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  1. Re:It is supposed to be "family friendly".. on Sanitizing Expression In Virtual Worlds · · Score: 1

    how did we get from Oz was "GLBT (gay/lesbian/bisexual/transsexual) friendly" to Oz was "GLBT (gay/lesbian/bisexual/transsexual) ONLY"? Beside some of the best times I've had at the strip club was when there was a lesbian with us :)

  2. Re:I am not a lawyer... on Britain's 400 Years of Cyber Law · · Score: 1
    does that also mean that the same conclusions could be assumed for the US ?
    might, might not, that's what lawyers are for; however since a more rational explaination of the decision is,
     
    Article in The Register about a recent High Court judgment on the application of the Statute of Frauds and Perjuries 1677 to e-mail messages. In short, the sender's name or initials as a signature in the body of the e-mail is a valid signature, but names or addresses that appear only in the headers do not count. The article kindly links to me as the source of a tip about this case, but I struggle to see any competition law or regulation economics angle to justify an article here. Reckon LLP
    , it seems the British common law standard is that they are talking about a signature as in something added such as a name or initals specificaly by the sender rather than a .signature or .plan file that is auto-magicaly added by the email client. In short there is nothing to see here, move along.
  3. Re:I am not a lawyer... on Britain's 400 Years of Cyber Law · · Score: 2, Interesting

    If memory serves me correctly, Michigan's constitution specificaly recognises British Common Law in the order of presidence, so if there is nothing in the state's law's and contitution, the federal laws and constituion, Magna Carta, etc., British Common law applies.

  4. Re:Half a world away? on Sci-Fi Weapons to Join US Arsenal? · · Score: 1

    I'll tell you anyways, they can melt metal, I can weld an aluminum pin to a chrome plate with an IR pulse laser; silver doesn't work, it just explodes.

  5. Re:Just a little common sense on Global Warming Dissenters Suppressed? · · Score: 1

    Not to many people walking arround on Mars and I don't think our little rovers are going to put a dent in a planets temperature.

  6. Re:Freedom and Liberty on Global Warming Dissenters Suppressed? · · Score: 1

    so what's wrong with saying,"these views and conclusions are my own, and not representative of the official policies of NASA or any other agency of the US Government"?

  7. Re:Uh, right. on Global Warming Dissenters Suppressed? · · Score: 1

    General Motors, isn't that the company that's made over a million flex-fueled vehicles, has hydrogen powered prototypes on the road today and have have an agremnent with shell to get hydrogen refueling stations built? I'm sure they real popular with the Association of Petroleum Geologists.

  8. Re:Anyone notice something on Global Warming Dissenters Suppressed? · · Score: 1

    No the catch is if there is really man-made globalwarming bring doom on us all, it was too late a century ago. If we're just making a natural trend a smidgen worst we have a chance and we can't be sure if there is a trend because of all the bad science being done to scarf up grant money.

  9. Re:Blowing Hot Air on Global Warming Dissenters Suppressed? · · Score: 4, Funny

    Right you are the bloody heretic deserves to have his ass perched on a pike! Imagine the audacity of someone who studies events spanning millions of years of history projecting trends into the future. It's not like the last 4 or 5 iceage- hothouse cycles might have any clues about what's really happening

  10. Re:Right on Global Warming Dissenters Suppressed? · · Score: 1

    we are talking about pollution that could impact the global ecosystem
    That is the key it's a global problem, if it really is a problem, and GDP is the only effective way to measure output. If CO2 emissions are bad, then countries that produce less CO2 per dollar of output aren't as bad as countries that produce more CO2 per dollar. Giving some countries a "free-pass" because they are "under-developed" hurts the whole globe and the countries inefficencies may well be part of the reason they are still under-developed.

  11. Re:Half a world away? on Sci-Fi Weapons to Join US Arsenal? · · Score: 1

    In an airplane you can fly above the water vapor and carbon dioxide that is very good at absorbing the infrared energy coming out of the laser.

  12. Re:Half a world away? on Sci-Fi Weapons to Join US Arsenal? · · Score: 1

    So the nasty shit in the atmosphere that sucks up infrared energy like water vapor and CO2 is below you; just like the IR astronomers at NASA do when they point their IR telescope out the open side of a 747, or ground based IR astronomers do when they put their telescopes on the tops of very tall mountains which are quite rare. I don't think that astronomers trying to see very faint things in IR would be happy to share their expensive mountain tops with a DOD projects that are shooting megawatts of IR up into the air.

