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This kid would make a great poster boy for birth control.

Is it so hard to type and make a clickable link?

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/02/08/magazine/08WORMS .html

IHT? Yuck. Side scrolling javascript web pages that call columns "pages" is almost as bad as requiring a subscription.

You sicken me man.

Here's the NY Times link for anybody that is too lazy to reconstruct it yourself.

clicky

Good one, but your URL has 2 spaces in it (damn the /. text editor). It's much better like this.

Click Here

Google link, for the tin foil hat impaired

Geeks Put the Unsavvy on Alert: Learn or Log Off

There is a NYTimes article which states that geeks blame non-so-computer-savvy users for opening e-mail attachments. quote:

The virus spreads when Internet users ignore a basic rule of Internet life: never click on an unknown e-mail attachment. Once someone does, MyDoom begins to send itself to the names in that person's e-mail address book. If no one opened the attachment, the virus's destructive power would never be unleashed. end of quote.

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/02/03/science/space/03 STAT.html?ex=1076389200&en=9f97461fa48be3e6&ei=506 2&partner=BITCH

It's real easy...paste the title into Google News search and it always comes up.... link

So can you mod both him and me up? Thanks. I want to post more - LOTS more.

Whores.

nytimes.com/2004/...partner=GOOGLE

GO NOW!

Slashdhwores.

Here.

google partner link here.

phones with fancy features (cameras, games, etc.) are starting to dominate. I beg to differ - one of the few things stopping me from purchasing a phone is the fact that I do not want to pay for hundreds of features that I will never use.

There is a small percentage of people who like the old and simple stuff ... like for example cars. I think "An anonymous reader" might have found him/her self in good company with the people described here. DRIVING: My Life, My '58 Lincoln (sorry couldn't find the reg-free link.)

Yeah well if you wanna look at it that way, your mom's box is a NYT partner too.

Yep. Yer mom's box.

Or just click here.

Here.

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/02/02/opinion/02SAFI.h tml?pagewanted=print

Shitdot link!

...it is

Here

Why not use the Slashot partner link when they are kind enough to provide one?

GOOGLE LINK

-dk

For the tin foil hat crowd, here is a register free link: The Story

There are some key items in the article summarized in my (rejected) post. They give a good indication of where the market is headed. They also highlight and give clues about some of the competitive challenges that Microsoft will face while trying to take Google's market share.

2004-02-01 00:12:36
The Coming Search Wars: Microsoft vs. Google (articles,internet)

The New York Times' John Markoff reports on the coming Internet search engine wars between Microsoft and Google. Markoff draws parallels between Google and another mid-1990s upstart company: Netscape. The feature also provides some historical context on how Google filled a niche that the giants ignored while pursuing Web portals. A few story items stand out. (1) When Microsoft Research demonstrated its new search technology that will take on Google, former Digital Equipment Internet search pioneer 'Mike Burrows ... who later helped design Microsoft's experimental search engine, quietly defected' to Google. (2) Further, 'Google has been quietly developing what industry experts consider to be the world's largest computing facility' with over 100,000 computers in at least a dozen data centers around the world. (3) Finally, 'Microsoft is concerned that it may be at a competitive disadvantage' due to Google's use of Linux and open source technologies, according to an internal e-mail from Google CEO Eric Schmidt who describes Microsoft as 'obsessed with open source as a business model.' Not bad for a company that had negligible revenue in 2001 and now has $1 billion in annual sales and a $350 million profit.

There are some key items in the article summarized in my (rejected) post. They give a good indication of where the market is headed. They also highlight and give clues about some of the competitive challenges that Microsoft will face while trying to take Google's market share.

2004-02-01 00:12:36
The Coming Search Wars: Microsoft vs. Google (articles,internet)

The New York Times' John Markoff reports on the coming Internet search engine wars between Microsoft and Google. Markoff draws parallels between Google and another mid-1990s upstart company: Netscape. The feature also provides some historical context on how Google filled a niche that the giants ignored while pursuing Web portals. A few story items stand out. (1) When Microsoft Research demonstrated its new search technology that will take on Google, former Digital Equipment Internet search pioneer 'Mike Burrows ... who later helped design Microsoft's experimental search engine, quietly defected' to Google. (2) Further, 'Google has been quietly developing what industry experts consider to be the world's largest computing facility' with over 100,000 computers in at least a dozen data centers around the world. (3) Finally, 'Microsoft is concerned that it may be at a competitive disadvantage' due to Google's use of Linux and open source technologies, according to an internal e-mail from Google CEO Eric Schmidt who describes Microsoft as 'obsessed with open source as a business model.' Not bad for a company that had negligible revenue in 2001 and now has $1 billion in annual sales and a $350 million profit.

NYTimes Google Partner Link

For the tin-foil hat impaired, here is a de-register-it-ized link: The Story

I think you misread me. I mean it's an old quote... But then again, there are 40 more hits for it on google now... You're going to want to update your page again. The quote is actually from an interview with NY Times, September 28 2003.

