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No - I've been around a few years and was never taught "billion = million million" at school (and I do remember changing from pounds, shillings and pence, so that should help you put a date on it).

I think that the "official" changeover (as far as the treasury was concerned) was late 60s / early 70s. A quick google can't find a cite for it but a post here mentions "the official announcement some three decades ago":
http://66.249.93.104/search?q=cache:O4P5O5xh-6sJ:w ww.translatorscafe.com/cafe/MegaBBS/thread-view.as p%3Fthreadid%3D6977%26posts%3D18+billion+million+b ritish+treasury+%22million+million%22&hl=en&gl=uk& ct=clnk&cd=11&client=firefox-a

Like Systrace?

I don't know anything about whether AAC will be supported on non-Archos devices

Say, I've been to that site, but it is difficult to find the exact sites/pages where actual examples (like the ones I gave) are handled with what they consider strictly libertarian principles. I mean, I've read http://www.mises.org/story/1784#_ftn16, http://www.mises.org/story/2118
, and http://66.249.93.104/u/Mises?q=cache:_uMdPyltSWQJ: www.mises.org/reasonpapers/pdf/13/rp_13_2.pdf+libe rtarianism&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=20&ie=UTF-8 thusfar, but they are all rather theorethical treaties about the principles of libertarianism (as the author sees it, at least), but none give real-life examples, nor even hypothetical ones, where it is shown how exactly a libertarian society would deal with it (notably something similar as what I described with human interaction in public space).

Could you, perhaps, give me direct links to the pages which actually deal with this sort of examples? I would be much obliged.

Also, when reading the page of David Gordon about libertarianism, I encounter something which annoys me to some degree, and is seen often with classical libertarian papers: a overly optimistic viewpoint (bordering on the oversimplify-ing) without actual data backing it up. All the papers thusfar, are very scant with scientific references, sources and statistics which support their claims. And sometimes, this leads to a contradiction, or at least an unsolved discrepancy, between what they claim, and what actually can be observed.

For instance, we can read:

"Murray has evidently forgotten his earlier discussion. If the government has failed to alleviate poverty, will not very wealthy people come to realize that a purely voluntary society will be worth trying? If they are sufficiently wealthy, charitable contributions will not burden them unduly. Why then will they turn to the Plan, which Murray acknowledges is less than ideal?"

So, the author sees it as more ideal, to scrap the retrieval of taxes, and the spending of it on medicare and other social programs, and instead the state should do nothing, and leave it all to 'charitable' donations. This, he argues, would be far more efficient in closing the divide between the poor and rich then any government program.

Alas, he does not substantiate that with actual fact, nor examples that might support this theory. and while it is one thing to claim government programs are not very effective, it is a completely other matter to claim charity from the rich will solve it in a better way. The only time he tries to substatiate it, is by reiterating another author who claimed how well things were during the 19th century, when charity was in, and no government programs were around.

I rather think this is a case of historical revisionism; by all accounts, life for the poor were awfull during those times, and not at all mediated by whatever 'broad network' of charitable donations were in place.

And, more-over, I find this notion hard to reconcile with what we can observe in current times. while the author might lament the fact that the USA-government spends so much money on wellfare, it is, in effect (compared to the GDP) only a fraction of what most european countries spend on wellfare. As we can all agree, the EU-countries are far more socialistic-minded, and government spending on welfare (and taxes are higher because of it) is far greater then in the USA. By all acounts, the USA is in this regard far more behaving in a 'libertarian' way, then EU-countries, even when one would claim it is not fully following libertarianism.

Yet, how do we reconcile the discrepancies, then? If the USA is more libertarian then EU countries, and the libertarian way is more efficient then the government-spending-on-wellfare way,

Oblig wikipedia link: Top manta
Translation: Google translatifier
Oh, and manta does technically mean 'blanket', but sheet is a more accurate translation in cultural terms.

There's a chain of gas stations & convenience stores in Portugal that has been using biometric payment services since March 2004. More details here or here here.

Gandi used to sleep naked with his niece! No, really!

This rather paranoid-looking but, in my opinion, believeable web page has been documenting the NSA's relationship to Orkut for 2 years now. http://www.infiltrated.net/orkut.php

It lives only in Google's Cache:

http://66.249.93.104/search?q=cache:JMyVq6wjWSYJ:w ww.infiltrated.net/orkut.php+orkut+sil+nsa&hl=en&c t=clnk&cd=10

And yes people lie on web pages, but they also use social networking pages to socially network. Therefore the core data (who talks to whom) is fairly reliable and rather scary to give to the NSA.

