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The official link for this project, called Google Space, has not yet been indicated:
http://www.google.co.uk/googlespace/ [google.co.uk]

It was first mentioned on http://www.ogleearth.com/2005/11/google_space.html [ogleearth.com] and on two [slashdot.org] previous [slashdot.org] /. comments. I submitted this story a few days ago, but I agree with the /. eds, the url I provided were not as interesting as in today's story...
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The official link for this project, called Google Space, has not yet been indicated:
http://www.google.co.uk/googlespace/

It was first mentioned on http://www.ogleearth.com/2005/11/google_space.html and on two previous /. comments. I submitted this story a few days ago, but I agree with the /. eds, the url I provided were not as interesting as in today's story...

Ok, I'm not crazy, there you go, Google Space !
http://www.google.co.uk/googlespace/

Linked from http://www.ogleearth.com/2005/11/google_space.html
quite better from the first link I provided...

(PS: I have just spent the last two hours googling, no luck :-|

they do offer a torrent search http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&q=%22star+tre k%22+filetype%3Atorrent&btnG=Search&meta=

motherboard with an Nvidia chipset - they seem to have less bugs and better drivers than VIA
Not in my experience. My old SiS motherboard was more stable than this nForce4 Ultra. I get paging errors and total system lockups when I have any cards in the PCI slots (so far tried it with a TV tuner and an Audigy) and if I turn on the built in firewall my downloads are corrupted and I sometimes lose whole chunks of web pages.
I'm not the only one with these problems.
Search for paging error nforce4
Search for nforce4 corruption

motherboard with an Nvidia chipset - they seem to have less bugs and better drivers than VIA
Not in my experience. My old SiS motherboard was more stable than this nForce4 Ultra. I get paging errors and total system lockups when I have any cards in the PCI slots (so far tried it with a TV tuner and an Audigy) and if I turn on the built in firewall my downloads are corrupted and I sometimes lose whole chunks of web pages.
I'm not the only one with these problems.
Search for paging error nforce4
Search for nforce4 corruption

Thankfully, now no longer trading. According to a hand-written note on the door of my local 'Time' branch, they even stiffed their retail employees.

If you can still remember how to do calculus (I'm not sure I can - it's been about six years since I last tried) then have a go at working out the route from here to mars (pretend nothing else exists in the solar system). This kind of complexity is fairly easy to do with a pen and paper, but it (roughly) doubles every object you add to the solar system.

You will find that you don't fly in a straight line at all, you fly on an curved trajectory. Now, for fun, try solving the same thing in reverse, and for someone leaving a day later with a faster ship. You'll find that none of these paths intersect in space and time - often not even in just space - except at, or possibly very near, the destination.

If you want to make the calculations really fun, you can assume rocket propulsion, so your mass and thrust change as a factor of time...

By the way, I don't know where you got 496 as the number of straight lines between 32 points. There are 31 routes between each point and each other point. The number of direct routes between two of those points and any other point is 31x30=930. The total number of straight lines is 31!.

It makes no attempt to filter spam, which like email will soon account for about 80% of content.

Try this search for Tartfuel http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=tartfuel once a local band. When Google claims to have 28,600 results, in fact there are only 36. Now that's a con. When I give search advice look through all the results and they look me to say "but there's millions". Never, if you're doing a specific search, Google won't even display a tenth page (which is the max).

So, of the 36 results, how many are real? There are 10 relating to the band, one about alcopops, and the other 20+ are spam. Their old website and every subdomain is of the generic spam-generated marketing page this is about 10, and theothers are spammed guestbooks linking to them.

http://classic-motor-bikes.tartfuel.co.uk/

I'm not interested in Google until it can search through time. Damn, I wish the net archive had done a better job. Most of the content is of popular, mainstream commercial sites, which are so unoriginal, it's off little interest. And how many images did it save? Not enough.

Mod (-5) Google bashing. No. This applies to all the search engines.

Do you really believe I'm not from Canada?

Well he might be from Canada, but he lives in Tucson.

Any opinion of BBC News 24?

Slashdot requires me to wait longer between hitting the 'reply' button and posting my comment. It has been 16 seconds since I hit reply. Therefore, I'n going to link to some random pictures. Bleh

The rootkit doesn't phone home to there. From doxpara: Originally, it appeared that the rootkit itself issued queries against First4Internet. It does not.

