Bill Clinton used faulty intelligence, in the same way GWB used faulty intelligence. These documents were not forged by Americans (as far as we can tell), and the Brits refuse to tell where they got it from (even to the Americans), except to say it came from a third party country.
There is absolutely no evidence that Bush knowingly told a lie about weapons of mass destruction. He used information from the same source that Bill Clinton used when he launched a strike on Iraq and Sudan in the late 90's!
If we're going to nail Bush to the cross, we might as well place Clinton to his right - he ordered a strike on a pharmaceutical plant in Sudan! Can you believe it, a place that makes medicine to save people was bombed at Clinton's behest? But Clinton also had faulty intelligence.
We need to strengthen our foreign intelligence capabilities in a meaningful way. The problem is not in the White House, and it's not political, but much worse at its root.
Let's not forget that Democratic presidential candidate Bob Graham was the primary author of the PATRIOT Act. He wrote the intelligence sections of it, the kind that deal with information sharing between government agencies and such.
If we're going to blame politicians, don't forget those crazy Democrats. Oh, I forgot - it's only en vogue to criticize Bush.
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And what makes the Chinese so special that they are not immune to SARS? There were plenty of other nationalities affected, but the countries they lived in took proper precautions. One speculation is that this had more to do with those countries being democracies (But to its credit, Vietnam also managed to contain SARS to a certain extent).
And didn't SARS begin in the Guangdong province? Hardly the center of overpopulation.
Why didn't Japan get hard? They were right next to China and only had 1 or 2 cases! Tokyo is one of the most dense cities in the world. And what to say about Mexico City? Bombay? All unaffected by SARS.
And how are they going to tell you what items you've looked at? Now that is _really_ pushing it.
And how would they know what stores you went to?
And if you are carrying the item with you, they won't need no RIFD tag to see what you've bought. They can just look at your bag. Does it say "Foot Locker"? You've probably bought shoes. That's a trick anyone with eyes can do; you don't need any RFID tags.
In Fiji, a big woman was considered to be beautiful. But after tv was introduced in 1995, Fiji saw a sharp rise in anorexia among girls.
But surely there must be more beneath the surface than blaming our beloved television? TV seems too simplistic of a cause and too easy of a scapegoat, much like rock music/Doom is blamed for corrupting our youth.
Can't they be logically proved to be secure? IIRC, the Java VM is theoretically secure; any exploits come from an improper implementation of the VM. I would think it would be a similar case here.... correct?
Abdul Kalam is no scientist. That is just the way he has marketed himself in order to maximize political gains.
You will probably say that he worked 40 years in the DRDO, India's main Defense research organization. He was an administrator (i.e. management) for DRDO, not a scientist. And his "doctorate" is an honorary doctorate --- he only holds a Bachelor's degree.
I remember partsexpress.com from a previous slashdot posting by another user. However, the screen on the front page retails for $120, but it's nice. Ebay might also have some good deals.
And what happened to the Anonymous Coward option? It's gone!
I had to learn Java quickly, and I used the same book. The programs I tried worked for me, although I did skip the programs in the first couple chapters.
I absolutely love the book. Your mileage may vary.
For a class I took, a professor set up a temporary mail server that we needed to use for an assignment. He of course took precautions, making sure mail was only routed to a certain domain.
But within 48 hours, the mail server was found by spammers!
He even had a great idea for anti-spam software/blocking. Set up these honeypots in different geographical locations, but don't publish the addresses; let the spammers find them. Have them accept mail as if they would route it, but do not actually send it out. We can assume any e-mails received are spam. Make a collection of spam e-mails, and have filters block out mail that closely matches all the mails the honeypots have received.
At the shop I worked at, IIS was enabled by default on some Windows 2K installations (maybe all?), although IIS was never used. I don't think anyone even cared what IIS was, until Code Red hit.
Unfortunately, the record companies have Marketing departments which inform the public of the shows and get the crowd out.
