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Sometimes it isn't the high frequency edits that need to be watched out for. I am aware of a wikiStub which is a good example. I proffer this one because of its extreme volatility, I have an axe to grind with proponents of both sides of the issue, have not edited any of the mentioned pages, and I have not made up my mind as to the veracity of the claims. (i did mention this page to a contact involved with wikipedia, who had previously asked that i message this sort of thing to an email box)

The stub is Walid Phares, a terrorism expert, and professor of Middle East Studies at Florida Atlantic University.

On March 21, 2006, an edit appeared, which lasted 7 hours, and the rationale for revert was simply, 'nonsense'. The edit claimed that Phares had past ties to the Guardians of the Cedar, but wasn't sourced. This is a serious allegation, and truly warranted a move to the talk page of the stub.

The Phares talk page does have some interesting ravings on it, which are also unsourced, and less than the truth. It also has a pervasive sense of threat, easily chilling discussion. Maybe this sort of content is why many are unwilling to point to their objective instances of objection, as it tends to further tag them.

For the Record, Royer did publish an article alleging the Phares ties, but it is extremely unlikely that he is in anyway responsible for these edits, as he is serving twenty years for violationg a weapons export ban by running weapons to Pakistan. Royer's statement to the court at his sentencing also expressed both his guilt and remorse. He's a ass, and convicted gun runner, but is probably underserving of his depiction on the talk page, which uses extremely biased hot button terminology.

The two edits on the Phares stub I mentioned here, as well as the latest on the talk page from a user, 'Jihadwatch', all seem to be members of the new classSchema for some wikiContributors, the Single purpose account. (First edit - - revert - - jihadwatch)

As I mentioned earlier, I wish to apply a cluestick to almost everyone involved with editing this article, but I'd prefer an honest reach for the truth instead...

Be angry at the sun for setting
If these things anger you.
Watch the wheel slope and turn,
They are all bound on the wheel,
these people, those warriors.
This republic, Europe, Asia.

Observe them gesticulating,
Observe them going down.
The gang serves lies,
the passionate Man plays his part;
the cold passion for truth
Hunts in no pack.
"Be Angry at the Sun" - Robinson Jeffers

Sometimes it isn't the high frequency edits that need to be watched out for. I am aware of a wikiStub which is a good example. I proffer this one because of its extreme volatility, I have an axe to grind with proponents of both sides of the issue, have not edited any of the mentioned pages, and I have not made up my mind as to the veracity of the claims. (i did mention this page to a contact involved with wikipedia, who had previously asked that i message this sort of thing to an email box)

The stub is Walid Phares, a terrorism expert, and professor of Middle East Studies at Florida Atlantic University.

On March 21, 2006, an edit appeared, which lasted 7 hours, and the rationale for revert was simply, 'nonsense'. The edit claimed that Phares had past ties to the Guardians of the Cedar, but wasn't sourced. This is a serious allegation, and truly warranted a move to the talk page of the stub.

The Phares talk page does have some interesting ravings on it, which are also unsourced, and less than the truth. It also has a pervasive sense of threat, easily chilling discussion. Maybe this sort of content is why many are unwilling to point to their objective instances of objection, as it tends to further tag them.

For the Record, Royer did publish an article alleging the Phares ties, but it is extremely unlikely that he is in anyway responsible for these edits, as he is serving twenty years for violationg a weapons export ban by running weapons to Pakistan. Royer's statement to the court at his sentencing also expressed both his guilt and remorse. He's a ass, and convicted gun runner, but is probably underserving of his depiction on the talk page, which uses extremely biased hot button terminology.

The two edits on the Phares stub I mentioned here, as well as the latest on the talk page from a user, 'Jihadwatch', all seem to be members of the new classSchema for some wikiContributors, the Single purpose account. (First edit - - revert - - jihadwatch)

As I mentioned earlier, I wish to apply a cluestick to almost everyone involved with editing this article, but I'd prefer an honest reach for the truth instead...

