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The magic number in the cache links look like they're optional also.

Median family income for FY2002 in the US was $54,400. A whopping $4K less than the national average I quoted. I don't think there are quite as many robber barons as you believe.

See here:

http://www.huduser.org/datasets/il/fmr02/tran236.p df

or here for google's HTML-ified version.

You don't get to be the biggest companies in the world by writing a bunch of checks.

BBC News:

As Texas governor, Mr Bush quietly set up a committee led by Exxon, with other big oil and chemical companies, to advise him what to do about the state's deadly air pollution.

Regulators wanted compulsory cuts in emissions of up to 50% - this "secret" committee instead proposed making the cuts voluntary.

Mr Bush duly steered the polluters plan through the state legislature.

Huge donations

Texas anti-corruption law made it illegal to donate money to Mr Bush as governor whilst such legislation was under consideration.

But that month, Mr Bush declared for his candidacy for president - making the $150,000 donated by committee members and their representatives completely legal.

>goatse.cx certainly isn't there.

Yes it is.

And, as a pilot, I suggest that most people don't have a clue how a plane flies until they learn how to fly one -- even if they're familiar with the underlying physics. I spent several months reading about aircraft operation and theory before starting flying lessons. I could recite entire sections of the Aircraft Flying Handbook from memory, but my first hour of actual flight proved how little I knew.

I forgot what we were talking about

Nothing in particular, actually.

the current corporate mindset seems to be `patent everything, let the courts sort it out'

Absolutely. Ever since the big Kodak v Polaroid case, that's how they've acted. Kodak learned from their expensive defeat (the $925,000,000 settlement was just a fraction of their losses), and today it patents anything it can think of, without any consideration of them ever being workable or useful. (The bottom of this page gives the top 20 patenters, Kodak is one)

The authors of ICQ had at least as good a chance of getting a patent as any silly one-click shopping `inventors'.

Not really. Getting patents effectively requires thousands of dollars for lawyers. One-Click was "invented" by Amazon.com, a major corporation that, while not profitable, had barrels of funding to burn.

Mirabilis was four 20-something guys with a good idea. Much less likely they could've afforded to push through a patent on a software idea (especially since the patent would've been flimsy anyway, with so many programs resembling prior art already well known)

Please don't hit this, use the Google cached page:

Computer bus latest news

Otherwise you'll deprive all the kids of this webserver - imagine the teacher explaining to all the sobbing children what a "slashdotting" is!

Here is a great paper on the subject. The site is down, but Google has a cache of it.

A quote:
"Michael M, Editor-in-Chief of PC Magazine was looking at the executive report on the latest graphics benchmarks which were to appear in the June 29th issue. As he got deeper into the summary, his face took on a baffled look. He picked up the phone to call Bill M, Vice President for Technology, and asked him to come by his office with the detailed test results. Five minutes later, they were pouring over the data on Bill's laptop."

Source:
Hercules Cheating

And my first words are these: when I hear someone speak of `social responsibility', that's when I reach for my revolver. // In point of fact, I don't actually own a revolver ...

Or the ever popular google cache here

are you sure?

Inte did produce a Pentium III 400MHz. It was one of their "Mobile" processors.

Consider this:

4:3 aspect ratio TV, 32" diagonal screen

Given some simple math, 32/5 = 6.4
6.4 * 4 = 25.6 inches

Measuring my TV, it seems that this is correct.

Now, a 16:9 30" diagonal TV is approximately 26.14726575863" wide. Measuring the dimensions on my 16:9 lcd screen on my portable dvd, these proportions are also correct.

On the other hand, when viewing a 4:3 signal (certainly far and away the vast majority of signals), the 16:9 image is only approximately 14.70783698922" tall. The 32" 4:3 HDTV displays it 19.2" tall.

Riddle me this, flame boy: is it better to gain 0.54" on the minority of signals, or gain 4.49 inches on most signals? Especially given that the 4:3 HDTV is perfectly capable of displaying a 16:9 signal and simply not use the extra screen real estate (letterboxing)?

