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I bought, used, and loved the ThinkNIC. It was conceptually similar to this PIC thing, booting Linux off a CD to launch a very basic set of apps. As long as you didn't mind saving your documents to a remote network share somewhere (the instuctions that came with it provided procedures for doing exactly that), it was all the computer lots of our moms and dads need and it only cost $USD199.

Marketwise, it was stillborn.

Now, years of technological process have allowed AMD to bring out the same thing with some disk space and Windows. Personally, I don't see that this is *that* big an improvement. It's pretty much the *same* concept.

This time, I hope it flys. I know I'm itching to throw one onto my home network already.

which makes us more reliant on fossil fuel and the equally poisonous nuclear

Actually fossil fuel is far more poisonous - the daily release of radiation from coal burning plants in the US is greater than the release from Three Mile Island, nevermind the rest of its noxious pollutants. Methanogenesis should help.

If Bush wants to use domestic fossil fuel as a hydrogen source, that's flipping fantastic. The less we have to depend on the Middle East to support our lifestyle the better off we are.

If you know of a near-term non-polluting non-nuclear non-middle-east energy source that's scalable to the needs of modern society, we're all ears.

A wide carriage version of something better is certainly coming, and it will surely include the new higher quality gloss. They aren't going to just stop development with the current generation of printers. Anyway, the "bronzing" is only visible when the image is held at certain angles to the light, and those are the same angles where you get glare off glossy paper anyway. But it is admittedly a weakness. However, if it actually bothers you, you can fix it right now off any Epson print with an archival glossy protective spray, like PremierArt Print Shield or Lyson Print Guard Spray.

And no, the R800 does NOT have a wider color gammet then any other consumer level printer. Dye based inks are still superior in that regard. The only thing the R800 does is add an 8th tank of "gloss enhancer" which helps reduce but doesn't completely eliminate the bronzing effect on glossy paper- it doesn't change the gammut.

Well, thanks for correcting my statistics on the Epson 2200, I did have some numbers wrong. But I'm surprised you'd be so nitpicky on that, and immediately follow it up contradicting me with complete misinformation about the R800. Since the R800 has 1.5 picoliter droplets and 5760 x 1440 resolution, they no longer have to use "light" colors to achieve smooth gradients. So they dropped light black, light magenta, and light cyan from the Ultrachrome inkset, and in place of those three, they added Red, Blue, and gloss optimizer. With the addition of red and blue inks, the R800 can cover almost the entire SRGB color space, plus a whole lot more green and blue. Epson claims it prints a 19% larger gamut than HP's dye-based Photosmart 8450. Can you name any printer that covers a larger color space than the R800, without going up to giant professional printers like the 12-color Colorspan DisplayMaker Mach 12?

With the Indiana franchise I'd like to see a "Batman Beyond" switchover, with Ford as an aging Indy and some new disciple taking his place.

His son Chicago Jones takes over for the old man.

LK

You can analyze puzzles like this using GAP. Here is an example using Rubik's cube(Google cache since the site seems down to be down at the moment.)

That's not necessarily true either - there has to be willful intent:

The Supreme Court recognized "the venerable principle that ignorance of the law generally is no defense to a criminal charge" in Ratzlaf v. United States. 2 Nevertheless, it held that in 31 U.S.C. S 5322, applicable to structuring financial trans- actions to avoid federal reporting requirements, Congress decreed otherwise and required proof that the defendant knew the structuring was illegal.

A related concept in law is "wilful blindness": the criminal defendant who should have known, and could have asked, but deliberately chose not to ask. The law regards "wilful blindness" as equivalent to knowledge. U.S. v. Jewell, 532 F.2d 697, 700-701 (9th Cir. 1976), cert. denied, 426 U.S. 951 (1976). Cited with approval in U.S. v. Lara-Velasquez, 919 F.2d. 946, 950-951 (5th Cir. 1990).

