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Hell, I'm still working on how this is easier than Root-Kitting Windows. The Parent of this article is starting to smell like fish, left 3 days in the sun. My experience with "Researchers" not stating their names is; 1, Its FUD, and 2, They're Show-Offs. When people do not put their names next to their research, then the results are at best, foundationless. I have found that beating the drum for Windows is a Fool's Errand.

icpc-2009-world-finals.html

As to languages, in the case of ICPC there are only C, C++ and Java. Other programming competitions allow more languages, most people use C/C++ in these contests anyway...

They have done it before with corn. Twice successfully in court.

So infesting the water supply is the best method to get their product into the animal population to sue everyone in the area whom owns animals and hasn't yet paid them their licensing fee.

If they have both done it twice before, and used their own staffs government positions to get a judge to agree the farmers were in the wrong due to monsatso's actions... Why would you even think they wouldn't do this a third and more times? It has worked in the past plenty well.

You are basically making the argument "Well he has stolen my TV twice from me, but this time it will be different, this time I only have a stereo!"

http://foodchronicles.blogspot.com/2007/01/monsanto-problem.html

Come on folks, this is a serious news article :-)

I've spent a tremendous amount of time listening to these bootleggers on the FLTSATCOM satellites. It is rather easy for them (the Brazilians and others) to modify a amateur radio or other transmitters to use these satellites.

Basically, these satellites work by listening on one frequency (an uplink), and rebroadcasting what they hear over a specified frequency bandwidth to listeners (a downlink). The uplink and downlink frequencies are well known and published across many mediums - including Mil-Std documents which specify how terminals should interact with these satellites.

I published a spectrum analysis article on this very topic here (shameless plus):

http://radioreference.blogspot.com/2008/10/vhfuhf-spectrum-analysis-using-rf-space.html

This method of communication is actually very secure for the US Military - since they rarely use clear voice on these transponders - meaning, they encrypt all transmissions to and from.

Now, an open repeater, in Geospacial orbit, provides a set of repeaters for anyone to use... either the US military (which they still actively use) - or others who have equipment that can transmit to, and reiceve from.

For those that are dismayed by this approach, understand that when this technology was developed, security by obscurity was a common approach even for military agencies. It wasn't feasible even 10 years ago to "authenticate" use access to open satellite transponders.

No chance of that. And their response. :)

In 2008, the UK had the 10th highest number of applicants (and accepted students). There was a spreadsheet posted a few weeks ago with details of which countries and even which universities had students accepted over the past few years of GSoC, but alas I can't find it right now.

http://photoshopdisasters.blogspot.com/

Slips like that happen more often than I would have ever expected.

Here is a great article written for the non-biologist about evolution and the common mis-perception that is has a mind:

http://watchingtheworldwakeup.blogspot.com/2009/02/darwin-aeneid-and-days-of-our-lives.html

As a fun comparison, Swedish wind power is in total currently operating at 5% efficiency (swedish).

To name a few who have already worked on various patches/forks of mysql...

Percona
Google
Mariadb

There is a bluetooth hack to use the Wiimote on the PC.
http://wiihacks.blogspot.com/2006/12/howto-use-wii-mote-in-windows-as-your.html
So if there is a working emulator, I'm sure with some trickery and stubborness you could get a wii on the pc.
I'm kinda interested as to how well a FPS would control like this. It'd be awful handy since I travel a lot and space can be a premium making mice kind of a hassle at times. Also, if I can get it working as a mouse, then I may be able to further trick it into working as an on the go flight sim control, which would be all sorts of win.

The writer of the article response to Lori's claims

http://o3magazine.blogspot.com/2009/04/ssl-accelerator-strikes-nerve-with-f5.html ...and nails her on a few I'd say.

Aw shit, too confused by the tons of different formats every single comment system feels the need to invent (I've seen systems that reversed the label and URL placement in their tags...) so here's the link clickable for the people who can't be arsed to select that and hit "go to URL".

