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yeah, i agree, that guys music completely and utterly sucks The Crappiest Music in the Universe

right on brotha!

i remember, in my rather recent youth, when students in school (middle school that is) were told that they would FAIL history if they did not dress up like said traitors and rebels and terrorists, and recite parts of the publication that was written under a false name. Several years later, in my rather recent ... now.... we students in school (high school that is) are taught that the laws which demolish our privacy, and kill our right to freedom of speech (especially that without fear of retalliation from the government you speak out against) are THE BEST THING to ever happen to this nation. That they are good things, economical things. Things that will safeguard many of our financial future. After all, if the record labels do not have distribution trucks that need driving around (spilling polution and noxious fumes) many of us would probably be unemployed and homeless in a year or two, when we graduate from said high school.

a few years ago, my teachers told me to hold those 'rebels and terrorists and trators' in the highest regard possible. and now, when the nation around me is changing, my teachers have told me that i should see how much the poor RIAA and the rest of the industry needs protection from the evils of internet rebels and terrorists and traitors.



-now that's disturbing.


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Thank you.

When I was looking to spec systems a few months ago, I did not look at these much.
- The Intel D845PEBT2 motherboard has the 845PE chipset.
- The D865PERL motherboard has the 865PE chipset, but at least it supports the 800Mhz bus. Two of the four configurations support Firewire.

I require the Intel 875 chipset for a modern system. The only Intel motherboard using the 875 chipset is the D875PBZ, and it does not have Firewire. Intel does not have a "latest technology" motherboard that includes Firewire. I am still surprised Intel only has one motherboard demonstrating their latest and best chipset. But it is nice to know that Intel includes Firewire on some of their motherboards.

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(I apologize for the poor grammar in the original post. I bumped the ENTER key while fixing the Subject. I expected a few flames about the grammar, but thankfully all the responses have been informative.)

I get the point how .NET developers would be screwed, but if Sun stopped distributing Java I could continue to use IBM's very high quality JVM, or BEA's JRockit, or Apple's OSX. No doubt one of the many others would quickly step up to fill the void. None of these can disappear at the hands of Sun. If .NET went away at the hands of Microsoft, it would likely disappear entirely because of its immaturity. Java, on the other hand, has reached the point where it could live on independently if necessary. If Sun or Microsoft stopped shipping a C++ compiler, the language would live on. Java has reached that point too.

#11: Rolling Papers
Despite innovations in pipes (such as the famous Protopipe) and bongs (such as the infamous Triple Chamber Mason jar bong), people continue to use rolling papers for their smoking enjoyment. Zig-Zag papers continue to be a popular choice, with others using everything from toilet paper to yellow pages. Small wonder: joints are fun, and that's not going to change for a long time.

BTW, in "researching" for this post, I found a site called "Smokedot" very similar to Slashdot. I wonder if there is a "Smokedot effect" too and what that would entail...

The reason why RMS won't be there is because he's too busy with other things.

Even in Antarctica, there are parking meters.

You mean Project Orion? Interestingly, the British Interplanetary Society studied an updated version called Project Dadelus that used much smaller fuel pellets, exploded them in a reaction chamber, and controlled the thrust much better than the Project Orion plans.

Hi.

A while ago, you asked to be posted about a transit project. Well, I finally got the rough draft of the web site started. The project is called, TIPs [Transit Information Packages]. This is a project to create customized transit information. The web site elaborates a bit more.

I look forward to hearing from you.

If I were looking for multiplayer card games on computers over networks (i.e., 'prior art'), I'd start with door games. Hey, looks like card games to me. :)

While we're argueing over the number of countries involved (not that it really matters as far as justification is concerned) here's one person's description of who is in the coalition

The obvious problem with these lists though is that many countries added themselves to the list to help in peace keeping who opposed the war. I don't really vouch for the validity of the list and don't feel like being attacked about it, I'm just trying to be helpful.

Uh... care to explain how?

Americans can have military and spy adventures abroad which topple governments, bring U.S.-friendly dictators into power, kill or main thousands, but it's not terrorism unless its another foreign power unleashing it.

Don't you get the underlying double standard yet? Besides which, Safire is a neocon lapdog fuckwit, getting strokes for cheerleading the conquering of other nations.

I know I know, this sounds like a troll, but if anybody still believes the U.S. really had a valid WMD pretense for its party with Death in Iraq, please explain in terms that don't include vague excuses like "it needed to be done" or "Saddam had it coming," because there are plenty of dictators still out there who the U.S. is still cozy with, and Saddam was one whom U.S. danced closely with.

