Scientists normally don't like to speculate when examining data. But in this article at SpaceflightNow.com, Torrance Johnson, a member of the NASA Cassini imaging team, can't speculate enough abou interpreting the first picture from Titan. First we are told that "researchers expected Huygens to find a truly alien landscape under the smoggy haze. They got what they wanted." Then Johnson says,
"Surprises are always the things that get you."
Earth to Tor: There are no surprises here. We're seeing pretty much exactly what we expected to see. Apparently Johnson did a few more bong hits and then proclaimed that the first picture from the surface showed a field of ice boulders that exhibited signs of weathering and erosion. Cool.
Unfortunately, updated information indicates that the objects in that picture are only a few inches across: not much more than pebbles, really. Way to go there, Tor.
Notice that Tor Johnson (wasn't that the name of the guy in those Ed Wood movies?) works for NASA, not the ESA. This is significant only in that CBS would rather speak to an American than one of the ESA project scientists. Odds are CBS didn't even realize the Huygens probe wasn't a NASA/JPL program. I see 3 possibilities:
1. Tor Johnson was paid by CBS to speculate on the pictures and, with NASA's blessing, spewed forth with his uneducated opinion on what they showed and unremarkable insight on scientific discovery.
2. Tor Johnson is talking out his ass.
3. Tor Johnson was stoned when he made his comments.
More than one may be true. To me the only surprise is that it's so hard to identify anything at all on the ground with certainty from the mosaic taken at around 8,000 meters altitude. Are the light areas ice, clouds or fog? Are the dark areas liquid or frozen flats?
I hope there is enough data returned to answer these questions after it's been examined by scientists more informed than Torrence Johnson. Where is the panorama mosaic taken from 1,000 meters up? I've posted on this subject before. The Huygens probe was a waste IMO because it wasn't designed to return enough useful data to make a significant difference in what we already know about Titan. I hope I'm wrong, but when all is said and done I predict we won't have any really new information about Titan other than an atmospheric wind speed and temperature profile. We all want hard scientific data, true, but the public at large that pays for these things wants PICTURES, DAMMIT! And lots of them.
The vast majority of the general public doesn not care about the DMCA and Congress has been bought and paid for by the entertainment industry. What will come out of this ruling is that "Section 512(h) of the Act does not authorize subpoenas in such circumstances" will be ammended tout de suite.
Interesting. Sen. Jay Rockefeller's comments were extraordinary. Why is the media now spinning this into a stealth-in-space story when the real story is a weapons-in-space story? I find it hard to believe that a stealth satellite program would be inherently dangerous to national security. A satellite that had weapons on board, however, would be a different story altogether. If true, this would be an obvious next step after BMD (ballistic missle defense).
I hope all these manufacturers adhere to the GPL and release the source code for their devices. Right now there are several big players in the SOHO router marketplace that do not. The ones that do provide stripped-down versions of what they actually ship, and most of them had to be persuaded to do so. They consider their device driver modules proprietary and don't provide source for those regardless of what the GPL says. Many of these manufacturers are not based in the U.S., so I can see how it might be expensive to bring a court action to enforce copyright, but that shouldn't be an excuse. Restraining orders preventing manufacturers from selling their products can be very effective.
Will the FSF or other copyright holders finally stand up for their rights? I'm no lawyer, but I seem to recall that if you don't take affirmative steps to protect your copyrights you can lose the protection they provide.
Once again we see that lawyers are the only ones to benefit from a class action lawsuit. The answer is to eliminate class-action lawsuits and institute jail time for corporate executives. Yes, jail time. The price a corporation pays for the privilege of being given the rights of a human being should be jail time for being on the losing end of a civil action. Then, take their yearly salary, double it, and fine them personally. All officers of the corporation. Forbid the corporation from paying the officers' legal bills.
You'll see companies - and I mean all companies - clean up their acts real fast.
I know there must be a zillion reasons why they designed the Huygens probe mission the way they did, but to me it seems like a pity that it's only got enough battery life to operate for 30 minutes on the surface after it lands, assuming it doesn't sink in a hydrocarbon lake. It took 7 years to get there for only 30 minutes worth of surface obserations? The results it sends back from only 30 minutes worth of surface exploration will surely raise more questions than they answer, and since this is the last of the big-ticket planetary probes we're likely to see for decades to come it just doens't seem like a long enough window to operate. Weight probably had a lot to do with the decisions made. Batteries are heavy. That plus the uncertainty as to whether it will land on solid ground at all most likely drove the 30-minute mission requirement, but it still seems too short. I must be getting spoiled by the Mars rovers.
