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You can see a great image of her holding a pistol, and an actual pistol she owned (and probably shot several people with I imagine), here.

I personally think she is a great choice, she is kind of canonical American - a little bit wild, independent, and she made things happen rather than just letting a bad system break her.

I kind of like a motto for the second amendment of "Tubman knew what guns were for, you should too".

They're not asking for special servers. They're giving them away. How you got it backwards is beyond me.

To quote directly from the OpenConnect Appliance Deployment Guide (page 11):

What does the [caching] appliance cost my organization?
The appliances (and any necessary replacements) are provided to participating ISPs free of charge when used within the terms of the license agreement.

OpenConnect is a CDN for Netflix content. In joining it, Netflix offers to give the ISPs the caching servers they'll need to handle the CDN on their end, with the ISPs only having to foot the hosting costs associated with the servers. In exchange, a single one of these servers can displace the need for 70-90% of the traffic Netflix would have been sending to most ISPs, according to that link I provided. And considering Netflix represents over 30% of US Internet traffic, that means that ISPs could stand to reduce the amount of data they pull by as much as 20-30% through the use of one of these appliances, which would mean a MASSIVE cost savings to them.

That's a win-win-win. Customers get better content and faster since it's already cached locally at their ISP. ISPs pull down less data from Netflix without having to foot the bill for the hardware/infrastructure, thus saving them a LOT of money in exchange for a very minor cost (power for an appliance or two, as well as some minimal costs if they're not already at one of the peering locations Netflix uses). Netflix gets happier customers who are more loyal to it. Oh, and non-Netflix customers with those ISPs also win since the ISP will be more capable of servicing their requests, given the lighter load from the Netflix customers. That, in turn, may help to keep costs down for longer.

How you get that it's a "BAD" thing...I have no idea.

Drone in action!

Parent is illogical.
Makes no sense!

Ok, here is the link to the Army, not Battalion but rather combat Brigade stationed to the US. If you read the article it talks about "civil unrest".
http://www.armytimes.com/news/2008/09/army_homeland_090708w/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bl6RXRHMXwE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yYyvw0x4h88

Here is one about the Marines operating a DUI check point with the police
http://freespeech.vo.llnwd.net/o25/pub/images/chp01.png
http://www.infowars.com/massive-checkpoint-operation-in-tennessee-violated-posse-comitatus-fourth-amendment/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UgMx2F41XD0
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jFWs4A8WEFk
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TE2oLMsNJnE

There are dozens of YouTube videos about the military training on the streets of America. Why do they need to train on public streets and the entire city they are in? They can train on their bases just as well. They call these Urban Warfare Training. It is really creepy.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=71Jux68F_AQ
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ks43WZftoqA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3NDmqZU_2a0
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ah_8xu--IEA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FX6u8kqL5Z8
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c5swzxOYQ0k
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xdeWTjDrIls

About the Tea Party. You said there are a few unhinged. That must be a few around you since we have had several Tea Party rallies here in Missouri and had none of those problems. They were peaceful, people talked and there were no issues.

There's an interesting talk given by Richard Rhodes a couple of months ago discussing the likelihood of the use of nuclear weapons:

http://foratv.vo.llnwd.net/o33/rss/Long_Now_Podcasts/podcast-2010-09-21-rhodes.mp3

In a nutshell, it probably doesn't matter if they were offline, they're unlikely ever going to get used.

Listen to the talk for some interesting takes on the "mutually assured destruction" situation.

PDF link to manifesto: http://tmz.vo.llnwd.net/o28/newsdesk/tmz_documents/0901_demands.pdf

These rules happen to be one of the main reasons I still have cable. The Stanley Cup playoffs are nationally televised, thus blacked out online.

http://edge.technet.com/Media/Interview-with-Mark-Russinovich-the-future-of-Sysinternals-Security-Windows
http://mschnlnine.vo.llnwd.net/d1/edge/2/9/5/1/MarkRussinovichEdge_edge.wmv
Most of the video is basic market hype. But at 27:10
Why not scrap the entire Windows code base and start over?
Russinovich openly freely admit that it's simply too much work!
CONCLUSIONS
1. Vista/7/8 = Forever Unsafe.
2. Microsoft dont even want to try making a safe Windows.

http://mschnlnine.vo.llnwd.net/d1/ch9/9/1/1/5/3/4/RussinovichInsideWindows7_ch9.wmv
Most of the video is basic market hype. But at 41.50
Russinovich explain one of the reasons why Vista/7 will always be bloated.
CONCLUSION
Every Windows will be slower and slower and slower and slower.

