> The question is this: if you can technologically censor some speech, you are technologically capable of censoring any speech. If you can find a way to determine what's on your hard drive, you can be held accountable for it - and freenet's entire raison d'etre as a failsafe protection for free speech is destroyed.
> In other words, one of the costs of ensuring free speech on FreeNet for Chinese dissidents is that it also gives a channel for child pornography and snuff films.
I agree, I took a class in Modern China and we studied this (the chinese dissidents), and freenet is one of those utilities which even after I have finished the class, I find it interesting to see what is happening and how that related to classroom discussions.
I also agree with the general idea that child porn is exploitation over freedom of speach, but (and this is a very large but), why if the above holds true of censoring. Why can there not be the option to censor yourself?
Say for instance if you didnt want to take part in the child pornography, or the KKK's discussions. Why must I help distribute it when I dont support that? Its irrelevent when working with the theory that the message is what is important in freedom of speach to say that it doesnt matter since you dont know what your handing arround. That is comparable (in some ways) to saying that an illiterate person handing out propoganda in China isnt hurting himself even though the message on the paper could be one that the government has constructed to suppress the people, thus suppress him. Its shakey at best, but what I'm getting at is that if I didnt want to be connected to child porn, then why cant I say "I want none of this content on my machine, nor do I wish to be able to ACCESS it at all" am I harming *their* freedom of speach by preventing myself and only myself from accessing it? I dont believe so, but some may. Thoughts?
> "The average hunter spends around $1,800 per year on their hobby. How much do photographers spend?" he told us. "It's all well and good to run a hobby, but Kodak doesn't give out free film. It's only right to pay a reasonable fee," he said.
Ok, I'll bite, lets say that this statement holds true, what means that I have to pay the RIAA if I dont have any content that they have copyright over? Lets say I handle stuff off of Dischord Records, or Subpop, or some other smaller non-RIAA label? I wouldnt mind contributing to their cause, since its THEIR material that I'm involved in. How about that for a comprimise which they wont like, AND furthers the indie labels. ^_^
Right after I hit send on my comment, I grabbed a copy of freenet and tried it out. Your right, there isnt much in the way of mp3s there, let alone getting arround the system, but it does offer what it was created for, the ability to excercise your 1st amendment rights, and if you dont have that right, to give the ability to atleast come close.
So I'll stand by that one, in that yes, my question was slightly shortsighted in that aspect.
Matt made a nice analogy early on (well, I thought it was nice even if I dont like the outcome) of how bank robbers cant scream about privacy when their masks came off as they understood (in theory) what they were getting into, and the same goes for p2p nodes who are sharing illegal material and have been notified via the TOA from their ISP that they will be ratted out if there is a request. I dont agree with it, but its an interesting analogy.
Now my question is, how can trading mp3s of R.Kelly and Britany Spears be considered free speach (which was the argument that Clarke used in the second question for freenet's existance)? Step aside from the mentality of "I want to get free music" and "the RIAA is full of $hit and we need to undermind them as much as possible" and consider how is this justified as free speach? If they are going to win, it has potential to be with that.
Last but not least, if freenet has a basis to stand on free speach being protectable over mp3 copyright infrengement (not theft Matt... the US Courts dont see it as theft), then the argument *could* turn towards Phil Zimmerman and how PGP came under fire in the mid 90s which I believe was for similar reasons.
The best/greatest standing part about open source isnt GNOME or KDE, or that we all have free speach software, its what we are DOING with that software. Amazon is built on perl, and look what it has accomplished.
Later in the artical he comments on Debian, and how the creator and his company Progeny dont view linux as a product, but "a set of commodity software components he can put together for different purposes."
What he's getting at is that if the OSS community wanted to push forward, you need an idea and then use linux as the tools for that idea, suhc as automated backup, or something snazy like amazon (where it is a tool, and not the product). Trying to market it as a free desktop platform (in which case linux is the product) just wont cut it. I've done projects for my university, and its worked before, and it will work again.
Disclaimer: Do I beleive that linux cant be a product? No, I'm just saying that *ONE OF* (and not limited to) the best ways is to use it as a tool, not a product.
Ok, well I should be able to answer the mail one. When I was poking arround with it, the only thing I *noticed* that changed was that the spam filtering, threads, and how they did the preferences (atleast it stood out to me as different). I didnt notice anything different with searching, but then again, I didnt try either.
X11 was a seperate install just like it is now. How well it is intigrated is a different thing which I didnt get a chance to play with.
