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This is an area that has seen quite a bit of research and there are ways to hash fingerprints. I little google searching led to Fuzzy Extractors which create a cryptographic key from biometric data and Fuzzy Vaults that store fingerprints in a secure way.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
http://www.cse.buffalo.edu/tec...
https://eprint.iacr.org/2004/0...

As opposed to photons of darkness?

It's proved fact. http://www.math.buffalo.edu/~sww/ZAP/

Wrong.Height and resonant frequency are directly related. Width and length don't matter. There's even a table.

This has actually been studied and when the salmon die they supply a surprising amount of nutrients not only to the streams but to the surrounding forest. As was pointed out by the two other replies to you the dead salmon get eaten by bears, racoons, otters and other critters that then do what a bear does in the surrounding forest. Here's what looks to be a lesson plan on the subject: Fish as Fertilizer: The Impacts of Salmon on Forest Ecosystems [PDF]

"After the flames were extinguished, the explosives did nothing but create an avenue for the fires to spread during those first critical hours: Buildings and walls that might have served as firebreaks had been demolished.

The explosives also raised a dust that choked the lungs and impaired visibility. But perhaps the worst damage was the creation of even more fires as flaming debris ignited ruptured gas lines. Unwilling to admit responsibility for their collective mistakes, the Mayor, the Army, and the Fire Department all pointed fingers at each other, adding fuel to the administrative confusion that reigned during the fire."

http://mceer.buffalo.edu/1906_...

http://www.physics.buffalo.edu...

No, this is not the "Scandinavian" model (whatever that's supposed to mean), it's Income Contingent Loans and was developed mostly in Australia in the 1980s (implemented in 1989) by Bob Hawke. In Sweden, fees are repaid by annuities beginning not less than 6 months after graduation: http://gse.buffalo.edu/org/int... In Finland, students don't need to repay the loan at all: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E... In Norway, it's mostly covered by government grants to students, conditional upon graduation: http://gse.buffalo.edu/org/int... As Purnima said, the scheme described here is the model pioneered largely in Australia and championed most aggressively by Bruce Chapman. It's used in some other countries: Thailand, South Africa I think... Australians have been trying to get governments everywhere to adopt it because it's clearly the best policy. Every Australian student has access to subsidised university, with the difference between the full cost and the subsidy made up automatically by a government loan indexed to inflation. Repayments occur automatically through the tax system, so you only repay the loan when you have enough money (there's no timeframe to repay). Tax is deducted from your salary by your employer, so all this happens without you having to worry about it. Some people mentioned a few ways to work the system. They exist, but they aren't a very big deal. Completion rates and repayment rates are very high. There is some loss from people who go overseas and never return (so they never pay Australian tax) but this is negligible. Tax payers pay a share of the fees because society benefits from an educated population, but students pay a share because individuals benefit from their own education, but no one pays anything they can't afford because education should be available to everyone, regardless of their parents incomes. Australia has no such thing as student loans, student debt or anything like that, and higher education isn't sending our government broke. This policy is the main reason. From where we stand, the American situation is truly bizarre.

No, this is not the "Scandinavian" model (whatever that's supposed to mean), it's Income Contingent Loans and was developed mostly in Australia in the 1980s (implemented in 1989) by Bob Hawke. In Sweden, fees are repaid by annuities beginning not less than 6 months after graduation: http://gse.buffalo.edu/org/int... In Finland, students don't need to repay the loan at all: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E... In Norway, it's mostly covered by government grants to students, conditional upon graduation: http://gse.buffalo.edu/org/int... As Purnima said, the scheme described here is the model pioneered largely in Australia and championed most aggressively by Bruce Chapman. It's used in some other countries: Thailand, South Africa I think... Australians have been trying to get governments everywhere to adopt it because it's clearly the best policy. Every Australian student has access to subsidised university, with the difference between the full cost and the subsidy made up automatically by a government loan indexed to inflation. Repayments occur automatically through the tax system, so you only repay the loan when you have enough money (there's no timeframe to repay). Tax is deducted from your salary by your employer, so all this happens without you having to worry about it. Some people mentioned a few ways to work the system. They exist, but they aren't a very big deal. Completion rates and repayment rates are very high. There is some loss from people who go overseas and never return (so they never pay Australian tax) but this is negligible. Tax payers pay a share of the fees because society benefits from an educated population, but students pay a share because individuals benefit from their own education, but no one pays anything they can't afford because education should be available to everyone, regardless of their parents incomes. Australia has no such thing as student loans, student debt or anything like that, and higher education isn't sending our government broke. This policy is the main reason. From where we stand, the American situation is truly bizarre.

