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For me the value of Internet access comes down to two (very noble) reasons: Communication, and Information

I can communicate with anyone in the world over email, instant messenging, and newsgroups -- all free; remember that telcos would charge a fortune if you did this over long distance telephone.

The access to Information aspect is huge. I work in the Engineering field, and if I ever run across something I don't know it's only a Google, Yahoo, or AltaVista search away. Anything I'll ever need: historic publications, circuit diagrams, data sheets, research papers, discussion forums are out there for free.

Besides, B1FF@BIT.NET still appears from time to time on Usenet...

Tssk tssk tskk... talking to myself...
People interrested in the subject can start here.

• The number of human shields who turned out to be CIA agents?
  
• The number of Hussein regime figures who accepted American bribes and promises of political refuge if they surrendered peacefully?
  
• The real reason Turkey did not let American troops into northern Iraq? The general media kept reporting it as "opposition to the war". *snicker*
  
• The Kurds policy of "ethnic cleansing" where they are forcing Arab families out of their homes at gunpoint.
  

I wouldn't bother responding to your naive statement, but when I see a comment such as your labelled "interesting" I can't help but respond.

Let's start with the McDonald's coffee case, shall we. Rather than propagate popular myth about the case, why don't you first check here.

Next, the "filesharing is illegal" mantra. File sharing isn't illegal, sharing copyrighted works for which you don't have the copyright-holder's permission is illegal (except in places like Canada where certain types of sharing are legal thanks to the CD levies).

So, let's assume you actually meant to say "sharing copyrighted material is illegal" -- so what? There seems to be a certain percetage of people who cannot see a difference between "killing people is illegal" and "jaywalking is illegal". Yes, both actions are probably illegal, but they can hardly be lumped into the same category.

Most "filesharers" know what they do is illegal. However most also would say that what they are doing is more like jaywalking as opposed to murder.

Alas, such stories don't get referenced by Yahoo! Finance and most SCO investors don't search Google News, (but should).

GIS Search for Kim Delaney

Dude, you could do better.

But I guess you could also do worse too.

Here is the cache for it

;)

Google Image Search link.

She is a hottie! I'd tap that ass!

I can't believe your favourites are 'Ruby Orange' or 'Mutley Sleeps'. If I was you, I'd definately be telling people to google for the Tit Tree

Dang.

How much does the internet weigh?

An electron's mass is 9.109 * 10^-31 kg (I was surprised to see that google told me this directly). Now let's say you focus on just a single 10 gigabit router. How many bits flow through one of these in a year? That's (10 * 10^9 bits/sec) * (31.5 * 10^6) s = 3.15 * 10^17 bits. Each bit, we can assume, involves the flow of several million electrons. So we're talking about something like 10^23 electrons flowing through a large router, per year.

Obviously there are many routers on the internet and tons of repeaters (<cough>, NSA taps) that have to process signals. Who cares, let's say there are 10^6 signalling entities out there. This pushes up the electron flow over the internet in a year to something like 10^29

Multiply this by the mass of an electron and you're looking at something approaching a gram. All the data flowing around doesn't amount to much mass of information. So all the data on the internet may occupy on the order of grams, while my engineering textbooks are several kilograms each. Conclusion? Electrons are neat.

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Just to save you some time.. randomly pick a couple.. it only takes a couple minutes. And what better use of the /. effect can you think of?

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Actually, it turns out that quantum gravity was right and superstring was wrong.

There's a new theory that replaces both, called M-theory.

What I'd like to know is why the UK google has removed the sites also. The Canadian google is the same.

Are these international based Google's served from the USA?

Rabbi Loew's Golem was a robot. I had heard the myth before but did not realize that Rabbi Loew had lived relatively recently - in the 16th century, during the same time Kepler lived in Prague.

Embedded on Rabbie Lowe's tomb is the encrypted hebrew that describes how to 'wake up' the Golem if needed. I saw the tomb in person and I wonder if anyone has tried to make sense of the engravings.

