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Seen the photos in UK newspapers this morning? (this story)

It actually doesn't work that way...If you go to google.co.uk and search for kazaa you get the same results as google.com without the DMCA nonsense...

The ironic part is none of the offending links are in the top 10 search results...So the sites Sharman had removed are no longer the most likely sites carrying kazaa lite...

It's the same, that's my point.

Oh, you mean like this?

"1 000 megabytes = 0.9765625 gigabytes"

says google.

You have to be judicious about your biometrics... We know that fingerprints are easy to pinch, but other biometrics are a lot harder... Dynamic signature recognition is an example of a very promising technology, both because it's damn hard to forge, and because people are used to signing for things, so acceptance should be pretty high...

-What the heck is that going to be compared with unless you put your finger on an electronic device that belongs to someone else? (There's no inherent protection for the privacy of you fingerprint there because I still get a copy of your fingerprint, and can store it if I so choose.)

Actually I was thinking about a smartcard with an integrated reader... Pretty much how chip cards are currently working - you can't deduce the fingerprint from the stored information (in the same way that you can't deduce the pin from the chip) - but you do make a good point about lifting a fingerprint from the card itself (although you do need a fairly clean print) - I never did argue that fingerprints were a very secure solution - just a convenient one for low security needs... (I would never recommend any security solution without considering what needs to be secured and against what - fingerprints are not for banking...) They do seem to be useful for Disney theme parks who only want to stop tour operators "renting" their annual season tickets out to tourists... Sure the security is not inviolate, but it is good enough, when considering the potential losses... even if a few passes were hacked, it's really not much of a loss for disney...

But that was the whole point of my post: It's a false security! It's fundamentally flawed. The idea with password policies is to make it hard to obtain or guess your secret password. If you start using biometrics, you're using something that is EASY to get.

I respectfully disagree, it's not fundamentally flawed, it's just not applicable to every situation... You have to consider what you're protecting. Would I trust my front door lock to a fingerprint scanner? Maybe... It would depend on the crime rates in my area, how many times I've been locked out of my house because I forgot the keys (which has never happened but hey!), and finally if my insurance would still cover contents if I changed to such a mechanism. The fact that it *can* be broken is secondary to the fact that the burglar needs to know what he's doing (i.e. technically minded), and really wants to break into *my* house (as opposed to the neighbour who doesn't have such a lock)... (many other factors do come into play for that example, such as how reliable is the scanner, how likely is it to break, what happens if I cut my finger, how easy is it to actually bypass the lock...) To answer my own question, I probably wouldn't trust a scanner, but not because the technology is flawed, or because it's bad security, mainly because the reliability of scanners is not ideal, and keeping them clean is a pain...

Biometrics work very nicely in niche applications (such as the theme park example), but I completely agree that they are not the famed silver bullet, and are just not appropriate for many situations.
p.s. As other posters have mentioned, authentication has three defining aspects:
-What you know
-What you have
-What you are
Biometrics are an example of the third type, so the secrecy is not part of the security. Basing an authentication system solely on one of these is only good for low security needs. A really strong authentication mechanism would use all three (maybe more than once). i.e. two keys, an iris scanner and a passcode, but this just isn't necessary in most cases!

Interestingly, Googling "firebird" still returns the now-renamed browser as the first result, and the database as the second. Go figure!

As some others have said, this technology has been around for a while now. Shazam were (iirc) the first to offer it in the UK. They charge 59p or about the same 99 cents. The Shazam service was covered in Scientific American in June 2003 and has been mentioned on /. a few times in the last year.

Use Google UK to search for "motion picture ass head" and it asks you if you want an image of that... Not sure I do, thanks!

This site has the answer to connecting a laptop monitor to your pc.
http://www.eio.com/lcdconnect.htm
google cache: href=http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=cache:Ily0Qs g_-twJ:www.eio.com/lcdconnect.htm+site:eio.com+lcd connect&hl=en&ie=UTF-8

It's not been updated in a while, but the summary goes: You need to buy a controller, the one that came with the device won't do. They cost more than an lcd screen itself, so unless you're desperate to recycle, you might as well buy.
As for ideas what to do; I always thought i'd be cool to have a little display of system statistics cpu/ram/disk usage, maybe any new emails that have arrived - basically most of the features that superkaramba gives you, except you'd be able to see it when running full screen apps.

If you need to convert a high flow/low pressure into a low flow/high pressure, you could look into ram pumps. I'm not sure that would help in this particular case though.

This concept has been bandied about for use as a 'sonic weapon.' Here and here have some details.

The bowel movement is not the main 'thrust' of the argument for weaponry use however as a high percentage of soldiers soil themselves in combat anyway.

Christian Cook
thinctanc.co.uk

Why are we so willing to comprimise our rights?

