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Sophia, Bulgaria was the home of the Dark Avenger one of the most notorious virus authors in history. He was quite active during the 80386/80486 time period. Some interesting reading about what is known of him can be found in these links: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_Avenger http://www.research.ibm.com/antivirus/SciPapers/Gordon/Avenger.html http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/5.11/heartof.html http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1511/is_n2_v14/ai_13381563/pg_9

A Federal administrative judge ruled today that three housing authority officials in Akron, Ohio, coerced subordinates into making political contributions in violation of Federal law and recommended that the officials be removed from their jobs. (Though from 1987. Not quite recent)

An employee of a prominent developer said she was forced to give $2,000 to the campaign of Lohra Miller, Republican candidate for Salt Lake County district attorney. (2006. I think that counts as recent.)

Rep. Joe Baca (D-Calif.) sent six of his Washington staff members to California in February 2004 to campaign for his son, Joe Baca Jr., who at the time was locked in an intense primary battle for a seat in the California Assembly...."It was basically forced volunteering," one former staffer said. "Personally, I had problems with it. I felt uncomfortable going out there. ... I felt a little taken advantage of."(Another 2006.)

I'm sure there are many more. Point is, you don't see stories about folks being forced to vote a certain way BECAUSE we have the secret ballot--there's no way to check the coerceee followed through as the coercer wishes. However, given the abuses we see for things that can be checked--employers coercing employees to make donations or volunteer time--there should be no doubt this would change if there was a way to check up on how someone voted.

Note, they also used the ground-zero/oceans to calibrate the device on every orbit of the earth which means it doesn't penetrate into the water.

It's true that radar doesn't penetrate the ocean's surface. However, the surface of the ocean is not spherical (or even oblate eillipsoidal) -- the water surface mirrors the topography of the ocean floor. (Strictly speaking, the water just follows the equipotential surface of earth's gravity field, which is influenced by the rocks in the seafloor.)

This was first done by Haxby using Seasat data back in the 70s -- see Mapping the sea's 'surface' reveals secrets of the deep - seafloor. The article mentions Sandwell and Smith, who are the scientists working on that problem today, and this is the latest topographical map of the ocean floor derived from gravity measurements.

You mean something like the SOSUS network.

There actually a wing i among fundamentalist Republicans who feel that not only are we headed for the apocalypse but it is their job to hurry it along.

E.g. http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1141/is_43_38/ai_93084876

also

http://rightweb.irc-online.org/analysis/2003/0312apocalypse.php

And since they kowtow to these groups for their own political ends Bush/Cheney in fact *are* evil.

Yes, first past the post voting is not as good as proportional. But what is recommended in this article is just the frosting on the cake. Before you can put on the frosting, you have to have the cake. America does not have the cake. THe approach espoused in this article is like a mechanic who, when presented with a car that does not start, decides that a paint job will fix the problem. The problem is that america is NOT a democracy. And where democracy is crippled, money rules. The lack of democracy in america creates a vacuum, filled by Big MOney. We have a choice--democracy or plutocracy. If you do not have democracy, you have plutocracy. the solution must return power to the voters by changing the constitution so as to empower the voters. How do you do that? The same way they do in Europe, canada, oz,etc they use governmental infrastructure to empower voters. They empower by parliamentarian democracy. Look to western europe. There is a reason why they have universal healthcare, progressive taxation, less police brutality, a small war machine, etc etc. You see, THEY have democracy in the form of parliamentarianism. We do not. The founding fathers were ANTI-DEMOCRACY. THe reason they illegally installed the present constitution is because the several states under the articles of confederation were becoming parliamentarian democracies, and then passing laws that were helpful to working people and harmful to the rich people like the founding fathers, e.g. debt relief laws and progressive taxation. The founding fathers hated democracy. James Madison, the father of the American constitution, said that democracy is not right for America. Elbridge Gerry, a signer of the COnstitution, said that there was an "excess of democracy." Read all about how america is not a democracy: How did the FOunding Fathers stop democracy in America? Primarily with strong checks and balances and the Presidential System. Read these articles and this online book to learn more about what I am talking about. These articles are written by Phds in history and political science (or are articles reviewing books by those PHDs). http://www.boston.com/ae/books/articles/2007/10/31/taxation_revolution_and_some_other_rebellions/ and here: http://www.csmonitor.com/2007/1023/p13s01-bogn.html and here: http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qa4026/is_200607/ai_n17187913/pg_1 and here: http://64.233.169.104/search?q=cache:u1pjfiO0X_8J:www.historycooperative.org/journals/wm/62.2/holton.html+woody+impera&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=1&gl=us&client=opera and here: http://cyberjournal.org/authors/fresia/

