McClellan said the Clinton-Gore administration had engaged in warrantless physical searches, and he cited an FBI search of the home of CIA turncoat Aldrich Ames without permission from a judge. He said Clinton's deputy attorney general, Jamie Gorelick, had testified before Congress that the president had the inherent authority to engage in physical searches without warrants.
"I think his hypocrisy knows no bounds," McClellan said of Gore.
But at the time of the Ames search in 1993 and when Gorelick testified a year later, the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act required warrants for electronic surveillance for intelligence purposes, but did not cover physical searches. The law was changed to cover physical searches in 1995 under legislation that Clinton supported and signed.
Bush's attorney general, Alberto Gonzales, made the same arguments as McClellan during interviews Monday on CNN's "Larry King Live" and Fox News Channel's "Hannity & Colmes."
You might want to take a step back and reconsider who you trust. Clinton's administration abided by the law as set forth by congress, and when outrage was expressed that Clinton used warentless physical searches, which were not forbidden at the time by FISA, he signed a bill that extended FISA to also forbid warrentless physical searches. Bush on the other hand, has directly violated FISA, and he doesn't deny that fact either. The Bush administration claims that his executive powers give him the ability to ignore laws passed by congress. Now you can continue to repeat partisan lies, or you can think for yourself. The president is not above the law, and if the law prevents him from doing his job, he can lobby congress (and the public), to have the law changed.
Since American technology as such little importance, can you please explain why the British troops use American guns, armor, tanks, planes, etc in combat?
The parent post is not insightful. It is just anti-american crap, backed up with no facts, no evidence, and no references. The moderators should be shamed for modding up such garbage. What does this contribute to the discussion?
The NEX does not come with wireless pads. You have to buy them separately, and they even work with a regular NES. In fact, some places sell a package for $60 consisting of a real original professional refurbished NES and a wireless Messiah controller.
There are plenty of retailers on Ebay and on their own web sites that sell professionally refurbished original NES systems, which do not have any issues with blinking games or blowing on carts. A typical price for a professionally refurbished NES system is $30, which is half the price of a NEX.
He obviously intended for you to compare Castlevania II on the NEX versus the Castlevania II when played on a working NES. Just because you choose to not fix your NES or buy a $30 professionally refurbished NES does not factor into the poster's point. The NEX uses a garden variety unlicensed Hong Kong NES-on-a-chip that is notorious for its inaccurate audio. The audio is sometimes so bad that entire sound effects or music tracks are missing.
You forget that people often judge a book by its cover. So what if the insides are the same as the boat load of less expensive unlicensed NES clones. Note that people use the same reasoning for deciding which people they like, which politicians they vote for, which musicians they choose to listen to, etc.
Your friend has what is called a "copier". You can read up on these copiers here. Today, console piracy involves mod-chips or flash carts. In fact, there is even a flash cart made for the SNES, which lets you read ROMs from SNES carts and write ROMs to the flash cart so that they can be played on a real SNES.
The IGN article is nothing more than a sales pitch presented in the form of a review. Read here for more details
Do not judge a book by its cover. The NEX is nothing more than yet another Famicom/NES clone. There have been 100s before it, and they all pretty much suck. It uses the same NES-on-a-chip (NOAC) used in many other Famicom and NES clones. These NOACs have inaccurate audio, video, glitches, and are completely incompatible with roughly 40 NES games (Castlevania III, Gauntlet, etc) and even more Famicom games! Even free emulators for your PC or Xbox (Nestopia, Nintendulator, FCE Ultra) do better than the NEX in both accuracy of audio/video, as well as game compatibility! The NEX also does not have a Famicom extension port, so it can't use the Family Basic Keyboard and other Famicom peripherials that use the port. Here is real review.
The Messiah wireless controllers are great except for the D-pad, which is useless for many NES games, such as any game that requires you to double-tap a direction. Double Dragon is an example. The D-pad just doesn't respond fast enough. It is also tough to play even games like Super Mario Bros using the D-pad because you will accidentally hit the diagonals when running, instead of hitting forward. This causes Mario to stop running entirely. The wireless part of the controller is great. I just wish they used a standard cross shaped D-pad. I should add that the NEX does not come with a wireless controller, and you have to buy one separately. Furthermore, since the controllers come with a wireless receiver, they can be used with the original NES too. So yes the NEX can use these controllers, but so can a real NES.
