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There's no national "do not ring my doorbell" list.

That's because there's no need for one, you can put up a "No Solicitors" sign on your door, which according to my menial research are legally enforcable in many areas. Natch, The List is the only way something analogous can be done for telephones.

Do printed software manuals count as paperbacks? If so, you may want to take a look at the GNU Free Documentation License (Google cache, because www.gnu.org is seemingly down at the moment?)

Really? What do you think these laid-off chip designers are gonna do when they get back to Chennai? Sell trinkets to tourists?

MYTH #3: "R&D jobs don't go overseas. Hell, they don't even leave the US east and west coast, for the most part."

REALITY:

• GE Corporate Research in Bangalore and Shanghai
• HP Opens New Research Center in Singapore
• HP Bangalore Research
• IBM India Research Center
• IBM China Research Center
• Microsoft Research Beijing

Per nasscom.org, "A recent study on the biotech market by business intelligence firm, Ernst & Young, has shown that India has the potential to become a leading hub of biotech projects. Indian companies have the capability to enter segments such as manufacturing biogenerics, contract research services, clinical trials and even areas such as bio-informatics."

MYTH #5: "Ultimately, what xenophobes need to realize is that writing shitty code doesn't make anyone "high-tech." You're no more entitled to an inflated salary than the auto workers who saw their work moved overseas - if someone with no education can do your job cheaper, you don't deserve your job."

"Accenture in India has also been moving into front office work such as doing clinical data management for its pharma clients. Accenture's pharma team here, which consists of doctors, dentists and biologists, analyses data from tests and helps its pharma client to gain `time-to-market' advantage. "Normally, for a BPO, back office activities are the target, but we are beginning to spot opportunities in front office activities as well," Cole said."

I can't find a current page, but I can find the cached page

It's an amusing read.

The website and links to it have all been saved into a cache.

"Alexander is a friend of Vice President Al Gore Jnr, their relationship dating back to 1983 when Gore was in Alexander's Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP) course.

NLP "presented to selected general officers and senior executive service members" a set of techniques to modify behaviour patterns. Among the first generals to take the course was the then Lieutenant General Maxwell Thurman, who later went on to receive his fourth star and become Vice-Chief of Staff of the Army and Commander Southern Command. Among other senior participants were Tom Downey and Major General Stubblebine, former Director of the Army Intelligence Security Command.

"In 1983, the Jedi master provided an image and a name for the Jedi Project." Jedi Project's aim was to seek and "construct teachable models of behavioural/physical excellence using unconventional means." According to Alexander, the Jedi Project was to be a follow-up to Neuro-Linguistic Programming skills. By using the influence of friends such as Major General Stubblebine, who was then head of the US Army Intelligence and Security Command, he managed to fund Jedi. In reality the concept was old hat, re-christened by Alexander. The original idea, which was to show how "human will-power and human concentration affect performance more than any other single factor" using NLP skills, was the brainchild of three independent people; Fritz Erikson, a Gestalt therapist, Virginia Satir, a family therapist, and Erick Erickson, a hypnotist. "

As TRON runs billions of devices worldwide, this will help Microsoft's goal of cementing WinCE / .NET in places as diverse as your toaster and cell phone, perhaps in a setup similar to how X-Windows is in relation to the Linux kernel."

thanks to, ehh, Google, here's an html version of the article

I didn't read the whole article (kinda lengthy) but it seems pretty informative. I found their assumptions interesting, as they reveal some of the essence of what makes Google such a great search tool. Here are a few from the article:

- The system is built from many inexpensive commodity components that often fail. It must constantly monitor itself and detect, tolerate, and recover promptly from component failures on a routine basis.

- High sustained bandwidth is more imprtant that low latency. Most of our target applications place a premium onprocessing data in bulk at a high rate, while few have stringent response time requirements for an individual read or write.

- The workloads primarily consist of two kinds of reads: large streaming reads and small random reads. Successive operations from the same client often read through a contiguous region of a file.

Really? What do you think these laid-off chip designers are gonna do when they get back to Chennai? Sell trinkets to tourists?

MYTH #3: "R&D jobs don't go overseas. Hell, they don't even leave the US east and west coast, for the most part."

REALITY:

• GE Corporate Research in Bangalore and Shanghai
• HP Opens New Research Center in Singapore
• HP Bangalore Research
• IBM India Research Center
• IBM China Research Center
• Microsoft Research Beijing

Per nasscom.org, "A recent study on the biotech market by business intelligence firm, Ernst & Young, has shown that India has the potential to become a leading hub of biotech projects. Indian companies have the capability to enter segments such as manufacturing biogenerics, contract research services, clinical trials and even areas such as bio-informatics."

