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Now that I have your attention, I'll let you in on a little secret: to get tenure at MIT you have to have a ton of publications and citations. There ain't no other way, no matter now much money you raise. The esteemed Professor Hawley is a case in point: raised millions, but was denied tenure. On the other hand, some folks you might not have heard of, such as Pattie Maes, Justine Cassell, Ted, Adelson, Neil Gershenfeld, Steve Benton, Sandy Pentland, Roz Picard, and others I can't think of at the moment, have earned MIT tenure, published influential work, and graduated PhD students many of whom teach and train PhDs at well known schools.

Disclaimer: I got my PhD at the Media Lab, but I don't teach or train PhDs at any well-known school.

The page is Slashdotted - here's a Google cache..

As other posters have already mentioned, the Air Force already has an anti-satellite missile (ASAT) launched from an F-15.

The US ALMV system was tested twice in 1984, firing interceptors but not against targets. Its first and only test against a satellite was performed on October 13, 1985, when it destroyed an aging Solwind satellite in a 555 km orbit.
Google cached article

Here is a link to a google cache of the summary.

And it looks like a lot of people agree: (Google Cache)

-matt

Just in case, here is the Google cache of Google.

I just love how it has the disclaimer "Google is not affiliated with the authors of this page nor responsible for its content."

Having robots with human features can enhance its ability to communicate. A prof from Carnegie Mellon gave a talk about museum robots who roamed a set area offering tours etc. The robots were more successful in both getting and holding peoples' attention if they were programmed to display a face.

You're proposing a browser that's not even out of beta for corporate use? I wouldn't consider that a particularly good idea

Oh really.

Why You Should Switch to FireFox

"Further improvements to IE will require enhancements to the underlying OS"

Secunia Internet Explorer System Compromise Vulnerabilities. Solution: "Use another product"

The Twenty Most Critical Internet Security Vulnerabilities IE: Number four.

"we are not aware of any vendor-supplied patches for this issue"

Patch for 'critical' IE vulnerability doesn't work

IE full of holes, unsafe: Security experts

AMS Vice President and CTO: Mozilla Firebird is a Tier 1, Best of Breed Open Source Application

I don't care if it's a beta. Firebird/FireFox/Whatever is simply a better product than IE in every conceivable way - with the pertinent exception of branding, but including stability and security. So what exactly makes its use at a corporate level a "bad idea?"

Jobs versus Eisner & Gates. Hmmm. Eisner is under attack by the Disney family (having kicked the Son off the board, effectively) and has had a high profile contract loss (Pixar itself). Gates is reviled and ridiculed by roughly the same people since Greenspun made his Bill Gates Personal Wealth Clock; this hasn't hurt him much at all. Jobs is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma (without the genocide). Pixar had a disappointing earnings report

Will Time Warner choose sides?

Speaking of which, will this Internet/Media marriage have as much impact as TimeWarner/AOL? if so, this is non-news.

Actually, I'd contest that - I don't think Linden Labs is a very small company. I know that they have been significantly and independently funded, and I can see their fact sheet mentions they have 25 employees, which is a reasonable size.

I think the question of who owns entire continents or islands is more related to how many blocs of land Linden want to release to the public, rather than how much it costs for the physical servers - if the world gets too large, the players will get too far spread out, and keeping demand high keeps things exciting. But it could well be a mixture of the two, of course.

A google cache link is available here.

Think about the implications of THIS!

Google owes this guy $1,000,000.

That said, some have expressed disbelief that there is a German hip hop scene at all. There is but it is similar to the US where what you hear on the radio is crap and in order to hear what is really going on you have to keep your ear to the underground.

Lots of cool stuff coming out of Hamburg Hannover and Berlin.

Check out: Fettes brot (Some would argue this is crap from the radio, meh!), Fischmob, Stylemonstarz, Absolute beginner, Ferris MC.

check out these links:
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It didn't take long for some to trot out the usual arguments about Wikipedia: "How do they keep out the trolls and kiddies?" etc.

Wikipedia has spent a lot of time outlining those very questions on their Replies to Common Objections page. Or, if all of you hose the very delicate servers, here's the Google cache version.

By the way, on the announcements page this morning, it was explicitly said, "Please, do not tell too many people about this, our current server cannot handle the extra load." So, uh, thanks all you Slashdotters... ^^;;;

from: +blonde +thirtysomething +"blue eyes" -kids +"36 24 36" -smoker +5'11" +model +"into geeky guys"

to: +blonde +thirtysomething +"blue eyes" -kids +"36 24 36" -smoker

Still no results. But, if you hyphenate thirty-something, you'll find there is someone for you after all! :)

cLive ;-)

Port 25 is blocked inbound for me still. It's been blocked since Aug 2002.

This goes to show the ports are blocked because of windows worms:
Cox port blocking

Here's the google cache of the sco site for when the virus takes over.

SCO, killing orphans and nuns since 1999.

Nathan Sawaya built a life size replica of Han Solo frozen in carbonite.

Does it contain Harrison Ford?

Could it be modified to contain Harrison Ford?

