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Apparently they never heard of TPB or that is not a torrent site.

filetype:torrent +"Oz the great and powerful" 6020 results.

I'm genuinely curious... how many results do *you* get with my search term? 'cos I just did it again and still only got four.

filetype:torrent +"Oz the great and powerful" 6020 results.

or: https://www.google.be/search?q...

Just follow the dots to get to the party.

If you'd actually read it, or even been in the presence of a copy of it, then you'd know that the title is Nineteen Eighty-Four, not 1984.

In many languages, the translation is called "1984" - and sometimes reprints of the English edition also.

Google filters out porn. Google does not filter out filetype:torrent
So if I want to open a torrent site, all I have to do is provide other things as well, and it becomes legal?
The fact that Google has been in trouble because of how they handle copyright issues is most likely besides the point, I assume.

For me it is a moral question. I do not want to pay for it, so if I would pay for it, so ME that would be wrong.

I just use google and it would take almost no time turn that into a webpage.

Google accepts the worde "filetype:torrent" without the quotes in your request. e.g. metallica filetype:torrent

I am sure that if you ask anybody, they will happily do it for you, not only the emplyees.

And this will work anywhere in the world. If you ask; the chances of getting a bad person who runs away with your camera are minimal if you pick them.

Also: stop taking pictures and look around. Most of the pictures you take are a: never looked at by anybody and/or b: of a subject that you can doanload. No need to take a picture of the Disney Castle as many already have and you can download one that is better than what you will take.

The eye pupil is known to exhibit interesting behaviour at times,
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P...
one notable being photic reflex (which also affects a quarter of a population)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P...

IMHO, human vision is still incompletely understood at whole population (global) level,
with all sorts of exceptions and special trade-off cases being documented:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T...
http://discovermagazine.com/20... ### check this one!

Finally, let's not forget, that it is well known that manly colour vocabulary is 4-bit, while females have true colour sets ;-O
http://www.smithsonianmag.com/...
http://io9.com/5919311/some-wo...
https://www.google.be/search?r...

Last but not least: make sure you see the image of the OP in fractional ways (say, top 10th of the image),
along with another person that sees it in the alternative mode. You may come up with surprises. ;-)

If you have Google Maps or Apple Maps, you need your data connection. There are other options available. I use Sygic and others are available. All offline. Some free, some you pay for.

If you add a (bluetooth) OBDII dongle, you can get the car data from the engine as well.

Many people have added their tablet (Apple and Android) as their primary interface for media. There is specific software available to do all this. Nothing stops you doing the same with your phone.

At this moment about 95% of the time all my radio does is transfer the sound of my phone to my boxes. I have not configured a radio station yet in the 5 years I have it. On big road trips, I prefer the Garmin, because it is easier to add a route like this into a route on the Garmin using Tyre and the Garmin software.

Added advantages for using my phone and not an internal system? When I want to do changes to it, I can do it at my desk. I can get a new device and upgrade or downgrade it as I please. If I drive with somebody, I can listen to their music. If they steal my car-radio, I buy a new one for 50-100EUR.

> I find the Blender to be awfully unintuitive.

Everyone does. The explanation I read was that 3d video is complex and very different from word processors etc. and you need a very specialised interface.

There are various keyboard shortcut cheat sheets you can print and stick to the wall:

http://ostrovskeho.sk/ucivo/da...

https://www.google.be/search?q...

To those for whom the sound is important:
I do not care if the sound is important to you. It is not important to everybody, yet everybody has to hear it.
If sound is so important to you, have headphones on when you drive. Have an app that you can hear all the (fake) revs of the car next to you for all I care.

It should not be to hard to make a lot of noise inside of your car. Just buy a bluetooth OBDII device and write a program for any device (including a Raspberry Pi) that can produce sound.

But do not enforce what you want onto me when there is no reason to do so.

To those for whom the sound is important:
I do not care if the sound is important to you. It is not important to everybody, yet everybody has to hear it.
If sound is so important to you, have headphones on when you drive. Have an app that you can hear all the (fake) revs of the car next to you for all I care.

It should not be to hard to make a lot of noise inside of your car. Just buy a bluetooth OBDII device and write a program for any device (including a Raspberry Pi) that can produce sound.

But do not enforce what you want onto me when there is no reason to do so.

Mathematics, for example

Again, nobody wants a hobo-looking person on their team. While I think John Maddog Hall cleans up nicely for a meeting, the others, no. I find your suggestion that RMS is a team player particularly vexing.

