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It's far easier to search for mp3s using this url : Google

So, how about this Google search query?

http://www.google.com.au/search?q=site%3Azshare.ne t+mp3

Google provides easy access to a lot of copyrighted material...

I don't think that the Linux filesystems require defragmentation though

We have a blanket keep left unless overtaking rule on all roads 80+ (km/h) down under and fuckers are always driving well below the speed limit in the passing lane here! In your case, however, the person behind you is obviously a total asshat.

Typical arrogant reply from the USA.

But I'm sure we've all seen these pictures

Well I seem to have missed the memo, because I will not purchase a computer case unless I can buy it in beige - period.

My case needs to be simple, cheap, quality and not look gaudy.

I have this little baby and it does all I need.
It's functional, well built - it has great features for the tray / drives / quickrelease stuff and yet it's now cheap because other coloured models are out.
http://images.google.com/images?q=antec+sx635&svnu m=10&hl=en&lr=&safe=off&sa=G&imgsz=small|medium|la rge|xlarge

Perhaps I'm boring but I don't want my stuff to look too fancy, practical, basic and MILDLY fancy plz.

Here's some examples of my opinions on things, perhaps we may find a lot of the /. crowd are similar or perhaps not - please don't let this spark a huge debate.
Nintendo Wii, sexy - but white? please don't be apple - black thanks
PS3, uglier and less practical than PS2 - Shiny was a dumb move but also not downright ghastly
Xbox 360, good god - I will not purchase this for my home theatre cabinet till it comes in black, period.
My k/b, basically same as my case for looks / practicality without flashing LED's and stuff
http://images.google.com.au/images?q=microsoft%20i nternet%20keyboard%20pro&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&s a=N&tab=wi (they make bad software, mostly good hardware)
My phone - Sony Ericsson T-630, simple - somewhat sexy and does all I need it to.
MP3 player, Ipod Nano BLACK - it PAINED me to purchase an apple product since I'm not an iproduct wanker, but it is v.practical for netcasts.
(http://www.gizmodo.com/gadgets/images/iProduct.gi f)
and my car - if I were to own one http://images.google.com/images?q=bmw%20m%20coupe& hl=en

Sadly, back on topic though - most people would be happy with a bright green / pink / blue / odd shaped device - just means people like me have to look harder to find something basic.

• They try to tell people in very specific terms how to think, including attempting to dictate choice of vocabulary. The latter is one of the elements of thought reform (read: mind control) as documented by Robert Jay Lifton and other psychologists. This is one area where the FSF shows signs of having begun to follow the pattern of a fairly conventional cult.
  
• They have zero tolerance for perspectives other than their own, and believe that they can and should force everyone else on the planet to conform to their dictates if they simply engage in enough belligerent activism. (Although that again is another customary element of cultism)
  
• Stallman is able to rely on his followers to enforce conformity with his dogma, both here and in other places. They bully people, shout them down, and attempt to perpetuate the hive mentality without Stallman himself needing to be directly involved. In this way, they do the less than pleasant work of advancing "the movement," forward, while Stallman himself gets to remain relatively blameless. (Wow, three for three on the cult checklist...and I hadn't even realised before I wrote this!)
  
• Bradley Kuhn has openly stated that a goal of the FSF is to deny software developers the right to use any license, FOSS or otherwise, other than the GPL. It thus follows that they also seek the erradication of the BSDs.
  

John Howard is a very accomplished politician. He's making "climate change" noises now purely to distance himself from the US election results. This is the man who claimed that the Boat People refugees were "throwing their children overboard" even though the military told his people that wasn't true within 24 hours after the alleged event. He continued to support the Children Overboard story for over a month, until after the Federal Election. See http://www.alp.org.au/features/lies.php for a breakdown of some of his side-stepping and double dealing. Or even better try http://www.google.com.au/search?q=john+howard+lies for a wider view.

John Howard has been using his absolute majority in both Houses to force all sorts of ideologically motivated laws through, regardless of how they may change Australian Culture. He seems to be intent on making us a new state of the USA. He is the person responsible for ensuring that the USA is not alone in its' Kyoto stance. He is responsible for a "Free Trade" agreement which is dismantling our fair-use provisions under copyright, is introducing DMCA legislation, is changing our patents office to be in line with the US model, is diluting our PBS (the Government sponsored sale of pharmaceuticals, all of which must happen before 2010, yet the USA is under no obligations under this agreement until 2022.

