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Despite all this noise about peak oil, oil futures remain reasonable, and oil prices are coming down in light of new supplies, suggesting that our access to oil isn't nearly as stripped as doomsayers want us to believe.

China and America have already begun investing in alternative sources of energy, all while new refineries are being built to increase supply. The futures market sees this as evidence that oil is heading for oversupply, just like it did in the mid to late 1990s.

If you're convinced that the market is mistaken, well, maybe you're right. But rather than argue with me, I have some simple advice for you: buy. Prove how convinced you are by putting your money where your mouth is, and if you're right, you'll amass a fortune. You can buy us all copies of Mad Max with the words "I told you so" painted on the front in sweet rare crude. Thales will tell you, there's nothing that says "I'm smarter than you" like money.

But if anyone was confident enough in their predictions of peak oil to bank on it, the futures market would adjust to reflect it. Why hasn't that happened?

It hasn't happened because this apocalyptic pessimism is shortsighted.

I'm sympathetic, it's easy to get worried when you're told something is finite, though its consumption is increasing. But in a market, if consumption is increasing, that's a good sign nothing's wrong. Consumption will increase only so long as it's unproblematic, then it will slow, a market is a proportional negative feedback system.

To further allay any fears, keep in mind the imminent end of oil has been predicted routinely for the last 125 years.

Before that, the exhaustion of coal was the fun thing to predict. While we're less reliant on coal these days, we still have mountains of it to mine. Cheap oil, not depletion, brought about the end of the coal era. And likewise, cheap x, not depletion, will bring the end of the oil era.

Even if all this analysis is wasted breath, if peak oil has certainly and suddenly hit and we're all staring at a future of expensive oil, even then, I'm still not worried. [R]ising oil prices are... an invitation to corn and coal and hydrogen. For anyone with a fresh idea, expensive oil is as good as a subsidy. Expensive oil only means we shift to something else, probably something cleaner, and I'm fine with that too.

In 1998, it was even proven that his Z3 computer was Turing Complete.

Another good link is here

"If you compare that to licensing fees for HDMI, you'll see that while both have the same $15,000 annual fee, HDMI licensing is 4 cents/per unit (if you use the maximum discount as an example)."

"What about NVIDIA? Personally, I think they have the least blood on their hand for two reasons. One, they aren't a board manufacturer. That excuse alone wouldn't be good enough for me though.

What really gets them off the hook is that NVIDIA has been offering their board manufacturing partners designs with HDCP support since May 2005. Likewise, NVIDIA has actually shipped HDCP-enabled GeForce 6200 and 6600's in Sony Media Center PCs. Those boards just aren't manufactured at retail. In retrospect, they did their part. It was the board manufacturers who failed us. I don't need to name names, because they ALL failed us."

I may be stating the obvious, but the sooner you release your copy protection scheme to the general public, the sooner they will get around to cracking it. Now what would Hollywood say after fretting for months on the AACP copy protection scheme, if there was a crack that would unlock the digital content before blu-ray drives even became widely available? Isn't this just security through obscurity? They're making a gigantic effort to get end-to-end security, and it really does seem that movie piracy is way too easy on DVD's. IMHO. Hypothetically, I would design a workaround where I would play the protected content on a GPU that could decode it, one that had the HDCP decryption key, and since all my software can run with administrative privileges, I would just run another program with a shader that hijacked the frame buffer where the decrypted video was streaming through. That's just one way of doing it...

My 2c says this was unintentional on the part of the graphics board makers, but intentional on the part of Digital Content Protection, LLC, the spin-off from Intel that makes the chips with the decryption key on them.

A comparison of DVI, HDCP, and HDMI, leaves me wondering, is this just another format war?

Seems like you're comparing apples to oranges, no?

For what you'd expect to spend on a DVD changer, you should certainly be able to buy enough hard drive storage to fit at least that many DVDs and many more.

How many DVDs are you talking about fitting into that changer, and how much does that changer cost? You can't tell me that's going to cost less than the equivalent hard drive capacity.

For example:
http://pcworld.about.com/news/Jan192001id38742.htm

970GB storage for 200 DVD capacity - cost $1800 (I'm assuming list price to be generous). 500GB EIDE drives are a bit over $300. Call it 2 drives to fit 200 DVDs - $600-700.