Be angry at the sun for setting
If these things anger you.
Watch the wheel slope and turn,
They are all bound on the wheel,
these people, those warriors.
This republic, Europe, Asia.

Observe them gesticulating,
Observe them going down.
The gang serves lies,
the passionate Man plays his part;
the cold passion for truth
Hunts in no pack.
"Be Angry at the Sun" - Robinson Jeffers

Oops, the image ran out of bandwith, here's a mirror: maynor video screenshots (image 6)
If you check the mac address you will see that it's an apple mac address. See the IEEE OUI list.

So, what we have is:
a) Maynor claiming he is using an external card
b) Maynor claiming that the ip they got is 192.168.1.50 (see the video)
c) According to the screenshot the mac address associated with that ip is 00-17-F2-41-31-6D
d) According to the IEEE OUI that mac address belongs to apple
e) Maynor claiming he did not hack the apple driver but an external card's driver

THE VIDEO WAS FAKED. END OF STORY

Oops, the image ran out of bandwith, here's a mirror: maynor video screenshots (image 6)
If you check the mac address you will see that it's an apple mac address. See the IEEE OUI list.

So, what we have is:
a) Maynor claiming he is using an external card
b) Maynor claiming that the ip they got is 192.168.1.50 (see the video)
c) According to the screenshot the mac address associated with that ip is 00-17-F2-41-31-6D
d) According to the IEEE OUI that mac address belongs to apple
e) Maynor claiming he did not hack the apple driver but an external card's driver

THE VIDEO WAS FAKED. END OF STORY

What was good? The ambiance upstairs, the bartender and their willingness to host a large group without any extra room fee.

What was bad? The banquet manager, Diana. She was pretty much the rudest person I have ever come into contact with.

http://tinyurl.com/ezeey

http://tinyurl.com/eqncw It's an old setting, not for XP for starters, and it's not very useful on the OS it's intended to be used with.

Want to learn about your rights?

Free movie Terror Storm.

http://tinyurl.com/l4x7b

The HP MSA20 can give you 6TB (12x500GB SATA) in 2RU that interfaces to the outside world as UltraSCSI 320 for $10,357.

For example, there's the RSA cryptographic algorithm, and the Marching Cubes volume iso-surface generation algorithm, just to name two of my favorites off the top of my head.

I don't consider either of these obvious. Nor do I subscribe to the notion that methods that harness the laws of mathematics are inherently less inventive than methods that harness the laws of physics.

For example, there's the RSA cryptographic algorithm, and the Marching Cubes volume iso-surface generation algorithm, just to name two of my favorites off the top of my head.

I don't consider either of these obvious. Nor do I subscribe to the notion that methods that harness the laws of mathematics are inherently less inventive than methods that harness the laws of physics.

This looks like an attempt to patent a direct (and seemingly fairly obvious) application of the principle of preferential attachment, as presented by Barabási in Linked: The New Science of Networks and demonstrated everywhere. Prior art? Try, uh, nature...

This looks like an attempt to patent a direct (and seemingly fairly obvious) application of the principle of preferential attachment, as presented by Barabási in Linked: The New Science of Networks and demonstrated everywhere. Prior art? Try, uh, nature...

Articles about GUI's without images make baby Jesus cry. Google gives these as the old design, hope it helps.

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There is a link to NYT if you have bothered to check http://tinyurl.com/ke2ey

Hedge funds are sometimes seen as the "smart money,'' and their managers hailed as market iconoclasts whose quirky, daring trading styles are central to their success. But some of the smartest traders are often beaten by an unlikely foe: the room full of man-high Hewlett-Packard computers that are the brain of AHL.
http://tinyurl.com/ke2ey

The Perversion of Knowledge:

http://www.perseusbooksgroup.com/basic/book_detail .jsp?isbn=0813342805

and

Science in the Third Reich:

http://www.alibris.com/search/detail.cfm?chunk=25& mtype=&qisbn=1859734219&S=R&bid=8761280764&pbest=& pqtynew=&page=1&matches=10&qsort=p

or

http://tinyurl.com/e8en8

Anybody who doesn't get that a government bending scientific inquiry to fit its doctrines is a Bad Thing should read these. Effin' scary. (As an aside, anybody who believes that Reagan or even the US as a whole as a major/necessary component in bringing down the former USSR, should also read the first reference above. That government was so internally conflicted and confounded on its own merits, it's a wonder it didn't implode sooner through sheer dysfunctionality. But I digress,...)

