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Urectum.

Do you mean like forks like Wikinfo, or unrelated, but similar, sites like Everything2, h2g2 and Knol?

Eight opcodes!? Luxury! Real programmers only use subtract and branch if negative.

It's the alien probe watching CERN, so they can get a good movie when we blow up our planet.
Actually one would send 4 probes to get a view from each angle, so you know where to look for more ;-)

See also: http://www.everything2.com/node/1955248

http://everything2.com/e2node/Removing%2520copy%2520protection%2520from%2520audio%2520CDs

You can email him at uzi@nissan.com. Oh wait, no you can't, because he lost nissan.com when he was accused of cybersquatting his own name.

Except, of course, that he does still own the domain name; Nissan Motor lost the lawsuit.
Perhaps you should have tried either (a) reading the webpage you yourself linked to, or (b) going to nissan.com and seeing what was there.

You can email him at uzi@nissan.com. Oh wait, no you can't, because he lost nissan.com when he was accused of cybersquatting his own name.

I get your joke, but it presents an opening to state the following little known fact:

Diamonds are not, in fact, forever

Under normal temperature and pressure conditions, diamond is not the most stable form of carbon - graphite is. Using thermodynamic arguments and building a free energy curve, one can show that some fraction of a diamond must decay to graphite in order to achieve a minimum energy state. It does take a very long time for this to happen - geologic time - but even a "long time" is not forever. If you aren't that patient, heat the diamond up to, say, 1500 C to speed things up. Oh, but be sure to do that in the absence of oxygen, because diamond burns just like other forms of carbon.

Some references: [1], [2], [3]

Last time Slashdot sold user comments some people were rather unhappy about it.

Ask and ye shall receive.... Askeladden

http://everything2.com/e2node/When%2520Askeladden%2520and%2520the%2520Troll%2520had%2520an%2520Eating%2520Competition

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Okay, time for some ancient history. Let's begin. Who remembers back when our beloved New Zork Times was running articles about something called Cornerstone a completely worthless database program that nobody was ever going to use? Hmm... it's possible some aren't familiar with the story, so I present: Down From the Top of Its Game. Long story short, Infocom lost huge amounts of money, got absorbed into Activision and disappeared into the ether. Why? Because of destructive, incompetent meddling managment.

Closer to home for a D&D story, remember when TSR started publishing The Honeymooners boardgame and Rocky and Bullwinkle ? Put it another name, has anyone here heard the name Lorraine Williams or wondered why Gary Gygax stopped being involved in D&D?

All I know, is that there have been some... well... odd things coming out of Wizards lately. A ridiculous new alignment system, obviously created in the 9 Hells (the greatest trick the Devil ever pulled was to convince people that Lawful Evil doesn't exist). A new D&D system that seems to want to replicate MMORPGs on the tabletop, and a concerted attempt to utterly kill the OGL which someone over there must think was a huge mistake. Well, we'll see where they go. I had some dire predictions following the OWOD apocalypse, but I think White Wolf is still chugging along....

Of course, I'm an odd duck anyway. As a kid, I collected RPGs but hardly ever played them. A deranged monomania that has never made any sense to me. Still, I'm fascinated by watching gaming corporations die... or even subsidiaries.... so I'll be keeping my eye on this.

Your ideas are intriguing to me and I wish to subscribe to your newsletter (everything2.com)

Your ideas are intriguing to me and I wish to subscribe to your newsletter

I didn't cite it, because I even though I waste time reading /., I don't keep newspaper clippings in my back pocket. Although, I guess requesting bigger proof than my own conjecture is prudent.

I only scanned these before posting them. I googled for "milk fox news court".
I may have first heard about it in the movie "the corporation" (more than 1/2 way through) but I can't be sure.

http://www.foxbghsuit.com/
http://www.everything2.com/title/FOX%2520News
http://www.organicconsumers.org/rbgh/fox-news.cfm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monsanto
http://www.netfeed.com/~jhill/RupertMurdoch.htm

...yellow, not green!

(geekily noting that extravert would actually be the Jungian [and therefore technically correct] spelling but for this other word).

Like Johann Gambolputty .... of Ulm ?

we just recognize better than most that "intellectual property" is not property at all. Property exists because of limited resources.

A fair amount of our modern idea of property comes from the philosopher John Locke and his Second Treatise on Government. Basically it is a person's labor and efforts that improve upon a common resource that creates and justifies property. ie: The fish in the ocean belong to everyone, until a fisherman catches one, then that fish belongs to him because is efforts in catching it made it useful. What modern IP law is failing to address is Locke's theory of Spoilage. "As much as any one can make use of to any advantage of life before it spoils; so much he may by his labour fix a Property in. Whatever is beyond this, is more than his share, and belongs to others. (II, 31)" Now with the internet, the supply of a song or movie is effectively unlimited, the real question is: How long before a song or movie spoils? Most movies and songs have a short short shelf life, a year at most for songs and maybe two for movies after that their sale number have dropped into irrelevancy. The biggest problem for IP isn't control or piracy, it's the ridiculous amount of time that passes before it becomes Public Domain.

