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maybe he needs a set of these: http://www.usatoday.com/news/offbeat/2004-04-22-do g-diapers_x.htm/

I thought the average age of gamers nowadays was 29.

I just read an article at the Register (linking to an old article on http://www.usatoday.com/money/industries/technolog y/2004-11-29-honeypot_x.htm about un-patched XP sp1 machines only surviving for 4 minutes when connected to a broadband connection. Within 10 hours the hackers had an IRC channel running on the machines.

Yes, it could also be that they realize that a fair amount of grade inflation occurs at ivy league schools.

Columnist denying it.

USA Today nailing him on it.

Washington Post doing the same.

FCC investigation into Armstrong Williams payola.

Seriously, this is not a conspiracy; it happened. You can argue whether (as USA Today states) he was contractually obligated to be favorable towards vouchers, but he definitely took money to run ads on them... and immediately afterward, wrote columns favorable of the Bush administration's position on the issue. This would be *incredibly* questionable, in and of itself. If he took the money with an additional obligation of running those columns, it is quite possibly illegal.

I had expected arrests to start after reading this, but that was only some days ago. Evans must be pleased.

Obviously you haven't considered the best method to keep from being trackedd which is described here.

I'm no lawyer : can a court order someone to reveal its sources?

Yes. That is why Judith Miller (New York Times) was fined and ordered to jail: for contempt in refusing to name sources to the federal grand jury investigating the Valeire Plame leak in October (the contempt charge is currently suspended while on appeal).

There is no true or guaranteed protection of sources where the law is concerned.

FBI has been involved in foreign attacks on US installations since the mid 90s.

So involved are they that they considered opening an office in Yemen.

32,000 staff and student ID records, including photographs and SSN's have been exposed to {h|cr}ackers, possibly for as long as two months. GMU is home to The Center for Secure Information Systems. In other news, the cobbler's children are going barefoot...

He wouldn't be my choice but yeah he was voted 'year's sexiest man' (see here). In the company of Johnny Depp, Jude Law, and, ye gods, Ben Affleck.

Y'know, they're pretty picky about net broadcast fees. Exactly how are they going to bill people? And exactly who will be billed?

I'm all for this, don't get me wrong. But like any good idea that promotes the *AA's products, moron music execs will be all over it since it bypasses one of their revenue models.

Enjoy it for now, because it's probably going away soon.

Partership with SBC and BellSouth to deliver digital cable TV (codec, receiver) to consumers; Window Media Player 10 with DRM out the yin-yang (licenses which make it impossible to play content that I purchased a la DivX); partership with TiVo for content encoding; the PlaysForSure DRM.

Make no mistake -- MicroSoft is positioning itself to not need the Windows monopoly in the near future -- the licensing revenue from all the (mandatory) DRM embedded in every consumer device you touch will be sufficient to keep BillG and friends afloat for the next century.

Link to USA Today Interview

This David Banach guy sure looks like it.

"No, Mr. Charter Jet Pilot, I expect you to go blind!"

Interesting differences about the nature of the confession.

After being taken to an FBI office and given a lie-detector test, Banach said he had hit the jet with the beam, court documents say

This fits with the claim that he was stargazing with his daughter and that contact with the plane was completely coincidental.

Banach, 38, of Parsippany, New Jersey, admitted to federal agents that he pointed the light beam at a jet

That paints a different light which can be interpreted to mean that he was deliberately pointing out the jet. Both articles you cite use this language. I think the public opinion is being swayed by language which deliberately skews the story. I wouldn't be surprised if all subsequent articles stick exclusively with the second wording and will probably never quote the lie detector questioning directly.

As for the police helicopter also being hit with the beam I'm still suspicious. Police reports are always skewed to justify the actions of the officers. No one wants to be found guilty of misconduct and spend time off without pay. The police helicopter reportedly was attempting to scout the area with the plane's pilot. Wouldn't they be doing that in the day? Wouldn't it be a little difficult to see a 5 mW green light during the daytime? Wouldn't it be even more difficult to see the light making contact with the outside of the chopper while looking at the ground? The goal wasn't to "fly the chopper around like a target to see if the terrorist comes back". The goal was to fly the chopper around and see if the pilot could recognize and identify the area from which the light had been coming.