Yes, very true regarding the isolation. Additionally, planes' rigorous inspection and freedom from interference allows planes to be fly-by-wire, but we do not have this luxury with cars yet...

No production car has a total steer-by-wire system yet; every car still has an absolute mechanical linkage between the steering column and the wheels. A LOT of manufacturers have been looking into alternatives -- BMW in particular (I know this car manufacturer the best) has some completely "steer-by-wire" systems are in concept cars. They have a hybrid system currently called "active steer" since '04, which I think all BMWs have, which basically increases the angle to the wheels at lower speeds.

Numerous cars now have complete "throttle-by-wire", present in BMWs though since about 2004, so there is no mechanical gas pedal linkage, and this is now relatively common, but not universal among cars. Apparently there were some complaints about it early, but now the programming is very similar to the mechanical linkage. If you lose your throttle control due to a computer malfunction, it is simply not as bad as completely losing your steering.

For some really good articles on the issues involved, check out:

http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_hb078/is_200311/ai_hibm1G1110736640
http://www.autofieldguide.com/columns/1103pb.html

And some guy's Stanford Ph.D. thesis -- actually a pretty good read, summarizing issues nicely.
http://www-cdr.stanford.edu/dynamic/bywire/dissertation.pdf

http://auto.howstuffworks.com/steering5.htm

How about 8 Grand? 200 dpi, 4x the resolution of HD, in only 22.2". Now that's what I want to edit HD video on! Two source clips up at full HD res, a third for the mix, and still lots of room for the timeline, palette, and asset list. Throw in a 120 Hz refresh rate for working in both 24 and 30 fps and it's golden!

Will the police break into people's homes, and search their computers, mp3 players, etc? No.

What, you don't think so? They're already willing to break into your house, tear open the walls, and strip search you to make sure you're not in possession of unauthoried plant material. Or to batter down your door to check for vitamins - though that's become less fashionable lately, it shows what sort of organization we're dealing with when the federal government gets involved.

I'm sure the War on Copying will work just as well as the War on Drugs. They already have the K-9 corps set up. I'm just waiting for the violent black market to spring up.

And hey - this could provide a great opportunity for geeks to have a lucrative and exciting career in organized crime.

Not compensating artists/creators for their works = immorality.

Complain to the movie and television studios and record labels then. They are by far the biggest pirates of all. Hell, their entire industries were founded on piracy to begin with!

This still doesn't get down to the two most important reasons this law pisses me off, though.

1. It penalizes individual hard-working Americans for something that is really the fault of the power companies for choosing to use coal for power production.
2. Second, because of the economics of coal, I doubt it will have any significant effect on actual power plant emissions beyond a very short-term blip. It's pretty much like the idiotic daylight savings time change. It was obvious to anyone who thought about it very long that it wouldn't make any difference, but the lawmakers forged ahead with a typically ill-conceived plan that inconvenienced a lot of people and didn't end up doing anything positive.

I'll explain.

Statistically, only about 20% of all power consumption comes from homes. (source: http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1571/is_24_17/ai_76134360) If my family is any indication, the power usage from lights is somewhere around a quarter of a kWh per day. Over the course of a month, that's just a little over one percent of my household power usage. Figure that across all the households in America, and we're talking about only 0.3% of the nation's power. So much for your big savings.

