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A staggering 20,000 fatalities per year.

The loss of a handful of coal miners in Utah is nothing -- NOTHING -- compared to what the media doesn't tell you.

In 2004, the worldwide death toll among coal miners was a whopping 21,500!! (Most of the accidents happened in China.) That's as many deaths, every single year, as seven World Trade Centers stacked atop each other.

Contrast the coal industry with the nuclear power industry; in its entire history, there's been only one incident with fatalities. (Chernobyl, a reactor that was orders of magnitude less safe than modern designs, killed 31 people. Divide that by the 50-year existence of the nuke power industry, and you get an annual death toll of 0.62 persons.)

If all coal-fired power plants were converted to nuclear, we'd immediately surpass the goals of the Kyoto Protocol. Environmentalists spend a lot more time criticizing nuclear power than coal; the facts show they are barking up the wrong tree. Even when they criticize coal, they do so for the wrong reasons - like acid rain, which pales in comparison to the massive death toll among miners.

What the media doesn't tell us is that in 2004, the worldwide death toll among coal miners was a whopping 21,500!! (Most of the accidents happened in China.) That's as many deaths, every single year, as seven World Trade Centers stacked atop each other.

Contrast the coal industry with the nuclear power industry; in its entire history, there's been only one incident with fatalities. (Chernobyl, a reactor that was orders of magnitude less safe than modern designs, killed 31 people. Divide that by the 50-year existence of the nuke power industry, and you get an annual death toll of 0.62 persons.)

If all coal-fired power plants were converted to nuclear, we'd immediately surpass the goals of the Kyoto Protocol. Environmentalists spend a lot more time criticizing nuclear power than coal; the facts show they are barking up the wrong tree. Even when they criticize coal, they do so for the wrong reasons - like acid rain, which pales in comparison to the massive death toll among miners.

What the media doesn't tell us is that in 2004, the worldwide death toll among coal miners was a whopping 21,500!! (Most of the accidents happened in China.) That's as many deaths, every single year, as seven World Trade Centers stacked atop each other.

Contrast the coal industry with the nuclear power industry; in its entire history, there's been only one incident with fatalities. (Chernobyl, a reactor that was orders of magnitude less safe than modern designs, killed 31 people. Divide that by the 50-year existence of the nuke power industry, and you get an annual death toll of 0.62 persons.)

If all coal-fired power plants were converted to nuclear, we'd immediately surpass the goals of the Kyoto Protocol. Environmentalists spend a lot more time criticizing nuclear power than coal; the facts show they are barking up the wrong tree. Even when they criticize coal, they do so for the wrong reasons - like acid rain, which pales in comparison to the massive death toll among miners.

Here's a short article on the A.I. in the game F.E.A.R., "F.E.A.R.'s AI Demystified", (in more detail here). Having played through F.E.A.R., what impressed me so much was that a lot of what is called A.I. is actually audio and animation. You can make enemies seem way more intelligent than they really are by doing stuff like have detailed animations for stuff like hopping over barriers or diving through windows that's triggered when they are in certain spots. They would also have the enemies shout stuff, if you had your flashlight on they would scream "Flashlight" and dive for cover.

The Economist's and Lawers and Law professors surely haven't been a part of or done the proper research. But "climatologist" didn't really exist as a well known "field" when I went through University 15 years ago. You may wish to check the publications for those on your list who are capable of doing such research despite not "being a climatologist". To be honest I wouldn't have even expected most "climatologists" today to call themselves "climatologists" - I mean how many universities have founded full fledged "departments of climatology" - but rather for them to be physicists and geologists (or something similar) - and just be *doing* climatology.

