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Kevin B. Pease = AMERICANO (& no CSC degree (l
Kevin B. Pease = AMERICANO from Merrimack New Hampshire - kbpease@hotmail.com
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Kevin B. Pease steals the code of others from books:
http://www.justskins.com/forums/looking-for-inspiration-cascading-16594.html
PERTINENT QUOTE EXCERPT:
"Hi Garry, I think I have a script that will do exactly what you want, based on and I hope, improved...) a program in Lincoln Stein's "CGI.pm" book. The most notable change from his version is that I wrote in"
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Kevin B. Pease has others do his work for him:
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Kevin B. Pease has a MINOR only in CSC, for starters:
http://www.linkedin.com/in/kbpease
PERTINENT EXCERPT:
Kevin Pease's Education
Worcester Polytechnic Institute
B.S., Biotechnology1993 â" 1998
Minor: Computer Science
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Kevin B. Pease is a disgusting FATBOY that needs to lose weight BADLY:
http://userserve-ak.last.fm/serve/126/26720893.jpg
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(Want more? You can't hide from me... & I also know you're from MERRIMACK New Hampshire - not too far away!)
APK
P.S.=> You're a liar, because your "minor" is NOT a CSC degree, as you said here:
"1) Degree in Biotechnology and Computer Science. (Did your troll factory offer dual majors, or just the standard "how to be an obnoxious twat on the internet" syllabus?)" - by Americano (920576) on Friday February 18, @02:27PM (#35247076)
From http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=2001036&cid=35247076
(Double major? b.s. - you did a MINOR at best/most & copying others' work, as seen above? LOL!)... apk
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Kevin B. Pease = AMERICANO ( & no CSC degree)
Kevin B. Pease = AMERICANO from Merrimack New Hampshire - kbpease@hotmail.com
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Kevin B. Pease steals the code of others from books:
http://www.justskins.com/forums/looking-for-inspiration-cascading-16594.html
PERTINENT QUOTE EXCERPT:
"Hi Garry, I think I have a script that will do exactly what you want, based on and I hope, improved...) a program in Lincoln Stein's "CGI.pm" book. The most notable change from his version is that I wrote in"
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Kevin B. Pease has others do his work for him:
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Kevin B. Pease has a MINOR only in CSC, for starters:
http://www.linkedin.com/in/kbpease
PERTINENT EXCERPT:
Kevin Pease's Education
Worcester Polytechnic Institute
B.S., Biotechnology1993 â" 1998
Minor: Computer Science
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Kevin B. Pease is a disgusting FATBOY that needs to lose weight BADLY:
http://userserve-ak.last.fm/serve/126/26720893.jpg
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(Want more? You can't hide from me... & I also know you're from MERRIMACK New Hampshire - not too far away!)
APK
P.S.=> You're a liar, because your "minor" is NOT a CSC degree, as you said here:
"1) Degree in Biotechnology and Computer Science. (Did your troll factory offer dual majors, or just the standard "how to be an obnoxious twat on the internet" syllabus?)" - by Americano (920576) on Friday February 18, @02:27PM (#35247076)
From http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=2001036&cid=35247076
(Double major? b.s. - you did a MINOR at best/most & copying others' work, as seen above? LOL!)... apk
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Re:So? I have a copy of Code Red
I'm not suggesting that "anonymous" was responsible, only that an attack using similar software could cause lines to burst. The national NBC reporting that just aired Saturday February 12th failed to mention ANY of the issues that were raised locally.
The welds were of variable quality and of course pressure-induced failure will be at weak spots. Report say there were multiple failures at once. I've been unable to find any explanation as to why the pressure shot up right before the explosion.
The line was a 30" major distribution line about 50 years old run at pressures of up to 400 p.s.i.
P.G. & E. didn't even for sure know what kind of pipe they had, which calls into question whether they even knew how much pressure it could safely handle. Their records are incomplete and some were wrong. They claim to have no records of numerous calls from people reporting smelling gas as far back as two months before the explosion. They've switched their public statements around. It took them about two hours to even get people to a valve to cut off the gas. They had reported that a malfunction caused a pressure spike but later backtracked trying to claim that running the pressure up to the normal limit two years earlier somehow weakened the line. The period in question was summer/fall. If line pressures had to be elevated to overcome demand-related pressure loss in downstream lines that would have been during winter. (more likely to be an issue with the explosions in the eastern U.S.). The utility neglected to install and use any automatic shutoff equipment.
