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#1: Wealth Inequality in 21st Century Threatens Economy and Democracy
#2: Ashcroft vs. the Human Rights Law that Hold Corporations Accountable
#3: Bush Administration Censors Science
#4: High Levels of Uranium Found in Troops and Civilians
#5: The Wholesale Giveaway of Our Natural Resources
#6: The Sale of Electoral Politics
#7: Conservative Organization Drives Judicial Appointments
#8: Cheney's Energy Task Force and The Energy Policy
#9: Widow Brings RICO Case Against U.S. government for 9/11
#10: New Nuke Plants: Taxpayers Support, Industry Profits
#11: The Media Can Legally Lie
#12: The Destabilization of Haiti
#13: Schwarzenegger Met with Enron's Ken Lay Years Before the California Recall
#14: New Bill Threatens Intellectual Freedom in Area Studies
#15: U.S. Develops Lethal New Viruses
#16: Law Enforcement Agencies Spy on Innocent Citizens
#17: U.S. Government Represses Labor Unions in Iraq in Quest for Business Privatization
#18: Media and Government Ignore Dwindling Oil Supplies
#19: Global Food Cartel Fast Becoming hte World's Supermarket
#20: Extreme Weather Prompts New Warning from UN
#21: Forcing a World Market for GMOs
#22: Censoring Iraq
#23: Brazil Holds Back in FTAA Talks, But Provides Little Comfort for the Poor of South America

Main List
#1: Wealth Inequality in 21st Century Threatens Economy and Democracy
#2: Ashcroft vs. the Human Rights Law that Hold Corporations Accountable
#3: Bush Administration Censors Science
#4: High Levels of Uranium Found in Troops and Civilians
#5: The Wholesale Giveaway of Our Natural Resources
#6: The Sale of Electoral Politics
#7: Conservative Organization Drives Judicial Appointments
#8: Cheney's Energy Task Force and The Energy Policy
#9: Widow Brings RICO Case Against U.S. government for 9/11
#10: New Nuke Plants: Taxpayers Support, Industry Profits
#11: The Media Can Legally Lie
#12: The Destabilization of Haiti
#13: Schwarzenegger Met with Enron's Ken Lay Years Before the California Recall
#14: New Bill Threatens Intellectual Freedom in Area Studies
#15: U.S. Develops Lethal New Viruses
#16: Law Enforcement Agencies Spy on Innocent Citizens
#17: U.S. Government Represses Labor Unions in Iraq in Quest for Business Privatization
#18: Media and Government Ignore Dwindling Oil Supplies
#19: Global Food Cartel Fast Becoming hte World's Supermarket
#20: Extreme Weather Prompts New Warning from UN
#21: Forcing a World Market for GMOs
#22: Censoring Iraq
#23: Brazil Holds Back in FTAA Talks, But Provides Little Comfort for the Poor of South America

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#1: Wealth Inequality in 21st Century Threatens Economy and Democracy
#2: Ashcroft vs. the Human Rights Law that Hold Corporations Accountable
#3: Bush Administration Censors Science
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#5: The Wholesale Giveaway of Our Natural Resources
#6: The Sale of Electoral Politics
#7: Conservative Organization Drives Judicial Appointments
#8: Cheney's Energy Task Force and The Energy Policy
#9: Widow Brings RICO Case Against U.S. government for 9/11
#10: New Nuke Plants: Taxpayers Support, Industry Profits
#11: The Media Can Legally Lie
#12: The Destabilization of Haiti
#13: Schwarzenegger Met with Enron's Ken Lay Years Before the California Recall
#14: New Bill Threatens Intellectual Freedom in Area Studies
#15: U.S. Develops Lethal New Viruses
#16: Law Enforcement Agencies Spy on Innocent Citizens
#17: U.S. Government Represses Labor Unions in Iraq in Quest for Business Privatization
#18: Media and Government Ignore Dwindling Oil Supplies
#19: Global Food Cartel Fast Becoming hte World's Supermarket
#20: Extreme Weather Prompts New Warning from UN
#21: Forcing a World Market for GMOs
#22: Censoring Iraq
#23: Brazil Holds Back in FTAA Talks, But Provides Little Comfort for the Poor of South America

