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Yay, we finally got to the personal attack and the accusation of a drug-induced altered mental state!

Now, if you've never read anything about tokamak reactors or the NIF (or other intertial confinement research), I suggest you do so.

Several different research projects are working toward using HTE of water or HTE of water + CO2 (to produce methane gas), so it's not exactly pixie dust.

Pandora on Wikipedia

Ubuntu on Pandora

Ubuntu on Pandora part 2

Cached FAQ from PandoraWiki

To easy? Only if you're an idiot. But hey, the uninformed often overestimate their own abilities.

1. It's an ok implementation of some kernel theories. But it can still grind to a halt with a single job on a single CPU. Microsoft has never figured out proper task scheduling.

2. NTFS has had multiple versions since it's inception. An original 1992 NTFS filesystem is not the same as a current one. In fact, it's completely incompatible with the new NTFS versions.

3. Read a comparison of DirectX and OpenGL. It might open your eyes... DirectX may be the most POPULAR API for games, but that's simply because of the platform it's designed for. That does not mean that it's the best. Otherwise, the Honda Civic would be widely accepted as the best car on the road.

Just use the deleted page url and append cache: before it in a google query.

Google's still got some of the urls cached,
As of this post, this and others are cached.

Personally, I think this is a better setup than letting the telco own the lines, since there's no incentive to gouge, and this sort of thing can work out just fine.

"No incentive to gouge"? Ha-ha- ha!

Once you violate a principle, even if it seems like a benign idea this one time, you'll be in trouble — consider AT&T, Fannie Mae/Freddi Mac, and "Social Security", which all seemed like a good idea at their times, for a government to meddle into the free market, because of an alleged "market failure" (to build nation-wide telephone network, to give mortgages to the poor, and to save for one's own retirement).

Back to this example of government Internet Service-provision, the next thing, the government will, likely, decide to do, will be filtering "smut" and file-sharing... Their tech-support — if any — will be unionized. Violating TOS of a business may mean account suspension or cancellation, but violating the rules of government-provided service will mean breaking the law — complete with fines, and magistrate hearings.

Just like with the government-provided "public" highways, access to government-provided Internet may become "a privilege, not a right" — requiring a license. They may then decide, that somebody's own satellite antenna, for example, is bad for the environment (it may injure a bird some day!) or is a safety hazard (what if it falls from your roof?), and whoops, you will not get a permit to renovate your house, until you connect to the "public Internet" and demolish the "hazard" — this already happened to owners of private septic tanks, who were forced to connect to the public sewer system.

Surely, businesses-provided service may have similar ills (just look at E-Z-Pass) — you may be saddled with high fees (instead of fines), for example, Verizon will try to cut your copper wires, to make it harder for you to cancel their FIOS service — but only, when the service-provider is a monopoly for some reason. And the government is a monopoly by definition — the strongest and most pervasive of all. Therefor, as little as possible should be done by them — only the things, that we don't want commerce to do (like law enforcement). Commerce not wanting to do something, is not an excuse for the government to do it — they aren't spending their own money.

Now, I don't know, whether the law suit in subject has legal merit — whether the town's government can legally engage in business activity. All I'm saying, is that it would be dumb idea, regardless of whether it is legal (like tobacco) or not (like marijuana).

I can't tell which building you're referring to, because neither the Windsor building nor WTC7 were "methiodically [sic] stripped of all insulation before the fire".

At the fire, the building had almost no spandrels at upper floors. The steel columns had almost no fire resistance covers at upper floors.

Too busy pointing out typos to check for truthiness?

What's with the Hebrew? Nehalem? Are these the chips Mossad uses to accelerate the backdoor access to the Israeli-coded crypto cyphers? :-)

That didn't work, but Google caught it

The other thing is... Software is supported by programmers. When the sole maintainer of a project is sent to jail for a very long time and denied access to email and the Internet, there's going to be some effect. You didn't think that California Prison inmates had Fibre-to-the-cellblock net access, did you?

