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Click here for Google's cached version of the page.

Here is the Google cache if anyone is interested.

'm not necessarily disagreeing with you, but the US army field manual you linked to only says that urine "contains harmful body wastes [and] is about 2% salt.

Head up the page. In big, bold print, surrounded by a box, centered on the page: "CAUTION: Do not substitute the fluids listed in Figure 6-2 for water."

I'd love to comment on your other link, but it doesn't seem to work. Do you have one that does?

Here's a google cache.

There are lots more linked from here if you'd like, and I can get even more than that.

but it is not as wasteful in a dry environment as systems like our own that use water soluble ammonia and urea to accomplish the same task.

That doesn't change the fact that our inefficient system is what we have. Our kidneys don't use any more water than they have to in order to get rid of urea and salts. Drinking it back in only serves to increase the salt concentration in your blood (as well as encourage urea poisoning). Increasing the salt concentration in your blood draws water *out* of your cells.

I see SiC research papers mostly in power electronics, especially very high voltage devices.

Here's the first useful google hit with an overview of SiC tech:

Google cache of .doc

It sounds like you overclocked your DNA....

It can come close. From the cache:

On March 15, 2002, the FBIs National Crime Information Center (NCIC) set a new record for transactions processed on a single day, with 3,295,587.

The average response time for these transactions was .1467 second. Response time is the time it takes for NCIC to receive, process and respond to the inquiry. The 2002 year-to-date averages have been 2.8 million transactions per day with an average response time of .16 second.

The US also has CODIS (Combined DNA Index System) which is a DNA database for searching. I can't find any stats for that database but if the DNA is indexed then queries shouldn't take too long. Even fingerprint searches using AFIS don't take long. If NCIC can respond as fast as it does with all those queries throughout a single day then CODIS should be able to do a search and provide a response just as fast. Extracting the DNA is still going to be the long pole in the tent but once it is extracted and you are assigned a barcode all they have to do is scan your barcode (on your hand or forehead) and allow that to kick off the query to CODIS. Cancel or Allow?

I was going to write about the whole license, but my only criticisms are in section 3 of this license, so I'll only write about that.

Section 3

Part A.

I wouldn't add this clause, but I have no problem with it, I just think that it is redundant.

Some may argue that MS is just being explicit to protect their asses, and we'll get back to that later.

Part B.

FUD possibility: The patent clause only covers contributors, it doesn't include users. The community has every right to reject this license if it is handling such an issue improperly (any license before the OSI at the moment should be considering this issue).

I can understand the need for licenses that don't involve patenting, but patents in licenses should be made an issue among accepted licenses.

Part C.

This seems to echo part D, I personally prefer the language of part D.

Part D.

I may be missing a legal nuance, but the word complies in the phrase "... you may only do so under a license that complies with this license."

Upon reading that, I wondered what "complies" meant, and looked for a definition. Since I cannot find one, I will note that I have interpreted it several ways, and because of the ambiguity, I would avoid this license.

Part E.

An argument for adding part A of this section was that MS is just covering their asses. Notice the disclaimer? I think it isn't as explicit as it should be. Of course, I'm no lawyer, so my evaluation of this scenario would be discounted in a heartbeat.

But, what I can do is have Microsoft argue this for me. Vista, the most important product they have, and they definitely care about it, has a disclaimer section[google pdf reader] in it's EULA (obviously).

Page 10, paragraphs E, G and H of the EULA are equivalent to Part E of this license. In fact, the only part missing is part C of the EULA:

"This warranty does not cover problems caused by your acts (or failures to act), the acts of others, or events beyond Microsoft's reasonable control."

Of course, we could look at other parties' licenses. And if MS' lawyers think conventional disclaimers (in the FLOSS community) have redundant or problematic text, I'd be glad to hear their commentary (and for the sake of acceptance, I think they should publish it if they have not already done so).

IANAL, but I don't really have a big problem (with the exception of part 3D) with the text of the license, although I think it needs some cleaning up. I also appreciate the patent additions, and agree that more conventional licenses should look into incorporating this "feature."

I think MS is really trying to get involved with open source programmers with this license (as opposed to feigning).

