Actually you can fight terror with force. Just not the half-assed, politically correct force we are conducting now.
Unrestrained firebombing of population centers and two nuclear explosions pretty much ended two of the most "terroristic" entities known to mankind: Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan.
The obvious endgame here is terrorists detonate a crude nuclear weapon in a U.S. city.
The "gloves" then come off of U.S. (Israeli?) strategic assets - several Islamic capitals get nuked. Vast majority of Middle Eastern oil & financial reserves, facilities, and infrastructure are confiscated by the U.S. for the "greater" world good.
NO OIL money + unrestrained U.S. force projection=NO Islamic terrorism.
"Sub" simply means under. So a sub-$500 laptop would be priced between $401-499. Anything lower would be a sub-$400 laptop (and so on).
Keep in mind that $500 is a magic number for many consumer electronic items here in the U.S. Often considered the "true" mass merchandise target price.
I'm sure there are a few products that assist disabled persons to "surf" websites by disecting the web page (through essentially screen scraping techniques) and performing one or more the following:
1. Adjusting text size. 2. Dictation of content. 3. Numbering of links. 4. Numerous other alternate presentation of the same data (changing colors for the color blind for example).
An outright ban of automated scraping techniques would eliminate these uses. (While I am at it: What is a web-browser but a form of screen scrapper?).
If the basic technique is allowed, all that can be debated is the use of such data and I think that is a much more dubious area. Facts are public domain.
Hmmm, through world diplomatic pressure we +halted+ the Persian Gulf War on a litany of conditions which Iraq agreed to in writing.
Only a fool could argue that ANY of the conditions have been met. Thus, this is not a new war, but simply a re-instatement of the first.
Oh by the way, it is about OIL. Always has been and always will. Less to do about Iraqi oil and more about Iraqi threats, conventional and unconvential, against the entire Middle Eastern oil supply.
Tree hugging philosophy aside, it is in America's vital national interest to insure the free flow of oil out of the Middle East.
It would be hard to drive your Land Rover to the peace protest when gas hits $10.00 gallon because Saddam decided to detonate a dirty bomb over Kuwati oil fields.
I have just read scores of anti-Microsoft messages, most of which could be plugged quite nicely into Apple's continuing marketing campaign. I assumed most aren't on Apple's payroll.
Therefore, isn't it possible that there might be one person out there who tows the Microsoft party line without being on the payroll of Microsoft?
It amazes me how my $700 PC running Win2K managed to not crash long enough to write this message. . . . OK I'm done, now where's my check Bill?
First one, gives standard phone system "annot connect".
The second (Boston) number rings to a guy answering "Foreign Currency Exchange" and he notified me that he felt the company was out of business.
He's going to be less coridal after the 1000th Slashdotter gives him a call looking for Ariston.
The personal hovercraft meets all the clues hinted at in the article.
I won't be shocked when the government decides to "protect" us from the new found freedom a hovercraft would provide.
However, part of me realizes how bad drivers most people are, but at least they will be only slinging around a couple of hundred pounds instead of two tons of steel.
Though, the additon of a third dimension spices things up quite nicely.
Here's an excerpt from their FAQ
To protect copyrights, publishers establish their own guidelines for how much of their e-books can be printed and/or copied. This means that these permissions will differ from book to book. For example, some of the free books from the Glassbook Bookstore have no restrictions on copying and printing. For example, a publisher might give consumers the ability to print several pages of a cookbook within a set period of time.
Alice In Wonderland is a free book and probably has no restrictions on copying, transfering, or "reading aloud".
Cell phones aside...let's also not forget that the airlines are not crying over the fact that use of most of our own entertainment devices are regulated in some way: Cell Phones, Laptops, Walkmans, etc.
I wouldn't be surprised that with studies like these only "approved" devices will be allowed on airplanes for the duration of the flight, not just take off and landing. -- Rob O'Neal
Slashdot Mirror
Could there be anyone less funny than a molecular neurobiologist?
It's called ROI. Why right your piece of spyware crap for maybe 10% of the installed desktops?
Actually you can fight terror with force. Just not the half-assed, politically correct force we are conducting now.
Unrestrained firebombing of population centers and two nuclear explosions pretty much ended two of the most "terroristic" entities known to mankind: Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan.
The obvious endgame here is terrorists detonate a crude nuclear weapon in a U.S. city.
The "gloves" then come off of U.S. (Israeli?) strategic assets - several Islamic capitals get nuked. Vast majority of Middle Eastern oil & financial reserves, facilities, and infrastructure are confiscated by the U.S. for the "greater" world good.
NO OIL money + unrestrained U.S. force projection=NO Islamic terrorism.
"Sub" simply means under. So a sub-$500 laptop would be priced between $401-499. Anything lower would be a sub-$400 laptop (and so on).
Keep in mind that $500 is a magic number for many consumer electronic items here in the U.S. Often considered the "true" mass merchandise target price.
Sorry, you don't remember correctly, the first line of HR 3162 is:
To deter and punish terrorist acts in the United States and around the world, to enhance law enforcement investigatory tools, and for other purposes.
Obviously, not having read the Patriot Act doesn't seem to bar people from either criticizing it or voting it into law. Oh, the irony.
Full Text of the Patriot Act
The mailing of movies aside, Netflix business model is different from my public library how?
