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There isn't a single antibiotic that can disable a virus...

This will come as a great surprise to the many people who have taken antiviral drugs and been cured of various viral diseases. I was cured of some strange recurrant yuppie flu using Acyclovir. Thank $DEITY that I had a GP who had trained as a pharmacist.

I guess we can be pedantic and say that antibiotics and antivirals are not similar things, but as far as the patient is concerned they are.

There isn't a single antibiotic that can disable a virus...

This will come as a great surprise to the many people who have taken antiviral drugs and been cured of various viral diseases. I was cured of some strange recurrant yuppie flu using Acyclovir. Thank $DEITY that I had a GP who had trained as a pharmacist.

I guess we can be pedantic and say that antibiotics and antivirals are not similar things, but as far as the patient is concerned they are.

There isn't a single antibiotic that can disable a virus...

This will come as a great surprise to the many people who have taken antiviral drugs and been cured of various viral diseases. I was cured of some strange recurrant yuppie flu using Acyclovir. Thank $DEITY that I had a GP who had trained as a pharmacist.

I guess we can be pedantic and say that antibiotics and antivirals are not similar things, but as far as the patient is concerned they are.

The US government should stay the hell out of the way; the whole POINT of a .xxx domain is that it would (in theory) differentiate pornographic content from the rest of the web so it would be easy to identify AND block! The idea that it would create an "online red-light district" is absurd: people wouldn't be able to just type in ".xxx" and get access to all the pornography they wanted (though if they wanted that, all they need to do is turn off SafeSearch in Google or use a file sharing application).

Don't they have better things to focus on? (/me avoids the obvious flamebait by not mentioning liberation ;^)

I believe the correct phrase is "Woe is me". Google

I can't believe that no one's mentioned this yet, but a simple google search reveals that the first hit points to this article which already talked about the patents and that Platt's application was rejected twice and user comments mentioned that Platt worked for MS.

Pascal.

Oh, well then.

Since when is it Googles responsibility to syndicate any and every news agency out there? Does CNet pay google to syndicate their news? Google's been giving them a LOT for free. Google has taken NOTHING away from CNet.

Here:
http://news.google.ca/news?hl=en&ned=ca&q=CNET+Goo gle&btnG=Search+News
http://www.google.ca/search?hl=en&q=CNet&btnG=Goog le+Search&meta=

Now would you care to explain just what Google has done that is so wrong? Considering they've done nothing other than refuse to do interviews.

This happens all the time.
It just happens that Eric's, and thus Googles response has had a more resonating effect than when your average public figure refuses an interview.

What, should everyone on the planet be forced to talk to news agencies at the agencies whim? And just swallow when those same agencies publish stuff you don't want published, or agree with?

Christ people, why can't anyone think about the world they would _like_ to live in?

Oh, well then.

Since when is it Googles responsibility to syndicate any and every news agency out there? Does CNet pay google to syndicate their news? Google's been giving them a LOT for free. Google has taken NOTHING away from CNet.

Here:
http://news.google.ca/news?hl=en&ned=ca&q=CNET+Goo gle&btnG=Search+News
http://www.google.ca/search?hl=en&q=CNet&btnG=Goog le+Search&meta=

Now would you care to explain just what Google has done that is so wrong? Considering they've done nothing other than refuse to do interviews.

This happens all the time.
It just happens that Eric's, and thus Googles response has had a more resonating effect than when your average public figure refuses an interview.

What, should everyone on the planet be forced to talk to news agencies at the agencies whim? And just swallow when those same agencies publish stuff you don't want published, or agree with?

Christ people, why can't anyone think about the world they would _like_ to live in?

Has anyone tried to see what entering "linux" on google gives you now a days? At-least on my Canadian "copy" of google (actually, even on google.com/linux), I get an interesting sponsored link at the top of my search results (not on the right side as usual):

Windows vs Linux
www.microsoft.ca/getthefacts Read In-Depth 3rd Party Performance Analysis on Linux & Windows!

Microsoft's marketing/advertising department working hard...