Too many ifs for me to believe, rank and file, that this guy was even recklessly endangering anything. With this much reasonable doubt I'd want the Cessna pilots to give a lie detector testimony to back up their claims of being blinded or even seeing the light make contact with the windshield.

Since the original link didn't work..

http://www.usatoday.com/travel/news/2005-01-04-las er-aircraft_x.htm

I'll grant you that tossing the word "terrorist" into this case is a bit of a stretch, but let's consider two points:

(1) He shined it at an aircraft one night; and

(2) He did it AGAIN two days later, at a police helicopter no less. It wasn't a one-time fluke that he was painting aircraft.

Now, another story I read recently stated that the FBI/DHS/whomever does not suspect that terrorists are behind this, but then again a laser doesn't have to guide a missile to bring down an airplane, just distract the aircrew or cause them to take evasive action for a non-existent shoulder-launched missile attack.

Nor does a terrorist have to be a citizen of a country other than the US (as in Timothy McVeigh). Does this guy have a prior criminal record? The story doesn't say. Nor does it say if the laser simply hit the aircraft for a split second or if it traced its path through the sky.

So, if one thinks about it a little, antiterrorism charges aren't necessarily as far out as one might think. Do I think they are pretty far out? Sure, but not impossible either.

I'm Republican and I totally agree. However the people who voted Democrat because of this never realized that Hillary and Kerry BOTH voted FOR this act. story here. Both of them speaking out against something they voted for was just blind hatred against Bush and had nothing to do with the issue at all since they were obviously for it. It is sad how many fell for them hiding the truth though.

For those who need a link to the article since the story doesn't seem to have it, here it is:

USA Today Story

USA Today Story

The slashdot story is missing the link. No comment about the editor who posted it.

...since the story omitted it.

NJ Man Charged with Aiming Laser at Aircraft

here

games like Capture the Flag

I know you Red Staters reelected the Monkey King, but could you at least spell "homosexual" right?

Besides, I thought you guys wanted to go after "Muslims" first?

Actually, that's not true. They've exceeded the ever-increasing yearly quotas for years. The specific category of recruiting for the national guard has had a hard time of it lately because they can no longer say with a straight face that it'll be only one weekend a month and 2 weeks a year, and they usually recruit outgoing regular military folks looking for a reduced commitment. If you like, I can provide lots of links to boring sites with lots of numbers that lay it all out. To start with I offer this, a good synopsis of the specific trouble the ANG is having, and here are the details of FY2004's recruitment goals for the regular army and reserves.

When you have Dynamite David Lee Roth as your paramedic!

The fact that no Christians squealed when the FDA approved subcutaneous implantable ID chips in humans makes me think that in real life if we ever get a "Mark Of The Beast" most Christians will take it along with the rest of the sheeple.

Then again, did the Dems take advantage of the info? Nope. Such a shame, because if this had been approved by Clinton Karl Rove would have been all over this in 2000.

I've got dibs on Montecore!

"Copped lace" is only available at Victoria Secret ... not Home Depot or Lowes.

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Didn't the guy with a million copper pennies
ODDLY ENOUGH
mention that lightning struck his roof twice?

Why isn't it practical? You have to add a lot of weight for each different component. Plus there are now lots more parts to potentially break. That last bit is the part that is soon going to bit the new hybrid car owners in the ass. The stats are just now starting to roll in about how much less reliable hybrids are...

http://www.usatoday.com/money/autos/2004-07-25-hyb rid_x.htm

They have all the same parts of a regular gasoline car. Plus they have all the electric motors and gear for braking-energy-recovery, etc. It should be no shock to anyone that they are going to have more broken parts than a regular car.

