The theory is that intelligence has been gathering objects and papers out of all the al qaida caves and cubby holes in Afganistan.
So they have been lifting fingerprints of all this stuff and sticking it in a database.
So, when one of those al qaida guys puts their thumb on a scanner when entering the US, I think it would be natural to wonder if they have come here to drive airplanes into buildings or not.
All this means is that the terrorists are going to have to add another leg to their journey and drive into the country through Canada/Mexico or by boat.
I have been seriously evaluating our relationship, and I've concluded you are not offering me what I need to be happy. I feel it is time for me to move on.
Yes, I know it's hard. We did have some good times together. Remember those times when you had "beta" in your name? Then came the time you bought and saved the Dejanews archive. I will always admire you for that. Then there was the time you added News search and Froogle. And all those times that you put those funny little cartoons in your name on holidays and on the birthdays of famous artists? Ahh, those were the days.
But those days are gone. Lately, you have been neglecting my needs as more and more results are being skewed by "link farming."
Then your eyes started to wander, and you started to pursue this illicit "shareholder love." You were wooed by this new lover that had a big wad of cash in his pocket.
Dear, no person can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other, or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. There are just too many search engines piled on the heap who whore out search results to the highest bidder. They think that they will never be caught, but eventually they are always found out.
You are just scaring me too much for me to take it anymore. I think it's best for both of us to find some therapy and move on.
I'm always happy to help out a fellow slashdotter. Here is the article translated;
Levyer: DFD-Jun is oon huleedey in Frunce-a, und I hefee't spukee tu heem yet, Bork Bork Bork! Hooefer, ve-a hefe-a deescoossed thees es a pusseeble-a ooootcume-a, und I zeereffure-a knoo thet he-a veell be-a fery pleesed tu heer zee noos, es he-a cun feenelly relex und stup theenkeeng ebuoot thees cese-a. It hes beee 4 yeers seence-a zee legel ecshuns egeeenst DFD-Jun vere-a tekee, und he-a ves oonly 15 et zee teeme-a. It hes beee a heefy boordee fur heem dooreeng zeese-a impurtunt yeers in hees leeffe-a, Bork Bork Bork! Hooefer, I theenk he-a hes hundled zee seetooeteeun vell. He-a vrute-a DeCSS su thet peuple-a cun pley DFD's oon oozeer OoS'is thun Veendoos. Thees cese-a hes beee bruooght up by IT medeea ell oofer zee vurld, und muny peuple-a hefe-a ixpressed sooppurt fur DFD-Jun. Frum zee ferdeect in zee "legmunnsrettee" in december lest yeer, zee cuoort seeed thet it ves cleer thet he-a hed buooght zee DFD's heemselff, und zeereffure-a he-a hes zee reeght tu pley zeem hooefer he-a veeshes tu. "Legmunnsrettee" elsu seeed thet iff yuoo booy a DFD, zeere-a is a reesk thet it mey becume-a demeged, und zeereffure-a yuoo hefe-a zee reeght tu meke-a a cupy ooff zee DFD, iff it's a mufeee-a yuoo intend tu preserfe-a
Yup. All those countless shipping containers on those huge freighters that are offloaded onto a waiting semi in 30 seconds.
As aside, there has been much discussion as to what a terroist could sneak in by way of a shipping container. If they could get box cutters onto an airline imagine what they might try to sneak in a shipping container.
They might not do this to blow up anything per se, but they could halt the economy while every shipping container was inspected.
To get back on-topic, I don't think the MPAA is going after the "no-name" brand DVD players because it's impossible to go after them at the ports. So, they could go after them at the retailers.
The problem with this idea that if you get Wal-Mart upset, they will drop ALL your products in favor of one that doesn't cause them problems.
It might would cause too much of a bright light to be shown on the MPAA's "standard tax" and why it exists.
You know, I don't have a problem with buying stuff made in Japan, Taiwan, South Korea, as these places simply do not have the magnitude of human rights problems that China has.
I _do_ look at the back of stuff I buy to see where it is made. And it matters to me, even if nothing more to pain my conscience.
But as other posters have noted, everything is made in China nowadays, including "high-end" items that normally would seem to come from somewhere else.
I'm glad that I'm not the only one senstive to this.
Dude, they do not make that much working in a rice patty - it's more like $.25 cents a day.
