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Sigh... Sorry that the link I provided did not answer every possible aspect of my comment.

Since you are incapible of doing your own google search before making ill-informed statements; I'll do it for you:

http://autism.about.com/od/autisminprint/i/brainpr ocessing_2.htm

http://brain.oupjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/ 125/7/1594

http://128.226.8.112/icdext/info/aspergers.html

http://www.websitetoolbox.com/tool/post/bgrh/vpost ?id=157312

http://www.autistics.cc/AspSleepNeuroStudy.html

http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2005-03/uow -sec030405.php

Sigh... Sorry that the link I provided did not answer every possible aspect of my comment. Since you are incapible of doing your own google search before making ill-informed statements; I'll do it for you: http://autism.about.com/od/autisminprint/i/brainpr ocessing_2.htm

The site will be managed by editor-in-chief Colin Campbell
Is this the same Colin Campbell who laid the suspension down on Todd Bertuzzi? I hope so, since that guy is tough! :)

Boiling frogs is sport for little boys, but it's death for the frogs.

I was going to get mine at Android's Dungeon & Baseball Card Shop, in Springfield. I'm still trying to figure out which state. http://animatedtv.about.com/od/comicbookguy/p/prof ilecbg.htm :-)

That was funny:)

I guess the joke is wasted on most here, so here's the explanation: it's "What hath God wrought", which is the first Morse code message ever sent, with God replaced by Woz to refer to computer stuff. Very a-propos.

73 de F8EJF

Why not learn how to draw anime and comics too while your at it !

God didn't create Microsoft Office to Futs in us unused.

Formatting Microsoft Word Documents

The only way to get a document to appear the same way on different computers is to use the PDF format (which is one of the export formats for OpenOffice).

And antivirus programs don't protect against unknown viruses

Um...yes, they do (to a point). Read up on heuristics.

I see no reason in principle why heuristics couldn't detect that a browser add-in logs keystrokes and/or communicates with a third-party server, and why byte-matching couldn't detect the same malware routine compiled into all kinds of applications.


Well, internal inconsistencies aside, it sounds like you have a plan. Get busy, and let me know how that turns out.

Am I the only person terrified at the thought of a comprehensive automatic network configurator that is (at least by name) French? I mean - I've been through De Gaulle airport. The thought of deploying that kind of design expertise on my network makes me somewhat apprehensive.

There was no confusion/ambiguity/amusement on the part of Kennedy's German audience.

It's about time Al Gore gets the recognition he deserves. After all Al Gore is known as the inspiration to American's who suffer from Dutch Elm disease. And he reminded us there was no controlling legal authority in the White House while he made calls asking for contributions. And if he'd won in 2000, we wouldn't be able to enjoy the Bush or chimp pictures.

As much as HTML documents and HTTP transport protocols define the 'web' for the vast majority of end users, the internet itself was a well defined prerequisite for the work Berners-Lee is famous for.

I mean, I know what you're getting at, but... typically, people refer to Vinton Cerf and Robert Kahn as creators of the internet, for publishing a paper describing what would become TCP/IP.

I know you're trying to be funny, and you achieved that, but Vinton Cerf would have been a better candidate. The post suggesting Phil Zimmermann is an even better candidate is also dead on, but in a non-funny, non-ironic manner, since PGP really did have an impact on politics.

Of course, HTML-based communication also had an impact on politics, althogh I'd say that's the contribution of web publishers, who were enabled by Tim Berners-Lee and Vinton Cerf and Al Gore and many, many others.

Sorry, you're wrong. Search engines never existed before google.

You simply had to guess that http://inventors.about.com/library/weekly/aacarsga sa.htm was a webpage article about internal combustion engines.

[end sarcasm]

Wrong on both counts. Australians were never "exiled", we were and still are proud members of the British Commonwealth. And Australia was not originally discovered with the intent of making a penal colony, the convicts were sent a little later to perform labour and farm work, because England had no more room for them.

