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Besides the fact that the demolitions were completely obvious,

Only to people who haven't bothered to seriously examine films of real demolitions and compare their features with film of the 9/11 events.

and the presence of molten steel for weeks afterward completely indicates incendiaries,

1. There was no molten steel for weeks afterwards. This is a lie spread by the 9/11 conspiracy theory movement. The fire was hot enough to melt aluminum, and also hot enough to severely weaken exposed structural steel, but it was not hot enough to actually melt steel.

2. If there was molten metal of any type, how would that prove incendiaries? Incendiaries are small devices which ignite fires in other material. Even if we assume that fires on 9/11 were started by incendiaries, the incendiaries themselves would not be responsible for the heat required to melt any molten metal found in the ruins; rather, the burning of fuel ignited by incendiaries would be responsible for that, meaning that the metal would be molten regardless of the origin of the fire. But we do not need incendiaries to explain why fires started on 9/11 because GIANT AIRLINERS CRASHED INTO WTC 1 AND WTC 2, DUMBASS.

the put-options and stock market chicanery are well well documented,

And have been shown to be ordinary stock market transactions, not chicanery. Once more, you believe lies spread by the troothers. The entire 9/11 'truth' movement is a farce.

and the owner of the buildings was even quoted directly, "I was talking to the fire Marshall, and I said, 'We've had such a terrible loss of life, maybe the best idea is just to pull it.' So that's what we did, we made the decision to pull."

You are repeating a conspirawacko-edited version of the quote designed to make it sound more suspicious. Please see this link for an accurate transcription of the quote:

http://wtc7lies.googlepages.com/larrysilverstein's%22pullit%22quote

"I remember getting a call from the fire department commander, telling me that they were not sure they were gonna be able to contain the fire, and I said, 'We've had such terrible loss of life, maybe the smartest thing to do is pull it.' And they made that decision to pull and then we watched the building collapse."

Note that 'THEY' (as in the fire department) made the decision. Not Larry Silverstein. And in this context 'pull' clearly means 'pull out', as in get firefighting personnel out, stop all efforts to fight the fire, and just let the building collapse, rather than kill more firemen in a lost cause.

Pull being a well known demolition term meaning "Bring the building down",

More conspiracy loon BS. See:

http://wtc7lies.googlepages.com/is%22pullusedbydemolitionsprostomean%22demol

and then watching video of the WTC7 coming down... combined with the fact that news sources including the BBC somehow knew it was going to collapse ahead of time..

Yet another carbon copy conspiracy loon lie. Seriously, every last one of these supposedly damning points has been debunked years ago, yet you assholes keep repeating them again and again and again. I've seen them brought up and shot down dozens of times at the JREF message boards (www.randi.org, but the message boards seem to be down at the moment). If you want the answer to this one, search the JREF forums once they're up, or browse the wtc7lies site (I'm sure he's covered it somewhere in there, he demolishes all the standard WTC 7 talking points).

At the very least there is clearly complicity and fore-knowledge and a cover up regarding WTC7.

No, there isn't.

It doesn't really stand to reason that the other rather incre

I run my own one man IT business and all and I really mean ALL of the documentation is handled through Google Docs.

It is great for collaboration purposes. Version management build in and to top it all off, I never have to worry about access or backup! Especially not with Google Gears that ensures access even when the internet is down (Never happens here)

Now google docs is indeed not too great if you want to do Desktop publishing which is what some people seem to think MS Word is for. I do need the odd picture included in my documents but I wrote a little application to streamline that process.

I made it available for free on my Google site of course. My program Pastry will archive every bitmap you copy and allow for easy upload to Google or anywhere else for that matter. Have a look on: http://vandinther.googlepages.com/pastry

Scanners
http://www.sane-project.org/sane-supported-devices.html

wireless NICs
http://wireless.kernel.org/en/users/Devices/USB

digital cameras
http://www.gphoto.org/proj/libgphoto2/support.php Note that any camera that works as a USB storage device (most these days) will work also.

