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Have you written to AutoDesk asking if they've considered making a Linux compatible suite? They won't make one if no one asks.

They did, was a AutoCAD r12 for Dos, Windows and Unix. succeded installing it on a debian slink.

Last AutoCAD version for unix was r13c4 https://www.thefreelibrary.com... in the 1996

After that one was all Windows and Mac versions only.

Excellent story by him makes this point (it's short, brilliantly written and just plain good - it's worth reading)
https://www.thefreelibrary.com...
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"How do you tell the difference between them?' I asked. "How can you judge which is honest, which isn't?'

"The fact is,' said the manager quietly, "you can't. There's no difference between them. Some have been at it longer than others and have gone shrewd, forgotten how it all started a long time ago. On a Saturday they had food. On a Sunday they didn't. On a Monday they asked for credit. On a Tuesday they borrowed their first match. Thursday a cigarette. And a few Fridays later they found themselves, God knows how, in front of a place called the Royal Hibernian Hotel. They couldn't tell you what happened or why. One thing's sure, though: they're hanging to the cliff by their fingernails. Poor fellow, someone must've stomped on that man's hands on O'Connell Bridge and he just gave up the ghost and went over.
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I've never had to beg, or get close, but living close to the edge is no fun, but I could cope, but I know a guy who was a millionaire and ended up sleeping on the streets. He's now an alcoholic.
(I'm also a londoner)

Yeah, probably something similar to that. Every few years there is some proposed technology to boost linearity or PAE, and they never pan out: https://www.thefreelibrary.com... There was some marketing drivel from MA/COM years ago about "digital RF" revolutionizing this and that. I can't find it, but it was quite entertaining.

1999, actually. US F-16 vs a MiG-29. The F16 won. http://www.thefreelibrary.com/...

But you are correct in general: Dogfighting is not as important as it used to be. It still matters, just not as much.

that a certain amount of story-lag is to be expected on slashdot... but c'mon - twenty years?!
http://www.thefreelibrary.com/Beverly+Hills+Internet,+builder+of+interactive+cyber+cities,+launches...-a017190114

By the time they pad out the budget, get some money for black projects, pay $10K for a hammer ... this should easily hit a few hundred million.

It's fun to watch how this myth grows and grows over time. The $435 hammer is just a misunderstand of a budget, yet people keep bringing it up over and over. And wow, it's no longer $435, but $10K! Go anti-government superheros! Go!

I don't think they're trying to upload data through your phone without your knowledge

That would've been a relatively small problem and is not, what I meant. My suspicion is, they may try to collect data from the plugged-in phone. Call-logs, pictures, locations you've visited — all those things, police now need a warrant for — unless express consent by plugging your phone into their socket.

What data can be collected may depend on your device's model and settings, but apparata for extracting information from (uncooperative) phones exist, and police are already using them.

and noise-level data

This too seems like a euphemism for recording conversations held by people resting on the "smart bench". Hardly unheard of either... Sure, the self-identified "Liberals" of Boston would not approve of such snooping. But, if it is presented as merely "monitoring noise levels", then it is Ok.

Power steering is just one example.
"modern technology has made us two thirds less active than we were.
45 minutes on the treadmill or evening class in Pilates does not make up for the huge change in lifestyle over the last 50 years.
One of the reasons is our lifestyles involve much less physical activity than they used to thanks to cars, washing machines, dishwashers, supermarkets and the internet.
People are forced to make a more concerted effort to fit exercise into their lives by joining a gym, going to exercise classes or using fitness videos at home. "

Labor saving devices and obesity

I think there is legal precedent here though. It's a complex issue and there are various laws that are both specific and vague. It really is not so simple to say what is "public performance" or not, in fact the rules for audio-only versus audio-visual are different. There are even legal rulings that seem to disagree with each other. One problem is that most sites you find that discuss public viewing are from the film industry and so can't really be trusted.

http://www.thefreelibrary.com/...

Overall though, I'd say that a showing a DVD to a 500 person wedding is a public viewing, even if they all know each other and it was invitation only. Similarly you can't have a video-club of 500 persons and call it a private showing even if they all know each other and it's invitation only.

You do have first sale rights to the DVDs though. However no public performance rights. This means you can sell the DVD to other people, and then they can use it for private performances without obtaining permission from the copyright holders.

Southern California gets wildfires in the spring and the fall due to the prevalence of strong Santa Ana winds (hot dry winds blowing from the deserts, over the mountains, toward the sea) and, given that the region is essentially an irrigated desert there's ALWAYS material ready and willing to burn. Any time a fire starts in the brush or in a canyon for ANY reason it will naturally become a massive wildfire unless fire fighters get it out in a hurry while it's still small

Some wild fires are started by power lines knocked-down by strong Santa Ana winds. Many are caused by illegal alien migrant workers who camp-out in some of the brush-filled canyons and use small fires to cook or keep warm on cold nights (one body has been found in the remains of such a campsite in the canyon where one of the current fires began). Some are started by morons throwing cigarette butts out of cars. Occasionally some hunter causes one. Many are either directly caused by federal land management activity or made worse by federal policies. And then, of course, one should never underestimate the destructive power of a pair of stupid teenage males who clearly have no valid reason to live.

