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I also expect to see a number of congressman start gripping about Google.

This year's democrat-controlled Congress largely ignored technological issues in favor of social problems, CNet notes in another 2007 retrospective.

Here some pics of Evolution robots:

http://pc.watch.impress.co.jp/docs/2003/0402/robo07.jpg

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/washtech/images/demo2002_robot_190w.jpg

With a claw:

http://www.xeni.net/images/boingboing/robot_butler.jpg

Considering all media outlets in the USA are owned by one of three mega-conglomerates, I must have failed to see when the US acquired a "free press". With all the sound and fury over the "liberal media" which fails to take conservatives and their hardcore corruption and plundering of America to task, I must have missed when the press became "free".

BTW, the OLPC is a flop. The device is buggy, it can't carry non-Latin character sets, which I guess is irrelevant since the keyboard is too small even for a child's fingers. And, the boobs in charge can't even get any devices produced, much less sold. The device went from $100 to $200 to it's current price of $400 for two (one being purchased by a future disappointed customer in America, the other "donated"... allegedly).

There was recently a big article on teh OLPC which lays bare the entire failure. Not surprisingly, it didnt get any play on Slashdot, since they are tied to the OLPC failure.

Then there is also the Washington Post's piece which likewise exposes that mean old reality.

Reality just seems to be biased against both conservatives and FOSSies. Not surprising, since they have the same selfish and unrealistic mindset.

http://www.thenewspaper.com/news/07/740.asp
http://www.thenewspaper.com/news/04/430.asp
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/10/03/AR2005100301844.html

I'll stop there, but you can google for dozens more, because every experiment with red-light cameras has had the same effect: Increased rear-end collisions when people stop fast to avoid a ticket.

Any other subscribers see the story about the FBI bullet analysis getting shot down? It was up in "the mysterious future" and has equally mysteriously disappeared...

That's OK I guess... but their bomb that turns you gay is just fabulous!

Do I think that China is run that way now? Absolutely not. I know it is.

Wake the hell up!!!

Well he's had at least one proposal that no-one else in Congress has had the guts to initiate. You've gotta give some credit there.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/04/04/AR2007040401721.html

Bach's Chaconne and Schubert's Ave Maria amongst other pieces. He was there 43 minutes.

This is the same judge who decided information stored in RAM is easy to document and filter.

Since that topic has been expounded upon, here are some articles about the judge in the case:

1. Judge dismisses trial for prosecutor's misconduct
Here, she dismissed a case when the prosecutors offered a plea agreement to a witness so he could not testify for the defense.

2. Notorious BIG Trial mistrial declared
In this instance, she declared a mistrial when LAPD was withholding evidence from the trial.

3. Pooh Trial Thrown out (heh heh)
A trial involving the Winnie the Pooh was ruled in favor of Disney after the family was found to have "tampered" with files at Disney.

The judge has a love for evidence. Torrentspy shoulda known what would happen if they messed around with it.

Original source.

According to the wikileaks article in the original post this IP is the internet gateway for gitmo. That means that multiple computers (possibly all of them on the base) will show up under this IP.

What's funny/sad about these "revelations" is that the "highlighted changes" by wikileaks are exactly 5 items:
3x removing the id number of a detainee
1x changing "invasion of Afghanistan" to "War in Afghanistan"
1x the castro thing.
(there's links to the diffs in the article. The castro thing is from back in 2006)

THAT's the massive misinformation campaign ? If it is, it's the lamest effort at propaganda ever!

If one ctually reads the wiki page on the Gitmo detention center it is dominated by the complaints and allegations of released prisoners and the tone is that of the militant anti-Gitmo crowd. The word "torture" (or its derivatives) occurs 45 times on the page as of this writing.

There's a whole lot of material for even a neutral person to dig into and remove, let alone a pro-Bush or anti-anti-Gitmo one. For example the old accusation about about the Koran being flushed down the toilet is still featured in the wikipedia article even though Newsweek printed a retraction.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/05/15/AR2005051500605.html

My point is that this report, and much of the reaction here on /., is way over the top. Even if i were to agree that the army shouldn't modify wikipedia, though i don't see why they shouldn't, how could i possibly get excited about THESE particular changes ?

