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It is similar to this image, except that instead of holding your legs, they are resting on a chair that is partially over you:

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Hope that helps.

Using some info from Apple's site, because I'm too lazy to look anywhere else, the 80GB iPod holds "100 hours of video." So, using your numbers from IMDB, that makes it ~892 TB. Of course, the amount of "all the world's" videos will have gone up by then as well... and who knows about 18 month doubling (also, the iPods don't use 3.5" drives,) but aren't numbers fun?

a quick calculation shows that 25 square mile area 200 feet deep would provide enough space for 464.64 cubic feet of garbage per person in the US. This means that if on average we each sent just 1 cubic foot of garbage to the landfill every week (now this is an incredibly lowball estimate, but it makes the math easier) this landfill would be filled in less than 9 years. With a little more realistic numbers (which I can't be bothered to look up) it would be filled in a matter of months.

So yeah, the GP is full of shit.

Phew!

At first I thought you were talking about the Motorola A630. I've had this phone for about 3 months now. Admittedly that's not very long but all I can say is this is the greatest geek phone EVER! Full qwerty keyboard and a game pad slightly embossed into the keyboard [some pictures should show it OK on google] that resembles the NES controllers. My girlfriend loves to play the games that came loaded on it.

I bought it through an online vendor and can't seem to download anything from my telco that I deal with. However, this phone appears to be fairly big in the UK/Europe. I have found numerous ring tones and games, etc for a few pounds.

Anyway... greatest phone I've ever had. Not too bulky [physically] and very feature full. I have one gripe about it, but it's not really a big deal. When you lock the exterior keypad and then then flip it open [say, to read a text message] and close it again, you will have to lock it again. I think there might be a setting somewhere, but I got the phone OEM with no manual. :-(

Phew!

At first I thought you were talking about the Motorola A630. I've had this phone for about 3 months now. Admittedly that's not very long but all I can say is this is the greatest geek phone EVER! Full qwerty keyboard and a game pad slightly embossed into the keyboard [some pictures should show it OK on google] that resembles the NES controllers. My girlfriend loves to play the games that came loaded on it.

I bought it through an online vendor and can't seem to download anything from my telco that I deal with. However, this phone appears to be fairly big in the UK/Europe. I have found numerous ring tones and games, etc for a few pounds.

Anyway... greatest phone I've ever had. Not too bulky [physically] and very feature full. I have one gripe about it, but it's not really a big deal. When you lock the exterior keypad and then then flip it open [say, to read a text message] and close it again, you will have to lock it again. I think there might be a setting somewhere, but I got the phone OEM with no manual. :-(

We are not talking about silencing political speech here. Canada is not China, period. We have had laws against hate crimes and child porn for quite awhile now, and there are specific exceptions allowed in our constitution such that there can be no hiding behind the banner of free speech for these things. They are, unequivocably, criminal acts.

Currently, in Montréal, there are several controversies:

- A YMCA blanked out windows to a gym because the sight of lycra-women doing aerobics was "distracting" to hassidic boys in the rabbinical college accross the lane. (1, 2, 3).

- Hospital and other health center violate the law by preventing fathers from attending neonatal classes, because it upsets muslim women. Likewise, muslim men won't let male doctors touch their wives.

- The Montréal police union is up in arms over an article published in an internal paper, which says that women police should avoid talking to hassidim jews, and let their male colleagues do it instead.

Now, if I go around and say that jews are a bunch of assholes by thinking they can shove their fucking dirty garbage values down the throats of everyone else, I can be jailed. And if I the same thing about islam, I can be jailed, too. But now, some political leaders are starting to slowly raise a stink about it. Now what's gonna happen? They gonna be jailed too? Their websites will be censored?

(Yes, I think that jews are assholes; 20 years ago, the same hassidic jews outlawed bathing suits in a Montréal suburb; they could not bear the sight of human beings sunbathing in city parks!!! They found a very attentive ear in the same mayor who, 15 years earlier, as justice minister, thought nothing of suppressing individual freedoms and liberties by declaring martial law (and for which 400 people were jailed without trial).

