We have a not too bright Web staff working on this project. How hard would it be to automate removing a bunch of email addresses? Not very. Just incompetence this time; not the usual incompetence plus something more sinister. Ahh.... what relief.
The U.S. Treasury Department plans to publish nearly 10,000 e-mail addresses on the Web, violating its privacy promise to Americans who used e-mail to comment on a government proceeding.
In March 2003, the Treasury Department's Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau (TTB) asked for e-mail comments about a proposal that could raise the price of malt beverages like Bacardi Breezer and Smirnoff Ice. At the time, the department said that the text of comments would be made public--but assured people that e-mail addresses, home addresses and other personal information of individuals would be removed first.
In fact there are so many lies and ill deeds that I have plain lost count and am no longer really keeping track. It's a great excercise for really jogging your brain though. However, I am keeping up with the near present; the current White House theme seems to be to rape the entire middle class, including the upper middle class. The "manageable" deficits are in fact quite manageable if you keep the printing presses rolling (which we are forced to do, since no sane foreigner will buy US treasuries at interest rates which dwarf the devaluation of the dollar by orders of magnitude--you really would have to be quite insane).
What's great for the Bushies is that they can brag about the wonderful economic growth (in terms of dollar figures). However, if you look at the US growth in terms of actual currencies (that will be worth something in the near future) then we are actually in a economic contraction. So we can expect great growth, and rosy numbers in 2004, for sure. >8% growth perhaps, isn't it great? yeah...uhm.. great.
This is also not neccessarily a terrible thing for irresponsible idiots who run up their credit cards or take out a huge mortgage, nor for the corporate equivalent, high debt companies (some of which are the walking silicon valley zombies) or those that are writing non-investment grade bonds. I am not concerned about them; these groups have their own (often intractable) problems and besides their parasitic effects, they are irrelevant to those of us that really matter; I am largely talking about the entire middle class citizens.
For most people the growing federal debt is a very bad thing, and this is especially true for the young generation in their 30's who have been dedicated to prudently saving up for retirement for 20 years into the future. You people had better seriously consider how to protect yourselves (give as much thought as you can spare, and do it as soon as you can).
For the younger ones starting their career, or for those who have, for the most part, put off saving, but aren't happy with the way things are going in your country, my advice is to look for an exit strategy. Start saving up, be look into moving to another country which will not rape you into slavery, and look for a better future; this isn't how things are supposed to be. I really have empathy for people like the previous poster, because I know so many of us are in the same boat, but aren't quite sure what the right thing is. We think and hope this country can be saved, but it prudent to always have an exit strategy (yeah, like that Noah guy in the bible).
ACCOMPLISHMENTS AS PRESIDENT:
I invaded and occupied two countries at a continuing cost of over one billion dollars per week.
I spent the US surplus and effectively bankrupted the US Treasury.
I shattered the record for the largest annual deficit in US history.
I set an economic record for most private bankruptcies filed in any 12-month period.
I set the all-time record for the biggest drop in the history of the US stock market.
I am the first president in US history to enter office with a criminal record.
I set the all-time record for most days on vacation in any one year period.
After taking-off the entire month of August, I presided over the worst security failure in U.S. history.
I am supporting development of a nuclear "Tactical Bunker Buster," a WMD.
In my State Of The Union Address, I lied about our reasons for attacking Iraq, then blamed the lies on our British friends.
I set the record for most campaign fundraising trips by a US president.
In my first year in office over 2-million Americans lost their jobs and that trend continues every month.
I set the all-time record for most foreclosures in a 12-month period.
I appointed more convicted criminals to administration than any president in US history.
I set the record for least amount of press conferences than any president s
Here we have the unrestricted right to bear arms. Had those kiwi federales done this over here in the US of A it would surely have been an unacceptable outrage.
There must be a lot of confused people. Why are they doing this? Esp. after several companies whose specialty hasn't been unix/linux have dabbled with linux, but always dropped this. Corel comes to mind. Also (the SCO/Dr.Dos/Caldera/AT&T-Unix people with their Caldera acquisition, though unix used to be the original sco specialty until they changed over and made patents, ip acquisition, and lawsuits their specialty).