The reason these numbers were used and are relevant is that I just bought an HDTV yesterday. There were two beautiful HDTV monitors for $1000 - a widescreen 30" and a 4:3 32". I bought the 32". I am very pleased with my purchase.

Also, just for the record, I am NOT a moron. But you are - the same math gives a 53" 4:3 TV a 42.4" wide screen. A 43" 16:9 screen gives you only a 37.47774" wide screen.

Message networks allowed people to communicate across the nation. It was USENET and email for non-internet folks. (This was before the internet was opened up.)

Fidonet was obe of my favorites as it forced the sysop to prove they could configure everything properly. It was open on systems run on all sorts of OS could join.

Later message networks used the QWK format which was much simpler.

Others like the RIME network used proprietary software, but allowed more control and file attachments.

Ah, those were the days.

> [Interactive TV] just is never going to happen.

Maybe iTV is never going to happen in the States, but just as with cellphones, DAB and many technologies that gain momentum through standards and cross-border co-operation , the US is being left behind, as Interactive TV is thriving in Europe, especially in the UK, and I'm amazed that many tech-savvy Americans don't seem to realise this

~45-50% of UK households *with a TV* have digital TV, and of them 65 percent of have access to ITV

In simple numbers ,that's about 8 million households have Interactive TV in the UK. As a comparison, there are about 10 million Uk households with access to the Net.

There are about 6.25 million households with digital satelite alone. All of them have access to very, very advanced interactive services. There are about 2 million households with digital cable, using Liberate middleware

The new Free to air DTT boxes are selling like hot cakes, and there are many Interactive services available through the BBC and others

Here's a wide range of iTV screenshots

In europe as a whole 'interactive TV was estimated to be available in 31 million European households at the end of 2002, creating a potential audience of 72 million viewers'

here

http://216.239.53.100/search?q=cache:y6myWmI8s_k C: www.proulxresearch.org/papers_how_males_mate.htm+p apers_how_males_mate.htm&hl=en&ie=UTF-8

(forgot the end quote, sorry)

Abstract
The hypothesis that females prefer older males because they have higher mean fitness than younger males has been the center of recent controversy. These discussions have focused on the success of a female who prefers males of a particular age class when age cues, but not quality cues, are available. Thus, if the distribution of male quality changes with age such that older male shave on average genotypes with higher fitness than younger males, then a female who mates with older males has fitter offspring allowing the female preference to spread through a genetic correlation. We develop a general model for male display in a species with multiple reproductive bouts which allows us to identify the conditions which promote reliable signalling within an age class. Because males have opportunities for future reproduction,they will reduce their levels of advertising compared to a semelparous species. In addition, because higher quality males have more future reproduction, they will reduce their advertising more than low quality males. Thus, the conditions for reliable signalling in a semelparous organism are generally not sufficient to produce reliable signalling in species with multiple reproductive bouts. This result is due to the possibility of future reproduction, so that as individuals age and the opportunities for future reproduction fade signalling becomes more reliable. This provides a novel rationale for female preference for older mates: Older males reveal more information in their sexual displays.

PDF is here.

Moral: spammers hoover slashdot, so don't post your email here, ever.

Screw that. I refuse to hide or obfuscate my email address. I've been using the Internet for 15 years. I remember the time when the Internet was mostly spam-free, and people rarely forged email addresses even though everyone knew how to.

My real email address is deven@ties.org -- this is my primary personal email address, not a spam-trap address. I know that the spammers are harvesting address from Slashdot and everywhere else. I don't care. Let them have the address. I've never hidden it, and I never will. I'm stubborn that way. (It's akin to refusing to change your lifestyle in response to terrorism, even when you know you're at risk...)

Of course, since I don't hide my email address, I get tons of spam, along with "Joe job" bounces/replies for spams forged in my name, plus more bounces copied to postmaster, since I receive postmaster mail for several domains. Bring it on! It just provides me with a larger corpus of bogus email to use for Bayesian filtering, or whatever other technique I may experiment with...

