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Deja Vu.

I thought this happened last year.

Wasn't there a whiff of pederasty?

The evolution that you speak of involves economics as much as it does biology. Those at the economic apex of wealth get there through accidents of luck (e.g. born into wealth, gambling addict lucked-out on a lottery ticket, etc), gross illegal activity (e.g. bank robbers, mafia hit men), manipulation or dishonesty (sales people, CEOs, union-busters; like the asshats in the auto-industry hiring detectives to find any type of dirt on Ralph Nader when he lobbied for safety regulations for automobiles, or more recently Dick Cheney and Haliburton).

Do a cached Google search:

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=site%3Aamazon.com+%22Jazz+in+Paris+%5BBOX+SET%5D+%5BIMPORT%5D+%5BLIMITED+EDITION%5D%22&btnG=Google+Search

The very first link reveals the original $30 pricing:

http://72.14.253.104/search?q=cache:MFzDQFSwSUkJ:www.amazon.com/Jazz-Paris-Various-Artists/dp/B00005RSB2+site:amazon.com+%22Jazz+in+Paris+%5BBOX+SET%5D+%5BIMPORT%5D+%5BLIMITED+EDITION%5D%22&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=1&gl=us

a cached page (google rocks) at learn4good alludes to the company being fordware, based in delaware http://72.14.253.104/search?sourceid=navclient&ie=UTF-8&rlz=1T4EGLC_enUS242US242&q=cache:http%3A%2F%2Fwww.learn4good.com%2Fjobs%2Flanguage%2Fenglish%2Fsearch%2Fjob%2F42067%2F the cached description of them on the same site http://72.14.205.104/search?q=cache:LVPBSirfWw0J:www.learn4good.com/jobs/language/english/search/company/33798/+fordware&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=1&gl=us

(of course, it would be a first for 'em... even if it's the "wrong" Vista we're talking here).

/P

You stated we are not capable of mega engineering. This is false. We are capable of scaling our energy collection out as far as we need with technology that is over 30 years old, and with that capacity, we can pursue whatever mega engineering projects we want.

The problem is that we can't feasibly remove the CO2 and other greenhouse gases, GHGs, we have already released no matter how much the energy capacity is expanded. We could try to scrub the atmosphere but how much energy would it require to reduce GHGs?

Our biggest threats are population control and wasteful use of our non-renewable resources.

A way to reduce, er control, the population is to increase education, equality, and economic opportunities. As education and gender equality improve people's economic opportunities improve as well and the more people earn the less they reproduce, ie the birth rate declines. In the "Western World" or First World if it wasn't for immigration the population would be declining.

No, I think it's more to do with the fact that if you link to an article in your post, no matter what you say, no matter what the article says, as long as the article looks cromulent, you will be modded informative.

Well, they aren't just linking to copyrighted material, now they have it in thier cache! http://72.14.253.104/search?q=cache:0T2TX0bv-usJ:www.cybertriallawyer.com/+http://www.cybertriallawyer.com&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=1&gl=us&client=firefox-a/

If I was cybertriallawyer.com I would be jumping right on their electronic-asses!

I wouldn't say that. I was recently involved in an edit war with a person who says in their user page that there is no such thing as gender, and claims to be a communist. Another person involved in said war believes he is really an animal born in a human body, calling himself a "furry."

In fact it turns out that several wikipedia admins call themselves "furries." One such well known admin is Conti:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Conti

A list of many more wikipedians who identify themselves as furries can be found here:

http://72.14.253.104/search?q=cache:TPJSIkfFnSUJ:en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Furry_Wikipedians+furry+wikipedians&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=1&gl=us&client=firefox-a

People who spend time working in soup kitchens probably wouldn't do this.

