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Yes, that means I believe the Court should never have agreed to hear Roe V. Wade

I completely agree as well (note to libs, I've voted for Republicans since giving up on Dukakis, which is probably ancient history to most slashdotters). For those of you libs not fooled by George Soros's manipulations (e.g. MoveOn, Michael Moore, Cindy Sheehan, ALF, ELF, and other anarchist movements disguised as leftist organizations used to co-opt the left), here are a couple of questions for you.

Would it surprise you if you discovered most conservatives are pro-choice (and anti-abortion at the same time)? Ever notice the MSM always refers to us as anti-abortion when it is useful to rile you up to vote for the people they need in office to further their corporate goals? Nearly every single conservative I know (I live in a rural county that went over 90% for Bush the first time around!) is pro-choice. We couldn't choose abortion in our own case, but respect someone elses life challenge and right to make that decision. We're disgusted at the "abortion as birth control for those too lazy to use other forms" that occurs occasionally, and despise the sicko Mengele types that enjoy killing babies old enough to survive a premie birth. But normal, non-nihlistic people don't either.

What if you left my second amendment rights alone? You might make more friends out of us if you did, and it wouldn't cost you anything. Deep down, you know you do this to just piss off the bible thumpers, right? Unfortunately it'll keep costing you elections, while at the same time, we get a Republican party lacking any viable competition it needs to get rid of the cronyism that so infects it.

Taxes. If you still don't support lower taxes, take a basic economics class and then we'll talk (though you won't disagree unless you either have an irrational desire for a collectivist socialist workers paradise, or just want to punish achievement). Lay off the product of my hard assed work, and you might be surprised that I don't give a damn about gay families, porn (someone please tell the atty general to go enforce the border fiasco and leave people's Penthouse mags alone).

Cindy Sheehan is a great icon for the intolerance that has alienated you all (and please google her corporate sponsor, George Soros, who preys upon us all using an international financial model that requires negative betas between national economies, hence advisarial conditions, wars, hatred, etc.) Compromise and tolerance of each other is what advances each of our highest priorities. Just like our Islam moderate friends, we all have to start policing our own extremists in order to progress (speaking of which, I believe we conservatives have a worthless crony supreme court appointee to shoot down).

I will probably get modded flamebait, but I agree.

I just went throught the process of adding Bugzilla to my installation of Fedora Core 3. I run Fedora because that is the default Linux installed by my provider and anything else would more than double my costs. I just checked the LSB Certified Distribution List, and sure enough Fedora is not on it. I tried upgrading my system using Yum, but the versions installed with Yum were not current enough for my purposes. Every piece of source I had to download to get Bugzilla installed had to be configured with a switch pointing to a non-standard install directory.

This really surprised me, because the LSB has been around for a long time. I thought all major distributions had become compliant several releases ago. I especially expected Fedora, which many people consider the standard for Linux, to be compliant.

All this found in 5minutes at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_domain

Public Domain Movies http://www.openflix.com/

The mouse that ate the public domain http://writ.news.findlaw.com/commentary/20020305_s prigman.html

Moglen and Lessig in 2001 Conference on Public Domain http://www.law.duke.edu/pd/mpegcast.html

Quoth the Wikipedia: For example, U.S. copyright law, 17 U.S.C. 105, releases all works created by the U.S. government into the public domain, patent applications as part of the terms of granting the patent to the invention are public domain, patent law excludes inventions that obviously follow from prior art, and agreements that Germany signed at the end of World War I released such trademarks as "aspirin" and "heroin" into the public domain in many areas.

See, some new Patent Applications just "fell into" PD while I was typing this.

I think you meant very little of interest to you personally, created in your lifetime, has fallen into the Public Domain. I think if you investigate a little harder that could be proven untrue as well.

So children susceptible to autism were previously the ones that preferentially died from measles? No, no wait. It could not be that there are more people being tested for autism, could it?

but at this point you can't really trust them

Well, I know who I'd trust over another. Vaccines are more effective than just letting everyone catch things and have natural immunities work themselves out.

Though hopefully you can see why more and more people are having reservations about vaccines especially for diseases largely eradicated in the west.

Yes, but it's because of vaccines that they are "largely eradicated", so when these diseases are reintroduced, unvaccinated people get hit badly. Yes, there are individuals for whom vaccines are not effective, but by and large the population would be protected by massive vaccinations.

I wonder if people are grabbing this argument of side effects so that they're not stigmatised as a religious nut when they decline vaccination. Of course, in some places that's a status symbol ...