There are clearly problems with the utility company procedures, but it's that recanted malfunction causing pressure spike part that would be consistent with an attack via software.
There were a number of reports by California media regarding what happened. Some pulled offline later.
There are videos on YouTube with various local residents commenting on what happened.http://www.pressdemocrat.com/article/20110122/WIRE/110129816
http://articles.sfgate.com/2011-01-11/news/27022021_1_pg-e-gas-line-spike
http://www.pressdemocrat.com/article/20110122/WIRE/110129816
http://www.fox40.com/news/headlines/ktxl-tv-pgesanbrunopipe,0,4690306.story
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W3z9VRqxOtE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o6Uza3-EDRc
The worm is not limited to what's in use in Iran. The people in the field that use Windows systems to spit out the code actually used by the control systems generally don't have the knowledge to disassemble the code and spot problems that aren't immediately apparent (like periodic instability or a timed attack). Given that things like pumping stations aren't set up often, expect that most use outside contractors.
http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9185419/Siemens_Stuxnet_worm_hit_industrial_systems
The national reporting simply blaming the incident on welds was misleading. At least region
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Re:I don't get it.
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Re:From the video in TFA
The list you posted is a not a compilation of things she said about anyone, but a list she created of things she would want to put on unspecified people's report cards:
These comments, I think, would serve me well when filling out the cards. Only, I don't think parents want to hear these truths.
Thus, the old addage... if you don't have anything nice to say...
The blog is otherwise a reasonably, fairly well written lamentation about students today.
No, it was not great judgement to post these things about her current class under her identifiable name, but it's not a mad woman posting nasty comments.
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in context ...
i just read through the entire blog, including comments. here's the cache link,
http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:sOtUI146FXAJ:natalieshandbasket.blogspot.com/2010/01/if-you-dont-have-anything-nice-to-say.html%3FshowComment%3D1297206567911+natalieshandbasket.blogspot.com+rat+dim&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us&source=www.google.comfor those that don't have time to read it and take the quotes in context, here's the jist of it. she's complaining about the process of writing comments on report cards. she says it takes too long, and talks about how she was to sugar-coat her thoughts. for example, "socially awkward" ==> "works well independently". she then takes this idea to an extreme and creates a bullet list of what she'd really like to say
if we took 100 high schoolers are evaluated them, i am sure most of us would judge a large percentage of them awkward, or self-centered, lazy, air-headed, etc. that's just how high-schoolers come across. it's an awkward time in a human's life. if i met myself at 16, i am sure i'd think i was a jerk (and the 16 yo me would think the current me if a jerk also, probably). sure there are the exceptional high schoolers that managed to grow up early and are already well on their way to well adjusted adults, but that is not the norm.
which is this teacher's mistake. you can't expect high school kids to have it figured out, and if you can't handle that, then don't get involved with them.
about 1/2 of the comments were from current or former students. it was quite sad. there was one person who thought (knew) that some of the blog text was referring to her specifically. a lot of students were just hurt to find out that their instructor has these thoughts running through her head about them. she didn't mention names in ber blog thank god, but then again, that leaves every student wondering if they are the "dim-witted" one. say what you want about the value of honesty, but respect earns respect. she just lost any ability to teach any student that is aware of that blog.
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Re:Lazy Journalists
actually, are not about specific students but what she would like to have available as report card comments. Still inappropriate and not very smart blogging in such an identifiable manner.
Perhaps she just had a moment of irrationality back in Jan 2010 when she wrote it? Perhaps the comments really were accurate for some students, if frank. Obviously she didn't use those comments on their report cards which is what counts. What she posted online was some rant in a personal blog entry, not directed comments about her students.
Check out this one.... And she teaches advanced honors-level courses to high school students who exhibit such behavior?
Journals are graded on the attitude and enthusiasm the students display regarding and during SSR time, and the quality and quantity of the journal responses. The aforementioned student suffered a bit of a set back when he decided he didn't like the book he was reading....
