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Apparently, it will conveniently interface directly to your brain, so there may be no need for a separate appliance. They issued a press release that unfortunately seems to be down on their site right now, but the following is from a Google cache of it:

Vancouver, Canada - The International Association of Brain Interface Technologies (IABIT) is pleased to announce a US$10 million fund for the study and advancement of Brain Interface (BI) technology. The fund will issue one US$500,000 grant and two US$250,000 grants each year for ten years beginning in 2007.

Brain Interface refers collectively to the disciplines known as Brain Machine Interface (BMI), Brain Computer Interface (BCI), Direct Brain Interface (DBI), and Adaptive Brain Interface (ABI). BI is technology through which computers interface directly with the brain. In the field of medicine, the technology being developed promises miraculous advances that will someday enable persons with spinal cord injuries to regain mobility, blind persons to regain vision and deaf persons to regain the ability to hear. While medical applications are at the forefront of BI research, other commercial applications abound. Over the next decade, BMI technology is expected to revolutionize the video gaming, film & television, medical, and defense industries to name a few.

"BI researchers around the world are making quantum leaps forward and the field of BMI technology is poised to explode," says Nigel Malkin, Director of IABIT. IABIT is a not-for-profit organization founded to enable the sharing of resources, knowledge and technology that will serve to advance the BI industry as a whole while at the same time affording the highest level of respect for proprietary knowledge and technologies. "We are thrilled to have this fund at our disposal to contribute to the advancement of BI technology," says Malkin. Grant recipients will be chosen by a panel of member peers spanning several BI-related industries.

you cant fit an entire solid state in a laptop.
you have to liquify the state before it can compress to an appropriate size.
liquid state = taxachusetts.
2 petabytes of pure liberal slime

Do thiry Helens agree?

How is a sex offender defined? I'm thinking there could be a whole range of sex offenses, from minor infractions to major ones.

It varies from state to state, here's the law for Tenessee (PDF, Google view as HTML). Of those I'd say a good chunk of the ones hit for statutory rape aren't horrible sex offenders but someone a few years out of the legal age difference. They're pretty much harmless, but they have to register (for life). Incest could be another one where it was consensual. (Yes I know it's not exactly normal but if it was consensual it's unlikely they're going to go out and rape someone.)

Here's some of Oregon's list of crimes that qualify on their history page. Back in 1995 there's these gems:

• Misdemeanor sex crimes are added to the list of offenses that are not eligible for petition to set aside a conviction.
• Changes are made to include juveniles who commit sex crimes including mandatory sentencing and remanding to adult court.
• Lifetime registration for juveniles is enacted with the ability to petition for relief from registration after 10 years.

It doesn't look like they repealed that since, so all misdemeanor sex crimes in Oregon land you on the sex offenders list.

Here's South Carolina's list, they list peeping/voyeurism and indecent exposure regardless of age. If you got busted mooning someone as a kid, in SC you're a sex offender.

Florida's list is mostly really bad sex crimes, but "794.05 Unlawful sexual activity with certain minors" says that if you're 24 or older and have sex with someone 16/17 you have to register. If you were just 23 then it's OK and you weren't a sex offender.

And that's the best I can do right now, a lot of the state sex offender sites don't make it easy to find what crimes qualify for listing. Often you have to go read the text of the laws, and they don't always link to the laws either. If you live in the US you might want to try to dig up the list for your state so you have some idea what gets someone listed in your area.

Try the cache.

Maybe I wasn't clear enough in my first post. Fundamentally, I have no problem with India spending their own money how they want. But while they are accepting international aid, I do.

If you reread my original post, you'll see that I don't advocate massive infusions of cash, so I don't know where you got that idea from. What I'm saying is that India should spend their OWN money more wisely. And I agee with you that money isn't the answer, it's down to rooting out corruption, building infrastructure, education, and inspiring people. But moonshot addresses only one of those four items.

When a country starts doing stuff like moonshots and nuclear missiles, they've well and truly joined an elite club of nations. As far as I'm concerned at that point ALL aid should be cut off.

Take two minutes to read this :

http://64.233.161.104/search?q=cache:jDa-SrO-6sYJ: www.globalpolicy.org/socecon/ffd/2003/0708india.ht m+international+aid+to+india&hl=en&gl=us&ct=clnk&c d=1

and in particular read the last two paragraphs, and you'll see what I'm getting at : India is moving in the right direction, and rightly so, but they are doing it somewhat at the expense of leaving basic infrastructure behind.

