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The C-SPAN site uses a flakey AJAX framework to try to sniff your stream reader. Unfortunately it's broken for some browsers. That seems to include firefox - including the version on my Ubuntu Feisty install which I keep up-to-the-minute with the upgrade tool.

So I've reverse-engineered it enough to find URLs for the underlying streams.

Here are direct links to the realplayer streams for C-SPAN, C-SPAN2, and C-SPAN3.

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PS: I haven't been able to figure out how to construct similar links for archived shows. If anybody else can mange that, please follow up with it. Thanks.

The C-SPAN site uses a flakey AJAX framework to try to sniff your stream reader. Unfortunately it's broken for some browsers. That seems to include firefox - including the version on my Ubuntu Feisty install which I keep up-to-the-minute with the upgrade tool.

So I've reverse-engineered it enough to find URLs for the underlying streams.

Here are direct links to the realplayer streams for C-SPAN, C-SPAN2, and C-SPAN3.

= = =

PS: I haven't been able to figure out how to construct similar links for archived shows. If anybody else can mange that, please follow up with it. Thanks.

The C-SPAN site uses a flakey AJAX framework to try to sniff your stream reader. Unfortunately it's broken for some browsers. That seems to include firefox - including the version on my Ubuntu Feisty install which I keep up-to-the-minute with the upgrade tool.

So I've reverse-engineered it enough to find URLs for the underlying streams.

Here are direct links to the realplayer streams for C-SPAN, C-SPAN2, and C-SPAN3.

= = =

PS: I haven't been able to figure out how to construct similar links for archived shows. If anybody else can mange that, please follow up with it. Thanks.

Here are the URLs for C-SPAN and C-SPAN2. One of them ought to be showing the debate.

C-SPAN: http://play.rbn.com/play.asx?url=cspan/cspan/wmlive/cspan1v.asf&proto=mms?mswmext=.asx

C-SPAN2: http://play.rbn.com/play.asx?url=cspan/cspan/wmlive/cspan2v.asf&proto=mms?mswmext=.asx

VLC and MPlayer play both of these fine, though VLC seems to work somewhat better.

Here are the URLs for C-SPAN and C-SPAN2. One of them ought to be showing the debate.

C-SPAN: http://play.rbn.com/play.asx?url=cspan/cspan/wmlive/cspan1v.asf&proto=mms?mswmext=.asx

C-SPAN2: http://play.rbn.com/play.asx?url=cspan/cspan/wmlive/cspan2v.asf&proto=mms?mswmext=.asx

VLC and MPlayer play both of these fine, though VLC seems to work somewhat better.

Here's the direct link to CSPAN's feed

http://play.rbn.com/play.asx?url=cspan/cspan/wmlive/cspan1v.asf&proto=mms?mswmext=.asx

Stipe says that comment about the Beatles was taken out of context.[mp3 file]

Link to RS story...
http://www.rollingstone.com/rockdaily/index.php/2007/03/12/exclusive-audio-rem-talks-you-listen.

This one is interesting. The interview says Iglesias is preparing a lawsuit on this (not in the transcript; about 20 min into the segement http://play.rbn.com/?url=demnow/demnow/demand/2007 /may/audio/dn20070514.ra&proto=rtsp&start=9:17). Persumably he could be reistated if he won. This may be the first claim of this sort against the President.

Police Taser Anti-War Protesters in Pittsburgh She looked pretty harmless lying on the ground to me. Direct link to video. Jump to 6:42 or 7:02 - 7:13!

More video and coverage of Pittsburgh Taser-ing of protesters.

Coverage of protests against taser deaths in Ohio and California.

Third Taser Death in a Month in Florida.

All coverage of tasers by Democracy Now.

Police Taser Anti-War Protesters in Pittsburgh She looked pretty harmless lying on the ground to me. Direct link to video. Jump to 6:42 or 7:02 - 7:13!

More video and coverage of Pittsburgh Taser-ing of protesters.

