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Are you telling me that This. Is. New?

God i believe even NASA got in on the R&D for this years ago. That said, i'll be glad when this actually gets into the market place, though i am concerned about a few saftey and energy concervation issues.

Are you telling me that This. Is. New?

God i believe even NASA got in on the R&D for this years ago. That said, i'll be glad when this actually gets into the market place, though i am concerned about a few saftey and energy concervation issues.

From what I understand of Trademark law there are a few rules which have to be followed in the United States:

1. Not in use prior to the origination of trademarks as a general term. (ie: "Windows" is a general term, "Microsoft Windows" is not. Microsoft's big problem is that they trademarked just "Windows". (If I remember correctly.) Therein lies the rub.) This is where the "Olympics" problem also occurs. Since the Greeks coined the phrase "Olympics" over 2,000 years ago - no one can claim to own the word "Olympics" and would be laughed out of court for trying to claim it. (However, again - you first have to go to court and be willing to fight for it in order to have it thrown out. And that is the catch. If you aren't willing to stand up to a bunch of bullies - then you get what you deserve. And that is why things are the way they are.)

2. Trademarks can be made to cover entire areas or everything dependent upon how the wording is done on the application. (See Apple Computer Inc.'s having to deal with the company who created the Macintosh Stereo Systems. Or look at the Beatles trademarking the "Apple" logo for their records. [Notice also that the Beatles' Apple logo isn't just the word but is also a pictograph. So that has to be taken into consideration as well.)

3. Trademarks have to be defended or they return to the general public. This is why you see so many threats of lawsuits. McDonald's is very aggressive in their pursuit of anyone who might have a name even remotely sounding like theirs.

4. Trademarks also can not become general terms. This is called "dilution of a trademark." This is also why people can no longer refer to making a copy of something on a copying machine as "Xerox'ing something" or "making a Xerox". Why colas sold in restaurants have to be distinguished by trademark name and not just as "cokes", and why you use a tissue and not a "kleenex". All of these companies had to fight to keep their trademarks from becoming so diluted in normal speech that they no longer were considered trademarks.

(Offtopic: I have a new idea for submitting stuff to SlashDot - integrated spell checker! Put it next to "Submit" and "Preview". I know I could have used one writing this up. :-) )

because headwize has already been slashdotted by techtv this month please use these google cached links: Notes on DIY Electrostatic Headphones Troubleshooting Electrostatic Headphones

because headwize has already been slashdotted by techtv this month please use these google cached links: Notes on DIY Electrostatic Headphones Troubleshooting Electrostatic Headphones

>Buried in every e-mail he sends is a hidden code that sends back a message every time the e-mail is opened.

Web Bugs are the largest reason I dont view html email messages.


>...that can detect computers that are online and then be programmed to flash them a pop-up ad

I remember reading about this on slashdot.org awhile back and thinking "crazy", but would someone really waste the time/effort to port scan millions of computers just to send a winpopup? Then it came one day. "Ding!" and my game starts to flicker back to Windows. "What the?!?.. oh." Messenger service got turned off ten seconds later.


Kenny

I dunno, a few other places that I would regard as more reliable and trustworthy on this issue than Slashdot posters seem to suggest that Pay As You Throw should at least be piloted in NYC. Even the EPA is for such programs...

See the site here.

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http://216.239.53.100/search?q=cache:i4tXkfSa-3sC: www.socallinuxexpo.com/presentations.php+&hl=en&lr =lang_en&ie=UTF-8

It's coming up real slow for me though... still hasn't loaded so I don't know if it will help anyone or not.

But it's worth a try.

Hmmm, how about this one?

thats mediocre though, cause it is still visible. For better fun, try THIS. Note that google cache doesn't actually look at the plaintext string, but instead looks at the cache. :)

Damn /. effect: Google Cache

Why isn't this +5 Funny yet? (I never seem to have mod points...)

The goal that's the same for all people is to have more children like yourself (both genetically and memetically, which includes religion). Everyone can peacefully pursue this goal for a while, and inevitably exhaust their resources. And then there's war, or starvation. ALL wars are essentially started by "young males looking for resources to attract and retain a mate".

(True, this planet has resources enough for many more humans than their already are, but no one waits until hitting the point of true exhaustion to start a war. There's a threshold of diminishing returns for your peaceful gathering operations where violently seizing your needs becomes an attractive proposition, despite the risks)

I hope some day it will be _Star Trek_ too. And I think it's plausible- trillions of people living in nonviolent harmony, distributed across the entire galaxy. Of course we might not call them human anymore, since they'd spent all day processing digital information from a small alcove aboard a giant grey cube, but that's the best future we can reasonably expect. The lives of the "Federation" just don't make sense.

... is here, since the site is refusing connections.

Note: Posting under a hack3d a/c to prove that i'm a karma donator.