To answer the first of your questions, one way in which legal software can become illegal is if you had an OEM copy of Windows and replaced the motherboard on your system for any reason other than a hardware fault. Under Microsoft's Terms and Conditions, that new motherboard means your computer is now a new system. Which means your 'non-transferrable' OEM copy of Windows is now in use on a different computer system for which it is not licenced. So now you're an evil scummy communist terrorist dirty low-down software pirate.

See items 11. and 12. in the Google cache here:

http://66.249.93.104/search?q=cache:XKMlhtB4R88J:d ownload.microsoft.com/download/4/e/3/4e3eace0-4c6d -4123-9d0c-c80436181742/OSLicQA.doc+Microsoft+EULA +non-transferable+motherboard&hl=en&gl=uk&ct=clnk& cd=1

This is how it's always going to be as well. Example: People don't move to Firefox because it's open source. They move to it because they're told it's better than IE, and they then stick with it because it's demonstrably better.

At the end of the day ideology is irrelevant to most people.

Hmmmm Betty. The cat did a whopsee on the boys' website's google cache:

http://66.249.93.104/search?q=cache:XrpeKGWy2egJ:s py.myspaceplus.com/+&hl=en&gl=uk&ct=clnk&cd=1

Shouldn't that be 'Coke and dogs' ?

The page of Aaron Donahue - a well known psychic - is currently in the deletion process in Wikipedia.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Deletion_re view#Aaron_Donahue

Google Cache of the original page: http://66.249.93.104/search?q=cache:6Ex5Em7orzsJ:e n.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aaron_Donahue+aaron+donahue&g l=at&ct=clnk&cd=3

How famous/politically correct does a person have to be to have a page in Wikipedia?

MS did *not* beat academia to this idea. See research performed in the late 90's, e.g. here (postscript document -- google cached html version here).

What they may have done is get the first working implementation, although I did first hear of people implementing this kind of system several years ago, I just can't find them now. There was a /. article about one, IIRC.

What was David Blunkett thinking more like? He was the Home Secretary at the time, and signed the UK Extradition Treaty (Google Cache HTML) (PDF). I've tried reading through it, there are many references but IANAL so I can't interpert it properly.

A BBC News article in Feb 2006 stated that:
"Since the 2003 Act came into force, 11 UK citizens have been extradited to the US."
and
"Of the 11, none was a terrorism case." which already shows how much this policy has been abused. With enough pressure, The US can extradite anyone it wants from the UK - meaning for Brits like me, I should be even more concerned about the news, events and laws in the States.

The answer, however, even two years ago read, "Add /usr/local/lib to /etc/ld.so.conf and run ldconfig."

Mind you, the whole post is a cut and paste troll taken from some old web pages, so really I'd just ignore the dickhead.

Justin.

When you think of Google, Amazon, Ebay etc. ... their whole business depends on telecommunication, so that what it's worth to them to have their data sent is basically their entire profit margin, which is non-zero. So ... at the moment they are enjoying a benefit which is known as "consumer surplus". Consumer surplus is the area between a demand curve and a given (fixed) price (see e.g. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consumer_surplus).

Any marketeer knows that to get the maximum amount of money out of a market, you have to deal with each consumer individually, and price your goods to exactly what he's willing to pay. You can do that if his negotiation position is completely transparant to you, i.e. if you know his demand curve.

Now that extreme is too bothersome, so what do you do? You segment the market into sections that have approximately the same willingness to pay. For each segment you then negotiate a price close to the minimum willingness to pay for that segment. You won't get all the revenue you would have if you were able to charge each consumer the maximum price they're willing to pay, but you're getting close.

The trick is to identify the segments in the first place, and to gain a strong negotiating position. Identifying your customers is the basic step to figuring out their willingness to pay, and of late we have seen Cisco routers that do exactly that. So that's one hole plugged.

The second issue is to gain a strong negotiating position. That's all taken care of because the telecom companies have ensured that all electronic traffic must pass through their infrastructure.

The only remaining problem was that it wasn't legal for them to bluntly start pricing each individual customer what they would pay. Now with the removal of "net-neutrality" this is taken care of as well. Telecom companies can simply induce unacceptable delays as follows:

- (1) allocate reserved bandwidth channels on their infrastructure for customers that are prepared to pay more (got to provide superior service if we're going to charge more, right?)

- (2) route traffic in those channels with priority over existing infrastructure

- (3) watch natural traffic growth of priority traffic squeeze the performance of the non-priority traffic

- (4) politely but firmly negotiate large price increases with large customers such as Google, Ebay, Amazon who can't live with the now much reduced performance of their services

All legal, all neat. Telcos increase their profits at the expense of the (large corporate) users of telecoms facilities. Of course it won't stop there. Individual consumers and small businesses are next. Not satisfied with your Internet performance? (hehehe) Subscribe to our Deluxe service!

