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Yes, you can either download the CD and use it to boot, then do a network install through an FTP or HTTP server (just make sure you find a server before booting because it doesn't give you a list or anything). If you can't even get the CD to boot and you already are running Linux just mount the iso as a "virtual drive." This is how I installed mine.

The AP story said "the lead agent asked Cox whether she carried a toy called the Magic Cube, which he said was an illegal copy of the Rubik's Cube". Clearly the name isn't infringing the Rubik's Cube trademark, since it's distinctly different. We don't know whether there was a trade dress or other claim though. Which is part of the point: it's nice to tell people what they are supposed to have done wrong, specifically and accurately.

Cached Copy of the toystore page showing the item. That doesn't look to me as though it's infringing anything I associate with the Rubik's Cube, other than the now unprotected puzzle itself.

My own personal impression, based on the story and the press release you cited, is that the trademark holder is seeking to use the law to harass others for the purpose of stifling competition in the marketing of an item no longer covered by an expired patent.

It would be interesting to know what the basis for the complaint was. Knowing that might cause me to change my current personal opinion.

Other favorite is the pseudoscience behind marketing industry equations like
opportunities to see (OTS). I can never remember these offhand because they are so meaningless, but it is fascinating to think of the millions of dollars spent on ie outdoor billboards, where the advert is sold on the basis of these "opportunities to see." See also A Test of the Direct/Indirect BBD and Other Exposure Distribution Models.

i wish i could find more detail than this

http://216.239.41.104/search?q=cache:Z32wRgndSjYJ: www.estec.esa.nl/outreach/sseti/Textfiles/sseti.pd f+SSETI+internet+collaboration&hl=en
4.2 Data/Design structure
During the design and building of the spacecraft, participants of SSETI will be located all over Europe. Thisresults in a very unconventional, new communication approach, which is called distributed development.The main characteristic of this approach is that modern communication tools (Internet, e-mail etc.) will beused to discuss and communicate with each other. A study has already started to establish thiscommunication network. This study also includes a large database with information about the Europeancapabilities of building micro-satellites.The structure of the data collection will take place in a similar way as used by the Concurrent DesignFacility (CDF) at ESTEC. All data, which is relevant for other users, will be stored in EXCEL workbooks.There will be 1 workbook for every subsystem, which will be accessible for all users. The interactionbetween the workbooks will take place via the Data-Exchange file. The only person authorised to change(update) this file is the Data co-ordinator.The official interaction between the teams will take place during sessions, which will take place each monthor every 14 days. During these sessions the changes in the system data will be discussed. These sessionsare the only opportunity to change data, which will have an effect on other sub-systems. Requests aremade by the universities to put topics on the agenda. The informal communication will be held with the helpof bulletin boards (Micro-sat study) and simple e-mail (mailing lists).

It's especially useful against spammers sending their own email, though they could set timeouts to prevent it, and for spammers who abuse open relays/proxies, it's even better because the spammer is running the relay's vanilla mail transfer agent which isn't designed to teergrube-rejecting timeouts (almost by definition....) It's tougher against zombies, because spammers often spread their workload among a bunch of zombies, and zombies usually have cable modems or DSL these days, but if everybody with broadband who isn't running their own SMTP server were running a teergrube, with lots of fake email addresses seeded around the net that resolve to a teergrube somewhere, the spammers would have a much tougher time. But a zombie on an ADSL or cable modem with a 128kbps upstream can easily be kept busy with a few kilobits of ACKS from you, while not making much of a dent in your downstream bandwidth - you probably need only about 10% as many teergrubes as zombies to keep the zombies busy.

Considering that the profession literally is "printing things", that subsequent court interpretation has held that the amendment is, in fact, intended to apply to journalists (and other writers), and that Thomas Paine uses it to refer to newspapermen (a link, for the skeptical) I'd say grandparent has a solid case.

And you're correct: Jon Stewart's profession is protected, but not specifically, just as a general portion of freedom of speech. Journalism is, essentially, named specifically, as part of the class of those who print things for public consumption; they fall under a combination of freedom of speech (write whatever they want) and freedom of the press (print it, too).

http://216.239.41.104/search?q=cache:4mzhQXtHaVoJ: www.techworld.com/storage/news/index.cfm%3FNewsID% 3D2430+&hl=en

You mean like this?

