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  1. Re:Rounders. on Bobby Fischer Online? · · Score: 2

    They played 4 sessions. The 1st session consisted of 8 games. Syntax.

  2. Privacy Protection Act of 1980 on Hosting Provider Shut Down By FBI · · Score: 2

    Searches of News organizations are governed by the Privacy Protection Act of 1980



  3. Re:Huh? on Clark Withholds $60 Million Pledge to Stanford · · Score: 2

    While the President may have thought he was wrestling with "legitimate moral issues" he was in fact being manipulated by Health and Human Services Secretary Tommy Thompson's desire to protect a monopoly on "existing" stem cell lines for Thompson's hometown buddies here at the University of Wisconsin.

  4. Re:LSD as performance enhancing drug? on Drug Testing For Olympic Chess Players? · · Score: 2

    Tried this in the 1969 Continental Junior. Results from early rounds were spectacular. Next day, however was dismal.

    Occasional attempts to repeat the experiment showed mixed results. As there is no ready means to ascertain dosage level of street acid, I can't quantify, but small doses generally produce better results.

    Also tries a few semi-serious games on Iboga (1 gram of raw bark) which shows promise.

    Also worth recalling is the No-hitter pitched by Baseball great Doc Ellis of the Pittsburgh Pirates under the influence of LSD on June 12, 1970. Ellis recounted the experience in a 1987 interview with High Times magazine., not apparently available online.

  5. Medical Marijuana on Drug Testing For Olympic Chess Players? · · Score: 2

    Canada recently enacted laws making cannabis available as medicine for the seriously ill, and the US gov't continues to provide it for 7 individuals grandfathered in from Bush the Elder's termination of the Compassionate Investigative New Drug trial of the '80s.

    Would these individuals be barred from competitive chess?

  6. Re:Adobe on Sklyarov Released On $50,000 Bail · · Score: 2
    he may have a case against the California D.A. for malicious prosecution though. And get this through your legally-untrained skull:

    For starters, as this is a Federal prosecution, it's the US Attorney, not a D.A. In either case, they're shielded by prosecutorial immunity.

  7. Re:How is it a failure? on Slashback: Mexico, Ukraine, Oceania · · Score: 2
    After all, what do most kids use computers in schools for, besides web browsing, word processing, email and the odd spreadsheet?

    Artwork, if they have Macs.


  8. Actually made by NEC on TRS-80 Laptops Still Plugging Along · · Score: 2

    The TRS 80 was actually made by NEC, who marketed an almost identical machine under their own name, the NEC 8201, without the internal modem. Had mine online from the WisconsinState Capitol's guide desk for the 2 weeks we had a sit-in over investments in Apartheid South Africa.

  9. Re:Superfluous on Net Radio Returns, With Targeted Ads · · Score: 2
    1) people at work who can't bring a radio to their office
    2) people who listen to unpopular types of music (most forms of metal, for instance) there's rarely any local radio stations that play real metal, so the only options are listen to cds or online radio...
    3) people who are out-of-town and want to get their hometown news...


    4) people who search listings for out-of-town talk shows on their faborite obsession, so they may call in.
  10. Re:A Union on How Do You Fight A Dress Code? · · Score: 2

    Just word getting back to management that there's widespread discussion of Unionizing may well be enough to get something trivial like a dress code revoked.

  11. Re:A Union on How Do You Fight A Dress Code? · · Score: 1

    If the dress code is the ONLY issue, you're right. But a union contract would prevent dress code issues from resurfacing for its duration.

  12. Modify = Attach Ads to on Google Owns Your UseNet Post · · Score: 3

    What they're getting fo now, is clear authority to append their selfpromotion, and any outside advertising payload, to your post.

  13. Vegetarian VW on Running Vehicles on Vegetable Oil? · · Score: 2

    Here's a guy who's running an old diesel VW Rabbit on filtered vegetable oil with just scrapped parts.

    The Vegetarian VW
  14. 2 thoughts. on IT Unions? · · Score: 2

    A corrupt Union leadership would not last long around a heavily wired membership.

    Companies that have finished their layoffs will next seek to cut costs of remaining employees. At this point a Union can begin to look attractive.

