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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."

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I personally liked 2, but then I'm the type of person that prefers Action Quake 2 over Quake 3.
I think the series peaked with THPS3
Here's the THPS3 torrent, just for you.

HTML link. Don't you just love Google?

...or is it?

heres the non karma whoring link. mods, quit encouraging the trolls.

Google Cache.

Google Cache

Google Cache

Are they kidding me? The good of their soon to be exploited by MSFT lawyers arses -- that's for sure. The good of the Internet as a whole -- no way. That's security through obscurity in the most obvious and insulting form. It's a good thing that since they removed the information no one is going to know it... *sigh* I think they are insulting the intelligence of every Slashdot reader. What next? Are they going to remove the security focus articles they linked to as well? Is this madness ever going to stop? OK, I'll stop now. I guess I've read to many books about security to stay calm while being insulted this way. I'm sorry.

So rather than relying upon full disclosure, as practised by Bugtraq, etc, and hoping this will shame companies into fixing their buggy products. Instead we find problems and don't tell anybody so that the bad terrorists, err, people, don't find out?

I think this is appalling, and will happily offer before the google cache expires.

In case Google Canada gets slashdotted

here

Google Cache

" As seen on the Website: 9X Media offers the most complete line of multiple monitor products in the world including: patent-pending X-Top expandable multi-monitor displays that support from 2 up to 30 flat panels, X-Wall Video Walls, Multi-Screen servers, workstation grade computers, multi-head video cards and Multi-screen management software. I am drooling over the ten panel desktop display."

" As seen on the Website: 9X Media offers the most complete line of multiple monitor products in the world including: patent-pending X-Top expandable multi-monitor displays that support from 2 up to 30 flat panels, X-Wall Video Walls, Multi-Screen servers, workstation grade computers, multi-head video cards and Multi-screen management software. I am drooling over the ten panel desktop display."

" As seen on the Website: 9X Media offers the most complete line of multiple monitor products in the world including: patent-pending X-Top expandable multi-monitor displays that support from 2 up to 30 flat panels, X-Wall Video Walls, Multi-Screen servers, workstation grade computers, multi-head video cards and Multi-screen management software. I am drooling over the ten panel desktop display."

The MT-32 emulation project, which is an offshoot of the DosBox project recently received a cease and desist letter regarding the use of the PCM samples from the synthesizer. Normally this would be an open and shut case, but it just so happens that U.S. Copyright law (specifically 17 U.S.C. section 405) shows that Roland lost their copyright because nowhere did they explicity register it, and registering (or atleast copyright marking) was required before 1989. The MT-32, of course, was produced in 1987. You can find more details at the emulation forum on Vogons" In particular, read through this thread for Canadacow's response to Roland's lawyers, for the type of response that most lawyers probably don't expect from most programmers.

The MT-32 emulation project, which is an offshoot of the DosBox project recently received a cease and desist letter regarding the use of the PCM samples from the synthesizer. Normally this would be an open and shut case, but it just so happens that U.S. Copyright law (specifically 17 U.S.C. section 405) shows that Roland lost their copyright because nowhere did they explicity register it, and registering (or atleast copyright marking) was required before 1989. The MT-32, of course, was produced in 1987. You can find more details at the emulation forum on Vogons" In particular, read through this thread for Canadacow's response to Roland's lawyers, for the type of response that most lawyers probably don't expect from most programmers.

"Minigui a GUI for embedded Linux devices that offers a GPL alternative to QT/Embedded and other embedded guis has become a 'stable, viable alternative,' according to a recent Linux Devices article. Lots of screenshots on their site, including PDA apps, a web browser and a virtual console."

"Minigui a GUI for embedded Linux devices that offers a GPL alternative to QT/Embedded and other embedded guis has become a 'stable, viable alternative,' according to a recent Linux Devices article. Lots of screenshots on their site, including PDA apps, a web browser and a virtual console."

"Minigui a GUI for embedded Linux devices that offers a GPL alternative to QT/Embedded and other embedded guis has become a 'stable, viable alternative,' according to a recent Linux Devices article. Lots of screenshots on their site, including PDA apps, a web browser and a virtual console."

Google Cache of main page here

Isn't a microwave laser more succinctly known as a maser?

Yes.

Daniel

> But seriously, who checks out books at libraries anymore?

um, quite a few people

U.S. libraries circulate 1,947,600,000 items a year

Each day, U.S. libraries circulate nearly 4 times as many items as amazon

Five times more people visit U.S. public libraries each year than attend U.S. professional and college football, basketball, baseball and hockey games combined.

all from here (google cache) and here (original PDF)

And no, I'm not a library geek, I was just appalled at the naivety of your statement, and googled for those stats.

The mail box on this number is full... but the system let's you jump to all other mailboxes!

Listen to the message, go through the menu, hit 1 to access other mailboxes or you can use the company directory (Hint Hint) to leave messages for all your favorite ATA associates!

