And the best pictures for this purpose are those containing large clouds of dust, smoke, etc., in order to take advantage of the natural randomness. Now wouldn't it be ironic if the very pictures of the collapsing towers were used to hide information about the next strike?
o we just moved the teacher workstations to the back of the class so the professor could keep an eye on what the students where doing.
It feels kinda awkward if the professor has to teach standing behind the class. Will students have to twist their necks to watch him?
A more workable solution is to put large mirrors on the back wall, so he can use them to watch what's going on while still standing in front of the class. It's ugly as hell, but it works...
The ACLU (http://aclu.org)is already very sypathetic to the issues that seem to be recurring themes here on slasdot.
But unfortunately, they are remarkably silent on other issues recurring on Slashdot. Such as, for example, the Sklyarov case. It's rumored that the reason for this is that they're actually in the Big Media's and Hollywood's pockets. Thus the ACLU will only defend civil liberties where they don't conflict with Hollywood's interests, which may not be enough for most Slashdotters.
About a billion tons of material are speeding toward Earth at over a million miles per hour,
What will happen if a good sized chunk of this material strikes an important building and knocks it down? Will the Shrub then wage war against the sun?
And what happens if the hacking is done from abroad? Say, a highschool kid from Liechtenstein hacking hotmail? Would the US military then start carpet-bombing Liechtenstein for "harboring known terrorists"?
These kinds of laws make it look like it was actually the CIA (or some other TLA) who orchestrated the hijackings, in order to have a handy excuse to get "favorable" legislation into place. Back in the day, the Germans did the same kind of thing with the "Reichstagsbrand". Think about it.
They should hate Boeing, too, then, and the construction engineers who figured out how to build a 100-story building.
And Gillette as well, for makeing the razorblades used to hijack the plane. And Eric Darton for taunting the terrorists in the 5th paragraph of his interview...
Well, the only way for Microsoft to enforce this is... through the legal system. Congress makes the laws which allow enforcement of license agreements
Interesting... Does that mean that UCITA (which makes click-through licenses legally binding) could be struck down as unconstitutional, because (at least in this case...), it is a law "abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press"...
But then, I'm just daydreaming: UCITA has been made by the various state government, and not by the (federal) Congress:(
While goofing around with google groups, found the following news article in which the number eleven was featured prominently:
A couple of hours ago I had a depressing dream that woke me up. I sure
hope it's not precognitive or anything. About 7 AM EDT I was dreaming that
I woke up to find my sister (whom I haven't seen in years) hanging a
note on my bedroom doorknob. She saw I was awake, and said to me,
"You're not going to like this." Then she walked away. I see the note
looks like a "Do Not Disturb" sign, but when I go up to examine it more
closely, she has written on it, "Flight 11 went down suddenly. All
lost."
In my dream I think a plane has gone down. Then I start to wake up, and
I think that I had better not take that flight coming up soon after
all. Then when I was fully awake, and I realized I am not flying
anywhere. What was this all about? I am not sure if she wrote Flight
11, or Flight 1111, now that I think about it, it seems she may have
written only, "11 went down suddenly. All lost." (Without the word
"flight" -- I am not sure. It might have said, "11 11 went down
suddenly. All lost." With two 11's.)
Just listening to Mother, and I think I've found the line that actually annoyed "The Man" the most. No, it's not "Mother do you think they'll drop the bomb?". And it's not "Mom is gonna make all your nightmares come true.". And not even: "She wont let you fly,".
And not "Mother, did it need to be so high?", either.
No, the right answer is of course: "Of course Mom is gonna help build the wall"...
They ban all those perfectly good thongs, but when you go to their own web page, they prominently display a banner saying
United we stand. Scroll down to section 5) for the meat...
These high school sweethearts, 1988 prom king and queen, married five years last month, brand-new parents, seemed to be saying farewell.
Did those journalists really have to bring that one up? The guy did a great act of heroism, why did Jane Pauley think it necessary to mention that he was a jock and a prom king in his highschool days? "Popular" jocks often have the habit of pushing their geek classmates over the edge, up to the point were they are ready to commit rather extreme acts.
Hey Mr Glick was probably an exception to the rule and has probably been very respectful of his classmates that were less "popular" than he was, but why did this silly journalist have to bring up this "prom king" stuff, which has absolutely no bearing to the story, and which conjures up rather ugly images of a different tragedy?
The Combatting Terrorism Act of 2001 contains many facets and provisions. If a congressman speaks out against it because of a few wiretapping paragraphs, others will spin it to make it look like he's supporting the terrorists.
Sadly, most constituents won't read the fine print to see what the huff is all about. They just want that YES vote to assure that something is being done about this.
On February 27th 1933, the Germans had a similar case. Somebody had set the Reichtag, symbol of the nation's power ablaze. People were quick to blame the commies and the Jews. Laws were voted to discrimate against those groups. Anybody speaking up against those laws was labeled as supporting the terrorists.
However, as we know now, it was the nazis themselves who had set the fires...
Only if it allowed circumvention of copyright controls.
