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Unfortunately Dallas schools are rated poorly. Sixth out of six in Texas - http://tinyurl.com/mh4zc

There is enough money for football coaches though - http://tinyurl.com/rfblv

This district should be the laughingstock of the nation and illustrates that money is not the problem.

It is almost never the amount of funding that is the problem. It is the use of the funds available.

Unfortunately Dallas schools are rated poorly. Sixth out of six in Texas - http://tinyurl.com/mh4zc

There is enough money for football coaches though - http://tinyurl.com/rfblv

This district should be the laughingstock of the nation and illustrates that money is not the problem.

It is almost never the amount of funding that is the problem. It is the use of the funds available.

Unfortunately Dallas schools are rated poorly. Sixth out of six in Texas - http://tinyurl.com/mh4zc

There is enough money for football coaches though - http://tinyurl.com/rfblv

This district should be the laughingstock of the nation and illustrates that money is not the problem.

It is almost never the amount of funding that is the problem. It is the use of the funds available.

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Lol!

1. Who the EFF ever heard of "Chambers Dictionary" as an authoritative source?
2. On the "about us" section they claim to be a publisher, i.e. a company with a vested interest in slanting the debate.
3. The etymology just says "16c" so where do you get this "1800s" bit from and how do you know it applies to copyrights rather than high seas?

Spotted a nifty tux in tails artist trading card.

Who knew tux could look so cute in a tuxedo.

"Perhaps the most surprising thing about the MacBook is its price. Despite Apple's reputation for charging more, the MacBook is actually less expensive than its closest major Windows competitor. That would be the Sony Vaio VGN-SZ240, which also has a 13.3-inch screen with the same resolution, includes a built-in camera, and is available with the same processor and the same memory and hard-disk capacity as the MacBook.

When configured to match the major specs of the base model of the MacBook, the Sony costs $1,629, over 60% more than the MacBook's $1,099 base price. But the MacBook is much heavier than the Sony. It weighs 5.2 pounds, 37% more than the Sony's 3.8 pounds."

From review by Walt Mossberg/Wall Street Journal [didn't need a subscription to reach the page. ymmv.]

So, that leaves you with some cash to buy paper...

The coolest toys I've bought this year are:

http://www.pascalbardel.com/design/52.htm
http://www.downtube.com/catalog/product_info.php?p roducts_id=1316
http://tinyurl.com/b6yo4

Wonder what Henry VIII called it?

http://tinyurl.com/ed5ds

rj

Quite old news, given the work that has been carried out at Churchill College, Cambridge http://tinyurl.com/h56ve

This is just a boomerang effect http://tinyurl.com/h56ve

We have already made contact with ETs back in the 50s.
We traded technology for biology. (stupid trade if you ask me)
SETI is nothing more than a distraction to the real truth.

Anyhow,

Watch this if you are skeptical ....

http://tinyurl.com/eslxh

I can envisage a "boomerang" effect http://tinyurl.com/sxelz [tinyurl.com]

What if someone uses your 5 euros ( = 6.5 bucks) subsidized router to download kiddie porn, send hate mail to CmdrTaco or skype Bin Laden?

What do the European laws say about that?


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I can envisage a boomerang effect http://tinyurl.com/sxelz

I can envisage a boomerang effect http://tinyurl.com/sxelz

I can envisage a boomerang effect http://tinyurl.com/sxelz [tinyurl.com]

I can envisage a boomerang effect http://tinyurl.com/sxelz

It can't be more worrying that this ... http://tinyurl.com/sxelz

Does anyone else worry that the USA might use its intelligent services to give its corporate entities an advantage over foreign ones?

Just wanted to mention that I *did* post in that thread (well, a closely related one, anyway). Thanks.

From that contact page, here's where to send a bouquet of flowers:

    Michele Reutty, Director
    Free Public Library of Hasbrouck Heights
    320 Boulevard
    Hasbrouck Heights, NJ 07604

Let's make a bold statement and support Michele. Proflowers has several lovely items for $30. If only a thousand Slashdotters do this the message of support will still be overwhelming (not to mention the whole town of Hasbrouck Heights will have a lovely scent), will help Michele keep her job, and will inspire librarians the nation over to do what's right.

