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of Amtrak doing something almost right. The Northeast Corridor is the only profitable route for Amtrak.
This is a good article written on the topic of Amtrak, its 87 VPs, its end of subsidization, and what must be done moving forward.
Everything you ever wanted to know about the Acela

Can you get to the Onion's story through the Google Cache?

Here is the google cached site, Google.com

Links:

Adelphia postpones quarterly report due to 'accounting discrepancies'

More on accounting problems (google cache)

Adelphia selling off assets (google cache)

Absolutely ridiculous. All these telecoms going bye-bye. Where the fsck did the people who ran these business get their degrees? I mean, for god's sake, it doesn't take a genius to figure out that if your company is 2 billion in debt maybe you shouldn't pay like 50 million to liscense a stadium (titan's adelphia stadium). Or perhaps you shouldn't get those $100,000 sun boxen. Always a favourite of mine - listening to all this super expensive brand-new equipment these companies have. Ebay anyone?

It just boggles my mind that somehow these morons got put in charge of a company like this. Take starband - why in god's name would you ban something like P2P filesharing programs? These programs are like the #1 reason people (Especially younger people) want to get broadband - but you filter them out. Great business strategy. Gee, I wonder why you are going bankrupt?

It just pisses me off that these morons who ran the company will get to live off of 'only 50 million' like that b*tch from Enron while 1,000 or more employees will have to try and have to scrape together a living. Argggggggggggggggggggggghhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

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Links:

Adelphia postpones quarterly report due to 'accounting discrepancies'

More on accounting problems (google cache)

Adelphia selling off assets (google cache)

Absolutely ridiculous. All these telecoms going bye-bye. Where the fsck did the people who ran these business get their degrees? I mean, for god's sake, it doesn't take a genius to figure out that if your company is 2 billion in debt maybe you shouldn't pay like 50 million to liscense a stadium (titan's adelphia stadium). Or perhaps you shouldn't get those $100,000 sun boxen. Always a favourite of mine - listening to all this super expensive brand-new equipment these companies have. Ebay anyone?

It just boggles my mind that somehow these morons got put in charge of a company like this. Take starband - why in god's name would you ban something like P2P filesharing programs? These programs are like the #1 reason people (Especially younger people) want to get broadband - but you filter them out. Great business strategy. Gee, I wonder why you are going bankrupt?

It just pisses me off that these morons who ran the company will get to live off of 'only 50 million' like that b*tch from Enron while 1,000 or more employees will have to try and have to scrape together a living. Argggggggggggggggggggggghhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

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http://www.cpm.z80.de/manuals/mpm2ug.pdf or view as html http://216.239.51.100/search?q=cache:Y0TGJCQk3f0C: www.cpm.z80.de/manuals/mpm2ug.pdf+mp/m&hl=en&ie=UT F8

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I hope more communities start doing this & similar services, that should send a message to the phone monopolies.

They think Slashdot discussed it in April 1999" and cached that too.

Apparently, Maryland's Cable TV Service Theft Laws are designed with guilty-until-proven-innocent built in, and "Comcast The TV Company" and "Comcast the Cable Modem Company" didn't talk to each other very well about who was buying what services, so the author got a Kafka-esque runaround because she wasn't a TV-watching couch potato.

They think Slashdot discussed it in April 1999" and cached that too.

Apparently, Maryland's Cable TV Service Theft Laws are designed with guilty-until-proven-innocent built in, and "Comcast The TV Company" and "Comcast the Cable Modem Company" didn't talk to each other very well about who was buying what services, so the author got a Kafka-esque runaround because she wasn't a TV-watching couch potato.

If you buy a replaytv then all your viewing data belongs to them. Then they use your tv and your pvr to force feed you targeted ads when you pause, in banners on menus etc.

This cached google page is why I will not be buying a replaytv. When will device manufacturers make a decent product and leave me the fuck alone after the sale. I have money to spend and I will not support companies that harass me.

What if a new wireless local loop technology was deployed by Qwest (or whoever) that just happened to interfere with Wi-Fi? What if XM radio takes off and becomes the norm? According to the FCC the 2.4Ghz band is fair game.

We really need to work on ways to transmit data over
a constantly changing sea of background noise.

Adaptibility and fault tolerence are needed.
I'm picturing something like the ever-slinky P2P networks.
Kill a node and the network lives on.

