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It has come to my attention that the entire Linux community is a hotbed of so called 'alternative sexuality', which includes anything from hedonistic orgies to homosexuality to paedophilia.

What better way of demonstrating this than by looking at the hidden messages contained within the names of some of Linux's most outspoken advocates:

• Linus Torvalds is an anagram of slit anus or VD 'L,' clearly referring to himself by the first initial.
• Richard M. Stallman, spokespervert for the Gaysex's Not Unusual 'movement' is an anagram of mans cram thrill ad.
• Alan Cox is barely an anagram of anal cox which is just so filthy and unchristian it unnerves me.

I'm sure that Eric S. Raymond, composer of the satanic homosexual propaganda diatribe The Cathedral and the Bizarre, is probably an anagram of something queer, but we don't need to look that far as we know he's always shoving a gun up some poor little boy's rectum. Update: Eric S. Raymond is actually an anagram for secondary rim and cord in my arse. It just goes to show you that he is indeed queer.

Update the Second: It is also documented that Evil Sicko Gaymond is responsible for a nauseating piece of code called Fetchmail, which is obviously sinister sodomite slang for 'Felch Male' -- a disgusting practise. For those not in the know, 'felching' is the act performed by two perverts wherein one sucks their own post-coital ejaculate out of the other's rectum. In fact, it appears that the dirty Linux faggots set out to undermine the good Republican institution of e-mail, turning it into 'e-male.'

As far as Richard 'Master' Stallman goes, that filthy fudge-packer was actually quoted on leftist commie propaganda site Salon.com as saying the following: 'I've been resistant to the pressure to conform in any circumstance,' he says. 'It's about being able to question conventional wisdom,' he asserts. 'I believe in love, but not monogamy,' he says plainly.

And this isn't a made up troll bullshit either! He actually stated this tripe, which makes it obvious that he is trying to politely say that he's a flaming homo slut!

Speaking about 'flaming,' who better to point out as a filthy chutney ferret than Slashdot's very own self-confessed pederast Jon Katz. Although an obvious deviant anagram cannot be found from his name, he has already confessed, nay boasted of the homosexual perversion of corrupting the innocence of young children. To quote from the article linked:

'I've got a rare kidney disease,' I told her. 'I have to go to the bathroom a lot. You can come with me if you want, but it takes a while. Is that okay with you? Do you want a note from my doctor?'

Is this why you were touching your penis in the cinema, Jon? And letting the other boys touch it too?

We should also point out that Jon Katz refers to himself as 'Slashdot's resident Gasbag.' Is there any more doubt? For those fortunate few who aren't aware of the list of homosexual terminology found inside the Linux 'Sauce Code,' a 'Gasbag' is a pervert who gains sexual gratification from having a thin straw inserted into his urethra (or to use the common parlance, 'piss-pipe'), then his homosexual lover blows firmly down the straw to inflate his scrotum. This is, of course, when he's not busy violating the dignity and co

It has come to my attention that the entire Linux community is a hotbed of so called 'alternative sexuality', which includes anything from hedonistic orgies to homosexuality to paedophilia.

What better way of demonstrating this than by looking at the hidden messages contained within the names of some of Linux's most outspoken advocates:

• Linus Torvalds is an anagram of slit anus or VD 'L,' clearly referring to himself by the first initial.
• Richard M. Stallman, spokespervert for the Gaysex's Not Unusual 'movement' is an anagram of mans cram thrill ad.
• Alan Cox is barely an anagram of anal cox which is just so filthy and unchristian it unnerves me.

I'm sure that Eric S. Raymond, composer of the satanic homosexual propaganda diatribe The Cathedral and the Bizarre, is probably an anagram of something queer, but we don't need to look that far as we know he's always shoving a gun up some poor little boy's rectum. Update: Eric S. Raymond is actually an anagram for secondary rim and cord in my arse. It just goes to show you that he is indeed queer.

Update the Second: It is also documented that Evil Sicko Gaymond is responsible for a nauseating piece of code called Fetchmail, which is obviously sinister sodomite slang for 'Felch Male' -- a disgusting practise. For those not in the know, 'felching' is the act performed by two perverts wherein one sucks their own post-coital ejaculate out of the other's rectum. In fact, it appears that the dirty Linux faggots set out to undermine the good Republican institution of e-mail, turning it into 'e-male.'

As far as Richard 'Master' Stallman goes, that filthy fudge-packer was actually quoted on leftist commie propaganda site Salon.com as saying the following: 'I've been resistant to the pressure to conform in any circumstance,' he says. 'It's about being able to question conventional wisdom,' he asserts. 'I believe in love, but not monogamy,' he says plainly.