I understand that this is an intrical part of KDE and (as someone mentioned previously) Konquerer, but what else (or more specifically, where else) can I use this for? I've used windows a lot, switched the OSX, and have used BSD (but not with X) so this is new to me. Can anyone point me in the right direction as to what this adds to OSX's availible software base? Thank you.
My impressions, and why I wont switch.
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Well, Safari is moving along, although i dont notice much difference between the last beta and this (which in theory meens there shouldn't be too much wrong wtih it), and I also agree that it is a snappy piece of code.
I guess what really prevents me from ditching Camino is that it has many more features that I use. Namely the one critical one being when I open a window, I can open it so it opens under my current window. (very handy for reading/.) Tabbed browsing I can do without (on either browser) but this is something I've grown way too attached to for my own good... ^_^
All Your Byte.com Articals Are Belong To SCO now..
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I'm confused. I dont know if I should be proud that the All Your Base joke has goten so far that its now considered mainstreme for Byte.com to use it as a subtitle for the SCO artical, or if I should hide under a rock in a dark corner cause its become so mainstreme...
It could be worse though, "All Your Unix Are Belong To $C0..."
To quote the article, "Already 600,000 people have been displaced". Records show that estimates range from 1 million to 1.2 million (depending on the Chinese paper or other source of info that is used) will be displaced from their original homes.
So far people here on/. have howled about that, but I have yet to read a comment where anyone takes into account that 1 million is lint in the bellybutton of China, when on average when a river changes course in China (through silt or other means) 1 million die EACH TIME.
Another cute note is that yes, they were displaced, but reports from Chongqing (which I used as a case study for a term paper on the 3 Gorges Dam Project and how it affects China for my History of Modern China class this last semester) say that the people will just "move up the hill". Worse things have happened, and there are more pressing issues I guess is my view on this.
China has a history of destroying artifacts and temples (Great Leap Forward, Cultural Revolution, every freakin emperor who didn't like history) and this is small peas and carrots in that respect.
My worry isn't the displaced people that were effected so far, its the number of people that *will* die if this sucker were attacked or just breaks on its own after its filled.
I did my term paper in my History of Modern China class this past semester and presented the findings at our university's (UMPI) annual conference during a session. As such, I'll respond and try and clear up a few things from what I found:
Coal power isn't an option if your looking at the environment. Chungqing which will now be a seaport has smog that makes LA look pristine... Its the industrial center of that section of China and holds 31 million people (to put it in perspective New York City only has 8 million during the 2000 census as per the New York City Department of Planning has on their website). So much so that there are reports that people who have asthma and journey there are expected to (and have) died within 4-6 weeks.
I honestly don't know about the nuclear power. That was outside the scope of my search so I can only estimate that yeah, there would be a buttload of nuclear waste.
I will say this though, with a body of water that is this large (long, not wide) that the salinity of the water will increase (as is found in other large bodies of water and other dam projects), as such, with this stretching long periods, the watershed is also expected to become saltier and the plant-matter close to the water is also expected to suffer.
These are only the negatives, downstream where there are large amounts of citrus fruit and the "bread basket" of China is located (presumed to be the second largest until the Taiping Rebellion) will now have stabilized flow of the Yangtze River instead of the traditional seasonal changes of approximately 30 meters in depth.
China isn't *controlled* by the communist party, its controlled by the rivers. Rivers in China change course often, and when they do, approximately 1.2 million people die each year due to either flooding or starvation with a poor crop (figure obtained from in class lecture, will find an online source if asked). China lives "on the edge" of starvation constantly with only 12% of their land being arable, so when a river moves, its BIG NEWS. This will be the first time that many farmers downstream are able to install permanent irigation.
I see the mp3 encoding only as an added benefit/feature and the line right above it which says "record to uncompressed wav" as being its intended use.
Also, you figure this isnt much bigger then 2 hdds stacked together since the XLR imputs are about the size of a quarter (maybe slightly smaller) and the two imputs take up a little more then 1/3rd of the end of the unit.
As I see it, this is as the post stated and the next step in DAT recording for the field (as many of those features listed will/could be used in field taping) and not a "pro mp3 recorder".
Part of me looks at this and goes "so?" and part of me thinks about the opposite extreme with where Apple doesnt say anything (or much) is coming soon and just releases it and lets people find it themselves...
But seriously, isnt this just a tad bit too far in the future to look toward? Or is this just to get people to quit emailing/speculating about when its coming out.
