Interestingly, we really still do not know how they got knives onto the planes. In recently aired security checkpoint footage, at least one of the hijackers was seen pulled aside and 'wanded' using very bad technique (nothing was found). It is speculated that they had small pocketknives or boxcutters in their carry-on luggage both of which used to be permitted onto flights under the old security rules.
As for the false documentation,... perhaps if their passports were not so easily manipulated, their previous travel would have placed them under further scrutiny. Maybe not for each hijacker but hopefully someone would have noticed that several men, all travelling from Afghanistan to the US via Arab countries, were all boarding the same plane, with recently purchased one-way tickets. But then again, we all remember what a joke security was before 9-11.
As for the security at foreign airports, I fully agree with you... there is no reason that the US can't have both faster service and tighter security. I thought you were implying that US security wasn't as good (quality not speed) as European.
AARRRGGG!!!! Why won't these falsehoods die?! Their passports may have been issued in the true names of the terrorists, but they were still fraudulent. Try reading the complete 9-11 commission report. Specifically, page 563, note 32 claims that two of the hijackers had fraudulently manipulated their passports and that it is believed that up to 11 others did as well (their passports were not recovered from the wreckage). Apparently, the passports had been doctored to remove entrance and exit stamps of the countries the terrorists passed through enroute from Afghanistan to the US. This is the sort of information that immigration officials use to determine both the depth with which the entrant should be interviewed, as well as what additional surveillance would be required.
You don't have this kind of trouble in foreign airports that are BIGGER targets for this sort of thing.
You sir, have obviously never flown in or out of Ben Gurian airport in Tel Aviv, Israel... and it seems to have served them quite well.
-conservative commentators hate the 9th circuit: agreed, the 9th circuit is easily the most liberal bench in the nation, thus it makes sense that conservatives would hate them.
-they (conservatives) would love to jump on this decision as more proof of how 'out of touch' the 9th circuit is: disagree I've yet to hear a conservative pundit blast the 9th circuit just randomly... the criticism is usually associated with a specific (or collection of) rulings. Thus your leap that conservatives would attack the ruling simply because of its source is a bit of a stretch.
-but somehow they must restrain from criticising the 9th, because "upset their faux populist image to come out so loudly in favor of the corporations that support them": strongly disagree You think that the movie/music/entertainment industry supports the conservatives in this country? try again They (the industry that you claim supports conservatives) give twice as much to the Democrats as to the Republicans. And look at the list of top 20 recipients. 3 Republicans, 17 Dems. If they weren't hedging their bets and giving to both Bush and Kerry, the total dolar figure would be even further skewed toward the Democrats.
Otherwise, nice attempt to slander the views of those you disagree with...
Oh,... and bonus points for this display of maturity:
what with them thar fedruhl judges legislatin from da bench and attackin our Christian heritage and whatnot
Don't forget that much of the complaining is regarding the fact that the firewall can be turned-off by software. This was put in place to be nice to third-party firewall makers so that they can turn-off windows firewall when they are installed. Imagine the outcry if microsoft's firewall wasn't de-activatable. Wait... you don't have to imagine... just recall the controversy over windows media player... the anti-MS zealots would claim it was a monopoly move. Some consistentcy pleaze!
Thats is exactly my point... there are no-doubt some amazing achievements of the Russian space program. Mir's longevity is one of them... its predicted impact accuracy is not.
Let me get this straight... you're evidence for your claim that the Russians are the 'best' was the accuracy with which they predicted their broken space station would crash?
Don't get me wrong, I am not trying to belittle the Russian space effort, they are without a doubt the leaders in the areas of heavy lift and long duration manned space flight - but predicting a crash and abandoning a space vehicle as too expensive are not the best examples of Russian space dominance.
You do realise that none of the September 11th hijackers used false documents to enter the US, right? They all used their own passports issued in their own names. They would have been allowed entry under US-Visit; the only difference is that their fingerprints and mugshots would have been in a database. What use would a fingerprint have been to the authorities at 9am, September 11th, 2001?
