Ummmm, none of the above suggests that the Commission was wrong about the stock market activity. I realize it's a good conspiracy theory but it was investigated by the SEC and FBI, whose conclusions are summarized in the Commission report: "Yet, further investigation has revealed that the trading had no connection with 9/11. A single U.S.-based institutional investor with no conceivable ties to al Qaeda purchased 95 percent of the UAL puts on September 6 as part of a trading strategy that also included buying 115,000 shares of American on September 10. Similarly, much of the seemingly suspicious trading in American on September 10 was traced to a specific U.S.-based options trading newsletter, faxed to its subscribers on Sunday, September 9, which recommended these trades. The SEC and FBI, aided by other agencies and the securities industry, devoted enormous resources to investigating this issue, including securing the cooperation of many foreign governments. These investigators have found that the apparently suspicious consistently proved innocuous."
The 9/11 Commission was a bipartisan effort initiated not from Congress but from the families of 9/11 victims. Don't forget that the Commission was opposed by the Bush Administration every step of the way! I'm not claiming it is unassailable, but a blanket assertion that it was a "coverup" or "disinfo-psyop" just won't fly. Where is the evidence that they covered up or lied about this particular story? Is Snopes a psyop too? Conspiracy theories are very tempting, but sometimes more logical explanations exist.
Uhh, CSM admitted their error; they did not forge the documents themselves, and they did a subsequent investigation that undermined their earlier story. That, to my mind, bolsters their credibility rather than hurts it. CSM is extremely highly respected, certainly more so than WSWS, the World Socialist paper that you link to!
In what way? I'm still confused as to how security is compromised by access to web stats. I used to use this feature to keep tabs on how many hits my webserver was getting. I don't recall ever reading about a Webstar site being compromised with access to that information. Many websites post far more detailed statistics than this. The undocumented part of the feature might be bothersome, but hardly a security hole, IMHO.
Uhhh, yeah... that's why there are so many more successful terrorist attacks in the US than there are in Israel.
If what you're saying is their society is more intensely militarized and paranoid than American society, I agree, but whether such militarization provides security is debatable (and, I would argue, demonstrably false).
or perhaps she is being enjoyed by a stranger who brought her something to snort... either way, you might want to leave work early and go find out what's going on at home.
How does one "silently" change the code of an open source product? Code changes will be obvious to anyone auditing it; if the US government is concerned, they should hire a code auditor (or just run the diffs). This is a reason why it's better to use open source tools for such applications than closed source ones, regardless of what country owns them. It would be a lot easier for a terrorist to "silently" change the code of a closed source application by bribing the right people even if the code was owned by an American company.
Is the worry that the Israeli company will change the license? If they can't do this, what is the security risk? If the technology is open source, does it really matter what country the company that owns it resides in?
Yes, the obvious way of ramming it in did occur to me. But a more elegant brute force hack would be just go down the block rapping shave and a haircut on every door. A few of them are bound to respond.
I agree that Napster is indelibly associated with piracy, even though it's been years since such a thing existed. That funky headphone-wearing-cat will always be a pirate flag to those of us who were around for Napster's glory days. This new company's early advertising promised some badass 'tude, but couldn't match their ads and certainly couldn't live up to the original Napster. Their more recent advertising -- "Have everything - Own nothing" -- was just an annoying reminder that the real Napster is long gone.
So if fossil oil is made from fossils, soybean oil is made from soybeans, I have a suggestion for an infinitely renewable energy resource: Let's make cars that run on baby oil! Babies are quite easy (and fun!) to manufacture....
When will Apple offer the remote with FrontRow software for older macs? I don't have the money to upgrade my Mac Mini but I would pay to get just these items, to make the process of using the mini as a media center easier.
Wait till Apirl 1st there will be all sorts of goodies released then!
Oh yes. Many computer companies will have interesting announcements on that day. And there will no doubt be many slashdot stories of important and unusual news. And of course everyone will be awaiting with baited breath the RFCs that will be released that day.
That's been exactly my experience; with HDTV as well as DVDs. Rarely do DVDs really put much effort into separating the channels; when they do it is *really* noticeable. Older DVDs simply don't bother at all and most new ones don't seem to have much going on. I also run HDTV signals through my 5.1 system; shows like 24 advertise "in surround sound where available" but I never notice much going on. I also play.avi and.mpg files through the system and have never noticed that they've been encoded for 5.1 -- I'm not sure but I think I should be getting any surround sound information through my M-Audio Transit device. Perhaps someone should make a list of DVDs and CDs that are actually worth experiencing in surround sound.
So that ~5-10 years down the road, you'll have to deal with the deaths of both your first kitty (due to rejection, old age, etc) and the second (due to failure of the remaining kidney)
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Way ahead of you.
