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"The tree of liberty must be periodically watered with the blood of patriots" -Benjamin Franklin

Not to be picky or anything, but that was actually Thomas Jefferson. And he was right... and so are you. When a law is wrong, it MUST be challenged and destroyed; that's why they saw fit to include a little thing known as "Jury Nullification" in the founding laws of this nation. Basically, it means that a jury can find a defendant fully and completely guilty of a violation of law, but refuse to punish him for it because they don't think that law should BE a law. And you will NEVER hear it mentioned in a court of law, on TV, or anywhere except in a few books and movies (and, now, a few websites). Try to guess why. That's right: if We, the Sheeple, knew about it, why, we'd be chopping down laws all over the place! Can't have THAT, now can they? Undermining their hard-fought-for and bought-with-lobbyists laws like that would take away some of Their power, now wouldn't it?

So what better forum to spread knowledge of its existence than right here on good old slashdot?

JURY NULLIFICATION

JURY NULLIFICATION

JURY NULLIFICATION

JURY NULLIFICATION

JURY NULLIFICATION

There. Now go do some research on the topic, and shudder with anger when you realize how you've been lied to all these years by judges and lawyers...

The Fully Informed Jury Association's website
Read some more about it
A list of books on the subject
Even more
More
MORE
MORE MORE MORE

As you can see if you read the links above and fully understand them, the power of Jury Nullification is about the only power left to We the People. We don't have enormous wealth, we aren't in positions of political power, we don't have adequate representation in the legislative bodies of the government (meaning, of course, we can't be taxed either, but that's a whole 'nuther post), we don't have a stranglehold on any particular commodity or service (though think what would happen if we all suddenly configured our firewalls and BGP routers to stop letting packets through :)... Jury Nullification was GIVEN to us by the founding fathers because they knew in their wisdom that we would never have as much power as those who are so easily corrupted by it. It Is Our ONLY Weapon Against Them And Their Evil, People!! Do not let it fall by the wayside again. Tell everyone you know about it. Print out all the above webpages I linked to in 48-point Arial and paste them all up and down the streets of your cities. Don't Let THEM Win!!!

Thank you.

Unfortunately, I think it all comes down to whether or not the company enjoys the portrayal of their own tradmark and if they see a value in its artistic use. If the Catholic Church had enough foresight to have trademarked the cross, then they would have likely sued Andres Serrano for his Piss Christ piece. Since the Campbell's Soup company probably enjoyed their association with Andy Warhol, they were less likely to call their law school graduate dogs of war on the Factory.

The painfully common thread running through so many SlashDot stories seems to be that he with the most lawyers wins, regardless of right and wrong. Metallica v. Napster, RIAA v. mp3.com, California v. OJ Simpson...

Oh, and I'll capitalize whatever the hEck i want.

I can tell you, he is NOT in the least bit proud to have sent others looking in the right direction by his mistake!!

An excellent reference on extra-solar planets in general is the Extrasolar Planets Encyclopedia.

I can tell you, he is NOT in the least bit proud to have sent others looking in the right direction by his mistake!!

An excellent reference on extra-solar planets in general is the Extrasolar Planets Encyclopedia.

Because the Columbine Killers wore black and were socially inept does not mean that all socially inept people who wear black will take up arms and go on a rampage.
In fact, today Penn State University released a study that shows 60 percent of males who were surveyed admitted to a recent homicidal fantasy (females scored 32 percent)
Just because someone thinks or daydreams of getting revenge on the jocks that make their life a living hell does not mean they will act on it. The majority of geeks are content with the knowledge that they will have better jobs, have more money, and probably have a better looking wife / husband than the jocks who will eventually end up managing some little hardware store or McDonalds.

kar4@psu.edu to ask for permission to link to their pages.

This gets you to

Karen Rugh, director
Department of University Relations

312 Old Main
865-2501

Make sure you are coming from a university site too. Note that the difference between the two links that makes it work is the addition of a "www" before "guru". The other link is for usage only by staff *within* the university.

BTW, there are *certain* sites that have a "blanket exemption" to link into Penn State's pages: search engines.

Dear STEPHEN J. MacCARTHY,
In your ridiculously titled role of executive director for university relations at Penn State University, would you deign to allow me to post a link on the Slashdot.org news forum to PSU's homepage at http://www.psu.edu. Pkease note that my posting on the forum will only be available to the world for a few weeks, and only within easy access for the next day or so. Also please be aware that I am not the owner or operator of the site "slashdot.org", and the your link would meerly appear as a comment in the open forums. As such it is owned by me, though given my inclinations to free speech, I would grant everyone free, accredited, rights to reproduce it.

yours etc.

