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As claimed by a blogger, you can in fact install the Zune software under Vista RC2. Here is a link to his blog, and the steps are included below to fend off karma whores and help save the guy a little bandwidth. Note, I do not have Vista RC2 or a Zune and have not tested this. Cheers.

1. Don't let the Zune CD autorun - instead right click on it in my computer and choose open
2. On the Zune setup .exe right click and go to properties
3. Click on the compatibility tab, then check "run this program in compatibility mode for:" and select Windows XP SP2
4. Hit apply, then ok and now go back to the opened Zune folder and run the Zunesetup.exe

Check out http://peakoildebunked.blogspot.com/ -- he has hundreds of articles that little by little debunk Peak Oil scare theorists. He makes an excellent case, and when I had a moment's concern about peak oil (for my daughter), I saw that and was greatly reassured.

Here's a prediction that was correct, even though skeptics like to lie about it.

Others have taken a stab at the red herrings in the parent already...

It has always been suspected from Firefox to outrun IE7 in the anti-phishing department. If IE7 delivered so many false positives at a certain point you can only imagine how many false negatives it delivers. Anti-phishing filters are only for ignorant people and only ignorant people use IE. IE is actually insulting its users with the huge scene they are making with their anti-phishing scanner. It's effectively telling the user: "Don't worry I know you are stupid, so I will protect you against phishing attacks, because I know you can't use common sense, people with common sense never use me" In Firefox it is a complete different case. You don't even know about the filter working in the background. I bet IE makes browsing slow with their anti-phishing filter. http://cybertopcops.blogspot.com/2006/10/internet- explorer-7-rc1-flagging-sites.html http://cybertopcops.blogspot.com/2006/07/smelling- hoax-mile-away-by-using.html

It has always been suspected from Firefox to outrun IE7 in the anti-phishing department. If IE7 delivered so many false positives at a certain point you can only imagine how many false negatives it delivers. Anti-phishing filters are only for ignorant people and only ignorant people use IE. IE is actually insulting its users with the huge scene they are making with their anti-phishing scanner. It's effectively telling the user: "Don't worry I know you are stupid, so I will protect you against phishing attacks, because I know you can't use common sense, people with common sense never use me" In Firefox it is a complete different case. You don't even know about the filter working in the background. I bet IE makes browsing slow with their anti-phishing filter. http://cybertopcops.blogspot.com/2006/10/internet- explorer-7-rc1-flagging-sites.html http://cybertopcops.blogspot.com/2006/07/smelling- hoax-mile-away-by-using.html

FYI, there're small and clean images in http://mobileqwerty.blogspot.com/

Earlier this year I did some thinking about business models for D2DVD series. Then I did some actual number-crunching.

It's all a bit back-of-an-envelope, but it's a good starting point for discussion. What it boils down to is that I don't think you can make your money back if you're spending more than three-quarters of a million an episode. And according to this week's Variety, the current spend on a US primetime TV series is averaging about $2.75m an episode.

Mad Pulp Bastard Bill Cunningham is also a good person to watch for information about D2DVD financial models.

Earlier this year I did some thinking about business models for D2DVD series. Then I did some actual number-crunching.

It's all a bit back-of-an-envelope, but it's a good starting point for discussion. What it boils down to is that I don't think you can make your money back if you're spending more than three-quarters of a million an episode. And according to this week's Variety, the current spend on a US primetime TV series is averaging about $2.75m an episode.

Mad Pulp Bastard Bill Cunningham is also a good person to watch for information about D2DVD financial models.

Earlier this year I did some thinking about business models for D2DVD series. Then I did some actual number-crunching.

It's all a bit back-of-an-envelope, but it's a good starting point for discussion. What it boils down to is that I don't think you can make your money back if you're spending more than three-quarters of a million an episode. And according to this week's Variety, the current spend on a US primetime TV series is averaging about $2.75m an episode.

Mad Pulp Bastard Bill Cunningham is also a good person to watch for information about D2DVD financial models.

