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Although the english translation option right on the Wikipedia site is probably better, there's also a google translation available if you want to try something different.

MOD PARENT SPLENDID DISCERNMENT!

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MYTH #2: "New, innovative companies won't start up overseas."

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've been using Google's cache to bypass a company proxy for years. All you have to do is...

http://216.239.39.104/search?q=cache:http://www.na ughtyurl.com

If you're sneakier, you'll create an IE search alias so you can type "cache www.naughtyurl.com" in your address bar.

Of course you can't click on links, you'll have to copy then and do the process all over again.

Here's a Google translation of the Die Spiegel article about this. Original article for German speakers is here.

For clarification purposes here is the full text translated In Germany one proceeds from a uniform copyright, with which the protection of the material as well as the economic interests are closely with each other connected (so-called monistische theory). Copyright is therefore explained for in principle untransferable. Copyright is by the copyright law and used patent rights ( copyright law - UrhG) of 1965 regulated, last extends by the law for the regulation of the copyright in the information society of 2003 , which particularly with Multimedia applications is concerned. It belongs to the commercial legal protection and thus to private law .

It is a fact that the Linux-kernal incorporates legally infringed copyrights.

Just look at MPlayer.

Also, if you bothered to RTFA, you'll see that this idiot (Jeremy Mark Malcolm) who's being quoted offers ZERO proof that there is, as he claims:

... 'no question' that Linux already violates a number of patents, which could lead to further litigation.

If you do a google for this guy, you'll see that he's no "legal expert", he's just some part-time (very part-time) lawyer trying to drum up a name for himself down under. His day job (for the last 7 years) is "Manager of Terminus Network Services" here.

Since 1998 he has been the Manager of Terminus Network Services which specialises in the use of open source software in networked environments and in the development of online systems and he is a Debian Developer.

If you really want to laugh, here's a google cache of his home page.

"Fisheye Stiller" :: [2005-02-27 05:03PM]

I spent all day in Fremantle today on location for the shooting of a new
local independent feature film, Fisheye Stiller. I play a bank teller who
is held up, then goes on the chase to try to recover the money. We'll be
back in front of the cameras in April. Watch out for it at film festival
later this year

I am also a member, but not currently on the board or executive committee,
of various other organisations including Australian Mensa (but only so that
I can put that fact on my resume

Anyone stupid enough to get suckered into paying some other group to say "Hey, they think I'm smart" is White House Press Corps "lob-a-softball-question-for-George" material.

Here is a link to the google translated cases page

Canadian Snipers = teh bomb. In international competitions of Sniper teams, the Canadian's nearly always place higher than the US.

http://www.snipercountry.com/Articles/KillingShot_ 2430Metres.asp

http://216.239.39.104/search?q=cache:MQ8qdygzuvYJ: www.stormpages.com/swellal/sof.html+canadian+snipe r+afghanistan&hl=en

Just in Case:
Google Cache

It's perfectly clear: the National Security Advisor is the President's wife. At State, she will be promoted to "mistress".

I dislike Bush more, and have more to lose, than you, I'm pretty sure. (I'm a Libertarian in the military. You figure it out.) But, the point is... that chart is crap. I don't know about any state, but I do know about North Carolina & Ohio, and neither of them used completely e-voting. In fact, Ohio only used about 16% electronic voting. I didn't look up the percentages in NC, but neither my parents nor my best friend used a touch-screen system.

Quran: [5.51] O you who believe! do not take the Jews and the Christians for friends; they are friends of each other; and whoever amongst you takes them for a friend, then surely he is one of them; surely Allah does not guide the unjust people.

Jesus H Christ! Another dittohead with quotes but no research of their own.

Here: Some Misappropriations of Quranic Verses. In short, the original Arabic "Auliya" has been mistranslated into "friend" without regard for context. With context, it is easy to see that it should translate as "military protector." Even if it really did mean "friend," that is lightyears away from meaning "sons of monkeys and pigs" as the first dittohead stated.

You can always try the google cache just in case too!

Google Cache link available without photos

Google Cache

make your own

google cache, since we would deestroy geocities

The Audi TT's not that popular where I live. But then, it's the American south where domestics are still regarded very highly. I couldn't find an article about the exact study that I read, but here is another article that talks briefly about the lift phenomena of the two cars:

So it was interesting to since find that on the recently released 1.8 Turbo New Beetle, an auto-deploying lip spoiler is placed at the top of the rear window. It pops up at 150 km/h - obviously the generated lift was so bad that Volkswagen was concerned that autobahners were going to "do an Audi TT" at high speed. [The Audi TT developed so much rear lift that people were crashing them on sweeping high-speed corners. Even a former rally champion died in such a crash. Audi recalled all cars, fitting a rear spoiler and also making suspension mods.]

http://www.autospeed.com/cms/A_1065/article.html (Google cache for highlighting)

This page at the microwave your boomer site is even funnier.

