Considerable evidence supports the existence of such a highly classified system, and top Pentagon officials have hinted that it's "out there," but iron-clad confirmation that meets AW&ST standards has remained elusive. Now facing the possibility that this innovative "Blackstar" system may have been shelved, we elected to share what we've learned about it with our readers, rather than let an intriguing technological breakthrough vanish into "black world" history, known to only a few insiders.
so, Aviation Week was following this and had quite a bit of detail built up, but it didn't meet their standards for an actual confirmed thing, so they held back on publishing anything -- until now, because this project that doesn't offically exist has possibly been cancelled, it would be a real shame not to sell a bunch of copies of their mag based on all the work they've already done?
>the moment they made an offer of cash for criminal services, they were entrapping
I did not think this was how it worked.
In jurisprudence, entrapment is a procedural defense by which a defendant may argue that they should not be held criminally liable for actions which broke the law, because they were induced (or entrapped) by the police to commit said acts. For the defense to be successful, the defendant must demonstrate that the police induced an otherwise unwilling person to commit a crime. However, when a person is predisposed to commit a crime, offering opportunities to commit the crime is not entrapment, such as in the widely held misconception that policemen must answer questions truthfully if they are asked the same question three times, or that they must say "yes" if asked if they are a police officer.
You see this all the time with drug and prostitution stings. The cops offer to buy/sell drugs/sex and then the suspect is arrested when they agree.
If you are loitering on a street corner and say "twenty bucks" when solicited by a undercover police, you aren't being entrapped. If a cop comes up to you and shoves $20 dollars in your face and says "go get me some damn drugs" and then arrests you, that might be entrapment.
When a known spammer agrees to accept $$$ in exchange for sending spam, how can that be entrapment?
>If that was a certainty, there would have been enough evidence to convict them already.
Maybe not. Maybe what they had was all circumstantial and what they needed to do was catch them in the act to make getting a conviction more likely.
Yeah, I had the misfortune to be flipping channels the other morning and they had an 'expert' on that was spouting admonishments to parents that kids didn't need to have "personal web pages on these online communites. ever.", and maybe they didn't need to be on the computer at all, in fact.
She started off with some reasonable advice: put the computer in a central, common area where you could keep tabs on how much time they spent and what they were doing -- get involved and educate yourself about things so you can understand what your child is doing and give them guidance about what is safe and acceptible use of the computer.
Then she dove into this thing about how these online communities made it easy for predators to search for your child by age and location. She basically said you shouldn't allow your kid to have any personal web space at all. She also posited that kids should turn off the computer alltogether and go outside.
The host on CNN didn't ask any critical questions, lapped it all up and wholeheartedly thanked her for enlightening the unwashed masses.
REDMOND, Wash., Feb. 23, 2006 - Microsoft is making available its formal response to the Statement of Objections issued in December 2005 by the European Commission.
The response, which was filed Feb. 15 in Brussels, details the evidence that Microsoft is in full compliance with the technical documentation requirements imposed by the Commission in 2004. It also details numerous ways in which the Commission had ignored key information and denied Microsoft due process in defending itself.
Microsoft also is releasing two independent expert reports by software system engineering professors who examined the technical documentation created by Microsoft.
he did go on and on about how he had acquired suitable paneling and ceiling material to fashion his "listening room" to the proper dimensions and how the little pieces of styro tacked to the walls helped diffuse "undesirable wave confluences", or something.
he did manage to suck all the joy out of just putting on a disc and cranking it up and listening.
*guy I knew in college talked like that. He had his own A/B room set up in his mom's basement -- had little triangles of styrofoam glued to the walls and ceilings at strategic locations. Had some nice equipment, but going over to listen to something with him was an ordeal.
but what if I move? Clearly the answer is some kind of implant that uniquely identifies the purchaser^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^Hlicensee and only allows the disc to be played by that individual.;-)
hmmm, reminds me of a guy that got fired a couple years ago.
He was snoozing during a meeting when the visiting SVP showed up late and had to wake him up to get to his seat.
But, he wasn't sleeping because he was lazy or incompotent. He was on-call that week and had been up all night fighting a fire. We had one of those "mandatory" all-hands meetings (yes, one of those) that morning and our boss didn't see fit to excuse him just because he was working all night (personally, I would have gone home at that point).
