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If "large organization" means a publicly listed company or subsidiary then you may want to draw your management's attention to SOX data retention requirements, and the potential criminal penalties for data destruction.

Some links:
- http://digg.com/security/E_Mail_Retention_Sarbanes_Oxley_White_Paper
- http://www.creditworthy.com/3jm/articles/cw90507.html
- http://www.soxfirst.com/50226711/email_retention_the_legal_chernobyl.php

Even if you don't have to be SOX compliant there are various other laws and precedents (see the last link) that should make you want to KEEP e-mail records rather than destroying them, unless you are actively and purposefully involved in criminal activity.

at the horribly slow speed these connections are going ...
http://digg.com/olympics/Slow_internet_major_problem_at_Olympics ) ...this is costing me about $3.50 to post this message

I call bullshit on this.

The cable companies allow access to their networks based on MAC. What you are doing is possible, but you would need to call comcast and tell them that you got a new modem every time, which would look extremely suspicious. MAC addresses are also not random. So you cannot spoof it to a "random" MAC.
Your post also lacks continuity. You say that they start dropping "30-80%" of your packets every "5-10 minutes". But you also say that you only need to reset your MAC every 2 days?

please go Home

Or alternately, call Apple stores asking when they can pre-order Battletoads for the Mac.

> making Linux happy means not passing WHQL

This is the filthy and perfidious solution for Bill Gates' problem that he couldn't patent ACPI

anyone can read it here

http://digg.com/linux_unix/Newly_leaked_Antitrust_Memo_Bill_Gates_on_Making_ACPI_Not_Work_with_Linux

So BG couldn't patent ACPI for legal reasons so they invent this sneaky trick by implement ACPI in a non standard closed way. Additionally hardware vendors have to explicitly corrupt the DSDT tables to get the WHQL logo. Any OS which depends on standard ACPI is locked out.

This is one of the dirtiest tricks* of Microsoft and it's illegal in my opinion.

*i fear there are some more disgusting ones we don't know yet.

Here is most of the original article.
The pesky junk filter meant I had to snip some of the code out - sorry.
Posting AC for the usual reason(s).

Foxconn deliberately sabotaging their BIOS to destroy Linux ACPI
Edit: Please tell Foxconn what you think of their behavior:

http://www.foxconnchannel.com/support/online.aspx

You need to put in an email, and then it will bring up a form, choose Complain/Suggest.

Edit: Welcome Digg, Reddit, and Slashdot.

http://digg.com/linux_unix/Foxconn_d..._destroy_Linux
http://www.reddit.com/comments/6tcv8...their_bios_to/
(Will add Slashdot when I know the final URL)
------------
I disassembled my BIOS to have a look around, and while I won't post the results here,I'll tell you what I did find.

They have several different tables, a group for Windws XP and Vista, a group for 2000, a group for NT, Me, 95, 98, etc. that just errors out, and one for LINUX.

The one for Linux points to a badly written table that does not correspond to the board's ACPI implementation, causing weird kernel errors, strange system freezing, no suspend or hibernate, and other problems, using my modifications below, I've gotten it down to just crashing on the next reboot after having suspended, the horrible thing about disassembling any program is that you have no commenting, so it's hard to tell which does what, but I'll be damned if I'm going to buy a copy of Vista just to get the crashing caused by Foxconn's BIOS to stop, I am not going to be terrorized.

-----
How to fix:

Get Intel's BIOS ACPI source compiler:

sudo apt-get install iasl

Dump your DSDT table:

sudo cat /sys/firmware/acpi/tables/DSDT > dsdt.dat

Disassemble it:

iasl -d dsdt.dat

Open it in Gedit:

gedit dsdt.dsl

Fix Foxconn sabotage:

Find, the section that starts out with

Code:

If (_OSI ("Windows 2000"))
{
Store (0x04, OSVR)
}

Go down til you get to the first

Code:

}
Else
{

Past that you should see Linux alongside Windows NT, which is above another Else that leads to Windows Me.

