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  1. Re: Compression by the+real+darkskye · · Score: 1 · on The Real Reason why Spirit Only Sees Red

    As mentioned here (pdf, google-converted, orriginal pdf here) the rovers use The ICER Progressive Wavelet Image Compressor, which according to JPL (googlified de-pdfing again, original here)
    Both lossless and lossy compression will be used, depending on how critical or scientific the data is.
    The 2nd pdf goes into depth about how the algorthims are used and is probably an interesting read for someone who has a greater understanding of maths and compression techniques ;)

  2. Re:The real math of filesharing by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on Dealing With Copyright Online: Porn v. Music

    This *might* be the original source:
    www.bootleggedbarf.com/ (google cache).
    "Even if not the cool kids, at least we'll have hooked the pervs. And as a wise men said, "If you can't lead the intellectuals, then at least lead the perverts. There are far more of them, and most of them are the intellectuals." OK, nobody ever said that. I just make shit up."

  3. Re:WRT54g MiniPCI card: Google cache by egghat · · Score: 2, Interesting · on Mini-PCI Wireless Cards from Desktop to Laptop?

    Google Cache of Page 1
    Google Cache Page 2

    Images are missing though.

    In Europe ripping the Mini PCI card is (IIRC) the only way to get a Linux compatible Mini PCI 811g card. I haven't found a distributor for one of the few available prism based mini-pci cards in Germany.

    Bye egghat.

  4. Re:WRT54g MiniPCI card: Google cache by egghat · · Score: 2, Interesting · on Mini-PCI Wireless Cards from Desktop to Laptop?

    Google Cache of Page 1
    Google Cache Page 2

    Images are missing though.

    In Europe ripping the Mini PCI card is (IIRC) the only way to get a Linux compatible Mini PCI 811g card. I haven't found a distributor for one of the few available prism based mini-pci cards in Germany.

    Bye egghat.

  5. Oh for God's sake by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Informative · on Guide to Digital Preservation from NIST

    Here is the same thing posted anonymously. Mod up this one instead if you feel so strongly about it.

  6. Re:There is an important upside to the system by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on Student Fights University Over Plagiarism-Detector

    Ummm no it is not. And this says so.

  7. Re:Flo Fox the seventy year old spamming granny by dizzyduck · · Score: 2, Funny · on Oscar Screener Leak Traced

    Am I the only one that finds it "out of character" for a guy who will be 70 years old in 10 days to be the one that leaked the film?

    Anyone remember Flo Fox? A seventy year old spamming grandmother. Those OAPs aren't as innocent as they look you know.

    ajc.com appears to be down, but here's the Google cache copy

  8. Sigma Designs? by polyp2000 · · Score: 2, Informative · on Kiss Technology Counters MPlayer GPL Arguments

    What is Sigma Designs relationship with Kiss?

    I found reference's to Sigma Designs alleged GPL infringment on the web sigma infringement

    That article is relating to a file called "khwl.o" not sure what it does, but after looking at an ascii dump of the KiSS kernel I found references to it .

    khwl.o

    Sigma

    I started looking through the Ascii dumps of these files. Someone more qualified than me ought to take a closer look because Im seeing stuff that looks like code from a bunch of different sources in their, Maybe some of it is on different licenses but I am seeing possible stuff from things like NXClient, Microwindows and a bunch of other interesting looking stuff.

    The initial thought was that Sigma designs (they seem to make Multimedia Chips & Hardware etc) maybe supplied KiSS with drivers for their chips and this got merged into the code without them knowing. That might mean that Sigma are mainly at fault here.

    nick ...

  9. HTML versions by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on Colorization of Mars Images?

    I can't be the only PDF hater out there, can I?

    The description of each as well as the numbering scheme is available from the Athena instruments website at Cornell University

    For a better description of the filters themselves, and of the way they plan to (and have *BEGUN* to) calibrate the images, check out several different publications.

    (yes, the "publications" link was HTML in the parent, but I've kept it in anyway).

  10. HTML versions by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on Colorization of Mars Images?

    I can't be the only PDF hater out there, can I?

    The description of each as well as the numbering scheme is available from the Athena instruments website at Cornell University

    For a better description of the filters themselves, and of the way they plan to (and have *BEGUN* to) calibrate the images, check out several different publications.

    (yes, the "publications" link was HTML in the parent, but I've kept it in anyway).

  11. HTML versions by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on Colorization of Mars Images?

    I can't be the only PDF hater out there, can I?