The old numbers are cached here:

http://64.233.167.104/search?q=cache:vskwzroreeQJ: data.giss.nasa.gov/gistemp/graphs/Fig.D.txt+http:/ /data.giss.nasa.gov/gistemp/graphs/Fig.D.txt&hl=en &ct=clnk&cd=1&gl=us

and the new numbers are here:

http://data.giss.nasa.gov/gistemp/graphs/Fig.D.txt

The difference looks more like 18% to me.

It goes from .8 to .66 C for the most recent 5 year period.

And... slashdotted. Google cache: http://64.233.167.104/search?q=cache:Rn5H9uq6LjoJ: www.nissan.com/Digest/The_Story.php+nissan.com&hl= en&client=firefox-a&gl=us&strip=1

BS on the calculators. I'm an engineer, and a good RPN calculator is my wingman...Meanwhile I have a job I'm being paid to do, and I can't spend my days calculating tables of thousands of numbers by hand...

I take it you didn't notice the part where I said: *...in business I can understand the need for speed. In school either do it in your head or write it down.*

Maybe a set of reading glasses is in order, or Command(Mac) Control(PC) and + to make the font a little bigger :-) No biggie. Happens to me also.

I just have to baby my HP-28S until I retire.

Makes me wonder what kind of calculator they used to build the Hoover Dam, or Empire State Building(which they built pretty fast BTW, even by today's standards), or the Golden Gate Bridge, or to launch Sputnik or Mercury. Maybe their trick was to use big rooms full of people. I know it's a bit gimmicky looking, but would this not be suitable, in case you have to put off retirement for a while longer? And can't these damn computers design themselves yet? Or are those 10 million gates just for another Gameboy? Sorry. Kinda slipped. Just makin' fun. Everybody, drinks on the house... Now go home and get your effin' No.2

GPS Aided Geo Augmented Navigation aka GAGAN is what India calls it. This system is supposed to be operational in 2008.

wiki page
Details in google's cached copy of the announcement.

Google search would also get more details on this.

Before you call me a liar, sir, let's look at the facts. I will be quoting extensively from Bush v. Gore, which, as you presumably already know, is the US Supreme Court's decision in this case. You can find it at: Bush v. Gore.

Every single recount found Bush won Florida.

I'm not arguing that the "official" version of reality is "Bush won Florida". Conversely, here's something that supports my assertion that Gore *would have* won Florida if the count had continued:
Recounts Could Have Given Gore the Edge.

Besides which, the recounts, as they were happening, were illegal: the courts in Florida did not have the authority to order them, only the Secretary of State for Florida had any authority over the counting process.

The recounts were, in fact, perfectly legal. The Florida Supreme Court *did* have the authority to order them.

The court therefore ordered a hand recount of the 9,000 ballots in Miami-Dade County. Observing that the contest provisions vest broad discretion in the circuit judge to "provide any relief appropriate under such circumstances," Fla. Stat. 102.168(8) (2000), the Supreme Court further held that the Circuit Court could order "the Supervisor of Elections and the Canvassing Boards, as well as the necessary public officials, in all counties that have not conducted a manual recount or tabulation of the undervotes ... to do so forthwith, said tabulation to take place in the individual counties where the ballots are located."

The US Supreme Court did *not* stop the count based on the question of the *legality* of the intercession of the Florida Supreme Court; indeed, they accepted it, otherwise the question *could not have risen to the level of analysis by the US Supreme Court*. Here, in fact, is the basis of their finding:

The question before us, however, is whether the recount procedures the Florida Supreme Court has adopted are consistent with its obligation to avoid arbitrary and disparate treatment of the members of its electorate.

For purposes of resolving the equal protection challenge, it is not necessary to decide whether the Florida Supreme Court had the authority under the legislative scheme for resolving election disputes to define what a legal vote is and to mandate a manual recount implementing that definition.

The US Supreme Court found that, in fact, that, while the compiled law of the state of Florida, calls for "the intent of the voter" to determine the actuality of any ambiguous vote, the procedures in place were insufficient to determine that intent, and, thus, constituted a violation of the Equal Protection Clause of the US Constitution.