Should look like:

Code:

If (MCTH (_OS, "Linux"))

{
Store (0x3, OSVR)
}

Change it to:
Code:

If (_OSI ("Linux"))
{
Store (Zero, OSVR)
}

Copy the section, and remove it and the other characters (CAREFULLY PRESERVING SYNTAX!!!!)

Then move the Linux section to right underneath Windows 2006 section.

_Code removed to get past junk filter_

So there you have it!

Off-topic, but it's McCain who is going senile apparently!

Check this amazing video. Flip-flop is an understatement..

http://digg.com/2008_us_elections/Devastating_New_YouTube_Video_John_McCain_s_Neverending_War_2

Envision your own car putting you in jail.
(hint: disable OnStar, Blackbox, Bluetooth ...)
Since EVERYTHING else is bugged why stop there.

http://www.buzzflash.com/farrell/06/02/far06001.html

The Secrets of Microsoft's Sync:
(a previous comment)

[PLAY] Funeral For A Friend - Elton John

http://digg.com/microsoft/The_Secrets_of_Microsoft_s_Sync?t=13126894#c13126894

Actually, it's a known fact that they use Windows.

Thats a little like Digg: http://digg.com/

This is why we've spent billions (trillions?) fighting a war on "terror,"

Not true. The billions have been spent because of U.S. government corruption. The U.S. government is being guided to do exactly what weapons and oil investors want.

Here is some information copied from numerous places:

There is evidence that whoever controls the U.S. government is planning to declare martial law. That's a top-rated story on Digg.com.

Search for "martial law" on digg.com or reddit.com. There are hundreds of links.

Cheney's company Halliburton is building prisons. There has never been an adequate explanation why. Do a Google search.

The U.S. House of Representatives Homeland Security committee is not allowed to see the martial law plan.

According to the New Yorker Magazine, the Bush administration has already started another war in Iran. See President George W Bush backs Israeli plan for strike on Iran.

Bush and Cheney and their friends and families and associates are oil and weapons investors. Weapons investors want war all the time. Oil investors want to restrict the supply of oil, so that the price will rise.

The war with Iran has the same purpose as the war in Iraq. It will allow whoever controls the U.S. government to restrict the flow of oil even more, making the price go even higher.

The war with Iran is extremely unpopular with U.S. citizens. It is said that whoever is doing the planning will do terrorist acts in the U.S. and blame them on Iranians. That will allow the declaration of martial law. It is said that the planners have put a lot of time into passing laws that allow them to have more control and that they will not allow Barack Obama to become president because he would undo their work.

The U.S. government has manipulated the facts in other cases so that it will be allowed to start a war. One example is the Gulf of Tonkin Incident. "In truth, Hanoi's navy was engaged in nothing that night but the salvage of two of the boats damaged on 2 August."

This is why we've spent billions (trillions?) fighting a war on "terror,"

Not true. The billions have been spent because of U.S. government corruption. The U.S. government is being guided to do exactly what weapons and oil investors want.

Here is some information copied from numerous places:

There is evidence that whoever controls the U.S. government is planning to declare martial law. That's a top-rated story on Digg.com.

Search for "martial law" on digg.com or reddit.com. There are hundreds of links.

Cheney's company Halliburton is building prisons. There has never been an adequate explanation why. Do a Google search.

The U.S. House of Representatives Homeland Security committee is not allowed to see the martial law plan.

According to the New Yorker Magazine, the Bush administration has already started another war in Iran. See President George W Bush backs Israeli plan for strike on Iran.

Bush and Cheney and their friends and families and associates are oil and weapons investors. Weapons investors want war all the time. Oil investors want to restrict the supply of oil, so that the price will rise.

The war with Iran has the same purpose as the war in Iraq. It will allow whoever controls the U.S. government to restrict the flow of oil even more, making the price go even higher.

The war with Iran is extremely unpopular with U.S. citizens. It is said that whoever is doing the planning will do terrorist acts in the U.S. and blame them on Iranians. That will allow the declaration of martial law. It is said that the planners have put a lot of time into passing laws that allow them to have more control and that they will not allow Barack Obama to become president because he would undo their work.

The U.S. government has manipulated the facts in other cases so that it will be allowed to start a war. One example is the Gulf of Tonkin Incident. "In truth, Hanoi's navy was engaged in nothing that night but the salvage of two of the boats damaged on 2 August."