It's disturbing to me that the government descends into double-speak whenever it suits their purpose when it comes to space programs. Space flight is a very unforgiving discipline, and it sets a very bad example, IMO, when the government terms things "successful" when it's fairly obvious they are NOT successful.
Billions have been spent on the stillborn missile defense program. IMO it's a collosal waste of money and resources. Many tests have outright failed but a launch vehicle practically has to blow up on the pad before the governemtn will even begin to think about the word "failure".
Now a new rocket - and the Delta IV is a cool rocket - fails to put its primary payload into the proper orbit and the government terms the flight a "success". WTF is wrong with these people? While there are successful aspects of the flight, you can't call it a "trmendous success" when the primary payload is left in a useless orbit! You just can't. If this were a test, it might have scored a 75 or maybe an 85. To qualify as a "tremendous success" it needs to get at least a 95 IMO.
What is it with this double-speak lately? It's downright scary when truth begins to matter not.
Seems to be a lot of that going around here these days. Another run-of-the-mill blogger thinks he's discovered something new and interesting and all of a sudden it's big news on/.
Listen, spammers use dictionary attacks. They'll send their turdlets to any number of common names and words and variations thereof. It's the same for any email domiain. The phenomena certainly isn't unique to Gmail. You see it taking place on just about every ISPs mail servers. And God knows it's no big revelation that if your email address is hard to guess then you'll get less spam. For Pete's sake! I can't believe how lame this is. This is one of the lamest stories on slashdot I've seen in quite some time.
The drawing of the Gerbil Shirt about a third of the way down on the article page looks less like a patented invention and more like an ad for the next Lemmiwinkks episode of SP.
Shrook for the Mac. Please. Nothing "for the Mac" solves anything aove and beyond the tiny percentage of people who use a Mac. The problem cited in the article is a bandwidth problem related to a rather new technology and it's not something you can "solve" by deploying a "solution" that 99% of internet users will never use. Mac heads. They never learn.
If I might play Devil's Advocate for a moment... The U.S. has to export something to the rest of the world. We import an incredible amount of goods into the coutry every year as the balance-of-trade deficits clearly show. Many industries and jobs are going by the wayside in the U.S. Manufacturing jobs are no longer a huge segment of employment. Programming and other IT functions are being outsourced to other coutries.
The "leaders" in the U.S. (read: politicians) have apparently decided that "IP" - intellectual property - is destined to become the staple export which the country can depend on to generate income. Too bad there was never a national debate on the issue. Such policies go completely against everything Copyrights and Patents were originally intended to be. Without asking anyone else, the Congress has apparently decided the issue for us based on the bribes paid to them by media companies. Where's Teddy Roosevelt when we need him? I fear that this country is fscked for good and the Wars On X have nothing to do with it.
The FCC raises $50 to $70 billion. Once. BFD. They should move to a licensing scheme whereby these spectrums are allocated on a renewable basis. With the U.S. national debt at near back-breaking levels wouldn't it make more sense for the public - who ostensibly owns the "airwaves" - to reap benefits on a recurring basis from giant communications compamnies? As it stands now once the blocks of spectrum are auctioned off they're gone forever. The public no longer "owns" them. The FCC needs to stop giving this precious commodity away.
This trial balloon is pretty scary but if you think about it there's no way this won't happen. Whether it's IPv4 or IPv6 all router manufacturers will be required to check the address of any packets they're asked to route against a DoHS list of "registered internet users", much the same way spam blocklists operate today. Hell, they've legislated mandatory 911 access, the broadcast bit for television, wiretapping powers - without a warrant - for virtually every means of electronic communication in existence.... There's no reason to think this won't happen in one form or another at some point.
Voiced an opinion against the interests of those in power lately? You're on the blacklist. Didn't vote for the right candidate last election? You're on the blacklist. Didn't go to church last week? You're on the blacklist. Haven't bought anything online in the last year? You're on the blacklist.
Most people in the U.S. would go along with a plan like this because it would help the children. And they won't even bother to notice that it doesn't really have anything to do with children at all. When the ability of a people to critically analyze events surrounding them falls below a certain threshold, a certain class of politicians and their "message" begins to appeal to them.