Hey, I thought you guys had freedom of speech? If so, why is it that virtually no USA based media is reporting that an FBI insider, Sibel Edmonds, has said that the Bush administration knew about the 911 attacks before they happened. Apparently your government has used a law to stop this story in the press.

Freedom of speech indeed!

What you don't get from watching TeeVee is how much those bullets hurt. Ouch. Just as well though, because now they don't kill you outright. They send you to Afghanistan to soak up bullets from Bin Laden. Then they put curry poweder in the wounds, viniger and brown paper and you fall down the hill and break your crown - James Hetfield.

Another interesting one of his appears on first sight to be a patent on grid computing - 6,711,616. Surely SETI counts as prior art on that?

Have you actually studied the fall of the western Empire in any detail?

It's been a few years since I have, but my reading of it was that after the third century crisis, the Empire underwent certain fundamental changes. To vastly over simplify, these could be sumed up as 1) a large increse in the tax burden levied by the empire, 2) a change in the position of local elites; from the principle benificery of Roman rule, to suffering an ever increasing burden, and 3) allowing (admitedly under preassure from increased "barbarian" frontier threats) non-Romanised auxilleries to form cohesive units/societies within the Roman sphere of influence.

These (in the opinion of my teachers :)) combined into the transfer of power from the centre to the regions - as local elites found local "barbarians" better able to provide security/maintain their position than the incresingly weak centre. [disclaimer: I did say I oversimplified]

To look on the fall(/surviving as long as it did) of the western Empire as being primarily due to military reasons is to ignore the last 50 years of historical work on the period.

One of my pet hates, which gets me angry more than all the terrorist activities and political corruption we have right now, is this kind of attitude towards the Book.

Books, we are led to believe are entirely a Good Thing, lacking any negative factors whatsoever. An evening to be spent reading a Book is somehow a Good Use of Time, an evening spent watching Newsnight a Very Bad Thing which will rot the mind. Playing Nintendo, surfing /., grating cheese for an anglacised Lasagne top all get filed under 'not as good as reading a Book'.

Reading makes you interesting. Reading a book a week, at least, is somehow essential to being a good lay.

Books, I can tell you, can be entertaining, enlightening, thought provoking, downright boring and dumb. So can TV. I can watch political debates on TV and read Books based on sexually liberated vampire sluts with an extra set of tits just above their ass. Generally speaking, the 'thinking media' would rather I read the book for its subversive play of sexual stereotypes and themes of feminine empowerment in this post 9/11 world. Personally, I'd rather find out what the fuck Mr Sharon is up to this week!

This fundamentalist acceptance of the Books are Good philosophy just pisses me off. It's no doubt irrational.

As a side note - the personification of this attitude is mariella frostrup the bitch!

Are you now claiming that Jesus did not intend to die?

You should do a google search on self immolation to discover that those who commit suicide do not always take the quickest and most painless route.

here

Leah Betts died of drinking too much water. She took an Ecstasy tablet while her {rabidly anti-some-drugs} dad was out -- then heard he was due back before she would wear off. Fearful of a bollocking on his early return, she drank several litres of water in a misguided attempt to counteract the effects of the drug. This caused an electrolyte imbalance, leading to multiple organ failure -- including the brain -- and eventual death.

Legal ecstasy tablets probably would include an information sheet detailing safe usage practicesm and this would never have happened. However, the government, breweries and the tobacco companies all would prefer for you to believe that she was killed by a tab of ecstasy.

http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=Sipura+VoIP+&ie=U TF-8&oe=UTF-8&hl=en&btnG=Google+Search&meta=cr%3Dc ountryUK%7CcountryGB

Now I wonder where you got that idea

I think you are right about the 'idiots' statement. http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=define%3Aleverage

I would never use the word either but I take it to mean something like "making your money go further"

A great place to find recipes is searching rec.food.recipes using Google groups. I've always been able to find what I'm looking for. Just goto the group, search for what you want to make, and hey presto! Easy!

The other thing that is interesting about water.. is evaporation.. which probably doesn't have anything to do with brake problems.. but might be related to why water absorbs (dissolves) gases easily.

Indeed, it's very unlikely that Clemens would have intended to say that you should never, ever get involved in Open-sourced software. After all, Clemens is the maintainer of DasBlog, a BSD-licensed weblogging engine for ASP.net, forked from Chris Anderson (M'oft employee)'s earlier BSD'ed BlogX software.

Since newTelligence AG's site is currently slashdotted, here's the Google Cache edition of the dasBlog homepage. And here's the GotDotNet collaborative workspace hosting the Source Code for dasBlog.

Give Clemens' letter a bit of thought - it's not the ravings of an anti-FOSS demagogue after all, but the view of a successful software businessman who also maintains some very useful Open-sourced software.