I also find it funny, in an endearing way, that many of the changes from this IP have to do with anime; also edible fish.

According to the Supreme Court, greenhouse gases are pollutants.

AFAICT, the only thing the war on drugs successfully accomplished in MY life was to increase the cost of drugs

I don't know squat on the subject, but someone else just posted this graph. (I believe the graph is a combination of a raw $$$ price drop combined with an inflation adjusted price drop). Apparently 20 years of the War On Drugs has achieved an 85% price slash on drugs (or on cocaine anyway).

I think we need a War On Gasoline. At an 85% price drop we'd have 43 cent gallons.

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While violent crime *did* fall during the Clinton Administration, the propaganda-myth that cocaine use plummeted (except for extremely short term periods) was refuted recently on the Washington Post's factchecker, with the relevant time period in this graph.

While violent crime *did* fall during the Clinton Administration, the propaganda-myth that cocaine use plummeted (except for extremely short term periods) was refuted recently on the Washington Post's factchecker, with the relevant time period in this graph.

Not RLY:

City of Munich admits Lunix migration is a failure

Do try to keep up to date, mkay? Having all your "Lunix Desktops" running Windows in a VM isn't actually a "migration". Sounds more like ignominious failure to me.

that Howard Berman looks a bit like Steve Ballmer (in some pics)

Well, the question has been asked. And we both know that if the Iraqi parliment tried to vote on it--well, scratch that, they did. Even Maliki says they don't need us. We just ignore them. So let's not act as if the Iraqis are clamoring for us to stay. Most Iraqis want us out. Most Americans want us out. Even most of the US military wants us out. It's just the bitter-enders in the current administration, along with their ideological allies, pretending that the Iraqis want us there and the American public wants us there and the US military wants to be there. Reality has been tested, and is not what the administration says it is.

Well, the question has been asked. And we both know that if the Iraqi parliment tried to vote on it--well, scratch that, they did. Even Maliki says they don't need us. We just ignore them. So let's not act as if the Iraqis are clamoring for us to stay. Most Iraqis want us out. Most Americans want us out. Even most of the US military wants us out. It's just the bitter-enders in the current administration, along with their ideological allies, pretending that the Iraqis want us there and the American public wants us there and the US military wants to be there. Reality has been tested, and is not what the administration says it is.

There are few logical reasons for Iran, given its own easy, local access to cheap energy sources, to continue its nuclear research, with its comparatively high associated costs and difficulty, for supposedly "peaceful purposes".

Of coarse, why would a country whose economy is based on petroleum exports possibly want to satisfy their energy needs some other way and export more petroleum?

Hell, even Cheney thought it was a good idea for Iran to use nuclear power back when the Shah was running things.

Bush/Cheney did claim that there was an Al Qaeda / Iraq connection and that Iraq had WMD, and that this posed a clear an present danger to the security of the United States. But then when faced with contrary information, e.g., from Joseph Wilson that Iraq was not in fact trying to obtain Uranium from Niger, Bush/Cheney attacked Wilson (by revealing his wife Valerie Plame was a CIA operative), instead of revising their public story.

Al Qaeda did have connections to Iraq, though not strong. The invasion of Iraq was never sold as being because Iraq and Al Qaeda had strong connections, despite what the history revisionists say. At the time of the invasion, Most Dems, Reps, and governments of the world believed Iraq had WMDs. Even Iraqi leadership believed it. Saddam Hussein was perpetrating a fraud on everyone because the belief of him having WMD was almost as good as actually having them. It should also be noted that a grand jury bent on charging the administration concerning the Valerie Plame "revelation" wasn't able to come up with any charges whatsoever except for a single perjury.

Later Bush/Cheney nefariously blamed "intelligence failures" when in fact they knew better than anyone else that there was no credible threat from Iraq. Cheney was encumbered by a conflict of interest because, in classic Washington revolving-door style, he was re-entering politics having just served as CEO of Halliburton who ended up profiting heavily from the Iraq war. This is absolutely relevant!

The CIA itself admitted the intelligence failures. You can't say that they were just covering because they've also been critical of the administration. The intelligence agencies of a lot of other countries also failed as they believed the same thing. As for Cheney's Halliburton connection, It's been shown that Cheney doesn't gain anything from Halliburton and hasn't since he left the company.