And this isn't a made up troll bullshit either! He actually stated this tripe, which makes it obvious that he is trying to politely say that he's a flaming homo slut!

Speaking about 'flaming,' who better to point out as a filthy chutney ferret than Slashdot's very own self-confessed pederast Jon Katz. Although an obvious deviant anagram cannot be found from his name, he has already confessed, nay boasted of the homosexual perversion of corrupting the innocence of young children. To quote from the article linked:

'I've got a rare kidney disease,' I told her. 'I have to go to the bathroom a lot. You can come with me if you want, but it takes a while. Is that okay with you? Do you want a note from my doctor?'

Is this why you were touching your penis in the cinema, Jon? And letting the other boys touch it too?

We should also point out that Jon Katz refers to himself as 'Slashdot's resident Gasbag.' Is there any more doubt? For those fortunate few who aren't aware of the list of homosexual terminology found inside the Linux 'Sauce Code,' a 'Gasbag' is a pervert who gains sexual gratification from having a thin straw inserted into his urethra (or to use the common parlance, 'piss-pipe'), then his homosexual lover blows firmly down the straw to inflate his scrotum. This is, of course, when he's not busy violating the dignity and co

As for music, I started to hear nothing but the greed, lies and narcissism and it put me right off. Every now and again I,ll listen to some out of copyright oldies.

Anyone who's interested in public domain and creative commons licensed music should check out archive.org and Jamendo. Others have listed other services in past discussions, but those are the two that come to my mind.

It has come to my attention that the entire Linux community is a hotbed of so called 'alternative sexuality', which includes anything from hedonistic orgies to homosexuality to paedophilia.

What better way of demonstrating this than by looking at the hidden messages contained within the names of some of Linux's most outspoken advocates:

• Linus Torvalds is an anagram of slit anus or VD 'L,' clearly referring to himself by the first initial.
• Richard M. Stallman, spokespervert for the Gaysex's Not Unusual 'movement' is an anagram of mans cram thrill ad.
• Alan Cox is barely an anagram of anal cox which is just so filthy and unchristian it unnerves me.

I'm sure that Eric S. Raymond, composer of the satanic homosexual propaganda diatribe The Cathedral and the Bizarre, is probably an anagram of something queer, but we don't need to look that far as we know he's always shoving a gun up some poor little boy's rectum. Update: Eric S. Raymond is actually an anagram for secondary rim and cord in my arse. It just goes to show you that he is indeed queer.

Update the Second: It is also documented that Evil Sicko Gaymond is responsible for a nauseating piece of code called Fetchmail, which is obviously sinister sodomite slang for 'Felch Male' -- a disgusting practise. For those not in the know, 'felching' is the act performed by two perverts wherein one sucks their own post-coital ejaculate out of the other's rectum. In fact, it appears that the dirty Linux faggots set out to undermine the good Republican institution of e-mail, turning it into 'e-male.'

As far as Richard 'Master' Stallman goes, that filthy fudge-packer was actually quoted on leftist commie propaganda site Salon.com as saying the following: 'I've been resistant to the pressure to conform in any circumstance,' he says. 'It's about being able to question conventional wisdom,' he asserts. 'I believe in love, but not monogamy,' he says plainly.

And this isn't a made up troll bullshit either! He actually stated this tripe, which makes it obvious that he is trying to politely say that he's a flaming homo slut!

Speaking about 'flaming,' who better to point out as a filthy chutney ferret than Slashdot's very own self-confessed pederast Jon Katz. Although an obvious deviant anagram cannot be found from his name, he has already confessed, nay boasted of the homosexual perversion of corrupting the innocence of young children. To quote from the article linked:

'I've got a rare kidney disease,' I told her. 'I have to go to the bathroom a lot. You can come with me if you want, but it takes a while. Is that okay with you? Do you want a note from my doctor?'

Is this why you were touching your penis in the cinema, Jon? And letting the other boys touch it too?

We should also point out that Jon Katz refers to himself as 'Slashdot's resident Gasbag.' Is there any more doubt? For those fortunate few who aren't aware of the list of homosexual terminology found inside the Linux 'Sauce Code,' a 'Gasbag' is a pervert who gains sexual gratification from having a thin straw inserted into his urethra (or to use the common parlance, 'piss-pipe'), then his homosexual lover blows firmly down the straw to inflate his scrotum. This is, of course, when he's not busy violating the dignity and co

The classic Dilbert PRNG notwithstanding, if the students aren't familiar with the probability concept of a "fair die", then they might assume it's a "fair as in equal" die. Remember, these kids grew up in an age where everyone gets a gold medal for trying. Anyone could easily write a "fair as in equal" PRNG that guarantees to get as close to average as possible within X time (starts out like regular PRNG, but checks against a tally for each roll and rerolls when there are too many repeats). Of course, a "fair as in equal" die is impossible except in a thought experiment.

