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I think most people have the wrong idea about the "Butterfly Effect." IIRC, the weather scientists were talking about the precision with which they would need to know air movement to make longer term predictions. i.e. the longer the forecast the more digits of precision are needed in your measurement. They were referring to the level of precision and not to butterflies causing a tornado or other such nonsense.

I think this paper says that the butterfly/tornado link came directly from Edward Norton Lorenz, an American mathematician and meteorologist, and a pioneer of chaos theory:

In the title of a talk given by Lorenz at the 139th meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in December, 1972, the butterfly made its first appearance: ''Does the flap of a butterfly's wings in Brazil set off a tornado in Texas?'' In this talk, Lorenz raised the fundamental issue: ''The question which really interests us is whether they (the butterflies) can do even this--whether, for example, two particular weather situations differing by as little as the immediate influence of a single butterfly will generally after sufficient time evolve into two situations differing by as much as the presence of a tornado. In more technical language, is the behavior of the atmosphere unstable with respect to perturbations of small amplitude?''

only in the US

Yeah, too bad you're either ignorant or lying. Maize silage (which granted is not grain-only, but does contain a lot of corn) is used significantly throughout Europe and Australia/NZ to feed cattle. Articles are hard to come by, but I did find this about maize silage in the UK, this paper about maize silage in Italy, and this paper which mentions maize silage in France and Switzerland.

QED, fool. Did you really think the US was the only place on earth that ever put corn into cattle feed? Please.

I think this entire article is a load of attention seeking BS, and I will not believe a word of it until I see a proper peer-reviewed research paper in a medical journal that debunks stretching.

This is based on the work of Duane Knudson. It says so in the very first sentence. Feel free to read all you want. I like the layman's summary, but then I'm the kind of person who always saw stretching as a load of attention seeking BS.

unless the NSA or magical imps are after you then complete anonymity can be gained by a few simple steps.

1: Find 3 or more VPN/proxy services located in different countries. Look for ones which claim to not keep any logs

Or, the NSA/magical imps are worth their salaries and have spent the last 10 years setting up VPN/proxy services and telling everyone that they 'keep no logs, honest!', so that a large part of the internet traffic that people consider worth anonymising already passes through servers that they control and log very carefully.

Ah, secret lutefisk recipes... http://www.ecst.csuchico.edu/~atman/ic/lutefisk.ht ml

Your perspective is skewed from the blind hatred of large corporations that is harbored by so many readers here.

The costs of building and maintaining an efficient broadband network on a nationwide scale is tremendous. Just how many companies do you think could afford to build a system of that scale? Now, the FCC limits Comcast and ALL other cable providers to a MAXIMUM of 30% market penetration. This means in order to provide the entire country with high-speed cable internet, you would need FOUR financially thriving cable systems. It would make no sense for either Comcast or Cox to compete for the same market, because doing so would just mean that somewhere else in the country, high speed cable service is being denied. The FCC does this because they are offering the telephone companies a means to compete with the cable companies.

Yes the cable industry spends millions and millions of dollars a year lobbying the government. Does that make them evil? Take a look at http://www.csuchico.edu/~kfountain/alpha.htmlthis list of lobbyist organizations and keep telling yourself that lobbyist groups are reserved for evildoers. The fact is that lobbying the government is the most efficient way to get things done. You want marijuana legalized? Start raising funds for a lobbyist organization, such as the ones for tobacco and alcohol, and you will start seeing results when enough billions get pumped into the right pockets.

Comcast is a business, that wants to make money. In Slashdot mythology, that is a defining characteristic of evil, but I would challenge you all to show me a business plan to create a free nationwide network of broadband coverage that offers the technical support and capabilities that Comcast allows. They make money by providing a service, and if it bothers you that the FCC regulates geographical competition among the cable industry, then maybe YOU need to lobby someone to bully the FCC into removing their 'lets give the phone companies a chance' campaign so that the cable companies can have the logistical option of competing without government imposted regulations on the size of growth.

