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Normally I don't feed the trolls, but taken at face value your request is reasonable, so ..

http://www.petabox.org/ (note contributors list on left)

http://www.ciar.org/ttk/images/petabox/

http://workstation20.archive.org/ttk/tools/manifes ting

http://workstation20.archive.org/ttk/tools/researc h

http://workstation20.archive.org/ttk/wp/

http://workstation20.archive.org/ttk/wp/software/2 006-04-11/

My Resume

-- TTK

Normally I don't feed the trolls, but taken at face value your request is reasonable, so ..

http://www.petabox.org/ (note contributors list on left)

http://www.ciar.org/ttk/images/petabox/

http://workstation20.archive.org/ttk/tools/manifes ting

http://workstation20.archive.org/ttk/tools/researc h

http://workstation20.archive.org/ttk/wp/

http://workstation20.archive.org/ttk/wp/software/2 006-04-11/

My Resume

-- TTK

http://www.archive.org/ School yourself, n00b.

The Manhunt speed-run will show you what the hell the deal is with Manhunt, if you've never played it. The video detail is kind of poor because of the contrast wipe-out during encoding, but it's good enough to get a full gist of the game. It's disturbing -- even moreso than CJ screwing bitches and hos in San Andreas.

The guy is also wiping out gangs. Lord knows we need something like that for the Crips, Bloods, and MS-13. And from another aspect, if I was a jihadist, I'd probably see the game (Manhunt)as a good training aid. Kill the kuffar however you can -- Praise be to the ayatollahs and mullahs! (and allah)

It's disturbing, but there are a lot of disturbing movies as well. That's why the "mature" rating exists: over in Palestine, news "reporters" are asking 6-year-old boys if they are ready to die for Allah (making sure to nod their head "yes" so the boy knows the right answer to give to the question), but here in America, we're worried about the moral and psychological effects that an abstract video game would have on that same 6-year-old.

I was surprised and pleased to see Andy Ihnatko on there. I guess I'd missed him for a few years -- ever since he stopped doing the second-to-last-page columns for MacWorld (and before that, if memory serves, MacUser), I'd been wondering whatever happened to him. There was a considerable period during what I call the "dark ages" of the Mac when the only reason I kept up my subscription was for his column.

After all, props are still in order if only for being the inventor of "Web That Smut," possibly the only good thing to ever happen as the result of the Communications Decency Act. (The original column is here, archived via the Wayback Machine, but I'm not sure if Slashdot is going to mangle the link.)

And of course there's also the millenial version, Web That DeCSS!

Douglas Engelbart had this back in the 60's. Take a look at his demo from back then. http://www.archive.org/details/AlanKeyD1987 http://www.archive.org/details/AlanKeyD1987_2 About: smalltalk (what squeak is) http://www.archive.org/details/DanIngal1989 Hopefully Alan Kay and his team will save us again with the squeak system, think of squeak as a whole new OS, but much more. I know that OpenCroquet project within squeak supports multi mouse www.opencroquet.org ~goslackware

Douglas Engelbart had this back in the 60's. Take a look at his demo from back then. http://www.archive.org/details/AlanKeyD1987 http://www.archive.org/details/AlanKeyD1987_2 About: smalltalk (what squeak is) http://www.archive.org/details/DanIngal1989 Hopefully Alan Kay and his team will save us again with the squeak system, think of squeak as a whole new OS, but much more. I know that OpenCroquet project within squeak supports multi mouse www.opencroquet.org ~goslackware

Douglas Engelbart had this back in the 60's. Take a look at his demo from back then. http://www.archive.org/details/AlanKeyD1987 http://www.archive.org/details/AlanKeyD1987_2 About: smalltalk (what squeak is) http://www.archive.org/details/DanIngal1989 Hopefully Alan Kay and his team will save us again with the squeak system, think of squeak as a whole new OS, but much more. I know that OpenCroquet project within squeak supports multi mouse www.opencroquet.org ~goslackware

For the record, I found the memo (after a morning-long internet manhunt):

Our detectives helped design the interface 3D data center. They think it helps with the creativity needed to work with the information. With there experience of working with crime scenes, the large movements helps them immerse themselves in the data. While smaller movements would seem more efficient, we get better results with our detectives using the large interfaces. It might get trying after a while, but we are not talking about data processors here, we are talking about a few pre-murders a week.

http://web.archive.org/web/20030607112009/umamitsu nami.com/essays/response.asp

The original memo's good, too, and helps with the context:

http://www.umamitsunami.com/archives/2002/06/24/th e_minoritys_report.html

Just think. If these recordings were digitally transferred and uploaded somewhere like http://archive.org/ (which I believe they belong), then we would have access to these things basically forever in the best quality that they could be

Forever?

In the right environment, a book can be shelved and neglected for hundreds of years and still remain readable, a digital archive requires constant, expert, maintenance, by a high-tech priesthood.

Russian scientists did this kind of work on dogs in the 1940's. There's video of the procedures on archive.org: http://www.archive.org/details/Experime1940

WARNING: Not for the squeemish...

Quick! Convert them to HD-DVD, er, Blu-Ray, er...

