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Agreed, Windows 7 is fine and only has some minor issues I have heard tell of here regarding a hosts file issue and some things said about its firewall versus the older versions of Windows firewall and filtering design. In regards to rescuecom being noted, here however? After my research of them online, it appears that you really have to realize that RESCUECOM is a company in trouble and is desperate for publicity of any kind. Even the bad kind:

http://techrepublic.com.com/5208-6230-0.html?forumID=9&threadID=173106&start=0

and

http://slashdot.org/firehose.pl?op=view&id=561974

and

http://www.wipo.int/amc/en/domains/decisions/html/2005/d2005-0683.html

and

http://techrepublic.com.com/5208-6230-0.html?forumID=3&threadID=188328&messageID=2200654

and

http://techrepublic.com.com/5208-11189-0.html?forumID=3&threadID=188328&messageID=2189403

and

http://www.wtvh.com/news/local/13511157.html

and

http://209.85.165.104/search?q=cache:FOl9N09jyNQJ:0-www.msnbc.msn.com.millennium.unicatt.it/id/22546106/+%22David+Milman%22+and+%22RESCUECOM%22&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=86&gl=us

Their owner David Milman rips off his own employees and has run afoul of the law in the wtvh.com link by ripping off customers as well. He tried to sue google and that was just for publicity to get his name in the papers to try to drum up more business.

Stay away from rescuecom.

The Google Cache is different, at least for now. The key difference: The words "Nielson DMA#."

The Internet Archive also has older versions.

This link hasn't been slashdoted: http://209.85.165.104/search?q=cache:vTIf3RxPVXAJ:brucefwebster.com/2008/06/16/anatomy-of-a-runaway-it-project/+anatomy+of+a+runaway+project&hl=en&client=firefox-a&gl=us&strip=1

This link hasn't been slashdoted: http://209.85.165.104/search?q=cache:vTIf3RxPVXAJ:brucefwebster.com/2008/06/16/anatomy-of-a-runaway-it-project/+anatomy+of+a+runaway+project&hl=en&client=firefox-a&gl=us&strip=1

uuh... the os is a downgrade

Computer Online Forensic Evidence Extractor (COFEE)

In year 2006, inspired by WFT, Ricci Ieong started the development of Computer Online Forensic Evidence Extractor (COFEE) (Ieong 2006) COFEE uses batch script to manage a list of existing incident response tools and IT security tools volatile data forensics acquisition system similar to WFT, IRCR and FRED. But all the scripts, programs were stored on USB storage device before data acquisition.

Instead of requesting users to key in the output directory, COFEE automatically redirect the output to the inserted USB storage device. With the automatic OS version detection and storage assignment scheme, Operating System dependent program will be automatically selected after the version detection. Investigator only needs to insert the USB storage devices to the target machine and click one to two buttons in order to start the data acquisition process.

Another difference between COFEE with other live forensics toolkits is separation of the data acquisition procedures with the data examination procedures. In WFT, the report generation processes are executed immediately after the data acquisition process on the target machine. However, performing report generation on target machine may also alter the memory content in the target machine. As report generation does not necessarily be executed on target machine, therefore, only data acquisition programs, in COFEE, would be executed on target machines. All program selection, data examination and analysis processes would be performed on investigator machine.

Besides, more forensics programs are supported by COFEE such as screen capture and password capture tools.

I take it back... Sheepshaver will run on Windows!

http://209.85.165.104/search?q=cache:sYO2-f2qoMcJ:gwenole.beauchesne.info/projects/sheepshaver/

The gap has narrowed! :)

Looks like the game has been removed. It's no longer on their games menu either.

Sadly, the wayback machine doesn't have a copy and while you can see the old games menu in google's cache, google didn't cache the actual game (which was at http://en.beijing2008.cn/upload/e-games/fuwa_02_e.swf)

Why not just package an offline Wikipedia Reader onto some memory sticks, and let them loose. :)

(sorry for the cached link, but the original seems to have disappeared)

"I'm more concerned about the mean temperature of squirrel testicles in north-western Canada."

