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Here's a link to Google's cache of the article.

At risk of replying to my own post, following the links right through to a far more detailed article reveals that Mars was specifically mentioned by the Director of the Space Research Institute but left out of the article linked in the summary. The above article is a much more informative and interesting read on the plans for the Russian space industry.

Eight babies mastered statistics on the neutron estrelles found mountains, Russian scientists fired newspaper for scientists, black holes and opened a few of its secrets, and probably pozhalev that, once again gathered to destroy the Earth.. The first four news - the truth, whether fifth - the court will decide.

Now I'm wondering whether the original article's translation was just a fluke of good luck, or if actually the errors are coincidentally all adding in the same direction to produce a nearly grammatically correct article about something completely different than what we think it is about. For all we non-Russians know, "orbital construction plant" could be a mistranslation of "crop circle maker".

You mean something like parallel_sort in libstdc++, since GCC 4.3.0?

One of several parallelised standard algorithms.

Note that the library license actually represents a strategic retreat. We would prefer to insist as much as possible that programs based on GNU software must themselves be free. However, in the case of libraries, we found that insisting they be used only in free software appeared to discourage use of the libraries rather than encouraging free applications.

• pointers: you should keep track of your references in Java ;-)
• memory management: check Internet for bug reports of memory leaks in major vendors' J2EE servers
• stacks, linked lists: Java (now) has the useful Collections API built-in. You still need to understand data structures (and threading - and, since the WeakHashMap, memory management concepts) to use it properly. For example, data for a drop-down menu on a web page would probably come from a List type in the popular J2EE frameworks: the developer may find it more useful to build the list in a TreeSet and then "export" this to a List for use by the framework...

Here's a good story from 335 years ago.

Here's a really good story from European history that could be characterised as a war of religion :-)

I've had to deal with crappy installers (I've created a few of them...) and know that it's much easier to deal with a good one, especially when supporting a large number of machines. That bit of certification can help give a sysadmin confidence that this installation isn't going to be a PITA when it comes to upgrading/removing/conflicts/reboots over a large number of machines.

Does that help at all?

"Good evening. Here is the news for Parrots. No parrots were involved in an accident on the M1 today when a lorry..."

• LG has signed up to Microsoft's licensing scheme.
• Microsoft's plethora of patents and licence deals (whatever the opinions of PHB's or suits, and let's not get into APIs yet) mean that it's difficult (maybe illegal if you're not careful) to be non-MS in corporate America (they'll get bulk licenses for their own products and patent license money for competitors')
• Microsoft doesn't care if people aren't running Windows at home (this is the bit that people didn't get - because the author didn't quite put it like that. He focussed on MS's grip on American business and vaguely talked about home users becoming empowered)

• People can now do many of the things they could only do on PC on other devices
• Microsoft have been promising - and working on - other devices for years
• And have begun selling hardware
• The next cool thing probably won't be by Microsoft either
• But even if it runs Linux, they'll get their tax
• At least, within "those unfortunate countries where software is patentable"
• The US Government will go to great lengths to support Microsoft's efforts in the other countries; its citizens' pension funds depend on it
• What Microsoft has best succeeded at is amassing money. It hse been able to make vast profits through its bulk deals and is ubiquitous in offices.
• Microsoft realise that home users need to be treated differently to businesses; it's expensive to collect money from individuals
• Technology is a more efficient instrument for collecting money from individuals than law ;-)

The really interesting thing for me is the feedback mechanism that tells genes what traits might be useful in your children: Epigenetics

... Going to be a flywheel. While it might not be the most "practical" solution, you just KNOW the DoD would be all over it, because it would mean discs spinning super fast strapped to soldiers' backs -- I repeat, DISCS SPINNING SUPER FAST. (For the benefit of those in management, I've prepared a preliminary sketch). Remember, this is the same DoD whose idea for an "indigo night light" is radioactive decay.