http://medicine.buffalo.edu/news_and_events/news.host.html/content/shared/smbs/news/2013/06/inflammation-insulin-2581.detail.html

There's others, that was just the first link when I hit Google for "insulin and inflammation". The short version is that insulin is also involved in the immune response and inflammation, and that the current theory for heart disease (in some quarters) is that it's actually an inflammation-caused disease.

Insulin resistance causes the body to make more insulin, which is why it's associated with heart disease.

Crime is a social problem, not a race problem. It does not matter what race is impoverished and living in ghettos, those people will have a higher crime rate than people with luxuries and wealth.

To show how false you are, look at crime rates for minorities living in suburbs and whites in suburbs. The crime rates will be nearly identical, if not favoring the minorities.

Trading Places (movie) was a moral lesson in addition to being a comedy. There are several variations of the story, each time we have the same result, which is not racist at all. While "stories" are just that, I'm sure if you dig around you can find actual experiments to show the stories match reality.

from http://www.cse.buffalo.edu/~regan/chess/fidelity/ : Measuring fidelity to a computer agent

In other words, a decent player at a point in a game with limited options may just as likely come to the same conclusion or move that a computerized algorithm evaluates to be the best. And that is insufficient evidence for cheating. I mean, if "you're in a twisty maze and the passage only goes 30 degrees to the right or back where you came from" since time only moves forward in chess, you go 30 degrees to the right. Sometimes the game or board position strongly constrains what your next move is going to be.

Yes. Next question.

Black surgeon general's warning: This web site is designed to specifically rebut questions like yours and may dangerously affect your racism.

Have YOU done anything for humankind, white boy?

I really don't want to know is how one programs in toilet paper.

Turing's Insight:
Every algorithm can be expressed in a language for a computer (viz., a Turing machine) consisting of an arbitrarily long paper tape divided into squares (like a roll of toilet paper, except you never run out), with a read/write head, whose only nouns are "0" and "1", and whose only verbs (or basic instructions) are:

  1 move-left-1-square
  2 move-right-1-square
  3 print-0-at-current-square
  4 print-1-at-current-square
  5 erase-current-square

(source)

No, you do: http://ontology.buffalo.edu/smith/clinton/morrison.html

Apparently you weren't paying attention: http://ontology.buffalo.edu/smith/clinton/morrison.html

So what about Dr. Robert Atkins?

You do realize that Atkins has been roundly criticized in the literature by every nutritional authority, right? The National Academy of Sciences, the AMA, the ADA, the ACS, the AHA, the Cleveland Clinic, Johns Hopkins, the American Kidney Fund, the American College of Sports Medicine, and the National Institutes of Health has all criticized the Atkins plan. See the AtkinsExposed website I linked above.

You can find a handful of people with "Dr." before their name who will tell you than smoking cigarettes is fine and dandy, or with "PhD" afterward who will tell you that climate change is a hoax -- or that 9/11 was a controlled demolition, or that we never went to the moon, or whatever. This does not change the science.

How do you explain the coexistence of malnutrition and obesity within a community?

Malnutrition includes deficiency of micronutrients -- kwashiorkor, for example. Empty calories are cheap calories.

Japanese people also work far harder than most us Westeners, in addition to eating a lot of fish, shellfish, eggs and meat. Their overall sugar consumption is also faaar lower than most so-called "Americanized" societies.

None of which addresses the point that their consumption of carbs is high, putting the lie to the "high carb diets make you fat!" theory. And no, they don't eat a lot of meat -- though the consumption of meat is trending upward, along with the incidence of obesity, heart disease, and all the other fun stuff a high-protein, high-fat diet brings with it.