Funny, but this brings up the debate about distribution, copyright, and file sharing.

Just think. If these recordings were digitally transferred and uploaded somewhere like http://archive.org/ (which I believe they belong), then we would have access to these things basically forever in the best quality that they could be.

As Linus has said, "Only wimps use tape backup: real men just upload their important stuff on ftp, and let the rest of the world mirror it."

Well, times have changed and p2p is arguably better than ftp.

You know, - personally - I think they did go to the moon and then edited out/ blacked out things not intended for
the chattel. Knowing a thing or two about Masons I could very well imagine that they would could not resist a ritual
while on the moon. Our ruling elites are pretty much into rituals themselves:

Every July, Fuehrerpresident Bush, his Daddy and nice folks like Bill Clinton and of course
David Gergen http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Gergen, the David Rockefeller and the rest of the really important
people (the TV People, remember?) they meet at the Bohemian Grove http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bohemian_Grove where
there's the Bohemian Club http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bohemian_Club where they
celebrate the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cremation_of_Care Ritual every July. Whatever it is that our hooded and
black robed masters of Televison Entertainment, World Politics, War against Terror/Drugs/Hatespeech and Billion Dollar
Mergers that leave thousands without income do, I'd say it's Phoenician Baal Molech worship at it's best but hey that
would make me a stupid "Conspiracy Theorist".

Hey serf! If you want to see what your Masters are up to this month, there's a VIDEO made by Alex Jones at
http://www.infowars.com/ you should watch: (He sneaked into the Bohemian Grove and filmed the ritual)

http://www.archive.org/details/DSIBG

I'm still going to teach my kids to duck and cover.

Sure the bert the turtle cartoon was over-simplified, but it was directed at 6-7 year old children.

It's not just aplicable to nuclear incidents.

Near-by transformer shorts out? There's a big flash. The split second it takes to duck and cover may save a child from being hit by debris Near-by lighning strike? Ducking may reduce the chance of the child being struck (more applicable on the prairies than where I live) SWAT team raiding the crack-house up the street? Taking cover when you see the flash-bang may keep a kid from being hit by a stray bullet. Industrial accident nearby? There may be secondary explosions or flying debris; best to take cover An actual nuclear detonation? If you're still able to duck and cover after seeing the flash, you might be far enough away to survive the blast if you take cover.

"The problem with windows security is primarily one of legacy support."

Noncense, backward compatibility should not break security. Windows was sold as suitable for secure use in a networked environment. It was even given C2 security certification. The problem is the WinNT memory management unit running under the x86 processor. Something that was first tackled under Linux with Exec Shield. The Windows version called NX can be bypassed as otherwise JIT bytecode won't work.

"inter-processes communication was flawed lacking any authentication method, kernel / userland seperation was virtually nonexistant,"

Wait a minute WinNT was touted as being more secure because of it's use of operating modes. Ring 0 had full access while user apps were restricted to Ring 3, the highest restriction. At least that was the theory.

"these issues persisted right up till XP when microsoft started to take security seriously with SP2."

Er, They still persist. See here, much of this code is included in Windows Server 2003 and will be included in Longhorn

"Microsoft just like the rest of us is new to the whole OS design thing."

When Microsoft hired on the Digital VAX/VMS team they had an oppurtunity to design a secure OS. Most of the defects in the OS can be traced to managment decisions to favor features over security. Embedding Internet Explorer in the OS was one such decision.

"What needs to be done is .. implement a version of windows that incorporates everything we've learned over the last 20 years or so"

If by "We" you mean Microsoft, "We" haven't learned anything since 1988, 18 years ago. Why wait, why not upgrade to SuSE, all the eye candy of Vista without the security vulnerabilities.

I see a lot of this kind of revisionist history on the Internet and in the media. Is there a whole department that does nothing all day but pollute the athmosphere with self serving distortions such as this. How anyone say this with a straight face is beyond me.

'the security kernel of the Windows NT server software was written before the Internet,
and the Windows Server 2003 software was written
before buffer overflows became a frequent target of recent attacks'

David Aucsmith, Security Architect, Microsoft.

Often though, when drugs and alchohol are involved, not "harming anyone else" can easily turn into "losing complete control of oneself and harming other people." I know enough people killed/maimed by drunk/stoned drivers.

How many were caused by drunk versus stoned? Alcohol causes the drinker to become less cautious whereas marijuana does the opposite, someone stoned becomes more cautious. However one harmful is legal and the other is illegal. And it, hemp, wasn't made illegal because it was a danerous substance. It was made illegal because it could have potentially threaten the wealth of some powerful industrialists as well as others. Such as William Randolph Hearst, DuPont, and Mellon. It was made illegal because of the Marijuana Tax Act of 1937 yet during World War II the government made and showed to farmers the movie Hemp For Victory to encourage them to grow it as it was vital to the war effort.

You become a bit jaded after watching The Power of Nightmares (torrents), which dealt with this. This sounds (cursory look) even more flimsy than the four men arrested for being al-qaida operatives based on a video shot on vacation at disneyworld/land/whatever. And oh, the doodles of the mad-man who rented the house before them.

all the orange terror alerts before the last election

It was funny how those typically came when Bush was low in the polls. Poor Kerry didn't even have a chance to play with the colors.

