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Lots of people have been taking this very seriously, well media studies students are taking this seriously. Earnest discussions in academia are all very well, but who are the guilty ones?


ok, I just copied that from http://5thnovember.blogspot.com/2005/11/press-plag iarist-of-year-award.html

As a non-fan of B5 since the pilot episode, I found this guy's examination of the show pretty enlightening. He was a fan but now, after some time has gone by, he watched it again and decided "Babylon 5, from beginning to end, both sucks and blows."

Link found on The Mumpsimus (who also kindly, unknowingly, contributed the Subject of this post).

As a non-fan of B5 since the pilot episode, I found this guy's examination of the show pretty enlightening. He was a fan but now, after some time has gone by, he watched it again and decided "Babylon 5, from beginning to end, both sucks and blows."

Link found on The Mumpsimus (who also kindly, unknowingly, contributed the Subject of this post).

OK, IANAL, but I am a legal services worker who has spent most of my alleged career in the field of public interest law.

It appears that a law firm, which is meeting its NYS Bar Association public interest requirement, is doing this work pro bono, and that they're coordinating through the EFF (see here). The EFF is a public interest law organization, like my employer. We actively seek out sympathetic clients - of those 14,800 sued, the EFF got to choose which client stood the best chance of winning.

Sure, it's cynical and jaded, but if you spend any time in this field, you know that "criminal justice" is pretty much a joke. Stereotypes about your client DO hurt your case. Similarly, they can help your case - picking this client as the test case DOES make the RIAA seem like the big bad corp, as you said.

However, there's also a non-jaded reason to hand-pick the best client. A court case can be won or lost on any number of grounds, some of them quite technical. Anyone who's ever had a speeding ticket thrown out because the cop didn't show up for court has experienced that. By cherry-picking your client, you stand a better chance of the case being decided on the point of law that YOU are contesting. The RIAA would much rather their shady practices weren't challenged, instead winning on a technicality - their PR department can spin that however they like.

People like Brown (of Brown v. Board of Ed) or Jane Roe (of Roe v. Wade) weren't folks who happened to be affected by a law. They were folks who were willing and able to be good test cases.

Personally, I think it's sad that the system HAS to work this way, but since it does, I'm inclined to forgive organizations who cherry-pick.

We had 2 qubits in 1998, 3 in 1999, and 5 in 2000 according to IBM.

So, if you plot these, it looks like we've gone through an s-shaped growth curve where we'll never get much past 9 qubits. Here's the plot.

RSA is safe now...

You mean something similar to this case, which involved a keylogger named SpyMon and an anti-spyware company named Sunbelt Software? Sunbelt Software explains their position here.

Well, I'm not trolling, I dont think I'm stupid.
I just feel that you either need to a) Sell the product and license it accordingly
or B) Give the thing away.
GPL Just makes things cumbersome.


Matthew

I think this will be a big plus,
Fireworks has always been a nagging app anyway.
and it will be nice to get better dreamweaver + photoshop + illustrator integration.


Matthew

I think the BSD license is still far superior to the GPL anyday.

Matthew

I covered the essay here, mainly in an attempt to clarify the issues.

A key question is how much competition BellSouth and the like face in the end-user ISP market. Judging from the situation here in the UK, no ISP could restrict the service on offer this way and hold on to market share - the market would go elsewhere. But that would not necessarily be the case in the absence of Local Loop Unbundling, which is a regulatory requirement on BT.

There's also a possibility that ISPs could creep this sort of thing in very gradually, but I can't really see it - in order to get any value, it has to be obvious enough to give the ISP leverage on service providers, and if it is that obvious it will put off consumers.

This made my eyes go crossed. Why would the GD do this?

[FTM]

What are your thoughts on this proposal to replace patents with prediction exchanges?

I agree that "geek gift guides" too often are really "early adopters with rich friends/relatives gift guides." I just finished posting my own advice for getting geeks gifts here: http://ideasinprogress.blogspot.com/2005/12/geek-g ift-ideas.html Feel free to send it to your relatives who always buy you socks.

