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Considering what a complete piece of crap that movie was, pretty well. From:http://theclientside.blogspot.com/2006/08/sna kes-on-brain-when-marketing-works.html "Third, it was still a big huge success. Why? There is no fleeping way that this movie would ever have opened at #1 without the web. Never ever never ever never.... ever. This is an amazing feat. Without the attention from the blogosphere, consumer generated content and the conversations via social media, this film would likely have raked in $1.4 million for the entire weekend.
According to Wiki, it cost $33 million and made $59 million. $26 million is far from a record, but it's still a nice profit.

Yes, that is just what is needed. Someone else, in the aggregate sense this time, the 'community', telling you what to listen to. Art by a committee.

Things like that will go down in history as the great contribution to the world made by Web 2.0. The radio call in show of the 21st century.

It works so wonderfully well with photographs. I am a photographer who often does some 'photography as art' type stuff, so I regularly visit the popular photography sites like Flickr and PBase to get pointers from the legions of experts who swarm those places. I would like to have the opportunity to see this applied to the music I listen to.

What you are describing is the *real* reason for DRM. It's not about sales from records. It's about control. The real money comes from building hits. A DRM-free world would mean a democratization of music, and at worst the disappearence of "hit bands" and at least the lack of control on the part of industry execs to predict or even manufacture those bands.

Consider especially the boy-bands of the late 90s. It was literally a money-making machine owned from the industry from start to finish.

But to do this, the industry requires tight control over who listens to what. I'm not some sensationalist saying that they can determine who likes what. But through the use of DRM they can monitor and influence choices. I like emo/screamo. There are DOZENS of bands who play very good music of this genre. About 3 are on the radio. Why? Because it's more profitable to have 3 popular bands than 12 semi-popular bands.

The industry needs to keep the pyramid-shape of the market to be able to siphon the rich profits off the top, and they need to be able to stay at the top of the pyramid.

This is what DRM is really for.

http://kiriath-arba.blogspot.com/2007/01/big-surpr ise-drm-not-about-piracy.html

-stormin

Dell used to get linux support through Linuxcare http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LinuxCare and, if I recall they also had a contract with Redhat. If these left a bad taste, they may want to try to do it in house. In that case, it would take some time to build a team.

If that is the problem, start suggesting a group that could just step and handle the workload.

Sun doesn't own the Sun, no one does. http://mdsolar.blogspot.com/2007/01/slashdot-users -selling-solar.html

The article claims that this is different from ASIMO in that it is unprogrammed. Perhaps this means that the feedback from the gyro is used more directly?

In any case, this certainly looks like my friend getting over hip replacement surgery. I wonder if one application would be in working out better models of physical therepy. Give the robot the same change in leg length and muscle weakness, see how it compensates, then have the patient imitate. The recovery buddy?

Walk with Sun Dexter! http://mdsolar.blogspot.com/2007/01/slashdot-users -selling-solar.html

Sorry, but this sounds a lot like RIAA trolling to me. I notice that you have a history of putting up such posts.

The purposes of the copyright laws are NOT vindicated by bringing frivolous cases based on junk science and no evidence. See amicus brief of American Civil Liberties Union, Public Citizen, Electronic Frontier Foundation, American Association of Law Libraries, and ACLU Foundation of Oklahoma in Capitol v. Foster.

If the big 4 record labels are unable to compete, their employees will lose their jobs, and no doubt seek employment among their more successful competitors in the digital music field, who are more adept at listening to -- as opposed to bring lawsuits against -- their customers.

Yes, lets just let Amadinasatan bomb Israel and the US with his new nukes first. It's all America's fault that Iran is developing nuclear weapons material and test launching ICBMs. I pray your family is not in the path of the nuclear fallout or that brave nations will strike first to prevent such fallout. "The [Arab] Ambassador [speaking to Thomas Jefferson] answered us that it was founded on the Laws of the Prophet, that it was written in their Koran, that all nations who should not have answered their authority were sinners, that it was their right and duty to make war upon them wherever they could be found, and to make slaves of all they could take as prisoners" (qtd. in FSM Editors). Let's contrast, for a minute, two events. One event is the six Muslim Imams that were taken off a flight for very suspicious activity, and the other is a Christian woman's punishment for not wearing a headscarf in public.

Yes, lets just let Amadinasatan bomb Israel and the US with his new nukes first. It's all America's fault that Iran is developing nuclear weapons material and test launching ICBMs. I pray your family is not in the path of the nuclear fallout or that brave nations will strike first to prevent such fallout. "The [Arab] Ambassador [speaking to Thomas Jefferson] answered us that it was founded on the Laws of the Prophet, that it was written in their Koran, that all nations who should not have answered their authority were sinners, that it was their right and duty to make war upon them wherever they could be found, and to make slaves of all they could take as prisoners" (qtd. in FSM Editors). Let's contrast, for a minute, two events. One event is the six Muslim Imams that were taken off a flight for very suspicious activity, and the other is a Christian woman's punishment for not wearing a headscarf in public.

Thanks for looking at the contract and raising these questions; they are important ones. Let me say right off that the phone line requirement was a big hold up for me. Back in December I received assurance that VOIP would be OK and on a recent technical call it was clear that the engineering side prefers a router connection if available. Now, if you assume that some time in the future, you won't want any form of two way data in your home that the solar power system can use for communication then your argument about hidden cost would be valid I thing. However, the contract is up front about the need for a communication method. It is just less flexible than the reality.

