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The current link to Online Poker in Wikipedia is redirecting me to something I'd rather never have seen.

Here's the Google Cache of the actual Wikipedia article (until somebody over there figures out why I was sent to an auto-fellatio site)

Yes, you're right. Except for the part where you're completely wrong.

I am not more likely to hurt myself or an innocient bystander. There are irrefuteable statistics gathered by the government - not a partial agency - which support this.

From the US DOJ:

On average in 1987-92 about 83,000 crime victims per year used a firearm to defend themselves or their property. Three-fourths of the victims who used a firearm for defense did so during a violent crime; a fourth, during a theft, household burglary, or motor vehicle theft.

This, despite the fact that according to the CDC (here's a Google cache) says that accidential firearm deaths are decreasing.At the same time firearm ownership is on a greater increase per capita in the US than it has been at any other time in history (for the last 20 years).

Actual accidential death counts make you appear to be a complete idiot, I might add. In 2002, there were 776 accidental firearm deaths. Contrast this to the 3,059 deaths due to medical care/surgery, the 3,377 due to exposure to smoke, fire, or flames, 3,842 drownings, 12,757 accidental poisonings, 13,322 accidental deaths from falls, or 43,354 accidental motor vehicle accidents. You are over 40 times more likely to die of Septicemia (?!) or renal failure than of accidental firearm discharge.

If you want to just look at the total firearm death rate, you're still looking at a very rediculous disproportion that points out your childish fears: 28,663 firearm deaths total, which is still less than Septicemia (which I just found out is blood poisoning) and renal failure (kidney failure). This is further marginalized if you're a convicted criminal, as the majority of firearm deaths are perpetrated by such people, against such people. (Sorry, but about 5 minutes of googling didn't turn up this information; if you're interested in the topic, however, I'm sure you'll find it, as I did at one point. It was an FBI-released document, if I recall correctly, composited from all US police precinct data.)

Seriously. Don't buy into the media's perpetration of firearms as a great evil. Don't fear guns in and of themselves: they're just tools. Fearing an inanimate object is just irrational emotionalism - not something I'd hope an educated citizen (as opposed to an uneducated consumer: someone that doesn't value their rights, know what they are, etc.) would fall prey to willingly.

At least put it in a clickable form.

Since some people seem to take everything posted on /. as 100% fact, I'd like to point out (as many other's did in that articles' comments) that it probably wasn't a hoax.

a) The MPAA said themselves that they were taking action again LokiTorrent. Google cache here.

b) I've also read that there was an entry in PACER about the lawsuit as well.

Corel has been a US company for two years now.

Bausch & Lomb

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It could draw more than that when it's "off"

google cache of PDF.

Just in case you need it...

Clickie!

google's cache of crowncommission.com/dailygrind

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• Forces states to allow ex-felons to vote. In states where felons are allowed to vote, votes can favor Democrats 10:1. Yes, this means states will be forced to allow murderers, rapists, and molesters who have completed parole the opportunity to help select who represents your community. Shouldn't states be allowed to decide this for themselves? And why is it Democrats are so worried about voting rights for ex-cons, anyway? Are Democrats the party of felons ?
• Make Voting Day a federal holiday. This means all the people who work for the federal, state, and local governments will have higher turnout, as they will have the day off. Guess which way these people vote? People who don't work for the govt won't have the day off.
• The bill states "failure to provide information concerning citizenship or age" or "a social security number or driver's license number" is not considered a "material omission" that would bar people from voting. All you have to do is sign an affadavit at the poll, on election day. This will allow anyone - anyone at all - to vote. The only chance of having the vote disallowed is in the event of a recount, when the paperwork is checked.
  

Interesting timing - eSchool News has a article on Cisco's efforts to get more girls interested in IT and their Tech Academy. Most interesting statement in their article was is that research shows girls are more interested in to learning about technology in the context of "broader social issues." - especially using tech to solve social problems.

If it's such a hoax what exactly do you call this? (Google's HTML Version)

"The MPAA's efforts to date have resulted in a 40 percent reduction in the number of servers that continue to operate. One such site that will no longer exist is LokiTorrent?one of the largest BitTorrent host servers. The operator of that site, Edward Webber, agreed to not only pay a substantial settlement with even greater financial penalties for any further such actions, but by Court Order must provide the MPAA with access to and copies of all logs and server data related to his illegal BitTorrent activities, which will provide a roadmap to others who have used LokiTorrent to engage in illegal activities."