For the historical orange to yellow to orange oscillations take a look here:

http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.dhs.gov/dh spublic/display?theme=29

for the current level be sure to check:

http://www.dhs.gov/dhspublic/display?theme=29

I found one the other day. Most hardcore Gang Banger site i've ever seen:
South Side

desktop.com

According to Archive.org, that page at Darpa hasn't changed significantly since 2002. Here it is four years ago: http://web.archive.org/web/20021106051729/http://w ww.darpa.mil/ato/programs/SHM/htmldemo.html

Cutting edge on Slashdot today!

Or other public domain videos, such as those from the Internet Archive. The Prelinger Archives, in particular, is really good.

Or other public domain videos, such as those from the Internet Archive. The Prelinger Archives, in particular, is really good.

Well eBay's interface works well which is why it hasn't changed much in the traditional sense. However, factually speaking, Google's interface has changed since inception. I know you were just exaggerating but just look at the two: Inception: http://web.archive.org/web/19970614001443/http://w ww.ebay.com/ Current: http://www.ebay.com/

You could always use http://www.archive.org/index.php .

Ok, there seems to be some errors and misfirings here, so I will attempt to clarify and align some dates and times.

Because of the lack of evidence, I have to bring things from numerous sources.

The article "AICN under fire" attributed earlier in this discussion as having the first archived comment was spidered by the internet archive on January 13th 1998 at 19:44:55.
This is not the earliest slashdot article and comment I found.
During the same spidering run by the archive, the spider grabs more than a single page. slashdot has a link to previous article which can be followed in the archive.

Following this link leads to comments starting on the 9th of January 1998 at 16:20:

Intel Releases 266 Pentium (sidenote: wow, I had one of those for ages)

Pentium Bug
Jasper Nuyens
Fri Jan 09 at 4:20PM EST

Just a question that came into my mind:

is the (quiet old) pentiumbug still 'working' on this faster processor? I don't know much of processor-development but I understood it takes alot of time to finish such a thing. ... just curious.

Jasper :)


A sibling poster has remarked that slashdot cannot find any of its comments for the 1998 year, this appears to be correct.
The first comment in the live slashdot database appears to come on 1st January 1999.

Moving back onto the articles, slashdot articles appear to begin in the live slashdot database on 1st January 1998:
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=98/01/01/012000

This probably marked a change in the database and web interface format because previously (and concurrently as it happens) the articleID was a numeric.
I found the same article had been archived as well as being live using its old artnum variable and the new date format.

This ties the articles with their origins, and extrapolating back at about 2-3 articles per day brings the artnum back to the start which roughly matches up with with the Chips&Dips days (if I were creating a system it makes sense to start with article 1)

http://web.archive.org/web/19980113193426/slashdot .org/slashdot.cgi?mode=article&artnum=411
And its live version:
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=98/01/09/122900

Now, a couple of questions for Taco (if he finds out about my little big of digging),

Do the artnum references actually go all the way back to the C&D database?

what happened to the earlier comments and articles? (it looks like a choice to simply upgrade the db to me)

do you still have them from your C&D/early slash days? (theres an archive grabbed and stored from Chips & Dips in July '97 here)

Was the time between C&D and slashdot a quick changover with essentially no stopping, or did you have a break for a while?

Mini timeline

yyyy mm dd artnum notes
1997 07 29 0xxx Front Page: Chips & Dips archive
1998 01 01 0xxx Article: Become 007 On The Internet First live article, no comments
1998 01 08 0403 Index: Smurf Attacks First article reference in archive (lo

Ok, there seems to be some errors and misfirings here, so I will attempt to clarify and align some dates and times.

Because of the lack of evidence, I have to bring things from numerous sources.

The article "AICN under fire" attributed earlier in this discussion as having the first archived comment was spidered by the internet archive on January 13th 1998 at 19:44:55.
This is not the earliest slashdot article and comment I found.
During the same spidering run by the archive, the spider grabs more than a single page. slashdot has a link to previous article which can be followed in the archive.

Following this link leads to comments starting on the 9th of January 1998 at 16:20:

Intel Releases 266 Pentium (sidenote: wow, I had one of those for ages)

Pentium Bug
Jasper Nuyens
Fri Jan 09 at 4:20PM EST

Just a question that came into my mind:

is the (quiet old) pentiumbug still 'working' on this faster processor? I don't know much of processor-development but I understood it takes alot of time to finish such a thing. ... just curious.

Jasper :)


A sibling poster has remarked that slashdot cannot find any of its comments for the 1998 year, this appears to be correct.
The first comment in the live slashdot database appears to come on 1st January 1999.

Moving back onto the articles, slashdot articles appear to begin in the live slashdot database on 1st January 1998:
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=98/01/01/012000

This probably marked a change in the database and web interface format because previously (and concurrently as it happens) the articleID was a numeric.
I found the same article had been archived as well as being live using its old artnum variable and the new date format.