Intelligent re-routing of data around "trouble spots" on many different carrier types.
A pipe dream for now, but with things like UltraWideBand
in the works it may not be for too much longer!

Gee, I guess maybe I was hallucinating when the .cc domain was opened to public registration, and my local Clear-Channel owned radio station had a 4 hour love-fest where the morning show guys were taking calls on the question "What .CC domain do you want to register" and they were saying CC=Clear Channel every five minutes. And I suppose this is a rediculus liberal myth.

here is a document about the one-way version of the translator...where it states that Dragon Systems along with Marine Acoustics provided the technology for it. Wonder if they are involved with the two-way...

It's getting slashdotted... I think we'd better check google's cache. At least it won't dump 3 megs of flash onto our screens }:)

Good refernce site:
http://www.glideslope.de/html/cockpit.htm

Google Cache:
http://216.239.51.100/search?q=cache:lvvTeoFeD_cC: www.hyway.com.au/747/747.html+%22%2Bwww.hyway.com. au/747/747.html%22&hl=en&ie=UTF8

Well, scanning the list of members yields:

A&M / Geffen / Interscope / Universal / Island / Def Jam / MCA / Mercury / Polydor / Polygram

All owned by Vivendi (V) on NYSE. This is a French company, and probably held largely by Europeans (it is listed on many exchanges).

Arista / BMG / RCA

Owned by Bertelsmann AG. This German company is not traded on any American markets, so is probably not widely held by Americans.

Atlantic / Elektra / Warner Bros.

Part of the AOL/TW mega-conglomerate (AOL). Many U.S. investors, and unhappy ones at that.

Bad Boy

Puffy's label. Not publicly traded.

EMI / Capitol / Chrysalis / Virgin

I believe EMI is a British company. I could not find a listing on any North American Exchanges.

Columbia / Epic / Legacy / Sony

Ah, Sony (SNE). Fingers in so many pies. Most notably, Mariah Carey. Double-entendre intended.

Death Row. 2Pac (R.I.P.?) and a few others. Not public.

DreamWorks. Not public. But you could say that at least three Americans hold stock in this company (Spielberg, Katzenberg, Geffen).

You would have to do your own research to come up with some hard figures, but in the list of Big Names, it seems that the RIAA is protecting mostly the interests of some privately held companies and foreign shareholders. Fairly scary stuff.

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Bruce McIndoe was the founder & CEO of CSSi, an Inc.500 and four-time Washington Technology FAST 50 company that developed intelligence collection and processing systems for various national intelligence organizations. Bruce was one of the lead architects for the National Security Agency's Echelon II program, identified as one of the most productive intelligence programs in the agency's history. He was also a major contributor to the Future Signals Intelligence (SIGINT) Systems Architecture Program, several major Communications Security (COMSEC) programs and numerous technical programs. After successfully growing CSSi to 150 people and $17 million in annual revenues, Bruce sold the company to Nichols Research Corporation where he became VP Enterprise Applications and then VP Sales & Marketing with Nichols InfoTec. Prior to joining iJET, he was President of B2B Web Solutions specializing in supply chain automation using the Internet and XML technologies. Bruce holds an M.S. in Computer Science from Johns Hopkins University and is a trustee of Allegheny College, where he received his B.S. in Physics.

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"Bruce McIndoe was the founder & CEO of CSSi, an Inc.500 and four-time Washington Technology FAST 50 company that developed intelligence collection and processing systems for various national intelligence organizations. Bruce was one of the lead architects for the National Security Agency's Echelon II program, identified as one of the most productive intelligence programs in the agency's history. He was also a major contributor to the Future Signals Intelligence (SIGINT) Systems Architecture Program, several major Communications Security (COMSEC) programs and numerous technical programs. After successfully growing CSSi to 150 people and $17 million in annual revenues, Bruce sold the company to Nichols Research Corporation where he became VP Enterprise Applications and then VP Sales & Marketing with Nichols InfoTec. Prior to joining iJET, he was President of B2B Web Solutions specializing in supply chain automation using the Internet and XML technologies. Bruce holds an M.S. in Computer Science from Johns Hopkins University and is a trustee of Allegheny College, where he received his B.S. in Physics."

If you buy a replaytv then all your viewing data belongs to them. Then they use your tv and your pvr to force feed you targeted ads when you pause, in banners on menus etc.

This cached google page is why I will not be buying a replaytv. When will device manufacturers make a decent product and leave me the fuck alone after the sale. I have money to spend and I will not support companies that harass me.

