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I have tested google chrome in linux using wine before one week see http://shibuvarkala.blogspot.com/ makri

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First, some URLs:

Long range acoustic device
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_range_acoustic_device

Ship Blasted Pirates With Sonic Weapon
http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D8DNUV2G3&show_article=1

Sonic Weapons Ward Off Pirate Attack
http://realmwaverider.blogspot.com/2005/11/sonic-weapons-ward-off-pirate-attack.html

Does LRAD Work?
http://maritimeaccident.wordpress.com/2008/03/25/does-lrad-work/

Cruise Lines Turn to LRAD
http://www.marinelink.com/Story/Cruise+Lines+Turn+to++LRAD-200811.html

This is almost a Security Theatre/Boondoggle Exercise all over again.

Any pirates wanting a particular ship, or even a random one that is known to be equipped with sonic blasters, but not protected by specially-trained anti-piracy personne with long-range weaponry will only need to fire RPGs, or laser-guided weapons, or use sniper rifles with HE/AP shells to take out the expensive, lone sonic mount. Even a frag blast *near* it may send it off-kilter.

To pull this off is a no-brainer. Typically, pirates already send one to 3 boats ahead of the target lying wait in the dark. They already would have paid out (dispensed) a line rigged between them as they separated sufficiently to ensnare the target. The target craft/vessel encounters the line, and forging ahead, draws the pirates in closer. They pirates use suction cups or grappling hooks, or some combination thereof and scale the hull.

Now, using sniper rifles with NVG-enhancement type equipment, a few well-placed sniper-fired rounds from one or more craft can take out the LRAD mounts -- unless so many multiples (fakes) are emplaced so as to cause the pirates to fire enough rounds do betray their location. Smart LRAD emplacements will have gear to detect and localize the source of incoming fire and train the operational/real LRAD to that bearing and elevation and dwell on the target. But, in congested areas, like the Strait of Malacca, using the LRAD can quickly become illegal if locals are sickened, ship-wrecked or otherwise harmed.

For a more recent article (but not one containing countermeasures such as mine, which anyone with half a brain can adduce/deduct/produce/educe in 45 seconds), see:

Maritime Reporter & Engineering News (www.marinelink.com) August 2008

If you are a sailor/yacht operator, you've probably already read:

"The New Piracy"
http://www.lrb.co.uk/v25/n24/glas01_.html

"Dangerous Waters: Modern Piracy and Terror on the High Seas", By John Burnette (I bought my copy in 2003)
http://www.amazon.com/Dangerous-Waters-Modern-Piracy-Terror/dp/0452284139

Two examples:

(1) Obama wants to improve science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) education by broadening its scope beyond just science and engineering majors:

All American citizens need high quality STEM education that inspires them to know more about the world around them, engages them in exploring challenging questions, and involves them in high quality intellectual work. STEM education is no longer only for those pursuing STEM careers; it should enable all citizens to solve problems, collaborate, weigh evidence, and communicate ideas.

whereas McCain sees science as being for geeks only. He wants more geeks, so the rest of the country don't have to bother their pretty heads while getting law and business degrees:

The diminishing number of science, technology, engineering and math graduates at the college level poses a fundamental and immediate threat to American competitiveness. We must fill the pipeline to our colleges and universities with students prepared for the rigors of advanced engineering, math, science and technology degrees.

(2) Obama sees technology leadership as being essential to national security:

It's essential to create a coherent new defense technology strategy to meet the kinds of threats we may faceâ"asymmetric conflicts, urban operations, peacekeeping missions, and cyber, bio, and proliferation threats, as well as new kinds of symmetric threats.

whereas McCain sees national security as essentially just military superiority:

As President, I will strengthen the military, shore up our alliances, and ensure that the nation is capable of protecting the homeland, deterring potential military challenges, responding to any crisis that endangers American security, and prevailing in any conflict we are forced to fight.

For more contrasts, see my blog post

Finally, it also gives them a way to move into the iPhone market *if* they can get a purchase app on the iPhone.

Hmmm, unlikely.

It would probably duplicate functionality

While I realize Apple does that, Best Buy probably has a bit more clout with Apple, and a lot more financial resources to devote to lawsuits, than the average app developer.

It would far easier, and smarter, to allow BB to do sell music via an app than risk a court deciding that Apple's actions are anti-competitive.

Finally, it also gives them a way to move into the iPhone market *if* they can get a purchase app on the iPhone.

Hmmm, unlikely.

It would probably duplicate functionality

Between this and the Zune Media store, itunes will effectively be put out to pasture! http://fakesteveballmer.blogspot.com/

Google is actually pretty open about what they log for Google suggest. http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2008/09/update-to-google-suggest.html

If you are not trying to steal anything, you have nothing to worry about people! http://fakesteveballmer.blogspot.com/

Texas uses lethal injection not the firing squad. And as governor of Texas Bush signed 152 death warrants, he even signed one for a mentally retarded person.