Factory work in china brings $1 a day. Frontline had an excellent presentation on China and employment conditions there that tracked the the lives of several people.
A couple of them were so bad off that $50 bucks could have changed their lives totally and solved their problems.
I, and many others, wondered how someone could send money to them. But the chinese government being the asshats that they are prevented it.
Another interesting problem that scramjets have is that they have a hard time staying "lit" at high speeds.
It would be a real bummer to lose an engine when you are trying to achieve orbit.
Interestingly, it has been proposed that the research taking place at area 51 involves hypersonic sub-orbital plane, the idea being that it would be neat to reach any place on the globe within a couple of hours (or less).
However, it seems that they are using a different engine, something called a Pulse Wave Detonation Engine, or PWDE (leaving the scramjet behind for something better?).
Here are some interesting pictures of the contrails.
For those of us that experimented with early home computers, being able to save data any method possible was wonderful.... until you started to do it on a regular basis. Then it got "old" real fast.
The problems were numerous, and it was a BIG hassle to store more than one program on a tape.
Atari, trash80, vic20, C64, TI, timex sinclair all had tape interfaces. But everybody was more than willing to dump it for a more expensive disk drive. .
My Salvation Army stopped taking computer equipment entirely. Many goodwills are following suit as they are left holding the bag when REAL junk gets dropped off.
It costs them to have their dumpster emptied to the landfill. There is no profit in having to pay for dumpsters filled with completely unusable equipment.
The stuff I take to the goodwill is very much junk, where the best of the scroungers here would not want to look at it. It really is trash by time I'm ready to haul it off. (broken 10meg MFM drive anyone? How 'bout a cga monitor? Or a 386 board with all of the chips removed? See what I mean?)
Heh. There's even an ebay category for "all region" players.
The one thing that I don't like about the apex is the "black level" is set at 0 volts (japanese standard) versus the 1 volt (american standard).
What this means is the black part of a picture when played on an apex over-saturates and it's difficult to see what is going on in dark scenes. You can turn up the brightness, but this is a poor hack as it tends to conversely wash out some colors.
I have a Daewoo 5800 that I bought from Sam's club, "upgraded" it myself, and I have been quite happy with it. Though I haven't played too many out of region discs with it, and haven't tested dvdr capability, it has been pretty trouble free. There were one or two disks that it had a hard time playing, but I fault the discs and not the player, as the player has done pretty well.
I have used the s-vhs output to the tv (through a vcr), and the picture is very crisp, and the black levels are normal.
I don't see how a progressive scan can give me a better picture, it's that good.
BTW, if you don't want to by a Sam's club membership, what you do is buy a walmart gift card for yourself that will work at sam's club. They will let you in with that.
The only bad thing is that it is not listed in most "universal remote" code books. So what I did was buy the Philips universal "learning" remote that I was able to train all the buttons on the remote to. You can find this at K-mart for $17, and look for the "thin model" that fits in the hand very nicely. I have everything programmed into this one remote so I don't have seven remotes everywhere. This has to be the single best value in a remote, and I have looked at alot of them.
ok, how do you know that the Walmart versions are cut?
From Walmarts point of view, they are darned if they do, and darned if they don't. That is, if they carry a certain version uncut, they have conservatives picketing the store. If they cut it, they have customers like us complaining.
So, wouldn't they be better off if they just didn't sell a particular item?
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If I tattle on you will that make me a point of light?
What other secret knowledge might you have, hmmm???
I think you are a candidate for further investigation.
Don't worry, you will not be told what or when they investigate you, and they no longer have to bother with that pesky judicial nonsense either.
Who knows. Look at this interesting article. I wouldn't put anything past those al qaida nutjobs.
Not that it would have, but that it might.
The theory is that intelligence has been gathering objects and papers out of all the al qaida caves and cubby holes in Afganistan.
So they have been lifting fingerprints of all this stuff and sticking it in a database.
So, when one of those al qaida guys puts their thumb on a scanner when entering the US, I think it would be natural to wonder if they have come here to drive airplanes into buildings or not.
All this means is that the terrorists are going to have to add another leg to their journey and drive into the country through Canada/Mexico or by boat.
Dear Google,
I have been seriously evaluating our relationship, and I've concluded you are not offering me what I need to be happy. I feel it is time for me to move on.