So what was it? Just a myth of robot? Or an embellished story of an actual robot?

Regardless, the idea of a robot was there in the 16th century. --jeff++

Uh, no. It's actually been found that video games increase IQ. I can't find the original CNN article, so the cached Google version will have to do.

Nice try, but try again.

Me, I hate video games, but because I think they're a waste of time, not because the people who play them are stupid. Some of the foremost researchers in the world use gaming as a testbed. Am I to take it that they are stupid because they not only play, but design video games?

" Additionally, most don't use legal names (preferring assumed names and nicknames), and may invent social security numbers. Others will be illegal immigrants who won't appear in any other record."

well there you have it. social security fraud, illigal immigrants, the only people who wont be tagged are the criminals. time to round them up...

First they came for the immigrants
and I did not speak out
because I was not an immigrant.
Then they came for the poor
and I did not speak out
because I was not poor.
Then they came for the homeless
and I did not speak out
because I was not a homeless.
Then they came for me
and there was no one left
to speak out for me.

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Guess you didn't look in the right place google returns 7,330 hits :-(

He suggested that the grid should be split up and then there should be DC inter-connections. Apparantly this would help to reduce surges.

Hydro-Quebec, in Canada, already does this ( Google Cache )

>Or do you just reflexively rehash this story any time it seems vaguely appropriate?

Next time, do your own research.

Some of the ideas presented in the Anti-Mac interface (Google Cache) guildlines. Also, this reminds me a lot of some research that was done by Douglas Hofstadter and Melanie Mitchell and described in "Fluid Concepts and Creative Analogies". I highly recommend the book if you are interested in AI.

HTH

Nutch

This project is the SOFTWARE to run a search engine. Not a corporation that needs to generate income to justify the resources required to run the search engine.

Anyone could take this source code and with enough money, challenge Google.com as the top search engine.

I see this project as a competitor to shrink wrapped search engines. IE google appliance or maybe even Folio based products. Typically corporations have many documents that need to be indexed and searchable to their needs.

I haven't seen this on the homepage but it doesn't list what content it can index. I hope it can at least index PDF's and popular Office documents.. Maybe even Media files? And what XML indexed fields? Or external metadata?

source it god. that took 2 secs on google

"Never interrupt an enemy while he's making a mistake."

-- Napoleon Bonaparte

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Here's the Google Cache. Thank you google!

Well, just do a search on Google for the words, FUCK SCO.

Only 7,650 results so far ...

You could try this for loads of Futhark rune fonts One of them might be close to what you're looking for.

...Because of the size and footprint issues, you can't do embedded with Java.

To further extend your knowledge in computer science, look into the Internet tool called "Google". Using it can save you from ridiculing yourself by publicly posting uneducated statements:

Embedded Java

I stumbled upon snopes.com for the first time while trying to determint whether the Peter Lynds story above was a hoax. I was searching for info about his publicist Brooke Jones, an Independent Communications Consultant. The google search leads to numerous links about urban legends. One site in particular http://www.truthminers.com/truth/jones.htm has a further link to snopes. Cool, eh? 6 degrees of internet separation.

Was it the fact that the keynote speaker cross-dresses as a 25-year-old rock star that tipped you off?

Investment is less about commodities and more about managed risk. The thing that makes gambling stupid is that there is no management of risk on the part of the gambler: the house always takes in more money than it puts out, so in the long run you are guaranteed to lose. However, if you're clever with your investments (and futures), you can balance the probabilities so that you are guaranteed to make money. There's all kinds of mathematical theory on this subject.

As for the self-fulfilling prophecy, that is a problem. However, nobody is going to offer a million-dollar future on terrorists bombing Israel, since it happens so frequently.

>If Oak Ridge has taught us anything, it's that even the best laid plans can end up destroying the ecology of an area.

Extending this logic, sitting in a parked car on your driveway for your entire lifetime will mean that you will have at least 2 or 3 car accidents.