Personally, I think it is about on par with what would the PC market look like if the government sanctioned a 30% marketshare cap on Microsoft. Do you really trust the OSS community to pick up the slack for the rest of the 70% of desktop users out there? Which demographic would MS be forced to focus sales towards? Bah, I may have missed some points, but this is just off the top of my head. If you want to correct me, then by all means I welcome constructive feedback, but if you want to just flame me for having a different perspective, just send me a PM and spare the burden of your hatred upon the servers.

I'd never think to use either one for the other purpose.

But you may not be doing serious work, then.

Let's say you have a five-hundred-fold bibliography: how are you going to port it between publishable papers if not in BibTeX?

I post this from my recumbant exercise bike with my NCD X Terminal. See here (it's the login screen background): http://www.ecst.csuchico.edu/~mball/images/BikeAnd Terminal.jpg

Best part was that it made use of things I already had. Extra purchases were limited to trivial items.

"That would be the friendly way in which one avoids looking at easily and publically available court documents "

I went down to the court house and they said they didn't have them.

Anyway, I can't find any internet reference to ISA bus licensing.

This link:
    http://www.ecst.csuchico.edu/~dranch/HARDWARE/pc-b uses.txt

Suggests that IBM developed the MCA bus because nobody paid licensing fees for ISA.

This link:
    http://www.aaxnet.com/info/glocomp.html

Matches my recollection with this quote:

"Not only did IBM demand stiff royalties for its use [MCA], they also demanded back royalties for all computers built using the ISA bus before they would license it. NCR suckered for this deal but nobody else did."

This link from IBM:
    http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/library/pa-s pec5.html

Makes no mention of ISA licensing. Maybe IBM was ashamed.

Now seriously, you might be right. But I can't find a reference on the Internet, which suggests it's not so easily available. Perhaps you could send a link?

Just think of the number of systems that rely on IPv4 right now: networks, routers, cell phones, etc. There really isn't a lot of room left at the current rate of expansion. But let's face, that's how we get: complacent. The current system is working -- why bother with a new one? I believe the Romans got that way toward the end...

I read the article and it was insightful, but I didn't have a lot of background on IPv6, so I searched for some background and found this on the details and this on implementing it in Linux.

From the article: The Internet was not designed like this. It was designed to enable peer-to-peer and VoIP. In the meantime, through NAT, telecomms companies are offering VoIP but they want to bill you for it, but the Internet was not designed with any billing mechanism. When you connect to the Internet you pay anyway, so why should you pay for more services? This is the big debate. The Internet was not designed for telecomms companies, it was designed for everyone to share expensive CPU power. When you share expensive resources you can do anything.

I agree. Paying for sevrices is basically just icing on the cake for telecoms.

Btech online (ansi based); fight in 100 ton battletech mechs against players from around the world.

telnet to btech.dhs.org 3030 telnet://btech.dhs.org:3030
Online training page http://btech.ecst.csuchico.edu/~mux/
A review of 3030 http://www.combatsim.com/review.php?id=723

Another text based game, still kicking.

Isn't a "popular collective" just another name for a government?

More or less, it can be a government, but also to what extent. Remember, that is the given deffinition for socialism and socialism is a form of government. So we are doing circular reasoning on that.

What was defined for Utilitarianism is essentially an Ethics System for determining what is the best course of action or the most ethical, not a means of Government.

In which case, what distinguishes socialism from any other form of government?

Differnces: Socialism is a form of Communism, the "Classless" society. In theory, this means everyone is perfectly equal. We don't have any of what has been carachterized in the western world as the "Rich class" "Middle class" "Poor class". To give a historical example, The Aristocracy and the Peasants, that later evolved into the Aristocracy, the Peasants, the Merchants and (in some cases and places) the Religion. A more recent example might be Indias Caste System. This is essentially what the Communist type governments are supposed to eliminate.

Socialism combines the Communist government theory and Economics. Essentially putting the entire government has full control of the economy. When doing this, the things that follow have generally been central planning and control of the economy by an individual or committee and Price Controls. Probably a few other things I am missing. One thing other thing that seems to be related is the creation of a "Welfare State" where certain people rely on the government for all their needs.

