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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)

You should see the movie "Looker".. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Looker & http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0082677/

scrapetorrent search for Looker torrent http://tinyurl.com/2rzte2

It's all about advertising and other evil goals.
They develop a technique to track viewers eye movements and a computer helps them improve the commercials to maximize profits by modifying the models (plastic surgery) and hypnotizing the viewers. And all that crap.
And then they use the technique to try to take over the government. Pretty deep stuff for 1981.

Better ways here http://tinyurl.com/28lrzx

There's nothing in the software that stops you virtualising, (see http://tinyurl.com/2g2zh5), and if you get Vista 'Home' via MSDN you are even legally allowed to do it, but only for 'testing' purposes.

The main point is to stop big organisations from using cheap versions of Vista instead of expensive ones. They are (a) the people most likely to be using virtualisation and (b) the least likely to use sw outside of the EULA.

There's a lot of alternative video sites springing up that don't have the same constraints, (copyright...) as the big guys.
You'll find (sometimes) full-length, high-quality stuff.

Equally, a host of specialised search engines such as allug.org have sprung up to search such sites.

More info here http://tinyurl.com/2fva6c (Wall Street Journal)

Until I read the WSJ article, I'd never heard of any of them either. Suppose they'll all get sued into oblivion now...

A mouse? A salamander? A cricket? A water flea? A volvox? A paramecium? Where is the cutoff point?

A mouse has a nervous system.

A salamander? Has it.

A cricket? Has it.

A water flea? Has it.

A volvox? Doesn't.

A paramecium? Doesn't.

The cutoff point is pretty clear for me.

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'Novell is going to own the most popular Linux distribution in a few years. That's not too shabby of a deal. I fail to see what you're failing to see about this deal'

NovelSOFT Linux is *NOT* Open Source. Tell us precisely what Novell got out of the deal. MS and Novell exchange paper and MS gets NOVL to agree that NOVL is violating MS intelluctual property in Linux.

'Novel/SUSE becomes the only version of Linux that MS officially supports to work with Windows'

Exactly, easier to crack the one chesnut at a time. Ms can also use the agreement to dissuade people from doing business with other Open Source companies. For instance get Novell to trash Redhat amd agree the Windows has lower TCO than Linux.

'SUSE becomes the most popular distribution used in commercial settings by a large margin'

And if that happens MS launches a takeover/merger, results being real Open Source being reduced to the non-profit sector. If SUSE don't take off, then no great loss, just the exchange of a few vouchers. A Win/Win for you know who.

'and Novell laughs all the way to the bank'

That's what this guy thought too ..

Google Search outs Google NDA violators! http://tinyurl.com/26evsb
Will all these people "disappear" tomorrow? Is Bush to blame? Arrrgh!
(I'm not sure which is worse now these days, Digg or /. Learn to think for yourselves, sheeple!)

Consumerist is great in helping the victims of corporate greed. My parents had a horrible experience with United Airlines, and Consumerist helped me out a lot, though the issue is still unresolved. They covered my story and helped out a lot, but United has been unrelenting and the issue is still unresolved. I've pretty much given up because it has cost me so much time and grief.

This is the blog I wrote
http://tinyurl.com/y7fgsh

and the helpful writings from The Consumerist
http://tinyurl.com/yz8eoj
http://tinyurl.com/yz9qty
http://tinyurl.com/ykvbh4

Consumerist is great in helping the victims of corporate greed. My parents had a horrible experience with United Airlines, and Consumerist helped me out a lot, though the issue is still unresolved. They covered my story and helped out a lot, but United has been unrelenting and the issue is still unresolved. I've pretty much given up because it has cost me so much time and grief.

This is the blog I wrote
http://tinyurl.com/y7fgsh

and the helpful writings from The Consumerist
http://tinyurl.com/yz8eoj
http://tinyurl.com/yz9qty
http://tinyurl.com/ykvbh4

Consumerist is great in helping the victims of corporate greed. My parents had a horrible experience with United Airlines, and Consumerist helped me out a lot, though the issue is still unresolved. They covered my story and helped out a lot, but United has been unrelenting and the issue is still unresolved. I've pretty much given up because it has cost me so much time and grief.

