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It seems the images are still on Thurrock's site, he's just removed the links to them. EG: http://www.winsupersite.com/images/reviews/lh5048_ 02_05.jpg

there's the matter of printer cartridges, which the courts haven't seemed to have issued a similar slap-down on

True about the Courts.
Everybody else, however, is on the side of the Sandford, NC aftermarket company.
The North Carolina State Legislature passed a measure that gutted Lexmark's Prebate program.
The U.S. Copyright Office ruled that Lexmark's DMCA contentions were "without merit".

gewg_

there's the matter of printer cartridges, which the courts haven't seemed to have issued a similar slap-down on

True about the Courts.
Everybody else, however, is on the side of the Sandford, NC aftermarket company.
The North Carolina State Legislature passed a measure that gutted Lexmark's Prebate program.
The U.S. Copyright Office ruled that Lexmark's DMCA contentions were "without merit".

gewg_

20 some comments & slashdotted!

Here's the google cache:

Google Cache

Operating systems such as Windows and Linux have no facility for stopping data being written to the hard drive.

That's a flat out lie.

$ man mlock

When you have 8-12% efficient solar panels

8-12% is a little low. Current product cell efficiency are around 14-18%, and Concentrators w/ multijunctions get 30%. But who cares? Your car gets 15% efficiency in average use, nobody complains about that even thought you pay for the gas. Sun is free. The question is does 15% efficiency do the job? Yes. Even if it gets no better, it wouldn't matter.

six hours per day in the desert without trackers...on a cloudless day... In areas with more cloud cover, shorter days in winter, etc. the numbers drop off dramatically.

Wrong. The average insolation in the US is 6 hours of peak sun per day, no desert required (ie 6000 Wh/sq. meter per day). For a flat panel, the deviation from the best southern nevada site to the worst northern washington state site is only 2-to-1! The rest of the country is suprisingly small devation within this. See rredc.nrel.gov/solar/

Solar cells degrade by 2-5% every year and have a life span of ~30 years

Wrong again. Silicon solar cells degrade less than 10% over 25 years, and are garanteed by the manufacturer to not exceed this over a 20-30 year guarantee - compare that to any other product guarantee! Though, they are guaranteed for 20-30 years, their life isn't limited by it. (see Solarbuzz.com)

Then keep in mind that you have to keep all of those cells clean

Wrong. If you clean them verses do nothing you get a whopping 4% increase. Few people clean PV panels.

And to top it all off, when you cover large tracts of land with solar cells, that land gets less sunlight.

My roof doesn't seem to mind. What land? The average roof has 4-6 times the generating capacity of the average house. 1600 sq ft house = 148 sq meters. 148 m x 150 watts x 6 hours = 133 kWh/day. Average house power consuption 24kWh/day. Beat that with some other form of energy.

after a year with more than average rainfall causes refridgerators to cease functioning and food to rot.

Wrong. When is the last time you noticed the sun failed to come up (yes you still get power in overcast conditions). Further, home PV systems are designed using statistic based on the past 30 years of weather data (see rredc.nrel.gov/solar/). Ask somebody with PV, their power is WAY more reliable than the grid. In fact, most of the comminucation repeaters throughout the western US use PV for this reason.

Now if you come up with a calculation that if you completely covered the sunny state of Arizona with solar cells, it would still not be enough to replace just coal, you're on the right track.

Wrong. Solar is a reasonably dense form of energy wirelessly transmitted through a light "grid" in a usable form almost everywhere on the earth. If you wanted to compare space needed to produce all the electricity consumed in the US it would be a small 100 mile square (see picture for scale www.energycooperation.org/solarh2.htm). In fact studies have shown coal uses as much space due to the space required for strip mining. Try strip mining on top of your roof!

Repeat after me: It doesn't matter how much you are willing to pay. Solar and wind alone cannot do the job.

Wrong. What would it cost to pay for solar electricity? Try the cost of the Irag war. Seriously, do the math (including new military spending) and that would be enough over the next 3-5 years to t

asked [Neil Young] how he felt about Bob Dylan licensing one of his songs to a Canadian bank
Betsy Powell, Canadian Press

gewg_

Rough approximations based from this:

Uncompressed:
2MP = 4.32 MB

Thus
1MP = 2.16 MB

Thus
500 x 2.16 MB

Equals

1080 MB

So, I'd put it at basically over 1 gig for a single image. Then factor in things like compression etc, but that'd be my estimate.