If you think I'm making any of this up, then see Cisco's pitch of its routers that can identify traffic here http://www.corecom.com/ftpdir/pub/corecom/iprev-bi lling.ppt. as powerpoint and here as html: http://66.249.93.104/search?q=cache:dt-ljUr4k5QJ:w ww.corecom.com/ftpdir/pub/corecom/iprev-billing.pp t+cisco+routers+identify+traffic+tiered+charge&hl= en&gl=uk&ct=clnk&cd=8

The only cloud in the sky is the fact that the Telecoms companies don't create value in this way. They simply take away consumer surplus. Gi

see the paratwa trilogy.

and also http://66.249.93.104/search?q=cache:N5jbPFyzB0kJ:w ww.bucksworld.com/seven/bbs/bbs.mv%3Fda_username%3 D%26module%3Dview%26viewid%3D85%26row%3D201+%22mne monic+cursor%22&hl=en&gl=uk&ct=clnk&cd=7

reminds me of that nasrudin story

4.2.2 Disposing of Transfered Data

Processes receiving data via page transfer need to release these pages when they are no longer needed in order to avoid accumulating too much memory. This can be done in three ways. First, a process may unmap transferred data using the standard munmap system call. A problem with this is that munmap will free both the transfered anons andthe amap containing them. This forces UVM to allocate a new amap the next time pages are transfered to to the same virtual space. A second way to dispose of transfered data is to use the new anflush system call. This system call removes anons from a specified virtual address range without freeing the amap allocated to it. This allows the amap to be reused for future transfers. The final way to dispose of transfered data is to push the anon pages down into the object mapping layer. This can be done either by donating the ownership of the anons' pages to an object (establishinga loanout relationship between the anon and the object), or by freeing the anons and inserting the pages into an object.

http://www.brightonnewmedia.org/archives/2002-Augu st/014751.html

http://www.brightonnewmedia.org/archives/2002-Augu st/014748.html

http://66.249.93.104/search?q=cache:-euUWj99AwwJ:w ww.matrixlist.com/pipermail/swgpl-main/2001-July/0 00710.html+richard+morrell+smoothwall&hl=en&gl=uk& ct=clnk&cd=12

Well done Richard Morrell.

- Alan

Next time don't speak out loud. : Here are some controversial regulations for pedestrian safety ...

http://europa.eu.int/comm/enterprise/automotive/di rectives/vehicles/dir2003_102_ce.htm

http://66.249.93.104/search?q=cache:AjOjPniOPhsJ:w ww.unece.org/trans/doc/2003/wp29grsp/ps-33.doc+ped estrian+safety+regulation&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=2

And of course :

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pedestrian_Safety_Thr ough_Vehicle_Design

Right. Of course, this way of zoning was done with the car in mind. It's mostly the fault of the misguided modernists around Le Corbusier and their Charta of Athens (1937)

Coral cashe: http://willlangford.com.nyud.net:8080/geekpages/fi refox/
Google cashe: http://66.249.93.104/search?q=cache:http://willlan gford.com/geekpages/firefox/
Mirrordot: http://www.mirrordot.com/stories/ae719a80708f8f898 a2de351770c74b9/index.html
One of them should work for you. :)

Google has a new generation of search technology coming out, which you can test out by going to http://66.249.93.104/. It's called Big Daddy, and it's supposed to be substantially better at filtering out the crap, among other things ... I'm not sure when it's scheduled to go live on google.com though.

http://66.249.93.104/
http://64.233.187.104/

The second one went live, I think. You will see that they still return pretty much the same results, but the first one will have more. I should add that the string "experimental google server" (with quotes) always returns zero results. This has always bugged me, since I figured that someome, somewhere, would have used that combination of words. Maybe not. Maybe it's a googlebomb.

Don't worry, Big Media still wins at being "evil" (make sure to read the follow up comics, it's a series). Still, the news of Google censoring its search engine in china does seem to bring into question google's philosophy of not being evil (anyone else notice that the google cache always seems to have "66" as the first two digits of it's IP ;)...

...from the the-computer-knows dept...

...The The announcement was also heavy on the Java side...

...A discussion has sprung up over the the treo central forums where Shadowmite...

(see for yourself)

There ya go mate:

Time-warped Longest Common Subsequence Algorithm For Music Retrieval

Nope, wasn't an accident. Ceri Coburn of First4Internet really is that incompetent. He only got as far as he did because people are a bit too helpful.

Well both Bill Gates and Steve Jobs have admitted to doing acid. I don't know if Linus has done it though. Maybe windows and OSX can handle it but linux can't.