He is responsible for setting up concentration camps for refugees (more precisely, for illegal immigrants who are requesting refugee status). Most of these camps are in the back of beyond. There are children who have liven for most of their lives behind the razor wire, and there is a horrific incidence of mental illness associated with this detention in sub-human conditions.

Now that public opinion can be shown to be swinging against the US Republican approach to the Middle East and "The War on Terror" he's simply waving an extremely large, colourful and exciting flag (climate change acceptance) to distract people from his complete failure to interface with the Democrats. The news is now that the Democrats are going to demand a US inquiry into the AWB scandal (The AWB, run by Howard's mates, was busted paying hundreds of millions of dollars to Saddam Hussein to get around the trade sanctions, abusing the UN "Oil for Food" program).

I, along with many other informed Australians, do not believe there is any change of heart in Howard's new "Climate friendly" position. It's all just an attempt at distraction from the real issues.

http://www.google.com.au/search?q=define%3A+episte mological

You're welcome :)

"This is /. buddy, what you'll get is a bunch of reasons why its right or wrong from people that didn't read the article."

Yep, I skimed the article and found "the UN abolished the medieval warm period", if the submitter found the article "convincing" then it does not reflect well on his knowledge of the subject. My view is the guy has nothing new to add and is very pissed off about suggestions we should pay the full costs of an industrialised society.

Assuming the submitter really does want a detailed rebuttal on the climate (psudeo)science in the article he could try a seach for the word myth on RealClimate. If it has not already been debunked in that list then the world renowned climatoligists from the site (many of whom he is attacking), may have a look at it for him.

Having said that I would be very surprised to see something new, similar articles have appeared since the Stern report, and (surprisingly?), have also been debunked by the "mainstream media". Now this may be coincidence but I do belive Rupert has gone pale green.

BTW: Apart from the Melbourne Cup, the headlines today in Australia are telling us about the "the worst drought in 1000yrs". My only advise is to invest in solid gold "bling" and hunker down for the population implosion that is coming our way (Exhibit A: the plethora of "surviour" type TV shows).

"This is /. buddy, what you'll get is a bunch of reasons why its right or wrong from people that didn't read the article."

Yep, I skimed the article and found "the UN abolished the medieval warm period", if the submitter found the article "convincing" then it does not reflect well on his knowledge of the subject. My view is the guy has nothing new to add and is very pissed off about suggestions we should pay the full costs of an industrialised society.

Assuming the submitter really does want a detailed rebuttal on the climate (psudeo)science in the article he could try a seach for the word myth on RealClimate. If it has not already been debunked in that list then the world renowned climatoligists from the site (many of whom he is attacking), may have a look at it for him.

Having said that I would be very surprised to see something new, similar articles have appeared since the Stern report, and (surprisingly?), have also been debunked by the "mainstream media". Now this may be coincidence but I do belive Rupert has gone pale green.

BTW: Apart from the Melbourne Cup, the headlines today in Australia are telling us about the "the worst drought in 1000yrs". My only advise is to invest in solid gold "bling" and hunker down for the population implosion that is coming our way (Exhibit A: the plethora of "surviour" type TV shows).

• Pkgsrc/ports - package management that works. (unlike some systems for Linux which will remain nameless ;)) Ports also has some other great features such as the vulnerability database, which you can use to check installed packages for security holes.
  
• A core system which is developed in a centralised and generally more disciplined way, as opposed to Linux's more organic, chaotic modularity.
  
• A system developed by people who don't see the UNIX heritage as a liability, and who aren't afraid to let UNIX *be* UNIX, as opposed to desperately trying to turn it into a Windows clone.
  
• Free, open source UNIX, without the tyrannical, narcissistic scourge of Richard Stallman and his Red Army. (Praise be to God in the highest! ;))
  
• A system with a license (and culture, more importantly) that allows you to write your own extensions/improvements, fork it off, and then (wonder of wonders!) sell a completely closed source version if you wish! There's no hoarse, wild-eyed Trotskyite screaming about the supposed hell-spawned evil of daring to want to make money from your work. Vive la Capitalism, baby!
  

Its not like you cant find plans for a hydrogen bomb with a Google Search...

