> Breaking "news" also appears on Drudge Report. As far as blogs go, I don't really have any good ones. Any other ones you guys like?
I use
Free Republic for live updates from the right, and Daily Kos for live updates from the left. Both sites are highly biased, and admit as such. (I like my bias out in the open where I can see it.)
Both sites are highly active today with live or near-live reports coming in from voters and observers. Signal-to-noise ratio is low (as you might expect), but half the fun is reading through the "rah rah, our guy's winning" noise to find the nuggets of information that may (or may not) lead to a coherent picture of what's going on out there.
> I've been waiting at work all morning for this >Finally, something to distract me. I want some extreme polazation in this thread people!!!
Vertical! Horizontal! My really cool sunglasses!
North! South! On a magnetar!
vi! EMACS! Written in COBOL and ported to Windows 95!
Positive! Negative! Me adjusting the jawstrap for my tinfoil hat and forgetting about my fillings! OUCH!
And what the fuck is polazation anyway?!? If the jawstrap on my tinfoil hat didn't hurt my teeth so damn much, I'd be immune to this sort of strategery by Karl Rove (the only guy diabolical enough to imagine cramming Michael Moore's fat ass into an Osama bin Laden costume for Hallowe'en!) tryin' to convince me that you're really a Kerry operative makin' fun of our President! You can't fool me! Can't you see the violence in'erent in the syst------[tape runs out]
> Did they find a non-functional baby and dump the ROMs?
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1. The material which I contend belongs to Me, and has appears illegally in the research journal is the following: [see attached gene sequences for self-organizing neural networks for rapid acquisition of linguistic comprehension and synthesis in embryonic homo sapiens]
2. Links to the material appear at the website address: www.slashdot.org
3. My contact information is as follows: [IPv7-over-carrier-dove to root@257.257.257.257, or visit your nearest confessional booth and accept an oral donation of DNA and other assorted proteins from the chap in the dark suit and snappy collar]
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I declare under the perjury laws of My Omniscient, Omnipresent, and Omnipotent Self that this declaration is true and correct.
> Right... just like the US pre-emptively attacked Russia because they build GPS jammers. Now if a country started *using* (rather than just developing) such a system, I would agree with your position.
And because any ground-based emitter of EM is going to show up as a pretty big honking target when it's turned on...
a) blowing up the jammer is not a pre-emptive attack, and
b) your jammer will get blowed up real good, real quick.
Keep in mind that part b) applies to both sides in the conflict. If you're fighting an adversary capable of launching satellites, you're (by definition) fighting an adversary capable of detecting and lobbing anti-radiation missiles at any EM emitter you own that's more powerful than a microwave oven.
> I have a personal friend who was a Captain in the USAF at the time, [... ] Academy graduate. He was [... ] dropped into Somalia when they were setting up the Mogadishu airport (air traffic lands first). He was starting the final process for his promotion to Major, but was so dissatisfied with Clinton, his cuts to the military, his lack of everything needed to be Commander in Chief, that he left the military. And he was one of lots of his peers that did the exact same thing.
Speaking of which. Let's ignore the fact that the draft bills were introduced by Democrats, because they were shot down with bipartisan support, and stick to what the candidates said in the debates.
Bush: Categorically denies a draft.
Kerry: Doesn't deny a draft. Says he'll boost military enrollment by 40,000.
Considering Kerry's post-Vietnam behavior (i.e. joining the protest movement, and possibly -- although this is unconfirmed -- making contact with NV operatives in France during peace talks) it's reasonable to presume that many officers may also choose to resign their commissions (or if enlisted, choose not to re-enlist) than serve under Kerry as CIC.
How, in the face of that, Kerry plans to boost enlistment by 40000 is beyond me.
Unless, of course, there's a draft. Ironic, ain't it?:-?
> Don't worry. All of these stories will go away after the election and subsequent four-week recount and 2 month healing period.:P
...and six-month civil war, and 12-month reconciliation committee hearings, and OMGWTFBBQ!, that leaves only three months to go before the 2006 midterm postwar elections!
At least that leaves two years to put the backdoor into the voting machines for
Stallman/Torvalds vs. and Gates/Ballmer '08.
> Well, the Redskins v. Green Bay game ended a few hours ago and it looks as though Kerry is going to win on Tuesday."
I think I speak for at least three Slashdotters with mod points - whether they be Republican, Democrat, Libertarian, Green, Constitution, or Guns-And-Dope Party - when I pound out the following message in Morse code using my head and the desk:
> > Anyone got pictures?
> >Here we have a story about a brilliant young woman and and the first thing you do is ask for pictures of her? Maybe asking for pictures of her is your first instinct, but it is not mine. Mine was to do a Google image search...