One day (soon hopefully), american Democrats will pull their heads out of their asses and aggressively pursue the Republican's international war crimes the way they pursued the Clinton cigar story.

The copper-orange colored fuel pellet aliens use is about the size of a fifty- cent piece, and it weighs about 223 grams. Supporting the claim that ununpentium is a stable element, Lazar notes, ". . . in that heavy ion research facility in [Darmstadt] Germany, they just discovered that in their dabbling in transmuting elements, and as we got higher up on the periodic chart their half lives got shorter and shorter. Well, for the first time they came up with element 109, I think, and the half life became longer, and they are seriously considering that this may be a trend and that it may lead up to a stable element. And they theorize that it would be in the 115 area. And, in fact, this is true, and this is what this element is; it is essentially stable."

It's kind of a pain if the site doesn't actually put the actual mms link somewhere in their page so you can start those players with it. For sites that feed you the link through intermediaries, you can use plugins for mozilla (mplayerplug-in and a xine equivalent). It's even more of a pain if they do browser identification and so on rather than just feeding the mms link to the browser, since you'd have to spoof whatever it is they are expecting.

Using xine or mplayer to handle audio-only streaming content feels like a kluge, though, I guess I also wish they had gone the ShoutCast or IceCast route, instead.

Here's a link to a page concerning removing the MiniPCI card from a Linksys WRT54g to use in your laptop's MiniPCI slot. It's linked to from I think page 7 of the thread...on geocities and has images so likely will be showing an allocation exceeded error soon, so look while you can.

KalvinB sez: It's pretty telling that the "best" MoveOn could come up with is that the national debt is bad and no president has managed to do anything about it for a very long time.

Please take a look a this graph. Notice the caption at the bottom which says that data from the Congressional Budget Office was used to make it. (There is more detailed info about the whole last century here.

Now take a good look at the 1990's, the part of the graph where the budget goes starts going up and up and then, in 1999, goes into surplus for the first time since 1972. Clearly someone managed to fix the deficit problem.

Now let's look a few years later, starting in 2000, when the younger Bush became president; the budget took a nosedive. The deficit is greater than it has been in 30 years.

No political arguments here; just please check facts before you start spouting off.

Components, Components, Components!! ("Universal coupling").

Seriously, GNOME needs more work going into bonobo. IMHO its the only area where it lags behind KDE. That's the reason why you hear Abiword and gnumeric a lot more than kword and kspread, but you hear of koffice but not of gnome-office.

Loose coupling is not necessarily a bad idea though. For example gnome apps start quickly when you're in KDE but not vice versa.

A huge list of math texts.

David MacKay has posted his book Information Theory, Inference, and Learning Algorithms on his website. (This is despite it being a recently published work available through major bookstores.)

The classic, Numerical Recipes in C, is available online for free.

Some more math texts.

Another grab bag of online texts (mostly math).

Yet even more math and CS stuff.

This is the same Stryker that has such thin armor around the enormous wheel wells that machine-gun bullets can penetrate, would kill its own crew if the turret howitzer were fired, and is best taken out via a simple molotov cocktail setting fire to its tires. It is intended to be air-deployed, but is so close to the weight margin that some armor had to be eliminated. In some configurations the Stryker has to be split across 3 planes and assembled on-site. Oh, and the thing is the size of a school bus--just what you want in urban situations requring manouverability, which is supposedly among its missions.

The Stryker is a mistake--I can see why they'd bolt the robot onto it in order to keep funding going, or to mask the sunk cost on this turkey. I couldn't find the PDF detailing these problems, so try this link: stryker problems Right now it's most interesting as an example of the strength of momentum some defense procurement contracts have.

The most frustrating part is that my county already had perfectly good voting machines: paper-based scantron-type forms where you mark the appropriate rectangle and a simple scanner tabulates the results. Effective, verifiable, well-understood, and relatively inexpensive. In other words, the complete opposite of what the state just bought for us.

Sure hospitals are not currently outsorcing patients to India or China. But US can import lots of guys like
Doctor Nick Riviera from those places.

So don't hand out homographically similar domain names. You're not going to be allowed to keep domains like those anyway due to trademark issues, so they might as well make sure nobody can even get them.

"It's spelled Raymond Luxury Yacht, but it's pronounced Throat Warbler Mangrove."

- Oblig. Python Reference

Actually they come and put a filter on your line that blocks the video signal.