Bush, as commander-in-chief, is guilty of Dereliction of Duty by both starting an unnecessary war based on lies, and then grossly incompetently managing that war. The deaths of American service men and women were absolutely avoidable because they war was unnecessary and avoidable. Abusing power, and abusing the trust and dedication of military personnel by getting them killed unnecessarily is absolutely criminal and cannot go unpunished.

There were some obvious mistakes made during the invasion and occupation. Most of those have been corrected. The fact remains that no war of this caliber has had as few American casualties as this one. No war plan is perfect but this one is far from a grossly incompetent mismanagement.

The death of every American serviceperson and Iraqi civilian due to the war in Iraq is an individual charge of manslaughter against Bush.

Uh, yeah. Right.

There should also be criminal repercussions for the lesser, but still significant crimes, of distracting the US military away from the war against terrorism (in Afghanistan) to a distraction in Iraq, right when the US was most vulnerable to terrorism (after 9/11). The enormous waste of money is also criminal mismanagement.

I hate to break it to you, but the War on Terror is in more places than Afghanistan. I have 2 cousins that just got back from the African "front" in the War on Terror. If you want to read about successes in the War on Terror, check out what we're doing in Africa.

Don't be dissuaded or intimidated by misinformation on Wikipedia, the rabid invective of idiots on FOX News, or snide comments

2003 is signifigant because Iran, seeing what the US did to Saddam the Baathists, decided not to give the US an excuse to keep right on going. Remember, in 2003 Iraq wasn't the total disaster it seems now, and the US effort looked successful enough that the Iranians were worried. So, in effect, seeing "what the US did to Iraq" made them NOT want nukes.

No, that's the BS spin being put out now by neocons who have been pushing, hard, for war on Iran for the last year. And to try and cover up the fact that they have been completely full of it for the last year, they now have the balls to say that the reason Iranian leaders closed the program was because they saw what happened to Iraq. Aside from the attempt at misdirection, you're forgetting North Korea and Pakistan, that actually have nuclear weapons, have been left unmolested by the Republican warmongers. So no, the real lesson is: don't have nukes, get invaded. Have nukes, don't get invaded.

After stopping the program, Iran went to length to hide that fact from the rest of the world - fighting with UN inspectors, etc.

Not really. Iran is Iraq 2.0, from the freamongering to the bogus claims of WMD. The difference is this time the CIA wasn't bowled over by Dick Cheney, and the press actually mentioned the contrary evidence this time, though it seems to have pained them greatly.

Why didn't they throw open the doors and say "Look, see? Nothing here."

Yes, because every country is eager to have foreigners rooting around in their national security with no probable cause. The U.S. and Israel could set a great example here by allowing open inspections of their nuclear weapon programs.

Assuming that the "cancellation" of the weapons program isn't a scam, why do they have a nuclear program at all? They sit atop huge supplies of energy; why go to the effort of a reactor program for electricity generation?

Air pollution. Global warming. Nuclear powered ships.

The point I'm trying to make is that there is that, just because Iran may not be actively developing weapons, doesn't mean that they plant daisies and their farts smell like jasmine. There is something going on with their nuclear program that they are not revealing. Is that a good reason to invade?

Wonderbar. The problem with all this harping on Iran is that you don't get to have one standard for yourself and your allies and one for everyone else. If they don't want nations in the Middle East arming themselves, they can start by disarming Israel.

Of course not; but then I always thought the "Invade Iran" thing was more of a Democrat invention to give them another stick to beat Bush with, like the whole "reinstate the draft" thing.

Then you've been on crack. Lots and lots of crack. The neocons have been pushing for an attack on Iran for for some time now; this isn't some Democratic conspiracy to make Bush look bad, nor is reinstating the draft. Republicans can make themselves look bad on their own.

Germany is using solar power on a large scale, primarily because there's so much opposition to nuclear power there. Granted, they're only shooting for 3% of their capacity from solar, but they don't get much sun. Maybe they're planning on getting a lot more in the future. In the meantime, they're building a solar power industry.