We are not talking about silencing political speech here. Canada is not China, period. We have had laws against hate crimes and child porn for quite awhile now, and there are specific exceptions allowed in our constitution such that there can be no hiding behind the banner of free speech for these things. They are, unequivocably, criminal acts.

Currently, in Montréal, there are several controversies:

- A YMCA blanked out windows to a gym because the sight of lycra-women doing aerobics was "distracting" to hassidic boys in the rabbinical college accross the lane. (1, 2, 3).

- Hospital and other health center violate the law by preventing fathers from attending neonatal classes, because it upsets muslim women. Likewise, muslim men won't let male doctors touch their wives.

- The Montréal police union is up in arms over an article published in an internal paper, which says that women police should avoid talking to hassidim jews, and let their male colleagues do it instead.

Now, if I go around and say that jews are a bunch of assholes by thinking they can shove their fucking dirty garbage values down the throats of everyone else, I can be jailed. And if I the same thing about islam, I can be jailed, too. But now, some political leaders are starting to slowly raise a stink about it. Now what's gonna happen? They gonna be jailed too? Their websites will be censored?

(Yes, I think that jews are assholes; 20 years ago, the same hassidic jews outlawed bathing suits in a Montréal suburb; they could not bear the sight of human beings sunbathing in city parks!!! They found a very attentive ear in the same mayor who, 15 years earlier, as justice minister, thought nothing of suppressing individual freedoms and liberties by declaring martial law (and for which 400 people were jailed without trial).

We are not talking about silencing political speech here. Canada is not China, period. We have had laws against hate crimes and child porn for quite awhile now, and there are specific exceptions allowed in our constitution such that there can be no hiding behind the banner of free speech for these things. They are, unequivocably, criminal acts.

Currently, in Montréal, there are several controversies:

- A YMCA blanked out windows to a gym because the sight of lycra-women doing aerobics was "distracting" to hassidic boys in the rabbinical college accross the lane. (1, 2, 3).

- Hospital and other health center violate the law by preventing fathers from attending neonatal classes, because it upsets muslim women. Likewise, muslim men won't let male doctors touch their wives.

- The Montréal police union is up in arms over an article published in an internal paper, which says that women police should avoid talking to hassidim jews, and let their male colleagues do it instead.

Now, if I go around and say that jews are a bunch of assholes by thinking they can shove their fucking dirty garbage values down the throats of everyone else, I can be jailed. And if I the same thing about islam, I can be jailed, too. But now, some political leaders are starting to slowly raise a stink about it. Now what's gonna happen? They gonna be jailed too? Their websites will be censored?

(Yes, I think that jews are assholes; 20 years ago, the same hassidic jews outlawed bathing suits in a Montréal suburb; they could not bear the sight of human beings sunbathing in city parks!!! They found a very attentive ear in the same mayor who, 15 years earlier, as justice minister, thought nothing of suppressing individual freedoms and liberties by declaring martial law (and for which 400 people were jailed without trial).

We are not talking about silencing political speech here. Canada is not China, period. We have had laws against hate crimes and child porn for quite awhile now, and there are specific exceptions allowed in our constitution such that there can be no hiding behind the banner of free speech for these things. They are, unequivocably, criminal acts.

Currently, in Montréal, there are several controversies:

- A YMCA blanked out windows to a gym because the sight of lycra-women doing aerobics was "distracting" to hassidic boys in the rabbinical college accross the lane. (1, 2, 3).

- Hospital and other health center violate the law by preventing fathers from attending neonatal classes, because it upsets muslim women. Likewise, muslim men won't let male doctors touch their wives.

- The Montréal police union is up in arms over an article published in an internal paper, which says that women police should avoid talking to hassidim jews, and let their male colleagues do it instead.

Now, if I go around and say that jews are a bunch of assholes by thinking they can shove their fucking dirty garbage values down the throats of everyone else, I can be jailed. And if I the same thing about islam, I can be jailed, too. But now, some political leaders are starting to slowly raise a stink about it. Now what's gonna happen? They gonna be jailed too? Their websites will be censored?

