One very important factor about the US rail system regarding oil consumption, GDP and economic influences (and related to the recent "Dubai Ports" issue)...
Over the past 20 years, the failing US rail system was transformed into a system to transport containers from Asia to Europe. This costly transformation included reboring or replacing most tunnels, replacing low clearance bridges, improving the roadbeds and replacing the tracks with welded rail to accommodate high speed "double stack" container trains.
The "double stack" container trains carry containers from ports on the West Coast to Ports on the East Coast at 70 mph, stopping only to change crews. They have priority over all other trains except Amtrak passenger trains.
By covering the width of the US in 3 days, and bypassing the Panama Canal, it saves weeks off the transit time of shipping from Asia to Europe, even with the time and cost of having to unload the containers on the west coast and putting them back onto ships on the East Coast.
Spend time train watching, and you'll quickly see that this is the bulk of the traffic carried by the remaining highly-consolidated US rail carriers. The world has become a very interdependent place.
So the carbon dioxide being put into the sky over the US is partly supporting the economic activity in Asia and providing consumer goods to Europe - but with only a modest impact on the measured GDP of the United States.
The reason Russia backed the Kyoto Protocols is that the 1990 baseline period was prior to the industrial collapse of Russia. Russia is currently 43% below their 1990 emission rate. http://www.warprofiteers.com/article.php?id=12988
Any country unwilling or unable to meet its CO2 obligations under the treaty would have to buy the CO2 credits from Russia, which couldn't ramp up the economic activity to use them even if they wanted to.
BTW, only 2 of the EU countries are meeting their own obligations under the Kyoto protocol: http://www.ccels.cardiff.ac.uk/issue/lee.html Much of the "reduction" in EU emissions is money being sent to Russia to update or replace Russia's highly polluting equipment rather than any changes in Western Europe itself.
Follow the Money.
I noticed in the past week, the NY Times had an article about the Aral Sea and how they are trying to un-do some of the horrendous environmental damage caused to it by the Soviet Union.
The story mentions that a submarine is being equipped for the job of tapping into undersea fiber optic cables by 2004 - the USS Jimmy Carter. The irony of that is priceless.
I've viewed the phone company and banks as agents of the government, not independent businesses. Maybe that scene from WKRP that the Phone Police are coming to arrest Johnny Fever weren't so paranoid after all.
Is there any surprise that the US Government antitrust department and the FCC are sitting on their hands as the entire telcom industry reconsolidates back into one single company?
Pay no attention to that - Cynthia McKinney has a new hair style, and Barbra Streisand is going to have another farewell tour. Now that's news that matters!
AT&T is complying (as the article mentions in passing) with the Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act of 1994, which was pushed for by the Clinton Administration in 1994.
The Democrats controlled the US Senate and House in 1994 as well as the executive branch. Pay attention to the role of the EFF in supporting the passage of this law over the objections of other privacy advocacy groups like EPIC.
CALEA passed the US Senate on Oct. 7, 1994 by *unanimous* consent. John Kerry has been in the US Senate since 1985. President Clinton signed the bill on October 25, 1994.
AT&T is following the law - time for a class action lawsuit!!
And maybe as a side effect, the real time data capture and semantic analysis of IP-based traffic helps AT&T and other carriers locate and stop the source of massive DDoS attacks.
OMG, the recklessness of George Bush. Impeach! Impeach!
For extra credit, remember the Clipper Chip? The Blue Ribbon Campaign?
Time for an ASCAP/BMI/**AA equivalent to collect royalties and grant blanket copyright protection for the entire web - to protect the authors from exploitation of their original works, of course.
The article did state the party breakdown on the vote, however apparently someone has a counting problem.
"By an 8-to-23 margin, the committee members rejected a Democratic-backed "Net neutrality" amendment to a current piece of telecommunications legislation. " [...] "The vote on the amendment itself did not occur strictly along party lines, with one Republican voting in favor and four Democrats voting against it. "
Since there are only 18 Repubicans, the article is wrong... someone probably left out at least 4 Democrats voted against the "Democratic" amendment... (not to mention the 2 Dems with "no show" jobs who were too busy to show up to vote on this critical issue)
So are the Slashdot editors implying that they favor more US government regulation of the Internet? The same folks who want the US govt to have a "hands off" approach to ICANN?