All the mucky-mucks were flying in from the home office to give us their quarteryly song-and-dance rah, rah schpeil. Gerry showed up as things were getting started and sat himself in the back where he could lean back against the wall and rest for a bit to get though this 2&1/2 hour ordeal before he would have to return to his cube to no doubt fix another problem.
Just as things were getting *really* interesting midway through the second hour (yawn), some visiting dignitary in a blue pinstripe suit shows up late, cracks some lame-ass joke about the airline being run by cave men, flashes a winning smile and tries to find a seat.
Yup, he ran into Gerry who had gone into a coma from the droning presentation of corporate vision and maximizing shareholder value and exceeding customer expectations, blah, blah, blah. The SVP was trying to get to an empty seat in the back row and when he came to Gerry, he couldn't get past.
Excuse me. Pardon me. *nudge* wha? Excuse me, I'd like to get by. um, ok, sorry... What's your name, son? Gerry. Gerry... Gerry Walters. Ok, Gerry Walters. Thank you.
Well, surprise, surprise... Gerry was packing up his desk by the same time the next day. Sucked too because he was one of our better, harder working guys and we had to scramble to get by without him for quite some time.
GAZA, Feb 6 (Reuters) - When entrepreneur Ahmed Abu Dayya first heard that Danish caricatures of the Prophet Mohammad were being reprinted across Europe, he knew exactly what his customers in Gaza would want: flags to burn.
Abu Dayya ordered 100 hard-to-find Danish and Norwegian flags for his Gaza City shop and has been doing a swift trade.
I thought about that too. Makes me wonder if they can't get that because it is outside their experience?
Is their system such that anything they see in the papers come directly from the government (which in turn is under influence/control of religious leaders/law), so they assume the same in other countries because they have no clue how it works in the West?
Man, Bush's vision to spread freedom and democracy throughout the middle east seems fundamentally flawed if that's the case. These people have a long way to go before they're ready for concepts like secular government, free press and freedom of individual expression.
22 Moby Thesaurus words for "gravid":
anticipating, big, big with child, big-laden, breeding, carrying,
carrying a fetus, expectant, expecting, gestating, gone, great,
heavy, heavy with child, knocked up, parturient, preggers,
pregnant, superfetate, superimpregnated, teeming, with child
nope, nothing about fish
I have heard it used to describe _really_ pregnant horse before, tho
When you were a kid, I worked for White-Westinghouse in their Rockford, Il plant where the DP department consisted of a 360, a card reader, a couple of printers and some tape drives.
And yes, the first thing I thought was what does a company that makes laptops want with a company that makes washers and dryers?
Don't know about the cells being used on this particular car-top application, but in general modern solar cells are built to resist wind and hail damage.
The panels are supported by our roofer-designed mounting system that has been tested to withstand 125 mph (200 kph) winds and can work on almost every type of roofing material. Our modules can withstand one inch (2.5 cm) hailstones at 50 mph (80.5 kph).
Of course, if your car is already doing 50 mph....
Amuplex is not technically a parasite, but something known as an exoparasitoid. In other words, a free-living adult lays an egg outside a host, and then the larva crawls into the host. One could easily imagine the ancestors of Ampulex as wasps that laid their eggs near dead insects--as some species do today. These corpse-feeding ancestors then evolved into wasps that attacked living hosts. Likewise, it's not hard to envision an Ampulex-like wasp evolving into full-blown parasitoids that inject their eggs directly into their hosts, as many species do today.
Slashdot Mirror
only if they exclusively reproduce with guys like "K-Fed"
exactly.
Considerable evidence supports the existence of such a highly classified system, and top Pentagon officials have hinted that it's "out there," but iron-clad confirmation that meets AW&ST standards has remained elusive. Now facing the possibility that this innovative "Blackstar" system may have been shelved, we elected to share what we've learned about it with our readers, rather than let an intriguing technological breakthrough vanish into "black world" history, known to only a few insiders.
so, Aviation Week was following this and had quite a bit of detail built up, but it didn't meet their standards for an actual confirmed thing, so they held back on publishing anything -- until now, because this project that doesn't offically exist has possibly been cancelled, it would be a real shame not to sell a bunch of copies of their mag based on all the work they've already done?
if you want your phony markup to show you have to use < instead of <
wow -- thanks for that
>the moment they made an offer of cash for criminal services, they were entrapping
I did not think this was how it worked.