Only partially true, try a google news search for "9-11 false passport". Their passports may have been in their names but they were still fraudulent. Try reading the complete 9-11 commission report. Specifically, page 563, note 32 claims that two of the hijackers had fraudulently manipulated their passports and that it is believed that up to 11 others did as well.
Besides, at the time, the US was not actively looking for specific terrorists trying to enter the country. Today, the US is looking for specific known terrorists who might try to enter the country. I seriously doubt that any wanted, would-be terrorist would be brazen enough to use their real passport and try to enter at an official point of entry. Much more likely, they would sneak across a border like this woman, a suspected Al-qaeda member, recently did.... but why?
Exactly... it sounds to me that British Gas behaved exactly as any privacy group would -hope- they would. They didn't divuldge customer payment info to a third party. Obviously, when under scrutiny, British Gas claimed that they were simply upholding privacy law. The only rationale I can see for awarding them a negative award is out of pure spite because the company correctly actually cited a specific example of a negative consequence to privacy laws.
Makes you wonder about this organizations credibility in the other awards...
I am sure everyone would agree that spaceflight is risky and that there is a small but finite chance of another disaster. I am sure most astronauts would be willing to accept this personal risk for the mission. But what about the programatic risk? Do you realize that another NASA disaster, particularly on a mission which deliberately goes against the Challanger's investigation report, would result in the end of manned space-flight for NASA. No more space station. No going back to the Moon. No mission to Mars. That is programatic risk, and it doesn't matter how many individuals would risk their careers, reputations, and lives.
Given that possible outcome, I do not think it is wise to send a twice-demonstrated, flawed vehicle to service an out-dated, about-to-be-replaced, telescope that has already exceeded its mission life by 40%. The stars and mysteries will still be there in 5-10 years when the next generation space telescope is fielded. Given how long humanity has waited for the technology to accomplish such feats, I think we can be inconvienienced by a few more years.
search for other things (such as "workarounds" for the ever annoying XP Activation),
Just a thought... think it could have anything to do with the fact that you were using a "cracked" version of windows?
I am still on my original install of Windows XP home. My computer has crashed exactly ONCE in over two years... and that was when after I installed unsigned drivers for a new Hauppage pci card. It rebooted fine and haven't had a glitch since. I can not even verify if XP has a BSOD, since I haven't seen it.
I still think that was a bad call by a justice system that didn't understand the physics of the problem. The defendant argued that by observing his house with IR detectors, the police were, in-effect, looking throught the walls. This could not be farther from the truth. Infrared looks at the house, just at a different wavelength than visible. Because it is IR, one is effectively looking at not the color of the surfaces, but the temperature of the surfaces. Now, from this, additional inforation can be inferred about what is going on in the house, namely, that there are very hot bulbs in the house, making it a possible pot farm. Similiarly if a passing officer smelled something incrimimnating coming from the house, they could make a similiar inference, but no one would accuse them of 'smelling through the walls'. IMHO, looking at the external temperature of a house is no different than looking at its color...
Contrast IR with this radar technology, in which active RF energy no-kidding is directed at the house, passing through walls, and returning to the receiver to register an image. Clearly -this- is looking inside a house, further drawing the distiction that IR (passive) is not looking inside.
Interesting... particularly since IAARS and I have not heard of him... a quick wikipea search shows that Tsiolkovsky seemed to pioneer the academic side of rocket flight, to include being the first to 'discover' the "Rocket Equation". From wikipedia:
In 1924 he established the first Cosmonautics Society in the Soviet Union, and later researched and built liquid-fuelled rockets named OR-1 (1930) and OR-2 (1933). On August 23, 1924 Tsiolkovsky was elected as a first professor of the Military-Air Academy N. E. Zhukovsky."
So his first liquid rocket was in 1930.