  13. Re:Half a world away? on Sci-Fi Weapons to Join US Arsenal? · · Score: 1
    ...that is, kilometer range versus the many hundreds of kilometers range that the Airborne Laser is working on.

    the Airborne Laser works on ranges of hundreds of Km, a half a world would be thousands of Km. To get an article published on /. you have to put some trollish exageration in it, then a whore like me gets modded informative because I actually read FTA with a 5th grade level of comprehension; new day same shit kinda thing.
  14. Re:Good God on Google's DNA · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I think that google is more in tune with what they are not, than what they are, so it would take more than a few years to corrupt its' carefully crafted culture. Google is a business embodyment of the unix phillosophy, small well made tools that are designed to do one or two things well and can be piped together in ways not originaly anticipated; this concept is too alien for most "suits" to get their heads arround.

  15. Re:Worrisome on Under the Hood of AT&T's Monitoring System · · Score: 1

    Recruiters are interested in one thing, getting people to sign the papers and staying in long enough that their dropping out or getting booted doesn't affect their numbers; what a squad leader or platoon sargent wants is people who'll do the job with out getting people put in jail. The mental toughening and social conditioning to work in a hierarchy, is done anyways by the military. It's aways easier to teach from stratch then it is to un-teach an existing behaviour and then teaching the "our way".

  16. Re:Shot in the dark: on Why Is Data Mining Still A Frontier? · · Score: 1

    not all data should be normalized (accounting data jumps to mind), but most data that should be normalized isn't

  17. Re:Who cares? on The .EU Landrush Fiasco · · Score: 1

    I thought the requirements to get a .ca were pretty draconian; to the point that most Canadian business can't qualify and end up in the .com.

  18. Re:Rushes only happen... on The .EU Landrush Fiasco · · Score: 1

    ICANN slaps up a new TLD pretty quick when it starts to get traction in non-ICANN controled DNS system.

  19. Re:Good leaning experience for .xxx on The .EU Landrush Fiasco · · Score: 1

    actualy there was a .xxx domain, in a parallel system and I beileve pacific root administered it. Seems most of the people running "unofficial" namespaces gave up when .biz got hijacked to the ICANN control.

  20. Re:Worrisome on Under the Hood of AT&T's Monitoring System · · Score: 1

    Bothters and sisters, I'll be happy if my grand-daughters don't end up finishing the job we started and left unfinished. My son is scheduled for his second tour in Iraq, has been in Afganistan, and a couple places we can't mention.

  21. Re:Worrisome on Under the Hood of AT&T's Monitoring System · · Score: 1

    If you think uncle Sam can pick your scrawny, pale ass give him a gun and your gonna let the frags go like Quake, you would likely shit yourself before you got your first shot off and possibly go into shock when you get real brains splattered all over you.
    People who can go into intense combat and not shit themselves, or freeze up a bit the first time they see a real flesh and blood human die violently up close and personal aren't people I'd want in my command. If you think a war improves retention your ass suck cannal water.

  22. Re:Worrisome on Under the Hood of AT&T's Monitoring System · · Score: 1

    Actualy I'd argue that wars are now bad for the mythical MIC, currently our weapons have become so technicaly sophisticated that their self-life is rather limited, by that I mean they are going obsolete faster than we can use them anyways. The biggest thing the MIC fears is that we will actualy use the weapons and decide they are adequate enough to allow us to skip a generation or two of replacements

  23. Re:Worrisome on Under the Hood of AT&T's Monitoring System · · Score: 1

    If we are hearing about it now, very probably a president Clinton and a vice president Gore had the same technology available.

  24. Re:Will they open documents? on AT&T Forwarding All Internet Traffic to NSA? · · Score: 1
    You might say that Perl grew out of the Cold War. I've often told the story about how Perl was invented at a secret lab that was working on a secret NSA project, so I won't repeat that here, since it's no secret. Larry Wall

    Perl is actualy a big chunk of how the www as we know it works right now, even ASP and PHP can be considered alternatives to it on the web. I use Perl for some pretty heavy-duty data crunching and consider it taxmoney well spent.
  25. Re:You think Verizon is different? on AT&T Forwarding All Internet Traffic to NSA? · · Score: 1

    it wasn't legal to spy on our own people without a warrant
    and there is the catch-22, if it's illegal to spy on someone then it's necessary to identify them as someone for whom it's illegal to spy on and therefore it's now legally required to spy on them to make sure your not spying on them without a warrant.