Ok, here you go : Maturation and Reproduction of Northern Flying Squirrels in Pacific Northwest Forests

Here are some more wackos to put on your enemies list:

    http://209.85.165.104/search?q=cache:http%3A//www.fstdt.com/fundies/top100.aspx%3Farchive%3D1

http://www.m-w.com/dictionary/ad+hominem

As for the definition of the word "racist": There are only a tiny handful of peoples who are capable of producing a man who can win a Fields Medal or a Nobel Prize in Physics: Largely they are Caucasians [to include the Ashkenazim & the Lebanese Christians], Pacific Rim Asians, and [only] the very highest castes from the Indian Subcontinent; conversely, the finals of the 100 meter dash at the Olympics will always consist almost entirely of men who are descended from the tribes of West Africa [or at least the finals would consist almost entirely of such men if national quotas didn't unfairly and unnaturally limit and restrict the participants at the Olympics].

No one - not even the most ardent marxist academic - bothers to try to convince himself otherwise anymore.

But, of course, the modern definition of "racist" does not identify, as the villain, he who notices these differences - we all notice them - but rather the word "racist" has come to apply to anyone who has the temerity [or foolhardiness] to verbalize the observation.

On the other hand, that's not what the word "racist" is supposed to mean: A racist is supposed to be someone who believes that a government should enforce [with the barrel of a gun] an agenda which:

1) Involves seizing the private property of dis-favored races.

2) Involves setting aside educational appointments and business opportunities for favored races.

3) Involves denying taxpayer-subsidized goodies to dis-favored races.

4) Involves the racialization of criminal arrests, prosecutions, and convictions.

5) Involves the seizure of entire continents from dis-favored races.

6) Involves the enslavement of dis-favored races.

7) Involves the slaughter of dis-favored races.

Etc etc etc.

So it's impossible for any classical liberal - one who believes that men should be judged not by the color of their skin, but by rather the content of their character, and who believes that governments, and their gun barrels, really ought not exist in the first place - it is impossible for him to be a "racist" within the bounds of any meaning which that word was intended to connote.

But, again, as I have said over and over in this little conversation of ours: NONE OF THE SEMANTIC DISTINCTIONS ARE OF ANY IMPORTANCE WHATSOEVER.

What is important is the underlying truth of the matter: Barring some unforseen tragedy [your being struck by lightning, etc], YOU WILL LIVE TO EXPERIENCE THE IMMINENT TRAGEDY [& CATASTROPHE] OF DYSGENIC FERTILITY.

In the meantime, perform your very small - yet almost infinitely important - role in making the future a better place for us all [both we who are already born, and those of us who are yet-to-be-born]: Go find the smartest girl yo

According to the locals down here in Tally, the Mag Lab changes the weather, causes (or suppresses) hurricanes, and makes airplanes fall from the sky!

http://209.85.165.104/search?q=cache:FX7fM0XdTiEJ:pricetheory.uchicago.edu/levitt/Papers/DonohueLevittTheImpactOfLegalized2001.pdf+abortion+crime&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=3&gl=us

Interesting, their site has been cached by Google: http://209.85.165.104/search?q=cache:0T2TX0bv-usJ:www.cybertriallawyer.com/+cybertriallawyer.com&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=1

Or should that be Google Cash?

Anyhow, here's the Google Cache.

Defense contractors are always coming up with wonderful sounding ideas that are completely impractical. For example, in 1999 a company called Stavatti presented the DoD a design for a portable laser rifle suitable for use by common infantry. The device was to be powered by...wait for it... polonium (PO-210). An excerpt from the proposal:

"...To increase the energy level of the CO2 N2 He gas mixture, a Zirconium-Nickel fuel rod approximately 40cm long and 1.8 cm in diameter containing approximately 740 grams (78cc) of Polonium-210 (Po-210) is contained within, and located down the centerline of, the cylindrical gas reservoir. The Po-210 provides a thermal energy source of approximately 141 watts/gram through the emission of alpha particles via the process of nuclear decay. This energy source provides a significant power density while alleviating the shielding requirements and apparent health risks associated with gamma ray emitting radionuclides. The presence of the Po-210 in the reservoir chamber will result in the delivery of approximately 104.34 kW to the CO2 N2 He gas mixture, thereby raising the gas to a state of thermal equilibrium corresponding to an internal reservoir pressure of approximately 272.1 atm, temperature of 2173.16 K and gas density of 44 kg/m3..."

You may recall that a few micrograms of PO-210 were used to kill that guy in London about a year ago, and this company has proposed putting .75 kg in a rifle that would be subject to damage, destruction and dispersal on the battlefield.

