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didn't DVD John reverse engineer Apples DRM and offer to sell it, efectivly making it open.

So there already exists an Open DRM system.

If only they had spent those 4 years getting Dream working so that they weren't tied to Windows.

I'll further reinforce your point with another Google Maps reference - draw a horizontal line from the green arrow indicating the Baikonur Cosmodrome toward the east. See that chunk of southern Russia over near Japan? That's (generally) where they're planning to put the new cosmodrome. It's about as far south as they can go in Russia without displacing the North Koreans. Unfortunately, they're not getting any better location than Baikonur. The Russians really need some territory further south ... like Afghanistan, for example.

In case you haven't noticed, Russia doesn't get very near the equator; they built the original facility in Baikonur because that was as far south as you could get in the Soviet Union and have a reasonable region of Soviet Union over which to drop discarded rocket stages.

The southernmost points of Russia are in the Caucasus, but that's a decidedly unstable area of the world, and rocket stages dropped off by things heading east would drop on Kazakhstan, which the Kazakhs obviously don't want. If you rule out the Caucasus, the next-southernmost points are at the North Korean border in the far east; there is a constant Russian worry that the Chinese might want to expand into Siberia if it's left empty, and so they'd like to build facilities there, especially the sort of facilities which set up clusters of skilled people who'd bring non-resource-dependent income to Amur.

The proposed site is Svobodny, which is just over the Amur from China, and not too far from the Komsomolsk-na-Amur rocket factory.

http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?f=q&hl=en&geocode=&time=&date=&ttype=&sll=54.162434,-3.647461&sspn=8.188315,20.566406&ie=UTF8&ll=51.410771,128.19191&spn=0.272388,0.6427&t=k&z=11&iwloc=addr&om=1

Obviously, an equatorial site would be better, and indeed there's a Soyuz pad being built at Sinnamary, in French Guyana, five degrees from the equator and about twenty miles from the Arianespace facility at Kourou. First launch from there will be late 2008, but it's only Soyuz so not particularly heavy lift, and I suspect the Russians might be less keen than EU nations at having their military satellites launched from French soil.

I pay $8 per gallon at the moment. I filled my car on the way home from work. £1.04 per litre in US Dollar per US Gallon.

There are other alternatives and you can vote with your pocket
and use them

you can migrate mdb to firebird or sqlite or postgres and then send them the feedback
http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=openoffice%20firebird&
http://www.firebirdsql.org/manual/migration-mssql.html
http://kexi-project.org/about.html

opensource projects accept the security patches that are created

Are you being intentionally stupid? Don't start with a design for a console game, start with a design for a PC game something simple but addictive; a good example is those people popcap after you've had success with a Bejeweled or Lumines type game*, then you can release your multi-player console game. It's called building up a brand. If you can't do the simple games, then pitch your idea to an already established games company, or get a job at one. Expecting to start big is a silly idea, don't run before you can walk.

*These games appeal to a wide audience and can be easily ported to XBox live so you can show Nintendo that you've not only done PC, but console development as well.

Non-compete agreements are not contracts, but covenants, which are different.

I have never heard that theory before. I think you're a bit mistaken, covenants are generally part of property law, not contract law.

Here are a lot of lawyers who disagree with you.

If google cannot find anything about you then you have misspelt your name.
If nothing comes up then you were switched at birth and can find information by typing in your correct name.

I only found out about this when I discovered my real birth name is inanimate carbon rod.

Actually, this is the link that shows lake Cheko, the one that has the river entering and exiting in an odd position.
http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?f=q&hl=en&geocode=&time=&date=&ttype=&q=kimchu&sll=60.152442,95.449219&sspn=0.742253,2.570801&ie=UTF8&ll=60.960194,101.892185&spn=0.045247,0.160675&t=h&z=13&om=1

This is a correct place.

and a google map link to the actual place of the crater

Google maps view of the area equivalent to this map from the Univeristy site.

National "Geographic"? Not only do they serve 6 months old stuff as news, they don't even get their geography right.

National Geographic's coords point to the village of Podkammenaya-Tunguska, completely unrelated except that it lies at the river of the same name, near to which the impact occurred. Note that the river is 1865 km long, and the given coordinates are 630 km away from Lake Cheko. The BBC coords do point to Lake Cheko.

