Yahooo matches Google. Hotmail, hello? Hotmail - what's new with you? "Oh yes, well we here at Microsoft are working hard to give most users 250mb storage, but, we're going to remove OutlookExpress access to the site so that you have to go through our goofy web interface. Not for all users mind you, just some. Yes, thats right, we are all about product differentiation. By the way, have you tried our sucky search yet? Its the trend setter for how we see our customers using our fine products...."
Some of your statements are clearly christian evils: Inquisition, SalemWitch,.. Nothing I can say would take away from that.
Slavery is suddenly a christian atrocity? Greed and exploitation by fellow Americans is the doctrine here buddy. Just greed. Oh yeah, and 'segregation' - here again is just another American example of ignorance and arrogance. Not a christian issue.
Christians killing muslims after 9/11?? WHAT? Huh? Beligerent exchanges by two idiots in a parking lot do not even come close to the planned attack by muslim terrorists against the russian school children last year, notably the school was chosen because it was the ONLY christian enclave in the region. Other than an idiot or two, explain to me how "Christians" collectively have mistreated muslims as you state.
Relocation of native americans as a christian atrocity? What??? Manifest Destiny is suddenly a christine doctrine? "Can you imagine the terror and pain of the people forced down the Trail of Tears" - i dont know, you tell me, you're an american citizen, you still support the same goverment that has these same people kept in refugee camps across the land. What an abhorent event in AMERICAN history.
"Christians killed physicians that performed abortions, Christians bombed abortion clinics...Enron executives...Waco...Oklahoma " WHAT? American zealotry is the key issue here - are you seeing a theme yet? You are quick to recognize the acts of fellow americans as tho they were christian collective actions. I think you need to sit back and think some more before continuing to equate christianity with terrorism.
A neat step forward in Iconography for windows would be the ability to use alternate image formats. Time for the 'ICO' to go, yes, I know its a special format, multiple resolutions, color schemes yadda yadda.
Even though it begs for abuse, support for an animated GIF as your desktop icons could be fun.
The good ol days when 'we' knew everything? I'd like to think that I'm one of those "know it alls" who actually hand-wired a memory expansion for my PC... used paper tape as 'mass storage', wrote in assembler... used an oscilliscope as a debugger... yadda yadda yawn.
It can be just as cleary said by the ElectronicEngineers that I didnt really "know" what was going on, and didnt have an appreciation for the "real" work... Just like I could say that my teen daughter doesnt have an appreciation for what the web 'was'.
So what - the best thing is that she DOESNT have to know. Just like I didnt HAVE to know about the underlying EE stuff.
My 10yr old thinks that music always came through the Internet, and that web pages have been around as long as television. Its funny, but, its also comforting to see that she's totally comfortable and competent to use all the things we struggled to comprehend/invent. I am hoping somehow it will all ferment in the minds of these kids, and lead us to cooler and better things.
OOoh i was really close to thinking "ok, he's got a point...", but the last sentance changed my mind: "You can't ignore terrorist Christians just like you can't ignore terrorist Muslims."
Did I miss some event in the world? When did the term 'christian' and 'terrorist' come together in the same context as blowing yourself up on a bus filled with hapless commuters, or launching daily qassam rockets at kindergarten schools?
Evolution/Gay-Marrige/Abortion etc is all just polite-talk that excercises all our rights. We can sit and whine about which side is imposing its will. We can even yell and scream, threaten, and bad mouth each other. But, your not about to kill me other over it, and I'm not about to kill you for not accepting my view.
In this light, 'liberal extremist' and 'right wing conservative' is more humourous than dangerous. And that is a far cry from the idea of 'christian terrorists' being on the same scale as 'muslim terrorists'.
That is exactly the kind of 'dumping on religous oriented ppl' that I was talking about. Your closing comments only furthered my point.
I'm a religous conservative, probably qualifying as "rediculous", and "fundie" and whatever other labels show up in this/. thread.
