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Does anything matter at Slashdot? BTW, here's a Google cache and a PDF version of the article.

according to this it looks like it's made by Jakks Pacific.

• http://www.scopeware.com/products/prod_v_features. html
• Going Desktopless
• The Gelerning Curve

• http://www.scopeware.com/products/prod_v_features. html
• Going Desktopless
• The Gelerning Curve

• http://www.scopeware.com/products/prod_v_features. html
• Going Desktopless
• The Gelerning Curve

Operation Lune (Google cache), a french documentary with interviews with Christiane Kubrick (Stanley Kubricks' widow), Henry Kissinger, Donald Rumsfeld and many more. See it if you can - which is somewhat unlikely in the US.

Take a look at google's cache from the Apple Store. Previously we had:

• $1199 600 MHz 12"
• $1249 Custom Built 600 MHz 12" (adds DVD drive)
• $1499 700 MHz 12"
• $1799 700 MHz 14"

Today we have:

• $999 700 MHz 12" ($200 less)
• No low end Custom Built
• $1299 800 MHz 12" ($200 less)
• $1599 800 MHz 14" ($200 less)
• $1849 800 MHz 14" Custom Built with more stuff (no previous equivalent)

article from sysadmin magazine in googlecache

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euph
www.euphnet.com

http://216.239.33.100/search?q=cache:e5XcyRMpN5wC: www.byte.com/documents/s%3D7692/byt1035828368066/1 028_bar.html+&hl=en&ie=UTF-8

Very interesting read... the Mac actually wins against all.

It'd be cool if slashdot supplemented the original link. /. (cache | translate) users should be smart enough to know to use it for good not evil. Or combine w/ persnickity's idea.

my own quote, i googled my handle and actually found this

Tufte's argument presumes the burden of proof should be on those arguing for caution, instead of those proposing the increased risk. This is the exact opposite of the correct engineering position on mission-critical applications. It's not the engineer's job to prove that a company's products are unsafe, since this amounts to "proving a negative," and is impossible to do, regardless of the manner in which the information is presented.

Instead it's burden of a company, and the job of the engineers, to prove that their product is safe. This is possible, though difficult (and expensive), to do.

I found an excellent article that responds in detail to Tufte's allegations and concludes the following:

"The managers ... changed the burden of proof by asking for evidence that Challenger was not flight-ready. By shifting the burden of proof, NASA shifted from a risk-averse decision procedure to a decision procedure congenial to high fliers, willing to risk catastrophe unless it could be shown it would in fact occur."

FINRobison.pdf
Google's HTML cache of the .pdf paper:
FINRobison.pdf (HTML conversion)

Ohh, and btw, on a $60k salary $145 isnt a lot to give. Try for 10%, its a good number.

What are you, a fucking mormon?

Are you going to admit wearing the magic underpants, or are you afraid that will damage your credibility?

In the interest of covering my ass: this information is easily google'able. In fact, it was posted to /. back when some newspaper did a story on a.root, and IIRC, Verisign had an invitation to an "a.root cocktail party" posted on their website, listing this address.

Here you go, I even looked up the old story for you (which raises the point that this may be a backup site, or not a site at all... who knows?).

Jouster

My bet is that [go] will prove to be even easier than chess.

Go pieces, once placed on the board, cannot move anymore. Chess pieces can still move from one place to the other. This means that as more and more Go pieces are placed on the board, there are less and less positions the computer has to consider.

Go requires the ability to look at patterns rather than combinations.

Sure, the Go board is larger and the possible positions are greater but then there are only three possible ``cells'' to consider: the first player's stone, the second player's stone and an empty cell. That should be easier to manage than the job we are asking computer's nowadays to do: recognize people from their faces. I believe computers can match fingerprints easily today. Go should be a walk in the park.

• NYT article (archived offsite - no pwd) from 1997
• AI-Depot article comparing chess and go.
• Google cache of chess vs. go article (slightly fluffy and biased towards go)
• The Sciences article

you forgot the first page.