Also, a patient who knows that people who love him/her are concerned and fighting for their recovery are more likely to have a positive outcome. See: Confessions of a Medical Heretic, Dr Robert Mendlesohn (1979)
Measuring the effect of people who may or may not be praying for a patient, who may or may not be the same religion, and do not know the patient - doesn't prove much.
If the outcome of the study was that it proved that prayer worked significantly, would scientists have splashed "Existence of God proven by science" on the front page of the New York Times? I think not. They would have questioned the methodology and/or commissioned another study. Oh, wait - that's what this study was. Silly me.
The fact that some aspect of the recovery is not based in science does not mean it isn't real. The placebo effect is real.
While the existence of God may be open to debate, the existence of a belief in God is not.
I've apparently had this patch in place for a few weeks already. The most obvious thing that happens is that for an embedded Windows Media Player object (like streaming radio), you have to click the object once to activate the controls, then a second time to use the controls. Alternatively, you get a popup with an OK button (and no Cancel option!) which enables the activeX control.
Up until now I thought this was a security related patch to prevent some sort of backdoor activeX scripting hack...
Now the important question - which does Slashdot hate more - overly broad software patents or Microsoft?
The trade with Iraq occurred from 1998 to 2000, under the 1997 "Food for Oil" program, which allowed trading with Iraq for certain limited purposes under UN supervision - "They returned to dealing with Iraq after the council established the "oil-for-food" program in December 1996, permitting Iraq to export oil under U.N. supervision and use the proceeds to buy food, medicine and humanitarian goods. The program was expanded in 1998 to allow Iraq to import spare parts for its oil facilities. "
The specifics of what were sold:
"The subsidiaries, Dresser-Rand and Ingersoll Dresser Pump Co., sold water and sewage treatment pumps, spare parts for oil facilities and pipeline equipment to Baghdad through French affiliates from the first half of 1997 to the summer of 2000, U.N. records show. Ingersoll Dresser Pump also signed contracts -- later blocked by the United States -- to help repair an Iraqi oil terminal that U.S.-led military forces destroyed in the Gulf War."
Don't let facts get in the way of your hate, though.
and in the next few years, WiMax (802.16) is expected to provide broadband access to most of the rural areas currently not economically viable to serve with wired technologies. The first field trials are winding down and wide spread availability of equipment should start soon. The main questions about WiMax are whether it will use licensed spectrum, and if so - who will control the spectrum. AT&T/SBC/BellSouth/Cingular probably has an opinion on that and money to spread around.
You cannot grow an 18 year old soldier in less than 19 years. The demographics of people available for military service in some future conflict are already fixed in place for the next 20 years. The ability to change the future out 40 years is constrained by the number of females of child bearing age over the next 20 years. Wars are fought based on constraints based on reality, not on ivory tower "would't it be nice if..."
Knowing that some "advanced" countries (Japan, Russia, most of Europe, and the US) have been producing children at a rate to not even replace the current population would be very important strategic considerations if one is planning a campaign for world domination. Not every country and culture is focused on "the next election". China plans in terms of centuries, not years.
The US response to this reality of force imbalances in future potential conflicts is two basic concepts... find ways to inflict large human casualties with advanced technologies that do not create high risk to US soliders... if you are fighting an enemy with 100:1 advantage in soldiers, you need a weapon that kills 200 for each fatality you take. That's why you see the military thinking in terms of robot soldiers, and more reliance on drone aircraft and long range missiles.
Look no further than the difference between the Iran/Iraq war and the first Gulf War. The Iran/Iraq war was an ineffective slugfest with poorly trained, low tech weapons that degraded into children being sent into minefields to "find" the mines. One important turning event in the war was when Oliver North provided anti-tank missiles to Iran in the "Iran Contra" episode. (Where is the disinformation coming from that the US was on Iraq's side and provided Iraq with arms?)... but I digress.
The second way to deal with a large deficit in fighting age military populations is by finding ways to get others into the available military pool... women and immigrants are two of the current groups being tapped.
Incorporating recent immigrants into your military invites a risk should the country go to war with that immigrant's home country. Germans and Italians are a large percentage of the US population, yet fought Germany and Italy during WW2. The WW2 soliders self-identified as Americans, not "temporary workers" spending time in the U.S. National identity was much stronger than ethnic identity.
