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A quick google turns up this relatively recent report; from the first para:

The Iran Nonproliferation Act of 2000 (INA) was enacted to help stop foreign transfers to Iran of weapons of mass destruction, missile technology, and advanced conventional weapons technology, particularly from Russia. Section 6 of the INA banned U.S. payments to Russia in connection with the International Space Station (ISS) unless the U.S. President determined that Russia was taking steps to prevent such proliferation. When the President in 2004 announced that the Space Shuttle would be retired in 2010, the Russian Soyuz became the only vehicle available after that date to transport astronauts to and from the ISS. In 2005 Congress amended INA to exempt Soyuz flights to the ISS from the Section 6 ban through 2011. It also extended the provisions to Syria and North Korea, and renamed it the Iran, North Korea, and Syria Nonproliferation Act (INKSNA).

Link wasn't working for me, here's the google cache link http://216.239.59.104/search?q=cache:ISIp9BoucDYJ:loader.gadgetzone.com.au/Movies/July-2008/20-things-that-Windows-7-MUST-include.aspx+20+Features+Windows+7+Should+Include&hl=en&gl=uk&strip=1

Combating Corruption for Development: The Rule of Law, Transparency and Accountability PDF || Google Cache

Don't believe anyone.
Don't read your mail.
Make light of every word you hear.
Turn off your radio. Quit your job.
Do something different. Disappear.
Do something different. Disappear.

I have to say, it really is a super-computer, great for learning on.

http://www.old-computers.com/museum/computer.asp?c=602
(Link might not work so look at google cached copy from following URL)
http://216.239.59.104/search?q=cache:HkrZrUYOXy8J:www.old-computers.com/museum/computer.asp%3Fc%3D602+old+computers+hektor&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=1

Okay, not the EXACT same machine, but they sound the same.

See also these:
a summary of Graham Rawlinson's findings, as published in Aerospace and Electronic Systems Magazine, IEEE in January this year, and of course Wikipedia's page on Typoglycaemia.

This finding was originally reported by Graham Rawlinson while doing his PhD at Nottingham University in 1976!

http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=mg16221887.600

See also this cached page which also has an interesting discussion of the effect in other languages; it works in French and Spanish, but not in Finnish or Hebrew. Interestingly, I could recognise the language of most of the scrambled samples, and even read much of the French and Spanish without difficulty, and I'm by no means fluent in either.

Looks like it finally got Slashdotted, then. Google cache: http://216.239.59.104/search?q=cache:sqmddMByRAAJ:comixtalk.com/terrence_markswikipedia_and_you+http://comixtalk.com/terrence_markswikipedia_and_you

And ooh, whomever it might be that deletes those votes? I guess it must be the vote deletion fairy, since it clearly isn't an admin.

Or, you know, view it directly from Google Cache's HTML converter.

They were also shipping Wubi

Wubi on windows Marketplace (Google cache)

Agreed. Wikipedia seems to be charging in an odd direction in response to criticism, namely, to say "okay, so we need more control over who posts here". What they should be saying is "it doesn't matter who posts here, it only matters what they post".

What makes Wikipedia so valuable is that anything posted is (well, should be) examined on the basis of its own merit, not the credentials of the person posting it. If we wanted to listen to experts just because they're experts, we'd go somewhere else. Wikipedia is one of the few places where content successfully trumps credentials. (Note that experts are usually wrong anyway, as this (Google cached) New Yorker article points out: LINK)

The solution should be to make the integrity of individuals less important and the integrity of content more important, not the other way around. That's Wikipedia's USP and its key to value, and if people had viewed this clown's edits critically in the first place regardless of who he said he was, then the only news here would be that there's one more jerk in Kentucky than we previously realized.

f2 (born in Kentucky)

To clarify - the entry was deleted for falling into the category of "...unremarkable people, groups, companies and web content. An article about a real person, group of people, band, club, company, or web content that does not assert the importance or significance of its subject."

You can read the old entry at Google's cache until googlebot realises it's not there any more. The article is kinda miserable, and you can see why it was deleted; he simply isn't notable. Too many others like hime.

