> Correct me if I'm wrong, but the summary talks of grey-markets; are these the same grey markets that were thought of as great until Sony shut down Lik-Sang and are now thought of as bad because of some Cisco gear going wrong?
Whatcha gonna do when you wake up one morning and discover that your company or whole national infrastructure is pwned by someone who has been putting backdoors in their greyware?
> This isn't as bad as when pirates pirated an entire company: NEC. Yeah, they had fake buildings, fake manufacturing facilities, fake executives, everything.
Yeah, but all that was needed as the backdrop for the fake lunar landings.
I have Wikipedia, Wiktionary, Google, Google Groups, and Google Images search fields in my Galeon "smart bookmarks" toolbar. So I just type name of thing I'm looking for in whichever seems most likely to return the information I want.
> This is a moot point. I'm being serious. Google is supposed to tell you where to find what you're looking for, like the catalog computer in a library that tells you exactly which shelf to go to, whereas Wikipedia is an encyclopedia, an indiviual book in the library. Comparing the two is IMHO completely pointless.
Quite often, the Wikipedia article is one of the top links returned by Google.
> That was dumb. I mean I know he's a former legislator, but still if the suspicion is that the Diebold software is allowing vote switching, why send it to someone who has a history of being involved in government and depending on votes for his job? For all the sender knew his party is the one taking advantage of the flaws and they could have just distroyed the package!
She received it because she is now a prominent critic of the use of electronic voting systems. The "donor" apparently thought she would Do The Right Thing and have it analysed for flaws, but it looks like she reported it to the FBI instead.
> This situation is the result of what is now popularly known as a "broken arrow". A nuclear weapons accident that does not produce the risk of nuclear war. The weapon (a missing weapon on the nuclear scale)would actually be known as an "empty quiver".
Wonder what Freud would have said about that jargon...
> You can lose many battles, but in the end you can still win the war.
That's hardly an argument in favor of a do-nothing strategy.
> I'm bloody amazed that we even won WW2. For fucks sake, your attitude is that of the French!
This has nothing in common with WWII, nor with the attitude of the French.
> What will it take before western civilization wakes up and realizes we have a pan-islamic threat. I guess we just have to face facts. It will take a few nukes going off in our country before something happens. Worse yet, nothing happens...no one wakes up...and the finger pointing continues...
The homocidal nutcakes don't represent a pan-Islamic threat any more than our home-grown homocidal nutcakes represent a pan-Christian threat.
And all that is irrelevant to the fact that "stay the course" is a policy of trading lives to postpone an admission of fucking up.
> So what should have been mentioned to the commission, that some guy had no concrete evidence but had a gut feeling? The fact that this is non-news but is still getting reported makes it propaganda.
It was the Commission's job to find out what happened and what intelligence failures let it happen. Neglecting to inform them about this is no different than Clinton neglecting to mention that he got a blowjob when asked about his relationship with Lewinsky.
> I'm a little confused here. They say they have soft tissue, but dna can't survise the 70 mil years. How can they have soft tissue withOUT dna?
News has been quiet since the first sensationalist announcement. What I gather is that it wasn't "soft tissue" per se, but rather, they got an icky mess out when they put solvent in it.
We're still waiting to hear what the icky stuff actually was. The long delay makes me suspect that the original announcement was not entirely accurate.
> This administration never owns up - they cover up their failures and point fingers. Perhaps if they admitted fault, I might be more inclined to spread the blame, but the fact that they obfuscate and cover up just adds more taint to an already abysmal record. This administration are the ones who did absolutely nothing when warned during the summer of 2001. The result of that inaction was the loss of several thousand lives.
"Stay the course" is just the public face of "Don't admit that we screwed up". Two US soldiers are dying every day for no reason other than helping Dick Don and George save face. If they can keep it up for another 28 months they can blame the failure on the next president. (They probably hope he's a Democrat.) Of course, that's another 800 US soldiers dead in a futile attempt to salvage DD&G's places in history.
> This just in: Bin Laden is going to attack Americans. Big Deal. He already _had_ attacked Americans. [...] This is non-news.
The news is that everyone "forgot" to mention it to the Commission.
> Why are the only political stories on Slashdot left-wing propaganda?
What is left-wing or propagandistic about this? Is it "left-wing propaganda" to point out the flaws and dishonesty in the way this country is run? If another party was calling the shots, would it be right-wing propaganda to point out the flaws in their behavior?
> I doubt this will ever become realised in the mainsteam concious, it's been ingrained on the entire world and I don't think there is anyone (english speaking) who wouldn't be able to quote it. I don't think it's ever really been an issue of dropping the 'a', the line gains memorability for that. At the end of the day I think this research will end up as a nice section of trivia somewhere, but we will all remember the quote that came through on that day, and surely the communications glitch was a part of history too, so it should be remembered that way IMHO.
What's sad is that it hasn't turned out to be a giant leap for mankind after all, but rather the high-water point of a short-term venture we haven't had the will to follow through on.