Here is a google cache of part of a license. The relevant bit is the grant-back clause.

Basically it works like the GPL. A licensee can use the licensor's patented invention provided that, among other things, he grants back to the licensor a right to use any relevant improvement patents the licensee invents.

Tweak it a bit, and there's your GPL for patents.

But it doesn't help much, since the scope of patent protection is amazingly broad, and most people willing to invest into getting patents aren't likely to then want to let everyone use them. So so long as any GPL-Patent developer could still stand a good chance of infringing a non GPL-Patent invention, the problem remains.

8 Sep 2004: Indymedianates publishes an article with photos of at least 1 (maybe 2?) undercover swiss police. Google cache of another site with pictures here. Translation of original Indymedia post.

Unknown date: FBI asks the post to be removed, but admitted no laws were violated: "The FBI agents told me that they were not concerned with the photos, but with the identifying information. There never was any such identifying information, and even if there was, it would likely be protected by the first amendment if it was obtained legally. (There was a recent case here in Washington that you may be familiar with on this very issue). But, even assuming it is illegal to post identifying information (which it is not), there WAS NO SUCH info. The FBI agents freely admitted to me that individuals have a right to take photographs of agents in public places and post those photos on the internet."

7 Oct 2004: Two Indymedia servers hosted by Rackspace (a US Company) but physically located in LONDON are taken. FBI agents are present at the seizure. No information is given other than the servers were taken. The order was issued to Rackspace (not Indymedia) and Rackspace was apparently barred from talking about it.

8 Oct 2004: Rackspace publishes that they turned over the servers in response to an order under MLAT (Mutual Legal Assistance Treaty).

8 Oct 2004: The AFP states that the request for the seizure originated with the Italian and Switzerland governments.

Factcheck.org seems to be broken at the moment (perhaps related to the the fact they're using ASP?). The link in question appears to be dead. The front page is up, but all other links bring back files with a DOCTYPE that is not html. Firefox thought they were binary. The search also doesn't work. So the file may or may not exist on the site.

For now you could check out the google cache of the page in question.

Many of the students who come out of school illiterate did not care for anything else. How about the students who genuinely try hard, for whom a computer and decent internet connection will make all the difference in the world? Our schools are already leaving gifted students behind. A google cache, if the site is down.

>[publishers] also agree to give Google a license to use the materials in the way described.

For most books, the copyright is held by the author, not the publisher. Typically, the author gives the publisher rights to reproduce and sell the work, but other rights are reserved by the author. See NY Times vs. Tasini. Google cache: http://216.239.41.104/search?q=cache:X2C2KwvB5oAJ: www.supremecourtus.gov/opinions/00pdf/00-201.pdf+N ew+York+Times+index+Supreme+Court&hl=en

In the international press it was widely reported that the WMD claims that the US made were very dubious e.g. compare this Guardian article from Feb 6, 2003 that took Powell's presentation to the UN security council apart bit by bit.

That is why the world opinion was so critical of this war as it was clear from the beginning that this was a war of choice and not necessity.

The scandal here is twofold:

1) An administration that set out to send troops into harms way for very dubious reasons (I still don't understand what they hoped to gain).

2) A complacent American press that allowed the American public to be suckered into this pointless war.

Yes, and that may a key reason why the opinion polls are more variable this year than most. Polls try to measure "likely voters," but how do you identify "likely" in a high-turnout year? Hence the argument between Gallop and MoveOn.org. But there's still room for improvement. Check out this table of registered voter turnout. In the USA in 2000, it was 67.4%. Many nations have much igher turnout. Here's some turnout figures as a percent of population from wikipedia

Year Voting Age Pop. Turnout % Turnout
2000 205,815,000 105,586,274 51.30%
1996 196,511,000 96,456,345 49.08%
1992 189,529,000 104,405,155 55.09%
1988 182,778,000 91,594,693 50.11%

My point with this data is to underscore that if either party could get a third of its stay-at-homes in battleground states to turn out on Nov 2, they would sweep the battlegrounds. There is plenty of gold to be mined there.

