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The results of this google search strongly suggest that there is e. coli in cow manure. Those of you who get news from Canada may remember Walkerton, where a few people died from drinking water contanimated, it was said, by runoff from farms.

Steps have to be taken to prevent the spread of disease in manure regardless of the animal producing it, and I think you'll find if you read the linked-to story that these steps are covered.

Your batteries either died of old age or had been repeatedly overcharged or both.

Moving 32 instead of 16 is nice, but IIRC the PowerPC can move 64 in one instruction (note this may take 2 cycles)? I cant' find any of my reference material anywhere, but I could have sworn the 604e and higher can move a double straight up

I'm not familiar with PPC pipeline optimizations, know a good source of reference?

AltiVec wouldnt' really offer very much unless you're doing mass mathmatical operations while transfering (add 0 and move 128 bits at once? or does the answer go to a register or the original memory location? can you access memory directly with AltiVec?). Might be nice for some kind of Geiss/G-Force type effects though. Again I'm not familiar with AltiVec in the least, except that it makes complex math fast because it's many mathmatical operations in parallel, and it's only availible on the G4 (and hopefully higher).

• Scripting Languages for Java
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Google it.

And sadly, I did vote for Bush. I didn't know he was insane until after Sept 11, when I started researching him.

I am aware of the fact that USB 2.0 is so bad at its bandwidth allocation; I was being as generous as possible while still favouring FireWire (gotta try and look unbiased).

That said, I'd like to disagree with your drivers picture -- the drivers for FireWire hard drives are already here; they're already stable. They'd just get used INSTEAD of the current IDE drivers (or even as well as).

The only change necessary would be the BIOS recognition of the IEEE1394 interface and its ability to boot the devices. I would guess that IEEE1394 chip makers would be more than willing to write boot bioses for their chips just as secondary ATA cards or SCSI cards currently work until the BIOSes understood them.

As far as "pushing" the ceiling on IEEE1394, its already under execution -- they were too slow to get started and probably don't have the funding, but like I said, SATA's money could have gone there instead. Hostlessness is probably too big of a deal to Intel though.

If I only had Bluetooth, USB and Firewire interfaces for peripherals, I'd be happy. Oh yeah, and its not Utopia -- we could all be there _right now_.

USB2.0 + Firewire cards:
http://www.usb-2-0.com/usb-2-0-firewire.ht ml

The MSI 845PE Max2 FIR motherboard has Intel RC8254OEM 10/100/1000 bit LAN, Promise PDC20276 RAID controller for dual ATA-133, C-Media CMI8738 6-channel audio, VIA IEEE1394 FireWire controller & Bluetooth support all built in.

For the Athlon lover, see the Abit AT7 MAX with 4 USB 1.1 ports, 2 additional USB 1.1 ports via PCI backplane, connector, 2 USB 2.0 ports, 2 additional USB 2.0 ports via PCI backplane connector, 2 IEEE 1394 Firewire ports, Audio jacks with S/PDIF-Out, 1 10/100MB LAN connector, but only 3 PCI slots.

> However, I could give a shit if a tire company knows that i have their tires on my car.

Neither could I, but the technology to read these tags isn't only something the tire manufacturers have access to, is it?

So, let's see how I could get that precious SSN, credit card numbers, and other goodies from your tire ID:

I set up a covert tire reading station beside the road. I make it look like one of those cable boxes you see at the end of many people's properties. I get your tire ID.

Now, of course, (insert gas company here) has your tire ID for easier billing. I get on the phone with an agent who is less than awake, and con him into giving me your info (phone number, street address, name, DOB). If you don't think that's possible, ask Kevin Mitnick.

Now I have enough to ask for a history of your car, for crashes and liens. I just tell them I'm interested in buying it. No problem. On there, I get your VIN tag and license plate number. Now, with all that official info, all I need is someone a little crooked at the DMV, and bingo! I've got an SSN and License. From there I can get anything I want about you, credit reports, credit card numbers, heck, I bet I could get the deeds to your house screwed up if I was nasty enough!

Sure, I could have walked up to your car and written the plate number and VIN down, but it wouldn't take long for my suspicious activity to be reported, whereas a tire ID tag reader will never be noticed, and even if it was, I doubt there'd be complaints.

Hope that helps explain it to you.

>Put down your copy of 1984 for just a minute and come back to the reality that no one cares unless you are doing something illegal.

Let me bring you back to reality. It ain't just the government you need to worry about. But I suppose you'll consider that a load of bunk. Well, go ahead. It's your life. Live it as you will.