Yeah, I'm one of those guys who takes the Bible 'literally', and I'm one of 'those' kind of guys who finds The Theory of Evolution to be an amusing story.
Do I find these IMAX films 'offensive' ? Let me put down my pitchfork a moment, hold on while I turn down the boiling pot of pitch... No, the majority of 'us' "fundie" types find it to be mindless boredom with really awesome eye candy. Frankly, thats how nearly EVERYONE finds the IMAX films, the statement of 'fearing from a backlash of religous conservatives' belies the truth that the films are boring and simply not going to draw a crowd. What should the poor imax manager do? "Hmmm, lets employ the fundies to make a non-existant controversy...it might work..."
What really annoys me with this/. thread is the overall dumping on religously oriented people. Tolerance has made America a refuge for the world, but, the rise of IN-Tolerance towards Americans of faith is plainly wrong.
Modchip - Ha - thats exactly what a full implementation of the TrustedComputing would prohibit, as the data to/from the cpu will have to be authenticated.
Unless the ModChip guys fully crack the chip-level encryption, it will be very impractical to get alternative hardware in the box.
Your comment about MS is only a part of the problem - every major vendor will be locking out third parties. But, the Empire of Evil will likely go the same route as Microchannel - squeeze too hard and find few ppl willing to buy hardware-locked systems.
Could very well be exactly correct. What if the UserID/Password/Login was a honeypot? A sting operation where several bank employees were given access to seperate lists of logins? Then follow through on who had access to which ID, and whom it was eventually used by?
I think the general understanding of "trusted computing" is missing the mark. The idea of TC is that the CPU garuntees that the code it executes has been authenticated, and that its transport to/from RAM/IO is also authtenticated.
This prevents casual logic analyzers and other hardware hacktools from reverse engineering the component level interoperability. While its not a garuntee of securing the design, it sure elevates the level of effort required to manufacture alternative hardware components.
Sound familiar? Does the song "microchannel" dance in your mind? Sure Microchannel failed beacause it was an IBM-only idea. Now, there seems to be growing support for across major PC vendors. But wait, there's more...
If you are reasonably assured that the hardware is 'authenticated', now you can upstream that concept to the software. Now you can use various hardware level cryptography to ensure that the hard disk has only authenticly signed boot signatures, and if it does not, the device will simply fail at a *hardware* level. Makes it hard to install viruses, er, I mean alternate OS'es.
Sound like "wishful" thinking? Look at the design specs for the XBOX. This is the first cut at secure computing platform, with some level of hardware & software authentication. The idea being it will be very difficult to release non-licensed titles for the device. Look how long it took before some clever (ok, VERY clever) ppl got Linux to run on it.
Have you seen any non-MS licensed developers releasing titles for the XBOX ? No, of course not - because the hardware/software authentication scheme is sufficiently robust enough to prevent that.
In short, when you buy a DELL, IBM pc under the "trusted computing" design, you'll have a choice of OS. Once. Just once. Until some very clever ppl figure out how to install linux there too...
Who cares? Who actually uses MS "SEARCH" anyway? It sucks, and if they want it to suck even more, they'll incorporate 'targeted ads'.
If they want to follow in the footsteps of AOL thats fine by me. They're going to be fighting AOL for a segment of "very large but mentally insignificant" web-users.
Free of animal contaminents? OH WHAT A RELEIF! I have been dead set against stemcell use, but, now that its been cleared of animal contaminents, my vegan conscious is now freed to spread some juicy embryonic stem cells on my morning toast!!
Sure it makes alot of sense - phyiscal possession of content is the real problem that RIAA etc is fighting with. The only real answer is "pay-per-view", and broadband brings control of the distribution back into their grubby paws.
In this age of technology, the broadcast flag should be implemented to prevent copying, but, also to block according to content. Parents should be able to block anything they deem as unfit for their children, and the people who object to various deptictions of lifestyles/cultures should be able to use this flag as well. I want the flag to automatically block 'crappy shows' from wasting bandwidth on my set. Will any senator sponsor that provision?
