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There is also a pretty minimalist app for Windows called Grazer (http://www.grazer.de) that will load a .gpx file and match the existing photos in a directory. Don't forget to sync the GPS time with your camera clock.

http://jeepx.blogspot.com/2006/09/geotagging-with- magellan-explorist.html

$500 for a watered down version of the console. Also, do you honestly see $500 as reasonable even still?

... bullshit. So, if you're ever thrown in jail, and some guy decides to make you his bitch, you'd happily suck his cock because "blow jobs are not intercourse"? Or is that the excuse you used when you were caught behind the school ... "its not sex" ... :-)

First of all, fuck you, you son of a bitch. Second, sexual intercourse as in penis in vagina. This has always been the primary definition, but if you broaden it enough, much like with "sexual relations", just about any contact with another persons genitals can constitute "intercourse." The problem with this of course is that merely brushing past another person in a narrow walkway on a bus or plane could be called "intercourse" or "sexual relations", and Starr wanted to use such a sweeping definition. Clinton of course, rightfully complained, and the judge agreed. So, once again, sexual relations != blow jobs.

And in any case, you can hardly fault someone for avoiding the "truth" when the subject is Not Your Fucking Business in the first place. There isn't a person on this planet who wouldn't split hairs or lie if trapped in that republican Inquisition, starting with the very Republicans who went after him in the first place.

Fair use precludes using the entirety of the work in question. But thanks for trying to play with the big boys.

By the way, do you understand that fair use, in any case, is not a right? It's an affirmative defense to a charge of copyright violation. If you don't understand the difference, take your bag of taws to the playground and try to get in a game or two before mommy calls you home to dinner. Because of my generous nature, I refer you to, at least, http://williampatry.blogspot.com/2005/10/what-are- affirmative-defenses.html for basic help on the issue.

it could be argued that to pass off a submission as your own work is fraud.

That would be dangerous if I were to do a genuine survey of the literature and critiqued each source for conformance to the consensus of the many respected researchers in a given field. If I properly cited my sources and made no more than fair use of each, you would be in grave danger if you were to publicly accuse me of fraud and I'd soon own the pencil stand from which you apparently make your living.

It could be argued that the Constitution was written by Mickey Mouse. Anthing can be agued by those foolish enough, but mere argument of this kind confers exactly NO validity on the point being argued.

Posit that I can argue that your face is insubstantially different from that of a mandrill....

http://www.google.com/search?q=mandrill&sourceid=m ozilla-search&start=0&start=0&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8

Exhibit B is the RIAA's response to the followup interrogatories. It's the 8th document listed in the article.

Although honestly I am a bit curious as to how they intend to give gamers a snowballs chance in hell of completing the end levels without an input device as precise as a mouse. I can't even imagine having a shot at the end level with a thumbstick or D-pad.

As someone (yes I live in backward Oklahoma, however Norman is somewhat educated) who was constantly in trouble for being different and difficult due to my overwhelming boredom with the monotonous teaching techniques used.

Perhaps you should try hard to pay attention, as that is a sentence fragment.

If this report is true, that would be a big turn off for me. I can't see myself purchasing a game, then paying more just for basic functionality that should have been built in to the game in the first place.

Maybe it's true. Maybe Sony really has already lost the war. Of course, the article could be completely wrong, or Microsoft propaganda.

Cool links.

I agree with you. I've been collecting a list of links to sources of non-RIAA music which I call Liberated Music. I've added garageband.com to it (I already had Creative Commons in there). Incredible the wealth of music that's out there once you liberate yourself from the monotony of the 4 big record companies.

.for buying an IBM ThinkPad, notorious for their unreliability. Perhaps he should have considered an Apple or Dell instead.

What are you talking? Notorious?Somehow IBM thinkpad's dominate the corporate world (& I really dont know why.I guess the 'IBM' tag does it.).

As for Dell,come on.Dont joke.They explode as well.