> Spend more time on fucking Q & A. I'm tired of trying to talk people into Gentoo only to find out that the tree is half-fucked all the time
Yes, for the past year or so I've been noticing more broken dependencies. Really annoying was a couple of *mm packages that got into an upgrade-downgrade cycle. Every time you did -uD world they'd want to switch to whatever they were before the last time.
That was a glaring annoyance, but hardly the only one. I've been working on "clean" install this week, and it hasn't been very clean at all. I've found both broken dependencies and documentation that tells you to do the wrong thing. I'm starting to sympathize with Joe Barr after all...
> I can't believe how even after hearing about it on TV everyday for the last 5 years, some people still don't grow tired of hearing about it.
And this year we've been treated to a steady barrage of movie ads and television specials for about the past two months.
> Only 3,000 people (a bit less actually) died. While I may sound like a troll for saying "only", it's because we need to relativize, 3,000 people dying en masse is not a lot nor even exceptional compared to what happens all the time on Earth.
IIRC, the annual traffic deaths in the USA is "only" about ten times the number of people killed on 9/11.
> But maybe it has to do with both happening in the USA and being very spectacular... Still, give me a break with 9/11, it's getting old, I mean I'm getting fed up.
Fed up with politicians using it to justify all manner of nonsense, while studiously avoiding doing anything the experts actually recommended.
> I have seen it on our local cable provider, Time Warner Cable in Houston. What's sad is how insulting this is to the intelligence of the audience.
For the past 5-10 years there has been a slow but steady increase in the number of "commercials" on television that are nothing but blatant attempts to sway the public on some pending legislation that affects the advertiser's corporate interests.
Usually FUD based. Certainly not motivated by concern for the consumers' best interests, as they always pretend to be.
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> Correct me if I'm wrong, but the summary talks of grey-markets; are these the same grey markets that were thought of as great until Sony shut down Lik-Sang and are now thought of as bad because of some Cisco gear going wrong?
Whatcha gonna do when you wake up one morning and discover that your company or whole national infrastructure is pwned by someone who has been putting backdoors in their greyware?
> This isn't as bad as when pirates pirated an entire company: NEC. Yeah, they had fake buildings, fake manufacturing facilities, fake executives, everything.
Yeah, but all that was needed as the backdrop for the fake lunar landings.
If we'd spent all that money researching telepathy instead of electronics, we wouldn't be in this position.
> I'll actually often just type http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/name_of_thing_I'm_loo king_for as it's faster than searching Google or Wikipedia. :)
I have Wikipedia, Wiktionary, Google, Google Groups, and Google Images search fields in my Galeon "smart bookmarks" toolbar. So I just type name of thing I'm looking for in whichever seems most likely to return the information I want.
> This is a moot point. I'm being serious. Google is supposed to tell you where to find what you're looking for, like the catalog computer in a library that tells you exactly which shelf to go to, whereas Wikipedia is an encyclopedia, an indiviual book in the library. Comparing the two is IMHO completely pointless.
Quite often, the Wikipedia article is one of the top links returned by Google.
> That was dumb. I mean I know he's a former legislator, but still if the suspicion is that the Diebold software is allowing vote switching, why send it to someone who has a history of being involved in government and depending on votes for his job? For all the sender knew his party is the one taking advantage of the flaws and they could have just distroyed the package!
She received it because she is now a prominent critic of the use of electronic voting systems. The "donor" apparently thought she would Do The Right Thing and have it analysed for flaws, but it looks like she reported it to the FBI instead.
> What about the integrity of the elections?
Trumped by "what about the profitability of the company".
> Didn't anyone stop to think that maybe math is overrated?
According to my calculations, it's overrated by a factor of about 2.7
I kicked the math habit, and got laid!
If AMD falls too far behind, Intel gets greedy and jacks up its prices and/or slows its performance curve. Then AMD becomes a challenger again.
Of course, that requires AMD to stay in business...
> This situation is the result of what is now popularly known as a "broken arrow". A nuclear weapons accident that does not produce the risk of nuclear war. The weapon (a missing weapon on the nuclear scale)would actually be known as an "empty quiver".
Wonder what Freud would have said about that jargon...
> You can lose many battles, but in the end you can still win the war.
That's hardly an argument in favor of a do-nothing strategy.
> I'm bloody amazed that we even won WW2. For fucks sake, your attitude is that of the French!
This has nothing in common with WWII, nor with the attitude of the French.
> What will it take before western civilization wakes up and realizes we have a pan-islamic threat. I guess we just have to face facts. It will take a few nukes going off in our country before something happens. Worse yet, nothing happens...no one wakes up...and the finger pointing continues...
The homocidal nutcakes don't represent a pan-Islamic threat any more than our home-grown homocidal nutcakes represent a pan-Christian threat.
And all that is irrelevant to the fact that "stay the course" is a policy of trading lives to postpone an admission of fucking up.