But beware, the Thumpmobile Zapper is a dangerous beast. The full elephant details follow:

"Now the moment comes, where the elephant leaves the water: Magnetron as to the remaining microwave furnace circuit attach before (use high voltage-firm cable - the Magnetron cooperates over 2000 V!) and SHORT switch on. In the case of correct adjustment the valuable transistors in the bass output stage of the victim will fuse within fractions of a second . In the case of not correct adjustment also engine electronics of the vehicle is destroyed. But you do not want that nevertheless, or? Effects on the brain of the driver are not to be feared after my experiences. But you do not let arrive it better on it, perhaps are with it nevertheless still vestiges of brain cells present: If the victim scharrt afterwards in the sand and shits into the yard, the adjustment was wrong or the dose too high."

Google cache link

It was really funny to watch them play DVDs to test out the screen because they would always have the "this video not meant for public viewing" warning before broadcasting it out to the entire south side of Fayetteville. :)

My letter to the CherryOS people, dated 5 days ago:

----cut here------
I'm interested in Cherry OS but I need to know how well it stacks up against
PearPC (http://pearpc.sourceforge.net/ and http://www.pearpc.net/).

Two questions in particular:

1) what are the advantages and disadvantages of Cherry OS vs. PearPC? At a
minimum, I'd expect ease of installation, ease of use, and customer service to
be higher in a commercial product.
2) does Cherry OS use any PearPC code?

The latter is particularly important, because
1) I need to know if security vulnerabilities are likely to be common to both
products or are likely to be different.
2) Using widely-used open-source software in a commercial product is a
competitive advantage for you, in that bugs are more likely to be found and
fixed quicker.

If your product is based on PearPC, please note that, as with Linux, if I find
I use an open-source program heavily and come to depend on up-to-date
maintenance, I'm willing to pay for it.

I do expect that if your product uses any open-source code, you are complying
with the licenses. In the case of PearPC, this is the GNU Public License, the
same lincense that made wildly-successful companies like RedHat and SuSE (now
part of Novell) to earn billions of dollars.

Oh, congradulations on being Slashdotted. Even though it was a minor
inconvenience for you, it is a badge of honor.
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Well, looks like I gave them the benefit of the doubt and they betrayed me. Sigh.

Thankfully, it looks like I was wrong about the "minor" inconvenience. The light of day scares the roaches away.

If only they'd come out and said "PearPC free, technical support and priority bug fixes, $50" that might sell.

CherryOS is down at the moment, here's Google's Cache. Enjoy.

http://216.239.39.104/search?q=cache:bFomBR52_8MJ: cherryos.com/+&hl=en

if M$FT did buy them, all of the (US) Senators and Representatives would immediately be persuaded to pass stringent anti-spyware laws after their devices crashing hourly because of being clogged with crap. Hmm....

I'm using an opera browser and it goes to the correct page. I just checked with IE and the results is like what you said.

Here is a chached version for IE users.

Looks like google has cached the page for us.

It was a bit more than a stunt- it was a first step and Rutan himself is planning on taking the next big two (orbital, then extra-orbital).

It's mentioned a bit at the bottom of this article,
though I think they botched the meaning of tier 3. If you can, catch a showing of Black Sky: Winning the X-Prize on the Discovery Channel... in a short scene where Rutan is talking about the next steps, he shows the plans for an orbital craft, and it's a scaled up version of While Knight and SpaceShipOne (that sits 7 instead of 3) + a large booster.

Yes, there's quite a way to go until they reach orbital flights, but since that's "where the money is", you can be sure they'll get there sooner rather than later.

No, no, no...

It's the Space Giants living in that volcano.

Savage just called it huge victory for ACLU scum and I'll not repeat what he called the hispanic judge who issued the opinion. Technical data on the judge can be seen here.

Nothing out of ordinary. Started at 17 as assistant to the mayor, New York City. Clinton appointee.

Google's HTML cache of the PDF is here.

Might be outdated! HERE

SparcStation IPX

"Most toxic devices now made" - it's my second favorite baseless canard about solar energy! The best being the one about them not making back their own manufacturing energy.

Your average silicon solar cell goes through a very similar process to that of any other silicon semiconductor, the major difference being that they are then locked into crystalline modules for 25 - 30 years, rather than put into rapidly-obsoleted electronic equipment that people ship to Southeast Asia to be landfilled or taken apart with toxic acids.

University of Utrecht study;

If you were talking about the heavy-metal based thin film solar cells, they use these materials in units more than one thousand times as efficient as the NiCad batteries that I'm sure you've used (and disposed of) before. NREL in Platts.

Especially since it's been locked into an ionic crystal - think about it. Sodium - explosive toxic gas. Chlorine - military nerve gas. Sodium Chloride - table salt.

If you're going to post an ad, you might as well have just linked us.

And oddly, Simpson Garfinkel, another well-known technopundit, submitted a very similar idea (P2P backup service) as a business plan to the MIT 50k competition back in 2002. See here for the entry summary (search in the page for Garfinkel). Anyway, I somehow dredged that up from the back of my brain when I saw this Cringely piece because I recalled that Garfinkel was interested in actually doing something like this several years back.

The "best shelter" site is already down. You can try Google cache

>Do you want to keep sending these guys money and stuff?

Sanctions on Iraq.

Sanctions on N Korea.

Details of Fuel Oil program for NK.

