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A random sample, yes. Of people. Who are living today. On Earth.

This Earth, not some other Earth.

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A random sample, yes. Of people. Who are living today. On Earth.

This Earth, not some other Earth.

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And for a sample of two of course the results would be meaningless.

But if out of a sample of 10,000, 5,000 were experiencing toothaches, and it just happened that those same 5,000 were reading slashdot, things would be more interesting.

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And for a sample of two of course the results would be meaningless.

But if out of a sample of 10,000, 5,000 were experiencing toothaches, and it just happened that those same 5,000 were reading slashdot, things would be more interesting.

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And for a sample of two of course the results would be meaningless.

But if out of a sample of 10,000, 5,000 were experiencing toothaches, and it just happened that those same 5,000 were reading slashdot, things would be more interesting.

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And for a sample of two of course the results would be meaningless.

But if out of a sample of 10,000, 5,000 were experiencing toothaches, and it just happened that those same 5,000 were reading slashdot, things would be more interesting.

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Dozens of people who believed the masts triggered symptoms such as anxiety, nausea and tiredness could not detect if signals were on or off in trials.

Dozens of people who believed the masts triggered symptoms such as anxiety, nausea and tiredness could not detect if signals were on or off in trials.

Dozens of people who believed the masts triggered symptoms such as anxiety, nausea and tiredness could not detect if signals were on or off in trials.

Dozens of people who believed the masts triggered symptoms such as anxiety, nausea and tiredness could not detect if signals were on or off in trials.

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The Truth About Islam
http://islamwatchers.blogspot.com/

They're really like ORCS, aren't they?

Too late, Furby already does this.
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Oh fuck, forgot my sig.

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Oh fuck, forgot my sig.

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Oh fuck, forgot my sig.

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Why no good for Ajax? Whether it's xml or json, it's still content, and there are still headers, no?

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Why no good for Ajax? Whether it's xml or json, it's still content, and there are still headers, no?

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Why no good for Ajax? Whether it's xml or json, it's still content, and there are still headers, no?

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Why no good for Ajax? Whether it's xml or json, it's still content, and there are still headers, no?

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Ah, but I thought of this. We expressly disallow ISP's from doing this! :)

Actually... the hash would have to take the form of a signature, wouldn't it. The site would
need to publish its public key in a well-known location, like the root, a la robots.txt.
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Ah, but I thought of this. We expressly disallow ISP's from doing this! :)

Actually... the hash would have to take the form of a signature, wouldn't it. The site would
need to publish its public key in a well-known location, like the root, a la robots.txt.
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Ah, but I thought of this. We expressly disallow ISP's from doing this! :)

Actually... the hash would have to take the form of a signature, wouldn't it. The site would
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Ah, but I thought of this. We expressly disallow ISP's from doing this! :)

Actually... the hash would have to take the form of a signature, wouldn't it. The site would
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If that isn't desirable, do a patch to Apache that creates a header that holds a hash of the content.
The hash gets calculated once for static content, which is usually the bulk of the traffic, no? So
not too big of a hit.

Browser sees content. Browser sees hash. Browser compares the two...

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If that isn't desirable, do a patch to Apache that creates a header that holds a hash of the content.
The hash gets calculated once for static content, which is usually the bulk of the traffic, no? So
not too big of a hit.

Browser sees content. Browser sees hash. Browser compares the two...

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If that isn't desirable, do a patch to Apache that creates a header that holds a hash of the content.
The hash gets calculated once for static content, which is usually the bulk of the traffic, no? So
not too big of a hit.

Browser sees content. Browser sees hash. Browser compares the two...

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If that isn't desirable, do a patch to Apache that creates a header that holds a hash of the content.
The hash gets calculated once for static content, which is usually the bulk of the traffic, no? So
not too big of a hit.

Browser sees content. Browser sees hash. Browser compares the two...

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...by threading. That description makes me want to go back to my abacus.

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...by threading. That description makes me want to go back to my abacus.

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...by threading. That description makes me want to go back to my abacus.

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...by threading. That description makes me want to go back to my abacus.

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http://google.com/search?q=cache:vfmbsNn07hoJ:www. pubpat.org/monsantovfarmers.htm

http://bereagardens.blogspot.com/

No, seriously. Remember Republicans? Sober men in suits, pipes, who'd nod thoughtfully over their latest tract on market-driven fiscal conservatism while grinding out the numbers on rocket science. Remember those serious-looking 1950's-1960's science guys in the movies -- Republican to a one.

They were the grown-ups. They were the realists. Sure they were a bummer, maaaaan, but on the way to La Revolution you need somebody to remember where you parked the car. I was never one (nor a Democrat, really, more an agnostic libertarian big on the social contract, but we don't have a party ...), but I genuinely liked them.

How did they become the party of fairy dust and make believe? How did they become the anti-science guys? The anti-fact guys? The anti-logic guys?

http://googlepublicpolicy.blogspot.com/2007/07/res toring-competitive-balance-to.html

This is a link to an entry in Google's Public Policy blog explaining their answer to the "put up or shut up" comment from AT&T. It also explains quite nicely how the auction is slanted from the beginning to favor the incumbents.

A potentially relationship-ending addiction?

Call his office and protest. I did, even though I'n not from Nevada. While i was at it I reminded his staff that the only peer reviwed study on the subject that I'm aware of showed little to no corelation between illegal downloading and lost content sales (http://jackspratts.blogspot.com/2007/02/bthe-doct or-is-back-inb-in-news-again.html).

