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Pirating? Oh please! No one has stolen anything. COPIED, perhaps...

Piracy has been the term used to describe copyright infringement for hundreds of years.

We're talking about abandoned items here

Not really

These works have been forgotten about a long time ago. They should have been in public domain since nobody is profiting from them anymore.

Quote the second link:

"The Poul Anderson estate has been able to get one work, “The Escape”, that PG had firmly declared to be public domain, removed from their site. PG’s original reasoning was that since the magazine it appeared in had never actually filed for copyright, the work was unprotected. “The Escape”, printed in 1953, was the first half of Anderson’s well-known novel BRAINWAVE, which was published and properly copyrighted the following year."

http://www.amazon.com/dp/0743474864?_encoding=UTF8&tag=sfreviewsnet-20&linkCode=as3&camp=15041&creative=373501 has at least been published in 2003

Yup, I've seen them & variants for sale online for a while now.

http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=bl_sr_hi?_encoding=UTF8&node=228013&field-brandtextbin=Power%20Shelf

http://www.amazon.com/PLUG-SHELF-BLACKBERRY-ORGANIZER-PORTABLE/dp/B002A91X4Q/ref=sr_1_16?ie=UTF8&qid=1291132840&sr=8-16

http://www.amazon.com/Wall-Charger-Valet-Phone-Camera/dp/B003OFB5PC/ref=sr_1_22?ie=UTF8&qid=1291132927&sr=8-22

Yup, I've seen them & variants for sale online for a while now.

http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=bl_sr_hi?_encoding=UTF8&node=228013&field-brandtextbin=Power%20Shelf

http://www.amazon.com/PLUG-SHELF-BLACKBERRY-ORGANIZER-PORTABLE/dp/B002A91X4Q/ref=sr_1_16?ie=UTF8&qid=1291132840&sr=8-16

http://www.amazon.com/Wall-Charger-Valet-Phone-Camera/dp/B003OFB5PC/ref=sr_1_22?ie=UTF8&qid=1291132927&sr=8-22

Yup, I've seen them & variants for sale online for a while now.

http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=bl_sr_hi?_encoding=UTF8&node=228013&field-brandtextbin=Power%20Shelf

http://www.amazon.com/PLUG-SHELF-BLACKBERRY-ORGANIZER-PORTABLE/dp/B002A91X4Q/ref=sr_1_16?ie=UTF8&qid=1291132840&sr=8-16

http://www.amazon.com/Wall-Charger-Valet-Phone-Camera/dp/B003OFB5PC/ref=sr_1_22?ie=UTF8&qid=1291132927&sr=8-22

you can't sell a pro sports likeness (w/o a license) either... so why wouldn't it apply here?

this has a big fat NBA logo on the package
http://www.amazon.com/McFarlane-Toys-Sports-Picks-Bryant/dp/B002W9AC8C/ref=dp_cp_ob_t_title_2

i wonder if it still holds true if you remove the Lakers jersey and logo and just show him in street clothes - you can't say "Kobe Bryant" without thinking of the Lakers, similarly, "Steve Jobs" and Apple.

@nomadic - if you tried to sell a KB action figure, I'm pretty sure it would be the NBA lawyers on your ass, not Bryant's private attorney.

In fact, you can buy the nook device itself through Amazon.

When even the latest and greatest 3D TVs only go up to 1080p and the vast majority of people playing games at 720p max who is going to buy a next gen console for a screen size that does not exist.

Everybody at DHS and TSA -- heck, everybody in the government or who votes for somebody in the government -- should read Wasp, by Eric Frank Russell.

http://www.amazon.com/Wasp-Eric-Frank-Russell/dp/0575070951

It's about a spy whose job is to do exactly what Al Qaeda is doing to us. If people read it and discussed it, maybe they'd see how this sort of thing is supposed to work, and exactly how perfectly we're falling for it.

You mean, like Barnes & Noble: Groundbreaking Entrepreneurs, which is already in Amazon's store?

