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Yet hundreds of millions do it every day.

Using secret, closed-source software developed by the file system designers.

What's your point?

NTFS is an overly complex file system, with incomplete documentation. Making small changes to it tends to break it and/or corrupt data.

Furthermore, why not just run NT/2000/XP on Ext2? Use a small FAT32 boot partition, and keep all your data on Ext2.

File system driver here. You can get read/write support on Ext2 on all major operating systems, and Linux will journal Ext2(Ext3 is a transparent upgrade).

I make some losers angry by adding signal to their noise and spoiling their astroturfing:

• modbomb
• modbomb
• modbomb

There's only two or three of these turds, but they brag about all the noise they can make with their botnets. There's plenty more that are not dumb enough to brag.

However, I will address your post: He has specific complaints about ONE patch. It would have been prudent for him to make some efforts towards testing the ONE patch he has a problem with. ... And as other people in the thread have pointed out, there are ways to see exactly what changes a patch is making to your system files.

He mentioned several patches specifically and all in general, but you repeat yourself. Blaming the user and expecting others to do M$'s work is both pointless and foolish. It's all binary crap and the changes you detect are meaningless. The real problem is a well earned lack of trust. The rational solution is to quit using and paying for software from a dishonest company.

I make some losers angry by adding signal to their noise and spoiling their astroturfing:

• modbomb
• modbomb
• modbomb

There's only two or three of these turds, but they brag about all the noise they can make with their botnets. There's plenty more that are not dumb enough to brag.

However, I will address your post: He has specific complaints about ONE patch. It would have been prudent for him to make some efforts towards testing the ONE patch he has a problem with. ... And as other people in the thread have pointed out, there are ways to see exactly what changes a patch is making to your system files.

He mentioned several patches specifically and all in general, but you repeat yourself. Blaming the user and expecting others to do M$'s work is both pointless and foolish. It's all binary crap and the changes you detect are meaningless. The real problem is a well earned lack of trust. The rational solution is to quit using and paying for software from a dishonest company.

I make some losers angry by adding signal to their noise and spoiling their astroturfing:

• modbomb
• modbomb
• modbomb

There's only two or three of these turds, but they brag about all the noise they can make with their botnets. There's plenty more that are not dumb enough to brag.

However, I will address your post: He has specific complaints about ONE patch. It would have been prudent for him to make some efforts towards testing the ONE patch he has a problem with. ... And as other people in the thread have pointed out, there are ways to see exactly what changes a patch is making to your system files.

He mentioned several patches specifically and all in general, but you repeat yourself. Blaming the user and expecting others to do M$'s work is both pointless and foolish. It's all binary crap and the changes you detect are meaningless. The real problem is a well earned lack of trust. The rational solution is to quit using and paying for software from a dishonest company.

And read it here without all the funky highlighting.

read the text of the bill here

This is why they're first called a "frozen star" in Russian, and then it got renamed to Black Holes by some American.

Want to know how grossly they screwed up? Here's the original from google's cache:

http://72.14.203.104/search?q=cache:KlRc795K2QYJ:w ww.capitaleye.org/inside.asp%3FID%3D210+&hl=en&gl= us&ct=clnk&cd=1

It states:

"According to Senate records analyzed using CRP's new Lobbying Database, Abramoff represented at least 41 clients from 1998 through 2004. The largest, by far, was Microsoft, which employed the firm of Preston, Gates & Ellis as a lobbyist--a law firm where Microsoft chairman Bill Gates' father is a principal. During the time that Abramoff worked for Preston, Gates as a Microsoft lobbyist, political contributions associated with the software giant totaled more than $13.3 million, accounting for 60% of contributions from all of Abramoff's clients."

$13.3 Million and 60% of Abramoff's total contributions. Here's the "corrected" version:

http://www.capitaleye.org/inside.asp?ID=210

"According to Senate records analyzed using CRP's new Lobbying Database, Abramoff represented at least 41 clients from 1998 through 2004. The largest, by far, was Microsoft, which employed the firm of Preston, Gates & Ellis as a lobbyist--a law firm where Microsoft chairman Bill Gates' father is a principal. During the time that Abramoff worked for Preston, Gates as a Microsoft lobbyist, political contributions associated with the software giant totaled nearly $400,000, accounting for 8% of contributions from all of Abramoff's clients."