However, Goddard's entry gives Goddard credit for the first liquid rocket engine launch in 1926 - so it would seem Goddard beat him by about 4 years.
Thanks for the info though, I will have to read more about this interesting fellow!
The facts as I seem them point to the AP being only slightly less partisan than Fox News. This is the same organization who for three years couldn't mention Al Gore's name without finding a way to fit in "claimed to have invented the internet" or "liar" within 5 words of his name.
You might be right... I have read it a few times and can't tell what he means by "this"... is he referring to AP or Fox? The original post was about Fox, and the sentance in questions (to me) seems to be qualifying "Fox" but could just be poor style/grammar. At any rate, I would say that I get the 'bulk' of my 'info-quality' news from CNN but go to other sources for analysis. I hear body-counts every day on CNN (either from radio or off their websites). Usually, it is the headline news on their website. In fact as I am writing this story, CNN.com has a story on their front page... scanning the article shows: 3 US deaths, 5 Iraqi deaths, and 3 Kurdish deaths. IMHO, this is pretty typical. So I would say that yes, violence and body counts ARE on CNNs front page every day. It may not be THE headline, but it is there. Incidently, BBC.com has NO mention of any deaths in any of the stories linked to on the front page.
I do agree however that story placement is a powerful form of editorial media bias. For instance, go try to find any positive Democratic news on FoxNews' front page. Alternately, try to find -any- news of favorable poll swings for the President (yes, the latest polls show the Bush even or a couple points up). The swing upward from being behind was not mentioned anywhere in mainstream media. However, when his poll numbers come in below Kerry, it is all over the media.
Back to the point, I do agree that BBC does a fine job of reporting, although I rarely see anything -new- by the time I get there.
Thats funny, I watch Fox News pretty much every day and I can't recall a single time that I have heard them reference "liar" or the internet claim. Since you have initiated a side-bar on journalistic integrity, perhaps you would like to back up your claims with some quotes.
Bottom line, there is no such thing as "balanced" news. You have to get your news from multiple sources and balance it yourself. Hence why I listen to CSPAN (for speeches in my car),G Gordon Liddy (also in car for a whacked-out perspective), NPR (internet - for a very professional, polished and left-leaning perspective), CNN.com (for the details - rather moderate), and yes, Foxnews.com when I want the right slant (as annoying as their hosts are). If it is a story about the middle-east, I will often read Al Jazeera's English site as well (very insightful).
technically, one-third of the US Government has moved to Linux:
Uh, no.... technically one of the three branches of governement has moved to Linux. That is a far cry from the misleading assertion that "one-third" of the government has moved to linux.
Of course, I can't find this quote anywhere in the actual article, so it must have been the "analysis" of the submitter. Isn't this the type of misleading claim we continuously beride MS for?
It was more than that. The US was concerned that Galileo would interfere with the P-code portion of the GPS signal. It is one thing to claim that the decision was a cave allowing the US to 'jam' Galileo... quite a nother to point out that Galileo was designed to overlap channels with the US system, potentially interfering. How is this different than, say, another slashdot hot topic: the broadband over powerline controversy in that it interferes with HAM radio?
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As for the false documentation,... perhaps if their passports were not so easily manipulated, their previous travel would have placed them under further scrutiny. Maybe not for each hijacker but hopefully someone would have noticed that several men, all travelling from Afghanistan to the US via Arab countries, were all boarding the same plane, with recently purchased one-way tickets. But then again, we all remember what a joke security was before 9-11.
As for the security at foreign airports, I fully agree with you... there is no reason that the US can't have both faster service and tighter security. I thought you were implying that US security wasn't as good (quality not speed) as European.
AARRRGGG!!!! Why won't these falsehoods die?! Their passports may have been issued in the true names of the terrorists, but they were still fraudulent. Try reading the complete 9-11 commission report. Specifically, page 563, note 32 claims that two of the hijackers had fraudulently manipulated their passports and that it is believed that up to 11 others did as well (their passports were not recovered from the wreckage). Apparently, the passports had been doctored to remove entrance and exit stamps of the countries the terrorists passed through enroute from Afghanistan to the US. This is the sort of information that immigration officials use to determine both the depth with which the entrant should be interviewed, as well as what additional surveillance would be required.