But as is becoming clearer, winning a military campaign by destroying the organized military and its military assets is quite a different thing from controlling the country after you "win". Time will tell if there is a solution to that.
The original post pointed out that it *deletes* the file even if the scanner is configured to only quarentine suspect files. And if the motive was to detect trojans, wouldn't it look for the signature of the modified trojan code, not just delete solely based on a file name?
"Since AT&T sold its mobile phone business to Cingular,"...
And Cingular was a joint venture of SBC (now part of AT&T) and BellSouth (soon to be part of AT&T).
I would think the accounting aspects of this group of transactions creates billions of dollars of opportunity to generate Wall Street profits or IRS tax losses (or both at the same time!).
You cannot have too many CPAs. [disclosure: I was an accounting major]
..."and their broadband business to Comcast"...
Want to bet that AT&T tries to acquire cable companies after they've destroyed the remaining competition in phone service? SBC has been very aggressive for several years selling DirecTV to its phone customers. This is economic warfare at its finest.
While it is true that most Arabs are Muslims, it is not true that most followers of Islam are Arabs - in fact, Arabs make up a very small percentage of Islam:
from: http://www.factbook.net/muslim_pop.php
Total: 1.4 billion
Muslim population (in Millions)
Indonesia: 201 India: 144 Pakistan: 140 Bangladesh: 115 Nigeria: 94 Turkey: 66 (Turks are not Arabs) Iran: 65 (Persians are not Arabs) Egypt: 65 (While Egyptians speak Arabic, they are not Arabs - see: http://www.arab.net/egypt/et_people.htm) China: 38 Ethiopia: 37 [...] The substationally Arabic Muslim populations are: Iraq: 20 (about 80% are Arab) Saudi Arabia: 19 Syria: 14 Yemen: 13 Tunisia: 9 Libya: 5 (Mixed Berber and Arab) Jordon: 4 UAE: 3 Lebanon: 3 Oman: 2 Kuwait: 2 West Bank: 1 Gaza: 1 [...]
Perhaps at some point, we can come to some real understanding of what Islam is and isn't.
,,, and how HTML formatted messages posted to Usenet by people using Netscape products was going to destroy Usenet if it wasn't stopped- because of their waste of bandwidth.
Not true - "obtainable" is a function of the cost to retrieve versus the economic value of the product. Entities motivated by profit do not try to "obtain" things which have a higher cost than for what they can be sold.
The oil just will require more resources (drilling deeper, further offshore, using secondary recovery methods) to retrieve oil over time... and regardless of whether there is such a thing as "mantle oil", new oil IS being created all the time. To say otherwise would be to assert that "all the oil that ever existed" was created at some time in the past (ie... by a Creator rather than by an ongoing process)... Just as there surely must be new species of life created all the time.
Even if you could prove that every last drop of "natural" oil was gone, it would always be possible to make oil from other energy sources - it is just that the cost of production may be prohibitive enough that you would use it only for plastics rather than burning it in motor vehicles.
This is actually available in beta at the moment - with a big catch.... you have to be logged in to Google (like being a user of gmail). Google can then exclude that page, or all the pages on that domain from future search results returned. It will also show you just how extensively it logs and retains records of every search you do. Yahoo/Overture also has a similar feature.
If they were clever (and I'm guessing they are), they would aggregate counts of the number of times a visitor excluded a domain from the search results and use that to trigger a review to see if a "content free" domain was using some technique to manipulate search results.
>>I think NY has a power plant that's completely built, but they won't operate.
That would be the Shoreham Nuclear Power Plant on Long Island. It cost over $5 bilion to build (a similar plant in Connecticut was completed for a bit over $100 million) and was abandoned due to political opposition.
Also in New York (on the Hudson River) is the Indian Point nuclear plant, also a subject of much political activism trying to scare people into shutting it down.
The net result is that the New York City and Western Connecticut region now has serious pressure on the electricity infrastructure trying to bring in energy to satisfy the demand. Several years ago (over the objection of the CT attorney general), a power cable was built from CT to Long Island to partially deal with the demand on Long Island.
The other method that is being used to cope with the energy problem without introducing "dangerous" generation methods is natural gas turbines. The problem is that the natural gas piplelines are already running at capacity and LNG (Liquified Natural Gas) which could be brought in on ships also faces "OMG, what if a ship blew up?" NIMBY activism.
