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yep.. if 35 gangsters come into your house (assuming they don't have assault weapons), you can have a gatling gun and you're still fucked.

http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=cache:jo3aRe29uHs J:slashdot.org/+&hl=en

i know, i know...

I was reading what "the other side" had to say, and this sentence made me choke with disbelief:

The Department of Defense is fully aware of its responsibility for the safe use of depleted uranium

SAFE?!

(from here)

That's why the Google cache is powered by Pigeons.

Root? Unfortunately privilege escalation seems to very big problem which does not get as much attention as it deserves.

Its critical that you know and trust your users and take care of what applications you decide to run especially as plenty of exploits are readily available.

As for the spoofing "Security Center" it ignores the fact that evil.exe required a prerequisite compromise to have taken place.

But not as shocking as this

As is the UK version.

Now can anyone explain why on earth the top searched query in the UK for June 2004 was "european spear fishing". I mean WTF?? The top google link for that is even a googlebomb advertising page for the swiss version of iFriends (at least that's what it looks like, I haven't clicked).

My mind boggles.

There is, but it doesn't have the info either. I guess they spider their sites quite often. They've even taken the info off of their previous Year-End Zeitgeists (assuming the data was there).

However, some other country versions still have them: ca uk

Get them while you can...

Classical Marxist theory states you have a Working Class and a Ruling Class. The Working Class has exactly one asset, its labour. The Ruling Class ultimately depends for its survival on the Working Class.

According to this model, the Working Class could use its labour just to support itself, and say a big fat "screw you" to the Ruling Class -- and do less work into the bargain, to the tune of whatever it was costing to keep the Ruling Class in luxury goods. This is what most people think of as "revolution", and it usually goes T.U. when the organisers of the Revolution, having won the respect of the people, start falling into the decadent ways of the former Ruling Class.

Well, that may have worked in a manufacturing economy when the Working Class was doing things like growing food, building houses, making cars, &c. But today, thanks to a combination of automating many jobs out of existence and outsourcing the rest, a new class has emerged: the Consuming Class. The Consuming Class own DVD players and cell phones (made, BTW, using a labour force to whom such things would largely be useless), and think they are above the Working Class. The Consuming Class does work, but it is meaningless and irrelevant: what the heck is a telephone sanitiser going to do after the revolution? And on the flipside, who will till the soil, grind the grain, bake the bread? Who will build the homes, do the wiring and the plumbing? Marxist theory suggests the Consuming Class would perish before the Ruling Class, since the latter at least usually has savings.

The other reason why Classical Marxist theory doesn't apply anymore is that -- as far as some kinds of things are concerned -- we are now living in an age of plenty rather than an age of scarcity, and that really tends to muck up the traditional concept of value which underpins both Capitalism and Socialism. When it takes hardly any more work to make a thousand or a million examples of something than it took to make the first, how do you decide what price to sell it for?


As a former New Age Traveller, I have first hand experience of attempting a unilateral declaration of independence, and it isn't easy. Every so often, you still run up against a dependency on some big corporation or another: the supermarkets, the oil companies, and -- for some of my friends -- the NHS.

Social change is needed alright, but a lot of people are going to get hurt when it comes.

I used to have a VIA based mobo, it was my first DDR based system. Superb performance, barely stable though. I used to spend half my time fighting with bizarre errors and the like, trying to work out why some odd crashes were occuring. I've pretty much sworn against using VIA ever again after that, although I do aknowledge that is quite a foolish attitude, everyone makes mistakes now and then. In the future it may be they do produce a decent chipset, and I'll end up going back on my word. A few months after getting the VIA system, I upgraded to an Nforce2 based system (Abit NF7), and blinked in stunned amazement as the system remained steady as a rock. I've had just one system crash since I switched to Nforce2, superb overclockability, and very respectable performance (easily beating some 'top end' P4s at stuff like SETI unit crunching, in part due to dual channel memory) googlecached:OcUK SETI benchmarks

Given the toaster ovens that Intel is now maskerading as processors, I'm very glad my XP-M runs so cool, and with so little in the way of cooling (one 75mm HSF unit, one 120mm 7 volted exhaust fan, one ultra-quiet SilenX 60mm intake), I'm running faster, cooler, quieter and for cheaper than machines mine outperforms.

Someone remind me, why should I use Intel?

Nelson Mandela
Mahatma Gandhi
35 of the US Founding Fathers
Cherie Booth QC (who still takes human rights cases against her husband's government, and wins, and incidentally earns 4x more than the PM)
Some of the above, and some more obscure ones, are listed here

However there's still a long way to go when google asks, in response to the search for "great lawyers",
"Did you mean: great leaders?"!