Yep, just because something is rare, expensive and slightly less dangerous than RDX/Nitroglycerin/PETN means that nobody would EVER fuck up when handling it. I'm sure that someone at PEPCON probably thought it might be funny to start a fire, or didn't quite realise how rare/expensive it was or was from a racial minority or something. The fact is that like any powerful oxidiser it will cause any burning fuel it comes into contact with to explode. Housefires happen, even if you don't want them to and this shit will turn a housefire into a detonation. If deliberately mixed with another fuel however this stuff could easily be used to blow whatever you want to hell many times over. Petrol is nothing compared to the danger of this stuff, petrol vaporises slowly and needs to have a precise ratio of air to do anything and even then the explosion is feeble. This stuff burns extremely hot and actually gives off more oxygen when it does so along with poisonous chlorine gas. It is very nasty stuff.

Damn straight. Look at these jokers.

Yeah, yeah, I know that 558 or so are referring to the Zune.

Damn straight. Look at these jokers.

Yeah, yeah, I know that 558 or so are referring to the Zune.

Would you argue that spammers are absolved of responsibility due to their clients? Whilst many might be pushing their own products, there are plenty that consider it part of an advertising initiative for clients. (Often portrayed as a part of a guerrilla marketing strategy - as seen here.) For every greedy client, there must be a litigious lawyer willing to take the case - they might not be solely to blame but they contribute to the problem.

Argh!

Sorry to double post, but I just searched the net and they've got the pictures back already!

http://images.google.com.au/images?svnum=10&hl=en& lr=&safe=off&q=uranal+probe&btnG=Search

http://groups.google.com.au/group/alt.games.micros oft.flight-sim/browse_frm/thread/7832a189f5627f9d/ ecacf8fc0fc5180b?lnk=arm&hl=en#ecacf8fc0fc5180b

I thought it was just another of my paranoid friends conspiracy theories but if you take a bit of time to look into it, you will see. Just google for http://www.google.com.au/search?q=cantarell+produc tion+down and see what I'm talking about. Those are mainstream reports, not Chicken Little nutjobs.

This tax oil scheme is another subtle effort to curve the problem without raisint too many eyebrows amongst the general population because many believe it would cause widespread panic. I know I hate the guy that told me about this because every time I see news like this I fear he might not be just some wacko doomsayer. So if I am a somewhat rational and mildly educated guy and hate the messenger, what would do the masses?

• The war on Irak was never properly explained. First it was WMD, then Saddass, then whatnot. Some say the truth is that the USA is fighting a resource war to secure one of the few oil reservoirs still worth something.
• The recent trends towards fascism within Amerika, Britain, France and some other developed countries seem to be in preparation to handle mass unrest in their populations. Why would they bother when everything seems so quiet? Apparently, because it won't be quiet for much longer; once the 'easy oil' runs out ther will *still* be oil around but it will be expensive to obtain and process and inflation might run rampant. Imagine having 15 or 20 dollar prices per gallon of gasoline, how would that affect the industry? Transport? Food production?
• The warnings against global warming and calls for carbon production are another related issue. Earth is in fact warming, but reducing pollution means less consumption of Oil and coal (which is not an endlessly renewable source either) and might push back the effects of the oil shortage long enough to develop alternatives.
• The call for development of alternative energy sources is getting stronger every year as more people realize that oil dependancy is unsustainable in a shorter term than previously believed.

RealClimate.org is an excellent source for busting the myths that appear with nauseating regularity in every climate related thread on slashdot.

RealClimate was started and is run by some of the best climate researchers on the planet, the study in TFA is by Hansen, yet another respected scientist that claims politicians have recently attempted to gag him.

The scientists predicted an ice age myth was made popular by a novel (ie: a work of fiction). A certain senator was so impressed with the novel that he intoduced the authour to a senate committee as an "expert on climate change" and asked him to advise them on the subject.

Speeds are definately a concern.

I have found aida32 to be an excellent windows based software with which to test the speed of the drives.

My current drives of 512Mb -> 2Gb all perform around 9Mb /sec max. 5mb /sec average which is quite acceptable.

Better yet, hook this technology hooked up to a heart rate monitor. This would be the biggest hit with the trendoids in japan, imagine a large red heart on your chest pulsing in time to your heartbeat - pretty lady walks by, sees your heartbeat increase..

