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The existence of a proof of the full Taniyama-Shimura conjecture was announced at a conference by Kenneth Ribet on June, 21 1999 (Knapp 1999), and reported on National Public Radio's Weekend Edition on July 31, 1999. The proof was completed by Christophe Breuil, Brian Conrad, Fred Diamond, and Richard Taylor, building on the earlier work of Wiles and Taylor.

Before everybody starts screaming "this is old news" remember, /. posts what we submit. Though, I think monitoring NPR would be a good source for stories -- they reported this one a while back. Perhaps links like this one to the real-audio recordings of their broadcasts might be a nice touch.

George Washington University Law Professor Bill Kovacic gave some analysis of the referral on NPR's All Things Considered. The Real Audio file is here.
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Here are some links to NPR's (Real Audia) essays on the subject:

• Talk of the Nation discusses Andrew Ross's "The Celebration Chronicles"
• All Things Considered looks at the first wave of residents in Celebration, Florida.

Here are some links to NPR's (Real Audia) essays on the subject:

• Talk of the Nation discusses Andrew Ross's "The Celebration Chronicles"
• All Things Considered looks at the first wave of residents in Celebration, Florida.

According to this report, Gore tried to say as little as possible about the anti-trust suit. The C|Net article also stresses this, but throws an aside that "[Gore] expected that the White House would get involved..." Note, it doesn't include a quote or any analysis of what this involvement would be.

For some strange reason, Slashdot fixated on this aside and there have erupted a torrent of ignorant flames about it. Sheesh... if I want this level of distortion and disinformation, I can listen to Rush Limbaugh. Maybe people all these people who are clearly too lazy to read the original story will listen to the NPR version.

This, along with a story about a patent on Y2K 'windowing' I heard last night on NPR (which was also reported earlier here on Slashdot) has got me completely disgusted.

It's about time we get together as an angry mob with pitchforks and torches, and knock over and burn that damn patent office. Why hasn't there been any congressional lobbying or attention on this yet? (Because companies like being able to fence off almost brainlessly obvious solutions and hold other companies hostage? Hello Amazon? Hello Yahoo? Hello-- oh hell, just search for 'patent' on Slashdot!)

I'd rather see no patents whatsoever on anything than this garbage!

There's some excerpts of the discussion in this morning's Morning Edition report. He seemed fairly noncommital but expressed concerned that competition be preserved.
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The Redhat interview is saw was on CNN's Moneyline sometime this weekend, they asked Bob Young about the MS case (who had a 6.0 box in the background, apparently they haven't upgraded the PR studio), he said his favorite remedy was a perpetual investigation. They also asked him about the Cobalt IPO (I think the interviewer thought it was a direct competitor), he said the more Linux companies the better. Redhat gets a lot of press since the IPO so the fact of a Redhat interview isn't really news.

The latest linux story on NPR is here. It was a pretty well informed interview with John Dodge, the editor of PC Week. You can find archives for most NPR shows at www.npr.org. The first story I could find using their search engine was in April of 1998.


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The Redhat interview is saw was on CNN's Moneyline sometime this weekend, they asked Bob Young about the MS case (who had a 6.0 box in the background, apparently they haven't upgraded the PR studio), he said his favorite remedy was a perpetual investigation. They also asked him about the Cobalt IPO (I think the interviewer thought it was a direct competitor), he said the more Linux companies the better. Redhat gets a lot of press since the IPO so the fact of a Redhat interview isn't really news.

The latest linux story on NPR is here. It was a pretty well informed interview with John Dodge, the editor of PC Week. You can find archives for most NPR shows at www.npr.org. The first story I could find using their search engine was in April of 1998.


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My only exposure to Daniel Pinkwater has been his occasional appearances on public radio, and the Young Adults collection. But that's been enough to make me a die-hard Pinkwater fan. So sad to hear that Young Adults is out of print (though it's nice to know I might actually own something valuable) Warning: if you dislike the Pinkwater treatment of females, you'll really dislike certain aspects of The Dada Boys in Collitch excerpt. I felt ashamed even as I was laughing myself silly.

Anyway, here's a link to NPR's Daniel Pinkwater bio.

I was listening to a program on National Public Radio about LASIC laser vision correction. The general consensus from the various doctors that were interviewed seamed to say, "it is a good, but expensive procedure with a low rate of failure: but this is your vision we are talking about so perhaps it is best to wait a few years to see if the technology improves and to see long term results from patients that have already undergone the LASIC procedure."

I remember how they told of one person with horrible vision, who couldn't drive a car even with glasses on. The procedure brought him to 20/60-- good enough to drive with glasses.

They also told of an execute who's wife bought him the surgery for his birthday. Something very goofy happened and now he has double vision in both eyes. "My life is ruined, I have lost my independance," he said.

I think it is proof enough in that last case that would make me wait a little while longer or find an experienced doctor to perform the surgery. I recall the program recommending you call the National Board of Optomitry (sorry, no URL) to get recommendations.

Oh, in reply to the parent of this thread:

"The procedure also isn't guaranteed to have you seeing 20/20... although between 20/20 and 20/40 is common. Some people (although uncommon) even get their vision corrected to better than normal.. as good as 20/10.

The doctors often under-correct to make it easier on your eyes when you age. If they were to correct your vision too far, you might need some heavy reading glasses when you get older!

