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The Army's new BDU's use velcro instead of snaps and zippers. Here's a Google cache link of the Army Times article. No pic though, sorry.

Use Google's PDF to HTML converter.

see?

Google searches for many hot button issues including the DMCA often return a Slashdot comment as a top hit. Here is one awesome search that returns nothing but wisdom, by the way.

It only indexes the cached version, not the dynamic version, as you (tried to?) point out. HTH HAND!

Doesn't starbucks own a trademark on this? google archive of article

Thank you for linking.

Couldn't find a mirror, but perhaps google's cache of google would prove helpful if it's /.'d

http://216.239.41.104/search?q=cache:zhool8dxBV4J: www.google.com/+&hl=en

Wait - if google's down...then can we still get to the cache? Oh No! What happens if the cache is /.'d?!

Here's a cached link on google for the first page here

It is possible for users to deploy up to 20 billion unique transponders.

Google says that in here (maybe here?) there's a claim of supporting up to 550 billion unique ID codes with this manufacturer.

It seems to vary significantly depending on which provider you choose, but that's 91.6 RFIDs per human being on Earth. It's about 1800 RFIDs per human being in the United States.

(PSA of anti-slash)

Now who's putting words in whose mouth? I never said I was on the right, unless libertarianism tempered with realism is a strict province thereof. I wasn't suggesting you were about to dive off the Michael Moore springboard, neither. And like I said, I don't subscribe to the notion that everyone who disagrees with me is evil. But I've heard enough of Biafra's talk (I was at h2k and h2k2 and it got tiresome after about a minute) to know that his argument about "being the media" is a sidepoint to his utter contempt for all things middle America. Now, before you tack another psychological hangup on me, I'm not from Middle America either, nor do I think they have everything right: I don't think the PMRC was a good idea either, especially when they started lobbying for censorship. I'm very anti-censorship. But I do understand not wanting your kids to get stupid ideas, and I don't think parents are closedminded or ignorant or naive for simply wanting to control what their kids see. Just like because I'm pro-drug legalization, doesn't mean I condone mindless drug use.

Anyway, now that that's out of the way: I hear what you're saying about media being fed from the same source, and up until a little while ago I would've disagreed with you. The story about the LA Times reporting Paul Bremer did not give a farewell speech to Iraq when he actually did, part of which was broadcast on CNN made me realize just how lazy, inept or disinterested many traditional media sources are about reporting news.

But I think for Biafra to bitch and moan that people are complacent, when technorati is now tracking something like 1.65 MILLION blogs updated more than biweekly, seems ignorant of the facts. There ARE plenty of news sources out there, and with the advent of blogging, some of them get considerable attention. I probably get most of my news from blogs nowadays myself.

In short, point well taken, if redundant.

The site is down already so here is google's cache of the page.
http://216.239.41.104/search?q=cache:bkF8857KNYkJ: jill.jazzkeyboard.com/qarticles.html+&hl=en

You've got your facts wrong. And since you didn't see the film, I guess that's OK. Rep. Mark Kennedy of Minnesota is the guy you're speaking of. And he did not 'decline' he in fact said... well, here's the transcript. (EMPHASIS MINE)

Transcript of Interview with Rep. Mark Kennedy.

CONGRESSMAN KENNEDY How are you doing?

MM: I'm trying to get members of congress to get their kids to enlist in the army and go over to Iraq. Is there any way you could help me with that?

CONGRESSMAN KENNEDY: How would I help you?

MM: Pass it out to other members of congress.

CONGRESSMAN KENNEDY: I'd be happy to. Especially those who voted for the war.

CONGRESSMAN KENNEDY: I have a nephew on his way to Afghanistan.

MM: Because there is only one member who has a kid over there in Iraq. This is Corporal Henderson, he is helping me out here.

CONGRESSMAN KENNEDY: How are you, good to see you.

MM: There it is, it's just a basic recruitment thing. Encourage especially those who were in favor of the war to send their kids. I appreciate it.

CONGRESSMAN KENNEDY: Okay, bye.

