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I'd say this though, as a former alarm engineer - if you really have something to protect, the best security is physical, not an alarm.

Another occasion to bring up lock bumping .

As far as I'm concerned, legal punishment of any severity for simply challenging the beliefs of the majority is not acceptable anywhere.

Yes, that was never a problem in America. More recent examples can be found if you bother to look.

We were going to give you the blue shirt, but that wouldn't tell the audience that you're about to die.

To boldly go, don't you see?
It's just a ploy, it's a fucking conspiracy!

The final frontier is just a lie
that kills thousands every year!

You and me, don't you see?
Brain washed at the fucking Academy.

This red shirt, I'll say it loud -
It ain't nothing but a fucking death shroud!

The red shirts are dying
The red shirts are dying

The red shirts are dying
I ain't lying
What they're selling you're buying
While the Captain's satisfying his itch in a ditch
with some green-skinned bitch
And the Federation grows increasingly rich!

From Warp 11

the island is almost entirely comprises human-made trash. It currently weighs approximately 3.5 million tons with a concentration of 3.34 million pieces of garbage per square kilometer, 80 per cent of which is plastic.

Due to the Patch's location in the North Pacific Gyre, its growth is guaranteed to continue as this Africa-sized section of ocean spins in a vortex that effectively traps flotsam.

I'm quite north enough already, and I'm using my computers to heat my apartment right now (it's 5 degrees celsius outside).

P.S.: for a quick laugh, zoom out of the map a bit. That's what is called "living in the middle of nowhere". Or at least it sure feels like it.

Gasoline? The poor guy just had his basement flooded. You're certainly the one to bring fuel to the fire!

Since you're recommending alcohol, http://images.google.ca/images?um=1&hl=en&safe=off&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla%3Aen-GB%3Aofficial&q=computer+case+alchol+bottle&btnG=Search+Images, might be a better solution to your problem. Empty the whisky bottle (this should help your forget your problems .... not make them go away). Pour what is left on the motherboard. Then, you'll *think* the computer is fixed!

Legend has it that Leonardo da Vinci kept a very unusual sleep cycle; he would sleep in short amounts, but several times per day.

Interestingly, if you Google "leonardo da vinci sleep" the first result you get is an article on this concept: Polyphasic Sleep, which doesn't mention Leonardo anywhere. Apparently enough pages mentioning Leonardo link to that article to that it ranks #1, without even mentioning him itself.

YES

http://www.google.ca/search?hl=en&safe=off&q=efficient+incandescent+light+california&btnG=Search&meta=

You have to be a bit subtle or your ass will be in a sling. If it is obvious that you are 'snooping around' you will be dog meat. Be warned!

I've been in a couple of organizations where people have been a bit corrupt.

1 - School board. The guy who looked after physical plant for the board had his staff do a lot of work on his cottage. He was probably doing other stuff as well. He got canned as did the director of education. Detecting this fraud just required listening to the staff gossip. Taking the board's plumber or electrician out for a beer would have got you all the evidence you needed.

2 - College. The new director of IT tried to change suppliers. He didn't last long. I think his boss was the one getting the kickbacks.

Kickbacks are hard to detect using regular accounting because they don't leave a conventional accounting trail. The best way to find them is by looking at the lifestyle of those you suspect. The best way to do that is to get to know them personally.

A lot of organizations are VERY sensitive to employee lifestyles. The father of one of my friends had his whole life audited because his house was a little too nice and his car was a little too flashy. It turned out that he was just an astute guy who should have been in business, not the civil service.

http://books.google.ca/books?id=o5jApbkp_hAC&pg=PA172&lpg=PA172&ots=6nxGc_rEYx&dq=detecting+kickbacks+lifestyles

Going after your criminal Government, do you?

That said, Obama/Biden might. In fact, it's your only chance.

