"about 914" hits using "database group:comp.*,microsoft.*"
"about 768" hits using "database group:microsoft.*,comp.*"
"about 959" hits using "database group:microsoft.*"
and, even odder than those:
"about 901" hits using "database" (with no group restriction at all)
"about 3750" hits using "database" (with no group restriction, and a date range of "Jan 1, 1981 through Dec 31, 2008")
Somebody ought to tell them - unless some of the Googlies read Slashdot -- then they already know, don't they? Problem solved.
If asking about spending some $150K of campaign money on wardrobe for Palin and her kids is sexist, what about the fuss that was raised about John Edwards' $1.25K haircut not too long ago?
Sorry, I missed one. Though the synopsis is a bit muddy it sounds like the US backed a US corporation against a foreign corporation here, in the belief that the foreign corp was infringing on a US patent, but ended up with the foreign corp cleared of wrongdoing and legal action taken instead against the industrial spy who (presumably) instigated the affair. I'm including all the detail found in your source, in case you can clarify the case a bit.
Enercon
Wind power expert from Oldenburg, Kenetech employee
Not stated
Wind-power plant developed by Enercon, a firm located in Aurich
Not stated
Not stated
Not stated
Anmerkungen zur Sicherheitslage der deutschen Wirtschaft", ASW; Bonn, April 2001
Enercon
NSA
Not stated
Wind wheel for electricity generation, developed by Aloys Wobben, an engineer from East Frisia
Not stated
Forwarding of technical details of Wobben's wind wheel to a US firm
US firm patents the wind wheel before Wobben; (breach of patent rights)
Aktenkrieger", SZ, 29 March 2001
Enercon
US firm Kenetech Windpower
1994
Important details of a high-tech wind-powered electricity generating plant (from switch gears to sails)
Photographs
Successful patent application in the USA
Enercon abandons its plans to attack the US market
Sicherheit muss künftig zur Chefsache werden", HB, 29 August 1996
Enercon
Engineer W., from Oldenburg, and US firm Kenetech
March 1994
Type E-40 wind-powered electricity generator developed by Enercon
Engineer W. passes on details, Kenetech employee photographs the plant and electrical components
Kenetech seeking evidence for legal action against Enercon for breach of patent rights on the grounds that Enercon had obtained commercial secrets illegally, According to an NSA employee, detailed information concerning Enercon was passed on to Kenetech via ECHELON
Not stated
Klettern für die Konkurrenz", SZ, 13 October 2000
Enercon
Kenetech Windpower
Before 1996
Data concerning Enercon's wind-powered electricity generating plant
Kenetech engineers photograph the plant
Kenetech copies the plant
Enercon vindicated; legal action brought against spy; estimated loss: several hundred million DM
Wirtschaftsspionage: Was macht eigentlich die Konkurrenz?" von Arno Schütze, 1/98
Try section 10.7, 'Published Cases'. Anything with 'NSA' in the 'Who' column.
The two additional "NSA" entries I found describe: (1)the US discovery of industrial espionage against GM on behalf of a foreign corporation VW, and (2) protest of a foreign corporation, Thomson-Alcatel, providing bribes to win a contract. I am including excerpts of these below.
López
NSA
1993
Videoconference between José Ignacio López and VW boss Ferdinand Piëch
Videoconference recorded and forwarded to General Motors (GM)
Protection of commercial secrets held by GM in America, secrets which López wished to pass on to VW (price lists, secret plans for a new car plant and a new small car)
López's cover is blown, in 1998 criminal proceedings are halted in return for payment of fines.
No consequences in respect of NSA
Antennen gedreht", Wirtschaftswoche Nr.46 / 9 November 2000
Abgehört", Berliner Zeitung, 22 January 1996
Die Affäre López ist beendet", Wirtschaftsspiegel, 28 July 1998
Wirtschaftsspionage: Was macht eigentlich die Konkurrenz?" von Arno Schütze, 1/98
Thomson-Alcatel v Raytheon
NSA
Department of Commerce
Negotiations concerning a project worth US$ 1.4 bn concerning the monitoring of Amazon Basin (SIVA)
Discovery that the Brazilian selection panel had accepted bribes.
Comment by Campbell: Raytheon supplies equipment for the Sugar Grove interception station
Surveillance of the negotiations between Thomson-CSF and Brazil and forwarding of the findings to Raytheon Corp.