>Er... but idunno about the power requirements of a decent mic.
Well, I went back and looked in one of my manuals to see what the differences are, and mics can be powered with 3 volts (granted, this varies on model and make, but the theory is there), BUT, the voltage effects the mics output. Many "plugin power" sets on recorders (and in this case the ipod), send 3-4 volts which is sufficient.
The catch comes with that mics operate best (and can capture the high end range from ~15khz upward) when they are powered with just under 10 volts. Granted, this is again an average, but most battery boxes that are used as either bass filters, or overload prevention supply the mics with just over 9 volts, and this enables the mics to have a greater dynamic range.
Another thing is, most people who tape concerts (as thats what I gathered your example was) have battery boxes to prevent poor A>D transitions and other problems, and again, in my mind, it would be recomended to retain that battery box or A>D box as a precaution.
It was suggested before, although I wasnt sure why. Thanks for the explanation. Unfortunately, it didnt solve the problem (either way, or any number of configurations). Any other ideas?
Thanks for the tip, but no dice. Still doesnt start up. An interesting thing is that when I change the DHCP Client ID, it allows me to get a new address (well, it atleast attempts it), but still drops me to the nonconnected static address.
Any other hints? I asked over at osxfaq.com once and the mods there helped me for a bit, but still no avail. They thought it was something to do with the booting initially and the settings remained during waking cycles.
Like someone stated earlier, I hope Apple works on their wireless stuff (or hell, networking in general). Throwing karma into the wind, I installed an airport card, and 10.2.0 all at the same time (hey, save uptime ^_^), but upon booting and waking up, it would no longer do DHCP for ethernet. It would connect if I was plugging the cord in, but not if it was plugged in prior to starting the system or waking up. I was miffed for a month or two and finally gave up and did a complete re-install of the system. Didnt help, so after another month, I removed the card, but it didnt solve the issue...
I've seen a few other people have this problem, but nothing widespread. Hoping someday, it will be solved... Kinda like that Scandanavian ISP thingy.
Note, if you have any hints on this, please let me know, thank you.
I had been looking at getting one of the G3 600mhz jobbies as a spare box for a server, cause of the different arch then x86, and its bloody friggin hard to find boards that arnt from apple.
There is a place in the UK which sells G3 and G4 boards and procs for Amiga systems (really cool that the new OS3 runs off of PPC), but with VAT, its a pain to import them back to America.
For those interested: http://www.eyetech.co.uk/search.php?SearchStr=&Sea rchCat=AMA1 is what I had bookmarked as the search for their PPC stuff.
Sometimes I wonder if this isnt all just an attempt to give peace of mind to people such as the yuppie group who live in America... As such, I question weather or not an inititive like this would actually have effect without causing descrimination (which America stereotypically as a whole is seems to be against). I'm a little more suspicious of giving them my credit card number then I am weather I like white meat.
On the other hand, does anyone know how Israel has delt with airports? I watched a documentary on PBS or TLC once about it and remember that their security is down right anal, yet they *seem* to have fewer problems. My suggestion would be to follow in those footsteps and avoid this hodgepodge attempt at false security. Granted, it probably wont happen due to increased delays and lack of convinience to the American traveler... bah
Speaking of security this came to mind again: "Those who are willing to sacrifice liberty for safety, deserve NEITHER liberty nore safety..." Benjamin Franklin (quote taken from memory, not reference, probably worded differently)
I've wondered about this as a problem for a while. Wouldnt it be advantageous to the UN to clean up a majority of the stuff (manmade) in space to prevent further problems such as the speculated involvement in the recent Columbia crash?
On that note, has anyone else wondered what it would be like to take landfills, package them in rockets, shoot them to the sun and see what happens or am I the only one who has strange dreams like that.;-p What are the odds something like this becomes viable?
I just about died when I minimized Fire and Chimera. I dont think I've ever seen it be so fluid and responsive... Part of me wonders if its not some mind trick that you get after updating a system (the infamous sugar pill), or if they really did something to the system this time. Granted, its a new version and not just some patch, but still...
This is what seriously bugs me about Apple's updates. They tell you the applications and *general* area of stuff that has changed, but rarely do they tell you specifics, and some times random things such as speedups that werent anticipated occur and you cant figure out why... Maybe its just too late for me to be thinking about this stuff... bleh.
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> The question is this: if you can technologically censor some speech, you are technologically capable of censoring any speech. If you can find a way to determine what's on your hard drive, you can be held accountable for it - and freenet's entire raison d'etre as a failsafe protection for free speech is destroyed.
