"The definitive expose of Al Gore's slimy political career, from his gay-baiting to his whoring for the State of Israel, from his attempts to eliminate affirmative action to his shameless support of the death penalty and moronic war on drugs, from his deep ties to Big Oil to his innumerable betrayals on the environment. It's all here. Everything you feared and more about the man who was raised to be president."
For keeping your passwords safe from the average laptop thief, Disk Copy is probably fine. But for protecting your sensitive info from The Man, I'd be just a little wary of proprietary packages. Has anyone seen the source code for Disk Copy? Are you absolutely sure that there are no backdoors for law enforcement? Apple would stand up to the Feds in defense of their loyal customers, right?
Depending on the level of security you're after, I recommend open source software that's been audited by lots of paranoid geeks.
In 1997, David Bowie issued bonds to pay interest from his old song royalties. Prudential Insurance Co. of America bought them all. Readabout it, and David Pullman, the guy who helped him do it. The offering "allowed Bowie to collect $55 million up front, using some of the money to buy out a former manager and keep control of his music."
June 07, 2002 09:59 AM ET Email this article Printer friendly version
BEIJING (Reuters) - Beijing's most popular newspaper has unwittingly republished a bogus story about U.S. Congress threats to skip town for Memphis or Charlotte unless Washington builds them a new Capitol building with a retractable dome.
The source? America's celebrated spoof tabloid, the Onion.
The Beijing Evening News, which claims a circulation of 1.25 million, translated portions of the Onion's tall tale word-for-word in the international news page of its June 3 edition.
The reprinted version of the May 29 article, which parodies Congress as a Major League Baseball squad, also copied the Onion's would-be blueprint for a new legislative home that resembles a ballpark. "Don't get us wrong: We love the drafty old building," the Onion quoted House Speaker Dennis Hastert as saying.
"But the hard reality is, it's no longer suitable for a world-class legislative branch. The sight lines are bad, there aren't enough concession stands or bathrooms, and the parking is miserable."
The spoof from the brazen entertainment tabloid, which dubs itself "America's finest news source," apparently took in the Evening News.
"The story was written by one of our freelance writers," an editor at the Evening News told Reuters on Friday. "His stuff has been pretty much reliable before."
The editor said he had received other calls from readers about the article. "They were also suspicious of the contents."
Told the story came from the Onion and was not true, the editor said, "We would first have to check that out. If it's indeed fake, I'm sure there will be some form of correction."
This is somewhat off topic, but I gotta say iCab rules. It renders quickly; has a nice, responsive UI; all kinds of customizable filters for javascript, ad banners, etc.; is relatively standards complient; and has a built in syntax checker. No email, newsreader, or composer to bloat the package. I prefer it to OmniWeb. Now let's see if Apple can produce something as flexible.
If you're interested in this sort of thing, check out the GNU Free voting project at http://www.free-project.org/. From the site:
We are a free software project creating Java electronic voting software released under the General Public License (GPL). With this software we aim to:-
Provide a secure and private system
Create scalable and reliable software
Offer a non-commercial, non-partisan voting alternative
Use the GPL to create an open system that Internet users will trust
Release a system that can be used to support the growth of effective democracy anywhere in the world
Additionally, in support of our wider development community, the project aims to:-
Advocate the free software paradigm
Evangelise the use of technology to strengthen democracy within a holistic understanding of the current malaise i.e. Internet voting alone isn't going to solve turnout problems
As an official GNU package and one of two electronic voting projects of FreeDevelopers.net our Free Software evangalism aims our particularly important.
--- Wacom's Cintiq combines the advantages of an LCD monitor with the control, comfort, and productivity provided by a Wacom tablet. The LCD monitor is clear, bright and easy to look at. The Cintiq pen has 512 levels of pressure-sensitivity, is cordless, and batteryless and includes both a DuoSwitch and a pressure-sensitive eraser. The Cintiq pen is used directly on the screen offering everyone from designers and illustrators to doctors and professors a powerful and intuitive new way to work on their computers.
The Cintiq LCD monitor is a true-color active matrix screen providing 16.7 million colors, a resolution of 1024 x 768 and a full 15" diagonal viewing area (the equivalent of a 17" CRT monitor).
For comfort and convenience, Cintiq features a removable pen holder that can be attached to either side and adjusted to your preferred height and angle. The Cintiq stand allows you to easily adjust the angle of your Cintiq screen between 18 and 73 degrees - and you can even remove the stand to comfortably rest the Cintiq in your lap. ---
I'm guessing you won't see this mentioned in any of the major U.S. media outlets, though.
Probably for the same reason the media never mention the fact that all those virii almost always affect only Micros~1 Windows users.