Sea ice has a minimal affect on sea level. So anything about more or less sea ice is to a first order irrelevant to global sea level.
http://moregrumbinescience.blogspot.com/2009/04/ice-and-sea-level.html

http://www.radix.net/~bobg/faqs/sea.level.faq.html
---
    In terms of the ice, there are five identifiable reservoirs, only one
of which is expected to be able to have catastrophic effects on sea
level. They are sea ice, mountain glaciers, the Greenland ice sheet,
the East Antarctic ice sheet, and the West Antarctic ice sheet. The one
expected to be potentially catastrophic is West Antarctica.
Catastrophic is taken to mean meters of sea level in a few hundred years
or less.

    First, why can't the other four be catastrophic? Sea ice cannot
change sea level much. That it can do so at all is because sea ice is
not made of quite the same material as the ocean. Sea ice is much
fresher than sea water (5 parts per thousand instead of about 35). When
the ice melts (pretend for the moment that it does so instantly and
retains its shape), the resultant melt water is still slightly less
dense than the original sea water. So the meltwater still 'stands' a
little higher than the local sea level. The amount of extra height
depends on the salinity difference between ice and ocean, and
corresponds to about 2% of the thickness of the original ice floe. For
30 million square kilometers of ice (global maximum extent) and average
thickness of 2 meters (the Arctic ice is about 3 meters, the Antarctic
is about 1), the corresponding change in global sea level would be 2
(meters) * 0.02 (salinity effect) * 0.10 (fraction of ocean covered by
ice), or 4 mm. Not a large figure, but not zero either. My thanks to
chappell@stat.wisc.edu (Rick Chappell) for making me work this out.
---

As an indicator of other things 1 year sea ice thickness is relevant on a second order. It is an indicator of the local winter average temperature. Local temperature changes are not global. I say that this indicator of a more cold winter shows an increased polar air circulation which is actually a positive indicator for global warming in general.

That's not a word, it's a compound noun/adjective

Fontsnob WOULD be a word.

Fontsnob, Copyright 2009 Jack Cullen
http://jackcullen.blogspot.com/ :-P

Yep.

http://aetherwavetheory.blogspot.com/2009/04/does-strings-link-ultracold-with.html

I've seen this at a lot of organizations, the CIO is invariable a non-techie hired on for his skills at schmoozing management than any tech knowledge. Management find real techies a threat as they might get found out. They mostly spend their time quoting the tech press and spouting phrases like 'integrated innovation' and 'empowerment'. The top man specifically hires people dumber then him, else they could be as threat to his job. In turn the CTO hires someone even dumber than he is, and so on down the line. If something 'technical' comes along they hire in a 'consultant', fire him and take credit for his work. Of course any real in-house techies have to be transferred before they figure out just how stupid the CIO really is. So you end up with a business where the longest serving employee has been there less then ten months. Eventually the company goes down the tubes ...

I can't believe your comment got a downward moderation as "flamebait"; I think it deserves to "+5 Insightful". I've even reproduced it on my blog here.

This is the second time someone has brought up the whole Baptist thing (that I've seen).

You do remember your history, right? You know what the Louisiana Purchase is, and where we bought that land from, right? You know the people settled there were French, and most French people (even in the New World) are Catholic, right?

Here are two sources for demographic data: Wikipedia's Louisiana article and this blog entry summarizing a survey. If you believe Wikipedia, then 30% of Louisiana is Catholic overall, and 38% is Baptist -- not that this is all Baptist groups, not just one group calling itself Baptist. If you believe the survey, then 28% of the state's population is Catholic, and 31% is "evangelical," which includes Baptists -- again, this category is a catch-all, and isn't just one group calling itself Baptist.

So while the Catholic Church is considered one monolithic organization, the Baptists are not. That's another thing to consider when looking at those numbers.

As the person to whom you responded wrote, the Catholic population is heavy in the south of the state... which should be no big surprise, as that's where New Orleans is.

Not sure why you'd conflate Creole and Baptist. Creole could just as likely mean a practitioner of Voodoo (seriously) as a member of any other religion. That said, most Creole who practice Voodoo are also nominally Catholics.

Again, the relevance here is that the Catholic Church is very obviously sponsoring this legislation. The Archbishop specifically petitioned for it, as did the Conference of Catholic Bishops.

