"18% +/- 2% of respondents indicated 'unwanted sexual attention' (as defined in Appendix A) within the last year" Except that this figure still includes wanted or even solicited sexual attention from adults, as well as unwanted sexual attention from adults and teens. On top of conflating wanted and unwanted sexual attention, conflating sexual attention from teens vs. adults also makes the data less useful.
Thanks to the problems with the 68K to PPC transition, it was even stable compared to Macs - a first for MS. No, it really wasn't.
Yes, when Mac OS crashed, it usually meant the entire machine locked up and had to be rebooted, while on Windows often it was just one application that had to be terminated, and you'd have a chance to save your work in all the other open applications before rebooting the machine cleanly. But compared to Windows 95's BSODs (where "Press any key to return to Windows" usually just went to a black screen with nothing working but the mouse pointer), Mac OS really didn't crash that often. When I had to use Windows 95 (and later 98) at work, I used to start every morning by rebooting the machine, then I would reboot again during my lunch break, because if I skipped that mid-day reboot, the machine usually wouldn't last until the end of my shift without one or more job-critical applications becoming unusable somehow. This applied to both Win95 and Win98 at different companies on multiple machines running different applications, and there was no predictable pattern to how the crashes would occur, just that they would usually start between six to eight hours after the morning reboot.
I never ever saw, or heard of, any kind of problem related to Apple's m68k emulation. From my experience, running m68k code on PowerMacs worked absolutely flawlessly every time (it was just horribly slow - a 25MHz Quadra could run circles around a 60MHz PowerMac running m68k software). We didn't have the compatibility problems that Mac OS X has now with trying to run PowerPC code on x86 where most applications work but a few don't and anything that uses plugins will only work if all the plugins are built for the same architecture as the application. Large parts of the operating system itself weren't even PowerPC native at first.
It probably won't matter who is US President, unless you get someone who is not a career politican. Uh, yes, this was basically my point. We should make sure the executive branch doesn't get the authority to wiretap people's phones without a warrant, because regardless of who the President is, they'll abuse the authority.
If you trust the Bush administration not to abuse their power when they wiretap people's phones without a warrant, will you feel the same way about the Obama administration doing it? If you don't want the Democrats to have this power, then you'd better make sure you don't give it to them.
Seriously. Is it illegal to eavesdrop on overseas conversations? That is what we are talking about here. These calls we are tapping have at least one party overseas. Please, tell me: What law designed to protect non-Americans are we breaking? Take a look at the fourth amendment to the United States Constitution:
The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized. The language is a bit archaic, but the gist of it is, the government can't go snooping through your stuff, unless they can show probable cause and get a warrant that says what they're looking for and where it is. Obviously telephones didn't exist at the time, but if they did, it's reasonable to assume that telephone conversations would have also been included along with "papers and effects", so that's how we interpret this.
So it's perfectly OK for the government to wiretap someone's phone, if they get a warrant. However, this raises three concerns: first, if they get a tip, they need to act immediately, and getting a warrant from a judge normally takes time. Second, it may be difficult to explain to a judge who hasn't dealt with matters of national security before why the government really should be wiretapping this person's phone. Finally, warrants are normally a matter of public record, and we wouldn't want terrorists to know which phones we're wiretapping!
So, Congress addressed these concerns by passing the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act. It establishes a secret court that can issue warrants without making them public; the judges have a ridiculously high security clearance and have training and experience dealing with matters of national security, and the warrants issued by the FISA court are retroactive for 72 hours - so the government can start eavesdropping immediately, then file the paperwork a couple days later and everything is OK. As it turns out, the FISA court is little more than a rubber stamp (apparently out of thousands of warrant applications, they've only ever rejected five). But this allows the government to comply with the Constitutional requirements laid out in the fourth amendment.
The problem is that the Bush administration is ignoring the law and wiretapping people's phones without getting warrants from the FISA court.
You mentioned that these calls have at least one party overseas. Even if you interpret "the people" to include only US citizens on American soil, if only one party is overseas, you're still eavesdropping on a conversation involving an American, so it's still illegal regardless of who they're talking to (if you don't have a warrant).