Personally, I laugh at the idea of games as art; art gets paid attention to for the first 15 minutes, or during comparisons. After that the only thing that matters is gameplay, and fun. That's why the Wii has been selling like hot cakes - who cares about the art? Gaming is a platform, not an artform.

Mine's already weighed in in favour of quality TV:

http://216.239.59.104/search?q=cache:tUwc--ua6H4J: www.ft.com/cms/s/f9368362-a742-11db-83e4-0000779e2 340.html+site:ft.com+%E2%80%9Ctell+the+BBC+that+if +they+are+going+to+help+Channel+4+with+their+switc hover+costs,+they+had+better+drop+crap+programmes+ like+Big+Brother.%E2%80%9D&hl=en&gl=uk&ct=clnk&cd= 1&client=firefox-a

Throughout all this, there is a perspective on terrorism that has been very substantially ignored. It can be summarized, somewhat crudely, as follows:

• Assessed in broad but reasonable context, terrorism generally does not do much damage.
• The costs of terrorism very often are the result of hasty, ill-considered, and overwrought reactions.

A sensible policy approach to the problem might be to stress that any damage terrorists are able to accomplish likely can be
absorbed, however grimly. While judicious protective and policing measures are sensible,extensive fear and anxiety over what may at base prove to be a rather limited problem are mis-placed, unjustified, and counterproductive

Wake up - this happens all the time (or at for politics, over the phone, in the US election runup).

In the midterm elections 2006 I found on reddit and some other websites:
1) Repeated automated calls made "important information about Lois Murphy," or another particular candidate. They would continue with explanations on this person's terrible policies - by which time most people had hung up. FCC says the originating party must be identified at the *beginning* of the message - in this case it was at the end. These collected on answering machines in droves and people reported being called in the night-time repeatedly, and being called after they hung up. The calls were actually made by the opposing party. Some media reported it without mentioning the originating party in an attempt to spin the story into a non-party issue.
http://216.239.59.104/search?q=cache:qXa897eiLfAJ: www.alternet.org/blogs/video/43955/+phone+calls+mi dterm+deceptive+LGBT&hl=en&gl=uk&ct=clnk&cd=1&clie nt=firefox-a
http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2006/11/6/02926/ 3087

"The cost of these robo-call campaigns isn't high, although the fines that may accrue to the NRCC may be. The problem is, of course, that they don't care how much they have to pay after they've won. This tactic is being used in 15 districts, which is the number that the NRCC believes it needs to hold the House. These are the 15 districts that they believe are so close that voter suppression tactics can change the outcome."

2) "We are calling on behalf of the LGBT [Society or whatever]" and they would like to thank [candidate] for fully supporting them in every way. These calls were not made by the LGBT group nor by the candidate. It was obviously aimed at those who feel queasy about LGBT - but it never said its actual origins. The originators claimed they really *were* doing it for the LGBT group. Scum.

3) Voter suppression calls which say you aren't registered validly and that you may be arrested if you attempt to vote. (Obviously targeted at key districts so that on the balance of probabilities, the party ends up ahead.) Obviously these ones didn't state their origin either.

The one thing it's missing is this (Google cached since the site isn't loading for me).

Well that and border-radius, but I can wait for that.

Lazy So-and-so Writes:

Well, I've always had my reservations about sending kids to schools after the 'fun' I had. Frankly, though its obvious, if teachers have de facto guardianship over your children then parents ought to have the right to vet teachers against any criteria they chose, i.e.: political opinions, social attitudes, appearance and anything else they see fit.

Whilst it is possible to home school your kids, that takes a lot of effort and in certain mandatory areas, a parent may not have sufficient ability to do so effectively - ie mathematics and quantitative sciences like economics and physics.

If parents were allowed to chose their kids teachers, then we'd probably have higher quality schools. I'm also in favour of raising salaries to reflect this too - most other professionals earn over £40k and so should good teachers.