Funny, I read the actual article and I don't feel like I'm going to lose my job because of the way my nucleotides are paired up.

The debate might as well be over whether or not my employer is obligated to protect me from a job that, due to my genes, will hurt me.

If I own a peanut butter factory, shouldn't I be concerned about hiring people who are allergic to peanuts? Can I be sued if I hire someone who could die if they are exposed to the excess amounts of peanut protein floating in the air?

This 2002 article in the Duke Law & Technology Review by Samantha French sheds more light more light on the topic. (First hit when you Google "Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railway genetic testing")

It didn't have a whole lot to do with the railroad case...

So I found this one:

http://www.law.duke.edu/journals/dltr/articles/200 2dltr0015.html

You must be referring to Miller's experiment, where they did indeed produce organic compounds that are believed to have played a significant role in the evolution of earth life.

This is an "infinite number of monkeys" problem--under appropriate conditions, you can produce important organic molecules. Then take a soup of organic molecules, and wait a REALLY long time for some of them to form a viable cell. This is the most accepted model for how life came to be on earth, so it's rather short-sighted to believe it couldn't have happened anywhere else. All it takes is a sufficiently long time with liquid water and somewhat favorable conditions.

Granted, in no way does existance of water imply that there MUST be life. But it does make it a possibility. How strong a possibility depends on timing.

Funk is responsible for your mood. You can score it any day on Radio W.E.F.U.N.K.

"The requirement is one placed by the airlines to gain access to their airplanes. If you want to set up an airline that doesn't require photo access to board, I'm sure that you are welcome to do so (and suffer the customer concern and insurance issues that will follow)."

It may be a requirement, set there by private industry, but every time I've been asked about my ID, I've been told its a Federal Law... and I've asked to see it, and they refused. If its a "Federal Law", it should be on the books. They can't show me, because it doesn't exist.

If they said "Its a requirement set by the airline industry, which is a private industry..", then I'd probably have no problem with it. Its the deception and fear-mongering that I have a problem with.

This exact issue actually sits in the Supreme Court right now, undecided. I can't find the exact case right now, but someone took the airline to the Supreme Court about the issue, and its at a standstill.

I did find this case and an even scarier one regarding National DNA ID cards...

We're heading down a slippery slope, and at the bottom is George Orwell's 1984 as their rulebook.

The future looks doubleplus ungood.

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Here's my solution.

I figure that's good use of my upload bandwidth.

Starting at HP labs, Ratnesh Sharma began work on the problem of cooling server farms two years ago.
Then work with the university of Virginia evolved from that research. Finally, in work done with Duke U. it paid off in the form of software tools that were reported at Usenix'05 [you can ignore password pop-up if you go thru the google cache] as saving 25% of cooling costs, thats can be over $1000000/year for large data centers by dynamically distributing work load to machines that are running cooler by using temperature data as input to the load balancer. [if you can get at the usenix art., Duke has basically the same paper on line. Or just read the the Usenix abstract]

been done? http://www.cs.duke.edu/~geha/ipod/

Actually, electronic communications ARE protected by the 4th Amendment, at least the Supreme Court decided so in Katz vs United States (incidentally overturning a previous Supreme Court ruling that they were not). There's a nice little summary here.

Doesn't yum do this? I am not certain, but I think dependencies for a package can be satisfied from packages hosted on another repository using yum. Isn't this what you are alluding to? Though I dont think there is a strict format around identifying packages other than the naming scheme and the rpm headers.

I havent gone dependency hunting in a long time ever since I have been using yum. I do occassionally add more repositories to my yum.repos.d if I find something interesting but thats it.

More information about yum http://linux.duke.edu/projects/yum/howitworks.ptml

Hate to say it, but this sounds like a pipedream. They want to 'take the proteins and tweak them' an dthen have a computer program spit out the DNA required to make that protein.

Well whoop-de-do. I'd like to make a computer that can generate wormholes. Doesn't mean it's going to happen.

Can't promise much in the way of wormholes, but Homme Hellinga and David Baker's groups already make software for protein design.

Synthetic biology's been around for a while (see also e.g. Adam Arkin). This is just Drew's startup getting column inches in Forbes, and then getting eagerly lapped up by Zonk, as far as I can see.

http://torrent.gnome.org/
http://torrent.linux.duke.edu/
details http://torrent.linux.duke.edu:6969/

http://torrent.gnome.org/
http://torrent.linux.duke.edu/
details http://torrent.linux.duke.edu:6969/

What is more to the point is what is it used for now?

