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We've had RISC, MMX, VLIW, SSI, maybe it's time for DWIM processors.

Cache of the first page

http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=cache:HC7NCC9XudM C:ohmslaw.com/robot.htm+&hl=en&ie=UTF-8

Enjoy!

Googling for booklight LED gives us, at #2:

A booklight using an LED! Who'd have thought it?

I googled, and I found this:http://www.webelements.com/webelements/elemen ts/text/W/hist.html

It's priced at £1000 (plus tax) - that's something like $1500, I think

The £1000 price includes vat (sales tax) which is £851 ex vat. But although the exchange rate says that £1000 is US$1570 (according to xe.com,) typically something sold for £1000 will be sold in the US for about $1000 (or slightly more.) Basically, an example of Rip-Off Britain.

Well, I don't know about you, but I'm not all that fond of them filtering results based on where people are searching from.

And they take all manner of porn ads but the only alcohol related ads are for hangover cures - so exploiting messed up men and women is ok, but exploiting your own liver is not?

Well, I don't know about you, but I'm not all that fond of them filtering results based on where people are searching from.

And they take all manner of porn ads but the only alcohol related ads are for hangover cures - so exploiting messed up men and women is ok, but exploiting your own liver is not?

Cache of mtu.flatlan.com

According to this, there were only 51,000 mp3s on their network. 650,000 is the total amount of files. This amounts to $1.9 million per mp3, not taking into consideration legal songs or duplication of songs.

Single's on Amazon are selling at around $3.50.. Using this and a little math I come out at each mp3 shared on the network finding it's way onto around 550,000 computers that it shouldn't be on. Impressive.

space may be full of resources, but unlike the resources in India, we have NO way to get TO them, extract them, and send them back, in any sort of reasonable way.

Thats a limited view on what counts as a resource. Without the money that went into space exploration, we would not have satelites. We wouldnt have GPS, we would have trans-global phone calls, we wouldnt be able to talk to people in Antarctica (the guys that discovered the hole in the ozzone layer - that was pretty essential research given the cost), we wouldnt have satelite TV, we wouldnt have live news reports from the other side of the world, etc.

we've flushed TRILLIONS of dollars into space exploration

Wheres that money gone? Its paid peoples wages, its bought goods. It's stayed in the U.S. economy.

Whats it got out of it? Scratch resistant lenses, blood presure measurers, pacemakers. I suggest, as the other guy said, you should read up on the medical benefits. The environmental/social benefits include things like the EPA, Greenpeace and Earth Day. Of course, theres Scores more benefits.

' Same thing goes for this moronic 'search for life'. I'm sure there IS life elsewhere in the galaxy. Will we ever find out or be able to do anything about it? Nope. Too far away. Who gives a crap

Lots of people actually, however SETI isnt government funded so thats not a valid argument.

What the HELL did going to the moon get us? ABSA-fucking-loutley NOTHING except a bunch of damn rocks sitting in a display case.

A picture of Earthrise. A realisation of how fragile our planet was. Also bragging rights over the USSR, which was important after they launched sputnik and Yuri first.

we've got damn good collaborative evidence that the speed of light is the end of the speedometer

So, sorry, I didnt realise that was you Mr. Hawking. The BPP is/was working on ways. Obviously its a long way off, but the potential might be there.

we're already doing that juuuuust fine in Iraq

Iraq, space exploration. I see the connection *rolls eyes*

I'm a little late on the scene here but here's a couple of rather interesting links to the google cache.

All pages at mtu.flatlan.com
Stats page

Interestingly the stats page shows 650,000 files shared in total. Only 51,000 MP3s.

I'm a little late on the scene here but here's a couple of rather interesting links to the google cache.

All pages at mtu.flatlan.com
Stats page

Interestingly the stats page shows 650,000 files shared in total. Only 51,000 MP3s.

Use Google and try and find the *original* reference to the 'Second Superpower'. No cheating and using the Register article as a hint for search terms. If you can do it at all, you'll have wade though pages of chaff. By definition, that's a bad search engine.