This is why we've spent billions (trillions?) fighting a war on "terror,"

Not true. The billions have been spent because of U.S. government corruption. The U.S. government is being guided to do exactly what weapons and oil investors want.

Here is some information copied from numerous places:

There is evidence that whoever controls the U.S. government is planning to declare martial law. That's a top-rated story on Digg.com.

Search for "martial law" on digg.com or reddit.com. There are hundreds of links.

Cheney's company Halliburton is building prisons. There has never been an adequate explanation why. Do a Google search.

The U.S. House of Representatives Homeland Security committee is not allowed to see the martial law plan.

According to the New Yorker Magazine, the Bush administration has already started another war in Iran. See President George W Bush backs Israeli plan for strike on Iran.

Bush and Cheney and their friends and families and associates are oil and weapons investors. Weapons investors want war all the time. Oil investors want to restrict the supply of oil, so that the price will rise.

The war with Iran has the same purpose as the war in Iraq. It will allow whoever controls the U.S. government to restrict the flow of oil even more, making the price go even higher.

The war with Iran is extremely unpopular with U.S. citizens. It is said that whoever is doing the planning will do terrorist acts in the U.S. and blame them on Iranians. That will allow the declaration of martial law. It is said that the planners have put a lot of time into passing laws that allow them to have more control and that they will not allow Barack Obama to become president because he would undo their work.

The U.S. government has manipulated the facts in other cases so that it will be allowed to start a war. One example is the Gulf of Tonkin Incident. "In truth, Hanoi's navy was engaged in nothing that night but the salvage of two of the boats damaged on 2 August."

our failed government institution

It has not failed. It is succeeding in doing exactly what weapons and oil investors want.

Here is some information collected from numerous places:

There is evidence that whoever controls the U.S. government is planning to declare martial law. That's a top-rated story on Digg.com.

Search for "martial law" on digg.com or reddit.com. There are hundreds of links.

Cheney's company Halliburton is building prisons. There has never been an adequate explanation why. Do a Google search.

The U.S. House of Representatives Homeland Security committee is not allowed to see the martial law plan.

According to the New Yorker Magazine, the Bush administration has already started another war in Iran. See President George W Bush backs Israeli plan for strike on Iran.

Bush and Cheney and their friends and families and associates are oil and weapons investors. Weapons investors want war all the time. Oil investors want to restrict the supply of oil, so that the price will rise.

The war with Iran has the same purpose as the war in Iraq. It will allow whoever controls the U.S. government to restrict the flow of oil even more, making the price go even higher.

The war with Iran is extremely unpopular with U.S. citizens. It is said that whoever is doing the planning will do terrorist acts in the U.S. and blame them on Iranians. That will allow the declaration of martial law. It is said that the planners have put a lot of time into passing laws that allow them to have more control and that they will not allow Barack Obama to become president because he would undo their work.

The U.S. government has manipulated the facts in other cases so that it will be allowed to start a war. One example is the Gulf of Tonkin Incident. "In truth, Hanoi's navy was engaged in nothing that night but the salvage of two of the boats damaged on 2 August."

our failed government institution

It has not failed. It is succeeding in doing exactly what weapons and oil investors want.

Here is some information collected from numerous places:

There is evidence that whoever controls the U.S. government is planning to declare martial law. That's a top-rated story on Digg.com.

Search for "martial law" on digg.com or reddit.com. There are hundreds of links.

Cheney's company Halliburton is building prisons. There has never been an adequate explanation why. Do a Google search.

The U.S. House of Representatives Homeland Security committee is not allowed to see the martial law plan.

According to the New Yorker Magazine, the Bush administration has already started another war in Iran. See President George W Bush backs Israeli plan for strike on Iran.

Bush and Cheney and their friends and families and associates are oil and weapons investors. Weapons investors want war all the time. Oil investors want to restrict the supply of oil, so that the price will rise.

The war with Iran has the same purpose as the war in Iraq. It will allow whoever controls the U.S. government to restrict the flow of oil even more, making the price go even higher.

