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Then there is the radio revenue, but I don't think that helps much.

Actually, I don't think there is any radio revenue in the US, at least not from terrestrial radio, due to some law in the late 30's. The RIAA is trying to get radio revenue, but I don't think that has any chance of happening, because NAB has a significant lobbying force too.

Here's a source:
http://tinyurl.com/yr484e

Last time I checked you weren't required to have a picture of Bush in your house and bow to it...

If you attend a Bush political rally wearing a shirt that reads, "Protect our civil liberties," then you get ejected. Seth

Well, since I am in the fortunate position of not having to formulate detailed public policy, and since my original statement was more of a throw away than an 'advocation', I wasn't intending to present a thorough and detailed argument.

However, since we are getting all deep and meaningful about this, I will respond. I'll try to keep the hand waving and generalisations to a minimum, but I'm afraid it is that sort of debate.

First to address the points you raised.

I can't refute the anecdotal evidence relating to your circumstances but, yes, I would say it has to do with social factors. Social factors are significant indicators for all sorts of things, like rates of crime, literacy, employment, education, health, drug use, etc, etc.

The additional evidence you provide shows that half the kids reaching sexual maturity are *not* abstaining. That is a pretty big proportion.

You then go on to assert that teenage parenthood is no big problem, which kind of eats into your abstinence argument. If it is no problem to raise a kid at 17/18 then why are 'near-100%' of the kids around your area too scared of parenthood to have sex? Can it be that they understand that having children is a massive and serious commitment and should, ideally, be undertaken in stable and economically viable circumstances.

Previous, middle class, generations could complete their education and find employment by their late teens. Consequentially they were in a stable position to settle and have a family early in life. Times have changed and these days very few people have completed their education and generally finished stuffing around before they are 21. Also having a child is a somewhat more serious undertaking than getting legally drunk. Anyway, it is a traditional number.

And to clarify my position:

I feel that teenage pregnancy and the propagation of STDs are bad things. Abstinence has the benefit of addressing both problems but unfortunately, as shown by your link, does not work for half the population. So other solutions are required and, apart from condoms, different solutions are required for the different problems. Disease control can be undertaken by education, treatment, vaccination (HPV) and the use of condoms. It is a multifaceted immunological problem. Birth control has drug, education and social control options. I am happy to admit that my 'proposal' is an extreme, and impractical, solution, but has the benefit of being 100% effective.

I'm not much interested in government intervention for the sake of it. But I am a firm believer of the Social Contract. If someone's actions are not going to impact other people, then I have no interest in what they get up to in their spare time. Nor do I think the government should care. However if someone's actions are going to make society in general poorer or less safe then I do care.

Well, that is too much response entirely. Apologies for the wall of text. You may rebut as you see fit, but I will close my remarks here.

Some additional information:

Health costs for the mother:
http://www.scienceblog.com/cms/node/2117

Economic costs for the mother:
http://preview.tinyurl.com/2kp7x4

Economic costs for society
http://gandini.unm.edu/research/Papers/RevisedCost s2006Paper.pdf

[quote]
Social and Economic Consequences of Early Childbearing
For young women just beginning their adult lives, the risks of childbearing do not end with delivery. Compared with a woman who delays childbearing until her 20s, the woman who has her first child before age 20 is more likely to:

* Obtain less education,
* Have fewer job possibilities and lower income,
* Be divorced or separated from her partner (405, 450), and
* Live in poverty.
[/quote]

http://www.infoforhealth.org/pr/j41/j41chap2_5.sht ml

Hutter's* AIXI, http://www.idsia.ch/~marcus/ai/paixi.htm makes another argument for the connection between compression and AI that is more general than the Turing test. He proves that the optimal behavior of an agent (an interactive system that receives a reward signal from an unknown environment) is to guess that the environement is most likely computed by the shortest possible program that is consistent with the behavior observed so far. In other words, the most likely outcome for any experiment is the one with the simplest explanation, where "simplest" means the smallest program that could model what you currently know about the universe.

He gives a formal proof, but it basically says that the only possible distribution of the infinite set of programs (or strings) with nonzero probability is one which favors shorter programs over longer ones. Given any string of length n with probability p > 0, there are an infinite set of strings longer than n, but only a finite number of these can have probability higher than p.

As in 'Wall Street'?

Note that Foxit won't work with some of the latest pdf security devices, such as fileopen, (http://www.fileopen.com/).