The recount mechanisms implemented in response to the decisions of the Florida Supreme Court do not satisfy the minimum requirement for non-arbitrary treatment of voters necessary to secure the fundamental right....The problem inheres in the absence of specific standards to ensure its equal application. The formulation of uniform rules to determine intent based on these recurring circumstances is practicable and, we conclude, necessary.

Upon due consideration of the difficulties identified to this point, it is obvious that the recount cannot be conducted in compliance with the requirements of equal protection and due process without substantial additional work....we reverse the judgment of the Supreme Court of Florida ordering a recount to proceed.

As you can clearly see, I have rebutted all the assertions of the first paragraph of your reply.

Moving forward, I notice that you neatly sidestepped the question of "chicanery in Ohio"

here is the mirror

http://64.233.167.104/search?q=cache:cpFkqNE5SmoJ: gbppr.dyndns.org/PROJ/mil/celljam/+&hl=en

I can think of many good reasons for this; yes, good, privacy-protecting reasons; even good, anonymity-protecting reasons.

Out with it, then. What are these reasons?

How about this for starters: Securing Peer-to-Peer Networks using Trusted Computing (Google cache). This technology can make P2P networks much more immune to attack and surveillance from outside, protecting the privacy and anonymity of participants.

Link to identical Ubuntu page on download.com

They've removed more stuff than just Ubuntu from the Marketplace site. The entire Driver Downloads category (and all contents?) is gone now:

Google cache of Driver Downloads page

Microsoft already has a patent on using skin...

http://64.233.167.104/search?q=cache:I0J8mb7VruMJ: news.com.com/Microsoft%2Bpatents%2Bbody%2Bpower/21 00-1014_3-5244766.html+microsoft+skin+patent&hl=en &ct=clnk&cd=1&gl=us

We are all gonna be in trouble in a few years since the next gen Windows "blue screen of death" is going to be a real human death!!!! YIKES!!!

Bill Nye still has a series that airs on PBS called "The Eyes of Nye" (I don't think there are new episodes being produced). Each episode examines one topic in some detail: antibiotics, addiction, the biology of sex, climate change. And he's doing some sort of tour, as he was at my college campus recently giving a lecture (Google cache link since the original requires registration; Google 'lantern bill nye' if you prefer). Unfortunately I was out of town and didn't get to see him or get his autograph.

So he's still around. But I don't think his show from the 90's is still on. Far superior to Beakman's World in my opinion. Maybe it was just a different target audience though. Beakman seemed to be silliness with some science thrown in. Bill Nye was science with some levity.

yeah, good stuff:

http://64.233.167.104/search?q=cache:Be9__lbUwA8J: home.earthlink.net/~owl232/syl180.pdf

I think the relevant philosophical discussion distilled into entertainment is "Second Chances". They also turned radical skepticism, appearance/reality, whatever into a great episode in 'Frame of Mind'.

For all interested, Ari Fleischer -- ex-bush press secretary -- has made a more detailed whine using this same statistic.

It is also useful to consider other statistics such as how much income the wealthiest one percent actually makes. When it comes to actually living life, 50% of hundreds of thousands of dollars to billions of dollars is much different than 50% of ten to twenty grand. It's the difference between "Am I going to be able to buy a boat upon which to stand around and drink alcoholic beverages?" and "Can I afford a place to live and food to eat?".

There seems to be a lot of reports of malware on the site so he is the cached text for IE users : http://64.233.167.104/search?q=cache:mbDxkMwOuxUJ: www.warriorsforinnocence.org/+warriors+for+innocen ce&hl=en&strip=1
Sorry about that.

On first glance it sounds ridiculous; however there is some precedence in the monetization of air:

-The state of New York has filed suit against Ohio for dumping pollution on them through the airwaves http://www.oag.state.ny.us/press/2005/mar/mar18a_0 5.html.

