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Google does not only do this in China. In Germany, national socialism is largely forbidden, so the well-known NS/WP site stormfront.org is blocked. Try this link from German google, and notice how it claims to find no matches on stormfront.org. The same search on American google.com returns 53,500 matches.

site:thehaefners.com kap

or follow this [google Germany, oops] Link

This is about fraudulent advertising.
The law invoked was the "Wettbewerbsrecht", meaning this is about an issue between two commercial entities. On a private (i.e. non-profit) homepage these laws wouldn't apply.

The only thing that is forbidden after this decision is to put irrelevant keywords into the meta tag. (such as "SEX SEX SEX BRITNEY SPEARS NAKED" into a the meta tag of a cell phone fraud site such as these).

There have already been several decisions on the topic wether it is allowed to use your competitors trademarks in meta tags (like MS putting "WordPerfect" in the Office site meta tags); there's a new one every six months :-).

If you ask google , it does not seem a good idea. SCO comes up first.

CC.

If you really want German news articles, there's always news.google.de...

After a quick glance, I saw many German news sources represented there.

On a different note, MSN's newsbot picked up a fun headline:
"Tiger shoots 66, loses ground in Buick"...
Does anyone else get the image of a large feline on a rampage followed by a car chase (involving a Buick)?

Many german research centers are named after Max Planck. Google for "Max Planck institute" to find many many other fields Planck didn't do work on.

Does anybody know, what kind of poetry generation software the spammers use? I am working on a similar project since some years. Check: this and this.

Thanks for your tolerance.

Looks like those Linux users finally get all the fun.

"I would make the case to you that the atmosphere of fear was created on September 11th"

Ok, but by who, and why?

We know there was a government waiting for an opportunity to wage war, waiting for a spark which they could use to justify it.

The patriot act consists of more that 1000 pages. It was passed within few weeks, congress didn't have the time to read it through.

Who could have writte it in such a short time, or was it written befor and waiting for an opportunity?

On the other hand, why wait for an opportunity?

There are many strage things. See also google cache of unansweredquestions.org

• None of the "black boxes" of the planes was "found".
• The Secret Service had bureaus in the WTC but moved out some months before.
• The WTC was designed to withstand a plane crash. It would be interesting to find out, why it did not, but that was not examined. Instead, a company named Controlled Demolition removed the remains as fast as possible. And guess, what they normally do? Did you notice, that both WTC towers collapsed mostly in themselves, not to the side?
• The plane that hit the pentagon took the time to fly a half circle around the pentagon, just to hit that part that has been empty for some time.
• Actually there were no remains from a plan at the pentagon.
• Whenever a plan gets off its course for whatever reason, military planes start to invesigate. In the air bases, they have planes and pilots ready to start within five minutes, and more planes an pilots within the next five minutes.
• The pentagon said, they were completly unprepared for the attack. You would think that with four planes missing and after two hits at the WTC, the sky over Washington and New York would be full of air force planes, but there was not a single one.

Does this word really mean anything?

Besides dynamic typing which has already been discussed above, "dynamic" languages often offer additional features that qualify them as dynamic, such as creating classes at runtime (e.g. prototype-based, as in javascript).

Still, you are right. The term is used in a nebulous manner. A possible "definition" is:

A dynamic language is a language in which most decisions are deferred until run time. A static language is a language in which most decisions are made at compile time.

An interesting discussion: Lambda the Ultimate (google cache, site is currently down)

Oh no, it's slashdotted. Check this out -- a google cached version.

here you go

I have to say that apparently the guy doing the Google search wasn't doing well enough. Searching on Google for parliamentary.group back.care vice.chairman gives me a PDF as hit number one which I then viewed as HTML and scrolled down for a couple of seconds just to find, on page 6, the entry for the back care APPG listing VCh. Janet Dean MP (Lab). And before you ask, I'm not British. Total time: about 45 seconds.

So, I would say that, while this 'benchmark' was an interesting thing to do, different people will come up with very, very different speeds for the questions, depending on how well they can work the medium.

Also, this test is quite dependent on luck... the Slovenian railway question took me 3:15, because my keywords just didn't give me the CIA world fact book... then again, that's still 1st place.

