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If you're for some reason stuck on the idea of natural diamonds and want to avoid the blood-price associated with them, you could also look at the growing industry of Canadian "Polar Bear" diamonds

Water. But if there is a leak, there can be a short - not good.

Not with a non-conductive coolant (not-water).

Air. But if the fan gives up, the CPU may fry - what about the risk of fire? Is there any?

There are programs which can monitor your fan speeds and cpu temperature and even shutdown the system if those temperatures reach a certain point. Usually you can tell when a fan is dying though, because it starts to make really weird noises. Sometimes it may just be dust built up, which you can clear away with some compressed air (good to clean your computer atleast twice a year with compressed air to remove dust build up). It's best to play it safe and stick with air cooling, unless you plan on doing some serious cpu/gpu overclocking.

you were either eating Land'o'Lakes cottage cheese, or merengue...man-made merengue.

he was eating what?!??!?!?!?!?

How exactly does one eat a Latin dance style?

http://www.google.ca/search?q=vegan+diet+b12

The problem is Vitamin B12. It's not naturally occurring in plants, but exclusively synthesised by bacteria. The only natural bioavailable sources of B12 are meat products. That's why vegans are advised to eat foods enriched with B12 (and calcium). Chronic B12 deficiency leads to anaemia, nerve damage and eventually death.

Slamming back the odd Red Bull will take care of it though.

Oh yes, shame on me. I would never doubt the credibility of the Japanese. Their marine sciences are pure and untainted, and their sciences would never be politicised, say in the case of whaling.

Google News isn't bad for giving a picture of American life, but if you really want to balance out your news sources I recommend a minor change to your visits. Load up http://news.google.ca/ instead of com and you'll get North American news. You'll see stories about the USA, but written not only by people being paid by General Electric, Fox News, or Viacom.

Perhaps you'd care to articulate

Well, I'll take a stab at it.

I feel I've roundly refuted the grandparent's argument by any definition of the word.

The problem is that what you feel you've done, and what you've actually done, are two separate things.

You claim that your "six or seven" examples are not anecdotal, when in fact that is exactly what they are. Here are some definitions of the word "anecdotal", and your examples clearly fit every single one of them.

The first definition says: evidence based on reports of specific individual cases rather than controlled, clinical studies.

As your examples are not controlled, clinical studies (in any way, shape or form) and are in fact reports of specific individual cases, then they are anecdotal by definition of the word.

Is that articulate enough for you?

I can't help but dream...

Did you try searching .

The original GDrive.

Jones is a very common name, not quite as comman as Smith, but very common. Even if you googled it, you'd still comes up with a little of different Steves.

However, still not very kinda/responsible of the article author, unless he got permission to write about Mr. Jones.

so if I use google Calendar, google now knows that I will be going to a soccer game at the ozdome tonight.
they also no from previous searchs that I like waterloo dark maybe they will tell the local bar. and then they might actuall stock it.

while this is not exactly an example of evil. remeber what google is doing with your information is not in your intrest. it is in there intrest.

so if I use google Calendar, google now knows that I will be going to a soccer game at the ozdome tonight.
they also no from previous searchs that I like waterloo dark maybe they will tell the local bar. and then they might actuall stock it.

while this is not exactly an example of evil. remeber what google is doing with your information is not in your intrest. it is in there intrest.

Here are the top twelve finishers. These are the real final results, not the ``suspense'' results from one hour before the contest finished.

Saratov State
Jageillonian U.
Altai State
Twente
Jiao Tong
St. Petersburg State
Warsaw
MIT
Moscow State
Ufa State
Alberta
Waterloo

Consider four tasks requiring N minutes of CPU each. Under round-robin, these will each finish after 4N minutes. Average time to complete: 4N minutes. You simply cannot make that average time any worse... unless you have other contention. Then it gets worse. Fast. GP mentioned how that operates in a specific circumstance; there are lots of ways. Hunt up thrashing for the classic examples.

No government ever GIVES human rights, they only take them away, just like they do with your money.

Sure they do, that's how you got that somewhat beaten piece of paper that the current government is currently treating like toilet paper (and many governments before, but moreso recently).

The problem is, that such sweeping pushes for citizens' rights usually come at the foot of a revolution, and today's citizens are much too happy with their poofy couches, SUV's, and TV remotes to bother with that. That and others are just too afraid of ending up at gitmo...

Just as long as we don't put this guy in charge of the vault.

Why not just use google itself?

Just think how much nicer life would be without a computer.