I took that out of order because this is a clause in the contract which requires additional information. Back to the first isssue: my point was that with a large market penetration, solar hot water is a bad technology if you take it to be mutually exclusive since it cannot do as much as PV. I also pointed out that they are not mutually exclusive.

On the anticipated cost per peak watt, it is true that a decade is involved since this is the period over which the cost of contruction is spread, but this is not the sense you mean. To me, a cost much above $1.53 would be bad sign given where production in China is heading.

On the plant construction contract, delay penelties have been mentioned by both the CEO and CTO. There are also bonuses for early completion. Presumably the timescale is based on past experience in building such plants. As is normal with a startup, there are a number of NDA's in effect. I am not a party to any of them so I don't have any information that I would not be able to disclose anyway. But, I would say that contracts generally do exist prior to execution, that's why they are written. I do think you've argued yourself into a corner here though. The company can't be scamming consumers since it takes no money and now it can't be scamming investors since you say they don't exist. About the only thing left is that this is another ploy by ExxonMobil to delay adoption of renewables. I wouldn't put it past them (http://mdsolar.blogspot.com/2007/01/your-opinion- could-be-paid-for-by.html) but in this case, I'd expect them to face criminal penalties.

On panel degradation, no, the systems are sized to meet 100% of annual use at the beginning. Since the customer's annual use may change, they will be resized up or down to compensate. I'd expect degradation to have a smaller variance, but if this is the main thing, panels will be added to keep up with the degradation. This is an advantage to renting.

Telephone line: already covered.

There is no lein on the home. Mortgage holders must ackowledge that there can be no lein on the system. If you think about it this makes a lot of sense. This is a rental contract, not a sales contract. In the case of foreclosure, the company needs to be able to recover its property.

If you rent a car, you, or your insurance company, are on the hook if it is damaged. Same thing here. The company plans to provide a method of insurance if the homeowners policy won't cover it. We are getting different answers so far from State Farm. My agent says Fire, Explosion and Theft, while an agent in IL says everything but flood and nuclear incident. More work is needed here.

If you don't approve the system design the contract is over. That is what approval means in 7.2.

The rent is on what the system actually produces, not on what is might produce. If you don't pay your bill, you still owe it. If the system is removed owing to default, it won't be producing power so there can't be any claim on lost revenues. 9.1 basically says you can't use your security deposit to pay your past due rent. I've never seen a rental contract that does not say that.

Citizenre will be offereing systems for sale, but this offer is for rental. I hope you will reconsider your accusation that this is a scam since it does not appear to be based on any facts, only misunderstandings.

"Does this mean that whatever happens to organisms/populations is an evolutionary process?"
As far as there is a notable change compared to the ancestral organisms, by definition, yes.

"What is then "the concept of evolving" according to these "real, hardcore, scientific guys" whose knowledge you know so well?"
Evolution is the observable phenonmenon of changes in the allele frequencies of a given population.

"Your message reminds me of the Popper's objection to evolution: it is impossible to disprove it since whichever way organisms turn out is fine from the evolutionary standpoint. He concluded then that evolution is not a scientific theory according to his definition."
Popper's criticism wasn't towards evolution per se, but towards darwinism (that is, natural selection as the main mechanism behind evolution). However, I didn't say anything like "whichever way organisms turn out is fine from the evolutionray standpoint". I said change in organisms/populations, whether good or bad for the evolutionary fitness of said organisms/populations, is evolution by definition.

"Doesn't Google have difficulty hiring people?"

Yes, they, like the M$ and other executives are having self-created difficulties.

http://collectingmythoughts.blogspot.com/2007/01/3 424-too-young-to-retire-sheryl.html
http://blogs.usatoday.com/oped/2007/01/too_young_t o_re.html

"I have a Ph.D. in Computer Science. I have 20 years of experience. I am 50 years old. I am unemployable. I can't even get an interview at companies like Google, Cisco, M$, Dell, HP and Apple, whose Washington lobbyists..."

http://www.darkreading.com/document.asp?doc_id=115 318&WT.svl=column2_1

"Google's executive staff has [idiotically] concluded that interviewing takes too long and that by sorting potential employes based on grades -- largely an artificial metric in business -- they are probably missing out on many great employees they might otherwise hire. Unfortunately, Google's 'solution' to this problem is to hire people [who are capable of doing] jobs '3 levels higher' than the jobs they are hired for."

Other self-created difficulties:
* failure to recruit at more than a handful of the thousands of collegs and universities in the USA
* failure to cover interview and relocation costs for impoverished by capable US candidates
* decrease in education and training for new-hires and current employees from what firms were offering in the 1980s
* abuse of resume parsers attached to overly limited data-bases instead of hiring competent humans
* failure to include human contact name, that person's e-mail address and voice telephone number in every help-wanted ad
* failure to advertise jobs in print media across the country
* turning out products of low quality repeatedly, which repels many capable American professionals
* conduct and products that are ethically questionable, which repel many capable American professionals from seeking work at their firms (e.g. that whole "permatemp" scam, RFID, many ERP projects, body shopping)

Even Hilter "Been There Done That" on VW logo, get spinning at http://geekvideo.blogspot.com/2007/01/volkswagen-l ogo-evil-nazi-dark-past.html :)

VMware engineers also don't put any faith into being able to hide the fact that the guest OS is virtualised. When there are unavoidable holes like timing differences, there's no value in hiding some of the other avoidable holes.

But now they have an answer to the question "congratulations, you now know you're on a VMware Workstation 4.5 VM. What are you going to do about it?"

I guess the point I'm trying to make is the big power outages owing to grid stress come during the day in the summer. This is when all of the most expensive generation is on and it still does not work. People die. Money is lost. Food is spoiled. Adding in significant solar power helps with this.

