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Sometimes I find it quite amazing that driving is an earned privledge (NOT right), and parenting (which can cause just as much damage to the human race) is somehow a right.

Actually, utilizing a motor vehicle to travel is NOT an earned privilidge. It's an inherent right of a free citizen to use public roadways to exercise his freedom of movement. You can choose to give up your "right" to drive in order to gain the "privilidge" of having a state issued driver license, but you cannot be compelled to by law, since your freedom to move about the country (if you're a US citizen) is protected by the Supreme Court.

(For more detailed info, click this link to a legal brief on the subject.)

(I promise it's not goat sex.)


-The Reverend

Some people have been converting the DeCSS source to other languages. Search for "ExCSS", for instance.

This seems like a good hour-or-two project for hackers who are interested in this sort of thing; port DeCSS to your favorite language and anonymously post it to a few usenet groups. This could potentially make an even bigger nightmare for the RIAA folks.

Check out Dave Touretzky's Archive for starters.

I find it difficult to beleive that anyone who would encorporate entropy into their everyday life would have much success using any types of electronic systems.

The belief that "order is true" and disorder is false or somehow wrong, is the Aneristic Illusion. To say the same of disorder, is the ERISTIC ILLUSION.

The point is that (little-t) truth is a matter of definition relative to the grid one is using at the moment, and that (capital-T) Truth, metaphysical reality, is irrelevant to grids entirely. Pick a grid, and through it some chaos appears ordered and some appears disordered. Pick another grid, and the same chaos will appear differently ordered and disordered.

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To choose order over disorder, or disorder over order, is to accept a trip composed of both the creative and the destructive. But to choose the creative over the destructive is an all-creative trip composed of both order and disorder. To accomplish this, one need only accept creative disorder along with, and equal to, creative order, and also willing to reject destructive order as an undesirable equal to destructive disorder.--Principia Discordia

I find it difficult to beleive that anyone who would encorporate entropy into their everyday life would have much success using any types of electronic systems.

The belief that "order is true" and disorder is false or somehow wrong, is the Aneristic Illusion. To say the same of disorder, is the ERISTIC ILLUSION.

The point is that (little-t) truth is a matter of definition relative to the grid one is using at the moment, and that (capital-T) Truth, metaphysical reality, is irrelevant to grids entirely. Pick a grid, and through it some chaos appears ordered and some appears disordered. Pick another grid, and the same chaos will appear differently ordered and disordered.

...

To choose order over disorder, or disorder over order, is to accept a trip composed of both the creative and the destructive. But to choose the creative over the destructive is an all-creative trip composed of both order and disorder. To accomplish this, one need only accept creative disorder along with, and equal to, creative order, and also willing to reject destructive order as an undesirable equal to destructive disorder.--Principia Discordia

fool, you have done it wrong.

Like this:
I _believe_ Discordianism is the true faith.
I _believe_ Discordianism is the true faith.
I _believe_ Discordianism is the true faith.
I _believe_ Discordianism is the true faith.
I _believe_ Discordianism is the true faith.

Follow the Law of Fives!

See this page here for more information on Discordianism, including... everything!

There are some issues to be worked out as far as whether dependencies need to built for the host or target architecture, but I think it would be a very useful addition since all of the BSDs support more than one architecture (well Darwin can build for x86 even if it can't actually be booted on x86 machines yet...) Speaking of Darwin support for fat binaries would be interesting, too.

According to this article the original cost of a Cray Y-MP C90 was $30.5 million.

Some specs from utk.edu :

• 4.1 ns Clock Cycle
• 15.6 Gflops/s maximal
• 16 GB main memory
• 12 GB/s single proc. memory bandwith
• 2-16 processors

Apparently, today's fastest supercomputers are at about 12.3 teraflops! Still, I bet the power bill on the C90 still packs a punch! (But at least you won't need a heater in the winter!)

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I've mirrored the file on my spunky little dorm box at this location. Enjoy, but please be gentle.

This is a whole new avenue...taking the process we call evolution and mapping it into technology. If we can harness that ability, and more importantly accelerate it, then haven't we suddenly gained a new resource? Computational devices gave us the power to let something else think for us, but with rigid limits...the instructions must be fixed, so really only repetitive functions can be made autonomous. But this gives us a new power...or does it?

We still can't solve problems autonomously. The original set of instructions has to be fed to the device, and the methods for 'evolving' have to be written. To me, it looks like we've just taken a clue from nature, applied it to a computational device, and watched a faster form of problem solving take place. Genetic algorithms aren't exactly new...here's a short description, or if you like, an example of a massively distributed parallel geneticalgorithm from Carnegie Mellon University Robotics. (Also check out CMU computer science for all sorts of wild projects). For another comment on relating ecological systems to computing, see this string, from an article this week.