Coverage of protests against taser deaths in Ohio and California.

Third Taser Death in a Month in Florida.

All coverage of tasers by Democracy Now.

Police Taser Anti-War Protesters in Pittsburgh She looked pretty harmless lying on the ground to me. Direct link to video. Jump to 6:42 or 7:02 - 7:13!

More video and coverage of Pittsburgh Taser-ing of protesters.

Coverage of protests against taser deaths in Ohio and California.

Third Taser Death in a Month in Florida.

All coverage of tasers by Democracy Now.

Police Taser Anti-War Protesters in Pittsburgh She looked pretty harmless lying on the ground to me. Direct link to video. Jump to 6:42 or 7:02 - 7:13!

More video and coverage of Pittsburgh Taser-ing of protesters.

Coverage of protests against taser deaths in Ohio and California.

Third Taser Death in a Month in Florida.

All coverage of tasers by Democracy Now.

Police Taser Anti-War Protesters in Pittsburgh She looked pretty harmless lying on the ground to me. Direct link to video. Jump to 6:42 or 7:02 - 7:13!

More video and coverage of Pittsburgh Taser-ing of protesters.

Coverage of protests against taser deaths in Ohio and California.

Third Taser Death in a Month in Florida.

All coverage of tasers by Democracy Now.

Here's the archived video, but it seems to be slashdotted...probably not a good thing if you're in the video broadcasting business...

http://play.rbn.com/?url=ignobel/ignobel/demand/ig 2005.mov&proto=rtsp

http://play.rbn.com/?url=sun/sun/live/VIP-2166_01_ 200.rm&proto=rtsp is saying not found yet it is now after 10.30 am PT.

Is anyone else having a hard time getting the webcast to work? I'm following the link on the webpage: http://play.rbn.com/?url=sun/sun/live/VIP-2166_01_ 200.rm&proto=rtsp but I'm getting this error: rtsp://rx-lvl3-wa46.rbn.com/farm/*/sun/sun/live/VI P-2166_01_200.rm@1

This sort of behavior is encouraged by the Bush Administration if results are fudged to favor its position on the environment. Anybody catch this story in the NY Times about the White House doctoring reports on climate change? Here's an interview with Warren Olney about the incident. It seems to me that if we can't trust scientists to tell us the truth regardless of the political implications or of pressure from outside sources, we're really fucked.

Here's a realPlayer link to today's DemocracyNow show:

http://play.rbn.com/?url=demnow/demnow/demand/2005 /april/video/dnB20050414a.rm&proto=rtsp&screensize =double

This is why all demonstrators need their own video.

the show

Here's a link directly to the .ram file for the first episode of Battlestar Galactica: "33"

RealPlayer:
http://play.rbn.com/?url=shareholder/shareholder/d emand/040831cald.ra&proto=rtsp

Windows Media Player:
http://play.rbn.com/play.asx?url=shareholder/share holder/wmdemand/040831cald.asf&proto=mms?mswmext=. asx

RealPlayer:
http://play.rbn.com/?url=shareholder/shareholder/d emand/040831cald.ra&proto=rtsp

Windows Media Player:
http://play.rbn.com/play.asx?url=shareholder/share holder/wmdemand/040831cald.asf&proto=mms?mswmext=. asx

I believe the segment in question can be found here. It's in real audio, hoorah.

dupe comment, i know. http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=110501&cid=937 7384

I believe the segment in question can be found here. It's in real audio, hoorah.

Al Gore's speech last week touched on some of the issues here and I think he expressed them poignantly. Everyone should see this speech. video or audio.

"President Bush is claiming the unilateral right to do that to any American citizen he believes is an "enemy combatant." Those are the magic words. If the President alone decides that those two words accurately describe someone, then that person can be immediately locked up and held incommunicado for as long as the President wants, with no court having the right to determine whether the facts actually justify his imprisonment.