I firmly believe that a technical solution will be required to solve the spam problem. Legislation won't prevent the virtually-untraceable international spams, and may not even prevent local ones if it's not zealously enforced. Social controls haven't been effective. We need to prevent the spam from being delivered in the first place, or at least mark it as suspicious so legitimate mail doesn't drown in the noise so easily.

Beyond basic filtering like SpamAssassin and Bayesian filtering, there are other technical solutions worth exploring. Human validation techniques like TMDA might help. Finding a way to punish spammers and drive up their costs, such as E-Stamps or selling interrupt rights (original paper: HTML or PDF), might be effective. (But likely a higher barrier to legitimate mail.) Some sort of PGP-style Web of Trust might be very effective if done well, but it would be difficult to build. Perhaps some "soundness" principles could be borrowed from Usenet II to create a similar system for email...

Let's cross our fingers and hope to find a truly effective solution (or combination of solutions) in the near future!

well im an economics major and i hate taxes and everything but it makes a lot of sense to me. tax people who use the freeway the most and the people who are really willing to pay for the freeway will actually pay for it. people who don't think it'd be worth the time & financhial effort would find a more efficient way of transportation. sure taxes suck but your getting a system that gives you a more efficient freeway. a great example that shows that this system works are the freeways in singapore. through strict tolls, automobile use is regulated to people who actually care. "Singapore is the only country in the world which has successfully controlled the amount and growth rate of its vehicle fleet by imposing a heavy tax burden on car owners." Urban Transport Problems

Google cache of MusicBrainz.org

One of the MusicBrainz developers here.
It seems our provider cannot handle the bandwidth requirements for the Slashdot effect. We are very sorry about that. Please come back tomorrow if you like out project.

Our dual 1.2GHz Linux server is doing OK:

1:39am up 178 days, 8:42, 2 users, load average: 0.04, 0.11, 0.20
146 processes: 145 sleeping, 1 running, 0 zombie, 0 stopped
CPU0 states: 3.0% user, 11.0% system, 0.0% nice, 85.0% idle
CPU1 states: 3.0% user, 0.1% system, 0.0% nice, 95.0% idle
Mem: 1551632K av, 1467548K used, 84084K free, 0K shrd, 69944K buff
Swap: 2096472K av, 491708K used, 1604764K free 994652K cached

PID USER PRI NI SIZE RSS SHARE STAT %CPU %MEM TIME COMMAND
17639 pouwelse 16 0 1076 1076 828 R 11.3 0.0 0:00 top
17267 nobody 9 0 18976 18M 12188 S 2.6 1.2 0:00 httpd
17256 nobody 9 0 20032 19M 12000 S 1.7 1.2 0:01 httpd
17271 nobody 9 0 20204 19M 11824 S 1.7 1.3 0:01 httpd
17245 nobody 9 0 18584 18M 12536 S 0.8 1.1 0:01 httpd
1 root 8 0 468 428 416 S 0.0 0.0 1:33 init
2 root 9 0 0 0 0 SW 0.0 0.0 0:00 keventd

Greetings,
J.

Quote:
The technology protection measure may be disabled "to enable access to bona fide research or other lawful purposes".

Either you're wrong, or the American Library Association is.

The law doesn't specify exactly how libraries have to implement their procedure for disabling the censorware. I think that flexibility is good and makes the law workable.

Here's another side to the problem. Displaying lewd material in public is illegal in most localities. If you access lewd material on a terminal that is easily seen by other people using the library, then you are probably breaking public lewdness laws.

Wouldn't it be nice to get a little hint from the machine that accessing www.whitehouse.com while the local sheriff is standing beside you is probably not the brightest thing to do? A warning like this would do the job:

"The site your are about to view is likely to contain lewd material. Our prediction is correct about 80% of the time. If you expose others in a public place to lewd material without their consent, you could be in violation of public lewdness laws. In addition, it is illegal to expose children under 18 to this material. Do you wish to continue?"

Not only would this approach help everyone obey public lewdness laws, it would help those who don't want to see porn avoid it, and it would still allow those doing valid research to override the censorware.