MYTH #5: "Ultimately, what xenophobes need to realize is that writing shitty code doesn't make anyone "high-tech." You're no more entitled to an inflated salary than the auto workers who saw their work moved overseas - if someone with no education can do your job cheaper, you don't deserve your job."

"Accenture in India has also been moving into front office work such as doing clinical data management for its pharma clients. Accenture's pharma team here, which consists of doctors, dentists and biologists, analyses data from tests and helps its pharma client to gain `time-to-market' advantage. "Normally, for a BPO, back office activities are the target, but we are beginning to spot opportunities in front office activities as well," Cole said."

knocked over in record time...
http://216.239.39.104/search?q=cache:YaXZiyaAKTQJ: www.yellowtab.com/+&hl=en&ie=UTF-8

Really? What do you think these laid-off chip designers are gonna do when they get back to Chennai? Sell trinkets to tourists?

MYTH #3: "R&D jobs don't go overseas. Hell, they don't even leave the US east and west coast, for the most part."

REALITY:

• GE Corporate Research in Bangalore and Shanghai
• HP Opens New Research Center in Singapore
• HP Bangalore Research
• IBM India Research Center
• IBM China Research Center
• Microsoft Research Beijing

Per nasscom.org, "A recent study on the biotech market by business intelligence firm, Ernst & Young, has shown that India has the potential to become a leading hub of biotech projects. Indian companies have the capability to enter segments such as manufacturing biogenerics, contract research services, clinical trials and even areas such as bio-informatics."

MYTH #5: "Ultimately, what xenophobes need to realize is that writing shitty code doesn't make anyone "high-tech." You're no more entitled to an inflated salary than the auto workers who saw their work moved overseas - if someone with no education can do your job cheaper, you don't deserve your job."

"Accenture in India has also been moving into front office work such as doing clinical data management for its pharma clients. Accenture's pharma team here, which consists of doctors, dentists and biologists, analyses data from tests and helps its pharma client to gain `time-to-market' advantage. "Normally, for a BPO, back office activities are the target, but we are beginning to spot opportunities in front office activities as well," Cole said."

The Sun Will Explode In Less Than Six Years!

The Sun Will Explode In Less Than Six Years! Wednesday September 18, 2002

By GEORGE SANFORD

The Sun is overheating and will soon blow up . . . taking Earth and the rest of the solar system with it, scientists warn.

The alert was issued after an international satellite photographed a massive explosion on the surface of the Sun that sent a plume of fire 30 times longer than the diameter of Earth blasting into space.

"It's a sign that the Sun is ready to blow . . . I don't know if I can put it any more plainly than that," says Dutch astrophysicist Dr. Piers Van der Meer, a top expert affiliated with the European Space Agency.

"It will be like a nuclear bomb trillions of times more powerful than the one dropped on Hiroshima going off at the center of our solar system.

"When that happens Earth will be instantly incinerated along with all life on it. It's like when a marshmallow falls into a fire, blackens and melts."

Scientists say the problem is the Sun is literally getting too hot.

The core temperature of the Sun is normally 27 million degrees Fahrenheit. But in recent years it's climbed to an alarming 49 million degrees, says Dr. Van der Meer, leader of a team of Amsterdam-based space scientists who've been tracking the changes in the Sun.

"It's quite similar to when a star goes supernova at the end of its life," Dr. Van der Meer explains. "Over the past 11 years, we've seen our Sun go through changes frighteningly like those that took place in Kepler's Star right before it was observed going supernova in 1604."

Temperatures on the surface of the Sun have been steadily climbing over the past decade, the scientists say.

"This, we believe, not man-made pollution, is responsible for global warming and the alarming effects that we've seen take place on Earth such as the melt-down of the Antarctic ice shelves," asserted Dr. Van der Meer.

The July 1 images were taken by the space-based Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO), a satellite designed to study the internal structure of the Sun and operated jointly by NASA and the European Space Agency.

"The explosion . . . known technically as an eruptive prominence . . . was colossal," said Dr. Van der Meer. "This is the final warning sign we've all been dreading."

The Dutch scientists calculate that if temperatures keep climbing at the current rate the Sun will be unable to sustain itself.

"It will blow apart like an out-of-control nuclear reactor within six years," predicts Dr. Van der Meer.