The paper describing the laser rifle can be found here:

http://209.85.165.104/search?q=cache:SEji6Jn6-4AJ:www.defensereview.com/352003/TIS1.pdf+pumped+polonium+laser+rifle&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=1&gl=us

I had the same thought. And the claim that Safari was built on open-source work just to bug Redmond is equally specious. There's no reason to think that Apple started with KHTML for any reason other than that it was a useful springboard. In fact, there's good reason not to.

And the second article linked in TFS is a year-old reactionary piece from InfoWorld. Whoop-de-doo. Here is the cached text, since it was Slashdotted within the first 20 comments. And IANAD, but this Apple page sure does make it look like the linked article was then - and is now - just so much FUD.

Marcus Ranum: 1997 Read what he says about chroot(). http://209.85.165.104/search?q=cache:x7STuouYe7oJ:www.ranum.com/security/computer_security/archives/security-for-developers.pdf+chroot+site:ranum.com&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=3&gl=us

Then all hail the Paladin of security. http://www.ranum.com/stock_content/p-n-mjr-2-large.jpg

HTML version courtesy of Google.com

Every other phone I have EVER seen is actually OFF when you turn it OFF.

      I've got news for you...

It's not up to me to spend an hour or two digging through my old texts to give you a page reference. I'd recommend Bates' "Guide to Physical Examination and History Taking", it's probably in there. You'll find definitions in Harrison's Internal Medicine, Robbins' pathology, and any number of books on forensic medicine.

Here's a document, since you insist:

Note nothing is said of brain death. That is a special case that rarely happens. I haven't had one of those fall into my lap yet.

But to sum it up even further:

Clinical death - it's when I decide it might be time to sign the death certificate.
Legal death - the moment I have signed the death certificate. Period.

It's that simple. What criteria do physicians use? Absence of pulse is a good start. For how long? I'm sure there's a textbook definition for the theoretically inclined. In reality? Long enough for me to be sure the patient is not having a severe bradycardia. A minute is enough. In practice we're not going to wait a whole minute without starting CPR though.

Absence of blood pressure - this is not a very good sign, since a patient in shock can have extremely low, undetectable blood pressure. Failure of blood pressure response to volume replacement, however, is a darned good sign. Pulse is still the winner though. Oh, and you will never have blood pressure without a pulse. Unless one of your students is sitting on the sphygmomanometer.

Heart sounds - not very good, there are some pre-mortem conditions that can diminish or eradicate heart sounds including 1) a noisy ER/ward 2) cardiac tamponade.

Lack of respiration - not very good, since usually if the patient isn't breathing and still has a beating heart, there's usually a simple, (hopefully) fixable reason for it. No DOCTOR checks respiration first. That's what we have endotracheal tubes for. You can go without breathing a LOT longer than you can go without a pulse. Your "First Aid" course, however, lists respiration as the first priority (A and B of ABC) and that's as it should be with unskilled help in a community setting. You will have a lot more luck helping a chocking patient than someone in v fib, outside a hospital/paramedic setting.

So basically, it's central pulse that tells you if a patient is dead or not. Lack of one is when I consider the patient to be dead, and start reanimation procedures, if warranted. There are other things that tells me a patient is dead, and it's not my place to give you a thanatology course. But those are checked post mortem as a routine, to make sure we're not signing the wrong person's death certificate.

There are other definitions of death - in cellular death the pathologists refer to permeability of the cell membranes, and irreversible intracellular calcium release. NONE of that concerns the physician however. Our concern is with the whole patient. And since he's the one who is going to sign your certificate, he's the one who decides when you're dead.

As for changing my definition - you're nit picking. Heart beat, pulse, usually you don't get one without the other. Except in your example of artificial hearts. How many people in the WORLD have artificial hearts? Few. And outside a hospital setting? NONE. I think we can assume it's the same damned thing for most. But if you have to choose, pick pulse, not heart beat. There are situations where a beating heart will not produce a pulse. Like I said, tamponade. Valve problems. Aortic aneurysms. Etc. It doesn't matter, if you have any of these and have no pulse, blood is not flowing. The lack of blood FLOW is what kills you.

Don't people have to get to work somehow?

Telepresence. See the Wikipedia telepresence article.

"We must imagine a future without cars."
Designing a city without any cars.
Orson Scott Card on 'walking neighborhoods' (I first thought he was talking of some scifi idea, such as moving neighborhoods, haha.)
Carfree (?)
Monorail Opportunity in Seattle, Washington (1998)

From #19302663:

People got along for thousands of years without cars, so maybe you should consider getting rid of yours.