I'd suggest that you look at the Solar Savings Calculator on any of the links at http://mdsolar.blogspot.com/2007/01/slashdot-users -selling-solar.html. Take the numbers at the bottom, tons of CO2 etc. and reduce them by the portion of electricity use that hot water alone represents, and there is the main difference. You'll also save about $10K for a typical bill. You probably save about the same doing hot water alone on the money side, but on the environmental side you miss quite a lot.

Basically, Citizenre wants to make it possible for anyone to get solar. At the moment, to get solar you've got to be pretty upscale. I don't think you've got to be subprime for $40K to look daunting. Citizenre is trying to make getting solar a nobrainer. It hasn't done it yet, that is going to take a pretty good demonstration of the business and and a lot of education. Nobrainers are made not born, but that's the plan. All of this discussion now helps though. You poke holes in it, and I've got to scratch my head about how does that work. This is all the sort of work that makes things smooth for the future. New projects are always that way. Some succeed to eventually become graceful and others fail. My bet is on success in this case but it is a gamble, not a sure thing yet.

Ever since Eric Raymond had raped him at his house in Holland and later again at Slashdot New Year's Eve party, Rob Malda's life had reached an all time low. Sleeping until four or five in the evening, he would wake and surf the 'net for pictures of young, boyish men and call and talk tearfully to Hemos on the phone. He ignored Slashdot, thinking himself above editing tech-news, while his Open Source stocks slipped. Depression and anxiety had Rob so entirely that it seemed he would never again enjoy life. He had truly hit bottom.

In the midst of his malaise, Rob had forgotten his birthday but Hemos managed to coax him out for a night on the town across the state in Detroit. After their little road trip, the pair went on a shopping spree, took in a movie, and ate dinner at a very chic and expensive restaurant. After stopping for ice cream, the two friends headed to Rob's favorite Detroit night spot, the Malebox Bar. There they wasted no time dancing to the latest hard house remixes and downing shot after shot of watermelon Jolly Rancher drinks.

As time wore on and mix after mix pounded the dance floor, Rob and Hemos began feeling tipsy and decided to take a break in the club's arcade. The two fought through Mortal Kombat like an old married couple, went back and forth in Altered Beast, and played a couple rounds of Spy Hunter. The conversation had slowly turned to MAME, an Open Source program that emulated dozens of arcade games by means of illegally pirated ROM files, as they began playing Rampage. Rob and Hemos had gigs and gigs of illegally pirated ROM files.

It's ludicrous playing video games here when we have MAME on our systems at home, Hemos said as he punched Rob in the back of the head and jumped halfway up a building.

Yeah, Rob said as he smashed a tank. But you can't get any action sitting at home playing video games like you can here.

Too bad there's no way to pick up guys and play MAME at the same time, Hemos said as he ate a bathing woman and burped. That would be the best.

Yeah, that would be pretty great, Rob said.

Rob stopped climbing the building he was on, leaving Hemos to smash the building and jump away before it collapsed. Rob fell on his butt and lost some life.

Rob, are you okay? Hemos asked while button-mashing Rob's character into oblivion. Rob?

Hemos continued speaking, but Rob wasn't there. His eyes were wide and glazed, focused elsewhere. He was smiling weird and crooked as the game showed in reverse in his eyes. Hemos finally turned to look at Rob.

Robert Hubert Malda! Hemos yelled, hands on hips in frustration. Not waiting for a response, he reached out and pinched his friend's elbow. He didn't like that look in his eyes it always meant something bad was about to happen. Rob came to, shaking his head and stepping back from the game, which was now blinking GAME OVER at him. He turned and looked at Hemos, who was fuming.

Jeff, uh, I'm sorry. I I guess I zoned out there for a minute, he said as he looked around the bar. I, um. I'll be right back.

And before Jeff could say a word, Rob was off like a flash into the crowd.

Jesus Christ, Rob! Jeff said between breaths. This thing is heavy and there's barely room for it in my back seat!

Ha, yeah right, Rob said, grunting. There's always room in your back seat!

Jeff rolled his eyes at Rob's little jab. You be nice, you're lucky I'm letting you do this.

With one final shove and groan, Rob was finished, and the old, worn arcade game shell was wedged tightly the back seat of Jeff's VW Jetta. They bound the back doors to the machine with bungie cord and then tied their red

Ever since Eric Raymond had raped him at his house in Holland and later again at Slashdot New Year's Eve party, Rob Malda's life had reached an all time low. Sleeping until four or five in the evening, he would wake and surf the 'net for pictures of young, boyish men and call and talk tearfully to Hemos on the phone. He ignored Slashdot, thinking himself above editing tech-news, while his Open Source stocks slipped. Depression and anxiety had Rob so entirely that it seemed he would never again enjoy life. He had truly hit bottom.

In the midst of his malaise, Rob had forgotten his birthday but Hemos managed to coax him out for a night on the town across the state in Detroit. After their little road trip, the pair went on a shopping spree, took in a movie, and ate dinner at a very chic and expensive restaurant. After stopping for ice cream, the two friends headed to Rob's favorite Detroit night spot, the Malebox Bar. There they wasted no time dancing to the latest hard house remixes and downing shot after shot of watermelon Jolly Rancher drinks.