The war with Iran is extremely unpopular with U.S. citizens. It is said that whoever is doing the planning will do terrorist acts in the U.S. and blame them on Iranians. That will allow the declaration of martial law. It is said that the planners have put a lot of time into passing laws that allow them to have more control and that they will not allow Barack Obama to become president because he would undo their work.

The U.S. government has manipulated the facts in other cases so that it will be allowed to start a war. One example is the Gulf of Tonkin Incident. "In truth, Hanoi's navy was engaged in nothing that night but the salvage of two of the boats damaged on 2 August."

our failed government institution

It has not failed. It is succeeding in doing exactly what weapons and oil investors want.

Here is some information collected from numerous places:

There is evidence that whoever controls the U.S. government is planning to declare martial law. That's a top-rated story on Digg.com.

Search for "martial law" on digg.com or reddit.com. There are hundreds of links.

Cheney's company Halliburton is building prisons. There has never been an adequate explanation why. Do a Google search.

The U.S. House of Representatives Homeland Security committee is not allowed to see the martial law plan.

According to the New Yorker Magazine, the Bush administration has already started another war in Iran. See President George W Bush backs Israeli plan for strike on Iran.

Bush and Cheney and their friends and families and associates are oil and weapons investors. Weapons investors want war all the time. Oil investors want to restrict the supply of oil, so that the price will rise.

The war with Iran has the same purpose as the war in Iraq. It will allow whoever controls the U.S. government to restrict the flow of oil even more, making the price go even higher.

The war with Iran is extremely unpopular with U.S. citizens. It is said that whoever is doing the planning will do terrorist acts in the U.S. and blame them on Iranians. That will allow the declaration of martial law. It is said that the planners have put a lot of time into passing laws that allow them to have more control and that they will not allow Barack Obama to become president because he would undo their work.

The U.S. government has manipulated the facts in other cases so that it will be allowed to start a war. One example is the Gulf of Tonkin Incident. "In truth, Hanoi's navy was engaged in nothing that night but the salvage of two of the boats damaged on 2 August."

Actually, it is a LOT worse than you say.

Here is some information collected from numerous places:

There is evidence that whoever controls the U.S. government is planning to declare martial law. That's a top-rated story on Digg.com.

Search for "martial law" on digg.com or reddit.com. There are hundreds of links.

Cheney's company Halliburton is building prisons. There has never been an adequate explanation why. Do a Google search.

The U.S. House of Representatives Homeland Security committee is not allowed to see the martial law plan.

According to the New Yorker Magazine, the Bush administration has already started another war in Iran. See President George W Bush backs Israeli plan for strike on Iran.

Bush and Cheney and their friends and families and associates are oil and weapons investors. Weapons investors want war all the time. Oil investors want to restrict the supply of oil, so that the price will rise.

The war with Iran has the same purpose as the war in Iraq. It will allow whoever controls the U.S. government to restrict the flow of oil even more, making the price go even higher.

The war with Iran is extremely unpopular with U.S. citizens. It is said that whoever is doing the planning will do terrorist acts in the U.S. and blame them on Iranians. That will allow the declaration of martial law. It is said that the planners have put a lot of time into passing laws that allow them to have more control and that they will not allow Barack Obama to become president because he would undo their work.

The U.S. government has manipulated the facts in other cases so that it will be allowed to start a war. One example is the Gulf of Tonkin Incident. "In truth, Hanoi's navy was engaged in nothing that night but the salvage of two of the boats damaged on 2 August."

Actually, it is a LOT worse than you say.

Here is some information collected from numerous places:

There is evidence that whoever controls the U.S. government is planning to declare martial law. That's a top-rated story on Digg.com.

Search for "martial law" on digg.com or reddit.com. There are hundreds of links.

Cheney's company Halliburton is building prisons. There has never been an adequate explanation why. Do a Google search.

The U.S. House of Representatives Homeland Security committee is not allowed to see the martial law plan.

According to the New Yorker Magazine, the Bush administration has already started another war in Iran. See President George W Bush backs Israeli plan for strike on Iran.

Bush and Cheney and their friends and families and associates are oil and weapons investors. Weapons investors want war all the time. Oil investors want to restrict the supply of oil, so that the price will rise.

