Wow. Netscape 7.02. That was based on an abortion of a Mozilla release. I highly recommend you install Seamonkey 1.0x and never look back.
As to Windows Me on a laptop, you must have a very high threshold for pain. I could never run anything less than XP or 2003 on a laptop because no other Microsoft OS could suspend or hibernate worth a damn.
It's reading your post just fine. I could have opened it in a tab but I don't use tabs, not sure what all the fuss is about on them.
I never turn my laptop off, I just move the mouse and it wakes up. There is no pain to have a threshold for, including not worrying about all the latest Microsoft hacks.
I run WinMe on my primary laptop and run Netscape 7.02 (was running Win98 on a desktop but it died). I have a phpBB board website that I admin and I program in Java with JBuilder with this computer. As long as I can get hold of hardware that will run my Win98 SE or WinMe install disks, this is what I'll be running. I may download Firefox at some point but I haven't run across anything I need it for. Netscape works just fine.
Of course, I don't have a lifeline to Redmond on this computer either, which is more than I can say for my XP Pro computer for work.
In addition, they think legislative oversight is outdated too. How many secret statements has Bush signed stating that he doesn't have to abide by the legislation he just signed into law?
I don't know, but from the number I heard, nearly everyone that applied to him.
And I'm sure we can find some nice CIA guys to provide some shonky evidence for us.
Actually, it was a Bush/Cheney DoD intelligence department that was created specifically to supply the lies to invade Iraq, Iran, Syria, and anyone else the neocons deem a threat to Israel.
I'm not going within a state of Ohio if this is for real - how reputable is this Toledo Blade anyhow?
The Toledo Blade is reputable. It's the politicians they're reporting on who aren't. IIRC, it was the Toldeo Blade that broke the Ohio Republican coin investment scandal.
What exactly should the government be doing? Waiting patiently for the next attack?
For starters, something this/. crowd ought to appreciate the significance of, they should have had the software systems developed by now for handling immigration, borders, ports, FBI criminal investigations, intelligence sharing, security clearances, and every other major system on the works for six yaers or more.
None of it works. Should we be waiting patiently while Republicans fail to deliver the goods on software needed to protect us? The only thing this Big Brother crowd can do is ignorant queries.
Cynthia McKinney didn't believe she should be punished for scuffling with a police officer. William J. Jefferson didn't get punished for his "freezer" corruption.
Cynthia and William are no longer with us, so lots of Democratic primary voters agreed with you, as well as agree with grandparent poster.
Why would terrorists be applying for Federal loans? The whole point is to keep a low profile. They don't need no stinkin' money from the US. They've got plenty where they come from.
Real conservatives wanted to get rid of the Department of Education, but this loser crowd of Republicans turns it into something out of 1984.
It doesn't matter if this evidence nets 1 or 1,000 convictions, every last one of them will be overturned on any number of grounds and the prosecuting agencies that utlizie this evidence will open themselves up to quite a bit of litigation and will probably eat some heavy judgments against them.
This hacker obviously planted that child pornography on my computer with a trojan, in an attempt to blackmail me, a promonent local physician...
There was checking account activity as part of the evidence, not just files found on the hard drive. Identity theft activity would also have to occur on an ongoing basis to rise to the level of evidence in this conviction.
And the IEEE September 2005 article "Who Killed the Virtual Case File" is awesome, Susan. What is ironic is that it provides both technical and project management insight into the FBI's failed efforts that would have benefited/.'ers the most, and it is amazing that editors here chose not to link to it if that is the case (virtual or otherwise).
Perhaps they can rectify that now. The Washington Post article is entirely dumbed down, and unless/. is catering to script kiddies these days, you'd think they would appreciate linking to an article with meat (perhaps not freshmeat, but meat nonetheless).
That is, if it can still be linked to. If not, they should get permission to reprint here as many/. comments are entirely off the mark because they have no idea from the Washington Post fluff article.
In defense of the Washington Post however, Eggen and others there wrote good articles on this in January and June 2005, so I was somewhat dumbfounded at this year later rehash being presented as not old news. Given journalistic creed, they must have got a fresh interview (and from what I recall of the Post article, a major league self serving fluff interview at that) and decided to go with it again.