He ranted and raved and made a spectacle, ended up not reading, and pretty much displayed the same behavior the next SSR day
So, accordingly, I took points off for attitude and for entry quality (since he didn't actually READ on a couple of his ranty days), and I wrote to him in the grade comments section that he doesn't deal well with setbacks, had displayed a negative attitude and needs to learn how to move past disappointments with not having the book he'd prefer reading available to him, and that his language was inappropriate.
When handing back the sheets, he immediately made a big show exclaiming how he didn't curse in his book and how it's not fair how I took off points, etc. Then he demanded that I show him where he'd displayed this negative attitude and where the curses were. I ignored him at first, correcting him only to say that I'd said his language was inappropriate but didn't say he'd cursed. He forced the issue, though, by stomping over with his journal and slapping it on the desk making his demand again. This time, since we now had an entire audience and I knew the words would speak for themselves and damn him, I obliged. I said, "Not that I need to justify your grade to you, but here..." and I proceeded--after a short pause during which time I was leafing through to find the offending passages and the students were starting to snicker, thinking he'd called my bluff--to read, verbatim, the offending passages. I read all 3 of them, and he started getting annoyed, trying to stop me by saying, "Alright alrightalright!" but I kept going until I was done, then I finished off by noting, "And for the record, this is exactly the type of behavior I was referring to, also. Your arguing has just eaten into your grade for this batch of SSR reading and journaling. Perhaps you should just get to work." He did. -
Re:Says the blog was shut down.
There seem to be more interesting tidbits avail via webcache if you search around... check out this one
Frustration Incorporation; Iratation Nation; Saturday April 17, 2010: Natalie M.
The first semester of this school year, when I had a parade of whiny, entitled kids run to the guidance department to tell on me for giving them the low grades they earned on their shoddy papers, sort of scarred me. I consider myself very fair with my grading There is an expectation which I set forth at the onset
For the second paper, then, my first order of business was to decide that I was going to give them the paper topic question up front before we even read the literature....
The second order of business was to assess the previous results from past compare-contrast papers. Those papers are classically not very good. Why, I wondered? I know why: because I usually have them compare 2 pieces of literature, and those 2 pieces are often in verse (poetry) form, so maybe they'd have better things to say if they didn't have so much working against them. So I chose a prose version of Beowulf (one that I usually do with the Basic kids, which is certainly accessible to Academic level students) and decided to have them compare images of light and dark within in it (which are so prevalent that to miss them would mean one didn't read the text)
As I've been grading them (since Wednesday. They are averaging Cs with me being generous in the grading), I've become increasingly disgruntled. It's as though I didn't give them any instruction at any point in time. I might as well have said, "Write a paper on this book. But don't bother reading the book!" Here's the major issues I've seen:
I can say with some degree of certainty that I have spent longer grading and commenting on some of their papers than they did writing them in the first place. I am absolutely giving them a lot more thought.
I don't know when it happened that thinking and working and effort became impossible tasks. But I do know that I have just about had it. I'm at the end of my rope.
It doesn't matter what we do in the classroom, because kids today just don't care. They don't want to learn. They don't want to work. They don't want to think. And if we try to hold them accountable, we're the bad guys. -
Lazy Journalists
Who were apparently educated by teachers like this one.
Her comments, actually, are not about specific students but what she would like to have available as report card comments. Still inappropriate and not very smart blogging in such an identifiable manner.
Here's a Google cache, which I'm sure will go away, leaving us with 4th hand rehashed content as a 'primary' source in this story
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Re:Won't Someone Think of the Teachers?
She blogged under the name Natalie M., didn't name names.
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Re:Less Honesty Please...
Here's a link to a relevant cached post from the blog.
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cached link from google
Link! .
I don't know about you but her comments are pretty funny. True though, it's probably not the best thing to blog about as a teacher. The students' comments were pretty great. -
Hilarity!
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Link to her blog post
Here is a google cache of her blog post. To me, its seems she just had to vent it out. Judge it for yourselves.
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Re:Says the blog was shut down.
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Re:Says the blog was shut down.
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Re:About face!
Bug ID 4399272 trumps the one mentioned in the article and was logged 08-Dec-2000. As with 4421492 it's no longer available on the Sun site, but it's still in Google's cache.
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Why you should never pay for online dating help
http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:9OtAvuobLwgJ:www.okcupid.com/z/yf2
This article was originally posted on Hackers News, but its a great story
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Second link slashdotted
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Re:anybody read the review?