And this is redundant, but it is slashdotted already.
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The end of the universe happens on January 19, 2038 anyway. We've known this for years.

Just to be clear, the pilot (actually, the Captain) Michel Asseline lived. He was convicted of manslaughter and sentenced to prison, but it is unclear whether he served any time. January 30, 1990 Risks Digests indicates he lost his French Pilot's license for 8 years and was flying in Australia at the time (1/30/90).

It also looks like he saw a UFO in 1975 (Google Translation)

See Re:Traditional Boeing vs. Airbus debate for links to the accident reports. There is some controversy over whether someone tampered with the black boxes.

I tried to determine if Michel Asseline was ever a test pilot, but did not find evidence of that. Googling for michel asseline "test pilot" results in 3 hits, only one of which is relevant, which leads to http://www.geocities.com/landroval.geo/airbus-j.ht ml, which is not found, but the Google Cache says:

COLMAR, France, March 14 (Reuter) - A French court on Friday sentenced the pilot of an Airbus airliner which crashed at a 1988 air show, killing three people, to six months jail for manslaughter with another 12 months suspended.

The verdict vindicated Airbus Industrie , the plane's makers, blaming human error and irresponsibility by operators Air France for the disaster.

The Air France A320 ploughed into a forest and exploded into flames on June 26 1988 after a very low altitude pass over an airfield at Habsheim, near the eastern city of Mulhouse, killing three of the 130 passengers.

At the trial, pilot Michel Asseline blamed the cockpit computer displays and said the flight recorders had been tampered with. But the prosecution said he and co-pilot Pierre Mazieres had recklessly endangered the passengers' lives.

Mazieres was given a one-year suspended sentence.

The prosecutor called Asseline ``a reckless daredevil who tried to prove out of pride he was as good as a test pilot''.

The defence failed to show that the flight data and voice recorders had been rigged. Experts testified that the plane crashed because it was pushed beyond its mechanical limits.

Three other officials, including Air France's director of flight operations at the time, the state-owned airline's then security director and the organiser of the air show, received suspended prison terms of six months or less.

Asseline and Mazieres declined to comment on the judgment or say whether they planned an appeal as they left the court.

Air France was declared liable for the accident and ordered to pay undisclosed damages to victims of the crash.

The prosecution said Air France had regularly run low-altitude demonstration flights with passengers aboard in violation of civil aviation regulations.

``Airlines should be transporters, not circus performers,'' expert witness Michel Bourgeois told the court.

Jean-Claude Boetsch, a spokesman for an association representing victims and their families, said he thought the sentences were misguided and too heavy.

``As far as the court is concerned, the verdict is clear and the case has been proven, but in our view there is no proof. The plane is still partially in question, but the stakes are so high that they preferred to make one man pay rather than the system,'' Boetsch said.

The association supported the pilots' accusations of a shortcoming in the aircraf

...it's a Windows XP machine.

Google cache here.

of the preface to the article.

MySQL Ruby Interface
Google Cache here.

Google's your friend

oops, I goofed, that's a link to the first movie
use this one instead

Mods: please mod parent down, and this up. :-)

Google caches for the MovieMistakes.com stuff:

Fellowship of the Ring

The Two Towers

Sorry, Return of the King isn't cached yet...

Google caches for the MovieMistakes.com stuff:

Fellowship of the Ring

The Two Towers

Sorry, Return of the King isn't cached yet...

Use the google cache

• Rhapsody: 250,000
• MusicMatch: 150,000 (scroll down - it's in the body of the article)
• MusicNet: 175,000
• Napster: 80,000 (read this recently, can't find the source at the moment)

A) Sounds nice, but even without a torrent, using an open source hash algorithm (client and server agree on how to calculate the hash) would provide a way for the client to only download the hash value itself to check for freshness.

This way,
1 the author knows how many people have consumed the data and their general geographic distribution.
2 the author can make a decision to stop publication, which problematic but at any rate easier to enforce than if he or she starts out authorizing a torrent.
3 the author is free to pay for bandwidth if he or she will happily serve one per user just not a zillion per poller.

B) To be sure, it is easy to see who publishes an RSS feed / incites a Torrent download over somebody's infrastructure, whereas it is not so easy to discover the identity of an anonymous coward. You could also publish a pseudo-RSS feed itself exclusively over the torrent network using sequential filenames for more anonymity maybe..um.

C) Personally I have a current need for frequently updated RSS for a certain application and I'd set up a server that my internal network clients would poll frequently. But I'd still need for one machine to know the instant things change on the web too.

D) I'm wondering if a hierarchical network of servers might be useful here to publish event notifications. UDP is lossy, and we don't want to lose any events so that's out I guess. In NTP, various strata of time servers are used and clients try to sync to Greenwich time (light data) by the best route available. In NNTP, a client usually uses only one news server to get a fat feed, and different server owners often choose to handle only a subset of what's available in the whole world, which might also be the case (try serving every event of importance to someone in the world.. what is the bandwidth needed for that? How many bits to describe it in ip-like dot format?)