This is Slashdot, not Fark. She's not just a "woman". She's not just a "brilliant young woman". She's got a name. Natalie.
First... they laugh at it. >
second, they fight it >
Third, they accept it as truth.
Fourth, they stop being able to track it by port number,
Fifth, they say it's dying.
Sixth, Netcraft confirms it! They have NO... sixth!
In Soviet Russia, someone makes a joke about Seventh,
Eighth, there is nothing for you to see here.
Ninth,...
Tenth, Gandhi wins the (+5, Funny)?
Wikis are dead. No, I'm not going to make a Netcraft joke. Wikis fail because disorganized documentation that makes no sense to the author should also make no sense to the reader. If it was hard to write, anyone should be able to jump in and correct it, even if it leads to the occasional non sequitur. If the user doesn't like it, that's their problem, they should be reading the source code, not the documentation. Yeah, because they should be thankful anyone bothers to write code in the first place. If they can't change the code, fuck them!
And that's why we're going to live in a Wiki World. Because collaboration is the solution to everything. Having lots of voices ensures diversity of opinion, which reminds me -- if you support this software project, don't forget to show it by voting for Dean in the primaries!
Which is precisely why Wikis will never catch on. Documentation, like code, was meant to be written and edited by small teams at best - too many cooks spoil the broth (But Dean was cool, so I'm leaving your endorsement in!). For instance, the last time I tried to learn something about a subject by using Wikis, I found they were as twisty as a mass of spaghetti in an Infocom game and John Kerry, and I read blogs!
"I'm told by a very good source that SOE developers are currently working on, and very excited about the possibilities for the upcoming SWG:FTS - Failure To Suck - expansion pack, still in its design phase.
Until then, we thank you for your business and hope that you continue to enjoy SWG and SWG:JTL!
- SWG Slashbot Community Relationship Mangler."
Sony Online Entertainment: When we say "service the account", we mean it's your fault that you didn't understand that "service" is something what a bull does to a cow.
> Thats odd considering probably less that 1% of the population is atheist. I'd be hard pressed to believe you've seen lots of atheist politicians at all let alone militant ones. While the parent post is over the top he is mostly accurate. The republicans have basically made spreading christian ideals/laws a part of their platform. And all the indecent language and imagery stuff is entirely a fundamentalist christian lets silence those who dont share our ideals campaign.
I believe that by "fundamentalist atheist", he means the folks who are so offended by Christians that they attempt to eradicate any mention of the Christian faith from public view.
These people the reason why it's a "Holiday Party" or a "Harvest Party" instead of a "Christmas Party" (because any symbol other than Santa Claus is offensive to non-Christians) or "Hallowe'en Party" (because black pointy hats are offensive to Wiccans).
They may not be atheists per se, but they're every bit as fundamentalist about something as Jerry Falwell is about Jeebus, or as Yasser Arafat is about Mohammed.
And in her next interview, she'll tell us how her newly-sprouted wings and "lighter-than-air defense" helped her team take Old Nick's Cup in Game Four of the Ninth Circle Hockey League playoffs.
> Of course he's for it. He's for anything that might get him a vote, but not so much that might piss the people off would be against it. Like the Patriot Act, Kerry also voted for the DMCA.
Wait. Are you saying he's for anything that might get him a vote, but he's for getting the votes before he turns against it? Or is he not for it so much as to piss the people off who'd be against it, as long as he voted against it after he voted for it? In Soviet Russia, I hear they vote aga*WHAM WHAM WHAM*
My head hurts. Politics is so confusing these days.
> Kerry's response: "open to examining" whether to change current law "to ensure that a person who lawfully obtains or receives a transmission of a digital work may back up a copy of it for archival purposes".
1) "Open to examining whether to change" does not imply "will advocate change".
2) "Changing" the DMCA doesn't necessarily mean "changing it in the way that geeks would like".
3) "Examining whether to change" can lead to the conclusion "no, it needs no changing" just as easily as its opposite.
4) "to ensure that a person who lawfully obtains or receives a transmission of a digital work may back up a copy of it for archival purposes" could be the first paragraph of the INDUCE act. After all, the INDUCE act was spun as going after P2Pers, not those who were "lawfully making backups for archival purposes".
5) Finally, "lawfully obtains or [lawfully] receives transmission" -- leaves a lot of wiggle room. What if "Lawfully" means "in accordance with every term of the EULA under which it was sold?"
Conclusion: Kerry's got no intention of asking Congress to weaken the DMCA; he's pandering for every vote he can get in the home stretch of a tightly-contested Presidential race.
