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i was redirected via a 302 to this site

http://msid.msn.com/mps_id_sharing/redirect.asp?vi rtualearth.msn.com/Default.aspx

why ? because Microsoft are up to their old cookie stealing exploits

read here

Yes because google maps was so original and inovative... .

But then again I must be new here... .

What have they done to Columbia University's campus map?
Microsoft Version

(correct) Google Maps version

Check out the recent transactions from some of the biggest insiders at Google.

http://finance.yahoo.com/q/it?s=GOOG

http://moneycentral.msn.com/investor/invsub/inside r/trans.asp?Symbol=GOOG

I dont see any buying, just alot of selling from a few select folks.

This story and video show that American soldiers are currently using body armour that can stop rifle rounds. Although it doesn't say so anywhere, the sniper rifle was almost certainly 7.62mm. Here are some pictures of the aftermath: image 1 image 2.

You are correct however that the armour is pretty heavy, but that is less of an issue for vehicle based soldiers rather than pure infantry.

However, the problem with this powered exo-skeleton is that just the act of adding more weight, even if it is "self supporting", makes the soldier slower and less mobile (because of extra inertia). They need to be able to react very quickly and be able to dive to the ground, and jump behind cover, etc. There is a very long way to go before projects like this would actually improve a soldiers chances of survival. A better short term prospect is to continue to improve body armour to make it lighter.

This story and video show that American soldiers are currently using body armour that can stop rifle rounds. Although it doesn't say so anywhere, the sniper rifle was almost certainly 7.62mm. Here are some pictures of the aftermath: image 1 image 2.

You are correct however that the armour is pretty heavy, but that is less of an issue for vehicle based soldiers rather than pure infantry.

However, the problem with this powered exo-skeleton is that just the act of adding more weight, even if it is "self supporting", makes the soldier slower and less mobile (because of extra inertia). They need to be able to react very quickly and be able to dive to the ground, and jump behind cover, etc. There is a very long way to go before projects like this would actually improve a soldiers chances of survival. A better short term prospect is to continue to improve body armour to make it lighter.

Microsoft sells that too.

http://www.msn.com/

They almost have all of the entire electronics industry covered, ranging from entertainment set-top boxes, input devices, PDA's, operating systems, dial-up internet, web searching, web server software, and programming tools.

So, yes, MSN and Google are competing, in a few ways. Searching technology, Emailing, News, and quite a few of other things.

"The biggest risk is probabaly browsers or operating systems (think Microsoft) that have like MSN as the homepage ( bloated rubbish!)"

I think a significant part of this particular difference is that Google results much easier to scan quickly with your eyes because the blurbs don't go all the way across the page, but are concentrated on the left. This mans I can scan the results without moving my eyes left/right. This means that users can look through more search results without actually clicking through which in turn means that the click throughs that are chosen will be more often on average 'closer' to what they were looking for.
That said, I wish Yahoo/MSN (and google too, although they innovated first so the pressure should not be on them) would innovate a little bit to differentiate themselves, right now they are just Google clones. The Colors, the placement, hell, even the settings (http://search.msn.com/settings.aspx?ru=%2Fimages% 2Fresults.aspx%3Fq%3Dnarine%2Bsarvazyan%26size%3D1 p%26color%3Dno%26FORM%3DIFIR6&FORM=SEIN) are all fucking identicall clones... then we the browser toolbars, local.. lets see something interesting PLEASE.. there is so much room, you have so many resources.. don't. just. copy. each. other..

Owned?

While not for FF, I'll throw in the MSN Toolbar.

Yeah, all these search toolbars look the same. And yeah, so do their sites. Go figure. I guess they're going with what (they think) works?

A lot of places won't card people trying to buy video games, it's true. That is why a M rating isn't that effective. But the reason companies want to avoid the AO rating (18+) is because some major retailers simply do not stock video games with this rating, period. So that doesn't even give the cashiers a chance to sell it to under age customers. That is an effective means of keeping it out of some childrens' hands. http://slate.msn.com/id/2122746/

Article on MSN mentions nothing about Parkinson's Disease.

