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The use of the phrase "such as" means "here are a couple examples", not "this is all we've found"
If i say the employee database at work has employee names in it, such as "bob johnson" and "larry anderson"; that doesn't mean there are only two names in the database.
you undermine your own argument when you misinterpret statements like that.

First off, the GP claimed that the fraud was on the order of "thousands of registrations", but the only places in which his article mentioned numbers were the 7 duplicates and 1 dead person, along with 4 people getting 2 counts of fraud-related indictments. Stretching it a bit, I could see dozens. But it you want to talk about misinterpreting statements, talk to the GP poster.

An unfortunate history of election fraud in certain parts of the South? (this coming from someone born and raised in Virginia)
election profiling?

Just an understanding of history. Both long ago and not-so-long-ago.

I agree that if an area has a history of problems with elections, I'd probably want to institute things like a mandatory recount in those areas so that you verify the accuracy of the results, but a history of illegal behaviour isnt itself evidence of criminal activity.

And I wrote that I was 100% certain fraud had occurred .... where, exactly? I believe I was simply saying that something was rotten in Denmark and it was time to actually get to the bottom, not make unfounded accusations of "thousands" or "tens of thousands" of fraudulant registrations. At the very least, the GP needed to find a better source for their numbers because they one they cited conflicted with their claims by at least two orders of magnitude.

The Florida election board made a rule saying that there would be no recounts in districts using paperless voting systems because there were no ballots to count in a recount. Districts that used systems that produced paper ballots would still be subject to recounts.

To an extent. The exact details of the recount statute and court ruling are complex, but it boils down to this:

o the only time a county can initiate any recount is if the totals are within one-half of one percent of votes cast
o even then, a manual recount may not be ordered if the number of overvotes, undervotes, and provisional ballots is fewer than the number of votes needed to change the outcome of the election
o in the unlikely event that a recount does occur, the first recount must be done electronically, either by re-printing the results from the touchscreens or by re-running the ballots through a scanner
o after the initial "recount", the only way they can move onto a manual recount is if the new totals are within one-quarter of one percent of each other
o even then, the only ballots that may be examined by hand are those that were deemed to not have a vote on them (undervote) or a vote for too many candidates (overvote).

In short, it is essentially impossible for a manual recount to occur, and when it does it will leave well over 98% of the ballots unexamined. I'd say that's a pretty good attempt at banning manual recounts.

The Florida election board made a rule saying that there would be no recounts in districts using paperless voting systems because there were no ballots to count in a recount. Districts that used systems that produced paper ballots would still be subject to recounts.
That rule was thrown out by the Florida court as a violation of state law that requires a manual recount be possible and required the paperless systems to produce some way for a recount to be possible.

Until, of course, the state-level decision was overturned by the 11th Circuit Court, allowing the

Maybe he was browsing a lot of sites just then. Or maybe it just likes to cache heavily, and nothing else needed the memory. (It's not like using more memory takes more power, as using more CPU does. In fact, since it may mean it has to hit the disk less often, using more memory can use *less* power.)

What is funny/sad about that screenshot is that they finally solved the age-old Windows problem ("what's uhcrwj.exe do?"), and solved it in the age-old crappy Windows way (duct tape!).

The Mac uses human-readable names for applications, which means you can have single-icon apps that you can install or move or copy by hand, and also means the Activity Monitor can show human-readable names. Imagine that.

Microsoft's solution? Keep the crappy filenames, and add a "Description" column. Oi. Really, what do those guys in Redmond have against naming things what they are? OK, maybe keep "cmd.exe" as a link for compatibility, but there's no reason to not use real names for new programs. It's not like anybody's going to be running Vista on a FAT12 filesystem. Call it "Desktop Window Manager.exe", and then drop the ".exe" from the Name column. Naming programs with 3-letter names made sense in 1970's Unix when you had to type them a bunch, but "dwm.exe" is just stupid.

