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In grotesque summary of a website's summary at the federal level "The statute is essentially about stealing mail from the Post Office.". In other words the feds pretty much don't care as long as there are no post office employees or post office property directly involved.

The mailbox out front is post-office property. So I suppose, technically, if something arrives at it that has someone else's name on it, if you take that item from the post office box and bring it into your home to open it, you have stolen it, unless there was some sort of implied permission that you do so. I think if you are married, and you ordinarily do that, then there is implied permission, and not a crime.

Title 18 US Federal code:

According to Title 18, United States Code, Section 1705, residential mailboxes are indeed considered Federal Property and are protected under that same code against acts of mail theft, vandalism and rifling:

United States Code TITLE 18 > PART I > CHAPTER 83 http://makeashorterlink.com/?K10125B84

Tampering with mailboxes in any fashion is a felony offense:

"Mailboxes are considered federal property, and federal law makes it a crime to vandalize them (and to injure, deface or destroy any mail deposited in them)."

I don't know anyone who's NOT Anti-DRM. All DRM does is make buying music miserable for the people who are doing it legally. People who don't care about the legality of it will just torrent the CD or get it off some other file sharing network.

What is it about DRM, and music in general, that makes people think that music is the only use for DRM? Am I allowed to care passionately about the effects of DRM despite having dumped my entire music collection in a rubbish bin about a dozen years ago because I was fed up with friends visiting to listen to my musinc instead of to talk with me?

The evil that is DRM is far and away more important than music. OK, I have some belly button fluff here that is more important than "music" too, but I think you get the point.

As an aside - how many other commentators on this story made a typo "musinc" for "music"? Isn't that poetic justice. Or is it subliminal suggestion at work?

So get one here cheap! FB!!!

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Please give either the original URL or a makeashorterlink URL, so there's a chance to see the real destination before going there.

You also could have used a makeashorterlink URL. Which would have the advantage that one can first have a look at the real link to find out if it really points to the expected (after all, noone hinders you to make a tinyurl link to goatse, and then claim it's to some other, work-safe site). I almost never click on tinyurl links.
People who don't want the intermediate site can disable it. Note that it is not the creator of the link who disables the page, but the user of the link.

BTW, you would also have had the option to use a plain old HTML anchor tag, so slashdot wouldn't have to parse the URL. Or to replace the problematic characters (commas, I guess?) by their hex replacement (%xx where xx are the corresponding hex digits, e.g. %2C for the comma).

You also could have used a makeashorterlink URL. Which would have the advantage that one can first have a look at the real link to find out if it really points to the expected (after all, noone hinders you to make a tinyurl link to goatse, and then claim it's to some other, work-safe site). I almost never click on tinyurl links.
People who don't want the intermediate site can disable it. Note that it is not the creator of the link who disables the page, but the user of the link.

BTW, you would also have had the option to use a plain old HTML anchor tag, so slashdot wouldn't have to parse the URL. Or to replace the problematic characters (commas, I guess?) by their hex replacement (%xx where xx are the corresponding hex digits, e.g. %2C for the comma).

you mean this?

http://makeashorterlink.com/?E69A41E9C

-gary

I'm an old-timer that is possibly out-of-date with current lingo.

Can you define "chops" for me as it relates to IT? Is it related to "skillz"?

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think back to your own experiences

Physics: 100% of professors were male. English: 100% were female. Humanities: about a 50/50 mix. Psychology: about 50/50 with men tending to show up somewhat more frequently in abnormal psych and women tending to gravitate towards developmental/childhood psych. While I didn't take any of the "family science" classes, I was vaguely aware that they were close to, if not exactly 100% female.

According to the US Census bureau (2004 numbers) found at http://makeashorterlink.com/?J3881275C:

• 6.2 million teachers in the US, 71% of whom are women
• 3.1 million elementary/middle school teachers, 79% of whom are women
• 98% of preschool/kindergarten teachers are women (you work on increasing the % of male preschool/kindergarten teachers above 2% and I'll start to worry about increasing the % of women undergrad college instructors above 38%)

Elementary/middle school teachers aside women enjoy majority employment in every category except for postsecondary where they claim 46% of the positions:

59% Secondary
46% Post-secondary
87% Special education
67% other

Companies that aren't pro consumer don't make money..at least not for long.

