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I think they're hoping to detect a transmission that is meant to be detected, in the range 1.4--1.7 GHz. In that range, the thermal background of the sun is about 1e10 watt, so only a very directional narrow-band transmission has a chance to be noticed.

I remember that people have tried to send a message to a few nearby stars a few years ago with a powerful directional transmitter. The message was a series of pictures, explaining how we look like, how we count, what our solar system looks like, etc. I can't remember what it was called, but that's the kind of transmission that we might receive.

• Q: When I play something and I try to play something other the second attempt
  will not fail but instead it hangs waiting for the completion of the first
  sound.
  A: This is definitely the standard behaviour as described in many official
  documents that now ALSA follows. There is no reasons to complain about that
  for the following reasons:
  - it's the right (standard) way
  - the application that want a different behaviour can open the device in
  O_NONBLOCK mode
  - all modern OSS drivers in mainstream kernel (cmpci, es1370, es1371,
  esssolo1, maestro, sonicvibes, vwsnd) works in the same ways and the
  others have to be intended buggy
  - we want you ask to broken applications author to fix them ;-)
  

It's really wonderful to know that the system mostly works.

The problem is it doesn't always work that way. Don't forget Cointelpro, and more recently the Ramparts case in LA and the Riders case in Oakland. As if to disprove that wide-spread, systematic abuse was part of the past, the DOJ brought us their post 9/11 roundup policy.

Getting a warrant is trivial. It is not an impediment to law enforcement and represents only the most inconsequential of protections (no wiretap request was turned down last year). What it does provide is a paper trail a tiny bit of oversight, and that means some recourse for the Abner Louima's of the world, and possibly a moment of reflection for the cops to question their own actions, even if the judge really isn't likely to.

It's right to help law enforcement in their legitimate business, but it's not up to a private company to determine legitimacy, it's up to the courts. That everyone has the right (I think still) to refuse to cooperate without a warrant is our only fig leaf; dropping it voluntarily just encourages abuse. We all owe it to our police forces to make it harder for the bad apples to ruin things for the good cops.

Hopefully some bad cop somewhere will misuse this policy of eBay's and the injured party will file a massive lawsuit against eBay for aiding and abetting the crime and collect a meaningful punitive reward. Probably not, but we can hope. In the mean time, eBay makes it easy for anyone who wants a few credit card numbers to pay their bills.

Found it, it was Newman's line:

"Newman had a simple explanation for why mail carriers might go crazy. Because the mail never stops. It just keeps coming and coming."

from lot's of google-digging for such a small point to be made...

But the process involves altering reality while recording and traveling through it. Each production choice -- lens, film stock, camera movement, etcetera -- captures some images and rejects others. Hence the images are less a matter of objective accuracy and more a matter of filmmakers describing the reality they want audiences to believe exists. Composition, mise-en-scene, acting, directing -- the entire panoply of motion picture production techniques and technology generate realistic images reflecting attitudes about the physical and psychological worlds in which we live.

Ever watch Red Dwarf? It's a British Comedy set in space, and it's recorded at 50fps PAL. In it's 7th season, it turned towards drama. That particular season was filmed at 25 fps instead of 50. Believe it or not, it did make a difference. It felt more serious. It felt more like we were watching events that have already happened. (as opposed to watching them unfold...) This is a psychological effect much like what was described in my quote. Yes, it made a psychological difference.

This article here you might find interesting. It talks about different 'appearances' and interpretations based on frame rate and how fast something movies across the screen. No, it doesn't exactly say "24fps is interpreted differently from 60 fps". Not trying to claim it does. I do think it helps support the idea that frame rate is a factor in sending artistic messages, or in other words, evoking emotions. Benny Hill comes to mind.

I'm going to be honest with you. I can't provide evidence for you. This does not shake my belief, however, because I've studied this quite heavily on my own. Movies are of strong interest to me as I am an animator. One day I want to make my own movie or series. I've experimented with ideas about that and one of the rules I wanted to follow was "it must run at 60 fps". I wanted to take full advantage of the speed that offers. Unfortunately, the faster frame-rate didn't hold up to my expectations. It looked cheap. It was hard to take any of the events seriously. It looked like I was watching the news.