And as for us being a pack of halfwits, check out some famous Australian inventions. Not bad for a nation of 25 million people.

To start with, here are several other links that support the fact that Christianity is the largest religion in the world by number of adherents.

Next -- do we take dominant to mean most popular?

Since there are 800 million or so more Christians in the world than the second highest religion, (Islam), Christianity is both the most dominant and most popular.

I give you this awesome quote from the bottom of the page were they are backing up their spurious claims: AR [animal rights] is a religion, but for the majority of Animal Rights supporters, AR functions as a movement and/or lifestyle choice, not their primary religion. Emphasis is not my own. This admission leads to double counting.

You're assuming that there are at least 800 million double-counts, all of which list themselves as both Christian and something else. That's a pretty wild assumption. The article in the (grandparent) link gives no indication of anything of that nature or magnitude.

Christianity is obviously the dominant religion in America (as there are more Christians than not). Christianity is not the dominant religion in China (or India, or Iraq, the locale is irrelevant) as there are more non-Christians than not. If one agrees with these two claims, then Christianity is not the Earth's dominant religion.

See all the links at the top of this post, and do your own research. You'll find that it's simply a fact that there are more Christians than any other religion's adherents in the world. However one feels about Christianity, or any other religion, it doesn't change this fact.

Okay, so the page states that they need our help getting the word out. But there's no rush -- hell, we've got lifetimes to get the word out and it'll still be as effective as ever! But we need something really big. Maybe if we carve the coordinates and timestamp into a hillside in South America so that it can be read from space, then maybe it'll work? It's got to be big and lasting otherwise all of our efforts will have as much impact as Taco Bell's big giveaway a few years back.

I had a thought similar to the grandparent. Living in the US and having really enjoyed the "Connections" series, I was more concerned that folk born after (doing.the.math...) 1970-ish may not have heard of the James Burke stuff. Under the guise of Technical History, J. Burke presented the most interesting connect-the-inventions survey of Science & Technology that I have ever seen, including the bits we never really thought (or had to think) about. Like the guy who invented Air-Conditioning, (finding.a.link...)John Gorrie , who did it to "to cool sickrooms in a Florida hospital. The system used an air-cycle method of cooling. " That invention led, according to Burke, to the high-rises, vaccuum flasks (thermoses) and Apollo 13. I always figured that anyone might be able to get from one invention to any other sufficiently later invention by his methods but probably wouldn't have a much fun as we did when Burke did it his way.

...courts have found that the principle of a "religious liberty" exists behind in the First Amendment, even if those words are not actually there:

"Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof..."

The point of such an amendment is twofold. First, it ensures that religious beliefs - private or organized - are removed from attempted government control. This is the reason why the government cannot tell either you or your church what to believe or to teach. Second, it ensures that the government does not get involved with enforcing, mandating, or promoting particular religious doctrines. This is what happens when the government "establishes" a church - and because doing so created so many problems in Europe, the authors of the Constitution wanted to try and prevent the same from happening here.

Original source article:Separation of church and state

This reminds me of a U.S Religious Lobby group that has been trying to stop/prevent Canada from legalizing same sex marriage. I can't find the original story link from the Toronto Star, but managed to find others.

Here here here here

Here is a quote from one of the stories:

Powerful U.S. religious groups are sending money and support to allies in Canada to fight same-sex marriage.

Patrick Korten, vice-president of communications for the Knights of Columbus head office in New Haven, Conn., said no limit has been set on the help his organization is prepared to offer. "Whatever it takes," he said. "The family is too important." Mr. Korten said the U.S. headquarters of the Catholic men's group paid $80,782 to print two million postcards being distributed in Catholic churches across Canada. "It has been extremely enthusiastically received in Catholic parishes all over Canada. As a matter of fact we may have to print some more -- there was a great deal of interest in it. It offers a quick, simple but effective way for Catholics ... to make their feelings about the same-sex marriage bill known to their MPs." Another opponent of same-sex marriage, Focus on the Family, is also sending support and services worth hundreds of thousands of dollars a year to its Canadian affiliate. James Dobson, the charismatic founder of Focus on the Family who has been described as one of the most influential Christian figures in the United States, personally waded into the debate two weeks ago in a radio show taped in Colorado Springs, Colo., and transmitted as a paid broadcast to 130 stations in Canada. "It is clear here in the United States that the American people do not want same-sex marriage. I would hope that Canadians who also do not want same-sex marriage would be encouraged by what has happened down here."