Please give three examples how Comcast is pro-consumer.

Glaxo?

Westinghouse?

Any of Andrew Carnigie's companies?

Standard Oil... that was an exceptionally pro-consumer company, no?

Tinfoil hats are unnecessary... there is no conspiracy. Pro-consumer companies can do exceptionally well (but if they become too pro-consumer then they quickly fold).

Crack dealers make lots of money - are they pro-consumer?

It isn't hard to be anti-consumer and still make gobs of cash: you only have to sell a product the consumer values or needs more than their desire to avoid your abuse. Has anybody ever accused Ameritech of being pro-consumer? Certainly not the people around here who went 9 weeks and longer without service. How many HMOs bend over backwards for you? Consider all of the hospitals that think nothing of letting you fester in the ER lobby for hours before even bothering to put you in front of the triage nurse or cut nurse staffing levels to the point where people die for lack of care?

There are many other environments and industries that are decidedly anti-consumer yet still rake in lots and lots of profit - with no sign of those dividends dropping anytime soon.

These incidents you describe were clearly not the work of the Secret Service but rather Bush campaign operations. So I would advise you to stop slandering the Secret Service and rather get your facts straight.

Please consult your nearest dictionary regarding the difference between slander and libel. That said, please refer to the 329,000 hits returned by google for this search

A couple of blurbs that stand out follow:

As stated by one of its own procedure manuals, the Secret Service is not supposed to segregate protesters. However, when local police officers have testified in these cases they almost always confirm the Secret Service's orders to segregate protesters in a discriminatory manner. http://www.satyamag.com/apr04/pascarella.html

The SS has officially denied having anything to do with es- tablishing the zones, however, SS representatives have acknowledged they do. Police officers in several states have testified or made public statements, that the Se- cret Service ordered them to keep protesters out of sight of the president. http://makeashorterlink.com/?K1F531DFB

Now please understand me: my observations are neither pro-Bush nor anti-Bush. I think Bush does a fine job on some issues and a horrible job on others. I personally would never attend a protest rally but that's just me and my personal opinion. I am neither for nor against people who do prostest and/or support Bush (or any other president, for that matter) and have a complaint only with the attempt to hide (at best) or silence (at worst) dissent for the news service - all of which is staged anyway.

Has the secret service overstepped their bounds to illegally suppress dissenting speech? Unquestionably. Did this work in the favor of Bush(II)? Yes. Did this work in the favor of Clinton? Yes. Did this work in the favor of Bush(I)? Yes. For every president since the secret service started protecting presidents? Probably. There is nothing libelous about pointing out truth, nor is there anything particularly mean-spirited about doing so. Every president wants to look good on the telly and every president will use whatever resources are at his disposal to go about this. This is politics as usual and transcend red, blue, left, right, politics and partisanship.

Personally, I think this is wrong. I personally think that people should be allowed to express their opinions, if and only if they are non-violent, non-menacing and non-threatening in the process. Wear a T-Shirt with all kinds of "support this" or "denounce that". Be happy that a local merchant made a few bucks on the sale. But any law enforcement official who says "you can't stand here with those words, now move along or be arrested" is in violation of the concept of free speech. I can ignore a message with which I disagree, I expect the president to do no less. I also expect the president to order his employees and supporters to do the same.

These incidents you describe were clearly not the work of the Secret Service but rather Bush campaign operations. So I would advise you to stop slandering the Secret Service and rather get your facts straight.

Please consult your nearest dictionary regarding the difference between slander and libel. That said, please refer to the 329,000 hits returned by google for this search

A couple of blurbs that stand out follow:

As stated by one of its own procedure manuals, the Secret Service is not supposed to segregate protesters. However, when local police officers have testified in these cases they almost always confirm the Secret Service's orders to segregate protesters in a discriminatory manner. http://www.satyamag.com/apr04/pascarella.html

The SS has officially denied having anything to do with es- tablishing the zones, however, SS representatives have acknowledged they do. Police officers in several states have testified or made public statements, that the Se- cret Service ordered them to keep protesters out of sight of the president. http://makeashorterlink.com/?K1F531DFB

Now please understand me: my observations are neither pro-Bush nor anti-Bush. I think Bush does a fine job on some issues and a horrible job on others. I personally would never attend a protest rally but that's just me and my personal opinion. I am neither for nor against people who do prostest and/or support Bush (or any other president, for that matter) and have a complaint only with the attempt to hide (at best) or silence (at worst) dissent for the news service - all of which is staged anyway.