And how much is MS MCE? (I just checked Tigerdirect, which lists it at a bit over $100. You could probably spend a bit more if you don't like/trust Tigerdirect and want to go for a more traditional retail outlet.)

So, I guess, yes, if money is no object (and discounting slower access), sure, MCE and the DVD changer that MCE has support for is definitely the better solution.

Why do most of the Christian holidays coincide exactly with pagan holidays that are centuries older?

What better way to convert people than offer them alternative holidays so that instead of studying both the pagan version and the Christian version, they have to either merge them or choose one over the other? This page offers some details. Be careful of criticizing something that you haven't researched (I found the site I just linked to by clicking on the first link of Google results with criteria "pagan christian holiday").

If you say something to yourself similar to, "Obviously that part was allegory," then you have no leg to stand on. Either every single thing in it is literal (and the earth has four corners) or everything must be interpreted. Once everything must be interpreted, you cannot claim any sort of non-relativism.

Have you ever heard of the literary device hyperbole? In any given literary work, not every word is to be taken "literally"; one must understand the word in context. Moreover, when reading interpreted works like the Bible, one must understand not only textual context, but cultural context. You make things out to be a lot simpler than they are, which leads me to believe that you're acting like stereotypical Creationists in spewing out the same thing over and over again.

I'm not even sure what you mean by relativism; I would call it the search for truth and claim that absolute truth exists (you cannot deny that absolute truth exists for everyone, only that it does not exist for you given your worldview). If you speak of "what's true for me isn't necessarily true for you," then great, are you going to violate the law set down by your country because it isn't true for you? I would try questioning more important things, like whether Christ died or just swooned; here is where you get into theologically imporant material. However, do your homework before you start making ignorant comments about it.

The economies of scale don't usually apply to software in the same way they apply to physical processes/things.

http://inventors.about.com/od/cstartinventions/a/c otton_gin.htm

Franklin was a good example. I find it funny you cite Whitney though, who tried like hell to use his patent on the cotton gin but no court woudl enforce it until 13 years after filing, which gave competition ample time to come up with work arounds.

I think Franklin was the last inventor to public domain everything he did. Very rarely have ideas ever died with their inventor. I can think of no examples. There have always been people reverse engineering ideas just as fast as ideas spring up.

I have to disagree and go with escalator. Adobe is working hard to keep Photoshop from becoming generic, and Kleenex sends letters asking people to use "facial tissue" instead.

Plus it looks like 3M still has the Scotch trademark, so I don't even think that applies.

I think the fat should be cut from the top. We have the largest CEO to entry level worker wage ratio. It's pretty ridiculous compared to other industrialized countries that are doing just fine.

http://management.about.com/cs/generalmanagement/a /CEOsOverpaid.htm

Yes, because Christianity and it's extremists are so tolerant of what it may consider blasphemy and heresy.

Every religion has it's assholes that do damage to the entirety of it, and they're usually the loudest.

More likely, if you are anyone other than a Fortune 500 company, you're email will never be answered. Or unless you pay some cash.

Certainly. Google is a publicly held company now. 'Do No Evil' is a registered trademark. Do you believe Coca-Cola really means it when they say 'It's The Real Thing'? How about 'I Want To Be An Oscar-Mayer Weiner'? Do you think the kid REALLY wants that??

There's an old saying in Tennessee -- I know it's in Texas, probably in Tennessee -- that says, fool me once, shame on -- shame on you. Fool me -- you can't get fooled again.

And I have just the man for the job, Yukon Cornelius:

http://actionfigures.about.com/library/tf01/ntf01- rudolph01.htm

Only he will be able to find the existing but somewhat misfit labor force needed to begin Moon mining operations:

http://actionfigures.about.com/library/tf01/ntf01- rudolph09.htm

And I have just the man for the job, Yukon Cornelius:

http://actionfigures.about.com/library/tf01/ntf01- rudolph01.htm

Only he will be able to find the existing but somewhat misfit labor force needed to begin Moon mining operations:

http://actionfigures.about.com/library/tf01/ntf01- rudolph09.htm

Did you know that all valid studies on the effects of video games have concluded that video games make players more violent? There are tons of personal stories that prove this fact too.

I know that Slashdot refuses to accept this, but there is a scientifically proven link between video games and violence. Do a Google search and find out for yourself.

This is a good article on the link between games and violence, refuting almost all the myths you here on Slashdot about how videogames don't make people violent.