Also, from #10313790:

This is what I think... There won't be cars in the future. There will only be personalised vehicles to transport each individual. Roads, the larger they are, will not allow single vehicles. There has to be two or more (depending on the road) vehicles required to travel together. Probably the smallest road will allow individual vehicles to travel by themselves. As more vehicles travel together the overall fuel consumption will decrease and fuel efficiency will increase. Individual vehicles will be able to break off from this combined unit as they reach their destinations.

Creating car free cities dupe with >1k comments.

Post #5975896 gets it right:

Even with "emission free" cars, you still expend the energy to move the car to being with. Getting rid of pollution is an important goal, but the ultimate goal should be to conserve the environmental resources required to produce and operate cars. By creating a city in which cars are less necessary, you reduce the energy consumption of the average citizen, even after you factor in the energy required to operate the 24-hour mass transit systems.

Just an interesting tidbit here: "It's things like cars that take people out of public spaces and make a community less safe."
Arcosanti, an interesting experimental town supposedly as an alternative to urban sprawl.
Argument that car-free is too expensive.
An interesting problem in #5975908:

1) People like cars. Tell them they can't use thier cars anymore, and you're liable to be voted out of office.
2) If you get rid of cars, you have to have an alternative system of transportation in place. Unfortunately, the only place to PUT that system will many times be where the roads are now. Result: you can't build the system until the cars are gone, and you can't get rid of the cars until the system is ready!

Apparently Venice is not the solution, either.
Small steps needed to make the change.
Pipes from Futurama? Or maybe, dare it be said, ...

Was going to avoid posting, but since you asked for corrections - you are just about right.

Two things:
You are correct about the etymology of "Semitic" in the context of a language group, but because it carries a link to folk history and does carry ethnic implications, the term is somewhat deprecated in terms of linguistics. For example, the term "Hamito-Semitic" has largely been replaced by the "Afro-Asiatic group" - however, everyone (linguists, ANE scholars, etc.) still refers to a Semitic branch and its various regional divisions encompassing North Africa to Iraq. I've never met anyone involved in the actual academic study (i.e. grad students or professors), who really cares - though the actual structure of the branches in the group is something of a debate (see p.14).

Coining "Antisemitismus" was in line with the scientific racism that was popular in the late 19th century, and in some sense appropriate for the new "scientific" aspects to continental European hatred of Jews. The "I like Arabs, so I can't be an anti-Semite" defense is a casuistic canard (google, you'll find it a plenty), and leads to wonderful logical conclusions - say, claiming Hitler wasn't an anti-Semite.

Maybe Apple don't care? I can imagine if I were them I'd probably make the browser portable for strategic reasons. But using it IE style to try to control the browser marketspace is probably a waste of time. And they presumably can't sell it, since all the other browsers are free.

I wonder how it compares to Opera 9.0x speedwise?

Google cache of www.howtocreate.co.uk/browserSpeed.html because he doesn't want people posting it to /.

Hmm, Opera 9.01 seems to be a bit faster most of the time.

OR MAYBE - MANY end-users are now starting to use the numerous tuning guides for Windows NT-based OS' that show folks how to trim off unnecessary services &/or other background processes, to lessen how much RAM is recommended or needed, as well as various registry hacks that aid in speed AND security?

(Easily done via native tools like regedit.exe, services.msc &/or msconfig.exe)

All done to aid them in conserving RAM (& thus lessening the "recommended amount" (which granted, is the bare minimum & the OS runs like a snail, paging like mad, if left in the default configuration (services that many users do NOT need left running, to which I am alluding to here))).

Personally, I've been doing that type of thing on oldschool OS like DOS/Win3x/Win9x & decided to one day back then, start hacking away @ NT's settings to see what could be done in the same capacity... NT-based OS' turned out far more flexible/reconfigurable, than any of the older MS' OS, in fact!

I've been using & putting out (publicly online) techniques like that since 1996 or so!

Proof? Well, I put it online in 1997 as "article #1" @ NTCompatible.com, the first & oldest one online afaik (started life with NTCompatible.com, as NT Gaming Palace, back in 1997 in fact):

http://209.85.165.104/search?q=cache:1ZEbfhemlA4J: www.hexus.net/content/news/news_archive_month.php% 3Fmonth%3D200104+Alexander+Peter+Kowalski&hl=en&ct =clnk&cd=107&gl=us

Salient quote proof: "Alexander Peter Kowalski over at NT Compatibel has updated his Windows NT/2000 tweaking guide." & pointing to THIS url -> http://www.ntcompatible.com/article1.shtml!