That's what I see as being a mistake.

Once India stops accepting ALL international aid, then they can truly say that they are on their own. In the meantime though, it's a case of talking the talk, but not walking the walk.

But all said, no, I don't pay taxes in India, but some of the taxes I do pay DO end up in Indian coffers via aid, so I don't give I flying fuck whether any Indians, or you, give a flying fuck what I think.

Josh Marshall, at Talkingpointsmemo http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/ has a pointer http://www.tpmmuckraker.com/archives/001944.php to the google cache version http://64.233.161.104/search?q=cache:chTn88IH384J: www.conquestgroup.com/ContactUs/Contact.cfm+%22con quest+communications%22+and+contact&hl=en&gl=us&ct =clnk&cd=1&client=firefox-a of Conquest Communications' contact page. When I called 804-358-0560, I got an electronic voice giving a list of two digit extensions counting up from around 24. I picked a random one, politely gave my (real) name and (real) phone number, said I had heard about the robocalling and wondered if they guy had any comment. I hope he calls me back!

There are two points

I am quite sure that Wikipedia would accent an article on relativity written for them by Einstein or on Cosmology by Hawkings. So the fact of a theory article being written by the author of the theory as grounds for not being accepted is pure hogwash. Of course, I can imagine all of the first year physics student trying to correct Hawkings.

But this is typical of Wikipedia, since many political and religious beliefs, etc. are written and described by opponents and non-practitioners. Wikipedia is not the place for information about controversial subjects. Imagine a Wikipedia article on the character and morals of George Bush. 'nuff said?

The point is if the theory is accepted widely enough to merit unadulterated inclusion.

On the other hand, if the theory had been entered and written with disclaimers in front (not accepted, non-mainstream theory, at variance with mainstream research, etc) it probably would have remained. The main problem is that it did not proudly proclaim its lack of status, and it seemed vaguely reasonable to the inexpert in the field. Of course, you can still see it in the Goggle Cache for awhile.

The main problem is that personality is likely much more complex then what is proposed in the article, even if you accept the basic premise of a genetic basis for personality. The theory itself would likely be more appropriate to the early 20th century

Konica Minolta and Fuji Xerox

Fuji Xerox presents Windows(R) Vista Compatible Prototype at PDC 2005

http://64.233.161.104/search?q=cache:KeYr-YmH3ooJ: neosmart.net/dl.php%3Fid%3D1+http://neosmart.net/d l.php%3Fid%3D1&hl=en&gl=us&ct=clnk&cd=1&client=fir efox-a yay...

StarTrek: The Next Generation to $1.5 million per episode.

http://tinyurl.com/p44l9

http://64.233.161.104/search?q=cache:RtvA1N2r6sgJ: home.earthlink.net/~scific/nextgen.htm+star+trek+n ext+generations+budget&hl=en&gl=us&ct=clnk&cd=9

How's this?

Africa showed evidence of brain surgery as early as 3,000 B.C. in papyrus writings found in Egypt. "Brain," the actual word itself, is used here for the first time in any language. Egyptian knowledge of anatomy may have been rudimentary, but the ancient civilization did contribute important notations on the nervous system.

Google Cache is great for the forum thread.


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The Atlanta Journal-Constitution had an article (google cache if needed) about georgia's dead zone about two weeks ago,
and claimed that the solution in this case was actually quite obvious:

Verity and other scientists who have researched similar changes worldwide say they can sum up the cause in a single word: people.

As more homes, condominiums, marinas and businesses are built on the coast, pollution increases in tidal creeks and estuaries. Treated sewage discharges and storm water runoff carry fertilizers from lawns, golf courses and farms and oil and other pollutants from pavement and rooftops.

"We need to stop what we're doing now and either mitigate or reduce [the impacts] because we're going downhill in a hurry," Verity said.

---------------
Other bits of the article follow....