Nowhere in that list was "global warming". In fact, there were some really bad fires in the 1960s that were only matched, NOT in the 70's or 80's or 90's but in 2012. When you consider that Southern California has been getting more and more-populated and developed decade-by-decade, it should NOT surprise if the number if fires detected (with more people around, and more arsonists present) and fought (with more property at risk) goes up - indeed the trendline for value of property should also go up (because more developed property, with higher value, is threatened when more land is developed and populated). Lining-up such fire data with climate data will easily provide a correlation-causality illusion. Of course, such false relationships are the sort of propaganda no self-respectingAGW alarmist can resist: When the "weather" seems severe it's proof of global warming, but when the "weather" is cold or fails to produce the predicted hurricanes and tornadoes, these uber-intellectual titans insist that "only an idiot" would conflate "weather" with "climate" - and they think the general public is too stupid to spot the completely dishonest and hypocritical "spin"...

Note for the future: When Katrina hit and Al Gore was running around pushing his book and film, he and his friends were pointing to a rise in hurricanes and tornadoes as evidence for AGW - but we are (and have been for severl years) experiencing a record low-level of such activity (and A.G. and his friends are notably quiet about these "weather" incidents). It is inevitable that hurricaine and tornado activity will rise in the future - when it does, look for Al and his compatriots to once again start using "weather" as "proof" of their "climate" theories. Given that we continue to build more-valuable things in more desireable (and riskier) locations, we can predict that the monetary damage caused by those future weather events will go up and up too, which will no-doubt make it into some dramatic (and intentionally misleading) graphs...

"What is claimed is: A media player for acquiring and reproducing media program files which represent episodes as said episodes become available, said media player comprising: a digital memory, a communication port..., a processor..., an output unit for reproducing ... the media files."

Sounds like iTunes. Version 4.9 of iTunes, launched in June 28, 2005 was the first to have podcast support (according to Wikipedia). I don't even slightly believe that iTunes was the first podcast player.

RealNetwork's had the "RealChannel" concept at some point in the late 1990's (post 1996 though).

PointCast offered audio push as of 1997. Didn't last long.

Supposedly Marimba Castanet had pushed audio support in 1997 as well.

All of the "push" systems failed because they were blowing out corporate WAN bandwidth (most companies were connected via 56 kbps, 128 kbps, or 1.5 Mbps Internet connections)

I mean, really, you might as well be trying to convince the world that ideas themselves are deadly weapons.

Memetic Warfare (military orientation)

Survival of the Fittest Ideas: The New Style of War -- a Struggle Among Memes (academic orientation)

http://everything2.com/title/Meme+Warfare (the "I fell asleep after five minutes, can you summarise the lecture for me" orientation)

So, sometimes? Yes.

Press release from some years back.

SAN ANTONIO, Texas, June 9 /PRNewswire/ -- KlearGear.com (a wholly-owned subsidiary of catalog and e-commerce conglomerate Havaco Direct Inc.) offers the best in unique gift and gizmo ideas this Father's Day with guaranteed holiday delivery for last-minute shoppers.

    For more information contact:
      Will Bermender
      KlearGear.com - Havaco Direct, Inc.
      William.Bermender@Havaco.com
      +1-214-432-7923

KlearGear.com is using private domain registration.

Registrar: GoDaddy.com, LLC
Registrant Name: Registration Private
Registrant Organization: Domains By Proxy, LLC
Registrant Street: DomainsByProxy.com
Registrant Street: 14747 N Northsight Blvd Suite 111, PMB 309

While Havaco.com, supposedly its parent company, is now a parked domain. Probably because the company owner have moved kleargear.com to another shell company by now.

ProTIP: If you want to stay under the radar, stop pulling stupid shit.

This post is a diligent effort to help Will Bermender from continue being a complete moron.

That and probably the fact that they priced it outrageously. OS/2 2.0 was great, OS 2 3.0 even better then ultimately WARP but by then Windows and Windows NT were eroding the marketplace. I've spent years writing software for Windows and OS/2 and technically in some areas, OS/2 was much better and in others, not so much. IBM didn't really push the home consumer market but they were big in the corporate world where they still sold a lot of mid-range and mainframe systems. That and a lot of Token Ring crap as well and that's where IBM pushed the O/S. They could have competed much better but IBM had been their hardware groups split up, PCs (PS/2 w/Microchannel), Midrange and Mainframe and the Software group was split from that. PS/2 systems were priced higher and had higher margin vs. COTS Clone PCs which were gaining in market share. I remember going to computer fairs in Southern California in the late 80s / early 90s and you could literally get bidding wars between vendors across the aisle for your business for a 386 or 486 based system. IBM didn't play in that arena and Windows 3.1 for example had an MSRP of $149 when it came out in 1992.. and nobody really paid that in the wholesale market (I used to get legal copies for less than $100 and threw them in on PC hardware deals) OS/2 2.0 was originally started by Microsoft at the time they were partners with IBM but that became estranged when IBM saw their development money being funneled over to this Windows NT thingy. They broke up and IBM released OS/2 1.3, the first release completely done by IBM as well as OS/2 2.0 in 1992. From what I remember, OS/2 2.0 was about $500 for the software and at the time when you could get a screamer 486DX based system for less than $1000 with Windows 3.x in the early 90s a PS/2 loaded with OS/2 2.0 was well over $3000. Businesses would pay that and get the nice IBM support along with it, but not the home consumer market. When Windows 95 came out it was lights out for IBM and OS/2 in the consumer market.

