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  1. Re:Don't leave things out on Warrantless Surveillance To Continue For Now · · Score: 1

    And how does the number of rejections vs applications prove that they are easy to get verses that people who request FISA warrents do alot of extra work to ensure that all the paperwork and evidence is in order when request them?
    Also the investiage of the EU into Echelon has long been over. What happened is that Airbus official were bribing Saudi airline officials to purchase Airbus. The US using "commercial communications satellite" found this out and Clinton told the Saudi government and that basicly killed any chance airbus had. Don't know if Echelon was acutally used for this, but if it was would of required that the EU members in Echelon would of had to approve the release of the info on french airbus officials bribing.

  2. Re:Arguments for this are getting^Wstale. on Warrantless Surveillance To Continue For Now · · Score: 1

    the government can forbid you from telling anyone about it's secret searches, thereby denying judicial recourse
    You are allowed to talk to a lawyer, provided that it is not the lawyer that is being investigated, there is no disagreement on that. One of the proposed changes when the USPATRIOT act was being re-voted on was to include language mentioning that, the disagreement was that all the other laws which probit speaking on an investiaged person did not mention it.
    All the US PATRIOT act does is add terrorism to a list of other crimeswhere it is against the law for you to call and offer to sell info to the person that they are being investiaged nor can are they allowed to spread rumors in the community that you are being investiaged by the police.

  3. Re:Return of the Flat File on How Prevalent Are SQL Injection Vulnerabilities? · · Score: 1

    Which database and version are you using???
    For the past 10 years in all the major mainstream databases you have not gotten a performance boost for using stored proceures with standard CRUD statements. In truth the use of stored procudures in CRUD with all the coaleses and if statements is actually is around 20%+ slower, when you start hitting 5+ possible variables, then a dynamic SQL statment using parameterized variables.

  4. Re:"Pwned"?! on Dutch Blackbox Voting Pwned · · Score: 1

    It became misspelled because one of the on-line games had a built in misspelling. So when you won the level in multi-player it would say player x pwned player y.

    From there it caught on. kind of like the "All your base are belong to us."

  5. Re:Online Gambling on US Outlaws Online Gambling · · Score: 1

    Except to open a bank account in Canada is not that easy. First you have to have a job in Canada, this is so you can get a SIN card, then with that and forgein password you can apply for the bank account and should probably get it. However for most people just wanting for gamble it is a huge wall.
    However Canada is alot easier then most of Europe. There you have to show proof of a job, and proof of residence and thoses are not easy papers to get, even when you have all the signed paperwork in your hand.
    As a comparison for a non-resident to get a US bank account it use to just take a phone call and you could do it all over the phone. With the passage of the US PATRIOT law it now requires that you send a copy of your password to the bank.

  6. Re:Diebold ATMs? on Will the Next Election Be Hacked? · · Score: 1

    Actually Diebold has not had that bad of track record once the actual voting, compared to the other makes of theses machines. During the last election diebold was not the maker of the machines that had the problems that made all the news. Check the problems people had with electronic voting machines during the actual election and it was not diebold.
    What kills diebold is that thier CEO decided to practice his first admendment rights of freedom of assossiation and he made the mistake of doing it with the republican party. This caused him to be the focal point of anything to bad about voting machines.

  7. Re:Enough is enough /.! We are better than this! on Study Finds World Warmth Edging to Ancient Levels · · Score: 1

    If you want an example of how funding actually works just look at a few years ago when the US government released a incomplete report saying that obiesty had over taken smoking as the leading cause, the report was later corrected. the people working on obeisty related research had a field day, they started lobbing for huge amounts of increased funding and people who kept saying that something was wrong with paper were knocked aside as freaks.
    BTW thoses that speak out against the modification of the raw data used to prove global warming do not get rich, a few do from books and speeches same as there are people pushing global warming who are getting rich from movies, books and lecture. Most are just punished and ridiculed, just look at Seitz. If you want to see how scientist deal with people who challenge the thing "most scientists agree" with just look at Robin Warren and Barry Marsha and what they had to do to fight the thinking of most scientists and the funding they were getting.

  8. Re:Copyrighted genetics? on Hypoallergenic Cats · · Score: 1

    they only sell them as spayed or neutered.
    Don't know what it would take to reverse that process if that is even possible.