Generally, ignorance or mistake of law is no excuse: i.e., it is no defense to the commission of a crime that the defendant was unaware that the acts were prohibited by the criminal law or that defendant mistakenly believed that the acts were not prohibited. The exceptions are: (1) Reliance upon statute later held unconstitutional; (2) Reliance upon judicial decision; (3) Reliance upon official interpretation. Sometimes, the mens rea aspect of a particular crime requires a certain belief concerning a legal matter. In such cases, if the defendant was ignorant or mistaken as to the legal matter, the prosecution may be unable to establish the mens rea required for liability and no conviction can be obtained.

etc, etc.

It's OK; here's the google cache.

that in schools in Korea old people beating up the young is common

"I want to choose my words carefully here, so I'm not misunderstood," he said. "They're a bunch of fucking idiots."

Havenco has gone right down the toilet of late. They broke from their strict "live and let live as long as it isn't kiddie porn" policy post 9/11.

Ryan Lackey did a presentation at Defcon 11 which can be viewed here.

But google is, Google's Cache.

Actually, that's incorrect. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) figures look at the highest blood alcohol content (BAC) of all the drivers involved in the accident, only. Granted, in some cases those drivers may not be at fault in an accident, but that's a far cry from suggesting that they count drunk passengers in the statistics. (Some of the articles on the linked web site also assert that someone who commits suicide with a firearm while drunk in their car is counted--this is also false.) The NHTSA figures are for crashes only. Here's their raw data in PDF, and the same tables in Google's HTMLized format. (You want the last page; there's data going back to 1982.)

Looking at the 2001 numbers (I can't be bothered to find the most recent 2003 figures, but I would expect them to be comparable), in 32% of fatalities, at least one of the involved drivers had a BAC of 0.08 or above. (29% for greater than 0.10)

You're right that the 40% figure is inflated, though. You only get that (actually, just 37%) if you include every driver with a perceptible level of alcohol in his blood. Consider my remarks suitably amended, but I still think that 30% is too high a fraction of accidents involving alcohol.

Here's the Google cache before we break the poor guys' server. http://64.233.161.104/search?q=cache:xoBRapmuom0J: www.holo-dek.com/+holo-dek&hl=en

Ah--the poor Zope site is down. google cache

Oops, a runaway tag cut off part of the argument.

The most likely chain is

1) K-Ar dating is unreliable for samples < 2 MYA
2) A sample < 2 MYA was submitted for analysis
3) an unreliable measurement resulted.

No one claims the rock is 2 MYA. Evolutionists don't continue to claim that the rock is 2 MYA, because it isn't, and there isn't any reliable evidence to suggest there is! You have made only a straw man argument. However, geochronologists do believe K-Ar ages for other samples indicating 18 MYA, and such results AGREE WITH MULTIPLE OTHER METHODS.

How do you respond to the following analysis Austin's work?

But it's really "the eternal dynamic/productive/high-level/faster (LISP) vs static/unproductive/low-level/slower (Java) debacle."

References: Lisp as an Alternative to Java[HTML] or Lisp as an Alternative to Java[PDF]

Google cache: amasci.com traffic experiments.

http://64.233.161.104/search?q=cache:U6u5cBlJSxcJ: www.nasa.gov/missions/research/x43-main.html+&hl=e n

Apparently it has been slashdotted already.

Here's the google cache

Glaucoma

...the general rule, from which we see no reason to deviate, is that "an express warranty does not cover repairs made after the applicable time . . . ha[s] elapsed." Abraham v. Volkswagen of Am., Inc., 795 F.2d 238, 250 (2d Cir. 1986) (citing cases) (applying federal common law). Thus, "'latent defects' discovered after the term of the warranty are not actionable."

Here is a good and recent study on media bias. http://64.233.161.104/search?q=cache:Fkq8waWxVNIJ: www.yale.edu/isps/seminars/american_pol/groseclose .pdf+study+media+bias&hl=en

official site gallery(can't zoom in, since site is /.ed) widget gallery google image search of 'konfabulator' apple's dashboard

Here's some interesting information from a previous Votemaster comment:

The attackers have tried repeatedly to break in, but the server is a rock-solid Linux system which has stood up to everything they threw at it and hasn't crashed since I got it in May.