In jurisprudence, entrapment is a procedural defense by which a defendant may argue that they should not be held criminally liable for actions which broke the law, because they were induced (or entrapped) by the police to commit said acts. For the defense to be successful, the defendant must demonstrate that the police induced an otherwise unwilling person to commit a crime. However, when a person is predisposed to commit a crime, offering opportunities to commit the crime is not entrapment, such as in the widely held misconception that policemen must answer questions truthfully if they are asked the same question three times, or that they must say "yes" if asked if they are a police officer.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entrapment
You see this all the time with drug and prostitution stings. The cops offer to buy/sell drugs/sex and then the suspect is arrested when they agree.
If you are loitering on a street corner and say "twenty bucks" when solicited by a undercover police, you aren't being entrapped. If a cop comes up to you and shoves $20 dollars in your face and says "go get me some damn drugs" and then arrests you, that might be entrapment.
When a known spammer agrees to accept $$$ in exchange for sending spam, how can that be entrapment?
>If that was a certainty, there would have been enough evidence to convict them already.
Maybe not. Maybe what they had was all circumstantial and what they needed to do was catch them in the act to make getting a conviction more likely.
Yeah, I had the misfortune to be flipping channels the other morning and they had an 'expert' on that was spouting admonishments to parents that kids didn't need to have "personal web pages on these online communites. ever.", and maybe they didn't need to be on the computer at all, in fact.
She started off with some reasonable advice: put the computer in a central, common area where you could keep tabs on how much time they spent and what they were doing -- get involved and educate yourself about things so you can understand what your child is doing and give them guidance about what is safe and acceptible use of the computer.
Then she dove into this thing about how these online communities made it easy for predators to search for your child by age and location. She basically said you shouldn't allow your kid to have any personal web space at all. She also posited that kids should turn off the computer alltogether and go outside.
The host on CNN didn't ask any critical questions, lapped it all up and wholeheartedly thanked her for enlightening the unwashed masses.
assume you already know the answer to this, but just in case...
http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/legal/02-23-06
heh, no nothing that elaborate
he did go on and on about how he had acquired suitable paneling and ceiling material to fashion his "listening room" to the proper dimensions and how the little pieces of styro tacked to the walls helped diffuse "undesirable wave confluences", or something.
he did manage to suck all the joy out of just putting on a disc and cranking it up and listening.
Garry? Is that you?
*guy I knew in college talked like that. He had his own A/B room set up in his mom's basement -- had little triangles of styrofoam glued to the walls and ceilings at strategic locations. Had some nice equipment, but going over to listen to something with him was an ordeal.
but what if I move? Clearly the answer is some kind of implant that uniquely identifies the purchaser^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^Hlicensee and only allows the disc to be played by that individual. ;-)
And they're not allowed to use the word "ass" on TNT anymore lest it reach virgin ears.
"You bet your sweet ass--percream!"
huh - wha? Did they jjjust say what I thought they said??!!
um, er, no... *quickly fixes* actually it was
"You bet if it's AsperCream!"
oh, guess that's ok, then
*because we aren't ready to hear jingles in prime-time ads that include play on words that might be naughty
yeah, it was spidered and cached by google at some point, but the page it links to appears to be gone (could be for any number of reasons, right?)
Not really enough context from the image alone if you were in
As opposed to the context to be had when clicking on any of the dozen images that result from an non
http://www.guardian.co.uk/Tiananmen/0,2759,193066
http://brainylady.blogspot.com/2004_06_01_brainyl
interesting this...
;-)
This advertisement comes from AMD posted by AMD on Monday February 13, @12:16PM
looks like this popped up starting Monday? All of the "articles" are from AMD. Looks like a new "special advertizing section".
Why was I not notified!?
it's on the left side of the page, below 'About' and above 'Services'
never noticed it before myself, tho
hmmm, reminds me of a guy that got fired a couple years ago.
He was snoozing during a meeting when the visiting SVP showed up late and had to wake him up to get to his seat.
But, he wasn't sleeping because he was lazy or incompotent. He was on-call that week and had been up all night fighting a fire. We had one of those "mandatory" all-hands meetings (yes, one of those) that morning and our boss didn't see fit to excuse him just because he was working all night (personally, I would have gone home at that point).
All the mucky-mucks were flying in from the home office to give us their quarteryly song-and-dance rah, rah schpeil. Gerry showed up as things were getting started and sat himself in the back where he could lean back against the wall and rest for a bit to get though this 2&1/2 hour ordeal before he would have to return to his cube to no doubt fix another problem.