This excerpt of an interviw with Fritz Hollings should prove informative. The full text can be found here.

"I met Bridget at her college boarding house. We had a very interesting interview in her bedroom that was full of stuffed animals."

Kitty: You are 21 and a college coed, what is your major?

Bridget: I'm an Economics major. (I have mostly male professors! Mmmmmmmm :)

Kitty: When would you say you became sexually active?

Bridget: I started playing with myself when I was really young. I loved doing it, because it just felt so good. I first became sexually active when I was 14. I had been fooling around with a boy from school who was two years older than I was. He used to come over to my house when my mom was at work after school, and we would make out and he would let me suck his cock. Whenever I would go over to his house, I was always flirting with his older brother because he was so cute, and older men really turned me on!
One time when the boy who I had been fooling around with was sick, his brother came over to my house after school. We started kissing on my bed, and he slid his hand in between my legs and was rubbing my pussy. He took his big cock out and let me get on my knees in front of him and suck it! I was so turned on, I could feel myself getting so wet. He laid down on the bed, and I got on top of him. I slowly slid his cock into my pussy, and it hurt, but I kept with it, because I knew it would start feeling good after a little bit!

Kitty: You really like to play it up when you have sex. Do you have any favorite roles?

Bridget: Yes! I absolutely love playing Daddy's little girl! I love when Daddy comes into my room at night and I pretend to be asleep while he slides his hands underneath my little night-gown and starts stroking my bald pussy with his big strong hands. When he climbs into bed with me and whispers in my ear that he's going to take care of me and make me feel good, I get really excited! I know that while Mommy is sleeping in the other room, Daddy is going to fuck his little girl until he shoots his cum all over my little titties!

Kitty: You enjoy cross dressers, how do they sexually excite you?

Bridget: There's nothing like seeing a strong, secure man wearing a pretty pair of women's panties! Women's lingerie is so beautiful, and when a man shares with me that he wants me to dress him in stockings, garters, and heels, I get so excited. Knowing that he trusts me with this exciting fantasy, and the risks we take of getting caught makes me so wet!

Kitty: I ask all the operators this one last question and I think your answer is going to be great. What was your kinkiest sexual experience?

Bridget: Kitty, when I was in high school, I started seeing a 50-year-Daddy, who loved dominating me. He knew how much I wanted to play with another girl, and he knew a Mommy who really wanted to play with a little girl! So in a hotel one weekend, Mommy met Daddy and I, and we all went up to our hotel room. We played for quite a while! Mommy and I kissed while Daddy watched, and then Mommy and I shared Daddy's cock! I even got to fist Mommy, because my little hands were easier to get inside her than Daddy's. One of the really fun parts was when Daddy got out the strap-on and Mommy fucked me with the big hard cock! I got to wear it too, and fuck Mommy's ass and pussy while Daddy videotaped! Then Daddy got on his hands and knees on the bed, and while Mommy watched, I got to slide the cock into Daddy's ass! He was so hard and so turned on, that he shot his cum all over the bed! Then it was my turn to cum! Mommy had shaved my pussy earlier, and so she had me lay down on the bed, while she sucked and licked my little hairless pussy! Mommy's tongue felt so good inside me, that it made me cum all over her face! Daddy watched, and then told me it was my turn to make Mommy cum! I stayed on my back, and Mommy put her pussy right above my face! I licked her wet pussy, and by then, Daddy's cock was hard again. He slid his big cock inside me, hard, while I ate Mommy until she came! My pussy was so wet from cumming, that Daddy decided his cock was wet enough to put in my ass. I turned over on my hands and knees and Mommy spread my ass apart while Daddy slid his cock into my ass. It hurt because my ass was so tight, but I just begged Daddy to fuck me harder and harder because I wanted to make him happy! He rubbed my clit though, while he was doing it, and then I was more relaxed, so Daddy started fucking really hard. When I felt his warm cum shoot in my ass, I got so excited I came all over the bed!

"That was a great interview and I also found out Bridgett has a kinky bisexual side."

See this page cached@google :)

What impact do you think this actually had on software sales? I mean come on, sheesh.
enough for microsoft to pay millions for a settlement. google cache

This isn't exactly new...

This seems to be an application of "optical tweezers". The use of electromagnetic field gradients of a focused spot has been used to uncoil as well as determine the "spring constant" (tension) of single DNA strands.The technique has been fairly common for the past 5 years. All they have done here is attach a large molecule to a diving board. The DNA experiments have already demonstrated "simple machines", although in that case the DNA is the spring.