Historically, Republicans have optained higher turnout than Democrats (sorry I couldn't easily google the numbers to support this). In any case, the Bush campaign is addressing the question "why do our people stay at home?" Maybe their voters are disgusted with both candidates. If so, maybe gay marriage or a similar issue will get them to the polls. Otherwise, try and make the race about the other guy; make him even more disgusting.

Historically, the demographic groups that vote Democratic tend to under-register and turn out less. Also, historically according to Charlie Cook late undecided voters eventually vote 2:1 or 3:1 against the incumbent. They also tend to come from the middle of the political spectrum; hence undecided. So Kerry has two ways to draw voters: one is to reach for the middle -- keep the undecideds from going to Bush -- if they merely stay undecided, he gets a big chunk of them. The other is to register and turn out his traditional demographic supporters.

Why don't the republicans reach for the middle, the undecideds? An excellent question. Their strategy is set by Karl Rove and he's the best in the business, so I'm confident it's their best bet. My guess is that going negative will repel some of the middle, but increase turnout of the base, while staying positive would do a little of the opposite. Rove must have weighed the two carefully and chosen what he thought would get the most votes.

pudge: Second ... two star hitters ...
I plead nolo contendere on that one! On the other hand, Bush doesn't know the name of his star Supreme Court Justice Anthony/Antonio Scalia! And I could argue that Antonin Scalia counts as at least 1.8 Supreme Court justices because Clarence Thomas votes with him over 80% of the time! Which would you rather have, a President who didn't know his hometown baseball stars, or a President who didn't know who was on the Supreme Court? (Yeah, I know, Bush just misspoke. Lighten up, will ya!)

pudge: Third, you can't be serious about the forgeries. ...
I seriously think there's not enough information to draw a firm conclusion, and that's what I wrote. Look, all CBS ever had, all anybody's ever seen, are faxes from Burkett. Fax resolution is 150 DPI, which, for purposes of document forensics, is piss poor. As I type I'm looking at a blowup of a CBS doc that says "Report to the 111th" (with superscript). The 'o' in "Report" is exactly 9 pixels tall. The 'o' in 'to' is 10 pixels tall. the '1's in "111" are 7 pixels wide. My point is that no reputable expert is going to swear beyond the shadow of a doubt based solely on 150 DPI faxes. Sure, the preponderance of the evidence says they're forgeries, but the standard in a criminal trial is beyond the shadow of a doubt. You want a little doubt? It looks to me like some of the instances of the same glyph are higher or lower than others. Typewriters; especially worn ones, strike at varying heights. MSWord doesn't. I'm not claiming that proves the docs are valid; I just think there's still signifcant uncertainty about them. From what I know now, on a 50/50 bet I'd bet against them. But on a 20:1 bet, I'd put up $10 to say they're valid against your $200 claiming they're false. Would you take that bet? How about 100:1? See what I mean? There's still uncertainty about them.

pudge: Fourth ... he hasn't done anything..
Flat out false. here's a small summary from Kerry's Senate career awards. Here's another, comparing Kerry's legislative accomplishments with Cheney's. Read here and here about the BCCI affair.

A word of advice here. You've clearly been getting most of your information from anti- Kerry sources. It's a free country, you're welcome to do that, but my advice is: don't take all that stuff as the full and complete story on Kerry. Taking that stuff as gospel and ignoring the counter arguments makes you look, well, ignorant. I'm not saying you are ignorant; just that some of the things you say leave an unfortunate impression. Case in point:

pudge: Further, I don't know how you can consider what Bush has done in Iraq a substantive issue, ...
Most observers consider Iraq to be the most substantive issue of the campaign.

pudge: ... Kerry has completely reversed his position on Iraq ...
False. Read this analysis from the SF Chronicle's Marc Sandalow. Yeah, I know, you think you can safely igore it because the paper's probably liberal. But I'm telling you, that's the kind of ignoring that can lead to ignorance! By the way, Kerry didn't say 'the invasion was "the right decision,"' he

Google cache here

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The propellant mixture in each SRB motor consists of an ammonium perchlorate (oxidizer, 69.6 percent by weight), aluminum (fuel, 16 percent), iron oxide (a catalyst, 0.4 percent), a polymer (a binder that holds the mixture together, 12.04 percent), and an epoxy curing agent (1.96 percent).