Probably there is another service that does what I'd like and it just flew out my left ear, but it just seemed to me that the best thing would be to combine the lightweight NTP network which lets clients synchronize their understanding of time despite general flakiness, and the NNTP network which allows different servers to decide to serve only certain segments of the worldwide aggregated feed.

And SIP does a lot of things that might be useful. And there is MDS (metacomputing directory service for the "semantic grid" - pdf / google's html). And there's Jini ..

Anyway we do want to know some things with at least one minute resolution. (A storm watch? A news headline so we can turn on the TV or video stream?) At TV stations I know people constantly are watching the TV out of the corner of their eye to see if something earth-shattering comes up. How about a chime to tell you to look instead? How else to people get First Post? ;) I'd just like to beat normal notification systems for current events and website updates, for starters, based on a relatively robust and timely mechanism.

Maybe a low bandwidth network with some of these characteristics would be useful to distribute update event notifications that filter down to everyone's devces. A big company could have one or two machines consuming a global event notification thread, add events only it knows about, and serve this information on a push or pull basis to all its employees. Hmmm, tasty. Come to think of it I want something like that for another project too, Does anything already do this?

One interesting paper (2001) I found is on an emergency notification network based on subscribe/notify messages over SIP, a widespread voice over ip prot

A Google Cache Link for the Microsoft-challenged. (Is it that HARD to offer a PDF version of a document?!)

sounds like a story I read on IBM and powerpoints. Went along the lines of person X in PM would have a better chance than person Y of promotion by producing a *gee whiz* talk, along with accompanied powerpoint ... then on the basis of the talk, etc being promoted leaving their mess behind.

Ahh.. The beauty of the google cache:

http://216.239.57.104/search?q=cache:XGH4CP6G74sJ: www.interestingprojects.com/cruisemissile/+A+DIY+C ruise+Missile&hl=en&ie=UTF-8

• Rhapsody: 250,000
• MusicMatch: 150,000 (scroll down - it's in the body of the article)
• MusicNet: 175,000

Here's a copy of Google's mirror

Haven't you heard the expose of dungeons and dragons? See here.
It says that DnD is the Occult! [/sarcasm]

If you have a look at google's cache of that page, it states at the top "These terms only appear in links pointing to this page: miserable failure". So apparently there are a hell of a lot of pages that like to Bush's bio that have the term "miserable failure".

However strangly enough if you search for "miserable failure" and link:http://www.whitehouse.gov/president/gwbbio.ht ml you get no results!

Actually, it's the second link, not the first, at least when I do the query, YMMV.

And, if you load the (cached version), you'll see that Google doesn't rely entirely on the search term being in the page, it can appear on links pointing to the page.

Thus, we have links with the phrase "miserable failure" pointing to this page, and, not surprisingly, it is a highly rated page, so it show up first or second in the results.

No conspiracy here, move along.

Has this guy got a clue about budgets?

Sorry, I'm sure to get modded as a troll for this, and I'm jazzed about our space programs getting money they need, but I'm also more terrified of the condition this country is going to be in under Dubya's rule.

I mean, if you haven't seen this chart, check out:
Bush's Budget Deficit (Google cache, an original is at http://dean-justinspoliticaljournal.cafeprogressiv e.com/4239a600.jpg)

$87 billion for Iraq, tax cuts aplenty, and now he wants space ships too? Oy.

Google Cache to the rescue!

If the photos dont show up, refresh the picture, and it should load.

Here's the google cache, which is a text format of the pdf:

http://216.239.57.104/search?q=cache:OuHNJeCwdWUJ: www.btexact.com/docimages/42270/42270.pdf+introduc tion+of+ID+cards+in+the++site:btexact.com&hl=en&ie =UTF-8

and HTMLified.

The incident mentioned dealt with a car that is TEN years old. I think that predates Windows CE.
From the story - "Thai Rath said Suchart got the 10-year-old car two days ago as a replacement for his regular Mercedes Benz, which was in the garage for repairs."
Here's the google cache link for the article from the "Eye on Thai Press" website - cached news story

Well, what ever THEY are running, it doesn't look like it could handle a slashdoting. Here's the google cache of the article.

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In mid-September, a rumor was reported that Ford was "considering" a switch for servers. Somehow that turned into a rumor of a massive desktop migration.

A few weeks later, Ford announced they were NOT going to switch desktops to linux (google cache, original article off-line now). Ford specifically mentioned just signing a 3 year contract with Microsoft. Perhaps the rumor was used as legerage to get a better deal from MS, or perhaps it was just the case of wishful thinking and sloppy reporting.

Here's slashdot's coverage with more links. Notice the update, posted several hours later (probably long after most slashdot readers had long since stopped seeing it)... with the link to a newsforge story, aptly titled Ford move to Linux not true (yet). It was all a rumor that got blown out of proportion.

While it's probable there isn't any other sentient life out there, it's also probable that our efforts to explore our surroundings are affecting or destroying living and non-living celestial evidence.

They can't BOTH be probable. I doubt that the places our probes crash/land are the only places where evidence of life exists. However that would be an amusing irony.

It reminds me a bit of this Lunar Lander precursor.

Also I think those fish are apocryphal.