The supreme court also plans to do other things like decide whether public funds may be spent to educate children at church-run schools, whether mentally retarded persons may be subject to capital punishment, and like you said how far the federal government may go in controlling Internet speech to protect children from pornography. The justices will tackle the question of child pornography on the Internet in Ashcroft v. Free Speech Coalition, No. 00-795. The court will have to determine whether Congress violated the First Amendment guarantee of free speech when it passed a 1996 law making it a federal offense to post on the Internet computer-generated sexual images of children.
A coalition of photographers, moviemakers and producers of "adult" materials challenged the law, arguing that it was vague and that only pictures of actual children can be banned because only they do harm to children.
While a lower federal court sided with the Free Speech Coalition, the Justice Department appealed to the Supreme Court, arguing that even fictitious images of children having sex help to feed the overall market for child pornography, and that prosecutors would find it difficult to prove that any image was of an actual child, as opposed to a computer-generated one.
A separate case, Ashcroft v. ACLU, No. 00-1293, involves a different statute designed to protect children from seeing sexually explicit material on the World Wide Web. Passed in 1998 after the court struck down a more broadly worded version in 1997, the statute says "commercial" Web sites may not post material that is "harmful to minors" as defined by "contemporary community standards."
Their are already many countries that have identy cards. For example Palestines are not free to move without identy cards issued by Israel. Also I beleive that during the czars identy cards were required. I beleive that if identy cards are inforced here in the USA you can say that the terrorists have won. We would be creating some police state. That would not be good.
Spam mail is getting very bad, personally I cant wait until Congress rules on it. In the meantime you have to do something, right? In my opinoin two really great sites that cover this are here and here. The first one has some vey useful tools that may help, the second is basically a how to. As for your question, What you probably need is some anti-relaying filters. Perhaps the best site for your problem is here. They have some pointers on how to secure your current mail(Qmail in your case) system against third-party relay. Along with Qmail they cover other mail systems including pmdf and Dmail. Hope I could help
I have been hearing alot about a new line of notebooks. They are called 'heavyduty' notebooks and can sustain drops of up to 10ft. I beleive the military has expressed a great intrest for these laptops. They also have some anti-liquid resistant on them so you can drop a coke onto it without worrying. The only downside is that their about 10 ibs, very heavy compared to most standerds.
I dont know whats up. But all these links are not working for me. Does anyone else have that problem?? Anyway one of the best places to get the current internet map is from Think Geek but thats just me.
This book is very good in my opinoin. It is a complete guide to developing linux games. It also discusses important multimedia toolkits (including a very interesting discussion of the Simple DirectMedia Layer) and teaches the basics of linux game programming. Many books don not take about this. You can learn about the linux gaming world, and how to write and distribute Linux games to the Linux gaming community.
I find this interesting since British Grandmaster Nigel Short has this theory just based on the style he played with that "person". Short said his adversary's style of play was very intriguing and something he had not seen before..
"My unseen opponent began with some highly irregular, if not totally absurd, opening moves - shifting all his pawns forward by one square. These were moves that no Grandmaster(?) would ever play." Short said he immediately suspected a hoax, but became aware there was method in the apparent madness. If you ask me this evidence is very shaky and In my opinoin the thought of Bobby fisher playing is only a rumor
According to CNN Endeavour's crew will deliver and install a 58-foot
Canadian-built robot arm on the space station in a
complicated bit of maneuvering that will end with
a symbolic "handshake" between the two tools. On board will be the first ever Canadien Astronaut. Four countries will be represented on this mission: Canada, Italy, Russia and the
United States. This is the most internationally diverse crew ever assembled by
NASA.
NPR reported on this. Basically both sides in the fight - over patent protection and cheaper drugs - have interesting arguments. On one side are the multi-national pharmaceutical companies, who say they need money from the sale of anti-AIDS drugs to conduct further research. On the other are South African authorities, who say they desperately need affordable medicines to tackle the country's AIDS crisis. The question is... who's right? If I heard correctly a decision should be made tommorow April 18th.