What the hell is wrong with the USA, when they have to force their religious beliefs on other countries? Canadians hate being told what to do by Americans, and we usually will do the opposite of what they want, just to spite them.

Yes!
Let the UN general assembly do it!
No, wait, maybe it should be the ITU!
No, wait, maybe it should be the ISO!
Hmm... maybe the International electrotechnical commission?

Oh, wait... the US doesn't like standards-setting bodies. OR international organizations, for that matter.

It's better to have a hodgepodge of cell phone technologies that don't talk to each other, a silly measurement system based on bodyparts and british wheat, a TV broadcast system that never twice gives you the same color, never mind a digital TV standard that the rest of the world won't use.

I'm sure Bolton will take care of it once he's in the UN as our ambassador. Yeah, that's the ticket...

Oh how I wish that was the lyrics in The Saga Begins .

Turning gold into lead would be easier, but it's not as much fun for pointing out what neutron sources can be used for. :-)

BTW, I dug up an article on the process. Here's a more technical explanation.

http://animals.about.com/cs/evolution/a/aa090901a. htm

Just like moth colors, it's back to evolution and survival of the fittest. In this case, more work has become "homeland security" colored/camouflaged becuase homeland security-related work has a competitive advantage when finding funding and people find a way to work it into their proposals :-)

One of Adobe's flagship products (bonus points for naming the other),

IntelliDraw? PageMaker? umm.... LiveMotion? wait, wait, it's ... TypeStyler!

Dunno. I give up.

... as every famous person with an European/American name registered the Chinese character spelling (conversions available here)?

Will names with lucky symbols be outbidded for?

... as every famous person with an European/American name registered the Chinese character spelling (conversions available here)?

Will names with lucky symbols be outbidded for?

As far as I know, there are no parts 7,8 and 9 to be filmed. :) Indeed there are such rumours, but that's a common mistake. Lucas originally thought he'd need 9 films to tell the story, but already before he finished filming all 3 of the original movies, he concluded that 6 would be enough. Some form of draft was made for 7, 8 and 9, but they date back from before 5 and 6 were filmed and have now become obsolete. Some of the things were already used in the plots for part 4, 5 and 6, and some of the events described in there have become overruled by what happens in 4, 5 and 6. Think of the original drafts as being a short paragraph each; just a brainstorm for some important events. Oh, sure if you do a Google for those scripts you'll find a lot of stuff. But don't let yourself be fooled, that's all fan fiction or wishful thinking. See also these pages: http://scifi.about.com/library/starwars/bl-sixorni ne.htm http://theforce.net/latestnews/story/gary_kurtz_re veals_original_plans_for_episodes_19_80270.asp Conclusion: even if Lucas *wanted* to make parts 7, 8 and 9, he'd have to go back to the writing table and work out all new stories. He used the best parts from the original drafts to write the scripts for part 5 and 6, and what he didn't use was appearantly rubbish, or has become obsolete and unusable in any case.

I'll have to agree that the true conclusion of this article is that BMI is often a poor way to establish someone's body fat percentage. I'm technically overweight, though that's primarily because I lift weights nearly every day. My height hasn't changed any since I started, but I went from 165 lbs to 190 lbs. The BMI index, coupled with an "overweight" rating system considers me the same as someone who's had one too many doughnuts.

Personally I'd like to see a move to a different measurement system. The catch is that other methods to determine body fat tend to be expensive or annoying.