Yes, I know it's hard. We did have some good times together. Remember those times when you had "beta" in your name? Then came the time you bought and saved the Dejanews archive. I will always admire you for that. Then there was the time you added News search and Froogle. And all those times that you put those funny little cartoons in your name on holidays and on the birthdays of famous artists? Ahh, those were the days.
But those days are gone. Lately, you have been neglecting my needs as more and more results are being skewed by "link farming."
Then your eyes started to wander, and you started to pursue this illicit "shareholder love." You were wooed by this new lover that had a big wad of cash in his pocket.
Dear, no person can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other, or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. There are just too many search engines piled on the heap who whore out search results to the highest bidder. They think that they will never be caught, but eventually they are always found out.
You are just scaring me too much for me to take it anymore. I think it's best for both of us to find some therapy and move on.
Love,
eclectro
I'm always happy to help out a fellow slashdotter. Here is the article translated;
Levyer: DFD-Jun is oon huleedey in Frunce-a, und I hefee't spukee tu heem yet, Bork Bork Bork! Hooefer, ve-a hefe-a deescoossed thees es a pusseeble-a ooootcume-a, und I zeereffure-a knoo thet he-a veell be-a fery pleesed tu heer zee noos, es he-a cun feenelly relex und stup theenkeeng ebuoot thees cese-a. It hes beee 4 yeers seence-a zee legel ecshuns egeeenst DFD-Jun vere-a tekee, und he-a ves oonly 15 et zee teeme-a. It hes beee a heefy boordee fur heem dooreeng zeese-a impurtunt yeers in hees leeffe-a, Bork Bork Bork! Hooefer, I theenk he-a hes hundled zee seetooeteeun vell. He-a vrute-a DeCSS su thet peuple-a cun pley DFD's oon oozeer OoS'is thun Veendoos. Thees cese-a hes beee bruooght up by IT medeea ell oofer zee vurld, und muny peuple-a hefe-a ixpressed sooppurt fur DFD-Jun. Frum zee ferdeect in zee "legmunnsrettee" in december lest yeer, zee cuoort seeed thet it ves cleer thet he-a hed buooght zee DFD's heemselff, und zeereffure-a he-a hes zee reeght tu pley zeem hooefer he-a veeshes tu. "Legmunnsrettee" elsu seeed thet iff yuoo booy a DFD, zeere-a is a reesk thet it mey becume-a demeged, und zeereffure-a yuoo hefe-a zee reeght tu meke-a a cupy ooff zee DFD, iff it's a mufeee-a yuoo intend tu preserfe-a
Yup. All those countless shipping containers on those huge freighters that are offloaded onto a waiting semi in 30 seconds.
As aside, there has been much discussion as to what a terroist could sneak in by way of a shipping container. If they could get box cutters onto an airline imagine what they might try to sneak in a shipping container.
They might not do this to blow up anything per se, but they could halt the economy while every shipping container was inspected.
To get back on-topic, I don't think the MPAA is going after the "no-name" brand DVD players because it's impossible to go after them at the ports. So, they could go after them at the retailers.
The problem with this idea that if you get Wal-Mart upset, they will drop ALL your products in favor of one that doesn't cause them problems.
It might would cause too much of a bright light to be shown on the MPAA's "standard tax" and why it exists.
Can I just say, as an Australian I'm really enjoying all the sudden attention that the Australian nerd news has been getting on /.? It's great!
This just goes to show that Slashdot is too Australian-centric, leaving other parts of the world out in the cold.
This Aussy bias by the slashdot editors must end!
You know, I don't have a problem with buying stuff made in Japan, Taiwan, South Korea, as these places simply do not have the magnitude of human rights problems that China has.
I _do_ look at the back of stuff I buy to see where it is made. And it matters to me, even if nothing more to pain my conscience.
But as other posters have noted, everything is made in China nowadays, including "high-end" items that normally would seem to come from somewhere else.
I'm glad that I'm not the only one senstive to this.
Dude, they do not make that much working in a rice patty - it's more like $.25 cents a day.
Factory work in china brings $1 a day. Frontline had an excellent presentation on China and employment conditions there that tracked the the lives of several people.
A couple of them were so bad off that $50 bucks could have changed their lives totally and solved their problems.
I, and many others, wondered how someone could send money to them. But the chinese government being the asshats that they are prevented it.
There are no pictures of PJ on the Internet, as far as I know. She likes to guard her privacy as much as is possible under the circumstances
Maybe to avoid the affections of countless socially-isolated, dateless nerds???
