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Must history repeat itself? Everybody thinks an unmanned robotic fighter is cool, until it gets hijacked. Then you'll wish you hadn't cut the YF-19 and YF-21...

Must history repeat itself? Everybody thinks an unmanned robotic fighter is cool, until it gets hijacked. Then you'll wish you hadn't cut the YF-19 and YF-21...

Must history repeat itself? Everybody thinks an unmanned robotic fighter is cool, until it gets hijacked. Then you'll wish you hadn't cut the YF-19 and YF-21...

Article: http://groups.google.ca/groups?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8& selm=ucggua1ghi9ic1%40corp.supernews.com&rnum= 12

Oh God, are you wrong. And that's certainly your right.

The breakdown of people using Gmail will be close to the same breakdown of the fools using their blogs or regular folks using their search engine.

Here's your small percentage of Linux users.

Just a few final notes here to wrap things up. . .

1. NASA public relations and the media presented a very tight argument for falling insulation damage being the culprit in the Columbia disaster. --Historical evidence was presented from the NASA archives purporting that previous missions of both the Columbia and other shuttles had shown some limited damage to heat tiles resulting from foam insulation falling from the fuel tanks. The speculation and arguments were that a larger piece of foam striking in a certain way could cause a critical failure of the heat shielding.

2. Despite the recommendation by NASA engineers during the mission that the foam insulation strike in question did not pose a problem and that the mission was in no danger, the conclusion was reversed after the disaster and subsequent investigation.

3. In doing follow-up on this whole story, I ran across this curious item about a photographer who was shooting the Columbia as it first started to break up. He captured an image of an energy bolt striking the Columbia followed by a series of pictures showing a flash and the break-up.

This is a follow up on that story.

The name of the photographer was Jay Lawson, an electrical engineer who works for Sparks defense contractor Sierra Nevada Corp. Jay was at the time also a volunteer at the Fleischmann Planetarium at the University of Nevada, Reno. He captured his images of the shuttle from the Fleischmann facility.

This is a brief description of his video according to an article in the RENO GAZETTE-JOURNAL;

Peering up at the southern sky, he caught what appears to be some sort of explosion as Columbia re-entered the Earth's atmosphere. He did not realize that he might have caught the first visual evidence of trouble aboard the space shuttle until he went back inside and watched the tape on his big-screen television. Moments later, he watched the National Aeronautics and Space Administration television channel and realized the shuttle was gone.

There is no mention of the energy strike in this article; the reason I included it here was in part to show the value of his film. If you read the article, you can see that NASA sent a letter thanking him for what were considered to be valuable images which indeed showed the earliest stages of the break-up. --This article also seems important to me because these were apparently the images which came directly after the first frame which showed an energy bolt striking the shuttle. Why the energy bolt was not mentioned at all in the article seems very curious to me.

Now, I have been completely unable to find any copies of the image of the energy bolt on the web. Nor have I found any follow-up stories regarding it. That also strikes me as a little weird. But perhaps I just wasn't looking hard enough.

So anyway. . . What we have right now are two stories. The first is the big media story which broadcast the NASA claims regarding the

Peering up at the southern sky, he caught what appears to be some sort of explosion as Columbia re-entered the Earth's atmosphere. He did not realize that he might have caught the first visual evidence of trouble aboard the space shuttle until he went back inside and watched the tape on his big-screen television. Moments later, he watched the National Aeronautics and Space Administration television channel and realized the shuttle was gone.

So. . . A bolt of energy striking the Columbia, followed by a bright flash and the break-up of the shuttle.

Now, I have been completely unable to find any copies of the image of the energy bolt on the web. Nor have I found any follow-up stories regarding it.

Curious.

So. . . What we have right now are two stories. The first is the big media story which broadcast the NASA claims regarding the incident; a piece of foam caused damage to heat tiles, which in turn resulted in a critical failure.

The second story is one which comes from two sources; a channeled source claiming an energy weapon was used to shoot down the Columbia, and a photograph of an energy bolt actually striking the shuttle instants before it broke up.

So which is more likely. . ?

