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The judges may not have been mostly French, but there is still the matter of the 20 minute standing ovation that Moore's film recieved.

Even besides that, I think it's obvious that the French like Moore and hate Bush.. But what I'm really curious about is, why do you (and Moore) feel that this is something that should be covered up? Are you two secretly ashamed of the French or something?

The judges may not have been mostly French, but there is still the matter of the 20 minute standing ovation that Moore's film recieved.

Even besides that, I think it's obvious that the French like Moore and hate Bush.. But what I'm really curious about is, why do you (and Moore) feel that this is something that should be covered up? Are you two secretly ashamed of the French or something?

I was wondering how long it was going to take someone to set up a DDNS server for this purpose. About time.

I wrote a cool app which streams voice in between two IP addresses after having some bad experiences trying to get some of the more complex app's to work well, and thru a firewall correctly.

It's here...

It just uses one UDP port (51981), and works pretty well. Other things work well, but they require a service, like yahoo IM... and I like the software to be independent of any servers, and be lightweight enough to use in the background.

they want to replace secularism with a system where everyone is forced to obey one brand of Islam
Extremism is always bad regardless of what it refers to, hence the word EXTREMISM. I'm sure John Ashcroft (who spent $7000 of tax-payer money to cover up the breast of a naked statue of Lady Liberty, because it offended his religious beliefs) and George Bush (who supports public schools teaching Creationism - one of the most ridiculous fairy tales ever written - as well as school prayer) would have no problem supporting a constitutional amendment making Christianity the state sanctioned religion.

do not worship the Muslim god

Same god, different prophet.

It may frustrate you, but it is quite true.

Not so fast, buster. Sure, they don't like the fact that we're technically open to other religions, despite printing "In God We Trust" on our currency and making witnesses swear on the Bible in courts of law, and we change a pledge to include the words "under God".
But guess what! Turns out former President George H. W. Bush is so full of religious tolerance, he states that Atheists are not citizens and not patriots.
And he's not even the religious one in the family!

Here's a very simplified list of why they hate us:
1. US Foreign policy has always been: "what's in it for us?" and we make many deals and decisions that affect the middle east negatively.
2. We claim to love democracy, but we help overthrow democratic governments if we think the replacement will be more benefitial to us, even when the replacement is a dictator deals with terrorists in order to get our oil fix.
4. We don't want to seem soft, so when we're hit by an ally, we strike back at a former ally who's now an enemy with a debilitated military which made him an easy target. In the words of Chris Rock: "If they were such a threat to us, how come it only took us two weeks to take over the whole f**king country?!"

Recommended reading: Why do they hate us?

...who usually have policies against this kind of thing. See Comcast's here (look at item ix). (If you were thinking of having them get some kind of business-quality connection that would allow that, remember that someone has to pay the bills for that. Maybe I'm being too cynical here, but the idea just doesn't seem very feasible.

Then the problem, however, is that Comcast has provisions in their license agreement that say that you cannot share your connection (they term it "act as an endpoint to a network" or some such, but it'd probably stand up in court).

This doesn't stop many people, but if someone was downloading things illegally, you could at the very least be prosecuted for illegally allowing them access, and maybe even be nailed as assisting or some such.

"You shall be solely responsible for and shall indemnify and hold Comcast and its affiliates and agents harmless from and against any and all claims and expenses (including reasonable attorney's fees) arising out of your use or misuse of the Comcast Home Networking Service."

...the Service is for personal and non-commercial use only and you agree not to use the Service for operation as an Internet service provider, a server site for ftp, telnet, rlogin, e-mail hosting, "web hosting" or other similar applications, for any business enterprise, or as an end-point on a non-Comcast local area network or wide area network.

:-)

Here is a screenshot of me running an OpenSSL benchmark on the emulated Macintosh:
Open SSL benchmark

And a screen shot of the PCI information:
PCI info

These tests were run on a Pentium III 500 under XP Pro. You can recrate the test on your system by running openssl speed rsa dsa md5 and compare the results to a real pc or mac running linux.