Yes, their sugar consumption is far lower. Large amounts of sugar are a bad idea, I think we can all agree on that shocking conclusion.

Insulin is pro-inflammatory

No, in fact insulin has an anti-inflammatory effect (see also here.)

Also, what we have done in recorded history has nothing to do with our biology or evolution. The fact is, we've been growing crops for the past ~10.000 years which in evolutionary terms is just barely a blip on the radar. Hunter/gatherers collected fruits and berries when they could and fattened up for winter, but otherwise ate what the hunters brought home. After all, wild carbohydrates aren't exactly "in stock" all year around while meat and fish is.

Ah, bad anthropology rears its head again. First, our existence as hunter-gatherers was a blip in evolutionary terms; our digestive metabolism remains mostly the same as our primarily herbivorous primate ancestors and our primarily herbivorous chimp and gorilla cousins. (Yes, chimps eat some flesh -- mostly insects; that does not change the fact that they are primarily herbivorous.) Second, carbohydrates are indeed in stock all year round in the areas where we evolved -- what do you think those animals our ancestors were hunting were eating? Not just fruits, but roots, tubers, seeds, nuts, leaves...we've been eating grains for 20,000, perhaps even 100,000, years, well before the Neolithic revolution.

The idea that our paleolithic ancestors were mostly hunters is not based on good evidence, but on "me mighty hunter!" mythology. Contemporary hunter-gathers get the bulk of their nutrition from plant foods.

But finally, the evolutionary tale tells us jack shit about what makes for a healthy diet . Evolutio

Aye. Christopher McCandless looks pretty happy to me despite having spent the time between his university graduation and death with hiking and working as a farm aid.
Theodore Kaczynski decided against pursuing a career in the industrial society, despite his undeniably high intelligence and a PhD in mathematics.
Different people have different needs.

here is a name:

University at Buffalo

They use DC++ a la the Bizzaro Hub.

Guess what? saying all that means nothing. UB routinely got letters from the MPAA / RIAA about file sharers, but those were always about people who ended up managing to share their files with the outside [of UB] world.

The **AA's have no all seeing eye within the university network, and as such have no way to legally go after the school. The school also has lawyers on retainer as well.

Some no cost resources that I don't think were mentioned:

A three part self-test/review of fundamental Calculus skills. The first 6 questions in the part on Trig, Logs and Limits are prerequisites to a first course in elementary calculus.

A collection of articles with intuitive explanations of math concepts many people find too abstract.

A textbook, "Elementary Calculus: An Infinitesimal Approach", available under a creative commons by-nc-sa license. Covers Calculus I/II material.

A collection of texts covering a sequence in Real Analysis (covers calculus concepts from an analytical point of view) and Number Theory available under a free of charge license to students using it for self-study. Probably beyond your current interest in math.

People really need to get past this "kills birds" thing. There was ONE specific wind setup that used high speed mills in an area filled with birds that YES killed lots of birds. And bats too as I recall. Newer mills spin more slowly and while tip speed is quite high birds avoid them, they can see them spinning. A number I've seen quoted is something like 1-2 birds per YEAR per big mill.

http://www.treehugger.com/files/2006/04/common_misconce.php
http://www.acsu.buffalo.edu/~insrisg/nature/nw04/0509Windmills.htm

Anyway, the problem isn't nearly as severe as opponents would like you to believe, not with larger mills anyway. It will be interesting to see how the larger mills fare long term. Your point stands though, none of this removes the need for power transmission. Generation that isn't constant is especially going to require the need to shuffle power all over the place.

University at Buffalo used to provide it's own customized version of Red Hat. It was the desktop environment that ran on all of the engineering lab computers. I think since they've discontinued it and just promote Ubuntu, but you can still access the technical documentation circa 2005.

and you could do this:http://wings.buffalo.edu/aru/preprohibition.htm.
Check out Bayer's ad for Heroin, or the Cocaine Toothdrops.