It gets kind of hard to compare Socialism to other kinds of government due to the combination of Government and Economics in the deffinition. On the opposite side of the spectrum from the economics of Socialism is the Free-Market. Essentially no government control at all. On the government side... Well, it's kind of hard. In the current and previous versions of the Socialist Governments, (USSR), usually a small group of people or an idividual have had complete control of the governemnt. There were no general elections or anything similar. They have essentially been dictatorships run by either an individual or a committee. The selection of new members is carried out by existing members.

I certainly thought it was an enhanced attention to the good of society as a whole, and hence a decreased attention to individual rights (since the two are continually in conflict, as anyone who has been asked to turn his stereo down late at night can testify...)

Yes, it does seem that the rights of the individual are in complete conflict. Mostly this seems to be due to the need of the Communist style governments to have complete control over everything that goes on. One thing from your example, however. It is generally held that "Your right to swing your fist ends where my nose begins". Hence, you can say anything you want but you can not force me to listen. Another way of looking at it is this, your right to listen to the radio ends when it violates someone elses right not to hear it. One solution would be for you to wear headphones.

Another thing on this. What is "good for society as a whole" is debatable. Some would say what is good for the individual is good for society. Hence anything that tramples on the rights of an individual harms society as a whole. Others would say that the good of society requires that some or all of the rights be eliminated. Most systems generally have a compromise of the two. People have the right to privacy unless X condition is met. In which case in the USA there are search warants and wire tap requests (also a form of warant). What constitutes the X condition is always moving. In the USSR no one had the right to privacy, which seemed to be the main reason behind the KGB. Anyone who disagreed with the system was generally arrested and "re-educated" at best. At worst?

http://web.csuchico.edu/~ah24/the_fun.htm

Isaac Asimov story about robotic teachers, and nostalgia for simpler times

Not according to
this history.

Check 1.3.1 and search for Mucus Pig. B-)

Oh sure, it's easy to laugh. But one day, people will not laugh. Weavers unite!

Some banks also block online banking sessions coming in via Marketscore's proxies.

This is the same spyware previously known as "netsetter". There's no question about this being spyware.

Here's Stanford's Information Security Office's statement on Marketscore.

• Security Alert: MarketScore Spyware
  11 Jan 2005

  MarketScore (also called NetSetter) is a spyware-like application that compromises the security of all data sent or received by your web browser, even on "secure" encrypted web sites. All external browser communications are re-routed through MarketScore's proxy servers, so they have access to any "secure" traffic/passwords/accounts that otherwise would be encrypted.

  If you have MarketScore installed on your computer and have used your browser for any services that require WebLogin, your password should be considered compromised. After you have removed MarketScore from your computer, we strongly recommend that you change your SUNet password. This advice also applies to any other secure web sites you may have visited with your browser.

  The Information Security Office is directly contacting owners of machines that appear to behave as if MarketScore is present.

  Technical Detail

  MarketScore reconfigures the browser to use a "proxy server" for all non-local connections, including HTTPS connections. A proxy server is a machine that acts as a middle-man, brokering web page requests intended for other sites. So if the browser on machine A wants to visit web sites C, D, and E it makes all those requests through the proxy server B. B then contacts C, D, and E and passes the results back to A. This is usually transparent to the user on machine A after the browser has been configured to use the proxy.

  Web proxies are typically used in a corporate environment where all web traffic must be controlled or inspected centrally, although in the case of secure HTTPS traffic there is ordinarily nothing the proxy can do except forward the connection or refuse it. In this case, the proxy servers belong to a company called ComScore where they collect and analyze the intercepted data.

  While ordinarily an HTTPS connection would simply pass through a proxy securely, in this case MarketScore also installs a new root certificate in your browser so that it can decrypt all intercepted SSL connections (a "man-in-the-middle" attack) without triggering a security warning from the browser. In normal operation, browsers would complain if a site certificate doesn't match the domain of the URL, but the new root certificate tells the browser to trust ComScore's site certificate for any URL.

