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Baseball Opens Series with 9-0 Victory
BATON ROUGE, La. - LSU (31-19, 9-16 SEC) broke a scoreless tie with a three-run fourth inning and rode freshman starter Kevin Gausman's complete game shutout gem to a 9-0 victory against Tennessee (23-25, 5-20 SEC).
The Tigers added five runs in the sixth and another in the seventh to erase any thoughts of a Volunteer comeback. Gausman (4-6) recorded seven strikeouts, allowed four hits and commanded the strike zone from the outset without allowing a single walk.
Gausman pitched LSU's first complete-game shutout since May 2, 2009 when Louis Coleman blanked Arkansas in Fayetteville.
"Kevin Gausman has the ability to be one of the elite pitchers in the SEC, and he demonstrated that tonight," said LSU coach Paul Mainieri. "He pounded the strike zone with his fastball, and he complemented it with a great change-up. He really controlled the game and was very efficient with his pitches.
"We had hitting throughout the lineup tonight against a very good pitcher. I was very pleased with our approach at the plate, but the key for us will be to follow up this performance with another strong effort in tomorrow's game."
LSU cranked out 17 hits, including 13 against Tennessee starter Steven Gruver (4-7) to provide the run support Gausman needed to go the distance. The Tigers utilized extra-base hits and small ball to build their lead.
Raph Rhymes led off the fourth with a hot shot single past the shortstop. Mason Katz slammed a double off the left field wall to score Rhymes. Mikie Mahtook's RBI single past the third baseman brought in Katz.
Tyler Hanover's single to right center moved Mahtook to third and Hanover advanced to second on the throw to third. With one out, Alex Edward executed a squeeze play to bring home Mahtook.
Mahtook led off the bottom of the sixth with a single between first and second. Hanover would advance Mahtook to third on a perfectly timed hit and run. With runners on first and third, Edward notched his second RBI of the game with a single to right. After Ty Ross was hit by a pitch to load the bases, JaCoby Jones delivered an RBI single to bring in Hanover.
Rhymes dribbled a single in front of catcher Ethan Bennett to score Edward. With the bases loaded, Katz stepped up and smacked his second double of the game to to plate two more and increase the lead to 8-0.
Austin Nola nearly missed a grand slam two batters later on a deep fly to the right field track.
The Tigers came back out in the bottom of the seventh and continued their success against Volunteer's reliever Carter Watson. Back-to-back singles by Hanover and Edward put runners on the corners in the LSU seventh. With one out, Jones's double to left-center scored Hanover.
Gausman was on fire from pitches No. 1 to 109, and he struck out the final two batters in the ninth.
LSU made spectacular defensive plays all over the infield to keep runners off of the bases for Gausman. In the top of the fifth, Hanover made a diving throw to first after charging and scooping up a slow grounder off the bat of Chris Fritts.
The middle of the order took charge for LSU. Katz had two doubles and three RBIs, Mahtook had three singles, scored twice and added an RBI, Hanover had three singles and scored twice and Edward had three singles and a sacrifice bunt, while scoring twice and plating two. Jones also connected for two hits and two RBIs.
Mahtook collected three hits in a game for the sixth time this season.
Game 2 of the series starts at 3 p.m. Saturday, and Game 3 will begin at 1 p.m. Sunday.
Both games can be heard on the affiliates of the LSU Sports Radio Network. Live audio and stats of the games may be accessed in the Geaux Zone at www.LSUsports.net.
Live video of Sunday's game may be accessed at www.LSUsports.net, and live video may be viewed on Saturday at www.ESPN3.com.
Saturday's game will be carried by Cox Sports Television and Comcast Sports Southeast and Sunday's game is a Jumbo Sports Network production that can be seen on Cox Cable Channel 4 in Baton Rouge, New Orleans and Lafayette.
LSU will honor on Saturday College Baseball Hall of Fame member Eddy Furniss, who was inducted into the hall last summer. Furniss, who played first base at LSU from 1995-98, will be recognized on the field prior to the 3 p.m. first pitch versus Tennessee.
Sunday is Senior Day in Alex Box Stadium, as senior pitchers Ben Alsup and Daniel Bradshaw will be recognized prior to the 1 p.m. first pitch. Also scheduled to be recognized prior to Sunday's game is former LSU pitcher Butch Mixon, who established a school record on April 28, 1959 when he recorded 24 strikeouts against Southwestern Louisiana.
LSU 9, Tennessee 0 (May 13, 2011 at Baton Rouge, La.)
Tennessee........... 000 000 000 - 0 4 0 (23-25, 5-20 SEC)
Pitchers: Tennessee - Steven Gruver; Carter Watson(7); Jon Reed(8) and Ethan Bennett; Wes Walker.
LSU - Kevin Gausman and Ty Ross.
Win-Kevin Gausman(4-6) Loss-Steven Gruver(4-7) T-2:21 A-10111
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Submission + - SPAM: Can Curiosity Be Programmed?
destinyland writes: AI researcher Jurgen Schmidhuber says his main scientific ambition "is to build an optimal scientist, then retire." The Cognitive Robotics professor has worked on problems including artificial ants and even robots that are taught how to tie shoelaces using reinforcement learning, but he believes algorithms can be written that allow the programming of curiosity itself. "Curiosity is the desire to create or discover more non-random, non-arbitrary, regular data that is novel and surprising..." He's already created art using algorithmic information theory, and can describe the simple algorithmic principle that underlies subjective beauty, creativity, and curiosity itself. And he ultimately addresses the possibility that the entire Universe, including everyone in it, is in principle computable by a completely deterministic computer program."
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The East Hampton High School bowling team by virtue of its 23-10 win over Rocky Point at the Port Jefferson lanes Monday jumped from fourth to second place in league competition.
"We were flat in the first game — we never bowl well at Port Jeff — but we buckled down and adjusted and came back to win the second and third games," said Bonac's coach, Pat Hand. "Besides those games, we got the team high game, and total wood too."
In other recent action, the bowlers, who are led by two seniors, Andrew Payne and Ricky Nardo, defeated Southold 29.5-3.5, defeated Southampton 28-5, lost 17-16 to Eastport-South Manor, which was in first place going into Tuesday's matches, and lost 25.5-7.5 to Westhampton Beach.
In the match with Southampton, which was contested on lanes in Riverhead, Payne was on his way to a 300 when, in the 10th frame, his ball left the 4, 7, and 10 pins standing. "It's a makeable split," said Hand, "but hard to make. Andrew got the 4 and the 7, but left the 10." As a consequence, he finished with a 265.
Payne, who was averaging 194 going into Monday's match, and who also has bowled a 232, said he felt the ball slip out of his hand in the last frame.
"Nobody has bowled a 300 for us since Ryan Rhodes and Erick Bock the better part of a decade ago," the coach said. "Not even Mikey [Graham, an all-state bowler with the highest average in Suffolk County when in high school here]. Though he did bowl a 300 in practice."
Concerning her lineup, Hand said she has Payne as the anchor, at number-five, Nardo as her number-four, and Chris Duran, a junior, in the number-one slot. "Then," she said, "I fill in."
Among those on the squad she can choose from, and often does, are six girls, the most the team's ever had. Gaby Green, a junior, who's averaging 170, and Victoria Nardo, Ricky's sister, also a junior, who's averaging 140, often start. Green has bowled a 204 game. Brianna Semb, a junior, bowled a 186 in Monday's match.
East Hampton was to have played host to Mount Sinai Tuesday at East Hampton Bowl. Eastport-South Manor and Westhampton Beach were to have vied on Tuesday also.


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After 6 yrs on Avonex I stopped because I didn't think is was doing anything anymore...my old neuro agreed...without any MRIs other than the initial one. My new neuro is suggesting after reviewing MRIs of the spine which has atrophied but has increased multiple foci but do not demonstrate contrast enhancement-there is no formal stenosis- to do monthly IV steroid and go on Copaxone.