If a band were to bypass using a record company, then the burden of marketing their shows would fall to them. Unless, of course, their music is so good that it generated enough buzz. This may happen to a few, but not all.
Cesar Chavez was a Mexican union activist in the 1960's. Hugo Chavez is the man you want, a man who attempted his own coup in 1992. When that didn't work, he ran for el Presidente. And won.
About 70% of the population is in poverty, the base from which Chavez draws his support. The middle class (and upper class) seemingly hate him, which is why his communist ideas resonate with most poverty-stricken Venezuelans.
I used Yasser Arafat as an example because I thought his attire, combined with the above actions, would be one that would influence the average person's thoughts about one being a "terrorist".
Perhaps using "Osama Bin laden look alike" would have been more apt.
Interesting, but I would like to go there dressed up as a Yasser Arafat look alike and ask for books about "Jihad", the World Trade Center, and the Okhlahoma City bombings. Then I'd like to see if they really would not cooperate with the CIA.
Also, wouldn't a bookworm terrorist just purchase books in cash and give a false name and zip code? Kind of defeats the whole tracking thing.
It would have been better if VCRs had been outlawed. Then these entertainment companies would have lost out on a significant source of revenue. Maybe they might have gone bankrupt in the process, and would have been replaced by more tech-friendly companies.
If the --IA's want to shoot themselves in the collective foot, let them! Better that they destroy themselves, and be replaced by worthier companies.
This is what I want, too. I want the music business to change, but they aren't going to change. So I put my faith in capitalism to deliver a mechanism that will work this way. On the surface, this seems like a great business idea.
Unfortunately, none of my favorite artists are flocking to those independent recording companies that do operate this way.
Yes, but you see, the RIAA won't go after everyone. It's impossible. If you had a CD collection, then I personally think that you would be able to show you are innocent, and consequently get off the hook, in the case you were sued. Even with the RIAA, as evil as they might be.
This guy downloaded over 600 songs in a day! If and only if this behavior was not limited to a single day, then it is obvious this guy was pirating music. He took music without paying for it, plain and simple.
Of course, if he owned the CDs, that is a different story, but the probability of the guy (it has to be a guy!) owning those CDs just isn't there.
To pci-sig list members and other individuals in the blind-cc to this message.
I am receiving quite a few e-mails about the situation with Jim Boemler's web site, which he has felt compelled to take down. I wasn't aware of this situation until the first of these e-mails arrived, and having looked into it I think the situation is as outrageous as obviously many of you do.
However, you should all be aware that neither I personally, or my company ZNYX Networks has anything to do with this situation. ZNYX Networks is not currently a member of the PCI SIG. We allowed our membership to lapse a number of years ago since it was obvious we were not going to be active in any standards setting efforts. As for me or any employee of ZNYX Networks, we are not now or ever have been an official of the SIG. If you read Mr. Boemler's web page more carefully, you will note that he does not list me as anything other than a possible contact, since he mentions he is not clear who should be contacted, other than the "shark" that is doing the legal work.
We have e-mailed Mr. Boemler (and cc'ed this message) to clarify our position, and I will offer any aid I can.
To clarify our position, we run the pci-sig mailing list as a general service to the community as a whole the same way Jim Boemler does (did) his web site. Back in 1992-3 when we first started, there were much fewer people around who could set up a mailing list so we did it. As with Mr. Boemler, we don't get paid for it, and we have offered to turn the work over to the SIG since we felt that it is more properly a SIG service, but so far there has been no positive reply. Now I am wondering if I am going to get a present in the mail like Jim did! (I really don't think that will be the case, since we don't do a web page, but the parallel is evident.)
To any REAL PCI-SIG officials: would you care to post a comment?
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Bill Clinton used faulty intelligence, in the same way GWB used faulty intelligence. These documents were not forged by Americans (as far as we can tell), and the Brits refuse to tell where they got it from (even to the Americans), except to say it came from a third party country.