All for the cost of half a tank of gas.

"Thanks for supporting Freedom", "We Support You and the Law", "You Did the Right Thing" would all make fine inscriptions. Be creative, be generous, and be caring. It couldn't hurt to post a reply here noting that you've done so.

The other posts here about the fairness doctrine should put your doubts to rest.

Although I find the level religiosity it the US shocking I wouldn't have referred to the US as a theocracy until I read "American Theocracy" by Kevin Phillips. Here is a NYTimes article on it. http://tinyurl.com/fkwc2

Kevin Phillips is a respected Republican historian and this book is NOT a rambling rant from the left despite its title.

Without getting into a full review of the book he follows the life cycle of several empires; Spanish, Dutch, British, and USA. He finds many similarities linking their rise to innovation based on new energy sources (wind, coal then oil). (Spain being the exception being based on new world gold). Also a trend in financialization (Finance is now the single largest industry in the US as a percentage of GDP). In addition to his central thesis it is an excellent history of energy, US oil culture, US church history, and more, a very good read.

He also shows a trend in the rise of religion near the end of an empires life. Specifically a belief in the "end of days". Its an excellent book with nearly a hundred citations per chapter, It is very well researched from a guy who has written a dozen books on American and Republican history. Don't let the title fool you its about a lot more then simply the rise in the Christian right.

When I first heard about Bush's faith based initiatives I thought they were limited to charity and other social care type programs. I have learned however that it means appointing people who actively work to end separation of church and state. People who put faith before fact, people who believe not only in the coming of Armageddon, but some who believe that christ has returned and we are already in the end of days. It is truly shocking to learn that something around 25% of the US believes in Armageddon (literal), more shocking to learn that they are running your country!

As the most religous country in the world, and with the growing influence of Christians in your government, America has no credibility labeling others as religious radicals or fundamentalists.

Many scientists post on Slashdot, perhaps they can comment on the current state of affairs where faith has replaced fact and exploration in government policy.

There is a social norm about not talking about religion but perhaps that should change considering that you have chosen to elect a "doomsday cult".

...if there is an XSS vulnerability in Slashdot I can cause any action a logged in user...

Sometimes, you don't even need XSS to be annoying. (Worksafe.)

Flamebait...

But I'll give something to counter-balance the
oversimplistic "artificially manufactured by oil
corporation collusion with Arab tyrants":
http://tinyurl.com/fs4zg

And according to APA style guidelines, you don't add an S after the apostrophe.

So we're back where we started: both forms are acceptable.

The whole process can be seen on this video clip

http://tinyurl.com/olk32

Check out the patent. The patent claims limit the scope to portable media players, which does not necessarily mean laptop computers. Sure, laptop computers play music, but that is not their primary purpose, whereas a portable media player is specifically geared to just that. The patent mentions specific button configurations and how the user interacts with the menu. For example, they mention three "soft" function buttons (i.e. the function of the button changes on context).

If the patented approach had been in common use for years, it is less likely the PO would have issued the patent.

http://tinyurl.com/olk32 This is the link to the patent in question.

Josh McDowell's has already been soundly refuted. Feel free to investigate for yourself : http://tinyurl.com/puhbe

9) Will I have access to a Dvorak keymap?

Yes.

10) Were you really asked about Dvorak keymaps?

Yes.


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I always find it helpful to track the sources of information they are siteing. For example, there's Professor Bob Carter. This is a professor who claimed that global warming stopped in 1998 when it turns out that 2005 was the hottest year on record (since we began tracking such things).

I saw a similar article making similar claims yesterday and the "experts" they sited weren't even in the field of climatology, and had gone so far as to fake a letter from the National Academy of Sciences to give their position a supposed credence.

Show me one peer reviewed scientific paper that says anything other than global warming is happening and it's caused by human emissions of CO2. To my knowledge, this does not exist. I recognize that peer review is somewhat prone to group think, and in that you might expect a leaning one direction or another. But to have ZERO? That seems rather dramatic to just be a group think issue.

