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np: Lamb - Gold (Lamb)

A common typo. The keys are like right next to each other.

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We actually have 3G on 450MHz (auto-translated) here in Sweden too. This is a really good solution in rural areas due to the excellent coverage. The 450MHz band was earlier used by the old 1G net NMT.

And having 900/1800 MHz also makes sense compared to the offbeat 850/1900 in USA, since the 900/1800 are pure multiples and allows for better antenna technology.

The advantage with higher frequencies is that you have better bandwidth which in turn means that you can get a higher data transfer rate. But if the reception is bad it doesn't help.

Despite this, the problems I see with VIA solution are crappy chipsets/integrated graphics (crappy at least on Linux) that are shipped on their boards.

BUT I'm looking forward to see AMD' move... how long will it take to release a comparable low-watt solution on the market ? (I mean, not just a CPU, but a complete mini-itx low-power mainboard/solution)

For the CPU we're not too far away (Athlon 64 1Ghz at 0.9V, 8W, scoring better than an Atom 230 @ 1.6GHz) it seems, see http://66.102.9.104/translate_c?hl=en&sl=de&tl=en&u=http://www.tomshardware.com/de/athlon-2000-Atom-230-Undervolting,testberichte-240084.html&usg=ALkJrhhQnkhENd8LbnpHTJpwfugMUrwNLw (translated from german)

I heard that in quite a few places a couple of years ago and wondered if it was part of marketing campaign. Anyway, it's here at Princeton anyway. The Penn article is still in Google's cache

I didn't think it sounded much like him, either, but googling the subject turned up this (google cache version), which seems to make it more plausible ..

This is not disimilar to the ESA's approach. Their Rosetta probe is a development of a Matra Marconi (now part of Astrium) geostationary communications satellite bus. In turn, the Mars and Venus Express probes both used a design derived from Rosetta, with many subsystems (e.g. power) also shared.

Cute game - looks like they've removed it from the Olympics website now?

http://en.beijing2008.cn/funpage/game/clouds/ - just show front page's content.

Google cache shows some more detail:

http://66.102.9.104/search?sourceid=navclient-ff&ie=UTF-8&q=cache%3Ahttp%3A%2F%2Fen.beijing2008.cn%2Ffunpage%2Fgame%2Fclouds%2F

"Fuwa fights the winter clouds"

"Shameware" anybody? ;)

ShareazaV4, is totally fake. It violates the open-source license, GPL (Version 2) in many ways. Also, it isn't free nor open source. It requires a subscription and installs a suspicious toolbar. You can read what happened from this reference list: http://tinyurl.com/2cx7ff

Please, update your Shareaza version to Shareaza 2.3.1.0, and change the site from Shareaza.com to the new official site at Sourceforge: http://shareaza.sourceforge.net/ .

The short version of why this is happening from the article:

A company trying to pass itself off as vendors of the open-source file-sharing software Shareaza, has set the legal dogs on the real Shareaza forum. Discordia Ltd, who earlier turned Bearshare and iMesh into pay services, demanded action after a member of the real Shareaza forum suggested a DOS attack on the site.

This is due to this suggestion by real shareaza forum user :

Make it so the real shareaza program queries their site [shareaza.com] every couple of seconds. As an individual user this won't take much personal bandwidth. But all shareaza users worldwide put together should be enough to kill their server and they won't really be able to do much since it will be coming from so many different IPs.

The letter by the shyster hired by the thief/impersonator of the shareaza domain and project:

This law firm represents Discordia, Ltd., the operator of the website Shareaza.com and owner of the rights in the Shareaza branded software distributed from that domain. Please be advised, that your forum contains a string of posts under the title: "suggestion to kill Shareaza.com." Under the string, the poster, RedSquirrel offers directions for users of Shareaza software to implement a DoS that would have the effect of destroying or seriously impairing our client's application and network. The poster OldDeath also offers a manner to illegally attack our client's business.