Here is the original review:
Mike Servo, the general manger makes comments down below.
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Cached report on lawsuit from blog & review
Bloggers article on being sued:
http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:DeHc7_jwEEQJ:www.248am.com/mark/kuwait/im-being-sued-by-benihana/+http://www.248am.com/mark/kuwait/im-being-sued-by-benihana/&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us&client=firefox-a&source=www.google.comBlogger's original review:
http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:Q4qRyLrkfa4J:www.248am.com/mark/kuwait/my-benihana-experience/+http://www.248am.com/mark/kuwait/im-being-sued-by-benihana/&cd=2&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us&client=firefox-a&source=www.google.comMy Benihana Experience
A few days back I posted about Benihana opening up at the Avenues and yesterday night I decided to pass by with Nat and try it out. The service wasn’t too bad for a restaurant that’s just been open for a few days and the staff were really friendly. The restaurant itself is made up of islands and bars with a grill in the middle of each one. You sit around the grill and the chef will come to your table and prepare the food right in front of you which makes things entertaining. It’s actually why I prefer sitting at the bar in Japanese restaurants in general, since you can talk to the chef and watch them put your dish together. The problem with my experience last night though was with the food, it was disappointing to say the least.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wllrtj-3rV4
We ordered beef negimayaki for starters followed by an Orange Blossom maki and a Hibachi Chicken. The negimaki arrived looking good and was probably the best thing we had there even though I prefer Maki’s negimaki which has a richer teriyaki sauce. The Orange Blossom was very ordinary, wouldn’t order it again. Now the Hibachi chicken which is basically grilled chicken, that was the worst. The chicken was very chewy (I could swear it was undercooked if not raw) and tasted terrible. Even after I had the chef add some more teriyaki sauce in hopes of improving the taste it didn’t work. I tried to dip it into the sauces that came with the chicken but it was hard to figure out if they were actually making things worse or not. Nat only ate one piece of chicken and left the rest while I needed my protein since I’m on a strict diet and forced myself to eat my whole plate (I can do that) but the after taste was really bad. Even the rice and the veggies that came with it tasted bad AND were under cooked. Once we left I considered picking up a frozen yogurt from Pinkberry even though I hate frozen yogurts but I just needed something to get rid of the aftertaste. A few moments later we ended up at Chocolate Bar ordering the gooey chocolate cake (bye bye diet).
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iAyPBFxNQlwI shot the two videos above of the chef preparing our meal. Benihana are known for the live shows they perform when preparing your dish so I was expecting to see [This] but ended up with the above . Would I go back to Benihana? No I wouldn’t. Their sashimi and maki’s are pretty cheap (KD1.5 for 5 pieces of Salmon sashimi for example) but there are two other Japanese restaurants at the Avenues, Wasabi and Maki, and I would prefer either one of those to Benihana.
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Cached report on lawsuit from blog & review
Bloggers article on being sued:
http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:DeHc7_jwEEQJ:www.248am.com/mark/kuwait/im-being-sued-by-benihana/+http://www.248am.com/mark/kuwait/im-being-sued-by-benihana/&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us&client=firefox-a&source=www.google.comBlogger's original review:
http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:Q4qRyLrkfa4J:www.248am.com/mark/kuwait/my-benihana-experience/+http://www.248am.com/mark/kuwait/im-being-sued-by-benihana/&cd=2&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us&client=firefox-a&source=www.google.comMy Benihana Experience
A few days back I posted about Benihana opening up at the Avenues and yesterday night I decided to pass by with Nat and try it out. The service wasn’t too bad for a restaurant that’s just been open for a few days and the staff were really friendly. The restaurant itself is made up of islands and bars with a grill in the middle of each one. You sit around the grill and the chef will come to your table and prepare the food right in front of you which makes things entertaining. It’s actually why I prefer sitting at the bar in Japanese restaurants in general, since you can talk to the chef and watch them put your dish together. The problem with my experience last night though was with the food, it was disappointing to say the least.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wllrtj-3rV4
We ordered beef negimayaki for starters followed by an Orange Blossom maki and a Hibachi Chicken. The negimaki arrived looking good and was probably the best thing we had there even though I prefer Maki’s negimaki which has a richer teriyaki sauce. The Orange Blossom was very ordinary, wouldn’t order it again. Now the Hibachi chicken which is basically grilled chicken, that was the worst. The chicken was very chewy (I could swear it was undercooked if not raw) and tasted terrible. Even after I had the chef add some more teriyaki sauce in hopes of improving the taste it didn’t work. I tried to dip it into the sauces that came with the chicken but it was hard to figure out if they were actually making things worse or not. Nat only ate one piece of chicken and left the rest while I needed my protein since I’m on a strict diet and forced myself to eat my whole plate (I can do that) but the after taste was really bad. Even the rice and the veggies that came with it tasted bad AND were under cooked. Once we left I considered picking up a frozen yogurt from Pinkberry even though I hate frozen yogurts but I just needed something to get rid of the aftertaste. A few moments later we ended up at Chocolate Bar ordering the gooey chocolate cake (bye bye diet).
