I'd love to be required to have antivirus software on my linux/FreeBSD/Solaris machines. If you don't have a locked down box those systems can be just as bad as a botnet windows machine.
Or requiring comcast to have a rootkit on every machine you have to ensure that it's not infected. Sony computers would love that!
I'm still surprised that I haven't heard more outrage about the fundamental mormon raid in Texas now that the supposed abused teen is probably a 30 something living in CO. Further the accused guy is on parole in Arizona and wasn't picked up, or even questioned before the raid. Even scarier, the police questioned the kids without lawyers or guardians present. The state will provide them lawyers in two weeks
The parents are being forced to submit DNA to start the process of getting their kids back.
It seems like the police went in with shoddy evidence for a blanket warrant, which they got. Sure the people in the compound may very well have been breaking laws, but wouldn't that be all the more reason for the authorities to wait until stronger evidence was found? It's the over the top actions that worry me, not waiting to make a case before getting gung ho.
Free Speech Zones are a good example of limitations of rights. Forget being prosecuted from speaking out against the government, these make it so you can't speak out against the government in person. A specific area for the 1st Amendment is asinine.
Oops doesn't cut it for the feds. The Presidential Records act has no bite to it, the laws for ISPs do. Failure of CALEA compliance is 10,000 a day. The problem with CALEA, it applies to everyone out there who provides the last link. The coffee shop down the road with open wifi needs to be CALEA complaint or faces problems. You want to be cool and run a community network? It's not worth the legal risk.
If the feds come in and you can't comply, you also can't turn it off - that's part of non compliance. This is real time snooping, think wireshark but in a proprietary format.
I'd assume that the SEC rules for internal documentation actually has bite to them, while the Presidential Records act has no consequences for not being followed. At that point only congress can do something and it appears Kucinich is the only one to have the balls to mention the word Impeachment.
One of the more surprising things I noticed in some traveling was that other countries still have corner dairy stores. You can actually walk a block to get a gallon of milk. I know my small midwest town used to be like that in the 60s with little grocery stores but now it'd be impossible to do that.
I'd be nice for cities to be progressive and rethink their zoning ordinances to allow mixed zoning. IIR the truman show was filmed in a planned smart city that does just that.
I remember one of my boxes was compromised in the 90s through a POP3 exploit. The kid patched the hole after he gave himself an ssh account. He poked around the pr0n site hosted on it, then sent me a talk request to tell me what he did. I miss the old days of polite crackers.
While flipping around the cable they may also run across a re-rerun of Eureka. The meal made from cloned chicken didn't turn out so well for the people who ate it.
As humor is often just a funny way of being serious, I don't think it's too soon for jokes.
Perhaps we should all use one of the many chaos generators out there for a few minutes as a way to salute his work? What is the best chaos program out there nowadays - I haven't used one since fractint ages ago. Well I did install the electric sheep screen saver which is very nice eye candy, but I want to see some particles circling around a lorenz attractor.
I don't believe anyone has done this as you'd need to make new switches as they use the MAC to route traffic. Potentially I could see this done between two machines with custom code, directly wired together, no need to get custom switches then.
That is a neat idea, a real use for the extra 10/100 NICs that everyone has laying around, and for speed increases without rewiring.
Whoa there! What, would you expect everyone to wear boxing gloves and fight it out by weight class according to the Marquess of Queensbury rules or what? Actually I want nations to duke it out with giant robots
Since when do we care about the Geneva Conventions again? With the callous disregard to torture how can the US still expect treatment of our troops to fall within the guidelines? I love that the current administration knew they were doing something very bad by approving torture... 'Ashcroft asked aloud after one meeting: "Why are we talking about this in the White House? History will not judge this kindly."'
Since Bush suspended habeas corpus, not supporting other important documents shouldn't be all that surprising.
True, it was an affiliate. However from the wikipedia article - along with other sources out there - a jury found that they did act to falsify.. that sounds like a lie to me. "After a five-week trial which ended August 18, 2000, a Florida state court jury unanimously determined that Fox "acted intentionally and deliberately to falsify or distort the plaintiffs' news reporting on BGH."
