By your argument, the FBI could place a tape recorder in my house during one warranted search and pick it up during another. Same principle, and that would be an illegal wiretap.
According to Politech, a funding bill in the Senate is pending to give the FBI $7Million to thwart encryption, including "analysis/exploitation of systems to allow access to data pre-encryption".
Copernicus: The apparent motions of the planets don't comply with basic geocentric theory. The motions of the planets must be changed to match.
Quantum Mechanics:
Max Planck: This blackbody radiation doesn't conform with basic physical laws. Our theory is obviously correct. We must change the way that blackbody radiation works.
Medicine
Fleming: This mold is not behaving with basic medical theory. This mold must go! (antibiotics, for those who don't know who Fleming is).
If you release your chem agent in the atmosphere, rather than a confined space, like Aum Supreme Truth did, you can get a heck of a lot more people than with a conventional bomb.
Bullshit. Let's face it. Of the NBC triad of weapons of mass destruction (WMD), nukes are going to be hardest for the terrorists to come by. Bio would probably be second, and chem the easiest.
Given that terrorists would LOVE to have a WMD in their hands. I'd look to chem and bio. Chem because you can (in theory) get raw materials innocuously. Bio is a bit harder, but if you can get your hands on some, then it's easy to replicate.
I'd consider either a chem or bio terrorist attack much more likely than a suitcase nuke, or an (rogue nation) ICBM attack.
IIRC, US policy is to treat any bio or chem attack on the US as if it were a nuke attack (because we consider all three to be WMD).
"Is there money in the.us domain? Give it to business. "
As opposed to doing what ?
Well, the thought of auctioning off the.us registry for an obscene amount of money, to help pay off the tax cut comes to mind. The Bush admin seems to be fond of "user fees", why not charge a "user fee" to administer.us?
A good friend of mine was a five-time winner (and hence also championship contestant) on Jeopardy. I was in the studio audience while three of his games were being filmed. There was no help from Alex or anyone else involved. Not saying the same is true for all game shows, but Jeopardy seems to be pretty honest.
As a former contestant (I came in 2nd, got a trip to SF), I can confirm this. US game shows are STILL reeling from the quiz show scandals of the '50s, and go to great lengths to prevent any "contamination" of the contestants.
Now, back on topic. I don't think the OP was saying that Jeopardy was rigged, he was using the concept of rigged Jeopardy as an example.
take the Asimovian truism to heart, and turn all your tech into magic
Sorry, dude, but that's Clarke, not Asimov. The full text (I believe it's Clarke's Third Law) is "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic".
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Straw man.
By your argument, the FBI could place a tape recorder in my house during one warranted search and pick it up during another. Same principle, and that would be an illegal wiretap.
According to Politech, a funding bill in the Senate is pending to give the FBI $7Million to thwart encryption, including "analysis/exploitation of systems to allow access to data pre-encryption".
Guess they want to keep doing this.
He's listed as the form chairmain of ICANN, not IANA.
IANA was Jon Postel. ICANN is clueless suits.
If this kind of thinking was applied to:
Astrononmy
Copernicus: The apparent motions of the planets don't comply with basic geocentric theory. The motions of the planets must be changed to match.
Quantum Mechanics:
Max Planck: This blackbody radiation doesn't conform with basic physical laws. Our theory is obviously correct. We must change the way that blackbody radiation works.
Medicine
Fleming: This mold is not behaving with basic medical theory. This mold must go! (antibiotics, for those who don't know who Fleming is).
Its a tragedy, but I'm finished reading about it over and over.
So don't. Nobody forced you to click on this article.
If you release your chem agent in the atmosphere, rather than a confined space, like Aum Supreme Truth did, you can get a heck of a lot more people than with a conventional bomb.
Bullshit. Let's face it. Of the NBC triad of weapons of mass destruction (WMD), nukes are going to be hardest for the terrorists to come by. Bio would probably be second, and chem the easiest.
Given that terrorists would LOVE to have a WMD in their hands. I'd look to chem and bio. Chem because you can (in theory) get raw materials innocuously. Bio is a bit harder, but if you can get your hands on some, then it's easy to replicate.
I'd consider either a chem or bio terrorist attack much more likely than a suitcase nuke, or an (rogue nation) ICBM attack.
IIRC, US policy is to treat any bio or chem attack on the US as if it were a nuke attack (because we consider all three to be WMD).
he's in jail, charged with "trafficking" in software
And what if these evil software traffickers get to our children and traffic software to them?
WON'T SOMEBODY THINK OF THE CHILDREN!!!!!!
Long ago, I remember reading a story by some Russian author where the good Soviet cosmonauts met up with *FLUORINE* (see note) based life.
Note: They used Fl instead of O2 in their respiratory systems.
"Is there money in the .us domain? Give it to business. "
.us registry for an obscene amount of money, to help pay off the tax cut comes to mind. The Bush admin seems to be fond of "user fees", why not charge a "user fee" to administer .us?
As opposed to doing what ?
Well, the thought of auctioning off the
It was originally $5000. He lowered it in the early '90s to $3000.
Darn Slashdot HTML parser...
#include <stdio.h>
or
#include "stdio.h"
Former version preferred.
"# include stdio.h"
Well, if I had code like that, I'd WANT to claim I stole it from MS, since it wouldn't compile.
#include
or
#include "stdio.h>
(Former version preferred.)
Dear rnbc and Grendel Drago,
Thank you for freely confessing your violations of the DMCA. Please remain where you are, and the FBI will be picking you up shortly.
No, you're thinking of the Chrysler K Car. Of course, Chrysler is owned by Daimler-Benz, so I guess they're German too...
Q: How do you save a drowning lawyer?
A: Throw him a rock.
A good friend of mine was a five-time winner (and hence also championship contestant) on Jeopardy. I was in the studio audience while three of his games were being filmed. There was no help from Alex or anyone else involved. Not saying the same is true for all game shows, but Jeopardy seems to be pretty honest.
As a former contestant (I came in 2nd, got a trip to SF), I can confirm this. US game shows are STILL reeling from the quiz show scandals of the '50s, and go to great lengths to prevent any "contamination" of the contestants.
Now, back on topic. I don't think the OP was saying that Jeopardy was rigged, he was using the concept of rigged Jeopardy as an example.
No, the fairie cake is if you want to build a Total Perspective Vortex!
You are Here -------->.
Seems to me that we know fusion is possible, and that we've had a working demo for roughly 5 billion years.
Commentary on the 3rd Corollary - This man is currently selling electricity to California.
PS1='${Hi} ${Norm}$Host:$PWD
PS2='${Hi} Sammy! How about a beer!'
Apparently it does. I tried DAY=365, and even though the resulting display page said 30 days, the cookie doesn't expire for one year...
take the Asimovian truism to heart, and turn all your tech into magic
Sorry, dude, but that's Clarke, not Asimov. The full text (I believe it's Clarke's Third Law) is "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic".
Why don't we report Microsoft to the BSA? I bet Microsoft hasn't paid for all those copies of Windows sitting on developers' desks!
There's probably a powerpoint viewer downloadable from microsoft's web site
Yeah, but guess which OS you need to run the viewer under???