Yes. And then the first time your cable modem acts up, they send out a cable internet service guy and he removes the filter. And then the next time a guy comes out to your area on a cable TV service call, he might notice that you're getting free cable and put the filter back on. And the cycle continues. Though sometimes they switch things up a little and try to prosecute their customer for cable theft.

I had never heard of LHA until recently, when my GF started writing "dollz." Gnome KISS is a KISS doll viewer, and they are all the rage in Asia (or were last year, anyway). KISS is like paper dolls that you dress up. You can see some of my GFs work at the bottom of this page. There are actually some fairly sexy ones, but I can't find any on a quick google. Anyway, these dollz sets use LHA compression, and finding a copy that would even compile on my machine took days, and sometimes things still don't work correctly. LHA is a PITA for me. P.S. A javascript version of a doll is here.

that they are driving around with a police scanner in their vehicle... that's against the law in some states too.

Ironically, they'd be OK here in Florida... you can drive with a scanner in your vehicle here but only if you're a licensed HAM operator or newsguy.

here is another short article about this.

Some of you may remember that cheezy 80s serie called Street Hawk (basically a motorcycle version of Knight Rider). I remember seeing in the pilot episode something really clever : the hero was hired to ride this super-duper motorcycle (secret mission and all) and, to make his bike outfit, was asked to step into a clear tube, then the tube filled up with some foam to take a "print" of his entire body, then 5 minutes later, some magic computer spewed out a custom bike clothe set for him.

Street Hawk's cheesiness aside, I've always thought that was really a clever idea : custom-made instant clothing. These days, technologies could allow a shop to have a 3D scanner where one would step in to have his body scanned, then the customer could select a model, and the model could be made on the spot by a high-speed sewing machine, or simply ordered with the custom fit data and shipped to the customer. If the piece of clothing was to be made on the spot, shops could simply carry fabric, buttons and accessories, and carry patterns in a computer that could make the piece of clothing automatically in, say, 20 minutes.

Personally, I'm a lot taller and heavier than the average person, and I've always had trouble finding pants. I would dearly love if clothes could be custom-made by a machine, as well as a tailor, but for cheap.

Dream on :-)

Are you sure you are talking about a Dual USB ibook, white, 12" screen?

Look at the following picture (and the rest of the instructions). The disk does not sit under the keyboard, and requires the removal of the back of the laptop and many other screws.

Are you sure you are talking about a Dual USB ibook, white, 12" screen?

Look at the following picture (and the rest of the instructions). The disk does not sit under the keyboard, and requires the removal of the back of the laptop and many other screws.

The "we were here first" argument isn't a good one for you - the Jews were there thousands of years before the Muslims & the Arabs. Islam is only 1400 years old.

Here's a better example of the arrogance and disconnection of the Hindu caste system: quote: "By his very birth a Brahmin is a deity even for the gods and the only authority for people in this world, for the Veda is the foundation in this matter." -- Manusmrti 11:85.

For another example of Indian arrogance, see this story by an Indian : Hindian Arrogance on a Tourist Bus.

It would be better to outsource to Russia or an Eastern European country. The cultural differences between the U.S. and India are too great.

Part of the problem is that someone who makes 22 times the normal pay of other people in her country, as the article says, is that, for her, the company is like a god. Arrogance, like many mental illnesses, is bipolar. Someone affected with this will treat those perceived as inferiors as worthless, but that person will also treat those perceived as superiors as though they are perfect.

Often directions that come from above are faulty in some way. When arrogance is a problem, managers simply won't hear information that is perceived as different from what they want to hear.

Every engineering and programming project with which I've been associated has required some mid-course correction, or some change in planning. It is part of your job to teach your manager how to manage well. When there is such a huge difference between the economic position of workers and managers, managers just don't get the training they need to do their jobs well.

Outsourcing to India is just an extreme variation of top managers trying not to have a human relationship with the people they manage. I've seen many companies that have failed because of too little attention to relationships.

I think that many companies who think that outsourcing is saving them money today will eventually realize that there are long-term costs they haven't considered. For example, software that is successfully written in India may become the basis for the domination of a field by an Indian company. Companies that outsource export their business rules and business expertise. Those who live in a country in which the average person makes $500 per year, as the article says, may feel completely comfortable making illegal copies and selling them to anyone who will pay. Yes, I know that Indian progammers aren't allowed to bring pens and pencils to their desks. But, when they go home, someone has the keys to the building. Someone, and probably many people, are able to make copies of any successful code. In the U.S., there is not such economic pressure to break the law. It is usually not perceived as necessary to steal to make living. In a very poor, very economically unsuccessful country like India, there is a higher percentage of people willing to break the law. Think what will happen if a U.S. company tries to go to the Indian courts. That could erase any cost savings.