I was thinking to try LDN but not sure it would help...since there are no trials I am basing my thinking on patient reports.
Had CCSVI procedure 8/10 w LIJV lower openend however midsection would not stay optimal. Twisted azygos opened. Mobility issues subside for a few weeks then went back to my cane. Bear hug and floating head above my shoulders was gone for almost 3 months then returned.
Now need to decide on drug protocol...would love your suggestions!


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"Studying in RMU's TV studio really gave me the edge working with today's growing technologies...Not to mention they also greatly liked my two-year experience as a Resident Assistant, working with faculty and students in a college setting." – Mark Biski '08
RMU's television & video production program, an offering in the Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) or Bachelor of Fine Arts (B.F.A.), includes working behind the scenes and in front of the camera, both inside the studio and on location. Areas addressed include motion graphics, videography, field production, editing, storyboarding and writing for the media. Students can produce their own programs for RMU-TV and get involved in production as early as the first week of their first semester in the program.
As the film industry continues to grow in Pittsburgh (a.k.a., Hollywood East), the TV/video production concentration has become a popular choice for students looking to get into this exciting field. During the spring semester, the department welcomes the Visiting Documentary Filmmaker in Residence, who is housed in the Media Arts House. The filmmaker is selected by RMU faculty from a international pool of candidates and teaches a documentary production course, gives two public lectures, and produces a documentary film.
Graduates of RMU's Media Arts degree program with a concentration in TV/Video Production are finding success in everything from television and film to documentaries and major league sports:
D.J. Klinefelter '08 has worked as a gaffer and electrician on such movies as "Jack Reacher", "The Avengers", "The Perks of Being a Wallflower", "I Am Number Four", and "Super 8"
Brad Grimm '07 was a student Emmy winner while at RMU, and today works as a cinematographer, camera operator, director, and visual effects artist.
Nazari Dorosh '10 was featured in RMU's Change A Life campaign and now works as Pittsburgh Steelers' game-day videographer (YouTube demo reel)
Mark Cottington '10 is the New Media Video Producer for the Pittsburgh Penguins.
Bill Wareham '06 works as the Game Night Producer for the Pittsburgh Penguins.
Below is a typical four-year course of study for TV & video production students, including major requirements and some electives. Your own schedule will vary based on your own interests.
|FRESHMAN/Fall Semester
|FRESHMAN/Spring Semester
|Foundation Studio
|Foundations Studio II
|2D Design Principles
|Color Theory
|Reading and Writing Strategies
|3D Design Principles
|Argument & Research
|SOPHOMORE/Fall Semester
|SOPHOMORE/Spring Semester
|Intro to Printmaking
|Intro to Photography
|Digital Imaging
|Writing for the Media
|Intro to TV/Video Prod
|Intro to Graphic Design
|Public Speaking and Persuasion
|History of TV/Video
|Business elective
|Business Professional Communication
|JUNIOR/Fall Semester
|JUNIOR/Spring Semester
|Idea Development/Storyboarding
|TV/Video Postproduction
|Intro to Web Design
|Motion Graphics
|Video Field Production
|Film History
|Film Video Aesthetics
|Media Arts elective
|Business elective
|SENIOR/Fall Semester
|SENIOR/Spring Semester
|Advanced TV/Video Workshop
|TV/Video BFA Seminar
|Film/Video Seminar
|Media Arts elective
|Media Arts elective
|Media Management
All four Media Arts degree concentrations are available as a B.A. or B.F.A. program.
The Bachelor of Fine Arts degree is more specialized and intensive in the areas of concentration, with 24 credits of foundation studies and 24 major credits. The degree suits those who are clear that they wish to pursue a career in one of the four concentration areas, although they do not have to choose one until the sophomore year.
The Bachelor of Arts degree, in contrast, does not have a foundation studies area, but combines the same classes as those in the B.F.A. into 33 major credits. Additional courses are converted into open electives, allowing students to pursue a minor or broaden their studies into other areas of interest. The B.A. degree also allows transfer students to gain maximum advantage for credits completed at other institutions.
Academic Media Center The Academic Media Center provides a learning environment for students interested in television, video, audio, photography, multimedia, producing, and writing. The center houses exceptional facilities, including the second-largest television studio in Pittsburgh, a television control room, linear and nonlinear editing suites, darkrooms, computer labs and field production equipment. This ensures that students get first-hand knowledge on the same equipment found in broadcast TV stations and corporate communication departments.
RMU-TV The Academic Media Center produces programming for RMU-TV, a 24-hour cable television station broadcast throughout campus and to more than 200,000 homes in the surrounding community. Students participate in all phases of RMU-TV, both behind the scenes and in front of the camera. Student-produced programming includes news, sports, comedy, and talk shows.
Snee-Reinhardt House for the Media Arts Besides an apartment for visiting artists and scholars, this building includes a large, natural-light studio, conference and meeting rooms, ample display space for student work, and a theater-quality HD screening room that can also be used for classes.
The Wheatley Center
The School of Communications and Information Systems is now housed in the Wheatley Center. This soaring, 50,000 square-foot complex, glowing with colored LED accents, includes classrooms, computer labs, media arts studios, editing suites, a gallery, and teleconferencing facilities, as well as faculty and administrative offices, student meeting spaces and a café.
Within walking distance are facilities that provide opportunities for students to develop expertise in a range of media. Students perform and produce plays and musicals in our theater; they produce our student newspaper, The Sentry, and our literary magazine, RUNE, in our newsroom; they produce documentaries, attend lectures and learn from visiting scholars in our Media Arts House; and they produce and host news, entertainment, and sports programs in our state-of-the-art Academic Media Center's broadcast facility and our Internet radio station.
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Even better, someone register itunes.apple.com, quick!
I bet that the poster of this article is exploring his options, after all, he's not allow to purchase his media legally, so perhaps he would be better served by a free alternative?
I am sure Apple did it only to make someone else happy (labels, investors, foreign governments, us government, etc...) however, it's ridiculous to suggest that this will do anything but increase piracy.
not where you were born. When I was an American living and working in Germany, I was subject to the laws of Germany. I couldn't download a browser with more than 40-bit encryption at the time due to export regulations. Yes I was an American citizen, but I wasn't in the united states.
Now, if you are working on behalf of the US government at a diplomatic consulate/mission or in the military, then you may have a gripe, and I believe Apple should do something to work with you. Especially if your billing is to an APO address.
Just because I'm american and we are allowed the freedom of speech inside the US doesn't mean I can have a copy of Mein Kampf in Germany.
Just because I'm american and we are allowed the freedom of speech inside the US doesn't mean I can have a copy of Mein Kampf in Germany.
LOL, I think this might be the most sensible post to invoke Godwin's Law ever!
It also is quite wrong. It is legal to own "Mein Kampf" in Germany. It is not legal to sell, give or even show it to somebody else. It is also illegal to purchase it as far as I know.
Possession however is fine.
It is neither of those. The copyright to mein kampf and other Nazi works fell to the state of bavaria, which by copyright simply doesnt allow any copying of mein kampf and hasnt since the second world war. If you happen to have one of the old copies from the WW2, or you bought it a state that doesnt reckognize avarias copyright on it, youre perfectly fine to do anything you want with it. Of course, there are several anti-nazi-agitation laws and selling the book on ebay may invoke some of those laws, but theres nothing specific to this one book and applies to all nazi memorabilia.
Just because I'm american and we are allowed the freedom of speech inside the US doesn't mean I can have a copy of Mein Kampf in Germany.
Bad example. It is a common misconception that Mein Kampf is illegal in Germany. You are allowed to have a copy (even though it you will probably not find a new one anywhere).