Here are a coulpe links to articles:

From today's NY Times:

NASA Chief Affirms Stand on Canceling Hubble Mission

Also,
O'Keefe has sent a second letter (dated Jan. 28) to Senator Mikulski.

http://raba.com/press/TA_Report_AccuVote.pdf

I wonder why

First they ban religious symbols. Now they attack a democratic state for thinking about using a referendum.

I guess France just talks a good game regarding Liberty and Freedom.

Now that the Iraqis have released a list of dozens of French politicians who were bribed into opposing the Iraqi war, there can be no doubt:

France has lot its soul and has devolved into a rogue nation.

Also Tuesday, two CNN employees were shot and killed by unidentified assailants on a highway, just outside Baghdad when they were driving back from an assignment.

Car bombs have become a favorite weapon of insurgents fighting a guerrilla war against U.S.-led coalition forces since the ouster of Saddam Hussein's regime last April. They have usually targeted U.S. troops and Iraqi police, but often Iraqi civilians have been the victims.

A suicide car bomb at the gate of the U.S. compound in Baghdad on Jan. 18 killed at least 31 people and injured more than 120 Iraqis.

Any undertanding at all or just considered foreign and evil?

The one I'm really waiting for is aerogel. Well, waiting for it to be mass-produced and affordable, anyway. It's insulation, weight, and strength are just incredible. (It was previously on Slashdot in the Time's Best Inventions of 2002, and was recently used in the collection of comet dust on the Stardust mission).

Pictures, F.A.Q., and a couple more articles.

And a choice quote from this NYT article, by aerogel's current researcher, Dr. Tsou:

"It's the lowest density of any solid, and it has the highest thermoinsulation properties. Though it would be very expensive, you could take a two- or three-bedroom house, insulate it with aerogel, and you could heat the house with a candle. But eventually the house would become too hot."

Sure, they talk about the Copy Left and Lawrence Lessig's ideas on the top of page two (on the online edition).

From the printer friendly version:Copyright 2004

Leads to this link

How ironic?

So they can do it like Dell:

Issue enormous stock options to company insiders, and do "stock repurchases", regardless of share price, using company funds. This results in no net dilution of the shares' value - it is essentially using the investors' money to make a profit, which the execs are paying to themselves.

See this for more details.

Aviel Rubin's report was written by him and three of 10 experts asked for comment. Five did not comment as the thing is so politicised. Aviel has already taken the position as strident anti-voting-technology. He is also a security expert, they love hideous what-if scenarios - these pay their wages.

One of the other experts, Ted Selker from MIT criticised Rubin et al.

"Report Says Internet Voting System Is Too Insecure to Use"
January 21, 2004
By JOHN SCHWARTZ

[snip] Ms. McLauglin of Accenture said that the company had contacted the other six members of the outside advisory group and that five of the six said they would not recommend shutting down the program.

One of the other outside reviewers, Ted Selker, a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, disagreed with the report, saying it reflected the professional paranoia of security researchers. "That's their job," he said.

Mr. Selker, an expert in the ways people use technology, said security is a less pressing concern than mistakes in registration databases, poor ballot design and inadequate polling place procedures. "Every single election machine I've seen - including the lever machine, including punch card machines, including paper ballots - has vulnerabilities," he said.

The New York Times had an article about it today too, but there's not too much more info in it.

http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/science/AP-Mars-Ro ver.html?ex=1075795860&ei=1&en=39920dd40d9e2a3 1

Here is the no rego NYTimes link for the article mentioned in the report.

What you propose is basically a Heat Recovery Ventilator or an Energy Recovery Ventilator. (I can't remember what the fine distinction is between them.) They work best in larger industrial-type settings, where there is likely to be a good understanding of the details among a range of variables (air changes per hour with and without proposed system, average temperature ranges inside and out, temperature loads inside, predictable peak variations, etc.). Then the system can be designed to be efficient to the site. And yeah, the building has to be really air-tight. Otherwise there isn't enough heat/cold flowing out to reclaim.

For a residential situation, a better bet may be a Geothermal Heat Pump. Since the deep ground can be counted on to stay at a fairly constant temperature throughout the year, that's one variable in the system that is just about locked down. Pump the heat out of it in the winter, and back into it in the summer. The downside is in the digging/drilling. (Though if you have a large property, a pond can be incorporated.)

By the way, there is a system very similar to what you propose that will reclaim the heat from the water going down your drain. It's called a Grey Water Heat Exchanger. Everytime you shower, the heat going down the drain is recalimed and used to warm the water that's going into your hot water tank, so it doesn't have to work so hard.

Let's see, to keep from being *too far* off-topic ... you can insulate the plumbing in your GHP system with aerogel, so the surface ground temperatures don't cut into the efficiency too much.

Metafilter pointed me towards a really interesting model for managing deception: Recognition detection. The idea is, rather than find out if someone is lying or not, simply find out if they recognize an object or scene they could only recognize if they were guilty. A certain brainwave, coined the P300 Wave, is emitted within a certain number of milliseconds of seeing an item one recognizes. One study, done by a group called Brain Wave Science, was able to reliably (and perfectly) separate FBI agents from average civilians by showing pictures of items from FBI training courses and operations. Detailed information may be found here.

