[Carter] canceled the B1-B program as well as the MBT-70. (Both badly needed to compete with our enemy of the time... the Soviets who had the T-72 and the Tu-160 BLACKJACK)
Instead of the MBT-70, today we have the M1 Abrams Tank as a result of Carter's actions. The only way to see how well the Abrams tank compares to the T-72 would be if they were engaged in a massive tank battle. Or two. Like the battles at Medina Ridge or 73 Easting. For those too lazy to look, they were both decisive American victories where Abrams tanks utterly destroyed the T-72s. (By the way, Medina Ridge was the largest single tank battle the United States has ever been involved in.) The Abrams tank has been around for about 30 years, and never has one been lost to enemy fire. Ever. With that kind of track record, forgive me for not shedding a tear for a program that was cancelled to make way for it.
As for the Blackjack and the B1-B, yeah, Carter canceled it. (Not very well; the bomber is actually in service today.) He used the money for upgrading the B-52s to fire new kinds of missles, which actually pissed the Soviets off more than the introduction of the B1-B did. He also secretly used some of the money to develop the first stealth bombers. And we all know how useless they are.
I accidentally hit "Post" instead of "Quote" when writing my second message. (I couldn't post a follow-up immediately because of the Slashdot rule about a cool-down time in between posts.) I meant to address the whole judge/jury thing. I had a whole argument written up, but it got lost. Basically, I'm not sure where the line is between when the judge decides what evidence is admissable to the jury's reasoning and when the jury decides. That line is somewhere though. At the very least, the jury could vote not to convict because of a search they deemed unreasonable, even if they disagree with the judge about it. This would be an example of jury nullification.
BTW, IANALEBIPPWOT (Either, But I Played Phoenix Wright One Time).
Right -- unlike in America...just ask Karl Rove and Wouble-You Bush.
You're talking about a country where an elected leader can be sacked for getting head, but an unelected leader can't be prised from the grip of power with a shoe-horn made of righteous indignation millions strong.
Let's say, just for the sake of argument, that tomorrow you wake up and read in the newspaper that bin Laden was captured. The next day, the entire Iraqi insurgency announces their intention to stop terrorist attacks immediately and work together with the US for a better Iraq. The following day, Bush has a Republican ally in the House of Representatives proposes a bill that will create a new health care system that is absolutely perfect for everyone's needs. His/her collegues on both sides of the isle, realising a good idea when they see one, vote overwhelmingly for the bill and it becomes law. The next day he strikes a perfect balance on abortion. Next week sometime, the Office of Management and Budget releases a report saying that the Federal government is awash in money because Bush's tax cuts are working. And then Bush announces a federal plan to spend some of the money to pay off the national debt entirely. And then use the leftover funds for other things. Like fixing social security. (This is another "magic fix" that is absolutely perfect for everything.) Also, he proposes a plan to spend a massive ammount of money on AIDS research. And the next day he gets Congress to give him a bill that will completely prevent corruption in government so he can sign that one. And there's still money left over. And then the bad parts of the Patriot Act are repealed and better laws that are more respectful of civil liberties are enacted to take their place. And by the end of the month, AIDS is cured worldwide.
Say this rosy fantasy future continues through January 2009, with George Bush ending his term with 100% approval ratings. There is ABSOLUTELY NO WAY IN HELL that George Bush will be president in February 2009. And if the American people elect someone worse to take his place, there is still ABSOLUTELY NO WAY IN HELL that George Bush will ever be president again.
The fact is, in this country, we do have elections. Sometimes they're really close. (If the Supreme Court had ruled in favor of Gore, conservatives would be saying the same things about Gore stealing the election that liberals say right now.) The American people elected George W. Bush president twice. If we wanted to, we could have picked John Kerry, or anyone else. The fact is that in November 2004, enough people wanted Bush to remain president that he got re-elected. People's opinion of him has changed since then. So in November 2008, we are absolutely going to pick someone who isn't him. Partially out of disapproval of him, and partially because of term limits. The fact is that he's a lame duck who's almost done anyway.
It involves thought, usually leaning toward some sort of message concerning our current society's trends.
Such as the trend to concentrate large amounts of the government's power into a single individual? You can argue that Episode 3, and , to a lesser extent, Episode 2, were about how much Lucas thinks George Bush sucks.
If there's evidence still visible (say, a pool of blood on the floor, or on "Joe"'s hands or something), then it's fair game to open the box. If Joe's acting suspicious about the contents of the box, and one of his associates has gone missing, then they can go get another warning. Anything else is the judge/jury's call.