For the record, you can be subject to both the laws of the country where you live and where you were born simultaneously, even if the two are not the same.
American paedophilia and tax laws come to mind...
I don't think the submitter is complaining that what iTunes is doing is illegal (or that he should be subject to US law while abroad). I think he is complaining that what iTunes is doing is stupid.
He wants to be a customer. He wants to give them money. But they (iTunes, or whichever content providers require this rule) want to restrict things regionally. These regional restrictions are inconvenient, arbitrary, and illogical in an age of ubiquitous global network connectivity, and easy trans-national travel. Someone abroad can circumvent the restrictions easily with a proxy. Conversely a US citizen on a trip abroad is denied access (whereas it would have been fine if they had downloaded it while in the US and carried it on their computer on the plane). Thus it doesn't seem that the rule accomplishes its nominal goal. Actually for the most part the nominal goal isn't even clear. In short, the restrictions are silly.
Of course it is within iTune's ability (technical and legal) to impose such restrictions. But it just seems illogical, since anywhere that the content is not available through a legitimate source (or available but only after a substantial delay) will simply increase the amount of circumvention (proxy, file sharing, etc.). So why don't these companies want the money being offered to them?
Is it itunes fault is country laws(USA Germany, France,etc) forbid such things ? Just because you Are an American doesn't give you the right to playmusic, videos, even newspapers that are banned in the country your currenrtly in.
He wants to be a customer. He wants to give them money. But they (iTunes, or whichever content providers require this rule) want to restrict things regionally.
In some cases yes, in many cases its not that they WANT to restrict things, its that they HAVE to.
If Warner owns song X in the US, and Sony owns it Brazil, then no matter how much Warner wants to sell you the song in Brazil they CAN'T. And if Sony owns it but doesn't want to sell it, or wants to sell it but charge more than Warner, that's life. Warner can't do squat about it except say, hey, come to the US and buy a copy while you are actually here.
In the case I describe Warner isn't trying to restrict things regionally, but don't own the rights to distribute the song in Brazil, and someone else does, so they just can't.
I couldn't download a browser with more than 40-bit encryption at the time due to export regulations. Yes I was an American citizen, but I wasn't in the united states.
Actually, the law you would've broken was a US law, there's a reason lots of software that contained encryption was written in a way that allowed it to ship without the encryption, so that europeans and others could use the encryption module/plugin/component coded outside the US.
Also, I think this move is partly to stop non-americans from getting US iTunes accounts so that they can buy movies and TV shows (yeah, are you listening Apple? We're still waiting!).
Just because I'm american and we are allowed the freedom of speech inside the US doesn't mean I can have a copy of Mein Kampf in Germany.
By that logic, we should all STFU whenever these companies assist foreign governments in tracking down dissidents.
Either natural rights exist or they don't. If they exist, then it doesn't matter what country a person is in when they are infringed.
not where you were born. When I was an American living and working in Germany, I was subject to the laws of Germany. I couldn't download a browser with more than 40-bit encryption at the time due to export regulations...
Couldn't download it *from the US*.
I don't think you would have broken any German laws by downloading a 41bit browser. And I don't think you would have broken the US export laws if you downloaded your 41bit browser from a country other than the US. For example one of the Russian plugins that were available for Netscape at the time, or where an American company printed out the source code, mailed it to Europe and had it scanned in and re-compiled.
As someone who has visited Australia several times over the past few years, I'm wondering why the Aussies would want to travel overseas.
Bored with the moderate weather in NSW? Move to QLD.
Bored with the stoner culture around southern coastal QLD? Move to SA.
Want better wines? Move to WA.
Want to get away from civilization? Move to the NT.
Want to get away from the oppressive heat? Move to Victoria.
Feeling REALLY interested and want to travel to strange and exotic lands?
Well, there's always Tazmania.
Sounds like the US to me.
Welcome to the dismantling of the internet. If you have the slightest knowledge of how media cartels work, not just American ones but World wide, then you know it was just a matter of time before market segmentation reared its ugly head onto the web. Google is not exempt either, they've been IP filtering their early days.
If you have the slightest knowledge of how media cartels work, not just American ones but World wide, then you know it was just a matter of time before market segmentation reared its ugly head onto the web.
And that time was right around when RFC 1591 was adopted, fifteen years ago. What other reason for ccTLDs could there be -- for television shows to contribute to the Tuvan economy by reserving a vanity *.tv domain?
The Internet may be the same all over, but the laws its users are compelled to abide by are
I live in Vietnam and regularly purchase apps for my iPhone which, uh, has gained the ability to work here
I saw the warning too but short of setting up some sort of proxy I have no other options but to try and use it here. Fortunately it works (for now).
This has nothing to do with being an USA citizen and all about where you are geographically located. If you have a credit card registered to a USA address, then you can buy quite happily from the US store (Apple isn't going to know the real story), but not if you have a non-USA address. This policy has been in place since day 1 of the iTunes store, and is in place because of the distribution rights set in place by the record companies, so in reality this is a non-story.
Odd, I have a Canadian credit card and itunes still takes my money (;-))
US iTunes store, or Canadian iTunes store? The US store certainly doesn't like my Canadian credit card, but the Canadian version takes it no problem.
That's the way it's always been before, yes. The submitter is panicking because the new ToS says he won't be allowed to access it, even with his US credit card.
Is he right? Who knows. If they were already blocking based on IP, I'm sure we'd have heard that story instead.
This is probably a complete non-issue.
Same thing hits when US card holder tries purchasing electronica from the European iTunes store or Anime Soundtracks from the Japanese store.
If it were not for this aspect of region locking, I would have been a customer.
Gotta love it when the recording industries refuse to let you give them money for their product.
Ya, those regional restrictions are really helping to promote piracy, err, I mean combat piracy. 'Cause if someone can't legally get access to something they want for non-exorbitant prices (or if at all) they'll just totally stop wanting it...
Gotta love it when the recording industries refuse to let you give them money for their product.
Well they have shared the pie between the distributors and they don't want to piss them off, by not respecting the turf boundaries.
Amazon even disables their service within the US if you don't use a US credit card. (I can walk into any record store in the US while on vacation and buy a CD or DVD using my credit card, but I can't buy songs or videos from Amazon because I don't have a US billing address. How silly.)
Try out Amazon MP3 [tinyurl.com].
It's cheap, DRM-less, and easy. Plus, it runs on Linux just fine (32-bit has packages, force it on 64-bit, use getlibs, and it works fine).
YEARwithoutDRM [yearwithoutdrm.com]
It's cheap, DRM-less, and easy. And it doesn't install a helper application into your browser, just waiting for someone to figure out how to slide an exploit into a ".amz" file.
For Safari under Leopard, to remove that erroneous tagging of ".amz" as "safe" (there's no such thing as a "safe" file), remove the entry from ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.DownloadAssessment.plist .
It's cheap, DRM-less, and easy. And it doesn't install a helper application into your browser, just waiting for someone to figure out how to slide an exploit into a ".amz" file.
What are you talking about? Amazon doesn't install anything in my browser; you download a separate application. And what makes an amz file less safe than any other file? It's a document, not an application. And it's being served by amazon.com -- or does your scenario involve malicious hackers taking over amazon.com too?
Try out Amazon MP3 [tinyurl.com].
It's cheap, DRM-less, and easy. Plus
... it can't be used outside the USA either. Great alternative there.
AFAIK, it works if you use a US credit card with a US billing address, so it is an option for the "US citizen traveling abroad"
And it's not available out side the US and (now) the UK. At all.
Apple offers iTunes stores for most of the countries in the world, you just can't buy from the wrong store.
Try out Amazon MP3
It doesn't work outside the United States. I live in Canada and Itunes works here. Amazon does not.
