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Senators are generally back in their home States this week.

Print out a copy of the FISA Amendments Act, 114 page pdf and track down you Senators appearances, Parades, Fundraisers, etc. Ask if they've read it, and if not, physically hand them the printout, ideally after highlighting the sections you consider problematic. An accomplice video is nice.

"I've read it, Senator, shouldn't you?"

Once I started installing dependencies for this virus, I couldn't believe my eyes as I saw this: http://tinyurl.com/42mw7v

You can probably do some sort of ghetto load balancing with ipvs/keepalived and iproute2.

I'm just thinking out loud... all in all, you can probably do this without a whole lot of difficulty, but it really is probably going to require a linux router and 3 network interfaces... unless you want to plug both internet connections into a switch with all your other computers and use a bunch of static IPs and routes and whatnot...

Probably [the internet x 2] --$gt; [linux router] --- switch ==== other pc's.

Set it up with iproute two such that assuming 1.2.3.4 is your link to ISP1 and 4.3.2.1 is your link to ISP2:
up both these IP's on eth0 and eth1.
set your default gateway to one or the other, i guess
edit /etc/iproute2/rt_tables such that there's a table called ISP1 and ISP2 /sbin/ip rule add from 1.2.3.4/32 table ISP1 /sbin/ip rule add from 4.3.2.1/32 table ISP2 /sbin/ip route add default via 1.2.3.4 dev eth0 table ISP1 /sbin/ip route add default via 4.3.2.1 dev eth1 table ISP2
then ip route flush cache for good measure
up your 192.168.1.1 address on eth2
set up a DHCP server that serves out 192.168.1.0/24 addresses...

Then I guess you can set up ipvs on the linux router in some sort of NAT mode (i think it can do this)...
so you can make 192.168.1.1 your "virtual server", and set up... see this is where I'm not really sure about it, but i guess the remote gateway of both your ISP's to be the "real servers", set it up either weighted least connections or something, add persistence if you want, adjust the weights. Add keepalived to that, and tell it to ping the remote gateway and if it's not responsive to ping, to fail over to the other link (it'll insert and remove stuff out of the ipvsadm -L -n table).

Yeah, something like that. That's a metric asston of work, though, and i'm not sure it'd all work. You probably should just buy one of these:
http://tinyurl.com/5v5b8g
I mean, they're a couple hundred bucks on froogle:
http://www.google.com/products?q=RV042&btnG=Search+Products
and they've got 2 internet ports, four switchports (i mean, gigabit plox, but whatever), and a fancy web interface.

Meh.

~W

People like to point at all the Congressional "recesses" as vacation time for lazy congressmembers. Some probably do fly on corporate jets to Scotland to play golf with strippers, but most of them spend the time flying back to their home district (or state, for senators) and meet with local people to work on their constituents' issues. Sure, those people are primarily local corporate types and other rich/powerful people who live, work or happen to pass through their home office neighborhood. But they're working, and that's the time they're listening to people outside Washington DC.

This bill, with its evil FISA telco amnesty in it, is not a sure thing. It was supposed to sail through last year, and this delay marks the third time it's failed to get installed as law. There are many ways it can die in the Senate, which has many rules letting individual senators kill a bill. So this is an excellent time to call, fax, snail mail, and just physically visit a senator, especially if they're yours, to explain how the Fourth of July is a good time for them to decide to defend the Constitution. Almost all of them will be marching in a parade during the holiday as if they're some kind of patriot or something. You can stand along the route with a big sign saying "NO FISA TELCO AMNESTY!", or print out the bill, mingle in the parade and try to hand it to them saying "read it first, then vote against it when you see that FISA telco amnesty ruins the Constitution". Look at their website for their appearance schedule, and make it hard for them to pretend they love our country while they're busy screwing it over.

Do it while you can, as secretly wiretapping you is only the first step in stealing the rest of your rights.

You can use Obama's contact form to send a comment asking him to vote against FISA telco amnesty.

Here's a list of some senators worth calling, because they're not totally in bed with Bush in every way, and so might not go along with this travesty. See if you can talk them, or their staffers, into doing the right thing, or at least not helping do the wrong thing. Remeber, the telcos will also get to hear you, and they should know they're not really getting away with it.