Linux expands beyond the office into the home.

Will microsoft give them a sweet deal?, possibly, will they give it away free, or sell it and give support for free?, I hope I live to see the day.

Some time ago, it was revealed that Microsoft's Orlando Ayala, a top Microsoft executive for foreign sales, distributed a memo instructing that "Under NO circumstances lose against Linux[sic].". Microsoft has a slush fund to pay for big would-be customers' licenses. Microsoft was prepared to use some of this money to reduce the cost of licensed Microsoft proprietary software for the city government of Munich, Germany. The same article also mentions sharply discounted or free training for city workers, or allowing teachers "to use Microsoft software purchased for the workplace at home for no extra charge".

Support with proprietary software is always a trap, of course, because you have to convince the proprietor to do what you want done (you can't do it for yourself no matter how skilled a programmer you are, no matter how talented your hired help is). But Munich was offered a support contract which included "Windows XP [support] for six years -- a year beyond the five-year base contract, and [Microsoft] said the city could skip the next Office upgrade, too".

The cost of locking someone in now pays off in spades down the road when people are less likely to even consider alternatives. Microsoft knows this, hence they are willing to do what it takes to get large clients. The city government of Munich ended up going with a GNU/Linux system instead, but reducing the sale price to $0 is definately on the menu.

Yes! Me and old Uncle Saddam. We had this deal going where I supplied chicken entrails and he sent me diamonds. Oh why did it have to end? Oh the humanity!

"health care"? Yea, if you were a party member

Really? Nooo!

"education"- indoctination since Saddam was the only person ever allowed to be discussed

Right

tell me ANY dictatorship that has been overthrown without any blood being shed

Sure: Poland, Chechoslovakia, Hungary, East Germany, etc etc.

"theft of Iraq resources"..Bullshit. Iraq owns it's oil and sells it to whomever pulls up to the terminal at Basra.

All Iraqi industries (with exception of oil) were privatized by the order of Vice Roy Bremmer just before his departure. Furthermore, he set rules in place that: allow 100% foreign ownership of all Iraqi companies, allow 100% of profits to be taken out of the country and even though oil fields were exluded, the oil terminals and processing wasnt, a consortium of CHEVRON and Betchel and several other foreign companies operates these. All of Bremer's rules are set in stone and the new "sovereign" government will not be allowed to change them (including the 15% flat income tax)

90% of the problems are being caused by EXTERNAL NON-IRAQI Muslim fundamentalists who want a theocracy.

I was treating you semi-seriously up to this point but this is clearly a waste of time. Lay off FOX "news" and Rush Limbaugh. Of all the "insurgents" captured in Iraq less then 2% are foreigners and thats according to US Army's own data.

As to the Crusade...

If the Greenland ice-shelf slides into the sea you'd better be living in the Rockies with a large stash of tinned goods.

well, no:

"Greenland's ice is probably in the most danger of melting, and this would raise global sea levels by about 21 feet. Scientists who study the ice don't think this is likely during the life of anyone alive now."

http://www.usatoday.com/weather/resources/coldscie nce/aice0.htm

You cannot put a price on American lives.

They were just waiting for his replacement.

Might as well put a guy who actually went to the moon in the top position at NASA.

Last I heard, the turd-shaped mac was doing pretty well. =P

Kano-

You are a ridiculous fucktard. Every issue always comes back to Clinton with you. Who gives a shit if he got a blowjob from some chick?!?! I certainly don't.

Tell your hero to shut up with his "Bring them on" bravado while our National Guard troops are getting their asses blown up in unarmored Humvees. Reference.

To me, the murder of children -- wherever it occurs -- secures a higher priority of national concern than some dog yapping at the feet a naked terrorist.

So we have not only a straw man going on, but also a falsehood. Saying the murder of children is a higher priority is a distraction. Why bring up that it's not a "high priority" and then proceed to argue about it?