Here is the developer, on a kernel mailing list, asking for help with getting his rootkit off the ground.

http://66.249.93.104/search?q=cache:hDmbqX5yahgJ:w ww.osronline.com/showThread.cfm

Is there a way that I can get the CDAUDIO filter driver example in the DDK to load and unload dynamically?

http://www.first4internet.co.uk/

Google Groups thread with Ceri from first4internet.co.uk looking for help to write his fucked-up CD drivers...
http://66.249.93.104/search?q=cache:hDmbqX5yahgJ:w ww.osronline.com/showThread.cfm/

What's depressing is that Sony undoubtedly paid them a good deal of money to write this shit.

On the DR-DOS website, on this page : http://www.drdos.com/products/drdos81.htm

Compare this page to the Google cached version:

http://66.249.93.104/search?q=cache:7Tlnhc5cJbEJ:w ww.drdos.com/products/drdos80.htm+&hl=en&lr=&strip =0

The difference is that now it says:

Portions are licensed under GPL (SYS v2.6 and FDXXMS v.92) or other licenses.

just use the right codecs:
http://66.249.93.104/search?q=cache:3aCwKM2vl0oJ:r pmfind.net/linux/RPM/sourceforge/m/mp/mplayer-tru/ mplayer-codecs-essential-20040704-1.i386.html+qtml Client.dll+mplayer&hl=en

is there any human out there who can watch a full dutch tv ad-block?

There *is* a law that forbids Dutch TV-channels to have more than 12 minutes of commercials every hour. But guess which newsblock-at-22:30-channel just doesn't care?

is there any human out there who can watch a full dutch tv ad-block?

There *is* a law that forbids Dutch TV-channels to have more than 12 minutes of commercials every hour. But guess which newsblock-at-22:30-channel just doesn't care?

is there any human out there who can watch a full dutch tv ad-block?

There *is* a law that forbids Dutch TV-channels to have more than 12 minutes of commercials every hour. But guess which newsblock-at-22:30-channel just doesn't care?

...just resort to the following Google cached page: http://66.249.93.104/search?q=cache:1CvlEjwElaUJ:w ww.flexbeta.net/main/printarticle.php%3Fid%3D106+& hl=en Nota bene: the above link will take you to a printable version of the article in its entirety, not just page 1 of multi-page-patience-play this link will take you to www.flexbeta.net/main/printarticle.php?id=106

Well, two if you include the WikiPedia article, which appears to have gotten most of the data from this page which I didn't include in my original post since it appears biased against nuclear power in general, as opposed to this page which appears biased in favour of CANDU reactors in particular (that page is where I found the detailed report I cited because it appeared to be both more factual and more balanced than the others.).

But there are more:
The reactor building was contaminated, as well as an area of the Chalk River site, and millions of gallons of radioactive water accumulated in the reactor basement.
when a nuclear reactor at an experimental installation in Chalk River, Canada, suffered a meltdown and some radioactive material escaped into the atmosphere.
"There was some release of radioactivity"

Regardless of our little game of Google, I think we can agree on that the release (either through the water only or through air and water) was minimal and all reports I have seen agree that among the servicemen and clean-up crew there has been no rise in fatality or even elevated risks for cancer after the accident.

http://66.249.93.104/search?q=cache:jOa4kVFUd4oJ:w ww.threegutrecords.com/+three&hl=en

(random google hit page) ;)

I wonder why no-one seems to reference the current Helicopter World Speed record holder?

Could it be because the holder is British and not American?

http://66.249.93.104/search?q=cache:vNFKUuNjHBYJ:w ww.aerospaceweb.org/design/helicopter/velocity.sht ml+lynx+helicopter+speed+world+record&hl=en

Using Disk Utility, I don't have the option of selecting the boot image. I don't know where to look for this option, it's not apparent. I created a disk image from the folder containing the 16 x86 OpenBSD files I downloaded and this measured 4.5 MB because I think it just grabbed one of those files (cd37.iso) and ignored the others.

So I tried Roxio Toast to do it, but it also has no option for El Burito/boot disk, nor can I change any settings for cdrom37.fs apart from the order Roxio sees the files in. I don't think putting that file top of the list will change how it is treated.

I searched for mkisofs, but this project is now no longer on its own, but subsumed into xcdrecord from what I can tell. Obtaining the source of that project from berliOS led to other difficulties - it's designed to *not* work with a make command under Darwin, but smake. So, I had to get the smake source, which I did, but I couldn't get that to compile either (it suggested I use smake).

I'm on a G5, so a floppy disk isn't an option.

I had thought from this quote, "OpenBSD doesn't make ISOs" (from here) that a DIY bootable CDR was the only option. I agree it should be a no brainer, but so far I've been frustrated by my own limitations because the method is not idiot proof.