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Maybe if your OS was somewhat intelligent it would provide a way to run 32-bit software for all those applications that don't need 64-bit, like every other OS that has a 64-bit version. Check out this for why porting stuff to 64-bit Linux is a pain.

Here is a good website that I used to build an antenna one afternoon: http://uhfhdtvantenna.blogspot.com/ I currently live in Palm Bay, about an hour away from Orlando on the East Coast of Florida. If I point this antenna toward Orlando, I'm getting around 25 channels that come in solid using a Tivo HD. We love it and it only costs $13 a month for the Tivo service.

For info on the new setting and how to enable it, see the Gmail blog post.

Be careful how you address him, or he'll add you to his little list.

Oh look, I'm on this list for this comment, which must have annoyed him

http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=637183&cid=24496085

Twitter waited. The lights above him blinked and sparked out of the air. There were crazies on the internets. He didn't see them, but had expected them now for years. His warnings to Linus Torvalds were not listenend to and now it was too late. Far too late for now, anyway.
Twitter was a space cadet for fourteen years. When he was young he watched the flamewars on alt.fan.stallman and he said to dad "I want to be on the internets daddy."
Dad said "No! You will BE TROLL"
There was a time when he believed him. Then as he got oldered he stopped. But now in his parents basement he knew there were trolls.
"This is Torvalds" the radio crackered. "You must fight the trolls!"
So Twitter gotted his Iceweazel and posted "M$M$M$".
"HE GOING TO DISCREDIT US" said the paid shills.
"I will shoot at him" said Ballmer and he fired the cost of ownership surveys. Twitter flaemed at him and tried to blew him up. But then the downmods fell and they were hidden and not able to kill.
"No! I must kill the trolls" he shouted
The radio said "No, Twitter. You are the trolls"
And then Twitter was a troll.

It's a parody of this awful and unintentionally funny Doom fan fiction

http://amirhafizi.blogspot.com/2008/07/doom-repercussions-of-evil.html

Actually most of the mineable Uranium is already in normal seawater. It's even in the rain !

http://peakoildebunked.blogspot.com/2006/01/207-uranium-from-seawater-part-1.html

(I don't agree with the message of this blog, it's just the first google hit)

And if radioactive uranium isn't enough for you, Poseidon also stocks (massive quantities of) both Thorium and Radon (the only radioactive substance that has in history actually cause large amounts of radiation disease in humans).

I'm sure that's not all of the radioactivity that's stocked by our Tremletted friend, just the beginning (apparently some Israeli scientists think he's also stocking an element with atomic number 122, which is something no human has ever done)

Gaggle is gagging this stuff up all over everybody! http://fakesteveballmer.blogspot.com/

Hahn was arrested last year for trying to steal smoke detectors from his apartment complex.

Judging from his mugshot he looks to be suffering the effects of radiation exposure.

With all this talk of passing the torch, whose case is the one we should now be watching?

You never know, sometimes they sneak up on you, but some that bear watching are
UMG v. Lindor
Lava v. Amurao
Capitol v. Thomas
Andersen v. Atlantic
Atlantic v. Boyer
Arista v. Does 1-17
Atlantic v. Does 1-27
Elektra v. Doe and
Arista v. Does 1-21 (case files here),
but there are others too. Too many to mention.

http://minstrelboy.blogspot.com/2008/08/cross-us-and-we-will-crush-you-warns.html

and, pointing out that the "surprise" war in Georgia was scripted, and Putin was involved from the foundation of it...

http://minstrelboy.blogspot.com/2008/08/russia-georgia-early-take-swj-blog.html

Welcome to the New World Order, and know that the one running the show misses the Soviet Union, and is willing to kill anyone who stands in its way.

Enjoy.

( nice sharp observation at that blog, BTW :)

http://minstrelboy.blogspot.com/2008/08/cross-us-and-we-will-crush-you-warns.html

and, pointing out that the "surprise" war in Georgia was scripted, and Putin was involved from the foundation of it...

http://minstrelboy.blogspot.com/2008/08/russia-georgia-early-take-swj-blog.html

Welcome to the New World Order, and know that the one running the show misses the Soviet Union, and is willing to kill anyone who stands in its way.

Enjoy.