Am really impressed by this cool move from the Redmond's boys, but got a lot of questions over it. How will it bypass the anti-copy game protection? Will it be a true SDK with full access to all the key components or a crippled down OS with no ability to get the juice from the optical disk nor 3D CPUs like the SONY's attempt with the ps2?

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GUI 1.0

The best answer I found on this topic; it compares Debian, the best of Linux, to FreeBSD http://tinyurl.com/s74ws

They get the return, check Amazon top sellers in Mac category: http://tinyurl.com/g4spk

It should be noted that except for civ4 and call of duty 2, all the games on the first page are mac/win hybrids. There's no way of telling how many of those purchases were intended for use on an actual mac. The rest of your post was fine.

If you go to this page, or Google around, you can find out about their relationship with Cray. That's not the secret part.

From NSA's online museum: "Working with companies, such as Cray Research Inc., NSA has been a leader in computer development throughout its history. Some of the earliest supercomputers were designed and built for the National Security Agency."

There is gaming scene, selection of quality games which works happily on G4 / G5 systems and people pay for them.

This oportunist crap will result in NO GAMES CODED FOR OPENGL, OPENAL.

Steve Jobs? That guy calls peoples machines purchased just 3 days ago "4x slow" "5x slow" by suggesting Intel is 5x faster than G5.

Dell fanboy, he now suggests there are no games for Mac? Not surprised.

Why doesn't he ask his jerk, elitist coders why they give NO CHOICE over OpenGL accuracy and speed? There goes your frame rate at first hand.Why OpenAL bugs still not fixed and people has to change sample rate of system to 44.1 khz since they hear noise in 48 Khz? Why does people have to code seperate "joystick calibration" utility, a zombie from MS DOS ages of gaming? Would it be so hard to put a "joystick control panel"?

WoW exists on mac as well as Warcraft, Starcraft, The Sims II. Those games are not subscription based. What they have is a good/rich user profile who doesn't pirate and purchase games. Also they are coded by real companies who has programmers can code something other than DirectX. Also they don't have exclusive deals with Microsoft to offer Windows only products. Those are REAL gaming companies. Just to show how serious they are about supporting their consumers: They released a Starcraft (yes, that game!) update fixing some problems just 1 week ago. Would a "Cider" using, fake Windows API bound company would do it?

They get the return, check Amazon top sellers in Mac category: http://tinyurl.com/g4spk

Mac gaming does not exist?

Now they have excellent expertise on Power arch. they are happily enjoying their XBox 360, PS3, Nintendo releases since they are all POWER based.

Well, as a G5 owner , if all companies are STUPID to move to DirectX and prison themselves to windows, I will buy a PS3 and enjoy Cell Processor gaming. No reason those OpenGL, OpenAL standards based games not to be converted. Expensive? Did you check those "gaming edition" graphic card prices lately?

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Your future girlfriend will be interested to know that you've been searching for this or this.

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It has Mount Cameroon, arguably the most impressive coastal volcano in africa, which towers over the surrounding terrain, nothing in a long long ways comes close to its elevation.

You can also enjoy a unique boating experience on effervescent Lake Nyos.

map of the region


Also you could go visit Lake Chad before its all gone. Though I'm not sure if Cameroon touches it anymore, given its ongoing dessication...


(I may sound sarcastic, but would actually love to visit these places... they really are unique, and dangerous or not, the kind of thing I'm into...)