Uncovering bribery
Winning of the contract
Raytheon wins the contract
Duncan Campbell in STOA, 1999, Part 2/5, with reference to New York Times, How Washington Inc. Makes a Sale, by David Sanger, 19 February 1995, and http://wwwraytheoncom/sivam/contract:htmlhttp://wwwraytheoncom/sivam/contract:html
Excepting the 1994 Airbus case, where US intelligence publicized that Airbus had provided bribes in their bid to win the contract; basically uncovering an illegal operation.
So they just happened to be listening in?
I remember watching a program about this and there was a similar case with the players reversed (ie French intelligence busted Boeing bribing some south American govt. - tho I could have remembered it wrong)
The fact that US intelligence services gather information is not disputed. The issue was, as I understood it, whether the information is passed on to US corporations so that they can leapfrog their foreign competitors through it, and my reply stated that the URL posted did not provide any evidence that such is (or was) the case.
France? Don't you mean the United States? Or is it that the US prefers surveillance of electronic communications rather than hardware bugs?
It's much easier that way. Certainly the NSA has been known to monitor communications between Airbus and its customers in order to give Boeing a competitive advantage; a $6bn contract with the Saudis was lost when American spies found out about some backhanders Airbus had been paying to officials there. They've also been known to forward technical details of European inventions to American firms in order to get the patent first. There's quite a history of Americans using state spying agencies for industrial espionage, and so it's natural that they assume that everybody else is doing the same to them.
I didn't make it through every word of the URL you posted (http://www.europarl.europa.eu/sides/getDoc.do?pubRef=-//EP//TEXT+REPORT+A5-2001-0264+0+DOC+XML+V0//EN) but my quick reading of it and a brief search on the word "competitor" failed to turn up anything that supports your claim regarding the US intelligence agencies providing US corporations with information that they can use to surpass their competitors. Excepting the 1994 Airbus case, where US intelligence publicized that Airbus had provided bribes in their bid to win the contract; basically uncovering an illegal operation.
Searching on "database group:comp.*,microsoft.*" (actually, I put "database" into the "find web pages that have all these words" box and "comp.*,microsoft.*" into the "Group" selection box. Then I set the date range to "jan 1, 1996 to dec 31, 1998"), found "about 994 for database group:comp.*,microsoft.*". Now, I agree that seems way too low, but I don't know that I have another means of checking.
But if they're tailgating you, then they're moving at the same speed as you are (and your pennies). So unless you have a really strong backwards pitching arm, I can't imagine the pennies doing much more than harmlessly bouncing softly off their car - they are certainly not going to break any windshields.
When I went through at JFK and asked questions about why they were segregating my bag the supervisor came over and accused me of suffering from "Obamaism".
I complained and TSA dismissed my complaint that the supervisor was making a joke. Really? TSA thinks that a citizen asking about his rights is a joke? Really?
Dear Anonymous Coward,
Seriously, if you think that telling you why they were suspicious of your bag is warranted, consider that a spy network could use that information (collected for numerous instances of suspicion, over many sample tests of going through the TSA search process) to learn how to expertly avoid suspicion.
Certainly security could be improved in many ways, and I think that you have the right to leave the airport if you don't want to be treated with suspicion there, but really, tutoring all comers on the fine points of what triggers the alarm is not the brightest way to proceed.
Why a cellular phone? Aren't these machines usually connected to a landline so that they can phone in to verify the card before processing the transaction, and to actually store the transaction in the store's computer?
My attempts at preupgrade (using first the 0.9.3-2 version and then the corrected 0.9.3-3 version) were long, drawn-out failures. Using 0.9.3-3, there were some 20 or so files that couldn't be found on "the server"; turned out that they were available in "Everything" but that preupgrade wasn't looking there, so I had to manually fix each and every one of these as they turned up (and no option to skip obviously unneeded files, though that's more likely due to the extreme intertwining of dependencies in the release trees). After that, all went well until I ran out of space in/var and the upgrade blew up. Making a symbolic link from/var/cache to someplace with more room was futile because preupgrade (or perhaps anaconda) doesn't look there, unlike yum itself which does. Finally I canned the whole thing, burned a DVD with the F9 iso, and booted from it to do my upgrade. I recommend that you do the same if you value your time and/or sanity.
The big fat pot of beans probably has ham or bacon in it.
A vegetarian who gets busy with only the potatos and other vegetables won't be getting much protein at that meal, something that a couple of soy burgers or tofu pups would remedy.
I agree, though, with the primary question. I wish that the soy protein foods weren't all designed to "taste like meat".
Will mess up your browsing - on purpose of course.
Very cleverly hidden within what looks like a Yahoo URL but redirects to "slashblog.notlong.com" which then redirects to on.nimp.org.
