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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."
fp, in honor of candidate's day
Ain't nothing like fucking a slick darkie cunt. Star Jones is the ultimate Negress.
Someone has to fill the janitorial spots.
Dude! That's supposed to be "URA-PEEIN".
Well the section is called slashBACK, meaning followups and information related to previous articles.
FP from Colombia !
LoL = Old school
YOU FAIL IT from America!
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No need to post Anon Seth.
This war is wrong, unjust and illegal.
Nowhere does it mention "regime change" and/or assasination in the precious Resolution 1441 or any of its predecessors.
This was and is about disarmanent of the supposed WMD which Iraq has - which was a highly contested point to begin with (Re: Blix, forged documents, crap intelligence, bugging, et al.)
The US and UK should be held accountable in the future for their actions if it's found that they (Iraq) didn't possess (or use) WMD.
Sadly, considering that the US was -unwilling- to be part of the ICC, this will never happen.
I leave you with this - just because an action is state-sponsored, does not make it right.
Think about that when terrorists attack their next target. Pleasant dreams.
Chirac is God!
Bush is Satan!
~Michelle
USA is a terror country out of control doing two invasions in two years! WTF!
Because we control everything already.
We can watch you like the soaring hawks watch the little rats scampering in the dust.
This is most true in the United States, and only slightly less so in the UK.
Our criminal organizations have been slowly accumulating political control for decades. Wall Street is now our game, where we manipulate the rules because we now control the rule-makers. We can't lose, and you can't win!
We have complete control of the American mass media. Americans only know what we let them know!
And, now: The Tribe of Judah will conquer the world!
thx
Sincerely,
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Only a fool would like MS-Vanilla over GNU/Butterscotch when there are so many reasons to eat butterscotch! It has enhanced flavor functionality as well as color functionality which distance itself so far from vanilla it's not funny. It's like comparing apples to oranges!
-- iCEBaLM
"History doesn't repeat itself, but it does rhyme." Mark Twain