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gbjbaanb writes "Wired News is reporting about the GIA, software inspired by the TIA program. 'Researchers at the MIT Media Lab unveiled the Government Information Awareness, or GIA, website Friday. Using applications developed at the Media Lab, GIA collects and collates information about government programs, plans and politicians from the general public and numerous online sources. Currently the database contains information on more than 3,000 public figures. The premise of GIA is that if the government has a right to know personal details about citizens, then citizens have a right to similar information about the government.'"
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You can't judge a book by the way it wears its hair.
Dig this! I give you this for free! I am a HP-UX admin (I know a lot about Solaris also) and I finally admit that - LINUX IS THE FUTURE! We're living exciting times now!
My favorite monster is the Wolf Man. I like to imagine that the Wolf Man and I are hog farmers, and at the county fair I get to put my hog next to the Wolf Man's hog. Wouldn't you like to put your hog next to the Wolf Man's hog? If not, why not?
Well, that's about all I can think of to say. Except that if people ate with their asses, my wouldn't that be funny? They would have to sit backward in their chairs and stick their butts over the plate and then sit on the food. Then they would wiggle around as they chewed and swallowed it with their asses. Of course, everyone would have their pants down, and it would be funny to watch them trying to engage in casual dinner conversation with their butts squishing around in their plates of food, the air filled with soggy slurping and chomping noises mixed with the occasional fart. And the traditional custom of wiping one's mouth between bites would become a disgusting travesty as everyone wiped their asses with their fancy napkins as though they had just taken a dump. It would certainly make certain scenes in James Bond movies look rather odd also.
And, of course, people would have to learn to wiggle their hips like hula dancers just to be able to chew gum. Smoking would also provide a wealth of visual oddities to be enjoyed -- cigarettes, pipes, and cigars would be stuck up people's assholes and they would blow smoke rings by farting.
LINUX IS THE FUTURE! Thank you open-source programmers!
Hehe! After having a conversation with those losers at freebsd IRC channel I knew I was right. Apple is the choice for elite users! Hey, it runs Explorer too!
I just heard some sad news on talk radio - crooner Barry White was found dead in Cedars-Sinai Medical this morning. There weren't any more details.
I'm sure everyone in the Slashdot community will miss him - even if you didn't enjoy his work, there's no denying his contributions to "make out" music.
Truly an American icon.
I thought goatse.cx trolls posted AC. :)
-uso.
All my FPs are by name!
Dreams, dreams, don't doubt dreams, dreaming children's dreaming dreams. Sailor Moon SS