( nice sharp observation at that blog, BTW :)

http://photobusinessforum.blogspot.com/2008/07/tineye-oh-my.html

If you need to slipstream Drivers, the Driver Packs are the easiest way to do it.

Also, if you slipstream SP1/2/3 into XP, make sure you build your image on an XP machine. If you build it on a Vista machine, you'll get disks that no longer BSOD but they will give you problems when you try to enter your XP license key. Vista will replace the PIDGEN files with VISTA ones so you can't use XP keys anymore. If you slipstream on an XP machine, it will work just fine though. Either that or manually copy the PIDGEN.DLL and DPCDLL.DL_ files from you SP3 install directory after slipstreaming on Vista.

In your opinion, what were the chances of Ms. Barker winning the suit, had she not settled?

Good question. If you take a good look at Ms. Barker's answer you'll see that her defenses weren't about winning, they were about keeping the damages reasonable. E.g., if the RIAA were precluded from recovering statutory damages for the 8 recordings in exhibit A, based on the 4th affirmative defense, it still could easily have "won" the case and recovered its actual damages of approximately $3 US (or 2 euros).

This is why English Public Schools designed to scrub up young gentlemen and closet young ladies have installed cameras in the bogs http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/education/7567193.stm (17th August 2008) so they can't get a sneaky fag in without getting buggered or damage the Johnny machine since the Headmaster stopped their Friday-night rubber allowance http://glyndaviesam.blogspot.com/2007/12/have-good-weekend-children.html.

Meanwhile, the revolting parents are demanding that "free condom Friday" be re-instated by the school ...

Once again, Blighty is ahead of the game in urban anti-terror educational re-adjustment bodily function pacification!

In France, zey just pis in ze bushes.

In fact, evil (suing a woman with multiple sclerosis who didn't use a computer) harassment (suing a woman on disability benefits who didn't use file-sharing software) of innocent people is what's going on. And that is without noting that their damages are about $0.20/song (at retail prices, $0.99/song) but they are asking for the statutory $150K per, that they aren't actually proving their cases (have you looked at what they pretend is "evidence"?), that they are abusing the Federal Process (illegal joinder, failure to cite adverse opinions, citing opinions that have been reconsidered).

In fact, evil (suing a woman with multiple sclerosis who didn't use a computer) harassment (suing a woman on disability benefits who didn't use file-sharing software) of innocent people is what's going on. And that is without noting that their damages are about $0.20/song (at retail prices, $0.99/song) but they are asking for the statutory $150K per, that they aren't actually proving their cases (have you looked at what they pretend is "evidence"?), that they are abusing the Federal Process (illegal joinder, failure to cite adverse opinions, citing opinions that have been reconsidered).

In fact, evil (suing a woman with multiple sclerosis who didn't use a computer) harassment (suing a woman on disability benefits who didn't use file-sharing software) of innocent people is what's going on. And that is without noting that their damages are about $0.20/song (at retail prices, $0.99/song) but they are asking for the statutory $150K per, that they aren't actually proving their cases (have you looked at what they pretend is "evidence"?), that they are abusing the Federal Process (illegal joinder, failure to cite adverse opinions, citing opinions that have been reconsidered).

Overstock.com and the Utah AG - It is perfectly legitimate for companies to donate monies to politicians to help further their political interests. There are also instances in which elected officials have accepted large sums of money to do favors for corporations. As I will be describing in this blog post, Utah Attorney General Mark Shurtleff sold out the integrity of his office, as the chief legal officer of the state of Utah, for a mere $5,000 campaign contribution as a favor to Overstock.com (NASDAQ: OSTK). Here is what happened: The Utah Attorney Generalâ(TM)s Office invited me to make a presentation at its 14th Annual White Collar Crime Conference In August 2007, the Deputy Attorney General Richard Hamp invited me to appear at the Utah Attorney Generalâ(TM)s 14th Annual White Collar Crime Conference after reading my blog and whitecollarfraud.com web site and watching my appearance on CNBC's Business Nation that aired in June 2007. I agreed to make my presentation for no fees and took no cost reimbursements, as has been my policy with all speaking engagements. In other words, my presentation at the white-collar crime conference did not cost the Utah Attorney Generalâ(TM)s office a single penny. About two weeks later, Richard Hamp contacted me again with an unusual request on behalf of his office. He asked me not to mention Overstock.com during my presentation, unless someone asked a question about the company during the presentation.... http://whitecollarfraud.blogspot.com/2008/08/overstockcom-nasdaq-ostk-ceo-patrick.html

I bet the whole court thing isn't easy at all, all the stress over something that's gotten so ridiculous. I hope she finds some relief in the settlement, but it would have been really nice to have another person fighting back. She could'a been'a contenda'!