Dear STEPHEN J. MacCARTHY,
In your ridiculously titled role of executive director for university relations at Penn State University, would you deign to allow me to post a link on the Slashdot.org news forum to PSU's homepage at http://www.psu.edu. Pkease note that my posting on the forum will only be available to the world for a few weeks, and only within easy access for the next day or so. Also please be aware that I am not the owner or operator of the site "slashdot.org", and the your link would meerly appear as a comment in the open forums. As such it is owned by me, though given my inclinations to free speech, I would grant everyone free, accredited, rights to reproduce it.

yours etc.

FYI, your link doesn't work externally, it gives "you do not have permission to view that page".

Here's a copy of the policy that is available for external viewing: Policy AD52 LINKS TO OR FROM PENN STATE WEB PAGES

For some reason, I just LOVE making an external link to that PENN state policy ... is that wrong? :)

FYI, your link doesn't work externally, it gives "you do not have permission to view that page".

Here's a copy of the policy that is available for external viewing: Policy AD52 LINKS TO OR FROM PENN STATE WEB PAGES

For some reason, I just LOVE making an external link to that PENN state policy ... is that wrong? :)

FYI, your link doesn't work externally, it gives "you do not have permission to view that page".

Here's a copy of the policy that is available for external viewing: Policy AD52 LINKS TO OR FROM PENN STATE WEB PAGES

For some reason, I just LOVE making an external link to that PENN state policy ... is that wrong? :)

I'd sure like to link to my friends page but I wouldn't want to break any rules.

Lame.

I'd sure like to link to my friends page but I wouldn't want to break any rules.

Lame.

I'd sure like to link to my friends page but I wouldn't want to break any rules.

Lame.

I'd sure like to link to my friends page but I wouldn't want to break any rules.

Lame.

I'd sure like to link to my friends page but I wouldn't want to break any rules.

Lame.

LINKS TO PENN STATE PAGES:
Unless authorized by the Executive Director of University Relations (who will consult with the University Licensing Committee on trademark issues when necessary), no company or organization may place a link on its site to any Penn State web page. Links from government and educational (e.g., other university) web pages are permitted.

Penn state World Campus

Your confusion is in the definition of "transmission" and "reception" here. "Transmission" corresponds to the moment that the signal left the signal generator. "Reception" corresponds to the moment the signal arrives at the receiver. Any time inbetween is a totally different event.

In this case, what would happen for any observer in the middle of the flight path of the signal - assuming that the signal left a visible trace (Assume it does, for the moment... say, a huge blue streak) - would be that he suddenly sees a blue streak appear, in the middle of nowhere, and radiate out, faster than light, racing towards *both* the reception *and* transmission points.

Where the streak arrives first depends on where the observer is. You can write a quick expression using trigonometry to derive the location where the observer sees the streak reach the reception and transmission points at the same time.

For an image which explains this situation, take a look at http://www.personal.psu.edu/~psa104/FTL .gif.

here's the link for those that are interested: Antimatter Space Propulsion

I go to Penn State and they have a policy that does not allow links to commmercial websites. The policy when it was originally written made it sound like they were not going to allow anyone to link any commercial website, ie. I wouldn't have been able to link redhat.com from my personal website. But they revised it and made it so that only official Penn State webpages could not have commercial links unless approved by the Executive Director of University relations. Supposedly pages were being corrupted with too many commercial links that did not have anything to do with the university.

I think it is a stupid waste of time. Anyways here is the url for the policy

Ben

List of Jargon Resources Mirror Sites USA:

• http://www.akrotech.com/~darkstar/jargon
• http://memes.org/jargon
• http://www.journalism.wisc.edu/jargon/
• http://www.mindspring.com/~li mbert/hacking/jargon.htm
• http://www.iscvt.org/jargon/jargon.html
• http://www.babcom.com/jargon/index.html
• http://www.hackboy.com/jargon
• http://www.pulhas.org/
• http://www2.netdoor.com/~lhand
• http://avatar.deva.net/
• http://www.blee.net/jargon
• http://www.fortuneci ty.com/skyscraper/jolt/15/jargonindex.html
• http://www.jargon.8hz.com/
• http://culture.0wnz-u.org/
• http://www.houseofhack.com/jargon
• http://jollyrogers.com/jargon/
• http://handel.math.psu.edu/jargon

• http://celestrion.totalaccess.net/do cs/jargon/
• http://www.pir.net/pir/jargon/
• http://www.technozen.com/tetsuo/jargon/
• http://ude.org/jargon
• http://web.chad.org/usr/doc/jargon-file/