Despite whatever complaints your forum's users may have with our client's proper and legal business activities, the type of activity promoted on your forum is illegal. Therefore, we request that you immediately remove this string of posts and any future strings of this nature. My client respects your users' rights to express their points of view. However, the line is crossed when users begin to promote the destruction of a legitimate business (evidently based on out some misguided belief that artists and others who create music should not be fairly compensated for their efforts) via illegal or other predatory means.

If the above cited illegal activity on your site does not immediately cease and desist, our client will take all necessary action to vigorously and relentlessly protect its rights. To be clear, if this action is not immediately taken and, as result, our client's business is harmed, we will not only pursue, locate and hold fully responsible each and every one of those who have implemented this, or any similar DoS, but also those responsible for maintaining your site and the forums.

Please confirm that the requested action is being taken immediately.

Jeffrey A. Kimmel

Meister Seelig & Fein, LLP
140 E. 45th St., 19th Fl.
New York, NY 10017
(212) 655-3578

I suppose the law is in their hands in terms of a DDoS attack, so it would be more correct to sue the impersonator/thief for t

I work for a company which uses the voice-print technology and it actually won't let you do that, as the voice-print is altered every time you authenticate to stop exactly that happening.

I don't work for PerSay - but if I did I'd tell them to put this back on their website:

http://66.102.9.104/search?q=cache:71Fnb-hno7gJ:www.persay.com/news_10.asp+site:www.persay.com+recording&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=1&gl=uk

Still - it is a valid point that you can bypass such things as 2 from 4 PINs using touch tones if you can listen in enough to your neighbour...

I'm not too sure about using strlen in a loop like that. C strings are NULL terminated so each time you are going through that loop and doing your test you are also having to iterate over foo to find its length (unless foo is const variable and the compiler notices etc).

I'm not so sure about the "you forgot to terminate your string constants" bit. My understanding is that string constants are NULL terminated in C. I would be a bit cautious about assigning a string constant to a fixed sized array though (it feels wrong... If copying happened there's potential for wasted/too little memory, questions over whether you are actually throwing a pointer to rewritable memory away, are you trying to change read only memory later etc). Whether more memory is zeroed before use depends on your platform, libraries, how the memory allocation was done and your compiler (e.g. on Linux the glibc malloc function switches between brk and mmaped memory allocations depending on size and mmaped memory is zeroed by the kernel before being passed to your program).

The new system is replacing userhelper, so there will be the same number of (or likely fewer) password popup prompts - not more. See the wiki (google cache) for details.

Still working just fine here at the time of posting. Curious.

Here's google's cache just in case.

> Besides, there are no "Hindu Fanatics".

Really? The chappies who trashed Valentines Day couples must have been figments of the Indian media's collective imagination. Oh wait, don't tell me-- it was also part of the vast Communist-Christian-Muslim conspiracy against Hinduism. Ditto the nice people who chop off Muslims' heads en masse in riots. Oh wait, they are provoked. They have no choice but to ignore the rule of law and become animals.

With attitudes like that, you dream of becoming a world intellectual leader ("vishwaguru")? Fat chance.

Btw, all of your lessons in Hindu history pale into insignificance because you forget one thing: there is no one Hindu society. Hindu society is fractured into caste and subcaste. Take a look at what's happening in Rajasthan. First set your own house in order. Get rid of ignorance and superstition. Go to the villages and non-major cities and drive away the evils of caste. Then people might take you a little more seriously.

There's a lot of good in Vedic Hinduism, except that no one in the country really follows it. They're too entranced by a monkey god and a chap who drove his wife away on the word of a washerman*. And of course there are snakes and rats to worship.

* That's Hinduism's so-called "ideal person", Rama.

This is such a silly argument it's not even funny. Of course I don't propose to solve all the problems with the current system. That will most likely be the work of a large group of people specializing in that particular field.