Why did corel and caldera fail? What's the point of all this consolidation? Is it worth it considering the high buyout costs?
I agree linux is great for specialized fields like corporate computing and there will be huge potential in the international pc market in the long term future. But this requires a dedicated (though smaller) company like SUSE, not a larger conglomerate that will decide to drop this portion of their business some years down the line.
And even if Novel is dedicated and makes linux a focus, then this bigger fish will for sure be in the cross hairs of Microsoft.
I'm also confused, and not quite sure if this is a good thing or not.
(b) An agency head may exempt from automatic declassification under paragraph (a) of this section specific information, the release of which could be expected to:
(1) reveal the identity of a confidential human source, or a human intelligence source, or reveal information about the application of an intelligence source or method;
(6) reveal information, including foreign government information, that would seriously and demonstrably impair relations between the United States and a foreign government, or seriously and demonstrably undermine ongoing diplomatic activities of the United States;
compared with the rest that quitly been going on behind the scenes. Take for example executive order 13292.
http://cryptome.org/eo13292.txt
This gives the Bushler and Cheney the right to classify information. Information that may be classified under this e.o. is quite broad; for example information can be classified if in ANY WAY RELATES TO: "(c) intelligence activities (including special activities), intelligence sources or methods.... (d) foreign relations or foreign activities of the United States, including confidential sources;" and of course the ultimate cliche: "(h) weapons of mass destruction."
Why grant the president these special powers in this e.o.? We already gave this monkey the right to go to war (a power only meant for congress) and he abused it.
Now we give this crook the right to cover up his illegitimate "foreign relations or foreign activities"? Bush made the criminal decision to start an unprovoked attack, and he should pay the price for it and rot in jail rather than be allowed to cover his tracks.
IMO the the United States of America as it was meant to be is over. Gone bye bye.
That's pretty funny phorm! I wonder how many people would click through that link then. But seriously. If the remove link is just a slimy trick, and a lie, they've fooled me. Well, not entirely, I am aware of the rumor that these features don't work. So I tried it one one of my spam-receptacle email accounts, and lo-and behold, this rumor seems to be true.
They do unsubscribe you to that particular type of spam but a few days later you will be getting more spam from a different spam department. So they send you around and around, apperently unsubscribing you to this and subscribing you to that!
I've played this game now for over three months, and one thing seems clear. Unsubscribing does not work. However, it would be nice if email client could recognize this supposed opt-out statement and categorize the letter as junk mail.
It always amazes me what motivates spammers.
I mean does anybody ever purchase or respond to a spam offer?? Wouldn't virtually 99.99% of the people be so repulsed by spam to never offer these people any business?
So how exactly do they fund themselves?
Are they funded by free labor from people suckered into these "earn $5000/wk at home" scams?
well it does seem to strenghten the conspiracy theory. still i don't know which side is correct with any certainty, but this evens things out a little more.
Since corel is a small company they don't get enough retail exposure. So they should start offering low end versions and high end version directly for sale from the company website.
Maybe sell ulta cheap stripped down versions of WP that expire in a year or two.
More aggressive marketing in any case. Corel gives consumers little incentives to go out there any try or buy their programs.
thanks, i loved the joke (and wish i was canadian instead...). it's surprising the US scored as high as 17; interesting study by these reporters without borders.
i hate the daily propaganda feed in the US. It's nuts. NPR is an exception.
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Is there a preference to disable link prefetching?
Yes, there is a hidden preference that you can set to disable link prefetching. Add this line to your prefs.js file located in your Mozilla profile directory:
user_pref("network.prefetch-next", false);
this clearly is a bad feature.
So how in the world do you turn it off??
I could not click through you link:
bugzilla reports links from slashdot are disabled. WTF???
good point russian sighting is probably no coincidence with those from colorado.
I wonder if govt experts know more about this crossing. Maybe this is coincidence, but I remember recently there were some reports with the concern for unsophisticated countries not being able distinguish meteor impacts from a nuclear attack.
Also, what is the Kuiper belt?
Question: how many servers exploit the bug to collect the information on the user's next site??
