One of the problems I always had using pgp/gpg was client support. Getting it to work with outlook/outlook express, then finding something under Linux that would support it, having to scrap together a bunch of tools, all of which were half-written...
I've found a solution. Mozilla and Enigmail. Yes, Mozilla/Netscape mail used to be putrid. It's better with Mozilla 1.0+, honestly. It has progressed to a competitive state, and I switched over totally about a month ago.
Enigmail is a plugin for Mozilla that handles signing, encrypting, decrypting and verifying mail for you.
GnuPG, Mozilla and Enigmail all work on Windows as well as Linux, so I have the same tools no matter what I'm running.
You still need a key manager, but getting what mozilla+enigmail provides is a great step forward.
why not just make a portable audio player that allows you to flash any type of audio decoder into it. So when new versions/better formats come out, you just flash your player and you can play the new format.
Because then you wouldn't make money off of selling the next player when the old one isn't good enough any more?
That is, when ABS was added to certain cars, it didn't make those cars less safe than they already were in any situation.
Actually, that's not true. When ABS was added to cars, studies have shown that people began leaving less space between them and the next car, braking more abruptly, and generally treating the ABS as a license to drive recklessly. (The same thing happens with 4wd vehicles in snowy areas).
brakes: powered, but like steering still work very effectively without the engine running
The point was not power, of course, but ABS. ABS is computer controlled and, if it fails, the stopping characteristics of the car will be quite drastically, and dangerously, changed.
airbags: so I'm going to get in a wreck at the same time that the very simple IC that controls the airbags somehow gets fried? I guess I should be wearing my seatbelt then.
If your airbag deploys because you tap the brakes hard at 65 when someone pulls in front of you, yes, you will be in a wreck.
Tell you what, let's use an emp gun on 495 at 8:30 AM and see how many critical injuries we get. I guarantee you that loss of computer handling on a highway would be very dangerous.
Where does the hydrogen come from? There are two answers:
It is extracted from fossil fuels
It is extracted from water
You know, it's too bad we can't find some way to harness the energy of the atom to create electricity. I understand the sun does this on the large scale, and nuclear weapons do on a very very fast scale, but aside from the French no one really tries to make much electricity with it. And we all know that one should never follow Frances lead in technology matters (Maginot and Minitel come to mind...)
The steering may not be by wire, but pretty much every car made in the last decade uses computers to work the engine, the brakes, the airbags, and other stuff that you don't want going south at 65 MPH.
I'm almost totally switched over to mozilla; I only use IE for Outlook Web Access, which is of course kinked only to work well with IE. Also, Microsoft Q articles don't render correctly - again, big suprise.
I decided to try 1.0 out when it came out, mostly for the experience of banging my head against the mail client. I use IMAP, and netscape/mozilla has always had the most screwed-up IMAP client out there. I mean, they made Outlook Express look good.
I was shocked and pleased to see that the mail client in Mozilla 1.0 was great. It worked well with SIMAP and SMTP/STARTTLS, it handled folders on the server well, the address book works in a convenient manner, and it's easy to add PGP/GPG support with Enigmail.
After a week, I dumped OE and switched over to mozilla mail, and haven't looked back. Sure, there's a few minor bugs, but I can file bug reports on those or, if I feel ambitious, try to submit a patch. There are equivalent or worse bugs in OE that I'll probably never see fixed (deleted mail shows up as new - yeah, that's fun). I also switched to the browser, because it worked well (another first for ns/mozilla, IMO) and I was a little less worried about getting slam-bam-thank-you-maamed by the virus du jour.
So, yeah, its worth the switch, and this is coming from somebody who hated and disparaged all the pre-1.0 releases I tried. The largest remaining issue I have is that it is a memory hog.
Please expand on this. Who is "they", and what are your sources?
Following the attack on the World Trade Center on 11 September 2001, and because of the similarity between the buildings' nickname, "The Twin Towers", and the movie's title, "The Two Towers", the director and producers briefly considered renaming the second movie in the trilogy. They eventually decided against it, Peter Jackson's main reason being that, "fans would kill me".
Another good book that bears on this subject is Robert Zubrin's Entering Space: Creating a Spacefaring Civilization. He discusses the atomic bomb drive as well as other postulated ideas for interstellar craft, such as solar wings and some trick with laser and mirrors (IIRC).
Even better, for slashdot folks, is that Zubrin takes this stuff seriously in a scientific sense. He discusses the energy needs and expected capabilities of the various craft, and in general covers a lot of "practical" ground. This is the same guy who is behind The Mars Society, which actively works to enable and encourage mannned missions to Mars.