Has the secret service overstepped their bounds to illegally suppress dissenting speech? Unquestionably. Did this work in the favor of Bush(II)? Yes. Did this work in the favor of Clinton? Yes. Did this work in the favor of Bush(I)? Yes. For every president since the secret service started protecting presidents? Probably. There is nothing libelous about pointing out truth, nor is there anything particularly mean-spirited about doing so. Every president wants to look good on the telly and every president will use whatever resources are at his disposal to go about this. This is politics as usual and transcend red, blue, left, right, politics and partisanship.

Personally, I think this is wrong. I personally think that people should be allowed to express their opinions, if and only if they are non-violent, non-menacing and non-threatening in the process. Wear a T-Shirt with all kinds of "support this" or "denounce that". Be happy that a local merchant made a few bucks on the sale. But any law enforcement official who says "you can't stand here with those words, now move along or be arrested" is in violation of the concept of free speech. I can ignore a message with which I disagree, I expect the president to do no less. I also expect the president to order his employees and supporters to do the same.

When video games were invented, the rate of violent crime started to down.

Which violent crimes went down? Drive-by shootings increased. School shootings have increased. Incidents of kids shooting at cars on the highway have increased. Incidents of kids who kill three cops in the police station then state "Life is like a video game." have increased.

The problem I have with those who argue against bills such as these is they have pretty much one argument: "nuh uh".

I am Lt. Col. Dave Grossman, U.S. Army, (Retired). My expertise in the area of human aggression and violence includes service as a West Point psychology professor, a professor of military science, the author of a Pulitzer nominated book and numerous peer reviewed encyclopedia entries on this topic.

It is my professional opinion, and it is the opinion of major experts in this area (such as the American Medical Association (AMA), the American Psychiatric Association (APA), the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), the American Academy of Mental Health, and the Surgeon General), based on extensive research, that violent video games are harmful to children. Legislation to rate these games, and enforcement of the ratings in order to keep the violent games out of the hands of children, is essential to the safety and security of the population of New York. The games that permit a child to hold and aim a gun, and fire it at humans, are particularly harmful, since these devices teach shooting skills. They are firearms training devices at best, and murder simulators at worst.

The counter? You're flamebait, d00d!

The falling rate of violent crime to which you refer includes random street muggings, assault and battery, whuppin' drunks in a bar... actions which are violent but not intended to or likely to belethal. There may be fewer people getting beaten in a dark alley, but I'll take 5,000 of those to a single Columbine. And the violent crime index is suspect anyway: Atlanta demonstrated that cities aren't above falsifying reports in order to look better.

But since you ask, and for most people solar variability simply makes sense. And because I highly doubt you will look for, or if you do look since you will not find anything that shows steady state solar output. I will counter you ludicrous unsubstantiated claim.

http://makeashorterlink.com/?K5FA257AB Space.com

http://vathena.arc.nasa.gov/curric/space/solterr/o utput.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Sunspots_11000_ years.jpg Seems to show multiple cyclical changes

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Milankovitch_Va riations.png

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Carbon-14-10kyr .png "Carbon-14 production showing 10,000 years of solar variation and generally increasing solar activity."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Carbon-14-10kyr -Hallstadtzeit_Cycles.png "2,300 year Hallstatt solar variation cycles."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Carbon-14_with_ sunspots_since_1700.png "Sunspot record (red) with 14C (inverted). There is a 20-60 year delay between sunspot levels and radiocarbon changes."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Carbon-14_with_ activity_labels.png "Solar activity events recorded in radiocarbon."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Solar_Forcing_G ISS_model.gif Hey look at those cycles That seem to line up presactly with observed surface temperature on earth. That is quite a coincidence. You will of course note the upward trend that last from the beginning of the century until present day, that is above the apparent decade cycle.