When his first book Passion Play came out, I caught myself saying that "It's the best book I've read in a really long time, but that doesn't count, because I've been catching up on the classics of Science Fiction/Fantasy for the last while." Then I realized the implications of what I'd said.

Passion play occurs around the middle of what is now his 'rise and fall of magic' timeline, where magic is unleashed by the horrors of the second world war, almost overwhelms humanity (and human technology) and then subsides over a small number of generations. It concerns an empath bounty hunter in an empath-phobic world hunting the murderer of a TV religion superstar.

Resurrection Man occurs earlier on in the timeline. it's about a man who seems to have been stuck investigating his own murder.

Night Watch occurs as the magic is near it's peak, and starting to subside. It's set in the remains of Edmonton and Vancouver (Two Cities where Stuart spent a number of years) and concerns both the battle between humanity, technology and magic. It also concerns the facing of one's own demons (both figuratively and literally).

Mockingbird occurs in the deep south -- probably sometime between Passion Play and Night Watch. It seems very much a story of the society of the Rural deep south set in a world of burgeoning and misunderstood Magic.

Galveston is his most recent book. I haven't read it yet, but now that I know it's out, I'm going to go hunt for it.

Cloud's End Takes place in a universe different than the afformentioned. I've spent some time with West Coast Native elders. Clouds End has very much the feel of the stories they tell of 'dream time' -- the beginning of the world in their mythology. A world of stories and ties and world-shaping responsibilities not always welcomed by their bearers. As I read Clouds End, I pictured it starting in the fogs of the Pacific North West and moving up and down what we now know as the Fraser River.

Nobody's Son takes place in something close to a Standard Fantasy Realm, but as Stewart put it: "Everybody expects a fantasy story to have a young knight fulfilling a quest, winning the hand of a beautiful princess and taking her off to his castle where they live happily ever after(tm). My solution was to put that in the first couple of chapters, so that I could get on with the real story. It's probably the 'lightest' of his books, and a very enjoyable read.

For further information on Sean Stewart, a quick Google search provides a pretty good starting point.

ahhh. when you said usenet I did a group search not a web search.

Interestingly enough a group search for pm@aph.gov.au turns up one result as well.

Your search- J.Howard.MP@aph.gov.au - did not match any documents.

Thanks for the links. They're a great resource for research in micro-biology, and I'm sure there is lots of relevant stuff here. It'll just take some time to dig through it. I found the paper by Gary Olson and Carl Woese here most interesting. Then again as a programmer that's maybe not much of a surprise :). Unfortunately I've only found one paper(pdf), or get the google html cache here, so far really relavent to our discussion, on phylogenies of photosynthetic organisms.

The conclusion of that paper was pretty much like all other molecular phyogenies I've found. Still inconclusive and raising questions about our former ideas about how the phylogeny should have looked. It's this trend of conflicting findings, that would be expected if our common descent assumption is wrong, that continue to make me think our evidence for common descent is not compelling.

As I find other examples that pertain I'll post them. If you have any in particular you've seen just let me know, thanks again.

I was unable to find the motorola oncore gps board you're referring to at bgmicro.com. Am I in the right place?

It's available on the Google cache but with a big "Sorry sold out" over it... 8( Maibe you could find it somewhere else.

GFK's

Compared to a conventional active-matrix display, which is refreshed between 60 and 70 times per second, the ULC (ultra-low-power consumption) technology only sends signals when the screen image is changed. This results in a drop in power consumption to one-third conventional levels for moving images and one-thirtieth for still images

Actually, there was a study which showed that Microsoft Support was actually less useful than the Psychic Friends Network. The 17 year old next door is miles above either of those two.

Get a Google appliance and set it loose on the web?

The point I'm trying to make is, there are very few women in the garbage collection or plumbing industries either. But almost noone considers this a terrible sign of gender inequity propagating itself through the ages.

Dumbass.

stuff is extremely interesting, samir gupta here seems to have a long track record of bullshitting people. searching his name in google gives a whole lot of different samir guptas (i could tell they were different because of the headshots some of the sites had), and pretty much all of the links have to do with some sort of research... coincidentally (or not) he claims to be a researcher. most of the sites seem legitimate.

well, look for yourself..

i find this rather impressive, being able to find a huge coincidence like this and latch on to it. who is this guy? is it even a guy? what is he or she like?

it makes me shiver.

So, if there's no protection on the NES, why all the hullaballoo about TenGen and their gold carts, and Camerica's Game Genie?

That's right -- the lockout chip.

