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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!

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!

Hey...I have an idea (not that it will be accepted). Why don't we stop allowing registration-required links on the front page? Including free-registration. We can now find many sources for the same story with Google News, so there's no reason to keep linking to NYT.

wouldn't this be a step backwards? It is ignoring the vast mental conveyance abilities of the internet to revert to the warn physical ideas that most people are so impressionable about. I think that this might reignate the prior discussions that we've had regarding psychological attachment disorders. People should learn to communicate via things like email or ICQ.

Thanks for reading!!!!

Sometimes an even better approach would be to study the code existing out there first, such as the excellent code offered up by exitfuel. One of the most important pieces of code is the window.open function, and onload and onleave of the body element. Once you have them mastered, along with the Document Model of Objects, you have a good grounding for some serious Flash programming. There are some pretty intense workarounds necessary for some of the mechanisms that people have in place nowadays, but it's definitely doable! Good luck!

tag- Why don't most girls like programming?

Speaking of aviation: This SAAB Gripen crash was attributed to the coding of the control laws in the flight control computer. So was this one. And this F-22. And lets all remember the Apollo 11 incident.

No, really.
Search and you will find.

Learning to search effectively will serve you best.

No, really.
Search and you will find.

Learning to search effectively will serve you best.

> Even more meaningless than it would be if French and German users couldn't simply point their browsers at google.ca [google.ca].

We've got a little problem here : Google.Ca has a little link for the french-speaking Canadians which links to http://www.google.ca/fr which in turn... redirects to Google.Fr. This would mean, I assume, that unsuspecting residents of Québec would get a censored version of Google. Now, that's bad ! I hope they'll fix that soon.

BTW, I'm French, and frankly, I would have hoped the lawsuit-happy morons at UEJF would have avoided putting pressure on Google, if nothing else because Google is used by researchers who could happen to research neo-nazism (note : the UEJF is the French Jewish student union, a bunch of sorry idiots who spend all their time suing people -- sometimes mistakenly -- instead of spreading good information. No wonder Le Pen has no problem posing as the Persecuted Whistleblower !). And with the axis-of-evil-terrorists-threaten-the-free-world frenzy, it seems there is no chance such stupid laws will go away anytime soon. *sigh* at least we don't have the DMCA...

No matter what, it wouldn't give up the plain vanilla .com version -- go figure.

Maybe Prexar (their ISP) routes through Canada? Or perhaps they're using a set of IPs that ARIN has listed as Canadian. Who knows, I didn't dig that deeply into it.

At any rate, it sure did a damn good job of keeping me away from google.com. Yes, I know a proxy server would solve the problem... but proxying all of France and Germany? Ouch. Even with Google's lightweight "do the search and get 'em out" philosophy, I wouldn't want that bandwidth bill!

So it probably sounded like a good idea to filter out Nazis...everyone hates Nazis right? (except the Nazis) While we're at it let's censor White Supremicists, cause we all hate them too.

The list of what's censored is in an of itself controversial. For example, pro-Fascist sites are censored... what about pro-Communist sites? After all, Stalin killed 20M or more of his own people in his purges compared with 6M in the Holocaust. Anti-abortion sites are censored, what about pro-Catholic? After all, Catholics oppose abortion.

Note that I'm not claiming to be pro or anti anything in this post, I'm merely pointing our some gaping inconsistencies that render the policy meaningless, and hence probably mere cheap political point-scoring rather than a serious attempt to suppress hate-crime or make the world a better place. Assuming you believe in hate-crime; my personal opinion is that it matters little to the victim what the criminal's motivation was.

Even more meaningless than it would be if French and German users couldn't simply point their browsers at google.ca.

>RS232:
>Three modifications. Most recent in 1991

Like what?

RS232 still seems to be the same as day one to me, other than changing the size/pinout of the connector. I suppose the chipset could support more features, but that's no difference in the specs of what goes down the wire.

>Here comes DVI!

And there it goes! At 165 Mhz, none-the-less! That used to be fast (in 1995).

>USB!

I hope you never have to access the BIOS.

Why, I couldn't have come up with a better oxymoron if I tried.

You can't think of a better oxymoron than sterile farmland? You're either grossly misinformed, or just an intentional FUDster. Farmland is previously natural land that has been deforested, had most of the topsoil eroded, and is constantly flooded with thousands of tonnes of chemicals to kill virtually anything and everything except for the desired crop. There is probably more "wildlife" in an average city than there is on farmland when comparison alike sample sizes. The only people who think farmland is "natural" are the brainwashed.

Actually, I have no idea what that means. Let's try another one.

I won't bothering explaining the relevance of the example of the love canal. Maybe a Google Search will enlighten you.

Oh really? I was directly responsable for the whole Y2K bullshit for a large government network. What did you do?

