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Mirror: http://home.nycap.rr.com/snozberry/case01.html Google cache of some pages: http://64.233.179.104/search?q=cache:iGzZEFTuVvEJ: www.beefstew.net/snozberry/case01.html+&hl=en&star t=1 http://64.233.179.104/search?q=cache:gk1K4aQmKdMJ: www.beefstew.net/snozberry/case03.html+&hl=en&star t=1 URL:http://64.233.179.104/search?q=cache:OyUMTXJeN 5YJ:www.beefstew.net/snozberry/case05.html+&hl=en& start=1>

another google cache that worked for me

the site can kind of be seen at: http://64.233.179.104/search?q=cache:HaRYQqPANzcJ: labs.google.com/googlex/+&hl=en

It is too bad the author's summary is missing from the page. But, google has a cache.

On April 29th, 1975, at the age of 19, Bill Gates (founder of Microsoft) was arrested by the Albuquerque Police department (arrest record #52090). The charges were speeding and driving without a license. It was the first of three arrests in the late seventies by Albuquerque Police.

I got it from the google cache here., since the original page is gone.

How many innocents have they murdered over the years?
I say try 'em all for treason and eliminate the agency.

Nice rip of the comments from this forum.

I found something interesting on this topic.

Just to clarify, Deep Impact didn't have a launch window of only 1:47:08 PM EST, it also could have launched at 1:08:20 PM EST for 12 January 2004. It actually had until 28 January to launch.

GTA: San Andreas sold roughly 2.1 million copies in the first 4 days. Lets say in all there were 10 million copies sold in the US (probably a conservative estimate. I can't seem to find solid numbers, even in take2's financial statements)

Now, if 1% of the copies caused people to shoot another person, that would be 100,000 murderers created by the game since its release at the end of October. A crime spree like that would be front page headlines across the country!

So lets say 0.1% of them became murderers. (We're already below the margin of error for most polls and quite a few research studies) That would be 10,000 people out of ~291million (in July 03). New York City had a population of 8,085,742. Assuming an even distribution, that would be 270 murderers in New York city alone, half of the murders for the year of 2004 (which was the lowest rate for the city since the 60's).

Below 0.1% you're no longer arguing statistical correlation vs. causal relation, you're talking about coincidence. Or in this case, the kids blaming their bad behavior on anything but themselves.

The HP Laserjet came out in 1984, a year before the Apple Laserwriter. It was the first mass market laser printer.

True, but if you remember the previous number of observations was 169 (source, Google Cache) and the new number is 118. What happened to those other 51 observations and why did the baseline increase from 189.9 days to 287 days?

http://64.233.179.104/search?q=cache:28nXJV0PSy4J: comsec.com/wiki%3FUniversalSoftwareRadioPeripheral +&hl=en

Better stil to do it to a cache without the images linked from the site you're trying to avoid Slashdotting...

Text Only Google Cache

C'mon, Chuck! If you've going to post a URL to a high-bandwidth site, at least post it as a link...

After using MDs for the past five years or so, I finally decided to purchase a HDD MP3 player a few weeks ago. I was tired of carrying around a half dozen MDs with me, and thought it would be nice to have access to my entire music library when I'm on the go. One thing I really did like about my MD player was its size - since I wear a suit to work every day, it was nice to be able to slip my MD player into my suit pocket - it was thin and small, therefore unnoticable (no bulge, etc) ... With unit size/weight in mind, I narrowed my choice of HDD players down to the 4G 20GB iPod, the Sony NW-HD2, and the iAudio M3. I quickly scratched the NW-HD2 off my list due to its lack of MP3 support, followed by the M3, because I didn't want to be tied to a remote - I wanted the OPTION of an LCD remote, but I didn't want to be FORCED to use it - I wanted something with an LCD display on the unit itself. That left the iPod, which I ended up buying about three weeks ago.

The thing I like best about the iPod is the UI - the interface is great. I found it very easy to navigate through my music using the iPod's touch wheel, and it was kind of fun to use! lol ... But one thing that really bothered me about the iPod was the lack of bass - so when I saw on head-fi that Sony was due to release the NW-HD3 on December 10th, and that they were FINALLY adding MP3 support, I decided to pick one up. From my past experience with Sony, I figured the HD3 would have much better low-end than the iPod.