Further the appeals court threw out the decision "... on the basis that FCC policies on news agencies reporting the truth did not legally require the station to report the truth in a news story, as FCC policies are not law." Again you're correct, Fox broke no laws..
However the reason they broke no laws was that the decision stated the FCC has no legal requirements that stations have to tell the truth. They have policies, but they are not law.
I really hope this case goes further up the appeals chain.
There was one good scene in it : the few seconds of the engines working was impressive.
As to people taking leave of their senses, while I thought No Country for old men was good, There will be Blood is a snoozefest. I saw a trailer, thought it'd be an interesting early era oil movie. I was expecting something akin to a remake of Giant perhaps. Glad I didn't spend money to see it!
Some reporters at fox news found strong evidence that the Monsanto BGH hormone to make cow's produce more milk was pushed through too quickly. They tried to report on it, Monsanto threatened to sue. Fox pulled the report before the air and set about having their reporters change the story. Finally the reporters were told to lie outright, they refused. Hilarity followed with the courts ruling that corporate media has no legal obligation to tell the truth.
You could try to just use the onboard keyboard and click with the mouse. Although it's hard to type fast (Ijust typed that using one), and doesn't defeat potential screen grabbing software.
It could be a way to cheaply implement openCALEA. Of course, openCALEA would need to be a complete solution too. Realtime, remote packet sniffing in a wacky protocol. The cheapest units I've seen that fully meet the requirements are 5 - 10K.
With anything that falls under an "ISP" label needing to be CALEA compliant there is a huge need - even if you're just a small coffee shop that wants to give a WIFI hotspot you need to be compliant.
If you go the co-op route, be sure to have your board stay focused entirely on your original goals.
Electric Co-Ops end up acting like other private entities, spending money on projects outside of electricity. Wild Blue - the ka band satellite broadband service - received 10s of millions from a collection of co-ops. In turn, Wild Blue is offered - and installed by - these same electric co-ops. What satellite service and electricity have in common is beyond me.
Let's see, my local co-op not only sells electricity but also has telephone long distance, internet service, satellite service (Wild Blue Broadband and a directv reseller), propane service, water heater and furnace installation, and I went to a nice dinner meeting where they showed off a hydrogen powered generator a few years ago. This isn't a case of a small company reselling other services for an additional income stream. Most of these are housed at their facility with support staff, installation services, support, etc ran by their employees.
If the end goal of all these other projects was a lower electric fee I'd be happy. My co-op electric fee is no different than at a house which gets power from AEP. It appears to me that they get the bureaucratic mindset and keep finding ways to grow their organization, finding new ways to fund expansion, instead of keeping things lean and sticking to the mission statement.
You don't have to worry only about the government censorship - corporate media censors items when it fits their interests too. While the article is about Paraguay, even in the US "land of the free" we have censorship and outright lies broadcast as news every day. Fox news had reporters fired when they refused to lie in one of their reporting pieces. They sued under the whistleblower laws but lost.
Here's the
chilling verdict: There is no law in the US that news cannot lie to you. Or for better wording -
Because the FCC's news distortion policy is not a "law, rule, or regulation"
While any government outright censoring is bad, any media company that passes itself off as a news source that is able to lie is even more insidious.
While most news sources have a political bias, you shouldn't expect to have to decipher lies!
Take whatever budget they have for the web archive and give it to archive.org, let them do the work. Include some long term DVD tech to stash at the library of congress. If the gov't can't do its job, pay someone else to do it.
You're right. The FCC hasn't wanted to budge on redefining broadband even though proposals have been made. Ever since Powel's kid was in charge things concerning the FCC have went downhill for the consumers - rollback of most of the '96 telco reform, allowing more single media control per market, basically very big business friendly. Not even free market friendly, just more lobbyist friendly.
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I'd love to be required to have antivirus software on my linux/FreeBSD/Solaris machines. If you don't have a locked down box those systems can be just as bad as a botnet windows machine.
Or requiring comcast to have a rootkit on every machine you have to ensure that it's not infected. Sony computers would love that!