Bayh (202) 224-5623
Carper (202) 224-2441
Obama (202) 224-2854
Inouye (202) 224-3934
Johnson (202) 224-5842
Landrieu (202)224-5824
McCaskill (202) 224-6154
Mikulski (202) 224-4654
Nelson (FL) (202) 224-5274
Clinton (202) 224-4451
Nelson (NE) (202) 224-6551
Pryor (202) 224-2353
Salazar (202) 224-5852
Specter (202) 224-4254
Feinstein (202) 224-3841
Webb (202) 224-4024
Warner (202) 224-2023
Snowe (202) 224-5344
Collins (202) 224-2523
Sununu (202) 224-2841
Stevens (202) 224-3004
Byrd (202) 224-3954
Lincoln (202)224-4843
Reid (202) 224-3542
Coleman (202) 224-5641
Durbin (202) 224-2152
Smith (202) 224-
Stabenow (202) 224-4822
Kohl (202) 224-5653
Leahy (202) 224-4242
Schumer (202) 224-6542

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Political parties have been effectively outlawed in the U.S. - at least as they are traditionally understood.

We now lack enforceable party platforms. This weakened the ability of the citizens to make deals between different interest groups in society. IMO: A classic case of "divide and conquer." (the electorate)

Can You Define What a Political Party is?
http://tinyurl.com/2g9kc8

Great Quote from 1927
"Here in the last generation, a development has taken place which finds an analogy nowhere else. American parties have ceased to be voluntary associations like trade unions or the good government clubs or the churches. They have lost the right freely to determine how candidates shall be nominated and platforms framed, even who shall belong to the party and who shall lead it. The state legislatures have regulated their structure and functions in great detail."
SOURCE: American Parties and Elections,
by Edward Sait, Published 1927 (Page 174)
As found in The tyranny of the two-party system / Lisa Jane Disch c2002

Yeah it matter's. It's the future of the web. I think the new online DNF3D web demo uses Open java. DNF3D

So, without a complete understanding of how Vitamin D,25 and it's metabolites like D,1,25 work, or how the behavior of either might be modified by disease, but merely a statistical correlation they jump to the post hoc propter hoc fallacy. They haven't any way from this result to show whether the low VitD was a preliminary symptom or a cause of the problem. Since high levels of VitD are known to be immunosuppressive, it is also a big leap to say it's either preventative or curative of anything.

I note that they did not try to force down D,25 levels (likely the only ones they measured), nor watched the long term effects of high dose D,25 supplementation. Without these kinds of studies, they really are way out on a limb to make any causation comments.

Here's study showing that disease (in this case TB) can down-regulate the amount of VitaminD in the body (making low VitD a symptom, not a cause). Davies PD, Brown RC, Woodhead JS: Serum concentrations of vitamin D metabolites in untreated tuberculosis. Thorax. 1985 Mar;40(3):187-90.

You got it spot on:

Ma Bell is no dummy. You don't get to be a powerful corporation by making dumb decisions; They asked SCOTUS to take the case because they know there is, based on the history of the court, a very good chance there will be a ruling in their favor:

http://tinyurl.com/4pugrm
http://tinyurl.com/2klpc3
http://tinyurl.com/2pafg6

Remember, we're talking about a court which said it's OK to patent a genome, and that if a GM crop happens to blow into your farm, *you* are responsible for it, and have to completely remove it at your expense:

http://tinyurl.com/3onetv
http://tinyurl.com/4rh5wb

I think it's more likely it'll be 6-3, although 5-4 is, indeed, all it takes.

You got it spot on:

Ma Bell is no dummy. You don't get to be a powerful corporation by making dumb decisions; They asked SCOTUS to take the case because they know there is, based on the history of the court, a very good chance there will be a ruling in their favor:

http://tinyurl.com/4pugrm
http://tinyurl.com/2klpc3
http://tinyurl.com/2pafg6

Remember, we're talking about a court which said it's OK to patent a genome, and that if a GM crop happens to blow into your farm, *you* are responsible for it, and have to completely remove it at your expense:

http://tinyurl.com/3onetv
http://tinyurl.com/4rh5wb

I think it's more likely it'll be 6-3, although 5-4 is, indeed, all it takes.