So we're looking at hits to http://cp.sonybmg.com/xcp/english/updates.html, are we? Well, let's see what Google knows. That site is linked to by only one page: http://cp.sonybmg.com/xcp/english/updates.html - part of the Sony information site about this system, the site which has been referred to by every story, blog, and Slashdot post on this subject throughout the whole saga.

What we're seeing here isn't evidence of how widespread the rootkit is. It's how widespread the story is.

There must be 100 better sources out there to link to.

I just posted on comp.lang.python asking about available protection schemes for python code

Python obfuscation thread at comp.lang.python


petantik.blogsome.com - A Lucid Look at Reality

More prototypes here

You still haven't explained how your creator came into being. Did your creator begin to exist fully-formed and ready to go, or in a rudimentary form which then evolved to the point of being able to create? And if there exists some process capable of creating a creator {which assumption is implicit within the assumption that a creator has ever existed}, why should that process not just have created simpler organisms instead?

If you are going to use probability theory to support an argument {don't fall into the Monty Hall problem trap and incorrectly assume dependent events are independent or vice versa} then you ought at least to explain why you are favouring a less probable event {indirect creation by an abiogenetically-created creator} over a more probable event {direct abiogenesis}.

The US has less social mobility than Europe.

That's just utter and complete BS, sir.

A careful comparison reveals that the USA and Britain are at the bottom with the lowest social mobility. Norway has the greatest social mobility, followed by Denmark, Sweden and Finland. Germany is around the middle of the two extremes, and Canada was found to be much more mobile than the UK.

Over longer time periods, there is more mixing but still not that much and those who do slip into different quintiles are typically at the borders of their category (e.g. those dropping out of the top quintile are typically at the bottom of that group). Only around 5% of families rise from bottom to top, or fall from top to bottom.

British Keynesian economist Will Hutton quotes US data from 2000-1 which "compare[s] the mobility of workers in America with the four biggest European economies and three Nordic economies." The US "has the lowest share of workers moving from the bottom fifth of workers into the second fifth, the lowest share moving into the top 60 per cent and the highest share unable to sustain full-time employment." He cites an OECD study which "confirms the poor rates of relative upward mobility for very low-paid American workers; it also found that full-time workers in Britain, Italy and Germany enjoy much more rapid growth in their earnings than those in the US . . . However, downward mobility was more marked in the US; American workers are more likely to suffer a reduction in their real earnings than workers in Europe." Thus even the OECD (the "high priest of deregulation") was "forced to conclude that countries with more deregulated labour and product markets (pre-eminently the US) do not appear to have higher relative mobility, nor do low-paid workers in these economies experience more upward mobility. The OECD is pulling its punches. The US experience is worse than Europe's."

So when I google myself I'll look really popular on the web!

in the UK they already do provide a similar service

http://www.google.co.uk/sms/howtouse.html#prices

it's useful when you are out shopping and see something nice but know that the likes of Dixon's aren't exactly the cheapest of places

"The greatest mass extinction in Earth's history may have resulted from a release of carbonated seawater"

And this site kindly points out the following:

"But when dissolved in frothy, carbonated seawater, all this CO2 becomes a corrosive gas."

Not to mention the environmental effect of millions of farting & belching sea creatures. I think we should keep a close eye on this man :)

The EU proposal is a compromise, the US and the UN are at loggerheads over this. There are a number of third & developing world governments including Russia, China & India threaterning to form a break away internets with national DNS infrastructures because the are unhappy with the abuses of the US government with regard to ICANN favouring the US political hedgomony. The EU proposal's is a _compromise_ to make the DNS infrastucture trans-national, to keep it as an inter-net and avoid it breaking up into dozens of national-nets.

I suggest you and the moderators who made this +5 insightfull do some more background reading.

http://news.google.co.uk/news?hl=en&tab=wn&ie=UTF- 8&q=ICANN+UN+EU+dispute&btnG=Search+News

Try

http://desktop.google.co.uk/

Because this is the UK, where you have no rights.

http://images.google.co.uk/images?hl=en&safe=off&q =Natalie+Portman&spell=1&sa=N&tab=wi

Oh they do enough as it is...