Interesting, but it was Mrs. Woz who got arrested for scalping. I can't find an original article, but here's a reference out of Google's cache http://72.14.253.104/search?q=cache:hKxvKcOBiyQJ:findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0NEW/is_1990_June_12/ai_8665906+Wozniak+Olympic+ticket+scalping&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=1&gl=us&client=firefox-a

Dan Kaminsky has done some research into this. If you combine Flash with a DNS rebinding attack, interesting things can happen that wouldn't happen without Flash (which is to blame for a fire, the fuel or the air?).

Scary web threats (HTML version)
Scary web threats (Powerpoint)

How confident can we be that there are no more remote command execution vulnerabilities in the Flash player?

The designed security measures are only part of the puzzle when something is in the field.

Even an out of the box (ie non-patched) version of office will tell the user how to open the docx file.

from MS's own website. Well a google HTML cache of a Doc file on the MS website.
http://72.14.253.104/search?q=cache:gAUhPMTsDS8J:www.microsoft.com/presspass/presskits/2007office/docs/2007OfficeFileFormatFS.doc+office+2003+behaviour+docx&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=7&gl=us&client=firefox-a

What Happens If Office Updates Are Not Current and the Compatibility Pack Is Not Installed?

If neither the Office Update nor the Compatibility Pack is installed when users of Office XP or Office 2003 attempt to open a 2007 Microsoft Office system file, they will be notified that the file cannot be opened and they will be presented with the standard Microsoft Windows interface for handling unknown file types. By selecting the "Use a Web service to find the appropriate program" option, users will be directed to the Compatibility Pack download site that instructs them to first update Office with all the latest service packs and updates, and then install the Compatibility Pack. If the installation of Office XP and Office 2003 is current with security fixes and updates, Word, Excel or PowerPoint will direct the user to the download page for the Compatibility Pack. Office 2000 users will be directed to the Compatibility Pack download site as well.

But what happens if there's a spectacular crash or three?

It will be blamed on "terrorists". Like with Lockerbe The public must not be allowed to think the equipment is as defective as it is. The carbon fiber issue is a legitimate one. We have have 60-70 year old aluminum planes flying today in relative safety. And there's lots of 40 year old pressurized airplanes still in service. I will never trust even 20 year old carbon fiber to hold up.

Google Cache

GEM. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Notable_litigation_of _Apple_Inc.

There appears to be some thing wrong with that link, which I got through google (search for apple look feel lawsuit).
Try this one: http://72.14.253.104/search?q=cache:dE9LIfMY7VAJ:e n.wikipedia.org/wiki/Notable_litigation_of_Apple_I nc.+apple+look+feel+lawsuit&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=2&gl= us&client=firefox-a

Interesting that I'm having trouble cutting & pasting that link on a Mac.

...if the universe was created from a big bang, then naturally the center or point where that explosion took place...

HA! Beat you that time.

Because there can be no conviction if he refuses to press charges. It's only a theft if the property owner claims that it wasn't being given away. But laws vary.

This article shows how you can be arrested in the UK. Here is an email (on the interesting-people mailing list, google cache) about a case in Canada where a man was convicted for "war driving." But apparently, in the US (as of 2002) there is only an FBI advisory - from the politech mailing list

Perhaps someone with more legal knowledge can reply and update us on the state of the law in the US. And note that I'm not talking about DMCA violations if the connection is WEP or WPA-encrypted. I'm looking just at the "wireless theft" part.

...and here's the google cache of the original article:

http://72.14.253.104/search?q=cache:yZ55XEfZtZIJ:w ww.efytimes.com/efytimes/21160/news.htm

It is a bit surprising that a place like PC World listed it (though they have since taken it down). I googled "awardmestars" and noticed that there was one other site that removed it in the first twelve site hits.

http://72.14.253.104/search?q=cache%3Ahttp%3A//why firefoxisblocked.com/&sourceid=mozilla2&ie=utf-8&o e=utf-8

I was immediately reminded of the shadowy interstellar creatures in Cordwainer Smith's The Game of Rat and Dragon (1955).. Google cache link cause the site's slow today.

