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there was a story about this yesterday somewhere...
ah,http://launchr.blogspot.com/2007/07/iphones-pas sword-is-dottie-and-alpine.html

Why Captain America had to die!

Civil War in 30 seconds (for those who don't mind spoilers)

As for me, Make Mine... The Goon!

Additionally, I recently found a blog which pretty well discusses this. It's an interesting read. http://viewfrommoon.blogspot.com/2007/06/lewis-lib by-pardon-me.html

18% is flat out wrong. I would suggest Political Arithmetik for your polling analysis. The writer aggregates the different approval polls into one measurement. According to his Presidential Approval Rating page[1] President Bush stands at 28.9% as of 1 July 2007.

In general, the blog and it's sister blog at Pollster.com are a great source for polls and statistical analysis.

[1] if the link doesn't work you can always go to the home page and click on the chart on the right-hand side.

18% is flat out wrong. I would suggest Political Arithmetik for your polling analysis. The writer aggregates the different approval polls into one measurement. According to his Presidential Approval Rating page[1] President Bush stands at 28.9% as of 1 July 2007.

In general, the blog and it's sister blog at Pollster.com are a great source for polls and statistical analysis.

[1] if the link doesn't work you can always go to the home page and click on the chart on the right-hand side.

Yes of course, affluent people who were wronged by the justice system asking for justice is bad. Only poor people who go through injustice deserve justice and retribution. Oh wait, some of these Lax guys WERE from working class families, but it's ok to group them all together because they're all (except 1) white, is that it? Are you Victoria Peterson by any chance?

Well, when you buy Windows, based on what we have read here about Vista, then the "bug information transmittals" go with the territory.
Sure, Windows is preinstalled on computers in the stores, but there are alternative operating systems you can use, that are fairly easy to run.
I'm talking about the "livecd" linux variety, of which there are many, many variations.
Mine is one, here is the Getting Started Guide, and you may view the screenshots, link below:
Several posters in this topic have said that the Vista "phone home" setup probably uses a lot of processing power, as does the nice looking Aero interface. Hence the move to dual core processors, and 1 or 2 GB of RAM.
I say, use your older computer, I am running my livecd linux OS on a HP Pavilion 8250, and it's really very nice. I paid $20.00 for this computer, snapped it up since it was so clean inside. Added RAM, $51.00, and an ethernet card, about $15.00.
I'm using Opera 9.10 right now, and also have Firefox 2.0.0.4 and Flock 0.7.14 that can be used. All three of these are set up to completely delete the entire ~/.opera, ~/.mozilla or ~/.flock when the browsers are closed. No trace of your web-surfing remains on the computer while it is running.
I have a blog that explains how to use a Sandisk cruzer usb drive, 2 or 4 GB to run the OS, and testing is ongoing (fun for me), using the HP computer mentioned above. Unplug the usb drive, put it in your pocket, and your files go with you. If you do online banking or credit card management, and save files as needed, then this is a good measure of protection for your data and files. One of the tests involves opening 20 image files with GIMP, and seeing if the little usb drive can handle that. It can, since I have a swap partition on the usb drive.

- Rapidweather

Yes, the comparison is that both likely believe what they are saying, they are not saying what they are saying to profit even if they may profit from what they say. But, I don't think that Jung's attempted explanation relies on mere delusion. For him, the mandala experiences have a kind of fundemental reality that are a required part of human development. The difference comes in the interpretation: should the experience be taken as a movement of the unconsious or an exterior experience? In the case of eight or so people passing some strange material around a table at a meeting, you'd think the latter interpretation would make the most sense, if all the people concur that this is what happened. Here, not all do so people start questioning motive.

I think Jung's explanation, if it applies, has more to do with the large number of reports rather than with the specifics here because it would seem that something actually happened. But, there should be ways to approach this without attaching Haut's motives.
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Actually, the helium abundance is nearly the same now as it was before stars first started to form. And, the rate of star formation is dropping fairly rapidly: http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/archive/releases/ 1996/37/. Only a small fraction of the available hydrogen is incoporated into stars and the reason is that as galaxies and the universe evolve, it becomes more difficult to form stars. Systems that have low rotation, the more massive systems, have virial temperatures that are too high to allow the condensation of molecular clouds so that star formation is cut off. Even without galaxy-galaxy inteactions, a huge spur for star formation and a means of transforming rotationaly supported systems into non-rotationally supported systems, galaxies will evolve into more spherical shapes and have less star formation. There is little danger of running out of hydrogen but the circumstances where the hydrogen can form new stars will become rarer and rarer.
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http://roswellproof.homestead.com/Haut.html.
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He also swore an affidavit in 1993. It is very similar: http://roswellproof.homestead.com/Haut.html. These seem to be things he believed. I recall when Stanton Friedman http://www.stantonfriedman.com/ stayed as a guest at my home when I was a kid. He'd worked with my father, also a nuclear physicist, before and came to give a lecture on UFOs. He also believed what he was saying. I think you need to look for explanations that do not rely on impuning motive in some of these cases.