I have to assume that the Ruskies laid their bet on that last graph which shows a fairly steady cycle that shows us entering into a downward trend. Who would have that a massive fusion reaction throwing off massive amounts of energy, thermal and otherwise, could have any effect on temperature here.

Gee, who'd have thunk it. Any questions?

This sounds more like a worst case scenario of judges legislating from the bench.

Uh oh... somebody doesn't like the way something goes in court and immediately calls it 'legislating' from the bench. I wonder how he (assumption) voted in '04.

In TFA the judge says "Florida cannot contract away the statutory rights of its citizens". See that word statutory? Ever wonder what that means? The use of that particular word denotes actual, codified law in the books somewhere that guarantees those charged with a crime something along the lines of the right to understand how evidence was gathered against them.

If the state does not have a requirement of disclosure then by what basis do the judges operate?

Refer back to that word statutory - it appears that the state does have a requirement of disclosure.

How can they not apply this to speeding tickets, parking meters, or are items of revenue enhancement strictly excluded from this test?

I'll bet it does apply. Q: How does a speed gun work? A: http://makeashorterlink.com/?E1ED3343B and has an accuracy of .x +/- mph Q: How does the parking meter keep track of time A: A mechanical or electronic timekeeper which is accurate to within .001 seconds/day

Compare this with Q: How does your test meter detect alcohol and what is the accuracy A: None of your business. Q: So you're saying that if my BAC is .05 your machine could overrepresent this and show .09? A: None of your business. Q: If I eat a tuna sandwich does your machine consistently give false positives? A: None of your business. Q: If I fart will your machine generate a false positive? A: None of your business.

Can you honestly say that you don't have a problem with this? Next time you're in court I will hook you up to a polygraph. You must accept the results without question. There's a red light and a green light on the top - if the red light illuminates then you're guilty and go to jail. No, you aren't allowed to know how it works. Trade secret. But you wouldn't have a problem with this, right? After all, any judge who excludes this is obviously legislating from the bench and needs to be sued if a murderer gets off. Right?

I would love to see these judges SUED and jailed if one of the people whose case they dismiss subsequently kill someone on their next DUI.

Perhaps allowing a judge to be personally held accountable if he lets somebody back on the street after a 4th or 5th OUI conviction but to punish a judge for dismissing the charges after one's rights were violated due to improper collection of evidence is out of line. If a judge convicts a guy 10 times for OUI but the bum gets parole every time and then goes out and kills somebody you'd be on to something.

Other than that I'd say you're blowing smoke. Better hope that the testing equipment doesn't register smoke as EOH fumes or you're gonna see some jail time. Or maybe just some serious probation.

This is why it is a better idea to use makeashorterlink - they allow you to look at the URL before going there.

Here is the correct URL through makeashorterlink.

This is why it is a better idea to use makeashorterlink - they allow you to look at the URL before going there.

Here is the correct URL through makeashorterlink.

He pissed off so many people on Usenet that someone in an Amiga group made a FAQ about him.

As far back as 1981, the British Royal Navy tested a top secret weapon system called 'Laser Dazzle Sight,'(LDS). and they used it during the Falklands War where high speed, wave-skipping Argentinean pilots, met a dazzling array of laser beams designed to blind them.

According to this Royal School of Artillery paper 'The most likely choice of lasers for a dazzle weapon would be
Argon (458 - 515 nm, blue/green) or Ne YAG freq doubled(532 nm, green).'

According to the Federation of American Scientists In the 1970's it was claimed that Chinese soldiers were blinded by Soviet-built laser systems during the China-Vietnam war. During the Iran-Iraq War, over 4,000 Iranian soldiers sustained injuries due to Iraqi laser systems. Throughout the 1980's, the Soviet Union were long suspected of directing lasers at US spyplanes. Today anti-personnel laser weapons are inexpensive, sold openly by the Third World, have line-of-sight aiming, and are capable of producing catastrophic results if used against aircrews and sensors in flight.