This ties the articles with their origins, and extrapolating back at about 2-3 articles per day brings the artnum back to the start which roughly matches up with with the Chips&Dips days (if I were creating a system it makes sense to start with article 1)

http://web.archive.org/web/19980113193426/slashdot .org/slashdot.cgi?mode=article&artnum=411
And its live version:
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=98/01/09/122900

Now, a couple of questions for Taco (if he finds out about my little big of digging),

Do the artnum references actually go all the way back to the C&D database?

what happened to the earlier comments and articles? (it looks like a choice to simply upgrade the db to me)

do you still have them from your C&D/early slash days? (theres an archive grabbed and stored from Chips & Dips in July '97 here)

Was the time between C&D and slashdot a quick changover with essentially no stopping, or did you have a break for a while?

Mini timeline

yyyy mm dd artnum notes
1997 07 29 0xxx Front Page: Chips & Dips archive
1998 01 01 0xxx Article: Become 007 On The Internet First live article, no comments
1998 01 08 0403 Index: Smurf Attacks First article reference in archive (lo

Ok, there seems to be some errors and misfirings here, so I will attempt to clarify and align some dates and times.

Because of the lack of evidence, I have to bring things from numerous sources.

The article "AICN under fire" attributed earlier in this discussion as having the first archived comment was spidered by the internet archive on January 13th 1998 at 19:44:55.
This is not the earliest slashdot article and comment I found.
During the same spidering run by the archive, the spider grabs more than a single page. slashdot has a link to previous article which can be followed in the archive.

Following this link leads to comments starting on the 9th of January 1998 at 16:20:

Intel Releases 266 Pentium (sidenote: wow, I had one of those for ages)

Pentium Bug
Jasper Nuyens
Fri Jan 09 at 4:20PM EST

Just a question that came into my mind:

is the (quiet old) pentiumbug still 'working' on this faster processor? I don't know much of processor-development but I understood it takes alot of time to finish such a thing. ... just curious.

Jasper :)


A sibling poster has remarked that slashdot cannot find any of its comments for the 1998 year, this appears to be correct.
The first comment in the live slashdot database appears to come on 1st January 1999.

Moving back onto the articles, slashdot articles appear to begin in the live slashdot database on 1st January 1998:
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=98/01/01/012000

This probably marked a change in the database and web interface format because previously (and concurrently as it happens) the articleID was a numeric.
I found the same article had been archived as well as being live using its old artnum variable and the new date format.

This ties the articles with their origins, and extrapolating back at about 2-3 articles per day brings the artnum back to the start which roughly matches up with with the Chips&Dips days (if I were creating a system it makes sense to start with article 1)

http://web.archive.org/web/19980113193426/slashdot .org/slashdot.cgi?mode=article&artnum=411
And its live version:
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=98/01/09/122900

Now, a couple of questions for Taco (if he finds out about my little big of digging),

Do the artnum references actually go all the way back to the C&D database?

what happened to the earlier comments and articles? (it looks like a choice to simply upgrade the db to me)

do you still have them from your C&D/early slash days? (theres an archive grabbed and stored from Chips & Dips in July '97 here)

Was the time between C&D and slashdot a quick changover with essentially no stopping, or did you have a break for a while?

Mini timeline

yyyy mm dd artnum notes
1997 07 29 0xxx Front Page: Chips & Dips archive
1998 01 01 0xxx Article: Become 007 On The Internet First live article, no comments
1998 01 08 0403 Index: Smurf Attacks First article reference in archive (lo

Ok, there seems to be some errors and misfirings here, so I will attempt to clarify and align some dates and times.

Because of the lack of evidence, I have to bring things from numerous sources.

The article "AICN under fire" attributed earlier in this discussion as having the first archived comment was spidered by the internet archive on January 13th 1998 at 19:44:55.
This is not the earliest slashdot article and comment I found.
During the same spidering run by the archive, the spider grabs more than a single page. slashdot has a link to previous article which can be followed in the archive.

Following this link leads to comments starting on the 9th of January 1998 at 16:20:

Intel Releases 266 Pentium (sidenote: wow, I had one of those for ages)

Pentium Bug
Jasper Nuyens
Fri Jan 09 at 4:20PM EST

Just a question that came into my mind:

is the (quiet old) pentiumbug still 'working' on this faster processor? I don't know much of processor-development but I understood it takes alot of time to finish such a thing. ... just curious.

Jasper :)


A sibling poster has remarked that slashdot cannot find any of its comments for the 1998 year, this appears to be correct.
The first comment in the live slashdot database appears to come on 1st January 1999.

Moving back onto the articles, slashdot articles appear to begin in the live slashdot database on 1st January 1998:
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=98/01/01/012000

This probably marked a change in the database and web interface format because previously (and concurrently as it happens) the articleID was a numeric.
I found the same article had been archived as well as being live using its old artnum variable and the new date format.