Who knows what else can be found in natural systems, that we can apply to computing to gain information resources. I remember hearing that, a few decades ago, biology was the hot interest of the world's greatest thinkers (mostly trade physicists) who were looking for profound answers...wouldn't it be interesting if we could one day mine progress.

-j

This is a whole new avenue...taking the process we call evolution and mapping it into technology. If we can harness that ability, and more importantly accelerate it, then haven't we suddenly gained a new resource? Computational devices gave us the power to let something else think for us, but with rigid limits...the instructions must be fixed, so really only repetitive functions can be made autonomous. But this gives us a new power...or does it?

We still can't solve problems autonomously. The original set of instructions has to be fed to the device, and the methods for 'evolving' have to be written. To me, it looks like we've just taken a clue from nature, applied it to a computational device, and watched a faster form of problem solving take place. Genetic algorithms aren't exactly new...here's a short description, or if you like, an example of a massively distributed parallel geneticalgorithm from Carnegie Mellon University Robotics. (Also check out CMU computer science for all sorts of wild projects). For another comment on relating ecological systems to computing, see this string, from an article this week.

Who knows what else can be found in natural systems, that we can apply to computing to gain information resources. I remember hearing that, a few decades ago, biology was the hot interest of the world's greatest thinkers (mostly trade physicists) who were looking for profound answers...wouldn't it be interesting if we could one day mine progress.

-j

This is a whole new avenue...taking the process we call evolution and mapping it into technology. If we can harness that ability, and more importantly accelerate it, then haven't we suddenly gained a new resource? Computational devices gave us the power to let something else think for us, but with rigid limits...the instructions must be fixed, so really only repetitive functions can be made autonomous. But this gives us a new power...or does it?

We still can't solve problems autonomously. The original set of instructions has to be fed to the device, and the methods for 'evolving' have to be written. To me, it looks like we've just taken a clue from nature, applied it to a computational device, and watched a faster form of problem solving take place. Genetic algorithms aren't exactly new...here's a short description, or if you like, an example of a massively distributed parallel geneticalgorithm from Carnegie Mellon University Robotics. (Also check out CMU computer science for all sorts of wild projects). For another comment on relating ecological systems to computing, see this string, from an article this week.

Who knows what else can be found in natural systems, that we can apply to computing to gain information resources. I remember hearing that, a few decades ago, biology was the hot interest of the world's greatest thinkers (mostly trade physicists) who were looking for profound answers...wouldn't it be interesting if we could one day mine progress.

-j

It's illegal to traffic cocaine... It's illegal to posess cocaine... It's NOT illegal to tell someone where you think they can get cocaine... It's NOT illegal to tell someone how to purify cocaine... It's NOT illegal to give away cocaine-purifying procedures & instructions.... It's NOT illegal to teach someone how to make a nuclear bomb.... It's NOT illegal to tell someone where to get a nuclear bomb... It's NOT illegal to tell someone where to get materials for making a bomb... BUT... It's illegal to display/distribute DeCSS source code... It's illegal to TELL/SHOW someone where to get the source code... Is it just me? Or is the MPAA so scared shitless about losing their lambourghini's that they're trying to make everyone who LINKS DeCSS source code look like felons?? You know they know NOTHING about what the internet when they start hiring people to search for DeCSS on the internet and fire off an email to each person who hosts it. I wonder how many guys they hired for that job. For every site they shut down at least 2 more will pop up within a week by the same person. Don't they realise (cdn spelling) that what they're doing is futile? They already spent 4million bucks U.S.D. on the 2600 trial to stop 2600 from posting/linking decss.... and what did that get them? NOWHERE. The people at 2600 probably just shrugged off the judge's verdict and removed the tags from their site! The MPAA are probably kicking themselves in the ass now for wasting $4 million bucks that they could have spent on new rims for their cars. And guess where that money came from... I wonder how much more money they're going to spend on those guys typing in 'decss' on search engines before they realise that they're just shoving their money up their asses and shitting all over the internet. And what about this Professor who testified? Are they going to make a criminal out of someone who has a Masters and Ph.D in computer science simply because he hosts DeCSS in many many different (& creative) forms?

You can play your own version of RoboCup using the JavaBots package from Carnegie Mellon University. All you need is JDK 1.1 or better running on any box. I know I had fun with this when I was a grad student!

The Tyrrany Begins....