As time wore on and mix after mix pounded the dance floor, Rob and Hemos began feeling tipsy and decided to take a break in the club's arcade. The two fought through Mortal Kombat like an old married couple, went back and forth in Altered Beast, and played a couple rounds of Spy Hunter. The conversation had slowly turned to MAME, an Open Source program that emulated dozens of arcade games by means of illegally pirated ROM files, as they began playing Rampage. Rob and Hemos had gigs and gigs of illegally pirated ROM files.

It's ludicrous playing video games here when we have MAME on our systems at home, Hemos said as he punched Rob in the back of the head and jumped halfway up a building.

Yeah, Rob said as he smashed a tank. But you can't get any action sitting at home playing video games like you can here.

Too bad there's no way to pick up guys and play MAME at the same time, Hemos said as he ate a bathing woman and burped. That would be the best.

Yeah, that would be pretty great, Rob said.

Rob stopped climbing the building he was on, leaving Hemos to smash the building and jump away before it collapsed. Rob fell on his butt and lost some life.

Rob, are you okay? Hemos asked while button-mashing Rob's character into oblivion. Rob?

Hemos continued speaking, but Rob wasn't there. His eyes were wide and glazed, focused elsewhere. He was smiling weird and crooked as the game showed in reverse in his eyes. Hemos finally turned to look at Rob.

Robert Hubert Malda! Hemos yelled, hands on hips in frustration. Not waiting for a response, he reached out and pinched his friend's elbow. He didn't like that look in his eyes it always meant something bad was about to happen. Rob came to, shaking his head and stepping back from the game, which was now blinking GAME OVER at him. He turned and looked at Hemos, who was fuming.

Jeff, uh, I'm sorry. I I guess I zoned out there for a minute, he said as he looked around the bar. I, um. I'll be right back.

And before Jeff could say a word, Rob was off like a flash into the crowd.

Jesus Christ, Rob! Jeff said between breaths. This thing is heavy and there's barely room for it in my back seat!

Ha, yeah right, Rob said, grunting. There's always room in your back seat!

Jeff rolled his eyes at Rob's little jab. You be nice, you're lucky I'm letting you do this.

With one final shove and groan, Rob was finished, and the old, worn arcade game shell was wedged tightly the back seat of Jeff's VW Jetta. They bound the back doors to the machine with bungie cord and then tied their red

I notice that the course homepage talks about designing for an "idealised parallel computer" -- did it take into account the huge speed hit that comes from false sharing on real processors? That should be a major consideration if you are designing shared-memory parallel algorithms, since they can degrade performance by 1700% on modern processors. If you're not careful, your parallel algorithms could end up being much slower than single-threaded ones simply because they force so many cache bounces.

Some of those points are clearly inaccurate, misleading, or unsubstantiated...the "100% effective rate" is only against the 4 strains of HPV that the vaccine is designed to protect against, which is not the same as being 100% effective against all HPV or all cervical cancer...the claim that cervical cancer rates went up in 2007--aren't we only two months into 2007, and where are these numbers coming from?...the inaccurate claim that Merck won't make all that much money from Gardasil...the claim that Gardasil is the only vaccine that can prevent death, which I'm sure would be news to many doctors and parents who have been giving children vaccines designed to prevent other potentially fatal diseases for years...the claim that booster shots are almost never necessary...

Of course, this is the reason why the bottom line of our post was to do your own research. We're not asking anyone to take anything in our blog at face value, just like we don't take any blog/comment/article/whatever that we read at face value. Check it out for yourself, and decide what's right for you.

We've been following all of the coverage of Gardasil, and a lot of new information has come out since we wrote this piece. We're finishing up a follow-up, which will hopefully be up sometime this week.

~The Evil Slut Clique
http://evilslutopia.blogspot.com/2007/01/gardasil. html

I'm crazy enough to think that this guy has a good chance of getting elected in 2008.

Here are my impressions of his website.

I'm impressed some people have dug this deep into Vista, without losing their sanity. I was almost put off from my first 'calculating how long it'll take to detele a *very small* file' pop-up. See what else makes me weep: http://www.goffee-freelance.blogspot.com/

Yes. The analysis above is for 1.8.5. The version available before 2007-02-07 (presumably 1.8.4) actually did delete the home directory, according to Reza's own admission.

By the way, someone else did do the full analysis of 1.8.5: Behind the Curtain With Display Eater -- Yet Another Mac Dev Blog. Nice work.

My neighbor has trouble with his phone connection all the time. The phone company's solution? Ignore it. He still has to pay his bill if it works or not. With the Citizenre model things are a little different. If the system does not produce, the company does not make money and the customer has to pay the utility at a higher rate (on average over the life of the contract) so there is a common interest in keeping the system in good repair. All sorts of things could happen but a lot of them are covered in the contract. You can see this following any of the links at http://mdsolar.blogspot.com/2007/01/slashdot-users -selling-solar.html. Click on "Reserve your System" and get the PDF at the bottom of the page. If you see some "what ifs" that seem important but aren't covered please let me know and I'll put in a support ticket. I've already put in a number of these based on comments from slashdot. Discussion here has been quite helpful.

Well, highest demand actually happens in the summer. Winter peaks don't always happen at night, but they also don't strain the grid or use so much high cost generation which seemed to be your original worry I think.

There are a lot of advantage to owning, but if as you say, the Citizenre system increases a home's value even though it is a rental, that is a benefit that the two modes would share I guess.

Using electric hot water heating has its efficiency disadvantages no matter what you use, though wasting solar power is not the same as wasting fossil power I think. Geothermal systems often include hot water heating as an extra benefit.

A nice thing about renting solar is that it eliminate a lot of the "either or" issues you are raising. Rent solar for what you pay your utility anyway and you are no longer in the position of making all those alternative choices you mention. You can just do both.

