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Err, the cached login screen looks no different from the real login screen.

Actually, they only hit you with the "we're down" notice after you successfully log in, so the authentication stuff is still working,

google's cache in case you missed it.

There were 14-15m forced/slave labourers in Germany during the Third Reich, of whom 2-3 million are still alive.

1. Free Redistribution

The license shall not restrict any party from selling or giving away the software as a component of an aggregate software distribution containing programs from several different sources. The license shall not require a royalty or other fee for such sale.

3. Derived Works

The license must allow modifications and derived works, and must allow them to be distributed under the same terms as the license of the original software.

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Open content, coined by analogy with open source, describes any kind of creative work (for example, articles, pictures, audio, video, etc.) that is published under a non-restrictive copyright license and format that explicitly allows the copying of the information. (An example is the GNU Free Documentation License, which is used by Wikipedia and Nupedia.) "Open content" is also sometimes used to describe content that can be modified by anyone. Of course, this is not without prior review by other participating parties--but there is no closed group like a commercial encyclopedia publisher which is responsible for all the editing.

Just as open source software is sometimes described simply as Free Software (not to be confused with Freeware), open content materials can be more briefly described as free materials. But not every open content is free in the GNU GPL sense (for instance the Open Directory). Some licenses attempt to maximize the freedom of all potential recipients in the future, while others maximize the freedom of the initial recipient. See public domain, free content, free software movement, copyleft.

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Bastards. Byron Farrington (CEO apparent) is one of the grandest scumbags ever. I've met him personally, thought he was pretty cool...until he screwed over so many people, including my own company.

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It's not much, but at least provides a "look" at one of their products.
-OZ

the distribution contain a Release.gpg file that is signed: so it is not possible, for example, to compromise a mirror, and it is more difficult for an intruder to compromise a single Debian package in the archive.
There is a script apt-check-sigs that will check the above signature: this is explained in the debian page on releases; unfortunately the link to download the script from there is down, here are two alternatives: google cache my site (slow)

the term efficiency needs to be examined as well. The claim (fromo your parent poster) that free software would be 3 times as expensive is thrown out with no explanation. Are we to believe that spending, let us say $1,000,000 of Brazil's taxpayers' money on Microsoft software is somehow more "efficient" than spending the same amount on Brazi's native software? Efficient for transferring wealth out of Brazil, perhaps.

This FOSS move will set back their progress by a good 5-10 years or more, just as the similar computing laws they passed in the 1980's to encourage hardware manufacturing in country set back their progress.

Again you may want to look at some of the economic policies of countries that are the main hardware developers : South Korea, Taiwan, China and other Asian state-managed capitalisms. Especially in comparison with the more "free market" policies forced on Latin America in the past few decades.

You misstate my argument.

My argument is that if the environment is as deadly critical as environmentalists suggest then the same rules should apply to all. Just as being poor isn't an excuse to accept a thousand bucks to kill someone, nor is being poor an excuse to pollute the world--IF we are to believe the environmentalists that the threat of our pollution is so grave. Plus most of the pollution in developing countries isn't from poor people--it's from the factories of the rich and/or factories that belong to companies based in developed countries. By exempting pollution controls in developing countries you are giving a handout to the rich in those countries or the rich in developed countries at the expense of even worse health for the poor in those developing countries.

More likely than not the threat is NOT that grave. In that case I resent the environment being used as an excuse to justify worldwide wealth redistribution. If they want handouts for the poor they should say so and let us debate that on the economic or ethical merits.

You have, what, 1/24th the world population and you use 25% the world's energy.

The GWP (Gross World Product) was 45.9 trillion in 2001. The US GDP was 10.4 trillion in 2002 (sorry for the one year difference in stats). So the US generates 22.7% of the world's wealth. And the U.S. produces 23.3% of CO2. Are you seeing the similarity? 22.7% of the wealth and 23.3% of the CO2. We produce an amount of CO2 proportional to what we contribute to the world economy.

Further, the U.S. growth in CO2 production was 9.9% from 1990 through 1996. In the same period, China grew by 40%, India grew by 47.7%, and South Korea by 69.2%. Is it of no concern to you that the two most populous countries in the world are increasing their CO2 production at the rate of over 40% per year?

