You have an extremely good point. There are all sorts of violently emissive radio gear on an airplane, ranging from weather and altitude radar transmitters to microwave ovens. I have a hard time believing that someting like a gameboy can really have that much of an effect.
And while we're on the topic of anecdotal evidence, my cellphone stays on every time I fly in my Cessna 172. I have yet to see any of the nav radios, autopilot, or any other system affected by its operation.
Do a google on "lippo group", then "vince foster". You'll find considerably more evidence for what I've put forth than exists to demonstrate the Bush is engaged in a war of imperialistic expansion to take control of the world's oil supply. I believe that last statement, by the way. I was talking to a successful Chinese businessman after 9/11, and he was convinced the US would invade the middle east, taking Iraq, Iran, and Syria. So far, we've conquered one of those places, and have threatened the other two.
I respect your point of view. The only problem is that history doesn't agree with you.
By the same standard of evidence applied in analyses of the current administration, the last president arguably murdered several members of his staff and engaged in a worldwide energy scandal that would make Enron pale by comparison, to say nothing of using cruise missiles to divert attention from criminal proceedings against him. It makes you wonder what would have happened if he had gained control of the US healthcare system. And as bad as Ashcroft is, he still hasn't earned a moniker like "the Butcher of Waco".
Now - please understand - if the democratic opposition speaks plausibly about personal freedoms leading up to 2004, they will get my vote. At the moment, however, they all (ACLU included!) are busy thwarting the will of the people of California to keep Gray Davis in office.
Has anyone noticed that these people are whining about Kazaa after a thorough working over by the RIAA?
"We are willing to wipe the slate clean... give you a fresh start, in exchange for certain... cooperation in bringing a known copyright terrorist to justice."
It's the dot-com frenzy all over again! Free services with no business plan... run for your lives!"
I think there's a pretty obvious business plan here. Laptop service revenue. As in coffee removal after having sibilated it all over said laptop in a mad fit of laughter after reading this headline.
....sigh...
Disclaimer: I voted for neither Bush nor Gore.
Election process 101 for the 80 millionth time: We don't have a popular vote. We don't have one because we didn't count one. If a state has 5 million registered voters, they stop counting the votes after they count 51% of that total for any one candidate. This means that the remaining 49% of votes were never counted by CNN or anyone else.
Further compounding the problem (for those of us who don't like Bush) is another little detail of the process - that is - the counting of absentee ballots. Absentee ballots are always counted last because they are labor intensive to count. In the example state mentioned above, not a single absentee ballot would have ever been counted.
Why is that statistically significant? Because the overwhelming majority of absentee ballots are cast by overseas military personnel, who vote Republican by something like a 2 to 1 margin. A given state would have to count up all its regular ballots and still not have a 1% victory margin for either candidate to even open the first absentee ballot. This means that almost no overseas military votes got counted in the "popular vote" of the 2000 presidential election, and if there were such a count, it would demonstrate a clear Bush victory.
Now, move on with life, and get your people talking about freedom rather than rubber stamping whatever the **AA happens to shit out so that I can vote for something besides a warmongering idiot in the next election.
Microsoft expects to rake in 35 billion in 2004. Planet earth's total GDP for 2002 was 32 trillion. Therefore, an entity a thousand times bigger than Microsoft would exceed the total economic output of the known universe.
Result: ALL my systems used the same password, and it was of the form [lastname+sequential 2 digit number]
Which is exactly the problem with that sort of password policy. It's completely unworkable. I like the quality over quantity approach. Devise a good password, protect it, and there's no reason why you can't use it indefinately.
If that flies in the face of everything you think you know about security, consider this: if your security environment assumes that all passwords will be compromised, then you are playing the security by obscurity game, where obscurity is a function of time. That is clearly unacceptable. There simply is no substitue for good passwords and good password protection policies.
Can I contest the bill later if I ask for one to be sent to me? I mean, this is something worth framing. Can you imagine what kind of a conversation piece such a statement would be? It would look so nice under my mounted jackalope.
Slashdot Mirror
An error occurred on the server when processing the URL. Please contact the system administrator.
I guess I'll just have to bill him.
Okay, Mandrake just released the patches, and all my boxen are upgraded. That rounds out all of the major free software distros. So much for that.
(glances up at the MS vs. Linux scoreboard) How many power grids did we lose on that one?
Word from Mandrake is that a patch should be on their mirrors in about an hour.
The spammers now have a new weapon against Bayesian filtering. Nice work.
You have an extremely good point. There are all sorts of violently emissive radio gear on an airplane, ranging from weather and altitude radar transmitters to microwave ovens. I have a hard time believing that someting like a gameboy can really have that much of an effect.
And while we're on the topic of anecdotal evidence, my cellphone stays on every time I fly in my Cessna 172. I have yet to see any of the nav radios, autopilot, or any other system affected by its operation.
