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When I receive a bogus virus warning from my friends (e.g. Good Times), I reply:

• Check urbanlegends.about.com to see if it is a hoax before forwarding an email.
• Proper virus warnings show up as articles on CNN, or companywide notices sent by your company's IT administrator. If it didn't come from either of these two sources, ignore it.

So what would happen if I wrote a serious message with a real warning (e.g. "Anything with a .VBS extension is a virus.") and said, "Forward this on to everyone you know?"

P.S. Based on my understanding of privacy laws, it's legal to encourage people to forward messages to their friends, as long as you aren't collecting information about them.

First, there are more than 1 billion relevant chess matches to store. According to about.com's chess forum:

http://chess.about.com/library/weekly/aa072400a.ht m?terms=number+possible+moves

Number of possible board positions after white's first move: 20
After black's first move: 400
After white's second move: 29,200
After black's second move: 2,131,600

Those are positions, rather than games, but both are going to explode exponentially in that manner. At 50 moves and up, it's overwhelming (for now).

This addresses the number of games possible, but you make the point that we should only concern ourselves with "relevant" chess games. There are a number of reasons I don't think even this would work to pare down that number. First, to have the game solved, we *have* to take into account that the other player will make suboptimal moves as well. If we "throw out all of the games where the person just systematically moves their pawns up 1 space each turn from left to right, and stuff like that" all that someone has to do to take the machine out of book is to start down one of those normally silly paths that we've discarded.

Second, who would determine what's relevant? A human could at best, only set up rules for an automated process to use to cull the games. What would those rules be? If you throw out games where the opposition loses material, gambits immediately become more effective. So if you've thrown those out and are completely relying on a presolved matrix, you won't be able to win by accepting any of those gambits.

The only moves you *could* throw out are suboptimal moves of your own. If I know a certain move loses and another move doesn't, I can cull that move. Simple min-max stuff. But the problem here is, you still have to traverse down that path to find that out in advance. So you're almost solving the whole tree anyway.

There are distributed projects underway to evaluate certain sets of positions, usually branching off of known openings in a brute force manner. These should result in deeper knowledge of the game, but we're still a long way off from being able to brute force our way through the whole tree. And any selection process that gets us down to manageable disk sizes is going to suffer from some sort of flaw like the ones mentioned above.

Derek

The older book is probably more useful to most of you anyway, since I'm sure you eat more frequently than you fsck.

Because the pop-unders tend to form above, and then go below on linux, they are actually far more obtrusive, and that's part of why people hate them.

Actually, the same thing happens on WinNT and Win98, at least with IE and Mozilla.

Another way pop-unders can interrupt your chain of thought: the window.focus() that call that differentiates pop-unders from pop-ups causes the site that creates the pop-under to jump in front of whatever you were reading. So if you loaded about.com in one window while reading Slashdot, you would see a pop-under appear, and then the about.com window would jump in front of the ad and in front of slashdot.

...can be found here. There was also an article in a recent Discover issue about his last meal, June or July, but it doesn't seem to be on the magazine's website.

You know, when I did a search on "teoma search engine technology" on several search engines (including google and teoma of course), the only one that came up with a decent result was Lookle, with this result from about.com: Review of Teoma Search Engine - Tasty New Search Engines Part 2. Now Lookle is somewhat innovative, and copycats google to no end, and were apparently threatened by google (trademark, not patent) last June. As far as I know, nothing came of it because google decided not to pursue.

Now as I see it there's two kinds of companies out there: those that are too busy innovating to sue, and those too busy suing to innovate. Adobe seems to have joined the Dark side; But Google's been making all sorts of cool changes lately, enough to make you think they hired more linux geeks, not more lawyers. So I doubt anything like a patent suit will cross their minds. When it does, I switch search engines. It hasn't for, what, seven years?

And THAT's why google's *my* favorite search engine.

Gremio

Here's some interesting info on how SirCam works.
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The preservation is so good that when the occasional bog body is found, it is usually the police who get the first call, because the discoverers think they've found a recent murder victim.

Do you have any more information or links about caffeine and ADD? According to this article "Pharmacotherapy of Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder: Nonstimulant Treatments
", caffeine is an ineffective treatment for ADD.

this would be a great reason to sue the company to fucking smithereens, but unfortunately it has probably already folded so one couldn't collect anything.