She was more than a contender; she actually won the fight. She just decided to pass on a rematch, but in my book she goes out a champion.

As long as the tax rate is less than 100% on the additional income, there is still incentive to earn more.

You should not ignore the costs of working. For a family with children, moving both parents into working means paying for child care. Working generally involves a commuting cost and sometimes a clothing cost. A slight change in income and payroll taxes may cause a large number of people to leave the workforce.

The progressive tax system is necessary regardless of the effect it has on motivation, but because there are social costs that has to be paid. Costs which can not and are not internalized by market forces.

Of course, you assume that government has the ability to effect externalities. Sometimes it does. Often it does not. And when it fails to address externalities, even if well-intentioned, it may end up costing society more than the externalities it sought and failed to solve (one word: Iraq).

Taxation itself has a deadweight loss to the economy. Thus you should be careful before you tax, since you are inherently costing society in the process of taxing. What you do with the tax should have a proven ability to provide a return to society greater than its deadweight loss.

A better argument for progressive taxes is because "that's where the money is." In 2006, the top 50% of US income earners paid 97% of income tax dollars, and the top 1% of income earners paid 40% of all income tax dollars.

The barley from the 22-acre field is not stacked yet, but the wheat is stacked & makes two stacks measuring so far as I can judge it 30' by 18' x 24' (high) & 18' x 15' x 20 (high). If these estimates are correct, this works out at 14, 040 cubic feet of stack for about 14 acres of ground. Allowing 1 ton per acre, it seems 1000 cubic feet of stack represent a ton of grain. NB. To check when the whole field is stacked.

Second, there have been a few people who have lanched blogs using the personae of famous people - Chaucer comes to mind - and have done it well.

White text on green background make eyes bleed.

The book sounds like something that could work if done right, it was just hobbled by bad implementation. That old Darth Side blog comes to mind as a good way to do essentially the same idea.

Amen to that! Besides, how much is this costing the US taxpayer in subsidies? I read a great article about nuclear and subsidies called "Nuclear, Silver Bullet or Money Pit" at http://economicefficiency.blogspot.com/2008/07/nuclear-silver-bullet-or-money-pit.html It laid out the costs and what companies are building new plants, and which aren't.

Too bad people forget just how combustible hydrogen is. Instead of hydrogen, why not just make more efficient hybrids, like hydraulic hybrids? The technology is already there, without the need to worry about recycling the Li batteries in existing hybrids, and they are more efficient. I read a great article about this called "Hybrid Hummer Hums" at http://economicefficiency.blogspot.com/2008/07/hybrid-hummer-hums.html It is good to read this isn't an HHO article.

Google released an explanation and apology on the Gmail public blog. In fact, there were announcements on the downtime status throughout the event, but they've since been deprecated for the final blog post.

Why do you need a 64 bit Firefox anyway?

http://linuxhaters.blogspot.com/2008/07/my-browser-needs-16-exabytes.html

Stop defending thieves! If you have not paid for it, it is not yours! This applies even to those heathen Canadians! http://fakesteveballmer.blogspot.com/

Yes, and I have designed a "perpetual Motion Machine" http://fakesteveballmer.blogspot.com/

Dell is right! http://fakesteveballmer.blogspot.com/

Apple sells crappy products! If you stick with a majority company like MS you will have no problems people!

http://fakesteveballmer.blogspot.com/

You're an idiot. MS is crap. Shut the fuck up. You obviously have never owned an Apple product and you don't deserve to.

This is so much crap. There isn't one bit of evidence that multiple universes are possible and yet you are all talking about it as if it were a fait accompli? Wow! All because some of you cannot stand the idea that there is a possibility that some extremely powerful agency created the physical universe. Boy, are you people religious or what? Sir Karl is turning in his grave. Only physicists get aways with wild ass crap like this. Any other field of science would be up in arms.