A better comparison would be with what happened to the "Wheel of Time" books when their creator Robert Jordan was convicted of being dead.

Remember how much crap was given to Clinton when he lied about monica?

He didn't even lie under the courts definition.

So dems- what the hell are you doing?

Being complete pussies, as usual.

The link in TFA was dead, so here's the Google Cache
cache:www.triffid.org/blog/2008/03/download-drm-free-video-from-bbc.html
FYI - It seems like the bookmarklet isn't complete in the cache

Unfortunately, I get "Sorry, this programme is only available to download in the UK (why?)"

Wow, you must be really good friends with Lawrence Summer! http://72.14.205.104/search?q=cache:UckEI99MtTYJ:wiseli.engr.wisc.edu/news/LawrenceSummers_Response.pdf+lawrence+sumner&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=1&gl=us&client=firefox-a

yes funny. does not slashdot realize we have had a sub that can do just that for decades?

http://72.14.205.104/search?q=cache:3fK6ZB19WjIJ:msl1.mit.edu/furdlog/docs/cnn/2005-02-18_cnn_optical_taps.pdf+fiber+submarine+cia&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=3&gl=us&client=opera

keep laughing guys and gals why the spies among us earn their salary. :-P

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-FL

Actually, the mercury in CF bulbs is going to be a significant problem. Even the mercury from current flourescents http://72.14.205.104/search?q=cache:Wpsa9wiDeWcJ:www.energystar.gov/ia/partners/promotions/change_light/downloads/Fact_Sheet_Mercury.pdf+disposal+of+fluorescent+bulbs+mercury&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=1&gl=ca&client=firefox-a needs a bit of care in handling.

Also, I'm finding that the "newer" CF bulbs have lower light output and greatly reduced lifetimes. On average, they're now burning out quicker than even the cheapest conventional light bulbs. A order of magnitude more expensive to buy, doesn't last as long, and puts mercury into the environment ... every solution seems to bring with it more problems :-(

You are Greg Graffin and I claim my punk rock thesaurus.

Seriously, your post marks the second time I've ever heard that word outside of Latin class.

Assuming it's all true, well done sir.

Thanks. The "assuming it's true" is clearly just "rigorous in scientific caution" rather than an active challenge, but I'll be "rigorous" in return backing up my post for you and for anyone who may have been actively skeptical.

I think I read most of the stuff about the foraminifera evolutionary record a long time ago in dead-tree format, but I googled a couple of links to back up the general issue. Ok, I probably went overboard on the links... oh well :)

PhD Paul Pearson writes:
In The Origin of Species, Charles Darwin lamented that the imperfection of the fossil record detracts from the glory of geology. Fossilization is such a rare and capricious event, our collections are so poor, and sedimentary formations are so full of gaps, that Darwin could not point to a single example where fossils in successive geological strata showed evolution from one species to another.
Unknown to Darwin, uninterrupted sedimentation does occur in the open ocean, especially on aseismic ridges and plateaux. These areas experience a continuous rain of particles to the sea bed, and are among the most geologically quiescent places on Earth. A steady build-up of sediment is the result.
Now, after thirty years of systematic ocean drilling, many of these sites can be studied. Piston coring generally allows hundreds of meters of sediment to be fully recovered, spanning millions of years of deposition. Where gaps occur, they can easily be identified.
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The sediments in question are composed mainly of the shells of microscopic plankton such as foraminifera, radiolaria, diatoms and coccolithophorids. Large numbers of individuals can easily be extracted. Their evolution can be followed through geological time, simply by comparing one closely spaced sample with the next.

In describing his work in non-linear dynamics in evolution, PhD Timothy Patterson comments:
Due to their exceptional fossil record, planktic foraminifera are ideal for studies of evolutionary processes.

PhD student Nadia Al-Sabouni
Institute of Micropalaeontology
Biodiversity and evolution of planktonic foraminifera
Google cache of missing PDF:
Planktonic foraminifera have the best fossil record of all organisms, spanning the
last 150 million years. Owing to the completeness and continuity of their fossil
record, planktonic foraminifera can be used as model organisms to study patterns
of evolution at time scales that are not replicable under laboratory conditions.