...history has shown that there is just no application that requires more than the ample 4.7GB of removable storage provided by DVD technology.
Proof that you can't trust history books.
Large-volume optical storage provides an excellent archival medium for large datasets. It can be kept in a near-online state with higher retrieval time for less work than traditional methods, e.g. tape.
I know a company that was looking for exactly this (actually, hoping for 80-100G capacity) a few months ago; a small (~30 person) company but they crunch monthly databases running around 70G, which they would like to keep around without paying for and maintaining massive disk arrays, especially since old data is only needed on occasion.
As an unscientific recollection of past threads, a minority of people seem to have problems with it, but most don't. Multiple people have recommended slowing to a walk and punching forward and then back a few tracks, forcing the disk to spin up and fill the cache so you can run for another 10 minutes without any disk activity.
net gain in energy such that every BTU of existing liquid (fossil) fuels spent produces a 6 BTU return.
What I want to see is the figures showing that you can grow the crops, harvest them, turn them into ethanol and transport them, using ethanol rather than fossil fuels and still get a return. Theoretically it is possible because of all the solar energy being input into the equation, but at best the studies I've seen today are conflicting on this issue.
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Is this actually leading to arrests? If so, we need more honeypots; if not, it's a waste of time.
Honeypots provide a way for people to learn how to deal with an incident on the real servers they protect. Just like emergency personnel hold disaster preparedness drills, just as the US Military stages large red team exercises in the desert, just as medical students use cadavers to learn what they're doing before they cut into a live patient.
Let's face it - when your database server gets compromised, do you want the guy responding to thrash around, destroy evidence and erase tracks, and generally screw up the response? Or do you want him to do a careful, correct job?
Honeypots are where admins learn NOT to run around like a chicken with their head cut off.
Part of the problem is the deluge of commercial messages, which makes it harder for an ad to stand out.
Scene III: A corporate boardroom, with a large polished mahogany conference table, shaved glass "windows," and an espresso machine in the corner.
Big Boss: All right, Gentlemen, how are things looking in the advertising department?
Franklin: Well, Boss, our revenues have been down about 3% over the last quarter.
Jaspers: Sir, it seems that advertisers have seen the research, and they're not willing to pay as much for commercials when they know people are starting to ignore them. We've reached such a level of saturation that they ignore them even when they stay on, and between having 2000 channels and those darn Tivo boxes, they can skip or miss them if they want.
Franklin: Yes, yes, it would seem that after years and years of constant commercial barrages, people are adapting and learning to treat them as noise.
Big Boss lets out a deep "harumph" sound, his eyes narrow, and he steeples his hands in front of him. Franklin and Jaspers wait, uncertain and timid.
Big Boss: I've got the perfect solution. We'll put even MORE commercials in. That'll fix it! We'll make them show up twice as often, and that way people will notice them again.
Timid silence, followed by quick shallow nods and "Yes, sir!" "Brilliant, Sir" from our two flunkies. They jump up and exit stage right, pausing briefly for Jaspers to whisper to Franklin.
Jaspers: I don't think he knows what "saturated" means, but I'm not going to be the one to break it to him...
Also, I note this interview just showed up on CNN. Summary: The NYTimes article misrepresents things a bit; researchers like "good fats" rather than all fats and aren't down on "complex carbs."
Here's a quick taste, emphasis mine:
PHILLIPS: All right, Dr. Atkins is totally anti-carbs.
COHEN: Yes. PHILLIPS: So, these influential researchers with whom you spoke, what do they say about that? COHEN: They are not anti-carb. And that's another interesting difference. Again, these are researchers who are quoted in the article as being part of a group that is beginning to embrace the notion that he is right.
I read it; I just don't believe everything I read. Nor should you - 40 years ago doctors thought that pregnant mothers should drink alcohol to help relax.
For example, that stuff about "agriculture being a relatively new change to humanity's diet" - crap. The shift towards sedentary lifestyles is much more recent, drastic, and relevant than that sort of psuedo-scientific crockery. The changes in food preparation, additives, processing, etc. etc. are also enormous.
The problem is that a "balanced diet" as described in just about every piece of nutritional literature written in the last thirty years just might be not so balanced after all.
First, you would have to believe that a significant portion of the population eats the recommended "balanced diet" - almost none do. There was a funny article in Runner's World recently following the travails of someone trying to actually eat the recommended servings of everything in a day, and generally failing. Miserably. And it emphasized how unlike his 'normal' diet the food pyramid was.