Microsoft and their tactics didn't help but rather than fight in the marketplace, IBM chose to keep pushing the higher margin business deals. Their cost structure was higher of course and that was also a big issue in their competitive edge. Yes, Microsoft was disreputable in their dealings with IBM around OS/2 and the PC market, that's now part of history. It should be pointed out that IBM's corporate history isn't exactly squeeky clean when it comes to some of their business dealings either.
 

Now for lasers:
Sentencing is all over the map, but 2.5 years is not outrageous here.

Lets compare it to kids sentenced for throwing rocks at cars. We will see that it is all over the map as far as sentencing goes.

5 years 1 person injured
Probation+Restitution
Probation 1 child seriously injured

i would say the probation people got off way too easy. Though most of the articles I found were of people being killed, most of those were murder charges and life-sentences. Very few articles about non-fatal events. It makes me wonder if non-injury rock throwings are even investigated at all.

At this point the Unicomp keyboards are a medicore Model M clone as far as I'm concerned. The build quality of the Model M keyboards was already slipping while being released under the Lexmark name. There is a noticable drop in keyboard feel if you compare a 1994 and 1995 model; there was a 1995 redesign to lower costs. And judging from the two Unicomp samples I've tried, the quality kept dropping under their watch.

Funny, but I guess it probably isn't really true ...

http://www.thefreelibrary.com/The+debunking+of+Torpenhow+Hill-a098250320

I got that link from the Wikipedia article on the subject.

http://www.thefreelibrary.com/The+beggar+on+Dublin+bridge.-a03579795

"A fool,' I said. "That's what I am.'

"Why?' asked my wife. "What for?'

I brooded by our third-floor hotel window. On the Dublin street below a man passed, his face to the lamplight. "Him,' I muttered. "Two days ago----'

Two days ago as I was walking along, someone had "hissed' me from the hotel alley. "Sir, it's important! Sir!'

I turned into the shadow. This little man in the direct tones said, "I've a job in Belfast if I just had a pound for the train fare!'

I hesitated.

"A most important job!' he went on swiftly. "Pays well! I'll--I'll mail you back the loan! Just give me your name and hotel----'

He knew me for a tourist. But it was too late; his promise to pay had moved me. The pound note crackled in my hand, being worked free from several others.

The man's eye skimmed like a shadowing hawk. "If I had two pounds, I could eat on the way----'

I uncrumpled two bills.

"And three pounds would bring the wife----'

I unleafed a third.

"Ah, hell!' cried the man. "Five, just five poor pounds, would find us a hotel in that brutal city and let me get to the job, for sure!'

What a dancing fighter he was, light on his toes, weaving, tapping with his hands, flicking with his eyes, smiling with his mouth, jabbing with his tongue.

"Lord thank you, bless you, sir!'

He ran, my five pounds with him. I was half in the hotel before I realized that, for all his vows, he had not recoreded my name. "Gah!' I cried then.

"Gah!' I cried now at the window. For there, passing below, was the very fellow who should have been in Belfast two nights ago.

"Oh, I know him,' said my wife. "He stopped me this noon. Wanted train fare to Galway.'

"Did you give it to him?'

"No,' said my wife simply.

Then the worst thing happened. The demon glanced up, saw us and darned if he didn't wave!

I had to stop myself from waving back. A sickly grin played on my lips. "It's got so I hate to leave the hotel,' I said.

"It's cold out, all right.'

"No,' I said. "Not the cold. Them.'

And we looked again from the window. There was the cobbled Dublin street with the night wind blowing in a fine soot along one way to Trinity College, another to St. Stephen's Green. Across by the sweet shop two men stood mummified in the shadows. Farther up in a doorway was a bundle of old newspapers that would stir like a pack of mice and wish you the time of evening if you walked by. Below, by the hotel entrance, stood a feverish hothouse rose of a woman with a bundle.

"Oh, the beggars,' said my wife.

"No, not just "oh, the beggars,'' I said. "But, oh, the people in the streets, who somehow became beggars.'

My wife peered at me. "You're not afraid of them?'

"Yes, no. Hell. It's that woman with the bundle who's worst. She's a force of nature, she is. Assaults you with her poverty. As for the others-- well, it's a big chess game for me now. We've been in Dublin--what?--eight weeks? Eight weeks I've sat up here with my typewriter, and studied their off hours and on. When they take a coffee break, I take one, run for the sweet shop, the bookstore, the Olympia Theatre. If I time it right, there's no handout, no my wanting to trot them into the barbershop or the kitchen.'

"Lord,' said my wife, "you sound driven.'

"I am. But most of all by that beggar on O'Connell Bridge!'

"Which one?'

"Which one, indeed! He's a wonder, a terror. I hate him, I love him. To see is to disbelieve him. Come on.'

On the way down in the elevator my wife said, "If you held your face right, the beggars wouldn't bother you.'

"My face,' I explained patiently, "is my face. It's from Apple Dumpling, Wisconsin, Sarsaparilla, Maine. KIND TO DOGS is writ on my brow for all to read. Let the street be empty-- then let me step out and there's a strikers' march of freeloader

Like Mitsubishi 3D RAM

They put the logic ops and blend on the RAM

The 3D-RAM is based on the Mitsubishi Cache DRAM (CDRAM (Cached DRAM) A high-speed DRAM memory chip developed by Mitsubishi that includes a small SRAM cache. ) architecture that integrates DRAM memory and SRAM cache on a single chip. The CDRAM was then optimized for 3-D graphics rendering and further enhanced by adding an on-chip arithmetic logic unit See ALU. (ALU (Arithmetic Logic Unit) The high-speed CPU circuit that does calculating and comparing. Numbers are transferred from memory into the ALU for calculation, and the results are sent back into memory. Alphanumeric data are sent from memory into the ALU for comparing. ) and video buffer.