I think using tools like this to learn history, including geologic history, is wonderful. Regarding examining the land around us, I wrote a while back about something similar - Temporal Binoculars. The gist is a computer with visual overlay (i.e., augmented reality) in a binocular form factor. It would have the usual controls, plus a time dial. Students and other curious humans could carry them about, look around, and learn about where they are. Throw in some flora and fauna simulations, and you've got a great platform for discussions and education. More at Temporal Binoculars</shameless plug>

grym, I agree.

It would seem that if the victims of these lawsuits could afford the time and effort to hire competant counsel, the RIAA would lose most of them. Especially if, as they imply at Recording Industy vs. The People, there is no personal jurisdiction over the defendants in the courts where the lawsuits are filed.

It's also very interesting that the RIAA are able to conflate the civil and criminal penalties together in their theory of these cases... I would think that the court would eventually force them to choose one or the other.

Considering that it is impossible to steal IP (you can only copy it)

Sherman obviously wants to gut fair use, but that doesn't mean he's wrong in using the term "IP theft."

Trade secrets are intellectual property. When you steal the designs to your competitor's new widget, you can get nailed for trade secret theft.

The same is true of patents, copyright, and trademark infringement cases. Theft is appropriating a right that was reserved for the owner of the IP. When you abrogate that exclusive right for yourself, you are stealing, because you are taking that right from its owner. For example, one of the rights in copyright is to prepare derivative works or to license others to do so. If you create a Star Wars comic book, when Lucas had already arranged for Dark Horse Comics to create a derivative work, you are infringing on Lucas's ability to decide how derivative works are handled. You have abrogated one of his rights for yourself. You've stolen from him.

There are numerous problems with the IP regime, but if we're going to engage in meaningful reform, we have to first be clear about how the law currently stands. Theft of intellectual property has been recognized by the law for a long, long time - well before the advent of computer software and the Internet. Regardless of whether you think this is right or wrong, it's the law.

"Some 17,000 attendees of the protest voted for the nation they believed is most in need of greater Internet freedom, and China came in second, with 4,100 votes. Myanmar, under the militaristic regime of the Junta party, was believed by 4,500 participants to present its citizens with the greatest threat to freedom of press on the Internet. The remaining nations, in descending order of votes received, were Belarus, Iran, Tunisia, Cuba, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Turkmenistan, Vietnam, North Korea, Syria, and Uzbekistan. "

In a related story representatives from China, Iran, Cuba, Saudi Arabia and Venezuela have petitioned the ITU and the UN to force the US to give up control of the internet root domain servers. The EU has for some unknown reason sided with these oppressive governments.

http://www.thenewatlantis.com/archive/11/soa/unint ernet.htm
http://bildt.blogspot.com/2005/10/european-union-i ran-saudi-arabia-cuba.html

http://microsoftisawesome.blogspot.com/2006/11/ps3 -vs-xbox-360-screen-shots-update-2.html

You sound very much like the schizophrenic I observed the other day in court who had violated a restraining order against his mother after laying off his lithium for too long.

You started on topic, then rambled into a speech about . . . I'm not sure . . .

. . . who is trying to hurt this young girl?

I longer see any point in responding to your posts, as you either don't grasp what I'm saying... ...
Because this response made no sense whatsoever.

Because this response made no sense whatsoever.

You sound very much like the schizophrenic I observed the other day in court who had violated a restraining order against his mother after laying off his lithium for too long.

You started on topic, then rambled into a speech about . . . I'm not sure . . .

. . . who is trying to hurt this young girl?

I longer see any point in responding to your posts, as you either don't grasp what I'm saying... ...
Because this response made no sense whatsoever.

Because this response made no sense whatsoever.

THIS IS NOT ABOUT ISLAM. the problem with writing a criticism about anything regarding the middle east is a person gets a lot of ignorant people from dhimmiwatch and sandmonkey fans who are incapable of critical thought and just search frantically for confirmation of the pearls of wisdom that drop from the mouth of that imbecile, george bush.

now, i don't actually think that egypt has sharia law in place regarding the rules of evidence (i'll check on that in a few minutes though). few islamic countries do, just like israel has not codified the startlingly misogynistic laws of the Torah. this is because they do not accord with modern thought. as for western countries, it is only lately, very lately, that they have lifted their own outstandingly sexist laws regarding the prosecution of sexual assault. egypt isn't a developing country for nothing.