But, I generally agree that conservation is about the cheapest form of energy right now. You might like to look at http://mdsolar.blogspot.com/2007/02/trimming.html where I report on a recent energy efficiency meeting in DC.

"This is what the muslim god demands :
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_rights_in_Sadda m_Hussein's_Iraq"

Saddam Hussein was a secularist. He came out of the Baath (renaissance) party. The idea that the Muslim God demands human rights violations makes as much sense as the idea that the Christian God demands them (think of all the juicy bits in Leviticus).

Saddam was a thoroughly evil man, and Iraq under his rule was a pretty horrible place. But the US has made it worse, by any reasonable standard. Here are some blog entries written by people who actually live there, people of many different political opinions and backgrounds:
http://iraqi-roses.blogspot.com/2007/02/un-duck-an d-cover.html
http://firstwordsfirstwalkfirstiniraq.blogspot.com /2006/11/when-victims-rejoice.html
http://nabilsblog.blogspot.com/2006/12/happy-or-sa d-should-i-be.html
http://livesstrong.blogspot.com/2006/11/eids-spiri t.html
http://twentyfourstepstoliberty.blogspot.com/2006/ 12/it-is-jungle-we-need-tarzan.html
http://riverbendblog.blogspot.com/2006_12_01_river bendblog_archive.html#116738820591750213
http://glimpseofiraq.blogspot.com/2006/07/goodbye- my-boy.html
http://glimpseofiraq.blogspot.com/2006/06/shalash- al-iraqi.html
http://neurotic-iraqi-wife.blogspot.com/2007/02/ir aqi-destiny.html

Can you seriously read these and rejoice at what has been done?

"This is what the muslim god demands :
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_rights_in_Sadda m_Hussein's_Iraq"

Saddam Hussein was a secularist. He came out of the Baath (renaissance) party. The idea that the Muslim God demands human rights violations makes as much sense as the idea that the Christian God demands them (think of all the juicy bits in Leviticus).

Saddam was a thoroughly evil man, and Iraq under his rule was a pretty horrible place. But the US has made it worse, by any reasonable standard. Here are some blog entries written by people who actually live there, people of many different political opinions and backgrounds:
http://iraqi-roses.blogspot.com/2007/02/un-duck-an d-cover.html
http://firstwordsfirstwalkfirstiniraq.blogspot.com /2006/11/when-victims-rejoice.html
http://nabilsblog.blogspot.com/2006/12/happy-or-sa d-should-i-be.html
http://livesstrong.blogspot.com/2006/11/eids-spiri t.html
http://twentyfourstepstoliberty.blogspot.com/2006/ 12/it-is-jungle-we-need-tarzan.html
http://riverbendblog.blogspot.com/2006_12_01_river bendblog_archive.html#116738820591750213
http://glimpseofiraq.blogspot.com/2006/07/goodbye- my-boy.html
http://glimpseofiraq.blogspot.com/2006/06/shalash- al-iraqi.html
http://neurotic-iraqi-wife.blogspot.com/2007/02/ir aqi-destiny.html

Can you seriously read these and rejoice at what has been done?

"This is what the muslim god demands :
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_rights_in_Sadda m_Hussein's_Iraq"

Saddam Hussein was a secularist. He came out of the Baath (renaissance) party. The idea that the Muslim God demands human rights violations makes as much sense as the idea that the Christian God demands them (think of all the juicy bits in Leviticus).

Saddam was a thoroughly evil man, and Iraq under his rule was a pretty horrible place. But the US has made it worse, by any reasonable standard. Here are some blog entries written by people who actually live there, people of many different political opinions and backgrounds:
http://iraqi-roses.blogspot.com/2007/02/un-duck-an d-cover.html
http://firstwordsfirstwalkfirstiniraq.blogspot.com /2006/11/when-victims-rejoice.html
http://nabilsblog.blogspot.com/2006/12/happy-or-sa d-should-i-be.html
http://livesstrong.blogspot.com/2006/11/eids-spiri t.html
http://twentyfourstepstoliberty.blogspot.com/2006/ 12/it-is-jungle-we-need-tarzan.html
http://riverbendblog.blogspot.com/2006_12_01_river bendblog_archive.html#116738820591750213
http://glimpseofiraq.blogspot.com/2006/07/goodbye- my-boy.html
http://glimpseofiraq.blogspot.com/2006/06/shalash- al-iraqi.html
http://neurotic-iraqi-wife.blogspot.com/2007/02/ir aqi-destiny.html

Can you seriously read these and rejoice at what has been done?

"This is what the muslim god demands :
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_rights_in_Sadda m_Hussein's_Iraq"

Saddam Hussein was a secularist. He came out of the Baath (renaissance) party. The idea that the Muslim God demands human rights violations makes as much sense as the idea that the Christian God demands them (think of all the juicy bits in Leviticus).

Saddam was a thoroughly evil man, and Iraq under his rule was a pretty horrible place. But the US has made it worse, by any reasonable standard. Here are some blog entries written by people who actually live there, people of many different political opinions and backgrounds:
http://iraqi-roses.blogspot.com/2007/02/un-duck-an d-cover.html
http://firstwordsfirstwalkfirstiniraq.blogspot.com /2006/11/when-victims-rejoice.html
http://nabilsblog.blogspot.com/2006/12/happy-or-sa d-should-i-be.html
http://livesstrong.blogspot.com/2006/11/eids-spiri t.html
http://twentyfourstepstoliberty.blogspot.com/2006/ 12/it-is-jungle-we-need-tarzan.html
http://riverbendblog.blogspot.com/2006_12_01_river bendblog_archive.html#116738820591750213
http://glimpseofiraq.blogspot.com/2006/07/goodbye- my-boy.html
http://glimpseofiraq.blogspot.com/2006/06/shalash- al-iraqi.html
http://neurotic-iraqi-wife.blogspot.com/2007/02/ir aqi-destiny.html

Can you seriously read these and rejoice at what has been done?

