It is good that in this case Big Brother was able to provide justice. I'm not sure that Big Brother will always be as just, and will never be used to suppress and oppress individual Liberty. Don't forget that people willingly continue to fight, suffer and die for Liberty.
The people who are about to retire now have paid into social security, they are now entitled to what they PAID for. The problem that needs to be addressed is the deficit and the national debt. This administration is just trying to find another scapegoat for their incompetence in managing the government's budget.
What the Chinese will is buy oil with the huge amount of dollars that they've accumulated through unfair trade with the U.S. Since they have a ton of dollars which they don't need they'll be willing to pay high prices for oil.
The U.S. economy will be significantly damaged by high energy prices. The only way to fight back against this will be for the U.S. to raise interest rates and print lots of dollars,thus slowing the economy and creating massive inflation.
Wow, Rumsfeld and the Reagan administration can go and sell intelligence, as well as condone chemical weapons use by Saddam against the Kurds and Iranians; but some guy can't make some money by playing chess.
A Senator or Congressman can do just about anything since they are exempt from the laws they pass. The traitor Ollie North is out there on every right wing talkshow making money left and right. But a citizen of the U.S. can have the government dictate where and when he can make money by playing an innocent game of chess.
We the people have to make some changes next election, but I doubt much will change. Most people won't even bother to vote. Most won't bother to get educated on the issues. Most can't stand it when the news interrupts their favorate soap opera or baseball game. Slowly the government will be taken alway from to people and put in the hands of the politically connected elite (jerks like Clinton and Bush), no one will even notice.
Sorry for the rant. I still hope the U.S. Constitution will protect my rights to express my views.
Just wanted to make a comment regarding the laser pointer example. No matter how distant the wall and how fast you move your wrist the point will not move faster than light, because the beam is traveling at light speed. Just imagine holding a water hose and moving it as fast as you can with your wrist. The water stream will start to zig-zag, the same will happen with the beam.
I'm sure NASA could do great things with a larger budget, but they should also point out to Congress they they need funding for a space tug inorder to save the Hubble and save billions on future repair missions. Right now I don't believe NASA has even tried to get funding for a space tug, yet they are willing to scrap the Hubble (which is worth 10's of billions in future research.)
If Hubble is in a dangerous orbit, why can't NASA design a space tug to move it to a safer orbit? Should NASA have a space tug by now anyway, it is 2004.
Hard Drives don't actually have anywhere near 100MB/s read/write speed. That 100MB/s+ speed is just of the interface. And you may only get that if you're writing/reading from cache on HD.
Doesn't anyone remember how everyone was outraged when it was shown in the media that nations such as East Germany had cameras installed all over public places. Now we know why they had done that during the communist totalitarian era it was just to prevent crime. I just can't wait till cameras are installed everywhere so we can be all "nice and safe".
Yeah but NASA isn't developing a better heat shield technology nor are they providing a repair kit, they are limiting shuttle flights and later sacrificing the shuttle system for safety.
Thats only true if the corporation is a monopoly. Otherwise, if the corporation, i.e. Ford, raises prices because of increased tax burden then Honda will become more competative and sell more of its cars.
Also in this case even though Microsoft will get a tax break, they won't lower their prices; since they are a monopoly.
Too bad NASA couldn't put a small camera and transmitter on the lander. If they had perhaps it would have been possible to see what attacked poor Spirit.
What I'm wondering is whats to keep some agency from planting illegal data on one of his computers?
And would they have some way of proving that data was not placed on his computers after they were seezed?
Seems like md5 sums should be run on his data before it is confiscated, inorder to insure that the data is not going to be altered. Otherwise, this type of action gives some currupt agencies the power to jail anyone. And don't tell me that there is no such thing as curruption in government.
All he did was break into a poorly secured website and called the NY Times to inform them that they should secure it. There may have been many more breakins to the NY Times website that are unknown, because no one called. Yet the guy who actually tried to help them goes to jail, and that's justice?
So the moral of this story is that if you are a hacker and you hack into some some system. Never tell anyone, especially law enforcement or the the admins of the system you hacked.
I'm sure our public records will be much more secure that way. As long as we don't know, it didn't happen. Another benefit is that lousy admins get to keep their jobs.
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White paint might have contained lead, but I'm not sure.
It is good that in this case Big Brother was able to provide justice. I'm not sure that Big Brother will always be as just, and will never be used to suppress and oppress individual Liberty. Don't forget that people willingly continue to fight, suffer and die for Liberty.
The Chinese are not about freedom, man! They're just exploiting capitalism to support their dictatorship.
Your comment is stupid and misleading.
