Comment Re:What no spelling? (Score 1) 272
I don't think the spoiler disclaimer is necessary on a 16 year old movie. However, your recollection of inane facts is superb.
Comment Re:FTFA (Score 1) 372
Face it, it is time to leave the Science to the 120 year olds.
Comment Re:I support a citizen's right to shoot. (Score 1) 327
:P I was being serious.
(now watch this get modded funny too?)
(now watch this get modded funny too?)
Comment Re:Countermeasures (Score 1) 926
While your description is the best I've seen so far in this thread, you still only list dimensions for a two-dimensional object.
I commend you, AC, for being both the most informative, and yet almost entirely useless.
I commend you, AC, for being both the most informative, and yet almost entirely useless.
Comment I support a citizen's right to shoot. (Score 3, Funny) 327
I support a citizen's right to shoot. (I live in the U.S., not that that's relevant)
Comment Live arcade cabinet from Hack-a-Day (Score 2, Interesting) 136
Currently on a boardwalk somewhere in England, Hack-a-Day posted this link last week: http://www.lushprojects.com/lunarlander/>http://www.lushprojects.com/lunarlander/
Comment Duh? (Score 1) 259
I assumed the summary meant WIRELESS Broadband data plans? The mention of "broadband data cap", I thought, indicated this. Netbooks, after all, are intended to be portable, on the go machines; many of which bundle data plans for subsidizing costs on the computer itself.
Comment Intentional Slashdotting? (Score 1) 757
I second any argument that supports intentional DDoSing this page.
Comment Re:Craziness (Score 1) 408
It is in your "best interests" because you can't afford a lobbyist to bribe, kick, and scream until legislation is drafted in your favor. That is the ultimate problem; companies have (unnatural) political power, and their power base is spread out so that ethical and moral issues are only important when they impact the bottom line.
Submission + - Church of Scientology violates Federal Law (rapidshare.com) 5
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
Included was yet another PDF this time including yet more emails leaked from a Church of Scientology front group.
Vote Rigging?
Lunch with your preferred Presidential candidates for a high price?
From the head of the "Non Proffit" CCHR Bruce Wiseman
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 :
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."
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."
Submission + - NIST Creates Perpetual Motion (dailytech.com)
An anonymous reader writes: The DailyTech writes that "The National Institute of Standards and Technology, in conjunction with the University of Maryland's Joint Quantum Institute, created a short-lived "proof of concept" of perpetual motion. Using an exotic type of matter known as a Bose Einstein condensate, or BEC, the team demonstrated true perpetual motion. Though the state persisted only ten seconds, team members say it will one day lead to real-world applications."
http://www.dailytech.com/NIST+Creates+Perpetual+Motion++But+Only+for+10+Seconds/article9865.htm
Submission + - How do you handle abuse ?
Hafnia writes: I have an older machine running Debian to serve my Squeezebox and FTP. It's open to the internet for ssh and ftp. I don't really care or worry about it, but every once in a while i check the authlog and every time it's crowded with failed attempts to get in !
What do you do?
Ignore it ?
Report it ?
Attack it ?
And what should i do ?
I'm fairly competent with computers , but not a pro sysadmin.
Does it make sense at all to report it ?
Submission + - CCP Announces EVE Online Linux & Macintosh Cli (eve-online.com) 1
OS24Ever writes: "As announced earlier in this forum thread, Revelations 2.3 will be deployed on Tuesday, 6 November. This patch will contain a number of fixes which can all be viewed here, but most importantly it contains formal support for Mac OS X and Linux! If you would like to have a sneak preview of what it is going to be like playing on the supported OS of your choice.
Beta clients are available to download now and to connect to the test 'Multiplicity' Server. Users with a valid account on October 2nd, 2007 (last date of data copy) can join up now."
Submission + - Congresstastic - Telecoms Under Scrutiny 1
psyph3r writes: "I ran across a short article, which talks about communication companies and the recent congressional call to investigate the business practices of companies such as Comcast, Vorizon, and AT&T.
"Congress is reacting to mounting complaints about telecoms and their unnerving "power to discriminate against content". In almost every facet of our lives, telecom companies have complete power over our infrastructure. Today, fastsilicon.com talks about this investigation on companies. How did we get to this point""
"Congress is reacting to mounting complaints about telecoms and their unnerving "power to discriminate against content". In almost every facet of our lives, telecom companies have complete power over our infrastructure. Today, fastsilicon.com talks about this investigation on companies. How did we get to this point""
Submission + - NASA to Search Documents for '65 UFO Incident (physorg.com)
eldavojohn writes: "NASA has agreed to probe its documents for information regarding an object that streaked across the sky and crashed near Kecksburg, Pa., 40 miles southeast of Pittsburgh. This comes following a NYC journalist's (Kean) four year old lawsuit to open relevant documents up to the public. From the article, 'The agency has turned over several stacks of documents which Kean says are not responsive to the request, an argument that U.S. District Judge Emmet Sullivan agreed with. In March, Sullivan rejected NASA's request to throw the case out of court, resulting in negotiations that led to the agency promising last week that it will conduct a more comprehensive search.' The witness accounts fall right into the classic government/military cover up style descriptions."