• http://karnak.nmc.siu.edu/jargon/

Australia:

• http://ecco.bsee.swin.edu.au/text/jargon/

• http://ecco.bsee.swin.edu.au/text/jargon

Czechoslovakia: ttp://www.instinct.org/texts/jargon-file/

Finland: http://zone.pspt.fi/jargon/

Germany:

• http://www.ude.org/jargon
• http://www.ghks.de/computer/jargon/
• http://www.math.fu-berlin.de/~rene/jargo n/
• http://hex.rz.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/jargon/
• http://www.informatik.hu-berlin.de /~bergt/jargon

Gret Britain: http://jargon.strugglers.net

Greece: http://www.hack.gr/jargon

Italy: http://beatles.cselt.stet.it/mirrors/jargon

Japan: http://www.vacia.is.tohoku.ac.jp/jargon/

Norway: http://www.pvv.ntnu.no/misc/jargon/ Poland: http://www.uci.agh.edu.pl/jargon/

Spain: http://www.undersec.com/jargon

Sweden: http://ftp.sunet.se/jargon/

U.K.:

• http://www.new.ox.ac.uk/admin/jargon/
• http://g.pet.cam.ac.uk/g/jargon/

http://pennsun.essc.psu.edu/satan/sata n_doc/

http://urth.acsu.buffalo.edu/security/

There already is a script for eggdrop bots that will translate phrases using babelfish. You can find it on bseen by doing a search for "babelfish" The one I use for my eggy I can't find right now but it has the ability to translate everything a person says (without having to tell it explicity) if you turn on that feature.


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Consider a specific example of a flowing fluid, a vortex. Such a vortex is frequently spontaneously formed when water flows out of the drain of a bathtub. (The common myth is that the bathtub vortex rotates in one direction on the northern hemisphere and in the opposite direction on the southern part of the globe, which is wrong.)

The direction of rotation of a draining sink is determined by the way it was filled, or by vortices introduced while washing. The magnitude of these rotations may be small, but they are nevertheless gargantuan by comparison to the rotation of the earth

I thought Lisa knew better: Coriolis effect does NOT determine which way the toilets and sinks drain.
[...]The Coriolis Effect
This is a real effect, but it isn't strong enough to affect the direction of water flow down a sink or bathtub. Any claims to the contrary are urban legends and can be scientifically refuted. Please consult the sci.physics FAQ for more information.

Carbon dioxide is a major contributor to the global warming effect. For that reason, a lot of people equate CO2 with global warming. There are, of course, a lot of other atmospheric effects that effect total heat absorbtion and retention, but bringing up details like that tend to confuse people. Easier for the media to use simple words, like "Too much CO2 = Global Warming. Global Warming BAD!" I always thought that a majority of the worlds CO2 gets fixed into Limestone, but it's been a while since I've done geology stuffies. Of course, the difference between calcification and trees is that trees spit out what we need as fast as they take up what we spit out. Gotta love the symmetry of that. Not to mention that most people have had personal contact with trees (skiiers especially ;) whereas few people will have the luxury of being up close and personal to, say, the great barrier reef outside of a Jacques Cousteau video rerun. BTW, you CAN use <A HREF=...> tags in your comments, like on that Bad Greenhouse Link.

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Microsoft has been giving away "free" Windows software Licenses to Penn State College students--Win98, WinNT, FrontPage, Office, Visual Studio Pro, etc... For instance, this offer, where a PSU student can get the license for free, and a CD for $1-2.

There are a few catches, of course. I've been told that installation requires an online registration and that they can only be re-installed a certain number of times, or maybe there is an expiration date past which it will not install (Not clear on this, haven't been to PSU in a while).

Of course, that's not the real catch. The real catch is that it's a Microsoft product, of course.

"Easy is what you're used to."

I have to say I like book three 'Children of Dune'

It is a wild ride watching Leto II make the choice.

Maybe it is disliked as it is tragedy and does not have a happy or heroic ending.

As a wholesale Dune Nut I am looking forward to any thing Dune'ish. Even bad TV Mini-S is something.


PS: Watch me(The Fremen) get trashed by the Great Houses in a PBEM game here

The importance of journals is that they, together with book publications, represent the `long-term memory' of the academic system. But journals do not represent the only form of peer review, and the typical journal article has already undergone a process of evolution under criticism by the time it is submitted. The advantage of open mailing lists over thse already existing processes is that they represent a breadth of opinion that none of the other formats have, combatting the incestuousness of much academic clique-building. The foundations of mathematics mailing list is the kind of thing I have in mind.