I'm not talking about an assumption by the media that everyone uses Windows. My guess is that even the threat of a lawsuit from the world's richest man is enough to keep things like this out of the papers. Not to mention all those advertising dollars.
I experience a similar phenomenon at the non-profit I work at. There is no Web department. Nor even a real Web budget. Our 'Web Master' is in the Communications Department. I'm the 'Web Advocate' in our Advocacy Department. Our Publications Director does his own coding. Our IT Director has a consultant that tweaks our server box - which is now in-house since our previous host merged and lost what little brain power they had left. There is no central managing authority or oversight and instead we have an 'IT Committee' that meets every other week to try and do the job of a Web Director. The budget is all ad-hoc and barely gets us through. We also manage content in six languages, relying mainly on volunteers and interns. I argue for a Web Department and a budget, but org. management just doesn't want to hear it. Needless to say there is nothing resembling a strategy or plan. It's a constant battle just to get through the week.
I work in the Empire State Building.. now the tallest building in New York. Every day I have to walk through metal detectors, empty my pockets of cellphone, PDA and keys, put my bag through an x-ray machine, open my laptop and show security it's a real working laptop.
Like the poster, at first I didn't mind, but after weeks and weeks of this it's become a major hassle. If I want to leave the building for any reason at all I still have to wait in line to be hassled by the security goons. And now they're letting tourists back in to visit the observatory at the top. How long must we endure this daily harrassment? Until we've stopped bombing Afghanistan?
Oh, and my favorite are the posters in the lobby that say 'no knives or cutting instruments of any length are permitted on the premises.' So.... we don't try and hijack the building and fly it to DC?
So who exactly are we going to war against? An individual, bin Laden? His 'network of terrorist cells'? The Taliban? The Afghani people? Terrorism in general?
It's a fundamental question, because how will we know when the war is over?
Slashdot Mirror
How many Libraries of Congress is that?
No, wait...
What? No stable browser to bundle with the OS?
Jobs must have read this.
Read it on the Internet Archive here:w ww.securityoffice.net/mssecrets/hotmail.html
http://web.archive.org/web/20011123043914/http://
I hope it comes in all kinds of gawdawful pastel colors so airlines can make nifty new uniforms for their flight crew.
More about the journaling file system:p
http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,634720,00.as
http://www.sub-media.com
Aaaaawww yeah - it's chess Russian style!
For keeping your passwords safe from the average laptop thief, Disk Copy is probably fine. But for protecting your sensitive info from The Man, I'd be just a little wary of proprietary packages. Has anyone seen the source code for Disk Copy? Are you absolutely sure that there are no backdoors for law enforcement? Apple would stand up to the Feds in defense of their loyal customers, right?
Depending on the level of security you're after, I recommend open source software that's been audited by lots of paranoid geeks.
--
Design + Activism
In 1997, David Bowie issued bonds to pay interest from his old song royalties. Prudential Insurance Co. of America bought them all. Read about it, and David Pullman, the guy who helped him do it. The offering "allowed Bowie to collect $55 million up front, using some of the money to buy out a former manager and keep control of his music."
Paper Falls for Gag in Humor Tabloid
June 07, 2002 09:59 AM ET Email this article Printer friendly version
BEIJING (Reuters) - Beijing's most popular newspaper has unwittingly republished a bogus story about U.S. Congress threats to skip town for Memphis or Charlotte unless Washington builds them a new Capitol building with a retractable dome.
The source? America's celebrated spoof tabloid, the Onion.
The Beijing Evening News, which claims a circulation of 1.25 million, translated portions of the Onion's tall tale word-for-word in the international news page of its June 3 edition.
The reprinted version of the May 29 article, which parodies Congress as a Major League Baseball squad, also copied the Onion's would-be blueprint for a new legislative home that resembles a ballpark. "Don't get us wrong: We love the drafty old building," the Onion quoted House Speaker Dennis Hastert as saying.
"But the hard reality is, it's no longer suitable for a world-class legislative branch. The sight lines are bad, there aren't enough concession stands or bathrooms, and the parking is miserable."
The spoof from the brazen entertainment tabloid, which dubs itself "America's finest news source," apparently took in the Evening News.
"The story was written by one of our freelance writers," an editor at the Evening News told Reuters on Friday. "His stuff has been pretty much reliable before."
The editor said he had received other calls from readers about the article. "They were also suspicious of the contents."
Told the story came from the Onion and was not true, the editor said, "We would first have to check that out. If it's indeed fake, I'm sure there will be some form of correction."
Here's an update to our software. Now update your operating system to support it.