Again,/. would be wise to follow up with your IEEE article to give their readers some real perspective on this and other ongoing mindboggling billions of dollars of software development disaster going on in Washington.
The server was a farm of eight midrange Sun or AS/400 boxes, fed by redundant T1's from the ticker plant, and this would only accomodate two or three hundred users.
Everyone who is Sun or AS/400 knows you don't know what you're talking about, so I guess that leaves a small group from the Windows arena who may buy it.
If the data needed to be on a laptop, why wasn't it encrypted?
From what I've gathered from news accounts, a file of every veteran since 1975 didn't need to be on a laptop. It was just some consultant copying everything critical at work and carrying it home to work on it.
I don't even know why the article / slashdot even mentions telecommuting in regards to this. There was no tele, just commuting.
And what about Jessica Lunsford's killer? All he did was cross the street. He wasn't where he wasn't supposed to be until he fled to Georgia. What if his trashmen left his trash cans on the wrong side of the street? Will an alarm go off when he's within 50 yards of a house where a potential victim lives? Imagine taking care of THAT database! Who defines where are the places he's allowed to go? Yes they would have figured out right away that he did it, but it wouldn't have saved her life. If you're going to strip liberties, at least make it worth it. (not-so-subliminal rabidity activation scheme here)
It should only be GPS recording, not real time monitoring of location. However what this does is nail people on parole who are somewhere they aren't supposed to be, in Couey's case living somewhere different than he gave as his address as required by law.
They would be pulled back into jail if they aren't where they're supposed to be, in other words, it puts teeth into monitoring people on probation.
I'm not a sex offender, nor have I ever been one, but I do think this is going a little overboard, unless we're talking about using it just to enforce the conditions of their parole and not tacking on new restrictions that weren't previously being made.
That's astoundingly few. You can come up with a good chunk of a sentence in a second, and recognize a blurry familiar face in less. Parallel or not, I have difficulty imagining how one does that in so few chunks of time.
Reading this post, I just had, at least for me, an amazing flash of insight.
Knowledge to me is as photographic as a memory of a walk on a beach. That led me to consider what mankind did before symbols.
Did mankind not have the same innate intelligence before symbols as after? And what did mankind do before symbols? They stored images in their brains, just not of symbols.
My insight is that intelligence is the ability to associate remembered sounds and images. Thus reproducing intelligence would really require doing those associations, not symbol manipulation.
Now as a programmer I know I have to use symbol manipulation in computer programs to attempt to accomplish that, but only as a means of associating sounds and images, at least to attempt to truly emulate the brain.
That may seem so simplistic as to be trite, but it is a revelation for me in thinking on how I would duplicate human thought processes.
For instance, take "sky blue". I'd say this could be interpreted as "the same kind of blue as the sky". But that doesn't lead anywhere if you're dealing with this entity that never seen the sky, and doesn't have a concept of vision to begin with.
Your points of lack of association with the actual physical phenomena are well taken, but in this case I would say it would be more of a simple association with the fact that what color eyes are is significant, and in this case the color is sky blue.
Really it's just word association, no intelligence or understanding behind it, so I don't disagree with your major contention.
For example, let's try with "the sky is blue". To a human, that's obvious. Try to explain it to something that has no concept of space or color. In fact, I don't think you can even explain such a thing as color to somebody who doesn't perceive at least part of it.
I'm not an advocate of the various AI work that I've read about, but in your example for something to be told that there is a "sky" and it is "blue" would allow it to understand the context of "sky blue eyes", assuming it had been told there were "eyes".
Useful? I don't know, but I think the point here is that when told there is a sky and it is blue can acknowledge it as a fact and use it without seeing it.
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Wow. Netscape 7.02. That was based on an abortion of a Mozilla release.
I highly recommend you install Seamonkey 1.0x and never look back.
As to Windows Me on a laptop, you must have a very high threshold for pain. I could never run anything less than XP or 2003 on a laptop because no other Microsoft OS could suspend or hibernate worth a damn.
It's reading your post just fine. I could have opened it in a tab but I don't use tabs, not sure what all the fuss is about on them.
I never turn my laptop off, I just move the mouse and it wakes up. There is no pain to have a threshold for, including not worrying about all the latest Microsoft hacks.