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#1: Wealth Inequality in 21st Century Threatens Economy and Democracy
#2: Ashcroft vs. the Human Rights Law that Hold Corporations Accountable
#3: Bush Administration Censors Science
#4: High Levels of Uranium Found in Troops and Civilians
#5: The Wholesale Giveaway of Our Natural Resources
#6: The Sale of Electoral Politics
#7: Conservative Organization Drives Judicial Appointments
#8: Cheney's Energy Task Force and The Energy Policy
#9: Widow Brings RICO Case Against U.S. government for 9/11
#10: New Nuke Plants: Taxpayers Support, Industry Profits
#11: The Media Can Legally Lie
#12: The Destabilization of Haiti
#13: Schwarzenegger Met with Enron's Ken Lay Years Before the California Recall
#14: New Bill Threatens Intellectual Freedom in Area Studies
#15: U.S. Develops Lethal New Viruses
#16: Law Enforcement Agencies Spy on Innocent Citizens
#17: U.S. Government Represses Labor Unions in Iraq in Quest for Business Privatization
#18: Media and Government Ignore Dwindling Oil Supplies
#19: Global Food Cartel Fast Becoming hte World's Supermarket
#20: Extreme Weather Prompts New Warning from UN
#21: Forcing a World Market for GMOs
#22: Censoring Iraq
#23: Brazil Holds Back in FTAA Talks, But Provides Little Comfort for the Poor of South America

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#2: Ashcroft vs. the Human Rights Law that Hold Corporations Accountable
#3: Bush Administration Censors Science
#4: High Levels of Uranium Found in Troops and Civilians
#5: The Wholesale Giveaway of Our Natural Resources
#6: The Sale of Electoral Politics
#7: Conservative Organization Drives Judicial Appointments
#8: Cheney's Energy Task Force and The Energy Policy
#9: Widow Brings RICO Case Against U.S. government for 9/11
#10: New Nuke Plants: Taxpayers Support, Industry Profits
#11: The Media Can Legally Lie
#12: The Destabilization of Haiti
#13: Schwarzenegger Met with Enron's Ken Lay Years Before the California Recall
#14: New Bill Threatens Intellectual Freedom in Area Studies
#15: U.S. Develops Lethal New Viruses
#16: Law Enforcement Agencies Spy on Innocent Citizens
#17: U.S. Government Represses Labor Unions in Iraq in Quest for Business Privatization
#18: Media and Government Ignore Dwindling Oil Supplies
#19: Global Food Cartel Fast Becoming hte World's Supermarket
#20: Extreme Weather Prompts New Warning from UN
#21: Forcing a World Market for GMOs
#22: Censoring Iraq
#23: Brazil Holds Back in FTAA Talks, But Provides Little Comfort for the Poor of South America

It's getting slow, here's a Google cache.

As I posted earlier on /., block the following regex in your ad-blocker of choice (adblock in Firefox, PithHelmet in Safari) and be gone with your troubles: radio\.weblogs\.com\/0105910.

Also, the Triangle TechJournal article is not spam, but merely slashdotted. Here is google's cache: http://66.102.7.104/search?q=cache:uVKexn1-BtYJ:ww w.triangletechjournal.com/news/article.html%3Fitem _id%3D666+&hl=en&start=1

Jason Lopez Aug 19, 2004 newsfactor.com
I do notice when he's talking about 38%, he says "home-based Internet users" but isn't so clear about the 51%, where he just says "users".
I would have sworn that most folks used dial-up from home.

gewg_

calculating leap years is a tad more complicated than just year % 4. You can make a pretty conditional statement to do it, like so:

sub IsLeapYear { my $year = shift; return $year % 4 ? 0 : $year % 100 ? 1 : $year % 400 ? 0 : 1; }

This example (in Perl of course) is taken from an O'Reilly Book

There are three components to leakage current in DSM CMOS devices. From here in order of magnitude: (1) source-drain junction leakage current (2) gate-direct tunneling leakage, and (3) sub-threshold leakage current.

And while neither of us pointed out all three, the fact remains that it's not the "bunching up" of the transistors that increases leakage, it's the gate and transistor sizes (which tend to scale together.) Which was the point I was trying to make.

If you think gate leakage is negligible compared to sub-threshold leakage, you'd better tell the IEEE and all those people working on high-K gate dielectrics.

There are three components to leakage current in DSM CMOS devices. From here in order of magnitude: (1) source-drain junction leakage current (2) gate-direct tunneling leakage, and (3) sub-threshold leakage current.