1. No pesky RIAA lawsuits.
2. No broadband bill.
3. No losing your life savings to pesky phishers.
4. No worrying about hackers stealing you megahertz.

and yes,

No annoying pop-ups.

considering the only images google returns are of what apears to be badly burned connectors, im not sure their deisgn is the best...

My weapon of choice is Google Images.

And Christopher Walken's dancing.

Well I do believe the US has the highest incarceration rate on the planet.

http://www.google.ca/search?hl=en&q=us+incarcerati on+rate&btnG=Search&meta=

How about a 17 year old getting 10 years (and put on the sex offender list for the rest of his life) for having oral sex (intercourse would have been okay) with a consenting 15 year old at a crazy party. There was a video, and apparently the jury felt it was a no brainer, but the judge was very definite about the "find guilt or innocence according to the letter of the law" line (to bad they didn't know that that is not actually a requirement if the jury finds the law to be seriously unjust -- see jury nullification).

http://www.wilsonappeal.com/
http://www.blackamericaweb.com/site.aspx/bawnews/w ilson0111
http://abcnews.go.com/Primetime/LegalCenter/story? id=1693362&page=1

Or how about the California man who was growing medical marijuana for critically ill patients under a California law and the DEA busting him (claiming federal jurisdiction) and rigged the jury (very selective picking of members and forbidding mention of the fact that what he was doing was legal in California).

http://www.green-aid.com/
http://www.alternet.org/story/14973/
http://www.reason.com/sullum/020703.shtml

Or how about screwing around in pretty much every country under the sun. I have to say, having been through it, that the history learned in schools is quite selective (almost false by selective omission -- no wonder it keeps getting repeated). Checkout out (for instance) how Hawaii was illegally annexed at the request of the sugar barrens.

http://www.globalpolicy.org/empire/history/history index.htm
http://www.unpo.org/news_detail.php?arg=28&par=51
http://www.google.ca/search?hl=en&q=hawaii+annexed &btnG=Google+Search&meta=

So, yeah, I'd have to say there is a long history of some pretty screw culture in the US. Maybe the whole thing will tip over someday due to the growing accumulation of fat cats and lawyers at the top.

Well I do believe the US has the highest incarceration rate on the planet.

http://www.google.ca/search?hl=en&q=us+incarcerati on+rate&btnG=Search&meta=

How about a 17 year old getting 10 years (and put on the sex offender list for the rest of his life) for having oral sex (intercourse would have been okay) with a consenting 15 year old at a crazy party. There was a video, and apparently the jury felt it was a no brainer, but the judge was very definite about the "find guilt or innocence according to the letter of the law" line (to bad they didn't know that that is not actually a requirement if the jury finds the law to be seriously unjust -- see jury nullification).

http://www.wilsonappeal.com/
http://www.blackamericaweb.com/site.aspx/bawnews/w ilson0111
http://abcnews.go.com/Primetime/LegalCenter/story? id=1693362&page=1

Or how about the California man who was growing medical marijuana for critically ill patients under a California law and the DEA busting him (claiming federal jurisdiction) and rigged the jury (very selective picking of members and forbidding mention of the fact that what he was doing was legal in California).

http://www.green-aid.com/
http://www.alternet.org/story/14973/
http://www.reason.com/sullum/020703.shtml

Or how about screwing around in pretty much every country under the sun. I have to say, having been through it, that the history learned in schools is quite selective (almost false by selective omission -- no wonder it keeps getting repeated). Checkout out (for instance) how Hawaii was illegally annexed at the request of the sugar barrens.

http://www.globalpolicy.org/empire/history/history index.htm
http://www.unpo.org/news_detail.php?arg=28&par=51
http://www.google.ca/search?hl=en&q=hawaii+annexed &btnG=Google+Search&meta=

So, yeah, I'd have to say there is a long history of some pretty screw culture in the US. Maybe the whole thing will tip over someday due to the growing accumulation of fat cats and lawyers at the top.

Asterisk *will* be part of the next list guaranteed. It's just hasn't had press aknowledgement except for a couple of Business Week articles. It's too early to pronounce it as changing the telephony landscape, because it is currently in the process of doing so.

It's only been, what, 18 months since 1.0.9 was released, the first "ready for prime time" version?

