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Current WTC happenings: The FBI is searching ISPs with FISA warrants. Architects and civil engineers are starting to speculate on why the towers collapsed. Pictures: NASA, a powerful photoessay, newspaper headlines. Current investigation news: LA Times, NY Times, CNN. They're finally starting to mention casualty figures. Finally, bjb writes: "It isn't the hollywood blockbuster of a story, but I'm a daily reader of Slashdot, and I was on the 38th floor of the WTC 1 building when the first plane hit. Oh, and I was reading Slashdot at the time. You can read about my experience here. It was originally an email that I sent out to friends and family, but I was asked by NPR's Talk of the Nation to make it a web page."

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  1. Coordinated Efforts by tino_sup · · Score: 4, Funny

    The /. group is a collection of varied skills and talents. One would think that with the resources and capabilities we all have access to, what kind of information can we contribute. Sure privacy and security issues are important, but if I had the ability to retrieve any info to help, I would.

    Just a thought---

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  2. space imaging nyc image 09/12/2001 by mysticbob · · Score: 4, Funny
    space imaging has a gallery which puts the nyc complex and devastation in context:

    http://www.spaceimaging.com/newsroom/attack_galler y.htm

  3. Ummm by zpengo · · Score: 2, Funny
    Architects and civil engineers are starting to speculate on why the towers collapsed.

    I think I can make a good guess about why they collapsed....

    ...the airplanes hitting them?

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  4. Re:And here comes Carnivore... by Wyatt+Earp · · Score: 4, Funny

    What do you expect? That after three mass murdering sucide bombings the FBI wouldn't use these things?

    I bet the FBI will suprise people and remove the boxes after they find/don't find what they are looking for.

  5. Re:What we must do by frknfrk · · Score: 3, Funny
    actually they were building, and training afghanistan (men only, of course) to continue construction. but...


    The CentGas consortium was cancelled after UNOCAL, the biggest shareholder in the project pulled out due to the public pressure. The Feminist women groups in the United States alleged that UNOCAL was helping the Taliban regime that has been ruthlessly killing the minorities in the Afghanistan, and have barred women from every facet of life. The mounting public pressure forced UNOCAL to withdraw from this project in 1998.


    you are right, the region is far too unstable NOW. but companies are chomping at the bit for this. part of the US funding of the Taliban was to create stability by helping the Taliban eliminate rivals. way to go. this is what happens when the people are not given the choice of what to do, powerful corporate interests dictate the actions of american foreign policy and will presumably continue to do so because no one realy seems to give a damn, even after all this.
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  6. Re:And here comes Carnivore... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    What is this you say?

    Something positive about our govenrment?

    Heh, you don't see that ever day with this crowd.

  7. Re:And here comes Carnivore... by zpengo · · Score: 5, Funny
    If we lose our civil liberties, then the terrorists have won.

    I'm all for civil liberties, but we need to understand that we pay for them with security. The same people who have been claiming that this event will strip us of our civil liberties have also been complaining that the government failed to protect us.

    It's understandable that this could happen considering how little access to secure information we want to allow the government to have.

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  8. Re:It's been said before... by Steve+B · · Score: 3, Funny
    Whether or not the sky marshalls should be in plain clothes is a matter of debate. I suggest that having them uniformed, and in plain sight would act as a deterent and prevent loss of life.


    Maybe the uniforms should have "Knock Me Out And Take My Gun" printed on the back.


    No, definitely plainclothes.

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  9. Re:Why the towers collapsed by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    "My boyfriend"

    Does mrmalkav know you have a boyfriend? It'd be a shame if he found out. Leave a large manilla envelope $400 in small bills behind the toilet in the third stall of the second floor washroom of Penn Station and no one has to know about this.

  10. 50,000 copies of Windows destroyed? by aozilla · · Score: 2, Funny

    When the companies that worked in the WTC buy thousands of new computers, will they have to pay once again for the OS which was destroyed?

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  11. Re:Nuke crater? by angelo · · Score: 3, Funny

    What happens when you find out god doesn't exist?

  12. the solution by ramb0z0 · · Score: 2, Funny

    rm -rf /bin/laden