Gee, you almost had me trumped there...but no you didn't. I worked on correcting some serious flaws with a control system for two dozen power generation facilities (for a US energy company): A flaw that would have taken the facilities offline. Nice try at painting me as a, err, "pudding brained sheep" when I saw first hand how serious it was, and was responsible for correcting something that actually mattered. Just because you have a shit job doing worthless work doesn't mean that what a lot of other people did wasn't important. BTW: The only reason it got any focus at all is because the president of the firm read some "Computer Paper" article fortelling doom, and saw the need to put a team together. I suppose in your imaginary world allt hese things take care of themselves.

The point is that because of "alarmists" many people took the possibility of Y2K seriously, and there was a worldwide, massive effort to correct it. If everyone listened to the always contrarian cynics such as yourself, always willing to pooh pooh the "alarmists", the year 2000 WOULD have been a disaster, but here we are having gone through it smoothly, and morons such as yourself can now proclaim that it was all just a fabrication. Tell us how it really works genius!

Well, the WWF says we're using it. How about them apples?

As I mentioned: I suspect that CNN misquoted the WWF. Looking at the map my presumption is that for a given sample size (say 1KM^2 samples, for example), there is at least one human. However here we have completely myopic "truth tellers" such as yourself proclaiming that damnit, let's just build those landfills higher and get better yields out of our farms. THAT ISN'T THE POINT. The point is that humans have encroached so far and wide that there isn't any room left for many of the creatures that nature has given this planet. Oh, that's just alarmism, right?

Woah, I never realized she was in Marine Research and Heavenly until now. Thanks for the revelation!

Good for Lobao! Wish I could read Portugese...

This is what needs to happen elsewhere! This is where artists need to go - direct to thier listeners.

If I had the business smarts/time/money, I think I'd start a company that did one thing only - helped artists go direct to the public like this guy did. Help them set up a web site that provided thier listeners with such services as:

- buy pre-made CD
- burn tracks direct
- special recordings (my wife would flip if I got Creed to sing a song just for her - worth mucho $ to me)
- lots of other cool stuff
(Sorry - I have to...
- ????
- Profit!!!!)

I'd also provide the promotion needed to get people to the site. You would then be certain that your money is going to the artist in question, not some (In My Humble Opinion)looney executive's pocket.

There are other hurdles to clear - radio play being a major obstacle - but I bet it would work.

Soko

If we had to rely on the space shuttle to launch communications satellites into orbit, we would still be running trans-Atlantic cables for our communications needs.

In any case, I'm completely horrified at the idea of mandating the use of Win2K in an environment where security is an issue. I had a student who, in 4 tries, was unable to install and upgrade his Win2K box before he was infected. I remember a slashdot article about similar problems. As somebody else mentioned: One rogue virus and an attacker could take down the entire defense infrastructure.

It's not like Linux is entirely immune, either (although it does appear to be a good bit more secure and reliable than Wintendos). I'd much rather see a focus on diversity and interoperability (I guess I'm speaking sincere choice, here)

I always thought the purpose of a date was genetic sampling. I mean you get the look, the smell(which hopefully isn't too powerfully covered), and through a kiss perhaps a little taste. :) All of which are susposed to help you determine if mating with this person would produce fit offspring. Obviously if it would then you will be attracted to this person.
I managed to dig up some stuff on it for anyone interested, my recolection is dim anyway.
Try The Single Chromosome's Guide To Dating
Or the Google Text Conversion

>The same strategy is used to sell macrovision removal devices in the north american market without trouble from the mpaa.

And here I was thinking it was because Macrovision is analog, and therefore not covered by the DMCA. Not to mention it was cracked a solid decade prior to introduction by the Time Base Corrector, whose primary purpose (as you can read on that document) isn't to allow you to copy Macrovision protected movies.

I wonder if this is the same Val Mallinson referenced in this usenet post.

If she is she has clearly been using windows since 98.

Awwww crap! Looks like the link in that story no longer works!

Here's Google's cache of the page, and here's a mirror of all the images that were on it.

A double standard is when you apply different values, reasoning or action to one thing.

I'll make it simple for you. The "one thing" is "what kids and see and watch". The context along which double standards are being applied are: 1) violent content 2) above-the-waist nudity

Its a double standard because there is a plethora of studies linking aggressive behaviour with what kids see or watch (*note: I do not believe that content creators should have culpability for influcing kids, so this isnt an argument for suing id software for columbine or anything asanine like that), but, as far as I know, there are no studies that I am aware of in which viewing the breasts of women can negatively impact the behaviour of a child/teen. (Note: Studies that are in any way connected to the religious right will be accpeted as soon as somebody turns my glass of water into wine.)

Thus, when a violent context exists, which reseach suggests (heres what google has to say) is a detrement to a childs development, we allow them access, yet when the context is of anything near sexual nature (we're talking nipples here), we go to great lengths to deny them access. But since you were unable to recognize the instance of the double standard in this scenario, my confidence is low that this post will help your state of confusion.