That depends on what country and state you're in, but yes failure to render assistance in a life threatening situation can be criminal.

http://wings.buffalo.edu/law/bclc/aals06/251-52.pdf
http://www.iuscomp.org/gla/statutes/StGB.htm#323c

Plus, if you ignore your civic duty and fail to take reasonable action you can be held civilly liable.

If you live in Buffalo, NY, check out Bill Rapaport's Buffalo Restaurant Guide. It's put together by a CS professor at the University at Buffalo. Although the web design is right out of 1995, but it's extremely fair, useful, and informative site, and a model for other grass-roots restaurant review services to emulate.

You are correct that he had a legal license to be there, and you are correct that he was not guilty of trespass until asked to leave, but there are two problems with your post.

First, your link is bad (and NY fails at creating a website that makes linking to their laws easy). I recommend people try this one instead.

Second, you actually need to look up a couple of lines to 140.00(5) understand what this supposedly super-simple statute means.

Could you explain to all the lay people here what it means to be "licensed to privileged" to be on the premises? (Do you know the differences between an invitee, a licensee and a trespasser?) Who is an "authorized person" to tell you to leave? (Does that include the transit cops?) What constitutes "open to the public?" (Is an area you need a ticket to be in such a space?)

This isn't as simple as it seems.

Adding another point to your feature space, I'll put in a plug for a technique called Stochastic Discrimination. It's not well known but is quite good at pattern recognition and avoids a lot of the weaknesses of neural networks such as over-training. Since it's not so well known, you have to go to the few academic papers to read up on it. Or visit the website http://kappa.math.buffalo.edu/. But it's got a very solid mathematical foundation (developed by a former math professor if mine) and isn't as "hacky" as other techniques.

Devon

But never in a single incident.

3000 accidental deaths across 3,000 miles of ground and among a population of 300 million does not strain the system. No single community has to bear the full weight of the loss.

The mid-day population of the WTC complex was about 90,000. That is small only in comparison to the population of metro New York.

You were looking at the potential erasure of an entire American city - with all its core economic and physical infrastructure. World Trade Center and Pentagon Attacks of 9/11/2001 Sources

That is precisely why such extreme events are studied at MCEER [Multidisciplinary Center for Earthquake Engineering] It is also precisely why the military response was not restrained by the thought that the death count was not as high as it might have been.

You could argue with equal sense - or nonsense - that the naval response to Pearl Harbor was disproportionate because the carrier fleet was at sea. That the Japanese failed to meet all their objectives was certainly not for lack of trying.

But never in a single incident.

3000 accidental deaths across 3,000 miles of ground and among a population of 300 million does not strain the system. No single community has to bear the full weight of the loss.

The mid-day population of the WTC complex was about 90,000. That is small only in comparison to the population of metro New York.

You were looking at the potential erasure of an entire American city - with all its core economic and physical infrastructure. World Trade Center and Pentagon Attacks of 9/11/2001 Sources

That is precisely why such extreme events are studied at MCEER [Multidisciplinary Center for Earthquake Engineering] It is also precisely why the military response was not restrained by the thought that the death count was not as high as it might have been.

You could argue with equal sense - or nonsense - that the naval response to Pearl Harbor was disproportionate because the carrier fleet was at sea. That the Japanese failed to meet all their objectives was certainly not for lack of trying.

I thought I'd make a bundle coming up with the idea of giving cruise-control systems awareness of hills and allowing them to back off near the crest of a hill and accelerate a bit before the base a hill, but it's already been patented. The idea has been introduced, but I'm not aware of it ever catching on.

I suspect a major drawback to a company interested in promoting this system is that by design, it would introduce speed variances between equipped cars and non-equipped cars, which opens the door for accidents and litigation.

No he wasn't. He was called the first black president.

Can we all please stop using the term "African American" for pete's sake? That literally means you have citizenship in both Africa and America, it is NOT synonymous with "black" and if you actually [GHASP] talk to black people, most will tell you the term "black" doesn't bother them and is actually the preferred term. /rant

Go re-read the appendix to "1984".

Yes, it's written in a past-tense explanatory manner.
However, it is so thorough and detailed and systematic as to be, for most practical purposes, an instruction manual.