Strongly suggest you don't click on the link unless you're running a sandbox and want to examine it from there.
OK, you get enough pages to find out pretty much everything you need to know (although it does feel a little strange - I feel like the police are going to come and arrest me at any time).
And that, I believe, is the primary reason behind China's Internet censorship. Not necessarily to prevent access to the forbidden information, but to make the populace afraid to access it, afraid to discuss it, and eventually, afraid to even think about it. And that is sad.
Please, just think for a moment and you will realize that these cable cuts are the work of a desperate network administrator trying to once and for all figure out just where those pesky routes are really pointing. Just a few more and that Visio diagram will finally be completed.
This is nothing more than simple tax avoidance, not anything illegal (i.e., not tax evasion).
If there were a "Federal Sales Tax" and no "State Sales Tax", this wouldn't even be an option (unless Microsoft decided to move sales out of the US entirely). Or better yet, do away with the regressive sales tax and just increase the income tax enough to pay the costs of government.
What with all of the companies that move their operations offshore to avoid taxes (and to avoid paying US wage scale), this is a most remarkable tempest in somebody's very small teapot.
The Afghan Senate decided to go back on it's original decision
But the first story / headline is much more likely to bring in people from the RSS readers / aggregators etc. Not that internet censorship isn't a topic worth discussing; but the latest information is more useful than this misleading summary.
Sheesh.
I'm glad to see that there has been some progress in this case, but as both articles noted, the likelihood that Sayed Pervez Kambaksh will be able to get adequate legal representation given the threats against anyone who aids him is in doubt. Furthermore, even if he is ultimately adjudged innocent and freed, there have been numerous threats on his life and the lives of his family. In the near run, at least, I don't see a happy resolution to this case.
The other runners don't have the option of replacing their legs with springy reverse-articulated running legs.
Well, an impovershed 3rd-world person who happens to be a natural-born runner probably doesn't have the option of buying $200 or so running shoes unless he gets sponsorship of some sort.
And the "other runners" actually do have the "option of replacing their legs", though it would be an unthinkably severe price to pay for the possibility of winning the race.
I wonder if the decision was based at least in part on the unthinkable possibility that some runners would choose to "replace their legs", just as some athletes have used various drugs and other enhancing surgeries that also carry potentially serious health consequences. Maybe the idea is that they don't want the possibility of fame and/or fortune to be permitted to coerce runners into doing just such a thing. Personally, I think that the obvious horrendous penalty of such an action (the loss of one's natural limbs) would prevent it from occurring, but there's always the outlying case.
Slashdot Mirror
That's required for "analog passthrough", so I would think that any CECB that provides that feature would have coax output.
I know that the Zenith DTT901 has coax output: http://www.zenith.com/products/set-top-atsc-digital-to-analog-converter-box/DTT901
I got it! He invented a rocket engine! That explains the spate of bombings coming from Gaza,then -- it's just kitchen appliances run amok.
Interestingly, today I find
"about 914" hits using "database group:comp.*,microsoft.*"
"about 768" hits using "database group:microsoft.*,comp.*"
"about 959" hits using "database group:microsoft.*"
and, even odder than those:
"about 901" hits using "database" (with no group restriction at all)
"about 3750" hits using "database" (with no group restriction, and a date range of "Jan 1, 1981 through Dec 31, 2008")
Somebody ought to tell them - unless some of the Googlies read Slashdot -- then they already know, don't they? Problem solved.
If asking about spending some $150K of campaign money on wardrobe for Palin and her kids is sexist, what about the fuss that was raised about John Edwards' $1.25K haircut not too long ago?
...
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/07/05/politics/main3019277.shtml
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/07/04/AR2007070401258_pf.html
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/18157456/
http://www.slate.com/id/2164380/
... etc
The two additional "NSA" entries I found describe: (1)the US discovery of industrial espionage against GM on behalf of a foreign corporation VW, and (2) protest of a foreign corporation, Thomson-Alcatel, providing bribes to win a contract. I am including excerpts of these below.
The fact that US intelligence services gather information is not disputed. The issue was, as I understood it, whether the information is passed on to US corporations so that they can leapfrog their foreign competitors through it, and my reply stated that the URL posted did not provide any evidence that such is (or was) the case.
I didn't make it through every word of the URL you posted (http://www.europarl.europa.eu/sides/getDoc.do?pubRef=-//EP//TEXT+REPORT+A5-2001-0264+0+DOC+XML+V0//EN) but my quick reading of it and a brief search on the word "competitor" failed to turn up anything that supports your claim regarding the US intelligence agencies providing US corporations with information that they can use to surpass their competitors. Excepting the 1994 Airbus case, where US intelligence publicized that Airbus had provided bribes in their bid to win the contract; basically uncovering an illegal operation.