Here are the Google cache links for fog chiller pages:

• Special projects page
• Fog Chiller Page 1
• Fog Chiller Page 2

you forgot the first page.

Here are the Google cache links for fog chiller pages:

• Special projects page
• Fog Chiller Page 1
• Fog Chiller Page 2

you forgot the first page.

Here are the Google cache links for fog chiller pages:

• Special projects page
• Fog Chiller Page 1
• Fog Chiller Page 2

I thought microwave ovens and the like work because the microwaves are the same frequency range as the rotational bands in water

Well, sorta, but there is nothing magical about 2.4Ghz. It's not the "frequency that water resonates at", as I've even seen printed in semi-credible places.

google cache of message

This message on the wireless list sums it up pretty well, although it doesn't exist anymore, google cache has it.

The bottom line is that lower frequencies penetrate better in general, 2.4Ghz is just a pretty good compromise between penetration and reflection/absorbtion.

Of course things are different when you aren't inside a metal box like a microwave oven. In the oven, all reflected energy is going to eventually absorb into the object in the oven, or reflect back into the magnetotron. In free space, reflected waves are just going to fly off into space.

In free space, objects that are about the right size to resonate at a frequency don't reflect much of the energy, they absorb most of the energy, but most of it stays near the surface, this is called the skin effect. High voltages are induced on the surface of the object that is resonating, causing resistive heating. This skin effect is also what is responsible for sparks when you have small metal objects in the microwave. Larger objects like spoons and forks are actually less likely to arc than things like metal twist-ties, the twist-ties are closer to resonant, and also have tiny ends which concentrate the voltage. (blunt objects are less likely to arc, arcing happens when the volts/surface area reach a critical value)

The FCC has done lots of research on exposure to EM fields, and has come up with SAR (specific absorption rate) in humans, for many frequencies. It mostly boils down to this, your entire body most readily absorbs VHF energy around 400 Mhz, your head gets it worst around 900Mhz, and your eyes absorb the most in the microwave ranges. This is compounded by the fact that your corneas don't have much way to dissipate heat, and are pretty sensitive organs.

Anyway, the original poster is right, don't play around with this stuff unless you understand it. Although, more likely to kill you taking a microwave oven apart is the 1000 volts at several amps that the power supply puts out. Nasty stuff. Much more dangerous than taking apart something like a monitor.

here

"The technology would paste a digital certificate on every byte of data"
O'Reilly
(see item 5)
(google cache of de-generationx)
Cringely--slightly off-topic, but still interesting

since it seems to have been ./'ed :)
here's the google cache:

I'm not sure about R-rated movies, but Wal-Mart has a pretty long history of censorship including sanitizing CDs, and refusing to sell magazines with "indecent" covers. So this move doesn't really surprise me, and I wouldn't be surprised to find out that they refused to sell certain R-rated movies for the same reasons (whatever they are).

they hacked the existing copyrighted code.

In "Triumph of the Nerds", Robert X. Cringely talked about the 1st IBM clone, done by Compaq.

They had to duplicate the form and function of the IBM BIOS
WITHOUT HAVING SEEN IT.

This was a 2-step process, with a "Chinese wall" between the two.

Google search (mirror with significant text highlighted)


Jeff Marguglio

Anime is bad for you too.

Google is your friend

I e-mailed the problem to Google about a week ago, but so far they didn't seem to get around it. Anyway, a Google search on my last name reveals my personal homepage as the result number one, which is no surprise, considering the last name. However, the cached version of what supposedly is my site is an entirely different site that I have never heard of. Furthermore, since the results of Google search use the title and description from the cached version, the title for my homepage as well as description come up pointing to RhytmicPalmz.com or something of that nature. It seems to be a cache glitch, at least so far I haven't been able to come up with valid explanation for that.

Google Cache of the EFF main page

Hope this helps. Cheers. :-)

Not only is this a dupe posting, but it doesn't even credit the source. It's bad enough this thing gets modded up to +5 every time there's a moon story. Sheesh.

why do you think this site hasn't been slashdotted yet? The superiority of the Cappuccino line? That extra jolt of caffeine powering their sysadmins?