Second, you'd have to confuse the food that is easily available today with the food that is good for you. First of all, simple sugars. Soda is obvious. Things like applesauce are less obvious. Breakfast cereal. Snacks in the snack machine. Let's also consider how refined everything is. White bread is extremely refined, but how many people eat wheat? What do you get when you eat in the cafeteria, the fast food restaurant, or the mall? You get what tastes good, and not what's good for you.
In my opinion, everyone should go through the exercise of trying to figure out what they're eating for a week or so. It's difficult to impossible, but a learning experience. You probably aren't eating anything like what you think you are.
What we may come to discover is that a balanced diet really consists of much more fat and far fewer carbs than has been previously thought.
Well, that depends on what you previously thought. If you thought that low-fat and Snackwells were the true path, then yes.
I repeat, if you want to look at your 'diet' find a good sports nutrition book. That's the area where the practical implications of how and what the body uses for fuel are applied on a regular basis, and I trust them a lot more than I trust 'diet plans' or 'diet gurus.' With a diet, you just need to lose weight; with sports nutrition, you have to keep the right weight and still be able to perform - that's what I call a real test.
Gosh, maybe we should be eating - gasp - a balanced diet?
Now you're talking crazy, man!
The problem is everyone wants a "magic bullet" and few are willing to do the work unless they can find a "drastic" and flashy diet to throw themselves into.
Eat a balanced diet (complex carbs, some fat and some protein) and exercise and you'll do fine. Stay off the sugar bombs. Eat less than you burn to lose weight. Buy a sports nutrition book to figure out your requirements, because those are the people who are practiced at this math. And don't expect to lose 10 years of fat in a few months.
If you look at the story the guy calls it protocol 11 but then he tells you to grep netstat output for anything using port 11.
And if you actually read the grep command line, you note that he's only looking for lines with 'raw' in them. Anything other than TCP and UDP shows up in netstat as 'raw' - for example, ICMP is protocol 1, and will show up like this on a RedHat system:
$ netstat -anp | grep raw
raw 0 0 0.0.0.0:1 0.0.0.0:*
In short... he knows what he is talking about. You, however, should probably go read a man page or two.
Of course - because it is an act in support of a known terrorist organization. A useful parallel would be cracking down on Al Qaeda's finance - gathering money isn't terrorism, but since it is used to enact terrorism, it's terrorism.
On the other hand, beaming "Slashdot RULZ" onto CNN/ETC/FOX would not be terrorism, but simple crime. You'd have the gov't on your ass, but probably not the 'with extreme prejudice' crowd.
A really interesting border case would be Hamas. Aside strapping bombs to people and sending them into crowds, they have a social services arm that does as much or more for the populace as the Palestinian Authority, which is one of the reasons their support among the people is so high. Does that make social services terrorism? If it includes education of youth to support and enact terrorism, then arguably yes. But even if they didn't, they would still be labeled a terrorist organization because of their other activities.
Common criminals are known to threaten or kill police officers. Your local military force is designed to threaten or kill enemy military forces, and definitely threatens vital enemy infrastructure like power stations and dams.
I had the implicit assumption that we all recognize standard inter-State warfare and non-organized crime as exactly that, and therefore not terrorism.
Moreover, directly attacking civilian populations is something that was done regularly as late as WWII, even by the Allies. Hiroshima and Nagasaki were not entirely military targets.
One can argue back and forth on this, which I won't bother to do here - it's ultimately pointless, as both sides have valid arguments. However, I will note that the Geneva Convention, which postdates World War II, attempts to limit or prohibit the practice of targeting civilian populations.
I'm suggesting that perhaps your criteria for determining who they are need to be tightened somewhat.
In letter, sure, but I think the spirit was there. And I still don't think Falun Gong qualifies;)
Are the Falun terrorists for "hijacking" Chinese TV? Or are they rebels in a quest against the evil empire?
Insofar as they aren't practicing any actual form of terror, I'm going to vote "not terrorist."
To the best of my knowledge, they aren't...
Attacking or killing non-combatants
Threatening harm to non-combatants
Attacking or killing police or military forces
Threatening harm to police or military forces
Threatening vital public infrastructure
I think, at worst, you could call them an insurgent organization. But in my book, no terror = no terrorism - and popping "falun gong is good" on the telly signal for a few seconds is not "terror" by any definition I've ever heard.