64bit defined from the mouths of Digital engineers

I'm sorry to inform you that your precious Pentium is not 64 bit, no matter how many 32 bit ops it can do in parallel. While your p2 might be able to do 2 or 4 32bit ops, my sparc can do 4 or more 64bit ops, if everything works well. Troll.

Getting your history confused- it's not the Dang Dictatorship, it's the Dang Dynasty. Honest mistake, I'm sure.

The MIT students didn't quite get it right. Their gadget doesn't seem to have gain. The key insight needed for fluidics is that a jet of fluid can be diverted with a smaller jet coming in from the side. This allows building a fluidic amplifier.

Once you have an amplifier, you can do switches, gates, flip-flops, and other logic elements. Analog control systems, with fluidic sensors and amplifiers driving pneumatic or hydraulic cylinders, are also possible. When the inputs and outputs are pneumatic or hydraulic, it's often convenient if the control system is, too. Fluidic elements are very reliable, too - there are no moving parts except the working fluid.

One wierd fluidic application is this kosher public address system.

MS in blog parody takedown
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/28/27774.html

By Andrew Orlowski in San Francisco

It's a pity that Microsoft's Beth Goza, who we teased here last week, has taken down her weblog. Far from wanting to see it disappear, it ought be preserved in a time capsule.

But not only has Beth's blog gone underground - so has the parody which inspired our story. It's disappeared from no less than five mirror sites.

Even more extraordinary, a witch-hunt is on to find the perpetrator. One member of the PocketPC community says legal action is being threatened against the author, whose identity remains a mystery.

"The phrase 'it will soon be out of our hands' was used by one figure close to Beth," we're told.

It would be remarkable if Microsoft's expensive legal and public relations machinery were deployed in what is essentially a private matter.

And highly unlikely, too, as parodies are protected under the First Amendment.

Microsoft's approach to the press is singularly enlightened, when compared to say an Apple. The company takes barbs in good grace, and doesn't deploy feudal divide and rule tactics. It's never, to our knowledge, sued a journalist. Of course it has its favorite hacks, but in general the philosophy is - they're always going to be mean to us, they'll always be around: meanwhile, we have a message to convey, and stuff to sell.

Evil and elitist?
So were we being evil and elitist, as some of you suggested?

As I replied to Jonathan at StretchingThoughts.com, it's onlyelitist if you think that blogs are folks' only form of expression.

The king of webloggers Jorn Borger - he was the first to use the term and it's still the best - used to use a quote by Tolstoy in his Usenet sig:- "In human stupidity, when it is not malicious, there is something very touching, even beautiful... There always is." And there is something bewitching about Beth's ruminations such as " just for the record i like it when my foods touch" a line worth of Ralph Wiggum.

No, what's strange is when an attack on one blogger is perceived as an attack on blogging in general. That implies that there can't possibly be a quality threshold in blogdom, and confirms John Dvorak's worst fearsabout groupthink. This is an unnecessarily defensive reaction and quite wrong. If blogs are writing, there's good and bad writing.

Of course, John was being satirical, and he wasn't decrying blogdom: only the mentality that blogging is in of itself revolutionary and no criticism can be voiced, and no quality threshold can be drawn; that we must not differentiate between good and bad, because it's all somehow equally valid.

The parody itself was pretty mean and spiteful. But it's a parody. We hope that groupthink doesn't extinguish parodies, as they help us see that the Emperor has no clothes.

Please let us know if you've been contacted in relation to this investigation. And in the meantime, enjoy some other fine online journals by Microsoft staff:- which might be low on cheap laughs, but high on content:- min jeschwad, Inkblog, and more highlighted in this Kuro5hin thread.®

Kids, next time when you want to find the meaning for the (presumably) Spanish word "hupia", don't google, don't click on the third link and no, don't download the page even through Google's cache. You'll be violating a couple of copyright laws, not the least of which is the Copyright extension thing.

I mean, we still haven't seen any "Michael Crichton is dead at 58" trolls, have we?

The Link to the Google Cache is here, since it appears to have been /.

[09:30] <thol> poooH
[09:31] <poooH> thol
[09:31] <BaKaRi> poooH
[09:31] <poooH> tee he
[09:31] <BaKaRi> poooH
[09:31] <poooH> awww
[09:31] <BaKaRi> poooH
[09:31] <thol> ahahaah
[09:31] <s0lar1s> balaaeh nu
[09:31] <poooH> thol
[09:31] <BaKaRi> shit
[09:31] <s0lar1s> wtf

And that's just a little fragment of it. I'm really worried about these guys taking over the internet!!

even better, this is the link to google's cache without the damn word-hilighting.

Karma whoring is cool! But this really serves a purpose.

google cache of FAQ

Not responding, however here is the google cache.

Use total cost of ownership as a reason for your school, or district, to keep purchasing Macs. Print this page out, research it, and hand it to them, if you feel the need.