Just as things were getting *really* interesting midway through the second hour (yawn), some visiting dignitary in a blue pinstripe suit shows up late, cracks some lame-ass joke about the airline being run by cave men, flashes a winning smile and tries to find a seat.
Yup, he ran into Gerry who had gone into a coma from the droning presentation of corporate vision and maximizing shareholder value and exceeding customer expectations, blah, blah, blah. The SVP was trying to get to an empty seat in the back row and when he came to Gerry, he couldn't get past.
Excuse me.
Pardon me.
*nudge*
wha?
Excuse me, I'd like to get by.
um, ok, sorry...
What's your name, son?
Gerry.
Gerry...
Gerry Walters.
Ok, Gerry Walters. Thank you.
Well, surprise, surprise... Gerry was packing up his desk by the same time the next day. Sucked too because he was one of our better, harder working guys and we had to scramble to get by without him for quite some time.
Yeah, that was on Fark the other day.
...ah here:
5 .htm
lemme dig up the link (...)
http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L0615375
GAZA, Feb 6 (Reuters) - When entrepreneur Ahmed Abu Dayya first heard that Danish caricatures of the Prophet Mohammad were being reprinted across Europe, he knew exactly what his customers in Gaza would want: flags to burn.
Abu Dayya ordered 100 hard-to-find Danish and Norwegian flags for his Gaza City shop and has been doing a swift trade.
I thought about that too. Makes me wonder if they can't get that because it is outside their experience?
Is their system such that anything they see in the papers come directly from the government (which in turn is under influence/control of religious leaders/law), so they assume the same in other countries because they have no clue how it works in the West?
Man, Bush's vision to spread freedom and democracy throughout the middle east seems fundamentally flawed if that's the case. These people have a long way to go before they're ready for concepts like secular government, free press and freedom of individual expression.
1) Draw cartoon, publish
2) Angry mobs burn take to streets burning stuff
3) ???
4) Prophet!!!
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :
22 Moby Thesaurus words for "gravid":
anticipating, big, big with child, big-laden, breeding, carrying,
carrying a fetus, expectant, expecting, gestating, gone, great,
heavy, heavy with child, knocked up, parturient, preggers,
pregnant, superfetate, superimpregnated, teeming, with child
nope, nothing about fish
I have heard it used to describe _really_ pregnant horse before, tho
When you were a kid, I worked for White-Westinghouse in their Rockford, Il plant where the DP department consisted of a 360, a card reader, a couple of printers and some tape drives.
And yes, the first thing I thought was what does a company that makes laptops want with a company that makes washers and dryers?
hmmm, must live in one of those red states I keep hearing about ;-)
Don't know about the cells being used on this particular car-top application, but in general modern solar cells are built to resist wind and hail damage.
n /faqs/resid_sys.htm#faq23
for example:
http://www.gepower.com/prod_serv/products/solar/e
Can the modules withstand high winds and hail?
The panels are supported by our roofer-designed mounting system that has been tested to withstand 125 mph (200 kph) winds and can work on almost every type of roofing material. Our modules can withstand one inch (2.5 cm) hailstones at 50 mph (80.5 kph).
Of course, if your car is already doing 50 mph....
>I'd still prefer it if they had a couple of battalions of actual human beings out there
oh, I'm sure this isn't being used in place of human security assets.
I'm sure the main benefit of doing something like this is being able to say
The U.S. government will deploy a new "Star Wars-like" hologram technology to help safeguard the Super Bowl on Sunday.
I bet the majority of non-technical citizens who hear that kind of statement are impressed. "Star Wars holograms! I feel safer already! Sweeet!!"
>the stadium was built in Chicago
;-)
boy, I missed they day when they uprooted Soldier Field, moved it to Detroit and renamed it Ford Field.
FTA:
Amuplex is not technically a parasite, but something known as an exoparasitoid. In other words, a free-living adult lays an egg outside a host, and then the larva crawls into the host. One could easily imagine the ancestors of Ampulex as wasps that laid their eggs near dead insects--as some species do today. These corpse-feeding ancestors then evolved into wasps that attacked living hosts. Likewise, it's not hard to envision an Ampulex-like wasp evolving into full-blown parasitoids that inject their eggs directly into their hosts, as many species do today.