And while neither of us pointed out all three, the fact remains that it's not the "bunching up" of the transistors that increases leakage, it's the gate and transistor sizes (which tend to scale together.) Which was the point I was trying to make.

If you think gate leakage is negligible compared to sub-threshold leakage, you'd better tell the IEEE and all those people working on high-K gate dielectrics.

With all due respect, I think you're confused. For the same operating voltage, dynamic power does not decrease with decreasing gate size/transitor size.

P=1/2*Ceff*V^2*f*N+Q*V*f*N+I1*V

where P is power consumption, Ceff is effective load capacitance, f is frequency, V is source voltage, N is signal switching coefficient, Q is charge due to through-type current, and I1 is leakage current.

While the actual gate capacitance driven may be reduced by virtue of it's smaller size, the effective capacitance (that "seen" by the driver) stays roughly the same, or may even get higher from parasitic capacitance. The only thing sure to change is the leakage current, which will increase as gates shrink.

Maybe this will help you understand.

"They"? You mean the Klingons, the Sicilians, or Dorothy Parker?

Here's the best I got:

google cache

and this, too

Here's the best I got:

google cache

and this, too

Don't forget www.archive.org. And it's cache! How long before each of us has our own Petabyte cluster, and our own cached copy of the internet for use in such cases of terror?!?

Not bit torrent, but it'll have to do...

Google Cache

-jim

seems like the site is quite slow already.
http://66.102.7.104/search?q=cache:MzaBgZJufrYJ:ww w.thebug.com/+&hl=en

#ifdef Slightly_Crass_but_safe_for_work

#endif

Be that as it may, you should still be warned that Daniel Lyons is a SCO schill. And by "schill" I mean someone who would post untrue, defamatory material in order to discredit someone who pointed out that he wasn't exactly a bastion of journalistic ethics.

If you check my posting history, you will undoubtably note that I have followed his actions rather closely (and, quite frequently, stepped up to point out that he's full of crap).

For example, there was that article where he posted untrue, unsubstantiated and rediculous allegations about PJ of Groklaw, with reckless disregard for the truth, even going so far as to quote random trolls on the internet as sources!

Hell, even here, the editors don't generally post front page stories about the penis bird or whatever it is they're trolling about these days. While to begin with, Daniel Lyons was just acting as a lazy journalist, spouting off whatever SCO put into their press releases, after he was called on it, he began to work to discredit those who had so very well discredited him.

Unfortunately for him, he only proved that Forbes has no editorial oversight--that article, which I'm sure you could find via Google (Google cache link--I refuse to give Forbes page views if I can help it), had no place on any serious website. Let alone one purporting to carry "news."

So while I won't say that he's actually manipulating the SCOX stock price--IBM will have to ferret that out, as they have addressed it in their counter-claims--you should realize that whatever motives he writes with are not good ones.

In the mean time, I will do my part to remind everyone that Forbes apparently has insufficient editorial oversight, and should not therefore be considered a reliable source of information. Hell, if they told me it was raining outside, I do believe that I would go look for myself.

I can't do much, but I believe that I've cost them at least one potential customer already.

check this or pdf version out.

The gates of hell are indeed open!

Due to the fact the Microsoft Windows XP version of Doom3 was mastered first (first post^sigh); I think what you mean to say is:

The [Bill] gates of hell are indeed open!

Everyone knows that every application eventualy assim^H^H^H^H^Hmigrates to Borg^H^H^H^HMicrosoft Windows.

So far, not even Western European Sparrows could migrate to Windows:
In Soviet America, Windows kills you!

Sincerily,
Alpha Troll

The gates of hell are indeed open!

Due to the fact the Microsoft Windows XP version of Doom3 was mastered first (first post^sigh); I think what you mean to say is:

The [Bill] gates of hell are indeed open!

Everyone knows that every application eventualy assim^H^H^H^H^Hmigrates to Borg^H^H^H^HMicrosoft Windows.

So far, not even Western European Sparrows could migrate to Windows:
In Soviet America, Windows kills you!

Sincerily,
Alpha Troll

The gates of hell are indeed open!

Due to the fact the Microsoft Windows XP version of Doom3 was mastered first (first post^sigh); I think what you mean to say is:

The [Bill] gates of hell are indeed open!

