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Very true. But you forgot to mention that fact that just because you downloaded a song doesn't mean you weren't going to buy the cd. Heck, it doesn't mean you don't already own the cd. I've misplaced CDs that I legally bought, so I downloaded high quality mp3s of all the songs, burned a new cd, and used that until I found the original. Also, I've downloaded songs from bands that I've never heard of, and wouldn't have gone out to buy the cd, only to find that I really like their music and them go and buy all their cds. My downloading their music helped their sales.

I think Courtney love said it best (you can find this and many other good quotes here in google cache):

Stealing our copyright provisions in the dead of night when no-one is looking is piracy. It's not piracy when kids swap music over the Internet using Napster. There were one billion downloads last year but music sales are way up, so how is Napster hurting the music industry? It's not. The only people who are scared of Napster are the people who have filler on their albums and are scared that if people hear more than one single they're not going to buy the album.
--Courtney Love, NME, 6/29/2000

yep, gone, someone on slashdot (AC) claimed to have emails Hatch (spoil sport!).

Evidently it was a hijacked domain (myutahsearch.com expired and was bought up by a pr0n-maker). The google cache still shows it though.

here

The link is on the right... a graphic for MyUtahSearch that is now not on hatch's site. NOT WORK SAFE, but fairly mild really.

The poor site didn't stand a chance. Here's Google's cached version.

This weather bar?

slashdotted with less than 5 comments posted. google cache.

Actually, in most states the speed limit is a suggested value for safe travel. Unless the sign has the word "max" on it, in which case it becomes an absolute speed limit. Here are a few articles to explain further: article 1 and article 2

-Ab

Here's the shameless Google Mirror

A human being recognizes external environment by using many kinds of sensory information. By integrating these information and making up lack of information for each other, a more reliable and multilateral recognition can be achieved. The purpose of Sensor Fusion Project is to realize new sensing architecture by integrating multi-sensor information and to develop hierarchical and decentralized architecture for recognizing human beings further. As a result, more reliable and multilateral information can be extracted, which can realize high level recognition mechanism.

Note that the site is mostly pictures, which explained why it went down so quickly. There's almost no decent text at all :-(

There are bacteria living in the "Dead Sea" as well (see here).

See also here for a discussion of bacteria living in salt-saturated solutions (the main discussion is about spore survival in salt inclusions--for about 250 million years!).

Hey, and maybe we will see people floating in Europa's oceans as well :-)

They're only Chinese, but I'm sure they've got families.

One of the first questions to come to mind is "who is Laura Didio?" Some googling around will find a lot of references to her. And a couple of Bios - the already referenced HTML-ized cache copy of a PDF document might be the most recent. There is also an older one from her previous employer, the Giga Information Group. But don't stop there. Hit a few articles where Laura is quoted. Google for her and unix / linux. Look at the quotes there too.

Laura Didio's focus, as her Bios suggest, seems to be Windows and Microsoft products. And in this space, she is sometimes critical. She also comments on some Open Source software with how it competes with the entrenched Microsoft offerings. And she does occasionally comment on Unix and Linux in general. She is cautious towards Open Source and Linux in particular. If she does have a bias against Linux, it does not seem over-the-top (although I don't always agree with her assessments).

But bias isn't the point. It is expertise. She does not focus on Unix and its derivatives. I would find it surprising if she had any idea of the history involved with this system. Much less any sort of additional technical background it would take to hash out the possible origins of any given snippit of code.

And, of course, that is part of the problem. We're dealing with snippits of code. There is no context. Even an expert may have trouble tracking pedigrees in this situation - but at least they would have some chance.

The most Laura can do is get her name in the press. And become an object lesson for the warnings other analysists made over the entire situation presented by SCO and its NDA.

I've never seen this Baraka movie, but it sounds interesting. Something along those lines (disturbing treatment of animals) was/is featured on rotten.com (a fascinating site, if you can handle it). http://dickweed.rotten.com/german-luau/ has links to video of the torching of a tied up pig. You can hear the pig crying in pain as the videographer zooms in on the blistering skin.

According to the site, this was done by the U.S. military during WW2. As you can see at the Google-cached version.

Unfortunately you won't be able to view the videos as dickweed.rotten.com seems to be down and they are not in the WayBack Machine. Hopefully dickweed will return.