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I run it on Windows, so rightly it should be the GNU/Windows XPrivacy Guard...
One of the problems I always had using pgp/gpg was client support. Getting it to work with outlook/outlook express, then finding something under Linux that would support it, having to scrap together a bunch of tools, all of which were half-written...
I've found a solution. Mozilla and Enigmail. Yes, Mozilla/Netscape mail used to be putrid. It's better with Mozilla 1.0+, honestly. It has progressed to a competitive state, and I switched over totally about a month ago.
Enigmail is a plugin for Mozilla that handles signing, encrypting, decrypting and verifying mail for you.
GnuPG, Mozilla and Enigmail all work on Windows as well as Linux, so I have the same tools no matter what I'm running.
You still need a key manager, but getting what mozilla+enigmail provides is a great step forward.
why not just make a portable audio player that allows you to flash any type of audio decoder into it. So when new versions/better formats come out, you just flash your player and you can play the new format.
Because then you wouldn't make money off of selling the next player when the old one isn't good enough any more?
That is, when ABS was added to certain cars, it didn't make those cars less safe than they already were in any situation.
Actually, that's not true. When ABS was added to cars, studies have shown that people began leaving less space between them and the next car, braking more abruptly, and generally treating the ABS as a license to drive recklessly. (The same thing happens with 4wd vehicles in snowy areas).
brakes: powered, but like steering still work very effectively without the engine running
The point was not power, of course, but ABS. ABS is computer controlled and, if it fails, the stopping characteristics of the car will be quite drastically, and dangerously, changed.
airbags: so I'm going to get in a wreck at the same time that the very simple IC that controls the airbags somehow gets fried? I guess I should be wearing my seatbelt then.
If your airbag deploys because you tap the brakes hard at 65 when someone pulls in front of you, yes, you will be in a wreck.
Tell you what, let's use an emp gun on 495 at 8:30 AM and see how many critical injuries we get. I guarantee you that loss of computer handling on a highway would be very dangerous.
Where does the hydrogen come from? There are two answers:
You know, it's too bad we can't find some way to harness the energy of the atom to create electricity. I understand the sun does this on the large scale, and nuclear weapons do on a very very fast scale, but aside from the French no one really tries to make much electricity with it. And we all know that one should never follow Frances lead in technology matters (Maginot and Minitel come to mind...)
Would I trust my life to a cars computer? No way.
Do you ride a bike or a '57 Chevy?
The steering may not be by wire, but pretty much every car made in the last decade uses computers to work the engine, the brakes, the airbags, and other stuff that you don't want going south at 65 MPH.
I'm almost totally switched over to mozilla; I only use IE for Outlook Web Access, which is of course kinked only to work well with IE. Also, Microsoft Q articles don't render correctly - again, big suprise.
I decided to try 1.0 out when it came out, mostly for the experience of banging my head against the mail client. I use IMAP, and netscape/mozilla has always had the most screwed-up IMAP client out there. I mean, they made Outlook Express look good.
I was shocked and pleased to see that the mail client in Mozilla 1.0 was great. It worked well with SIMAP and SMTP/STARTTLS, it handled folders on the server well, the address book works in a convenient manner, and it's easy to add PGP/GPG support with Enigmail.
After a week, I dumped OE and switched over to mozilla mail, and haven't looked back. Sure, there's a few minor bugs, but I can file bug reports on those or, if I feel ambitious, try to submit a patch. There are equivalent or worse bugs in OE that I'll probably never see fixed (deleted mail shows up as new - yeah, that's fun). I also switched to the browser, because it worked well (another first for ns/mozilla, IMO) and I was a little less worried about getting slam-bam-thank-you-maamed by the virus du jour.
So, yeah, its worth the switch, and this is coming from somebody who hated and disparaged all the pre-1.0 releases I tried. The largest remaining issue I have is that it is a memory hog.
A much better choice than last year.
Would you like some cheese with your whine?
It amazes me how narrow-minded scifis are about what is pure and what is not.
Please expand on this. Who is "they", and what are your sources?
From IMDB, the Internet Movie DataBase.
Another good book that bears on this subject is Robert Zubrin's Entering Space: Creating a Spacefaring Civilization. He discusses the atomic bomb drive as well as other postulated ideas for interstellar craft, such as solar wings and some trick with laser and mirrors (IIRC).
Even better, for slashdot folks, is that Zubrin takes this stuff seriously in a scientific sense. He discusses the energy needs and expected capabilities of the various craft, and in general covers a lot of "practical" ground. This is the same guy who is behind The Mars Society, which actively works to enable and encourage mannned missions to Mars.