I priced out solar for my house in New York, and I can provide 90% of my electric needs with a $30k installation in a part of the country that doesn't get that much sun (more than Germany, though). Anyone in the southwest would get a lot more bang for their buck, and it's not that expensive, relative to the price of an SUV. I can get some decent tax breaks, on top of it.

It's not pie-in-the-sky thinking. The problem is that everyone is waiting for the government to solve the energy problem. My brother and my parents live in Arizona, they have the money in the bank to put up solar panels, and they're engineers, but they won't consider it. They tell me they're waiting for a breakthrough in solar, even though existing technology could easily provide all their power needs and feed into the grid. They also drive V8 Mustangs and SUVs. The price of fuel needs to get a lot more expensive to wake people up.

I'll get the solar going in about a year. I just dropped a bunch of cash on a Prius.

If it is all about cost and efficiency, how much do governments give in tax concessions to oil, gas and nuclear companies (note, this is on top of R& D concessions)? How much do they give to "alternative" technologies? A 1999 article, recent article more emphasis on the future requirements would be good, encourage getting answers to nuclear waste, a big injection of resources toward the "alternative" sector so that we can get results quicker.
I suspect (hope) that everyone would be happier to use clean renewable energy if the option was viable. Strong government involvement, encourage research in these areas (as much as the encouragement given to oil companies to dig up National parks and protected wilderness areas) would speed up finding some important answers. If the answer is that we can dispose nuclear waste safely and it will solve our energy needs for this century, great. If we increase the efficiency of renewable energy supplies, even better - at least we will not have to re-visit this problem again.

World's Fish Supply Running Out, Researchers Warn
The 14 researchers from Canada, Panama, Sweden, Britain and the United States spent four years analyzing fish populations, catch records and ocean ecosystems to reach their conclusion. They found that by 2003 -- the last year for which data on global commercial fish catches are available -- 29 percent of all fished species had collapsed, meaning they are now at least 90 percent below their historic maximum catch levels.
The rate of population collapses has accelerated in recent years. As of 1980, just 13.5 percent of fished species had collapsed, even though fishing vessels were pursuing 1,736 fewer species then. Today, the fishing industry harvests 7,784 species commercially.
"It's like hitting the gas pedal and holding it down at a constant level," Worm said in a telephone interview. "The rate accelerates over time."

Dvorak is the Howard Cosell of the IT industry, and that's probably paying him a complement he doesn't deserve.

Jesus, how in the world did you come up with Cosell and this idiot, Dvorak, in the same lifetime, never mind sentence? No offense, as it looks, from the second half of your sentence, like you knew the allusion was vague (putting it mildly), but, if you get a minute, check out this obit from the Washington Post, and forget about this turd, Dvorak (who, by the way, ought to get on Jeopardy and buy a fucking vowel)

that this car maker takes serious actions on Monday/Friday car workers and the car will be a vintage collectible much sooner than any other makes on the market?

Yes, some places like Slashdot have managed to build a public gathering spot and sell some ads around it, but it's quite another to get this crowd to do real, coordinated work.

One of the "Tricks" to the Crowdsourcing phenomenon is to provide a way for users to create value without feeling like they are working. Slashdot has done that to the extent that you have created content (your posting) questioning whether anyone has done this. Tom Sawyer indeed.

Check out the Carnegie Mellon projects, The ESP Game, Peekaboom, and Phetch for more examples where users are providing valuable services FOR FREE while playing a game. Similar to how you and I are creating value for free in this forum with our witty banter. It feels rewarding to post a comment. And it creates a valuable end product for Slashdot.

One "crowdsourced" concept that I find to be totally unethical is the archival of student papers. Force students to submit papers to your service, in the name of plagiarism-checking, and then hold them FOREVER, and build a database of content so that you can use other people's Intellectual Property. The McLean trial starts around January 23rd. Hopefully Slashdot will be covering it.

Los Angeles: You voted for the federal ban on partial-birth abortion. Where in the Constitution does it grant the federal government the power to regulate medical procedures?