Well I took up your challenge and see what I got first time

Quite, and isn't the Google advertising model sort of similar to this?

I.E. A system of showing ads based on companies' bid amounts??

Tell me, who in your state sets those ratings, and who enforces them?

My fave is this one. Damn, the link's broken, try this instead.

There still are references to that name.

In linux just mount the windows partition.

Also, if your sysadmin is that thick offer to show him how to set up samba. Prove that you need FTP and go over his head if you get refused....

Sounds like he is just a lazy bastard to me :-)

I'm getting nowhere trying to access the site. Is it the same list from Privicy International? It too is nine items long. You can read it here through the google cache no less :)

Looks like your link was a bit wrong

try this one

No cache!

The NSA must have removed it!

"No real persons have the money or time to deal with the law".

They do, it's called civil disobedience.

Every time I break the law and don't get caught, I have changed the law for myself.

If enough people break the law then there is nothing that can be done, and the law has been changed.

This has happened with drugs (ok so drugs have only been banned recently), it's happened with CSS, in the UK it happened with the poll tax and it's going to happen with digital copyright. If people have a chance at liberty they will take it. You can't arrest millions of people without having your government overturned.

On the other points.

Win 98/ME 'You pay through the nose for actual support'

Next gen applications don't have to support Windows 98 if there are no(few) windows 98 boxes out there. The cost of support is in development and release testing the products. not just direct support for the OS.

'Take your business as far away from money-grubbing people...',
Well you could setup a LETS (Local Exchange Trading Systems) scheme. and really screw the system.

Or do what I do and only download unsigned music from places like BeSonic (alternate distribution), I pay a small amount for the distribution service and make the odd donation to the musicians(artists paint last time I checked)

Saying "we'll just use open source software" ,

I would say he doesn't know what he's talking about, OSS is Open Source Software, it's not GPL, it's not free, you just get the source with the software.

I only use FOSS (free open source software), I've been completely Microsoft free for more than two years, and I've found/fixed some software and kernel bugs etc...

Shame it's wrong if you're not American ;)

Google to me ;)

Here it is: Found it on google groups

Curious isn't it?

If you do a Google search for "Vertical Helical Scan" then you will find a large number of hits. Agreed this is not the best way to confirm as a large number of people can be wrong, but some of those sites are US Military and Nasa.

The terminology does make sense to me at least.

Scan means that the head is moving as well as the tape, not fixed.
Helical means that the scan is helical on the tape, rather than transverse as in some early systems.
Vertical means that the head and tape axis orientation is vertical rather than horizontal, as would be the case in older reel to reel where the axis was horizontal so that large loops of tape could hang down and buffer the start and stop acceleration.

I've always suspected that "Vertical Helical Scan" was an internal engineering acronym to differentiate the system from thier earlier Helical Scan machines, and also to protect against Sony finding out that JVC were desperately trying to come up with a home video format to compete with Betamax. This rapidly became "Video Home System" when it was marketed - similar to the way Windows releases have internal names, and an 'offical' name when released, which is why you don't find it on the JVC site.

Either that or "Vertical Helical Scan" was coined by someone other than JVC very early on and its been with us since then.

I guess only someone from JVC can truly answer that one.

This is a very interesting timeline of VCR developement (and no it doesn't mention Vertical Helical Scan either), with the early JVC Helical Scan machines here.

Google is your friend

Here you go guys... the site is slashdotted but Google has a cache of the site:

Main site (looks old)
Project Proposal

Just trying to be helpful... if its already posted then dont mod me down.

Here you go guys... the site is slashdotted but Google has a cache of the site:

Main site (looks old)
Project Proposal

Just trying to be helpful... if its already posted then dont mod me down.

