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A stupid woman named Deborah Pierini Cidade de Sá sued Google and won because it linked to a page that showed top searches in a month. On these top searches were her name and the name of a famous prostitute (Bruna Surfistinha).

Mrs. de Sá won in this first instance the equivalent of 10,800 times our minimum wage!

I completely second the Russian policy, because http://onepass.blogspot.com/2005/08/no-sarcasm-or- hypocrisy-please.html

1. I guess you didn't read what I said. I was there. I'm a witness.

2. I guess you don't read much, or get around much. See, e.g. this, this, this, this, this, this , this, this, this, this, this, this, this, this, and this about the Ohio 2004 election, for just a few samples of the voluminous material on the subject.

3. Now tell me what proof you have that it didn't occur. That what I witnessed and what millions of people in Ohio witnessed didn't happen.

4. How dare you let your partisanship excuse your misrepresenting the truth about something so important as the right to vote. A lot of people have given their lives for that freedom.

1. I guess you didn't read what I said. I was there. I'm a witness.

2. I guess you don't read much, or get around much. See, e.g. this, this, this, this, this, this , this, this, this, this, this, this, this, this, and this about the Ohio 2004 election, for just a few samples of the voluminous material on the subject.

3. Now tell me what proof you have that it didn't occur. That what I witnessed and what millions of people in Ohio witnessed didn't happen.

4. How dare you let your partisanship excuse your misrepresenting the truth about something so important as the right to vote. A lot of people have given their lives for that freedom.

1. I guess you didn't read what I said. I was there. I'm a witness.

2. I guess you don't read much, or get around much. See, e.g. this, this, this, this, this, this , this, this, this, this, this, this, this, this, and this about the Ohio 2004 election, for just a few samples of the voluminous material on the subject.

3. Now tell me what proof you have that it didn't occur. That what I witnessed and what millions of people in Ohio witnessed didn't happen.

4. How dare you let your partisanship excuse your misrepresenting the truth about something so important as the right to vote. A lot of people have given their lives for that freedom.

1. I guess you didn't read what I said. I was there. I'm a witness.

2. I guess you don't read much, or get around much. See, e.g. this, this, this, this, this, this , this, this, this, this, this, this, this, this, and this about the Ohio 2004 election, for just a few samples of the voluminous material on the subject.

3. Now tell me what proof you have that it didn't occur. That what I witnessed and what millions of people in Ohio witnessed didn't happen.

4. How dare you let your partisanship excuse your misrepresenting the truth about something so important as the right to vote. A lot of people have given their lives for that freedom.

1. I guess you didn't read what I said. I was there. I'm a witness.

2. I guess you don't read much, or get around much. See, e.g. this, this, this, this, this, this , this, this, this, this, this, this, this, this, and this about the Ohio 2004 election, for just a few samples of the voluminous material on the subject.

3. Now tell me what proof you have that it didn't occur. That what I witnessed and what millions of people in Ohio witnessed didn't happen.

4. How dare you let your partisanship excuse your misrepresenting the truth about something so important as the right to vote. A lot of people have given their lives for that freedom.

1. I guess you didn't read what I said. I was there. I'm a witness.

2. I guess you don't read much, or get around much. See, e.g. this, this, this, this, this, this , this, this, this, this, this, this, this, this, and this about the Ohio 2004 election, for just a few samples of the voluminous material on the subject.

3. Now tell me what proof you have that it didn't occur. That what I witnessed and what millions of people in Ohio witnessed didn't happen.

4. How dare you let your partisanship excuse your misrepresenting the truth about something so important as the right to vote. A lot of people have given their lives for that freedom.

1. I guess you didn't read what I said. I was there. I'm a witness.

2. I guess you don't read much, or get around much. See, e.g. this, this, this, this, this, this , this, this, this, this, this, this, this, this, and this about the Ohio 2004 election, for just a few samples of the voluminous material on the subject.

3. Now tell me what proof you have that it didn't occur. That what I witnessed and what millions of people in Ohio witnessed didn't happen.

4. How dare you let your partisanship excuse your misrepresenting the truth about something so important as the right to vote. A lot of people have given their lives for that freedom.

1. I guess you didn't read what I said. I was there. I'm a witness.

2. I guess you don't read much, or get around much. See, e.g. this, this, this, this, this, this , this, this, this, this, this, this, this, this, and this about the Ohio 2004 election, for just a few samples of the voluminous material on the subject.

