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Couldn't you be bothered to google?
http://ipv6.cybernode.com/list-of-ipv6-only-sites

Server not found

Firefox can't find the server at ipv6.cybernode.com.

Truly, I am impressed.

You could either get into the 21st century and enable IPv6 on your network, or learn how to use the damned google cache:
http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:X9icMrzufDgJ:ipv6.cybernode.com/list-of-ipv6-only-sites+http://ipv6.cybernode.com/list-of-ipv6-only-sites&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk

Yeah, yeah, or look up the first one in a cache. The second link has the same pretty pictures as the first, but the first one is actually written by the guy who did the work.

And here's a Google cache, for those of us who are behind firewalls which block "Hacking/Proxy Avoidance Systems":

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:www.exoclimes.com/paper-outlines/the-sunset-on-hd-209458-b/+

...because I hate giving pageviews to morons so that I can see what half-baked ideas they have.
http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:ZxS4pENaxJ0J:spectator.org/archives/2012/01/06/honda-civic-lesson/print+http://spectator.org/archives/2012/01/06/honda-civic-lesson

Of course, given that all the images and other resources still load, it probably still counts as a pageview as far as they're concerned.

google cache result for kernelnewbies.org/Linux_3.2

Are you serious? This is painfully trivial to find with Google Scholar.

Education or punishment? Reformatory schools in Norway, 18401950 Education or punishment? Reformatory schools in Norway, 18401950
Daddy in Prison: An Evaluation (Norwegian)
The prison reform movement: Forlorn hope
People's Justice - A Major Poll of Public Attitudes on Crime and Punishment
Wilful Obstruction - The Frustration of Prison Reform
Reaffirming Rehabilitation


On top of that you have the highly conservative Daily Mail, as the grandparent poster linked, stating unabashedly that the system on Bastoy has proven itself as being more effective than Norwegian closed (traditional) prisons, which is a position that is quite controversial for the newspaper and not at all towing the party line. That may not have the integrity of a longitudinal study conducted by unbiased researchers, but the tour escort is quoted as saying that there has only been one attempted escape in all of Bastoy's years of operation, and that the region has the lowest re-offending rate in all of Europe despite Norway's absence of a death penalty or life sentence. These are not light claims.

Next time please RTFA and JFGI.

Don't shoot at ghosts, rookie. It gets you laughed at.

I guess the steam powered TeraWurfl engine has a bug stuck in its gears. google cache

The reference occurs on a different page.

However, the Google cache of that page has been cleared within the last few hours, although most other pages on "CrossMediaGlobal.com" have snapshots from 11 days ago. As of first posting, the Emperor believes that there was no reference to the original drupal sources. Furthermore, a single linkback is insufficient to fully comply with the GPL.

This is a Google webcache link that, as of this writing, contains no link back to the original drupal module.

This is a screencapture of the cache.

This might indicate that the redistributor is making good faith efforts to comply with the GPL, now that they are aware of the violation.

Girl, plays video games, not fat, and looks totally bad-ass holding a bow and arrow (while I look kind of like a dork).

Choose four.

Iron runs an out-of-date build with known vulnerabilities, hasn't posted their source changes in a long time, and is widely accepted to be a scam. By all means make your own decisions on browsers, but I think you're doing more harm than good with Iron. And if all you want to is to run Chrome disconnected entirely from Google, the instructions are here.

Google Cache Link

Shouldn't /. automatically append a cache link to every submitted link?

While I love the speed the SSD (and the prices is hitting the "magic" $1/GB) you're forgetting the HUGE elephant in the room with SSD that almost no-one seems to notice ...