3D video cards
AFAIK, there are no sites anymore, but all current cards along with any card AGP, PCI, or PCI Express card made within the last 5-8 years or so that have ATI or NVIDIA chipsets will certainly work on any x86 Linux PC with the appropriate slot available. The support for many on-board video cards that are not NVIDIA or ATI, such as the popular VIA Chrome9 and Unichrome chipsets is available, but the support for it is sketchy at best unless you're willing dive into CVS or SVN repositories and grab in-development drivers. Even then, last I checked (about 6 months ago), these drivers were unstable as hell.

other hardware
check the forums on http://linuxhardware.org.

This list is hardly complete. In the next week or so, look for me to compile a more complete resource guide and post it at http://rob.shinn.googlepages.com/ . I'm doing it because I get tired of answering questions like "Where do I go to find out what [printers|scanners|alien mothership interfaces|...] work on Linux?"

The Oblivion Texture Overhaul, with everything on highest, will be eating up at least 2 GB of video ram. Crysis be damned, this is the true test of video hardware.

You're absolutely right, it's the testers fault that these things happen so often.

Yes, they're old. But the best testers in the world would have noticed the mistakes (?) the best coders in the world made.

In more modern operating systems, it's become well known that MSFT hid the facts about how incredible their coders really are.

ZOMG!! Quick download the internet before they take it away from us!!1! http://ojk007.googlepages.com/downloadwww.gif

Guys I found a site that has a fix for RST for Windows.
http://wakarimasu.googlepages.com/windows

Enjoy!

I saw one of these on campus many months ago. Here's the picture I took. http://therpham.googlepages.com/wtfplate.jpg

There is credible evidence that he created over sixty accounts to promote his blog.

And really, Windows fanboys? Didn't anyone ever tell you that professing a belief in such things is an Apple zealot shibboleth?

A currency with a 1:1 exchange rate.

On top of that the emacs death combo buttons would probably give me carpel tunnel, so adding sick leave every once in a while would not help (I'm not kidding, my hands are not made to do the button combinations, tried E-macs got real sore hands and gave up)

That's probably because your "Ctrl" key is in the wrong spot. Try moving it next to the "A" key to minimize hand strain.

Also, in modern Emacs builds, enabling "Options"->"C-x/C-c/C-v Cut and Paste" lowers the learning curve dramatically.

Base 2 is more efficient than Base 4 for storing information if the cost of a b-state circuit is proportional to b.
Proof: http://edwinhere.googlepages.com/WhatistheMostEfficientBase.pdf
Source: Hacker's Delight by Henry S. Warren, Jr.

Here is a concatenation of all the screen resolution images into a single 14400x492 image: http://samwyse.googlepages.com/ssc2008-11b_medium.jpg

BTW, I created them from the caltech screen-res images using this Python script:

from PIL import Image
full = Image.new('RGB', (16*900, 492))
for i in range(16):
        piece = Image.open('ssc2008-11b%d_medium.jpg' % (i+1))
        full.paste(piece, (i*900, 0))
full.save('ssc2008-11b_medium.jpg')

very useful if you know how to apply design patterns.

If we're talking about *Javascript* design patterns -- common useful Javascript idioms -- then I think this is a useful statement. If we're talking about common idioms that have filtered out from C++ and Java known as "design patterns" as applied to languages that don't need to many of them, then I'd say Javascript is pretty useful even if you don't know much about them. Possibly more useful.

http://www.nofluffjuststuff.com/show_session_view.jsp?presentationId=9542&showId=114
http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/000899.html
http://steve.yegge.googlepages.com/singleton-considered-stupid

Last Christmas I was at an Amazon party, some party I have no idea how I got invited to, filled with business people, all of them much prettier and more charming than me and the folks I work with here in the Furnace, the Boiler Room of Amazon. Four young women found out I was in Customer Service, cornered me, and talked for fifteen minutes about how much they missed Mailman and Emacs, and how Arizona (the JSP replacement we'd spent years developing) still just wasn't doing it for them.