Rep. Ron Paul: I think that's a good point, because I don't brag about that vote. People could argue that there's a contradiction there. My only argument was that abortion-on-demand nationally was created by a court order, not Congress, so I was trying to reverse that. I would not argue, though, that it was a perfect way of doing that. If the court had not already ruled and legalized it, I would not have voted that way.

Unfortunately, H.R. 760 takes a different approach, one that is not only constitutionally flawed, but flawed in principle, as well. Though I will vote to ban the horrible partial-birth abortion procedure, I fear that the language used in this bill does not further the pro-life cause, but rather cements fallacious principles into both our culture and legal system.

[...]

Despite its severe flaws, this bill nonetheless has the possibility of saving innocent human life, and I will vote in favor of it. I fear, though, that when the pro-life community uses the arguments of the opposing side to advance its agenda, it does more harm than good.

Ron paul won the Virginia Straw Poll.

http://blog.washingtonpost.com/the-trail/2007/12/01/paul_handily_wins_virginia_str.html

But I thought the pact *cough* partnership with Novell would bring Linux and Microsoft closer together?

So why isn't Microsoft simply porting applications to OLPC?

Questions, questions:

Why didn't Corel and Microsoft bring Linux to the desktop? Oh, that's right, Corel became Xandros, and then:

"Microsoft Gives Xandros Users Patent Protection"

Weee:

"WashingtonPost: Microsoft Faces New Antitrust Probe Over Corel Deal"

Where did that last one go, nowhere? When is the madness going to end?

Clearly, this incident with the spammer supporting Ron Paul will be spun, by his competitors, into a gotcha.

Please do your yourself -- and your nation -- a favor. Avoid the above method of selecting political candidates. Ignore gotcha's, glamor, and glitz. Do not vote along party lines.

Instead, research the voting history, the policy proposals, and the honesty of the candidates in the 2008 race for president. You can easily find this information at the quality news sites like "The Washington Post". Hopefully, Rupert Murdoch will open the web site of the "Wall Street Journal" (WSJ) to the public before the election in 2008. The WSJ has some of the best in-depth reporting in the industry, but the WSJ web site is currently open only to subscribers.

There are almost no reasons, apart from ideological ones, to move away from MS products

WaPo just ran this article about the DC area's last phone booth.
"If it gets knocked over, somebody runs into it with their car, or it needs to go for whatever reason, we would not bring in a different phone booth in its place," said Margaretta Rothenberg, a manager in Verizon's pay phone division.

God I'll miss those germ-ridden boxes...

no mention by media, candidates, etc.... it must not be good for us or the corepirate nazis would be bragging about it. time to get real yet? eye gas knot.

http://video.google.com/videosearch?hl=en&q=video+cloud+spraying

other underpublished inf.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/12/02/AR2007120201637.html?hpid=opinionsbox1
sounds familiar?

empty pockets, empty (distracted) minds?

http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/12/03/us.debt.ap/index.html

looks like only evile deeds get any sort of 'privacy'?

the lights are coming up all over now. see you there?

GONZALES: I gave in my opening statement, Senator, examples where President Washington, President Lincoln, President Wilson, President Roosevelt have all authorized electronic surveillance of the enemy on a far broader scale -- far broader -- without any kind of probable cause standard, all communications in and out of the country.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/02/06/AR2006020600931.html

Perhaps it's unfair to bash Gonzales for the quote (pre-telegraph Washington did order intercepts of mail) but he did make it.

While I'm glad that the Hubble is going to be repaired, after reading yesterday's article about the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer (AMS) that looks like it won't get delivered to the ISS due to a lack of available shuttle missions, I'm no longer sure it's the right thing to do. Seeing as the AMS took 500 physicists 12 years to build and cost $1.5 billion, and that it's capable of doing new and amazing science, I think it deserves a chance. The Hubble has already been up their for years and will be replaced in 2013 by the James Webb Space Telescope anyway. The AMS has no replacement; not launching it would be worse than not repairing Hubble.

it's a waste of time/energy. their greed/fear/ego based agenda does not change no matter how reasonable/sincere any request to do so might be. nothing to do with map makers of course?

meanwhile: unprecedented evile never sleeps

from the we're-still-planning-to-nuke-'em-anyway dept.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/12/02/AR2007120201637.html?hpid=opinionsbox1

however, its task becomes less daunting when its minions are at 'work', emptying yOUR pockets.

