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Kleptocracy, now that is a cool word. I didn't realise there were so many nifty ones... http://www.google.co.nz/search?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&q=de fine%3A+cracy My favourite is now pornocracy - http://www.google.co.nz/search?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&q=de fine%3A+pornocracy

http://www.google.co.nz/search?q=google+"market+sh are" and you will get 651000 answers! At least until Google spiders this comment, in which case you will get 651001. But you can always trust the 1st answer, this is Google you know. :-)

It Is Officialy Poper Acronym!!!

I just Checked it out and when I copy the link, it is simply to http://www.bobthebuilder.org/, not to some fancy redirection script.

I verified this on: http://www.google.com, http://www.google.ca, and, as you claim, on http://www.google.co.nz. This was verified using IE and Firefox.

So, either a) google has made a major change in their search resulting which is only visible to those in new zealand, or b) your information is incorrect.

Either way, Google is currently providing direct links to the site returned in the search results. So, I guess the point you were making is rather moot now. :-)

~~~Douglas

But if you are in Germany and type in http://google.ca, low and behold, you get Google Canada, the Canadian Google site. Google.com, Google.se, Google.fr, Google.ch, Google.ru, Google.co.nz, Google.co.au, all appear to work from other countries, and I presume all of the 113 country local domains should also work. I have no idea if the search results vary, as that is a study for someone else to do.

confifendtail

Fuck, that one's so bad it even breaks Google's spellchecker

(In case they fix it before you click, it asks me "did you mean confiendtial?")

I'd rather have an actual photograph of myself (or, more to the point, *not* of me) than rely on eye witness testimony...

This facility may indeed be high-tech offices, but is by no stretch of the imagination a proper incubator.

I'm surprised it took rather long to supposedly come out with these. Traffic lights around NZ have used LEDs for some time, and since they arrived a few years ago, I've been waiting for consumer bulbs in the supermarket. I see they're not uncommon in other countries, though, a la howstuffworks and Google (the howstuffworks link explains the benefits and another google search explains some history).

At least there's LED torches to keep me happy in the meantime while I wait for those floodlights to make their way here.

I'm surprised it took rather long to supposedly come out with these. Traffic lights around NZ have used LEDs for some time, and since they arrived a few years ago, I've been waiting for consumer bulbs in the supermarket. I see they're not uncommon in other countries, though, a la howstuffworks and Google (the howstuffworks link explains the benefits and another google search explains some history).

At least there's LED torches to keep me happy in the meantime while I wait for those floodlights to make their way here.

I think the parent poster may have been refering to chaos theory. A butterfly, through a chain of events can cause a hurricane, without any form of intention.

Google Search

Linus was the butterfly, who through a chain of events caused the hurricane that is Linux, wihout ever intending for that to happen.

Yeah ... You could try adding "root with no password" to the search string.

The Treo 600. Phone-like form. Looks good. Better phone capabilities than most phones. QWERTY keyboard, and runs PalmOS.
And the best think is it feels like a phone and a PDA at the same time. Not a PDA with Sidetalkin', or a phone with comprimised PDA capabilities.
A little more expensive and fragile than a 6600 though.

The Treo 600. Phone-like form. Looks good. Better phone capabilities than most phones. QWERTY keyboard, and runs PalmOS.
And the best think is it feels like a phone and a PDA at the same time. Not a PDA with Sidetalkin', or a phone with comprimised PDA capabilities.
A little more expensive and fragile than a 6600 though.

Here's a link. If you're interested enough, you can do the research youself.

I'm not obliged to explain myself. I was just pointing out that I thought his arguments were common knowledge.

Some definitions of modern:

belonging to the modern era; relating to a recently developed fashion or style; Refers to recent times or the present.

Thefore KDE is a modern GUI. Whether it is a good GUI, or an innovative or intuitive GUI is perhaps subjective (it works for my wife. I use icewm myself - actually I lauch apps from an xterm rather than clicking on desktop icons). But by the definitions I can find it's modern.

This Usenet post has a collection of links on the topic.

It is amazing to me that these images are not exactly new, yet Nasa is exploring barren areas instead of more interesting formations like those in these photographs. What's going on here?

Clark is quoted from 2001 saying he's 95% convinced that it's vegetation.

New Zealand has a very similar system. The notes are plastic - you can wash them, crumple, try to rip them... they are very tough.

The two transparent panels make counterfeits easy to spot. One is fern-shaped and the other contains the denomination of the note.