Though that's from 2001, the proof it was there, is that. Philipp over @ NTCompatible.com can substantiate the birthdate of this site if anyone's doubting this, & there usually is that - doubting thomas' abound online, so I have to "back up my bluster" ahead of time, bloating my post here.

(Yes, my article's no longer there anymore, but is on another site, but the proof it was in that URL @ that date is what I needed here (to back up my 'bluster', so-to-speak) remains online though (search NTCompatible on that page), & the idea's started to sail everywhere, since (entire sites are based on the premise now in fact)).

I also must admit that I didn't 'invent the settings', MS did! This is one of the reasons I never "went after other sites telling them to remove them putting out the same info." I had earlier. I don't own those settings (well, a few I wrote of are 'original thought' but, what the heck - every windows user should be made aware of this OS' families' flexibility in this capacity, no matter the source!)

Microsoft, rather smartly, designed well this way - leaving their OS very flexible!

Back then, I started messing with this stuff @ around 1992-1996 onwards, & "lo & behold", tuning the NT-based OS family from MS?

It works!

(And, just for this type of thing - saving RAM, cpu cycles, other forms of I/O as well (like to disk) & more, like better security (chopping off potentially hackable/crackable services, for instance)).

APK

The images are in the (unpopular?) JPEG2000 format; you'll probably need a special viewer to see them. See their FAQ from the google cache (since the site may go down...)

If you're using Windows, the FAQ claims that IrfanView will work -- but I never had any luck with it. Despite having 2GB of memory in my computer, I always got an "out of memory" error when attempting to load the ~500MB images. The plugin from Expressview worked for me.

You can still grab many of the tabs by going back into the cache files. Here's Muse's Hysteria

You could always Google for the page, and then use the view as HTML link in order to see what was in the original brochure. Always good to compare and contrast.

It is being turned into product. Has you flown into the US from overseas recently?

Oh my, aren't we wet behind the ears.

Quote from Cringely:
After that deal was over and the blood had dried, 3Com founder Bob Metcalfe claims that a Microsoft exec told him, "You made a fatal error, you trusted us."

from google cache
http://209.85.165.104/search?q=cache:ym5L4gyw2SsJ: www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/2006/pulpit_20061110_0 01188.html+%22you+trusted+us%22&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=1 4&gl=ca

In general, you seem to be correct. You can patent just about anything. But there is an exception. Since 1911, the words "Perpetual Motion" have been the kiss of death for a patent application. In order to patent your perpetual motion machine, you have to obsfucate its nature -- for exmple by claiming it is an anti-gravity machine. No, I'm not making this up. Wish I were. See http://209.85.165.104/search?q=cache:SzVmVt9_BIwJ: news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2005/11/1111_0511 11_junk_patent.html+patent+perpetual+motion&hl=en& ct=clnk&cd=2&gl=us&ie=UTF-8

Google Text Cache

http://209.85.165.104/search?q=cache:CnmiZp3pFhgJ: cryptome.org/cryptome-shut.htm+http://cryptome.org /cryptome-shut.htm&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=1&gl=us&client =firefox-a

It's still relatively easy to find lots of links relevant to Wayne Crookes and the "gang of Crookes" controversy. Here's one account by Chris Tindal:
http://www.christindal.ca/2006/08/07/the-silliness -of-suing-a-wiki/

And here's the original account of the party internal events which may disappear anytime. Crookes is only directly mentioned in a small part of it but possibly because of his central financial role is implicitly understood by many people to be implicated in all of it:
http://openpolitics.ca/GPC+Council+Crisis

A lawyer named Rob Hyndman admits being chilled and deleting a comment he calls "very well argued, and passionately made, and in a world that made sense would in unedited form clearly be legitimate and necessary political commentary":
http://www.robhyndman.com/2007/04/21/comment-edite d-because-of-libel-chill/

(if anyone can dig the original out of a cache and post it here outside of Canada that might be useful)

For those of you who still don't understand why BC libel is not US libel, here's what Dan Burnett, a lawyer now involved in the cases, says about it:
http://www.lawyersweekly.ca/index.php?section=arti cle&articleid=371&rssid=4

And here are a pile more links from blog aggregators. Find more using
http://technorati.com/search/Wayne+Crookes
http://technorati.com/search/gang+of+Crookes
and similar searches on digg, deli.cio.us and so on. Plus the WTF entries.