Google map of the point that the National Geographic map link goes to

decilitre? = 0.42 US cups.

Wine bottles are usually 0.75 litres = 7.5 decilitres = 75 centilitres = 750 millilitres, a serving is 15cl. A measure of spirits (in the UK) is 25ml.

A carton of fruit juice is 1 litre, the small cartons 2dl. 1 litre of water is a kilogram.

Flawed? So what's the nature of this flaw? Well, it doesn't really, well, work. Not as such. Not as such. Yeah, we've heard there's some BSD firewalls already out there, and apparently some of them are supposed to be pretty secure, but... hell, we don't need firewalls, this is a Mac! And, as the strip "Osama Bin Laden's Computer Nightmare" in the latest issue of Viz so perspicaciously pointed out, Macs can't get viruses.

Wow look at this USA, FUD from the most oppressive, government sponsored terrorist, warmongering country on the entire planet!
did you know that your income tax is against your constitution and was never ratified?

Income Tax is fake: http://www.thelawthatneverwas.com/new/home.asp


remember waco don't let it be lost in history:
http://video.google.co.uk/videoplay?docid=4298137966377572665&q=WACO%3A+THE+RULES+OF+ENGAGEMENT&total=31&start=0&num=100&so=0&type=search&plindex=8

What are FREE SPEECH zones? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_speech_zone

(* No! our near-brush with the biggest disaster in Europe since the war a couple of months back, and a popular film about the local police, are far better advertisements for my home county... though personally, I rather regret missing the chance of a lifetime to witness the evacuation of 2,000,000 people at gunpoint under martial law when most the army running round sand dunes way out east, but that's just me.)

No, but they do measure up as being very corrupt according to the CPI.

See in particular the previous /. article.

Of course, that could just be a complete coincidence. No, really.

A quick Google suggests that this folder is created by Cyberlink DVD software so it's not anything to do with MS or windows XP (assuming you're using this software). As for the DRM folder you're correct it's WMP 11 that creates this, usually under "\Documents and Settings\All Users\DRM"

Not a pun at all.
A pun is a play on words, such that one word or phrase can have different meanings, or using a different word but similar in sound, for comic effect. eg. "Will this elastic do the job ? At a stretch".
A harbor (or harbour) is a harbor is a harbor, in whatever context, and means the same thing through each.
Google it
Now if the headline was "Reports of Saturns moons harboring life don't hold water" then that's a pun.
Man discovered dead, he was a cigarette addict - well there's your smoking gun. Which one of these women is really married to God - None. The balloon magician was good, but his prices were inflated. 2 quarrymen have been slated for dismissal.
etc.

Wouldn't it be simpler just to overturn the patent?

Or alternatively, for the HDD manufacturers collectively to sue the Reibers on the basis that their refusal to licence their patent has cost them business.

Or, of course, to refer the Reibers to Arkell v. Pressdram .....

Results 1 - 10 of about 40,600 for` Usmanov torture' . (0.10 seconds)

I had a rush of blood to the wallet the other evening (due to having had a couple of G&Ts more than was strictly prudent) and went on a mad "joining and donation" binge; I now find I'm a member of Liberty an Amnesty International. Probably not a great deal of help, but it's better than nothing.

No he didn't.

Does this mean that eventually there are going to be rogue groups going around and destroying government surveilance equipment?

Already on that

http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=speed+cameras+destroyed

Parenthetically speaking, I find it fascinating how often the Slashdot Hivemind bemoans and curses the US consumer for tossing away perfectly good items and using disposables when reuseables are available - but claims the reverse when it keeps the Hivemind from getting a shiny new toy.

I believe the argument is as follows:

1. Transmitting uncompressed television uses a lot of bandwidth, most of which is wasted. Cojsider a movie: 16 bits per pixel x 720 x 576 pixels x 30 frames per second x 60 seconds per minute x 90 minutes = 125 gigabytes. Decent compression could get that movie down to 1% of that (1.25 gigabytes).

2. For every analogue channel you turn off, you save 99% of the 189 megabits/second of bandwidth they use.

3. You sell the ~187 megabits per second of spare bandwidth from each channel to Google, who create worldwide free WiFi as ubiquitous as a television signal.