I'm still surprised that I haven't heard more outrage about the fundamental mormon raid in Texas now that the supposed abused teen is probably a 30 something living in CO. Further the accused guy is on parole in Arizona and wasn't picked up, or even questioned before the raid. Even scarier, the police questioned the kids without lawyers or guardians present. The state will provide them lawyers in two weeks
The parents are being forced to submit DNA to start the process of getting their kids back.
It seems like the police went in with shoddy evidence for a blanket warrant, which they got. Sure the people in the compound may very well have been breaking laws, but wouldn't that be all the more reason for the authorities to wait until stronger evidence was found? It's the over the top actions that worry me, not waiting to make a case before getting gung ho.
Free Speech Zones are a good example of limitations of rights. Forget being prosecuted from speaking out against the government, these make it so you can't speak out against the government in person. A specific area for the 1st Amendment is asinine.
Oops doesn't cut it for the feds. The Presidential Records act has no bite to it, the laws for ISPs do. Failure of CALEA compliance is 10,000 a day. The problem with CALEA, it applies to everyone out there who provides the last link. The coffee shop down the road with open wifi needs to be CALEA complaint or faces problems. You want to be cool and run a community network? It's not worth the legal risk.
If the feds come in and you can't comply, you also can't turn it off - that's part of non compliance. This is real time snooping, think wireshark but in a proprietary format.
I'd assume that the SEC rules for internal documentation actually has bite to them, while the Presidential Records act has no consequences for not being followed. At that point only congress can do something and it appears Kucinich is the only one to have the balls to mention the word Impeachment.
One of the more surprising things I noticed in some traveling was that other countries still have corner dairy stores. You can actually walk a block to get a gallon of milk. I know my small midwest town used to be like that in the 60s with little grocery stores but now it'd be impossible to do that.
I'd be nice for cities to be progressive and rethink their zoning ordinances to allow mixed zoning. IIR the truman show was filmed in a planned smart city that does just that.
I wonder if they'd go through each and every OS with a multi OS boot sequence.
I remember one of my boxes was compromised in the 90s through a POP3 exploit. The kid patched the hole after he gave himself an ssh account. He poked around the pr0n site hosted on it, then sent me a talk request to tell me what he did. I miss the old days of polite crackers.
There's also one at the Kalamazoo Michigan Airzoo. You can't sit in a cockpit of one like in Seattle but otherwise it's right at eye level.
Very nice place, including one of the worlds largest murals (All aircraft themed), planes from all periods and some very fun flight simulators.
While flipping around the cable they may also run across a re-rerun of Eureka. The meal made from cloned chicken didn't turn out so well for the people who ate it.
As humor is often just a funny way of being serious, I don't think it's too soon for jokes.
Perhaps we should all use one of the many chaos generators out there for a few minutes as a way to salute his work? What is the best chaos program out there nowadays - I haven't used one since fractint ages ago. Well I did install the electric sheep screen saver which is very nice eye candy, but I want to see some particles circling around a lorenz attractor.
I don't believe anyone has done this as you'd need to make new switches as they use the MAC to route traffic. Potentially I could see this done between two machines with custom code, directly wired together, no need to get custom switches then.
That is a neat idea, a real use for the extra 10/100 NICs that everyone has laying around, and for speed increases without rewiring.
Since when do we care about the Geneva Conventions again? With the callous disregard to torture how can the US still expect treatment of our troops to fall within the guidelines? I love that the current administration knew they were doing something very bad by approving torture... 'Ashcroft asked aloud after one meeting: "Why are we talking about this in the White House? History will not judge this kindly."'
Since Bush suspended habeas corpus, not supporting other important documents shouldn't be all that surprising.
True, it was an affiliate. However from the wikipedia article - along with other sources out there - a jury found that they did act to falsify.. that sounds like a lie to me. "After a five-week trial which ended August 18, 2000, a Florida state court jury unanimously determined that Fox "acted intentionally and deliberately to falsify or distort the plaintiffs' news reporting on BGH."