This goes well beyond what Marketscore claims their program does.

That seems to settle the issue.

For several years, Hewlett-Packard has hired more graduates from CSU, Chico's Computer Science Department than from any other CS department in the country. In US News and World Report, CSU, Chico continues to rank in the top 5 public regional universities in the West.

I had recently graduated from Chico state 2002 with a degree in computer science option math/physics and minor in math. I have since go on to complete my master's degree in computer science and was duely prepared from my CSU Chico education. i.e. my gpa for master program is 3.9 and I have had to study very little as my undergrad work has prepared me for both work and future study. I often have found my UC master classes are recovering topics that were detailed in my CSU undergrad classes

While Chico State is know for its parties and good times it also has some of the finest professors and staff in the California state university system. Many professionals educators are attracted to chico as it offers a slower pace of live and a focus on education that is not found in other settings. Personally I was able to communicate with each of my professor an a daily basis. I could visit their office hours or they would be more than willing to answer my questions after lecture. I know you don't get this attention at a larger more prestigous universtity..

As for the Food service computer exploit. This goes to show that the computer science students at Chico are some of the brightest and most intelligent around. I actully worked for the computer service department at Chico state and was impressed by the ingenuity and aptitude of the students to find holes/exploits in campus system. During my short time I had witnessed several attacks on system, most of which were successful. I was also impressed by the amount of technology that csu Chico presents to it students.

As for the food service and housing computer being hijacked this is obviously a student who lived in the dorm and figured out how to distributed software to his fellow students. I do not believe that his/her intentions were negative other then gaining free access to high speed connections which existed on the university network.

I received my letter from csu, chico yesterday informing me of the exploit. You can also view this site if you wish to read more into the problem and what csu, chico is doing to prevent further attacks.

Link to information resources computer security incident
CSU CHICO Computer Administration Offices

CSU CHICO IS AN AWESOME SCHOOL AND I WOULD NOT HAVE CHOSSEN TO GO ANYWHERE ELSE AS I HAD MANY OTHER OPTIONS

IF YOU CAN MAKE IT IN CHICO YOU CAN MAKE IT ANYWHERE WE STUDY HARD AND KNOW HOW TO HAVE FUN..

I think people are jealous of what they missed out on when you hear negative comments about chico...

Walk around the campus and you will understand that CSU CHICO is by far one of the finest universities on the west coast!

For several years, Hewlett-Packard has hired more graduates from CSU, Chico's Computer Science Department than from any other CS department in the country. In US News and World Report, CSU, Chico continues to rank in the top 5 public regional universities in the West.

I had recently graduated from Chico state 2002 with a degree in computer science option math/physics and minor in math. I have since go on to complete my master's degree in computer science and was duely prepared from my CSU Chico education. i.e. my gpa for master program is 3.9 and I have had to study very little as my undergrad work has prepared me for both work and future study. I often have found my UC master classes are recovering topics that were detailed in my CSU undergrad classes

While Chico State is know for its parties and good times it also has some of the finest professors and staff in the California state university system. Many professionals educators are attracted to chico as it offers a slower pace of live and a focus on education that is not found in other settings. Personally I was able to communicate with each of my professor an a daily basis. I could visit their office hours or they would be more than willing to answer my questions after lecture. I know you don't get this attention at a larger more prestigous universtity..

As for the Food service computer exploit. This goes to show that the computer science students at Chico are some of the brightest and most intelligent around. I actully worked for the computer service department at Chico state and was impressed by the ingenuity and aptitude of the students to find holes/exploits in campus system. During my short time I had witnessed several attacks on system, most of which were successful. I was also impressed by the amount of technology that csu Chico presents to it students.

As for the food service and housing computer being hijacked this is obviously a student who lived in the dorm and figured out how to distributed software to his fellow students. I do not believe that his/her intentions were negative other then gaining free access to high speed connections which existed on the university network.

I received my letter from csu, chico yesterday informing me of the exploit. You can also view this site if you wish to read more into the problem and what csu, chico is doing to prevent further attacks.

