National Academies of Science and the Center for Food Safety [are] calling for a ban on the sale of the fish unless the FDA regulates and approves it.
Seeing as how I don't intend to eat, drink, snort, or even pet the fucking things, can someone please tell me what the FDA has to do with it? It's just more anti-GM paranoia.
That's a fascinating assertion, since the hard-copy of the November edition of IEEE Spectrum is sitting on the corner of my desk all dog-eared and mangled like a sex crime victim.
This process was first performed at MIT by Angela Belcher. She was using engineered viruses that coated themselves with semiconductor materiel to produce nanoscale FET trasnsitors a billionth of a meter in size. You can read more in the November issue of IEEE Spectrum.
In the last few months, I have watched the number of tech-job listings rise to the pre-dot-com bubble-burst level. The best data they have is from 1 year after the dot-com bubble-burst.
I'm sorry, I keep reading "news for nerds...stuff that matters", but looking ad the sardonic attempts at wit which are thinly veiled attempts at Bush bashing, I can't help think this sites slogan is...
Political Hackery for Demigogues. Stuff that Doesn't Matter to Real Nerds.
So...why is it even notable that they removed an article pertaining to more than a decade ago over a situation everyone in their right mind knows about? More retarded slashdot political-hack activism, -1
True only to an extent. Take Gray-out Davis for example. As soon as he proposed a hefty car tax, the sheeple got motivated to yank him out. As soon as he proposed drivers licenses for illegal immigrants, he was as good as gone.
You should acquint yourself with the concept of How-To: Boil a Frog.
...not for Memory Hole's sake, but if the DoJ does do it, I would have an affirmative piece of evidence to motive the sheeple I know to fight the DMCA. Till now, the DMCA actions brought are either too complex, or not a clear enough violation of fair use standards to be palatable to the general public.
If there is a resonable risk to national security (i.e., revealing information about intelligence collecting techiniques, agents in the field, et al) it can be censored. This, however, is a report about diversity. I seriously doubt there's anything in there about the number of undercover agents and their assignments.
Just one day after releasing an uncensored version of a Department of Justice report on racial diversity in the work place, operators of the web site "Memory Hole" have been charged with violating terms of the Digital Millenium Copyright Act. According to a complaint filed by the Department of Justice in the 6th Federal Circuit Court, Memory Hole illegally circumvented electronic controls used to protect confidential material.
On October 31st, the Department of Justice responded to a request under the Freedom of Information Act and released the report. However, several sections of the report were blacked out. Memory Hole discovered that the file format (PDF) used an image laid over the censored text, and simply removed the images and published the memo.
On Saturday morning, Agents of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms and the FBI raided the offices of Memory Hole, the home of the publisher, and their ISP and confiscated several computers. The web site has not yet been ordered to be taken down, but a request is pending with Judge Y. H. Barrett Thompson to have the site terminated monday morning.
You people have been staring at leftist liberal media so long now you can't recognized "fair and balanced" when it smacks you in the face. Since Fox now has the highest ratings share of any news network, what do now make of it?
I'm suprised you're still at 5. Many people assume that they have a right to privacy when driving. What they don't realize is that the public roads are state and federal creations held in the public trust, and their right to use use it is predicated on the realization that it is a priveledge.
If they want to get into accidents on private property, that's another story.
...hey, real science is great and all, but real sci-fi would be nice. What we have now is a "Sci Fi" channel that puts crap like "Tremors" and "Crossing Over" on between reruns of good shit like Farscape or Lexx. Wait, I haven't seen Lexx in reruns. Oh, and they cancelled "Invisible Man". Lets face it, Bonnie Hammer and the gang fucked it up, and now they're pushing half-assed creature flicks on their audience.
Building a supercomputer cluster from PC hardware is going to be far cheaper. Of course, it will take you about 2-3 times as many pc's (more electricity, more space, more heat, shorter MTBF), but you can do it.
Gimme a second to gird my loin - I'm about to be flamebaited by the Linux zealots who have surrendered all perspective on the meaning of "free" and "open" and "fair".
*gird* *gird*
Okay, here's the deal. I've already pointed out that Lindows sueing Microsoft is no better than SCO suing Linux users - in either case it is ultimately a tactic used to increase corporate profits at the expense of a competitor, using the legal system as a prybar.
