I forsee a huge problem with this a year down the line. I agree that your solution, forbidding companies from supplying assistance to oppressive regimes could pass Congress and become law. But I'm afraid of what would constitute "supplying assistance." What if they use Slackware in their network filtering kit? What if they modified their routing hardware to use Linux? What are the consequences to a group dedicated to providing good software for everyone when a demonstrable subset of "everyone" is evil?
Yes, some large percentage of the population is stupid, but this law is advertised as a tool to fight foreign terrorism. Foreign terrorists, by definition, are smart enough to organize themselves enough to get into another country. They do not flip open their cell-phones and say "Hey Joe, let's blow something up this weekend." Any e-mail will be either encrypted or innocuous.
As you point out, this law is obviously designed to catch the stupid or the average. What is the target behavior this law is intended to prevent? Not terrorism, obviously. In no other week is it more obvious that the innocent must also fear law enforcement than this week, as one of CNN's top stories is the severe beating of a senior citizen at the hands of multiple New Orleans police officers.
It's truly a sad day when critical thinking is reviled as "tinfoil-hat" behavior.
The last time I flew it was from a friend's outdoor wedding. Apparently the chemical sensors didn't like the outdoors-ness of my shoes, and because I was flying from scenic Colorado the security officers were used to this. TSA Agent: "Been outdoors much? Hiked through the woods?" Me: "Yes, some friends had a wedding in the middle of a field." TSA Agent: "Thought so. Happens all the time."
They took my shoes and, after they failed to go boom, brought them back. I'm not bothered by this at all, but I wonder how many false positives people in these places have to deal with. Current detectors use neutron activation to detect the nitrogen in explosvies and, apparently, fertilizers used by the hotel grounds staff. Hopefully this will fix that particular problem.
Yes, I know it's less powerful and less sexy, but I'm still waiting for a GP2X. Should be cheaper and DESIGNED to run my own programs. I write silly little games for my laptop (not worthy to be sourceforged, mostly about the level of addictive flash games), and I want to write silly little games to play on the shuttle bus to campus. And I want to run other people's silly little games and Yar's Revenge, which I bought Back in the Day and feel no urge to buy again.
I think you're posting to the wrong article. You're obviously reading about a guy who looked suspicious and, after being questioned and searched, was let go.
This article's about a guy who was hauled into a police station, held overnight, and was charged with a crime for having a backpack with a laptop.
Scrutinize? Maybe. Search? Possibly. Detain? Perhaps. Arrest even after you've hauled them into the station and determined they're not a threat? Dumb. There's no other word.
Not as often as I used to. In the morning I see other people on the campus shuttle, as I fire up my Nintendo DS/PSP/GP2X handheld. The bus ride ends, but I've gotten good at switching my headphones to my MP3 player for the walk to class. Should I ask the cute girl in front of me to borrow her notes from yesterday? Nah, the slides from yesterday are on the professor's webpage.
Class is over, so I plug my headphones in again and head for some lunch. There's a really nice sit-down Thai restaurant, but I've got a paper due, so I'll just jump into the line at the fast-food shop; food in under three minutes, what could be better? Fed and caffinated, I mp3 my way back to my next class. Occasionally my other class has really good class discussions, but this prof just powerpoints an hour and a half of my life away. My doodling's improved, though.
That's all of my classes today! I thought about seeing if some of the guys in this class wanted to study for the test on Monday, but my guild has a raid planned for tonight, so I'm headed back to the bus. ----- That's not me. That is, however, what I see of some of the undergrads here, a bit exaggerated, but still relatively accurate. My point is that if you're interested in vilifying technology, blaming online retail for a lack of social interaction in modern youth and young adults is like blaming Joe's Taco Stand in Tuscaloosa, AL for the rise in methane's contribution to the global greenhouse effect.
I've looked all over the site and can't find any mention of this, which is sad. Apparently you can hook it up to the TV and double your resolution, which is AMAZING -- but are there any other interface ports on this machine? Do you know how much fun I could have with this thing and some Palm-based accessories? A little roll-up keyboard? A little USB laptop mouse? I know it's not the target use at all, but the Linux kernel has good USB peripheral support, so all the coding is done for you.
Refugees are, quite literally, "ones who take refuge." As in, from a storm. The people who survived this disaster are quite literally taking refuge. Evacuees are people who are evacuated. First, in most cases these people had to get themselves out -- for some reason "evacuees" has the connotation that someone got you out, where "refugees" has the connotation that you left under your own power.