Link to information resources computer security incident
CSU CHICO Computer Administration Offices

CSU CHICO IS AN AWESOME SCHOOL AND I WOULD NOT HAVE CHOSSEN TO GO ANYWHERE ELSE AS I HAD MANY OTHER OPTIONS

IF YOU CAN MAKE IT IN CHICO YOU CAN MAKE IT ANYWHERE WE STUDY HARD AND KNOW HOW TO HAVE FUN..

I think people are jealous of what they missed out on when you hear negative comments about chico...

Walk around the campus and you will understand that CSU CHICO is by far one of the finest universities on the west coast!

You think you're joking, but you're not.

A friend of mine made that. I don't know if it actually still works, but there you go.

That was the first question I asked a buddy of mine when he made note of this when it first came out on March 15. His wife's (then financee's) info was compromised, even though she'd graduated from there a couple of years earlier.
From the sound of it, they got used as a dump site.
Sounds like someone needs to be fired.

Perhaps it's because they don't have anything under /inf/new/security/

It's just a guess though

It's still a good place for education as long as there are enough of chicks with no pants

I just don't think I could do lutefisk...

I wholeheartedly agree with your post, but would like to point out that one can still be (and effectively advertise being) quite flexible without a degree. See my resume (slightly outdated).

I've worked hard to keep my skillset limber -- I work a variety of positions inside every company that I'm at, and do assorted side projects (in my copious spare time) as well. Consequently, I'm the guy who knows a little bit of everything -- respected by the suits as a source of technical advice and considered handy to have around by the more specialized tech staff. Makes the job interesting, too.

For one thing, food. I'm a foodie and I love variety. In addition to burgers and sandwiches, I am walking distance from Philippine, Indian, Mexican, Vietnamese, Chinese, Japanese, Italian, and even Armenian food. If I want to cook something, I'm less than 10 minutes from Chinese, Mexican, Korean, and Indian supermarkets, as well as a couple of American ones and a fresh-produce store that acts as kind of a permanent farmer's market. Can I get a reliable supply of sumac or fenugreek, a durian, or fresh kaffir lime leaves in rural America?

When a friend of mine who was going to grad school in Indiana came back here, the first thing she did was force me to take her out to eat because she hadn't been able to find Thai food for six months.

A lot of midsize towns and cities have cineplexes and shopping malls. Catching "Revenge of the Sith" will be no problem anywhere in the country. But I also like to go see more obscure stuff like "Primer" -- hard enough to find even in a big city with lots of art houses. Short of waiting for the DVDs or pirating them over the Internet, I doubt I'd be able to find most of the cult films I've seen in nearby theaters if I lived in a rural area. (One theater in San Jose used to show Hong Kong action films and anime every Tuesday night, though it has since changed owners and now shows Bollywood musicals.)

For exercise and socializing, I enjoy ballroom dance (the competition-style variety, more like figure skating than like Grandma and Grandpa at your sister's wedding). I am walking distance from a giant ballroom studio that gets a crowd of several hundred people four nights a week, and on any given Saturday night I'm twenty minutes' drive from at least four other ballroom venues, not to mention more salsa clubs than I can count.

I like meeting people with all sorts of different backgrounds, and this area gives me that in spades. There is no ethnic majority in San Jose. Three of my last four girlfriends grew up in foreign countries (China, Australia, and Vietnam) which suits me fine -- I like hearing a completely different perspective on things I find familiar and commonplace. There are certainly immigrant communities elsewhere in the US, but only on the coasts, and pretty much only in the major urban areas on the coasts, do you find such a varied mix of people from all over the place, all getting along just fine most of the time.

Yes, the traffic here can be annoying. But that's why we have telecommuting -- I work from home three out of five days most weeks, so my typical commute time is the 10 seconds it takes me to get from my bedroom to my home office.

The economy here would have to get really bad before I'd consider moving back to a rural area. Urban areas with their melting-pot cultures and abundance of activities that are only economically viable with a certain population density suit me much, much better.

