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enjoy! its all in good dun... nay nay baby

Avaoid stupid registration go to Google then click the link under "If the URL is valid, try visiting that web page by clicking on the following link:"

Interesting, unrelated side note prompted by your sig - Although www.sco.com is not at the top of the search results for litigious bastards, it's interesting to note that Caldera is!

...and if you actually used the links people have already been providing you instead of just scorning them for one reason or another, I'd bother posting some of my own. There are pages which even go to the trouble of listing Microsoft's assorted forms of roadkill, right up there alongside the long lists of illegal acts. But you can find them yourself.

BTW, Bill did do one thing which was genuinely altrusitic until he noticed it was: paid to have Verdana and friends designed and then made them freely downloadable. BoC, when it was noticed that non-Windows users were downloading them as well... oops.

...and if you actually used the links people have already been providing you instead of just scorning them for one reason or another, I'd bother posting some of my own. There are pages which even go to the trouble of listing Microsoft's assorted forms of roadkill, right up there alongside the long lists of illegal acts. But you can find them yourself.

BTW, Bill did do one thing which was genuinely altrusitic until he noticed it was: paid to have Verdana and friends designed and then made them freely downloadable. BoC, when it was noticed that non-Windows users were downloading them as well... oops.

...and if you actually used the links people have already been providing you instead of just scorning them for one reason or another, I'd bother posting some of my own. There are pages which even go to the trouble of listing Microsoft's assorted forms of roadkill, right up there alongside the long lists of illegal acts. But you can find them yourself.

BTW, Bill did do one thing which was genuinely altrusitic until he noticed it was: paid to have Verdana and friends designed and then made them freely downloadable. BoC, when it was noticed that non-Windows users were downloading them as well... oops.

...and if you actually used the links people have already been providing you instead of just scorning them for one reason or another, I'd bother posting some of my own. There are pages which even go to the trouble of listing Microsoft's assorted forms of roadkill, right up there alongside the long lists of illegal acts. But you can find them yourself.

BTW, Bill did do one thing which was genuinely altrusitic until he noticed it was: paid to have Verdana and friends designed and then made them freely downloadable. BoC, when it was noticed that non-Windows users were downloading them as well... oops.

After a bit of a google found a great page on all time stupid cars

Australia has had it's fair share of lemons like the Holden Camira, Leyland P76 (which at the time, both won Car of the Year)

After a bit of a google found a great page on all time stupid cars

Australia has had it's fair share of lemons like the Holden Camira, Leyland P76 (which at the time, both won Car of the Year)

Synroc is a method to make an mineral that locks the radioactive elements inside its strucure. The crystal lattice inside a mineral *can* be sensitive to radioactive decay, with the lattice being broken or mutated, allowing the radioactive elements to escape. By looking at very old and naturally occurring minerals it is very easy to determine if the mineral has indeed been damaged. Also, by looking at ratios of radioactive byproducts you can determine if any have escaped. So... using these techniques you can say with certainty: "hmmmm, this natural hollandite has been around for 1000 million years and is completely intact and has contained all radioactive elements inside its crystal structure for this time period. All I need to do is make a synthetic hollandite that is identical to the natural one and lock inside my radioactive waste." Can we make synthetic minerals that are as "good" as the natural ones? Well, yes! Petrologists all around the world do so everyday.

Any byproduct of a nuclear reaction, what you would call "waste" can be *safely* and *permanently* (100 million years) stored in Synroc.

Bury it in a geologically stable part of the world, Australia is perfect, and you've solved the Nuclear "waste" problem.

Why don't we do this at the moment?

1) Cost, it will cost more.

2) "Not in my backyard!" - Ignorant voters and scared politicians. No government would have a hope in hell of getting their populace to approve this, no matter how safe it actually is.

I read this in the google newsgroup archive and I did so fast enough that I thoght it said Classic(Like the OS X OS 9 emulation environment).

Which is funny.

