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  1. Re:I was scanned in LAX--- Relaxed? Or not? on Freshman Representative Opposes "TSA Porn" · · Score: 2, Informative

    Well, if someone enters the scanner socked, locked and ready to rock, hopefully the millimetre scanner detects something appearing or weighing in at 1,397 mm...

    Butt, on the other hand, the mm scan could be useful for detecting collapsed, polymer truncheons/batons and daggers that otherwise would be/might be found in a luggage scan. And, the mm scan can detect mules (drugs carriers) who've been surgically invaded to carry cocaine under their skin. Sure, drug-sniffer dogs can do this, too, but the mm scan might find people who have the scars from previous runs, and help DEA get a bead on their asses and their handlers, too. I imagine this database producing TONS of information to be added to the government/s' arsenal...

    http://www.visualanalytics.com/
    http://www.visualanalytics.com/products/visuaLinks/vlFeatures/placements/Starburst.cfm
    http://www.visualanalytics.com/products/visuaLinks/vlFeatures/index.cfm

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visual_Analytics

    http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2009/nsf09525/nsf09525.htm

  2. Re:May I be the first to say... May *I* say: on Sophos Releases Klingon Language Version · · Score: 2, Insightful

    KAM CHE CHAMI CHEK!

    Picard: KAM CHE CHAMI CHEK!

    Gowron (smiling): You swear WELL in Klingon, Picard....

  3. Re:How 'bout this, for starters re: search/seizure on What Should Be In a Technology Bill of Rights? · · Score: 1

    Crappy-assed notepad... bad formatting... Here is the same text, formatted for easier reading:

    What should be in a "Technology Bill of Rights"

    Current technology makes it easy and difficult for law enforcement to capture and seize and retain equipment, information, and data of or about or owned by a target of an investigation or persons tangential to the target of said investigation. Technology also makes it possible and not unreasonable for persons visit, collect, dispose of, and maintain data over a variety of devices, streams, and locations.
    Persons under investigation or not under investigation shall not be required to live their lives as if they must be at-the-ready to facilitate Law Enforcement to bring charges against said person or persons related to the subject of an investigation. People today use computers to facilitate communication, operation of business, continuance of education, and to do any number of other things that may be legal or illegal, but not of an illegality sufficient to warrant seizure (even if remote search and surveillance are conducted) of the equipment.

    Unnecessary, spiteful, specious, punative and groundsless search is disturbing and seizure detrimental if not permanently destructive to the privacy or conduct of business or education of persons who ultimately are not arrested or are arrested but released on Own Recognizance or for lack of cause or for technicalities or procedural abberations in violation of subject's rights.

    Therefore:

    Persons under surveillance who have not committed a crime nor are being charged with a crime SHALL NOT have their personal property seized. Seizure may occur in extremely grave situations of bona fide national security or flight risk concerns, but ONLY IF the person is in an immediate position of destroying data that was not already captured via technical means which may or may not be disclosed to the subject nor the subject's attorney.

    Persons who voluntarily offer to law enforcement an opportunity to reasonably copy target's data concurrent to/related to the scope of the investigation SHALL NOT BE SEPARATED from the investigation and SHALL BE ALLOWED personal or technical proxy representation, full custody of, and a written receipt or copy log of what os obtained.

    Law enforcement shall arrive to the premises equipped to take copies of data by whatever means devices allow the recording of data which may be stored on equipment as old as 25 years or current. The ill-preparation of LE to copy data SHALL NOT JUSTIFY seizure nor freezing of subjects' assessts simply for convenience of Law Enforcement. Only in extremely grave cases of risk of destruction of information shall LE be permitted to monitor "that last bit" of uncaptured information via orders to a subject (by now compromised) to not destroy information.

    If LE determines a person or business warrants surveillance, it should be publicly expected that by the time a subject is arrested or detained and removed from home or business, LE should have by technical means obtained what it needed. The seizure of equipment shall result in the turning over of the equipment to a NEUTRAL THIRD PARTY who will not buckle to police, nor allow the pending-defendant's counsel to tamper with evidence.

  4. How 'bout this, for starters re: search/seizure on What Should Be In a Technology Bill of Rights? · · Score: 1, Interesting

    What should be in a "Technology Bill of Rights"

    Current technology makes it easy and difficult for law enforcement to capture and seize and retain

    equipment, information, and data of or about or owned by a target of an investigation or persons

    tangential to the target of said investigation. Technology also makes it possible and not unreasonable for

    persons visit, collect, dispose of, and maintain data over a variety of devices, streams, and locations.