> In other words, one of the costs of ensuring free speech on FreeNet for Chinese dissidents is that it also gives a channel for child pornography and snuff films.
I agree, I took a class in Modern China and we studied this (the chinese dissidents), and freenet is one of those utilities which even after I have finished the class, I find it interesting to see what is happening and how that related to classroom discussions.
I also agree with the general idea that child porn is exploitation over freedom of speach, but (and this is a very large but), why if the above holds true of censoring. Why can there not be the option to censor yourself?
Say for instance if you didnt want to take part in the child pornography, or the KKK's discussions. Why must I help distribute it when I dont support that? Its irrelevent when working with the theory that the message is what is important in freedom of speach to say that it doesnt matter since you dont know what your handing arround. That is comparable (in some ways) to saying that an illiterate person handing out propoganda in China isnt hurting himself even though the message on the paper could be one that the government has constructed to suppress the people, thus suppress him. Its shakey at best, but what I'm getting at is that if I didnt want to be connected to child porn, then why cant I say "I want none of this content on my machine, nor do I wish to be able to ACCESS it at all" am I harming *their* freedom of speach by preventing myself and only myself from accessing it? I dont believe so, but some may. Thoughts?
> "The average hunter spends around $1,800 per year on their hobby. How much do photographers spend?" he told us. "It's all well and good to run a hobby, but Kodak doesn't give out free film. It's only right to pay a reasonable fee," he said.
Ok, I'll bite, lets say that this statement holds true, what means that I have to pay the RIAA if I dont have any content that they have copyright over? Lets say I handle stuff off of Dischord Records, or Subpop, or some other smaller non-RIAA label? I wouldnt mind contributing to their cause, since its THEIR material that I'm involved in. How about that for a comprimise which they wont like, AND furthers the indie labels. ^_^
Right after I hit send on my comment, I grabbed a copy of freenet and tried it out. Your right, there isnt much in the way of mp3s there, let alone getting arround the system, but it does offer what it was created for, the ability to excercise your 1st amendment rights, and if you dont have that right, to give the ability to atleast come close.
So I'll stand by that one, in that yes, my question was slightly shortsighted in that aspect.
Matt made a nice analogy early on (well, I thought it was nice even if I dont like the outcome) of how bank robbers cant scream about privacy when their masks came off as they understood (in theory) what they were getting into, and the same goes for p2p nodes who are sharing illegal material and have been notified via the TOA from their ISP that they will be ratted out if there is a request. I dont agree with it, but its an interesting analogy.
Now my question is, how can trading mp3s of R.Kelly and Britany Spears be considered free speach (which was the argument that Clarke used in the second question for freenet's existance)? Step aside from the mentality of "I want to get free music" and "the RIAA is full of $hit and we need to undermind them as much as possible" and consider how is this justified as free speach? If they are going to win, it has potential to be with that.
Last but not least, if freenet has a basis to stand on free speach being protectable over mp3 copyright infrengement (not theft Matt... the US Courts dont see it as theft), then the argument *could* turn towards Phil Zimmerman and how PGP came under fire in the mid 90s which I believe was for similar reasons.
The best/greatest standing part about open source isnt GNOME or KDE, or that we all have free speach software, its what we are DOING with that software. Amazon is built on perl, and look what it has accomplished.
Later in the artical he comments on Debian, and how the creator and his company Progeny dont view linux as a product, but "a set of commodity software components he can put together for different purposes."
What he's getting at is that if the OSS community wanted to push forward, you need an idea and then use linux as the tools for that idea, suhc as automated backup, or something snazy like amazon (where it is a tool, and not the product). Trying to market it as a free desktop platform (in which case linux is the product) just wont cut it. I've done projects for my university, and its worked before, and it will work again.
Disclaimer: Do I beleive that linux cant be a product? No, I'm just saying that *ONE OF* (and not limited to) the best ways is to use it as a tool, not a product.
Ok, well I should be able to answer the mail one. When I was poking arround with it, the only thing I *noticed* that changed was that the spam filtering, threads, and how they did the preferences (atleast it stood out to me as different). I didnt notice anything different with searching, but then again, I didnt try either.
X11 was a seperate install just like it is now. How well it is intigrated is a different thing which I didnt get a chance to play with.
My mother and I saw this when it was announced on CNN about 2-3 days ago and my first thought was "yes!!! another method of freadom of speach"
now I can take tape, strap it to my chest in the patern so that when they X-Ray me, it will look like I have "F*ck Ashcroft" writen on my chest...