I'm sure there are a few products that assist disabled persons to "surf" websites by disecting the web page (through essentially screen scraping techniques) and performing one or more the following:
1. Adjusting text size.
2. Dictation of content.
3. Numbering of links.
4. Numerous other alternate presentation of the same data (changing colors for the color blind for example).
An outright ban of automated scraping techniques would eliminate these uses. (While I am at it: What is a web-browser but a form of screen scrapper?).
If the basic technique is allowed, all that can be debated is the use of such data and I think that is a much more dubious area. Facts are public domain.
Maybe they can use the "my bot is blind defense".
If you think the Iraqui people are in dire straits...
What about the Iroquois?
To paraphrase Chris Rock, "If you think the blacks have it bad, have you ever even seen two American Indians in the same room?"
Oh, yeah...
As the old saying goes...
People with guns are citizens.
People without guns are subjects.
Hmmm, through world diplomatic pressure we +halted+ the Persian Gulf War on a litany of conditions which Iraq agreed to in writing.
Only a fool could argue that ANY of the conditions have been met. Thus, this is not a new war, but simply a re-instatement of the first.
Oh by the way, it is about OIL. Always has been and always will. Less to do about Iraqi oil and more about Iraqi threats, conventional and unconvential, against the entire Middle Eastern oil supply.
Tree hugging philosophy aside, it is in America's vital national interest to insure the free flow of oil out of the Middle East.
It would be hard to drive your Land Rover to the peace protest when gas hits $10.00 gallon because Saddam decided to detonate a dirty bomb over Kuwati oil fields.
Therefore, isn't it possible that there might be one person out there who tows the Microsoft party line without being on the payroll of Microsoft?
It amazes me how my $700 PC running Win2K managed to not crash long enough to write this message.
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OK I'm done, now where's my check Bill?
Please feel me in on what backwater there is?
Give me a break, have you even been there?
Land line service in Europe, including Scandinavia, is merely adequate by US standards.
In addition, the generally unlimited local calling we have enjoyed for decades does not exist.
No wonder cell phone use took off when compared to crappy government run phone monopolies.
Isn't it safe to say that our traditional land line service is quite good,reliable, and nearly universal?
By way of comparision, my few interfaces with Europeon phone service gave me the distinct impression of being in an old Andy Griffith show re-run.
With that as competition, I can see how Europe and Asia quickly embraced the cell phone.
In contrast, the U.S. population has had less incentive to embrace cellular technology.
Here. Here.
I consider myself a card-carrying Geek, but hardly subscribe to the "Unix Rules" Jihad.
Being the capitalist I am, when I spend the time & money building a product, I want it to run on as many computers as humanly possible. PERIOD.
When and a BIG IF, Unix (and hopefully one of its 33 flavors) crawls out of the single digit marketshare, I might consider giving a damn.
In the meantime, I'll take the lumps with Microsoft in exchange for a marketplace a 100,000 times larger.
Dollars and sense.
Google caches practically every page, so I would assume that they had this legally tested.
Slashdot should seriously consider during the editorial process to cache certain site's pages.
It's one thing to send thousands of click through to CNET, quite another to send that same bandwidth vacuum over to a little site in Norway.
-- Rob
This whole Napster/RIAA thing of late and fairly high CD prices have practically turned me off "songs" per se.
I find my self going to ShoutCast, picking a station to suit my needs (mostly Trance nowadays) and listening for hours on end.
The only problem with radio is the commercials and lack of variety. Both of these are addressed though streaming stations.
Though, I'm sure the timer is ticking on them as well.
First one, gives standard phone system "annot connect". The second (Boston) number rings to a guy answering "Foreign Currency Exchange" and he notified me that he felt the company was out of business. He's going to be less coridal after the 1000th Slashdotter gives him a call looking for Ariston.
I second that notion,
The personal hovercraft meets all the clues hinted at in the article.
I won't be shocked when the government decides to "protect" us from the new found freedom a hovercraft would provide.
However, part of me realizes how bad drivers most people are, but at least they will be only slinging around a couple of hundred pounds instead of two tons of steel.
Though, the additon of a third dimension spices things up quite nicely.
Here's an excerpt from their FAQ
To protect copyrights, publishers establish their own guidelines for how much of their e-books can be printed and/or copied. This means that these permissions will differ from book to book. For example, some of the free books from the Glassbook Bookstore have no restrictions on copying and printing. For example, a publisher might give consumers the ability to print several pages of a cookbook within a set period of time.
Alice In Wonderland is a free book and probably has no restrictions on copying, transfering, or "reading aloud".
GEEZ!
I wouldn't be surprised that with studies like these only "approved" devices will be allowed on airplanes for the duration of the flight, not just take off and landing. -- Rob O'Neal
On my way to cybersquat at http://www.birthofthefederation.com , I found Jeffrey Rhind of Avon, MA beat me to it by 72 hours.
Riddle me this, how long will it take Paramount to launch "photon lawsuits"?
The photo credit attributes this not to Fox News but to the Associated Press, hardly a bastion of the "vast right wing conspiracy".
:)
The fact I thought it was funny as hell also doesn't make me a card carrying member of the conspiracy, but I've been to a few of the meetings.
-- Rob O'Neal
With licensing, cars still kill far more people every year than unregulated gun use.
Would you be safer from a "gun toting" disgruntled co-worker who had 2-3 months of training. Would training remove the "intent to harm"?
Licensing is just another word for gun registration. The only people who would be safer would be the government managing the database of gun owners.