So let me grab two names at random from your list that you've already "discredited" simply because they don't have the official title of "climatologist" and see if they've got any proper publications in the field:

Dr. Henrik Svensmark: Physicist
http://www.scirus.com/srsapp/search?q=author%3ASve nsmark+Henrik&ds=jnl&ds=nom&g=s&t=all

I've had to go outside scirus for "Fred Goldberg" because it's kind of clunky when more than one person matches a last name, and I'm not certain how widely (in terms of scientific journals) it's database covers. Here's my best reference for "Fred Goldberg":

http://72.14.203.104/search?q=cache:ouqkCiaX7fsJ:w ww.vision.org/visionmedia/article.aspx%3Fid%3D2178 +fred+goldberg+physicist+climate&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd= 3
"Goldberg is a member of the Swedish Royal Institute of Technology and earned his doctorate in Mechanical Engineering. He feels that not being a climatologist allows him to make scientific observations contradictory to mainstream opinion, whereas those in the field may be reluctant to express dissenting opinions for fear that it could damage their standing in the community. He has done considerable research in the area of climate change including participation in frequent expeditions from 1966 to the present to extract Arctic polar ice cores. "

I'm not claiming all of them are "on the level" - I certainly don't believe it was the Sun - and I'd probably agree it's an infomercial - but beware that you too can be falable and commit as grave an error as you claim they are making, and I am concluding that YES you are being sanctimonious.

Google's cache too: http://72.14.203.104/search?q=cache%3Ahttp%3A%2F%2 Fsteampunkworkshop.com%2Fkeyboard.shtml&ie=utf-8&o e=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client =firefox-a

Google Cache: you know, since I can't see the page anymore, maybe some of you can't either.

//no html skilz

Our copyright policy

We've handled thousands of requests from copyright owners. The MPAA is just one among many, and they refused to work with us on the filtering. There's also an article on isoHunt if you want more facts.

Our copyright policy

We've handled thousands of requests from copyright owners. The MPAA is just one among many, and they refused to work with us on the filtering. There's also an article on isoHunt if you want more facts.

A power fluctuation killed it a few days ago. Until I can get the time to restore it, you'll have to hip yourself via the Google cache.

Interesting that for Canada, the only place that has a gun problem is with the six nations reserves. Notice that this same group of people that have an 28.8% illegal level of education (it is not legal, outside reserves, to deny children an educational level of below grade 9, I can honestly say out of the thousands of Canadians I have met, every single one has at least that level of education), twice as many children live without two parents, more than 50% of reserve indians in the North of Canada are illiterate, I don't even need to discuss the abject poverty, substance abuse, rates of suicide, etc, etc. A simple search for this on google will return you a myriad of pages from reputable sources like statistics Canada and the CBC.

I could go on, but indians in Canada know that living on a reserve is not just a death sentence, but it assures you will be ridiculously undereducated and incapable. Your living conditions will rival those of the poorest third world countries (In fact, due to Canada's reserves being now counted for quality of living, Canada dropped from first to eigth place for best place to live). That's not to say indians in Canada as a whole are like this (I've met plenty are they are as intelligent and capable, if not more, than many Canadians), but reserve indians are, more often than not.

If I were forced to live on a reserve, I'd buy a gun to shoot myself (like a lot of people there do, sadly).

The kicker is, though, that you actually support the anti-gun lobby, as indian reserves in Canada don't have to follow Canadian law! In an indian reserve, the cheif has every right to make concealed guns completely legal! Considering the awesome illegal fireworks you can buy at an indian reserve, well, of course guns are legal there.

I don't know about the other countries, but if the stats are as cherry-picked as that one, well, you're probably in for a lot more flaming. What's next? Can I claim most people in the US don't speak english if I just link to studies about illegal immigrants?

