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A comparison to make here is with Neill Blomkamp's pre District 9 work, the Tetra Vaal short.

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-6645931304419661379

You mean like motion based email?. Can't wait for someone to send me an offensive email so can reply by giving them the bird. ;)

Amateur. :)

But seriously, it is kind of weird to me that they didn't line up the lines dividing the lane, very much offends my OCD. Georgia, what a strange state you are.

You got to be kidding - it can only track 32 targets?

And it only does 4 lanes. They're gonna need to do a lot better than that if they want to sell any units in GA. This is where I drive:

http://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en&ie=UTF8&ll=33.905678,-84.475717&spn=0.001607,0.002838&t=h&z=19&vpsrc=6

Count 'em: 17 lanes. You haven't lived until you've seen a semi force his way across 9 (NINE!) lanes of heavy 75 mph traffic to make an exit.

check out moneydance, it isn't free, but neither is quicken.

I have also complained many times that all the help I find for linux deals with a GUI. My experience is that it is difficult to find quality directions dealing with the CLI.

Yes it is crabbing.. The level of functionality is actually really very good.
As to the lack of WiFi, here is a list of adaptors that will work http://linuxwireless.org/en/users/Devices/USB this list is not complete because their are only a few wifi to usb chips on the market so other adaptors will work as well.
Actually all of the USB wifi adaptors I have tired have worked but that is not a large test base.
Just for fun here are two that will work.

http://www.google.com/search?aq=f&gcx=c&ix=c2&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8&q=TEW-664UB#q=TEW-664UB&hl=en&prmd=imvns&source=lnms&tbm=shop&ei=rq6uTtj3A9PbggeSrNWZCg&sa=X&oi=mode_link&ct=mode&cd=6&ved=0CE4Q_AUoBQ&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.r_cp.,cf.osb&fp=c7f58bc4f869669a&biw=1433&bih=666

http://www.google.com/products/catalog?q=RNX-N2X&hl=en&prmd=imvns&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.r_cp.,cf.osb&biw=1433&bih=666&um=1&ie=UTF-8&tbm=shop&cid=9328323554417061627&sa=X&ei=fK6uTqGqOMyRgQfT4KimDA&ved=0CDMQ8wIwAA

Doing that search also should explain the lack of WiFi on the devices. Even value brands like TrendNet and Rosewill cost almost as much or more than the Pi does.
Finding a working USB adaptor is really just a google search away.
I doubt that this will run open office very well and Java support seems lacking so Eclipse.org and NetBeans are probably not options at this time.
But we are talking about $35 or so. That is less than a tank of gas, a console or PC video game, or most peoples bar tabs.
In a school lab or even in a lot of office settings these can be used as thin clients or even a replacement of a desktop.
For hackers this thing has a good amount of IO 16 bits of GPIO plus I2C and SPI. The The Arduino Uno is about the same price and offers A2Ds but lacks video out, audio, networking, mass storage, a full blown OS..... So for hacking projects this is also really a handy little device.
  If you are looking for a $35 PC well this is your best and probably your only choice.

Yes it is crabbing.. The level of functionality is actually really very good.
As to the lack of WiFi, here is a list of adaptors that will work http://linuxwireless.org/en/users/Devices/USB this list is not complete because their are only a few wifi to usb chips on the market so other adaptors will work as well.
Actually all of the USB wifi adaptors I have tired have worked but that is not a large test base.
Just for fun here are two that will work.

http://www.google.com/search?aq=f&gcx=c&ix=c2&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8&q=TEW-664UB#q=TEW-664UB&hl=en&prmd=imvns&source=lnms&tbm=shop&ei=rq6uTtj3A9PbggeSrNWZCg&sa=X&oi=mode_link&ct=mode&cd=6&ved=0CE4Q_AUoBQ&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.r_cp.,cf.osb&fp=c7f58bc4f869669a&biw=1433&bih=666

http://www.google.com/products/catalog?q=RNX-N2X&hl=en&prmd=imvns&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.r_cp.,cf.osb&biw=1433&bih=666&um=1&ie=UTF-8&tbm=shop&cid=9328323554417061627&sa=X&ei=fK6uTqGqOMyRgQfT4KimDA&ved=0CDMQ8wIwAA