The last time I was presented with the "agreement" for the iTunes store, I pulled up a terminal and ran wc on it. It was 4,931 words long, not including referenced agreements. You can go buy a CD at a store with out signing a contract, much less one nearly 5,000 words long.
It contained all manor of claims of how Apple could unilaterally change the terms for purchased music and required that you "agree to agree" to future terms.
Having taken some contract law courses ( but IANAHPAADL - I am not a highly paid Apple attack dog lawyer), much of it seemed unconscionable. Specifically, consideration from Apple (ability to play already purchased songs, access the store, etc.) seems weak-to-non-existent in light of the fact that it can be arbitrarily revoked according to the terms.
Also, I am generally an Apple fan, but this is one area where I think they are really out of control.
If you have another mac in the USA, enable remote ssh logins into it. (Or really, any server that accepts ssh, but since you fell for the Steve Jobs Reality Distortion Field, I'll assume you're on a mac, and you know others with macs in the USA).
In terminal,
ssh -D 1080 example.com
In network preferences,
Configure your network settings to use a socks proxy on 127.0.0.1:1080
Now, Safari and iTunes both will be browsing *via* example.com, working around any geolocation features Apple and other companies may be using. This setting is principally only honored by Apple apps; it won't affect Firefox for example (though you can configure Firefox to use a socks proxy).
I just tried and American iTunes Store is still not blocked in Europe at least. I somehow fail to see that I'm doing something criminal when I buy music and shows from American iTunes using "gift cards", instead of pirating the goods from a torrent site, which would have been the only viable alternative.
I can order CDs, DVDs, you name it, from amazon.com and they will happily ship things to Canada.
I can't buy the same music/shows online due to 'copyright issues'.
Why is it that the physical media is treated differently from the electronic media for the exact same content?
Actually, I got the message that iTMS was not to be used from outside of the US months ago (I live in Japan). They said they might check. Thus far, they haven't. I wouldn't worry about it.
Also, Amazon MP3 won't sell to me anymore, although they do for my friends. I had to buy a book for work from the US site and registered my Japanese credit card (my work can only reimburse expenditures made in yen), and then, like magic, Amazon MP3 stopped working. I've even tried making a new account with a different US credit card, and yet Amazon now knows I'm in Japan, but doesn't know that my buddy down the street, who has only ever used his US credit card with the US site, is as well.
I absolutely hate pirating music. I reject it on ethical grounds, and I hate tracks being mis-labeled (I have never entered track names by myself--who are these people who can't spell who are entering ID3 tags on pirated songs???) and having no control over the bitrate I get, and the album art requiring looking and futzing... It's just a shitty way to get music for all involved.
But when I'm not even allowed to buy it online (except for on CD--which I still do for music I really, really like, so I can rip it lossless), what's a boy to do?
The world was looking so pretty, without all those borders... Why do companies and governments need to redraw them through technological means? The promise of the internet is being quashed everywhere you look...
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Submission + - Why you should use OpenGL and not DirectX (wolfire.com)
stickyboot writes: The independent games developer Wolfire describes why they decided to use OpenGL indead of DirectX. The article mainly discusses the marketing strategies behind DirectX and how the API became so popular. It also goes over why a developer would choose OpenGL over DirectX and what this decision means for the gamer.


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Forcing the Issue
How House Democrats plan to take advantage of Republican overreach on abortion.
The man in charge of taking back the House for Democrats is talking about rape. When the Republicans took Congress, says Rep. Steve Israel, a New York Democrat, they didn't focus on creating jobs. "They focused on redefining rape."
He's referring to the No Taxpayer Funding for Abortion Act, the first of several bills Republicans introduced to chip away at the unpopular bits of "Obamacare," and it had Democratic support. But eight days after Rep. Christopher Smith, R-N.J., introduced the bill in January, Nick Baumann of Mother Jones reported that the legislation limited the conditions under which women could get federal funding for abortions. "Rape" no longer counted; what counted was "forcible rape."
That started the biggest backlash in the short, otherwise happy life of the new Republican House. The Daily Show ran jokes about the "rape loophole." Instead of a popular bill, Smith had handed the GOP a toxic mess. And Israel intends to keep using it against them. He's talking about this a day after the DCCC sent out a fundraising message pegged to the "forcible rape" mess, subject line "Outrageous."
"We need to bring out 9 million independent voters," Israel explains. "If you do a geographic analysis of them, they live in about 37 fairly suburban, moderate districts across the country. Those 9 million independent voters, in those 37 [districts], elected Republicans because Republicans said that they would, on Day One, focus on revitalizing jobs. And what did they do on Day One? They redefined rape. That is not what those independent voters expected from the new Republican majority."
This is the kind of bluster you can engage in after your opponent has dunked on himself. It will undoubtedly continue until at least Nov. 6, 2012. Abortion rights activists, whose relevance had been waning during elections fought over the war in Iraq and the Great Recession, have found a toehold in politics again. The strategy has three parts.
1) Wait for the pro-life movement, now at an apex of political power, to do something stupid.
2) Pounce on the stupid thing that it just did.
3) Repeat.
The "forcible rape" episode is just the first act in this drama. When Rep. Joe Pitts, R-Pa., introduced the Protect Life Act, pro-choice activists homed in on a provision that seemed to let hospitals get away with refusing to provide abortions to women with medical emergencies. When South Dakota state Rep. Phil Jensen introduced legislation in that state—just that state!— to broaden the definition of "justifiable homicide" to protect someone "resisting any attempt" to kill an unborn child, there was more backlash and more national news. The strategy isn't all that different from the one budget scolds use to attack spending bills, picking out the least defensible pieces and using them as battering rams until the other side gives in.
"I think the anti's [the anti-abortion rights side] took a really big bite out of the apple," says Elizabeth Shipp, the political director of NARAL. * "They said, 'We can go all the way, and do the worst crap we can think of.' When Chris Smith included that 'forcible' language in the bill, he knew what he was doing. He got caught."
But nothing really gets introduced in Congress without offending some interest group or another. Pro-choice activists have had an unusually good month of finding offenses and blowing them up to Daily Show size. They've done this during the same month that a conservative coalition called Expose Planned Parenthood has been releasing undercover videos of the organization's offices, claiming evidence of crime and corruption, aimed at denying federal funds for family planning.
What are the stakes? The Republican House was always likely to pass anti-abortion legislation; pro-choice activists concede that it's still going to do so. The question is whether the legislation could roll through the Senate. There were reasons to be fearful. In 2009, Sen. Ben Nelson got 45 votes for an amendment to the health care bill that would have done what Smith's bill does. There is, theoretically, a Senate majority for pro-life bills.
But there might not be if they become toxic, or if they're portrayed as part of a national bum-rush toward some Anti-Abortionist's Bill of Rights. The pro-choice members of the House, who hadn't feared much since 2007, met right before Rep. Joe Pitts' hearing on his legislation. It was when Pitts became chairman of the subcommittee on health that they figured out what they'd be dealing with.
That's most of the plan. The rest of the plan, as Israel explains, is making life difficult for some of the pro-life Republicans who were swept into Congress last year. The theory is that voters sort of elected them by accident. And they are numerous. At this year's March for Life, an annual rally against legal abortion, 17 newly elected members of Congress spoke, stretching the speechifying part of the event about an hour longer than scheduled.
The new members include lots of people who took over suburban districts that had been trending more liberal. The Republicans who won, in most cases, didn't run on abortion. They got pro-life support—the pro-life Susan B. Anthony List endorsed 14 Republican congressional candidates who took over Democratic seats. But Democrats remain convinced that the new class was never smoked out.
Take Rep. Ann Marie Buerkle, R-N.Y., one of the Democrats' favorite examples. She started in politics as a spokeswoman for Operation Rescue in the 1980s. She didn't hide this fact, but when she began running, she said she'd "be really careful not to make this a referendum on abortion." Her opponent, incumbent Rep. Dan Maffei, tried to make abortion an issue. He lost. And when Buerkle got to Congress she immediately became a prominent pro-life advocate. Pro-choice activists can explain all of this, or try to.
