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That's what, 44.8 to go?

No, the next step is this, from the folks who brought you TIA, the Policy Analysis Market... and the Internet. (If it's down, try the Google cache instead.

Remainder of my .sig: be the majority of voters.

Actually you should care. If China stayed a shithouse state then you're more likely to be 'nuked'. Look at how n korea is and how they envy the south. Not very peaceful there is it?
but I put nuked in commas because you wouldn't go attack someone that owes you $100b each year. Nor would you be building the worlds largest dam or the worlds tallest building or the world's longest trans-oceanic Bridge (completed) or the worlds biggest condom just to risk losing them all in a war.

Regarding your comment about 'who gives a shit', when the standard of living in China improves to the level of 1st world nations and the chinese people get smarter from the money their parents spend on their schooling (which they make by working like slaves in factories such as these laptop places about to be built) there will come a time when the people will in force demand for a more democratic govt. Sure these students might be a bit brainwashed but education unavoidably = free thinking and if they don't get what they want they will fight for it. Or maybe the country will change over peacefully. If it happened in the former USSR it could happen again.

In that video clip, I swear I saw Mark McKinney as Darrill, the artsy loser, from the kids in the hall. Maybe it's just the ponytail.

Have you considered that concept that hasn't changed in 600 years and still has at present *one billion members*, may actually be doing something right?

here is navy link.. very very scary http://216.239.39.104/search?q=cache:THCvz5IMIAAJ: web.nps.navy.mil/~drdolk/is3301/PART_IS3301.XLS+In dex+of+/+%2Bfiletype:xls+%2BSSN&hl=en&ie=UTF-8

Fucking navy.

Google Cache of the original page, text only.

A similar page at Homelinux, describing the modification made at metku.net.

Yoshi DeHerrera's version from screensavers. Once again, the same idea, but from March 2002.

A real modder's version complete with unnecessary blue LEDs.

here
As I noticed slashdot has taken it's toll on the server :)

A few months ago, I had a truly and quite literally "revolutionary" idea, and I jokingly called it "Assassination Politics": I speculated on the question of whether an organization could be set up to legally announce that it would be awarding a cash prize to somebody who correctly "predicted" the death of one of a list of violators of rights, usually either government employees, officeholders, or appointees. It could ask for anonymous contributions from the public, and individuals would be able send those contributions using digital cash.

bshanks writes "apparently, markets are the best way known for large groups of humans to aggregate their information and make predictions. Information markets are (i think) markets designed to elicit various types of predictions. Successful information markets include the Iowa Electronic Market, which predicts political events more accurately than major news polls, and the Hollywood Stock Exchange, which predicts box office revenues and Oscar winners." Paul Johnson appears to have verified this experimentally (if informally):

A number of years ago a colleague at Columbia Business School, Paul Johnson, created an exercise to demonstrate the exquisite capability of markets to discern value. The game is based on the Academy Awards-the highest accolades handed out in the film industry. The basics are very simple:

*Each student receives a single piece of paper with a listing of 12 Academy Award categories and the nominees for each. On the front of the page are relatively well known categories, such as best film, best actress and so on. The back page has more obscure categories-best adapted screenplay, best cinematography and such. The forms are distributed roughly three weeks in advance of the actual awards event.

*Students are asked to select the winners in each category. In order to play, students must contribute $1 to a pot, with the student with the most correct answers winning the pot. Hence, there is a modest economic incentive to answer the questions right.

*About 125 students participated in 1998. All guesses were generated independently, as students were forbidden from consulting with one another. The results were impressive in 1998. Similar results have been generated year-in and year-out:

*The "consensus," defined as the most popular selection for a given category, correctly identified 11 of the 12 actual category winners. Remarkably, the only category the consensus missed, it missed by only one vote.

*The best individual accurately picked 9 of the 12 category winners.

*The average individual only picked 5 of the 12 winners-less than 50%. The message from this exercise is that lots of agents and independent errors in their judgements lead to efficient results. The market tends to be much smarter than the average person. In fact, the standard error in equilibrium prices declines with roughly the square root of the number of investors.