NASA refuses to confirm the Euro-pean scientists' assertions and a White House source said, "We don't need anyone spreading more panic now."

I assure you that the insane hardcore rantings of Civil Authority are well worth the second look. Please let me know what you think.

Exit polls are not at all a replacement for proper auditin and verification, but they at least (used to) provide a big picture view that helped to highlight any major problems in vote counting. (cough Florida cough)

From the original posting:

The report notes that 'SAIC has identified several high-risk vulnerabilities [...]'

all I ever hear is Stallman and associated syncophants telling people not to use *BSD because it's not "free", at least by their definition.

The X11 license, the Expat license, and the new BSD license are listed on GNU.org as GPL-compatible free software licenses, and the old BSD license is listed as not compatible with the GNU GPL but still a free software license. Thus, an operating system consisting of Expat licensed programs, X11 licensed programs, and *BSD licensed programs is free software.

Please show me where Mr. Stallman has discouraged users from making use of non-copylefted free software. In fact, www.gnu.org and www.stallman.org run Apache HTTP Server, whose license resembles the old BSD license, on the Debian GNU/Linux OS.

Damn thing's slashdotted before a comment's posted. Fortunately, Google's cache is on the case.

The they have taken down their video links, but google's cache still has the links (they didn't remove the files, just the links)

http://216.239.39.104/search?q=cache:XrJFjivCYdsJ: www.io2technology.com/video-images.htm+&hl=en&ie=U TF-8

Really? What do you think these laid-off chip designers are gonna do when they get back to Chennai? Sell trinkets to tourists?

MYTH #3: "R&D jobs don't go overseas. Hell, they don't even leave the US east and west coast, for the most part."

REALITY:

• GE Corporate Research in Bangalore and Shanghai
• HP Opens New Research Center in Singapore
• HP Bangalore Research
• IBM India Research Center
• IBM China Research Center
• Microsoft Research Beijing

Per nasscom.org, "A recent study on the biotech market by business intelligence firm, Ernst & Young, has shown that India has the potential to become a leading hub of biotech projects. Indian companies have the capability to enter segments such as manufacturing biogenerics, contract research services, clinical trials and even areas such as bio-informatics."

MYTH #5: "Ultimately, what xenophobes need to realize is that writing shitty code doesn't make anyone "high-tech." You're no more entitled to an inflated salary than the auto workers who saw their work moved overseas - if someone with no education can do your job cheaper, you don't deserve your job."

"Accenture in India has also been moving into front office work such as doing clinical data management for its pharma clients. Accenture's pharma team here, which consists of doctors, dentists and biologists, analyses data from tests and helps its pharma client to gain `time-to-market' advantage. "Normally, for a BPO, back office activities are the target, but we are beginning to spot opportunities in front office activities as well," Cole said."

Really? What do you think these laid-off chip designers are gonna do when they get back to Chennai? Sell trinkets to tourists?

MYTH #3: "R&D jobs don't go overseas. Hell, they don't even leave the US east and west coast, for the most part."

REALITY:

• GE Corporate Research in Bangalore and Shanghai
• HP Opens New Research Center in Singapore
• HP Bangalore Research
• IBM India Research Center
• IBM China Research Center
• Microsoft Research Beijing

REALITY: Per nasscom.org, "A recent study on the biotech market by business intelligence firm, Ernst & Young, has shown that India has the potential to become a leading hub of biotech projects. Indian companies have the capability to enter segments such as manufacturing biogenerics, contract research services, clinical trials and even areas such as bio-informatics."

MYTH #5: "Ultimately, what xenophobes need to realize is that writing shitty code doesn't make anyone "high-tech." You're no more entitled to an inflated salary than the auto workers who saw their work moved overseas - if someone with no education can do your job cheaper, you don't deserve your job."

REALITY: "Accenture in India has also been moving into front office work such as doing clinical data management for its pharma clients. Accenture's pharma team here, which consists of doctors, dentists and biologists, analyses data from tests and helps its pharma client to gain `time-to-market' advantage. "Normally, for a BPO, back office activities are the target, but we are beginning to spot opportunities in front office activities as well," Cole said."

Really? What do you think these laid-off chip designers are gonna do when they get back to Chennai? Sell trinkets to tourists?

MYTH #3: "R&D jobs don't go overseas. Hell, they don't even leave the US east and west coast, for the most part."