For 20 years, a scientist near Savannah has taken weekly water samples from the same dock, giving him a composite snapshot of the estuary's health.
Pieced together, the view goes from good to fair and getting worse. Peter Verity's data tells him the estuary --- where rivers wrestle with the sea --- is in trouble.
Dissolved oxygen, the breath of life for shrimp, blue crabs, oysters and fish, is declining at an alarming rate. Within 10 years, Verity, a professor at the Skidaway Institute of Oceanography, predicts there won't be enough left for the sea life we love to eat. Those creatures will be replaced by jellyfish, which don't need as much dissolved oxygen and feed on the type of organisms that grow in a polluted estuary, he says.

Verity's already witnessed change. Between 1987 and 2000, his sampling showed a 70 percent increase in jellyfish.

Verity and other scientists who have researched similar changes worldwide say they can sum up the cause in a single word: people.

As more homes, condominiums, marinas and businesses are built on the coast, pollution increases in tidal creeks and estuaries. Treated sewage discharges and storm water runoff carry fertilizers from lawns, golf courses and farms and oil and other pollutants from pavement and rooftops.

"We need to stop what we're doing now and either mitigate or reduce [the impacts] because we're going downhill in a hurry," Verity said.

Verity presented his dissolved oxygen research in June at an international conference of his peers and published it this month in an academic journal, Estuaries and Coasts. His bottom line: Georgia's bays and inlets, lined with tidal marshes now teeming with infant and juvenile sea life, is headed toward hypoxia, a dead zone incapable of supporting shellfish and fish.

Hypoxia is already severe at times in the Gulf of Mexico off the Louisiana coast and in the Chesapeake Bay near Washington. An associated problem, harmful algae blooms that release fish-killing toxins, has affected virtually every coastal state, threatening human health and dealing economic blows to seafood industries worldwide.

Suprise Suprise the site went down from too much traffic. Google's cache of the site: http://64.233.161.104/search?q=cache:gAsRRVo3HUcJ: www.om3ga.co.uk/+www.om3ga.co.uk+google&hl=en&gl=u s&ct=clnk&cd=7 Enjoy

I'm not sure that answers the question. Many die within months, but we're talking about only 2 out of 18 to make it three years. Curves have tails, and knowing that the mean is only a few months doesn't tell us how many would be expected to live for 3 years.

The Journal of Neuroscience (google cache, the site appears to be down) says that "more than half die within 18 months". Presumably that's with standard treatment. If half were to die every 18 months, that would still leave 1/4 of the patients, around 4, after two years.

I'm sure that's not the right curve to draw; Wikipedia says "few patients survive beyond three years". Is "few" more or less than 2 out of 18? Probably less, but I'm still not at all clear on whether this treatment is actually better than the standard treatment.

The survey didn't say Daily Show made them better informed (about the 2004 presidential campaign), just that they were better informed that people surveyed who did not watch The Daily Show. It's definitely correlation, not causation. People who watched any late night comedy show (Leno, Letterman) were also better informed but not as informed as Daily Show watchers.

I don't get Comedy Central right now but I love both Daily Show and Colbert Report. I would say they inform me of issues in a way similar to scanning headlines does.

Daily Show Viewers Knowledgeable About Presidential Campaign, National Annenberg Election Survey Shows [PDF]

Google HTML version

I agree a little knowledge is dangerous. Here you point out that Starr's position was eliminated and I was worried you didn't know about the new one, then you point that out and even point to an article that mentions the investigation into Valerie Plame. Ignore the investigations on torture and so on. You then still maintain that no investigations are being done. HUH? Whatever, ignorance is bliss I suppose. I'd like to see you tell Conyers that he can't do anything. That would be very entertaining. I could sell tickets to that. I'd like to be there and bring a pad of paper so I can write down some of the stuff he says.

I don't have a legal background.....These guys do.... Once again, Congress has not conducted such an investigation.

This one is really hard to explain to most people and it comes up in most administrations that I have studied. Sometimes the government wants to do something new (hard to believe sometimes). So they get their help to see if there is a law that prevents it. Legal opinions are formed and eventually the US Attorney General will decide if it is ok or not (for what we are talking about). Maybe it is already legal or maybe they need a new law. In the case of the electronic survailance, there was a case decided by the Supreme court in 1972 (aka case law, where you hear about decisis). Can be read here - http://caselaw.lp.findlaw.com/scripts/getcase.pl?c ourt=US&vol=407&invol=297 (not sure if you have to be a member or not). Since the government isn't actually listening in on the conversation it is maintained that this is ok. All they are getting is who is calling whom, not what was said. I have a feeling that eventually they will win the lawsuit the EFF has brought and EFF will lose. Regardless, it is being looked into. Why do you expect Congress to get involved at this point? Maybe it would be very educational for you to write to your congressman and ask them to look into the issue you consider the most important. See what they say to you. Be very respectful (even if you can't stand him), clear and concise. Be sure to include your name and address on the letter itself. I can tell you it is far more effective than writting to me. Eschelon goes back to Harry Truman BTW (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ECHELON also as seen on /.).