(As a related aside, I turned out alright despite watching my aunt breast feed my cousin quite often when I was youngish, but maybe I'm the only child that escaped scenes of nipples in childhood unscaythed. I even saw some playboys when I was 13 .. I'm so glad no other kids ever see those things, or we'd be living in a country chalk full of sexually deviant predators, right?!)

Seriousley, does the United States just look for capitlist excuses to bust the budget, waste untold sums of money on espionage, tearing down foreign regimes, dumbing school students down and relying on the Military Industrial Complex to pull the company out of a recession that will soon lead to an all-out Depression?

Socialism costs money. But laying foundation for our great-great-great grandchildren to live in a nation free of nuclear proliferation and unaccountable government.

But at least you elect your Senate

At least our Senator's can't be fresh out of Ivy League school and reflect the backroom ideology of the people we do elect. I'd rather this, than a 100+ year old bumbling idiot Senator from South Carolina, or those who Leak Intelligence Committee Reports.

Not Another Prime Minister from Quebec in Canada!

Better than a Red Neck from Ontario or British Columbia. Keep the french in, they add Style and Class to the country.

>That's the problem... since it's a vertical market, no warez are available to pirate.

Warez is far more insidious than you would think (search for signgo).

Not that I would ever know where to get that sort of stuff, I just stumbled across it with this link.

Visual C++ produces win32/x86 code. But, you don't wannna spend money getting VC++. Not even the educational version that comes pretty cheap. So why can't you use any other compiler that produces win32/x86 code? Such as say, gcc.

There's sample apps that come with the SDK. Why don't you try to compile it with gcc.

At the expense of sounding like a troll. It seems you haven't done your homework. Google is your friend. Usenet is your friend. Such as this thread

I mean... Most authors can't even handle their own proofreading. Who says they create their own links?

Actually, most authors do handle their own proofreading. Editors (whose time is usually spent doing far more administration than "galley slavery") love writers who submit clean copy. It saves them time, and it makes the author in question look like a real pro who actually knows what they're doing, instead of yet another no-neck yahoo who thinks they can write.

Likewise, a lot of authors can and do create their own links. I should think that Declan McCullagh, with his tech-related tearsheets as thick as the average encyclopedia, would be better-suited to defending his ability to write a simple hyperlink (and to opine on the deliberateness -- or not -- of the DeCSS link) than I, but I'm here.

Also, low level process note: For any web-based print medium for which I've written (several, by now), the author generally includes his or her own hyperlinks, if not actual markup. Editorial commentary and/or low-level drudgery only come into it if the links don't work for some reason, in which case the author usually gets an e-mail from the editor advising him or her to change the link and resubmit the revised version. YMMV, especially if the link leads to actionable content...

According to the discussion on rec.games.chess.computer, the calculation engine of earlier versions of Fritz were written in assembler. I would imagine the same is true of this version. The GUI was written using Visual C++.

Actually, the exact opposite is true. Computers regularly beat even the best human players at fast time controls (blitz) since the humans are much more prone to making mistakes when they don't have time to think a lot. This is not merely my opinion - I think you will find few people who are familair with computer chess who would think otherwise. For example, here's what Robert Hyatt (author of Cray Blitz & Crafty) said in 1999( rec.games.chess.computer )

So today, game/30 is no longer safe and the computers are probably better there. Game/60 is also becoming more difficult for the humans, although I think they can do pretty well at this time control. But at 40/2, where there are no "blitz" time controls at the end, the GM players begin to show exactly why micro chess programs are not yet GM-level players at this time control. They simply know "too much" it seems, and they are able to exploit weaknesses they see while the programs are usually quite oblivious to what is going on...

Ya be careful people! Just linking to google could get /. into a whole lot of trouble.

well, i just did, and yes, a creationist site was in the top five. more germaine to the topic: i didn't see the onion on the first two result pages.

Working link to google cache.

Working link to google canada cache (?)

A quick google search to get you started.

A long, long time ago, in the State of Washington, a certain company that produces a lot of software needed a TCP/IP stack. Seeing many smaller companies producing TCP/IP stacks, they decided to buy one.

But when they bought the company out and started examining the code, they found that it was a Regents of Berkeley code. Since they did not want to advertise the BSD operating system, they instead went ahead and wrote a new stack using the knowledge of the old, BSD-based stack as a starting point. They also ported some BSD-derived utilities, which do include the copyright string, to the new Winsock TCP/IP stack.

But Microsoft never, ever shipped with a non-MS TCP/IP stack. They wrote their own code for Win95 and WinNT because they needed it, and they did not want to advertise the competition.

Check out this page for more information on this subject.