Secondly, "evacuee", besides being a more cumbersome word with all those vowels just crammed in there, means "one who evacuates." Evacuate has a "quick" feel to it. In a fire drill, you evacuate the building. The people standing outside are evacuees until they've stopped evacuating, at which point they become pedestrians or gawkers. You can't be an evacuee for a day unless you run very slowly and steadily, at some point you stop evacuating and take refuge.
I wanted to do the same thing; I've got lots of class notes I want to keep around. I grabbed a Lexmark 6700 all-in-one. The sheet feeder's sort of hit-or-miss, and the software can't manage to integrate duplex scans by scanning face-forward then scanning backwards. Supposedly the MS Office imaging software is supposed to be able to do that, but it never worked right with the scanner driver. Lexmark's tech support was very little help.
Offtopic: if you really are worried and not just joking around, you should know that the first part of the URL just determines the color scheme. This article works just as well with the url "work.slashdot.org" or "hooray.slashdot.org" or something. Just set your box to redirect games.slashdot.org to foo.slashdot.org and you'll be fine.
They need to totally redo that website. Right now it's definitely got a "we're mad, and we're podcasting" feel to it. I thought, hey, let's see what the journalists are reporting about! Maybe they're some creative people who've been locked out! Let's listen to them. And the message I got was "We're mad, and we're podcasting."
They've missed the important point: you have to podcast about something. You can't just podcast. Look at the links on the right -- do you see all the journalists? All listed right there. Hey! They're podcasting! Yes, but what the frack are you podcasting about? It's like looking at a TV guide that says:
7pm: Richard Dean Anderson, Amanda Tapping 8pm: Joe Flanigan, David Hewlett 9pm: Edward James Olmos, Katee Sackhoff
which, if you're not already fans of Stargate and Battlestar Galactica, gives you no information and doesn't compel you to watch the show.
Actually, that'd be a fun idea. Just make all US IP free inside Canada. Go ahead, copy that floppy -- Canada's a soverign nation! If the RCMP doesn't say it's a crime, then YOU won't be doing any time! THAT would make the US notice faster than anything else.
It'd severely hurt Canadian musicians, but you sent Celine Dion, so I'd say that's just fair. It'd hurt Canadian software developers, but after using these ATI Radeon drivers I'd say that's fair too.
It's just the UGL. We've got half a dozen libraries on campus. Anybody who wants anything serious goes to the PCL anyway, except for us engineering geeks who go to the ECJ (engineering) or RLM (math) libraries. I was going to say there are half a dozen libraries at UT, but there are way more than that: http://www.lib.utexas.edu/help/librarylist.html It sounds like fun to me.
Encryption? Like, good SSL-based encryption? Do you know how many people use AIM or Yahoo Messenger without encryption? Do you know how many use it with their university or coffee shop's unencrypted wireless service?
Google, if you're listening, please please please make authentication and encryption the default with your new messaging service! Please! I'm stuck on campus all day, and I've got non-tech friends who refuse to use GAIM with GAIM-encrypt!
Possibly, but perhaps in another form. Bandwidth is going UP while the cost of production is going DOWN. The highest-ranking shows lately are the ones with the lowest production values -- reality shows and cheap recycling of old ideas. Linkdump has hundreds of nifty five-minute videos every day, and people are getting (slightly) more sophisticated about computers.
For $2000 worth of cameras, lights, and duct tape an RTF major on summer break could shoot something good. His CS-major roommate can upload it to a media site, put it on newsgroups, and start a torrent over the weekend. The barrier to entry is low, and the only reason this hasn't taken off already is that we engineering types don't know enough pretty girls to attract an audience.
Prediction: In three years, if the choice is between buying a new $3k TV for Survivor 4 or watch TorrentStation's "Austin: Survivor Town Lake", they will have lost.
Nope, it hasn't been dubbed BlueCasting, except by marketing twits in Italian suits and advertising twerps in Emo glasses.
The real world calls it SPAM. If you have to get trendy, BlueSpamming. Or if you want to get really wild, based on IM SPAM = SPIM, you get BLUE SPAM = SPLUE.