I'm sorry - but do we now insist that WalMart have Best Buy employees in their store? Maybe we should make Borders put up an Amazon order kiosk?

No, well, this equivalent to Amazon refusing to sell books about Barnes and Nobles, like this one.

If someone writes a book about Barnes and Noble; you can be sure Amazon will carry it, or if they don't, the reason they won't is not because it's a book about the competition.

Did you know that you can BUY a Nook from Amazon.com?

http://www.amazon.com/Barnes-Noble-NOOK-reader-3G/dp/1400599997

Timon and Pumbaa's typing game. It's a good typing tutor and fun enough to fit in the "game" headspace.

Fewer than 20% of farms in Confederate states had slaves and had been in decline for decades. Several Union states allowed slavery. The cost of the War Between the States to the Union was enough to purchase every Confederate slave's freedom and 20 acres of land for each one of them. The Emancipation Proclimation only freed slaves in the areas controlled by the Confederacy and was a weak attempt by Lincoln to gain strategic advantage over the south by encouraging rebellion from slaves who were being watched over by the wives of the Confederate soldiers. To argue that the War Between the States was about slavery, or that the South had slavery in mind as a reason for supporting states rights, is patently false.

If you want to learn more about the 'Civil War', read The Real Lincoln by Thomas DiLorenzo. He goes to great trouble to quote every source for every bit of information presented.

Agreed on the lack of tangible produce can make it feel like you don't accomplish anything. Oftentimes in IT roles, especially operational roles, your inputs only exist in temporary form, a request, a walk by, your 'work' is mostly identifying and researching 'what' to do (i.e. troubleshooting), actually doing it may have been very unchallenging and represent a small portion of the overall time, and the output may be unremarkable - restoring a system to its previous condition, for example.
Read the book Getting Things Done
What I've found a helpful adaption of those steps to an IT operation is put those inputs into a tangible form, a todo list, ticket list, etc. Make your finding out 'what' to do a tangible by product by documenting your work for yourself and others to refer to in the future. Call attention to the outputs by going over completed work to document lessons learned, provide detailed lists to your client/employer. At first it may sound like beauracracy you don't have time for, but long-term, the pure 'break-fix' cycle is unsustainable, it's not productive, people put in that position will burn out in weeks/months.

Will lightpeak be able to power my external hard drive? Will it charge my HD video camera while I pull video off it?

Any description I've seen of it includes the ability to transmit power along with data. Yes.

Would you be interested in pulling video data off a camera in 5 realtime?

Is it easily adaptable to HDMI?

Probably, just as you can transmit HDCP encrypted video over a DVI connection just as easily as DisplayPort.

DisplayPort is fine and all, but the adaptor to connect my macbook to my tv cost a small fortune

If $5.13 is a small fortune for you, I think you might be living with the laptop you have for some time. Just as HDMI cables are outrageous in cost when not purchased online, you have to shop around for things like DisplayPort cables too (though at the time you bought it choices were probably more limited).

But every generation of your laptop doesn't need a whole new video connection.

I agree, but LightPeak is such a huge jump in bandwidth that I think it will be a welcome addition to abilities - I don't think Apple will make it the only display adaptor for a while, out of necessity I'm sure a future Mac will also include Display Port, USB, and possibly even ExpressCard/34 (though that I could see dropping since uptake has been low and LightPeak is perfect for external storage).

The obsession with social games and simplification, they made civ revolution (for consoles) before civ 5.

See here:

Social anxiety (article @ gamesppot)

http://www.gamespot.com/news/6284524.html?tag=topslot;title;4

Search for "facebook" or "civilization"

Also see here (console version of civ)
http://www.amazon.com/Sid-Meiers-Civilization-Revolution-Xbox-360/dp/B000WMEEAI/

Note that Civ 5 was hugely stripped down and console-itis and "facebook games" is part of the problematic mentality of the game industry right now.