And which organization have been exploiting this bug for months??? For example, does Slashdot collect info on the site I point to after visiting/. ?? It would be interesting to find out.
It seems there is a huge effort to invade privacy recently, and I wonder what purpose this effort serves?
That's all very idealistic and you have a point. Freedom should be defended. But a pure viewpoint like this is not practical. Airports exist for travellers who generally have an expectation of safety, and are (as a group) willing to be subject to be searched. Who is to say who deserves safety and who doesn't? "Those who give up a little freedom for a little safety, deserve none and will get neither"... does that really make complete sense?? I say the airports and their customers have the freedom to decide to what they can or can't do, and should not be restriced by some abstract legal document like the constitution. (in this case it's the constitution that's limiting freedom). Though, if people want to go fly at a wild west cowboy airport without any security let that's fine too.
No, though current airport security is clearly not perfect it prevents or discourages the less talented terrorists from too easily causing damage. Sure there are ways of getting past security (though you always risk arrest), like the case you mentioned where one forges the correct papers.
To be realistic, consider that an arabic looking man with broken english would have a much harder time convincing even the dullest minimum wage security officer that he is a US government official who has the correct papers to board with a firearm.
The current situation is not a carefully-weighed compromise of any sort, it's a leaky, inefficient, ineffective and bothersome "security" system intended primarily to convince the average person that flying is safe (which is stupid because anyone who does the math realizes that flying is one of the safest forms of transit there is, and would still be so even if there were a hijacking every month).
Basically, it makes more sense to give up some unpractical (and purely abstract) instances of freedom, when it makes life safer and more efficient.
Yes there is a line; and it is often going to be a compromise between safety and rights. I think this compromise needs to be made with some care, but should generally favor safety. I believe that one should give up some rights when in some public areas; policy should make so that this will not inconvenience or make a normal person feel intruded on.
A further problem is that you'll have people argue that flying is a privilage, and therefore they can suspend or seriously modify your rights while in transit. I disagree with this concept as well; this sort of thinking implies that, unless you walk everywhere, your rights are subject to forfit.
Here we totally disagree. Already, probably from the day the first airports opened you gave up rights when flying. I don't see people with firearms on boarding planes. People are asked to have their posessions searched (and I'm sure they wouldn't allow you to fly if you refused their requests). If this weren't so, I think very few people would dare to fly.
For example, yesterday I was sitting at a sushi place eating lunch and reading a copy of a book about the crusades. Should a cop be able to search me or my bag? Is that fact that I'm reading a book called "Holy War" in public overwhelm my fourth amendment rights? Of course not.
No, you should have the right to refuse the cop to search you. You could be reading a book on how to make bombs and not have your rights compromised because of this. However, if you were seen doing this, you shouldn't be surprised if officials were keeping a closer eye on you.
Slashdot Mirror
The U.S. Treasury Department plans to publish nearly 10,000 e-mail addresses on the Web, violating its privacy promise to Americans who used e-mail to comment on a government proceeding. In March 2003, the Treasury Department's Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau (TTB) asked for e-mail comments about a proposal that could raise the price of malt beverages like Bacardi Breezer and Smirnoff Ice. At the time, the department said that the text of comments would be made public--but assured people that e-mail addresses, home addresses and other personal information of individuals would be removed first.
What's great for the Bushies is that they can brag about the wonderful economic growth (in terms of dollar figures). However, if you look at the US growth in terms of actual currencies (that will be worth something in the near future) then we are actually in a economic contraction. So we can expect great growth, and rosy numbers in 2004, for sure. >8% growth perhaps, isn't it great? yeah...uhm.. great.
This is also not neccessarily a terrible thing for irresponsible idiots who run up their credit cards or take out a huge mortgage, nor for the corporate equivalent, high debt companies (some of which are the walking silicon valley zombies) or those that are writing non-investment grade bonds. I am not concerned about them; these groups have their own (often intractable) problems and besides their parasitic effects, they are irrelevant to those of us that really matter; I am largely talking about the entire middle class citizens.
For most people the growing federal debt is a very bad thing, and this is especially true for the young generation in their 30's who have been dedicated to prudently saving up for retirement for 20 years into the future. You people had better seriously consider how to protect yourselves (give as much thought as you can spare, and do it as soon as you can).