Oh yeah? It doesn't work, huh? Why would Bush thank Rumsfeld for the success of a working missle defense shield in Rumsfeld's farewell ceremony? Why say that if it isn't true? His exact quote is "...took ballistic missile defense from theory to reality". How can it be vapor ware if it is a reality now? Why do you hate America? Are you trying to embolden our enemies? Because this missle defense shield scares the crap out of our enemies, and telling them it doesn't exist is dangerous and irresponsible.

http://72.14.203.104/search?q=cache:uDkHgVZTU8sJ:w ww.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2006/12/20061218-7 .html+transcript+rumsfeld+ceremony+bush+%22missile +defense%22&hl=en&gl=us&ct=clnk&cd=1&client=firefo x-a/

Sony Corp.'s "Sixaxis" controller for the PS3 also has an accelerometer. The six axises the name refers to are the three dimensions of space, plus three axises of spin. The company hasn't revealed who makes the chip.

What's the difference between passive and active tags?

Active RFID tags have a battery, which is used to run the microchip's circuitry and to broadcast a signal to a reader (the way a cell phone transmits signals to a base station). Passive tags have no battery. Instead, they draw power from the reader, which sends out electromagnetic waves that induce a current in the tag's antenna. Semi-passive tags use a battery to run the chip's circuitry, but communicate by drawing power from the reader. Active and semi-passive tags are useful for tracking high-value goods that need to be scanned over long ranges, such as railway cars on a track, but they cost a dollar or more, making them too expensive to put on low-cost items. Companies are focusing on passive UHF tags, which cost under a 50 cents today in volumes of 1 million tags or more. Their read range isn't as far -- typcially less than 20 feet vs. 100 feet or more for active tags -- but they are far less expensive than active tags and can be disposed of with the product packaging.

http://www.rfidjournal.com/faq/18

What is the read range for a typical RFID tag?
There really is no such thing as a "typical" RFID tag, and the read range of passive tags depends on many factors: the frequency of operation, the power of the reader [EMPHASIS MINE], interference from other RF devices and so on. In general, low-frequency tags are read from a foot (0.33 meter) or less. High-frequency tags are read from about three feet (1 meter) and UHF tags are read from 10 to 20 feet. Where longer ranges are needed, such as for tracking railway cars, active tags use batteries to boost read ranges to 300 feet (100 meters) or more.

http://72.14.203.104/search?q=cache:Xw0bOrVpWVQJ:p risms.cs.umass.edu/~kevinfu/papers/RFID-CC-manuscr ipt.pdf+rfid+passive+range+boost+hack&hl=en&gl=us& ct=clnk&cd=3

2.2 Read ranges
Industry claims around the security of RFID devices often hinge on their short read ranges.
Some cautionary notes are in order, however. As discussed in [32], RFID tags do not have
a single, definitive read range. While the nominal read range of an RFID tag may be quite
short, on the order of several centimeters, for example, a non-standard reader or large
antenna can provide a significant boost in range at which an attacker can skim an RFID
tag. Hancke [22] has recently demonstrated skimming ranges of over 20cm for RFID systems
in which most readers operate at a distance of only several centimeters, while Kfir and
Wool have hypothesized a possible skimming range of up to 50cm for ISO 14443-B [35].
Furthermore, while skimming requires that a reader power the targeted tag, an attacker
performing passive eavesdropping on a session between a legitimate reader and RFID tag
can

No, I mean Mule deer

Maybe I confused you when I said 'Hill Country'. You were probably thinking around the Austin area but I'm talking about the Western Edwards Plateau on the Eastern edge of the Trans-Pecos.

http://72.14.203.104/search?q=cache:xNqwBL1srrQJ:w ww.videolan.org/vlc/download-windows.html+vlc+mirr ors

This is a list of the mirrors from videolan.org, as seen on Google's cache (or go searching for "cache:http://www.videolan.org/vlc/download-window s.html" - don't forget to remove the spaces inserted by slashdot - on google yourself), with the links edited to be (a) direct mirror download links rather than through videolan.org's redirector and (b) the version number changed from 0.8.5 to 0.8.6.

And yes, it is a damn shame that you can't trust anyone on the Internet. Good thing there are helpful people like you watching out for the uneducated masses, otherwise we might all be running...er...trojan-infested pirated copies of Windows, with pirated music on our iPods, with our megahurtz being stoled.

