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Didn't see one of these yet (but of course there will be one posted right before I submit this...):

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/05/27/science/27KILO.h tml?ex=1054612800&en=a5e16828b6cf309b&ei=5062&part ner=GOOGLE

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This topic came up in a story in the New York Times magazine today. This is otherwise an interesting article about a white racist who was actually black, but after ending one stretch in prison he ended up back there again after trying to pass a phone $20 at a Dunkin' Donuts. Aside from not being a dimly lit location, there was a cop behind him in line to help when the cashier refused the bill.

Here is the link :)

I am a mini oracle & here is my prediction for the future: At some point I bet NYtimes will start testing the referrer and block sites other than google. Then we will counter by copy pasting the link.

Actually, if you read through the article, some of the chicks actually aren't too bad! :-) CMU chicks

1. Afghanistan, 1998, 2001, 2002, 2003
2. Bosnia, 1994, 1995
3. Cambodia, 1969-70
4. China, 1945-46
5. Congo (now Zaire), 1964
6. Cuba, 1959-1961 ("Bay of Pigs" invasion)
7. El Salvador, 1980s
8. Grenada, 1983
9. Guatemala, 1954, 1960, 1967-69
10. Indonesia, 1958
11. Iran, 1987
12. Iraq, 1991-2000, 2003 (The U.S. government used radioactive bombs in the first war against Iraq. See United States War Crimes Against Iraq for what appears to be an accurate history.)
13. Korea and China, 1950-53 (Korean War)
14. Kuwait, 1991
15. Laos, 1964-73
16. Lebanon, 1983, 1984 (both Lebanese and Syrian targets)
17. Libya, 1986
18. Nicaragua, 1980s
19. Panama, 1989. The U.S. government called it "Operation Just Cause". The link is to a U.S. military web site.
20. Peru, 1965
21. Somalia, 1993
22. Sudan 1998. There are doubts that the pharmaceutical plant that was bombed was making weapons.
23. Vietnam, 1961-73 (An estimated 2,000,000 Vietnamese were killed.)
24. Yugoslavia, 1999

There are many sources for this information. For example, see this PBS web page: PBS: A Chronology of U.S. Military Interventions (PBS is the Public Broadcasting System in the U.S.) Also see From Wounded Knee to Afghanistan: A Century of U.S. Military Interventions [zmag.org] and The government of the United States is a consistent opponent of international law. [

An editorial in today's NY Times notes that one of the ways the TIA will track people is by their walk. Observantly, Dowd parallels this to Monty Python's Ministry of Silly Walks. Apparently, this method of detection can be overridden by wearing a long coat.

I feel safer already.

Joss answered answered reader's questions in this feature in today's Times online.

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Silica is the primary component of the Moon's surface (and Earth's too) - this technique could greatly reduce the cost to produce useful things (like oxygen as a fuel component and for life in space, and silicon for solar cells) out of bulk lunar material.

Large-scale space construction is coming, and will provide one of the major markets for lunar materials. Martin Rees has a new book out that is pretty clear on why we need to develop space resources. Here's another enabling technology - now let's go do it!

By the way, anybody in the SF bay area this coming weekend should check out the International Space Development Conference in San Jose, where we'll be discussing a lot of these ideas, and more!

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"Sun is increasingly separating Solaris from its own hardware. A version of Solaris now runs on Intel-compatible microprocessors, and Sun is beginning to promote aggressively Solaris-on-Intel--a significant departure from the company's tradition of regarding software as a way to sell its proprietary hardware."

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/05/18/weekinreview/18B AMF.html?ex=1053835200&en=afbf9e2309015f72&ei=5062 &partner=GOOGLE

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First, in reference to your comments on structural and weight limitations, the actual force born by the wings is far less, since there is far less gravity. In addition, while the thinner air is certainly a hindrance to how much lift can be acheived with the same area, it also means that the stresses that must be absorbed from turbulence and the like are probably a lot less.

In reference to unfolding wings, these have, I recall, been tested on Earth, so if they work in our dense air and stronger gravity, they should be fine on Mars. If I knew a link I'd post it; you can probably find more with google.

Finally, you talk a lot about control system algorithms. However, there are a number of reasons that Unmanned Autonomous Vehicles are simpler when flying than when driving. There are a couple of relevent articles in this month's Popular Science, as well as a very good one in the New York Times magazine from a few weeks ago that I just finished reading. If you think about it, the amount of leeway available in the air is far greater than that on the ground; whereas a car driver must maintain precision navigation within a few feet on a road and avoid obstacles and the like, a pilot can, during cruise, simply trim out the plane's elevators, maintain a proper heading, and get by without even an autopilot. If he drifts off by a few hundred feet altitude or a few degrees heading, it doesn't really matter. This is why we already have numerous UAV's in the air in the military (such as the well-known Predator drone) and why Boeing 777s and the new Airbus 330 (isn't that it?) both can supposedly fly without even needing a pilot, in an emergency.