REALITY:

• GE Corporate Research in Bangalore and Shanghai
• HP Opens New Research Center in Singapore
• HP Bangalore Research
• IBM India Research Center
• IBM China Research Center
• Microsoft Research Beijing

REALITY: Per nasscom.org, "A recent study on the biotech market by business intelligence firm, Ernst & Young, has shown that India has the potential to become a leading hub of biotech projects. Indian companies have the capability to enter segments such as manufacturing biogenerics, contract research services, clinical trials and even areas such as bio-informatics."

MYTH #5: "Ultimately, what xenophobes need to realize is that writing shitty code doesn't make anyone "high-tech." You're no more entitled to an inflated salary than the auto workers who saw their work moved overseas - if someone with no education can do your job cheaper, you don't deserve your job."

REALITY: "Accenture in India has also been moving into front office work such as doing clinical data management for its pharma clients. Accenture's pharma team here, which consists of doctors, dentists and biologists, analyses data from tests and helps its pharma client to gain `time-to-market' advantage. "Normally, for a BPO, back office activities are the target, but we are beginning to spot opportunities in front office activities as well," Cole said."

Per nasscom.org, "A recent study on the biotech market by business intelligence firm, Ernst & Young, has shown that India has the potential to become a leading hub of biotech projects. Indian companies have the capability to enter segments such as manufacturing biogenerics, contract research services, clinical trials and even areas such as bio-informatics.

Your insensitive clod link isn't working, you insensitive clod!

http://216.239.39.104/search?q=cache:oo9QDkrHwxIJ: www.projectcensored.org/Publications/2004/+site:pr ojectcensored.org+2004&hl=en&ie=UTF-8

Not so fast. I'm willing to bet that an overwhelming majority of the artists that the RIAA "represents" are against this whole "let's sue our fans" thing. Michael Jackson spoke out and denounced the RIAA's actions, yet I remember seeing several of his songs listed in a subpoena. Dashboard Confessional also thanked their fans for sharing their music, but I don't know what label they're on (I have heard them on Clear Channel and MTV). Remember, this is a fight against the LABELS, not the artists, and NOT the RIAA (without the labels there would be no RIAA, but there would still be artists.)

Whatever people feel about Darl Mcbride bashing him don't do the Linux community any good. And whatever people feel about SCO they have allways concentrated on the case on copyright infringment and not tried to take some easy shots on the Linux community.

WTF??? Have you been in a cage the last half year? No easy shots?
Look at this diamond (yeah, they removed the page since then).

Or how about:
""A significant flaw of Linux is the inability and/or unwillingness of the Linux process manager, Linus Torvalds, to identify the intellectual-property origins of contributed source code that comes in from those many different software developers" who contribute to Linux, the suit said.

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The site already seems to be cracking. google has a cached version.

Google still has a cache of t33kid.com, Parson's website.

I was going with alkaline (for no particular reason - it's just an illustration and that number showed up more than once in my quickie google search), which goes up to 18AH.

Itanium-2 ranks with SAP bench mark far behind alpha

With the TPC bench mark before a few days could NECs Itanium-2-Server Express5800 still as the fastest system of its class shine, but with the SAP SD bench mark values for animal 2, published today, he ranks with the throughput value of 13.920 SAPS only in the third number of the larger 32-Prozessor-Server. At the point further clearly the alpha processor stands in the AlphaServer Model gs 1280 (1150 MHz) with 23.220 SAPS before Power4 in IBM p690 (1.3 GHz).

Whether in view of the large Vorsprunges of 67 per cent the next Itanium-2-Generation (Madison) can up-get, must be doubted nevertheless. According to Intel the Madison is faster on average only about 50 per cent than the current McKinley.

Criticism harvested meanwhile the Itanium-2 also from Linux Guru Linus Torvalds, which criticized the enormous binary code necessary for Ia-64 in Linux Mailing cunning above all . Also c't it had already deplored (Bodycheck, c't 13/2002 P. 104) that the IA-64-Code produced so far by the compilers is well three times larger than the 32-Bit-Code. The comparison, with AMDs x86-64 the programs become only longer around approximately 15 per cent.

32-Prozessor-Server and SAP SD bench mark for 2-Tier-Konfiguration

Server SD user Mittl. Responsezeit SAPS

HP alpha server GS1280 . _ . _4500. . .1,63s 23220
IBM p690 . _ . _ . _ . _ . _ . _ .4128. . .1,89s. . .20830
NEC Express5800. . _ . _ . _ .2750. . .1,85s. . .13920

From the Google cache of the ACLU Webpage (here):

"The ACLU has often been criticized for `ignoring the Second Amendment' and refusing to fight for the individual's right to own a gun or other weapons. This issue, however, has not been ignored by the ACLU. The national board has in fact debated and discussed the civil liberties aspects of the Second Amendment many times.