Verizon PDF:
"NationalAccess roaming in Canada will be charged at a rate of $0.002/KB.
For more information on roaming in Canada, visit www.verizonwireless.com/naroaming"

Where were the CustServReps getting their rate?

From http://72.14.203.104/search?q=cache:KyZN3Harj0UJ:w ww.hp.com/sbso/wireless/MNY50079-VZAccessPricing-V 1b.pdf+NationalAccess+Roaming+in+Canada&hl=en&gl=u s&ct=clnk&cd=3&client=firefox-a

In fact when Western companies bring employment to poorer countries it's looked on as exploitation or off-shoring and they get dog's abuse anyway.

Is there no possible reason for that? Western companies go to poor countries because they can get away with giving back as very little as possible. They are not raising the living standards of the poor country to ours, they are making Western workers live down to the standards of the poor countries. In some cases, they use the workers of poor countries as disposable assets. Look a bit into mining in Africa and tell me that Western companies are doing the poor workers a solid rather than exploiting them at every turn. They also get to avoid those pesky environmental laws that prevent them from dumping the cyanide and mercury they use to seperate minerals directly into the water table.

This article touches a bit on some of the problems, but doesn't mention that many of the mining companies are partly or largely Western owned. This article (this one as well) touches on Western involvement in supplying arms to Africa. This tells us a bit more why the West supplies arms and money for civil wars in Africa.

This is a google cache of talkorgins.org showing the porn spam links.

However, I checked on deepx.com and it is *not* a porn site.

From DeepX.com's about page:

XML provides an open and flexible language for the creation, management and exchange of electronic content. Founded in 2000, deepX has an experienced team of consultants and developers, who specialise in the design and development of solutions using XML and the emerging technologies related to XML.

Also, another link shows www.theoi.com and it is *not* a porn site, either:

Here's how THEOI used to look via the Wayback machine.

Theoi.com has been banned by Google (no reason given) and forced to close down as a result. There are no plans to re-establish this site in the future.

wu.edu.gh is Valley View University is a Seventh Day Adventist college in Ghana.

Both deepx.com and wu.edu.gh redirect to porn sites.

Unsurprisingly, wu.edu.gh, theoi.com and deepx.com have been de-indexed by google.

I speculate that all these sites that have been de-indexed were tagged by automated processes.

hereyou go, sans pics - there is also this at Archive.org, but you may be waiting forever for the pics to load.... :)

Leland,

Looks to me like you are comparing heavily sourced material, to the delusional ramblings of a sick man.

Good Luck with your PhD!

Thank Allah for google cache.

http://72.14.203.104/search?q=cache:SjcKy2IfwDwJ:i ntihuatani.usc.edu/cloud/flowing/+flow+flash+game& hl=en&gl=us&ct=clnk&cd=1

Here's a Wiki Link with a step-by-step on how to do what the Author is asking about. http://72.14.203.104/search?q=cache:SALYCmrmMmkJ:e n.wikibooks.org/wiki/Advanced_Mac_OS_X_Tiger+tiger +login+console&hl=en&gl=us&ct=clnk&cd=5

Here's a Wiki Link with a step-by-step on how to do this. http://72.14.203.104/search?q=cache:SALYCmrmMmkJ:e n.wikibooks.org/wiki/Advanced_Mac_OS_X_Tiger+tiger +login+console&hl=en&gl=us&ct=clnk&cd=5

Hmmmmm

To the best of my knowledge storing data as spin, therefore creating transistors the size of atoms* will, at the very least, bypass the limitations of the current transistors measured in nanometers. A Nanometer is 10 to the -9th power of a meter**. An atom is approximately 10 to the -11th power of a meter***. Therefore this technology, when fully functional would theoretically allow two orders of magnitude greater number of transistors per area of measurement.
So if a Pentium IV has approximately 42million transistors**** it could (in theory) contain 42,000,000 to the 2nd power more transistors.
Accept the increase is far greater than this because the P IV die process is 0.18 microns which is 180 nanometers (if I'm correct). So the actual increase in available transistors per area of measurement would be more on the order of 42,000,000 to the 5th power: 5,489,031,744,000,000 transistors (well atoms).