    Persons under investigation or not under investigation shall not be required to live their lives as if

    they must be at-the-ready to facilitate Law Enforcement to bring charges against said person or persons

    related to the subject of an investigation. People today use computers to facilitate communication,

    operation of business, continuance of education, and to do any number of other things that may be legal or

    illegal, but not of an illegality sufficient to warrant seizure (even if remote search and surveillance

    are conducted) of the equipment.

    Unnecessary, spiteful, specious, punative and groundsless search is disturbing and seizure detrimental if

    not permanently destructive to the privacy or conduct of business or education of persons who ultimately

    are not arrested or are arrested but released on Own Recognizance or for lack of cause or for

    technicalities or procedural abberations in violation of subject's rights.

    Therefore:

    Persons under surveillance who have not committed a crime nor are being charged with a crime SHALL NOT

    have their personal property seized. Seizure may occur in extremely grave situations of bona fide national

    security or flight risk concerns, but ONLY IF the person is in an immediate position of destroying data

    that was not already captured via technical means which may or may not be disclosed to the subject nor the

    subject's attorney.

    Persons who voluntarily offer to law enforcement an opportunity to reasonably copy target's data

    concurrent to/related to the scope of the investigation SHALL NOT BE SEPARATED from the investigation and

    SHALL BE ALLOWED personal or technical proxy representation, full custody of, and a written receipt or

    copy log of what os obtained.

    Law enforcement shall arrive to the premises equipped to take copies of data by whatever means devices

    allow the recording of data which may be stored on equipment as old as 25 years or current. The ill-

    preparation of LE to copy data SHALL NOT JUSTIFY seizure nor freezing of subjects' assessts simply for

    convenience of Law Enforcement. Only in extremely grave cases of risk of destruction of information shall

    LE be permitted to monitor "that last bit" of uncaptured information via orders to a subject (by now

    compromised) to not destroy information.

    If LE determines a person or business warrants surveillance, it should be publicly expected that by the

    time a subject is arrested or detained and removed from home or business, LE should have by technical

    means obtained what it needed. The seizure of equipment shall result in the turning over of the equipment

    to a NEUTRAL THIRD PARTY who will not buckle to police, nor allow the pending-defendant's counsel to

    tamper with evidence.

  5. Re:Yeah, real big secret Does this make him the on Biden Reveals Location of Secret VP Bunker · · Score: 1

    #1 or the #TWO "Bunker Buster" (bunkers AND bunk, and debunker (of myths?)...) bu bu bu bu BOOM!, heheheh

  6. First, get some pointy-ass shoes, a gnome outfit on Microsoft Trying To Patent a 'Magic Wand' · · Score: 1

    and set of blingy neck chains, a runes book, and do jigs and circus moves. That'll impress me. Games makers already are on this, ms, so back off. Your acts further justify massive patent reform's need, clowns.

    (Yeh, shills/acolytes, go ahead, marke me inflammatory/troll...)

  7. Whell, I'll be... on Scientists Discover Common Ancestor of Monkeys, Apes, and Humans · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    A monkey's uncle... Or, my name isn't going to be Cornelius, hehehe

  8. Re:Recollection on Usenet Group Sues Dutch RIAA · · Score: 1

    They should attack the Breen, annoy the founders, but off the Vorta and any supply of ketracel white, and plan to become shapeshifters. Then, All shall be as it was intended...

  9. Re:Slashdot it ... i deg to biffer.... on Hosting a Highly Inflammatory Document? · · Score: 1

    That's why s/he/it needs to visit Paramount or fans and find the Vidian frayed-skin emulsified-flattulance cookbook and dress up like one. THEN enter said internet cafe. Problems with this idea? Don't worry. S/he/it will be dressing up like a Vidian dressing up like a human dressing up like a Vidian descended from a time-line-displaced/nuked fugitive pretending to be a mergee from multiple Earth continents...

  10. There's no TIME to lose.... on Hosting a Highly Inflammatory Document? · · Score: 3, Funny

    To borrow from Captain Braxton. And, To borrow from /. and Terminator 2, and more from Trek you will need to start with:

    -- 5 million sun-block,
    -- super-mega tinfoil hat, polymorphic
    -- Federation Timeship Aeon, mk IV
    -- Subspace polarization inhibitor, non-time-domain-collapsing
    -- Fluidic Gateway to unlimited supply of Ketracel White
    -- Vidian anti-aging/anti-phaging cream

    because one, more or all of the cogizant agencies may have reasons to knock your ass across 5 timelines, 27 dimensions, dozens of gender and species reassignments, and multiple states of matter...

    GOOD LUCK!