It's of course not going to be an easy task. However the results are more than worthwhile. And none of the problems you list are unable to be solved imo. The patent system needs to be better designed, and it will take some serious innovation to fix it, but a means to provide for a limited monopoly will overall lead to greater innovation.

Their are issues with patents. Complacency and sitting on patents to prevent competition of an alternative product are major issues that will have to be dealt with. Not, once again, unsolvable imo. Some of the largest innovations may when patented provide a slowing effect, which you list a good example of. However patent protection has shown throughout history to provide a motivation for overall greater innovation.

Come on now, your first and last arguments are horrible scapegoats for what in the middle where at least decent points (if true). You listed 4 companies, 3 of which are production companies working in fields that will have little to no patents. Worse, since they are specialized in producing the products rather then inventing them, they would benefit from an environment where innovations are not protected and they can just steal them as they wish.

Lastly I'd love to see some links to those patent lawyer studies.

Somebody modded the parent post offtopic, but I think it's actually quite ontopic.

While the huge quote from the blog itself isn't directly relevant to the discussion, it shows what kind of stuff many soldiers post, and that it's not just "shit sucks here" and "we're going on patrol through street X at YY:ZZ", but intelligent opinions which question or undermine the whole concept behind this war. This is possibly what many are afraid of more than just revealing trivial secrets. Censorship might have its place in the military, but it's exactly stuff like this that must not be affected by it.

The blog is, indeed, no longer online and it looks like it archive.org doesn't have it either, but google cache comes to the rescue!

Check Mother Earth News 1980:
http://www.motherearthnews.com/Green-Transportatio n/1980-09-01/Mothers-Own-Hybrid-Car.aspx

The site was slow to begin with, so here's the Google cache:
http://66.102.9.104/search?q=cache:ePauTxj56ckJ:ww w.motherearthnews.com/Green-Transportation/1980-09 -01/Mothers-Own-Hybrid-Car.aspx+site:motherearthne ws.com+hybrid+1980

The one that got me was the Council inspectors to demand £5 'carbon offset' for barbecues

It is quite believable now in the UK, that local councils would spend millions of pounds in order to emply inspectors to wander around home owners gardens checking to see if they had a barbecue in use without a permit.

Still, with a different approach my AJAX generated site:
http://dutchpipe.org/
is indexed perfectly:
http://66.102.9.104/search?q=cache:kvnpKdmDxwUJ:du tchpipe.org/+dutchpipe&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=1

About a year ago, some greedy, not too smart, oil drillers have managed to drill into a large reservoir of water, gas and mud.

So now a gigantic area is already covered in mud.

Did they manage to drill into this reservoir?? Then it will take a while to stop!

http://66.102.9.104/search?q=cache:Im-QiS00qlcJ:ne ws.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/4798501.stm+mud+flo od+indonesia&hl=nl&ct=clnk&cd=1&gl=nl&client=firef ox-a

The CIA's experiments in radio control of the brain are based on the development of the EEG in the 1920's. In 1934, doctor's Chaffee and Light published a pivotal monograph, "A Method for Remote Control of Electrical Stimulation of the Nervous System". Work along the same lines allowed Dr. Jose Delgado of Cordoba, Spain to climb into bull-ring and, with the push of a button, trigger an electrode in the head of a charging bull and stop the beast in it's tracks.

Further groundbreaking advances were made by L.L. Vasiliev, the famed Russian Physiologist and doyan of parapsychology, in "Critical Evaluation of the Hypnogenic Method". The article detailed the experiments of Dr. I.F. Tomashevsky in remote radio control of the brain "at a

I believe it was established that the port next to the earphone socket was a functioning serial port - http://66.102.9.104/search?q=cache:98YmnohLNdEJ:ni l.rpc1.org/psp/files/PSP%2520Serial%2520Converter. pdf+psp+serial+port&hl=en&gl=uk&ct=clnk&cd=2&clien t=firefox-a (PSP/RS232 Serial Converter)

