Utilize these technologies for something good like: "I wonder how fucking late the San Francisoc Muni will be, so I can plan my trip accordingly and make sure that I won't be sitting in the rain/fog/etc for 45 minutes."
I can't count the times on a Saturday night, I've sat waiting and wondering where in the hell the train is....all the while, missing my dinner reservation, missing the show, etc. etc.
It would be even better if PDAs or cell phones could grab this info in real time.
Okay lets go to fauxnews.com, then list the shows and their hosts in column "A". Then let's list the political persuasion of those hosts in columns "B" and "C".
Any objective minded person would have about 9 of 10 check marks in column "B".
Now let's look at who we have in column "C", aka Liberals. Colmes, the doormat liberal who lets Hannity walk and talk all over him every night. That's it baby. The rest are unabashedly Republican...and don't feed me any crap about O'reilly being objective, or neutral, or unspun.
You might also include some token, washed up radio personalities in your column "C". For example Juan Williams and Mara Liasson (sp?). Both of these poor bastards get browbeaten regularly by the 3 or 4 conservatives circling them like wolves to a baby fawn.
So please, at least admit bias when it is so blatantly obvious, lest you become what you so despise.
Funny, that's exactly the reason I *paid* for my subscription. I want to read good stories from a liberal POV.
If I wanted to read a bunch of GOP masturbatory fluff, I would read FauxNews.com....or any of the many right-leaning sites.
I think the Democrats showed in the most recent round of elections that if you walk like a Republican, and talk like a Republican, then don't expect Democrats to vote for you. Likewise, if Salon acts like it is neutral, or moderate, then expect to lose my $$$.
I bet the are bugging new cable modem and DSL installations as well.
Some Background:
About 4 months ago I got a new ATT cable connection. I am a researcher and many universities use automatic proxy configuration (.pac) files that permit access to restircted information. For example if you want to see the content at http://www.nature.com you need a personal subscription, or an institutional subscription. If you have an institutional subscription and are physically located at that institution, then somewhere at the top of the page, it says what institution you are logged in as. For example, if I am at the University of Washington and visit nature.com, at the top of the page it will say, "Institution: Univ of Washington". If I try nature.com from home, then it just thinks I'm Joe Blow unless I have an automatic proxy setup that routes me through the University.
So I get my new cable modem installed and I decide to check out a paper at pnas.org. Remember, I am at home on the couch and I don't have a proxy setup at all (besides, I'm using Chimera which doesn't support it).
Well lo and behold, when I bring up pnas.org, I am connected as....drum roll....Federal Bur Inv and I have complete access to the site. I have a screenshot somewhere that I could dig up.
Spooky. The only thing I can guess is that when you get a new connection it is automatically proxied through the FBI so they can monitor your activity and see if you are connecting to the chatroom at www.ilovehezbollah.com
And if you have ever heard how rich a vinyl recording on high-end equiptment sounds, compared to a CD recording (especially DDD), then you will understand why film will always be better for some applications than digital.
Prints from film, especially large prints, have a *feeling* that I haven't seen captured by digital. The same goes for vinyl. When vinyl is played on a $50,000+ system, the *feeling* is overwhelming compared to the sterile sound of the same track on the same CD on the same system. It is just a byproduct of analog recording.
For snapshots and newsreporters, etc. digital is the way to go. I recently sold all of my 35mm equiptment and got a 4Mpixel digital camera for family gatherings and pictures of the dogs at the beach. Howerver, I won't give up my 4X5 camera any time soon. I use it when I want to make an artistic, emotional statement. Printing at 16x20 with no grain is a nice benefit as well.
I have a TiBook550 and my girlfriend has an iBook 700. Both with 10.2.
The iBook blows away my Ti in just about everything you can imagine...except, of course, those hours I spend running G4 optimized photoshop filters.