Micro$oft makes several valid and salient points here about Lindow$'s predatory tactics. What Lindow$ is essentially doing is leveraging their anticipated income on the sale of current products. Moreover, if you look at the MSFreePC, it is quite deceptive. You are not getting a "free pc". You are purchasing a PC from Lindows with settlement rightfully due you for being forced to purchase MS Software in the past.
This whole thing stinks. Now, watch my score drop like a prom-dates panties.
On the off chance this is not a troll, a torrent file is used by BitTorrent to download large files from multiple sources, yielding high bandwidth downloads. BT is available for GNU/Linux, Windows, and MacOS X. http://bitconjurer.org/BitTorrent/
First of all, they illegally acquired confidential information regarding your customers. This is a serious breach of faith on the part of your former employee, and an act of theft on the part of the third party.
The second issue is that the third party company is guilty of committing a DOS attack - even if it was oversight and the use of software with legitimate purpouses.
There are two ways to mitigate the situation. The slimy corporate way is to sue the piss out of the former employee and the third party. The happy way is to replicate the tools your customers use and offer them for free. Basically, just hack some code to read your weblogs and print out pretty graphs regarding uptime, access, etc. Sell these services to your customers based on the fact that it is free, it is accurate because it comes from your servers own logs, and it won't affect their web site logs the way the third party software has. You should see the use of the third party software drop off drastically.
Simply shutting off your customers who use this software may not be the best marketing ploy, but I highly recommend you keep them in the loop, and pre-empt the third party by announcing the whys and hows of your actions.
Finally, although I abhor rampant litigation, I do highly recommend you document everything, and sue the third party company for damages. As you say, you have lost reputation and uptime, and while your uptime may have cost you hundreds of dollars, your reputation may cost thousands of dollars. I'd also sue to have the third party company reimburse your customers for the software; this should get you out of dutch with your customers who will feel screwed by both the third party company, and you, in this little pissing match.
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It was just the aluminum foil on the stations main antenna.
Apparently, the Indian arm of Dell computer denies everything.
Seeing as how I don't intend to eat, drink, snort, or even pet the fucking things, can someone please tell me what the FDA has to do with it? It's just more anti-GM paranoia.
That's a fascinating assertion, since the hard-copy of the November edition of IEEE Spectrum is sitting on the corner of my desk all dog-eared and mangled like a sex crime victim.
This process was first performed at MIT by Angela Belcher. She was using engineered viruses that coated themselves with semiconductor materiel to produce nanoscale FET trasnsitors a billionth of a meter in size. You can read more in the November issue of IEEE Spectrum.
In the last few months, I have watched the number of tech-job listings rise to the pre-dot-com bubble-burst level. The best data they have is from 1 year after the dot-com bubble-burst.
Relax folks, the recovery's on - beers on me.
So...why is it even notable that they removed an article pertaining to more than a decade ago over a situation everyone in their right mind knows about? More retarded slashdot political-hack activism, -1
True only to an extent. Take Gray-out Davis for example. As soon as he proposed a hefty car tax, the sheeple got motivated to yank him out. As soon as he proposed drivers licenses for illegal immigrants, he was as good as gone.
You should acquint yourself with the concept of How-To: Boil a Frog.
...not for Memory Hole's sake, but if the DoJ does do it, I would have an affirmative piece of evidence to motive the sheeple I know to fight the DMCA. Till now, the DMCA actions brought are either too complex, or not a clear enough violation of fair use standards to be palatable to the general public.
If there is a resonable risk to national security (i.e., revealing information about intelligence collecting techiniques, agents in the field, et al) it can be censored. This, however, is a report about diversity. I seriously doubt there's anything in there about the number of undercover agents and their assignments.
Memory Hole to be Charged With DMCA Violation
Reuters 11-01-03
Just one day after releasing an uncensored version of a Department of Justice report on racial diversity in the work place, operators of the web site "Memory Hole" have been charged with violating terms of the Digital Millenium Copyright Act. According to a complaint filed by the Department of Justice in the 6th Federal Circuit Court, Memory Hole illegally circumvented electronic controls used to protect confidential material.
On October 31st, the Department of Justice responded to a request under the Freedom of Information Act and released the report. However, several sections of the report were blacked out. Memory Hole discovered that the file format (PDF) used an image laid over the censored text, and simply removed the images and published the memo.