In 1989 a US-USSR bilateral agreement imposed restrictions on the use of low-energy lasers. In 1989 the International Committee of the Red Cross called for multi-lateral controls.

On 13 October 1995 the Protocol on Blinding Laser Weapons (Protocol IV) was proposed. In 1998 it became international law but Human Rights Watch is concerned that the US is developing Dazzle weapons that do not cause permanent blindness and would circumvent the blinding weapons agreement.

Now while the threat from laser weapons are real, I think the odds are greater that a real terrorist would use a man portable anti-aircraft missle.

I have JourneyPlanner with me when I'm making complicated train journeys in the UK. It gives you routes between stations, and all the stops on the journey you're on. If everything falls apart, as it often does on the UK rail network, at least I know what other trains you might be able to use. I've often been streets ahead of railway staff with my little PDA.

http://makeashorterlink.com/?I2E6234C9

This stuff is expected only from the incompetent. This almost exactly mirrors the origin or Murphy's law. There is no progress in failing to learn the same lesson over and over again!

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These switches are excellent, and will last for years

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Fact: It cost about a million dollars to train W. to fly fighter jets.

Fact: W. refused to take his medical exam in Spring '72 and was grounded. He bailed on his commitment.

Fact: Bush said, in a TV interview in February, that he would release all of his available military records.

Fact: As of today he still has not done so. Flip flop.

USA Today reference (now I get to hear that USA Today is liberal and biased. Why is it that anything which refutes conservative talking points is biased?)

Some people believe in the strangest things.

wouldn't expensing options also give companies a massive tax break, too?

Not sure if the rules are still the same, but as recently as 2000 Cisco paid -zero- federal income tax because they were allowed to deduct the profit made when employees exercised their stock options. This article is from the San Francisco Chronicle - Cisco wiped out 1.8 billion (with a 'B') in tax liability and Microsoft avoided about twice that.

The best part is that the shareholders were told "profits this year were $x.xx" while the IRS was told "profits this year were $0.00" - to make the tax code fair the profits reported to shareholders and the profits reported to the IRS should always be equal.

But a point about corporate taxes in general:

Corporations ALWAYS pay -ZERO- taxes. All tax expense is passed along to the customer. In the case of Microsoft and Cisco any additional taxes they pay are recovered, often from schools (which get their money from local taxpayers) and other government offices. Whatever tax liability Microsoft pays is also passed along to people who buy a new car because Ford has to pay Microsoft enough to cover Microsoft's tax expense, and then Ford will pass that along to you.

Maybe you ought to try here :

Astrosat [reseller] or any of the links here Google results for resellers in Europe

Try this deal if it is still in stock. The site is
Blankdiscshop

DVD-R deals

Look for {DV 3108}
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Direct link

25 DVD-R's for 6.49 Pounds sterling is a bargain by any standard. Dual format writers are available there too.

Well, the USA came in close second on the "weasely countries" list; I imagine that Jacques Chirac would have garnered more votes if many Americans had been able to recognize his name.

This is because most Americans think "Blaque Jacques Shellac" when they hear the French leader's name. Blaque Jacques doesn't have nearly enough web presence. Bugs Bunny rules!

What other words are there?... besides...

HNYNBO
OYEH XOPOWO

See also
http://makeashorterlink.com/?C17023BF5

Using Roman letters as graphical representation of Russian words is a kind of art that's been used creatively in advertising for instance.

Would an effective workaround at this point be for LiveJournal users to use a URL link shortening service like makeashorterlink or tinyurl? That way, the third party visitor links to the shortening service, and the browser is then redirected on to the AOL address. It seems like this could be an effective way to manipulate the referer field usefully.

Alternatively, link via a proxy service like Anonymizer, but in practice I'm not sure this would be as easy.

Where there's a will to get around roadblocks, there's usually a way to do it. If Anonymizer can allow 'net users in China & Iran to reach out to the rest of the world, I'm sure a way can be found around puny little AOL/TW.

Welcome to poverty. Hope you're ready for an economy of deflation and permanent unemployment. Because that's where this economy is going. Show me where the job creation is happening in this country.