I know it is a bit of an hyperbole... but I've been reading a lot of "OMG Think of the children" reaction both here in slashdot and in Reddit lately, in reaction to the children-patdown.

Well, at the risk of being modded down, I just want to comment that kids have been indeed used to transport illegal material through flights (specifically, packages of cocaine).

A real example of that is a Mexican woman with two children that where caught with several cocaine packages in London Heathrow airport. You can read about that in this book... or here

Now... this does not mean I am in favour of the children molesting that the TSA is currently doing... nevertheless we should have in mind that there is a possibility of a terrorist filling his kid with explosives just for the sake of it :-/

What a fucked up society we live in today... isn't it?

Firstly, there is Scotch, and there is Single Malt Scotch. *Never* mix the two up (nor mix them in a glass). Scotch is a 'Blend', Single Malt is from a single cask. What you want to acquire a taste for is Single Malt. They are hideously expensive since the yuppies found them years ago, but we can work with it. I won't go into all of the different distilleries, there are web sites that do it better, but I will note that you want to learn on a light scotch first. The cheap way to do this is go buy a bottle of Jameson Irish Whiskey. It is made the same as a single malt, but because it is Irish it can't be named a scotch. Because of that it is reasonably priced and in spite of that it is very very good.

Offend everyone and pour a shot over a few cubes of ice. Let it mellow for a minute and sip it gently. If its too strong, let it mellow a while longer and sip again. The melting ice will bring it to your palette after a while. The next pour, get brand new cubes, don't use the old ones, and start again. After you get used to it, you can start investing in real single malt. Try Glenmorangie, a nice light scotch. Buy the 10 yr old and for now ignore the older stuff. The older stuff (12, 18 year old) are incredible, but like fine wine you have to be able to have something to judge them against. There are single malts that leap off your tongue like air itself and single malts with depth like you have never tasted. One word of caution though. There is a single malt scotch, Laphroig, avoid it like the plague. I say this as a part owner in the Laphroig Distillery. Laphroig is the smokiest, peatiest of all the single malts, it is like chewing a bit of Scotland itself. It is wonderful and rough and fire and smoke. You will get there one day, but for now avoid it, it would ruin you on scotch.

Oh, and never mix a single malt scotch with anything, save water, maybe. If you are looking for a scotch liqueur Drambuie is one you might try, me I cant stand the stuff, sweetened scotch - blech.

Good luck on your journey, Here is a very well written book about single malt scotch.

That's already happened - Call of Duty: Modern Warfare: Reflex for Wii, Call of Duty: Black Ops for Wii

I've never played them, so I don't know how they compare to CoD on the HD consoles or PC, but they certainly exist. It's not really been heavily publicised though, so I doubt the kind of person that'd be swayed by it would know about it. Heck, a lot of people I know who're into CoD think it's a 360 exclusive purely because it plays the 360 logo animation, thing, at the end of the ads.

That's already happened - Call of Duty: Modern Warfare: Reflex for Wii, Call of Duty: Black Ops for Wii

I've never played them, so I don't know how they compare to CoD on the HD consoles or PC, but they certainly exist. It's not really been heavily publicised though, so I doubt the kind of person that'd be swayed by it would know about it. Heck, a lot of people I know who're into CoD think it's a 360 exclusive purely because it plays the 360 logo animation, thing, at the end of the ads.

"Crysis 2 is innovative? Oh please. Two extra bullet-points on the back of a box do not make a game "innovative"."

The great irony in you saying this is that the reverse is true, console game quality is hurting PC game quality. PC games have been dumbed down for consoles and consolized for multiplatform release.

Also console ports for the PC get sloppy seconds due to multiplatform release. We saw the awful game for windows live inserted into Gears of War for PC. We also saw how Badly Halo and Halo 2 were ported to PC. Halo was originally a PC game they had to fit into the first xbox because MS needed a game to sell the system.

Don't believe it console games have effected PC game quality? Check out supcom 2 and Civ 5's terrible reviews on amazon.