  9. Re:Intellectual property on Students Protest Turnitin.com · · Score: 1

    In the USA everything you write is automaticlly copyrighted so the students original works would be the students; unless they were an employee of the school in that case any work done as an employee would be the employers.
    Also some universities have you sign away all rights to school work as a condition of enrollment. Since this is a high school would not apply.
    There have been some potential lawsuits dealing with things such as poety, photos, etc that have enforced this.
    However, I would guess that the school and Turnitin.com could get away with it under fair use since they are not effecting the sales of the item. Also turnitin.com could be considered just a search engine like google.

  10. Re:He went on Fox News to Talk about this... on Clinton to Start $1 Billion Renewable Energy Fund · · Score: 1

    The reason that Clinton is doing his show is because he came out so much agaist the ABC mini-series.

    So the chances of you actually seeing it look to really low since it looks like that "transcript" looks like it was false a href=

  11. Re:You think this will quiet the conspiracy nuts? on Face on Mars Gets a Make-Over · · Score: 2, Informative

    Old man of the mountain, of US State quarter fame, is New Hampshire. Well until it got blown up.

  12. Re:What makes you think his party is behind him? on Maryland Governor Wants Paper Ballots · · Score: 1

    So you have a problem with a person having a freedom of affiliation and as a private individiual and citizen supporting the political party of thier choice?
    If he did anything in his role as CEO to modifiy the machine to support the republican party please say so.

    BTW are you upset that that the makers of other electronic voting machines have high ranking memebers of the Democrate party as presidents and vice-presidents?

  13. Re:Moo on University of Virginia Student Graduates in One Year · · Score: 1

    Computer science and electrical here and would have to aggree that the economics classes were definatly worth it.
    Even though I don't work in any place that uses them I would say since graduation I have used the info I learned in thoses classes more then I have used all thoses calculus classes.

  14. Re:Is it really a growing threat? on Gonzales Wants ISP Data Retention To Curb Child Porn · · Score: 1

    As with other illegal activities it is not that hard to do research on child pron, you generally have to inform police and people you are doing the research for, fill out some government forms and you are good to go.
    As for the changes in recent year according to an NPR report it has been massive. It use to be that you had few child that were photographed in various ways. Now you have alot more child that show up in fewer different poses. You still have links between thoses photograhed and prostitution.

  15. Re:Why would we expect anything else? on Hotel Minibar Key Opens Diebold Voting Machines · · Score: 1

    Except which is the offical ballot? After all a person could pocket the paper between the machine and the box and just walk out.
    Also the reason you don't give a take home ticket is not because of vote buying,etc is its because that piece of paper is worthless for anything. It cannot be trusted for anything and any one smart would just ripe it up and toss it in the neastest garbage can on the way to thier car. If you want to do vot buying, or threats from employers it is far easier to do that using mail in absentee voting which almost all states provide.

  16. Re:Ah, Belgium on Google News Removes Belgian Newspaper · · Score: 1

    Don't forget about the fritties stands in every village.

    Deep fat fried heaven. Besides the fries you have all the meats. You have various fish, chicken,pork, beef all on skewers, breaded filets, spiced and made into balls, as wursts,etc. You pick what you want they deep fat fry it up and you select from usally 10-20 different sauces.

  17. Re:Should be easy for casinos to counter... on Cheating At Roulette May Be Legal In UK · · Score: 1

    Already been countered, and why this does not work in US casinos....

    Doing this is a really old cheat going back to the 70s or before where people used various means to record the position of the the ball with a known time between the positions. So US casinos added the bumps before the numbers so as the ball comes down it hits the bumps and gets randomly bounced around the wheel. Yea you could take pictures again after the ball has hit the bumps but by that time bets have been stopped.

  18. Re:Casinos can thwart this easily on Cheating At Roulette May Be Legal In UK · · Score: 1

    No need to change the rules, and why this does not work in US casinos....

    Doing this is a really old cheat going back to the 70s or before where people used various means to record the position of the the ball with a known time between the positions. So US casinos added the bumps before the numbers so as the ball comes down it hits the bumps and gets randomly bounced around the wheel. Yea you could take pictures again after the ball has hit the bumps but by that time bets have been stopped.