Oh wait - we already have this 'content' flag, its the green button on the remote that says "OFF". What if we all started using it? Nevermind the goofy grass roots "Just turn it off" stuff, but, what if enough people just get turned off by the bullshit that comes through the tube: PayPerView, InfoMercials, Commercials, crappy content sitcoms, and now: the no-copy flag with the requirement of a digital TV set.
The broadcast media players are betting heavily that you and I will ingore the "minor inconvience" of upgrading the TV set, not be concerned with the video-taping prohibitions... What if they're wrong? What will happen if there's not enough viewer base to support high-cost productions like today - will TV switch to an all-channel-pay-per-view model? Will some networks fail, or just crumble into perpetual crap like today's FM radio? Will TV commercials goto a higher ratio of commercial vs. show time? Or will competitive economics drive it the other way - bringing back more show time?
The TV wasteland may just get more devoid of meaningful content, and it will be shown brilliantly in HDTV on $3000 sets, with $150/mo subscriptions. Ah the future looks so bright!
I wasnt speaking so much of licensing the ISPs, but the web-content owners. The ounous is on the web-page-author to be licensed.
The shear volume of radio transmitters makes monitoring them impractical, yet, the impact of violating it is sufficiently large enough to scare off the casual abuse. There are exceptions of course: the fcc has made it clear that they generally look the other way for very low wattage transmitters.
My point is self-regulation by licensed web-providers will dry up illegal activities on the surface of the WEB because there will be a degree of accountability. Obviously, us "level 7 script kiddies will flee like rats from a fire" {I LOVE that saying in a previous/. post} to some other temporary haven.
Any fuel leak is a "suprise", it shouldnt be leaking at ALL, and so to say "well its leaking a couple drops right now" is taking an ostrich approach to safety.
It doesnt require Math and Physics to figure out an answer to "Hmmm its leaking slowly now...what happens if it starts to leak alot suddenly?"
It seems that the eventual legal answer will be a federal policy requiring content publishers to be licensed like radio. You and I may recognize that the www is bi-directional, but, at a higher level, websites are considered publishers.
Before you flame me with "1st Amendment" bullshit, consider that there is nothing in the Bill of Rights that says you have a right to avoid licensing. Most major media have license requirements to some degree, so, the precedent is there. Even low level "consumer" publishing has license requirements: HAM, CB, CableAccess TV.
Jurisdiction? Also, it can be said that, in the US, internet content is subject to FCC regulations, especially WiFi, and any data conduits subsidized by tax payer money.
It will be a matter of time before some senator realizes there is a triple win here: a public schmooze fest of "decency on the web", content protection for hollywood [licensing introduces accountability] and a new tax avenue for these "licenses".
In this case, it will no longer be about the "Pirates" trading the MP3s, but, about enforcement sweeps that lean on ISPs to prove their the webbies have valid licenses. Sucky days ahead!
"It's been very puzzling for us, and we saw it quite early on"
Saw the leak early on? AND they still went flying over an ocean?? Thats plain irresponsible - especially if a nation's coast guard was called out to rescue the clown in dangerous seas. Putting the rescuer's life at risk for an idiot who knew he was running out of gas!
I was in Shanghai last year, and had no problems with web surfing. There were no obvious restrictions/censorship (no more/less than what we get here at home) of sites. Nobody asked for ID before or after web surfing. Nobody baby-sat me while web surfing.
I was in Hong Kong yesterday using FREE WIRELESS internet surfing in the airport. No obvious restrictions/censorship.
Simply put, the amount of Chinese web-censorship is over rated - sure, it exists, but, then again there's just as much corporate sponsored censorship here.
That stated, I wouldnt test my luck by repeatedly probing the edges of what sites were considered 'black listed'. It would be asking for trouble - sort of like peeing on a street corner here. You'll get away with it for awhile, but, sooner or later you'll piss someone off.