-AP

NPR Science Friday had a "Brain Update" show which examines various issues in detail, with Charles Gross on the program (the one who conducted the monkey expt.) Worth listening to, since so many are complaining about lack of info. Here's the link

http://search.npr.org/cf/cmn/cmnpd01fm.cfm?PrgDa te=10/22/1999&PrgID=5

Needs Real Audio, btw.

Wooly Mammoth.

Take a totally implausible example: say a company patents the process by which books are ordered by employing a single click.

This isn't so implausible. NPR had this story a couple of weeks ago about a couple of developers who claim to hold a patent on the concept of delivering video over networks.

You can listen to NPR live now but as I recall, you have to use the MS Windows Media Player. Personally, I think that RealPlayer is a pile of shit under any platform and that MS Media Player runs pretty nicely under NT. I have an NT box next to the IRIX and Linux boxes on my desk so it works out ok. Of course, live NPR is pretty popular so the server is often slow/overloaded/broken.

Check it out at the NPR front page:

http://www.npr.org

You could widen the question to "What do you listen to?", instead of focusing on music. At my recent cubicle job, I used to listen to NPR just about constantly, because their programs are just so good. (see npr.org ). This has two advantages:

1) NPR programs are very in-depth and geeky, focusing on everything from sociology to interviews with Nobel winners (don't forget Science Friday, with its delightful coverage that perfectly caps the last weekday at work).

2) It drowns out the cubicle chatter of your co-workers. Mine were pretty inane, and keeping the headphones on served a dual purpose....

I think NPR is pretty much the only quality station around on FM.

A couple of other points - normally I've found FM reception in cubicles to be really bad, probably due to electromagnetic interference. Any way around this? AM sucks even more, I think.

Also, while driving around, my pref. choice is still NPR, but I sometimes tune in to AM stations to listen to the chatter. For some reason, a lot of AM stations tend to air sensational right wing stuff, but it's amusing to listen to (not to mention giving an insight into the Rush Limbaugh fans at work).

I also like it that NPR's web site archives stuff on Real Audio, which makes it really fun for searching and listening to whatever you feel like. I guess it's the precursor to video-on-demand, and though I like what I hear, for some reason, it still doesn't have the appeal of fresh live broadcast.

L.

Simon Singh was also interviewed on NPR's Saturday Weekend Edition program. The RealAudio is here.

Simon Singh was also interviewed on NPR's Saturday Weekend Edition program. The RealAudio is here.

For example, many radio stations (e.g., NPR) are archiving their broadcasts on the web; this is a situation where ``play the file from the beginning'' doesn't quite cut it. The fact that, with RealAudio, you can skip around in the stream, so that the archive file can be six hours long but you can still find the part you're interested in without listening for six hours straight (or downloading the whole thing to your local disk first) is incredibly important.

As far as I've seen so far, you can't do this with MP3 streams: you can only listen from the beginning. Is that true?

Is there any work being done to make random-access of MP3 streams possible?

For those who are realaudio-enabled, NPR had a really cool obit this afternoon, available here. They got some of my favorite bits, but they left out one of my personal favorites, Day of the Dolphin (okay, the movie's not that great, but Scott sure as hell is...)

Anyway, the best part of the piece is when Rex Reed is quoted as calling George C. Scott "the meanest Richard III ever seen by human eyes".

I don't doubt it a bit...

I recommend it, it's very good listening

- Seth Finkelstein

Apparently, I can't tell the difference between "does have" and "may have". My information on the web browsing/email capabilities was gleaned from a segment on NPR I heard. Apparently, the Tivo doesn't have web capabilities, but may in the future.

I think it's a good idea to add the web browsing capabilities, and it doesn't seem very tough to do.

I heard about this on NPR last night. There's a 4 1/2 minute RealAudio recording at:
http://www.npr.org/ramfiles/atc /19990901.atc.16.ram

On NPR's Morning Edition this past Friday they had a story about a planned community developed by a company which previously focused on building retirement comunities. You can listen to the story here or get to the main page here.

On NPR's Morning Edition this past Friday they had a story about a planned community developed by a company which previously focused on building retirement comunities. You can listen to the story here or get to the main page here.

Loosely abstracted, the article claims that for forty-somethings JFK was the embodyment of all their generation's hopes and dreams for a better America. (Never mind that the reality of the Kennedy administration didn't really live up to those expectations; it's the perception that counts.) When JFK and RFK were assassinated, many people transferred their hopes onto the rest of the family. Apparently, a lot of people honest-to-God, no-lie, really expected JFKjr to come riding in on a white horse some day and rescue those dreams.

For twenty-somethings, however, they found that there was no visceral connection with the "Kennedy mystique." Our generation was much more likely to view JFKjr as an unremarkable media figure whose untimely death was sad, but not a national tragedy.

So, it's not surprising that the news media tended to cater to the older generation's viewpoint. Not only do forty-somethings compose a big segment of their audience, a lot of the media decision-makers are themselves of that generation. Given a story that resonates with them personally and with a huge segement of their audience, it's almost a given that the result would be the media orgy that we saw.

-r

NPR did a nice story on whacking the universe instantaneously.

You can listen to what all the math means on this story about

Vacuum Decay

that the correct URL is

Vacuum Decay Here

See, it could be just like that, snapped somewhere unexpected.

Go to Here to listen to the show. (requires RealAudio)

NPR in NJ... http://www.npr.org/member s/stations/states/newjersey.html.

Drop by http://www.npr.org/programs/totn/ and visit the archives. They have all their programs for the last several years online in Real Audio.