Civ 5
http://www.amazon.com/Sid-Meiers-Civilization-V-Pc/dp/B0038TT8QM/

Supcom 2

http://www.amazon.com/Supreme-Commander-2-Pc/dp/B002BXN6GY/

"Crysis 2 is innovative? Oh please. Two extra bullet-points on the back of a box do not make a game "innovative"."

The great irony in you saying this is that the reverse is true, console game quality is hurting PC game quality. PC games have been dumbed down for consoles and consolized for multiplatform release.

Also console ports for the PC get sloppy seconds due to multiplatform release. We saw the awful game for windows live inserted into Gears of War for PC. We also saw how Badly Halo and Halo 2 were ported to PC. Halo was originally a PC game they had to fit into the first xbox because MS needed a game to sell the system.

Don't believe it console games have effected PC game quality? Check out supcom 2 and Civ 5's terrible reviews on amazon.

Civ 5
http://www.amazon.com/Sid-Meiers-Civilization-V-Pc/dp/B0038TT8QM/

Supcom 2

http://www.amazon.com/Supreme-Commander-2-Pc/dp/B002BXN6GY/

His book Coding and Information Theory is by far the best written and most readable hard science textbook I ever had in my university career. Read it if you want to understand the subject, read it if you want to understand how to write a good textbook!

http://www.amazon.com/LOLcat-Bible-beginnin-Ceiling-stuffs/dp/1569757348

Sir Roger Penrose is one of the more prominent living physicists. Penrose tilings were named after him (in a nutshell, they generate infinitely complex mosaics with only a few tile types). These tilings later came up in quasicrystals. He also invented twistor theory in the 60's, which is another way to view spacetime. Ed Witten of string theory/M-theory fame--perhaps the second most famous living physicist behind Hawking (my opinion)--applied twistor theory to string theory in 2003. Penrose has controversial views on human consciousness and has suggested our brains must work by a quantum mechanical process. He's written several books on the subject including The Emporer's New Mind . He won the Dirac Medal and Prize in 1989 (Hawking won in 1987; Witten won a similarly-named award in 1985) and has won a laundry list of other awards for theoretical physics. He was knighted in 1994 for his contributions to physics, is an emeritus professor at the University of Oxford, and is 79.

It's never sat well with me since it violates the laws of thermodynamics

Well, it doesn't. The Big Bang appears to be a local minimum of entropy, but the whole picture might be very complicated.

I can suggest this book as a good layman book on the topic. It's clear, delves in all the current cosmological problems around the problem of our universe, and doesn't have a single equation until at least mid-book.

Of course, Sean is biased - he has his own pet theories - but you do get a good idea of the various problems on the origin of the universe.

(and, of course, Penrose himself had something to say about it)

... with no consultation of the people, and by an institution that many of us already consider to be nowhere near democratically accountable enough.

Do they expect us to follow it?

According to Unequal Protection by Thom Hartmann, we've been putting up with it for decades in the US. And now that the SCOTUS says money == speech and corporations == people, we're totally screwed.

A truly erroneous hard-left outlook, but stupidity is fitting given your account name. Jihadists are very clear about their intentions. It has almost nothing to do with forcing our economies on them. The primary driver of jihad is the desire to subjugate the entire world to the dictates of Islamic dictatorship. Radical Muslims view the non-Muslim controlled parts of the globe as the world they are at war with, and the war they are waging is to impose their religion on all non-Muslims. Other justifications for jihad are at best secondary motivators. And shame on you for whitewashing and apologizing for the unquestionably evil, outrageously heinous campaign of misery and death waged by radical Islam.

That's a bit of a simplistic view, I think. From what I understand, it isn't even Islam that's the problem, it's Wahabbism, which is to Islam as Baptists, Catholics, or any other denomination is to Christianity -- merely a subset. And you are completely ignoring the entire economic standing of those drawn to Wahabbism. If you want a better idea of what drives radical Islam -- and what we can do about it without making what friends we have left in the world our enemies, too -- I highly recommend the book Three Cups of Tea by Greg Mortenson.