The difference between "how did you do X" vs. "how should you do X" is often negligible.

(And as for "-1 Wrong": sometimes the facts presented in a post are, objectively, wrong. A moderator should be able to facilitate downplaying factually erronious material, rather than having to shout among the masses. The whole POINT of a -1 moderation, whatever the reason, is to prevent crap from floating to the top.)

you're probably trying to be funny, but, sadly, there are people ready to believe such outrageous shit.

nope. Not trying to be funny.

http://www.buffalo.edu/news/fast-execute.cgi/article-page.html?article=79300009 has a good article on the subject.

You could also read Blink! by Malcolm Gladwell.

Could have been the Buffalo Bulls

If you don't have the appropriate facilities to handle biological materials the ATCC won't sell them to you. If our artist friend lied in order to trick the ATCC into thinking that he worked for a university that had biological facilities then that seems like mail fraud to me.

> this looks like it will end up being AirBus space a 'company'
> which constantly has to be subsidized by European governments.

Actually, Airbus gets less government subsidies than Boeing:
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/business/207500_boei ngeu12.html
http://www.buffalo.edu/reporter/vol35/vol35n40/art icles/Boeing.html
http://www.defense-aerospace.com/cgi-bin/client/mo dele.pl?prod=45591&session=dae.26554147.1181794517 .@nCJ838AAAEAACY5icwAAAAB&modele=jdc_1

Really?

Here is an interesting interview of Nobel Laureate V.S. Naipaul that points out how the "Indian Intelligentsia" (ie communist fanatics and Islamists) deliberately skew media reports against the Shiv Sena as part of a systematic campaign of hatred directed against Hindus. The Shiv Sena has done more for the emancipation of the Maharashtrian poor then any of the leftist parties who attack and villify them.


Also notable is Naipaul's famous observation in his bestseller "India, A Wounded Civilization":

<quote>
There was one portrait. And interestingly, it was not of the leader of the Shiv Sena or of Shivaji, the 17 th century Maratha King, but of the long-dead Dr. Ambedkar...Popular-and near-ecstatic-movements like the Shiv Sena ritualize many different needs. The Sena here, honouring an angry and (for all his eminence) defeated man, seemed quite different from the Sena the newspapers wrote about
</quote>

I'm not a big fan of Shiv Sena or the RSS in general. But when I see our own media attack and villify them as part of a shameless excuse to pander to a rising tide of Communist and Islamic Fundamentalism, while ignoring the brutal and barbaric massacres and atrocities against Hindus in Kashmir, Pakistan, Bangadesh, and even at times condoning them, and when Communists in the media openly attack Hindus and demand for their mass killings, I have no choice but to speak out, even though, on leftist-dominated slashdot, that makes me a "Filthy Hindu animal" worthy only to be a hateful object.

Sorry, but in an atmosphere when rabid Indophobia and anti-Hinduism is tolerated and a culture of hatre is built against them, how the hell do you expect them to react? Bend over and take it?

The RSS was basically founded as a social service organization for the emancipation and protection of poor Hindus during the 1940's in a rising tide of violence directed against Hindus by Islamic Fundamentalist mobs during the Islamic Caliphate resurrection movement in India and the days following the anti-Hindu genocides in Bengal (the Direct Action Riots instigated by the Pakistani Nationalists and the Partition massacres). In that sense, they were more like the Anti-Defamation League in the US contemporary to that period. For the most part, even currently their primary goals are social service, the emancipation of the poor (the RSS spent millions coordinating relief efforts during the 2004 Tsunami disaster in South India), an active campaign against untouhability and caste bigotry (60% ofRSS members are Dalits and other lower castes), and trying to provide a unified political emancipation movement for Hindus in a rising climate of hostility against them, much like Irish Nationalism or Zionism in Israel.

However, because this would endanger the power base upper-caste dominated left wing government and polity in India and their Islamist votebank, they started a virulent hate campaign against the RSS, one that spilled over to hatred against Hindus in general. Eventually, they were pushed hard enough to the wall to start pushing back, that's all.

