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I even have a picture of myself and Linus

Nice, another copy job from M$. And the TFA (which I did read), really shows that the author never used AdBlock before. M$ actually didn't do anything bad now, don't tell that I troll against them. As a side note, if Microsoft implements AdBlock, and enables it for everyone, the the ad industry will find a ways to override it. (They don't bother yet, since usually only smart peoples use Firefox, and thus they are less likely to fall into their traps, and thus AdBlock even benefits them by saving their bandwidth). I have even seen few sites that detect firefox's AdBlock, and complain about it, like this one

Once there even was a court case against a guy that Apple bribed to place their equipment in the movie. He did this without the director/producer knowing and he of course didn't share the profit (around 50.000$). Therefore he was sued for stealing the studio money.

I once have seen a flamewar that really outshadows all flamewars. Here you go

I've got all but one of the presentations (ppt or pdf) from the Alaska Marine Science Symposium in Jan 2010. Two of the talks had to be approved by the White House. There need to be many many more of these types of events, but at least it is a start. http://tinyurl.com/BpLessons

"...trademark rights are exhausted when a trademarked product lawfully enters the market. The trademark holder then normally can no longer act against resale of the trademarked product." - Ius Mentis

My used electronics company tears down and recycles most (77%) of the computers etc. turned in to us. But of the 23% we refurb or resell for repair and reuse, and by far the lions share during the past decade went to Egypt, either directly or indirectly (after being re-manufactured to new-in-box in Asia, resold in boxes in Egypt with arabic lettering). In 2008, three of our sea containers of working Pentium 4s and display devices were seized by Egyptian customs and declared "e-waste". Having visited in person with our partners in Egypt on many occasions, I knew this was not an environmental concern, and they told me that it was part of the government's effort to put the internet genie back in the bottle. The NYTimes also reported that these "geeks of color", and not the Muslim Brotherhood, have emerged as the leaders. I have been documenting the Geek vs. Goliath battle for 2 years, e.g. http://tinyurl.com/4b4yw9j and http://tinyurl.com/24ypbf4, if anyone is interested. Kenya and Pakistan also tried using environmental laws to clamp down on affordable PCs (CRT displays for $5 last 20 years and still sell like hotcakes).

My used electronics company tears down and recycles most (77%) of the computers etc. turned in to us. But of the 23% we refurb or resell for repair and reuse, and by far the lions share during the past decade went to Egypt, either directly or indirectly (after being re-manufactured to new-in-box in Asia, resold in boxes in Egypt with arabic lettering). In 2008, three of our sea containers of working Pentium 4s and display devices were seized by Egyptian customs and declared "e-waste". Having visited in person with our partners in Egypt on many occasions, I knew this was not an environmental concern, and they told me that it was part of the government's effort to put the internet genie back in the bottle. The NYTimes also reported that these "geeks of color", and not the Muslim Brotherhood, have emerged as the leaders. I have been documenting the Geek vs. Goliath battle for 2 years, e.g. http://tinyurl.com/4b4yw9j and http://tinyurl.com/24ypbf4, if anyone is interested. Kenya and Pakistan also tried using environmental laws to clamp down on affordable PCs (CRT displays for $5 last 20 years and still sell like hotcakes).

Worth noticing is that it they had also gained around:
75.5 / 63 = 1.1984127
(if I remember correctly.)

19.84% from the bottom at the Q4 report with Q1 forecast until two days before the strategy day on NASDAQ (ended at 74+ SEK here.)

Since the value raised up from the dip before NASDAQ opened this wasn't much noticed on NASDAQ charts.

NASDAQ:
http://stockcharts.com/h-sc/ui?s=NOK

OMX Stockholm Xterna listan:
http://tinyurl.com/5rvlt43

At the strategy day price fell straight to 63 sek again, recovered somewhat but then broken through it.

Open around 69.5, dip 63, peak 71.1, close 68.2 or where about on report day.

Peak 74.8 or so two days before.

Open around 66.8, dip 60.5, close 61.3 or where about on strategy day.

So most likely lots of speculation and hope for the strategy day. If the stock had traded for what? 64-65 sek and then had fallen to 62-63 before the strategy day the fall would probably not had been as big.. or hard.

~ 18% speculation, ~ 21.5% fall. No free lunch.

Or well. Unless you reacted and in the right direction that is :)

Rates just increased today in Stockholm so the USD will most likely keep on falling against the SEK now. Which obviously will make things look even worse here, again.

USD was 8.1 SEK early summer or so, it's most likely below 6.5 SEK now.