"The majority of environmental releases in the pulp and paper industry come from pulping. The environmental impacts of papermaking are much smaller, and it is impossible to distinguish between the impacts from virgin and recycled papermaking. In pulpmaking, however, the differences are large. Compared to virgin pulping, recycled pulping consumes much less energy and generates smaller releases to air, water, and solid and hazardous waste streams."

Making paper from recycled stock requires 64 percent less energy than using wood pulp

http://feh.osu.edu/Design-Project/Design-project.h tm I've been a part of this since '98. It doesn't get as much publicity as it should though.

There are several problems with that, firstly is of course one of scale. Black people were the only group enslaved in a quasi industrial manner, pretty much indistinguishible from dealing with animals. That did not happen to the few white people that may have been slaved through history.

Right, like the million european white christians enslaved by muslims in northern africa between the 16th and 18th centuries? Where are my reparations for that?

Please, get over it. Shit happened in the past, it's not happening now. You are not entitled to jack shit because none of this actually happened to you.

Appearing before the Commons Committee on Environment and Sustainable Development last year, Carleton University paleoclimatologist Professor Tim Patterson testified, "There is no meaningful correlation between CO2 levels and Earth's temperature over this [geologic] time frame. In fact, when CO2 levels were over ten times higher than they are now, about 450 million years ago, the planet was in the depths of the absolute coldest period in the last half billion years." Patterson asked the committee, "On the basis of this evidence, how could anyone still believe that the recent relatively small increase in CO2 levels would be the major cause of the past century's modest warming?"

In Thursday's issue of the journal Geology, Ohio State University scientists report that a long-ago ice age occurred 10 million years earlier than once thought. The new date clears up an inconsistency that has dogged climate change research for years.

And another Global Warming Denial Myth goes poof.

The article posted above seems to be based on this from Ohio State University, which is better illustrated, etc.

If you want to "experiment" with results of various impacts, Arizona State has an online calculator.

William Dycus of Ohio State University also collaborated on this project. Send your comments to dycus.2@osu.edu.

A simple correction - your prostate is between your urethra and your rectum. In fact, the prostate makes most of the liquid in the ejaculate. If your prostate is too large (BPH), then the the urologist will sometimes do a TURP (also in the BPH article), where the urologist basically goes up your urethra and scoops out heaps of the prostate, in order to free up some space for the poor fellow to relieve himself.

If concern for prostate cancer is raised, a biopsy is done with a terribly evil device that goes up the rectum and spears the prostate with six separate little needles. If they left a little capsaicin behind you would be so sore you wouldn't notice...However, the study as reported by the article was simply consumed capsaicin, not topically applied

Hi, everyone. I wrote one of the original news releases about this planet discovery, so I'm very interested in the discussion of whether the "super-Earth" is exciting news or not. When I first found out about the planet (I work at Ohio State University; one of our astronomers heads the team that identified it) I knew I had to write a news release (I mean, this is a new planet!) but I also had to wonder how much of a splash the story would make in the media.

Some 170 extrasolar planets have been discovered in the last decade, so there's already been a lot of news coverage. But it's easy to forget that before a decade ago, scientists had no real evidence of what other solar systems are like. This planet is unusual in that it's terrestrial, and its solar system doesn't seem to have any giant gas planets like Jupiter. So the find expands our ideas about what kinds of solar systems are out there, and it also suggests that we're getting closer to our goal of finding other Earth-mass planets.

There's more information in the Ohio State news release, and the one written by my colleagues at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics. There are also lots of other news stories out there right now, most notably by New Scientist, National Geographic, and Space.com.

Pam Gorder

...then what are these guys making...?

This zeal for controlling the forces of life is what drives liberal doctors to abort any gestating beings they can get their hands on, and no doubt their jobs will be easier now that they can extend their lives to an unheard-of 70 years or more.

I'll keep fighting from the trenches, but there's a finite limit on how much I can pray for GLAD members. Some day I'll start a distributed prayer network, I guess with some kind of prayer encapsulation format, QoS guaranteed! Until then, I can use your help.

With

• Top quality representatives in Congress...
• **Outstanding** Pro-Teams...
• **Outstanding** jobs and economic outlook for the future...
• State of the Art Education programs that educate our youth...