http://edge.technet.com/Media/Interview-with-Mark-Russinovich-the-future-of-Sysinternals-Security-Windows
http://mschnlnine.vo.llnwd.net/d1/edge/2/9/5/1/MarkRussinovichEdge_edge.wmv
Most of the video is basic market hype. But at 27:10
Why not scrap the entire Windows code base and start over?
Russinovich openly freely admit that it's simply too much work!
CONCLUSIONS
1. Vista/7/8 = Forever Unsafe.
2. Microsoft dont even want to try making a safe Windows.

http://mschnlnine.vo.llnwd.net/d1/ch9/9/1/1/5/3/4/RussinovichInsideWindows7_ch9.wmv
Most of the video is basic market hype. But at 41.50
Russinovich explain one of the reasons why Vista/7 will always be bloated.
CONCLUSION
Every Windows will be slower and slower and slower and slower.

There is another great Bruce, the author Bruce Sterling, who gave a great speech on this topic, really, the best talk on the whole internet as far as I know. Here's a link to the .mp3. The title is "The Singularity: Your Future as a Black Hole." (There's also a video of this on FORA, but the sound really sucks and the excellent q/a session is omitted.)

Ever since I heard this talk (ogg vorbis, mp3) by Bruce Sterling, I can no longer take this singulatarians very seriously. That talk is probably the best talk that I have ever found on the internet, and it should be a part of everyone's introduction to thinking about this singularity stuff. The title is: "The Singularity: Your Future as a Black Hole."

I went through all of the motions in TFA (downloading this plugin and then using its option to save the target of this link and got a very high speed download (it read 1.3M/sec), but what surprised me more is that I was actually able to download the .wmv file at all! (note, I don't use NetFlix) Of course it wouldn't play because of the DRM and the fact that my lazy-man's searches for cracking have led to dead-ends.

Oh well, back to TPB!

My browser already supports audio, video, vector graphics and a scripting language.

Yes, by using a plugin called Flash. This is a plugin that competes with Flash, the first real contender in some time. Competition is good, especially when it competes with Adobe.

(Silverlight required)

And in any case this isn't even true. There are a half dozen download links right in the post:

MP4
MP3
WMV
WMV High

My browser already supports audio, video, vector graphics and a scripting language.

Yes, by using a plugin called Flash. This is a plugin that competes with Flash, the first real contender in some time. Competition is good, especially when it competes with Adobe.

(Silverlight required)

And in any case this isn't even true. There are a half dozen download links right in the post:

MP4
MP3
WMV
WMV High

My browser already supports audio, video, vector graphics and a scripting language.

Yes, by using a plugin called Flash. This is a plugin that competes with Flash, the first real contender in some time. Competition is good, especially when it competes with Adobe.

(Silverlight required)

And in any case this isn't even true. There are a half dozen download links right in the post:

MP4
MP3
WMV
WMV High

My browser already supports audio, video, vector graphics and a scripting language.

Yes, by using a plugin called Flash. This is a plugin that competes with Flash, the first real contender in some time. Competition is good, especially when it competes with Adobe.

(Silverlight required)

And in any case this isn't even true. There are a half dozen download links right in the post:

MP4
MP3
WMV
WMV High

Since nobody (including TFA) has thusfar linked to the official information page on Microsoft's site...

http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/presskits/antipiracy/default.mspx

Microsoft has a 6-minute video you can watch in "Zune-quality" WMV or "Broadcast-quality" MPEG.

Thanks to MarketWatch for actually linking to the original source.

Since nobody (including TFA) has thusfar linked to the official information page on Microsoft's site...

http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/presskits/antipiracy/default.mspx

Microsoft has a 6-minute video you can watch in "Zune-quality" WMV or "Broadcast-quality" MPEG.

Thanks to MarketWatch for actually linking to the original source.

I remember receiving a spammy email like this. And just for giggles, I used "Reply All" and bitched to the sender about how all these email addresses are public knowledge, and about how all the recipients of the email were going to be spammed by any spammer with a worm on anybody's computer on the list, and how annoying it was to receive email like this with everybody on the "to" line...

By replying to all, everybody's address was on the "to" line.

Again.

Maybe I'm just sick. I don't know. But I did get a few responses from people like "Why did you send your reply to everybody?!?!?! Aren't you just making the problem worse!?!?!". But the funniest part is when one of these replies was sent - you guessed it - to everybody on the list.

It was like a barf storm of recursive spammy WTFs.