Oh wait! I don't spend hours running G4 optimized photoshop filters. I guess the extra $800.00 is spent only got me an extra 128 pixels of screew width and a slower machine.
The first Polio vaccine was indeed made using primate liver cell cultures. The references are form the '50s so they aren't online. Here's an article describing some of the problems encountered when trying to grow monkey kidney cultures.
Rustigian, R., P. Johnston, and H. Rejhart. 1955. Infection of monkey kidney tissue cultures with virus-like agents. Proc. Soc. Exp. Biol. Med. 88.
I agree that Science and Nature are the place to publish, but the quality of the many of the articles in the biological sciences is shoddy at best. Granted there are a good deal of seminal papers that come out in Science or Nature, but there are an equal, if not greater, number of 'flash in the pan' papers which are never corroborated, or are plain wrong.
The reasons for this are many IMO. First there is a huge amount of politics that go into getting past the first hurdle when submitting to these two journals--that is, not getting immediately rejected as "not of sufficient general interest or scientific impact."
Second, often the reviews are, as the AC put it, "fast-tracked" once the first hurdle is overcome. I would like to learn what the acceptance rate is for acticle that receive peer review...I bet it is very high.
Third, the extremely limited space allowed for articles in these two journals precludes the possiblity of (i) a thorough review, (ii) an in depth presentation and discussion of the data, and (iii) a complete and utter inability for other researchers to test and replicate the findings.
I always take articles in Science and Nature with a huge grain of salt. After citing a recent nature article as evidence for pursuing a specific line of research, one of my graduate mentors told me, "Don't believe anything you read in Science of Nature" until it shows up in one of the less prestigious, but more focused journals.
That said, publishing in these two will definitely get your CV noticed when you apply for that faculty position and I wouldn't hesitate a second to publish there if I could...unless of course I thought my work would get into Cell.
Just copy the relevant lines from your prefs.js (or user.js) files from you Mozilla preferences folder and put them in a file called user.js in you Chimera prefs folder.
For that matter, *many* of the Mozilla prefs work in Chimera, they just haven't made the GUI to alter them yet.
It is simply this. Frequently the right wingers like to complain that the mainstream media is owned by liberals and Jews and liberal Jews. My point was that even if that is the case, the headlines that come out of the supposed liberal mainstream media, read a lot more fair and balanced than the "Fair and Balanced" FauxNews organization.
Your comparison to infomercials is an interesting one and I think it is pretty close to the truth. Just look at the semi-coordinated attacks made on any liberal politician who questions the Administration. The vast, right-wing media machine--lubed with the tax savings of wealthy companies who incorporate at PO Boxes in Bermuda--incessantly drives home their POV on the thousands of radio stations, web sites, and "news" outlets like FauxNews, spewing Limbauesque mantras which may or may not have a basis in reality. You get "pundits" like Ann Coulter...who in their right mind actually believe the miasma that emanates from this woman's mouth...with hours of airtime inculcating the masses with her drivel.
Well in Seattle on ATT if you order only Cable Internet Access, they automatically put a frequency filter on your line when they come to install the service. I have many friends with ATT internet only and none of them get a decent signal for TV. Channels above 70, start coming in a bit better, but nothing below that works at all.
My connection, OTOH, was installed by a guy who was being "trained". Clearly he forgot to install the filter on the line, b/c as the truck drove away, I put my radio shack splitter on the line, sat down and felt my blood pressure rise as I happened upon Faux News Network. But THANKS TO *&#%ing SLASHDOT, today almost all of my channels are gone!
Thanks a lot.
Maybe it is just something in the neighborhood as I still get Seattle Community channel, comedy central and the NBC shopping network...WooHoo!
I have to disagree as well. I lived in Mexico City for a year and, being a US American, even drove my '73 LandCruiser there. As an average American, I drove to work for a while, but the traffic there is unbelievable (people in Seattle think they have bad traffic... Hah!).
