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In fact, it's the real scientists who are suppressed by lawsuits. The story of Roger Revelle and Justin Lancaster is a particularly ugly example.

Revelle was a conservative climate scientist, who waited quite long with asserting that the world was warming as a result of human actions. He was also the one who taught the climatology course Al Gore took in university. While he lay severly ill and dying, Fred Singer persuaded him to put his name to a paper he had authored, allegedly for helping with some details. Naturally, Fred Singer's paper denied AGW. But Singer was prudent enough to wait until Revelle was dead before starting to cite it (as a Revelle paper) far and wide. Revelle's last student and assistant, Jusin Lancaster, tried to call him on it, saying that Revelle told him he hoped the paper would "sink into the ground" as quickly as possible. Lancaster also disputed its authorship at a congress.

So what did that champion of free discourse, Fred Singer do? He filed a SLAPP libel lawsuit, of course. A student doesn't have the funds to stand up to a think tank veteran like Singer, although it wasn't for lack of trying. He tried to represent himself, and paid court costs for a while, until his wife convinced him to give up. He was forced to retract everything and forbidden from speaking on the issue. Fortunately for us, he did anyway. (Google Cache link, maybe Singer found out as the original's gone)

Good thing there's a google-cache. Now if we only need a Bing-cache where Googles whitewashing is archived...

They apparently used PDP-8 (google cache) which means PAL-8 assembly language source code on paper tape.

You can give them a telescope. Both of them, for their own. For $20 (plus shipping) per telescope which is of course a plus, especially given that they might decide that stargazing is not their thing. Then again, they might get hooked.

Have a look at the Galileoscope site for an idea of what you'd get. Or maybe I should say have a look at the Google-cached version as the site seems to be unavailable right now.

I do not have one of these so I can only go by what the site says so read the small print before you order...

FreeBSD users have been doing it for 7 years with the default kernel. I guess that's one reason why it's more popular with companies that depend on HA, such as Bank of America. I love having ZFS as well, the combination is sooooo bad ass :-)

For those that run BRDB and want to try it, can read this.

From another post of mine:

Meanwhile here's more absolute proof that I'm right. A case summary by the Law Lords.

To an action for defamation truth is an absolute defence.

http://74.125.77.132/search?q=cache:3u0QFtSeHFsJ:oxcheps.new.ox.ac.uk/new/casebook/cases/Cases%2520Chapter%252026/Spring%2520v%2520Guardian%2520Assurance%2520plc%2520and%2520others.doc+england+truth+%22absolute+defence%22&cd=49&hl=en&ct=clnk&client=safari [74.125.77.132]

I've provided evidence. You have not. IF you had a case, you be explicit about which "examples" and why.

Meanwhile here's more absolute proof that I'm right. A case summary by the Law Lords.

To an action for defamation truth is an absolute defence.

http://74.125.77.132/search?q=cache:3u0QFtSeHFsJ:oxcheps.new.ox.ac.uk/new/casebook/cases/Cases%2520Chapter%252026/Spring%2520v%2520Guardian%2520Assurance%2520plc%2520and%2520others.doc+england+truth+%22absolute+defence%22&cd=49&hl=en&ct=clnk&client=safari

It can't get much more clearly stated than that, or by anyone with more authority on what the law in England is. You have swallowed an internet meme that's a myth. You're wrong.

Misquote? Read for yourself:
http://74.125.77.132/search?q=cache:y8CuWLUgkMkJ:beginningruby.org/what-ive-earned-and-learned/+http://beginningruby.org/what-ive-earned-and-learned/&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&client=firefox-a

section "Pirate My Book?":
My reaction to seeing other Apress books getting the free, electronic version treatment is: I’m good with you pirating my book! Now, of course, I can’t actively participate in pirating my book but, heck, it’s around on plenty of “free e-book” sites and on RapidShare. There are even links on Twitter to torrents like this. I am happy for you to pirate my book, but I’m NOT A LAWYER, and I can’t guarantee what Apress would do about it – so you’d be doing it off your own back! So, uhm, don’t pirate it? ;-) The only condition, of course, if you do is that if you like the book and you think a print copy would be swell to own, please buy one – even if it’s just for someone you know who wants to learn to program! :-)

Google Cache:
http://74.125.77.132/search?q=cache:y8CuWLUgkMkJ:beginningruby.org/what-ive-earned-and-learned/+http://beginningruby.org/what-ive-earned-and-learned/&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&client=firefox-a

So the author's main conclusion was to avoid the major publishers.

But then again he writes under the section "Pirate My Book?":
My reaction to seeing other Apress books getting the free, electronic version treatment is: I’m good with you pirating my book! Now, of course, I can’t actively participate in pirating my book but, heck, it’s around on plenty of “free e-book” sites and on RapidShare. There are even links on Twitter to torrents like this. I am happy for you to pirate my book, but I’m NOT A LAWYER, and I can’t guarantee what Apress would do about it – so you’d be doing it off your own back! So, uhm, don’t pirate it? ;-) The only condition, of course, if you do is that if you like the book and you think a print copy would be swell to own, please buy one – even if it’s just for someone you know who wants to learn to program! :-)

A similar study has been conducted before in the Netherlands: Downloading benefits the Dutch economy (in Dutch, Google Translation). This study had been ordered by the department of Education, Culture and Science, the department of Economic Affairs and the Justice department.

A downloaded movie, CD or game is not equal to a product not sold, say the researchers. Also, "Amongst downloaders of music and film, the percentage of buyers is as high as with non-downloaders, in games, the percentage of buyers even higher. Music downloaders are also more likely to concerts and buy more merchandise. Downloaders buy more games than gamers who never downloaded and movies downloaders buy more DVDs than non-downloaders."