And this kind of proves your point: It's all about combining all available resources, be they 'old-fashioned' or 'new'. But whatever resources you use, your speed depends on your experience with the particular resources.

For some reason, though, I like this kind of competition! We should set up a meeting somewhere with a fat-enough internet pipe and let people compete on the Web finding answers... kinda like a Quiz show. I think that would be fun...

I have to say that apparently the guy doing the Google search wasn't doing well enough. Searching on Google for parliamentary.group back.care vice.chairman gives me a PDF as hit number one which I then viewed as HTML and scrolled down for a couple of seconds just to find, on page 6, the entry for the back care APPG listing VCh. Janet Dean MP (Lab). And before you ask, I'm not British. Total time: about 45 seconds.

So, I would say that, while this 'benchmark' was an interesting thing to do, different people will come up with very, very different speeds for the questions, depending on how well they can work the medium.

Also, this test is quite dependent on luck... the Slovenian railway question took me 3:15, because my keywords just didn't give me the CIA world fact book... then again, that's still 1st place.

And this kind of proves your point: It's all about combining all available resources, be they 'old-fashioned' or 'new'. But whatever resources you use, your speed depends on your experience with the particular resources.

For some reason, though, I like this kind of competition! We should set up a meeting somewhere with a fat-enough internet pipe and let people compete on the Web finding answers... kinda like a Quiz show. I think that would be fun...

I've never heard of a "SS Totenkopf," and if I had, it'd be the last thing I'd think of when I heard the word.

A "totenkopf" is simply a skull, as in these pirate skulls.

If that somehow makes you think of Nazis, you've some serious problems.

Oh man, how I hate these trolls - you made me fire up news.google.com to see for myself and there was nothing to see. See for yourself

Stop fooling the audience. Go back to posting penises, anuses and swastikas you bastards...

There was an interesting story on cryptome a few days ago about putting a Phalanx anti-aircraft missle & 20mm machine gun defense system on top of the proposed Freedom Towers. Well, I don't know if a setup like that could effectively disable or destroy a target before it reaches its mark but I have to admit it sounds more viable than the solution describe in the article...

I really don't think a Vmax can be as dangerous as a Honda Supersport (well, sort of) bike; take a look at the Vmax, you won't got fast thru turns and never get that deep into slope as with a lighter and having more HP/kilograms supersport-bike that was designed to do exactly this.
The most dangerous things are
1) getting hit by a car (you were overseen) and
2) hitting something outside the road because you drove to fast into that turn and lost control.
(OTOH, I drive a Suzuki Hayabusa , he, which is, well, out of any leagues :)) )

I really don't think a Vmax can be as dangerous as a Honda Supersport (well, sort of) bike; take a look at the Vmax, you won't got fast thru turns and never get that deep into slope as with a lighter and having more HP/kilograms supersport-bike that was designed to do exactly this.
The most dangerous things are
1) getting hit by a car (you were overseen) and
2) hitting something outside the road because you drove to fast into that turn and lost control.
(OTOH, I drive a Suzuki Hayabusa , he, which is, well, out of any leagues :)) )

I really don't think a Vmax can be as dangerous as a Honda Supersport (well, sort of) bike; take a look at the Vmax, you won't got fast thru turns and never get that deep into slope as with a lighter and having more HP/kilograms supersport-bike that was designed to do exactly this.
The most dangerous things are
1) getting hit by a car (you were overseen) and
2) hitting something outside the road because you drove to fast into that turn and lost control.
(OTOH, I drive a Suzuki Hayabusa , he, which is, well, out of any leagues :)) )

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

To get kicked from Verio, you have to burn down a network center or something like this. About 500 mails from users to abuse@verio.net for one spamvertized website netmails.com and no action taken ==> They do nothing against spam. They tolerate spam.

Check for yourself: Verio's Listing .

I use blackholes.us to block (port 25) entire countries (cn, kr, tw) and ISPs (Verio, interbusiness.it...) that do not qualify (in my standards) for connecting to my mailserver.

NSG

On second thought I might just stick with my 1984 Fiat X1/9 for a while. No GPS, no electronics whatsoever.

