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You can grab a torrent file from a darknet, get addressing information via DHT and receive the content from other peers. What part of that is centralized? Centralized torrent servers can deliver a better user experience, but that aspect would be irrelevant for a decentralized network protocol. From a technical standpoint a decentralized system can be just as good.

Sarcasm is the first refuge of the incompetent.

You are the second person in Internet history to say this.

However one other person in history shares your views on sarcasm:

http://www.remote-world.com/2009/08/15/dostoyevskys-take-on-sarcasm/

I think he had some "issues."

That doesn’t work at all on this webpage, though.

(Don’t use IE. No, it’s not goatse.)

There're many other factors... Such as amount of money spend on health care... For instance the US spends more than twice as much on heath care per citizen as the UK (and the US doesn't even cover all of their citizen).
That's according to OECD: http://tinyurl.com/cr9753

Sure, here you go:

http://tinyurl.com/39kmp33

I think that using genetic algorithms for such simple things like game opening is a huge overkill. I would consider using DECISION TREEs for finding the best opening, based on the fact that at a given time of the game (especially at the start), the number of distinct operations that make sense is very limited, mostly because of resource (mineral and vespene gas) is very limited at this game. Building the whole decision tree for a limited period of game time should not be a problem, because it cannot contain more than thousand nodes, and evaluating all possible routes in the tree should not be hard either. This way, every possible combination is tested and the best algorithm (based only on some basic assumptions about game logic) cannot be missed, as it could be in the case of genetic algorithms. For more information about Decision Trees, click this link: http://tinyurl.com/37sh5zn

http://tinyurl.com/DSTtraffic

Laziness is not a valid reason for skepticism. Go fuck yourself.

We're now in the 7th Creative Day. Adam was created in 4,026 BCE, Eve sometimes after that. The ""universe" was created before the Creative Days even began, untold eons before as it says "In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth". In short my friends all of the so-called "Christian" churches of the world have lied to you for almost 2,000 years. Not to mention it but the Mayans and their calendar is also a lie. Try December 21 2010 because since when is the number 2 to be trusted hmm? 20-10 => decimal. The only ones who have the straight Bible Truth is Jehovah's Witnesses => http://www.watchtower.org/ if you want to live through Armageddon into God's New World.

hehehe Crash course. Jesus said pray your flight not occur in winter? Why goodness me, that's NOW. So what if Jesus was really born in October... before the flocks had been brought into the caves for winter. sshhh, Israel winter, northern hemisphere. Want more? http://tinyurl.com/free-men-number-1 six pages of posts. It's your last bullet. Use it wisely.

Indeed.

link to article

Troll is a noob, link leads to goatse:

http://preview.tinyurl.com/7odu

Elite trolls only please.

this one

3 months?

Last time it was even worse

A link to working exploit

I have seen a project to map traffic congestions by letting peoples use a application on their cell phone
that monitors through GPS its speed and location.
This works quite well.

Stonehenge as we know it is a fairly modern structure, almost completely disconnected from what existed prior to what can only be called an "artistic" reconstruction in the early 1900s. Here can be found a fairly good summary of the story, which shows that "[Stonehenge] has been created by the heritage industry and is NOT the creation of prehistoric peoples." An online search for "Stonehenge rebuilt" brings up other articles, including (while they last!) photos, showing that commercial interests like English Heritage have a far better claim to Stonehenge than archeology or history. One more quote summarizes the issue: ""The instigators of the English heritage landscape were essentially amateurs, working by trial and error."

Not a repost. They seem to want to escape PR of this http://tinyurl.com/2usjw6p [yhrm.org] has a link to a letter sent back ~April 15 2010.

They could end up being accused of interfering in internal politics of another country by subsidising dissident groups.

No good way out of this really.

Not a repost. They seem to want to escape PR of this http://tinyurl.com/2usjw6p [yhrm.org] has a link to a letter sent back ~April 15 2010.

on you.

For details click here

It's one of those shortened URLs that bypass the DRM of the original URL while containing the same content which is most likely illegal content.

Like http://tinyurl.com/09F911029D74E35BD84156C5635688C0

All this fuss over a few percentage points difference in consumption. It's not really achieving anything. A real low energy substitute for a car looks like this.

That seems somewhat silly, and I actually think you're wrong about the semantics.

What a coincidence, I think you are (very) wrong about the semantics!

What does "America" mean?