Everyone knows that every application eventualy assim^H^H^H^H^Hmigrates to Borg^H^H^H^HMicrosoft Windows.

So far, not even Western European Sparrows could migrate to Windows:
In Soviet America, Windows kills you!

Sincerily,
Alpha Troll

The gates of hell are indeed open!

Due to the fact the Microsoft Windows XP version of Doom3 was mastered first (first post^sigh); I think what you mean to say is:

The [Bill] gates of hell are indeed open!

Everyone knows that every application eventualy assim^H^H^H^H^Hmigrates to Borg^H^H^H^HMicrosoft Windows.

So far, not even Western European Sparrows could migrate to Windows:
In Soviet America, Windows kills you!

Sincerily,
Alpha Troll

The gates of hell are indeed open!

Due to the fact the Microsoft Windows XP version of Doom3 was mastered first (first post^sigh); I think what you mean to say is:

The [Bill] gates of hell are indeed open!

Everyone knows that every application eventualy assim^H^H^H^H^Hmigrates to Borg^H^H^H^HMicrosoft Windows.

So far, not even Western European Sparrows could migrate to Windows:
In Soviet America, Windows kills you!

Sincerily,
Alpha Troll

The gates of hell are indeed open!

Due to the fact the Microsoft Windows XP version of Doom3 was mastered first (first post^sigh); I think what you mean to say is:

The [Bill] gates of hell are indeed open!

Everyone knows that every application eventualy assim^H^H^H^H^Hmigrates to Borg^H^H^H^HMicrosoft Windows.

So far, not even Western European Sparrows could migrate to Windows:
In Soviet America, Windows kills you!

Sincerily,
Alpha Troll

Blind people sometimes feel the presence of nearby objects as a light touch on their faces, like a veil or spider-web. It turns out that this sensation, which is experienced as tactile, actually derives from auditory stimulation, since the sensation goes away when the people have their ears blocked with putty.

Déjà vu.

I remember seeing a preview interview of the Playstation 3 a few years ago.

Sony: Dreamcast? Ha ha, funny stupid yankee! You dishonor me with your mention of this Dreamcast. The Praystation 3 does not connect to internet, Praystation 3 CONTAIN the internet. You prugga in the computer to the port, the internet isa all there. We copy it inside machine for fast access.

mis: Wait, so you're saying that you copied every single file on the internet into this box? That doesn't even make any sense! The internet is a constantly changing network of millions of individual machines. How does the PS3 update its so called "internet" if it has no connections to the real network?

Sony: Thasa right. No connections. Praystation 3 get internet from outerspace.

mis: And its power?

Sony: It run on love.

Slashdotted. His monthly bandwidth limit has been exceeded probably because of your link.

Try Google's cache of it.

That was fast. Less than 5 posts and the machine is melted.

Well here's a press release on the product. I like the part about it "vaguely resembling a Klingon space ship".

Check it here: http://www.prweb.com/releases/2004/6/prwebxml13509 7.php

Oh and of course the Google cache of the melted tritium.co.uk box: http://66.102.7.104/search?q=cache:TSbW7tvLA14J:ww w.tritium.co.uk/

Even going 10m on a single pump stage is quite difficult. The normal procedure used for electric jet pumps in wells (which routinely pump 75m), is to "stage" the pumps: provide a series of intermediate pump mechanisms every few meters along the way that repressurize the water for the next leg.

I would think that a staged Archimedes' screw type design would work well in this application.

It's quite strange that it is not a PDF file.
but is anyone wants the 5 meg html version it here

A link to the Google Cache.

read this
note the part about

In all living systems the building blocks of the DNA and RNA exist exclusively in the right-handed form, while the amino acids in virtually all proteins in living systems, with very rare exception, occur only in the left-handed form

also read this

There is only one life on Earth. This is one of the most profound recent discoveries of biology. All life forms on Earth have the same biochemistry. Life is based on a common set of some 20 amino acids. Both left-handed and right-handed (laevo- and dextro-rotary) isomers of these acids exist in the laboratory, but life uses only left-handed amino acids. When you die, the amino acids in your body will gradually convert to 50% left-handed and 50% right handed by quantum processes. This racemerization can be used to date organic remains. All life shares the same genetic code: RNA and DNA. Thus life shares a common ancestor.

so the amino acids to form life DONT exist naturally and never have ....but they got here somehow......................

here is google's cache click here

Around the early 90's, Apple developed a prototype operating system called Pink, which they later spun off into a company called Taligent, with the help of IBM and Hewlett Packard. Here is an old article about it and why it was canned. I remember reading something about how former Apple CEO John Scully gave a demonstration to some people of what looked like the Macintosh operating system running on a PC. As I recall it could run on both Mac and PC hardware platforms, and was designed in such a way that programmers could create programs that ran on both platforms through object-oriented programming. I purchased a book on it ages ago in which it was described as an "application system". It was meant to be a true cross-platform operating system.

