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The site is slashdotted, so here's a link to the google cachie.

because you really could end up charged with grease theft if you just pull up and fill your car up out of their oil dumpster.

there was an article about such a thing at Salon, but it no longer available i guess, though you can read it with google cache...

Grease Rustlers


Companies like Griffin have contracts with restaurants to come around regularly and pick up their grease. From Griffin's point of view, the grease is theirs the minute it enters the container.


So i'd definitely think it would be wise to at least ask the restaraunt you wanna fill up at before doing so.

LOL... I came across this account of dialogue from a #linuxwarez irc channel a while ago.

The original is gone, but its in Google Cache.

is Here. [google.com]

<AOL>Me too.</AOL>

To the guy talking about losing 20 pounds in a week on Atkins - dude, you went into ketosis and dehydrated yourself. Nothing to do with the diet. Good think you knew to drink plenty of water, though.

To the guy who started this thread, talking about losing a pound a week on Atkins - dude, you can do that on any calorie-restricted diet!

A pound of fat is about 3500 calories. Losing a pound a week means a calorie deficit of 500 calories a day.

Suggested reading #1: The Hacker's Diet (Former CEO of Autodesk describes an approach to dieting in language that will appeal to engineers. He starts with the "3500 calories in a pound of fat", applies the Second Law of Thermodynamics, and derives the rest from there.)

If you normally burn 2000 calories per day to keep yourself alive (i.e. to maintain a body temperature of 98.6F in ambient air of 70F, and to sit erect at a computer terminal), and you want to lose a pound a week, you need to cut 500 calories a day. A moderate-to-heavy soda drinker (say, 4 cans a day) can accomplish this simply by switching from regular (at ~130 cal per can) to diet (zero).

The exercise suggestion part of Atkins is good (but it's a good idea with or without diet), but IMNSHO, the nutritional advice is questionable at best - and dangerous quackery at worst.

Suggested Reading #2: As Quackwatch appears to be down at the moment, I recommend anyone considering a low-carb diet read Google's cached copy of Stephen Barrett's analysis of Atkins and the other low-carb approaches.

I agree with Barrett's conclusion - that most of the "success stories" of Atkins dieters are merely the logical end result result of caloric restriction, and not anything "magical" about the approach -- other than that it's a lot easier and more pleasant to eat 1500 calories of "what you want" (guzzle coffee, water, and diet sodas all day long at the office and finish off - at 400 calories per 4-oz serving - with a juicy well-marbled 16-oz New York Strip for dinner! Every night!) than to live on 1500 calories a day of tofu.

Make a repository of sites which break on non-IE browsers

As illsorted pointed out, you should look into Mozilla Tech Evangelism. If you find a site that discriminates against Mozilla or otherwise doesn't work, search Bugzilla for it, and if it's not already listed, add it using Bugzilla Helper.

(I had to use a workaround to link to Bugzilla because Bugzilla refuses links from OSDN referers. It's not the goat.)

Oh, and how many of you ... are posting via IE on windows anyway?

I use a Mozilla nightly build on my home winbox, but when I'm on a public terminal, I don't have rights to install Mozilla, so I just use whatever's installed (IE 5.x, or NS 4.x with CSS turned off).

/.ed already, geez. Here's the cache (although somewhat useless without the pics, heh).

And thanks to the European arrest warrant, anyone anywhere can be arrested in Europe for remotely breaking the laws of one European state from another jurisdiction. Your local courts will have no power to stop you being transported and incarcerated in another country by foreign police.

This is not entirely new. Before this (1996) the Germans were able to raid an address in the Netherlands over the magazine Radikal. Read about it here.

The fact is that anywhere in Europe that absurd laws are passed, the practical effect now is that the law is simultaneously passed everywhere , for all people. This is A Bad Thing.

It's all three. Really.

Sadly it was a geocities.com page and overloaded the file transfer limit pretty quickly.

IBM PS/2 Keyboard Modification For operation with some newer Pentium 4 motherboards

Here

I pity anyone who mods this obviously karma whoring post higher than (3, Informative), though :-)

:)

Anyone interested in this topic should read Manufacturing Consent by Ed Herman and Noam Chomsky. If books aren't your thing, a
documentary
on Chomsky and the Media is available.