"Doohan died at 5:30 a.m. at his Redmond, Wash., home with his wife of 28 years, Wende, at his side, Los Angeles agent and longtime friend Steve Stevens said. The cause of death was pneumonia and Alzheimer's disease, he said."

http://entertainment.msn.com/tv/article.aspx?news= 196936

NKTNFZA

Who the hell gave Robert K. Graham a slashdot login. http://slate.msn.com/id/100331/

You have a trailing slash too much there, the correct link is:
http://img.slate.msn.com/media/1/123125/2093564/21 22917/2122918/2122942/Longman.jpg

If you search smarter using the MSN Toolbar for Internet Explorer 6, you can:

NEW! Browse smarter with tabs - Switch between Web sites within the same Internet Explorer window
NEW! Find anything - Search the Web any time, anywhere, and easily locate documents, e-mail, and more on your PC
Shop faster - Fill out online forms with one click
Access MSN services - Get one-click access to Hotmail, MSN Messenger, and MSN Spaces

Get it now at http://toolbar.msn.com.

If you search smarter using the MSN Toolbar for Internet Explorer 6, you can:

NEW! Browse smarter with tabs - Switch between Web sites within the same Internet Explorer window
NEW! Find anything - Search the Web any time, anywhere, and easily locate documents, e-mail, and more on your PC
Shop faster - Fill out online forms with one click
Access MSN services - Get one-click access to Hotmail, MSN Messenger, and MSN Spaces

Get it now at http://toolbar.msn.com.

Here: New Periodic Table

It's less cluttered and easier to read than the "Galaxy" version.

I actually much prefer Stewart's reconstruction of the 50's art exhibit which led to his "galaxy of elements" thing:

http://img.slate.msn.com/media/1/123125/2093564/21 22917/2122918/2122942/Longman.jpg/

But above it all I prefer the current table by far.

It seems they did not teach German in your school either. Check your citation. The physicist's name is Erwin Schrödinger, or Schroedinger, if you have no Umlaut at hand. ;-)

Did anybody notice that there are many journals on the market which report every year about the Cebit in "Hanover". I doubt any of their fine journalists ever attended the Cebit. See also http://www.cebit.de/ and http://www.hannover.de/
And since the original posting is about an MSN article, why not have a quick look at this fine page: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/7159401/
Enjoy!

Every 'new' feature I've heard of has been done by most (if not all) other browsers.

integrated MSN Messenger.The most they'll do is put it into a sidebar and add some useless features.

http://slate.msn.com/id/2104087 Interesting article about "mob art", a collective creation of art. It describes some people who made a song over the internet, called "Please Eat".

I submitted this article from MSNBC (was rejected last week) the most interesting part is it calims that Firefox and other browsers are now at 18% of all adult US users. This was a random phone survey with a margin of error of 2%. I think it is some of the best data on the penetration of alternative browsers and something people could use to back up decisions to not just support IE. 20% if the market is not an amount that can be ignored.

PS if you think you've seen this comment before, i posted it once already. It's a good article with pretty hard stats on Firefox and other's market share that /. won't take.

Microsoft has fairly recently released a toolbar for IE that includes tabbed browsing and Desktop search. I've been a dedicated Firefox user for the last few years, but I can tell that the stats are going to shift back towards IE really fast when IE 7 is released with many commonly-used Firefox/Opera/etc features integrated, especially if MS releases it for XP too.

Let's just agree he should have said "releasing" instead of "creating".

David J Farber suggests "instrumental in the development of" would be more accurate.

Given the hostile and partisan way Gore's words have been misinterpreted, I doubt if Gore's critics are interested in his actual contribution to the creation of the Internet, however he might have phrased it.

The award mentioned in the post that started this thread speaks for itself.

