"WASHINGTON, DC - The American Library Association (ALA) today welcomed the Department of Justice's decision to rescind its request that the Government Printing Office Superintendent of Documents instruct depository libraries to destroy all copies of five Department of Justice publications addressing forfeiture. The Justice Department claimed that the documents are "training materials and other materials that the Department of Justice staff did not feel were appropriate for external use." ALA disagreed with this categorization of the public documents, two of which are texts of federal statutes, and with the instruction to destroy them. ALA trusts that there will be no repetition of such unjustified instructions to destroy government information."
Though you are right in bringing it up to show what sort of "creepiness" they are trying to get up to.
"With little or nothing to trade with, North Korea has resorted to high-profit, (relatively) low-staffing-requirements industries like missiles, nuclear power and weapons, and (possibly) any other sorts of chemical or bio weapons to fund their dismal little empire."
Bad choice of words.
North Korea is no empire... dismal or not. There are no North Korean army bases in any other country in the world. There are no North Korean soldiers garrisoned in other countries to keep them under the North Korean thumb...
"There are some things which aren't laughing matters: our civil rights, the respect and trust of the rest of the world, and the lives of American soldiers and innocent Iraqis. "
I've been a member of the ACLU for some time. What I am doing now (over the last year) is giving my family and friends memberships to the ACLU as presents. They get the literature in the post, the ACLU gets the money, and their membership increases.
I see the usual political naivety from the Slashdot posts and mods on this issue. RTFA.
"I don't think that Linux should be used for killing and I don't really trust the Pentagon to abide by the GPL."
That's all it takes. One person has decided that he does not like the idea of supporting the Pentagon while it engages in what he considers an unjust and immoral war. He hopes that his stance will cause people to think about that instead of blindly accepting their "war masters" reasons and justifications.
"Makes it much harder for a company to screw you."
Are you that naive? Palm scanning, or other high-tech "people control" equipment, is brought into a company to benefit the employer mainly and the employee hardly. It is done to keep salary costs low... which benefits the employer mainly.
Clock cards are all well and good. I used one when I was younger and working in a printing factory for a few months. However I sure would not have wanted my employer to have a scan of my hand... fingerprints or palmprints. Why? Well who is going to oversee the records and make sure that they are not handed out to anyone who wants a copy?
Companies have enough info on their staff already... might as well throw in a voiceprint too and the unscrupulous will have a ready made set of IDs.
"Makes it much harder for a company to screw you." is what you said... yet in the article Colin Bennett, a politics professor at the University of Victoria, was quoted as saying "The employees would have little recourse if their information was misused."
Don't try to find the silver lining in that cloud mate.
You know that comment that Americans have no sense of irony? Well... your post is going to be taken at face value by Americans and they are going to believe that rubbish you just posted.
"This may be at one level bread and circuses, but if it gives Americans (and the West generally) confidence back in themselves, their civilization and it's values then it's a thoroughly good thing."
A forthcoming announcement about a new direction in space for NASA, or whoever will get stuck with the order is a cynical attempt by Bush and his bunch of crooks to win votes in an election year. He could not give a feck about space, Mars, or the Moon.
It's not so much that flouride is considered dangerous by a bunch of whackos as it is the fact that putting fluoride in drinking water is seen by some to be massmedication without consent.
These people agree that fluoride is good for their teeth but they disagree with having to take fluoride internally in their drinking water. They'd prefer to apply it topically, as in a toothpaste.
The Irish Dentists Opposing Fluoridation movement is concerned with the levels of fluoride being added to the water in Ireland... especially after the ban by Belgium on fluoridated products.
"The Japanese and Germans had jet fighter planes sitting on the tarmac, ready to pulverize the best we had in the air, but they had no oil to fly them."
They had enough aircraft (jet, rocket, or otherwise) and the fuel to power them. That was not the problem.
The main problem was that they just did not have any capable pilots left by the time the jets were operational.
Lack of oil was not the only or major reason why the aircraft sat on the tarmac.
Your fingerprints are distinguishing marks but your DNA IS you.
How about, in the near future, the "government" requires all citizens to have a chip implanted under their skin so they can track you? You see any difference there?
Ya think the Patriots in the 13 colonies would have been able to overthrow the British if the Crown had access to everyone's movements in 1775?
The point of the article was about cheap internet access in times of a weak economy. In other words pointing out the cheap alternatives for ISP access to someone who could once afford broadband but who cannot now, or might not in the future... like yourself maybe.