I was thinking of you when I read the RIAA's responses to our second set of interrogatories the other day in UMG v. Lindor.

They made a big point of saying that the copies they downloaded from defendant's computer were "perfect digital copies". See "Preclusion Motion Filed in UMG v. Lindor; Lindor Says RIAA Cannot Introduce Songs into Lawsuit if it Has Not Produced Song Files", where we asked them, in essence, how they intend to prove that if they can't actually produce those allegedly downloaded files.

Their "perfect digital copies" line comes up in their responses to followup interrogatories (exhibit B to Reply affidavit of Morlan Ty Rogers).

Maybe you know better than I do why they made such a point of how 'perfect' their 'digital copies' were. Maybe they thought that if the copies were really, really perfect, it wouldn't matter that they didn't have copies of them.

I like the idea. If it will keep everyone from buying the AWP on Aztec it can only be A Good Thing(tm). I think it will make the game more interesting by forcing players to adopt new strategies, instead of everyone using the same old tired techniques on the same old tired maps over and over again.

Cool links.

I promise, "experiments" into DRM will be avoided.

http://avi-rubin.blogspot.com/2006/09/my-day-at-po lls-maryland-primary-06.html This is his third time as an election judge. Avi is a well known computer security researcher and critic of e-voting and yes, he did have problems with the e-voting machines.

But this week I've been so perturbed by the progress of the torture-enabling bill that I didn't even notice a surveillance-enabling bill slipping through the pipeline.

So what is the average apathetic voter thinking right now? CNN's current headline for the former bill is "GOP, White House snap terror bill deadlock" (see, because we would only torture terrorists) and I didn't see any mention of the latter bill at all. The only thing that's been even lower on the news radar is the Democratic Party - are they being shut out of the media and ignored by the blogs, are they pro police state, or are they just being quiet so as not to lose too much of the pro police state vote in November?

Is anybody reading slashdot truly stupid enough to believe that if Firefox had an 80% market share it wouldn't be just as readily targetted and exploited? It is really easy to wagon jump, and thats fine based on performance and features, especially if a feature is security. But rest assured that magic guaranteed security is itself a feature of low adoption, and an illusion. Firefox is definitely getting popular, it doesn't even hang or die much anymore. Keep in mind that it only takes 1 exploit to destroy a user's machine and either destroy or steal their data. Would you rather have a gun to your head with 1 bullet in it, or with 15? Can you answer that seriously?

Firefox, god's answer to the internet, shoots lightning bolts outta its arse. Safe beyond safe, if you're a sucker.

2005
http://blogs.zdnet.com/Ou/index.php?p=103

2006
http://www.informationweek.com/news/showArticle.jh tml?articleID=179101966
http://sunbeltblog.blogspot.com/2006/04/pssstyou-w anna-see-firefox-exploit-in.html
http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1814056,00.as p
http://www.xatrix.org/article.php?s=4447
http://www.techworld.com/security/news/index.cfm?n ewsID=6554&pagtype=all
http://hackcraft.wordpress.com/2006/08/02/firefox- exploit-exposed-by-hackers/

Badnewhughes recent youtube contribution is worth every bit of 1.5 bill....

badnewshughes

Excellent analysis. I've just one little point that I'd like to reply to:

You americans are spending your capital, and taken to it's extreme it means that you will no longer own your economy.

'We [poor] americans' are simply playing along in an economy that's rigged to benefit bankers and globalists, mostly because we don't know any better, and partially because it's hard to break out of the trap when 'everyone else' doesn't realize that there's a problem.

The banker/populace tension really goes back to the revolutionary war, according to Misdirection Conspiracy (link in this post. When word that the british had surrendered spread to New York City, people went skipping through the streets, chanting how the colony had kicked the mother country out... But the banking class, who enjoyed a certain degree of privledge under british rule, muttered under their breath: "but we like the british...", and starting plotting America's return to the British Empire. War of 1812, Rhodes Scholarships (Bill Clinton), Bilderberg, etc.

