Slashdot Mirror

Here's the google cache, in case the site get's slashdotted.

Aha! So I'm not crazy. It just appeared today for the first time. Google's cache from yesterday (3/22) does not include the link to hardware.slashdot.org in the left sidebar.

Server crashing; google caches...

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Server crashing; google caches...

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Well you have to stitch together different verses, it's not literally worded like that. Check out this page here for an amusing, though accurate, description with actual bible quotes. Oh, and search around some online bible sites for "quake" and "angry" and see that God must be thumping around real hard when he shakes the pillars the earth rests on.

the Layden technique

As someone who has visited http://goatse.cx, I can vouch for this technique firsthand.

I use the Layden technique. According to her, it's foolproof.

Host: Dave (Microsoft)
Q: ali : Will the next release have full CSS 2 and CSS 3 support?
A: Hi Ali, It's too early to make any commitments as we concentrate on implementing the features that make most sense to our customers. CSS2 is actually a flawed standard that nobody has full support for. CSS2.1 is currently in draft recommendation to fix this and we hope to improve out support there in the future.

And from the W3C's page on the subject:
CSS 2.1 corrects a few errors in CSS2 (the most important being a new definition of the height/width of absolutely positioned elements, more influence for HTML's "style" attribute and a new calculation of the 'clip' property), and adds a few highly requested features which have already been widely implemented. But most of all CSS 2.1 represents a "snapshot" of CSS usage: it consists of all CSS features that are implemented interoperably at the date of publication of the Recommendation.

So it looks like they are intending at least some form of growth in this direction. They did fix the box model problem with IE 6, so I'm inclined to take this statement at face value.

Hydro is not clean.
Read this article from New Scientist (link is to the Google cache because it looks like the article has become premium content on NS's site)

THE TALE OF TWO HASHISH-EATERS (Traditional)

From 1001 Arabian Nights

There was once, my lord and crown upon my head, a man in a certain city, who was a fisherman by trade and a hashish-eater by occupation. When he had earned his daily wage, he would spend a little of it on food and the rest on a sufficiency of that hilarious herb. He took his hashish three times a day: once in the morning on an empty stomach, once at noon, and once at sundown. Thus he was never lacking in extravagent gaity. Yet he worked hard enough at his fishing, though sometimes in a very extravagent fashion.

On a certain evening, for instance, when he had taken a larger dose of his favorite drug than usual, he lit a tallow candle and sat in front of it, asking himself eager questions and answering with obliging wit. After some hours of this delight, he became aware of the cool silence of the night about him and the clear light of a full moon abouve his head, and exclaimed affably to himself: "Dear friend, the silent streets and the cool of the moon invite us to a walk. Let us go forth, while all the world is in bed and none may mar our solitary exaltation." Speaking in this way to himself, the fisherman left his house and began to walk towards the river; but, as he went, he saw the light of the full moon lying in the roadway and took it to be the water of the river. "My dear old friend the fisherman," he said, "get your line and take the best of the fishing, while your rivals are indoors." So he ran back and fetched his hook and line, and cast into the glittering patch of moonlight on the road.

Soon an enormous dog, tempted by the smell of the bait, swallowed the hook greedily and then, feeling the barb, made desperate efforts to get loose. The fisherman struggled for some time against this enormous fish, but at last he was pulled over and rolled into the moonlight. Even then he would not let go his line, but held on grimly, uttering frightened cries. "Help, help, good Mussulmans!" he shouted. "Help me to secure this mighty fish, for he is dragging me into the deeps! Help, help, good friends, for I am drowning!" The guards of that quarter ran up at the noise and began laughing at the fisherman's antics; but when he yelled: "Allah curse you, O sons of bitches! Is it a time to laugh when I am drowning?" they grew angry and, after giving him a sound beating, dragged him into the presence of the kadi.

At this point Shahrazad saw the approach of morning and discreetly fell silent.

BUT WHEN THE SEVEN-HUNDRED-AND-NINETY-EIGHTH NIGHT HAD COME SHE said:

Allah had willed that the kadi should also be addicted to the use of hashish; recognizing that the prisoner was under that jocund influence, he rated the guards soundly and dismissed them. Then he handed over the fisherman to his slaves that they might give him a bed for calm sleep. After a pleasant night and a day given up to the consumption of excellent food, the fisherman was called to the kadi in the evening and received by him like a brother. His host supped with him; and then the two sat opposite the lighted candles and each swallowed enough hashish to destroy a hundred-year-old elephant. When the drug exalted their natural dispositions, they undressed completely and began to dance about, singing and committing a thousand extravagances.