It's a no-brainer how a teen can be charged with a crime just for telling his friends to "refresh the page"...

I think it's time for me to move...

It's not the first time local officials have investigated situations where students are misusing computers. Forchione noted a 2005 case in which four Jackson High School students were charged with misdemeanors after being caught accessing the school computer system. Some grades were changed.

There's no reason to be frightened. The Wikipedia section you quoted does not address it. On the other hand, many easily found university style guides do address it. There are more. Feel free to browse.

For the less ambitious (or those who are actually busy)

Tie Fighter

you don't get cancer from genetically engineered food.

How do you know that we don't get cancer from GMOs? It would depend on what that GMO is used for.
google helps to see that GMO is still not considered either good or bad.

Here are two links:

http://www.vegsource.com/articles/gmo_feed_myth.ht m/
http://ohioline.osu.edu/gmo/faq.html/

Who's right?

to think so betrays a profound lack of education about the slightest bit of what you are talking about

betraying a lack of education? That must be a fancy type of insult to say someone is ignorant by way of knowledge.... we are ALL guilty of that.

Microsoft had seen the windowing idea at Xerox PARC. The idea came from there.

Nice attempt at historical revisionism, but no. Try looking here or here for a quick history lesson.

only a small part of the Windows TCP/IP stack was taken from BSD.

I'm confused...are you arguing with me or corroborating my statements? Come back when you've made up your mind.

The Ohio State University
Research at OSU

I am the one who actually made this animation for OSU research communications last week! The main story was posted at OSU with the full movies, not just screen shots http://researchnews.osu.edu/archive/eggcarton.htm

Here is a link to the posted movies of the experiment

http://researchnews.osu.edu/archive/eggcarton.htm

Here are posted movies of the experiment

http://researchnews.osu.edu/archive/eggcarton.htm

The original news release, which has an animation to support the story is available at the Ohio State University Research News site.

Milalwi

The original news release, which has an animation to support the story is available at the Ohio State University Research News site.

Milalwi

OSU had developed light-tunable plastic magnets. Here the plastic material becomes 1.5 times more magnetic when blue light shines on it. Green light partially reverses that effect.

Another interesting work is from PSU on PLZT, this new material shows a large piezoelectric effect in response to near-ultraviolet light. Piezoelectric materials convert electricity into mechanical energy -- movement. When an electric current is run through piezoelectric ceramic, the ceramic changes size -- it shrinks or expands. Certain ferroelectric materials exhibit stronger photovoltaic (light into electricity) effects. Combining these ferroelectrics with piezoelectrics (electricity into motion), researchers created a single material that would convert light directly into motion.

...but here it's an expectation? Well, I guess this is what you get for giving these places the "rich man's loophole" by making it a nice large (and possibly price fixed) admission fee that's conditionally waived for the undeserving. Now when some Ohio State (or even better, Wright State) students would return the favor for the Wright Flyer stunt at MIT, that'd be news, not some high-tax state that caters to the same crowd as MIT's nearby neighbors, also home to Caltech's evil neighbors.

http://accad.osu.edu/~waynec/history/tree/magi.htm l

Fair Use is an aspect of US copyright law. The suit is under French law. Not all countries have a fair use exception in their copyright law. In particular, according to this law journal article:

the French copyright law limits the "economic rights" of authors in specifically enumerated cases but does not recognize a broad fair use privilege.

Its interesting to see that it worked (at least somewhat, somewhat despite a huge undergound movement of moonshine and imports of Canadian and Mexican liquor), and its also interesting that it was revoked later.

you will see things that look like this.

~As stated on the Worlds Best Foods website:
http://www.whfoods.com/genpage.php?tname=nutrient& dbid=95

Not to mention that whole Moon landing thing. Oh, and basically inventing the whole modern concept of how a computer should work. THAT's amazing.

Oh, and in 1992, I think my Amiga 3000 was competetive wrt to the NeXT. What's the big deal with all the jizz flying around for jobs around here?