From $13.3 Million to "nearly" $400,000. That's a big jump. And 8% rather than 60%.

They even admit, in their correction, that figuring all this out is difficulty and tricky, which would imply that even these numbers are probably suspect.

http://www.opensecrets.org/pressreleases/2006/Abra moffRevision.4.7.asp

" "This was a complicated project from the start," said Sheila Krumholz, the Center's research director and acting executive director. "In designing our methodology we tried to account for all the complexities as well as shortcomings of the disclosure system. We didn't uniformly apply our conservative methodology throughout the research, and we should have. That resulted in overstatement, something we always try to avoid and regret in this instance. After being alerted to a single error, we looked more closely and realized we had to correct the data as quickly as possible." "

It's interesting that you put so much faith in a group that can't seem to get their act together.

Yeah, HE never works with the govt..

Have none of you read any of the legislation passed this decade? It doesn't really matter who they are, if they're a US company they work with our govt, or they get thrown in jail. If anything we should be supporting whoever leaked this info, not banning at&t. They're just the ones caught with it.

There was not much on the mainstream news sites other than the initial news story last week so I googled ["electronic frontier foundation" narus]. The first link was to a no longer available article at siliconvalley.com. The good news is that the google cache was still there.

http://72.14.203.104/search?q=cache:nc4cgqbKTjoJ:w ww.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/business/sp ecial_packages/security/2579675.htm+electronic+fro ntier+foundation%22+narus&hl=en&gl=us&ct=clnk&cd=1 "

The article appears to be a lead in for a round table discussion where both the EFF and Narus participated but I can not find the details of the conversation. Anyone else able to get their hand on it? Please post it to slashdot.

You wouldn't need Wikipedia's software running on your computer/laptop. What would be stored in cache would the the HTML generated by Wikipedia's software, similar to how Google cache's websites http://72.14.203.104/search?q=cache:FL1c-uLSSrwJ:e n.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia+wikipedia&hl=en&gl= us&ct=clnk&cd=2&client=opera/.

From that list, I use Adblock Plus. Great extension if you have dialup, like me :)

The pdf link appears to be dead, tried from multiple sources, and a search of the APA site comes up empty, but the Google HTML cache is here:

Unskilled and Unaware of It

KFG

Eiffel users continuously demonstrate that they can produce between two and ten times as much software in a given amount of time as can be achieved using other IDEs and tool sets. Eiffel has thus gained prominence in challenging enterprise environments in the financial, insurance, manufacturing, and government sectors as well as among independent development teams.

Yes they do. They were only too happy to do that.

kill 10's of thousands of people and wash thier hands of it

You don't think software they provide to help China find dissidents won't lead to thousands of political murders? We're talking about a country that harvests organs from political prisoners, on demand and brag about it. (short version).

You might be able to rationalize that by all the cool things you can buy for cheap down at the Walmart, but that's what working with a Communist country supports.

If that's not special enough or bad enough for you, why not look at the very negative influence his greed worldview supports. Massive propaganda in support of the DMCA and other abominations of law. The BSA and lawsuits against US public school systems for copying a text editor. How about their current stupid fight against the best the internet has to offer, Google and Wikipedia, because free information does not fit into their greedy world view? How about fighting the internet itself and pressuring ISPs to reduce their services based on their own crappy software? Microsoft has retarded US computer technology by a decade and ultimately are enemies of knowledge. That's evil.

Plz site sources. Sgt. Pepper was one of the first to use 8 track recording. It was actually only six as two tracks were used for synching.

qz

Some brief googling reveals very little about the study discussed in this article; the closest it comes to is a compilation of several different studies.
Link to the former-pdf, now HTML-ized Google cache of the study from the original site, in both Swedish and English: Here.

Even a cursory look at the linked study will show that there have been many, many studies on the effects of RF on animals with conflicting, confusing, and uncertain results. Unfortunately, I'm not a scientist specializing in this field, so I really can't comment one way or the other on the validity of the tests.

It's difficult not to hand-wave this study away without some real, significant, reproduceable results.