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Digg is actually better. Slashdot is old and ugly. Its content is decided by editors, the layout looks like it was made in windows95's heyday and its a dinosaur. Digg on the other hand is new and "growing", they use a flashier, better looking layout, yet the site is still simpler then Slashdot. The content is decided by the submitters and you can get that content via audio and video podcasts.

I never could stand slashdot. The layout and just overall feel of that site was/is bad.

I don't like slashdot's layout. It's ugly and cluttered. The colors make me wanna puke.

Slashdot users agree that Digg.com's entries are a lot more current that the ones posted at Slashdot.

99% of slashdot users have self-diagnosed themselves as suffering from Asperger's Syndrome. Most slashdot users consider themselves "smart" when in fact they are simply of average intelligence, but have more free time and a higher sense of ego. This can be seen in the forums where spelling and usage errors are prevalent in condescending, arrogant rants, identified by containing the phrase "people are stupid" at some point in the post.

I prefer Digg for my tech news and I've found some really nice sites that way.

I prefer Digg. I used to check /. but I didn't like it as much

I like Digg better anyway, much more and more interesting news.

I cant stand Slashdot, I will only Read it when its linked from somewhere else

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Anyone know how the Griffin SmartDeck works? It appears to be a cassette deck adaptor that can respond to (changes in tension?) cassette deck commands, and relay them to an iPod.

The iPod shuffle (and the even cheaper thumbdrive form-factor MP3 players with drag-and-drop) is proof that you don't need much internal space to make an MP3 player.

Once upon a time, the Mobiblu folks (yeah, the same guys who did the 1-inch-cube MP3 player) built a player into the form of a cassette adaptor.

I'd like to wedge the Griffin SmartDeck's ability to use the tape player's controls into the form factor of the MobiBLU DAH-220 form factor, perhaps with the buttons carved into the shell of the "tape". No staticy FM-adaptor stuff. No dangly wires.

Something like this (or the sequel, here), but without the problems that caused this guy to give up and end up with a more dangly solution?

As far as I can tell, some tape decks respond well to this sort of treatment, and some require that the tape adaptor have the full-size gears/etc. to maintain proper tension.

The ideal product would fit in the tape's form factor, and use the tape's built-in buttons. No need to teach the old dogs any new tricks - it'd just work like a 900-minute cassette tape capable of infinitely-fast fast-forward/rewind, that would never break. (Every 5-10 hours, you'd eject the "tape", carry it inside with you, and recharge it (and fiddle with the music on it) by means of USB.)

Anyone ever tried this, and if so, how far did you get?

Anyone know how the Griffin SmartDeck works? It appears to be a cassette deck adaptor that can respond to (changes in tension?) cassette deck commands, and relay them to an iPod.

The iPod shuffle (and the even cheaper thumbdrive form-factor MP3 players with drag-and-drop) is proof that you don't need much internal space to make an MP3 player.

Once upon a time, the Mobiblu folks (yeah, the same guys who did the 1-inch-cube MP3 player) built a player into the form of a cassette adaptor.

I'd like to wedge the Griffin SmartDeck's ability to use the tape player's controls into the form factor of the MobiBLU DAH-220 form factor, perhaps with the buttons carved into the shell of the "tape". No staticy FM-adaptor stuff. No dangly wires.

Something like this (or the sequel, here), but without the problems that caused this guy to give up and end up with a more dangly solution?

As far as I can tell, some tape decks respond well to this sort of treatment, and some require that the tape adaptor have the full-size gears/etc. to maintain proper tension.

The ideal product would fit in the tape's form factor, and use the tape's built-in buttons. No need to teach the old dogs any new tricks - it'd just work like a 900-minute cassette tape capable of infinitely-fast fast-forward/rewind, that would never break. (Every 5-10 hours, you'd eject the "tape", carry it inside with you, and recharge it (and fiddle with the music on it) by means of USB.)