The term "Manufacturing Consent" was borrowed from the dean of American Journalism and leading intellectual of the 1920's, Walter Lippmann. Lippmann was writing about how Democracy should work, and his idea, essentially, was that the powerful few should control society for the ignorant masses, meddlesome outsiders, who were incapable of running things. There are plenty of websites on Chomsky, who has written lucidly and astutely on many topics, including international terrorism, propaganda in the modern world, the dominance of corporations, and the silenced plight of the weak and the poor.

Here's a random starting point:

http://216.239.39.100/search?q=cache:hJcVINDjbPcC: www2.prestel.co.uk/littleton/jp_noamc.htm+Chomsky+ Manufacturing+consent+borrowed+phrase&hl=en&ie=UTF -8

http://216.239.39.100/search?q=cache:sJUlrsbgsJ4C: razor.bindview.com/publish/papers/tcpseq.html+&hl= en&ie=UTF-8&e=619

Somebody should write up a music version of GPL and propose it.

is here. Still takes a sec, though, since the image is so large. I've never seen google getting this close to being slashdotted.

Nowadays, when similating complex environments such as weather systems, the main innacuracy comes from now knowing the "starting state" with enough precision. Obtaining wind, temperature and pressure information is easy for the data points that lie conveniently on the surface of a landmass, but data points way up in the air or out to sea are mostly calculated through interpolating known points. I know that in 1992, the Cray YMP12/128 was doing 10-day predictions of weather with a 320x640x31 matrix of data points and a 15 minute time-step - there's no way it would have had accurate data for many of those points at all. The similation took 6-8 hours - roughly a third of that was pre-processing to compute starting conditions, another third for the time-stepping simulation, and the final third for post-processing to derive qualitative conditions.

The accuracy of the simulation can be measured in terms of the length of time that the predictions remained within a given error of the actual weather.

To overcome the problem of inaccurate starting states, high performance computing is now used to run many simulations of the same thing in parallel, each with a slightly different starting state. The hope is to identify many of the "exceptional" outcomes, and assign a probability to that outcome.

A good example of this is the October 1987 storm in the UK, which the Met Office didn't see coming at all. It is believed that had they been able to run many simulations with different starting states, they would have seen that starting conditions slightly different from those used in their simulation would have lead to the craziness that ensued.

More information about the storm and its cause can be found here or in the Google cache.

No. JFK called himself a Jelly Donut.

A "Berliner" is a person from Berlin, while "ein Berliner" is a goop-filled pastry. Kennedy mixed it up.

Churchill said "We are all worms, but I believe I am a glowworm."

Harry S. Truman said "Never kick a fresh turd on a hot day."

I'll make sure not to kick you.

Google cache here - Not sure if its working tho...

• It is a well-founded fear. During the First Chechen War, in April 1996, Dzhokar Dudayev, President of the Muslim republic of Chechnya, was killed by the Russians after a foreign satellite and Russian airborne intercept stations pinpointed the location of his satellite phone. A single Russian attack aircraft fired two laser guided missiles homed in on Dudayev's satellite phone. One missile exploded a few feet from Dudayev, killing him instantly. Dudayev was then making a call on his satellite phone. There was widespread speculation that the satellite used to pinpoint Dudayev's location was American.

Haha - fear my l33t karma-whoring skillz.

Since the site's down, here is the Google cached copy.

Here ye, here ye, all trolls come out of yer lairs! Comeout, ye CLIT trollclan! The JSU (Jizz Straight Up) clan is up and at em, leading the slashdot market in 1337 crapflooding and hardcore goatse.cx links to non-obvious sites. We challenge thee to 17 days of ultimate crapflood battle, till then end and causing the end of slashdot, in about one month. All clans are welcome, sign up here. Anyways, let the best man win, my dick in your mouth, my cum in your lung, etc, you knw the drill

Here ye, here ye, all trolls come out of yer lairs! Comeout, ye CLIT trollclan! The JSU (Jizz Straight Up) clan is up and at em, leading the slashdot market in 1337 crapflooding and hardcore goatse.cx links to non-obvious sites. We challenge thee to 17 days of ultimate crapflood battle, till then end and causing the end of slashdot, in about one month. All clans are welcome, sign up here. Anyways, let the best man win, my dick in your mouth, my cum in your lung, etc, you knw the drill

I don't how bitter it sounds to say that this hype does a great job of continuing the funding of cancer research, but the "Breakthrough" of angio-statin in 1998 still hasn't "cured cancer".