There is absolutely no evidence that Bush knowingly told a lie about weapons of mass destruction. He used information from the same source that Bill Clinton used when he launched a strike on Iraq and Sudan in the late 90's!
If we're going to nail Bush to the cross, we might as well place Clinton to his right - he ordered a strike on a pharmaceutical plant in Sudan! Can you believe it, a place that makes medicine to save people was bombed at Clinton's behest? But Clinton also had faulty intelligence.
We need to strengthen our foreign intelligence capabilities in a meaningful way. The problem is not in the White House, and it's not political, but much worse at its root.
Let's not forget that Democratic presidential candidate Bob Graham was the primary author of the PATRIOT Act. He wrote the intelligence sections of it, the kind that deal with information sharing between government agencies and such.
If we're going to blame politicians, don't forget those crazy Democrats. Oh, I forgot - it's only en vogue to criticize Bush.
And what makes the Chinese so special that they are not immune to SARS? There were plenty of other nationalities affected, but the countries they lived in took proper precautions. One speculation is that this had more to do with those countries being democracies (But to its credit, Vietnam also managed to contain SARS to a certain extent).
And didn't SARS begin in the Guangdong province? Hardly the center of overpopulation.
Why didn't Japan get hard? They were right next to China and only had 1 or 2 cases! Tokyo is one of the most dense cities in the world. And what to say about Mexico City? Bombay? All unaffected by SARS.
You don't get any for booze because the ATF would go postal on spammers. They take their job very seriously.
And how are they going to tell you what items you've looked at? Now that is _really_ pushing it.
And how would they know what stores you went to?
And if you are carrying the item with you, they won't need no RIFD tag to see what you've bought. They can just look at your bag. Does it say "Foot Locker"? You've probably bought shoes. That's a trick anyone with eyes can do; you don't need any RFID tags.
Whooptey-doo.
In Fiji, a big woman was considered to be beautiful. But after tv was introduced in 1995, Fiji saw a sharp rise in anorexia among girls.
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But surely there must be more beneath the surface than blaming our beloved television? TV seems too simplistic of a cause and too easy of a scapegoat, much like rock music/Doom is blamed for corrupting our youth.
Fiji story:http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/347637.st
Can't they be logically proved to be secure? IIRC, the Java VM is theoretically secure; any exploits come from an improper implementation of the VM. I would think it would be a similar case here.... correct?
Abdul Kalam is no scientist. That is just the way he has marketed himself in order to maximize political gains.
You will probably say that he worked 40 years in the DRDO, India's main Defense research organization. He was an administrator (i.e. management) for DRDO, not a scientist. And his "doctorate" is an honorary doctorate --- he only holds a Bachelor's degree.
100% politician.
I remember partsexpress.com from a previous slashdot posting by another user. However, the screen on the front page retails for $120, but it's nice. Ebay might also have some good deals.
And what happened to the Anonymous Coward option? It's gone!
I had to learn Java quickly, and I used the same book. The programs I tried worked for me, although I did skip the programs in the first couple chapters.
I absolutely love the book. Your mileage may vary.
For a class I took, a professor set up a temporary mail server that we needed to use for an assignment. He of course took precautions, making sure mail was only routed to a certain domain.
But within 48 hours, the mail server was found by spammers!
He even had a great idea for anti-spam software/blocking. Set up these honeypots in different geographical locations, but don't publish the addresses; let the spammers find them. Have them accept mail as if they would route it, but do not actually send it out. We can assume any e-mails received are spam. Make a collection of spam e-mails, and have filters block out mail that closely matches all the mails the honeypots have received.
I meant "anyone" as in anyone at the shop I worked at.
At the shop I worked at, IIS was enabled by default on some Windows 2K installations (maybe all?), although IIS was never used. I don't think anyone even cared what IIS was, until Code Red hit.
Unfortunately, the record companies have Marketing departments which inform the public of the shows and get the crowd out.