A brief summary of PowerAgent:

http://www.thefreelibrary.com/PowerAgent+Introduces+First+Internet+'Infomediary'+to+Empower+and...-a019639599

What I called PowerBar above actually was called PowerFrames. I'd forgotten about the interstitials.... (PowerPages).

This was around the same time that Google first incorporated.

The client software worked reasonably well, given the state of embeddable browser controls at the time. Allegedly, there were serious issues with the back-end, and EDS insisted on taking that over.

I haven't really followed this area since. Has the question ever been settled as to whether software that inserts ads into content retrieved from the web violating the publisher's rights, or just acting as an agent of the user? I mean, it's legal to cut-apart a newspaper page, and paste it back together into a collage any way you want, right? (Assuming it is just for your own enjoyment...)

http://www.thefreelibrary.com/EDS+Provides+PowerAgent+With+Internet+Services+to+Support+One-To-One...-a019656177

A brief summary of PowerAgent:

http://www.thefreelibrary.com/PowerAgent+Introduces+First+Internet+'Infomediary'+to+Empower+and...-a019639599

What I called PowerBar above actually was called PowerFrames. I'd forgotten about the interstitials.... (PowerPages).

This was around the same time that Google first incorporated.

The client software worked reasonably well, given the state of embeddable browser controls at the time. Allegedly, there were serious issues with the back-end, and EDS insisted on taking that over.

I haven't really followed this area since. Has the question ever been settled as to whether software that inserts ads into content retrieved from the web violating the publisher's rights, or just acting as an agent of the user? I mean, it's legal to cut-apart a newspaper page, and paste it back together into a collage any way you want, right? (Assuming it is just for your own enjoyment...)

http://www.thefreelibrary.com/EDS+Provides+PowerAgent+With+Internet+Services+to+Support+One-To-One...-a019656177

Apple used to have their own data network for their devices, about 17 years ago.
I remember using Apple devices on airplanes back then.

I thought it was the 80s, but I guess it was the 90s based on this press release I Googled:

http://www.thefreelibrary.com/PAGENET+TO+PROVIDE+WIRELESS+NETWORK+SERVICES+FOR+APPLE+PRODUCT-a015985515

http://www.thefreelibrary.com/Resurrecting+shredded+documents-a0109945266

http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stasi-Schnipselmaschine

I even found a link. Looks like $400 - $600 at the time (late 1994), depending on the bundle - http://www.thefreelibrary.com/CREATIVE+INTRODUCES+DIGITAL+SCHOOLHOUSE%3A+FIRST+'EDUCATION+ONLY'...-a015739809

When I finally got a "real" job in late 96, I believe that is where I was able to use my first CD burner (2x) on a Slackware workstation (using xcdroast I think?). We found a local dealer that sold 10 packs of writeable discs for ~$20 if my memory is not failing me..

We have a story of an AC about a single instance modded informative. We have an incident involving a pair of serial killers (raped and killed 12 people remember) being shot with a hunting rifle, yet the closest stories google can find are a snopes false granny story and a real robbery incident with a handgun (described by the NRA, who should know, as "among the more dramatic"), so somehow the story of shooting two serial killers doesn't fit in. Now, there are lots of people reading Slashdot, and it's possible that this is a true story, but there is no way it should be modded up without at least an account name to back it up. The advice given is extremely dangerous. If people stop helping each other then the "bad people will win".

Now, to the original AC, and assuming that this was a true story; Please think again about how you say what you say. Your sister may have made a misjudgement, but you have to come to terms with that and realise that what she did was the right thing and most of what happened to her was bad luck. There are ways she could have been more careful; but in the end everybody has to get involved, we have to take some risk and 99.9% of the time it works out fine. If we don't do that then horrible things happen:

• There have been experiments done where thousands of people will not help lost children and even those that do are terrified of the consequences.
• There are many stories like this one where a two year old girl died because a bricklayer was afraid to help.
• Random strangers get ignored on the street
• simple stories about jump starting cars will cease to exist (and I thank all those people who have helped me with mine)

It's not enough to just say "call the cops". There aren't enough cops to investigate every possible strange situation, they won't be able to come reliably if they to. Call the cops means that most of the time people will do nothing. Worse, we end up with a passive society of afraid people who can't act on their own and expect "the authorities" to do everything for them. And even worse, with media hysteria stories like this, we get a culture where those that intervene are considered abnormal or even begin to believe they will get into trouble. You say:

The world has changed. If you are nice, you will be taken advantage of by those who aren't.

Yes; according to the US Department of Justice, the world has changed; it's much safer than it used to be.

The rate of reported rape among women decreased by 10% from 1990 to 1995 (80 per 100,000 compared to 72 per 100,000) (Greenfeld, 1997). In 1995, 97,460 forcible rapes were reported to the police nationwide, representing the lowest number of reported rapes since 1989.

Instead, we have to teach people a bit of a different lesson. Be extremely careful about interactions which are initiated by the other side. Make a visible call to a friend; give the license plate and description of the car that you are going to help. Single women don't help groups of men on their own without first making a call. Single men (who are actually most subject to violence) are careful too. Use judgement. But in the end, most of the time you just have to take some risk in life.