Cheap hack is to add another variable to the url:

http://news.google.ca/nwshp?hl=en&tab=wn&q=&output =rss&dummy=dot.xml

Enjoy!

It's still beta? *Checks* ... How long's it been out? *Checks* Since April 2002. More than 3 years in public beta. =/

You could try just getting a torrent such as at http://www.google.ca/search?&q=alice%27s+restauran t+torrent

You say this with great assurance. Can you site a study on this? Usupported by facts, your post is no better than the parent post you are attacking.

Lots of people have looked at the problem. Activist types always frame things in terms of "average female worker vs. average male worker", which is seriously flawed since it considers neither rank or seniority. In a lot of institutions, pay scales are completely regulated and take no regard of gender, but you will still find the same "problems" with the average salaries.

And the ranting about lefties makes you look like an idealogue rather than someone who weighs evidence carefully.

I'm a Centrist. I find leftist idealogy very irritating, since the bulk of it is to whine about people's own poor choices. But, I find right-wing religious nuts irritating, too.

Ever cross your mind that this guy wasn't being serious? People, it's called an overused Slashdot joke. Get over it.

> My friends first opengl programming gaem was a pushing crates game with an ascii file map format, good stuff!

You thinking of Sokoban ?

http://groups.google.ca/group/comp.sys.amiga.hardw are/msg/0ad15a71868ff577?dmode=source&hl=en

http://www.google.ca/search?hl=en&q=ml+in+an+ounce &btnG=Google+Search&meta= *Nick Burns voice*: Was that so hard?

My domain has a SPF record

Maybe that's your problem?

the IP resolves, and it doesn't appear to be on any blacklists

I have my own domain, and never have an issue - the only difference between me and you is that I don't use SPF.

Try getting rid of your SPF record and see if that helps.

To quote google:

News results for hans island - View today's top stories
Island squabble goes Google - CNN International - 28 Jul 2005

How trippy is that? The top thing on the page is a news link about how the issue has hit google. Still no sign of what the article is mentioning, but the story about it is quite prominent!

http://www.google.ca/maps?q=Ellesmere+Island,+Cana da&ll=80.829156,-66.599121&spn=1.041906,10.301331& hl=en

http://www.google.ca/search?q=answer+to+life+the+u niverse+and+everything+*+the+speed+of+light

Stupid google tricks.

http://www.google.ca/search?hl=en&safe=off&q=answe r+to+life+the+universe+and+everything&btnG=Search& meta=This explains all you need to know.

You post this piece by "WindozeSux"

You already posted this one in May.

Try this out, Zonk.

Maybe they ran it through Google for spell-checking, or used the Google spell checking API. That would explain why they got it wrong, since Google did, too.

a google search for you

PV cells "come from this earth" but are made of things that when combined then left in a landfill create a problem.

As for the water vapor issue, time will tell on that one. However, I've been to California [re: treelessville] and if you've ever been to Ottawa you can see concreteland (tm) where clear cutting and buildings are the norm.

Yet it's still hot/warm there...

Have you ever walked through a nature trail on a sunny day? Is it totally unplesant and unbearable? I know from where I live outside of the mosquitos and what not it's actually quite ok.

Tom

Details are debated, but it's generally thought that the Americas were settled by 2 or 3 waves of migrants from Asia, possibly more. Some evidence points towards Causcasian genes being involved, Kennewick Man possibly being one example. The Inuit are newcomers, showing up in Alaska about 1500 years ago. In a thousand years they spread across the north, replacing the Dorset culture. The last Dorset people died in 1902, on Southhapton Island (very eastern), killed by disease brought by whalers. They have been shown to be genetically distinct from the Inuit, implying a complete replacement.

Gimme the work. Finally, it's going to be less tiring doing it than trying to avoid doing it...

Those who read french undoubtely know Gaston Lagaffe (Gaston The-Blunder), a comic character who works in the children's magazine it is published. Being lazy, he eithers find ways to avoid working by sleeping on the job, inventing goofy machines to do the work (often with catastrophic results) or simply help pass the time he is at work (either by playing or cooking).