India is poor for serious reasons, whatever they are. Those who send jobs to India are trying to erase centuries of cultural failure. Those who outsource to India are trying to get success from a mostly unsuccessful people. If it were all so easy, Indians would make their own country successful, rather than getting money from outside.

Is it a mere coincidence that Senator Lieberman looks like Senator Palpatine?

You are confusing two different RF devices here. Radar used for speed detection uses a microwave emission of known frequency and looks for the reflection. Now depending on the band (K, Ka, X, S, etc...), the reflected signal will have a higher frequency per mph of the reflecting target. As an example (numbers won't be accurate), Ku has an increase of around 16KHz per mph. It is fairly easy to subtract the original frq and deduce the speed. The constant is different for each band, but the concept is the same. A shift in the carrier frq is not the same as radio with a modulated intelligence.

Now even with a simple crystal controlled radio it must detect a frq range to demodulate the intelligence (signal). Commercial FM radio is about 100KHz wide, certainly not a single frq. Even narrow FM 2m ham voice is allocated 10Khz. The only thing that is a single constant frq is the carrier, the modulated portion is by definition not constant.

Simple superhetrodyne description. Radio is fairly simple stuff at the basic non-computer controlled level. When you move into the GHz range that satellite based services use, the radio transmitter/receiver circuitry is much more complex and construction methods are critical. The radar detector that was interfering with satellite communications must have been quite cheap, poorly shielded and emitting a nice range of powerful harmonics. It probably also did very poorly as a radar detector.

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After a bit of a google found a great page on all time stupid cars

Australia has had it's fair share of lemons like the Holden Camira, Leyland P76 (which at the time, both won Car of the Year)

If it was the design of the car you liked, have you ever seen a Honda del Sol? I bought a low-mileage '95 del Sol a few years ago and I love it. It's a two-seater like the Fiero, but I've had 0 problems with it after 60,000 miles except for the roof squeeking occasionally and recently the fan speed dial on the A/C came loose. It's a great little car and the top comes off! (It stores in the trunk.)

Call me what you will, but there was nothing in Episode 1 that was truly memorable. There were no lines that are worthy of geeks repeating.

Unlike, I suppose, the other three movies which are teeming with lines such as
Wedge! Pull out! You're not doing any good back there!
and
Grab me, Chewie. I'm slipping -- hold on. Grab it, almost... you almost got it. Gently now, all right, easy, easy, hold me Chewie.

-Adam

..staaay forevah!
impossible mission. i. want. more.

It's what all the Christian Hackers use...

That's actually kind of amusing that arnold was rooting NASA on when you consider how bad his last trip was.

What better way of demonstrating this than by looking at the hidden messages contained within the names of some of Linux's most outspoken advocates:

• Linus Torvalds [microsoft.com] is an anagram of slit anus or VD 'L,' clearly referring to himself by the first initial.
• Richard M. Stallman [geocities.com], spokespervert for the Gaysex's Not Unusual 'movement' is an anagram of mans cram thrill ad.
• Alan Cox [microsoft.com] is barely an anagram of anal cox which is just so filthy and unchristian it unnerves me.

I'm sure that Eric S. Raymond, composer of the satanic homosexual [goatse.cx] propaganda diatribe The Cathedral and the Bizarre, is probably an anagram of something queer, but we don't need to look that far as we know he's always shoving a gun up some poor little boy's rectum. Update: Eric S. Raymond is actually an anagram for secondary rim and cord in my arse. It just goes to show you that he is indeed queer.

Update the Second: It is also documented that Evil Sicko Gaymond is responsible for a nauseating piece of code called Fetchmail [microsoft.com], which is obviously sinister sodomite slang for 'Felch Male' -- a disgusting practise. For those not in the know, 'felching' is the act performed by two perverts wherein one sucks their own post-coital ejaculate out of the other's rectum. In fact, it appears that the dirty Linux faggots set out to undermine the good Republican institution of e-mail, turning it into 'e-male.'

As far as Richard 'Master' Stallman goes, that filthy fudge-packer was actually quoted [salon.com] on leftist commie propaganda site Salon.com as saying the following: 'I've been resistant to the pressure to conform in any circumstance,' he says. 'It's about being able to question conventional wisdom,' he asserts. 'I believe in love, but not monogamy,' he says plainly.