Another article, Video Game Violence Research Yields Mixed Results - while it has a title you may think supports video games don't cause violence - actually suggests that most violent video games DO cause violent behaviors, while some (puzzle games) do not.

The only, and I do mean only, studies that conclude that video games are not directly linked to an increase in violent behavior are studies that were funded by video game publishers. Sort of like how the Microsoft-funded study discovered that Windows is more secure than Linux.

The military uses video game technology to train soldiers to kill. They know that video games make violent behaviors come more naturally. It's a proven fact by now, and all the Slashdot posts in the world won't change that.

Do some actual research. Video games are linked with an increase in violent behavior. It's a fact, like it or not.

Nine states allow openly gay couples to joint adopt, only Florida forbids it outright.

These 8 million children overwhelmingly live a healthy, caring environment. I highly recommend reading about gay adoption, it may surprise you how common and healthy it is.

Speaking as a psychologist, there is no psychological reason why people need to be of opposite sex to be 'good enough' parents.

Children are remarkably adaptive, having care givers that love and support is what is important, not the sex of said caregivers. To suggest otherwise is to either show bigotry, demonstrate political bias or to be woefully ignorant. You may not like gays, but don't pretend to be protecting children by saying those that want to raise younguns can't be parents. You are insulting many healthy children, terrific parents and violating active empathy. Breath and accept. It's okay to be wrong.

Nine states allow openly gay couples to joint adopt, only Florida forbids it outright.

These 8 million children overwhelmingly live a healthy, caring environment. I highly recommend reading about gay adoption, it may surprise you how common and healthy it is.

Speaking as a psychologist, there is no psychological reason why people need to be of opposite sex to be 'good enough' parents.

Children are remarkably adaptive, having care givers that love and support is what is important, not the sex of said caregivers. To suggest otherwise is to either show bigotry, demonstrate political bias or to be woefully ignorant. You may not like gays, but don't pretend to be protecting children by saying those that want to raise younguns can't be parents. You are insulting many healthy children, terrific parents and violating active empathy. Breath and accept. It's okay to be wrong.

My wife is a teacher. She is in her 7th year of teaching and makes a little less than $50,000/yr. Teaching salaries vary greatly depending on degree(Bachelors, Masters, or PhD), tenure and location. I think that the GP was saying that he could pay teachers $60,000/yr in his fictional hippy school and that would be enough to lure them there. The overall average salary for teachers in the US is over $40,000. Here is a list of the 10 states with the highest average teacher salaries.

Close but not quite. The actual quote is:

"The TV business is uglier than most things. It is normally perceived as some kind of cruel and shallow money trench through the heart of the journalism industry, a long plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free and good men die like dogs, for no good reason."

Originally published in the San Francisco Examiner, later reprinted in "Generation of Swine".

Here's an article on the many distortions that have occured to this quote via the intarweb.

Here's an interesting article on the misquotes.

Bizarre devices that add hardened layers to teeth seems like the wrong way to go. I want to know when the FDA is going to approve the modified streptococcus mutans bacteria they developed at U of Florida. Strep M lives in your mouth naturally. When it eats sugar, it excretes lactic acid. The lactic acid is what rots your teeth. The Strep M they made at UofF has been "fixed" so that it doesn't produce lactic acid. The way you use it is simple. They innoculate your mouth with the new Strep M and instruct you to eat lots of sugar. The new Strep M quickly displaces the natural Strep M. So far, tests show that the natural, damaging Strep M doesn't come back. No electricity, no gel; the major source of tooth decay is simply eliminated. More here

You can't sue for patent infringement unless your patent has issued. See this about.com article: "The protection afforded by a patent does not start until the actual grant of the patent."

Second, Patents are not expensive, paten lawyers are.

You can file a patent as an individual for a few hundred dollars.

Yes, the filing fee is only $500 for an individual. But someone has to write the application. Someone has to respond to the office actions. Sure, you could do it yourself, but wouldn't you rather have someone who actually has done it before prepare the response?

These are not "hourly employees". If they were, they would get paid overtime or even the government would be violating labor laws. These are exempt employees. They are not paid by the hour, so they can't be workng dozens more hours than they are getting paid for.

You know, a job is a job. Stop whining, or find a better employer. I've pulled been unemployed, and I've been underemployed, and it sucks. There are worse problems to have than not being able to Skype at work.