3. Now tell me what proof you have that it didn't occur. That what I witnessed and what millions of people in Ohio witnessed didn't happen.

4. How dare you let your partisanship excuse your misrepresenting the truth about something so important as the right to vote. A lot of people have given their lives for that freedom.

1. I guess you didn't read what I said. I was there. I'm a witness.

2. I guess you don't read much, or get around much. See, e.g. this, this, this, this, this, this , this, this, this, this, this, this, this, this, and this about the Ohio 2004 election, for just a few samples of the voluminous material on the subject.

3. Now tell me what proof you have that it didn't occur. That what I witnessed and what millions of people in Ohio witnessed didn't happen.

4. How dare you let your partisanship excuse your misrepresenting the truth about something so important as the right to vote. A lot of people have given their lives for that freedom.

1. I guess you didn't read what I said. I was there. I'm a witness.

2. I guess you don't read much, or get around much. See, e.g. this, this, this, this, this, this , this, this, this, this, this, this, this, this, and this about the Ohio 2004 election, for just a few samples of the voluminous material on the subject.

3. Now tell me what proof you have that it didn't occur. That what I witnessed and what millions of people in Ohio witnessed didn't happen.

4. How dare you let your partisanship excuse your misrepresenting the truth about something so important as the right to vote. A lot of people have given their lives for that freedom.

1. I guess you didn't read what I said. I was there. I'm a witness.

2. I guess you don't read much, or get around much. See, e.g. this, this, this, this, this, this , this, this, this, this, this, this, this, this, and this about the Ohio 2004 election, for just a few samples of the voluminous material on the subject.

3. Now tell me what proof you have that it didn't occur. That what I witnessed and what millions of people in Ohio witnessed didn't happen.

4. How dare you let your partisanship excuse your misrepresenting the truth about something so important as the right to vote. A lot of people have given their lives for that freedom.

1. I guess you didn't read what I said. I was there. I'm a witness.

2. I guess you don't read much, or get around much. See, e.g. this, this, this, this, this, this , this, this, this, this, this, this, this, this, and this about the Ohio 2004 election, for just a few samples of the voluminous material on the subject.

3. Now tell me what proof you have that it didn't occur. That what I witnessed and what millions of people in Ohio witnessed didn't happen.

4. How dare you let your partisanship excuse your misrepresenting the truth about something so important as the right to vote. A lot of people have given their lives for that freedom.

Some place I've got a sword of slaying. He might want to use that.
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Slice through utility rate increases. http://mdsolar.blogspot.com/2007/01/slashdot-users -selling-solar.html

Due to circumstances beyond my control I am unable to properly invest 84 million dollars. The money originated from a royal family forced to flee Nigeria. If you provide me with your bank account number and password I would be able to transfer the 84 million dollars through your account to the russian government to help spur innovation in the field of floating nuclear technology.... http://paleo-future.blogspot.com/2007/03/sea-city- 2000-1979.html

My blog is located at: http://ubuntuandotherrandomness.blogspot.com.

Send me: The Google Maps link to my school/college/workplace (whichever applies) and the approximate location of my house.

Putting a web app front-end on Open Office makes good sense, especially if the application server is already in your pocket. We currently tote around several electronic gadgets, and yet can only access "serious" applications through stationary desktops and bulky laptops. As electronics shrink, all of this must converge to a single platform. Since pretty much all applications require comms, and mobile phones provide this, they will probably end up being the platform that we converge onto. They will carry the files we're currently working with, like a level 1 cache, and swap out the ones we haven't touched for some time to server farms. They will give us dinky interfaces into their apps while we're on the move. When we need the big screen experience, they will deliver their apps to ubiquitous, big screen docking stations (a.k.a. browsers) via local wireless. So we will need to web-enable most of our important apps over time. See http://trevors-trinkets.blogspot.com/2007/02/after -desktop-what.html and http://trevors-trinkets.blogspot.com/2007/03/mobil izing-mobiles.html for how.