(Yes, I think that jews are assholes; 20 years ago, the same hassidic jews outlawed bathing suits in a Montréal suburb; they could not bear the sight of human beings sunbathing in city parks!!! They found a very attentive ear in the same mayor who, 15 years earlier, as justice minister, thought nothing of suppressing individual freedoms and liberties by declaring martial law (and for which 400 people were jailed without trial).

We are not talking about silencing political speech here. Canada is not China, period. We have had laws against hate crimes and child porn for quite awhile now, and there are specific exceptions allowed in our constitution such that there can be no hiding behind the banner of free speech for these things. They are, unequivocably, criminal acts.

Currently, in Montréal, there are several controversies:

- A YMCA blanked out windows to a gym because the sight of lycra-women doing aerobics was "distracting" to hassidic boys in the rabbinical college accross the lane. (1, 2, 3).

- Hospital and other health center violate the law by preventing fathers from attending neonatal classes, because it upsets muslim women. Likewise, muslim men won't let male doctors touch their wives.

- The Montréal police union is up in arms over an article published in an internal paper, which says that women police should avoid talking to hassidim jews, and let their male colleagues do it instead.

Now, if I go around and say that jews are a bunch of assholes by thinking they can shove their fucking dirty garbage values down the throats of everyone else, I can be jailed. And if I the same thing about islam, I can be jailed, too. But now, some political leaders are starting to slowly raise a stink about it. Now what's gonna happen? They gonna be jailed too? Their websites will be censored?

(Yes, I think that jews are assholes; 20 years ago, the same hassidic jews outlawed bathing suits in a Montréal suburb; they could not bear the sight of human beings sunbathing in city parks!!! They found a very attentive ear in the same mayor who, 15 years earlier, as justice minister, thought nothing of suppressing individual freedoms and liberties by declaring martial law (and for which 400 people were jailed without trial).

This character reminds me of him.

He initiated the funniest thread in the history of NANAE.

Far more... "amusing"... I suppose, is Big B's ability to play. In spite of his oddities, the man can really play guitar.

Some Google video links:
http://video.google.ca/videoplay?docid=-8257543090 317674873 Hhighly recommended!)

http://video.google.ca/videoplay?docid=-1670373061 414362975 Brief, 1m long video clip. The song is "Nottingham Lace", and used to be freely available online. It's not at the link on Buckethead's site http://www.bucketheadland.com/, but I've mirrored it http://www.amindlost.com/nottingham_lace.mp3. Be gentle, I have a limited bandwidth =)

YouTube and Google Video are both good sites for finding Buckethead vids, and as far as I know (don't quote me here), Buckethead has a pretty generous policy regarding fans swapping bootlegs of his live concerts. There used to be a site that had a massive list of bootlegged concert recordings going back several years, but I can't seem to find the location of it. Popular BT sites should have a few up, although I've seen people posting his commercial discs too.

Far more... "amusing"... I suppose, is Big B's ability to play. In spite of his oddities, the man can really play guitar.

Some Google video links:
http://video.google.ca/videoplay?docid=-8257543090 317674873 Hhighly recommended!)

http://video.google.ca/videoplay?docid=-1670373061 414362975 Brief, 1m long video clip. The song is "Nottingham Lace", and used to be freely available online. It's not at the link on Buckethead's site http://www.bucketheadland.com/, but I've mirrored it http://www.amindlost.com/nottingham_lace.mp3. Be gentle, I have a limited bandwidth =)

YouTube and Google Video are both good sites for finding Buckethead vids, and as far as I know (don't quote me here), Buckethead has a pretty generous policy regarding fans swapping bootlegs of his live concerts. There used to be a site that had a massive list of bootlegged concert recordings going back several years, but I can't seem to find the location of it. Popular BT sites should have a few up, although I've seen people posting his commercial discs too.

