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Slashback: Privacy, Spectrum, Location
Sir, you just need to trust us. geekee writes "An article on CNN claims that the proposed passenger-screening system for air travelers is much more innocuous than previously claimed. Now it is claimed that the Transportation Security Administration "will not view credit records, traffic violations or other personal data", according to Admiral James Loy. He also claims records of travel will not be maintained. "Airline reservation agents would provide a traveler's name, address, phone number, date of birth, and travel plans to the TSA, which would then check that information against a variety of commercial databases and an FBI watch list.", according to TSA spokeperson Heather Rosenker."
Thinking of the children means more than hiding their eyes. Jim Tyre writes: "You pointed out that my censorware.net piece ["CIPA Before the Supreme Court"] provided a nifty link to where the official supreme court oral argument transcript would be when available online. It's now available."
What's good for the mercantilists ... wait, no doesn't have the same ring. Lawrence Lessig says that the current radio spectrum is vastly underutilized, and that new technology can extract much more use from it, creating a true radio commons. Zo writes to point out that many Salon readers disagree: "Radio waves, bandwidth, the spectrum. . .Don't we know *anything* for sure?
Sir, these books smell fine ... what's the catch?
silentbozo writes "Avid Slashdotters will remember the Baen Free Library, which puts up free web versions of Baen titles for ANYONE to download and read without having to mess around with encryption and DRM. They went a step further with this experiment last fall with the release of David Weber's War of Honor which had a bunch of novels in html, rtf, doc, palmdoc, and othe formats on CD (bound into the hardcover), which you could copy and give away to anyone. Well, they're at it again. In May, they'll have another CD for those of you who didn't get War of Honor, bound into John Ringo's Hell's Faire.
I got hooked reading John Ringo's books after browsing through my copy of the War of Honor CD... and it's a great way of catching up on the previous books in the series. Hell's Faire looks really good - I personally am looking forward to finding out what happens to the O'Neals as they fight the Posleen on Earth, and to the crew of Bun-Bun... Eat anti-matter Posleen-boy!"
As secure as ... well, you pick. Anthanos writes "pGina [http://pgina.xpasystems.com], a modular authentication framework for Windows, has come a long way since it was last noted on /. nearly a year ago. Since then a full-fledged LDAP plugin, PAM plugin, and chaining have all become part of the feature set. The kicker is the recently released Slashdot plugin, which allows authentication of Windows clients with... yup you guessed it, Slashdot Accounts! XPA Systems has even begun offering services revolving around this GPL product. Seems this may be the solution for people looking to merge authentication of Windows clients with MacOSX, Solaris, and other *nix boxen."
Let's see a handheld that uses both, please ... Mattias Östergren writes "Well aware of the risks with dependency of GPS the European Space Agency (ESA) have developed their own satellite navigation system, EGNOS. EGNOS is more accurate than GPS and the signal also tell you how much it could be off.
The first reference station have just been installed on the roof of the Land Survey in Gävle, Sweden. There is a Swedish press release about it."
obviously not meant for technical documents; as I only see rtf, not rtfm format.
Awww. Not so threatening, eh? I was hoping the TSA would go for the whole data collection tamale. Think what happens when the US Gov tries to build a newly designed, big, complex system -- bidding by defense contractors is long, drawn-out, and then it is challenged and redone; the contractor that finally wins takes forever to complete it, if ever; if the contractor actually manages to build something, it's completely unusable; in disgust, the govt throws it away and starts the cycle again with more bidding. Just ask the FAA, LOL!
/.ers. That way we'll have no data collection, ever.
Therefore urge TSA not to compromise their standards, fellow
English -- gotta love it! / The engineers refuse to refuse the rocket until the refuse is removed from the launch pad.
Boo-fucking-hoo.
Sincerely,
Slashdot
Agreed. Clearly only terrorists would want anything with an accuracy better than 50 feet.
how many lives per gallon are you getting america?
That's a very good question. How many lives should we be getting? If it's under ten, I've got no problem with that. Anything over that would make me consider downgrading my Lincoln Aviator to something more sensible like a Ford Excursion.
Four or five lives for me to drive down to the grocery store? Hell of a deal, I say! What do you expect me to do, walk?!?!?
I'm sure if these people in Arabia or whatever the hell it is could feel the supple leather of my seats or the raw power of America's finest sport utility vehicle, they'd be more than happy to trade their lives so I could ride in style. I don't understand those people anyway, living in huts and raising camels. I don't see how their poor real-estate buying choices are my problem. If they don't like it there, they can just move, can't they? Not move here, of course, this country is far too crowded and our resources are too limited. But isn't there some country where they could go and buy a nice villa? Surely there must be.
It's not like we didn't tell them, "leave the city, we're going to be dropping some bombs." They had plenty of warning! I just don't understand what they're complaining about.
Actually only the RF technician could tell you that. The audiophile would say that AM sounds warmer than FM but only if you're using oxygen-free radio waves. Then they'd start blithering on about how the crystals in their radio were hand-picked by virgins during the winter solstice.
very often people who end up with poor credit do so because they are unable to properly manage their fiances.
Yeah. I had a friend who had that problem. She dumped him in the end...