This is somewhat off topic, but I gotta say iCab rules. It renders quickly; has a nice, responsive UI; all kinds of customizable filters for javascript, ad banners, etc.; is relatively standards complient; and has a built in syntax checker. No email, newsreader, or composer to bloat the package. I prefer it to OmniWeb. Now let's see if Apple can produce something as flexible.
We are a free software project creating Java electronic voting software released under the General Public License (GPL). With this software we aim to:-
Provide a secure and private system
Create scalable and reliable software
Offer a non-commercial, non-partisan voting alternative
Use the GPL to create an open system that Internet users will trust
Release a system that can be used to support the growth of effective democracy anywhere in the world Additionally, in support of our wider development community, the project aims to:-
- Advocate the free software paradigm
- Evangelise the use of technology to strengthen democracy within a holistic understanding of the current malaise i.e. Internet voting alone isn't going to solve turnout problems
As an official GNU package and one of two electronic voting projects of FreeDevelopers.net our Free Software evangalism aims our particularly important.The "Top 10 for 2001" they are referring to are listed here.
En español aquí.
Funny, they all seem to have something in common...
Surely there must be a way to integrate nanotechnology, too.
The mind boggles...
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Got anti-terrorism?
From http://www.wacom.com/lcdtablets/index.cfm:
---
Wacom's Cintiq combines the advantages of an LCD monitor with the control, comfort, and productivity provided by a Wacom tablet. The LCD monitor is clear, bright and easy to look at. The Cintiq pen has 512 levels of pressure-sensitivity, is cordless, and batteryless and includes both a DuoSwitch and a pressure-sensitive eraser. The Cintiq pen is used directly on the screen offering everyone from designers and illustrators to doctors and professors a powerful and intuitive new way to work on their computers.
The Cintiq LCD monitor is a true-color active matrix screen providing 16.7 million colors, a resolution of 1024 x 768 and a full 15" diagonal viewing area (the equivalent of a 17" CRT monitor).
For comfort and convenience, Cintiq features a removable pen holder that can be attached to either side and adjusted to your preferred height and angle. The Cintiq stand allows you to easily adjust the angle of your Cintiq screen between 18 and 73 degrees - and you can even remove the stand to comfortably rest the Cintiq in your lap.
---
It also works with UNIX.
Hah! Your rubber band machine gun is no match for my Lego machine gun!
Trusty ol' Beeb.
I'm guessing you won't see this mentioned in any of the major U.S. media outlets, though.
Probably for the same reason the media never mention the fact that all those virii almost always affect only Micros~1 Windows users.
I'm not talking about an assumption by the media that everyone uses Windows. My guess is that even the threat of a lawsuit from the world's richest man is enough to keep things like this out of the papers. Not to mention all those advertising dollars.
If you can't get in, here's the Google cached page:
http://www.google.com/search?q=cache:fILryV3u3R4:
IANA programmer, but I did teach basic computer skills at locally owned hotels in Jamaica for six weeks as part of a sustainable development project for the OAS. NetCorps Canada does similar work.
Also check out idealist.org, search their listings, and get on their email list of volunteer opportunities.
I experience a similar phenomenon at the non-profit I work at. There is no Web department. Nor even a real Web budget. Our 'Web Master' is in the Communications Department. I'm the 'Web Advocate' in our Advocacy Department. Our Publications Director does his own coding. Our IT Director has a consultant that tweaks our server box - which is now in-house since our previous host merged and lost what little brain power they had left. There is no central managing authority or oversight and instead we have an 'IT Committee' that meets every other week to try and do the job of a Web Director. The budget is all ad-hoc and barely gets us through. We also manage content in six languages, relying mainly on volunteers and interns. I argue for a Web Department and a budget, but org. management just doesn't want to hear it. Needless to say there is nothing resembling a strategy or plan. It's a constant battle just to get through the week.
I work in the Empire State Building.. now the tallest building in New York. Every day I have to walk through metal detectors, empty my pockets of cellphone, PDA and keys, put my bag through an x-ray machine, open my laptop and show security it's a real working laptop.
Like the poster, at first I didn't mind, but after weeks and weeks of this it's become a major hassle. If I want to leave the building for any reason at all I still have to wait in line to be hassled by the security goons. And now they're letting tourists back in to visit the observatory at the top. How long must we endure this daily harrassment? Until we've stopped bombing Afghanistan?
Oh, and my favorite are the posters in the lobby that say 'no knives or cutting instruments of any length are permitted on the premises.' So.... we don't try and hijack the building and fly it to DC?
So who exactly are we going to war against? An individual, bin Laden? His 'network of terrorist cells'? The Taliban? The Afghani people? Terrorism in general?
It's a fundamental question, because how will we know when the war is over?
New kind of war, indeed.
The correct link is here.