Slashdot Mirror

The main site is slashdotted, and you could try here instead.

The web page looks very much like a Mozilla Foundation/Corporation page. I wonder what their intentions really are?

Trusted Computing Best Practices.

PLEASE can we stop linking to the entire stupid hierarchy of news.com.com.com.com, zdnet, cnet and other stupid useless sites like that? Schneier is a big boy, he can handle /. - and if not, there's always coral.

Aw heck while I'm at it here's the coral cache of the above link: http://www.seobook.com.nyud.net:8090/archives/0011 30.shtml#more

credit to Zack Rusin for the eye candy, nice hacking

clicky

id like to read the article but its already slashdotted (congrats)

The article loaded fine for me (11:10 Eastern), but just in case here is a Coral Cache mirror link.

They don't bury the dead in New Orleans. The highest point in the city is only 6 ft. above sea level, which makes for watery graves. Fearful that rotting corpses caused epidemics, the city limited ground burials in 1830. Mausoleums built on soggy cemetery grounds became the final resting place for generations. Beyond providing a macabre tourist attraction, these "cities of the dead" serve as a reminder of the Big Easy's vulnerability to flooding. The reason water rushes into graves is because New Orleans sits atop a delta made of unconsolidated material that has washed down the Mississippi River.

Think of the city as a chin jutting out, waiting for a one-two punch from Mother Nature. The first blow comes from the sky. Hurricanes plying the Gulf of Mexico push massive domes of water (storm surges) ahead of their swirling winds. After the surges hit, the second blow strikes from below. The same swampy delta ground that necessitates above-ground burials leaves water from the storm surge with no place to go but up.

The fact that New Orleans has not already sunk is a matter of luck. If slightly different paths had been followed by Hurricanes Camille, which struck in August 1969, Andrew in August 1992 or George in September 1998, today we might need scuba gear to tour the French Quarter.

"In New Orleans, you never get above sea level, so you're always going to be isolated during a strong hurricane," says Kay Wilkins of the southeast Louisiana chapter of the American Red Cross.

During a strong hurricane, the city could be inundated with water blocking all streets in and out for days, leaving people stranded without electricity and access to clean drinking water. Many also could die because the city has few buildings that could withstand the sustained 96- to 100-mph winds and 6- to 8-ft. storm surges of a Category 2 hurricane. Moving to higher elevations would be just as dangerous as staying on low ground. Had Camille, a Category 5 storm, made landfall at New Orleans, instead of losing her punch before arriving, her winds would have blown twice as hard and her storm surge would have been three times as high.

Yet knowing all this, area residents have made their potential problem worse. "Over the past 30 years, the coastal region impacted by Camille has changed dramatically. Coastal erosion combined with soaring commercial and residential development in Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama have all combined to significantly increase the vulnerability of the area," says Sandy Ward Eslinger, of the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration's Coastal Services Center in Charleston, S.C. Early Warning

Emergency planners believe that it is a foregone conclusion that the Big Easy someday will be hit by a scouring storm surge. And, given the tremendous amount of coastal-area development, this watery "big one" will produce a staggering amount of damage. Yet, this doesn't necessarily mean that there will be a massive loss of lives.

The key is a new emergency warning system developed by Gregory Stone, a professor at Louisiana State University (LSU). It is called WAVCIS, which stands for wave-current surge information system. Within 30 minutes to an hour after raw data is collected from monitoring stations in the Gulf, an assessment of storm-surge damage would be available to emergency planners. Disaster relief agencies then would be able to mobilize resources--rescue personnel, the Red Cross, and so forth.

The $4.5 million WAVCIS project, which is now coming on line, will fill a major void in the Louisiana storm warning system, which was practically nonexistent compared to those of other Gulf Coast states. A system of 20 "weat

The following links are to photos of one of the vehicles the Red Cross uses.

• Vehicle with mast fully extended
• Close-up of dish on the roof
• Right side of vehicle
• Left/front of vehicle
• Close-up of power distribution panel in left rear of vehicle
• Left half of internal equipment
• Left half of internal equipment (view #2)
• Center view of internal equipment
• Right half of internal equipment
• Center console equipment

These photos are courtesy of Michael Failing, and were taken at the 2004 Chicagoland Emergency Vehicle Show.

The following links are to photos of one of the vehicles the Red Cross uses.

• Vehicle with mast fully extended
• Close-up of dish on the roof
• Right side of vehicle
• Left/front of vehicle
• Close-up of power distribution panel in left rear of vehicle
• Left half of internal equipment
• Left half of internal equipment (view #2)
• Center view of internal equipment
• Right half of internal equipment
• Center console equipment

These photos are courtesy of Michael Failing, and were taken at the 2004 Chicagoland Emergency Vehicle Show.