BWAAA HA HA HA HA HA!!!

Except it's the no-sound version. With a little guesswork, I was able to figure out the right one:

http://cnn-cnnlive-2-primary.wm.llnwd.net/cnn_cnnlive_1_primary?MSWMExt=.asf

http://cnn-cnnlive-2-primary.wm.llnwd.net/cnn_cnnlive_2_primary?MSWMExt=.asf

Microsoft did more than that. They took the statistical data that they compiled from real-world users who opted in to "make future Office better" and used it to determine what features and functions were used most often, and prioritized their efforts on re-working the interface for those features based on that.

One of their leads gave a talk recently on the story of the evolution of Office's interface, starting from Word 1.0 through Office 2007. It's worth watching:

http://msstudios.vo.llnwd.net/o21/mix08/08_WMVs/UX09.wmv

lot time ago, but it still doesn't improve the readability of fonts on my macs :D.

Even Joel in the first link you point to above says:

"Apple's fonts are indeed fuzzy, with blurry edges"..

It only goes to show that people will try to explain away the problem. Like I hinted above, I would prefer if the font was forced to the pixel grid and be more readable, rather than staying true to the typeface and have it more blurry.

My g descenders on Mac are always blurry. So is "e" and the only way to get them looking good is to use a huge 16 point and larger font.

There is an interesting interview with Bill Hill (the inventor of Clear Type) here

http://mschnlnine.vo.llnwd.net/d1/ch9/9/4/7/6/4/1/cleartype_2005.wmv

where he makes a few comments about apple's font rendering. I tend to agree with him from personal experience with both Windows and Mac OS X, and Linux for that matter.

Not sure why your copy still requires the disc. SecuROM crap was removed in 3220.

Here is a retail to 3260 patch: http://thq.vo.llnwd.net/o10/SC/live/supcom_patch_1.0.3189_to_1.1.3260.exe, which I got from here: http://forums.gaspowered.com/viewtopic.php?t=13046

The original Unreal Tournament did the same thing. They required the disc up until the first patch, which is not unreasonable in my opinion.

Here is a very understandable set of slides on how GoW came to be. And here is the audio to go with it.

I misspoke, it was 16MB for level data split into two 8MB chunks (so you can have two levels loaded at once). You can see the memory map on slide 38.

So we have a story that talks about the economic report, that links to a story talking about the report, but doesn't actually link to the report.

The report that the story is actually about (but doesn't link to) is available here.

fava

The summary should include a link to the report itself.

"Some people play tennis. I erode the human soul" - Tycho Brahe

Or, for you visual learners out there: A Picture

don't like browser based streaming players ?

http://futurenet.vo.llnwd.net/o2/uk/cvg/video/797/ h3_mrjukesbetalicious_hq.wmv

"Anyone want to guess how long before "qubit" gets compressed to "quit" (as "bigit" became "bit" in the last century)?"

Nope.

http://myspace-271.vo.llnwd.net/00407/17/24/407284 271_s.jpg

Seems like it would have been worthwhile to link the actual poscast in the summary.

-Peter

If I've said it once, I've said it a million times: One of the biggest things holding social networking back is that people still have this conception of it that is very reminiscent of a 1996 Wired Magazine article. That it's all very cool and hip and revolutionary.

Social networking isn't gonna get anywhere until people everywhere see it as a basic tool, no more, no less. You don't see kids bragging about their email address, do you? Why are teenagers acting the fool over the fact that they have a myspace?

I've been working on a distributed social networking software called Appleseed (at Sourceforge, and a test site at Appleseedproject.org. The idea is to distribute social networking across an infinite number of sites, all of which can communicate with each other flawlessly. Basically, taking the decentralized theory of the internet, and applying it to social networking software.

One of the effects I think this will have, is that a lot of people will join social networking sites who might be normally turned off by a monolothic cesspool such as MySpace. Ridiculous hipsters can have their site, and people who don't suck could have their own site, and someone who doesn't suck could still maintain a relationship with their hipster "friend" so that they can hear where the parties are without having to wear girls jeans and have a haircut that proves that the world has no sense of decency.

Yes, this means that your uncle and your mom and your cousin and even maybe your grandparents are gonna be do the whole social networking thing. Luckily, Appleseed has a lot of privacy options, so you can hide your BDSM Leninist Reading Group from your family.

One of the effects of the "uncooling" of social networking, I think, will be that people recognize that you're not hanging out at 80's night at the local club, or chilling with your friends at a private party. You're broadcasting your life to the whole damn world. Once I think people realize that, I think the absurd and abnormal social habits that social networking creates are going to quickly disappear.