i'd like to also point out that when i was studying sexual assault in canada, perpetrators of the worst offences were often white. but what do you care? apparently arabs and muslims have now replaced blacks as dangers to women. these things happen everywhere...the only difference is that in other places where the rule of law means anything these things are prosecuted. but i'm sure the effects of poverty, a stagnant political and legal system, a patriarchal culture don't matter to the likes of you enlightened commenters and watchers of Fox news, am i right?
elle was right. read her comment with a modicum of attention.

i'd also like to stress, for the numerous illiterates who commented, that i simply translated malek's account. that whole bit about veiled versus unveiled women was not authored by me. that said, if you would (say) read, you would note that i think he meant that he was astonished that the masses, known for making this odious distinction, did not do so, not that he himself held that view. i've met the guy, and he's not like that, even if so many arab guys (and western guys) think that clothing is a defence for sexual assault. i could go on at length about the widespread nature of myths surrounding consent, but this doesn't seem like an educated crowd so i won't bother. Go on hating a religion you know nothing about and places you've never been to. searching for reasons only wastes time better spent in bombing innocent arab civilians.

Kind of reminded me of this story...

qz

This is me karma whoring. I caught two shows of the Adrian Belew Power Trio last week in Solana Beach and Long Beach. This gave excellent ops for me to indulge my burgeoning photography bug so I've posted learnings, thoughts, and pictures from Tuesday and Wednesday.

In Egypt, a muslim country, police brutality is government policy, not some idiot running out of line, like it is in the US.

And Egypt is the second most moderate muslim country there is.

Read how the police responds in a moderate muslim country :
http://forsoothsayer.blogspot.com/2006/10/mass-sex ual-assault-in-downtown-cairo.html

Read how the police responds in a reasonably muslim country :
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_rights_in_Saudi _Arabia

Do I really need to provide a link to what happens in a really muslim country, like palestine or afghanistan or pakistan ? Do you want to see ?

Why does this happen ? Here's one opinion :
http://www.faithfreedom.org/challenge.htm

If you're after more info on the Month of Kernel Bugs, check out the blog

No, this isn't my blog, and I've got nothing to do with it, it's just that it's not linked to or mentioned in the main story...

There are lots of people who are upset because sony is an evil multinational coperation. I have a blog where we discuss issues relating to this, check it out the mayor of awesometown

The Broadcom BCMWL5.SYS wireless device driver is vulnerable to a stack-based buffer overflow that can lead to arbitrary kernel-mode code execution. This particular vulnerability is caused by improper handling of 802.11 probe responses containing a long SSID field. The BCMWL5.SYS driver is bundled with new PCs from HP, Dell, Gateway, eMachines, and other computer manufacturers.

So ... who's going to provide a link to where we can all download said handbooks?

Allegedly, the Mujahadeen Poisons Handbook is somewhere on Hamas' "official web page" but damned if I know what that is. Probably in Arabic anyway.

According to the very entertaining "Allies Against Online Terrorism" blog, it was at one point mirrored on a Yahoo site, but was removed.

So who's going to step up and mirror them, if we should all have a copy, eh?

I whole heartedly agree. I worked on them at my last company and made a similar comment here earlier. http://dcssec.blogspot.com/2006/11/sigh-wireless-s cada.html

Before you totally bash microsoft don't forget to examine why people don't use linux or apple for that matter on a large scale: http://microsoftisawesome.blogspot.com/2006/11/why -does-open-source-software-suck.html Why Open Source Software Sucks

What does bigger brain really mean anyway?

As was recently suggested in the context of dolphins, increased brain size might simply be a result of the pressure on the organism's metabolism caused by cooler climate conditions (abstract on PubMed; summary on random blog). So European brains might be bigger, just because they have to keep thinking in the frosty winters. And as with dolphins, there's no reason to link brain size to intelligence unless you're not terribly bright yourself. Of course, none of this rational debate will happen in the mainstream press.

... Wait a minute. Slashdot covered the dolphin story, for heaven's sake: http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/08/2 1/0358215. Never mind all this talk of sea-bound mammals: the /. community has the combined memory of goldfish!

This treatment did not use embryonic stem cells, if that's what you're referring to. In fact, the researchers didn't use stem cells at all.