Slashdot has covered Zubrin and Mars Society before; see this and that. He also has a mars-specific book titled The Case for Mars: The Plan to Settle the Red Planet and Why We Must. I recommend both his books to anyone who thinks we need to get off this rock.
This makes no sense.
Read more carefully:
TRacking Optical Laser
TROL
Troll
As in, you've been trolled.
Proof that you can't trust history books.
Large-volume optical storage provides an excellent archival medium for large datasets. It can be kept in a near-online state with higher retrieval time for less work than traditional methods, e.g. tape.
I know a company that was looking for exactly this (actually, hoping for 80-100G capacity) a few months ago; a small (~30 person) company but they crunch monthly databases running around 70G, which they would like to keep around without paying for and maintaining massive disk arrays, especially since old data is only needed on occasion.
I suggest you go to Google Groups and search for group:rec.running ipod. This question is almost a FAQ there.
As an unscientific recollection of past threads, a minority of people seem to have problems with it, but most don't. Multiple people have recommended slowing to a walk and punching forward and then back a few tracks, forcing the disk to spin up and fill the cache so you can run for another 10 minutes without any disk activity.
net gain in energy such that every BTU of existing liquid (fossil) fuels spent produces a 6 BTU return.
What I want to see is the figures showing that you can grow the crops, harvest them, turn them into ethanol and transport them, using ethanol rather than fossil fuels and still get a return. Theoretically it is possible because of all the solar energy being input into the equation, but at best the studies I've seen today are conflicting on this issue.
Is this actually leading to arrests? If so, we need more honeypots; if not, it's a waste of time.
Honeypots provide a way for people to learn how to deal with an incident on the real servers they protect. Just like emergency personnel hold disaster preparedness drills, just as the US Military stages large red team exercises in the desert, just as medical students use cadavers to learn what they're doing before they cut into a live patient.
Let's face it - when your database server gets compromised, do you want the guy responding to thrash around, destroy evidence and erase tracks, and generally screw up the response? Or do you want him to do a careful, correct job?
Honeypots are where admins learn NOT to run around like a chicken with their head cut off.
Part of the problem is the deluge of commercial messages, which makes it harder for an ad to stand out.
Scene III: A corporate boardroom, with a large polished mahogany conference table, shaved glass "windows," and an espresso machine in the corner.
Big Boss: All right, Gentlemen, how are things looking in the advertising department?
Franklin: Well, Boss, our revenues have been down about 3% over the last quarter.
Jaspers: Sir, it seems that advertisers have seen the research, and they're not willing to pay as much for commercials when they know people are starting to ignore them. We've reached such a level of saturation that they ignore them even when they stay on, and between having 2000 channels and those darn Tivo boxes, they can skip or miss them if they want.
Franklin: Yes, yes, it would seem that after years and years of constant commercial barrages, people are adapting and learning to treat them as noise.
Big Boss lets out a deep "harumph" sound, his eyes narrow, and he steeples his hands in front of him. Franklin and Jaspers wait, uncertain and timid.
Big Boss: I've got the perfect solution. We'll put even MORE commercials in. That'll fix it! We'll make them show up twice as often, and that way people will notice them again.
Timid silence, followed by quick shallow nods and "Yes, sir!" "Brilliant, Sir" from our two flunkies. They jump up and exit stage right, pausing briefly for Jaspers to whisper to Franklin.
Jaspers: I don't think he knows what "saturated" means, but I'm not going to be the one to break it to him...
Also, I note this interview just showed up on CNN. Summary: The NYTimes article misrepresents things a bit; researchers like "good fats" rather than all fats and aren't down on "complex carbs."
Here's a quick taste, emphasis mine:
It would appear you didn't read the article.
I read it; I just don't believe everything I read. Nor should you - 40 years ago doctors thought that pregnant mothers should drink alcohol to help relax.
For example, that stuff about "agriculture being a relatively new change to humanity's diet" - crap. The shift towards sedentary lifestyles is much more recent, drastic, and relevant than that sort of psuedo-scientific crockery. The changes in food preparation, additives, processing, etc. etc. are also enormous.
The problem is that a "balanced diet" as described in just about every piece of nutritional literature written in the last thirty years just might be not so balanced after all.
