NIST places no restrictions or expectations on who can access their Internet Time Service (ITS) servers (which includes time.nist.gov). NIST ITS supports NTP, Daytime Protocol and Time Protocol.
Even if the owner of an NTP server that had it's address hard coded into any mass marketed device was cool with it, hard coding NTP server addresses into a device is a very bad practice. In some cases the effect could be the same as a DDOS that won't stop.
D-Link's use of that poor guy's "free" service that was intended to service about 2,000 organizations in Denmark was costing the guy about $1,000 US a month. I guess that it will be OK with you if next halloween that I bring busloads of kids to your house to get all of the free candy that you will be handing out. Make sure that you buy enough candy as you won't want to run out.
When people put something out that is "free", they also also have the right to stop providing that something for free. If he had shut off his NTP server or changed the address; not only would his users be inconvenienced, but the users of the D-Link product could have been inconvenienced as well. I wonder what the downside is when these D-Links can't find the NTP server. I would hope that the thing would just sit there, refusing to operate until it can find the hardcoded NTP server and set it's internal clock.
I pick #1 and #2. These sales sharks are very predatory assholes and they are on commission - they are pros and will do and say ANYTHING to make a sale, including getting people fired because they wouldn't look at the shark's product. Top performing sales sharks (i.e., the biggest assholes) typically get promoted and eventually end up in the executive ranks in companies. I also believe that these sharks are the assholes in the expensive cars that go around cutting people off on the Beltway.
Instead, he along with the rest of the disabiliy community have to rely on the courts to secure whatever level of accessibility we can get. That could change if the mindset is to build in access from the start. Perhaps it would have been more productive if the disability community would have started a dialog with Open Source project leaders and developers about building in access from the start rather than just filing misguided lawsuits. This lawsuit is not going to improve accessibility as FOSS project leaders and programmers have no reason to respond favorably to John Winske's legal demands. You are quite correct in saying "just because software is Open Source, there's no guarantee that it will be accessible". You would also be correct in saying that just because softwware is Open Source there's no guarantee that it will be avialable in the Russian language or that it will support Hebrew.
I thought that Open Office useability is pretty good. Is MS Office's documentation any better than Open Office's documentation, which one has better documentation for it's file formats? ODF is all about interoperability, and Open Office has done quite a good job in making itself compatible with MS Office. If anybody wants to make their products compatible with ODF or with Open Office, the document format specifications are well documented and stable. Open Office and some other ODF compatible programs are open source applications and they are quite accessible to vendors and programers that write accesibility software for disabled persons.
The PATRIOT act was a bipartisan knee jerk law passed in 2001 (long after Clinton left office). The voting for the PATRIOT Act Reauthorization bill in 2006 was largely along party lines and I believe that only 1 Republican voted against it.
I agree that the Democrats are guilty of pushing for Federal anti-gun laws.
Name one electable person that is likely to do what is "right" rather than toe the party line, and who defines what is "right"?
I agree with you on constitutional "States Rights". Your original argument statement said something to the effect that some some people believe that ""Red" states are somehow against personal freedom". I gave examples of "Red" state laws that abridge personal freedoms and of laws passed or rejected by Federal politicians that abridged personal freedoms. One example I gave showed where "Red" state politicians voted against a "States Rights" issue (the Medical Marijuana amendment).
As you say "There is not constitutional right to a government endorsed marriage." OK, then the Full Faith and Credit clause in the Constitution should not apply to ANY marriage. By the same argument, why does the US government recognize marriages performed in Kansas or Germany, but not recognise certain legal marriages performed in Massachusetts or Canada?
The Constitution does not give the Federal Government the right to control drugs, the Federal Government gave itself that power.
I think your assumption that "Red" states are somehow against personal freedom and blue states are not is a bit color blind.
What is your source for this assumtion?
On June 15, 2005, the House rejected a medical marijuana amendment by a vote of 161 to 264. Nine representatives spoke in support of the amendment and five representatives spoke in opposition to the amendment. ALL of those who spoke in OPPOSITION to the amendment were REPUBLICAN and ALL of those who spoke in FAVOR to the amendment were DEMOCRATS. The voting also generally followed the same party lines.
On September 10, 1996, the Senate passed H.R. 3396, the Defense of Marriage Act. ALL of the REPUBLICAN Senators voted to take rights away from gays and lesbians and forteen DEMOCRATS voted AGAINST taking rights away from gays and lesbians.
All of the states that have passed anti-gay rights constitutional amendments have been "Red" states.