Also, how do you know the conversations the government is wiretapping all involve foreigners? Sure, that's why President Bush says he wants the power to wiretap without a warrant, but with no oversight whatsoever, all we have is his word, which most of us don't hold in high esteem at the moment.
So they need to check whether I have Office installed just so I can see the MS Project page? Does clicking the link ("Follow this link if the page is not redirected") take you to a page with the information you were looking for? Then no. You're the one who went out of your way to disable JavaScript; don't bitch when it takes you an extra click to do stuff. It sounds like Microsoft put extra effort into making sure their site would work for people like you (otherwise you wouldn't have gotten a link to click on); quit trying to make it sound like they're incompetent.
Unless I miscounted, it looks like there are 41/8 blocks that remain unallocated. That's over 600 million IP addresses. I don't think we need to ask Ford to give up theirs until we've allocated most of the other 41.
It doesn't sound to me like we're running out of IPv4 addresses at all. It's a routing table problem, not an IP address problem. Calling it an IP address problem is why people aren't taking it seriously.
He's not talking about changing everyone's e-mail address, he's talking about being able to use an existing @yahoo.com address to authenticate on MSN Messenger, or perhaps to log into Hotmail with your @yahoo.com address and get access to your Yahoo e-mail with Hotmail's UI. I don't know if anyone other than Microsoft is really using Passport at this point (it's a little like OpenID except for the "open" part), but you'd be able to use an existing @yahoo.com address to authenticate on Passport sites.
There was no law, that's why it's illegal. The White House disagrees with you. They say that warrantless wiretapping falls under the category of "necessary and appropriate force" as authorized here.
Obviously that's a load of crap, but that's why the Supreme Court needs to step in, which they're refusing to do.
While I didn't mean to single out Republicans, seven of the nine members of the Supreme Court were appointed by Republican presidents.
I don't think the Supreme Court justices need to be impeached, but I do agree with you that Congress needs to grow a pair, and actually pass legislation that says what they mean. The trouble is, they're afraid of not getting re-elected when Bush says things like
To protect America, we need to know who the terrorists are talking to, what they are saying, and what they're planning. Last year, Congress passed legislation to help us do that. Unfortunately, Congress set the legislation to expire on February the 1st. That means if you don't act by Friday, our ability to track terrorist threats would be weakened and our citizens will be in greater danger. Their opponent in the next election will paint them as being in league with the terrorists, and there's a chance the voters might fall for it.
I think you've missed what the grandparent post was trying to suggest: the government says you can't sue them for wiretapping your phone because you don't know they actually did it, because they won't tell you. That's what this decision upholds. But if someone leaks a list, and you're on it, then you know they really did wiretap you, so now you can sue them for doing it.
That hand doesn't feed them. They serve for life. The president has no political power over sitting justices. They ARE loyal cronies, but that won't change with administrations. Precisely right. They're loyal to the Bush administration, and perhaps more generally to the Republican party or the Executive branch (this is why they were appointed), but it's entirely by their own choice; Bush has no power over them.
As you can see from my UID, I've been around for awhile. Slashdot editors have never pretended to be objective in any way. I appreciate what you're saying, but they're not going to change. This is why I'll never subscribe to an RSS feed of Slashdot articles: the articles themselves are usually complete crap; only the comments from other users have any value.
It wouldn't work with Entourage or any other mail program with a single massive database, or with an IMAP server, both for obvious reasons... I believe I heard a rumor that Entourage 2008 does work with Time Machine, but I can't confirm that.
Aha! The specific example of this that I was trying to think of is The Drake Equation which, when supplied with random numbers pulled out of someone's ass, tells us that there are 10 extraterrestrial civilizations out there that we might come in contact with. Personally, I don't believe any extraterrestrial life exists, anywhere in the universe, and so far all the evidence backs me up (none has ever been found), but everybody seems to think my belief is crazy.