...is Core Wars a programmer's battle game, or an automatic glitch-art generator?

It's fun to watch memory.

here is a link to a small survey on usage in K-12 schools, which is notably not the public but it does give some numbers for academia.

Hey! Don't laugh its a start damn it...grumble grumble

If true, it would not be the first time -- by a long shot -- that the strange behavior of spinning objects caused trouble for a spacecraft. Some of the early three-axis-stabilized satellites were made into inadvertent spinners after their launch stabilization spin made them flip upside down (so that their de-spin rockets made them go faster instead of slowing them down!). SOHO was nearly lost in 1998, in part because rotational precession rotated the craft so that the solar panels were in long-term twilight.

Here's hoping there's something left for the team to analyze. Three years in space plus ten years of planning and lobbying is a long time to wait.

There was also a bloom at CSU Chico a few weeks ago

Have you heard of light and sound machines? They use flashing LEDs and pulsing sounds or binaural beats to induce certain brainwave frequencies through something called the frequency following effect. I can even recall seeing one of these machines on the net that actually used a mild electrical charge pulsing at these frequencies as well.

Another thing you ought to know about lucid dreaming is that text in dreams does not stay constant. While you're dreaming, if you read anything then read it again a second time, it will change. The sleeping mind doesn't have the external stimuli to keep the dream imagery constant.

Psychologists didn't believe that it was possible that people could be conscious while dreaming. However some sleep researchers found out that wherever your eyes are looking at in a dream is where your eyes are facing in REM. They found one subject with a constant pattern in his REM activity- his eyes kept moving from side to side- while he dreamt of watching a Ping-Pong game. Sleep researchers used this to prove lucid dreaming exists. They got subjects to perform a pattern of eye movements when they achieved lucidity while dreaming, which they recorded with polygraphs so they had actual evidence.

I'm curious to know if anyone out there has any experience with enhancing the ability to have lucid dreams. I actually have a NovaDreamer, but the thing just wakes me up. And I'd like to know what these "computerized dream-inducers" mentioned in the article are. Could it be this? I heard that taking the nutritional supplement 5HTP enhances dreaming, but I've never tried it. I've tried Melatonin, but that doesn't seem to affect me.

But...I've been ordering pizza over the net for years! Just use the Internet Pizza Server! http://www.ecst.csuchico.edu/~pizza/ As an added bonus, read up on their discussion of Domino's Pizza vs. Armor Plating: http://www.ecst.csuchico.edu/~pizza/pizzaburn.html

But...I've been ordering pizza over the net for years! Just use the Internet Pizza Server! http://www.ecst.csuchico.edu/~pizza/ As an added bonus, read up on their discussion of Domino's Pizza vs. Armor Plating: http://www.ecst.csuchico.edu/~pizza/pizzaburn.html

I just created such a list last week in anticipation of an OS reload: http://web.csuchico.edu/~ka58/software.htm

My friends and I at the university create a beowulf cluster as a project for our Linux class, (just installing software, nothing impressive really, basic system administration) and benchmarked it (24 P200s 32MB ram each 10baseT network) against a reasonably fast computer running the non-parallel version of the same code... (HP C station) and ours finished faster, with the overhead of networking! as to being "a loose collection of unmanaged, individual" We managed it pretty tightly, using nfs to provide the binaries that would be used, thought we did not use NFS for the root partition, as this would put to much stress on our poor fileserving node. If I remember properly, we used dist for password files, and aside from pushing the power switches, we could manage everything in the room without leaving our seats (24 computers running 'xlock -mode matrix" hehe).

Basicly, I disagree with Dr. Terry.
our project writeup is here.
(Please forgive any mistakes or stupiness therein, we were 15, 15, and a 30something non-geek at the time.)

besh-lo (iron fish): submarine
dah-he-tih-hi (hummingbird): fighter plane
atsah-besh-le-gai (silver eagle): colonel
tsidi-ney-ye-hi (bird carrier): aircraft carrier

(laxative medicine): hotfix
(soccer ball): support request
(durian): in-house helpdesk staff
(mongoose trap): upgrade program
(Jesuit missionary): Microsoft Sales

That's my major at CSU Chico. It does involve a lot of coding, BUT it requires almost no math or science classes.

