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"First off, the Army gets to be pretty picky about who it lets in."

WHAT!? They are letting in convicted felons, non U.S. citizens, gang bangers, all kinds of malcontents these days just to get BODIES to go fight in Afganistan and Iraq. I know - I have friends and family SERVING in the Army right now (no none of them are in the above list - they know people who are though). We have PYCHOS's in the Army killing kids FOR FUN, killing dogs FOR FUN, killing reporters and kids FOR FUN! Read the news watch the videos WIkileaks released!

Here is just a few for you:

Wikileaks reveals video showing US air crew shooting down Iraqi civilians
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/apr/05/wikileaks-us-army-iraq-attack
"Footage of July 2007 attack made public as Pentagon identifies website as threat to national security"

Wikileak'd video shows U.S. troops firing on Reuters reporters and Iraqi children
http://www.infowars.com/wikileakd-video-shows-eager-to-kill-troops-firing-on-reuters-reporters-and-children/

http://www.collateralmurder.com/

Neo-Cons Defend Massacre Of Iraqi Journalists, Children
http://www.infowars.com/neo-cons-defend-massacre-of-iraqi-journalists-children/

Wikileaks leaked video of Civilians killed in Baghdad -- Full video
http://www.infowars.com/wikileaks-leaked-video-of-civilians-killed-in-baghdad-full-video/

Wikileaks Video Exposes Apache Murders of Journalists, Children In Iraq
http://www.prisonplanet.com/wikileaks-video-exposes-apache-murders-of-journalists-children-in-iraq.html

Alex Jones Covers the WikiLeaks Pentagon Snuff Video
http://www.infowars.com/alex-jones-covers-the-wikileaks-pentagon-snuff-video/

WikiLeaks VIDEO Exposes 2007 'Collateral Murder' In Iraq
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/04/05/wikileaks-exposes-video-o_n_525569.html

Mainstream media ignores Wikileaks video and pays more attention to Tiger Woods
http://snardfarker.ning.com/group/MainstreamMediaAndMindControl/forum/topics/rt-video-mainstream-media?commentId=2649739%3AComment%3A167787&xg_source=activity&groupId=2649739%3AGroup%3A134445

Wikileaks Iraq Video Authenticated By Senior Military Officer
http://news.firedoglake.com/2010/04/06/wikileaks-iraq-video-authenticated-by-senior-military-officer/

Leaked U.S. video shows deaths of Reuters' Iraqi staffers
http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE6344FW20100406?feedType=RSS&feedName=topNews

36 Still Images - WikiLeaks Iraq Video (Dial-Up Warning and UPDATE from Wikileaks
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x8095770

Violence in Video Games and the Baghdad Massacre

Are you serious? Every household should have one of these around!

Some places do use a hex packing pattern. However most of the time the issue isn't land availability.

I think Buzz targets people who desire a very simple interface. It seems to perform a lot better on my slow machine than Facebook but is negligible on my main box. Honestly I haven't experienced any Spam on Buzz at all. Don't you have to follow the Spam bot or hacked account to get the Spam?

It's missing a lot of options, I guess time will tell if that is the intent or merely TBD yet. I do like how it's integrated with Google Reader. I share a lot of my news offerings with my followers. I don't like that it wants me to integrate with Picassa. I simply have too many Google contacts (some Slashdot readers I've never met!) to have them looking at my pictures!

So the one thing that Buzz has over Facebook is Aardvark. I signed up for that three or four days ago and have asked a question (with very positive results) and answered a few questions. I didn't get quite what I wanted out of answering questions although I think the people that answered my question did a pretty good job. How this is different from Yahoo Answers or Wiki Answers seems to be that it's tightly integrated with Buzz and GChat. Also it actively finds things for you to answer. I'm guessing what Google has with mining your e-mail and chats and searches it will use to locate experts for your questions and also pair you with better questions you're more capable of answering. A lot remains to be seen as to whether or not this is an actual beneficial addition or some more of the bloat a Facebook application would have to offer one.