This is a fabulous post. Spam Ostriches are everywhere and the fact that so many of them think that filtering the spam at the mailbox is a good solution simply masks the real problem: spam is theft. Spammers are stealing bandwidth and processor cycles on a grand scale and those who see filtering as the solution aren't helping matters any with their arguments.
The arsenal is big enough. It's time for them to actually do their jobs and stop whining about needing more tools. How about if everyone had to register with the police staion nearest their place of employment? Is that just another tool in the fight against child abuse? How about we tattoo everyone on the forehead with a bar code so the pulic-place cameras can track everyone? Would that be just another tool for Homeland Security too?
The Constitution guarantees my right to be secure in my effects and papers and as far as I'm concerned that means I have a right to dispose of my papers in any way I see fit. That includes anonymously if I so choose. Giving anybody, especially the government, the ability to track those papers back to me is just not right. Are we having fun yet watching the Constitution get raped repeatedly these last few years? Once they're done with it you-know-who will be asked to bend over next.
So let's see... I love ice hockey. My favorite team is the New York Islanders. There probably won't be a hockey season this year because of the lockout. That was bad enough. Now this.
What does that have to do with this story? Simple. Sanjay Kumar is co-ownewr of the New York Islanders. The other co-owner (Charles Wang) used to be CEO at CA, but resigned a year before these alleged crimes were committed. Kumar will probably have to sell his share of the team, but who wants it? The NHL is in the midst of a league-widr player lockout, and the value of a franchise in the NHL is very much in doubt these days.
I don't get it. OnStar is a popular private company that specializes in getting emergency serveices help to people if they've been in an accident on the road. Either 911 should be privatized as a for-pay service or else the government should require OnStar for every vehicle owner in the States.
The concept is the same for phone users who aren't in vehicels. The government IMO should not be forcing this on any operator. If having 911 is so important to people they will gravitate towards companies that provide it to them, and avoid those that don't offer it. "You must have 911" is like the ONLY thing the government does re. regulating telephone companies.
immediate targets are symbolic; chosen to send a message... CHECK
immediate targets used to manipulate the main targets... CHECK
threat-based communication processes... CHECK
Yep, MS is the equivalent of a terrorist organization. Anyone who uses their Sender ID will have to cut off mail from GPL mail-server software. They want to kill all GPL software. I hope Sender ID not only dies on the vine but that MS can be humiliated in the process.
"Reiser4 is architected for military grade security."
DING * DING * DING * DING
Alarm bells going off here. There is no commonly accepted definition of what constitutes "military grade security". Authors and vendors should avoid this terminology like the plague. It reeks of snake oil and most security profressionals will look askance at anything that touts this "feature". Having said that, I've used Reiser3 and I think it's great. There's no reason to think Reiser4 won't be even better. Given its plugin architecture there's also no reason to think that secure plugins can't be developed for it in a transparent way that actually provide good security. Maybe my complaint here is pedantic. Never say never, but no software program should ever use the phrase "military grade security" if it wants to be taken seriously. There is no standard of "military grade security" by which such claims can be measured. Why would you want your software to be grouped with fraudulent security products, even if yours really is secure.
In sports a good coach will develop his game plans around his team's strengths. The best coaches are able to adapt to changes in the roster due to injuries, player moves, etc. The most successful coaches have always been able to adapt their methods and strategies accordingly.
Law enforcement, on the other hand, wants everyone to adapt to their way of doing things. They've always been able, from a technological point of view, to listen in on telephone conversations. It was convenient and more or less easy for them to have that capability. Now technology is changing. Instead of learning to adapt they want to force new technologies to adapt to their methods. This is just dumb. Eventually there's going to be technology that is immune to eavesdropping and no law is going to change that. What are they going to do then, outlaw it? They should be using their resources to develop other ways to obtain infromation on the activities of criminals. And in my mind, using one particular form of technology should not be a crime in and of itself, regardless of the restrictions it may impose on law enforcement vis-a-vis what they've been able to do in the past.
This might be an interesting story. Unfortunately I stopped reading the minute I noticed the submitter thinks this method of moving water might be better than "currnet methods such as damaging electric fields." Is the submitter serious? Here's a free clue Mr. Piqupaille: LIGHT IS AN ELECTRIC FIELD. Another thing: did I miss something with electric fields being "damaging" somewhere? I wonder where this guy is getting his information from.
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Seconded. Some of us were never helpless or newbies. And being annoying will get you on our shitlist faster than anything you might imagine.