The reality was that Saddam was already scared to death, and had allowed the weapons inspectors the full access they had asked for in the past 12 years. From the UNMOVIC report in March 2003:

He had very good reason to be scared to death. Many of those reasons have nothing to do with anything outside of his own country. Regardless, just days before the war he turned over two scud missles to be destroyed - that up to then he swore he didn't have. He launched scud missles during the first hours of the war and to date over 500 other chemical shells have been found and recovered since the war began (http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,120137,00.htm l and many other web sites have this story). In short he did have WMDs. He did have nuclear scientists, Greenpeace of India showed pictures of the yellow cake sitting outside a refinery. Look here before it is gone - http://64.233.161.104/search?

http://64.233.161.104/search?q=cache:yR2qSJc-oLoJ: www.softwareidb.com/+softwareidb&hl=en&gl=us&ct=cl nk&cd=1 It really doesn't look all that professional, I hope they can make some changes to the way their site looks if they're going to want to become the resource for software.

Why are aspects of text handling like word wrapping not adequately addressed by CSS2? And yes, I know that IE supports word-wrap, but that is a proprietary attribute (wish MS would have instead spent time implementing the standards correctly, you know?) Are there plans to improve text handling with CSS?

Yes, there are. http://www.w3.org/Style/CSS/current-work, see Text Layout. Note that this is incredibly hard to spec, because doing so properly for all languages requires knowledge of all languages. And not just basic knowlege, but detailed knowledge about the writing systems. The people writing this deserve huge amounts of respect.

If you're iterested, see a post by one of the writers (temporarily down, so use the google cache).

As someone else pointed out, it's been fixed. Use google's cache to see what it had:
http://64.233.161.104/unclesam?q=cache:xyJ5Dvqg_CA J:tools.ca.sandia.gov/mediawiki/index.php/Main_Pag e

(Again, "view page source".) It's got these comments "we are delicate, we do not delete your content" and then a bunch of URLs to various spam/warez sites.

Scientific Doubts

Denver Business Journal: Law Suit

KFG

How many different colors does the Nintendo DS and DS Lite come in?

The site appears to be down, but here's the Google cache: British Gaming Blog Nintendo DS System Variants

Oh, you weren't talking about global warming or the rape of the ecosystem? Not even the dangers of noocluar power? How about [FILL IN ALARMIST AND ARMAGEDDONIST FACTOID HERE]?

http://64.233.161.104/search?q=cache:AS8b_I0-mEEJ: www.philly.com/mld/philly/news/14691089.htm++%22Gr eenpeace's+fill-in-the-blank+public+relations+melt down%22&hl=en&gl=us&ct=clnk&cd=1

No?

Sorry. Nevermind.

Department of Energy has filed a patent...
 

Isn't is a bit disturbing that the government files patents to prevent us from using stuff that we paid them to invent?

Google Cache anonymous and all that

Basically the main story was about a non-conventional fusion technology purportedly capable of burning hydrogen-1 and boron-11, which is a highly desirable fuel cycle since it produces no neutrons at all. My response was to detail my experience with a project to try to achieve the same fusion cycle, called p-B11 ("p" standing for "protium" or hydrogen-1 as opposed to "deuterium" which is hydrogen-2). Since this history involves some information that the tokamak afficionados find enormously embarrassing, they linked to a post of mine made to the Stormfrot forum where I stated my opinion of Jewish complicity in the failure of the fusion program. Then the block occurred. I did file a complaint with slashdot's editor but no action was taken. I find it all too predictable that people can credit Jews with nuclear technology projects over which they had disproportionate influence and everyone nods their heads in righteous agreement but if anyone assigns blame for failure of such programs not only is he a social pariah -- he's blocked from posting.