Doing that search also should explain the lack of WiFi on the devices. Even value brands like TrendNet and Rosewill cost almost as much or more than the Pi does.
Finding a working USB adaptor is really just a google search away.
I doubt that this will run open office very well and Java support seems lacking so Eclipse.org and NetBeans are probably not options at this time.
But we are talking about $35 or so. That is less than a tank of gas, a console or PC video game, or most peoples bar tabs.
In a school lab or even in a lot of office settings these can be used as thin clients or even a replacement of a desktop.
For hackers this thing has a good amount of IO 16 bits of GPIO plus I2C and SPI. The The Arduino Uno is about the same price and offers A2Ds but lacks video out, audio, networking, mass storage, a full blown OS..... So for hacking projects this is also really a handy little device.
  If you are looking for a $35 PC well this is your best and probably your only choice.

http://www.google.com/search?q=wonderlic+personnel+test

I remembered this anecdote from the great book "Expert C Programming" by Peter Van der Linden. See the bottom of page 61, and page 62: google books.

The solution to this is to hold our elections with Range Voting instead of the current plurality voting. With Range Voting a hypothetical candidate that is just-like-Obama, except on marijuana legalization, would beat him. Knowing this, Obama would likely change his position to align with the majority of his supporters (and in this case, the majority of Americans.)

http://www.google.com/search?cx=w&sourceid=chrome&client=ubuntu&channel=cs&ie=UTF-8&q=microsoft+donate+Windows

Of those hits, this one seems to be more to the point than the rest I've looked at:
http://www.encludeit.org/node/2494

There is nothing that "MS could care less about" when it comes to computing. MS has engaged in one of the biggest social engineering experiments in history. They are actively engaged in conditioning children worldwide, to use Microsoft products.

So, yes, they would rather give away a copy of Windows, than to see that computer running Linux, Unix, Mac, or any other operating system. Teach them early, if possible, but teach them whenever possible, that Windows is the one and only operating system!

You haven't done anything, ever, @ all/whatsoever, & you see fit to give others guff who have? Please - people call others like you, this term: "Armchair Quarterback"...

"So you haven't actually done anything in 10 years" - by hakahaka (2485890) on Monday October 31, @04:06AM (#37892290)

First of all - Check the dates of some of what I put up... you don't read very well, do you? They're more recent than that... far more recent.

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"The only programs you have for show are some little freeware utilities that do exactly one thing." - by hakahaka (2485890) on Monday October 31, @04:06AM (#37892290)

Try 40-50 different things, & over 40 of them over time online... Plus, I haven't even shown you them all, only a tiny partial list of some "favs" of mine.

I've also done 30 "enterprise class" information systems, apps that help doctors diagnose eye conditions, & far more professionally as a coder too circa 1995-presently.

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"Writing such programs isn't especially hard or time-taking. I bet I did more complicated projects when I was 10 years old." - by hakahaka (2485890) on Monday October 31, @04:06AM (#37892290)

Ok, big talker - Again: Where are your programs you claim to have written then??

1.) Did they make books, magazines, newspapers??

2.) Did they make top rated technical trade show contests???

3.) Did they end up as commercially sold code????

(Mine have done "all of the above", & more than once... & that's only the stuff I have put out above, I have more...)

* Like I said before earlier & I know definitely wager I am correct on - I did all that (doubtless before you were out of diapers!)

APK

P.S.=> As far as my "not knowing anything about modern operating systems"?

"and know nothing about modern operating systems? How nice of you. " - by hakahaka (2485890) on Monday October 31, @04:06AM (#37892290)

I think you'd better look @ this (how to secure modern Windows NT-based Operating Systems - I've been doing THAT type of thing, since 1997 to present as well online, & it works (& is rated very, Very, VERY HIGHLY nearly everyplace online it is):

http://www.google.com/search?sclient=psy-ab&hl=en&site=&source=hp&q=%22HOW+TO+SECURE+Windows+2000%2FXP%22&btnG=Search

I wrote that, & it's bar-none, the best of its kind (regarding "modern operating systems").