A quick check of my bt client shows that, right now, it's used for http://torrent.linux.duke.edu/FC4-test3-DVD-x86_64 .torrent

I figure a week+ without screams of horror says this one's ready to try out.

The reason P2P is trafficking is that a few hundred million random people do not constitute "your friends".

References:

• Text of AHRA
• Duke University analysis of AHRA, etc.l

At a former job, we were moving to an internal RPM server that updated itself via a trusted external source...you could also run a local YUM server.

You mean like his womanizing? ;-)

iPod Experiment

Duke iPod program to continue next year

Also, you can go to The Chronicle and search the archives for "iPod" and get any number of negative student editorials on the topic. Basically, all of us at Duke agreed that the project was a marketing campaign, plain and simple; on the other hand, you won't see us complaining. We got free (as in, paid for by a fund accumulated from previous years) iPods, and next year's freshmen will get them if they take the appropriate classes.

In addition, Carolina can go to hell. Go Devils :-P

iPod Experiment

Duke iPod program to continue next year

Also, you can go to The Chronicle and search the archives for "iPod" and get any number of negative student editorials on the topic. Basically, all of us at Duke agreed that the project was a marketing campaign, plain and simple; on the other hand, you won't see us complaining. We got free (as in, paid for by a fund accumulated from previous years) iPods, and next year's freshmen will get them if they take the appropriate classes.

In addition, Carolina can go to hell. Go Devils :-P

iPod Experiment

Duke iPod program to continue next year

Also, you can go to The Chronicle and search the archives for "iPod" and get any number of negative student editorials on the topic. Basically, all of us at Duke agreed that the project was a marketing campaign, plain and simple; on the other hand, you won't see us complaining. We got free (as in, paid for by a fund accumulated from previous years) iPods, and next year's freshmen will get them if they take the appropriate classes.

In addition, Carolina can go to hell. Go Devils :-P

Looks like they didn't just wing it with the ipods. Some courses have projects making use of them. (Last semester too)

Looks like they didn't just wing it with the ipods. Some courses have projects making use of them. (Last semester too)

• Q: "What services are Apple providing?"

  A: "Apple is providing project management expertise and technical and functional resources."

Look the longest Nanotube is about 2 mm. (I've seen them and know the student making them.)

A couple of millimeters was the record in 2003. As of September 2004, the longest was 4 centimeters. What will the record be for 2005? 2006? 2010? 2020?

Wikipedia also states the following:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbon_nanotube#Curre nt_progress

In 2004 Alan Windle's group of scientists at the Cambridge-MIT Institute developed a way to make carbon nanotube fiber continuously at the speed of several centimetres per second just as nanotubes are produced. One thread of carbon nanotubes was more than 100 metres long. The resulting fibers are electrically conductive and as strong as ordinary textile threads.

Granted, these continuously-spun variants don't have the required strength yet, but I think it's still a little early to call all of this outright stupid.

You are off by more than an order of magnitude. Try 4 cm, as of last year.

http://www.chronicle.duke.edu/vnews/display.v/ART/ 2004/09/28/415951669b807

You could always try arguing that BitTorrent saves campus bandwidth for popular downloads like Fedora Core, Knoppix, and Firefox.

Two of these trackers are actually run by universitites..!

knoppix tracker

Fedora tracker

xandros tracker

There are some distros that provide BitTorrent versions. http://torrent.dulug.duke.edu/ As with anything else, it is what people due with the tool. Should we band fire since some people smoke crack. BitTorrent is as illegal as a CD-ROM that reads audio CDs.

at least in Duke's case, only one student tried, but the Duke scenario says there was only one person who tried, and that Duke kept their admissions decisions away from ApplyYourself anyway. From the article:

"We are backslapping with our IT people today," Jim Gray, associate dean of marketing and communications at Fuqua, said Friday. "We're congratulating them on that today."

I have upgraded a headless machine, halfway across the country, with no console port access, from FC1 to FC2 via yum. Seth Vidal (who wrote yum) has some notes here . Yes, you will have issues if you boot from LVM or have a ton of rpms installed by hand.

As far as the conflicting repos, that is a feature of the repo, not fedora.

You are not required to carry ID with you at all when you drive. You are only required to furnish proof of a licence to drive within an applicable time period or you get a fine.