I suspect that it depends on what you mean by "recognise". This page:
http://66.102.9.104/search?q=cache:jE-HE3fd-eEJ:ww w.trafficmaster.co.uk/page.cfm%3Fkey%3Dnetwork_ptf m-network+&hl=en&gl=uk&ct=clnk&cd=1&client=firefox -a
(TM's Coldfusion site has boiled over, hence from Google cache)

says that they '"grab" the four centre digits of a vehicle number plate' - although how you grab the four central digits of a UK 7-character plate I don't know. Does identifying a car to within about 1 in 1000 mean that you've "recognised" it? Statistically, it must be good enough for them to measure traffic flow.

You don't have to buy SA, though. Many companies don't (although one of the articles says that they're not renewing a "running contract with Microsoft", none of the linked articles directly say "forced renewal after 3 years").

They do say that they're spending 160k on OO instead of 330k on Office, thus saving 170k. They also each say that "we're not going to move to Linux" as well...

330k is about 90 Euro a desktop. Anyone care to comment whether 90 Euro is about right for Office at this volume after haggling, and whether that would include SA or not? I'd have guessed that it would have been maybe a bit low but pretty close to a purchase price (without SA), but quite a lot for an annual fee.

Apparently there have been other projects in other local authorities in Groningen province (the city of Groningen itself is the biggest city in Groningen province):
http://66.102.9.104/search?q=cache:BzxPzhhUBLoJ:eu ropa.eu.int/ida/en/document/3393/470+groningen+ope noffice&hl=en&gl=uk&ct=clnk&cd=7&lr=lang_en&client =firefox-a
(google cache link because the original's moved).

"Locksmith .. has been incorporated into .. you may purchase the emergency-download version of ERD Commander 2005"

Google Cache

http://tinyurl.com/s2jjy

Google already cached it:
http://66.102.9.104/search?q=cache:MW-vckW5UbEJ:ww w.youthforvolpe.ca/+&hl=en&gl=uk&ct=clnk&cd=1&clie nt=firefox-a

No images, but you get the text and layout at least!

google's cache [google.com] of the home page shows 580 hits as of Jan 1st 2006.
Less than 400 hits to kill the server?! And they arrest the student?

Solid rocket fuel burns very slowly, generating massive, hot exhaust gases (think of the size of a rocket booster and how long it takes to get into orbit). The Hindenburg burnt from end to end in under a minute.

The yellow flame effect was caused by the burning hydrogen heating the envelope, not the envelope itself burning.

Try this research paper about that debunks the rocket fuel theory in great detail, with burn rates of reproductions of the Hindenburg envelope built and coated to the original design.

Cheers,
Justin.

Because of your repeated claims about "platform neutrality", I had to search the BBC to find what you were talking about. All I could find that mentioned the phrase was this, talking about interactive TV, not broadcast, and in any case it merely says the word "encourage" - not "require".

I also had a quick peek via Google, found this - a report by the BBC's R&D unit from five years ago, which does refer to broadcast TV, but still only says "the BBC aims to...". I'm sure that if Linux offered a DRM solution, they would have offered it. Even the free-wheeling P2Per like me knows that DRMed content is better than no content at all, certainly at this early stage in the project.

Someone, please, call the 911-GET-A-CLUE. We have a man down!

This is googles cache of slashdot, as you might notice it is quite old. Now that doesn't really hold any proof for how often google actually _indexes_ the frontpage, but according to my own "research" I'd say it's no more often than every twelve hours. Now, what does this mean?

Every twelve hour googles comes to download the frontpage and finds a link to beatles-beatles homepage. What does it do? It looks on the older copies of slashdot.org and finds what? That it isnt there! It's a temporary link. No consistency. Does that mean it gets a even share of that juicy pr9 pagerank? No it doesnt. It means it hardly gets any pr.