More importantly, even if every household in America dropped off the grid entirely, we wouldn't make a dent in coal power use. Coal is much cheaper than nuclear, so nuclear plants would be taken offline first if we started reducing our nation's power needs dramatically. In the short term, you might see a small reduction in coal, but in the long run, as nuclear plants come up for maintenance, the power companies are going to be looking at the bottom line, and they're going to let the environmentally relatively clean nuke plants go offline while maintaining the cheaper, dirtier coal-fired plants. We would never reduce our power needs so much that all the nuclear plants in the U.S. could be taken offline, and thus, one would not expect any significant reduction in coal plant use at all except in regions that have very little nuclear capacity. In fact, about 20 percent of our power comes from nuclear power, so literally every American household could fall off the power grid entirely before you would likely see a single coal plant go dark, give or take.

If you really want to improve the environmental harm caused by our nation's power usage, you can't do that by penalizing the users of power. That's like trying to get rid of drug dealers by arresting drug users. It doesn't work in the real world. It just ends up penalizing a lot of bystanders for someone else's bad deeds. If you want to truly solve the problem of emissions from power use, you have to go to the source and fix that---in this case, the power companies. As far as passing new laws go, there is exactly one way to reduce our nation's emissions due to power production: by passing laws making it illegal to bring new fossil-fuel-based power generators online (with exceptions for backup generators and possibly natural gas generators for peak load) and setting a timetable for phasing out fossil-fuel-based power generation entirely. Anything short of that is penalizing the wrong people.

I'm very pissed off that the same people who won't ratify the Kyoto Protocol are telling me that I as an individual should have to compromise my standard of living so that their industrial megacorporations can pollute as much as they want to. By any sane standard of ethics, that's just wrong. As a nation, we should start with the gross polluters and work our way down to ordinary people like you and me.

Yeah, because there haven't been 386, 486, and other systems on a chip and Via doesn't have a 1-watt processor anywhere to be found. This is not the first 1-chip chipset for all of the x86 line. That's bullshit. An SoC is even more integrated than just having the chipset as one chip. Somebody never read the old Computer Shopper before it slimmed down. SoC solutions for x86-compatible systems have been around more than a decade. The summary is bad, because TFA does not say this is a first for the x86 line.

You're right that even low-powered x86 chips like the C7 and the Geode line are generally no match for ARM and XScale. MIPS I'm not as familiar with for power usage purposes. It'd be nice if that question was answered, but I'm afraid it'd be summarized incorrectly too.

2005 article on anx86 SoC
another 2005 article about a different x86 SoC
2004 product page for an already obsolete x86 SoC
Linux Devices list of x86 SoC solutions, some dated to 2000
2000 Register article about the year since Cyrix released an x86 SoC
Chipslist page showing availability of AMD processor with 80188 features plus DMA, watchdog timer, serial ports, and I/O pins in 1995
article on the National Semiconductor Geode (the owners of that line before AMD bought it) thin client system-on-chip

And the best proof of all: an archive of a 1996 story on the AMD Elan,which featured a 386, ISA bus, serial UART, memory controller, power management, and PLL hardware ON ONE CHIP

Depends on the power of the laser.

Laser illuminators on tanks have caused serious eye damage and blindness, and US aircrew have been lased during the Cold War.

http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0IAV/is_3_90/ai_82009542

http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/194147_laser07.html

I may not be an electrician but I do know that water and electricity don't mix and you can't effectively/safely beam the power in wirelessly so you gotta run a biiiiig cord with a lotttt of amps running through it through the ocean.

Properly done, the work well together and last for years.
"Finally, in 1951, the Bonneville Power Administration laid a submarine power cable from Anacortes to the San Juan Islands and Lime Kiln Lighthouse was converted to electricity. "
http://www.historylink.org/essays/output.cfm?file_id=7704

"The proposed transmission lines would cross the international border beneath the Strait of Juan de Fuca, linking Vancouver Island, British Columbia, with the Olympic Peninsula in Washington State.