    The description of each as well as the numbering scheme is available from the Athena instruments website at Cornell University

    For a better description of the filters themselves, and of the way they plan to (and have *BEGUN* to) calibrate the images, check out several different publications.

    (yes, the "publications" link was HTML in the parent, but I've kept it in anyway).

  12. Re:Are there any known MD5 collisions today? by equilith · · Score: 1 · on Finding MD5 Collisions With Chinese Lottery

    To get some perspective on this, there aren't a lot of crypt() collisions. Tom Perrine and Devin Kowatch of The San Diego Supercomputer Center found only one crypt() collision that they categorized as "real": $C4U1N3R collided with SEEKETH. There were also 24 that were a result of characters in some passwords having the high bit set -- crypt() strips off the high bits.

    Their Teracrack project (pdf; html) used a different approach: leverage their huge amount of high-speed network connections and storage space.

    Royce

  13. Re:what they REALLY said by bstadil · · Score: 1 · on Israel Suspends MS Office Purchases For Now

    Help File

  14. Re:poor guy by johnteslade · · Score: 5, Informative · on Learning About Full-text Search
    The site is still slashdotted. Each of his papers are on separate pages so here are the google caches of the individual papers:

    I have to write some crap at the end here so i can get past the "Your comment has too few characters per line" error message.

  15. Re:poor guy by johnteslade · · Score: 5, Informative · on Learning About Full-text Search
    The site is still slashdotted. Each of his papers are on separate pages so here are the google caches of the individual papers:

    I have to write some crap at the end here so i can get past the "Your comment has too few characters per line" error message.

  16. Re:poor guy by johnteslade · · Score: 5, Informative · on Learning About Full-text Search
    The site is still slashdotted. Each of his papers are on separate pages so here are the google caches of the individual papers:

    I have to write some crap at the end here so i can get past the "Your comment has too few characters per line" error message.

  17. Re:poor guy by johnteslade · · Score: 5, Informative · on Learning About Full-text Search
    The site is still slashdotted. Each of his papers are on separate pages so here are the google caches of the individual papers:

    I have to write some crap at the end here so i can get past the "Your comment has too few characters per line" error message.

  18. Re:poor guy by johnteslade · · Score: 5, Informative · on Learning About Full-text Search
    The site is still slashdotted. Each of his papers are on separate pages so here are the google caches of the individual papers:

    I have to write some crap at the end here so i can get past the "Your comment has too few characters per line" error message.

  19. Re:poor guy by johnteslade · · Score: 5, Informative · on Learning About Full-text Search
    The site is still slashdotted. Each of his papers are on separate pages so here are the google caches of the individual papers:

    I have to write some crap at the end here so i can get past the "Your comment has too few characters per line" error message.

  20. Re:poor guy by johnteslade · · Score: 5, Informative · on Learning About Full-text Search
    The site is still slashdotted. Each of his papers are on separate pages so here are the google caches of the individual papers:

    I have to write some crap at the end here so i can get past the "Your comment has too few characters per line" error message.

  21. Re:poor guy by johnteslade · · Score: 5, Informative · on Learning About Full-text Search
    The site is still slashdotted. Each of his papers are on separate pages so here are the google caches of the individual papers:

    I have to write some crap at the end here so i can get past the "Your comment has too few characters per line" error message.

  22. Re:poor guy by johnteslade · · Score: 5, Informative · on Learning About Full-text Search
    The site is still slashdotted. Each of his papers are on separate pages so here are the google caches of the individual papers:

    I have to write some crap at the end here so i can get past the "Your comment has too few characters per line" error message.

  23. Re:poor guy by johnteslade · · Score: 5, Informative · on Learning About Full-text Search
    The site is still slashdotted. Each of his papers are on separate pages so here are the google caches of the individual papers:

    I have to write some crap at the end here so i can get past the "Your comment has too few characters per line" error message.

  24. Re:poor guy by johnteslade · · Score: 5, Informative · on Learning About Full-text Search
    The site is still slashdotted. Each of his papers are on separate pages so here are the google caches of the individual papers:

    I have to write some crap at the end here so i can get past the "Your comment has too few characters per line" error message.

  25. Re:poor guy by johnteslade · · Score: 5, Informative · on Learning About Full-text Search
    The site is still slashdotted. Each of his papers are on separate pages so here are the google caches of the individual papers:

    I have to write some crap at the end here so i can get past the "Your comment has too few characters per line" error message.

  26. Re:poor guy by johnteslade · · Score: 5, Informative · on Learning About Full-text Search
    The site is still slashdotted. Each of his papers are on separate pages so here are the google caches of the individual papers:

    I have to write some crap at the end here so i can get past the "Your comment has too few characters per line" error message.