Perhaps you should read something about the world's safest nuclear reactors; reactors so safe there are no deaths as a direct cause of it being a nuclear reactor? Even the Sierra Club doesn't seem to have any serious dirt on this reactor, apart from weapons sales blunders. Search for it yourself!

Hmmmm, zero deaths vs. many. Hard to decide. Perhaps if I were anti-people it'd be easier. You aren't anti-people, are you?

• MIL-STD 810F 501.3 II: 71 C
• MIL-STD 810F 507.3: 95% humidity

Of course we all know that the bullet resistance is the coolest requirement.

There are plenty of other laptops that meet those specifications -- but I assume they all have similar price tags. :(

I came up with ~60,000,000,000,000,000,000,000, which I have since dubbed 60 Hexillion. I have no idea what the real name is, but that seems logical based on the billion, trillion progression.

I had a run-in with the X-plane people (Basically Austin and his buddy Mike Brown on sales) over their "guaranteed upgrades for life." In a word, they lied. Furthermore, they continue to lie, and are absolute ASSHOLES about it.

To be specific here, they will always make the latest patch available for the current version. That is, if they're developing X-P 6.x, then the latest 6.x patch is available. However...

1) You cannot get any older patches. This is a problem because several times the current versions has been buggy, unstable, or broken.

2) Once the initial 7.x release is out, you are absolutely SOL on downloading the final 6.x patch. He will NOT provide it under any circumstances, once he's decided to get rid of 'free support for life' on a previous version.

I'm sorry to have to post this. I think that X-P is a really cool program. I'm utterly amazed at how far he's gotten with it. However, his code review (poor), attitude ("fuck you!"), and flat out lying on support all lead to something that I'll never drop money on again.

Pity, really. If he lost his ego, he'd write better software.

You can read more about it here.

In regards to reporting bugs, sure it's easy to do on a desktop system, but on a laptop, you can just about forget it. Just try to find a bootable disk with pcmcia drivers and all the smbfs programs/drivers needed. On a desktop system, simply attaching a new drive and doing a quick install on that drive may be all that's needed to pull the required metadata to report the bug.

ext[23] likely had problems back when Linux was in it's infancy, but it's matured quite far, and is rock solid these days. Something very bad has to happen to it for the data to be unrecoverable, and even then, there's still a good chance that you can use debugfs to work with the file system on a lower level to get back some of your more important data. Despite the fact that reiserfs is completely open source software, it's still rather like a black box, in that very few people truely understand it's inner workings, and finding out where things went wrong is difficult at best. When recovering from a disaster, the biggest benefit to ext[23] is that's it's predictable, and that predictability lends itself well to automated tools for scraping data off the disk.

In regards to reporting bugs, sure it's easy to do on a desktop system, but on a laptop, you can just about forget it. Just try to find a bootable disk with pcmcia drivers and all the smbfs programs/drivers needed. On a desktop system, simply attaching a new drive and doing a quick install on that drive may be all that's needed to pull the required metadata to report the bug.

ext[23] likely had problems back when Linux was in it's infancy, but it's matured quite far, and is rock solid these days. Something very bad has to happen to it for the data to be unrecoverable, and even then, there's still a good chance that you can use debugfs to work with the file system on a lower level to get back some of your more important data. Despite the fact that reiserfs is completely open source software, it's still rather like a black box, in that very few people truely understand it's inner workings, and finding out where things went wrong is difficult at best. When recovering from a disaster, the biggest benefit to ext[23] is that's it's predictable, and that predictability lends itself well to automated tools for scraping data off the disk.

Actually it's quite reasonable for a washing machine equipped with something like Maytag's StainBrain stain database to be able to download new stain algorithms. It's even reasonable that they'd be encoded as a serialized Java object that would call the appropriate hardware control methods.