This guy's got a list here, or you can try this google search.

If you view this link, close the tag pointing to Box, and look to the northwest there is a place called Collerne. Note the lack of any airbase west of Collerne. Now hit hybrid. Look at those runways...

Secret bunker

I know the place they are talking about; I live about 30 miles away. The whole area is near the village of Box: http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?q=Box,+Wiltshire,+SN 13&spn=0.062548,0.158512&hl=en

-It was a sandstone quarry, not a mine. The sandstone that was used to build my house (and many others in bath and bristol) came from it. The way the sandstone deposits were the quarry was at the same height as the London-Bristol railway tunnel, so they built a special stop off the tunnel to get the rock and transport it to bristol, bath and london, which, back in 1850, pwas the main long haul transport.

-It just so happened that before WWII the air force grabbed it to be an arms store from conventional air attacks; it was used as that and later there were underground airplane factories nearby.

-when the cold war came along, it became the secret seat of government, though not that secret after a while, which, with better precision weapon delivery, meant it was not that useful.

Post cold war, a lot of the quarry has been abandoned. the local cavers know this and pop down the old shafts sometimes. Security used to rely on above-ground troops with guns, but as that has been rolled back, things are more accessible. Even then, the main burlington "citadel" is something they have always been scared of going to.

I think it survived till now as an underground seat-of-government is often useful, even outside a full-blown east-west nuclear exchange, where the place would last only a few minutes into the conflice. For example, after 9/11 dick cheney went off to the US equivalent to run the country (!), but I guess eventually the operational costs are too steep.

interestingly, the area has very good transport (railway, nearby motorway) and communications infrastructure. A lot of the main telecoms lines go through those railway tunnels, probably because the govt. told them to.

Probably a very deep basement directly under the Parliment building with tunnels to the same under 10 Downing St and Windsor castle

Probably a very deep basement directly under the Parliment building with tunnels to the same under 10 Downing St and Windsor castle

http://www.google.co.uk/search?&q=13%2C803%2C862%2 C720+rods+in+furlongs

The problem, as far as I can see, is that CSRSS.exe, which implements some important parts of win32 (important enough for the kernel to die in sympathy if CSRSS dies), is also responsible for the menial tasks of drawing console windows.

If the code to draw console windows were in a separate, unprivileged process, or even better a library, this bug would not be particularly exploitable. The worst DoS possible would be to prevent anyone from making console windows until the process was restarted.

There was another console bug a few years ago, see here. Printing a few tabs and backspaces to the console would cause the machine to blue screen.

Better still it a ban on it almost became law in California.

"Alisa Viejo" dhmo

Part of the way advertising works is to register and enforce associations in our subconscious.

Derren Brown uses such tricks as part of his TV show. One stunt caused advertising execs to create a particular logo based on cues he'd provided along their route to his office. It's when you don't notice that your being sold to that it's hard to avoid the compulsion.

Try some links from http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=derren%20brown%20 advertising&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla%3Aen- US%3Aofficial_s&hl=en

but like much of the world, your charicatures of U.S. behavior show a recently rising anti-American bias.

A side-effect of your actions, sorry.

But you dismiss Iraq as "unwise" and make allusions to oil, without even considering the fact that what we're doing there - toppling a brutal dictator in order to install a democratic system

No, if that were the case, I'd agree with the intention but not the method. Assuming democracy was the intent, you've still killed more Iraqi civilians than Saddam did. The country is now going to fall apart, and we get to watch it from our armchairs. Capturing Saddam was actually bad, it turns out. Many in Iraq were fearful that you'd pull out*, and Saddam would return to power. With him out of the way, the more agressive groups that he surpressed were free to start attacking collatition troops. Whatever happens, Saddam is gone. Removing him ironically is going to be the thing that destroyes the country.

* in the first Gulf War, we dropped leaflets that said rise up against Saddam and we'll support you. Many did, however we stopped once we restored the Kuwait dictators to power. Those who stood up were massacred. Many were fearful this would happen again.