  They're frail and almost undetectable, but highly telepathic, and pose a huge danger to space travel. In the earlier "Scanners Live in Vain" they are unknown, and their effects are referred to as "the Great Pain of Space", and ships works around the problem by putting passengers in protective stasis and using crews of "habermen" who've had their brains disconnected and shielded from their bodies in a process invented by one Dr. Haber..
  By the time of "...Rat and Dragon" the dangers are better understood and teams of pinlighters work to fight the creatures in the brief seconds after each planoforming (jump) across space.
  The rats/dragons are easily harmed by bright light, so the pinlighters use specifically designed missiles to destroy and drive them off. Because human reflexes are too slow, the pinlighter teams are pairings of psychically-gifted humans and cats, the humans directing tactics and their linked partners providing the reflexes on high-speed attack craft which they control via neural interfaces.

  It would make an awesome game, maybe a minigame in a science fiction MMORPG -- but I'd hate to get hit with insanity or death when the pinlighters fucked up. :)

  - mantar

  Heh. Captcha for this was "battler." What a coinkydink!

Karl Rove: Known in Gay Circles as 'Miss Piggy'
by jo swift at 12:10PM (CET) on November 2, 2006 | Permanent Link | Cosmos

In Washington's more 'discreet' gay bars Karl Rove is well-known as a frequent visitor. Witty gays have given him the nickname 'Miss Piggy, after the character on 'The Muppets'. Whether this refers to his appearance ['the doughboy'] or his sexual preferences is open to speculation.

The spec is publicly available. I'm not sure how this interacts with the EULA: http://72.14.253.104/search?q=cache:IHRfofXSXt4J:d ownload.microsoft.com/download/1/6/a/16acc601-1b7a -42ad-8d4e-4f0aa156ec3e/HDPhoto_v10.doc+HD+Photo+u ses+an+advanced+compression+scheme,+there+is+no+si mple+way+for+applications+to+directly+access+speci fic+portions+of+the+stored+photo+data+other+than+t hrough+the+appropriate+codec+interfaces.&hl=en&ct= clnk&cd=1&gl=us&client=firefox-a

The API that provides this spec is probably proprietary and will be jealously guarded.

HD Photo uses an advanced compression scheme, there is no simple way for applications to directly access specific portions of the stored photo data other than through the appropriate codec interfaces.

Rather than use a series of metadata tags to attempt to describe the attributes of an image's structure, HD Photo uses a unique GUID to provide a non-ambiguous definition of the image pixel format.

Back in the late '90s, I had a friend who worked for MERL. Can't even remember who it was, or how I knew him, now. Anyway, he was involved with the "Artificial Retina Skunkworks" there (Google Cache) and I had a Nec Versa 2000C running Linux (Red Had 6-ish).

I forget whether I offered to play with alpha-test hardware, or he offered to let me, but anyway I wound up with a little circuit board with an A.R. chip on it, a 9V battery connector wired in, and a DB-9 serial port. Cabled it to my laptop, used gphoto (0.3ish maybe) to grab images with it. It wasn't high-res, and it was monochromatic, but it was kinda neat.

If I recall, the technology was to be used in a camera for the GameBoy or something like that. :)

It would probably help if you didn't say things like "The racist Jews at The New York Times simply desire to preserve what little credibility they have remaining..." (Ironically, your blog is still cached by Google.)

You come very close to stepping over the line from "anti-Zionist" to fundamentalist racist in that sentence.

Here's the Google Cache:

http://72.14.253.104/search?q=cache:6EoAZGSE90IJ:p yrodesktop.org/+http://pyrodesktop.org&hl=en&ct=cl nk&cd=1&gl=us

From Goaway's comment on the most recent pirate bay article:
http://thepiratebay.org/user/achim106/
When I checked it there was nothing there so I looked in the cache http://72.14.253.104/search?q=cache%3Ahttp%3A//the piratebay.org/user/achim106/&sourceid=mozilla2&ie= utf-8&oe=utf-8

Using a company's logo without their permission is more or less the corporate equivalent of identity theft, and saying "it's just satire" is not a defense that's going to work.