Part of the problem was motio

But the process involves altering reality while recording and traveling through it. Each production choice -- lens, film stock, camera movement, etcetera -- captures some images and rejects others. Hence the images are less a matter of objective accuracy and more a matter of filmmakers describing the reality they want audiences to believe exists. Composition, mise-en-scene, acting, directing -- the entire panoply of motion picture production techniques and technology generate realistic images reflecting attitudes about the physical and psychological worlds in which we live.

Ever watch Red Dwarf? It's a British Comedy set in space, and it's recorded at 50fps PAL. In it's 7th season, it turned towards drama. That particular season was filmed at 25 fps instead of 50. Believe it or not, it did make a difference. It felt more serious. It felt more like we were watching events that have already happened. (as opposed to watching them unfold...) This is a psychological effect much like what was described in my quote. Yes, it made a psychological difference.

This article here you might find interesting. It talks about different 'appearances' and interpretations based on frame rate and how fast something movies across the screen. No, it doesn't exactly say "24fps is interpreted differently from 60 fps". Not trying to claim it does. I do think it helps support the idea that frame rate is a factor in sending artistic messages, or in other words, evoking emotions. Benny Hill comes to mind.

I'm going to be honest with you. I can't provide evidence for you. This does not shake my belief, however, because I've studied this quite heavily on my own. Movies are of strong interest to me as I am an animator. One day I want to make my own movie or series. I've experimented with ideas about that and one of the rules I wanted to follow was "it must run at 60 fps". I wanted to take full advantage of the speed that offers. Unfortunately, the faster frame-rate didn't hold up to my expectations. It looked cheap. It was hard to take any of the events seriously. It looked like I was watching the news.

Part of the problem was motio

Try the Google cache. Scroll down a little, you can't miss it.

That's the funniest thing I've ever seen. Government-sponsored pr0n. I think the sysadmin does read /. and I'm willing to bet he shit himself when the AC up above pointed out that link. Oh, I would have loved to see the look on his face...

Google Cache as it seems the link has been taken off.

Direct link. NOT SAFE FOR WORK as the link automatically redirects to a porn site.

Linux JFS is based on OS/2 JFS, not AIX JFS.

http://216.239.37.100/search?q=cache:CL5Bwe26iPIJ: www.free-soft.org/FSM/english/issue03/sbest.pdf+Li nux+JFS+is+based+on+OS/2+JFS,+not+AIX+JFS.&hl=en&l r=lang_en&ie=UTF-8

The new Journaled File System, on which the Linux port was based, was first shipped in OS/2 Warp Serverfor eBusiness in April, 1999, after several years of designing, coding, and testing. It also shipped withOS/2 Warp Client in October, 2000. In parallel to this effort, some of the JFS development team returnedto the AIX Operating System Development Group in 1997 and started to move this new JFS source base tothe AIX operating system. In May, 2001, a second journaled file system, Enhanced Journaled File System(JFS2), was made available for AIX 5L. In December of 1999, a snapshot of the original OS/2 JFS sourcewas taken and work was begun to port JFS to Linux.

It may be unfair to single out IBM, though You are right there was a class action suit info however one should remember that they had an CEO (very prominent, he began an extraordinary career at IBM in 1949 and he has served as Chairman of the Board of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York and being in the Bilderberg Group)who was as far away from beeing a nazi as you can get. Or was that later??...hmm yeah -81, just in time to get gates to deliver an OS(google webcache-only the cache is alive) as it says at the harvard site, they key person was Mr Opel, who was a friend of Mrs Gates. See? Networking networking networking.That should teach you to socialize more, dont sit in front of that smelly keyboard! Where was I? Right, IBM are our friends nowdays :)

Just a little background on events leading up to this point. HTML form or PDF form

Two other former employees were involved who won't be getting credit here because they tried to kill the project at the end of it, and almost succeeded (they cost me maybe two years). They wanted to force me to sell it to the company they tried to start. They get to keep the money they got from me, and that is it. When their "VC" said that he could get a hundred researchers to swear in Russian Court that I had had nothing to do with the development of treefs, I changed the name to reiserfs and registered the copyright.