Here's a link to a google newsgroups search for all the mentions of Macintosh up until January 24 1984. It's all the same rumormongering that goes on before Apple's releases today, just shifted a fifth of a century back.

Some things don't change :)

Underscores aren't allowed in domain names.

I thought it was a vast right wing conspiracy when my ISP wouldn't allow access through their proxy, and Google wouldn't list (despite my attempts to bring their attention to it.) my Website http://pretzel_lib_front.tripod.com.

It took a while, but now my isp has no problem with underscores, and neither does it seem, Google.

• laugh
• cry
• run for my life

Click on the top search result. Link text is: This Car Can Talk. What It Says May Cause Concern."

So does Taco Bell owe me a freebie now?

The Qube 3 and RaQ 550 Source code was released to the Cobalt Users Group of Japan under a BSD-link license.

Since their server is down, this is the google cache

Did you know that Cobalt has the biggest market share of on-line Linux servers after Redhat?

No. Remember this is Australia. All they would get is a 3 gig cap.

"that's just it...there IS no other side of the story as far as The Media is concerned. If there was, they would report it."

I'm really sorry you've been so let down by your society, but I have some news for you, and it's not all good.

The media are beholdent to their advertisers. Ignore what the money men say and you go broke. No matter how many ethics a media outlet has, they're still there soley to make money and biting the hand that feeds just doesn't work

Do you suppose the media would have kicked up a fuss at any time in the past thirty years if they found out that Bush's grandfather was Hitler's banker? They havn't mentioned it.

How about if the current administration, before they were "elected" in 2000, published their plan to militarise the new century to make sure US financial interests were protected. They spoke of Iran, Iraq and North Korea as problems because they wanted to dominate in their own regions. They also said that the change they were after would be a slow one unless some kind of "Perl Harbour" event galvanised everyone.

I also noticed how no one in the media was able to connect the events immediately post 9-11 with the spookily similar Operation Northwoods plan that was rejected by Kennedy.

Once again - my condolences.

Nice try, except you're forgetting one small thing:

Anywhere you pay for bits consumed (eg ISP with a 'cap' and per-bit charges after) means that You're getting screwed twice and NO LUBE.

Anyhow, right now I purchase a permanent license (well, as long as the physical medium lasts) when I buy a CD. Now account for that across the life of the medium. You'd need to make it something like $1/month for unlimited music downloads, at full-CD quality (eg lossless encoding), and no restrictions on what physical medium I can transfer it to for playback, for it to be equivalent value.

Remember, you're currently selling me X of value, so don't go thinking you can screw me for X-Y at the same price.

And any suggestion that includes Sure, but you need XYZ new media player for SECURE playback is ONLY valid if it includes which we'll give you for free (or almost) as a crossgrade from your existing.

I've already bought one expensive MP3 player, why do I want to pay you hand-over-fist for poor quality (bitrate wise) music, which I then need to buy new expensive hardware for.

This is a Commercial Transaction People! If you want more money from me, then you need to give me more value.

Fucking me with a piece of barbed wire, and then promising to stop if I pay you LotsOfCash is Just Not Acceptable.

And one more thing that people forget when it comes to Digital Content Downloads.
DRM is all nice and good, except that there's no 'standards' involved. At any point in time they could change their content formats and revoke your licenses (of course, they'd stop billing you), and suddenly ALL your music is no longer valid. You'd need to buy new hardware, and pay LARGER license fees, to continue hearing music. What will you do? Stop listening to music altogether, forever? or pay their new higher fees?

It's called Bait and Switch .

The Chinese Government are filth-

Boycott Made In China

Google Search

"To secure peace is to prepare for war."
It's also been said...
"Fighting for peace, it's like fucking for virginity!"