Just before sweeping through Slashdot, I read this "IRANIAN SOURCE REPORTS PLOT TO ATTACK U.S. NUKE
WASHINGTON [MENL] -- Congress has been pressing the U.S. intelligence community to investigate claims by an Iranian defector that Teheran planned to crash an airliner into a nuclear reactor in the United States."
http://www.menewsline.com/stories/2005/january/01_ 27_2.html
On Jan 7 it will be just touching the pliedes, a small group of stars that should be high up in the south. Its easy to find this patch of stars.
Look in a line heading south toward the horizon with the Binocs, you'll be able to see it. (roughly the thickness of your fist from the Pleides).
I saw it tonite naked eye, and been spotting it every day or so w/ Binocs. There's not much to see, this one's a dud. Its just a fuzzy gray splotch.
End of the world chart in true scientific fashion - a website dedicated to tracking asteroid collision paths - a 'solution' euphamistically means 'striking the earth'
http://www.hohmanntransfer.com/crt.htm#news
This guy is whacked - anyone who sneaks into a place that he was dismissed from would rate 'stalker' in my book. Anyone who would waste a corporation's time and materials on his own evangelizing, especially when he was fired, is a nut and needs to get a grip on the relative values in life.
If he was unemployed, and was sitting at home carrying on this effort to make the world a better place, at his own expense, then he'd be a folk hero. Tying up other ppl to do his bidding, while they're getting paid to do something else is theft and deception.
He's not the kind of guy I'd hire.
The security flaw in Google DeskTop was revealed to be the underlying operating system. Google has published an advisory recommending its customers patch their Windows operating system by installing Linux.
Really, who cares if they index the Library of Mich? Who is going to use it? Why dont they index the entire collection of Playboy? Now that would be a great use of technology - nothing I hate more than trying to find all the photographs in a set...
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Yahooo matches Google. Hotmail, hello? Hotmail - what's new with you? "Oh yes, well we here at Microsoft are working hard to give most users 250mb storage, but, we're going to remove OutlookExpress access to the site so that you have to go through our goofy web interface. Not for all users mind you, just some. Yes, thats right, we are all about product differentiation. By the way, have you tried our sucky search yet? Its the trend setter for how we see our customers using our fine products...."
Some of your statements are clearly christian evils: Inquisition, SalemWitch, .. Nothing I can say would take away from that.
Slavery is suddenly a christian atrocity? Greed and exploitation by fellow Americans is the doctrine here buddy. Just greed. Oh yeah, and 'segregation' - here again is just another American example of ignorance and arrogance. Not a christian issue.
Christians killing muslims after 9/11?? WHAT? Huh? Beligerent exchanges by two idiots in a parking lot do not even come close to the planned attack by muslim terrorists against the russian school children last year, notably the school was chosen because it was the ONLY christian enclave in the region. Other than an idiot or two, explain to me how "Christians" collectively have mistreated muslims as you state.
Relocation of native americans as a christian atrocity? What??? Manifest Destiny is suddenly a christine doctrine? "Can you imagine the terror and pain of the people forced down the Trail of Tears" - i dont know, you tell me, you're an american citizen, you still support the same goverment that has these same people kept in refugee camps across the land. What an abhorent event in AMERICAN history.
"Christians killed physicians that performed abortions, Christians bombed abortion clinics...Enron executives...Waco...Oklahoma " WHAT? American zealotry is the key issue here - are you seeing a theme yet? You are quick to recognize the acts of fellow americans as tho they were christian collective actions. I think you need to sit back and think some more before continuing to equate christianity with terrorism.
A neat step forward in Iconography for windows would be the ability to use alternate image formats. Time for the 'ICO' to go, yes, I know its a special format, multiple resolutions, color schemes yadda yadda.
Even though it begs for abuse, support for an animated GIF as your desktop icons could be fun.