The premise of the article is based entirely on the fact that there is no documentation from the MPAA--but indeed there is such documentation. I know we'd all love to believe the MPAA created that release to capitalize on this so-called hoax but no doubt that would be subject to legal action for such blatant lies.

The article also states "If LokiTorrent.com had been sued in Dallas Federal Courts, then some type of public record would appear. NO ONLINE RECORD APPEARS WHATSOEVER!"

So...if it's not on the internet, it must not exist right....right!?

Did anyone bother contacting the MPAA for a comment on the Lokitorrent case rather than providing more fire to the rumor mill?

They list the Zenith Space Command TV Remote from 1956 as the first wireless remote. This was a great remote that gave us the word 'clicker' due to the way that it used ultrasonics to send the signal to the tv. However, the Philco Mystery Control from 1939 is the first real 'wireless' remote that was made. It operated much like a rotary telephone control and sent its signal by radio. (Links go to google cache).

For Adblock users who are not using complicated filters, but rather just manually blocking everything, or using simple expressions, there is a nice site with constantly updated Adblock filters. Well, probably several, but this is one I know of. These block pretty much everything.

Normally, it's located here, however it seems as though he's used up his alloted bandwidth. You can get a Google cache of one of the latest filter lists though.

If you've been near Hunts Point you'd want wacky restrictions too. Having grown up there, it's hardly a lush resort town and it's had among the highest asthma rates in New York City. The factories and utter disrepair there are improving a bit but still don't help global warming. Of course, that's only a small place in a massive country and world...

I checked and The google Mirror still has it.

The Office 2003 Standard Edition EULA (Original PDF, View as HTML) doesn't seem to say that.

Ooops, there's a bit of egg on my face. Let me try that again.

This keeps slashdot from putting spaces in the url, messing them up.

4. Hard to separate GUI from business logic. The visual components expect being connected directly to DB components (TDataSource & TDataset). This is good for quickly snapping up a simple app, but soon it bites back as your app grows.

I started to run into this problem and quickly discovered stored procedures [google html translation of a good overview stuck in .doc format]. Stored procedures are a great way to encapsulate business logic so that the same data shows up across applications and reports. It also can help database query speed issues.

But that was many years ago when I was a data slave...

http://64.233.167.104/search?q=cache:FiCMnb9IkuUJ: www.linuxjournal.com/article/7403+linux+cat+feeder &hl=en&lr=&strip=1

But her page has gone already :-)

But google cache has it: http://64.233.167.104/search?q=cache:PX8f_tPqKOcJ: www.hp.com/hpinfo/execteam/bios/fiorina.html+fiori na&hl=en

(I am sure my employer could not co-ordinate a website update with a press release this fast :-)

Here's the google cache so you can RTFA before you post

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A special agent is a federal investigative employee who has powers of arrest and is usually armed. This is "special" when compared to the powers of an ordinary federal employee, not to other agents within the FBI.

Only the powers of arrest part is "special". A mind-boggling range of government employees have federal permission to carry guns. (And this permission, like post-office driving rules, overrides state laws.)

This was apparently first noticed when an airport security employee leaked the list of agencies whose members could carry thorugh airports. In 1997, according to a GAO study (the source for info in this libertarian party press release) the nubmer of agencies was 45 and the number of gun-toters approaching 60,000 and had grown by over 2,400 in the previous year. I've heard nothing to indicate that the number has not continued to climb since then.

Some non-law-enforcement worker categories:

Poultry inspectors.
Disaster aid workers.
IRS auditors.

Some agencies with "special agents":

Small Business Administration
NASA
Department of Education
U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service
Department of Veterans Affairs

The Energy Department has access to machine guns and other agencies can summon tanks and military helicopters.

According to the Western Journalism Center these agencies have SWAT teams:

The National Park Service
the Department of Health & Human Services

I was reading an informative article about the mistakes of Hubble yesterday.

It's time for Hubble-2 [google cache cause site down]

He seems agrees with the parent post but with a much longer explanation. The public has an emotional attachment to Hubble, but it costs too much, stares at the earth 50% of the time, has some communication problems, can only use one of it's instruments at a time and requires multiple billion dollar shuttle rescue/maintenance missions.