Google cache

Sorry about the first one, I'm an idiot =/

does onboard digital, so you can get digital straight out into your computer. better than your onboard soundcard.

as soon as you can show me ANY home audio "digital" anything that can beat my Santa-Cruz in recording an analog signal to digital, I'll be amazed. NOTHING other than a $1000.00 pro recording sound card can beat it.

and yes, I do have the full testing results to prove it.


HERE

(Note, the origional website seems to be down... so the google cache will have to do until it comes back...)

http://216.239.33.100/search?q=cache:H4yZmoxSGLIJ: www.blackhat.com/presentations/bh-usa-02/baird-lyn n/bh-us-02-lynn-802.11attack.ppt+black+hat+2002+ai r+jack&hl=en&ie=UTF-8 Is an alright source for this but pretty barren.

The cisco client is the most secure from what a good friend of mine explained tonight. The way that the clients are "locked" is not a normal VPN setup, the exception being cisco.

Anyway it's like 3am or something but the point is that it's possible to get a client to install the cert because of the yes mentality of windows, the screen shot shows it.

Yeah, there's a great story about a guy trying to buy his burrito with a $2 bill here.[google cache]

Actually, for recreational, non-decompression diving(which represents the vast majority of recreational diving- technical diving is a whole other beast), PADI tells you to use the tables they give you on a waterproof card. You're supposed to plan your dive AHEAD OF TIME using the tables, and stick to the plan. You're not supposed to just grab a dive computer and jump in the water, for EXACTLY this reason- the computer could malfunction. Further, I'm pretty sure my PADI manual specifically said you should never use a dive computer to push the limits of no-decompression diving to get maximum bottom time, although it has been a LONG time since I went on a dive(and hence did a refresher course or studied my manual, both of which you should do after being inactive for a while).

Interstingly, I just found a google cache of a this page about a recall(or lack thereof) for the PADI dive table cards, while trying to find PADI's DAN(Diver Alert Network) site.

Ah- found it. There's another article here about it, including which tables(for concerned divers, seems to be tables printed in 2002-Jan 2003, check the site).

Apple doesn't sell "-est" machines. Not the fastest, not the thinnest, not the lightest, not the most durable, not the most reliable, not the longest battery life, not the cheapest -- they're not really the best at anything.

Apple sells the "lightest value laptop" -- according to none other than PC Magazine!

And of course they sell the "lightest full-featured notebook that burns DVDs."

And the "best looking" notebook, according to The Register.

And the "world's lightest full-featured notebook."

And the biggest display on a laptop.

Hmm... I've found quite a few "-est" attributes.

Apple doesn't sell "-est" machines. Not the fastest, not the thinnest, not the lightest, not the most durable, not the most reliable, not the longest battery life, not the cheapest -- they're not really the best at anything.

Apple sells the "lightest value laptop" -- according to none other than PC Magazine!

And of course they sell the "lightest full-featured notebook that burns DVDs."

And the "best looking" notebook, according to The Register.

And the "world's lightest full-featured notebook."

And the biggest display on a laptop.

Hmm... I've found quite a few "-est" attributes.

Apple doesn't sell "-est" machines. Not the fastest, not the thinnest, not the lightest, not the most durable, not the most reliable, not the longest battery life, not the cheapest -- they're not really the best at anything.

Apple sells the "lightest value laptop" -- according to none other than PC Magazine!

And of course they sell the "lightest full-featured notebook that burns DVDs."

And the "best looking" notebook, according to The Register.

And the "world's lightest full-featured notebook."

And the biggest display on a laptop.

Hmm... I've found quite a few "-est" attributes.

I talked to one vendor about this stuff and fingers crossed we will see open drivers except for the radio module. In the longer term I suspect vendors will move to signed register sets, so you can load "US 802.11g" but you can't load "police frequency, full power"

There are many stories where stranger mistook a $20,000 tulip bulb for an onion.

Because the extra data is there for a reason. Regular data is burned in "Mode 1", which takes 2048 bytes of data per sector. It then pads this out to 2352 bytes (or something close to that; I forget) with error-correcting information.

VCDs are burned in "Mode 2", which uses all 2352 bytes per sector. If there's some kind of chip or scratch, you're SOL. With VCDs, which use MPEG-1, this isn't a problem. But if you're putting programs or even DivX movies on a CD, believe me, you want that error-correcting information.