Falcon

I think you are confusing GWB with WJC (Bill Clinton):
See Bill Rector

Rector seemed incapable of understanding his pending death sentence. For his last meal, he left the pecan pie on the side of the tray, telling the guards who came to take him to the execution chamber that he was saving it "for later".

Personally, I applaud both Clinton and Bush for upholding the law. If you are competent enough to do the crime, you are competent enough to see justice!

But the death penalty is not in question here. What is in question is the death penalty without a trial.

Yet immediately after the Santa Clara bribe and skirmish, Che ordered 27 Batista soldiers executed as "war criminals." Dr. Serafin Ruiz was a Castro operative in Santa Clara at the time, but apparently an essentially decent one. "But Comandante" he responded to Che's order. "Our revolution promises not to execute without trials, without proof. How can we just....?"

"Look Serafin" Che snorted back. "If your bourgeois prejudices won't allow you to carry out my orders, fine. Go ahead and try them tomorrow morning--but execute them NOW!"

Seriously though, if you want to keep saying that GWB is like Che, it really just shows your extreme ignorance. If he were, first, you'd be dead after being labeled a traitor (no trial necessary). Speaking of no trial, Guantanamo wouldn't be a prison, it would be a graveyard. Google "The Butcher of La Cabaña" for what Guantanamo would be like.

I don't get it! http://fakesteveballmer.blogspot.com/

It is management that makes things work! http://fakesteveballmer.blogspot.com/

As information technology begets ever-growing oceans of records, all legal investigations and prosecutions grow ever more lengthy, revealing, expensive and difficult to close. --Ben http://hack-igations.blogspot.com/2007/09/endless-investigations.html

Most all data in commercial and government systems are "exposed" or "compromised" to one degree or another virtually all the time. Should each citizen therefore be mailed 100 breach notices every day? Legally and ethically speaking, we do not have a competent definition of what is and is not a security breach. The result is confusion and excessive anxiety on the part of data holders, data subjects, legal authorities and the media. Ben http://hack-igations.blogspot.com/2007/09/definition-of-data-security-breach.html

The best source I found is this reply to a curious supporter. I followed a link from the recipient's 'blog to the above e-mail.

Millions of Muslims slit throats of sheep at least once a year as a sacrifice for 'Eid-ul-Adha (the right sacrifice is to do it yourself).

From my personal experience the tough part is to overcome the fur resistance by exposing the skin (I have never been able to manage that and had to delegate this to someone else), but this problem (I guess) does not exist if you need to cut the throat of the captured enemy soldier (unless he has a really thick beard) (on contrary to what it looks like, this is one of the most merciful ways of execution or slaughtering because when you cut that artery the brain is quickly deprived of oxygen).

Umm, bullshit.

WARNING: VIDEO IS OF CHECHENS BEHEADING RUSSIAN CONSCRIPTS WHO DIE VERY SLOWLY. IT IS INCREDIBLY DISTURBING

http://robertlindsay.blogspot.com/2008/07/six-russian-conscripts-beheading_7739.html

...over at the 360is blog here. Once VMWare used to charge $5K per server, then Citrix halved that, before Microsoft came out with their offering for less than $40! Hypervisors are crashing in price faster than hard drive space.

AG.

The most honorable Senator Joseph Isadore Lieberman would certainly not promote widespread media censorship and bullying of the press concerning so-called ''anti-semitic' 'self-hate' views on Middle East issues...

All of this may end up affecting no more than a few bomb-making tutorials and turbant fashion-shows, non?

Anyway, Senator Lieberman deserves much praise for his deep concern about videos disseminating propaganda and showing `gratuitous violence or people getting "hurt, attacked, or humiliated."'.

Finally, we should not forget some valuable insight on "the domestic radicalization process" which, with Joseph Lieberman as Chairman, the United States Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs has included in the report "Violent Islamist Extremism, The Internet, and the Homegrown Terrorist Threat". Apart from minor detais on player identification, the four-stage model in page 4 seems remarkably insightful when confronted with recent US history and even with the good Senator's own radicalizing messages. Will such 'aiding and abetting' discourse be removed from YouTube as part of the ongoing un'unamerican' First Amendment Amendment?

Well god knows they have enough data on the entire world to implement ranking in a way that's weighted towards users similar to you

That would be the ideal solution. Not the same results for everybody, but individually tailored results for everyone.

More about this concept here.

If websites were voted on, I'm wondering if the web will turn into one giant human group think. The folks who are fringe would be buried into oblivion.

Not necessarily. The key is there shouldn't be a common denominator. Everyone should see results which people voting similary to him vote up, so nothing would be censored, only hidden from your own personal view.

It would also make a great spam fighting technique.

Here's an explanation of the concept.