This observation is not particularly new-in fact Francis Galton made the same point in the late 19th century-but it is often overlooked. Further, this simple model does not include meaningful economic incentives or learning. If incorporated, these elements would make the results even more robust.

So it

Google cache to the rescue.
And a little screenshot: here

Yeah, like that's gonna survive a front-page link...

magic smoke and keep a copy of quicktime ready

Anyone remember the original NES Doc by Jeremy Chadwick (Y0SHi)? This dude layed the groundwork for most of the NES emulation scene with his detailed account of NES internals... link

I think he dropped out of the emu scene on bad terms... not sure.

I propose that NASA auction off Hubble on Ebay, and let who ever want to buy it worry about it.

No so far fetched. A spare Sputnik was on sale on Ebay about a month ago. I saw the actual Ebay entry when it was live.

I'm really smart how about this... Google's cache

Agreed on the unfortunate tendency to use cute and/or silly names for Open Source products. Another example: there is a framework for persistent PHP objects under development which is called PHP Bananas (warning: PDF link; Google HTML version here).

Hanging on to these silly 'geek inside joke' code names is not helping adoptation of OSS.

JP

Well, HERE (Google Cache)'s the list from the RIAA's website. I'm sorry to see that 4AD which is an indie label (or at least used to be: Breeders, Belly, Pixies, Cocteau Twins) is at the top of the list.

1500 Records
333 Music
4AD Records
4th & Broadway
5 Minute Walk
510 Records
550 Music
550/Fox
57 Records
A Vision/Teldec
A&E Latin Music
(...rest cut to avoid lameness filter...)

so exactly, what is an indie label? Maybe they should start putting stickers on CDs that say: "NO RIAAA INSIDE"?

Erm...Apple's worldwide market share is only 2.3% according to IDC. Prolly cause Macs cost too much :P

google cache of IDC info

A quick search on good returns these: Do it yourself desk exercises
Desk Exercise of the Day
And here's the google cache of a list of 10 more desk exercises

Caldera Employee Was Key Linux Kernel Contributor

Christoph Hellwig has been, according to this web page, "in the top-ten list of commits to both the Linux 2.4 and Linux 2.5 tree". The page also mentions another fascinating piece of news, that he worked for Caldera for at least part of the time he was making those kernel contributions:

"After a number of smaller network administration and programming contracts he worked for Caldera's German development subsidiary on various kernel and userlevel aspects of the OpenLinux distribution."

In 2002, he offered a paper on "Linux-ABI: Support for Non-native Applications" which is described like this:

"The Linux-ABI project is a modification to the Linux 2.4 kernel that allows Linux to support binaries compiled for non-Linux operating systems such as SCO OpenServer or Sun Solaris."

Back in 2002, he was described, in connection with his appearance at the Ottawa 2002 Linux Symposium, like this:

"Christoph Hellwig
"Reverse engineering an advanced filesystem
"Christoph Hellwig is employed by Caldera, working on the Linux-ABI binary emulation modules. In his spare time he cares for other parts of the kernel, often involving filesystem-related activities."

So, in short, he was contributing to the kernel and working for Caldera on Linux/UNIX integration at the same time. His work for Caldera was on the Linux kernel ("he worked for Caldera's German development subsidiary on various kernel and userlevel aspects of the OpenLinux distribution"), and he also did work on his own on the kernel. Did Caldera know about his freelance contributions, in addition to knowing about his work for them? What do you think? He used his hch at caldera.de email address when doing it. All contributions to the kernel are publicly available anyway. They certainly could have known. As for his job, his signature on his emails back in 2001 was:

"Christoph Hellwig
Kernel Engineer Unix/Linux Integration
Caldera Deutschland GmbH".

He used the email address hch at bsdonline.org sometimes too, and here you can see some of his Linux-abi contributions. Here are some of his contributions to JFS, Journaled File System. Yes, that JFS. Here he is credited as sysvfs maintainer, and he confirms it in this email, writing, "I've run native sysvfs tools under linux, but as now that I'm Linux sysvfs maintainer I'm looking into implementing free versions of it."

Here is a list of the operating systems that use or can handle the file system sysvfs:

"sysvfs: UNIX System V; SCO, Xenix, Coherent e21
"operating systems that can handle sysvfs: FreeBSD (rw), LINUX (R), SCO (NRWF)"

Here's a page listing by author (alphabetically by first name), with his emails to linux-kernel in June 2003, so he is still contributing.