"When somebody's out of a job and looking for one party to fix that, he tends to vote with his pocketbook," says NARAL's Shipp. "It was probably more difficult for us to get through the noise last year."
It is tough for abortion rights activists to get through the noise. That's what the Planned Parenthood stings were all about: a way to win turf on an issue both sides had been entrenched on since the age of Betamax. Also effective for doing this: Making the man on the street worry that Congress is about to redefine rape.
Correction, Feb. 17, 2011: This article originally misspelled Elizabeth Shipp's last name. ( Return to the corrected sentence.)


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Somewhere back in the mid-90's a fresh faced Brazilian ex-pat living in the UK
decided he was going to put down his harmonica, pick up a sampler, and name himself after a Stephen King novel. The resulting album, Cujo's 'Adventures In Foam' (released on Ninebar records, later reissued on Ninja Tune) signaled Amon Tobin's entry into the world of music. Well actually there's a pre-Cujo project also, but everybody knows not to talk about it... but if you get Amon really drunk... actually no, even then he won't play it for you.
Immediately upon hearing this record, the powers that be at Ninja Tune signed him up to record as Amon Tobin, and he quickly went to work on his debut 'Bricolage'. If you'll recall, these were the 'trip-hop' years for electronic music, where any clown with a sampler and a collection of Blue Note records could knock off some half-baked boutique hotel background music. But 'Bricolage' shone above all that. Although employing a marriage of jazz and beats, it stretched it further by bringing in elements of bossa-nova, batucada, and jungle, and combining it with a sense of song-writing that elevated it above the standards of that aforementioned scene. I mean hell, it has a song on it which was inspired by Amon taking a piss on his neighbors bike after some domestic living dispute (A Day In My Garden)...this was clearly no good vibes jazzy beats guy Ninja had signed.
Next up came 'Permutation'. Although stylistically a logical follow up to 'Bricolage', it was also on this album where things starting taking a noticeable turn to a much darker output. In fact you can actually trace Amons career based on coffee shop & dinner party accessibility...and let's just say that this record signaled the end of anyone being able to use Amon records as background music. This one cut a wide path; from the film tributes of 'Like Regular Chickens' & 'People Like Frank', to the monster breaks on 'Sordid' (easily his biggest 'hit' in the catalog), to the caravan-esque shuffle of 'Nightlife', and ending with the ultra-lush 'Nova' (which later was used for Bebel Gilberto's 'Samba Da Bencao on her debut album).
Call it end of millennium tension, but while the rest of us were out stockpiling food for the apocalypse, Amon was channeling all that into his next release 'Supermodified'. Treating it like if this was the end of the human race as we knew it and computers would never work again (or god forbid, if we were to be ruled by apes), than damn if he wasn't going make this banger before the lights went out. If Amon's career is a 4LP set, then this 3rd installment appropriately comes off like the 3rd side of any 4LP 70's rock opus...a time to push some boundaries, challenge the fans a bit, and set the stage for what's to come later. The record was an experiment in sound. Marking the point where Amon become more and more obsessed with unheard but felt bass frequencies, and where he allowed a few collaborators into the mix (mainly Chris Morris of Brass Eye & Blue Jam fame, and Montreal beatboxer Quadraceptor). The record where the bossa-nova/jazz Amon Tobin was for the most part laid to rest and the dark/electronic/soundtrack Amon Tobin came into form. 'Four Ton Mantis' is a classic, 'Deo' would have done Sergio Leone proud, and 'Get Your Snack On' paid tribute to one of the Internet's finest fake commercials. In 2002, Amon decided to relocate to Montreal. As Ninja Tune's North American headquarters is based there he'd spent a lot of time soaking in the culture and summer sunshine of the city, never once thinking that he'd never actually visited during the winter... So somewhere around the time he felt the sensation of his nose hairs freezing for the first time, he settled into his new studio armed with a fresh set-up and an A La Carte Express menu by his side (Montreal's bible of food for shut-ins) to put the finishing touches on 'Out From Out Where'. When Sun Ra penned the song Out From Out There, 'there' clearly meant outer space. When Amon decided to call his record 'Out From Out Where', the 'where' meant just that... a record that came from somewhere nobody could quite pinpoint. This was the logical conclusion of what the previous records had hinted at. It was a cohesive and banging record, but one with no obvious reference points. It just sounded like Amon Tobin, and Amon (more so than a lot of artists) can actually say his sound is very much recognizable as his own. This was wide screen Amon, dropping the cut-up hip hop of 'Verbal', the Eli Wallach inspired 'Hey Blondie', the future electro-disco of 'Cosmo Retro Intro Outro', and the terrifying death march of 'Proper Hoodidge' .The tour for this album also resulted in Amon's entry into the Solid Steel mix series, with a tough ass Final Scratch DJ set captured in Australia released in June 04.
In early 04 video game developers Ubisoft decided to approach Amon to compose all the music for the 3rd installment of their enormously popular Splinter Cell series. Seeing as he wasnt able to get past the second level of Splinter Cell 1, he thought that making the soundtrack would clearly be an easier way to interact with this game. This was a chance for Amon to experiment with different ways of composing and to finally realize a teenage ambition (although this soundtrack in no way reflects his love for Galagaeven though that was a hot game). Also composing a proper soundtrack allowed him to be a little more progressively excessive, with the inclusion of extended string arrangements and over the top Hammond organ solos woven into his sounds. Like Italian prog sensation Goblin composing for a Bond film would be an apt comparison for this work. A love of soundtracks has always been a key influence in his work, and it clearly shows here. The game will be released in March 05. An accompanying soundtrack on Ninja Tune will be released in Jan 05. A 5.1 DVD-Audio version will be released simultaneously with the game, putting Amon at the forefront, as always, of pushing forward sounds.
Brazilian-born artist Amon Tobin started off under the pseudonym of Cujo in the mid 1990s, then living in the UK. Cujo lived for a series of singles, EPs, and remixes, peaking with the album Adventures In Foam, all originally on NINEBARecords, and appeared first in the US on the label Shadow Records. Around 1997, he switched to going by his own name, signed to the Ninja Tune label, where he has resided ever since. Amon Tobin's recordings have grown from solo creations to collaborations, to the point of having a variety of artists help weave live instruments into his latest album for the 3rd Splinter Cell game. His live shows, like his music creation, have evolved over time. Starting with the usual variety of knobs and turntables, he's moved on to using Final Scratch Pro in recent tours (circa 2004), and he will be using surround sound equipment in his 2005 tour series.
Amon Tobin (born Amon Adonai Santos de Araújo Tobin on February 7, 1972) is a Brazilian musician, composer and producer of electronic music. He is described as a virtuoso sound designer and is considered to be one of the most influential electronic music artists in the world. He is noted for his unusual methodology in sound design and music production. He has released seven major studio albums under the London-based Ninja Tune record label.
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Amon Adonai Santos de Araújo Tobin (born February 7, 1972), better known as Amon Tobin, is a Brazilian musician, DJ, and producer of electronic music. He is best known for his use of sampling. Tobin is also credited with helping to create the emerging "trip hop" genre in the late 1990s. He has released seven major studio albums since 1996 under the London-based Ninja Tune record label where he is considered one of their most successful artists.
In 2005, he created the musical score to Ubisoft's critically acclaimed and successful video game Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory as well as Sucker Punch's game Infamous. He is also noted for his entirely field-recorded album Foley Room, released in 2007. His music has been used in numerous major motion pictures including The Italian Job and 21. Tobin has created songs for several independent films, including the 2006 Hungarian film Taxidermia. A selection of his tracks were also featured in the 2005 anime, IGPX.