Schools don't train , they educate

Not the schools I went to.

The word education is derived from the Latin "educare" which literally means "to draw forth from" ... it does not mean to "dump into."

-The savvy communicator: three ways to connect your information to their reality

Standardized, age-separated schools treat kids as if they're all ready to learn the exact same thing at the same time. The Socratic approach to education involves helping the individual discover their world.

Here's that essay that you didn't bother to look up: The Seven Lesson Schoolteacher. I know people can't click on every link they see, so here's a section that discusses the implications of the seven lessons Mr. Gatto taught in his standardized government school:

II.

It is the great triumph of compulsory government monopoly mass-
schooling that among even the best of my fellow teachers, and among the
best of my student's parents, only a small number can imagine a
different way to do things. "The kids have to know how to read and
write, don't they?" "They have to know how to add and subtract, don't
they?" "They have to learn to follow orders if they ever expect to keep
a job."

            Only a few lifetimes ago things were very different in the United
States; originality and variety were common currency; our freedom from
regimentation made us the miracle of the world, social class boundaries
were relatively easy to cross, our citizenry was marvelously confident,
inventive, and able to do many things independently, to think for
themselves. We were something, we Americans, all by ourselves, without
government sticking its nose into our lives, without institutions and
social agencies telling us how to think and feel; no, all by ourselves
we were something, as individuals.

            We've had a society increasingly under central control in the
United States since just before the Civil War and such a society
requires compulsory schooling, government monopoly schooling to maintain
itself. Before the society changed, schooling wasn't very important
anywhere. We had it, but not too much of it and only as much as an
individual wanted. People learned to read, write, and do arithmetic
just fine anyway, there are some studies which show literacy at the time
of the American Revolution, at least on the Eastern seaboard, as close
to total. Tom Paine's Common Sense sold 600,000 copies to a population
of 2,500,000, 20 percent of which was slave and another 50 percent
indentured.

            Were the colonists geniuses? No, the truth is that reading,
writing and arithmetic only take about 100 hours to transmit as long as
the audience is eager and willing to learn.schools preempt the time of children for 12 years and teach them
the seven lessons I've just taught you.

(emphasis added)

The only way it could get any worse would be if it were enacted in law

If only it were that simple.

From this Free Library article:

[The WTO appellate court] is probably the most powerful juridical system that exists at the international level today for any subject matter as broad and as encompassing as that under the control of the WTO. That is because it is mandatory under international law. First, it is mandatory to use the dispute settlement process, and second, it is virtually automatic that the report of the dispute settlement process becomes binding international law

(apt captcha: iceberg)

Where it went wrong is when the "big guys" were allowed to pull tricks like patent-slamming and overwhelm the patent office.

That and when the rules were changed so that a corporation, rather than an individual, got to own the patent.

Absurd patents have always existed, but now they're allowed to destroy industries - and not just the software patent. When Wizards of the Coast was granted a patent on card games, for instance, the patent NEVER should have been granted. It's a motherfucking joke.

A copy of Mr. Hoyle's Games Complete, circa THE YEAR 1750, offers every single mechanic WotC's patent describes that could possibly be counted as a nontrivial change. The idea of a "trading card game" in the patent ought to have been invalidated by, to name one early example "The Base Ball Card Game", produced by the Allegheny Card Company in the year 1904.

But some dope-on-a-rope in the patent office, overworked and underbrained, granted the patent to WotC. Sheer lunacy but the patent-slammers prevailed yet again.

And before you say "well but you could sue to have the patent invalidated" - NO. The point is that crap like this should never be granted. Most of the competing CCG-makers simply folded up shop after WotC started demanding royalties. It took until years later for Wizkids to finally offer a lawsuit to try to invalidate WotC's patent, and then it got settled without judgement, meaning WotC can still bully and make asses of themselves on an obviously invalid patent.

Actually, I read that ruling. And the judge did find that the story was false. So did the jury on the first trial. They found that Akre was fired in retaliation for threatening to go to the FCC under the whistleblower laws. Those laws only work when you're whistleblowing the truth, you can't just make crap up and get protected for it.
http://ceasespin.org/ceasespin_blog/ceasespin_blogger_files/fox_news_gets_okay_to_misinform_public.html
and
http://www.thefreelibrary.com/Reporters+sue+Fox+over+Monsanto.-a0129170235

The appellate court which did not have a jury overturned the jury ruling on the basis that the FCC's rule against false and misleading claims was not an official/formal rule. In other words, Fox News went to court and defended it's behavior of lying and distorting news and facts and won. The ruling wasn't overturned because there was no lie but because there was no official rule against lying.

Read it yourself. http://www.2dca.org/opinions/Opinion_Pages/Opinion_Page_2003/February/February%2014,%202003/2D01-529.pdf

The sad part is that there are still people that believe what they see on that channel. The really sad part is the line you gave above is exactly what Fox reported about the subject and you believed it without bothering to do ANY fact checking.

What?? There's already been enough fireworks already.

April Fools Day 1991, Hercules Titan IV blows up test facility at Edwards Air Force Base - http://articles.latimes.com/1991-05-29/news/mn-2539_1_air-force-officials
August 1993 - Hercules Titan IV blows up after launch at Vandenberg - http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P2-958781.html
August 1998 - Hercules Titan IV explodes during Spy Satellite Launch at Cape Kennedy - http://www.globalsecurity.org/intell/library/news/1998/08/202l-081398-idx.html

Thiokol - SRM Failure in Cold Weather destroys Challenger - we don't need to go into that do we?