The war with Iran has the same purpose as the war in Iraq. It will allow whoever controls the U.S. government to restrict the flow of oil even more, making the price go even higher.

The war with Iran is extremely unpopular with U.S. citizens. It is said that whoever is doing the planning will do terrorist acts in the U.S. and blame them on Iranians. That will allow the declaration of martial law. It is said that the planners have put a lot of time into passing laws that allow them to have more control and that they will not allow Barack Obama to become president because he would undo their work.

The U.S. government has manipulated the facts in other cases so that it will be allowed to start a war. One example is the Gulf of Tonkin Incident. "In truth, Hanoi's navy was engaged in nothing that night but the salvage of two of the boats damaged on 2 August."

Actually, it is a LOT worse than you say.

Here is some information collected from numerous places:

There is evidence that whoever controls the U.S. government is planning to declare martial law. That's a top-rated story on Digg.com.

Search for "martial law" on digg.com or reddit.com. There are hundreds of links.

Cheney's company Halliburton is building prisons. There has never been an adequate explanation why. Do a Google search.

The U.S. House of Representatives Homeland Security committee is not allowed to see the martial law plan.

According to the New Yorker Magazine, the Bush administration has already started another war in Iran. See President George W Bush backs Israeli plan for strike on Iran.

Bush and Cheney and their friends and families and associates are oil and weapons investors. Weapons investors want war all the time. Oil investors want to restrict the supply of oil, so that the price will rise.

The war with Iran has the same purpose as the war in Iraq. It will allow whoever controls the U.S. government to restrict the flow of oil even more, making the price go even higher.

The war with Iran is extremely unpopular with U.S. citizens. It is said that whoever is doing the planning will do terrorist acts in the U.S. and blame them on Iranians. That will allow the declaration of martial law. It is said that the planners have put a lot of time into passing laws that allow them to have more control and that they will not allow Barack Obama to become president because he would undo their work.

The U.S. government has manipulated the facts in other cases so that it will be allowed to start a war. One example is the Gulf of Tonkin Incident. "In truth, Hanoi's navy was engaged in nothing that night but the salvage of two of the boats damaged on 2 August."

Anyone who has had to switch from reading printed text to a white on black screen over and over again would appreciate the consistency.

"Anyone" huh? So what now I'm a nobody? There are plenty of people out there that go to great lengths to switch back to a black background. Take a look at the VIM colour schemes people create.

This implies that if it costs were equal to print white on black, that would be the overwhelming majority preference. Substantiation?

Historically to print something white on black you'd need to use all your ink turning the rest of the paper black. Even if you could start with black paper so you didn't have to print the negative image, you'd still need to find a dye or ink that'd work well and be available in quantity. Neither black white ink nor black paper were easy to come by a hundred or so years ago, let alone when books were first written or when the printing press became common. I'm not sure what you're looking for in substantiation.

Don't be lazy. You can do better than that. Cite at least one valid advantage of white on black and substantiate it

Fuck off. Cite your own sources before accusing others of being lazy for not doing so. Hypocrite. This is slashdot, not a thesis defence.

Looking foolish is taking something personally that wasn't meant to be.

Oh gimme a break and stop being so dishonest. You can't get more personal that suggesting tht someone is happy with an inferior solution because they're a basement dweller with no social skills.

Your condescension would be far more effective if you actually substantiated any of these "facts" you cite, instead of acting as if they should be obvious to the entire universe.

Go ahead, prove me wrong. I'm waiting.

I'll start citing references to counter your trolling, when you find me references to substantiate what you're saying. Why should I spend the time and effort digging up references for you? Go Google it if you think it's worth your time

I'll tell you what. Here's just one. Count the number of dark colour schemes.
http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~maverick/VimColorSchemeTest/index-pl.html

Here's another discussion where others prefer light on dark colours. It's on Digg so it should be right at your level. That at least makes you a liar for suggesting I'm alone.
http://digg.com/design/Light_text_on_dark_background_vs_readability

If it gives you such pleasure being a childish troll, I pity you.