Let's look for a random other, well-kown programmer: https://www.google.be/search?q=mark+russinovich&safe=off&espv=210&es_sm=93&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ei=MYTYUojzCozB7AaNjIDYDw&ved=0CAkQ_AUoAQ&biw=1846&bih=995

Translated short article with conceptual drawing

What do you mean by: 'the war between the states'

Google is your friend. Seriously, I'm not American and though military history is one of my interests, the period between the decline of muskets and the arrival of tanks isn't one of my favourites. And yet, I'm familiar with the phrase.

Aren't all wars between states?

Ummm, no. We had a private one in England back in the 15th century about flowers, and another in the 17th about hairstyles.

Of course we were so hard that we'd kicked the shit out of everyone else (by which I mainly mean France) so we had no real option if we wanted to keep in shape.

Or is this some sort of veiled euphamism

Dictionary.com is also your friend.

Until then, call it 'The US Civil War' .

Sometimes wars have more than one name, especially in different places. War of Independence, [American] Revolutionary War. Spanish Succession, Queen Anne's War. WW2, Great Patriotic War...

YOU read the verdict. The '677 patent was upheld. It is about Apple patenting the rectangle. Anybody arguing otherwise is an Apple shill or misinformed fanboy, and that's the truth.

It is true that there are other aspects that were ruled to be infringing, but the patented rectangle now stands strong and on it's own.

According to Forbes :
"Question 5: For each of the following products, has Apple proven by a preponderance of the evidence that Samsung Electronics Co. (SEC) and/or Samsung Telecommunications America (STA) has infringed the D’677 Patent?
The answer is yes for all but one of the devices. The no is Galaxy Ace."

The Galaxy Ace, unequivocally a rectangle.

I have driven a Citroen Xsara Picasso, a small non-sporty family car at speeds of 180 km/h (112 mph). It had a wimpy 2 L 4 cylinder diesel engine which produced only 97 hp IIRC. At that point it was close to its top speed, but apart from more wind noise and noise from the tires everything was completely normal. There was probably more engine noise too, but it got drowned in the wind noise.

And I've once done 200 k/h (124 mph) (measured by GPS, so that's the real speed as opposed to the inflated speed shown on the dasboard) in a Toyota Corolla Verso which was sligthly less non-sporty and had a 2.2 136 hp diesel engine. 200 k/h was above its posted top speed; I guess the road went a bit downhill. I've driven that car at 180 k/h and 190 k/h with no problem whatsoever.

I'm very surprised to learn that Camero's start to act wonky at speeds even lower than that. Maybe next time you should buy a well-build Japanese or European car (which is not intended to mean that all Japanes or European cars are well-built).

I have driven a Citroen Xsara Picasso, a small non-sporty family car at speeds of 180 km/h (112 mph). It had a wimpy 2 L 4 cylinder diesel engine which produced only 97 hp IIRC. At that point it was close to its top speed, but apart from more wind noise and noise from the tires everything was completely normal. There was probably more engine noise too, but it got drowned in the wind noise.

And I've once done 200 k/h (124 mph) (measured by GPS, so that's the real speed as opposed to the inflated speed shown on the dasboard) in a Toyota Corolla Verso which was sligthly less non-sporty and had a 2.2 136 hp diesel engine. 200 k/h was above its posted top speed; I guess the road went a bit downhill. I've driven that car at 180 k/h and 190 k/h with no problem whatsoever.

I'm very surprised to learn that Camero's start to act wonky at speeds even lower than that. Maybe next time you should buy a well-build Japanese or European car (which is not intended to mean that all Japanes or European cars are well-built).

You're making a bogus argument. You know perfectly well renewable energy is not being used by the private sector for power generation, and your question only makes sense if that were the case. So the answers are very simple :

If "it takes more energy to produce and ship wind turbines than they will produce in the first 10 years"

That's the really bad part : the 10 year figure is based on theoretically optimal performance (wind blowing at exactly the optimal speed for 10 years). It also completely ignores maintenance : these things contain lots and lots of mechanically rotating parts that need to be oiled, checked and cleaned regularly. Because otherwise (in this case, the brakes failed)

, why would anyone install them?

Here's the first reason. In reality most (> 60%) wind power is not bought by choice. Solar power is even worse. See how effective politics can be ? Right now one of the arguments being raised in Germany for renewable power subsidies is that not providing these subsidies would crash the market.