I've done some research on mSATA adapters:

http://tinyurl.com/682ehsd

Here's the transcript of mubarack speech tonight:

You know the rules and so do I
A full commitment's what I'm thinking of
You wouldn't get this from any other guy
I just wanna tell you how I'm feeling
Gotta make you understand

Never gonna give you up
Never gonna let you down
Never gonna run around and desert you
Never gonna make you cry
Never gonna say goodbye
Never gonna tell a lie and hurt you

We've known each other for so long
Your heart's been aching but
You're too shy to say it
Inside we both know what's been going on
We know the game and we're gonna play it

http://tinyurl.com/2g9mqh

If McCarthy recanted, then she recently un-recanted:

http://tinyurl.com/4lhzccc (NY Daily News)

"Why does one journalist's accusations against Dr. Wakefield now mean the vaccine-autism debate is over?"
"I know children regress after vaccination because it happened to my own son," she stated. "Why aren't there any tests out there on the safety of how vaccines are administered in the real world, six at a time? Why have only two of the 36 shots our kids receive been looked at for their relationship to autism?"

Possibly more stupid is her belief that she cured her child's 'autism' with diet modification.

You are going to love life in Somalia.

http://tinyurl.com/4s3yb6j

Any bets that these 'wireless' displays will display porn as already have had happened once?

It was interesting to see how it returns IP of this site if you enter its name (Rojadirecta) screenshot: here

An fusion-powered starship need to be sized about five floor. http://tinyurl.com/nuclear-fusion-starship

It can affect firefox as well if you use IE frame.
The scary part is that the exploit for this bug it out in the wild

Evolution really shouldn't matter in the class room. I don't see it even offering any benefit at all. If you teach that someone comes from nothing and has no destiny, then you get someone with no destiny http://tinyurl.com/3a4czm4

Some say that religion is not for everyone. I say that evolution is not for everyone.

Regan was great for this country. We had great economic growth which drove the Democrats crazy. We had low unemployment and nice growth of entrepreneurs. Everything after that was down hill.

Err: GDP and unemployment, graphed for your entertainment.

Even if they made people strip naked, it still wouldn't stop the first clever terrorist to shove the bomb up his ass.

Said "clever" terrorist won't be the first

I never said God is afraid of getting hurt - otherwise he wouldn't have let himself get hurt.

Death is meaningless if it's temporary and completely under your control. I'm sure you could find plenty of people willing to "die" for 3 days to save someone else. Speaking of which, why exactly did God have to kill himself in order to convince himself to forgive us for being exactly what he made us to be? Not that sacrificial death has anything to do with justice in the first place..

But being all-powerful and all-knowing does not necessarily mean always interfering. Sometimes there are bigger things at play - things we cannot see.

I never said God is afraid of getting hurt - otherwise he wouldn't have let himself get hurt.

Jim_Higgins posted a column that cited the columnist but failed to cite the original LVRJ article

Huh? The url is right there at the top of his post, it's just been shortened;

JOHN L. SMITH: Somehow, patting down disabled, elderly improves security
http://tinyurl.com/2a5y2ho

Try http://tinyurl.com/4ep4vqo.

There's your citation.

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I agree that there is no hard proof that the US or US interests are involved in the Swedish handling of the case (doesn't mean it's not a factor though).

There is however proof that the case is politically motivated and used for political purposes in Sweden itself since the case was revived by a Swedish politician through a prosecutor in Gothenburg after the case was dismissed by the previous senior prosecutor in Stockholm.
This politician who is also currently the lawyer representing the women has a definite political agenda:

Borgstrom has often attracted attention with a series of controversial proposals and moves. He claims that all men carry a collective guilt for violence against women, and has in this context supported Gudrun Schyman's "Tax on Men".

http://tinyurl.com/6cclg2r (Wikipedia)

Damn goatse trolls are getting high tech!

URL
http://tinyurl.com/33t2lpc

Effective URL
http://goatse.fr/

Redirections
1.http://tinyurl.com/33t2lpc
2.http://ow.ly/3yjew
3.http://bit.ly/eBHZpv
4.http://ow.ly/3yj9k
5.http://goatse.fr

Actually this galaxy was almost completely sucked into a black hole!

I stopped after previewing the tinyurl (persistent cookie) revealed that it was an ow.ly link. The only reason anyone would need to double-hide the URL is to keep people from knowing what they’re about to visit.

Now, if I knew how to preview an ow.ly link, curiosity probably would have led me to at least see what it led to, but I don’t. So... meh. I tried using telnet to get the response but it seems to be blocked at the firewall somewhere.

Finally found a not yet slashdotted version of this amazing picture

click here

these phones have 4 different types of charger connectors.
I've only seen 2 types of charge connector on nokias in recent memory (plus there are some micro USB ones now but I haven't seen one of those in person yet). Some REALLY old stuff used much higher voltages with different connectors but that was a long time ago. Got any info on the other two?