I've got around 300Gb of downloaded movies and TV shows (over 90% I already had on VHS tape: but my VCR is downstairs and my computer is in my bedroom) - but I haven't downloaded anything in a couple of weeks now as I just can't think of anything else I want/need. Ok, if you are one of those people that will watch "anything" then you might eat up a bit more storage - but I know what I like (comedy shows, bit of sci-fi) and that's mainly what I watch.
Ok - so the quality of some of the films could be a bit better - but I still reckon I could have more than enough viewing material for a year in 1Tb.
Oh - the quote about human memory storage in a petrabyte comes from Arthur C. Clarke's 3001 "'Shame on you! Kilo, mega, giga, tera... that's ten to the twelfth bytes. Then the petabyte - ten to the fifteenth - that's as far as I ever got.'...'That's about where we start. It's enough to record everything any person can experience during one lifetime.'"

It's interesting to compare the previous versions (linked below the main article here and here

I particularly liked: 1999:

Slow Server Response Times

"Slow response times are the worst offender against Web usability: in my survey of the original "top-ten" mistakes, major sites had a truly horrifying 84% violation score with respect to the response time rule."

Took me a couple of minutes for that to download

In 1996, we had Overly Long Download Times

The previous version are Cached by google,
http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=cache:pj5FFl38-pE C:www.useit.com/alertbox/9605.html+&hl=en&ie=UTF-8
http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=cache:tgqi1bumb78 C:www.useit.com/alertbox/990530.html+&hl=en&ie=UTF -8

It's interesting to compare the previous versions (linked below the main article here and here

I particularly liked: 1999:

Slow Server Response Times

"Slow response times are the worst offender against Web usability: in my survey of the original "top-ten" mistakes, major sites had a truly horrifying 84% violation score with respect to the response time rule."

Took me a couple of minutes for that to download

In 1996, we had Overly Long Download Times

The previous version are Cached by google,
http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=cache:pj5FFl38-pE C:www.useit.com/alertbox/9605.html+&hl=en&ie=UTF-8
http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=cache:tgqi1bumb78 C:www.useit.com/alertbox/990530.html+&hl=en&ie=UTF -8

Perhaps you`d like to explain why Sky, the market leader in the U.K. has never been cracked

Care to explain that one?

I have seen and handled all in one homebrew cards for the Analogue system that worked look here

I have seen and handled cards that connected to a laptop to do decryption on the digital system - to be fair not working at the time I saw it.

You can also make attempts at cloning smartcards if you feel you're l33t enough try Cardman for some hardware - but don't please ask him *how* to do it - he got burned by some of the flack around the ITV Digital pirating issues and is now sticking firmly to just supplying hobbists tools to stay well clear of the allegations. Spend some time looking if it interests you.

One of the problems in broadcast systems is the system is only as secure as the people that run it. As soon as a disgruntled tech leaks some info about the encryption used then you have a chance to brute force it. Self authenticating systems are only secure when they can 'phone home' otherwise tech savvy consumers pop the lid off and start sticking the logic probes around the EPROMS - maybe this is why the Sky Digiboxes have to be connected to a live phone line or they have a paddy?

Now issues that do concern me with Sky is that the various broadcasting regulations in the UK mean that any digital reciever should be able to display free to air broadcast. This is because the operators with a license to broadcast nationally are obliged to carry the national stations (BBC) that people have already paid for through thier TV license. This is via cable / terrestrial or sat. They are also required to provide support for other broadcasters decrypt cards - this is designed to prevent monopolies by one company flooding the market with 'free' STB's - the ON Digital boxes mostly had two slots for a reason.

But on Sky the 'free to air' channels are encrypted - you have to apply for the 'free to air' decrypt card. And this is on the very boundry of breaking the conditions. There is also no capability of taking an extra decrypt card, nor as in the old analogue system adding an external decoder.

Additionally if the Digibox does not receive a signal from one of the Astra (Sky's own) series of satellites for a while then it resets its memory.

Why is this done? Well the Digibox is 'free' - of course it actually isn't it costs around 300 UKP. Now Sky doesn't actually pay for the boxes, a company called OPEN does - and they run all the online side of Sky's operation and build the operating environment on the STBs. They rely on a certain number of the customers using the charged for services that the Digibox can provide to make thier money back.

Canny independant dealers realised you could get the 'free' Digibox, hook it up to a good positioning dish and one cheap free to air system to go!

