Everyone seems to be concerned with other governments capturing Sealand or claiming ownership of Sealand. I think it more likely that they would just sever connections to prove their points, and that has already been addressed.
But what about terrorists? What if some terrorist organization sees Sealand as a get rich quick scheme, and wants to capture and hold hostage the sensitive data of some of the worlds largest companies? Threats to divulge internal secrets, data loss, exposure of personal information of clients and accounting records have all got to sound like a good opportunity to someone out there.
Surely, government militaries cannot be expected to defend what is clearly a corporate undertaking (though I suspect some governments would think it was their job), so what kind of defense is Sealand, or HavenCo in particular going to have in place if any?
There is so much in this post that I disagree with, that I do not know where to begin.
Yes, we are supposed to be a Repuublic, and not a Democracy, as many politicians would have you believe. Thank God. If we were a Democracy, under majority rule, think of where we would be as a nation now. Women and Blacks would still have no rights, because the Majority of voters would never have allowed it. Popular != Right.
The problem with our current system, is the same problem that would exist in any democracy. The majority of voters are not led by informed decisions, but rather by marketing. The ongoing corruption of the Right to Bear Arms is proof enough of that. That apathy is the problem with the system is the one point I could not agree with you more on.
As for our founding fathers, although a few of them did in fact want a plutocracy, and a few others a monarchy (those being the only systems they understood, having lived in such a state their whole lives), enough of them were of sound mind to realize the folly in that. Thomas Jefferson for one was fully against it, and is well known for having written, "The Declaration of Independance". (Read the whole thing, not just the famous paragraph)
For a bunch of wealthy men out to protect their money and power, they sure made some stupid moves when they decided to take on all of England, which resulted in having their homes razed to the ground, their possesions confiscated, and their families killed, all in the name of Freedom and Equality for all men.
-Tommy
P.S Interesting side note, Thomas Jefferson was a huge Open Source advocate. Read this letter, "No patents on ideas".
My only question is why is it going to take 4 hours? If Qwest has been able to do so much better than that in field trials, why aren't they using this opportunity to show their technology in the Real World(tm)? Especially since they claimed in the press release:
More than 750 studio quality streaming video channels can be transported simultaneously
So why can't they do just one in less than 4 hours?
BTW, Qwest had another press relese today about their record breaking speeds.
None Taken, I'm not interested in a flame war, and I apologize if I came across that way.
...but did you even read the post I responded to?
I did not. Until you pointed it out, and I examined it carefully, I could not see that it was a reply to a post. It took some digging to find the post it was attached to. Sorry. On to the meat and potatoes.
There's nothing wrong with clicking on an attachment, or at least there shouldn't be. If it's harmful, then my mailreader shouldn't run it. It's that simple.
I don't think it's that simple. How should your email client decide what is harmful and what is not? Wouldn't that be the job of Anti-Virus software? I agree that it would be nice if it had this capability, but I doubt that any of us would dare say MS Outlook isn't bulky enough already.
I should be able to read text documents or view pictures from my mail reader, there's no good reason to execute code from there.
I strongly disagree with this. Whether or not there is a good reason to execute code (or any other executable attachments) from within your browser depends on your environment, and frankly, I doubt that many of the users that you are defending want to be forced to save an attachment, figure out where they put it and then run it. As a matter of fact it is exactly the desire not to have to do this that has given MS the iron grip it has on consumers. (Blasphemy, I know!)
*nix isn't without sin here.
Indeed, but I'll be the first to say *nix are by far the lesser sinners. But the nixes don't have the ease of use and UI that is required by your average user. (Blasphemy again! Burn him!)
When somebody says to me "I received an unknown email", I should be able to say "Click on it and see what it is. No harm can come of that."
Here I admit I'm a bit confused. I can think of several ways that I can examine a program to see what it is without running it, but not a single way for an average user to do it. And even if they could, "ILOVEYOU" has certainly shown us that they'll run it anyway, "Just to see what it does".
I only disagree that we will never see the day that someone pays to cut out a competitor's access. It just won't be worded that way.
Exclusive arrangements/agreements aren't news either. The competitor will just find their own ISP and make the same deal. But you better believe that those 2 ISPS will still route traffic to and from each other, so there is no issue.