CIPA doesn't look like a monster to me. I'd rather fight DMCA.

This sounds more like a bug in the controllers inside the Flash cards than the actual choice of filesystem. Most Flash card formats (CompactFlash, MemoryStick, MMC/SD) contain a microcontroller that does wear-leveling and ECC. So, logical block zero of the device does not remain physical device zero if that block gets worn out. There are lots of references on the web discussing the microcontrollers in various Flash cards, for example this article (linked via Google cache because the original is a PDF).

These microcontrollers are precisely the reason why it is not a good idea to use these formats in devices that can be powered off suddenly. Look here (search down for "asynchronous power fail" for a mention of these problems. Elsewhere on the site (and in the JFFS author's other online comments), more discussion of this problem is available, including the JFFS author's own experiments.

JFFS works with MTD devices, which are flat Flash arrays with no microcontroller (and the JFFS author doesn't plan on supporting ATA-type Flash cards, although it appears others may be working on this). This gives JFFS complete control over journalling, wear-leveling, and error correction. It is able to do these things in a fashion that is robust in the face of asynchronous power failures. The microcontrollers in various Flash cards do not appear to be this sophisticated.

So, 1) it may not be the choice of filesystem that is the problem, 2) there are documented reasons for not using Flash cards in certain types of systems, and 3) JFFS (and JFFS2), even if they support non-MTD devices now, probably cannot safeguard against the problems in microcontroller-based Flash cards.

Parent is score 3, Informative when it's completely false? It's not that hard to paste the link and try it!

Umm, I did and it checked out. Try clicking on this. It contains exactly the quote that the parent says it does.

Well, with a little cunning I'm sure someone could easily attach one of these without anyone noticing. So, so much for trying to secure the box.
Course, it currently only works for PS2 keyboards.

What most likely stopped many power plants from actually being built is a powerful NIMBYism (not in my backyard) mentality in California that is in no way limited to "environmentalists." Almost no one -- neighborhoods, businesses, golf courses, hotels, etc. -- wants a power plant, a landfill, radio tower, etc. in their backyard. The environmental "extremists" that often oppose such projects no matter what, often team up with local citizens and businesses (i.e., non environmental extremists) to stop the project. However, many projects are stopped by NIMBYism alone (i.e., little or no environmental opposition was present). NIMBYism and Environmentalism are not the same entity, although NIMBYists often use environmental arguments and they
often enlist environmentalists and environmental groups for support. Ask yourself two simple questions: If someone proposed a new powerplant or new landfill near your neighborhood or business, would you try and fight it? Do you consider yourself a
liberal environmentalist?

... until we achieve practical nanotechnology or large-scale robotic assembly (both here and in orbit), that making space travel practical will simply be too expensive.

However, that having been said, making expensive incremental advances is the best we can do until then -- so we must keep plodding along.

But what I want to know is WHY haven't important advances like the linear aerospike engine developed for the X-33 been put to use? I thought NASA's job was to push technology forward, not to bury it. For those unaware of what a linear aerospike engine is, here's one small tidbit that helps explain its value: conventional rocket engines lose effectiveness as the ambient air pressure changes and must use expensive and complex nozzle geometry changes to minimize this. The linear aerospike maintains a near-constant efficiency from surface to orbit.

Before the X-33 program was folded amidst cries of bug-ridden technology and cost overruns (ostensibly due to a single fuel tank failure during testing -- remember the early problems with shuttle tiles? the Apollo 100% oxygen atmosphere that resulted in 3 deaths before everything was redesigned to become more flame-retardant? The X-33 fuel tank problems were a stalking horse designed to let the military take it over.), the linear aerospike performed flawlessly. And where is it now? Check the url above to see in what part of Boeing it resides.

And with the inherent weaknesses of the decades-old shuttle fresh in your mind, check out this link (originally from www.milnet.com, but now only available via the google cache) for the advantages the X-33 presented over the shuttle. The VentureStar might not have made as good a truck as the shuttle, but unmanned cargo rockets (like those the Russians do so well) are better vehicles to boost freight into orbit.