I then started taking a pesero the mile or so to the subway station, then the subway to near work. It was faster, easier and way cheaper (I think the subway was like 8-12 cents US per ride when I lived there). Once I learned the system, I could get anywhere (not tourist locations), bars, restaurants, whatever in no time flat. If your subway stop is too far from your destination to walk, hop in a cab for a short ride or jump on a pesero.
The subway system in Mexico City is not designed to shuttle tourists around, but it is designed to move millions of people close to where they need to be. The surface transportation takes up the slack.
I work with viruses and bacteria and we indeed need to mail them to colleagues on a regular basis. So instead of shielding your contents and hoping the shielding is sufficient how about they never get irradiated in the first place? I would have no problem whatsoever having it be required of me to inform the postal service that I am transporting biological materials. How would this work.
You might put a big orange BIOLOGICALS sticker on your package for one. You could have PHOTOGRAPHICS, ELECTRONICS etc stickers as well.
The USPS might require that any sample which is not to be irradiated be packaged in a minumum sized box which by it's virtue is not handled by machine and thus is not an anonymous rider among the mail.
The USPS might require additonal "handling" fees for such packages.
Such packages might have to be mailed from the Post Office itself or by a licensed agent.
These are just ideas, but my point is that we have to be able to ship things that will not be irradiated. IMO the solution is to clearly identify those items which are not to be irradiated and to make it a little more difficult for a person to mail them.
Imagine Tom Daschle's office receives a box with a BIOLOGICALS sticker on it front and center. Do you think the staffer will open it in Tom's office? I doubt it. The idea is that if you or anyone should receive a package that has clearly not been irradiated, then you have it incumbent upon yourself to exercise appropriate caution when opening that package.
Some may argue that the bioterrorist will just send his samples in one of these packages. Could be, but it's clear that terrorists like Bin Laden and his ilk don't really care much, and in fact want it known, what they did, so they'll use whatever means necessary to achieve their end. However, if some guy like that Shoebomber nut shows up at the DC postoffice wanting to ship "electronics" to the President, maybe, just maybe, the postal worker would either deny him or, send the package off for closer inspection prior to shipment.
On the other hand, some right-wing nut who used to work at a govt. lab and absonded some military grade anthrax, might have second thoughts about dropping his package addressed to Tom Daschle off, in person, to a postal worker.
No, I think that is a way of saying my 3 year old B&W G3-350 gets all my work done just fine. Period.
I too have a B&W G3-350 and I can attest to the fact that it runs everything I use it for (web, email, web design, PHP, mysql, etc) just fine. I bought it 3 years ago for 1500.00 and am 100% satisfied with my purchase. If I hadn't gotten a G4 TiBook from my work, then I would still be using the G3-350 as my daily driver... now it is a server and testing box for my websites.
I had ATT@home, now ATT@attbi.com (what a crappy domain name btw) in Seattle. My service went down Friday night sometime. I received "the call" on Saturday afternoon, then I received "the second call" on Sunday AM stating that my service was back online. I booted up the ole OSX iMac and sure enough, it picked up a new lease and was off and running.
I haven't had any problems so far *fingers crossed* and I don't use their crappy mail servers anyway.
The biggest downer is that we're now capped at 1.5Mb/s which means I get around 120-150KB/s downloads. With @ home I got 0.8-1.0MB/s downloads. Interestingly their new terms of agreement terms say that we're capped at 1.5MB/s which would be nice, but untrue. I'm sure they'll just quietly update the terms to 1.5Mb/s any day now.
Apple introduces iPod, a digital audio player (MP3, MP2, more) with a 5GB hard drive (1000 songs). 20 minute skip protection. FireWire-equipped, first such music player. 10 hour battery, lithium-polymar ("most advanced battery; more advanced than laptop batteries"), takes 1 hour to charge. Size of a deck of cards: 2.4" wide, 4" tall, 3/4" thick
My Mother is a perfect example. She got a Windows ME box (against my better advice), signed up for DSL from Qwest and bought a digital camera. She received the Qwest software for her DSL connection and installed it.