The full Google cache of the page is here

Here's the BAARF Site Cached on Google. The real site seems to be down. http://64.233.161.104/search?q=cache:8HJz0cFQHgoJ: www.miracleas.dk/BAARF/BAARF2.html+baarf&hl=en&cli ent=firefox-a Here's an excellent duscussion of RAID 5 vs RAID 10 by Art Kagel. I would definitely warn against RAID 5, even hardware RAID 5, unless you're doing 95% or more reads. The performance hit is horrible, even worse for software raid, and why? To save disks? You already have 8! Build a 8-disk RAID10 (or 6 disk with two hotspares) and be done with it. You'll never use all that storage anyway. Performance will be phenomenally better for all sorts of applications that can use the storage. If you're going to go with a card like Promise, be sure Linux includes the driver in the kernel. I had a lot of trouble with a Promise card because the driver was only available on the Promise site for certain versions of Redhat, so I was stuck and couldn't upgrade (or was afraid to). That can be a real limiting factor. Here's the BAARF Site Cached on Google. The real site seems to be down. http://64.233.161.104/search?q=cache:8HJz0cFQHgoJ: www.miracleas.dk/BAARF/BAARF2.html+baarf&hl=en&cli ent=firefox-a Here's an excellent discussion of RAID 5 vs RAID 10 by Art Kagel: http://64.233.161.104/search?q=cache:oat67e4ciCMJ: www.miracleas.dk/BAARF/RAID5_versus_RAID10.txt

Here's the BAARF Site Cached on Google. The real site seems to be down. http://64.233.161.104/search?q=cache:8HJz0cFQHgoJ: www.miracleas.dk/BAARF/BAARF2.html+baarf&hl=en&cli ent=firefox-a Here's an excellent duscussion of RAID 5 vs RAID 10 by Art Kagel. I would definitely warn against RAID 5, even hardware RAID 5, unless you're doing 95% or more reads. The performance hit is horrible, even worse for software raid, and why? To save disks? You already have 8! Build a 8-disk RAID10 (or 6 disk with two hotspares) and be done with it. You'll never use all that storage anyway. Performance will be phenomenally better for all sorts of applications that can use the storage. If you're going to go with a card like Promise, be sure Linux includes the driver in the kernel. I had a lot of trouble with a Promise card because the driver was only available on the Promise site for certain versions of Redhat, so I was stuck and couldn't upgrade (or was afraid to). That can be a real limiting factor. Here's the BAARF Site Cached on Google. The real site seems to be down. http://64.233.161.104/search?q=cache:8HJz0cFQHgoJ: www.miracleas.dk/BAARF/BAARF2.html+baarf&hl=en&cli ent=firefox-a Here's an excellent discussion of RAID 5 vs RAID 10 by Art Kagel: http://64.233.161.104/search?q=cache:oat67e4ciCMJ: www.miracleas.dk/BAARF/RAID5_versus_RAID10.txt

i know it's probably not gonna be ./ed but here it is anyway

Here

Google cache and Archive.org

"Far Side" cartoonist Gary Larson had a bug named after him when one of his fans discovered it. It is a species of louse called

Here's a link, with pic, of the bug in question: Strigiphilus garylarsoni
And, because the first link is on an AOL user's page: Google cache of Link

Vorbis is a bit more computationally complex than MP3, and unlike commercially available MPEG audio decoder ASICs, hardware Vorbis decoders exist only in labs.

I love to Google, so I'll be happy to lend a hand.

"nutmeg poisoning, severe toxic symptoms produced by ingestion of powdered nutmeg, characterized by narcosis with periods of delirium and excitability."

Dorland's Medical Dictionary

"Nutmeg is poisonous and should be used in moderation, a pinch or two is safe."

Encyclopedia of Spices

"Nutmeg is safe in very small amounts, but eating 1 to 6 tablespoons at on sitting can make you ill.