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iAyPBFxNQlwI shot the two videos above of the chef preparing our meal. Benihana are known for the live shows they perform when preparing your dish so I was expecting to see [This] but ended up with the above . Would I go back to Benihana? No I wouldn’t. Their sashimi and maki’s are pretty cheap (KD1.5 for 5 pieces of Salmon sashimi for example) but there are two other Japanese restaurants at the Avenues, Wasabi and Maki, and I would prefer either one of those to Benihana.
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Google cache to slashdotted review
And the cached review here.
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Re:Google cache to slashdotted original
Sorry to reply to my own post, but thought I'd also post a link to the Google cache of the review that got the whole 'storm started: Cache of review.
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Google cache to slashdotted original
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Re:I must have this!!
Andrew Carol is the designer. His website has more information - http://acarol.woz.org/antikythera_mechanism.html If the site is down, try the Google cache
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Re:No.. that would be silly.
Except a google cache link normally looks like this:
His link looks nothing like a Google cache, and I can't see that it is. If I had seen the word "cache" in the link, I would have assumed it was such. I appreciate, but I don't think that answers the question.
After more inspection, it appears he hovered over the address in a Google page search, right clicked and "copy link address" and just pasted that, instead of going to the page and copying the address. IE: was citing a search result, not an actual page, which is kinda lazy because it isn't confirming the contents of the citation. Again, not a good way to provide a link, as thinks often get broke that way, and you haven't confirmed the content of the page you are linking.
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The cached version
Is here.
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Re:HTTP 502 - Service temporarily overloaded
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Re:HTTP 502 - Service temporarily overloaded
Slashdotted already? Damn!
Try Google's cache http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?oe=UTF-8&hl=pt&q=cache:kZYcDFibjHcJ:https://grepular.com/Abusing_HTTP_Status_Codes_to_Expose_Private_Information
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The original article is here
His blog seems be down with all the floods of people telling him to lay off the crack pipe.
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Dead link
The Google Cache version of the 20.08.2003 story
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Re:Yes, Machiavellien, quite
In what way does google own the definition of VP8?
Here is the VP8 bitstream guide for example:
http://static.googleusercontent.com/external_content/untrusted_dlcp/www.webmproject.org/en//media/pdf/vp8-bitstream.pdf
It is published under a Creative Commons license
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/
We are free to share it or remix it with attribution.
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BTW changes to the format of either VP8 or h.264 are not happening as without a fixed bitstream encoders/decoders are not going to
work, the fact that one was produced by a standards body the other behind close door has nothing to do with how open they are
now or if they are effectively Intellectual Property of a collective cartel or public domain/royalty free.
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Re:... in lots of official mirrors
Some (not all) direct Links
North America
http://mirror3.mirrors.tds.net/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases/4.0b9/Europe Mirrors
http://ftp.halifax.rwth-aachen.de/mozilla/firefox/releases/4.0b9/
http://napoleon.acc.umu.se/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases/4.0b9/
http://mirror.informatik.uni-mannheim.de/pub/mirrors/mozilla.org/firefox/releases/4.0b9/
http://www.mirrorservice.org/sites/releases.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases/4.0b9/Asia
http://jp-nii01.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases/4.0b9/Japan Mirrors
http://ftp.jaist.ac.jp/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases/4.0b9/
http://kyoto-mz-dl.sinet.ad.jp/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases/4.0b9/Mid East Mirrors
http://mozilla.saudi.net.sa/firefox/releases/4.0b9/
http://mirrors.isu.net.sa/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases/4.0b9/South America
http://mozilla.c3sl.ufpr.br/releases/firefox/releases/4.0b9/Belarus
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They admit it.