What? Sue Canada Post to smithereens? Canada's national mail service, owned by the Government of Canada? Actually, counting the national debt, the finances of the company are in the red by about $500 billion, which is not unlike most dot-coms.

Oh well... one can always visit the homes of its boardmembers with a cigar-cutter, mafia-style, and make yourself a nice necklace of fingers

Let me give you the address of the Chairman: 24 Sussex Drive, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. You can't miss it; it's the one with big tall gates, security cameras, and badass RCMP everywhere.

Actually us Canadians prefer to express our displeasure non-lethally, with pies in the face and such. But don't get too close, he's been known to personally handle protesters by the neck. Probably something he learned from watching Hockey Night in Canada.

Lost US nuclear weapons and accidents are a lot more common than anybody realizes, with over a dozen VERY major incidents detailed here. There's even a monument to the 1957 Broken Arrow incident in New Mexico. If you've got $20 to blow, you can even get a nostalgic guided tour of all these Broken Arrow events narrated by Batman himself, Adam West. Just for grins, the official US Government document for how a nuclear weapons loss is to be handled may be read here.

Sicilian necktie

Definition: A piece of wire used to garrote a victim. Here is the definition

Columbian necktie

Definition: When a persons throat is slit from ear to ear and the person's tougue is pulled out though the incesion to resemble a necktie.

SealBeater

"The producers cut of Babylon 5: The legend of the Rangers is now in hand, and goes to the network and studio today. I think it's a really kickass movie, and in terms of general production, performances, and stuff like that, it's probably right there with In The Beggining (not in scale of course, since ItB was just *huge* and sews up the B5 storyline in this big tapestry, they're two vastly different kinds of stories, but in terms of overall quality of production and how well it works)."

"The producers cut of Babylon 5: The legend of the Rangers is now in hand, and goes to the network and studio today. I think it's a really kickass movie, and in terms of general production, performances, and stuff like that, it's probably right there with In The Beggining (not in scale of course, since ItB was just *huge* and sews up the B5 storyline in this big tapestry, they're two vastly different kinds of stories, but in terms of overall quality of production and how well it works)."

Done. This is the first I've heard of this very recent book and its author, as opposed to the better-known and more-involved Edward M. Hallowell ("Driven to Distraction") and Daniel Amen ("Healing ADD"). According to his own writeup on Amazon, he's a family physician with an M.D. who happens to be diagnosed with ADD himself, without any special training in neurology or psychology. I don't consider that an authority.

Getting back to the root issue: ADD was first investigated in 1902 in England by Dr. George Fredick Still, who called it a "defect of moral control". A decade later, physicians in America were independently studying it and calling its sufferers "minimally brain damaged". In 1937 it was discovered that amphetamines, of which Ritalin is one, relieved the symptoms of ADD in children (data borrowed from here). That's a short history of the disorder from the years long before television, video games, and electronic toys ever existed. Katz's assertion that the idea of ADD as a treatable condition would be "absurd" in the pre-electronic era is itself absurd, given these facts.

In fact, the entire idea that ADD didn't exist before the twentieth century is itself a fallacy, because it hadn't been studied and diagnosed until the twentieth century. Alzheimer's disease is also being more widely diagnosed in recent decades; does that mean that a lifetime of exposure to advertising causes Alzheimer's? The arrival of modern entertainment and the widespread diagnosis of ADD is coincident, not causal.

The general consensus is that amphetamines resolve ADD symptoms by raising the dopamine and seratonin levels in the brain, although the mechanics aren't positively identified. It's also been shown using scans that brain activity in ADD/ADHD sufferers is actually done in different locations than in non-sufferers. While this doesn't show the affliction is genetic, it is a strong indicator that ADD is more than a matter of not being interested in something for more than a short time. As a sufferer myself, I can attest that it's often simply impossible to screen out the noise and intrusions around me to focus on just one thing, no matter how much I want to do otherwise.

Katz is the furthest thing from an expert in ADD, based on what I've read about him. I'm not an expert, either, but at least I can claim to have read a couple of books on the subject.