This should just about balance out the tax lost when Bono "I'm all about supporting the little guy" NoLastName moved all of U2's holdings out of Ireland

No, you did a google search for (u)(small i)(-) in katakana. You type wi- to get the correct hiragana to come out. ui- has nothing to do with waapuro as you're suggesting typing uii will make the correct kana come out. uii in romanji doesn't even return any results that pertain to the Wii when you put it in google. http://www.google.ca/search?hl=ja&q=uii&btnG=Google+%E6%A4%9C%E7%B4%A2

Let's stop cutting down the Amazon already, shall we?

Seriously, what exactly is a Gaming Commission and what executive powers do they have? It is a real question btw.

The Kahnawake Gaming Commission is located on a Native Reserve, South of Montreal, Canada. What kind of Legal power do they have? It's certainly not federal or provincial! Can it be trusted?

Some folks over on Wikipedia are also questionning this.

I'll probably be 'trolled down' if I mention that 'some' Kahnawake Mohawks have had 'some' legal issues in the past (read: tobacco contraband, drug smugglin') because it is most likely not the same guys who run the Gaming Commission and it's non-relevant. However, as a Quebec resident, I can't help but relate what I see in the news 'bout Kahnawake Mohaks and the KGC.

Posting AC per my lawyer advice.

Man, yellow brick road is way less colorful than I would have imagined.

My son, the war criminal.

You can see the goole map image here: http://maps.google.ca/maps?f=q&hl=en&geocode=&q=Russia,+oblast+Tscheljabinsk,+Tscheljabinsk&ie=UTF8&cd=1&ll=55.160251,61.403317&spn=0.003561,0.007381&t=h&z=17&iwloc=addr Notice that its the same picture as there are cars in the same places with a few vehicles removed near the smiley face as well to help wit the blending. Cars parked in rows near the bottom of the screenshot are all identical to the current map image.

Sure they did! All over the place.

As an example, Platz der deutschen Einheit, Kassel (Square of German Unity) used to be called Adolf-Hitler-Platz. That's what a friend of mine who lives there told me.

I mean come on, if you lived on Hilterallee, Goebbelsstraße or Mengeleplatz, wouldn't you want it changed too?

Not only that, the East German city of Chemnitz was renamed to Karl-Marx-Stadt during communism, but reverted to the previous name after the wall fell. Same with Eisenhüttenstadt, which was renamed to Stalinstadt.

I'm sure there are way more examples, but that's all I could come up with in 2 minutes.

They kind of have: They've said that the system requirements are pretty much going to be the same as Vista. http://www.google.ca/search?source=ig&hl=en&rlz=&q=windows+7+system+requirements&meta=

So, even if Vista was targeting current (2006) machines and wouldn't work well on old ones, then Windows 7 will work ok on machines up to three or four years old when it's released.

Since accountability evasion has proven notoriously hard to fix, and shows every sign of being an ongoing problem.

Since accountability evasion has proven notoriously hard to fix, and shows every sign of being an ongoing problem.

Vote for her if you are in favor of more dumbing down of America

I've been wondering if this is practical. I remember that some people have been building houses with dirt on top and non-south facing windows. Sort of like some of the hobbit houses pictured here: http://images.google.ca/images?q=hobbit%20house&ie=UTF-8&oe=utf-8&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a&um=1&sa=N&tab=wi - perhaps too whimsical an answer here.

The living conditions in these houses tends to not require AC to cool the house even in warm climates in warm/hot seasons. I don't know if this is practical, but in theory the building should be cooler to begin with.

http://barrapunto.com/ I believe the title literally translates to "Slashdot"

And hey, if you Google translate barrapunto.com from Spanish to English, it's more better grammar, too!

http://translate.google.ca/translate?u=http%3A%2F%2Fbarrapunto.com%2F&sl=es&tl=en&hl=en&ie=UTF-8

In the USA it's called Lobbying, or "Government Relations".

http://www.google.ca/search?q=Nintendo+Wii+Targeted+In+patent+Lawsuit&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a

Then you really need to peek outside your door. Maybe you haven't noticed, under Bush's tenure: extraordinary rendition, torture, a $3 trillion+ war of aggression, colossal hypocrisy, illegal wiretapping, disgusting cronyism and profiteering, a million dead civilians, galloping environmental destruction ... Need I go on. Bush (and his cabal) has earned the absolute hatred of every civilised individual on the planet. We wait for their Nuremberg.