Anyone ever tried this, and if so, how far did you get?

Here's the link you want:
http://tml-blog.blogspot.com/2005/04/evolution-to- win32-porting-status.html

From what you read on "Linux Activist" only the login phase of email sessions is encrypted and protected from prying eyes... They could also address this kind of potential security breach instead of bothering me each time I try to send an executable...

Tor Lillqvist is porting gtk/etc code to windows, been doing it for most of the year from what I know. You can read his blog here

http://tml-blog.blogspot.com/

He speaks of running evolution on windows in the 3rd or 4th blog entry.

I have about 12 - 15 regular visitors, all close friends, it is a rare day when someone does not visit, so I have a social life as well. If I spent all this time on the 'net and did not have meat space contact, I would have a problem. Forgot to mention - I also have an African Grey Parrot, named Fred Yoda Tyson who keeps me in my place.

So what do I spend all this time doing on the 'net?

Reading! I'd hate to think how many words I read on average a day 'coz I naturally speed read, after about 45 years as an incurable bookworm.

I write some to.

May I present my blog to slashdot - please do not crash googles servers with the slashdot effect :)

http://he3isthekey.blogspot.com/

You could always try changing audiences. Apparently some blogs are making pretty good money with adsense.

Why does he (The Register-guy) think that he's entitled to jack-shit? Seriously? So he uses free software. Does that mean that he can then make demands to the developers? "You gave me this software for free, and I DEMAND that you fix these bugs in your shitty software!". I might understand that line of thinking if he paid for the software. I might understand it if he was forced to use it. But he didn't pay for it, nor is he forced to use it. If it sucks so bad, he could always use something else or fix it himself. But saying something like "hey assholes! Write some drivers so I can use my hardware!" is not very constructive.

It is OK to file bug-reports. It is OK to make suggestions. It is OK to submit patches. It is NOT OK to moan and make demands. Many people just seem to think that by merely using the software, they are somehow entitled to make demands. In reality, they are not entitled to anything. The developers don't owe them anything. In fact, the users owe to the developers! The developers give them great software for free, and some people think that it's the DEVELOPERS who are in debt to the users?!?! Am I in Bizarro-world?

Hell, I even blogged about this just now (not actually related to this story, but another discussion I had just a while ago).

Agreed. Here's a ruleset: http://tpcmurray.blogspot.com/2005/07/rant-camera- template-chat-laughing.html

Because legal action was threatened against me for reporting consumer advocacy issues and recording phone calls I compiled a list on my website:

Jackwhispers : Recording Phone Call laws State By State

Most dishonest businesses are ignorant of this law ... their ignorance only furthers their dishonesty.

GIIMP-related books can be found at: http://www.gimp.org/books/. Better yet, go to its online tutorials at: http://www.gimp.org/tutorials/, and just print them out on sheets of 3-hole punched paper and bind them into a book, and then download a copy of GIMP (from http://www.gimp.org/), burn it into a CD, and gift-wrap all the items and present the package as a Christmas gift for her.

Without using any dead-tree books, I taught myself how to use GIMP and other free graphic software like Pixia and ArtRage by consulting their "Help" sections and online tutorials. Here are some examples of what I, someone who has no formal computer graphics training, can do: http://sunandfun.blogspot.com/2005/10/new-looks-at -old-movie-classics.html

I highly disagree with the idea of keeping it purely local. Sure people can go to other sources, but if you are a news site, most of your traffic is going to be from other people at their workplace; they don't have the time or want to risk being seen by their boss to sift through 5 different sites for their news. You need to provide a relevant mix, but make it unique and hand pick those stories as opposed to running a bland autonomous AP feed. Even AP runs material not found in the mainstream if you dig hard enough - and your readers will respect you for it. You dont have to inundate and it should never eclipse local coverage - but dont make the mistake of blowing it off. Your neighbor down the street may have a son or daughter serving in Iraq; dont make the mistake of thinking that world events dont matter to yur local readrship. Besides, they can't comment on news stories on those big mainstream sites, but they can and often do with us. Most of our biggest discussions are on world stories. Web content managers should well look into the work of Doug McGill and his work in tying global trends to local interests. As passionate as I am about the hyperlocal trend, I'm equally passionate on this point too.