Wrong. http://urbanlegends.about.com/library/blcongress.h tm

I hope in the future the U.S. has a president who knows how to speak his own language: Bushisms.

There's a large body of knowledge on the Islamic slave trade and intra-African trading.

http://africanhistory.about.com/library/weekly/aa1 01101a.htm

Just about everyone was guilty when it came to the slave trade. Jews, Christians, Muslims, and most everyone in between.

That's just the (unfortunate) way things were

The PS3's launch titles are the least of their worries -- they've got that covered. Sony's problem is getting out a bug-free console that won't dissapoint too much.

There are also a lot of sites with information like about.com. Tutorials for the beginner, tips and hints for the more advanced.

But seriously, I should point out that 52 pounds over 3 months is equal to 4 pounds a week. That is safe. I've heard of people dropping 50 pounds in a month, which is scary. Christian Bale went down to 121 lb, then all the way back up to 220 lb in a short period of time, to transition from The Machinist to Batman Begins roles:

"Bale normally weighs around 185 and dropped down to 121 for "The Machinist." He then went all the way up to 220 when that finished in order to get ready for "Batman Begins." By the time shooting began, Bale's weight hovered around 190. All of this occurred over a period of five months."

http://movies.about.com/od/batman/a/batmancb060805 .htm

Unless I missed something, we don't have detailed weather data before the 19th century. So centennial weather forecasts are a little dicey.

You missed something.
http://archaeology.about.com/gi/dynamic/offsite.ht m?site=http://www.gsfc.nasa.gov/topstory/2003/1211 millenium.html

For having good offspring one needs to be fit and show it to the females. Hence, smarts is bad. It's better to be athletic. Chances that you reproduce are greater.

Well the you'll just love this:
http://menshealth.about.com/od/lifestyle/a/bats_ba lls.htm

Well we should take your word for it then because of course NASA never makes a mistake.

to take google's first link as an example
add /sos to boot.ini, like this:
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINNT="Microso ft Windows 2000 Professional" /fastdetect /sos
The title will be different I guess, but it works on nt upwards, and gives you an almost win98ish bootup

dark watery brood

Then make love in darkness,
watery brood!
I extinguish your light,
I snatch the Gold from the crag,
I will forge the avenging Ring

flabby bloodsacks

Vampire lingo, compare

This is just one more example of how this world is tainted with the stench of uncouth bloodsacks. Enjoy what you laughingly call literature, for you are but cattle, soon to be culled on the cusp of my whetted fangs. I wait only to be converted by a dark master, and then your fates shall be sealed with my bite.

Dark Mother goddess

The love between the Divine Mother and her human children is a unique relationship. Kali, the Dark Mother is one such deity with whom devotees have a very loving and intimate bond, in spite of her fearful appearance. In this relationship, the worshipper becomes a child and Kali assumes the form of the ever-caring mother.

airy realm

The land belongs to the Russians and French,
The English own the sea.
But we in the airy realm of dreams
Hold sovereign mastery.

http://results.about.com/simpsons/#1
"Pfft...You can use facts to prove anything that's even REMOTELY true!"

Nearly 5 years ago George Bush brought up this very issue. http://usgovinfo.about.com/library/weekly/aa062901 a.htm "Vampire electrical devices in "stand-by" mode constantly draw small amounts of power while plugged in even though their main switch is turned off. They can also consume as much as four percent of all the electricity used in an average home. "If we multiplied the vampire devices' energy consumption across the country, we're talking about 52 billion kilowatt hours of power a year, or the equivalent of 26 average-size power plants," said President Bush."

Emma Goldman's words on war and free speech is not allowed at University of California Berkeley as of 2003. This is the same school where the 1960's Free Speech Movement started and apparently ended http://womenshistory.about.com/library/weekly/aa03 0115a.htm

No, sorry.

I'm an Apple fan. I'm a Mac fan. This is being typed on my Powerbook G4.

Yes, the G4s suck. The G5s are significantly better, but not vastly so. The Athlon 64s still waxed the G5s performance wise: http://pcworld.about.com/magazine/2111p026id112749 .htm

Not to mention that the G5s run significantly hotter, and you can get an Athlon 64 in a notebook format. Apple still doesn't have a 64-bit notebook.