The coward is right with his typo: there is one reasonable way anyone can use their 250GB/mo 105Mb/s service, to download one uncompressed hd video in four hours. There are no two reasonable ways, once you have used up your one reasonable way for the month, you are SOL.

The structure of the web is way off. We're using browsers to access pages instead of sucker electrodes to enter the Other Plane

This reminds me of general issues with operant conditioning; you can't get a being to do something it won't normally do, but you can change the probabilities of different behaviors.

However, people are more complex than most other animals; it's hard to say how interventions can change the social dynamics. Just losing a war may have led to social change in Japan and German through introspection, regardless of what the USA did as an occupying force? How could one tell which was the bigger psychological issue, losing or being occupied?

I agree with the general idea in this thread that taking a strong state like in Germany or Japan and shifting its direction somewhat after a major military loss (towards making it less belligerent militarily) is different from forming a stronger cohesive system in the first place like in Afghanistan. Or, in the case of Iraq, there you had a long term civil conflict suppressed by an aparently strong state, and when destroying the state (as the USA did, although often things can be more hollow then they appear), then the civil conflict broke out (a religious minority dominating a majority leading to reprisals etc.).

On finding good situation-specific balances between meshworks and hierarchies:
http://www.t0.or.at/delanda/meshwork.htm
"Indeed, one must resist the temptation to make hierarchies into villains and meshworks into heroes, not only because, as I said, they are constantly turning into one another, but because in real life we find only mixtures and hybrids, and the properties of these cannot be established through theory alone but demand concrete experimentation."

By the way, this says Rikyu was seventy at the time:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sen_no_Riky%C5%AB

If you look at the UK, that was the world's previous (before the USA) big undisputed empire, and look at what the people are like now. That is maybe the future of the USA?
http://web.archive.org/web/20080119001830/http://www.adbusters.org/the_magazine/71/Generation_Fcked_How_Britain_is_Eating_Its_Young.html
""The reason our children's lives are the worst among economically advanced countries is because we [in the UK] are a poor version of the USA," he said. "So the USA comes second from bottom and we follow behind. The age of neo-liberalism, even with the human face that New Labour has given it, cannot stem the tide of the social recession capitalism creates.""

And part of why:
http://www.lexrex.com/enlightened/articles/warisaracket.htm
"WAR is a racket. It always has been.
It is possibly the oldest, easily the most profitable, surely the most vicious. It is the only one international in scope. It is the only one in which the profits are reckoned in dollars and the losses in lives.
A racket is best described, I believe, as something that is not what it seems to the majority of the people. Only a small "inside" group knows what it is about. It is conducted for the benefit of the very few, at the expense of the very many. Out of war a few people make huge fortunes."

Thus the war on kids (through schools, originating in Prussia for military reasons) to turn them into soldiers and workers for a military-industrial complex, which is its own form of secular religion:
http://www.thewaronkids.com/
http://www.johntaylorgatto.com/chapters/7a.htm
http://www.the-open-boat.com/Gatto.html

KODA, the Danish equivalent of RIAA, had a case in Højesteret (Danish High Court) in 2003 that basically said that when you're at work, the broadcast licence rules for companies is in effect, even if you're a single trucker in a truck.
Only a few articles in Danish media covered it then. Here's the official statement from KODA at the time and a Google translation here

(weird links in preview -- wonder how they'll look when I press submit...)

Contrary to TFA, there are CC licensed scores in Lilypond format available through Mutopia. As far as PDF scans and such, as other posters have mentioned, there are innumerable resources.

The big questions for me (disclaimer: I'm a professional classical pianist) is that of scholarly review. The go-to publisher for Bach today is Bärenreiter/Neue Bach Ausgabe, and by and large, any edition of Bach that I use that isn't Bärenreiter should ideally be cross referenced with it. Of course, it is very expensive to purchase, but it is one item that any university with a music program simply must have in its library. What concerns me is that TFA simply is vague who or what they mean by scholarly review, and this alone would prevent me from considering it over current alternatives.