And all those goods are not flowing to other countries, either, they are mostly going to be used by you at home.

Irrelevant. Wealth is wealth. Even if most products are consumed at home the wealth enters the U.S. banking system and the effects are worldwide. If U.S. wealth goes down by 50% believe me everyone in the world will feel the pinch big time.

I don't really give a damn about your personal comfort, it's still inequitable.

Bingo! So we're talking about what is fair and wealth redistribution. Then let's make that the topic and stop making the environment a scape-goat to achieve economic rather than environmental goals.

You don't keed to be Kreskin to look into Microsoft's future. Even a child knows that Microsoft is dying. All major marketing surveys show that Microsoft has steadily declined in market share. Microsoft is very sick and its long term survival prospects are very dim.

Due to the troubles of Santa Claus, scientific investigations and so on, Christmas went out of business and was taken over by Microsoft. Now Rudolph is also dead, its corpse turned over to yet another charnel house.

The numbers continue to decline for Santa but Microsoft may be hurting the most. Look at the numbers. The loss of user base for Microsoft continues in a head spinning downward spiral. In truth, for all practical purposes Microsoft is already dead. It is a dead man walking. It's a fact: Microsoft is dying.

You don't keed to be Kreskin to look into Microsoft's future. Even a child knows that Microsoft is dying. All major marketing surveys show that Microsoft has steadily declined in market share. Microsoft is very sick and its long term survival prospects are very dim.

Due to the troubles of Santa Claus, scientific investigations and so on, Christmas went out of business and was taken over by Microsoft. Now Rudolph is also dead, its corpse turned over to yet another charnel house.

The numbers continue to decline for Santa but Microsoft may be hurting the most. Look at the numbers. The loss of user base for Microsoft continues in a head spinning downward spiral. In truth, for all practical purposes Microsoft is already dead. It is a dead man walking. It's a fact: Microsoft is dying.

Then you know the drill...

-dk

How do you get rid of nasty infections? Autoclave! Heat things up enough to smoke out all those nasty hoomins and things can get back to normal around here.

As for volcanos, it looks like the production of CO/CO2 in eruptions can have an effect on global warming. It turns out, however, that the ash/SO2 released into the atmosphere has a cooling effect. It also helps scatter sunlight, allowing for more robust tree growth which leads to more carbon being taken out of the atmosphere.

So, all we need to happen is for the Yellowstone (NetBSD) volcano to erupt (supposed to be violent enough to wipe out hoomanity) and fill the skys with enough ash and SO2 to bring on Fimbulwinter to slow down global warming. Or have a big rock smack into the Indian Ocean.

All told, I think "CW beacon" would have been the best choice. Many/most/all(?) satellites do transmit a CW identifier for a number of purposes, including the one the author used it for. He listened for the "I am alive" morse code transmission from the sat and heard it. So the sat didn't explode or unexpectedly fire its repositioning jets and move out of its assigned orbital slot.

• contractor punch lists
• P.E.R.T. charts
• A replacement for Microsoft Project
• Emergency notification call list trees
• Web site content change propagation update tool
• Human Resource function support (Did Bill, tell his department? How about Sue? ... )
• Legal case tracking
• And of course, nachos :-)

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I think that Mark Summerfield's famous "Letter from 2020" touched on this.

Fortunately, common sense prevailed, helped along by the good old dollar I've no doubt and they accepted both software patents and a redefinition of copyright to suit global corporations. Once the USA, Japan and Europe had uniform intellectual property laws to protect our corporations and our way of life, everyone else had to play ball or they couldn't trade. The result has been that every algorithm and computer program and every piece of music and film (after all music and film can be put into digital form and are therefore a form of software) have been patented. No more variations on Beethoven (unless you've got the patentees approval). No more amateur participation in music or film which might risk lowering standards. No more challenge to established business and business practices.

Alas, the osopinion site where the letter was published seems to be broken. But thanks to Google's cache, you can still find it . (Could Google get into trouble for caching a subversive letter such as this :-)

On Sept 10th I received several IM's on my k-lite from CRIA (google cache). They seemed to be under the impression that I was somehow breaking the law and needed a reminder of that. The notice came across as well-intentioned and non-threatening, just an appeal to traders of mp3's to think about the poor artists and how wonderful the industry is.