I'm not one to want to leave behind the delicious contemplation of the Fermi Paradox http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fermi_paradox, so I wait for stronger evidence, but there are many sincere people who are quite sure they've experienced something that can only be explained in this way: http://www.disclosureproject.org/.

I think Carl Jung took an interesting stab and an alternative explanation in this book: http://www.amazon.com/Flying-Saucers-C-G-Jung/dp/1 567311210/ref=sr_1_1/105-3124676-0728448?ie=UTF8&s =books&qid=1183345880&sr=1-1
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Getting to the point where biomass can replace liquid fuels is hard. About the only thing that comes close is algae because the gal/acre ratio is too low for everything else: http://mdsolar.blogspot.com/2007/02/photosynthesis .html. I think we'll do better with batteries.

I would have expected they would have gotten a clue that people are being abused these last few years by companies such as Comcast. We can't trust them to do the right thing. So why do politicians think the market will make sure it's ok? After all, we have very few options unless you live in SunnyVale California.

Most states don't have 20 or 30 options for highspeed Internet. If a company goes nuts you have to put up or go dial up (like that's an option these days).

I urge people to contact the FTC and let them know what's on you mind. This needs to be dealt with before Telco's make their own laws.

I would have expected they would have gotten a clue that people are being abused these last few years by companies such as Comcast. We can't trust them to do the right thing. So why do politicians think the market will make sure it's ok? After all, we have very few options unless you live in SunnyVale California.

Most states don't have 20 or 30 options for highspeed Internet. If a company goes nuts you have to put up or go dial up (like that's an option these days).

I urge people to contact the FTC and let them know what's on you mind. This needs to be dealt with before Telco's make their own laws.

Whoops. Should have previewed!

There's been a few sites mentioning 3 people (GOP members) being present in the meeting where Bush was supposed to have said that. Here's one where the fellow said he spoke to them

Regardless, I don't see any actual denials of him saying it. Perhaps my google skillz need work...

My understanding was that 64 bit Vista was going to be somewhat more finiky about doing the right thing.

Apple is just lazy. It's also a good thing they don't want to put so much as a "Works with Windows Vista" logo on any of their software since they would fail the certification process (must work with x64 Vista editions).

Well yes, and it is all the more irritating that they don't build products to Windows look and feel when they get all snotty about Windows products that don't have the Mac look and feel. There are plenty of shops that write Windows device drivers that pass certification. Why not use one of them, it would cost rather less than just one of the stupid iPhone ads drumming up business for a product thats going to be out of stock.

iTunes on Windows sucketh. I did a three part series on my blog on the various dimensions of its suckiness. If I could get Windows Media Player to do AAC and talk to an iPod I would switch back.

Every day, people use Google to learn more about an illness, drug, or treatment, or simply to research a condition or diagnosis. We want to help users make more empowered and informed healthcare decisions, and have been steadily developing our ability to make our search results more medically relevant and more helpful to users.

Although we have some talented people here with extensive backgrounds in health policy and technology, this is an especially complex area. We often seek expertise from outside the company, and health is no exception. We have formed an advisory council, made up of healthcare experts from provider organizations, consumer and disease-based groups, physician organizations, research institutions, policy foundations, and other fields. The mission of the Google Health Advisory Council is broadly to help us better understand the problems consumers and providers face every day and offer feedback on product ideas and development. It's a great privilege for us to work with this esteemed group ...

Some more links:
A lot of very good Berkeley lectures http://webcast.berkeley.edu/
Lectures and science videos http://freescienceonline.blogspot.com/

You can choose to read by blog or not. Looks like you choose not to in this case. But, many people have not choice about driving, this is why the phrase "addicted to oil" is used. There are many ways beyond the link I gave above that they behave like pushers. This example might interest you: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Motors_street car_conspiracy.
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Just in case you doubted he was lying there quite a few blog sites doing take downs on Moore's assertions that the Cuban hospitals are great models for America. In reality they are filthy, vermin infected, under staffed, and under equipped.

One example has pictures. I don't think I'd want to go NEAR that kind of a "health" facility.

http://gatewaypundit.blogspot.com/2007/06/michael- moores-wish-for-america-cuban.html

Michael Moore is clearly an intellectual, one who is educated beyond his capacity. And his capacity is very low.