Everytime I see someone mention Asterisk on /. there are responses like "wtf is this" so here is what the big deal is about I read that as some 5 million odd hits

And as to how this is different than Skype, well, essentially, you can plug it into anything. Asterisk interoperates with 15 of 20 items on TFA's list. (skype support is being worked on I hear as is the GoogleTalk protocol) And that leads to uber cool shit like this being possible

Until they develop an imprevement we shouldn't expect the GHz range. A quick google doesn't provide any further information other then suggesting it is a spelling mistake.

In the interest of understanding things (and to avoid actually getting modded down), could you (or anyone else) post actual examples of his arrogance or assholiness? Google has a bit to say, but I'm sure I'm limited by my keysearch terms.

Google usually can help:

http://images.google.ca/images?q=naked%20woman&ie= utf-8&oe=utf-8&client=woman-cums-a-lot-a&rls=org.m ozilla:en-US:official&percentage_served=100&sa=N&t ab=wi

What is it with Microsoft and its penchant for product names that are virtually useless for doing searches?

Google for "Microsoft Access"
Microsoft Office Online Home Page is 1st result

Google for "Microsoft Word"
Microsoft Office Online Home Page is 1st result

Google for "Microsoft Excel"
Microsoft Office Online Home Page is 1st result

Google for "Microsoft Publisher"
Microsoft Office Online: Publisher 2003 Home Page is 1st result

Google for "Microsoft Windows"
Microsoft Corporation is 1st result
Microsoft Windows Update is 2nd result

Google for "Microsoft Sequel" unsurprisingly turns up no decent results, because you should be searching for "Microsoft SQL" in the first place
Microsoft SQL Server Home is 1st result

Maybe you'd like to brush up on your search tips or, at the very least, locate the double-quote character on your keyboard.

Just saying.

The one linked is a little bland for my taste

this one is better:

http://www.tgdaily.com/2006/03/20/nvidia_sli_forph ysics/

Or choose you own adventure via Google news:

http://news.google.ca/news?client=firefox-a&rls=or g.mozilla%3Aen-US%3Aofficial_s&hl=en&percentage_se rved=100&tab=wn&ie=ISO-8859-1&q=NVIDIA+SLI+Physics &btnG=Search+News

Wouldn't it be something if this "video game party" had a Florida-style "screwup" where large numbers of voters accidently entered the wrong vote on the electronic voting machines?

(And yes, I am fully aware that Pat Buchanan's Palm Beach vote totals were unlikely a result of any screwup)

It helps if you read the review instead of just looking at the scores.

Scores in reviews are like those in figure skating. Enough said.

At any rate, I was reading Playstation magazine and looking at their Black review on the weekend. I'd already rented and played it for an evening, so I had a good feel of how it played (having beat mission 3 on normal difficulty). The review talks about the guns in the game, the fact that its trying to be a shooter for everybody (my wife has no desire to blow someone away with a shotgun, believe it or not), movie basis for the levels, etc. Then it mentions that its short. 8 levels short. I thought about it; if I beat 3 levels in one evening, just rent it for a week for $8 and be done with it. No need to buy it at all.

Thanks for a good review.

I don't even remember what they scored it.

PS, the best review is a rental. That's why I love my local Game Power store.

But the point is that none of them refer to the power of a human to interpret the image. That's the part I was objecting to.

"The reasoning behind the laws is silly at best, dangerous at worst."

No, the reasoning is behind the laws is 'are there limits on your rights? Your rights end where they impune someone else's.' You can still say whatever you want to, just you are now responsible for your actions should you decide to yell 'fire!' in the proverbial crowded theater.

The definition of a 'hate crime' and 'hate speech' are specifically enumerated, should you decide to look that up too. Thereby dispelling your notion of 'draconian'.

http://www.google.ca/search?hl=en&q=site%3Agc.ca+d efine+hate+speech+bill+C-250&btnG=Search&meta=

It's not a 'moral' code, it's to protect one's Constitutional rights.

Whoever modded me flamebait is as dense as a bloody brick. Google's own fucking website refers to Adsense partners as publishers, and Adwords partners as advertisers. People who are mods should have to pass stupidity tests around here. http://www.google.ca/ads/

Perhaps this slightly obfuscated one in Eastern Ontario, Canada is of close interest?

http://www.google.ca/local?f=q&hl=en&q=&t=k&ll=46. 51257,-79.241638&spn=0.171062,0.33783&t=k

I think a little more dilligence in your research is in order.

Google query
VERY first hit
Unlimitel Inc.

Is Apple a victim of its own success?

I was intrigued by the question: Is Apple a victim of its own success? To whom should I turn for an authoritative answer on the topic, if not my old friend Google.