The Feasibility Study has indicated that without additional upgrades made to the regional system, and following the construction of the first project (550 megawatts), approximately 400 MW of transmission capacity could be available on a "south to north" routing from the Olympic Peninsula to Vancouver Island on a "pre-contingency" basis."
http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0EIN/is_2005_April_6/ai_n13558803

They do sometimes fail, but protection circuits simply power down the faulted section with no major impact.
"Recently, when one of the existing 30-year-old submarine cables failed, BPA decided to replace it. This was considered the preferred investment option, because the existing "wet design" cable had reached it's design life and because of the problems involved in repairing a cable sited in deep water."
http://tdworld.com/mag/power_underwater_cables_cross/

Note, most of the rest of the cables are over 30 years old. There is even a 115KV cable.
"Cable No. 4, a 115-kV, three-core, low-pressure fluid-filled cable with a single layer of PE-insulated galvanized armor wires and cathodic protection rated 150 MVA, was installed in 1982. Polarization cells were installed in 1985, and this cable has afforded fault-free service for more that 20 years."

In 1999 after my wife graduated from college, she worked at a company called NTown Technologies in Knoxville, TN. They had a device that reconstructed the web pages of ISP users, and added a banner bar to the top of each page. The bar had links to email, a search box, and... a big area for banner ads.

The company's motto was "Bringing the Web Home" and they wanted to sell these boxes to ISPs around the country. The ISP would try to use the local paper's ad sales force to sell ads for internet viewers, thereby giving the paper a little revenue stream. The ads would supposedly "work better" because they would be for local businesses instead of internet-wide companies. (Note: I think Ntown got a patent on this business model, so don't go copy it now!)

My wife worked for the Ntown dial-up ISP that they ran as a test platform. The technology worked; they had a customer base willing to have the banner in exchange for a lower monthly access cost, but I think there were problems scaling the traffic, especially with regard to non-html traffic that needed to be analyzed (or not). I assume they also had trouble finding customers. They went out of business less than a year after my wife quit.

Here's a press release that vaguely describes the technology as of 2000:
http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0EIN/is_2000_May_23/ai_62257929

Is there money to be made?
At least in 1999-2000, the answer was no.

Yes, and no... DHTML is done almost completely inline with the page, whereas Silverlight is indeed just an object on the page. Granted, it does compensate for one of Flash's shortcomings by interfacing better with external data, but can you really blatantly ascribe Microsoft's efforts to pure malace? It sounds to me like they're trying to make a buck, and improve their own platform, rather than serve as the death star for all things technological.

Even *if* Microsoft abandons its Mac version, the open-source implementation will still be around.

I hate to stand up for Microsoft, they never dropped Mac Office..

ac IE was *never* a good product

Java's not a Microsoft technology... not quite sure where you were going with that

As it stands, DHTML absolutely sucks for creating desktop-like applications

If everyone around you is immunized, but you are not, there is ZERO BENEFIT to you getting immunized.

Let me guess, you learned this from a video on You Tube? Immunization is like bricks in a dam. Strong bricks give you a strong dam. But one weak brick can spring a leak which can erode the dam until even the strong bricks fail.

Ummm, no. There is something called herd immunity, and it is real. If 99.99% of the population is immunized against a disease, it is highly unlikely for that disease to propagate sufficiently to reach an unimmunized person.

You still should get immunized though, because there are far too many kooks who refuse to be immunized, the muslims in Nigeria.

It's fine as long as you don't want freedom to choice what you listen to. I'd rather have 100, 1000, even 100,000 options instead of 4.

Yes, I prefer a variety too, but these companies are not mine to control. They are not yours either, but, mysteriously, you feel comfortable telling them, what they can and can not do.

Blocking mergers in the name of preventing monopolization (such as the recent block of Staples' merger with Office Depot) is bad enough, but I'm willing to accept it as necessary evil needed to maintain competition. But there is no reason to impose additional limitations on media companies' mergers.

Well, the Mac is on TV, but it is most definitely _not_ an alternative. Jobs would have to let it be legally installable on whitebox hardware first. We're not just talking about letting Dell and HP make and sell Mac OS pre-installed boxes. Your local integrator has to be able to install it, without too many hurdles, and at a cost that leaves him some profit.

Apple won't allow OS X to be installed on beige box clones, at one tyme Apple did allow Mac clones but Apple lost more in lost hardware sales than they made in the sales of Mac OS licenses.. If the local integrator would make money then Apple would loose money. Apple isn't just a software company, Apple also makes and sales hardware. All to together Apple is a systems integrator, Apple just make things that work, the hardware and software work well together. And that totally ignores Microsoft. MS has already shown what it will do to those it views as competitors.