I understand that this is an intrical part of KDE and (as someone mentioned previously) Konquerer, but what else (or more specifically, where else) can I use this for? I've used windows a lot, switched the OSX, and have used BSD (but not with X) so this is new to me. Can anyone point me in the right direction as to what this adds to OSX's availible software base? Thank you.
Well, Safari is moving along, although i dont notice much difference between the last beta and this (which in theory meens there shouldn't be too much wrong wtih it), and I also agree that it is a snappy piece of code.
/.) Tabbed browsing I can do without (on either browser) but this is something I've grown way too attached to for my own good... ^_^
I guess what really prevents me from ditching Camino is that it has many more features that I use. Namely the one critical one being when I open a window, I can open it so it opens under my current window. (very handy for reading
I'm confused. I dont know if I should be proud that the All Your Base joke has goten so far that its now considered mainstreme for Byte.com to use it as a subtitle for the SCO artical, or if I should hide under a rock in a dark corner cause its become so mainstreme...
It could be worse though, "All Your Unix Are Belong To $C0..."
It could have been worse, he could have written the entire word out and misspelled it... this is slashdot after all... ;-p
To quote the article, "Already 600,000 people have been displaced". Records show that estimates range from 1 million to 1.2 million (depending on the Chinese paper or other source of info that is used) will be displaced from their original homes.
/. have howled about that, but I have yet to read a comment where anyone takes into account that 1 million is lint in the bellybutton of China, when on average when a river changes course in China (through silt or other means) 1 million die EACH TIME.
So far people here on
Another cute note is that yes, they were displaced, but reports from Chongqing (which I used as a case study for a term paper on the 3 Gorges Dam Project and how it affects China for my History of Modern China class this last semester) say that the people will just "move up the hill". Worse things have happened, and there are more pressing issues I guess is my view on this.
China has a history of destroying artifacts and temples (Great Leap Forward, Cultural Revolution, every freakin emperor who didn't like history) and this is small peas and carrots in that respect.
My worry isn't the displaced people that were effected so far, its the number of people that *will* die if this sucker were attacked or just breaks on its own after its filled.
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I did my term paper in my History of Modern China class this past semester and presented the findings at our university's (UMPI) annual conference during a session. As such, I'll respond and try and clear up a few things from what I found:
Coal power isn't an option if your looking at the environment. Chungqing which will now be a seaport has smog that makes LA look pristine... Its the industrial center of that section of China and holds 31 million people (to put it in perspective New York City only has 8 million during the 2000 census as per the New York City Department of Planning has on their website). So much so that there are reports that people who have asthma and journey there are expected to (and have) died within 4-6 weeks.
I honestly don't know about the nuclear power. That was outside the scope of my search so I can only estimate that yeah, there would be a buttload of nuclear waste.
I will say this though, with a body of water that is this large (long, not wide) that the salinity of the water will increase (as is found in other large bodies of water and other dam projects), as such, with this stretching long periods, the watershed is also expected to become saltier and the plant-matter close to the water is also expected to suffer.
These are only the negatives, downstream where there are large amounts of citrus fruit and the "bread basket" of China is located (presumed to be the second largest until the Taiping Rebellion) will now have stabilized flow of the Yangtze River instead of the traditional seasonal changes of approximately 30 meters in depth.
China isn't *controlled* by the communist party, its controlled by the rivers. Rivers in China change course often, and when they do, approximately 1.2 million people die each year due to either flooding or starvation with a poor crop (figure obtained from in class lecture, will find an online source if asked). China lives "on the edge" of starvation constantly with only 12% of their land being arable, so when a river moves, its BIG NEWS. This will be the first time that many farmers downstream are able to install permanent irigation.
- Page
I see the mp3 encoding only as an added benefit/feature and the line right above it which says "record to uncompressed wav" as being its intended use.
Also, you figure this isnt much bigger then 2 hdds stacked together since the XLR imputs are about the size of a quarter (maybe slightly smaller) and the two imputs take up a little more then 1/3rd of the end of the unit.
As I see it, this is as the post stated and the next step in DAT recording for the field (as many of those features listed will/could be used in field taping) and not a "pro mp3 recorder".
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already /.'ed... Another mirror:
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Part of me looks at this and goes "so?" and part of me thinks about the opposite extreme with where Apple doesnt say anything (or much) is coming soon and just releases it and lets people find it themselves...