Ummmm, none of the above suggests that the Commission was wrong about the stock market activity. I realize it's a good conspiracy theory but it was investigated by the SEC and FBI, whose conclusions are summarized in the Commission report: "Yet, further investigation has revealed that the trading had no connection with 9/11. A single U.S.-based institutional investor with no conceivable ties to al Qaeda purchased 95 percent of the UAL puts on September 6 as part of a trading strategy that also included buying 115,000 shares of American on September 10. Similarly, much of the seemingly suspicious trading in American on September 10 was traced to a specific U.S.-based options trading newsletter, faxed to its subscribers on Sunday, September 9, which recommended these trades. The SEC and FBI, aided by other agencies and the securities industry, devoted enormous resources to investigating this issue, including securing the cooperation of many foreign governments. These investigators have found that the apparently suspicious consistently proved innocuous."
The 9/11 Commission was a bipartisan effort initiated not from Congress but from the families of 9/11 victims. Don't forget that the Commission was opposed by the Bush Administration every step of the way! I'm not claiming it is unassailable, but a blanket assertion that it was a "coverup" or "disinfo-psyop" just won't fly. Where is the evidence that they covered up or lied about this particular story? Is Snopes a psyop too? Conspiracy theories are very tempting, but sometimes more logical explanations exist.
Uhh, CSM admitted their error; they did not forge the documents themselves, and they did a subsequent investigation that undermined their earlier story. That, to my mind, bolsters their credibility rather than hurts it. CSM is extremely highly respected, certainly more so than WSWS, the World Socialist paper that you link to!
The 9/11 Commission found the pre-911 stock activity to be innocuous; details at snopes.
Slashdot editors are still pissed off that there was no major damage from the Y2K bug. They continue using Y99 dates in protest.
In what way? I'm still confused as to how security is compromised by access to web stats. I used to use this feature to keep tabs on how many hits my webserver was getting. I don't recall ever reading about a Webstar site being compromised with access to that information. Many websites post far more detailed statistics than this. The undocumented part of the feature might be bothersome, but hardly a security hole, IMHO.
#1 may have been dubious as a feature, but in what way is it a bug?
Can we design a mouse with more than one button?
If what you're saying is their society is more intensely militarized and paranoid than American society, I agree, but whether such militarization provides security is debatable (and, I would argue, demonstrably false).
or perhaps she is being enjoyed by a stranger who brought her something to snort... either way, you might want to leave work early and go find out what's going on at home.
You can blame this flamebait on AP, not slashdot, since it appears in the article.
How does one "silently" change the code of an open source product? Code changes will be obvious to anyone auditing it; if the US government is concerned, they should hire a code auditor (or just run the diffs). This is a reason why it's better to use open source tools for such applications than closed source ones, regardless of what country owns them. It would be a lot easier for a terrorist to "silently" change the code of a closed source application by bribing the right people even if the code was owned by an American company.
Is the worry that the Israeli company will change the license? If they can't do this, what is the security risk? If the technology is open source, does it really matter what country the company that owns it resides in?
Yes, the obvious way of ramming it in did occur to me. But a more elegant brute force hack would be just go down the block rapping shave and a haircut on every door. A few of them are bound to respond.
I agree that Napster is indelibly associated with piracy, even though it's been years since such a thing existed. That funky headphone-wearing-cat will always be a pirate flag to those of us who were around for Napster's glory days. This new company's early advertising promised some badass 'tude, but couldn't match their ads and certainly couldn't live up to the original Napster. Their more recent advertising -- "Have everything - Own nothing" -- was just an annoying reminder that the real Napster is long gone.
Excellent -- more proof that my proposition for eliminating dependence on nonrenewable energy will work!
So if fossil oil is made from fossils, soybean oil is made from soybeans, I have a suggestion for an infinitely renewable energy resource: Let's make cars that run on baby oil! Babies are quite easy (and fun!) to manufacture....
When will Apple offer the remote with FrontRow software for older macs? I don't have the money to upgrade my Mac Mini but I would pay to get just these items, to make the process of using the mini as a media center easier.
Oh yes. Many computer companies will have interesting announcements on that day. And there will no doubt be many slashdot stories of important and unusual news. And of course everyone will be awaiting with baited breath the RFCs that will be released that day.
The # was 888-8888.
L.A. has a Parliament?
That's been exactly my experience; with HDTV as well as DVDs. Rarely do DVDs really put much effort into separating the channels; when they do it is *really* noticeable. Older DVDs simply don't bother at all and most new ones don't seem to have much going on. I also run HDTV signals through my 5.1 system; shows like 24 advertise "in surround sound where available" but I never notice much going on. I also play .avi and .mpg files through the system and have never noticed that they've been encoded for 5.1 -- I'm not sure but I think I should be getting any surround sound information through my M-Audio Transit device. Perhaps someone should make a list of DVDs and CDs that are actually worth experiencing in surround sound.
I had the same problem and then I figured out the solution... don't realize you're annoying the neighbors. Problem solved ;)
...unless you come up with another $25,000...