One relief I could think of that might not be unreasonable for a court to order when a company continues to behave like Microsoft. Strip them of all their patents and bar them from obtaining more patents until their market presence drops below 50%. (Trade one monopoly for another.)

What could be done to MS is to have it's Corporate Charter revoked. Corporations were originally granted charters if the corporation served the Public good. Once a corporation did not serve the public or common good it's charter could be revoked. The first corporate charter was granted to the Dutch East India Company in 1602 by the government in the Netherlands. Corporate charters allowed those who invested in the corporation to limit liability to just what they paid for for the stocks they owned.

http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_pasa/is_199506/ai_900884918

Is one example.

The fact of the matter is, NASA and the military never were truly independent organizations. The only reason why the charter was acknowledged is because there had to be a practical political reason/explanation to the taxpayer why we are putting satellites in orbit using military hardware and black budgets.

It is a facade I assure you.

EVERY single shuttle mission has been a military mission. You do not read, or hear about the details of THAT PART of the mission, for obvious reasons.

You only hear about the civilian work that goes on (public scientists).

I am sorry if you think NASA is a PURELY civilian space agency, it isn't, never was.

You do not have to do much digging either to see the Charter is simply an acknowledgment of the civilian applications of space HAPPEN TO INTERSECT with the military goals of space applications.

NASA has two budgets:

1) The budget approved by congress for operating civilian projects.

2) Black Budget: Classified. In fact it is SO classified, nobody knows how much or where the money is for half these "payloads" the shuttle puts into the orbit when they do not have something civilian to take up there.

You do not honestly believe every mission filled the cargo bay in the space shuttle with civilian payloads do you?

-Hack

Haven't we reached the point where we can forget manned bombers? With every passing decade, the advantages manned bombers have vs. drones, decrease. If you have to have human controllers, they can be in a command plane hundreds of miles from where the action is.

The judgment of individual pilots is over rated. Often they misinterpret what they see and end up bombing friendly troops. http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4155/is_20070924/ai_n20517694

It also has to be a lot cheaper to train the technicians who control drones. The drones are much cheaper than a B1. You can send several drones at a target and, with any luck, the enemy will use up all his SAMs trying to hit them.

Any way I can think of looking at it, we shouldn't be spending a lot of money on the B1 any more. Yes, it is a better plane because it can drop its bombs when traveling fast but was it really worth the expense when you consider the other things we could be doing with the money?

I also suspect that the Russians (and Chinese too) can shoot down a B1 fairly easily. Remember the U2 spy plane that was supposed to fly too high and fast to be shot down. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Gary_Powers

Well, according to the article, "Once there, astronauts could spend up to 16 months on the Martian surface, and would use nuclear energy to power their habitat." So, at least once they arrive they will be on nuclear power. I don't know why NASA wouldn't want to use NERVAs to go to Mars. Based on a quick google search I did, travel time to Mars would take around 90 days using NERVAs versus 6 months using the "advanced cryogenic fuel propulsion system" cited in the BBC article linked in the summary. Perhaps it would be too difficult to revive a program that has been dead since 1973. But given the radiation concerns NASA has about such a long mission, it seems like it would be worth it to cut travel time in half. - Joe

Arizona (the Copper State) had a new strike a couple years back near Globe and Miami. I don't know if this new ore strike, very close to an old mine, can be considered a "new find" or not. The higher prices have made it once again affordable to open a few of the mines that had closed years back. It's definitly going to be good for the area (the dusty area featured in the shitty Sean Penn movie U-Turn). http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4188/is_20070429/ai_n19051147 http://www.theminingnews.org/news.cfm?newsID=1777 http://www.azcentral.com/arizonarepublic/business/articles/0214carlota14.html http://www.fortheretarded.com/?p=404 So, should we run Corning's flexible fiber to the house and plastic inside? I'd like to build in a few years, and I'm amazed how many of the new builds today are getting wired.

And 386s with 32MB of RAM? Maybe there were some, but they hardly grew on trees.