Then you really need to peek outside your door. Maybe you haven't noticed, under Bush's tenure: extraordinary rendition, torture, a $3 trillion+ war of aggression, colossal hypocrisy, illegal wiretapping, disgusting cronyism and profiteering, a million dead civilians, galloping environmental destruction ... Need I go on. Bush (and his cabal) has earned the absolute hatred of every civilised individual on the planet. We wait for their Nuremberg.

Then you really need to peek outside your door. Maybe you haven't noticed, under Bush's tenure: extraordinary rendition, torture, a $3 trillion+ war of aggression, colossal hypocrisy, illegal wiretapping, disgusting cronyism and profiteering, a million dead civilians, galloping environmental destruction ... Need I go on. Bush (and his cabal) has earned the absolute hatred of every civilised individual on the planet. We wait for their Nuremberg.

Then you really need to peek outside your door. Maybe you haven't noticed, under Bush's tenure: extraordinary rendition, torture, a $3 trillion+ war of aggression, colossal hypocrisy, illegal wiretapping, disgusting cronyism and profiteering, a million dead civilians, galloping environmental destruction ... Need I go on. Bush (and his cabal) has earned the absolute hatred of every civilised individual on the planet. We wait for their Nuremberg.

Then you really need to peek outside your door. Maybe you haven't noticed, under Bush's tenure: extraordinary rendition, torture, a $3 trillion+ war of aggression, colossal hypocrisy, illegal wiretapping, disgusting cronyism and profiteering, a million dead civilians, galloping environmental destruction ... Need I go on. Bush (and his cabal) has earned the absolute hatred of every civilised individual on the planet. We wait for their Nuremberg.

Then you really need to peek outside your door. Maybe you haven't noticed, under Bush's tenure: extraordinary rendition, torture, a $3 trillion+ war of aggression, colossal hypocrisy, illegal wiretapping, disgusting cronyism and profiteering, a million dead civilians, galloping environmental destruction ... Need I go on. Bush (and his cabal) has earned the absolute hatred of every civilised individual on the planet. We wait for their Nuremberg.

Then you really need to peek outside your door. Maybe you haven't noticed, under Bush's tenure: extraordinary rendition, torture, a $3 trillion+ war of aggression, colossal hypocrisy, illegal wiretapping, disgusting cronyism and profiteering, a million dead civilians, galloping environmental destruction ... Need I go on. Bush (and his cabal) has earned the absolute hatred of every civilised individual on the planet. We wait for their Nuremberg.

For an illustrative example, google Blackwater illegal prosecution and you'll see that they get away with murder. Literally.

Or for another example, google Chevron Chernobyl.

The key feature of "Globalisation" as we know it is US corporations (and military) being able to break local and international law at will. Apparently in the US this isn't considered a problem.

For an illustrative example, google Blackwater illegal prosecution and you'll see that they get away with murder. Literally.

Or for another example, google Chevron Chernobyl.

The key feature of "Globalisation" as we know it is US corporations (and military) being able to break local and international law at will. Apparently in the US this isn't considered a problem.

If you can afford to ski, you can afford to buy something better than a scratchy knit hat with face holes in it. I don't think I've ever seen anyone wearing one while skiing, and that includes historical pictures.

You must be thinking 'alpine or whistler' style downhill skiing, on balmy sunny days, like in the movies, with an expensive lift ticket, and hot chocolate at the lodge between runs.

Try going x-country in the prairies when its overcast (the usual) and with a light wind. Its a pretty popular sport/activity there.

x-country Skiing is not expensive either. Hell, for under a hundred bucks you can get a cheap set of skiis and boots and then go on x-country trails in the prairies as much as you like. And x-country in the prairies at 30+ below zero, you want something on your face more substantial than 'goggles'. Plus there would be absolutely no reason to wear goggles... the sun and snow blindness were rarely an issue -- it is usually overcast.