All good and fine spending $30 or so bucks a month for superfast home access which is so important. When you take a paycut, in a weak economy, that $30 a month is one of the first luxuries to go.
Do you know how serious that "white paper" could have been?
That the sysadmin might have tried to cover his/her ass by handing you and your friend to Feds as information terrorists?
The best thing to do, if you want my advice, is to RUN don't walk from the whole building the next time you discover a security vulnerability in any network anywhere and never mention it to anyone.
Zero tolerance high schools means zero tolerance for anything they don't understand.
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Fecking hell Roblimo.
Another +1 on that post.
Gettem!
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Yeah!
+1 on that post!
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That order was rescinded:
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"WASHINGTON, DC - The American Library Association (ALA) today welcomed the Department of Justice's decision to rescind its request that the Government Printing Office Superintendent of Documents instruct depository libraries to destroy all copies of five Department of Justice publications addressing forfeiture. The Justice Department claimed that the documents are "training materials and other materials that the Department of Justice staff did not feel were appropriate for external use." ALA disagreed with this categorization of the public documents, two of which are texts of federal statutes, and with the instruction to destroy them. ALA trusts that there will be no repetition of such unjustified instructions to destroy government information."
Though you are right in bringing it up to show what sort of "creepiness" they are trying to get up to.
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" justified it because although I have a full-time job and generally have shit to do, I sympathize with leftists and protesters and peace activists."
Most "leftists and protesters and peace activists" also have jobs and "shit" to do... it may surprise you but it's true.
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"With little or nothing to trade with, North Korea has resorted to high-profit, (relatively) low-staffing-requirements industries like missiles, nuclear power and weapons, and (possibly) any other sorts of chemical or bio weapons to fund their dismal little empire."
Bad choice of words.
North Korea is no empire... dismal or not. There are no North Korean army bases in any other country in the world. There are no North Korean soldiers garrisoned in other countries to keep them under the North Korean thumb...
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"unless your using a non manufacturer batter"
Surely you jest! Everyone knows that... er.
Sheeeet.
Wait!
No.
I can't do it...
Someone make a joke out of "non manufacturer batter"! It's too good to loose!
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"There are some things which aren't laughing matters: our civil rights, the respect and trust of the rest of the world, and the lives of American soldiers and innocent Iraqis. "
Well said!
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I've been a member of the ACLU for some time. What I am doing now (over the last year) is giving my family and friends memberships to the ACLU as presents. They get the literature in the post, the ACLU gets the money, and their membership increases.
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"poor music industry jobs"
Is that not a contradiction in terms?
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I see the usual political naivety from the Slashdot posts and mods on this issue. RTFA.
"I don't think that Linux should be used for killing and I don't really trust the Pentagon to abide by the GPL."
That's all it takes. One person has decided that he does not like the idea of supporting the Pentagon while it engages in what he considers an unjust and immoral war. He hopes that his stance will cause people to think about that instead of blindly accepting their "war masters" reasons and justifications.
He is to be applauded.
Leave your insults at the recruiters office.
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"they actually put potential casualties and/or collateral damage on the agenda for discussion prior to doing so"
What is your source for this claim? Who is this "they"? The Pentagon? The NSC? The Whitehouse?
I suspect the discussion in any case goes along this line:
They: How many Americans, and allies, are going to die in this campaign?
Their advisors: A few hundred.
They: How many [insert current de-humanising label attached to the enemy, and their families, here] are going to die do you reckon?
Their advisors: Anywhere between ten thousand and five hundred thousand.
They: That's acceptable collateral damage and a price we are willing to pay. Start the attack!
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"Makes it much harder for a company to screw you."
Are you that naive? Palm scanning, or other high-tech "people control" equipment, is brought into a company to benefit the employer mainly and the employee hardly. It is done to keep salary costs low... which benefits the employer mainly.
Clock cards are all well and good. I used one when I was younger and working in a printing factory for a few months. However I sure would not have wanted my employer to have a scan of my hand... fingerprints or palmprints. Why? Well who is going to oversee the records and make sure that they are not handed out to anyone who wants a copy?
Companies have enough info on their staff already... might as well throw in a voiceprint too and the unscrupulous will have a ready made set of IDs.
"Makes it much harder for a company to screw you." is what you said... yet in the article Colin Bennett, a politics professor at the University of Victoria, was quoted as saying "The employees would have little recourse if their information was misused."