"Symptoms: Eating nutmeg causes headache, dizziness, nausea and aching muscles."

Everyday Poisons

"An hallucinogen and toxic."

Toxic Plants and Household Poisons

"888/ Nutmeg is extremely poisonous if injected intravenously."

Weird Science Fact File

"C. Nutmeg (Myristica spp.): Old World tropical hallucinogenic flowering plant, the source of nutmeg and mace. Probably pre-historical use. Taken orally or as a narcotic snuff. Extremely variable in effect, usually causes distortion of time and space perception."

Psychoactive Plants

Eh, close enough...

As I said before, don't trust any of the major parties to safeguard your privacy. This may, however, close the lack of information sharing between the agencies leading up to 9/11 that people bitched about.

What led to 9/11? A lack of clues, or ignoring the PLAIN ENGLISH WARNINGS (Phoenix Memo, which was under-reported)

(Have to link Google Cache.. ABC has purged their news of the Phoenix Memo story)

so what do you think about people who can't just pull up a simple google cache?

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I found suspicious that nobody was mentioning Buzz Beer in the top-rated posts...

Here's for whoever don't know about Buzz Beer:
http://www.tvtome.com/tvtome/servlet/GuidePageServ let/showid-133/epid-2006/

Google cache:
http://64.233.161.104/search?q=cache:XnZaNc6rh8kJ: www.tvtome.com/tvtome/servlet/GuidePageServlet/sho wid-133/epid-2006/+%22buzz+beer%22+coffee&hl=e n

Which brewing equipment they used on the set:
http://www.probrewer.com/vbulletin/showthread.php? s=cdfc8a114171041a54c5a87b9895fb2e&postid=3795#pos t3795

field of odorant receptors and the organization of the olfactory system

The flatus odor judge could have used some insight!

The selection of articles that are published all seem to have a lot to do with things that Bush did bad.

The Confucian point of view endows a righteous ruler with a Mandate of Heaven. In this context, incidents similar to the ones listed above would strongly indicate the displeasure of the Divine with the ruler and necessitate his immediate removal.

This notwithstanding, I have to agree with the parent message: the NYT article should not be linked from Slashdot. Not for reasons of bias - the notion that Iraq war was based on a number of poorly concocted lies and misrepresentations is simply not news.

A quick reality check here. In 2003, a "noisy" Australian deisel boat sunk two US nuclear attack subs and an aircraft carrier during joint war games. The Dutch have done the same sort of thing. On a previous occasion, an Australian sub sat underneath a US carrier, inside the CBG cordon, and followed it around for some days. At the end of the exercise it surfaced next to the carrier to the horror and amazement of all involved.

The biggest danger the US navy faces is hubris my boy. That's the real thing you have to watch out for.

They can't have been the Collins class subs, then. They haven't had the best of times in service with the Australian Navy...

If you consider the WWW solely a hypertext document system, then TBL created the first such system in HTML.

Hypertext documents have come to encompass a broad range of Internet activities which TBL did not have much to do with. The WWW by no means dominates the Internet, but it's an effective mass-communication glue. It doesn't seem much of a stretch to call it the face of the Internet (for most people at least).

The opinions of people like Mr. Larry J. Schutter of the Turtle Party and Darren Karr of Party-X are every bit as valid as those of Badnarik and Cobb. Likewise, they all share the same chance of winning said office. What makes Badnarik and Cobb more deserving of a debate than any of the other "Dark Horse" candidates?

The opinions of people like Mr. Larry J. Schutter of the Turtle Party and Darren Karr of Party-X are every bit as valid as those of Badnarik and Cobb. Likewise, they all share the same chance of winning said office. What makes Badnarik and Cobb more deserving of a debate than any of the other "Dark Horse" candidates?

...rumors are that Dave Winer threw the first turd.

(Google cache, scroll down to highlighted words.)

Incorrect.

This explains what happened. If you thought US politics was bad, this should make you think again.