In summary, anything that the NEX can do, a refurbished original NES can do and do it better. Read here for more details. In the end, it is up to you how you want to spend your money. But consider the fact that a refurbished original NES costs roughly $30, and the NEX is basically the same clone on the inside as the USA version Neo Fami, which can be had for even less than $30. The NEX, however, costs $60.
I'd love to see a similar idea put towards a desktop calculator that used vacuum tubes instead of transistors and cathode tubes instead of LEDs. Yes it would be big, hot, and slow... but it would definitely be a geek conversation piece.
What is funny about your reply is that you claim that there are all sorts of problems, and yet you mention an issue, anonymity, which was addressed in the original post, i.e., it is not a problem, as anonymity is optionally available.
The only drawback is that anonymous votes don't look any different compared to fake votes or improperly cast votes. In the case where everybody does this, the system is completely anonymous, yet anybody can re-count the votes. A paper trail provides no advantages.
However, as you may know, or actually apparently you do not. Many people register their party affiliation, and these types of people typically vote straight party tickets. So many people do not care to be anonymous in who they vote for. These people can vote non-anonymously, optionally, as described in my original post. The benefit to doing so is that you can confirm that your vote is properly cast, and your vote can be distinguished by others from a fake vote.
My system also provides a middle ground. You can vote anonymously, yet privately remember your key pair. This will let you independently confirm that your vote is properly cast. A paper trail cannot provide any such feature, let alone the described flexibility. In order to rig a paper trail, all that is needed is for the computer to print a receipt with incorrect data. The problem isn't solved, as recounting will be done against a bunch of fake votes.
1. Any person should be able to re-count the votes. 2. Any person should be able to confirm that their vote is properly recorded. 3. Any person should be able to remain completely anonymous. 4. Non-anonymous votes should be distinguishable from fake votes (e.g. votes by non-existant or dead people).
Please tell me how a paper trail accomplishes any of that. Please tell me how a system that can do all that has "all sorts of problems".
Browsers with tabs are great for organizing the different topics that you are browsing. However, sometimes you want to merge two windows' tabs into one window of tabs, and other times you want to split a window's tabs into two separate windows of tabs. Any chance we will ever see such a feature? Ontop of that, it would also be nice to be able to group tabs within a tab, for further organization of hardcore web browsing.
I am disappointed that edjucated engineers are crying out for a paper trail on for voting machines. We can use an all computerized system that lets everybody count the votes, and is secured via asymmetric encryption. Two public lists are maintained by the government. One list contains registered public keys. This list is generated during voter registration, when a person submits their typical voter registration info along with their public key and an optional request to be anonymous. If a person is anonymous, then only their public key is added to the list, and otherwise their name is also added. When people vote, they use their own computer to cast a vote via the web, and their vote consists of a pair:
( public key, encrypt( private key, ( public key, votes ) ) )
Then anybody can have access to both lists. Anything that can be observed using a paper trail is now observable via a purely computerized system. Even better, since anybody has access to both lists, anybody can count the votes and anybody can audit the system.
Par for the course. It seems to be acceptable within the gaming community to review games that aren't even released, as well as consoles. Though this does go further by reviewing the release of a console before that release has even occurred.
The Yobo aka NeoFami can actually be had for as low as $25 off of Ebay. Note that it can't play Gauntlet, as well as many other games because it is yet another crappy Famicom/NES clone based on an inaccurate recreation of the NES's circuitry. But guess what is even cheaper than a $25 crappy clone? A $20 refurbished real NES. Oh and it can play all of your NES games.
Arguing with a Nintendo fanboy about the Revolution is like arguing with a proponent of Intelligent Design. Do you realize that your entire post neglected to refute my claim that actual Revolution systems do not even exist yet?
If you combine hundreds of lower pixel images into a larger image without throwing away any information, you effectively end up with an image that has the number of pixels equal to the sum of all the smaller image's pixel counts. Hence they end up with a really high pixel count image.
Why does Slashdot continue to hype Nintendo's non-existent hardware? Does Nintendo even have a running prototype? This all seems quite silly. For every Slashdot article bashing Microsoft's Xbox 360, which actually exists, they seem to have a fluff article hyping something that does not even exist yet.
Not all Truths are reachable in this fashion. Godel's theorem would seem to me to indicate that there are truths unreachable through any scientific method, just like there are unreachable truths in any other axiomatic method.