You got it spot on:

Ma Bell is no dummy. You don't get to be a powerful corporation by making dumb decisions; They asked SCOTUS to take the case because they know there is, based on the history of the court, a very good chance there will be a ruling in their favor:

http://tinyurl.com/4pugrm
http://tinyurl.com/2klpc3
http://tinyurl.com/2pafg6

Remember, we're talking about a court which said it's OK to patent a genome, and that if a GM crop happens to blow into your farm, *you* are responsible for it, and have to completely remove it at your expense:

http://tinyurl.com/3onetv
http://tinyurl.com/4rh5wb

I think it's more likely it'll be 6-3, although 5-4 is, indeed, all it takes.

You got it spot on:

Ma Bell is no dummy. You don't get to be a powerful corporation by making dumb decisions; They asked SCOTUS to take the case because they know there is, based on the history of the court, a very good chance there will be a ruling in their favor:

http://tinyurl.com/4pugrm
http://tinyurl.com/2klpc3
http://tinyurl.com/2pafg6

Remember, we're talking about a court which said it's OK to patent a genome, and that if a GM crop happens to blow into your farm, *you* are responsible for it, and have to completely remove it at your expense:

http://tinyurl.com/3onetv
http://tinyurl.com/4rh5wb

I think it's more likely it'll be 6-3, although 5-4 is, indeed, all it takes.

You got it spot on:

Ma Bell is no dummy. You don't get to be a powerful corporation by making dumb decisions; They asked SCOTUS to take the case because they know there is, based on the history of the court, a very good chance there will be a ruling in their favor:

http://tinyurl.com/4pugrm
http://tinyurl.com/2klpc3
http://tinyurl.com/2pafg6

Remember, we're talking about a court which said it's OK to patent a genome, and that if a GM crop happens to blow into your farm, *you* are responsible for it, and have to completely remove it at your expense:

http://tinyurl.com/3onetv
http://tinyurl.com/4rh5wb

I think it's more likely it'll be 6-3, although 5-4 is, indeed, all it takes.

Thanks to the group for the discussion on this paper. The folks at NextGenWeb have discussed the report on their blog too: http://tinyurl.com/3w4qlm (full disclosure: I help NextGenWeb with their blogging)

Every Slashdot post that is an obvious M$ fanboy rant includes, "I am by no means a fan of Microsoft"

This is getting to be a clue, like "Think of the children".

Google this code phrase and see, http://tinyurl.com/4wxy6y

M$ fanboy code.

Cheers

I think this link shows it a bit better, with satellite view turned on and showing the city and the volcano and how surrounded the mountain is by city...
http://tinyurl.com/6jr5b8

OS X Fink Project has documented why they use experimental "pangocairo" tree on their Wiki. Although Linux reasons could be different, I kinda feel that it could be related.

http://preview.tinyurl.com/5bsmaw

Right now, if you opt-in to use pangocairo Fink tree with current GTK, thousands of things change (while it is safe).

...when they don't have enough.

There are many better reasons to choose a company than money http://tinyurl.com/6s6rjm

Yes it does!
http://www.spreadfirefox.com/node/2438

Check your Official Firefox Release local time here:
http://tinyurl.com/4e7fv5

Please explain to me how Barr is half the candidate Ron Paul is. Look at his views pre-2006! He was one of the strongest supporters of the war on drugs, he voted for the war in Iraq, he was a leader of the Clinton impeachment, he authored the Defense of Marriage Act, he voted for the Patriot Act, he voted for banning Wicca in the military, and oh yeah, there's this too: http://tinyurl.com/6odfce

What is wrong with you Bob Barr people? He may have changed all these views to match what Ron Paul has been saying, but just because he says he's a libertarian now doesn't make it so.

The bill still has to go through committee (LOL that will be fun) and back to the house, and then the Senate. I can see an election happening long before this becomes law.

Politically, this is pretty stupid to roll out, but I think Harper is feeling heat from American business interests and bowing to them - SOP for this government.