But seriously, isnt this just a tad bit too far in the future to look toward? Or is this just to get people to quit emailing/speculating about when its coming out.
>Er... but idunno about the power requirements of a decent mic.
Well, I went back and looked in one of my manuals to see what the differences are, and mics can be powered with 3 volts (granted, this varies on model and make, but the theory is there), BUT, the voltage effects the mics output. Many "plugin power" sets on recorders (and in this case the ipod), send 3-4 volts which is sufficient.
The catch comes with that mics operate best (and can capture the high end range from ~15khz upward) when they are powered with just under 10 volts. Granted, this is again an average, but most battery boxes that are used as either bass filters, or overload prevention supply the mics with just over 9 volts, and this enables the mics to have a greater dynamic range.
Another thing is, most people who tape concerts (as thats what I gathered your example was) have battery boxes to prevent poor A>D transitions and other problems, and again, in my mind, it would be recomended to retain that battery box or A>D box as a precaution.
It was suggested before, although I wasnt sure why. Thanks for the explanation. Unfortunately, it didnt solve the problem (either way, or any number of configurations). Any other ideas?
Thanks for the tip, but no dice. Still doesnt start up. An interesting thing is that when I change the DHCP Client ID, it allows me to get a new address (well, it atleast attempts it), but still drops me to the nonconnected static address.
Any other hints? I asked over at osxfaq.com once and the mods there helped me for a bit, but still no avail. They thought it was something to do with the booting initially and the settings remained during waking cycles.
Like someone stated earlier, I hope Apple works on their wireless stuff (or hell, networking in general). Throwing karma into the wind, I installed an airport card, and 10.2.0 all at the same time (hey, save uptime ^_^), but upon booting and waking up, it would no longer do DHCP for ethernet. It would connect if I was plugging the cord in, but not if it was plugged in prior to starting the system or waking up. I was miffed for a month or two and finally gave up and did a complete re-install of the system. Didnt help, so after another month, I removed the card, but it didnt solve the issue...
I've seen a few other people have this problem, but nothing widespread. Hoping someday, it will be solved... Kinda like that Scandanavian ISP thingy.
Note, if you have any hints on this, please let me know, thank you.
there is no space in the third "search" before =AMA1....
I had been looking at getting one of the G3 600mhz jobbies as a spare box for a server, cause of the different arch then x86, and its bloody friggin hard to find boards that arnt from apple.
a rchCat=AMA1 is what I had bookmarked as the search for their PPC stuff.
There is a place in the UK which sells G3 and G4 boards and procs for Amiga systems (really cool that the new OS3 runs off of PPC), but with VAT, its a pain to import them back to America.
For those interested: http://www.eyetech.co.uk/search.php?SearchStr=&Se
Sometimes I wonder if this isnt all just an attempt to give peace of mind to people such as the yuppie group who live in America... As such, I question weather or not an inititive like this would actually have effect without causing descrimination (which America stereotypically as a whole is seems to be against). I'm a little more suspicious of giving them my credit card number then I am weather I like white meat.
On the other hand, does anyone know how Israel has delt with airports? I watched a documentary on PBS or TLC once about it and remember that their security is down right anal, yet they *seem* to have fewer problems. My suggestion would be to follow in those footsteps and avoid this hodgepodge attempt at false security. Granted, it probably wont happen due to increased delays and lack of convinience to the American traveler... bah
Speaking of security this came to mind again:
"Those who are willing to sacrifice liberty for safety, deserve NEITHER liberty nore safety..." Benjamin Franklin (quote taken from memory, not reference, probably worded differently)
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I've wondered about this as a problem for a while. Wouldnt it be advantageous to the UN to clean up a majority of the stuff (manmade) in space to prevent further problems such as the speculated involvement in the recent Columbia crash?
;-p What are the odds something like this becomes viable?
On that note, has anyone else wondered what it would be like to take landfills, package them in rockets, shoot them to the sun and see what happens or am I the only one who has strange dreams like that.
I just about died when I minimized Fire and Chimera. I dont think I've ever seen it be so fluid and responsive... Part of me wonders if its not some mind trick that you get after updating a system (the infamous sugar pill), or if they really did something to the system this time. Granted, its a new version and not just some patch, but still...
This is what seriously bugs me about Apple's updates. They tell you the applications and *general* area of stuff that has changed, but rarely do they tell you specifics, and some times random things such as speedups that werent anticipated occur and you cant figure out why... Maybe its just too late for me to be thinking about this stuff... bleh.
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