Well, see, this is what happens when you don't take an idea to the extreme. What your bank manager really needs is a drive actually implanted in his thumb, so he can't lose it, and keyed to him biometrically, so it wouldn't be quite so easy to nip off his thumb and steal the data.
Although, if you had a USB port in your thumb, it would make it hard to type, so better make it a toe drive. Make sure your toe drive is bootable! I'm sure the creative minds here at slashdot can think of other more pedestrian uses for a toe drive.
Well, hopefully we'll see a change in the balance of power in Congress this fall. The GOP's fortunes in the polls are tied to Bush, no matter if they try to distance themselves at this late date. Further, even if they could separate their fortunes, the widening corruption scandal is already taking out a lot of GOP lawmakers (not to mention members of the administration).
The danger is that the GOP will be so severely thrashed by 2008 that they won't be an effective check on the Dems when the Dems return to power.
As a conservative, I was actually pretty thrilled by some of Clinton's policies, although I know some conservatives (possibly showing their partisan side) were absolutely galled that a Democrat president could show fiscal discipline and balance the budget.
So they get the chance, I'll include a few Echelon keywords to make sure they pick this up: bomb assassinate Bush Blair Osama kill terror gas anthrax Chavez oil Castro Iran Iraq hijack suicide bomber 9/11 jihad. Hi guys!
Echelon 2.0 is going to allow user tagging and RSS feeds, so you'll no longer need to include keywords in the body of your post! Plus, they're working on a nifty AJAX interface that will tie into Google Maps APIs, making it easier than ever for field agents to track you down.
What's really exciting is that if you are an Amazon affiliate, you'll be earning money if an agent buys a book from the list of books you've checked out at the library!
Who knew that totalitarianism could be so engagingly interactive? It's a brave new world, to be sure.
Well, it's about time that the civil liberties of the citizens of some other country were attacked by the US government. We don't want to hog all the totalitarianism.
You think they will be confused in installing and using OSX when there a simple quide with steps and installations all over the web? My dog can install it.
Oh, jeez! Well, that explains a lot.
Dude, I have to tell you something that's kind of embarrassing. I think I had cybersex with your dog last night. Sorry.
I'm still not clear on how building one's own PC enters into it. What practical advantage does the system builder have over the guy who buys a system from Dell?
I don't mean to pigeonhole you, but are you the type that likes to chop his girlfriend into tiny bits and then immerse those bits in boiling water, because "you like your women like you like your coffee"?
In regards to the propriety of a Felon DNA database, I think there have already been a few crimes solved where there was DNA evidence but no suspect, until a Felon's DNA was added to the database. This is a good and proper thing that must be balanced against your concerns. Further (I'm not totally sure of this), I believe that a few people have been cleared of crimes for which they were convicted, because of new evidence being added to the database, which in turn pointed to the real culprit.
I'm not sure, but are you really putting forth the proposition that if one commits a "white collar" crime, one is somehow either barred from or incapable of committing any other type of crime?
Are you aware of the nature of the crimes he committed? They were on the order of pranks, he didn't swindle anyone out of anything, and at worst he caused some companies and their IT departments some embarrassment.
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The question is an example of the Slashdot version of How do I build a forum?"
Well, see, this is what happens when you don't take an idea to the extreme. What your bank manager really needs is a drive actually implanted in his thumb, so he can't lose it, and keyed to him biometrically, so it wouldn't be quite so easy to nip off his thumb and steal the data.
Although, if you had a USB port in your thumb, it would make it hard to type, so better make it a toe drive. Make sure your toe drive is bootable! I'm sure the creative minds here at slashdot can think of other more pedestrian uses for a toe drive.
I'm wondering: do we call it a Prizzly? or a Grolar Bear?
Well, hopefully we'll see a change in the balance of power in Congress this fall. The GOP's fortunes in the polls are tied to Bush, no matter if they try to distance themselves at this late date. Further, even if they could separate their fortunes, the widening corruption scandal is already taking out a lot of GOP lawmakers (not to mention members of the administration).
The danger is that the GOP will be so severely thrashed by 2008 that they won't be an effective check on the Dems when the Dems return to power.
As a conservative, I was actually pretty thrilled by some of Clinton's policies, although I know some conservatives (possibly showing their partisan side) were absolutely galled that a Democrat president could show fiscal discipline and balance the budget.
The problem is that the GOP has been taken over by a gang of crooks that mouths conservative platitudes, but has long ago abandoned true conservatism.
The fact that it isn't a democracy (representative republic for the idiots with delusions) doesn't bother me anymore.
I always find it heartening to encounter slashdotters that learned civics from Civ II, not civics class.
So they get the chance, I'll include a few Echelon keywords to make sure they pick this up: bomb assassinate Bush Blair Osama kill terror gas anthrax Chavez oil Castro Iran Iraq hijack suicide bomber 9/11 jihad. Hi guys!
Echelon 2.0 is going to allow user tagging and RSS feeds, so you'll no longer need to include keywords in the body of your post! Plus, they're working on a nifty AJAX interface that will tie into Google Maps APIs, making it easier than ever for field agents to track you down.
What's really exciting is that if you are an Amazon affiliate, you'll be earning money if an agent buys a book from the list of books you've checked out at the library!
Who knew that totalitarianism could be so engagingly interactive? It's a brave new world, to be sure.
Well, it's about time that the civil liberties of the citizens of some other country were attacked by the US government. We don't want to hog all the totalitarianism.
In future posts, please do not clump everyone on slashdot in to one unified entity.
Yeah, we hate that.
How does one check for non-existent viruses?
You think they will be confused in installing and using OSX when there a simple quide with steps and installations all over the web? My dog can install it.
Oh, jeez! Well, that explains a lot.
Dude, I have to tell you something that's kind of embarrassing. I think I had cybersex with your dog last night. Sorry.
You turned off the built in firewall on your mac?*
Oh, wait. You've obviously never ben within five feet of a mac.
You turned off the imaginary built in firewall on your imaginary mac?
*Built in firewall standard on OS X
I'm still not clear on how building one's own PC enters into it. What practical advantage does the system builder have over the guy who buys a system from Dell?
I think someone hacked your spellchecker and caused a buffer overflow. I'd look into it, no matter how oscure it is.
I don't mean to pigeonhole you, but are you the type that likes to chop his girlfriend into tiny bits and then immerse those bits in boiling water, because "you like your women like you like your coffee"?
Apparently he was able to overcome that particular addiction.
They could also do a cheek swab, no?
In regards to the propriety of a Felon DNA database, I think there have already been a few crimes solved where there was DNA evidence but no suspect, until a Felon's DNA was added to the database. This is a good and proper thing that must be balanced against your concerns. Further (I'm not totally sure of this), I believe that a few people have been cleared of crimes for which they were convicted, because of new evidence being added to the database, which in turn pointed to the real culprit.
I'm not sure, but are you really putting forth the proposition that if one commits a "white collar" crime, one is somehow either barred from or incapable of committing any other type of crime?
Are you aware of the nature of the crimes he committed? They were on the order of pranks, he didn't swindle anyone out of anything, and at worst he caused some companies and their IT departments some embarrassment.
That wouldn't shield Lamo from patent litigation for improper, unlicensed use of his own DNA.
I just posted it elsewhere, but it bears repeating. Windows Live.
Psssst. Word is now a front end for Windows Live. Don't tell anyone I told you.
I think you misspelled Polish Roulette.
Don't even get me started on web-sites that implement a spell checker...
OMG!! You just gave me a great idea for a web 2.0 business!