A lot of the "scientists" that I've seen taking a position on this are clearly hucksters working for the likes of Exxon Mobile, etc. I have little doubt that there are some scientists who are legitimate who don't buy into the common thinking, but that doesn't mean the common thinking is wrong. They need to back up their beliefs with sound evidence and method. But they don't.

ZOMG

Swamp coolers for the win!

http://tinyurl.com/z9g3g

and while whatchine Fox news, I was pointed here: http://tinyurl.com/z9x2y

Moe: The "garage"? Hey fellas, the "garage"! Well, ooh la di da, Mr. French Man.
Homer: Well what do _you_ call it?
Moe: A car hole!


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He was carrying only his boarding pass and a copy of the U.S. Constitution. Cheeky fucker!
He spent several days in jail, and got some really scary letters from the FBI (hi guys!).
Scanned copies of the letters, photos of the event, and his own musing are posted here.

Now, I don't agree with Russell's focus on "civil disobediance" -- I prefer to focus on political change (ie, getting good people elected into office, passing good laws, repealing bad ones, etc). In addition, I think this particular act of Civil Disobedience was poorly chosen -- he was trying to make the point that it should be the airlines, not the government, that sets the rules for any particular flight.

But still, ya gotta admire the sheer cojones of standing up to the FBI, and doing it with a sense of humor (see the letters he wrote back to the Feds, they're hilarious!)

Russ is just one of the hundreds of pro-Liberty activists out here in New Hampshire, one more member of the Free State Project

There are many alternatives to Firefox. Check out the http://tinyurl.com/dnm7v list

There's no word planemos in Spanish. A similar one could be planeamos, meaning "we plan" or "we planned".


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And those are illegal in the United States.
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The difference between US and China.

And those are illegal in the United States.
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More on this...
Gary Allen reprints a section of the book by Eunice Stamm, The History of Cheesemaking in The Empire State from the Early Dutch Settlers to Modern Times. If you go to http://tinyurl.com/opmbs you will read this:
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the Catskills were just huge tracts of rocky open land that weren't suitable for farming. Farmers often complained that "there were two stones for every dirt" -- but the deforested hills were ideally suited for cow pastures. This, in turn, created the need for a market that could absorb the glut of New York State dairy products. However, with limited refrigeration available, and fears of tuberculosis in the city, fresh milk could not yet be shipped safely in the large volumes that were being produced. Consequently, cheese makers in the region found a ready market for their products. In 1870, Neufchatel was being made in New Jersey for the New York City market, but Charles Green, living in the village of Chester, in the southern Catskills, thought he could do better. In 1872, he hired a European cheese maker to teach him how to make the soft cheese.

What Green didn't know was that another local cheese maker, William A. Lawrence, had overheard the lessons. Lawrence immediately went home and duplicated the recipe -- but doubled the amount of cream. The result was cream cheese, which was packed and shipped from Philadelphia as "Star Brand Cream Cheese." Lawrence also produced and sold "Cow Brand Neufchatel." By the 1880s he had moved his plant west, to Philadelphia, New York.

At the time, Pennsylvania's Philadelphia had a reputation for making fine foods, so the most fashionable marketing name in the United States was "Philadelphia," and in 1885, the Empire Cheese Company in South Edmeston, New York, registered the brand name "Philadelphia Brand Cream Cheese." The Empire Cheese Company's factory burned down in 1900, but was rebuilt as "The Phenix" (like the mythical bird that rises from its own ashes every 500 years -- but spelled without an "o"). The company itself was renamed "The Phenix Cheese Corporation" in 1924, but the name didn't last nearly as long as its namesake because Kraft bought the company along with the "Philadelphia" brand name, in 1928.