Happy to: http://makeashorterlink.com/?W2FB51FB5 http://yir.yahoo.com/2002/hj/growing_industries.ht ml http://packard.csesp.umflint.edu/hickslm/CSCpgm/ec opro_table4.htm

It wouldn't help people with embedded links to images at AOL, but at least it could get people to AOL without any additional clicking.

I echo the Anonymous Coward's issue that this opens links up for trolls (same with some other more obvious redirects, like rd.yahoo.com).

But I add that the Correct Response is to "linkify" the URL within a forum that supports linking. All it takes is:

1. Type: <a href="
2. Paste the URL
3. Type: ">
4. Paste the URL (or, better yet, something descriptive - "click here" implies a beginner)
5. Type: </a>

In your posting, this would be:

Dudes, make that friggin link shorter, will ya?

click here

Trust the poster?!!

It's a five plus hour long drive to the Grand Canyon [as in the main entrance] from Hoover Dam. "Close" in American terms, but damn far through the stinking desert.

This is why it don't make no sense

The thing is - it's a complete spoof. There is no real game. People umm and ahh for a while, before making deep insightful moves like "Baker Street", "Oxford Circus" all the while arguing the supposed rules. The post I replied to sounded just like one of those fake arguments. "Well see, all the diagonals are open but we're playing Circus amendments of 1973, so Finsbury Park to Victoria counts treble". Utterly meaningless, just like the "Well, it's a Thursday so today we like Sony but it's also the 4th day of the month so we don't like them, except on alternative blue moons of which this is number four so..." etc.

Hope that helps. Here's a link to the original, utterly daft 'game'. It looks like they're playing something, but I assure you they're not. The link.

Cheers,
Ian

probably one of these...

That's a failing of legislators not of Usenet. Exactly the same can be said of the web click here if you like but you might end up with kiddie porn on your machine. You won't know until you click it and then it will be too late.

• Microsoft Terraserver.com is one of the big ones, selling images from lots of satellite sources. Originally a 1998 joint venture with MS, USGS and Compaq. Free lower-res stuff, subscription medium-res, high-res pictures for sale.
  
• SRI Digital Earth -
  Talk
  - DARPA project, some good stuff.
  
• LivingEarth.com and EarthImaging.com - more hi-res maps.
  
• Fourmilab.to Earth Viewer also does satellites, stars, etc. Slightly overworked due to Iraq conflict so using lower-resolution pictures.
  
• OpenGIS.org - Standards for geo-enabling web and other apps.
  

even more quotes from nuernberg. think about it. this whole world is crazy and will not survive

nuernberg quote

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quote
http://www.industrialdeathrock.com/gallery/pixzi p/ eeeee_coli/10474542800.JPG

be sure to check out this famous quote

a famous quote about war, leaders, and this sick world.

same link

Your point about this particular pump-and-dump being the tip of an iceberk of OTCBB "pink sheet" abuse is well-made.

From where I sit, the sad part is that the SEC generally isn't geeked out about spam. It comes down to resources.

I mean, anyone can Google for meltzer stock spammer and find piles of stuff.

A cursory reading of ROKSO reveals this particular ring has a record going back to 1997, including death threats. (Cripes, this is the ETMP spammer from 199teyfucking7!)

Why the hell does it take SIX GODDAMN YEARS to take down one pump-and-dump dirtball?

And he's just one of dozens.

Stock fraud continues because justice must not only be done, it must be seen to be done.

A six-year delay between the start of the scam and the SEC finally issuing a "Stop breaking the law, or we'll make you sign a consent decree wherein you don't admit to guilt but promise not to break the law in the future" is unacceptable.

It's unacceptable because it's not just useless - it's worse than useless - it's practically an invitation to dirtballs from around the world to get into the fraud business, because by the time the SEC actually catches onto the scam, the scammed money has either left the country or has been laundered.

If anyone from HomeSec is reading this - hook up with some SEC folks. Fund them. Fund the hell out of them. Because if even a tenth of the pump-and-dump scams are being used for money laundering (as opposed to mere fraud), you've got one hell of a conduit for drug money and/or terror money, and the SEC's Enforcement Division as currently set up, clearly doesn't have the resources to stop it.