It is perfectly natural for a Big Business to not want to do business with someone who does business with there competitors, for fear of less than preferential treatment. Would you?
I agree with the user in this situation. I should be able to open any e-mail I receive, and my mail reader sure as hell shouldn't be executing any code in that email without asking me first.
That makes perfect sense. However, Gnutella is not an Email program, and nothing is being executed without being asked to. Nor is anything being executed without being asked to in the case of ILOVEYOU and MS Outlook, which is what I assume you are talking about.
I receive unsolicited e-mail all the time, and I feel free to open it in mutt, because I know that embedded executables are not going to be run.
That's great too, but the problem isn't with just recienving email. And in the case of ILOVEYOU (if that's what we're talking about) embedded executables weren't being automatically run. I could just as easily send you a program as an attachment in Mutt, and if you ran it and it formatted your drives, it would be no different.
The user in this situation is absolutely correct. They're running under the assumption *snip*
Assumptions are exactly the problem. They're assuming that the attachment in the message they recieve (or the file that they downlod in THIS case.) is not harmful, and happily clicking away on it. As far as Tech Support goes, do you think that they should just disallow access to run any programs on a computer at all? That way nothing bad can happen, eh?
Example (a real virus): If a surgeon found out he had AIDS but didn't quit his job and later infected a patient during surgery, I think we'd all agree that he'd be liable for the patient's sickness.
I would think that although this is definitely negligent, it is still intentional.
A surgeon who knows he has AIDS and continues to practice his craft is intentionally exposing patients, negligence aside.
Another example: I advocate the use of murder charges against drunk drivers who kill. Why? Because they deliberately make choices that are known to have a high rate of death for potential victims.
In this case, "deliberately" is the same as "intentional".
Intent is everyting. Why is that so hard to understand?
It seems that everyone needs analogies to understand things, and Viruses are one of the few Computer to Real World analogies that hold true.
If you thought of this in terms of say, AIDS, the most deadly RealWorld virus in the wild that I know of, it becomes clear.
If you have unsafe sex with someone who is infected with AIDS, and that person is unaware that they are infected, it is your own damn fault.
If you do not know that you are infected, and someone has unsafe sex with you, it is their own damn fault.
If you know you have AIDS and you take a syringe full of your blood and inject it into somebody else willfully,you're ass is going to prison, and hopefully getting the chair.
Why should computer viruses be any different?(well, maybe the chair is a little strong)
Part III is broken into 5 episodes itself (Birth of the Overfiend, Curse of the Overfiend, Final Inferno, Legend of the Demon Womb, Battle at the Shinjuku Skyscrapers)
That statement is sooo incorrect. Those are the 5 episodes from the Perfect Collection.
Part III is actually "Urotsukidoji III: Return of the Overfiend" and is 4 episodes, 1 through 4.
My sincere apologies, I got excited and confused myself. I stand by the rest of my post.
-Tommy
------ "I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday."
Legend of the Overfiend: a series, they recently released a box set of the first 5 disks, and the only ones worth getting. This is a 'tenticle porn' anime, and is another 'representative of the genre' things. If you ever wanted something that made your friends go 'holy crap!' check this out. NOT FOR KIDS!
This series is actually called "Urotsukidoji", while the tile of the first part is "Urotsukidoji : Legend of the Overfiend". I can't stress this enough, because nothing bothers me more than the number of Anime fans that hated the first part, and never bothered to watch the others.
Although I disagree that "Legend" sucked, I will definitely say it is not as good as the others, and nowhere as good as "Urotsukidoji III". I think this is a fault of the translation. The first time I saw it was while living in Japan, and my GF at the time translated what I didn't understand for me. When I saw it again dubbed in english, it was not nearly as good, and filled with poor puns. I've heard that the subbed version has better translations, but I've never seen it myself, so I can't say for sure.
Part III is broken into 5 episodes itself (Birth of the Overfiend, Curse of the Overfiend, Final Inferno, Legend of the Demon Womb, Battle at the Shinjuku Skyscrapers), and you don't really need to see the first 2 parts to follow. As a matter of fact, I think the first part would definitely make more sense if seen after part 3.
A truly Bizarre Anime series, one that absolutely everyone (of appropriate age, definitley not for kids) who is a fan of Anime should watch.