It was created by Dr. J. Presper Eckert and Dr. John W. Mauchly who worked for Remington Rand Inc. It was started in 1946 and was completely on released on this day, 50 years ago.
Here is a link to more information: UNIVAC History

In fact, language inventor PATRICK NAUGHTON developed Java to help him write software to find and download kiddie porn.

Part of his DEAL WITH THE FBI is to use his JAVA SOFTWARE to catch more pedophiles.

Please check out my references and you'll see that I'm right.

I stopped reading Suck several years ago, around the time they discovered how easy it is to bait Canadians for cheap laughs. It wasn't until recently that us Canadians stopped getting mad and started getting even.

blenderking sent in this Wall Street Journal story about
Microsoft's new "Smart Tags" - auto linking to Microsoft
websites in any web page you visit.

...This program has performed an illegal operation and will be shut down. If the problem persists, please contact the program vendor for resolution.
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The Indians demand royalties on every chess set ever sold!

One of the worst cases of this was the "accidental introduction of an American louse called Phylloxera", which wiped out 2.5 million acres of French vineyards.

hmm. I was always told that Bayer lost the trademark to Aspring due to not enforcing it, but it appears that Isaac-Lew is correct. Couldn't find any mention of it in his link, or at the Bayer site, though.

God bless those Albino Ninjas...

One thing that really helped deal with the pain was shoveling my car out of 18 inches of snow. Twice. (damn inconsiderate snow plows. :) I've also found that visiting my local trigger point therapist (random google link) has helped a lot. So, it's exercise and massage therapy if you don't want to be troubled with RSI.

I've also reviewed the DTI2015XLS on my site. It's a good product, although there are some concerns regarding game performance you'll want to think about before plunking down $1700 on this unit.

Tom also had a small mistake in his article. He suggests that you need to use the serial port on the monitor to get 3D stereo. Not true, the monitor can do stereo without the serial port, you just need to turn it on from the front panel buttons. So if you've got a favorite 3D application which supports side-by-side or alternate-frame stereo, just select that from the menu and view.

Tom's conclusions and my conclusions about the monitor are almost the same.

Rick R.

http://peripherals.about.com/

I've also reviewed the DTI2015XLS on my site. It's a good product, although there are some concerns regarding game performance you'll want to think about before plunking down $1700 on this unit.

Tom also had a small mistake in his article. He suggests that you need to use the serial port on the monitor to get 3D stereo. Not true, the monitor can do stereo without the serial port, you just need to turn it on from the front panel buttons. So if you've got a favorite 3D application which supports side-by-side or alternate-frame stereo, just select that from the menu and view.

Tom's conclusions and my conclusions about the monitor are almost the same.

Rick R.

http://peripherals.about.com/

Caucasians are from the Caucasus Mountains in Russia. That region is the origin of white people. In northern Iran there are people who are whiter than anyone you commonly see in Europe or the U.S.

Since they come from southern Asia, it is not surprising that Caucasians can be found in many places in Asia.

Map of the Caucasus

As someone who works with a related technology (Brain Actuated Technology), I wanted to address some of the concerns I've seen a few people raise. Before I get too deeply into the discussion, I'll refer you to a previous reponse I made to the "Surfing The Net With Brainwaves?" article. If you are curious to see what I have said already about the subject, check it out.

I'm a software engineer that works with a device called a Cyberlink that allows you to control the mouse cursor (and other peripherals) using a combination of Brain/Body signals (EEG, EMG & EOG).

From the electrode arrangement in the NASA picture I saw, it looks like they using EMG (electromyograph) signals to detect discreet electrical impulses for specific muscles. There is a lot of electrical energy involved in actuating the muscles in your body, the hard part is figuring which muscle signals of the multitudes are the ones you care about.

One of the most difficult aspects of these types of technologies is resolving a "rest state". Energy is expended even when you are trying to hold a bodypart, like your arm, still. If the movement of a joystick/mouse/wheel was mapped directly electrical activity in your arm, wrists and hands you would have to worry about keeping them stationary to begin with so you wouldn't generate interference (and cause the device to move left when you wish it to stay where it is). Electrically, we are very noisy...