This is the blog I wrote
http://tinyurl.com/y7fgsh

and the helpful writings from The Consumerist
http://tinyurl.com/yz8eoj
http://tinyurl.com/yz9qty
http://tinyurl.com/ykvbh4

Consumerist is great in helping the victims of corporate greed. My parents had a horrible experience with United Airlines, and Consumerist helped me out a lot, though the issue is still unresolved. They covered my story and helped out a lot, but United has been unrelenting and the issue is still unresolved. I've pretty much given up because it has cost me so much time and grief.

This is the blog I wrote
http://tinyurl.com/y7fgsh

and the helpful writings from The Consumerist
http://tinyurl.com/yz8eoj
http://tinyurl.com/yz9qty
http://tinyurl.com/ykvbh4

Coralized version:

http://neosmart.net.nyud.net:8080/blog/2007/please -microsoft-stop-holding-net-back/

or just http://tinyurl.com/yvn88l

Hi!

Here is http://tinyurl.com/2ulyz4/ interesting book which gives "completely different perspective" about the process of 'knowledge filtration' in 'science' which simply discards all the facts which does not fit in.

Abridged version is http://tinyurl.com/2vvqsm/

Another one is http://tinyurl.com/2jy2os/ which is more readable for general public and gives some alternative model as well.

Sincerely,

Gour

Hi!

Here is http://tinyurl.com/2ulyz4/ interesting book which gives "completely different perspective" about the process of 'knowledge filtration' in 'science' which simply discards all the facts which does not fit in.

Abridged version is http://tinyurl.com/2vvqsm/

Another one is http://tinyurl.com/2jy2os/ which is more readable for general public and gives some alternative model as well.

Sincerely,

Gour

Hi!

Here is http://tinyurl.com/2ulyz4/ interesting book which gives "completely different perspective" about the process of 'knowledge filtration' in 'science' which simply discards all the facts which does not fit in.

Abridged version is http://tinyurl.com/2vvqsm/

Another one is http://tinyurl.com/2jy2os/ which is more readable for general public and gives some alternative model as well.

Sincerely,

Gour

A) There is historic evidence that a wandering priest called Jesus Christ did actually exist. So for the human person of Jesus Christ we can be pretty sure that he wandered the earth. We can't really say anything about his wondrous deeds, however.

B) The figure of Santa Claus has two origins one is Saint Nicholas, bishop of Myra. But he was basically just used to "christianise" a much older pagan belief ( http://tinyurl.com/29sdow ). Anyway the Person of Saint Nicholas is a historic figure.

C) The easter bunny is apparently just a human invention

Why do you say it is just as irrational to believe in the easter bunny as it is to believe in Jesus or Saint Nicholas?

In the United States, where most electric power comes from coal, a CFL will result in about 1/4 the mercury emissions of an incandescent bulb. This document from the Energystar program notes that the mercury emissions reduction is greater than the amount of Hg in the CFL bulb itself: http://tinyurl.com/2elryb (pdf)

So while it may be an issue to consider proper disposal of a broken (or whole) bulb, reducing overall mercury emissions in the environment probably outweighs the disadvantage of having some mercury in each bulb.

In shameless self-promotion, I also discuss some of the issues around CFLs on my blog:
http://moldybluecheesecurds.blogspot.com/search/la bel/compact%20fluorescent

"I find this scare-mongering over mercury to be amusing. "

As do I. Why would you HAZMAT a room for 5mg of mercury vapour that will float out the window?

When you break a thermometer:

http://tinyurl.com/2eevmp

or when you break an old school (10mg/HG) tube:

http://tinyurl.com/ytwmqu

"I find this scare-mongering over mercury to be amusing. "

As do I. Why would you HAZMAT a room for 5mg of mercury vapour that will float out the window?