Perhaps when we have a Chinese space station passing over the US every ninety minutes the government will figure out that NASA has a role other than a place to take funding from to backfill budgets that cannot be supported on their own merits.

Eventually, when large scale robotic manufacturing and practical nanotechnology drive the cost of making things through the floor (assuming it doesn't bury us in grey goo), we'll be able to grow space elevators and put hotels and shopping centers in orbit (not to mention nanotech development facilities, zero-G hospitals and organ farms). Until that time, access to space will continue to be controlled/blocked by that servant of the people, the gummint.

Here is the full text of the Science article in PDF format. Use Google to parse this into HTML.

google cache

Once again, I am absolutely amazed at what this little thing called Open Source can do.

Just six years ago, an ambitious proposal was made to the world by a German university student named Matthias Ettrich. The goal of the project was to create a user-friendly, open source desktop environment similar to CDE, the Common Desktop Environment. CDE, at the time, was popular on Solaris and many proprietary Unix platforms. However, CDE's code base was closed and the Linux community was searching for a suitable replacement. Enough support built up that dozens of developers came together to create an entire desktop environment out of nothing. Over 20 months later, KDE 1.0 was released to the public. And there was much rejoicing.

Taking on Sun was an ambitious enough goal. But who would have imagined that Microsoft (Word document) (Google cache) would ever specifically name KDE as a viable competitor to Windows?

Microsoft may even start to get a little hotter under the collar if recent events are to show anything: Wal-Mart's on-line shopping site quickly ran out of their PC's built with a Linux distribution using KDE for its interface; most of the government computers in Largo, FL run KDE; and Apple implements a new Web browser based on KDE's KHTML library.

And if there is nothing else that the release of KDE 3.1 proves, it is that the naysayers are wrong again. All too often, there are those who try to suggest that there is some sort of heated conflict between the GNOME and KDE projects. Nothing could be further from reality. For example, on the Xdg mailing list prominent developers from both the GNOME and KDE projects work together in forming a consistent .desktop file standard. The people that actually make GNOME and KDE have nothing but the highest respect for one another's projects. There is none of the hostility that so many trolls would like others to believe.

It has just been wonderful seeing this release happen. I have been watching the KDE developer's mailing lists since July and I find it fascinating how the whole thing has come together. The graphics designers, the documentation writers, the translators, the event organizers, and, of course, the coders. All of these groups have been equally important in making KDE the enormous success it has become.

So, I just want to say thank you to everyone who made it happen. I just have to wonder what the next six years will bring!

Now all we need is Duke Nukem Forever and some flying cars.

I think flying cars will come first (Google cache - LATimes archived the article, and they want money for it).

Not so -- maybe in your state, but not everywhere.

The practice varies by state, as state law determined the right to vote within constitutional limits. According to this recent study 14 still permanently disenfranchise ex-felons. Forty-six disenfranchise inmates, and a slightly smaller number do so for those on parole/probation. According to the source, these add up to about 4 million people who cannot vote. The U.S. has one of highest imprisonment rates in the world, and certain groups are affected more than others (e.g., blacks, Hispanics, men, the poor). This practice may have given President Bush the edge in Florida, esp. if as alleged it was overapplied.

Vocab: Ex-felon is a kind of dated term for convicts who've done their time. I don't know of a better one offhand except the similar "ex-con."

There have been unsuccessful constitutional challenges to this practice. IMHO, having studied election law extensively, there is no sufficient justification: the right to vote is an essential democratic right -- and ex-cons get their other full civil rights restored on release -- and disenfranchisement is unlikely a serious deterrent from crime. Supposedly inmates and former criminals might "vote the wrong way," but that's as unproven as deterrent and the single worst reason because it excludes people from voting based on their imagined views.

html version is here.

Here you can find everything (or more) than you ever wanted to know about the genetic foundations of the feline fur color, including the tortoiseshell variation. The text requires a basic understanding of genetics lingo (homzygous, allele, recessive and the like).

HTML version of the same from Google's cache for those who don't like the .doc format.