That's not a partisan slur -- both parties are bought and paid for by Hollywood, and you can bet your eighth bit that no matter who wins in November, any "changes" to the DMCA in the next four years will be to Hollywood's benefit, not yours.
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Built a new man-rated vehicle capable of powered flight, which is more than you can say for NASA over the past 20 years.
"Good thing we put the failover server and the offsite backup in Tower Two!"
- Some Dude, 1 WTC, 9/11/01
I use Free Republic for live updates from the right, and Daily Kos for live updates from the left. Both sites are highly biased, and admit as such. (I like my bias out in the open where I can see it.)
Both sites are highly active today with live or near-live reports coming in from voters and observers. Signal-to-noise ratio is low (as you might expect), but half the fun is reading through the "rah rah, our guy's winning" noise to find the nuggets of information that may (or may not) lead to a coherent picture of what's going on out there.
>Finally, something to distract me. I want some extreme polazation in this thread people!!!
Vertical! Horizontal! My really cool sunglasses!
North! South! On a magnetar!
vi! EMACS! Written in COBOL and ported to Windows 95!
Positive! Negative! Me adjusting the jawstrap for my tinfoil hat and forgetting about my fillings! OUCH!
And what the fuck is polazation anyway?!? If the jawstrap on my tinfoil hat didn't hurt my teeth so damn much, I'd be immune to this sort of strategery by Karl Rove (the only guy diabolical enough to imagine cramming Michael Moore's fat ass into an Osama bin Laden costume for Hallowe'en!) tryin' to convince me that you're really a Kerry operative makin' fun of our President! You can't fool me! Can't you see the violence in'erent in the syst------[tape runs out]
"I am writing to you to avail Myself of My rights under the Genetic Millenium Copyright Act (GMCA). This letter is a Notice of Infringement as authorized under section 1024(c) of the Divine Copyright Law. I wish to report an instance of what I feel in good faith is an instance of Copyright Infringement. The infringing genetic code is hosted in the gene bank for which you are the designated agent.
1. The material which I contend belongs to Me, and has appears illegally in the research journal is the following: [see attached gene sequences for self-organizing neural networks for rapid acquisition of linguistic comprehension and synthesis in embryonic homo sapiens]
2. Links to the material appear at the website address: www.slashdot.org
3. My contact information is as follows: [IPv7-over-carrier-dove to root@257.257.257.257, or visit your nearest confessional booth and accept an oral donation of DNA and other assorted proteins from the chap in the dark suit and snappy collar]
4. I have a good faith belief that the use of the material that appears on the service is not authorized by the copyright owner, My vicar, or by operation of law.
5. The in formation in this notice is accurate, and I am either the copyright owner or I am authorized to act on behalf of the copyright owner.
I declare under the perjury laws of My Omniscient, Omnipresent, and Omnipotent Self that this declaration is true and correct.
- The Pope, agent for Gawd Awmighty Inc."
And because any ground-based emitter of EM is going to show up as a pretty big honking target when it's turned on...
a) blowing up the jammer is not a pre-emptive attack, and
b) your jammer will get blowed up real good, real quick.
Keep in mind that part b) applies to both sides in the conflict. If you're fighting an adversary capable of launching satellites, you're (by definition) fighting an adversary capable of detecting and lobbing anti-radiation missiles at any EM emitter you own that's more powerful than a microwave oven.
Speaking of which. Let's ignore the fact that the draft bills were introduced by Democrats, because they were shot down with bipartisan support, and stick to what the candidates said in the debates.
Bush: Categorically denies a draft.
Kerry: Doesn't deny a draft. Says he'll boost military enrollment by 40,000.
Considering Kerry's post-Vietnam behavior (i.e. joining the protest movement, and possibly -- although this is unconfirmed -- making contact with NV operatives in France during peace talks) it's reasonable to presume that many officers may also choose to resign their commissions (or if enlisted, choose not to re-enlist) than serve under Kerry as CIC.
How, in the face of that, Kerry plans to boost enlistment by 40000 is beyond me.
Unless, of course, there's a draft. Ironic, ain't it? :-?
At least that leaves two years to put the backdoor into the voting machines for Stallman/Torvalds vs. and Gates/Ballmer '08.
I think I speak for at least three Slashdotters with mod points - whether they be Republican, Democrat, Libertarian, Green, Constitution, or Guns-And-Dope Party - when I pound out the following message in Morse code using my head and the desk:
"What the fuck? What the fucking fuck fuck?!?!"
>
>Here we have a story about a brilliant young woman and and the first thing you do is ask for pictures of her? Maybe asking for pictures of her is your first instinct, but it is not mine. Mine was to do a Google image search...