This is an incorrect interpretation of Godel's Incompleteness Theorems. They basically state that any sufficiently powerful, fixed system of formal logic cannot prove certain propositions to be true or false. For such propositions, you will need a more powerful proof system, but even that system will have propositions that cannot be proven true or false. While this has implications on mathematics, the implications on science (which is not the same thing as mathematics), are minimal because the propositions that cannot be proven are metamathematical in nature. So for applications to science, you can merely choose a system that is powerful enough to explain the observatins at hand and make predictions.
The only reason that scientists would care about incompleteness is that it states that one of the propositions that cannot be proven in a sufficiently powerful formal proof system, is that the proof system itself is consistent. Such a proof requires a more powerful proof system.
A technical side note: The original Zelda carts, as well as other early NES carts, used flat-head screws. It was only later carts that started to use the "security bit" screws. Of course, to unscrew them, you just need an inexpensive security bit.
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There are a few hardware projects out there, for increasing your enjoyment of your NES. One is a special game cart that lets you write ROM images to a NES cart, called the FunkyFlashCart, and then you can play ROM on a real NES. Because it uses flash for holding the ROMs, ROMs can be written many times to the cart. Similarly, it uses a CPLD in order to recreate the many different circuit-board types used in NES games. This is necessary because NES games lack a strong distinction between hardware and software common in modern games, i.e., NES games each include their own circuit board and ICs which must also be accurately recreated along with the game's ROM image in order to play the game. Note that the FunkyFlashCart is still under development, but will soon go on sale. No longer will you be stuck playing your NES games on a crappy inaccurate emulator!
Another interesting device is actually a hardware modification for your NES called the "CopyNES". It has recently been redesigned, upgraded, and put into another round of production. Basically it is a device for ripping ROM images from carts, but it is also a ICE debugger for the NES, and it can even transfer ROM images to a RAM cart in the NES via a parallel port. The CopyNES has many other features, a favorite being the ability to play NSF files on the NES. NSF files are music ripped from NES games. Hence you can listen to your NES tunes on a real NES, as opposed to a NES emulator with poor emulation of the system's actual sound. The CopyNES is basically a circuit board that is placed between the NES's CPU and the NES's motherboard. This is how it is able to accomplish the ICE debugger features, as well as universal cart dumping, as it can force the CPU to do whatever you want. Here is the original site for the CopyNES. However, it shows an older version of the hardware. The creator announced in this thread that he will begin selling kits to mod your NES with CopyNES, and he will also provide a slightly more expensive service so that people can send their NES systems in for professional modification.
The level of bias is really funny. I saw a kid getting pressured to buy a PSP as opposed to a GBASP. I myself got heat for buying an N-Gage QD for just $99. If a customer asks for a specific product by name, then sell them what they asked for.
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You might want to take a step back and reconsider who you trust. Clinton's administration abided by the law as set forth by congress, and when outrage was expressed that Clinton used warentless physical searches, which were not forbidden at the time by FISA, he signed a bill that extended FISA to also forbid warrentless physical searches. Bush on the other hand, has directly violated FISA, and he doesn't deny that fact either. The Bush administration claims that his executive powers give him the ability to ignore laws passed by congress. Now you can continue to repeat partisan lies, or you can think for yourself. The president is not above the law, and if the law prevents him from doing his job, he can lobby congress (and the public), to have the law changed.
Since American technology as such little importance, can you please explain why the British troops use American guns, armor, tanks, planes, etc in combat?
The parent post is not insightful. It is just anti-american crap, backed up with no facts, no evidence, and no references. The moderators should be shamed for modding up such garbage. What does this contribute to the discussion?
The NEX does not come with wireless pads. You have to buy them separately, and they even work with a regular NES. In fact, some places sell a package for $60 consisting of a real original professional refurbished NES and a wireless Messiah controller.
There are plenty of retailers on Ebay and on their own web sites that sell professionally refurbished original NES systems, which do not have any issues with blinking games or blowing on carts. A typical price for a professionally refurbished NES system is $30, which is half the price of a NEX.
He obviously intended for you to compare Castlevania II on the NEX versus the Castlevania II when played on a working NES. Just because you choose to not fix your NES or buy a $30 professionally refurbished NES does not factor into the poster's point. The NEX uses a garden variety unlicensed Hong Kong NES-on-a-chip that is notorious for its inaccurate audio. The audio is sometimes so bad that entire sound effects or music tracks are missing.
You forget that people often judge a book by its cover. So what if the insides are the same as the boat load of less expensive unlicensed NES clones. Note that people use the same reasoning for deciding which people they like, which politicians they vote for, which musicians they choose to listen to, etc.
