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Happily using Linux since 1995, Originally installed Slackware 2.2 w/ kernel 1.2.1.

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by jcr on Friday July 25, @02:03PM (#24334119)
Attached to: Spam King and Family Dead In Murder-Suicide

I can't believe a father would really kill his innocent little child.

This wasn't a normal father. He was a criminal. If he was self-centered enough to make his living by fraud and theft, then it's not that much of a stretch for him to decide that if he was going to off himself, he'd take a few people with him.

-jcr

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by megaditto on Friday July 18, @11:03PM (#24249675)
Attached to: Diebold Patch May Be Evidence of '02 Election Tampering

Well, let's stop for a moment and ask ourselves: would would Iraqi insurgents like to see become the next US president? Obama or McCain? Now isn't that interesting...

My point is, Obama should feel pretty safe in Iraq.

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  Comment: Yeah... (Score 0, Troll) 2008-06-08 18:03

by ghostdancer on Sunday June 08, @06:03PM (#23700319)
Attached to: Legal Trouble For Multiple ISPs
First Post?
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by dolphino on Wednesday May 28, @11:03PM (#23576323)
Attached to: What Examples of Security Theater Have You Encountered?
Hmmm... I feel safer killing insurgents in their backyard rather than killing them here, but I am probably strange that way.
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by jedidiah on Wednesday May 28, @06:03PM (#23576719)
Attached to: What Examples of Security Theater Have You Encountered?
It's not "colonialism".

Islam has been waging war with the rest of the world since it was invented.

Most of the world that is muslim now is that way because of those wars.

Don't try to kid anyone.
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by martyros on Saturday May 10, @08:03PM (#23361900)
Attached to: Microsoft Decides To Take On Linux On Low-Cost PCs
You know what's funny, is that just today I took a mandatory online training course on anti-trust regulations, just like everyone in my company does. It was funny reading the article, because like at least 3 or 4 things were specifically mentioned:
  • Predatory pricing to prevent a new entrant into a market by a company with market dominance
  • Limitations on what resellers can do with the product purchased (only on low-end PCs)
  • Arbitrary discounts to some distributors over others
  • Agreements between different members of the supply chain to limit customer choice
If the EU is at all consistent with the policies explained in my training today, MS should be forced to either sell low-cost XP to everyone, regardless of the hardware, or not sell XP at all. Who do I write in the EU to get an injunction?
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  Your Rights Online: Large Hadron Collider Sparks 'Doomsday' Lawsuit 2008-03-27 18:38

Posted by Zonk on Thursday March 27, @06:38PM
from the this-looks-like-a-job-for-superman dept.
smooth wombat writes "In what can only be considered a bizarre court case, a former nuclear safety officer and others are suing the U.S. Department of Energy, Fermilab, the National Science Foundation and CERN to stop the use of the LHC (Large Hadron Collider) until its safety is reassessed. The plaintiffs cite three possible 'doomsday' scenarios which might occur if the LHC becomes operational: the creation of microscopic black holes which would grow and swallow matter, the creation of strangelets which, if they touch other matter, would convert that matter into strangelets or the creation of magnetic monopoles which could start a chain reaction and convert atoms to other forms of matter. CERN will hold a public open house meeting on April 6 with word having been spread to some researchers to be prepared to answer questions on microscopic black holes and strangelets if asked."

  Church of Scientology violates Federal Law[->] 2008-03-14 16:30 FreedomToThink

Submitted by FreedomToThink on Friday March 14, @04:30PM
FreedomToThink writes "This is a very long story I'm sure the editors will have fun with, but I couldn't see how to cut it down at all.

On the eve of the Ides of March protest, from the source of the recent 'Anonymous' submitted CCHR leak on wikileaks, comes this message

"Dear $cientology,You attempt injunctions.I respond.Shall we continue the game? Much Love, DEEP CLAM"

Included was yet another PDF this time including yet more emails leaked from a Church of Scientology front group.