Depends on where you live, but maybe satellite broadband is an option. It's only downstream, though, so you still need a modem (or ISDN) for uploads, page requests and so on. Setting it up is just like setting up any other satellite dish.

When I type my name in google it says, "did you mean Dark McBride?

-- Darl

Try googling for "Darl McBride" --- and google will answer "Did you mean Dark McBride?"

This table, from a Canadian govt. document, might help:

12 in Mexico
13 in Japan
14 in Iceland, Austria, Canada and Italy
15 in Denmar, France, Sweden
16 in Australia, Finland, Germany (14 with parental consent), Holland (12 with parental consent), Israel, New Zealand, Norway

...or so they say. In fact, many European politicians do know that allowing software patents and business method patents inevitably leads to countless trivial patents.

You wouldn't believe it, but here is what the Directive's proponents have admitted themselves:
"Arlene McCarthy, chair of the legal affairs committee, said earlier this month she was not prepared to consider any proposals for amendments that do not acknowledge the patentability of software."

In other words, they do want to conjure up a legal framework which scares even IT industry giants such as SAP, and not just small and medium enterprises, open-source advocates, academics and initiatives such as Attac that are of little importance to those prepared to discard or ignore any arguments made from what is just "the commie corner" in their view of the world.
(P.S.: I am posting the google links rather than the direct URLs, for as of this writing, FFII.org itself seems to be unreachable, at this crucial moment in time...)

The plenary vote on the new patents directive will be held within a few days, so please do contact some Members of the European Parliament (rather not just by eMail) right now and tell them that the introduction of software patents is a mistake their voters will never forget, no matter whether it is made knowingly nor out of ignorance.

Moreover, there is no need to rush to precedential judgment now, only weeks before the World Summit on the Information Society, which (according to proposals such as these) may well turn on its head overreaching IP laws.

...or so they say. In fact, many European politicians do know that allowing software patents and business method patents inevitably leads to countless trivial patents.

You wouldn't believe it, but here is what the Directive's proponents have admitted themselves:
"Arlene McCarthy, chair of the legal affairs committee, said earlier this month she was not prepared to consider any proposals for amendments that do not acknowledge the patentability of software."

In other words, they do want to conjure up a legal framework which scares even IT industry giants such as SAP, and not just small and medium enterprises, open-source advocates, academics and initiatives such as Attac that are of little importance to those prepared to discard or ignore any arguments made from what is just "the commie corner" in their view of the world.
(P.S.: I am posting the google links rather than the direct URLs, for as of this writing, FFII.org itself seems to be unreachable, at this crucial moment in time...)

The plenary vote on the new patents directive will be held within a few days, so please do contact some Members of the European Parliament (rather not just by eMail) right now and tell them that the introduction of software patents is a mistake their voters will never forget, no matter whether it is made knowingly nor out of ignorance.

Moreover, there is no need to rush to precedential judgment now, only weeks before the World Summit on the Information Society, which (according to proposals such as these) may well turn on its head overreaching IP laws.

...or so they say. In fact, many European politicians do know that allowing software patents and business method patents inevitably leads to countless trivial patents.

You wouldn't believe it, but here is what the Directive's proponents have admitted themselves:
"Arlene McCarthy, chair of the legal affairs committee, said earlier this month she was not prepared to consider any proposals for amendments that do not acknowledge the patentability of software."

In other words, they do want to conjure up a legal framework which scares even IT industry giants such as SAP, and not just small and medium enterprises, open-source advocates, academics and initiatives such as Attac that are of little importance to those prepared to discard or ignore any arguments made from what is just "the commie corner" in their view of the world.
(P.S.: I am posting the google links rather than the direct URLs, for as of this writing, FFII.org itself seems to be unreachable, at this crucial moment in time...)

The plenary vote on the new patents directive will be held within a few days, so please do contact some Members of the European Parliament (rather not just by eMail) right now and tell them that the introduction of software patents is a mistake their voters will never forget, no matter whether it is made knowingly nor out of ignorance.