October 1994 - ATK acquires Hercules - http://www.thefreelibrary.com/ALLIANT+TECHSYSTEMS+SIGNS+DEFINITIVE+AGREEMENT+TO+ACQUIRE+HERCULES...-a015870549
February 2001 - ATK acquires Thiokol - http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-69838505.html

We developed and released a few "database backed online tournament systems" years before this at Midway Games.
MTN (midway tournament network)
http://www.thefreelibrary.com/Midway's+New+Coin-Op+Tournament+Network+Allows+Players+to+Compete+for...-a062017850
Wavenet
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Francisco_Rush_2049 So, STFU, GTFO Mr. Patent Pants.

Wow, you mean they rebuilt the infamous "White Elephant" Bullring carpark on the other side of town, after knocking it down 10 years ago after it was derilict for 30 years?

Where's USAID in Chechnya?

Providing support for the IRC to help farmers, small businesses, and vocational training?

Where's USAID for Palestine (oops, sorry, the "Israeli Palestinian Occupied Territories")?

Funding improvements in infrastructure, schools, agriculture, hospitals, and water distribution in both Gaza and the West Bank?

where are the FUCKING WMDs THE US WENT TO WAR OVER IN THE FIRST FUCKING PLACE?

They weren't there. Even Bush admitted it -- several times. Or perhaps you missed out on that point?

On the flip side, the Air conditioner compressor is belt driven and will definitely not do anything if the car is not running. On these new cars, will the heater and AC both be completely electric? This would be very inefficient.

Wrong. Electric heaters are indeed horribly inefficient compared to just using waste heat from an ICE, but electric air conditioners are not (not any more than belt-driven ones). The only disadvantage an electric motor-driven compressor has over a belt-driven one is weight: the motor would weigh a few pounds. However, it would also have an advantage: you'd be able to optimize the compressor itself for the speed of the motor, instead of designing it to run decently at idle, and also not burn up when the engine is redlining. This would probably result in a smaller, lighter compressor, offsetting the extra weight of the electric motor. In addition, plumbing would be simplified, as you wouldn't be required to mount it on the side of the engine, but could put it anywhere in the engine bay, and probably have less piping length in the system.

I'm pretty sure many new hybrid-electric vehicles like the Prius already use electric AC compressors.

As for heating, one thing they could do is use the Centaur thermal system, which stores heated engine coolant in a container. It was designed to help cars warm up faster, but a smaller version would work great for this. Unfortunately, Centaur folded not long after they launched their product about a decade ago, but it shouldn't be too hard to buy up the patents and use the technology.

From: http://www.thefreelibrary.com/Iceland+Telecom+Among+World's+First+Operators+to+Implement+Ericsson's...-a057889293

Iceland Telecom (Siminn) is among the world’s first operators to run a
commercial field trial of Ericsson’s communications portal iPulse – an
intelligent, IP-based application, simplifying and making
communications more convenient for users.

With iPulse which is jointly developed with OZ.COM, Iceland Telecom will
be able to offer its subscribers an application that instantly and easily
connects users to each other by mobile phone, pager, Personal Digital
Assistant (PDA), home phone or computer using a simple point-and-click
contact menu. With a click of an icon, users can create profiles that indicate
when, by whom and how, they want to be reached so they have the most
efficient communication methods across multiple networks and multiple
devices.

E.g., http://www.thefreelibrary.com/Mathematics+and+academic+success+in+three+disciplines%3A+engineering,...-a0219062371

The problem with "charging" for rescue support has always run into the same two problems. Currently, the park services are not required to rescue people. They just do so. If they botch a rescue, there are no consequences to the park services. But if they were to charge for rescue services, and they botched the rescue, one lawsuit could cost more than all the rescues put together. This is a real concern. The second reason is that there is a vast army of volunteers who help with the rescues. These are tough independent minded people who value and love the freedom to do whatever they want in the wild outdoors. These are highly experienced outdoorsmen with extraordinary skills in mountain climbing, white water river rafting, hiking, etc. They donate days and months of their time each year training and rescuing, and a lot of personal money on equipment and travel. They do this because of their fierce love of the freedom of the outdoors. Because they value the freedom to do whatever they want, they lobby hard against all efforts by government to "charge" for their services. For this reason, they defend to the hilt the right to be stupid in the outdoors! And because the government/park services could never afford to field this army of volunteers, the volunteers have the government over a barrel. This issue surfaces in the news in the western mountainous states periodically with always the same outcome. Rescuing is usually without a fee. Here is an interesting article about the subject: Bearing the Costs of Rescues .

And yet, no insurer offers contraceptive-failure insurance (presumably for those who have been surgically sterilized: 1/600-1/2000 failure rate for men, and 1/300 for women), nor is a contract to abort in the event of contraceptive failure legally enforceable.

Further, a man can be assessed child support for a child provably not his, and jailed if he does not pay. (Google "legal father" sometime, and the lack of proper service of process to allow disputing paternity within statutory limits). I suppose this is unconstitutional, but mounting a constitutional challenge is likely beyond the financial means of many caught in this trap.

Finally, there is the case of a minor in Florida, seduced by an adult woman, who subsequently became pregnant. Florida law forbids a minor being ordered to pay child support to an adult, but as soon as he turned 18, he was hit with a a $50,000 arrears tab, and ordered to pay or go to jail.