One objective has always been to establish a national bank. I'm a little sketchy on ups and downs of the national bank, but the Federal Reserve bank is the current incarnation thereof. It's supposedly "public", but the congress only gets to appoint the board as figureheads, and the bankers choose acceptable candidates anyways, so the "congressional oversight" is meaningless.

This is a long-term process, so don't get all disappointed when the economy doesn't assplode next year.

It's taken a very long time to get to where we are today (most of a century), and I'm sure the end of the present economic order is very near - certainly within 6 months. Then again, we might see a 1929-style "black thursday" in October, what with the way housing & everything else is breaking down. The media (owned by the banking class) try to hide the signals that recession is imminent, but independent analysis online is getting the word out to people that seek. See Mish's blog, the Daily Reckoning, etc.

Empirical research which JUST DOESN'T SHOW that patents are in any way beneficial, only that, AT BEST, they've failed to be catastrophically bad! (note that "research" is only counting software startups, and I've got a sneaking suspicion its counting software patent troll startups AS "software startups" too. The two are not substitutable. Any company that employs (or retains) more lawyers than programmers is not a "software company"!).

See Lenz's take on the paper: http://k.lenz.name/LB/?p=10 -
And Kinsella's (in comments): http://271patent.blogspot.com/2006/09/have-patents -killed-software-industry.html

Wow, what a strong argument for patents: they have not harmed the software industry that much!

(I've connected some analysis by various people in the space blogosphere, many of whom are current or former aerospace engineers)

Clark Lindsay's RLV News, an (excellent) site for private spaceflight news, has some pretty good analysis of the deal. From his latest post:

http://www.hobbyspace.com/nucleus/index.php?itemid =2397

* Even though it initially only involves a study into the possibility of Atlas V transport to the Bigelow station, just the fact that one of the largest aerospace companies is taking seriously the prospect of commercial manned spaceflight independent of NASA is going to have a big impact on attitudes towards it by NASA and other mainstream companies.

* The high launch rates depend to some extent on space tourism but Bigelow is currently focusing on plans to convince a lot of the countries that currently do not have manned space capabilities to create their own astronaut programs and to center these programs around utilization of the Bigelow facility. The Lockheed deal should make it easier for Bigelow to convince such countries that the opportunities for space access to the facility are for real.

* NASASpaceflight.com notes the potential impact on the COTS winners - SpaceX and Rocketplane-Kistler. However, if those companies succeed in their development plans, their reusable vehicles should be considerably cheaper to operate than the Atlas V. Also, I doubt that Bigelow would want to be dependent on just one vehicle and would most likely contract with at least one other transport company.

* If this plan goes forward and Lockheed-Martin begins developing a manned version of the Atlas V, it's difficult to believe that NASA could continue with the Ares I/Orion program as currently configured. Arguing that the Orion couldn't possibly be made lighter is not going to be sufficient reason to justify a multi-billion dollar duplication of a launch capability that's available at a much lower price.

From Selenian Boondocks:

http://selenianboondocks.blogspot.com/2006/09/lock heedbigelow-space-tourism-deal.html

* Lockheed has the contract for the Orion capsule, which means that they can probably piggy-back a lot of their space tourism capsule work off of what they're doing for Orion. Also, if they happen to be able to field their Atlas V tourism vehicle before Orion, they might be able to make out like total bandits--netting billions in development funds for something that they can turn around and say "look, we have a cheaper, and better alternative that's already on the market, --go with us, and you could save lots of money". The upshot being even more flights on their Atlas V. I think this is potentially win-win-win for Lockheed.

* As LM has pointed out elsewhere a lot of the price hikes for Atlas V stem from the fact that they're only launching 2-4 of these per year. They have to cover all of their payroll costs, factory maintenance and upkeep costs, pad ops costs, etc but spread out over much fewer launches. At 2-4 flights per year, they're looking at $140M for their barebones Atlas V, while at 6-8 flights per year they were offering it initially for about $70M. At 20 flights per year, maybe they could cut the price down into the $35-50M range. At that point, the costs per person would be in the $5-10M range.