Personally, I would vote for the removal of any member of the NUT from any school where I had children in attendance. For an objective review of this appropriately named union, see here:

http://216.239.59.104/search?q=cache:qBDKpG6o03sJ: www.dur.ac.uk/resources/dbs/faculty//working-paper s/WP-101-Feb06.pdf+left+wing+teaching+union&hl=en& gl=uk&ct=clnk&cd=3&client=firefox-a

Apologies for the state of the url, but it was a pdf and I didn't know how else I could post it here.

Political activism of any kind should be illegal for those employed in the education of children; as a means of reversing the harm these people have done, I would be in favour of retroactive convictions when the law eventually gets changed. This will have the effect of debunking every lie they have propagated and high time too.

Secondary schools *should* be selecting their pupils on ability, across a range of different skills. That doesn't just mean academic ability. I have a 99th percentile iq and was left with little choice but to follow the 'academic' route as there were no other realistic options. I was bored senseless and would far rather have persued a practically focused education, with academic work as necessary.

Call me what you will, philistine, facist, whatever. I don't care at all what you think.

By the way, perhaps this is taken out of context, but I doubt it. Follow the given url to verify.

Corwin (1970) describes
the tension teachers' face between commitment to profession and union as akin to a
"split personality".

I always thought the ones who were heavily into their union were a bit "wrong in the head". Now I know I'm not the only one who thinks that

Too bad they don't have a US Gov Image Google search as well, would have loved to see what "porn" would have returned. However a text search on "porn" returns almost only stuff about "child porn".

It also teaches you about interesting things, such as Dial-a-Porn, that porn will damage you and your whole family, that PORN can be a bad disease, that Porn can be a last name, or even that P2P actually means Porn-to-Porn (notice the name of the poster btw)

Google taught me new things again today!

This has happened, yes. Actually there are currently remote LOCALSYSTEM exploits out for Symantec AV Corporate and Symantec Client security. Looking back numerous big-name AVs and personal firewalls were vulnerable to 'shatter' attacks and vulnerabilities are still occassionally discovered in unpacking engines (usually just "zip bomb" type DoS but not always).

My all-time favourite exploit was for ThunderByte AV; this had strong heuristics and ran well on the lowly 486's of the era, but it achieved this by basically running the code(!) in a sandbox. I think it was 29A that worked this out and managed to bypass it, resulting in a virus that got executed by ThunderByte itself every time it was scanned :)

Then there was that release of Norton that wouldn't execute WIN.COM anymore if you turned the 'bloodhound' heuristics all the way up, thereby preventing windows from starting ...

If you have a TV licence for your house, then it covers all TVs within that house, as well as any and all TVs that can be powered solely from their own internal power source i.e. batteries at any other location. The iPod would qualify for that, so as long as you had a TV license at home (which you almost certainly would) then you'd be OK. If you didn't, then they might have to re-think things. That being said, it would only affect BBC programmes, as the license fee is only there to support the BBC as other channels are supported by commercials, so it would be entirely up to the BBC whether they even made their programmes available via iTunes.

Here's a Google-HTML-ised-PDF from the BBC website about some of the above.

Also, there has been talk - I think it's even been posted here on /. - of altering the TV licence to cover computers too, given that TV shows can be acquired (legitimately or not) through them, though I think it got smacked down at the time and I've not heard any more about it since.

http://216.239.59.104/search?q=cache:xSevAZ0lKYEJ: www.argeniss.com/research/MSBugPaper.pdf+&hl=en&cl ient=firefox-a

seems that whoever was running the server that paper was on pulled it presumablly because of the /.ing

Greets!

OK, up front, I work with Ted, I know him personally, I admire him a lot, so feel free to ignore this post if you want to continue your bigoted, uninformed opinions instead of learning something.

First up, Ted is NOT an uninformed old man - he is the reason, along with Bush and Englebart, that you are all sitting in front of interconnected computers.

Author of two of the most influential books of the computer age, Literary Machines and Computer Lib/Dream Machines (not available in print - I have a copy or two if people are interested), creator of Xanadu WHICH IS AVAILABLE as the Udanax project [site down - Google cache] in both Gold and Green versions.