Abstinence, and the general avoiding of women of unknown character, is the only defense a man has if he does not want to father a child or be required to financially support one.

http://www.thefreelibrary.com/Third+Circuit+approves+higher+hospital+fees+for+uninsured+patients.-a0186014547

Uninsured patients, those who don't qualify for assistance, or those insured with companies that don't have a contractual agreement with the hospital are charged the full charge master rates. FamiliesUSA, a grassroots advocacy group for health care consumers, estimated in a March 2007 report that nationwide, insurance companies' discounts can range from 40 percent to 60 percent off the standard fee.

John Inserra, an Omaha lawyer who has represented claimants in insurance cases, said the ruling highlights the disparities rampant in the health care system. "The judge hit the nail on the head," Inserra said. "He basically said: Yes, I agree that this is unfair, but I can't do anything about it, so take the fight where it belongs."

And from the horses mouth...
http://www.healthplanone.com/catastrophic-health-insurance.aspx
The contracts that health insurance carriers have with physicians, hospitals, lab companies and other medical providers are very substantial. Hospital discounts often equate to 60% of charges, physician discounts can be 50%, and lab discounts can be 90% of charges. These are huge savings that a covered individual will enjoy, and an uninsured individual will not.

And a consumer law site...
http://www.consumerlaw.org/issues/seniors_initiative/medical_debt.shtml
Hospital and providers' willingness to reduce bills is largely due to a phenomenon in health care pricing called "cost-shifting." Cost-shifting results when hospitals and other medical providers concede huge discounts to third-party payers such as HMOs and Medicare/Medicaid. Because of these discounts, the providers attempt to shift many of their costs onto the shoulders of "self-payers" (i.e., the uninsured or underinsured.) The shocking consequence is that a medical provider/creditor may charge a low income, uninsured patient two or three times what it accepts as payment from private insurers.

While looking for these links, I came across quit a bit of evidence that people have been working on this discount issue for a while (since 2004 at least) along the same lines. Judges are saying, "it's legal so get the law changed".

I think it is terrible that the same exact procedure and care would cost a person who lacked insurance (most likely poor or unemployed) three times the price charged for a person with insurance.

We thought it was in 1998 when we did it with our InnMail system http://www.thefreelibrary.com/AlphaNet+Hospitality+Systems+and+Loews+Hotels+Expand+Long+Standing...-a020787415 We had a fax server service that converted e-mail's to faxes. Anyone subscribing to our system received a dedicated e-mail address and a dedicated fax number. This could be forwarded to any fax machine where ever you were. We finally discontinued the service last year.

For a propulsion system to transport large payloads with short transit times between different planetary orbits: a deuterium fusion bomb propulsion system is proposed where a thermonuclear detonation wave is ignited in a small cylindrical assembly of deuterium with a gigavolt-multimegampere proton beam, drawn from the magnetically insulated spacecraft acting in the ultrahigh ultrahigh adj. Exceedingly high: an ultrahigh vacuum. vacuum of space as a gigavolt capacitor. other linky. This could be science fiction for all I know but it sure sounds like a blast ;-)

http://cbs2chicago.com/watercooler/Water.Cooler.eBay.2.268257.html http://www.thefreelibrary.com/I'll+be+blowed!+That's+my+stolen+sax+on+ebaY%3B+Cops+swoop+to+get...-a0166698791 http://www.mwilliams.info/archive/2005/04/stolen-goods-on-ebay.php etc.

My impression was that most non-RP (i.e. non-BBC) dialects dropped the initial h, but I could be wrong. Here is some random journal article that claims:

It is notable too that RP is virtually the only major accent of England that sounds initial [h]

I've provided a way for you to demonstrate that I'm wrong. Simply go into the nearest gun store wearing a mask.

Unfortunately for you, the ways in which I can prove you wrong are not limited to what you "provide". Even "prove you wrong" is more than I need to do; I need merely point out how you have not proven yourself right. I have shown how your cited evidence fails to support your claim, and you have not defended it. You, as the one making the assertive claim, are the one under the burden of proof. So the fact that I'm not going to do what you ask doesn't say what you want to think it does. And you know it.

One of the posters claimed that there were no such laws. I proved otherwise.

You "proved" that your claim is less than 6% true, which you would have known if you had actually read your source. Remember: three states out of fifty (and zero cities, but we'll get to that later), none of whom have been shown by you to be enforcing these laws in the context you claimed or defending them in court. Since your original claim is a blanket statement covering the entire US (assuming that you only meant the US), this isn't even remotely enough to show that your claim should be accepted as generally true everywhere.

Now, if you want to show that those laws are not in effect, do so, and pics or it didn't happen.

Again, burden of proof. You're arguing from ignorance here.

There is on constitutional right to go around wearing a mask

Well, first of all, there doesn't need to be. Ninth Amendment: "The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people.".

But we need not fall back on the Ninth. Wearing a mask has two primary functions: self-expression and anonymity, both of which are amply protected by the First Amendment.

Therefore, any laws against masks can only pass Constitutional muster if tailored to a very narrow scope. Those of California, DC, and Florida would probably survive since they focus on the use of masks to aid activities that are unlawful anyway.