* Bigelow has stated time and again that he's not in the orbital hotel business. He expects to make most of his money off of building space stations for research, manufacturing, providing low-cost space programs to countries not traditionally thought of as having space programs, as well as orbital tourism. A lot of those other markets aren't as sensitive to cost per ticket as they are to reliability of access. 16 flights per year means that you have a ride

There's really no difference with the existing parties. --- http://threeparties.blogspot.com/

For those who don't want to read the entire article, try the much shortened haiku version. It's the fourth haiku down.

Talk about picking and choosing yr epochs. 1998 was the hottest year on record. Two things are frightening:

1. There has not been a significant cooling trend since then src. Ow. No downward movement since the hottest year on record.

2. Not only you, but people working for fairly mainstream publications cite this as some kind of refutation.

"I've been tracking the temperature since the middle of July and have noticed a significant cooling trend. What's up with that? This issue is so politicized no one can tell what the facts are!"

lol.

A while back I wrote an article on this.

Patents don't drive innovation, they are what happens when lawyers discover lucrative deposits of innovation sheltering in nice little shaded valleys, and decide to burn down the trees, strip mine the valleys, and extract the last drop of value from the accumulated innovation, creating havoc and destruction in the process.

The sad thing is that governments are convinced that patents are equal to innovation, making the stupid mistake of confusing correlation with causation.

Software patents are not what drives programmers to invent. Software patents are a tool by which lawyers rip-off the IT industry.

Every single time patent law is relaxed (in the US as in Europe) to include more software, you will find IP lawyers steering the process.

I wasn't aware anyone used RCS. Personally I'd rather use bzr or svn, even for local only use.

Ya know what would absolutely rock? OpenMTA. I recently did a survey and there's nothing good with an open license, unless you like Java.

He was on all of the local (Baltimore) news programs (and some national ones, too, I think) last week after the Maryland debacle -er- primary. Didn't catch any of them myself, but I'm sure they were good. Also note, check out his blog regularly if the e-voting issue interests you.

-J

Yeah, I have a similar setup but without the IR Blaster. I manage OK. The biggest limitation is not being able to record one channel and watch another... but they replay crap so over-and-over that I just set it to record it at 1am or whatever.

I have to set the DVR (mythtv) to record the show and also set the Set-Top-Box to 'auto-tune'. But it works out as I record the same shows every week. (auto-tune set to always switch to 'The Daily Show', Family Guy etc, and the mythtv always to record that show at that time). It is 'slightly' cumbersome, but no worse than a VCR! Plus Mythtv has ad detection and skips them entirely.

My mythtv build is here http://nzrussmyth.blogspot.com/ with the my 'connection diagram' about 3/4 the way down.

See here for my idea and how to make your own record. http://rcbullock.blogspot.com/2006/09/you-know-for -kids.html

Newsflash: U.S. economy is in BIG trouble.

Short history lesson: Federal reserve started to inflate the money supply in early 1995 (blue line in the graph). The 'tech bubble' followed a couple years later. That trend wasn't sustainable, and the dot-coms bombed sometime in 2000/2001. The economy was well on its way to a recession by late-summer/fall 2001. The Federal Reserve responded to "9/11" by cutting interest rates to 1% (over several months), supposedly for the purpose of 'stimulating' the economy.

Newsflash: Mismanagement of the U.S. currency has caused half of the economic equation, production, to move to Asia and Mexico, either in search of lower wages or to flee rising U.S. costs. This is not a new phenomena, and has been ongoing since the 1970's, though it is only recently (circa-2001) that that trend has accelerated to a completely unsustainable level. Cisco assembled their wireless access points in the U.S., and Intel made motherboards in Silicon Valley up until 1999/2000 or so. What happened to the Americans who used to be employed assembling motherboards and other electronics? Perhaps some of them moved to finance, and some to auto sales. But I digress...