IMHO the value in the project will be a (hopefully) excellent recording that is CC licensed, as there doesn't appear to be any decent recordings of the sort (through a cursory search), unless you include Wanda Landowska's eccentric harpsichord recordings from 1945. Genius is already easily available in recordings on piano by Gould (both 1955 and 1981), Schiff, Hewitt, Barenboim, Perahia, and Leonhardt on harpsichord.

I forgot to mention: you can go to archive.org and find tons of public domain or CC licensed stuff in FLAC (and OGG Vorbis). If you think it's all outdated garbage, well, I'm not sure there's any hope for you or your taste in music.

archive.org: it's not just for website backups anymore!

I forgot to mention: you can go to archive.org and find tons of public domain or CC licensed stuff in FLAC (and OGG Vorbis). If you think it's all outdated garbage, well, I'm not sure there's any hope for you or your taste in music.

archive.org: it's not just for website backups anymore!

Someone at SGI created that interface /after/ seeing it in the movie.

Not quite. FSV is the open-source clone that came out after the movie. FSN is the original that appeared in the movie. It was released in 1992.

http://web.archive.org/web/19991113223434/http://www.sgi.com/fun/freeware/3d_navigator.html

Walt Disney, villain from Superman. I think they look quite similar, but maybe it's just the pure malevolence...

I can smell your confusion from here.
Trust, Betty joins Felix out in public now.
Were the mass produced DVDs of their old cartoons in WalMart not a signal?
How 'bout the same films being here http://www.archive.org/search.php?query=betty%20boop%20AND%20collection%3Aanimationandcartoons ?
Then there are the floods of flea market merchandise ,both from abroad and domestic.
I personally will be doing a couple short run series of Jazz Guitarren featuring my inlaid rendering of these characters. So the gamut on quality is represented and albeit many, many years past the founders original intent of 4 years, Felix and Betty have promoted the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by being secured for limited Time to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries. Now for example I am furthering and arguably improving them in homage on the archtops.
Perhaps more in depth answers to your question could begin here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright_Clause
No greedy courtsluts will be harmed in the production of these axes.

Fleisher Studios was a direct competitor with Disney, and even created a Superman villain that looked suspiciously like Walt.

Revenge is a dish best served cold.

There used to be a site called sweetcode.org back in 2003 that showcased of interesting open source projects. It ran for a bit and then died; the most recent version is archived here. These days it's a squatter site, worse luck.

Even now, eight years later, there's some interesting stuff there --- ReVirt, a logging virtual machine that captures the state of the system over time, so if there's an intrusion you can wind back the clock and see how it happened? convertfs, which can convert one filesystem to another in place?

I'd love to see something like that these days (although it doesn't really fit open.org's mandate). It would take a lot of curation, though.

The domain name was recently acquired by Linux Fund from the City of Salem, Oregon for an undisclosed amount. Salem's public library was using the domain for a kids-to-Internet program entitled the Oregon Public Education Network. The Linux Fund purchased the domain at public auction.

... maybe they can return it to its original use - but it wasn't just for kids, as you can see if you look at the archives.

snapshot index from wayback machine, from a few years ago, the shutting down notification page.

So, why not the Open Public Education Network? It's self-referential, same as Linux Is Not Unix, or Gnu's Not Unux.

The domain name was recently acquired by Linux Fund from the City of Salem, Oregon for an undisclosed amount. Salem's public library was using the domain for a kids-to-Internet program entitled the Oregon Public Education Network. The Linux Fund purchased the domain at public auction.

... maybe they can return it to its original use - but it wasn't just for kids, as you can see if you look at the archives.

snapshot index from wayback machine, from a few years ago, the shutting down notification page.

So, why not the Open Public Education Network? It's self-referential, same as Linux Is Not Unix, or Gnu's Not Unux.

The domain name was recently acquired by Linux Fund from the City of Salem, Oregon for an undisclosed amount. Salem's public library was using the domain for a kids-to-Internet program entitled the Oregon Public Education Network. The Linux Fund purchased the domain at public auction.

... maybe they can return it to its original use - but it wasn't just for kids, as you can see if you look at the archives.

snapshot index from wayback machine, from a few years ago, the shutting down notification page.

So, why not the Open Public Education Network? It's self-referential, same as Linux Is Not Unix, or Gnu's Not Unux.

Leaving aside the technical comparisons between Windows and Linux, I do not believe that governments should be running closed-source software on their machines. Why:

One, security. No one knows what proprietary software is capable of. Can you trust it to run on a government machine and to (presumably) handle important and sensitive information for the feds? No one knows, because it's closed source. Use of open source software ensures that there are no backdoors and such that could be used by, say, a foreign government.

Two, practicality. Use of open source software allows governments to tweak their systems exactly as needed.