Or maybe it's just that they knew about the upcoming load, since they submitted the story?

ha ha! don't you look like the fool, now it has been slashdotted :)

Anyway, before you ask, I don't work for the cappuccino company, but for interested parties, here's Google's cache of the page.

Cheers

-- james

Chapter (cached) from Steve McConnell's book, Rapid Development

"Chapter 43: Voluntary Overtime: Too much overtime and schedule pressure can damage a development schedule, but a little overtime can increase the amount of work accomplished each week and improve motivation. An extra four to eight hours a week increases output by 10 to 20 percent or more. A light-handed request to work a little overtime emphasizes that a project is important. Developers, like other people, want to feel important, and they work harder when they do."

"Use a developer-pull approach rather than a leader-push approach.... Gerald Weinberg points out that one of the best known results of motivation research is that increasing the driving force first increases performance to a maximum, and then drives it to zero (Weinberg 1971). He says that the rapid fall-off in performance is especially observable in complex tasks like software development: 'Pressing the programmer for rapid elimination of a bug may turn out to be the worst possible strategy-but it is by far the most common.'"

"Don't use overtime to try to bring a project under control.... Ask for an amount of overtime that you can actually get.... Beware of too much overtime, regardless of the reason."

Slashdot discussion of [Philip] "Greenspun on Managing Software Engineers"

The original is lost, but I squirrelled away some choice quotes:

"From a business point of view, long hours by programmers are a key to profitability. A programmer probably needs to spend 25 hours per week getting coordinated with other programmers and comprehending the structures of the systems being extended. Thus a programmer who works 55 hours per week is twice as productive as one who works 40 hours per week.... A product is going to get out the door much faster if it is built by 4 people working 70-hour weeks (180 productive programmer-hours per week, after subtracting for 25 hours of coordination and structure comprehension time) than if by 12 people working 40-hour weeks (the same net of 180 hours per week)...."

"If you see one of your best people walking out the door at 6:00 pm, try to think why you haven't challenged that person with an interesting project. If you see one of your average programmers walking out the door at 6:00 pm, recognize that this person is not developing into a good programmer...."

Greenspun said the following in the Slashdot discussion:

"Most of the people at ArsDigita are young. They have no families. They have no personal reputation. Find me a 35-year-old who has accomplished a lot IN ANY FIELD, who has changed the world in some positive way, and who has never worked long hours. The articles I put on my various Web sites are not intended to help people who just want to live a quiet comfortable life (I'm not an expert on this). They are intended to help young people turn into Linus Torvalds or Richard Stallman or Dan Bricklin and Bob Frankston (Visicalc)."

"At ArsDigita we do tend to get fairly young people who are very bright. They want to do something that will impress their classmates from MIT or UCLA or Caltech or wherever. The key to successful management is to provide an inspiring goal that these guys and gals can buy into and then a working environment that lets them achieve the goal. It does result in some long hours but [at ArsDigita, at Greenspun's insistence] they have 5 weeks/year to recover. If they get sick of it they can always join a slacker company and work 40 hours/week."

"Let me say that I did not intend "Managing Software Engineers" to be the last word on the subject.... I don't want to be remembered for advocating a long work week. There is a lot more to the article and I certainly wouldn't advocate long hours to anyone who didn't love his or her job and wasn't learning every day."

(The banner ad for this page says, "Find a better job, NOW!" I tend to agree.)

come on guys, get it straight. Gates already switched...

it all balmer now.

p.s. here is a google cache in case the main one does not work

It seems it may be coming to that. John Aschcroft has started building the first camp for US citizens Bush and him label "enemy combatants," where their constitutional rights are revoked.

LA Times: Camps for Citizens: Ashcroft's Hellish Vision, which can also be found in the LA Times archive (for money).
Ashcroft Following Nazi Example.
Bush presses ahead with "enemy combatant".

In May, Bush unsigned the International Criminal Court (ICC) treaty which was a treaty opposing crimes against humanity. Why would Bush unsign such a treaty unless he had plans on committing crimes against humanity?

This administration truly scares me.