Now add to that the current problems with heat. I would expect (although I most definitely do not remember/know the laws of thermodynamics well enough to do more than vague speculation) that the amount of heat created by such a quantum system would be impressively small compared to the current system... although I would conjecture there are limitations to speed when measuring and changing spin... this would hugely increase the ability to clock the processor higher (an over abundance of heat is the primary limiting factor in clocking the processor system higher).

Wow, so now I am looking forward to having my conjecture ripped to pieces by those who actually know :D.

I hope that's at least a little helpful

*(although I think of spin being associated with quarks, a much smaller, sub-atomic particle... obviously a hole in my knowledge)

**Nanometer: http://whatis.techtarget.com/definition/0,,sid9_gc i514407,00.html

***Atom, Size of: http://trshare.triumf.ca/~safety/EHS/rpt/rpt_1/nod e7.html

**** http://72.14.203.104/search?q=cache:foWPHOKFqoMJ:w ww.soc.staffs.ac.uk/mss1/hsn/hsn-lect9.ppt+transis tors+in+a+Pentium+IV&hl=en&gl=us&ct=clnk&cd=2&clie nt=firefox-a

...unit testing which seeks to build a wrapper around units of code in order to put the code through its paces. It can identify areas of code that are problematic, are never executed, are buggy, or generally are seemingly okay.

It probably will hurt your ego to learn that ridiculous liberal myths are a meme and the most popular variant is The "Moon".

Common carriers have to carry all traffic from all bill-paying customers. That's what common carrier means.

About the only exceptions are illegal stuff or customers causing network harm like spam or DOS attacks.

The article [Google Cache] said Verizon carried this traffic for 5 years so I hightly doubt it's illegal or causing network harm.

I'm with the guy who said Verizon should put up or shut up: Call the cops on these guys or sit back and do nothing. Those are the options of a common carrier.

Search the web for neo-nazi, pro-drug-use, 18-year-old-porn, and other barely-legal web sites that a family-minded telco CEO might rather not carry. I bet a lot of that traffic flows from the likes of Verizon, ATT, and the other big players.

You may not like it. I may not like it. But as long as the sites are legal, they have as much right to demand service from a common carrier as the American Nazi Party, the American Hemp Society, or all the legal XXX sites out there. These are the rights American soldiers have died for since 1776.

Free Speech - it's in the constitution dammit.

PS: Hosting companies are not common carriers. I RTFA and it looks like Verizon owns the pipe not the webserver.

includes address, phone and fax!

Conquest's offices are located at:
2812 Emerywood Parkway, Suite 103
Richmond, Virginia 23294
Ph. - 804-358-0560
Fax - 804-213-0797

also- this is their BIO page that was removed:
http://72.14.203.104/search?q=cache:CPnxuxurTJcJ:w ww.conquestgroup.com/AboutUs/bios.htm+www.conquest group.com/AboutUs/bios.htm

and look, here is a list of their clients:
http://72.14.203.104/search?q=cache:xa4ToI2UQAAJ:w ww.conquestgroup.com/Clients.htm+www.conquestgroup .com/Clients.htm

includes address, phone and fax!

Conquest's offices are located at:
2812 Emerywood Parkway, Suite 103
Richmond, Virginia 23294
Ph. - 804-358-0560
Fax - 804-213-0797

also- this is their BIO page that was removed:
http://72.14.203.104/search?q=cache:CPnxuxurTJcJ:w ww.conquestgroup.com/AboutUs/bios.htm+www.conquest group.com/AboutUs/bios.htm

and look, here is a list of their clients:
http://72.14.203.104/search?q=cache:xa4ToI2UQAAJ:w ww.conquestgroup.com/Clients.htm+www.conquestgroup .com/Clients.htm

includes address, phone and fax!