Just because an HTTP client is running through a proxy does not mean your "real" IP address is hidden from the web server.
The HTTP protocol has two headers just for this purpose - HTTP_X_FORWARDED_FOR and/or HTTP_CLIENT_IP which forward the requesting IP to the destination http server. These are arrays of IPs indicating the path in the event the request was proxied more than once.
Of course, the header information is only as trustworthy as the operator of the proxy - but in the case of an Internet Service Provider, there really isn't a motivation for them to hide your IP. Passing through the real IP means an abuse complaint is much simpler to trace back to its origin - rather than having to search through the proxy server's log files to locate the specific request at a certain time.
It also protects the ISP's customers from being globally banned rather than just the specific origin IP (as in the/. example)
The article can be summed up from these two quotes:
"Galileo is largely a political project, aimed at asserting Europe's independence"
"Giove-A will not be part of the final 30 satellites that make up the Galileo network. It will try out new technology developed for the project and ensure that the European Space Agency claims the frequencies reserved for Galileo."
Europe already has access to a second GPS system - the one built by the Russian Military.
At the risk of introducing facts into the discussion:
"The professors said the student was told by the agents that the book is on a "watch list," and that his background, which included significant time abroad, triggered them to investigate the student further."
Even if you accept this 4th person account (the article writer says the professor says that the student says that the investigators said...) of what he was told, why would would anyone assume that the agents would tell him -every- reason they have for putting him on the watch list?
...Unless the person is an "undocumented worker" from Mexico - in which case the law enforcement person will get fired (or worse) if they asked for you to produce an ID.
Details: - The directive covers traffic and location data generated by telephony, SMS and internet, but not the content of the information communicated. - MEPs also establish that access to retained data should be limited to specific purpose and on a case by case basis (push system): each time, the authorities would need to request to the telecom company that the data related to a concrete suspect, instead of having granted access to the whole database. - Spanish MEPs strongly supported the Council position to include the retention of unsuccessful calls, since the terrorist attacks in Madrid were prosecuted thanks to the investigation of specific lost calls from mobile phones.
(phone goes boom!)
By "connections" to the internet, Amendment 77 defines this clearly as:
(c) [...]
(2) Concerning Internet Access, Internet e-mail and Internet telephony:
(a) The date and time of the log-in and log-off of the Internet Access service based on a certain time zone, together with the IP address, whether dynamic or static, allocated by the Internet Access Service provider to a communication, and the User ID of the subscriber or registered user.
(b) The date and time of the log-in and log-off of the Internet e-mail service or Internet telephony service based on a certain time zone.
(e)..
3) Concerning Internet Access, Internet e-mail and Internet telephony:
(a) The calling telephone number for dial-up access;
(b) The digital subscriber line (DSL) or other end point of the originator of the communication.
With that information, if someone posts a message on a bulletin board, or sends an email, using the IP address would reliably backtrack to the person who controls the computer used. It seems that for the most part, this must already be possible, given how quickly recent virus/worm authors have been caught.
So basically, what this covers (for internet access) is retaining RADIUS logs, DHCP logs and SMTP logs - for *Public* communication systems.
The real substance of the bill is for cell phones and SMS messaging... the main complaint or concerns about cost are that some telcos currently do not log uncompleted calls on landlines, as they generate no billing record.
Slashdot Mirror
One very important factor about the US rail system regarding oil consumption, GDP and economic influences (and related to the recent "Dubai Ports" issue)...
Over the past 20 years, the failing US rail system was transformed into a system to transport containers from Asia to Europe. This costly transformation included reboring or replacing most tunnels, replacing low clearance bridges, improving the roadbeds and replacing the tracks with welded rail to accommodate high speed "double stack" container trains.
The "double stack" container trains carry containers from ports on the West Coast to Ports on the East Coast at 70 mph, stopping only to change crews. They have priority over all other trains except Amtrak passenger trains.
By covering the width of the US in 3 days, and bypassing the Panama Canal, it saves weeks off the transit time of shipping from Asia to Europe, even with the time and cost of having to unload the containers on the west coast and putting them back onto ships on the East Coast.
Spend time train watching, and you'll quickly see that this is the bulk of the traffic carried by the remaining highly-consolidated US rail carriers. The world has become a very interdependent place.