Three, ideology. Any government that claims to serve its citizens should be running open source software in the interests of transparency.

Further reading on the subject: Why the government of Peru ditched Windows. http://web.archive.org/web/20070829215908/http://www.gnu.org.pe/resmseng.html

Wow, do you keep your boxes in a bubble too? Like John Travolta and Xenu? http://www.archive.org/details/The_Boy_In_The_Plastic_Bubble

It's a fantasy novel, people. It's something you read when you're not reading real books.

"A dragon is no idle fancy. Whatever may be his origins, in fact or invention, the dragon in legend is a potent creation of men's imagination, richer in significance than his barrow is in gold." -- J.R.R. Tolkein

If you think that a fantasy novel is necessarily "something you read when you're not reading real books", you don't understand mythology or human psychology. People fight and love and kill and die on the inspiration of mythology, and -- at its best, admittedly rare as it is -- fantasy touches the mythic.

It's ambiguous whether it was really Tolkein's goal to produce "mythology for England", but it's pretty clear that his Shire is an idealization of a pastoral English village, and that Sauron and Saruman represent heedless industrialization.

If you haven't, you ought to read the Moorcock essay in question, Starship Stormtroopers. Not to say I fully agree with it, but it has some points.

Of course, the whole thing ignores the fact that Sauron was evil, and he committed many evil acts in his thousands of years of existence prior to the events of LotR.

Of course, your comment misses the whole point of this exercise, that the only source your have for that claim that he was "evil" is a history written by Sauron's opponents. If we lived in a world where the British had crushed the American Revolution, what do you think the history books would say about Washington and Jefferson?

-- For the sake of not hurting anyone, if you try this please use videos of kids who are now adults or of possible, well over 50.

For example, anything from here is probably a decent choice for this purpose.

This has always been my favorite article on 100% renewable energy. It's an algae biodiesel study done by Michael Briggs at the University of New Hampshire's physics department.

Here's a link to the story.

Had to use the wayback machine, UNH isn't hosting the page anymore. Anyways, it has always looked like an excellent proposal to me. It's almost too good to be true, but I can't find any faults with his numbers.

Can anyone here poke holes in this plan?

Depending on where one looks, legal concerns over the Tetris game are not necessarily new. In 1989, the notable game Tetris: The Soviet Mind Game, which was produced by Tengen, was removed from the market after a legal ruling against Tengen. (It would be interesting to know as to whether the actual issue was one of copyright or trademark.) In addition, it has been said that there was a now-obscure Tetris game that was released for the Sega Megadrive console.

Over the years, there have been multiple instances where games have resembled existing games. For instance, on the Apple Macintosh platform, there was the shareware Bakudanjin game which has been regarded as a clone of the Bomberman video game. (According to the iDevGames "Bakudanjin Postmortem" article, producing a game that constituted a clone was one of the aspects that didn't work so well with the Bakudanjin project, even though the Bakudanjin game was successfully released.) In addition, there was the freeware Arashi game which is said to be similar to the Tempest video game.

The results would only surprise those who don't know anything about how informal media markets are structured. These people didn't do their homework. Read: b-bstf. (2004). A Guide To Internet Piracy. 2600 Hacker Quarterly Summer. http://web.archive.org/web/20070512002747/old.wheresthebeef.co.uk/show.php/guide/2600_Guide_to_Internet_Piracy-TYDJ.txt and Howe, J. (2005): The Shadow Internet Wired http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/13.01/topsite.html This is why you need social scientists (sociologists, anthropologists, media and communications studies people) in a group of engineers and statisticians to conducts such studies.

What is it with people having some sort of fetish for putting EVERYTHING into the frigging browser?

This problem starts, believe it or not, with certain Web designers. Some people out there will not be able to sleep at night if you and me actually control the way their pages are displayed or their Web-sites used. The Flash obsession, for example, starts with the desire to prevent you from saving videos, and it continues with an absolute necessity of making you watch ads. Me and you understand that it would be elementary to have a browser plugin that detects Web-links to video files/streams and starts an external player. The truth is, clicking on a link to a video is so easy, no one needs a plugin for that. A program like VLC is far superior to any browser gizmo with respect to controlling the video playback. On a phone form-factor, playing back inside the browser window is simply INSANE. Indeed, linking is the simplest solution, and the one with the least overhead, and also the one that was working as far back as there were video players and Web browsers, and, of course, the one still implemented on every frigging Web-site not done by dicks.

