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last updated at 2003-05-08 23:00

burtonator needs a place to live in San Francisco... if you know of anyone with a room who doesn't mind lice let me know || http://bugzilla.whitehouse.gov/

http://www.fortune.com/fortune/annie/0,15704,373501,00.html
posted by jillium at 2003-05-08 23:00

http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/6/30620.html
posted by sateh at 2003-05-08 22:44

sateh: Well, the FTC is looking into the Passport breach and could slap Microsoft with a fine of $2.2 trillion to cover all 200 million violated users.

http://www.utilikilts.com
posted by dev0 at 2003-05-08 21:27

dev0: Kilts rule
Mutiny: no matter how much utility these have, you're still wearing a dress.
nymble: yeah rock on
lemonodor: one step below the attractiveness of furries, unix sysadmins, and renfaire goers.
Emmett: But still three below LARPer. Curious.

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0471197130
posted by sateh at 2003-05-08 20:13

sateh: If patterns are good ideas that can be re-applied to new situations, AntiPatterns: Refactoring Software, Architectures, and Projects in Crisis looks at what goes wrong in software development, time and time again. This entertaining and often enlightening text defines what seasoned developers have long suspected: despite advances in software engineering, most software projects still fail to meet expectations--and about a third are cancelled altogether.

DAMN YOU CHUMP
posted by Ash at 2003-05-08 17:30

Line up for the Government IT Pork Barrel
posted by coderman at 2003-05-08 17:04

http://cagle.slate.msn.com/comics/updating/palomo.gif
posted by rik at 2003-05-08 16:23

rik: !Decoding the human genome

http://www.pckeyboard.com/ibmlist.html
posted by A_Young at 2003-05-08 06:56

A_Young: IBM P/N:1234567 is a keyboard

Dear Raed is back. short summary: "war sucks"
posted by coderman at 2003-05-08 06:39

coderman: my favorite quip from Diana (who posted) "Note: Evil Boss Unit be tellin' lies. I didn't bug nobody. I sent him one email. And I apologized for that. Evil Boss Unit be a sexist who believes wimmin ought to be seen and not heard. We'll see about that in the new Iraq."
coderman: "We didn't do no liberatin' and pullin' down statues to be told, "get in the kitchen and fry those felafal balls, bitch." Get ready for a wild ride, Iraq."

http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=thestar/Layout/Article_Type1&c=Article&cid=1052251515132&call_pageid=968867505381&col=969048872038
posted by A_Young at 2003-05-08 04:40

A_Young: Toronto Star May. 7, 2003 -- Activists protest use of pesticides against West Nile
A_Young: I can't believe this is even still an issue.

http://www.upi.com/view.cfm?StoryID=20030507-065612-1021r
posted by A_Young at 2003-05-08 04:36

A_Young: WTF? US wants to lift sanctions on iraq at last, ok, but giving the UN a role in post-war iraq? did someone do something with the real president?
A_Young: of course they are making out it is his idea and everything too

ACLU: Secret Security Profile Quiz
posted by kherr at 2003-05-08 04:17

kherr: Take the quiz and find out if your profile could stop you from traveling in Ashcroft's America.

BBC News, 29 April, 2003 -- Saddam's mouthpiece 'seeks surrender'
posted by A_Young at 2003-05-08 04:11

A_Young: "'He's my man, he was great' -- President Bush on Mr Sahhaf"
A_Young: "Americans have refused to arrest Mr Sahhaf - who became a familiar face during the war with his upbeat assessments of Iraqi military 'successes' - because he does not appear on their 'most wanted' list of 55 former regime officials."
A_Young: "US President George W Bush has admitted that he enjoyed Mr Sahhaf's briefings so much that he used to interrupt some of his meetings just to watch him."

Tiger map server - maps are free for use, not commercial
posted by A_Young at 2003-05-08 03:44

A_Young: [ The data used to create the maps comes from the Census Bureau, an agency of the U.S. Government, and is in the public domain. Thus the maps you can download from this site are in the public domain and you are free to use them as you choose. They are created on the fly and displayed on the screen in a raster (or bit map) format. They aren't meant to be imported into other mapping or GIS packages.|http://www.census.gov/geo/www/tiger
A_Young: data used .. comes from the Census Bureau, an agency of the U.S. Government, and is in the public domain. Thus the maps you can download from this site are in the public domain and you are free to use them as you choose. They are created on the fly and displayed on the screen in a raster (or bit map) format. They aren't meant to be imported into other mapping or GIS packages.
A_Young: Looks like the raw data is here
A_Young: see also http://maps.nocat.net/

The Political Graveyard
posted by A_Young at 2003-05-08 03:27

A_Young: Wish there were more of 'em ;)
A_Young: "The Political Graveyard is a web site about U.S. political history and cemeteries. It is the Internet's most comprehensive source for American political biography, listing 107,137 politicians, living and dead."
A_Young: "Hacked dead [politicians] stacked to the rafters .. line up muthafuckers, all i want is the truth" ;)
deltab: "* Politicians who were ever in trouble or disgrace (369) -- very incomplete!"

See you at DefCon 11 !!!
posted by coderman at 2003-05-08 02:54

coderman: "he recently opened $30 million Sapphire Gentlemen's Club sits on seven acres and boasts marble floors and plasma televisions. It has 10 sky boxes that allow customers a sweeping view of about 40,000 feet devoted to topless dancing."

Feds say CAPS-II and TIA will not cause privacy problems.
posted by coderman at 2003-05-08 02:46

coderman: <Fed> we have privacy problems right now: all sorts of usefull information is DENIED to us, the benevolent government, because of these privacy problems. CAPS-II and TIA will solve this problem nicely.
A_Young: "DARPA is simply providing other agencies such as the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation with the tools to mine data for important trends, Tether said" keyword: 'simply'
A_Young: 'what are you doing?' 'who us? oh we're just setting up a police state'
A_Young: 'don't mind us' (these are not the omni-surveilance departments you are looking for, we can go)
Mutiny: IF YOU'RE NOT DOING ANYTHING WRONG WHY IS THERE ANYTHING YOU WOULDN'T WANT THE GOVERNMENT TO KNOW???????
A_Young: "'We don't collect any data. We're not the people who collect data; we're the people who supply the analytical tools to the people who collect the data.'"
A_Young: And this is the rat that fed the cat that lived in the house, that jack built.
A_Young: "Asked how DARPA would ensure that any information about U.S. residents caught in TIA's net would be correct, Tether said that's up to agencies like the FBI to decide." well, i guess they just launch a full-scale investigation into them and check
A_Young: The ULTIMATE indirection fob-off "We will not be looking for the proverbial needle in the haystack. Rather, we will be taking the haystack off the needle by identifying those thousands and thousands of perfectly innocent travelers, opting them in, if you will, thereby leaving those we can't evaluate as OK."
coderman: yeah, like the investigation into the anthrax killings.. glad they wrapped that one up.GOD BLESS AMERIC4

http://science.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=63398&cid=5907391
posted by wmf at 2003-05-08 02:40

wmf: nanotech + /.: a dangerous combination
    
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