http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/12/03/us.debt.ap/index.html

micro management of populations has never worked (for very long). it's an illness. tie that with life0cidal aggression & gangster style bullying, & what do we have? a greed/fear/ego based recipe for disaster.

we're intending (do not underestimate the power of intentions) for the corepirate nazis to give up/fail even further, in attempting to control the 'weather'.

http://video.google.com/videosearch?hl=en&q=video+cloud+spraying

the creators will prevail. as it has always been.

corepirate nazi execrable costs outweigh benefits
(Score:-)mynuts won, the king is a fink)
by ourselves on everyday 24/7

as there are no benefits, just more&more death/debt & disruption.

fortunately there's an 'army' of 'angels', coming yOUR way

do not be afraid/dismayed, it is the way it was meant to be.

the little ones/innocents must/will be protected.

after the big flash, ALL of yOUR imaginary 'borders' may blur a bit?

for each of the creators' innocents harmed (in any way), there is a debt that must/will be repaid by you/us, as the perpetrators/minions of unprecedented evile, will not be available.

beware the illusionary smoke&mirrors.con

all is not lost/forgotten/forgiven.

no need to fret (unless you're associated/joined at the hype with, unprecedented evile), it's all just a part of the creators' wwwildly popular, newclear powered, planet/population rescue initiative/mandate.

or, is it (literally) ground hog (as in dead meat) day, again? many of US are obviously not aware of how we appear (which is whoreabull) from the other side of the 'lens', or even from across the oceans.

vote with (what's left in) yOUR wallet. help bring an end to unprecedented evile's manifestation through yOUR owned felonious corepirate nazi glowbull warmongering execrable.

we still haven't read (here) about the 2/3'rds of you kids who are investigating/pursuing a spiritual/conscience/concious re-awakening, in amongst the 'stuff that matters'? another big surprise?

some of US should consider ourselves very fortunate to be among those scheduled to survive after the big flash/implementation of the creators' wwwildly popular planet/population rescue initiative/mandate.

it's right in the manual, 'world without end', etc....

as we all ?know?, change is inevitable, & denying/ignoring gravity, logic, morality, etc..., is only possible, on a temporary basis.

concern about the course of events that will occur should the life0cidal execrable fail to be intervened upon is in order.

'do not be dismayed' (also from the manual). however, it's ok/recommended, to not attempt to live under/accept, fauxking nazi felon greed/fear/ego based pr ?firm? scriptdead mindphuking hypenosys.

consult with/trust in yOUR creators. providing more than enough of everything for everyone (without any distracting/spiritdead personal gain motives), whilst badtolling unprecedented evile, using an unlimited supply of newclear power, since/until forever. see you there?

"If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land."

Did God say something about "I won't destroy Sodom if you can find 10 righteous people there."?

How many guys with stories like this would it take to make Gitmo "a bad idea?":
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/01/15/AR2007011501227_pf.html

Five years of his life gone. So you can feel protected here from "terrorists" 5000 miles away, with 3000 miles of water between us. Were the "wolverines" from Red Dawn terrorists? Last I heard, only nineteen mostly *Saudis* were convincted in absentia of 9/11.

Peachy.

none too soon for many of US. imagine an end to the scriptdead mindphuking hypenosys propoganda being spewed forth by the corepirate nazi execrable 24/7 on all of yOUR 'mainstream' media?

no gadgets required. no payper liesense hostage agreedment. see you there?

meanwhile: unprecedented evile never sleeps

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/12/02/AR2007120201637.html?hpid=opinionsbox1

however, its task becomes less daunting when its minions are at 'work', emptying yOUR pockets.

http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/12/03/us.debt.ap/index.html

micro management of populations has never worked (for very long). it's an illness. tie that with life0cidal aggression & gangster style bullying, & what do we have? a greed/fear/ego based recipe for disaster.

we're intending (do not underestimate the power of intentions) for the corepirate nazis to give up/fail even further, in attempting to control the 'weather'.

http://video.google.com/videosearch?hl=en&q=video+cloud+spraying [google.com]

the creators will prevail. as it has always been.