Thus, when the Fed slashed interest rates starting in 2001, instead of entrepreneurs borrowing money to set up new production lines, individuals borrowed money to buy a bigger house. And an investment house. And a condo in the mountains. The widely-proclaimed 'housing bubble' started to take off ... circa 2002/2003, and reached its peak summer 2005. Crashes always follow bubbles, and the current real estate market is no exception.

Low interest rates also facilitated GM's 0% financing "keep america rolling" sales campaign. (don't remember what Ford & Chrysler called their corresponding 0% programs). But now Ford and General Motors are in trouble, because they can't sell new cars to customers whose credit line is maxed out.

Gonna get ugly, folks. The good news is that this coming transition marks the end of corporate wage-slavery. The economic system that will arise from the ashes will be founded with something along the lines of worker cooperatives. This is the worker benefiting from their own labor. No more slaving away to pay the "shareholders" dividends (mostly rich dudes who sit on their lazy asses and parasitically live off the working class).

John Gatto's book about the 'massification' of America fits in here too. Gatto maintains that the original american ideal was an independent livelihood. Blacksmith, farmer, woodworker, wheelmaker, etc. Mass production / standardization required government schools to produce a populace who would accept working a repetive job where someone else ("shareholder") was the primary beneficiary. Fun while it lasted, right? :)

Also see my recent comment, how the government spins the stats.

There are a number of tools and browser extensions that can help your privacy - the mos radical is an anonymising proxy such as Tor - see http://colm-smyth.blogspot.com/2006/09/web-privacy -how-to-get-it-how-it-can-be.html for a summary of techniques.

I've used this technique too to maintain multiple Google identities, among others. See http://colm-smyth.blogspot.com/2006/09/web-privacy -how-to-get-it-how-it-can-be.html for a summary of the best ideas (and Firefox extensions) I've found for enhancing web privacy.

Wormtalk

And here's what he says:

HarperCollins is going to be publishing Tolkien's Children of Húrin as a stand-alone volume next year. According to the press release (which I haven't been able to find on line), the text was created by Christopher Tolkien's painstaking editing together of Tolkien's many drafts. The book will include a new map by Christopher Tolkien and a jacket and color paintings by Alan Lee.

He mentions several previously published versions of the tale and points out: "From the press release, it seems as if these variants will be stitched into a coherent whole in the same the way that Christopher Tolkien brought together disparate texts to create the 1977 The Silmarillion."

Prof. Drout is also the editor of The J. R. R. Tolkien Encyclopedia, which due out this October. It's a scholarly reference, which must explain the $199.95 price tag on Amazon. (Maybe you can get your public or school library to get a copy.) Since I contributed several articles, I'm hoping all contributors get free copies.

--Michael W. Perry, author of Untangling Tolkien (The only book-length, day-by-day chronology of LOTR.)

• Teach your children well, to be responsible and accountable for their actions and make good judgments

• Provide a safe environment in which they can learn.

• Are there elements from the entire range of human behavior that you feel that you would like to keep your children from experiencing at this time?

• Do you feel that you have a responsibility to supervise your children when they engage in activities "at the edge of their judgment"?

I read about it on the Fake Steve Jobs Blog.

I agree totally about Harken. However, I disagree about Clinton's lying. Here's what he said: http://gatewaypundit.blogspot.com/2006/09/i-did-no t-have-sexual-relations-with.html

But I want to say one thing to the American people. I want you to listen to me. I'm going to say this again: I did not have sexual relations with that woman, Miss Lewinsky. I never told anybody to lie, not a single time. Never. These allegations are false. And I need to go back to work for the American people.