Well, today is December 10th, and I just bought the NW-HD3 about eight hours ago. Here are my initial impressions.



packaging
The HD3 came in a very simple package. The front of the box is entirely in English, which was reassuring for me (I had concerns about the unit/software being completely compatible with an English OS, for example, so it was nice to see Sony using English on the box itself).

CLICK TO ENLARGE




Opening it up reveals the unit securely lodged in place, protected by some bubble wrap and underneath that, some foam-paper. The accessories just kind of hang out in the lower section of the box, but they were in fine shape when I took them out. No worries.

CLICK TO ENLARGE






the unit
The unit is rather small - compared to the 4G 20GB, it is noticeably thinner and shorter. It feels very solid, and does not make any noises when you twist it - overall I'd have to say it is a well put together device.



The display is a bit smaller than that of the iPod, it's about as wide as the iPod's is tall - so, it can seem kind of cluttered at times. Also, the backlight isn't as bright as on the iPod, making it a little harder to read. In fact, even with the backlight off, the screen on the HD3 is still much darker than the iPod's. However, the HD3 allows you to reverse the display, which is a cool little feature - if you don't mind the screen being even harder to read with the backlight off, it looks very cool reversed.



interface
As I mentioned earlier, I'm a big fan of the iPod's UI - it was very easy to learn, in fact I never bothered reading any instructions for it, just picke

Except that the destination part of the URL can be trivially spoofed. The base64 hash is what really determines the page you get.

Demonstration: http://64.233.179.104/search?q=cache:zhool8dxBV4J: www.microsoft.com/+&hl=en This takes you to google's cache of its own home page, not to Microsoft.

And here's the REAL google cache: http://64.233.179.104/search?q=cache:5p4B1xNAGXkJ: www.asktog.com/Bughouse/10MostPersistentBugs.html+ inurl:10mostpersistentbugs&hl=en&ie=UTF-8

Unfortunately, the link is down, here's the Google Cache.

Your story is incomplete and slightly inaccurate. First, George Washington was probably not a Christian, but a Deist, and while there are spiritual overtones to that proclamation, he clearly avoided any Christian references.

While Washington did devote a day in November to Thanksgiving, it was not a continuing holiday. It was Lincoln who established Thanksgiving day as we know it.

While there is no language in the proclamation regarding the Pilgrims, the Pilgrims' had a day of thanks after their struggles, and when the day of thinksgiving was announced there was some discord among the colonies, with many feeling the hardships of a few Pilgrims did not warrant a national holiday. It is clear that Washington's proclamation was an echo of the Pilgrim's Thanksgiving. So your elementary school teacher was actually correct.

Read more about it here

vDeck (his host) just suspended him, for exceeding his bandwidth allotment I am sure.

google cache link should be easy to find, but I am lazy so here is a different one

I'm not anti-GM, but that seems a bit silly to me. I haven't bought a new CD in many years, don't pay for TV, use a credit card only for online stuff, don't use a shopper card and pay with cash for just about everything - how about you?

Automobile "black boxes" only record a minimal set of data, and only keep it for a short period of time.

Speaking as someone with pretty deep roots in the auto industry, I have to disagree wth you. Especially with newer systems, there's a great deal of data preserved because it helps the controller "tune" parameters and because the controller needs to constantly check its own calibration. Even the top speed your car has ever travelled, when (an RTC is trivially easy, after all), how the brakes are performing, if the airbag has been deployed or the intertia switch has interrupted the fuel supply - all that is kept in "permanent" memory... and lots more... until it is explicitly cleared via human intervention.

(it wouldn't be useful in proving you ran from a crime).

Actually, it would and it has.

So avoid products with RFID tags

That may be a viable option at the moment, but what do you do when everything includes an RFID tag?

Who cares? If you on't want the store to know what you bought, first step is to cut those credit cards in half. How many people flailing about their hands in this thread wouldn't even consider giving up their credit cards or their checking account?