The rant:

http://216.239.37.100/search?q=cache:NCAs60dUpskJ: web.gnu.walfield.org/mail-archive/linux-kernel/200 0-August/0356.html+zappe+reiser&hl=en&ie=UTF-8

The replies:

http://216.239.37.100/search?q=cache:5SyM_97NyeoJ: web.gnu.walfield.org/mail-archive/linux-kernel/200 0-August/0581.html+&hl=en&ie=UTF-8

The rant:

http://216.239.37.100/search?q=cache:NCAs60dUpskJ: web.gnu.walfield.org/mail-archive/linux-kernel/200 0-August/0356.html+zappe+reiser&hl=en&ie=UTF-8

The replies:

http://216.239.37.100/search?q=cache:5SyM_97NyeoJ: web.gnu.walfield.org/mail-archive/linux-kernel/200 0-August/0581.html+&hl=en&ie=UTF-8

Google Cache

i don't think the author meant that to mean that this implimentation of tcp would give joe user a 6000x speed increase, rather they were attempting to give new scientist readers an idea of how fast 8.6 GB/s is. just chose poor wording.

unfortunately, looks like a good number of slashdotters misinterpreted this. If /.ers can, joe users probably will, too. "video on demand? that must mean 'to my desktop'!"

I actually didn't see any indication that your average joe would ever see this at all, at least not for quite some time. The article mentioned internet2, but that's got quite a while to go before joe can access it from your local ISP over a dial-up connection, if ever.

And as this project is centered on providing faster transport over really really fat pipe to facilitate "collaboration in physics and other fields," i doubt we'll be seeing this outside of university environments.

This is part of a whole bunch of TCP and networking related work at CalTech.

I hate to do this to them, but the Caltech Networking Lab site has more info.

From what I see, the improvement here is to use packet delay instead of packet loss for congestion control. They claim this has a bunch of advantages for both speed and quality.

Here is a Google cached copy of their paper from March 2003.

Hillary is worse than GWB--she's accelerating the movement of high-tech to India...

The thing is, when she opened the new Tata office in Buffalo in March, it was all over her website... Now, you can't find a word of it...

Here's more information from Google...

So, I went and looked it up. Turns out she won Miss Vermont in the Miss America pageant in 1999 (The one you linked to.) But, she also won Miss Vermont in the Miss USA pageant in 2001. (Their very slow site is here but there's no past winners link, you can see their description of her on this google cached page, apparently she was a judge last year.)

I'm going to go do something more interesting like watching paint dry now.

Here you go! Useful links to this story...
First the Google Cache of the Miss Vermont Story

Katy's site which ironically has a Free Speech reference.

The bigger question is, why does SCO think it can sue IBM for putting stuff into the kernel that SCO doesn't even offer?

Hello. Please don't regurgitate FUD from Eric Raymond. It makes you look foolish.

Google is your pal

Months ago I've made public a one liner patch... patched my kernel. Mama, mama!!!

The inventor of radio spells his name "T-E-S-L-A" not "M-A-R-C-O-N-I." Google Cache

Although Apple's human interface guidelines were once considered inviolable, their import within Apple has dropped considerably since Jobs came on board.

While Mac OS X is a step forward in terms of its technical capabilities, it has dropped back considerably in terms of usability.

Unfortunately, the same kind of tacky "ego-driven design" found on the worst PC shareware is now part of Apple's new OS. The red, green, and yellow buttons are hopelessly confusing to Mac veterans and Windows users alike. And the "poof" effect that happens when you remove something from the Dock? It's traumatized a lot of my users-they thing their file has disappeared.

and with the help of Google

I've been looking for info on what/where this place was since I was a kid and saw it on Ripliey's Believe it or Not or somthing...

The keyboard support in PalmOS applications is awful. For example, you can't easily do the simplest thing you might want to do: navigate to the 3pm slot in the day view and enter an appointment, you have to take out the pen and tap, then use they keyboard to enter the data. This is a problem both with the T|C and the TG-50. Palm and Sony seem to have slapped on the keyboards as an afterthought.

The solution? Get OKEY. It lets you navigate the fields on a form by using the rocker/navigation wheel.

Also, be aware that the TG-50 is big, almost as big as the Sony Clie clamshells (NX-60, etc.).

"If any of you have questions, concerns or comments, feel free to contact me directly at darl@sco.com or my direct dial office number is 801-932-5820.