FTFA:

Previous studies that had used stem cells, master cells in the body that have the potential to become any type of cell in the body, had failed because the cells did not form into photoreceptors.

Scientists have recently found cells on the margin of the retina in humans which have stem-cell like properties and could potentially be grown in the lab to become photoreceptor precursor cells for treatment.

The ethical objection is to cloning/creating human embryos for stem cell research, not stem cell research in general. Don't believe everything the biotech venture capitalists would like you to believe, or they will buy your laws, and take your tax dollars like they just did in Missouri

Ask for some fucking help! You think the rest of the world wants to see the US go down in a wave of Schadenfreude? Okay - even if some do - do you think they want the same for Iraqis?

How about some mea culpas? How about admitting that you (no, not *you* you, just you in general) fucked the whole thing up? The only way out of this without leaving the country in chaos is for the whole world to actually take this seriously and try to rebuild the place into some semblance of a free state.

Here are some historic troop-level stats. As you said - about 500K troops are needed according to this most basic analysis.

Frankly - you might have some trouble getting the support - but the alternative is that you allowed your government to be taken over and in the process destroyed an entire nation - and you then did nothing to fix it. Do you want that on your conscience...again?

You just keep on believing your media-spoonfed lies. Many of us KNOW better and have SEEN the evidence. Just open your eyes, dimwit.

http://iraqdocs.blogspot.com/

Could this kind of technology also be used to produce Hydrogen? Maybe both can be combined... In this way we certainly have some technology for the energy to come. Please join also the Energy2Com blog on http://energy2come.blogspot.com/ to discuss this technology!

Like even more fraudulent Republican robocalls harassing voters, this time in Nebraska?

In Indianapolis this morning, it took till about 8:30 to finish getting the electronic machines working in about 175 precincts. But these are the handicapped accessible machines that almost no one uses - they cost $10,000 each. People vote paper ballots that get optically scanned.
Gilmore fans who object to showing ID without a warrant are offered provisional ballots, which then don't get counted. My lawsuit about that continues: joellpalmer.blogspot.com

In Delaware County, home of Ball state, polling hours have been extended to 8:30 pm because MicroVote machines weren't working at first.

Electionlawblog.org is one place to follow glitch reports during the day.
+2 informative insightful

http://campaigns.wikia.com/wiki/MAAs

Here's an article which was written for people who dislike "paedophiles" for their thoughts - http://paedosexuality.blogspot.com/2006/10/fms.htm l

http://campaigns.wikia.com/wiki/MAAs Here's an article which was written for people who dislike "paedophiles" for their thoughts - http://paedosexuality.blogspot.com/2006/10/fms.htm l

This is what will happen.

Sorry dude, I've stopped believing blogs as most of them (including Linux on the Wii) are nothing but lies and hoaxes.

More links to check out:
http://pedologues.libsyn.com/
http://www.annabelleigh.net/
http://www.boyloverlinks.net/
http://theboyloveblog.blogspot.com/
http://www.cblf.org/
http://www.logicalreality.com/
http://www.inquisition21.com/
http://www.ipce.org/

Too bad the Slashdot staff all have AIDS.

The Slate review is talking about their 2004 study, not their new 2006 one.

IraqBodyCount raises good questions, but many have valid answers. For example, not everyone goes and gets a death certificate. Iraqi Muslims don't believe in embalming or open casket funerals days later. They believe that the body should be buried by sunset the day of death, in a plain wooden box. So there is no reason to expect them to take the body to the morgue. Although there are benefits to registering with the government for a death certificate, there are also disadvantages. Many families who have had someone killed believe that the government or the Americans were involved, and will have wanted to avoid drawing further attention to themselves by filling out state forms and giving their address. Juan Cole has more.

Iraqi blogger Riverbend says every family she knows has lost someone, so she feels the number is plausible.

this seems like the extension of Post Secret -- the open-secret-via-postcard-initiative. the game? people send their secrets via a meaningful postcard, as shown here: http://postsecret.blogspot.com/

I'm sure many people have given good advice already, but let me relate a bit from my perspective.

I'm 24, I have a 401k, stocks, bonds, an IRA, 2 cars, and I'm about to buy a house. I've been to 6 different countries, and I work in IT.