The Google link

check out http://www-users.cs.york.ac.uk/~alistair/research/ dphil/jckh/altcomm.html Other whistle languages include articulation so that consonants interrupt the flow of the whistle. The people from Aas in the Pyrenees speak a Spanish-derived dialect which used to be adapted into a whistle language in a similar way to the Silbo Gomera whistle language used by shepherds high up in the mountains in the Canary Island of La Gomera (Classe 1957). Both languages share common traits: the Spanish linguistic framework, the method of whistling, the similar form of signals and the functional purpose of the signalling. http://www.google.com.au/search?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&oe= UTF-8&q=%2Bwhistling+%2Blanguage&btnG=Google+Searc h&meta=

Is this too complicated?

Google's HTML transcript

Space.com, Spacedaily.com, and some more from Google.

Very nice.

I've seen similar displays called Radial, Space-Filling (RSF) visualizations.

A paper was presented at InfoVis2002 on InterRings (PDF) that might be of interest.

Regards,
Chris.

Beaker from the muppets ;-)

Beaker

for those who haven't RTFA:

E-Talk Communications, trading as Comcen Internet Services, found itself in Federal Court in front of Justice Brian Tamberlin in Sydney, charged with making money from the provision of copyright-infringing music files. This is the first time the music industry has accused an ISP of being directly involved in piracy by allowing its infrastructure to be used for file-trading activities, according to Michael Speck, the manager of Music Industry Piracy Investigations (MIPI), who led the industry's investigation.

Read the rest online.

Miami Herald's Dave Barry (now of 'don't-call-us-we're-telemarketers' fame) has written a column on Lord of the Rings II ... which he thought was slightly too long and complicated and therefore wrote a simplified screenplay for (cached here).

According to Bennito Musolini, "Fascism should more properly be called corporatism, since it is the merger of state and corporate power"

Now have a quick squiz at the 14 Defining Characteristics of Fascist Regimes

1. Powerful and continuing expressions of nationalism.

2. Disdain for the importance of human rights.

3. Identification of enemies/scapegoats as a unifying cause.

4. The supremacy of the military/avid militarism.

5. Rampant sexism.

6. A controlled mass media.

7. Obsession with national security.

8. Religion and ruling elite tied together.

9. Power of corporations protected.

10. Power of labor suppressed or eliminated.

11. Disdain and suppression of intellectuals and the arts.

12. Obsession with crime and punishment.

13. Rampant cronyism and corruption.

14. Fraudulent elections.

You figure it out.

No doubt they'll see a spike in their referrer logs from people Googling for 'hl2 source code'.

google cache

"Police have confirmed they are searching for the culprits - but are unable to shed any light on the meaning of 'The Famicom'"

Surely they can manage to type something into a search engine?

This Google search pulls up over 200,000 results!

Wow, unexpected good news. I was burnt badly by the Telstra 2 share offer and I was about to give up hope of Telstra returning to its clueful roots.

I still haven't forgiven them for download capping their ADSL...

What gets me is that Google isn't listing the URLs for other languages or countries.

I know that there is nothing to stop people in the US from using foreign google searches but must the rest of the world be subjected to bad US laws?...

The parent page has links to a fair few interesting snippets of information on food, most of which y'all cola-guzzling caffeine-addicted drunkards don't want to know. (-:

Take the Google shortcut and read about:

• Alcholo and Coronary Heart Disease
  
• How to spot Alcohol abuse, depression and potential suicides
  
• The controversy over labelling wine as "healthy"
  
• How mortality [death rates] from all causes increases with alcohol consumption
  
• How to use Lecithin to moderate liver damage from alcohol
  
• and so on...

In my plan, users who would be blocked would have the opportunity to sign a contract, legally binding, that they wouldn't spam. Thus, if they failed to abide by the rules of that contract, they could be sued for many dollars.

IANAL. However. I very much doubt, in the US at least, that you'd be able to collect enough money even to make the lawsuit worthwhile. Sign a contract promising to hand over a million dollars to $PERSON if you break your promise and do a spam run, then you do break the promise - well, I think the defendant in such a suit would have a very good chance of claiming that the contract was unfair and they were compelled to sign it and the amount was grossly disproportionate to the seriousness of the contract breakage.