If you aren't concentrating, it may cause control to "drift". For example, if I move the mouse around with my hand and I let go, the mouse cursor usually will remain exactly where you left it on the screen. But with devices that use raw biosignals, it is hard to "turn-off" electrical signals present in your body so that the device interpreting them will stop reacting to them. When I use the brain actuated mouse interface with the Cyberlink, its kinda hard to keep the mouse from NOT moving. Sure, I can move it up/down/left/right when I want to, but when I don't want it to move, it is hard to prevent it from "drifting" slightly in some direction. These are aspects of the technology I am working on fixing. As such, I am intimately familiar with most of the difficulties involved.

In the case of picking up impulses meant for your hands and arm, it becomes even harder because we use our hands all the time for other tasks.

But the good news is that these things can be tuned. There are ways around these limitations and work is being done to resolve these issues. I suffer from tendonitis in my wrists, so *I* at least have a very vested interest in making this technology work. :) This technology is tremendously useful for people with physical disabilities and there is work being done to make the technology more appealing to able-bodied persons as well. Your concerns are duly noted. (by me, at least).

If you have additional questions or concerns for someone who is familiar with this technology, feel free to drop me an email and I will do what I can to answer your questions. :)

Mmm, brain-controlled railguns... ;P

PS: An interesting side-note is that it seems to take around 100 milliseconds (1/10 of a second) for a signal to be sent from your brain to get to your index finger and trigger movement *click*. By using a reflex tester (http://www.reflexgame.com/) the quickest I can seem to consistantly react to the screen changing color and click 'stop' seems to be 0.33 seconds. While using the Cyberlink (with electrodes on my forehead) I am able to consistantly react in only 0.22 seconds. So, my reaction time is about 1/10 of a second faster if I don't have to wait for the signal to travel all the way down to my finger. I'm already pretty dangerous in games like Unreal and Quake, but now I can fire that much faster. It is, however, a very odd feeling. You fire faster than you are expecting to. Its surprising. I keep thinking "Whoa, I fired already?" Eventually, we'll all be able to be LPBs of a different variety. ;P

Cheers,

Michael

Well, actually according to this web page, they didn't count them up as specifically Jedi votes. Kria

And soon Jack Chick will be burning in Hell. Douglas Adams need not worry, God has a divine sense of humor. Jack Chick - This is your death! http://198.182.127.234/~weirdcrap/chick/dtr/dtr.ht ml As for God... well, this is how I view God. http://198.182.127.234/~weirdcrap/chick/judge/judg e.html Jack Chick Parody http://lefty.simplenet.com/chick/ http://198.182.127.234/~weirdcrap/chick/ http://www.fecundity.com/darkdung/ http://www.e-sheep.com/Saturnalia/ Jack Chick Plot Generator http://www.vodex.btinternet.co.uk/chick/ Commentary on Chick http://www.morons.org/chick/gayblade.php3 What Jack Chick REALLY believes http://www.interestingideas.com/ii/chick.htm Jack's Biography (Nutty as Rev. Fred Phelps) http://www.chick.com/information/authors/chick.asp A more balanced biography http://atheism.about.com/religion/atheism/library/ nosearch/printable/blp_aa100799.htm

One of his best:
"It would be helpful if we opened up ANWR (Arctic National Wildlife Refuge). I think it's a mistake not to. And I would urge you all to travel up there and take a look at it, and you can make the determination as to how beautiful that country is." --George W. Bush, at a White House Press conference, March 29, 2001

There is an awful lot of literature in the field of Human-Computer Interaction. Personally I like the book 'The Elements of User Interface Design' by Theo Mandel, who also worked on the OS/2 Workplace Shell.

There also is a lot of literature available on the Web. Very informative is the User Interface Hall of Shame. You may also want to check out IBM's Easy of Use website. If you are an ACM member you have access to an abundance of articles on various HCI subjects. Personally I find Intelligent User Interfaces an interesting subject.

Enough information for now....

Bingo! Why haven't you been voted up?

code is like sheet music, and computers are like instruments.

2. What examples of fair uses absolutely require access to the work in its most modern, digital, uncorrupted, un-macrovisioned form? The only one that jumped out at me is making a backup copy in case the original is destroyed. But perhaps there are others.

If only we had originals of Shakespeare. He makes a great case study of how fair use (folios), and even piracy (quartos) actually contributed more to SAVING his work than the author/copyright owner did.

... sitting in British waters, so any salvage operations and such would be covered by British laws.