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In an unassuming building in Germantown is a company helping to shape the way combat pilots and ground crew work, and combat missions are flown the world over.
Alan Mullen is chairman and chief visionary officer of Crew Training International. The company, which trains pilots of unmanned aircraft or drones for the military, is planning to expand.
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Inside that building, situated among aviation memorabilia and artifacts, is Alan Mullen, former Navy pilot assigned to the U.S.S. Nimitz and TOPGUN instructor, and the founder of Crew Training International.
CTI, the Memphis-based firm with top secret clearance that provides training, safety management systems and innovative programs to facilitate critical skill retention and risk management for clients such as the Department of Defense and all units of the Combat Air Forces, recently won a $17 million contract to provide Contract Aircrew Training and Courseware Development for the U.S. Air Force Fighter Weapons School, part of the 57th Wing at Nellis Air Force Base outside of Las Vegas.
The contract is significant "not totally in terms of revenue, which is important, but the length of it because it's five years and we'll acquire 14 or so additional employees so it's good for the company in terms of longevity," said President and CEO, Jack Holt.
He added that CTI has provided "similar services up to and including flight training for their unmanned aerial system effort" at nearby Creech Air Force Base for more than four years.
Founded in 1992 by Steve Harden and Mullen, now the chairman and chief visionary officer, CTI now boasts multimillion dollar paydays and staff numbering 260 dotted all around the country, mainly near Air Force bases, with around 35 in the Memphis area. Their training program for NATO forces in Geilenkirchen, Germany, was just awarded a contract expansion and will see around 20 employees there.
It may not have quite that small business feel, yet this is just how it began, in a playroom above Mullen's garage in Germantown, a second job for the now-retired FedEx pilot.
Now, however, the work is a complex network of software development, on- and off-site training, mandatory audits by government and private agencies and a constant tinkering with their products to better serve clients.
CTI works in three basic parts to its value proposition, Mullen said. The first is the development of courseware for training, using a structured methodology, a process developed during World War II that fueled the industrial explosion and made it possible to produce the vast number of fighter and bomber planes used to win that war.
"The way that those assembly lines were operated was by giving very specific training to the individuals that were building that equipment," Mullen said. They were trained with "exactly the information they needed to perform their function; no more, no less."
It's a methodology that grew into a science of instructional system design and is a requirement now in the military, for the Federal Aviation Administration, and by all the airlines for their pilots and mechanics.
The second part is contract aircrew training, providing instructors to deliver the portion of the training, which is instructed live.
–Alan Mullen, Founder of Crew Training International
"Any class or simulator event, or over-the-shoulder training in the case of unmanned aircraft, or any one-on-one tutoring that may occur, we provide an instructor to do that," Mullen said. "Our job is to keep those instructors standardized, keep their qualifications up to date using the courseware we developed."
CTI employs many former members of the Air Force for its training, giving these men and women, many of whom may only be in their early 40s by retirement age, a second chance at a career with the very specialized training they've received.
The third part involves all of the systems and software to manage the previous two parts, including a training management system, learning management system and operations management system.
"From the government point of view, you have to keep track of all the different courses, the versions of those courses, when they were approved by the cognizant government oversight people," Mullen said. "All that work used to be done manually. … But we have a system that we developed internally that makes all of that electronic."
CTI has also done human factors training in the past for hospitals, outpatient surgery centers and emergency rooms, a portion of the business that was eventually spun off into an independent company.
Mullen's path to the captain's chair is one that has taken him by rail through Scotland, where he was born, to a harbor in Southampton, England, to board the Queen Mary and emigrate to the United States with his parents when he was only 5. This personification of the American Dream would go on to college at Cornell, join the Navy, fly for FedEx and found one of the leading company's in its industry.


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ROSEMEAD, Calif. (AP) -- Court documents reveal that a Los Angeles County Sheriff's deputy who shot and killed a mentally ill woman won't face criminal charges.
A letter from the district attorney's office obtained by the San Gabriel Valley Tribune (http://bit.ly/VNY3UZ ) says Deputy Brian Vance acted in lawful self-defense when he shot 40-year-old Jazmyne Ha Eng in January 2012.
Vance opened fire on the 93-pound woman after he and three other officers responded to a call from the Asian Pacific Family Center's director.
Prosecutors say deputies arrived to find Eng yelling incoherently, holding a hammer near her head.
Deputies fired a stun gun at Eng, but it didn't stop her advance toward them, so Vance fired at her twice.
Eng's sister Nancy said Monday the shooting never should have happened, but declined further comment.
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This week on Cumfiesta, we had an Asian firecracker by the name of Cindy Starfall who came on to show off her stuff for us. She was a wild little chick that was fine as hell and naughty by nature. Bruno asked her for the password at the door, and Cindy pulled out her two perfect, tan, Asian tits. They were lovely and only a telling of what was to come. Cindy entered and this gorgeous Vietnamese beauty started to show of her amazing long legs and that plump round booty, as she stripped down. When she pulled out Bruno's cock, Cindy was blown away by the size of it.
She was a petite little thing, and it barely fir in her mouth, but she sucked on it like it was candy. After Bruno had his share of those sweet Asian lips around his cock, he went for a different pair of lips and entered her hot, wet pussy. Cindy loved the stroking and couldn't get enough. Bruno banged that pussy deep and hard form various positions and made Cindy orgasm like crazy. When he'd had enough of that sweet Asian pussy, he pulled out and busted his load all over her face. Cindy just laid back and blew cum bubbles for fun. It was insane.


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Awright, my very first TB is just about ready to enter the wonderful world of... umm... caches :P
It's still in my hands right now, but is already activated, waiting to be released (release date set to Friday, as that will give me much time to get a laminated "instructions" type thing made).
I think I may have told some people about it in the chatroom at one point or another, but if not... the general premise is that this TB will be trying to amass the largest pile of travelling keychains it possibly can.
The idea: Y'know how in geocaches, there's nearly always a half-dozen keychains that seem to be there. I notice that not often are they traded out. As well... you ALWAYS get those things for free if you pretty much even VISIT a car-lot, or for free from work for some promotional thing, or free from various other givaways at stores, etc, etc. I've found that I don't really have any use for them, as I don't like my keys having a mess of giant things attached to it.
Hence... they will travel, and gather into a massive ball of keychain! I've set rules on there such that if you want one, go ahead and take it, as long as you trade another keychain onto it in return. Add on any scrap keychains you want to get rid of, and if you're putting a keychain that's in a cache onto it, leave some trade swag in the cache in exchange. I think that covers about everything.
So yeah... lemme know what you think of it. I'll get a picture of it's original state up there when I can. I'm at work right now, and I activated it from here, so I can't get a picture of it at the moment :P
EDIT: Oh, I got the 4-pack of TB's though... so i'll have to come up with something to do with the other three. Right now, I'm thinking one will be nigh-identical to this one, but for any scrap keys that no longer belong to anything (not sure if that would be allowed, but I don't see why not). The other two... I think I've got an idea, just have to come up with something to attach to the TB tag.
I was debating whether or not to include a link to the comic Planet Zebeth, but... yeah, wasn't sure. Thought it might be seen as more of a cheesy advertisement than anything else.
But then again, being typical of me, any TB or cache that I plant will somehow involve terms or names from the game Metroid (of which my comic Planet Zebeth is based off of). I'll have to toss the thought of putting in a link around for a while.
Suggestion make sure you use some aircraft cable to keep that sucker locked up tight, the regular chain will give out under the stress of having 214,000 key fobs stuck to it. Might I suggest a patented Z's Travel Bug Lock (C) now with new Anti-Muggle Gnorman's Bling attached?
Available in a cache near you, just look for the TBLK
Well, it's "chain" is made up of 66 split keyrings, in a simple chainmail pattern (that being flower-maille, with two-ring flowers, combined with shaggy-weave on each link), in a plus-formation.