The good ol days when 'we' knew everything? I'd like to think that I'm one of those "know it alls" who actually hand-wired a memory expansion for my PC... used paper tape as 'mass storage', wrote in assembler... used an oscilliscope as a debugger... yadda yadda yawn.
It can be just as cleary said by the ElectronicEngineers that I didnt really "know" what was going on, and didnt have an appreciation for the "real" work... Just like I could say that my teen daughter doesnt have an appreciation for what the web 'was'.
So what - the best thing is that she DOESNT have to know. Just like I didnt HAVE to know about the underlying EE stuff.
My 10yr old thinks that music always came through the Internet, and that web pages have been around as long as television. Its funny, but, its also comforting to see that she's totally comfortable and competent to use all the things we struggled to comprehend/invent. I am hoping somehow it will all ferment in the minds of these kids, and lead us to cooler and better things.
Sure beats debugging with an o'scope!
OOoh i was really close to thinking "ok, he's got a point...", but the last sentance changed my mind: "You can't ignore terrorist Christians just like you can't ignore terrorist Muslims."
Did I miss some event in the world? When did the term 'christian' and 'terrorist' come together in the same context as blowing yourself up on a bus filled with hapless commuters, or launching daily qassam rockets at kindergarten schools?
Evolution/Gay-Marrige/Abortion etc is all just polite-talk that excercises all our rights. We can sit and whine about which side is imposing its will. We can even yell and scream, threaten, and bad mouth each other. But, your not about to kill me other over it, and I'm not about to kill you for not accepting my view.
In this light, 'liberal extremist' and 'right wing conservative' is more humourous than dangerous. And that is a far cry from the idea of 'christian terrorists' being on the same scale as 'muslim terrorists'.
That is exactly the kind of 'dumping on religous oriented ppl' that I was talking about. Your closing comments only furthered my point.
I'm a religous conservative, probably qualifying as "rediculous", and "fundie" and whatever other labels show up in this /. thread.
/. thread is the overall dumping on religously oriented people. Tolerance has made America a refuge for the world, but, the rise of IN-Tolerance towards Americans of faith is plainly wrong.
Yeah, I'm one of those guys who takes the Bible 'literally', and I'm one of 'those' kind of guys who finds The Theory of Evolution to be an amusing story.
Do I find these IMAX films 'offensive' ? Let me put down my pitchfork a moment, hold on while I turn down the boiling pot of pitch... No, the majority of 'us' "fundie" types find it to be mindless boredom with really awesome eye candy. Frankly, thats how nearly EVERYONE finds the IMAX films, the statement of 'fearing from a backlash of religous conservatives' belies the truth that the films are boring and simply not going to draw a crowd. What should the poor imax manager do? "Hmmm, lets employ the fundies to make a non-existant controversy...it might work..."
What really annoys me with this
Does that mean an entirely new cast? That might be interesting.
*maybe*
Modchip - Ha - thats exactly what a full implementation of the TrustedComputing would prohibit, as the data to/from the cpu will have to be authenticated. Unless the ModChip guys fully crack the chip-level encryption, it will be very impractical to get alternative hardware in the box. Your comment about MS is only a part of the problem - every major vendor will be locking out third parties. But, the Empire of Evil will likely go the same route as Microchannel - squeeze too hard and find few ppl willing to buy hardware-locked systems.
Could very well be exactly correct. What if the UserID/Password/Login was a honeypot? A sting operation where several bank employees were given access to seperate lists of logins? Then follow through on who had access to which ID, and whom it was eventually used by?
I think the general understanding of "trusted computing" is missing the mark. The idea of TC is that the CPU garuntees that the code it executes has been authenticated, and that its transport to/from RAM/IO is also authtenticated.
This prevents casual logic analyzers and other hardware hacktools from reverse engineering the component level interoperability. While its not a garuntee of securing the design, it sure elevates the level of effort required to manufacture alternative hardware components.