South Dakota, which is a "Red" state, recently passed a law taking the right away from women to have an abortion.
I believe that it is fair to say that the record for the past 10 years is that Republicans (typically from "Red" states) tend to vote against personal freedoms and that Democrats (typically from "Blue" states) tend to vote for personal freedoms.
I am not familiar with PC-BSD, I am familiar with FreeBSD. I find FreeBSD's installation to be easy and a FreeBSD installation can include KDE or Gnome (PC-BSD only includes KDE).
It looks to me like PC-BSD is to FreeBSD as Kubuntu is to Debian. It also looks like this would make a good FreeBSD Live CD.
This feature looks odd: "Online Update Manager - Manually or automatically downloads and installs updates for your operating system, without touching your installed programs." Does this mean that it only updates the OS (base system?) and that it doesn't update the installed programs? If it does update installed programs how does it upgrade them without touching them?
Imagine if Bass started sending threatening letters to gay pride groups.
That would be interesting. I think that it would have been even more interesting if Bass Ale had sent threatening letters to the Nazis for using it to identify gay males in concentration camps. I wonder if British trademark law takes color into consideration, the gay pride triangle is pink and the Bass Ale triangle is red. I wonder if Coors wants to further piss off the gay community. Bass Ale is brewed by Coors Brewers UK and Coors Brewing Company has been trying to fight off LGBT boycotts by desperately trying to get rid of the stench of the ultra-right wing, anti-gay Coors family memebers.
Cox currently uses a Scientific Atlanta DVR/digital decoder combo. I have a TiVo and a friend who HAD a Cox provided DVR - the Cox provided DVR is a clunky POS compared to a TiVo. A problem with the Cox DVR is that you have to have digital service which I don't find to be worthwhile. BTW, Cox in my area provides excellent analog extended basic cable and broadband service.
I didn't see what you are talking about on Bue Security's website in either Firefox or Opera. From what I understand, MSIE has a problem in that it does not properly implement the HTML tag which would cause the problem that you are seeing. The tag was present in the original version of HTML 4 and Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.0 is supposed to be HTML 4 compliant.
Blue Security has not had it's credibility damaged and this may have actually been good PR for Blue Security. Tucows may have incurred a PR problem. The log said that Tucows terminated Blue Security's account: May a pox descend on all of Tucow's management if Tucows actually did terminate Blue Security's account.
Are you suggesting a $3 to 4 a gallon tax on gasoline in order to make it cost $6 a gallon? Significant increases in gas prices have historically caused Americans to vote to change the party in power. Any president or other lawmaker who would propose or sign a bill into law that would increase gasoline taxes when the price is already considered to be too high would get their asses handed to them. At $3 a gallon people are already screaming bloody murder. High gas prices could be an even bigger factor than the Iraq war in causing a major change in the composition of Congress in the midterm election this fall. As it happens, I also drive about 200 miles a week. I live in a major metropolitan area and carpooling is impossible because of my work hours, a bus would cost MORE than driving because I would have to drive about half the distance to work THE WRONG WAY to catch a bus, and then pay to park. Bicycling would be suicidal, and I live in a temperate area so bicycling would be miserable much of the time. Moving might be an option, except that moving would increase my other half's commute, so there would be no net savings. I buy older trucks and then drive the wheels off of them; my current truck has over 120,000 miles on it and gets 20 MPG -- I see no reason to replace it. After considering the additional cost of interest (I pay cash for my trucks), higher insurance costs (liability only on my truck), and depreciation (new cars depreciate more in one year than my truck cost me to buy); for me to buy a "better" car would end up costing me much more than I pay now to drive older trucks, even if gas did go to $6 a gallon. I am not really sure that my paid-for truck is any harder on the environment than your $20,000+ Prius; which will need to have it's lead-acid batteries replaced in about nine years. I understand that a new set of batteries for your Prius currently costs about $3000.
Yeah, I know. 9v carbon-zinc batteries consist of a stack of 6 flat cells, 9v alkaline batteries use 6 AAAA cells in series, 6v lantern batteries are 4 cells (F, I think) in series, "J" alkaline batteries are 4 cells (I can't remember if they are AAA or AAAA) in series. There used to be a huge 6 volt lantern battery that contained of 4 #6 dry cells in series. Eveready 416 batteries are a stack 45 flat cells of the type used in 9v rectangular batteries. Eveready 493 contains 200 cells.