> So what should have been mentioned to the commission, that some guy had no concrete evidence but had a gut feeling? The fact that this is non-news but is still getting reported makes it propaganda.
It was the Commission's job to find out what happened and what intelligence failures let it happen. Neglecting to inform them about this is no different than Clinton neglecting to mention that he got a blowjob when asked about his relationship with Lewinsky.
And stems from exactly the same motivation.
> I'm a little confused here. They say they have soft tissue, but dna can't survise the 70 mil years. How can they have soft tissue withOUT dna?
News has been quiet since the first sensationalist announcement. What I gather is that it wasn't "soft tissue" per se, but rather, they got an icky mess out when they put solvent in it.
We're still waiting to hear what the icky stuff actually was. The long delay makes me suspect that the original announcement was not entirely accurate.
> This administration never owns up - they cover up their failures and point fingers. Perhaps if they admitted fault, I might be more inclined to spread the blame, but the fact that they obfuscate and cover up just adds more taint to an already abysmal record. This administration are the ones who did absolutely nothing when warned during the summer of 2001. The result of that inaction was the loss of several thousand lives.
"Stay the course" is just the public face of "Don't admit that we screwed up". Two US soldiers are dying every day for no reason other than helping Dick Don and George save face. If they can keep it up for another 28 months they can blame the failure on the next president. (They probably hope he's a Democrat.) Of course, that's another 800 US soldiers dead in a futile attempt to salvage DD&G's places in history.
> Does anyone feel as though your life is being controlled by government officials who do not give a damn about you?
Don't worry; you'll matter when you become a billionaire.
> This just in: Bin Laden is going to attack Americans. Big Deal. He already _had_ attacked Americans. [...] This is non-news.
The news is that everyone "forgot" to mention it to the Commission.
> Why are the only political stories on Slashdot left-wing propaganda?
What is left-wing or propagandistic about this? Is it "left-wing propaganda" to point out the flaws and dishonesty in the way this country is run? If another party was calling the shots, would it be right-wing propaganda to point out the flaws in their behavior?
> I doubt this will ever become realised in the mainsteam concious, it's been ingrained on the entire world and I don't think there is anyone (english speaking) who wouldn't be able to quote it. I don't think it's ever really been an issue of dropping the 'a', the line gains memorability for that. At the end of the day I think this research will end up as a nice section of trivia somewhere, but we will all remember the quote that came through on that day, and surely the communications glitch was a part of history too, so it should be remembered that way IMHO.
What's sad is that it hasn't turned out to be a giant leap for mankind after all, but rather the high-water point of a short-term venture we haven't had the will to follow through on.
> While impressive, the feat was accomplished over a single optical fiber using proprietary amplifiers not in production.
Yeah, I want to use a rocket sled stacked with DVDs, but I can't find a vendor.
> Spend more time on fucking Q & A. I'm tired of trying to talk people into Gentoo only to find out that the tree is half-fucked all the time
Yes, for the past year or so I've been noticing more broken dependencies. Really annoying was a couple of *mm packages that got into an upgrade-downgrade cycle. Every time you did -uD world they'd want to switch to whatever they were before the last time.
That was a glaring annoyance, but hardly the only one. I've been working on "clean" install this week, and it hasn't been very clean at all. I've found both broken dependencies and documentation that tells you to do the wrong thing. I'm starting to sympathize with Joe Barr after all...
> I'm not even gonna see the third one (ROTS). It'll just be me walking into an empty theater and there will be Lucas ready to rape me some more.
So now it's "* me twice, shame on you; * me three times, shame on me"?
> Han posted first!
Funniest thing I've seen on Slashdot in months.
They're not really the originals and they look terrible, but otherwise they're fine?
> I can't believe how even after hearing about it on TV everyday for the last 5 years, some people still don't grow tired of hearing about it.
And this year we've been treated to a steady barrage of movie ads and television specials for about the past two months.
> Only 3,000 people (a bit less actually) died. While I may sound like a troll for saying "only", it's because we need to relativize, 3,000 people dying en masse is not a lot nor even exceptional compared to what happens all the time on Earth.
"Worldwide, an estimated 1.2 million people are killed in road crashes each year and as many as 50 million are injured."
IIRC, the annual traffic deaths in the USA is "only" about ten times the number of people killed on 9/11.
> But maybe it has to do with both happening in the USA and being very spectacular... Still, give me a break with 9/11, it's getting old, I mean I'm getting fed up.
Fed up with politicians using it to justify all manner of nonsense, while studiously avoiding doing anything the experts actually recommended.
> I have seen it on our local cable provider, Time Warner Cable in Houston. What's sad is how insulting this is to the intelligence of the audience.
For the past 5-10 years there has been a slow but steady increase in the number of "commercials" on television that are nothing but blatant attempts to sway the public on some pending legislation that affects the advertiser's corporate interests.
Usually FUD based. Certainly not motivated by concern for the consumers' best interests, as they always pretend to be.