Victim of a Wired hatchet job - see his reply here

You'll have to take his word for it, but he's pretty sure when asked how his ideas could be simplified, he answered "you could make links one way and use a back button". Familiar?

Everyone that talks about transclusion or linking is refering back to Ted's work.

So show some respect, inform yoursleves and then perhaps, just for once, an informed debate can occur on slashdot!

This discovery was made in 1999 at Trinity College Dublin? http://216.239.59.104/search?q=cache:GzTA7YEzxLgJ: www.trinitybiotech.com/data/press/17_07_00.doc+pyl ori+trinity&hl=en&lr=lang_en What's been done here that's any different?

Try the Google cache

Posted AC to avoid accusations of karma whoring..

http://216.239.59.104/search?q=cache:marc.merlins. org/perso/bm/2005/

Add a "&strip=1" to the google cache URL and you will not have to wait for the images to load (which won't happen the next hours):

http://216.239.59.104/search?q=cache:rqaS83p3KOIJ: www.flexbeta.net/main/articles.php%3Faction%3Dshow %26id%3D106+&hl=en&lr=&strip=1

And image/CSS style filtered here, in case the former text was a bit... small. :-)

http://216.239.59.104/search?q=cache:www.flexbeta. net/main/printarticle.php%3Fid%3D106&hl=en&lr=&str ip=1 An actual link that works. Enjoy!

Page 1

Page 2

Page 3

Page 4

Unfortunately, that's all google cached, but it's better than nothing.

Unfortunately, Coral only seems to have cached the error message about the database not being available, but here's the Google cache of the page. It's text only (naturally, since Google doesn't cache the images), but at least it allows you to read the article.

Google caches of the first 2 pages (the rest aren't cached):

http://216.239.59.104/search?q=cache:rqaS83p3KOIJ: www.flexbeta.net/main/articles.php%3Faction%3Dshow %26id%3D106+&hl=en

http://216.239.59.104/search?q=cache:Lr5cn6b1v2sJ: www.flexbeta.net/main/articles.php%3Faction%3Dshow %26id%3D106%26perpage%3D1%26pagenum%3D2+&hl=en

Google caches of the first 2 pages (the rest aren't cached):

http://216.239.59.104/search?q=cache:rqaS83p3KOIJ: www.flexbeta.net/main/articles.php%3Faction%3Dshow %26id%3D106+&hl=en

http://216.239.59.104/search?q=cache:Lr5cn6b1v2sJ: www.flexbeta.net/main/articles.php%3Faction%3Dshow %26id%3D106%26perpage%3D1%26pagenum%3D2+&hl=en

Since the site needs images to load: Google cached text only (don't click a link there)

Why Some Scientists Believe in God

2) Forcing people to find workarounds for X because there is a patent on X is a cost not a benefit to the people concerned. It is not necessarily of net benefit to society, for example, where the costs of finding workarounds exceed the licensing cost of the patent on X or otherwise where the massive legal costs of being sued even unsuccessfully anyway precisely because one has dared to try avoiding the need to licence the patent on X by working around it.

More importantly, there may not be any workaround because if software is allowed to be patentable, it automatically means that potentially any examples of deductive reasoning, classes of algorithms, and even general mathematical principles, are coverable by patents.

3) As a trainee patent lawyer, you should already know that software patents may not be explicitly approved as such in Germany and most other countries but they are trivially obtainable via the sneaky lawyer's ruse of expressing the patent in terms of a "circuit" which is mathematically identical to the software and which is then used to threaten software developers as if the patent were a software patent.

4) If software patents were strictly not valid (including the ruse of claiming a "circuit"), then by definition there would be no problems with the use of software patents.

5) As a trainee patent lawyer, you should already know the absurd reality is that software which exists as published code on websites is never searched by any patent offices when looking for prior art and deciding whether to grant a software patent. Once a software patent is granted, it is usually economically impossible for any unfunded open-source developer to fight any legal threats against his/her software, and although pro bono representation for IPR cases may be available in theory, it is extremely hard to get in practice.

