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IE has a long history of unpatched security holes. Recall the recent IE holes. While Apache, Samba, etc. are not perfect (w.r.t. security), patches are developed quickly (e.g. Samba 2.2.7.).

Bridgewater College

James Madison University

Eastern Mennonite University(disclosure: I'm trying to transfer into that school)

They also have gee-whiz stuff going on occasionally like the Green Valley Bookfair and JMU sponsors an event called macrock which is a two-day rock festival...

Then there's lovely little joints like the Artful Dodger (neat coffee shop) and The Little Grill (mmmmmmmh yummy)....they're also within range of some great radio....WVTF in Roanoke can reach 'em, WEMC community radio(bluegrass, jazz, and good public affairs programming), and WXJM...good college radio...they're also within range of WNRN in Charlottesville.

So, even though it's a teeny-tiny little community where old order mennonites ride their buggies around...it still has some REALLY neat stuff going on...of course that's just my opinion.

Bridgewater College

James Madison University

Eastern Mennonite University(disclosure: I'm trying to transfer into that school)

They also have gee-whiz stuff going on occasionally like the Green Valley Bookfair and JMU sponsors an event called macrock which is a two-day rock festival...

Then there's lovely little joints like the Artful Dodger (neat coffee shop) and The Little Grill (mmmmmmmh yummy)....they're also within range of some great radio....WVTF in Roanoke can reach 'em, WEMC community radio(bluegrass, jazz, and good public affairs programming), and WXJM...good college radio...they're also within range of WNRN in Charlottesville.

So, even though it's a teeny-tiny little community where old order mennonites ride their buggies around...it still has some REALLY neat stuff going on...of course that's just my opinion.

Now how will I know the best way to enlarge my penis or get that degree from a fine, unaccredited institution?!

Thanks to the majick of Windows Mesenger Serivce, you don't even need email to learn about prestigeous degree opportunities! This information can be (untraceably) delivered straight to your desktop, multiple times per day!

I suggest you increase your "experiences" a bit more and read up on autism here.

Or check this out. It's a list of symptoms from the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (commonly referred to as "The DSM IV").

Sure, a lot of us geeks fit the criteria, but one must be very careful to not confuse introversion with autism. :-)

Sorry, there was a URL error in posting the " better explanation " , the second link. It didn't post, for some reason. Here it is, again, above, and below (in text), in case it still doesn't work. http://www.math.jmu.edu/~jim/full.ps The better explanation is actually intuitive, such that a normal person with a normal education in Differential Calculus would understand it. Shoot, even a person with just algebra could understand it if they understood *what* differential equations were.

Unrealistically, what I'd really like to see would be a programming model that could take a general model, and then at will recalculate the general model based upon specifics. Of course, I too have some physics and math, and I'm not to sure one could really do this.

But if I were going to do it, I would probably use Taylor function matrices everywhere, and use the Parker-Sochacki Picard iteration (better explanation here) to do the specific calculations as needed. My data would then be stored first in a lookup table, as spotty as it could be, and secondarily as a Taylor function, and on third order the Taylor function would be recalculated whenever there was time.

BTW... Most of the stuff you do is pretty amazing; but at least as of 5-6 years ago, your planetary position predictions were lousy. I'm hoping you guys have, since then, upgraded your method with the Parker-Sochacki solution to the Picard iteration.

Quick Explanation of the method here.

Note that the 400 access points we discovered were just during THAT evening's war-drive.

I war-drive for one reason--to guage the growth of wi-fi in the Northern Virginia area. It's been fascinating. Driving last year I'd pick up 20-40 access point within a few miles of my home. Now, I pick up several hundred on an hour long cruise around my town. That phenomenon keeps me going out on a monthly basis.

We visited Old Town Alexandria for this NPR event. We combined it with a "war-walk" and it's a shame they edited out that portion of the adventure. The inebriated queries regarding our yagis were an amusing portion of the un-edited mini-discs.

If you would like to see the setup that was used, visit:

http://ruff.cs.jmu.edu/~beetle/wardrive/index.html

We used this same setup for a similar war-driving demo for the Baltimore Sun a few months back.