Should also be Mach microkernel, a CMU research project. There was lots of discussion re. this in this 1999 /. story.

For a real nerdly analysis (what more could a true hacker want :) try Inside Mac OS X: Kernel Environment, a PDF document at Apple's web site which reveals some of the details. (This stolen from a nice article on the O'Reilly Network.

A "mock" microkernel would be an alpha release indeed!

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> In the case of the license plate, the state owns it, and you're just putting it on your car.
Correct.

> The only reason it's there is because the law says you have to attach it.

Probably because you don't have the Manufactor's Statement of Origin for your automobile, and hence, do NOT own your vehicle:
Vehicle Manufacturer's Certificate/Statement of Origin
Manufacturer's Statement of Origin - Key To ownership

When you buy a new autmobile, WHY does the goverment want you to surrender the MSO?
Licensing your new vehicle in Washington
LOUISIANA OFFICE OF MOTOR VEHICLES VEHICLE REGISTRATION & TITLE
Massachusetts Title Law

Travelling is a RIGHT, Driving is a privilege. You DON'T need a license to travel. I travel without one, and have yet to be given a ticket for speeding or for driving without a license.

Here is a list of DOCUMENTED rulings.
Driver Licensing vs. the Right to Travel
http://www.justiceprose.8m.com/carl/ carl1.html

Speeding is NOT a crime, UNLESS you went to the government asking for permission (DRIVER'S LICENSE) to use their property (REGISTERED VEHICLE.) If you don't want to be harassed by the good law officers, you can get an International Driver's Permit, which is valid in over 200 countries. No Socialist Slave Number is required.

Research the above links and see for yourself.

Dr David Touretzky of Carnegie Mellon University, who testified on the 2600 case and was commended by the Court for his "lucid explication" and "candour", has a Gallery of CSS Descramblers, including an English prose version.

(4) Nothing in this section shall enlarge or diminish any rights of free speech or the press for activities using consumer electronics, telecommunications, or computing products.

Incidentally, reading Touretzky's wonderfully eloquent and stirring defence of what effectively amounts to civil disobedience, a sudden irony bludgeoned me unconscious like a baby seal: one day this somewhat clichéd story of the little guy taking on the faceless dehumanising monolith and prevailing through resourcefulness and passion will be made into a Hollywood Movie starring Robin Williams as Touretzky, that kid from Jerry Maguire as Jon Johansen, and Alanis Morisette as The American Constitution.

The tagline on the DVD (just above the Oscar garlands)? 'Information Wants to Be Free.'

Dr David Touretzky of Carnegie Mellon University, who testified on the 2600 case and was commended by the Court for his "lucid explication" and "candour", has a Gallery of CSS Descramblers, including an English prose version.

(4) Nothing in this section shall enlarge or diminish any rights of free speech or the press for activities using consumer electronics, telecommunications, or computing products.

Incidentally, reading Touretzky's wonderfully eloquent and stirring defence of what effectively amounts to civil disobedience, a sudden irony bludgeoned me unconscious like a baby seal: one day this somewhat clichéd story of the little guy taking on the faceless dehumanising monolith and prevailing through resourcefulness and passion will be made into a Hollywood Movie starring Robin Williams as Touretzky, that kid from Jerry Maguire as Jon Johansen, and Alanis Morisette as The American Constitution.

The tagline on the DVD (just above the Oscar garlands)? 'Information Wants to Be Free.'

Dr David Touretzky of Carnegie Mellon University, who testified on the 2600 case and was commended by the Court for his "lucid explication" and "candour", has a Gallery of CSS Descramblers, including an English prose version.

(4) Nothing in this section shall enlarge or diminish any rights of free speech or the press for activities using consumer electronics, telecommunications, or computing products.

Incidentally, reading Touretzky's wonderfully eloquent and stirring defence of what effectively amounts to civil disobedience, a sudden irony bludgeoned me unconscious like a baby seal: one day this somewhat clichéd story of the little guy taking on the faceless dehumanising monolith and prevailing through resourcefulness and passion will be made into a Hollywood Movie starring Robin Williams as Touretzky, that kid from Jerry Maguire as Jon Johansen, and Alanis Morisette as The American Constitution.

The tagline on the DVD (just above the Oscar garlands)? 'Information Wants to Be Free.'

Dr David Touretzky of Carnegie Mellon University, who testified on the 2600 case and was commended by the Court for his "lucid explication" and "candour", has a Gallery of CSS Descramblers, including an English prose version.

(4) Nothing in this section shall enlarge or diminish any rights of free speech or the press for activities using consumer electronics, telecommunications, or computing products.