Hence the need to apply to Sky for the 'free' card and the reason for the memory wipe - not so long ago they closed down a company that sold an offboard backup system for thier Digiboxes because as well as great to save you the pain of reprograming after a power cut, it also bypassed thier 'wipe the memory' system.

This is what a major broadcasting company is doing in the UK - a country where we are used to free quality programming, and have a culture of regulation that tries (most of the time) to keep things fair.

I'd be very concerned over in the USA that your broadcasters don't just ram control into your front rooms.

I was intrigued so googled for some info. Two good reports of the Hindenburg I found here: www.hindenburg.net(google cache)
www.thirdreichforum.com(full accident report)

Both these suggest the length of the Hindeburgh (apparently a development of the Zeppelin type) was 804 feet, and cruised at around 1000 feet - although it appears to be able to fly at a few thousand to avoid weather systems.

Now using 2 * pi * r to calculate the circumfrence of a circle with the radius as the altitude, and then divide by the length of the airframe, we can deduce that the arc of the length on the airship is:

2 * pi * 1000 = 6283
(804 / 6283) * 360 = 46 degrees

So turning that into a more accessable figure that would be the same as 72 metre long object at a range of 100 metres - definately visable!!
[ sin 46 * 100 = 72 ]

Even if the bombers fly at 17000 feet the figures still suggest it would be potentailly visable:
2 * pi * 17000 = 106814
(804 / 106814) * 360 = 2.7 degrees
sin 2.7 * 100 = 4.7

So same as a 5 metre object at a range of 100m. That would still be visable to careful observation, although use of a disruption colour scheme would help it evade detection. Certainly not invisible.

For these Statolites, the figures would be:
18 metres is approx 60 feet
2 * pi * 18000 = 113097
(60 / 113097) * 360 = 5.3e-4 degrees
sin 5.3e-4 * 100 = 9.25e-4

Thats equivalent to an object of 1mm length at 100m - invisible to all intents and purposes.

Dr. Peter Jakab, a curator at the Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum in Washington D.C., doesn't deny that Pearse got off the ground. "But what he flew was essentially a powered glider flying into a ravine. So it wasn't a true powered flight. He's just one of many pre-Wright claimants."

This looks like revisionist History to me and searching around uncovered this :

"Neither the Smithsonian Institution or its successors, nor any museum or other agency, bureau or facilities administered for the United States of America by the Smithsonian Institution or its successors shall publish or permit to be displayed a statement or label in connection with or in respect of any aircraft model or design of earlier date than the Wright Aeroplane of 1903, claiming in effect that such aircraft was capable of carrying a man under its own power in controlled flight."

http://chrisbrady.itgo.com/pearse/smithsonian.ht m

Add the fact George Carley's first flight predated the Wright Brothers by a hundred years.

Mind you, when people leave their desktops logged in at the office, I sometimes set their Google Language Prefernces to Klingon (ja'chuqmeH Usenet ghommeyvaD yInej 'ej yIlegh.) or "Elmer Fudd" (De web owganized by topic into categowies)

I don't know if this was already pointed out, but the author seems to be slightly unifomed about the properties of a vacuum. Since NASA has stated it would take 10-20 years at THEIR current level of funding to put a man on the moon again (let alone colonise), I wonder how the lifeboat will be ready in less than 18 years.

Ah well, the quote from the lifeboat FAQ (main, not supplimentary) shows what I am talking about (emphasis mine).

Why not hide in a deep sea colony?

This would have all the disadvantages of a bunker/cave.

Also, the one single atmosphere of pressure in outer space seems inconsequential compared to the hundreds of atmospheres of pressure under the sea.

The predictions of Eric sound similar to another organisation... your favourite door-to-door salespeople. (And the History of the end of the world). Found on Google.

In 1995, there were 2148 tankers which transited the Straits ofMalacca and Singapore. Their breakdown by destination is as follows: 969 for Japan, 341South Korea, 388 Singapore, 124 Taiwan, 4 Hong Kong, 77 Thailand, 26 Indonesia, 37 China,Liberia 8 and 7 Malaysia. Except for Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore and Japan, the rest has notcontributed a single cent for expenses in the Straits of Malacca and Singapore

Read some of these mailing list posts for more information about Robert X. Cringely's article on passive repeaters...