Very sincerely yours,

Darl McBride
President and CEO
The SCO Group"


found here

Then apparently you're not read the FCC regulations then buddy
"Developed by industry standards group - - widespread support & explosive growth
Also known as "Wi-Fi"
Key features:
Direct sequence spread spectrum
Operates in the 2.4 GHz band
Low power less than 100 mW; range less than 100 m
Designed for network operations
Bandwidth: 22 MHz; data rates up to 11 Mb/s"
That's Less than .1 watts. FCC regs, you're VIOLATING the Law if you're broadcasting at the 2 watts of a cellular telephone.
Here is the relevent cluestick i beat you with
As powerpoint
As googled html (requires selecting all text to see)

Probably a bad idea, but...

I was able to snag a copy of the Features page before the Slashdotting began (damn near got first post, too, but I actually wanted to *read* a bit before I posted). I've put a copy on my web server.

Oh, and I believe this is the Google Cache, but it's barely even responding. We couldn't have Slashdotted Google, could we?

Hate to say it, but goooooooooooogle it! :D

Semms to be responding now, altough very slow.

...now that it's slashdotted...

Google cache is great. Here's the article.

the link died after the slashdotting, but you can still get to it through the google cache. i really dont think it contains over 100 books in mp3 format. if you look at the books they have for download (farther down on the page), most are well over 100 megs each.

from this page, it looks like they are using viavoice and emacspeak to generate the audio. i think it does all the conversion on the fly with viavoice and that is why it needs 128 meg ram disk. it ouputs in txt, jpeg, tiff braille as well.

the link died after the slashdotting, but you can still get to it through the google cache. i really dont think it contains over 100 books in mp3 format. if you look at the books they have for download (farther down on the page), most are well over 100 megs each.

from this page, it looks like they are using viavoice and emacspeak to generate the audio. i think it does all the conversion on the fly with viavoice and that is why it needs 128 meg ram disk. it ouputs in txt, jpeg, tiff braille as well.

google cache
google query

So I've little doubt that it's pretty common in the actual military as well.

I doubt it strongly. If you worked for a defense contractor long, you know there is a HUGE difference between the equipment used in stateside research labs and what is deployable in the field.

Software thats going to be run in actual military combat should always be compact, embedded systems code. We all know the story of the battleship running Windows NT, which only demonstrates why this is a bad idea- and the military is usually completely aware of this.

As described in the story, FCB2B is run on armored vehicles on a real battlefield. And as I said in my post, it is insane to think that the designers of a vehicle like that would pack on 2 separate computers to run separate client and server. It's just as crazy to imagine that they would run a remote X11 application from a moving tank (secure bandwidth is very, very scarce), or that they would emulate Unix inside an emulated session on Windows.

Slightly more probablye is that they're running a ported Unix program which still displays over a TCP (loopback) connection to an Xserver. The DoD has done this for some R&D applications (like older versions of EADSIM), but it still seems unlikely for something that'll be carried into battle.

Besides, the icon on the bottom of the screenshot is a red X. Isn't Exceed's logo a green bird?

Obviously, we needed a Unix environment to program computers that would be rinning Unix in the field.

Even Unix is normally considered too newflangled and unpredictable to run in "the field".

I can't even BEGIN to imagine just HOW many windows PCs are out there,

Microsoft can give you some info if you really want the painful details.

I've discovered that this is stupidly common within other government contractors as well, and not uncommon outside.

Take heart, the goverment may be learning a lesson. Someday they may pull the defense contractors along with them. Until then, Lockheed and the rest will remain big Microsoft VARs.

Here's an interesting article that talks about how Telemarketers feel about number portability. Telephone Consumer Protection Act

The Federal Communication Commission will require wireless carriers in the 100 largest cities to support local number portability beginning November 24, 2003.

The Telephone Consumer Protection Act bans automated predictive dialer calling to any phone number where the recipients pay call costs (like cell phones).

Telemarketers fear they may inadvertently reach a cell number and violate the TCPA because of the number portability. Telemarketers avoid doing so currently because carriers assign specific area codes or digits to wireless numbers; dialers then do not ring those numbers

I actually look forward to changing my phone number when I move to new cities so telelmarketers won't have my number, but I guess random dialing won't prevent them from finding it eventually. Maybe it's time I permanently got rid of my land-line, which, like the radio, has become a tool for marketing rather than communication.

But I will and it's for the same reason I bought a DeWalt drill insead of the much cheaper Skil drill: the quality of construction in both design and function.