That's not entirely true, satire defense can be used in trademark cases, it is just more difficult than satire defenses in regards to copyright. Check out this page.

The last BBC article related to autism described people with it as "unable to form meaningful relationships".

Google cache:
"People with autism cannot relate to others in a meaningful way. They also have trouble making sense of the world at large.

As a result, their ability to develop friendships is impaired. They also have a limited capacity to understand other people's feelings. "
http://72.14.253.104/search?q=cache:XU_409HuLZIJ:n ews.bbc.co.uk/2/low/health/6221064.stm+BBC+autism+ meaningful&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=2&gl=us&client=firefox -a

Jeez, talk about misinformation. I've Asperger's Syndrome and I certainly have meaningful relationships. Obviously my situation is much different from people with really severe autism but I would hazard that every autistic person can relate to someone in a way that is meaningful to them, even if it doesn't look like it to an outside observer.

The article's been changed to say "People with autism can have difficulties relating to - and understanding the feelings - of others. For some, this can make it tough to develop friendships, and to make sense of the world at large." Much better.

What do you mean when you say "notoriously insecure networks"?

...You are a complete fraud.

You're calling someone else a fraud? Interesting how you diss Digg, the site that banned you for trying to spam/game their system with fake accounts you used to submit and digg your RoughlyDrafted articles.

PROOF that Roughly Drafted is SPAMMING/Gaming Digg with multiple accounts
RoughlyDraftedBUSTED
RDMBusted2

Google cache:
http://72.14.253.104/search?q=cache:PxTwoO6oZzMJ:w ww.cs.auckland.ac.nz/~pgut001/pubs/secure_del.html +http://www.cs.auckland.ac.nz/~pgut001/pubs/secure _del.html&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=1&gl=us&client=firefox- a

Note that this paper is from 1996, is from a symposium, and deals mainly with magnetic media. There are absolutely no citations in the part that talks about solid-state memory (lots of cites in the magnetic part though), so I am skeptical. If it could be done, he could have easily presented proof.

And now it's been ten years, with device area getting cut in half just about every two years. In modern DRAM, the charge storage is so minute that any accumulated oxide stress effects would be lost in the noise.

(While I'm at it, 00 -> 01 -> 10 -> 11, WTF?)

Share and share alike

Remote control takes on a whole new meaning with iChat in Leopard. Thanks to iChat Screen Sharing, you and your buddy can observe and control a single desktop via iChat, making it a cinch to collaborate with colleagues, browse the Web with a friend, or pick the perfect plane seats with your spouse. Share your own desktop or share your buddy's -- you both have complete control at all times. And when you start a Screen Sharing session, iChat automatically initiates an audio chat so you can talk things through while you're at it.

Jobs is quick to point out, "But the iPod's got a new hat."

Microsoft made a statement in its recent motion for a new trial in Lucent vs. Microsoft, a patent infringement case that it lost back in February to the tune of $1,500,000,000. It argued that a jury in a new trial should have the opportunity to "hear and weigh the evidence" that Microsoft claims makes the Alcatel-Lucent patents invalid, under a new standard of obviousness recently established by the Supreme Court in KSR vs. Teleflex. Microsoft said:

KSR calls into question the very presumption of validity, since it demonstrates that the PTO itself applied the wrong obviousness test to the patents-in-suit. Had the PTO applied the KSR test, the patents-in-suit may well not have issued. While 35 U.S.C. 282 does establish a presumption of validity, it does not mandate the "clear and convincing" burden of proof. This burden of proof could and should be altered by the courts because of KSR. See KSR, slip op. at 22-23 ("We need not reach the question whether the failure to disclose Asano during the prosecution of Engelgau voids the presumption of validity given to issued patents, for claim 4 is obvious despite the presumption. We nevertheless think it appropriate to note that the rationale underlying the presumption--that the PTO, in its expertise, has approved the claims--seems much diminished here."). [Note 2, p. 10, emphasis added.]

