I read that terrorists, and by terrorists I'm going to go with Radical Islamic Fundamentalists since the/. article is about Al-Qaeda, are using child porn to hide their coded messages. I can't shake that this is both utterly stupid and utterly brilliant at the same time. Bear with me.
Utterly stupid since law enforcement already targets this channel, there is no 'free speech' when it involves child porn, and there's news all the time about how these rings get busted, suppliers and consumers alike.
Utterly brilliant because it is a known channel that has a clientele that takes lots of precautions, they try their best not to get noticed. With the ubiquity of unsecured wireless spots they could effectively get into these rings and do their thing with a high level of anonymity and have the provider of the hot spot be the main target of any fuzz scrutiny. This would also be incredibly disheartening to the investigators, whereas they used to just have to send the messages to decoders and translators, now that message is in a despicable photo or video that someone will have to watch, tell me that isn't going to leave a few scars.
Then again it could be a cash grab by the agencies that investigate child porn, nothing wrong with more money to fight that evil.
It seems like the Democrats are doing the same thing the republicans did after 9/11. Just as after 9/11 the Republicans pushed Security to an extremist state, Democrats are using the financial crisis to push down all those heave regulations down our mouth...
BS, this is state level law, not Congress, way to troll. Besides these laws were passed way before the meltdown, these are their enactment dates.
* put a magnet near a needle and you can make a compass !
Close, but not quite. You need to magnetize the needle, then remove it once it's been. Then you need to float it on a liquid medium in a non magnetic container, coat the needle with oil first to improve flotation. Then you have an emergency compass. (I had to verify the oil part.)
If it has been done do death since, why is starcraft and warcraft 3 still the most played RTS's in the world?
I have a theory on this, but then again I have a theory on everything. Technically they aren't theories either really because my lazy ass isn't going to go through the rigor of testing them out.
Warcraft is obviously set in a fictional universe and Starcraft is so far in the future it may as well be a different universe, you can't confuse them with reality. They are an escape. Almost all other RTS have a grain of reality in them - the are set in memorable past, identifiable present or believable future - they aren't a full escape. They lead to temporary escapades in a world where we know the rules because we've seen them written. Warcraft and Starcraft, lacking that rule bound tie to our reality allow the escape to continue, hence why I believe they continue their draw after so many years.
The companies that sell armored vehicles and bullets to the military would have to admit there are benefits to Muslim extremism when they look at their profits report.
That blurb is from the NY Post which is an admittedly conservative paper, owned by Murdoch - you should provide attribution. It was then regurgitated as fact around the Internets. When a more independent organization picks up the story - AP, Reuters, BBC, etc. - let me know.
Speaking of the AP, it turns out it must not have been that many people, because it's estimated that only 4,000 to 5,000 people voted early in the entire state of Ohio, so much for the widespread fraud that supposedly happened on the last day of "Golden Week."
How the hell did this get modded "interesting"?? Is there some widely accepted theory about Elvis returning in 2012 I've missed?
Who the hell gets mod points nowadays?
Probably related to the end of the Mayan Long Count calendar, which was really accurate for 5,125 years, but it all of a sudden ends on the Winter Solstice in 2012, nobody knows what's going to happen.
I like to think of it as Peter Venkman said, "Human sacrifice, dogs and cats living together... mass hysteria!" Elvis caused mass hysteria, ergo Elvis comes back.
I hate this document. Don't get me wrong, I like the idea that the government wants to protect its citizens' data, but as a person in charge of ensuring a medical data application's compliance with this document, plus all the member state's unique flavors - I'm looking at you Spain. I have nightmares when I'm talking to the lawyers that are used to 'roughly' interpreting the data handling policies in the US and think they can continue their 'rough' interpretations in countries that have actually passed privacy legislation.
Why would I feel betrayed? Bush wasn't part of the contract with America.
Bush has been a horrible president, and I'm voting third party. I've never much liked either of the mainstream parties or politics in Washington in general. If you want a real change, don't vote for Obama, vote for a third party.
Depends, if you vote Libertarian, i.e. Bob Barr, you're voting for Obama in a sense. If you vote for Nader, you're voting for McCain in a sense.
I'm not trying to be confrontational, but in this sad 2 party system - and yes it's still 2 party, the likely hood of a third party candidate getting the presidency is so unbelievable that it approaches zero.
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Shit, now the doublethink has got me.
/. article is about Al-Qaeda, are using child porn to hide their coded messages. I can't shake that this is both utterly stupid and utterly brilliant at the same time. Bear with me.
I read that terrorists, and by terrorists I'm going to go with Radical Islamic Fundamentalists since the
Utterly stupid since law enforcement already targets this channel, there is no 'free speech' when it involves child porn, and there's news all the time about how these rings get busted, suppliers and consumers alike.
Utterly brilliant because it is a known channel that has a clientele that takes lots of precautions, they try their best not to get noticed. With the ubiquity of unsecured wireless spots they could effectively get into these rings and do their thing with a high level of anonymity and have the provider of the hot spot be the main target of any fuzz scrutiny. This would also be incredibly disheartening to the investigators, whereas they used to just have to send the messages to decoders and translators, now that message is in a despicable photo or video that someone will have to watch, tell me that isn't going to leave a few scars.
Then again it could be a cash grab by the agencies that investigate child porn, nothing wrong with more money to fight that evil.
...She can't understand why Mike Meyers movies are funny.