If anyone is interested in reading the message text I could post it, just ask.

You can clearly see the mist curtain on the edges of these videos linked from Google cache (esp. on the rotating planet video). You can also make out some distortion that hints at the nature of the oblique projection system. In this prototype, it seems as though the projection might come from the left of the screen. Also see US patent #6478432.

We'll round down the cost of the Iraq war to $150 billion (since some of the above figure is for Afghanistan, which is about something other, and better, than oil).

There are 204 million cars registered in the U.S. (cite), which burn a total of 156 billion gallons of gasoline and diesel each year (cite).

So that's a cost of about $1 per gallon of gas this year. Federal gasoline taxes are 18.4 cents per gallon (cite).

So even if we stopped building roads and bridges, we wouldn't come close to paying that cost with gas taxes.

But I agree, it doesn't look so bad that way. Let's look at it over the next several years: Suppose the cost of being in Iraq drops from $4 billion per month to $2.5 billion over the next year, and we're in there for just 3 more years. That's a total of ($30 billion x 3 = $90 billion + $150 billion) = $240 billion over 4 years. Over that period we'll burn about 600 billion gallons of gas, for a cost of 40 cents per gallon. Now, I'm willing to go without Federal highway spending for one year, but not for 4 years. So rather than applying Federal taxes towards that amount, I think it sounds fair to raise the price of gas by 40 cents per gallon for the next 4 years, don't you?

Have had it for a year, and learned a lot about them.

There are three hybrids being sold right now:

- Honda Civic Hybrid
- Honda Insight
- (2003) Toyota Prius

The Hondas use a gas engine as their primary engine with an electric engine (which doubles as a generator during braking) as a secondary source of acceleration. Think of this arrangement as a gas engine with a massive-battery-powered electric supercharger. If the electric engine fails, the gas engine will still get you there -- it just accelerates slower.

The Prius is the other way around -- its primary engine is electric, and a secondary gas engine gives it the acceleration. In the Prius, it is possible to drive (with very little gas pedal pressure) on electric alone -- something the Prius owners call "Zen driving." If the gas engine fails, you can still drive on the electric.

Reliability:
I know people who own both a Honda Civic Hybrid (HCH) and a 2003 Prius. I personally own the HCH. I would have no hesitation in buying one again. I average 54 MPG in the summer, and 45 MPG in the winter. Range is ~600 miles per tank; I drive 50 miles a day, and fill up twice a month. I have heard that it is possible to get ~700 miles/tank in a Prius, but have never got a first hand report of that.

The Honda had one early bug with deep, cold weather -- very occasionally, the electric system would shut down and not restart until the car was shut down and restarted. A flash of the computer firmware fixed it. Many people reported this problem. It also had an issue with a squeak in a support pillar, fixed by shimming with a business card. Maintenance visits are scheduled for every 10000 miles. Gas mileage is better on the highway (51 mpg) than the city (49 mpg).

The 2003 Prius has had more problems. Issues were with "highway wandering" -- it feels like the car wants to migrate around the road -- and shaking of the steering wheel at low speeds. Cause: the entire power steering rack needed to be replaced. There's also the gas engine failure called the "Big Hand" that's fixed with a similar car reboot, but it's caused by the Accelerator Pedal Assembly needing to be replaced. Many people report that they've had both of these problems. Maintenance is more frequent at 7,500 miles. Gas mileage is better in the city (51 mpg) than the highway (49 mpg).

I don't know anyone who drives a Honda Insight. Supposedly they still make ~1500 of them a year, but rumor has it that Honda is going to be dropping them.

Near-term and Farther-out Models:
The Prius has been out longer than the HCH, and is getting a technological refresh in 2004. The 2003 Prius and the HCH are both 4-seater compacts, but the 2004 Prius will be a mid-size, with better mileage (59 city, 51 highway) and better acceleration (0-60 in 10 instead of 12). There is currently a waiting list for them.

Cars/Trucks/SUVs due to be released as hybrids in 2004:

Honda Accord,
Honda CR-V,
Ford Escape

2004 or 2005:
Chevy Silverado
Saturn Vue
GMC Suburban

Here's an in-depth look at Hybrid technology from the Union of Concerned Scientists (Google HTML translation here).