ISTR thinking that was pretty stupid at the time, but if the idea is being used by other companies, *someone* must be using these services. Though actually, mylastemail.com seems to be down right now, so maybe not. There's a Google cache of it, if you care.

Furthermore, the substance used to coat the cotton skin -- a process known as "doping" which makes the fabric taut and more durable -- was extremely flammable. A combination of iron oxide, cellulose acetate and aluminum powder, "the total mixture might well serve as a respectable rocket propellant," Van Vorst said.

FP!

Top 10 Reasons to Vote for John Kerry:

10. John Kerry would handle the war in Iraq differently. I think.
9. He's got better hair.
8. John Kerry will personally create thousands of jobs in America.
7. He has a plan for America's future. I think.
6. George Bush stole the last election.
5. I think John Kerry may have served in Vietnam.
4. George Bush didn't go to Vietnam, AND he skipped a physical!
3. The french people and the rest of the world all like him best.
2. Didn't he get some medals in Vietnam?
1. He's Not George Bush! (TM)


Top 10 Reasons to Vote for George Bush:

10. George Bush is Tough on Terrorism.(TM)
9. He supports educating children.
8. George Bush freed all those Afgan and Iraqi people. Personally.
7. He will lower your taxes.
6. George Bush was President on September 11th, 2001.
5. John Kerry's medals are fakes.
4. Those CBS memos were forged, duh.
3. The french people and the rest of the world all hate him most.
2. He's not as rich as John Kerry.
1. George Bush will keep America safe.

"Installing democracies" has yet to work for us, and we've been trying all over the place for the past 50 years. Nevermind the fact that the United States helped put Saddam in power in the first place, and we we gave him the weapons.

Your example of the AIDS help that America gives to Africa is just one small example of the terrible hypocrisy that plagues the American hating world. No other country has sacrificed so much and given so much for complete strangers and yet you only see protestors in NYC protesting Bush's 15 billion dollar AIDs policy but you never see them protesting Europe's 0 dollar AIDs policy.

That's all well and good that americans are generous, but why should anyone be forced (as in if you don't you go to jail) to help pay for programs which they do not support? I'd donate money if I had more after taxes to helping Africa's AIDS epidemic, but I wouldn't let my dogma get wrapped up in it. And you miss the crucial point of living in a "free" democracy: that you can say what you want. By expressing an opposing opinion they are well within their rights withing the constituion. People don't hate america, they love it, and that's why they don't want it to go down the shitter.

I believe the only candidate which can offer the security the world needs at this vital point in history is Bush.

Bush by the numbers

SURELY these scientists have seen enough movies to realize that making a farking CARNIVOROUS robot is a bad, bad, BAD idea.

How about a robot that eats fish? Now we just need to tweek a few settings, and it might be able to catch even bigger "fish"

Google cache

Project Vote-Smart has a ton of unbiased information, including profiles of politicians such as VP Cheney.

Government Information Awareness (cached copy; the site has been dodgy lately) is "a research effort by the Computing Culture group of the MIT Media Lab. It aims to provide software and data to help citizens understand the complexities of their government". I find it entertaining, at least.

of the Triangle Tech Journal article, since it's slashdotted at this instant.

Ceffecive is a measure of all the capacitance that will be charged/discharged by the switching. It appears in the equation for dynamic (switching) power. Call it what you will, but this is how we determine dynamic power.

I do enjoy being corrected when wrong, but I'm going to have to ask you for some more reliable source than yourself on this one before I can have the joy. Here are some points for you to ponder while you google for something to back up your claim:

Capacitance varies with gate area and inversely with distance between "plates" of the gate (C = k*A / d). Reducing the gate width (space between the plates) actually increases capacitance, and this itself would increase power. But, you're also able to reduce the gate area (though not as much, but in 2-dimensions, so shrinking gates is usually a slight reduction in C). But, if the (dominant) interconnect capacitance (see next point) requires a larger transistor to drive it (which will be the case if voltage is not reduced) then the Area of the gate will increase, and so the capacitance will be right back up to where it was before you shrank the process.