Again, of course, you are right about academics not choosing to adapt. The price of this, as it has always been, is irrelevance.

Actually, you're a little off. Sony did invent Betamax (and Betacam, the professional format), but JVC and Matshuita (sp) invented VHS after Sony told them to pound sand on a colaberative effort (as they did with u-Matic).

As for CD's, Philips invented the compact disk, but didn't have a use for it until Sony presented them with the digital encode/decode process

read all about VHS and Beta in _Fast_Forward_. I especially like the story about when Akio Morita slammed a paperback book on a table demanding the engineers make the tape the same size. Much like the dress shirts that had an oversized pocket to prove their transistor radio was "pocket sized."

To add to the earlier comment about Penn State and Microsoft, here is the campus newspaper's story:

Microsoft joining Penn State family

The most frighting comment has to be this one:

Steve Stigers (junior-political science) said he thinks the contract probably won't make much of a difference. "Microsoft's the only software that's readily available anyway," he said.

Finkployd

I am frankly a little worried about what is going on here with moderator moderation all in an attempt to reduce the amount of trolls. I believe that bad posts will happen. Posts that are off-topic, posts that are without value, and even posts that are blatently wrong are all a part of a community like Slashdot. Let us not lose sight of what we want here--an oportunity to express ourselves.

I am a regular Slashdot reader and I followed the huge AC debate and, frankly, I like the results. I believe that most of you do too, judging by the results of a recent Slashdot poll. According to the poll almost three quarters believe that AC posting is, at the very least, barable. Great, we finally have the "AC Problem" under control.

But that is not enough, we need more. Now we attack the people wuo make the occasional offhand comment. (Agreed, some posters consistantly make off hand comments. I believe that they are a small minority.) What is worse is our method of attack--we are limiting (almost punnishing) the moderators! They are the Slashdot readers who are giving the most to try and make the experience of reading Slashdot more enjoyable for all of us! I find this to be a shame.

Please, leave well enough alone before the moderation system becomes so complex and offensive as to drive our best readers, those who have much to offer in their posts, away from Slashdot for good.

Michael C. Tiberio
miket@psu.edu

http ://www.smeal.psu.edu/student/brh118/Financial.Life .Cycle/MicrosoftIPO.html

BTW: I had trouble seeing the text. You may have to view the source and cut the last section to a local file. I was using Netscape, humm? document must have been generated from MS-Office with the compatibility switch set....off! ;-)

I'm buying my stock, and keeping it. Not going to sell on the 11th, 12th, 1999, 2000, 2005. I'm not going to get rich off of it, it might go bust, but I like Linux, and I think it's a good investment. In the above mentioned paper it said MSFT started at 25.75 and ended at 27.75, not what you would call a big opener. Let's see...What is it selling at now?, how many splits has it been though?

When was the last time you spent some time in a modern hospital?

Nowadays all the information is transferred over the network. Our products cannot work unless connected to the hospital network.

You should do some reading in the subject before writing about it:
Read about PACS and DICOM . I'm sure that there are better links to either of those, but I'm not at the office right now and took those from google.com.


Liran.

This is off-topic sorta.. But I ran into some interesting problems with SMP. I have a Tyan Tomcat IV with dual 233MMX cpu's (socket 7), 80M ram, a 6.4G and an 8.4G HD. With the 2.0.x kernel, enabling SMP worked perfectly fine (abid it was very new). Upgrading to the 2.2.x kernels proved a major problem.. Linux would detect CPU at 232 MHz, and then freez at the calibrating delay loop. I emailed the bugs list.. and Alan Cox told me to pass the kernel the 'noapic' option.. which I did.. and which failed as if I hadn't even tried using it. If you have ANY clue how I could fix this.. or what exactly is wrong.. please let me know. The only way I could boot my machine is using bare.i from slack 4.0 (or that network one).. and then passing it the mount root=/dev/hda2 which would load my real 2.2.x kernel w/o SMP support in any form. Thanks. (And I hope it's a hell of a lot easier to troubleshoot these problems in 2.3.x ;) ) Ron Rossman rjr162@psu.edu

If they take the time to measure the HRTFs of the test subjects before they go up and properly filter the signals they are sending to their headphones, they will, in essense, be creating the reflections and interference patterns that the pinnae creates.

The technique is used extensively in auralization, where you "listen" to a room before it is built. A useful beginning set of web links is available at http://www.acs.psu.edu/users/smithsh/research.html