In comparison, DARPA is working with a few contractors to develop UAV ground vehicles, but is really nowhere near production stage.

My knowledge about gliders specifically is limited, my personal experience being limited to powered planes, but I would imagine that with a fair level of accuracy, finding thermals and gaining altitude should not be all that difficult, since most of the control software already exists in some form or another.

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This article in the NY times is one of the best things I've seen on the subject, so I had to pass it along.

It's true that it is very hard to find an alternative viewpoint in the media in this country, and surprising when the press is so profit-driven. This is the best explanation of this problem that I've seen so far, and suggests that it is this very profit motive that causes large media companies in the US to take the side of the party in power.

Very interesting and important.

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This article in the NY times is one of the best things I've seen on the subject, so I have to pass it along.

It's true that it is very hard to find an alternative viewpoint in the media in this country, and surprising when the press is so profit-driven. This is the best explanation of this problem that I've seen so far, and suggests that it is this very profit motive that causes large media companies to take the side of the party in power.

Oh well, good news for the international circulation department at The Guardian,, I suppose.

This move attempts to put power back in the hands of CNN and places like "the register". The register, really is nothing more than a weblog... and poorly written one at that.

Of course they will rejoice that Google is seeking to destroy the democratic power of a million internet voices, cross-linking, meme-propagating. Articles like this one have scared the pants off of media giants. Recently, the New York times blasted "technology" as the real source of "deceptive journalism".

I might believe that they made U-233 from Th-232. However, when you state that "no one claims they made Pu, except you." You are way off base. This claim is made above and in the New York Timesarticle.

Also, you state that a "breeder reactor is one that [...]" that's right, A breeder reactor is a reactor. What they built was a neutron source and a target, not a reactor.

Finaly they probably wanted to observe the Th-233 decay (into U-233) which would be evidence of the existnace of the U-233, and much easier to observe. However, they are very few people who understand taking these measurements at near background levels because most nuclear physicists don't work near background--no reason and it is hard and not as useful.

look I'm not trying to say that they didn't do something interesting, I'm just saying it is a little hyped up.

According to this story from 1999, the guys who made the breeder reactor were U. of Chicago physics majors Justin Kasper and Fred Niell. They assembled it in Justin's dorm room.

The NYTimes is carrying the AP story. It starts "Microsoft acknowledged a security flaw Thursday in its popular Internet Passport service that left 200 million consumer accounts vulnerable to hackers and thieves -- an admission that could expose the company to a hefty fine from U.S. regulators."

Here's the no-need-to-register version of the article, thanks to Google:
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/05/06/business/busines sspecial/06LOHR.html?ex=1052884800&en=ea31bf9e5b8a 61be&ei=5062&partner=GOOGLE

Getting back to the original point, read "No No Need to Be Jealous of Korea: the American Way" and "Adoption Rate by Americans of Koreans: Some Stats". That the Koreans supposedly surpass us Americans in broadband usage is not an indication of how Koreans are better than us. We often label the Koreans and Chinese as smarter and harder working than the Americans. However, we need to look at the whole picture. We Americans have more kindness and compassion than the Koreans. A concrete, impossible-to-refute example is the fact that more than 50% of Korean orphans are adopted by Westerners. Most of them are Americans. Koreans simply do not care about orphans. The cruelty in Korean society is really amazing.

The only possible justification for concern about the broadband issue in the USA is that the Canadians are ahead of us Americans in broadband usage. Comparing Canadians and Americans is fair. Both group are, after all, Westerners. Canadians have the same degree of kindness and compassion that Americans have.

with this valid link from Google:
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/05/05/business/worldbu siness/05BROA.html?ex=1052712000&en=5906ece0642a35 44&ei=5062&partner=GOOGLE

What you suggest, which looks something like this, simply does not work:
http://nytimes.com/2003/05/05/business/worldbusine ss/05BROA.html?pagewanted=all&position=&partner=GO OGLE

Notice all the fancy numbers in the real Google link. Those are what authorize you to view the page, not just the &partner=GOOGLE part.

But yes, I agree that people should go to news.google.com and find a valid Google referer when linking NY Times stories.

with this valid link from Google:
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/05/05/business/worldbu siness/05BROA.html?ex=1052712000&en=5906ece0642a35 44&ei=5062&partner=GOOGLE

What you suggest, which looks something like this, simply does not work:
http://nytimes.com/2003/05/05/business/worldbusine ss/05BROA.html?pagewanted=all&position=&partner=GO OGLE

Notice all the fancy numbers in the real Google link. Those are what authorize you to view the page, not just the &partner=GOOGLE part.

But yes, I agree that people should go to news.google.com and find a valid Google referer when linking NY Times stories.

with this valid link from Google:
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/05/05/business/worldbu siness/05BROA.html?ex=1052712000&en=5906ece0642a35 44&ei=5062&partner=GOOGLE

What you suggest, which looks something like this, simply does not work:
http://nytimes.com/2003/05/05/business/worldbusine ss/05BROA.html?pagewanted=all&position=&partner=GO OGLE

Notice all the fancy numbers in the real Google link. Those are what authorize you to view the page, not just the &partner=GOOGLE part.