I work for a company that has a lot of customers in the education space, and sells a product that works on Windows and Linux. Both products offer almost the same functionality, but the Windows version has a much smaller learning curve than the Linux version. School districts will go with the Linux version because they find out they can get Linux for next to nothing. Sure, the initial investment might be smaller, but in the long run, you're going to spend more to either a) get someone on staff who knows Linux well, or b) learn how to use Linux yourself. I'm not bashing Linux, but if you've never used it before, it might not be the best choice of platform. I hope you can see how this relates to the Mac vs. PC debate in schools.

Here's the Google cache of the page on building a fog chiller.

This story has been up for five minutes and I'm already getting internal server errors. Here's a Google Cache.

Anonymous Coward writes 'There is a beautiful modern OS that has surfaced on the Microsoft site, and the homepage of someone who's just switched. More and more of these converts are around lately... pretty incredible."

Hey kids!

Want to engage in real-life Kompooter Forensics just like AP does? Follow these easy steps!

1) Go to Google's cache of the article, since it has now been pulled by Microsoft.

2) Now click on the link at the bottom of the cache page, which reads "Download the submission form in Word format." Whoops! Looks like those kid whizzes at Microsoft didn't actually remove everything!

3) Haven't made the switch to Microsoft yet? Word still new to you? No prob. Go to the 'File' Menu and select Properties while you are viewing the Microsoft Word document. Don't worry! No chmod here!

4) Peruse the tabs to uncover all of AP's 'personal data', including Valerie's zany new website. You go, girl!

Seems like Microsoft took down the page. (Here's the Google cached copy.)

Maybe Microsoft just created this page for Slashdot to link to. Instead of their marketing team putting in time and effort to create a real campaign, they put together some generic arguments and to see how well they fly over on Slashdot. Now they'll take the Slashdot arguments and turn them into a real campaign. Maybe I'm being paranoid, but Microsoft isn't stupid, and this thread gives them a lot of valuable information.

Here's the actual paper:

• Geographic Profiling: talk by Dr. Kim Rossmo
• cached copy of the APBNews article
• Discussion at NIJ (PDF file)

• Geographic Profiling: talk by Dr. Kim Rossmo
• cached copy of the APBNews article
• Discussion at NIJ (PDF file)

Here's the Google Cache, for when it dies

As always google cache rocks.

Thalia

The top of the front page currently says:

There are 3 registered and 1469 anonymous users currently online. Current bandwidth usage: 1370.04 kbit/s .

Google's cache from a month ago gives some perspective:

Click here to see who is currently online. Current bandwidth usage: 68.96 kbit/s

Armadillo Aerospace

Here is the cache of it on Google. :)

Google doesn't seem to have cached the actual thread, unfortunately.

MS has released the source code for their crown jewels. Unfortunately, that's not cool. MS released it under terms that are not only unacceptable, but amount to a booby trap. If folks read the MS code, they are ``contaminated'', unable to work on libre implementations of the same ideas.

Apple has released their code, with terms that many will find unacceptable. If you can't accept it on the terms they offer it, it's the same as not releasing it at all.

Imagine setting up a dozen machines at a conference or a LAN party and having them automatically self-configure their networking and discover each others services, without having to worry about subnet masks or a DHCP server.

Imagine not being able to do this because the APSL won't mix with the license terms of your distribution. Imagine not being able to do this because Apple decided that they made a mistake, and cencelled your license. Imagine Apple sueing the developers of (so far hypothetical) Zeroconf-libre, saying that they have stolen code from Rendevous.

Getting totally off-topic, the libre implementation should be known as either Krendevous or Gnondevous.

Chapter 1. PC Magazine

Chapter 2. The Register

Chapter 3. Security Focus

Chapter 4. Webopedia

Chapter 5. ibas

If you like stuff like this, try reading the disclaimer at the top of THIS Google Cache page... Even the great Google can get it wrong :-)

well since that link is /.

here are some cached links

well since that link is /.

here are some cached links

well since that link is /.

here are some cached links

well since that link is /.

here are some cached links

Obligatory Google cache, though it seems to be largely a picture collection, so it's not too helpful.

According to the news on this page, the URL posted originally belonged to jonnyguru.com. But, unfortunately, the Wayback machine's archive for that site goes back to just after it was displaced, so it appears we're SOL until the server comes back to life.

Oh well...

Use the google cache.

Palm Beach County suffers from massive corruption. From this report (using the Google .html cache because house.gov's .pdf crashes IE6 for some reason):

By a dramatic margin, the group most victimized in the Florida voting was African American Republicans. The new findings are stunning: African American Republicans who voted in Florida were in excess of 50 times more likely than the average African American to have had a ballot declared invalid because it was spoiled. Spoiled ballot rates also much higher for white Republicans than either white Democrats or African-American Democrats.

Remember kids, Democrats run Palm Beach County, they designed the "butterfly ballot", and yet somehow everything that went wrong in the 2000 election is all the Republicans fault. Yeah, right.

Machine voting might fix things, but if we can't see the source code I wouldn't trust it, not from these folks. Open Source is our best shot at addressing the trust issue.