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I run WinMe on my primary laptop and run Netscape 7.02 (was running Win98 on a desktop but it died). I have a phpBB board website that I admin and I program in Java with JBuilder with this computer. As long as I can get hold of hardware that will run my Win98 SE or WinMe install disks, this is what I'll be running. I may download Firefox at some point but I haven't run across anything I need it for. Netscape works just fine.
Of course, I don't have a lifeline to Redmond on this computer either, which is more than I can say for my XP Pro computer for work.
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In addition, they think legislative oversight is outdated too. How many secret statements has Bush signed stating that he doesn't have to abide by the legislation he just signed into law?
I don't know, but from the number I heard, nearly everyone that applied to him.
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And I'm sure we can find some nice CIA guys to provide some shonky evidence for us.
Actually, it was a Bush/Cheney DoD intelligence department that was created specifically to supply the lies to invade Iraq, Iran, Syria, and anyone else the neocons deem a threat to Israel.
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I'm not going within a state of Ohio if this is for real - how reputable is this Toledo Blade anyhow?
The Toledo Blade is reputable. It's the politicians they're reporting on who aren't. IIRC, it was the Toldeo Blade that broke the Ohio Republican coin investment scandal.
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I can't comprehend how anyone could think this is a good idea.
You don't know Ohio Republicans. Or maybe it's not just Ohio Republicans.
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What exactly should the government be doing? Waiting patiently for the next attack?
/. crowd ought to appreciate the significance of, they should have had the software systems developed by now for handling immigration, borders, ports, FBI criminal investigations, intelligence sharing, security clearances, and every other major system on the works for six yaers or more.
For starters, something this
None of it works. Should we be waiting patiently while Republicans fail to deliver the goods on software needed to protect us? The only thing this Big Brother crowd can do is ignorant queries.
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Cynthia McKinney didn't believe she should be punished for scuffling with a police officer.
William J. Jefferson didn't get punished for his "freezer" corruption.
Cynthia and William are no longer with us, so lots of Democratic primary voters agreed with you, as well as agree with grandparent poster.
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Would rather have Clinton and Saddam back in power?
Not yes, hell yes.
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If the Republican party loses the house, senate, and presidency, then will you be able to "trust the government"?
Yes, Democrats screw us publically, Republicans screw us behind closed doors.
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Why would terrorists be applying for Federal loans? The whole point is to keep a low profile. They don't need no stinkin' money from the US. They've got plenty where they come from.
Real conservatives wanted to get rid of the Department of Education, but this loser crowd of Republicans turns it into something out of 1984.
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It doesn't matter if this evidence nets 1 or 1,000 convictions, every last one of them will be overturned on any number of grounds and the prosecuting agencies that utlizie this evidence will open themselves up to quite a bit of litigation and will probably eat some heavy judgments against them.
According to TFA, none of that happened.
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This hacker obviously planted that child pornography on my computer with a trojan, in an attempt to blackmail me, a promonent local physician...
There was checking account activity as part of the evidence, not just files found on the hard drive. Identity theft activity would also have to occur on an ongoing basis to rise to the level of evidence in this conviction.
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The real question is, will this evidence hold up in court? IANAL, but it would seem that an easy defense would be to go after this information.
The whole point of TFA was that it did hold up in court.
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And the IEEE September 2005 article "Who Killed the Virtual Case File" is awesome, Susan. What is ironic is that it provides both technical and project management insight into the FBI's failed efforts that would have benefited /.'ers the most, and it is amazing that editors here chose not to link to it if that is the case (virtual or otherwise).
/. is catering to script kiddies these days, you'd think they would appreciate linking to an article with meat (perhaps not freshmeat, but meat nonetheless).
/. comments are entirely off the mark because they have no idea from the Washington Post fluff article.
/. would be wise to follow up with your IEEE article to give their readers some real perspective on this and other ongoing mindboggling billions of dollars of software development disaster going on in Washington.
Perhaps they can rectify that now. The Washington Post article is entirely dumbed down, and unless
That is, if it can still be linked to. If not, they should get permission to reprint here as many
In defense of the Washington Post however, Eggen and others there wrote good articles on this in January and June 2005, so I was somewhat dumbfounded at this year later rehash being presented as not old news. Given journalistic creed, they must have got a fresh interview (and from what I recall of the Post article, a major league self serving fluff interview at that) and decided to go with it again.