1) the gold disk in each of the Voyagers

2) Rosettastones Rosetta Stone google cache: Rosetta Stone Cache

Sadly, no cache of google's cache of google, so if it gets slashdotted yer outta luck.

no, but here's a google cache

C) Invade Iraq and not kill so many civilians by being much more careful

In reality- It's a fucking difficult thing to do. Especially when the enemy you're fighting uses human shields. Not to mention every time a civilian dies because they get killed by a mugger or a Iraqi soldier, it's the US military's fault. At the end of the day, any dead people get stuck on the tally of whoever's in charge. (page 53)

D) Oust Saddam without invading Iraq (we do it all the time in other countries)

E) Lift Sanctions. Before we decided to impose sanctions after the Kuwait invasion, Iraq was one of the more prosperous nations. People were fed.

F) Find a relatively peacable solution to ousting the current regime. They do exist. For reference, see 1989: Germany, Poland, Soviet Union, Romania, Czechoslovakia

(btw- that's what we were trying to do for 10 years. We tried diplomatic means, didn't work, tried economic means, arguably made it worse, can't influence the population cuz the population isn't in control of shit. So we went to Plan D- take over.)

In reality- Saddam Hussein was one of the most brutal dictators of the 20th century. No, he didn't top Stalin or Hitler or Pol Pot, (yeah, our bad) but that doesn't mean we shouldn't come in and fix the blood that was dripping from his hands.

Here's the google cache.

Some physcists such as Alan Lasserby suggest mysterious forces can be explained by slight pertubations of Euclidean geometry on a universe-size scale. This could explain the anti-gravity force called "dark energy". Its thought to compromise 70% the "stuff" in the universe, but obliviated by a geometric explanation.

here

Ever heard of the "Gerald Bull Supercanon" project? If I where you I will not only be concerned about the legality of the project. By doing that kind of project you'll become an unofficial enemy of many industrial country's and that's the perfect scenario to finish like this guy. Is basic project wasn't mean, he just wanted to develop a cheap way to send payload in space but because he was helping enemy nations he got more than he bargained for. Even if he was a Canadian Citizen (I think) he wasn't out of reach of the Mossad...

Google's Cache

I was recently on Andrew Grygus's Microsoft page and your point certainly resonates.
It also brings to mind the "ESR and the printer" story.

gewg_

at roulette, by Edward Thorp and Claude Shannon.

>CP/M wasn't an option for IBM
link

gewg_

1) The open architecture standard of the IBM PC
2) Gary Kildall. MS-DOS was originally QDOS and QDOS (it has been shown) was a rip-off of CP/M.
Don't forget that Digital Research got the 1st go with the IBM suits and their NDA.
Had BillG not been there to scoop up the crumbs, the boys from Boca would have likely come back to Pacific Grove with their hats in their hands.

gewg_

What is/was the scandal? I'd like to know because I write them a check every month :/

In 2002, their European operations took a nosedive, and they had to borrow a wad o'cash to get things back together. I can't find any decent muckraking on the events, probably because the local paper is widely known to be a corporate tool (just ask these guys or these guys).

But here's one mention (2/3 down the page), and the local paper did mention the problems in a puff piece saying how great everything is now: turn off JavaScript to read without registration (google cache also requires you turn off JS).

Google's view pdf as html to the rescue. :)

actually check out my post below, but the Gnome Liberation Front may have been involved!
Check out these stories!

Pretty cool eh?

actually check out my post below, but the Gnome Liberation Front may have been involved!
Check out these stories!

Pretty cool eh?

actually check out my post below, but the Gnome Liberation Front may have been involved!
Check out these stories!

Pretty cool eh?

actually check out my post below, but the Gnome Liberation Front may have been involved!
Check out these stories!

Pretty cool eh?

I'm well aware that the EU has plans of a GPS type system, however it does seem a bit unfair that the United States foots the bill for virtually the entire world's navigation system.

Incase somebody's planning to publish it, I would like to (as I have done earlier) point to the RMS's essay: The Right to Read cached on Google here (incase gnu.org is down -- they're moving their machines to another location).

Some of you might have seen the essay earlier, but I think it deserves a much wider audience.

This is a must read for anybody worried about patent_laws/copyright_laws/DRM/DMCA/etc. It outlines a future scenario where a student can face imprisonment for sharing/borrowing books/software which she could not afford.

There was a time when one would've considered this scenario farfeteched. With the new draconian laws, unfortunately it doesn't seem so anymore. A *must read* for any concerned Slashdotter AND to these folks trying to paint a BRIGHT picture for the current legislative system.

Quotes:
For Dan Halbert, the road to Tycho began in college--when Lissa Lenz asked to borrow his computer. Hers had broken down, and unless she could borrow another, she would fail her midterm project. There was no one she dared ask, except Dan. This put Dan in a dilemma. He had to help her--but if he lent her his computer, she might read his books. Aside from the fact that you could go to prison for many years for letting someone else read your books, the very idea shocked him at first. Like everyone, he had been taught since elementary school that sharing books was nasty and wrong--something that only pirates would do.