However what doesn't make sense is using Java on wireless devices. One of the great misfortunes of the Information Age is that battery power has not kept up with Moore's Law. As a result, wireless devices need to be very stingy with their power when they are required to be broadcasters such as in ad-hoc wireless networks. And the best way to waste power is to use a language so inefficient that it runs on a virtual machine. The only time I could imagine using Java on a wireless device beyond prototyping is if the device contains a Java CPU.

Is anybody out there actually applying the stuff in this book? Or is everyone just reading it for fun?

Ashcroftian (look mom, I made a new word!)...

No you didn't.

Looks like you need to try this one.

couriel OR couriell site:fr 730 results

"courrier electronique" site:fr 1,340 results

From the article: "The ministry's General Commission on Terminology and Neology insists Internet surfers in France are broadly using the term "courrier electronique" (electronic mail) instead of e-mail".

Interesting definition of "broadly" when it's apparently used 200 times less than "email".

couriel OR couriell site:fr 730 results

"courrier electronique" site:fr 1,340 results

From the article: "The ministry's General Commission on Terminology and Neology insists Internet surfers in France are broadly using the term "courrier electronique" (electronic mail) instead of e-mail".

Interesting definition of "broadly" when it's apparently used 200 times less than "email".

couriel OR couriell site:fr 730 results

"courrier electronique" site:fr 1,340 results

From the article: "The ministry's General Commission on Terminology and Neology insists Internet surfers in France are broadly using the term "courrier electronique" (electronic mail) instead of e-mail".

Interesting definition of "broadly" when it's apparently used 200 times less than "email".

Have you learned a non-phonetic alphabet before?

I've learned enough to know how difficult it would be to be fluent. Why do they teach Chinese children pinyin? Why do the Japanese use hiragana, katakana, and romaji if kanji is so superior?

I believe that once mastered, non-phonetic alphabets allow for faster and more accurate transfer of information.

Faster, I might give you, but given the redundancy, interoperability, and modularity in phonetic alphabets I think that accuracy is not on your side. Europe took over the world because of their language, not in spite of it.

To me there has always been a clear distinction to me between speakers that are constantly converting languages in their heads and speakers that are actually using the second language to think.

Unfortunately, the history of Psychology and AI has shown that introspection and observation teaches you jack-all about what's actually going on inside someone's head. Yes, languages that are fluent are implemented in a different part of the brain than for those that are conscious symbol-manipulation, but that doesn't tell you anything about what format is being used underneath. By analogy, I challenge you to demonstrate whether your computer uses ones-complement or twos-complement arithmetic without opening the case.

Again, you might want to give a little more information than "so and so said so."

There's this thing called Google, please try and learn how to use it. Vocabulary does not limit thought, ideas limit thought -- otherwise how can you think something when you have the word "on the tip of your tongue"?

I approve of your cultural-gap interpretation of Matsumoto's claim. And my local Wittgenstein guru did not sign off on that part of my argument.

The search (for the lazy)

One of the more interesting links

The article mentions that the Reverend died of heart failure during a no-knock police raid which had the wrong address due to a drunken informant...

>In the time it took you to do that script, you could have patched the IDE source to add your SiS chipset to the various internal "blacklists" and throttled it back to ATA-66 with 15k DMA transfers. Seriously, check the source.

So, if it's that easy, why didn't Alan do it rather than telling us to do this?

Just wondering, because you seem to know more about this than him.

Of course, then again, perhaps you didn't notice the sleeps? This interface doesn't like switching to DMA mode quickly, and will lock up. It would probably be a bad thing to have a near 10 second pause inside the kernel per controller. But maybe that's standard procedure now, and I really don't know what's going on.

All I can say is that unlike a lot of people, my SATA is running in DMA mode right now without random lockups, despite this wacky initialisation.

1) Inaudable to humans: um its a ring tone.

2) repels mosquitos: for the whole five seconds my phone rings before i pick it up. oh wait i cant hear it (see 1) so i guess this does work as people spam your phone trying to call you.

3) arent mosquitos attracted to light sources? wouldnt the little blinking light on ones phone (or whole display) counter this effect?

a wonderful link about mosquitos link