We let them use Hacker for Cracker, and we let them take Digital Rights Management for Digital Restriction Mechanisms. We control the names, folks, not them. A dog does not lay bioreclaimable fertilizer on the path, it shits on the sidewalk. "BlueCasting" sounds like a neat 21st century hip thing. "Spam" is a nasty annoyance that Russians get beat to death for. Give it the correct name.
2) I'm impressed that you know what they use for top secret data - do you have any references for that? "The design and strength of all key lengths of the AES algorithm (i.e., 128, 192 and 256) are sufficient to protect classified information up to the SECRET level. TOP SECRET information will require use of either the 192 or 256 key lengths. The implementation of AES in products intended to protect national security systems and/or information must be reviewed and certified by NSA prior to their acquisition and use."
About once a week or two I'll get a few idle minutes, playing with my laptop while making dinner, and I'll just start opening up cookies and changing the data in there. Not to try to impersonate someone else, but just as every person's duty to scribble nonsense on some moron's database.
It's fun. It probably doesn't do anything, but it kills a minute or two of time, and it's more fun than "bejewled".
Hemp's not gonna happen, because the even better way hasn't happened. The most efficient way to produce renewable fuel (from an area usage standpoint) is algae-based. The oil produced is common vegetable oil (witness the folks who do the diesel -> veggie oil conversions) and can easily be processed into biodiesel. The DOE report is easily accessible online, and the project was shut down in 1995 because, tinfoil hat on, it succeeded in proving that algaes with high oil content per weight could be grown in a bioreactor-style environment to severely reduce foreign oil consumption.
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I forsee a huge problem with this a year down the line. I agree that your solution, forbidding companies from supplying assistance to oppressive regimes could pass Congress and become law. But I'm afraid of what would constitute "supplying assistance." What if they use Slackware in their network filtering kit? What if they modified their routing hardware to use Linux? What are the consequences to a group dedicated to providing good software for everyone when a demonstrable subset of "everyone" is evil?
What did the liberal arts major say to the comp. sci. major?
"No, I won't go out with you."
*sigh* We have to go over it until you get it.
Yes, some large percentage of the population is stupid, but this law is advertised as a tool to fight foreign terrorism. Foreign terrorists, by definition, are smart enough to organize themselves enough to get into another country. They do not flip open their cell-phones and say "Hey Joe, let's blow something up this weekend." Any e-mail will be either encrypted or innocuous.
As you point out, this law is obviously designed to catch the stupid or the average. What is the target behavior this law is intended to prevent? Not terrorism, obviously. In no other week is it more obvious that the innocent must also fear law enforcement than this week, as one of CNN's top stories is the severe beating of a senior citizen at the hands of multiple New Orleans police officers.
It's truly a sad day when critical thinking is reviled as "tinfoil-hat" behavior.
Gah. If you use C (or better, C++), and you like it, and you like garbage collection, why not just use a garbage collection in C? I haven't written anything particularly huge lately, but the Boehm-Demers-Weiser one seems pretty solid. It's the best of all worlds -- you let the garbage collector handle most of your memory recollection. Remember the 90-10 rule ("90% of execution time is spent in 10% of the code"), so if there's a chunk that really needs manual allocation you can do that too. And the performance? Wonderful! Bump-pointer allocation means new objects get there fast.
There's no such thing as a wart-free language, but in C++, lack of garbage collection isn't one anymore.
The last time I flew it was from a friend's outdoor wedding. Apparently the chemical sensors didn't like the outdoors-ness of my shoes, and because I was flying from scenic Colorado the security officers were used to this.
TSA Agent: "Been outdoors much? Hiked through the woods?"
Me: "Yes, some friends had a wedding in the middle of a field."
TSA Agent: "Thought so. Happens all the time."
They took my shoes and, after they failed to go boom, brought them back. I'm not bothered by this at all, but I wonder how many false positives people in these places have to deal with. Current detectors use neutron activation to detect the nitrogen in explosvies and, apparently, fertilizers used by the hotel grounds staff. Hopefully this will fix that particular problem.
Yes, I know it's less powerful and less sexy, but I'm still waiting for a GP2X. Should be cheaper and DESIGNED to run my own programs. I write silly little games for my laptop (not worthy to be sourceforged, mostly about the level of addictive flash games), and I want to write silly little games to play on the shuttle bus to campus. And I want to run other people's silly little games and Yar's Revenge, which I bought Back in the Day and feel no urge to buy again.