Now if the President makes a mistake, or is given faulty information by somebody working for him, and locks up the wrong person, then it's almost impossible for that person to prove his innocence - because he can't talk to a lawyer or his family or anyone else and he doesn't even have the right to know what specific crime he is accused of committing. So a constitutional right to liberty and the pursuit of happiness that we used to think of in an old-fashioned way as "inalienable" can now be instantly stripped from any American by the President with no meaningful review by any other branch of government.

How do we feel about that? Is that OK?

Here's another recent change in our civil liberties: Now, if it wants to, the federal government has the right to monitor every website you go to on the internet, keep a list of everyone you send email to or receive email from and everyone who you call on the telephone or who calls you - and they don't even have to show probable cause that you've done anything wrong. Nor do they ever have to report to any court on what they're doing with the information. Moreover, there are precious few safeguards to keep them from reading the content of all your email.

Everybody fine with that?

If so, what about this next change?

For America's first 212 years, it used to be that if the police wanted to search your house, they had to be able to convince an independent judge to give them a search warrant and then (with rare exceptions) they had to go bang on your door and yell, "Open up!" Then, if you didn't quickly open up, they could knock the door down. Also, if they seized anything, they had to leave a list explaining what they had taken. That way, if it was all a terrible mistake (as it sometimes is) you could go and get your stuff back.

But that's all changed now. Starting two years ago, federal agents were given broad new statutory authority by the Patriot Act to "sneak and peak" in non-terrorism cases. They can secretly enter your home with no warning - whether you are there or not - and they can wait for months before telling you they were there. And it doesn't have to have any relationship to terrorism whatsoever. It applies to any garden-variety crime. And the new law makes it very easy to get around the need for a traditional warrant - simply by saying that searching your house might have some connection (even a remote one) to the investigation of some agent of a foreign power. Then they can go to another court, a secret court, that more or less has to give them a warrant whenever they ask.

Three weeks ago, in a speech at FBI Headquarters, President Bush went even further and formally proposed that the Attorney General be allowed to authorize subpoenas by administrative order, without the need for a warrant from any court.

What about the right to consult a lawyer if you're arrested? Is that important?

Attorney General Ashcroft has issued regulations authorizing the secret monitoring of attorney-client conversations on his say-so alone; bypassing procedures for obtaining prior judicial review for such monitoring in the rare instances when it was permitted in the past. Now, whoever is in custody has to assume that the government is always listening to c

For those who can't wait, there's an interview with Eric Idle [RealPlayer Audio] from yesterday's "Which Way, L.A.?" program on KCRW. Apparently, the Pythons want to cash in on the furor over "Passion of the Christ." In the interview, Eric claims he's a "lapsed anti-Catholic" and an "Alzhimer's agnostic" - great stuff!

A direct download for my fellow geeks :)

Or if you prefer to save it instead of streaming:
prodigy90_med.mpg
(I just pulled this out of the "MPEG Player for Linux" streaming .mpeg file)

So le me repeat myself. This link (can you see it) point to a RealOne video of a presentation demoing new stuff from Sun. If you skip to 1:01:00 (approx), the guy gives a demo of Java 3D desktop where you can see many video stream displayed in a 3D desktop. You'll see the guy rotate the window in "3D" without missing a single frame. At the same time the clip is displayed in it's window, you have a 3D icon displaying the same clip at the bottom of the screen (think Aqua zoomable icons on steroids).

For sure the whole code is not pure Java. They use Java 3D which itself sits on OpenGL (on Linux).

As for large Java application that are not slow and that do not crash, I can think of many : Eclipse, JBuilder, WebLogic, JBoss.

As of now the only people who think that big, stable, fast Java GUI apps do not exist are the people who don't see anything else beside C or C++ due to technological blindness or other reasons of having very closed mind.

Here is a direct link to the stream

That's because you did NOT see the Java 3D desktop demo (RealOne Stream)(it start at arround 1:01:00 in the video stream).

It's amazing!

Only bad thing is that they may not include it in the first release of Mad Hatter.