One:The U.S. Government can be counted on to not fabricate stories, and that NASA's own engineers who originally said the foam strike did not present a problem were actually wrong.

Two:A photograph of the shuttle being hit by an energy bolt was wrong or fabricated, AND the channeled claim that the Columbia being shot down by an energy bolt was also wrong or fabricated, --and that BOTH were wrong or fabricated by different people in different parts of the country without any contact between each other.

The channeled claim has been instantly disregarded on the basis that it is supposedly impossible that alien intelligence could be in contact with humans. Occam's Razor has been suggested as the means by which 'UFO conspiracy' theory should be disregarded and indeed scorned.

Interestingly, Occam was a monk who

"Left unresolved for now is whether intelligence was intentionally misconstrued to justify military action,"

This is still live
http://www.google.ca/press/zeitgeist.html

they dont have august's stats on cache, but they do have this for june's http://www.google.ca/search?q=cache:xrgKzSjvI7gJ:w ww.google.ca/press/zeitgeist.html+Zeitgeist+june+2 004&hl=en&lr=lang_en

There is, but it doesn't have the info either. I guess they spider their sites quite often. They've even taken the info off of their previous Year-End Zeitgeists (assuming the data was there).

However, some other country versions still have them: ca uk

Get them while you can...

Google has pulled OS stats from the US Zeitgeist but Canada still has them. And Lindsay Lohan has pulled ahead of Avril Lavigne.

http://www.google.ca/press/zeitgeist.html

I dunno, I think this might be at least kind of reliable.

Admittedly, this is the zeitgeist for google.ca. The google.com one doesn't show the OS statistics for some reason. Anyway, if you look it over, you find that Linux is about on par with Windows 95, with 1% of the share. Windows NT 4.0 still has twice Linux's share at 2%, and Windows ME and Mac OS are tied at 3% each. Windows 98, 2000, and XP take a whopping 85%, with 51% going to XP alone. All the Windowses combined make up 91% of the share. There's also that 5% other, and who knows what that is (UNIXes and unidentifiable Linuxes, perhaps? Maybe some of the older Mac OSes, too). Either way, while Linux is getting more and more ready for widespread, desktop use, it's clear it's not getting a lot of that currently.

Google Cache after slashdotting... http://www.google.ca/search?q=cache:YHGDB5MH4e0J:r pow.net/+&hl=en

Stevia, a natural herb which is sweeter than sugar and almost calorie-free, is banned in Europe and North America.

So you mean wired news doesn't feel like capitalising the word, eh? Well, here's what I think.. Aren't you suppose to capitalize words that, ah whatever, google can explain it better: http://www.google.ca/search?q=define%3A+capital+le tter&btnG=Search&hl=en&ie=UTF-8/

My point is, isn't Internet a proper name? not a generic "word for"? internet isn't just "inter-connected-network-of-networks", it's, like... CowboyNeal... why capitalize the "Cowboy"? it's part of the name... like, I can't explain it (partly because I've had one to many bawls and don't have the serenity right now to sit down and think of a proper explination) but, like... damnit... it's the Internet, end of story.

I Spit! (yes, I capitalized that).

What about using a daemon instead?

Here you go.

This is the first time a /. article has made google news headlines:

http://news.google.ca/news/en/ca/technology.html

Totally unrelated but Google just put up an advanced news search: http://news.google.ca/advanced_news_searchGoogle

Excellent.

Most Excellent.

It appears from your list that CA has cleverly excluded the french from their little contest. Even the pseudo-french in Canada (Which as we all know, is the home to the largest collection of frechmen to never surrender to the Germans!) :P

Whoops, I mean "Shalebridge Cradle" Definately the scariest level I've ever played in any FP game.

Steam sucks. The keys are too weak. I had bought a retail game and couldn't even play it online because somebody had already taken the key. Totally lame.
Google Search for Half-life key generator

No, I am not a microbiologist, I am just a lowly student that has to bow down to microbiologist profs.

Minority Report shows a sort of example of this: stop the disease by fully understanding it and stopping before it happens. This may involve a lot of science (which may include the horrid bad science ), but it does look promising and more research into it is very exciting.