In a nutshell, the Muslim community feels that no one respects them.
They look around and see all this prosperity around the World except in their countries (Indonesia has come a long way since the book was written, btw).
The author also points out that the Muslim community really needs to have a hard look at themselves and the leaders they insist on backing. The need to stop this horseshit that America and Israel is keeping them down.

What we the US can do? Stop fucking with them. Stop overthrowing their Governments, for one. Stop "projecting power" for another - especially in the Muslim World.

Let's face it, the only group that's indiscriminately targeting American civilians in mass transportation are radicalized Muslims. Someone will probably mention McVeigh or go through the last few decades to come up with a list of a half dozen white guys who were "terrorists". They weren't terrorists. All of them had specific targets - people or Government buildings - in order to take those targets out: they were murderers. They were NOT targeting groups of Americans for the sake of creating terror.

Meh. Velcro? Just use the WheelMate.
http://www.amazon.com/AutoExec-WM-01-Wheelmate-Steering-Wheel/product-reviews/B000IZGIA8/ref=cm_cr_dp_all_summary?ie=UTF8&showViewpoints=1&sortBy=bySubmissionDateDescending

Like this one?

For under $200 you can have awesome sound.
My choice for a value setup is Grado SR80i headphones and a NuForce uDAC2 combo USB DAC and headphone amp. The "L-cush" pads are a recomended upgrade, or you can try the "sock mod"

Yes, you can get better sound from a system that sells for the price of a car but ~$200 gets you sound that is probably better then you've ever heard, and exceeds the quality of the source material most people listen to.

I use my grados with an external powered subwoofer when I want to shake the house, but usually they're fine by themselves..

For under $200 you can have awesome sound.
My choice for a value setup is Grado SR80i headphones and a NuForce uDAC2 combo USB DAC and headphone amp. The "L-cush" pads are a recomended upgrade, or you can try the "sock mod"

Yes, you can get better sound from a system that sells for the price of a car but ~$200 gets you sound that is probably better then you've ever heard, and exceeds the quality of the source material most people listen to.

I use my grados with an external powered subwoofer when I want to shake the house, but usually they're fine by themselves..

For those of you not familiar, knitting needles are often up to seven (or more) inches long; they can be made of wood, plastic, or metal. A sturdy needle can also slide nicely into soft tissue without any major difficulties assuming the wielder is strong enough.

But hey, at least it's not like they let the REAL deadly things on board. Like factory-sealed bottles of soda, and similar threats.

Apparently it ships Feb 1 2011....

Pre-orders are available now.

http://www.amazon.com/Duke-Nukem-Forever-Pc/dp/B002I0JAJ2/ref=sr_1_1?s=videogames&ie=UTF8&qid=1290407637&sr=1-1

... You may recover some lost face by immediately purchasing or borrowing a copy of The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide.

It doesn't count as much, though, unless you get it in the correct format.

It was just a suggestion. No one is holding him at gun point marching his data into the "cloud". They're just responding based on the tiny amount of information they were given.

I agree - S3 really isn't a good option most likely. You really want something like Amazon Elastic Block Storage.

And finally, calling people "fucking amateurs" not only makes you look bad, but all MSPs. I'd rather not be associated with you.

I've ordered one of these for my kids for xmas:

http://www.amazon.com/Eyeclops-03548-Bionic-Eye-SE/dp/B0026G8SE6

It would certainly have appealed to me, anyway. We'll see! I'm anticipating a lot of DADDY DADDY LOOK AT MY SNOT

You clearly have not read The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy series. (I believe it was Restaurant.) If you had, you would know that the early Earth colonists' solution to this particular inflationary dilemma was to burn down all the trees. Problem solved.

I suggest you bow your head and accept that you have been judged on your geekdom, and found lacking. You may recover some lost face by immediately purchasing or borrowing a copy of The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide.