SSDs have a TERRIBLE failure rate.

http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2011/05/the-hot-crazy-solid-state-drive-scale.html

He purchased eight SSDs over the last two years ⦠and all of them failed. The tale of the tape is frankly a little terrifying:

        Super Talent 32 GB SSD, failed after 137 days
        OCZ Vertex 1 250 GB SSD, failed after 512 days
        G.Skill 64 GB SSD, failed after 251 days
        G.Skill 64 GB SSD, failed after 276 days
        Crucial 64 GB SSD, failed after 350 days
        OCZ Agility 60 GB SSD, failed after 72 days
        Intel X25-M 80 GB SSD, failed after 15 days
        Intel X25-M 80 GB SSD, failed after 206 days

and ...

http://translate.googleusercontent.com/translate_c?hl=en&ie=UTF8&prev=_t&rurl=translate.google.com&sl=fr&tl=en&twu=1&u=http://www.hardware.fr/articles/843-7/ssd.html&usg=ALkJrhjecZZv1F6d_oT-dr41FPFYOIkVCw

- Intel 0.1% (against 0.3%)
- Crucial 0.8% (against 1.9%)
- Corsair 2.9% (against 2.7%)
- OCZ 4.2% (against 3.5%)

Intel confirms its first place with a return rate of the most impressive. It is followed from Crucial, which significantly improves the rate but it must be said that the latter was heavily impacted by the M225 - the C300 is only reached 1%. The return rate for failure are up against Corsair and OCZ especially in the latter confirmed by far his last position. 8 SSDs are beyond the 5%:

- 9.14% 2 240 GB OCZ Vertex
- 8.61% 2 120 GB OCZ Agility
- 7.27% 40GB OCZ Agility 2
- 6.20% 60GB OCZ Agility 2
- 5.83% 80 GB Corsair Force
- 5.31% 90GB OCZ Agility 2
- 5.31% 2 100 GB OCZ Vertex
- 5.04% OCZ Agility 2 3.5 "120 GB

At the _current_ price point & abysmal failure raite, SSD sadly has a ways to go before it catches on with the main stream.

Initially, this site will be the only place you can buy a Raspberry Pi, and we are not offering preorders.

Since the summary didn't actually link to 'this site' I thought I would do it and help you all out. It's right here, from the official manufacturers in Korea. Really, I'm not trying to rip you off or anything. I'm just a lowly slashdotter. You can trust me, I even have a sig. Right here, truly I am a prince, I know. It has OpenAPI security.

Initially, this site will be the only place you can buy a Raspberry Pi, and we are not offering preorders.

Since the summary didn't actually link to 'this site' I thought I would do it and help you all out. It's right here, from the official manufacturers in Korea. Really, I'm not trying to rip you off or anything. I'm just a lowly slashdotter. You can trust me, I even have a sig. Right here, truly I am a prince, I know. It has OpenAPI security.

Initially, this site will be the only place you can buy a Raspberry Pi, and we are not offering preorders.

Since the summary didn't actually link to 'this site' I thought I would do it and help you all out. It's right here, from the official manufacturers in Korea. Really, I'm not trying to rip you off or anything. I'm just a lowly slashdotter. You can trust me, I even have a sig. Right here, truly I am a prince, I know. It has OpenAPI security.

For casual computing, and I mean real casual computing (check your e-mail, browse and maybe reading a book/watching movies), tablets are ideal. Even if you coach something, imagine instead of taking all your student files, the planning and even having the ability to take notes on a single device (instead of a file that weights 3x more).

There is a market for tablets, some might even say it is the real personal computer for people that don't like computers (I don't agree with them, but I see the point).

http://yieldthought.com/post/12239282034/swapped-my-macbook-for-an-ipad (currently swamped, try the Google-cache) - of course he's cheating, the main workload is on the Linode servers.

Yes there is, and it's been well documented.

Bullshit, enterprise class drives have from 1/2 to 1/3rd the AFR of consumer drives. Data from Google, Microsoft, and other large scale providers proves this out. NL SATA is about 2/3rds the AFR of common SATA according to Microsofts numbers from the hosted Exchange for education group.

I believe you are the one spouting BS. Please cite a reference for this. The Google paper clearly says they are using consumer grade drives and not enterprise grade drives. http://static.googleusercontent.com/external_content/untrusted_dlcp/labs.google.com/en/us/papers/disk_failures.pdf

The Microsoft study you referred to says that consumer class disks were not failing any faster than enterprise disks. http://blogs.technet.com/b/exchange/archive/2011/01/07/robert-s-rules-of-exchange-storage-planning-and-testing.aspx http://h20195.www2.hp.com/V2/GetPDF.aspx/4AA2-1309ENW.pdf

Since the site seems to have been overwhelmed here's the cached, text only version: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:www.kalzumeus.com/2011/10/28/dont-call-yourself-a-programmer/&hl=en&strip=1

I don't believe that's the case. According to this report, "So far, 324 MPs have signed the proposal, or the written declaration that it called on European languages". It also mentions that "When more than half, ie 369 members signed up, it can be adopted and thus becomes its official position, but are not legislative in themselves."