As a kid I also wore a balaclava while waiting for the schoolbus in winter, or playing outside (skating on homemade rinks, building snow forts, pulling my siblings around on a toboggan. I wore them as a an adult while shoveling snow to get my car out. And they were a common enough sight on anyone spending any length of time outside in a prairie winter, especially at night.

And besides, the pair of eye holes isn't shaped well for accommodating the kind of ski mask I have seen a lot of. The kind that is polarized and/or tinted. More often called "goggles."

Pair of eye holes? Goggles?

You are aware that the most common type of balaclava just has a single large 'eye' or 'face' hole, right? And that these are entirely compatible with goggles. The eye hole type would be more desirable for even more extreme cold, especially at night.

See for yourself:
http://images.google.ca/images?q=balaclava

represents a 'security threat.'... he was told he couldn't even photograph the lobby of a Hyatt Hotel."

Goddamnit, that totally fucks up my plans. Without those pictures, how the hell am I supposed to draft my plan to bomb the Hyatt Hotel? Knowing what the lobby looked like from one fixed angle based off photos from some random dude was totally vital to my ability to plant the bomb properly. Now how in the world could I possibly ever get hold of such pictures?

I'm in the middle of nowhere, about 4 hours and 42 minutes away from the USA border.

I live here. Everyone in town has access to 5Mbit/768kbps cable speeds for about 35$CAD/month (30 GB combined up/down cap, but still).

Then decided to Google first. But there seems to be some confusion as to what a Mynock is?

Sorry about replying to my own post but in the thread I link there, someone has posted a response linking to this movie.
It's a little over the top I admit and it's not from the Han / Leigha / Luke era which I prefer, none the less this shows how good an animated movie can be, 6 minutes of this is likely more entertaining than 90 minutes of the new movie (and most definitely many times more interesting than the poor trailer for the new one)

Enjoy.
http://video.google.ca/videoplay?docid=8348415574440242412

No, it's even worse (depending on your point of view). There won't be an "eco-fascism" phase, because with more than 50% of the world population urbanised, nobody remembers what the environment is supposed to look like.

All of the "exploitable" environment (the Amazon, most other remaining forests, the Arctic, Alaska, and anywhere else you can think of with any kind of economic value) will be razed/drilled/destroyed, which is going to result in further acceleration of habitat and species loss. Because urbanised people can't grow their own food, this is going to exponentially raise the destructive pressure on the environment outside cities to keep everyone fed, and their cars powered, etc.

This is linked to increasing pollution of all kinds (air, water, garbage, etc) and the "environment" as some of us remember it is purely history.

Our grandchildren will inherit something unrecognisable to us (there are already thousands of species and places that existed when you and I were young, that exist no more). Television and Hollywood, with the complicity of the great globalisers, has trained the world into perfect materialists (mini-Americans) who value convenience and profit above all else; for whom greed is the primary motivator; and for whom waste, pollution, injustice - if noticed at all - are merely acceptable side-effects of a selfish way of life. We have failed every human who lived to defend Nature, and every human who will follow who will never know it as we inherited it; and we have failed every other species on the planet. Even the trees.

1) the better way to "protect wildlife" is to not build a city where it lives. (Duh?) The Chinese are absolutely deadly to the environment - not just the air and water, but also leaders in deforestation and species extinction, even outside their borders.

2) the better way to cut pollution is to... uh... do something about the extreme pollution all over mainland China.

Who knew that clean air and water, forests, and sustainable coexistence with other species on the planet was worth having? Human greed trumps everything. The US was the poster child for environmental damage (Bush is very proud of being the "biggest polluter"), but China is competing for that gold medal.

I call bullshit.

A flight from Oklahoma to Minneapolis is about 7 hours.

Driving takes 13 hours.

How on earth did you make a 13 hour trip in 11 hours. Through, potentially, rush-hour traffic.