-A portion of the electro-magnetic spectrum is going to be auctioned off in the U.S.
"the spectrum is a national resource that should be managed".
PDF: www.pff.org/issues-pubs/books/060309dacaspectrum1. 0.pdf
google cache: http://64.233.167.104/search?q=cache:fH_s8JehCyEJ: www.pff.org/issues-pubs/books/060309dacaspectrum1. 0.pdf+lectro-magnetic+spectrum+auctioned&hl=en&ct= clnk&cd=1

If governments can make money off the spectrum then why not so-called "First Nation" governments? It really boils down to how much legal and economic authority Indians should have. And it deals with the ambiguity of a people who both want to claim their individuality and distinction from the rest of society, and still be apart of that society, especially when it comes to exploiting natural resources. It's pretty much politics as usual. Seems like the typical having-your-cake-and-eating-it-to mentality.

The site has been taken down, due to being Slashdotted, but the article has been cached by Google here.

cache

Slippery slope question to spark flamewars?

Geez, doesn't Editor read these things before he posts them?! This isn't even a complete sentence!

If you'd RTFA, you'd see that it has absolutely nothing to do with misleading titles, it's just about regular titles... of course, you can't see that because it's been slashdotted already! See the Google cache

And... in Soviet Russia, editors mock you!

/* Unobtrusive Flash Objects (UFO) v3.20 <http://www.bobbyvandersluis.com/ufo/>
Copyright 2005, 2006 Bobby van der Sluis
This software is licensed under the CC-GNU LGPL <http://creativecommons.org/licenses/LGPL/2.1/>
*/

>fundamentals patents claimed by Microsoft.

The study Ballmer quoted isnt from MS, its from Open source risk management group who are asking a valid question: if linux does potentially violate 283 patents than what should we do about it?

This also means that WIndows and the rest violate as many, if not more, themselves.

Rachel is cool and a good writer and apparently an artist as well. She just doesn't just take the id and post it - she writes some hilarious commentary to go with it. I wish her the best and hope that this young gal isn't as rich as she says, or I fear that it may not go well. While Rachel is completely in the right, justice is expensive.

But the Cylons are the Americans, and we are the Iraqi insurgents.

But the Cylons are the Americans, and we are the Iraqi insurgents.

If you're setting this up for a small outfit (like, I host email for my friends/family), then the minimum requirements may be a bit high (cached link here.) On an Intel 32-bit machine (recommended at least 2GHz):
minimum memory: 2G
recommended memory: 4G.

That's for a box dedicated to being a mail server and webmail/calendaring client (forget about sharing it with other hosting needs, like a Webserver).

For a company (small or whatever), having a dedicated box for this sort of thing is reasonable and expected... and, please forgive the pun, the suite looks sweet. 8)

But, as an individual/uber-small hoster, those requirements put it outside the range of "host this on an old box."
That's not to say that Zimbra was targeted at me to start (so, please don't take it as a complaint). I just wanted to break the news (hopefully gently) to those hobbyists that were getting excited about hosting it. 8/

What the lawyers don't want you to see.

I will boycott Google's PowerPoint because they acquired it from Tonic Systems, which used to make a Java product called ... Jar Jar Links. Bad puns must not be encouraged.

"People like you have no idea what it means to live in a society where everyone has a gun."

How do you know? Maybe he's Swedish, where every male is required by law to join the army as reserves from age 18 until 30 (34 for officers) and keep a weapon at home:
"The gun policy in Switzerland is unique in Europe. The personal weapon of militia personnel is kept at home as part of the military obligations. This, in addition to liberal gun laws and strong shooting traditions, has led to a very high gun count per capita."

and yet they have far less murders than we do. Every 18-30 yr old Swiss male has an assault rifle at home, yet they have one of the lowest murders per capita in the world, #56 out of 62 countries (US is #24).

Norway has a similar policy, yet they complain when "In the past 16 years at least 18 people have been killed following incidents involving the army's AG3 automatic assault rifle." If only the US had only 18 murders in 16 years!

It's a perfectly natural phenomenon(da-daaa-da-da-da...). It's a simple fact that that's how things work. As with most everything, self interest is the prime motivator. So the effect one might have on others is entirely lost. For instance when people vote for the president, they're not thinking about their neighbors(just the opposite, they try to vote against their neighbors), or the country. They are voting to put an extra dollar in their own wallet, and will quickly accept anybody's promise to that effect, no matter how detrimental to the rest. The government we all have is the result. In that same spirit, it's a government only concerned with its self interests.