Your friend has what is called a "copier". You can read up on these copiers here. Today, console piracy involves mod-chips or flash carts. In fact, there is even a flash cart made for the SNES, which lets you read ROMs from SNES carts and write ROMs to the flash cart so that they can be played on a real SNES.
The IGN article is nothing more than a sales pitch presented in the form of a review. Read here for more details
Do not judge a book by its cover. The NEX is nothing more than yet another Famicom/NES clone. There have been 100s before it, and they all pretty much suck. It uses the same NES-on-a-chip (NOAC) used in many other Famicom and NES clones. These NOACs have inaccurate audio, video, glitches, and are completely incompatible with roughly 40 NES games (Castlevania III, Gauntlet, etc) and even more Famicom games! Even free emulators for your PC or Xbox (Nestopia, Nintendulator, FCE Ultra) do better than the NEX in both accuracy of audio/video, as well as game compatibility! The NEX also does not have a Famicom extension port, so it can't use the Family Basic Keyboard and other Famicom peripherials that use the port. Here is real review.
The Messiah wireless controllers are great except for the D-pad, which is useless for many NES games, such as any game that requires you to double-tap a direction. Double Dragon is an example. The D-pad just doesn't respond fast enough. It is also tough to play even games like Super Mario Bros using the D-pad because you will accidentally hit the diagonals when running, instead of hitting forward. This causes Mario to stop running entirely. The wireless part of the controller is great. I just wish they used a standard cross shaped D-pad. I should add that the NEX does not come with a wireless controller, and you have to buy one separately. Furthermore, since the controllers come with a wireless receiver, they can be used with the original NES too. So yes the NEX can use these controllers, but so can a real NES.
In summary, anything that the NEX can do, a refurbished original NES can do and do it better. Read here for more details. In the end, it is up to you how you want to spend your money. But consider the fact that a refurbished original NES costs roughly $30, and the NEX is basically the same clone on the inside as the USA version Neo Fami, which can be had for even less than $30. The NEX, however, costs $60.
I'd love to see a similar idea put towards a desktop calculator that used vacuum tubes instead of transistors and cathode tubes instead of LEDs. Yes it would be big, hot, and slow... but it would definitely be a geek conversation piece.
What is funny about your reply is that you claim that there are all sorts of problems, and yet you mention an issue, anonymity, which was addressed in the original post, i.e., it is not a problem, as anonymity is optionally available.
The only drawback is that anonymous votes don't look any different compared to fake votes or improperly cast votes. In the case where everybody does this, the system is completely anonymous, yet anybody can re-count the votes. A paper trail provides no advantages.
However, as you may know, or actually apparently you do not. Many people register their party affiliation, and these types of people typically vote straight party tickets. So many people do not care to be anonymous in who they vote for. These people can vote non-anonymously, optionally, as described in my original post. The benefit to doing so is that you can confirm that your vote is properly cast, and your vote can be distinguished by others from a fake vote.
My system also provides a middle ground. You can vote anonymously, yet privately remember your key pair. This will let you independently confirm that your vote is properly cast. A paper trail cannot provide any such feature, let alone the described flexibility. In order to rig a paper trail, all that is needed is for the computer to print a receipt with incorrect data. The problem isn't solved, as recounting will be done against a bunch of fake votes.
1. Any person should be able to re-count the votes.
2. Any person should be able to confirm that their vote is properly recorded.
3. Any person should be able to remain completely anonymous.
4. Non-anonymous votes should be distinguishable from fake votes (e.g. votes by non-existant or dead people).
Please tell me how a paper trail accomplishes any of that. Please tell me how a system that can do all that has "all sorts of problems".
Browsers with tabs are great for organizing the different topics that you are browsing. However, sometimes you want to merge two windows' tabs into one window of tabs, and other times you want to split a window's tabs into two separate windows of tabs. Any chance we will ever see such a feature? Ontop of that, it would also be nice to be able to group tabs within a tab, for further organization of hardcore web browsing.
Have you tried XBMC? It is free and runs on the Xbox. You can use it as an extender or as a media player itself.