The already can track you with the paper forms, but they don't and are forbidden by law to do so. http://tinyurl.com/juxwc This is not America, despite the current government's best efforts.

Wait, hold on just a sec! How is this not relevent?

Actually, the materials used in the fast reactors described in the SciAm article never produce weapons-grade materials. If I recall correctly, they can even consume weapons-grade materials so they make disarmament easier. See http://tinyurl.com/c9ahj.

Nobody expects the now Open Source based Spanish Inquisition!


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http://groups.google.com/group/rec.games.roguelike .nethack/browse_frm/thread/6b69dd1351c9d683/362133 73add726b1?#36213373add726b1

Same page, shorter URL:
http://tinyurl.com/zx8kv

Um no. If you are in a public place, I can take all the photos of you (or anyone else) that I want. When it comes to _publishing_ them, I should get a model release from you, but it's certainly not _required_ by law. You could file a civil suit against me for the photograph, but the government has no standing in the case. Here's a primer on model releases detailing when they are desireable.

Engineering Tips is the website with the original online discussion, as referenced in the DesignNews.com story

link to original discussion

link to related items

Unrelated, but possibly of interest:

Link to their Computer Engineers area

(command line) tool to block ie7 delivery via automatic updates and 'express' windowsupdate:
http://tinyurl.com/kwkgt (link target is microsoft)

on the local machine it looks like a simple registry edit:

Registry key: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Setup\7.0

Key value name: DoNotAllowIE70

Value = 0
ie7 is NOT blocked

Value = 1
ie7 is blocked from installing via above methods

...and as soon as Google starts reverse engineering some alien ware, or comes up with a universal search engine or something then I'll be impressed.

Let's face it, it was AT&T that had the first crack at reverse engineering the transistor.

http://tinyurl.com/ezrus/ ...and Corning got the fiber optics part.

Don't you guys ever read the internet?

http://tinyurl.com/l2mcs

Fiscally conservative and anti-socialized medicine don't necessarily go hand in hand if by conservative you mean less overall government spending.

The US Goverenment pays 44% of every dollar paid for health services which is lowers then most G8 countries. However, per capita spending in almost double those same countries. So your government is paying 44% of a pie that is twice as large as most others (per capita). If you had a single payer system like say, Canada, the percentage that is paid by the government will go up, but the total paid should go down and you' ll save money. Ahem..not to mention you should be able to extend health care to all your citizens.

Figures from: OECD.org

Or does 'fiscally conservatives' mean "I'm against the idea that someone might get a free ride, even if it means I save a bunch of money because of it" ?

The folks at Google never cease to amaze us!

The bring out new programs and almost ever hit the mark, with a great rate of success, but without hesitating to remove from the net their fiascos, like that Google Accelerator thing.

Just please don't be sooo US-centric and release your goodies for all the world, for example, I'd love to throw out my paypal account, but non-Americans are not able to log into Google CheckOut still!


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This book seems to be on topic http://tinyurl.com/jjb4g

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There are several car stereos that offer this as an option now.

My Jensen MP6211 stereo is one of them and it offers this via an add-on adapter called the jport. The manual says it will control all of the iPods to date.

It doesn't, however, work with the shuffle option on the iPods. I don't have an iPod, so I can't comment on how well it works with them.

It'll also control a Jensen CD changer and has a set of RCA inputs for playing anything else via the stereo's AUX mode.

They offer a steering wheel remote as an accessory (not includeded w/the stereo). See here. The stereo comes with a credit card remote in the box.

Best of all, I got mine at Circuit City for less than $100.

My only gripes on this stereo is the clock is WAAY too small to be useful, the ID3 tags aren't displayed in random mode unless you push the button on the stero and when the ID3 tags are scolling on the LCD, they scroll too slowly (and there's no option to increase the speed).

Otherwise, its a great stereo for the price.

There are several car stereos that offer this as an option now.

My Jensen MP6211 stereo is one of them and it offers this via an add-on adapter called the jport. The manual says it will control all of the iPods to date.