Louis Savain

Rebel Science News

I dont read slashdot for 2 days and I missed the fact that there are more than 1 universes... shit!

Only physicists can get away with this sort of crap. Any other field of science would be up in arms. Where is the falsifiability, asks Sir Karl Popper in his grave?

Louis Savain

Rebel Science News

This disgusts me, but I don't see a more-responsible way to use my vote AND make sure it counts for *something* in the final tally.

I used to support this tactic. Now, I'm thinking more strategically.

The old me would have voted for McCain because he's slightly less socialist than Obama. In some respects, not all.

Now, I'm sick of "both" parties, especially the Republicans, for giving us socialist candidates who completely disregard our Constitution. So, I'm writing in Ron Paul and asking as many people to do so as possible, at least Rule-of-Law types. I even made a couple bumper stickers to spread the word.

Because, I think if McCain loses to Obama by a margin that is less than the number of people who vote for Ron Paul, the Republicans will reconsider their platform. Or, if not, it'll lend quite a bit of credence to a new party that might be able to start restoring the Republic. The number to beat is about 1 Million, the last biggest write-in vote getter, about 90 years ago.

So, consider that your vote may "count for *something*" this time around, but does it really count for anything beyond November, besides empowering the current dysfunctional two-party system? Like McCotter said, "Let It Bleed".

I would like to have a president who can speak names correctly and knows basic geography. Yes, I can forgive the occasion mistake. But not the consistent mistakes made by John McCain. We are, actually, electing a president. And he does, actually, speak on our behalf. So part of the job is knowing how to speak. Other parts of the job include making good decisions (McCain - for war in Iraq, Obama - against war in Iraq, McCain - for Bush's constitutional violations, Obama - against Bush's constitutional violations, Etc.) It really is easy to vote for Barack Obama. He knows his stuff, cares about this country, not just the super-rich & elites, and has the ability to speak truth to power. McCain knows how to follow Bush. Not looking to give him a third term with McCain. Don't need $4 a gallon oil again.

Anyways, have a nice day. And be sure not to manufacture any signing statements during your vacation month of August. Or ignore the August 6, 2001 daily briefing. That one was important.

Most youtube videos (all but the oldest IIRC) are available in mp4 format which the iphone can play. Its just a matter of fiddling with the embedded video url.

http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2008/04/download-youtube-videos-as-mp4-files.html

So gmail has its own blog; you'd be hard-pressed to discover that fact on the "About Google" page. You can find a link to it on the Google Blog page, but it's buried among dozens of other blogs.

So I did miss this one, but it's not like Google felt the need to explain themselves in a visible manner.

Every last thing should be patented, even if it already is! http://fakesteveballmer.blogspot.com/

MS servers don't crash! http://fakesteveballmer.blogspot.com/

Apple sells crappy products! If you stick with a majority company like MS you will have no problems people! http://fakesteveballmer.blogspot.com/

There was a GMail outage on Monday, which was reported in their blog:

[blog entry]

I've read rumors about other Google Apps outages later last week, but nothing official and saw no evidence of them myself.

Neutrality is always a bad thing! You need to take sides sometimes people! http://fakesteveballmer.blogspot.com/

I do believe that Georgia attacked South Ossetia first and the US did not decry that action. South Ossetia allegedly voted to seperate from Georgia. If the vote was in question then Georgia should be taking that up with the UN. My understanding is South Ossetians don't consider themselves Georgian at all and want nothing to do with Georgia. By the way, Stalin's father was Ossetian so they have stronger ties to Russia by far. Georgia is backed by Western arms and money and that makes it seem that the West is warring with Russia by proxy through Georgia. I'm not saying we are but that's a perception you have to contend with. Here check out this timeline and think it over this is not as one sided as anyone would have us believe. http://jotman.blogspot.com/2008/08/timeline-of-conflict-between-georgia.html

Ask yourself this, if California voted to seperate from the US how do you think your government should respond? How do you think the rest of the world should respond? Now what about Quebec? What about Tibet? We keep saying we want democracy but it has a consequence and do you respect the democratic will of a group of people when they say "We don't want to be part of you."

Really think about it.

Good, but weren't those directed to judges?