I've documented our efforts and philosophy on participatory media on our new media blog at http://newmedianewmexico.blogspot.com/. Anyone interested in these issues is welcome to take a look at our experiences.

Scribus exists for some time now, and still, it was only a few months ago that I heard about it, and only 3 weeks ago that I installed it. And I was absolutely amazed at its quality (and standard support, even the latest pdf specs, including embedded script support!). What OSDL needs is a central place where all the great apps likely to be needed in an enterprise/office environment should be listed. There aren't that many actually, but how many of the respondends who missed PageMaker knew about scribus? Seeing the quality of the app, I was surprised at the lack of marketing/hype this application receives. Even their website ... well, it is not bad, but it isn't good either.

Right now marketing focuses on distributions or tools, and rarely on the application stack (except FF and OO.o). GNOME does a good job at marketing as well. But KDE? They formed a new marketing group only recently, and as they started to look around, they found plenty of examples for KDE use in business, like this one (Dutch Record Shop Chain Migrates 1000 PCs to KDE). Or take a look at this initiave: part 1, part 2.. Or another example here. Quote:

second, i have the inkling that we have a lot of small and medium sized business deployments out there. personally i count anything under 500 seats to be in that umbrella. at the table (which i picked at random) i ate lunch at in munich during trolltech dev days there i found myself sandwiched between two such examples. while eating the rather amazingly good food, i discovered that on my right was a fellow who works for a company that makes linux based satelite t.v. transmission software (sky t.v. is amongst their clientelle) and they use qt for their in-house engineering tools. on my left were three men from a vienese company that writes kde software for a group of five private hospitals. these hospitals all run kde on the desktop and everything from patient records to x-rays is handled on them.

Scribus exists for some time now, and still, it was only a few months ago that I heard about it, and only 3 weeks ago that I installed it. And I was absolutely amazed at its quality (and standard support, even the latest pdf specs, including embedded script support!). What OSDL needs is a central place where all the great apps likely to be needed in an enterprise/office environment should be listed. There aren't that many actually, but how many of the respondends who missed PageMaker knew about scribus? Seeing the quality of the app, I was surprised at the lack of marketing/hype this application receives. Even their website ... well, it is not bad, but it isn't good either.

Right now marketing focuses on distributions or tools, and rarely on the application stack (except FF and OO.o). GNOME does a good job at marketing as well. But KDE? They formed a new marketing group only recently, and as they started to look around, they found plenty of examples for KDE use in business, like this one (Dutch Record Shop Chain Migrates 1000 PCs to KDE). Or take a look at this initiave: part 1, part 2.. Or another example here. Quote:

second, i have the inkling that we have a lot of small and medium sized business deployments out there. personally i count anything under 500 seats to be in that umbrella. at the table (which i picked at random) i ate lunch at in munich during trolltech dev days there i found myself sandwiched between two such examples. while eating the rather amazingly good food, i discovered that on my right was a fellow who works for a company that makes linux based satelite t.v. transmission software (sky t.v. is amongst their clientelle) and they use qt for their in-house engineering tools. on my left were three men from a vienese company that writes kde software for a group of five private hospitals. these hospitals all run kde on the desktop and everything from patient records to x-rays is handled on them.

Scribus exists for some time now, and still, it was only a few months ago that I heard about it, and only 3 weeks ago that I installed it. And I was absolutely amazed at its quality (and standard support, even the latest pdf specs, including embedded script support!). What OSDL needs is a central place where all the great apps likely to be needed in an enterprise/office environment should be listed. There aren't that many actually, but how many of the respondends who missed PageMaker knew about scribus? Seeing the quality of the app, I was surprised at the lack of marketing/hype this application receives. Even their website ... well, it is not bad, but it isn't good either.