Here is the google cache of the Grey Tuesday site. A site that is resisting the censorship of the 'Grey Album'.

To give Eminem some credit, he doesnt endorse any commercial product.

For satellite TV it is even believed that the chips were scanned with an electronic microscope to find the underlying algorithms.

Sco
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On clicking the link, I found a copy of SCO Unix for just 25GBP. What a bargain! Much cheaper than this $699.00 Linux stuff I've heard so much about.

Matt...

Not a Microsoftie, buy seen enough of them mention it happening to think that at least some of it must go on. Microsoftie Blogs seem to talk about their development process quite often. Still they may only have adopted them in the last few years.

Well, When I installed my Gentoo-box, there were nForce-drivers (forcedeth) right in the Kernel (2.6.3-mm1), so I'm not sure what more do you people want?

Nothing :-)

I didn't realise that there was a cleanroom reimplementation based on reverse engineered documentation -- I guess when I go to upgrade my sisters machine to Fedora 2 in April this will be included and everything will just work, cool :-)

I couldn't find anything about it on the web

Did you try googling for it?

What's the first thing a Essex girl does in the morning?

Walks home

What is the mating call of the ugly Essex girl?

"I said: I'm drunk!"

What is the difference between an Essex girl and a bowling ball?

You can only get three fingers in a bowling ball

What do you get when you cross an Essex girl and a monkey?

Who knows, there is only so much a monkey can be forced to do

What do you call a Essex girl with 2 brain cells?

Pregnant

To find out more about Essex just try searching for the term "Essex girl jokes" to find out.... Before someone replies complaining that I am bashing Essex... I would also like to point out that many people who are born and inbred in Essex openly admit life really is like that in Essex.

AnonUKr for obvious reasons to stop some "Kev" trying to find me in his "soup'd" up ford escort !

Legs wearing the pantyhose make us feel the eroticism. We adhered to that point for the Foot Fetish. You can enjoy the angle of the camera. From the toe to inside of a very short skirt. The camera moves like a licking foot.

slushgut.orgy 1$ pWNED by teh GNAA

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It's certainly got some history - a copy with some added poetry in the middle dating back to '95...
http://www.blu.org/pipermail/discuss/1995-December /026867.html

There's a few copies out there, but none seem to say who wrote it...
http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=%22Year+after+yea r%2C+Papa+Bell+would+humiliate+itself%22

It's certainly rather splendid, though.

ahh but surely they would have limited there daily spend. So all that automation would be for nothing!

Google

how hard was that?

I could believe a typo too, but not numerous identical ones.

Google have over 10,000 linux servers in their cluster. That's a licensing fee of $7 million. It might be a lot easier for them just to write the cheque.

Assuming the Google execs will also have a significant share in the company, any reduction in the company value could hit them in the pocket personally.

From a purely Australian perspective I agree, but there is the risk this is not purely AUstralian. What if 'infected' Carp were released in Europe/Asia? Then gradually the species would be eliminated from the entire world. A habitat has been saved for a few species but a other habitats have been irrecovably damaged.

The local solution has to be balanced against the global risk. Australia has already had one massive failure regarding immigrant species 'control' which resulted in the deaths of 100s of millions of rabbits outside Australia yet failured to tackle the problem at home. I only hope the Carp 'solution' is a little better thought through. The best solution to population control is that old method of predation... we just need to find an effective way to predate predators.

Was it here?

Is there an American English (British?) dictionary? I'm inclined to start one...

There's one here.

And according to Google, there's quite a few more.

e.g. You can access uk.finance here

Here
is a cache link.

I'm impressed that Google thought of that, even though I'm not sure I agree with their decision. Google UK and Google Germany and Google Portugal show the new logo, but Google Brazil does not.

Last year Tony Hawkes the British Comedian actually gave his girlfriend the 12 days of Christmas for christmas.

I forget how much it cost - it was broadcast as a Radio 4 pre Christmas show.

ANYWAY - he used actual Lords and Ladies with ligislative power from the House of Lords. He bribed them with mince pies as I remember.
Very funny if you can dig it out - which I cant be bothered to do this close to CHristmas.

Oh fuck

Turing Completeness doesn't really matter... a programming language has to beable to support the creation of Algorithms

Support the implementation and execution of algorithms, surely? An algorithm is a mathematical entity, and many algorithms were described before anybody had even built or imagined a mechanical or electronic computer.

And I think you'll find that being Turing complete means being able to support the implementation and execution of algorithms, so Turing completeness is what you are describing. (Google offers a definition.)

Absolutely right about MLs. The day I can add 2 and 2 in HTML is the day it starts even approximating to being a programming language. That won't happen until Microsoft decides to produce HTML#, which will hopefully be never :-)