But yes, I agree that people should go to news.google.com and find a valid Google referer when linking NY Times stories.

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/05/05/business/worldbu siness/05BROA.html?ex=1052712000&en=5906ece0642a35 44&ei=5062&partner=GOOGLE

Was this a troll?

"Researchers at IBM have used carbon molecules to emit light, a breakthrough that could replace silicon as the foundation of chips and lead to faster computers and telecommunication equipment." (emphasis added)

It was also reported a year ago that they had created transistors using nanotubes, although not with light.

"It all comes from, I would argue, this right to privacy that doesn't exist in my opinion in the United States Constitution, this right that was created, it was created in Griswold -- Griswold was the contraceptive case -- and abortion. And now we're just extending it out. And the further you extend it out, the more you -- this freedom actually intervenes and affects the family. You say, well, it's my individual freedom. Yes, but it destroys the basic unit of our society because it condones behavior that's antithetical to strong, healthy families. Whether it's polygamy, whether it's adultery, where it's sodomy, all of those things, are antithetical to a healthy, stable, traditional family."

That excerpt was taken from Santorum's AP interview. [Yes, yes, free registration required]

It should be noted that he made that statement (and many others) regarding a specific case, but I still find it alarming that my representative seems to think I have no right to privacy.

Apparently he never read the Bill of Rights. Last I knew, the Ninth Amendment stated we had rights not specifically stated in the Constitution or Amendments. I'd like to think a basic level of privacy is one of them.

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Western technology has successfully fought the Chinese cover up. The Internet and the blinding speed with which it transmits information has effectively thwarted all attempts by the Chinese to cover up their problem. In fact, here is a sampling of the information about SARS that is readily available from the Internet.

1. "How the 'global village' faced SARS"

2. "Experts Expect SARS to Continue Spreading"

3. "More SARS Cases Are Reported; Virus Found to Persist in Patients"

4. "China and SARS"

15 years ago, if an epidemic like SARS had erupted, I would have had a much harder time in finding information describing its origin and its symptoms. Now, thanks to the Internet, I know that the Chinese in Southern China "helped" to develop this disease by sleeping with farm animals. The virus crossed the species barrier from, probably, a pig into humans. The Chinese then covered up the problem and, thus, helped to spread it to the rest of the world. According to the latest reports, the SARS virus will now become a permanent part of this world.

More songs are coming.

Check out this quote from NYTimes article:

Tom Walley, chairman of Warner Bros. Records, said he expected to make the company's entire catalog available on the service, and that any delay would be due more to problems in working out the technology than to business issues.

At the same time, the article in your original post is still a good one - it's not some 'I heard/he said' diatribe, it is a reasoned, detailed, first-person account of police going too far.

The forum is the perfict time to charge the spammers for their crap.

If you have any antispam laws in your states make sure to use them.

Also try to prevent the media from mistaking them from anything but criminals and beliving the spammers lies that they run an honest bussiness. They are doing PR control, as well as the usual trying to redefine spam to the kind that they do not do.

The NY times was belived them in this "story" (also shows how bad they are, with them trying to spin things with quotes taken out of context and spammers trying the "I am not a spammer, this hurts my business!" pitch).

Like guarding the Oil Ministry while letting the National Museum, Library, and more fall to looters? If that isn't dumbass, not to mention tragic in its disregard for the whole world's cultural heritage, I don't know what is.

Another article on the same subject at the New York Times [Registration required].

Another article on the same subject at the New York Times [Registration required].

RTFA. Techdirt specifically said the threat had nothing to do with their decision, since it was unlikely to happen and even less likely to succeed. They pulled the information out of respect for privacy.

Personally, I disagree. In general, a business has little or no right to privacy; their address is required by law to be public knowledge. IMHO, a business that intentionally intrudes on people's lives deserves none at all. But more importantly, contact information for Alyxsandra Sachs is public, not private:

• Whitepages
• Infospace
• Switchboard

Furthermore: from the NYT article: "These antispammers should get a life," she said. "Do their fingers hurt too much from pressing the delete key? How much time does that really take from their day?"

Between downloading it from our mail server, sorting it into a local folder, skimming the preview, and pressing delete, my office spends a couple thousand dollars a year in salaried employee time. Does that answer your question, Alyx?

The spammers in question:
Alyxsandra Sachs
112 Catamaran St
Marina Del Rey, CA 90292-5769
(310)578-1728
323-871-2000x11
Fax Number: 323-871-0625
Albert Ahdoot
aahdoot@yahoo.com
info@netglobalmarketing.com

That would be known spammer Alyxsandra Sachs 112 Catamaran St Marina Del Rey, CA 90292-5769 (310)578-1728 info@netglobalmarketing.com 323-871-2000x11 Fax Number: 323-871-0625 Albert Ahdoot aahdoot@yahoo.com