With a simple converter cable ( http://tinyurl.com/39xhy98 [tinyurl.com] ), we don't have to replace chargers that are built in cars.
Be aware that not all charger/phone combinations work with that adaptor. The new chargers are 5V. The older chargers had a "standard" variant that was 3.(something)V and a "fast" variant that was 5.(something), With my phone and the adaptor the old fast charger would work but the old standard charger wouldn't.

It's mandatory. I'm not sure if it was actually a law or "if you cellphone manufacturers don't work this out, we'll make it a law"-kinda situation. But I do remember that they were left not much of a choice.

Normally, I would agree with you: let demand meet supply. But somehow, this hasn't worked in the cellphone industry. In my company we have about 50 cellphones, all of them Nokia's. For some reason, these phones have 4 different types of charger connectors. With a simple converter cable ( http://tinyurl.com/39xhy98 ), we don't have to replace chargers that are built in cars.

If an 8-year old adapter can be used on any nokia phone as long as you use the right converter cable, I can't think of a reason to switch connectors except for selling more spare adapters. Sure, they can improve the cable once in a few years, if they actually improve it. But I wouldn't call switching from a 2.50mm connector to a 2.45mm connector an improvement, but rather making it incompatible on purpose.

So in order to sow doubt about the scientific community reporting that we're killing off species and that biodiversity is important, faux news is reporting another lie. Here's a tip for those of you getting news from the Murdoch empire: Don't use that as your single source. Read, watch and listen to other outlets, else you will be ill-informed like the rest of the lemmings who just watch faux news

I wonder if there are forums on the Web where plumbers shit all over eachother.

Gosh, how would one go about finding that ... http://tinyurl.com/32xmf94

She doesn't take criticism constructively... she gets defensive.

The "Advisory Circular" mentioned briefly in the interview video is FAA AC 91-57, "Model Aircraft Operating Standards". You can download a copy of it from http://tinyurl.com/28wko9o . As the "A" in the name implies, ACs are advisory in nature. They do not carry the force of law, but generally if you can show that you've complied with an AC, the FAA is happy.

It's pretty clear, however, that he didn't comply with several points of the AC. The Verrazano bridge towers are 690 feet tall, and clearly he was above that, so he obviously didn't stay below 400 feet. The reason for the 400 foot limit is because "real" planes are supposed to stay above 500 feet, per 14 CFR 91.119(c). If you stay below 400 and they stay above 500, nobody swaps paint.

Given the areas and altitudes he flew in, it's unlikely he caused any hazard to jet traffic flying in or out of the three big NYC airports, but there's a lot of low-level seaplane (East River below the 59th street bridge), and helicopter traffic (numerous busy heliports all over the place) in and out of there. A plane like this is essentially invisible to the pilots of those aircraft. "Big sky, small plane" works in your favor here, even more so than usual.

It looks to me like he stayed mostly over water, so I'd guess the hazard to people on the ground was minimal. Although, I don't know what would happen if he had lost radio control. Do these things have some kind of dead man switch which cuts power to the prop if radio signal is lost? If so, then it's hard to imagine doing any kind of major damage.

Well the (+1 score) is that they have called for using the “The Enhanced Mitigation Experience Toolkit” (EMET) tool to mitigate the problem. The bigger question is why is EMET not a part of the OS proper? If the EMET tool is capable of solving this problem then why the &83$$@# didn't they force an install of EMET to solve all the Adobe issues? Why are they NOT stepping forward to fix all the third party application security issues?

What security features can you add with EMET?

Dynamic Data Execution Prevention (DEP)
Structure Exception Handler Overwrite Protection (SEHOP)
Heap Spray Allocation
Null Page Allocation
Export Address Table Access Filtering
Mandatory Address Space Layout Randomization (ASLR)

Now I have several questions, like why is this not part of the OS? Why is it not a default where these can be turned off on a case by case basis? Have untrusted browser plugins? And why isn't Flash/acrobat/shockwave forced to run under it? Admittedly Acrobat-X (sandboxed version of Acrobat) is a step in the right direction, but wouldn't it be better to have all applications turned on by default?

The Enhanced Mitigation Experience Toolkit 2.0 is Now Available
http://tinyurl.com/28znulg

I am fairly well versed on FIPS standards for both HIPAA, PHIPA and rusty on DoD work. I 'try' every day... Please return to your assertion that blackberry encryption is weak and comprimised. I will state my challenge to you again in simple plain terms so you might understand before replying this time. 1. Cite articles from sources displaying proof of your assertion. I can't find any. Perhaps you could inform NIST of these breaches so that they can remove the offender from the certified list. 2. Provide details on why cracking iphone encryption comes up a lot on youtube, and blackberry not at all. Here is my link for abundant proof of my claim.- http://tinyurl.com/28wesd6 I'm patient. Take your time.