To make an analogy (albeit somewhat of a stretch): Suppose "Joe" owns a coffee shop with a computer, and has a pile of copied music/movies in a storeroom. Someone walks in and uses his own Yahoo account to send child pornography from a flash drive. The FBI traces the IP address (not the Yahoo account!) to me and obtains a warrant for a search. They can't find the images on the hard drive (let's say it's write-protected) but finds the illegal/pirated CDs/DVDs. And they charge him for that.
To get a search warrant, the police need to go to a judge and say, "We think there's that Mr. X committed the crime of Y, and there is evidence to prove that at location Z. We think this because of reasons 1, 2,...n. Together these reasons form probable cause for a search warrant." Assuming the law works as intended (the reasons add up to probable cause), the search warrant is issued and the search happens. If the seach happens, and they find evidence at location A (not location Z), they've overstepped their search warrant and the evidence they find there is inadmissable. If they find evidence that Mr. X committed crime B (not crime Y), then that might be admissable, depending on how hidden the evidence was. (I believe the legal rule is that the evidence must be "in plain sight" which is in practice pretty much always the judge/jury's call.)
In your example, there's probably not enough evidence to convict "Joe" because the search warrant was for a different crime. In the story, however, the cops were looking for kiddie porn and found kiddie porn. This is a pretty open and shut case.
I did notice that as soon as I got a $250 credit card (I know, there's people with $100,000 limits) I immediately started getting other credit card offers for $300 from other entirely unrelated credit card companies. As soon as I applied for one online college site (petersons and collegeboard) I received hundreds of mails and emails for different colleges. They are still contacting me, even after I tell them to remove me from their list.
Entering the College Board mailing list is easy. Leaving it is hard. Case in point, I took the PSAT one time (in April 2004) and the SAT one time (in January 2005). Those are the only time I have ever given any information to the College Board. Some of it has trickled down, but I still get way too much "Come be a freshman at our school" spam (of the e-mail and normal mail variety.) I agree that the College Board is scum. For a time, however, this database is quite useful to everyone involved. For example, how did you decide to look at RIT? I decided to look at RIT because of the information in the spam that they sent me. And since I liked it when I visited, I decided to come here.
The College Board's database wasn't hacked, they sell that data to schools. From what I remember, their website is set up so they tell you "Fill out this questionaire and we'll have colleges who are interested in you mail you stuff," so you know what you're getting into. The database the story is about is for government financial aid, and data shouldn't be used by anyone except the government at all.
the school I will be attending is fairly new (the campus, not the school). I do look forward to Rochester Institute of Technology By the way, I'm not sure what you're talking about when you say the campus is new. RIT moved out of downtown Rochester and to its present location in Henrietta in 1968. It's a great campus, just not a particularly new one.
If you live in the US (or apparently not, according to the article), you are indeed bound by the DCMA. You do have to use it.
If you replace every instance of "DMCA" in your post with "DRM," your post is correct. But as you wrote it, no. Sorry.
The abuse of Wikipedia is far and wide and widely reported. Yeah. In fact, I heard that abuse of wikipedia has tripled in the past six months.
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And under this system, the PEOPLE will have a way to tell who the sloppy ones are. You don't like the ammendments your Representative proposed? He comes up for election in at most two years, so get a new one.
They stopped buying from THE ONE DUDE (by the way, he was NOT a Reuters employee) and retracted all his photos, even though there were only two he was proven to have editied. The wikipedia article on him specifically, shows three others that may have been staged or edited. That's a total of 5 out of 920 pictures by him that were possibly improper..5% is hardly "regularly" especially given that all of them took place in the month immediately before Reuters stopped using him. They stopped using him immediately, and after investigating, fired his boss for not catching it. That's called integrity, and it shows that the system works.
Actuallly, the Reuters photoshop thing was a BAD example. Reuters bought the picture from a photographer and sold it to newspapers. That's what Reuters does. The photographer, before selling it to Reuters, edited the picture. Reuters eventually found out about it, issued a retraction, and refused to buy any more photographs from that photographer. There was a mistake, but the system fixed it.
If this is a widespread phenomenom, as opposed to a one shot mistake that Reuters owned up to as soon as they found out about it, can you provide any other examples?
the company would be an ISP for the employees. Given that, the company can sue the spammers that use deceptive headers and subject lines in their e-mails.
So if the company is an ISP for their employees... wait for it... that means they can sue the spammers.