"This is what the muslim god demands :
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_rights_in_Sadda m_Hussein's_Iraq"

Saddam Hussein was a secularist. He came out of the Baath (renaissance) party. The idea that the Muslim God demands human rights violations makes as much sense as the idea that the Christian God demands them (think of all the juicy bits in Leviticus).

Saddam was a thoroughly evil man, and Iraq under his rule was a pretty horrible place. But the US has made it worse, by any reasonable standard. Here are some blog entries written by people who actually live there, people of many different political opinions and backgrounds:
http://iraqi-roses.blogspot.com/2007/02/un-duck-an d-cover.html
http://firstwordsfirstwalkfirstiniraq.blogspot.com /2006/11/when-victims-rejoice.html
http://nabilsblog.blogspot.com/2006/12/happy-or-sa d-should-i-be.html
http://livesstrong.blogspot.com/2006/11/eids-spiri t.html
http://twentyfourstepstoliberty.blogspot.com/2006/ 12/it-is-jungle-we-need-tarzan.html
http://riverbendblog.blogspot.com/2006_12_01_river bendblog_archive.html#116738820591750213
http://glimpseofiraq.blogspot.com/2006/07/goodbye- my-boy.html
http://glimpseofiraq.blogspot.com/2006/06/shalash- al-iraqi.html
http://neurotic-iraqi-wife.blogspot.com/2007/02/ir aqi-destiny.html

Can you seriously read these and rejoice at what has been done?

"This is what the muslim god demands :
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_rights_in_Sadda m_Hussein's_Iraq"

Saddam Hussein was a secularist. He came out of the Baath (renaissance) party. The idea that the Muslim God demands human rights violations makes as much sense as the idea that the Christian God demands them (think of all the juicy bits in Leviticus).

Saddam was a thoroughly evil man, and Iraq under his rule was a pretty horrible place. But the US has made it worse, by any reasonable standard. Here are some blog entries written by people who actually live there, people of many different political opinions and backgrounds:
http://iraqi-roses.blogspot.com/2007/02/un-duck-an d-cover.html
http://firstwordsfirstwalkfirstiniraq.blogspot.com /2006/11/when-victims-rejoice.html
http://nabilsblog.blogspot.com/2006/12/happy-or-sa d-should-i-be.html
http://livesstrong.blogspot.com/2006/11/eids-spiri t.html
http://twentyfourstepstoliberty.blogspot.com/2006/ 12/it-is-jungle-we-need-tarzan.html
http://riverbendblog.blogspot.com/2006_12_01_river bendblog_archive.html#116738820591750213
http://glimpseofiraq.blogspot.com/2006/07/goodbye- my-boy.html
http://glimpseofiraq.blogspot.com/2006/06/shalash- al-iraqi.html
http://neurotic-iraqi-wife.blogspot.com/2007/02/ir aqi-destiny.html

Can you seriously read these and rejoice at what has been done?

"This is what the muslim god demands :
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_rights_in_Sadda m_Hussein's_Iraq"

Saddam Hussein was a secularist. He came out of the Baath (renaissance) party. The idea that the Muslim God demands human rights violations makes as much sense as the idea that the Christian God demands them (think of all the juicy bits in Leviticus).

Saddam was a thoroughly evil man, and Iraq under his rule was a pretty horrible place. But the US has made it worse, by any reasonable standard. Here are some blog entries written by people who actually live there, people of many different political opinions and backgrounds:
http://iraqi-roses.blogspot.com/2007/02/un-duck-an d-cover.html
http://firstwordsfirstwalkfirstiniraq.blogspot.com /2006/11/when-victims-rejoice.html
http://nabilsblog.blogspot.com/2006/12/happy-or-sa d-should-i-be.html
http://livesstrong.blogspot.com/2006/11/eids-spiri t.html
http://twentyfourstepstoliberty.blogspot.com/2006/ 12/it-is-jungle-we-need-tarzan.html
http://riverbendblog.blogspot.com/2006_12_01_river bendblog_archive.html#116738820591750213
http://glimpseofiraq.blogspot.com/2006/07/goodbye- my-boy.html
http://glimpseofiraq.blogspot.com/2006/06/shalash- al-iraqi.html
http://neurotic-iraqi-wife.blogspot.com/2007/02/ir aqi-destiny.html

Can you seriously read these and rejoice at what has been done?

"This is what the muslim god demands :
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_rights_in_Sadda m_Hussein's_Iraq"

Saddam Hussein was a secularist. He came out of the Baath (renaissance) party. The idea that the Muslim God demands human rights violations makes as much sense as the idea that the Christian God demands them (think of all the juicy bits in Leviticus).