Your "out of touch" comments are spot-on. This is really just pandering to a particular religious group. I suspect if this passes, someone in Louisiana is going to get convicted for violating this law in a way that nobody foresaw... causing a great outcry from some quarters to either repeal or modify the law. But by that point, it'll be too late.

According to the bloggers followup, at least three models are affected:
5800 (20.0.0.12)
N79 (11.049)
E75 (110.48.78)

Also from the followup:
Yes, I know there is a solution called Nokia Messaging (read more from here), but maybe I wasn't clear enough in my initial post: I am configuring direct IMAP/POP access to my own/company/organization/whatever email service and I am not using nor planning to use Nokia's messaging proxy.

Louisiana is a majority baptist area. If you're going to bash Christian sects, at least have the decency to pick the right one!

Culturally, New Orleans and the surrounding areas are heavily Catholic. The French history of Louisiana cannot be denied.

Additionally, you don't supply any numbers, so I checked Wikipedia. The percentage of Catholics is 30%, and the percentage of Baptists (all groups calling themselves Baptist) is 38% -- not exactly the overwhelming majority you're making it out to be, and the two groups are statistically close. Don't like Wikipedia? Fine, here's another source. According to this article, 31% of the state's residents are "evangelical," which includes Baptists, while 28% are Catholic. Again, both groups are pretty close, though note the even smaller difference in this set of figures.

The point is, trying to say Louisiana is majority Baptist is disingenuous and ignores the cultural heritage of Louisiana. Mardi Gras is a French/Creole phenomenon, and that group is almost entirely Catholic.

Furthermore, the article linked in the summary clearly states that this legislation was submitted at the request of the Catholic Church (via Archbishop Alfred Hughes and the Conference of Catholic Bishops). If you'd take the time to read TFA, you'd realize that the person you're responding to is "bashing" the right sect, because that's the religious sect mentioned in the article. All this blather about Baptists sounds like a pissing contest to me. Really, dude, why do you care so much about your narrow world view that you need to try to hijack this thread with some pointless diversion about a religious group not mentioned in the fucking article? Because you're pissed off that someone suggested a different religious group has more political power than yours does?

In short, do try to keep it on topic, m'kay?

Nokias response

From a post made in December, it also apparently blocks AdSense ads (which would make sense, since they're part of Gooooogle). Anybody else know what this "Safety Filter" blocks?

Pirate Bay are just digital looters, only the thud & blunder tactics of the industry could raise these thieves to the status of folk heroes. My view of how the industry should be handling this.

Nearly 2 Kilometers if you figure the average cost at $20 USD per DVD.

Thats nearly as far as a chinese dog sawm to feed her puppies: http://cgullworld.blogspot.com/2007/08/chinese-dog-swims-2-kilometers-to-feed.html

Oh one thing i meant to add. You have to use SSH tunneling to get to the remote share. Not just because of security but also because Windows doesn't like using SMB on anything but the default port. It's only a minor inconvenience though.
Tutorial with help on SMB -> SSH tunneling
http://kign.blogspot.com/2008/07/accessing-smb-shares-under-firewall.html

Alberta might as well

In Alberta it is a moot point. Alberta has no provincial sales tax at all, though if they keep posting record-setting deficits that might change.

Guess the financial picture ain't so rosy when oil isn't trading for $100/barrel, eh?

I disagree. Not so much the VAT itself, but any tax which is built into the price. It's too easy for pols to hide their scams.
The downside as you mention is that one often forgets to add the sales tax to the displayed price, with sometimes awkward consequences.
One thing I would like to see is a law mandating the tax component of EVERYTHING you buy -- "built-in" or not -- shown on the receipt or included in the transaction record. We already do this with sales taxes.
http://taxoscopy.blogspot.com/

Now, if only we could harness that energy, we might be able to come up with a cloaking device based on a projected "Somebody Else's Problem" field...

Oh, look, there's a random blog posting linking to the paper and a recording.