The thing is, Congressman Kennedy is the one that started to twist what happened, see? Only his image was used in the film, nothing else. No words were put in his mouth and the encounter, as evidenced in the above transcript, is completely cordial. So what exactly does he have to get his panties into a wad about? What, that he did in fact help recruit fellow congresspeople's children to fight in the war as he promised and yet Moore is saying he didn't? That's laughable (that one would assume he would actually go and recruit anyone). Moore's wearing his satirist cap here and simply presenting the absurdity of walking up to people in office and requesting something so surreal. And yet his point is made because we should *all* ask ourselves if Congress might not have been so quick to give Bush what he wanted if more of their own children were in the armed forces. Recall that Joe Biden was seething at John Ashcroft a few weeks ago when he made it plain that the reason we abide by the Geneva Convention and don't torture is because we don't want our own (in this case, Biden's own son) children in the armed forces to be tortured.

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1. There is NO copy controlled software on US or UK releases of Beastie Boys' "To the 5 Boroughs."

2. The disk *IS* copy controlled in Europe - which is standard policy for all
Capitol/EMI titles (and a policy used by ALL major labels in Europe).

3. The copy protection system used for all EMI/Capitol releases including "To the 5 Boroughs" is Macrovision's CDS-200, which sets up an audio player into the users RAM (not hard drive) to playback the RED book audio on the disk. It does absolutely NOT install any kind of spyware, shareware, silverware, or ladies wear onto the users system.

You can find more information on the technology used here:
http://www.macrovision.com/products/cds/cds 200/ind ex.shtml

This is what EMI has to say about it:
Reports that "spyware" is being included on the Beastie Boy's CD, 'To The Five Boroughs' are absolutely untrue.

While the Beastie Boys CD does use copy control in some territories, there is no copy control on the Beasties Boys discs in the US or the UK. Where copy protection is used, it is Macrovision's CDS-200 technology; the same technology being used for the past several months around the world for all of EMI's releases in those territories. This Macrovision technology does NOT install spyware or vaporware of any kind on a users PC. In fact, CDS-200 does not install software applications of ANY KIND on a user's PC. All the copy protection in CDS-200 is hardware based, meaning that it is dependent on the physical properties and the format of the CD. None of the copy protection in CDS-200 requires software applications to be loaded onto a computer.

The technology does activate a proprietary Macrovision player in order to play the CD on a PC, and that player converts WMA compressed files to audio on the fly. It also temporarily installs a graphic "skin" for the player. Nothing is permanently installed on a hard drive. These details can be verified in the 'install.log' file in the computer's root directory.

And when was it that you repealed the laws on slavery exactly?

A couple decades before Britain allowed agricultural workers to vote

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/.'ed already!? *Sigh* Why doesn't slashdot mirror what it posts...

from someone else's experience.

Sourcer

Setting the Page File to Wipe on Win NT/2k/XP

(Stolen from Wayne's Registry Tips: Google Cached

Edit the REG_DWORD value to '1' for "ClearPageFileAtShutdown" located under: HKLM\System\CurrentControlSet\Control\SessionManag er\MemoryManagement\

So, set that value to '1' and on clean shutdowns, windows will spin & whir for a bit (shutdown times will be increased) and this should clear your page file out, at least mostly.

I proposed this 3.5 years ago on Advogato.

Just calling it up, 'cuz I never get credit for nothin'. :)

-Waldo Jaquith

link to PDF
-=no karma whoring=-

This should be an editorial, not an "analysis". It's filled with non-factual personal experiences that have obviously given him a bias. I mean, why does this belong in an "analysis"??? (from the article):

My most memorable moment at Microsoft came during a technical review with Bill Gates. I will never forget the moment when I made an apparently obvious point to him. He responded, "What? Do you think I'm stupid?" Everyone was staring at me, and I felt it best not to answer. Like Gates, there were always people at Microsoft who were much smarter than me and more technically skilled. But he's created a corporate culture that sometimes struggles to see the forest for the trees--and I think this is what has led to some of the challenges that it faces today.

So I did a little digging on this guy and found out he really is stupid. And my guess is that he's bitter because he's just smart enough to realize how stupid he is.

According to the July 20, 1999 edition of the Seattle Post-Intelligencier,

Jeff Reifman, a 29-year-old former program manager at MSNBC, left behind $700,000 in stock options in April to co-found GiftSpot.com, a 24-person Seattle company that delivers gift certificates over the Internet. If Reifman had stayed at Microsoft just two more months he would have been able to cash in on the stock.