I think you're posting to the wrong article. You're obviously reading about a guy who looked suspicious and, after being questioned and searched, was let go.
This article's about a guy who was hauled into a police station, held overnight, and was charged with a crime for having a backpack with a laptop.
Don't worry, misposting happens to all of us.
Scrutinize? Maybe. Search? Possibly. Detain? Perhaps. Arrest even after you've hauled them into the station and determined they're not a threat? Dumb. There's no other word.
Not as often as I used to. In the morning I see other people on the campus shuttle, as I fire up my Nintendo DS/PSP/GP2X handheld. The bus ride ends, but I've gotten good at switching my headphones to my MP3 player for the walk to class. Should I ask the cute girl in front of me to borrow her notes from yesterday? Nah, the slides from yesterday are on the professor's webpage.
Class is over, so I plug my headphones in again and head for some lunch. There's a really nice sit-down Thai restaurant, but I've got a paper due, so I'll just jump into the line at the fast-food shop; food in under three minutes, what could be better? Fed and caffinated, I mp3 my way back to my next class. Occasionally my other class has really good class discussions, but this prof just powerpoints an hour and a half of my life away. My doodling's improved, though.
That's all of my classes today! I thought about seeing if some of the guys in this class wanted to study for the test on Monday, but my guild has a raid planned for tonight, so I'm headed back to the bus.
-----
That's not me. That is, however, what I see of some of the undergrads here, a bit exaggerated, but still relatively accurate. My point is that if you're interested in vilifying technology, blaming online retail for a lack of social interaction in modern youth and young adults is like blaming Joe's Taco Stand in Tuscaloosa, AL for the rise in methane's contribution to the global greenhouse effect.
I've looked all over the site and can't find any mention of this, which is sad. Apparently you can hook it up to the TV and double your resolution, which is AMAZING -- but are there any other interface ports on this machine? Do you know how much fun I could have with this thing and some Palm-based accessories? A little roll-up keyboard? A little USB laptop mouse? I know it's not the target use at all, but the Linux kernel has good USB peripheral support, so all the coding is done for you.
Anybody have a link for US pre-orders? I've just figured out what I'm getting my MAME-crazy brother for Christmas.
I don't think the terms are racially motivated.
Refugees are, quite literally, "ones who take refuge." As in, from a storm. The people who survived this disaster are quite literally taking refuge. Evacuees are people who are evacuated. First, in most cases these people had to get themselves out -- for some reason "evacuees" has the connotation that someone got you out, where "refugees" has the connotation that you left under your own power.
Secondly, "evacuee", besides being a more cumbersome word with all those vowels just crammed in there, means "one who evacuates." Evacuate has a "quick" feel to it. In a fire drill, you evacuate the building. The people standing outside are evacuees until they've stopped evacuating, at which point they become pedestrians or gawkers. You can't be an evacuee for a day unless you run very slowly and steadily, at some point you stop evacuating and take refuge.
At which point you become a refugee.
I wanted to do the same thing; I've got lots of class notes I want to keep around. I grabbed a Lexmark 6700 all-in-one. The sheet feeder's sort of hit-or-miss, and the software can't manage to integrate duplex scans by scanning face-forward then scanning backwards. Supposedly the MS Office imaging software is supposed to be able to do that, but it never worked right with the scanner driver. Lexmark's tech support was very little help.
Lexmark all-in-one != good enough.
Heh. That's ----'ing obscure, man. Ten points and a bag of powdered mothballs for you.
Offtopic: if you really are worried and not just joking around, you should know that the first part of the URL just determines the color scheme. This article works just as well with the url "work.slashdot.org" or "hooray.slashdot.org" or something. Just set your box to redirect games.slashdot.org to foo.slashdot.org and you'll be fine.
They need to totally redo that website. Right now it's definitely got a "we're mad, and we're podcasting" feel to it. I thought, hey, let's see what the journalists are reporting about! Maybe they're some creative people who've been locked out! Let's listen to them. And the message I got was "We're mad, and we're podcasting."
They've missed the important point: you have to podcast about something. You can't just podcast. Look at the links on the right -- do you see all the journalists? All listed right there. Hey! They're podcasting! Yes, but what the frack are you podcasting about? It's like looking at a TV guide that says:
7pm: Richard Dean Anderson, Amanda Tapping
8pm: Joe Flanigan, David Hewlett
9pm: Edward James Olmos, Katee Sackhoff
which, if you're not already fans of Stargate and Battlestar Galactica, gives you no information and doesn't compel you to watch the show.