It's used to "immunize" a Windows system, I effectively use the principles in "layered security" possibles!

http://www.bing.com/search?q=%22HOW+TO+SECURE+Windows+2000%2FXP%22&go=&form=QBRE

Bing shows the same as GOOGLE does, & I get the "top spots" in both search engines (without trying to "SEO" it either as many others do).

I.E./E.G.-> I have done so since 1997-1998 with the most viewed, highly rated guide online for Windows security there really is which came from the fact I also created the 1st guide for securing Windows, highly rated @ NEOWIN (as far back as 1998-2001) here:

http://www.neowin.net/news/apk-a-to-z-internet-speedup--security-text

& from as far back as 1997 -> http://web.archive.org/web/20020205091023/www.ntcompatible.com/article1.shtml which Neowin above picked up on & rated very highly.

That has evolved more currently, into the MOST viewed & highly rated one there is for years now since 2008 online

I think maybe we're overestimating damage to RH from CentOS. Red Hat doesn't really sell software (with exceptions of course), they sell service.

A good, free implementation gets people using a platform. Just like with SugarCRM. The clients with money (the people RH cares about) can then, and quite possibly will, end up using various RH products, support contracts and equipment that comes from suppliers with both.

I think they've had a good, long time to figure out how to best run their business... and it seems as though they've got a reasonably successful grasp on how to really contribute and make money.

http://www.google.com//finance?chdnp=1&chdd=1&chds=1&chdv=1&chvs=maximized&chdeh=0&chfdeh=0&chdet=1320041040820&chddm=493833&chls=IntervalBasedLine&q=NYSE:RHT&ntsp=0

As for the guy that submitted... if everyone has told the CIO you don't need support from Red Hat, and he's certain they won't need any additional RH products, then it's not going to kill 'em. I mean, I doubt they see themselves as an entity that deserves financial tribute. They're a business that sells things you may or may not need.

And who knows... perhaps it'll turn out later that you really do need Red Hat for something they sell, and then everyone can feel like dollars were paid for a proper business reason.

It's one thing to read about what the cartels are doing, and another thing altogether to see it. Prohibition must end, if for no other reason than to end this.

I've been reading the biblical creationist perspective on this since Feb 2011: Rapid tomcod ‘evolution by pollution’? Yeah, right and wrong.

This is not the kind of "evolution" needed to evolve lower-order organisms into higher-order ones. In fact, a better description for this particular case is "develution"

If you look close enough at any of these examples of evolution we keep hearing about, they're never the kind that molecules-to-man evolution requires.

Try again

I think that was the primary motivation for Google setting up their public DNS servers (8.8.8.8, 8.8.4.4).

http://code.google.com/speed/public-dns/

Right... kind of, the IT term is web developer and it encompasses a wide range of skills. Your analogy is total fail btw. Almost sounds like you look down on web developers and come from a networking background. So let me ask you this, when port 80 is passing traffic for your web server on your network and somebody passes a sql injection attack wtf do you? exactly, cry in your corner. So while clean user inputs (which have nothing to do with parameters btw but more with typecasting), are not everything there is to securing an application, it's quite essential I assure you.

Still, lmfao what is a web programmer indeed.

http://www.google.com/search?q=web+programmer

I believe you forgot to calculate your stove/fireplace efficiency, which will cause your calculations to significantly overstate the value of your firewood. Let's say you get 40% heating efficiency out of your hardwood.

Also, the CanSolair spec sheet conflicts with unit conversion. 10,000 BTU/hr is 2900 W. Their spec sheet lists 1200 – 2400 W, so let's use the 2400 W figure, though this was cited as being the noon-hour, highest output value. I am going to decline to calculate an integral for the total estimated daily output based on solar incidence angle, etc, and we will just use your 4 hr period.

Also, I am going to abjure the "rods per hogshead" Imperial units and calculate using SI units.