Also worth a mention is Cute PDF writer, http://tinyurl.com/2scjk, (the only free one I found without annoying watermarks). Creates a decent pdf MUCH faster and simpler than Acrobat. Again, not up to latest security features.

To OCR recognise pdfs, try Abbey reader - very expensive but worth it.

Finally, the best (nearly) FOSS alternative to pdf is Déjà Vu, (http://tinyurl.com/3djlyy). FOSS writers/readers are available for *nix, but for Windows the only writer I found is commercial software from Lizardtech (http://tinyurl.com/agexs). At least the windows reader (browser plugin) is free.

It works in a similar way to the old, much-missed Xerox/Pagis '*.xif' format, (not the same as the more common xif format - don't ask), which stored non-recognised text/photos etc as compressed images, and text as just text. The result is very small files, but with reasonable image and perfect text quality.

But now we're getting REALLY offtopic...so what - always though Musicmatch was a piece of junk anyway. Winamp is much better!

If you're running windows, http://tinyurl.com/4a4a6, (if you're not, plenty of FOSS stuff on *nix).

Loads fast, works really well, and basic version is free.

But this is getting offtopic...

Sorry for the bad link /. doesn't like spaces in URLs.
One more time: Recent congressional testimony on this topic: "Hot Fuels - The Impact on Commercial Transactions of the Thermal Expansion of Gasoline"

Here is a cached page of a wiki-like page about MiiVi.com: http://tinyurl.com/22jyoq
On it there is a small picture of the page :)... best I could do without too much effort.

If you can't continue the project, maybe you could turn it over to someone else? I think that would be keeping with the spirit of open source. (off-topic: read this)

Meh, I spoke too fast.

I tried it. It sucks.
Nothing innovative, plain old technologies. You go to a page with 5 filename inputs, you select each file, you put them in folders, you share certain folders.

Screenshots:
* http://tinyurl.com/2vaa7e (main page)
* http://tinyurl.com/38fsb9 (uploading screen )
* http://tinyurl.com/2j53kp (folder with files)

It does not seem to be "mountable" either.

Meh, I spoke too fast.

I tried it. It sucks.
Nothing innovative, plain old technologies. You go to a page with 5 filename inputs, you select each file, you put them in folders, you share certain folders.

Screenshots:
* http://tinyurl.com/2vaa7e (main page)
* http://tinyurl.com/38fsb9 (uploading screen )
* http://tinyurl.com/2j53kp (folder with files)

It does not seem to be "mountable" either.

Meh, I spoke too fast.

I tried it. It sucks.
Nothing innovative, plain old technologies. You go to a page with 5 filename inputs, you select each file, you put them in folders, you share certain folders.

Screenshots:
* http://tinyurl.com/2vaa7e (main page)
* http://tinyurl.com/38fsb9 (uploading screen )
* http://tinyurl.com/2j53kp (folder with files)

It does not seem to be "mountable" either.

Two weeks ago I found a short movie that outlines the exact terraforming process that is mentioned in TFA. It's rather short, but it has many fascinating details I don't usually find in non-acdemic reviews of the terraforming process and its dangers. Mars=>Earth: The Movie

You are right! They are HUGE. See here for yourself! Sorry for the bad quality of the image; it was so damn cloudy over there..

Looks like escaping and URL Encoding the underscore doesn't work either (both as an "" tag and a slashdot "" and it seems to put in extra spaces on its own):
http://the_scrivener.blogspot.com/2007/06/copyrigh t-is-dead.html (<a href="http://the%5Fscrivener.blogspot.com/2007/06/ copyright-is-dead.html>http://the_scrivener.blogsp ot.com/2007/06/copyright-is-dead.html</a>)
http://thescrivener.blogspot.com/2007/06/copyright -is-dead-part-2.html (<url:http://the%5Fscrivener.blogspot.com/2007/06/ copyright-is-dead-part-2.html></url>)

But luckily, tinyurl works: http://tinyurl.com/2cocox and http://tinyurl.com/3ypwrz

Looks like escaping and URL Encoding the underscore doesn't work either (both as an "" tag and a slashdot "" and it seems to put in extra spaces on its own):
http://the_scrivener.blogspot.com/2007/06/copyrigh t-is-dead.html (<a href="http://the%5Fscrivener.blogspot.com/2007/06/ copyright-is-dead.html>http://the_scrivener.blogsp ot.com/2007/06/copyright-is-dead.html</a>)
http://thescrivener.blogspot.com/2007/06/copyright -is-dead-part-2.html (<url:http://the%5Fscrivener.blogspot.com/2007/06/ copyright-is-dead-part-2.html></url>)

But luckily, tinyurl works: http://tinyurl.com/2cocox and http://tinyurl.com/3ypwrz

If you are using one right now (not likely, I know), I urge you NOT to click on this link

You can do stuff like this with TinyURLs, so we at least have a clue where you're sending us. The regex used for their redirect just ignores everything after the last /.