I am disappointed that edjucated engineers are crying out for a paper trail on for voting machines. We can use an all computerized system that lets everybody count the votes, and is secured via asymmetric encryption. Two public lists are maintained by the government. One list contains registered public keys. This list is generated during voter registration, when a person submits their typical voter registration info along with their public key and an optional request to be anonymous. If a person is anonymous, then only their public key is added to the list, and otherwise their name is also added. When people vote, they use their own computer to cast a vote via the web, and their vote consists of a pair:
( public key, encrypt( private key, ( public key, votes ) ) )
Then anybody can have access to both lists. Anything that can be observed using a paper trail is now observable via a purely computerized system. Even better, since anybody has access to both lists, anybody can count the votes and anybody can audit the system.
Remember Trade Wars 2002? Why not play it again, sometime soon? All you need is a telnet client.
Par for the course. It seems to be acceptable within the gaming community to review games that aren't even released, as well as consoles. Though this does go further by reviewing the release of a console before that release has even occurred.
The Yobo aka NeoFami can actually be had for as low as $25 off of Ebay. Note that it can't play Gauntlet, as well as many other games because it is yet another crappy Famicom/NES clone based on an inaccurate recreation of the NES's circuitry. But guess what is even cheaper than a $25 crappy clone? A $20 refurbished real NES. Oh and it can play all of your NES games.
Arguing with a Nintendo fanboy about the Revolution is like arguing with a proponent of Intelligent Design. Do you realize that your entire post neglected to refute my claim that actual Revolution systems do not even exist yet?
If you combine hundreds of lower pixel images into a larger image without throwing away any information, you effectively end up with an image that has the number of pixels equal to the sum of all the smaller image's pixel counts. Hence they end up with a really high pixel count image.
Why does Slashdot continue to hype Nintendo's non-existent hardware? Does Nintendo even have a running prototype? This all seems quite silly. For every Slashdot article bashing Microsoft's Xbox 360, which actually exists, they seem to have a fluff article hyping something that does not even exist yet.
This is an incorrect interpretation of Godel's Incompleteness Theorems. They basically state that any sufficiently powerful, fixed system of formal logic cannot prove certain propositions to be true or false. For such propositions, you will need a more powerful proof system, but even that system will have propositions that cannot be proven true or false. While this has implications on mathematics, the implications on science (which is not the same thing as mathematics), are minimal because the propositions that cannot be proven are metamathematical in nature. So for applications to science, you can merely choose a system that is powerful enough to explain the observatins at hand and make predictions.
The only reason that scientists would care about incompleteness is that it states that one of the propositions that cannot be proven in a sufficiently powerful formal proof system, is that the proof system itself is consistent. Such a proof requires a more powerful proof system.
A technical side note: The original Zelda carts, as well as other early NES carts, used flat-head screws. It was only later carts that started to use the "security bit" screws. Of course, to unscrew them, you just need an inexpensive security bit.
There are a few hardware projects out there, for increasing your enjoyment of your NES. One is a special game cart that lets you write ROM images to a NES cart, called the FunkyFlashCart, and then you can play ROM on a real NES. Because it uses flash for holding the ROMs, ROMs can be written many times to the cart. Similarly, it uses a CPLD in order to recreate the many different circuit-board types used in NES games. This is necessary because NES games lack a strong distinction between hardware and software common in modern games, i.e., NES games each include their own circuit board and ICs which must also be accurately recreated along with the game's ROM image in order to play the game. Note that the FunkyFlashCart is still under development, but will soon go on sale. No longer will you be stuck playing your NES games on a crappy inaccurate emulator!
Another interesting device is actually a hardware modification for your NES called the "CopyNES". It has recently been redesigned, upgraded, and put into another round of production. Basically it is a device for ripping ROM images from carts, but it is also a ICE debugger for the NES, and it can even transfer ROM images to a RAM cart in the NES via a parallel port. The CopyNES has many other features, a favorite being the ability to play NSF files on the NES. NSF files are music ripped from NES games. Hence you can listen to your NES tunes on a real NES, as opposed to a NES emulator with poor emulation of the system's actual sound. The CopyNES is basically a circuit board that is placed between the NES's CPU and the NES's motherboard. This is how it is able to accomplish the ICE debugger features, as well as universal cart dumping, as it can force the CPU to do whatever you want. Here is the original site for the CopyNES. However, it shows an older version of the hardware. The creator announced in this thread that he will begin selling kits to mod your NES with CopyNES, and he will also provide a slightly more expensive service so that people can send their NES systems in for professional modification.
Why not just use amule, which is a great Linux eMule clone?
The level of bias is really funny. I saw a kid getting pressured to buy a PSP as opposed to a GBASP. I myself got heat for buying an N-Gage QD for just $99. If a customer asks for a specific product by name, then sell them what they asked for.