I believe the mailboxes are all 3 digit numbers, the number Dave Berry Posted is mailbox #104.

The mail box on this number is full... but the system let's you jump to all other mailboxes!

Listen to the message, go through the menu, hit 1 to access other mailboxes or you can use the company directory (Hint Hint) to leave messages for all your favorite ATA associates!

I believe the mailboxes are all 3 digit numbers, the number Dave Berry Posted is mailbox #104.

Sorry for the bad formatting. Here again:
ATA Board of Directors (Google Cache)
ATA Staff (Google Cache)

Sorry for the bad formatting. Here again:
ATA Board of Directors (Google Cache)
ATA Staff (Google Cache)

www.TheDevils.com

Here's the Google Cache for the Openoffice Homepage

Not only compiler-generated random stuff, but most likely also build dates and timestamps. The FreeBSD binary update project had to deal with these kinds of issues and have written a nice paper that discusses them (51k PDF, Google HTML version).

here

I stumbled across the page a feew weeks ago and found it intresting, but it seemed abandoned. (Availible to linux kernel 2.2 etc). Altso the page has disappered, google cache.

Has anybody tried to use robberhose, any experiense to share?

HyperSCSI /can/ be routed as it /can/ run over IP. Presumably you'd still need to translate HS/ethernet to/from HS/IP if you have HS/ethernet devices. (unless devices could simultaneously speak both HS/ethernet and HS/IP - quite possible).

Lossy transport: HS implements its own flow-control.

The biggest concern i'd have is the lack of an integrity check. Most modern link layers do have their own their own integrity check, but usually pretty basic - they can miss errors. (see Linus' story on how his sources at uni kept getting mysterious bit flips due to the server disabling checksums).

However, HyperSCSI apparently does have some provision for verifying integrity, as the docs mention there being a "hash check" of each window of data and the header contains a "digest" field. So if thats what it seems to be, a message digest of each window's data, then HS should be able to guarantee data integrity. (and as it can also do authentication, it should provide good bit of security too, depending on the message digest algo).

So:

IP capable? (hence routable) - tick
Flow control (deal with packet loss)? - tick
Data Integrity? - tick (probably)
Authentication? - tick (optional)
Free from overhead of TCP? - tick

Sounds like HyperSCSI could be /very/ useful.

Because google uses real instruments to run their server.

http://216.239.59.104/search?q=cache:bVeNqs6sdPQJ: http://eagle.auc.ca/~dreid+&hl=en&ie=UTF-8

so here's the Google Cache

(I'll just answer myself. I can find just as many references to inhabitable meaning habitable as vice versa .. I give up

Summary: Like an SUV Java code may run anywhere, but it is over-engineered for smooth roads^H^H^H^H^H^H^H simple programing problems

Google does

Google cache here

For one thing - this is strong stuff we're talking about - incineration is garuanteed. If it breaks up that might sound like an imporovement - but the it's like being shot with a shotgun. It may be loaded with pellets, or it may be loaded with solid rounds. You may spead the impact a little, but its the kinetic energy that'll kill you - and you still get all of that.

Not scared yet? Let's put this in perspective.

according to its website the Golden Gate bridge weighs 380,800,000 kg and spans 1966m. That's probably comparable to the weight/length ratio for a space elevator. It uses hi-tech materials, but it has to support its own weight across its entire length, and its going to be long! According to Nasa (google cache) the elevator is likely reach 36,000,000m. That's 18,311 times the length of the GGB

So taking the golden gate bridge as a guide, we can estimate the total weight of the cable at 18,311 x 380,800,000kg = 6.97 x 10^12. Seven gigatonnes - lighter than I expected.

How hard is it going to hit? Well, at least terminal velocity. I say "at least because the upper reaches will be going faster and have to be slowed by the atmosphere. Also the cable will be considerably denser than a human, so we can reckon it's terminal v as being rather more than a human's. Human terminal v is about 50m/s so let's go with that for the time being. We're being conservative..

Kinetic energy = 0,5 x mass x velocity x velocity
= 6.97294 x 10^12 x 50 x 50 / 2
= 8.716175 x 10^15 joules

And to put that in perspective, one megaton comes to about 4.184 x 10^15 Joules.

So if the cable came crashing down it'd release about 2 Megatons of kinetic energy - either as heat as it burnt up, or as shockwaves on impact.

Doesn't sound like much? Well, the Hiroshima bomb is reckoned as being 20 killotonnes yeild. So 200 hundred hiroshima bombs going off in a ring around the equator in fairly rapid succession.

and it it hits faster than that... well that's a square term. 100m/s give you 4 time the energy or 800 hiroshima bombs. 200m/s (not unreasonable) gives 16 times - 3,200 x hiroshima.

Don't get me wrong - I'd love to see a space elevator. Just let's bear in mind that this is dangerous