Again,
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The server was a farm of eight midrange Sun or AS/400 boxes, fed by redundant T1's from the ticker plant, and this would only accomodate two or three hundred users.
Everyone who is Sun or AS/400 knows you don't know what you're talking about, so I guess that leaves a small group from the Windows arena who may buy it.
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If the data needed to be on a laptop, why wasn't it encrypted?
From what I've gathered from news accounts, a file of every veteran since 1975 didn't need to be on a laptop. It was just some consultant copying everything critical at work and carrying it home to work on it.
I don't even know why the article / slashdot even mentions telecommuting in regards to this. There was no tele, just commuting.
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Now that's the site that should have been slashdotted in the first place. Thanks for a worthy replacement link.
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And what about Jessica Lunsford's killer? All he did was cross the street. He wasn't where he wasn't supposed to be until he fled to Georgia. What if his trashmen left his trash cans on the wrong side of the street? Will an alarm go off when he's within 50 yards of a house where a potential victim lives? Imagine taking care of THAT database! Who defines where are the places he's allowed to go? Yes they would have figured out right away that he did it, but it wouldn't have saved her life. If you're going to strip liberties, at least make it worth it. (not-so-subliminal rabidity activation scheme here)
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It should only be GPS recording, not real time monitoring of location. However what this does is nail people on parole who are somewhere they aren't supposed to be, in Couey's case living somewhere different than he gave as his address as required by law.
They would be pulled back into jail if they aren't where they're supposed to be, in other words, it puts teeth into monitoring people on probation.
I discuss in in the free online book Murder on a Horse Trail: The Disappearance of Chandra Levy
http://www.justiceforchandra.com/forums/viewforum
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I'm not a sex offender, nor have I ever been one, but I do think this is going a little overboard, unless we're talking about using it just to enforce the conditions of their parole and not tacking on new restrictions that weren't previously being made.
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Yes, but with registered sex offenders it's lifetime parole. I discuss in the free online book Murder on a Horse Trail: The Disappearance of Chandra Levy
http://www.justiceforchandra.com/forums/viewforum
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It's a good true crime murder mystery published on my web site in which I end with calling for GPS tracking of sex offenders. Give it a look.
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Murder on a Horse Trail: The Disappearance of Chandra Levy http://www.justiceforchandra.com/forums/viewforum
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the IT industry is loosing the new graduates...
Would they be called loosers?
That's astoundingly few. You can come up with a good chunk of a sentence in a second, and recognize a blurry familiar face in less. Parallel or not, I have difficulty imagining how one does that in so few chunks of time.
Reading this post, I just had, at least for me, an amazing flash of insight.
Knowledge to me is as photographic as a memory of a walk on a beach. That led me to consider what mankind did before symbols.
Did mankind not have the same innate intelligence before symbols as after? And what did mankind do before symbols? They stored images in their brains, just not of symbols.
My insight is that intelligence is the ability to associate remembered sounds and images. Thus reproducing intelligence would really require doing those associations, not symbol manipulation.
Now as a programmer I know I have to use symbol manipulation in computer programs to attempt to accomplish that, but only as a means of associating sounds and images, at least to attempt to truly emulate the brain.
That may seem so simplistic as to be trite, but it is a revelation for me in thinking on how I would duplicate human thought processes.
rd
For instance, take "sky blue". I'd say this could be interpreted as "the same kind of blue as the sky". But that doesn't lead anywhere if you're dealing with this entity that never seen the sky, and doesn't have a concept of vision to begin with.
Your points of lack of association with the actual physical phenomena are well taken, but in this case I would say it would be more of a simple association with the fact that what color eyes are is significant, and in this case the color is sky blue.
Really it's just word association, no intelligence or understanding behind it, so I don't disagree with your major contention.
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For example, let's try with "the sky is blue". To a human, that's obvious. Try to explain it to something that has no concept of space or color. In fact, I don't think you can even explain such a thing as color to somebody who doesn't perceive at least part of it.
I'm not an advocate of the various AI work that I've read about, but in your example for something to be told that there is a "sky" and it is "blue" would allow it to understand the context of "sky blue eyes", assuming it had been told there were "eyes".
Useful? I don't know, but I think the point here is that when told there is a sky and it is blue can acknowledge it as a fact and use it without seeing it.
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