An increase from 1 person to 2.4 people getting cancer is serious, if your sample size is 10 people. If your sample size is 10,000 people, or 50,000 people, the difference between 1 and 2.4 is statistical error. To really derive anything further, we'd have to go read the study.

The trouble with doing scientific studies on real, moving people is that it's exceptionally difficult to control external variables. For instance: GSM cell phones (Cingular, T-Mobile, a few minor regional carriers) have a total of four bands they operate on, 850, 900, 1800 and another band that escapes me. CDMA phones (Verizon, Sprint, etc) operate on others, and iDen (Nextel, Southern LINC, etc) phones operate on yet another. Each type varies in wavelength and power output, so it's a vast generalization to say "Cell phones are bad for your brains", because of the vast differences between the services, the cell phones, and the effects of different frequencies on different parts of your brain.

Random appeal to authority: I'm a ham radio operator, and they make us learn interesting things about what too much RF does to you. But at the frequencies we operate, site surveys start being required when you're pushing more than 50 watts at 146 MHz (for instance). 50 watts is something like 50-100 times the amount of power that cell phones push, but, again, at different frequencies, so I'm not really sure I said anything relevant there. It's just hard to tell.

By the time the studies start showing reproduceable evidence, I'll be out of college and far away from the wireless industry, hopefully reducing my chances of being sued ;)

According to the Google Cache, Mortal Kombat wasn't on the December list, either.

I don't recall it ever being on the backwards compat list, but then, I own the MK games on PS2, so I haven't been paying close attention.

Is anyone else bothered by the fact that the U.S. is borrowing money to buy products from foreign countries with unemployment checks?

Yes.

Anyone else bothered by the fact that entire towns are being closed because Wal-Mart says "your product is too expensive?"

No.

Can anyone explain what the fuck "your product is too expensive" has to do with the free market? Isn't "too expensive" the customer's decision?

Nobody is forcing you to shop at Wal-Mart.

Anyone bothered by the fact of both record budget and trade deficits while 50% of working-age adults are not employed full-time?Or is everyone just fine with their neighbors being thrown out of work while they rack up another five figures on the 28% credit card for a plasma TV?

My neighbors are all working, and plasma TVs are 4 figures (and 3 figures at Wal-Mart on Black Friday).

http://groups.google.com/group/alt.tv.tech.misc/br owse_frm/thread/9e5e0f64b84557c2/288705c698505592? lnk=st&q=plasma+TV+under+%241000&rnum=1&hl=en#2887 05c698505592

This is about low low standard of living. It sucks and it's getting worse.

Baloney.

http://72.14.203.104/search?q=cache:hljjJgA-wf0J:w ww.economicadventure.org/teachers/primer.pdf+US+st andard+of+living+&hl=en&gl=us&ct=clnk&cd=8

With that said, somebody is going to spout off stuff like this (Google Cached HTML version of PDF) and claim that it's "conclusive." Those studies dealt with individuals, and they weren't blind tests either, that's hardly enough to conclude anything other than those involved were a bit loony. (Also notice who hosted the study ;)

And look at it from a logical point of view, electricity is cleaner now than it ever was, devices are better at handling RF, and they use far lower voltages than their counterparts even a decade ago. It would stand to reason that if ES existed, it would be less common now than it was ten or twenty years ago because devices are better shielded, emit less interference, and use less electricity than they did in the past.

Yeah, that's the one. They're not using very strong EM fields and it affects the mind and brain, so it's a good enough example for me to use as evidence.

The webserver of the Laurentian University is down, but here is Google Cache's version of it. Interesting stuff.

Of course, Microsoft and other vendors always get their patches correct the first time.

Three words: Cool dot com. Read about it here

Jerry Taylor citymgr@cityoftuttle.org

His page in google cache:

http://72.14.203.104/search?q=cache:PxCWwpAYRAEJ:w ww.tuttle-ok.gov/index.asp%3FType%3DB_BASIC%26SEC% 3D%257BCC5DEFB6-1B2A-4783-A5F8-A92275C95081%257D+& hl=en&gl=lk&ct=clnk&cd=1

He has removed some mis-spelled words + email address [ citymgr@cityoftuttle.org ]after this incident

I don't know why people try to defend Apple on this particular design decision. There's absolutely no reason why hibernation shouldn't be included in OS X.