Slashdot is certainly not without stories about the Netherlands (whose language one can easily mock in text): http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=netherlands+site% 3Aslashdot.org

There may not be chips that design chips, but there is some funky 'computers that design chips' stuff, which i guess kinda means that chips already are designing each other...

Oh dear, we are so boned, i mean you've seen the documentory Terminator?

Erm anyway, there is some stuff where you describe the problem, and it works out what to build, although as with any abstraction, it ain't as efficent. (and it ain't quite that simple :(

Links,
http://www.verilog.com/
http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=VHDL
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0088247/

The real test for me is, "Is the link back to the official site? Or does it look like a link and take you to some mysterious 3rd party server?"

Actually...

There are no calculations given, so feel free to take this with a pinch of salt.

I'd give you the direct link, but I had to fish this out of Google's cache as the site's already over quota.

Tom.

Can anybody tell me why on this page I get the link to Picassa, but on this one, I get nothing.

• This seems to find "sl/.shdot" and "sl-shdot".
• So I assume @ / . and - are treated as "any other characters".

• Appears to match slshdot and sl-shdot
• So it seems hyphens are just ignored in search criteria and results.

• Seems to be the same as a search for sl shdot
• I'd conclude these characters are converted to whitespace in results and search criteria. It would match "sl something shdot"

• This seems to find "sl/.shdot" and "sl-shdot".
• So I assume @ / . and - are treated as "any other characters".

• Appears to match slshdot and sl-shdot
• So it seems hyphens are just ignored in search criteria and results.

• Seems to be the same as a search for sl shdot
• I'd conclude these characters are converted to whitespace in results and search criteria. It would match "sl something shdot"

• This seems to find "sl/.shdot" and "sl-shdot".
• So I assume @ / . and - are treated as "any other characters".

• Appears to match slshdot and sl-shdot
• So it seems hyphens are just ignored in search criteria and results.

• Seems to be the same as a search for sl shdot
• I'd conclude these characters are converted to whitespace in results and search criteria. It would match "sl something shdot"

• This seems to find "sl/.shdot" and "sl-shdot".
• So I assume @ / . and - are treated as "any other characters".

• Appears to match slshdot and sl-shdot
• So it seems hyphens are just ignored in search criteria and results.

• Seems to be the same as a search for sl shdot
• I'd conclude these characters are converted to whitespace in results and search criteria. It would match "sl something shdot"

Windows has the Windows Scripting Host installed by default (has since 98)

your page isn't listed highly in Google because not many people link to it

Windows has the Windows Scripting Host installed by default (has since 98)

your page isn't listed highly in Google because not many people link to it

I suspect a lot of people here are. To me, and probably to most of them, UML is Unified Modelling Language. Hell, do a google search for UML and the top hit is to the UML website.

I know it's too much to ask OSS projects not to pick confusing acronyms and names, but I'd like to think that story submitters or at least editors could a little clearer.

As far as I know, the ring-a-rosies rhyme comes from the black death in the middle ages, quite a bit earlier than the cold war you seem to connect it with.

Oh yeah? ;^)

The program was called "Crafty Tricks of War" and was shown on BBC2 earlier this year. Very entertaining.

Google reveals that the only web sites with sitebuilder/tandc.htm in their URLs are Freeserve/Wanadoo, and the pdf of the article describing the takedown. Therefore it must have been Freeserve or Wanadoo, who are the same company now. I'm glad I have started to move away from Freeserve, although most of my web site is still on their servers, I haven't migrated most of it yet.

The Green Party in the UK has a well thought out policy on Software Patents and IPR. A quote from their site:

The GP strongly opposes software patenting. Copyright works well enough to protect IPR (Intellectual Property Rights). The flag of IPR must not be used to give more power to rich corporations while preventing the general use of useful cheap software.

The only thing I'll add to their words is that the Green Party traditionally does well in the European Elections, so a vote for them can make a real difference. Also, where they don't get in, more votes for them is still more pressure on other parties to adopt similar policies.

The only other party that has a strong stance on this is the UK Independance Party, but that's only because they hate all foreigners. Greens are the saner (and less racist) option in the UK.

If you want to look into this more the proper term is "Relevance Feedback".

Not that I'm an IR student or anything. (IANAIRS)

You didn't search for the grammar used by PHB's. The correct answer is 237; the 96 you got above would have to be others, more knowledgeable, talking about their experiences.

Proof.

-DrkShadow

96

Try this Google cached page to donate while they are down.

Sorry! The wiki is experiencing some technical difficulties, and cannot contact the database server

Oh well never mind instead click here for a google cache of Bill's page on wikipedia

So this kid spends an average of 1025 minutes a MONTH on his cell phone? That rivals most business people

If he uses 1,025 minutes in one month that is equivalent to 12,300 minutes per year. (1,025 x 12 months)

Which is 33.676283938921307392522844820568 minutes a day. (12,300 / 365.242199 days)

I think if you added up all the little phonecalls through the working day a lot of business people would beat this kid. Sorry for the big numbers but I wanted to

Well, there's plenty of sources which say Diesel used peanut oil, which of course does have the advantage of being easier to get hold of.