Of Plasmaks and Prizes (Score:1, Offtopic) by Baldrson (78598) *
on Saturday November 05, @10:43AM (#13958456)
(http://www.geocities.com/jim_bowery | Last Journal: Wednesday July 21, @04:12AM)

Back when the cold fusion brouhaha hit, I ran across an intriguing idea of achieving p-B11 (p=proteum=Hydrogen-1 and B11 =Boron-11) fusion using artificial ball lightning, called the Plasmak. No adequate explanation of ball-lightning has yet been concocted resuling in reproducible free-floating plasmoids, and the guy (Paul Koloc) doing the work seemed to have a somewhat plausible idea. (And he did have background with the Spheromak group at the University of Maryland.) Most importantly there were actual photographs of these plasmoids floating in the open air without continuous power input! So I looked into it seriously for a while. During this time I also ran across others who were looking into a variety of p-B11 technologies including one of the founders of the US Tokamak program, Robert W. Bussard with his resurrection of Philo Farnsworth's inertial electrostatic confinement device sometimes called the Farnsworth Fusor.

Given:

1. all the foment in the air.
2. the fact that the Tokamak was to fusion as the Shuttle was to cheap access to space.
3. I had been working on getting NASA out of the launch service business via grassroots legislation.

...as the, then, Chairman of the Coalition for Science and Commerce (that had been successful in passing the Launch Services Purchase Act of 1990, requiring NASA to buy commercial launch services whenever possible) I decided to go around to the various fusion contenders and come up with a set of about 10 milestones they all agreed would be worthy of prize awards, and came up with some legislation that would have awarded a series of $100M prizes, each for acheivement of one of those milestones.

This was 1992.

I never got very far with this legislation myself but about 3 years later, Bussard decided to submit this legislation -- with a kicker:

Support everything from Lynx and Mosaic up. Someone with Lynx should be able to get some useful information out of your site.

"Support" only IE 5+ and Firefox 1+. Anything older has different rendering engines that will probably work but that you are not responsible for. There are no modern personal computers that can't run one of those two, and about 90% of computers already have at least one of those two, so if something breaks you can validly say "switch to one of those two".

On the other hand, if you care about getting more people visiting your website (as opposed to, say, online filing for the IRS, which is going to get all the tax returns anyway, web or not), there's no business advantage in telling a single person "Sorry, we don't support OmniWeb or iCab." Put your content in HTML 1 or 2 that every browser can read. Make it exciting by using features that the two aforementioned browsers support well. If the features are supported by other browsers, great! If the features break other browsers that aren't compliant, it's their fault. If the features simply aren't supported, you don't lose giving them any information.

Here's the website I maintain, and the plantext version. Note that all the information is still readable. The JavaScript spam armor has a noscript explaining what hasn't been done, for example.

http://64.233.161.104/search?q=cache:BETUeXptEiwJ: lake.stark.k12.oh.us/hs/+&hl=en

googles cache of the highschools webpage, better hit that up too...

The DA Frank Forchione seems to be an interesting character.

Do check out more details and his picture on the following link: http://64.233.161.104/search?q=cache:oSdQ_jiXJUMJ: malone.edu/546+Canton+City+Prosecutor+Frank+Forchi one+&hl=en

No wonder he put this poor kid in jail.

Who needs to wait 10 years to run a web server on a usb key? A little outdated and I had problems getting to the site but I've been using this for awhile. Pretty good stuff.

Google Cache site

I hate to spoil the party, but this was news around April, 2003. This isn't really a source, but if you think about it, it's about as infallible as you can get. Behold, a Google Cache of a weblog I wrote at that time, the server of which doesn't really exist anymore. It was back in the time of Chimera before it became Camino, back when RSS was cool. But of course don't take my word, I'm sure someone else can furnish a true news source to back this up...

The site appears to be logging your IP address (!!!). Google Cache.

2005 Awards

2004 Awards

2005 Awards

2004 Awards

Google Cache:
http://64.233.161.104/search?q=cache:WPCcaFgdfYAJ: www.knoxnews.com/kns/local_news/article/0,1406,KNS _347_3967869,00.html+brenda's+lounge&hl=en&lr=lang _en

This original link requires registration
http://www.knoxnews.com/kns/local_news/article/0,1 406,KNS_347_3967869,00.html

Any other requests?