This is the same chicken little response people had to bar codes in the 70's, and even to self-serve gas stations in the 80's.

As an almost permanent recluse, I find it hilarious. I rarely even answer the phone because it's most often a sales pitch. I rarely open my mail because I simply don't care. Short of a true psychopath you won't find many people more asocial than myself and yet I fear RFID tags about as much as I worry about being hit by a meteor.

Nuking the tag when you get home isn't sufficient, because you've already given away information simply by buying the product in the first place.

So I guess you never saw a bar code?

If you're seriously worried about this kind of stuff you better close those bank accounts ASAP, stop shopping at Von's, Wal-Mart or any other major chain retailer, and cancel the pay TV, the telephone, the magazine subscriptions, the electricity and anything else with your name on it. They've all been sharing your information for years.

..."Here you go. Mail is evil. Pass it on. Hey, mail blows. Fax it to a friend."

"Why does this dummy have a bucket on its head?"

"Because we're blind to their tyranny."

"Then shouldn't you be wearing the bucket?"

These "ultra-thin" CRT's are not THAT ultra. And they're not the bleeding edge technology that Samsung has been working on.

According to Technology Review (pdf; Google HTML Version here), Samsung plans to start distributing nanotech (yes, you heard it right, nanotech) based displays by the end of 2006.

Replacing the bulky CRT with an array of millions of carbon nanotubes, these displays will require much less energy to work, and will be as thin as LCD-based displays - and hopefully will be much more eye-friendly than their CRT counterparts.

Now *THAT* is Samsung's secret weapon. Don't be impressed by a substancial, but still incremental improvement such as adjusting a CRT to be thinner.

My opinion is that this advancement in thin CRT's is just a preparation for what's coming.

This usenet article on how a partially deleted filesystem was restored with some ingenuity makes an interesting read.

congratulations america! you've completely alienated yourselves from all of your former allies and friends and earned the distrust and emnity of the rest of the planet.

Just like we did after WWII.

There's a reason the people who started America were called the "Founding Fathers." If I gave my children the vote, it'd be candy for every meal, and staying up all night. Requiring vegetables and a bed time isn't popular, but it is the right thing to do.

The reality is, when you are a leader, you are NOT doing what everyone else thinks you should be doing. You are doing what needs to be done. And sometimes it takes a while before those behind you realize you are doing what's best for all concerned (thanks Mom and Dad for the vegetables and bed time!).

And one other thing...all you countries complaining about how Americans are just for world domination...where exactly in our history have we ever done that, especially when we were in the driver's seat (Germany and Japan weren't annexed after WWII)? Never, that's when. But YOU, you've done that many times (Hitler, Napoleon, Lenin, Stahlin, etc.). Perhaps you distrust us because you were corrupt in your own history. We may not be perfect, and there may be a few of us that are anarchists (Michael Moore), but we don't want to dominate you...regardless of what conspiracy theory you choose to believe today.

Shut up you silly bitch, it was only a bit of fun.

http://64.233.179.104/search?q=cache:tbc9c09Q1xsJ: www.theregister.co.uk/2003/10/16/sun_gives_glimpse _of_revised/+new+TCP/IP+stack&hl=en&lr=&strip= 1

Google cache of the Interview list

The interviewees of note for me are Mr. Wayne Bell of WIIV fame, and Mustang Software Employees, makers of QModem software which I used as a dialer/emulation program.

Oh, I remember the old days of BBSing. Really cool thing is that my old gang is still pretty close knit. We all ended up getting jobs at the same tech company, it was cool having 5-6 guys I knew so well at work. We have gone our seperate ways, but I do run into everyone from time to time. You cannot get a tech job in Orlando and swing a dead cat around Orlando without hitting someone you know.