Firewood: 22 million BTU per cord * 3.5 cords * 40% = 32 GJ per season (Google Calculator is made of win)
CanSolair: 2400 W * 4 hours/day * 145 days = 5 GJ per season

5/32 is roughly 15%, so one might expect you to be able to shave off up to $150 per year. Again, these estimates likely favor the CanSolair by overstating the expected output (also, don't forget the electrical cost of running the blower for the CanSolair). Calculating the present value of that annuity is left as an exercise for the reader.

PS. Okay, I lied about not doing the calculus (couldn't resist). I calculated the value of a sawtooth integral (rather than a sineform), presuming 8 hours of sunlight per day and a triangular slope that started at 1200 W at dawn, peaked to 2400 W at noon, and then doubled that for the afternoon - dusk period. I have no idea if the CanSolair actually delivers 1200 W at dawn, but we are trying to give it the fairest possible shake here. The CanSolair delivered an additional ~50% in this flawed estimate vs. the one in the above calculations.

I believe you forgot to calculate your stove/fireplace efficiency, which will cause your calculations to significantly overstate the value of your firewood. Let's say you get 40% heating efficiency out of your hardwood.

Also, the CanSolair spec sheet conflicts with unit conversion. 10,000 BTU/hr is 2900 W. Their spec sheet lists 1200 – 2400 W, so let's use the 2400 W figure, though this was cited as being the noon-hour, highest output value. I am going to decline to calculate an integral for the total estimated daily output based on solar incidence angle, etc, and we will just use your 4 hr period.

Also, I am going to abjure the "rods per hogshead" Imperial units and calculate using SI units.

Firewood: 22 million BTU per cord * 3.5 cords * 40% = 32 GJ per season (Google Calculator is made of win)
CanSolair: 2400 W * 4 hours/day * 145 days = 5 GJ per season

5/32 is roughly 15%, so one might expect you to be able to shave off up to $150 per year. Again, these estimates likely favor the CanSolair by overstating the expected output (also, don't forget the electrical cost of running the blower for the CanSolair). Calculating the present value of that annuity is left as an exercise for the reader.

PS. Okay, I lied about not doing the calculus (couldn't resist). I calculated the value of a sawtooth integral (rather than a sineform), presuming 8 hours of sunlight per day and a triangular slope that started at 1200 W at dawn, peaked to 2400 W at noon, and then doubled that for the afternoon - dusk period. I have no idea if the CanSolair actually delivers 1200 W at dawn, but we are trying to give it the fairest possible shake here. The CanSolair delivered an additional ~50% in this flawed estimate vs. the one in the above calculations.

I believe you forgot to calculate your stove/fireplace efficiency, which will cause your calculations to significantly overstate the value of your firewood. Let's say you get 40% heating efficiency out of your hardwood.

Also, the CanSolair spec sheet conflicts with unit conversion. 10,000 BTU/hr is 2900 W. Their spec sheet lists 1200 – 2400 W, so let's use the 2400 W figure, though this was cited as being the noon-hour, highest output value. I am going to decline to calculate an integral for the total estimated daily output based on solar incidence angle, etc, and we will just use your 4 hr period.

Also, I am going to abjure the "rods per hogshead" Imperial units and calculate using SI units.

Firewood: 22 million BTU per cord * 3.5 cords * 40% = 32 GJ per season (Google Calculator is made of win)
CanSolair: 2400 W * 4 hours/day * 145 days = 5 GJ per season

5/32 is roughly 15%, so one might expect you to be able to shave off up to $150 per year. Again, these estimates likely favor the CanSolair by overstating the expected output (also, don't forget the electrical cost of running the blower for the CanSolair). Calculating the present value of that annuity is left as an exercise for the reader.

PS. Okay, I lied about not doing the calculus (couldn't resist). I calculated the value of a sawtooth integral (rather than a sineform), presuming 8 hours of sunlight per day and a triangular slope that started at 1200 W at dawn, peaked to 2400 W at noon, and then doubled that for the afternoon - dusk period. I have no idea if the CanSolair actually delivers 1200 W at dawn, but we are trying to give it the fairest possible shake here. The CanSolair delivered an additional ~50% in this flawed estimate vs. the one in the above calculations.

cool story, bro - but maybe it was submitted once and some faulty load balancer spread it out.