Vote Rigging?

From: "Mike Kaplan" <mkaplan@tampabay.rr.com>
To: <Undisclosed-Recipient:;>
Subject: Fw: RE-ELECT FRANK HIBBARD, MAYOR OF CLEARWATER
Date: Sun, 6 Jan 2008 11:53:07 -0400

See below. Everyone in Clearwater MUST vote. Every vote will be needed to be
sure Hibbard gets re-elected. The alternative is Rita Garvey who is an SP.

— Original Message —
From: Shelly <mailto:shelly.bauer@Earthlink.net> Bauer
To: Shelly Bauer <mailto:shelly.bauer@earthlink.net>
Sent: Sunday, January 06, 2008 8:09 AM
Subject: RE-ELECT FRANK HIBBARD, MAYOR OF CLEARWATER

DO YOUR PART
RE-ELECT FRANK HIBBARD
MAYOR OF CLEARWATER
VOTE!!!
JANUARY 29TH
TAKE NOTHING FOR GRANTED!

Lunch with your preferred Presidential candidates for a high price?

ONE SEAT LEFT

I have arranged a private one-hour luncheon with Ron Paul on 11/28 in St.
Pete when he will be in town for the CNN/YouTube Republican debate.

This luncheon is reserved for $1000+ donors to Ron Paul's presidential
campaign. 19 people so far have paid and confirmed and will have the honor
and pleasure of having lunch and communicating with Ron Paul directly.


From the head of the "Non Proffit" CCHR Bruce Wiseman

Go the the HELP committee website. The link is here.
http://help.senate.gov/About.html
Here you will see the names of the Committee members on the left hand
side
of the page. Please go to the individual websites of the Republican =
members
(this will take just a bit of leg work on your part by putting their =
name
into Google) and calling their office or sending a fax to them (email is =
the
least effective) stating your opposition to S. 1375 The Mother's Act.


Currently, the law prohibits political campaign activity by charities and churches by defining a 501(c)(3) organization as one "which does not participate in, or intervene in (including the publishing or distributing of statements), any political campaign on behalf of (or in opposition to) any candidate for public office."

An OCMB (Operation Clambake Message Board)regular adds :

I downloaded myself a copy and started looking through them. I found an interesting one on pages 47-48.
http://rapidshare.com/files/99292051/CCHRLeak3.pdf.html

Karin Pouw of OSA of CofS writes a message.
It's forwarded by Michael Genung. He's the guy who runs ACSR, Association for Citizens Sociel Reform. http://www.citizensforsocialreform.org/ ["CSR Background and Philosopy: CSR was founded in 2001 by a group of Scientologists and other like-minded individuals concerned with the escalating social ills in society. CSR's purpose is to work with in the field of public policy to bring about more effective and humane solutions to these social ills of illiteracy, criminality substance abuse and general decay of character."]

Then it's forwarded by Doyle Mills, of LEAF fame (Letters to the Editor Attack Force).
Then it's forwarded by Mary C. (possibly one of two Mary C's I'm thinking of, but unsure).
Then it's forwarded by Mike Kaplan, another person who runs an email list and forwards CCHR type stuff to CofS members.

If that ain't stringing a line from the CofS to CCHR and the CofS front group ("grassroots") movements, then I don't know what is!


Apologies in advance as the Enturbulation servers will not be up to a slashdotting so the Coral Cache link is here Enturbulation Discussion (already cached for you)

ANYONE CAN REPORT TAX FRAUD DIRECTLY TO THE IRS : http://www.irs.gov/compliance/enforcement/article/0,,id=106778,00.html It does require that you print out and mail in an actual hardcopy, but it does not require you to identify yourself.