I am afraid that HTML5 is not going to change the landscape. People who have a monopoly on serving bits (or just desire it) will persist in using proprietary software and secret protocols. HTML5 will be worse than useless to them for the reason stated above. IMHO, Mozilla and W3C are mostly wasting everyone's time with the video tag. Other tags, such as the ones for Web-forms, seem far more useful. And all of this superfluous BS distracts people from converting over to XHTML, which would actually improve Web documents' quality and compatibility.

http://web.archive.org/web/19961022174810/http://www.altavista.com/

You're welcome.

More detail:
http://lists.ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au/pipermail/lore/2006-August/000040.html

http://www.merit.edu/mail.archives/nanog/1997-04/msg00340.html
http://www.merit.edu/mail.archives/nanog/1997-04/msg00444.html
http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=347428&dl=ACM&coll=

http://web.archive.org/web/20070328170121/http://www.riverstonenet.com/support/bgp/design/index.htm

Postal was a pretty violent game.

According to the guy who did the Mac port, Ryan Gordon, the code was beautifully clean!

http://web.archive.org/web/20041206213838/http://www.macologist.org/portal.php?topic_id=607

You know what? Postal 1 might be a "dirty" game, but it's got the cleanest codebase, ever. The heavens open up and choirs of angels sing when Mike Riedel writes software, I swear to god.

Postal 2 was easy to bootstrap because we had a portable engine underneath it. Postal 1 was easy because it was just clean as hell. I went from the Windows (not the Mac Classic) codebase to a fully functional single player port on MacOS X in under 24 hours. Seriously. I can't stress how clean the Postal 1 codebase is. You can eat off it. I weep at its beauty.

Much of what you ask for is already on line in one form or another. Often its in the form of on-line books, either from Google or other Libraries.
See this example for Hieroglyphs.

The rest is there if you google hard enough, some times in image form, some times translated.

However, TFA is about All the data we have stored, not All the data we have.

The huge amount of bitching that flared up when Google wanted to scan all old books and make them available on line shows that there are deeply entrenched, and largely self appointed, guardians of historical knowledge that see large collections of historical photos, texts, and artifacts as their personal bailiwick, and something they have to guard from us peasants.

The huge amount of cost involved for spinning storage and web services, and web construction makes it impractical for many small museums to put images on line, let alone any documentation of them. There is very little money for any of this except for some of the larger institutions.

Yeah, there should be a http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QR_Code>QR code on every historical marker on earth linking to data about it that you can access with your phone. And every museum should have the entire collection on line, right down to the last fossilized lemur tooth. And every shred of parchment should be photographed and put on line and translated.

But who pays for this. Its far cheaper to cast a Commemorative plaque and be done with it.
Information wants to be free, but making it so costs a lot of money.

Or have I missed something?

http://web.archive.org/

Kids have a way of living up to people's expectations.

This is called the Pygmalion effect:

The Pygmalion effect, or Rosenthal effect, refers to the phenomenon in which the greater the expectation placed upon people, often children or students and employees, the better they perform. ...

The Pygmalion effect is a form of self-fulfilling prophecy, and, in this respect, people with poor expectations internalize their negative label, and those with positive labels succeed accordingly.

My mother works as a substitute teacher. She takes troubled kids that every else badmouths, treats them with respect, and gets them to open up, stop being disruptive, and actually start learning. If a teacher is having problems with kids, it is as much an indictment of the teacher as it is of the kids.

That's cool. I think this story is an indictment of the compulsory nature of the system. Children find it hard to care when their so-called "education" is done to them under threat. John Gatto experimentally found a way to help cultivate his student's diverse interests. I highly recommend his books, or search for "the paradox of extended childhood" (mp3) at archive.org.

That study started with data from 1988, and avoiding the sun through spending more time indoors and travelling by car instead of foot has been going on for almost a century. So, even if correct, one may not be able to draw such a broad conclusion from that study. Also, they presumably did not look at the blood level of pregnant women or young children (who are kept out of the sun much more now than in the past).

Also, from the summary, they start out finding a big differnece and then proceed to invent ways to show it does not exists. Which reminds me of this: :-)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruno_Latour
"In the laboratory, Latour and Woolgar observed that a typical experiment produces only inconclusive data that is attributed to failure of the apparatus or experimental method, and that a large part of scientific training involves learning how to make the subjective decision of what data to keep and what data to throw out. To an untrained outsider, Latour and Woolgar argued the entire process resembles not an unbiased search for truth and accuracy but a mechanism for ignoring data that contradicts scientific orthodoxy."