Here is a screenshot of me running an OpenSSL benchmark on the emulated Macintosh:
Open SSL benchmark

And a screen shot of the PCI information:
PCI info

These tests were run on a Pentium III 500 under XP Pro. You can recrate the test on your system by running openssl speed rsa dsa md5 and compare the results to a real pc or mac running linux.

What I want to know is in this case who initiated discovered this download incident and initiated the complaint? Was it some 3rd party P2P watchdog hired by MGM who then complains directly to ISPs then the ISP accuses the customer? Or does Comcast police all downloads without waiting for incident complaints from companies like MGM? If that's the case then unfortunately Comacst cutomers agreed to it on sign-up, as from Comcast's Terms of Service: "Monitoring of Postings and Transmissions: Comcast shall have no obligation to monitor postings or transmissions made in connection with the Service. However, you acknowledge and agree that Comcast and its agents shall have the right to monitor any such postings and transmissions, including without limitation e-mail, newsgroups, chat, IP audio and video, and web space content, from time to time and to use and disclose them in accordance with Sections 4 and 5 of this Agreement, and as otherwise required by law or government request. " ... and from their privacy policy page "Comcast uses personally identifiable information collected on the Service as necessary to render the Service and to ... determine whether there are violations of any applicable policies and terms of service; " I guess that's standard for all ISPs Terms of Service, and we all agreed to it. Don't like it, use the other broadband carrier in your area, oh, they have the same terms, oh well.

He got some pretty significant gains by tweaking the more detailed flags beyond march, but the code in question is floating point computational stuff. That's good to know since it means tweaking a renderer or whatnot will be worth the effort, but it says nothing about yer meat and potatoes binaries.

Incidentally, an anonymous poster pointed out that Debian has an i686 libc in unstable now. I'll install it the next time I do an upgrade, but I ain't gonna bother recompiling 850 packages.

More screenshots here.

The question remains is what happens if Frame Dragging isn't observed

You can listen to John Turneaure, co principle investigator for Gravity Probe B. He was interviewed by Ira Flatow on NPR's Science Friday.

When Ira Flatow asked him what would happen if the probe did not find anything and that Einstein might be wrong, he "hemmed and hawwed" a lot and said that wouldn't be the case - that Einstein was right. He also mentioned that the data would go to a physicist and then be released to the public.

It's not that I'm wearing a tin-foil hat (well maybe), but science is based on conducting experiments in the open and openly sharing data with an unbiased view and procedure, even if it means that Einstein might be wrong.

If they really wanted to do this neat, they would stream the data live to a website, rather than can up the data until they are ready to release it.

There are critics of Einstein that are academically serious and not off their rocker like some zero point/tesla fanatics. There have been critics of Einstein ever since he released his theories. You don't hear much about them as they are all heaped into one group and astrocized.

I am not saying that Einstein was wrong (not in the sense that Newton was wrong either), but that true science is keeping an open mind, rather than cower to the politically favorable theory of the moment.

As an aside, frame dragging is like when you take a single electric mixer and use it in a bowl of pudding. Or when you use an electric stirrer in a can of paint. That is frame dragging.

This happens because gravity is a field (according to Einstein). Newton treated gravity like a force.

Physicists reading may improve upon this anology.

The general rule of thumb seems to be - If you don't cause trouble for anyone else, Comcast won't cause trouble for you.

That's what I've noticed as well. I've been running ssh and http for nearly 3 years now with no problems. I set my debian box to a static IP for a while and they didn't like that but I haven't heard from them about the open services at all. The only reason I mentioned it was this section from the Comcast Acceptable Use Policy:

(xiv) run programs, equipment, or servers from the Premises that provide network content or any other services to anyone outside of your Premises LAN (Local Area Network), also commonly referred to as public services or servers. Examples of prohibited services and servers include, but are not limited to, e-mail, Web hosting, file sharing, and proxy services and servers;

They don't seem to be proactive in enforcing that section but they do have it there to cover themselves if necessary..

