Technically, your financial records aren't *your* property. They belong to the bank and are readily available to others at any given point. No 4th amendment problem here.
if your records belong to the bank, doesn't the BANK have the right not to have those records searched or siezed without its approval?
Compelling the bank by law to turn over said records is an attempted end run around the 4th amendment no matter WHO owns the records in question.
You may think Democrats are tree-huggers, welfare moms or whatever but there is no way Al Gore would have done the things Bush/Cheney/Ashcroft/et al have done in the name of "security."
No one can say what Al Gore would have done had he been in the white house the last three years--not even Al Gore. It's alot easier to be on the outside commenting on what's going on, than to make the choices yourself. Personally, I think Bush has made more wrong choices than right, and I am currently planning to vote against him in the next election, but it's wrong to suggest that someone else WOULD (not MIGHT) have made better decisions.
Republicans want it all and they don't play fair. Look at re-districting in Texas. They carved up Austin, dammit! That's the most liberal city in the SW and now it's owned by five Republicans
Both parties are guilty of the same damn thing--it's not a Republican or Democrat thing, it's a "keeping incumbents in power" thing. After every census, we redraw political districts. Whichever party is in power at the time draws them to its own advantage--neither one plays "fair." The only thing noteworthy about the Texas redistricting plan is that it happened three years AFTER the census.
I invite you to look at the election maps of states other than Texas, you'll find it both revealing and disgusting.
I don't support gerrymandering, lest you get that idea from what I say above, but I bristle at the idea that somehow the democrat party is better than the republican party. Both have some decent folk in them, but they prove to be the exception, not the rule. Neither party is worth a damn.
Democrats are certainly not saints but much of their money comes from non-profit and far more well-intentioned organizations like the Sierra Club, ACLU, Planned Parenthood, etc
Republicans draw large amounts of funding from similar sources, believe it or not. Bob Barr (former Republican congressman from Georgia) is now EMPLOYED by the ACLU. It's a simple game of giving money to those you believe (or hope) will support your positions. All special interest groups do it, and most of them spread the money around--despite popular belief, the NRA gives money to democrats, and the ACLU gives money to republicans.:)
If we constantly have to fight for our freedoms, can we ever say that we are free?
Thomas Jefferson said that "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time by the blood of patriots and tyrants," and that "the price of freedom is eternal vigilance."
Freedom isn't something you win, and then just have forever. Freedom is something that must continuously be guarded and fought for.
So, in answer to your question: YES. Free men must ALWAYS be fighting for their freedom is order to claim to be free.
About as many that can sneak past apathetic, uninformed voters.
It's worse than you think. The percentage of the voting population that are interested and informed have been co-opted by such wonderful slogans as "think of the children," and "homeland security" and have been convinced that voting for a third party is "throwing your vote away."
You will never change the course of where we are headed eventually without breaking the monopoly on power enjoyed by the Democrats and Republicans.
Every time some idiot hears that i'm italian, suddenly they start thinking i'm some stupid mafia goomba, and they start doing the whole Robert Di Nero accent when they talk to me. Fact is, I was raised in California, and so many of my family members were trying to hard to be "American" that most of them talked like John Wayne.
Would that be the Gambino or Luchese family?
(note to moderators: This is "Funny" and not "Flamebait.")
The gun industry is trying to get that point across as well. I honestly hope they succeed. Almost every device on the planet can be used in a nefarious manner, but it seems some opportunistic folks in the world think they should get paid by the device's creators when someone actually does something with the device that it was not intended to do.
I have to say that I have a problem with your statement--and my sig should leave no doubt as to my opinion of the issue. Guns are designed to kill people. DeCSS is designed to decrypt DVDs. This is the intended operation, and anybody telling a jury that someone is "doing something witht the device it was never intended to do" is a liar and is going to come off as such.
What you should have said is "criminal acts commited by third parties" which is the crux of the defense of gun manufacturers, Jon Johansen, etc. And a defense I agree with. DeCSS can be used to watch a movie on a non-supported platform. Guns can be used for by the police, or for self defense, or for hunting. The acts of criminals should not impact legal use by the rest of society--THAT is the point you should be making.
Stan Brakhage, the world-renowned avant-garde film maker had trouble finding funding for his short films, since he was so prolific (he made about 400 films in his lifetime).
Not TOO much trouble finding funding if he made 400 of them!
If you are a policeman, an "Orange" alert means that you now have a nearly unlimited amount of easy overtime (paid for by Uncle Sam) available to you.
You're half right--the easy overtime is paid for by the locality, and not Uncle Sam.