You don't have this kind of trouble in foreign airports that are BIGGER targets for this sort of thing.
You sir, have obviously never flown in or out of Ben Gurian airport in Tel Aviv, Israel... and it seems to have served them quite well.
-conservative commentators hate the 9th circuit: agreed, the 9th circuit is easily the most liberal bench in the nation, thus it makes sense that conservatives would hate them.
-they (conservatives) would love to jump on this decision as more proof of how 'out of touch' the 9th circuit is: disagree I've yet to hear a conservative pundit blast the 9th circuit just randomly... the criticism is usually associated with a specific (or collection of) rulings. Thus your leap that conservatives would attack the ruling simply because of its source is a bit of a stretch.
-but somehow they must restrain from criticising the 9th, because "upset their faux populist image to come out so loudly in favor of the corporations that support them": strongly disagree You think that the movie/music/entertainment industry supports the conservatives in this country? try again They (the industry that you claim supports conservatives) give twice as much to the Democrats as to the Republicans. And look at the list of top 20 recipients. 3 Republicans, 17 Dems. If they weren't hedging their bets and giving to both Bush and Kerry, the total dolar figure would be even further skewed toward the Democrats.
Otherwise, nice attempt to slander the views of those you disagree with...
Oh,... and bonus points for this display of maturity:
what with them thar fedruhl judges legislatin from da bench and attackin our Christian heritage and whatnot
If you are *actually* jumping up and down because of this - your co-workers are probably right.
Don't forget that much of the complaining is regarding the fact that the firewall can be turned-off by software. This was put in place to be nice to third-party firewall makers so that they can turn-off windows firewall when they are installed. Imagine the outcry if microsoft's firewall wasn't de-activatable. Wait... you don't have to imagine... just recall the controversy over windows media player... the anti-MS zealots would claim it was a monopoly move. Some consistentcy pleaze!
Thats is exactly my point... there are no-doubt some amazing achievements of the Russian space program. Mir's longevity is one of them... its predicted impact accuracy is not.
Don't get me wrong, I am not trying to belittle the Russian space effort, they are without a doubt the leaders in the areas of heavy lift and long duration manned space flight - but predicting a crash and abandoning a space vehicle as too expensive are not the best examples of Russian space dominance.
Don't forget that it is incredibly insulting to the rat as well...
But are your breast bigger?
try the military IT community...
Only partially true, try a google news search for "9-11 false passport". Their passports may have been in their names but they were still fraudulent. Try reading the complete 9-11 commission report. Specifically, page 563, note 32 claims that two of the hijackers had fraudulently manipulated their passports and that it is believed that up to 11 others did as well.
Besides, at the time, the US was not actively looking for specific terrorists trying to enter the country. Today, the US is looking for specific known terrorists who might try to enter the country. I seriously doubt that any wanted, would-be terrorist would be brazen enough to use their real passport and try to enter at an official point of entry. Much more likely, they would sneak across a border like this woman, a suspected Al-qaeda member, recently did.... but why?
Makes you wonder about this organizations credibility in the other awards...
not a quote that I know of.... although when I took cosmology in grad school... it seemed to be the running joke...
Wow,...I didn't know you could get a PhD in make-up! Congrates to your fiance! :P
Given that possible outcome, I do not think it is wise to send a twice-demonstrated, flawed vehicle to service an out-dated, about-to-be-replaced, telescope that has already exceeded its mission life by 40%. The stars and mysteries will still be there in 5-10 years when the next generation space telescope is fielded. Given how long humanity has waited for the technology to accomplish such feats, I think we can be inconvienienced by a few more years.
I'm waiting for the tensor version...