DNA molecules grafted on silicon with optical tweezers
Femtonewton Force Spectroscopy of Single Extended DNA Molecules

This isn't exactly new...

This seems to be an application of "optical tweezers". The use of electromagnetic field gradients of a focused spot has been used to uncoil as well as determine the "spring constant" (tension) of single DNA strands.The technique has been fairly common for the past 5 years. All they have done here is attach a large molecule to a diving board. The DNA experiments have already demonstrated "simple machines", although in that case the DNA is the spring.

DNA molecules grafted on silicon with optical tweezers
Femtonewton Force Spectroscopy of Single Extended DNA Molecules

Google mirror of the article.

Yes, at the risk of being called a Karma whore.

http://216.239.51.100/search?q=cache:PzYbVLt75vYC: www.honet.com/Nadine/default.htm+&hl=en&lr=lang_en

You are mistaken. The Administrator account is the most powerful, and is equivalent to root. The SYSTEM account by default has very few rights at all, and is mostly used for running services in a low priviledge fashion.

For example, unless you grant it additional rights, or change the account the service runs as, most services cannot access network shares or printers. See this randomexample from Google if you need more proof.

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Operation of equipment marketed under this waiver is subject to Section 15.5 of the Commission's Rules. Any operation shall not interfere with authorized radio services; operations shall accept any interference that may be received, including interference that may adversely affect the operation of the units authorized under the waiver. No user of the equipment sold under the waiver shall be deemed to have any vested right to any part of the RF spectrum employed by the equipment.

The reasons he gives for the Peruvian govt. to go with Open Source rather than proprietary SW are to the point. He blasts each and every point made by the MS rep. The whole Bill is specifying the standards for purchase of SW by the govt. alone, and he uses that to cudgel MS completely.

The main points for the use of OS are...
Free access to public information by the citizen.
Permanence of public data.
Security of the State and citizens.

He then goes on to say how MS does not provide these and how OS is a better alternative. He makes it sound like a crime for a govt. to NOT use OS/open standard protocols.

The way he has used MS's points against itself and shown the contradiction between their various points was almost funny. It sounds like a school teached administering a sound whipping to a truant.

You have gotta read this....
Google cache....

> Is GNU.org.pe down for everyone else, btw?

I got to it earlier, but it's Slashdotted now. Google's got it cached though. Phhhhast.

Another spurrious patent ... if I recall this has been done (and patented) a long long time ago.
HARDENS HAND GRENADE FIRE EXTINGUISHER", --> "PATENTED NO 1 AUG 8, 1871 AUG 14 1883

For those who are interested check out the picture of the blue glass bulb towards the bottom of the page. Cached

I find your ideas interesting and would like to subscribe to your
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That'll be a hard thing to sell to most Slashdotters, since they are dirty homosexual GNU/Linux hippies. OSS fanboys are the most avid purchasers and observers of gay culture. As we all know Disney is a purveyor of the filthy gay agenda Slashbots can't resist homo culture, thus yours is a lost cause.

http://216.239.51.100/search?q=cache:W15GmmXoe7sC: whiteboard.openoffice.org/mirrors/+&hl=en

Or just click here.

Call it karma whoring if you like, I just think that the more people that use the mirrors and get this great Office app the better.

.haeger

Anyone know is email address?

Oh, wait.. Maybe he's still answering the webmaster address.. That appears to be (google) the email address he's been using on the site (according to a quick search).

Google mirror here, in case of slashdotting.

"Don't ever defend. Always attack"

This has been nicknamed by the Churches critics as Operation Footbullet for obvious reasons.

The Atlantic has a GREAT article about this effect:

http://www.theatlantic.com/issues/2002/04/rauch.ht m

An exerpt:
"Every so often scientists notice a rule or a regularity that makes no particular sense on its face but seems to hold true nonetheless. One such is a curiosity called Zipf's Law. George Kingsley Zipf was a Harvard linguist who in the 1930s noticed that the distribution of words adhered to a regular statistical pattern. The most common word in English--"the"--appears roughly twice as often in ordinary usage as the second most common word, three times as often as the third most common, ten times as often as the tenth most common, and so on. As an afterthought, Zipf also observed that cities' sizes followed the same sort of pattern, which became known as a Zipf distribution. Oversimplifying a bit, if you rank cities by population, you find that City No. 10 will have roughly a tenth as many residents as City No. 1, City No. 100 a hundredth as many, and so forth. (Actually the relationship isn't quite that clean, but mathematically it is strong nonetheless.) Subsequent observers later noticed that this same Zipfian relationship between size and rank applies to many things: for instance, corporations and firms in a modern economy are Zipf-distributed."