Putting a web app front-end on Open Office makes good sense, especially if the application server is already in your pocket. We currently tote around several electronic gadgets, and yet can only access "serious" applications through stationary desktops and bulky laptops. As electronics shrink, all of this must converge to a single platform. Since pretty much all applications require comms, and mobile phones provide this, they will probably end up being the platform that we converge onto. They will carry the files we're currently working with, like a level 1 cache, and swap out the ones we haven't touched for some time to server farms. They will give us dinky interfaces into their apps while we're on the move. When we need the big screen experience, they will deliver their apps to ubiquitous, big screen docking stations (a.k.a. browsers) via local wireless. So we will need to web-enable most of our important apps over time. See http://trevors-trinkets.blogspot.com/2007/02/after -desktop-what.html and http://trevors-trinkets.blogspot.com/2007/03/mobil izing-mobiles.html for how.

Microsoft shows their yellow side yet again. They wait until Fake Steve Jobs is gone on a hunting retreat for the weekend before attacking the iPhone. Everyone knows that FSJ would rip them a frigging Zune-sized you-know-what the moment he saw this red meat. Ballmer throwing chairs is no match for FSJ on even an average day.

Here's the correct link for the Tobold full review

It's still the top entry on http://tobolds.blogspot.com/

"Driving game AI hasn't improved much but frankly that's because there's not a lot to think about with driving games."

If you were right in the second part of your statement, everything I've been doing in the last two and a half years would be completely meaningless. As I don't want to have wasted these years, I prefer to think that you are not right.

There's a lot to do about driving game AI. First of all, learning to drive well on complicated tracks - without cheating - is not at all straightforward. Keeping the same performance when the user is allowed to create his own tracks is even harder - most racing games rely on knowing their prefabricated tracks well, tracks which are made from a set of standard segments in order to be tractable for the AI. When you introduce more than one car on the track it gets even trickier, as you have to deal with overtaking, collision avoidance, forcing collisions, etc.

And these are just the challenges associated with generating good driving. Interesting driving has even more challenges - should you drive nicely or aggressively? How do you make the driving look human-like? How do you adapt your skill level to that of your opponents? Etc...

You can see this blog post (with videos) and this paper for some of the research we are doing into this.

You can always spread the blame around ;-)

Denis the SQL Menace
http://sqlservercode.blogspot.com/

DDT is not banned in area where Malaria is endemic: http://kenethmiles.blogspot.com/2004_02_01_kenethm iles_archive.html#107570569615970184

Looks like one of the video game law blogs picked up on this 1UP article and wrote a response of sorts.

http://lawofthegame.blogspot.com/2007/04/taxing-az eroth-why-wow-players-shouldnt.html

When a system is borked like our current patent system, it's ludicrous to think all (or even any) problems will be solved by just making it a 'who filed it first' (which is the biggest improvement talked about in TFA). We have it in europe, and it didn't do squat. In fact, one can argument that, while it is more *pragmatic* (easier for the courts to determine), it is equally true that it is *less fair* for the one inventing something.

But then again, the whole notion of patents is rather unfair, because, even when two inventers would invent something at the same time, independend of eachother, the one filing first got it, and the other one gets aboslutely nothing. Why is that? didn't the other party invest at least as much in it? In fact, couldn't it be that he was the first to invent it, but due to say, a traffic jam, he got second in filing it - where's the fairness in that?

But, even that wouldn't solve the problems with the current patents and copyright-system. I would refer you to http://newsbyte.blogspot.com/2007/04/patents-vs-fr ee-world.html , and if people feel there are other links that could be placed there, feel free to point them out.

I picked the Common Development and Distribution License for my recently open source projects. I wrote up a rather length justification for this decision (and why I decided against others, like the GPL, LGPL, and BSD license) on my blog.

That is why no sane economist ever uses averages. They use median income.

If Bill Gates walks into a bar full of out-of-work drunk bums, the "average" income in that bar is suddenly into tens of millions.

As another poster has already pointed out, this is just another example of thought crime and those who wish to use it as a bid to take more control over the lives of others.