New York's did survive a challenge, but don't get excited by the headline; read the article and you'll see that the reasoning was tied entirely to safety issues arising from the fact that the plaintiffs were seeking to hold a KKK parade in their hoods, and it was held that the hoods did not convey anything that the robes didn't. Obviously the same could not be said of, say, a protest by Anonymous, and certainly not to someone just walking down the street as in your original statement of "You have a face that's publicly viewable when you go on the street - and you don't have the right to wear a mask to hide it". Note also that the court recognized that "the law could theoretically be applied in a manner that violates the First Amendment’s protection of expressive conduct, also referred to as communicative conduct or symbolic speech.". Applied to a case like Anonymous where the mask is essential to the message, or to an individual, the law is far less likely to hold up (it doesn't even apply in the latter case anyway).

And if New York's law has chinks in its armor, then those of North Carolina and the Virginias, with their broad scopes, would get chewed up and spit out like Chiclets. Assuming they even get enforced in the "walking down the street" context of your original claim, that is.

...and various states, as well as municipalities, prohibit it.

Prove it, then, and furthermore prove that said prohibition - and NOT against Klan rallies and the like, but against indi

Did anyone ever sue an auto manufacturer who did not include airbags? I don't think so.

Actually, yes.

Done any good double blind studies lately ?

I don't have the money to properly study the device yet. It helps me relax like nothing else (see my other reply). I only recently started selling the Appliance, and everyone who uses theirs loves the effect.

At least one double-blind studies has been done by others: Improvement of Circulation Using The Radial Appliance

You dismissed the Appliance as a placebo, but don't give the phenomenon the credit it's due. There has been some very good research on placebos in the past few years - how they trigger the same pathways in the brain as the actual drug...

Imagination Medicine: "Brain imaging reveals the substance of placebos. Expectation alone triggers the same neural circuits and chemicals as real drugs"

The Depressing News About Antidepressants: Studies suggest that the popular drugs are no more effective than a placebo. In fact, they may be worse.

... But when Kirsch compared the improvement in patients taking the drugs with the improvement in those taking dummy pills--clinical trials typically compare an experimental drug with a placebo--he saw that the difference was minuscule. Patients on a placebo improved about 75 percent as much as those on drugs. Put another way, three quarters of the benefit from antidepressants seems to be a placebo effect.

Or maybe your miracle box works, your "quantum energy filter" based on SECRET KNOWLEDGE revealed by the sleeping prophet. Done any good double blind studies lately ?

Marketing the device to a skeptical audience can be challenging. Especially so when I can't very well explain in sciencey-type terms how exactly it works. I know a physicist who can explain the quantum principles involved, but I haven't had a chance to visit & get a recording yet.

This parent should not be a troll, I think that defense equipment costs and medical equipment costs have a lot in common. For instance, my company is a defense contractor that makes a 'special' version of a commodity item. Meaning that we take a $4 dollar part and put in $1000 worth of non-standard testing and QC (advanced reliability, radiation, zero-failure, blah, blah, blah), then sell it to the government for $2000. It takes millions of dollars in research for a commodity part to become something that has zero-failures in a lot (by space qualified mil-spec standards), somehow that doesn't change the fact that a $4 part looks the same as a $2000 part.

Regarding the infamous hammer, this link (thefreelibrary.com) suggests that the cited cost of the hammer was the line item (proposed) cost, not the purchase order cost. Up front only the total amount of our contract is scrutinized, after an amount is agreed upon we fill in the line items in pseudo-random fashion. A 'best guess' at the overhead and supply costs is done knowing that on the back-end of the contract the actual cost of items will be scrutinized, both by our contracting agency and the DCAA. So there is some incentive to pad your guess, not that this particular guess was a good one. It seems that someone who didn't care was asked to fill out the budget.

Bullshit. You can enforce your trademarks and still allow fan works. For instance, CBS allows use of Star Trek properties for non-profit use. Nintendo should be encouraging their most enthusiastic fans, not threatening them with legal action.

the way it persists itself in autostart is really nasty,

Which simply shows that the lack of Linux malware isn't because Linux is somehow magically superior, but simply because nobody has taken the time to write any...

Um, no. It doesn't show shit. Not unless he explains that "the way it persists itself in autostart" is something harder to rectify than the readily-editable plain text files he listed. I've known IT professionals who couldn't come up with a way to salvage a machine hit by a "ransom note" trojan. Hell, at least once Sophos has decided it was easier to crack the password than provide cleaning instructions. Windows has lots and lots of places to hide files that start when you boot and log in, built in features for disabling everything you might do to fix a problem (so that your office peons don't do anything "dangerous"), and no way to get at the system without loading everything that's configured to load - well, almost no way. You can edit the Windows registry from a Linux CD. I'm sure that's totally easier than vi /etc/crontab

OP, yes, it's unethical to release what you have. No one's going to thank you for choosing a worthy cause to donate their hijacked bandwidth and CPU cycles to. And unless you're the guy behind this, you didn't get there first and that thing you threw together in a week won't be giving qualified "security people" any revelations. If Linux wants to lay claim to Unix's heritage, those guys were decades behind the first people to exploit stupid security blunders. Stop having a chip on your shoulder about people who didn't put two and two together when they saw "Hardening Linux" on the shelf at the bookstore. Those aren't sysadmins who are going to be saved from their ignorance when "security people" - desperate for a way to tangibly illustrate that the worst-configured systems can be pwned - get your toolkit like manna from heaven.

Since Sony's strategy (like Microsoft's) is to sell the consoles below production costs and make money on the games I guess that they are now pretty angry about organizations buying PS3s solely for computing...

Ahhh, but Sony sold them at government rates.