Conquest's offices are located at:
2812 Emerywood Parkway, Suite 103
Richmond, Virginia 23294
Ph. - 804-358-0560
Fax - 804-213-0797

also- this is their BIO page that was removed:
http://72.14.203.104/search?q=cache:CPnxuxurTJcJ:w ww.conquestgroup.com/AboutUs/bios.htm+www.conquest group.com/AboutUs/bios.htm

and look, here is a list of their clients:
http://72.14.203.104/search?q=cache:xa4ToI2UQAAJ:w ww.conquestgroup.com/Clients.htm+www.conquestgroup .com/Clients.htm

I was curious, so i figure some of you will probably be too.

http://72.14.203.104/search?q=cache:UZxn8h7HkXcJ:e n.wikipedia.org/wiki/NPA_personality_theory+NPA+pe rsonality+theory&hl=en&gl=us&ct=clnk&cd=1&lr=lang_ en&client=firefox-a

" but whatever the new catchphrase, it's code for "only plays with MS stuff). "

Why would they even want to claim this? Buried in the specs is the fact that it plays the music-file standard of MP3 files....something far different from the Microsoft controlled WMA etc.

"Buried in footnote 4 of its press release, Microsoft clearly states that "Zune software can import audio files in unprotected WMA, MP3, AAC; photos in JPEG; and videos in WMV, MPEG-4, H.264" (from here

Why is ScuttleMonkey so skeptical of this story, it seems very likely considering how attractive the raw data-mining power of Google must be to the CIA, especially after the 9/11 Commission Report exposed the incredibly outdated technology they had been using prior to the current WAR ON TERROR (be afraid, be very afraid!).

The Canadian Coalition for Fair Digital Access sounds like a positive group. In reality they are a group of retailers attempting to abolish the media levy in Canada to make the environment more friendly to suing file sharers and otherwise pushing online music sales through turning their customers into instant criminals.
They claim they want to protect Canadians from an "unfair" tax, when in reality they want to abolish the small media tax we pay to impose a bigger cost and restriction on those who use MP3s. While not claiming to be experts, its the same thing. A group of individuals claiming to be on the side of freedom and the consumer who have their own ulterior motives.

Website is currently down, so here are some cached links:
"Who we are"
http://72.14.203.104/search?q=cache:2mAYYuIzwqsJ:w ww.ccfda.ca/subsections/eng_whoweare.html+site:www .ccfda.ca+Canadian+Coalition+for+Fair+Digital+Acce ss%22&hl=en&gl=ca&ct=clnk&cd=2

Google search with cache links to most of the site: http://www.google.ca/search?hl=en&lr=&safe=off&q=+ site:www.ccfda.ca+Canadian+Coalition+for+Fair+Digi tal+Access%22

One man's open letter response to their position:
http://www.digital-copyright.ca/discuss/1645

Parent is correct google link to FCC code below. I believe commercials bump up the mid range of the sound and tend to decrease the low and high ranges also (so they seem louder). After all an explosion at 20 Hz will be lot less annoying then the same level of a baby crying at 1kHz.

From the link:

"TV and Class A TV stations. In no
case shall the total modulation of the
aural carrier exceed 100% on peaks of
frequent recurrence, unless some other
peak modulation level is specified in an
instrument of authorization."

47 CFR Ch. I (10-1-03 Edition) 73.1570
http://72.14.203.104/search?q=cache:WwU15rs5NwQJ:a 257.g.akamaitech.net/7/257/2422/05dec20031700/edoc ket.access.gpo.gov/cfr_2003/octqtr/pdf/47cfr73.157 0.pdf+fcc+commercial+loudness+level+percentage&hl= en&gl=us&ct=clnk&cd=6

Not only should you not get WMP11 intentionally, the fact that there's a RTM for it should make you think about turning off Windows Update (if you haven't already). At least make sure you have a disk-image backup before installing it, or you'll probably be kicking yourself down the road.