Long story short... it's doubled split rings, and off each doubled-split ring is a dangling split ring off each side of it, and to spread out the weight, it's in a plus-sign type configuration. It'll make more sense when I take a picture tonight :P
The only problem is that I don't really trust the longevity of laminated paper. Gonna spend a few days looking around for some kind of uber-strong, watertight keychain made for pictures or something. Bound to be one of those somewhere.


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Clothes give us expression and the ability to use color and patterns. The first impression we get of people is usually clothes, facial expression and language. If we all wear the same thing we don't get to really see what people are like on the inside. Usually girly girls wear pink and frilly things. Skaters wear baggy pants and goth usually wear black. Clothes don't distract us form learning the studies we need to, it simply lets us inspire our imaginations and lights up our worlds.
putting school uniforms into order would probably make us rebell against it and we would only be able to express our creativity in things like art and music. Because of the current economic situation most art and music programs are being cut from schools because there is simply not eneough money to support them.


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Drugs for staples? What kind of drug would a staple need? It's job is to hold reams of paper together securely. Unless the staple has ADHD I would think it could live a drug-free life.
Maybe it's drugs for Staples employees. I think if I had to work even a single day in retail, I'd want to smoke something....
What kind of drug would a staple need? It's job is to hold reams of paper together securely.
Unfortunately, most staples are quite inept at holding even one ream of paper together, let alone multiple reams. They are normally not in a position with much job security, as they usually can barely even support a quire of bond paper.
The drugs let these millions of inadequate staples feel better about themselves.
SilkRoad is a sort of eBay for drugs. One guy was caught selling drugs, big deal : there are still thousand of others selling drugs on the site. It's like saying "Craigslist is DOOMED : a date rapist was caught using it!"
This explains a lot of the postings on the Onion [theonion.com].
America's "highest" news source, apparently.
Anonymity brings out both the best and worst of society.
I disagree. I think that anonymity just brings out the human condition in general. Your judgement thereupon is yours, and yours alone.
Many people feel the need to hide who they are from the world, and are able to express their needs in an anonymous setting. Whether that need is to express their frustration with a corrupt totalitarian regime, or self-medicate with substances frowned upon by a government, or even simply to call somebody a fuckwad [penny-arcade.com] for whatever motivation compels them, anonymity does nothing but lay bare the desires of a person when they feel nobody is looking and judging. If you feel any of those are prima facie good or bad, it's difficult to know without understanding the context that person is coming from. Maybe buying pot helps the person with anxiety, maybe calling somebody a fuckwad is somebody's only outlet in life, maybe that struggling dissident is a con artist who simply wishes to weave a tale of woe... you can't know. Which is the beauty of anonymity.
Posted anonymously for hopefully obvious reasons
While I have never used any illegal substance, I strongly object to lumping the silk road with the worst of society. (That is, if you're doing so; if not, I apologize.) If somebody wants to get high, that's their own business. The government doesn't own them, and therefore doesn't have the right to control their consumption.
I'm tired of this government that sees fit to ban buckyballs, trans fats, msg, sugary soda's, drugs, and soon to be firearms. All in the name of safety. I remember during the Bush years, dissent was called patriotic, people were making a huge stink about even one single civilian death overseas, code pink was always in the news, and people were shouting endlessly for the closing of GTMO. The frequently mis-attributed to Ben Franklin mis-quote about liberty and safety was used daily.
Yet just recently, the New York Times is demanding that the administration lay down the law. People on slashdot even tell me that I don't need soda. Hollywood unions now have more power than ever to restrict internet communication. Obama just dismantled the office he set up to close GTMO.
Seriously, what the hell? When they came for the buckyballs, we said nothing.
Category | Pct.
Weed | 13.7%
Drugs | 9.0%
Prescription | 7.3%
Benzos | 4.9%
Books | 3.9%
Cannabis | 3.6%
Hash | 3.4%
Cocaine | 2.6%
Pills | 1.9%
Blotter (LSD) | 1.8%
Money | 1.7%
MDMA (ecstasy) | 1.6%
Erotica | 1.6%
Steroids, PEDs | 1.5%
Seeds | 1.5%
Heroin | 1.5%
Opioids | 1.4%
Stimulants | 1.2%
Digital goods | 1.1%
Items sold stat from http://arxiv.org/abs/1207.7139 [arxiv.org] (research conducted about SR)
There may be a marginal legit use, but the vast majority of items is illegal, mostly contraband drugs. And if you read the site's wiki it is clear that they aim for "illicit activities".
It is surprising though that the largest market seems to be "soft drugs" and meds (probably pain killer addictions).
I think you will find that the summary clearly states that Silk Road is not just illegal, it's super illegal. I find the summary is generally pretty reliable in these matters.
3. This is the first time evidently someone has gotten arrested for it. It probably won't be the last. I'm not familiar with how silk road works. I'm guessing there are barriers to try to prevent law enforcement or other criminals from using it to find out when and where drug transactions are going to be happening. I'm also guessing those barriers are not foolproof.
Chances are Silk Road is crawling with cops. But they are not focused on catching buyers or occasional sellers, but are more focused on catching the bigger distributors. Probably they don't even cite Silk as their principal source when prosecuting. Hard to prove much of anything on the internet to a jury, easier to trot in some Joe Undercover cop and have him explain a (probably at least half truthful) account of how he came to know about those deals, without mentioning that first info came via silk.
One off buys are not worth chasing.
It's just hard to believe that, in an economic sense, even with all the invasive gov't and corporate snooping and tracking...even with all that, SilkRoad exists.
It's a truth of economics...the black market **will certainly** exist in any human system. Heh...in Soviet Russian the side supplies YOU
Seriously look at Soviet Russia. They had strict authoritarian controls inside, and embargoes outside, yet 'yankee blue jeans' and Marlboros were ubiquitous to the point of being parodied (Berserker!)
The black marke
The funny thing is that it exists and can stay anonymous thanks to a system designed by the United States government (DARPA to be exact). The network still gets most of its funding from the U.S. government.
Trusting that the person you are buying from or selling to is not a cop or is actually going to provide what they claim seems insane. If you are a buying you have to give a place to send the drugs and a seller has to get those drugs to that place. Either option seems fraught with chances to get caught.
This violates every idea about never getting caught; everyone you don't know is a cop, all phones are tapped, etc.
Howard got caught last summer from the simplest mistake. He had a shitload of drugs sent to his house.
It's always the last mile problem.
a seller has to get those drugs to that place.
Just put it in a box with sufficient postage and a false return address. Drop it in an unattended mail drop box. Done.
Boxes of any real mass must be sent from a post office, these days. That means you will be on camera dropping off that box.
Do you really need ten pounds of MDMA?
Use multiple smaller boxes.
Trusting that the person you are buying from or selling to is not a cop or is actually going to provide what they claim seems insane. If you are a buying you have to give a place to send the drugs and a seller has to get those drugs to that place. Either option seems fraught with chances to get caught.
This violates every idea about never getting caught; everyone you don't know is a cop, all phones are tapped, etc.
Sellers have a reputation so if a buyer limits himself to sellers with 99% reputation who have already sold to thousands of other happy customers, like you would do on eBay, it would greatly mitigate the risks.
That is what you would think. yet many people get shafted by selling things via ebay or buying from ebay. Yet seldom anybody gets caught.
Sure, this is much worse, because this is two people who something they both want against the law. Ebay scams are just between two people, so why go after those?
If you get caught selling drugs on Silk Road it's entirely your own fault. You can use the site anonymously with Tor. You can receive funds anonymously with Bitcoin. You can send drugs anonymously by dropping it in an unattended mailbox.