There is tons of evidence that the Bush administration has been heavily involved with those funding terrorism. Al Queda is a CIA trained military operation. The person funding the September 11th bombings was in Washington, DC meeting with the Bush administration starting on September 4th and was sitting down with Colin Powell discussing "terrorism" when the attacks occurred.

See Global Research or searches on Google for more information. Global research does present many different articles, some authors more credible than others in an effort to present many views. Keep that in mind when perusing their site.

Plans for an oil pipeline through Afghanistan were started by the oil industry in 1996. It is interesting that the majority of the Bush administration has oil interests. It is interesting that the people Bush proposes to put in power in Afghanistan are former employees of oil companies. It is clear that attacking Afghanistan does nothing against terrorism, but I will be very surprised if the oil industries are not heavily involved after we are done killing people there.

It is amazing how self-serving this administration is and how the mainstream media is just starting to catch up with some of this. I find it sad that most Americans are not following what is really going on; otherwise, we could impeach the Bush administration out of office. I bet most Republicans still support this bloody administration, all hail Hitler Bush!

OK, for perspective -- what's the relative dollar cost of convenience store robberies vs. recent corporate fraud? what's the relative dollar cost allocated to preventing/resolving?

Tell me how much one dead convience store-owner or customer is worth (or any victim of violent crime for that matter), and Ill try to find how many were killed in the last X year(s) during such robberies. Putting the two together, we should be able to come up with a rough "cost" which we can then compare with Worldcom and Enron.

Add to this the budgets of police departments around the country who spend most of their time fighting violent (i.e. not white collar) crime, and you will easily dwarf the corporate accounting scandels. Just to give you an idea at just how much money we are talking here, NYC's police budget alone is over 2 billion annually. Anything else? ;)

Prizoners manufacturing goods for nearly no pay will be the new form of slavery.

Update - This just in! America has lost the cheap-manufacturing sector of global trade a long time ago, and will never get it back. Our economy is now service and skilled-labor dependent. Having an army of Prizoners as you call them will not help our economy - on the other hand, we spend tremendous amounts of money supporting these prisons (and the occupying Prizoners) so it is much more a burden than boost.

More even then China. Land of the free? Tell that to the non-violent drug offenders who are locked up.

Ahhaha you can be executed in China for tax evasion.. I suggest you make even a cursory investigation and educate yourself a little bit. Also if you have a minute for a google search, take a quick read on how China's "Strike Hard" initiative treats "non-violent drug offenders" and compare with the U.S.A.

For the record, I am against the "War on Drugs" - though not for the reasons you specify... Drugs should be made legal because they are not all dangerous, and those that are can be better controlled (and taxed) if legal.

Prizoners manufacturing goods for nearly no pay will be the new form of slavery.

Update - This just in! America has lost the cheap-manufacturing sector of global trade a long time ago, and will never get it back. Our economy is now service and skilled-labor dependent. Having an army of Prizoners as you call them will not help our economy - on the other hand, we spend tremendous amounts of money supporting these prisons (and the occupying Prizoners) so it is much more a burden than boost.

More even then China. Land of the free? Tell that to the non-violent drug offenders who are locked up.

Ahhaha you can be executed in China for tax evasion.. I suggest you make even a cursory investigation and educate yourself a little bit. Also if you have a minute for a google search, take a quick read on how China's "Strike Hard" initiative treats "non-violent drug offenders" and compare with the U.S.A.

For the record, I am against the "War on Drugs" - though not for the reasons you specify... Drugs should be made legal because they are not all dangerous, and those that are can be better controlled (and taxed) if legal.

Here's some links:
the pdf file explaining why, and the
html-ization of the pdf from google

From what I can see of the cache link it looks like the messages might only run from DM->player and possibly the other way around.

It's not of much value to know the DM is sending someone a message if you can't see the actualy message. Between players it might be, you could tell if two people are keeping secrets from the rest of the group of something...

Why not just have laptop/palmtop PCs with IM running or something?

Here's the google cache link

The GoogleCache!!!