According to Intel, "transitor loads are comprised of >50% interconnect capactiance." Wiring capacitance does not necessarily decrease with process shrinks (and may even increase significantly from cross-capacitance, depending on wire pitch and spacing.)

Most importantly, but probably too complex for this discussion, is the fast that gate capacitance depends strongly on voltage. This relationship is not well understood or investigated other than empirically.

Of course, the simplest way to show you that you're mistaken would be to send you some excerpts from process manuals showing that the capacitances do not drop with simple process shrinks in most cases, but that would probably get me fired.

Ceffecive is a measure of all the capacitance that will be charged/discharged by the switching. It appears in the equation for dynamic (switching) power. Call it what you will, but this is how we determine dynamic power.

I do enjoy being corrected when wrong, but I'm going to have to ask you for some more reliable source than yourself on this one before I can have the joy. Here are some points for you to ponder while you google for something to back up your claim:

Capacitance varies with gate area and inversely with distance between "plates" of the gate (C = k*A / d). Reducing the gate width (space between the plates) actually increases capacitance, and this itself would increase power. But, you're also able to reduce the gate area (though not as much, but in 2-dimensions, so shrinking gates is usually a slight reduction in C). But, if the (dominant) interconnect capacitance (see next point) requires a larger transistor to drive it (which will be the case if voltage is not reduced) then the Area of the gate will increase, and so the capacitance will be right back up to where it was before you shrank the process.

According to Intel, "transitor loads are comprised of >50% interconnect capactiance." Wiring capacitance does not necessarily decrease with process shrinks (and may even increase significantly from cross-capacitance, depending on wire pitch and spacing.)

Most importantly, but probably too complex for this discussion, is the fast that gate capacitance depends strongly on voltage. This relationship is not well understood or investigated other than empirically.

Of course, the simplest way to show you that you're mistaken would be to send you some excerpts from process manuals showing that the capacitances do not drop with simple process shrinks in most cases, but that would probably get me fired.

us1 mirror and see Google cache for more.

I had the pleasure of working with the team at the University of Texas at Austin Center for Electromechanics developing a similar system ("rack and pinion" motor system vs. linear motor).. that was back in 1998 and 2001.. the first time was for developing a ride height sensor for testing the overall movement of the CG of the vehicle .. and the second time for looking at the marketing for that type of system and a quicklook venture plan for trying to turn it into a business...

market was pretty weak.. system was too expensive .. ambulances, police cars, and luxury vehicles... otherwise it was prohibitively expensive for the average Joe...

the CEM system is and has been patented for a while.. there were a number of other companies worldwide (as there always are) working on similar sytems back then too.. even some semi-active systems (rheological fluid is used which increases viscosity under magnetic field.. basically making a variable damper in the dynamic motion equation)

got to drive a HMMWV (military Hummer) fitted with this active suspension.. stock springs replaced with super soft springs and the damper replaced with 3phase DC brushless motor and rack and pinion systems to move the A-arm assembly... the algorithm ran on an Alpha processor to sample acceleromters in the wheel hubs and the frame mounting points for the A-arms.. the difference in acceleration between the relative points would drive the motor to pull the wheel out of the way (or drive it down) of obstacle driving the large acceleration of he wheel hub vs. the mount point sensors... ... it would drive over those parking blocks (keeps you from driving through parking spots) like they were barely there..

the engineer turned off the the suspension and only used the soft spring.. did tight donuts in an open field.. the HMMWV had major roll... turned it on, and it was only a couple of degrees of roll.. hardly noticeable at all.. he said they had to actually add a small amount of roll otherwise the the driver couldnt tell when they were turning so fast that they would lose lateral traction and begin sliding (the idea being that roll tells you to back off the accelerator).... cool stuff..

the big push right now is to transfer it to a transit bus..