Here's an "Im a Mac" type spoof that makes that point, fun vs technical specification. Wii " I'm cheap and fun."
http://video.google.ca/videoplay?docid=54837616491 83364832&q=im+a+ps3
Although I'll probably get a PS3 because it has a cell processor and runs linux, and also allows gaming with a keyboard and mouse, and can play blue ray movies, thats fun too.

(As always, Google is your friend).

No sexy nerd chicks in the US of A They are only available in Canada pity!

I never even knew slog was modified for the modern vernacular to relate to social blogging, until now. Reading the Google define of the term was like getting verbally punched in the eyes. Absoloutely horrid.

I prefer the classic defenition of slogging. To work through a difficult situation like you were walking through a quagmire in rubber boots. You put a foot down, it gets sucked down into the mud. You tug the other foot up with effort, and move it forward, only to get it stuck in the mud like the first.

Copyrights. Squish. Splat. Squish. Splat. Squish. Splat. Squish. Splat. Squish. Tug? Tug! Pop!

First of all, Yahoo! Maps is flash based and doesn't even work properly across all platforms. Only recently has it started working in Linux. 64 bit? Forget it.

Secondly, even on the platforms where it does work, it is HORRENDOUSLY SLOW compared to Google Maps. This is easy to see if you use it in an application that has lots of way points on it, like Frappr. As an example take the Kopete People page. After it *eventually* loads - when I try to zoom in on an area, Frappr pretty much barfs all over itself, leaving the waypoints where they were and not updating them properly at all. This is on an Athlon XP 2800 - not the newest machine but something that should be able to cruise through a web based maps application!

Also, the maps on yahoo! maps are just plain ugly at a lot of zoom levels, and they don't have anywhere near as much sat. imagery at the deep zoom in levels (my city is totally missing, it's all there on Google).

Oh and lastly, the "search this map" function in yahoo! maps is a joke and hardly works at all.

First of all, Yahoo! Maps is flash based and doesn't even work properly across all platforms. Only recently has it started working in Linux. 64 bit? Forget it.

Secondly, even on the platforms where it does work, it is HORRENDOUSLY SLOW compared to Google Maps. This is easy to see if you use it in an application that has lots of way points on it, like Frappr. As an example take the Kopete People page. After it *eventually* loads - when I try to zoom in on an area, Frappr pretty much barfs all over itself, leaving the waypoints where they were and not updating them properly at all. This is on an Athlon XP 2800 - not the newest machine but something that should be able to cruise through a web based maps application!

Also, the maps on yahoo! maps are just plain ugly at a lot of zoom levels, and they don't have anywhere near as much sat. imagery at the deep zoom in levels (my city is totally missing, it's all there on Google).

Oh and lastly, the "search this map" function in yahoo! maps is a joke and hardly works at all.

PS if you want traffic maps on Google just go to here

The Canadian Coalition for Fair Digital Access sounds like a positive group. In reality they are a group of retailers attempting to abolish the media levy in Canada to make the environment more friendly to suing file sharers and otherwise pushing online music sales through turning their customers into instant criminals.
They claim they want to protect Canadians from an "unfair" tax, when in reality they want to abolish the small media tax we pay to impose a bigger cost and restriction on those who use MP3s. While not claiming to be experts, its the same thing. A group of individuals claiming to be on the side of freedom and the consumer who have their own ulterior motives.

Website is currently down, so here are some cached links:
"Who we are"
http://72.14.203.104/search?q=cache:2mAYYuIzwqsJ:w ww.ccfda.ca/subsections/eng_whoweare.html+site:www .ccfda.ca+Canadian+Coalition+for+Fair+Digital+Acce ss%22&hl=en&gl=ca&ct=clnk&cd=2

Google search with cache links to most of the site: http://www.google.ca/search?hl=en&lr=&safe=off&q=+ site:www.ccfda.ca+Canadian+Coalition+for+Fair+Digi tal+Access%22

One man's open letter response to their position:
http://www.digital-copyright.ca/discuss/1645

Complete AIS
People with CAIS are girls or women with internal testes, 46,XY karyotypes, and normal female bodies except for shallow vaginas and lack of ovaries, uterus, menses or fertility. Gender identity is female.

