User: wiredog

Not warrantless.

On: Rep. Jane Harman Focus In Yet Another Warrantless Wiretap Scandal

DoJ had a warrant, apparently it was part of the AIPAC investigation.

No, the fishy part is that the Bush admin apparently blackmailed her into supporting the warrantless program.

Also, you have the Executive branch doing that ot a member of the Legislative.

This could get really interesting...

Mind if I light up in here?

On: Bar Gets You Tipsy On Its Air

Whaddayamean this is a non-smoking establishment?

Probably.

On: The Secret History of the FBI's Classified Spyware

And a Mac version too.

The really interesting question is, are there OpenBSD versions?

More details at White House website

On: Obama Proposes High-Speed Rail System For the US

Here.

Which made it first place

On: NASA Names Space Station Treadmill After Colbert

Among all the choices that weren't being driven by bots or ballot stuffers.

15 years or so ago

On: Worst Working Conditions You Had To Write Code In?

Working in industrial automation. Installing a machine, and tweaking the code. An un-airconditioned plating shop in Oklahoma, in August, in a heat wave. So 100F+, near 100% humidity. Sometimes hanging above a vat of nasty chemicals while debugging with an oscilloscope.

Fun times.

Because I read this part

On: Grad Student Project Uses Wikis To Stash Data, Miffs Admins

That depends entirely on your jurisdictional ability to prosecute me.

That depends entirely

On: Grad Student Project Uses Wikis To Stash Data, Miffs Admins

So it's only unethical if you get caught?

Shorten links to avoid messes like this:

On: Can rev="canonical" Replace URL-Shortening Services?

http://developers.slashdot.org/comments.pl?threshold=2&mode=thread&commentsort=3&sid=1196477

You might want to adjust your tinfoil hat

On: Slashdot Mentioned In Virginia Terrorism Report

I think the mind control rays aren't being focused properly.

How are they taking it back?

On: No More D&D PDFs, Wizards of the Coast Sues 8 File Sharers

Are they forcing you to return the PDFs?

From NPR and wire service reports

On: AP Says "Share Your Revenue, Or Face Lawsuits"

and wire service reports

If you read the article...

On: AP Says "Share Your Revenue, Or Face Lawsuits"

It's very clear that they object to people putting some, or all, of the content of their articles on those peoples' web pages. So if "the pages only show the Title, summary, attribution, date and a link to the original article" then, no, you don't get sued. You aren't showing the article, or part of it, just the title and summary they distribute via their RSS feed.

   

The internet isn't free

On: AP Says "Share Your Revenue, Or Face Lawsuits"

and people like you who insist it should be are idiots.

Are you really that stupid

On: AP Says "Share Your Revenue, Or Face Lawsuits"

They do want people looking at, they just want to be paid for their work. You know:

"Information wants to be free, but information purveyors want to be paid."

Otherwise they can go out of business, and then where will you get your information?

It has a plot?

On: Columnist Fired For Reviewing Pirated Movie

Why ruin it with a plot?

Move to a country that respects freedom

On: Trick Used To Pass French "Three Strikes"

Like the UK.

Re:SparcStations

On: IBM About To Buy Sun For $7 Billion

I also run Windows XP on VMWare on MacOS. In fact, I run all three simultaneously.

I'm a developer. We do these things.

SparcStations

On: IBM About To Buy Sun For $7 Billion

In college at Southern Utah University in 92 we got some SparcStations. We were a VAX/VMS (or NetWare) shop (and the instructors were all VAX (or NetWare)guys) so Seniors, like me, were sitting there with "Unix for VMS Users" (From O'Reilly?) trying to get the damn things on the network. Once that was accomplished we had fun trying to get X running.

Then we had to try to figure out how to do something actually useful with the damn things. It was a fun quarter. A couple years later I discovered Linux. Now I run a commercial Unix, the MacOS, with Debian running in a VmWare virtual machine.

They won't be strangers for long.

On: Quantum Setback For Warp Drives

Heck, after 8 weeks of army basic training none of the 50 or so people in my company were strangers.

Re:Right!

On: New Legislation Would Federalize Cybersecurity

Neil Armstrong was a government official. Employed by government officials. In a government program.

You do realize

On: New Legislation Would Federalize Cybersecurity

That the phone system is a network? That traffic lights are often networked, and have to be remotely accessible? Etc. etc. etc.

There's more to networking than "the internet".

Talk to the guys at

On: Interview With the Author of "Mastering Cat"

EDS.

Other aspects of CADIE

On: Google Launches CADIE, the First True AI

GMail Autopilot

CADIE's favorite places.

Image search

Relax! They've already admitted the DEFCON 3

On: Conficker Worm Strike Reports Start Rolling In

Was the result of missile jockeys who'd had a bit too much coffee. Nothing to do with conficker. Not a Wargames scenario at all.