Moreover, there is no need to rush to precedential judgment now, only weeks before the World Summit on the Information Society, which (according to proposals such as these) may well turn on its head overreaching IP laws.

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?...

Yes, they have. Or at least the German Google has. However, the second result, among many others, links to a German page promoting Kazaa Lite. (Note that the first result contains a so-called "dialer" - every German Slashdotter likely has heard of them -, ie. is basically a fraud to steal your money.) The German Google also has the same link to the letter they received.

The two trailers found were most likely mobile production plants for hydrogen for launching weather balloons.

See LA times story, which is mirrored in the following usenet article:

Link

.. maybe you start googling or listen to the other comments made by people here ...

ReiserFS Data Corrupt.

But yeah if you ignore all these people then please listen to the shit the gentoo people recommend.

Google News just started in Germany, and 90% of the German news websites I read appreciated it and wrote articles about it (Stuff like "We are being indexed by Google News!!!") :-)

I think he's refering to the fact that by default www.google.com presents its interface in English, while www.google.de presents its interface in German and www.google.it presents its interface in Italian.

www.google.co.uk is another English interface, but unlike www.google.com it offers a mode to search only UK sites. It's likely presumed that English-speaking users use their own localized Google site rather than the USA site for better performance.

In dental radiology this procedure of converting a 3D skull into a 2D flat picture is very common and most of you must have been subordinated to such imaging. Images look almost the same - the only difference is that you get x-rays instead of real photos. An example of a dental X-ray looking exactly like this image can be seen here.
The exact way such images are made is described here
For you digital freaks: digital radiology becomes common more and more... every digital alteration you might think of is possible nowadays.

Click it, and help saving bandwidth !

Or just do a google search for USB wristwatch to find even more.

Don't worry, I've got .uk blocked as well!

Read about it here ... Nothing ever came close ;-) (even though I spent many hours on games like Master of Magic, Ultima IV, Space Quest I-III, Phantasie I-III and more recently, Morrowind, they all offered much less immersion than AR).

... with a German geek-toys site à la thinkgeek. Since I hadn't the money to build up the logistic part around it, I tried it as a reseller. I found a good (German) affilate program (zanox), that lets me choose products out of the participant's catalogues and get a revenue of 5% of every sold item. Additionally, every participant delivers a couple of banners in every needed format.

I mix the affilate program with amazon stuff, using their reseller program and make the products the content of the site.

Using movabletype and keeping in mind some main ideas of google in mind (search terms in filename and in the header, etc.) I finaly made my site to appear on top in google using some interesting keywords (dialer blocker (a tool to stop troyan horses dialing expensive numbers), div x or mx 700).

Additionally, I show banner ads. I show both, valueclick banners from external sponsors and 'internal' ones (sending the users to products or shops of the affiliate program or even sending them to the bestsellers of my site).

The content based ads are making around 3/4 of the money, the rest is devided in 4/5 of the affiliate banners and 1/5 (only a couple of Euros per month) through valueclick.

All in all, I have around 1500 visitors per month generating around 140.000 hits. It pays the traffic, but not my work (I've to post at least one new product a day).

The most important thing is that I have two other software products (ImagePuzzler and ImageDupe) I can advertise for on my site. Since ImageDupe's website is an often linked site and ImageDupe links back to futuregeek.de I got a little 'google-bonus' from it.

All ads and clicks (even the valueclick's) are tracked using phpAdsNew and 99% of my visitors come from google, the rest is yahoo, lycos and a german meta search engine. Since I don't trust webalizer (especially the search engine identifier), I wrote my own script, that keeps an eye on the referers.

... with a German geek-toys site à la thinkgeek. Since I hadn't the money to build up the logistic part around it, I tried it as a reseller. I found a good (German) affilate program (zanox), that lets me choose products out of the participant's catalogues and get a revenue of 5% of every sold item. Additionally, every participant delivers a couple of banners in every needed format.

I mix the affilate program with amazon stuff, using their reseller program and make the products the content of the site.

Using movabletype and keeping in mind some main ideas of google in mind (search terms in filename and in the header, etc.) I finaly made my site to appear on top in google using some interesting keywords (dialer blocker (a tool to stop troyan horses dialing expensive numbers), div x or mx 700).