From http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsmedia/play er/11/readme.aspx:
"Windows Media Player 11 does not permit you to back up your media usage rights (previously known as licenses)."
"Digital media files must be in stored in monitored folders for media sharing to work properly in Windows Media Player 11."
"Content that is protected with media usage rights cannot be played in Windows Media Player 10 if a computer already has the Windows Media Format 11 Runtime installed."

The following issue from the Beta release isn't mentioned in the official release notes, but the fact that it appeared in the beta indicates that MS was preparing their DRM platform for a new time-limit "feature" that can be applied to recorded TV on their Media Center products (at the request of broadcasters, of course):
"Recorded TV shows that are protected with media usage rights, such as some TV content recorded on premium channels, will not play back after 3 days when Windows Media Player 11 Beta 2 for Windows XP is installed on Windows XP Media Center Edition 2005. No known workaround to resolve this issue exists at this time."

At time of posting, this could still be found at:
http://72.14.203.104/search?q=cache:Eah4zybQy4sJ:w ww.microsoft.com/windows/windowsmedia/player/11/re adme.aspx

I'm not pulling that speculation out of my butt, either. They already add more restrictions to DVD playback than any other software or consumer DVD player does. DVD playback is prohibitied in Media Center Edition when your display device is set to > 640 x 480 resolution (as is the case for HDTV use):
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/894323

Even today, as of Rollup 2, Media Center Edition renders recorded TV unplayable after two weeks when the broadcaster requests it:
http://thegreenbutton.com/forums/rss.aspx?ForumID= 49&PostID=144193

I would be extremely surprised if down the road a bit we don't discover that WMP11 is a trojan horse for a slew of previously unheard of content restrictions.

By day I'm a developer on the Microsoft platform. By night I'm an XP Media Center Edition user who's scared & angry enough to invest research time I don't have into MythTV & [Ubuntu || Mandriva || Fedora]. As far as home usage goes, I'm sorry, but this former Redmond fanboy / apologist is done with MS.

The google cache still works. It was also popular on Digg.com earlier.

The people at the Ubuntu forums recommend you use "aptitude" instead of "apt-get". The thread should be found here: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=37736, but it appears the Ubuntu forums are being pounded. Here is the google cache: http://72.14.203.104/search?q=cache:425l937tFkYJ:u buntuforums.org/showthread.php%3Ft%3D37736+ubuntu+ use+aptitude+not+apt-get&hl=en&gl=us&ct=clnk&cd=4.

typically 15 years payback - 40 years lifetime
1-30 yearback, typically 5 years; 40 year lifetime.
some more from Xcelenergy that will help you get past your mistakes

Interesting that you are paying 9K for your system. There is a LOT more rebates for install and yearly from both XcellEnergy and the Feds. But, if you really live in Colorado, then you would be aware of that (colorado voted on this).

Liberty Magazine had a GREAT article on him a few months back, I'll scan the article and stick it on a PDF somewhere for you.

Mises is down, but they had a good article on him here: http://www.mises.org/story/2202

From memory, I don't think they were 100% positive about him, but neither am I.

Oh, here's the cache:
http://72.14.203.104/search?q=cache:UKkC6lJU8HIJ:w ww.mises.org/story/2202+john+mackey,+libertarian&h l=en&gl=us&ct=clnk&cd=8

Attorney Don Shelkey: "true shrink wrap EULAs have been tested in most major jurisdictions and are valid contracts"

Actually, what Shelkey said was that "true shrink wrap EULAs ahve been tested in most major jurisdictions and are valid contracts, subject to certain limitations." Meaning that not all of EULA is necessarily enforceable. In particular, the controversial parts about reverse engineering, choice of forum, and indemnification provisions may not be enforceable in all jurisdictions under all circumstances.