In the scrum at the announcement, there were deflections over questions over whether a kid remixing and uploading a song to YouTube would be slapped with a $500 fine. I think they know they are vulnerable on this: Vernier suddenly developed a hearing problem and Prentice was a bot, repeating carefully scripted talking points. Watch the video, it's quite amusing: http://tinyurl.com/3zvmjn

Let me assure you, while Canadians are mostly passive, people will hold this one against the government Some of you may remember when there was that outrage over Rogers Cable's negative-option billing scheme. The lesson that all governments should heed is that it's not wise to mess with a Canadian's media. :)

I applaud ISO for recognizing the evaluation of the technical community it servers.

Heh, good one! The fast track process was completely inappropriate for OOXML. With 9 months to review 6000 pages the technical community had only scratched the surface of what's broken in OOXML.

No one in the technical community is happy with the quality of OOXML -- even Microsoft can't implement this thing.

ISO wrote:

According to the ISO/IEC rules, a document which is the subject of an appeal cannot be published as an ISO/IEC International Standard while the appeal is going on. Therefore, the decision to publish or not ISO/IEC DIS 29500 as an ISO/IEC International Standard cannot be taken until the outcome of the appeals is known.

This statement has no bearing on the similar statements issued by South Africa and Brazil in their formal appeals that they should have received a final text by now. National Bodies should have received a final text but this is quite different to publishing (which is all the ISO are talking about in that final paragraph).

Section 13.12 of the directives reads,

"In not more than one month after the ballot resolution group meeting the SC Secretariat shall distribute the final report of the meeting and final DIS text in case of acceptance."

The BRM was in February and the final text was due in late March. It still has not arrived. You might call this evidence of the OOXML text being in an unreleasable state (read: a mess) and South Africa would agree...

"Given the magnitude of the specification and the number of identified edits required it was clear that this directive [13.12] could not have been met. This is the clearest possible indication that DIS 29500 as submitted by Ecma and as modified by the BRM is not ready for fast track processing." -- http://tinyurl.com/4ceags

The original post was about "NO" sunspots when, in fact, there have been sunspots. All the replies seemed to have gone off on wild tangents full of worthless (IMHO) speculation. Here, from a recent ARRL propogation report, are some actual facts.

This week we saw only one sunspot, numbered 997, and only on Labor Day, May 26. Alas, this was another sunspot left over from fading Cycle 23, and the appearance was very brief. One day it weakly emerged, and it quickly faded from view. The previous five days were spotless; spots appeared on the five days prior to that, and previous to those spotted days were ten days of no spots.

Recently we offered notes from Dr. Kenneth Tapping, showing why he doesn't think this minimum is unusual. Dr. Tapping is an astrophysicist at the Dominion Radio Astrophysical Observatory in Penticton, British Columbia (see, http://tinyurl.com/3lqtab).

The notes were offered after Dr. Tapping was widely misquoted several months ago (and since then, as the mangled quotes seem to have taken on a life of their own) on various web sites claiming that Dr. Tapping foresaw possibly decades of no sunspots, and then trying to link this to several sorts of worldwide calamity. Some pieces even claimed that the sunspot cycle hit bottom a year and a half ago, and that no sunspots have been observed since, a false claim easily refuted by existing data, widely available.

Attn: 400 scientist worldwide have come forward and denounced global warming theory. Some of them are actually listed on the IPCC's original report.

http://tinyurl.com/2dv6nz

It's complete garbage science mixed with carefully selected evidence, disregarding the complete portfolio of evidence to fit a theory based in politics. It's a big lie. Stop listening to Al Gore and start listening to real scientists. This is the modern day McCarthyism...

"i don't see why..."
[...]
"if there is anything science teaches us," it's that the argument from personal incredulity is usually wrong.

A non-fluff article on the topic in Scientific American is at http://tinyurl.com/5ps6ny. The article approaches it from the anomalous fact that the arrow of time and entropy do not exhibit symmetry.

Yes and no. Yes, there are no more at-grade crossings except maybe near Boston and I think those have been eliminated. But there were some at-grade crossings that I have personal experience with. In Delaware crossing Red Mill Road and Harmony Road until the late 70s. The amount of signaling at those crossings was insane too since those trains went through there around 100+ MPH.

http://preview.tinyurl.com/6qwspf Link to google map of one of the former crossings, since replaced with overpass a few hundred feet to the west.