Do a google on "lippo group", then "vince foster". You'll find considerably more evidence for what I've put forth than exists to demonstrate the Bush is engaged in a war of imperialistic expansion to take control of the world's oil supply. I believe that last statement, by the way. I was talking to a successful Chinese businessman after 9/11, and he was convinced the US would invade the middle east, taking Iraq, Iran, and Syria. So far, we've conquered one of those places, and have threatened the other two.
I respect your point of view. The only problem is that history doesn't agree with you.
By the same standard of evidence applied in analyses of the current administration, the last president arguably murdered several members of his staff and engaged in a worldwide energy scandal that would make Enron pale by comparison, to say nothing of using cruise missiles to divert attention from criminal proceedings against him. It makes you wonder what would have happened if he had gained control of the US healthcare system. And as bad as Ashcroft is, he still hasn't earned a moniker like "the Butcher of Waco".
Now - please understand - if the democratic opposition speaks plausibly about personal freedoms leading up to 2004, they will get my vote. At the moment, however, they all (ACLU included!) are busy thwarting the will of the people of California to keep Gray Davis in office.
Sounds good to me, just don't do any transdimensional experiments up there.
And to look elsewhere when you crank up a browser?
When you pull up your bookmarks?
Where else are these ads? Are there some you can't get rid of?
Has anyone noticed that these people are whining about Kazaa after a thorough working over by the RIAA?
"We are willing to wipe the slate clean... give you a fresh start, in exchange for certain... cooperation in bringing a known copyright terrorist to justice."
There is a difference between a media story and an editorial. While I like a good editorial, regardless of topic, do not confuse spice for vitamin.
It's the dot-com frenzy all over again! Free services with no business plan... run for your lives!"
I think there's a pretty obvious business plan here. Laptop service revenue. As in coffee removal after having sibilated it all over said laptop in a mad fit of laughter after reading this headline.
Since your "source" has no numbers on turnout and state populations, it is a red herring.
Point taken. The example should say something like 60% counted, 51% in favor of a given candidate, and 40% uncounted.
Thanks.
All we need is a photo and we'll have an angry mob in no time. Congressional hearings, here we come!
....sigh...
Disclaimer: I voted for neither Bush nor Gore.
Election process 101 for the 80 millionth time: We don't have a popular vote. We don't have one because we didn't count one. If a state has 5 million registered voters, they stop counting the votes after they count 51% of that total for any one candidate. This means that the remaining 49% of votes were never counted by CNN or anyone else.
Further compounding the problem (for those of us who don't like Bush) is another little detail of the process - that is - the counting of absentee ballots. Absentee ballots are always counted last because they are labor intensive to count. In the example state mentioned above, not a single absentee ballot would have ever been counted.Why is that statistically significant? Because the overwhelming majority of absentee ballots are cast by overseas military personnel, who vote Republican by something like a 2 to 1 margin. A given state would have to count up all its regular ballots and still not have a 1% victory margin for either candidate to even open the first absentee ballot. This means that almost no overseas military votes got counted in the "popular vote" of the 2000 presidential election, and if there were such a count, it would demonstrate a clear Bush victory.
Now, move on with life, and get your people talking about freedom rather than rubber stamping whatever the **AA happens to shit out so that I can vote for something besides a warmongering idiot in the next election.
Well, if you're the one who's had the fist of death all this time, I for one wish you would put it to good use.
Did you watch "the matrix"?
No, the question is, did you watch the matrix?
Microsoft expects to rake in 35 billion in 2004. Planet earth's total GDP for 2002 was 32 trillion. Therefore, an entity a thousand times bigger than Microsoft would exceed the total economic output of the known universe.
Result: ALL my systems used the same password, and it was of the form [lastname+sequential 2 digit number]
Which is exactly the problem with that sort of password policy. It's completely unworkable. I like the quality over quantity approach. Devise a good password, protect it, and there's no reason why you can't use it indefinately.
If that flies in the face of everything you think you know about security, consider this: if your security environment assumes that all passwords will be compromised, then you are playing the security by obscurity game, where obscurity is a function of time. That is clearly unacceptable. There simply is no substitue for good passwords and good password protection policies.
This guy is begging to have Tyler Durden photoshopped standing right behind him.
Yeah, I think you are right. This guy definately looks like someone who would have a "my minivan" section on his web site.
If the BIOS hooks are there, but the software is trusted (free) and known not to use them, can the feature effectively be therefore disabled?
Can I contest the bill later if I ask for one to be sent to me? I mean, this is something worth framing. Can you imagine what kind of a conversation piece such a statement would be? It would look so nice under my mounted jackalope.
(and all the army personnel at risk of dying in one should rejoice)
Which would be zero, since the V-22 is used by the Marines.