Kim Jong Il uses iTunes! - nuff said! http://fakesteveballmer.blogspot.com/

Vista seven software makes this possible! http://fakesteveballmer.blogspot.com/

Actually I would avoid Win95. It was just too buggy. I am guessing you put it on an older laptop, yes? I would recommend either Win2K or one of the light Puppy Linux builds. For compatibility you can run Win2K through Nlite and as you can see from the FAQ you can get it down to 60MB for the .iso. I have used it on many an older machine and can testify that with Nlite you can have Win2K running well in 64Mb of RAM and have it be a screaming demon in anything 128Mb or better.

With an Nlited Win2K and Kmeleon CCF ME you can have a VERY fast and stable experience on as little as a 233MHz with 64Mb of RAM. Great for older laptops. Give it a try and I'll bet you'll like it. But if you want to run Win9x, run Win98SE. Win95 was never a stable OS.

As someone who is typing this on a Win2K machine that runs beautifully, why would I want to upgrade? It is starting to look like Mozilla is jumping on the MSFT "You NEED Vista" bandwagon. Oh well, that is the great thing about browsers today. I can just jump ship to vanilla Kmeleon or Kmeleon CCF Me both of which run faster than FF3. And as you can see here with Kmeleon you can go all the way back to Win95 and still run the Gecko engine just by adding a few files.

Maybe if Mozilla pulls this BS somebody will fork it? Considering how many 2K/XP machines are out there they will have plenty of users. But Win2K/XP isn't like Win9x where the stability issues gave you a reason to switch. They are solid, reliable, and with a little tweaking easy to lock down. Why would I want to jump through all the compatibility hoops, dealing with tons of software that won't run, etc just to have MSFT's latest OS which frankly looks like a cross between OSX and "pimp my ride" and adds nothing of value but lots of bloat? No thanks. If Mozilla does this I bet all those gains they have gotten against IE will start dropping off. Dumb move Mozilla, just dumb.

On top of the ads don't forget their nearly ubiquitus "Google Analytics" feature that so many website silently use these days.

After Google's recent behavioral tracking push, they warned me via email that I would need to update one of MY WEBSITE'S privacy policies to avoid legal liability following their new improprieties.

Now I use Adblock and a peppering of few other measures to resist profiling.

Hmm... maybe Obama is actually pro-P2P, and he's hiring all of the RIAA's lawyers away from them, so they'll fail in court?

Well they're already failing in court.

But you may have a point there. The 6 RIAA lawyers who are now in the DOJ are legally recused from working on any matters involving the RIAA, EMI, Vivendi Universal, SONY BMG, or Warner Bros Records or any of their affiliates. So by appointing them to DOJ, perhaps he's taken the DOJ -- which has recently acted like a fawning toady of the RIAA -- out of the game. The 2 briefs the Obama DOJ has filed in RIAA cases, in SONY BMG Music Entertainment v. Tenenbaum and SONY BMG Music Entertainment v. Cloud read like they were drafted by the proverbial monkeys let loose in a room of typewriters. When the judges actually read the cases the briefs cited, and the authorities they deliberated failed to cite, they will be appalled that our nation's legal department could be so irresponsible.

Hmm... maybe Obama is actually pro-P2P, and he's hiring all of the RIAA's lawyers away from them, so they'll fail in court?

Well they're already failing in court.

But you may have a point there. The 6 RIAA lawyers who are now in the DOJ are legally recused from working on any matters involving the RIAA, EMI, Vivendi Universal, SONY BMG, or Warner Bros Records or any of their affiliates. So by appointing them to DOJ, perhaps he's taken the DOJ -- which has recently acted like a fawning toady of the RIAA -- out of the game. The 2 briefs the Obama DOJ has filed in RIAA cases, in SONY BMG Music Entertainment v. Tenenbaum and SONY BMG Music Entertainment v. Cloud read like they were drafted by the proverbial monkeys let loose in a room of typewriters. When the judges actually read the cases the briefs cited, and the authorities they deliberated failed to cite, they will be appalled that our nation's legal department could be so irresponsible.

Well, they sure as hell aren't spending it on royalties.

Korean Internet users now have to submit their resident registration codes, the Korean equivalent of social security numbers, and names, before posting files or commenting on Web sites with more than 100,000 daily visitors

Have they become what they hate?