Yes, actually. Although like many news stories, what was initially reported (and what I read) was not what actually happened:

Here.

It's clear now (it wasn't at all when the media I read was blitzing the news) that EQ had little role in the killing. Whether it had a role in the general neglect of the infant (malnourishment) isn't addressed in any article I can find, but that seems to be the implication, and the prosecuter makes a statement to that effect in the above link.

Actual St. Petersburg article here.

--Ryv

(For other things like cellphones, the ratio of wavelength to body-part size could be critical to efficiency of heating, so frequency can be critical, and is so frequently.)

"FAQs About Water and Steam" (The International Association for the Properties of Water and Steam)
"Sometimes you may hear that the microwaves are interacting with a resonant frequency of the water molecule (like a radio gets tuned to a frequency), but that is actually not the case. Anything with a dipole moment will absorb microwave radiation, so microwave ovens will also heat fats and sugars, for example. "
FAQ or cache
Has link to How Microwaves works sites with more links.

The wavelength of the microwaves needs to be comparable to the size of the object which then gets an induced alternating electrical field. That alternating field drives the molecules as little syncronous induction-motor rotors. Heat being just molecular kinetic energy, it is felt as, and cooks, as, any other heat source, but inside-out.

. It is because of the frequency of the microwave photon.

NO! If you check standard texts, you will find that microwave oven performance is largely insensitive to variation in frequency, and indeed may vary within the ISM band. Domestic microwave ovens are at about 2.5GHz in the Industrial Scientific and Medical (ISM) Band out of historical coincidence (existing allocation, existing equipment) only. Note that has a wavelength of 12cm, a bit long for a molecular resonance. This is very close to the 2.4G part-15 data and part-97 ham bands. The water and water-vapor absorption is quite weak, being on the flank of the 22GHz weak resonance. Any competent microwave design book, whether for data, radio-astronomy, or diathermy, will have the tables and charts. See for example,

"resonance lines of water [are] at 22 GHz and a very very strong line at 183 GHz. "
CEOS or cache

You can see in the diagram there that absorption does decrease from 1G to 2.5G, it's nothing like a resonance, it's considered an edge of the low "window". In the 10GHz range, we consider clouds to be lenses not opaque absorbers, and that's higher up that peak's flank.

Under the terms of my ARS radio license, I know I have to abide by federal human/radio safety standards (which will prevent me from anywhere near our full authorized power on 2.4G any time soon! Just thinking about 5W on 10G with feed and dish gain is enough to worry about.). The scarier thing is those who don't know about them are supposed to too.

The Federal standard for human / radio absorption safety is available from FCC OET RF Safety Home page ; their Consumer Facts watered down version is Human Exposure To Radio Frequency Fields Federal Communications Commission

73 de radio n1vux

Google's mirror is here.

If you think I'm karma whoring, please go and mod down some of my other posts. I could care less. =)

The google cache of the site.

Being /.'d twice in, what, the same year so far? Oooouch.

(or did they just not ever come back from the last one)?

oh well Google Cache still works. ;-D

Has something replaced them?

They are one of thouse things that once you wrap your head around the low level concepts, you can see why it works.

[google cache] this explains it better

It allows stuff like:
$ph = [
{ apple => 1, pear => 2, kiwi => 3 },
'red',
'green',
'brown',
];
So you can then say
print $ph->{apple}, "\n";
The ph->{apple} implyes a dereference to ph->[0] which is a hash so the {apple} pulls back and index which is then used in the array.

While this is cool for static data, its a real pain to delete records and add other elements. I'm guessing that uglyness is why its going away.

Actually, RPM stands for RPM Package Manager. I forgot where I first saw this referenced, but here is a google cache of a mailing about the name.

This article has been on slashdot barely 5 minutes and the source is already slashdotted... sheesh. Either that or someone cut the cat-5 right before pimprig's server exploded.

Anyway, here is a direct link to the image. You can find a more reliable link (tho the picture is smaller) here, just scroll down the page.

if you take the +site bit off it's a bit easier to read... Easy on the eyes version

Slashdotted already? Here's the Google cache of the page.