Not to mention that whole Moon landing thing. Oh, and basically inventing the whole modern concept of how a computer should work. THAT's amazing.

Oh, and in 1992, I think my Amiga 3000 was competetive wrt to the NeXT. What's the big deal with all the jizz flying around for jobs around here?

I find it sad that all we can do today is sit on our asses and do 'research' into the past instead of building the future. When I look at the sad, limp, life- and passion-less state of today's "research" (no revolutions whatsoever in 40 years), I just feel like we have lost something in our culture.

the then-vs-now for computer graphics animation than it will be as a movie per se. [it was hard to swallow then as a story] When I went to SigGraph in Boston in '82, it was more like a sci-fi con than a computing conference or trade show: young comp. graphics geeks all had tron on the brain and were very impressed withourselves despite how crude the technology was.
in Pixar was pretty much a gleam in Ed Catmull's eye back then. Tron was a technicolor collage of animation from a whole zoo of hacked graphic engines and computers like the Foonlee, none of which could out-draw a low end NVIDIA product nowadays.
But with the Disney-Pixar divorce, how are they going to draw this thing?

>Oh, and by the way... disagreeing with people is not "trolling".

Right, and it's also not "rationalizing antisocial behavior".

You rant a lot, but you don't draw any lines. A lot of people still think of culture as something that is free, that is a part of society, what they like, do, and talk about. Copyright law was (originally) written in a way that would pass copyrighted material from private control into the public domain. Copyrights have expired on the works of Maurice Ravel, Thomas Nast, Washington Irving, and many others, with undeniably great benefits for us all. This process is now stopped at 1923! All of your arguments are couched in economic terms, but our culture does not operate that way. We are exposed to various expressions of media, but we are not allowed to recycle anything created after 1923. This is the problem of copyright law, and not that anybody is "stealing." The acts which you characterize as theft can also be seen as a desire for the populace to use more recent works of copyright, with lawsuits by copyright holders against citizens being one illustration of tension between the law (as it has come to exist) and the will of the people. Of course much of the behavior being discussed here is currently illegal, but it also seems the legislature was out of touch with the constituency when making it so.

I had to keep a 3.2 GPA to keep it; losing the scholarship would have meant leaving my fine institution and maybe finishing up my degree at Frank's University and Muffler Shop in Dismal Seepage, Wyoming.

Even the usual driven-student annoyances (project members that don't pull their weight, difficult tests in non-curved classes, etc.) took on a whole new dimension of fear and anger back then.

This course would have interested me, if they'd have had it back then, but taking an un-passable course (especially if it was not known to be un-passable in advance) would have been unthinkable.

(I think as a result of me and people like me panicing when they got 40's on physics tests freshman year (not realizing that that's not bad when the highest grade in the class is a 48), they changed the rules so that you only had to not flunk out freshman year, though you still had to keep the 3.2 in subsequent years).

In other words, the USA is well underway ;)

Does not lend credibility to our arguments. The DDT link to the decline of birds has been debunked as well as the supposed carcinogen http://www.tysknews.com/Depts/Environment/ddt_100. htm#ref6/. How many people have suffered and died from amalria because DDT was pulled of the market by flawed logic and environmentalists with an agenda?

I'm not arguing that DDT has no effect on humans or birds, only that the orginal premises are flawed and there is no proof of a harmful effect. Judicious use of DDT has not been shown to cause problems in humans or animals. Until it has, it's flawed logic to support your arguments about global warming with unproven statements about DDT.

The same can be said about the causes of global warnming. Is global warming happening? Probably. But you can't say that humans are the singular cause of it or even the majority cause. There's likely a contributory effect but no one knows what that is. A recent find by a glaciologist points to a similar warming thousands of years ago http://researchnews.osu.edu/archive/quelplant.htm/ . Before the man could have had an effect. What was that warming caused by?

It's easy to go with an emotional response but don't try to base your arguments on flawed logic.

here...http://researchnews.osu.edu/archive/quelpla nt.htm

"So while Kerry wouldn't say anything in support, he would happily sit by while activist judges (of the sort he would be appointing) rammed it down our throats."