Also, while you were driving without breaks, naps, or eating, and speeding (I'm estimating you would have had to have gone at about 80 miles/hr), your coworkers had the ability to rest, read, catch-up on work (if they really wanted to), eat and still arrive earlier and better rested than you.

Finally, please recognize that many people have a longer distance to travel. Sometimes, as someone mentioned, people do fly across oceans. So please do not suggest that just because you are willing to forego flying, that that is the right choice for everyone.

The correct solution is that flying is often times very convenient. The problem is strictly with the TSA. I've never had these problems with Canadian or French officials.

The accused immigrated from China four years ago.

http://news.google.ca/news?hl=en&q=Weiguang+Li+&btnG=Search

Hey kdawson/pdcull, I recently wrote a script to backup a clients multiple websites to an alternative website. The script handles backing up whatever directories you want backed up, as well as a mysql backup of all databases. It uses ssh & rsync to do this on a scheduled basis. Give me a call if you want to talk - my website is http://visionsencoded.com/ with my contact info. (my client referred me to your post ;-). Anyways - not to familiar with slashdot - hope that this post is ok... if not, well, just do some searching for "rsync backup script" or something like that - lotsa previously done stuff out there. Cheers

Usually there is no hint of the original colour preserved in fossils, but colour patterns have been found in plenty of fossils of a variety of ages and types and have been known since at least the 1930s (check this book chapter). Unfortunately there are no pictures in these web sources. You'll have to look up the sources on paper, sorry.

What sort of things preserve colour patterns? There are cone-shaped nautiloids from the Devonian of Germany with zig-zag and linear stripe patterns, snail and other shells with stripes or spots, insects from Brazil (Cretaceous) and Utah (Eocene) whose wings have preserved colour patterns, and, as the article hints, bird feathers with colour patterns have been known for decades. Because they are only patterns, it isn't known what the original colours were (for all we know it could have been a boring brown versus grey or something exotic like green and purple), but it's better than nothing, and even finding the patterns is quite rare.

What's news in the posted article is only the part about the possibility of melanin or something derived from it being preserved. So, it's a bit of progress on what, exactly, is being preserved in these colour patterns.

There's one instance I know of where the actual colour of the ancient creature is preserved as a fossil: a beetle from a famous locality in Germany called Messel. Here's a picture, and here's a news article. As seen in quite a few modern beetles, the colour isn't caused by pigment but by irridescence (i.e. light interference) due to the microscopic structure of the insect's wing covers. It's analogous in some ways to the rainbow of colours you see on the bottom of a CD due to the pits on the surface. In animals this is sometimes called "structural colour". The preservation at Messel is so good that this fine detail was preserved, and the beetle therefore still has it's colour visible!

Oddly enough, there is an Ontario, CA. That's where they make maglites.

One of the strangest trolls on USENET is happenning right now on news.admin.net-abuse.email. The thing is that instead of ONE individual trolling the froup, about 50 individuals are trolling ONE PERSON, a spammer named Jamie Baillie with extremely poor social skills who is quite abusive and is a legend when it comes to complain to ISPs.

The situation has been fluctuating for more than 5 years on news.admin.net-abuse.email, and currently, the Jamie Baillie activity is at a historic peak.

One of the strangest trolls on USENET is happenning right now on news.admin.net-abuse.email. The thing is that instead of ONE individual trolling the froup, about 50 individuals are trolling ONE PERSON, a spammer named Jamie Baillie with extremely poor social skills who is quite abusive and is a legend when it comes to complain to ISPs.

The situation has been fluctuating for more than 5 years on news.admin.net-abuse.email, and currently, the Jamie Baillie activity is at a historic peak.

One of the strangest trolls on USENET is happenning right now on news.admin.net-abuse.email. The thing is that instead of ONE individual trolling the froup, about 50 individuals are trolling ONE PERSON, a spammer named Jamie Baillie with extremely poor social skills who is quite abusive and is a legend when it comes to complain to ISPs.

The situation has been fluctuating for more than 5 years on news.admin.net-abuse.email, and currently, the Jamie Baillie activity is at a historic peak.