Not all NES's required one, though. I suppose you were lucky, or were _really_ lucky and had one of the pirate consoles. :-)

I didn't know that the 13th Warrior was an interpretation of Beowulf, prior to going in to see it. Having Beowulf's name pronounced as "Bow-Way" kept me from figuring it out for a while.

But, I did recognize it as Beowulf, by the time they got to Hrothgar's hall.

What didn't I like? Why wasn't the mother-goddess priestess as, um, voluptous, as the alarming "Venus" sculptures that Beowulf's thanes came across? For those who don't know, or who missed this, Beowulf's party came across several small carvings, of women with thighs, bosoms, and waists so curved, that they were almost spherical. Cro-magnon people, the anatomically modern inhabitants of Europe contemporary with the Neanderthals, the guys who did the cave paintings, did carve these sculptures. Anthropologists call them "venus" sculptures. When I read about them, a long time ago, the writer said that some scholars contended they were cult objects, that the Cro-magnon's worshipped a big-bellied fertility goddess. But the writer said some scholars contended that the sculptures were merely prehistoric pr0n.

So, why wasn't the mother-goddess priestess as voluptuous as the venus sculptures? It would seem to me that this would be an occupational requirement.

How did I come to read Beowulf as a teenager? I read a delightful pulp science fiction novel when I was a very young teenager, entitled 'The Ship that sailed the Time Stream'. It was one half of an Ace Double. The hero is an ensign, in the USN, who commands a very small sailing ship that the Navy has put at the disposal of a pair of Civilian oceanographers. I will spare you the charming, but far-fetched machinations the author uses to transform this Ketch into a time machine. The first stop is Iceland, about 1000 AD. And our hero (originally a history major) can understand the Norse, because he read a copy of Beowulf with the original and the translation on facing pages.

My local librarian got me a copy of Beowulf with the original and translation on facing pages.

Guess, what? This was not sufficient to learn to speak pre-Norman English.

I didn't know that the 13th Warrior was an interpretation of Beowulf, prior to going in to see it. Having Beowulf's name pronounced as "Bow-Way" kept me from figuring it out for a while.

But, I did recognize it as Beowulf, by the time they got to Hrothgar's hall.

What didn't I like? Why wasn't the mother-goddess priestess as, um, voluptous, as the alarming "Venus" sculptures that Beowulf's thanes came across? For those who don't know, or who missed this, Beowulf's party came across several small carvings, of women with thighs, bosoms, and waists so curved, that they were almost spherical. Cro-magnon people, the anatomically modern inhabitants of Europe contemporary with the Neanderthals, the guys who did the cave paintings, did carve these sculptures. Anthropologists call them "venus" sculptures. When I read about them, a long time ago, the writer said that some scholars contended they were cult objects, that the Cro-magnon's worshipped a big-bellied fertility goddess. But the writer said some scholars contended that the sculptures were merely prehistoric pr0n.

So, why wasn't the mother-goddess priestess as voluptuous as the venus sculptures? It would seem to me that this would be an occupational requirement.

How did I come to read Beowulf as a teenager? I read a delightful pulp science fiction novel when I was a very young teenager, entitled 'The Ship that sailed the Time Stream'. It was one half of an Ace Double. The hero is an ensign, in the USN, who commands a very small sailing ship that the Navy has put at the disposal of a pair of Civilian oceanographers. I will spare you the charming, but far-fetched machinations the author uses to transform this Ketch into a time machine. The first stop is Iceland, about 1000 AD. And our hero (originally a history major) can understand the Norse, because he read a copy of Beowulf with the original and the translation on facing pages.

My local librarian got me a copy of Beowulf with the original and translation on facing pages.

Guess, what? This was not sufficient to learn to speak pre-Norman English.

Google, link 3. Sometimes it is more intelligent than Anonymous Cowards.

Which is surprising, since it's only a few million lines of code.

Agreed. i mentioned the sarin attack first as it had just come to mind. You're both correct - it's chemical in nature. i was going to mention the anthrax letters, as well. Thanks - i forgot. Oh, and Aum was workig on an anthrax angle for awhile (they tried to buy a helicopter in Russia; they wanted to dust Tokyo).

Yes, the salmonella story is true. It was in Oregon, btw.

Yes, i was mixing chem with bio; though i assure you that im well aware of the difference. Please don't let that slip-up keep you from learning more about this. Knee-jerk reactions get you nowhere.

We've come a long way from having diseased corpses flung over the city walls at us. It's going to get much nastier.