Your running shoes could change colour depending on how far you have run or how fast you are running (similar to the nike/ipod technology) or your basketball shoes could turn bright orange if you have just jumped really high. The list is endless really, the marketing people should have a field day as long as the technology is not overpriced and can't be easily copied in china.

The next step is to write a dataset for solving simple word problems.

What! You haven't heard of the AMD Operton?

Google it

Sad that it seems to be a common mistake... (made 28,900 times apparently...)

It has been widely reported that David Beckham has had two BMW X5 vehicles stolen by professional thieves. Basically, they reached under the bonnet and plugged a laptop into the computer service interface port and told the computer to unlock the car. That's probably the same way they stole the vehicle in the OP story too.
As the technolgy gets better the thieves learn to circumvent it.

I don't understand why you thought about that... What the hell does it have to do with this article??

I thought perhaps for a moment I should have read the whole article, but after reading it just a moment ago and seeing what the "test drive" is, I'm still on-topic as far as I can see.

It's pretty simple really. Microsoft has been thinking about using micropayments for Microsoft Live and the XBox - lots of links on google with "microsoft micropayments" (minus the quotes) showing that they're thinking a lot about it.

Now lets say, purely for example, that you're running a software business that is well known for releasing software that is late, has more than it's share of bugs considering how much the company hypes it, and has a bad reputation in the IT industry for lapse security and frequently generating problems for your customers.

Ordinarily you'd expect that software company to go belly up rather quickly, but due to carefully drafted contracts and well-handled deals with hardware manufacturers, most of the market is using your software. They're bitching about it, but they're still using it.

What's a way of improving your image without actually losing anything? Give-aways would help, but you're already in trouble for monopoly actions, and give-aways would just get you into more trouble. Charge less for the software? Maybe, but the stockholders wouldn't like that.

This is where the micropayments come in, and this is where this $1.50 download/cd charge comes from.

Office 2007 isn't even a commercial release yet. It's Beta, and given that a lot of MS software is usually regarded as Beta quality when it hits the shelves, this must therefore be less than Beta, perhaps Alpha and a bit.

If you were running Microsoft, and you could get people to actually pay for unfinished software, people who actually suspect that it's going to be broken, imagine how much you could charge people who don't know anything about computers, who don't know how software works?

The "noobs" understand counting, and less money in their pocket is a bad thing, but what if they didn't see it as paying full price?

Windows XP Pro can be had for AU$200 off the shelf. Even if someone who doesn't understand computers sees that, and understands that they've got Windows on their new Dell machine, they think they've got a good deal.

They may only spend $36.00 over two years in monthly micropayments - dressed up as security care or some shit -, and they'll still think they got a good deal - it's not $200 right? It's still $36.00 though.

Let's say the person buys Windows for $49.95, because they already have a computer, and then pays the monthly micropayments for two years, they're paying $85.95. Not bad compared to full price, but what if they keep using XP for 4 years? $121.95.

What if both customers use XP for 4 years? $72.00 + 121.95 = $193.95

Now what would be a good estimated ratio of pre-built machines with Windows already on them to sealed copies of Windows that are sold each month? 3 pre-builts to 1 sealed copy? 4? I don't know, but I doubt that there's an equal ratio of pre-built machines to home builders and new updates bought from the shop.

If you can get people who know how you work to give you money, what's to stop you getting money off those who don't know?

"Yeah but, it's just a $1.50."

Paid by how many people?

"Your making a strawman argument! You have no idea what MS is doing. They're not testing micropayments."

Hey, I could be wrong, most probably am, but I tell you what, I certainly wouldn't pay to download or buy a CD of software from MS that's actually labeled as Beta. I've had enough experience with their products in the past to know not to touch anything that can't be patched with at least two major service packs when you install it.

While there have been some very erudite comments made in response to this article it seems to me you are all missing the major new concept the author proposes. Let me quote:

...but instead are likely to seem them in niece markets employed for solving a very limited set of special-purpose tasks.

Yes! Niece markets. A concept almost entirely unconceptualised before. And isn't that surprising? - surely people have looked for a place to buy and sell nieces before. Where to buy a nice niece? Where to offload a baker's niece (so irritating it seems like there's 13 of them). Step right down to Aunt Martha's Niece Market. "You'll love our nieces to pieces!"

Actually now I think about it - a niece market - a better example of a niche market you are not likely to seem.