Yahoo has the story about the "missing" laptop here . It seems that A Defence Ministry laptop computer packed with national security secrets had gone missing after an official left it in the back of a taxi. The official had notified police about the missing laptop but nothing has come out of it. Anyway as the story said this is not the first time: In March last year there were reports that agents of MI5, the domestic security service, and MI6, the overseas security service, had lost laptops containing secret information.
Some people out there probably dont know what slackware is: this site is very informative for those who have no clue. Anyway it seems we have entered a new slackware age. I hope its for the better
This is a cool review about it: If you believe the children are our future, you're only half right. Photographer Peter Menzel and
journalist Faith D'Aluisio traveled around the world interviewing researchers who want to jump-start
our evolution by designing and building electrical and mechanical extensions of ourselves--robots.
Their book, Robo Sapiens, takes its title from the notion that our species might somehow merge
with our creations, either literally or symbiotically. The photography is brilliant, showing the
endearing and creepy sides of the robots and roboticists and feeling like stills from unmade
science-fiction films. D'Aluisio's interviews are insightful and often very funny, as when she calls MIT
superstar Rodney Brooks on his statement that we ought not "overanthropomorphize" people.
Brooks is an interesting study. Having shaken up the robotics and artificial-intelligence fields with his
elimination of high-level intelligence and dedication to tiny, insectoid, built-from-the-ground-up
robots, he now works on large, human-mimicking machines. But hundreds of other researchers, in
Japan, Europe, and the United States, are working on various aspects of machine behavior, from
the eerily lifelike robotic faces of Fumio Hara and Alvaro Villa to the monkeylike movement of
Brachiator III; each of them casts a bit of light on the future of their field in their short interviews.
Though it's clear that we shouldn't hold our breath waiting for a robot butler, Robo Sapiens suggests
that much cooler--and stranger--events are coming soon.
This problem was talked about on NPR. Basically all PBS stations must be broadcasting digitally by by May 2003. the transition will require about $4.5 million. Also about one-third of the 347 member stations, or about 115 stations, of the Public Broadcasting System are in danger of closing because of this.
Cnet has a similar article about this here. Basically The Web radio standoff that silenced hundreds of Internet audio feeds this week could be good news for companies that help stitch ads into streaming media broadcasts. So the reason all these web radios halted was because of $$ issues. As the article say Major radio corporations Tuesday, including Clear Channel Communications and Emmis Communications, temporarily halted their Web streams because of unresolved online advertising issues. Although that decision was a temporary setback for nascent Web radio stations, analysts said it could help ignite demand for so-called ad insertion technology, which can be used to get around disputed Internet advertising rules. The way I see it Tuesday's dispute among actors, advertisers and broadcasters over royalty payments could make streaming ads more attractive. Since advertising agencies have agreed to pay radio voice actors a higher fee if their commercials are used online as well as on air, they will likely seek alternatives such as ad insertion to control their costs.
"Researchers obtained a strain of the germ through a wound on a patient who had a serious infection. They grew the strain, isolated its DNA, then used computers to sequence the genetic code".
How interesting. SO let me get this straght, they sacrafice a patent for the good of science. Whats next, sacriface many humans for the good of politics?
Good P.R. Depends on honesty and pateince. Anyway you are on the right track. By putting out your story on slashdot you have attracted attention. Respect must be earned, and you must start that by being honest. Then again: slashdot is not the best place to get marketing advice.
"while I had set up PGP as my Guardian scheme"
Just so you know: PGP has a minor flaw in it so dont feel that since you have PGP as your guardian scheme your safe. Cnet has the full article here. Basically A flaw was found by two Czech researchers in the popular OpenPGP digital signature standard and is said to be real but relatively minor Phil Zimmermann says. From what I know Two Czech researchers said that they had found a hole in it.
Here is one time line. This one is written and not a visual time line. This is also interesting. The only problem is that their is is a gap from 1975-90. This is the my favorite site This site starts in 1980 but it is very indepth about DOS, widows, and Microft itself! This is a nice time line also. It covers 1975-2000.
CNET has a story about similar to this here. Basically it talkes about how ArsDigita, an e-commerce company in the midst of layoffs and a major product overhaul, is bucking the trend of comrades selling open-source software.