Yes, I have already made two book purchases off of those suggestions from my question. Note that a problem with GChat caused two of my questions (which I tried to designate as separate) get slotted into one question. I could just hear the software thinking: the second question is about authors, he must be continuing his thought.

Personally I'm not leaving Facebook for Buzz. But I'm not decommissioning Buzz. I'm keeping it as a sort of News social network much like The Auteurs and Afternoon Records Community are for my movies and music respectively. Granted none of these niche networks get as much time as the all encompassing Facebook, they still exist harmoniously in the bag of sites I visit. I recognize I'm probably an outlier though.

Hear hear!

For those interested: basic guitar fuzzboxes (like the venerable Fuzz Face) are simple, design arround one or two transistors. The sound is heavily dependent on the type transistor used - old Germanium devices have a nicer, more musical sound than modern Silicon ones; this depends on how they clip the signal when amplifying, basically. I'd love to hear one using these new devices...

Maybe you want to start a private social network, geared to one specific group of people.

There's always Ning or Flux... but maybe you want something really custom.

I'm not sure if you still can find it, but I contributed some code to the MiscKit, which was a collection of code for NeXTSTEP developers. If you're developing code on the Mac, you might have some use for the sample code I did when I was at Apple, which I described here.

More recently, I posted a couple of little iPhone hacks here and here.

-jcr

I'm not sure if you still can find it, but I contributed some code to the MiscKit, which was a collection of code for NeXTSTEP developers. If you're developing code on the Mac, you might have some use for the sample code I did when I was at Apple, which I described here.

More recently, I posted a couple of little iPhone hacks here and here.

-jcr

http://api.ning.com/files/4k4zHJXi41vmn0z0wrNIo*fW47HkwK796c6dCV55TG78mdyHTw646RGSXLmY56-gLiqvxDkgjp40Z*aEvnZCkssaYS7OBpNz/keithrichards.jpg

Oh, really? Well, maybe it's the first one with its own social network. Hmmm, I wonder where I can find an AA group with their own bar?

Try: http://www.ning.com/ You can pay to have the ads removed, but even the free version works nicely.....

Ning buying Skyrock? :)

As the editor for this book, I can tell you we had quite a few conversations about what type of places to include -- there are certainly a lot more than 128 to choose from! (Hello, sequel?)

While it's true that the book includes a certain number of museums, I can assure you they are each remarkable in some way. For example, the Deutsches Museum in Munich, Germany, contains a complete 19th-century fishing boat with a large slice through the side that enables visitors to see into the boat from the top deck to the keel. The museum's bridge-building room features a full-scale suspension bridge that visitors can walk over. Trust me, none of the museums included is your typical local science museum with a couple of meteorites and a Van de Graaff generator.

The Nördlinger Ries crater is pretty awesome, but we were trying to capture places with more to do than look at a hole-in-the-ground (even if it *is* a really awesome, totally geeky hole-in-the-ground).

More info on the sites in the book, including photos and video, can be found here: http://geekatlas.ning.com/ Enjoy!

I would suggest looking at using http://www.ning.com/ I have taught several classes on technology, and rather than set up a server, or using "collaborative" software clients, I've used ning as my online classroom for students. It does take some configureation on your side, but it's rather simple to set up and customize. You can also set it up to be a closed network, so only your students can get into it.

Actually drug gangs HAVE already been caught with their "little own air force". I believe one unmanned drug delivery probe has already been found. I have little doubt they will soon multiply thousandfold.

Some very worrying comments from someone who builds these things. You really think none of the people capable of doing this took the offer ?

And the only way you're going to stop a large fleet of (very cheap) UAV's for any reasonable price (whatever people say, economics, not militaries, win wars, so downing UAV's with ground-air munitions amounts to suicide) your only option is a large fleet of UAV's. If you expect anyone to try it, there is only one option : build them.

http://api.ning.com/files/DJMv9mqjOkssmd1zsxcOBHVISXeFz0fX8okfT3k8tarsBH6pqmzuKWDIw6FSOjdzaLQBOQuCQJn-wVFjw1ED7eEcsDRerLwN/Recon_military_Trimble_WM5_051.jpg

"A military "Hand held" GPS using is about 10 inches long, by 3 inches wide, has a giant antenna on the side, weights about 10 pound"

sounds like you don't know what you are talking about. Most anyone that has been in the military for the past 5 years have not used the bricks you speak of.