Ahh... now we see why he is so angry about why his Gift Certificate store failed! It wasn't because PassPort didn't take off...
This kind of "article" is exactly why newspapers are going down the toilet today. There's no disclosure.

Just in case the mirror server crashes and burns (like they usually do),I have put up a mirror.
The mirror of http://www.demonmoo.com is at http://216.239.41.104/search?q=cache:5xsrID7LLSYJ: www.demonmoo.com/+&hl=en

It is only edible by humans, I've never seen anything else touch my #2. And it never spoils (leave it out and it just gets hard, no mold, no green, no nothing!).

Culinary perfection.

spy bullets?

I was sitting on my front porch and a guy went by "walking" his dog by letting it pull him along on his bicycle. The little lightbulb thingy went off in my head (Ow! Stop it.)

Since that time I've "designed" several variants, also in my head, but I ran into a slight problem on approaching the development phase.

I don't particularly care for dogs.

My cats don't particularly care for the idea of being hitched up to a cart either.

And thus technology is set back decades by the peculiarities of a single man.

Oh, yeah, you can also already buy one commercially, so it's not like it's really a novel idea (mushers use them to keep their dogs in shape during the summer season. My idea is to make an ultralight one specifically tuned for running in the modern urban enviroment. Carbon fiber, racing bicycle wheels, that sort of thing).

Here's an example:

Dog Cart

KFG

Yes, that's the way I like to be clicked.

Agreed that the terrain is not as demanding as in Nepal (flat plains vs. extremely hilly), but the goals look similar. They also have a pretty Coverage Map

The ranges they get out of wifi links are also pretty good - 5kms is on ordinary antennas, while with properly aimed parabolic antennae (antennas?) they get upto 40 kms (25 miles)

Google Cache of the article

Eh, they could have taken advantage of pricing mistakes.

Eh, they could have taken advantage of pricing mistakes.

Eh, they could have taken advantage of pricing mistakes.

Eh, they could have taken advantage of pricing mistakes.

Eh, they could have taken advantage of pricing mistakes.

There will be no "more modern" AmigaOS. Several months ago Amiga, Inc. sold off its AmigaOS rights to its investor Itech, which in turn sold them to a newly created corporation called KMOS. KMOS does not stand for anything. Its only "product" is AmigaOS. It is incorporated in Delaware, which is a notorious tax and regulation shelter.

Now, there are three things you could believe:
1. That Itech dumped the Amiga IP on a dummy corporation in order to protect its Amiga, Inc. investments from ongoing lawsuits, similar to the Novell/Canopy shuffles. (most likely)
2. Alternatively, that KMOS CEO (and seemingly sole employee) Garry Hare is really serious about moving AmigaOS into the cellphone market. (a little bit likely)
3. Or else, against all likelihood and the public statements of its CEO, that KMOS's primary goal is to get a new, working AmigaOS up and running.

If you believe the last one then I'd like to interest you in some Florida real estate that I'm selling through my own Delaware corporation. Face it, AmigaOS is finally dead this time. Move on to AROS or something, or just stop deluding yourself entirely and move to Mac or Linux or XP.

Found this on Google ... looks like lawyer eat the biggest chunk with the USPTO taking in only about $500 of that $10K.

There is a Google cache here, however.

Maybe this is the over-seas company doing the faxing? I don't know, I can't read Russian , so I can't verify if the company discussed in the article is the same as this one.

Oh and BTW the number for the company that is doing the faxing is 1-800-328-9795 for those who don't want to RTFA.

Here

Ah, but Google tells that they actually are registered:

page, Google Cache (because it didn't want to load for me for some reason) - that was the first result too.

I would recommend against spamming those addresses, or even calling that phone number - we don't want to hurt innocent unrelated people. The e-mail address may even be some contact from some under company, since it's at a different domain and all.

Information on ejobz.net, Inc. would be interesting though.

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• It's a worm, not a virus
• It's attacks Windows, not IE (despite Microsoft's efforts, there is still a distinction)
• For the user, the main damage is that the infected computer will shut down; I have no reference, but shutdown loops have been reported
• For the admin, the main damage is the flood of trafic sent out by the worm in search of new hosts
• The worm can use Win98/WinME boxes to propegate but cannot infect those same computers

Google cache of McAfee's page on the worm
One of symantec's pages

Here's the Google Cache of that page. The link returns a 404 for some reason.