When you break a thermometer:

http://tinyurl.com/2eevmp

or when you break an old school (10mg/HG) tube:

http://tinyurl.com/ytwmqu

Ok Slashdot, I'll tell you my first incest experience. It was about 2 years ago; I was 18 and my sister was 16 (and a half). We had a cousin staying at our house for the summer and she was either 16 or 17. Got along great with the cousin, but not so great with the sister. She felt she should have the run of the house since I was about to move out to college and I thought she was a bitch. This caused conflict.

Anyway, the parents were at work, I was chilling in my room, and the two girls were sunbathing/swimming outside. I had nothing for my sister at this point, but my cousin was a different matter. From an objective standpoint, she's good looking. She's the big athlete in the family so the body is pretty good as well. here is a photo, face hidden of course.

Here's where things get crazy. I'm building up jack material on my cousin, but I can't stop looking at my sister. Cousin is hot, but my sister has a RACK. Her boobs look like they wanna bust out of the bikini. So I start storing images of her as well. It feels a little sick at first, but that just makes things more exciting.

I want a closer look, so I go outside to the pool and say that I'm going to bust into the booze cabinet and to come inside if they want any. They think it's a great idea and follow me in. They get wasted pretty fast, but I only have a couple drinks. It gets to the point where they're basically passed out on the floor, wearing skimpy bikinis, and I'm sitting there with a raging hard on. So I make the decision.

I run to the basement to grab a camcorder and set it up in the den where we are. Just then, my grandpa busts through the door, tears off my pants, and fucks me in the ass. He's wearing a cowboy hat. Once he unloads, he runs back out of the house and yells, "I have the weirding way!"

I recently watched a Google talk by Van Jacobson (http://tinyurl.com/28j762) about changing the way we design networks to accommodate the new tasks we use them for. To summarize: a dialing in a circuit switched network can be described as programming a path within the network; your destination identifier also determines the exact route you take. But weren't interested in the path once communication lines were everywhere - we were interested in conversations between endpoints, and the path was irrelevant. So packet-switching gave us the independence we needed to continue innovating.

In this talk, he proposes that we no longer care even about establishing a conversation between two parties; that is now as irrelevant as the path. What we care about is information, and disseminating it to all interested parties. In this dissemination network, instead of sending and receiving data to and from another host specified by a network address, you would actually exchange data with the network itself and allow it to manage the details of how it is distributed. (Obviously, security would be a concern, but that too can be implemented by the network.)

Of course there's little to no chance of this kind of revolution changing the face of the Internet within decades. The details, economics, liabilities, etc., are just too foreign to our current models. But a man can dream.

As an undergraduate reading Maths at a UK university, I am appalled that the BBC would publish such a mis-representative and biased article. Whilst I understand that there might be concern over a decline in students taking Maths post-GCSE, the content of the article is hideously extreme and clearly very far from actual standards of maths.

Notice that the RSC has quoted the UK Maths test as being from a Chemistry degree. If the question was from an actual Maths degree, then you would see something like this: http://tinyurl.com/ynnasn (a question from a first-year geometry module I took).

It is not stated, however, for which subject the Chinese entrance exam is for. I highly doubt it is for a Chemistry degree at all. Even if it was; before I went to university I considered a degree in Chemistry - at the time I could easily have answered both of the maths questions. The questions posed to me in my entrance exam (albeit for a Maths degree) were far beyond the difficulty of the ones quoted in this article. As well, I could have easily answered the UK question back in year 7.

I do not doubt that the standard of education in China is at a similar level to the UK and USA, but the facts have been severely warped here. Mirroring the quote at the end of the article, I also believe that the RSC's attack is nonsense (though I would cite bullshit). This article reminds me of another published by the BBC last year, of a CS professor who had defied the mathematicians and could divide by zero. Sensationalist rubbish.