And this isn't a made up troll bullshit either! He actually stated this tripe, which makes it obvious that he is trying to politely say that he's a flaming homo [comp-u-geek.net] slut [rotten.com]!

Speaking about 'flaming,' who better to point out as a filthy chutney ferret than Slashdot's very own self-confessed pederast Jon Katz. Although an obvious deviant anagram cannot be found from his name, he has already confessed, nay boasted of the homosexual [goatse.cx] perversion of corrupting the innocence of young children [slashdot.org]. To quote from the article linked:

'I've got a rare kidney disease,' I told her. 'I have to go to the bathroom a lot. You can come with me if you want, but it takes a while. Is that okay with you? Do you want a note from my doctor?'

Is this why you were touching your penis [rotten.com] in the cinema, Jon? And letting the other boys touch it too?

We should also point out that Jon Katz refers to himself as 'Slashdot's resident Gasbag.' Is there any more doubt? For those fortunate few who aren't aware of the list of homosexual [goatse.cx] terminology found inside the Linux 'Sauce Code,' a 'Gasbag' is a pervert who gains sexual gratification from having a thin straw inserted into his urethra (or to use the common parlance, 'piss-pipe'), then his

The most common technique is to use good old fashioned string. Most hands refer to it as Tie Line. Run a wire where you need it, tie it up. Tie line is usually cut to about half a yard (or metre), tied in a clove knot, and finished with the same knot you tie your shoes with. After a year or two, they wear out, but it's cheap and easy.

Many rental shops will put Velcro ties on their cables. I think it's silly given that's it's 50x more exprensive, but it's their money.

they did, heres the pic
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Oh the joy of mashocistly slashdotting my own sight

WTF is a tatra?!?

You must live in Alabama or West Virginia.

A Tatra is a Czech car. They've been making cars for over 100 years.

Here are some production figures for the country's various auto brands. FYI Skoda is now owned by Volkswagen.

I can think of a few good reasons for compressing an image of text, including without limitation the following:

• Screenshots, not all of which have the flat colors on which PNG does so well.
• Text in any of several writing systems for which the publisher of a hideously popular proprietary operating system refuses to add support.

I can think of a few good reasons for compressing an image of text, including without limitation the following:

• Screenshots, not all of which have the flat colors on which PNG does so well.
• Text in any of several writing systems for which the publisher of a hideously popular proprietary operating system refuses to add support.

here come the Martian Script kiddies

There is a cool open source app called GiFT. It has clients for Linux, Mac and MS Windows. It can connect to OpenFT, Gnutella and FastTrack. It can be a replacement for Kazza.

I cannot understand why ANYONE would use Kazaa or some other closed source app to do their p2p activities. Not only is the spyware/adware crap, but you can NEVER trust the code or WHO puts out the code.

Anyone that does p2p should go to PeerGuardian. They put out a list of RIAA/MPAA and other IP addresses and IP ranges to block them from getting to your PC/Mac. The site can spit out the list for many software products like iptables, Shorewall, ZoneAlarm, Kerio Personal firewall, and other. USE THIS LIST.

One other point. If you DO uses any p2p app, make sure that you can disable browsing. That will stop the RIAA/MPAA and thier goons from checking out all your shares and making a nice list to sue you with. The average user that was or is being sued by the RIAA shared about 800 titles. The RIAA got that list by doing a search and browsing your shares. They then save that list of shares with your IP and wham, next thing you know you are bing sued. SO TURN OFF SHARE BROWSING.

Disclaimer:
I do not condone trading copyrighted material for which you do not have the permissions to do so. I personally listen to the same old CD's I have had for years since I cannot stand the crap comming out today. Bittorrent is great to grab missed episodes of the Simpsons and XFiles. Oh, and purchase music from MagnaTune.

From the article --

When the company tried to insist that an AOL icon instantly appear on a user's desktop during a Winamp installation, Frankel hit the roof. "I'd be like, 'Look, our users don't want to use AOL!' " he says. " 'They think AOL sucks!'"

But if you notice the Winamp 5 install, this option DOES exist.

It does show an Add AOL icon to desktop, and what more, the option is checked by default too. Am not saying its right or wrong, Nullsoft can do jollywell what it pleases, but this is just an observation.

Now it would be cooler if Justin had come out with a version that has this greyed :)

the real problem here is mining on the moon.

I just hope that the lunar miners don't waste their time searching for Helium-3 ore to process.