At the very least, I sincerely hope so.

If I've said it once, I've said it a million times: One of the biggest things holding social networking back is that people still have this conception of it that is very reminiscent of a 1996 Wired Magazine article. That it's all very cool and hip and revolutionary.

Social networking isn't gonna get anywhere until people everywhere see it as a basic tool, no more, no less. You don't see kids bragging about their email address, do you? Why are teenagers acting the fool over the fact that they have a myspace?

I've been working on a distributed social networking software called Appleseed (at Sourceforge, and a test site at Appleseedproject.org. The idea is to distribute social networking across an infinite number of sites, all of which can communicate with each other flawlessly. Basically, taking the decentralized theory of the internet, and applying it to social networking software.

One of the effects I think this will have, is that a lot of people will join social networking sites who might be normally turned off by a monolothic cesspool such as MySpace. Ridiculous hipsters can have their site, and people who don't suck could have their own site, and someone who doesn't suck could still maintain a relationship with their hipster "friend" so that they can hear where the parties are without having to wear girls jeans and have a haircut that proves that the world has no sense of decency.

Yes, this means that your uncle and your mom and your cousin and even maybe your grandparents are gonna be do the whole social networking thing. Luckily, Appleseed has a lot of privacy options, so you can hide your BDSM Leninist Reading Group from your family.

One of the effects of the "uncooling" of social networking, I think, will be that people recognize that you're not hanging out at 80's night at the local club, or chilling with your friends at a private party. You're broadcasting your life to the whole damn world. Once I think people realize that, I think the absurd and abnormal social habits that social networking creates are going to quickly disappear.

At the very least, I sincerely hope so.

If I've said it once, I've said it a million times: One of the biggest things holding social networking back is that people still have this conception of it that is very reminiscent of a 1996 Wired Magazine article. That it's all very cool and hip and revolutionary.

Social networking isn't gonna get anywhere until people everywhere see it as a basic tool, no more, no less. You don't see kids bragging about their email address, do you? Why are teenagers acting the fool over the fact that they have a myspace?

I've been working on a distributed social networking software called Appleseed (at Sourceforge, and a test site at Appleseedproject.org. The idea is to distribute social networking across an infinite number of sites, all of which can communicate with each other flawlessly. Basically, taking the decentralized theory of the internet, and applying it to social networking software.

One of the effects I think this will have, is that a lot of people will join social networking sites who might be normally turned off by a monolothic cesspool such as MySpace. Ridiculous hipsters can have their site, and people who don't suck could have their own site, and someone who doesn't suck could still maintain a relationship with their hipster "friend" so that they can hear where the parties are without having to wear girls jeans and have a haircut that proves that the world has no sense of decency.

Yes, this means that your uncle and your mom and your cousin and even maybe your grandparents are gonna be do the whole social networking thing. Luckily, Appleseed has a lot of privacy options, so you can hide your BDSM Leninist Reading Group from your family.

One of the effects of the "uncooling" of social networking, I think, will be that people recognize that you're not hanging out at 80's night at the local club, or chilling with your friends at a private party. You're broadcasting your life to the whole damn world. Once I think people realize that, I think the absurd and abnormal social habits that social networking creates are going to quickly disappear.

At the very least, I sincerely hope so.

If I've said it once, I've said it a million times: One of the biggest things holding social networking back is that people still have this conception of it that is very reminiscent of a 1996 Wired Magazine article. That it's all very cool and hip and revolutionary.

Social networking isn't gonna get anywhere until people everywhere see it as a basic tool, no more, no less. You don't see kids bragging about their email address, do you? Why are teenagers acting the fool over the fact that they have a myspace?

I've been working on a distributed social networking software called Appleseed (at Sourceforge, and a test site at Appleseedproject.org. The idea is to distribute social networking across an infinite number of sites, all of which can communicate with each other flawlessly. Basically, taking the decentralized theory of the internet, and applying it to social networking software.

One of the effects I think this will have, is that a lot of people will join social networking sites who might be normally turned off by a monolothic cesspool such as MySpace. Ridiculous hipsters can have their site, and people who don't suck could have their own site, and someone who doesn't suck could still maintain a relationship with their hipster "friend" so that they can hear where the parties are without having to wear girls jeans and have a haircut that proves that the world has no sense of decency.

Yes, this means that your uncle and your mom and your cousin and even maybe your grandparents are gonna be do the whole social networking thing. Luckily, Appleseed has a lot of privacy options, so you can hide your BDSM Leninist Reading Group from your family.