There's a forum thread where a developer of MaXplosion admits that they were inspired by Splosion Man. Isn't that enough of a smoking gun?
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Re:They finally figured out...
Yeah too bad the Google Cache of the article doesn't have pictures because the site is down. Seriously though Slashdot needs to start posting the Cache of the article with the article so at least it doesn't go down quite as quickly.
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google cache
It is ugly as hell but it is readable... why more sites do not have a printer friendly page is beyond me (or I missed the link)!
Oh yeah, be prepared to scroll down a lot to get to the meat.
Now since I have posted a comment like a good
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google cache
It is ugly as hell but it is readable... why more sites do not have a printer friendly page is beyond me (or I missed the link)!
Oh yeah, be prepared to scroll down a lot to get to the meat.
Now since I have posted a comment like a good
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google cache
It is ugly as hell but it is readable... why more sites do not have a printer friendly page is beyond me (or I missed the link)!
Oh yeah, be prepared to scroll down a lot to get to the meat.
Now since I have posted a comment like a good
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Slashdotted. Here are links:
Since the site is Slashdotted, I thought these links might help:
Google cache takes a long time to come up, and won't show the image, but you can read the text. Click on the word Cached.
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Re:Having trouble visualizing
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Slashdotted, here's the text
Google reCAPTCHA cracked
Written by John P Mello JrgravatarcloseAuthor: John P Mello Jr Name: John P Mello
Email: jpmello@cox.net
Site: http://twitter.com/jpmello
About: John Mello is a freelance writer who has written about business and technical subjects for more than 25 years. He is frequent contributor to the ECT News Network and his work has appeared in a number of periodicals, including Byte magazine, PC World, Computerworld, CIO magazine and the Boston GlobeSee Authors Posts (68) on January 5, 2010Despite denials from Google, a security researcher continues to assert that the Search King’s reCAPTCHA system for protecting Web sites from spammers can be successfully exploited by Internet junk mail panderers.
Researcher Jonathan Wilkins published a paper recently that included an analysis of reCAPTCHA’s security. In automated attacks he conducted against the system, he reported he had an alarming success rate of 17.5 percent.
CAPTCHA–which stands for Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart–is a method for foiling automated attacks by spammers on Web sites. Before a Net surfer can perform at a site a task, such as setting up an email account or adding comments to a blog posting, he or she is presented with the image of a word or phrase that has been distressed in some way. The warped image is intended to thwart scanners and optical recognition software programs used to automate the compromising of web sites by spammers. The idea is that humans can read the characters in the image and type them into a form while machines can’t.
Some simple math reveals just how alarming Wilkins’ findings are. The operator of even a modest botnet of 10,000 machines would be perfectly happy with a success rate of 0.01 percent. That would mean 10 new gmail accounts could be created every second or 864,000 new accounts a day from which spam could be launched.
Google counters that Wilkins test targeted an old form of reCAPTCHA from 2008 that’s been changed. “[T]his study does not reflect the effectiveness of reCAPTCHA’s current technology against machine solvers,” a Google spokesperson told The Register. “We’ve found reCAPTCHA to be far more resilient while also striking a good balance with human usability, and we’ve received very positive feedback from customers.”
Wilkins acknowledged that his initial tests were on an older version of reCAPTCHA, but since that time, he has conducted tests on the new images produced by the system and found them to be even weaker than the older ones. In one of his original tests on the system, his success rate was five in 200. When that test was run on the new reCAPTCHA, the rate was 23 in 100.
The major difference between the old and new versions of reCAPTCHA, according to Wilkins, is the use of horizontal lines to obscure the characters in the image. While the use of the lines makes it harder for machines to recognize a reCAPTCHA phrase–although Wilkins asserts the lines can be subverted easily by spammers–it also makes the phrase harder to read by humans, too. New reCAPTCHA images drop the lines but add distortion to the image. They’re easier to read for humans, but, alas, they’re also easier for machines to crack.