See a sample of the $5 note.

Rob :)

I get the impression the opportunity for OSS has already been taken, checkout this google result for instance

I would have thought someone would go that before posting a question to slashdot.. Google says there are "..about 4,680. Search took 1.88 seconds."

There sure are, checkout this google result for instance

I would have thought someone would go that before posting a question to slashdot.. Google says there are "..about 4,680. Search took 1.88 seconds."

It's been down due to frequency licensing problems since around October, apparently as a result of cajoling from the (IIRC) organisation supplying them with (IIRC) the Internet feed to some if not all of the wireless points. As for the .nu ccTLD possibly being hijacked by Americans, it may be that Americans 'power' the backend, but I personally know at least one of the Internet Users Society Niue people living on Niue, and I know for a fact that real Niuean residents (i.e. New Zealanders and long term residents; all Niueans being New Zealanders as part of their independence/free association deal) actually administer it. Administration and Technical backends should not be confused. Incidentally, on a related subject, quite a lot of .nu sites based on Niue itself (I assume so as a large number of websites has gone down), such as Stafford's excellent Weekly Niue News (the mailing list archives have a later copy than what Google has), so there's no independent news written by a local Niuean at the moment. :( (Hence why a lot of links here are to Google, BTW.)

It's been down due to frequency licensing problems since around October, apparently as a result of cajoling from the (IIRC) organisation supplying them with (IIRC) the Internet feed to some if not all of the wireless points. As for the .nu ccTLD possibly being hijacked by Americans, it may be that Americans 'power' the backend, but I personally know at least one of the Internet Users Society Niue people living on Niue, and I know for a fact that real Niuean residents (i.e. New Zealanders and long term residents; all Niueans being New Zealanders as part of their independence/free association deal) actually administer it. Administration and Technical backends should not be confused. Incidentally, on a related subject, quite a lot of .nu sites based on Niue itself (I assume so as a large number of websites has gone down), such as Stafford's excellent Weekly Niue News (the mailing list archives have a later copy than what Google has), so there's no independent news written by a local Niuean at the moment. :( (Hence why a lot of links here are to Google, BTW.)

It's been down due to frequency licensing problems since around October, apparently as a result of cajoling from the (IIRC) organisation supplying them with (IIRC) the Internet feed to some if not all of the wireless points. As for the .nu ccTLD possibly being hijacked by Americans, it may be that Americans 'power' the backend, but I personally know at least one of the Internet Users Society Niue people living on Niue, and I know for a fact that real Niuean residents (i.e. New Zealanders and long term residents; all Niueans being New Zealanders as part of their independence/free association deal) actually administer it. Administration and Technical backends should not be confused. Incidentally, on a related subject, quite a lot of .nu sites based on Niue itself (I assume so as a large number of websites has gone down), such as Stafford's excellent Weekly Niue News (the mailing list archives have a later copy than what Google has), so there's no independent news written by a local Niuean at the moment. :( (Hence why a lot of links here are to Google, BTW.)

One of the very important issues I see neglected in many of the news reports relating to SCRAMjet-powered craft is the issue of getting the damned things up to a speed where the SCRAMjet can actually start working.

With a small unmanned craft the solution could be to use rocket boosters to get the vehicle up to around Mach 1 -- at which speed the SCRAMjet would be able to start producing sufficient thrust to continue the acceleration.

However, what do you do with a passenger craft filled with people. The acceleration to 0.9M is going to need to be done far more gently (or they'd spill their prawn cocktails and Bucks Fizz). Perhaps they plan to use conventional turbojet engines -- in which case you're now talking about a whole heap of additional weight (engines plus fuel) and drag that will penalise the hypersonic performance. and range.

Then there's the issue of landing...

Since the SCRAMjet will not provide any useful thrust at mid to low subsonic speeds, what safety margins are built in for aborted landings or other problems. Sure, the space shuttle can glide to a landing -- but it has a dedicated runway, clear airspace and only seven lives at risk.

Finally, one has to ask: just because we *can* build something, does that necessarily mean it's a sensible idea to do so?

Increasing the flight-speed of a craft is an expensive business in terms of energy consumption. To double the speed requires four times the power (all other aspects being equal) so to push a craft along at mach 5 would require 256 times as much thrust as it takes to push it along at mach 1.