The people who are about to retire now have paid into social security, they are now entitled to what they PAID for. The problem that needs to be addressed is the deficit and the national debt. This administration is just trying to find another scapegoat for their incompetence in managing the government's budget.
The only ones responsible for this war are the American people who elected this administration twice.
What the Chinese will is buy oil with the huge amount of dollars that they've accumulated through unfair trade with the U.S. Since they have a ton of dollars which they don't need they'll be willing to pay high prices for oil.
The U.S. economy will be significantly damaged by high energy prices. The only way to fight back against this will be for the U.S. to raise interest rates and print lots of dollars,thus slowing the economy and creating massive inflation.
Any amount over something like 3.5 million would be taxed at some rate. RTFA.
Wow, Rumsfeld and the Reagan administration can go and sell intelligence, as well as condone chemical weapons use by Saddam against the Kurds and Iranians; but some guy can't make some money by playing chess.
A Senator or Congressman can do just about anything since they are exempt from the laws they pass. The traitor Ollie North is out there on every right wing talkshow making money left and right. But a citizen of the U.S. can have the government dictate where and when he can make money by playing an innocent game of chess.
We the people have to make some changes next election, but I doubt much will change. Most people won't even bother to vote. Most won't bother to get educated on the issues. Most can't stand it when the news interrupts their favorate soap opera or baseball game. Slowly the government will be taken alway from to people and put in the hands of the politically connected elite (jerks like Clinton and Bush), no one will even notice.
Sorry for the rant. I still hope the U.S. Constitution will protect my rights to express my views.
Just wanted to make a comment regarding the laser pointer example. No matter how distant the wall and how fast you move your wrist the point will not move faster than light, because the beam is traveling at light speed. Just imagine holding a water hose and moving it as fast as you can with your wrist. The water stream will start to zig-zag, the same will happen with the beam.
I'm sure NASA could do great things with a larger budget, but they should also point out to Congress they they need funding for a space tug inorder to save the Hubble and save billions on future repair missions. Right now I don't believe NASA has even tried to get funding for a space tug, yet they are willing to scrap the Hubble (which is worth 10's of billions in future research.)
If Hubble is in a dangerous orbit, why can't NASA design a space tug to move it to a safer orbit? Should NASA have a space tug by now anyway, it is 2004.
Hard Drives don't actually have anywhere near 100MB/s read/write speed. That 100MB/s+ speed is just of the interface. And you may only get that if you're writing/reading from cache on HD.
Doesn't anyone remember how everyone was outraged when it was shown in the media that nations such as East Germany had cameras installed all over public places. Now we know why they had done that during the communist totalitarian era it was just to prevent crime. I just can't wait till cameras are installed everywhere so we can be all "nice and safe".
Yeah but NASA isn't developing a better heat shield technology nor are they providing a repair kit, they are limiting shuttle flights and later sacrificing the shuttle system for safety.
The Shuttle Investigation Board should also investigate how to make soldiers safe in Iraq.
Space is dangerous at the present time. It is silly to try and make it "safe".
Thats only true if the corporation is a monopoly. Otherwise, if the corporation, i.e. Ford, raises prices because of increased tax burden then Honda will become more competative and sell more of its cars.
Also in this case even though Microsoft will get a tax break, they won't lower their prices; since they are a monopoly.
Too bad NASA couldn't put a small camera and transmitter on the lander. If they had perhaps it would have been possible to see what attacked poor Spirit.
What I'm wondering is whats to keep some agency from planting illegal data on one of his computers?
And would they have some way of proving that data was not placed on his computers after they were seezed?
Seems like md5 sums should be run on his data before it is confiscated, inorder to insure that the data is not going to be altered. Otherwise, this type of action gives some currupt agencies the power to jail anyone. And don't tell me that there is no such thing as curruption in government.
All he did was break into a poorly secured website and called the NY Times to inform them that they should secure it. There may have been many more breakins to the NY Times website that are unknown, because no one called. Yet the guy who actually tried to help them goes to jail, and that's justice?
No more New York Times for me. This case proves that they are not about freedom, they are about corporate greed and control.
So the moral of this story is that if you are a hacker and you hack into some some system. Never tell anyone, especially law enforcement or the the admins of the system you hacked.
I'm sure our public records will be much more secure that way. As long as we don't know, it didn't happen. Another benefit is that lousy admins get to keep their jobs.
If these are open to the public proxies, how is someone to know when accessing them that they are breaking the law?
So now in addition to cars, planes, computers being imported. The U.S. will also import the space program.
CD sales have been going down not because of file sharing but because of high prices and poor quality.
CD are much cheaper to produce than tapes and yet they are priced 200-400% times higher.