I have done exactly the same thing for a few websites I manage. It solved a problem for me on one of the sites which was getting hammered with backscatter. Basically, I let Google deal with the backscatter.

But it is still criminal that there are millions of sites out there that still bounce spam.

I forgot to link to the translation of the blog post

There's now a proper, human made translation of Turre legal's blog entry available

Some games came with larger samples of artwork. If they still did this I would buy them more often. Id still sells some posters, but they are more marketing material than artwork (Quake Wars). This one has the user's manual on the back. I had it framed for my computer room:
http://networkzombie.googlepages.com/IMG_1406.JPG
I remember buying the game in 1994.

I assume this is your program here. Did you know that Stumbleupon thinks it's porn?

i've doing this using Concealar... 10MB master data? no problem... i just put it up on geocities as 20MB PNG, and then textmessage the password to the receiving party!!!111

~ ;)

Mirror here. I think Google's servers can probably handle the traffic. ;)

Is MS running Lindependence 2008? It sounds like it, if they're charging Linux distros a fee to install their distro at their installfest.

I'm not aware of Firefox or Google redirecting or blocking any URLs. When you say "Google," which service are you referring to, anyway? Can you provide some examples of URLs that are blocked/redirected by Firefox or Google, please?

MSN Messenger has been blocking http://.googlepages.com/ for months. This is not a once-off.

Someone should convince ZZ Top to make a new programming language called LEGS. [ducks]

It seems to be outside the predicted location of the Island of Stability.
Here (122 protons, 170 neutrons)

I call bullshit, to parent and all the responses.

Open page creator, look to the right at "uploaded stuff", click browse, select html file.
http://noglorp.googlepages.com/firefox.htm
- theres the firefox start page, saved and then uploaded to page creator. It looks all fucked because the image paths don't work, but the html itself it totally unmodified.

Daniel Eran, who comments on Slashdot (in the third person) as DECS, often submits his own RoughlyDrafted articles (in the third person) using pseudonyms like "peter deacon", "Redrum", and "rdmreader".

Daniel Eran is also somewhat infamous for being banned from Digg because he tried to game their system by using multiple accounts to "digg" his stories and get them on their front page:

• Digg - PROOF that Roughly Drafted is SPAMMING/Gaming Digg with multiple accounts
• RoughlyDraftedBUSTED
• MacUser: Is Daniel Eran gaming Digg?
• Daniel Eran at Roughly Drafted is trying to destroy Digg!

well check out this FACTUAL DMT Screenie this is what i connect at, and it's a fabulous service. i don't work for them and quite frankly i have had nothing but a good experiance with them.

So i am betting that you live well over a mile from your exchange(Burnley). i have a friend who is 4 miles from the exchange and he's with Be and he gets 4.6mb, which isn't bad considering the distance. so you either had knackered copper wire that needed replacing or gash equipment.

also anyone with half a brain checks out what the terms of service are before entering into an agreement especially in rented accoms where you have to be out within a certain timescale. perhaps you should have gone with an isp with month to month contract instead of one with a contract that you have to give two months notice to. i own my property so this isn't an issue for me.

Also i am far from a troll....LOL and who was it with the foul mouthed litany flaming a company i have had the best ISP experience with, never had any probs with in fact?? that'll be you..lol

my conclusion ROFL! 'nuff said!

Please go back to Digg, where your childish arguments will have more taking. Stop pimping your lame blog designed to rake in hits from Apple fanboys. I think even the Apple fans on Slashdot find your fanboy rants stupid. Oops, forgot your site got banned from digg for gaming Digg with bots and trying to make money that way. Try getting in touch with the National Inquirer. They might want to publish your one sided bullshit articles. Also, are you trying to game Slashdot by using multiple accounts to mod yourself up like you did at Digg?