While other open-source companies such as Red Hat, Caldera Systems and VA Linux Systems work to shift revenue from products to services, ArsDigita is going the opposite direction.
Instead of just offering services around the open-source ArsDigita Community System (ACS) software for setting up e-commerce Web sites, the company will begin selling proprietary software modules, said Dave Menninger, senior vice president of marketing. In addition, the company's latest version of ACS has been rewritten using Sun Microsystems' Java language instead of the previous TCL language. Very interesting read
I think the book is very good. Here is an interesting review of it: See only what you want to see, hear only what you want to hear, read only what you want to read. In cyberspace, we already have the ability to filter out everything but what we wish to see, hear, and read. Cass Sunstein asks the questions, Is it good for democracy? Is it healthy for the republic? What does this mean for freedom of speech?" "Republic.com exposes the drawbacks of egocentric Internet use, while showing us how to approach the Internet as responsible citizens, not just concerned consumers. Democracy, Sunstein maintains, depends on shared experiences and requires citizens to be exposed to topics and ideas that they would not have chosen in advance. Newspapers and broadcasters helped create a shared culture, but as their role diminishes and the customization of our communications universe increases, society is in danger of fragmenting, shared communities are in danger of dissolving. In their place will arise only louder and ever more extreme echoes of our own voices, our own opinions." "In evaluating the consequences of new communications technologies for democracy and free speech, Sunstein argues the question is not whether to regulate the Net (it's already regulated), but how; proves that freedom of speech is not an absolute; and underscores the enormous potential of the Internet to promote freedom as well as its potential to promote "cybercascades" of like-minded opinions that foster and inflame hate groups. The book ends by suggesting a range of potential reforms to current misconceptions and to improve deliberative democracy and the health of the American republic . If you are interested in the book you can read a chapter here
Slashdot Mirror
The supreme court also plans to do other things like decide whether public funds may be spent to educate children at church-run schools, whether mentally retarded persons may be subject to capital punishment, and like you said how far the federal government may go in controlling Internet speech to protect children from pornography. The justices will tackle the question of child pornography on the Internet in Ashcroft v. Free Speech Coalition, No. 00-795. The court will have to determine whether Congress violated the First Amendment guarantee of free speech when it passed a 1996 law making it a federal offense to post on the Internet computer-generated sexual images of children.
A coalition of photographers, moviemakers and producers of "adult" materials challenged the law, arguing that it was vague and that only pictures of actual children can be banned because only they do harm to children.
While a lower federal court sided with the Free Speech Coalition, the Justice Department appealed to the Supreme Court, arguing that even fictitious images of children having sex help to feed the overall market for child pornography, and that prosecutors would find it difficult to prove that any image was of an actual child, as opposed to a computer-generated one.
A separate case, Ashcroft v. ACLU, No. 00-1293, involves a different statute designed to protect children from seeing sexually explicit material on the World Wide Web. Passed in 1998 after the court struck down a more broadly worded version in 1997, the statute says "commercial" Web sites may not post material that is "harmful to minors" as defined by "contemporary community standards."
Their are already many countries that have identy cards. For example Palestines are not free to move without identy cards issued by Israel. Also I beleive that during the czars identy cards were required. I beleive that if identy cards are inforced here in the USA you can say that the terrorists have won. We would be creating some police state. That would not be good.
Spam mail is getting very bad, personally I cant wait until Congress rules on it. In the meantime you have to do something, right? In my opinoin two really great sites that cover this are here and here. The first one has some vey useful tools that may help, the second is basically a how to. As for your question, What you probably need is some anti-relaying filters. Perhaps the best site for your problem is here. They have some pointers on how to secure your current mail(Qmail in your case) system against third-party relay. Along with Qmail they cover other mail systems including pmdf and Dmail. Hope I could help
I have been hearing alot about a new line of notebooks. They are called 'heavyduty' notebooks and can sustain drops of up to 10ft. I beleive the military has expressed a great intrest for these laptops. They also have some anti-liquid resistant on them so you can drop a coke onto it without worrying. The only downside is that their about 10 ibs, very heavy compared to most standerds.