AFAICT, Qwest installs NN4.7.x and uses the built in profile manager in Netscape to setup a profile which is password protected. It also installs an alias on the Desktop to Dial into the DSL account.
So what's this have to do with the 'average user'? My Mom "logs in" by double clicking Netscape, enters her password and off she goes... to eBay:) She is 100% convinced that Netscape is her ISP!When I showed her that she could dial in using the dialer alias on her desktop and then use IE if she wanted, it would not sink in. She really likes IE better, but since she dials in with Netscape, she thinks that is what she has to use.
Imagine her with XP and.Net. This little box keeps bugging her to input her personal information into her "Passport". She does it because she thinks she has to, or "the Net won't work well without it."
One more person locked into MS and.NET
Oh yeah. She thinks the only place she can put her digital photos is in "My Pictures". When I showed her that she could actually make folders in there to organize "Her" pictures, she was amazed. I figured that was a minor success and I didn't want to blow her away with the fact that she could actually put her pictures in the "My Music" folder if she so pleased!
Given that I didn't see the "debate" I can't say one way or the other. However, if michael had given some concrete, logical explanation (like you just did) for using such an incendary title, then the title wouldn't have bothered me one bit.
Note that I didn't say/. should be "unbiased", I just commented on the extreme bias in the title.
Like I said, I don't disagree that our civil liberties aren't being eroded by this legislation, I just disagree with using blatantly inflammatory titles.
Just for fun, let's retitle some of today's stories in "michel mode".
"Audiotron Stereo MP3 Component Sucks Sweaty Dog Nuts"
"Is Your Elected Official A Complete Fucktard Who Doesn't Give a Shit About His/Her Constituents?"
"Hydrogen-based Rotary Engine? - After We Drill in ANWR!"
"Newest Mandrake Linux Delayed - Can't Those Fucktards Program?"
On a serious note, when this legislation passes, I'd really like to see the 'sunset' provision in the house bill be implemented in the final draft, but that looks unlikely.
Not that I disagree with the sentiment of your chosen title, but "Senate Trashes Civil Liberties;" is merely inflammatory rhetoric. I'd prefer that Slashdot editors list their specific grievances with the legislation and ask us what we think about those complaints.
Slashdot Mirror
I completely agree.
Utilize these technologies for something good like:
"I wonder how fucking late the San Francisoc Muni will be, so I can plan my trip accordingly and make sure that I won't be sitting in the rain/fog/etc for 45 minutes."
I can't count the times on a Saturday night, I've sat waiting and wondering where in the hell the train is....all the while, missing my dinner reservation, missing the show, etc. etc.
It would be even better if PDAs or cell phones could grab this info in real time.
Yeah. Faux is far from right wing!
Okay lets go to fauxnews.com, then list the shows and their hosts in column "A". Then let's list the political persuasion of those hosts in columns "B" and "C".
Any objective minded person would have about 9 of 10 check marks in column "B".
Now let's look at who we have in column "C", aka Liberals. Colmes, the doormat liberal who lets Hannity walk and talk all over him every night. That's it baby. The rest are unabashedly Republican...and don't feed me any crap about O'reilly being objective, or neutral, or unspun.
You might also include some token, washed up radio personalities in your column "C". For example Juan Williams and Mara Liasson (sp?). Both of these poor bastards get browbeaten regularly by the 3 or 4 conservatives circling them like wolves to a baby fawn.
So please, at least admit bias when it is so blatantly obvious, lest you become what you so despise.
Funny, that's exactly the reason I *paid* for my subscription. I want to read good stories from a liberal POV.
If I wanted to read a bunch of GOP masturbatory fluff, I would read FauxNews.com....or any of the many right-leaning sites.
