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Pshaw. The new games are just as cool as ever.

You still can! And the best part is you don't even have to wait!

Madpenguin recently had a really good review of some of the new features in 6.0.6.

http://tinyurl.com/j3hyq

As shown in this penetration test study, the linux server does not blow up, despite very heavy black hat pounding. Now, can windows do this?

I for one would like to remind Phillips that the customer is always right. I also think they should learn about the Slashdot effect.

If you would like to join me, use the information below:

Terry Fassburg
Vice President
Brand Communications
Email: terry.fassburg@philips.com

http://www.feedback.philips.com/dedicated/news/
http://www.feedback.philips.com/consumer/?param1=N O_PRODUCT_SELECTED

To whom it may concern:

I have just learned about Phillips' recent application for a patent entitled "Apparatus and method for preventing switching from a channel during an advertisement display" numbered 20060070095.

I'm writing to inform you and your company that, due to this patent, I have decided never to purchase a Phillips product again. While my family and I have bought many Phillips products in the past, we feel that this patent serves only to hinder my enjoyment of television programming.

For your reference, I have found useful information at the following Web locations:
http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/04/ 18/2032219
http://www.newscientisttech.com/article/dn9011-inv ention-the-tvadvert-enforcer.html
http://tinyurl.com/ostqn
Regards,

-- Ghodmode

Note: many people think that there is an anti-Microsoft bias among Slashdot moderators. This comment, however, is proof *) to the contrary: Although it points out Microsoft's lack of security, it will be modded down!

*) Note to the nitpickers: technically, it's not proof. Just another data point. In addition to all the others!

All you have to do is check out his blog? Some of his posts (e.g http://tinyurl.com/rr4cs) have mentioned this.

-JH

Article fixed for link...
Sun has also set up a test server for users to play with."

A thirst for knowledge

"Just who would want to vandalise an entry on cheese?" wonders Skip, a Wikipedia administrator. Watching the online encyclopaedia's raw submission queue in real time can be unnerving. The online reference site that anyone can edit is defaced 20 times a minute and cheese, it seems, is one of the most popular targets for creative embellishment.

In the administrator's console, another fresh article - Wikipedia has more than a million now - scrolls past: "James is my fren," it reads in its entirety.

Robert McHenry, a former editor-in-chief of Encyclopaedia Britannica, has described Wikipedia as "a game without consequences". BBC Radio 1's afternoon DJs recently took turns to deface each other's entries live on air. MPs have joined in, too. But as Skip begins to guide me through the arcane and often Kafkaesque bureaucracy of Wikipedia, vandalism starts to look like the least of its problems.

Skip isn't his real name or his Wikipedia identity. It's a pseudonym the 30-year-old Silicon Valley IT professional uses as he documents the inner machinations of the project, along with a dozen other Wikipedia administrators, on a site called WikiTruth (www.wikitruth.info).

Wikipedia, endlessly replicated on the web, is one example of a glut of hazy information, the consequences of which we have barely begun to explore, that the internet has made endlessly available. Is Wikipedia really the best the net can offer - and if it isn't, where should we be looking for the answers?

While plenty of people nurse resentments against Wikipedia, having failed to win a consensus for their views, Skip's colleagues at WikiTruth have a different motivation. Branding themselves the true keepers of the flame, they argue Wikipedia's wounds are self-inflicted and unnecessary.

When the business author Nicholas Carr identified last October a typically banal Wikipedia entry (http://tinyurl.com/8mr5x), he prompted a rare admission. Wikipedia's co-founder and site owner Jimmy Wales agreed, calling the examples Carr cited "horrific crap". Yet these articles were mature, Carr pointed out, and had been edited hundreds of times. Might the mass participation be hurting, not helping?

Gradual deterioration

This gradual deterioration afflicts any utopian online space, and Skip ruefully notes even the best Wikipedia work - its catalogue of featured articles of the week - degenerates once out of the spotlight.

That isn't true, of course, of printed work such as Britannica's entries. But the encyclopaedia company has been hit hard, first by the arrival of CD-Rom-based rivals such as Microsoft's Encarta in 1993, and then the net. In 1996 it laid off its door-to-door sales staff. In 1999 it launched a website. The rise of Wikipedia as an "online encyclopaedia" has added to the pressure.

Now, though, Britannica has been taking the offensive. The company strongly rebutted a study conducted by journalists at Nature magazine that compared Wikipedia favourably to Britannica, and which was accompanied by an editorial plea for the scientific community to contribute to the project. The study blind-tested extracts from each site with experts, and was widely reported as showing them to be of comparable quality. "It should have said 31% less reliable and worse written," McHenry says of the Nature study. Britannica, meanwhile, says the study was biased towards Wikipedia. "It's offensive to lump these gross offences against publishing with a typo in Britannica," says its executive editor Theodore Pappas.

Britannica said Nature cited passages not in the encyclopedia and criticised it for refusing to publish the referees' reports. Nature says it stands by its report and can't release the full reports for confidentiality reasons.