Linux for Windows Administrators (Mark Minasi) may be what you're looking for.
http://www.amazon.ca/Linux-Windows-Administrators- Mark-Minasi/dp/0782141196/ref=sr_1_3/701-7362000-3 966705?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1177438579&sr=8-3
or http://tinyurl.com/3b8ug8

Your complaints are very similar to my own and it's the reason I keep giving up on Linux. I know Windows so well that it is extremely frustrating when a simple problem pops up in Linux that is very complicated to fix but could be fixed within seconds on Windows. I realize that's not necessarily Linux's fault but that still doesn't ease the frustrations. I recently bought this book (have yet to read it though) but am hoping it will come in handy, especially now that I am giving Linux another chance and have just installed Ubuntu. The book focuses on Redhat but I am hoping that it will translate well enough that it will still be usable on Ubuntu.

Only Sony and probably MGM (part owned by Sony) will definitely not produce HD DVDs. Disney have hinted that they wouldn't rule out making HD DVD editions of their movies (although they haven't committed to them).

Link: http://tinyurl.com/3y4oln

Disney is a business and it will go with whatever format makes it the most money.

Actually, shock sites are interesting because they show the power of what Richard Dawkins called "virulent memes". He wrote a great article here that explains how shock sites are linked to the formation of major cults and religions.

please note for folks that have a login at wikipedia the true target of the link from this posters sig is to
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Userlogout?re turnto=Have_a_nice_day

folks may want to visit http://tinyurl.com/preview.php to enable preview mode

Note for mods/admins why does the person have an account?? (and an unbanned ip??)

Print version of TFA http://tinyurl.com/2z2ffw

First proposed in fiction in 1971: http://tinyurl.com/2a52m3
(fab book, btw)

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"It will be awesome to know that one day it may be possible to get anywhere in the world by land transportation only"

I can't seem to spot the terrestrial link between Australia and Asia...
http://tinyurl.com/35kq7f

oh btw just to prevent folks from using tinyurl as a logic bomb visit http://tinyurl.com/preview.php to enable a "safe mode". This page allows you to grab a cookie that shows you the url before you go to the url (useful for oh affilate urls friends of The GOAT and other funky things)

Not nominating a good candidate for a position is a totally different matter entirely than firing a US attorney that Bush himself appointed for refusing to fight to over turn a legal election.

And what you seem willfully ignorant of is the fact that they 2006 reauthorization of the Patriot act specifically authorizes the president to appoint US attorneys without any legislative oversight.

Just because you say something while being ignorant of the facts, does not make them true.

Not nominating a good candidate for a position is a totally different matter entirely than firing a US attorney that Bush himself appointed for refusing to fight to over turn a legal election.

And what you seem willfully ignorant of is the fact that they 2006 reauthorization of the Patriot act specifically authorizes the president to appoint US attorneys without any legislative oversight.

Just because you say something while being ignorant of the facts, does not make them true.

Or possibly at least one free software project...

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I'm sorry; the chimp nation (a land of cows' milk drinkers) have asked me to point you to the following vegan website:
    http://tinyurl.com/yu8cq7

    They drink milk there. But happily, only 10 kinds of it.
And as we all know, E = MC cubed.

http://tinyurl.com/2r4rk4

There, hope that helps.

Most importantly, try not to get caught up in details -- or the chain

"Data center in a box" is a misnomer. At some point it becomes too inefficient to make the thing portable, resulting in serious problems.

Plug the VHS reader with the DVD recorder. Play the tape and record it on a DVDRW (using highest available quality). Voilà . That's the easiest way to do it, and the quality is good. Now put the DVDRW in your PC, and get the files (MPEG2 VOB), and use any software for editing them. --

Yes, this is the best route to go. I purchased this DVD/vhs recorder: http://tinyurl.com/37ray4

I don't know if JVC still makes it, but it will upsample your VHS and DVD viewing to 720p or 1080i (using HDMI outputs, it only goes to 480p with the component output).