From the New Oxford American (oh the irony!) Dictionary (emphasis mine):

America (also the Americas):
a landmass in the western hemisphere that consists of the continents of North and South America joined by the Isthmus of Panama. The continent was originally inhabited by American Indians and Inuits. The northeast coastline of North America was visited by Norse seamen in the 8th or 9th century, but for the modern world the continent was first reached by Christopher Columbus in 1492.
used as a name for the United States.

Note that the definition of the landmass precedes the definition of the USA. Similar precedence will be found also in Wikipedia, Merriam-Webster, and most other authoritative sources (admittedly not all, although all will acknowledge both meanings).

The most obvious answer (and ignoring the handful of towns around the world named America) is that it's an abbreviated form of "The United States of America."

Not obvious at all since the term America precedes the existence of the USA by over 270 years. In Waldssemuller's map the label "America" is well entrenched in the South American part of the generally unexplored territory (hint: third row, first column, near the top), and there was a reason for that (hint: first row, third column, right at the top: the guy who charted the South American coast but never visited North America). Even in much more modern maps that do include most of the territories the label America is placed next to South America (but probably only for layout reasons).

Of course, in the 1770's the people of a very small percentage of America gained independence and decided to call that small strip of land "The United States of America", a name as brain dead as calling a very small country in the middle of Africa "The Central African Republic".

Why is it brain dead? Because now Central African refers to either someone from that country, or from any other of the adjacent countries that by some criteria are located in the center of Africa. In fact, the case of the USA is even worse, as the new "America" wasn't even close to being near the center of the old America.

To what else could it possibly refer? [...] Likewise, if you're referring to both continents it doesn't make sense, because they -- the landmass as a whole -- is referred to as the Americas (pl).

The term "The Americas" was introduced into the English language precisely because of the conflict with the use of "America" to refer to the country.

It's possible that in a historical sense "America" (s) could be used to refer to the entire landmass, but this is most certainly not a modern usage. Deprecated!

Nope. As I showed you that definition of "America" is not only historical, but still in use. The fact that many Canadians and pretty much anyone from the rest of "The Americas" consider themselves "American" should clue you that the revisionist definition for the word is actually held by the minority worldwide.

So, if you were a Canadian it would make perfect sense to say you were either from North America or from the Americas. Neither statement is particularly useful nor descriptive but they would be accurate.

So when a German says he's fro

> I'm not buying crappy lights.

That's good. Because I cannot believe you would light your house with these.

there are endless variations of limitations on CC licensing

Every commercial track has a different separate license. CC is much simpler since there are only a few main variants with version numbers. You can simply say "CC-SA and CC-BY-SA are allowed CC-NC is not". Your claim is fairly simple FUD.

and it would be a nightmare for the CBC to track down and clarify the status of every single piece of CC music they wanted to use.

Wherever you download it from normally has the status. If it doesn't, that version isn't CC licensed and you don't have anything to track down.

It seems like you are making very weak excuses for some reason. Why?

As for of the claims by some uninformed people that a simple search on the internetz would provide unencumbered music, well, citation needed.

• jamendo.com
• creative commons search
• google

Would you bet your job on those results?

Guess what; there have been lots of cases where it was decided, after long court cases, that proprietary songs were copied from other proprietary songs without license. Would you bet your job on that? No, because you don't have to. If you had a good reason to believe the song was okay, for example the CC license attached to it, then you will not likely have a problem and if you do have a problem, the license the song claims to be under will not make any difference.

Finally, I'm seeing a lot of ant-Harper spam on Slashdot as of late, seems those poor anarchists and jackboot radicals are still smarting from their bad press after the Toronto G20 summit debacle.

Ahh. maybe we have the explanation; American style "two team" politics is creeping into Canada. This is not a "football" thing. You do not have to believe something just because it might be convenient to your team. Most of us on slashdot have barely heard of your "Harper" whatever he/she/it is and we do not form our views according to what might be most likely to damage "Harper".

OK, so shooting power in from space is a recurring theme in the quest for reliable baseload power. For me the dreamer aspect of this has always been launch costs, which the more serious slashdotters here have demonstrated just...don't...add...up. However, does the 'Hydrogen gun' make Space PV power, or even this solar wind power concept, economical? What do you all make of the Hydrogen gun? Indeed, does it warrant its own slashdot thread? (I've never known how to generate a thread here).