Here he is listed on the Change log for patch v2.4.17. Here he tells Andrew Morton in 2002 that he will

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Sensors detecting radiation. A nuclear bomb is a gamma source that can be detected at a distance unless heavily shielded. See also here. Chemical weapons also may leak signature compounds, which can be detected with the appropriate equipment--though not quite as sensitively.

IANA law enforcement official, but I would be very surprised if there were not already radiation monitors (fixed and mobile) in all of the largest U.S. cities. (Have another article.) They are definitely already installed--and catching innocent people--in New York, and I'm sure that they are in the D.C., too.

Now the majority of scholars at present argue that Revelation was written by John at the end of his life around 96 AD during the reign of Emperor Domitian, during an alleged period of persecution of Christians.

However, the minority opinion (and the one we and a growing number of scholars in fact hold) is that Revelation was written shortly before 70 AD and the destruction of the Temple. ... [T]here is growing evidence (see, for example, Kenneth L. Gentry's Before Jerusalem Fell) that Revelation can well be dated to the years just preceding the destruction of the temple in Jerusalem in 70 AD. Underlying this date is the fact that throughout the rest of the New Testament the persecution which concerns both Jesus and the apostles is not Roman persecution but persecution launched by Jews against the Church and the theological implications of this. This persecution of the Church by Jews culminated (as Jesus prophesied in, for example, Matthew 24) in the judgment on the Temple when Jerusalem was sacked and the Temple destroyed by the Romans in 70 AD. This destruction of the temple and demolition of Jerusalem signified for the early Church the passing away of the Mosaic covenant and the establishment of the covenant of Christ.

And so, throughout the New Testament the persecution that preoccupies Christian thought is not persecution by Romans, but persecution by Jews. In the gospels, of course, it is the Jewish authorities at Jerusalem who initiate the persecution and eventual death of Jesus. Pilate is, at best, a reluctant participant. Similarly, it is a Roman soldier who declares, "Surely this man was a son of God." In other words, the gospels in no way depict the Church as a political revolutionary force in the Roman Empire. There is no particularly anti-Roman sentiment in the gospels, nor is there a particularly Roman persecution of Jesus in the gospels. Likewise, in the book of Acts, the first eight chapters show persecution against the Church coming exclusively from Jerusalem: from the priests, from men like Saul of Tarsus, and from others acting with the authority or approval of the Jerusalem elite. And as Acts and the New Testament continues, it is this mystery of Jewish persecution of the Church that continues to preoccupy the New Testament writers. Indeed, Paul meditates on it more than once in his epistles (most notably Romans 9-11) and with good reason. For he encounters constant persecution repeatedly throughout the book of Acts (both inside and outside Judea), and without any significant exception it originates from Jews who resent the kerygma or proclamation of the Gospel and its implications.

As this website shows,

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Let me try: Google cache

here is a Link.

Do you have any idea how inefficient solar panels are? According to this (which looks reliable enough) the highest efficiency of any solar panel was 28%. This means that 72% of the sun's energy went into heating or pushing the solar panel around. Given a solar panel's thin design, I would say it was possible, if not probable, to acquire spin from a largish solar panel at that distance from the sun.

As for the WMD's in Iraq: What does this have to do with the Republicans?

The fact that the evidence they're presenting appears to be largely bullshit. This article is an automated translation from German, but it makes clear that the degree of shovelling was so high that Blix's language wasn't considered suitable for print!

Credit to Elektro Schock at kuro5hin, who posted about this.

I see a major problem with SCO's case that no is talking about. That is the equitable doctrine of laches, which prevents a party asserting a claim against another too long a time after he could have, i.e., long after the offended party knew about the damage it supposedly suffered.

The source of the Linux kernel has been open for public inspection from its very inception, and SCO has been free to look through it and discover instances of copyright violation. Even more damning against it, SCO's own people have worked with the source, distributing their "own" version of Linux. There's no way they can claim that they couldn't have known about the issue for all these years.