And as for private turbines, the few that exist. First most power companies are government monopolies, and thus buy what the government tells them to, without regard for cost and/or efficiency, so there's really only very, very few of them. Why do people buy yachts ? Why do women buy 10 different facial creams with identical ingredients, each one more expensive than the next ? Why do men (try to) buy ferrari's ? To become popular.

Have you been watching the news and read a few magazines in the last 10 years ? "Green power" gets more commercials than Verizon. Mostly paid for by the government.

Additionally, by moving production to China, the real cost of producing these things is externalized, and moved to cheap China. China burns coal, dumping the waste in rivers, to end up in the Pacific ocean. Just to give you an idea : that waste is more radioactive than nuclear waste, and more toxic than sewage. And the miners are basically slaves.

Wind power is not actually cheap, even with the government subsidies applied, but having resources dug up by slave labor, burned in substandard equipment, the waste simply dumped into nature makes a Chinese 10-year energy supply for 5-10 homes just a little bit more expensive than regulated nuclear power in the states, isolated and secured, with the waste properly disposed of (again that's only a 10-year energy supply assuming theoretically optimal performance, disregarding maintenance, and once it becomes clear you get 20% performance at best, you understand why you will find most private wind generators abandoned).

It's a fake feel-good idea, with horrible consequences for invisible people, like most popular intellectual ideas. Like how Obama claims to "better the lives of people everywhere" while holding a blackberry, and surrounded by aides mostly carrying iphones, shouting about bettering the lives of the little guy, to deafening applause. Like how Al Gore, fresh out of his private jet, taking not one, but three limousines to a stage where he declares how "everybody needs to do their part to lower CO2 output" under lights powered by trucked in petroleum generators.

Why ? We all know why. Saying you're "green" is popular, and fantastic, extremely widely considered a good idea. Just like smoking filtered tobacco is considered a bad idea, and breathing in hand-rolled burning hemp leaves without filter, bringing actually burning fibers straight into your lungs is considered to do no harm, despite hundreds of studies claiming the opposite. Why ? You tell me why. It's popular. That excuses everything in our society.

Really, do you ever bother thinking before you post?

Yes. Do you ? Why do you think Google makes 2.5 billion per quarter for text-only commercials ? Bec

With robots, you always know it's fake. No matter how good the emulation, that's just always going to be in the back of your mind in dealing with a robot (unless you don't actually know it's a robot).

Tell that to the people convinced their PC hates them ( 93.300.000 results) Humans anthropomorphize *everything*.

You know, there is this technology which can spoof something external to be internal.

I agree with m50d that it is not relevant for the reason he gives above.

The Gödel theorems are interesting for the study of the foundation of mathematics and more specifically for the study of the relation between logic and mathematics. Using it outside that field is at least tricky, and more often than not crackpottery.

Out of a set of axioms (or out of a set of hypothesis) you use deductive logic to prove some theorems which are true if the axioms are true. The axioms together with the theorems form a theory. The question of completeness is: can we construct a proof for every true stament in that theory, or do there exist true statements which cannot be proven. The question of (in)consistentcy is: can we construct a proof for a false statement? All this is about the internal properties of a theory.

Now back to your question: relativity theory and quantum mechanics have different sets of axioms. The axioms of relativity do not lead to theories which are in contradiction with other theorems of the same theory (I am not sure about this for general relativity, there are however several sets of axioms for special relativity which have proofs of consistency*). I guess the same holds for QM**. The problem is: theorems of relativity are in contradiction with theorems QM, so this is a problem between two theories. The problem is that both theories are very solid and well-tested on their own right. A theory which tries to combine relativity and QM on a logical level is Branching Space-Time by Nuel Belnap.

* For axioms of special relativity, check: - Optical geometry of motion, a new view of the theory of relativity by A. A. Robb, 1911
- A theory of time and space by A. A. Robb
- The absolute relations of time and space by A. A. Robb, 1921
- Geometry Of Time And Space by A. A. Robb, 1936
- Orthogonality and Spacetime Geometry by Robert Goldblatt, 1987 (this is a first oder theory, so it is both complete and consistent - however it is not categorical
- Independent axioms for Minkowski space-time by John W. Schutz, 1997. This theory is of second order, so it suffers from the problems caused by the Gödel theorems.