So, although it isn't quite the same thing as signing a law, it is in fact a bit more than "one MEP thinking about this insane idea", even when including the fact hat Written Declaration 29 is authored by two MEPs, Tiziano MOTTI and Anna ZÁBORSKÁ.

Could you have a look at this:
http://www.blogcdn.com/www.engadget.com/media/2006/03/samsungpictureframe.jpg

Then this:
https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-kNKGiOZzAXI/Tmn0ElsA4PI/AAAAAAAAHNo/aK3FT0z-9zI/3AlUc.jpg

And stop spreading myths about "rip off"? The worst part is about rounded rectangular icons. Maybe one out of ten on my Galaxy S looks like that.

It seems like design students with incredible vision are clearly more common than you seem to think. Taking a single phone and a single tablet out of context from a manufacturer who has probably produced hundreds of variant designs over the years seems like a desperate ploy to win an argument. You could equally argue this shows Samsung's incredible diversity compared to Apple's "come up with one design and slightly tweak it ad infinitum" approach, but then that would be just as blind as your skewed point of view. The truth is its in the customer's interest for there to be good competition on the technical front combined with simplification on the design front. If one particular manufacturer is allowed to "own" simplified design, that's bad news for everyone. This isn't about "my favourite tech company is better than yours" it's about "this stupid law is holding back advances at what could otherwise be an amazing point in the history of technology".

Someone already did make an antitroll image

Interesting that they chose to omit the Galaxy Tab 10 from the "after iPad - reality" images. Of course, if they did it might spoil the message by reinforcing how many post-iPad tablet makers have come up with designs that don't shamelessly ape the iPad.

Note, I agree that the only beneficiaries of this silly patent war will be the lawyers - but trying to deny that the iPhone and iPad have hugely influenced the design of phones and tablets - and that the Samsung Galaxy products haven't been influenced more than most - requires a reality distortion field of at least 10000 miliJobs.

Someone already did make an antitroll image

And Google has the text portion covered.

Google's Cache saved the text of your blog post

Steve Jobs, an inspiration to artists and business leaders alike, had a hero of his own. According to this article from the New York Times, Edwin Land, the creator of Polariod was a role model for Jobs. Land was also a college dropout who developed great products, simply and elegantly designed to appeal to an enormous market. It's an interesting read, as is the linked Fastcompany book review.

Like Jobs, Edwin Land had numerous technological and commercial achievements. However, the NYTimes article calls the Polaroid SX-70 folding camera Edwin Land's 'supreme achievement'.

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I happen to have a vintage Polaroid SX-70. After reading the article, I pulled it off the shelf to take another look. It's a really beautiful piece of design. It even came with this handsome leather case.

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This camera was my father's, and I've handled it hundreds of times since I was a child. Today, pulling it out the case I was immediately struck with a question:

Why does a 40 year old camera have an Apple 30-pin connector port on it?

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There is a port, just above the lens, that seems ready for any iPod accessory. It's not as obvious when the camera is open, but the port to connect the old fashioned 'flash bar' is very obvious when the camera is collapsed. In fact, the collapsed SX-70 looks like a piece of consumer electronics Steve Jobs would have created if he'd been born a generation earlier.

It's not just similar. It's almost an exact match. You can even put the tip of a 30-pin connector in the Polaroid and it's a snug fit. I know that this seems like Apple fanboi wishful thinking -- that something could be this specifically thought through. Perhaps it is, and that thought occurred to me. So I tried other things that could be similar in size. An SD card. Close, but it doesn't fit. You don't get snug fit of the 30-pin connector.