Right now marketing focuses on distributions or tools, and rarely on the application stack (except FF and OO.o). GNOME does a good job at marketing as well. But KDE? They formed a new marketing group only recently, and as they started to look around, they found plenty of examples for KDE use in business, like this one (Dutch Record Shop Chain Migrates 1000 PCs to KDE). Or take a look at this initiave: part 1, part 2.. Or another example here. Quote:

second, i have the inkling that we have a lot of small and medium sized business deployments out there. personally i count anything under 500 seats to be in that umbrella. at the table (which i picked at random) i ate lunch at in munich during trolltech dev days there i found myself sandwiched between two such examples. while eating the rather amazingly good food, i discovered that on my right was a fellow who works for a company that makes linux based satelite t.v. transmission software (sky t.v. is amongst their clientelle) and they use qt for their in-house engineering tools. on my left were three men from a vienese company that writes kde software for a group of five private hospitals. these hospitals all run kde on the desktop and everything from patient records to x-rays is handled on them.

75db may make em go away, but 33hz brings the ladies back. Even more links here.

An information overview page

Review of the first DVD

A general review.

Your reply was filled with so many misunderstandings of what I typed that I don't know where to begin. Let's just stick to your talking points.

a) Porn is addictive. Show me a valid study to that effect. I have seen anecdotal evidence trotted out time and time again but that no more proves the addictiveness of porn than does the anecdotes about exploding toilets prove the life-threatening nature of chili.

That is just silly. People reporting of porn addiction shouldn't be dismissed the same as Bigfoot sighters or alien abductees. Here are a few links for you:

http://www.msnbc.com/news/443437.asp?cp1=1 2000
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pornography_addiction Wiki controversy, but with links
http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,65772, 00.html (With dissenting opinions) 2004
http://cbs4boston.com/seenon/local_story_322191259 .html (From "liberal" Boston) Nov. 2005
http://www.michnews.com/artman/publish/article_103 07.shtml Nov. 2005
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1568380550/104-28 35526-9122335?v=glance&n=283155&v=glance
http://www.sarr.org/
http://www.sexaa.org/

I would also point out that your assertion about educational phamplets: "Educational pamphlets don't help heroin addicts and they won't help porn addicts either." is way off. Yes some hardcore addicts ignore all else but that doesn't mean that all do. The ex heroin addicts that I have known are, in large part, walking educational phamplets themselves, and ten minutes discussion with one of them did more to illuminate the problems with heroin than any drug-free education I got as a child.

None of the drug addicts I have known have been reached by pamphlets. You only make my point by showing how much more effective talking to actual addicts is as opposed to drug-free pamphlets and D.A.R.E. t-shirts. Extend the same respect to "anecdotal" victims of porn addiction.

b) Kids today are experimenting with kinkier stuff Again, show me proof not anecdotes. While I will grant you that people seem more comfortable talking about kinkier stuff on TV than they were 50 years ago that proves nothing about what is actually happening.

More people are comfortable talking about kinkier stuff but not because they are doing it? The papers are filled with high schoolers having oral sex on school grounds all across the country. That didn't happen so often ten years ago. I certainly never read about it. http://news.google.com/news?client=safari&rls=en&i e=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&tab=wn&q=bus+oral+sex&sa=N&start= 10 We're also having a rash of female teachers across the country having sex with young boys, also something that didn't happen often 10 years ago. A study on teenagers and sex was just released this Fall: http://thesplinteredmind.blogspot.com/2005/10/teen -depression-sex-drugs-and-shockin.html

c) The industry is getting more hardcore Again give me some average data. The last time I glanced at a Playboy (for the articles) was last week and the model in there was...Marylin Monroe. Playboy was celebrating the oldies not the awful hardcore days of

Counter-view.

