Everyone's a potential terrorist, if you define terrorism as broadly as the Bush Administration does.
And, given six degrees of separation, everyone on the planet associates with "known terrorists."
Unwinnable wars (and I'm not talking ones involving military intervention), unwarranted accusations
of affiliation with enemies, and heightened paranoid states have become hallmarks of modern Western
government. We hold THESE truths to be self-evident.
So, persons convicted of computer security crimes have become part of The Establishemt. Yay. I feel
neither less secure nor more.
I hereby claim invention of the phrase, "with beating hearts removed from the chest, soaked in kerosene, and lit aflame so they glow brightly."
And release it for use solely within the Slashdot Community (TM)*
I also claim invention of the term, "Slashdot Community" and release
it for use among the public domain, so long as accompanied by the
following: "Slashdot Community" is a trademark of Humorless Coward.
I can't explain it, but it's true nevertheless. Heck, look at William Buckley, certainlt a critical and indpendent thinker, who would present profund insight into the value of personal libery and personal choice, and then in the next breath condemn legal abortion as a great evil.
And the great failure of William F. Buckley, with regard to Roe V. Wade, is that he proved he was elitist by avoiding proposal to remove citizenship from women who went abroad to receive abortions legal elsewhere. It wasn't that he had any real religious, moral or ethical opposition... he was a class bigot.
Roe V. Wade wasn't intended to give everyone the right to safe, legal abortions. Roe V. Wade was intended to level the playing field by providing equal protection under the law; to allow poor women the right to the same medical care as wealthy women who had passports and access to foreign medical care.
I'm so sick of people misinterpreting that. Eliminate Roe V. Wade, and you relegate middle-class and impoverished women to third-class citizenship AGAIN.
Perhaps it's about time that someone start enforcing web standards.
I'm not exactly endorsing the idea that a Community Policing takedown
policy should be put into effect, but perhaps sending contact emails to
the site admin, informing them they're in violation?
What's the point of having standards, if you're not going to follow
them (and you're not Republican)?
OK/.ers, if you're opposed to this, let's hear the alternatives. Describe a system that allows quickly tracking down criminals but protects personal privacy.
The current one.
Although it's alleged it doesn't sufficiently protect personal privacy.
Oh? Did you mean one that would allow tracking down criminals more quickly than the current one?
There's no reason to do so. You don't fight crime by catching criminals. You don't fight crime by deterrence. You fight crime by removing the incentive.
Yeah, the iris ID thing is ludicrous, if you think about it from the idea that they'd use it to identify you as having been at the scene of a crime.
No, I believe that government has no legitimate right or responsibility to track the physiological details of its citizens.
It's not a matter of falsely accusing an innocent person. It's a matter of using the information for political purposes, or harassment of an innocent person.
The government of the US has proven it won't even comply with espionage laws involving protection of informants. The government of the US has proven it can't protect its citizens from criminal or negligent data loss by its own employees.
I'm supposed to trust these clowns not to fabricate false allegations against people, and use physical data to ensure persecution?
This would be an excellent tool to assist taxi dispatch, mass transit
planning, and emergency response...
If it possibly worked on normal web browsers.
What a douche thing for someone to design an interface which only
reports if you have a Blackberry, Pearl, Gamma Ray, Curve, or other
product which sounds like a sextoy.
Well... maybe it should work on the Rabbit, too?
It doesn't work on Firefox.
"to do my duty, to God and my country, and to obey the Scout Law."
Yes, if you're an athiest, it has a somewhat diminished meaning, relative to what it may mean to those who believe in any "divine" non-corporeal power.
But an Atheist, in failing to recognize God, is still doing his or her duty in accordance with the BSA oath. If the Scoutmasters fail to recognize this, that's one thing. But an Atheist can just think of it as substituting "dump truck" for "God," still be required by the BSA to recite the oath, and not be doing anything morally compromising.
Well, I realize some may argue I'm doing a disservice to baboons and other primates by comparison...