Keep in mind that this is the only port on this device. And it's designed to allow the camera to interact with accessories. And this isn't just any device. It's the 'supreme achievement' of the man Steve Jobs called a 'national treasure'. Now, this port of nearly identical proportions is the common denominator three devices that could each, along with the original Macintosh, contend as Steve's 'supreme achievement.' And out of all of the sizes available for peripheral ports (micro-usb, etc), this is nearly an exact match, within micrometers (if I had the appropriate tools, I'd measure it for you). Here's a video to give you a better sense of the fit:

Perhaps there was never an explicit intention to mimic the SX-70. Of course, if this similarity is by design, I am sure someone like Jony Ive would know. The port could have been a result of teamwork, but if Steve Jobs obsessed over Edwind Land's creations the way we obsess over his, there is a reason that this could have felt like the right size for an accessory port according to Steve's aesthetic sensibilities.

I've never giving much thought to the 30-pin connector. It wasn't any more interesting to me than a USB port. But now, I'd be very curious to know the background of the only physical trait that latest iPhone shares with the early iPods... and with a forty year-old camera.

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I'll bet you that there are hundreds of people -- if not thousands -- breaking that law every day in NYC (although this picture was not taken in NYC, the principle still applies). While the primary intention of this "mask" is not to hide your identity, it does -- or at least, can -- serve that purpose as well.

Sorry. It's classic Intermet jargon from the days that figures were typically ASCII art. Here's the first example I found on Google.

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:hmhYOuzN3B4J:blogs.intel.com/research/2011/09/wolfenstein_gets_ray_traced_-_2.php+http://blogs.intel.com/research/2011/09/wolfenstein_gets_ray_traced_-_2.php&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us&client=mozilla

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:hmhYOuzN3B4J:blogs.intel.com/research/2011/09/wolfenstein_gets_ray_traced_-_2.php+http://blogs.intel.com/research/2011/09/wolfenstein_gets_ray_traced_-_2.php&hl=en&client=mozilla&gl=us&strip=1 (texts only)

However, no images. :(

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:hmhYOuzN3B4J:blogs.intel.com/research/2011/09/wolfenstein_gets_ray_traced_-_2.php+http://blogs.intel.com/research/2011/09/wolfenstein_gets_ray_traced_-_2.php&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us&client=mozilla

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:hmhYOuzN3B4J:blogs.intel.com/research/2011/09/wolfenstein_gets_ray_traced_-_2.php+http://blogs.intel.com/research/2011/09/wolfenstein_gets_ray_traced_-_2.php&hl=en&client=mozilla&gl=us&strip=1 (texts only)

However, no images. :(

The July 28th blog post on betashop.com tells a bit of a different story. ( link to Google cache, the regular site seems to be off atm. http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:Kro0IOBNR3IJ:betashop.com/page/2+site:betashop.com+betashop+google+plus&cd=4&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us - It's toward the bottom below the "Make the logo smaller" t-shirt)

It was (at the time) their single highest traffic day and 5% of that traffic came from Google+. That's nearly 9000 visits in one day to a site that is one of the fastest growing e-commerce sites on the planet.

It's not facebook. It's not twitter. But it has certainly contributed enough to fab's bottom line that I have a difficult time believing they are ready to ditch the +1.

https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:hmhYOuzN3B4J:blogs.intel.com/research/2011/09/wolfenstein_gets_ray_traced_-_2.php+&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us

Here ya go.

cache:http://blogs.intel.com/research/2011/09/wolfenstein_gets_ray_traced_-_2.php

Oh, look, there's something Bing can't do.

The Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum and the National Reconnaissance Office will be hosting a one-day-only viewing opportunity of the newly declassified HEXAGON (KH-9) satellite in the parking lot of the Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center Saturday, Sept. 17. This is the first time the public will be able to view this impressive spacecraft, and it will be the only opportunity to see it in the Washington area for some time.