... as compared to the rest of the world, who's keyboards have a special key called "Print Screen" perhaps ? I have to point out that the "Print Screen" button does not, in fact, print the screen (in Windows). It copies it to the clipboard (equivalent to Cmd-Shift-Ctrl-3 on a Mac). There is no shortcut to print the screen, although on the Mac there used to be.
Any shortcut that requires 4 fingers to use it is not worth the time lost in trying to put the correct finger on the correct key. So don't use the shortcut. Open/Applications/Utilities/Grab and use that.
What next, 4 fingers AND a click on one of the mouse's 27 buttons ??? How VERY intuitive:-) My laptop trackpad has only one button, and I like it that way.:-)
By the way, the reason Cmd-Shift-3 is used to save a screen shot on the Mac is, Apple set up Cmd-Shift-(number) as a standard shortcut to run some piece of piece of code called an FKEY. This was before Macintosh keyboards had function keys (and quite possibly before they had Control keys). Cmd-Shift-1 and Cmd-Shift-2 were implemented internally, but Cmd-Shift-3 through Cmd-Shift-9 were available to run whatever FKEY you wanted; FKEYs with IDs 3 and 4 were included by default, but you could modify those with ResEdit, and add new ones if you wanted. As of System 7.1 the cleanest way to add new FKEYs was to add them to an empty font suitcase and drop it in the Fonts folder.
The Fonts folder is probably my favorite crazy Apple hack: all resources (not just fonts) contained in font files and font suitcases in the Fonts folder were loaded as if they were in the System file. Previously, all fonts had to be copied into the System file, which the System 7.0 Finder would open as if it were a folder (thus eliminating the need for the Font/DA Mover application). As of System 7.1, only sounds and keyboard layouts were still displayed within the System file in the Finder (I don't remember if it would let you copy a font there or not).
Ridiculous Mac trivia: in System 7 through Mac OS 9, the only time the Finder will ever display a "Move" dialog box with a progress bar (as opposed to a "Copy" dialog while copying a file) is when moving resources into or out of a suitcase. That's because there is no way to move a file between volumes, and moving a file within the same volume doesn't take a significant amount of time because the data on the disk doesn't need to be moved. In Mac OS X, you can hold down the Command key to move a file between volumes (Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard had a nasty bug in this feature, which fortunately not many people ever use).
On-topic trivia: prior to System 7, Cmd-Shift-3 saved screen shots in MacPaint format, which does not support color. If you had a color monitor, you'd end up with a black-and-white screen shot (not dithered). In System 7, the format was changed to PICT. I believe early versions of Mac OS X saved to TIFF, and current versions use PNG.
Stargate Atlantis has been running through the strike (I'm guessing it's because their writers are Canadian and don't belong to the WGA). Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles started during the strike (I have no idea how). You mentioned Battlestar Galactica; it's been off the air because of the strike, and now that the strike is over, it's coming back. Season 4 begins April 4th.
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Yes, when Mac OS crashed, it usually meant the entire machine locked up and had to be rebooted, while on Windows often it was just one application that had to be terminated, and you'd have a chance to save your work in all the other open applications before rebooting the machine cleanly. But compared to Windows 95's BSODs (where "Press any key to return to Windows" usually just went to a black screen with nothing working but the mouse pointer), Mac OS really didn't crash that often. When I had to use Windows 95 (and later 98) at work, I used to start every morning by rebooting the machine, then I would reboot again during my lunch break, because if I skipped that mid-day reboot, the machine usually wouldn't last until the end of my shift without one or more job-critical applications becoming unusable somehow. This applied to both Win95 and Win98 at different companies on multiple machines running different applications, and there was no predictable pattern to how the crashes would occur, just that they would usually start between six to eight hours after the morning reboot.
I never ever saw, or heard of, any kind of problem related to Apple's m68k emulation. From my experience, running m68k code on PowerMacs worked absolutely flawlessly every time (it was just horribly slow - a 25MHz Quadra could run circles around a 60MHz PowerMac running m68k software). We didn't have the compatibility problems that Mac OS X has now with trying to run PowerPC code on x86 where most applications work but a few don't and anything that uses plugins will only work if all the plugins are built for the same architecture as the application. Large parts of the operating system itself weren't even PowerPC native at first.