I don't know if there were any. EVER. Really. Outside of some exotic server boards, I think 32 MB was a couple generations away. My roommate had a 486 in 1994 with a staggering 20 MB RAM. Two years later I bought a P75 that came with 8 MB; a quick trip to Fry's brought that up to 24 MB, which was quite a bit at the time. The first PCs to sell for under $1000 were Compaqs with Cyrix low-level Pentium-like chips (MediaGX) and they came with 16 MB. That was early 1997, when 486s were pretty much gone and the Pentium had been around for a year or two. So yeah, I'm pretty sure the GP is mis-remembering.

I also took an old IBM PS/1 off a friend's hands and it had a 386, ? RAM, and a 40 MB Maxtor HDD. I'd bet my next paycheck that 32 MB RAM never existed alongside a common, mainstream 386.

Woe be the man who makes a minor technical mistake amongst the ranks of Slashdot. :-) But at least it gives us all an excuse to reminisce.

While it isn't quite a 80 year old, wheelchair-bound schizophrenic woman Portland cops tazered a seventy-one-year-old blind woman 5 times
Crappy source for the taser apologist crowd, but google her name and you should still find a few news articles around.

Project Jennifer is also discussed in Blind Man's Bluff, which is mainly about John Craven. He appeared to be a slightly ditzy, slightly absurd little man who was always nattering about the law of the sea. The manganese nodule cover was carried out so brilliantly that there was a UN study undertaken to see what the economics were and which country ought to "share" in the "common treasure".

I used to see the Glomar Explorer, off the south coast of Maui.

I don't really find parent that "Funny" - The general code really was 00000000 until 1977 (and probably still the same on individual devices, until much later).

http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0JQP/is_369/ai_n6142131
http://www.damninteresting.com/?p=167
http://www.cdi.org/blair/permissive-action-links.cfm

This has already happened to Esther Green, wife of New York Jet Victor Green. She was carjacked and kidnapped along with her 11-month old baby in 1999. While the carjacker was driving them God-knows-where, Green discreetly reached into the diaper bag and SILENTLY dialed 911, while continuing to engage the kidnapper in conversation. A smart 911 dispatcher listened in and figured out what was going on and sent a cop, using information Green provided in her conversation.

With an audible alarm, Green and her baby would very likely have been dead.

For example, IBM was planning on building a large research park north of Gainesville and had options on a lot of land. After this tax, they decided to move as much of the PC work as they could to NC, eventually even closing down their Boca Raton facility (at one time employing 10K).

http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1154/is_n2_v76/ai_6268870

My corporate HQ is in MD. I imagine they will look long and hard at moving it to VA. Those that do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it.

It's obvious you've never been on a jury. You're too smart.

And yet, Vista is Microsoft's fastest product launch ever, and easily has exceeded XP's sales at the same point:

http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4158/is_20070517/ai_n19115496

And MS reported a 27% surge in revenue on strong Vista sales:

http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,2207551,00.asp?kc=EWRSS03129TX1K0000610

It's really only on Slashdot that it's a failure.

So you're saying it's Britan's fault that the Burmese government is killing its own people?

I'm saying that Britain bears some responsibility for that fact that that nation fell under military dictatorship, that these wackos got the be the government of the land. (And some British pundits agree.)

Israel forces were effective because of the way they fought. Their reliance on systems that did not easily smash hardened bunkers and buildings (even Mk84 2000lb bombs are limited in that role) and failure to destroy area targets doomed their effort. Cluster bombs work on surface targets, but they don't punch through mumtiple concrete floors.

Thermobaric and deep-penetration munitions should be used to destroy enemy areas where they are dug-in.

The lightfighter RMA mentality would rather slay the enemy with a technological rapier, but rapiers break upon stone

"For them, it was not as much about which tank could turn faster, or whose radios had a better signal. It was about how many men (and for the Soviets, women) they actually had to fight with."

Whole German divisions disappeared without trace on the Eastern Front.
Here's roughly what it cost the Soviets:

http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m3955/is_n4_v46/ai_15654726

The idea to make it consistent and a part of the baseline for a phone.

You're right, just like Cisco did for years (thanks to Net6).

Why is this news? these kinds of warehouses have been around for years.