Too late: how do you think mitochondria and E. Coli happened among our ancestor species?

The theory that Richard Dawkins put in his book "The Blind Watchmaker" is that early on two or more bacteria fused together to supplement each other within the boundaries of one "cell". For this reason, the mitochondria has its own "DNA" separate from the nucleus. This theory was first proposed in 1967 by L.Sagan: http://endosymbionts.blogspot.com/2006/01/on-origin-of-mitosing-cells-1967.html

Anybody who is interested in the immense banking fraud we have can start reading here:
http://globaleconomicanalysis.blogspot.com/2009/04/time-to-breakup-goldman-sachs.html
http://www.pbs.org/moyers/journal/04032009/transcript1.html

additionally, you can add
127.0.0.1 nytimes.com
to your hosts file

Monday, July 17, 2006

Network Neutrality : Two question for the great debate. In California there was an outrage when it was disclosed that electricity companies had deliberately idled plants while supplies were tight and then waited for prices to skyrocket on the spot market. If the current Internet network infrastructure provided by the backbone providers and Internet service providers can currently support much higher speeds and data quantities to current customers, then is the act of packet filtering and setting arbitrary low speed and data caps also effectively providing an "idled" service? Is a tiered Internet service, where content providers would be effectively competing on a similar market to the electricity "spot market", a market based entirely on Artificial Scarcity?

Unfortunately for CA the plant owners did exactly what was to be expected given the rules established by the state.

CA's legislature thought they had setup that met their political goals - keep prices low to voters but in reality screwed up their entire pricing structure. Let's see - price caps (and rate reductions) to end users no matter what the supply cost was; mandated supply even if the cost was more to the utility than what they are getting paid; and a pricing model that encouraged getting the highest cost plants online as much as possible. Despite some warnings that this would happen the legislature touted the bill as a great thing - and when things went south they ran as fast as they could from accepting any of the blame for screwing things up.

Network Neutrality : Two question for the great debate. In California there was an outrage when it was disclosed that electricity companies had deliberately idled plants while supplies were tight and then waited for prices to skyrocket on the spot market. If the current Internet network infrastructure provided by the backbone providers and Internet service providers can currently support much higher speeds and data quantities to current customers, then is the act of packet filtering and setting arbitrary low speed and data caps also effectively providing an "idled" service? Is a tiered Internet service, where content providers would be effectively competing on a similar market to the electricity "spot market", a market based entirely on Artificial Scarcity?

Yup it is definitely rel not rev see also: rel="nofollow" rel="noindex" etc See also the Google Webmaster Central Blog: http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2009/02/specify-your-canonical.html

Yeah, I don't get this. The Google blog article uses rel. Where did rev come from?

Sounds familiar: http://tcoverride.blogspot.com/2009/04/president-chuck-somali-pirates.html

Its not complicated - really, its not. People want windows. 100's of millions of people, over years and years and years. Even the ones that pirate it want it. More here on my blog: http://iamtheblackfish.blogspot.com/2009/04/linux-on-netbooks-its-not-complicated.html

Purportedly, the RIAA can identify each of the people who illegally acquired a copy

No, actually they've admitted they can't.

That must be why America is such a paradise under the Deomcrats.

You have no idea how true that is.

Neither do you .

I was watching the discussion, and found people argumenting about windows and linux.. But my opinion is open source morality is no more about exclusions, it is all about inclusions so that every one gets a chance to live in this world.. we can fuse windows apps and linux apps in the linux machines so that we can make linux more usable.. atleast for now... and later when we get better technologies available... we might avoid the current win apps and use the alternatives.. for example i use dreamweaver in linux using wine, since there are no better alternatives... Look at things from different directions positively.. Can we have a firefox version which will not accept pages from windows servers ??? yeah i mean exclusion will only narrow possibilities...

NextDoorNerd

The damages the RIAA sues for are obscenely inflated, but to claim that piracy does zero damage to them is simply dishonest.

Of course there is damage, but the courts have rejected the RIAA's theory that each unauthorized download represents a lost sale, in this recent criminal copyright infringement case.