For folks here at /. you might appreciate the problem cancer really is (a little better) by an analogy to software.

Every cell has a full copy of the sourcecode for the body. Every day there are billions of errors introduced into this codebase (smoking is the largest cause of bit-rot here btw). DNA can be repaired most of the time if there is enough of the right micronutrients available (the best way to protect yourself from cancer is make sure your diet is rich in these micro-nutrients aka vit-amin(e)s - and stop smoking). But when it can't be repaired and if that specific code is run through the 'compiler' (in this case to produce a protein or what-not), since the code is bunk, the result will not be right. Now remember, this happens billions (if not more) times per day right there inside of you! Billions and billions of such errors over time (like the infinte monkey & typewriter combination) might turn out a source error that doesn't produce something completely garbage, rather that one-in-a-10^x chance produces a change in the cell that disables its built-in function to die at the specified time. One little cell out of the 100 trillion or so, doesn't sound like a problem. But that cell, if otherwise not broken, goes on to make two friends (splits into clones of itself), and they make two friends, and so on, and so on.

This mass of broken-source created cells is generically called "cancer". But as you can see this one "feature" called cancer manifests out of every different kind of cell in the body, all of which respond differently to anti-cancer medicines.

Though there has been a lot of awesome changes to cancer treatments over the past decade, still (in the USA) upwards of 500k people die / annum, and over 1.2M people are newly diagnosed. Over $100B is spent in finding "the cure".

To sum up, I just don't like the kind of hype+hope "miracle cure coming rsn" that sells newspapers, since the 1 trillion dollars that have been spent over the past decade or so on finding this "cure" belays any simple solution at all.

(posting as AC cause it sucks to have been through the experimental trials with that hope-springs-eternal feeling, and to face the worst grief at the end, feeling like "thanks for nothing, science")

2bitter

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DNA & Cancer from the horse's mouth, Dr. Ames (as in the Ames test for carcinogenity!)

numbers

btw, for those of you who might not believe me (because the site has since been fixed), here is the Google-cached Nielsen Norman Group , broken links and all!

(thank you again, google)

Here's the Google Cache

It's scary to look at the reactions cable companies have to folks who are even SUSPECTED of stealing service in the manner the above article suggests.

Slashdot Story: Get a Cable Modem...Go to Jail

Google cached link to subject's web page

Same story, different folks...

Anyone remember the news that employees in the U.S. Forest Service, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife planted false evidence of a Canadian Lynx in national forests? How long has government data been cooked to further the agendas of government insiders?

Google lead me to a summary here.

Slim Binaries not only solve the problem of compatibility between different architectures, they also allow to fine-tune the object code towards the specific processor and operating system version that it will run on.

The basic idea is that the compiler stops after generating the parse tree and encodes that. Code generation is then done at runtime. It's similar to the idea of using bytecode for a virtual machine, except that unlike bytecode, parse trees are much easier to inspect as they are of a symantically higher level. This means that it's a heck of a lot easier to recognize (for example) IPsec crypto processing and offload it to the integrated IPsec hardware on your ethernet card without the programmer having to do the footwork involved in detecting the device. Slim Binaries also make code verification a reasonable prospect, which is very exciting when you consider the security implications of applets and agents.

try here.

There was an amusing press release that accompanied the Signetics WOM.

However, in many modern countries (perhaps yours excluded) power is generated using modern techniques that are impervious to all but the most severe weather, and the transmission lines are underground

However, in many modern countries (perhaps yours excluded) power is generated using modern techniques that are impervious to all but the most severe weather, and the transmission lines are underground

However, in many modern countries (perhaps yours excluded) power is generated using modern techniques that are impervious to all but the most severe weather, and the transmission lines are underground

The goal is to go straight up 30 miles. There are no plans for orbit, just to set the altitude record for a private citizen.

gotta love google's cache of the site, if only it cached the images too...

So, why is it libel for the Hartford Courant to report that a public official has had a lawsuit filed against him? Especially a public official that is running such a contreverial system?