These dual-core iMacs smoke equivalent G5 iMacs if you are discussing multi-threaded applications. I also bet that system responsiveness is much higher when you are running several apps at the same time. Don't forget that iMacs have essentially 'crippiled' buses compared to powermacs and normal desktops.

And the MacBook Pro smokes the old powerbooks. A top-end G4 17" fully loaded runs World of Warcraft pretty slowly. Apparently, the lower MacBook Pro will run World of Warcraft, all visual features enabled, at 40-70 fps, which is truly fantastic. In fact, thats faster than my desktop, an Athlon 64 with a Geforce 6800, and a gig of ram.

The G5s are good at some tasks. At the high-end, water-cooled, with 4 cores, a G5 is a pretty fast machien.

A high-end, water-cooled 4 core Opteron will still crush it.

Oh, man, you've got it bad.

Look, see, there's this thing called PROPAGANDA.

So the government wants to expand its powers. Less of those nasty "rights" to get in their way when they want to pinch someone, for example, or maybe ridiculously long prison sentences for some poor schmuck who got caught with a pot cigarette. Whatever. Those in power want more of it. Now, how do they con the rest of us into letting them have more power?

Simple. First, they put a scare into rubes like you. OH MY GOD, they yell, POTHEADS ARE GOING TO EAT YOUR CHILDREN AND DO IT TO YOUR WIFE if you don't help us pass this here bill that allows civil forfeiture of property, etc, etc. And guys like you don't even apply reason to the conversation. You just bend over for The Man. In fact, you're so brainwashed you probably write your congressman ASKING him to curtail your civil rights.

And no matter WHAT they do or how far they go, your brainwashing is so complete that you feel frightened in your suburban, completely safe neighborhood. You think, at any moment a mob of crackheads and satanists could come crashing through the door and kill you! So you join the NRA and buy a huge arsenal of guns, collect knives, etc. All to ward off the imaginary crackheads who aren't knocking down your door. And nothing you do makes you feel safe, EVEN THOUGH THERE IS NO CREDIBLE THREAT TO YOU.

The sad part of this is, you really believe your paranoiac fantasies. Dubya LOVES guys like you. I bet you're not even bothered that the NSA has been spying on Americans for the past four years, without any legal right to. I bet "Extraordinary Rendition" is A-OK in your book. I bet you think that torture is just fine, because they only apply it to "those people", right?

People like you mystify me. You really do. How can you be so gullible, so easily brainwashed? Don't you understand you're just being used? Manipulated?

Sigh... Of course you don't.

Well, I don't have any hopes of snapping you out of it, so just for the hell of it, here are some more links with crime statistics. Of course, they don't agree with your delusions, so you'll yell about how they're just "liberal propaganda" or spout some other silly crypto-fascist bullshit like that.

Here goes:

http://www.disastercenter.com/crime/uscrime.htm
http://www.albany.edu/sourcebook/tost_3.html#3_x
http://www.albany.edu/sourcebook/pdf/t3117.pdf
http://crime.about.com/gi/dynamic/offsite.htm?zi=1 /XJ&sdn=crime&zu=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ojp.usdoj.gov%2F bjs%2Fhomicide%2Fhmrt.htm
http://crime.about.com/od/stats/a/ucr2003.htm
http://crime.about.com/od/stats/a/fbi041214.htm

Now, go ahead and try to prove that the University of Albany is a liberal propaganda thinktank. I dare you. We could all use a laugh.

Oh, man, you've got it bad.

Look, see, there's this thing called PROPAGANDA.

So the government wants to expand its powers. Less of those nasty "rights" to get in their way when they want to pinch someone, for example, or maybe ridiculously long prison sentences for some poor schmuck who got caught with a pot cigarette. Whatever. Those in power want more of it. Now, how do they con the rest of us into letting them have more power?

Simple. First, they put a scare into rubes like you. OH MY GOD, they yell, POTHEADS ARE GOING TO EAT YOUR CHILDREN AND DO IT TO YOUR WIFE if you don't help us pass this here bill that allows civil forfeiture of property, etc, etc. And guys like you don't even apply reason to the conversation. You just bend over for The Man. In fact, you're so brainwashed you probably write your congressman ASKING him to curtail your civil rights.