I can't see the usual set of motley OS volunteers creating and maintaining an alternative to Delphi. I used to help write the Delphi API documentation, and I can't begin the convey what a massive effort it is just to maintain that product. Not something you can do without the backing of somebody with deep pockets. If Borland chooses to get behind an OS version of Delphi (as they now have with JBuilder) it might be a different matter. Though it's worth noting that their previous attempt to open source a produce (Interbase) did not go well. Frankly, I don't think Borland's notoriously factious corporate culture makes them a good partner in an OS project.

A quick Google shows that, yes you can. That link is relating to changing it to escape an abusive spouse but I'm sure that there are (a few) other reasons they'll accept.

Are you sure about that? Texas Instruments is a big defense contractor, and designed a number of the laser guided bombs used in Iraq and Afganistan. And Texas Instruments was a major DRAM company a few years back before selling to Micron, and Micron was accused of price fixing. ;)

Font faces have been effectively non-copyrightable for the history of fonts (at least in America), to the constant displeasure of foundreys.

Here's one discossion.

If they haven't done anything, why are they considered one of the top gay- and lesbian- freindly companies in the US?

Well, i just pasted that info from here... http://geography.about.com/library/faq/blqzuk.htm/ "What is the difference between the United Kingdom, Great Britain, and England?"

I know it's a real hardship to actually read your own links, but perhaps if you had taken this unprecidented step you would see that they list Pagemaker as coming out in "the mid-1980s," not 1980. Further, if you had actually read the article linked from that page, you would have found this: "1985 - Aldus develops PageMaker for the Mac, the first "desktop publishing" application."

If you have any further difficulties with basic reading comprehension, please let us know.

"If we started limiting free speech freedoms to those who know how to speek properly maybe we wouldn't have such a functional illiterate problem in the western world."

Whipping out my English cluestick...

free speech freedoms should be free speech.
speek should be speak
speek properly should have a comma after it, denoting a compound sentence.
functional illiterate problem should either be 'illiteracy problem' or 'widespread functional illiteracy.'

"My only problem with free speech is that those who don't know how to speek also have the freedom."

And you, son of Cletus the Slack-Jawed Yokel, are Exhibit #1.

Actually, it's the busiest airport in the entire world. No, really. It is: see here.

Surprised the heck out of me. I guess that most bigger cities have two or more airports to spread the business around.

Apparently Chief Justice Antonin Scalia thinks so. When I heard that on the news a month ago I literally felt a chill go down my spine.

Warm up. The actual quote (from your link) is: "It's a symbol of the fact that government comes -- derives its authority from God."

Both you and Austin Cline are right -- the Government "derives its just Powers from the Consent of the governed". But Antonin Scalia knows this document a little better than you two. Because it also states: "endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights".

So, the Government derives its power from the consent of the governed, who, in turn got created with these rights. Ergo, the Government's power can be said to be coming from the governed's Creator(s) directly.

No wonder, Scalia dislikes journalists. :-)

All of the Founding Father were religious people -- although of different sects. Scalia is simply one of those jurists, who interpret the Constitution "traditionaly". What it meant, when it was written, rather than what it should mean now (as the "activist" judges like to ponder).

Apparently Chief Justice Antonin Scalia thinks so. When I heard that on the news a month ago I literally felt a chill go down my spine.

Warm up. The actual quote (from your link) is: "It's a symbol of the fact that government comes -- derives its authority from God."

Both you and Austin Cline are right -- the Government "derives its just Powers from the Consent of the governed". But Antonin Scalia knows this document a little better than you two. Because it also states: "endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights".

So, the Government derives its power from the consent of the governed, who, in turn got created with these rights. Ergo, the Government's power can be said to be coming from the governed's Creator(s) directly.

No wonder, Scalia dislikes journalists. :-)

All of the Founding Father were religious people -- although of different sects. Scalia is simply one of those jurists, who interpret the Constitution "traditionaly". What it meant, when it was written, rather than what it should mean now (as the "activist" judges like to ponder).