Err, and Google HTML version without annoying highlighting

True Geek, right here.

In PDF, and a Google HTML version

Because analysts tend to play the role of pundit they can come across as insightful or just plain idiotic. [note: fixed typo on "plain"]

Best quote ever. Darn, it's refreshing to find an honest, non-pompous analyst.

Yes, one thing. I go to a lot of events where I can be the only woman in the room with a bunch of guys, and that's fine. I have no issues with that, really, except that I just think that more diversity in the Linux ecosystem is always good. I think it is great that Pamela Jones created Groklaw. It would be great to see more women developers involved too- there are a few, but seeing more of them would actually be better. The growth of Linux in India, Brazil, China and other countries may foster an increase of women in the community. I think that's probably one of the things that, if I could effect any change, it would be to encourage more women to enter the Linux ecosystem.

That is actually a facinating point.

I've tended to find that as a very rough, general rule, women tend to do a better job of getting along with people than men, and take longer to get angry. If I had a choice between a male or female manager, and was choosing only based on ability to get people to work together and only with knowledge of the gender, I'd probably pick the female manager.

This is especially true for the open-source world, where nobody is *made* to work together. Communities form around how well people deal with each other and work together.

My guess as to why there are few female developers comes down to drive. This isn't that there aren't driven females, but there is a difference in the psychology here. I was reading an article (listed on fark and Metafilter) on why many fields of science generally have breakthroughs done by relatively young people -- developments and interest in work for the sake of work and glory fall off after a certain point. The article drew a link between drive to impress females and the attempt to rack up accomplishments under ones name. (I got a kick out of this, and it stuck in my head -- apparently, my subconscious has been trying hard to improve my sex life by convincing me to code up new algorithms). Anyway, point is that there's at least some research evidence for the male personality being an easier fit for OSS.

Linus' claim for support of "a law to get geeks laid" could have been OSS's undoing. :-)

Actually, while reading some of the posts here, I remembered a TV special YEARS ago that talked about the explorer Vendyl Jones -- the person reportendly Spielberg and/or Lucas based Indiana Jones on -- doing some searching for Noah's Ark many years ago. For another link about Vendyl Jones: here and here.

AFAIK, they first made the joke on April Fools 2001 . MS purchased them in June of 2000. Is is very possible the joke goes back much further than the website, though I can find no evidence of it (and it would make a poor April Fools joke if so). Any linkage I should be aware of?

(Google cache of the currently unavailable offical page here)

IIRC, the amount of ice in an iceberg that sits above the waterline is exactly the amount by which the volume shrinks when the ice melts, so the waterline remains the same.

For all intents and purposes, yes. There is a slight variance because of the difference in density between freshwater ice and saltwater liquid. The mass of a freshwater iceberg is equal to the weight of saltwater displaced, but the volume of freshwater is slightly more.

Honda CR-V. 5 years old, 45k miles, good as new, seriously very close to mint condition. Check the resale value if you like.

So you bought a poser SUV with an artificially high resale value.

If you actually tried to take it offroad it would break.

An American Jeep Wrangler would embarass the crap out of you if you ever did go offroad.

Wow, biased much? No offense but I (and a ton of other people) would prefer to own some fine Japanese tinfoil, any day. Americans have produced some decent cars, but overall... suckage. IMHO of course.

Any your opinion clearly isn't an informed one. Tell a Jeep Wrangler owner what you think of his car and try playing follow-the-leader.

It amazes me that you'll call this guy biased when you bought the crap-fest Honda CR-V as opposed to the better-priced, Wrangler. If you compare the two objectively, the Jeep is just plain better.

..two posts and it's slasdotted. Here is the Google Cache.

read rec.humor.funny's policy on offensive jokes.

there's way worse stuff in the rhf archives and in the internet oracle archives too.

Here ya go

I attended two school districts in my high school career. One was poor. One was not.

Poor

Not

Note the various statistics, but pay close attention to the SAT and PSSA section at the bottom.

I have circumstantial evidence. What have you to defend your statements?