It could be that it's because hiberation actually does exist in Mac OS X. It's just not a well known fact. OS X 10.4's "Safe Sleep" (Google cache) saves the active memory to disk when a Mac [laptop] goes to sleep...lest the power get interrupted. If one is so inclined, they can activate it, and even choose to use it by default. I've enabled it on my Mini, and it definitely works.

However, if you're not a Mac user, you may not appreciate how good the normal "Sleep" mode is. Unlike Windows, a Mac which has been put to sleep will resume almost immediately, and be instantly usable. My iBook can stay 'asleep' in my briefcase for ages, with very little battery consumption, and as soon as I open the lid, I am good to go. This impresses me more than words can say.

Oh yes, and the City of Harrah's website is dead as well. However Google has a copy in the cache with Jerry's name on it. Choctaw Electric Cooperative has a new site which may or may not be his handywork.

Or if their site is still down, try the google cache

I did read it, thanks. And since you feel the article doesn't make a case for a lunar atmosphere, here's a paragraph from NASA's Moon Fact Sheet:

"Lunar Atmosphere Diurnal temperature range: (greater than)100 K to (less than)400 K (roughly -250 F to +250 F) Total mass of atmosphere: ~25,000 kg Surface pressure (night): 3 x 10-15 bar (2 x 10-12 torr) Abundance at surface: 2 x 105 particles/cm3 Estimated Composition (particles per cubic cm): Helium 4 (4He) - 40,000 ; Neon 20 (20Ne) - 40,000 ; Hydrogen (H2) - 35,000 Argon 40 (40Ar) - 30,000 ; Neon 22 (22Ne) - 5,000 ; Argon 36 (36Ar) - 2,000 Methane - 1000 ; Ammonia - 1000 ; Carbon Dioxide (CO2) - 1000 Trace Oxygen (O+), Aluminum (Al+), Silicon (Si+) Possible Phosphorus (P+), Sodium (Na+), Magnesium (Mg+) Composition of the tenuous lunar atmosphere is poorly known and variable, these are estimates of the upper limits of the nighttime ambient atmosphere composition. Daytime levels were difficult to measure due to heating and outgassing of Apollo surface experiments."

Yes, it's "tenuous" but if experts like NASA and Sir Arthur C. Clarke call it an atmosphere, that's good enough for me.

• object oriented desktop
  
• object based file system
  
• true pre-emptive OS
  
• true SMP OS
  
• TCP Multi-cast capabilities
  

Dang! 5 minutes after I post the link, the server goes down! It's an NT server... figures!

Here's Google's cache:

http://72.14.203.104/search?q=cache:3Z3Pzf07oboJ:w ww.suite101.com/article.cfm/oracle/115560+&hl=en&g l=us&ct=clnk&cd=1&client=firefox-a

-Tony

It depends on the player. The big advantage that MP3 has is that there's inexpensive hardware decoder chips available for it, so you don't even need much of a CPU in order to add MP3 playback to your electronic device. This is how most MP3 car stereos, portable CD players, etc. work.

Ogg has no hardware decoder, and to my knowledge, neither do WMA and AAC. So a portable device decoding any of these formats would have to use general-purpose CPU power to decode these formats, rather than idling the CPU and just feeding the stream to the (far more efficient) hardware decoder. Assuming, of course, that your player has a hardware decoder.

So, just out of curiosity, you couldn't use something like this(pdf ~>html over google) as the base for for your MP3 player?

Google cached the site http://72.14.203.104/search?q=cache:cQX3U8xCBCgJ:w ww.johnhowardpm.org/+&hl=en&gl=uk&ct=clnk&cd=1

Google Cache.

The question was worded "I would fire upon U.S. citizens who refuse or resist confiscation of firearms banned by the U.S. government."

Apparently, the longer they had served the more likely they were to disagree with the statement. Reportedly as many as 90% of new recruits agreed.

If not, I suspect many of the respondents who said they would follow the order actually would refuse, if it came down to it.

It's illegal to use the military for domestic law enforcement.

LK

Anybody remember the MTV Total Request Live Devo prank? TRL allows you to phone in what you want played on the show. Most popular vote gets played. Fark and a few other websites tried to get Devo's "Whip It" to get played - sort of like an online version of a flashmob.