Three points:

1. My previous post was about Energy return on Investment. In other words, how much energy must be invested to extract another amount of energy. Not economics. Different issue.

2. The economics of solar however, are based on many issues. One such issue is it is being done on an inefficient small scale, by small time installers. Your Solar system would use around $45,000 in PV panels. Toss in another $7,500 for inverters, racks, etc. So you end up with around $30,000 in labor and profit - rather steep (find another installer). However, PV is currently competitive with some electric rates. On a equipment basis PV can produce power at around 8 cents/kilowatt hour at current prices - the rest is up to labor rates.

3. The solar market is a supply limited market, which is pushing prices up. Right now world-wide demand is outstripping supply by ~30%. It is seriously keeping prices inflated. Blame capitalism. Right now PV manufactures can charge whatever they want. But as the supply catches up, you see things change in the next 5 years.

4. Technology and manufacturing advances are bringing down costs as we speak - the question is when that will reflect in prices.

5. It is also a question of economic externailities. The US invests HUGE resources in securing the middle-east region because it has a critical resource: oil. Some estimates of the Iraq war alone, bring the US cost to $2 trillion. For the same amount we could have replaced 33% of our electric production with solar - proving free electricity in peripituitary.

This fits the discovery by Brainerd in 2001 that the human (and animal) eye has a receptor for blue light that controls the circadian clock.

The cataract surgeons are debating whether it's safer to put in plastic replacement lenses that block blue (to maybe reduce the risk of eye damage from blue light), or if that's a bad idea. Turns out reducing blue during the daytime makes people sleepier.

There's a lot to this; I wonder if the MIT folks know about the other work in the area of using blue light to stay awake, and low-blue or no-blue light for sleepiness.

Can't quite tell from the bit online if this is the same chemistry or a different reaction.

Quick link to a hugely informative site that collects this sort of info for science reference:

http://64.233.167.104/search?q=cache:VaVv_OUCa4IJ: www.ihop-net.org/UniPub/iHOP/gismo/105192.html+%2B IOL+%2B%22blue+light%22+%2Balertness&hl=en&ct=clnk &cd=5&

You kinda had to be there (Hope you're familiar with it)

BTW thanks for the info

Much wiretapping in the US is actually outsourced to Verisign. Verisign's NetDiscovery center provides a full-service wiretapping service, with hooks into telcos, cellular networks, VoIP providers, cable TV systems, wireless data networks, and ISPs. Verisign's proprietary back door into the SS7 telephone signaling control network makes this not only possible, but allows Verisign to offer wiretapping services at a lower cost.

Verisign is extending their wiretapping network internationally. Italy is already hooked up.

So if Congress or the press wants to look into this matter, the place to go is Verisign's Network Security Office. Also, attending Intelligence Support Systems for Lawful Interception, Cybercrime Investigations and Intelligence Gathering Conference and Expo in May, in Washington, DC. "Now that most nations of the world require lawful interception support of VoIP and other IP-based services, ISS World Spring 2007 is a must attend event." Talks include "Best Practices for Successful Deployments of Word Spotting Technology" and "Content and P2P Monitoring and Filtering". Major topics for this year include inteconnecting multiple intercept systems to allow easier remote access.

Coral didn't work for me, the only one I got working was google: http://64.233.167.104/search?q=cache:3lMim1h1duQJ: www.theinternetpatrol.com/enormous-map-of-wifi-ser vers-including-yours-revealed-by-aol-and-skyhook-a nnouncement+http://www.theinternetpatrol.com/enorm ous-map-of-wifi-servers-including-yours-revealed&h l=en&ct=clnk&cd=1&gl=ca it is pretty slow to load still and there isn't much of an article to begin with.

ROTFL. I didn't even see that part. Since it was buried below text talking about copying/printing, the assumption is that it is a continuation of that content, but it really isn't. More on why this text is also an illegal contract a little later.

But first, the obvious flaws: the content formatting is so unreadable that it's easy to miss. And then, there are the spelling and grammatical errors in their "license" notice.