It's one of the best articles I've read in a long time, demonstrating how they've managed to model not only extinct populations accurately (who knows how much after-the-fact tweaking went on, but...) but race riots and honesty in social groups.

Add to that, I spent a good fifteen minutes trying to find it again, so someone had better read it. It's just under 10,000 words.

PS - I strongly doubt it'll get slashed, but if it does, here is the Google cached copy.

here's a choice article of his from the archive:

"You're treating your lawyers as a bureaucratic nuisance, think twice. Some will be as valuable as a building full of Cobol programmers when your company is hit with a year 2000 lawsuit."

These days, who would want either a building full of lawyers or cobol programmers?

This (Google cache) is what they don't want you to read.

davezilla has been posting conversations with smarterchild for a while now. His site is down right now but I found one of the posts on Google Cache.

How rigorous. Usability pundit picks pet criteria and decides that these are the top HCI labs. Those interested in the real state of the field instead of opinion might take a look at the more rigorous listings available:

Top Research Labs by Topic, 1978 and 1997

Where Researchers Want to Work

BusinessWeek's Top 20 US Research Labs

Google Cache of 1999 US News ranking of User Interaction Grad Schools

MIT Technology Review Corporate R&D Scorecard (Requires subscription)

HCI Academic Article Imapct Rankings

I think that few of the people on avant garde of HCI research take Jacob Neilsen very seriously. He is a usability specialist, not a interface researcher.

Discaimer: IANAP

But here is my understanding of black hole radiation or Hawking Radiation:

First of all, you must understand quantum tunneling. This is a principle in which particles have a certain probability that they will bypass, or "tunnel" though a barrier and reappear on the other side. Sometimes the particles tunnel at much faster than the speed of light. The thicker the barrier the less chance there is of the particle to tunnel. Tunneling doesn't only occur with microscopic distances. There have been experiments of photons tunneling up to a foot. (BTW, quantum tunneling has been observed experimentally.)

This does relate to black holes. In quantum physics, virtual particle-antiparticle pairs are produced from the Zero-Point Energy background all the time. They just annihilate eachother very quickly.

Now if a particle-antiparticle pair are created just inside the event horizon of a black hole, there is a probability that one of the particles will tunnel out of the black hole and escape into space. Since the particles can't annihilate each other, they become real. In order not to violate thermodynamics, the new matter created is balanced out by the loss of some energy of the black hole. In this way, the black hole radiates energy.

Now this effect is negligible for large black holes, such as supermassive ones at galactic centers, or ones created from a collapsed star. But for small black holes, like quantum black holes that are about the mass of an asteroid, or very tiny quantum black holes made up of only a few particles, this effect is very important. (these asteroid sized quantum black holes may have produced at the big bang. No evidence for them exists. We're pretty sure the smaller quantum sized ones are created all the time by natural processes. There is an accelerator planned that will be able to produce them.)

Smaller black holes radiate much faster than large ones. As I said earlier, particles have a greater probability of tunneling across a thin barrier. A large black hole has a slower drop-off in the amount of gravity as you go farther away from it. That means that the particle has to tunnel a long ways to be able to get away from the black hole. This means that there is almost no energy escaping. The hawking radiation of a 30 solar mass black hole is 10-32 of a watt.

Now for small black holes, this is different. The particles have a greater possibility of escaping by tunneling because they have to tunnel a shorter distance to escape. An asteriod-mass quantum black hole created at the beginning of the universe would be finally exploding right about now. For a small quantum black hole, they last only a tiny fraction of a second.

Lastly, if we can figure out how to produce largish quantum black holes, with masses at least on the order of micrograms, our energy problems would be solved. You see, when black holes explode, only pure energy, not matter, is realeased. I don't know how that would be done. The yet-to-be-built Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider should produce quantum black holes. We should be able to detect the energy produced when the explode.

Anyway, here is an excellent article on artificial black holes. Here is one on Hawking Radiation. I am giving you the Google Cache because the original page has a DoubleClick cookie on it.

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Jeez, it's already slashdotted.