Personally with peak oil & global warming bearing down on us, I'm hoping we get serious about Gen3 and Gen4 nuclear power. (Gen4 promises to run the world for 500 years just on the nuclear 'waste' we have already produced). But I'd love to see the more technical slashdotters amongst us analysing conventional solar PV power beaming stations with the Hydrogen Gun economic models.

Just don't tell him to go into the light. Well, I'd worry more if she was telling me to go into the light.

    I'm not dead yet. It's just a flesh wound. Stop saying I'm dead. What do you mean that we always say that? What are you doing?

You've never tried to choreograph a dance routine with a dozen unicorns and walking trees, have you? It might sound like fun and games, but it's not.

    The fire was purely an accident I tell you. It had nothing to do with that backtalking birch. I told her if she didn't shut her hole, she'd get what was coming to her, but nooooo. nooooo. A guy can only take so much I tell you.

    (ohhh, if we could only post the pictures inline, it would make this so much funnier)

You've never tried to choreograph a dance routine with a dozen unicorns and walking trees, have you? It might sound like fun and games, but it's not.

    The fire was purely an accident I tell you. It had nothing to do with that backtalking birch. I told her if she didn't shut her hole, she'd get what was coming to her, but nooooo. nooooo. A guy can only take so much I tell you.

    (ohhh, if we could only post the pictures inline, it would make this so much funnier)

You've never tried to choreograph a dance routine with a dozen unicorns and walking trees, have you? It might sound like fun and games, but it's not.

    The fire was purely an accident I tell you. It had nothing to do with that backtalking birch. I told her if she didn't shut her hole, she'd get what was coming to her, but nooooo. nooooo. A guy can only take so much I tell you.

    (ohhh, if we could only post the pictures inline, it would make this so much funnier)

You've never tried to choreograph a dance routine with a dozen unicorns and walking trees, have you? It might sound like fun and games, but it's not.

    The fire was purely an accident I tell you. It had nothing to do with that backtalking birch. I told her if she didn't shut her hole, she'd get what was coming to her, but nooooo. nooooo. A guy can only take so much I tell you.

    (ohhh, if we could only post the pictures inline, it would make this so much funnier)

You've never tried to choreograph a dance routine with a dozen unicorns and walking trees, have you? It might sound like fun and games, but it's not.

    The fire was purely an accident I tell you. It had nothing to do with that backtalking birch. I told her if she didn't shut her hole, she'd get what was coming to her, but nooooo. nooooo. A guy can only take so much I tell you.

    (ohhh, if we could only post the pictures inline, it would make this so much funnier)

How about http://tinyurl.com/y5Kk6QE then?

(no, I didn't set up that link, but _someone_ did)

I have no idea which base64 scheme the article is using, but it doesn't even give the right number of digits. In RFC 2045 (MIME), it's GXJUnT.

Now, I'm sure this is just a coincidence, but: http://tinyurl.com/GXJUnT...

Oh, I was definitely not saying to ignore the problem. I was stating that people do not get along. The only effective leadership is to have leaders who are respected for their decision making ability, and can be trusted. Throughout history, there have been some great leaders who have shaped the world we live in today. In the current environment, even the greatest leader can't thrive without the corruption undermining the ranks under them, therefore corrupting that leadership.

    The post I replied to was basically saying to disband our current political systems, and we could all play nicely together. The "Can't we all get along?" method just does not work. It leads to inconsistent decisions and distributed blame when there's a problem. No, people don't get along. If there's anything any of us should have learned from grade school history classes, we don't get along. We never have. These conflicts could be something like the color of your rain barrel, or nations may fight over race, religion, or land. Those are only a few examples. They go from pissing matches about nothing, to huge bloody wars

Oh, I was definitely not saying to ignore the problem. I was stating that people do not get along. The only effective leadership is to have leaders who are respected for their decision making ability, and can be trusted. Throughout history, there have been some great leaders who have shaped the world we live in today. In the current environment, even the greatest leader can't thrive without the corruption undermining the ranks under them, therefore corrupting that leadership.

    The post I replied to was basically saying to disband our current political systems, and we could all play nicely together. The "Can't we all get along?" method just does not work. It leads to inconsistent decisions and distributed blame when there's a problem. No, people don't get along. If there's anything any of us should have learned from grade school history classes, we don't get along. We never have. These conflicts could be something like the color of your rain barrel, or nations may fight over race, religion, or land. Those are only a few examples. They go from pissing matches about nothing, to huge bloody wars

TinyURL preview

bit.ly extension w/ preview

we just don't visit shitty sites in the first place

Really? You never click on URLs with non-obvious destinations? And even if you don't, are you sure that no site you visit will ever have a security hole allowing people to post arbitrary HTML?

