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Slashback: Hawash, Monomania, Rocketships
Yes, charges are nice after six weeks of unexplained incarceration. purdue_thor writes "The various news agencies (CNN, FoxNews) are reporting that after being held for six weeks, software engineer Mike Hawash has finally been charged. His detainment as a material witness and subsequent incarceration without formal charges was discussed previously on /. Friends of Mike Hawash have created a website to publicize his case and have released a statement regarding the charges."
Randolpho adds "The Free Mike Hawash website has released the following affidavit (PDF file) received from the Federal Terrorism Task Force. The affidavit states that Hawash traveled to China in 2001 with several co-conspirators 'in an attempt to enter Afghanistan to fight against United States forces.'"
This just in from the cork-topped bottle. danny writes "One of the disadvantages of living in Australia is that my review copies arrive late. But my review of Google Hacks may be of interest, even after honestpuck's earlier review."
Free as in books. Author John F.X. Sundman writes: "PDFs of the complete Acts of the Apostles and Cheap Complex Devices are available for free download from wetmachine.com under the Creative Commons license."
And Robotech_Master writes "Remember the Honor Harrington CD-ROM, which Baen packaged with its most recent Honor Harrington book? The one that included over three dozen e-books and came with explicit permission to copy and share but not sell?
Well, Baen's done it again. The new CD comes with the fourth book in John Ringo's Aldenata trilogy, Hell's Faire . It includes still more free e-books, mp3s, and even a D20 Aldenata roleplaying game in electronic form. The book hits the stands this month, and the ISO is already available on-line. (Scarywater guy, please take note. :) Download it, burn it, give it to your friends...or buy the book and support one of the most Internet-clueful publishers out there today."
Free as in "you pay money." An anonymous reader submits "The original Douglas Adams Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy, was first a book, then a radio series. Adams edited both. All 7 hrs and 30 minutes of the Radio series have been released by the BBC in MP3 CD format. If you only caught the TV series this is a must."
I wish more audio books would arrive like this (compressed, so as to occupy fewer disks), though I'd choose a better method of audio compression ;) If you want to hear the HHGttG, though, a few minutes on Google will probably turn up some fan sites with recordings from the BBC broadcasts. (innocent whistling)
Yeah, but there's no Epcot Center. Sacarino writes "Las Vegas is *almost* on par with Disney now. The regularly-updated Monorail Society website has tons of pictures of the progress. Vegas' monorails are the same type as Disney's (Bombardier Mark VI), only with inwardly opening doors... slick! Also mentions the old MGM-Bally's monorail that's getting absorbed into the new automated network."
Is this what Microsoft thinks of viral licensing? Vagary writes "One of my friends just got a Microsoft router and asked me to check the security features for it. The ping denial doesn't work, which is good because a port scan found some pretty interesting things, including this string in the TCP/IP fingerprint: 'i586-pc-linux-gnu'. Does that mean Microsoft must provide Linux source to purchasers of this product?"
Can anyone confirm, deny or explain this interesting claim?
Click here to discuss the size of a fictional spacecraft ... photozz writes "The infamously slashdotted site comparing the relative sizes of several hundred starships from various Sci-Fi series has been mirrored to a somewhat more robust server. So cool. It's in draggable format, so you can put King Kong on top of Deep Space 9 and re-create a dream I had last night......."
There was an "and/or" in my post, idiot.
You should be more concerned with policing up the public education system that belched you forth and less concerned with cases of international espionage. Unless, that is, you're perfectly happy making an ass of yourself while calling other people idiots.
Alot of you people are so gullible. Just because a guy is a programmer in this country doesn't mean he's a nice guy. He's a plant by extremists or has loyalties to them.
Quit your sympathies for the guy and let the gornment do it's work.
As long as we're all clear that "legal" is very different than Constitutional, my jack booted friend.
First: get a fucking clue you dolt-level morons, I said "and/or." I can't edit my post, so the original text is there. Hire a fucking tutor if you need help understanding what I said.
Now, back to the program, kids:
No, this person is NOT a simple criminal.
If some random country decided to conquer the U.S., what would we do, hold trials for those leaders who ordered their troops into combat? Hold trials for the soldiers? No, because they're not simple criminals. A spy or terrorist working against the U.S. is no different than a general ordering their troops into combat, or even the troops themselves; both seek to dismantle the very mechanisms under which you feel they should be tried.
Those mechanisms are for rape, murder, theft, corporate espionage, etc., committed in the U.S. which were not a direct threat to national security. When national security is threatened, we react differently. We activate armies, bomb targets and hold individuals NOT as simple criminals, but as combatants.
Imagine having to let prisoners of war go because they were not given arraignment within a reasonable period of time, and those soldiers go straight home and pick up their weapons get right back into combat against.
Now, imagine this terrorist is held as a simple criminal, and they don't have enough proof to charge him right away. Or, the proof they have is sort of lightweight and he gets bail, posts it and walks away. He gets to go home and detonate the bomb he just finished building which wipes out all of Washington D.C.?
This is the level of crime we are talking about; a threat to our security as an entire nation.
Paranoid? Uh, sure...as if something like WTC couldn't happen. It can and it does happen, especially if you're so busy worry about people farting in your daisies that you go limp-wristed and are terrified to shoot spies.
You people are idiots, the lot of you.
Oh I get it, it's alright to hang out with Fundamentalist Christian Militias but not with Fundamentalist Islamic Militias (if in fact that is what he did, nothing has been proved yet).
I was intrigued by your equivocation, so I ran the numbers real fast. Here's what I came up with:
Number of American citizens slain by "fundamentalist Islamic militias" since Sept. 2001: at least 3,000.
Number of American citizens slain by "fundamentalist Christian militias" since Sept. 2001: approximately 0
Yep, about the same.
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