Depends on your state. in NYS you are required to exhibit your license under Vehicle & Traffic Law, section 507, subsection 2, which reads:
2. Failure to exhibit license. Failure by a licensee to exhibit a license valid for operation under this chapter, not including any record of convictions stub to any magistrate, motor vehicle license examiner, motor vehicle investigator, peace officer, acting pursuant to his special duties, or police officer shall be presumptive evidence that he is not duly licensed.

They can still look you up by name and address

And if you are not carrying appropriate ID, how do you propose you establish your identity? I know people who have gotten royally screwed because someone else claimed to be them and proper ID was not provided. How easy would you like it to be for someone to committ a minor offense, use your name, and fail to pay the fine? Remember that this will lead to a warrant being issued in most cases.

Also it looks like the BSD zero-copy sockets already use the MMU copy-on-write trick I mentioned in order to preserve the userspace semantics:
http://www.cs.duke.edu/ari/trapeze/freenix/node6.h tml

http://torrent.dulug.duke.edu/

(Fedord core 3 torrent; this is the last torrent I have downloaded. Now, if they would only make the updates a torrent also; the updates for FC3 are almost as big as the base distribution!)

A year or three ago I set up a Color QuickCam 2 running on a stock Mandrake 9.2 install (kernel 2.4) with cqcam 0.91 (still the current version). It took a little work to get it functioning, but that was more about me not knowing what I was doing, rather than actual complications.

You'd think they'd know about the Duke Blue Devils or the Arizona State Sun Devils. Neither one in Texas, but surely they've played football against Texas schools.

Yes, it's RPM vs Deb, but in essence, deb and apt always go together, while RPM exists as a living hell of its own on the RedHat systems I work with every day.

read this.

Apparently, the USA is even more free than Australia, hard as that is to believe. Under the provisions of the AHRA, we're allowed to make copies for noncommercial use in the privacy of our homes. I'd say ripping a few songs from some CDs and making a mix CD qualifies for that.

In the past, for up2date you had to register with the redhat network. It was a secure way of getting updates from a secure server. However, up2date is being phased out with yum, which is basically up2date with added features.

For example, yum can be set up with one of many mirrors . Where up2date only got updates from redhat's server.

http://linux.duke.edu/projects/yum/

As I'm sure you're aware, but quite a few fedora users are not. YUM stands for Yellowdog Updater Modified.

Obviously its not the actual yellowdog updater for fedora, mandrake, etc, but the original design does in fact come from yellowdog.

Yellowdog is by far the most hardened mac distribution there is, and for good reason, there are a lot of talented people working at yellow dog.

http://fedora.redhat.com/download/#download points to http://torrent.dulug.duke.edu/ which hosts the fedora torrents.

If I have to pay for my stuff, why should you get it for free?

You may or may not know this, but there is a "piracy tax" on blank media that you buy which could be used to make copies of copyrighted material. Check out the section labeled "Audio Home Recording Act" near the bottom of this page: http://www.law.duke.edu/journals/dltr/articles/200 2dltr0023.html. As you can see, everyone who buys blank media pays for piracy in one way or another, regardless of whether they actually do infringe on anyone's copyrights.

On another note, you don't have to pay for your stuff. That is simply a choice you make.

I think the grandparent poster was thinking of about 20 years ago, when IBM was "Big Blue" and the Macintosh was introduced with an infamous Super Bowl commerical. This was before Microsoft upended IBM as the dominant force in PC computing. Early Mac users really did think of IBM in the same way Linux users think of Microsoft.

The Suprnova post was for an RC released Oct-29. See this redhat.com link. If you dowloaded the suprnova torrent, erase it and start again from the official torrent site. If you're not sure, md5sum your results and compare them to the official ones.

Disclaimer: I voted for Kerry.

With that said, I took data from the 2000 election in Florida and performed the same "analysis" as the one in the link you posted. The results are quite similar: http://www.duke.edu/~mth6/florida2000.xls.

I'm too busy with school to do previous years, but I'd put money on the fact that the same thing will appear: these people are registered as Democrats, but vote Republican for some reason, there's no fraud involved. Now, I could be wrong, but I highly doubt it. Feel free to go look at the other years yourself.

Nothing to see here. Go look at the results from 2000 and they show the same thing:

http://www.duke.edu/~mth6/florida2000.xls

I bet that if you took the time to look at 96, 92, etc, you'd see the same trend. For some reason a bunch of voters in those precincts register as Democrats, but always vote for Republicans.