Here's an exerpt from his deposition: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/spec ial/clinton/stories/whatclintonsaid.htm

Q. At any time were you and Monica Lewinsky alone together in the Oval Office?

A. I don't recall, but as I said, when she worked at the legislative affairs office, they always had somebody there on the weekends. I typically worked some on the weekends. Sometimes they'd bring me things on the weekends. She - it seems to me she brought things to me once or twice on the weekends. In that case, whatever time she would be in there, drop it off, exchange a few words and go, she was there. I don't have any specific recollections of what the issues were, what was going on, but when the Congress is there, we're working all the time, and typically I would do some work on one of the days of the weekends in the afternoon.

So, was he in the habit of getting a BJ with other people present?

You wrote:

(blow jobs are not intercourse).

... bullshit. So, if you're ever thrown in jail, and some guy decides to make you his bitch, you'd happily suck his cock because "blow jobs are not intercourse"? Or is that the excuse you used when you were caught behind the school ... "its not sex" ... :-)

As to whether its perjury or not, its irrelevent as to whether it was directly related to the Paula Jones case - background questions are used to establish the credibility (or lack of it) of a witness. That the witness can be shown to lie under oath about something not directly related to the current instance goes directly to the character, honesty, and reliability of a witness. Clinton was a liar. So is Emperor Bush. And Bush probably wouldn't be where he is now if Clinton had kept his fly zipped.

1. Yes, it really does matter.
2. I have collected links to hair-raising material on the Ohio 2004 election, and they are just the tip of the iceberg; it was a complete scam.
3. There is a good new documentary coming out, Stealing America, by emmy award winning film maker Dorothy Fadiman.

1. Yes, it really does matter.
2. I have collected links to hair-raising material on the Ohio 2004 election, and they are just the tip of the iceberg; it was a complete scam.
3. There is a good new documentary coming out, Stealing America, by emmy award winning film maker Dorothy Fadiman.

Addition: at this webshop, you have to show your "meldebescheinigung" of you're an EU citizen living in germany, and if you are not a EU citizen, you have to show a visum which is at least 2 years valid after the date of buying (!)

I have no idea if this is EU-general or not. Couldn't find any information. Unfriendly it is at least, not only for tourists, I spent about an hour waiting in queue at the mobile phone desk, only to hear about this new rule. Every five minutes the alarm of their show models went off as well, buying there was always an unpleasent experience, though! :)

The reason I don't consider it "0day" is that a public tool exists that will discover this bug in its default configuration (AxMan). Anyone who took the time could run the tool, discover the bug, and write the exploit. The tool was released on August 1st and this particular bug was reported to Microsoft in late July. Since all of this information was *widely* publicized at the time of release ( a couple dozen articles on AxMan ), I have hard time considering any of the bugs it turns up "0day" in the normal sense. We need a new term, but "negative day" probably isn't it either. The remaining 3-4 easily exploitable bugs (of the ~100 or so that were never included in the Month of Browser Bugs) will likely stay unpublished until a patch is available.

Its funny to see how releasing an exploit accelerates patch development. I have been waiting on the Spline and KeyFrame patches for over a month already, but it wasn't until the xsec guy rediscovered these that Microsoft decided to release a patch. Maybe there is something to this "full-disclosure" thing after all =)

-HD

The reason I don't consider it "0day" is that a public tool exists that will discover this bug in its default configuration (AxMan). Anyone who took the time could run the tool, discover the bug, and write the exploit. The tool was released on August 1st and this particular bug was reported to Microsoft in late July. Since all of this information was *widely* publicized at the time of release ( a couple dozen articles on AxMan ), I have hard time considering any of the bugs it turns up "0day" in the normal sense. We need a new term, but "negative day" probably isn't it either. The remaining 3-4 easily exploitable bugs (of the ~100 or so that were never included in the Month of Browser Bugs) will likely stay unpublished until a patch is available.