And, more to the point, no spammer is a millionaire. Even the richest of spammers could never afford to pay such a fine, and would simply hide his money and declare bankruptcy the second he was forced to pay (in the extremely unlikely case a court upheld the full amount of the contract violation payment clause).

But regardless of this money and payment stuff, the issue is not whether the user spams or not. The issue is whether the user is going to keep paying $BAD_ISP for his/her (extremely poor) mailserver connectivity. If he/she decides to change ISPs, then SPEWS is happy, everyone is happy - except $BAD_ISP, who has lost one of their human shields. Not that $BAD_ISP is really concerned though, they know their attractive high-speed and low-cost (ie. spam-subsidised) links will drag in more suckers soon.

If he/she decides to stay with the abusive ISP who's ripping him/her off with inferior connectivity, then SPEWS is not unhappy or happy. SPEWS really doesn't give a damn - the problem is pretty much solved from their point of view. They'd prefer $BAD_ISP to either kick the spammers out or go out of business, but even if that doesn't happen then at least $BAD_ISP is no longer a problem for the part of the 'net using SPEWS.

Regarding the effectiveness of SPEWS, of course it's not perfect. But it's certainly good enough, and in most cases it's quite a bit more effective than the alternatives. I personally use a combination of several RBLs as well as SpamAssassin on my personal mailserver(s), but my personal email intake is only three to five hundred a day, max. Even then, when I suck a big number of mails from external to internal mailserver (via fetchmail), the internal mailserver machine fires up SpamAssassin for every message.... and it really hits the machine (a Duron 750) hard. A real mailserver for a real ISP would be hit that hard continuously, all the time. Running SpamAssassin on the server would impact performance quite badly - but if you don't run SpamAssassin on the server and you don't use blocklists, then you don't really have any choice but to buy a lot of extra storage space for all that spam, perhaps upgrade your link to deal with the extra bandwidth load, and let all your technophobic users do their own spam-filtering.

Basically I'm just trying to say that you shouldn't get too obssessed with filtering as an alternative to blocklists. They're very effective as a last line of defense, but they shouldn't be the only line of defense. An appropriate selection of blocklists is the perfect front line of defense - you cut out the maximum amount of spam for the lowest cost.

Regarding the last "hypothetical" situation you mention - well, it's not really hypothetical. Joe-jobs are real and have happened and continue to happen. They're mostly trivial and very easily detected, though I believe in the past some have caused organisations to be wrongly listed on blacklists.

If I was adminning a company faced with a serious joe-job, I'd probably deal with it much the same way I'd face any other kind of

It's not called FreeNet, it's called frottle. The name happens to be derived from the word FreeNet but we don't refer to it as anything but frottle.

Try Googling for frottle some time. no confusion there!

Gee whiz, you're a raving spastic.

I have a degree in computer science. The day you will get a college degree, or at least some formal qualification, you won't need to go around saying: I am a "Java programmer".

Right, and the day you get around to pulling your head out of your own ass - or at least do something to stop you talking so much shit all the time - you won't need to go around pompously saying, "I have a degree in computer science."

Who are you that you can say what can be important in someone else situation?

Has it ever occurred to you that not everybody needs the speed? Anyway, it's you yourself who is trying to say what's important for everyone else.

Because of the startup time issues you can't use Java programs in shell scripts.

Think Bash, think Perl, think Python, think Ruby. You'd use any of the former before you'd think about using Java OR C++. At least, being a CS grad, I hope you would - unless you had good reason to do otherwise.

And just to be picky, it's only the larger Java applications that will noticibly kill your startup times (Tomcat springs to mind).

Because of the size and footprint issues, you can't do embedded with Java. Now you're probably going to say that embedded applications are not important ...

GOOGLE FFS

Did YOU read all those posts?

All from the first Google page, yes. I've only got one lifetime to spend. But I'll bet you didn't do anything like that up front, just looked at the hit tally and assumed yourself into a corner. (-:

Are you doubting that my box has been up for that long?