Yes.. In semiconductor manufacturing
http://www.asyst.com/products/fsol/amhs/amhs.asp

in food production
http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qa3846/is_200307/ai_n9282236
http://www.pbase.com/four12/image/46413392
The toiling continues. To handle the growth, TCCA opened a new manufacturing plant two years ago in Boardman, east of Portland along the Columbia River, and completed an automatic storage and retrieval system (ASRS) at the Tillamook creamery. Opened in 2000, the ASRS is a 35-million-pound capacity cold storage warehouse with seven refrigerated shipping bays, and a new electrical distribution and refrigeration system.

Sorry I couldn't find an online photo of the inside of the automated refrigerated warehouse. It isn't open to visitors.

Verizon moves into cable TV: telco debuts service in Texas.

Here in the United States, practically everyone has a car, and somewhere over 99% of those have obtained a license ostensibly proving that they've been educated in their use. And yet the road is still full of people acting like idiots and jeopardizing both their own lives as well as those around them

http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qa3649/is_199607/ai_n8752654

CIA director calls for cyber-war defense center

The director of the CIA last week said the U.S. will set up a defense center to combat the growing threat of terrorists and criminals out to bring down vital network systems.

CIA Director John Deutch said the threat of organized information warfare is likely to grow, raising the prospect of an "electronic Pearl Harbor."

"It'll be a slower adoption than we saw with DVDs" - I think you're forgetting that DVDs took a few years to catch on. They released in 1997 in the US, and it took 5 years to overtake VHS: http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0FNP/is_7_41/ai_84599856

Give HD-DVD another 4 years- if the big shiny TVs and High Def players are cheap enough, and the media comes down to a comparable price, one or both formats could be flying off shelves.

Looks like they did produce things, but couldn't compete:

http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0EIN/is_2001_Feb_19/ai_70701155

Also, search e-bay for "wi-lan" - there are a couple of big ugly wi-lan boxes currently being auctioned.

And conservitards gave us the TSA. At this point, I'd far more trust even the dumbest ideas from the left in favor of the unamerican schemes from the right.

So you're comparing TSA, the group that searches luggage when traveling to groups that want to tell you what and how much you can eat or what you can do in your home!!!???!!! For Pete's sake, if you don't like TSA, don't fly! You can drive or take the friggin' bus! The ONLY time I see TSA is when I go to the air port. I eat every day!

TSA is does not restrict your freedom. Groups that want to tell you what and how much to eat do! Just because something is created by "conservitards" (as you call them) doesn't mean they are automatically worse than something created by liberals. Don't let your political views cloud your judgment. That's when you become a radical or a "winger". Get a grip for you own good.

Your question is broken: the US court system makes it currently impossble without an enormous amount of collusion to arrest, imprison, take to trial, find guilty, and sentence people for committing a crime that is not on the books. That is why Utah pressed plain old first-degree murder charges against a woman whose son was stillborn because she didn't get a C-section ahead of time. It's far easier to use laws that are already on the books to enforce whatever viewpoint you have, no matter how irrational.

In this situation, just take it up with your credit card company if you bought using your credit card. Otherwise, you're in trouble, no?

Seriously, the definition of "supercomputer" has changed more than once. For example, I vividly remember when personal computers started running afoul of supercomputer export controls because they were reaching the astounding speed of 2 gigaflops. Supercomputers didn't reach the teraflop level until the late nineties, two decades after the word first came into usage.

Give Anachronox a try if you haven't already.

As long as Erik Wolpaw from Old Man Murray is still involved, any sequel should be good. For those who don't know, Old Man Murray was one of a few honest game review sites. In days when most websites would gush over upcoming games to secure future access, Chet (Faliszek) and Erik applied their knowledge of what was wrong with games in general to their review of each new game. Read their preview of Serious Sam (linked below). It's hilarious on many levels, and very incisive besides. So it's easy to see why Psychonauts was fun fun fun.

• Erik Wolpaw
• Chet Faliszek
• Serious Sam: The Interview

Inflation is what counts, and its under control.

Sure, after you quit publishing M3, start dumping gold reserves, and remove everything that keeps getting more expensive from the "basket" like gas and food.