, and catastrophic climatic change.

Yeah, hard data is generally preferable to informed opinions, but not when collecting the data is a planet destroying process. We sometimes need to extrapolate from incomplete data to derive a prudent course of action.

The fact remains that the vast majority of climatologists believe humans are contributing to a process of global warming, with undesired results. Only a few vocal fringe elements have their theories amplified to create enough doubt to justify the policy of continuing along our present course while we "study the situation". Credible scientists believe the time to do nothing but study this situation has passed, and we now need to study it as we try to correct the problem.

This is another case where big money dictates public policy. US energy policy is driven by fossil fuel suppliers, much to the detriment of our national security, balance of trade and environment. There are already plenty of viable renewable energy resources and technologies that would convert the US from an energy importer to an energy exporter, and many more promising technologies await in the near future. Promoting these energy technologies would be good fiscal policy, good defense policy, and good environmental policy. But it won't happen in an administration that invited Enron CEO Ken Lay to secret US energy policy meetings.

Didja know that Condoleezza Rice had a Chevron oil tanker named after her?

While you may disagree with my opinion, S&P downgraded the stock, and

other analysts do not like it as well - American Technology Research analyst Donovan Gow said the market's negative reaction reflects the stock market's puzzlement over why Symantec, a leader in the rapidly growing market for security software, is buying Veritas, whose sales have been rising at a much slower clip. here

Symantec is down 25% from monday. I'm not saying I'm right, but do a google and there are several sources that agree.

That's Northern California.

"The Chronicle had become the biggest daily paper in Northern California; in the West, it was second in size to the Los Angeles Times after 1968."

April 1990 LA Times Times circulation reaches an all-time high of 1,225,189 daily and 1,514,096 Sunday, making it the largest daily metropolitan newspaper in the country.

Kertzman also deserves credit for presiding over accounting scandals at both Liberate and Sybase.

What are you, a Sharper Image salesman or something?

• Sony PSP (Playstation Portable): It's only the most anticipated handheld gaming device ever -- a portable wonder that packs all the power of the original PlayStation in one palm-size package. And it doesn't just play games: according to Sony, it'll also deliver music and MPEG-4 video, display photos and offer 802.11 Wi-Fi connectivity for wireless gaming and messaging. It's going on sale in Japan this weekend. The United States, however, doesn't get it until March 2005 at the earliest.

Here
and Here
and Here

This has a nice timeline of time warner.

Still - it could have been Worse . Imagine an ISP owned by microsoft. no... wait... :D

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/g/arc hive/2004/12/09/gadgetgap.DTL

Quote from article:

...-party accessory vendors). Gigapixel digital cameras. Laptops so tiny that "My...

Personally i'm holding out for Terabit. Nothin like a picture the size of a city block.

IMHO, you can safely use the supplements as a baseline for the increase in costs. There are, of course, additional costs - human costs, opportunity costs, and future obligations such as treatment of injured veterans.

The monthly burn rate of $5.8 billion includes quite a bit of money that we wouldn't be spending if the troops weren't deployed. The real problem with your argument is that no one actually knows precisely where all that $5.8 billion a month is going. Supplementary funds are subject to less oversight and disclosure than the regular budget; this is what allowed Bush to $750 million earmarked for Afghanistan and use it to prepare for a war in Iraq. (None of this, of course, counts the billions in Iraqi money that's gone missing.)

They can be used for evil just as easily.

I think most television-watching people have seen the commercial featuring an eagle gasping and wheezing while flying through a polluted sky in 1970, then showing a present-day eagle soaring through a clear-blue sky "thanks in part to clean coal technologies." This commercial was created by Americans for Balanced Energy Choices (ABEC), a non-profit organization that appears to be a grassroots public-interest group.

It's all bullshit: "Spreading misleading messages"

In summary, this commercial is propaganda from the coal industry. ABEC, which tries to pass itself off as a grassroots public-interest group, has received virtually all of its funding from the coal industry. ABEC receives logistical support (staff and other resources) from the Center for Energy and Economic Development (CEED), a coal-industry trade group that has aggressively lobbied against limits on greenhouse-gas emissions, rejects "the theory of catastrophic global climate change," and takes credit for helping persuade Bush not to support the Kyoto Treaty on reducing emissions.