Now for the people buying drugs it's a whole different story. You have to show up in person and pick up the drugs. You don't know who you're dealing with, so there could easily be a cop waiting for you when you go to get it.
Actually, TFA says he got caught because he had several INCOMING packages intercepted by LE which lead to a raid on his house. TFA does not discuss how he was found out, so we don't know if it was poorly concealed shipping, mail drug dogs, snitch, or his own security fuckup. Neither buying nor selling drugs online is foolproof, there will always be a risk -- just like buying and selling drugs IRL.
I imagine the smart ones get them delivered to a vacant house a couple of neighborhoods away.
But bitcoin transfers are pseudonymously.
Everyone must know about all transactions. But they only see pseudonyms in the form of account ids.
Search for papers analysing the transaction graphs on google scholar for details. I.e. http://eprint.iacr.org/2012/584.pdf
Now exchanging your bitcoins for traditional currency or physical goods without telling the world the real identity behind that pseudonym... thats the hard part.
It just takes one mistake to link your pseudonym to your real identity and all past trans
Wasn't there some transaction laundry service that would take your bitcoins and split and recombine them and shuffle them around so much that the transaction history was difficult to follow?
It just seems to me that obtaining goods/services physically is just naturally more open to observation/interception. I would think this was obvious.
You misspelled 'idiot'.
I don't see how the prosecution of one person spells the end for a website, or an entire online trade.
It's a little bit like saying busting one dealer will bring down the entire drug trade in a country. The Silk Road, or other sites like it (which I imagine the savvier users will have switched to as soon as the Silk Road got media heat), will continue for as long as there's a demand.
Just legalise it all already.
It's a little bit like saying busting one dealer will bring down the entire drug trade in a country. The Silk Road, or other sites like it (which I imagine the savvier users will have switched to as soon as the Silk Road got media heat), will continue for as long as there's a demand.
If you were a cop trying to catch drug dealers with invisibility cloaks, you'd brag and make an example of a stupid one you caught too.
His tearful wife told Judge Murphy she faced returning to the US if her husband was jailed because she could not work or support herself.
Governments hate anonymity and payments they can't track, and they are just itching for excuses like "drugs" and "child pornography" to push through regulations to outlaw efforts like bitcoin and tor.
And yet onion networks were developed by DARPA (U.S. government) and Tor is still largely funded by the U.S. government. While I would like to agree with you in principle, in this instance the government made the Silk Road's anonymity possible (of course selling drugs, prositution, hitmen, etc. isn't the primary goal of the network).
The US military probably has funded the development of many technologies that later became illegal or restricted, including guns, explosives, cryptography, etc.
They are funding this one ongoing. Accoring to the Wall Street Journal, 80% of Tor's funding comes from the U.S. government.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887324677204578185382377144280.html?mod=googlenews_wsj [wsj.com]
His bust has to do with interdiction of the package -- which is how they've been finding drug dealers for decades now.
If he left evidence at his home, or on his home computer due to lack of encryption, of use of the Silk Road, then that's why they found it. Sounds like basic human intelligence methods to me -- with no real connection to the Silk Road. Everyone knew these risks were present and I don't think it's going to change much.
I am very surprised at how much ignorance is evident about the Silk Road marketplace. Slashdot is supposed "News for Nerds," but there is a lot of technophobia splashed all over the comments section of this story.
1) Silk Road is only accessible via Tor. I would expect the average Slashdot viewer to be more aware of Tor, and the security and anonymity it offers.
2) Silk Road exclusively uses BitCoin for its transactions. To any average crypto-nerd, or even a beginning crypto-nerd like myself, BitCoin is a marvelous application of cryptology in a social environments. Is there really this much ignorance of BitCoin even in a highly-tech-aware venue such as Slashdot?
3) Silk Road customers and sellers and strongly encouraged to encrypt all communications with PGP, and PGP use is routine on that marketplace. Of all things, this should immediately pique the curiousity of any security-minded technophile. Isn't widespread adoption of PGP one of the long-term ideals in the security world?
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luckyjackson1 wrote:Now I can sit down and try to find an answer to the album title...
Nevertheless, thank you so much for posting, elvisjock.
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elvisjock wrote:Excerpts from Careless Love, by Peter Guralnick
PP. 258-259 (1967) "The atmosphere on the set (Clambake) was one of almost enforced gaiety. Once again there were practical jokes, cherry bombs, cream pie and water balloon fights, with even the director, Arthur Nadel, getting into the act. It was like a staged remembrance of things past - but there was a wistful note, too, that did not escape some members of the cast. And it hardly seemed coincidental that Elvis kept listening to a single album over and over throughout the filming, a collection of song lyrics recited in heavily accented English by the French actor Charles Boyer. The album was titled "Where Does Love Go?," and the fully orchestrated arrangements were as lushly romantic as Boyer's recitations, with melancholy spoken versions of "What Now My Love," Edith Piaf's "La Vie en Rose," Charles Aznavour's "Venice Blue," and "When the World Was Young." Elvis' favorite song by far was "Softly As I Leave You," a dying man's profession of love for his wife, and he gave the album to various members of the cast and crew while playing it again and again for the guys, who could not understand what he saw in its morbid mood."
pp. 459-460 (1973) "He was, everyone agreed, in a funny kind of mood, even for Elvis - chastened, brooding, almost perplexed over what could have finally caused Priscilla to leave, after all he had done to drive her to it. Some of the guys thought it was simply the humiliation of her going off with someone else, particularly someone that Elvis knew and admired, but it seemed as much a mood of almost autumnal regret. He kept listening to that damned Charles Boyer album "Where Does Love Go?" over and over, until it just about drove them all crazy - listening intently to those melancholy recitations, as if they alone might provide the answer to the question that the album's title posed, the one question that seemed to be forever on his mind."
p. 524 (1974) "He played them (Voice) "Softly As I Leave You" from the Charles Boyer album over and over. Sherrill already knew the song, and one night the two of them sat down at the piano, and Sherrill started singing while Elvis did the Charles Boyer recitation."
p. 525 (1974) "He loved to spend time in his room singing to her (Ann Pennington), and "he gave me a Charles Boyer album, there was a song 'Where Does Love Go (When It Leaves The Heart),' he would play it over and over and say, 'Listen to that, the way he says those lines. It's so romantic."
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ritchie valens wrote:Ibet Elvis would have bought or had it transferred to cd if he had lived to have a cd player.
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Jove wrote:Thanks for reminding us about this, elvisjock. I had read Careless Love a long time ago and had forgotten about this LP. Elvis sure had a mawkish taste in the '70s.
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drjohncarpenter wrote:Jove wrote:Thanks for reminding us about this, elvisjock. I had read Careless Love a long time ago and had forgotten about this LP. Elvis sure had a mawkish taste in the '70s.
Elvis picked up the LP in late 1965 - early 1966.
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Being on a game show generates a certain envy. The ratio of contestants to viewers is very low, so watching most of them basically boils down to thinking, "I know I can do better than that!" Many developers before Gameloft have jumped in to fill that void on the iPhone; nevertheless, TV Show King–while not officially licensed by any of the main game shows–does a good job providing a streamlined experience that we wish we could have on a national stage. The game is far from perfect, but we had fun playing it, and we think it'll appeal to a wide variety of gamers.
The format of the basic game is rather simple. The male host introduces the game to the crowd, and you hop on the dais with three other players. In addition to playing against the computer, nearby players can join up over Wi-Fi, or you can look for games on the Internet. However, at press time the online participation seems minimal, and games are hard to come by. Once you have your opponents in line, you are fed a series of questions according to three difficulty levels–hard, medium and easy. The questions' worth increases as you go through the rounds, and the order in which you answer also effects your point total. A $500 question, for instance, will award $500, $375, $250, and $125 from quickest to slowest. The timer gives you plenty of opportunity to answer, and you can switch your answer up until it hits zero.
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