There ARE standardized sizes for Lithium-Ion cells and batteries and they happen to be the same size and shape as for most other cells and batteries; D, C, AA, and AAA cells and CR-123A and 9 volt rectangular batteries (interchangability can be an issue because Li-Ion's have different voltage and charging characteristics). Many of the non-standard battery packs are made up of strings of solder tab versions of standard size cells. Most cells are round because round is a more efficient shape. Most batteries are not round; wet cell car batteries are rectangular, 9v batteries are square or rectangular, 6 volt lantern batteries are square or rectangular, PolaPulse batteries are flat rectangles, type J batteries are flat rectangles with a clipped corner.
I do not believe that comparing the safety of RFIDs implanted into pets is an indicator of safety in humans.
RFIDs in pets are very seldom interrogated, typically the only time that they will be interrogated is for testing following implantation. The typical liefespan for cats and dogs is less than 20 years.
RFIDs in humans that are used as identification would likely be interrogated several times a day. There are possible scenarios where implanted RFIDs could be interrogated dozens of times a day. The typical lifespan for humans is at least three or four times the typical lifespan for a cat or dog.
Although they are not breasts and they are made of silicone rubber rather than silicone gel, silicone testicular implants are being used in animals. http://www.neuticles.com/
AFAIK; if somebody tried to extend an ODF format by adding extra things that were not approved by the ODF people who would approve of such things, then the resulting format could not be considered to be an ODF format. It isn't much different from what Microsoft is trying to do now.
FOSS offers something for everyone and for the author to criticise FOSS for not catering to the great unwashed is grossly unfair. There are certain pieces of end user FOSS, such as the Mozilla projects, that are trying to develop marketshare which means that they have to be idiot friendly to a certain degree. There are other pieces of FOSS that have marketshare, but are not idiot friendly, such as Apache. There are also major FOSS projects that are complex and well documented, such as Samba, that will scare the bejesus out of the average CompUSA customer. There are even major FOSS projects that are complex and well documented, such as Sendmail, that many people don't know how it works. FOSS was intended to create tools, it was never intended that all FOSS would be understood or be usable by everybody.
A pay as you go business model doesn't work very well for video rentals when the videos are sent by mail. Pay as you go rentals are based you having the video in your posession for a short period of time, usually between 1 and 7 days plus several hours because the movie is usually due back at midnight rather than at the same time of day that it was rented. In the best case scenario, three or four days would have to be added to the rental time in order to accomodate the mail delay. With a monthly subscription model it doen't matter how long a movie is out; with pay-as-you-go, each day a movie is in transit adds to costs. What happens if the post office messes up and the movie takes a week to get to the customer or takes a week to return it? If the DVD is lost in the mail, would a pay-as-you-go rental company be as likely to forgive the price of replacing the DVD? I would guess that instead of $5 for a three day B&M video rental, a pay-as-you-go mail order three day rental would reasonably cost at least $10 per movie if the mail takes an average of 2 days each way. Another issue is that pay-as-you-go customers would probably not be as flexible as monthly subscribers as to when a specific movie is shipped. A typical pay-as-you-go customer will probably want the latest movie that was released on Tuesday to be shipped on Wednesday so that it arrives on Friday to be watched it over the weekend. This level of service is going to require a large number of copies of each new release and if anybody ever offers a mail order video service like this it is going to be very pricey.
I would hope that the researchers know something about the composition of the coffee that they are using in their research. There is no caffeine in chicory and some people believe that it has some health benefits. I don't know of anybody who drinks coffee that contains chicory. There are coffee blends made in the US that contains chicory and it is supposed to be popular.
Odd you say that standards slow progress in a web browser standards thread. MSIE's "de facto" standard is moribund and W3C specifications and the browsers that are W3C compliant are lightyears ahead of any released version of MSIE.
My question still stands, the US government is eavesdropping without a court order, not even a retro-active court order.
Presidential approval ratings are nomally intended to show the approval ratings of the COUNTRY, not of members of the president's politial party. CNN's and FOX's lastest polls show a 32-33% presidential approval rating. Clinton's presidential approval rating tented to stay in the high 50's to low sixties.
Other than the assertions of the current administration, which many (possibly up to 70% of the population of the US according to presidential approval polls) believe has been shown to be untrustworthy, what is your source that backs up your statement: "As the targets of the program are terrorist or their affiliates..."?
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NIST places no restrictions or expectations on who can access their Internet Time Service (ITS) servers (which includes time.nist.gov). NIST ITS supports NTP, Daytime Protocol and Time Protocol.