First, you would have to believe that a significant portion of the population eats the recommended "balanced diet" - almost none do. There was a funny article in Runner's World recently following the travails of someone trying to actually eat the recommended servings of everything in a day, and generally failing. Miserably. And it emphasized how unlike his 'normal' diet the food pyramid was.
Second, you'd have to confuse the food that is easily available today with the food that is good for you. First of all, simple sugars. Soda is obvious. Things like applesauce are less obvious. Breakfast cereal. Snacks in the snack machine. Let's also consider how refined everything is. White bread is extremely refined, but how many people eat wheat? What do you get when you eat in the cafeteria, the fast food restaurant, or the mall? You get what tastes good, and not what's good for you.
In my opinion, everyone should go through the exercise of trying to figure out what they're eating for a week or so. It's difficult to impossible, but a learning experience. You probably aren't eating anything like what you think you are.
What we may come to discover is that a balanced diet really consists of much more fat and far fewer carbs than has been previously thought.
Well, that depends on what you previously thought. If you thought that low-fat and Snackwells were the true path, then yes.
I repeat, if you want to look at your 'diet' find a good sports nutrition book. That's the area where the practical implications of how and what the body uses for fuel are applied on a regular basis, and I trust them a lot more than I trust 'diet plans' or 'diet gurus.' With a diet, you just need to lose weight; with sports nutrition, you have to keep the right weight and still be able to perform - that's what I call a real test.
So, let me get this straight:
Gosh, maybe we should be eating - gasp - a balanced diet?
Now you're talking crazy, man!
The problem is everyone wants a "magic bullet" and few are willing to do the work unless they can find a "drastic" and flashy diet to throw themselves into.
Eat a balanced diet (complex carbs, some fat and some protein) and exercise and you'll do fine. Stay off the sugar bombs. Eat less than you burn to lose weight. Buy a sports nutrition book to figure out your requirements, because those are the people who are practiced at this math. And don't expect to lose 10 years of fat in a few months.
And like your mother always said, eat your peas.
If you look at the story the guy calls it protocol 11 but then he tells you to grep netstat output for anything using port 11.
And if you actually read the grep command line, you note that he's only looking for lines with 'raw' in them. Anything other than TCP and UDP shows up in netstat as 'raw' - for example, ICMP is protocol 1, and will show up like this on a RedHat system:
In short... he knows what he is talking about. You, however, should probably go read a man page or two.
Setting 14 year olds on fire: terrorism.
Having 14 year olds set themselves on fire: cult.
Alternately, some self-immolation is considered by some a legitimate form of protest, usually one associated with religion.
Of course - because it is an act in support of a known terrorist organization. A useful parallel would be cracking down on Al Qaeda's finance - gathering money isn't terrorism, but since it is used to enact terrorism, it's terrorism.
On the other hand, beaming "Slashdot RULZ" onto CNN/ETC/FOX would not be terrorism, but simple crime. You'd have the gov't on your ass, but probably not the 'with extreme prejudice' crowd.
A really interesting border case would be Hamas. Aside strapping bombs to people and sending them into crowds, they have a social services arm that does as much or more for the populace as the Palestinian Authority, which is one of the reasons their support among the people is so high. Does that make social services terrorism? If it includes education of youth to support and enact terrorism, then arguably yes. But even if they didn't, they would still be labeled a terrorist organization because of their other activities.
Common criminals are known to threaten or kill police officers. Your local military force is designed to threaten or kill enemy military forces, and definitely threatens vital enemy infrastructure like power stations and dams.
I had the implicit assumption that we all recognize standard inter-State warfare and non-organized crime as exactly that, and therefore not terrorism.
Moreover, directly attacking civilian populations is something that was done regularly as late as WWII, even by the Allies. Hiroshima and Nagasaki were not entirely military targets.
One can argue back and forth on this, which I won't bother to do here - it's ultimately pointless, as both sides have valid arguments. However, I will note that the Geneva Convention, which postdates World War II, attempts to limit or prohibit the practice of targeting civilian populations.
I'm suggesting that perhaps your criteria for determining who they are need to be tightened somewhat.
In letter, sure, but I think the spirit was there. And I still don't think Falun Gong qualifies ;)
Are the Falun terrorists for "hijacking" Chinese TV? Or are they rebels in a quest against the evil empire?
Insofar as they aren't practicing any actual form of terror, I'm going to vote "not terrorist."
To the best of my knowledge, they aren't...
I think, at worst, you could call them an insurgent organization. But in my book, no terror = no terrorism - and popping "falun gong is good" on the telly signal for a few seconds is not "terror" by any definition I've ever heard.