Its funny to see how releasing an exploit accelerates patch development. I have been waiting on the Spline and KeyFrame patches for over a month already, but it wasn't until the xsec guy rediscovered these that Microsoft decided to release a patch. Maybe there is something to this "full-disclosure" thing after all =)

-HD

Technology is replacing textbooks. I honestly don't need to look in my textbook anymore to reference answers - I haven't bought any of my textbooks this semester thanks to services like sparknotes, wikipedia, and so on. The *only* problem is when the professor references a specific passage in the textbook, but I have noticed that is becoming less and less frequent... That's besides the point though, I believe that an education isn't nearly as important as most people say it is. I'd rather make money blogging and spend my time doing that rather than go to classes. ;)

Famous Magician Makes the Truth Disapear!

OK, Here's the deal. Penn Jillette says I can cure cancer. It sure didn't come from me, and when I was filmed for their show last year they didn't even interview me about health issues. To take it a sleazy step further, he claims that I tell people to STOP seeing their doctor when they have cancer and I take all their money as they lay on their death bed.

Quite a claim to make on my behalf. Especially for someone who is winning Emmys for a show that is supposed to expose the truth. If you make stuff up, that does NOT make it true, but people do believe what they see on TV.

Most magicians are skeptics because they make a living deciving people. And if you have an open enough mind, check out those books I listed too.

I will agree that James Randi makes a living deceiving people. That story has several comments from people who've met or have had other interactions with the man (I have not - my comment in that story was simply an amalgamation of several different reports I've heard & read from "people who can", to give voice to a minority view amongst slashdot readers). They report that Mr. Randi's game is rigged, and that the prize money is a publicity stunt.

Skepticism is not easy, and it can be really hard to have some of your most well founded beliefs turned on their head. It is not for everyone.

My personal experience makes "skepticism" (as a belief system rooted in materialism) an intellectually dishonest proposition. I've personally had several experiences which are inexplicable from a materialistic framework. On the other hand, they are quite logical when viewed with a vitalistic overview. Suffice it to say that Occam's Razor supports my vita

Never... and I don't really plan on doing so. I just like having a CD of my music, produced professionally, etc. Perhaps I'm behind the times, but the only stuff I get from iTunes is my podcasts.

If iTunes remembered online that I owned the rights toa piece of software and could download it again at a later time perhaps I would use it (thats me speaking blindly, I haven't even looked into it that much). My wife has downloaded a few songs from iTunes if I recall, but we both have a decent CD collection and tend to support the artists that we like by getting their whole CD.

Is it just me, or was the new iTunes release a step down from the last one? I just don't like the interface as much.

Justin
http://hatchedeggs.blogspot.com/

Jonathan Eisen

Jonathan Eisen

Of course, there are much worse out there. How do I know, I see it every time a new person wants to start a fan site about something stupid.

On the other hand, there are lots of cool sites. www.stickdeath.com used to be cool, until they started using annoying pop ups (yay for blockers) and what not. Funny site though. There are tons of others... so, my suggestion, when you come to talk some trash about how bad those sites are and add your list, throw out a site you think is cool as well.

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AS said, this should be easy. Think about the limitations of each of these. E-mail is a relatively unimportant medium as compared to the web I believe.. The web is so much more than that. If we didn't have e-mail, how many other ways are there that we could communicate?

Shopping on the web, data we enter... the accessibility that it gives us in so many different things. Without e-mail we would find another way to communicate effectively. Without the web, life as we know it would change drastically.

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Most everything I read seemed to think around $200, with a TON guess $170. $250 was the upper-limit guess for almost everyone. I think that is why it's surprising to people, the media and analysts appeared to be trying to set a price before Nintendo did.
http://parislemon.blogspot.com/

probably laugh...but maybe moreso at the fact microsoft decided to release a shit-brown mp3 player. http://parislemon.blogspot.com/2006/09/zune.html

Should it really be possible to drain somebody's account using only their account number & routing number ? Both of those pieces of information are available to anybody you give a check to for a start. Now tell me this isn't a security issue.

Or by having a scammer simply confirm what city a customer's bank is located in?

http://wamublamesgrandma.blogspot.com/2006/03/wamu s-response-to-my-letter.html