corepirate nazi execrable costs outweigh benefits
(Score:-)mynuts won, the king is a fink)
by ourselves on everyday 24/7

as there are no benefits, just more&more death/debt & disruption.

fortunately there's an 'army' of angels, coming yOUR way

do not be afraid/dismayed, it is the way it was meant to be.

the little ones/innocents must/will be protected.

after the big flash, ALL of yOUR imaginary 'borders' may blur a bit?

for each of the creators' innocents harmed (in any way), there is a debt that must/will be repaid by you/us, as the perpetrators/minions of unprecedented evile, will not be available.

beware the illusionary smoke&mirrors.con

all is not lost/forgotten/forgiven.

no need to fret (unless you're associated/joined at the hype with, unprecedented evile), it's all just a part of the creators' wwwildly popular, newclear powered, planet/population rescue initiative/mandate.

or, is it (literally) ground hog (as in dead meat) day, again? many of US are obviously not aware of how we appear (which is whoreabull) from the other side of the 'lens', or even from across the oceans.

vote with (what's left in) yOUR wallet. help bring an end to unprecedented evile's manifestation through yOUR owned felonious corepirate nazi glowbull warmongering execrable.

we still haven't read (here) about the 2/3'rds of you kids who are investigating/pursuing a spiritual/conscience/concious re-awakening, in amongst the 'stuff that matters'? another big surprise?

some of US should consider ourselves very fortunate to be among those scheduled to survive after the big flash/implementation of the creators' wwwildly popular planet/population rescue initiative/mandate.

it's right in the manual, 'world without end', etc....

as we all ?know?, change is inevitable, & denying/ignoring gravity, logic, morality, etc..., is only possible, on a temporary basis.

concern about the course of events that will occur should the life0cidal execrable fail to be intervened upon is in order.

'do not be dismayed' (also from the manual). however, it's ok/recommended, to not attempt to live under/accept, fauxking nazi felon greed/fear/ego based pr ?firm? scriptdead mindphuking hypenosys.

consult with/trust in yOUR creators. providing more than enough of everything for everyone (without any distracting/spiritdead personal gain motives), whilst badtolling unprecedented evile, using an unlimited supply of newclear power, since/until forever. see you there?

"If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land."

On US Interrogation (sadly I cannot find the SF field manual): http://www.aclu.org/safefree/general/18779prs20041207.html http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enhanced_interrogation_techniques http://www.americanthinker.com/2004/10/torture_as_an_interrogation_te.html http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,2763,1212197,00.html http://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/16/washington/16cnd-formica.html http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/080305I.shtml http://news.scotsman.com/topics.cfm?tid=1227&id=893492006 On the US School of Americas: http://www.soaw.org/ On Secret US Prisons: http://observer.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,,1237589,00.html http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/11/01/AR2005110101644.html http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/4461470.stm http://hrw.org/english/docs/2005/12/19/afghan12319.htm http://hrw.org/english/docs/2005/12/19/afghan12319.htm http://www.truthout.org/cgi-bin/artman/exec/view.cgi/64/22567 Now why is this important? Since the US keeps these prisons in secret locations which are never disclosed, the international red cross is never permitted to inspect them. Therefore, any sort of interrogation and torture technique used is carte blanche.

we're betting heavily on the creators' planet/population rescue initiative. no gadgets required. the 'graphics' are incredibly surreal. just in case, we're also building a vessel that floats on nearly any substance. see you there?

meanwhile: unprecedented evile never sleeps

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/12/02/AR2007120201637.html?hpid=opinionsbox1

however, its task becomes less daunting when its minions are at 'work', emptying yOUR pockets.

http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/12/03/us.debt.ap/index.html

micro management of populations has never worked (for very long). it's an illness. tie that with life0cidal aggression & gangster style bullying, & what do we have? a greed/fear/ego based recipe for disaster.

we're intending (do not underestimate the power of intentions) for the corepirate nazis to give up/fail even further, in attempting to control the 'weather'.

http://video.google.com/videosearch?hl=en&q=video+cloud+spraying

the creators will prevail. as it has always been.

corepirate nazi execrable costs outweigh benefits
(Score:-)mynuts won, the king is a fink)
by ourselves on everyday 24/7

as there are no benefits, just more&more death/debt & disruption.

