Some of these subsections were good but all could be abused, and no their loss won't cost us the war on terrorism; Here are a few of the sunset provisions;
Section 202: Gives federal officials the authority to intercept wire, spoken and electronic communications relating to computer fraud and abuse offenses.(ok we have a law for this already right)
Section 206: Allows federal officials to issue roving "John Doe" wiretaps for spy and anti-terrorism investigations.( this is a boomerang, it meant that they could tap any phone at any time, no proof needed,other than the request for a tap)
Section 209: Permits the seizure of voicemail messages under a warrant.
(this one should've stayed, this was useful)
Section 220: Provides for nationwide service of search warrants for electronic evidence.
(they need to limit this to a per jurisdiction issue, for good reason, they can have a warrant from an east coast federal court served in a west coast federal jurisdiction, there are only 100 ways this could go wrong)
Section 225: Amends FISA to prohibit lawsuits against people or companies that provide information to federal officials for a terrorism investigation.
(this one should stay, the ISP or person should (in concept) be under legal threat if they don't comply)
This is a good start for canada, but you should know about whats happening here; For instance in North Dakota, Iowa and Minnesota there are plants under construction that will each have the capacity to produce 50 million gallons of biodiesel per year. Along with plans to build or feasibility studies going on in Missourri, Mississippi, South Carolina and North Carolina. Add to that the State of Minnesotas mandate that all state vehicles must use bidiesel or gasahol blends where possible. Yeah it is only a drop in the bucket, but it is a start. Also during the course of the last year there were some significant cost and production improvements . At Penn States AG school, they found a better way to crack the chemicals that enhnaces the output by 25% and from a/. story last week a group of tokyo researchers have found a way to crack the biodiesel out of the plant esthers without using industrial Lye, they use an corn derived acid that they claim will cost 1/10th to 1/50th of the present methods. Not to sound corny(bad pun) but this industry is poised to do an end run break out & if we're not careful and actually amount to something significant. Personally , I hope it does!
Well I was a ubuntu zealot myself till I tried Xandros, Ubuntu is good, But I prefer a Kde interface and xandros comes with crossover office installed(a 30 day trial version). This allows you to run windows programs like IE or office if you have to. The one thing I note with xandros is its a love hate relationship, in my case its true love, but many seem to not like it, as it has a strong GUI interface and is almost a totally automated setup. The upside to the setup I find is that it only took me 25 minutes to install it on my first try, and at 25 minute I was pulling email off of my server. Add to that it comes with open office installed and you have a pretty solid system that has its own vpn you can install with a down load, as far as I know no one else has a vpn in their distro's as of yet. While this isn't your typical linux, I think if you give it an honest try I think you'll find its a good choice.
That isn't why! The common wealth of massachusetts simply demanded that all office "type" software be able to open all documents the state has produced digitally irreguardless of the manufacturer of the os/software that made them. When Microsoft laughed at them , then they went to open source. The reason they went was to insure all state douments that are for the most part digitally stored are available for the long term (20 to 50 years) and that no matter how long the document is stored, that it can be accessed now or 100 years from now. Oh by the way, I point out that microsoft, just this last week, has opted to go open source with their file formats. Hmm I wonder why!?? Hmm the rumors out of california must be true:P Does anyone know of any other states or corporations that are looking at the TCO of opensource in an office/desktop enviroment?
actually this is the same gripe I pointed out to my bank. they just don't seem to care that an rfid chip with the account information in the card is a big security nightmare waiting to happen. Does anyone know how to permanently diable the chip but leave the card useable??
In a word Xandros, it comes bundled with crossover office and is relativly stable and it's a debian distro with the easiest install for a linux platform I've run into yet, and beleive me I've tried a few. It's not totally bugless but it will work for what you want and ditch the viruses and the tuesday afternoon thru when ever you finish testing the microsoft patch blues.
Yeah I remember reading about this concept in Aviation week and space technology,,,, in,,, 1991.
"I believe John Dvorak said it best, there are no new ideas, just old bad ones that won't go away" I think thats what he said!
wow a real poll, hows that line go again,,, "Lies,Damn lies and Statistics!" Polls mean nothing unless you can look at the actual polling data and see what the proponent of a given position left out to skew the data results
{fake quote} sometime near 2013, "dell announces today they're downsizing all their product assembly staff's world wide and replacing them with Toyota robots. While admitting that the present generation robot can't quite get ahold of the indepth tasks involved in assembly of machines, they have no problem running forlifts and other associated support equipment in the compnies warehouses.
(think this is funny, wait till someone actually pulls off the darpa grand challenge, then we'll see who's laughing) by the way robot forklifts have been around for 15 years already!
Well yes and no. Linux is the flavor of choice for the intelligence services, as it is more secure, no matter what anyone says. So maybe this will open the door, but again I agree with the initial post the money makers do court the feds and this does diminish any gains that can be made by open source
the why is simple, the more laws they make the more bureaucrats they hire, the more they hire the more votes they have, and can then be considerd a defacto political party. hence, they need more regulation in order to make a good excuse for them to make even more laws and hire more bureacrats. its a sad story,,,,!