The point of having a bipedal robot or android (with presumably also two limbs protruding from the upper torso and also hands, digits and opposable thumbs) is so that the robot can fill the role of a nineteenth century house matron, or act as a host and guide in a corporate building. These are roles that Japaneese robotic companies see being fulfilled by robots rather than low-paid workers or not at all, I think.

Seriously though, I think it has something to do with providing a "common ground" for the robot's masters more than anything. What would your mother rather have in her house (that is, if she wanted a robot at all!): a walking talking droid like C3P0 and Twiki, or a liveathan on caterpillar tracks like B9 or a dalek? Granted there are cute non-biped designs (astromech droids, say) just as there can be intimidating bipeds (T-800, Cylon, or Maximillian. — and I'm not entirely sure about Metal Mickey).

But I think a a bipedal, humanoid robot would facilitate user acceptance more than anything, as well as fitting in with the surrounds more easily from a technical and ergonomics standpoint.

If you're familiar with SQL server and it's method of creating backup files you can actually find quite a number of backup files just using Google. The files are documented in the Microsoft Tape Format guide showing the block magic numbers which can be quite useful.

Like this

Download, restore, maybe find something useful...

A quick Google search for "SRAID" shows only 1 out of the top 10 are related to computers and RAID. The other 9 appear to be some word in gaelic. The second page is worse. It also appears to stand for "SRA (Shop Replaceable) Assembly Isolation Diagnostic".

However, a Google search for "software RAID" shows almost 10 times as many results, the first several pages of which appear to be entirely about computers and RAID. There's a bunch of howto's as well as ads for RAID gear.

So it looks like "SRAID" is not a widely used acronym. Or if it is, people aren't using it on web pages, which would be odd for a computer-related term. I suggest you use "software RAID" in the future, to be clear about what you're talking about.

A quick Google search for "SRAID" shows only 1 out of the top 10 are related to computers and RAID. The other 9 appear to be some word in gaelic. The second page is worse. It also appears to stand for "SRA (Shop Replaceable) Assembly Isolation Diagnostic".

However, a Google search for "software RAID" shows almost 10 times as many results, the first several pages of which appear to be entirely about computers and RAID. There's a bunch of howto's as well as ads for RAID gear.

So it looks like "SRAID" is not a widely used acronym. Or if it is, people aren't using it on web pages, which would be odd for a computer-related term. I suggest you use "software RAID" in the future, to be clear about what you're talking about.

> Hennings opinions should be taken with a pinch of salt. While he co-authored the bet known book on CORBA, he has since left the CORBA arena following the merger of his own company with IONA, and is now pushing an alternative technology called ICE.

Correct--I decided to do something better than CORBA after slaving my guts out for seven years trying to make CORBA better, and largely getting nowhere. Eventually, I realized that there was only so much sh*t I could push uphill and decided to focus my efforts on something more productive.

> The concepts like the POA are too over engineered, but the underlying ideas of language neutrality, a simple interface definition language and a common wire protocol have not been bettered.

I beg to differ. The CORBA POA interface requires over 200 lines of IDL definitions when, in fact, I can provide all of the functionality of the POA, plus some extra, in just over 30 lines.

Yes, language neutrality is a good idea. No, CORBA IDL is *not* simple, not by a long shot. (Look at the last section of the Slice chapter in the Ice manual for some of the reasons.)

IIOP is a very poorly designed protocol that has more flaws than a dog has fleas. Among them a quite major one that prevents efficient implementation of notification services. (See the Ice manual for details.)

> One area where CORBA is particularily useful, is in event or notification based systems.

The CORBA event and notification service are interface nightmares, and cannot be efficiently implemented due to design flaws in IIOP. (See http://groups.google.com.au/group/comp.object.corb a/browse_frm/thread/6f47a3d21cd0d9dc/f597718937b8a 3f3?lnk=st&q=3eXDf.916%24k6.18007%40nasal.pacific. net.au&rnum=1&hl=en#f597718937b8a3f3).

> Most recently, I used CORBA to replace a SOAP based system. Compared to SOAP, the CORBA based system was faster, easier to work with and far more reliable.

I don't doubt that. It's very hard to beat the ineptitude of SOAP and WS. Now, if you had used Ice to do the same thing, you would probably have done it in half the time, with half the pain, and twice the performance :-)

Cheers,

Michi.