** Check Quantum Logic by J. von Neumann (yes, the guy of the "Von Neumann Concept") and G. Birkhoff.

On my laptop I had to disable dynamic clocking in my nvidia driver config to get a working driver.
Add this to your nvidia modprobe options in /etc/modprobe.d/:
options nvidia NVreg_RegistryDwords="PerfLevelSrc=0x2222"

Many people have this problem with the official nvidia driver.

It's Secure Socket Lawyer!

Did your preacher tell you that google is evil?

While I'm on the subject of total and utter cunts, are these cousin fucking creatins(tm) giving out modpoints with every inbred special family ticket?

1. Exactly. Labour, like their "more extreme" (heh, are we really quite sure about that ?) brothers the communists, never let reasoned discussion get in the way of totalitarian control over society. Think of the (children|environment|poor|minorities|...) ! Stories like this make you think government should be outlawed.
2. Wrong, unfortunately, the most reliable indicator whether someone will become a criminal is whether their parents were (at age 0). When the kids grow, past behavior becomes the most reliable indicator. Perhaps "once a criminal, always a criminal" is too strong, but there is certainly some truth behind it (it correlates about 80% and yes, it means causation since they're aware of the temporal relation. The question is whether a first offence correlates with the likelyhood of a second offence. Since they correlate strongly there is a chain of causation X -> first offence -> second offence). Note that while tempting, this does not at all mean that criminal behavior is genetic since it does not apply to adopted children (criminals have an unfrotunate tendency both to have more kids and not to take all that good care of their family, resulting in more orphaned children than society in general).

Take your pick google

From the Wikipedia article you can get that the coupe Veyron does (and the convertible won't be far off):

0-100 km/h in 2.46s
100-200 km/h in 4.8s
200-300 km/h in 9.4s 300-400 km/h in 33s

I wouldn't say it drops off quickly after reaching 100. It does the 200-300km/h jump faster than my new car will do 0-100km/h... Keep in mind that the difference in kinetic energy between 300km/h and 200km/h is 5 times larger than between 100km/h and 0. It's performance is stunning and saying it becomes "slow" after 100 is like saying orbiting around the Earth in a Space Shuttle is dull after the launch. If you want to prove me wrong I'd accept a ride with a Veyron...

Oh, and that main straight on the VW Ehra-Lessien test track really is only 8.9km (or 5.5 miles for the metric disabled). You can measure this yourself with Google Earth or Google Maps.

http://books.google.be/books?id=8RlwmttM6rEC&pg=PA151&lpg=PA151&dq=keynes+perfect+information&source=bl&ots=R47fKaOrpn&sig=RTw0mfVV-D0N2bZ0AR84oTAJOMw&hl=nl&ei=sPQDSo3NNcLQ-Aa8ls2GAw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=2#PPA151,M1

Have you ever tried to walk 72 miles in a day? Even back in my infantry days I would have called you nuts.

One mile every 20 minutes (one km every 12 min for most of you) is actually quite brisk, and pretty fatiguing over 2 or 3 hours, let alone 24. Factor in time to eat, drink, change socks, cover blisters, relieve your self, etc, and you are looking at having to run-walk to keep that kind of pace.

While actual athletes may be able to do more, I would put the absolute limit for a fit person at around 40 miles in 24 hours if the person must carry nothing, the weather is neither too hot nor too cold and the person is very motivated. A fit person could comfortably walk around 18 miles in a day, and 12 miles per day at a sustained rate.

For the overwhelming majority of humanity (with the possible exceptions of Kenyans...) 72 miles in a 24 hour period is simply not possible.

In the case at hand, the site is 27 kilometers (a little more than 18 miles) from the Vatican.

The thread is talking about arrays, and you mention std::list. Right, C++ standard library golden rule #1: always use std::vector, unless you have a really, REALLY, REALLY good reason to use something else. See also one of the other child posts.
std::vector is the array replacement. It has good random access speed. It is guaranteed to use contiguous memory. If it's not fast enough that's probably because you are allocating memory because you are storing by value and the STL makes a lot of copies of stored values internally in many operations(see other child post) - and that can be solved without defaulting to pointers by using a custom allocator.
If any of this seems too complex to you, you shouldn't have been bothering with performance-critical C++ yet, and learning more about the language and libraries first. I recommend the book "Efficient C++" by Dov Bulka and David Mayhew as an introduction, and "Effective STL" by Scott Meyers for more on the standard library.