My nose rankles at my use of the word "mere" to describe stock fraud - but it's a reflection of reality, which is that the government doesn't give a fuck about "mere" fraud, because it's only the serfs getting ripped off, and the dumb serfs at that. So to hell with the serfs. It's no excuse for being blind to the the opportunity for money laundering (perhaps more precisely, the opportunity to camouflage money laundering) brought on by continual, ongoing pump-and-dump stock fraud operations. And honestly, maybe that is more HomeSec's bailiwick than the SEC's. But the two organizations definitely need to start sharing data, and they need to start now.

ShortURL requires users to register. Make-a-shorter-link just produces shorter links.

...I went to Google and found this:

"Where does the controller store its configuration? Disk, Ram, Rom ? Can it be saved or exported as a backup?

The config is in NVRAM on the controller, but there's also about a 4MB
"partition" (not really a partition, but config area) on each drive in the
array that stores information on things like position in the array, etc.

Alternately, try this link for the whole thread on the subject.

It literally took me 30 seconds to find it. Next time, try Google before posting, mmkay?

To be honest, the guy mentioning printing it all out and saving it that way wasn't so far off the mark. You might not be able to search through the stuff, but at least you will still have it in the far future.

Acts of Parliament in England are still transcribed onto parchment. Yep. Here's a link for the disbelieving.

And if you want to know how durable it is, well I've personally read stuff from the 1300s on manuscript, not a bad shelf life for data at all. Digital-age media are great for saving data, and especially in compressed form, but they are *really* crap at storing it for long periods of time.

You may have no data that'll be interesting in 10 years time, and I dare say the current environment produces a signal-to-noise ratio way lower than was true in the dark ages (for example), but we are going to be pretty ignorant of 2002 in 2102 if our digital media are only capable of managing a 10-year life span.

It will mean continual copying of data onto more durable storage media, and the checking of said data's integrity. It sounds as though 'librarian' will once more become a sought-after and prestigious occupation. :=)

Ook, indeed.

Nalfy.

Time Warner Austin is deploying the same box. It's a Scientific Atlanta Explorer 8000; they can come with different sized hard drives. Time Warner Austin markets these as having 50 hours worth of storage, but it uses variable bit-rate compression for the digitization, so you never know for sure just how much you can store.

The Explorer 8000 hardware is very nice. Two tuners, so it can be simultaneously recording two separate shows on two separate channels (either analog or digital) while you're watching something in playback. I can't tell any difference between playback and live quality, which is better than you get with a (non satTV) Replay or TiVo, where the compression is generally quite noticeable. The 8000 works better as well than the SA Explorer 2000 digital cable box.. changing channels is faster, etc.

Unfortunately, the firmware in the box is pretty crappy still. They have been improving it, but even with the latest firmware release, there are a whole lot of issues.. The experience of using it is not nearly as nice as a TiVo, and it is completely lacking anything like the TiVo 'Season Pass' or 'Recommendations' functions, so if you tell it to record every episode of the Daily Show, it will do so.. four times a day as Comedy Central shows repeats three times a day. At other times, the box seems to simply forget to record a show you told it you wanted, usually if the show changed times after the 8000 initially made a note as to the time and channel to record. The SAE 8000 uses Time Warner's standard cable guide, seemingly, and it appears that the cable guide provided by the cable system doesn't provide enough data to do the kind of smart tricks a TiVo can do.

For 10 bucks a month, it's quite a bit cheaper than a TiVo or Replay, but if you've got one of those, I wouldn't advise ditching it in favor of the Time Warner box. If Time Warner and Scientific Atlanta keep working at it and continue to put out firmware upgrades, it might turn into something quite nice indeed. As it stands, having the Time Warner box is better than not having the Time Warner box, but not as nice as having TiVo or Replay.

I was surprised that Corel's Grafigo Tablet grahics /colaboration application was not mentioned. It has already been previewed last Sept at Seybold and got good reviews here. Corel started development early with Microsoft and designed it from scratch for the Tablet PC. From all accounts it is one of the best apps.

http://www.esrb.org/power_search.asp?type=game

I can't see that site because of Bug 143292 at bugzilla.mozilla.org.