Here's an article that's not up, but the Google cache is still working.

--grendel drago

Did it involve spoons? I wonder if it wasn't just the guy they call Spoonman [Google Cache]

*** The problem with making Linux not just a clone of Windows is that it's always (from the X perspective) been a clone of Windows. Motif was designed to offer the functionality of the HP VUE system and the visual elegance of Windows 3.1. I kid you not. Motif still remains as the single biggest influence on Linux desktops today. QT 1.x offered just two styles - Windows and Motif, Motif being a clone of Windows. GTK was always a blatant Motif clone.

Actually you are wrong. Motif was developed in 1989 and windows 3.0 actually didn't come out until 1990. So there!

History of Motif

History of Computers

In fact, just the opposite is true, MS Windows blatantly took all it's ideas from this OSF initiative.

I don't know about the definition of "freedom fighter" but a terrorist is different than a soldier, which is the basic argument that is going on here. The difference is that soldiers fight according to a code of conduct (code of honor) and within the rules of lawful warfare.

See The Law of Land Warfare and other sources from Google searches.

Soldiers are required to fight legally and that means giving quarter to the enemy when they are surrendering, avoiding the deaths of civilians if at all possible, fighting in uniform, etc. When soldiers break these rules, they can and are tried for war crimes. They can serve time in jail. And, they suffer loss of honor, and are not considered to be honorable soldiers by their families and countrymen. They are given dishonorable discharges from the service.

A terrorist follows none of these rules. They target civilians. They kill unnecessarily and without regard to the combatant status. They are actively using any means necessary to destroy targets, and they do not live and die by a code of honor. They do not fight in uniforms, but use the civilians around them as protection and subterfuge.

All sorts of guerilla movements are terrorist movements, and calling them freedom fighters doesn't distinguish them properly. The question to be asking is are they terrorists or soldiers?

Hamas and the PLO: terrorists. They target civilians.
IRA or Protestant forces: terrorists. They target civilians.
Free Aceh: terrorists. They target civilians.
Indonesian Army: also terrorist. They have targeted non-combatants.
United States Continental Army: soldiers. They targeted Redcoats, not civilians.

Google cache here

Google cache

Posting anon to avoid Karma whoring.

I was hoping to validate what the article stated but it looks like he's right. There's a mention of a limit of 10 users but that's all I could find.

"The Melissa virus hit so many of us unprepared because we didn't expect people to do bad things like that,"

Your right. But the question here is also about frivolous patents. When granting patents, there are many grey areas. The academics and industry people can help reduce the load in this case. I might have been wrong about the numbers

The fees should be raised but also note that in an article a few months earlier, it said that the USPTO is one of the few departments of the govt that is raking in huge profits compared to the spending required. There is pressure on the PTO to keep those margins.

Google Cache is your friend...

Take an army of the recently-described feral hunting robots . To each robot, add a GPS chip and wireless mesh networking .

Give the people and dogs smart name tags , and have your dogs exchange your "business card" with the other smart name tags. Publish the FOAF url in it, so you can immediately check for compatibility and give the new information to the dogs.

Study the discovered FOAF files , each describing individual traits ("attributes").

Instruct the feral robots to find other people with compatible personalities , but to stay near you. They'll roam around, seeking people whose interests relate to yours.

For bonus points, add solar panels to generate power as it roams around, and electronic boundaries to keep it in safe areas, away from motor traffic.

"One question: I've heard of active matrix and dual-scan (back when you could still buy dual-scan). Is there a single-scan? What is a "scan", anyway?"

Well, I could try to put it in my own words, but I think this article here better answers your question.

Note: I used the Google Cache so you could see the highlighting. Not sure about you, but I find that really useful.

The second message was Hello! I Bring Good News.

The third message was Lesbians are 50 Points Each.

The fourth message was PROPAGANDA Closes Its Doors.

Bowie J. Poag, truly a great American hero.

I know it was a joke, but France is number 5 based on GDP. And the U.S. is larger than the total of countries 2 through 6. Source USA! USA! We're number 1.

Did you mean http://www.mitretek.org/publications/ccjt/vol6-17. html (note the actual URL shouldn't have a space between the 'dot' and the 'html')?