This seems to be a complete version of the original Wikipedia article
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wayne_Cr ookes&oldid=99714811

Here's a copy of an Ottawa Citizen article proving that major party figures said Crookes "bought" the party and that it had "sold out" to him. Amusing:
http://www.egyptiangreens.com/docs/general/index.p hp?eh=newhit&subjectid=5135&subcategoryid=270&cate goryid=37

Other links on the relevant matters from the blogs include

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/open_politics
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/online_journalism
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/radical_transparency

articles
http://medlibrary.org/medwiki/Talk:Wayne_Crookes (really interesting)
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wayne_Cr ookes&oldid=85159885
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wayne_Cr ookes&oldid=99714811
http://209.85.165.104/search?q=cache:BShgcqxTpzsJ: openpolitics.ca/Gang%2Bof%2BCrookes%3FPHPSESSID%3D b13d6821b09286ced373730fb33468a6+openpolitics.ca+g

Nice conjecture I have an "I'm willing to bet" for you: I bet you have no way to back that up that assertion.

So what about him sending an instant message to a New York woman. Sent over Yahoo's network, the IM contained a sexually explicit picture of a minor
Your saying he just happened to have a lot of porn CD's that had a few pictured of Child porn and some one else used his open WAP to send the IM?

Well guess what It doesn't matter if it was one picture or 100 pictures. He had at least one on the CD's and having one is enough to convict.

http://www.chuntey.com/

http://209.85.165.104/search?q=cache:x6WDNRBNskwJ: www.chuntey.com/

Video hardware may be quite advanced, but video software, in my experience, is amazingly primitive. My experience is that nVidia video driver and video adapter control software is extremely sloppy. For example see: Problem: Wrong display on boot with new driver. The link is to the Google cache version.

A good source for help with nVidia video adapters is Laptop Video 2 Go. The site is down now, and will be back soon, it says.

http://209.85.165.104/search?q=cache:pabzdwl1ISIJ: www.dell.com/content/topics/global.aspx/corp/biogr aphies/en/msd_computers%3Fc%3Dus%26l%3Den%26s%3Dco rp+what+kind+of+computer+does+michael+dell+have&hl =en&ct=clnk&cd=1&gl=us&client=firefox-a

A version similar to what it looked like this morning, except this version doesn't have the Ubuntu on it at all. I seriously doubt he installed Ultimate on all these computers just this morning. Got to wonder the motives there..

No, digital sounds better. You may be confusing the analog/digital controversy with generally shitty-sounding modern recordings.

http://209.85.165.104/search?q=cache:RbOJj6KLsO8J: www.prorec.com/prorec/articles.nsf/articles/8A133F 52D0FD71AB86256C2E005DAF1C+analysis+of+rush+album+ dogshit&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=1&gl=us

Use of .50-caliber Machine Guns Against Personnel There is an old myth that just will not go away claiming that it is illegal to use antiaircraft weapons against troops, especially for some reason, the .50-caliber machine gun. There is no regulation in the US Army or Marine Corps that says this is illegal. In fact every US manual on air defense guns, including FM 23-65 (.50-caliber M2 machine gun), has/had a section on engaging ground targets. There is absolutely nothing in the Hague Convention of 1907 even remotely suggesting that it is forbidden. Even the use of the turn of the century large-caliber anti-balloon machine guns with incendiary bullets (in wide use when the Convention was drafted) were not prohibited from being fired on troops.

[snip]
It has never made sense that we can use flamethrowers, WP projectiles, incendiary rockets, napalm, 25mm chain guns, 155mm howitzers, fletchettes, buckshot, and saw-tooth bayonets on the enemies of democracy, much less strafe them with .50-caliber machine guns mounted in aircraft but we cannot shoot the bad guys with a full-jacketed machine gun bullet originally intended as a light antitank weapon when developed at the end of World War Ibut its okay to shoot their web gear? Somebody is on drugs.

        The source of this myth appears to have originated during World War II. In the closing days of the war in Germany infantry units often had halftrack-mounted quad .50-caliber machine guns attached to them from the antiaircraft artillery automatic weapons battalion supporting the division. They were routinely used against ground targets to include enemy troops. They were very effective in suppressing villages and wood lines prior to advancing. The quad-fifties were expending ammunition at a high rate in this role and at some staff echelon it was pointed out that if the Germans were able to mount local air attacks against our forces they might run out of .50-caliber ammunition having expended it on ground targets a valid concern.

