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  1. Re:prison rape is very unfunny on Diebold CEO Resigns Under Cloud · · Score: 1

    "The degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons."
    -- Dostoyevski

  2. Re:No worries... on Microsoft and MTV to Launch Music Service · · Score: 1

    Yeah - discovery seems to be dedicated to the "I'm a Cracker at heart" audience.

    All of cable seems to be filled with shit like Bounty Hunter families, chopper buildes, hotrod builders, "Buncha Kids in a House", four sports networks, four right-wing loudspeakers, and endless "dating" and gossip shows.

    Hey! Instead of improving the delivery with digital cable and HDTV, how about improving the CONTENT? I went to basic cable from premium, and will ala carte my six local channels, once that's an option. I don't pay people to shit in my house.

  3. Re:The customer is not always right on Diebold CEO Resigns Under Cloud · · Score: 1

    The difference being that customers _are_ the raw material in banking.

  4. Re:but children will become adults on Chimpanzees Beat out Children in Reasoning Test · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Yeah. Like El Presidente, and his offspring.

  5. Re:The customer is not always right on Diebold CEO Resigns Under Cloud · · Score: 1

    A "Socialist" is one who believes that the subjects of state and corporate rule should own the instruments of that rule. Credit Unions are - in theory - socialist in tendancy - with the depositors enabled as shareholders, being the principal source and beneficiaries of the combined assets of the organization.

    Banks are capitalist in the most classic definition. They make money for shareholders by minimizing value returned to depositors, in favor of shareholders and private owners.

    Love you. Peace out.

  6. Re:hmm on Diebold CEO Resigns Under Cloud · · Score: 1

    And all 3000 Canadian citizens do no mind waiting all night? :-)

  7. Re:Access for a database? on Diebold CEO Resigns Under Cloud · · Score: 1

    MS Access. Wheee!

  8. Re:KDE vs. Gnome. Ready...FIGHT! on Torvalds Says 'Use KDE' · · Score: 3, Insightful

    At different times in my life.

    Timelines were roughly:
    KDE 1.0/E pre .07, .13 1997
    Gnome 1.2 1999
    KDE 3.0 2002
    Gnome 2.x 2004

    Gnome 2 KILLED me. Really awful and stunted, when it came out. I hadn't looked at KDE in about 3 years, and was very surprised at what was done - especially KIO slaves, etc. I ran my app/pen platform on OpenBSD and Debian w/ KDE 3.x, including betas.

    Now, I work for the 'other side'. I have limited time to check out X front ends, but when I fire up Ubuntu, I can see where Gnome was heading when it went 2. The teams UI guidelines are minimalistic. In the early stages this meant 'crippled.'

    In rough terms, I think Gnome is aiming to be the OSX to KDEs Windows. Windows is striving to be OSX, now!

    Fat Chance.

  9. Wiki This on Interview with Jimbo Wales · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    This presents about 4,000 photographs showing the Iraq War killing and maiming, most from the Associated Press's archive and others from sources listed. The photographs were obtained from a library which provides its members free online access to the AP archives along with many other electronic collections. The library logs online accesses to its collections and is subject to secret, non-disclosible demands for access logs from US authorities.

    Cryptome offers a free DVD (190MB) of this collection to public and .edu libraries which do not have access to the Associated Press archive. Send requests to jya[at]cryptome.net.

    Please don't link to these images from bulletin boards, which has led to their previous withdrawal.

    Send bad links to info[at]iraq-kill-maim.org

    A Cryptome site.

    iraq-kill47.htm + Iraq Kill and Maim 10Dec05 December 10, 2005

    kid-kill-01.htm + Eyeballing Kid Kill and Maim in Iraq November 26, 2005

    iraq-3weeks.htm + Eyeballing Three Weeks of Iraq Slaughter November 24, 2005

    buhriz-kill01.htm + Eyeballing the Buhriz Body Count June 19, 2005

    iraq-kill46.htm + Eyeballing the Iraq Kill and Maim Zone 11Apr05 April 11, 2005

    afghan-kill01.htm + Eyeballing the Afghan Kill and Maim Zone 2Apr05 April 2, 2005

    iraq-kill45.htm + Eyeballing the Iraq Kill and Maim Zone 22Mar05 March 22, 2005

    iraq-kill44.htm + Eyeballing the Iraq Kill and Maim Zone 20Mar05 March 20, 2005

    iraq-kill43.htm + Eyeballing the Iraq Kill and Maim Zone 11Mar05 March 11, 2005

    iraq-kill42.htm + Eyeballing the Iraq Kill and Maim Zone 10Mar05 March 10, 2005

    iraq-kill41.htm + Eyeballing the Iraq Kill and Maim Zone 9Mar05 March 9, 2005

    iraq-kill40.htm + Eyeballing the Iraq Kill and Maim Zone 8Mar05 March 8, 2005

    iraq-kill39.htm + Eyeballing the Iraq Kill and Maim Zone 24Feb05 February 24, 2005