Further the appeals court threw out the decision "... on the basis that FCC policies on news agencies reporting the truth did not legally require the station to report the truth in a news story, as FCC policies are not law." Again you're correct, Fox broke no laws. .
However the reason they broke no laws was that the decision stated the FCC has no legal requirements that stations have to tell the truth. They have policies, but they are not law.
I really hope this case goes further up the appeals chain.There was one good scene in it : the few seconds of the engines working was impressive.
As to people taking leave of their senses, while I thought No Country for old men was good, There will be Blood is a snoozefest. I saw a trailer, thought it'd be an interesting early era oil movie. I was expecting something akin to a remake of Giant perhaps. Glad I didn't spend money to see it!
Good job, Yahoo answers appears to be slashdotted, or 'taking a breather' as the page says.
Some reporters at fox news found strong evidence that the Monsanto BGH hormone to make cow's produce more milk was pushed through too quickly. They tried to report on it, Monsanto threatened to sue. Fox pulled the report before the air and set about having their reporters change the story. Finally the reporters were told to lie outright, they refused. Hilarity followed with the courts ruling that corporate media has no legal obligation to tell the truth.
There has been ongoing lawsuit coverage and other related issues.
Monsanto reminds me of the Ag firm in the Clooney movie Michael Clayton .
You could try to just use the onboard keyboard and click with the mouse. Although it's hard to type fast (Ijust typed that using one), and doesn't defeat potential screen grabbing software.
It could be a way to cheaply implement openCALEA. Of course, openCALEA would need to be a complete solution too. Realtime, remote packet sniffing in a wacky protocol. The cheapest units I've seen that fully meet the requirements are 5 - 10K.
With anything that falls under an "ISP" label needing to be CALEA compliant there is a huge need - even if you're just a small coffee shop that wants to give a WIFI hotspot you need to be compliant.
If you go the co-op route, be sure to have your board stay focused entirely on your original goals.
Electric Co-Ops end up acting like other private entities, spending money on projects outside of electricity. Wild Blue - the ka band satellite broadband service - received 10s of millions from a collection of co-ops. In turn, Wild Blue is offered - and installed by - these same electric co-ops. What satellite service and electricity have in common is beyond me.
Let's see, my local co-op not only sells electricity but also has telephone long distance, internet service, satellite service (Wild Blue Broadband and a directv reseller), propane service, water heater and furnace installation, and I went to a nice dinner meeting where they showed off a hydrogen powered generator a few years ago. This isn't a case of a small company reselling other services for an additional income stream. Most of these are housed at their facility with support staff, installation services, support, etc ran by their employees.
If the end goal of all these other projects was a lower electric fee I'd be happy. My co-op electric fee is no different than at a house which gets power from AEP. It appears to me that they get the bureaucratic mindset and keep finding ways to grow their organization, finding new ways to fund expansion, instead of keeping things lean and sticking to the mission statement.
Maybe mine just sucks - the concept is a good one
You don't have to worry only about the government censorship - corporate media censors items when it fits their interests too. While the article is about Paraguay, even in the US "land of the free" we have censorship and outright lies broadcast as news every day. Fox news had reporters fired when they refused to lie in one of their reporting pieces. They sued under the whistleblower laws but lost.
Here's the chilling verdict: There is no law in the US that news cannot lie to you. Or for better wording - Because the FCC's news distortion policy is not a "law, rule, or regulation"
While any government outright censoring is bad, any media company that passes itself off as a news source that is able to lie is even more insidious. While most news sources have a political bias, you shouldn't expect to have to decipher lies!
Take whatever budget they have for the web archive and give it to archive.org, let them do the work. Include some long term DVD tech to stash at the library of congress. If the gov't can't do its job, pay someone else to do it.
You're right. The FCC hasn't wanted to budge on redefining broadband even though proposals have been made. Ever since Powel's kid was in charge things concerning the FCC have went downhill for the consumers - rollback of most of the '96 telco reform, allowing more single media control per market, basically very big business friendly. Not even free market friendly, just more lobbyist friendly.
And getting even more cornfields with Gov't subsidizes on ethanol ;)