But wtf are these people thinking? They can't even make electronic voting work!
Thusly, what illegal controlled substance are they using which makes them think we'd believe they could effectively differentiate 100.000% between any two of six billion people, based upon biometric data, using current technology?
Paper ballots, punched cards, touch screens, or whatever; the results are manipulated, regardless.
Any sufficiently simple paradigm is virtually assured of creating simpler ways of bypass.
We pretend to vote. They pretend to rule. Youpretend to complain.
If any of you are serious about effecting change, run for local voting clerk office, get elected using the current system, and appoint slashdotters as election monitoring officials.
... Day 5: You go to the same pub. On the way in, you're targeted with a prostitution service which uses the same pub. The door's stuck and opens more slowly and creakier than normal. The Bartender has your drink ready, but also adds a side of chips which increase the cost (which you must pay to get the drink, as well).
Even if Edwards, and any of the above-named people kicked the bucket, Paul wouldn't be a shoe-in for the GOP nomination, nor would such preclude the DNC from nominating any other candidate to fill its party obligations on ballots.
The problems aren't Paul or apathy. They're complete failure of the electoral college system, and promotion of firmly-entrenched two-party systems in the states.
Time Zones have no place in the modern world - most people work on a time schedule, not a daylight schedule. And if you want to know at what time the sun will rise in your area, your weather forecast tells you, anyhow.
Just go by Zulu/UTC, and make everyone else adapt. Imagine "all the energy savings" from that!
Slashdot Mirror
Warning: Excessive exposure to politicians will result in apathetic or amoral behavior. View with Extreme Caution.
Everyone's a potential terrorist, if you define terrorism as broadly as the Bush Administration does. And, given six degrees of separation, everyone on the planet associates with "known terrorists."
Unwinnable wars (and I'm not talking ones involving military intervention), unwarranted accusations of affiliation with enemies, and heightened paranoid states have become hallmarks of modern Western government. We hold THESE truths to be self-evident.
So, persons convicted of computer security crimes have become part of The Establishemt. Yay. I feel neither less secure nor more.
I hereby claim invention of the phrase, "with beating hearts removed from the chest, soaked in kerosene, and lit aflame so they glow brightly."
And release it for use solely within the Slashdot Community (TM)*
I also claim invention of the term, "Slashdot Community" and release it for use among the public domain, so long as accompanied by the following: "Slashdot Community" is a trademark of Humorless Coward.
I can't explain it, but it's true nevertheless. Heck, look at William Buckley, certainlt a critical and indpendent thinker, who would present profund insight into the value of personal libery and personal choice, and then in the next breath condemn legal abortion as a great evil.
And the great failure of William F. Buckley, with regard to Roe V. Wade, is that he proved he was elitist by avoiding proposal to remove citizenship from women who went abroad to receive abortions legal elsewhere. It wasn't that he had any real religious, moral or ethical opposition... he was a class bigot.
Roe V. Wade wasn't intended to give everyone the right to safe, legal abortions. Roe V. Wade was intended to level the playing field by providing equal protection under the law; to allow poor women the right to the same medical care as wealthy women who had passports and access to foreign medical care.
I'm so sick of people misinterpreting that. Eliminate Roe V. Wade, and you relegate middle-class and impoverished women to third-class citizenship AGAIN.
Perhaps it's about time that someone start enforcing web standards.
:)
I'm not exactly endorsing the idea that a Community Policing takedown policy should be put into effect, but perhaps sending contact emails to the site admin, informing them they're in violation?
What's the point of having standards, if you're not going to follow them (and you're not Republican)?
The entire pay-for-OS paradigm is complete and utter bullshit. Infer what you will.
Would this be anything different from the way money is being spent on irrelevant "security measures" at public transportation access points?
call me when you have a WoW port for Altair 8800s, m'kay?
The current one.
Although it's alleged it doesn't sufficiently protect personal privacy.
Oh? Did you mean one that would allow tracking down criminals more quickly than the current one?