---snip--

Later on, Dan would learn there was a time when anyone could go to the library and read journal articles, and even books, without having to pay. There were independent scholars who read thousands of pages without government library grants. But in the 1990s, both commercial and nonprofit journal publishers had begun charging fees for access. By 2047, libraries offering free public access to scholarly literature were a dim memory.

Copied and pasted the comment directly from a security presentation:
http://216.239.53.104/search?q=cache:Piev_YARt1sJ: www.hivercon.com/conf/archive/hc02/Arkin_IPTelepho nySecurity_HC2002.ppt+%22terms+%22Phreaker%22+and+ %22Hacker%22+to+come+closer+then+ever+before%22&hl =en&ie=UTF-8

Well, I can't say I've ever tried to install XP on such a machine, but this would suggest otherwise. Licensing is only applied per physical processor.

here, which OSDir likely copied from.

The beer served in the Beer and Whiskey League stadiums in spring 1882 was recognizably the American beverage we know today. Milder, lighter, and less bitter than older American ales or European beers, pale, effervescent, low in alcohol, and served very cold, it was a refreshment, meant to be drunk quickly. No longer part of the history of American nourishment, it was now part of the history of American entertainment.

World War II was no help either. Grain again became scarce due to the war effort of feeding hungry troops, along with the fact that a very large portion of our beer drinking population was overseas again forced the breweries to economize. Again they were forced to make the choice between less beer with more ingredients or more beer with less ingredients. Only this time they noticed an interesting trend - as the beer got lighter, more women were buying it. With that, most of you that have read this far already know the rest of the story. Let's just say that Classic American Pilsner was the beer that our forefathers drank before it morphed into the generic lifeless product that you find in 12 packs of cans everywhere today.

Just another day in the life of a sys admin!

Here's an interesting site (google cache) about black holes. I'm not sure how long it would take, but to an outside observer, it would seem like forever, relatively speaking. :)

Hmm. Wonder if Google has a cache of itself...

Yup.

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

I've been waiting for someone to exploit the following system for several years now. Maybe some intrepid slashdotter will do so soon.

Google's cache of layo.com outlines a procedure and mechanism to use plain old aluminum welding wire as a storage medium for hydrogen. No metallic hydrides need, no pressure storage, and a very small amount of hydrogen exists in the system at any one time... meaning lower explosion potential than even carrying around 20 gallons of gasoline under your car today.

Someone, please do something with this technology. Maybe someone can do a quick energy conversion analysis to see what the energy cost of doing this conversion is?

How would that explain the !seineewerasreenigneepacsten backdoor? I seem to remember IIS having that for about four years.

We found the last one put into an open source codebase in what? Less than one day?

Assumptions are meaningless. I can only attest to what I've seen in practice. Unless our coders, working for free, are better than the ones Microsoft can hire with all that cash, what exactly would you attribute the difference to?

The Freenet Project - index

The Freenet Project - faq

The Freenet Project - index

The Freenet Project - faq

try out Multi-aterm, the site is down right now, but until it's back up you can check out the google cache Multi-aterm has transparency, and tabs, and is pretty fast.

Google automatically caches nearly every site it links to :)

Like here.

"many workers own shares" its strange that they own shares but dont feel they can not aford health insurance.

"An estimated 15.2 percent of the pop-ulation or 43.6 million people were without health insurance coverage during the entire year in 2002"

source

it can't be handled by any input APIs (Win32/DirectInput)... it gets handled directly by the keyboard driver.

Close, but not exactly correct. It gets handled by "msgina".dll, which is loaded before logon, before anything else. msgina hooks the keyboard IO, and then traps any ctrl+alt+del presses before they reach other running programs. Modified versions of msgina.dll can be used to allow other programs to receive ctrl+alt+del presses.

This page gives a brief explanation of how things like Novell catch ctrl+alt+del, by replacing msgina.dll.

Damned site took down the article. Here is the Google cache

Google's attempt at showing the above Excel as HMTL

I remember an episode on the simpsons where they would make fun of brands like:

Sorny
Panaphonic
Magnetbox

Yet nothing happened to fox.

Will the microwave beams "cook" humans and animals?

No. This common concern arises from the everyday use of microwave ovens. Microwave power in an oven has five times or more the intensity of noon sunlight. Power beams can operate at, or less than, one-fifth of the intensity of sunlight or 4% of the intensity in a microwave oven. In addition, the tightly confined beams are directed to receivers, termed rectennas, erected several meters above restricted and fenced industrial zones. Beams can be turned off in a few seconds for unusual conditions. Outside the fenced area and under the rectennas, the microwave intensity will be far less than that allowed for continuous exposure of the general population.