Searching on "database group:comp.*,microsoft.*" (actually, I put "database" into the "find web pages that have all these words" box and "comp.*,microsoft.*" into the "Group" selection box. Then I set the date range to "jan 1, 1996 to dec 31, 1998"), found "about 994 for database group:comp.*,microsoft.*". Now, I agree that seems way too low, but I don't know that I have another means of checking.
But if they're tailgating you, then they're moving at the same speed as you are (and your pennies). So unless you have a really strong backwards pitching arm, I can't imagine the pennies doing much more than harmlessly bouncing softly off their car - they are certainly not going to break any windshields.
Dear Anonymous Coward, Seriously, if you think that telling you why they were suspicious of your bag is warranted, consider that a spy network could use that information (collected for numerous instances of suspicion, over many sample tests of going through the TSA search process) to learn how to expertly avoid suspicion. Certainly security could be improved in many ways, and I think that you have the right to leave the airport if you don't want to be treated with suspicion there, but really, tutoring all comers on the fine points of what triggers the alarm is not the brightest way to proceed.
Why a cellular phone? Aren't these machines usually connected to a landline so that they can phone in to verify the card before processing the transaction, and to actually store the transaction in the store's computer?
Can't she turn in her plate and get a new number?
Even at slave wages, half a billion censors don't come cheap.
Or, as the open source community might put it:
Many eyes make all political statements shallow.
um, "misspell", I meant.
Under the good to know heading, Ikea states: May be used with KOLON floor protector. Did they mispell flora?
My attempts at preupgrade (using first the 0.9.3-2 version and then the corrected 0.9.3-3 version) were long, drawn-out failures. Using 0.9.3-3, there were some 20 or so files that couldn't be found on "the server"; turned out that they were available in "Everything" but that preupgrade wasn't looking there, so I had to manually fix each and every one of these as they turned up (and no option to skip obviously unneeded files, though that's more likely due to the extreme intertwining of dependencies in the release trees). After that, all went well until I ran out of space in /var and the upgrade blew up. Making a symbolic link from /var/cache to someplace with more room was futile because preupgrade (or perhaps anaconda) doesn't look there, unlike yum itself which does. Finally I canned the whole thing, burned a DVD with the F9 iso, and booted from it to do my upgrade. I recommend that you do the same if you value your time and/or sanity.
The big fat pot of beans probably has ham or bacon in it. A vegetarian who gets busy with only the potatos and other vegetables won't be getting much protein at that meal, something that a couple of soy burgers or tofu pups would remedy. I agree, though, with the primary question. I wish that the soy protein foods weren't all designed to "taste like meat".
Will mess up your browsing - on purpose of course. Very cleverly hidden within what looks like a Yahoo URL but redirects to "slashblog.notlong.com" which then redirects to on.nimp.org. Strongly suggest you don't click on the link unless you're running a sandbox and want to examine it from there.
Hmmm.. fuses not nose cones. Still not good, but different.
Please, just think for a moment and you will realize that these cable cuts are the work of a desperate network administrator trying to once and for all figure out just where those pesky routes are really pointing. Just a few more and that Visio diagram will finally be completed.
This is nothing more than simple tax avoidance, not anything illegal (i.e., not tax evasion).
If there were a "Federal Sales Tax" and no "State Sales Tax", this wouldn't even be an option (unless Microsoft decided to move sales out of the US entirely). Or better yet, do away with the regressive sales tax and just increase the income tax enough to pay the costs of government.
What with all of the companies that move their operations offshore to avoid taxes (and to avoid paying US wage scale), this is a most remarkable tempest in somebody's very small teapot.
For an interesting and beautifully written literary peek into life in Afghanistan, I recommend "The Kite Runner" http://www.amazon.com/Kite-Runner-Khaled-Hosseini/dp/1594480001.
And the "other runners" actually do have the "option of replacing their legs", though it would be an unthinkably severe price to pay for the possibility of winning the race.
I wonder if the decision was based at least in part on the unthinkable possibility that some runners would choose to "replace their legs", just as some athletes have used various drugs and other enhancing surgeries that also carry potentially serious health consequences. Maybe the idea is that they don't want the possibility of fame and/or fortune to be permitted to coerce runners into doing just such a thing. Personally, I think that the obvious horrendous penalty of such an action (the loss of one's natural limbs) would prevent it from occurring, but there's always the outlying case.