Additionally, I show banner ads. I show both, valueclick banners from external sponsors and 'internal' ones (sending the users to products or shops of the affiliate program or even sending them to the bestsellers of my site).

The content based ads are making around 3/4 of the money, the rest is devided in 4/5 of the affiliate banners and 1/5 (only a couple of Euros per month) through valueclick.

All in all, I have around 1500 visitors per month generating around 140.000 hits. It pays the traffic, but not my work (I've to post at least one new product a day).

The most important thing is that I have two other software products (ImagePuzzler and ImageDupe) I can advertise for on my site. Since ImageDupe's website is an often linked site and ImageDupe links back to futuregeek.de I got a little 'google-bonus' from it.

All ads and clicks (even the valueclick's) are tracked using phpAdsNew and 99% of my visitors come from google, the rest is yahoo, lycos and a german meta search engine. Since I don't trust webalizer (especially the search engine identifier), I wrote my own script, that keeps an eye on the referers.

... with a German geek-toys site à la thinkgeek. Since I hadn't the money to build up the logistic part around it, I tried it as a reseller. I found a good (German) affilate program (zanox), that lets me choose products out of the participant's catalogues and get a revenue of 5% of every sold item. Additionally, every participant delivers a couple of banners in every needed format.

I mix the affilate program with amazon stuff, using their reseller program and make the products the content of the site.

Using movabletype and keeping in mind some main ideas of google in mind (search terms in filename and in the header, etc.) I finaly made my site to appear on top in google using some interesting keywords (dialer blocker (a tool to stop troyan horses dialing expensive numbers), div x or mx 700).

Additionally, I show banner ads. I show both, valueclick banners from external sponsors and 'internal' ones (sending the users to products or shops of the affiliate program or even sending them to the bestsellers of my site).

The content based ads are making around 3/4 of the money, the rest is devided in 4/5 of the affiliate banners and 1/5 (only a couple of Euros per month) through valueclick.

All in all, I have around 1500 visitors per month generating around 140.000 hits. It pays the traffic, but not my work (I've to post at least one new product a day).

The most important thing is that I have two other software products (ImagePuzzler and ImageDupe) I can advertise for on my site. Since ImageDupe's website is an often linked site and ImageDupe links back to futuregeek.de I got a little 'google-bonus' from it.

All ads and clicks (even the valueclick's) are tracked using phpAdsNew and 99% of my visitors come from google, the rest is yahoo, lycos and a german meta search engine. Since I don't trust webalizer (especially the search engine identifier), I wrote my own script, that keeps an eye on the referers.

NFS under Linux isn't there yet. It's unreliable under heavy load (eg. when saturating Gigabit ethernet). Linux NFS also has a very funny idea about RFCs, ie. it ignores them when it doesn't like what they say (NFS fragments packets in some cases when the RFC explicitly says not to).

NFS over TCP would also be nice. Linux has NFS over UDP only (in production code). Connection-based NFS gives a warm fussy feeling wrt. actually *knowing* about lost packets.

Multiple network cards are a pain, largely due to how Linux handles ARP. Routing table and ARP cache can contradict each other in certain situations (involving multiple network cards connected to the same switch, even on different subnets, caused by how Linux handles ARP requests).

The fact that the Linux packet filter doesn't track TCP sequence numbers is disconcerting. (This "feature" is used to allow TCP window scaling over NATted connections.)

In general, it seems that Linux networking tends to be rather sloppy about rules that concern security (TCP seq num) and interoperability (NFS frags) whenever it fits them, and don't care much about how other OSes cope with it. This mindset is almost Windowsian.

Everyone knows: Google is the Answer to Everything so remember these simple rules:

You use google.com in the U.S., use google.de whilst in Germany.

of the demo House

And here is a picture of the material in production

Score:4, Informative???? The first link points to siding which has nothing to do with solar power, or Spheral Solar Power, Inc.. The second link points to a picture of a denim apparel factory in China.

If you want to learn more about the product, go to the company's web site.

And here is a picture of the material in production

Courtesy of Google , the blueprints and forums here and here
(all the above in german, obviously).