The Ig Nobel Awards were broadcast live, and the archived video can be found here. Real format only, but then, the broadcast was donated by RealNetworks.

For those who don't like streaming, here's a direct link

a better solution is to use this link instead, it comes from IBM's homepage and is in a slightly better quality (mpeg): click to download (cannot use Save Link As...)

High quality version here. And there is also a text-only version of the script here.

Quicktime Version 1.6 mb
MPEG version 8.7 mb

Quicktime Version 1.6 mb
MPEG version 8.7 mb

You can go straight to IBM's site and download Real Media (high | low), QuickTime (high | low), or MPEG (high | low) versions of it.

And of course, if you use MPlayer, you can watch the movie from the Windows Media stream simply with:

mplayer mms://windowsmedia.dvlabs.com/adcritic/ibm-linux-p rodigy.asf

Enjoy.

Side note: does anyone else get the impression of Nazi era propaganda in this? It's an awesome ad, but come on: a blond-haired, blue-eyed kid? Why would such a child be the pinnacle of humanity? Just a thought, please don't moderate me for it.

You can go straight to IBM's site and download Real Media (high | low), QuickTime (high | low), or MPEG (high | low) versions of it.

And of course, if you use MPlayer, you can watch the movie from the Windows Media stream simply with:

mplayer mms://windowsmedia.dvlabs.com/adcritic/ibm-linux-p rodigy.asf

Enjoy.

Side note: does anyone else get the impression of Nazi era propaganda in this? It's an awesome ad, but come on: a blond-haired, blue-eyed kid? Why would such a child be the pinnacle of humanity? Just a thought, please don't moderate me for it.

You can go straight to IBM's site and download Real Media (high | low), QuickTime (high | low), or MPEG (high | low) versions of it.

And of course, if you use MPlayer, you can watch the movie from the Windows Media stream simply with:

mplayer mms://windowsmedia.dvlabs.com/adcritic/ibm-linux-p rodigy.asf

Enjoy.

Side note: does anyone else get the impression of Nazi era propaganda in this? It's an awesome ad, but come on: a blond-haired, blue-eyed kid? Why would such a child be the pinnacle of humanity? Just a thought, please don't moderate me for it.

You can go straight to IBM's site and download Real Media (high | low), QuickTime (high | low), or MPEG (high | low) versions of it.

And of course, if you use MPlayer, you can watch the movie from the Windows Media stream simply with:

mplayer mms://windowsmedia.dvlabs.com/adcritic/ibm-linux-p rodigy.asf

Enjoy.

Side note: does anyone else get the impression of Nazi era propaganda in this? It's an awesome ad, but come on: a blond-haired, blue-eyed kid? Why would such a child be the pinnacle of humanity? Just a thought, please don't moderate me for it.

You can go straight to IBM's site and download Real Media (high | low), QuickTime (high | low), or MPEG (high | low) versions of it.

And of course, if you use MPlayer, you can watch the movie from the Windows Media stream simply with:

mplayer mms://windowsmedia.dvlabs.com/adcritic/ibm-linux-p rodigy.asf

Enjoy.

Side note: does anyone else get the impression of Nazi era propaganda in this? It's an awesome ad, but come on: a blond-haired, blue-eyed kid? Why would such a child be the pinnacle of humanity? Just a thought, please don't moderate me for it.

You can go straight to IBM's site and download Real Media (high | low), QuickTime (high | low), or MPEG (high | low) versions of it.

And of course, if you use MPlayer, you can watch the movie from the Windows Media stream simply with:

mplayer mms://windowsmedia.dvlabs.com/adcritic/ibm-linux-p rodigy.asf

Enjoy.