This ties the articles with their origins, and extrapolating back at about 2-3 articles per day brings the artnum back to the start which roughly matches up with with the Chips&Dips days (if I were creating a system it makes sense to start with article 1)

http://web.archive.org/web/19980113193426/slashdot .org/slashdot.cgi?mode=article&artnum=411
And its live version:
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=98/01/09/122900

Now, a couple of questions for Taco (if he finds out about my little big of digging),

Do the artnum references actually go all the way back to the C&D database?

what happened to the earlier comments and articles? (it looks like a choice to simply upgrade the db to me)

do you still have them from your C&D/early slash days? (theres an archive grabbed and stored from Chips & Dips in July '97 here)

Was the time between C&D and slashdot a quick changover with essentially no stopping, or did you have a break for a while?

Mini timeline

yyyy mm dd artnum notes
1997 07 29 0xxx Front Page: Chips & Dips archive
1998 01 01 0xxx Article: Become 007 On The Internet First live article, no comments
1998 01 08 0403 Index: Smurf Attacks First article reference in archive (lo

hasn't had any user-facing usability changes EVER

Bullshit

http://web.archive.org/web/19990125092017/http://s lashdot.org/

The "mound" of useless ambiguous links on the left went away. The entire left side was redone around 2000.

The first post therein, by user #2274 BWing, is as follows:

"Harry=Jay Sherman"

Way to go BWing! You've inadvertantly made the first /. post not lost to the sands of time. Perhaps this warrants a Hall of Fame entry?

The first post therein, by user #2274 BWing, is as follows:

"Harry=Jay Sherman"

Way to go BWing! You've inadvertantly made the first /. post not lost to the sands of time. Perhaps this warrants a Hall of Fame entry?

"pity they couldnt make a buisness of it."

The following might have something to do with why they failed ..

01. The OEMs were forbidden to display non-Microsoft systems.
02. Booting to BeOS required the use of a floppy.
03. Microsoft leaned on Hitchai to remove BeOS from its pcs in Japan.
04. BeOS went broke suing Microsoft.

A Crack in the Wall
He Who Controls the Bootloader
Be Inc sues Microsoft

Here's that same piece on a cache of dolphinsex.org with an interesting prologue. However I don't think your assessment of this as a copy/paste troll is accurate. It looks to me like a very informative and well written how-to guide which has guided countless budding zoophiliacs.

Actually if you go to Archive.Org the entire collection of the Edison National Historic Site is available for guilt-free 100% free download. When the Cartoon Geeks Podcast was looking for theme music, I went there and found the song that we're now using, Sensation Jazz by the Jazz All Stars. It was recorded in 1919 for Edison, and features the xylophonist who later would go on to play on Disney's first sound cartoon, Steamboat Willie, and the later Disney classic The Skeleton Dance.

Also, when I had clearance problems for a song I wanted to use for a video I put up on You Tube, I replaced it with another piece from the Edison collection, a version of "Ride of the Valkyries" done by the Edison Symphony Orchestra. Again, found on Archive.Org.

It is ironic these recordings are now in the public domain, because Hollywood was founded on an intellectual property dispute. The dispute was between Thomas Edison and the Motion Picture Patents Trust and people like Carl Laemmle and Cecil B. DeMille who didn't want to pay the toll Edison wanted to extract on his invention. Edison probably would have loved the current IP climate, and would probably be a big supporter of the MPAA and RIAA.

Archive.Org is an amazing place.

teh archive for teh rescue!

Internet Wayback Machine kept a copy of a copy of Fyodor's bragging and posturing.

Phase Relationships in the Standardization Process, James Gosling, August, 1990. [see link for illustrations]

This is a moderately sarcastic note on the phases that the standardization process goes through, and the relationship between the level of technical and political interest in a topic. It is purely a personal view.

Toshi Doi of Sony describes the standardization process in terms of the diagram at left. The i axis describes level of interest and the t axis describes time. Ti describes technical interest, and Pi describes political interest. As time passes, technical activity declines as the technology becomes understood. Similarly, generally fueled by economic pressures, the political interest in a technology increases in some period.

For a standard to be usefully formed, the technology needs to be understood: technological interest needs to be waning. But if political interest in a standard becomes too large, the various parties have too much at stake in their own vested interest to be flexible enough to accommodate the unified view that a standard requires.

In this model, Ws is the `window of standardization' where technical interest is waning (i.e. the technology has become understood), but the political situation hasn't become too hotly contested for constructive negotiating.

This model has many interesting insights, but there is more complexity in the situation that can be explored. In the original model, the T and P curves are open ended. The situation is more like the diagram at left. These curves, Ta and Pa, represent technical activity and political activity. In general, technical activity precedes political activity. Both types of activity go through phases of different intensity. As these activities proceed, they produce results. The result curves are the integrals of the activity curves.

The integrals of these two curves are drawn at left. The integral of Ta is K (knowledge) and the integral of Pa is C (calcification - revealing a strong personal cynicism). Ss, the sensibility of standardization, is just K-C. The optimum time for standardizing a technology is when Ss is at a maximum, which will be in a region where knowledge is high, but calcification has not yet set in.

A very interesting quantity to observe is the phase relationship between Ta and Pa. When the maximum point on Pa follows the maximum point on Ta by a sufficient distance, there is a wide Ss window. A sensible standard can be fairly easily set since the political activity which leads to the standard has the necessary technical knowledge in hand when needed. If Pa lags Ta sufficiently, Ss will have a long high flat top, which forms a convenient table on which to work.