As well, I find outdoor backpack type gear also work well. Personally, I use a large travel pack from Mountain Equipment Co-op http://tinyurl.com/3lrpae

The iBook G4 series didn't get drop sensors for HD park and the multi-touch, 'scrolling trackpad' features until the "Mid-2005" models (1.33 GHz, 12-inch and 1.42 GHz 14-inch) ...the very last iBooks before the series was discontinued.
Ref, everymac.com: http://tinyurl.com/4zx8x6

You're assuming that (a) the same people who are developing the UI are the ones who would be fixing network bugs, and (b) there are no bug fixes here. Looking at the bug fix list for RC2, I see 9 of the 31 were crashers.

Disclaimer: I'm not the best person to answer this, because I'm not sure what "doing a Microsoft" means, or who said "coooo , its so preeetty" or what "bloatware functionality [] no one needs" has been added, or why anybody modding down your inane comment would need to be a "fanboy". Disclosure: I'm not even using Firefox.

Why get a fake ID to show a notary? Just get a notarial seal and cut out the proverbial middle man.

$8.. http://tinyurl.com/6luvgs

Myths and Realities About the USA H1-B Program

Myth: H1-Bs are the "best and brightest"

Reality: If that were true then the typical H1-B would a Nobel prize winning scientist. The truth is, the typical H1-B is an average student, hired right out of college with only a four year degree. The typical H1-B is no more qualified than the US graduates who are not getting jobs. The H1-Bs are just cheaper. And because of the lottery nature of the H1-B process, employers do not even know who they are getting. So how do employers know that they are getting the best and brightest?

Also, isn't it funny that almost all of the "best and brightest" come from countries where people earn as little as $1 a day? If it's really about the "best and brightest" then why aren't there more European H1-Bs?

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Myth: H1-Bs are needed because of the critical shortage of US technology workers

Reality: Serious academic studies clearly indicate that skills shortage is a myth.

> These studies done at Duke aren't alone in their assessment that there is in fact no skills shortage. They're backed up by other studies conducted by RAND Corporation, The Urban Institute and Stanford University, among others, all of which settle upon the same conclusion: There is no shortage of educated IT workers.

http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1081923#PaperDownload

This according to a well researched article at baselinemag.com:

http://tinyurl.com/yoy2rw

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Myth: H1-Bs do compete unfairly, because H1-Bs are paid the prevailing wage

Reality:

> According to data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics' Occupational Employment Statistics (OES) as the measurement of U.S. wages, and the H-1B LCA disclosure data to measure H-1B wages, 90% of H-1B employers' prevailing wage claims for programmers were below the median U.S. wage for that occupation and location, with 62% of them falling in the bottom 25th percentile of U.S. wages, said Miano [founder of the Programmer's Guild].

> Ron Hira, an assistant professor of public policy at the Rochester Institute of Technology (currently on leave) and a research associate at the Economic Policy Institute, pointed to USCIS's most recent report to Congress, which shows that the medium wage in 2005 for new H-1B computing professionals was just $50,000 -- even lower than the entry-level wages that a newly graduated tech worker with a bachelor's degree and no experience would command.

http://tinyurl.com/4bvwyh

According to the U.S. Citizenship & Immigration Service's (USCIS) annual report to Congress in 2005, the aggregate data for computing professionals lend support to the argument that the practice of paying H-1Bs below-market wages is quite common.

http://www.sharedprosperity.org/bp187.html

H1-Bs are hired at four different skill levels, "4" being the highest. But most H1-Bs are hired for the lowest "1" level jobs - regardless of what kind of work the H1-Bs actually do.

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Myth: In the USA enrollment in technical disciplines is declining. Proof the USA needs to hire more foreign workers

Reality: This myth is designed to confuse cause and effect. Employers are not forced to hire offshore because enrollment is down. Rather, enrollment is down because of aggressive offshoring by employers. But even with enrollments down, there are still more than enough US workers.

> Due to both outsourcing and insourcing, many young people are concluding that technology is a bad place to invest their time," said Mark Thoma, a professor of economics at the University of Oregon in Euge

Myths and Realities About the USA H1-B Program

Myth: H1-Bs are the "best and brightest"

Reality: If that were true then the typical H1-B would a Nobel prize winning scientist. The truth is, the typical H1-B is an average student, hired right out of college with only a four year degree. The typical H1-B is no more qualified than the US graduates who are not getting jobs. The H1-Bs are just cheaper. And because of the lottery nature of the H1-B process, employers do not even know who they are getting. So how do employers know that they are getting the best and brightest?