Here's the best description of what it's like to drive one.

There is a federal tax deduction of $2000 for buying a new hybrid. Several states also offer their own tax deductions or credits -- check here to look them up. Some states (but not all) also let you drive them in their high occupancy lanes, even though you may only have one driver in it.

Oh, by the way -- I know that the 2003 Honda Civic Hybrids are

Here is the
cached interview as it's still down.

Search for the URL then click the "view the google cache for yadda yadda" link near the middle of the resulting page. No big deal.

That link for me is this but I've seen direct links to google caches fail before. First method guarantees it.

In case that gets here's Google's cached verson.

My favorite line is:Google is not affiliated with the authors of this page nor responsible for its content.

Because removing the spaces really suck!

There are only two reasons why Telstra would make a press release announcing their intention to use Linux:
(1) 'cos they've found a way to further screw their customers by their use of Linux, or
(2) 'cos they've found a way to further screw their competitors by their use of Linux.

That aside, if you go one step further, and read the article, you see that they're actually not using linux at all. They're beating around the bush with lines about XP and NT and Sun and HP-UX and Solaris and Linux and Citrix and XP-on-a-chip and you-name-it. The article is completely meaningless marketeer speak designed to trick some journo's into picking up on the key words "unix" and "linux", and it worked.

Don't get me wrong, I'm as happy as the next guy if a large corporate makes the switch to Linux, but that's not what this article is about. Never lose site of the fact that Telstra are evil. Every bit as evil as Microsoft or SCO.

You're wrong about that I'm afraid. It has been known for quite some time how to produce gold from other elements. (calling it artificial gold dosen't make any sense because it's real gold, indistinguishable, of course, from any other atom of gold). It is done by bombarding Mercury with Deuterons: Hg200 + H2 ---> Au198 + He4. Unfortunately Gold 198 is radioactive and decays back to Mercury in a few days. Glen Seaborg did a simillar experiment in the late '70's. The catch is that you would expend much more money to make the energy(probably thousands of times more) to accelerate the Deuterons in order to create the gold than you could ever recover by selling what you produced.

And here's the Google cache.

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Good singers have perfect pitch

Baloney. You can be a good singer with good relative pitch. "Perfect Pitch", as inexpertly named for this article, is a totally different thing from singing in tune, or having good relative pitch. Given that I mentioned "imperfect pitch", above, I stand by what I said: all singers have imperfect pitch. They will not always nail the note perfectly, particularly at the end of an exhausting recording session. There will be times that pitch correction is welcomed as a practical measure in many vocalist's lives. There are, of course, purists who will raise holy hell if someone were to pitch-correct them.

Since when does a key change sound awful?

If your instrument is even-tempered, key changes within a piece do not sound awful, although there is a slight dissonance to this tuning. If you are using a natural temperament or other alternative, sweeter tuning, it will sound awful in other keys, particularly if those keys don't have a fundamental on the major fourth or fifth with few accidentals versus the primary scale.
Since you are obviously a complete novice to the understanding of tuning systems, allow me to recommend checking out this brief talk on "Math and Music". These days, we've taken the even-tempered scale a bit further by using logarithmic tuning devices rather than simply dividing octaves by 12, but even those tuning devices are not quite "perfect" when tuning a piano. You need to stretch the octaves on the upper regions of the piano in order to avoid perceived dissonance on the part of the listener, and that is a skill that takes a long time to master.

It is not and has never been called the Cher Effect. Its called over compression.

OK.

Well the kernel.org website is unbearably slow, so yes use your mirrors... but here [google.com] is a better place to find what your local mirror is.

Sounds like you need Niko's Problem Solving Flowsheet.

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Since I didn't know what it was I relied on the good old google cache

http://216.239.51.104/search?q=cache:bcblg2U6NdgJ: www.connect-dots.com/Poofs/chewbacca.html+chewbacc a+defense

1. Be really small and run on almost no power. (Screw 70 Watt processors, gimme something i can implant!)

The processors you will ultimately implant in your body won't have to be the large general processors we have today. They will be very specific, with only the logic they absolutely need built into them.

You can bet your ass that if they are planning on providing power to these devices via induction that they aren't going to use 70 watts.