Consider moving Pa left, closer to Ta. When it is close to Ta, Ss will have a shallow and flat region where the upward slope of Ta matches Pa approximately. This region is the time of chaos. Before calcification builds up, there isn't enough knowledge to do anything sensible, by the time that there is enough knowledge, there's too much calcification to allow a sensible compromise to be reached. In between, the region is flat enough that there isn't a clearly defined optimum moment for developing a standard, so there is instead a drawn out period of chaotic bargaining and soul searching.

Consider moving Pa even farther left, until it is to the right of Ta. This is the worst case: Ss is always negative. The long flat minimum region is the time of panic where the political/economic process has decided that a technology needs to be standardized, but no one understands it. Standards get set by making random guesses that are not grounded in any technical reality, but are instead grounded totally on political expedience.

The case described in the previous diagram is impossible in practice. The very act of setting a standard inhibits technical activity

• Caldera in Erlangen runs openlinux.org site from 1998 or so.
• Caldera shuts down operation in Erlangen but leaves DNS entry intact.
• IP address is reallocated to Fachschaftsinitiative Informatik.
• Someone at FSI decides to play a little prank on SCO.
• openlinux.org entry is removed by SCO.

"Gas/diesel car is 30% efficient (~10% cities, upper-40% highway). Diesel is more efficient (better compression Re: Carnot theorem)
Hybrid car (gas/electric) on board is only efficient in the cities, and less efficient on highways.
Purely electric car is actually only 24% efficient (cities and highways) "

Wrong on two out three counts..

Gasoline powered car.. averages less than 10% efficiency to the wheel. On hwy you're lucky to get near 20%..
Same goes for diesel, but add a few extra percentage points..
(The big strike against ICE engines is that they mostly run @ less 15% capacity, even @ hwy speeds).

The Toyota Prius holds the record (with it's CVT/hybrid) transmission and smaller gas engine @ 25%.

A few notes:

This is refined fuel energy content to road wheels, there are substantial losses in getting that energy into the car's gas tank.
If you're going to start comparing competing tech on a one to one basis , you've got to factor in all those other losses.
In the case of fuels derived from crude, you're going to drop those eff numbers by at least 50%.
The efficiency of the oil cycle is dropping day by day, as depletion forces the usage of more energy intensive recovery processes. (I.E. The conversion/recovery effiicency is NOT a steady state. )

Hidden costs of fuels derived from Oil...
US oil consumption.. ~14M bbl/day, world wide oil consumption 30% contribution to GW, each country covers their own costs.
Factor in the costs for intervening and defending those Middle East supply lines. (US navy, army, airforce, etc)
Tack on 50% of DOD budget ($200B/yr)+ Iraq operations($100B/yr). (add another $59 a barrel)
And GW costs hurricanes and submergence of US coastal cities & plains, 500T$ over next 50years*.30(GWc factor) = 3T$/yr . (add another $548 a barrel)

As for a modern Electric car.. It's way more efficient with it's energy inputs.
Even better if you use local PV panels solar power. (Where PV eff. is a nop.)

Li-ion batteries can be recharged with upwards of 95% eff, traction motor and controls >90% , overall EV eff ~80%..
Spare Li-ion battery capacity can be used to provide nighttime household needs.
Even using Power company electricity with 35%.. ~eff.
0.80 * 35% = 28% EV eff to wheel still beats ICE numbers in the 5 to 15% range.

Ultimately, we'll want to dump fossil energy all together, and EV's are a worthy first step towards a distributed renewable energy infrastructure.

"It is very difficult to engage him [Hawking] in discussion, and so he has got away with pronouncements in a way that other people would not," Professor Higgs is quoted as saying. "His celebrity status gives him instant credibility that others do not have."

Steve Connor, "Higgs v Hawking," The Independent, 2002 September 3.

Steve Connor, Higgs v Hawking, The Independent, 2002 Sept. 3.

First, since we're all a bit introverted we need help communicating...

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&safe=off&q= tips+for+effective+communication&btnG=Search

See that device on your desk with the coiled cable connecting a "handset" to a "base unit". There's numbers on it. Sometimes it makes a "ringing" sound?

It's called a phone. Pick it up, dial the persons number and talk to them. A simple film from 1927 will help http://www.archive.org/details/HowtoUse1927

Or to be even less introverted.

walk over to their desk and talk to them. http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&safe=off&q= how+to+talk+to+women&btnG=Search

Or... if you insist...

On behalf of the entire /. community I would like to thank you for carrying on the tradition of "I can't use google, so I'll ask /."

Here... I'll even do it for you:

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&safe=off&q= open+source+instant+messaging+platform&btnG=Search

Thank you for your continued support.

It is as important to Windows, once running in GUI mode, as grub or lilo would be to Linux if it weren't cleared from memory once the kernel loaded.

Is this the official party line? Does Linux call any grub or lilo code after it's booted? No. Does Windows 9x call any DOS code after it's booted? Yes, all the time. Have you forgotten the investigation that Matt Pietrek and Andrew Shulman did?