--I*Love*Green*Olives

1. 18 month support term
2. Better installation, includes migration tools for mail and such from Windows and linux partitions.
3. Improved wireless support with Avahi
4. Easier third party codec/firmware/driver installation, including Nvidia and ATi proprietary drivers and mp3 codecs.
5. Two new games : glches and soduko
6. Compiz/Beryl support for desktop 3D effects (not default)
7. Beagle (search indexed), Tomboy (note tacking program, sticky notes) and F-Spot (photo management.. alternatively called G-spot, depending on the type of photos).
8. java

The upgrade instructions on the Only Ubuntu Linux blog seem pretty good. But I haven't had a chance to try them myself yet. :)

The upgrade instructions on the Only Ubuntu Linux blog seem pretty good. But I haven't had a chance to try them myself yet. :)

THAT IS CALSSIC!!!! http://renigade.blogspot.com/

How To Be An Evil Overlord, by Mighty Jalapeno

http://mitworld.mit.edu/
http://freescienceonline.blogspot.com/

the real questions are: Why did most of the students cower and hide under their desks waiting their turn to be slaughtered like sheep? Why did they expect the police to come rescue them? Why are the police being blamed for not showing up on time? It is a no brainer truism that the police cannot be everywhere all the time to protect someone. Why is there no media outrage expressed that the students failed to protect themselves? Whatever happened to the concepts of personal responsibility and self-defense? The gunman was only one gunman. Instead of quivering like sheep, the students should have rushed the lone gunman en masse. The best and first act of self-defense is escape. If trapped in a classroom and facing certain death waiting to be shot, why didn't the students swarm the gunman? Why did the students act like sheep waiting to be slaughtered? One would think that in this post 9/11 era with widespread media coverage of the self-defense actions of the passengers on flight 93 assuming your own self-defense would be the obvious course of action. Here is a link to a blog by a forensic psychologist pondering the sheep mind set: http://drhelen.blogspot.com/2006/10/lets-roll.html

I hope other countries follow the same line
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Men, this is great! I've translated it to spanish and published it in my blog. Check it out!

Because they don't have blogs. Yet.

1. It's a myth that this country loves litigation. Most people detest it.

2. I don't know why the attorneys general are not investigating the RIAA's campaign; perhaps they are, and neither you nor I happen to know about it. I know of at least one judge who has taken an interest -- Judge Lee West in Capitol v. Foster -- who has determined that the defendant is entitled to be reimbursed for her quite substantial, and still growing, attorneys fees.

3. Since the Ronald Reagan presidency, the federal government has practically ceased enforcing the great body of antitrust law which had come about during the preceding 85 years. I am hoping for the pendulum to start swinging the other way. Our country has not been 'hell bent on exorcising the antitrust demon' for 25 years, which is why our corporations are so huge, why anticompetitive cartels are permitted to go their merry way, why anticompetitive combinations and mergers have been permitted, why small business finds it so difficult and big business finds it so easy.

At least the difference between dollars and cents didn't come up during the discussion with Verizon. :-)

They don't have a way to enforce ads on books...yet.

At 25 I just inherited my dad's vinyl collection and I've found they make music fun again. When digital distribution of started to catch on I stopped buying CDs, but then it felt like I was just buying filenames. Even when I occasionally bought a CD, I would just rip it to MP3 and put it on my shelf never to bother with it again. Convenient yes, fun not so much.

With vinyl all this convenience goes away. It's fun to go to the record store and sift through 1.00$ bins, or find pressings of newer groups. Then when you get home, you play it. You don't put it into your computer and hit button. You open it up, carefully take the disk out, notice the large liner notes, spin up the table and enjoy. It's more of an event than just rip. burn. play.

Sure it's analog, and there's the occasional distortion, but with a decent cartridge and stylus it's amazing how good new vinyl sounds. Finding spare sleeves to put your favorite albums in then putting the cover them on your wall make for some good excellent wall art too. To me it's similar to why I buy books even when I can get e-books. Life it's just about making everything streamlined and perfect, sometimes you need a little analog grit to keep it interesting.

Of course, I negated myself already by writing about ripping vinyl with 100% Free Software , but that's more for getting my dads old albums onto CD for him.

What's the last great shmup you played since R-Type ruled the scene?

My friend is a journalist for a small newspaper, he just posted a very good piece on his blog: http://vtechmemorial.blogspot.com/2007/04/weve-see n-this-before-lets-keep-eye-on.html

http://eniv.blogspot.com/2007/04/license-for-gpls- text.html -- Now which license's fork is SQL-Ledger Open Source License? :D

IAADM (I am a data miner) -- my rant on this and similar items of corporate grandstanding about what they're capable of.

http://texact.blogspot.com/

This morning I received an email from Ms. Gerace directly, and it appears that the Technician Online article is not 100% accurate. In fact, the Office of Legal Services is not able to represent students in federal court, and the students will need to use outside counsel for the actual litigation. See correction on my blog.