The direct approach, "apple is a victim of its own success" returns only 35 hits. But plugging in the more general search term, Apple * "victim of its own success", yields 4,700 hits, and includes pages with the fragments "Apple is apparently the victim of its own success," "Apple could become the victim of its own success," "Apple may be becoming a victim of its own success," and "Let's see if 1996 is the year that Apple finally becomes a victim of its own success".

Obviously, the X * "victim of its own success" format is going to tap more deeply into folk wisdom on this sort of topic -- so I was inspired to investigate web punditry's views of other values for X. The obvious first choice was Windows, and the result was 8,580 hits. Microsoft only brought in 2,780 hits, Intel 2,670 hits, AOL 2,160 hits, Firefox 1,740 hits. Plugging in Cisco resulted in 1,630 hits, but for AMD it was a mere 943 hits. It's unclear whether that means that AMD is not a success or not a victim.

Other entities alleged to be, or in danger of becoming, victims of their own success include email (10,900 hits), the Internet (7,370 hits), the Euro (1,990 hits) and Walmart (1,430 hits). Interestingly, Hamas yielded only 160 hits, while America rated 24,300.

But among the 196,000 hits for a Google of the bare "victim of its own success" are a few surprises: Singapore, Crime Stoppers, Penthouse, Asperin, the Mediterranean, Australia, Google, the US Army, Netflix, RateMyKitten, Quebec's child care system, World of Warcraft, Japan, Net retailing, Pap smears, Half-Life 2, Monsanto's Roundup, Sun's mobile Java and many more.

Probably the only conclusion I could rightfully draw from this exercise is that the phrase "victim of its own success" is a badly overworked cliche.

Actually, it is 100% possible for you to set up traffic bandwidth shaping so that any particular IP is only allowed a certain amount of bandwidth, for example.

Use a UNIX-like machine as a router/firewall for your network, and you suddenly have amazingly detailed networking possibilities within your reach. I strongly suggest reading the Linux Network Administrator's Guide. Even though it's getting a little outdated it has some downright cool-ass information within.

Of course, few users are technically adept enough to actually set up a router like this, but I'm sure it has been used a lot for people who want to keep their wifi access "open", but safely limited.

On a related note there are pre-built linux firewall packages out there which will surprisingly easily allow you to do what I was just talking about.

Also, here is the Linux Advanced Routing & Traffic Control HOWTO ... It's a bit technical but a useful resource nonetheless.

There were a number of PC's before IBM got into the fray. The Radio Shack Pocket Computer was often referred to as "The Pocket PC". In this case, PC coulde be said to refer to either Personal Computer or Pocket Computer.

Again: Wintel is it's still the most pervasive example of what is now considered a PC, but it's not the only one.
Try doing a google for "define: PC", then "define: Personal Computer". If you have a Linux/BSD box with kdict, try 'kdict pc'.

There were a number of PC's before IBM got into the fray. The Radio Shack Pocket Computer was often referred to as "The Pocket PC". In this case, PC coulde be said to refer to either Personal Computer or Pocket Computer.

Again: Wintel is it's still the most pervasive example of what is now considered a PC, but it's not the only one.
Try doing a google for "define: PC", then "define: Personal Computer". If you have a Linux/BSD box with kdict, try 'kdict pc'.

Sign the petition for a global licence by L'Alliance Public-Artists (public and artists for a legal solution for exchanges on the Internet). The organization mentioned in the BBC story is L'Association Des Audionautes. All pages are in French. Use Google Language Tools if you need a translation.

Lol, try Microsoft's, it's even worse. Here is a nice little comparison. And by the way, this took a while, because in Google, if I type in Paris, it goes to *gasp* Paris, France, whereas Microsoft doesn't have this capability yet :-P I find that sad.

http://www.google.ca/local?f=q&hl=en&q=Paris&ll=48 .86,2.339999&spn=0.001722,0.005407&t=k

http://local.live.com/default.aspx?v=2&cp=48.85929 4~2.334595&style=h&lvl=9&sp=adr.64%2C%20Opelika%2C %20AL%2036801

Google may not have as good imagery as they do in the US and the UK, but it is a hell of a lot better than their competitors.

I find that Mapquest gives much better maps than Google. When zoomed out mapquest gives many more street names, so that you can actually find what you're looking for, or looking for a better point of reference. Check out the links to see what i'm talking about. Mapquest is zoomed out a bit more, but it still shows quite a few street names, google on the other hand shows very few street names until you zoom in a bit more. Google doesn't put the street names unless it can fit it within the width of the street.

