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Slashback: Regalia, Godseye, Undetection
How very magnanimous. Amazing Quantum Man writes "ZDNet reports that Timothy Koogle and Yahoo were acquitted of condoning war crimes by selling Nazi memorabilia. The article is rather sketchy, so that's all I have. Here are some background articles from Slashdot history."
He doesn't sign anything, just sprinkles on some invisible nanobots. shawn writes "The Penguin Group's site has a schedule of upcoming book signing events for Willam Gibson's Pattern Recognition . The new book was mentioned on Slashdot earlier."
And now Gisbon's new book has been reviewed, as well. Look out for a review of the No Maps For These Territories DVD (with extras) soon too.
Aren't you glad some people are realistic enough to be paranoid? For everyone worried about your ISP suddenly deciding to detect and crack down on everyone who's taken advantage of the currently ubiquitous, simple-to-use NAT hardware (here's the post we ran about the means to snoop behind your NAT box, which links to the Bellovin paper mentioned below), an anonymous reader writes with one way to foil detection efforts: "Good news coming from OpenBSD camp! Read CVS log message (mail archive): 'Add scrub option 'random-id', which replaces IP IDs with random values for outgoing packets that are not fragmented (after reassembly), to compensate for predictable IDs generated by some hosts, and defeat fingerprinting and NAT detection as described in the Bellovin paper.'"
Right place at the right time when the wrong thing happens. fonixmunkee writes "an 11-year-old Mac and a COTS (commercial-of-the-self) telescope may have captured a very helpful image in solving the shuttle Columbia tragedy. this article here at CNN tells the story of how some self-proclaimed 'geeks,' working on an Air Force project aimed at watching satellites & incoming missiles, whipped up a contraption with some simple parts that captured an image of the shuttle on descent that may offer some light on what happened. also interesting is how many news sources mistook the image as a capture from the high-tech cameras that the people *actually* worked on."
Just a scratch in the historical record. truthsearch writes "In response to a leaked Sun memo complaining of Sun's Java implementation on Solaris, News.com has Sun's response. Many posters doubted its authenticity (myself included due to missing dates), but 'Sun confirmed the memo's authenticity, but said that the document is two years old and that the problems it describes have been fixed.'"
GPS, free databases -- these are a few of my favorite things ... Tony Pryor writes: "In April 2001, while there at arsDigita University, I developed a web interface called the Godseye Project, designed to enable 'grassroots cartography,' allowing individuals with web access to add subjective knowledge details about their surroundings to closeup satellite images. Although I wrote Godseye over a year and a half ago, it isn't currently online- I'll spare you the gory details of the events between then and now.
I just wrote two new pieces which *are* live. The first is a script that dynamically adds geolocation pages using Movable Type, and automatically registers each of them with http://www.geourl.org. The second part is a geolocation-based search centered upon any one of these geopages. The search aggregates the results of consecutive google queries on each of the sites (or geopages) within a given radius."
Visit the still-growing Godseye Project to test out this cool geographic search capability; Tony promises that the functionality will improve with lots of visitors and suggestions.
Ask Jesus into your heart today!
The ONLY Way, Truth and Life!
Dear Professor Linux,
How can I keep from soiling my underpants in rage every time I hear wee French referred to as "cheese-eating surrender monkeys"?
Sincerely,
Francois P.
This is NOT a test.
Bush did it.
http://www.copvcia.com/
http://www.lightscion.com/Sounds/g_b_ruppert.mp3
http://energycrisis.org/de/lecture.html
You're reading Slashdot.
News for nerds. Stuff that matters.
BURBANK, Calif. (Reuters) - NBC, already hot on the trail for talented kids and senior citizens, is now looking for a few good moms to marry off.
The network on Thursday said it will launch a new reality series, "Who Wants to Marry My Mom?," in a five-episode installment this spring.
The show, NBC said, is a spinoff of its dating show "Meet My Folks," and will feature the adult children of single mothers choosing among several candidates to decide who gets to go with their mom on a fantasy vacation.
Last week, NBC unveiled two talent-based reality series, "The Search for the Most Talented Kid in America" and "Second Chance: The Search for the Most Talented Senior in America." Both series are set to air later this season.
NBC is a unit of General Electric Co.
I wanted to upload some images of my hometown, but I couldn't find any really good pictures of the garbage dump.
You can bet if evil MS did this, they'd get a front page article and a snide "the world is falling on us" comment from an editor.
BTW, this is not offtopic, troll or flamebait.
Yet it was rejected. I would like to know what gets rejected and what doesn't . If this site really is about tech and nerd news why would Slashdot not post thist article. I think this website has become very politically correct. The news submition process is very tainted. Doesn't seem to be about tech news any more.
This is NOT a test.
Bush did it.
http://www.copvcia.com/
http://www.lightscion.com/Sounds/g_b_ruppert.mp3
http://energycrisis.org/de/lecture.html
I bet the Amish people are really excited too to read this infor... oh yeah, they don't use electronic devices. How I envy them.
This is NOT a test.
Bush did it.
http://www.copvcia.com/
http://www.lightscion.com/Sounds/g_b_ruppert.mp3
http://energycrisis.org/de/lecture.html
This is NOT a test.
Bush did it.
http://www.copvcia.com/
http://www.lightscion.com/Sounds/g_b_ruppert.mp3
http://energycrisis.org/de/lecture.html
We CAN buy gasoline that's not from Middle East. Gas rationing in the 80s worked even though we grumbled about it. It might even be good for us! The Saudis are boycotting American goods. We should return the favor. An interesting thought is to boycott their GAS. Every time you fill upthe car, you can avoid putting more money into the coffers of Saudi Arabia.Just buy from gas companies that don't import their oil from the Saudis. Nothing is more frustrating than the feeling that every time I fill-up the tank, I am sending my money to people who are trying to kill me, my family, and my friends. I thought it might be interesting for you to know which oil companies are the best to buy gas from and which major companies import Middle Eastern oil: Shell---205,742,000 barrels Chevron/Texaco---144,332,000 barrels Exxon/Mobil--- 130,082,000 barrels Marathon/Speedway---117,740,000 barrels Amoco---62,231,000 barrels (for the period 9/1/00 - 8/31/01) Do the math: at $30/barrel, these imports amount to over $18 BILLION! Here are some large companies that do NOT import Middle Eastern oil: Citgo---0 barrels Sunoco---0 barrels Conoco---0 barrels Sinclair---0 barrels BP/Phillip---0 barrels Hess---0 barrels All of this information is available from the Department of Energy and each is required to state where they get their oil and how much they are importing. They report on a monthly basis. Keep this list in your car; share it with friends. Stop paying for terrorism! But to have an impact, we need to reach literally millions of gas buyers. It's really simple to do... Now, don't wimp out at this point... keep reading and I'll explain how simple it is to reach millions of people. I'm sending this note to about thirty people. If each of you send it to at least ten more, and those 300 send it to at least ten more (300 x 10 = 3,000) ... and so on, by the time the message reaches the sixth
generation of people, we will have reached over THREE MILLION consumers! If those
three million get excited and pass this on to ten
friends each, then 30 million people will have been contacted! If it
goes one level further..... THREE HUNDRED MILLION PEOPLE!!!
Again, all you have to do is send this to 10 people. How much would
all that take? If each of us sends this e-mail out to ten more people within
one day 300 MILLION people could conceivably be contacted within the next
eight days!
Nothing speaks to the slimeballs in power like money... or more
precisely, the withholding of it. I'm not here to pump up the coffers of any
particular petrol provider, but let's stop putting our money in the pockets
of our enemies.