I also may have mentioned he was beginning to sound like a republican weenie.

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There's a gamecube homebrew program that plays DVDs... here.

As for the second, try Weezo, here.

Their Harry Potter0 entry mentions that some have attempted to get the books banned because they present the occult in a positive light, and are not appropriate for Christian children. Not to worry says Conservatpedia, the Vatican says its A-OK:

In 2003, a Vatican representative said the books, "aren't serving as the banner for an anti-Christian theology.... I don't think there's anyone in this room who grew up without fairies, magic, and angels in their imaginary world."

That has a rather Romish aura to it, which should come as no surprise since Conservapedia was created by Andrew Schlafly, son of notable Catholic Theocon Phyllis Schlafly.

This is well and fine, but since Conservapedia states at the beginning of its home page that it is:

A conservative encyclopedia you can trust. The truth shall set you free.

and has used it connections to be promoted as a 'conservative' answer to Wikipedia in many publications, it's not going to sit well with the Evangelical Right to be told that contrary to what they've been taught, The Pope is not the horned beast of Revelations, but instead is the final word on what is or is not Christian.

Aside from their Satanic Ecumenicalist Agenda, Conservatpedia's content is so error laden, slanted, and generally so full of crap, many first time visitors think it is well crafted satire, and for good reasons.

It means that GPLv3 code is cut off from a lot of applications, for example, use in running medical devices where you absolutely want to prohibit anyone from changing the binaries; because of provisions for distributing keys, any device containing GPLv3 software is no longer certifiable. Nice way to hand a critical market to Microsoftie, where the blue screen of death is not just a metaphor.

If there's any GPL3-only software today, it's brand-new. If this medical device is so important, nobody's stopping it from using the GPL2 version like they have for the past 20+ years. Or find a BSD program to do it. Just because there's a market in which GPL3-licensed programs can't compete doesn't make it any less useful than pointing out that there are markets where GPL2-licensed programs couldn't compete 10 years ago.

Besides, a medical device can (gasp) run proprietary software. In fact, most (all?) do. What's wrong with that? Even RMS isn't trying to go after the pacemaker market with the GPL. I suspect they're not running Vista, either, though, so I don't see how it's a "Microsoftie" [sic] victory. Or that it's a "critical market".

There are other examples, if you care to do some research; we've commented on them before. The GPLv2 was sufficient to defang the Novell-MS deal, but people panicked.

Interesting interpretation of events.

The GPLv3 is a political maneuver that plays right into Microsoft's hands. They would love all free software to move to GPLv3. They'd shit-stain their tidy-whities if it all forked to, say, a BSD license instead.

I'm not sure I follow why they would do this (if I understand your, er, colorful metaphor).

Sun could, for example, merge linux and solaris. Linux with zfs would be an instant hit.

Yeah, it's a shame that ZFS on Linux is impossible.

From the plaintiff's letter to the judge: While we appreciate Ms. Peterlin's accomplishments, we are nonetheless surprised that her biography does not include any apparent references to professional activity concerning patents or trademarks, in either a practical, corporate, academic, or publishing capacity. http://ipbiz.blogspot.com/2007/06/letter-questions -credentials-of.html Also, given the Cheney/Bush regime's attempts to politicize all levels of our government, usually at the expense of competency, *every one* of their appointments should be viewed with extreme jaundice. See Gonzalez, Alberto, amongst many others.

I'd like to point you out to the Uruguayan OLPC blog, http://olpc-ceibal.blogspot.com/ (English version), which has been keeping up with the developments in my country's project, which aims to give a laptop to every school-age kid, and has started with one of the 19 subdivisions - "departments" - in the country, with a trial already being ran.

This was covered by Slashdot under the heading OLPC Project Rollout Begins In Uruguay: http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/05/12/077205

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Dozens of Blogs also carry times select articles, although you may want to aviod them as posting the article in full (like the site below does) violates copyright
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For example check out some neat stuff that Zack has been doing in his spare time with webkit in Qt. http://zrusin.blogspot.com/2007/07/web-on-canvas-a nd-dashboard-widgets.html

http://secureme.blogspot.com/2005_06_01_archive.ht ml/

Scroll down to the very bottom of that page. Notice the date.

Google is putting up money, but its proposal to the FCC is backed by Intel, Yahoo!, eBay, Skype, DirecTV, EchoStar, and Access Spectrum (which constitute The Coalition for 4G in America), but there are many other groups also in favor of open access. See this write-up on Daily Wireless for a good overview, and read Google's own explanation on its Public Policy Blog.

I wish Slashdot paid more attention to wireless goings-on. For instance, just this week, Sprint announced it is forming a 20 year alliance with Clearwire. The two companies are rolling out WiMax phone and broadband services, and together spent billions to control spectrum that reaches nearly everyone in the U.S. Wouldn't it be nice if they had to lower their price to consumers because of open-access competition in the 700mhz band?

Robert X. Cringely's latest article is a good read, too. "When Elephants Dance: Get ready (finally) for faster Internet speeds at lower prices"

I live in a rural place that is lucky to have one broadband provider, a cable company. (Nope, no DSL.) If open access succeeds, small wireless ISPs will sprout up in places like this, which big companies always seem to neglect. Those ISPs would be paying wholesale prices for their spectrum, too, so regional monopolies like my cable company will finally face some pressure to lower their prices, or else to compete on speed and service.