A science paper from 40 years ago:
Rates of Evolution in Some Cenozoic Planktonic Foraminifera
William A. Berggren
Micropaleontology, Vol. 15, No. 3 (Jul., 1969), pp. 351-365
doi:10.2307/1484931
Link to first page
I'd copy/paste the Introduction first two paragraphs, but it's a jpeg scan of the text. Click and read.

Testing the Molecular Clock Using the Best Fossil Record: Case Studies from the Planktic Foraminifera
multiple authors
Abstract near bottom of this page
Since many major groups (e.g. birds, mammals, reptiles) have a poor fossil record, it is often difficult to test and refute these limitations. Planktic foraminifera represent an exception to this rule. Deep-sea sediments are super-abundant in foraminifera, and large numbers of specimens and occurrences are easily garnered from Ocean Drilling Programme cores. Planktic foraminifera therefore represent an ideal model group with w

There are policing agencies out there who already do similar things. Despite it's absense, they may explain that there's incontrevertible evidence that shows that the suspect is guitly, they just want a confession so that the trial goes faster and with less fuss/humiliation for others/etc...

Turns out that one can get a fairly large number of confessions that way, much like you apparently desire. The problem is, it's not all THAT uncommon for the confessions to be lies. Innocent people will lie and confess to horrible, horrible crimes. And a confession given to a jury is a really really good predictor of them finding the defendent guitly. Even if there's little to no other evidence. People tend to believe confessions, which is sort of confusing since they have to reconcile the idea that "this is a dangerous lunatic with no morals and a willingness to kill" against "this is an honest man, who will condemn himself to jail by giving a confession". Still, they manage it.

Feel free to read a bit more about the subject of false confessions here, on some webnotes for a college class here or even here(this last one is perhaps more likely to cherrypick it's evidence, but what it says appears to be true).

False confessions are a rather worrying thing to me, as once a person confesses, the police have a tendency to cease looking for other potential guilty parties. While it's possible some other person will eventually be found guilty and you get released, it's not really something that The System tries for. Makes 'em look bad if they accidentally put someone in jail and gave 'em a whole bunch of publicity as a convicted rapist.

Garth Johnson, Darboux Transformations of the Wave Equation ( only partial Google cached html of pdf as the site no longer seems to exist.)

(Google cache of Mr Johnson's cv)

Garth Johnson, Darboux Transformations of the Wave Equation ( only partial Google cached html of pdf as the site no longer seems to exist.)

(Google cache of Mr Johnson's cv)

These are a better option since it operates on far simpler, and well-known principles.

Seems like it would be a lot less dangerous to occupants and those on the ground alike, since if you run into something you just bounce off, and if you lose altitude because of a leak or some such it won't happen catastrophically. If you can figure out a quick way to rapidly in/deflate to a semi-rigid structure for easier storage, you've got a promising possibility for personal air transport.

Besides, it's sort of been done already. There was a guy named Alberto Santos-Dumont who built his own personal dirigible and flew around Paris with it at the turn of the 20th century. There was a Nova show about it, I believe.

A $20 monthly subscription will provide you a link of your choice with the text of your choice (maximum 20 letters) on the main page of all 18 domains for as long as you maintain the subscription. There has been 20 links in these spots for quite some time. The number of links will remain the same. Currently many spots are taken by links to my own sites. As these spots are purchased they'll be replaced, and once the entire list is filled, no more will be sold on this network of sites. We are working on building a second network of sites with the same combination of pages and strong page ranks. We are using our massive network of backlinks to age these sites and build a strong presence for them. Check back for when those links become available.

Obsession being the mother of invention, I did some further digging, and discovered the comp.arch folks were discussing this two years ago. From what I've gleaned from a few postings and white papers, and thinking about how WOW64 works, this really seems like it ought to be possible - the fact that it isn't here already must mean the effort is extremely high (unlike 16->32, it appears MS didn't give any "extender hooks" to make this easy to do.)