Side note: There is an entire domain directed at the difference between affect and effect; please educate yourself.

To respond to your comment: biological agents are extremely problematic. Aside from the obvious issues involved with targeting an herbicide (biological or other) at a specific plant, there are numerous environmental disasters that were caused explicitly by introducing a new species into an area as a biological control method. The National Invasive Species Information Center has information on a large number of critters imported to areas as a control for other pests which then took over and dramatically altered the biodiversity of the area. For a specific example, try a Google search for the Cane Toad, or look to the Wikipedia article for an idea of how quickly and badly things can go wrong. For example, the following excerpt from that article:

Around 150 cane toads were introduced to Oahu in Hawaii in 1932, and the population swelled to 105,517 after 17 months.

You see, the cane toad had plenty of food and no natural predators in its new environment, so in less than a year and a half it rapidly took over the entire region, expanding its population literally a thousandfold. This was an unexpected "side effect" of attempting to control a beetle infestation in the crops by importing the toads. Another unanticipated issue was the toads' defense mechanism:

The adult cane toad has enlarged parotoid glands behind the eyes, and other glands across their back. When the toads are threatened, their glands secrete a milky-white fluid known as bufotoxin. Components of bufotoxin are toxic to many animals; there have even been human deaths due to the consumption of cane toads.
Bufotenin, one of the chemicals excreted by the cane toad, is classified as a Class 1 drug under Australian law, alongside heroin and cannabis. It is thought that the effects of bufotenin are similar to that of mild poisoning; the stimulation, which includes mild hallucinations, lasts for less than an hour. As the cane toad excretes bufotenin in small amounts, and other toxins in relatively large quantities, toad licking could result in serious illness or death.

In other words, the damn things are extremely poisonous. The fact that one of the toxins they excrete induces hallucinations actually made the problem worse, as people would seek them out for a cheap thrill, and then end up in the hospital (or even the morgue) because they licked a toad to get high. Making the toxin a controlled substance didn't really help, and may have actually made the issue worse due to the Streisand Effect ("That's weird... why would they make it illegal to lick a toad? Oh, hey...")

In short, "biological agents" are generally considered to be a Bad Thing (tm).

http://www.google.com/chrome#eula

Chrome asks you before you can even download it, and it's OPT-IN, meaning it's disbled by default. Who mods this shit insightful? Stop giving the MS shill accounts karma to burn

https://groups.google.com/group/openmanufacturing/msg/93edc128d5cd0054

Essentially, whenever a system does not seem to obey the second law of thermodynamics, we just invent new science.

And here is another essay by me sent to Andrea Rossi on why cold fusion information be made freely available because of a paradigm shift in economics from scarcity towards abundance: http://peswiki.com/index.php/OS:Economic_Transformation

well, I suppose than when fision was "discovered", you would have also told us that it violates the second law?

Almost all money is created by borrowing, so borrowing definitely affects money supply (unless you are talking about the 5% or so of the money supply that is printed on paper or metal discs). Watch money as debt: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-2550156453790090544

If you pay off debt the money is gone. Cash, paper foldable money, makes up about 5% of the money supply. The rest is just numbers in a balance sheet. Banks create new money when they create loans, but they don't create the paper -- just a ledger entry. The problem is, the money the banks create must be paid back at interest but they don't also create the interest. As a result, the amount of money owed is always greater than the amount of money in existence, thus ensuring that someone somewhere won't be able to find the money to pay off debts.

It's so odd that the banks can make a profit on something they don't even have -- the money they loan is loaned into existence and then they get real money back as profit.

"Money as Debt" is a little hokey, but still interesting: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-2550156453790090544

Sorry, here is where you can watch it online, now, free:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dc3sKwwAaCU
or
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-2550156453790090544

He also released a followup video a few years later:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rCu3fpg83TY

Works fine with my Nokia S60 with Google Sync (which in fact uses the Exchange protocol). Never had to re-sync, even though my phone only connects once every two days or so, which means there are often multiple contacts on both ends to sync.