Adult women with CAIS tend to be taller than average, primarily because of their later timing of puberty. Breast development is said to be average to above average. Lack of responsiveness to androgen prevents some usual female adult hair development, including pubic, axillary, upper lip. In contrast, head hair remains fuller than average, without recession of scalp or thinning with age. Shallowness of the vagina varies and may or may not lead to mechanical difficulties during coitus. Although the testes develop fairly unexceptionally before puberty if not removed, the testes in adults with CAIS become increasingly distinctive, with unusual spermatogenic cells and no spermatogenesis.

By clinical reports and information from support groups, women with CAIS are at least as likely as other women to have a female gender identity and to be attracted sexually to men.

It should not be the state's job to ban certain substances just because little Jessica may get addicted to them.
It is the job of her parents to ensure that she does not travel that path.

When I can track down and kill the drug dealers legally, I'll accept your argument. In the meantime, when the state makes it illegal for me to protect my daughter, you're wrong.

Could you explain what this means:

"FCC Chair Stumps For Media Diversity"

and

"Michael Copps stumped against greater media concentration and instead argued for greater diversity of media outlets and voices."

I'm familiar with say: "Tough question, its got me stumped." Or: "I need to burn the remaining tree stumps in that field before I can plow it easily."

I've never seen the word used as you have. I checked google:
http://www.google.ca/search?q=define:+stump
None of Google's definitions seemed to match your usage.

I checked Webster:
http://www.webster.com/cgi-bin/dictionary/stump

Main Entry: stump
Function: verb
transitive verb
1 : to reduce to a stump : TRIM
2 a : DARE, CHALLENGE b : to frustrate the progress or efforts of : BAFFLE
3 : to clear (land) of stumps
4 : to travel over (a region) making political speeches or supporting a cause
5 a : to walk over heavily or clumsily b : STUB 3

Which either #2 or #4 might match what you are trying to say?

Interesting, I never knew the word stump had so many meanings! Which meaning are you using and out of curiousity, why did you choose that word?

Works for me.

Any monkey able to produce a component of Shakespeare's collective works should qualify.

It seems to me that Google could easily be used to find genius...

Its been studied already. The results are already in. Survey says around 10 million people are presently willing to purchase a PS3 at full price. The problem isn't pricing -- its going to be whether Sony manages to move the 8 million consoles out the door by March as they planned on doing.

The article in science was where I caught this initially though it doesn't seem to be free anywhere online.

Google News has a few.

Soko

You, sir, have been smoking some of Michael Crictons' crack. He makes that exact arguement in his book State of Fear. The book also argues that global warming is a conspiracy perpetrated by the left, universities included.

I think this may help on the topic:

UC San Diago talk on State of Fear and the media (Also talks about global warming)

Now, granted, they are professors working at a university, so of course their views are subject to the same propeganda and censorship that one would expect from universities.

This is nothing, Messenger has been blocking anything containing the suffix "download.php" in a URL since forever, who knows what else they're doing. (ie. http://isohunt.com/download.php?etc123) http://www.google.ca/search?hl=en&q=Messenger+Cens oring+download.php&meta=

The question was actually whether he stlll had them. His use of chemical weapons and his program to develop nukes was not in doubt.

Their job was to witness, document and audit Iraq's disarmament.

If you tell us what this is hiding, will they have to kill you?

http://www.google.ca/search?hl=en&q=zomg+internet! &btnG=Google+Search&meta=

Its really that easy to make your own article to submit to slashdot.

http://video.google.ca/videosearch?q=manoi

pretty cool robot. still not springy. once they will be able to use inertia in robots, instead of ignoring it, thats when robots will be life-like.

If we could somehow we cold combine these with zero point energy we would be laughing! Watch this cool video to see the Hutchison effect ... http://video.google.ca/videoplay?docid=-7027255937 915952897&q=hutchison

I don't think it's because the barrier to entry is too high, rather the barrier to do something cool is in the stratosphere.