Seriously, though, of course, the level of maturity the DoD wants from its "battery pack" is worth way more than $1,000,000 on the open market. For the first one. However, I'm sure whatever Acme Co. first comes to market with this stuff would be more than willing to accept the DoD's $1 million, since that only leaves $30+ million (but $1 million less!) to recoup in development costs. (My figure of $31+ million annual budget comes from this document (PDF - html version -- of course, that's a figure that hasn't been enough to produce something meeting the DoD's needs, so obviously we're being optimistic. But you know what, let's double that $30 million - no, make it $90 million a year in battery research. We could win... 1 ... MILLION ... dollars.)
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The free market is not the solution to every problem that has a free market solution.

In a new study, published in the Journal of Psychiatric Research, the drug propranolol is used along with therapy to "dampen" memories of trauma victims.

Or here.

Damn are you on the money. Thanks.

Marshall Phelps - senate testimony on patents http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/exec/mphelps/07 -26-05PatentTestimony.mspx

Marshall Phelps - Novell http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/11/06/microsoft_ novell_analysis/page2.html

Marshall Phelps - Sun Microsystems Cached

Marshall Phelps - Precursor to Novell/Microsoft http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/03/25/ec_erects_ toll_booth/

Marshall Phelps - on the register http://www.google.com/search?&q=Marshall+Phelps+si te%3Atheregister.co.uk

Marshall Phelps - on slashdot http://www.google.com/search?&q=Marshall+Phelps+si te%3Aslashdot.org

Marshall Phelps - on IBM.com http://www.google.com/search?&q=Marshall+Phelps+si te%3Aibm.com

Marshall Phelps and Richard Stallman in the same search http://www.google.com/search?&q=%22Marshall+Phelps %22+%22Richard+Stallman%22

Reminds me of that Stephen King flick, Needful Things.

Google Cache have the version with the hotlinked picture if anyone want to see how it looked
http://209.85.135.104/search?q=cache:http://www.my space.com/johnmccain

here

conspiracy?

http://209.85.135.104/search?q=cache:http://www.th eglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20070213.w2b elggoogle0213/BNStory/Business/home

Need sources? Need proof how the govt "envisions the use of nuclear weapons to deter terrorists from using weapons of mass destruction against the United States"? Don't see why this is provocative? And as far as religion is concerned... oh well never mind.

We also have our own problems like corruption, nepotism, cronyism and bigotry.

The Soviets had their problems too: blat, tolkachi, and poorly calculated plans.

In the Dutch/German C'T magazine there have been schematics on how to build a detector to find ISO 14443 tags (which is what these passports are). Also, you can find another way to protect yourself against these sort of attacks here:

http://209.85.135.104/search?q=cache:HuNI-ek20WkJ: www.cs.vu.nl/~melanie/rfid_guardian/papers/acisp.0 5.pdf+rfid+vu&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=2&lr=lang_nl|lang_e n|lang_de

They also link to the RFID detector in the C'T magazine (first reference).

They say " pedestrians could also be asked to give prints if they are suspected to have committed an offence".

Considering that anyone can be suspected of anything, this opens the gates for totally random fingerprinting in the street. We already have random checks and detentions for the flimsiest of reasons. Consider the 34 year old woman labeled a terrorist for walking along a cycle path, the stopping and searching of an 11 year old girl near an RAF base, "the detention of a 21 year old student for taking pictures of the M3 motorway for a web-design company", the ejection of an 82 year old man at the 2005 Labour Party conference, and the detention of an 80-year-old man carrying an anti-Blair placard, for example. If you refuse, the precedents set by the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act 2000, Terrorism Act 2000, and Prevention of Terrorism Act 2005 would ensure it unlikely you'd get off scott-free but instead become more of a suspect.

Still, I'm not going to do anything about it other than complain about it online, as is my wont. In another 50 years when I'm eating my Soylent Green in my 29th-floor bugged apartment, I can pull out ruffled print-outs of Web pages like these, and think back to a time when at least my bowel movements weren't RFID tagged and scanned for prohibited substances.

Basically, the British government is corrupt to the core and bordering on fascist. But.. what government isn't these days?

That's just plain wrong. They use some current, sure, but it's nowhere near "almost as much power in stand-by as when it's on". Get an ammeter and measure a few appliances yourself.

Here's the Google Cache.

Personally, I don't find the article particularly convincing. But then again, psychology (or in this case a combination of genetics and psychology) isn't an exact science so I'm not surprised it survived as long as it did without anyone questioning it's merits.