Or Does that translate as "We're going to review privacy policy" which is bush talk for "We're going to remove any of your rights to privacy under the name of virginia tech and anyone who complaigns is helping the murderers. Just a thought.

I know I'm being very pessimistic, but it's necessary with this goverment, they removed my rights to be anything else.

Under the bill, states voluntarily participating in the system would have to file an audit with the U.S. attorney general of all the criminal cases, mental health adjudications and court-ordered drug treatments

"I don't know of any documented lobbying at that stage although if you have links I'd look at them."

http://tinyurl.com/yntlsc

There is an Ubuntu package available here.

Fortunately TinyUrl doesn't redirect transparently anymore (and Firefox shows the non-obfuscated URL on the TinyUrl page...).

Fortunately TinyUrl doesn't redirect transparently anymore (and Firefox shows the non-obfuscated URL on the TinyUrl page...).

Fortunately TinyUrl doesn't redirect transparently anymore (and Firefox shows the non-obfuscated URL on the TinyUrl page...).

I do:

http://tinyurl.com/3brbm8

Condoms and education on how to use them work pretty well. (Check out in 1980 when this education was made mandatory for every marrying couple in Iran: http://tinyurl.com/27nepb - just drag the bottom slider to the right to see progress over time, height indicates number of children born per woman.)

I would also like to note that you are not taking rape into account. (Check http://www.rainn.org/statistics/index.html for stats.)

Now, I don't feel like getting into an argument since this all boils down to morals pretty much instantly, but I felt I'd post this since thoughts didn't appear to have crossed your mind yet.

All in good will,
Regards.

You might rather send someone else in prison for this article since it is completely wrong ! Mr Gildas does indeed own a prior VISTA trademark registration in classes 9 and 42 for software !!! I published copies of the trademarks at stake on my blog : http://tinyurl.com/yo79wp Please check the facts !

You can set it to temporarily permissive with setenforce 0.

Ironically enough when I install systems I leave it enabled, but our security administrator turns it off. He used to try to leave it on but after pulling out what little hair he had, he is opting for the easy solution these days. Fortunately he doesn't set many machines up. I think he'll go back to using it as we move to RHEL 5 since it seems to be more sanely configured.

You can find a nice note on it at: http://preview.tinyurl.com/yqjmfv which is on an EnGarde Linux page; they're one of the groups who spend some time studying and working with SELinux.

jack@nostromo:~$ lynx -dump http://tinyurl.com/2hfsqq |sed -n '12p'|sed 's/\[//;s/12\]//g'
Did you mean: interesting In case you're still wondering.

I have a link to her picture right here.

I read your sig link:

Did you write the article? In this case, I have a question. From the article:

Wouldn't a GPL violation mean that any rights to the software are terminated, and that the violator is thus infringing copyright? AFAIK, copyright infringement is a crime.

here is a link to a video interview with Google's engineering director: http://tinyurl.com/2rrllx

Play PacMan?

Oops, sorry, I forgot the link for that blockquote above about the cost of cooking oil being affected by bio-diesel. Linky here:

http://news.com.com/Biodiesel+to+drive+up+the+pric e+of+cooking+oil/2100-11389_3-6114425.html

And here is the tinyurl for it:

http://tinyurl.com/esxef

That Michael Kanellos article in Cnet was dated 2006/9/12 and was entitled, "Biodiesel to drive up the price of cooking oil".

Even Pope Benedict (then Cardinal Ratzinger) identified this in his April 18, 2005 homily.

http://tinyurl.com/7nlhk

Moral relativism. If we're not careful, it'll be the end of The West. There IS right and wrong in this world, now matter how often we're told to ignore it.

"Behaviour such as graffiti writing and dis-orderly conduct are considered anti-social behaviour..."

Also when a blind amateur radio operator has large antennas in his yard for 15 years and his neighbors decide they don't like it, he's comitting "anti-social behavio[u]r". They go get an "ASBO", an "Anti-Social Behavio[u]r Order". See http://tinyurl.com/yrhjx2

This is a way to make up your own laws to suit the occasion without all the inconvenience of actually legislating.