Funny you should mention that. Flash 9 runs on the JVM. So they're pretty much the same thing at this point. As of Flash 9(may have been sooner, but I've only worked with 9), Flash is Java plus a few extensions, once compiled.

Actionscript3 compiles to Java bytecode, and runs on the JVM. Not sure about AS2 and below.

Comparing a GPU, an SIMD (single instruction, multiple data) vector processor, to a CPU, a superscalar sequential processor, is like comparing apples and oranges. Sure, they are both fruits but they don't taste the same. Using the term 'general-purpose' to describe a GPU is pushing the limits of what a GPU is. Certainly, it can run general-purpose programs but much faster at running what it was designed to run, data-parallel applications. A GPU does not have to have a fast clock because it makes up for it by doing a lot of operations in parallel.

A CPU, OTOH, can have a very fast clock but even if it has a superscalar architecture, it cannot come close to the performance of a GPU on data-parallel apps.

It is obvious that neither the GPU nor the CPU are universal processors and, IMO, that is an unforgivable sin. Having both of these types of processors in the same machine is asking for trouble. They require two incompatible programming models. Programming such a beast is like pulling teeth with a crowbar. Only a few are good at it and that is not good for the industry. What is needed is a fast vector processor that can run in MIMD (multiple instruction, multiple data) mode. This way, it would have no trouble running general-purpose apps just as fast as data-parallel apps. The problem is that such a processor would need a radically different programming model, one that is specifically designed for fine-grain MIMD prosessing. None of the current programming tools would work with it. Still, that's the future of parallel computing. There is no getting around this.

Herading the Impending Death of the CPU

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To deter employers from viewing social networking pages, employees might post terms of service under which employers agree to scram. This idea should not be taken as legal advice, just something to think about. --Ben http://hack-igations.blogspot.com/2007/11/privacy-advocates-such-as-nyu-professor.html

To deter employers from viewing social networking pages, employees might post terms of service under which employers agree to scram. This idea should not be taken as legal advice, just something to think about. --Ben http://hack-igations.blogspot.com/2007/11/privacy-advocates-such-as-nyu-professor.html

I've heard this story before about the university I went to (Lakehead U). Either this is urban myth or it happens very often:

http://www.informationweek.com/news/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=6505527
http://sewicked.blogspot.com/2008/07/urban-legend-have-you-ever-heard-story.html

I make a similar point regarding religious ideas or belief in God in one of my earlier blogpost that discussed this in evolutionary cost/benefit analysis in detail. The link is http://the-mouse-trap.blogspot.com/2008/04/god-is-just-type-i-error.html

This isn't anything new for the telephone companies. After they were partially deregulated, they starting gouging their wireline customers with insane markups on optional features like caller-ID, call waiting, etc. To add insult to injury, they refuse to spend any of their huge profits on doing the database lookups that would greatly improve the quality of caller-id data.

http://calleridunavailable.blogspot.com/2006/09/what-your-phone-company-doesnt-want-you.html

Apple *had* an X server implementation when they started futzing with NeXT. They *fled* from using it as the core of their desktop, and for good reason.

And no, douchebag, I don't consider "server infrastructure" to be file browsers or window managers. Trying to write a performant graphics driver for X.org (which is the only X server that really matters, in a desktop context; Xming for Windows, as you alluded to, can't do most of what a modern desktop should be able to, though it's useful for a few tasks) requires you to rip out the lower third of the fucking server and wedge in custom code for it. Linux Hater Blog has an excellent explanation, for the people who don't know what they're talking about (that'd be you, champ): http://linuxhaters.blogspot.com/2008/06/nitty-gritty-shit-on-open-source.html

This is what you call "vulgar libertarianism": defending the status quo, even though it's not actually the libertarian solution. It's the government that's decided that we aren't mature enough to send and receive whatever broadcasts we want over whatever spectrum we want. The spectrum is, in theory, infinitely divisible, and essentially limitless. But of course we can't find the most effective way to limit interference and broadcast over anarchic airwaves unless we're forced to compete - unless it's either find a way to broadcast, or don't. Until the FCC stops regulating the air, you'll never see a true free market in cellular data (and voice, whatever). So, rather than defending capitalism by saying, "So don't buy it!" it would be better to explain why this isn't a failure of capitalism.

Rationalitate

This is not a market failure, but rather a government failure. It's the government that's decided that we aren't mature enough to send and receive whatever broadcasts we want over whatever spectrum we want. The spectrum is, in theory, infinitely divisible, and essentially limitless. But of course we can't find the most effective way to limit interference and broadcast over anarchic airwaves unless we're forced to compete - unless it's either find a way to broadcast, or don't. Until the FCC stops regulating the air, you'll never see a true free market in cellular data (and voice, whatever). Rationalitate

So what's the solution

There needs to be a more detailed code of best practices, as, e.g., what has been agreed to for documentary film makers, or what we are hoping to see for user-generated online video. Also there should be some kind of very inexpensive arbitration forum where these issues can be resolved quickly, expeditiously, inexpensively, and before -- rather than after -- the creator has invested his or her time, energy, and money.

http://silentmmo.blogspot.com/ taken at a world pvp objective (something wow can't manage to get players to care about).