Today, Kraft is the world's largest producer of cream cheese, and its factory in Lowville, New York, is responsible for 40% of its production. The next largest producer is Breakstone, with its plant in nearby Downsville.
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There you have it. William Lawrence moved to Philadelphia New York to learn how to make cream cheese! OK, so, now, where is Lowville? Well, it's about about 30 minutes down the road from Philadelphia, New York. Surprise, Surprise! When Gary Allen talks about the Catskills being rocky and best suited for Dairy farming he's also talking about the part of New York state where Philadelphia and Lowville are situated, in the St. Lawrence River Valley. All these towns are not in the Catskills, they are in Northern New York, in the area between the Adirondacks and the St. Lawrence River & Lake Ontario. Allen himself doesn't actually say this, but he should have. Another thing - Why in hell would William Lawrence move from the area of Chester, NY, all the way to Northern New York state, to the village & town of Philadelphia, New York? Well, as I explained in my previous post, the people there were already famous for making this same type of cheese by 1870-80! He moved there to learn how - and boy, did he!

Mebbe the people at Kraft think that people would get confused if they printed the truth on their web site, mebbe they just never gave the simple job of learning the truth to any of their researchers - who knows? At any rate, I've just told you much more than you'll learn from Kraft or from Wikipedia. I guess I'll head on over to Wikipedia and replace the myths the people have placed there with the truth when I'm done here.

Gene Mosher

I admit that by saying "high-end printer" I failed to convey precisely what printer segment I'm talking about. One good example of the category is Xerox Phaser 7750 Color Printer, model 7750/DXF. Currently offered at just below $10'000.

To check out the spec please go to: http://tinyurl.com/muhqf [http://www.direct.xerox.com]

First it mentiones that one of the supported print languages is PDF v1.4. You will be able to see that it has up to 1GB of memory and the CPU is most likely not below 500MHz. I'm confident that it carries a hard drive, again PDF can't be processed (linearized PDF permits you to only print the first page independently) until they are received in its entirety and a large file will require commensurate storage.

I believe that if Xerox invests time and money to build this product, there would be people who care to buy it.

Interpreting is normally the bottleneck. Postscript is extremely easy to parse (by design).

Structured Postscript allows you to render different pages in parallel. I don't know why you'd need to go much beyond that anytime soon, at least for printing purposes.

Imagine that you have to design a machine that renders rasters with a rate of 250 to 300 pages per minute. You will most likely demand a dual CPU board, plenty of memory and a hard drive. Efficient use of multiple CPUs would require parallel rendering. Postscript and PDF are not complicated languages but you have to balance the speed of interpreting with the process of feeding two hungry render beasts and keep CPU usage high. There will be a point where single interpreter will be unable to feed increasing number of parallel renders.

The evolition of printers is such that it delivers faster and faster engines, at one point a single threaded language interpreter will just not cut it. PDF is almost there, just it requires access to the end of the file before parallel interpreting can begin. Technically, XPS is a step forward, although probably for most of the people (home and small office users) it is irrelevant.

Fuel cells electrochemically convert fuel into electricity, without bothering with the awkward combustion process that dooms regular engines to inefficiency. The fuel that most currently workable fuel cells run on is hydrogen, which is a bit of a pain to store and transport. A device called a "reformer" can be used to convert methanol and water (much easier to store) into carbon dioxide and hydrogen, but reformer-based fuel cells aren't very efficient, and small models for portable electronic devices are less efficient still. "Direct methanol" fuel cells (DMFCs), on the other hand, run from un-reformed methanol. DMFCs are the things most likely to end up in your laptop or mobile phone. Learn more about fuel cells.

It is worth mentioning that the cable companies are employing the Hollywood-renowned legal representation of Ira Jewberg and Eli Kikenstein, attorneys at law.

I wrote an article about spooks and social networks a while back when I used to use Orkut... Many thought it was far fetched... Imagine that... Cached Article

I know it sounds stupid, but they have a metro area network fiber setup in some cities (especially former mediaone markets, i think) that is very, very nice and ethernet based. You'd get internet in increments from 5mbps-1gbps depending on how much you want to spend.

http://tinyurl.com/4db44

Their 'network' service also looks cool for distributed metro campus issues. One ethernet segment to interconnect multiple locations. They even support vlan trunking without having to harass them!

The difference between US [tinyurl.com] and China [tinyurl.com].

Not all censored if you know where to look

Here you got some dtrace scripts, direct from my firefox bookmarks.


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