Nothing. But as other have mentioned, it is not really necessary. There are very few registered transmitters within 100 km: http://web.acma.gov.au/pls/radcom/site_proximity.nearby_sites_list?pMODE=DD&pLAT=-26.70417&pLONG=116.6589 More info can be found here: http://www.acma.gov.au/WEB/STANDARD..PC/pc=PC_100628 And transmission limits here: http://www.acma.gov.au/webwr/radcomm/frequency_planning/frequency_assignment/docs/ms32.pdf And my rough estimate of Australia's SKA site: http://maps.google.com/maps?q=26.67s,+116.7e&hl=en&sll=-33.718613,150.617295&sspn=0.012244,0.022724&vpsrc=0&t=w&z=8

The worst thing is that there's been a firefox extension on OS X to use the same Quartz backend to render PDFs inside the Firefox window. It worked from 3.x to 5. It apparently works on firefox 7/32bit, but is broken on x86_64. Updating the shim to work when Firefox is run as 64bit would not be difficult, but effort is being spent on reinventing the wheel.

They did not actually, they just wont sell them to you. That is unless you buy an hp computer bundle through best buy. http://www.google.com/m/url?ei=LWqrTvi6CZOMlgfMbA&q=http://www.slashgear.com/best-buy-offers-new-hp-touchpad-bundle-deal-28191812/&ved=0CCMQqQIwAw&usg=AFQjCNEJfEDLbDNEDHTspYRHuXTN1ylM9Q

I have been working on a racing timing system for RC; https://picasaweb.google.com/104667803940601062545/Spiked3#5624165831383052962 is an older screenshot, but you get the idea. In my research I came across this; https://sites.google.com/site/easylapcounter/home which does recognize based on imagery. Your idea certainly seems feasible. for RC, we just byte the bullet and use the expensive MyLaps (AMB) transponder system ($3000 base + $125 per transponder). I assume they have some huge patent on it because it seems like it would easy and cheap to copy, yet no one has done it. Good luck.

I have been working on a racing timing system for RC; https://picasaweb.google.com/104667803940601062545/Spiked3#5624165831383052962 is an older screenshot, but you get the idea. In my research I came across this; https://sites.google.com/site/easylapcounter/home which does recognize based on imagery. Your idea certainly seems feasible. for RC, we just byte the bullet and use the expensive MyLaps (AMB) transponder system ($3000 base + $125 per transponder). I assume they have some huge patent on it because it seems like it would easy and cheap to copy, yet no one has done it. Good luck.

[do a google lookup and fuckoff]
Seriously. Try it. Here is the goole search and then here is a nytimes article on it. This idiotic [citation needed] shit is so utterly rediculous. Oh Obama is an American born on US soil? Fuck that [CITATION NEEDED!!!]. Global Warming? Fuck that [CITATION NEEDED!!!]. Even wikipedia has an article on it. What do you expect people to do for you? Find internal documents from the FTC that categorically prove what happened? All we both have to go on is that Intel spent a shit load of money trying to defend itself and has been ruled against and has settled a deal to AMD and paid out even more money.

It began in the days when HTML 3.0 was the standard. Here is a thread on this from when IE1 was soon going to release. Unfortunately, Netscape had a monopoly on web browsers, leading to 3.0's failure which in turn led to 3.2.

We would have had a $50 web browser with web technology protected by 73 Netscape patents acquired by Microsoft (including blatantly obvious patents they could exploit elsewhere, such as one for just making a menu bar hide, or showing how complex a password is while you type it in - used by many sites right now)

http://www.informationweek.com/news/mobility/business/231300237

xnews.com/scitech/2011/10/27/class-action-suit-filed-against-rim-after-blackberry-outage/ http://www.itworld.com/mobile-wireless/216895/more-bad-news-rim-playbook-os-update-delayed-4-months-or-maybe-forever

My google search: "RIM News", not "RIM Bad News", http://www.google.com/search?q=RIM+news

Google & MS would just laugh at the silly indians and their depreciation of individual privacy.