However, if you are absolutely offended by Violence, Pr0n, Demons, etc. (You're an Anime fan?) you should stay away.
-Tommy
------ "I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday."
It's a good thing that Harriet Tubman didn't think this way...
-Tommy
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I think it's a bad idea. An AC by any other name is still an AC.
If you force people to log in to post, you may cut down on some of the spam, but since the spammers that stick around will have to log in to post also, you'll then have ACs posting at 1 instead of 0, thereby lessening the current value of logging in to post.
Also, there is a certain value to being able to voice your opinion without fear of repercussions. Don't let the trolls and flamers take away that privilege from intelligent users.
-Tommy
------ "I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday."
From the article: ... "Do you support the reverse engineering of software for porting and compatibility purposes?" "Do you support [the Communications Decency Act] in its current form?" And more of the like. I don't want to read "Al Gore supports technology and innovation" - I want to read HOW he supports them.
Why don't we do this? Why not compose a list of questions Slashdot interview style, for the presidential candidates, and see how many, if any of them will answer?
However insignificant any of our individual votes may be, the votes of all the Slashdot readers combined (not that I expect/.ers to agree on anything) would carry substantial weight.
Also, I for one would love to hear the technological views of any candidate. You can tell a lot about a man and how open-minded he is, by his views on matters such as DeCSS, Napster, and Gnutella, as well as views on copyright laws, patents, and IP.
And Finally, I have no interest in living under Democratic rule, and would prefer a Republic as (most of) our founding fathers intended. The popular vote is not always the correct one, as I would suspect after reading the Hellmouth posts, most of us are aware.
-Tommy
------ "I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday."
I have a Solo 2500, which will no longer turn on after upgrading the BIOS to 10.12, or rather it turns on for about 5 seconds and shuts itself off without booting.
Gateway will not support me because I have Red Hat and Open BSD partitions, and until I reinstall Windows, they can do nothing they say, including telling me which jumper resets the BIOS.
How they expect me to install Windows on a machine that doesn't turn on is beyond my technical expertise, but as far as they're concerned, it's obviously an OS problem.
-Tommy  Ex-Gateway customer
------ "I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday."
Although I agree with the idea that guns should definitely not be banned, and the constitutionally guaranteed right to bear arms, not everyone shares that view, which is why I avoided guns and said hammer in the first place.
Any sane person can understand the idiocy of banning a hammer.
Perhaps crobar would have been even better, as they are often used for breaking into/stealing things.
-Tommy
------ "I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday."
Since when has Open-Source ever been about stealing IP from others?
The thing I've always thought was the best part of the Open-Source mindset, is the fact that it's set up to help you learn, not to give anything to you. As put by some wiseman, "Give a man a fish, feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish, feed him for a lifetime". Just because you have the source, does not necessarily mean you can do anything with it unless you're willing to take the time to figure it out.
Pirating MP3s has nothing to do with Open-Source. It's just stealing fish.
That said, I still disagree with Metallica's lawsuit against Napster. It's like trying to sue a hammer manufacturer because some psycho used a sledge to kill one of your family members. You have every reason to be upset, but it's hardly the tool's fault.
Ban Napster and you've laid down the groundwork for the government to shutdown/regulate the entire Internet. It maybe a tool that is primarily being used for evil, doesn't change the fact that it's just a tool.
-Tommy
------ "I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday."
I agree that it's not weird information to collect, it's just that in this particular case, there doesn't seem to be much that protects the usage of the database other than "staff professionalism"... oh goody.
You think the US has a better policy to protect information being collected in the Census 2000?
From the Census 2000 FAQ: How is the privacy of the respondents protected? The numbers we publish are combined with thousands of answers from people in your neighborhood and across the country. No one, except sworn Census Bureau employees, can see your questionnaire or link your name with your responses. In fact, the law provides severe penalties for any census employee that makes your answers known.
I don't know about you, but I'm not answering my door till it's all over. Anyone who needs to ask me personal questions has a key.
-Tommy
------ "I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday."
Thank goodness the US government would never keep information like that on it's citizens.
BTW, have you spoken to your Census 2000 rep yet? Mine knocks on the door every damn night, but he looks like a serial killer, so I'm afraid to answer.
Oh well, maybe in 2010.
 -Tommy
------ "I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday."