When I was in highschool I bought as many cheap computers as I could afford and tested/broke/fixed many OS's. I poured over tech manuals and such, and found other kids that were into computers as much as I was (beond games). We studied and worked together to build networks, break them, then try to fix them. We ran a small computer repair company for side money wiring networks for small shops that needed 2-3 computers to talk, share a printer, and reach the net (it was a bit harder back then with Win95 and dialup).

After that I joined the Navy (prior to 9/11. I still would suggest the Navy cause very few actually see the sand. And if you do, it's from a boat 20 miles out or more. There I applied myself and pushed very hard commonly working 90 hours a week to get more training from the senior people and to get involved with the hard projects.

Now that I'm out, I make a wage that can afford me a comfortable lifestyle, a house, investments, and hobbies. I'm also going to school which my company is paying for, and I collect military education benifits to the tune of 1600 a month.

So, what did I miss? A social life. Pursue at your own speed, but don't let anyone talk you down from you goals. Research and find the best options for you and go after them like a fish trying to find water. Thats the best way to get what you want in life. Motivation and determination. Anyone can succeed in whatever they want, outsourcing or not. Just remember to be realistic and stay on track.

http://www.randsworld.blogspot.com/

Head of (Household, Gang, Union, Department whatever organisation legal or not)

"Ok, now that you've voted, show me that you voted the way I told you too."

Yes there are ways around this, but they do need to be implemented so that a person cannot be forced to prove that they voted in a given way.

D

http://davesboat.blogspot.com/

...what's funny is the interactions he has with americans. ... To me at least, the talking about backwater Kazakhstan, it's amusing... but the real gold is when he talks about it to other people and they show their ignorance

The Muhblog has instructions how to gain SSH access to the box:
http://mrmuh.blogspot.com/

It can't be far behind, but it might not look like what you're thinking.... Remember King of the Hill? :)
http://zvbxrpl.blogspot.com/2004/12/dvd-review-kin g-of-hill-season-3.html

I know we've solved quite a few 20+ year old crimes using DNA

Yeah, rather amazing that, they take a semen and/or blood sample from some guy and... Wow! it just happens to match this semen and/or blood stain they just found on the little girl's dress. What a lucky coincidence! Quick, get the press release out fast, we wanna look good in time for the morning paper!

Still, I'm sure there's a downside to this technology, otherwise why the fuck would people keep going on and on and on and on about it all the time, as if the presence of cameras somehow stops them from going about their lawful business.

Like having the CCTV footage mysteriously disappear when your family tries to figure out what really happened when the cops shoot you 5-8 times trying to catch a train? (only to reappear later once it's determined that the cops were hiding it after all.)

Hey, maybe over on your side of the puddle they're not all out to get you. Over here with corrupt crime labs, prosecutors that hide DNA evidence when they would have exonerated the suspect, and overly racist cops, most smart people here have figured out to maintain a sense of scepticism when dealing with them.

So, this is a "virus" that is nothing more than something that programmatically attaches/appends itself to other files

Yup, that would be the definition of "computer virus".

No, not particularly threatening. It doesn't appear to be designed to be. It does mean that OS X has had its virus cherry popped, though.

I'm trying to keep track of OS X malware here. The levels seem remarkably low so far.

I'm the Information Security Analyst at DeKalb Medical Center. The article isn't exactly right, it mixes up two different stories that my boss told the reporter.

"Pink Slip" email: A few employees received an email from "John.E" (John.T@chenpr.com) saying that they had insider knowledge that the email recipient would be getting fired soon. The email went on to say that there were some "folks who helped" his brother, and gave a phone number in Alabama that has been disconnected. The domain name belongs to a company in Massachusetts, so this may be a Joe Job on them or someone just forging their address to make their services look legit. Others have received this Spam, too.

"Keylogger" email: This was just a regular SPAM email, but was forged to be from a legitimate email address in our company. It had a link to an executable on a website in China, but was disguised using html to make it look like the link went to our domain. There was no keylogger in the payload of this trojan, only a SPAM virus that we quickly detected and removed. This email got through because it was forged from a specific email address that we allow to come from the internet with a forged "From" address.

Hope that helps clear things up.