What censorship section? I went to preferences and the only choice is to *exclude* stories about censorship but I don't have that checked, I don't have anything checked for exclusion.
By this I mean the story about the Michigan Police, but now that I have your attention, check out this apparently hidden story http://slashdot.org/articles/01/07/30/1558227.shtm l about how the DoD released something and then decided that it was classified and they're threating MIT and a professor there about it.
Thanks for the link. I first encountered Mountain Dew about 40 years ago and it was then that I heard about it starting in the mountain area of NC and never heard different since (until now). But I know I'm right about Pepsi and New Bern.
Anybody have any evidence that Cheerwine and Sundrop didn't originate in the piedmont of NC?
"Postel analysed a DOD report saying that, contrary to Postel's previous criticism, their prototype antimissile system could not distinguish between decoy and real warheads; he determined that the data had been distorted by TRW, the contractor responsible for the prototype."
That doesn't make sense. It says that, according to the DOD report, the system *could not* distinguish between decoys and real. In other words, the Department of Defense says this thing doesn't work. What previous criticism made by Postel could this be contrary to? Did he criticise it for working too well, only to have the DoD rush to say "No, it doesn't work too well, in fact it doesn't work worth diddly.", and did he then find that TRW phoneyed up test results to make the system's performance look *worse*?
I see by the NY Times article that this guy's last name is Postol, not Postel.
Isn't there something terribly ironic about a story about censorship being hidden? Or is Hemos just trying to be cute?
I'm pretty sure that White Lightnin' was a Mountain Dew wannabe. I never saw one until several years after Mountain Dew came along.
Here's a link to the story of its creation (Mountain Dew) in Knoxville, Tennessee (I'd always heard that it was started in western North Carolina) from an AC's reply to another post of mine.
Pepsi-Cola originated in New Bern, North Carolina and Mountain Dew somewhere in western NC about a half century or so later so I feel safe in saying that they're just as southern as Coca-Cola.
Actually MSNBC (the cable channel, haven't looked at the web site) just had someone on explaining this who didn't do too badly considering the audience he was trying to explain it to, and they even put up a graphic showing which *Microsoft* products were vulnerable. They forgot the "We're a joint venture of..." disclaimer, though.
Being a Mountain Dew drinker since they had a hillbilly on the bottle, I tried Code Red out of curiosity and don't see how anyone could stand to drink an entire bottle, much less copious quantites of it, and wouldn't trust any work done by anyone who did. It's that bad.
It's not an exact science by any means, but flamebait is generally designed to irk people and draw a lot of angry replies, i.e., start a flamewar.
A troll, on the other hand, is sometimes disguised as a somewhat coherent expression of opinion but doesn't really represent the poster's opinion, it's just designed to get a lot of people worked up replying to it so that the original poster can laugh at them wasting their time and tell himself how clever he is for having done so.
What they have in common is the level of maturity (low) and the lack of positive contribution to the discussion.
And then there are the 12 year olds who keep trying to sneak in links to stuff other than that to which the link appears to lead, and all the other posts associated with those posts, which are just another immature attempt to annoy people and waste their time. Off-topic covers these just fine.
None of this necessarily has anything to do with how posts actually get moderated.
Every season for the past several, somebody's been saying that it has officially made the jump, and not without some justification. The X-Files may wind up with the record for the greatest number of seasons spent jumping the shark.
Mozilla has those annoying "My whatever"s? Jeez, I might as well stay with IE.
Just because I need to make a note of a URL doesn't mean that the site is a "Favorite" of mine, and if I'm using someone else's computer clicking on "My Computer" doesn't connect me to my computer.
Leaving aside the question of what if those conversations with the mistress are actually a secret code used for the discussion of the alleged crime, does this mean that wiretap orders are too difficult to get, or that search warrants are handed out on a whim instead of according to the rather strict parameters specified in the Constitution? Isn't a wiretap just a specialized type of search warrant?
The really strange thing here is that they had enough to get a search warrant (during the execution of which they allegedly placed a hardware or software bug in the guy's computer) but either didn't have enough to obtain an authorization for a wiretap (in which case one wonders how they had enough for a search warrant) or they just decided not to bother.
You don't have to be in favor of the existance of the mafia to be bothered by this.
I wasn't correcting the spelling. Towing is a perfectly valid word and it was spelled correctly. It just wasn't the correct word for that phrase. Nowadays a lot of people use phrases without a clear understanding of what they mean or how they came to be. The idea of toeing the line or toeing the mark is literally to stand exactly where you are supposed to (with some authority making that decision), and the general meaning is doing exactly that which those in charge expect of one.
You mean Franklin Delano Rosenfeld wasted his entire first term before turning the counrty over to the Elders of Zion? Darn, another paranoid conspiracy theory shot all to pieces.
If it weren't that Multiple Sclerosis is nothing to joke about I'd probably have posted something about "What do you want to be disabled by today?".
Of course, software that you as much fight with as use is nothing like being *really* disabled.
Although, speaking of being disabled, who would want to be operated on by a doctor using a saber? "Doctor Guillotine, I see you've switched to a smaller, more maneuverable blade."