Isn't all e-mail automatically copyright by the sender? And btw, that's not copyright controls but rather access control. That is what allows the MPAA to prosecute against DeCSS, which is not a copying tool, but rather a tool for watching DVD's, i.e. access them.
Now the only IDEA that I can give the Slashdot team is to have a network of Slashdot servers - sort of like newsgroups and IRC and whatnot. People connect to their local slashdot (uk.slashdot.org, etc), and their posts get sent over to the central slashdot for redistribution to the other nodes in the new global mirrored slashdot.
I've sent a few emails to friends claiming that I would kill the president just so that I could test carnivore.
Threats against the prez can carry serious consequences, even if idle. I remember a case a couple of years back where a student wanted to get one of his buddies into trouble, and forged an e-mail in that buddy's name, which threatened the president. Unluckily for him the forgery was not so well done, and the SS found him (the real sender) real quickly... Sorry, no link, but I believe it was even on Slashdot...
...those politicians who use the same tragedy as an excuse to introduce more stringent anti-crypto laws? They're playing on the same fears of terrorism, and are just as irrational. Shame on them!
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And the best pictures for this purpose are those containing large clouds of dust, smoke, etc., in order to take advantage of the natural randomness. Now wouldn't it be ironic if the very pictures of the collapsing towers were used to hide information about the next strike?
It feels kinda awkward if the professor has to teach standing behind the class. Will students have to twist their necks to watch him?
A more workable solution is to put large mirrors on the back wall, so he can use them to watch what's going on while still standing in front of the class. It's ugly as hell, but it works...
But unfortunately, they are remarkably silent on other issues recurring on Slashdot. Such as, for example, the Sklyarov case. It's rumored that the reason for this is that they're actually in the Big Media's and Hollywood's pockets. Thus the ACLU will only defend civil liberties where they don't conflict with Hollywood's interests, which may not be enough for most Slashdotters.
What will happen if a good sized chunk of this material strikes an important building and knocks it down? Will the Shrub then wage war against the sun?
These kinds of laws make it look like it was actually the CIA (or some other TLA) who orchestrated the hijackings, in order to have a handy excuse to get "favorable" legislation into place. Back in the day, the Germans did the same kind of thing with the "Reichstagsbrand". Think about it.
Hey, chill! It was just a play on word on "penetration".
No. "nifty"
... and moreover, he stopped using that ugly "n" word!
And Gillette as well, for makeing the razorblades used to hijack the plane. And Eric Darton for taunting the terrorists in the 5th paragraph of his interview...
Interesting... Does that mean that UCITA (which makes click-through licenses legally binding) could be struck down as unconstitutional, because (at least in this case...), it is a law "abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press"...
But then, I'm just daydreaming: UCITA has been made by the various state government, and not by the (federal) Congress :(
No, the right answer is of course: "Of course Mom is gonna help build the wall"...
They surely objected to "Ob-la-di Ob-la-da life goes on bra"
Well, a title database would not be enough; indeed in order to include stuff like Pink Floyd's Mother they'd have to search the lyrics too.
They ban all those perfectly good thongs, but when you go to their own web page, they prominently display a banner saying United we stand. Scroll down to section 5) for the meat...
Sure: http://www.cbsnews.com/now/story/0,1597,311268-412 ,00.shtml
Topic: If A 707 Hit The World Trade Center?...
Did those journalists really have to bring that one up? The guy did a great act of heroism, why did Jane Pauley think it necessary to mention that he was a jock and a prom king in his highschool days? "Popular" jocks often have the habit of pushing their geek classmates over the edge, up to the point were they are ready to commit rather extreme acts.
Hey Mr Glick was probably an exception to the rule and has probably been very respectful of his classmates that were less "popular" than he was, but why did this silly journalist have to bring up this "prom king" stuff, which has absolutely no bearing to the story, and which conjures up rather ugly images of a different tragedy?
Sadly, most constituents won't read the fine print to see what the huff is all about. They just want that YES vote to assure that something is being done about this.
On February 27th 1933, the Germans had a similar case. Somebody had set the Reichtag, symbol of the nation's power ablaze. People were quick to blame the commies and the Jews. Laws were voted to discrimate against those groups. Anybody speaking up against those laws was labeled as supporting the terrorists.
However, as we know now, it was the nazis themselves who had set the fires...
Isn't all e-mail automatically copyright by the sender? And btw, that's not copyright controls but rather access control. That is what allows the MPAA to prosecute against DeCSS, which is not a copying tool, but rather a tool for watching DVD's, i.e. access them.
Congratulations! You just re-invented Usenet.
Threats against the prez can carry serious consequences, even if idle. I remember a case a couple of years back where a student wanted to get one of his buddies into trouble, and forged an e-mail in that buddy's name, which threatened the president. Unluckily for him the forgery was not so well done, and the SS found him (the real sender) real quickly... Sorry, no link, but I believe it was even on Slashdot...
...those politicians who use the same tragedy as an excuse to introduce more stringent anti-crypto laws? They're playing on the same fears of terrorism, and are just as irrational. Shame on them!
And what about moderation advice in comments?
Yeah, and it was 112 days til the end of the year. 112 is the European emergency number.