Gee, if an accurate term becomes an insult, what is an accurate view of your profession?? Next, whores will be complaining that the term "Whore" is negative, and makes it seem like they sleep with lots of guys. Hello Boffins! You really are funny little men in lab coats.

I am a geek. I can write volumes about how to win at Civ. I program fractals in Perl. Calling me "Technically Adept" is just a polite way of saying "Programs fractals in Perl". Perhaps instead of Boffins we could call them "Logrolling patent whores". OOOH! I like the sound of that...

Besides, this is from Australia. They haven't had a big scientific breakthrough since Yahoo Serious put the bubbles into beer.

In related news, certain Quarks have objected to being labelled "Strange" by Austrailian scientists. "It's demeaning," said an unidentified quark, "How do you look at your kids and say, 'We're strange quarks honey.' Last thing I need is some funny guy in a lab coat imposing his own view of normalcy on my existence."

~Hammy
I've got a brand new release of PGP
You've got a brand new key...

You can still get the vendor/device list from Google's cache, though the last update in the cache is from October 28, 2002. The cache contains the main page, as well as some other useful data.

I suspect the wayback machine, while considerably slower, would have the CSV files and a few other items which the Google cache does not have.

Lastly, I agree with Jim that this is a really bad way for a non-profit group to act. I understand the pain of seeing someone you are supporting claim your hard earned work is somehow damaging to them, but suggesting that they'd like to have it anyway. Looking back it's easy to regret spending so much time on something which 'get[s] no respect'.

I hope that regardless of what PCI-sig claims or does, Jim finds a way to keep this valuable community resource available to those thousands who appreciate his effort, time, and money. I hope that it remains a free community resource. I hope that Jim isn't offended by Google's cache, and the possibility that others might continue his work, but I can't stand by and let someone destroy their creation to spite a third party, when that creation is of such value to so many others.

-Adam

You can still get the vendor/device list from Google's cache, though the last update in the cache is from October 28, 2002. The cache contains the main page, as well as some other useful data.

I suspect the wayback machine, while considerably slower, would have the CSV files and a few other items which the Google cache does not have.

Lastly, I agree with Jim that this is a really bad way for a non-profit group to act. I understand the pain of seeing someone you are supporting claim your hard earned work is somehow damaging to them, but suggesting that they'd like to have it anyway. Looking back it's easy to regret spending so much time on something which 'get[s] no respect'.

I hope that regardless of what PCI-sig claims or does, Jim finds a way to keep this valuable community resource available to those thousands who appreciate his effort, time, and money. I hope that it remains a free community resource. I hope that Jim isn't offended by Google's cache, and the possibility that others might continue his work, but I can't stand by and let someone destroy their creation to spite a third party, when that creation is of such value to so many others.

-Adam

Sorry, removed instantly.

Here's the google cache.

And then check out Pajonet!

For those that joke about this patch, I'll bet many of the same jokes were had about canned food in 1812 too. "Who would eat food that had been bottled up for a year? How unwholsome!" Well, look at you now. Does your town have a market where farmers bring their food for you to purchase or do you eat beans from a can? In 100 years or so, people will wonder aloud about why their grandparents troubled themselves with cooking food. They will point to their care free, perfectly ballanced nutition and contrast it to a former world population that was either obese or malnurished. Something will be lost, something will be gained, the methods will be improved.

I can almost guarantee this will be modded down for lack of recognition. How about:

Cornelius: "I feel so guilty sending her to do the dirty work. I know she was made to be strong but she's also so fragile... So human. You know what I mean?"
Bartender: [shaking head]

Google Cache of SearchKing's Google Page

I don't suppose this violates SearchKing's Terms of Use?

Of the pdf file

(In typical google-htmlized pdf style)

The above (in non-Google cache form -- I'm trying to be nice to the Debian servers!) contains a link to a script for those interested in rolling their own.