I know, I mean what's not hilarious about a masked man that escapes from a sanitarium killing a bunch of hapless teenagers?
Oh, that Mike Meyers... I agree with her.
I maintain that CmdrTaco overpaid.
It seems like the Democrats are doing the same thing the republicans did after 9/11. Just as after 9/11 the Republicans pushed Security to an extremist state, Democrats are using the financial crisis to push down all those heave regulations down our mouth...
BS, this is state level law, not Congress, way to troll. Besides these laws were passed way before the meltdown, these are their enactment dates.
Maybe the non-internet savvy people know that in order to get the most out of the internet, you can't treat it like a book?
Damn, that's what I've been doing wrong? I thought something was amiss when I got to the chapter on goatse, I was like "WTF?"
Senate voted unanimous consent with the House's passage. So for all intents and purposes, yes he voted for it.
* put a magnet near a needle and you can make a compass !
Close, but not quite. You need to magnetize the needle, then remove it once it's been. Then you need to float it on a liquid medium in a non magnetic container, coat the needle with oil first to improve flotation. Then you have an emergency compass. (I had to verify the oil part.)
bullshit! They hear the rain hitting the ground and think its someone knocking at their door and they come up to see who it is.
You insensitive clod, you gave away the punchline to one of my jokes about the blonde Lumbricus terrestris!
Starcraft II is exactly the same, and yet, people are whining now...? Am I missing something?
I blame the ubiquity of the Internet, please see the greater internet dickwad theory.
If it has been done do death since, why is starcraft and warcraft 3 still the most played RTS's in the world?
I have a theory on this, but then again I have a theory on everything. Technically they aren't theories either really because my lazy ass isn't going to go through the rigor of testing them out.
Warcraft is obviously set in a fictional universe and Starcraft is so far in the future it may as well be a different universe, you can't confuse them with reality. They are an escape. Almost all other RTS have a grain of reality in them - the are set in memorable past, identifiable present or believable future - they aren't a full escape. They lead to temporary escapades in a world where we know the rules because we've seen them written. Warcraft and Starcraft, lacking that rule bound tie to our reality allow the escape to continue, hence why I believe they continue their draw after so many years.
...This is an RTS, not some bull shit RPG where you spend countless fucking hours dry-humping every mob you find.
World of PornCraft with parental filters on?
The companies that sell armored vehicles and bullets to the military would have to admit there are benefits to Muslim extremism when they look at their profits report.
Ask name of that girl I see around the office that looks like Tina Fey
...was funny though
like voter fraud?
That blurb is from the NY Post which is an admittedly conservative paper, owned by Murdoch - you should provide attribution. It was then regurgitated as fact around the Internets. When a more independent organization picks up the story - AP, Reuters, BBC, etc. - let me know.
Speaking of the AP, it turns out it must not have been that many people, because it's estimated that only 4,000 to 5,000 people voted early in the entire state of Ohio, so much for the widespread fraud that supposedly happened on the last day of "Golden Week."
Ewww.
This is slashdot. That doesnt really narrow it down now does it? :P
He meant Michael Moore, circa his Roger & Me days.
How the hell did this get modded "interesting"?? Is there some widely accepted theory about Elvis returning in 2012 I've missed?
Who the hell gets mod points nowadays?
Probably related to the end of the Mayan Long Count calendar, which was really accurate for 5,125 years, but it all of a sudden ends on the Winter Solstice in 2012, nobody knows what's going to happen.
I like to think of it as Peter Venkman said, "Human sacrifice, dogs and cats living together... mass hysteria!" Elvis caused mass hysteria, ergo Elvis comes back.
I just spat Newcastle all over my keyboard reading this post. Luckily it still appears to be work
This is why all motorcycles are equipped with windshields. And why WWI era open-cockpit biplanes topped out at much less than 60mph airspeeds.
Where is the stock windscreen on my bike? Easy answer... there isn't one.
Forgive me, I just realized you have to be sarcastic, nobody makes generalizations like that in the era of Google and Wikipedia.
The cliches are coming, thick and fast.
Unlike your average /. reader.
According to the Directive 95/46/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 24 October 1995 on the protection of individuals with regard to the processing of personal data and on the free movement of such data, it's the data subject's data.
I hate this document. Don't get me wrong, I like the idea that the government wants to protect its citizens' data, but as a person in charge of ensuring a medical data application's compliance with this document, plus all the member state's unique flavors - I'm looking at you Spain. I have nightmares when I'm talking to the lawyers that are used to 'roughly' interpreting the data handling policies in the US and think they can continue their 'rough' interpretations in countries that have actually passed privacy legislation.
It's called instant-runoff voting in the U.S., and I wish we had more of it.
Why would I feel betrayed? Bush wasn't part of the contract with America.
Bush has been a horrible president, and I'm voting third party. I've never much liked either of the mainstream parties or politics in Washington in general. If you want a real change, don't vote for Obama, vote for a third party.
Depends, if you vote Libertarian, i.e. Bob Barr, you're voting for Obama in a sense. If you vote for Nader, you're voting for McCain in a sense.
I'm not trying to be confrontational, but in this sad 2 party system - and yes it's still 2 party, the likely hood of a third party candidate getting the presidency is so unbelievable that it approaches zero.
Q: What's the difference between Obama and an empty suit?
...
A: I don't know either.
An empty suit enshrouds an Anonymous Coward?
I think the legal profession is a bit like a priesthood...
Following your analogy, can we get rid of the ones that fuck little boys then?