Nature's news editor Jim Giles denies the journal had identified itself closely in the Wikipedia camp. "Each has its merits," he says. "In our editorial, we simply argued that Wikipedia has potential and sci

Oops, looks like Slashcode can't handle archive.org links. Here's one to tinyurl.

The fact is that corporations are a product of the state and could not exist in a free market
You do realize that even a free market could not exist without the government defining property (and by extension intellectual property) ownership? And how about contract law? Oh, I got it! You are talking about a barter system! I'm with you now!

Banking, insurance and language were not created or helped in any way by the state and intervention by the state invariably has negative consequence
Yeah, I miss the good old days where banks were owned and operated independantly so if a bank over extended themselves via loans and went belly-up all their customers would be screwed due to their mismanagement. Curse the FDIC! We all know that CEO/CFO/etc are paragons of virtue if only they did not have pesky auditors checking their books and wasting their time. Why Worldcomm, ENRON and their compatriots might still be with us today if it were not for government meddling!

Though I have to admit I have no idea where you were going with that "language" bit.

the UK state intervention in the insurance and pension industries has done nothing but cause problems
Yup - as soon as Prime Minister Thatcher moved to have their pension system privatized in 1984, it has been a new era of wealth and prosperity for the UK's retirees. Ignore those liars that say that the fees and charges have eaten an average of 30% of the savings accounts. Also ignore that the UK is now looking to the USA's social security program for their new model to get things back on track. More such lies can be found here: http://tinyurl.com/424r4/

It is totaly wrong to blame capitalism for major corporations. They are entities of the state.
If by that you mean legal fictions that can own property, then yes. But then so are companies and most any other institution.

First of all, if you have a windows xp licence (to be nice and legal ;) then torrent a copy of TinyXP. Its a customised version of XP which someone has put together which doesn't come with Internet Exploder or any of the usual windows junk that you would want to get rid of anyway, but does come with some very useful freeware software packages (many of which I hadn't even heard of previously)

Torrent here: http://thepiratebay.org/details.php?id=3437080

Ok, on to software, in no particular order:

-Firefox, plus tabmix extension
-Thunderbird (mail)
-Putty (SSH client)
-Notepad 2
-Lavasoft Adaware SE
-Hijackthis
-AVAST antivirus or AVG antivirus (both are good in my experience)
-K-Lite Codec pack: all the codecs you'll ever need including quicktime (home.hccnet.nl/h.edskes/mirror.htm)
-eMule (p2p)
-Trillian (multi IM client)
-Gmail notifier (if applicable)
-'Royale' XP theme (http://tinyurl.com/6vwkz)
-7-Zip (handles most common archives and is fast, light, open)
-Look 'n Stop firewall (not free but damn good)
-Winamp
-OpenOffice
-K!TV (Tv viewing)
-Paint.NET (replaces mspaint, free, open, powerful,)
-DVDshrink (fit that pesky >4.5gb dvd vid onto a single layer dvd)
-DVD decrypter (rip, decyrpt and burn dvds)

Hope that helps. Maybe you'll even switch away from MAC OSX :P

--Onymous Hero

That should get you going....

We all know the real reason America is winning the war in Iraq.

http://tinyurl.com/r2t8q

But on a more serious note, check out this video footage of new age technology

http://media2.foxnews.com/040606/040606_fr_tobin_3 00.swf

The Attorney General for the State of Oklahoma, an Internet service provider or software company that expends resources in good faith assisting authorized users harmed by a violation of the Computer Spyware Protection Act, or a trademark owner whose mark is used to deceive authorized users in violation of this act, may bring a civil action against a person who violates any provision of this act to recover actual damages, liquidated damages of at least One Thousand Dollars ($1,000.00) per violation of the act, not to exceed One Million Dollars ($1,000,000.00) for a pattern or practice of such violations, attorney fees, and costs.

One thing that is not very clear to me is what kind of domains are them, as I've read in newspapers this two variants, and related webs don't make it clear:

* www.domain.country.eu (crap!)
* www.domain.eu (a lot more interesting).

Wich is the correct?


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And it's patent pending....

http://tinyurl.com/rl2jn

He has published many semi-interesting essays in Hackers and Painters: Big Ideas from the Computer Age. I am not sure I fully agree with his ideas on patents. Most of his stuff is fairly pendantic and if you want a sampling, just go read his articles online.

The Reuters piece is a little scant on context. In a fit of shameless self-promotion, here's a piece I wrote for BW.com (http://tinyurl.com/n8dks). The work is indeed from Belcher's group at MIT.

With Redhat being pretty much the leader in the corporate Linux world, this will hurt Oracle and boost JBoss... it's time for me to start reading up on JBoss. Could this be the start of the re-emergence of Java technologies at the forefront?

So that we can program our webservers to feed them appropriate content

http://tinyurl.com/qhhqm

Tool: Victorinox Swisstool
Wristwatch Computer: Suunto x9i
Media Player: iRiver H10
Cell phone: Sony Ericsson K800/K790
Notebook...