Earthlink's (formerly Mindspring's) DNS servers are named Itchy and Scratchy.
Indeed.
If you trust the Bush administration not to abuse their power when they wiretap people's phones without a warrant, will you feel the same way about the Obama administration doing it? If you don't want the Democrats to have this power, then you'd better make sure you don't give it to them.
So it's perfectly OK for the government to wiretap someone's phone, if they get a warrant. However, this raises three concerns: first, if they get a tip, they need to act immediately, and getting a warrant from a judge normally takes time. Second, it may be difficult to explain to a judge who hasn't dealt with matters of national security before why the government really should be wiretapping this person's phone. Finally, warrants are normally a matter of public record, and we wouldn't want terrorists to know which phones we're wiretapping!
So, Congress addressed these concerns by passing the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act. It establishes a secret court that can issue warrants without making them public; the judges have a ridiculously high security clearance and have training and experience dealing with matters of national security, and the warrants issued by the FISA court are retroactive for 72 hours - so the government can start eavesdropping immediately, then file the paperwork a couple days later and everything is OK. As it turns out, the FISA court is little more than a rubber stamp (apparently out of thousands of warrant applications, they've only ever rejected five). But this allows the government to comply with the Constitutional requirements laid out in the fourth amendment.
The problem is that the Bush administration is ignoring the law and wiretapping people's phones without getting warrants from the FISA court.
You mentioned that these calls have at least one party overseas. Even if you interpret "the people" to include only US citizens on American soil, if only one party is overseas, you're still eavesdropping on a conversation involving an American, so it's still illegal regardless of who they're talking to (if you don't have a warrant).
Also, how do you know the conversations the government is wiretapping all involve foreigners? Sure, that's why President Bush says he wants the power to wiretap without a warrant, but with no oversight whatsoever, all we have is his word, which most of us don't hold in high esteem at the moment.
Does this clear things up?
Unless I miscounted, it looks like there are 41 /8 blocks that remain unallocated. That's over 600 million IP addresses. I don't think we need to ask Ford to give up theirs until we've allocated most of the other 41.
It doesn't sound to me like we're running out of IPv4 addresses at all. It's a routing table problem, not an IP address problem. Calling it an IP address problem is why people aren't taking it seriously.
He's not talking about changing everyone's e-mail address, he's talking about being able to use an existing @yahoo.com address to authenticate on MSN Messenger, or perhaps to log into Hotmail with your @yahoo.com address and get access to your Yahoo e-mail with Hotmail's UI. I don't know if anyone other than Microsoft is really using Passport at this point (it's a little like OpenID except for the "open" part), but you'd be able to use an existing @yahoo.com address to authenticate on Passport sites.
Perhaps the alarm could be a pleasant musical chime, rather than the obnoxious buzz of most alarm clocks.
Perhaps a hamster wheel could be attached to the mechanism that lifts the weights?
Personally I believe this law to be unconstitutional. Fortunately, it has expired.
Obviously that's a load of crap, but that's why the Supreme Court needs to step in, which they're refusing to do.
I don't think the Supreme Court justices need to be impeached, but I do agree with you that Congress needs to grow a pair, and actually pass legislation that says what they mean. The trouble is, they're afraid of not getting re-elected when Bush says things like To protect America, we need to know who the terrorists are talking to, what they are saying, and what they're planning. Last year, Congress passed legislation to help us do that. Unfortunately, Congress set the legislation to expire on February the 1st. That means if you don't act by Friday, our ability to track terrorist threats would be weakened and our citizens will be in greater danger. Their opponent in the next election will paint them as being in league with the terrorists, and there's a chance the voters might fall for it.
Of course, the argument could be made that a basic education about people's rights should be a part of any high school education...
