Greetings from the Department of Homeland Security! This letter is to let you know that in accordance with the anti-privacy provisions of Patriot Act III, all your corporate assets, bank accounts, and properties have been seized in the interest of public safety.
Please have all your executives and engineers report to the nearest GitmoUSA Re-Education center for immediate registration as Enemy Combatants.
Sincerely,
(REDACTED by the order of Acting President Cheney)
I guess Comedy Central does post their own clips, but they seem hard to navigate through.
Uh... yeah. This is exactly what they need to do. Why would they give such huge traffic away to YouTube when they could still provide free teaser content to fans and build their own site?
I agree. Hubble is immensely valuable, but the Shuttle is a third fatal disaster waiting to happen. And a Hubble rescue is many degrees more dangerous than a standard jaunt to ISS.
You know damned well that when (not if) iPod comes out with wireless, his tune on that will change in a hurry.
Your point is well-taken, but I can't imagine Apple sending such bad wireless to market. When the wireless iPod comes, it will work better than Zune from Day One.
No, that's not circumstantial evidence. It's physical evidence. They don't need a body to prosecute, and I don't see any red flags regarding police conduct in the reports I've read.
What an awful case. It's by no mean certain Hans is guilty, but there sure appears to be sufficient evidence to try him. Hopefully, the truth will become apparent.
One more thing: I see the cleverness in some of the jokes in this thread, and I'm no prude. But joking about chopping up this woman (I get it, really) seems pretty damn cold. There's nothing but sadness here for all parties.
Sorry: the kidneys went for my now-obsolete dual G5 PowerMac (one kidney for each IBM processor). In any case, Macs are cheaper these days: even a minor organ like a spleen ought to cover pretty much anyone's desktop needs.
... I must say I am totally looking forward to a super-secret feature that allows me to move my home directory between... oh. I only have one machine. Never mind.
Bush could advocate an end to the DMCA, banning DRM, and making OSS manditory in all government entities and people on slashdot would STILL bitch.
Yes, and President Bush could also pull a monkey out of his ass on network TV. But he won't. So back to the Bush-bashing: he deserves it, the stupid tyrant.
I'm glad to see the scab picked off questionable securities practicies (screw you, robber-baron corporate weasels), but this headline is a bit tabloid. These notices are routine and automatic, coming to nothing once the company in question files their tardy report.
Well, you're quite right. That's a beastly site, from its unreadable graphics to the awful hubris of explaining why IE 4.x (!) is the browser I really need to be using. I suppose the site owner knows best: she's the owner of AAA World Wide Web Design.
Frankly, though, PCWorld should have done a top 1000 suck websites. There's sooo much out there -- beginning with anything that's generated by Microsoft Front Page.
... will be completely crushed. Steve Irwin was to our kids as Wild Kindom was for people my age. I can't imagine how many young minds were directed to the natural sciences by Irwin's work.
Which seems a pretty good legacy, when you think about it. But our thoughts turn to his wife and young family.
It's true that Irwin died doing what hew loved. It would have been better if he were 80, though. What a sad thing.
>> These are exciting times for Microsoft Haters. Google is growing in strength, serving up online ads by the bucket, even making headway in the corporate software market.
> What adult writes like this?
Substitiute "democracy" for "Microsoft haters," and it sounds a bit like pretty much anyone in the Bush administration, actually.
I'm not being an Apple fanboy here (no, I don't own an iPod), but Zune could be the most ungainly personal device of all time.
It's too big. The idea of switching the wireless on and off is comical. So, for that matter, is the reported way client Zunes must break a streaming connection with its DJ host. How could these get out of development?.
Apple's devices got better with time. Perhaps the Zune will follow suit.
Clearly it was a slow news weekend. This report got a ton of coverage, which seems unwarranted given some of the abitrary standards of "intelligence" put forward by the researchers. The Wikipedia article on dolphin intelligence provides a far better balanced view of the subject.