Not necessarilly true: check out Croquet. It has a fairly cool 3-D world, and by using Squeak (a Smalltalk derivitive) it's possible to change behaviour of the objects in that world.

Of course you don't have to write directly in Squeak (but you can), as many 8-year-olds may not be able to handle it, so you you can use a GUI. There are videos of Alan Kay demonstrating children in primary school "programming".

But do these countries mine their landfills for reusable plastic or for commodities?

I wouldn't call it mining, but yes. Have a look with google.

The US has trash yards and junk yards too.

Yes, but very little is ever reused.

Here in the Halton region, which is comprised of some suburbs just West of the Toronto metro, there has been some talk of building one of these plants (although they've tossed around the number $700 million). This is an effort to deal with the reality of garbage, not to mention that reality that Toronto has been giving the entire country a continual black-eye by shipping waste to Michigan (if I were a Michiganer, I'd be pissed to be another regions dumping ground. Even as an Ontarian, the endless row of trash hauling trucks, each leaving a wake of loose garbage, is untenable).

But despite the reality that no one wants to build dumps, and Toronto has been spending millions shipping it to an entirely different country, there are still the head-in-the-sand dreamers who would rather the issue just disappears. A prominent Toronto city bureaucrat, for instance, has poo-poohed the idea, decrying the vile idea of "burning" waste. They'd rather drive it 500 miles in transport trucks to dump it somewhere else.

"Schneier's piece is not an article. It's an editorial"

Well if I may be pedantic for a moment

Editorial: of or relating to an article stating opinions or giving perspectives

I found it very odd that they found the one responsible for the attack in less than 48 hrs after the towers fell. Wouldn't investigations like this take weeks if not months?

UM...try again its about $1.11 today

http://www.google.ca/search?hl=en&q=usdcad%3Dx&btn G=Google+Search&meta=

and the longer bush stays, the better our dollar will get :)
*thinks back to the 70's when our dollar was worth more*


......soon enough, soon enough

Recently, I watched a lecture on Google Video about Human Computation, and it discussed this.

Luis von Ahn apparently developed the idea. Check it out here.,

Very interesting stuff. He also discusses a different game to identify certain parts of an object that are associated with the labels.

I wondered if Google would (or was) taking advantage of the information gleaned from the ESP game. Apparently they have.

I carry a Coghlan magnesium fire starter, a Swiss Army knife, and a folding comb in my pocket at all times, without any problems. Each of these items is larger than the drive in question. The key, is to put it in your front pocket. You will never sit on it that way.

Perhaps not control, but certainly influence. After all, RFID tags would certainly enhance our airport experiences and it's not a far cry from Pet-ID for tags to be implanted in children at the same time they're finger printed..

That is to get from Milwaukee to the "Doo Drop In" on Henry st in Muskegon, of course!

http://www.google.ca/maps?hl=en&lr=&q=doo-drop&nea r=Muskegon,+MI,+USA&radius=0.0&latlng=43234167,-86 248333,11930338792605352426&dtab=0

What's there to disprove?

both because many claims scientists encounter are not scientific claims (e.g., your claim above)

You're confusing science with a court of law.

This report was everywhere:

http://news.google.ca/news?q=goldfish%20dolphin

I dispute your claim that dolphins live in a "fully staffed spa of luxury.":

Meanwhile, it was a sad day at the aquarium on Wednesday. After 10 hours in labour, Hana the dolphin gave birth to a stillborn calf, according to The Canadian Press.

Staff at the aquarium did not know the 11-year-old dolphin was pregnant when the pair was brought from Japan, and only learned a few months ago.

Veteranarian David Huff told CP very few dolphins give birth in captivity so there is a lack of research in the area.

http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNew s/20060607/vancouver_dolphins_060607/

i've got to ask, what's the origin of all thes internet = tubes comments?

No, no you dont.

Series of Tubes

I'd love to get some links to this "dual-core Xscale" if I am wrong though!