Just a thought... think it could have anything to do with the fact that you were using a "cracked" version of windows?
I am still on my original install of Windows XP home. My computer has crashed exactly ONCE in over two years... and that was when after I installed unsigned drivers for a new Hauppage pci card. It rebooted fine and haven't had a glitch since. I can not even verify if XP has a BSOD, since I haven't seen it.
Cool! Did anyone else watch the video and think of the motion detectors from Aliens?
Contrast IR with this radar technology, in which active RF energy no-kidding is directed at the house, passing through walls, and returning to the receiver to register an image. Clearly -this- is looking inside a house, further drawing the distiction that IR (passive) is not looking inside.
In 1924 he established the first Cosmonautics Society in the Soviet Union, and later researched and built liquid-fuelled rockets named OR-1 (1930) and OR-2 (1933). On August 23, 1924 Tsiolkovsky was elected as a first professor of the Military-Air Academy N. E. Zhukovsky."
So his first liquid rocket was in 1930.
However, Goddard's entry gives Goddard credit for the first liquid rocket engine launch in 1926 - so it would seem Goddard beat him by about 4 years.
Thanks for the info though, I will have to read more about this interesting fellow!
You might be right... I have read it a few times and can't tell what he means by "this"... is he referring to AP or Fox? The original post was about Fox, and the sentance in questions (to me) seems to be qualifying "Fox" but could just be poor style/grammar. At any rate, I would say that I get the 'bulk' of my 'info-quality' news from CNN but go to other sources for analysis. I hear body-counts every day on CNN (either from radio or off their websites). Usually, it is the headline news on their website. In fact as I am writing this story, CNN.com has a story on their front page... scanning the article shows: 3 US deaths, 5 Iraqi deaths, and 3 Kurdish deaths. IMHO, this is pretty typical. So I would say that yes, violence and body counts ARE on CNNs front page every day. It may not be THE headline, but it is there. Incidently, BBC.com has NO mention of any deaths in any of the stories linked to on the front page.
I do agree however that story placement is a powerful form of editorial media bias. For instance, go try to find any positive Democratic news on FoxNews' front page. Alternately, try to find -any- news of favorable poll swings for the President (yes, the latest polls show the Bush even or a couple points up). The swing upward from being behind was not mentioned anywhere in mainstream media. However, when his poll numbers come in below Kerry, it is all over the media.
Back to the point, I do agree that BBC does a fine job of reporting, although I rarely see anything -new- by the time I get there.
What is Bryan's email address?
Bottom line, there is no such thing as "balanced" news. You have to get your news from multiple sources and balance it yourself. Hence why I listen to CSPAN (for speeches in my car),G Gordon Liddy (also in car for a whacked-out perspective), NPR (internet - for a very professional, polished and left-leaning perspective), CNN.com (for the details - rather moderate), and yes, Foxnews.com when I want the right slant (as annoying as their hosts are). If it is a story about the middle-east, I will often read Al Jazeera's English site as well (very insightful).
Speaking of that... it is funny how this Al Jazeera story fails to mention that the Isreali victems were a three-year-old child and his father when a Hamas-claimed rocket impacted near a kindergarden.
So is Foxnews "fair and balanced"? - Absolutely not. For me though, it is fair and balancing.
Uh, no.... technically one of the three branches of governement has moved to Linux. That is a far cry from the misleading assertion that "one-third" of the government has moved to linux.
Of course, I can't find this quote anywhere in the actual article, so it must have been the "analysis" of the submitter. Isn't this the type of misleading claim we continuously beride MS for?
It was more than that. The US was concerned that Galileo would interfere with the P-code portion of the GPS signal. It is one thing to claim that the decision was a cave allowing the US to 'jam' Galileo... quite a nother to point out that Galileo was designed to overlap channels with the US system, potentially interfering. How is this different than, say, another slashdot hot topic: the broadband over powerline controversy in that it interferes with HAM radio?