So somewhere in Idaho, there are a bunch of police working 15 hour days at the expense of the local taxpayer because something MIGHT happen 2000 miles away. Nice, huh?
CallerID doesn't work when you call someone else--only when they call you.
Wow! You think anyone has access to this information on cell phones??
All I can say to this is RTFA. I know this is Slashdot and all, and you're not supposed to read the articles before commenting, particularly when you're commenting on the content of the article, but give it a chance.
Wow! You can think of a practical situation where the location on your cell will be used against you??
If you CAN'T, you have the imagination of a brick.
3 lanes one way + 3 lanes the other way = 5 lanes?
Interesting math you have in Massachussetts. Perhaps that's why the Big Dig ran over budget.
When I was a kid, we used to spend two weeks a year on Cape Cod. The main highway that ran out onto the cape (I don't remember the route number) was three lanes wide--one lane in each direction, and a center passing lane for whoever the hell was brave enough to use it. MA is a strange place, indeed.:)
Poster 1: "Wow that was a dupe" Poster 2: "Hey everyone, this is a duplicate" Poster 3: "Stupid editors don't read before posting" Poster 4: "Only idiots duplicate the previous post." etc... ad nauseum...
The only trains that survive are local trains (like the BART) and subways really..
You're forgetting one thing that will see the train remain an important transportation system in the US for at least decades, if not centuries to come: freight.
Passenger rail--aside from commuter rail, as you correctly note--is just as if not more expensive than air travel, goes fewer places, and takes longer to get there. On the other hand, freight rail is cheaper and more effecient than currently available alternatives, particularly for large bulky items.
1) In answer to your suggestion that Microsoft knows what happened, allow me to point out a comment in the text that you yourself quoted:
The company is still investigating why and how the patch was reissued.
Not only do they not know WHY someone released a patch, they don't know HOW either!
Secondly, I'm also curious. I run an SUS server, and here's my sync log from last night:
Automatic Sync Started- Wednesday, December 10, 2003 2:00:07 AM Successful Updates Added:
Critical Update for Windows XP Media Center Edition 2004 (KB830786) - KB830786_WXP_MCE2_ENU_c512cb910f28d8b6051537519556 0b3.EXE
Updates Removed:
810847: February 2003, Cumulative Patch for Internet Explorer 5.01 Service Pack 3 - Q810847_B3CA04E8D113EBDE0D561AB3AFAA02EBC3922F36.E XE
813489: April 2003, Cumulative Patch for Internet Explorer 5.01 Service Pack 3 - q813489_7526690df0c1e078957b0d83f8018c0.exe
818529: June 2003, Cumulative Patch for Internet Explorer 5.01 Service Pack 3 - q818529_1d67aa22e752bb5ca55eba289ee1e9f.exe
Q324929: December 2002, Cumulative Patch for Internet Explorer 5.5 - Q324929_E34CB7562E3FADE04E0FBA7A8DF20236ABFC6C46.E XE
810847: February 2003, Cumulative Patch for Internet Explorer 5.5 Service Pack 2 - Q810847_102065CAD52C737EBBF4422AEF2CAC5E100B6EFA.E XE
813489: April 2003, Cumulative Patch for Internet Explorer 5.5 Service Pack 2 - q813489_8ebdafa9c0f5c09d0678826b4c04de5.exe
818529: June 2003, Cumulative Patch for Internet Explorer 5.5 Service Pack 2 - q818529_d8d150d39cc718ff858be51239ea081.exe
Q324929: December 2002, Cumulative Patch for Internet Explorer 6 - Q324929_55049C7F14E3EFF258F10F95FE0A3C179833CB17.E XE
Q324929: December 2002, Cumulative Patch for Internet Explorer 6 SP1 - Q324929_A90F1A87F766965A4D0FC5F1395F3E808ABE7D27.E XE
810847: February 2003, Cumulative Patch for Internet Explorer 6 - Q810847_DDE9BE0E09FF7E261B1E32AFF6F597FA27A72B6A.E XE
810847: February 2003, Cumulative Patch for Internet Explorer 6 Service Pack 1 - Q810847_C3902604B28A9E2AAD419E883ACC553FD69B84F9.E XE
813489: April 2003, Cumulative Patch for Internet Explorer 6 - q813489_2fd2c598d4beecc513c2798f443cf8e.exe
813489: April 2003, Cumulative Patch for Internet Explorer 6 Service Pack 1 - q813489_3a4cba12c72c64d461b611365375bc9.exe
818529: June 2003, Cumulative Patch for Internet Explorer 6 - q818529_5a71949492d46d5a9ed0713ed68cc98.exe
818529: June 2003, Cumulative Patch for Internet Explorer 6 Service Pack 1 - q818529_94327511db0b86d509decf6a3becf73.exe
818529: June 2003, Cumulative Patch for Internet Explorer - WindowsServer2003-KB818529-x86-ENU_0f07225ca313bf4 5fe205783dd059d0.exe
Reissued Update(s):
Security Update, February 14, 2002 (Internet Explorer 5.5) - VBS55NEN_A76B47D34E497BB2C14BA3CBED923CC042406C8B. EXE