Windows XP = money Linux = free to download

I don't see where the money argument comes into play here? Before someone says something about TCO let me point out a humorous but true text on how Microsoft actually kills (link is a google cache).

The report includes data from a survey of 100 manufacturers using 32-bit processors in a range of embedded projects and applications -- 50 using various implementations of embedded Linux, and 50 using Microsoft's Windows Embedded platforms(Windows CE .NET and Windows XP Embedded).

Rubbish rubbish and more rubbish. They shouldn't have been so biased with the study. Which manufacturers were used? Give it a rest now MS. It's obvious for one if MS funded the study, it's bound to be swayed, however if they didn't fund the study, depending on the vendors, it's still bound to be swayed. Remember MS violated antitrust forcing companies to go MS or go to bankruptcy court. How is one supposed to believe any studies they'd do?

I'm sure someone else is going to post a very good thorough post but we all know this is nothing more than utter bs.

I'm not sure exactly how they plan to fix the spectrometer but I'm sure they're not lying when they say it's an option. Remember the Galileo space probe was recently fixed from hundreds of millions of miles away. Since a Mossbauer spectrometer uses a moving radioactive source to take a spectrum I would guess it might be put through it's paces several times to try to work out a glitch(speculation). The Japanese Mars probe with a failing circuit breaker is currently undergoing repairs to fix it remotely too.

Damn it takes a long time to read that.
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Yer just reminding me of how badly I miss a good solid HP calculator with RPN functionality!

My old HP-15C got flaky years ago.

For a short time, I ran xhpcalc, an X11 application that looked and functioned almost exactly like one of those nice classics but only ran on old versions of HP/UX.

Now, I have to put up with Gnome or KDE calculators that are no where near as nice!

As I read it, this is exactly what he is trying to get across.

Another paper of note, also written by Peter Lynds, is Zeno's Paradoxes - A Timely Solution (PDF - Google HTML Cache) where some of these of these issues are discussed in further detail.

What is being contradicted is the notion of there being certainty with regards to an object's position in time. In fact, he goes further to suggest there is no certainty with regards to any instantaneous physical values or magnitudes. To quote, "..once granted indeterminacy in precise relative position of a body in relative motion, also means indeterminacy in all precise physical magnitudes, including gravity, this also applies to the very structure of space-time, the dynamic framework in which all intertial, spatial, and temporal judgements of relative position are based."

I am certainly no physicist, but I definitely get the sense he is on to something here. If in fact it is taken for granted that determined physical magnitudes exist, this paper may actually be changing some assumptions we have about the universe we live in.

Try this

More information about this sort of thing can be found here.

google

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here and here

It seems the google cache is slashdotted, here is a google cache of google.

Does really seem to show much, but the original site /.'d...

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Corporate Fallout Detector

The Corporate Fallout Detector reads barcodes off of consumer products, and makes a noise similar to a gieger counter of varying intensity based on the social or environmental record of the company that produces the product.

I came up with the numbers by correlating several online bardcode databases with a pollution database and a corporate ethics database. Of course the data produced by this approach is subjective and inaccurate at times, but that's part of why I built it: It's difficult for consumers trace corporate actions through the maze of corporate ownership, and find who is really responsible. This helps create an environment where consumers have difficulty making informed purchasing decisions.... without the use of "special tools"...

The case is made from a discarded steel computer case, cut on a waterjet cutter and bent with a metal brake. Inside is a SaJe microcontroller and a Wasp barcode scanner.

Click on the thumbnails at left for larger images.
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...about these Googleholes:

"I am getting flamed to high heaven in Slate's Fray for a piece of mine they just posted talking about some of the built-in limitations of the Google PageRank system. The general critique seems to be that I don't understand how to refine a search, which I guess I should have made clear in the piece itself. (I do, for the record. I also think Google is absolutely brilliant.) But as you can see if you follow the link, it's not a piece about how to use Google more effectively; it's a piece about ways that Google's system implicitly pushes us in certain directions, which makes it less like an authoritative reference source, and more like an op-ed page. (Nothing wrong with that, just something we should keep in mind.) Normally I quote from the articles themselves in this blog, but today I think I'll quote from a followup comment that I posted in the Fray..."

http://stevenberlinjohnson.com

You too can participate in the roast by finding his e-mail address on Google.