I think you've missed what the grandparent post was trying to suggest: the government says you can't sue them for wiretapping your phone because you don't know they actually did it, because they won't tell you. That's what this decision upholds. But if someone leaks a list, and you're on it, then you know they really did wiretap you, so now you can sue them for doing it.
You must be new here.
As you can see from my UID, I've been around for awhile. Slashdot editors have never pretended to be objective in any way. I appreciate what you're saying, but they're not going to change. This is why I'll never subscribe to an RSS feed of Slashdot articles: the articles themselves are usually complete crap; only the comments from other users have any value.
You forgot: "When I need Windows, I just buy a new PC, and it comes with Windows already installed."
I remember when Karma wasn't capped at 50, and we knew that because the actual number was displayed.
I remember when CowboyNeal wasn't in every poll. Somebody else was for a short while - I think it was Hemos?
I remember when comments were numbered starting with 1, within each article - thus the race to get first post (comment #1).
Aha! The specific example of this that I was trying to think of is The Drake Equation which, when supplied with random numbers pulled out of someone's ass, tells us that there are 10 extraterrestrial civilizations out there that we might come in contact with. Personally, I don't believe any extraterrestrial life exists, anywhere in the universe, and so far all the evidence backs me up (none has ever been found), but everybody seems to think my belief is crazy.
Props to xkcd for refreshing my memory.
... as compared to the rest of the world, who's keyboards have a special key called "Print Screen" perhaps ? I have to point out that the "Print Screen" button does not, in fact, print the screen (in Windows). It copies it to the clipboard (equivalent to Cmd-Shift-Ctrl-3 on a Mac). There is no shortcut to print the screen, although on the Mac there used to be. Any shortcut that requires 4 fingers to use it is not worth the time lost in trying to put the correct finger on the correct key. So don't use the shortcut. OpenBy the way, the reason Cmd-Shift-3 is used to save a screen shot on the Mac is, Apple set up Cmd-Shift-(number) as a standard shortcut to run some piece of piece of code called an FKEY. This was before Macintosh keyboards had function keys (and quite possibly before they had Control keys). Cmd-Shift-1 and Cmd-Shift-2 were implemented internally, but Cmd-Shift-3 through Cmd-Shift-9 were available to run whatever FKEY you wanted; FKEYs with IDs 3 and 4 were included by default, but you could modify those with ResEdit, and add new ones if you wanted. As of System 7.1 the cleanest way to add new FKEYs was to add them to an empty font suitcase and drop it in the Fonts folder.
The Fonts folder is probably my favorite crazy Apple hack: all resources (not just fonts) contained in font files and font suitcases in the Fonts folder were loaded as if they were in the System file. Previously, all fonts had to be copied into the System file, which the System 7.0 Finder would open as if it were a folder (thus eliminating the need for the Font/DA Mover application). As of System 7.1, only sounds and keyboard layouts were still displayed within the System file in the Finder (I don't remember if it would let you copy a font there or not).
Ridiculous Mac trivia: in System 7 through Mac OS 9, the only time the Finder will ever display a "Move" dialog box with a progress bar (as opposed to a "Copy" dialog while copying a file) is when moving resources into or out of a suitcase. That's because there is no way to move a file between volumes, and moving a file within the same volume doesn't take a significant amount of time because the data on the disk doesn't need to be moved. In Mac OS X, you can hold down the Command key to move a file between volumes (Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard had a nasty bug in this feature, which fortunately not many people ever use).
On-topic trivia: prior to System 7, Cmd-Shift-3 saved screen shots in MacPaint format, which does not support color. If you had a color monitor, you'd end up with a black-and-white screen shot (not dithered). In System 7, the format was changed to PICT. I believe early versions of Mac OS X saved to TIFF, and current versions use PNG.
Stargate Atlantis has been running through the strike (I'm guessing it's because their writers are Canadian and don't belong to the WGA).
Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles started during the strike (I have no idea how).
You mentioned Battlestar Galactica; it's been off the air because of the strike, and now that the strike is over, it's coming back. Season 4 begins April 4th.