Saddam was a thoroughly evil man, and Iraq under his rule was a pretty horrible place. But the US has made it worse, by any reasonable standard. Here are some blog entries written by people who actually live there, people of many different political opinions and backgrounds:
http://iraqi-roses.blogspot.com/2007/02/un-duck-an d-cover.html
http://firstwordsfirstwalkfirstiniraq.blogspot.com /2006/11/when-victims-rejoice.html
http://nabilsblog.blogspot.com/2006/12/happy-or-sa d-should-i-be.html
http://livesstrong.blogspot.com/2006/11/eids-spiri t.html
http://twentyfourstepstoliberty.blogspot.com/2006/ 12/it-is-jungle-we-need-tarzan.html
http://riverbendblog.blogspot.com/2006_12_01_river bendblog_archive.html#116738820591750213
http://glimpseofiraq.blogspot.com/2006/07/goodbye- my-boy.html
http://glimpseofiraq.blogspot.com/2006/06/shalash- al-iraqi.html
http://neurotic-iraqi-wife.blogspot.com/2007/02/ir aqi-destiny.html

Can you seriously read these and rejoice at what has been done?

"This is what the muslim god demands :
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_rights_in_Sadda m_Hussein's_Iraq"

Saddam Hussein was a secularist. He came out of the Baath (renaissance) party. The idea that the Muslim God demands human rights violations makes as much sense as the idea that the Christian God demands them (think of all the juicy bits in Leviticus).

Saddam was a thoroughly evil man, and Iraq under his rule was a pretty horrible place. But the US has made it worse, by any reasonable standard. Here are some blog entries written by people who actually live there, people of many different political opinions and backgrounds:
http://iraqi-roses.blogspot.com/2007/02/un-duck-an d-cover.html
http://firstwordsfirstwalkfirstiniraq.blogspot.com /2006/11/when-victims-rejoice.html
http://nabilsblog.blogspot.com/2006/12/happy-or-sa d-should-i-be.html
http://livesstrong.blogspot.com/2006/11/eids-spiri t.html
http://twentyfourstepstoliberty.blogspot.com/2006/ 12/it-is-jungle-we-need-tarzan.html
http://riverbendblog.blogspot.com/2006_12_01_river bendblog_archive.html#116738820591750213
http://glimpseofiraq.blogspot.com/2006/07/goodbye- my-boy.html
http://glimpseofiraq.blogspot.com/2006/06/shalash- al-iraqi.html
http://neurotic-iraqi-wife.blogspot.com/2007/02/ir aqi-destiny.html

Can you seriously read these and rejoice at what has been done?

I actually do think it was a hoax. Reza wanted us to believe the program would delete the home dir, but it actually does not. Blake C. blogged about this.

The real reason not to use programs from Reza is that he's not a very good programmer, as disassembly of the program proves. Also I ROTFLed at the typo in the licence that makes it total garbage.

Meanwhile you can go and see the updated official reply: he now say the program is going to be free and open sourced. It has become free effective NOW, and he posts a valid key to enable the program. It will become open after polishing the source (and he'd better do polish it or face even more shame).

Insulation and geotermal heat pumps pay for themselves faster than solar power and have a lower initial cost, so yes, do this first. I'm trying to help customers with these things. Most have already gone to CFLs but some have not. That is a $40 savings per bulb. I'd say that the efficiency measures are even more valuable to people who are planning on selling soon because they can get more for their house if it is improved in that way and sell it sooner in a slow market which can be very important.
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Rent solar and transfer the contract when you sell: http://mdsolar.blogspot.com/2007/01/slashdot-users -selling-solar.html

Well, I always multiply by at least a factor of pi in these articles but going below wholesale may be soon. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/money/main.jhtml?xml=/m oney/2007/02/19/ccview19.xml.

As I've said, I expect other companies to compete with Citizenre. The Salt River Projet in Arizona is already into solar and seems to have the confidence of its rate payers so it might see the possibility of renting rate payers roofs as a good thing. So far though I think they are just filling up desert. Doing it that way is probably easier for them. Note that because of the existing relationship between utilities and their rate payers, it is more likely that the utility would pay a consideration to the customer for the use of the roof: utility pays rate payers rent. For Citizenre, customers pay the company rent.

Each utility is limited to its territory. Citizenre is limited to net metering states and their caps. Citizenre's market is larger than any one utility's market. Also, I could see utlities that are not accomodating to net metering losing territiry to those which are. APS might lose downtown Phoenix to SRP for example.
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Solar, its abundant: http://mdsolar.blogspot.com/2007/01/slashdot-users -selling-solar.html

Not sure if you consider he as a security expert but Joanna Rutkowska uses Windows Vista. She was running Windows XP 64 bit before Vista was released IIRC.

http://theinvisiblethings.blogspot.com/2007/02/run ning-vista-every-day.html

1. The vaccine only decreases your chances of getting cervical cancer, it doesn't eliminate the risk.
2. Even without the vaccine, the number of cervical cancer cases is trending downward and has been for years.
3. Gardasil is one of the most expensive vaccines ever
4. Merck will not be liable if Gardasil turns out to be harmful some time in the future.
5. There have been no long-term studies done on the effect of the vaccine after 5-10 or more years, and testing on young girls has been extremely limited.
6. It is unknown how long the immunity provided by Gardasil actually lasts.
7. The studies done on Gardasil were not set up to investigate whether the vaccine itself has the potential to cause cancer.
8. Gardasil is one of many vaccines containing aluminum, and there is increasing evidence suggesting that aluminum-based vaccines can have harmful effects.
9. Gardasil is only for women.
10. The bottom line

As far as I can determine the facts on the site are correct. WebHostingGuy even admits as much with respect to 3, 6, and 7, yet when he gets to 10 he claims everything on the site is wrong.

For number 3, WebHostingGuy dismisses Merck's potential revenue comparing the current $70 million to the company's $22 billion. Keep in mind that if every sixth grade student in every school has to get the $360 vaccination, Merck stands to make an extra $1 billion per year until the patent expires. That's nearly 5% of their current revenue!