And how about the fact that these "naked terrorists" are mostly innocent civillians (according to ICRC) ? Would you feel different if it was your son or father this happened to?
And you are ignoring the fact that a lot worse was done that "dog yapping at the feet". Inmates of Abu Grhaib have been murdered and raped.

"I want one, but I'm not a pro athlete, rapper or movie star, so I'll probably have to roll my own"

Dude! I think they roll their own too:

Ricky Williams
Snoop Dog
Woody Harrelson

Funny that, but many of the things I've seen seem to indicate that if the ENTIRE polar ice caps melted, we'd see a rise of about 65 meters, not 200 meters. And that's if the ENTIRE cap melted -- I dont think anyone is suggest that possibility.

Maybe you just mixed up meters and feet? Your point is valid, however -- even 20 ft would be bad.

But would that happen? Global warming doesn't necessarily mean the polar ice cap will melt. The really interesting questions arise when we see the change in ocean salinity...

On average, the republican party outspends the democratic party nationwide. For every state, those that have GOP in control of both houses added the most new spending -- all financed by running higher deficits.

The problem is not George W. Bush.

177 mill per day

TV is no "dumber" now than it was twenty years ago. This is just a stupid knee jerk reaction to an industry it is now more fashionable than ever to hate.

Look at the top rated shows and you will find only a sliver of those "reality" shows everyone loves (when they're alone in front of the tv) to hate (the next day around the water cooler). What is there in spades, however, is the cookie cutter crime shows - allegedly "intelligent" content apparently all written by the same crack team of hackneyed high school chemistry dropouts.

Now go back thirty years to 1974 and note the top rated shows. Sanford and Son might be classics now, but no matter how much I loved Redd Foxx I sure wouldn't call it "intelligent." Six Million Dollar man? Fun when I was 12, but in the end only slightly less demeaning in its scientific take than CSI-name-your-favorite-city. It's Charlie's Angels for the geriatric.

Then there was MASH and Bob Newhart and Maude; now there's West Wing and Will and Grace and Family Guy.

Now let's move into the eighties. I'm not even going to bother looking for a link - I can name them off the top of my head: intelligent fare like Three's Company and Dukes of fucking Hazzard and Wonder Woman intermingled with the monthly installments of Battle of the Network T's and A's.

Great shows like those produced by Rod Serling - the MASHs and the West Wings have always been rare on TV. By and large it has always sucked, all that's changing is your own awareness of just how badly. What you're forgetting is it's been that bad all along... you just had no other choice.

Apple has not described these as "highly critical" to my knowledge.

That label has been applied by Secunia, the Danish security company that has, in the past, gotten press for indicating that Windows is secure and OS X isn't, no matter what tests might show.

The browser fixes are potentially significant, but the bulk of the others involve services that aren't even on by default, or things that most users wouldn't deal with.

Sky falling, next 10 miles.

Im very surprised that noone has replied to you yet on this matter, but the gas and bio weapons Saddam used in 1991/1992 against the Kurds was purchased from the US and the UK in the 1980s, including the ability to produce more of them. Yes, the vast majority of WMD that we are looking for in Iraq are tehre because we sold them to Iraq. It is true that Germany and France also took part, as did Russia and China, but for the 1980s WMD were commonly traded arms, and the US was one of the biggest traders in them.

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Back in the 1970's Air New Zealand used to run sighseeing flights down to Antartica ... until the trafic Mount Erebus crash. This was 25 years ago Sunday and there was a recent memorial service. There are stil the occasional charter flights.

Yeah. Those idjits in Ohio were the only ones to vote for dubya, yet he still won.

Maybe you need someone to draw you a picture.

Cut the budget for the National Science Foundation while spending money on the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and other inane ideas. This will eventually kill basic research and hence the flow of new jobs to replace the 400,000 IT jobs lost in the past three years.

That's a moot point anyhow- if their security is anything like most governments'\schools', all you need is half an hour online and you'll know everything you want to know for free.

See any one of these