  15. Re:Cost INeffective on Zero to Rutabaga in 6 Seconds · · Score: 2

    Actually Sunflower tops Soy as an oil crop. Soy has the advantage of also yielding a higher protien seedcake (animal feed.) Soy oil is cheaper because it's a byproduct. Hemp is in the same league, which oilseed crop to plant will vary with local conditions if fuel is the end product.

    Petroleum is cheaper than veg oils as long as we don't consider replacement costs.

    Hemp and other biomass crops actually look better in electric generation than in automotive applications, as there's no need for inefficient conversionto a liquid fuel.

  16. Re:But the exhaust.... on Zero to Rutabaga in 6 Seconds · · Score: 2

    For a couple months in '92 the city (Madison WI) was running 4 of their older busses on soy oil. The curbside tables at the State Street restaurants and coffeshops have never since been as busy.

    The experiment ended when the new busses were delivered, and the fleet could be held under Federal pollution limits with cheaper diesel.

  17. Sneak and Peak warrants on Is Encryption Really Secure? · · Score: 2
    What's really disturbing is to compare all this to current 'sneak-and-peek' search warrant practices - where police agents can break into your home or business to conduct a search without having to tell you, before or after, that they've done so. It is not entirely clear if such searches are illegal now, but they would be sanctioned by bills like HR. 2987, the Methamphetamine Anti-Proliferation Act of 1999.

    Before the Meth Act was passed last spring, the Secret Search Warrant provisions were removed in the House Judiciary Committee. Credit to ultraconservative Bob Barr (R GA) and ultraliberal Tammy Baldwin (D WI). Similar language died with last year's Bankruptcy Bill, and was not included in this year's version. As far as I can tell, no similar legislation has been intriduced in the current Congress.

  18. Prospects in the 107th Congress on Star Wars Most Violent Movie Ever? · · Score: 1

    Don't blame the Democrats or Republicans. It's the American voting public which wants their representatives to "do something."

    There's censors on both sides of the aisle, and also defenders of free speech.

    Now Atty General, the Sen Ashcroft sponsored last years major censorship effort, hidden in the Methamphetamine Anti-Proliferation Act, passed the Senate unanimously. A ray of hope was seen in the House Judiciary Committee, where a bipartisan odd couple of Tammy Baldwin (D WI) and Bob Barr (R GA) removed both censorship and expanded search power provisions, and picked up the vote of the current Committee Chair Jim Sensenbrenner (R WI). Amazon, which sells a lot of marijuana grow guides, was the only corporate player to weigh in.

    Hollywood will continue to buy its way out of censorship. A shrinking dotconomy means the censors will be appeased with further legislative restrictions on the Net.

  19. Dubya stopped using email because... on Bush Won't Be "The Online President" · · Score: 1

    a) Never recieved a response from Congressman Schnell when he complained about the 5 cent Email Tax.

    b) He already knows how to Make Money Fast.

    c) Hotmail's spam filters suck.

    d) Whitehouse.com wouldn't sell

  20. Why Now? on Bundeswehr Says Microsoft Software Verboten · · Score: 1

    Everyone, including the Bundeswehr has known for years that MSware is compromised.

    Could the decision to do something about it now be related to German troops in Macedonia being shelled by a CIA surrogate army?

  21. Amendment 14, section 1 on Sophomore Uses List Context; Cops Interrogate · · Score: 1

    Section. 1. All persons born or naturalized in the United States and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside. No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.

  22. Re:Hello? Context? on Harlan Ellison on Copyright Infringement · · Score: 1

    For a few years in the 60's he wrote a TV colunm for the LA FreePress, later collected as The Glass Teat c. and The Other Glass Teat c. Together, the best media analysis of the era.

  23. Re:OK, what's the angle? on Rep. Gets It - Boucher Re-Examines Fair Use · · Score: 1
  24. Will AOL make the Feds get Court Orders? on Anonymous Speech Litigation · · Score: 1

    Good that they will protect anonymity against Private Parties, but will they hand identities to the Feds without a warrant?

  25. Re:Lets assume the RIAA are not idiots. on Napster to Filter by Filenames · · Score: 1

    They bought a big enough piece of Napster to control it. They're pushing the current case so as to get precedents set before the Federal Bench gets any more clueful, and because the original Napster model fits their theory of the Law.

    If the Courts start to swing against RIAA, Bertlesman can use its shares to force a settlement. When you sue yourself, you can't lose.