I think the Democrats showed in the most recent round of elections that if you walk like a Republican, and talk like a Republican, then don't expect Democrats to vote for you. Likewise, if Salon acts like it is neutral, or moderate, then expect to lose my $$$.
Some Background:
About 4 months ago I got a new ATT cable connection. I am a researcher and many universities use automatic proxy configuration (.pac) files that permit access to restircted information. For example if you want to see the content at http://www.nature.com you need a personal subscription, or an institutional subscription. If you have an institutional subscription and are physically located at that institution, then somewhere at the top of the page, it says what institution you are logged in as. For example, if I am at the University of Washington and visit nature.com, at the top of the page it will say, "Institution: Univ of Washington". If I try nature.com from home, then it just thinks I'm Joe Blow unless I have an automatic proxy setup that routes me through the University.
So I get my new cable modem installed and I decide to check out a paper at pnas.org. Remember, I am at home on the couch and I don't have a proxy setup at all (besides, I'm using Chimera which doesn't support it).
Well lo and behold, when I bring up pnas.org, I am connected as....drum roll....Federal Bur Inv and I have complete access to the site. I have a screenshot somewhere that I could dig up.
Spooky. The only thing I can guess is that when you get a new connection it is automatically proxied through the FBI so they can monitor your activity and see if you are connecting to the chatroom at www.ilovehezbollah.com
The next day, everything was back to normal.
And if you have ever heard how rich a vinyl recording on high-end equiptment sounds, compared to a CD recording (especially DDD), then you will understand why film will always be better for some applications than digital.
Prints from film, especially large prints, have a *feeling* that I haven't seen captured by digital. The same goes for vinyl. When vinyl is played on a $50,000+ system, the *feeling* is overwhelming compared to the sterile sound of the same track on the same CD on the same system. It is just a byproduct of analog recording.
For snapshots and newsreporters, etc. digital is the way to go. I recently sold all of my 35mm equiptment and got a 4Mpixel digital camera for family gatherings and pictures of the dogs at the beach. Howerver, I won't give up my 4X5 camera any time soon. I use it when I want to make an artistic, emotional statement. Printing at 16x20 with no grain is a nice benefit as well.
I have a TiBook550 and my girlfriend has an iBook 700. Both with 10.2.
The iBook blows away my Ti in just about everything you can imagine...except, of course, those hours I spend running G4 optimized photoshop filters.
Oh wait! I don't spend hours running G4 optimized photoshop filters. I guess the extra $800.00 is spent only got me an extra 128 pixels of screew width and a slower machine.
The first Polio vaccine was indeed made using primate liver cell cultures. The references are form the '50s so they aren't online. Here's an article describing some of the problems encountered when trying to grow monkey kidney cultures.
Rustigian, R., P. Johnston, and H. Rejhart. 1955. Infection of monkey kidney tissue cultures with virus-like agents. Proc. Soc. Exp. Biol. Med. 88.
The reasons for this are many IMO. First there is a huge amount of politics that go into getting past the first hurdle when submitting to these two journals--that is, not getting immediately rejected as "not of sufficient general interest or scientific impact."
Second, often the reviews are, as the AC put it, "fast-tracked" once the first hurdle is overcome. I would like to learn what the acceptance rate is for acticle that receive peer review...I bet it is very high.
Third, the extremely limited space allowed for articles in these two journals precludes the possiblity of (i) a thorough review, (ii) an in depth presentation and discussion of the data, and (iii) a complete and utter inability for other researchers to test and replicate the findings.
I always take articles in Science and Nature with a huge grain of salt. After citing a recent nature article as evidence for pursuing a specific line of research, one of my graduate mentors told me, "Don't believe anything you read in Science of Nature" until it shows up in one of the less prestigious, but more focused journals.
That said, publishing in these two will definitely get your CV noticed when you apply for that faculty position and I wouldn't hesitate a second to publish there if I could...unless of course I thought my work would get into Cell.