The following links are to photos of one of the vehicles the Red Cross uses.

• Vehicle with mast fully extended
• Close-up of dish on the roof
• Right side of vehicle
• Left/front of vehicle
• Close-up of power distribution panel in left rear of vehicle
• Left half of internal equipment
• Left half of internal equipment (view #2)
• Center view of internal equipment
• Right half of internal equipment
• Center console equipment

These photos are courtesy of Michael Failing, and were taken at the 2004 Chicagoland Emergency Vehicle Show.

The following links are to photos of one of the vehicles the Red Cross uses.

• Vehicle with mast fully extended
• Close-up of dish on the roof
• Right side of vehicle
• Left/front of vehicle
• Close-up of power distribution panel in left rear of vehicle
• Left half of internal equipment
• Left half of internal equipment (view #2)
• Center view of internal equipment
• Right half of internal equipment
• Center console equipment

These photos are courtesy of Michael Failing, and were taken at the 2004 Chicagoland Emergency Vehicle Show.

The following links are to photos of one of the vehicles the Red Cross uses.

• Vehicle with mast fully extended
• Close-up of dish on the roof
• Right side of vehicle
• Left/front of vehicle
• Close-up of power distribution panel in left rear of vehicle
• Left half of internal equipment
• Left half of internal equipment (view #2)
• Center view of internal equipment
• Right half of internal equipment
• Center console equipment

These photos are courtesy of Michael Failing, and were taken at the 2004 Chicagoland Emergency Vehicle Show.

The following links are to photos of one of the vehicles the Red Cross uses.

• Vehicle with mast fully extended
• Close-up of dish on the roof
• Right side of vehicle
• Left/front of vehicle
• Close-up of power distribution panel in left rear of vehicle
• Left half of internal equipment
• Left half of internal equipment (view #2)
• Center view of internal equipment
• Right half of internal equipment
• Center console equipment

These photos are courtesy of Michael Failing, and were taken at the 2004 Chicagoland Emergency Vehicle Show.

The following links are to photos of one of the vehicles the Red Cross uses.

• Vehicle with mast fully extended
• Close-up of dish on the roof
• Right side of vehicle
• Left/front of vehicle
• Close-up of power distribution panel in left rear of vehicle
• Left half of internal equipment
• Left half of internal equipment (view #2)
• Center view of internal equipment
• Right half of internal equipment
• Center console equipment

These photos are courtesy of Michael Failing, and were taken at the 2004 Chicagoland Emergency Vehicle Show.

The following links are to photos of one of the vehicles the Red Cross uses.

• Vehicle with mast fully extended
• Close-up of dish on the roof
• Right side of vehicle
• Left/front of vehicle
• Close-up of power distribution panel in left rear of vehicle
• Left half of internal equipment
• Left half of internal equipment (view #2)
• Center view of internal equipment
• Right half of internal equipment
• Center console equipment

These photos are courtesy of Michael Failing, and were taken at the 2004 Chicagoland Emergency Vehicle Show.

The following links are to photos of one of the vehicles the Red Cross uses.

• Vehicle with mast fully extended
• Close-up of dish on the roof
• Right side of vehicle
• Left/front of vehicle
• Close-up of power distribution panel in left rear of vehicle
• Left half of internal equipment
• Left half of internal equipment (view #2)
• Center view of internal equipment
• Right half of internal equipment
• Center console equipment

These photos are courtesy of Michael Failing, and were taken at the 2004 Chicagoland Emergency Vehicle Show.

The following links are to photos of one of the vehicles the Red Cross uses.

• Vehicle with mast fully extended
• Close-up of dish on the roof
• Right side of vehicle
• Left/front of vehicle
• Close-up of power distribution panel in left rear of vehicle
• Left half of internal equipment
• Left half of internal equipment (view #2)
• Center view of internal equipment
• Right half of internal equipment
• Center console equipment

These photos are courtesy of Michael Failing, and were taken at the 2004 Chicagoland Emergency Vehicle Show.

its been slashdotted.

Here is a link coral cache link:

http://www.linux-watch.com.nyud.net:8090/news/NS81 24627492.html

Coralized link so you might actually be able to read TFA.

It's not that hard folks, just append .nyud.net:8090 to the first part of your URLs when submitting.

e.g: http://www.linux-watch.com.nyud.net:8090/news/NS81 24627492.html

Coralized link so you might actually be able to read TFA.