Yes.

But I guess you're trying to say, "bring these points up whenever you're a target of an RIAA member company lawsuit!"

Yes but more than that. Only a handful of people get targeted. The rest of us need to fight in any way we can. Most importantly, (1) contribute money to the defense funds, (2) if you're a techie get involved in helping the lawyers, (3) write letters to congresspersons and to publications. And if you do get targeted, fight back.

I actually use my 360 as my frontend. And, no I didn't hack my system. I don't have time to find the exact link, but I believe I've written how to do it on my sblog http://jtexp.blogspot.com/

<tinfoil hat>Why would the United States blow up their own space station? </tinfoil hat>

Spoken like a true /.'er! Thanks for keeping us up to date and this breath of fresh, sweet air. *inhales deeply* Ahhh...fresh flowers and.. OMG!! Ponies! Now let us hope that phase two works in Ms. Anderson's favor also, then we may be able to start seeing the RIAA monopoly crumble, or at least a better business model from them. Both for our sakes, and especially for the artist's sakes. One of my best friends is a professional musician in a band, and they checked out signing with RIAA affiliated labels.(about four years ago) It would actually have cost them money to sign instead of make them money.(unless by some miracle they became popular overnight) Being smart guys,the band finally started their own distribution in addition to signing with an independent label that allows them to continue to do so. They are making a decent living with their music now instead of paying some label to be musicians.

New book just came out on that very subject: how musicians can make more money by NOT using record labels.

See NoOOXML, OpenDot, NoOOXML">Boycott Novell and Groklaw for better analysis. People are very angry about this and they should be.

Attention: those that would vote Conservative thinking that they would be any better. Remember David Cameron will increase copyright to 70 years in return for state censorship of the media. This is how that utter cleft proposes to solve the youth crime problem in Britain: by stopping the kiddies from seeing the bad stuff.

This government is mild in comparison to the Tories. I wish there were someone we could vote for who aren't a complete bunch of bastards, Monster Raving Looney party perhaps?

Yes, we will hear about how "the system works." A successful class-action against the RIAA would, after all, be evidence that it does.

If the system is set up in such a way that the bully ultimately gets punished for taking advantage of people...what more do you want? Psychic judges, who know which party is at fault before there's even a trial?

I would like to see ALL of the injured parties FULLY made whole. Legal fees are a good start, but what of the time the defendant has spent effectively conscripted as a defendant. That can easily be a full time job (and an odious one at that).

What of the people who somehow paid the initial settlement offer because they simply couldn't imagine prevailing in a patently unfair legal battle or knew they were constitutionally or financially incapable of appearing in court for a protracted period of time. It's bad enough to be socked with legal bills but to then be required to miss work (and perhaps even lose the use of the tools of their trade such as their PC while the drive is examined) simply goes above and beyond. Even a person who's income is otherwise sufficient to sustain the legal fees may end up in trouble if they are forced to take unpaid leave.

We can't expect psychic judges, but we can expect them to take a proactive approach to shutting down lawsuits against a disadvantaged party early on where the plaintiff's case appears weak or invalid (much as NYCL suggests in his article .

I have often thought that a great deal of legal problems could be eliminated if lawsuits that cannot win on their face were shot down before the intended defendant even had to hear about it.

That is, the judge should FIRST review the allegations. Then decide if they CAN be true and if so, could they justify a judgment for the plaintiff. If not, the suit should stop right there with the defendant at most receiving notice of a judgment in his favor.

In this particular case, the judge hardly needs psychic powers to guess that the RIAA intends to do what it did the last 30,000 times. Surely "Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me 30,000 times, shame on me"!

China could make a lot of air quality improvements by putting green roofs on new buildings and retrofitting old ones. They aren't in any hurry to close their coal-fired power plants or their polluting toy factories, but green roofs can help reduce both the carbon pollution as well as the fine particulate matter air pollution. I read a great article called "Beijing is Trying to Control Pollution with Green Buildings" found at http://cleanerairforcities.blogspot.com/2008/08/beijing-is-trying-to-control-pollution.html Hopefully, as they improve their cities, they can use green building techniques such as those used in their Dongtan development (http://cleanerairforcities.blogspot.com/2008/08/new-green-city-for-china.html)