Don't try to find the silver lining in that cloud mate.
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15-year old girls did not strike me as as the typical source for music releases either:
RIAA Threatens 15-Year-Old et al.
But... oh how I was proved wrong!
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You know that comment that Americans have no sense of irony? Well... your post is going to be taken at face value by Americans and they are going to believe that rubbish you just posted.
"This may be at one level bread and circuses, but if it gives Americans (and the West generally) confidence back in themselves, their civilization and it's values then it's a thoroughly good thing."
A forthcoming announcement about a new direction in space for NASA, or whoever will get stuck with the order is a cynical attempt by Bush and his bunch of crooks to win votes in an election year. He could not give a feck about space, Mars, or the Moon.
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It's not so much that flouride is considered dangerous by a bunch of whackos as it is the fact that putting fluoride in drinking water is seen by some to be massmedication without consent.
m fl uorideban.htm
These people agree that fluoride is good for their teeth but they disagree with having to take fluoride internally in their drinking water. They'd prefer to apply it topically, as in a toothpaste.
The Irish Dentists Opposing Fluoridation movement is concerned with the levels of fluoride being added to the water in Ireland... especially after the ban by Belgium on fluoridated products.
http://homepage.eircom.net/~fluoridefree/belgiu
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Who modded this idiotic post up?
One point mister kranchammer...
"The amount of paranoia and blind hatred way surpasses the paranoia and blind hatred the right had with Clinton."
Surpasses? Surpasses?! Just when did impeachment proceedings against Bush begin? I must have missed that one.
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"The Japanese and Germans had jet fighter planes sitting on the tarmac, ready to pulverize the best we had in the air, but they had no oil to fly them."
They had enough aircraft (jet, rocket, or otherwise) and the fuel to power them. That was not the problem.
The main problem was that they just did not have any capable pilots left by the time the jets were operational.
Lack of oil was not the only or major reason why the aircraft sat on the tarmac.
Discussion on the jets
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Thanks for that second link... (The views that prompted the panicky music exec.)
The user feedback on the article is worth a read.
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BBC article
A recent survey by research firm Odyssey suggested that the drop in sales was partly due to high prices.
Some 53% of adults said they had stopped buying music because it was too expensive, the survey found.
Odyssey managing director Sean Baenen said: "This is something that the industry has failed to address.
"You could make downloading music go away tomorrow and the industry would still face challenges."
"we are authorized to act on behalf of the R1AA"
The "R_1_AA"? A typo from cryptome or on the original?
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"What's the difference?"
Same ladder... different rung.
Your fingerprints are distinguishing marks but your DNA IS you.
How about, in the near future, the "government" requires all citizens to have a chip implanted under their skin so they can track you? You see any difference there?
Ya think the Patriots in the 13 colonies would have been able to overthrow the British if the Crown had access to everyone's movements in 1775?
Same ladder... different rung.
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The point of the article was about cheap internet access in times of a weak economy. In other words pointing out the cheap alternatives for ISP access to someone who could once afford broadband but who cannot now, or might not in the future... like yourself maybe.
All good and fine spending $30 or so bucks a month for superfast home access which is so important. When you take a paycut, in a weak economy, that $30 a month is one of the first luxuries to go.
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I lived in the UK too. In the UK you pay a monthly flat-fee for "line rental" and "service"... and you pay for local calls by the minute.
In the USA you pay a monthly flat-fee for "line rental" and "service" too... BUT you do not pay for local phone calls.
The ISP in the UK gets a kickback from BT for getting UK to stay on a phone call longer as the calls are being paid for = free ISP to the customer.
The ISP is the USA does not get a kickback from whatever phone service company as the calls are not paid for = not free ISP for customer.
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Do you know how serious that "white paper" could have been?
That the sysadmin might have tried to cover his/her ass by handing you and your friend to Feds as information terrorists?
The best thing to do, if you want my advice, is to RUN don't walk from the whole building the next time you discover a security vulnerability in any network anywhere and never mention it to anyone.
Zero tolerance high schools means zero tolerance for anything they don't understand.
Good luck anyway...
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"Whatever happened to the British idea of Free Trade, looks like we've sold it down the sewer for a piece of the Euro pie :( "
Could you point me to some sources on where you heard, or learnt, of the "British idea of Free Trade"?
I was always under the impression that the British were quite happy about free trade when it benefited Britain and Britain only.
That is not "Free Trade".
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