Security Update, March 7, 2002 - Q313829_F56D00FEAAE71A0F246EA0A042B92AEEEC822F9D.e xe
814078: Security Update (Microsoft Jscript version 5.1, Windows 2000) - js51nen_8812c08817b46676876f0e06a3cda5b.exe
814078: Security Update (Microsoft Jscript version 5.6, Windows 2000, Windows XP) - JS56_DB18C6EA0F4E8522715BEEA284F6843ECE71D944.EXE
Windows 2000 Service Pack 4 Network Install for IT Professionals - w2ksp4_en_7f12d2da3d7c5b6a62ec4fde9a4b1e6.exe
Flaw In Windows Media Player May Allow Media Library Access (819639) - WindowsMedia9-KB819639-x86-ENU_bfd620da8e1529c3e4f fadfb93f33fa.exe
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And those not responding processes that Windows can't close are fun too, like if the Visual Studio.NET IDE crashes, I've ran into situations where you can't close it from the task manager, it's still there and using 99% cpu if you log off and log back on, and you must flip the switch to shut down your PC.
Also exciting are the local Access Denied messages you sometimes get when logged in as Administrator, which can get in your way when trying to close a misbehaving process.
I can't stress enough how badly you want to download PStools
This will allow you to view hidden processes that Windows does not normally expose to the task manager, and kill just about anything, even the normal "access denied" processes.
But how about Calendaring and Tasks being stored on the server *AND* processed with the server?
Evolution talks to Exchange, though you have to pay Ximian a license fee for the Exchange connector, and still have to pay Microsoft for the Exchange CAL. I find that to be financially not practical at the moment, and don't see how anyone could convince their management to move into such a scenario, but the option IS there.
but surely the moment someone publishes to the internet, it becomes an international news source? Since the page is accessible from anywhere in the world?
Just because you can access something on the internet does not make it an "international news source." My mother lives in a small town in New Jersey, and her home town paper (published weekly, circulation between 4,000 and 5,000) is available on the internet. Are they now obligated to embrace a non-local audience? Should they change their primary focus from publishing the local police blotter, reporting on what the town council and school board are up to, and the local weather and fishing report?
In the UK anyway, it was one of the big milestones in computing.
I hate to say "RTFA," but you should RTFA!
The author specifically mentions this point, that he writes for a local paper and not some international news source, and thus, OF COURSE his list is North American-centric.
From the article: "He opposes abortion, fights for balanced budgets, and voted for the impeachment of President Clinton. His Web site features photographs of him carrying or firing guns. Through it all, though, Stenholm has remained a member of the Democratic Party"
I wonder what you have to do to be conservative down there.
"Democrat" does not necessarily mean "liberal" and "Republican" does not necessarily mean "conservative."
It isn't a coincidence that the main chacter serves in the "Royal Navy" and is fighting against an enemy that very strongly resembles France. Or that the title character's initials are HH.
The Harrington series is NOT sci-fi. It's space opera. It has the same appeal that Star Wars does.
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Technically, your financial records aren't *your* property. They belong to the bank and are readily available to others at any given point. No 4th amendment problem here.
if your records belong to the bank, doesn't the BANK have the right not to have those records searched or siezed without its approval?
Compelling the bank by law to turn over said records is an attempted end run around the 4th amendment no matter WHO owns the records in question.
You may think Democrats are tree-huggers, welfare moms or whatever but there is no way Al Gore would have done the things Bush/Cheney/Ashcroft/et al have done in the name of "security."
:)
No one can say what Al Gore would have done had he been in the white house the last three years--not even Al Gore. It's alot easier to be on the outside commenting on what's going on, than to make the choices yourself. Personally, I think Bush has made more wrong choices than right, and I am currently planning to vote against him in the next election, but it's wrong to suggest that someone else WOULD (not MIGHT) have made better decisions.