PowerPC beat you to it: enforce in-order execution of I/O

200 years: 20th century English is viewed a lot like Shakespearean text are by us: you can work it out, but it's tedious. It's not how anyone talks. People actually talk and write in a language that is descended from l33t, lol and txt.
2000 years: 20th century English is an academic topic, like ancient Latin is today. Average people can recognize a few words or phrases at best.
5000 years "The inscriptions on this ancient treasure-heard seem to claim that elixir contained inside will bring your ancestors back to life!

http://everything2.com/index.pl?node_id=1201359

It's not a myth. Americans just keep referencing the wrong culture:

http://everything2.com/index.pl?node_id=1201359

OK, you're an AC troll.

But an 800 MB hard drive was a large drive at about 1995. MP3s were first found in the wild on the Internet the second half of 1995.

The Pentium 1 (60 Mhz) was released in 1993. A 20 GB HDD was a "large drive" around the year 2001 or so, and represents slightly over a year difference in growth from an 8 GB drive. But the P3 was released in 1999!

Not a good idea to argue with someone who was there...

on top of that the fluorophores used in this paper are definitely undergoing photobleaching, defined below:

http://everything2.com/e2node/photobleaching

How practical is a solar cell that is continuously losing it's efficiency?

Tell me *you're* not a twitter clone...

Can't be. Grandparent post was roughly 312 characters long, over twice as long as a typical microblog post. (wc ftw)

But seriously, willyhill keeps a fairly comprehensive list of the sockpuppets of twitter (104583), and drinkypoo (153816) isn't on it. In fact, apart from Erris, most of the alleged shills have UID > 1.25M. You could try comparing drinkypoo's posting history here or on Everything 2 to those of other alleged shills. Or you could just claim that I'm Twittacus.

So waiting a month and then canceling will cost you $700 vs $175 with AT&T

If that is indeed the case, then I would be tempted to buy the iPhone elsewhere unlocked and just limit my data usage to wi-fi hotspots. I would be curious to see when the iPhone 3G comes out what ratio of people are using unlocked iPhones to Rogers purchased iPhones in Canada. Sure there is Fido, but that is Rogers by another name. Maybe the British were thinking of the Canadians when they coined the verb roger.

War is Peace refers to to the fact that while a country is at war, it can get away with murder on the home front, on the pretext of "rooting out traitors." A good example of this is the Espionage Act passed by Congress and signed by Woodrow Wilson in 1917, which had little to do with spies, and a lot to do with allowing the feds to round up anyone who criticized the Government's actions during a war. (Fun trivia fact: Since the United States has officially been in a state of emergency since the Korean War, the Act is still in force). Ignorance is Power means that as long as you believe what you are told, the state has the power to justify whatever it wants. Example: in 1998, Clinton ordered tomahawk missles to be fired at a Sudanese Pharmaceutical plant. His rationale was that it was being used to construct bio-weapons. Six months later, the government quietly admitted that it had no conclusive evidence of this. http://everything2.com/?node=War+is+peace%2C+Freedom+is+slavery%2C+Ignorance+is+strength

Even more appropriately, that's from Song of Myself.

The quote is President Gerald Ford's in an address to Congress on August 12, 1974.

http://everything2.com/index.pl?node_id=1429863

The plural of "datum" is not "proof" either.

http://everything2.com/index.pl?node_id=163824

You must be on Hotblack Desiato's black spaceship then.

What if you slowly replace each brain cell that dies with a synthetic replica of a brain? Eventually, your mind will be synthetic or a machine, but if that machine is not you at what point do you loose your consciousness?

Btw, the terminology for this is a "Moravec transfer," named after the person to first devise it, CMU robotics professor Hans Moravec:

http://everything2.com/?node=Moravec+Transfer

It was done long ago during the twilight of CD only drive...

See...

http://everything2.com/e2node/TrueX
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CD-ROM#Transfer_rates
http://www.halfbakery.com/idea/Multiheaded_20CD-ROM

I believe the main issues were reliability, cost and lack of noticeable speed gains when using the CD-ROM in common tasks. Although there isn't much to be found (or said) about them anymore. It would seem the increased density of today's optical media put a damper on the need for increased spindle speeds making multiple lasers an unattractive way to boost speeds.

Also if I remember correctly they were entering a market at a time when CD-R/RW drives were becoming more cost competitive.

http://everything2.com/index.pl?node_id=1854217

[Tongue somewhat in cheek here] Maybe the guy's really into Dante or something. The numerology of Dante's Divine Comedy is tremendously significant, and the number three is inescapable. There are three canticas (Inferno, Purgatorio, Paradiso), each with 33 cantos, and the whole Comedy is written in a terza rima rhyming scheme. And that just scratches the surface. See here for more. The numerology -- Dante's, that is -- is centered on 3, as opposed to 2 or 4, because of central importance of the Trinity.