It doesn't, however, work with the shuffle option on the iPods. I don't have an iPod, so I can't comment on how well it works with them.

It'll also control a Jensen CD changer and has a set of RCA inputs for playing anything else via the stereo's AUX mode.

They offer a steering wheel remote as an accessory (not includeded w/the stereo). See here. The stereo comes with a credit card remote in the box.

Best of all, I got mine at Circuit City for less than $100.

My only gripes on this stereo is the clock is WAAY too small to be useful, the ID3 tags aren't displayed in random mode unless you push the button on the stero and when the ID3 tags are scolling on the LCD, they scroll too slowly (and there's no option to increase the speed).

Otherwise, its a great stereo for the price.

There are several car stereos that offer this as an option now.

My Jensen MP6211 stereo is one of them and it offers this via an add-on adapter called the jport. The manual says it will control all of the iPods to date.

It doesn't, however, work with the shuffle option on the iPods. I don't have an iPod, so I can't comment on how well it works with them.

It'll also control a Jensen CD changer and has a set of RCA inputs for playing anything else via the stereo's AUX mode.

They offer a steering wheel remote as an accessory (not includeded w/the stereo). See here. The stereo comes with a credit card remote in the box.

Best of all, I got mine at Circuit City for less than $100.

My only gripes on this stereo is the clock is WAAY too small to be useful, the ID3 tags aren't displayed in random mode unless you push the button on the stero and when the ID3 tags are scolling on the LCD, they scroll too slowly (and there's no option to increase the speed).

Otherwise, its a great stereo for the price.

I think it's worth mentioning that the protein in question is notoriously difficult to work with. As a G-protein-coupled-receptor (GPCR), it's normally found spanning a cell membrane: aka imbedded in lipids (fats). This makes it very difficult to work with from a solubility/structure standpoint.

Depending on what you consider acceptable for a structure, people have only known the atomic-level details of rhodopsin for the last few years (http://tinyurl.com/jtj6gPDB). Bacteriorhodopsin has been a bit more accessible, but it too is a fairly recent structure. For a protein as highly studied as this family is, that's not much time at all. This is why so much effort has been placed on really convoluted methods to obtain the structural information indirectly. For one example that involved some computational methods, see http://tinyurl.com/kawwr.

And here's another thought for you: GPCRs transmit a photon signal to a physically-transmitted biochemical cascade. So although you can make rhodopsin change conformation with the right light-based input, how can you read the structurally-conferred output?

Although I appreciate the fundamental science being carried out by the research group mentioned, I think it's bad form to mislead the general public with overreaching claims. If you're really interested in high-capacity storage, I think that the engineered protein cages, based upon viral capsids and similar structures, have more potential for nano-level storage as a means to create highly regular, tailored metallic materials.

I think it's worth mentioning that the protein in question is notoriously difficult to work with. As a G-protein-coupled-receptor (GPCR), it's normally found spanning a cell membrane: aka imbedded in lipids (fats). This makes it very difficult to work with from a solubility/structure standpoint.

Depending on what you consider acceptable for a structure, people have only known the atomic-level details of rhodopsin for the last few years (http://tinyurl.com/jtj6gPDB). Bacteriorhodopsin has been a bit more accessible, but it too is a fairly recent structure. For a protein as highly studied as this family is, that's not much time at all. This is why so much effort has been placed on really convoluted methods to obtain the structural information indirectly. For one example that involved some computational methods, see http://tinyurl.com/kawwr.

And here's another thought for you: GPCRs transmit a photon signal to a physically-transmitted biochemical cascade. So although you can make rhodopsin change conformation with the right light-based input, how can you read the structurally-conferred output?

Although I appreciate the fundamental science being carried out by the research group mentioned, I think it's bad form to mislead the general public with overreaching claims. If you're really interested in high-capacity storage, I think that the engineered protein cages, based upon viral capsids and similar structures, have more potential for nano-level storage as a means to create highly regular, tailored metallic materials.

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