Now it happened that the Sultan and his wazir were walking through the city, disguised as merchants, and heard a strange noise rising from the kadi's house. They entered through the unlatched door and found two naked men, who stopped dancing at their entrance and welcomed them without the least embarrassment. The Sultan sat down to watch his venerable kadi dance again; but when he saw that the other man had a dark and lively zabb, so long that the eye might not carry to the end of it, he whispered in his wazir's startled ear: "As Allah lives, our kadi is not as

http://66.102.7.104/search?q=cache:xOH_jKTvBeEJ:ww w.cs.huji.ac.il/~yweiss/Colorization/+&hl=en

And it is definitely worth a full-on article Slashdot article of its own, but here it is anyway (Coral cache) and (Google cache with appropriate highlighting). :)

This PPU is from October 2004, and is from the creator of the Devtendo and Grand Theftendo. (both = Coral cache)

The site is slashdotted. Here is Google's cache of it.

Adobe used the Quorum Latitude Macintosh application porting libraries to port Photoshop to Unix and X-Windows.

The result of using a complex Mac emulation library that mapped quirky Mac toolbox calls onto the byzantine X-Windows graphics model and shoddy Motif/X Toolkit API was an absolutely horrible, ugly, buggy, unusable version of Photoshop. I could quickly cause it to core dump with three clicks of the magnifying glass tool.

Here is a case study of porting Adobe Photoshop to Windows and Unix. It describes some of the reasons Adobe decided to use the Macapp emulation approach for Unix, instead of properly rewriting their code to be platform independent.

Quorum had been around for a while. When I started porting SimCity to Unix in 1991, I evaluated Quarum Latitude, and decided that it was not worth using because my goal was to make a better version of SimCity than the one that ran on the Mac, not a crippled one. For example, I implemented multi-player support via multiple X11 connections to different servers at once, which would have been impossible if the program though it was running on a Macintosh.

-Don

Not that I have much experience, but visiting Slashdot may be entirely the wrong way to go about answering that particular question ...

(For those who think parent is a troll: here's the idea, with relevant bits highlighted)

There's yet to be a followup to the Dreamcast VMU and the Sony PocketStation for the PS/2 / Xbox / Gamecube generation of consoles. There were some rumors going around back in 2000 that Sony's next-gen PocketStation might run PalmOS -- those never panned out, even in Japan I'm not aware of an "enhanced feature" memory card.

But a removeable hard drive iPod clone might be a killer app for the console-accessory market, especially if the high price of a hard-drive music player is offset by bundling it with the console in some configurations... Combined with Xbox Live for a music-store interface ...

Wikimedia actually does use replication, in fact they have 5 database servers (or did last time google crawled the meta-wiki)

Links to the text cache only, so doesn't try to access the original site.

And have a snooze. You deserve it, you've been working hard.

Linkified: http://66.102.7.104/search?q=cache:FiCMnb9IkuUJ:ww w.linuxjournal.com/article/7403+www.linuxjournal.c om/article/7403+How+I+Feed+My+Cats++with+Linux+%7C +Linux+Journal&hl=en

Oh, come on... You're not karma whoring right.

You need to make it funny AND informative, like this:

MOooooooooON

google to rescue

My parents are teachers, as are many of my friends. I'm often disgusted when I hear them whining about not making enough money. They make GREAT money for a job that gives them 3 months off in the summer, 2 weeks around christmas, and one week off in the spring.

The other day I was telling my mother that in England children are taught Algebra begining at age 11 which would be 6th grade. Here in California we don't start Pre-Algebra until age 12, or 13. That puts American students two years behind on instructions. My mother thought that I had made it up, that it was impossible to teach children Algebra while still in Elementry school. I assured here that the higher standards of European schools seems to have only helped maintain the quality of their education.

I'm so tired of listening to teachers whine about their cushy tenured jobs that lower the bar on performance, while paying them well, and giving them months off in the summers. Teachers should be required to work during the summers just like the rest of us. (Not teaching, doing other productive things for the districts they work in.)

Google Cache

The google cache of the page you mention (top google link for "livejournal outage"):
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Quoted below, but to save you the time that dos was nearly two years ago:

Swiss Army Spork ([info]lisa) wrote in [info]lj_maintenance,
@ 2003-02-20 21:01:00
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LiveJournal Outage Update
The Distributed Denial of Service attack that began on Thursday has not subsided. We were able to make some large improvements in our load balancing system today that allowed us to remove the filters placed for groups of IP addresses at our upstream providers. This means most of the internet should be allowed to at least reach our site, and any that can not we are still working with our provider to allow.

As we recover from the attack, the site will continue to be slow. We are working as hard as possible to speed things up, and thank you for your continued patience.