I agree, but more importantly, the patent robbing will probably induce the pharmaco's even further in to out sourcing., and move totally off shore to a patent friendly country.
Well its sad the franchise did finally puke out, but hey thats what you get from a company thats bound and determined to milk a dead cow to its final dripping drop!
oh big suprise here, after all they didn't have people who new and loved trek writing & producing it , they had a bunch of hacks troweling out watered down drivel. It was that way on voyager, till the last season, and it was that way from the begining of enterprise. Sadly the whole zindi war concept harkens back to when they took DS9 to war, atleast on ds9 it wasn't a retreaded idea, it actually had some merit to go there. This franchise needs to rest a while, berman needs to go to other endeavors. The franchise needs to relearn "why" it was and more importantly "what" it was. In short it needs to remember that at its height the franchise was an excellent vehicle to study human nature with, if the script that week was up to speed. But sadly they forgot that and they forgot us techies, you know us annoying types who kept belaboring the point that hey this didn't happen in the original series. they eventually pushed all of us who go back to Bill , Len and De Kelly and waited with baited breath for the first trek movie and the first episode of TNG and DS9. Alot of sweat went into enterprise, but sadly, not alot of quality creative effort. in the end it was all just a poor rehash of TOS
This is the same mentality brought up by riaa and the mpaa, same logic applies, monsanto sells the seed, seed thats suppossed to be genetically engineered to not grow after the first growing generation (hence the term terminator seed) as it is not suppossed germinate after the first generation, this is how monsanto has a death grip on the seed for the plant inquestion, if you want to plant it , you have to buy new seeds from monsantos present years seed crop. That's why monsanto is suing this guy, if word gets out that they are selling poorly engineered seed that can turn out a crop in the next season (at a narrowed expense margin for the farmer by the way) then monsanto looses millions to farmers who can now cull a seed stock back from the previous years seed they harvested and from land they already grow from, oh yea and make a wider margin of profit . I hope the guy wins!
I agree, I liked what I saw,,, 2 years ago, but now its almost passe. Although, to be fair, some one wants one, as their site is down as I write this due to "excessive traffic, please try again in ten minutes" it says. I'll have to think about this one for now
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Some of these subsections were good but all could be abused, and no their loss won't cost us the war on terrorism; Here are a few of the sunset provisions; Section 202: Gives federal officials the authority to intercept wire, spoken and electronic communications relating to computer fraud and abuse offenses.(ok we have a law for this already right) Section 206: Allows federal officials to issue roving "John Doe" wiretaps for spy and anti-terrorism investigations.( this is a boomerang, it meant that they could tap any phone at any time, no proof needed,other than the request for a tap) Section 209: Permits the seizure of voicemail messages under a warrant. (this one should've stayed, this was useful) Section 220: Provides for nationwide service of search warrants for electronic evidence. (they need to limit this to a per jurisdiction issue, for good reason, they can have a warrant from an east coast federal court served in a west coast federal jurisdiction, there are only 100 ways this could go wrong) Section 225: Amends FISA to prohibit lawsuits against people or companies that provide information to federal officials for a terrorism investigation. (this one should stay, the ISP or person should (in concept) be under legal threat if they don't comply)
This is a good start for canada, but you should know about whats happening here; /. story last week a group of tokyo researchers have found a way to crack the biodiesel out of the plant esthers without using industrial Lye, they use an corn derived acid that they claim will cost 1/10th to 1/50th of the present methods. Not to sound corny(bad pun) but this industry is poised to do an end run break out & if we're not careful and actually amount to something significant. Personally , I hope it does!
For instance in North Dakota, Iowa and Minnesota there are plants under construction that will each have the capacity to produce 50 million gallons of biodiesel per year. Along with plans to build or feasibility studies going on in Missourri, Mississippi, South Carolina and North Carolina. Add to that the State of Minnesotas mandate that all state vehicles must use bidiesel or gasahol blends where possible. Yeah it is only a drop in the bucket, but it is a start. Also during the course of the last year there were some significant cost and production improvements . At Penn States AG school, they found a better way to crack the chemicals that enhnaces the output by 25% and from a
Well I was a ubuntu zealot myself till I tried Xandros, Ubuntu is good, But I prefer a Kde interface and xandros comes with crossover office installed(a 30 day trial version). This allows you to run windows programs like IE or office if you have to. The one thing I note with xandros is its a love hate relationship, in my case its true love, but many seem to not like it, as it has a strong GUI interface and is almost a totally automated setup. The upside to the setup I find is that it only took me 25 minutes to install it on my first try, and at 25 minute I was pulling email off of my server. Add to that it comes with open office installed and you have a pretty solid system that has its own vpn you can install with a down load, as far as I know no one else has a vpn in their distro's as of yet. While this isn't your typical linux, I think if you give it an honest try I think you'll find its a good choice.