For the record, the Slashdot article doesn't refer to the Daemon incorrectly, so much as it quotes the user drix, who refered to the Daemon incorrectly.
------ "I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday."
Slashdot Mirror
Stuff that matters to you?
Get over it.
Everyone seems to be concerned with other governments capturing Sealand or claiming ownership of Sealand. I think it more likely that they would just sever connections to prove their points, and that has already been addressed.
But what about terrorists? What if some terrorist organization sees Sealand as a get rich quick scheme, and wants to capture and hold hostage the sensitive data of some of the worlds largest companies? Threats to divulge internal secrets, data loss, exposure of personal information of clients and accounting records have all got to sound like a good opportunity to someone out there.
Surely, government militaries cannot be expected to defend what is clearly a corporate undertaking (though I suspect some governments would think it was their job), so what kind of defense is Sealand, or HavenCo in particular going to have in place if any?
-Tommy
Yes, we are supposed to be a Repuublic, and not a Democracy, as many politicians would have you believe. Thank God. If we were a Democracy, under majority rule, think of where we would be as a nation now. Women and Blacks would still have no rights, because the Majority of voters would never have allowed it. Popular != Right.
The problem with our current system, is the same problem that would exist in any democracy. The majority of voters are not led by informed decisions, but rather by marketing. The ongoing corruption of the Right to Bear Arms is proof enough of that. That apathy is the problem with the system is the one point I could not agree with you more on.
As for our founding fathers, although a few of them did in fact want a plutocracy, and a few others a monarchy (those being the only systems they understood, having lived in such a state their whole lives), enough of them were of sound mind to realize the folly in that. Thomas Jefferson for one was fully against it, and is well known for having written, "The Declaration of Independance". (Read the whole thing, not just the famous paragraph)
For a bunch of wealthy men out to protect their money and power, they sure made some stupid moves when they decided to take on all of England, which resulted in having their homes razed to the ground, their possesions confiscated, and their families killed, all in the name of Freedom and Equality for all men.
-Tommy
P.S Interesting side note, Thomas Jefferson was a huge Open Source advocate. Read this letter, "No patents on ideas".
Qwest has done far better, as talked about recently on slashdot in "Qwest Achieves 100-Mile IP Round-Trip At 40Gb/sec"
My only question is why is it going to take 4 hours? If Qwest has been able to do so much better than that in field trials, why aren't they using this opportunity to show their technology in the Real World(tm)? Especially since they claimed in the press release:
More than 750 studio quality streaming video channels can be transported simultaneously
So why can't they do just one in less than 4 hours?
BTW, Qwest had another press relese today about their record breaking speeds.
No offence...
None Taken, I'm not interested in a flame war, and I apologize if I came across that way.
I did not. Until you pointed it out, and I examined it carefully, I could not see that it was a reply to a post. It took some digging to find the post it was attached to. Sorry.
On to the meat and potatoes.
There's nothing wrong with clicking on an attachment, or at least there shouldn't be. If it's harmful, then my mailreader shouldn't run it. It's that simple.
I don't think it's that simple. How should your email client decide what is harmful and what is not? Wouldn't that be the job of Anti-Virus software? I agree that it would be nice if it had this capability, but I doubt that any of us would dare say MS Outlook isn't bulky enough already.
I should be able to read text documents or view pictures from my mail reader, there's no good reason to execute code from there.
I strongly disagree with this. Whether or not there is a good reason to execute code (or any other executable attachments) from within your browser depends on your environment, and frankly, I doubt that many of the users that you are defending want to be forced to save an attachment, figure out where they put it and then run it. As a matter of fact it is exactly the desire not to have to do this that has given MS the iron grip it has on consumers. (Blasphemy, I know!)
*nix isn't without sin here.
Indeed, but I'll be the first to say *nix are by far the lesser sinners. But the nixes don't have the ease of use and UI that is required by your average user. (Blasphemy again! Burn him!)
When somebody says to me "I received an unknown email", I should be able to say "Click on it and see what it is. No harm can come of that."
Here I admit I'm a bit confused. I can think of several ways that I can examine a program to see what it is without running it, but not a single way for an average user to do it. And even if they could, "ILOVEYOU" has certainly shown us that they'll run it anyway, "Just to see what it does".