About WWIV, my friend Grim restored a backup of his board onto his modern day computer. The mail sort which took hours on the original computer only took minutes. It was a purdy thing.

http://64.233.179.104/search?q=cache:zYBx505IplgJ: www.dvdanswers.com/index.php%3Fr%3D0%26s%3D8%26c%3 D28+&hl=en

a coma is what their webserver just lapsed into... thank god for the cache...

http://64.233.179.104/search?sourceid=navclient&ie =UTF-8&q=cache%3Ahttp%3A%2F%2Fwww.griffintechnolog y.com%2Fproducts%2Fradioshark%2F

Ya for Google!

The specification you should have been looking for is "response time." I think my flat panel's specifications say 15 ms, but it looks like a lot faster. I play games all the time on this thing (Counter-Strike, tuxracer, UT2004, GTA3), and the only problems I have are video card related (stupid ATI Radeon 7500 vs. GTA3 and all those fps cheats!)

From the now defunct flat tv people (so go check-out the google cache):

LCD TVs and Response Time Response time is basically the amount of time it takes for a liquid crystal cell to go from active (black) to inactive (white) and back to active (black) again. It is measured in milliseconds or (ms). Lower numbers mean faster transitions (eg. 16 ms is faster than 25 ms.) and therefore less visible image artifacts. LCD TV manufacturers have been steadily improving response times as the demand for fast moving full motion video has increased. A good response time starts at around 25-30 ms. Some newer model LCD TVs have response times as fast as 16 ms.

A few of my friends have returned/exchanged their dell products before, namely notebooks. Try calling their support line, be nice, and try to find a solution that would satisfy both you and Dell (which would probably be an exchange with a different model). I believe the number is 1-800-WWW-DELL.

You are hereby found to be in contempt of the legally binding consumer protection laws as described hereforth at the Halfbakery:

http://64.233.179.104/search?q=cache:KXtKuHTgyksJ: www.halfbakery.com/lr/idea/Legally_20Binding_20Use _20of_20Factorials+factorial+halfbakery&hl=en

Utilising a factorial in an attemp to add hyperbole to your point is now a punishable offense. Unless you can prove the existance of (5! = 120) "Different demonstrations", we ask that you cease and desist in violating this new code.

Thank you,
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Studies like this have an important impact on learning why children have learning disabilities. This one imparticular has had some very serious positive impact.

The fact that the birds tend to learn physical skills followed by language skills the same as normal children do suggest a lot about the development of not just language, but the integration of language as a whole into the learning experience (for certain animals and humans).

Whether or not the children in this study were tainted by a knowledge of gestures from an outside source, the study is important for the development of language skills. It would be interesting to know what adult contact they had in the beginning of the group, as I am sure (from being a parent amongst parents) that they would have received some signing skills there. Think of how most adults communicate with their pets. Signs and words.

Unfortunately, it does appear that (see post here) the results are interpreted in an interesting manner to fulfill some peoples' individual goals for research and such. I hope that continuous peer review sheds more light on these interesting theories.

InnerWeb

Google cache

Google's cache of the Aug. 20 Shuttle Status reports (the real page is offline for some reason) say all three are on-site at KSC. I hope someone covered them with tarps.

Google Cache
;)

From google's cache:
[cached from saigonchat.org]

Looks like a list of poor bastards who have had their CC info stolen and posted for all to use.

v2rocket.com seems to be down.

http://64.233.179.104/search?sourceid=navclient-me nuext&q=cache:http%3A//www.v2rocket.com/
Google Cache of v2rocket.com

Oddly enough, the pictures show up quickly on the Google cache, but the site itself is awfully slow. Guess their .asp server is having problems.

Can't even link to the pretty pictures, because they decided to make it a "multimedia experience". Flash on the "All About" page, and even the simple pictures on the front are chopped into tables so they could use animated .gifs for the screen.

Hopefully the tech in the unit is a bit more efficient than the marketing on the webpage.

It's really a shame that most intrusion attempts are worms or automated bots with no one to see the clever responses. For my own home system where I'm not running a real web server, I have a script on port 80 serve up a redirect to the Department of Homeland Security. >:-)

And the current version 3.0 was release in mid 2002. This article, released during the development of the upcoming Sarge release, is talking about the changes coming after the next release. There is no way Debian was going to change their release cycle in the middle of development.

So, it is still relevant.