Incidentally, reading Touretzky's wonderfully eloquent and stirring defence of what effectively amounts to civil disobedience, a sudden irony bludgeoned me unconscious like a baby seal: one day this somewhat clichéd story of the little guy taking on the faceless dehumanising monolith and prevailing through resourcefulness and passion will be made into a Hollywood Movie starring Robin Williams as Touretzky, that kid from Jerry Maguire as Jon Johansen, and Alanis Morisette as The American Constitution.

The tagline on the DVD (just above the Oscar garlands)? 'Information Wants to Be Free.'

Dr David Touretzky of Carnegie Mellon University, who testified on the 2600 case and was commended by the Court for his "lucid explication" and "candour", has a Gallery of CSS Descramblers, including an English prose version.

(4) Nothing in this section shall enlarge or diminish any rights of free speech or the press for activities using consumer electronics, telecommunications, or computing products.

Incidentally, reading Touretzky's wonderfully eloquent and stirring defence of what effectively amounts to civil disobedience, a sudden irony bludgeoned me unconscious like a baby seal: one day this somewhat clichéd story of the little guy taking on the faceless dehumanising monolith and prevailing through resourcefulness and passion will be made into a Hollywood Movie starring Robin Williams as Touretzky, that kid from Jerry Maguire as Jon Johansen, and Alanis Morisette as The American Constitution.

The tagline on the DVD (just above the Oscar garlands)? 'Information Wants to Be Free.'

Dr David Touretzky of Carnegie Mellon University, who testified on the 2600 case and was commended by the Court for his "lucid explication" and "candour", has a Gallery of CSS Descramblers, including an English prose version.

(4) Nothing in this section shall enlarge or diminish any rights of free speech or the press for activities using consumer electronics, telecommunications, or computing products.

Incidentally, reading Touretzky's wonderfully eloquent and stirring defence of what effectively amounts to civil disobedience, a sudden irony bludgeoned me unconscious like a baby seal: one day this somewhat clichéd story of the little guy taking on the faceless dehumanising monolith and prevailing through resourcefulness and passion will be made into a Hollywood Movie starring Robin Williams as Touretzky, that kid from Jerry Maguire as Jon Johansen, and Alanis Morisette as The American Constitution.

The tagline on the DVD (just above the Oscar garlands)? 'Information Wants to Be Free.'

Actually, I remember seeing that MIT has had robot battles for some time. Last spring, at Spring Carnival, Carnegie Mellon introduced a new event to the Mobot festivities: MoboJoust. Basically, two robots started at opposite ends of a narrow "arena," and the first one to cross the other's goal line (or get closest in 30 seconds) won. It was hilarious seeing some of these robots pulverize their opponents. In fact, on the promo for the next BattleBots, I was shocked to hear the name "Overkill," also the name of the winner of this year's MoboJoust. It's not the same robot, though. Oh well.

Don't underestimate the power of private funding, though. The Mobot people get assistance from such companies as Dell Computer, Lockheed Martin, and Schlumberger. They have some good tech at their disposal. Literally. :)

Actually, I remember seeing that MIT has had robot battles for some time. Last spring, at Spring Carnival, Carnegie Mellon introduced a new event to the Mobot festivities: MoboJoust. Basically, two robots started at opposite ends of a narrow "arena," and the first one to cross the other's goal line (or get closest in 30 seconds) won. It was hilarious seeing some of these robots pulverize their opponents. In fact, on the promo for the next BattleBots, I was shocked to hear the name "Overkill," also the name of the winner of this year's MoboJoust. It's not the same robot, though. Oh well.

Don't underestimate the power of private funding, though. The Mobot people get assistance from such companies as Dell Computer, Lockheed Martin, and Schlumberger. They have some good tech at their disposal. Literally. :)

but the IBM RT (AIX) used a MIPS cpu.

You misspelled "ROMP". :-) The RT PC used the IBM-developed ROMP; see The IBM RT Information page, and pages linked to it, such as the IBM RT system hardware FAQ, which says:

That's Research OPD Mini Processor. OPD = Office Products Division.

ROMP was originally designed to be used in office products, primarily text editing systems such as the IBM Office System/6 and DisplayWriter. The architectural work started in late spring of 1977, as a spin-off of the T.J. Watson Research 801 work (hence the "Research" in the acronym). Most of the architectural changes were for "cost reductions," such as adding 16-bit instructions for "byte-efficiency"--a main concern at IBM at the time.

but the IBM RT (AIX) used a MIPS cpu.