Also, it's important to note context of Shelkey's article -- MMOGs were saying that the "TOS" or "EULA" that they click-through to play an online game was not enforceable, and Shelkey was saying clearly that in all instances these agreements were enforceable because they meet all of the elements of a contract. But whether shrink-wrap EULAs are enforceable depends on what they are trying to enforce. That's what he's saying.

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With nuclear weapons, the laws and court cases have varied. Some good references on "born classified" are at Federation of Atomic Scientists" and Wikipedia. Then there's the case of "The Progressive", which published information in ~1976, but it apparently wasn't sufficiently detailed to count as Restricted Data or Formerly Restricted Data, so the Feds lost their case against them. On the other hand, back in the mid-70s, a Princeton student designed an atomic bomb for his junior physics project and his paper got classified and confiscated (though he did get an A on it -- Phillips wasn't some brilliant whiz kid, he was a mediocre student who needed a really good project to get his grades back up.)

Names of Secret Agents - Ex-CIA agent Philip Agee published a list of names of probably CIA agents, derived from non-classified sources, which is why Congress passed a law that says *you* can't do the same thing and then-CIA-honcho George H.W. Bush called people who did that traitors. The law is somewhat narrow - it doesn't look like Scooter Libby necessarily violated it.

Cryptographers ran into lots of problems with it in the 1970s, 1980s, and early 1990s - if you submitted crypto technology for a patent, the NSA could declare it to be classified and rip it off, and you wouldn't be able to publish it - but if you published first, you couldn't get a patent, unless you were very careful about timing (since US patent law, unlike most European patent law, gives you a year from publication to apply for a patent) - the US academic crypto journals were mostly strict and conservative about accepting papers that might get classified before publication. Diffie, Hellmann, Rivest, Shamir, and Adleman had to play games to publish, and they did so successfully. And US crypto export laws, which were designed to keep military hardware from being sold to Commies, had trouble coping with books printed on dead trees, that was clearly covered by the First Amendment, so the PGP folks were able to force the issue by exporting printed copies of their code and having friendly European academics scan it in for them. On the other hand, Raph Levien never got his T-shirts back...

How do you like them napples?

There's an Ann Raynd quote that shows up here on a regular basis, that effectively boils down to this: if enough stuff is illegal and everyone's a criminal, the power comes from the enforcement, and not the law itself. ANYONE can be arrested on convenience - and convicted - as needed, and nothing even needs to be "trumped up." The threat of arrest is a serious enough deterrent, but actual conviction is worse. If you have a problem with your neighbor, make an anonymous call and turn them in for anything and they're in trouble. Driving laws are often given as examples; in the course of driving for a mile, you're probably breaking SOME law, such as following too closely, or driving too slowly.

And when it comes down to things we're ashamed of, it even gets worse. No arrest of conviction is needed. Simple publication of said news can bring anyone down. Example: follow the case of Jack Ryan, an Illinois political candidate with an otherwise bright future. He and his wife (Jeri Ryan - Seven of Nine) divorce and allow the divorce records to be public - but not the child custody records. A Chicago newspaper and television station sue in California and obtain sealed records against the wishes of the parents, and suddenly Jack Ryan's political career is in a shambles because of what he likes to do in private. Actually, much more petty examples are common.

Watch for things to get extra ugly in the fall US elections. The GOP is planning on getting "personal" - see the Google cache of the missing MSNBC story.

That was ten years ago. A lot has been done for concurrency since then.

For example, Windows Server 2003 Kernel Scaling Improvements (Google MS Word->HTML version)

I'm probably going to make the server burn a little more by piquing Mac user interest in addition to Linux, but, as gleaned from the google cache of the text (the images are still roiling in flames on a server somewhere), they are using wxWidgets, and they say they're looking for developers and testers for Mac OS too. I guess a port there is not far off. Presumably other platforms are possible too.

... is right here and still appears to be building. But at least it's not on fire.