Agreed on javascript...

And, unfortunately so, it gets abused here & there, but in places you would NOT expect... like in malicious adbanners on sites as well!

I've been writing to TURN JAVASCRIPT OFF IN YOUR WEBBROWSER since the mid-90's in fact, first here (as article #1 from NTCompatible.com illustrated & I put it up for speed & security optimizations to your OS & apps there in 1997 first):

http://64.233.161.104/search?q=cache:BWFk5yhHJhYJ: ntcompatible.com/article1.html+%22Alexander+Peter+ Kowalski%22&hl=en

And, more currently (far more thorough article, it started from that one's foundations) here:

http://www.avatar.demon.nl/APK.html

For Windows NT-based OS (2000/XP/Server 2003) users - it ALL just works for better security (and speed) of your overall PC operations...

APK

P.S.=> Like yourself? I "saw it coming"... sometimes, you can just tell that potentially good things will get abused! It's for the overall good though imo, I will take the 'high road' on that because it allows the developers to study the flaw, & hopefully fix it, in whatever type of software it is out there that gets a hole found in it, or a potential one... apk

No where in the world do people give up their own constitutionally protected rights faster on the slightest scare than in the USA.

That's a ridiculous ssertion, not backed up by the fact that most democarcies have been eroding civil liberties like crazy recently. For example:

http://www.oup.co.uk/isbn/1-84-174183-3
http://www.sscnet.ucla.edu/southasia/History/Indep endent/anti_terr.html
http://www.quaker.org/qcea/aroundeurope/2003/255.h tm#Third
http://uninews.unimelb.edu.au/articleid_2938.html
http://64.233.161.104/search?q=cache:l-h-3gElzYcJ: www.ihf-hr.org/viewbinary/viewdocument.php%3Fdoc_i d%3D5537+european+anti-terrorism+legislation&hl=en
http://www.forumsec.org.fj/news/2004/July/July_08. htm
http://www.statewatch.org/news/2003/apr/18funright s.html

Well, use whatever term you see fit I suppose, vs. the term "saavy".

Some folks might consider some of the info. "common sense", but to others? It may strike them as a 'revelation/epiphany' & the type of thing that might make them say:

"I didn't KNOW I could do all of that to secure & speedup my system & that taking attachments from anyone via email, IRC DCC, or over AOL etc. isn't safe!"

(I figure it this way, & why I used the term "saavy" - much of what I countered for in the URL article came about because of my being "hacked/cracked" & taken advantage of years ago online, & especially on IRC networks - I used to admin/mod/op what was the "Official Win32 OS Help & Technical channel" for Win32 based OS named #Windows95 on the Dalnet network for IRC, & the #Linux people, w/out fail, each week would startup "hack fights" with us... they MADE me get some "saavy", albeit not always willingly)

There were good sides to being attacked out on IRC though:

You learned alot in the doing of it, even if it came @ YOUR expense - the GOOD side of actually being attacked/exploited was learning, or forced research (as well as patching etc.).

The #Linux channel attackers were especially prone to these attacks when & if a NEW "exploit" was shown for Win32 OS!

Not all of them were bogus/bad either, & some even began to become friends with us, even with us running Win32 OS no less!

Some of them would explain the "how" of what they did, others not, but it gave you 'impetus' to do something about it (mainly, how to shore up your defenses!)

Also, sometimes, (especially for new folks to this madness & lunacy in general) they have to take that "punch in the head" & get burned by a weak security setup & by bogus malware/spyware/virus or bum email attachments etc. (or, things sent to them by IRC DCC sends for example)... there is a "bright-side" to getting suckered: You learn to counter for it, & that is exactly what that article is about I put up for public consumption & others to use for better security!

It just plain works!

"Noobz" as some folks call them (& we ALL were that once) have to learn to cater & be cautious about their own practices online (I know I had to, albeit back in the "dim days" of the net for me circa 1994-1999 or so, as I mention above - I got burnt a few times early on myself, & hence WHY I started that article).

It began "life" @ NTCompatible.com as that website's "Article #1" here:

http://64.233.161.104/search?q=cache:WDD-LNcTmeMJ: www.ntcompatible.com/article1.shtml+%22APK+Windows +Tools%22&hl=en

& just 'grew' since that time adapting for newer/better Microsoft NT-based OS', circa 1997-1998 or so up to this version today & again - it just works!