Just sayin "First result in Google with this keyword" tells little. Two searches from different Google's data centres can have very different results, especially if the results are either new or not very strongly in their position.

There are times when me and my workmates search at the same time and with the same keyword and from the same room... And some result could well be 4th on one of us, 7th on another and on 2nd or 3rd page on third. So please, if you see some result on the first page of google search, you cold post it and just say "This was found with really quick google search" instead.

-Your friendly neighbourhood SEO guy

(PS. That said, I tried a search "Chicago tribune soy printer" and the first result is apparently the right one for me. It has been removed from the original website already it seems but google cache still has it when I am writing this comment)

http://74.125.77.132/search?q=cache:http%3A%2F%2Fwww.playingwithwire.com%2F2009%2F03%2Fopen-source-and-usability-joomla-vs-wordpress%2F
Google cached version.

Ahh, there are more hits on Google. Try this link: http://74.125.77.132/search?q=cache:HqbT07mccnMJ:www.libraryvideo.com/guides/V6910.pdf+gulf+of+mexico+dead+zone+%22alkalinity%22&hl

That's alkalinity and as I said in replying to your first post, it neutralizes acidity.

Falcon

Ahh, there are more hits on Google. Try this link: http://74.125.77.132/search?q=cache:HqbT07mccnMJ:www.libraryvideo.com/guides/V6910.pdf+gulf+of+mexico+dead+zone+%22alkalinity%22&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=7&gl=us&client=firefox-a

I was going to explain this meme to people but someone seems to have accidentally the whole of encyclopediadramatica.org

Google cache tiem:

http://74.125.77.132/search?q=cache:w7oVzuVvJRYJ:encyclopediadramatica.com/I_accidentally_X+accidentally+encyclopediadramatica&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=1&gl=uk&client=firefox-a

I find it highly objectionable that a scientific paper has been silenced and (almost) removed from the Web instead of countered by scientific arguments -- if such exist.

Google cache version since britannica seems to be having some issues.

Crime rate is not simply a function of population, it's a function of population density. "Murders per capita" is a flawed measurement.

Compare this map (from here, light/dark reflects murders; the circles indicate restrictions on firearms, which isn't relevant to my point) with this one (population density). The most densely-populated areas also greatly tend to have the most homicides per capita (graph showed firearm homicides, but I'm generalizing) – which leads to the conclusion that homicides per capita per square mile might be a more appropriate figure for making comparisons.

Next time, alter the document at least a Smidge before you pass it off as your own, okay?

Gee, don't say that to the aviation industry - they've standardized on Firewire because it saves weight in cabling.

The F-22 Raptor, the A380 Airbus, etc use firewire and gigabit ethernet to save weight. With over 300 miles of wiring an each A380, cutting the weight even in half makes a big difference with an A380.

http://74.125.77.132/search?q=cache:L96bOxSv3V8J:www.critical-embedded-systems.com/meecc/2005/presentations/Keller.pdf+army+tank+firewire+combat+electronics&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=6&gl=ca&client=firefox-a " JSF Avionics snapshot

Distributed avionics: display- management computers, integrated core processing, and flight subsystems

IEEE 1394 FireWire network links core processor and display processors

Fibre Channel links core processor modules and sensor subsystems "

The military will be saying "You can have my Firewire when you pry it from my cold, dead hands." They have the bigger guns, so I think they'll win any argument.

exFAT has support for ACLs. Imagine the madness when *those* get screwed up (Especially when Vista SP1 doesn't have a GUI to manipulate them!). :D

Things *could* get messy with permissions. You could, however, write your embedded FS driver so that it ignored FS permissions and made files that it processed readable and writeable by all. (It is probably running as root, after all.)
[It seems that some (all?) ext2/3 drivers for Windows ignore permissions on ext2/3 volumes.]

WRT ext4: I wonder if you could disable journaling...
A quick search reveals this conversation by Ted Tso.
https://kerneltrap.org/mailarchive/linux-ext4/2008/10/7/3532804
This post implies that an ext4 FS can run without a journal.
http://74.125.77.132/search?q=cache:eivENzNpGUwJ:lkml.org/lkml/2009/1/7/378+site:lkml.org+%22allow-ext4-to-run-without-a-journal%22&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=1&gl=us

I'm rather unqualified to comment on an issue like filesystem complexity, so I can't address that part of your claims. If you're qualified to comment, would you kindly direct me to some documents that could give me a feel for the complexity of implementing an exFAT driver?

Cheers!

if we had a good idea we could claim legal ownership of it

It used, in general, to be the case that ownership was shared, but the introduction of tuition fees has changed the balance. Since you are paying the University to educate you, the presumption must be that the rights to your invention remain with you. Compare for instance the old policy at Bristol University (google cache):

In the event that an undergraduate student or a postgraduate student on a taught course generates intellectual property in the course of a University project, either solely or in collaboration (where the collaborators may be fellow students, members of University of Bristol staff, employees of a sponsoring organisation or collaborative partner or a combination thereof), he or she is asked to assign to the University any intellectual property that he or she may generate. Assignment will only take place in the event that intellectual property is generated. A student shall then give to the University all reasonable assistance to enable the University to obtain patents or other forms of legal protection for the intellectual property.

with the current policy:

As an undergraduate student or a postgraduate student on a taught masters programme, you own the IP you create in addition to being the inventor. This is because the law sees you as a customer of the University rather than an employee.

I don't think anyone's suggesting there's no overlap, but isn't it only natural that the proven physiological differences between male and female wiring means they are adapted for different tasks?

Let's face it, most men are completely unsuitable for a career in computer science.