And no matter WHAT they do or how far they go, your brainwashing is so complete that you feel frightened in your suburban, completely safe neighborhood. You think, at any moment a mob of crackheads and satanists could come crashing through the door and kill you! So you join the NRA and buy a huge arsenal of guns, collect knives, etc. All to ward off the imaginary crackheads who aren't knocking down your door. And nothing you do makes you feel safe, EVEN THOUGH THERE IS NO CREDIBLE THREAT TO YOU.

The sad part of this is, you really believe your paranoiac fantasies. Dubya LOVES guys like you. I bet you're not even bothered that the NSA has been spying on Americans for the past four years, without any legal right to. I bet "Extraordinary Rendition" is A-OK in your book. I bet you think that torture is just fine, because they only apply it to "those people", right?

People like you mystify me. You really do. How can you be so gullible, so easily brainwashed? Don't you understand you're just being used? Manipulated?

Sigh... Of course you don't.

Well, I don't have any hopes of snapping you out of it, so just for the hell of it, here are some more links with crime statistics. Of course, they don't agree with your delusions, so you'll yell about how they're just "liberal propaganda" or spout some other silly crypto-fascist bullshit like that.

Here goes:

http://www.disastercenter.com/crime/uscrime.htm
http://www.albany.edu/sourcebook/tost_3.html#3_x
http://www.albany.edu/sourcebook/pdf/t3117.pdf
http://crime.about.com/gi/dynamic/offsite.htm?zi=1 /XJ&sdn=crime&zu=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ojp.usdoj.gov%2F bjs%2Fhomicide%2Fhmrt.htm
http://crime.about.com/od/stats/a/ucr2003.htm
http://crime.about.com/od/stats/a/fbi041214.htm

Now, go ahead and try to prove that the University of Albany is a liberal propaganda thinktank. I dare you. We could all use a laugh.

Oh, man, you've got it bad.

Look, see, there's this thing called PROPAGANDA.

So the government wants to expand its powers. Less of those nasty "rights" to get in their way when they want to pinch someone, for example, or maybe ridiculously long prison sentences for some poor schmuck who got caught with a pot cigarette. Whatever. Those in power want more of it. Now, how do they con the rest of us into letting them have more power?

Simple. First, they put a scare into rubes like you. OH MY GOD, they yell, POTHEADS ARE GOING TO EAT YOUR CHILDREN AND DO IT TO YOUR WIFE if you don't help us pass this here bill that allows civil forfeiture of property, etc, etc. And guys like you don't even apply reason to the conversation. You just bend over for The Man. In fact, you're so brainwashed you probably write your congressman ASKING him to curtail your civil rights.

And no matter WHAT they do or how far they go, your brainwashing is so complete that you feel frightened in your suburban, completely safe neighborhood. You think, at any moment a mob of crackheads and satanists could come crashing through the door and kill you! So you join the NRA and buy a huge arsenal of guns, collect knives, etc. All to ward off the imaginary crackheads who aren't knocking down your door. And nothing you do makes you feel safe, EVEN THOUGH THERE IS NO CREDIBLE THREAT TO YOU.

The sad part of this is, you really believe your paranoiac fantasies. Dubya LOVES guys like you. I bet you're not even bothered that the NSA has been spying on Americans for the past four years, without any legal right to. I bet "Extraordinary Rendition" is A-OK in your book. I bet you think that torture is just fine, because they only apply it to "those people", right?

People like you mystify me. You really do. How can you be so gullible, so easily brainwashed? Don't you understand you're just being used? Manipulated?

Sigh... Of course you don't.

Well, I don't have any hopes of snapping you out of it, so just for the hell of it, here are some more links with crime statistics. Of course, they don't agree with your delusions, so you'll yell about how they're just "liberal propaganda" or spout some other silly crypto-fascist bullshit like that.

Here goes:

http://www.disastercenter.com/crime/uscrime.htm
http://www.albany.edu/sourcebook/tost_3.html#3_x
http://www.albany.edu/sourcebook/pdf/t3117.pdf
http://crime.about.com/gi/dynamic/offsite.htm?zi=1 /XJ&sdn=crime&zu=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ojp.usdoj.gov%2F bjs%2Fhomicide%2Fhmrt.htm
http://crime.about.com/od/stats/a/ucr2003.htm
http://crime.about.com/od/stats/a/fbi041214.htm

Now, go ahead and try to prove that the University of Albany is a liberal propaganda thinktank. I dare you. We could all use a laugh.