That's the difference between "lies" and "bullshit". Bush might technically have not "lied", if the British government had "learned" such a fact. Even if some official in the British government "learned" that fact from one source, and then learned that fact was a lie - Bush technically could have told the truth by qualifying his statement as a fact "learned by the British". But it's really just bullshit.

That doesn't mean that Bush's statement wasn't also a "lie". As we now know, the British government had actually learned about Bush that "the intelligence and facts were being fixed around the policy" - British for "Bush is bullshitting everyone so he can invade Iraq". Americans are starting to find the difference between lies and bullshit to be meaningless: it's all becoming known generally as "bushit". Especially as THERE WAS NO URANIUM, THERE WAS NO WMD, BUSH LIED TO INVADE IRAQ, WHERE'S OSAMA?

1) The article isn't about the invention of the Internet, it is about the invention of the World Wide Web.

2) How many times do we have to hear the joke about Al Gore claiming to invent the Internet? It's a myth that Al Gore ever claimed to have anything to do with the technical design of the Internet. He did indeed, however, have a large role in providing the environment in which it became the "Information Superhighway" that it is today.

• Gasoline
• Ethanol (a.k.a. Alcohol)
• A combiation of Gasoline and Ethanol, at any ratio
• Natural Gas

• MSNBC
• The Seattle Times

But it's legality is quite dubious and the RIAA has had a couple of goes at it. At the moment it lives in a loophole of the russian copyright system that is unlikely to be closed - those russians have bigger problems to deal with first.

So I guess it depends on how squeeky clean do you want to be???

Then the article goes on to apply the same logic to a virus writer:

On the other hand, suppose we can execute one vermiscripter and thereby eliminate, oh, say, 1 percent of all computer viruses for one year. Assuming that half the $50 billion cost of malicious hacking is concentrated in the United States and that you bear your proportionate share of that cost, we're putting about 83 cents in your pocket.

The catch is that I'm just thinking of victimhood as having my computer compromised. I'm casually ignoring the fact that when my bank's incompetent IT department decides to allow viruses to run on their machines, it means that they will charge me higher service charges. I conveniently ignore the fact that if a chile farmer decides to run whatever trojans that strangers email to him, the price of chile goes up.

I may not pay a proportionate share of the cost, but my decision to not run viruses, doesn't let me get off completely free, either. Even people who choose not to be direct victims, still end up being indirect victims.

But even still, not all my anger is directed at the virus writer. I just can't help but pinning some of the blame on the direct victims. I mean, if we executed all of them, we'd be just as safe as if we executed all the virus writers. ;-)

His conclusion:

But this essential point remains: Governments exist largely to supply protections that, for one reason or another, we can't purchase in the marketplace. Those governments perform best when they supply the protections we value most. We can measure their performance only if we are willing to calculate costs and benefits and to respect what our calculations tell us, even when it's counterintuitive. Any policymaker who won't do this kind of arithmetic is fundamentally unserious about policy.

That scares me: are we really just writing off the possibility that some day people will learn to not run viruses? Have we given up? With murder, it makes sense to give up. Government can't insure you don't get murdered. If someone wants to kill me, there's not really much I can do about it (and still live a happy life), so deterrence is the only thing that protects me. I can't accept that viruses have to be like that too.

I went to a private ("faith-based," in modern lingo) school for grades 1-12, so my personal experience with public schools is a little limited, but my school was in the same town as a public school that routinely turned out kids with 1600s on the SAT. (I got a comparatively paltry 1450.)

Newsweek magazine publishes a periodic list of the "best" high schools, measured by how many Advanced Placement or International Baccalaureate tests are given at the school each year, divided by the number of graduating seniors. The theory is that schools administering those tests are exposing their students to a more rigorous academic experience that will better prepare them for university.

The top schools in any given year have ratios of something like 6-10 AP/IB tests per graduate. That's a lot... and I doubt they suck.