Republicans want it all and they don't play fair. Look at re-districting in Texas. They carved up Austin, dammit! That's the most liberal city in the SW and now it's owned by five Republicans
Both parties are guilty of the same damn thing--it's not a Republican or Democrat thing, it's a "keeping incumbents in power" thing. After every census, we redraw political districts. Whichever party is in power at the time draws them to its own advantage--neither one plays "fair." The only thing noteworthy about the Texas redistricting plan is that it happened three years AFTER the census.
I invite you to look at the election maps of states other than Texas, you'll find it both revealing and disgusting.
I don't support gerrymandering, lest you get that idea from what I say above, but I bristle at the idea that somehow the democrat party is better than the republican party. Both have some decent folk in them, but they prove to be the exception, not the rule. Neither party is worth a damn.
Democrats are certainly not saints but much of their money comes from non-profit and far more well-intentioned organizations like the Sierra Club, ACLU, Planned Parenthood, etc
Republicans draw large amounts of funding from similar sources, believe it or not. Bob Barr (former Republican congressman from Georgia) is now EMPLOYED by the ACLU. It's a simple game of giving money to those you believe (or hope) will support your positions. All special interest groups do it, and most of them spread the money around--despite popular belief, the NRA gives money to democrats, and the ACLU gives money to republicans.
If we constantly have to fight for our freedoms, can we ever say that we are free?
Thomas Jefferson said that "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time by the blood of patriots and tyrants," and that "the price of freedom is eternal vigilance."
Freedom isn't something you win, and then just have forever. Freedom is something that must continuously be guarded and fought for.
So, in answer to your question: YES. Free men must ALWAYS be fighting for their freedom is order to claim to be free.
About as many that can sneak past apathetic, uninformed voters.
It's worse than you think. The percentage of the voting population that are interested and informed have been co-opted by such wonderful slogans as "think of the children," and "homeland security" and have been convinced that voting for a third party is "throwing your vote away."
You will never change the course of where we are headed eventually without breaking the monopoly on power enjoyed by the Democrats and Republicans.
Every time some idiot hears that i'm italian, suddenly they start thinking i'm some stupid mafia goomba, and they start doing the whole Robert Di Nero accent when they talk to me. Fact is, I was raised in California, and so many of my family members were trying to hard to be "American" that most of them talked like John Wayne.
Would that be the Gambino or Luchese family?
(note to moderators: This is "Funny" and not "Flamebait.")
AFAIK there are no SCO-related news on computer or business sites
..
Because everybody knows that CNet, ZDNet, Motley Fool, and Forbes are not computer or business sites.
The gun industry is trying to get that point across as well. I honestly hope they succeed. Almost every device on the planet can be used in a nefarious manner, but it seems some opportunistic folks in the world think they should get paid by the device's creators when someone actually does something with the device that it was not intended to do.
I have to say that I have a problem with your statement--and my sig should leave no doubt as to my opinion of the issue. Guns are designed to kill people. DeCSS is designed to decrypt DVDs. This is the intended operation, and anybody telling a jury that someone is "doing something witht the device it was never intended to do" is a liar and is going to come off as such.
What you should have said is "criminal acts commited by third parties" which is the crux of the defense of gun manufacturers, Jon Johansen, etc. And a defense I agree with. DeCSS can be used to watch a movie on a non-supported platform. Guns can be used for by the police, or for self defense, or for hunting. The acts of criminals should not impact legal use by the rest of society--THAT is the point you should be making.
Stan Brakhage, the world-renowned avant-garde film maker had trouble finding funding for his short films, since he was so prolific (he made about 400 films in his lifetime).
Not TOO much trouble finding funding if he made 400 of them!
If you are a policeman, an "Orange" alert means that you now have a nearly unlimited amount of easy overtime (paid for by Uncle Sam) available to you.
You're half right--the easy overtime is paid for by the locality, and not Uncle Sam.
So somewhere in Idaho, there are a bunch of police working 15 hour days at the expense of the local taxpayer because something MIGHT happen 2000 miles away. Nice, huh?
Wow! Caller ID is a totally new concept to you??
CallerID doesn't work when you call someone else--only when they call you.
Wow! You think anyone has access to this information on cell phones??
All I can say to this is RTFA. I know this is Slashdot and all, and you're not supposed to read the articles before commenting, particularly when you're commenting on the content of the article, but give it a chance.
Wow! You can think of a practical situation where the location on your cell will be used against you??
If you CAN'T, you have the imagination of a brick.
I don't remember the middle lane being a passing lane like that, however.
Might be different now--I haven't been there in around 20 years.
3 lanes one way + 3 lanes the other way = 5 lanes?