Nah.
Looky here, when has an article stopped anyone from posting first??
:-)))
Usually it's slashdtotted, so I (and many others) are not in the habit of Reading The Fine Article first.
Another interesting problem that scramjets have is that they have a hard time staying "lit" at high speeds.
It would be a real bummer to lose an engine when you are trying to achieve orbit.
Interestingly, it has been proposed that the research taking place at area 51 involves hypersonic sub-orbital plane, the idea being that it would be neat to reach any place on the globe within a couple of hours (or less).
However, it seems that they are using a different engine, something called a Pulse Wave Detonation Engine, or PWDE (leaving the scramjet behind for something better?).
Here are some interesting pictures of the contrails.
Maybe that's why there is that small fine print on alkaline batteries to not place them in a fire.
My laptop gets left countless places unattended....So what can you use as a safety? (Other than removing the battery)
Dude, you don't have to worry about the battery in your laptop exploding.
In fact, you don't have to worry about owning a laptop anymore. Your battery and laptop will be removed.
It's hard to continue developement when members of the core group were abducted by aliens.
The aliens were interested in them because X11 has alien-like code embedded in it.
For those of us that experimented with early home computers, being able to save data any method possible was wonderful .... until you started to do it on a regular basis. Then it got "old" real fast.
The problems were numerous, and it was a BIG hassle to store more than one program on a tape.
Atari, trash80, vic20, C64, TI, timex sinclair all had tape interfaces. But everybody was more than willing to dump it for a more expensive disk drive.
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he wants you to click his website URL
My Salvation Army stopped taking computer equipment entirely. Many goodwills are following suit as they are left holding the bag when REAL junk gets dropped off.
It costs them to have their dumpster emptied to the landfill. There is no profit in having to pay for dumpsters filled with completely unusable equipment.
The stuff I take to the goodwill is very much junk, where the best of the scroungers here would not want to look at it. It really is trash by time I'm ready to haul it off. (broken 10meg MFM drive anyone? How 'bout a cga monitor? Or a 386 board with all of the chips removed? See what I mean?)
you too
"is there anything BOINC-ing can't do?"
:)
Yeah, Boinc can't transform Michael Jackson from a homosexual pedophile (to use Norm MacDonald's term) into a normal upstanding citizen...
Well,
Michael Jackson == Boy Inc.
Roomful of computers == Boinc.
Coincidence? I think not.
If there was more BOINC-ing, there would be less war.
ad that we see alot of now -- is to BOINC her.
Alas, nothing but fodder for the all the stalker fantasies of my fellow slashdotters.
That's just plain scary. If I were a girl I would want to get away from that pool of badly-groomed stalkers as fast as I could!
Heh. There's even an ebay category for "all region" players.
The one thing that I don't like about the apex is the "black level" is set at 0 volts (japanese standard) versus the 1 volt (american standard).
What this means is the black part of a picture when played on an apex over-saturates and it's difficult to see what is going on in dark scenes. You can turn up the brightness, but this is a poor hack as it tends to conversely wash out some colors.
I have a Daewoo 5800 that I bought from Sam's club, "upgraded" it myself, and I have been quite happy with it. Though I haven't played too many out of region discs with it, and haven't tested dvdr capability, it has been pretty trouble free. There were one or two disks that it had a hard time playing, but I fault the discs and not the player, as the player has done pretty well.
I have used the s-vhs output to the tv (through a vcr), and the picture is very crisp, and the black levels are normal.
I don't see how a progressive scan can give me a better picture, it's that good.
BTW, if you don't want to by a Sam's club membership, what you do is buy a walmart gift card for yourself that will work at sam's club. They will let you in with that.
The only bad thing is that it is not listed in most "universal remote" code books. So what I did was buy the Philips universal "learning" remote that I was able to train all the buttons on the remote to. You can find this at K-mart for $17, and look for the "thin model" that fits in the hand very nicely. I have everything programmed into this one remote so I don't have seven remotes everywhere. This has to be the single best value in a remote, and I have looked at alot of them.
ok, how do you know that the Walmart versions are cut?
From Walmarts point of view, they are darned if they do, and darned if they don't. That is, if they carry a certain version uncut, they have conservatives picketing the store. If they cut it, they have customers like us complaining.
So, wouldn't they be better off if they just didn't sell a particular item?