For those just tuning in, go see:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/8324598/

Now, perhaps you don't think that the White House, Karl Rove, or any of the people who subsequently defended Rove's comments are conservative (I'm actually NOT sure that I would consider the current administration conservative in the traditional sense of the term), but this does seem to be a case where the stereotype is worn as a badge of honor. (In this case (Rove's comments and defense by Bush, DeLay, etc.) by people too cowardly to actually go fight a war themselves.

Mabye you should read that actual paper by Professor Landsburg, rather than relying soley on Mr Tierney's second-hand ramblings.

On the other hand, perhaps you shouldn't. Without Tierney's tounge-in cheek treatment of the subject, Landsburg just comes off as a sociopath.

This idea is old. The NYT guy may have come up with it on his own, but it has been stated before. Even here on slashdot . The other article is better written. If you are believer in straight utilitarian economics it makes sense. If something else (arbitrary or collective morality etc) it is rediculous. Half tongue in cheek Steven Landsburg is a utilitarian economist.

Dupe me once, shame on you. Dupe me twice, shame on me. Dupe me everyday, this must be slashdot.

"The nation's current It Villain, Tyco's Dennis Kozlowski, was the son of a Newark, N.J., police detective. Global Crossing's Gary Winnick grew up in Roslyn, N.Y., where his father worked in food services. Adelphia's John Rigas is the son of Greek immigrants...." from "Slate": http://slate.msn.com/id/2066965/ Maybe the Branson/Eton types are just better at not getting caught!

This Tierney guy says that his article is based on an article by Steven Landsburg, an Economics Professor at the University of Rochester.

The original article (by Landsburg himself) is a bit more detailed, and can be found on Slate here:
http://slate.msn.com/id/2101297/

The NYTimes Op-Ed piece is just a brief summary of the original article in Slate by Steven Landsburg.

"Feed the Worms Who Write Worms to the Worms The economic logic of executing computer hackers."

http://slate.msn.com/id/2101297

Here's the original essay on this subject by Steven Landsburg in Slate.

Landsburg has earned a reputation for original thinking on economic issues. I always find my assumptions successfully challenged when reading one of his essays.

(While I've never met him, he's a friend of a friend.)

Okay, I've never actually read or watched any of the Harry Potter books or movies, but my sister is obsessed with them. I remember reading this article and annoying the heck out of my sister by stating that Harry Potter was a fraud ;).

This could be about TiVo and Netflix' previous announcement:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/5915470/site/newsweek

Actually, the source of the leak was Plame herself.

Actually, Missouri is not a red republican state (though they did vote for Bush in this past election). I quote from this Slate article:

Missouri was born in compromise in 1820, and it's still that way today. It has the same percentage of African-Americans as the nation as a whole, the same percentage of union workers, the same rural/urban mix, and on down the line. And invariably, the one fact that every Missourian knows surfaced: With the exception of the time it foolishly cast its lot with Adlai Stevenson in 1956, in every presidential election since 1900 Missouri has proudly voted for the winner. The implication is that you might as well call off the balloting in the other 49 states as a cost-saving measure.

Even though most people immediately think of farms when they hear "Missouri," and therefore assume that it's a red state, they forget about the "coasts" that are St. Louis and Kansas City. Both cities are highly Democratic, and tend to balance out the rural areas of the state. By the way, Adlai Stevenson was the Democratic nominee in 1956, meaning that the one time in the past 100 years that Missourians voted "wrongly," they voted Democratic.

You're a deluded fool if you think that will help.

We could bring back every soldier, throw Israel to the wolves, quintuple aid to the Muslim world, and not one thing would change.

Osama and his crew are still bent out of shape about the reconquest of Andalusia in 1492.

They harbor bitter resentment about the Balfour Declaration and Sykes-Picot Agreement and the fall of the Ottoman Empire, dating back 80 years or more.

They planned the September 11 attacks long before Bush ever came to power, at a time when the American military was fighting Christian Serbs to protect Muslims in Bosnia and Kosovo.