I dont know whats up. But all these links are not working for me. Does anyone else have that problem?? Anyway one of the best places to get the current internet map is from Think Geek but thats just me.
This book is very good in my opinoin. It is a complete guide to developing linux games. It also discusses important multimedia toolkits (including a very interesting discussion of the Simple DirectMedia Layer) and teaches the basics of linux game programming. Many books don not take about this. You can learn about the linux gaming world, and how to write and distribute Linux games to the Linux gaming community.
I find this interesting since British Grandmaster Nigel Short has this theory just based on the style he played with that "person". Short said his adversary's style of play was very intriguing and something he had not seen before..
"My unseen opponent began with some highly irregular, if not totally absurd, opening moves - shifting all his pawns forward by one square. These were moves that no Grandmaster(?) would ever play." Short said he immediately suspected a hoax, but became aware there was method in the apparent madness.
If you ask me this evidence is very shaky and In my opinoin the thought of Bobby fisher playing is only a rumor
According to Microsoft the number of new features will make the OS a more 'useful' tool for corporate workers. Cnet has a interesting here
According to CNN Endeavour's crew will deliver and install a 58-foot Canadian-built robot arm on the space station in a complicated bit of maneuvering that will end with a symbolic "handshake" between the two tools. On board will be the first ever Canadien Astronaut. Four countries will be represented on this mission: Canada, Italy, Russia and the United States. This is the most internationally diverse crew ever assembled by NASA.
Local papers had a story about this. According to them the first piloted plane will launch in 2025.
NPR reported on this. Basically both sides in the fight - over patent protection and cheaper drugs - have interesting arguments. On one side are the multi-national pharmaceutical companies, who say they need money from the sale of anti-AIDS drugs to conduct further research. On the other are South African authorities, who say they desperately need affordable medicines to tackle the country's AIDS crisis. The question is... who's right? If I heard correctly a decision should be made tommorow April 18th.
Yahoo has the story about the "missing" laptop here . It seems that A Defence Ministry laptop computer packed with national security secrets had gone missing after an official left it in the back of a taxi. The official had notified police about the missing laptop but nothing has come out of it. Anyway as the story said this is not the first time: In March last year there were reports that agents of MI5, the domestic security service, and MI6, the overseas security service, had lost laptops containing secret information.
Some people out there probably dont know what slackware is: this site is very informative for those who have no clue. Anyway it seems we have entered a new slackware age. I hope its for the better
This not much but this site outlines the internet policy for the African continet. Also this site has an intersting over view of china's internet policies
This is a cool review about it: If you believe the children are our future, you're only half right. Photographer Peter Menzel and journalist Faith D'Aluisio traveled around the world interviewing researchers who want to jump-start our evolution by designing and building electrical and mechanical extensions of ourselves--robots. Their book, Robo Sapiens, takes its title from the notion that our species might somehow merge with our creations, either literally or symbiotically. The photography is brilliant, showing the endearing and creepy sides of the robots and roboticists and feeling like stills from unmade science-fiction films. D'Aluisio's interviews are insightful and often very funny, as when she calls MIT superstar Rodney Brooks on his statement that we ought not "overanthropomorphize" people. Brooks is an interesting study. Having shaken up the robotics and artificial-intelligence fields with his elimination of high-level intelligence and dedication to tiny, insectoid, built-from-the-ground-up robots, he now works on large, human-mimicking machines. But hundreds of other researchers, in Japan, Europe, and the United States, are working on various aspects of machine behavior, from the eerily lifelike robotic faces of Fumio Hara and Alvaro Villa to the monkeylike movement of Brachiator III; each of them casts a bit of light on the future of their field in their short interviews. Though it's clear that we shouldn't hold our breath waiting for a robot butler, Robo Sapiens suggests that much cooler--and stranger--events are coming soon.
This problem was talked about on NPR. Basically all PBS stations must be broadcasting digitally by by May 2003. the transition will require about $4.5 million. Also about one-third of the 347 member stations, or about 115 stations, of the Public Broadcasting System are in danger of closing because of this.