Also, isn't it funny that almost all of the "best and brightest" come from countries where people earn as little as $1 a day? If it's really about the "best and brightest" then why aren't there more European H1-Bs?

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Myth: H1-Bs are needed because of the critical shortage of US technology workers

Reality: Serious academic studies clearly indicate that skills shortage is a myth.

> These studies done at Duke aren't alone in their assessment that there is in fact no skills shortage. They're backed up by other studies conducted by RAND Corporation, The Urban Institute and Stanford University, among others, all of which settle upon the same conclusion: There is no shortage of educated IT workers.

http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1081923#PaperDownload

This according to a well researched article at baselinemag.com:

http://tinyurl.com/yoy2rw

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Myth: H1-Bs do compete unfairly, because H1-Bs are paid the prevailing wage

Reality:

> According to data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics' Occupational Employment Statistics (OES) as the measurement of U.S. wages, and the H-1B LCA disclosure data to measure H-1B wages, 90% of H-1B employers' prevailing wage claims for programmers were below the median U.S. wage for that occupation and location, with 62% of them falling in the bottom 25th percentile of U.S. wages, said Miano [founder of the Programmer's Guild].

> Ron Hira, an assistant professor of public policy at the Rochester Institute of Technology (currently on leave) and a research associate at the Economic Policy Institute, pointed to USCIS's most recent report to Congress, which shows that the medium wage in 2005 for new H-1B computing professionals was just $50,000 -- even lower than the entry-level wages that a newly graduated tech worker with a bachelor's degree and no experience would command.

http://tinyurl.com/4bvwyh

According to the U.S. Citizenship & Immigration Service's (USCIS) annual report to Congress in 2005, the aggregate data for computing professionals lend support to the argument that the practice of paying H-1Bs below-market wages is quite common.

http://www.sharedprosperity.org/bp187.html

H1-Bs are hired at four different skill levels, "4" being the highest. But most H1-Bs are hired for the lowest "1" level jobs - regardless of what kind of work the H1-Bs actually do.

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Myth: In the USA enrollment in technical disciplines is declining. Proof the USA needs to hire more foreign workers

Reality: This myth is designed to confuse cause and effect. Employers are not forced to hire offshore because enrollment is down. Rather, enrollment is down because of aggressive offshoring by employers. But even with enrollments down, there are still more than enough US workers.

> Due to both outsourcing and insourcing, many young people are concluding that technology is a bad place to invest their time," said Mark Thoma, a professor of economics at the University of Oregon in Euge

ok so i listened to the MD internal mp3 phone call at http://tinyurl.com/3hyrkx most of the conversation is about being secure wile he admits to using voip the case there talking about is about child porn and i think we all would agree that those type of people need to be stoped and in the case revision3 DoS attack it is clear to me that MD is not a law enforcement agency what there doing should be done by the f.b.i. but the fbi cant do DoS attacks because torrents have legit uses I think this has the possibility to snow ball in to some thing that would further corrode are civil liberty's as in the case of the air force bot net http://tinyurl.com/6b8azj i think we as a community should watch closely or theres going to be some law passed stuck into a farm bill or something i would go one further and think that Windows7 will have it coded that would be crazy but i think it is posbile

ok so i listened to the MD internal mp3 phone call at http://tinyurl.com/3hyrkx most of the conversation is about being secure wile he admits to using voip the case there talking about is about child porn and i think we all would agree that those type of people need to be stoped and in the case revision3 DoS attack it is clear to me that MD is not a law enforcement agency what there doing should be done by the f.b.i. but the fbi cant do DoS attacks because torrents have legit uses I think this has the possibility to snow ball in to some thing that would further corrode are civil liberty's as in the case of the air force bot net http://tinyurl.com/6b8azj i think we as a community should watch closely or theres going to be some law passed stuck into a farm bill or something i would go one further and think that Windows7 will have it coded that would be crazy but i think it is posbile

This is somewhat true. The average consumer simply isn't aware of the security issues with most things they use. It doesn't matter whether it's their phone, their computer or their front door locks. This is actually kind of the guy's point. Companies are able to keep people in the dark at will, generally.