Someone had to post it:

Google Cached Page

Well here is a pdf (google html) lab experiment that looks to be fairly simple. It certainly isn't that hard.

This article (Google cache of MSNBC) was posted a ways back, about the "bandwidth crunch" that the military has experienced in Afganistan. As I understood the technology, though, most of the signal is directed up, to the sattelites, so jamming in and of itself might not be that big of an issue.

I'm not 100% certain, but I believe congress created the life+50 year law back in 1976, which they extended to life+70 in 1998. Now that I look at this link again, I see that anything under copyright prior to 1978 simply has a flat 95 year copyright term. That means Stranger in a Strange Land will enter the public domain in 2056 instead of 2058. Ironically, it means his last book will enter the public domain several years before some of his older books (such as The Moon is a Harsh Mistress). It also means all works dating back to 1923 are covered and won't enter the public domain until 2018.

Starting in 1962, congress had a bonanza with copyright extensions, even applying them ex post facto. Today, copyrights last the life of the author plus 70 years or 95 years for works for hire. Heinlein died in 1988. Under current law, Heinlein's work will remain under copyright until 2058, at which point it will all enter the public domain.

Plantiffs in the Eldred v. Reno case wrote a brief which chronicled the history of copyright lengths (the history starts at paragraph 61). Eric Eldred is challenging the retroactive extension to copyrights. The Supreme Court is planning to hear oral arguments in the case sometime soon. If the court declares retroactive extensions unconstitutional, Stranger in a Strang Land will enter the public domain in 2017.

I wholeheartedly agree with Eldred's case, but to be fair, Eldred's chances are slim. The district and appellate courts ruled against him (with a lone dissenting judge in the appellate court). At least four Supreme Court justices felt the arguments were compelling enough to hear the case. However, as the district and appellate courts pointed out, even the first copyright law applied retroactively (to works that were protected under state copyright laws).

There are always people who admire strength. Today in Russia there are still people who admire Stalin. In a recent opinion poll (try google cache) 9 percent of Russians list Stalin as their favorite politition. And 28 percent think he was useful for Russia.

-Bruce

The winux name has been used before.

A better version (no highliting) here.

The page isn't slashdotted just yet though...

Why did I say that - it's probably being destroyed now...

If this is the case, then they will be able to extradite the authors from Russia to the USA to face charges.

This will never happen; no Russian Prosecutor will extradite a Russian citizen to the USA because of the DCMA. Read this:

"Russia has no formal court procedure for extraditions and it is the Prosecutor General who decides on extradition applications at his own discretion"

article from "The Russian Issues"

The code that Elcomsoft wrote was created inside Russia, does not violate any Russian laws, and so its authors are completely safe as long as they stay inside Russia.

Anyone outside of America who is scared of the DCMA isnst thinking straight. They certainly should not stop writing code that is legal in their jurisdiction because of this law.

Before anyone pulls valuable code in a senseless fit of panic, they should take a free consultation from a local lawyer.

When the best development is being done outside of the USA and they begin to see the damage that these insane laws are creating, they will be repealed, just like the restrictions on "exporting" crypto were repealed.

Star Wars "19.5" The Phantom Symbolism
(Original Page | Google Cache)

The final analysis of the problems indicated that the rational solution was an orbiter of the aircraft type. There was severe criticism of the decision to copy the space shuttle configuration. But earlier studies had considered numerous types of aircraft layouts, vertical takeoff designs, and ground- and sea- launched variants. The NPO Energia engineers could not find any configuration that was objectively better. This only validated the tremendous amount of work done in the US in refining the design. There was no point in picking a different inferior solution just because it was original.

Therefore a straight aerodynamic copy of the US space shuttle, was selected as the orbiter configuration on 11 June 1976. MiG was selected as subcontractor to build the orbiter.

This leaves little doubt about where the idea of a lumbering delta-winged orbiter vehicle strapped to the side of a huge gas tank originated.

Every stat I can find on the average vocabulary is much higher than 1000.

10,000 seems to be the most reported number. Apparently there was a study done in 1997 that showed high school students from the 1950s had an average vocabulary of 25,000 words, while students from 1997 had an average vocabulary of only 10,000.

1000 words seems to be closer to the average vocabulary of a 2-3 year old or so says an article from the Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center.

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