Side note: does anyone else get the impression of Nazi era propaganda in this? It's an awesome ad, but come on: a blond-haired, blue-eyed kid? Why would such a child be the pinnacle of humanity? Just a thought, please don't moderate me for it.

mpeg
http://rxns-rbn-sea05.rbn.com/ibmpdc/pdc/open/qtde mand/aug03/prodigy90_med.mpg
qt
http://rxns-rbn-sea05.rbn.com/ibmpdc/pdc/open/qtde mand/aug03/prodigy90_med.mov

mpeg
http://rxns-rbn-sea05.rbn.com/ibmpdc/pdc/open/qtde mand/aug03/prodigy90_med.mpg
qt
http://rxns-rbn-sea05.rbn.com/ibmpdc/pdc/open/qtde mand/aug03/prodigy90_med.mov

As I was gonna say:

You mean like this: (high quality) (lower quality)?

Courtesy of SciFi.com

As I was gonna say:

You mean like this: (high quality) (lower quality)?

Courtesy of SciFi.com

Our computers will be built by bacteria? The magic nanobots will amaze and dazzle us. Excellent.

Maybe humans will be able to enhance themselves so they can work 24 hours per day without care or complaint. Wouldn't that be great? Nanotechnology can be used to build anything! Why eat an apple grown the old fashioned way. That's not cool. Surely ADM will just assemble one for you.

In all seriousness, we must be extremely cautious of the new biomolecular and nanotechnologies. Even if you don't heed the words of Bill Joy, with his dire warnings about self replicating nanotechnology, consider the type of world the Them have in mind for the rest of us once control of nanotechnology is achieved. Should private tyrannies, the same corporations that are responsible for the horrific state of the planet, be trusted with what amounts to the power of creation?

Technology is being used to harness our productive and creative energies for the exclusive benefit of an increasingly adept and devious elite. The more advanced technology becomes, the lower wages (and higher taxes) go. Why? Because technology allows the Them to stick it to us in an ever increasing number of ways. Simple. Beautiful. Diabolical. Graph it, in terms of individual buying power, if you doubt what I'm saying. This race to the bottom is a byproduct of technological advancement in the hands of psychopaths. Twenty first century technology, under the command and control of an elite with 19th century attitudes, will almost definitely lead to the destruction of most life on this planet. Interestingly enough, technology is not the problem. The intent of the user is the problem.

Yeah, yeah, Kevin. We know all of that. This has been the case since the beginning of the Industrial Revolution. So what, in the name of God, are you on about?

This is the point: Technology is being used to enslave us. If you doubt that, you aren't taking an objective look at modern society. But we are now entering a phase where the technologies under development are more dangerous than anything we have ever dabbled with; and they have lower barriers to entry than, say, nuclear weapons. Humans have only possessed the capability of destroying life on this planet for about the last sixty years. Whether or not we make it another 60 years depends on our ability to show restraint and to reflect on our previous mistakes. Blindly adopting new technology that has the capacity to enslave or extinguish all life on this planet is the height of folly, yet this is standard operating procedure.

What's the difference, really, between primates and humans? Humans can write things in books, create websites and launch rockets into space, but both species basically look to a silverback for guidance and fling their feces when agitated. If you want to get an idea of how successful humans will be with nanotechnology and genetic engineering, place a crate full of hand grenades into a habitat containing several apes or gorillas and watch what happens.

And before you accuse me of being a continual downer, listen to Joe Frank's, An Enterprising Man (RealAudio stream) . Joe Frank's site. This makes me laugh so damn hard I almost forget it's The End.

Watch John Cleese of Monty Python fame explain proportional representation.

Of all the topics that come up regularly on Slashdot, this is certainly the least productive. I doubt that anyone is interested in hearing anything other than their own comfortable beliefs. For those that don't mind being challenged, here is a discussion from a radio program called The White Horse Inn entitled "How Can I Believe in Creation when Evolution is a Scientific Fact?" I expect it should make everyone unhappy, but perhaps it will make some on this forum rethink their positions - at least about Christians if not on the evolution/creation debate.

For those who might be interested in the differences between the various creation theories in the Christian community, there is also part 1 and part 2 of a debate on the subject.

All three are RealAudio, about 25 minutes long.