"Clean coal" is an industry buzz term for technologies that allow coal to be burned with fewer deadly emissions. (see article) The Sierra Club says these technologies focus almost exclusively on toxins such as sulfur dioxide and mercury, but don't address the more contentious matter of carbon dioxide.

If you haven't seen this misleading commercial, you can view it (QT, WMV) at ABEC's web site on this page: Featured Video

From the commercial:

"Thanks in part to clean coal technologies, our air quality has been improving. And by 2015, emissions from coal-based power plants will be 75 percent less than they were in 1970."

From ABEC President Steve Miller:

"Don't believe the hype about America's environment getting worse. The truth is that our nation's air quality is improving dramatically ... The Clean Air Act is working as advanced technologies make it possible to meet new and more stringent standards."

Here's a scary article in today's online San Francisco Chronicle. Right on track...

http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/20 04/11/30/MNGVNA3PE11.DTL

So the 0.004% of users is just how many have made it into the final, verified stage of (probably massive) copyright infringement. There may be 5-10% who are in process of being verified, or who have not uploaded a sufficient quantity yet to warrant a lawsuit but who are being watched while they do.

And yet they still somehow managed to tag somebody who doesn't have a computer capable of running Kazaa. Good job, music industry.

Wake me in September 2008.

Living under the anti-science, anti-reason, faith-based regime of a hyprocritical, warmongering, theocratic jerk puts me in a bad mood, I guess.

Here are some facts to consider.

Number one killer in the US- Heart Disease.
Second most prolific killer- Cancer.
Number one actual cause of death- Tobacco.

Meanwhile, the US government resists allocating federal research funds for a treatment that might lengthen peoples' lives. It also desires an international treaty against researching this medical technology- Stem Cell Research.

In 2018 benefits owed will be more than taxes collected, and [the current] Social Security will need to begin tapping the trust funds to pay benefits.

The US Government continues to subsidies tobacco farmers and resists holding the tobacco companies responsible for the damage incurred by their products.

Good for the economy, good for the future of social security: fewer humans living longer.

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.

I diddn't know Jamie Kellner read Slashdot.

I find you've got a point, and *gasp* it's making me think about my position that "being an environmentalist can be good for the economy" might not be the way to go.

However, I think there are some additional long-term costs by being more environmentally friendly. (It's the end of the work-week for me, and I'm a little tired to fit this into your "10k workers, 100k consumers, $100B cost" model right now, so bear with me) Consider this lawsuit of IBM, where workers sued because they were believed to have higher cancer rates because of their jobs. (Yeah, I know, IBM won)

If the costs for changing the environmental conditions now is less than the costs for healthcare + the costs of lawsuits + the costs of environmental changes later, isn't that good for business? is that good for the people who work in and around there? why not do it now?

Did they run out of crap to freeze?

I do understand that (I was in HS when that prop was passed) but the inflated property values mean the taxes aren't cheap- just cheaper percentage-wise of the value. My $400k house was costing about $3500 a year in property taxes. It certainly was helpful that the taxes were not double that, but it was still quite a big chunk to chew when my income dropped after a couple layoffs. With other higher costs of goods and services, I would still submit that life in metro-CA is significantly more expensive than other places.

Good article in today's SF Chronicle
And in the San Diego Union-Tribune

Honestly, I'm not the only one in the situation. :-) It took me longer than normal to want to settle down (travel, career changes, etc.), so I am paying for it by being behind the market.

The San Francisco Chronicle is the largest circulation newspaper in the Bay Area. They wrote a very positive review about FireFox vs. Internet Explorer this week. It was on the front page of Monday's Technology section.

Internet Explorer has new foe - Firefox 1.0 beats Microsoft browser in several areas
SF Chronicle Review

There are news bites coming out about Firefox everywhere you could possibly imagine.

Thanks, but we've already heard about Google News.

