The All Species Foundation website has a nice FAQ which answered some of the obvious questions which popped into my mind, like "How do you know when you're done?".
Even if MS releases such a "special limited version", wouldn't the GPL (assuming the original code was released under GPL or equivalent) require them to release the source code as well as allow anybody else to take MS's special version and distribute it for nothing?
I'm pretty sure no state has an 18-year-old representative in Congress. The US Constitution (Article 1, Section 2) requires a representative to be at least 25.
In order to prevent terrorists from having private conversations, whispering should also be outlawed. All conversations should be required to maintain a 50db level at 10'.
I don't recall saying that arming passengers was the only step necessary to stop terrorism. We need to obliterate every would-be terrorist (not just the majority) from the face of the planet. This is the offensive part of the strategy.
The defensive part is to eliminate or make more difficult as many potential terrorist attacks as possible. Arming passengers goes a long way in preventing a hijaking. (Being trained in martial arts will not enable someone to overpower 100 people with knives, by the way. I studied martial arts for 7 years and can say that with some authority. Maybe the "martian arts" you mention are different, however.) Other threats (chemical/biological warfare, power station sabotage, shooting sprees, etc.) obviously require different solutions.
I hope the new war is more effective than the FAA's knee-jerk reaction to implement heightened security measures at the airports. Take this example:
Yesterday I walked into the McAllen, TX airport to catch a flight to Houston. I had my briefcase and a 20oz disposible coffee cup with me. I approached the security checkpoint, put my briefcase on the conveyor belt, put the coffee cup on the side of the metal detector with my change, and walked through. I picked up my change and coffee cup and then waited for the security guard to spend 5 minutes looking through my briefcase (30 seconds of which was figuring out how to turn on my Palm Pilot).
In case you haven't figured it out yet, no one ever looked inside my coffee cup, and it never passed through the x-ray machine or the metal detector. I could have had a 6" blade tucked away in that cup.
This brings me back to a point which has been raised many times previously: We will NEVER prevent knives or other weapons from getting on airplanes. And I'm going to offer the same solution mentioned by others: Every passenger should be REQUIRED to carry a knife on the plane. Put a box of knives at the end of the jetway. Pick one up as you get on and drop it back in when you get to your destination. I like to see 6 terrorists with knives try to hijack a plane with 100 armed passengers.
tpm
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We may or may not be able to stop the federal government from installing Carnivore, but we can make it essentially useless by adding the following to the end of every e-mail we send:
bomb, President, United States, White House, terrorism, terrorist, chemical, biological, weapon, nuke, Allah, Islam, revenge, etc., etc., etc.
Depending on the sophistication of the Carnivore algorithm, it may require a more clever addition that a comma separated list of "trigger words", but you get the point: Overwhelm Carnivore with false alarms, and render it essentially useless.
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This is a nice summary failure analysis.
However, I'm not sure what your boyfriend means when he says the steel "crystalizes" under extreme heat. Steel is ALWAYS crystaline when in solid form; it's not amorphous like a plastic. The "crystals" are called grains and can be seen under a standard optical microscope. I suspect what he means is that the steel changes from one crystaline phase to another.
For those of you who don't know, the President's e-mail is president@whitehouse.gov. (Duh) Some staff flunkie is probably charged with reading his e-mail and giving him a statistical analysis of the contents, although I would assume the President will be quite busy for the next few hours.
Anyway, forget your rep and send a note to the Commander-in-Chief himself. Personally, I respectfully requested that he unleash hell on those responsible, but that's just my opinion....
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The All Species Foundation website has a nice FAQ which answered some of the obvious questions which popped into my mind, like "How do you know when you're done?".
Even if MS releases such a "special limited version", wouldn't the GPL (assuming the original code was released under GPL or equivalent) require them to release the source code as well as allow anybody else to take MS's special version and distribute it for nothing?
I want politicians who are smart enough to educate themselves before taking a position in the first place. Is that too much to ask?
I'm pretty sure no state has an 18-year-old representative in Congress. The US Constitution (Article 1, Section 2) requires a representative to be at least 25.
tpm
In order to prevent terrorists from having private conversations, whispering should also be outlawed. All conversations should be required to maintain a 50db level at 10'.
tpm
Read the original post. I proposed arming passengers with knives, not guns.
I don't recall saying that arming passengers was the only step necessary to stop terrorism. We need to obliterate every would-be terrorist (not just the majority) from the face of the planet. This is the offensive part of the strategy.
The defensive part is to eliminate or make more difficult as many potential terrorist attacks as possible. Arming passengers goes a long way in preventing a hijaking. (Being trained in martial arts will not enable someone to overpower 100 people with knives, by the way. I studied martial arts for 7 years and can say that with some authority. Maybe the "martian arts" you mention are different, however.) Other threats (chemical/biological warfare, power station sabotage, shooting sprees, etc.) obviously require different solutions.
tpm
I hope the new war is more effective than the FAA's knee-jerk reaction to implement heightened security measures at the airports. Take this example:
Yesterday I walked into the McAllen, TX airport to catch a flight to Houston. I had my briefcase and a 20oz disposible coffee cup with me. I approached the security checkpoint, put my briefcase on the conveyor belt, put the coffee cup on the side of the metal detector with my change, and walked through. I picked up my change and coffee cup and then waited for the security guard to spend 5 minutes looking through my briefcase (30 seconds of which was figuring out how to turn on my Palm Pilot).
In case you haven't figured it out yet, no one ever looked inside my coffee cup, and it never passed through the x-ray machine or the metal detector. I could have had a 6" blade tucked away in that cup.
This brings me back to a point which has been raised many times previously: We will NEVER prevent knives or other weapons from getting on airplanes. And I'm going to offer the same solution mentioned by others: Every passenger should be REQUIRED to carry a knife on the plane. Put a box of knives at the end of the jetway. Pick one up as you get on and drop it back in when you get to your destination. I like to see 6 terrorists with knives try to hijack a plane with 100 armed passengers.
tpm
We may or may not be able to stop the federal government from installing Carnivore, but we can make it essentially useless by adding the following to the end of every e-mail we send:
bomb, President, United States, White House, terrorism, terrorist, chemical, biological, weapon, nuke, Allah, Islam, revenge, etc., etc., etc.
Depending on the sophistication of the Carnivore algorithm, it may require a more clever addition that a comma separated list of "trigger words", but you get the point: Overwhelm Carnivore with false alarms, and render it essentially useless.
This is a nice summary failure analysis.
However, I'm not sure what your boyfriend means when he says the steel "crystalizes" under extreme heat. Steel is ALWAYS crystaline when in solid form; it's not amorphous like a plastic. The "crystals" are called grains and can be seen under a standard optical microscope. I suspect what he means is that the steel changes from one crystaline phase to another.
For those of you who don't know, the President's e-mail is president@whitehouse.gov. (Duh) Some staff flunkie is probably charged with reading his e-mail and giving him a statistical analysis of the contents, although I would assume the President will be quite busy for the next few hours.
Anyway, forget your rep and send a note to the Commander-in-Chief himself. Personally, I respectfully requested that he unleash hell on those responsible, but that's just my opinion....