I think the word you are looking for is Neologism

Of course, it's up to you whether you choose to accept this study.

This sounds a lot like an old, old experiment described by Simeon Poisson with the intention to prove that light travelled as particles, and not as waves. The idea being that if light travelled as waves according to Huygens' theory, then there would be a tiny bright spot in the shadow cast by a pin-head in a narrow beam of monochromatic light. Poisson wrote a paper ridiculing this. Dominique Arago set up an experiment to show once and for all how the absence of a bright spot would disprove the wave theory -- and there, indeed, right in the centre of the shadow, was a bright spot .....

I really don't have a problem with people looking at pictures. If some sicko is going to get his filthy rocks off, better from my point of view that he* does so into a box of Kleenex than into any kid of mine. If the picture was made in such a way that involved causing harm to a child, then yes, it's absolutely fair to go after the creator; and if the person who looks at it actually goes on to harm a child, again, it's fair to go after the abuser. But just looking at a picture does not alter the amount of harm done. In fact, if looking at pictures is enough to satisfy a person's urges, so he doesn't actually need to go out and abuse a child, then it's doing good.

But, it's easier to get a result by going after the people looking at the pictures than by going after the actual abusers. And when policemen are on a "points make prizes" system, simple economics take over.

I also think many people are afraid even to look at a child porn picture in case it awakens any latent paedophile tendency lurking in them. The subject is so emotionally charged, that it sets up a kind of positive feedback loop: anybody who questions the hanging, drawing and quartering of anyone remotely suspected of being a paedophile, risks being called one themself.


* I said "he", but women paedophiles do exist, and I wouldn't be surprised by a lesbian serial rapist ..... but that's another story for another time.

Actually, there is a biometric that is changeable ad infinitum: dynamic signature recognition. The reason I really like this one (and I'm thinking for commercial environments mainly) is that people are used to signing for things... You can change your signature if you want, and they're a damn sight harder to forge...

As the page is using the Nokia Webserver technology (running the site from a mobile!) here is the google cache

google cache link

Not only did it take a long time, but there are tons of stories, not to mention video and pictures which still have not been reported by mainstream media, (at least in America). In Europe, and the Arab world, one sees very different images. As an example, take a look at this video of America's finest punish some Iraqi's for taking wood: DontLoot.wmv, or try google
The question is not as much whether the images exist, it is whether gutless mainstream American media is willing to show it.

Patriot , n. One to whom the interests of a part seem superior to those of the whole. The dupe of statesmen and the tool of conquerors.

It's probably something to do with why a woman only has to do a job half as well as a man to be thought ten times as good. Or why women are physically incapable of committing crimes and shouldn't be punished for them even if they do. Or the way women insist that only they can do several jobs at the same time, then proceed to do so, badly and taking longer overall than the sum of the time taken to complete each one sequentially, yet still praise one another for doing it.

There is a serious anti-male bias in society today. It starts young: boys are underperforming in schools yet all the money is spent on improving things for girls. Planning to have sex with a woman? You'd better make sure she doesn't falsely accuse you of rape, otherwise you'll always be labelled a rapist even if you never fucked her. It goes on throughout life: try getting custody of your own kids if your ex-wife moves in with a loony who drags her down to his level. {Single fathers, while they are rare, certainly seem to do a better job than some of the single mothers I've met}. Even if your name is on the birth certificate, you'll have a hell of a job and you risk your reputation {she only has to tell one lie and there'll be an angry mob outside your door baying for your blood}. And it lasts all the way until you die: men have a shorter life expectancy than women, yet {until recently} had to wait longer to receive their retirement pension.

At least nonce is now an equal-opportunity profession.

Given that claims have been made in recent years that stonehenge itself was almost completely rebuilt in the 20th century (based on evidence like constables paintings and contemporary photos), I don't understand why anyone would get their backup about a reproduction being made. (Granted there were many counter claims) [Personally I'd be interested in seeing even the techniques used even in 1902 reemployed in NZ]

name other features after the members of Shackleton's crew
Was Mrs Chippy considered?

here

This thing looks really cool!

I confess to not knowing that much about this topic, but I still don't think you can say the codec is owned by the government. Even if it was, it doesn't really matter being GPLed etc.

Although it's not an authoritative source, I refer you to this article on Google Groups which states, amongst other things, that "The BBC is run under a Royal Charter, not by the government" and "But it was part of the Government to start with, yes? The BBC was not, and has never been, and will never been part of the British Government."