Text only from Google's cache

I too remember this. A friend of mine showed it to me about 6 or 7 years ago. The site seems to be down, so here's a google cache:

http://64.233.161.104/search?q=cache:m_0nMPwQS2AJ: www.thepalace.com/+the+palace&hl=en

And a link to a download page. (With linux support it seems now?)

http://practice.chatserve.com/

I don't have the figures ready to quote, but I heard that a majority of the costs of installing this wind farm have been legal bills. This of course will result in less economic efficiency, further fuelling (excuse the pun) the propaganda of the naysayers that wind is a losing proposition.

We need to have legislative support to block these types of lawsuits before they can harm alternative energy. We need to have a voice to shut down the NIMBY evil groups and shame them.

Penn Jillette of Penn & Teller rode the Comet.

Yeah, I love that story! Here's Google's cache of it...Art Bell's web site no longer has it (apparently the gray aliens told him to take it down).

Since it's so hard to find, I might as well post the entire thing here. It's not that long:

Learning to Fly, Strip, and Vomit on a 727

Penn Jillette

Since I was a kid, I've wanted to be weightless. I really wanted to go to space, but part of going to space was being weightless. Just to hold something up in front of me, and have it stay right there is the idea of magic. As I got older, I battled gravity. My start in showbiz was as a juggler. Jugglers fight gravity. The hack jugglers cover a drop with a "standard" (meaning it's been stolen so much, those who didn't write it conveniently consider it to be public domain) 'cover' (it doesn't really cover very much, they know the prop is on the floor and they know you're chasing it, bent over like you're chasing a duck) line, "Sudden gust of gravity."

Now, that I'm 45 years old and I weight 280 pounds, gravity is a less sporting and more real enemy. I'm 6'6" tall and I still remember Leslie Fiedler writing in "Freaks, Myths of our Secret Selves" that "gravity is not kind to those who grow too large." As we get older, it seems the jockey build is healthier.

No one knows what gravity is. I mean we just don't know. There is no good theory. A good theory in science is one that we're damn sure is true: The Earth goes around the Sun. Evolution is how we got here. No one seriously doubts those. But, gravity, well, we just don't know.

So, right now, the only way you can feel weightless for more than a couple rollercoaster seconds is by getting far enough away from Earth, or taking the Vomit Comet. The Vomit Comet is how NASA trains astronauts (the Russians must do it too, right?). They take a big old airplane and they go up and down really fast. When they go up, you weight 1.8 times your weight, and when they go down, you weigh around 0.

The FAA has always given NASA a monopoly on losing all your pounds of ugly fat (along with muscle, bone, and everything else). Astronauts get to ride it, some scientists get to ride it, and that's about it. Ron Howard made some backroom deal (it MUST have included sexual favors) to be able to shoot "Apollo 13," on the NASA Vomit Comet and they talked about it a bit, but it was soon quieted down. You're not REALLY supposed to use a government-funded program to make movies. Not really. I mean, I'm glad Tom, Gary, and Kevin got to fly, but if everyone really thought about it, why can't we all ride?

A couple free-market nuts at NASA decided they LOVED Zero G, and it was time to get off the socialist tit, and buy their own Vomit Comet and start selling rides on it. Everything the Vomit Comet does in within the specs of planes, and why can't we do what Ron and Tom got to do? That was the idea.

When they first got this harebrained scheme, I heard about it. It seems that when anyone gets a harebrained scheme, I'm CC'd on the memo. I loved nuts, I'm for nuts, I am nuts. They all get in touch with me. I told them I thought it was a great idea (and you know how much that means), and I wrote them email, gave them tickets to our show, and went to dinner with them a couple times.

They were going to get approval to fly a 727 very fast right straight down very soon. It was going to be a matter of months. That was 6 years ago. But, I kept talking to them, and whenever they gave me a date, I said I would be there, until it fell through again. Us free-market guys are always fighting the man.

Well, they finally fought the law and kinda sorta won. They at least won enough for me to fly. I finally did it. After 6 years of grueling cheerleading, I got be be weightless. Only about

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