= 9J =

"There are probably people in Norway who believe things that would disgust you as well as me,"

Fuckin' OATH!

There are Norwegians that believe lutefisk is a foodstuff!

then the design is flawed. The network model should be paranoid and should hide data. Having the source available should only tell you exactly what it is that you can't exploit.

Dear god, open source games developers have known this for years. Netrek figured it out in 1988! Why do commercial games developers insist on re-inventing the wheel and making the same mistakes over and over?

But where do you stop with pi how many extra decimal places are there to use.

I prefer 22/7 for pi but it still isn't really pi.

Can you give me something to really use or just another approximation.

So you have to go back to significant digits and in some cases 3 is an ok number for pi. Though not in much maths I do.

Though I don't use this for pi. As that degree of accuracy is not needed.

Oh it all to confusing I don't want to use 3 and and don't want to use 1000 so I will use 1024 for K in computers 1000 everywhere else but please tell me what to use for pi.

Microsoft has hated it forever. For much the same reasons movie makers and other large advertisers of shoddy junk hate information exchange. Large forums, such as TV/Radio, Slashdot, your local, state and federal governments can be astroturfed. Micorsoft's problem with smaller groups, like your local lug, is that they can't spam them all. They don't have the resources and never will to create trused users in all of those groups. So long as reliable search engines exist, we will all continue to enjoy honest information from impartial sources.

Marc Smith's efforts represent Microsoft's response to such groups. Efforts to "add core value" and rank newsgroups from a company that's proved it's willingness to lie to the public should not be trusted. Poor Marc has been at this for four years, but Microsoft's search engine, mail client and web browser all still blow. What I imagine M$ will do is start steering users of their OS to M$ friendly newsgroups. They will also try to destroy the structure of newsgroups themselves and limit who can run them and focus harrasment on groups unfavorable to them. They won't win but they will try. They have already forced most large ISPs to block ports on cable modems and DSL so that the average person has a hard time serving information. The push for control of information is ongoing.

Rather crude, but highly effective.

I'm getting a $2000 stipend from my university to work on my project this summer. All I had to do was write a proposal. I also entered the project to a student research competition and got $200 in prize money ($200 for a 5 page paper and two 10 minute presentations isn't that bad -would've been $500 if I'd gotten 1st place though). Apart from that, I got a $1000 "donation" to add a new feature, about $200 worth in contract work related to the project, and $40 in user donations. On the other hand, I lost a bunch of money through the cafepress shop (see sig).

But this fall, I'll be transferring to a university that's going to cost me a shi*t load of money, and it's going to be difficult for me to justify spending the usual 15-40 hours/week on the project, without some kind of serious funding (which I doubt I'll find).

Well, if you're into regular old corewars, (and if the site ever comes back up) you might look here. They were/are doing just that w/ the old corewars mars code.

Lutefisk is mostly Norwegian.

It is, however, possible to order lutefisk online. Also, there is apparently an annual lutefisk eating contest near Seattle, WA.

California State University Chico has an excellent Underwater Basket Weaving Program.

You'll see that masquerading for some protocols are not ported to iptables

Of course, some purist will tell you that IP masquerading is not security, but other purist will tell you that statefull packet inspection is not kosher eather.

Who is a purist anyway ?

This reminds me of the Star Trek courses that several colleges have had over the years. What a laugh riot. One syllabus I saw was basically watching 3 select star trek episodes a week, discussing them in class, and writing 5 papers analyzing them over the course of the semester. But still, that would be a great way to fulfill a GenEd humanities requirement or whatnot.

I use a couple different databases for my hosts file, and I have disabled flash and javascript, only turning them on when I'm at a site that A) requires them, and B) I'm really really interested in.

Voila, I may get 5 ads a day through servers not yet in my hosts file, and they get added immediately.

There are ways to take back your internet experience.