-Tommy
Exclusive arrangements/agreements aren't news either. The competitor will just find their own ISP and make the same deal. But you better believe that those 2 ISPS will still route traffic to and from each other, so there is no issue.
It is perfectly natural for a Big Business to not want to do business with someone who does business with there competitors, for fear of less than preferential treatment. Would you?
-Tommy
That makes perfect sense. However, Gnutella is not an Email program, and nothing is being executed without being asked to. Nor is anything being executed without being asked to in the case of ILOVEYOU and MS Outlook, which is what I assume you are talking about.
I receive unsolicited e-mail all the time, and I feel free to open it in mutt, because I know that embedded executables are not going to be run.
That's great too, but the problem isn't with just recienving email. And in the case of ILOVEYOU (if that's what we're talking about) embedded executables weren't being automatically run. I could just as easily send you a program as an attachment in Mutt, and if you ran it and it formatted your drives, it would be no different.
The user in this situation is absolutely correct. They're running under the assumption *snip*
Assumptions are exactly the problem. They're assuming that the attachment in the message they recieve (or the file that they downlod in THIS case.) is not harmful, and happily clicking away on it. As far as Tech Support goes, do you think that they should just disallow access to run any programs on a computer at all? That way nothing bad can happen, eh?
-Tommy
I would think that although this is definitely negligent, it is still intentional.
A surgeon who knows he has AIDS and continues to practice his craft is intentionally exposing patients, negligence aside.
Another example: I advocate the use of murder charges against drunk drivers who kill. Why? Because they deliberately make choices that are known to have a high rate of death for potential victims.
In this case, "deliberately" is the same as "intentional".
-Tommy
Intent is everyting. Why is that so hard to understand?
It seems that everyone needs analogies to understand things, and Viruses are one of the few Computer to Real World analogies that hold true.
If you thought of this in terms of say, AIDS, the most deadly RealWorld virus in the wild that I know of, it becomes clear.
If you have unsafe sex with someone who is infected with AIDS, and that person is unaware that they are infected, it is your own damn fault.
If you do not know that you are infected, and someone has unsafe sex with you, it is their own damn fault.
If you know you have AIDS and you take a syringe full of your blood and inject it into somebody else willfully,you're ass is going to prison, and hopefully getting the chair.
Why should computer viruses be any different?(well, maybe the chair is a little strong)
-Tommy
Mpeg Audio Layer-3 coding was developed by the Fraunhofer IIS institution in the late 80s, and therefore the patent is owned by them.
-Tommy
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Part III is broken into 5 episodes itself (Birth of the Overfiend, Curse of the Overfiend, Final Inferno, Legend of the Demon Womb, Battle at the Shinjuku Skyscrapers)
That statement is sooo incorrect. Those are the 5 episodes from the Perfect Collection.
Part III is actually "Urotsukidoji III: Return of the Overfiend" and is 4 episodes, 1 through 4.
My sincere apologies, I got excited and confused myself. I stand by the rest of my post.
-Tommy
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This series is actually called "Urotsukidoji", while the tile of the first part is "Urotsukidoji : Legend of the Overfiend". I can't stress this enough, because nothing bothers me more than the number of Anime fans that hated the first part, and never bothered to watch the others.
Although I disagree that "Legend" sucked, I will definitely say it is not as good as the others, and nowhere as good as "Urotsukidoji III". I think this is a fault of the translation. The first time I saw it was while living in Japan, and my GF at the time translated what I didn't understand for me. When I saw it again dubbed in english, it was not nearly as good, and filled with poor puns. I've heard that the subbed version has better translations, but I've never seen it myself, so I can't say for sure.
Part III is broken into 5 episodes itself (Birth of the Overfiend, Curse of the Overfiend, Final Inferno, Legend of the Demon Womb, Battle at the Shinjuku Skyscrapers), and you don't really need to see the first 2 parts to follow. As a matter of fact, I think the first part would definitely make more sense if seen after part 3.
A truly Bizarre Anime series, one that absolutely everyone (of appropriate age, definitley not for kids) who is a fan of Anime should watch.
However, if you are absolutely offended by Violence, Pr0n, Demons, etc. (You're an Anime fan?) you should stay away.
-Tommy
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It's a good thing that Harriet Tubman didn't think this way...
-Tommy
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I think it's a bad idea. An AC by any other name is still an AC.