No, it happens occasionally (but if it bluescreens (or whatever colour) tonight, I'll laugh myself to tears), I have a mate with a MS-Windows 2003 server (I borrow it via rdesktop to test MS-Windows stuff) which has been up continuously for about 5 months, and another who only has to reboot his very busy w2k server about every 2-3 months.

But it doesn't happen to "everybody". It's normal for MS-Windows to crash (or screw up weirdly), even XP, even on good hardware; but noteworthy - often hinting at a hardware problem - when Linux crashes.

My own box, despite being an experimental animal with a cheap motherboard, goes down only for power failures and hardware changes (for example, I borrow the CD burner a lot for other machines, some of which don't have USB else I'd get a caddy for it). I walk away from open, unsaved document sometimes for the better part of a week, and no worries about whether it'll be there when I get back.

The (Billion BIPAC 711CE) DSL modem locks up more often than all of the Linux boxes in this house combined. My wife's box has a dodgy motherboard and croaks about every two months, she also visits lots of websites with dodgy JavaScript etc and has to wait for the "verynice" daemon to unscrew her browser perhaps once a day. My 13yo daughter's Linux machine has never died of its own accord, but she locks up her old Mac (OS 8) about every month.

Damn Google!
I cut'n'pasted the "And X related stories link...", and when it fell off the front of google, the link is no longer valid.
However , a news search for ecommerce patent works just as well.

I do recall that 80 billion was allocated in the budget for this particular Iraq war.

A google search confims this.

Whether they've spent it all yet is a bit of a mystery.

Although actually, Google's choice for the answer to The Last Question might still need a bit of work

I can't even get gnome to work properly with my new intel motherboard with the sound and graphics all combined and sharing memory. Naturally intel doesn't want to admit that anyone would run anything but windoze on their system. Bleck. And I had trouble persuading the machine to cough up its personal details even with win installed (as well as Freebsd). Freebsd is quite happy, it's just the GUI layers that won't speak to me.

I would love a "default" install that just runs, offers me choices that are available instead of expecting me to know how the intel board understands itself (when intel won't tell me either). Then I'd like to be able to go back and tweak things later.

Knoppix: IQ test1: Find a page in english
Knoppix: IQ test2 (tech knowlege): Figure out how to fix the frame representation so that the page is not at 110% (ie no matter how much screen your browser takes up, you still have to scroll to see the last couple of words of every line).

And that's just their web page. Not very encouraging. I don't think either group (Knoppix or Debian) are very focussed on non-geeks. Perhaps if they imagined that undirected computers were going to use their operating system. Ie build an interface a moron could use.

Missing FAQ:
What's the difference between Knoppix KDE and Gnome?

How do I know I'm getting an english language gui install cd image (and not german)?

refs
google Knoppix
First result German
second result page overwidth
at last, just right, sort of

It wouldn't be this Gareth Powell would it? :)

Well, they punched a hole right through Apple Telecommunications here in Australia. ( Google cache link - original article has long since gone... ) They asked them ( not sure how much they got ) to change their name and fork over $100,000 "compensation" and their legal costs.

I think their claim of them being in the same industry was extremely weak. I love Apple equipment, but sometimes it seems like the left hand ( design and development ) doesn't know what the right hand ( legal ) is doing.

Yours,
YLFI.

Check these out

We always use stubbie holders. Stubbies are single serve glass bottles, somewhat larger than your can-sized serve usually.
RM Williams Oilskin stubbie holder

Axeman's stubbie holder Note unlike the photo, the whole can fits snuggly inside the neoprene (think wetsuit rubber).

In the tropics they take keeping your beer cold seriously:
stubbie holders, sixpack holders, You can even stick whole wine bottles into some of these.

The hard plastic and polystyrene sort. Buy a boat to hold your beer?

By the way, if there's foam in that bra, you're probably getting less than you bargained on. Real women don't need or want padding. Although occasionally I'd bet they'd like hard shielding from octopi disguised as men.