He even speculates that space telescopes could have been built for the price of Hubble.

As a Canadian I love looking at the pretty pictures you guys paid for. But the machine looks too much like a Stanley cup for my comfort.

Dang that's an old cache of slashdot.

Google is much more recent. Google Cache

Previosuly artifial aurora have been created by sounding rockets and satellites by releasing elements into the atmosphere which normally wouldn't be there. One example of this type of study was done by CRRES.

After a few good points you have to go and completely discredit yourself with the same old, tired falsehoods.

Read up so you don't make the same foolish mistake again. :P
I bet you thought that last McDonalds point was the clincher, didn't you? Don't quote what you don't know.

If the computer ran for 6 months straight using 1.8GHz processors, couldn't they have waited several months and utilized newer CPUs running at double the speed, halving the computation time?

Here's a google cache of it...

(I searched on the name of a buddy of mine who worked on this paper to find this, which is why the search terms were like that.)

Cheers,
Richard

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The Sound of iPod

I got an iPod for christmas. The ipodlinux project was one of the main reasons for my choice and so I started exploring the iPod as far as I was able to. I patched the bootloader and got some basic code to run but there was no way to access any hardware other than the two CPUs yet. To get the LCD, Clickwheel and the harddisk working we needed to reverse engineer the bootloader in the flashrom. But to do that we first had to find a way to get that code. Seems quite impossible without any knowlegde about the IO-Hardware but I found a solution...

The whole idea started last week when leachbj gave me a piece of code that caused the piezo in the iPod to make some *squeek*-sound. I played around with that code, changed some values and somehow was able to produce different sounds. Just for fun I came up with the idea of using this different sounds for transferring data. Some minutes later I dropped the idea because I thought that just won't work and I won't be able to write a decoder for that. Two days later I woke up and somehow just tried encoding a 32bit value into different beeps. It worked so made a loop around it to dump about 4kb of memory.

The problem with that idea was that I could only transfer 8bit/s. Anyway, I tried writing a decoder and it seemed to work. Well, it didn't really work but it decoded about the first 256 bits correctly. The decoder was some Perlscript that loaded the whole audio into RAM and used about 1GB RAM for a 20MB audio file. It worked ok with some tweaking but still the RAM usage was way to high because if I wanted to dump the whole 64kb I would have an 1200MB audio file or something.

Some ideas came to my mind after thinking about the problems I had. The first one was to use compression so the transfer won't take too long. It would have taken about 45hours with the code we had. With compression maybe only 22h. To solve the memory problem I decided to rewrite the decoder in C that only reads about 96bytes chunks of audio data and then decodes that. Davidc_ helped me with that.

This was the first time I thought I this could really work. Again I played with the piezo code and figured out, how the piezo really works. I was able to produce some more unique beeps. Later I made the beep for 0 (the last bleep you can see in the picture) much shorter so it sounded more like a click. I even managed to make the first bleep shorter so I got about 5byte/s.

When we thought we got the encoder in the iPod with zlib and the decoder working, I decided to try recording the whole dump at night. So I put the iPod in the "iPod Recording Studio" and went to sleep. The iPod is just a cardboard box in which Samsung send me my laptop back. It has foam in it so I thought it would be ideal for recording the bleeping of the iPod. (Move your mouse over the picture.)

The next day I woke up quite early. The first thing I did was looking at the recording. I heard the iPod stopped bleeping so I thought everything went fine. In fact nothing worked at all. I recorded 8 hours full of zeros. Furthermore, the iPod's battery became empty though it was plugged into the USB port of my laptop the firmware wasn't loaded so it didn't request power over USB. So what you can see in the picture is the harddrive spinning down, then the iPod goes off for some minutes and then reboots. The harddriver was spinning during the whole recording session because there was no way to turn it off.

After this I was really disappointed and I dropped the project for the rest of the day but in the evening I tried again with a better decoder. It worked quite well but we weren't able to decompress the file. I concluded that was caused by the malloc() hack and zlib would allocate the same memory twice or something like that. Anyway, I haven't had much sleep that weekend so I was tired and just went to bed and thought about dropping the whole

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Sea Monkeys are real - they're a type of shrimp. Good try on the joke, tho!