For the younger ones starting their career, or for those who have, for the most part, put off saving, but aren't happy with the way things are going in your country, my advice is to look for an exit strategy. Start saving up, be look into moving to another country which will not rape you into slavery, and look for a better future; this isn't how things are supposed to be. I really have empathy for people like the previous poster, because I know so many of us are in the same boat, but aren't quite sure what the right thing is. We think and hope this country can be saved, but it prudent to always have an exit strategy (yeah, like that Noah guy in the bible).
ACCOMPLISHMENTS AS PRESIDENT:
I invaded and occupied two countries at a continuing cost of over one billion dollars per week.
I spent the US surplus and effectively bankrupted the US Treasury.
I shattered the record for the largest annual deficit in US history.
I set an economic record for most private bankruptcies filed in any 12-month period.
I set the all-time record for the biggest drop in the history of the US stock market.
I am the first president in US history to enter office with a criminal record.
I set the all-time record for most days on vacation in any one year period.
After taking-off the entire month of August, I presided over the worst security failure in U.S. history.
I am supporting development of a nuclear "Tactical Bunker Buster," a WMD.
In my State Of The Union Address, I lied about our reasons for attacking Iraq, then blamed the lies on our British friends.
I set the record for most campaign fundraising trips by a US president.
In my first year in office over 2-million Americans lost their jobs and that trend continues every month.
I set the all-time record for most foreclosures in a 12-month period.
I appointed more convicted criminals to administration than any president in US history.
I set the record for least amount of press conferences than any president s
Here we have the unrestricted right to bear arms. Had those kiwi federales done this over here in the US of A it would surely have been an unacceptable outrage.
what's the world coming to?
I sure hope they discover the person responsible and why he did it.
really creepy news.
Why did corel and caldera fail? What's the point of all this consolidation? Is it worth it considering the high buyout costs?
I agree linux is great for specialized fields like corporate computing and there will be huge potential in the international pc market in the long term future. But this requires a dedicated (though smaller) company like SUSE, not a larger conglomerate that will decide to drop this portion of their business some years down the line.
And even if Novel is dedicated and makes linux a focus, then this bigger fish will for sure be in the cross hairs of Microsoft.
I'm also confused, and not quite sure if this is a good thing or not.
just 3 things in the world i can't stand, in (inverse) order of magnitude:
1. Nerds
2. Unix (all of them including linex)
3. Intolerant people
(b) An agency head may exempt from automatic declassification under paragraph (a) of this section specific information, the release of which could be expected to: (1) reveal the identity of a confidential human source, or a human intelligence source, or reveal information about the application of an intelligence source or method; (6) reveal information, including foreign government information, that would seriously and demonstrably impair relations between the United States and a foreign government, or seriously and demonstrably undermine ongoing diplomatic activities of the United States;
compared with the rest that quitly been going on behind the scenes. Take for example executive order 13292.
http://cryptome.org/eo13292.txt
This gives the Bushler and Cheney the right to classify information. Information that may be classified under this e.o. is quite broad; for example information can be classified if in ANY WAY RELATES TO:
"(c) intelligence activities (including special activities), intelligence sources or methods....
(d) foreign relations or foreign activities of the United States, including confidential sources;"
and of course the ultimate cliche: "(h) weapons of mass destruction."
Why grant the president these special powers in this e.o.? We already gave this monkey the right to go to war (a power only meant for congress) and he abused it.
Now we give this crook the right to cover up his illegitimate "foreign relations or foreign activities"? Bush made the criminal decision to start an unprovoked attack, and he should pay the price for it and rot in jail rather than be allowed to cover his tracks.
IMO the the United States of America as it was meant to be is over. Gone bye bye.
Your views may differ.
Whenever governments give such projects noble names such as "Liberty" it usually makes me wonder. Why not Passport, or Net ID?
Let's boycott SCO, united linux, and anybody affiliated with SCO.
Yeah, LMAO, I don't know how you store 150 TB. That's ludicrous. How long did it take download that collection.
are you saying that the innocent and stupid don't hate spam? or that they have no instinct on how fight spam by boycotting it?