Not only that, but he even finished with a one-sentence paragraph --
"Finding the distribution of prime numbers has epic consequences, like breaking most encryption, for starters."
-- for the Digg crowd: It's short and you can understand it without straining your brain, but alludes to so much more("for starters") and even includes the word "epic"! You know it's true, that **** would get +423 diggs.

http://digg.com/tech_news/GoDaddy_Executives_Bid_Against_Own_Customers_Auctions

Vista sucks donkey balls. [edit] ...But Vista sucks.

Where you trying to post elsewhere?

You don't want Slashdot to turn into Digg .

What you gonna do about it?

The New, Updated, Republican - Democrat House Political Hit List:

http://digg.com/political_opinion/Bush_Dog_Opposites_Those_Who_Got_it_Right

I read a whole bunch, but the best/most useful are:

Digg: Sure, the commentary here is better, but it's nice to know what the Obamanation thinks of the latest political scandals.
Ars Technica: They've got good articles on various technical issues. Relatively low-volume.
Boing Boing: Quirky news, with a slant towards privacy concerns, steampunk, and general weirdness.
Wired's Threat Level: Alerts on various privacy issues, as well as other things the government is doing that you don't want them to be.

There should be a +10 funny mod rating for comments like that! Anyway isn't "UK car industry" an oxomoron?

Still I find it kinda ironic considering the UK car show Top Gear is popular with the global pirates. Mind you back on topic I also thought it was very ironic to see this BBC article a few days ago (slashdot always current...) after also reading about those thieving muppets: Steve Bovis, Tim Croucher and Laurence Francis who stole a few bits for the lame: limbo of the lost.

Mind you they are now apparently denying it... yeah right. oh yeah "lame" wasn't a typo on game. Maybe they should be called Loders as in "free loaders" rather than coders which clearly they are not. Fortunately there is still real talent CURRENTLY in the UK.

according to the article, that makes you a woman. whay you reading slashdot, did they block access to facebook at your work?
(ducks)

It's at Wikileaks:
http://digg.com/business_finance/EFF_caught_in_using_immunity_to_support_trafficking

My son sure as shit won't be available for ass-fodder but I am sure you can find someone more enlightened than I to allow his 13-17 year old son to go. The chosen age group of the homosexual, er pedophile, Catholic priests. There is a reason why single men, hell even married men, do not act as troup leaders for the GSA.

Same reason goes for gay men.

http://digg.com/people/Anti_Gay_Boy_Scout_Leader_Arrested_For_Molesting_Boys_3

posted anonymously to avoid the wrath of the tolerant, free-speech supporting homosexuals who post at /.

No mention of a cake this time? http://digg.com/software/Microsoft_sends_congratulation_cake_to_Mozilla

He would do the blogging himself but his wife doesn't have the time to help him with the puter. McCainlol

A lot of people are saying that those who control the U.S. government, obviously oil and weapons investors, are planning another terrorist attack on the U.S.*, which they will use to justify an attack on Iran so that there can be even greater control over oil supplies to make the price rise further.

*Buildings do not fall symmetrically into dust and small pieces, even if there is destruction at the top. The destruction of the World Trade Center was a controlled demolition.

There is a lot of evidence that whoever controls the U.S. government is planning to declare martial law. It's a top-rated story on Digg.com.

Search for "martial law" on digg.com or reddit.com. There are hundreds of links.

A lot of people are saying that those who control the U.S. government, obviously oil and weapons investors, are planning another terrorist attack on the U.S.*, which they will use to justify an attack on Iran so that there can be even greater control over oil supplies to make the price rise further.

*Buildings do not fall symmetrically into dust and small pieces, even if there is destruction at the top. The destruction of the World Trade Center was a controlled demolition.

There is a lot of evidence that whoever controls the U.S. government is planning to declare martial law. It's a top-rated story on Digg.com.

Search for "martial law" on digg.com or reddit.com. There are hundreds of links.

Perhaps those who control the U.S. government, obviously oil and weapons investors, are planning another terrorist attack on the U.S.*, which it will use to justify an attack on Iran so that there can be greater control over oil supplies to make the price rise.

*Buildings do not fall symmetrically into dust and small pieces, even if there is destruction at the top. The destruction of the World Trade Center was a controlled demolition.