There are many spectulated culprits ( randomness, heredities and free radicals ), but I believe I am going to be one of those graduate students doing 1000s of hours of expirments and research on this. Or maybe I will write a bash script for it instead (bash 3.0 released!)

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Yes, I moderate, when I can.

google for "vertical service codes"

Hans Reiser has some interesting ideas about the role of a modern file system. Here's a recent USENET post describing some of the immediately visible features of reiserfs v3. Some people have said that there was corruption in the past, but I think there are no longer any problems in recent 2.4 kernels. Namesys is now developing Reiser4, which appears to be more flexible (still needs time to stabilize though). If I had to put down my money on a future filesystem though, it would be ReiserFS.

I checked one the international feeds -- the UK one -- and it's much less fugly. Still nowhere near as good as Google News Canada, but at least it's not eye-tearingly bad.

NBC appears to be source of the horrifying bad taste.

Perhaps not foolproof, but the "Patriot" alternative so far shows a record even worse.

(Patriot Missile System:Freindly Fire :: Patriot Act:???)

US has always focused on fighter aircraft

Yes, because this is such a foolproof system.

I still strongly disagree with the PATRIOT apologists, and I hate the MPAA, and see the terrible behavior FBI shows every now and then, but as I read the comments, interesting details were hidden here and there, such as Adam McGaughey being investigated for fraud a few years ago. Here's one post about an investigation for Federal mail order fraud:

"I am in the midst of legal procedures to weedout & prosecute this individual ..***Adam McGaughey//Mac Sales (mac_sales@powermac.org)*** for violations to include Federal mail-order fraud..& punnished to the fullest extent of State & Federal laws."

Yeah, I know about the full episode downloads that were available, but come on - they haven't even been available for ages. But could it be that Adam is trying to raise funds for his court case.

As several people in this discussion have pointed out, I don't think we know the whole truth here. If he has really been defrauding people, what would prevent him from pulling such tricks again to raise funds from his site by misinforming his fans, to get more money to deal with the fraud charges?

Fraud is not however. As pointed out by a previous poster, the site owner has allegedly commited fraud Several Times

I suspect that he stands accused of Copyright infringement for hosting episodes on his server, but also for fraud.... However, he wouldn't get much sympathy or paypal donations for your fraud legal defence fund...

He's having legal money troubles, let's not give him bandwidth bill problems as well.

Google Cache of text

The Patriot Act amended many laws that were already on the books that were not directly related to "national security." (Amendements to the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act are just one example.) Waving that flag around is just a misunderstanding of the Act.

use mirrors instead:

http://www.google.co.jp/
http://www.google.fr/
http://www.google.se/
http://www.google.fi/
http://www.google.ca/

all above seem to be responsive atleast to me

Clarity: Contacts cannot correct astigmatism as well as lenses do, simply because they have to be symmetrical. Ask any optometrist.

Only glasses can correct astigmatism, and because astigmatism changes over time, only glasses can keep up with the changes. Lasik is a one-shot deal, and because the surgery is noninteractive, it's a bit of hit and miss how well it ends up correcting astigmatism.

Long term effects: You cannot beat glasses, because your eyes never get touched. As for Lasik, there is currently simply no data at all on what problems it might cause 40 years later, because it hasn't been around that long. Consider too that we don't even know what causes macular degeneration right now. I hope everything works out for you, but since my cornea has NOT been sliced open, folded back, internals boiled off with a laser, cornead folded back and left to rescar, it's not an issue for me.

You have to admit that long-term Lasik side effects are simply unknown.

Headaches: if you've gotten headaches, your prescription was simply screwed up. I once got some glasses where I soon noticed that the optic centre distance was wrong; my eyes tended to wander off into double vision. I brought them back and with no hesitation they told the lab to grind a new set of lenses with the centers done properly this time. And the results were perfect.

Infection: yes, contacts will do that. That's exactly why I said that high quality glasses are best. You supported my posting with that point...

Night vision: the problem with Lasik is not sensitivity, but rather what happens when something like headlight shines into your eyes. The scarring from the cornea reattaching means you get loads of fogging and halo effects.