So please, do us all a favor, go read up on the theories on pagerank and then, please please please, stay with the uninformed designer mac-zealots over at digg.com

The example they used in the screenshots is the same one used here! There must be a deeper meaning to this blatant plagiarism. I mean, even the phone number is the same... Yep, definitely a terrorist plot in the making somewhere here...

"He said the overheating problem will be the most common and that this is what I have. (If your console turns off or the screen freezes 90% of the time its an over heating issue"

Balance a bottle of milk on the console. It worked on the ZX81 20 years ago. If it doesn't, hard cheese.

There's an article here about such weapons.

I just found out about maestro(Google cache) It's basically the software NASA uses to control the rovers and process their datasets. Looks quite interesting. I'm getting the datasets as I type this.(200MB)

If you're on gentoo,
emerge maestro maestro-data
If not, check your distro repos or get it from here.

It's more than possible. Trains have regularly been delayed due to the wrong kind of heat.

Trains on the surface and underground tend to be overcrowded at rush hour, with each carriage containing at least 150 passengers (not including those standing). And "air-conditioning" only consists of an extractor fan activated when the carriage is in motion. On some trains, there are scrolling LED displays that give the time, temperature, final and next destination.

Which country invented it first? Maybe they should control it.

What a moronic proposal. Let's look at the problem a bit deeper. To power DNS servers you have to own electricity. If we can OWN internet, then it should be possible to OWN electricity. So, now lets give electricity to the one who invented it. I vote to give internet to that country also (they will at least have power to plug DNS server).

For internet you need electricity, and how did electricity history really went (only practical examples):
- Michael Faraday (English) invented generating electric current on a practical scale
- Thomas Edison (US) invented DC current
- Nikola Tesla (Serbian) invented AC current
- James Watt (Scotish) his steam engine enabled large scale electricity generation became a practical method

So, who does own electricity? We all use AC, DC is something almost never used in public and we wouldn't be anywhere without Faraday, while we owe to Watt mass production of electricity.
Whos is electricity? English, Serbian or Scotish? While everybody else will have to adapt and start lighting candles (I know I will have to if your logic prevails).

For a reason I didn't name Benjamin Franklin, getting struck by lightning (even though he was intentionaly strucked (yes, he was using a kite to proove that) just to proove his theory) is not invention, and I think there are many who predate in being struck by lightning

Why nobody shouldn't own internet and why is (controlling ICANN) == (owns Internet) true?

One owning domain names practically owns internet. You can't expect people writing http://66.102.9.104/ instead of http://www.google.com./ btw. How does one access secondary site on the same IP? (btw. Internet yellow pages would become a profitable bussines) Can you trust somebody else, over whom you don't have control. One could say, based on the history... Well, screw history, conflicts happen in no time and that is when history doesn't matter

In case of war there's nothing easier than pulling the plug on some country and their economy and communications which depend on computers are dying.

Interesting fact...
Search for "Google Birthday" in google witht he "I am feeling lucky" option and Google will take you to a Page not Found, on this page there used to be an anser about when is google birthday...

If you look at that page cache, you will see that the answer will be:
Google's official birthday is September 7, 1998.

Neat uh?

Aside from actual technical reasons, perhaps one can have philosophical reasons for using it over Firefox and Thunderbird. Consider the following excerpts from the Firefox team's development blog and the Firefox readme:

1.) The middle finger housed at this site certainly implies the user and anyone who differs with the holy developers is wrong. Here, the customer is wrong, so it throws community accountability into question.

2.) Read lines 96 to 111 in the Firefox readme, and tell me that the developers are not being arrogant. While I see the value in meritocracy, to an extent, I fail to see the value arrogance. Secondly, it fails to offer anyone in the community any standardized channel for getting the attention of the developers, were the individual to have something that actually warranted their attention.