If they think he has an unfair advantage, why don't they get their legs amputated, too?

It's not too much of a stretch. Apparently in baseball there's something called Tommy John surgery, where a ligament in the elbow is replaced by a (stronger) ligament from the wrist. It was originally intended to deal with injuries, although after pitchers found that their performance was better than it was before the injury some healthy players have become interested in getting the surgery performed.

The plural of anecdote is not data.

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I'm not a lawyer but here's what I found in a couple of minutes of Googling:

From FindLaw: http://criminal.findlaw.com/crimes/a-z/murder_first_degree.html

Most states also adhere to a legal concept known as the "felony murder rule," under which a person commits first-degree murder if any death (even an accidental one) results from the commission of certain violent felonies -- usually arson, burglary, kidnapping, rape, and robbery.

According to Everything2: http://everything2.com/index.pl?node_id=1316784
A person who commits, or attempts to commit, a felony can be convicted of murder if someone dies during the commission (or attempt) if:

        * the person has intentionally engaged in the felony
        * the felony is inherently dangerous
        * the death occurs during the commission of the felony
        * the death is independent and collateral to the felony, and
        * the felon (or an accomplice) caused the death.

The inherently dangerous element is automatically satisfied if the felony is listed in the first-degree murder statute; [emphasis mine] in California, those felonies are arson, rape, carjacking, robbery, burglary, mayhem, kidnapping, train wrecking, sodomy, lewd or lascivious acts involving children, oral copulation, [sexual] penetration by foreign object, and drive-by shootings.

If Hans Reiser abducted Nina and then killed her, even if it was accidental, then he could be convicted of first-degree murder in California.

It was the ones made in Hungary that were the problem

http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,59943-page,1/article.html?tk=dn082901X

http://everything2.com/e2node/IBM%2520DeskStar

The ones made in Thailand IIRC were OK. So this one bad plant in Hungary caused IBM to sell it's hard drive business with a $2B loss.

An interesting story to tell people if they consider outsourcing. Seems like factories are not a commodity after all. In this case the Hungarian one ended up costing them $2B.

Why does RAH cause flame wars?

Rather than try to summarize the entire net history of RAH flamewars, you can explore a somewhat reasonably-stated approximation of the typical love/hate fest on everything2.com: start reading here.

As someone who once owned a ZX81 with the 16K Ram expansion pack can attest, yes, it can be a real pita

Plagiarism from Yes Minister, or from this e2 article?

http://everything2.com/index.pl?node_id=1448956

I'm really only interested because I wrote that e2 article, and it would be kinda nice to think that someone read and understood it!

From http://everything2.com/index.pl?node_id=1122646 :

The following algorithm is a major advance in Math Research and was discovered by David H. Bailey, Chief Technologist, NERSC at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.

The algorithm for computing individual hex digits of pi is based on this formula:

pi = sigma(for k = 0 to infinity) { 1/16^k * [ (4/(8k+1) - 2/(8k+4) - 1/(8k+5) - 1/(8k+6) ] }

Do you feel strongly about Any sufficiently advanced chatbot is indistinguishable from an intelligent being?

If you haven't yet discovered it, GNU Emacs' M-x psychoanalyze-pinhead is very entertaining:

I am the psychotherapist. Please, describe your problems. Each time you are finished talking, type RET twice.

Send your questions to ``ASK ZIPPY'', Box 40474, San Francisco, CA 94140, USA

Why do you say that?

.. I want a COLOR T.V. and a VIBRATING BED!!!

What makes you believe you might want to have this color?

Wait.. is this a FUN THING or the END of LIFE in Petticoat Junction??

Earlier you said you would like to have this color?

OMNIVERSAL AWARENESS?? Oh, YEH!! First you need 4 GALLONS of JELL-O and a BIG WRENCH!!... I think you drop th'WRENCH in the JELL-O as if it was a FLAVOR, or an INGREDIENT... ...or...I...um... WHERE'S the WASHING MACHINES?

You have your mind on machines, it seems.

.. If I cover this entire WALL with MAZOLA, wdo I have to give my AGENT ten per cent??

Maybe your plans have something to do with this

If I had a Q-TIP, I could prevent th'collapse of NEGOTIATIONS!!

I don't understand.

NPOV. A completely and utterly useless goal. Everybody has a point of view and one's literary output reflects this. That's why I prefer E2: NPOV is not a necessity if it's well written.

http://everything2.com/index.pl?node_id=91182 - Here's a hint, 'l33t hackers' of slashdot, it was IBM's fault that MS-Dos was limited to 640k, you know, the backer of apple and linux, ya that IBM. Put just keep repeating your little lie it just shows everyone (who knows) how you all have no scrupples and willingly commit libel and slander and therefore probably have nothing of substance in support of your OS politics.