To defend themselves, humans can use improvised foam melee weapons.

Bonus: It makes it more realistic (what are the chances you'll have your guns with you on Z day?).

The breakdown costs on the label side are nuts? Are any of the costs below realistic?

$0.17 Musicians' unions
$0.80 Packaging/manufacturing
$0.90 Distribution
$1.70 Label profit
$2.40 Marketing/promotion
$2.91 Label overhead

Don't the labels charge artists most of these costs and fees?

Here's the obligatory link to Steve Albini's breakdown of music costs - http://velcroman98.googlepages.com/albini

The real Apple zealots also all seem to wear funny hats!

You laugh, but someone has a product called CobolScript.

http://cobolscript.googlepages.com/cobolscript

Obligatory link to Albini's The Problem With Music - http://velcroman98.googlepages.com/albini

Well, having lived in St. Petersburg, I can agree. The best programmers I have ever met were from Russia.

http://gikowns.googlepages.com/BOTNET-GIKO.txt

I'm now in one particular channel on Quakenet, and it'll only let you issue the .user command (or indeed any other command) if your hostname matches that in the config - this one in particular will only accept "Giko.users.quakenet.org" as the hostname.

I tried to login to his Quakenet account, but alas, the password doesn't match the one he chose for his bot's authpass :-(

The channel had about 7 bots anyhow, so either he's moved them along or just isn't very lucky ;)

Just run a web server where you allow things like .. .

    index.php?main=xxx

and then watch the attempts that come in for xxx, they will
all be scripts that trigger the botnets. grab the scripts
and you have the irc server, the channel, etc.

A recent one that I saw was one katana.webchat.org in channel
#msdos -- no idea if it is still running (ironic since webchat
is supposed to have a security team). I reported it, but never
heard anything back).

Here are a bunch of other ones, access to botnets, free of
charge.

http://www.forestfamily.org/garc/.php/meifase.txt
http://bialoka123.fileave.com/script9.txt
http://raptortx.googlepages.com/inc3.txt
http://snock.host.sk/spread.txt
http://bialoka123.fileave.com/script9.txt
http://members.lycos.co.uk/enviescraps/pbot.txt
http://gikowns.googlepages.com/BOTNET-GIKO.txt
http://www.ligseg.com.br/Etc/24.gif
http://76.162.170.34/Photos/pbot
http://www.hotjazz.xpg.com.br/ty.txt

Use at your own risk, and maybe, these folks will get off their rear ends and shut these things down.

Just run a web server where you allow things like .. .

    index.php?main=xxx

and then watch the attempts that come in for xxx, they will
all be scripts that trigger the botnets. grab the scripts
and you have the irc server, the channel, etc.

A recent one that I saw was one katana.webchat.org in channel
#msdos -- no idea if it is still running (ironic since webchat
is supposed to have a security team). I reported it, but never
heard anything back).

Here are a bunch of other ones, access to botnets, free of
charge.

http://www.forestfamily.org/garc/.php/meifase.txt
http://bialoka123.fileave.com/script9.txt
http://raptortx.googlepages.com/inc3.txt
http://snock.host.sk/spread.txt
http://bialoka123.fileave.com/script9.txt
http://members.lycos.co.uk/enviescraps/pbot.txt
http://gikowns.googlepages.com/BOTNET-GIKO.txt
http://www.ligseg.com.br/Etc/24.gif
http://76.162.170.34/Photos/pbot
http://www.hotjazz.xpg.com.br/ty.txt

Use at your own risk, and maybe, these folks will get off their rear ends and shut these things down.

The last gasps of a dying industry. Anyone who wants to make it in the music industry these days knows that there is no music industry anymore. It's myspace and youtube. Frankly, such guerrilla marketing is what it takes these days for the writer of fiction or for the painter or any type of artistic pursuit. You have to make a name for yourself before you can expect any help from the so-called music industry. Really the central change of the internet era is allowing any Joe Sixpack to publish their content to a world wide audience.