The Islamists have made it abundantly clear that they will not stop fighting jihad until the whole world lives under a Muslim caliphate. There is no reasoning with such people. We kill them, or they will surely kill us. Now they have nuclear weapons in Pakistan and are on the verge of obtaining them in Iran. Next time they attack London, there could be a hundred thousand casualties rather than 50.

And with the relative birth rates of Muslims vs. the native populations of Europe, the time is rapidly approaching when Europe will have to decide whether to submit to Sharia law, or expel their Muslim population by force. I'm not kidding. Italian and French women are having 1.2 babies per lifetime, while Muslim women in the same countries are brood mares producing five or six little jihadis each. Demography is destiny, and there is no third option.

-ccm

Oh, and submitter, please don't throw in baseless crap like "Soon, a large portion of New York's yellow cars will also be "green."". This is a trial, and they want to see how it goes. It will still be a few years before any real changes occur, but we are making progress.

Too bad it looks like comets are made mostly of fine powder. Trying to move that with force applied at a small point might not work so well.

Let me clarify, then. NASA management and contractor management are so incestuous that together they create the "NASA cultural problem" you mention and run the whole show by its self-serving principles.

NASA management is to the space industry what the FDA is to the pharmaceutical industry, a merry-go-round of managers making sure the companies they come from and return to continue to get the contracts written the way that serves them best.

I completely agree that NASA's technical disasters are due to "professional managers". When engineers were in charge we got "Failure is not an option," and by god it wasn't. When the adminimonsters were in charge we got "My God, Thiokol, what do you want to me to do, wait until April to launch?"

But that's entirely different from corporate controls over NASA. When NASA says "Jump!", BoLockMart says "Show us the contract" and NASA says "How high?" and then BoLockMart demands and gets cost over-runs written in and NEVER fail to make complete use of them.

Just a quick case in point: How much money was wasted on the Shuttle C project (http://www.astronautix.com/lvs/shuttlec.htm) before it was found to be more expensive than Titans per pound-to-orbit, and cancelled? And having been cancelled, why does it appear as under serious consideration again (http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/8473961/) (the left of the 3 pictured)? Yet to be determined: how much money will get thrown at something already discarded, who will get that, how much of the intervening study will be replication of work done 15+ years ago, and which would be worse: throwing all that money away on something already proven as uneconimical, or actually building it this time?

Hey now, "The Stick" looks like an awesome ride. A 4 seat Apollo CSM on top an SRB. Now if only Thiokol would go into business for themselves and build a launch center and this beast, they could beat Rutan's Tier Two plans. Face it, Rutan sets the goal posts these days.

You might want to contact
http://www.answers.com/topic/president-pro-tempore -of-the-senate
http://encarta.msn.com/dictionary_1861736369/pro_t em.html
and
http://dictionary.law.com/
Since they need to be "corrected" as well.

latest launch news says they're not worried:

NASA still aiming for Wednesday shuttle launch
Hurricane Dennis isn't threatening the liftoff of the space shuttle Discovery, and NASA officials are still aiming for a liftoff next week.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/8503328&&CM=EmailThis& CE=1

Actually, right now, the largest online music distribution system is not run by a record company or a holding company.

It's run by a computer company, which to my knowledge doesn't own recording copyrights at ths time.

So is Napster, which used to be Roxio before they sold all their non-Napster products to Sonic. Real, Wal-Mart and Microsoft aren't exactly big record labels either -- more like software and retail.

Therefore, I don't get the argument that the present Internet music services aren't distributing independent music because they themselves own large quantities of content -- with the exception of Sony Connect, it's just not true, unless Wal-Mart has went out and bought some labels and I don't know about it.

I submitted a similar article from MSNBC (was rejected yesterday) the most interesting part is it calims that Firefox and other browsers are now at 18% of all adult US users. This was a random phone survey with a margin of error of 2%. I think it is some of the best data on the penetration of alternative browsers and something people could use to back up decisions to not just support IE. 20% if the market is not an amount that can be ignored.