Try RCF http://www.codeproject.com/threads/RMI_For_Cpp.asp

Or roll your own with boost::asio - http://tinyurl.com/2zpbfd, though I think a boost library is already in progress

From Scalia's dissent: The Court's alarm over global warming may or may not be justified, but it ought not distort the outcome of this litigation. This is a straightforward administrative-law case, in which Congress has passed a malleable statute giving broad discretion, not to us but to an executive agency. No matter how important the underlying policy issues at stake, this Court has no business substituting its own desired outcome for the reasoned judgment of the responsible agency. From Roberts' dissent: The realities make it pure conjecture to suppose that EPA regulation of new automobile emissions will likely prevent the loss of Massachusetts coastal land...The mismatch suggests that petitioners' true goal for this litigation may be more symbolic than anything else. The constitutional role of the courts, however, is to decide concrete cases--not to serve as a convenient forum for policy debates. See Valley Forge Christian College v. Americans United for Separation of Church and State, Inc., 454 U. S. 464, 472 (1982) ("[Standing] tends to assure that the legal questions presented to the court will be resolved, not in the rarified atmosphere of a debating society, but in a concrete factual context conducive to a realistic appreciation of the consequences of judicial action")...The limitation of the judicial power to cases and controversies "is crucial in maintaining the tripartite allocation of power set forth in the Constitution." http://tinyurl.com/yttruw

I'll see your URL with this one... http://tinyurl.com/23vr4y I'd raise ya, but my last few hands have been pretty crummy.

Magneto-Optical media is used by medical facilities where archival time length is paramount. Such as:
  - http://md5.ca/~pavel/md.jpg
  - http://tinyurl.com/2cu7zv
MO drives are a bit costly, but if you have important media its worth it. Besides cool look for neo's warez stash in Simulcara book. Quoted guaranteed archival time is over 40 years in most cases, and they continually improving the technology, compared to driving the costs down of the generic blank media market of CDs/DVDs.

I'm glad to see numbers, but where's the link? ;) Never mind, found it.

The mac does pretty well in that comparison. I built your Dell for under $1200, maybe you had XP Pro? I started from the bottom-of-the-line d620, which permits Home. Still, it's less of a difference than I expected.

Ah, here's the reason. You're not giving the d620 credit for all it's ruggedizing features (shock-mounted hard drive, magnesium-alloy case. More information here). It would be better to compare the Macbook to an Inspiron E1405 like this one, which has the same specs (I even got the upgrade to 667 MHz memory, though I've read that it doesn't improve performance) for almost $300 less.

Also, if you require a video card or if you don't want a DVD burner, the d620 gains ground against the Macbook.

By the way, what's so special about the black one? If you get the $150 upgrade from the 80 GB to the 120 GB harddrive in the white one, it's the same machine for $50 less. Is it just a style thing?

(And why is the hard drive upgrade so expensive anyway? $150 for 40 GB more space is insane.)

I'm glad to see numbers, but where's the link? ;) Never mind, found it.

The mac does pretty well in that comparison. I built your Dell for under $1200, maybe you had XP Pro? I started from the bottom-of-the-line d620, which permits Home. Still, it's less of a difference than I expected.

Ah, here's the reason. You're not giving the d620 credit for all it's ruggedizing features (shock-mounted hard drive, magnesium-alloy case. More information here). It would be better to compare the Macbook to an Inspiron E1405 like this one, which has the same specs (I even got the upgrade to 667 MHz memory, though I've read that it doesn't improve performance) for almost $300 less.

Also, if you require a video card or if you don't want a DVD burner, the d620 gains ground against the Macbook.

By the way, what's so special about the black one? If you get the $150 upgrade from the 80 GB to the 120 GB harddrive in the white one, it's the same machine for $50 less. Is it just a style thing?

(And why is the hard drive upgrade so expensive anyway? $150 for 40 GB more space is insane.)

Good call.

$ lynx -head -dump http://tinyurl.com/fgd3x
HTTP/1.0 301 Moved Permanently
Connection: close
X-Powered-By: PHP/5.2.1
Location: http://goatse.cz/
Content-type: text/html
Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2007 20:47:11 GMT
Server: TinyURL/1.5

Hey arsehole! You need to learn not to click links when there's a warning in the same post!