One of the effects of the "uncooling" of social networking, I think, will be that people recognize that you're not hanging out at 80's night at the local club, or chilling with your friends at a private party. You're broadcasting your life to the whole damn world. Once I think people realize that, I think the absurd and abnormal social habits that social networking creates are going to quickly disappear.

At the very least, I sincerely hope so.

Here is a direct link to the .flv file, if you want to archive it in case it mysteriously disappears from YouTube.

I realize that many people have already posted direct MP3 links to higher versions downloadable elsewhere. However like you I got to MySpace and was annoyed that there was no download link on the page. One thing that pisses the hell out of me are the asshats who dislike the facts of technology and reality, and who insist in living in a delusional fantasy land with the insane notion that if they just BELEIVE something hard enough and if they fight against reality long enough, that eventually what they would LIKE to be true will magically become true. In particular the crazy notion that they can magically transmit a "stream" rather than transmitting a "download", in order to prevent people from getting a "copy" of something. The brain damaged people who simply do not WANT to accept the facts of reality that it is physically and technologically impossible for there to be any difference between sending a "stream" and sending a "download". The only difference between them is what the receiver chooses to do after receiving the transmission. They simply want to insist that they they can somehow transmit a "stream" that is not and cannot be be a "download". It is a simply fact of reality that it is physically impossible for any sender to do that. People who simply refuse to accept the fact of reality that the choice of "stream" vs "download" physicaly lies in the hands of the person they send the file to.

And of course MySpace attempts to only use a "streaming" Flash media player to request the download-that-shall-not-be-a-download. So I went and downloaded some advanced Geek level software and used it to capture the download address that the "streaming" Flash player calls. Just on principal.

So for anyone else who is on principal irritated by that kind of "streaming-only" website nonsense, here is the direct MySpace MP3 link. The direct link to the MySpace download-that-shall-not-be-a-download.

-

"You have chosen to download EVE_3913_a.exe"

no thanks.

So you want to copy/paste and transfer things easily from Mac to PC?

Use 2 computers and Synergy. If you don't have space for 2 monitors, then get a KVM switch and use it only for the video. I have personally 6 screens linked up right now at my desk. (http://myspace-933.vo.llnwd.net/00546/33/98/54670 8933_l.jpg)

Why does everybody always overlook the obvious?

-@

Actually no- it can't be. FoxNews, again, tells the whole story. Those others, not only tell part of the story, they tell the story _that_benefits_the_left, and sometimes uses the exact same words on all channels!

Remember the story you heard, "We go to war with the army we have, not the army we want."? This was the tip of the iceberg, but all CNN & company pushed. They wanted it to be a smartass comment to a man in uniform, by Rumsfeld (who they hate).

A member of the legacy media goaded a soldier to ask, "Why weren't there more armored hummers?" (paraphrased) He continued on to explain about the logistics involved, the course of action already underway, and then the line you heard. Nearly two minutes of detail. I saw the original cut, and the missing pieces.

And how does this explain the New York Times, 05/22/2004 running a story complaining about how Bush was being evil by removing 500T of yellowcake uranium, and nearly 2T of enriched uranium, risking lives of the poor, downtrodden Iraquis, driving it through the streets of Baghdad. (Yeah, THAT yellowcake)

YET TO THIS DAY THE CLAIM NO WMDs. That's not FoxNews. Go see for yourself!

Watch something other than legacy media. Better yet, Limbaugh's coming on at noon, eastern. He'll play the sources, and sometimes the actual audio from these other "news services".

Catch'im on WMAL in DC:
http://abcrad.sc.llnwd.net:12025/

Or, continue to live the lie...

I mean, because of their new 3D input device, the gameplay will be vastly different . Like, in nintendo's teaser video where you saw a dude using it to control a sword, as if he was holding the sword in his own hand swinging away.

Check out the vid here if u haven't: http://zdmedia.vo.llnwd.net/o1/1UP/revolution_cont _tgs05_quick.zip

No console have ever offered this kinda gameplay before, so i think its fair to call it revolutionary.

Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, and finally, Part 4.

Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, and finally, Part 4.

Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, and finally, Part 4.

Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, and finally, Part 4.

For $399 plays videos such as Xvid, Divx. Can do pictures as well.

Official Site

Digital Life TV Review

Might be a worthy rival to the iPod.

Check this out:
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This?

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via BugMeNot.

This is the speech in mp3 and the speech in AAC/M4B (for iTunes/iPod).