Unless there's some clever magic involved, that means 256 times as much fuel being used to travel five times as fast -- making it 50 times *less* efficient in terms of miles to the gallon.

Now think about this for a minute.. would you pay 50 times as much as it presently costs to fly from one place to another if it meant saving a few hours?

The Concorde service died because it was too expensive and they only flew at Mach 2. How on earth then, could a hypersonic passenger service be economically viable?

And don't make the mistake of thinking that liquid hydrogen is going to be cheaper than Jet-A fuel, last time I checked it was almost identical.

A final note, even if this all panned out and India was able to introduce a hypersonic passenger jet service, would anyone use it? After all, just look at their railway safety record

Google here seems to come up with http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01707c.htm -- these guys don't seem like they were oppressive (though they did apparently deny the divinity of Christ)... nor do http://www.arianmusic.com/... unless you meant ARYAN or NAZI...? But back on topic, I don't quite see that ARIA went about it the right way. All they needed to do for these students it seems was to have shaken their tree enough to give the students the (figurative) runs enough to scare them, erm, rough them up a little.

try a little bit harder :P You need to hack the registry in order for it to work super-nicely... see this post for details...

So sad to see so many ungrateful Americans :-).

• BHR-01 is a 158cm tall humanoid robot, developed in the 863 national technology advancement programe .
• BHR-01 weighs 76kg. It has 32 degree of freedom with extra dexterity around the hand and foot joints.
• Main contributions: improved system integration and gait control.
• The second country developed advanced non-tethered humanoid robot.
• Recent advancement in robotics:
  
  • Security robot (demostrated on Dec 2002), capable of walking up/down stairs/uneven terrain, very flexible hand, can be remote controlled/ in autonomous mode. Targeted application: explosive disposal and handling of armed offender.
  • 12 joint biped robot developed by CheungXua Defense University, capable of moving like a ordinary human (eg move sizeward and other acrobat like movements).
  • Beijing Aerospace University: robot hand capable to handle objects with vastly different texture and hardness.

IANL, but...

If you do your OSS work:

• in your own time
• using your own equipment
• outside the scope of your current employment

You should get this advice directly from a good IP lawyer with experience in this area (I give the google cached version because they're working on their server this weekend). You might find that he also tells you that you need not consult your present employer because the contract they made you sign is in breach of this basic legal principle of IP law. He will probably tell you that you are the equitable owner anything you do in your own time, on your own equipment, and outside the scope of your current position with that employer.

There is, of course, ample precedent for entities, including individuals publishing under pseudonyms, retaining copyright of their work.

Your main order of business (besides getting the half hour of preventative legal advice that you can pry get on a free initial consultation), is to, through your own internal CVS logs for example, continue to document the fact that the OSS work you are doing is in fact being conducted on your own equipment and in your own time.

Another measure you can take is to timestamp, sign and encrypt and periodically mail the CVS logs (heck why not a snapshot of the whole repository) off to a trusted third party, with instructions to store, and not to open the files unless it becomes necessary. This is the digital equivalent of sending yourself a registered letter with your copyrighted documents in it, and then not opening it -- unless you need to do so in front of the judge. Which you probably won't have to, but it's a heck of a good thing to have. If someone informs you they're going to challenge your copyright, your counsel will tell their counsel that you've taken these preventative measures, and poof! the problem will, in all likelihood, magically go away.

Google for Nicky Hager, an activist over here who made a lot of details public in a book a few years ago.

Can't seem to get American Tower site.
Google cache here

I'm not expecting many comments on this, but there is the .nz domain SRS project. There's been a lot of discussion on it. From InternetNZ:

The SRS will, as much as possible, be built on an open source platform, particularly software meeting the licence approval conditions of the Open Source Initiative (see http://www.opensource.org/licenses/index.html ), So long as the security requirements of the system are not compromised, this means that the source code of the system will be available to all and with no licence fees.

I'm interested to see how this pans out. - Jonathan

I asked about this on nz.comp once and got some interesting replies. Rather than explain it I'll give you the link.

use a real search engine
www.google.co.nz