4. This ushers in a techno-utopia where your flying car downloads traffic data from the internet and avoids jams automatically, your Skype mobile phone lets you call anywhere in the world for free, and Google brings back Firefly to promote their iPhone-enabled video on demand service.

5. And the only cost of all this to you is a $20 digital decoder you plug into your TV.

Of course, in reality the big telcos would buy up any spare bandwidth before Google, and use it for overpriced data services nobody can afford.

Parenthetically speaking, I find it fascinating how often the Slashdot Hivemind bemoans and curses the US consumer for tossing away perfectly good items and using disposables when reuseables are available - but claims the reverse when it keeps the Hivemind from getting a shiny new toy.

I believe the argument is as follows:

1. Transmitting uncompressed television uses a lot of bandwidth, most of which is wasted. Cojsider a movie: 16 bits per pixel x 720 x 576 pixels x 30 frames per second x 60 seconds per minute x 90 minutes = 125 gigabytes. Decent compression could get that movie down to 1% of that (1.25 gigabytes).

2. For every analogue channel you turn off, you save 99% of the 189 megabits/second of bandwidth they use.

3. You sell the ~187 megabits per second of spare bandwidth from each channel to Google, who create worldwide free WiFi as ubiquitous as a television signal.

4. This ushers in a techno-utopia where your flying car downloads traffic data from the internet and avoids jams automatically, your Skype mobile phone lets you call anywhere in the world for free, and Google brings back Firefly to promote their iPhone-enabled video on demand service.

5. And the only cost of all this to you is a $20 digital decoder you plug into your TV.

Of course, in reality the big telcos would buy up any spare bandwidth before Google, and use it for overpriced data services nobody can afford.

Link

Start address: 1600 Amphitheatre Pkwy Mountain View, CA 94043, USA
End address: 37.414243, -122.048793

Start at: 1600 Amphitheatre Pkwy Mountain View, CA 94043, USA

1. Head west on Amphitheatre Pkwy toward Garcia Ave - 0.6 mi
2. Turn left to merge onto US-101 S toward San Jose - 1.8 mi
3. Take exit 398A for Moffett Blvd toward NASA Pkwy - 0.1 mi
4. Turn right at Moffett Blvd - 0.3 mi
5. Turn left at Moffett Blvd/Rte Jones Rd - 0.3 mi
6. Turn right at King Rd - 0.4 mi
7. King Rd turns right and becomes Severyns Ave - 463 ft
8. Turn left at Bushnell Rd - 489 ft
9. Turn right at Exegesis St - 0.1 mi

Arrive at: 37.414243, -122.048793

I tried following the link but it was invalid on my machine, so I did a search for
bomb, kill, genocide or terrorism

It got me the intended results, but if this is implemented how will I find the article in the future?

If I cannot search for terrorism, how will I know if I am safe?

Addition to this, note that they think we should not be able to useor search the words, so if something does unfortunately happen, how can we warn others?
"Theres a man in the back with a skimask on holding a complex exothermic chemical compound over there, run for your lives" ???

Don't forget Clitheroe

http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?q=Clitheroe,+BB7,+UK &sa=X&oi=map&ct=title

A RAID array of Flash drives? You mean like this? You'll probably want to skip about 2 minutes and 10 seconds into the video to see the interesting part.

Apparently Bush thinks it's one of his accomplishments to have met this alleged embezzler.

http://www.google.co.uk/url?sa=t&ct=res&cd=1&url=h ttp%3A%2F%2Fwww.whitehouse.gov%2Finfocus%2Fafrica% 2Fafrica_accomplishments.pdf&ei=NMTZRqrcF6WqxAGf5M 2OAw&usg=AFQjCNGsylMvKy5w5W7fvYJ9XGJdSbcpQw&sig2=T 3B32gMv7qDOnRQkSthpoQ
http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2002/12/20 021205-2.html

So, not exactly his fault, but perhaps unwise to be supporting someone who the EU, Denmark and UK had warned they would stop aid to if corruption wasn't dealt with. It seems that the magical "Support for the War on Terrorism" phrase was used.

Google is your friend, learn how to use it.
It can also be found directly at amazon, e-bay and via various other obscure stores on this internet thing I hear the young people talking about these days.