So you're going not by what he says, but what you think he means? It sounds like you're using some of the same tactics that those "activist judges" you complain about are using.

"Bush on the other hand came out in support of taking the issue away from the courts and sends up strict constructionists who don't legislate from the bench."

Democrats, Republicans... about the only people the Supreme Court is working to empower are themselves. And as for that "strict constructionist" viewpoint, politicians only use that line when it suits them.

"As for oil, what else CAN we do."

Kick the habit? Encourage a movement away from oil by putting obnoxious tariffs on imported stuff? Throw money at alternative fuel sources? Build more nuke plants to produce more hydrogen? Hell, shifting to cars powered by pulverized coal would be an improvement over the status quo, at least as far as American independence and not throwing money at terrorists is concerned.

"ILM was then housed in an old warehouse in an industrial area of Van Nuys (on or near Kester St, as I recall). By coincidence, Van Nuys was where I grew up, so I knew the area well."
-- Alan Dean Foster, Some interview

"In fact, Apogee was none other than the original shop set up for Industrial Light and Magic in Van Nuys, California, by George Lucas in 1975."
-- Some site on model building

"At this point, John Dykstra got a call from Glen Larson. Glen had contacted either George Lucas or Gary Kurtz to find out if he and Universal could lease the ILM Van Nuys facility we had used to create the VFX for Star Wars, in order to shoot Battlestar Galactica."
-- Some site with an ad that wants to install an IE plug-in

"Lucas hired effects expert John Dykstra to head a new production facility, located in old warehouses in Van Nuys, California. After completing Star Wars he relocated ILM to the Bay Area."
-- Some .edu site about the history of CG

That's just a few picks from the first page of Google results, too.

To respond to that idiot anonymous troll earlier, a quick Google search will show quite a few sites and quotes such as:

LIGHTING V'GER - a site about the original Star Trek: The Motion Picture
Apogee closed it's doors a couple of years ago, but in 1979 it was barely two years old, having formed when Dykstra, and several other key players from Lucas' Star Wars, remained at the former ILM facility in Van Nuys after Lucas moved north.

Hollywood VFX Master, Richard Edlund, Talks About His Work On The Original Battlestar Galactica
At this point, John Dykstra got a call from Glen Larson. Glen had contacted either George Lucas or Gary Kurtz to find out if he and Universal could lease the ILM Van Nuys facility we had used to create the VFX for Star Wars, in order to shoot Battlestar Galactica. And apparently, George agreed to it. So our main team, minus Robby Blalack, signed on to do the Galactica visual effects.

And one more:
A Critical History of Computer Graphics and Animation
Lucas hired effects expert John Dykstra to head a new production facility, located in old warehouses in Van Nuys, California. After completing Star Wars he relocated ILM to the Bay Area.

Apogee was the FX facility created by John Dykstra, the original Star Wars supervisor. John Dykstra decided not to move to Northern California and opened shop in the old ILM facilities of Van Nuys. There he worked on several projects like Star Trek The Motion Picture, Firefox and Invaders From Mars. In 1993 Apogee closed. John Dykstra continued working as an independent VFX Supervisor and currently works for Imageworks on such projects as Stuart Little and Spider-Man.

Ok class...any questions?

the comparatively inexpensive addition of alt attributes to images and clearly defined form elements

As someone who has been dealing with ADA compliance issues off and on all summer and will continue to deal with them for the next four or five months (please let it be done by then) let me just say that is just the tip of the iceberg.

Before I continue on my rant, let me just say that 90% of the web sites where I work are made by an average office worker with frontpage or dreamweaver. That is to say, they don't really have a clue what they are doing, however they are capable of publishing a whole lot of content and it's generally usable by normal people.

However, now the ADA police are requiring everything be compliant. Here are some of the official rules (I've found there are unofficial ones as well). Incidentally, that link I just made is against the rules because the only text in the link is "here" and the rules require the text of the link to make sense when taken out of context.