Actually, that'd be a fun idea. Just make all US IP free inside Canada. Go ahead, copy that floppy -- Canada's a soverign nation! If the RCMP doesn't say it's a crime, then YOU won't be doing any time! THAT would make the US notice faster than anything else.
It'd severely hurt Canadian musicians, but you sent Celine Dion, so I'd say that's just fair. It'd hurt Canadian software developers, but after using these ATI Radeon drivers I'd say that's fair too.
It's just the UGL. We've got half a dozen libraries on campus. Anybody who wants anything serious goes to the PCL anyway, except for us engineering geeks who go to the ECJ (engineering) or RLM (math) libraries. I was going to say there are half a dozen libraries at UT, but there are way more than that:
http://www.lib.utexas.edu/help/librarylist.html
It sounds like fun to me.
Encryption? Like, good SSL-based encryption? Do you know how many people use AIM or Yahoo Messenger without encryption? Do you know how many use it with their university or coffee shop's unencrypted wireless service?
Google, if you're listening, please please please make authentication and encryption the default with your new messaging service! Please! I'm stuck on campus all day, and I've got non-tech friends who refuse to use GAIM with GAIM-encrypt!
Possibly, but perhaps in another form. Bandwidth is going UP while the cost of production is going DOWN. The highest-ranking shows lately are the ones with the lowest production values -- reality shows and cheap recycling of old ideas. Linkdump has hundreds of nifty five-minute videos every day, and people are getting (slightly) more sophisticated about computers.
For $2000 worth of cameras, lights, and duct tape an RTF major on summer break could shoot something good. His CS-major roommate can upload it to a media site, put it on newsgroups, and start a torrent over the weekend. The barrier to entry is low, and the only reason this hasn't taken off already is that we engineering types don't know enough pretty girls to attract an audience.
Prediction: In three years, if the choice is between buying a new $3k TV for Survivor 4 or watch TorrentStation's "Austin: Survivor Town Lake", they will have lost.
Nope, it hasn't been dubbed BlueCasting, except by marketing twits in Italian suits and advertising twerps in Emo glasses.
The real world calls it SPAM. If you have to get trendy, BlueSpamming. Or if you want to get really wild, based on IM SPAM = SPIM, you get BLUE SPAM = SPLUE.
We let them use Hacker for Cracker, and we let them take Digital Rights Management for Digital Restriction Mechanisms. We control the names, folks, not them. A dog does not lay bioreclaimable fertilizer on the path, it shits on the sidewalk. "BlueCasting" sounds like a neat 21st century hip thing. "Spam" is a nasty annoyance that Russians get beat to death for. Give it the correct name.
2) I'm impressed that you know what they use for top secret data - do you have any references for that?
"The design and strength of all key lengths of the AES algorithm (i.e., 128, 192 and 256) are sufficient to protect classified information up to the SECRET level. TOP SECRET information will require use of either the 192 or 256 key lengths. The implementation of AES in products intended to protect national security systems and/or information must be reviewed and certified by NSA prior to their acquisition and use."
http://www.cnss.gov/Assets/pdf/cnssp_15_fs.pdf
About once a week or two I'll get a few idle minutes, playing with my laptop while making dinner, and I'll just start opening up cookies and changing the data in there. Not to try to impersonate someone else, but just as every person's duty to scribble nonsense on some moron's database.
It's fun. It probably doesn't do anything, but it kills a minute or two of time, and it's more fun than "bejewled".
Hemp's not gonna happen, because the even better way hasn't happened. The most efficient way to produce renewable fuel (from an area usage standpoint) is algae-based. The oil produced is common vegetable oil (witness the folks who do the diesel -> veggie oil conversions) and can easily be processed into biodiesel. The DOE report is easily accessible online, and the project was shut down in 1995 because, tinfoil hat on, it succeeded in proving that algaes with high oil content per weight could be grown in a bioreactor-style environment to severely reduce foreign oil consumption.
Careful with codec packs! I'm not sure which codec pack did it, but now Media Player can't play MPG's anymore. Had to install VLC.
Codec Packs = dangerous! Use with caution! When in doubt, grab a copy of G-Spot, figure out what codec the file uses, and download just that codec.