  27. Re:poor guy by johnteslade · · Score: 5, Informative · on Learning About Full-text Search
    The site is still slashdotted. Each of his papers are on separate pages so here are the google caches of the individual papers:

    I have to write some crap at the end here so i can get past the "Your comment has too few characters per line" error message.

  28. Learning from Japan by fluor2 · · Score: 3, Interesting · on TV Execs Go Gaga Over Gaming

    Well. I've seen various game-related programs, and they all have the samme issue; they only test _new_ games, and are not focused on how many gamers tend to stick to pretty old games, and try improving in those. This is of course not that easy for game-tv, since they won't get any commercials for old games...

    I think the numbers speak for themselves:
    TOP NETWORK GAMES:
    Half-Life (probably 99,9% Counter-Strike) Battlefield 1942 Jedi Knight 2 Unreal Tournament 2003 Medal of Honor: Allied Assault Diablo II etc.. I guess StarCraft is pretty high too..

    In Korea they've learned that they have to focus on this.

    "How big is Starcraft in Korea? Many people have said how big it is in Korea, but could you give us a more in depth description?

    -Being a professional gamer is nowadays one of the most popular and respected carrer in high-school (among boys... of course:).
    -The finals of the Ongamenet tournaments are broadcasted on Cable TV and they break viewership records, almost reaching the records of national TV stations.
    -A few professional gamers are recognized in the streets by normal people. "

    (from this article.)

  29. Another 3d creation system by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative · on 3D Modelling From a Sketch

    This one using Squeak (Smalltalk) [Google Cached]

  30. This happens all the time by zoeblade · · Score: 1 · on King of Fighters Censored for Stateside Release

    Remember, the Japanese version of Mortal Kombat II had to have green blood instead of red in it. There was probably a reason.

  31. Re:The actual specification... by Beautyon · · Score: 1 · on Music Industry Develops Centralized File-Sharing System
    I am not implying it, THEY are implying it:
    The hand of God touching the hand of man has come to be widely recognized
    as a symbol of the relationship between humanity and God.

    which came from here

    and its of course the famous painting from the Sistine Chapel.

    Uncut conceit. Period.
  32. Bad law: even "manual" spam is covered by divec · · Score: 1 · on UK Spam Law Goes Live

    IMHO the law should not apply to emails which are written and sent to a single recipient. For example, I think it should be legal for me to send my CV to a company, attached to a personalised email. The thing to outlaw is "bulk" spamming, whereby multiple emails are generated by a process which is primarily automatic.



    Unfortunately, the law (see Google's cached version, section 22 - HMSO seems to have been down for days)
    appears to make no such distinction: sending a single email without prior permission to someone you don't know is just as illegal as sending 100,000,000. [IANAL, though]

  33. Re:Partial Mirror by zontroll · · Score: 3, Informative · on 2003 Videogame Holiday Gift Guide

    Google did cache the second page for each console:
    Gamecube
    PS2
    XBox
    Handhelds
    PC

  34. Re:Partial Mirror by zontroll · · Score: 3, Informative · on 2003 Videogame Holiday Gift Guide

    Google did cache the second page for each console:
    Gamecube
    PS2
    XBox
    Handhelds
    PC

  35. Re:Partial Mirror by zontroll · · Score: 3, Informative · on 2003 Videogame Holiday Gift Guide

    Google did cache the second page for each console:
    Gamecube
    PS2
    XBox
    Handhelds
    PC

  36. Re:Partial Mirror by zontroll · · Score: 3, Informative · on 2003 Videogame Holiday Gift Guide

    Google did cache the second page for each console:
    Gamecube
    PS2
    XBox
    Handhelds
    PC

  37. Re:Partial Mirror by zontroll · · Score: 3, Informative · on 2003 Videogame Holiday Gift Guide

    Google did cache the second page for each console:
    Gamecube
    PS2
    XBox
    Handhelds
    PC

  38. Re:google cache by zontroll · · Score: 1 · on 2003 Videogame Holiday Gift Guide

    real google cache

  39. Google Cache by Pingular · · Score: 2, Informative · on 2003 Videogame Holiday Gift Guide

    Gaming Horizon is currently hosting a feature that informs gamers on what to buy this holiday season. The 2003 Holiday Gift Guide presents twenty-five titles per console including the Microsoft Xbox, Sony Playstation 2, Nintendo GameCube, PC, and HandHelds.