The comic strip ran for almost forty-five years and grew-up; at some point, you could see that several of the characters (the cop always trying to ticket him for illegal parking, his immediate bosses, the businessmen trying, for all that time, to sign some contracts) had quite serious neuroses, with Gaston always seeming to be the more sane character...

It's not the first step, but not because of the reasons you mentioned. SaskTel (provincial telephone company in Saskatchewan) has already had this service available for several years. I get my phone, TV an Internet althrough my phone line.

Try googling for SaskTel Max. One particular link of interest is this: http://goliath.ecnext.com/coms2/gi_0199-3515636/Fo cal-launches-managed-Internet-access.html. The article really isn't about Max, but it's worth reading at least the headline: Article: Pace boxes Power SaskTel's Max Interactive Services largest deployment of TV over ADSL in North America.(Canada)

So no, this isn't new. At least not in the corner of the Earth we call Saskatchewan.

With a billion users, that means that there are at least 7 pages of tomatos for every man, woman and child on the Internet.

check your math:

Results 1 - 100 of about 7,280,000 for tomato

Lets assume that they're in the ballpark. With a billion users, that means that there are at least 7 pages of tomatos for every man, woman and child on the Internet.

It would be interesting to see the P&IDs and PFDs for this system. Careful inspection of these drawings usually gives a good clue as to what's going on in a process system.

It would be interesting to see the P&IDs and PFDs for this system. Careful inspection of these drawings usually gives a good clue as to what's going on in a process system.

Google, text only:
http://72.14.207.104/search?q=cache:hHhkzdBOglAJ:w ww.otherpower.com/17page1.html+&hl=en&lr=&strip=1
Google, image of turbine:
http://images.google.ca/images?svnum=10&hl=en&lr=& safe=off&c2coff=1&q=flying17foot.JPG&btnG=Search
Google, images of turbines on their site:
http://images.google.ca/images?svnum=10&hl=en&lr=& safe=off&c2coff=1&q=site%3Awww.otherpower.com+turb ine&btnG=Search

carmaHore.

Google, text only:
http://72.14.207.104/search?q=cache:hHhkzdBOglAJ:w ww.otherpower.com/17page1.html+&hl=en&lr=&strip=1
Google, image of turbine:
http://images.google.ca/images?svnum=10&hl=en&lr=& safe=off&c2coff=1&q=flying17foot.JPG&btnG=Search
Google, images of turbines on their site:
http://images.google.ca/images?svnum=10&hl=en&lr=& safe=off&c2coff=1&q=site%3Awww.otherpower.com+turb ine&btnG=Search

carmaHore.

Using spoofed unreach packets to drop TCP sessions has been around for a LONG time - it used to be called a "nuke" (before the Windows OOB attack, "WinNuke", became more widely known). I know that I've heard of the quench spoof attack, but hadn't heard of the path MTU attack, yet. Using ICMP redirect messages to arrange MITM attacks was also an old one, but I don't think that most stacks pay attention to redirect any more.

Here's a post from 1993, for example:
http://groups.google.ca/group/comp.protocols.tcp-i p/browse_thread/thread/439b09e36f4738eb/2eacbab1d4 9e966d?q=icmp+unreach+nuke&rnum=3&hl=en#2eacbab1d4 9e966d
One from 2000:
http://groups.google.ca/group/sol.lists.freebsd.se curity/browse_thread/thread/37d9a0a870080133/711f4 cc20af1a450?q=icmp+quench+spoof&rnum=1&hl=en#711f4 cc20af1a450
One from 2003:
http://groups.google.ca/group/linux.kernel/browse_ thread/thread/e96bd4e594c808d5/3f66eac2a5aa8665?q= icmp+path+mtu+spoof&rnum=2&hl=en#3f66eac2a5aa8665

While these kinds of risks have been known for a long time, there hasn't really been much attempt to mitigate them. Fernando seems to be a little green, initially thinking that he discovered new vulnerabilities, but he's doing the right thing in pressuring for methods of mitigation. It's a hard fight against complacency. Some of the ideas are clever, but it'll take a lot of convincing to change something so low level as ICMP. For how simple ICMP is, it has lots of security issues; it has got to be made more complicated very carefully.