As I posted here (the related p2presearch archive at listcultures.org has died, sadly, though is available elsewhere):
http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:mf6UxV35GCQJ:listcultures.org/pipermail/p2presearch_listcultures.org/2009-November/005926.html+p2p+implications+robot+videos

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Michel Bauwens wrote:
> I see a big contradiction between freefall and total robotization, with
> freefall, who's going to invest in total automation?
>
> so I would add 2 centuries to the robotic prediction, though I'm not at all
> certain that this will occur, I think it's a capitalist fantasy essentially,
> to remove all human contact with making and producing its own livelihood
> (I'm aware of course that leftleaning people have the same vision from
> another angle)

OK, I responded to this once. I'm going to respond again with a longer list of videos. Most are short (except the Nova one).

"High-Speed Robot Hand Demonstrates Dexterity and Skillful Manipulation"
http://www.hizook.com/blog/2009/08/03/high-speed-robot-hand-demonstrates-dexterity-and-skillful-manipulation

"Nova: The Great Robot Race"
http://www.hulu.com/watch/23347/nova-the-great-robot-race

"DARPA Urban Challenge 2007"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SQFEmR50HAk

"Home Assistance Robot"
http://www.gametrailers.com/user-movie/home-assistance-robot/295707

"ASIMO avoids moving obstacles"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YPoANTKo5kA

"ASIMOs new artificial intelligence. (ASIMO is learning!)"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P9ByGQGiVMg

"Roomba"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HqhIMFQNGCg

"IRobot Packbot action!"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eaP0waiz43w

"South Korea's Machine Gun Sentry Robot"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v5YftEAbmMQ

"Sentry Robot to Patrol Maine School"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mUNikzYgIf4

"Predator Drones"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nMh8Cjnzen8

"Merseyside Police helicopter remote control drone"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s79QlJGQKks

"BigDog Overview"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k-AGWq0k_Mo

"The Autonomous Grape-Vine Pruner"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9GaGO9LIDEA

"Robots in warehouse"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fdd6sQ8Cbe0

"VMS robotic milking"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aPqWpOxQmIs

"Lely Robotic Barn Cleaner"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bphBIwv5Vp8

"Da Vinci Surgical Robot"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C17-bGquIjI

"CTC UT-1 ROV Ultra Trencher - Animation"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1U72_B7B3Wk

"Mars Rover Vid

I can happily say that I have donated whatever money I had spare in my PayPal account that I was unable to withdraw at the time.

Hopefully Medvedev can go ahead and sponsor this project and give it a much needed boost!

Though a couple of years ago ReactOS had to be suspended due to stealing code allegations.

1) Paul claims to be a constioutionalist and a libertarian but he opposes the seperation of church and state

You want to prove that? I've never seen him vote in favor of religion over constitution. Or are you one of those people that believes that any attempt to push power from federal to state level (ala repealing Roe v Wade) is an automatic "desire to create a state theocracy"?

2) He is a creationist who says that evolution is "just a theory". Now, I'm not sure whether or not he actively seeks to increase the teaching of creationism in schools (I think not)

If it doesn't affect how he's voting, why do you give a damn what he thinks? Perhaps that's the difference between you and I -- I'd sooner vote for a person saying one crazy thing while voting completely logically than I would a person telling me exactly what I want to hear and then doing whatever he damn well pleases (such as our current president)..

3) He wants abortion to be banned on a federal level because in his words "If you can't protect life then how can you protect liberty?".

https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:gHN7G1IRrLwJ:www.ronpaulforums.com/showthread.php%3F24933-Question-about-ron-paul-s-abortion-stance+&cd=11&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us&client=firefox-a

It's a conflict, but an explained one. He doesn't want a federal ban, he wants the states to decide. Granted the imperfect world we have where the courts have made it legal everywhere, the partial abortion ban was a regreattable alternative (in essence a flawed response to a flawed law).

4) Paul claims to oppose "congressional overspenfdng" and claims that the goverment should not interfere in business at all, yet for example in 2007 he requested about 400 million dollars in earmarks

Now I know you're trolling...Ron Paul's stance on earmarks is well known. With even the barest minimum of googling: https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:wCNIYPY5mgcJ:www.ronpaul.com/2009-03-11/ron-paul-on-earmarks/+&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us&client=firefox-a Regardless, he has a duty to his constituents to ensure that federal money that has been taken from them will at least in _some_ way help them. Earmarks are issued for money that was going to be spent anyway . Fucking over his constituents in the name of believing in reduced spending while the rest of the country taxes his state and continues its spending binge doesn't exactly make sense to me. Earmarks are good for transparency, accountability, and responsible spending.