Here's a nice little quote from a N.Y. state court case that failed to find laches due to a short delay of two years:

• "Laches is an equitable doctrine which bars recovery where a party's inaction has prejudiced another party, making it inequitable to permit recovery" (Vickery v. Village of Saugerties, 106 AD2d 721)

Here are some other interesting cites:

• Understanding Basic Copyright Law Has some examples of where laches might be used.
• Kepner-Tregoe, Inc. v. Executive Dev., Inc. (Federal district court, laches defense successful).

P.S. - I am a registered patent agent, not an attorney. This means that I don't practice copyright law, and nothing above is legal advice or the opinion of any client etc. I'm also an open-source software author, which I suppose is a bit like a butcher being a vegetarian...

They have backed them in the past:

Google Cache of The Reg article

Ransom Love, CEO of Caldera Systems, will become CEO of a new Caldera Inc, which became a shell company after Caldera won its antitrust case against Microsoft. SCO president David McCrabb will become president of Caldera Inc. Bryan Sparks will remain with Lineo, which has filed for IPO.

The deal is interesting because of the complex and somewhat incestuous relationship between Caldera, SCO, Microsoft, Citrix, and Novell. Microsoft acquired SCO shares as a result of getting SCO, founded in 1978 by Doug and Larry Michels, to produce a version of Unix called Xenix. Microsoft had licensed Unix from AT&T, and the product was first marketed in 1979. In 1987, Microsoft was concerned that AT&T's Unix applications might not run with Xenix. As a consequence, AT&T agreed to add some Xenix code to its Unix and to pay Microsoft a royalty for this.

Ray Noorda subsequently acquired Unix from AT&T for Novell, held it for two years, and then it was sold to SCO in 1995 - with Novell receiving a 13.8 per cent holding in SCO as part of the deal. The next year, SCO realised that the code added to Unix was no longer needed or relevant, so it asked Microsoft to agree to end the agreement. Microsoft refused, with the consequence that SCO complained to the European Commission competition directorate early in 1997. In FY 1998, SCO paid Microsoft more than $1.138 million in royalties. In January, Microsoft sold its entire 12.3 per cent holding in SCO, and the SCO share price began to collapse.

1. What constitutional power does the President hold that can prevent legislation passed by Congress, like spending packages, so that it doesn't become law?

2. Scroll down to the highlighted text. Which President had only 12% (compared to 65%) of their vetoes overturn, despite the President in question having a majority of the opposing party in Congress, Ronald Reagan or Bill Clinton?

3. Look at the reference chart. Of the eight presidencies shown (Johnson - Democrat, Nixon - Republican, Ford - Republican, Carter - Democrat, Reagan - Republican, Bush - Republican, Clinton - Democrat, Bush - Republican), which party has consistently spent more than they were receiving?

4. Fill in the blank, "The US Congress during the 80s was largely controlled by these conservatives who went by the popular name of '______ Democrat'"

   Hint: The word is the same as the last name of the president in office at the time.

5. What US President slashed social programs by more than fifty percent and yet doubled military spending while serving his two terms?

6. Bonus Question: Take a look at this chartWhich political party (as represented by the administration of the time), has consistently cut taxes on corporations while doing nothing about the individual tax payers' tax bill? Now compare this to the spending of each of those administrations.

They're used to fighting spam...not a slashdot...so here's the cache. Google Cache

Being able to back up your statements with fact ...'s something Rush does VERY well.

If by "well" you mean "without regard to the truth" -- for proof please see [Google cache of] www.fair.org/media-outlets/limbaugh.html

FAIR.org seems to be down today.

Pico-HOWTO:
1. Checkout gatos, devel branch
2. Build the driver
3. Replace the driver that was shipped with your disto (but you should backup it)
4. Set your display mode to 800x600, 65k colors
5. reboot, with your TV attached
6. Watch your monitor to switch to 800x600@60Hz, and cloned desktop on your TV
7. Yeah, and forget about any 3D

or, if you are pissed at ATI (or other vendor) about missing TV-out docs, you can alternatively:
1. google for schematic of VGA15->SCART cable (of course, your TV must have SCART connector)
2. Use modeline like this one.
3. Smile

Seems that the poor guys webserver isn't coping, so here's the Google cache.