    In some units officers apparently looking for a way to justify the ammunition conservation order to experienced combat troops (read as practical and cynical) took the easy way out and lied, merely saying it was illegal to use antiaircraft weapons or .50-caliber machine guns against personnel.

The BSD developers were inspired to make their code free software by the example of the GNU Project, and explicit appeals from GNU activists helped persuade them, but the code had little overlap with GNU. BSD systems today use some GNU programs, just as the GNU system and its variants use some BSD programs; however, taken as wholes, they are two different systems that evolved separately.

Well, saying that is not enough, so let's look deeper: as I said before the first truely free BSD distribution was Net2:

After Net/1, BSD developer Keith Bostic proposed that more non-AT&T sections of the BSD system be released under the same license as Net/1. To this extent, he started a project to reimplement most of the standard Unix utilities without using the AT&T code. For example, vi, which had been based on the original Unix version of ed, was rewritten as nvi (new vi). Within eighteen months, all the AT&T utilities had been replaced, and it was determined that only a few AT&T files remained in the kernel. These files were removed, and the result was the June 1991 release of Networking Release 2 (Net/2), a nearly complete operating system that was freely distributable.

So, let's listen to Keith:

O'Reilly: You are the person who had the bright idea to rewrite all the utilities and the C library, to remove any taint from AT&T. What made you think at the time you could pull this off? Apparently, your colleagues at Berkeley didn't think this was possible. It's an amazing achievement. Bostic: I wouldn't say I had the idea. It's been an awfully long time, but I think that John Gilmore originally suggested it. And, of course, Richard Stallman had obviously been doing similar things for a long time, and he would periodically drop by CSRG to borrow a terminal and we'd argue back and forth about the why and how of free software. I can probably take the credit for making it happen at Berkeley, but like most things, it's hard to point to a single Eureka! moment or person who had the idea. I suppose if we'd truly understood how hard it would be, both in terms of time and legal hassles, we probably wouldn't have tried to do it. But there were lots of goals along the project path that were good in and of themselves, and so it was easy to gradually work our way to the point where we looked around and said "Hey, we're almost done."

The bold is mine in that. Since I suppose that RMS is well known, let's look at John Gilmore, who was a quite active part in developing Net2. From his homepage:

In the early days of computing, almost all software was free. IBM's operating systems, for example, came with source code and the right to copy and modify it. This gradually changed as software became more independent from hardware. Richard Stallman realized the loss to the industry from the change, and formalized the issue with the GNU General Public License and his project to re-implement Unix freely in 1983.

I ported Richard's GNU Emacs to the Sun Workstation that year. I started archiving the free software posted to the Usenet in 1981, and continued through 1987 or so. I started a project to "sift the sands of Berkeley Unix", collaborating with UCB and other Unix hackers to sort the nuggets of original, nonproprietary code out from the background of AT&T-licensed code. Ultimately this resulted in the Berkeley "Networking 2" release which didn't require the recipient to have an AT&T license. In 1985 I wrote the "pdtar" program,

This reminds me of Pat Murphy's Nebula Award winning scifi short story called "Rachel in Love" where a scientist imprinted his dying daughter's brain pattern on a chimp. The site where the story's hosted seems to be down for maintenance, but here's the google cache.

Congress was told that it helps to sell BBQs and golf games.

http://www.dailyadvance.com/featr/content/features /stories/2007/03/14/0314RKGcolumn.html
http://209.85.165.104/search?q=cache:uDWErfqM5nAJ: www.dailyadvance.com/featr/content/features/storie s/2007/03/14/0314RKGcolumn.html+DST+golf+congress& hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=4&gl=ca

Congress was told that it helps to sell BBQs and golf games.

http://www.dailyadvance.com/featr/content/features /stories/2007/03/14/0314RKGcolumn.html
http://209.85.165.104/search?q=cache:uDWErfqM5nAJ: www.dailyadvance.com/featr/content/features/storie s/2007/03/14/0314RKGcolumn.html+DST+golf+congress& hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=4&gl=ca

Look up "Intel NX" on GOOGLE...

http://209.85.165.104/search?q=cache:kV9lzNnuqxkJ: www.anandtech.com/cpuchipsets/showdoc.aspx%3Fi%3D2 111+%22Intel+NX%22+and+%22CPU%22&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd= 2&gl=us