But enough from me. Type lasik dangers into google and enjoy. There are lots of people who have become legally blind from Lasik.

The dividend has nothing to do with the stock price going down because of earnings slipping in Q4.

Not cool. You should do your own Google search before telling someone to do theirs.

Here you go...

http://www.google.ca/search?q=cache:zhool8dxBV4J:w ww.google.com/+&hl=en

Here you go.

AT&T Failure of January 15, 1990

Link 1, Link 2, Link 3

On January 15, 1990, 114 switching nodes of the AT&T long distance system went down. The published cause of the crash was a bug in the failure recovery code of the switches. When a node crashed, it sent "out of service" message to the neighboring nodes, which are supposed to re-route traffic around it. However, the bug (a misplaced "break" statement in C code) caused the neighboring nodes to crash themselves upon receiving the "out of service" message, and further propagate the fault by sending an "out of service" message to nodes further out in the network.

The crash lasted 9 hours, while programmers searched for the cause of the bug. An estimated 60 thousand people were left without telephone service, and 70 million phone calls went uncompleted. AT&T estimates at least $60 million in lost revenue and damage to its reputation; reliability was a central point in AT&T's marketing campaign against other long distance providers at the time. The incidental damage to businesses that were unable to operate due to lack of telephone service is hard to estimate, but is presumably much larger. The public safety and national security implications of such a large telephone system outage are distressing as well.

This fault happened despite fault-tolerant design principles which were present in the phone system's design. The nodes failed fast, reporting their outage to neighboring nodes, and there was enough redundancy in the system to route around the failures. The crashed nodes recovered quickly, rebooting themselves and coming back up; however, they would immediately crash because of the messages received from neighboring nodes. The failure happened on an error-recovery path, which is poorly tested. The presence of decentralized distributed control, necessary for scaling, allowed this failure to propagate. The outage demonstrates that a bug in the software can cause a widely correlated failure.

The possibility of a malicious attack on the system was seriously investigated as a cause for the crash. The investigation came up dry, but most sources acknowledge that this accidental fault could have just as easily been activated on purpose by a knowledgeable attacker. The social implications are investigated in detail in Bruce Sterling's The Hacker Crackdown.

Google Cache as per your request.

but if he was recording my every move for cataloging he and I would have words. ;-)

Wouldn't surprise me - there's some strange people out there.

Anyway, I think you worry too much... it's not good for you, ya know. ;-)

I'll worry when they actually cross a line, which I don't see my government doing anytime soon. They just got a lesson in humility - a minority government.

The only signifcant drawback to the current material used in the regular iPod is its tendency to pick up scratches/fingerprints on its back.

Sure, but then again that applies to most portable devices. On the other hand you get some case for the iPod. Did a search with google:

- Applinks review
- iSkin evo, which even come in a choice of colours

[quick blink, "you must be kidding me"] looks like even Gucci is offering an iPod case. Now that's saying something.

And they're threatening to sue 1998 if it doesn't shut up.

Here's a good starting place - Google groups has 36 thousand hits on my good buddy Derek Smart, PhD.

OT - Was Cmdr Taco involved in that flamewar? I dimly recall some talk about the "supreme taco commander".

Only a factor of 88099 to go!

I know... Einstein is stirring in his grave.

I'm not a fucking troll!! The men involved said it themselves! Take note of the last paragraph!!!

When asked about his role in the Tokyo firebombing, he remarked: "I suppose if I had lost the war, I would have been tried as a war criminal. Fortunately, we were on the winning side.

I believe all you've done is prove that you are a hypocrite. Sorry I had to bash America. Obviously you're not open to an intellectual debate.

Now hold on let me get this straight. What the Japanese did in war was murder, but the dropping of 2 nuclear weapons on civilians was a blessing? Been into the nationalism punch have we?

Many historians also disagree with the assertation that it was required to end the war in the pacific, since the Japanese were already pressing for peace, the Americans were already looking to the next war and needed a way to intimidate the Soviet Union. Instead of linking to a site I'll just link to a Google search Was the Bomb necessary.