There's no reason to do so. You don't fight crime by catching criminals. You don't fight crime by deterrence. You fight crime by removing the incentive.
Declaring wars on intangible concepts is stupid.
Yeah, the iris ID thing is ludicrous, if you think about it from the idea that
they'd use it to identify you as having been at the scene of a crime.
No, I believe that government has no legitimate right or responsibility to track
the physiological details of its citizens.
It's not a matter of falsely accusing an innocent person. It's a matter of using
the information for political purposes, or harassment of an innocent person.
The government of the US has proven it won't even comply with espionage laws
involving protection of informants. The government of the US has proven it
can't protect its citizens from criminal or negligent data loss by its own
employees.
I'm supposed to trust these clowns not to fabricate false allegations against
people, and use physical data to ensure persecution?
No.
This would be an excellent tool to assist taxi dispatch, mass transit planning, and emergency response...
If it possibly worked on normal web browsers.
What a douche thing for someone to design an interface which only reports if you have a Blackberry, Pearl, Gamma Ray, Curve, or other product which sounds like a sextoy.
Well... maybe it should work on the Rabbit, too?
It doesn't work on Firefox.
is it too late to mention how awesome a Beowulf cluster of electric telescopes would be?
- an elected member of US Congress, and
- in possession of relevant facts, and
- willing to step-up and present the facts, to
present a case that an employee of US Taxpayers is violating his oath to uphold the US Constitution.Further, Article II, Section 4 demands it.
Pledging to do one's duty to God?
If you don't believe in God, then...
"to do my duty,
to God and my country,
and to obey the Scout Law."
Yes, if you're an athiest, it has a somewhat diminished meaning,
relative to what it may mean to those who believe in any "divine"
non-corporeal power.
But an Atheist, in failing to recognize God, is still doing his or her
duty in accordance with the BSA oath. If the Scoutmasters fail to recognize
this, that's one thing. But an Atheist can just think of it as substituting
"dump truck" for "God," still be required by the BSA to recite the oath,
and not be doing anything morally compromising.
Well, I realize some may argue I'm doing a disservice to baboons and other primates by comparison...
But wtf are these people thinking?
They can't even make electronic voting work!
Thusly, what illegal controlled substance are they using which makes them think we'd
believe they could effectively differentiate 100.000% between any two of six billion
people, based upon biometric data, using current technology?
Paper ballots, punched cards, touch screens, or whatever; the results are manipulated, regardless.
Any sufficiently simple paradigm is virtually assured of creating simpler ways of bypass.
We pretend to vote. They pretend to rule. You pretend to complain.
If any of you are serious about effecting change, run for local voting clerk office, get elected using the current system, and appoint slashdotters as election monitoring officials.
...
Day 5: You go to the same pub. On the way in, you're targeted with a prostitution service which uses the same pub. The door's stuck and opens more slowly and creakier than normal. The Bartender has your drink ready, but also adds a side of chips which increase the cost (which you must pay to get the drink, as well).
Day 6 gets worse.
Are you still happy?
Cheers!
because I hold the patent for method of determining the end of business method patents. ;)
The very concept of such a course is being allowed to be taught at an accredited university is unethical.
Latin Nazi?
It's more Juvenal than that.
nothing to smell here... move along
Even if Edwards, and any of the above-named people kicked the bucket, Paul wouldn't be a shoe-in for the GOP nomination, nor would such preclude the DNC from nominating any other candidate to fill its party obligations on ballots.
The problems aren't Paul or apathy. They're complete failure of the electoral college system, and promotion of firmly-entrenched two-party systems in the states.
If you see it as a problem.
Time Zones have no place in the modern world - most people work on a time schedule, not a daylight schedule.
And if you want to know at what time the sun will rise in your area, your weather forecast tells you, anyhow.
Just go by Zulu/UTC, and make everyone else adapt.
Imagine "all the energy savings" from that!
why?
"These go to eleven!"
Is this the queue for trolls?
Or is it cue for trolls?