RMS doesn't like beer. WTF? First computer geek on the planet who doesn't drink beer.

No. He's not. And he's not the only one either. Plenty of people don't drink. What always boggles my mind is: I'm as private as practicable about not drinking, until someone gets pushy about it. It's a personal decision, I don't proselytize about it (especially considering the positive health benefits of drinking). But when someone get's in my face about it, "you can't trust a man who doesn't drink." Fuck'em. They're not worth my time.

WTF... do you care that someone doesn't drink? Are you one of those people that can't accept that one person's personal decision isn't an all out attack on you and your way of life?

And on the plus side, his friends always have a designated driver.

sudo lshw -html > hw.html
firefox hw.html
Final step :
http://www.google.com/

Facepalm.

https://groups.google.com/group/openmanufacturing/msg/93edc128d5cd0054

Essentially, whenever a system does not seem to obey the second law of thermodynamics, we just invent new science.

And here is another essay by me sent to Andrea Rossi on why cold fusion information be made freely available because of a paradigm shift in economics from scarcity towards abundance: http://peswiki.com/index.php/OS:Economic_Transformation

This reminds me of the coverage surrounding Madison Priest's "magic box". Do the Google, or check these two articles (sadly no pics in the archived articles).

Lets so how non-Windows we can get. There's VMware ESXi, the bare-metal hypervisor that's not even a POSIX operating system. It has PowerShell support. So does Citrix XenServer, which is Linux/Xen based. (So does Microsoft Hyper-V, of course, but that doesn't count as non-Windows). That's just off the top of my head. Not that it matters, because Windows PowerShell is not surprisingly, a Windows technology. No Windows administrator cares that their Windows automation scripts don't run on their Solaris boxes.

Anyway, bash scripts aren't cross-platform either. I mean, sure, the actual bash interpreter is written in just POSIX C and can be ported to anything (I've used it on Windows myself), but that's useless with the external commands. ALL OF WHICH ARE DIFFERENT, even on one platform! Have you seen the horror that is a truly "cross-platform" script? It begins with pages and pages of if-else statements to figure out what's what, and how stuff works. Then there's ten lines of actual script.

Here's a random example from a script found with this google search:

elif [ "$os" = "OpenBSD" ] ; then
    $echo "/etc/passwd.conf :"
    egrep -v "$comments" /etc/passwd.conf

elif [ "$os" = "HP-UX" ] ; then
    $echo "/etc/pam.conf :"
    egrep -v "$comments" /etc/pam.conf

else
    $echo "/etc/pam.d/passwd :"
    egrep -v "$comments" /etc/pam.d/passwd
fi

if [ "$os" = "Linux" ] ; then
    $echo "pwck -l"
    pwck -r
    grpck -r
fi

Cross platform my ass.

Anyway, lets go back to our earlier, trivial example: "ps"

Here's two google hits: Linux, and Solaris.

Sure, they're vaguely similar, and have a bunch of options in common, but that's where it ends. Formatting is all different. Filtering has different capabilities. I bet the output is different also.

So put or up shut up. Write me a script, quickly (and I stress that word for a reason -- time is money), to do exactly the following task, across a bunch of different unixes:

Output all processes with the name "bash" into an RFC 4180 compliant comma separated values (CSV) file. Do not include extraneous processes. Don't forget the header. Make sure quotes and spaces are correctly handled. Ensure Unicode is handled on platforms that support it (e.g.: Solaris). Make sure numbers are formatted consistently, irrespective of the operating system regional options. Ensure that every platform outputs exactly the same columns, in the same order. Have it work on, at a minimum: AIX, Solaris, HP-UX, OpenBSD, and Linux. Your time starts now... go!

With great difficulty, I figured out how to get google search to NOT do instant searching and NOT do the auto-complete thing, without having to define a cookie.

Set this page to your homepage and do searches the old fashoned way
http://www.google.com/webhp?complete=0&hl=en&instant=0

TL;DR version - this post is chock full of links, from a grab-bag of right-wing, left-wing, and non-partisan sources. If you only have time to read one, read the Cato Institute one. It clearly lays out the economics of nuclear power in toto, unlike all the other links that are merely documentation of individual points.