Google Maps
Mapquest

Do a google search for the first sentence of the parent post in slashdot. This post has been copy pasted numerous times by a guy who's got an ax to grind against Roland:

I think most of you are aware of the controversy

Here's my advise to the guy with the ax to grind: you've submitted this rant often enough. Go take a huff of lithium and stop bogging down the discussions with OT copy-paste posts. If you don't like Roland's stuff, add him to your filter list.

Here's my advice to everyone else: stop modding this up. This is OFF TOPIC.

Google indexes torrent too. So I guess it's time to shut down Google

I'd say the Sega Master System Controller is worse then the NES controller (atleast the NES controller has a start and select button). Scarily enough, I still have my sega master system (my very first console) and it still works.

The time and resources spent converting to Java

You can use these tools to help you convert.

http://www.google.ca/search?hl=en&q=Samsung+HD841+ retail&btnG=Search&meta=

In fact, NASA also has good news for us.

Two weeks ago, the important Landsat-8 was confirmed while NASA also saves a lot of money by simply adopting interoperable practices.

Now, if only NASA Worldwind (and Punt) could get more popularity over Google Earth...

Apple has a great product (I own one myself, and I LOVED it), but the ipods have a few flaws, ok,ALOT of flaws.

If Amazon could design a device that a) has a battery that doesnt die after 1 year b) has a hard drive that doesn't die after 1 year I'd be alot happier.

I have a 5 year old mp3 player that still works great (too bad it only holds 128 megs). My 4G ipod just died after 1 year 1 month exactly (never dropped it or anything which would damage it in any way). Now, I understand hardware can die, but for $400, I'd expect it to last more then a year. Luckily I bought a 2 year warranty so I got mine replaced for free, but many other people weren't so lucky and now have a $400 paperweight.

If your ipod isn't under warranty you can always get the battery replaced for around $60-70, if its the hard drive, you might aswell buy a new one. I will never buy another iPod or Apple product again after the stress and fustration this ordeal has caused me.

This last christmas, my sister and her husband decided to buy themselves 2 ipod nanos, they ended up returning them and getting replacements about 5 times because they didnt work (each replacement didnt work either). They eventually gave up on the nano and bought 2 ipod videos.

I'll probably be modded down for speaking out against Apple/ipod.

dead ipods faulty ipods

Ipod Battery Class Action Lawsuit Class Action Lawsuit against Apple for their faulty Ipod Nano Apple settles Ipod Class Action Lawsuit

The iPod Customer Service Story and Other Fairy Tales

http://www.ipodsdirtysecret.com/

Hopefully Amazon's "ipod" will work for more then a year. I could care less about how it looks, it will be in my pocket 99% of the time anyway. So please, design something that is a quality product, not just pretty looking.

Apple has a great product (I own one myself, and I LOVED it), but the ipods have a few flaws, ok,ALOT of flaws.

If Amazon could design a device that a) has a battery that doesnt die after 1 year b) has a hard drive that doesn't die after 1 year I'd be alot happier.

I have a 5 year old mp3 player that still works great (too bad it only holds 128 megs). My 4G ipod just died after 1 year 1 month exactly (never dropped it or anything which would damage it in any way). Now, I understand hardware can die, but for $400, I'd expect it to last more then a year. Luckily I bought a 2 year warranty so I got mine replaced for free, but many other people weren't so lucky and now have a $400 paperweight.

If your ipod isn't under warranty you can always get the battery replaced for around $60-70, if its the hard drive, you might aswell buy a new one. I will never buy another iPod or Apple product again after the stress and fustration this ordeal has caused me.

This last christmas, my sister and her husband decided to buy themselves 2 ipod nanos, they ended up returning them and getting replacements about 5 times because they didnt work (each replacement didnt work either). They eventually gave up on the nano and bought 2 ipod videos.

I'll probably be modded down for speaking out against Apple/ipod.

dead ipods faulty ipods

Ipod Battery Class Action Lawsuit Class Action Lawsuit against Apple for their faulty Ipod Nano Apple settles Ipod Class Action Lawsuit

The iPod Customer Service Story and Other Fairy Tales

http://www.ipodsdirtysecret.com/

Hopefully Amazon's "ipod" will work for more then a year. I could care less about how it looks, it will be in my pocket 99% of the time anyway. So please, design something that is a quality product, not just pretty looking.