It seems to me we'd have to rape the earth in a way most of us would consider fairly extreme to erect giant concrete towers on every square meter of ocean and land.

Not even close. In the US the Rock Mountains alone contain enough potential wind energy to power the 48 continuous states. I think that's what the Picken's Plan calls for. However the Southwest on up the Pacific Coast is also good. To the east from the Appalachians north to the Poconos and Catskill Mountains contains a lot as does offshore from Cape Hatteras to Cape Cod. Unfortunately there are a lot of NAMBYs along the coast who don't want wind farms offshore. Kennedy is one of them fighting to stop wind farms in Cape Cod.

The ecolgical impact of billions of tonnes of raw materials being mined would be astronomical.

You have that with all sources of energy. If you don't want mining then you don't get energy.

Falcon

it will likely be close to $1000.
I am personally heading down the same path you direct (but cheaper), bought a $200 electric plane, with the FMA co-Pilot to learn to fly the RC plane (after a couple 15 minute sessions playing the RC sim at the local hobby shop.) These sensors then work with the arduPilot once you are a competent pilot. Total cost for the training aids, plane, gps+board... sub $1000

cant yet comment how well it works, just got the plane in the air (2 feet), now getting the FMA co-pilot installed (have proof I need it now, accident free though) have the rest in hand.

Hey, Hasbara astro-turfer, who boast of killing babies? The IDF! They even print T-Shirts, that laugh about killing pregnant women.
Israeli Army T-Shirts Mock Gaza Killings of Women and Children

Of course, they don't usually use bullets. Internationally banned chemical warfare agents, like White Phosphorus will kill a neighborhood full of children, so much easier.

Per your deception on the origin of the Incubator smear of Iraq? Kuwait is a client of the USA. The USA is a client of Israel.

"[The Palestinians] are beasts walking on two legs."
-- Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin, speech to the Knesset, quoted in Amnon Kapeliouk, "Begin and the 'Beasts,"' New Statesman, June 25,1982:

"The blood of the Jewish people is loved by the Lord; it is therefore redder and their life is preferable."
-- Rabbi Yitzhak Ginsburg, head of the Kever Yossev Yeshiva (school of Talmud) in Nablus

"The killing by a Jew of a non-Jew, i.e. a Palestinian, is considered essentially a good deed, and Jews should therefore have no compunction about it."
-- Yitzhak Ginsburg, "Five General Religious Duties Which Lie Behind the Act of the Saintly, Late Rabbi Baruch Goldstein, May his Blood be Avenged"

Can Slate stop writing articles about shit it doesn't know about?

Right.

First, most of the things Slate suggests have been tried. Timing human input behavior is in use already, and attacks already do some randomization there.

Second, despite what the Slate article quotes, the CAPTCHA for Gmail has been cracked. The success rate is only 20%, but because the cracker is embedded in a botnet, that's good enough to survive IP blacklisting. MessageLabs says Gmail spam went from 1.3 percent of all spam e-mail in January to 2.6 percent in February.

All the proposed tasks - recognizing people, cats vs dogs, etc. - can be done by computers at the 20% accuracy level or better. So that's not going to work.

ReCAPTCHA isn't very good in practice. You get two words, one of which was recognized by an OCR program and one of which wasn't. You only have to re-recognize the one which some OCR program already got to pass the CAPTCHA. If you can do that, you have a 50% chance of success.

Then there are the outsourcing services. "We are 35 seater call center located in Hyderabad, we would be interested." The going rate is US$0.001 to US$0.003 per CAPTCHA solved successfully. There are always ads on GetAFreelancer for CAPTCHA solving. Read Black Hat World for sources.