    (I survived my own ordeal, but it was QUITE a harrowing experience eludi$_#$#@#*_#@*_*$_*&#&_$(+$%$)

  11. Re:Name spelling; other info links. on Interview With UIzard Creator Ryu Sunt-tae · · Score: 1

    Ah, yessss. Komapsumnida! Like Kim-sonsaengmim... I got tripped up over the -eum, vs -im after n-.

    Thanks!

  12. Re:Name spelling; other info links. on Interview With UIzard Creator Ryu Sunt-tae · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Hmmm, i just figured out the paragraph about him is further down the page. The characters i see are, phonetically, in English:

      1. UIzard -

    ryu seung tae neum

    R character + yu character, both making family name

    S character + -| (i'm using minus and pipe to simulate the "eu" chars that are pronounced as "uh", like mud/bud/scud/flood) and the null char "ng" (circle) beneath "s" and "eu"

    [- (simulating the "t" (single "t" sound, not the double "t" sound/char) left of the "H"-looking char that makes the sound "ay" sound spelled as "ae" (like Hyundae, spoken quickly from the english spelling/chars of heeyoon-day/hyoon-dae, w/ emphasis on the d, almost "t", between day and take)

    at the very end is the article/suffix "neum", for which i am awaiting an explanation by a Korean friend here studying English...

    These might be useful:

    http://www.flashcardexchange.com/flashcards/view/493303
    http://langintro.com/kintro/
    http://langintro.com/kintro/family/direct.htm

    http://langintro.com/kintro/first.htm

  13. Re:Web Dev WYSIWYG in Javascript on Interview With UIzard Creator Ryu Sunt-tae · · Score: 1

    Well, as long as he's not spending an inordinate time with The Wonder Girls:

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wonder_Girls

    or with Li Hyori:

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lee_Hyori

    Then i am sure the code will get done... in do.. ummm, due time...

  14. Re:Name spelling; other info links. on Interview With UIzard Creator Ryu Sunt-tae · · Score: 1

    Whoaa... I submit then that he's one helluva creative guy :). After all, if anyone can name herself Alien Sun (See "Ichi the Killer", http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=coiVr5Pl4-s and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alien_Sun ), then surely i give him thumbs up with "t" vice "g". Hhehehe, but i wonder what his parents think....

  15. Name spelling; other info links. on Interview With UIzard Creator Ryu Sunt-tae · · Score: 5, Informative

    I am 99.999999999999999999999999999999999% sure that his name is supposed to be typed as Ryu Sung-tae (Sung, not Sunt; there is not in my studies of Korean some such name, given, or family...). Besides, g and t on the US / Latin keyboard are adjacent, and all the more this seems to be a typo. If it was a phone interview, with the interviewer making corrections, it's then even possible that his name is Seung, not Sung, as in the director http://www.koreanfilm.org/films2008.html Ryu Seung-jin.

    Unfortunately, it appears the opensource site seems to have it wrong. But, *i* could be wrong, so maybe you can e-mail him and ask him if his name is actually misspelled on the site.

    For those not aware, the "WI" as in wizard or whiskey in the US/English speakign areas is written in Korean charactes that look in English like "oi", but pronounced making for it to look like "uh-wee-zard". So, it's neat/nifty a spin to have UI and Wi merged for UIzard, instead of just using Wizard....

    Just my two cents...

    Oh, Ajaxjian Link:

    http://ajaxian.com/archives/uizard-a-web-mashup-generator-written-in-yui

    DZone link:

    http://www.dzone.com/links/uizard_a_web_mashup_generator_written_in_yui.html

    And another, unrelated item:
    http://technews.am/conversations/ajaxian/uizard_a_web_mashup_generator_written_in_yui
    http://technews.am/conversations/ajaxian/3d_cube_using_new_css_transformations

  16. Deja vu all over again? on Daydreaming Is Really Complex Problem-Solving · · Score: 1

    I thought we covered this in March. I searched like hell for proof, and only when i entered DOODLING did either slashdot or google return pages to calm me down. Searching on "daydreaming" brought back and irritatingly high FUCKLOAD of returns for today, but next to NOTHING valuable about past stories. Even in NPR, their search brought back only their program "Daydreaming". It's annoying as hell to have these "tinfoil" moments when searching in vain is due to poor searching, but in which quick, poor searching on my part would lead me to thing i am losing my mind.

    Anyway, what today is newer than in March on this topic?

    http://www.huffingtonpost.com/susan-smalley/doodling-and-the-wanderin_b_166440.html

    http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=101727048

    I knew i'd heard the NPR story, as i was on my way to work. IIRC, Morning Edition ran it multiple times, causing me to remember it, but i failed to recall "doodling".