Beware: if you search for ice regelation on google, some web sites propagate the error that the mechanism of ice skaing is regelation. As you can calculate in the question sheet, regelation does not give sufficient depression of the melting point over long enough for it to be important for ice skating.

It seems clear from the literature (but disappointing) that regelation is not the cause of the ice being slippery when you ice skate. A paper published in Physics Today in December 2005 and listed in the references for this demonstration, discusses the concept, initially proposed by Faraday, that a microscopic layer of water, found on ice even at very low temperatures, is responsible for ice being slippery. On the other hand, regelation apparently is a primary contributing cause for the motion of glaciers, as discussed in one of the references.

There is a lot of discussion about whether this really demonstrates regelation, but rather simply conduction of heat by the wire to the ice cube so that it will melt, followed by freezing over of the cut due to conduction of heat away from the cut to the surrounding ice.

I checked the NY laws, creation, possession and/or use of a fake ID that looks like a government-issued ID is punishable by up to 7 yrs prison time.

wings.buffalo.edu/law/bclc/web/NewYork/ny3(a)(2)

NY Penal Code Section 170.10 Forgery in the second degree

  A person is guilty of forgery in the second degree when, with intent to defraud, deceive or injure another, he falsely makes, completes or alters a written instrument which is or purports to be, or which is calculated to become or to represent if completed:

    3. A written instrument officially issued or created by a public office, public servant or governmental instrumentality;

  Forgery in the second degree is a class D felony.

  NY Penal Code Section 170.25 Criminal possession of a forged instrument in the second degree

  A person is guilty of criminal possession of a forged instrument in the second degree when, with knowledge that it is forged and with intent to defraud, deceive or injure another, he utters or possesses any forged instrument of a kind specified in section 170.10.

  Criminal possession of a forged instrument in the second degree is a class D felony.

I retract this statement and apologize. Senator Leahy was one of the senators who voted against CDA and brought forth legislation to repeal it, so he's one of the few good guys. http://listserv.acsu.buffalo.edu/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind 9602b&L=nettrain&T=0&P=5298

I wasn't talking to you. I do not care for your responses. You know what you need to do. Rather than trailing me around and slinging mud at me you should be making amends for your repeated demonstrations of "wrong theory of mind". Your entire history here on Slashdot is a wrong theory of mind.

No, you may not suggest anything. Any suggestion you make is received as predatory. You are a backwoods hick who ran a part time overnight BBS from his dorm room in college. You see Slashdot as the reincarnation of your lost dream to be SysOp and lord and master of all the users around you.

G-F-Y.

The God's Script

Peter

My school does this for a lot of servers, but not all of them. You don't go to UB, do you?

http://listserv.buffalo.edu/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind9609& L=dccs&T=0&P=1886
http://www.oreilly.com/news/differences_nt.html
http://www.windowsitpro.com/Article/ArticleID/2816 /2816.html

text from first link

For those of you interested in Windows NT, I've got some
interesting news for you. Andrew Schulman, Senior Editor at O'Reilly &
Associates, wrote this interesting article recently:

Differences Between NT Server and Workstation are Minimal

Registry Settings Used to Force Use of Microsoft Web Server

Andrew Schulman
Senior Editor, O'Reilly & Associates
[log in to unmask]

Microsoft recently introduced version 4.0 of NT Workstation (NTW) and NT
Server (NTS), and claims that there are substantial technical differences
between the Workstation and Server products. Microsoft uses this claim to
justify an $800 price difference between NTW and NTS, as well as legal
limits on web server usage in NTW, both of which have enormous impact on
existing NTW users. But what if the supposed technical differences at the
heart of NTW and NTS are mythical?

We have found that NTS and NTW have identical kernels; in fact, NT is a
single operating system with two modes. Only two registry settings are
needed to switch between these two modes in NT 4.0, and only one setting in
NT 3.51. This is extremely significant, and calls into question the related
legal limitations and costly upgrades that currently face NTW users.