5) He does not suppor equal rights for minorities

He is right in choosing his stance (affirmative action isn't "Equal rights", it's preferred treatment): https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:kcHqTL_FhcQJ:answers.yahoo.com/question/index%3Fqid%3D20071210131825AA7jyoP+&cd=4&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us&client=firefox-a

6) His enviromental policies would cause even more strain to the enviroment than the current ones

Agreed not the best record on the environment, but consistent with his constitutional beliefs.

7) He wishes to withdraw the us form the United Nation

...which coincides with his isolationist we-shouldn't-police-the-world views. I'm not a huge fan of this either, but as with most of his other more extreme ideas, they would never actually occur,

1) Paul claims to be a constioutionalist and a libertarian but he opposes the seperation of church and state

You want to prove that? I've never seen him vote in favor of religion over constitution. Or are you one of those people that believes that any attempt to push power from federal to state level (ala repealing Roe v Wade) is an automatic "desire to create a state theocracy"?

2) He is a creationist who says that evolution is "just a theory". Now, I'm not sure whether or not he actively seeks to increase the teaching of creationism in schools (I think not)

If it doesn't affect how he's voting, why do you give a damn what he thinks? Perhaps that's the difference between you and I -- I'd sooner vote for a person saying one crazy thing while voting completely logically than I would a person telling me exactly what I want to hear and then doing whatever he damn well pleases (such as our current president)..

3) He wants abortion to be banned on a federal level because in his words "If you can't protect life then how can you protect liberty?".

https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:gHN7G1IRrLwJ:www.ronpaulforums.com/showthread.php%3F24933-Question-about-ron-paul-s-abortion-stance+&cd=11&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us&client=firefox-a

It's a conflict, but an explained one. He doesn't want a federal ban, he wants the states to decide. Granted the imperfect world we have where the courts have made it legal everywhere, the partial abortion ban was a regreattable alternative (in essence a flawed response to a flawed law).

4) Paul claims to oppose "congressional overspenfdng" and claims that the goverment should not interfere in business at all, yet for example in 2007 he requested about 400 million dollars in earmarks

Now I know you're trolling...Ron Paul's stance on earmarks is well known. With even the barest minimum of googling: https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:wCNIYPY5mgcJ:www.ronpaul.com/2009-03-11/ron-paul-on-earmarks/+&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us&client=firefox-a Regardless, he has a duty to his constituents to ensure that federal money that has been taken from them will at least in _some_ way help them. Earmarks are issued for money that was going to be spent anyway . Fucking over his constituents in the name of believing in reduced spending while the rest of the country taxes his state and continues its spending binge doesn't exactly make sense to me. Earmarks are good for transparency, accountability, and responsible spending.

5) He does not suppor equal rights for minorities

He is right in choosing his stance (affirmative action isn't "Equal rights", it's preferred treatment): https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:kcHqTL_FhcQJ:answers.yahoo.com/question/index%3Fqid%3D20071210131825AA7jyoP+&cd=4&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us&client=firefox-a

6) His enviromental policies would cause even more strain to the enviroment than the current ones

Agreed not the best record on the environment, but consistent with his constitutional beliefs.

7) He wishes to withdraw the us form the United Nation

...which coincides with his isolationist we-shouldn't-police-the-world views. I'm not a huge fan of this either, but as with most of his other more extreme ideas, they would never actually occur,

Fucking food bacteria kills 10x more people every year than terrorist did in 2001.

Nope. Doesn't even make the list you quoted. The actual number is more like 1300, less than half the number of those killed by terrorists in the US in 2001.

Are you denying not only natural climate change, but what you actually *wrote*? :)

A few pertinent links for you:

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:IrMArI7oZ44J:boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php%3Ft%3D521245+global+warming+falsifiable&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us&client=safari

http://www.stephenjaygould.org/ctrl/popper_falsification.html

Read with an open mind, you might actually learn something! :)

Am I to assume this is the long overdue open source hardware that was promised to compliment the OpenBTS software stack? Because last time I checked the OpenBTS hardware store's cheapest offering is $3,500.00 for a kit that I assume powers two devices with a range of 5 feet. Either something BIG has happened or Low-Cost is a relative assessment.