Many code metrics will generally suvive simplistic changes like variable renaming, indentation reformatting and comment rewriting. Submissions with statistics too close to a known assignment become targets of closer examination.

The fact that your code is in a public place and well known should make it easy on your school. The profs can point to your code, explain code metrics and how they will survive most reus. People who reuse your code dispite such warnings will get the drubbing that they deserve.

One thing that I would suggest that you do is put a disclaimer on your website about how the department knows that your code is publically available and using it in their own assignments is not only illegal (violation of your copyright), but plagiarism that might result in their expulsion.

Note that if it is your code, and you've GPLed it, you're free to place the further restriction on it -- such as that it can't be used to cheat on assignments. That being done, you could even give the university the right to prosecute plagiarism violations within the school on your behalf.

Until this news is confirmed by a reputable and ubbiased third-party, I'd recommend some scepticism towards the Raelian claims. They are known for pulling attention-getting media stunts in order to further their cause up here in Québec. The cult itself puts forward some rather boring claims (that aliens visited the earth to sow the seeds of life, will return, bla bla bla). Both the rael.org and clonaid.com sites are down (though google archives are still available, here and here) and, even if this were for real, someone is propping them up and using the cult as a cover-- I can't confirm this, but the rumours here are of a wealthy billionaire whose child died of sudden infant death syndrome. More info on Rael can be found here. It's Christian web site-- another cult, IMHO-- but the information is pretty legit. They are notorious in Quebec for being sexual libertines, which makes me wonder why they feel the need to clone, since they have so much sex anyway.

iopha

Until this news is confirmed by a reputable and ubbiased third-party, I'd recommend some scepticism towards the Raelian claims. They are known for pulling attention-getting media stunts in order to further their cause up here in Québec. The cult itself puts forward some rather boring claims (that aliens visited the earth to sow the seeds of life, will return, bla bla bla). Both the rael.org and clonaid.com sites are down (though google archives are still available, here and here) and, even if this were for real, someone is propping them up and using the cult as a cover-- I can't confirm this, but the rumours here are of a wealthy billionaire whose child died of sudden infant death syndrome. More info on Rael can be found here. It's Christian web site-- another cult, IMHO-- but the information is pretty legit. They are notorious in Quebec for being sexual libertines, which makes me wonder why they feel the need to clone, since they have so much sex anyway.

iopha

Because you are AC, I first assumed you were trolling and would not actually care to hear the reference at all-- and even if I did provide one, you'd attack the methodology and claim it was incorrect. In any event, here is the study in question:

Protection or Peril? An Analysis of Firearm-Related Deaths in the Home, Arthur L. Kellermann, MD, MPH and Donald T. Reay, MD, The New England Journal of Medicine, Vol. 314, No. 24, June 12, 1986, pp. 1557-1560.

"For every case in which an individual used a firearm kept in the home in a self-defense homicide, there were 1.3 unintentional deaths, 4.6 criminal homicides, and 37 suicides involving firearms."

Link here.

iopha

my immediate thought was "what are all these Trekkie faggots going to jerk off to now that the show's finally gone?"
Unfortunately it seems that the show wasn't cancelled, the headline wasn't an euphemism for jacking to Spock in the basement of your parents' house, and my toilet is still made of porcelain - not exactly the solid gold throne I have been pining for.

On the other hand, I am preparing an especially good p00p right now. Expected time of delivery: about one hour.

This troll was brought you by p00p!! p00pin' all over this bitch since the late 70's

> ASP is a Microsoft product . . . PHP is just some silly freeware ASP clone hosted by a buch of computer geeks

Well, that shows how little you know.

PHP recently overtook ASP in terms of number of websites using it. See:

PHP Overtakes Microsoft's ASP as Web's #1 Server-Side Scripting Language

And PHP has become one of the main tools for e-commerce sites.

From the website, which you obviously haven't read: "In his defense, Schmeiser showed his own farm-based evidence that the fields ranged from nearly zero to 68% Roundup Ready. These tests were confirmed by independent tests performed by research scientists at the University of Manitoba, in Winnipeg, MB." That's not "98%," not even close, and an uneven distribution like that certainly could be the result of contamination or drift. And there are lots of articles out there referring to the problems with contaminated seed.

The thing is not so much that the court chose to believe that Schmeiser was lying (see here to find out exactly what he was convicted of and what he wasn't); they believed Monsanto over him, for some cases, which is hardly an unexpected outcome. In any case, he wasn't convicted of "brownbagging," he was convicted of having Monsanto's genes on his land and not telling them about it and paying up for it. The former is explainable because he didn't know; the latter is just rank blackmail.