You can read the division of liability in the contract which is available through any of the links at http://mdsolar.blogspot.com/2007/01/slashdot-users -selling-solar.html. Basically, if the system causes damage then the company is responsible. If the system is damaged then the home owner is responsible. If the home owner's insurance won't cover this there will be an option to get additional insurance. We're getting a variety of responses from insurance companies on what they will cover. Mine in Maryland says it covers only fire, explosion and theft while the same company in Illinois covers everything but flood and nuclear incident. More work is needed on this issue.

Actually, system capacities are adjusted according to the renter's use patterns. As a part of this, the degradation with time is easily managed.

There are a number of market issues but is seems to me that going from less than 1% to 20% of the electric power market can happen without reengineering the grid. If you think about it, residential solar is a good method of postponing grid capacity upgrades since it comes in at peak demand at the the point of delivery. You can see some discussion of the post 20% issues at http://mdsolar.blogspot.com/2007/01/why-renewables -displace-nukes-first.html

Actually, Citizenre only does business in states that have net metering. This is a kWh for kWh trade sustained over a year. The company wants to be sure you don't over produce (over a year) so that you do not have to pay retail and get paid what ever the utility thinks it can get away with. Some utilites actually confiscate the extra power. This is explained in more detail at any of the links at http://mdsolar.blogspot.com/2007/01/slashdot-users -selling-solar.html though there is system maintainance going on just now so waith just a bit.

My guess is that the cellular companies will fight this vigorously, but that might be short sighted. If they provided competitively priced Internet access, they would take the wind out of the municipal network and hotspot movements. More important, an open wireless network would be an important piece of infrastructure, providing a much needed boost to the US economy and our sagging Internet.

There will be powerful companies on both sides of this important issue -- make your voice heard by signing an FCC petition.

The Skype petition is not yet posted on the FCC Web site, but we will update this post with a link when it is: http://cis471.blogspot.com/2007/02/petition-to-ope n-cellular-networks.html.

My guess is that the cellular companies will fight this vigorously, but that might be short sighted. If they provided competitively priced Internet access, they would take the wind out of the municipal network and hotspot movements. More important, an open wireless network would be an important piece of infrastructure, providing a much needed boost to the US economy and our sagging Internet.

There will be powerful companies on both sides of this important issue -- make your voice heard by signing an FCC petition.

The Skype petition is not yet posted on the FCC Web site, but we will update this post with a link when it is: http://cis471.blogspot.com/2007/02/petition-to-ope n-cellular-networks.html.

We're operating under the assumption that software is patentable... but we've never held that in this court, ever.

No, this is actually a rental. If you break the contract, you lose your security deposit and that is it. The company can still make money with the system sitting on another roof. The contact does have a lot to it though. You can read it by clicking on any of the links at http://mdsolar.blogspot.com/2007/01/slashdot-users -selling-solar.html and clicking "Reserve your System."

Yes. On slashdot, I send to the list of slashdot users who are doing this at my blog http://mdsolar.blogspot.com/2007/01/slashdot-users -selling-solar.html

The ownership of the systems stays with the company, so recievers would be collecting them, or the bill in the worst case.
The roof, shading factors, past electric usage all go into the system design. Under the 25 year contacts, there is one free deinstall-reinstall in case you need to move or reroof.
Installs are performed by franchises. These are brick and mortar. The network marketing is for sales. It is working as well.
These systems are only available where there is net metering. You use up kWh credits when the weather is cloudy that you build up when the weather is fair.
The amount of roof the system needs depends on how much electricity you use. The panel configuration is still not set but they will be 15% efficient. So, you can take 340 W/m^2 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_radiation day night average mutiply by 0.15 and get about 50 W/m^2 out. For a 1000 kWh/mo bill you can work out that you use 1.4 kW on average so you need about 28 m^2 of panels, about 5 meters square. The tilt and orientation of your roof is also important and the amount of annual cloud cover. Ground mounted systems are also offered.
You can find out more following links at http://mdsolar.blogspot.com/2007/01/slashdot-users -selling-solar.html

You are responsible for buying all the power the system produces but you can fix the per kWh rate for up to 25 years. The rate is what you pay now to your utility. Look at the map on one of the sales sights linked at http://mdsolar.blogspot.com/2007/01/slashdot-users -selling-solar.html to check the rate against your bill. If you are a Baltimore Gas and Electric customer, you'll see that you'll save about 30%, but that is only through Feb. 28. All the rates move to 2006 rates on March 1. BGE has just been rasing its rates quickly so you're seeing the lag as the company tries to track those changes.

But, this is not completely free. There is a $500 deposit once you approve the design of the system.

One thing that confuses people about how this works is the idea of net metering. The system is designed to meet 100% of you power use over a year. It is not designed to meet you peak power use. Under net metering you build up kWh credits when the Sun shines and you are not using all of the power, and you use those credits at night or on cloudy days. The key thing is that the credits last for a year so the seasonal differences in power production and power usage can match up annually. There is good information on net metering laws at http://www.dsireusa.org/.

At least three shashdot users are selling rental contracts for this company and if there are more please let me know so I can add them to this list http://mdsolar.blogspot.com/2007/01/slashdot-users -selling-solar.html.

Please remember that this is a startup and it is going to take time to get going. No money will be collected until the panels are ready for installation!

http://righttocreate.blogspot.com/2005/12/why-drug -companies-dont-need-patents.html

Dave Richards, sysadmin for the City of Largo, Florida has been documenting some of his work with choosing and setting up thin-clients.