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You don't need to assume that it bounces. Go outside and pick it up, and then go up one floor.
Instead of the MBT-70, today we have the M1 Abrams Tank as a result of Carter's actions. The only way to see how well the Abrams tank compares to the T-72 would be if they were engaged in a massive tank battle. Or two. Like the battles at Medina Ridge or 73 Easting. For those too lazy to look, they were both decisive American victories where Abrams tanks utterly destroyed the T-72s. (By the way, Medina Ridge was the largest single tank battle the United States has ever been involved in.) The Abrams tank has been around for about 30 years, and never has one been lost to enemy fire. Ever. With that kind of track record, forgive me for not shedding a tear for a program that was cancelled to make way for it.
As for the Blackjack and the B1-B, yeah, Carter canceled it. (Not very well; the bomber is actually in service today.) He used the money for upgrading the B-52s to fire new kinds of missles, which actually pissed the Soviets off more than the introduction of the B1-B did. He also secretly used some of the money to develop the first stealth bombers. And we all know how useless they are.
I accidentally hit "Post" instead of "Quote" when writing my second message. (I couldn't post a follow-up immediately because of the Slashdot rule about a cool-down time in between posts.) I meant to address the whole judge/jury thing. I had a whole argument written up, but it got lost. Basically, I'm not sure where the line is between when the judge decides what evidence is admissable to the jury's reasoning and when the jury decides. That line is somewhere though. At the very least, the jury could vote not to convict because of a search they deemed unreasonable, even if they disagree with the judge about it. This would be an example of jury nullification.
BTW, IANALEBIPPWOT (Either, But I Played Phoenix Wright One Time).
You're talking about a country where an elected leader can be sacked for getting head, but an unelected leader can't be prised from the grip of power with a shoe-horn made of righteous indignation millions strong.
Let's say, just for the sake of argument, that tomorrow you wake up and read in the newspaper that bin Laden was captured. The next day, the entire Iraqi insurgency announces their intention to stop terrorist attacks immediately and work together with the US for a better Iraq. The following day, Bush has a Republican ally in the House of Representatives proposes a bill that will create a new health care system that is absolutely perfect for everyone's needs. His/her collegues on both sides of the isle, realising a good idea when they see one, vote overwhelmingly for the bill and it becomes law. The next day he strikes a perfect balance on abortion. Next week sometime, the Office of Management and Budget releases a report saying that the Federal government is awash in money because Bush's tax cuts are working. And then Bush announces a federal plan to spend some of the money to pay off the national debt entirely. And then use the leftover funds for other things. Like fixing social security. (This is another "magic fix" that is absolutely perfect for everything.) Also, he proposes a plan to spend a massive ammount of money on AIDS research. And the next day he gets Congress to give him a bill that will completely prevent corruption in government so he can sign that one. And there's still money left over. And then the bad parts of the Patriot Act are repealed and better laws that are more respectful of civil liberties are enacted to take their place. And by the end of the month, AIDS is cured worldwide.
Say this rosy fantasy future continues through January 2009, with George Bush ending his term with 100% approval ratings. There is ABSOLUTELY NO WAY IN HELL that George Bush will be president in February 2009. And if the American people elect someone worse to take his place, there is still ABSOLUTELY NO WAY IN HELL that George Bush will ever be president again.
The fact is, in this country, we do have elections. Sometimes they're really close. (If the Supreme Court had ruled in favor of Gore, conservatives would be saying the same things about Gore stealing the election that liberals say right now.) The American people elected George W. Bush president twice. If we wanted to, we could have picked John Kerry, or anyone else. The fact is that in November 2004, enough people wanted Bush to remain president that he got re-elected. People's opinion of him has changed since then. So in November 2008, we are absolutely going to pick someone who isn't him. Partially out of disapproval of him, and partially because of term limits. The fact is that he's a lame duck who's almost done anyway.
Such as the trend to concentrate large amounts of the government's power into a single individual? You can argue that Episode 3, and , to a lesser extent, Episode 2, were about how much Lucas thinks George Bush sucks.
If there's evidence still visible (say, a pool of blood on the floor, or on "Joe"'s hands or something), then it's fair game to open the box. If Joe's acting suspicious about the contents of the box, and one of his associates has gone missing, then they can go get another warning. Anything else is the judge/jury's call.