We could do something very very similar here with something as simple as a dinky little Perl script.

All it has to do is hit your favorite P2P network that's being monitored, and make a request every so often. If you space out the requests and get a lot of people doing it, the net won't flood but the harvested data will be skewed.

I wonder what the reprecussions would be if Big Media discovered the most downloaded movie of 2006 was Brazil and the most downloaded song was Jocko Homo?

Looks like there may be a reason for this behavior. That package hasn't been available from its creators for nearly a year, and it seems (as indicated by this site) that there may be versions of the installer floating around that have had trojans attached to them...

http://72.14.203.104/search?q=cache:R5aZ95LJpX0J:w ww.ufotoday.bizhosting.com/britrail.htm+%2B%22Char les+Osmond+Frederick%22&hl=en&gl=us&ct=clnk&cd=2

And case they take it down, here's the Google cached version...

http://72.14.203.104/search?q=cache:4kukc10YIpwJ:w ww.google.com/cl2/+site:www.google.com+inurl:cl2&h l=en&ct=clnk&cd=1&ie=UTF-8

They've been saying that for a long time. Here's a quote from an industry goon:

that, so far as large cities are concerned, unlimited service is unjust to small users, favors large users unduly, impedes expansion of the telephone business, tends to inefficientservice, and that, as a financial proposition, is unsound.

Internet pricing and the history of communications

You mean this? The text says it was manslaughter, which is fair enough, and that it was overturned, or did you mean a different case?

But if we look at the weaker forms of the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis, it really isn't that interesting. All it is saying is that previous experience colours our view of the world and affects the ease of picking up new information according to how closely related it is to our previous experience.

Clarifying question - are you suggesting that the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis has weaker forms in publication, or that there are less extremist ways to interpret and apply the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis? You are suggesting that prior experience is the active force here, but another interpretation of these types of results is that epistemology affects learning (in chemistry, physics, and biology [PDF or "View as HTML"]). Within this framework for science education research, cognition is modeled from a "knowledge-in-pieces" perspective, wherein certain cognitive resources are active when a mind is thinking in a particular context about some particular concept or field of content. So, although prior experience certainly shapes the development of personal epistemology and personal epistemological cognitive resources, these aren't actually prior experiences, they are "filters" that, in a very "Kant-ian" sense, determine what information is "read out" from the environment and also affect the way that information input is processed.

That's so obvious that it almost goes without saying! Everyone knows that someone who studied maths in school will likely pick up new mathematical concepts more easily than someone who studied art or history. Everyone knows that we have cultural and political biases from our background which affect our ability to interpret new information.

So, to continue looking at this from an epistemological perspective, we can see that it's much more complex than just prior experience, even within a given domain. If a student has taken a bunch of math classes, but has had horrible experiences in those learning environments, they won't necessarily be any better at learning new math than someone who doesn't have the same experience in the subject. Of course, you can substitute just about any subject in for "math" in the above scenario. I would argue that it's more appropriate to think about culture and political frameworks as influencing personal epistemological development than it is to say that they affect cognition directly.

The weaker hypothesis just really doesn't say anything interesting. And the strong form is ridiculously bad logic (a language where it is you have a concept that can't be understood by someone without pre-existing knowledge of that language, is a language that can't be learnt, and therefore can't exist. After all, nobody is born knowing a language!)

I'm not sure that I agree here, either. Imagination is a powerful cognitive resource. There is a further "extreme" to your logic game, and that's at the level of generating language itself. I think your argument breaks here, and the reason is that we can imagine, and then use analogy to build the new image for another brain. See recent developments in mirror neuron research.

So in the end, we are left with the weaker form that is almost a truism, and doesn't give us any predictive power towards the boundaries of previous experience as influence on new information

And I think the author whom you stole it from was not the original author. Not the original author of the concept anyway. Scott Adams (the Dilbert creator) wrote a "thought experiment" which espouses this very concept, and he wrote it a number of years ago.