I wonder why D-Link doesn't use NIST's servers.
Even if the owner of an NTP server that had it's address hard coded into any mass marketed device was cool with it, hard coding NTP server addresses into a device is a very bad practice. In some cases the effect could be the same as a DDOS that won't stop.
D-Link's use of that poor guy's "free" service that was intended to service about 2,000 organizations in Denmark was costing the guy about $1,000 US a month. I guess that it will be OK with you if next halloween that I bring busloads of kids to your house to get all of the free candy that you will be handing out. Make sure that you buy enough candy as you won't want to run out.
When people put something out that is "free", they also also have the right to stop providing that something for free. If he had shut off his NTP server or changed the address; not only would his users be inconvenienced, but the users of the D-Link product could have been inconvenienced as well. I wonder what the downside is when these D-Links can't find the NTP server. I would hope that the thing would just sit there, refusing to operate until it can find the hardcoded NTP server and set it's internal clock.
I pick #1 and #2. These sales sharks are very predatory assholes and they are on commission - they are pros and will do and say ANYTHING to make a sale, including getting people fired because they wouldn't look at the shark's product. Top performing sales sharks (i.e., the biggest assholes) typically get promoted and eventually end up in the executive ranks in companies. I also believe that these sharks are the assholes in the expensive cars that go around cutting people off on the Beltway.
Instead, he along with the rest of the disabiliy community have to rely on the courts to secure whatever level of accessibility we can get. That could change if the mindset is to build in access from the start.
Perhaps it would have been more productive if the disability community would have started a dialog with Open Source project leaders and developers about building in access from the start rather than just filing misguided lawsuits. This lawsuit is not going to improve accessibility as FOSS project leaders and programmers have no reason to respond favorably to John Winske's legal demands. You are quite correct in saying "just because software is Open Source, there's no guarantee that it will be accessible". You would also be correct in saying that just because softwware is Open Source there's no guarantee that it will be avialable in the Russian language or that it will support Hebrew.
I thought that Open Office useability is pretty good. Is MS Office's documentation any better than Open Office's documentation, which one has better documentation for it's file formats? ODF is all about interoperability, and Open Office has done quite a good job in making itself compatible with MS Office. If anybody wants to make their products compatible with ODF or with Open Office, the document format specifications are well documented and stable. Open Office and some other ODF compatible programs are open source applications and they are quite accessible to vendors and programers that write accesibility software for disabled persons.
The PATRIOT act was a bipartisan knee jerk law passed in 2001 (long after Clinton left office). The voting for the PATRIOT Act Reauthorization bill in 2006 was largely along party lines and I believe that only 1 Republican voted against it.
I agree that the Democrats are guilty of pushing for Federal anti-gun laws.
Name one electable person that is likely to do what is "right" rather than toe the party line, and who defines what is "right"?
I agree with you on constitutional "States Rights". Your original argument statement said something to the effect that some some people believe that ""Red" states are somehow against personal freedom". I gave examples of "Red" state laws that abridge personal freedoms and of laws passed or rejected by Federal politicians that abridged personal freedoms. One example I gave showed where "Red" state politicians voted against a "States Rights" issue (the Medical Marijuana amendment).
As you say "There is not constitutional right to a government endorsed marriage." OK, then the Full Faith and Credit clause in the Constitution should not apply to ANY marriage. By the same argument, why does the US government recognize marriages performed in Kansas or Germany, but not recognise certain legal marriages performed in Massachusetts or Canada?
The Constitution does not give the Federal Government the right to control drugs, the Federal Government gave itself that power.
I think your assumption that "Red" states are somehow against personal freedom and blue states are not is a bit color blind.
What is your source for this assumtion?
On June 15, 2005, the House rejected a medical marijuana amendment by a vote of 161 to 264. Nine representatives spoke in support of the amendment and five representatives spoke in opposition to the amendment. ALL of those who spoke in OPPOSITION to the amendment were REPUBLICAN and ALL of those who spoke in FAVOR to the amendment were DEMOCRATS. The voting also generally followed the same party lines.
On September 10, 1996, the Senate passed H.R. 3396, the Defense of Marriage Act. ALL of the REPUBLICAN Senators voted to take rights away from gays and lesbians and forteen DEMOCRATS voted AGAINST taking rights away from gays and lesbians.
All of the states that have passed anti-gay rights constitutional amendments have been "Red" states.
South Dakota, which is a "Red" state, recently passed a law taking the right away from women to have an abortion.