Red LEDs are definitely great for brake lights. I've gotten really fond of amber LEDs for turn signals, even though they're still ridiculously expensive compared to incandescent bulbs. I converted my car's turn signals to LEDs here.

I'll probably convert the tail lights pretty soon. Having to replace any signal bulb once is one time too many, I think.

I actually use TightVNC, and while it's much better than VNC, it doesn't hold up against RDP. Also, the compression options can seriously degrade image quality. I haven't used Ultr@VNC, but will take a look at it. Especially interesting, besides the video hooking, is the AD integration. I also noticed that it supports plugins for encryption (among other things), but only one for Win32 is currently available.

Check these Infinite Baffle designs, especially this one.

IB is actually the most simple and cheap DIY solution if you have an appropriate pair of rooms. Also, it gives the best bass sound reproduction, better than the usual box/horn designs.

A great DIY/Pro horn subwoofer design is the LAB subwoofer. "A bit" big, but with great sensitivy.

Check these Infinite Baffle designs, especially this one.

IB is actually the most simple and cheap DIY solution if you have an appropriate pair of rooms. Also, it gives the best bass sound reproduction, better than the usual box/horn designs.

A great DIY/Pro horn subwoofer design is the LAB subwoofer. "A bit" big, but with great sensitivy.

avoid riaa stuff at all costs. here's some amazing music to check out via p2p or via what few links i've bothered to dig up. what follows is a nice selection of pop and rock from some outstanding bands on some very fine record labels. support these artists, or artists like them--unencumbered by the riaa. support these labels. they do wonderful things. these are great songs from great albums.


aislers set, the - mission bells from (suicide squeeze/slumberland) aislers set on epitonic

ballboy - donald in the bushes with a bag of glue from silver suits for astronauts ep (sl)

barcelona - i have the password to your shell account from moshi moshi: pop international style (march) barcelona on epitonic

beulah - popular mechanics for lovers from the coast is never clear (velocette records) beulah on epitonic

boyracer - tell me where my hands should go from to get a better hold you've got to loosen your grip (555 recordings) boyracer on epitonic

bugs in amber - roller coaster ride from rocketship letters (sign language)

camera obscura - suspended from class from underachievers please try harder (merge)

can i be she-ra? - pizzacato

carissa's wierd - sofsticated fuck princess please leave me alone from songs about leaving (sad robot) more songs

catch, the - empty your pockets

cinerama - your charms from the flirt compilation

currituck county - the collision from unpacking my library (teenbeat)

decemberists - red right ankle from her majesty the decemberists (kill rock stars)

east river pipe - my life is wrong from (merge/sarah) east river pipe on epitonic

evening lights, the - in a day from landscape cdep (shelflife) more songs

faint, the -

avoid riaa stuff at all costs. here's some amazing music to check out via p2p or via what few links i've bothered to dig up. what follows is a nice selection of pop and rock from some outstanding bands on some very fine record labels. support these artists, or artists like them--unencumbered by the riaa. support these labels. they do wonderful things. these are great songs from great albums.


aislers set, the - mission bells from (suicide squeeze/slumberland) aislers set on epitonic

ballboy - donald in the bushes with a bag of glue from silver suits for astronauts ep (sl)

barcelona - i have the password to your shell account from moshi moshi: pop international style (march) barcelona on epitonic

beulah - popular mechanics for lovers from the coast is never clear (velocette records) beulah on epitonic

boyracer - tell me where my hands should go from to get a better hold you've got to loosen your grip (555 recordings) boyracer on epitonic

bugs in amber - roller coaster ride from rocketship letters (sign language)

camera obscura - suspended from class from underachievers please try harder (merge)