  40. Google Cache by Pingular · · Score: 2, Informative · on 2003 Videogame Holiday Gift Guide

    Gaming Horizon is currently hosting a feature that informs gamers on what to buy this holiday season. The 2003 Holiday Gift Guide presents twenty-five titles per console including the Microsoft Xbox, Sony Playstation 2, Nintendo GameCube, PC, and HandHelds.

  41. Re:I'm sure this will come up by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on DeCSS: Jon Johansen Retrial Begins

    That's true, it's been all around the news for a while now.

    Consult Google News.

    He released the code in his blog (site is currently down, google cache is too old). I'm not sure, but his site hasn't been available for several days.

  42. Re:Why oh why PDF formatted docs? by tokul · · Score: 1 · on Novell's Certified Linux Engineer

    The only way to get more information on this topic from the SuSE website is to download the PDF formatted docs.

    Read the FAQ (google)

    Find out more (google)

  43. Re:Why oh why PDF formatted docs? by tokul · · Score: 1 · on Novell's Certified Linux Engineer

    The only way to get more information on this topic from the SuSE website is to download the PDF formatted docs.

    Read the FAQ (google)

    Find out more (google)

  44. Re:If you want RHEL but can't afford it... by Realistic_Dragon · · Score: 4, Informative · on Redhat Reports 90% Return Subscription Rate

    And they have asked not to be linked to on slashdot... guess that's why you posted it as an anonymous coward!

    From the website:

    (One immediate problem will be bandwidth. The Beauregard Parish Library is a small parish (county) library in rural Louisiana with a single lowly T-1 connection to the world. Even with BitTorrent, serving up six or seven full ISO images will get insane very fast if the word spreads very far. So PLEASE! For the love of all that is Good, Holy, Just and generally pleasing to the Great Penguin, DO NOT SUBMIT THIS PAGE TO SLASHDOT!!)

    The Google mirror is here for the curious who want to view the site without killing their bandwidth.

  45. Google Cache by Pingular · · Score: 2, Informative · on Fiber to the People: Lessig, IEEE & AFNs

    Larry Lessig articulates some infrastructure observations based on work by the IEEE & Cornell AFN Institute regarding 'end-user-as owner' (EUO) advanced fibre networks.

  46. Google Cache by Pingular · · Score: 2, Informative · on Fiber to the People: Lessig, IEEE & AFNs

    Larry Lessig articulates some infrastructure observations based on work by the IEEE & Cornell AFN Institute regarding 'end-user-as owner' (EUO) advanced fibre networks.

  47. Google Cache by Pingular · · Score: 2, Informative · on Fiber to the People: Lessig, IEEE & AFNs

    Larry Lessig articulates some infrastructure observations based on work by the IEEE & Cornell AFN Institute regarding 'end-user-as owner' (EUO) advanced fibre networks.

  48. Re:I wonder if... by shirai · · Score: 1 · on Batteries Continue To Suck

    Speaking of lightbulbs, here's the truth about the physics of light. The article is titled "The Truth About Light Bulbs" which details the "Dark Sucker Theory." By the way, notice that the URL is at Novell.

    Word Doc

    Google's HTML version

  49. Audiopad by LeoDV · · Score: 3, Informative · on Tangible Interfaces for Computers

    A concept like this one has already been explored at MIT with the Audiopad (Google Cache), used to make music but really could be used as a new, innovative kind of interface.

    What I'm waiting for is for someone to combine that Linux HD of the PS2 and the EyeToy into a Minority Report type interface.

  50. Google Cache (as much as I could get) by Pingular · · Score: 0, Redundant · on Debian Can Now Amend Social Contract, DFSG

    The Debian Project, creators of the Debian GNU/Linux distribution, has votedto allow amendments to their Social Contract and Free Software Guidelines, as long as the developers agree with a 3:1 majority. The full text of the various amendments can be found in the original call for votes. Debian developer and XFree86 packager Branden Robinson has already proposed an amendment to the Social Contract that removes the requirement to maintain an archive for non-free software or "contrib" software (free software that depends on non-free software to work). Debian could still maintain this archive, but would no longer be required to do so. The proposal also updates the Social Contract to clearly require all works in Debian to meet the Debian Free Software Guidelines, not just software, which had come up repeatedly in the discussions over the non-free "GNU Free Documentation Licence". Both of these updates have been under consideration for some time, but were waiting on the ratification of the amendment procedure. The Debian Project voted on this amendment using their modified Condorcet voting procedure, which allows voters to rank the choices in order of preference, eliminating the "lesser of two evils" effect common to simple majority voting."