So the carbon dioxide being put into the sky over the US is partly supporting the economic activity in Asia and providing consumer goods to Europe - but with only a modest impact on the measured GDP of the United States.
The reason Russia backed the Kyoto Protocols is that the 1990 baseline period was prior to the industrial collapse of Russia. Russia is currently 43% below their 1990 emission rate.
http://www.warprofiteers.com/article.php?id=12988
Any country unwilling or unable to meet its CO2 obligations under the treaty would have to buy the CO2 credits from Russia, which couldn't ramp up the economic activity to use them even if they wanted to.
BTW, only 2 of the EU countries are meeting their own obligations under the Kyoto protocol:
http://www.ccels.cardiff.ac.uk/issue/lee.html
Much of the "reduction" in EU emissions is money being sent to Russia to update or replace Russia's highly polluting equipment rather than any changes in Western Europe itself.
Follow the Money.
I noticed in the past week, the NY Times had an article about the Aral Sea and how they are trying to un-do some of the horrendous environmental damage caused to it by the Soviet Union.
AT&T was implicated in placing taps into Russia's undersea copper cables, wasn't it?
On the fiber optic cable front:
http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9595_22-529826.html
(from the Wall Street Journal in 2001)
The story mentions that a submarine is being equipped for the job of tapping into undersea fiber optic cables by 2004 - the USS Jimmy Carter. The irony of that is priceless.
I've viewed the phone company and banks as agents of the government, not independent businesses. Maybe that scene from WKRP that the Phone Police are coming to arrest Johnny Fever weren't so paranoid after all.
Is there any surprise that the US Government antitrust department and the FCC are sitting on their hands as the entire telcom industry reconsolidates back into one single company?
Pay no attention to that - Cynthia McKinney has a new hair style, and Barbra Streisand is going to have another farewell tour. Now that's news that matters!
AT&T is complying (as the article mentions in passing) with the
2 004%20Paper%20html.htm
Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act of 1994, which was pushed for by the Clinton Administration in 1994.
http://www.askcalea.net/
and more detailed:
http://web.si.umich.edu/tprc/papers/2004/335/TPRC
The Democrats controlled the US Senate and House in 1994 as well as the executive branch. Pay attention to the role of the EFF in supporting the passage of this law over the objections of other privacy advocacy groups like EPIC.
CALEA passed the US Senate on Oct. 7, 1994 by *unanimous* consent. John Kerry has been in the US Senate since 1985. President Clinton signed the bill on October 25, 1994.
AT&T is following the law - time for a class action lawsuit!!
And maybe as a side effect, the real time data capture and semantic analysis of IP-based traffic helps AT&T and other carriers locate and stop the source of massive DDoS attacks.
OMG, the recklessness of George Bush. Impeach! Impeach!
For extra credit, remember the Clipper Chip? The Blue Ribbon Campaign?
Time for an ASCAP/BMI/**AA equivalent to collect royalties and grant blanket copyright protection for the entire web - to protect the authors from exploitation of their original works, of course.
What hath g0d wrought?
The article did state the party breakdown on the vote, however apparently someone has a counting problem.
"By an 8-to-23 margin, the committee members rejected a Democratic-backed "Net neutrality" amendment to a current piece of telecommunications legislation. "
[...]
"The vote on the amendment itself did not occur strictly along party lines, with one Republican voting in favor and four Democrats voting against it. "
Therefore:
For: 7 Democrats, 1 Republican
Against: 19 Republicans, 4 Democrats
Not voting: 2
Since there are only 18 Repubicans, the article is wrong... someone probably left out at least 4 Democrats voted against the "Democratic" amendment... (not to mention the 2 Dems with "no show" jobs who were too busy to show up to vote on this critical issue)
So are the Slashdot editors implying that they favor more US government regulation of the Internet? The same folks who want the US govt to have a "hands off" approach to ICANN?
[thesis]<=>[antithesis] -> Synthesis
Also, a patient who knows that people who love him/her are concerned and fighting for their recovery are more likely to have a positive outcome. See: Confessions of a Medical Heretic, Dr Robert Mendlesohn (1979)
Measuring the effect of people who may or may not be praying for a patient, who may or may not be the same religion, and do not know the patient - doesn't prove much.