To make an analogy (albeit somewhat of a stretch): Suppose "Joe" owns a coffee shop with a computer, and has a pile of copied music/movies in a storeroom. Someone walks in and uses his own Yahoo account to send child pornography from a flash drive. The FBI traces the IP address (not the Yahoo account!) to me and obtains a warrant for a search. They can't find the images on the hard drive (let's say it's write-protected) but finds the illegal/pirated CDs/DVDs. And they charge him for that.
To get a search warrant, the police need to go to a judge and say, "We think there's that Mr. X committed the crime of Y, and there is evidence to prove that at location Z. We think this because of reasons 1, 2,
In your example, there's probably not enough evidence to convict "Joe" because the search warrant was for a different crime. In the story, however, the cops were looking for kiddie porn and found kiddie porn. This is a pretty open and shut case.
No, it's more like how ANYONE could have put that stolen sports car in your garage because you always leave the door open.
Sorry, but it doesn't work on Slashdot unless it's a car analogy.
Hello troll, Please stop murdering brain cells. You aren't cool.
Entering the College Board mailing list is easy. Leaving it is hard. Case in point, I took the PSAT one time (in April 2004) and the SAT one time (in January 2005). Those are the only time I have ever given any information to the College Board. Some of it has trickled down, but I still get way too much "Come be a freshman at our school" spam (of the e-mail and normal mail variety.) I agree that the College Board is scum. For a time, however, this database is quite useful to everyone involved. For example, how did you decide to look at RIT? I decided to look at RIT because of the information in the spam that they sent me. And since I liked it when I visited, I decided to come here.
The College Board's database wasn't hacked, they sell that data to schools. From what I remember, their website is set up so they tell you "Fill out this questionaire and we'll have colleges who are interested in you mail you stuff," so you know what you're getting into. The database the story is about is for government financial aid, and data shouldn't be used by anyone except the government at all.
the school I will be attending is fairly new (the campus, not the school). I do look forward to Rochester Institute of Technology By the way, I'm not sure what you're talking about when you say the campus is new. RIT moved out of downtown Rochester and to its present location in Henrietta in 1968. It's a great campus, just not a particularly new one.
Imagine if you like of a thirdparty pulled all the content of slashdot and re-published it without slashdot ads leading to massive exposure.
So even more dupes than there are now?Didn't you hear? April Fool's Day was moved to April 2nd because of the new Daylight Savings Time thing.
If you live in the US (or apparently not, according to the article), you are indeed bound by the DCMA. You do have to use it. If you replace every instance of "DMCA" in your post with "DRM," your post is correct. But as you wrote it, no. Sorry.
onescu attempted to demonstrate ReactOS but only succeeded in installing it after two BSoDs. This alone should make it clear that ReactOS is ready for prime time."
Fixed.
How long until there's pictures of Uranus?
This is one of those times I wish I had mod points. This should go up.
And under this system, the PEOPLE will have a way to tell who the sloppy ones are. You don't like the ammendments your Representative proposed? He comes up for election in at most two years, so get a new one.
Let's use Squirt
Because that's a good idea.
(Since we gave Steve Ballmer so much crap for this, I think it's only fair.)
As a newly found subset of Murphy's Law, someone should name it and become famous. Then release it under the GPL?
They stopped buying from THE ONE DUDE (by the way, he was NOT a Reuters employee) and retracted all his photos, even though there were only two he was proven to have editied. The wikipedia article on him specifically, shows three others that may have been staged or edited. That's a total of 5 out of 920 pictures by him that were possibly improper. .5% is hardly "regularly" especially given that all of them took place in the month immediately before Reuters stopped using him. They stopped using him immediately, and after investigating, fired his boss for not catching it. That's called integrity, and it shows that the system works.
Actuallly, the Reuters photoshop thing was a BAD example. Reuters bought the picture from a photographer and sold it to newspapers. That's what Reuters does. The photographer, before selling it to Reuters, edited the picture. Reuters eventually found out about it, issued a retraction, and refused to buy any more photographs from that photographer. There was a mistake, but the system fixed it.
If this is a widespread phenomenom, as opposed to a one shot mistake that Reuters owned up to as soon as they found out about it, can you provide any other examples?
the company would be an ISP for the employees. Given that, the company can sue the spammers that use deceptive headers and subject lines in their e-mails.
So if the company is an ISP for their employees... wait for it... that means they can sue the spammers.
Shouldn't that be RIAAA and MPIAA.
I'd have guessed the R-I-Eh-Eh and the M-P-Eh-Eh.
Even the guys saying this stuff wouldn't think twice about having a beer with you.
Would it be a free beer?
*Dodges chairs and shots in the head*