So, given Microsoft's anti-patent assertion in this case where it found itself on the wrong side of someone's patents, it would seem hard for them to ask us to presume that these 200+ patents of their own, issued well before KSR vs. Teleflex, are valid over the prior art that the Linux world will undoubtedly find in abundance once Microsoft finally has to reveal their claims. That is, if it ever actually tries to enforce them rather than blabbing away at its current "my dad can beat up your dad" playground level of discourse.

Obligatory disclaimer: I am a registered patent agent and an independent inventor, but not a lawyer. I don't provide legal advice or services to anyone regarding issued patents. And this wouldn't be legal advice even if I did.

reveal a kinda disturbing google cache of the site :P

without prejudice,
M. Gregory Thomas(tm), Network Redundancy Adminstrator;
Mundt Administration of Network Redundancy:

It's not scalable, but they get the software running on most computers. It'll be sad that the new requirements go beyond Windows 98 for no other reason than Security Protection, despite that Blizzard has done a horrible job on context switching on multi-user systems and demanding administrator privileges those programmers NEVER earned or used. Starcraft-2 looks like it has some pixel enhancements, which means mid-range early Year 2000's 3DLabs Permedia2 or a ATI Radeon 7k or 3Dfx voodoo5 would be left-out.

On a similar note, there have been alternatives to Starcraft-2 in the making, and they are much more true to the function of a strategy continuing the original story. Check out this, and this that has been available for YEARS, like the Warcraft 3 mods that always replaced whatever Starcraft2 tried to continue.

Let's see...

The first disk drive used 50 disks of 100 tracks/side, each track holding 500 characters of 7 bits. It had a claimed capacity of 5MB.

Questions?

http://72.14.253.104/search?q=cache:bsssSH-4VH0J:e d-thelen.org/RAMAC/SeniorMotionReport.pdf+ramac+da ta+sheet+7+bit&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=7&gl=us

It looks like The Register has pulled the Ravicher article as the second link above now gives a 404. I wonder why. You can still read it in the the Google archive though.

One of the potential solutions was to vent the humidity to space.

? :-)

M$ has played the same sorts of games with BIOS

Really? Has the BIOS spec changed at all since the mid-90s? Because you can still download the APM BIOS spec from them, among other things.

Or are you referring to EFI? AFAIK Phoenix was offering a DRM BIOS as early as 2004-2005 but apparently no one bought into it, or at least I've yet to see a standard white box PC with a BIOS like that.

So what "games" are you referring to? And what does "M$ damaged hardware" mean?

you are hard pressed to make the average PC boot off anything but a CD or hard drive.

I wouldn't go as far as comparing them to the power of a Linux Live CD, but there are certainly ways to create stripped-down but usable bootable Windows XP images with lots of tools and whatnot. For example, BartPE. Even Microsoft will give you one, though I think you need to be an OEM for that one, which obviously makes it far less useful.

but it's still easier to sftp to your home box.

I'll be sure to ask my employer to open up the firewall to I can "sftp" into my home box. That sounds a lot easier than an automated ~/ mount from a four-inch thumbdrive I can carry around in my pocket.

I think someone needs to call her daddy, Bradley Heyer or Iowa at (515) 964-8474 and let him know that his daughter Ashley Heyer has been a bad girl. The phone number was pulled from the public records located on google.

I find the stupidest thing of all was admitting that it was her own ID. It is a federal offense to produce fake ID's. As far as I know that Patriot Act makes fake ID's akin to a terrorist plot.

Well Ashley, the article that was submitted at http://rachelhyman.blogspot.com/2007/05/regarding- fake-ids.html is all just for you and your friends out there. You should read it and gain some insight.

Just for google's erm, giggles.. though, I would like to re-add the cached page http://72.14.253.104/search?q=cache:jirEhYabN6wJ:w ww.rachelhyman.blogspot.com/+ashley+heyer&hl=en&ct =clnk&cd=6&gl=us&client=firefox-a

It seems more than anything else that they're trying to blow smoke to influence policy in Canada

I'll bet th-th-th-th-th-that's what it is, folks!