"We are all familiar with AMD's much coveted "NX" or "No eXecute" feature; the Opteron/Athlon64 processor flags an exception when memory pages are marked as non-executable. If a malicious piece of code attempts to overwrite data in memory with instructions, the CPU will refuse to execute that page. Intel is also jumping on the NX bandwagon with its version of the technology called "XD", or "eXecute Disable." All Prescott based CPUs including Pentium 4, Xeon and Celeron D will support the XD feature with the "E-0" processor stepping. The Intel roadmaps hinted that these XD-enabled processors are detectable by a slightly different SKU. For example, a E-0 stepped Intel 520 processor may be marked as 520J. It is also said that a majority of new Pentium M processors will carry XD functionality. Unfortunately, these new "J" suffixed units are only for the Socket 775 architecture."

ALSO, check this out, from the horses' mouth @ INTEL:

http://www.intel.com/business/bss/infrastructure/s ecurity/xdbit.htm

"Execute Disable Bit and Enterprise Security

The challenge

Malicious buffer overflow attacks pose a significant security threat to businesses, increasing IT resource demands, and in some cases destroying digital assets. In a typical attack, a malicious worm creates a flood of code that overwhelms the processor, allowing the worm to propagate itself to the network, and to other computers. These attacks cost businesses precious productivity time, which can equal significant financial loss.

The solution

Intel's Execute Disable Bit functionality can help prevent certain classes of malicious buffer overflow attacks when combined with a supporting operating system.

Execute Disable Bit allows the processor to classify areas in memory by where application code can execute and where it cannot. When a malicious worm attempts to insert code in the buffer, the processor disables code execution, preventing damage and worm propagation.

Replacing older computers with Execute Disable Bit-enabled systems can halt worm attacks, reducing the need for virus-related repairs. In addition, Execute Disable Bit may eliminate the need for software patches aimed at buffer overflow attacks. By combining Execute Disable Bit with anti-virus, firewall, spyware removal, e-mail filtering software, and other network security measures, IT managers can free IT resources for other initiatives.

By familiarizing yourself with the various standards available for maintaining WLAN security, understanding some of the issues involved in security breaches, and applying security best practices in your organization, you can ensure that your data is safe and secure.

  Enabling Execute Disable Bit functionality requires a PC with a processor with Execute Disable Bit capability and a supporting operating system. Check with your PC manufacturer on whether your system delivers Execute Disable Bit functionality." :)

In other words, it's been around for a while now... & can help.

APK

Chimerism is also a source of the exceedingly rare brindle coat pattern in horses. In such cases the different color hairs will have different DNA. In one case this caused two consecutive DNA sample sent to a lab for pedigree verification to return negative parentage for both the sire and dam, even though the owner had personally witnessed both the fertilization and the birth and hence knew for sure who the foal's parents were. DNA from the stallion's blood samples also showed no evidence of a Y chromosome.

Hahaha. Are you comparing Nazi Germany, a nation at the pinnacle of military technology in its day, to a bunch of quack regimes that usually go to war with weapons a decade if not more out of date?

Could have, should have, would have. Argue why invading Germany in 1939 would have been a sustainable strategy. Just saying "yeah, the defensive posture didn't work, so they should have tried some other plan" sounds great in hindsight, but that's just trial and error, solution X didn't work, let's try solution Y instead, but that's not the way war works, you can't turn back time and give it another go.

Hahaha. Are you comparing Nazi Germany, a nation at the pinnacle of military technology in its day, to a bunch of quack regimes that usually go to war with weapons a decade if not more out of date?

Could have, should have, would have. Argue why invading Germany in 1939 would have been a sustainable strategy. Just saying "yeah, the defensive posture didn't work, so they should have tried some other plan" sounds great in hindsight, but that's just trial and error, solution X didn't work, let's try solution Y instead, but that's not the way war works, you can't turn back time and give it another go.

Companies claim it is possible. I was asking for the experiences of people who had actually done it. Note that both sets of instructions say you can just press a button for 5 seconds, and the Canon printers won't check for ink. It appears that, by being less abusive than other printer companies, Canon is slowly taking over the market (until the Memjet printers discussed in the Slashdot article are released):

Canon ink cartridge refill kits for the latest series of printers:
http://www.inksupply.com/cankits.cfm

http://www.atlanticinkjet.com/ink-cartridge-refill s-canon-PGI-5,CLI-8BK.asp

Refill instructions

More refill instructions:
http://www.bsprintcartridges.com/canon-pgi5-refill -instructions.htm