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Circular reasoning (circulus in demonstrando) : attempting to support a proposition with an argument that presupposes the proposition, or the truth of the conclusion is assumed by the premises.

The voting machines do not make mistakes because they are infallible.

Not to take away from what this guy has done because it is quite interesting, but I wanted to play around with clustering and was considering the mini-ITX platform as I have a few of them in use now and they are great little machines.

However, when calculating the cost to performance ratio you are better off with a cheap all in one motherboard and AMD processors.

I went with $65 shuttle all in one motherboards and $80 AMD XP2200+ CPUs. The final total was more like $1400 but it is close to your $1000 mark with much greater processing power.

www.aros.net/~burnin/ironcluster.html

burnin

Timothy, you may be interested in the PW-60, available at http://mini-box.com/. The Oggbox guy has used it directly in his car without an inverter and hasn't had too many troubles. From what i understand he's not the only one who's got it in his car. One cool thing about Mini-ITX is if you build it into an appropriately sized enclosure it will fit into a stock car stereo space, so you don't even need to have a cradle or put it in your trunk or anything. Have a look at the C-134 case or wait a few weeks and go back to mini-box.com - they're making a tiny case with an LCD and button controls on the front panel.

Mini-ITX is a revolution for me. It's flexible enough to be used as a sub-laptop-sized mini-PC... Silent, smooth, and pretty snappy for office apps and multimedia. Or put it in a slightly larger box with a GeForce4 and maybe a soundcard or TV tuner card for high-quality gaming and multimedia. Remember it's much more important for gaming that you have a decent graphics card than a fast CPU. Mini-ITX rocks :-)

I'd vote for 2 TLDs: ".sex" for porn, and ".erotica" for "erotic art". More details for how I'd go about working this can be found here.

Mainly because it's the first 2001 date in ISO format that can be found in pi. Specifically, between the 2771405th and 2771418th digits (counting the 3). The obligatory link to the actual decimals.

I just patched the OpenSSH 2.2.0pl1 RPMS that I've been using. For anyone using OpenSSH 2.1 or 2.2 (As long as you've already got OpenSSL 0.9.5a or later) you can grab the rpms (and the src rpm) from here.

FBI director assures police shooting victim's family of a "vigorous" investigation

By TERRI LANGFORD Associated Press Writer

HOUSTON (AP) -- A civil rights investigation into a botched drug raid in which an unarmed man was killed by nine police bullets will leave "no stone unturned," FBI Director Louis Freeh vowed Friday.

Freeh met privately with relatives of Pedro Oregon Navarro, shot to death July 12 after six Houston police officers stormed his apartment in search of drugs. Oregon was shot a dozen times, including nine times in the back.

"I pledged to them our commitment to conduct a fair and full investigation and share those results with them and the community when we accomplish that," Freeh said.

The six officers went to Oregon's apartment on a tip from an informant who had just been pulled over for public intoxication.

Once there, and without a warrant, officers kicked in his bedroom door and shot 22-year-old Oregon, a father of two. No drugs were found in the apartment, and the officers later said they started firing because they thought Oregon had fired at them. A police investigation, however, showed a shot from one officer hit another's bulletproof vest.

Autopsy results showed at least nine shots entered Oregon's body at a downward angle, suggesting he was shot while face-down on the floor or while diving toward the floor.

All six officers were fired from the Houston Police Department shortly after a state grand jury declined to indict them on murder charges. One officer was charged with misdemeanor trespassing.

Freeh, who was in Houston Friday making a regular field visit, said his the civil rights investigation -- now three weeks old -- will be thorough.

"The investigation does not mirror or even review what was done by the previous investigation," Freeh said. "We'll do it as quickly as we can, but as carefully as we have to, to ensure that it's a full investigation and also that it's a fair one."

Houston Police Chief Clarence Bradford, when he announced the firings of the officers last week, called the case "super-egregious," saying the officers were fired for lying, violating several department policies, the constitutional protection against unlawful searches and state official oppression laws.

The Mexican government also has expressed its concern about the shooting because Oregon was from Michoacan, Mexico. He had been in the United States about eight years and had worked as a landscaper.

search 10 million digits of pi
download up to 51 billion digits of pi
there's only 4.2 billion digits available for public download, but up to 51 billion can be downloaded by request (if you get them to email 51 billion digits to you, cc me ;>)