Beetle

Well, Cliff,

There's plenty of good stuff out there, but you'll have to do some editing. As somebody who grew up around teachers and has worked in textbook publishing I can assure you that teachers all have to do it too. Their stuff sucks far worse than anything referenced here.

While Project Gutenberg is great, you should also check out on-line encyclopedias like NuPedia, and Everything2 which are all open source, as is The Open Directory Project . A great source of fiction, which can be a wonderful learning tool, is Baen Books who have put hundreds of book online and are eager to have them downloaded and spread around.

For science materials, there are lots of great sites for kids done by educators pursuing whever they're into. All of which you'll want to use to spice up access to sites like Science Daily that are handy but a bit too serious some days for young minds.

Which brings me to Make Stuff which should fill in quite nicely for the "arts and crafts" part of most school curricula.

For biography I'ld check out American National Biography and for history a good start can be made with pages like Anyday which can be amazing or useless, all based on where *you* go from the starting point that they provide. Places like Colonial America are designed just for this but again, check out more than one.

For reference material you should check out Theodora which, while not meant to be open source, is very handy, Geographic.Org, which is open source and student-oriented, should do the rest. I've found that the CIA sourcebook is terrible, as folk should have long since figured out. Biased, misinformed, and sometimes just wierd; leave it behind. However if you hunt you'll find that within various.gov sites there's tons of great stuff, from manuals on camping to stuff on solar panels.

The space science community is very kid friendly, from NASA down to the local Mars Society chapter, having plenty of materials on quite a range of topics that you're free to reproduce and spread around. If you can handle it, the neopagan community is reliably eager to provide information and links on ancient indo-european history, from the government of Sumeria, to Celtic ironwork. (You might be surprised at how many neopagans have advanced degrees in history and/or literature.)

Speaking of limits, you'll always have to be careful that your kids aren't ending up places they shouldn't be but again, every teacher and librarian faces that one.

Lastly, the reason that I've got all this ready to hand is that I took it from my source database, more of which can be found on my web site, which is primarily oriented towards adults and older kids but does have plenty of other links like the ones here.

Best of luck to you and be sure to post back to slashdot in a few years about how it's going.

Rustin H. Wright - Information Geek
"It's all about the information, Marty. Little ones and zeros!"

I wasn't suggesting trying a mine-clearing operation using sound in immediately hostile territory. There are plenty of countries where security is not a major concern, but where mines are. Humanitarian organizations such as InterSOS would benefit from technology that makes the normally painstaking process of demining easier. They are older links, but there is still some information about humanitarian demining projects here.

South Africa (where I come from). There is no need to, and in fact no WAY to, register a copyright (except for films). There is no copyright office or the like, only a patent office. Reference: Department of Trade and Industry (SA)

Collecting damages involves proving that you are in possession of the original copy of the work, which is most easily done by proving that you had the complete work before the first publication. I don't have a legal reference, but I have associations with two successful Copyright defendants.

WIPO's rules require that all signatory countries enact legislation to recognise only: the WORD "Copyright", the copyright symbol (and bracket-c-bracket is specifically excluded in recent WIPO commentaries, but can be recognised by individual countries if they choose to), AND THEY DO NOT REQUIRE COPYRIGHT TO BE REGISTERED.

I don't have a reference for the symbol vs. (C) commentary, but according to this article, this article, and in particular this article from the Library of Congress you haven't done your research. Or you can read from the Berne Convention itself. In particular take note of the line "Before an infringement suit may be filed in court, registration is necessary for works of U. S. origin", as well as references in all three articles to the registration requirement for claiming infringement being a purely US phenomenon, but that it may make it easy to claim damages in other jurisdictions. Registration can also take place at any time in a Copyright life!

Not only did you get it backwards, (the UCC only recognizes the (c) as a valid copyright notice) but all of the above is meaningless if you haven't registered the copyright.

1. The symbol © (the letter C in a circle), or the word "Copyright," or the abbreviation "Copr."; and, from LOC.

When copyright is challanged, the onus is on the author to prove that their work predates any work the claimant can prove.

Wrong.

Rephase, your Honour. When copyright is challanged, the onus is on the challanged to prove that their work predates anything the defendant can prove.

Same effect. At long as I can prove I owned the work before you did, you can't possible own the Copyright. This is enough to get even a registration overturned in court (since you don't have to register a Copyright at the beginning of its life).