The intent to attack Iraq predates 9-11. It has NOTHING to do with defending yourselfs in any way. Nor was it done for the Iraqi people. Iraq has the second largest oil reserves in the world. The USA economy is 100% reliant on this oil, changes to the price affect everything. Now, peak oil dictates that the "easy" oil is running out, and the price will rise as more adventurous oil reserves are tapped. This price rise would topple an already faltering economy.

With Saddam in power, Iraq's oil was off the map, unavailable to US markets. With him gone, it's flowing freely. Billions upon billions of dollars have been made. Companies with representation in The Project For a New American Century (official website) (e.g. Harliburton/Cheeny) have gotten wholely rich from this. The US is in a far stronger strategic position WRT to access to oil. Don't forget, much of the worlds oil belongs to Saudi (9-11) and Venesuala (socialist). Your "enemies". The US now has direct influnce on the price of oil, as well as having private access to vast quantities.

It WAS NOT done for the Iraqi people, and it saddens me that people believe that. It proves that propaganda and nationalistic tendencies are not a thing of the past.

What do you think of Afghanistan? Should we have left the Taliban in charge there?

Well, you were quite happy to deal with them for many years. For example, in 1997 a Taleban delegation visited Texas for talks on a huge deal to build a pipeline through the country. It was only after that deal went to an Argentinian group that we suddenly started hearing about the evil Taleban. We have always been at war with the Taleban.

Is toppling an oligarchy that made women wear sacks and prevented them from getting an education just another indicator of our aggression?

Only when it happens after big business says so. By the way, the people involved in that 1997 deal have moved on. They are in the Whitehouse now. The pipeline's coming along nicely.

Yes but Kird never did it with [..] Spock

That's not what I heard.

'Perwill's EDI software, which went live in 1992/3.'

Perwill is a horrible piece of software written by Polaris that maps from one text based format to another, it's mainly used for EDI but can be used for anything (you could probably setup an XML/SGML template if you could bare using the software for that long).

copying a cd and saying, "here, i wrote and recorded/produced/manufactured this"

That's not copyright, that's plagiarism.

http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=26097
I believe you are right (Canonical being based on the Isle of man, and linux /GNU pretty much an international effort )

I did a Google search http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&q=ubuntu+linu x+south+africa&btnG=Google+Search&meta= andhttp://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&q=ubuntu+l inux+developed+in&btnG=Search&meta=
Which pretty much the top few sites stating it was developed in south Africa .. So there is perhaps where that false impression came from

http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=26097
I believe you are right (Canonical being based on the Isle of man, and linux /GNU pretty much an international effort )

I did a Google search http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&q=ubuntu+linu x+south+africa&btnG=Google+Search&meta= andhttp://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&q=ubuntu+l inux+developed+in&btnG=Search&meta=
Which pretty much the top few sites stating it was developed in south Africa .. So there is perhaps where that false impression came from

Handy, but it's a shame I use http://www.google.com/ig/ for which there is no UK local alternative :-(

Why aren't the standard units being quoted

It's a rate of 9.94193908 furlongs per fortnight

http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&q=1+kilometre +per+week+in+furlongs+per+fortnight&meta=

Google knows this, look:
http://www.google.ie/
http://www.google.co.uk/

Google understands the difference between the UK and Ireland, meaning I get to keep a gmail.com addy even if the UK is made go to googlemail.com

Unlike Microsoft, who now offer you a hotmail.co.uk adress if you say you're in Ireland.

It's up to about 11,120,000,000 now. Proof - Google Search for * *

Looks like they were posted on September 8th, 1990 at 12.17pm GMT
http://groups.google.co.uk/group/rec.arts.movies/b rowse_thread/thread/5a3719142fd4db9e/152249faf7593 d14?lnk=st&q=script&rnum=1&hl=en#152249faf7593d14

I know this is a cheap shot but its an important one. On the site (excluding Perl 6)there are THREE references to design, none of these are about how you actually should go about designing in perl and what is good practice for design of Perl programmes.

For the Perl foundation to REALLY help its users out there it might want to promote more DESIGN and less CODE as a better way to approach Perl programming. I've wasted enough time debugging (and mainly binning) badly constructed Perl code, it would be great if the foundation addressed the issues of implementation (lack of design) rather than more bells and whistles for the inept to use.