You really are dumb. Ever been to China ? Didn't think so.. the place is very much improved over the last ten years. I mean by an order of magnitude.

That is true. China has undergone a boom at least partially fueled by its habit of providing slave labor in prisons to multinational corporations. If you don't trust newsmax (although I suspect you do) another link is here. They even stick factories in the middle of schools and have schoolkids make cheap stuff like fireworks.

I'm sorry you're pissed off that people who would have starved otherwise took your birthright "job". I guess you'll have to go work at the burger place .. oh yeah that's right you're way too good for that. :)

What do you have against people who work for a living?

AOL buys Time Warner for $162 billion

Somehow Nader suddenly got a bunch of votes or somebody's sources are funky...

Ralph Nader: 505,013
Michael Badnarik: 400,871

Updated 11/11 9:37AM

Source: SFGate

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Yea, the idea of moving to Georgia is absolutely terrifying. I'd more likely move my family to Oregon, Washington or even Canada. Starting from northern California, moving to *Amsterdam* would likely be less of a culture shock than moving to Atlanta.

But, yea, the cost of an average house in the SF Bay area is terrifying.

You can't get a *condo* for $280k here, but the real problem is that salaries aren't adjusted to reflect the difference. A whopping 14 percent of people who live here can afford to buy a house, which is why I had such a problem with the parent post's "save, buy a house!" mantra, like it's something anyone with a job can do. It *should* be something anyone with a decent job can do, and it might be, if business and political leaders were looking out for the average man. But for the time being, paying programmers ( or just about anyone else ) enough to buy a house in the bay area isn't on anyone's to-do list.

If you want to see how to use computers to do math correctly with high confidence, look no further than the military avionics and flight control systems.

Right.

grib.

Ummm... He let AIDS explode by not talking to the public about it and not even acknowledging it until many cases were reported in most major cities. Does anyone remember the phrase "Gay Cancer"? That is exactly why people refused to move. It wasn't until several high profile heterosexual people contracted it through blood transfusions, health care services, andother non gay/drug related causes that he actually took a stance.Yes he eventually spent money and made a public address, but the damage had been done.

Please check your facts before you elevate a human to the level of a god.

After almost six years of silence on the epidemic,'' said Rep. Henry Waxman D.-Calif., chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Health, ''the president has finally said that he will fight the disease. Source

A significant source of Reagan's support came from the newly identified religious right and the Moral Majority, a political-action group founded by the Rev. Jerry Falwell. AIDS became the tool, and gay men the target, for the politics of fear, hate and discrimination. Falwell said "AIDS is the wrath of God upon homosexuals." Reagan's communications director Pat Buchanan argued that AIDS is "nature's revenge on gay men." Source

When AIDS was first reported in 1981, Reagan had recently assumed office and had begun to address the conservative agenda by slashing social programs and cutting taxes and by embracing conservative moral principles. As a result, Reagan never mentioned AIDS publicly until 1987. Source

Just as a person can lie by omission, someone can be guilty by inaction. Six years is a long time to remain silent about a disease that can infect anyone and kill slowly and painfully, especially when that person is the most powerful one in the world.

Customer not always right

For a group of people that claims such intellegent superiority over all the "hicks" in the midwest that voted for Bush, you sure to buy wholeheartedly into the media BS. That and Democratic press releases! As someone on Fark said the other day, if the Dems ever hope to get elected again they need to quit believing their own rhetoric!

Case in point: Outsouring. TWO PERCENT of the jobs lost this year were due to outsourcing. That's a bit more than 4,000 people. (sources: Here and here). Tragic? Sure, sucks to lose your job but 4,000 people does not translate into "everyone is outsourcing its the end of the world!". Nor does it translate into "President Bush supports outsourcing". No, President Bush supports tax cuts to encourage growth and it appears to be working (and no I'm not a wealthy person but I still got a tax break). The tax cuts are about the only thing he has done right. If he hadn't have started a useless war and pooped all over the Constitution I might have voted for him.

As a good customer you should seek alternate sources of the same product.

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