For example, "The content if this website is intended to generate income, it is not free if you intend to archive, copy, print or distribute anything electronically fixed herein." Let's see. Run-on sentence, missing serial comma, misspelled a two-letter word.... Could someone explain to me why someone incapable of writing a very simple English sentence without tons of very basic 2nd grader mistakes is trying to make money on the internet?

And then, there's the fact that this woman lacks a basic fundamental understanding of computers. "Permission and limited, non-exclusive license to reproduce this web site, by any method including but not limited to magnetically, digitally, electronically or hard copy, may be purchased for $5,000 (five thousand dollars) per printed hard copy page per copy, in advance of printing." Where to begin.... Magnetic, digital, and electronic reproduction do not involve printing! Oh, yeah, and missing a serial comma, an extra comma after "this web site", I think it needs a comma after "by any method", but I'd have to see what Strunk & White say on the subject. And "per printed hard copy page per copy" is redundant. A printed hard copy page is a single copy by definition.

But my favorite part is this: not only is there no robots.txt (still), but also nowhere in the page source are there any meta tag to indicate that the document should not be cached, so by viewing the page, you are committing an act which the license claims would require payment of $5,000, and by viewing it through AOL, you also cause AOL to commit an act (caching) which the license claims would require payment of $5,000. And by viewing it through AOL using the Google cache, you cause both companies to owe $5,000. Just in case you think that she might have been smart enough (yeah, right) to set it in the headers, here are the headers for the web page:

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Sat, 17 Mar 2007 19:25:33 GMT
Server: Apache
Last-Modified: Fri, 16 Mar 2007 16:15:52 GMT
ETag: "10d27b-f53b-45fac2b8"
Accept-Ranges: bytes
Content-Length: 62779
Content-Type: text/html

Notice anything missing? Like a Cache-Control directive?

Here's a hint: this woman is a nearly computer-illiterate neophyte who posted tons of content online without any real understanding of how the internet works, and now is pissed off because of her own carelessness. Ignorance of the way the net operates is not a defense, folks.

There. I've copied a portion of the site contents. She'll probably sue me, too. I'm glad we have SLAPP laws here....

It's funny.

What are you sayin'?

Hmm, I thought it would have been Married with Children

Damn. Here I was, brave theoretician, thinking after I wrote my little blurb about the effect of unknown tachyons whizzing around, unable to slow down for us to detect them, and thought: dark matter, is that you?

I googled the two terms, and here we are: "Tachyonic Dark Matter", by P.C.W. Davies:

http://64.233.167.104/search?q=cache:WzdQk_JHdScJ: cosmos.asu.edu/publications/papers/TachyonicDarkMa tter%252082.pdf+tachyons+dark+matter&hl=en&ct=clnk &cd=1&gl=us

..gets slashdotted. Here is a link to the Google cache. http://64.233.167.104/search?q=cache:7IGly_-xAMIJ: labs.google.com/papers/disk_failures.html+Failure+ Trends+in+a+Large+Disk+Drive+Population&hl=en&ct=c lnk&cd=1&gl=us&client=opera

Note that this is because the backup application uses the shadow copy service to take a snapshot of the system

Also note that you can download the old backup program for Vista Business / Ultimate, IIRC.

There's not much to it. You lay out a feature set you'll be measuring similarity with and use some statistical machine learning method (most likely Naive Bayes.) A good paper to get you started is here. That's a link to Google's html translation, the link to the original PDF is at the top.

source PDF
Source HTML

-excerpt from link:
"Primary Recurring Characters: White (80%), African
American (15%), Latino/Hispanic (2.0%), Asian/Pacific
Islander (0.8%), Multiracial (0.6%), Native American (0.3%),
Indian/Pakistani (0.3%), Apparent Minority (0.3%),
Arab/Middle Eastern (0.1%)"

It's the first reference I found. It's an ip address because it's a google digest of a pdf. I had different numbers from another study. but the general gist is right. The actual proportions of race in the us are:

White 74.67%
African American 12.12%
Asian and Pacific Islander 4.46%
Other 5.99%

source