I would really like to know who these "experts" are. This notion of "playing out fantasies" or "venting of aggression" in the psychological literature is known as catharsis. Any first year psychology student SINCE the time of Freud is taught that the notion of catharsis is false.

Note: I am not saying that the group is wrong in what it is doing; only that the reporter is claiming results that have been demonstrated to be false for quite some time.

Science in general, at least science as we know it, was started by Christians.

ummm...how about Al-Biruni? or ibn Al-Haitham?
and let's not forget the granddaddy of computer science, Al-Khawarizmi.

i'm looking forward to learning how science as we know it was started by (cough) christians (cough).

Science in general, at least science as we know it, was started by Christians.

ummm...how about Al-Biruni? or ibn Al-Haitham?
and let's not forget the granddaddy of computer science, Al-Khawarizmi.

i'm looking forward to learning how science as we know it was started by (cough) christians (cough).

Science in general, at least science as we know it, was started by Christians.

ummm...how about Al-Biruni? or ibn Al-Haitham?
and let's not forget the granddaddy of computer science, Al-Khawarizmi.

i'm looking forward to learning how science as we know it was started by (cough) christians (cough).

Google Search Results

Google Cache here. Poor little server.

Anyway, seeing as this little guy can effectively extract all data coming from a copy protected device, I guess Palladium type systems are already in-effective. Contraband code? So what - it's already out there.

I would guess that this is a method for creating what is effectively a wrapper for the DVD driver, perhaps more correctly a shim. This means that it appears to be a DVD drive to the OS, and a DVD player program to the drive. This method can be employed to any hardware device - even embedded DRM methods. It may take a while, but it can be done. If hardware needs software to run, that hardware can be emulated with software, period.

The proponents of DRM might eventually come to realise this - if it's an idea, it's hard to keep it in a can. Good ideas are impossible to keep under wraps. To them I say:

The Genie is out of the bottle boys, but it grants wishes to anyone, not just you. Deal with it.

Soko

Here are some google links to the LRB's across Canada if you are actually getting screwed:

google: labour relations

The XSL attack is highly subjective.

All you "so is GPG broken?" put your pants back on.

Summary of attack:
XSL stands for three of the basic operations in Rijndael and Serpent. The reason why this attack works is because the substitution layer of Rijndael/AES and Serpent can be expressed very neatly as the same domain as the Linear layers.

Now when I say 'neatly' I mean 'it would be possible' not no one's shown us this monster set of equations relatnig the (128+128/192/256) bit inputs to the 128 bit outputs. The Rijndael/AES and Serpent ciphers may be what we call "over defined".

Think back to high school when you have N liniearly independent linear equations and N-1 unknowns. You had an infinate number of posibilities for solutions. If you had N eqns and N unkn's you had 1 sol'n. If you had N eqns and N+1 unkn's you were in a funny place.

The authors suggest Rijndael/AES Serpent is in the latter catagory of the differential nature (and not the linear nature you learned in high school).

So what does this mean? The possibility HAS NOT BE EXCLUDED that this attack is possible. It really proves demostrates nothing that it's at all possible. Which is best anyone's been able to do in the past 6 years.

JLC

See sci.crypt thread:
http://groups.google.ca/groups?q=XSL+group%3Asci.c rypt

This or this?

Don't know too much about it, but, check out Power Over Ethernet (POE). Runs things like hubs by delivering electricity over cat5.

You need a special "injector", to get power into the cable, though.. might be able to find a battery operated injector.

Worth a check, at least.

S

If it wasn't for the predictable plots you couldn't play The Star Trek the Drinking Game.

I actually used some of these, these and these to build
some of these. They
tried to stop me by using these
and these
but I did not give in!
I know a guy and he helped me to bring these in so we could design and design some more and build some of these and these and fight everyone off and scary the rest.

So finally, I could use more of
these and these and these to get my freakingly cool nuclear powered microprocessor.

I actually used some of these, these and these to build
some of these. They
tried to stop me by using these
and these
but I did not give in!
I know a guy and he helped me to bring these in so we could design and design some more and build some of these and these and fight everyone off and scary the rest.

So finally, I could use more of
these and these and these to get my freakingly cool nuclear powered microprocessor.

I actually used some of these, these and these to build
some of these. They
tried to stop me by using these
and these
but I did not give in!
I know a guy and he helped me to bring these in so we could design and design some more and build some of these and these and fight everyone off and scary the rest.

So finally, I could use more of
these and these and these to get my freakingly cool nuclear powered microprocessor.

After you posted the text I read it again. No mention of j002e2 (or j002e3). The object he found was designated 2002BJ2 . With an aphelion of 3.4 and a period of 1071 days, it is definitely not orbiting the Earth.

There is something fishy about this story. How come Bill Yeung, the guy who the BBC credit as discovering this third moon doesn't mention the discovery on his web-page?