You misspelled "ROMP". :-) The RT PC used the IBM-developed ROMP; see The IBM RT Information page, and pages linked to it, such as the IBM RT system hardware FAQ, which says:

That's Research OPD Mini Processor. OPD = Office Products Division.

ROMP was originally designed to be used in office products, primarily text editing systems such as the IBM Office System/6 and DisplayWriter. The architectural work started in late spring of 1977, as a spin-off of the T.J. Watson Research 801 work (hence the "Research" in the acronym). Most of the architectural changes were for "cost reductions," such as adding 16-bit instructions for "byte-efficiency"--a main concern at IBM at the time.

I was reading Richard Feynman's The Meaning of it All and he had a great bit of wisdom at the end of his second chapter. Granted, it was in reference to the Russians, but its applicable nwo, and I quote:

Man has been stopped before by stopping his ideas. Man has been jammed for long periods of time. We will not tolerate this. I hope for freedom for future generations - freedom to doubt, to develop, to continue the adventure of finding out new ways of doing things, of solving problems.

Why do we grapple with problems? We are only in the beginning. We have plenty of time to solve the problems. The only way that we will make a mistake is that ithe impetuous youth of humanity we will decide we know the answer. This is it. No one else can think of anything else. And we will jam. We will confine man to the limited imagination of today's human beings. "

... "No government has the right to decide on the truth of scientific principles, nor to prescribe in any way the character of the questions investigated. Neither may a government determine the aesthetic value of artistic crations, nor limit the forms of literary or artistic expression. Nor should it pronounce on the validity of economic, historic, religious, or philosophical doctrines. Instead it has a duty to its citizens to maintain the freedom, to let those citizens contribute to the futher adventure and the development of the human race. Thank you.

Read him. Understand this, and wake up. This is too scary when the censorship gets close enough that I can feel it. Feynman understood it in the 60's.

And another thing...

The decision that Judge Kaplan handed down strikes a disturbing blow against source code as a protected form of free expression. Dave Touretzky has constructed a gallery of CSS descramblers which demonstrates the difficulty of establishing when a piece of code is more expression than it is mechanism. Kaplan's decision even suggests that his finding might have been different if the CSS descrambler in question (DeCSS) was not trivially translatable to an executable device.

But where do we draw the line. When a judge deems that pseudo-code, or a precisely worded prose description of a circumvention algorithm is too easy to turn into an executable circumvention device, are we going to see those forms of expression restricted as well?

This is scary stuff...

http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~jch/java/

Leknor
http://Leknor.com
Leknor
http://Leknor.com

Sounds like you're a watermelon... Green on the outside, red on the inside.

This is stuff we just don't know enough about...

Or to put it another way:

ACHTUNG!

Das ecosystem is nicht fur gerfinger-poken und mittengrabben.

Oderwise is easy schnappen der icecaps, blowen ozonelayer, und makensturm mit spitzenacidrain.

Der ecosystem is nicht fur gemessen by das dummkopfen. So relaxen und watchen das growengras.

I have a question:

Watt Humphrey of Carnegie Mellon's Software Engineering Institute pushes the Capability Maturity Model, which he claims marries Total Quality Management (made famous by the Japanese) with software engineering. It's sounds a bit like Scientology to me, with PSP/TSP, reviews, and lot of acronyms, but I have seen rave reviews around the web.

Could some please let me know if the CMM and the "Best Practices" being discussed have anything to do with each other?

Thanks.

Moderators: this isn't intended to be offtopic - I am trying to get at what "best practices" are driving the discussion

I have a question:

Watt Humphrey of Carnegie Mellon's Software Engineering Institute pushes the Capability Maturity Model, which he claims marries Total Quality Management (made famous by the Japanese) with software engineering. It's sounds a bit like Scientology to me, with PSP/TSP, reviews, and lot of acronyms, but I have seen rave reviews around the web.

Could some please let me know if the CMM and the "Best Practices" being discussed have anything to do with each other?

Thanks.

Moderators: this isn't intended to be offtopic - I am trying to get at what "best practices" are driving the discussion

I'm using kernel 2.4.0-test6 as my primary kernel on my home machine (Athlon 700, originally Mandrake 7.1). It's pretty stable for me, much better than the "inode count wrapped" errors that would fill my screen and prevent me from booting most of the time. It even has built-in support for USB (haven't tested it) and the Sound Blaster Live! card I use. Compiled in under six minutes, too. :)

Oh, and about the flutes, they're only playing by themselves because their backup hasn't arrived yet. :)

As someone who has worked with AFS for the past 8 years, I have to say that I greet this announcement with a somewhat more pessimistic view.