Cnet has a similar article about this here. Basically The Web radio standoff that silenced hundreds of Internet audio feeds this week could be good news for companies that help stitch ads into streaming media broadcasts. So the reason all these web radios halted was because of $$ issues. As the article say Major radio corporations Tuesday, including Clear Channel Communications and Emmis Communications, temporarily halted their Web streams because of unresolved online advertising issues. Although that decision was a temporary setback for nascent Web radio stations, analysts said it could help ignite demand for so-called ad insertion technology, which can be used to get around disputed Internet advertising rules. The way I see it Tuesday's dispute among actors, advertisers and broadcasters over royalty payments could make streaming ads more attractive. Since advertising agencies have agreed to pay radio voice actors a higher fee if their commercials are used online as well as on air, they will likely seek alternatives such as ad insertion to control their costs.
Interesting. Anyway, for more info on this go here. At this site, they identify it as a mysterious light similar to our Aurora lights.
"Researchers obtained a strain of the germ through a wound on a patient who had a serious infection. They grew the strain, isolated its DNA, then used computers to sequence the genetic code".
How interesting. SO let me get this straght, they sacrafice a patent for the good of science. Whats next, sacriface many humans for the good of politics?
Good P.R. Depends on honesty and pateince. Anyway you are on the right track. By putting out your story on slashdot you have attracted attention. Respect must be earned, and you must start that by being honest. Then again: slashdot is not the best place to get marketing advice.
"while I had set up PGP as my Guardian scheme"
Just so you know: PGP has a minor flaw in it so dont feel that since you have PGP as your guardian scheme your safe. Cnet has the full article here. Basically A flaw was found by two Czech researchers in the popular OpenPGP digital signature standard and is said to be real but relatively minor Phil Zimmermann says. From what I know Two Czech researchers said that they had found a hole in it.
Here is one time line. This one is written and not a visual time line. This is also interesting. The only problem is that their is is a gap from 1975-90. This is the my favorite site This site starts in 1980 but it is very indepth about DOS, widows, and Microft itself! This is a nice time line also. It covers 1975-2000.
What are you talking about! There is no such thing as the NSA!
CNET has a story about similar to this here. Basically it talkes about how ArsDigita, an e-commerce company in the midst of layoffs and a major product overhaul, is bucking the trend of comrades selling open-source software. While other open-source companies such as Red Hat, Caldera Systems and VA Linux Systems work to shift revenue from products to services, ArsDigita is going the opposite direction. Instead of just offering services around the open-source ArsDigita Community System (ACS) software for setting up e-commerce Web sites, the company will begin selling proprietary software modules, said Dave Menninger, senior vice president of marketing. In addition, the company's latest version of ACS has been rewritten using Sun Microsystems' Java language instead of the previous TCL language. Very interesting read
I think the book is very good. Here is an interesting review of it: See only what you want to see, hear only what you want to hear, read only what you want to read. In cyberspace, we already have the ability to filter out everything but what we wish to see, hear, and read. Cass Sunstein asks the questions, Is it good for democracy? Is it healthy for the republic? What does this mean for freedom of speech?" "Republic.com exposes the drawbacks of egocentric Internet use, while showing us how to approach the Internet as responsible citizens, not just concerned consumers. Democracy, Sunstein maintains, depends on shared experiences and requires citizens to be exposed to topics and ideas that they would not have chosen in advance. Newspapers and broadcasters helped create a shared culture, but as their role diminishes and the customization of our communications universe increases, society is in danger of fragmenting, shared communities are in danger of dissolving. In their place will arise only louder and ever more extreme echoes of our own voices, our own opinions." "In evaluating the consequences of new communications technologies for democracy and free speech, Sunstein argues the question is not whether to regulate the Net (it's already regulated), but how; proves that freedom of speech is not an absolute; and underscores the enormous potential of the Internet to promote freedom as well as its potential to promote "cybercascades" of like-minded opinions that foster and inflame hate groups. The book ends by suggesting a range of potential reforms to current misconceptions and to improve deliberative democracy and the health of the American republic . If you are interested in the book you can read a chapter here