If the outcome of the study was that it proved that prayer worked significantly, would scientists have splashed "Existence of God proven by science" on the front page of the New York Times? I think not. They would have questioned the methodology and/or commissioned another study. Oh, wait - that's what this study was. Silly me.
The fact that some aspect of the recovery is not based in science does not mean it isn't real. The placebo effect is real.
While the existence of God may be open to debate, the existence of a belief in God is not.
I've apparently had this patch in place for a few weeks already. The most obvious thing that happens is that for an embedded Windows Media Player object (like streaming radio), you have to click the object once to activate the controls, then a second time to use the controls. Alternatively, you get a popup with an OK button (and no Cancel option!) which enables the activeX control.
Up until now I thought this was a security related patch to prevent some sort of backdoor activeX scripting hack...
Now the important question - which does Slashdot hate more - overly broad software patents or Microsoft?
Of course, now with this source released, the Script Kiddies can get to work on new projects using in-memory object code patching of DLL files.
For background, please read:q .htm
http://www.truthout.org/docs_01/02.03E.Hallib.Ira
The trade with Iraq occurred from 1998 to 2000, under the 1997 "Food for Oil" program, which allowed trading with Iraq for certain limited purposes under UN supervision - "They returned to dealing with Iraq after the council established the "oil-for-food" program in December 1996, permitting Iraq to export oil under U.N. supervision and use the proceeds to buy food, medicine and humanitarian goods. The program was expanded in 1998 to allow Iraq to import spare parts for its oil facilities. "
The specifics of what were sold:
"The subsidiaries, Dresser-Rand and Ingersoll Dresser Pump Co., sold water and sewage treatment pumps, spare parts for oil facilities and pipeline equipment to Baghdad through French affiliates from the first half of 1997 to the summer of 2000, U.N. records show. Ingersoll Dresser Pump also signed contracts -- later blocked by the United States -- to help repair an Iraqi oil terminal that U.S.-led military forces destroyed in the Gulf War."
Don't let facts get in the way of your hate, though.
and in the next few years, WiMax (802.16) is expected to provide broadband access to most of the rural areas currently not economically viable to serve with wired technologies. The first field trials are winding down and wide spread availability of equipment should start soon. The main questions about WiMax are whether it will use licensed spectrum, and if so - who will control the spectrum. AT&T/SBC/BellSouth/Cingular probably has an opinion on that and money to spread around.
The figures are -not- meaningless.
u lfwar/
You cannot grow an 18 year old soldier in less than 19 years. The demographics of people available for military service in some future conflict are already fixed in place for the next 20 years. The ability to change the future out 40 years is constrained by the number of females of child bearing age over the next 20 years. Wars are fought based on constraints based on reality, not on ivory tower "would't it be nice if..."
Knowing that some "advanced" countries (Japan, Russia, most of Europe, and the US) have been producing children at a rate to not even replace the current population would be very important strategic considerations if one is planning a campaign for world domination. Not every country and culture is focused on "the next election". China plans in terms of centuries, not years.
The US response to this reality of force imbalances in future potential conflicts is two basic concepts... find ways to inflict large human casualties with advanced technologies that do not create high risk to US soliders... if you are fighting an enemy with 100:1 advantage in soldiers, you need a weapon that kills 200 for each fatality you take. That's why you see the military thinking in terms of robot soldiers, and more reliance on drone aircraft and long range missiles.
Look no further than the difference between the Iran/Iraq war and the first Gulf War. The Iran/Iraq war was an ineffective slugfest with poorly trained, low tech weapons that degraded into children being sent into minefields to "find" the mines. One important turning event in the war was when Oliver North provided anti-tank missiles to Iran in the "Iran Contra" episode. (Where is the disinformation coming from that the US was on Iraq's side and provided Iraq with arms?)... but I digress.
The total US death count from combat in the first Gulf War was 148. Iraq suffered an estimated 100,000 dead soldiers...
http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/2001/gulf.war/facts/g
The second way to deal with a large deficit in fighting age military populations is by finding ways to get others into the available military pool... women and immigrants are two of the current groups being tapped.
Incorporating recent immigrants into your military invites a risk should the country go to war with that immigrant's home country. Germans and Italians are a large percentage of the US population, yet fought Germany and Italy during WW2. The WW2 soliders self-identified as Americans, not "temporary workers" spending time in the U.S. National identity was much stronger than ethnic identity.