    iraq-kill38.htm + Eyeballing the Ramadi Kill Zone 21Feb05 February 21, 2005

    iraq-kill37.htm + Eyeballing the Ramadi Kill Zone - 2004 February 21, 2005

    iraq-kill36.htm + Eyeballing the Iraq Kill and Maim Zone 18Feb05 February 18, 2005

    dead-gallery.htm + Gallery of US Military Dead During Iraq War February 13, 2005

    iraq-kill35.htm + Eyeballing the Iraq Kill and Maim Zone 12Feb05 February 12, 2005

    iraq-kill34.htm + Eyeballing the Iraq Kill and Maim Zone 9Feb05 February 9, 2005

    iraq-kill33.htm

  10. Re:drugs is money on Merck's Deleted Data · · Score: 1

    No. That was my MAGIC hand!

  11. Re:drugs is money on Merck's Deleted Data · · Score: 2, Funny

    Hey, man. This is the self correcting market, with it's free hand at work! Stop complaining, and sorry all you dead heart-attack guys.

  12. Re:Chairforce! on The New Air Force Mission? · · Score: 0

    Ha HA! MS and US: Two forms of Cancer.

  13. Re:OUTGOING on Open Source Worse than Flying · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    samzenpus trolled! It wasn't even tuesday!

  14. Re:Hey, man! on Driving Away Teens With High Frequency Noise · · Score: 1

    Why should you want to know?
    Don't you mind about the future, don't you try to think ahead?
    Save tomorrow for tomorrow, think about today instead.

  15. Hey, man! on Driving Away Teens With High Frequency Noise · · Score: 5, Funny

    What's the buzz?

  16. Re:Hmm... on Diebold Threatens to Pull Out of North Carolina · · Score: 1

    They should be working with farm9.com. They specialize in outsourcing security and FDIC compliance in IT for mid sized and small regional banks.

    They are a great bunch.

  17. Re:Hmm... on Diebold Threatens to Pull Out of North Carolina · · Score: 1

    Poorly defended? Sure. Still, not Internet routable.

  18. How can it be considered a net loss, on Sony Warned Weeks Ahead of Rootkit Flap · · Score: 2, Funny

    When the result means recalling Neil Diamond and Celine Dion? More of that in the wild, we do not need!

  19. Re:The disaster isn't over... on New Orleans to Deploy Free Wi-Fi City Wide · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Yeah. With only largely affluent white folks left in NOLA, the are now getting presents like community WiFi.

  20. Re:Hmm... on Diebold Threatens to Pull Out of North Carolina · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Diebold is frequently dinged for their ATMs whenever this topic arises. There are many fair criticisms and accusations against Diebold - this is not one of them. Banking termials are a fundamentally different set of problems than those presented by voting. Hell, aside from that, ATMs can depend on a well-connected private backbone network, with company owned lines and premise equipment.

    The Diebold voting outfit was an aquisitio of a startup company, that was demonstrably lax in design and practices. The system cobbled together, of mostly desktop-oriented COTS was little more than a system for demonstration purposes, meeting almost no "behind the scenes" requirements that most anyone could have proposed. I would go as far as to say that this effort was, in likelyhood, a swindle.

    Diebold is culpable for aquiring them - after a technology assessment - and continuing in this fashion. Possibly with the intent of enabling fraudulent vote recording and tabulation. Certainly Diebold "stonewalls", misrepresents and obfuscates every attempt to legitimately investigate their capability, practice and compliance.

    But I don't worry about their ATMs!

  21. Fork Nessus on Nessus 3.0 discussed · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    F**k Tenable.

  22. O.T. on A Skype Equivalent Without "Big Brother"? · · Score: 1

    Great sig!

  23. Re:Turkey is not a sedative on Behind The Curtain On T-Day · · Score: 3, Informative
    Culture is the sedative, or "opiate" if you prefer. I covered the TDay mythology in my JE http://slashdot.org/~Philip%20K%20Dickhead/journal /122836
    Most of us associate the holiday with happy Pilgrims and Indians sitting down to a big feast. And that did happen - once.

    The story began in 1614 when a band of English explorers sailed home to England with a ship full of Patuxet Indians bound for slavery. They left behind smallpox which virtually wiped out those who had escaped. By the time the Pilgrims arrived in Massachusetts Bay they found only one living Patuxet Indian, a man named Squanto who had survived slavery in England and knew their language. He taught them to grow corn and to fish, and negotiated a peace treaty between the Pilgrims and the Wampanoag Nation. At the end of their first year, the Pilgrims held a great feast honoring Squanto and the Wampanoags...


  24. Re:Way on BlackBox Voting Tests California Diebold Machines · · Score: 1

    And source to the compiler/libraries.

    You can introduce bacdoors here, too!

  25. Re:Someone on Slashdot on Ajax in Action · · Score: 1

    It is - and the tag wasn't closed. With CSS, we get a page all Italics.