A company called Tekton bought the molds for the old Kenner Girder and panel sets and manufacture them in Boston. The best of the sets that would fit your needs for the higher end of your age range is the Girder and Panel Hydrodynamic Deluxe Set (Amazon has it here http://www.amazon.com/Girder-Panel-Hydrodynamic-Deluxe-Set/dp/B000PVVQMU/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&s=toys-and-games&qid=1290302783&sr=1-3 ). The company also makes the bridge set, which I have in it's original 1960's Kenner version. I have played with this set as an adult and it too makes an excellent choice.

I'm 28 and I still have mine, literally 2 feet from me. Along with a few others I picked up as a kid. They were by far my favourite toys, next to Lego. I can't get rid of them, even though I haven't built anything in years. Though my favourite of the kits was the 200-in-one model that had a few NAND gates. Building latch circuits and binary decoders was fun! I was never into the analog stuff as much... my brain hated anything imprecise.

I would recommend Magna-Tiles, which my 4 and 2-year-old daughter love. http://www.amazon.com/Magna-Tiles-Translucent-Colors-100-pieces/dp/B000CBSNRY/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1290294910&sr=8-1

is it this book published in 1979?

http://books.google.ca/books?id=XmsPL2O8MoUC&dq=FingerMath&source=bl&ots=1GEFfXSkmU&sig=4sb--ONBKXetF2yFx3koLnyfUgE&hl=en&ei=ch_oTObBN4jenQeBm6SQDQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=9&ved=0CFUQ6AEwCA

or is it this book?

http://www.amazon.com/Complete-Book-Fingermath-Accurate-Scientific/dp/0070376808

"I'm not really sure what you're getting at."

If you're serious about understanding what I said ... It's not something that can possibly be communicated easily without book length treatment and requisite reading of a lot of literature.

Without which, you won't get it because you won't be able to see the relationships because you don't have the requisite conceptual framework in your head to see how different areas link to one another.

But It has to do with how human languages and mathematics basically use a more basic language in the mind - see: cognitive linguistics, and how our mind are able to map any arbitrary system onto any other arbitrary system of things. To be able to interpret one thing in terms of other things, which is very powerful the implications of which you will understand if you read enough.

Some good books for you to read:

http://www.amazon.com/Philosophy-Flesh-Embodied-Challenge-Western/dp/0465056741/

http://www.press.uchicago.edu/presssite/metadata.epl?mode=synopsis&bookkey=3637992

http://www.amazon.com/Where-Mathematics-Comes-Embodied-Brings/dp/0465037712/

"I'm not really sure what you're getting at."

If you're serious about understanding what I said ... It's not something that can possibly be communicated easily without book length treatment and requisite reading of a lot of literature.

Without which, you won't get it because you won't be able to see the relationships because you don't have the requisite conceptual framework in your head to see how different areas link to one another.

But It has to do with how human languages and mathematics basically use a more basic language in the mind - see: cognitive linguistics, and how our mind are able to map any arbitrary system onto any other arbitrary system of things. To be able to interpret one thing in terms of other things, which is very powerful the implications of which you will understand if you read enough.

Some good books for you to read:

http://www.amazon.com/Philosophy-Flesh-Embodied-Challenge-Western/dp/0465056741/

http://www.press.uchicago.edu/presssite/metadata.epl?mode=synopsis&bookkey=3637992

http://www.amazon.com/Where-Mathematics-Comes-Embodied-Brings/dp/0465037712/

While your grandmother may have had her own way of doing this, complex calculations can be done very quickly using the Trachtenberg system of mathematics.

I actually have the book and swore to myself that (while I didn't need those computational skills) my kids would be taught it... my first is on the way now so I guess it's time to dust it off (the book... not the child).

For anyone interested in learning these skills, here is the Amazon search result page

is there something on the xbox or ps3 ??

Yes, there is.

is there something on the xbox or ps3 ??

Yes, there is.

is there something on the xbox or ps3 ??

Yes, there is.