Unlike most CAPTCHA systems, Google’s uses images with two words. That’s because Google uses reCAPTCHA for two purposes. Like other CAPTCHA systems, it’s designed to frustrate spammers, bu
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Re:This was encouraged by a Daily Kos Blogger
Well yeah, she took it down.
Thank god for google, then: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:2jywteT5WakJ:www.facebook.com/note.php%3Fnote_id%3D373854973434+sarah+palin+map+cache&cd=3&hl=en&ct=clnk -
This was encouraged by a Daily Kos Blogger
See cache here as the Kos revisionists are on the double.
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QUANTUM: PRODRIVE ELS 42 AT 42MB 3.5"/SL IDE
I have one of those here.
Still runs too, & in perfect working order (w/ DOS 6.22 & Doom I/II on it, & that's all)
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Capacity 42/MB
Seek time 19.0/ 5.5 ms
Controller IDE
Cache/Buffer 8 KB LOOK-AHEAD
TransferRate 2.500 MB/S
RotationRPM 3663---
They'll make you laugh. They do me, especially by way of comparison to the disk setup I have here now:
300gb WD Velociraptor SATA II 10,000rpm 16mb buffer
150gb WD Velociraptor SATA II 10,000rpm 16mb buffer
(Both driven by a Promise SuperTrak Ex8350 128mb ECC RAM RAID 6 PCIe Caching Controller)
GIGABYTE IRAM 4gb SSD (for offloading pagefile.sys, ALL logging (OS event logs, apps that log too), %temp/tmp% ops, webbrowser caches, & print spooling duties, + %comspec% location from those 2 disks above)APK
P.S.=> I seem to recall the disk did 4500rpm though, even though those specs say 3663 - I think that was just for their temperature test specs on that URL's page content though - man, it's ancient.... apk
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20 years
The overwhelming consensus SPI for flying cars is twenty years.
http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/aug2004/tc20040825_4462_tc119.htm
http://www.kurzweilai.net/forums/topic/why-flying-cars-are-a-long-way-off
http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:TuZyTN2xWuwJ:www.slideshare.net/RichStrong/magic-dragon-flying-car-project-presentation+flying+car+20+years+-%22your+flying+car+awaits%22&cd=11&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us http://www.davinciinstitute.com/papers/where-is-my-flying-car/
http://www.cobizmag.com/articles/flying-cars-just-give-it-20-years-or-so/page-2/
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Re:What class of SUV?
The project is not targeted at SUV, they want to rate each car and ban everything above a level, which they have not decided yet. The test project is not going to start before mid-2012, and they would use traffic cameras.
And no, there isn't any rush for electric car yet here, there are some Toyota Pryus Hybrids, mainly cabs, nothing much.
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Slashdotted! - Here is GOOGLE Cache
Wow... now THAT I didn't expect to see happen! The link on my page for the HDD64 has apparently been Slashdotted!
I should have CORALized that link, as well. My apologies! I didn't think there would have been THAT much interest! (Either that, or his Host has ridiculously LOW usage limits!)
Here is the Google Cache of the site. I hope it helps!
http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:http%3A%2F%2Fwww.64hdd.com%2F64hdd.html
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Cache of TFA
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Here's the text and Google Cache version
2010 has been all about tablets - there is the iPad and a plethora of Android tablets - and it seems like it is going to continue to 2011.
Now it seems we have a different contender. A few days back, some pictures of an unnamed tablet running Ubuntu has cropped up. The device is said to be running Ubuntu 10.10 Netbook Edition and the boot time reported to be almost instant.
The specifications of the device are said to be as below:
* Intel Atom 1.6 GHz
* 2 GB RAM
* 32 GB SSD Hard Drive
* Ubuntu Netbook Edition 10.10 "Maverick Meerkat"UNE 10.10 supports multi-touch but there has been a dearth of devices which uses its multi-touch features. While I am very excited to see a tablet running Ubuntu, I do not think Ubuntu is ready for tablets yet. For now Honeycomb seems like the OS for tablets.
And another thing, in the images the button has the Windows logo. Puzzling!!
Source: http://www.gizchina.com/2010/12/23/exclusive-leaked-images-reveal-ubuntu-powered-tablet/
Via: http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2010/12/leaked-images-of-mysterious-ubuntu-powered-tablet/