What, not a Hole Hawg? (google cache)

The main page:
http://216.239.37.100/search?q=cache:aCrSrlgFxsYC: www.yak.net/acidus/campuswide/&hl=en&ie=UT F-8

Text document covering network infrastructure, database, servers, etc. for blackboard system:
http://216.239.39.100/search?q=cache:fM1kWpR_dbQC: www.yak.net/acidus/campuswide/campuswide.txt&hl=en &ie=UTF-8

These are the old cached ATT webpages, full of Technical details Blackboard wished weren't floating around:
http://216.239.37.100/search?q=cache:www.yak.net/a cidus/campuswide/oldatt/index.html

Acidus' card system FAQ:
http://216.239.37.100/search?q=cache:www.yak.net/a cidus/campuswide/faq-campuswide.txt

Creative use of cut and paste within the google cache should let you hit any of the other links within those pages that you may be interested in.

The main page:
http://216.239.37.100/search?q=cache:aCrSrlgFxsYC: www.yak.net/acidus/campuswide/&hl=en&ie=UT F-8

Text document covering network infrastructure, database, servers, etc. for blackboard system:
http://216.239.39.100/search?q=cache:fM1kWpR_dbQC: www.yak.net/acidus/campuswide/campuswide.txt&hl=en &ie=UTF-8

These are the old cached ATT webpages, full of Technical details Blackboard wished weren't floating around:
http://216.239.37.100/search?q=cache:www.yak.net/a cidus/campuswide/oldatt/index.html

Acidus' card system FAQ:
http://216.239.37.100/search?q=cache:www.yak.net/a cidus/campuswide/faq-campuswide.txt

Creative use of cut and paste within the google cache should let you hit any of the other links within those pages that you may be interested in.

The main page:
http://216.239.37.100/search?q=cache:aCrSrlgFxsYC: www.yak.net/acidus/campuswide/&hl=en&ie=UT F-8

Text document covering network infrastructure, database, servers, etc. for blackboard system:
http://216.239.39.100/search?q=cache:fM1kWpR_dbQC: www.yak.net/acidus/campuswide/campuswide.txt&hl=en &ie=UTF-8

These are the old cached ATT webpages, full of Technical details Blackboard wished weren't floating around:
http://216.239.37.100/search?q=cache:www.yak.net/a cidus/campuswide/oldatt/index.html

Acidus' card system FAQ:
http://216.239.37.100/search?q=cache:www.yak.net/a cidus/campuswide/faq-campuswide.txt

Creative use of cut and paste within the google cache should let you hit any of the other links within those pages that you may be interested in.

Enjoy.

here is the google cache of wake.princeton.edu.

Seriously, it's becoming more clear every year that the RIAA (and to a lesser degree, the MPAA) is becoming more obsolete and trivial. Now that the video game industry made more money than the recording and movie industry combined, how much more will it take to put them in their place?

IF the RIAA provided a real service to musicians these days, I'd be supporting them. I know several musicians, and they all hate the RIAA with a passion. If the people they're supposed to be representing can't stand to work with them, why do they still exist? More to the point, why do they get to abuse the legal system at the expense of everyone else except the lawyers?

Hint -- law suits won't bring back your CD sales guys.. in fact, it will just drive more people away. You already missed your chance to capture and sell the mp3 music trading concept... try coming up with the next big thing instead of clinging to old models that are doomed to eventual failure.

Think I'm just ranting? Well, I am... but if the RIAA took all the money they sunk into lawyers and put it into technology research IN THEIR FIELD, we'd probably have working crystal-storage by now. I mean, this is from 2000, and this is also not new.

How many people would shell out YACHB (Yet-Another-Couple-Hundred-Bucks) for a small cartridge with the Beatles entire collection on it? Instead, we get the White Album, repackaged 12 times on the same CD media, and we're all guilty until proven innocent and have to deal with copy protection (which the thieves, BTW, just strip out and ignore).

But there's an additional, ultimate irony about this. They're complaining that Slashdot linked to them without permission, asciipr0n.com has a link to ASCII Art Farts but never asked for permission themselves! Um, a little hypocritical, maybe?

Thanks, guys.

If you like my writing, you might also like this

Sorry, fanfic.com seems to have dumped some stories, Thank you Google.

SB

Here's the google cached version of a copy of a copy... and indeed, no sign of "second superpower".

Idjuts over at The Register... and me bad for not doing better research.

A New Power In The Streets (Google Cached version)

Back on yer heads,
Winton

or see this reference

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