  17. YAY!!!! on MySQL Founder Starts Open Database Alliance, Plans Refactoring · · Score: 1

    FORKIN' AYE!!!

    This should be a GOOD thing, and hopefully it will move FAST, be stable, and be not politically hamstrung.

  18. Re:But does it work? A bigger question is: on Court Orders Breathalyzer Code Opened, Reveals Mess · · Score: 1

    What does this imply for the commercial software development world? Can THEY be held to produce code and be punished for sloppy code, even if their code is used in medical areas, nuclear power plants and other places?

    Imagine if FINALLY people trying to sue msoft and other can have their winning day in court. What this could mean is that WE, the consumer, stop or reduce getting dragged through upgrade cycles of crap code, paying for code that was released on a marketing schedule rather than a "85%-95%ready" benchmark.

  19. Re:No surprise As far as i'm concerned, when it on The More Popular the Browser, the Slower It Is · · Score: 2, Informative

    comes to internet exploder, the term "popular" should be changed instead to "pervasive". To me, "popular" conveys a sense of attraction/interest/liking by the USERS or CHOOSER, such as choosing a car, camera, phone, debutante, model, etc. Developers and laziness and intertia in developemnt circles, and the damned GAMES msoft played to kill Netscape and others off made mshaft pervasive, but by NO means is that set of warze "popular" as in liked. If i have a say, the wand would be waved, and exploder gone "poof". But, fortunately, i don't have to be the axeman. msoft is doing it to itself.

  20. Re:Doesnt sound like much? Visualize W on Illusion Cloak Makes One Object Look Like Another · · Score: 1

    hirled peas... (Whirled Peas)....

    Anyway, this will not work well against satellite inspection because most objects of interest to satellite-launching governments already have HUGE databases of what known matter gives off what kind of thermal/visual/shadow patterns at various times of day, season, and weather conditions. SOME things might cause doubt, and even consternation and even upset and assault timetable....

    But, none of this cloak and swagger trickery/deception will work up close when an RPG or long-range targeting laser or a grenade or locally-induced dust storm will expose these gimmicks.

    Explosions against bodies will produce fluids and pieces strewn about. Targeting lasers will either be absorbed, or be refracted/reflected. Grenades will do the first. Dust storms will screw with the transmitters, and if the snooping opponent sends in robot flies/UAVs, these can test for reaction at thresholds humans would respond to, this being to sniff out special forces who SHOULD be unnerved by snakes or bees slithering & hissing or buzzing about their sniping or scouting positions. If REAL troops are to be screwed with, drop itching powder or snakes on their positions. If they aren't supposed to BE there, then, fuck, they aren't supposed to BE there.

  21. Re:Unemployment Rates It most ASSuredly would on Craigslist Kills Erotic Services Ads, Will Launch Adult Section · · Score: 0, Troll

    be a HARD thing to do...

    Maybe CL should sell RealDolls with strategically-located, UDD-filled cavities.... That stuff could moderate down the neutrons in ANY hard dick forging ahead.

  22. Looks like someone there conjured up on Rotten Office Fridge Cleanup Sends 7 To Hospital · · Score: 1

    GhostGeist or PolterBusters... Shoulda called RotorRooter...

  23. Re:Cowboy Bebop, Anyone? What about office on Rotten Office Fridge Cleanup Sends 7 To Hospital · · Score: 1

    procedures? I guess one could recall the commercials of old.... "AT&T: The RIGHT choice"... how bout in this case?

    Maybe refrigerators could be sold with fill and vacuum fittings so that a suction hose could be attached and suck fumes and fume-killers as a neutralizer gas (might or might not be toxic for people/pet food) to reduce the risk of deadly, emergent shit.

  24. Re:eSATA and 'books' Rack'em and on How To Store Internal Hard Drives? · · Score: 1

    Stack'em. Get some array gear and just keep 'em near-term on-line. You could make your own unimatrix/tertiary adjunct (or, primary/secondary, etc...). Set up a few re-entertainment alcoves, and a vinculum, and you can gorge like a Borg on data... But, don't take a byte (or bite) out of Data's hide... (hidden cache of little nuggets and jewels of seedy information...) he might have some interesting tales he decided to crypt there....

  25. Re:Yahoo No, no.. they want to open a bank, or on Microsoft Raises $3.8B in Bond Sale · · Score: 1

    The reference, as performed in a skit by the SNL comedian, may be obscure, but many analysts still think the grading system was not truly necessary.

    But, to make it *less* obscure....:

    "Financial Economics, 'Saturday Night Live'-style"
    http://blog.newsweek.com/blogs/wealthofnations/archive/2009/05/11/financial-economics-saturday-night-live-style.aspx