That isn't why! The common wealth of massachusetts simply demanded that all office "type" software be able to open all documents the state has produced digitally irreguardless of the manufacturer of the os/software that made them. When Microsoft laughed at them , then they went to open source. The reason they went was to insure all state douments that are for the most part digitally stored are available for the long term (20 to 50 years) and that no matter how long the document is stored, that it can be accessed now or 100 years from now. Oh by the way, I point out that microsoft, just this last week, has opted to go open source with their file formats. Hmm I wonder why!?? Hmm the rumors out of california must be true :P
Does anyone know of any other states or corporations that are looking at the TCO of opensource in an office/desktop enviroment?
God (Pronounced "Gawd") I Love Texas :P
actually this is the same gripe I pointed out to my bank. they just don't seem to care that an rfid chip with the account information in the card is a big security nightmare waiting to happen. Does anyone know how to permanently diable the chip but leave the card useable??
This Idea stunk when it was a bad startrek voyager episode. John Dvorak was right, "there are no new bad ideas, just old ones getting recycled!"
In a word Xandros, it comes bundled with crossover office and is relativly stable and it's a debian distro with the easiest install for a linux platform I've run into yet, and beleive me I've tried a few. It's not totally bugless but it will work for what you want and ditch the viruses and the tuesday afternoon thru when ever you finish testing the microsoft patch blues.
Yeah I remember reading about this concept in Aviation week and space technology,,,, in ,,, 1991.
"I believe John Dvorak said it best, there are no new ideas, just old bad ones that won't go away" I think thats what he said!
Dvorak is that you?
wow a real poll, hows that line go again,,,
"Lies,Damn lies and Statistics!"
Polls mean nothing unless you can look at the actual polling data and see what the proponent of a given position left out to skew the data results
{fake quote} sometime near 2013, "dell announces today they're downsizing all their product assembly staff's world wide and replacing them with Toyota robots. While admitting that the present generation robot can't quite get ahold of the indepth tasks involved in assembly of machines, they have no problem running forlifts and other associated support equipment in the compnies warehouses. (think this is funny, wait till someone actually pulls off the darpa grand challenge, then we'll see who's laughing) by the way robot forklifts have been around for 15 years already!
I'll only go to the movie this time if berman gets burned in effigiy(did I spell that right)
Well he, leo, and patrick are doing a pod cast called twit This Week In Tech, twit and it is available thru leos website leoville.com
Well yes and no. Linux is the flavor of choice for the intelligence services, as it is more secure, no matter what anyone says. So maybe this will open the door, but again I agree with the initial post the money makers do court the feds and this does diminish any gains that can be made by open source
To seekout new life forms and canadian bacon!
the why is simple, the more laws they make the more bureaucrats they hire, the more they hire the more votes they have, and can then be considerd a defacto political party. hence, they need more regulation in order to make a good excuse for them to make even more laws and hire more bureacrats. its a sad story,,,,!
I agree, but more importantly, the patent robbing will probably induce the pharmaco's even further in to out sourcing., and move totally off shore to a patent friendly country.
Well its sad the franchise did finally puke out, but hey thats what you get from a company thats bound and determined to milk a dead cow to its final dripping drop!
Is the second link the fake and the first one real!!????
You know, Like this post!
oh big suprise here, after all they didn't have people who new and loved trek writing & producing it , they had a bunch of hacks troweling out watered down drivel. It was that way on voyager, till the last season, and it was that way from the begining of enterprise. Sadly the whole zindi war concept harkens back to when they took DS9 to war, atleast on ds9 it wasn't a retreaded idea, it actually had some merit to go there. This franchise needs to rest a while, berman needs to go to other endeavors.
The franchise needs to relearn "why" it was and more importantly "what" it was. In short it needs to remember that at its height the franchise was an excellent vehicle to study human nature with, if the script that week was up to speed. But sadly they forgot that and they forgot us techies, you know us annoying types who kept belaboring the point that hey this didn't happen in the original series. they eventually pushed all of us who go back to Bill , Len and De Kelly and waited with baited breath for the first trek movie and the first episode of TNG and DS9. Alot of sweat went into enterprise, but sadly, not alot of quality creative effort. in the end it was all just a poor rehash of TOS
This is the same mentality brought up by riaa and the mpaa, same logic applies, monsanto sells the seed, seed thats suppossed to be genetically engineered to not grow after the first growing generation (hence the term terminator seed) as it is not suppossed germinate after the first generation, this is how monsanto has a death grip on the seed for the plant inquestion, if you want to plant it , you have to buy new seeds from monsantos present years seed crop. That's why monsanto is suing this guy, if word gets out that they are selling poorly engineered seed that can turn out a crop in the next season (at a narrowed expense margin for the farmer by the way) then monsanto looses millions to farmers who can now cull a seed stock back from the previous years seed they harvested and from land they already grow from, oh yea and make a wider margin of profit . I hope the guy wins!
well we have one option left, and its not pretty!!!
Vote libertarian !
I agree, I liked what I saw,,, 2 years ago, but now its almost passe. Although, to be fair, some one wants one, as their site is down as I write this due to "excessive traffic, please try again in ten minutes" it says. I'll have to think about this one for now
not true, mozilla had a crack noted last june and a patch was up in 12 hours on the net, way better than MS and their lame IE turn off patch!