Namely: AFS is now officially dead.

I say "officially" because, IMO, AFS is already dead, and has been for years (ever since Transarc (now IBM Transarc Labs, but I'll refer to them as Transarc for brevity)) came out with DCE/DFS, really).

Oh, there were bouts of heavy maintenance and limited development. These periods were inevitably precipitated by Transarc's AFS customers becoming vocal and complaining. But when the complaints died down, so did Transarc's commitment.

Transarc has never treated AFS like a real product. Their "development" efforts have been limited to ports to new versions of the same operating systems, a few ports to new architectures, bugfixes, and very limited feature additions (mostly backports from DFS).

In fact, this year has seen Transarc's AFS support sink to a new low. From what I've been able to garner, all AFS development is being outsourced to India. Responses from Transarc's AFS hotline support (a support service which customers purchase!) have been inept. There was no Decorum (Transarc's yearly AFS conference) this year, nor even an announcement concerning it. It's been ages since anyone from Transarc has posted on the AFS mailing list.

So, why is Transarc (now IBM Transarc labs) open-sourcing AFS? For one simple reason: AFS is IBM's red-headed stepchild, and they don't know what else to do with it.

If you read the announcement at http://www.transarc.com/News/pre ss/opensource.html, you'll note this entry in the FAQ:

Is IBM still investing in AFS?

Yes. IBM recognizes that many of our customers will still want a commercially-supported version of AFS IBM AFS. IBM/Transarc will still sell, maintain, port (to new versions of currently-supported OS), support, and provide minor enhancements to "IBM AFS".

Good software grows or dies. AFS died a long time ago. I, personally, think this is tragic, because AFS had great potential. But Transarc never made a long-term commitment to anything other than keeping it on life support. Perhaps it can be resuscitated back to health, but I can't help but wonder if the Open Source community's effort would be better spent towards other distributed filesystems efforts, such as CODA (which I admittedly haven't investigated, but plan to).

I sent you a mail, but it's still sitting in my mqueue waiting for an MX record for infamous.net. ;)

Sorry for the inconvenience. Meanwhile, I can be reached at tms@charm.net.

BTW: do you need a hostname pointing to your machine or anything else to help you out until the NIC or granitecanyon fixes your DNS?

After briefly searching around the CMU website, I found a document entitled How Forum2000 works, it seems by Andrej Bauer. Assuming that this isn't just smokescreen to conceal the hoax, it seems to be pretty good, if brief, background on how Forum2000 works.

After briefly searching around the CMU website, I found a document entitled How Forum2000 works, it seems by Andrej Bauer. Assuming that this isn't just smokescreen to conceal the hoax, it seems to be pretty good, if brief, background on how Forum2000 works.

Actually, only about 33% of everything the US and the USSR sent to Mars was deemed "successful". Most of the rest either missed their mark completely, exploded, or was lost or stopped working once it reached Mars.

Here's my source, since anything contrary to the opinion of the status quo on slashdot needs backing up, but "what feels right" never does.

- A.P.
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"One World, one Web, one Program" - Microsoft promotional ad

I think Carnegie Mellon is credible, especially since CMU's got CERT - which specializes in security vulnerabilities. Altough I believe CERT is still funded by the government (department of defense).

Anyway, everyone knows that Penn State students are only good at drinking and rioting.

I guess things quiet down when the students are gone. Only a school in the middle of nowhere could be so excited over a crane arriving!

Penn State usually has lots of news. It was on 20/20 earlier this summer for being the biggest drinking school in the country. And it made national news a month or so ago for riots at the Arts Festival.

Then again, the most exciting things going on at my school are: An Invisible computing aura and Fading beauty.

I guess things quiet down when the students are gone. Only a school in the middle of nowhere could be so excited over a crane arriving!

Penn State usually has lots of news. It was on 20/20 earlier this summer for being the biggest drinking school in the country. And it made national news a month or so ago for riots at the Arts Festival.

Then again, the most exciting things going on at my school are: An Invisible computing aura and Fading beauty.

I guess things quiet down when the students are gone. Only a school in the middle of nowhere could be so excited over a crane arriving!

Penn State usually has lots of news. It was on 20/20 earlier this summer for being the biggest drinking school in the country. And it made national news a month or so ago for riots at the Arts Festival.

Then again, the most exciting things going on at my school are: An Invisible computing aura and Fading beauty.