can i be she-ra? - pizzacato

carissa's wierd - sofsticated fuck princess please leave me alone from songs about leaving (sad robot) more songs

catch, the - empty your pockets

cinerama - your charms from the flirt compilation

currituck county - the collision from unpacking my library (teenbeat)

decemberists - red right ankle from her majesty the decemberists (kill rock stars)

east river pipe - my life is wrong from (merge/sarah) east river pipe on epitonic

evening lights, the - in a day from landscape cdep (shelflife) more songs

faint, the -

I made a 3D file manager in Java once. It was kind of cool although it never seemed to be a very usable tool. It's more of an artistic project if anything.

Check out the screenhsots

Now why didn't I make the front page of slashdot?

Why so much emphasis on Einstein's Theory all of a sudden??

First, I would not call it all of a sudden. Testing theories with experiments is one of the building blocks of science.

So much as Einsten's theories are concerned, since the very day he published his theories, other scientists have analyzed and thought of ways to test them. They have done so where possible, as technology has permitted. One example is the atomic clock and moving bodies experiments that have been done in the past.

It is necessary for a number of reasons to validate what scientists are saying. Otherwise they do not have any basis to make the asssertions that they do.

This particular experiment provides a high precision that his theories can be tested with.

Another reason to test his theories is that there are a number of critics of Einstein's theories. So with experiments we can see who is most likely right.

Science moves forward on experiments, and testing of hypotheses.

As difficult as it may first seem to see real world pratical applications of such experiments, it really does "trickle down" to other uses.

It takes quite a bit of work to put these missions in space. So while LISA looks like a fascinating experiment, there is no guarantee that it will fly.

Gravity B is the culmination of 40 years of hard work to get to this point.

Google Confirms: HyperCard Is Dying

Yet another crippling bombshell hit the beleaguered HyperCard community when recently Apple confirmed that HyperCard will no longer be sold. Coming on the heels of six years with no updates in sight, this news serves to reinforce what we've known all along. HyperCard is collapsing in complete disarray, as further exemplified by not being used by anybody after about 1994.

You don't need to be Steve Jobs to predict HyperCard's future. The hand writing is on the wall: HyperCard faces a bleak future. In fact there won't be any future at all for HyperCard because HyperCard is dying. Things are looking very bad for HyperCard. As many of us are already aware, HyperCard continues to lose market share. Red ink flows like a river of blood.

Let's keep to the facts and look at the numbers. On Google Groups, the number of posts about HyperCard has steadily declined over the years:

Year Number of Posts
1987 851
1988 2090
1989 2850
1990 4470
1991 5810
1992 8700
1993 11000
1994 17280
1995 15420
1996 13610
1997 11000
1998 8570
1999 7210
2000 4710
2001 3410
2002 2200
2003 1770
2004 451

Clearly, HyperCard is dead. You don't even have to look at the chart to see the pattern.

Fact: HyperCard is dead.

I wanted to model the characteristics of a turbocharger I was planning to install in my car. It seemed to me a spreadsheet was the ideal way to try various scenarios. Of course, modeling a turbo requires entering lots of lists of numbers. I had to fight with it, but despite my years of programming experience, figuring out Excel was easier and faster than writing my own custom app for the job.

Turbocharger Spreadsheet

Now I can just enter engine size, compression ratios, etc., select from a variety of compressor maps, and presto - power curves computed without breaking a sweat.

Have you seen a good HDTV setup yet? I have a Infocus 5700 (not true HD) projecting on a 119" screen. Even though the projector isn't true HD resolution, HD simply looks stunning. There are several sites (1, 2) that have some wonderful HD screen captures. Take a look at them, and tell me HD is a waste...

Robot technology of the time wasn't exactly up to much, though...

Don't know about AMD, but this has been in Intel's chipsets since at least the 815 (I am pretty sure it was in the 810 chipset).

Cheers, Alfred

It is available for the Atari-ST (though not full implementation).