Sound familiar? Does the song "microchannel" dance in your mind? Sure Microchannel failed beacause it was an IBM-only idea. Now, there seems to be growing support for across major PC vendors. But wait, there's more...
If you are reasonably assured that the hardware is 'authenticated', now you can upstream that concept to the software. Now you can use various hardware level cryptography to ensure that the hard disk has only authenticly signed boot signatures, and if it does not, the device will simply fail at a *hardware* level. Makes it hard to install viruses, er, I mean alternate OS'es.
Sound like "wishful" thinking? Look at the design specs for the XBOX. This is the first cut at secure computing platform, with some level of hardware & software authentication. The idea being it will be very difficult to release non-licensed titles for the device. Look how long it took before some clever (ok, VERY clever) ppl got Linux to run on it.
Have you seen any non-MS licensed developers releasing titles for the XBOX ? No, of course not - because the hardware/software authentication scheme is sufficiently robust enough to prevent that.
In short, when you buy a DELL, IBM pc under the "trusted computing" design, you'll have a choice of OS. Once. Just once. Until some very clever ppl figure out how to install linux there too...
Who cares? Who actually uses MS "SEARCH" anyway? It sucks, and if they want it to suck even more, they'll incorporate 'targeted ads'. If they want to follow in the footsteps of AOL thats fine by me. They're going to be fighting AOL for a segment of "very large but mentally insignificant" web-users.
Free of animal contaminents? OH WHAT A RELEIF! I have been dead set against stemcell use, but, now that its been cleared of animal contaminents, my vegan conscious is now freed to spread some juicy embryonic stem cells on my morning toast!!
MMMmmmm gotta love technology!
Sure it makes alot of sense - phyiscal possession of content is the real problem that RIAA etc is fighting with. The only real answer is "pay-per-view", and broadband brings control of the distribution back into their grubby paws.
In this age of technology, the broadcast flag should be implemented to prevent copying, but, also to block according to content. Parents should be able to block anything they deem as unfit for their children, and the people who object to various deptictions of lifestyles/cultures should be able to use this flag as well. I want the flag to automatically block 'crappy shows' from wasting bandwidth on my set. Will any senator sponsor that provision?
Oh wait - we already have this 'content' flag, its the green button on the remote that says "OFF". What if we all started using it? Nevermind the goofy grass roots "Just turn it off" stuff, but, what if enough people just get turned off by the bullshit that comes through the tube: PayPerView, InfoMercials, Commercials, crappy content sitcoms, and now: the no-copy flag with the requirement of a digital TV set.
The broadcast media players are betting heavily that you and I will ingore the "minor inconvience" of upgrading the TV set, not be concerned with the video-taping prohibitions... What if they're wrong? What will happen if there's not enough viewer base to support high-cost productions like today - will TV switch to an all-channel-pay-per-view model? Will some networks fail, or just crumble into perpetual crap like today's FM radio? Will TV commercials goto a higher ratio of commercial vs. show time? Or will competitive economics drive it the other way - bringing back more show time?
The TV wasteland may just get more devoid of meaningful content, and it will be shown brilliantly in HDTV on $3000 sets, with $150/mo subscriptions. Ah the future looks so bright!
I wasnt speaking so much of licensing the ISPs, but the web-content owners. The ounous is on the web-page-author to be licensed.
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The shear volume of radio transmitters makes monitoring them impractical, yet, the impact of violating it is sufficiently large enough to scare off the casual abuse. There are exceptions of course: the fcc has made it clear that they generally look the other way for very low wattage transmitters.
My point is self-regulation by licensed web-providers will dry up illegal activities on the surface of the WEB because there will be a degree of accountability. Obviously, us "level 7 script kiddies will flee like rats from a fire" {I LOVE that saying in a previous
Dont get me wrong - I dont advocate the idea.