Just a casual user passing on a message from the Enturbulation forum, this is already out there, there's no reason to attack the messenger."
http://rapidshare.com/files/99292051/CCHRLeak3.pdf.html
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  Your Rights Online: ISP Block on Pirate Bay Not Having Desired Effect 2008-02-11 14:03

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on Monday February 11, @02:03PM
from the never-underestimate-the-pirates dept.
TechDirt is reporting that the recent block placed on The Pirate Bay torrent site is not only relatively ineffective, but actually driving more traffic to the site because of the attention. "The news from The Pirate Bay appears to confirm this suspicion. According to The Pirate Bay's new Court Blog, Danish traffic has not dropped since the implementation of the block. '...the number of visits from Denmark has increased by 12% thanks to IFPI,' the blog post reads. 'Our site http://thejesperbay.org is growing more because of the media attention than people actually coming to learn how to bypass the filter - our guess is that alot of the users on the site now run OpenDNS instead of the censoring DNS at Tele2.dk.' 'We also started tracking some stats before and after the block. There's no noticeable difference between the number of users from Tele2.dk before and after.'"
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  Fryer to Fuel[->] 2008-01-23 11:50

Bookmark by budgenator on Wednesday January 23 2008, @11:50AM
http://fryertofuel.hypermart.net/
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  Hardware: OLPC To Be Distributed To US Students 2008-01-12 20:19

Posted by kdawson on Saturday January 12 2008, @08:19PM
from the seizing-the-initiative dept.
eldavojohn writes "The One Laptop Per Child Project plans to launch OLPC America in 2008 , to distribute the low-cost laptop computers originally intended for developing nations to needy students here in the United States. Nicholas Negroponte is quoted as saying, 'We are doing something patriotic, if you will, after all we are and there are poor children in America. The second thing we're doing is building a critical mass. The numbers are going to go up, people will make more software, it will steer a larger development community.'"
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  Scientists say they have settled the ESP debate[->] 2008-01-03 20:44 TaeKwonDood

Submitted by TaeKwonDood on Thursday January 03 2008, @08:44PM
TaeKwonDood writes "Neuroimaging studies by Harvard scientists spell doom for the ESP community. ESP is a function of brain activity, they say, and brain scans show no difference. Thus, the mystery of how your girlfriend knows you looked at another woman remains unresolved."
http://www.sciencecodex.com/researchers_use_neuroimaging_to_study_esp
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  Wave Power Research off Oregon Coast 2007-12-08 14:42 necro81

Submitted by necro81 on Saturday December 08 2007, @02:42PM
A prototype buoy has been launched off the Oregon coast to try generating electrical power from the ever-present waves. The OSU device works like a giant shake-up flashlight. It is one of several competing designs to take advantage of a potential clean energy goldmine. It will be years before substantial power is contributed to the grid, but several companies have received permits to develop test platforms. The NY Times has an article that surveys the current outlook for wave energy, which it compares to wind energy's prospects back in the 1980s. Concerns about impacts to wildlife and fishing remain to be answered.
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  RIAA steers clear of colleges that resist 2007-12-08 12:20 NewYorkCountryLawyer

Submitted by NewYorkCountryLawyer on Saturday December 08 2007, @12:20PM
NewYorkCountryLawyer writes "The Chronicle of Higher Education reports that 22 institutions have been targeted in the RIAA's new round of attacks. I notice that the RIAA continues to steer clear of Harvard. Could it be because of this or this? And I notice it isn't serving any more subpoenas on the University of Oregon... could it be because of this or this? And I don't see any more subpoenas to College of William & Mary or George Washington University or University of South Florida of University of New Mexico. Could that have to do with this or this or this or this? There seems to be a pattern here. The RIAA is staying away from places where it might have a fight on their hands."
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From feed by sdfeed on Saturday December 08 2007, @11:13AM
New studies clarify the evidence of a genetic link between schizophrenia and cancer, providing a surprising possible scientific explanation for lower rates of cancer among patients with schizophrenia -- despite having poor diets and high rates of smoking -- and their parents.
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/12/071208092440.htm
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