Scientists normally don't like to speculate when examining data. But in this article at SpaceflightNow.com, Torrance Johnson, a member of the NASA Cassini imaging team, can't speculate enough abou interpreting the first picture from Titan. First we are told that "researchers expected Huygens to find a truly alien landscape under the smoggy haze. They got what they wanted." Then Johnson says,
"Surprises are always the things that get you."
Earth to Tor: There are no surprises here. We're seeing pretty much exactly what we expected to see. Apparently Johnson did a few more bong hits and then proclaimed that the first picture from the surface showed a field of ice boulders that exhibited signs of weathering and erosion. Cool.
Unfortunately, updated information indicates that the objects in that picture are only a few inches across: not much more than pebbles, really. Way to go there, Tor.
Notice that Tor Johnson (wasn't that the name of the guy in those Ed Wood movies?) works for NASA, not the ESA. This is significant only in that CBS would rather speak to an American than one of the ESA project scientists. Odds are CBS didn't even realize the Huygens probe wasn't a NASA/JPL program. I see 3 possibilities:
1. Tor Johnson was paid by CBS to speculate on the pictures and, with NASA's blessing, spewed forth with his uneducated opinion on what they showed and unremarkable insight on scientific discovery.
2. Tor Johnson is talking out his ass.
3. Tor Johnson was stoned when he made his comments.
More than one may be true. To me the only surprise is that it's so hard to identify anything at all on the ground with certainty from the mosaic taken at around 8,000 meters altitude. Are the light areas ice, clouds or fog? Are the dark areas liquid or frozen flats?
I hope there is enough data returned to answer these questions after it's been examined by scientists more informed than Torrence Johnson. Where is the panorama mosaic taken from 1,000 meters up? I've posted on this subject before. The Huygens probe was a waste IMO because it wasn't designed to return enough useful data to make a significant difference in what we already know about Titan. I hope I'm wrong, but when all is said and done I predict we won't have any really new information about Titan other than an atmospheric wind speed and temperature profile. We all want hard scientific data, true, but the public at large that pays for these things wants PICTURES, DAMMIT! And lots of them.
Score:
Cassini 24,000
Huygens 3
Tor 0
The vast majority of the general public doesn not care about the DMCA and Congress has been bought and paid for by the entertainment industry. What will come out of this ruling is that "Section 512(h) of the Act does not authorize subpoenas in such circumstances" will be ammended tout de suite.
Interesting. Sen. Jay Rockefeller's comments were extraordinary. Why is the media now spinning this into a stealth-in-space story when the real story is a weapons-in-space story? I find it hard to believe that a stealth satellite program would be inherently dangerous to national security. A satellite that had weapons on board, however, would be a different story altogether. If true, this would be an obvious next step after BMD (ballistic missle defense).
I hope all these manufacturers adhere to the GPL and release the source code for their devices. Right now there are several big players in the SOHO router marketplace that do not. The ones that do provide stripped-down versions of what they actually ship, and most of them had to be persuaded to do so. They consider their device driver modules proprietary and don't provide source for those regardless of what the GPL says. Many of these manufacturers are not based in the U.S., so I can see how it might be expensive to bring a court action to enforce copyright, but that shouldn't be an excuse. Restraining orders preventing manufacturers from selling their products can be very effective.
Will the FSF or other copyright holders finally stand up for their rights? I'm no lawyer, but I seem to recall that if you don't take affirmative steps to protect your copyrights you can lose the protection they provide.
The Huygens probe will enter Titan's atmo on 14 January, NOT the 24th. Is it so much to ask that the dates you report are accurate?
Once again we see that lawyers are the only ones to benefit from a class action lawsuit. The answer is to eliminate class-action lawsuits and institute jail time for corporate executives. Yes, jail time. The price a corporation pays for the privilege of being given the rights of a human being should be jail time for being on the losing end of a civil action. Then, take their yearly salary, double it, and fine them personally. All officers of the corporation. Forbid the corporation from paying the officers' legal bills.
You'll see companies - and I mean all companies - clean up their acts real fast.
I know there must be a zillion reasons why they designed the Huygens probe mission the way they did, but to me it seems like a pity that it's only got enough battery life to operate for 30 minutes on the surface after it lands, assuming it doesn't sink in a hydrocarbon lake. It took 7 years to get there for only 30 minutes worth of surface obserations? The results it sends back from only 30 minutes worth of surface exploration will surely raise more questions than they answer, and since this is the last of the big-ticket planetary probes we're likely to see for decades to come it just doens't seem like a long enough window to operate. Weight probably had a lot to do with the decisions made. Batteries are heavy. That plus the uncertainty as to whether it will land on solid ground at all most likely drove the 30-minute mission requirement, but it still seems too short. I must be getting spoiled by the Mars rovers.