Just copy the relevant lines from your prefs.js (or user.js) files from you Mozilla preferences folder and put them in a file called user.js in you Chimera prefs folder.
For that matter, *many* of the Mozilla prefs work in Chimera, they just haven't made the GUI to alter them yet.
It says nothing about me.
It is simply this. Frequently the right wingers like to complain that the mainstream media is owned by liberals and Jews and liberal Jews. My point was that even if that is the case, the headlines that come out of the supposed liberal mainstream media, read a lot more fair and balanced than the "Fair and Balanced" FauxNews organization.
Meanwhile, where is the left-wing Jewish media machine? Nowhere to be found. Actually they are putting up stories with headlines like, Judges Ban Pledge of Allegiance From Schools, Citing 'Under God'
While so-called "fair and balanced" news outlets are running headlines like,
What, in God's Name, Is Going On!?!?!? and 'Under God' Under Fire.
Which is more "fair and balanced" to you?
Well in Seattle on ATT if you order only Cable Internet Access, they automatically put a frequency filter on your line when they come to install the service. I have many friends with ATT internet only and none of them get a decent signal for TV. Channels above 70, start coming in a bit better, but nothing below that works at all.
My connection, OTOH, was installed by a guy who was being "trained". Clearly he forgot to install the filter on the line, b/c as the truck drove away, I put my radio shack splitter on the line, sat down and felt my blood pressure rise as I happened upon Faux News Network. But THANKS TO *&#%ing SLASHDOT, today almost all of my channels are gone!
Thanks a lot.
Maybe it is just something in the neighborhood as I still get Seattle Community channel, comedy central and the NBC shopping network...WooHoo!
Xserve
I have to disagree as well. I lived in Mexico City for a year and, being a US American, even drove my '73 LandCruiser there. As an average American, I drove to work for a while, but the traffic there is unbelievable (people in Seattle think they have bad traffic... Hah!).
I then started taking a pesero the mile or so to the subway station, then the subway to near work. It was faster, easier and way cheaper (I think the subway was like 8-12 cents US per ride when I lived there). Once I learned the system, I could get anywhere (not tourist locations), bars, restaurants, whatever in no time flat. If your subway stop is too far from your destination to walk, hop in a cab for a short ride or jump on a pesero.
The subway system in Mexico City is not designed to shuttle tourists around, but it is designed to move millions of people close to where they need to be. The surface transportation takes up the slack.
Chimera 0.2.1 renders this thread (nested, threshold 2, ~200 messages) in a second or two on my Ti550 on a T3 line.
I work with viruses and bacteria and we indeed need to mail them to colleagues on a regular basis. So instead of shielding your contents and hoping the shielding is sufficient how about they never get irradiated in the first place? I would have no problem whatsoever having it be required of me to inform the postal service that I am transporting biological materials. How would this work.
You might put a big orange BIOLOGICALS sticker on your package for one. You could have PHOTOGRAPHICS, ELECTRONICS etc stickers as well.
The USPS might require that any sample which is not to be irradiated be packaged in a minumum sized box which by it's virtue is not handled by machine and thus is not an anonymous rider among the mail.
The USPS might require additonal "handling" fees for such packages.
Such packages might have to be mailed from the Post Office itself or by a licensed agent.
These are just ideas, but my point is that we have to be able to ship things that will not be irradiated. IMO the solution is to clearly identify those items which are not to be irradiated and to make it a little more difficult for a person to mail them.
Imagine Tom Daschle's office receives a box with a BIOLOGICALS sticker on it front and center. Do you think the staffer will open it in Tom's office? I doubt it. The idea is that if you or anyone should receive a package that has clearly not been irradiated, then you have it incumbent upon yourself to exercise appropriate caution when opening that package.