True, here's one blog entry from a guy who used them just for that purpose.

I'll stick with threads thank you.

my (similar) question is: WHAT may happen if Google will offer SOON its (Windows Vista and OSX compatible) 100% FREE "GoOS"? maybe, something like this: http://newgoos.blogspot.com/

Wow. Take a look at Monday's trading history for UAUA. Look at that drop. And notice that it happened on huge volume; several hundred million dollars changed hands within fifteen minutes. It wasn't just a few traders running the price down in light trading.

The stock hasn't come back all the way. It's still down 20% for the week.

Here's the newspaper page that started it all, as archived by Google.

Whatever you do, don't ask Google themselves. It'll ruin your whole conspiracy theory.

http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2008/09/update-to-google-chromes-terms-of.html "This section is included because, under copyright law, Google needs what's called a "license" to display or transmit content. So to show a blog, we ask the user to give us a license to the blog's content. (The same goes for any other service where users can create content.) But in all these cases, the license is limited to providing the service."

You are implying (well, stating outright) the RIAA cases are illogical, and I disagree.

1. Yes I stated. I never imply.

2. Yes I stated they are illogical. I was not speaking as a businessman, but as a lawyer. They are illogical because they are not based on sound legal theory or on evidence that the defendant infringed any of plaintiffs' rights. I don't see anything in your post which disputes that.

3. As to whether the suits are logical from a business perspective, I will leave that to the marketplace, which does not seem to think so.

You are implying (well, stating outright) the RIAA cases are illogical, and I disagree.

1. Yes I stated. I never imply.

2. Yes I stated they are illogical. I was not speaking as a businessman, but as a lawyer. They are illogical because they are not based on sound legal theory or on evidence that the defendant infringed any of plaintiffs' rights. I don't see anything in your post which disputes that.

3. As to whether the suits are logical from a business perspective, I will leave that to the marketplace, which does not seem to think so.

You are implying (well, stating outright) the RIAA cases are illogical, and I disagree.

1. Yes I stated. I never imply.

2. Yes I stated they are illogical. I was not speaking as a businessman, but as a lawyer. They are illogical because they are not based on sound legal theory or on evidence that the defendant infringed any of plaintiffs' rights. I don't see anything in your post which disputes that.

3. As to whether the suits are logical from a business perspective, I will leave that to the marketplace, which does not seem to think so.

You are implying (well, stating outright) the RIAA cases are illogical, and I disagree.

1. Yes I stated. I never imply.

2. Yes I stated they are illogical. I was not speaking as a businessman, but as a lawyer. They are illogical because they are not based on sound legal theory or on evidence that the defendant infringed any of plaintiffs' rights. I don't see anything in your post which disputes that.

3. As to whether the suits are logical from a business perspective, I will leave that to the marketplace, which does not seem to think so.

You are implying (well, stating outright) the RIAA cases are illogical, and I disagree.

1. Yes I stated. I never imply.

2. Yes I stated they are illogical. I was not speaking as a businessman, but as a lawyer. They are illogical because they are not based on sound legal theory or on evidence that the defendant infringed any of plaintiffs' rights. I don't see anything in your post which disputes that.

3. As to whether the suits are logical from a business perspective, I will leave that to the marketplace, which does not seem to think so.

On a different note, as I was reading the copyright law, it mentions that derivative works cannot be created without the explicit permission of the copyright holder. As a musician, I do not understand how one determines that a particular composition is a derived work. Musical compositions across genres can have huge commonalities in structure and along a lot of these dimensions. While the goal may be to prevent blatant plagiarism of musical compositions, I think it is virtually impossible to objectively define what is original work vs what is derived work in music.

Vijay
http://diagonalslash.blogspot.com/

http://harns.blogspot.com/2008/07/so-obvious-and-yet-so-not-done.html

This is asinine. The DOJ should be going after the real problem... the f*^k!ng lawyers the 'parasites' at the top of the food chain... but they won't b/c they don't like the taste of their own blood. see http://evilesq.blogspot.com/

You'll notice if you look at our other products that many of them are governed by Section 11 of our Universal Terms of Service. This section is included because, under copyright law, Google needs what's called a "license" to display or transmit content.

"Gordon freeman, you're needed in the test chamber".

They say, "we will never use this against you", yet they say it. Why? Because they will. You people are best off sticking with MS products and services, we believe in freedom~! http://fakesteveballmer.blogspot.com/

Strange things happen ...

I thought this is so funny I even blogged about it ...

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