There is a lot of evidence that whoever controls the U.S. government is planning to declare martial law. It's a top-rated story on Digg.com.

Search for "martial law" on digg.com or reddit.com. There are hundreds of links.

Perhaps those who control the U.S. government, obviously oil and weapons investors, are planning another terrorist attack on the U.S.*, which it will use to justify an attack on Iran so that there can be greater control over oil supplies to make the price rise.

*Buildings do not fall symmetrically into dust and small pieces, even if there is destruction at the top. The destruction of the World Trade Center was a controlled demolition.

There is a lot of evidence that whoever controls the U.S. government is planning to declare martial law. It's a top-rated story on Digg.com.

Search for "martial law" on digg.com or reddit.com. There are hundreds of links.

I may be wrong,

but as far as I knew the only things that used/implemented it were vista related hardware

Maybe more people can shed the light. So yeah, enjoy vista and vista enabled.

A bedrock problem in astronomy is simply figuring out how far away things are. Practically everything else about an object â" its true size, its energy output â" all the stuff you have to know to understand it â" depends on simply knowing how far away it is. And even now, the poor quality of many astronomical distances remains a nagging problem.

[...]

Astronomers had estimated that the Antennae are 65 million light-years away. Now Hubble's analysis of red giants in an outlying patch brings them a lot closer, to 45 million light-years.

This matters. As a NASA / European Space Agency press release tells it:

"The previous larger distance required astronomers to invoke some quite exceptional physical characteristics to account for the spectacular system: very high star-formation rates, super-massive star clusters, ultra-luminous X-ray sources, etc. The new smaller distance makes the Antennae Galaxies less extreme in terms of the physics needed to explain the observed phenomena. For instance, with the smaller distance its infrared radiation is now that expected of a 'standard' early merging event, rather than that of an ultra-luminous infrared galaxy. The size of the star clusters formed as a consequence of the Antennae merger now agree with those of clusters created in other mergers, instead of being 1.5 times as large."

A bedrock problem in astronomy is simply figuring out how far away things are. Practically everything else about an object â" its true size, its energy output â" all the stuff you have to know to understand it â" depends on simply knowing how far away it is. And even now, the poor quality of many astronomical distances remains a nagging problem.

[...]

Astronomers had estimated that the Antennae are 65 million light-years away. Now Hubble's analysis of red giants in an outlying patch brings them a lot closer, to 45 million light-years.

This matters. As a NASA / European Space Agency press release tells it:

"The previous larger distance required astronomers to invoke some quite exceptional physical characteristics to account for the spectacular system: very high star-formation rates, super-massive star clusters, ultra-luminous X-ray sources, etc. The new smaller distance makes the Antennae Galaxies less extreme in terms of the physics needed to explain the observed phenomena. For instance, with the smaller distance its infrared radiation is now that expected of a 'standard' early merging event, rather than that of an ultra-luminous infrared galaxy. The size of the star clusters formed as a consequence of the Antennae merger now agree with those of clusters created in other mergers, instead of being 1.5 times as large."

There, they like the "Fuck the RIAA!" comments. Just saying.

Think. Stop.

It's more annoying than you might think. I've done it, all my friends have done it, my cousin's done it and our dog will be doing it soon.

Don't don't don't. It's a VASTLY under subscribed and overly competitive market. Once you think you're the best, and you're successful, you become too reliant on a core group of customers who won't last for ever.

There are reseller accounts available with lots of ISPs, but few are on a commission basis (ie: you're the one who has to cover your client's costs and invoice them). Flat fees are usually available to dedicated servers licensors @ £50/m+ - but the market is changing and I'm not at all surprised if they're cheaper.

Plesk - possibly the worst thing I've ever used. Convoluted backend I couldn't hack on to extend pop-before-smtp the way I wanted.
CPanel - the original but very costly 6 years ago when I last used it. Has some impressive addons
EnsimDirectAdmin - Not one I've used personally, but I hear its ok.
VHCS - Freeware. Never used it personally. But there are many OS projects and forks out there if you look hard enough ]

Cubepanel and BlueQuartz worth a mention.

