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Minnesota Bill Would Prevent Disclosure of Web Habits

Posted by timothy on from the how-quaint-an-idea dept.

jweb writes: "The Minneapolis Star Tribune is running an article about a bill in the Minnesota legislature that would make it illegal for an ISP to disclose personal information about websites that its customers visit. According to the article, this bill has passed both houses of the legislature, with one key difference: the House version requires customers to 'opt-out' of this information-sharing, but the Senate version would be 'opt-in', requiring the customer to specifically state that they would like their personal information made available. Not suprisingly, AOL and Yahoo are lobbying against it."

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  1. I am the bacon king by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Bacon tastes real nice. especially with rice.

  2. prost fist! by FunkSoulBrother · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I'm logged in. I claim this posta for Ukraine!

  3. *BSD is dying by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    It is official; Netcraft confirms: *BSD is dying

    One more crippling bombshell hit the already beleaguered *BSD community when IDC confirmed that *BSD market share has dropped yet again, now down to less than a fraction of 1 percent of all servers. Coming on the heels of the latest Netcraft survey which plainly states that *BSD has lost more market share, this news serves to reinforce what we've known all along. *BSD is collapsing in complete disarray, as fittingly exemplified by failing dead last in the recent Sys Admin comprehensive networking test.

    You don't need to be a Kreskin to predict *BSD's future. The hand writing is on the wall: *BSD faces a bleak future. In fact there won't be any future at all for *BSD because *BSD is dying. Things are looking very bad for *BSD. As many of us are already aware, *BSD continues to lose market share. Red ink flows like a river of blood. FreeBSD is the most endangered of them all, having lost 93% of its core developers.

    Let's keep to the facts and look at the numbers.

    OpenBSD leader Theo states that there are 7000 users of OpenBSD. How many users of NetBSD are there? Let's see. The number of OpenBSD versus NetBSD posts on Usenet is roughly in ratio of 5 to 1. Therefore there are about 7000/5 = 1400 NetBSD users. BSD/OS posts on Usenet are about half of the volume of NetBSD posts. Therefore there are about 700 users of BSD/OS. A recent article put FreeBSD at about 80 percent of the *BSD market. Therefore there are (7000+1400+700)*4 = 36400 FreeBSD users. This is consistent with the number of FreeBSD Usenet posts.

    Due to the troubles of Walnut Creek, abysmal sales and so on, FreeBSD went out of business and was taken over by BSDI who sell another troubled OS. Now BSDI is also dead, its corpse turned over to yet another charnel house.

    All major surveys show that *BSD has steadily declined in market share. *BSD is very sick and its long term survival prospects are very dim. If *BSD is to survive at all it will be among OS dilettante dabblers. *BSD continues to decay. Nothing short of a miracle could save it at this point in time. For all practical purposes, *BSD is dead.

    Fact: *BSD is dead *BSD is dying

  4. Bacon?Not on your life!Try General Tso Chicken! by RecipeTroll · · Score: -1, Offtopic



    Sauce:
    1/2 cup cornstarch
    1/4 cup water
    1+1/2 tsp minced garlic
    1+1/2 tsp minced ginger root
    3/4 cup sugar
    1/2 cup soy sauce
    1/4 cup white vinegar
    1/4 cup cooking wine
    1+1/2 cup hot chicken broth
    1 tsp monosodium glutamate (optional)

    Meat:
    3 lbs deboned dark chicken meat, cut into large chunks
    1/4 cup soy sauce
    1 tsp white pepper
    1 egg
    1 cup cornstarch
    Vegetable oil for deep-frying
    2 cups sliced green onions
    16 small dried hot peppers

    1) Mix 1/2 cup cornstarch with water. Add garlic, ginger, sugar, 1/2 cup soy
    sauce, vinegar, wine, chicken broth and MSG (if desired). Stir until sugar
    dissolves. Refrigerate until needed.

    2) In separate bowl, mix chicken, 1/4 cup soy sauce and white pepper. Stir in
    egg. Add 1 cup cornstarch and mix until chicken pieces are coated evenly.
    Add cup of vegetable oil to help separate chicken pieces. Divide chicken into
    small quantities and deep-fry at 350 degrees until crispy. Drain on paper
    towels.

    3) Place a small amount of oil in wok and heat until wok is hot. Add onions
    and peppers and stir-fry briefly. Stir sauce and add to wok. Place chicken in
    sauce and cook until sauce thickens.

  5. newbie? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Wow. You must be new to the internet!

  6. microsoft windows 2000, the secure OS by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

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  7. big deal. Read this: by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Bin Laden safe, planning new terror attack: says Islamic group
    Tues Apr 9 2002 18:00:52 ET

    CAIRO, April 9 (Kyodo) _ Osama bin Laden is alive and well and planning a new terror attack, according to an extremist Islamic group likely linked to the terrorist network al-Qaida, the Arabic newspaper Al Hayat said Tuesday according to ANSA news agency.

    Al Hayat said it received a letter dated March 26 and making such claims from the group calling itself Qai'dat al-Jihad on Monday.

    The letter, addressed ''to our Islamic state and to the heroic Palestinian people'' said ''God has given permission to resume activities.''

    ''Al-Qaida's leader has gone abroad safely. Bin Laden is safe and well. He is preparing to work with his brothers,'' the letter was quoted by the paper as saying.

    Al Hayat, based in Lebanon and printed in London, has been circulated in throughout the Middle East region.

    END

  8. Mozilla, not Minnesota! by leviramsey · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Monolinux reports that Mozilla 1.0 is very close at hand, with a due date of "sometime next week" for 1.0RC1.