But as is becoming clearer, winning a military campaign by destroying the organized military and its military assets is quite a different thing from controlling the country after you "win". Time will tell if there is a solution to that.
I'm sorry Dave, but I cannot do that.
The original post pointed out that it *deletes* the file even if the scanner is configured to only quarentine suspect files. And if the motive was to detect trojans, wouldn't it look for the signature of the modified trojan code, not just delete solely based on a file name?
"Since AT&T sold its mobile phone business to Cingular,"...
..."and their broadband business to Comcast"...
And Cingular was a joint venture of SBC (now part of AT&T) and BellSouth (soon to be part of AT&T).
I would think the accounting aspects of this group of transactions creates billions of dollars of opportunity to generate Wall Street profits or IRS tax losses (or both at the same time!).
You cannot have too many CPAs. [disclosure: I was an accounting major]
Want to bet that AT&T tries to acquire cable companies after they've destroyed the remaining competition in phone service? SBC has been very aggressive for several years selling DirecTV to its phone customers. This is economic warfare at its finest.
While it is true that most Arabs are Muslims, it is not true that most followers of Islam are Arabs - in fact, Arabs make up a very small percentage of Islam:
from: http://www.factbook.net/muslim_pop.php
Total: 1.4 billion
Muslim population (in Millions)
Indonesia: 201
India: 144
Pakistan: 140
Bangladesh: 115
Nigeria: 94
Turkey: 66 (Turks are not Arabs)
Iran: 65 (Persians are not Arabs)
Egypt: 65 (While Egyptians speak Arabic, they are not Arabs - see: http://www.arab.net/egypt/et_people.htm)
China: 38
Ethiopia: 37
[...]
The substationally Arabic Muslim populations are:
Iraq: 20 (about 80% are Arab)
Saudi Arabia: 19
Syria: 14
Yemen: 13
Tunisia: 9
Libya: 5 (Mixed Berber and Arab)
Jordon: 4
UAE: 3
Lebanon: 3
Oman: 2
Kuwait: 2
West Bank: 1
Gaza: 1
[...]
Perhaps at some point, we can come to some real understanding of what Islam is and isn't.
,,, and how HTML formatted messages posted to Usenet by people using Netscape products was going to destroy Usenet if it wasn't stopped- because of their waste of bandwidth.
Hmmm...
Ban the WWW - bring back Gopher!
Not true - "obtainable" is a function of the cost to retrieve versus the economic value of the product. Entities motivated by profit do not try to "obtain" things which have a higher cost than for what they can be sold.
The oil just will require more resources (drilling deeper, further offshore, using secondary recovery methods) to retrieve oil over time... and regardless of whether there is such a thing as "mantle oil", new oil IS being created all the time. To say otherwise would be to assert that "all the oil that ever existed" was created at some time in the past (ie... by a Creator rather than by an ongoing process)... Just as there surely must be new species of life created all the time.
Even if you could prove that every last drop of "natural" oil was gone, it would always be possible to make oil from other energy sources - it is just that the cost of production may be prohibitive enough that you would use it only for plastics rather than burning it in motor vehicles.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synthetic_oil
This is actually available in beta at the moment - with a big catch.... you have to be logged in to Google (like being a user of gmail). Google can then exclude that page, or all the pages on that domain from future search results returned. It will also show you just how extensively it logs and retains records of every search you do. Yahoo/Overture also has a similar feature.
If they were clever (and I'm guessing they are), they would aggregate counts of the number of times a visitor excluded a domain from the search results and use that to trigger a review to see if a "content free" domain was using some technique to manipulate search results.
>>I think NY has a power plant that's completely built, but they won't operate.
That would be the Shoreham Nuclear Power Plant on Long Island. It cost over $5 bilion to build (a similar plant in Connecticut was completed for a bit over $100 million) and was abandoned due to political opposition.
Also in New York (on the Hudson River) is the Indian Point nuclear plant, also a subject of much political activism trying to scare people into shutting it down.
The net result is that the New York City and Western Connecticut region now has serious pressure on the electricity infrastructure trying to bring in energy to satisfy the demand. Several years ago (over the objection of the CT attorney general), a power cable was built from CT to Long Island to partially deal with the demand on Long Island.