Androids were being referred to as 'droids in printed Science Fiction at least as far back as the '60s, maybe longer, and Issac Asimov, writing as Paul French, had weapons in his books that were the same thing as lightsabers, though I can't remember what he called them (or the hero of the series), having read them well over thirty years ago.
Curiousity having gotten the better of me I hopped on Google and tracked down the hero's name: David Starr, Space Ranger, known from the second book of the series on as Lucky Starr. (Corny, yes, but they were written around 1952)
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What censorship section? I went to preferences and the only choice is to *exclude* stories about censorship but I don't have that checked, I don't have anything checked for exclusion.
By this I mean the story about the Michigan Police, but now that I have your attention, check out this apparently hidden story http://slashdot.org/articles/01/07/30/1558227.shtm l about how the DoD released something and then decided that it was classified and they're threating MIT and a professor there about it.
Anybody have any evidence that Cheerwine and Sundrop didn't originate in the piedmont of NC?
That doesn't make sense. It says that, according to the DOD report, the system *could not* distinguish between decoys and real. In other words, the Department of Defense says this thing doesn't work. What previous criticism made by Postel could this be contrary to? Did he criticise it for working too well, only to have the DoD rush to say "No, it doesn't work too well, in fact it doesn't work worth diddly.", and did he then find that TRW phoneyed up test results to make the system's performance look *worse*?
I see by the NY Times article that this guy's last name is Postol, not Postel.
Isn't there something terribly ironic about a story about censorship being hidden? Or is Hemos just trying to be cute?
Anybody have any info on why this hidden article is hidden? Is this a frequent occurrence?
Here's a link to the story of its creation (Mountain Dew) in Knoxville, Tennessee (I'd always heard that it was started in western North Carolina) from an AC's reply to another post of mine.
http://metropulse.com/dir_zine/dir_2000/1039/t_sec ret.html
Pepsi-Cola originated in New Bern, North Carolina and Mountain Dew somewhere in western NC about a half century or so later so I feel safe in saying that they're just as southern as Coca-Cola.
That's been going on at least since the late '80s. In some cases the spots showed up in theaters before they ran on-air.
Great title. If you'll hurry up with that screenplay maybe we can get Robert Urich as the title character and it can be the "Tron" sequel.
Actually MSNBC (the cable channel, haven't looked at the web site) just had someone on explaining this who didn't do too badly considering the audience he was trying to explain it to, and they even put up a graphic showing which *Microsoft* products were vulnerable. They forgot the "We're a joint venture of..." disclaimer, though.
A Windows machine running forever? Please.
Being a Mountain Dew drinker since they had a hillbilly on the bottle, I tried Code Red out of curiosity and don't see how anyone could stand to drink an entire bottle, much less copious quantites of it, and wouldn't trust any work done by anyone who did. It's that bad.
A troll, on the other hand, is sometimes disguised as a somewhat coherent expression of opinion but doesn't really represent the poster's opinion, it's just designed to get a lot of people worked up replying to it so that the original poster can laugh at them wasting their time and tell himself how clever he is for having done so.
What they have in common is the level of maturity (low) and the lack of positive contribution to the discussion.
And then there are the 12 year olds who keep trying to sneak in links to stuff other than that to which the link appears to lead, and all the other posts associated with those posts, which are just another immature attempt to annoy people and waste their time. Off-topic covers these just fine.
None of this necessarily has anything to do with how posts actually get moderated.
Cigarette or cigar?
Every season for the past several, somebody's been saying that it has officially made the jump, and not without some justification. The X-Files may wind up with the record for the greatest number of seasons spent jumping the shark.
Maybe it gets *you* something that looks like a violin but bigger, but for most people it's "Voila, two more windows".
Just because I need to make a note of a URL doesn't mean that the site is a "Favorite" of mine, and if I'm using someone else's computer clicking on "My Computer" doesn't connect me to my computer.
Why can't someone write a "cute" removing virus?
Leaving aside the question of what if those conversations with the mistress are actually a secret code used for the discussion of the alleged crime, does this mean that wiretap orders are too difficult to get, or that search warrants are handed out on a whim instead of according to the rather strict parameters specified in the Constitution? Isn't a wiretap just a specialized type of search warrant?
You don't have to be in favor of the existance of the mafia to be bothered by this.
I wasn't correcting the spelling. Towing is a perfectly valid word and it was spelled correctly. It just wasn't the correct word for that phrase. Nowadays a lot of people use phrases without a clear understanding of what they mean or how they came to be. The idea of toeing the line or toeing the mark is literally to stand exactly where you are supposed to (with some authority making that decision), and the general meaning is doing exactly that which those in charge expect of one.
You mean Franklin Delano Rosenfeld wasted his entire first term before turning the counrty over to the Elders of Zion? Darn, another paranoid conspiracy theory shot all to pieces.
Gee, I managed to talk to her with nothing more than analog voice modulated carrier.
Of course, software that you as much fight with as use is nothing like being *really* disabled.
Although, speaking of being disabled, who would want to be operated on by a doctor using a saber? "Doctor Guillotine, I see you've switched to a smaller, more maneuverable blade."
Curiousity having gotten the better of me I hopped on Google and tracked down the hero's name: David Starr, Space Ranger, known from the second book of the series on as Lucky Starr. (Corny, yes, but they were written around 1952)
That's "toeing" the line, not towing.