Nintendo is hit with a $30 million settlement by the Federal Trade Commission on the claim of price fixing. NES owners received a $5 coupon in the mail from Nintendo.

From the Google cache here.

Google caught up.

They use the same database. Watch this:

Japan
France
Northern Ireland Occupation Force

There's no real benefit searching multiple Google sites, they all point to the same database.

The top news link at google news is this slashdot article.

Google News: "Microsoft Buys Rare - Slashdot - 11 minutes ago"

Slashdot: "Google News has a nice collection of links to articles regarding the announcement."

Google News: "Microsoft Buys Rare - Slashdot - 11 minutes ago"

Slashdot: "Google News has a nice collection of links to articles regarding the announcement."

Google News: "Microsoft Buys Rare - Slashdot - 11 minutes ago"

Wash, Rinse, Repeat.

Google News: "Microsoft Buys Rare - Slashdot - 11 minutes ago"

Slashdot: "Google News has a nice collection of links to articles regarding the announcement."

Google News: "Microsoft Buys Rare - Slashdot - 11 minutes ago"

Slashdot: "Google News has a nice collection of links to articles regarding the announcement."

Google News: "Microsoft Buys Rare - Slashdot - 11 minutes ago"

Wash, Rinse, Repeat.

Google News: "Microsoft Buys Rare - Slashdot - 11 minutes ago"

Slashdot: "Google News has a nice collection of links to articles regarding the announcement."

Google News: "Microsoft Buys Rare - Slashdot - 11 minutes ago"

Slashdot: "Google News has a nice collection of links to articles regarding the announcement."

Google News: "Microsoft Buys Rare - Slashdot - 11 minutes ago"

Wash, Rinse, Repeat.

here

When there's mindless stuff like this been going on for over 10 years... well....

who knows?

I am sure that, if the idea catches on, we will soon have national/regional Google News pages, same as they do with the search engine.

For example, if you go to www.google.cl (Google Chile), you might restrict your searches to pages in Spanish / Chilean pages / the entire web.

Sadly, www.google.co.uk does only provide two options: you can either a) search the web or b) search UK pages. A bit unfair, isn't it?

Wow, I've really got some hackles up with this one - and I wasn't trolling either. I really enjoyed working with btrieve, esp. hacking extended operations into an object-oriented wrapper. I've heard that btrieve always was most at home running on Netware, and I do know that a number of shrinkwrapped products used standalone btrieve, which was prone to problems. I'm not saying that it was all roses either, as a quick search will show.

Cool app. It's fairly obvious why it doesn't generate pr0n tho -

It finds the images by feeding random words into various search engines, and pulling images (or sections of images) out of the pages returned.

The 'random' words are presumably sourced from a list that doesn't include 'lesbian', 'teenage', or 'pussy'. So it's not exactly a representational sample of the pics that are out there.
Hardly a representational assessment of the frequency of those words on the net either... Anyone want to get the source and generate some real art?

Cool app. It's fairly obvious why it doesn't generate pr0n tho -

It finds the images by feeding random words into various search engines, and pulling images (or sections of images) out of the pages returned.

The 'random' words are presumably sourced from a list that doesn't include 'lesbian', 'teenage', or 'pussy'. So it's not exactly a representational sample of the pics that are out there.
Hardly a representational assessment of the frequency of those words on the net either... Anyone want to get the source and generate some real art?

Cool app. It's fairly obvious why it doesn't generate pr0n tho -

It finds the images by feeding random words into various search engines, and pulling images (or sections of images) out of the pages returned.

The 'random' words are presumably sourced from a list that doesn't include 'lesbian', 'teenage', or 'pussy'. So it's not exactly a representational sample of the pics that are out there.
Hardly a representational assessment of the frequency of those words on the net either... Anyone want to get the source and generate some real art?