Nootropics (smart drugs) have been around for many many years. The original piracetam has been taken by friends daily for 20 years. The effects are they eem to think more, be more intelligent, have more motivation to study/research and digest more from what they do study. A good little FAQ is at http://www.erowid.org/smarts/piracetam/piracetam_f aq.shtml And for general info on nootropics, just google "nootropics". I.e http://www.google.com.au/search?q=nootropics&start =0&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozi lla:en-US:official

Australia's so-called opposition to French nuclear testing was simply the government caving in to overwhelming public condemnation. You'll note that other than a token opposition, it was 'business as usual' between the 2 countries. No talks of disarmament. No talks of trade bans, etc.

As for Australia's support for other country's nuclear programs ( UK and US in particular ), the same arguement goes there as well. If the Australian ruling class had anything against nuclear weapsons, they wouldn't let the US continue to threaten Iran and state that they 'refuse to take the nuclear option off the table'.

We could oppose the use of depleted uranium weapons. Instead, we actually ordered some DU ammunition. If you want more links on DU, try: here.

I know that you're after some proof that the Australian government actually states it's support for the use of nuclear weapons. But you must also see that this proof isn't going to jump out in the way that you want. You have to read between the lines. Our complete lack of criticism of anything nuclear not related to the Middle East speaks books about what's OK for 'our side'. The US has been put in the spotlight on a number of occasions for breaking the non-proliferation treaty by developing new nuclear weapons. But again, it was 'business as usual' between the 2 countries. This silence translates to a vigourous defense of the US's nuclear policy. It's unmistakable when you consider what's at stake - we are of course talking about WOMD. If anyone else were to develop them ... well ... we all know what happens to them. There is even talk of using nuclear weapons against Iran because they might be considering researching nuclear weapons. Compare the Australian reaction to these situations, and you have your proof.

The only problem with a statement like that is that it creates the meta-problem of "what is a legitimate business ?"

If the decision is based on some moral principle, then who's morals ?

If it's based on a legal principle, then please point to one. International Law, not domestic US law preferably.

For example, in most of the middle east, ads for Victoria's Secrets would be both moral and illegal. ergo - not "legitimate"
Why Should Google NOT serve Victoria's Secrets ads to the browsers in the middle east ?
http://www.google.com.au/search?hl=en&q=womens+und erwear+online

How about ads for prime beef in India ?

>Moving to Sydney would do it for me.

They really do want people to move to Sidney

On this network security job ad located in Sydney Austrilia it says: "Please Note: Only candidates with EU work authorization will be considered."

Besides, the only thing they'll be doing in the Australian office is marketing and advertising. Always the way.

I hope that people this election are not so stupid as to give up their freedoms to the sellout lamescream political party that has manipulated them for years. Each time I hear people bitch and moan that Gore should have won the election or that "Democrats" tried to appeal and recount their way to victory, I want to puke. IT MAKES NO DIFFERENCE which one should have, could have or had won, the results are the same. More government, higher taxes, more rules and fewer freedoms for the people. I want limited government, so that is why I vote for candidates of the Constituion and Libertarian parties. I hope people who read this are not stupid enough to throw their vote away on a Republicrat

You, the true patriots of America, the people who will stand and fight their own government to save the freedoms they have now and liberate the freedoms you had before PATRIOT, have until sometime between the start of July and the end of September 2008.

I predict, as I'm sure a few other people have done, that sometime between those dates, there will be another "terrorist attack" on United States soil.

I don't want this to happen, and I already weep for the people who will die in this event, but I believe that your government will, if not directly take part, at least allow this to happen.

Why?

Take a good long look at September 11, 2001. Take another good long look at the bombings in London on July 7, 2005.

I repeat, I don't want this to happen. I am filled with rage and sorrow right now at the people who presented the official reports on 9/11 and 7/7, and the people who used these and earlier governmental and departmental reports to justify such things as the PATRIOT act, extensive wire-tapping without judicial process, and the mistreatment of anyone deemed to be an "enemy combatant".

The thought even occurs to me that this next attack might happen in a "token" ally country, like Canada, or my home, Australia, set up to look like a Muslim or other religion-based attack from the "axis of evil".

Second prediction - Within hours of the attack, the FBI or Department of Homeland Security will have a prepared statement that says they know who performed the attacks and how. Within 48 hours, probably less, they will state that they have conclusive evidence to prove their earlier statement.