I believe that it is fair to say that the record for the past 10 years is that Republicans (typically from "Red" states) tend to vote against personal freedoms and that Democrats (typically from "Blue" states) tend to vote for personal freedoms.
I am not familiar with PC-BSD, I am familiar with FreeBSD. I find FreeBSD's installation to be easy and a FreeBSD installation can include KDE or Gnome (PC-BSD only includes KDE).
It looks to me like PC-BSD is to FreeBSD as Kubuntu is to Debian. It also looks like this would make a good FreeBSD Live CD.
This feature looks odd: "Online Update Manager - Manually or automatically downloads and installs updates for your operating system, without touching your installed programs." Does this mean that it only updates the OS (base system?) and that it doesn't update the installed programs? If it does update installed programs how does it upgrade them without touching them?
Imagine if Bass started sending threatening letters to gay pride groups.
That would be interesting. I think that it would have been even more interesting if Bass Ale had sent threatening letters to the Nazis for using it to identify gay males in concentration camps. I wonder if British trademark law takes color into consideration, the gay pride triangle is pink and the Bass Ale triangle is red. I wonder if Coors wants to further piss off the gay community. Bass Ale is brewed by Coors Brewers UK and Coors Brewing Company has been trying to fight off LGBT boycotts by desperately trying to get rid of the stench of the ultra-right wing, anti-gay Coors family memebers.
I have a TiVo with Cox analog extended basic and I don't use a decoder box. On our system you only need a cable box if you have a digital dcoder.
Cox currently uses a Scientific Atlanta DVR/digital decoder combo. I have a TiVo and a friend who HAD a Cox provided DVR - the Cox provided DVR is a clunky POS compared to a TiVo. A problem with the Cox DVR is that you have to have digital service which I don't find to be worthwhile. BTW, Cox in my area provides excellent analog extended basic cable and broadband service.
I didn't see what you are talking about on Bue Security's website in either Firefox or Opera. From what I understand, MSIE has a problem in that it does not properly implement the HTML tag which would cause the problem that you are seeing. The tag was present in the original version of HTML 4 and Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.0 is supposed to be HTML 4 compliant.
Blue Security has not had it's credibility damaged and this may have actually been good PR for Blue Security. Tucows may have incurred a PR problem. The log said that Tucows terminated Blue Security's account: May a pox descend on all of Tucow's management if Tucows actually did terminate Blue Security's account.
Are you suggesting a $3 to 4 a gallon tax on gasoline in order to make it cost $6 a gallon? Significant increases in gas prices have historically caused Americans to vote to change the party in power. Any president or other lawmaker who would propose or sign a bill into law that would increase gasoline taxes when the price is already considered to be too high would get their asses handed to them. At $3 a gallon people are already screaming bloody murder. High gas prices could be an even bigger factor than the Iraq war in causing a major change in the composition of Congress in the midterm election this fall. As it happens, I also drive about 200 miles a week. I live in a major metropolitan area and carpooling is impossible because of my work hours, a bus would cost MORE than driving because I would have to drive about half the distance to work THE WRONG WAY to catch a bus, and then pay to park. Bicycling would be suicidal, and I live in a temperate area so bicycling would be miserable much of the time. Moving might be an option, except that moving would increase my other half's commute, so there would be no net savings. I buy older trucks and then drive the wheels off of them; my current truck has over 120,000 miles on it and gets 20 MPG -- I see no reason to replace it. After considering the additional cost of interest (I pay cash for my trucks), higher insurance costs (liability only on my truck), and depreciation (new cars depreciate more in one year than my truck cost me to buy); for me to buy a "better" car would end up costing me much more than I pay now to drive older trucks, even if gas did go to $6 a gallon. I am not really sure that my paid-for truck is any harder on the environment than your $20,000+ Prius; which will need to have it's lead-acid batteries replaced in about nine years. I understand that a new set of batteries for your Prius currently costs about $3000.
Yeah, I know. 9v carbon-zinc batteries consist of a stack of 6 flat cells, 9v alkaline batteries use 6 AAAA cells in series, 6v lantern batteries are 4 cells (F, I think) in series, "J" alkaline batteries are 4 cells (I can't remember if they are AAA or AAAA) in series. There used to be a huge 6 volt lantern battery that contained of 4 #6 dry cells in series. Eveready 416 batteries are a stack 45 flat cells of the type used in 9v rectangular batteries. Eveready 493 contains 200 cells.