- Begin Quote -

96 ian 1.7 Q6: So to whom do I send patches?
97 ian 1.6
98 We are not currently accepting any input. No UI specs, no bugs,
99 and definitely no patches. See Q3.
100 ian 1.9
101 Q7: How do I get involved?
102
103 You don't except by invitation. This is a meritocracy -- only
104 those gain the respect of those in the group can join the group. See
105 Q6.
106 ian 1.6
107 ian 1.10 Q8: I don't like the mozilla/browser process! This sucks! I'm
108 never going to contribute to Mozilla again!
109
110 Oh no, please, don't go, whatever shall we do without you.
111

- End Quote -


The software may technically be open source because I can fetch the source via CVS; but under the policies of its developers, it is unaccountable and closed to my submission. How discouraging.

This is off the topic, but my final complaint about Firefox and Thunderbird is merely technical. Before anyone claims that I am wrong due to the fact that the user can write extensions and thereby participate in the community, I would agree in this argument, but I believe that it overlooks something: Everyone raves about extensions as if they are the best solution to ending the bloat of the original software. That view is fine, but I beg to differ with tradeoff of how cheap and poorly integrated the majority of main extensions feel. I have yet to use an extension that feels integrated better than the numerous features included in the Seamonkey suite.

If my views are not sufficient here, consider taking a look at this large list of individuals who think otherwise: http://wiki.mozilla.org/SeaMonkey:Reasons.

As a case in point, Raats and Feddes refer to optimal root distributions and their effect on the mesoscopic scale interaction between root and ground water.

So, what we had suggested was that the bz2 compression process, compression ratios and resulting output would be analogous to the optimal-root (biomass), in the context of its osmotic interchange, growth-rates and the optimality of the resulting bio-tree.

In light of this, I believe that my previous comment still stands

. Sith scum-bag!

It is a shame that slashcode doesn't seem to update its website very often.

e.g. Googles cache of the front page shows the most recent front-page story dated December 20th 2004!

A while back I was looking for a CMS to run a slashdot-like site, and whilst I was pretty sure I'd not need the complexity of the full slash codebase I decided not to use it partially on the grounds that the slashcode website looked so "dead".

(I'm sure that the CVS repository, and mailing lists are alive; but it's not a thing to instill confidence in potential adoptors).

google cache of danaquarium.com

site /.-ed.
google cache: http://66.102.9.104/search?q=cache:JMB0PlWzQEUJ:ww w.danaquarium.com/article.php%3Fstory%3D2005020905 570523+

And it'd be terrible if Google did that to CNet's CEO - publishing information about what bank they use, their earnings and options, their probable home town and so on.

What a hatchet job that would be.

And it'd be terrible if Google did that to CNet's CEO - publishing information about what bank they use, their earnings and options, their probable home town and so on.

What a hatchet job that would be.

And it'd be terrible if Google did that to CNet's CEO - publishing information about what bank they use, their earnings and options, their probable home town and so on.

What a hatchet job that would be.

Wow, that was quick!

Heres the google cache :)

"Linux has never been about quality. There are so many parts of the system that are just these cheap little hacks, and it happens to run."

If Linux just "happens to run", how come it knocks out OpenBSD when it comes to performance? I very much doubt that Linux would win tests like these if "many parts" of its code were low quality and badly designed.

Granted, the test linked to above is soon two years old, and De Raadt refers to style of coding or general code quality rather than raw performance -- which other prominent people also have commented (in a perhaps more balanced way), but the fact that Linux runs is not merely a coincidence, as De Raadt seems to insinuate.

Recommended reading for you (and all Insightful modders, for that matter): Humanity: A Moral History of the Twentieth Century by Jonathan Glover.

Because it creates a new crimes of simply not presenting your ID card.

Do a keyword search for the court case "Willcock vs. Muckle"
www.statewatch.org

Clarence Henry Willcock"

The justification for ID cards is that they will prevent fraud, while experts have testified that ID cards will become "the master key" for identity thieves.