Any fuel leak is a "suprise", it shouldnt be leaking at ALL, and so to say "well its leaking a couple drops right now" is taking an ostrich approach to safety. It doesnt require Math and Physics to figure out an answer to "Hmmm its leaking slowly now...what happens if it starts to leak alot suddenly?"
It seems that the eventual legal answer will be a federal policy requiring content publishers to be licensed like radio. You and I may recognize that the www is bi-directional, but, at a higher level, websites are considered publishers. Before you flame me with "1st Amendment" bullshit, consider that there is nothing in the Bill of Rights that says you have a right to avoid licensing. Most major media have license requirements to some degree, so, the precedent is there. Even low level "consumer" publishing has license requirements: HAM, CB, CableAccess TV. Jurisdiction? Also, it can be said that, in the US, internet content is subject to FCC regulations, especially WiFi, and any data conduits subsidized by tax payer money. It will be a matter of time before some senator realizes there is a triple win here: a public schmooze fest of "decency on the web", content protection for hollywood [licensing introduces accountability] and a new tax avenue for these "licenses". In this case, it will no longer be about the "Pirates" trading the MP3s, but, about enforcement sweeps that lean on ISPs to prove their the webbies have valid licenses. Sucky days ahead!
"It's been very puzzling for us, and we saw it quite early on" Saw the leak early on? AND they still went flying over an ocean?? Thats plain irresponsible - especially if a nation's coast guard was called out to rescue the clown in dangerous seas. Putting the rescuer's life at risk for an idiot who knew he was running out of gas!
I was in Shanghai last year, and had no problems with web surfing. There were no obvious restrictions/censorship (no more/less than what we get here at home) of sites. Nobody asked for ID before or after web surfing. Nobody baby-sat me while web surfing. I was in Hong Kong yesterday using FREE WIRELESS internet surfing in the airport. No obvious restrictions/censorship. Simply put, the amount of Chinese web-censorship is over rated - sure, it exists, but, then again there's just as much corporate sponsored censorship here. That stated, I wouldnt test my luck by repeatedly probing the edges of what sites were considered 'black listed'. It would be asking for trouble - sort of like peeing on a street corner here. You'll get away with it for awhile, but, sooner or later you'll piss someone off.
Just before sweeping through Slashdot, I read this "IRANIAN SOURCE REPORTS PLOT TO ATTACK U.S. NUKE WASHINGTON [MENL] -- Congress has been pressing the U.S. intelligence community to investigate claims by an Iranian defector that Teheran planned to crash an airliner into a nuclear reactor in the United States." http://www.menewsline.com/stories/2005/january/01_ 27_2.html
On Jan 7 it will be just touching the pliedes, a small group of stars that should be high up in the south. Its easy to find this patch of stars. Look in a line heading south toward the horizon with the Binocs, you'll be able to see it. (roughly the thickness of your fist from the Pleides). I saw it tonite naked eye, and been spotting it every day or so w/ Binocs. There's not much to see, this one's a dud. Its just a fuzzy gray splotch.
End of the world chart in true scientific fashion - a website dedicated to tracking asteroid collision paths - a 'solution' euphamistically means 'striking the earth' http://www.hohmanntransfer.com/crt.htm#news
This guy is whacked - anyone who sneaks into a place that he was dismissed from would rate 'stalker' in my book. Anyone who would waste a corporation's time and materials on his own evangelizing, especially when he was fired, is a nut and needs to get a grip on the relative values in life. If he was unemployed, and was sitting at home carrying on this effort to make the world a better place, at his own expense, then he'd be a folk hero. Tying up other ppl to do his bidding, while they're getting paid to do something else is theft and deception. He's not the kind of guy I'd hire.
The security flaw in Google DeskTop was revealed to be the underlying operating system. Google has published an advisory recommending its customers patch their Windows operating system by installing Linux.
Really, who cares if they index the Library of Mich? Who is going to use it? Why dont they index the entire collection of Playboy? Now that would be a great use of technology - nothing I hate more than trying to find all the photographs in a set...