Take another look at the text involved.

The exemption is *only* WRT reverse-engineering on anti-circumvention on software to which you are able to do what you're doing under copyright law. It does *not* provide a new fair-use exemption under copyright law.

The DMCA's clauses providing exemptions for reverse engineering to ensure compatibility do not extend to shielding one from copyright infringement. The original work is still copyrighted. Just because you (may) not be hit by the DMCA's anticircumvention laws doesn't mean that you are legally clear in regard to the actual copyright on the software. You have modified a disassembled copy of the original (rather than producing a clone, which would be legal), and hence are distributing a derivative copy of a copyrighted work to which you do not own the copyright or a license to the copyright. The DMCA doesn't concern you -- traditional copyright law does.

The clause in the DMCA gives the example of the Internet Archive needing to be able to put software to which they *have rights* and are not infringing on copyright ("If the Internet Archive is given computer software..."). The exemption only allows them to modify the software. It does not grant them more rights under copyright law.

Read discussion here

The extent of this ruling is to cover people that write and apply cracks that allow software to run on newer media formats that would otherwise not have the right to do so (If the CD becomes obsolete, it is legal to bypass Safe CD). It does not mean that any works that are protected by Safe CD become public domain.

It is possible that Silas' widow owns the copyright, if Silas published his own game. In this case, she probably *does* have the ability to grant you distribution rights, and you're fine.

That if I want to show my dick to interested parties, I can't, because I'm then somehow 'less than human', despite the fact that I chose to show my cock?

U.S. reactors literally cannot go Chernobyl in the event of failure.

Even Chernobyl wouldn't have gone Chernobyl if the stupid bastards running the plant hadn't disabled all the safeties and forced it into that state.

Link above is from a Google search so here's the cache link as well.

It recently happened in Tulsa, OK (with a withdrawl slip rather than deposit). See the Google cache.

for those who dont feel like viewing the .doc file, heres the html version

Europeans NEVER do that, do they Troed? Did an American steall your girlfriend or kick your ass or soemthing? What's your problem with everybody in America? Seriously, you generalize way too much. Are you a support of decapitations now or has your taste soured for that and your monthly donation ceased?

In a fit of nerdliness, I once defined a game I called Mango (Math Nerd Go), which generalizes Go. Some might find it amusing. Not feeling like slashdotting myself, I'll give the Google cache link. :-)

The misanthropes that took over comp.lang.lisp are pathetic. I've never seen a techical discussion group that hostile and defensive.

Common Lisp fossilized sometime back in the Reagan Administration and has since lost almost all ability to improve.

As a result, the vast majority of former users have abandoned it and those who remain almost have to take a position that there is no further NEED for improvement except in trivial ways (more libraries, more "complete" implementations, etc.) that, if you think about it, are merely restatements of the "nothing needs to be improved" notion.

Arc is announcementware. It has shown no signs of life since its first few weeks.

There are several dozen different Schemes, all incompatible, with an average of maybe 1.1 implementers each.

Of course, if you really want a one-implementation, brand-spanking-new (no compatibilities here, sir!) Lisp, then by all means check out newLISP.

The omniscient google cache:

Slashdot This!

...i dread to think where we'd be..

Wouldn't want a repeat of this now, would we?

From the link...In fact, the only relevent part:
The transcripts were among the dozens of bags of hastily shredded documents seized by Islamic "students" when they stormed the U.S. Embassy in Tehran in November 1979. Bit by bit, the students reassembled the shredded pages and published them in a 40-odd volume series called "Documents from the U.S. Espionage Den."

Sounds fascinating. I couldn't find a copy on Amazon.:-)

Possibly something like this.

That's a Google Cache link for those not keeping track.