On Saturday morning, Agents of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms and the FBI raided the offices of Memory Hole, the home of the publisher, and their ISP and confiscated several computers. The web site has not yet been ordered to be taken down, but a request is pending with Judge Y. H. Barrett Thompson to have the site terminated monday morning.
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You people have been staring at leftist liberal media so long now you can't recognized "fair and balanced" when it smacks you in the face. Since Fox now has the highest ratings share of any news network, what do now make of it?
Well, it's really simple. Iraq is a hot topic. Search engines spidering the site will index Iraq related pages, and this will increase traffic.
Honestly, it's disingenuous to claim there's something afoul here. This is precisely what robots.txt files are used for worldwide.
Or, could it possibly have something to do with why everyone else uses robots.txt files - to limit server loads?
I'm suprised you're still at 5. Many people assume that they have a right to privacy when driving. What they don't realize is that the public roads are state and federal creations held in the public trust, and their right to use use it is predicated on the realization that it is a priveledge.
If they want to get into accidents on private property, that's another story.
...oh wait, someone did that. Sorry, just got sentimental for the olden days of yesteryear.
...hey, real science is great and all, but real sci-fi would be nice. What we have now is a "Sci Fi" channel that puts crap like "Tremors" and "Crossing Over" on between reruns of good shit like Farscape or Lexx. Wait, I haven't seen Lexx in reruns. Oh, and they cancelled "Invisible Man". Lets face it, Bonnie Hammer and the gang fucked it up, and now they're pushing half-assed creature flicks on their audience.
Yeah, I'm bitter about the Farscape thing.
Building a supercomputer cluster from PC hardware is going to be far cheaper. Of course, it will take you about 2-3 times as many pc's (more electricity, more space, more heat, shorter MTBF), but you can do it.
TIA was a product of DARPA, under the auspices of the Department of Defense, and concieved by a private NGO. Your petty politics are disgusting.
Gimme a second to gird my loin - I'm about to be flamebaited by the Linux zealots who have surrendered all perspective on the meaning of "free" and "open" and "fair".
*gird* *gird*
Okay, here's the deal. I've already
pointed out that Lindows sueing Microsoft is no better than SCO suing Linux users - in either case it is ultimately a tactic used to increase corporate profits at the expense of a competitor, using the legal system as a prybar.
Micro$oft makes several valid and salient points here about Lindow$'s predatory tactics. What Lindow$ is essentially doing is leveraging their anticipated income on the sale of current products. Moreover, if you look at the MSFreePC, it is quite deceptive. You are not getting a "free pc". You are purchasing a PC from Lindows with settlement rightfully due you for being forced to purchase MS Software in the past.
This whole thing stinks. Now, watch my score drop like a prom-dates panties.
I had to do it...
Principal Smith: Johnny, what's that round thing in your wallet? It's not one of those "C" things is it?
Little Tommy Anderson: Why no sir, Mr. Smith. It's a 5cm CD-ROM.
Principal Smith: Bullshit, I'm calling your parents.
On the off chance this is not a troll, a torrent file is used by BitTorrent to download large files from multiple sources, yielding high bandwidth downloads. BT is available for GNU/Linux, Windows, and MacOS X. http://bitconjurer.org/BitTorrent/
First of all, they illegally acquired confidential information regarding your customers. This is a serious breach of faith on the part of your former employee, and an act of theft on the part of the third party.
The second issue is that the third party company is guilty of committing a DOS attack - even if it was oversight and the use of software with legitimate purpouses.
There are two ways to mitigate the situation. The slimy corporate way is to sue the piss out of the former employee and the third party. The happy way is to replicate the tools your customers use and offer them for free. Basically, just hack some code to read your weblogs and print out pretty graphs regarding uptime, access, etc. Sell these services to your customers based on the fact that it is free, it is accurate because it comes from your servers own logs, and it won't affect their web site logs the way the third party software has. You should see the use of the third party software drop off drastically.
Simply shutting off your customers who use this software may not be the best marketing ploy, but I highly recommend you keep them in the loop, and pre-empt the third party by announcing the whys and hows of your actions.
Finally, although I abhor rampant litigation, I do highly recommend you document everything, and sue the third party company for damages. As you say, you have lost reputation and uptime, and while your uptime may have cost you hundreds of dollars, your reputation may cost thousands of dollars. I'd also sue to have the third party company reimburse your customers for the software; this should get you out of dutch with your customers who will feel screwed by both the third party company, and you, in this little pissing match.