If anyone's interested, he gives it away as a free eBook.
And of course, Google's cached version

The magazine, Star Wars Insider Issue 62, explains that R2's manufacturers at Industrial Automation had limited their factory warranty on astromech rockets to about 20 years, which would explain why R2 doesn't have his rockets in the Original Trilogy. He also had another set of rockets in a cut scene in The Phantom Menace, where he falls off a Coruscant landing platform, only to be saved by his rockets.

This seems to be happening at the DNS level. "google.cn" resolves to "216.239.39.99", which is assigned to Google in Mountain View CA. A traceroute doesn't show a path to China at all.

Now, interestingly, if you look up "google.cn" in US Google, and get the cached page, you're really seeing the censored view of Google, in its English language edition.

To try this, go to the cached page above, and enter "falun gong". The top search results are "The Cult of Falun Gong", "Falun Gong Evil and Harmful", "Falun Gong Members Found in Slander Case.", "Heretical Cult -- The True Colors of Falun Gong", and "Outlawing Falun Gong Cult". That's obviously the censored version. The search doesn't come up blank. There's no message about censorship. You get the Official Approved Propaganda Results. It's very Orwelllian. And it's not what Google has been telling the US press.

Now try the same search with US Google. You'll get all the real Falun Gong sites, and the Wikipedia entry.

So that's Google's Ministry of Truth in action. Try it yourself.

http://72.14.203.104/search?q=cache:QbW3Mr2ZYfQJ:w ww.nesplayer.com/features/lawsuits/tetris.htm+tege n+tetris+history&hl=en&gl=us&ct=clnk&cd=3/(Google Cache of Article)

Tegen put out their own version of Tetris without consent from Nintendo to make games for the system. It got ugly.

This article omits some very important facts related to how events
occurred. Specifically within the contractor that produced them.
Anyone who has taken an engineering ethics course should have seen this material already:

google's cache of onlineethics.org
http://72.14.203.104/search?q=cache:QhdMxzQaNpoJ:o nlineethics.org/moral/boisjoly/RB-intro.html+&hl=e n&gl=us&ct=clnk&cd=1

Slightly more damning is that the engineers from the contractor attempted to have the launch delayed and were overturned by the management.
another google cache.
http://72.14.203.104/search?q=cache:1AGp_WgV7w8J:o nlineethics.org/essays/shuttle/telecon.html+&hl=en &gl=us&ct=clnk&cd=1

This article omits some very important facts related to how events
occurred. Specifically within the contractor that produced them.
Anyone who has taken an engineering ethics course should have seen this material already:

google's cache of onlineethics.org
http://72.14.203.104/search?q=cache:QhdMxzQaNpoJ:o nlineethics.org/moral/boisjoly/RB-intro.html+&hl=e n&gl=us&ct=clnk&cd=1

Slightly more damning is that the engineers from the contractor attempted to have the launch delayed and were overturned by the management.
another google cache.
http://72.14.203.104/search?q=cache:1AGp_WgV7w8J:o nlineethics.org/essays/shuttle/telecon.html+&hl=en &gl=us&ct=clnk&cd=1

My site has Google ads but I don't see that that as a conflict of interest as they are part of the page just like ads from, say, double click would be. Some of the Google ads do display so Google isn't going out its way to block Google ads - I just don't think the cached page is linked enough / viewed enough to get a full complement of ads.

Anyway, cached version and the real version.

The cached version of the content I'm seeing has two ads above the main content and a search for ads box above the menu. The main site has a fair few more as you can see.

A review of Pimentel/Patzek reveals that they made pessimistic assumptions, had double-counted certain energy costs without detailed elaboration.

To the contrary of the commonly accepted cellulosic ethanol plant designs, Pimentel/Patzek assume that fossil fuels are to be burned in cellulosic ethanol plants to generate needed steam and electricity.

If Pimentel/Patzek assumed use of lignin to produce steam and electricity in cellulosic ethanol plants, they would have had positive energy balance values for cellulosic ethanol similar to those from Argonne and others.

Argonne's review of Pimentel/Patzek shows that their production cost estimates are higher than market prices, implying that farmers, ethanol producers, biodiesel producers are in money-losing business, even taking into account subsidies they receive.

Argonne also found that Pimentel/Patzek cost estimates for cellulosic ethanol contain calculation errors by using a cost of $100 per tonne for cellulosic biomass feedstock, instead of their own estimate of $23 per tonne.