That would actually be Chewy on drums, Leia on vocals, Vader on bass, Han and Luke on guitar, and R2/C3PO on synth.

They are ReThuglican Jews

What a shitty world you Statists are creating.

Of course, in your Orwellian DoubleThink, Memory Hole, I am sure when this fails you'll just blame it on Bu$Hitler & the Jews.

Stunning! http://api.ning.com/files/hcRIYakWETefjoXTG3*qMTWR85Jo9KBEOHF8P46bll8_/quark.jpg

very true... though I prefer these differences null pointer: much more dangerous because of the sharp points that can jab and stab null reference: talking about someone or something that doesn't really matter Or perhaps a killer book reference: http://nullpointer.ning.com/

Picture of the ground on the moon.

Picture of the ground in Minnesota.

Notice any differences?

It was .asp. I am not sure how to do it with the out-of-the-box software other then to edit their graphics. The problem with boxed products it that bots may be programmed to deal with them.

Anyhow, the site is: http://executivemoms.ning.com/profiles/blogs/speaking-as-mom-of-the-month & tge registration is http://executivemoms.ning.com/main/authorization/signUp?target=http%3A%2F%2Fexecutivemoms.ning.com%2Fprofiles%2Fblogs%2Fspeaking-as-mom-of-the-month

It was .asp. I am not sure how to do it with the out-of-the-box software other then to edit their graphics. The problem with boxed products it that bots may be programmed to deal with them.

Anyhow, the site is: http://executivemoms.ning.com/profiles/blogs/speaking-as-mom-of-the-month & tge registration is http://executivemoms.ning.com/main/authorization/signUp?target=http%3A%2F%2Fexecutivemoms.ning.com%2Fprofiles%2Fblogs%2Fspeaking-as-mom-of-the-month

Offhand I can say that the NFL's needs are FAR greater in respect to media needs during the Superbowl as opposed to the World Series, but just in case, I found a link in about 5 seconds on Google.

Forget the pony, just get me one of those.

The plan is to extend per byte per site, which will effectively end the internet as we know it today. The ability to turn off users will be abused in more than one way. Demand infrastructure upgrades and neutrality, you have already paid for it.

There is very good evidence that ATT and every major ISP is moving to pay per byte models and per site discrimination. It comes from whistle blowers. Ignore it at your peril.

There is not any good evidence that wireless wiretaps and email filtering will be abandoned anytime soon.

The issue is neutrality and censorship. Moore's law also makes bad things easier too. We should fight them when we see them. Never accept "how things really work in technology" as an excuse to do nothing. Your freedom of press is too important to sacrifice to technical details and a false sense of "professionalism"

It's beyond unreasonable, they are dogmatic evolutionists to the point where it is a religious point of view of opposing the IDers.

They're fundamentalist atheists, and yes, they pose at least as great a threat to science as fundamentalist Christians.

You haven't been listening to these dolts, I hope.

Uplifting humanity with entertainment and cooperation with the totalitarian oppresion with the worlds most populous state. Remember, the great firewall of China was designed and built by US Firms and it is being implemented everywhere else too. 2012 is the year all major ISPs will strangle the internet by making it look like a calbe TV subscription.

http://www.cs.bilkent.edu.tr/~david/david/educphilosophy.htm

http://hermitslantern.ning.com/forum/topic/show?id=1062477%3ATopic%3A2741

There was a book on this topic, but I forgot what it is called.

If you think I need a teacher, go to hell.

The information is all I need.

I am the teacher.

I teach myself.

I've been doing this my whole life.

I'm satisfied. I take FULL responsibility for
my learning.

I give NO power to anyone else for my education.

Oh, your going to teach me? Do you see this? ..|.

I don't need you. I will buy my own books, and study on my own.

Screw you.

The ONLY real reason people want a diploma,
or certificate is for "recognition", and official
"government" supported education.

That and they are too dumb to teach themselves.

Or they have no motivation. Or they see no

point in learning anything.

Hm, I'm not sure you're correct. "Earthrise" is this picture.