Interested parties really ought to check out the LATOC primer. The guy's sources are not crackpots or psuedo-prophets predicting the end of the world here, they are investors, scientists, politicians, oil analysts, etc. He builds a strong case as to why hitting the peak of world oil production will return incredible economic and social changes if we aren't ready for it. One way or another, we have to do something--a concentrated effort nationally, even globally if we expect life to continue as we know (and enjoy) it.

It probably would not have a huge impact on folks who already live at the subsistance level (the utterly impoverished), but as oil energy drives everything in our modern economy, even a small drop in production over a sustained period would be highly problematic for industrialized economies--for us. I quote from my own write up on this scenario:

The issue is not one of "running out" [of oil] so much as it is not having enough to keep our economy running... A shortfall between demand and supply as little as 10-15 percent is enough to wholly shatter an oil-dependent economy and reduce its citizenry to poverty.

The effects of even a small drop in production can be devastating. For instance, during the 1970s oil shocks, shortfalls in production as small as 5% caused the price of oil to nearly quadruple. The same thing happened in California a few years ago with natural gas: a production drop of less than 5% caused prices to skyrocket by 400%.

Fortunately, previous price shocks were only temporary.

Did that grab your attention? I know it caught mine when I read it. A 5% drop caused prices to go up 400%?! Incredible! And, that's not just gas prices we're talking about here, oil plays a role in virtually every aspect of our economy. Plastics; transportation; medicine; agriculture (think pesticides); you name it... Our economy isn't based on cash, that is only a convenient medium of exchange--our economy is based on energy. Energy that is almost exclusively derived from oil production. Once the global peak is passed and production starts falling off, there's no going back. Meanwhile, demand for oil here and abroad continues to increase at an amazing rate. Sounds like a bad situation no matter how you look at it.

I really don't know where the oil companies are on this. Obviously even an admission of the problem such as Chervon and others have made are at the least an acknowledgement that we're not going to get to continue the course we are on very much longer.

My real frustration in this is, how is it that I have only recently come to a knowledge of this issue when research shows it has been discussed and debated for a loooong time now. Where is the media? They are always so gloomy, you would think this would be something they would love to dwell on...

I love my cat so much...I just want to make sure he's happy and healthy (see pic)http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1719/632/16 00/Simbaholic%20034.jpg http://christellize.blogspot.com/

try http://xooglers.blogspot.com/

I think Doug Edwards would agree, in Xooglers, his ex-Googlers blog.

http://vardhman.blogspot.com/2005/11/decreasing-th eir-credibility.html May shed some lights on the validness of article etc.

Interestingly enough, there is some indication that the oil companies actually share our concerns over energy needs more than we think. It may not entirely be about money to them, they want to stay in business don't they? For instance from Chervon:

Energy will be one of the defining issues of this century. One thing is clear: the era of easy oil is over. What we do next will determine how well we meet the energy needs of the entire world in this century and beyond...

The cynic would probably think that this is just a scam or excuse to raise oil prices and increase profitability. I think that is shortsighted. The ramifications are too great to ignore, even the greediest among us would not like to face the economic and societal ramifications that would follow sustained oil shortages. What good is money if you can't spend it?

On second thought, maybe I should hope that is exactly what they are trying to pull! It beats the bleak outlook sustained shortages would lead to any day...

You are right, it is not and I seriously doubt it ever will. It just takes too much land/vehicle to be practical. Some parties indicate that this issue of oil dependence has already gone beyond critical mass (meaning supplies have peaked and will slowly not be able to meet demand in the near future causing all kinds of economic and social griefs--neither of which possibilites I had ever considered possible in my lifetime). It has even grabbed the attenion of some of the folks in the House of Representatives for whatever good that will do...

The suggestions that I have read repeatedly is that we need to put the energy and effort into renewable energy sources on the scale of the man-to-the-moon effort. Critical. It has been stated that President Bush was very much interested in this situation prior to 9/11 and the events that have transpired. Needless to say, he's been somewhat sidetracked...