There is also an Atari800 emulator written in Java, and another one for Zaurus...

But maybe I am searching wrong, because the only Python-related atari800 links I found were for the same emulator type of things?

It was on the internet, so it has to be true!

Actually, the personal website of the author has a cleaned up, and significantly larger, version available here.

The /. effect got to the page before I did... But I wonder if the robot looks something like this:

http://home.comcast.net/~themichaelsmith/VWHiRes.m pg

I sent one here.

Here is Comcast's Terms Of Service.

From the AUP:
Note: Comcast reserves the right to immediately terminate the Service and the Subscriber Agreement if you engage in any of the prohibited activities listed in this AUP or if you use the Comcast Equipment or Service in a way which is contrary to any Comcast policies or any of Comcast's suppliers' policies. You must strictly adhere to any policy set forth by another service provider accessed through the Service.

So they can terminate service, based on violation of the subarticles:

(vii) restrict, inhibit, or otherwise interfere with the ability of any other person, regardless of intent, purpose or knowledge, to use or enjoy the Service, including, without limitation, posting or transmitting any information or software which contains a worm, virus, or other harmful feature, or generating levels of traffic sufficient to impede others' ability to send or retrieve information;

And transmitting a virus is definitely a violation. Still, it would be nice if there was more information on what will cause them to pull the plug.

I got an iBook G4 a few months back, and I have to say: It's one of the quietest machines I've ever owned. I can only hear it if I'm in a completely silent room and put my ear directly up to it. So much quieter than my PC...

From variety of TV shows on Doug's Web site.

I don't think Penny Arcade has any intention of actually getting involved in any litigation. Remember the Strawberry Shortcake incident?
They're doing what they do best, just poking fun.

They already thought of that. Freenet comes with the ability to host a distribution page for others to download Freenet from.

You can download Freenet from my node. (Will be up for 24 hours or 100 downloads, whichever comes first)

The quick, simple answer: Yes

The long-winded answer: Yes... Not only is IE known for a long history of insecurity, mostly due to the wonderful company located in Redmond, Washington. We also know that Microsoft loves integration, specifcally with their software: which brings you ActiveX and VBScript integration into IE. What a wonderful thing. With administrator rights and the correct (I should say incorrect) privacy settings, skript kiddies can pretty much do what they please with your box - This story being a case-in-point. A quick Google came up with this: IE considered harmful. I do not know the full details of the content in that link, nor do I affiliate myself with the author, but he does bring up several good (and valid) points.

Now for alternative browsers (I will focus on Firefox. For starters, it's open source (available at cvs.mozilla.org), which IMHO may not make it more secure by itself, but does it definately doesn't hurt. "Security through obscurity" also isn't an issue because of this. It does not have VBScript/ActiveX integration, so you don't have to worry about Mozilla/Firefox overwriting any file on your PC it was told to do by some script. Furthermore, Mozilla wasn't designed to have functionality to do such things in the first place (AFAIK) which obviously means it's not possible, even with a security flaw.

All of these reasons combined should clearly demonstrate that Mozilla/Firefox is a more secure browser (then IE). I honestly don't believe anyone could think otherwise.

So will we finally find out exactly what kind of information that IE is keeping on us?

If you wanna build your own igniton, you might look into the Megaspark Project. It's related to Megasquirt, which is a DIY EFI controller. Lots of fun, lots of online support, and lots of money saved over buying a commercial EFI controller that you can't really tweak much anyway. :)

I rennted a house and it was full of catbirds. So I got some B3TA disinfectant and killed them all. Then sued the landlord.

Here's another "pretty damning" picture.

When that happens, is when I stop using Google.

Look at the garbage that comcast subjects paying customers to.

It can only get worse.

Does Comcast have limits for personal web space?
I guess I'll find out..

the standalone jar file is here.

Somehow I'm actually a little tired of putting spammer info up on Slashdot. Does that make me a bad person?

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