It's not that hard folks, just append .nyud.net:8090 to the first part of your URLs when submitting.

e.g: http://www.linux-watch.com.nyud.net:8090/news/NS81 24627492.html

http://www.linux-watch.com.nyud.net:8090/news/NS81 24627492.html

Would it be too much to ask the editors to supply coral cache links whenever they post a story? Or have they not heard of the slashdot effect?

``Your chrootexec program is interesting. Did you post the source somewhere?''

It's here. Ports and packages also available.

``Your chrootexec program is interesting. Did you post the source somewhere?''

It's here. Ports and packages also available.

Here's* an interesting writeup regarding 180networks.

On another interesting note, the privacy policy of the site where 180 networks 'officially' distributes it's crapware, http://zango.com/, bears no mention of this referrer-stealing. Ironically, they are even so bold as to show a little anti-spyware animated GIF at the bottom of the page**.



*Coral cached to avoid toasting some poor web server just because it hosts an interesting file.
**No coral cache for leeching scumbags.

This is a cool use for the Coral Cache, mirroring files this big: the kernel.


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Dreamhost superb hosting.
Kunowalls!!! Random sexy wallpapers (NSFW!).

Somebody!! Quick!! Load it into the Coral cache before their server explodes!

Phew..

The site seems to be slowing down.

Just in case here is the coral cache :
http://www.realtechnews.com.nyud.net:8090/posts/17 05

Coralized url.

Just in case, as the web in question seems to be keeping well with slashdot effect.


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Dreamhost superb hosting.
Kunowalls!!! Random sexy wallpapers (NSFW!).

I'm currently programming in Bismarck, North Dakota.

A 2,400 square-foot waterfront property in a very nice neighborhood will cost you about $240,000.

I know two programmers who took pay cuts from over $100k to $50k ($54k IIRC) in the Denver area to move to Bismarck. I also know of an insurance software company from Denver that sent 10 employees up to Bismarck on a pilot office program. They've been here for two years now.

Lakewood Harbor is where our house is located:
http://www.lakewoodharbor.com/discover.asp.nyud.ne t:8090

You can checkout Lakewood's current progress as well as other marinas in the Bismarck/Mandan area on Google Maps:

http://maps.google.com/maps?q=Bismarck,+North+Dako ta&ll=46.800706,-100.824108&spn=0.048840,0.103718& t=h&hl=en

Southport Marina is on the east side of river. across from Lakewood.
Borden Harbor is the slender bay above Lakewood. Marina Bay is the square bay above that. BridgeView is another bay that is in development by the middle bridge.
There is also another a few miles north on the east side of the river.

With house proces so low for waterfront propery, new marinas are popping up constantly here.

Mitzel Builders is one of the main builders here:

http://www.mitzelhomes.com.nyud.net:8090/4sale.asp (site made by someone not familiar with the web (650k thumbnails!) so need to mirror it)

Coralized, so hopefully people will be able to view it.

Stupid Ted Turner; coralizing all those movies...

Count me among the hoardes that hate AOL. I have horror stories.

This article deals with one of them. I know a lot of people who have a hard time cancelling their service with AOL. My dad tried cancelling the service three or four times and ended up sending them a certified letter to get them to stop bugging him.

Another issue I have with AOL is that AOL digs roots very deeply into your computer. I don't know if this is still true since I haven't seen anyone using the service in a while, but it used to do stuff like replace your built-in dial-up networking functionality with its own, and even replacing various parts of the TCP/IP software and system files with its own. Uninstall? Useless. I've completely reinstalled many people's computers just to get AOL off of them. It's ironic that now their ads pitch the service as a way of protecting people from stuff that screws up their computer.

I've also dealt a lot with "This thing isn't working" complaints. People who can't get through, people who do get through but only very slowly, people whose other software starts experiencing mysterious problems, and so on ad nauseum.

There's a reason that AO "Hell" has such a bad reputation, and whenever anyone I know says, "America Online has a good deal on Internet service; I think I'll sign up," I always tell them, "I highly recommend against that, and no offense, but if you do, don't call me to come fix your computer."

The company I work for had a brief co-branding partnership with AOL, and as a result, all employees were offered a free year of AOL service. I work in the IT department, and almost everyone I know turned it down because the service, even free, just wasn't worth it. Actually, come to think of it, one guy I worked with gave his account to his parents and then spent the next year fixing their computer...

And speaking of AOL's declining membership and miserable service, I guess Time Warner has to be feeling a little bit better about their decision to drop AOL from its name. Ooh, cheap shot.

Meanwhile, if you're experiencing problems cancelling AOL, try one suggestion I found: call the phone number on your credit card statement.