You're not nearly as safe as you think you are.

You have to use twitter and be the type of person who clicks on questionable links without regard.

Which of these links is "questionable":

http://tinyurl.com/2tx
http://bit.ly/heezy
http://xrl.us/bh2p3m

That's what all of the links on Twitter look like, which are OK and which are questionable? How does one distinguish?

How about this? http://tinyurl.com/6rywju

Infinite recursion that defeats browser infinite recursion detection:

http://3.ly/3x5qdno
http://tinyurl.com/36n5j5y

(the tinyurl long link is <html><body><script>var t=setTimeout('window.location="http://3.ly/3x5qdno";',50);</script></body></html> encoded in a data: URI)

Done.

http://tinyurl.com/25lsp67
http://3.ly/2e5g64f

bit.ly adds its own little blab page if it detects multiple redirects, which is entertaining in its own way I guess... never-ending loop:

http://bit.ly/9bV4Re

The preview feature is fun too...

http://3.ly/RwuW
http://tinyurl.com/k2w9uiz

Done.

http://tinyurl.com/25lsp67
http://3.ly/2e5g64f

bit.ly adds its own little blab page if it detects multiple redirects, which is entertaining in its own way I guess... never-ending loop:

http://bit.ly/9bV4Re

The preview feature is fun too...

http://3.ly/RwuW
http://tinyurl.com/k2w9uiz

http://tinyurl.com/8t5

This page has lot of information on our article

TinyURL has a cool feature to help with this. For TinyURLs, of course.

You mean like this?

I lived on Tarawa for a couple of years in my childhood. The islands are overpopulated and very fragile. A popular picnic destination when I was there was the island of Bikeman. Here's what is looked like in 1975. The Japanese built a causeway in the 1990s, which altered currents around the atoll. Here's Bikeman now, although that story falsely attributes the loss to rising sea levels. If that had been the case, the entire island chain would have disappeared. Bikeman was just a large sandbank that got washed away.

J Maarten Troost's book The Sex Lives Of Cannibals is a humorous yet insightful story of life on the islands, and is well worth a read.

http://tinyurl.com/linuxbad. Reason for http://openbsd.org/ and http://freebsd.org./

>>>> FOCUS ON 122.181.180.181 (AIPLEX) (TCP port 80, 3-4 threads - No 'Wait for Reply') (TCP MESSAGE "payback is a bitch")

>>>> CURRENT STATUS [UP!] http://downforeveryoneorjustme.com/aiplex.com >>> USE LOIC [SAFE] http://http//sourceforge.net/projects/loic/ >>> Linuxers use SLOWLORIS, it's super effective! In fact its more effective then javaloic. >>> MACS USE JAVALOIC >>> Timer see http://www.tinyurl.com/riaatimer >>> AIPLEX WILL GO UP AND DOWN, IT AUTO REBOOTS >>> NEWFAGS PLEASE SEE RULES AT http://pastebin.ca/1943830

I never click on a shortened link. You never know when it migh be a redirect to goatse.cx or worse.

That is why TinyURL has a previeuw you can enable: http://tinyurl.com/preview.php (Not a shortend link)
  Advantage is that the originator has no influence on it. Disadvantage is that it is needed for each and every different redirector.

A way around is is to edit how the 301 error is handled. Instead of directly going to the new page, first show where it is going. This should be done by the browser. Even better would be to have a seperate and new 'error' message for this.
e.g. 308 "Redirected on purpose"
Similar to 301, but specific for forwarders for the purpose of URL shortening. You could even easily implement that on your own site.

I looked for a plugin for Firefox that could change the behaviour of error 301 to show where it was forwarding to, but was unable to find anything.

Don't be fooled by the article. The Baikal environmentalists are confronting not the interests of the government, but interests of the enterprise owner, a person in the top 100 Forbes list. Read Russians' comments, and see who are they blaming. http://tinyurl.com/25658g4 Overall, dudes, try to speak with the people in Russia, rather than reading about them in your national press. You'll see that real Russians are all but not their depictions in the New York Times articles.

http://tinyurl.com/2usjw6p [yhrm.org] has a link to a letter sent back ~April 15 2010.

http://tinyurl.com/TMTOWTDI