That's funny. Here's a link to a Forbes article from last summer regarding a lack of security.
http://tinyurl.com/2huxru

Here's another link regarding an actual exploit vector, reported by the New York Times: http://tinyurl.com/2uk6vy
Here's the link to the discussion of this exploit by the very guys who discovered it:
http://securityevaluators.com/iphone/ (A short URL ... woot!)

This is with a very cursory search via Google. I've certainly read of these, and other, exploits and issues on the iPhone since its release. What's interesting is most people that actually own an iPhone don't seem to give a rat's ass about security on it.

This is somewhat true. The average consumer simply isn't aware of the security issues with most things they use. It doesn't matter whether it's their phone, their computer or their front door locks. This is actually kind of the guy's point. Companies are able to keep people in the dark at will, generally.

That's funny. Here's a link to a Forbes article from last summer regarding a lack of security.
http://tinyurl.com/2huxru

Here's another link regarding an actual exploit vector, reported by the New York Times: http://tinyurl.com/2uk6vy
Here's the link to the discussion of this exploit by the very guys who discovered it:
http://securityevaluators.com/iphone/ (A short URL ... woot!)

This is with a very cursory search via Google. I've certainly read of these, and other, exploits and issues on the iPhone since its release. What's interesting is most people that actually own an iPhone don't seem to give a rat's ass about security on it.

Intel's first Atom-based Mini-ITX board will retail for under $80 in early June: http://tinyurl.com/4pljgf It's almost what you're after...

• 
     
• HP Mini-Note - 8.9" display, 1.2GHz VIA C7-M ULV, 120Gb HDD, 1Gb RAM @ $729

How could he be "Stealing from Banks" when Paypal is not a bank. Google Checkout is not a bank either.

Neither are required to safeguard your money the same way a bank does. Paypal can and often does freeze the deposits in accounts for it's members without warning and your recourse towards unfreezing accounts leaves much to be said. I haven't heard horror stories about Google Checkout but they are not a bank either - they are a payment processor for merchants.

FWIW, there is a new Person-to-Person payment competitor to Paypal that is actually run by a bank and your deposits are FDIC insured. It's called Revolution Money Exchange. It's currently free like Paypal was in the beginning but I'm sure they'll add more fees sooner or later.

Oh, and if you sign up for Revolution, you get a couple pennies deposited to any accounts you link to it, so don't sign up 50,000 times under a fake name or you'll be stealing from a Bank for real!!!

He wasn't "Stealing from Banks". As you know, Paypal is not a bank. Google Checkout is not a bank either.

Neither are required to safeguard your money the same way a bank does. Paypal can and often does freeze the deposits in accounts for it's members without warning and your recourse towards unfreezing accounts leaves much to be said.

FWIW, there is a new Person-to-Person payment competitor to Paypal that is actually run by a bank and your deposits are FDIC insured. It's called Revolution Money Exchange. It's currently free like Paypal was in the beginning but I'm sure they'll add more fees sooner or later.

http://tinyurl.com/fgd3x

The site appears to be slashdotted at the moment, here's a google cache link: http://tinyurl.com/6rsjmz

We, the US, are governed by the rule of law.

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Many people who are familiar with U.S. constitutional history would tend to find that to be a provocative statement. The relationship between the law and the people has changed radically over time.

The following polemic article may provide some understanding of what I am talking about.

The Constitutional Relationship between the Law and the People
http://tinyurl.com/3du9ec

I_Voter

IMO: A history of popular sovereignty in the U.S. would show an ever increasing franchise, along with a continued erosion of the power of that franchise To put it another way, the franchised citizenry has far less political power today than they would have had in say 1830.

My ( under construction ) web site -
Political Power in the U.S.:
and why you don't have any!
http://tinyurl.com/2sdtvk

We, the US, are governed by the rule of law.

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Many people who are familiar with U.S. constitutional history would tend to find that to be a provocative statement. The relationship between the law and the people has changed radically over time.