You are a disgrace to all geeks on this planet. Put a link in!

Crown copyright may be infinite. I have seen discussion which indicates that the King James version of the Bible (commissioned by the crown, as was the Domesday Book) has an infinite copyright.

I wonder whether that would change if Britain became a republic?

You are right, she is darn close which might explain why all three won the hugo (nebula?) awards.

I agree Robinson is good but no where near a Frank Herbert. One other place I disagree with you though, she... is a he!!

BlackBolt

right here

This is a famous troll piece from forever ago, often echoed on Adequacy (when it was around) and also shown on kuro5hin a lot.

Umm, would that be the same American ingenuity that eschewed strong copyright laws for the first, oh, 200 years of its existence? That used protectionist trade barriers to develop its own industries and then denies them to third world countries now that they're strong enough to crush upstarts?

Beyond that, if I buy a product, I think I have a right to modify it if I choose to do so. I own the bloody thing. Imagine the uproar is Ford decided you couldn't change the mags on their cars anymore.

iopha

What about the Lifting Body (LB)? It should be included with the wing and rotor(which are really just rotating wings).
The Space Shuttle is an LB, the wings are not really wings but they look like wings.
The Six Million Dollar Man plane that crashes during the first part of the show was a proto-type LB plane.
The new International Space Station/Alpha will use an LB emergency escape vehicle.
A lot of new high performance aircraft will use it too.

NASA info on LB
Very nice collection of pictures page is in Japanese .
an interesting study
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My favorite from this issue (courtesy of Prof. Vasiga):

"'Expected' is one of those words you can use at work. I expect to get this job done by Friday... that's not saying it's going to get done. I also expect to win the lottery, quit this job, and tell you all to piss off."

• You have ever wanted to hold a seminar entitled "Suicide...Doing It Right!"
• You believe that 90% of people are a poor excuse for protoplasm

Here is a link to Redsheriff's privacy policy, cached on google (just in case).

This is what my website does, and Google indexes it fine.

--Dan

This is what my website does, and Google indexes it fine.

--Dan

*SPLORF*! I see that my advice hasn't changed one bit in 9 years: Me

Ah hell, "Coherent version 3.2 operating system uses the 286 protected mode." I gave my copy of 3.2 away long ago, otherwise it'd be free for the asking.

There's still a little traffic on comp.os.cohoerent: Interesting thread.

Wow, Australia almost passes Canada in anti-free-speech activity!

Ernst Zundel, an active user of hate-speech has for years shown up Canada for what a lack of free-speech we have by hosting it all outside this country.

I'd link to his site so you can all have a good laugh at what kind of a nutter he is, but I don't want special interest groups to suggest I'm promoting hate speech and have me carted off to jail.

IMHO, how can you possibly decide for yourself what is right and wrong thinking if you're never given the opportunity to see what's wrong?

The only difference is that in Canada all speech is limited like this, not just 'net speech.

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First, do not, under any circumstances, but ATI's Radeon 8500 dualhead. They suck. As the poster mentioned, DRI is disabled when you use Xinerama. Plus the binary-only Radeon 8500 driver doesn't work with Xinerama, in addition to the opensource ATI driver which doesn't work with Xinerama! Only the older opensource Radeon driver in XF 4.2 does Xinerama in any way on the 8500, and it still has drawing issues (the Gnome logout box sure mangles the one display).

As you mentioned, the "primary" display is the DVI connector. This is horrid because any bus traffic causes that display to show ghosting and other lines everywhere on the 8500. The ATI Radeon 9000 doesn't have this problem, but it's another mark against the card.

For multihead under Linux, I recommend buying a G550 and skipping ATI, because their cards are not fun to setup and debug (I spent an entire day of my time trying to work with their broken drivers).

I found a "known-good" Xinerama config on GoogleGroups, and used it to debug the 8500.

Richard Gabriel thinks design patterns are important, but he also believes that the patterns found in the Gang of Four book for C++ and Java programmers mainly help losers lose less.

One of my favourite things about Nethack is the ability to do conduct challenges. This feature gives Nethack a lot of replay value. There have been some crazy ascensions posted to rec.games.roguelike.nethack. For example, check out this Atheist, Pacifist Ascension. Or this Extinctionist. Or this absolutely unbelievable Vegan, Atheist, Illiterate, Weaponless, Wishless, Genoless, Polyless Monk. Great fun, I tell you. Anyone know of ascensions more impressive than these? Post them!