I had a quick look at the University of the Witwatersrand website. Dr. Manger is a lecturer at the School of Anatomical Sciences. He is not an animal behaviorologist.
While Dr. Manger is no doubt qualified to discuss the structure of a dolphin's brain, he is in no better qualified to draw conclusions about dolphin intelligence than any of us here on Slashdot. Perhaps this explains some of his eccentric statements, or why his opinions contrast so sharply with other research indicating a high level of social complexity in dolphin behavior.
That Dr. Manger's study is "peer-reviewed" is really neither here or nor there, since peer review usually occurs within an author's specialty and Manger's most controversial findings transcend his field.
Dr. Manger's comment that dolphins should be smart enough to jump out of tuna nets would seem simply bizzare if they weren't so outright callous.
As proposed, this law will have a deeply chilling effect on free speech. Think of all the small discussion boards out there: the hobbyist-level phpBB sites, gaming chats, religious websites, political forums, etc. All of a sudden, their operators might face the same records burden that a MySpace will be forced to shoulder.
The commercial operators will find it worth their time to install logging software and find a way to make it convenient for the government to issue warrantless Patriot Act information seizures. But I can't imagine how Jill BulletinBoard and her quilting group will cope. They'll have to close, along with boards espousing minor political views -- anything that doesn't make enough money to justify the record-keeping, or where the operators lack technical expertise to make it happen.
So this law sucks. We all agree understand that child pornography and sexual predators are a problem on the Internet, but sweeping, First Amendment-smashing stuff like this is a bad answer.
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Dear Seagate:
Greetings from the Department of Homeland Security! This letter is to let you know that in accordance with the anti-privacy provisions of Patriot Act III, all your corporate assets, bank accounts, and properties have been seized in the interest of public safety.
Please have all your executives and engineers report to the nearest GitmoUSA Re-Education center for immediate registration as Enemy Combatants.
Sincerely,
(REDACTED by the order of Acting President Cheney)
I guess Comedy Central does post their own clips, but they seem hard to navigate through.
Uh ... yeah. This is exactly what they need to do. Why would they give such huge traffic away to YouTube when they could still provide free teaser content to fans and build their own site?
I agree. Hubble is immensely valuable, but the Shuttle is a third fatal disaster waiting to happen. And a Hubble rescue is many degrees more dangerous than a standard jaunt to ISS.
What if Prudential Equity Group analyst Jesse Tortora (who?) penned an article about a phone nobody has seen yet, and nobody cared?
I found myself unable to stop stroking the device ...
Wireless pr0n on-the-go, huh?
You know damned well that when (not if) iPod comes out with wireless, his tune on that will change in a hurry.
Your point is well-taken, but I can't imagine Apple sending such bad wireless to market. When the wireless iPod comes, it will work better than Zune from Day One.
... and the tens of million of Mac PPC users who will remain deployed and supported for many years.
Point well-taken. :-)
No, that's not circumstantial evidence. It's physical evidence. They don't need a body to prosecute, and I don't see any red flags regarding police conduct in the reports I've read.
What an awful case. It's by no mean certain Hans is guilty, but there sure appears to be sufficient evidence to try him. Hopefully, the truth will become apparent.
One more thing: I see the cleverness in some of the jokes in this thread, and I'm no prude. But joking about chopping up this woman (I get it, really) seems pretty damn cold. There's nothing but sadness here for all parties.
Sorry: the kidneys went for my now-obsolete dual G5 PowerMac (one kidney for each IBM processor). In any case, Macs are cheaper these days: even a minor organ like a spleen ought to cover pretty much anyone's desktop needs.
But I like the way you think ...
... I must say I am totally looking forward to a super-secret feature that allows me to move my home directory between ... oh. I only have one machine. Never mind.
Bush could advocate an end to the DMCA, banning DRM, and making OSS manditory in all government entities and people on slashdot would STILL bitch.
Yes, and President Bush could also pull a monkey out of his ass on network TV. But he won't. So back to the Bush-bashing: he deserves it, the stupid tyrant.