This is Slashdot, not Fark. She's not just a "woman". She's not just a "brilliant young woman". She's got a name. Natalie.
>Bin Laden
That's no moon... that's a .torrent of Star Wars being hosted on Al-Jazeera.com!
(Allah Ackbar, IT'S A TRAP!)
> second, they fight it
> Third, they accept it as truth.
Fourth, they stop being able to track it by port number, ...
Fifth, they say it's dying.
Sixth, Netcraft confirms it! They have NO... sixth!
In Soviet Russia, someone makes a joke about Seventh,
Eighth, there is nothing for you to see here.
Ninth,
Tenth, Gandhi wins the (+5, Funny)?
"That's no moon..." is the comment for Mimas, not Titan :)
And that's why we're going to live in a Wiki World. Because collaboration is the solution to everything. Having lots of voices ensures diversity of opinion, which reminds me -- if you support this software project, don't forget to show it by voting for Dean in the primaries!
Which is precisely why Wikis will never catch on. Documentation, like code, was meant to be written and edited by small teams at best - too many cooks spoil the broth (But Dean was cool, so I'm leaving your endorsement in!). For instance, the last time I tried to learn something about a subject by using Wikis, I found they were as twisty as a mass of spaghetti in an Infocom game and John Kerry, and I read blogs!
>
>Google the next 3 words with punctuation: IBM "my T41"
"I love my T41, but the palm rest platic groans and creaks whenever it flexes."
Oooooh. Thinkpr0n. Kinky!
Sony Online Entertainment: When we say "service the account", we mean it's your fault that you didn't understand that "service" is something what a bull does to a cow.
The only thing he decided about Iraq was who wouldn't be running it. Your guess is as good as anybody's who the Iraqis will elect.
Unfortunately for both candidates in the US, (but fortunately for the Iraqis!) that election happens a few months after November 2.
>Maybe not, but John Kerry will make crippled people walk again.
Quote Kerry properly. Last month, he swore up and down it was gonna be Christopher Reeve who was gonna be walking by the end of his term!
Talk about a flip-flop. The guy doesn't even wait until after the election to reverse his position.
I believe that by "fundamentalist atheist", he means the folks who are so offended by Christians that they attempt to eradicate any mention of the Christian faith from public view.
These people the reason why it's a "Holiday Party" or a "Harvest Party" instead of a "Christmas Party" (because any symbol other than Santa Claus is offensive to non-Christians) or "Hallowe'en Party" (because black pointy hats are offensive to Wiccans).
They may not be atheists per se, but they're every bit as fundamentalist about something as Jerry Falwell is about Jeebus, or as Yasser Arafat is about Mohammed.
And in her next interview, she'll tell us how her newly-sprouted wings and "lighter-than-air defense" helped her team take Old Nick's Cup in Game Four of the Ninth Circle Hockey League playoffs.
> What, you don't approve of autoeroticism?
Getting an blow job while driving an auto? Erotic.
That same blow job performed autoerotically? Problematic.
Doesn't matter whether you're driving an auto, truck, motorcycle, small plane, M-1 Tank, or a unicycle, it's gonna get messy.
Wait. Are you saying he's for anything that might get him a vote, but he's for getting the votes before he turns against it? Or is he not for it so much as to piss the people off who'd be against it, as long as he voted against it after he voted for it? In Soviet Russia, I hear they vote aga*WHAM WHAM WHAM*
My head hurts. Politics is so confusing these days.
1) "Open to examining whether to change" does not imply "will advocate change".
2) "Changing" the DMCA doesn't necessarily mean "changing it in the way that geeks would like".
3) "Examining whether to change" can lead to the conclusion "no, it needs no changing" just as easily as its opposite.
4) "to ensure that a person who lawfully obtains or receives a transmission of a digital work may back up a copy of it for archival purposes" could be the first paragraph of the INDUCE act. After all, the INDUCE act was spun as going after P2Pers, not those who were "lawfully making backups for archival purposes".
5) Finally, "lawfully obtains or [lawfully] receives transmission" -- leaves a lot of wiggle room. What if "Lawfully" means "in accordance with every term of the EULA under which it was sold?"
Conclusion: Kerry's got no intention of asking Congress to weaken the DMCA; he's pandering for every vote he can get in the home stretch of a tightly-contested Presidential race.
That's not a partisan slur -- both parties are bought and paid for by Hollywood, and you can bet your eighth bit that no matter who wins in November, any "changes" to the DMCA in the next four years will be to Hollywood's benefit, not yours.
> Sir, your margin of error is enough to buy a Big Mac, or were you planning on eating it yourself!
No thanks, but I could go for a Royale with cheese...