From RFC 2616,

Implementors should be aware that the software represents the user in their interactions over the Internet, and should be careful to allow the user to be aware of any actions they might take which may have an unexpected significance to themselves or others.

In particular, the convention has been established that the GET and HEAD methods SHOULD NOT have the significance of taking an action other than retrieval. These methods ought to be considered "safe". This allows user agents to represent other methods, such as POST, PUT and DELETE, in a special way, so that the user is made aware of the fact that a possibly unsafe action is being requested.

Naturally, it is not possible to ensure that the server does not generate side-effects as a result of performing a GET request; in fact, some dynamic resources consider that a feature. The important distinction here is that the user did not request the side-effects, so therefore cannot be held accountable for them.

Clicking a link, or fetching any page with GET by any means does not sign a contract. That is the rule set forth by the HTTP protocol.

I guess they should add more interesting images and stories about scientists. Like the one about Newton blowing up his alchemy lab ^_^

Or how about Einstein's tongue?

Or Lenna? (Lenna is a 70's playmate whose picture is widely used by image processing scientists. The image is cut JUST at the RIGHT point, so nothing "interesting" is seen :P )

However, I think that the most critical part of science is HOW it's taught. Richard Feynman made an astonishing discovery on science being memorized and not taught (Excerpt from book: Surely you're joking Mr. Feynman).

I belonged to a scientific group in my school. (I'm talking about college). We had LOTS of funs making robots that actually walked (one was a crane-like biped robot), programming computer simulations (or making cool flashing lights with electronics), a talking program (you would train the program with your voice, and a few hours of manual labor later :P, you could make it speak any phrase you'd like)...

And of course, just talking about science, of any topic that interested us. We even talked about religion - in a scientific way (WEIRD math ideas), fractals (fractal geomety of nature), chaos theory (remember Jurassic Park?), etc.

We were like the "deat poet society" of science. The LINDA group was pretty succesful, and we published some papers in international physics journals.

Perhaps making groups like this in your school would attract youngsters. Science, without the grades. Just for learning and fun :)

From Chuck D's perspective, I don't think that this has a much to do with remixing as sampling in general. Now, there is an artistic aspect to remixing itself. For example, see what DJ Danger Mouse did with Jay-Z's Black Album and the Beatle's White Album before it was shut down.

But either way, a large part of Chuck D's success with Public Enemy was the music produced by the Bomb Squad on their It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back and Fear of a Black Planet albums. On those albums, the Bomb Squad sampled tons of music to produce those tracks. This site has a list of many of them. And in fact, sampling existing music has been part of rap since the beginning with DJs mixing tracks. Such production, though, is not viable today due to the crackdown on such practices without paying royalties, and actually paying royalties would have enormous cost. This issue actually came up in the testimony Chuck gave before Congress regarding file-sharing (where opposing testimony was given LL Cool J).

With Creative Commons, artists would be able to sample existing music for their own tracks and be able to sell them, while still respecting the copyrights of the original artist and avoiding the financial burdens that royalties impose.

This (Google cache) interview with Hank Shocklee of the Bomb Squad and Chuck D discusses some of this stuff further.

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more guns = an increase in innocent deaths.

Dang, even Wikipedia seems to be slashdotted. =( Google Cache of Wikipedia Site

The cache of the gatech site

...so I'm sure he can take a similar time to juggle the numbers around in his head.

Pfft, They just make it up...

restoring the everglades

If by ``restoring the everglades'' you mean ``stealing people's land using eminent domain'', then sure, they're restoring the everglades.

Eminent domain is the vilest process the government can practice. It is everything this country is supposed to stand against, even when it's not being used to take land from the poor (often poor family farmers) and give to the rich, all in the name of economic development. Ever wonder what's happening to small farms and why the farming industry in America is so bad? It's not possible to make a small farm as profitable as a large farm when the large farm feeds cows moldy feed, parts of other dead cows, and rivers of antibiotics. If eminent domain were made a requirement, the result would be that only rich people would ever get land, because more money bankrolling a process makes it more ``economic.''

*That second link doesn't work as I'm writing this. It was amendment three on the ballot, and you can reach the amendment from here and a Google cache link here.

FACTS:
* Residential electricity consumption is 35% of the total (not 3% as you state)

* Roofspace is not as you stated. From the census data and DOE data: The average housing unit size is 2066 sq ft. There are 107 million units. 50% of houses are 1 story (roof=sq footage). The other 50% are 2 story or more (Census), which I estimated roof space is half of living space (this averages in the added garage roof space of some with the loss of roof space to 3 or more levels). The result was increased by 6% for the added area of the average roof slope. Commercial was 67 billion sqft. If you want to do a more detailed analysis, It would be great, send it to me. The average single family unit is 2527 sqft which I didn't use in these calcs, and are 88% of total housing units, so these numbers are likely underestimating roof space by around 15% or so. However the outcome will not likely be more than +/-10%.