• MMM Group at University of Nijmegen [publications]
• Machine Listening @ MIT Media Lab
• Affective Computing @ MIT Media Lab
• Musclefish

• Music, Cognition, and Computerized Sound, Perry R. Cook
• Music, Mind and Machine, Peter Desain and Henkjan Honing
• The Scientist and Engineer's Guide to Digital Signal Processing, Steven W. Smith
• Neural Networks for Pattern Recognition, Christopher M. Bishop

• Tracking Musical Beats in Real Time, Paul E. Allen and Roger B. Dannenberg
• A Model for Musical Rhythm, Jeff A. Bilmes
• Autocorrelation and the Study of Musical Expression, Peter Desain, Siebe de Vos
• A Beat Tracking System for Audio Signals, Simon Dixon
• Prediction-Driven Computational Auditory Scene Analysis for Dense Sound Mixtures, Daniel P. W. Ellis
• A Similarity Measure for Automatic Audio Classification, Jonathan Foote
• Representing Rhythmic Patterns in a Network of Oscillators, Michael Gasser and Douglas Eck
• Adaptive Signal Models: Theory, Algorithms, and Audio Applications, Michael Mark Goodwin
• Recognition of Music Types, Hagen Soltau, Tanja Schultz, Martin Westphal, Alex Waibel
• Irrelevant Features and the Subset Selection Problem, George H. John, Ron Kohavi, Karl Pfleger
• Beat tracking with a nonlinear oscilator, Edward W. Large
• Modeling beat perception with a nonlinear oscilator, Edward W. Large
• Automatic Transcription of Simple Polyphonic Music: Robust Front End Processing, Keith D. Martin
• Musical instrument identification: A pattern-recognition approach, Keith D. Martin and Youngmoo E. Kim
• Music Content Analysis through Models of Audition, Keith D. Martin, Eric D. Scheirer, Barry L. Vercoe
• Musical Sound Information: Musical gestures and embedding synthesis, Eric Metois
• A Machine Learning Approach to Musical Style Recognition, Roger B. Dannenberg, Belinda Thom, and David Watson
• Resonanc e and the perception of musical meter, Large, E. W., & Kolen, J. F.
• Music-Listening Systems, Eric D. Scheirer
• Tempo and beat analysis of acoustic musical signals, Eric D. Scheirer
• Content-Based Classification, Search, and Retrieval of Audio, Erling Wold, Thom Blum, Douglas Keislar, James Wheaton
• Classification, Search, and Retrieval of Audio, Erling Wold, Thom Blum, Douglas Keislar, James Wheaton

• MMM Group at University of Nijmegen [publications]
• Machine Listening @ MIT Media Lab
• Affective Computing @ MIT Media Lab
• Musclefish

• Music, Cognition, and Computerized Sound, Perry R. Cook
• Music, Mind and Machine, Peter Desain and Henkjan Honing
• The Scientist and Engineer's Guide to Digital Signal Processing, Steven W. Smith
• Neural Networks for Pattern Recognition, Christopher M. Bishop

• Tracking Musical Beats in Real Time, Paul E. Allen and Roger B. Dannenberg
• A Model for Musical Rhythm, Jeff A. Bilmes
• Autocorrelation and the Study of Musical Expression, Peter Desain, Siebe de Vos
• A Beat Tracking System for Audio Signals, Simon Dixon
• Prediction-Driven Computational Auditory Scene Analysis for Dense Sound Mixtures, Daniel P. W. Ellis
• A Similarity Measure for Automatic Audio Classification, Jonathan Foote
• Representing Rhythmic Patterns in a Network of Oscillators, Michael Gasser and Douglas Eck
• Adaptive Signal Models: Theory, Algorithms, and Audio Applications, Michael Mark Goodwin
• Recognition of Music Types, Hagen Soltau, Tanja Schultz, Martin Westphal, Alex Waibel
• Irrelevant Features and the Subset Selection Problem, George H. John, Ron Kohavi, Karl Pfleger
• Beat tracking with a nonlinear oscilator, Edward W. Large
• Modeling beat perception with a nonlinear oscilator, Edward W. Large
• Automatic Transcription of Simple Polyphonic Music: Robust Front End Processing, Keith D. Martin
• Musical instrument identification: A pattern-recognition approach, Keith D. Martin and Youngmoo E. Kim
• Music Content Analysis through Models of Audition, Keith D. Martin, Eric D. Scheirer, Barry L. Vercoe
• Musical Sound Information: Musical gestures and embedding synthesis, Eric Metois
• A Machine Learning Approach to Musical Style Recognition, Roger B. Dannenberg, Belinda Thom, and David Watson
• Resonanc e and the perception of musical meter, Large, E. W., & Kolen, J. F.
• Music-Listening Systems, Eric D. Scheirer
• Tempo and beat analysis of acoustic musical signals, Eric D. Scheirer
• Content-Based Classification, Search, and Retrieval of Audio, Erling Wold, Thom Blum, Douglas Keislar, James Wheaton
• Classification, Search, and Retrieval of Audio, Erling Wold, Thom Blum, Douglas Keislar, James Wheaton