It's disturbing to me that the government descends into double-speak whenever it suits their purpose when it comes to space programs. Space flight is a very unforgiving discipline, and it sets a very bad example, IMO, when the government terms things "successful" when it's fairly obvious they are NOT successful.
Billions have been spent on the stillborn missile defense program. IMO it's a collosal waste of money and resources. Many tests have outright failed but a launch vehicle practically has to blow up on the pad before the governemtn will even begin to think about the word "failure".
Now a new rocket - and the Delta IV is a cool rocket - fails to put its primary payload into the proper orbit and the government terms the flight a "success". WTF is wrong with these people? While there are successful aspects of the flight, you can't call it a "trmendous success" when the primary payload is left in a useless orbit! You just can't. If this were a test, it might have scored a 75 or maybe an 85. To qualify as a "tremendous success" it needs to get at least a 95 IMO.
What is it with this double-speak lately? It's downright scary when truth begins to matter not.
Seems to be a lot of that going around here these days. Another run-of-the-mill blogger thinks he's discovered something new and interesting and all of a sudden it's big news on /.
Listen, spammers use dictionary attacks. They'll send their turdlets to any number of common names and words and variations thereof. It's the same for any email domiain. The phenomena certainly isn't unique to Gmail. You see it taking place on just about every ISPs mail servers. And God knows it's no big revelation that if your email address is hard to guess then you'll get less spam. For Pete's sake! I can't believe how lame this is. This is one of the lamest stories on slashdot I've seen in quite some time.
The drawing of the Gerbil Shirt about a third of the way down on the article page looks less like a patented invention and more like an ad for the next Lemmiwinkks episode of SP.
Shrook for the Mac. Please. Nothing "for the Mac" solves anything aove and beyond the tiny percentage of people who use a Mac. The problem cited in the article is a bandwidth problem related to a rather new technology and it's not something you can "solve" by deploying a "solution" that 99% of internet users will never use. Mac heads. They never learn.
If I might play Devil's Advocate for a moment... The U.S. has to export something to the rest of the world. We import an incredible amount of goods into the coutry every year as the balance-of-trade deficits clearly show. Many industries and jobs are going by the wayside in the U.S. Manufacturing jobs are no longer a huge segment of employment. Programming and other IT functions are being outsourced to other coutries.
The "leaders" in the U.S. (read: politicians) have apparently decided that "IP" - intellectual property - is destined to become the staple export which the country can depend on to generate income. Too bad there was never a national debate on the issue. Such policies go completely against everything Copyrights and Patents were originally intended to be. Without asking anyone else, the Congress has apparently decided the issue for us based on the bribes paid to them by media companies. Where's Teddy Roosevelt when we need him? I fear that this country is fscked for good and the Wars On X have nothing to do with it.
The FCC raises $50 to $70 billion. Once. BFD. They should move to a licensing scheme whereby these spectrums are allocated on a renewable basis. With the U.S. national debt at near back-breaking levels wouldn't it make more sense for the public - who ostensibly owns the "airwaves" - to reap benefits on a recurring basis from giant communications compamnies? As it stands now once the blocks of spectrum are auctioned off they're gone forever. The public no longer "owns" them. The FCC needs to stop giving this precious commodity away.
This trial balloon is pretty scary but if you think about it there's no way this won't happen. Whether it's IPv4 or IPv6 all router manufacturers will be required to check the address of any packets they're asked to route against a DoHS list of "registered internet users", much the same way spam blocklists operate today. Hell, they've legislated mandatory 911 access, the broadcast bit for television, wiretapping powers - without a warrant - for virtually every means of electronic communication in existence.... There's no reason to think this won't happen in one form or another at some point.
Voiced an opinion against the interests of those in power lately? You're on the blacklist. Didn't vote for the right candidate last election? You're on the blacklist. Didn't go to church last week? You're on the blacklist. Haven't bought anything online in the last year? You're on the blacklist.
Most people in the U.S. would go along with a plan like this because it would help the children. And they won't even bother to notice that it doesn't really have anything to do with children at all. When the ability of a people to critically analyze events surrounding them falls below a certain threshold, a certain class of politicians and their "message" begins to appeal to them.
