We who create technology are not responsible for what politicians do with it. Read Steven Levy's "Hackers" for this same damn issue from 25 years ago, or Richard Rhode's "Making of the Atomic Bomb" if you want to go back 50 years.
"There is a time for scientists and movie stars and people who have flown the Atlantic to restrain their opinions lest they be taken more seriously than they should be." - Edward Teller 1954
I submitted this before the polls opened. It was rejected:
Today, many Americans will vote using computerized balloting systems for the first time. Voters from the Slashdot community should take notes and report back here about their experiences. This article in Salon talks about the problems we've seen before, and will probably see again today. Jason Kitcat, founder of Gnu.FREE, an open-source electronic voting system, says, "I've come to the realization that electronic voting of any type...is a terrible, terrible idea."
Not just citizens: "Some non-citizens are required to register.... Almost all other male noncitizens are required to register, including illegal aliens, legal permanent residents, and refugees." http://www.sss.gov/FSwho.htm
To the wizards who modded my previous post -1 offtopic: that url is for an article Jason wrote because some losers were criticizing him for making the BBS movie!
On an overnight flight during a thunderstorm, I heard very low 'booming' noises concurrently with lightning bolts that were some thousands of feet away. It happened repeatedly, and I wondered if it were some EM pulse effect on the aircraft skin. Seems like it was.
There was a guy at the HOPE convention in 1994 who was so pissed that Oregon gave out DMV info that he bought the tape, had a bunch of CDs pressed, and was selling them at cost, just to make some noise about it. Gee, only 7 years later, and the media finally takes note.
1. FBI has a recording of a call made between two pay phones in in 1986. How, why?
2. FBI has copies of huge amounts of correspondence between Hanssen and KGB.
3. I knew those BBSes were evil!
4. Hanssen was a DENTIST, and then an ACCOUNTANT. No wonder he became a spy, he had the two most boring professions on Earth, he had to go to the opposite extreme.
5. You would think a spy would get an unlisted number. He's in the phone book.
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We who create technology are not responsible for what politicians do with it. Read Steven Levy's "Hackers" for this same damn issue from 25 years ago, or Richard Rhode's "Making of the Atomic Bomb" if you want to go back 50 years.
"There is a time for scientists and movie stars and people who have flown
the Atlantic to restrain their opinions lest they be taken more seriously
than they should be." - Edward Teller 1954
Bruce Schneier thought it was funny. He wrote about it in his CryptoGram newsletter.
HIS name is in the banned list.
Sure. It's trading at $1.56. IPO was $16, high was $160.
How is this NOT a dot bomb?
My Scrabble game never crashes. I guess that's because it's made of CARDBOARD and LITTLE WOODEN TILES!
Get rid of the PC, or your kids will get carpal tunnel syndrome before puberty.
I was going to make this post about my Monopoly game, but Billy, that mean kid from Redmond, stole mine.
How much did you make selling Priceline shares before the whole Priceline house of cards collapsed?
Didn't you realize bidding on groceries online was STUPID?
Put 50c in slot.
Move joystick.
Die.
Repeat x 3.
Give up.
Go play Tron for an hour on one quarter.
I think you may be right but http://us.imdb.com/Quotes?0086567 says I am.
:)
I'll have to watch it again. Poor me.
Don't make me rent it *again*!
Got a URL?
I have that in paperback. They can have mine.
I submitted this before the polls opened. It was rejected:
Today, many Americans will vote using computerized balloting systems for the first time. Voters from the Slashdot community should take notes and report back here about their experiences. This article in Salon talks about the problems we've seen before, and will probably see again today. Jason Kitcat, founder of Gnu.FREE, an open-source electronic voting system, says, "I've come to the realization that electronic voting of any type...is a terrible, terrible idea."
is listed under accessories.
War-dog-walking, anyone?
Listen to the album on vinyl. Right at the end, you hear, "There's no dark side of the moon, really. Matter of fact, it's ALL dark!"
Downloading a new virus def using an old engine, a friend got this message:
Definition is too new for engine!
There was one button to click.
It said "You're Fucked"
Not just citizens: "Some non-citizens are required to register.... Almost all other male noncitizens are required to register, including illegal aliens, legal permanent residents, and refugees." http://www.sss.gov/FSwho.htm
Illegal aliens? Think they really sign up?
The original picture of the laser-cooling unit in the arst Tesla joke was from moloch.
tommEE changed it.
Now it's REALLY funny.
The Hacker Quarterly? I don't care if you think it's lame, you shouldn't go around shooting magazines!
Or your future mother-in-law, either.
that this story will be reposted.
Oh, also, LAST POST!
To the wizards who modded my previous post -1 offtopic: that url is for an article Jason wrote because some losers were criticizing him for making the BBS movie!
That comment was written by the guy who helped inspire http://www.textfiles.com/thoughts/haters.html
You mean you can spin a disk and have something FLY above it? Wow, I bet this antiG effect could be used in computers somehow!
On an overnight flight during a thunderstorm, I heard very low 'booming' noises concurrently with lightning bolts that were some thousands of feet away. It happened repeatedly, and I wondered if it were some EM pulse effect on the aircraft skin. Seems like it was.
Anyone else observe the like?
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There was a guy at the HOPE convention in 1994 who was so pissed that Oregon gave out DMV info that he bought the tape, had a bunch of CDs pressed, and was selling them at cost, just to make some noise about it. Gee, only 7 years later, and the media finally takes note.
1. FBI has a recording of a call made between two pay phones in in 1986. How, why?
2. FBI has copies of huge amounts of correspondence between Hanssen and KGB.
3. I knew those BBSes were evil!
4. Hanssen was a DENTIST, and then an ACCOUNTANT. No wonder he became a spy, he had the two most boring professions on Earth, he had to go to the opposite extreme.
5. You would think a spy would get an unlisted number. He's in the phone book.