OK. Now, despite propaganda from pro-nuclear right-wing pundits, there simply is no ban on nuclear power plants in the USA. If there was such a ban, there would have to be some regulation or policy to say so, and there isn't. New reactors are on the way, according to the NRC licensing authorities.

http://www.nrc.gov/reactors/new-reactors/col/new-reactor-map.html

You can argue that the Clinton administration's refusal to relicense unsafe plants and active discouragement of subsidies was a de facto ban on new nuclear power sources, and I would tend to agree with that. But that argument only applies to the duration of Clinton's presidency.

http://www.google.com/search?q=bush+new+nuclear+plants

In 2005, as part of the infamous Cheney sellout of national energy policy in closed-door meetings with entrenched corporate powers, the economic landscape for nuclear was completely restructured.

http://www.commondreams.org/headlines04/0425-06.htm

The Price-Anderson act, originally a "temporary" 10-year measure to encourage the development of a nuclear power industry, was re-enacted - this time until 2025. Price-Anderson, incidentally, is a direct affront to core Libertarian principles - it caps liability for nuclear operators and forces taxpayers opposed to nuclear power to subsidize preventable failures.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Price%E2%80%93Anderson_Nuclear_Industries_Indemnity_Act

Per-watt subsidies for nuclear power were also enacted, in the form of 1.8-cent per kilowatt-hour tax credits from new reactors during the first 8 years of operation (costing a projected $5.7 billion in revenue losses to the U.S. Treasury through 2025).

http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/F?c109:6:./temp/~c109UZ5s3O:e1304068:

This subsidy is necessary in order for nuclear-generated electricity to stay competitive with methane-powered generators, because of the total inability of the nuclear industry to deliver on the "energy too cheap to meter" promises they've been making since 1948.

http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=9740

In the 1980s government audits of nuclear operators determined that many of them were not setting aside decommissioning costs as required by law. The 2005 energy bill retroactively makes this legal, providing strong disincentives to any responsible operator willing to plan for the future. Allowing politically connected players to break lawful contracts with impunity is not only philosophically anti-Libertarian, it's anti-Socialist, too - I'd call it fascism.

http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/F?c109:6:./temp/~c109UZ5s3O:e1336416:

Occasionally you will hear claims that government over-regulation of the nuclear industry means that licenses and permits are difficult and expensive to maintain. In reality, the industry itself rewrote the rules for licensing application in the 1980s so that permits are cheap, long-lasting and do not require any real commitment. Later policy revisions go even further and reduce the total paperwork by two thirds as well as increasing the speed of rev

It's a common product name though.
http://www.google.com/search?q=espresso+beans

I know you were making a joke (and for the record, it was kind of funny), but FWIW, the Mayans didn't die out. I was in Guatemala hanging out with a bunch of Mayans not quite two years ago (who, incidentally, were asking me what was with the "Mayan" 2012 thing they had been hearing about, lol). They've largely been incorporated into the culture of the countries in which they now live, but they still keep their ancestral lineage and speak their various Mayan dialects (Tzutachiel, IIRC, was the dialect spoken by the group I was with) as well Spanish.

No, it isn't evil.

Hitler
Child molesters
pol pot,
Hannibal Lector, .... code that hasn't been released? seriously? you need to reset your bar.

http://www.google.com/about/corporate/company/tenthings.html

Doing things you don't like, doesn't mean it's evil.

The standard that eventually became CSS was originally submitted to Tim Berners-Lee et al by Haakon Wium Lie

which was in October 1994 BTW.

What people aren't understanding is Bolivia is the Saudi Arabia of Lithium. Lithium is that lovely metal that is used in all the battery tech, and one of the keys to a clean, electric future. It is also run by a hippie leftist, allied with Hugo "the tumor of South America" Chavez.

The "discovery" of this super volcano just provides an excuse for the U.S. military to send energy "advisers" down to "liberate" the Lithium before it is all destroyed in a "natural disaster".

Viva La Revolution!