Using spoofed unreach packets to drop TCP sessions has been around for a LONG time - it used to be called a "nuke" (before the Windows OOB attack, "WinNuke", became more widely known). I know that I've heard of the quench spoof attack, but hadn't heard of the path MTU attack, yet. Using ICMP redirect messages to arrange MITM attacks was also an old one, but I don't think that most stacks pay attention to redirect any more.

Here's a post from 1993, for example:
http://groups.google.ca/group/comp.protocols.tcp-i p/browse_thread/thread/439b09e36f4738eb/2eacbab1d4 9e966d?q=icmp+unreach+nuke&rnum=3&hl=en#2eacbab1d4 9e966d
One from 2000:
http://groups.google.ca/group/sol.lists.freebsd.se curity/browse_thread/thread/37d9a0a870080133/711f4 cc20af1a450?q=icmp+quench+spoof&rnum=1&hl=en#711f4 cc20af1a450
One from 2003:
http://groups.google.ca/group/linux.kernel/browse_ thread/thread/e96bd4e594c808d5/3f66eac2a5aa8665?q= icmp+path+mtu+spoof&rnum=2&hl=en#3f66eac2a5aa8665

While these kinds of risks have been known for a long time, there hasn't really been much attempt to mitigate them. Fernando seems to be a little green, initially thinking that he discovered new vulnerabilities, but he's doing the right thing in pressuring for methods of mitigation. It's a hard fight against complacency. Some of the ideas are clever, but it'll take a lot of convincing to change something so low level as ICMP. For how simple ICMP is, it has lots of security issues; it has got to be made more complicated very carefully.

Using spoofed unreach packets to drop TCP sessions has been around for a LONG time - it used to be called a "nuke" (before the Windows OOB attack, "WinNuke", became more widely known). I know that I've heard of the quench spoof attack, but hadn't heard of the path MTU attack, yet. Using ICMP redirect messages to arrange MITM attacks was also an old one, but I don't think that most stacks pay attention to redirect any more.

Here's a post from 1993, for example:
http://groups.google.ca/group/comp.protocols.tcp-i p/browse_thread/thread/439b09e36f4738eb/2eacbab1d4 9e966d?q=icmp+unreach+nuke&rnum=3&hl=en#2eacbab1d4 9e966d
One from 2000:
http://groups.google.ca/group/sol.lists.freebsd.se curity/browse_thread/thread/37d9a0a870080133/711f4 cc20af1a450?q=icmp+quench+spoof&rnum=1&hl=en#711f4 cc20af1a450
One from 2003:
http://groups.google.ca/group/linux.kernel/browse_ thread/thread/e96bd4e594c808d5/3f66eac2a5aa8665?q= icmp+path+mtu+spoof&rnum=2&hl=en#3f66eac2a5aa8665

While these kinds of risks have been known for a long time, there hasn't really been much attempt to mitigate them. Fernando seems to be a little green, initially thinking that he discovered new vulnerabilities, but he's doing the right thing in pressuring for methods of mitigation. It's a hard fight against complacency. Some of the ideas are clever, but it'll take a lot of convincing to change something so low level as ICMP. For how simple ICMP is, it has lots of security issues; it has got to be made more complicated very carefully.

Kid's make mistakes, I don't think he should be thrown in jail and have his life ruined because of a childish (yes this is very childish of him) mistake.

However, he's taught a lot of people to take security more seriously. I think anyone would agree that because of this kid, a lot of systems are more secure.

Plus I don't think the "hacker mentality" works in cases like this. I don't think when he created and released this code he was thinking of what would happen. He was probably just curious, but not out to hurt anyone. This might have just been something "cool" to him. In any case, I don't think he should be thrown on the same level as say Karla Homolka. Take away his computer or restrict his computer privileges. Don't throw him in jail. He's not a murderer (refer to the google link provided).