• MMM Group at University of Nijmegen [publications]
• Machine Listening @ MIT Media Lab
• Affective Computing @ MIT Media Lab
• Musclefish

• Music, Cognition, and Computerized Sound, Perry R. Cook
• Music, Mind and Machine, Peter Desain and Henkjan Honing
• The Scientist and Engineer's Guide to Digital Signal Processing, Steven W. Smith
• Neural Networks for Pattern Recognition, Christopher M. Bishop

• Tracking Musical Beats in Real Time, Paul E. Allen and Roger B. Dannenberg
• A Model for Musical Rhythm, Jeff A. Bilmes
• Autocorrelation and the Study of Musical Expression, Peter Desain, Siebe de Vos
• A Beat Tracking System for Audio Signals, Simon Dixon
• Prediction-Driven Computational Auditory Scene Analysis for Dense Sound Mixtures, Daniel P. W. Ellis
• A Similarity Measure for Automatic Audio Classification, Jonathan Foote
• Representing Rhythmic Patterns in a Network of Oscillators, Michael Gasser and Douglas Eck
• Adaptive Signal Models: Theory, Algorithms, and Audio Applications, Michael Mark Goodwin
• Recognition of Music Types, Hagen Soltau, Tanja Schultz, Martin Westphal, Alex Waibel
• Irrelevant Features and the Subset Selection Problem, George H. John, Ron Kohavi, Karl Pfleger
• Beat tracking with a nonlinear oscilator, Edward W. Large
• Modeling beat perception with a nonlinear oscilator, Edward W. Large
• Automatic Transcription of Simple Polyphonic Music: Robust Front End Processing, Keith D. Martin
• Musical instrument identification: A pattern-recognition approach, Keith D. Martin and Youngmoo E. Kim
• Music Content Analysis through Models of Audition, Keith D. Martin, Eric D. Scheirer, Barry L. Vercoe
• Musical Sound Information: Musical gestures and embedding synthesis, Eric Metois
• A Machine Learning Approach to Musical Style Recognition, Roger B. Dannenberg, Belinda Thom, and David Watson
• Resonanc e and the perception of musical meter, Large, E. W., & Kolen, J. F.
• Music-Listening Systems, Eric D. Scheirer
• Tempo and beat analysis of acoustic musical signals, Eric D. Scheirer
• Content-Based Classification, Search, and Retrieval of Audio, Erling Wold, Thom Blum, Douglas Keislar, James Wheaton
• Classification, Search, and Retrieval of Audio, Erling Wold, Thom Blum, Douglas Keislar, James Wheaton

Or maybe it's Miller of the Amulet Project?

No, both keys, viewed individually, are random: every bit in the keys has a 50% chance of being 0 and a 50% chance of being 1. If you have only one key, you have absolutely no information about the original data. A key stores information in how it is related to the other key. It's like a puzzle with three pieces (data, key #0, key #1): if you have only one piece, the others could be anything; but if you have any two pieces, then you can determine the other.

In fact, you can break data up into more than two keys. Here's how. Cool, no?

Quit your whining and use the TOM Conversion Service. It'll let you read any "non-standard" format you want, including Word, PDF, and even LaTeX, in nice, comfortable HTML format. Of course, the formatting will likely be all fouled up because HTML doesn't support all the layout features of PDF, but that's okay because standards are more important than everything else.

Quick, stop the world because Joe Websurfer can't read our documents!

Another project that is interested in performance prediction is the Network Weather Service (NWS). An important issue in systems such as RPS (my system) and NWS is accurate and scalable measurement of hosts and networks. Remos is able to do this.

A lot of work in this area is taking place in the context of Computational Grids. The Grid Forum is an IETF-like body that is trying to standardize Grid middleware systems. Globus and Legion are examples of Grid middleware systems.

Another project that is interested in performance prediction is the Network Weather Service (NWS). An important issue in systems such as RPS (my system) and NWS is accurate and scalable measurement of hosts and networks. Remos is able to do this.

A lot of work in this area is taking place in the context of Computational Grids. The Grid Forum is an IETF-like body that is trying to standardize Grid middleware systems. Globus and Legion are examples of Grid middleware systems.

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