If you force people to log in to post, you may cut down on some of the spam, but since the spammers that stick around will have to log in to post also, you'll then have ACs posting at 1 instead of 0, thereby lessening the current value of logging in to post.
Also, there is a certain value to being able to voice your opinion without fear of repercussions. Don't let the trolls and flamers take away that privilege from intelligent users.
-Tommy
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Why don't we do this? Why not compose a list of questions Slashdot interview style, for the presidential candidates, and see how many, if any of them will answer?
However insignificant any of our individual votes may be, the votes of all the Slashdot readers combined (not that I expect /.ers to agree on anything) would carry substantial weight.
Also, I for one would love to hear the technological views of any candidate. You can tell a lot about a man and how open-minded he is, by his views on matters such as DeCSS, Napster, and Gnutella, as well as views on copyright laws, patents, and IP.
And Finally, I have no interest in living under Democratic rule, and would prefer a Republic as (most of) our founding fathers intended. The popular vote is not always the correct one, as I would suspect after reading the Hellmouth posts, most of us are aware.
-Tommy
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I have a Solo 2500, which will no longer turn on after upgrading the BIOS to 10.12, or rather it turns on for about 5 seconds and shuts itself off without booting.
Gateway will not support me because I have Red Hat and Open BSD partitions, and until I reinstall Windows, they can do nothing they say, including telling me which jumper resets the BIOS.
How they expect me to install Windows on a machine that doesn't turn on is beyond my technical expertise, but as far as they're concerned, it's obviously an OS problem.
-Tommy
 Ex-Gateway customer
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Although I agree with the idea that guns should definitely not be banned, and the constitutionally guaranteed right to bear arms, not everyone shares that view, which is why I avoided guns and said hammer in the first place.
Any sane person can understand the idiocy of banning a hammer.
Perhaps crobar would have been even better, as they are often used for breaking into/stealing things.
-Tommy
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Since when has Open-Source ever been about stealing IP from others?
The thing I've always thought was the best part of the Open-Source mindset, is the fact that it's set up to help you learn, not to give anything to you. As put by some wiseman, "Give a man a fish, feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish, feed him for a lifetime". Just because you have the source, does not necessarily mean you can do anything with it unless you're willing to take the time to figure it out.
Pirating MP3s has nothing to do with Open-Source. It's just stealing fish.
That said, I still disagree with Metallica's lawsuit against Napster. It's like trying to sue a hammer manufacturer because some psycho used a sledge to kill one of your family members. You have every reason to be upset, but it's hardly the tool's fault.
Ban Napster and you've laid down the groundwork for the government to shutdown/regulate the entire Internet. It maybe a tool that is primarily being used for evil, doesn't change the fact that it's just a tool.
-Tommy
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Better to get the story from the horses mouth:
Intel's press release
Also interesting, someone on Pricewatch claims to be selling 800mhz PIII Xeons for only $814, so why bother with a wimpy 700mhz for $1,177+?
-Tommy
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"I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday."
Awful nice of Intel to release PIII Xeons after letting me run a quad-proc system with 550s for the last 6 months.
I think they mean (and the article does indeed say) that Intel is releasing 700mhz PIII Xeons. Hardly worth getting all worked up about.
Someone else will surely have posted this by the time I finish typing, but what the hell.
-Tommy
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-Tommy
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"I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday."
You think the US has a better policy to protect information being collected in the Census 2000?
From the Census 2000 FAQ:
How is the privacy of the respondents protected?
The numbers we publish are combined with thousands of answers from people in your neighborhood and across the country. No one, except sworn Census Bureau employees, can see your questionnaire or link your name with your responses. In fact, the law provides severe penalties for any census employee that makes your answers known.
I don't know about you, but I'm not answering my door till it's all over. Anyone who needs to ask me personal questions has a key.
-Tommy
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Man, Canada is creepy.
Thank goodness the US government would never keep information like that on it's citizens.
BTW, have you spoken to your Census 2000 rep yet? Mine knocks on the door every damn night, but he looks like a serial killer, so I'm afraid to answer.
Oh well, maybe in 2010.
 -Tommy
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They just created new accounts? How did they do that if they were kicked off?
They must be Hackers or something.
Who would have ever seen something like this coming. Woe is me. Can't wait to hear more.
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