I, of course, make no claims as to the veracity or accuracy of this material. But this wave is not pure pseudoscience -- the NYT has an article showing how weak P300's correspond to weak signal recognition. And BWS isn't the only group looking into P300 and deception.

There are other approaches -- blood flow and PET scans come to mind -- but this has the advantage of involving just a few electrodes.

So -- we may yet see a lie detector functional in our lifetime. Of course, it won't always be trusted, for reasons similar to the legalistic need for occasional exceptions to the rule of unique suspect DNA identifiers. But it'll be there.

--Dan

From the New York Times today: "No Foolproof Way Is Seen to Contain Altered Genes". We're just getting started with the research on trasngenes, but we're releasing them into the wild, into our foodchain. Do you want your diet at the same beta-test quality as your browser? In the US, we test food and drugs to determine that they're safe for human consumption. We don't just assume that they're OK until the pestilential cat is out of the bag. Now just admit you're getting your checks from the agri-engineering biz, or just give up and join the sane skeptics before it's too late to know *what* you're putting into your mouth.

"Eeeww, Beta." - Homer Simpson

Here are two articles about the reclassification:

NY Times

International Herald Tribune

Patriot wasn't really about "watering the tree of liberty with blood", it was the now very tired tale of the good guy avenging bad deeds wrought by the bad guy. Yeah, there was a subtext that was the American Revolution, but it wasn't really the story.

I'll grant you that it's a subtle distinction.

I'll give you Braveheart, if only because the tyranny was portrayed as be widely experienced by many, not just the protaganist. Then again, it was far enough removed from our contemporary existance so as to be harmless, and the protaganist died a fairly unseemly death in the end.

Matrix is a good example too, but here the oppressors are machines, and while maybe you and I get it, I'll bet you that most were into the hi-wire kung fu action. Witness the popular (if not critical) success of the sequels.

The movie I want to see has a bunch of guys like us putting our lives on the line in an effort to overthrow the government, and winning (and getting the girl, living happily everafter, etc.) Not going to happen.

Or, it will happen, but be censored by the government for thirty-some years.

Otherwise, I agree with a lot of what you're saying. I would just point out that you seem to be a intelligent fellow, and that your perceptions--along with the attendant behaviors--are not experienced by more than a few percentage points of American society.

To put it another way, there's no reason why your vision of a solution wouldn't have worked for any of the thousands of tyrannies that came before this one. The problem is always that the people aren't ready to take on the responsibility. And that is often a condition deliberately imposed by the "masters."

I'm a (l|L)ibertarian, I believe that ultimately the only viable society is the one that is both free and vigilant. But it does seem as though such a society requires a period of incubation. And as long as somebody keeps pulling the plug, I am forced to consider steps to deprive that somebody of their hand.

This entire post is a direct quote from the New York Times.

And, just so nobody misses it (since everyone's pointing it out), the poster's username is "Eric S. RayRNond".

--Tom

If standing in a bathtub with an electric iron isn't your cup of tea, here's a guiltless Google Link.

"The new ad technology, from Unicast, an advertising company based in New York, invisibly loads the commercial while unwitting users read a Web page, then displays the ad across the entire browser area when users click to a new page"

Bullshit. I have yet to see a decent video that can be downloaded by a 56k modem in the time it takes to read a page and be played fullscreen. I picked up a freebie program back in my 56k days and i still use it. No-Flash lets you disable java, flash, pictures, animations, videos and so on. This little program made such a huge difference (especially by killing animations) in my browsing experience. At the bottom of their page, they admit the google toolbar does pretty much the same stuff. Hopefully that means it'll stop those videos from downloading, not just from playing.

its gonna get much worse

Beginning tomorrow, more than a dozen Web sites, including MSN, ESPN, Lycos and iVillage, will run full-motion video commercials from Pepsi, AT&T, Honda, Vonage and Warner Brothers, in a six-week test that some analysts and online executives say could herald the start of a new era of Internet advertising.

The new ad technology, from Unicast, an advertising company based in New York, invisibly loads the commercial while unwitting users read a Web page, then displays the ad across the entire browser area when users click to a new page. The resulting ad is identical to TV, whether the user has a high- or low-speed connection. The company says the technology evades pop-up blockers, but the person can skip the ad by clicking a box.

If it's loading from a server, the server can be blocked...
If it's loading any type of content, the type can be blocked...
If it's loading an object, the object can be blocked...

The problem with blocking it is all those damn IE users who have WeatherBug, PrecisionTime, et. al. Someone please, write an IE plugin (source is out there) like AdBlock for Mozilla that comes with default security settings. It auto-blocks certain KNOWN baddies (should be easy to compile a general list), has auto-update feature (from the web of course), and even considers removing IE plugins that are known baddies (again, easy).

I know I'm asking a lot, especially that you make it free (don't be tempted to use pop-up advertising to pay for it)...