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Secret Irish Data Repository Uncovered
topgold writes "During an initial public meeting yesterday, the Irish Justice Ministry revealed that for nearly a year, the Irish government has mandated all telecommunications operators store traffic information from every landline, fax and mobile phone call for at least three years. Irish Times journalist Karlin Lillington offers insights regarding this secret data retention regime in several national newspaper columns. A considerable citizen reaction is at the boiling point, stoked by a civil liberties discussion board and the rejuvenation of the Electronic Freedom Ireland citizen group. By law, the Irish government can deep-six any Cabinet discussions related to the 'deliberative process' and since this decision to retain phone records happened at Cabinet level, it could have remained hidden for more than five years."
1. A group of Saudi wackos blew up the World Trade Center.
2. The Saudi wackos have their turbans in a bunch because there are American infidel troops on holy Saudi sand.
3. The American infidel troops are on holy Saudi sand to protect against an invasion from Saddam Hussein.
I'll let you all figure the rest out ("5. Profit!" is incorrect, unfortunately).
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"timothy" has now posted every single story (+1) on the slashdot hame page, in what looks to be a sixteen hour shift.
The quality generally looks good with few complaints about lame stories and there are no duplicates. Is this a new approach to editorial quality or simply cost cutting culls of Slashdot editors, either way the initial results seem good.
Why do Americans use the word "Whoop" so often? I've noticed people who chat online doing this too. Can anyone explain?
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That stupid cow is at it again... Thanks to this genius, we are years behind everyone else in Europe in the availability and pricing of broadband. She wasn't re-elected by her constituency, thankfully. Then that sod Ahern went and stuck her on the senate.
Too much Dukes of Hazzard?
Haha. I've not seen Dukes of Hazard for a long time. I keep waiting for it to turn up on UK Gold, but then I spend far too much time on here to watch TV these days.
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on the NYT.
.net technology.
lookout bullow. the evile kingdumb is coming DOWn.
billwg - 06:40pm Feb 24, 2003 EST (# 6496 of 6498)
The small point: CDS ARE NOT BETTER THAN RECORDS.
The point: DVD IS NOT BETTER THAN VHS HI-FI.
My point: CABLE IS NOT BETTER THAN BROADCAST.
At the risk of sounding like the craigster, ghetto man, I will have to say that your ideas are bizarre and you are generally full of hot air. You try and fail to make any point. By any metric, the signal to noise ratios and the signal fidelity of CDs, DVDs, and Digital Cable transmission lines are substantially better than their predecessor vinyl records, analog magnetic tape, and airwave broadcasts. Perhaps you pine for the good old days, too, but they are gone forever.
Xbox is dead. It died even before it could reach the 8 million units necessary before game writers would consider developing for it.
You better go buy a newspaper from this year, ghetto man, in which you will find that Xbox recently surpassed the 9 million mark and is at the low end of the anticipated adoption range. The economy is to blame for the deviation, it is said. I think that can be accepted as an answer at this point in time. I'm not sure where you got your notion of 8 million units as a magic watershed, either, but it is still in the past.
Contrary to PR extolling the maturity of Bill Gates owing to his family ways, this Java hating is the child like actions of a school yard bully.
I think you are just jealous of a person more successful by far than your own humble self, ghetto man! Mr. Gates is far from petty as is shown by his extensive and continued largesse. Even in regard to Java, Mr. Gates was initially most expansive and I even remember getting a letter purporting to be from him touting Java as a wonderful thing made more wonderful by the assistance of the J++ development environment. He said he used it himself for fun and profit.
The problem with Java is that McNealy only saw it as a way to try to gain back some unit shares for his overpriced wares via the WORA notion, assumming that people would somehow want a SPARC if it could only do Word and Excel. Bill Gates saw that the true value of the language and the execution environment lay in the ease of distribution and the security of execution made possible by the sandbox approach. But McNealy violently resisted any of the improvements that Microsoft wanted to make to give the user a better, faster, and more exciting experience and quashed the whole exercise with their viscious lawsuits.
That drove Microsoft into having once again to produce their own initiatives, as they had to do with the Netscape browser, due to this dog-in-the-manger kind of thinking on the part of McNealy. I think most people can see who is trying to make things better and who is trying to keep things from the market. Can't you?
It is time to take a step back to trustworthy main frame computing and not a time to trust new
LOL, ghetto man! What would you have the world do? Mail in their Fortran card decks for an overnight run? "Holy, \\sysin dd*, batman!"
don't even bother looking for va.msn.?NET?, (VAST), as it's gone pottIE too.
Somehow, someone will manage to find a way to blame the US for this.
It's the Slashdot Standard Reaction, so lets get busy!
Hokey statistics and ancient misconceptions are no match for a good thought in your head, kid!
Some of the contents of the repository:
- Inflatable dartboard
- Helicopter with ejector seat
- Waterproof towel
- Chocolate kettle
- Solar powered torch
- Pedal-powered wheelchair
- Submarine with window wipers
(No potatoes.)
Hell during the crusades it was fashionable for people to walk around with blood past the elbows.
The crusades were a war; valor in war was widely respected by those taking place in the war, be it Europeans trying to carve out kingdoms in the holy land or Native North Americans feuding amongst their own tribes.
They were just making the world a better place!
Odd that you pick the Crusades as an example of "a bad war," when they were started because of pilgrims being killed in the Holy Land--and the miliary strucutre was only there because Muslims tried to conquer Europe first.
I don't know if it's just me, but whenever I see .ie I think of Internet Explorer. No wonder they have such a big privacy problem.
O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!
not even the government tracks this much!
Is this a troll or curious observation?