APK

whyyyy would you admit to working for a "three letter Government Agency" in a public forum? And why would you do it using your userID which can probably be easily linked to your real name? You're turning yourself into a target.

Have you ever had a counterintelligence briefing? Maybe you should read this: word/google html

I don't actually expect Apache to support this, ever. But it's a neat idea. Here's a paper by people who know more and write better than me:
Slow PDF: http://ase.informatik.uni-essen.de/olbib/2001graun ke.pdf
Ugly HTML conversion: http://64.233.161.104/search?q=cache:Cx4ndEP2FHYJ: ase.informatik.uni-essen.de/olbib/2001graunke.pdf

I believe you are required to link to pictures of the 'O Rly?' owls. :-) Linky to Google cache for the three people that have not yet seen the owls.

Yes, I know owls can't smile, etc. with their beaks, but the original picture cracks me up anyway. (I'm easily amused.) He just looks so joyous and enthusiastic, even though that's a gross misanthropomorphism.

HTML Version

A model... a year... WHAT WAS THE POINT!

So you can mold paper fiber into shapes and let it dry and harden! ...its been done!
http://www.spiritsinthewindgallery.com/Artists/ban dyCarl/aboutArtist.htm

So you can mold some material into the shape of a V8 to see how it works! ...its been done!
http://www.discoverthis.com/visible-v8.html

So you want to waste a year of your life! ...its been done!
http://www.ebookmall.com/ebook/144778-ebook.htm
http://64.233.161.104/search?q=cache:5UK_N1qe_nIJ: www.barenada.com/blog_general_entry.shtml%3Fentryi d%3D002518+a+year+wasted&hl=en
and me reading this! http://slashdot.org/

I would have been more impressed if they mashed tomatoes and cast them into fluid-functioning V8!
OH WAIT... that's been done!
http://www.v8juice.com/

"Actually, the egg was a permissions problem, not a buffer overflow" - by VENONA (902751) on Tuesday November 22, @08:34PM

I have the novel, read it last year, do you? Or, did you just read some "synopsis" of it online?? I am curious, please answer that.

See, it was the result of the cracker/hacker team being able to buffer overflow one of Richard Stallman's programs, specifically, EMACS!

Here's some reference material for you, a quote from a review (since you don't have this novel apparently):

http://www.inforingpress.com/articles/cuckoos-egg. htm

"We learn Hunter can get away with his antics because he found a backdoor bug in Unix through open source advocate Richard Stallman's GNU-EMACs text editor"

The buffer overflow portion is illustrated here, in a timeline of them when they had been used in such attacks:

http://64.233.161.104/search?q=cache:-IPirdPheP0J: www.cs.fit.edu/~tr/cs-2002-12.pdf+%22The+Cuckoos+E gg%22+and+%22buffer+overflow%22&hl=en

(See the portion about a "Chronology of Buffer Overflow Exploits" in Table #1, specifically the 1989 entry)

1989 The Cuckoos Egg is written after Clifford Stoll, a system administrator, catches hackers who had broken in to his system (PBS)

(You're only PARTIALLY correct, in EMACS' mailing abilities portion).

"Nor would I agree with "today's modern OS' are pretty damn secure/solid as well as stable." There have been far to many worms, etc. Also, I *really* wish Microsoft would get their browser out of the OS. Yet another unpatched, zero-day, control of system exploit was announced today. It's even been mentioned on Slashdot!" - by VENONA (902751) on Tuesday November 22, @08:34PM

And, there aren't holes like that on Linux/UNIX??? Answer that as well please, & I will counter answer with a flurry of information on THAT account as well.

Thanks!

APK

Here

http://64.233.161.104/search?q=cache:zQLM8Fs0lo8J: ca.geocities.com/infringements%40rogers.com/+Activ a+%22Louisette+Lanteigne%22&hl=en There's the Google cached version of her site.

The summary does not state the womans name, Louisette Lanteigne, nor does it link to her website (it's geocities, so this is a google Cache), nor does it mention the company's name, Activa Holdings Inc.

Oh, the site is down. Here's a google cache

Here's a link to Google's copy of this report in HTML.