I do manage large storage farms in the petabytes range. There is a curve to the rate at which disks die. It mostly seems kinda obvious.

#1 - Infant mortality. I see a bunch of drives fail within the first few months of a new install.
#2 - Increased death rate as the drives age. Usually when the drives start to reach the warranty age. This can be accelerated depending on the IO load of the system.

There's a lot of great info out there. Here's one good whitepaper:
http://static.googleusercontent.com/external_content/untrusted_dlcp/labs.google.com/en/us/papers/disk_failures.pdf

No matter what alarmists will tell you, net result is:

        Samsung can continue to sell current Galaxy phones and must provide a trivial change to the picture gallery in the next 7 weeks.
        Samsung can continue to sell the Gaöaxy Tab.
        Apple has LOST all design and copyright related claims.
        Apple has LOST the infringement claim on one patent and the court deemed a third patent broken anyway.

http://jan.wildeboer.net/2011/08/samsung-v-apple-in-nl-happy-selling-samsung/ [cache]

Something's wrong with the graphs. Here's the 13 yr old's graphs here and here.

Typical, hand-drawn 13 yr old stuff. So who did this and this and this?

And don't tell me he could not make a bar graph on a PC but that is a "Diagram of tree model that Aidan made with his computer."

He also made the computer generated voltage diagrams but a simple Excel pie chart for the number of hours was too difficult?

He even made the common bar graph mistake (more) of not starting the scale from zero, instead starting from 4v, which makes the 4.1-4.4v flat solar panel appear as if it puts out less than half of the 5.25 volt from the solar tree.

Who really did this experiment?

See http://www.techlib.com/area_50/xraydefender.htm -- tho techlib.com isn't resolving right now (server down, I'll bet), so you'll just have to try an alternate source:

http://www.techlib.com.nyud.net:8090/area_50/xraydefender.htm coral cache says gateway timed out...
http://wayback.archive.org/web/*/www.techlib.com/area_50/xraydefender.htm wayback machine doesn't have it archived...
http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:SErH8Fhj52cJ:www.techlib.com/area_50/xraydefender.htm+site:techlib.com+backscatter&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us&ie=UTF-8&source=www.google.com -- you can at least read the text on google, and get thumbnails of the images on the page:
http://www.google.com/search?oe=UTF-8&q=site:techlib.com+backscatter&um=1&ie=UTF-8&tbm=isch&source=og&sa=N&hl=en&tab=wi
Too bad the schematic isn't readable at thumbnail-size, but maybe techlib.com will be back up soon?

Downloading isn't listed so maybe not. But I'd point out that it appears AT&T have removed the restriction and it was something that could be circumvented easily anyway.

There's a quote I'd like to single out in that article from Voltage Pictures:

Essentially, because of the nature of the swarm downloads as described above, every infringer is simultaneously stealing copyrighted material from many ISPs in numerous jurisdictions around the country.

Next time somebody claims that downloading a film is analogous to stealing a car, I'm going to throw this one at them. "But I'm simultaneously stealing the car with a network of over 20, 000 of my peers, and each time one of them steals the car it creates a new car which is physically identical".
 
We need a term for copyright trolls - if they can compare duplicating data to the practise of attacking and robbing ships at sea, surely we can throw a dictionary of FUD analogies at them, right?

Correct me if I'm wrong, but heat is bad for computer parts.

"In the lower and middle temperature ranges, higher temperatures are not associated with higher failure rates." Google's Failure Trends in a Large Disk Drive Population.
If your disks really live in a >45C environment, then I take it back.

Hamstersoft doesn't appear in the Wayback Machine, but Google's cached version is dated August 6th and includes the download link. Both the linked accusations are from the last couple of days, so it looks very much like while John Schember may have correctly accused Hamstersoft over a month ago he forgot to check the download page before publicly spouting off on his blog.