In other words, they aren't getting "tons of free stuff" and NK developed, broke its reactors seals, etc under the "cowboy diplomacy" of the Bush admnistration, not Clinton. There are solutions to problems and if you can keep UN inspectors in and nukes out by bribing someone with fuel oil than so be it. We are witnessing the "tough guy" alternative. Are you ready to be drafted to fight a couple more wars for "cowboy diplomacy?"

Here

google cache of second link http://216.239.39.104/search?q=cache:DB1CxyRtiNsJ: ex-parrot.com/~chris/wwwitter/20040903-but_i_wore_ the_juice.html+ex-parrot.com+/~chris/wwwitter/2004 0903-but_i_wore_the_juice.html&hl=en&start =1

Intellectual property laws were established in the 1740s and 1750s,

Wrong. The Statute of Monopolies was enacted in 1623.

The pace of technological change before the adoption of IP laws was non-existent.

At best, you conflate cause and effect. At worse... well, if your argument hadn't been couched in such absolute terms ("non-existent"), then it wouldn't have been completely destroyed by a 117 year error in measuring dates.

Strip away the protection of IP laws

Still pounding at that strawman, huh? Keep at it, he's on the ropes!

Cite a case or statute or shut up.
Nice, tell someone to cite a claim or shut up and then you rant on with no cite of any claim yourself.

The hotplate issue is a fire hazard where danger of losing life is involved. Attaching a device to the campus network is under their control. Attaching a device to your own computer or your own network is the only issue here. Not a safety issue, not a network issue. Nothing but an issue revolving around use of an unregulated piece of wireless spectrum. The school and many businesses chose to use this technology fuly knowing that it was unregulated. Many experts have raised this issue before and potential downfalls of doing this in an unregulated band. The school should not get any precendence over use of this band as it is unregulated. I guess it comes down to the school attempting to regulate an unregulated spectrum. Your potential cite would have to be very specific to that concept to be meaningful.
Remember the issues with home owners associations and condos that tried to ban buds and small sat dishes from certain properties and that got shot down. They can tell you what type of garage door you can have, what color to paint your house, but they are not allowed to interfere with your ability to use a portion of the wireless spectrum.

The powerglove link has been throttled by geocities. Here's a Google Cache, but there are no pics. bummer...

I found it in a google cache... here that seems to be the exact same.

You know, you choose to be really blind about how things work. A company will do something if it brings 1% profit. Profit is proftit. As to "being able to afford safety testing", you are kidding, right? What does that mean? 100 sick people, 50 on placebo and 50 on drug? Paperwork to fill? Where does the money go? I know: artificial beaurocracy and massive profits of the companies conducting the "trial". Fuck, most of these poeple would pay to be in a trial for a potentially life-saving drug.

The safety and efficacy testing required by the FDA costs millions of dollars. If you really want to know "where the money goes" there is an extensive economic literature on the subject. Suffice it to say that it is expensive for the drug companies, who don't have "artificial bureaucracies" and who have every incentive to cut costs. And the reality is that many drugs fail at this stage of testing. So very often it is not "profit is profit"; instead it is extensive investment with no profit at all, typically followed by bankruptcy or hostile acquisition.

While it is an article of faith among many that the pharmaceutical industry as a whole reaps huge and unreasonable profits, this largely reflects a focus on the successes--a bit like judging the value of playing the lottery by talking only to the winners. What I've noticed is that a huge number of once-major pharmaceutical firms have disappeared or been absorbed since I began work in the field. Ever noticed how so many major pharmaceutical firms seem to have hyphenated names? This reflects a long history of failed businesses and acquisitions. Even a major pharmaceutical firm often cannot survive a late failure in drug development. And I know of numerous cases of smaller firms with promising drugs that went under, not because of any problem with the drug, but simply because they could not attract sufficient investment to bring the drug to market.

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Actually the change that would have a minimum impact on the day-to-day lives of everyone involved would be to eliminate the loopholes that allow these people to get away with not claiming taxes, rather than radically changing our taxation scheme.

As for small businesses, not everyone can start a business. Aside from the business expertise and capital outlay needed to begin, 90% close in 5 years. (The author says they aren't "failures" because most of them close with all obligations paid, but that's hardly what someone trying to make a living would call it).

This is aside from accounting skills, sales skills, and other entreprenurial skills needed to make a business get off the ground. And of course once you have a business, you've got to do something. And quick. Invent something! And soon, you've sunk your life savings into attourney fees and paperwork, and now you've got about a month left before you lose your house. What are you going to invent? What are you going to do?

United Kingdom (England, Scotland, Wales, N. Ireland): 94,248 square miles

South Korea: 38,320 Square Miles (about the size of Indiana)

Sweden: 173,732 square miles

USA: 3,537,438 square miles, 79.6 persons per square mile (in the year 2000)

China: 3.7 million square miles

China's Tiger Beach, the largest aviary in the world: 6,950 square miles

Northern Ireland: 5,467 square miles

Slashdot working it's magic...

google cache

The poster sounds like a good candidate for MJR's ultimately secure firewall.

Try Zonealarm?

Check out the cached version of the third link and look in the text box. Hopefully it's not any of you... google link