I hope I'm not violating my NDA with Sun for this, but here's a photo of their operation.

Here's the video

Coralized, so hopefully people will be able to view it.

I'm not sure if the file goes over Coral's size limit.

Here's a link that will actually load and show you all the pretty pictures : http://sam.zoy.org.nyud.net:8090/pwntcha/.

Good idea, Other Reply Guy. Here's a Coral link to the Lego Serenity crew. Please use it instead. If the guy does get Slashdotted, this link should still (in theory) work, too.

http://www.reasonablyclever.com.nyud.net:8090/lego /firefly/index.htm

"Camouflaged troops" descended in helicopters on a Utah canyon Sunday night to bust up a permitted and insured rave party.

A horrific video recording of the police and military violence against hundreds of dance kids can be found here.

http://cutup.org.nyud.net:8090/dir/fascism.mov

Detailed account of what really happened
http://www.404audio.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=1481 4

Utah Forum Database of first hand accounts.
http://www.utrave.org/showthread.php?t=20020

WikiNews Link
http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Dance_party_broken_up_ by_police_in_Utah%2C_USA

Anyways, so much for your right to peaceful assembly. It was fully licensed, permitted, and insured. 100% legit. It's sick and disgusting what happened, but we can probably expect more vicious gestapo tactics to try and incite violence and fear. Read a few personal accounts of what happened.

Are there any girls there?

Are there any girls there?

(summoner geeks)

The Coral Cache works, though.

Coralcached link (3Mb)

Why didn't I think of this? I bet there's a lot of money to be made this way.

Here's a Coral cached link to the article's comments. Most of them are seething mad, still.

"The english order page is here, but the darn thing is quite expensive. It's listed as 24 euros, which is $29.35 in American money."

Note to everyone: Remember to edit the URL if you're ordering it.

Also remember that there will be a free download later. Personally I'm going to pay for it, though, because they deserve all the support they can get.

http://www.starwreck.com.nyud.net:8090/tshirt/wome n_black_04.jpg

wooooohooooooooooooooo! let me rearrange your quantum flux capacitor, little girl.

wait. wrong movie.

This doesn't come as a surprise to anyone who's been following Star Wreck. They announced that the 20th would be the release date a while ago. It was even the first thing I blogged about.

The english order page is here, but the darn thing is quite expensive. It's listed as 24 euros, which is $29.35 in American money.

Also, the release date for Internet distribution is October 1st.

mencoder 2005-08-16-usb.wmv -ovc xvid -fps 24 -xvidencopts pass=1 -o 2005-08-16-usb.avi

This technically isn't working at the moment, because the site is well and truly hosed... but PLEASE only try this link instead of hitting the main one, and eventually it will recover:

coralized link

Future submitters: PLEASE PLEASE use coralized links! It's easy -- just add .nyud.net:8090 to the domain name.

...to post some cool links. Here's Nature's Quicktime video of the sheets being produced (coral cache).

http://www.nature.com.nyud.net:8090/news/2005/0508 15/full/050815-8.html

And the official press release from UT Dallas...

http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2005-08/uot a-utd081505.php

http://www.lorentz.leidenuniv.nl.nyud.net:8090/his tory/Einstein_archive/

It's looking like there should be quite a bit of competition soon in human orbital spaceflight. Here are the various competitors I can think of off-hand:

* USA: Shuttle-derived system, probably with a CEV capsule on top. There's several downsides to a shuttle-derived system, but it keeps the constituencies happy and should have enough government momentum to keep on going.

* Russia and Europe: Kliper's been searching around for financial support for a while, and it looks like they finally got at least -some- funding from Europe.

* China: various iterations of Shenzhou spacecraft

In the private sector:

* t/Space: The (Rutan-affiliated?) company just completed a parachute drop test and water landing of a full-scale model of their proposed CXV space capsule. It's uncertain if they'll get more funding from NASA, but their concept seems sound and may get private investment. Oh, and their web page has some really spiffy videos.

* SpaceX: They've already announced their intent to compete for Bigelow's orbital prize, and their upcoming man-rated Falcon V will be large enough to carry a Gemini-style capsule.

Now what about destinations? Besides the ISS, we've got Robert Bigelow's inflatable space station modules, which should be up and operational by 2010, with several prototype launches before then. He's planning on selling these modules to various groups and countries, so hopefully we'll have several different space stations up there.

Between Shenzhou 8 and 9 China is planning on launching a small orbital laboratory, which Shenzhou 9 will be docking with. Various members of the Chinese space program have also been visiting Bigelow's facility, so perhaps we'll see them doing something with his modules.

The future should be interesting.