Please have a read through the third thread of Anonymous Coward comments which is from the other link I posted and which covers many of the points in more detail.

Coral cache of the site.
Google cache
Mirrordot
Not that anybody round here would be reading the article though.

Skype is already slightly crippled because of an M$ patent covering 'the other person is typing'. They have not put in this very useful feature even though other clients have it and Skype is based outside the USA.

They also have a system that is directly affected by this patent. You can type an emoticon in a chat session and Skype will interpret it and display a custom emoticon instead of what you typed. Hello from Picassa/Google does this too.

Frankly, in light of the recent trashing of EU software patents I wish that Skype would just go ahead and put this feature in. Why should everyone in the world have to suffer crippled software because the US has a morally bankrupt patent office handing out nonsense patents like candy?

...it appears that Google is ready to support Internet Explorer 7.

Quack!

PDF here.

Google cache, but the pictures are worth seeing

Having Vienna on the /. front page is hilarious. As a former inhabitant of the world capital of alcoholism (my guess) I find this sentence especially funny: (wein) means wine in German, and has nothing to do with Vienna

The health report 2000 of the city of Vienna, and the report of the World Wine Congress in Vienna might correct you in these mistaken views :)

Having Vienna on the /. front page is hilarious. As a former inhabitant of the world capital of alcoholism (my guess) I find this sentence especially funny: (wein) means wine in German, and has nothing to do with Vienna

The health report 2000 of the city of Vienna, and the report of the World Wine Congress in Vienna might correct you in these mistaken views :)

Google Cache

Google Cache of the PDF in HTML..

http://216.239.59.104/search?q=cache:D7mbdKHrgJEJ: wilshipley.com/blog/WWDC_Student_Talk.pdf

I'm surprised you haven't been moderated down, laughed at or chased out of town by the fanboys...

Apple's Power Mac page speaks of four thermal zones and fans. I think that the present G5's have nine fans inside the box (source; highlighted by Google). It's a weird world of DRM that the cooling fan controls which operating system used...

(oh, and the other other uses the Qwerty Smartboard!!)

Contrary to popular belief, qwerty wasn't invented to slow typists down, but to ensure the most often used keys are evenly distributed around the keyboard, thereby avoiding jams and speeding typists up.

From http://www.independent.org/newsroom/article.asp?id =356 :

"In 1956 a carefully designed study by the General Services Administration found that QWERTY typists were about as fast as Dvorak typists, or faster."

Dvorak himself played a large part perpetuating the myth that qwerty was designed to slow typists down, as he had a lot to gain from his Dvorak patent.

http://216.239.59.104/search?q=cache:BDEMdBwaoucJ: www.dvddecrypter.com/index.php%3Fact%3Ddownload+&h l=en/ At least at present, the mirror links present on googles cache of the download page are still live...

The Konqueror team don't have access to the Safari code, at least not in a form they can use.

According the the summary, half of the patches were taken from Apple. They might not have access in ideal form, but it's better than nothing.

It means in future open source projects will know what's coming when Apple decide to get "involved".

If Apple didn't base Safari on KHTML, Konqueror wouldn't be Acid2 compliant now. From TFA:

All in all not a bad reuse of code, allthough slow.

The developers understand that something small is better than nothing at all.

A key KDE developer has very publically burnt out on KHTML because of Apples actions

I assume that you are referring to this. The developer was pissed off yes, but not at Apple. He said for example:

They do the very, very minimum required by LGPL. And you know what? That's their right.

The point he wanted to make was about the people complaining that the KDE developers were being lazy and not porting Apple's changes, without realising that the porting was a non-trivial task:

All I'm asking for is that all the clueless people stop talking about the cooperation between Safari/Konqueror developers and how great it is.

Overall everyone has benefited, but this doesn't stop some people complaining anyway.

Cuba is not a democracy, but despite crushing US sanctions it still manages to give basic health care and education : Health and Education: Cuba Vs. the United States