So funny how the Brits love slagging the US government when theirs is so amusing to watch....from a distance. Up close it's not as much fun...and you can keep the "tech"; we've got plenty of video survelliance here, thnekyewveddymuch. What we *don't* have (yet) is this insane "ASBO" nonsense that throws due process out the window. You can keep that too.

Well, I see this phrase thrown around here on /. alot, and it is indeed usually attributed to Jefferson. It is almost reads as the OP posted, "The man who would choose security over freedom deserves neither."

Now, a little thought discredits that quote - society requires some security to function, whereas total freedom to do as one pleased would likely degenerate into anarchy.

Anyway, I also have check the infallible 'net, and I get this: http://www.renewamerica.us/columns/gaynor/060121 which agrees with daveschroeder, and led me to this: http://preview.tinyurl.com/25rvo9 (google books)
And there is the quote, right under Franklin's sig.

So, I learned something today; lets hope we don't see the incorrect version ever again!

Similar article, but with simulation video also. Pretty cool.

I was around at that time, and you're right. Not sure about "losing their monopoly to free software (linux, especially linux servers)", though. They've never had a monopoly on servers, although Windows server sales overtook those of Unix etc. in 2005 http://tinyurl.com/jqdxm

ie, have you tried clicking through on the patent link? I don't have any time to waste, but would question any article published by a quasi-scientific 'zine where the reference link is to a completely different Hitachi technology (disk drives). I did, however, enjoy the almost acid-like flashback to the days of doing DASD studies to help large IT departments justify spending Millions of Dollars to purchase that much needed .5 TB disk farm upgrade.... Ahhh, the good ol' days.. Anyway, the hyperlink in the newtechscientist article is: http://tinyurl.com/2bz2o3 which brings up the aformentioned patent. And, yes, I did a quick scan of the patent to make sure that it wasn't an embedded claim. So, if someone has the time, it may be useful to see if this patent even exists.....

I absolutely never send HTML and consider it an insult to receive it. Links are not a good reason to use HTML. TinyURL.com the links and you are good to go.

I think it's nice that our elected officials are going after customer service departments and tackling social ills like the fact that a pint of ice cream isn't really a pint. But haven't we got bigger problems? Even forgetting about national issues like our tattered Constitution and our dictatorial "President" -- we've got dozens of billion dollar New York corporations that don't pay taxes, we've got $6 BILLION OF
FRAUDULENT TRADES A DAY on the New York Stock Exchange and NASDAQ. We've got estrogen in our water supply which is decreasing male fertility (and fish stocks). And the list goes on....

Somehow I don't think Dell customer service really qualifies as an emergency...

I think it's nice that our elected officials are going after customer service departments and tackling social ills like the fact that a pint of ice cream isn't really a pint. But haven't we got bigger problems? Even forgetting about national issues like our tattered Constitution and our dictatorial "President" -- we've got dozens of billion dollar New York corporations that don't pay taxes, we've got $6 BILLION OF
FRAUDULENT TRADES A DAY on the New York Stock Exchange and NASDAQ. We've got estrogen in our water supply which is decreasing male fertility (and fish stocks). And the list goes on....

Somehow I don't think Dell customer service really qualifies as an emergency...

This Microsoft FUD campaign really needs to be challenged, IMHO. I am an attorney, and I don't think that Microsoft has valid patent claims against me personally, and I am using Edgy Ubuntu and Mepis 6.5 and SuSE 10.0 and SuSE 10.2. The Mepis 6.5 SuSE 10.2 I am using in my law practice; and the Edgy and SuSE 10.0 I am using to make a film about Microsoft's anticipated loss of market share due to the growing popularity of FOSS. The film is called the Digital Tipping Point, so you would think that if Microsoft has a desire to shut up anyone, I would be among them. At any rate, I have created a list of people who would like to be sued by Microsoft. Please feel free to sign up. The more the merrier! It's a wiki page. Here is the tinyURL:

http://tinyurl.com/2wlemy

Here is the full page:

http://digitaltippingpoint.com/wiki/index.php?titl e=Sue_me_first%2C_Microsoft

Eat this!