{^_^}

Here is some of the stuff in the health arena that Google is working on, including enabling portable medical records. And Blue Cross/Blue Shield has already announced plans to share medical information about their 79 million subscribers with "drug companies, device manufacturers, and employers." So who's the evil one here?

Well the field of Synthetic biology is picking up fast. http://computationalbiologynews.blogspot.com/2007/ 06/sythetic-biology-milestone-genome.html talks about a recent work in this field.

Perhaps the ISP does not want to be subjected to this kind of analysis: http://www.chillingeffects.org/protest/notice.cgi? NoticeID=500?
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In this on topic post (I'm still editing, but rushed to publish) I'm calling ExxonMobil devotees of Hecate, the queen of ghosts: http://mdsolar.blogspot.com/2007/06/necromancers.h tml. Will google be sent a take down notice? Let's wait and see.

You'd be right if ExxonMobil didn't act like a pusher http://mdsolar.blogspot.com/2007/01/your-opinion-c ould-be-paid-for-by.html. But, by doing more, much much more, to try to be sure we buy more and more oil, they take on responsibility as well.
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You'd be right if ExxonMobil didn't act like a pusher http://mdsolar.blogspot.com/2007/01/your-opinion-c ould-be-paid-for-by.html. But, by doing more, much much more, to try to be sure we buy more and more oil, they take on responsibility as well.
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In fact, having witnessed the breathless chops licking surounding the Petroleum Council report http://mdsolar.blogspot.com/2007/02/trimming.html, I can say for sure that this was parody. No one would have taken this for the real thing if they were not completely stupified by anticipation. That report is going to say that we are going to boost our oil use by 30% by 2030. Amazing hornswagle, but there are many many people wishing to be duped by it.
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In fact, having witnessed the breathless chops licking surounding the Petroleum Council report http://mdsolar.blogspot.com/2007/02/trimming.html, I can say for sure that this was parody. No one would have taken this for the real thing if they were not completely stupified by anticipation. That report is going to say that we are going to boost our oil use by 30% by 2030. Amazing hornswagle, but there are many many people wishing to be duped by it.
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The Darfur conflict is largely fueled by desertification brought on partly by climate change. Here are some 2005 estimates: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A124 85-2005Apr23.html. Things have not gotten any better since then, but the deaths have become harder to count.

Their are deaths that can be even more directly tied to warming: http://mdsolar.blogspot.com/2007/04/doom.html as well. You should look into things a little more closely I think.
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The Darfur conflict is largely fueled by desertification brought on partly by climate change. Here are some 2005 estimates: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A124 85-2005Apr23.html. Things have not gotten any better since then, but the deaths have become harder to count.

Their are deaths that can be even more directly tied to warming: http://mdsolar.blogspot.com/2007/04/doom.html as well. You should look into things a little more closely I think.
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Remember corporations have human rights too. ExxonMobile has an inherent free speech right to distort debate http://mdsolar.blogspot.com/2007/01/your-opinion-c ould-be-paid-for-by.html and threaten others with law suits to intimidate them.

It is their right to have no sense of humor, especially if the joke is at their expense. Please be more sympathetic.
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Remember corporations have human rights too. ExxonMobile has an inherent free speech right to distort debate http://mdsolar.blogspot.com/2007/01/your-opinion-c ould-be-paid-for-by.html and threaten others with law suits to intimidate them.

It is their right to have no sense of humor, especially if the joke is at their expense. Please be more sympathetic.
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Now I thought this had potential as a nutritional supplement. Buried just like the ceramic engine....
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You mean, like this? :)

From http://theinvisiblethings.blogspot.com/

The detector can not consume significant amount of CPU time (say > 90%) for more then, say 1 sec. If it does, then it's considered disturbing for the user and thus unpractical.

This is almost as ridiculous as the $380000++. Hell, many places use (crappily configured) virus scanners that use 90% cpu for half an hour. Besides, an 'undetectable' rootkit is disturbing enough that most people wouldnt care about being disrupted for quite a bit longer than a sec.

You have a Treo. Not allowing transfers to or from smartphones negates the whole idea of a smartphone. If you have an ordinary cellphone from Verizon, they most certainly do block picture transfers.

Nobody of consequences uses GSM in the US besides T-Mobile and AT&T. The other major players in the US Cell market (Sprint, Verizon and US Cellular) use CDMA.

"Nobody of consequences except half of the major carriers" is still half of the major carriers. (US Cellular isn't a national player, just a regional one.) Whereas GSM is a standard in the rest of the world, allowing someone with a GSM phone to travel worldwide.