BTW - don't know what their bandwidth can sustain, so here's the cached version:
http://216.239.33.100/search?hl=en&lr=&ie=ISO-8859 -1&q=cache%3Ahttp%3A%2F%2Fwww.mitretek.org%2Fpubli cations%2Fccjt%2Fvol6-17.html&btnG=Google+Sear ch

Also, here are some related stories, by the 'wireless consultant' firm who actually built Post Falls' system:

http://www.netgroupinc.com/adventures.html

...and the cached page:

http://216.239.33.100/search?hl=en&lr=&ie=ISO-8859 -1&q=cache%3Ahttp%3A%2F%2Fwww.netgroupinc.com%2Fad ventures.html&btnG=Google+Search

Did you mean http://www.mitretek.org/publications/ccjt/vol6-17. html (note the actual URL shouldn't have a space between the 'dot' and the 'html')?

BTW - don't know what their bandwidth can sustain, so here's the cached version:
http://216.239.33.100/search?hl=en&lr=&ie=ISO-8859 -1&q=cache%3Ahttp%3A%2F%2Fwww.mitretek.org%2Fpubli cations%2Fccjt%2Fvol6-17.html&btnG=Google+Sear ch

Also, here are some related stories, by the 'wireless consultant' firm who actually built Post Falls' system:

http://www.netgroupinc.com/adventures.html

...and the cached page:

http://216.239.33.100/search?hl=en&lr=&ie=ISO-8859 -1&q=cache%3Ahttp%3A%2F%2Fwww.netgroupinc.com%2Fad ventures.html&btnG=Google+Search

From the speex website:

Position regarding patents

The goal of Speex is to provide a codec that is open-source (released under the LGPL) and that can be used in open-source software. This implies that it also has to be free from patent restrictions. Unfortunately, the field of speech coding known to be a real patent minefield and to make the matter worse, each country has its own patent laws and list of granted patents so tracking them all would be next to impossible. This is why we cannot provide an absolute warranty that Speex is indeed completely patent-free.

That being said, we are doing our best to keep away from known patents and we do not patent the algorithms we use. That's about all we can do about it. If you are aware of a patent issue with Speex, please let us know.

Normally there shouldn't be any problem when you use Speex. However for the reasons explained above, if you are thinking about using Speex commercially, we strongly suggest that you have a closer look at patent issues with respect to your country. Note that this is not specific to Speex, since many "standardized" codecs have an unclear patent status (like MP3, GSM and probably others), not to mention the risks of a previously unknown patent holder claiming rights on a standardized codec long after standardization (GIF, JPEG).

(from Tampa Tribune cached on google)

I love the fact that you can only find this page in the google cache... :)

Give their server a break, and use the Google cache instead.
Enjoy :)

True, but only for pages that have been indexed. Since Google does a better job formatting, it would be great if they had a conversion that you could do on demand. I've used the Adobe utility a number of times on small scientific sites that aren't fully indexed.

NASA Upgrade schedule.

Space Shuttle Upgrade Schedule

An escape pot was included in teh upgrades, in the future. It may get brougt forward. Or not.

A click on the travel.fp3 file listed a couple hundred SSNs. It was completely wide open.

UT made it sound like a deliberate attack, but it looks to me more like administrative incompetence (and cya).

If you like those, but not the price, you should check out the Sager's. Look familiar? ;-) Some vendors will even sell them in the "pretty colors". Looks like one of the vendors has started a forum for discussions about the platform.

Someone had a pretty detailed review of his purchase of his Sager from one of the vendors, but that page seems to be unavailable at the moment. Here's the Google cache of it, tho.

Anyway, I don't have the dosh to be a customer, happy or otherwise, so consider this more of an FYI than a recommendation... ;-)

Intel Open Arcade Press release

Basically a platform for arcade gaming based on the x86 architechture.

If they won't enforce their own edicts by going after a dictator who makes, and has a record of using, banned weapons of mass destruction, why should any country or multinational corporation pay any attention to their documents and edicts?

But this has already been proven... Just look at all the unenforced resolutions toward Isreal here (or the Google cache here if that page gets Slashdotted).

The Google does nothing!

Please get Netscape 3 or Explorer version 3 or higher and come back. Thank You.

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