And, as a Canadian, I'd like to add to add: Wh-wh-wh-wh-wh-who-gives-a-bl-bl-bl-bl-bl-blankety -blank!

I'm not in favour of piracy, but I don't swallow the hype either. (Sorry for the google cache link, site michealgeist.ca seems to be down right now.)

More can be found on the Google cache (http://72.14.253.104/search?q=cache:Zo5bcBIDaccJ: www.keyboardmag.com/story.asp%3Fstorycode%3D17973+ keyboard+magazine+linux&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=1&gl=us), but here is the main portion of it:

Linux: It's Not Just For Computer Geeks Anymore
By Carl Lumma | May 2007
You might think there's no way a free operating system written by volunteers could compete when it comes to music production. But in the past couple of years, all the tools you need to make music have arrived on Linux.
For years, Linux has enjoyed market leadership as a server operating system -- Google's servers run it, for starters -- while struggling with the stigma that it isn't polished enough for desktop use. Those days are over, and word is getting out. Linux is quickly becoming the OS you'd set up for your grandmother, with no fuss over activation, software updates, or viruses. Unlike any version of Windows or Mac OS, Linux is open-source. What does this mean to musicians? For starters, there are no company secrets to keep or non-disclosure agreements to sign, so software developers and users alike can get on the same page very quickly, speeding the flow of bug fixes and feature additions.
Linux demands more nuts-and-bolts computer knowledge for pro audio than for web browsing, but if you've ever tried to troubleshoot a latency or driver issue on a store-bought laptop, you're probably still listening. If you upgrade your hard drive, you won't have to reactivate all your apps due to the hardware change, and when you discover a cool tool or workflow, you can share it with friends without them shelling out hundreds of dollars or resorting to piracy. With the exception of Linux versions that include commercial tech support, most everything in the Linux world is free for the asking, Many developers accept voluntary donations, which we encourage you to make.

HOW IS IT DONE?
Let's look over the shoulder of Aaron Krister-Johnson, the keyboardist and choir director at Temple Sholom in Chicago. He also composes incidental music for local theater, and is half of the electronica duo Divide by Pi, Keyboard's June '04 unsigned artist of the month. The core of his home studio is a PC running Linux (see Figure 1).
To obtain Linux, you download a particular distribution or "distro," which is a particular version of Linux someone put together, for free or a donation. Some distros are available boxed at very low cost. Ubuntu (www.ubuntu.com) is popular for home-computer tasks, but Aaron uses Zenwalk (www.zenwalk.org). Software compiled for a particular distro will only run on that distro, so most come with several free applications that you can install along with the basic OS. We recommend Fedora (www.fedoraproject.org), because you can then install the Planet CCRMA package (ccrma.stanford.edu/planetccrma/software), which includes just about every Linux audio application in existence.
Speaking of music applications, the most popular DAW for Linux is Ardour, and Aaron also uses JACK (see "You Don't Know JACK?" below), a soft synth called ZynSubAddFx, and an arpeggiator he wrote called Pymidichaos. Some distros come with binaries -- apps that have been compiled, i.e. converted from the programming language the developers used to the ones and zeroes computers understand at their innermost level. Three such distros are meant to provide install-and-go solutions for Linux-curious musicians: Studio to Go (www.ferventsoftware.com), Musix (www.musix.org.ar/en) and 64Studio (www.64studio.com).
But sooner or later (most likely sooner), you're going to have to take some groovy, free program you've downloaded and compile it yourself. This is where musicians used to commercial software might get scared off. Fear not, and remember that all the actual programming is alrea

I think you should be able to read it here.

Why is he not still an aerospace engineer? The bean counting MBA parasite that "downsized" him is the one who should be collecting unemployment!

Do the 'rithemtic and read the 'riting on the wall: he's middle-aged, talented, so he earns more than a new-grad junior engineer.