I'm not saying that means they were wrong to do adjustmented, just what it reminds me of. :-)

As far as deficiency, when studies can show things like a huge reduction in breast cancer risk within a year or two of some vitamin D supplementation, I'd say people were deficient.
http://www.dkfz.de/en/presse/pressemitteilungen/2008/dkfz_pm_08_22.php

When studies show kids have a huge reduction in influenza risk with some supplementation, I'd say kids were deficient.

Also, I'd suggest these studies showing some effect are still using too little vitamin D, or they woudl see a bgger effect. But, as I've said elsewhere, a good diet rich in vegetables and fruits is part of the problem too, and that can also help prevent cancer and infectious diseases by improving the immune system.

Anyway, the reason I harp on this is I can almost guarantee you that the kind of indoor-oriented person who reads and posts on slashdot (like me) is almost certainly vitamin D deficient unless they are supplementing, and will have multipel health issues from that. Just trying to help others not go through what I've gone through.

The problem is, some wacky computer guy saying get your vitamin D and eat your vegetables if you want to be an effective programmer (rather than just spend more time hacking indoors drinking diet soda), sure, it sounds kinda crazy, beyond sounding impossibly hard. :-) But I can point to several hackers going down early from cancer or depression or obesity/diabetes or heart disease. Another one I learned about today, co-author of the Wiki Way, dead after cancer at around age 57:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bo_Leuf
http://web.archive.org/web/20080506125118/http://www.leuf.com/
What a loss.

By the way, on breakthroughs, if someone invented a cheap pill in their basement that prevented most autism and cancer, how many years would it take before anyone believed them? What would the medical industry want to do to that person to preserve their profits?

Whan answering, consider that this guy was essentially beaten to death for suggesting handwashing prevented doctors spreading disease:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ignaz_Semmelweis

So how long is it going to be before people admit dermatologists caused autism by telling women and children to avoid the sun? Or that junk food caused some of it too?

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No really. http://www.apple.com/pr/library/2007/06/11iphone.html http://web.archive.org/web/20071011225255/http://www.apple.com/webapps/

"Chrome apps have an authentication and billing API that lets developers charge per access, by time or per install."

Right. Pay per view web pages.

Remember what happened last time.

Yep. Wish they hadn't lost all their archives. BTW, Columbine was apparently 4/20/1999, though I always think it was 1998, too. (Thanks to Wikipedia for clearing that up for me). The Waybackmachine is helpful for reminiscing but only goes so far...

I could've had a sub-1000 user account. I just didn't think they'd catch on at them time. Heh.
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Here you go. Except it was translated by a burly English dude.

If you are confused.

Here is a great article of how piracy works or used to work only a few years ago. I believe it hasn't really changed since then.

http://web.archive.org/web/20060519095624/http://old.wheresthebeef.co.uk/show.php/guide/2600_Guide_to_Internet_Piracy-TYDJ.txt

What happened to speed and efficiency?
Why remove the "News for nerds, stuff that matters" tagline?
Why remove the color coding from the content sections? (When it was purple, I always knew I was in 'games'.)
There is no contrast between the very bottom edge of the header rim and the slight drop shadow. It just looks blurry as a result.
The gray background should be reverted to black or dark gray.
The green should have its color saturation increased. It is far too muted.

I wish the old site design would return, with improved margins, and Arial or Verdana fonts:
http://web.archive.org/web/20010507000311/http://www.slashdot.org/

His specialty is copyright law.

Not particularly. As you can see from the Wayback Machine copy of his Jenner & Block profile, "Mr. Verrilli concentrates his practice on Supreme Court and appellate litigation, telecommunications, and First Amendment and media litigation....Mr. Verrilli has argued many cases in the federal courts of appeals and in state supreme courts on a range of issues, including cases involving copyright, constitutional law (involving the First Amendment, the Takings Clause and the Bill of Attainder Clause), statutory construction, administrative law and criminal law....He is an adjunct professor of constitutional law at the Georgetown University Law Center, where he has taught First Amendment law for the past 14 years."

Copyright and media litigation were only a small part of a wide-ranging practice.

JORN early warning system

The 117s don't sound that stealthy, for that matter I wonder if any stealth aircraft could beat a technological competent advisory on there home ground.

Actually, if you're talking about cexx.org, we detected that your main root page was hacked. Because of the hacked content, we removed the site from our index and tried to contact you at abuse at cexx.org. Here, check out this archive.org link and view the source yourself: http://web.archive.org/web/20091027195941/www.cexx.org/main.htm

I think God might be sending us a low bandwidth message via P=NP and P=!NP papers. The message can theoretically be extracted by assigning 1 to P=NP and 0 to P=!NP then arranging the bits in the chronological order of the papers (or maybe that should it be 0 to P=NP and 1 P=!NP). The problem is that you can't find "papers" and tech reports which have disappeared down the memory hole and lots of the nutjobs won't have put dates on their offerings. http://www.archive.org/ to the rescue!