>> Like quarks ... where's the objective verification

In the Large Hadron Collider you will find the answer. Here or here or a more wider search

>>What about the hadron boot-strap? Branes?

Not sure what you mean about boot-strap, but as for the Hadron family, look for..."Large Hadron Collider"

You may not SEE them, but evidences are conclusive enough. When experiences match theory closely, it holds proof of existence.

>Branes

Branes..ah! Branes...Wait for the next version of the LHC. We'll know if it's just theory or not in a few years, so hold your breath! Even more! The Higgs boson might give up to the LHC and show up at last (he's the one supposedly responsible for giving its mass to a particle - so it's somewhat a big deal). And the nice thing is that, since it's theory (again), we'll soon be fixed on wherever it exists or not. If not, other theories will try to explain mass and will be tested. Until we find out.

>>I think we take a lot on faith without realising it. Much of that is based on someone elses faith too!

That is where your mistake is. Science is not faith-based but fact-based. Faith has no room in the scientific process. Confidence in one's experiments or theory is only confidence and has to be tested to be considered valid.

>>And I don't see Occam's razor as being a logical method.

The Occam's razor is not a method for conducting science, it is a simple thought and a guidance as to where to look at: the most simplest explanation is the first you should consider. It assumes (generally rightfully) that nature takes the shortest paths. As do humans. But again, it is not a method - at all.

would it be this one?
http://maps.google.ca/maps?q=tokyo&ll=34.085083,13 9.526024&spn=0.085127,0.120352&t=k&hl=en

Here is a link showing once person's experience and opinion on how dangerous it is: Aircraft Wire Arc Tracking. The fellow was an ex-boeing employee (retired after 36+ years) who has since passed away. Read his 'qualifications' link.

There are tonnes of news articles in the google link, and more if you play with the search query. $1,500.00 for a power cable? Not for me.

Check out the Mnemonic alphabet.

Take a series of letters, makes nouns, create your own poem or story. Link words and phrases with absurd images (the more absurd, the better), and you suddenly can remember long series of numbers.

the same way everyone else does, by asking Google.

I'm not sure how the revenue stream works, but basically legions of people are hired to click ads. Sounds silly doesn't it? However, AFAIK, the website the ad is displayed on gets paid a certain amount, as does Google, by the company paying for the ad to be put on Google's service. Hence the lawsuit.

With my friend Google (Google, meet jasongetsdown. jasongetsdown, meet Google), I was able to find some links that may help you understand the situation better, including TFA we're talking about in the first place :-P

Sheep with human brains and other organs.
or
Google Search
- The glow from the firefly has been inserted into tobacco plants making them glow in the dark.
or Google Search
- A human embryo cloned using a cell from a man's leg and a cow's ovum lived and developed for twelve days until it was terminated.
or Google Search
- Goats bred with a spider gene produce milk which is processed to make "BioSteel".. The US military has set up their own goat farm to make bulletproof vests, aerospace and medical supplies.
or Google Search
- Extended Life Spans
or Google Search

This is not just a turning point in history. It's also the fulcrum upon which technology balances our very evolution. ted

If you read the full text of the article, it states and confirms "that it uses the commercial filtering package SmartFilter - made by the US-based company, Secure Computing - as the primary technical engine of its filtering system." The multilingual support allows them to filter Farsi. So the same company that stops you so many from visiting just about any site at work is proping up other restrictive regeimes.

Spore is looking very interesting right now. Procedural generation will hopefully generate the kind of epic scale I'm looking for.

For a decent RAID 5 system, always a good alternative if affordable and you require access to images all the time, why not check out the links from related /. stories such as the one below taken from a /. story earlier today? http://groups.google.ca/group/alt.comp.hardware.pc -homebuilt/browse_frm/thread/63ac764decdbfef4 FYI: It describes building a (reletively) cheap('ish) RAID5 server with >2TB of sharable drivespace to play with.