Most of these project offer "lite" versions which are free for restricted personal use. The only major difference between the free and paid versions is that the latter has multi-user and reseller capabilities.

I'd recommending taking up a decent Linux or BSD distro with a proven track record of security fixes. "apt-get update" is sufficient for the home user, but realistically, you want to track purely security updates. Consider an enterprise OS (CentOS?!)

Matt

Orlando! This was in the news again recently. The Orlando Police Department were intimidating the members of Anonymous and as usual received a letter of thanks from the "Church" for their support.

Scientologists thanking Orlando Police
Intimidating protesters
Video of harassment

military-government-industrial complex

There is a lot of evidence that whoever controls the U.S. government is planning to have some new "terrorist" events and declare martial law. It's a top-rated story on Digg.com.

Search for "martial law" in digg.com or reddit.com. There are hundreds of links.

military-government-industrial complex

There is a lot of evidence that whoever controls the U.S. government is planning to have some new "terrorist" events and declare martial law. It's a top-rated story on Digg.com.

Search for "martial law" in digg.com or reddit.com. There are hundreds of links.

Digg shares several amusing doctored screen shots of RapidShare's CAPTCHAs that might be shown in the future.

-FL

For some people it crashes a lot. See http://digg.com/software/New_comments_system_crashes_Opera?t=15343612

You know, the really reputable company, they would never cripple their products. I wonder what all the conflict is about this time. Surely theyd never back out of opening the spectrum.

I have been writing web apps since 1993 and have used C/C++, java, perl, python, ruby, and even lisp and honestly I have yet to encounter a script language that can handle high load environments.

Have you tried PHP? I hear it runs several high load websites ;-)

In response to Card criticizing Rowling:
http://www.linearpublishing.com/RhinoStory.html

Card said in this article criticizing Rowling's originality:
"The difference between us is that I actually make enough money from Ender's Game to be content, without having to try to punish other people whose creativity might have been inspired by something I wrote."

Might I remind readers of Card's fundamental flaw in basic logic: the above cannot possibly be true, Card having written the essay with at least some form of castigation in mind for Rowling! This also reveals Card is not near the contentedness as he claims.

Is this not hypocrisy at it's most blatant and clear?

*****a great article on Card's breed of dogma is:"My favorite author, my worst interview" :
http://archive.salon.com/books/feature/2000/02/03/card/index.html

Is being hate-filled a sure sign of low intelligence?
Does Card have a history of being hate-filled person? Here are some indicators. (How can his new jealousy of Rowling be any sort of surprise?):
http://atheism.about.com/b/2004/01/03/orson-scott-card-criminalize-homosexual-behavior.htm
http://www.ornery.org/essays/warwatch/2005-05-15-1.html
http://www.nauvoo.com/library/card-hypocrites.html

Literary criticism of Card by respected and award-winning author John Kessel:
http://www4.ncsu.edu/~tenshi/Demonizing.html
http://www4.ncsu.edu/~tenshi/Killer_000.htm

Card as could-be Hitler-apologist in 'Ender's Game':
Ender and Hitler: Sympathy for the Superman (20 Years Later) - Elaine Radford's analysis of the Ender and Hitler connection:
http://peachfront.diaryland.com/enderhitlte.html

possibility that Card's Ender's Game itself was stolen from the 1984 film the Last Starfighter :
from digg.com, comment by Dysarthria on 06/16/2007:
http://digg.com/gaming_news/Orson_Scott_Card_Reveals_Plans_for_Video_Games_based_on_Ender_s_Game
"A few points:

1) The movie of Ender's Game (published in 1985) has already been done, it's called the Last Starfighter (1984). While not identical, both are about boys who save the planet by playing a video game. When I read this novel about 20 years ago, I felt like it was it was kind of a rip-off. Great story, just not that original.

2) I think the most boring game in the world would be an adaptation of a novel about a video game. Guys, come on. Enders game was a nice little unoriginal story published 20 years ago."

Also, remember this man criticizes Darwinismin.
The following link to another of Card's essays is from digg.com's insomniacal on 06/16/2007 :
http://www.ornery.org/essays/warwatch/2006-01-08-1.html