The other method that is being used to cope with the energy problem without introducing "dangerous" generation methods is natural gas turbines. The problem is that the natural gas piplelines are already running at capacity and LNG (Liquified Natural Gas) which could be brought in on ships also faces "OMG, what if a ship blew up?" NIMBY activism.
Just because an HTTP client is running through a proxy does not mean your "real" IP address is hidden from the web server.
/. example)
The HTTP protocol has two headers just for this purpose - HTTP_X_FORWARDED_FOR and/or HTTP_CLIENT_IP which forward the requesting IP to the destination http server. These are arrays of IPs indicating the path in the event the request was proxied more than once.
Of course, the header information is only as trustworthy as the operator of the proxy - but in the case of an Internet Service Provider, there really isn't a motivation for them to hide your IP. Passing through the real IP means an abuse complaint is much simpler to trace back to its origin - rather than having to search through the proxy server's log files to locate the specific request at a certain time.
It also protects the ISP's customers from being globally banned rather than just the specific origin IP (as in the
The article can be summed up from these two quotes:
o ns/glonass_consum.shtml
"Galileo is largely a political project, aimed at asserting Europe's independence"
"Giove-A will not be part of the final 30 satellites that make up the Galileo network. It will try out new technology developed for the project and ensure that the European Space Agency claims the frequencies reserved for Galileo."
Europe already has access to a second GPS system - the one built by the Russian Military.
http://www.spaceandtech.com/spacedata/constellati
Perhaps you are confusing Google Maps with Google Earth?
Google Maps shows the modification - the Google Earth viewer does not.
At the risk of introducing facts into the discussion:
"The professors said the student was told by the agents that the book is on a "watch list," and that his background, which included significant time abroad , triggered them to investigate the student further."
Even if you accept this 4th person account (the article writer says the professor says that the student says that the investigators said...) of what he was told, why would would anyone assume that the agents would tell him -every- reason they have for putting him on the watch list?
...Unless the person is an "undocumented worker" from Mexico - in which case the law enforcement person will get fired (or worse) if they asked for you to produce an ID.
Yeah, I know facts aren't as much fun as speculation and fear mongering but...
p age/019-3536-348-12-50-902-20051206IPR03225-14-12- 2005-2005--false/default_en.htm the press release
F =-//EP//TEXT+TA+20051214+ITEMS+DOC+XML+V0//EN&NAV= S&MODE=XML&LSTDOC=N&LEVEL=0&SAME_LEVEL=1
http://www.europarl.eu.int/news/expert/infopress_
Details:
- The directive covers traffic and location data generated by telephony, SMS and internet, but not the content of the information communicated.
- MEPs also establish that access to retained data should be limited to specific purpose and on a case by case basis (push system): each time, the authorities would need to request to the telecom company that the data related to a concrete suspect, instead of having granted access to the whole database.
- Spanish MEPs strongly supported the Council position to include the retention of unsuccessful calls, since the terrorist attacks in Madrid were prosecuted thanks to the investigation of specific lost calls from mobile phones.
(phone goes boom!)
http://www.europarl.eu.int/omk/sipade3?L=EN&PUBRE
Actual Text
By "connections" to the internet, Amendment 77 defines this clearly as:
(c) [...]
(2) Concerning Internet Access, Internet e-mail and Internet telephony:
(a) The date and time of the log-in and log-off of the Internet Access service based on a certain time zone, together with the IP address, whether dynamic or static, allocated by the Internet Access Service provider to a communication, and the User ID of the subscriber or registered user.
(b) The date and time of the log-in and log-off of the Internet e-mail service or Internet telephony service based on a certain time zone.
(e)..
3) Concerning Internet Access, Internet e-mail and Internet telephony:
(a) The calling telephone number for dial-up access;
(b) The digital subscriber line (DSL) or other end point of the originator of the communication.
With that information, if someone posts a message on a bulletin board, or sends an email, using the IP address would reliably backtrack to the person who controls the computer used. It seems that for the most part, this must already be possible, given how quickly recent virus/worm authors have been caught.
So basically, what this covers (for internet access) is retaining RADIUS logs, DHCP logs and SMTP logs - for *Public* communication systems.
The real substance of the bill is for cell phones and SMS messaging... the main complaint or concerns about cost are that some telcos currently do not log uncompleted calls on landlines, as they generate no billing record.