That's pretty funny phorm! I wonder how many people would click through that link then. But seriously. If the remove link is just a slimy trick, and a lie, they've fooled me. Well, not entirely, I am aware of the rumor that these features don't work. So I tried it one one of my spam-receptacle email accounts, and lo-and behold, this rumor seems to be true.
They do unsubscribe you to that particular type of spam but a few days later you will be getting more spam from a different spam department. So they send you around and around, apperently unsubscribing you to this and subscribing you to that!
I've played this game now for over three months, and one thing seems clear. Unsubscribing does not work. However, it would be nice if email client could recognize this supposed opt-out statement and categorize the letter as junk mail.
So how exactly do they fund themselves? Are they funded by free labor from people suckered into these "earn $5000/wk at home" scams?
How do you explain this spam phonemenon?
how can you be 100% sure of this?
well it does seem to strenghten the conspiracy theory. still i don't know which side is correct with any certainty, but this evens things out a little more.
Since corel is a small company they don't get enough retail exposure. So they should start offering low end versions and high end version directly for sale from the company website.
Maybe sell ulta cheap stripped down versions of WP that expire in a year or two.
More aggressive marketing in any case. Corel gives consumers little incentives to go out there any try or buy their programs.
i hate the daily propaganda feed in the US. It's nuts. NPR is an exception.
To whoever might want to use it:
" Is there a preference to disable link prefetching? Yes, there is a hidden preference that you can set to disable link prefetching. Add this line to your prefs.js file located in your Mozilla profile directory: user_pref("network.prefetch-next", false);
"
this clearly is a bad feature. So how in the world do you turn it off?? I could not click through you link: bugzilla reports links from slashdot are disabled. WTF???
I wonder if govt experts know more about this crossing. Maybe this is coincidence, but I remember recently there were some reports with the concern for unsophisticated countries not being able distinguish meteor impacts from a nuclear attack. Also, what is the Kuiper belt?
It seems there is a huge effort to invade privacy recently, and I wonder what purpose this effort serves?
That's all very idealistic and you have a point. Freedom should be defended. But a pure viewpoint like this is not practical. Airports exist for travellers who generally have an expectation of safety, and are (as a group) willing to be subject to be searched. Who is to say who deserves safety and who doesn't? "Those who give up a little freedom for a little safety, deserve none and will get neither"... does that really make complete sense?? I say the airports and their customers have the freedom to decide to what they can or can't do, and should not be restriced by some abstract legal document like the constitution. (in this case it's the constitution that's limiting freedom). Though, if people want to go fly at a wild west cowboy airport without any security let that's fine too.
To be realistic, consider that an arabic looking man with broken english would have a much harder time convincing even the dullest minimum wage security officer that he is a US government official who has the correct papers to board with a firearm.
The current situation is not a carefully-weighed compromise of any sort, it's a leaky, inefficient, ineffective and bothersome "security" system intended primarily to convince the average person that flying is safe (which is stupid because anyone who does the math realizes that flying is one of the safest forms of transit there is, and would still be so even if there were a hijacking every month).
Basically, it makes more sense to give up some unpractical (and purely abstract) instances of freedom, when it makes life safer and more efficient.
A further problem is that you'll have people argue that flying is a privilage, and therefore they can suspend or seriously modify your rights while in transit. I disagree with this concept as well; this sort of thinking implies that, unless you walk everywhere, your rights are subject to forfit.
Here we totally disagree. Already, probably from the day the first airports opened you gave up rights when flying. I don't see people with firearms on boarding planes. People are asked to have their posessions searched (and I'm sure they wouldn't allow you to fly if you refused their requests). If this weren't so, I think very few people would dare to fly.
For example, yesterday I was sitting at a sushi place eating lunch and reading a copy of a book about the crusades. Should a cop be able to search me or my bag? Is that fact that I'm reading a book called "Holy War" in public overwhelm my fourth amendment rights? Of course not.
No, you should have the right to refuse the cop to search you. You could be reading a book on how to make bombs and not have your rights compromised because of this. However, if you were seen doing this, you shouldn't be surprised if officials were keeping a closer eye on you.