Ok. Video card. You can use the ATI fglrx driver.
Here are the SuSE 9.2 install instructions. Sadly, its not as easy as an NVIDIA card. But you will get hardware 3d and TV out.
http://suse.cbn.net.id/i386/supplementary/X/ATI/su se92/i386/fglrx/8.8.25/

Video capture. Supposedly, you can use the 'Gatos' capture project. This is designed for 2d acceleration, video capture, and several other ATI features. I've never played with it myself, since I've only owned standard radeons, never a AIW.
The site is here:
http://gatos.sourceforge.net/overview.php

But i've been browsing their mailing list, and it doesn't seem like the 9600 is supported. There is a LOT of work being done on it, though, and there are several devel list entries from the beginning of the month.

Sound&Modem, as you already know, will be a breeze.

Your gigabit ethernet card has drivers avaliable from the manufacturers website. This is here: http://www.marvell.com/drivers/driverDisplay.do?dI d=107&pId=10
I'm assuming you meant Yukon, not ukon.
This page here suggests that it is avaliable in the lastest 2.6 kernels (This is Gentoo, not SuSE)
http://64.233.167.104/search?q=cache:3PYpQxdJcwoJ: linuxforums.org/forum/ntopic31345.html+Yukon+SuSE+ 9.2&hl=en&start=16&client=firefox-a
This seems to suggest its in the default install:
http://rpmfind.net/linux/RPM/suse/9.2/i386/lib_mod ules_2.6.8-24.10-bigsmp_kernel_drivers_net_sk98lin _Tree.html
I'm not really sure, as I have little experience with Gigabit ethernet.

The broadcom wireles will present a moderate amount of difficulty, but it can be made to work, and if you are willing to spend a little money, it can be made to work easily. There are no native linux drivers, so you can either use ndiswrapper http://ndiswrapper.sourceforge.net/, which is an opensource project that allows you to use the Windows drivers, or you can use linuxant's Driverloader, avaliable at http://linuxant.com/

The bcm4306 is confirmed supported under both, but I know from experience that driverloader is extremely easy to use, but ndiswrapper is slightly more challenging (still not impossible, but requires editing some configuration files by hand). SuSE has been working on integrating Driverloader into the distribution, but it hasn't happened yet.

Yeah, the floppy, the 7-in-1 usb reader, the DVD drives, etc, will all work without any difficultly. If you intend to use a USB dvd burner in SuSE, you will need to "sudo chmod +u /usr/sbin/cdrdao & sudo chmod +u /usr/sbin/cdrecord" which is a minor security risk. SuSE, for some reason, has redesign those two to not run as root, but it doesn't work properly for USB writers. That simple chmod command will fix that, and then you will be able to burn CD/DVDs under SuSE.

Here, http://lists.suse.com/archive/suse-amd64/2005-Jan/ 0019.html Someone refers to using your motherboard, and it seems to work properly.

BTW: I've been checking the SuSE hardware database, and it seems to have started working, but it is by no means comprehensive. http://hardwaredb.suse.de/index.php?LANG=en_UK Once again

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Funny, even the cached Google pages are slow.

Main page
Endangered Gizmos List

Funny, even the cached Google pages are slow.

Main page
Endangered Gizmos List

Google Cache works just fine.

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Google Cache works just fine.

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-theGreater.

http://www.cs.brown.edu/memex/ACM_HypertextTestbed /papers/60.html

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Thanks Google! Much faster over dial-up. :P

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Interesting that, like Tron, WarGames also had a computer game sequel (real-time strategy). And a WarGames 2 movie was rumored for 2004 (google cache).

The performance gains and features supported by Core Image ultimately depend on the graphics card. Graphics cards capable of pixel-level programming deliver the best performance. But Core Image automatically scales as appropriate for systems with older graphics cards, for compatibility with any Tiger-compatible Mac.

Supported graphics cards:

ATI Radeon 9800 XT

ATI Radeon 9800 Pro

ATI Radeon 9700 Pro

ATI Radeon 9600 XT

ATI Radeon 9600 Pro

ATI Mobility Radeon 9700

ATI Mobility Radeon 9600

NVIDIA GeForce 6800 Ultra

NVIDIA GeForceFX Go 5200

NVIDIA GeForceFX 5200 Ultra

These cards are available in today's PowerBooks, Power Mac G5s and both the 17-inch and 20-inch iMac.

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