Gimme nuclear fusion and better batteries!

All these altern-o-fuels may be neat but are they too little, too late? I hope not. Foriegn oil supplies won't last forever, and ours have already peaked...

Here is Elion's brother's blog, with news of the launch abort

An addendum to my earlier comment... it turns out that the brother of the SpaceX CEO is liveblogging from mission control:

http://kwajrockets.blogspot.com/

At the moment, the LOX tanks have been filled, and they're on hold at T-minus 10 minutes while they refill Helium tanks and so forth. His blog has a number of photographs taken on the Pacific island they're launching from.

Some of the discussion revolving around global warming deals with future energy sources, and in particular nuclear power. Readers might be interested to know there is a techno-thriller novel about the American nuclear power industry, written by a longtime nuclear engineer (me). It is called "Rad Decision", and is currently at RadDecision.blogspot.com. There is no cost to readers. "Rad Decision" provides an entertaining and accurate portrait of the nuclear industry today and how a nuclear accident would be handled.

"I'd like to see RAD DECISION widely read." - - Stewart Brand (Founder, Whole Earth Catalog, tech icon, futurist).

    All sides of the nuclear power debate will find items to like, and dislike, within "Rad Decision". I'm not sure myself what the future of nuclear energy should be (really). What I am sure of is that we will make better decisions about our energy future if we understand what our current energy sources are. And I think that knowledge is lacking.

    I hope you'll take the opportunity to look at this independent, no-cost project. You might even enjoy it.

        James Aach
        Author - "Rad Decision"
        http://raddecision.blogspot.com/

I haven't heard about that but here's a site advocating a Constitutional Monarchy for Alaska.

Might be something to it. The previous attempt might have been too far off. I know other states, esp. Texas and Arizona, are working on something similar. Seems that someone from the Washington Post wants to sell Alaska back to Russia.

Ubuntu 5.1 != Ubuntu 5.10. The first one doesn't even exist...

Come on, if ZDNet says Ubuntu 5.1, then it must exist. We all know internet news sites are accurate. -- Run For Fun

Back in February, when few had a clue that our totalitarian Government was plotting the creation of a database on citizens 20x more intrusive than anything else on the planet, Richard was busy trying to explain it to any MP who would listen.

He was also one of the few who understood the 'Nazi Enablement Act' which granted our Government unlimited power under the law.

And he questioned the Government on who DID actually seize Indymedia servers.

If Ms. Wyne were truly concerned about confiscatory government policy, she would be outraged at the growing number of commonly held ideas that are confiscated by our government and turned into private monopolies through the abuses of our patent, copyright, and trademark policies. To suggest that the opposite is true, that freeing ideas is the same as confiscating them, is to pretend that water is dry and fire is cold.

Oy, next time - I'll remember to put spaces in there, here it is formatted better:.

I wrote a quick thing on it here:
http://zoobster.blogspot.com/

and on hiveminds:
http://www.hiveminds.org/phpBB/viewtopic.php?p=468 18

MS has their object documented (wherein the property of .responseText shows its forced UTF8), but I've discovered that its the same for every browser (FF, Opera, etc). The only browser who supports the correct code-paging for the .responseText is Apple Safari.

If you maintain the charset in the XML document you retrieve with .responeXML (say shift-jis or whichever) - then the .responseXML object behaves accordingly and you can render non-UTF8 data. It was frustrating as heck to try and retrieve shift-jis with .responseText (declaring it in setHeaders, the page calling was shift-jis, and the page requested was shift-jis - but it all came up as utf-8, garbled). I lucked out finding that the .responseXML respects the codepage.

These days, I just use .responseXML exclusively, just to avoid that headache. Sure, sometimes when you do a callback - all you want is something small - say, "3" - and .responseXML requires valid XML (read: extra crap/elements wrapped around just to get a "3"), but it protects me from ever having to retrieve data that is of a different codepage.