fortunately there's an 'army' of angels, coming yOUR way

do not be afraid/dismayed, it is the way it was meant to be.

the little ones/innocents must/will be protected.

after the big flash, ALL of yOUR imaginary 'borders' may blur a bit?

for each of the creators' innocents harmed (in any way), there is a debt that must/will be repaid by you/us, as the perpetrators/minions of unprecedented evile, will not be available.

beware the illusionary smoke&mirrors.con

all is not lost/forgotten/forgiven.

no need to fret (unless you're associated/joined at the hype with, unprecedented evile), it's all just a part of the creators' wwwildly popular, newclear powered, planet/population rescue initiative/mandate.

or, is it (literally) ground hog (as in dead meat) day, again? many of US are obviously not aware of how we appear (which is whoreabull) from the other side of the 'lens', or even from across the oceans.

vote with (what's left in) yOUR wallet. help bring an end to unprecedented evile's manifestation through yOUR owned felonious corepirate nazi glowbull warmongering execrable.

we still haven't read (here) about the 2/3'rds of you kids who are investigating/pursuing a spiritual/conscience/concious re-awakening, in amongst the 'stuff that matters'? another big surprise?

some of US should consider ourselves very fortunate to be among those scheduled to survive after the big flash/implementation of the creators' wwwildly popular planet/population rescue initiative/mandate.

it's right in the manual, 'world without end', etc....

as we all ?know?, change is inevitable, & denying/ignoring gravity, logic, morality, etc..., is only possible, on a temporary basis.

concern about the course of events that will occur should the life0cidal execrable fail to be intervened upon is in order.

'do not be dismayed' (also from the manual). however, it's ok/recommended, to not attempt to live under/accept, fauxking nazi felon greed/fear/ego based pr ?firm? scriptdead mindphuking hypenosys.

consult with/trust in yOUR creators. providing more than enough of everything for everyone (without any distracting/spiritdead personal gain motives), whilst badtolling unprecedented evile, using an unlimited supply of newclear power, since/until forever. see you there?

"If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land."

There's good reason to doubt. Maybe it's all a conspiracy to make us completely unsure of what's real.

Here are some reasons to doubt news stories:
http://www.truthout.org/cgi-bin/artman/exec/view.cgi/37/9592
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A36694-2005Mar15.html
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21490838/
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/americas/article621189.ece

Major news outlets carried falsified stories in order to gauge citizen reaction. Of course, the catch-22 is that if you feel that the above stories might be fake, we're in the same boat--not knowing what to believe.

Read the article.. it's XuuuuuBuuuuuTTTuuuuuuuuu !!

"The University Toolkit is essentially an operating system (xubuntu) that you can boot up from a CD-ROM. The package bundles some powerful, open-source network monitoring tools, including "Snort," which captures detailed information about all traffic flowing across a network; as well as "ntop," a tool used to take data feeds from tools like Snort and display the data in more user-friendly graphics and charts. "
http://blog.washingtonpost.com/securityfix/2007/11/mpaa_university_toolkit_opens_1.html

You missed the two screen shots. Essentially the post shows a "before and after" screenshot of the MPA University Toolkit page. The before picture contains a link that the after picture doesn't: "Click Here to Download The Beta Version of the Toolkit"

There's also another link that links to a blog entry about the MPAA toolkit which, if you dive into the comments, explains the GPL violation. (Just search for GPL, it's easier than trying to find it.)

So not entirely worthless, and therefore not a new low, just meeting the same low standards.

Explanation.

As TFS & TFA have little info, here's some background:

The MPA(A) released a Xubuntu derived livecd with a bunch of F/OSS tools to assist universities in monitoring their networks. *rolls*eyes*. More info about the software in this Washington Post article.

Unfortuntately the CD as shipped contained no source & no written offer for the source, so was in violation of the GPL (and hence, the MPAA are in violation of various software author's copyright).

After several attempts to reach contact the MPAA, the ubuntu developer sent a takedown notice to the hosting ISP.

I hope he now presses for copyright violation - as he so elequoently says: MPAA don't fuck with my shit.