Introduction

In the course of the ongoing controversy over its restriction of only ten
web connections in NT Workstation 4.0, Microsoft representatives
have asserted that there are substantial technical differences between
NT Server and NT Workstation. From this, Microsoft draws these
conclusions:

1.that these differences justify the large price difference between
the two products (street prices: NT 4.0 Workstation $260,
Server 4.0 w/ 5 client $730, Server 4.0 w/ 10 client $1080)
2.that third-party web servers such as O'Reilly WebSite or
Netscape Enterprise Server should not be run on top of the
cheaper NT Workstation product, and
3.that customers should instead buy Microsoft's more expensive
NT Server product, which comes already bundled with a "free"
web server, Microsoft Internet Information Server (IIS). IIS
competes with web servers from third-party vendors such as
O'Reilly and Netscape.

For example, Microsoft spokesman Mark Murray was quoted by
Reuters:

"The crux of this issue is that NT Workstation and NT
Server are two very different products intended for two
very different functions."

In fact, the recent fight between Microsoft and Netscape, including
Netscape's open letter to U.S. Department of Justice's Antitrust
Division, was touched off when Microsoft sent email to Netscape,
complaining about a price comparison chart at Netscape's web site.
According to Microsoft's letter (July 30):

If the user wishes to utilize more than the ten [web]
connections, the user must license Windows NT
server.... Microsoft is also concerned

Their paper doesn't claim that they found the axion, but their press release does. (Note: press release currently slashdotted.)

Possibly this discrepancy is the fault of the university's press office though.

I have written a program to fake a boarding pass and published it on the web. I am now in bigger trouble than if I had been charged with fraud:

The charge might be framed as a from of criminal facilitation. The only intent required might be defined simply as a reckless disregard of the consequences of your actions.

What follows is a model statute that suggsts the possibilites:

__

1002. Criminal Facilitation.

(1) Offense. A person is guilty of criminal facilitation if he knowingly provides substantial assistance to a person intending to commit a felony, and that person, in fact, commits the crime contemplated, or a like or related felony, employing the assistance so provided. The ready lawful availability from others of the goods or services provided by a defendant is a factor to be considered in determining whether or not his assistance was substantial. This section does not apply to a person who is either expressly or by implication made not accountable by the statute defining the felony facilitated or related statutes.

(2) Defense Precluded. Except as otherwise provided, it is no defense to a prosecution under this section that the person whose conduct the defendant facilitated has been acquitted, has not been prosecuted or convicted, has been convicted of a different offense, is immune from prosecution, or is otherwise not subject to justice. (3) Grading. Facilitation of a Class A felony is a Class C felony. Facilitation of a Class B or Class C felony is a Class A misdemeanor.

(4) Jurisdiction. There is federal jurisdiction over an offense defined in this section when the felony facilitated is a federal felony Proposed New Federal Code

One shouldn't suggest the Canadians (or British) came out of nowhere to burn Washington. The Americans (very unwisely) started the burnings of towns: first York (now Toronto) in April 1812. At least that was in springtime, though, and mostly public buildings were burned, along with some houses. A year and a half later, in December 1813, US forces under Gen. McClure burned Newark, Ontario (now Niagara-on-the-Lake):

When he decided to withdraw. McClure compounded his earlier errors by ordering the village of Newark (now Niagara-on-the-Lake) burned ... McClure. after giving the inhabitants only a few hours warning ordered the whole village of some 150 houses put to the torch. [he forced] the inhabitants -- mostly women and children, since the men were away in the army -- out into the snow and bitter cold of a mid-December night...

Needless to say the British -- or proto-Canadians if you prefer -- were unimpressed, and vowed vengeance. Starting on the 19th of December, they overran Fort Niagara, destroyed Lewiston, and burned Manchester (Niagara Falls, NY), Schlosser, Black Rock and Buffalo.

Even the Americans blamed McClure for the outcome.

Some months later in 1814, the British revenged themselves for the burning of York. In a controlled and disciplined operation, (unlike the brutalities along the Niagara frontier), public buildings in Washington, DC were burned, with most residences and businesses surviving.

So controlled borders are probably an even better thing for Canadians, judging simply by history.

Of course, maybe not so good a thing for the safety and sanctity of your laptop, hard drive and data.

In French the word "pipe" is slang for blowjob.