"The Principality of Sealand was there first"

However, there doesn't seeem to be indication that the UK has ever recognized Sealand as a soverign country, and neither has any other government that I know of.

"Soverignty" is something decided upon by other countries as they decide to recognize one government's claims as "legitimate" over another's. It's why Stalin only got one seat in the UN General Assembly instead of the 15 or so he wanted, one seat for each individual Soviet republic. (Well, that and the fact that somebody pointed out that the US should get 48 by the same logic)

Or, for an example more relevant, in the 1860's the UK and France did not acknowledge that the Confederate States of America was actually an independent country, so they did not get (directly) involved with aiding the CSA during the war.

"Also, it's not exacttly kosher for them to do that; territorial waters reach out to only three miles."

According to this reference, they were bringing themselves up-to-date to the most current language in the Law of the Sea treaty from 1982. Though it has yet to be officially ratified by the UN as international law (at least when this web page was written), most countries (like the US) follow its guidelines of a 12 nautical mile limit to territorial seas.

Have a look at the entries for maritime claims in the CIA's World Factbook. Most of them seem to say 12 nautical miles.

"There's another boundary that reaches out to 12 miles, but it isn't territorial waters"

According to the aforementioned links, the UK's claims to territorial waters is indeed 12 nautical miles.

"the UK is pulling something silly"

Silly or not, this is something that has been hammered out by three UN conferences on the subject.

"The world could use a few places where people can flee oppression, and the established countries just aren't cutting it."

The only solution is to change copyright and patent laws, not try to violate them. By thumbing their nose at copyright laws and international treaties, they're running the risk of being labelled as pirates (the REAL kind, not the software variety). Most civilized nations don't take kindly to pirates. Hell, the first military action seen by the US after the revolution was sending in the USMC to shoot up a bunch of Lybian pirates. And where will HavenCo's "principles" be when the Brits decide that their platform makes for good long-range artillery practice?

Even Wal Mart tryies to pass themselves off as Canadian (anyone else out there think that maple leaf in Wal Mart's Canadian advertising is stupid?).

I could insert a huge rant now about how Canadians are smart enough to know what the "A" stands for and that it really ticks us off but I think I'll watch my Talking To Americans one hour special bootleg instead. :)

Other than having bragging rights for the world's tallest building this is a serious waste of material. In the 3000' diameter hole you are creating for the base of the structure you can fit a dozen 75 storey high rises. What are the benefits of multiple shorter structures as opposed to one large one?

• The incidence of apartment fires here in the U.S. is certainly above one per hundred thousand. A hundred thousand people living in one building? You will be lucky if you do not have one fire per year. The Ostankino Tower in Moscow was the world's second-tallest freestanding structure, and was supposedly impervious to flames. Thankfully it was mostly uninhabited, which kept fatalities to a minimum.
  
  Distributing the population among multiple towers is much wiser.

• A large amount of energy is required to lift utilities 3700' -- in addition to the energy requirements of a hundred thousand inhabitants, stores, offices, and cinemas. Where does Shanghai get the extra power to light up this beast?
  
  Lifting water and people a hundred floors is done all over the world, all the time. Go with something proven.

• Isn't Shanghai frequently in the path of typhoons? I understand the shape of the tower is aerodynamic, but if you allow air to flow through the structure then the interior structures will face typhoon winds that are stronger than those found at the surface. Even if the tower doesn't blow over, the interior, thanks to all that air freely moving about, will be a wreck.
  
  When was the last time a conventional skyscraper built with current technologies blew over? When was the last time a conventional skyscraper's occupants were blown out of the structure by high winds? Additionally, I would not want to live within two miles of this beast. The debris raining out of it during a typhoon would be spectacularly dangerous.

• Shanghai has earthquakes. Structures like this are unproven in earthquakes. 75 storey buildings survive earthquakes all the time. If you are going to build something this tall, I suspect it is more wise to try to at least find a tectonically-stable location for it.
  
  As for simulators being able to predict the behavior of structures in adverse conditions, what about London's gloriously wobbly Millenium Foot Bridge, which was closed the day it opened because it was too unstable?

I suspect, at least I hope, that when/if sensibility prevails this structure will not be built as it is proposed. If this tower is built, then I am pretty certain that some day we'll watch the tragedy of this structure's demise unfold on live television.