There ARE standardized sizes for Lithium-Ion cells and batteries and they happen to be the same size and shape as for most other cells and batteries; D, C, AA, and AAA cells and CR-123A and 9 volt rectangular batteries (interchangability can be an issue because Li-Ion's have different voltage and charging characteristics). Many of the non-standard battery packs are made up of strings of solder tab versions of standard size cells. Most cells are round because round is a more efficient shape. Most batteries are not round; wet cell car batteries are rectangular, 9v batteries are square or rectangular, 6 volt lantern batteries are square or rectangular, PolaPulse batteries are flat rectangles, type J batteries are flat rectangles with a clipped corner.
I do not believe that comparing the safety of RFIDs implanted into pets is an indicator of safety in humans.
RFIDs in pets are very seldom interrogated, typically the only time that they will be interrogated is for testing following implantation. The typical liefespan for cats and dogs is less than 20 years.
RFIDs in humans that are used as identification would likely be interrogated several times a day. There are possible scenarios where implanted RFIDs could be interrogated dozens of times a day. The typical lifespan for humans is at least three or four times the typical lifespan for a cat or dog.
Although they are not breasts and they are made of silicone rubber rather than silicone gel, silicone testicular implants are being used in animals. http://www.neuticles.com/
AFAIK; if somebody tried to extend an ODF format by adding extra things that were not approved by the ODF people who would approve of such things, then the resulting format could not be considered to be an ODF format. It isn't much different from what Microsoft is trying to do now.
FOSS offers something for everyone and for the author to criticise FOSS for not catering to the great unwashed is grossly unfair. There are certain pieces of end user FOSS, such as the Mozilla projects, that are trying to develop marketshare which means that they have to be idiot friendly to a certain degree. There are other pieces of FOSS that have marketshare, but are not idiot friendly, such as Apache. There are also major FOSS projects that are complex and well documented, such as Samba, that will scare the bejesus out of the average CompUSA customer. There are even major FOSS projects that are complex and well documented, such as Sendmail, that many people don't know how it works. FOSS was intended to create tools, it was never intended that all FOSS would be understood or be usable by everybody.
A pay as you go business model doesn't work very well for video rentals when the videos are sent by mail. Pay as you go rentals are based you having the video in your posession for a short period of time, usually between 1 and 7 days plus several hours because the movie is usually due back at midnight rather than at the same time of day that it was rented. In the best case scenario, three or four days would have to be added to the rental time in order to accomodate the mail delay. With a monthly subscription model it doen't matter how long a movie is out; with pay-as-you-go, each day a movie is in transit adds to costs. What happens if the post office messes up and the movie takes a week to get to the customer or takes a week to return it? If the DVD is lost in the mail, would a pay-as-you-go rental company be as likely to forgive the price of replacing the DVD? I would guess that instead of $5 for a three day B&M video rental, a pay-as-you-go mail order three day rental would reasonably cost at least $10 per movie if the mail takes an average of 2 days each way. Another issue is that pay-as-you-go customers would probably not be as flexible as monthly subscribers as to when a specific movie is shipped. A typical pay-as-you-go customer will probably want the latest movie that was released on Tuesday to be shipped on Wednesday so that it arrives on Friday to be watched it over the weekend. This level of service is going to require a large number of copies of each new release and if anybody ever offers a mail order video service like this it is going to be very pricey.
I would hope that the researchers know something about the composition of the coffee that they are using in their research. There is no caffeine in chicory and some people believe that it has some health benefits. I don't know of anybody who drinks coffee that contains chicory. There are coffee blends made in the US that contains chicory and it is supposed to be popular.
Odd you say that standards slow progress in a web browser standards thread. MSIE's "de facto" standard is moribund and W3C specifications and the browsers that are W3C compliant are lightyears ahead of any released version of MSIE.
My question still stands, the US government is eavesdropping without a court order, not even a retro-active court order. Presidential approval ratings are nomally intended to show the approval ratings of the COUNTRY, not of members of the president's politial party. CNN's and FOX's lastest polls show a 32-33% presidential approval rating. Clinton's presidential approval rating tented to stay in the high 50's to low sixties.
Other than the assertions of the current administration, which many (possibly up to 70% of the population of the US according to presidential approval polls) believe has been shown to be untrustworthy, what is your source that backs up your statement: "As the targets of the program are terrorist or their affiliates ..."?
Do you mean those web sites that on weekends and holidays frequently display a Microsoft SQL error page when you click on anything?