If a band were to bypass using a record company, then the burden of marketing their shows would fall to them. Unless, of course, their music is so good that it generated enough buzz. This may happen to a few, but not all.
Another analogous situation: In The Two Towers by Tolkien, Aragorn and Gimli used a backdoor at Helm's Deep to ward off Sauron's minions.
Cesar Chavez was a Mexican union activist in the 1960's. Hugo Chavez is the man you want, a man who attempted his own coup in 1992. When that didn't work, he ran for el Presidente. And won.
About 70% of the population is in poverty, the base from which Chavez draws his support. The middle class (and upper class) seemingly hate him, which is why his communist ideas resonate with most poverty-stricken Venezuelans.
I used Yasser Arafat as an example because I thought his attire, combined with the above actions, would be one that would influence the average person's thoughts about one being a "terrorist".
Perhaps using "Osama Bin laden look alike" would have been more apt.
Interesting, but I would like to go there dressed up as a Yasser Arafat look alike and ask for books about "Jihad", the World Trade Center, and the Okhlahoma City bombings. Then I'd like to see if they really would not cooperate with the CIA.
Also, wouldn't a bookworm terrorist just purchase books in cash and give a false name and zip code? Kind of defeats the whole tracking thing.
Agree! That was such a great game!
It would have been better if VCRs had been outlawed. Then these entertainment companies would have lost out on a significant source of revenue. Maybe they might have gone bankrupt in the process, and would have been replaced by more tech-friendly companies.
If the --IA's want to shoot themselves in the collective foot, let them! Better that they destroy themselves, and be replaced by worthier companies.
This is what I want, too. I want the music business to change, but they aren't going to change. So I put my faith in capitalism to deliver a mechanism that will work this way. On the surface, this seems like a great business idea.
Unfortunately, none of my favorite artists are flocking to those independent recording companies that do operate this way.
Yes, but you see, the RIAA won't go after everyone. It's impossible. If you had a CD collection, then I personally think that you would be able to show you are innocent, and consequently get off the hook, in the case you were sued. Even with the RIAA, as evil as they might be.
This guy downloaded over 600 songs in a day! If and only if this behavior was not limited to a single day, then it is obvious this guy was pirating music. He took music without paying for it, plain and simple.
Of course, if he owned the CDs, that is a different story, but the probability of the guy (it has to be a guy!) owning those CDs just isn't there.
I got this reply from Alan Deikman
To pci-sig list members and other individuals in the blind-cc to this message.
I am receiving quite a few e-mails about the situation with Jim Boemler's web site, which he has felt compelled to take down. I wasn't aware of this situation until the first of these e-mails arrived, and having looked into it I think the situation is as outrageous as obviously many of you do.
However, you should all be aware that neither I personally, or my company ZNYX Networks has anything to do with this situation. ZNYX Networks is not currently a member of the PCI SIG. We allowed our membership to lapse a number of years ago since it was obvious we were not going to be active in any standards setting efforts. As for me or any employee of ZNYX Networks, we are not now or ever have been an official of the SIG. If you read Mr. Boemler's web page more carefully, you will note that he does not list me as anything other than a possible contact, since he mentions he is not clear who should be contacted, other than the "shark" that is doing the legal work.
We have e-mailed Mr. Boemler (and cc'ed this message) to clarify our position, and I will offer any aid I can.
To clarify our position, we run the pci-sig mailing list as a general service to the community as a whole the same way Jim Boemler does (did) his web site. Back in 1992-3 when we first started, there were much fewer people around who could set up a mailing list so we did it. As with Mr. Boemler, we don't get paid for it, and we have offered to turn the work over to the SIG since we felt that it is more properly a SIG service, but so far there has been no positive reply. Now I am wondering if I am going
to get a present in the mail like Jim did! (I really don't think that
will be the case, since we don't do a web page, but the parallel is
evident.)
To any REAL PCI-SIG officials: would you care to post a comment?
Alan Deikman
ZNYX Networks, Inc.