A lot of people on /. will probably not understand your post. See http://eastvillage.about.com/citiestowns/midlantic us/eastvillage/cs/basquit/ for some background. I wouldn't have understood it either, except that several years ago a friend invited me to an art house cinema to see the movie.

>For that age group it's reasonable to block
>racist websites. ie. sites that say that niggers
>[sic] are a pestilence.

Gee, that's the exact same logic that people use to advocate banning classic literature, like Huckleberry Finn. But, who wants a generation of young adults who understand satire anyways, since satire can be used to criticize the status quo!
Oh, and thanks to your post and the use of the keyword "nigger", this Slashdot discussion is now blocked. Oh well.

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we will see more and more pay services

Or the plain and simple elimination of those services. Take a look at OneStop: they were the backbone of *many* free internet access services, like what AltaVista was using. 1stUp would make it's revenues off a cut of the adds displayed by the client software onto the user's machine.

When the add market started to erode, OneStop saw that they wouldn't be able to expand, and simply stopped the service with about a month forewarning. AltaVista warned it's users two weeks in advance. Many other providers simply did not.

My sister was one of those AltaVista users, and she was quite pissed at this. but, as I explained to her, they owed her nothing, as she has benefited from their service free of charge for many months.

You get what you pay for, in the end. My browser blocks adds too, because I'm sick of the screaming colors and abrasive distraction they bring to web pages. But this may, how long before Slashdot requires a login fee for anyone with less than 20 karma points?

I already pay for a descent web access (cable). Will it come down, eventually, to pay for Slashdot?


Karma karma karma karma karmeleon: it comes and goes, it comes and goes.

This is good because it ensures the long-term survival of Blogger. The licensing deal gives Pyra Ltd. the money to continue to maintain (and scale) its servers, upgrade the technology, and possibly work on a more viable business model (like selling Blogger Pro, or finally completing the underlying architecture, the project-management software simply called Pyra).

Meanwhile, the most popular and easiest-to-use weblog-software gets an even bigger audience, through Trellix partners such as About and Tripod. Soon people at those services will have something like a checkbox option to start a blog; won't that be an explosion! This will lead to competitive pressure for other services like Geocities to offer something similar.

For those of you too young to remember, Dan Bricklin of Trellix is one of the original independent software developers, from back in the 1980s. His first major product, Visicalc, basically invented the spreadsheet program concept from scratch. [You can even download an MS-DOS executable!] Maybe someone else would have had the idea of putting a paper spreadsheet on the screen and letting you enter not only numbers but equations, but he was the first, and it revolutionized the PC industry. Later he was responsible for Dan Bricklin's Demo (a quick way to mock-up several screens of potential software for clients, sort of a mix of Powerpoint and Flash in its day -- and still sold as Demo-It!), and then Trellix, which was ahead of its time as a templating engine. Templates are all the rage now, but they weren't an obvious next way to go a few years back.

And basically it shows what kind of a guy Bricklin is; his company could easily have jealously set out to clone Blogger instead, but he saw an existing userbase and brand and also saw a way to redeem karma points (you know, the OLD kind of karma points, the kind that accumulate until you die) by saving a company roughly the way that Lotus (in those days the #2 or #3 commercial software vendor) saved HIS company way back when.

Blogger is certainly limited in some ways. It's dead simple, which makes it easy to set up for your grandma, and it offers online posting from almost anywhere. But it doesn't have discussions (said to be in unreleased Blogger Pro) and it doesn't let you do anything outside the blog format, so you can't use it to manage your entire site. And if you're at /. you may be interested in hacking code anyway. In that case there are certainly alternatives -- LiveJournal and Greymatter among them, and sliding up to the big boys like Slashcode, Zope and PHP Nuke. (There are also the hosted solutions, like Pitas or Dave Winer's Manila, itself the center of an interesting tangential experiment in content-management, Radio.) Those are certainly better for managing a wide-ranging site, and they allow membership and member content creation as well.

I started out with Blogger (I was one of the first users), and though I've been working with a couple of the more comprehensive products behind the scenes, for other purposes, I still do my weblog with Blogger. There's just no reason to change. And now with the Trellix investment, I don't have to worry about Pyra doing the fish-on-the-beach thing.