  19. Re:Vote! on Senate Committee Votes to Authorize Warrentless Wiretapping · · Score: 1

    you are misunderstanding the situation.
    the corps basicly has a monopoly on doing all work on the waterways and coasts. They get thier funds directly from Congress/president or from cities and states, who usally get the money from congress.
    Most of the direct funding goes to things like keeping the waterways clear.
    So what happens is that Congress/President will go and allocate X amount of money to new orleans for water projects, the money is very rarly allocated for specific thing, but is very general like has to go to beaches.
    The city will get that money and then tell the corps that they want done. The corps will then contract out the work or do it in house.

  20. Re:Why Line-Oriented? on Why Johnny Can't Code · · Score: 2, Informative

    a line oriented language is one where all the parts of the command have to be on a single line. some newer ones allow a line seperator so that you can make it easier to read.
    this is opposed to statement oriented where all parts have to be part of the single statment, usally multiple lines but with a statement ender, or a block oriented language that has begining and ending tags for the block.

  21. Re:Cities redesigned on The Segway, Five Years Later · · Score: 4, Informative

    Not sure about the cities that redesigned themselves because of the Segway.
    However there are a bunch of cities that are probably forever changed by the Segway... they passed laws forbidding the use of electrical small personnel vehicles, Segways, electric bycycles,etc from being on the sidewalks.

  22. Re:The funny part... on Climate Changes Shift Springtime in Europe · · Score: 2, Informative

    Here in Germany gas costs less then that and the extra taxes we pay over what someone in the US pays does not go to reducing pollution it goes into the social programs.
    BTW as for Kyoto the only countries in europe that have a chance of actually meeting it are UK and Germany, UK because they are spending alot on nuclear and plants and Germany because datawise they get to count old East German plants that got closed down as thier start point. However the chance of both of them actually meeting it are none.
    According to various environmentist web sites Denmark have just barely decreased thier production and unless something changes they will actually generate " 20-25 million tonnes" above what thier obligation is.
    However all is not lost since thier are alot of signers of Kyoto which do not have to decrease emissions amounts and can sell credits to thoses that are suppose to. So Denmark will probably end up spending 25 billion crowns by 2012 to reach its goal without actually cutting any emessions.

  23. And so is winter... on Climate Changes Shift Springtime in Europe · · Score: 0

    Cold weather and first snows have been moving up in the year also.
    they are having to move events and festivals up days or weeks because snow falls are coming earlier.

  24. Re:Terrorist true mission? on Are Liquid Explosives on a Plane Feasible? · · Score: 1

    While tieing up traffic would be considered a benifit they are definatly planning to kill people.
    For other examples see London, Madrid or for just recently see Germany where they were planning to blow up the train and kill all passengers.

  25. use to do it on Experiences with Replacing Desktops w/ VMs? · · Score: 1

    This is a very big market that vendors are tring to push companies into, I think even HP is even getting into the game with a bunch of specialized hardware design for it. I have worked in environments with vmware, and the Sun hardware/software
    Having primarily used the Sun stuff it was nice, you could log into a computer do your work, disconnect goto a different computer and pick up right where you stopped.
    As for things to watch out for.
    1) networks,networks,networks. Make sure you have a fast network and alot of spare bandwidth, you will need it. Everything uses the network, and while you say you have it you will find the doing this will quickly eat it up and want more. There are only small images at the start, after that they grow and grow.
    2) Server usage will increase beyond what the vendors tell you. yea most of the work goes on the desktop box but you will need the extra server capability.
    3) Plan to increase your backup capabilties. One of the benifits of doing this is that you have all your companies data in a place where it can easily be backedup, plan on doing so. Do get a solution that allows you to easily retreive just a single users image and have a process to get a single file from a persons image.
    4) Don't expect this to decrease much in administration needs. What you do get a decrease in is the time it takes to get to the problem, less traveling to the users desk. What tends to be ignored by the IT desk and sellers of theses products is that users like to customized thier setup and locking down the desktop just causes a decrease in work done. Loosing thier configuration is not good.
    5) related to previous item, unless you are in a very low skilled office don't expect to get away with just a few basic images. People have needs of software and hardware you have not thought of yet. Don't expect all your current software and hardware to work in this type of environment, check with the vendor to see what they have tested thier stuff with.

    Personnally, while doing all of this looks great on paper and the promises of the vendors look great it just does pay off unless you are in an environment where you can dictate all computer needs and have a low skilled work environment that you can get away with a standard configuration.