The last gasps of a dying industry. Anyone who wants to make it in the music industry these days knows that there is no music industry anymore. It's myspace and youtube. Frankly, such guerrilla marketing is what it takes these days for the writer of fiction or for the painter or any type of artistic pursuit. You have to make a name for yourself before you can expect any help from the so-called music industry. Really the central change of the internet era is allowing any Joe Sixpack to publish their content to a world wide audience.

Fixed link

If you RTFA, it's from The New Yorker. Or, at least it was in TFA when I read it earlier today before Slashdot posted it.

I'm too lazy to check to see about the link now, but fortunately, since I thought the article interesting, I saved it. So here it is. It's an 18 page PDF, The proposal is mentioned on page 11.

That said, there are NO sources for this statement. The PDF link gives a 404 and they don't explain what they meant other than using broad terms. It sounds like a lot of FUD without a source to back it up. Does anybody have the PDF? If not then I'd like to see more sources than just an un-signed editorial on Raw Story.

If you RTFA, it's from The New Yorker. Or, at least it was in TFA when I read it earlier today before Slashdot posted it.

I'm too lazy to check to see about the link now, but fortunately, since I thought the article interesting, I saved it. So here it is. It's an 18 page PDF, The proposal is mentioned on page 11.

Sorry if this is not a direct answer to your question or seems like a shameless plug, but... I wanted to make a reading list for new programmers a while ago (because I ended up recommending the same books over and over to my friends and people I work with) so I started this: important books for programmers. Unfortunately I never had time to complete the writeups as to WHY I think most of those books are key, so basically the above is a list of links to books I read and thought others should too. I am mainly a C/C++ programmer nowdays so the list is skewed that way but I tried to make sure the fundamentals are covered as well. Feel free to contact me if you want to know more about why a specific book was chosen.

This won't cost much! /sarcasm

When you get back into Java, here's a free, ad-free site that has a pretty comprehensive set of Java/J2EE lectures: Free Java Lectures

Most probably the population of Earth will be greatly reduced due to the shortage of energy.

I concur. But, the problem isn't just energy. Thinking of peak oil? What about peak metals Copper is already getting pretty thin. Not only that, the copper for our today's use has to be 99.95% pure. Zinc is on the list, too. The estimate is that there is 26% of Earth's copper bound in non-recyclable state (ie. landfills) and about 19% for zinc. Some estimates mention total depletion in 100yrs.

I guess we're living in the oil age between two stone ages. What's worse, humans are the first and last chance for highly intelligent and technologically advanced species. Think about it - our development effectively started when our ancestors started getting metals out of the Earth's crust. What is next intelligent species (or our human successors) going to use to transit themselves into the next iron/bronze/golden age? Nothing. If we fail to transform into successful space dwelling species while there is enough energy to escape the gravity well we're a failure because in that case we're designated for extinction. I guess this guy said it best.

There are ways to get python to run as machine code(or at that level, I don't care about splitting hairs). For instance, psyco, which is more or less a JIT for python code:

http://psyco.sourceforge.net/introduction.html

There are also python like languages(pyrex) and attempts at using type inference to make stuff that looks like python compile as C++(Shedskin), so the range of ways to run python(like) code is pretty broad for (I more familiar with python, I'm sure others have similar options).

The big difference between what you are calling compiled languages and interpreted languages is mostly typing. A big long rant about it is here:

http://steve.yegge.googlepages.com/is-weak-typing-strong-enough

Weak/dynamically typed languages often end up interpreted because it is a whole lot easier to make them work that way. They end up memory managed because memory is usually most important where speed is most important, and they, mostly because of weak/dynamic typing, are generally not cycle efficient, so prating over memory doesn't end up being worth it.