Just remember that not everyone is interested in -- or capable of -- hacking code just to post their thoughts every day. If you want to play with code, and I have no problem believing that's true of most Slashdotters, Blogger may not be right for you. But it's probably right for a lot of people.
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Ubiquitous camars give more power to the police which is allmost allway though out history a bad think for people.

As a right how about the right to be free of police harrasment? But then lots of people have the opion that if you have done nothing wrong then you have nothing to hide. Please make sure that your havn't done any of the following.

• used or posesed any illegal drugs
• broken trafic laws
• Payed all you taxes (including on mail orders)
• Informed the police about all knowen felloies (Its a crime not to here in the US
• never been involed in a physical altercation
• Always put the correct Identfication on offical forms
• ...

they should attack the criminal organizations creating these that clearly violate Taiwanese copyright, not students that are engaging in what may actually be considered fair use under Taiwanese law. My impression is that the law there has not yet been clarified in that manner.

Agreed, but thinking the government is going to attack "cities of industry" within criminal enterprises is like telling them "Go to war" as opposes to just finding a scapegoat. Maybe I'm not saying it right since I'm tired as shit so let me rephrase.

If some of these criminal enterprises are contributing money to anyone in underhanded fashions, then it'd be easier to their music industry to pass blame on students, and have the government go after them.

At least in the U.S., the CDs we buy in stores are bona fide copies. Now, I'm no fan of RIAA; I believe that they don't really serve a purpose other than to promote a monopolistic view for music, to keep the recording industry's profit margins nice and fat while the common artist is screwed.

Well out here in New York City, there is a slight problem with bootleg copies of music, in fact (no bullshit) while passing by Federl Plaza last week there were bootleggers selling those CD's in front of the FBI's headquarters. (The bootleggers don't worry though, government only goes after cypherpunks. I think there are more important issues than going after the students as well. As for the RIAA, its a business like any other one, they do what they can to generate their revenue, its all fair game.

There is really no reason to spend time in the sun. Everyone knows that UV radiation causes permanent cellular damage, including premature aging, cancer, moles, keratosis, pterygium, and cataracts. With the ozone layer going, it will only get worse. And the vitamin D thing? Everyone knows you can get it from milk now. Besides, the U.S. government has classified most of the population as obese, and as we all know, fat people can't generate vitamin D too well. You'd be much better spending all your time in the dark...maybe in caves like our ancestors did. Then thousands of years from now, you can ring a civil siren and all the people of light will come to your door so you can eat them.

For some reason I thought Mach was defined as the speed of sound at such a presure and humidity, analogously to c, which is constant, vs the Speed Of Light, which varies.

Nope. Mach number is defined to be relative to the speed of sound in the medium, since that's what is important to an aircraft designer (in terms of calculating stresses and the like).

As for the change in sound speed with altitude, this NASA page discusses the physics involved, and links to a neat simulator that lets you see how pressure, temperature, sound speed, and the like vary with altitude.

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Well, technically it is possible for a particle to move faster than the speed of light--in a medium. Although we have not yet observed (and if Einstein is right, we should never) an object that moves faster than light in a vacuum, it is certainly possible in a medium such as air or water.


Such a phenomenon is Cherenkov radiation, where electrons travelling faster than light in the medium cause the emission of a blue glow.

Bell is taking a very American position, too. Mark Twain made this clear a century ago, in "A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court". In a dictatorship, taking out the dictator takes out the government. In a democracy, leaders are easily replaced. This is a fundamental edge democracies have. There's an archaic notion from the era of monarchies that war has to be fought by killing all the grunts first. That notion has no place in a democratic society.

Sorry, but neither of these is the worlds tallest building. The Sears tower is 442m tall. The Petronas towers are 452m tall.

The 'skypod' of the CN Tower in Toronto is 447m, and the spire is at a total of 553.33m tall. In fact, the Suyong Bay Tower in Korea is 462m tall, making it the next runner up (and I suspect it may have an antenna or other structure which makes it taller than the CN tower).

This article omits the CN tower, but lists the others. The Sears tower is about 5th overall, unless we want to conveniently omit CN's accomplishments ;)

Since 1998, the Petronas Twin Towers in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia have been the world's tallest building (not including tower structures like broardcast towers) - 1,483 feet vs 1,450.

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