Some may argue that the bioterrorist will just send his samples in one of these packages. Could be, but it's clear that terrorists like Bin Laden and his ilk don't really care much, and in fact want it known, what they did, so they'll use whatever means necessary to achieve their end. However, if some guy like that Shoebomber nut shows up at the DC postoffice wanting to ship "electronics" to the President, maybe, just maybe, the postal worker would either deny him or, send the package off for closer inspection prior to shipment.
On the other hand, some right-wing nut who used to work at a govt. lab and absonded some military grade anthrax, might have second thoughts about dropping his package addressed to Tom Daschle off, in person, to a postal worker.
No, I think that is a way of saying my 3 year old B&W G3-350 gets all my work done just fine. Period.
I too have a B&W G3-350 and I can attest to the fact that it runs everything I use it for (web, email, web design, PHP, mysql, etc) just fine. I bought it 3 years ago for 1500.00 and am 100% satisfied with my purchase. If I hadn't gotten a G4 TiBook from my work, then I would still be using the G3-350 as my daily driver... now it is a server and testing box for my websites.
...is full of inaccuracies, false facts, and overall distorts... Huh?
I haven't had any problems so far *fingers crossed* and I don't use their crappy mail servers anyway.
The biggest downer is that we're now capped at 1.5Mb/s which means I get around 120-150KB/s downloads. With @ home I got 0.8-1.0MB/s downloads. Interestingly their new terms of agreement terms say that we're capped at 1.5MB/s which would be nice, but untrue. I'm sure they'll just quietly update the terms to 1.5Mb/s any day now.
Straight from macminute.com
Apple introduces iPod, a digital audio player (MP3, MP2, more) with a 5GB hard drive (1000 songs). 20 minute skip protection. FireWire-equipped, first such music player. 10 hour battery, lithium-polymar ("most advanced battery; more advanced than laptop batteries"), takes 1 hour to charge. Size of a deck of cards: 2.4" wide, 4" tall, 3/4" thick
Who's the first to say "boring"?
AFAICT, Qwest installs NN4.7.x and uses the built in profile manager in Netscape to setup a profile which is password protected. It also installs an alias on the Desktop to Dial into the DSL account.
So what's this have to do with the 'average user'? My Mom "logs in" by double clicking Netscape, enters her password and off she goes... to eBay
Imagine her with XP and
One more person locked into MS and
Oh yeah. She thinks the only place she can put her digital photos is in "My Pictures". When I showed her that she could actually make folders in there to organize "Her" pictures, she was amazed. I figured that was a minor success and I didn't want to blow her away with the fact that she could actually put her pictures in the "My Music" folder if she so pleased!
E.g. Hold down the option key and scrolling is twice as fast.
Hold down option key and click anywhere in the scroll bar and it takes you there.
Option backspace deletes whole words.
Command+Shift and click a link in IE and it opens the new window behind the current one.
Given that I didn't see the "debate" I can't say one way or the other. However, if michael had given some concrete, logical explanation (like you just did) for using such an incendary title, then the title wouldn't have bothered me one bit.
Note that I didn't say /. should be "unbiased", I just commented on the extreme bias in the title.
Like I said, I don't disagree that our civil liberties aren't being eroded by this legislation, I just disagree with using blatantly inflammatory titles.
Just for fun, let's retitle some of today's stories in "michel mode".
"Audiotron Stereo MP3 Component Sucks Sweaty Dog Nuts"
"Is Your Elected Official A Complete Fucktard Who Doesn't Give a Shit About His/Her Constituents?"
"Hydrogen-based Rotary Engine? - After We Drill in ANWR!"
"Newest Mandrake Linux Delayed - Can't Those Fucktards Program?"
On a serious note, when this legislation passes, I'd really like to see the 'sunset' provision in the house bill be implemented in the final draft, but that looks unlikely.
Not that I disagree with the sentiment of your chosen title, but "Senate Trashes Civil Liberties;" is merely inflammatory rhetoric. I'd prefer that Slashdot editors list their specific grievances with the legislation and ask us what we think about those complaints.