I'll tell you about one issue--I got a bunch of "roaming minutes" charged to my phone, despite making those calls from the exact same room that is supposedly within Verizon's "extended network", and which I had never been charged "roaming minutes" for in the past, despite whether or not my phone said "roaming" or "extended network". It took multiple calls to Verizon to resolve this. I recall one representative telling me that he had experienced similar billing anomalies in the past, trying to play it off as no big deal. I was tempted to ask why on earth he worked for this company, since I would never work for a company that screwed me over like that. Ultimately, when I learned the magic incantation "floor manager" to speak to customer service, I was able to resolve a problem that Verizon created out of whole cloth for me to solve to begin with.

On other occasions, representatives have been rude to me, have presented me with contradictory information, and have in general been unresponsive. I guess, technically, they've "resolved" my issues, but never to my satisfaction. (One exception--awhile ago there were news stories about phone companies giving out records to the NSA. I called Verizon Wireless and received the authoritative statement that "Verizon Wireless isn't giving out phone call records to the NSA." from Michael Manalo, an "Executive Consultant". Knowing Verizon's past history, however, I have little reason to believe they weren't flat-out lying.) Not to mention the entire .02 cents debacle--not my problem, but from my 5-6 years of experience with Verizon, it seems completely in character.

She has responded to the challenge and said there should be at least 5 computers:

http://theinvisiblethings.blogspot.com/

Helu. I'm Thomas Ptacek, one of the four challenge team members --- Slashdot left out Dino Dai Zovi, who kicked this off by writing a virtualized rootkit at Matasano last year.

Joanna has responded to our challenge. We invited her to stipulate any terms she deemed reasonable. She proferred:

• Five (5) laptops instead of two (2), as a defense against lucky guessing.
• We can't crash the machines in the process of testing.
• We can't spike the CPU on the machine for more than one (1) second.
• We have to open source our detector, and she'll open source her rootkit.
• We have to arrange to have her paid between $384,000 and $416,000, and wait six months.

You can probably predict our response.

Here's where it stands: all parties agree that by Black Hat '07, Blue Pill will not be in a state where it is hard to detect. Our detection techniques are likely to detect Blue Pill at Black Hat. Blue Pill requires six months of engineering time to get to a state where Joanna is confident that we can't detect it.

Here's why you care: a few weeks ago, Microsoft decided that Vista Home would not allow virtualization, in part because of the threat of virtualized malware. To the best of our knowledge, there have been two (2) real hypervisor rootkits ever produced: Joanna's Blue Pill, and Matasano's Vitriol. Neither has ever been seen in the wild, because neither has been released to the public. Meanwhile, our team is preparing to demonstrate at Black Hat this year that hypervisor malware is actually even easier to detect than the kernel malware operating systems like Vista are already exposed to.

Joanna's Blue Pill work, along with all the rest of her work (check out this project, where she turns AMD security hardware against forensics devices), is top-notch. In a weird, secretive space like security, this is how science gets done. Joanna chooses a side: it's possible to make undetectable malware. We square off on the opposite side. Then we debate it using code, presentations, papers, and I guess Slashdot stories. Hopefully, in the end, we all learn something.

Hope this stays interesting for everyone. Thanks for paying attention!

Rutkowska already thought of that (as well as a couple of other things):

http://theinvisiblethings.blogspot.com/

"First, we believe that 2 machines are definitely not enough, because the chance of correct guess, using a completely random (read: unreliable) detection method is 50%. Thus we think that the reasonable number is 5 machines."

She then goes on to detail how at least one but no more than four of the machines are infected and that the detection method must be automatic and return only "infected" or "not infected" as output.

There are some other details she proposes, some of which are head-scratchers such as "The detector can not consume significant amount of CPU time (say > 90%) for more then, say 1 sec."

Whole thing sounds pretty interesting though :)

On his blog, Nikita Danilov claims that he (NOT REISER) wrote the birth to death story of a znode. See http://nikitadanilov.blogspot.com/2007/06/and-now- to-subject-of-death.html

If you're in North Carolina, please take a moment to read this blog post and then contact your General Assembly representatives:

North Carolina government brags about Real ID compliance

The internet has been known to route around damage, you know ...

Castro is the damage. Routing around his enforcers is nontrivial.

The large numbers of Cubans who leave Cuba in rickety boats over shark-infested water suggests to me that maybe, just maybe, Castro's Cuba isn't such a fun place if you're not a Eurotrash tourist or a useful idiot.

One of the many blogs about Cuban political prisoners:
coalitionofcubanamericanwomen.blogspot.com

Evidence? 'Cause I've got mine. Just because something makes sense at first glance (more money == better schools! smaller classes == better performance!) doesn't make it true.

I think this dude makes the best point so far:

http://infosecsellout.blogspot.com/2007/06/advisor ies-marketing-stupid-reporters.html

http://stealthfries.blogspot.com/ to see what I did