There will be no oversight on this evidence from a third, impartial party to verify and confirm the previous statements. Any actual evidence of the attacks will be removed as quickly as possible from the public eye "in the interests of preventing further panic and allowing the people to recover quickly and get on with their lives".

This clean up will remove the real evidence of what happened, just like what happened after September 11, and I presume happened very shortly after July 7. Two to three years later there will be a government sponsored report on what happened, and it will be as full of holes and ommissions as the official report on September 11 is.

More freedoms will be lost. In all likelyhood most of the changes will happen behind the scenes, nibbling away at what freedoms US citizens have now. There will be no grand gesture on the part of the government to look after and protect its people by removing mass amounts of rights and privileges. The grand gesture was the "terrorist attack", orchestrated by those capable of doing so in order to shake up and ready the people's minds to a gentle lessening of freedoms.

People in westernised countries are being terrorised every day, but it's not by foreigners. The terror is coming from inside their own heads, their imaginations, and the people putting the imagery in

I don't believe there to be any hard evidence that prisoners are mistreated at Guantanamo

You don't believe your own government? Well that is very understandable.

Normally I'm not a spelling Nazi, but "pubic healthcare" is too good to pass up... ;-)

Interestingly, not an uncommon typo. Or should that be a freudian slip of the fingers? Google reports about 504,000 for "pubic healthcare". Here's their first search result for example:

One of every six Missourians now receives pubic healthcare assistance paid for by the taxpayers of our state.

In the old days of newspaper typesetting, you'd suspect the compositors of having a bit of fun.

So many inaccuracies, it's hard to know where to start...

The word is MANSION

Actually, mansion is a totally different word, I suspect they really did mean "manse".

However, I'll admit to *almost* emailing the editor to correct it, the difference being, I decided to check my facts first...

Manse (noun): A large and imposing residence.

Mansion (noun): A large stately house, a manor house.

Given the description of the house and the person we generally believe Bill Gates to be, "large and imposing" works a little better than "stately" and the old-fashioned images generally associated with "a manor house" don't gel well with the lifestyle and tastes of a software billionaire.

The summary at this time uses the phrase "Bill Gates' manse." This is clearly a subversive attempt to evoke "goatse," a web site formerly located at goatse.cx which features explicit sexual acts involving goats.

Since we've cleared up the meaning of the word 'manse' and we can assume it was used deliberately, in so far as it is a valid choice, why is this an attempt to subvert the meaning of the article?

In fact, why would you believe that having the same two letters at the end of a word automatically links the two concepts in some way? How many other words ending in 'se' also make you think of goatse??

"sexual acts involving goats" ??? I think not...

Perhaps you should read this:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goatse.cx

Actually, save yourself some time and click this.

WARNING TO EVERYONE ELSE - DO NOT CLICK THAT LINK!

"Of course, those savings would be negated if they somehow hit something 'expensive'..."

They're testing this in the desert... to be precise: the south australian desert.

The only thing "expensive" that might cause some issues would be if they went really off target and hit Pine Gap - then the Yanks will want to invade. If they hit Adelade - "oops, my bad", no big loss.

*hides*

I live in Australia and I've had my current mobile phone (GSM) for over three years. It's a Nokia 2100. It too also has 'only' a monochrome screen, and can only do the most necessary of things such as receive and make calls and SMS. It doesn't do Bluetooth, it doesn't have a camera, it doesn't have WAP, it doesn't do the US GSM frequency and it doesn't fallback onto analog. It's a simple GSM phone. And that's the way I like it.

hmmm we have f=1/2mv^2 or 1/2 45.9g * 46000mph^2= 9.7 MJ
or (at 4.16MJ/KG of TNT) 5 pounds of TNT

Seems small...

hmmm we have f=1/2mv^2 or 1/2 45.9g * 46000mph^2= 9.7 MJ
or (at 4.16MJ/KG of TNT) 5 pounds of TNT

Seems small...

http://images.google.com.au/images?q=tiananmen doesn't get redirected however.

Are they trying to hide something from me perhaps? ;)

Nah, we'l just give him a swimming lesson in the Northern Territory. Much more effective.

Try looking into ways of calculating coefficient of drag

Or perhaps get a life instead of checking my spelling and grammer on slashdot.