* Of course not all roofs will be usable. The point is to get perspective on the land area needed. Even if 1/3 of roofs are usable, then problem solved. If you don't use roofs, the land area required is still VERY small. THE LAND AREA IS NOT THE SIZE OF TEXAS! With 17% panels on trackers the land area is a 46 mile square - 22% smaller than Dugway Proving grounds OR 0.8% THE SIZE OF TEXAS. With multijuction concentrators, its less than half of that. The problem here is you've been programmed to believe it should take a huge amount of space, BUT IT JUST DOESN'T. Clear yet?

*OK Say you want to replace ALL the US energy with solar(oil, coal, Natural Gas, wood, etc). How much land would it take? The US uses 98.3 Quads a year, or 2.88E13 kWh. Using 40% efficient multijunction concentrators ($1/Wp!) on trackers in average location (Kansas City) you get 964 kWh/m^2/year. LAND REQUIRED: a 100 mile square. OR 4% the size of Texas! VERY SMALL! 1/10th the 290,000 km^2 number you cite (Reference for this number please).

*Obviously once you see the real numbers - infrastructure isn't a problem. In fact a distributed PV system, some on roofs, some in local grids, some in large arrays would reduce distribution and transmission infrastructure substantially

Not quite. Most of the state (84%) didn't use electronic voting. But... some of them certainly did.

72% of Ohio voters used punchcards.

12% of Ohio voters used optical scan (bubble on paper)

16% of Ohio voters used electronic voting.

Should be possible to recount 84% of the votes

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• Specifically, the amount of energy liberated during the reac- tion of hydrogen, on a mass basis, is about 2.5 times the heat of combustion of common hydrocarbon fuels (gasoline, diesel, methane, propane, etc.) Therefore, for a given load duty, the mass of hydrogen required is only about a third of the mass of hydrocarbon fuel needed.
  
  The high energy content of hydrogen also implies that the energy of a hydrogen gas explosion is about 2.5 times that of common hydrocarbon fuels. Thus, on an equal mass basis, hydrogen gas explosions are more destructive and carry further. However, the duration of a conflagration tends to be inversely proportional to the combustive energy, so that hydrogen fires subside much more quickly than hydrocarbon fires.

• Hydrogen leaks are dangerous in that they pose a risk of fire where they mix with air (Section 1.3.1). However, the small molecule size that increases the likelihood of a leak also results in very high buoyancy and diffusivity, so leaked hy- drogen rises and becomes diluted quickly, especially out- doors. This results in a very localized region of flammability that disperses quickly. As the hydrogen dilutes with distance from the leakage site, the buoyancy declines and the ten- dency for the hydrogen to continue to rise decreases. Very cold hydrogen, resulting from a liquid hydrogen leak, be- comes buoyant soon after is evaporates.
  
  In contrast, leaking gasoline or diesel spreads laterally and evaporates slowly resulting in a widespread, lingering fire hazard. Propane gas is denser than air so it accumulates in low spots and disperses slowly, resulting in a protracted fire or explosion hazard. Heavy vapors can also form vapor clouds or plumes that travel as they are pushed by breezes. Methane gas is lighter than air, but not nearly as buoyant as hydrogen, so it disperses rapidly, but not as rapidly as hy- drogen.

You never know who could go down...someone could steal their name!

Cache

This site probably won't last long, heres google's cache:
http://66.102.7.104/search?q=cache:3EXdsF5PiA4J:ww w.troubleshooters.com/codecorn/primenumbers/primen umbers.htm+&hl=en/

The linked .txt file is 7.1 MB, so it probably will take a while. The Google cache doesn't do the number justice. In fact, the cached number is divisible by 2...

Wikipedia has a good article on UWB

Also an interesting cached .pdf at Google about An Ultra Wide Bandwidth System for In-Home Wireless Networking has good background on UWB.

Copyright = 211 or 10-31
People who believe copyright is good = 5150

Copyright = 211 or 10-31
People who believe copyright is good = 5150

It's sci-fi- but the proposal already does exist and has for some time. The idea is that the thin shaft of THOR system's crowbars negates terminal veloscity by being hyper-aerodynamic and also still a solid chunk of iron, long enough to hit before it melts.

For example: blah blah blah

We've been using the name since at least 2003. Is there any way we can protect our little group from a large corporation such as Vivendi?

Site is getting pretty doggy ... here is the obligatory link to the Google Cache

Since it appears to be /.'ed, here a Google Cache of the Demo Page and the S5 page