The following polemic article may provide some understanding of what I am talking about.

The Constitutional Relationship between the Law and the People
http://tinyurl.com/3du9ec

I_Voter

IMO: A history of popular sovereignty in the U.S. would show an ever increasing franchise, along with a continued erosion of the power of that franchise To put it another way, the franchised citizenry has far less political power today than they would have had in say 1830.

My ( under construction ) web site -
Political Power in the U.S.:
and why you don't have any!
http://tinyurl.com/2sdtvk

http://www.tva.gov/cgi-bin/search?txtquery=</title><script>alert('Slashdot was here')</script>
http://tinyurl.com/6h5l52

http://www.mebeam.com/ has a plug-in for GTalk that allows for multi-way video conferencing.

http://preview.tinyurl.com/5qdp38 (Link to the plug-in)

So, I'm curious, you say that you foresee the end of the US IT job market. Why?

Aggressive off-shoring. Jobs are being sent off-shore like mad, and off-shore workers are being brought in to do whatever jobs are remaining.

There will still be some IT jobs in the USA, of course. Some US citizens will still be hired. But the supply/demand ratio will make IT about the worst field you can enter.

What is happening to IT now is something like what happened to auto and steal workers in the 1980s. Except the assembly line workers did have to invest in specialized training, or fight to get specialized experience.

Don't take my word for it, read the headlines:

High Tech Industry Laying Off American Workers While Seeking Huge Increase in Guest Workers
> "Currently, the Department of Labor estimates that there are about 656,000 unemployed IT workers in the U.S. In addition, the slowing economy has led to a loss of jobs across the board including in IT. The Denver-based Rocky Mountain News reports that Colorado -- the state with the third highest concentration of IT workers -- has lost 47,200 technology jobs since 2001."

http://www.fairus.org/site/PageServer?pagename=research_may08nl02

Gains in US high tech employment more than offset by off-shore worker visas"
> "According to the AeA Cyberstates yearly reports, "High Tech" employment experienced job losses of 945,000 in the 2001 recession. Since this drop in employment, the "High Tech" sector has recovered about 300,000 jobs, but during the period in question, a probable 669,681 H-1B and L-1 computer-related workers were added to the workforce."

http://tinyurl.com/3pj2c3

IT job security plummets five times faster than nationwide average
> "Job security for IT professionals plummeted more than 10% from January to February of this year, far surpassing the average job security declines seen nationwide in a rigorous analysis of U.S. employment patterns."

http://www.networkworld.com/newsletters/edu/2008/033108ed1.html

Take a look at the forums on dice - they are filled with people who have a degree, but can not get a job. Here are some examples:

"I graduated with a B.S. in Computer Science from New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) back in January 2005. After I graduated, I was unable to find a job . . . so in order to pay bills and student loans, I had to get a temp job doing customer service, making $12 an hour"

http://seeker.dice.com/olc/thread.jspa?threadID=6562&tstart=0

"I have bachelors degree in computer science. I have 10yrs of experience in software and 5yrs in .net. But now i have been laid of and out of job for past 4 months."

http://seeker.dice.com/olc/thread.jspa?threadID=7151&tstart=0

"I am a cliche . . . I am 24 year old, B.Sc. Computer Science grad from an above average state school, and I'm unemployed."

http://seeker.dice.com/olc/thread.jspa?threadID=4896&start=0&tstart=0

"I graduated with a B.S in Computer Science last year May 2007. Though after applying to hundreds of places I've only gotten a handful of interviews and no IT job as of yet! All my other friends who majored in business or accounting managed to get jobs fairly easily."

http://seeker.dice.com/olc/thread.jspa?threadID=6875&tstart=0

"Soooo. I graduate May of 07, with a 3.3 and a BSIT but no experience in IT Security . . . And I am $#*7 out of luck"

I was thinking more something like this...
http://tinyurl.com/create.php

Better block tinyurl links too then, as advised in this article.

Is it possible they've fixed it already? I just sent a youtube link from one of my accounts to another, and it went through just fine. I was also able to receive a youtube link from my other account. Furthermore, TinyURL seems to work just fine as well, so even if youtube is being blocked it's not as if there aren't work arounds for it. I'm guessing some MS engineer borked their servers accidentally.