Google cache of article.

The DOJ should saty out of what is clearly a civil matter. Now we have the government doing the bidding of the music and movie cartels.

Corporatism is slowly taking over the USA. I just hope we still have time to stop its onslaught.

Some interesting food for thought:

Mussolini, father of modern fascism, claims to have said, "Fascism should more appropriately be called corporatism because it is a merger of state and corporate power."

If you find that interesting and perhaps disturbing, you will find this interesting and even more disturbing too, but probably a little obvious.

I beleve you're thinking of Iomega and the Click Of Death

I am an NIU student.

We had approximately 23k students last year, and given our growth, that figure is probably closer to 23.5k-24k students now.

Personally, I believe this Ruckus Network thing is a fucking waste of my money. But that is all NIU does -- steal our money via student fees and spend it on shit I couldn't care less about.

Our school is run like a socialist government on crack, except that our uni is in the red like our state budget and for a while was considering laying off some NIU profs, meanwhile giving John Peters (our school President) a substantial series of yearly raises until 2010.

NIU is as corrupt as the famously-corrupt IL state government that funds it. And yes, sadly, I really am a student here at this shithole. I have a regular UID here on /., but I'm too ashamed of my school to post using the UID here...

Needless to say, the alumni group won't be getting money out of me.

Additionally, read some of the studies done with Koko the gorilla - gorillas can absolutely combine words and concepts into phrases, with far more sophistication than a bird (again, not at a human level, but comparable with a 2-3 year old child, perhaps). I just dug up an actual online interview that was performed with Koko the gorilla (with a sign language interpreter typing for the gorilla of course - check it out).

There is, but it doesn't have the info either. I guess they spider their sites quite often. They've even taken the info off of their previous Year-End Zeitgeists (assuming the data was there).

However, some other country versions still have them: ca uk

Get them while you can...

yes

The page has melted. Here is the Google cache -- at least some of the images show up in Google's version...

http://216.239.41.104/search?q=cache:oRRYUXiNU2wJ: news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/3722255.stm+ iraq+shell+nerve+gas&hl=en

Maybe Bill Gates isn't involved, but the Microsoft connection in the form of the fifth-richest man in the world, is certainly present in a big way, as the leading contender.

Site is slashdotted. Here is the obligatory Google cache link. Heffel

Trademarks are intended to prevent consumer confusion, correct?

This ownder of this site doesn't purport himself to be Jerry Falwell, he's just critical of Falwell. You can see for yourself. If anyone gets confused on that site and thinks that Jerry Falwell has repented his anti-gay ways then they deserve to be confused, for they are stupid.

www.fallwell.com

I'm not sure when it was written, but DQS (the distributed queueing system) was around in 1996, and I don't believe it was especially new then. this document alleges that the whole clustering thing began at NASA in 1994. Apparently FSU developed DQS starting in 1992 but I don't know when the first release was.

I used to work for a company called silicon engineering in scotts valley, ca - formerly sequoia semiconductor and last I heard they were part of creative labs called creative silicon or something. We used DQS to schedule jobs for IC simulation for testing.

Of course, DQS doesn't work on DOS, it's a Unix-type program. For anything that can be batched (like rendering frames in POVray) it can be amazingly slick and it takes relatively little configuration. It has a keen little program that watches when your system is idle and signals the queue master to feed it jobs, which is an X client. Using DQS and the berkeley automounter it was possible to easily submit jobs and not care where they ran, for instance we had the paths set up such that the same commands worked on SunOS4 and SunOS5 so verilog was always in the same place, et cetera.

DQS also has a parallel make utility, which I never used, because I hardly ever compiled anything. :)

I find that leaving it in google cache format conveys just the right amount of condescension in addition to rebuttal when someone makes a completely incorrect assertion.

I find that leaving it in google cache format conveys just the right amount of condescension in addition to rebuttal when someone makes a completely incorrect assertion.

I find that leaving it in google cache format conveys just the right amount of condescension in addition to rebuttal when someone makes a completely incorrect assertion.

It depends. This might be just the thing if you were a musophiliac :p

Muahahahah!