I see a lot of ad hominem in your post and zero worthwhile discussion.

Here, I'll give you some more to think about in return:

Larry Sanger on Wikipedia's anti-expert bias and culture via Kuro5hin.

Confession of a former wikipedia gamer (via Archive.org because his website no longer exists).

Journal of a former wikipedia admin - great stuff here documenting how "gaming the system" by non-admins and admins alike works, including how organized groups work very hard to ensure that they pick off or drive off those of differing opinions "one by one" to ensure that "consensus" can never change (see the "Lie #2: Nobody new ever comes to Wikipedia" section).

Cites and Insights carries a long history of articles on the subject.

The underlying flaw with Wikipedia is exactly as Jason Scott posited, your ungrounded ad hominem attacks notwithstanding. It is comprised primarily of, and run by, people who have created an alternate language, an alternate political scheme, and an insular and closed circle into which "breaking in" is a matter of proving that you can waste hours upon hours upon hours of time chasing "edit count", learning to speak the acronym-code, sucking up to the most abusive of people when they do something that anyone else objects to and calling for the objectors to be banned.

Once upon a time, Wikipedia had a bunch of "guilds." Most of them have been cleansed, but ancillary "subpages" remain and are still indexed. Shi'a Guild, Sunni Guild, Israeli Guild, Muslim Guild, Deletionist Guild, Preservationist Guild, Guild of Copy Editors, and on and on. You'll notice most of them have vanished, along with membership pages.

Do you think they actually vanished? No. But as per "WP:CANVAS", which forbids "organized" editing, they vanished from Wikipedia. Which is to say, nothing changed except that they now organize in private e-mail lists and IRC channels rather than out in the open. You can still see the same behavior to this day; hit an article one of them is "protecting", and you'll have the rest of the "guild" swarming you in minutes.

The same's true for Wikipedia admins - the more corrupt, the worse. The old Durova hit list affair hasn't slowed them down, because there are at least a dozen (probably more than 25) email lists just like it where administrators "coordinate" their actions behind the scenes. Page 2 of the article does a great job analyzing the paranoid-delusional aspects of a "committed" wikipedia-admin's personality and actions.

Plenty of former wikipedia admins have seen the light.

No online reference can be considered permanent. But with luck the Wayback Machine will have archived it. If I find a dead link in Wikipedia I may look there and update it with the Wayback link.

There are some references on Wikipedia into the internet archive, also known as the "way back machine". If your site was archived there I think editors would attempt to change references to this record. If it was completely gone I think it would probably be preserved with a "citation needed" tag.

No, OBL is responsible for all the deaths of 9-11, the African Embassy bombings, the Sudanese bombings and everyone that died in Afghanistan and Pakistan in military actions since 9-10-01.

Really? As far as we know, only one guy ever claimed OBL "masterminded" anything, and he embezzled a fair sum of money, then headed off to live on the US government's teat. OBL and al-Qaeda are boogiemen, and the latter didn't even exist until we coined the name ...

I'm surprised to hear you say Sumatra has "poor rendering, performance and stability." Could you explain some of what you're referring to?

1. Poor rendering.
   It simply fails at rendering too many PDFs out there to be useful to me as a main PDF reader. It's not that it doesn't support the bloat features of PDF (embedded video, 3D, etc), it's that it fails at any complex enough layout, and roughly half of all the other stuff I've thrown at it.
2. Poor performance.
   Even simple documents have noticeable hickups when switching pages, and complex PDFs (basically, "anything more than a pure text, non-fancy-layout OO.o document") are simply a pain to read. And you can just plain forget about zooming - zoom in or out enough and it can take seconds to render the page you're on (and this is on an i7 machine with tons of RAM).
3. Poor stability.
   It crashes. A lot. It can happen at any time on any PDF, but attempting to read a large enough document (take your pick of e.g. these) is a surefire method - within 5 minutes of active reading, Sumatra will die a horrible death.

I wonder what the last version you tried was. The underlying MuPDF engine has come a long way since Krzysztof Kowalczyk decided to drop the option of using Poppler as a backend and focus on MuPDF back in version .9 two years ago.

The one I still keep around (since every PDF reader has its quirks, it's usually a good idea to have several) seems to be v1.1, from 2010-05-20. To which all I said above applies.