So, is "windows" a generic term, or not? Fair question. In 1968, Douglas Engelbart certainly thought of the desktop environment as windows. He created a "a windowed GUI" with a mouse and everything. In the early 70's (same link), Alan Kay gave us Dynabook and Smalltalk, which used overlapping "windows." In 1981, Xerox introduced the Star computer, which featured overlapping, resizable windows. Xeroc PARC called Star's interface a "WIMP" interface, for windows, icons, menus, and pointers. In 1982, Microsoft started introducing a windowed desktop, though it wasn't called "Windows" until November 1983. In the same time period, universities developed the "W Windows" system, which was quickly replaced with a new version called the "X Window" system (W to X. See where they went with that?) in 1984. The survey that MS introduced says that people think of MS Windows when you ask them what "windows" on a desktop means. Another fair survey question could be: given any GUI/WIMP interface, how many people would call it a "windows" interface? If most people generically identify any GUI/WIMP interface as "windows", then Microsoft's trademark term "Windows" is just as meaningless as Ford introducing and marketing a new vehicle called the new "Ford Car" (Yes, yes; we all remember the Renault Le Car).

apparently (as a few AC pointed out) things HAVE changed.

AC's: a simple 'yes, things have changed' is all you needed to say. calling people an idiot isn't helpful; this is about information exchange and not ego stroking (sigh..)

the single link dvi standard is still 1280x1024. and many/most dvi monitors UNLESS THEY SAY OTHERWISE will still only support 1280x1024 via the commonly-found version of dvi.

here's a link to some pics of single and dual link dvi connectors:

pictures

it still appears that unless you have a fairly new dvi card, single-link will STILL only resolve to 1280x1024.

that dualhead matrox card I referred to (g550) is dual head but single-link per each head.

Check the cache of the homepage, if you want to at least see the house. The image seems to be on another server.

Hydrostatic shock as it's called, is a myth. Yes, some energy from a bullet can be transfered in the form of a shockwave, but it's such a small percentage as to be discounted.

The only place of any authority I've herd the term mentioned it from the USAF gunnery range training personel, who claimed that the main gun in the A-10 warthog had enough energy to actually do this.

Now, I'm not saying if they're right or wrong, but to their credit, there is more possibility of it being true in this case, then from say, small arms fire, since the weapon they're talking about fires 30mm depleted uranium shells, designed to kill fully armored tanks from the air.

Other than the word of the gunnery instructors, I have no evidence to back up this being anything more than a myth either, though it is far more likley to be true than small arms.

Just out of curiosity, I looked up the weight of the depleted uranium shells (0.74844 kg or 1.65 Lbs), and their muzzle velocity (1067 m/s or 3500 Ft/s).

Then I converted the weight into grains and fed that into the calculator here. I got a result of 314102.56 Ft-Lbs. Convert that to joules and you get 425,865.873284 joules. Sigvigantly more than the 500 joules at the muzzle quoted for a 9mm hand gun shell.

Does this make it possible to have hydrostatic shock with this gun? I have no idea. I couldn't find the formulas. But we are talking about something with almost 1000 times the energy here. If it's not happening with that, it's not happening with anything.

This is what happens when I post right after waking up. I Rambel on without ever making a point.

Que será será.

Hey troll, why should I think you were even going to read the article, since you obviously didn't even read the whole post? The second sentence in the post refers to the Google cache that Hemos thoughtfully provided since he knew the server would probably go down.

Mirror here to the Sneakers script.

There were some yeast spores dating back 25-40 million years which were claimed to have been revived. Google's cached copy of the Time Magazine article from 1995

They used it to brew beer!

Now there's Procress Through Science!

Well actually... Bollywood produces more movies than the American film industry does. (See this link.) Indian movies have substantial audiences in the UK, the Middle East, Africa, East Asia and (randomly) Greece. Unfortunately, the vast majority of Indian films are crud. There's hope though... gems like Lagaan (Go see it. Really.)

Here's an article from Time 1998 talking about revenues of $4.2Billion with vivid videos having annual revenue of over $25 million here

My guess is these are not small fish but more medium sized fish. They may or may not be able to fight it out with these guys but anything smaller would not be worth the time/risk to their patents.