There were more "offensive" things about muslims (and rednecks) in the first couple of minutes of the first episode of "Little Mosque on the Prairie" that this particular cartoon.

One unintentially hilarious thing that happened after the airing were the people expressing outrage at how non-muslims were depicted as dumb rednecks. Good stuff.

The Sunday cartoonist "Opus" is no conservative but he has just let himself go enough to joke a little about Islam. Bad move! A lot of papers that normally take it will not run this Sunday's cartoon. I have reproduced it above.

There is a full-size version [1] here

As you can see, it is not in fact laughing at Islam. It is laughing at his fellow Berkeleyites, if anything. - Stop The ACLU blog

The Sunday cartoonist "Opus" is no conservative but he has just let himself go enough to joke a little about Islam. Bad move! A lot of papers that normally take it will not run this Sunday's cartoon. I have reproduced it above.

There is a full-size version [1] here

As you can see, it is not in fact laughing at Islam. It is laughing at his fellow Berkeleyites, if anything. - Stop The ACLU blog

[G]etting high isn't an inalienable human right

The whole point of Scientologist is suppressing emotions. Sociopaths don't have any in the first place. So guess who rises to the top.

If you have some time to kill, you could always watch his Google Tech Talk about Git - his alternative to CVS. He can't help himself from insulting CVS/SVN numerous times. If I remember correctly, he thinks SVN is "pointless".

...that was partly responsible for this whole mini media frenzy, I just wanted to add a couple things. First off, the media coverage has been (I suppose not surprisingly) all about reporting Guenter Nimtz's sensational claims without hearing from the other side. The other side, in this case, is definitely the mainstream point of view... and Aephraim Steinberg at the Univ. of Toronto makes a very compelling counter-argument. The train analogy he uses is helpful.

But if you want to get more geeky, you don't even need to use any quantum mechanics or even relativity to explain what Nimtz is observing. You can also explain it using good old classical physics. What Steinberg is saying is that the microwave, which is a packet of some finite size, gets slightly delayed as it hits the edge of the prism. There's a component of the wavefront that continues propagating into the gap past the reflective surface. (Technically, this is called the wavefront's "evanescent mode" -- meaning it has a wavelength measured in imaginary numbers... so there's no physical wave in this region of space.) And if there's a small gap separating the two prisms, the wavefront returns to the physical world, with a real wavelength again, back inside the second prism. That's what quantum physics would call "photon tunneling." The seemingly faster-than-light transmission speed is just the consequence of the wavefront's being slowed down at the boundary between prism and air. So the sum-total of time the wavefront spent in transit seems faster-than-light when you only look at one portion of its overall trip. But other portions of its trip (i.e. at that boundary between prism and air) were being slowed down.

Of course to explain this in all its gory detail -- and I've kind of done a butcher job here -- requires a lot more words than we had room for in this piece. So the train analogy had to do.

The other thing, to get even more geeky -- and extra-credit is definitely awarded to anyone who picked this up in the story -- there is no such thing as 33 cm microwaves. (Wavelength too long.) That's a typo. It's 33 mm.

Consider this a big ol' nerdy D'OH!

Like the other reply says, they're probably going to get bitten by WGA at some point with this approach, unless you keep applying the latest WGA cracks. A better solution is to use one of the "Chinese" VLKs that were leaked a couple of years ago but MS have so far refused to block because they're so widely used in China. For example this one definitely still works, I used it recently with ETH0's June XP Pro release. Amusingly it authenticates as completely genuine, allowing the installation of IE7 and everything.

In the same vein, MS never pushed the WGA notification update to simplified chinese language XP, and Chinese Vista Business users are currently using an unauthorised KMS to activate for free, which anyone else can use too ...

Embedded C/C++ also hide many of the details. Why arn't you writing in assembly?

Joking aside, Java is making inroads into embedded realtime systems.
http://java.sun.com/javase/technologies/realtime/i ndex.jsp

Thats not counting the processors available that have java bytecode as thier native instruction set.
http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=native+java+proce ssor&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-GB: official&client=firefox-a

matfud

Microsoft's recent thing about "the cloud" might have something to do with their recent purchase of FrontBridge, an "in-the-cloud" traffic filtering company. (Note the 'E' word is in the titles of most of those articles though it's not in the search...)