I don't know why you assume that elected government is somehow able to protect minorities better.

Perhaps he's read some Mill or Tocqueville. You should try it.

In fact, I would challenge you to come up with a historic example where the elites protected some (non-elite) minority better than the majority of people would.

Germany in the early 1900's versus forty years later.

I was aware of that. Also if you can search for a specific filetype, like .doc, .txt or indeed .torrent if you so desire. Do a search on the following:
Harry Potter Goblet Fire filetype:torrent
That will reduce the noise to a mere 152.

So where can we now sue Google and /. and myself and my provider and all the ISPs that transfer this data and the people selling the computers to read this and ...

Don't be a wuss an us a link

The fun part is that now Slashdot itself can be sued. You could link to tinyurl.com and sue them as well.

Seriously, what if I posted a link to an illegal torrentfile here. Would Slashdot be responsible for it? Is TPB actively doing something, or passively letting others add the links?

... and isn't American.

Funny, I didn't even know Polaroid made sunglasses

See OSDavid

From the third link down: "OSdavid is a free and open-source, advertising supported Desktop-Linux Operating ..."

... before he really starts to get clubbed to death.

reference to the short movie says already enough about ponies ...

slashdot: Belgium
aepervius: google.fr

I'm guessing you're one of the 75% of Yanks who thinks "passport" is a request to share fortified wine, right?

Clue: google.be en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belgium

Differences between France and Belgium:
* Most Belgians speak Dutch, not French.
* In Belgium's extremely long varied history of occupation, the French occupied it for less than 25 years.
* Belgium still has a King. France killed all of theirs more than two hundred years ago.
* Belgium is NOT famous for good food. Trust me on this one. Typical menu: Ham and cheese with fries. Cheese fries with ham. Ham and fries with cheese. Pick any combination of the three. The fries are more like British "chips" except they are fried twice to make them crispier.

So are you saying those inmates are innocent ? Just because there is a difference, there necessarily is racism involved ? Maybe it simply is true what every statistic keeps repeating : immigrants commit many more crimes than natives. 20 or 30 times more. This is statistic is not isolated to america. Les than 30% of people in the belgian prisons are belgians. 4% of muslims in the UK perpetrate 72% of reported antisemitic attacks.

islam teaches muslims to kill infidel males, and rape infidel females. The statistic on rapes in brussels, unfortunately, confirms this is exactly what's happening. There are maybe 5% muslims, but they do nearly 60% of rapes. That's racism right there for you. Also note that in many muslim countries, it is either explicitly or de-facto legal to do so.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/new s/news.html?in_article_id=412697&in_page_id=1770

Or look at the case of ait oud. He's a muslim who raped and killed 2 children. Then he dumped them in the sewer. Traces of his jacket and his hair were found on the victim, including the areas where they really, REALLY shouldn't have been found. His entire mosque agrees : he didn't do it, and even if he did do it, he did nothing wrong, and he's being accused because of racism. The papers reported this small detail once, and now they shut up about any of his relatives or other muslims. Coincidence ?

http://images.google.be/url?q=http://watch.windsof change.net/pics/2006/r3443127481_o.jpg&usg=__G3_28 -sYXxU2Lu5snXpe9BxqMsc=

And ... why don't you check how blacks are treated in the rest of the world. Why don't you check how muslims treat blacks ? It's been in the news so much lately in sudan. Also note that muslims have no word for "a black person" only one single word denotes blacks in the muslim word. You know which one ? "slave".

But as always ... check your facts.

The court ruling was published in French and orders Google to publish it. Since "it" is in French and since the order applies to the whole of Belgium (regardless of the language spoken by the user), Google complied and published the same text in all versions of its site. Hey, you can even read the page in hax0r-speak and you will get the same text: http://www.google.be/intl/xx-hacker/

Or since the ruling, has the default language of the Belgian Google changed from Dutch to French?

http://www.google.be/

but Google arn't bitter

An organisation representing French and German speaking newspapers in Belgium has won a court order forcing Google to stop indexing these journals. They also forced Google to post the order on its homepage in belgium: http://www.google.be/ Here the address of these enlightened people: http://www.presscopyrights.be/ Lucky I speak Flemish and NEVER read these newspapers anyway. Nothing is lost, I assure you. Only a bunch of isolated people will get even more isolated since any news of them will totally fall into oblivion.

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