The famous picture of Earth with Africa visible is this picture. It wasn't taken from the Moon (I recall this from reading about it in the past, although I can't cite it; however it's easily provable, as the position of the camera is much too far below the Moon's ecliptic; you cannot see the entirety of Antarctica from any point on the Moon).

Are any bittorent/p2p organizations making any headway in court cases against this practice? They're throttling these guys while preparing their own pay-to-use download and internet TV services for release. Not to mention their plans to stomp the internet into a tiered subscription package(image). Is this not illegal?

Are any bittorent/p2p organizations making any headway in court cases against this practice? They're throttling these guys while preparing their own pay-to-use download and internet TV services for release. Not to mention their plans to stomp the internet into a tiered subscription package(image). Is this not illegal?

The Dutch word 'voorwerp' means object, thing you can touch and move(a book, a pen, a tree, a desk, a computer, ...). Sometimes it's used for the subject line for email (though 'onderwerp' would have been the better translation). Thus the google translator confusion. Pieter Jansegers pieterjansegers.ning.com

Here's how media companies will kill the free internet we all know and love:

• Meter everything but a few incumbent favored sites, everything else loses traffic and ad revenue overnight.
• Kick off the users you don't like, alternate sites will wither and die when their owners are harassed this way.
• Block sites you don't like by calling something nasty.

"Legitimate" media caches and disruption of all other P2P traffic only makes step one worse. They will continue to slow the rest to lower than their heavily filtered networks can deliver. The result will look like broadcast media does today, one big corporate billboard, instead of a free press. Part of censorship is shouting louder than others.

Yeah, I've said this before. As long as ISPs have the same story, so will I.

Here's how media companies will kill the free internet we all know and love:

• Meter everything but a few incumbent favored sites, everything else loses traffic and ad revenue overnight.
• Kick off the users you don't like, alternate sites will wither and die when their owners are harassed this way.
• Block sites you don't like by calling something nasty.

The result will look like broadcast media does today, one big corporate billboard, instead of a free press. Just a little censorship is like being just a little pregnant.

It depends on the way they implement it. Presumably, the routing tables of the routers will be set in a way, such that the IP addresses of the blocked sites will be unreachable.

But this can be defeated by proxy servers. So France could ban the IP addresses of every proxy server, which might also be a university server or political discussion site.

But such sites could also copy botnet's and have rapidly rotating server IP addresses using DNS entries. So France would also have to ban every international DNS server.

It would lead to something like that article:

2012- The year the Internet ends

Let's see:

• Plans to charge per site access, as if they were cable channels.
• Plans to kick off people at will, as if it were about "piracy".
• Now, plans to block sites.

If all of these things come about, the internet will be like cable TV and there will be no free press.

When you combine these "cut off" programs with the ACTA end of the internet, what you have is more distopian than 1984. ACTA will turn the internet into something that resembles cable TV/spy machine. It will read people's mail and track them as they visit the few officially sanctioned and "free" internet sites. The power to exclude people from even that will complement ACTA's broad powers by allowing those in power to ruin those who deviate. Who's going to dare run VirginSucks.org when they might lose their ability to pay their bills, get a job, and everything else that requires the web? This kind of power is too dangerous to grant anyone.

Bingo. He should show her this as well. http://ipower.ning.com/netneutrality The video is a little over the top but she needs to understand this vision of a 1984 type future that geekdom thinks can happen. The laws they want can have many ill effects that they will not see coming but we do. If they resist then it'll just make things far harder for everyone in the future.

The have tips, hints, and plans, even include where to get the gps and other nav boards, and software with autopilot capability. Its all pretty interesting stuff. If I had free time Id probly try one myself.

Tm

"Everything shall be known", Jesus said some 2000 years ago. I believe this to be true today... But on the positive site of it, is the idea that when you believe in something, even mountains can be displaced... The web2.0 already provides enormous opportunity to everyone wanting to do something. Pieter Jansegers webosophy.ning.com

Ning by the way is yet another piece of do-nothing get-a-life-ware...