This is definately NOT a recommended method. The only recommended method is formal registration.

Only in the US, Canada and other countries where they HAVE registries.

Actually it only proves that you can mail yourself an empty(?) envelope.

No, this is why it specifically has to be registered mail, or the equivalent service, because they will not accept unsealed mail. Registered mail ensures that the mail is delivered and not tampered with. Or did you miss the bit about "containing the complete work"?

You might look here [copyright.gov] for some correct information on copyright in the US. There are also links to international copyright law.

Do I have to register with your office to be protected? No. In general, registration is voluntary. Copyright exists from the moment the work is created. You will have to register, however, if you wish to bring a lawsuit for infringement of a U.S. work. See Circular 1, section Copyright Registration. Note: "U.S. work", a sentiment borne out by the LOC page and other legal articles.

Thank you for playing, consider yourself WRONG. Insert brain to continue...

What Jackson actually said was, "John Marshall has made his decision; let him enforce it now if he can." Please note that name. Marshall was the first jurist to argue that the Supreme Court could review the actions of other branches of government. In 1830 this concept was still controversial. Now it's universally accepted. Recent presidents ignore the Court at their peril. Eisenhower enforced court orders he empahtically disagreed with. Nixon was forced to obey an order that cost him the Presidency. FDR, probably the most popular President in history, couldn't even get away with adding friendly judges to the court.

I was out off-roading with some friends in my jeep this weekend in the George Washington National Forest. We were driving along a high ridge in what appeared to be total wilderness when, all of the sudden, we came upon a bunch of RVs, campers, and pickups and some crazy looking antennas. These guys had a regular tent city set up on top of this mountain! It looked like a lot of fun.


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Army accused of cover-up in Kosovar Albanian's death

Government Watchdog Agency for human medical experiments under investigation

Hydrazine Sulfate Cancer Coverup

THE COVER-UP OF GULF WAR SYNDROME -- A QUESTION OF NATIONAL INTEGRITY

The United States and Biological Warfare

THE UNITED STATES SINCE 1968

MKUltra, Uranium, Unsolved Homicide, Possible Genocide

My bad everyone must be wrong the government is such a great watcher and keeper of the peace. Maybe if you took the time to see things in an unbiased way you would actually have a clue. Me on the other hand I love government, and I truly love many of the policies they've created, but I would never turn a blind eye because they did one good thing so this enables them to perform 20 bad things in return. Fsck that.

If magma is causing the bulge, it may not "sink back". If all it does is cool and harden, it just becomes a layer of intrusive rock.

A conflicting article on CFC damage to the ozone layer was published Dec. 1999 in Science News.

Volcanos do dump tons of nasty stuff into the air, having adverse consequences on the environtment worldwide. And on that note don't forget that we have ticking timebombs of our own, even in my own backyard, Mt. Rainier.

Unfortunately, this is a Masters program, but since you're in industry, they may be willing to allow you in. It can't hurt to ask.

I've also recently received a pamphlet in the mail from the University of Phoenix about their online BS degrees, of which CS was one. Sorry, I'm feeling too lazy to go downstairs and find the URL.

Good luck!
-Omar

Unfortunately, this is a Masters program, but since you're in industry, they may be willing to allow you in. It can't hurt to ask.

I've also recently received a pamphlet in the mail from the University of Phoenix about their online BS degrees, of which CS was one. Sorry, I'm feeling too lazy to go downstairs and find the URL.

Good luck!
-Omar

I'm sorry you feel that the enforcement of property rights was an example of the Supreme Court being "challenged in basic reading skills".

Slavery was a sin of capitalism alone -- which presents a particular problem for Libertarians.

There are many Federal functions and powers that are not specifically enumerated in the Constitution. As I've already addressed in other posts, this is a non-issue.

The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the states, are reserved to the states respectively, or to the people.

In our current system, the Supreme Court is the final word on whether such a law is Constitutional.

De facto, yes, this is the case. De jure, however, it is not; the Court assumed the power or judicial review for itself decades after the Constitution was ratified, in the Marbury v. Madison decision. It is not a role provided for by the Constitution. That is not a value judgement that the Court should or should not have such power; it is a textual and historical fact.