We believe that the constitutional right to bear arms is primarily a collective one... The national ACLU is neutral on the issue of gun control. We believe that the Constitution contains no barriers to reasonable regulations of gun ownership. If we can license and register cars, we can license and register guns."

Strange, isn't it? The ACLU, which claims to be fanatically in favor of the Bill of Rights, supports mandatory licensure and registration for someone to exercise their rights under the Second Amendment.

Not only that, the ACLU's position is trivially refuted. I would be dancing in the streets if weapons were regulated the same as cars. My driver's license is valid in all 50 states--but a permit to carry a concealed weapon may not be valid outside of your county, depending on the local laws. I'm allowed to own any kind of car I wish, subject to a restriction that cars unable to pass safety regulations, etc., must not be driven on public roadways and that I must obey traffic law when on public roadways; but I'm not allowed to own an AK-47, even if I use it in only lawful and peaceful ways. You don't need governmental permission to buy a car; you only need registration and regulation if your car is used on public roadways. I'd love to not need governmental permission to buy a shotgun, and only need to pay a $5 ATF processing fee if I was going to hunt on public land.

As I said, the ACLU are cowards who lack the conviction of their oft-waved principles.

Good -great- points, really. GTA did an incredible amount of good for open-ended gameplay that I think we will yet see the true fruition of. Warren Spector is a huge fan of the open-ended gameplay in GTA3 but not of the violence.

My question though is: why? Why does Doom get the credit for what Ultima: Underworld had already done? Why did GTA3 get the credit for something that Sid Meier's Pirates! accomplished nearly 20 years prior? I think that it's not necessarily that violence pushes technology further; I think that a more apt description would be that violence in video games popularizes already developed but otherwise obscure technology/methodology. At least from the mere 2 pages on IGN, Manhunt doesn't seem to be doing anything that Splinter Cell, Metal Gear Solid before that, and Thief before that didn't already do. But the fact that it will be intensely violent and hence reap a massive amount of press coverage (and it doesn't hurt that it's Rockstar North) will mean that this stealth methodology may well be the next big thing.

Of course, despite being a different divisin of Rockstar, that's what everyone thought State of Emergency would be as well.

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Someone else, whose comment has disappeared, mentioned that tornadodevelopment.com is down. Another person said that the company now uses torsys.com and tems.com. These both redirect to xmsg.com, if you're curious about what the company actually produces. The xmsg faq does not include questions about email security nor about the politics of the McDanel case.

The owner of Tornado Development also owns a completely unrelated site. Excerpt: "Vintage Trends, Inc. was created to be the leading web-based distributor of vintage, military, recycled and designer clothing and accessories....Advanced technology and security encryption standards create a highly organized, remarkably efficient and aesthetically pleasing format for fast, convenient and secure shopping."

You can read the McDanel appeal in HTML format here.

Really ?

You better read this (in German) or the (automatic) translation.

Why couldn't the SCADA systems been affected by some RPC blocking firewall ?

Of course no one will ever admit that such a thing has happened. Otherwise she/he will end up in Guatanamo. It's your turn now to do some research.

You mean like this?

It got to start from the government..

Don't see what you were looking for? A Google cache of the slashdot victim's site can be found here.

Just one more answer I'd like to add to your questions (because so many have been submitted). The natural elements stop occuring after atomic number 92, yes. But it's also worth point out that for all intents and purposes, technetium (element #43) does not exist in nature either.

After decades of searching, extremely small quantites were obtained from pitchblend, but that's negligible.

Long story short (long answer being availabe from google cache here) is that pairing energy makes the atom extremely unstable and causes it to break -a(C)Y quickly.

A more specific example of this is infiNET solutions QuikPAY. This product is based around TomCat but they only provide support if the server is configured with Apache + mod_jk + mod_ssl. A request has been pending for infiNET to approve upgrading OpenSSL. After an entire year of running with a known root exploit, we still have not recieved authorization to patch the system without voiding support. At the same time, infiNET continues to get praise by EduCAUSE members. If you are really worried about identity theft such as capturing of credit card information, then feel free to call the 888 number on the press release and ask why they don't provide any indemnification or at least approval to patch known root expoits in connection with their products.