Doling out engines at Analog Speed? So each 4 years it gets to be a vote-buying political football? Imagine that. New engines piece-mealed out to The Public so they get a new technology from their spigot, with "the water" turned on just enough to stop you from DYING IN THEIR DESERT SO YOU CAN KEEP PAYING FOR 15 SUCCESSIVE ENGINE SYSTEMS INSTEAD OF ONE OR TWO? http://www.newpath4.com/666politicalmerchantgiftce rtificatewaroftheworld2007earthdaycitizenlosersorg odskingdomwinners.htm

Hhmmm. That's not a bad plan, if you're rich and own some Toyota stock. Wow, dodged another bullet. Thank god I don't own any Yucko American automaker stock. Oh well. Time for another shameless link plug > http://tinyurl.com/34wgs9 even though I know SlashDot html syntax prevents search engine spiders from following & cataloguing. I guess I'm incorrigible, just an old thirsty American Navajo desert rat. {Ratting out the political shakedowns politicians work against good Christian folk.}

Signed,
The Desert Rat
http://www.newpath4.com/40yearstolife.htm
....

I am an attorney, and I don't think that Microsoft has valid patent claims against me personally, and I am using Edgy Ubuntu and Mepis 6.5 and SuSE 10.0 and SuSE 10.2. The Mepis 6.5 SuSE 10.2 I am using in my law practice; and the Edgy and SuSE 10.0 I am using to make a film about Microsoft's anticipated loss of market share due to the growing popularity of FOSS. The film is called the Digital Tipping Point, so you would think that if Microsoft has a desire to shut up anyone, I would be among them. At any rate, I have created a list of people who would like to be sued by Microsoft. Please feel free to sign up. The more the merrier! It's a wiki page. Here is the tinyURL:

http://tinyurl.com/2wlemy

Here is the full page:

http://digitaltippingpoint.com/wiki/index.php?titl e=Sue_me_first%2C_Microsoft

Yup. MGPP (Multi Generation Project Plan) is useful here.

See http://tinyurl.com/2l2vdn [ isixsigma.com, not goatse ;-) ]

It's not 'rewrite fast, release often, fix the bugs, restart'.

More, you define where you want to be in 10 years time, then focus on delivering something that takes you nearer to that goal every - say - 3 to 9 months.

Think NASA and going to the moon...

Changing cam timing and/or having a second cam lobe is one thing, but there is a huge advantage to infinitely variable valve timing, right down to the fact that you can eliminate the throttle plate altogether, and the turbulence that it causes.

BMW has been messing with these systems for years . This is not new news. I heard rumors of one of their higher end cars using a throttleless setup, but I am yet to see one. Can anyone correct me? http://tinyurl.com/2flnp6

The main problem is reliability and noise. BMW got fed up because it was almost impossible to make it quiet and reliable. Think: your cam, like a crank accelerates the valve to full velocity then slows it back down to a gentle stop in microseconds. An electric actuator tends to slam on and off. Try that at high rpm. Things break. Anyone got any unobtanium valves? You still have to make it affordable to build, purchase, run and repair, right?

Don't get me wrong, I'm all over an engine that will idle like Aunt Bea's Cadillac and rev like an indy car. Think dashboard selectable engine personality, from mild mannered, economizer, green mode, towing mode, formula 1. Especially if coupled with an electronically controlled turbo. You can also have a multi fuel capable, 13:1 (or higher) compression ratio and boost your efficiency without running your NOx readings thru the roof.

                                                    -Lummox (ASE master technician, Canadian journeyman mechanic, millwright)

The Church of Scientology and its followers want you to believe that Keith Henson stated he would "have them bombed and the buildings exploded": This is utter fabrication, Keith Henson never expressed such threat, jokingly or not. He merely corrected someone who answered to a post in which someone else was joking about a "Tom Cruise Missile."

Here is his post in Google archives: http://tinyurl.com/3dgn4y

Keith Henson was picketing and trying to bring awareness to what he calls "depraved indifference" in the death of two young women in and around the Scientology compound. He was trying to bring awareness because he cared. This is directly from the doctrine of the Church of Scientology: "[People critical of Scientology] may be tricked, sued or lied to or destroyed," from L. Ron Hubbard, the founder of Scientology. This is the precise doctrine they followed to try and silence Keith Henson.

Meanwhile, the leaders of the Church of Scientology, David Miscavige included, have been promoting the murdering of other human beings. This is beyond irony that it is now Keith Henson in jail, just because he cared enough, while David Miscavige is free to go despite his graphical depictions of deadly violence against psychiatrists -- with thundering applauses from followers... (ref.: Evening Standard (London, Oct. 2006): "Tom's aliens target City's 'planetary rulers'" by David Cohen, Michael Leonard Tilse: "False Purpose Rundown") (http://tinyurl.com/24xfta)