:)
Interesting math you have in Massachussetts. Perhaps that's why the Big Dig ran over budget.
When I was a kid, we used to spend two weeks a year on Cape Cod. The main highway that ran out onto the cape (I don't remember the route number) was three lanes wide--one lane in each direction, and a center passing lane for whoever the hell was brave enough to use it. MA is a strange place, indeed.
Poster 1: "Wow that was a dupe"
Poster 2: "Hey everyone, this is a duplicate"
Poster 3: "Stupid editors don't read before posting"
Poster 4: "Only idiots duplicate the previous post."
etc... ad nauseum...
Pot, Kettle, Black.
The only trains that survive are local trains (like the BART) and subways really..
You're forgetting one thing that will see the train remain an important transportation system in the US for at least decades, if not centuries to come: freight.
Passenger rail--aside from commuter rail, as you correctly note--is just as if not more expensive than air travel, goes fewer places, and takes longer to get there. On the other hand, freight rail is cheaper and more effecient than currently available alternatives, particularly for large bulky items.
Yes, that's because when they download a song from Madonna, the computer they download the song from ... send them a Waylon Jenning track instead.
I take it you haven't been on Kazaa lately?
1) In answer to your suggestion that Microsoft knows what happened, allow me to point out a comment in the text that you yourself quoted:
The company is still investigating why and how the patch was reissued.
Not only do they not know WHY someone released a patch, they don't know HOW either!
Secondly, I'm also curious. I run an SUS server, and here's my sync log from last night:
And those not responding processes that Windows can't close are fun too, like if the Visual Studio .NET IDE crashes, I've ran into situations where you can't close it from the task manager, it's still there and using 99% cpu if you log off and log back on, and you must flip the switch to shut down your PC.
Also exciting are the local Access Denied messages you sometimes get when logged in as Administrator, which can get in your way when trying to close a misbehaving process.
I can't stress enough how badly you want to download PStools
This will allow you to view hidden processes that Windows does not normally expose to the task manager, and kill just about anything, even the normal "access denied" processes.
Every windows admin needs this.
Sounds simple, but the list seperators seem quite cool to me (and obvious in hindsight).
This looks VERY similar to Outlook's "group by" feature, albeit with a better implementation. I don't think it's fair to call this a "new" feature.
But how about Calendaring and Tasks being stored on the server *AND* processed with the server?
Evolution talks to Exchange, though you have to pay Ximian a license fee for the Exchange connector, and still have to pay Microsoft for the Exchange CAL. I find that to be financially not practical at the moment, and don't see how anyone could convince their management to move into such a scenario, but the option IS there.
What about the Baldur's Gate series? Aren't they particularly known for that as well, considering it's one of the top RPGs?
:)
The Black Isle logo in on Baldur's Gate, but the actual work was done by Bioware.
So no, they're not particularly well known for that.
but surely the moment someone publishes to the internet, it becomes an international news source? Since the page is accessible from anywhere in the world?
Just because you can access something on the internet does not make it an "international news source." My mother lives in a small town in New Jersey, and her home town paper (published weekly, circulation between 4,000 and 5,000) is available on the internet. Are they now obligated to embrace a non-local audience? Should they change their primary focus from publishing the local police blotter, reporting on what the town council and school board are up to, and the local weather and fishing report?
Of course not!
The Amstrad 1512?
In the UK anyway, it was one of the big milestones in computing.
I hate to say "RTFA," but you should RTFA!
The author specifically mentions this point, that he writes for a local paper and not some international news source, and thus, OF COURSE his list is North American-centric.
From the article: "He opposes abortion, fights for balanced budgets, and voted for the impeachment of President Clinton. His Web site features photographs of him carrying or firing guns. Through it all, though, Stenholm has remained a member of the Democratic Party"
I wonder what you have to do to be conservative down there.
"Democrat" does not necessarily mean "liberal" and "Republican" does not necessarily mean "conservative."
Uhm...I'll bite. Why do we want to read them on your website instead of at the Baen Free Library
Because not all of the books available on his website are in the Bean Free Library.
Why do people like the Harrington series?
Because it's Horatio Hornblower in space.
It isn't a coincidence that the main chacter serves in the "Royal Navy" and is fighting against an enemy that very strongly resembles France. Or that the title character's initials are HH.
The Harrington series is NOT sci-fi. It's space opera. It has the same appeal that Star Wars does.
Domestic problems (healthcare, SS, etc . . .) remain neglected.
Four hundred billion dollars for medicare is neglect? I'd hate to see your definition of "massive expansion!"