Being landlocked, I doubt W.VA has a pirate problem to speak of.
Now, here is some info on REAL pirates and piracy:
"Modern Pirates Thrive on Global Trade" (http://globalization.about.com/library/weekly/aa0 31203a.htm)
"Pirate attacks against ships increase, ICC report finds" (http://globalization.about.com/gi/dynamic/offsite .htm?site=http://www.iccwbo.org/home/news_archives /2002/stories/piracy%2520report%2520Oct2002.asp)
and last but not least:
"Weekly Piracy Report" (http://globalization.about.com/gi/dynamic/offsite .htm?site=http://www.iccwbo.org/ccs/imb_piracy/wee kly_piracy_report.asp)

Now, enough FUD about piracy!

Being landlocked, I doubt W.VA has a pirate problem to speak of.
Now, here is some info on REAL pirates and piracy:
"Modern Pirates Thrive on Global Trade" (http://globalization.about.com/library/weekly/aa0 31203a.htm)
"Pirate attacks against ships increase, ICC report finds" (http://globalization.about.com/gi/dynamic/offsite .htm?site=http://www.iccwbo.org/home/news_archives /2002/stories/piracy%2520report%2520Oct2002.asp)
and last but not least:
"Weekly Piracy Report" (http://globalization.about.com/gi/dynamic/offsite .htm?site=http://www.iccwbo.org/ccs/imb_piracy/wee kly_piracy_report.asp)

Now, enough FUD about piracy!

Being landlocked, I doubt W.VA has a pirate problem to speak of.
Now, here is some info on REAL pirates and piracy:
"Modern Pirates Thrive on Global Trade" (http://globalization.about.com/library/weekly/aa0 31203a.htm)
"Pirate attacks against ships increase, ICC report finds" (http://globalization.about.com/gi/dynamic/offsite .htm?site=http://www.iccwbo.org/home/news_archives /2002/stories/piracy%2520report%2520Oct2002.asp)
and last but not least:
"Weekly Piracy Report" (http://globalization.about.com/gi/dynamic/offsite .htm?site=http://www.iccwbo.org/ccs/imb_piracy/wee kly_piracy_report.asp)

Now, enough FUD about piracy!

Nice to see some progress in the Linux arena. But neither the quoted article nor the OpenVZ web site list too many alternative solutions. Here is one from another world (non-unix): OpenVMS Galaxy by Digital (now HP). Galaxy is part of OpenVMS, since more than half a decade.

http://h71000.www7.hp.com/wizard/wiz_3191.html (check the date - 1999!)
http://www.s-and-b.ru/syshlp/vms_html/6512/6512pro .html (an early online documentation, hosted by on a non-Digital/HP system)
http://h71000.www7.hp.com/availability/index.html (Lots of information about High Availability/Disaster Tolerance)

"All the world's a stage" or was it "All the galaxy's a stage?"
http://scifi.about.com/library/weekly/aa022800b.ht m

Also of note for those who follow intellectual property issues, when he invented the "Franklin stove," he refused the offered patent preferring that the design be available to anyone.

3. The batteries that don't yet exist are being designed for artificial eyes that don't yet exist.

RTFA: "starting with an artificial retina that has already been developed at the Doheny Eye Institute at the University of Southern California".

And with a little research, you can find reports (here and here, and even on /.) from last May's Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology meeting about six previously completely blind patients have successfully used the referenced retinas to detect light.

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Here's an article detailing some other very good reasons why God can not be omnipotent, in the game or in real life:
http://atheism.about.com/od/whatisgod/a/omnipotenc e.htm

WTF????

This guy, A rocket scientist!? I can't believe it..

Hello, Mr. President!

Oh, wait. Never mind: wrong country...

And yet....no records were set....uh..

Yep. No records. Now, I'm not advocating one side or the other here, but 2005 seems to have been a year of extremes, not one that didn't set any records. There will *always* be records in a given year, particularly local ones. It's the worldwide records like "highest average temp on record, despite the absence of El Nino" and "lowest arctic ice recorded" that matter. Not "Hottest July 3rd ever in Tempe, AZ."

Worst hurricane season on record.

200 Western US cities set heat records.

Hottest year ever, least arctic ice ever, most intense single hurricane ever, worst drought in decades.

Third worst year on record for extreme weather, hottest year on record despite the fact that the previous record had El Nino to drive it. (and in a contrast, very few tornados).