This is a fabulous post. Spam Ostriches are everywhere and the fact that so many of them think that filtering the spam at the mailbox is a good solution simply masks the real problem: spam is theft. Spammers are stealing bandwidth and processor cycles on a grand scale and those who see filtering as the solution aren't helping matters any with their arguments.
The arsenal is big enough. It's time for them to actually do their jobs and stop whining about needing more tools. How about if everyone had to register with the police staion nearest their place of employment? Is that just another tool in the fight against child abuse? How about we tattoo everyone on the forehead with a bar code so the pulic-place cameras can track everyone? Would that be just another tool for Homeland Security too?
The Constitution guarantees my right to be secure in my effects and papers and as far as I'm concerned that means I have a right to dispose of my papers in any way I see fit. That includes anonymously if I so choose. Giving anybody, especially the government, the ability to track those papers back to me is just not right. Are we having fun yet watching the Constitution get raped repeatedly these last few years? Once they're done with it you-know-who will be asked to bend over next.
So let's see... I love ice hockey. My favorite team is the New York Islanders. There probably won't be a hockey season this year because of the lockout. That was bad enough. Now this.
What does that have to do with this story? Simple. Sanjay Kumar is co-ownewr of the New York Islanders. The other co-owner (Charles Wang) used to be CEO at CA, but resigned a year before these alleged crimes were committed. Kumar will probably have to sell his share of the team, but who wants it? The NHL is in the midst of a league-widr player lockout, and the value of a franchise in the NHL is very much in doubt these days.
The Justice Department said this is the third largest antitrust settlement ever.
Only because they rolled over on the Microsoft case.
I don't get it. OnStar is a popular private company that specializes in getting emergency serveices help to people if they've been in an accident on the road. Either 911 should be privatized as a for-pay service or else the government should require OnStar for every vehicle owner in the States.
The concept is the same for phone users who aren't in vehicels. The government IMO should not be forcing this on any operator. If having 911 is so important to people they will gravitate towards companies that provide it to them, and avoid those that don't offer it. "You must have 911" is like the ONLY thing the government does re. regulating telephone companies.
Yep, MS is the equivalent of a terrorist organization. Anyone who uses their Sender ID will have to cut off mail from GPL mail-server software. They want to kill all GPL software. I hope Sender ID not only dies on the vine but that MS can be humiliated in the process.
"Reiser4 is architected for military grade security."
DING * DING * DING * DING
Alarm bells going off here. There is no commonly accepted definition of what constitutes "military grade security". Authors and vendors should avoid this terminology like the plague. It reeks of snake oil and most security profressionals will look askance at anything that touts this "feature". Having said that, I've used Reiser3 and I think it's great. There's no reason to think Reiser4 won't be even better. Given its plugin architecture there's also no reason to think that secure plugins can't be developed for it in a transparent way that actually provide good security. Maybe my complaint here is pedantic. Never say never, but no software program should ever use the phrase "military grade security" if it wants to be taken seriously. There is no standard of "military grade security" by which such claims can be measured. Why would you want your software to be grouped with fraudulent security products, even if yours really is secure.
In sports a good coach will develop his game plans around his team's strengths. The best coaches are able to adapt to changes in the roster due to injuries, player moves, etc. The most successful coaches have always been able to adapt their methods and strategies accordingly.
Law enforcement, on the other hand, wants everyone to adapt to their way of doing things. They've always been able, from a technological point of view, to listen in on telephone conversations. It was convenient and more or less easy for them to have that capability. Now technology is changing. Instead of learning to adapt they want to force new technologies to adapt to their methods. This is just dumb. Eventually there's going to be technology that is immune to eavesdropping and no law is going to change that. What are they going to do then, outlaw it? They should be using their resources to develop other ways to obtain infromation on the activities of criminals. And in my mind, using one particular form of technology should not be a crime in and of itself, regardless of the restrictions it may impose on law enforcement vis-a-vis what they've been able to do in the past.
This might be an interesting story. Unfortunately I stopped reading the minute I noticed the submitter thinks this method of moving water might be better than "currnet methods such as damaging electric fields." Is the submitter serious? Here's a free clue Mr. Piqupaille: LIGHT IS AN ELECTRIC FIELD. Another thing: did I miss something with electric fields being "damaging" somewhere? I wonder where this guy is getting his information from.
Should read:
Just to add something else here, desktop "shortcuts" are not object-oriented constructs.