Wikileaks in possession of stolen hard drives from senior executives at BofA and BofA doesn't like Wikileaks?

[citation needed]

Please turn in your geek card. It didn't even take me a minute.

The half of Libertarianism that seems OK to me is more than offset by the other half.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_positions_of_Ron_Paul

My question for you is "Do you still vote for NeoLiberals?".
The Reds are obviously slammed up against the Fascist wall, but the Blues are continuing to shift to the Right--in defiance of the 2008 vote for a change that moves away from Fascism/NeoFeudalism.
I don't see a dime's worth of difference between those two parties.
OTOH, http://tinyurl.com/Green-vs-Red-and-Blue
(cache of http://www.therealdifference.org/issues.html).

...and do you still go to corporate media for "news"?
http://google.com/search?q=Pacifica+KPFA+KPFK+WBAI+WPFW+KPFT

gewg_ (CAPTCHA: churned)

Is this for real? The only sources I can find on this are gossip rags and right wing nutjob sites:

http://tinyurl.com/388q2by

(Slashdot mangles the Google URL because it has double quotes in it)

Translation (I don't know how accurate it is, but it's readable enough):
http://tinyurl.com/2d8eyto

English page:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siberian_pipeline_sabotage

Interesting to compare the two.

it's possible that they /did/ evolve just to eat the titanic. Maybe there were some microbes that ate some other iron-filled delicacy, and happened across this gluttonous feast. over the next thousands/millions of generations, the microbes then evolved to specifically eat the titanic...

As it happens there is a natural source of elemental iron for them to eat - elemental iron forms naturally as inclusions in volcanic gabbro -- like those continuously erupting from the Mid-Atlantic Ridge. Such metallic iron deposits are found in Greenland, where it is called "telluric iron" - it was collected and used for tools by the Inuit (in addition to meteroic iron) see .

Given the massive size of the ridge, there is probably quite a lot of iron for them to eat in an absolute sense.

Just another RWS. RWS are cool, but old news. One can mount them most anywhere, and covering the DMZ is a good use for them. This isn't "news" to anyone who follows military developments.

A common model:

http://tinyurl.com/35ap2m8

At least some are, just at a slow rate: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neurogenesis#Adult_neurogenesis
http://preview.tinyurl.com/dxar9m

Also in mice at least, fetal cells can get into the mother's brain and grow neurons etc there: http://brainethics.wordpress.com/2006/07/20/on-a-mothers-mind/

Maybe that's why some couples start looking like each other over time :).

Do you have a link to the youtube video?

Here you go:

http://tinyurl.com/yjuygc3

people need to realize there is now an alternative!

Eh, if it's the Federal government I know, the government probably bought the entire super computer and abandoned it when it broke down a couple years later. Also, since they didn't get any help installing it, it took them months to get it working.

Jeez... ignorant government bashing is all the rage. A far more accurate picture is one in which computer systems have been kept in operation far beyond their normal lifespan in private enterprise.

There are two general reasons for this.

First, the often unique requirements of military and aerospace applications make "updating" systems very costly and time-consuming by nature and so long as the requirements are met no changes are made until supporting the system further becomes impossible.

Second, most government IT operations run on a shoestring. Budgets for hardware updates are very hard to come by. For example congress has often attempted to cripple IRS operations by denying funding to its IT - there is just such an effort underway at this very moment (see this WSJ article: http://tinyurl.com/29n7qyp). The computer systems used for air traffic safety are decades out of date. The epic software update project disasters you hear tell of are typically due to IT systems that have gotten so far out of date that reasonable migration paths do not exist and the system has furthermore grown into bewildering warrens of outdated systems each housing irreplaceable data and functionality. Reasonable, dependable on-going budgets for IT ops -- you know, like with a business -- would avoid these problems. However it is the party supposedly believing "that governmment should be run like a business" that seems ever eager to starve its operations for the funds to run efficiently.

Actually I spoke to soon. Some recent investigations suggest that THz RF scanners may damage the DNA by "unzipping" it (which can increase the probability of DNA double strand breaks as well as other kinds of damage) [1].

So it looks like neither the AIT scanners which use back-scatter X-rays, nor the THz scanners are completely without risk of damaging the individual going through them.

I agree with Dthief that high-tech noses detecting chemical odors may be a better way to go for non-invasive, non-damaging scanning.

1. http://tinyurl.com/2fgf9f5

Enjoy. http://tinyurl.com/7dbq5a