(replying to myself is probably a bit of a faux-pas here, but I'll do it anyway)

An interesting project (sadly now discontinued) was MPGA: an FPGA in programmable logic. That's a very nice way to develop and test various techniques for implementing programmable logic devices. Probably a lot cheaper than having multiple mask iterations too.

The short answer is that a corporation doesn't make a profit on pot. Corporations do make a profit in opposing pot.

It was because of some businesses and wealthy people that hemp, aka marijuana, was made illegal to begin with. Prior to it being made illegal Thomas Jefferson wrote the Declaration of Independence on hemp paper. As a farmer he grew hemp on his estate and once wrote that he thought farmers should be required to grow hemp, he never did follow through with this because he knew such a law would be denying farmers the right to grow what they wanted. Rudolph Diesel designed his engine to run on most any vegeble oil including hemp oil. And on his Iron Mountain Estate, Henry Ford designed and built a vehicle that used hemp in the manufacture of it and was powered by fuel made from hemp. It was because of the Marijuana Tax Act of 1937 that hemp was made illegal. Several powerful people had pushed congress to have hemp made illegal because they saw it as a threat to their wealth. But even after made illegal the US government encouraged farmers to grow hemp during WWII. They went so far as to make a movie, "Hemp for Victory" to encourage farmers to grow it.

The most interesting thing about the Google Video top 100 has been Loose Change. For weeks it has been the only full length film that isn't short a very short titillation clip (eg Webcam Girls Go Wild) or dubious humour clips (eg funny clips baby fart) that has been in the top 20.

Loose Change is the most popular 9/11 "conspiracy theory" film, no doubt due to its slick graphics, soundtrack and editing -- for an amateur movie it is impressive. However it's not the most accurate movie of its type -- see the discussion on indybay and the detailed Sifting Through Loose Change The 9-11 Research Companion.

Read on for a brief guide to some better 9/11 videos that deserve more attention...

9/11 Revisited: Were explosives used to bring down the buildings? (2006)

This is currently, probably, the best 9/11 video that challenges the official conspiracy theory.

9/11 Revisited concentrates on the collapse of the three World Trade Center buildings and includes news reports from the day and interviews with experts including Steven E Jones, David Ray Griffin and Jeff King. It is available to view online and via Google Video and the Internet Archive.

9/11 Breaking the Laws of Physics (2006)

This is a lecture from 2006 by BYU Physics Professor Steven E Jones on the collapse of the WTC buildings on 9/11. It is available from the Internet Archive. The academic paper this presentation is based on is Why Indeed Did the WTC Buildings Collapse?.

The 9/11 Commission Report (2004)

This is a lecture by David Ray Griffin -- professor emeritus of philosophy of religion and theology, at the Claremont School of Theology in Claremont, California. He has written many books including The New Pearl Harbor and The 9/11 Commission Report: Omissions and Distortions on the official 9/11 Report. This lecture is available from theInternet Archive.

9-11 Open Your Eyes the War on Terror is a Lie (2004)

Filmed at the 9/11 International Inquiry (Toronto, May 2004) Open Your Eyes is available on the Internet Archive.

Everybody's Gotta Learn Sometime (2006)

This new film covers the links between the US adminstration, the Republician Party and drugs running and the 9/11 hijackers, it is available on Google Video and there are higher quality versions on 911 blogger, the official film site is http://www.crisisinamerica.org/

War and Globalization - The Truth Behind September 11 (2003)

Politically this is the best video on 9/11.

War and Globalization is a lecture, from 2003 by Michel Chossudovsky, a professor of econom

The most interesting thing about the Google Video top 100 has been Loose Change. For weeks it has been the only full length film that isn't short a very short titillation clip (eg Webcam Girls Go Wild) or dubious humour clips (eg funny clips baby fart) that has been in the top 20.

Loose Change is the most popular 9/11 "conspiracy theory" film, no doubt due to its slick graphics, soundtrack and editing -- for an amateur movie it is impressive. However it's not the most accurate movie of its type -- see the discussion on indybay and the detailed Sifting Through Loose Change The 9-11 Research Companion.

Read on for a brief guide to some better 9/11 videos that deserve more attention...

9/11 Revisited: Were explosives used to bring down the buildings? (2006)

This is currently, probably, the best 9/11 video that challenges the official conspiracy theory.

9/11 Revisited concentrates on the collapse of the three World Trade Center buildings and includes news reports from the day and interviews with experts including Steven E Jones, David Ray Griffin and Jeff King. It is available to view online and via Google Video and the Internet Archive.

9/11 Breaking the Laws of Physics (2006)

This is a lecture from 2006 by BYU Physics Professor Steven E Jones on the collapse of the WTC buildings on 9/11. It is available from the Internet Archive. The academic paper this presentation is based on is Why Indeed Did the WTC Buildings Collapse?.

The 9/11 Commission Report (2004)

This is a lecture by David Ray Griffin -- professor emeritus of philosophy of religion and theology, at the Claremont School of Theology in Claremont, California. He has written many books including The New Pearl Harbor and The 9/11 Commission Report: Omissions and Distortions on the official 9/11 Report. This lecture is available from theInternet Archive.