That's less than $10k per 10Gb port for the hardware. Given that google returns about $20K per port per month, the hardware cost is pretty inconsequential.

Then again, I'm not a network engineer, so I may be reading these price sheets incorrectly. Of course, the trick is to use dark fibre and then find some way to attach to the internet, without having to pay the $80k for the 40Gbs bandwidth you're using.

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I'd say Madison Priest is a bloody GENIUS! It's all the other people giving him literally millions and millions of dollars that are blooming IDIOTS. I mean look at the "Mark Strong" guy. He kept believing even after he and a physicist opened up one of the earlier boxes and found it was empty!

What I think is always telling is when the big real companies like Intel call their bluff and say "okay, we'll give you a million dollars the week after you hand a prototype over to our lab" but - ooops - for some reason or other there's always an excuse as to why the prototype got destroyed by an act of nature or wasn't ready.

"Strong, who said he is now 90 percent sure the entire affair was a hoax".

90 percent sure.

I'm not from the States, so I'm genuinely curious; are the troopers empowered to check any vehicle on the road for dyed fuel, at any time?

Farm fuel in Canada (both gasoline and diesel) certainly used to be dyed for similar identification purposes, at least when I was a kid growing up on an Ontario farm 30+ years ago. I never heard of roadside checks for off-farm use of fuel, and have no idea what sort of cause would be used in determining the legality of such a check. If troopers can check anyone without specific reason to check a particular vehicle, it sure sounds like a 'fishing expedition' which could be used to stop any vehicle at any time, which sounds like an *awfully* broad legal mechanism to get a vehicle pulled over, at any time, without justification.

Once you're pulled over, of course, any subsequent observations of suspicious circumstance can lead anywhere. Is this for real?

Having written this, a quick google shows that in Ontario

This would seem to imply that this is an inspection not performed by police, but by Ministry officials (link to the google cache page, as the original is 404'ing now):

I wish you the best of luck as you, Ashley Heyer, are "going places". Maybe not the places your daddy dearest told you that you were going, but places nonetheless. In fact, be sure to heft a cold one to yourself, Ashley Heyer, to celebrate not only your underage drinking, but your strongarm tactics in abusing the DMCA to try to get embarrassing information about your use of a fake ID at the wrong bar. I would hate for someone to link some stories to this so Google would put your idiocy at the top of the list. Especially since you seem to have such a promising spot as a page in Iowa's legislative House. Ashley Heyer, consider this a lesson in public relations! Something valuable, I hear, in politics.

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"122 G Stephanie Dr
Clarksville, TN 37042
(931) 980-2760 "

For those interested, there's always Google cache.

linuxdevices.com seems to have had a link at one time, but it's apparently gone now

  google cache: http://72.14.205.104/search?q=cache:6NxUy-LDPgcJ:w ww.linuxdevices.com/sponsors/SP8515396280.html+ope nmoko&hl=en&gl=us&ct=clnk&cd=1&client=firefox-a

  8:20MT

  Odd there isn't more

snark'd

Prove it.

Follow this Google cache link and read FAQ reply number 8 for the Website for the city of Lansing, MI. It reads, "In primary elections you cannot split your vote for partisan races, that is voting for one party and then voting for another party in another race. Doing so will void your vote for all the partisan races."

That's quite the resolution.

I wonder, can the human eye even see such high resolution; does it even matter at that point? I mean,

According to this page it would appear that each human eye is a 15 megapixel camera.

If my maths are correctish then 7680 x 4320 is 33 million pixels.

So then, the question is - does this mean that by adding both eyes together, at best humans have 30 megapixel resolution vision?

Could this be considered "full human" resolution?

That should be "no longer missing". It was missing when the EFF and Geist articles were originally posted. Right now, you can still see the version without it in the Google cache if you search for "Consolidated Amended Statement of Claim in Quebec". Google says they picked it up on Sept 3.