Anyway, where do you think that these laws COME from in the first place? God?

Apparently Chief Justice Antonin Scalia thinks so.
When I heard that on the news a month ago I literally felt a chill go down my spine.

Perhaps the parent poster knows this. But this is for the benefit of anyone who didn't. Please help stamp out that bogus meme! http://www.straightdope.com/classics/a2_334.html http://urbanlegends.about.com/library/bl_marie_ant oinette.htm http://alt-usage-english.org/excerpts/fxletthe.htm l

i.e. One or more folks are in charge of Kids' birthday videos, one or more in charge of original animation, and 10,313 are in charge of the various porn categories.

They are "trained," "paid" based on performance, and are moderated (e.g. if copyrighted works slip through on their watch, they are somehow penalized).

The verification bottleneck opens up significantly without Google's staff of Full Time Employees expanding exponentially.

The Google Network ...

It is my understanding that all of the 9/11 terrorists had valid U.S. IDs (drivers licenses, mostly) and/or valid passports which had been scrutinized at the border. These IDs were all in their own names (though perhaps not in the name under which they were wanted). So far as I know, no one has suggested that they had obtained these IDs fraudulently: they all could have gotten the new biometric IDs that so many seem to want.

We knew who they were, and some of them were on ``wanted'' or ``watch'' lists under the names on their legitimate IDs, the IDs which they used to board their planes. Identity was never a factor in the 9/11 hijackings. Therefore, obviously, what we need to make sure it never happens again is a new, improved National ID system which will further tighten the government's control over us. Yes, indeed. It kept the Jews safe in the 1930s, after all. We'll try not to think about what happened to them in the 1940s.

All this isn't to quibble with what the parent post said, but to reinforce it.

Then this 'Tridge' guy comes along, and is *so* opposed to BK that he is determined to fight against it using tactics that are legal, but not especially moral, ethical, or friendly.

There is nothing unmoral, unethical, or unfriendly about reverse engineering. Otherwise have fun buying only PC's from IBM and cars from Ford (or whoever) for the rest of your life, since anything else would be against your sense of 'ethics'.

How likely is a movie to open in "Japan, Europe, South Africa, Middle East, Greenland" - ie. region 2 - at the same time?

Why were those countries put into the same region? Japan even uses NTSC (like USA) instead of PAL (rest of region)!

The "Cinema distribution argument" can not explain region 2.

• Denial
• Anger
• Bargaining
• Depression
• Acceptance

Microsoft's inital position on Linux has been harsh, but do remember, Linux is 1)direct competition to Windows and 2)has a radically differnt philosophy that basically attacks the core of Microsoft's business model. How would anyone here feel if someone sprang up in direct competion to the way you live your life? How do any of us react to luddites and technophobes? Very similarly in spirit to MS's initial reaction to Linux.
But the shock is starting to where off and Microsoft is realizing that Linux isn't going away. So their learning and changing.

The changes in Encarta aren't just about embracing wiki. Microsoft's corporate buzzwords, the backbone of the feature set promoted in Office 2003 are integration and colaboration. Microsoft is simply extending that.

where is the eiffel tower This returns: Eiffel Tower Restaurant Location: Inside the Mandalay Bay According to http://govegas.about.com/library/bl_restaurantseif feltower.htm

People get worked up about it because it was used during the 2000 election by right-wing pundits (yes, I mean *you*, Peggy Noonan) to "prove" that Al Gore was a serial liar who couldn't be trusted with the presidency.

The "funny" thing is that Bush has shown himself to be a serial liar, from Iraq to the real reason they want to "save" social security (and I can mention many more examples if anyone needs any help). Also ironic that under Bush's "leadership" the government will cut the funding of DARPA research which Gore as a younger politician played an important part to get started. Should make some of those nerds who laughed at the cheerleaders internet jokes think again.