9-11 Open Your Eyes the War on Terror is a Lie (2004)

Filmed at the 9/11 International Inquiry (Toronto, May 2004) Open Your Eyes is available on the Internet Archive.

Everybody's Gotta Learn Sometime (2006)

This new film covers the links between the US adminstration, the Republician Party and drugs running and the 9/11 hijackers, it is available on Google Video and there are higher quality versions on 911 blogger, the official film site is http://www.crisisinamerica.org/

War and Globalization - The Truth Behind September 11 (2003)

Politically this is the best video on 9/11.

War and Globalization is a lecture, from 2003 by Michel Chossudovsky, a professor of econom

The most interesting thing about the Google Video top 100 has been Loose Change. For weeks it has been the only full length film that isn't short a very short titillation clip (eg Webcam Girls Go Wild) or dubious humour clips (eg funny clips baby fart) that has been in the top 20.

Loose Change is the most popular 9/11 "conspiracy theory" film, no doubt due to its slick graphics, soundtrack and editing -- for an amateur movie it is impressive. However it's not the most accurate movie of its type -- see the discussion on indybay and the detailed Sifting Through Loose Change The 9-11 Research Companion.

Read on for a brief guide to some better 9/11 videos that deserve more attention...

9/11 Revisited: Were explosives used to bring down the buildings? (2006)

This is currently, probably, the best 9/11 video that challenges the official conspiracy theory.

9/11 Revisited concentrates on the collapse of the three World Trade Center buildings and includes news reports from the day and interviews with experts including Steven E Jones, David Ray Griffin and Jeff King. It is available to view online and via Google Video and the Internet Archive.

9/11 Breaking the Laws of Physics (2006)

This is a lecture from 2006 by BYU Physics Professor Steven E Jones on the collapse of the WTC buildings on 9/11. It is available from the Internet Archive. The academic paper this presentation is based on is Why Indeed Did the WTC Buildings Collapse?.

The 9/11 Commission Report (2004)

This is a lecture by David Ray Griffin -- professor emeritus of philosophy of religion and theology, at the Claremont School of Theology in Claremont, California. He has written many books including The New Pearl Harbor and The 9/11 Commission Report: Omissions and Distortions on the official 9/11 Report. This lecture is available from theInternet Archive.

9-11 Open Your Eyes the War on Terror is a Lie (2004)

Filmed at the 9/11 International Inquiry (Toronto, May 2004) Open Your Eyes is available on the Internet Archive.

Everybody's Gotta Learn Sometime (2006)

This new film covers the links between the US adminstration, the Republician Party and drugs running and the 9/11 hijackers, it is available on Google Video and there are higher quality versions on 911 blogger, the official film site is http://www.crisisinamerica.org/

War and Globalization - The Truth Behind September 11 (2003)

Politically this is the best video on 9/11.

War and Globalization is a lecture, from 2003 by Michel Chossudovsky, a professor of econom

The most interesting thing about the Google Video top 100 has been Loose Change. For weeks it has been the only full length film that isn't short a very short titillation clip (eg Webcam Girls Go Wild) or dubious humour clips (eg funny clips baby fart) that has been in the top 20.

Loose Change is the most popular 9/11 "conspiracy theory" film, no doubt due to its slick graphics, soundtrack and editing -- for an amateur movie it is impressive. However it's not the most accurate movie of its type -- see the discussion on indybay and the detailed Sifting Through Loose Change The 9-11 Research Companion.

Read on for a brief guide to some better 9/11 videos that deserve more attention...

9/11 Revisited: Were explosives used to bring down the buildings? (2006)

This is currently, probably, the best 9/11 video that challenges the official conspiracy theory.

9/11 Revisited concentrates on the collapse of the three World Trade Center buildings and includes news reports from the day and interviews with experts including Steven E Jones, David Ray Griffin and Jeff King. It is available to view online and via Google Video and the Internet Archive.

9/11 Breaking the Laws of Physics (2006)

This is a lecture from 2006 by BYU Physics Professor Steven E Jones on the collapse of the WTC buildings on 9/11. It is available from the Internet Archive. The academic paper this presentation is based on is Why Indeed Did the WTC Buildings Collapse?.

The 9/11 Commission Report (2004)

This is a lecture by David Ray Griffin -- professor emeritus of philosophy of religion and theology, at the Claremont School of Theology in Claremont, California. He has written many books including The New Pearl Harbor and The 9/11 Commission Report: Omissions and Distortions on the official 9/11 Report. This lecture is available from theInternet Archive.

9-11 Open Your Eyes the War on Terror is a Lie (2004)

Filmed at the 9/11 International Inquiry (Toronto, May 2004) Open Your Eyes is available on the Internet Archive.

Everybody's Gotta Learn Sometime (2006)

This new film covers the links between the US adminstration, the Republician Party and drugs running and the 9/11 hijackers, it is available on Google Video and there are higher quality versions on 911 blogger, the official film site is http://www.crisisinamerica.org/

War and Globalization - The Truth Behind September 11 (2003)

Politically this is the best video on 9/11.

War and Globalization is a lecture, from 2003 by Michel Chossudovsky, a professor of econom