Usage of flashy web development tools is more or less forbidden because it is difficult to impossible to make many Flash and Javascript things "equally" (whatever the hell that means) accessible. Multimedia projects are on hold until we can figure out how to do close captioning and then find the time and resources to do it. Now there is a new emphasis on making things extra simple because we know simple is accessible even if it looks like crap and is therefore more difficult to use for most people. New content is being published while old content is being revised.... etc.

The best part is I'm sure we're not even creating accessible web pages. To do that we'd need to be testing the pages in the top two or three screen readers (Jaws, Home page reader, ?), but Jaws costs more than Visual Studio and the people making the web pages don't have the authority to make that purchase and the people demanding accessibility aren't supplying the merchandise. Furthermore, I don't think they people making the demands or the people making the sites realize their pages have no chance of being accessible unless they can check them regularly with screen readers.

It's like doing web development without checking your output in a browser and yet everyone just pats themselves on the back for a job well done. The sites still aren't usable and developers and end users experience crippled and reduced sites as a result.

Holbrook came in, and immediately pissed off people by trying to curb our tailgating for football games - a huge tradition if you've ever been in the area. Then she does nothing to curb the ever-raising tuition rates, agrees to shut off funding to some agricultural programs (which are the traditional basis of this campus), and is only concerned with research funding rather than the enormous undergraduate population.

Kirwan did nothing but foster our traditions, and fought tooth and nail with the state to get them to keep our funding so that tuition wouldn't go up over 10% every damned year.

Of course, this has nothing to do with Holbrook being a woman or even being from Georgia :)

So the point is, it doesn't matter who the newest president is; male, female, black, white, yellow, alien... just don't come in thinking you can change traditions, and don't alienate those that you will eventually be begging for money (which is, by the way, the president's basic duty, like it or not).

Good luck to MIT, hopefully she does nothing but foster tradition and raise the academic bar.

Holbrook came in, and immediately pissed off people by trying to curb our tailgating for football games - a huge tradition if you've ever been in the area. Then she does nothing to curb the ever-raising tuition rates, agrees to shut off funding to some agricultural programs (which are the traditional basis of this campus), and is only concerned with research funding rather than the enormous undergraduate population.

Kirwan did nothing but foster our traditions, and fought tooth and nail with the state to get them to keep our funding so that tuition wouldn't go up over 10% every damned year.

Of course, this has nothing to do with Holbrook being a woman or even being from Georgia :)

So the point is, it doesn't matter who the newest president is; male, female, black, white, yellow, alien... just don't come in thinking you can change traditions, and don't alienate those that you will eventually be begging for money (which is, by the way, the president's basic duty, like it or not).

Good luck to MIT, hopefully she does nothing but foster tradition and raise the academic bar.

Seems to me some of this technology might be able to be put to good use for the DARPA Grand Challenge 2005, in which autonomous vehicles race across the U.S. desert, driven by their waypoints and obstacle avoidance systems. I'm not at all surprised Cornell is doing some of this autonomous vehicle research.

Last year, The Ohio State University's TerraMax and Carnegie Mellon's Red Team did very well at the DARPA Grand Challenge. Here's some good coverage on Science Blog. There was some other really good blog coverage that gave a play-by-play breakdown of how each autonomous vehicle did the day of the event and what kind of troubles it ran into, but I can't find that via the Googling right now. :) There's also tons of previous Slashdot coverage on the Grand Challenge, and there's a pre-2005 event coming up very soon for interested people, I know.

It's odd that this announcement comes roughly 4 months after researchers at the University of Ohio similarly announced that they may have found proof that Black Holes can leak information.

can't someone figure out a smart solution for this without asking the user to modify the source themselves?
If you need more than 64k of data use a app made for scientific work, like R, mupad or Mathematica.

I don't have any issues with nanotech, as long proper environmental issues are taken into account. Things like PCBs were banned because when they entered the environment could cause problems. This is one reason why some countries are now requiring computer companies to take it open themselves to recycle the computers at the end of their life. The idea is the computer manufacturers will make a better effor to make computers economic, and safer, to recycle if they have to deal with it.