I'm glad to see the scab picked off questionable securities practicies (screw you, robber-baron corporate weasels), but this headline is a bit tabloid. These notices are routine and automatic, coming to nothing once the company in question files their tardy report.
OpenOffice.org and StarOffice shall include the Mozilla Foundation's Thunderbird and Sunbird (calendaring application) in the future
Oh, good. Open Office sure needed to get bigger. ;-)
Well, you're quite right. That's a beastly site, from its unreadable graphics to the awful hubris of explaining why IE 4.x (!) is the browser I really need to be using. I suppose the site owner knows best: she's the owner of AAA World Wide Web Design. Frankly, though, PCWorld should have done a top 1000 suck websites. There's sooo much out there -- beginning with anything that's generated by Microsoft Front Page.
Okay, I wish I had mod points today. ;-)
It's called "product maturity." The solution is a relaunch ... such as the rumored video pods and iPhones.
So no surprise here. Move along to the next story.
... will be completely crushed. Steve Irwin was to our kids as Wild Kindom was for people my age. I can't imagine how many young minds were directed to the natural sciences by Irwin's work.
Which seems a pretty good legacy, when you think about it. But our thoughts turn to his wife and young family.
It's true that Irwin died doing what hew loved. It would have been better if he were 80, though. What a sad thing.
>> These are exciting times for Microsoft Haters. Google is growing in strength, serving up online ads by the bucket, even making headway in the corporate software market.
> What adult writes like this?
Substitiute "democracy" for "Microsoft haters," and it sounds a bit like pretty much anyone in the Bush administration, actually.
Don't dispair. By the time CM! finally hits the streets $140 USD will be worth ... well ... about a hundred bucks.
I'm not being an Apple fanboy here (no, I don't own an iPod), but Zune could be the most ungainly personal device of all time.
It's too big. The idea of switching the wireless on and off is comical. So, for that matter, is the reported way client Zunes must break a streaming connection with its DJ host. How could these get out of development?.
Apple's devices got better with time. Perhaps the Zune will follow suit.
Clearly it was a slow news weekend. This report got a ton of coverage, which seems unwarranted given some of the abitrary standards of "intelligence" put forward by the researchers. The Wikipedia article on dolphin intelligence provides a far better balanced view of the subject.
I had a quick look at the University of the Witwatersrand website. Dr. Manger is a lecturer at the School of Anatomical Sciences. He is not an animal behaviorologist.
While Dr. Manger is no doubt qualified to discuss the structure of a dolphin's brain, he is in no better qualified to draw conclusions about dolphin intelligence than any of us here on Slashdot. Perhaps this explains some of his eccentric statements, or why his opinions contrast so sharply with other research indicating a high level of social complexity in dolphin behavior.
That Dr. Manger's study is "peer-reviewed" is really neither here or nor there, since peer review usually occurs within an author's specialty and Manger's most controversial findings transcend his field.
Dr. Manger's comment that dolphins should be smart enough to jump out of tuna nets would seem simply bizzare if they weren't so outright callous.
What blatant hit whoring. The article has nothing new in it whatsoever. Did nobody check to see that it was submitted by the author?
As proposed, this law will have a deeply chilling effect on free speech. Think of all the small discussion boards out there: the hobbyist-level phpBB sites, gaming chats, religious websites, political forums, etc. All of a sudden, their operators might face the same records burden that a MySpace will be forced to shoulder.
The commercial operators will find it worth their time to install logging software and find a way to make it convenient for the government to issue warrantless Patriot Act information seizures. But I can't imagine how Jill BulletinBoard and her quilting group will cope. They'll have to close, along with boards espousing minor political views -- anything that doesn't make enough money to justify the record-keeping, or where the operators lack technical expertise to make it happen.
So this law sucks. We all agree understand that child pornography and sexual predators are a problem on the Internet, but sweeping, First Amendment-smashing stuff like this is a bad answer.
... to see that hospitality rooms are obviously still in operation at professional conventions.