Wow-- talk about a quickly released download-- they haven't even shot it yet! http://tinyurl.com/p58qk

You can read about his experiences here

http://tinyurl.com/lc43c

I just want to read the article, it seems to keep linking to other links. I think that it's broken. Anybody got any suggestions??

http://tinyurl.com/cqp2z like
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hahaha admit it, you feel for that
TinyURL FTW

Surprisingly few of our Defense Contractors' engineers are actually qualified pilots. That's why our DC ANG F-16 pilots complain that the F-16 is an airplane "designed by engineers, not pilots." That's why Lockheed had to pay so much money to the wives of German fighter pilots after the F-104 fighter failed so miserably as to break up under stress. (Our own government didn't do anything extra for the US F-104 widows.)

The Boeing B-1 Lancer was a good plane when they designed it, but the engineers then overloaded with so much gear that they either stall on climb or go into an unrecoverable dive. Naturally, the Reagan DoD claimed we needed the B-1 to win the Cold War. I guess that's why they're still flying B-52s.

Pointing to a DoD press release doesn't help your case, and neither do ad-hominem attacks, (to which I shall never stoop). This is the same DoD that claimed we had a missile gap in 1960, that East Germany had a higher standard of living than West Germany in the 1980s, and that we're winning the war in Iraq. The first version of the M-1 tank couldn't even shoot and move at the same time. The Bradley Fighting Vehicle? Another triumph of military engineering so great they had to make a movie about it.

The Moab desert robot drive challenge was successfully completed only last year. AI isn't as advanced as you might think. UAVs certainly do NOT have to follow all the rules of passenger aircraft under Parts 61, 91, 141 or 142 of FAA regulations. When UAVs fly, the FAA issues a NOTAM and restricts the airspace around it so no airplanes with humans on board fly anywhere near them. A surprisingly large amount of U.S. airspace is restricted, including most of the airspace over Nevada, for instance. Thus, the military and defense contractors get whatever exemptions they want from civil airspace rules. Don't believe me? Fly over Area 51 and see what happens.

The FAA controllers regularly complain about military bozos who want to restrict all US airspace to military traffic only. After 9/11, the Pentagon almost seized Washington's Reagan National airport and were stopped only when members of Congress figured out how long it would take them to drive to other airports.

Those of you who are ready to fly in airliners piloted by AI should:
1) take a class in AI
2) get a pilot's license, or at least take a flight lesson.
I have done both (not at MIT, though), and those designing these aircraft, for the most part, have not.

The main point of this is, don't believe everything you read in a press release.

Phillips has a 26" widescreen TV that is HD-ready for $259: http://tinyurl.com/zkpto [links through to Froogle]

Too bad The Dialectizer throws up an interstitial page when you provide a dialectized page.

I've got a better one to send his way.

You know he deserves it.

Email him a tinyurl warning him that Tuttle's site has been coopted by an outside suspect, likely terrorist-affiliated organization.

You wouldn't be refering to Petey Hoekstra, who just last July participated in a secret Parisian ménage à trois with Congressman Curt '007' Weldon, and an agent of known prevaricator, and conman to the reagancomics, Manucher Ghorbanifar?

House Intelligence Committee chairman Rep. Peter Hoekstra and Rep. Curt Weldon met secretly in Europe last week with an Iranian exile who CIA officials charge has passed worthless or bogus intelligence to the United States, current and former U.S. government officials said.

The Paris meeting appears to be the latest in a string of incidents in which players outside the intelligence community try to affect American foreign policy by highlighting threats that the CIA and other agencies find dubious.

[. . .]

Weldon, R-Pa., claims in a new book that the Iranian exile, whom he calls "Ali," told him of dramatic Iranian-sponsored terrorist plots against the United States.

But the CIA says that it has wasted hundreds of hours checking the claims of Ali - whose real name is Fereidoun Mahdavi - and that they are a mix of fabrications and embellishments of press reports, according to a letter from the CIA to Weldon.

The meeting was disclosed by current and former U.S. officials who requested anonymity because they said they did not want to anger Weldon or Hoekstra.

Mahdavi is a longtime associate of Iranian arms merchant Manucher Ghorbanifar, the officials say. Ghorbanifar, a key figure in the 1980s Iran-Contra scandal, has had two CIA "burn notices" issued on him, meaning agency officers are not to deal with him.

Warren P. Strobel, "Lawmakers met with Iranian exile scrutinized over intelligence", Knight Ridder Newspapers, July 20, 2005

The same Hoekstra who was part of the GOP House leadership that greenlighted LtCol Anthony Shaffer's motor mouth?

House Republican leaders approved in advance plans by a military intelligence official to go public with details of a top-secret Pentagon project code-named Able Danger.

Army Reserve Lt. Col. Tony Shaffer says the data-mining project identified Mohamed Atta and three of the other September 11 hijackers as members of an al Qaeda cell more than a year before the attacks.

"I spoke personally to Denny Hastert and to Pete Hoekstra," Col. Shaffer said. Mr. Hastert, Illinois Republican, is speaker of the House, and Mr. Hoekstra, Michigan Republican, is chairman of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence.

"I was given assurances by [them] that this was the right thing to do. ... I was given assurances we would not suffer any adverse consequences for bringing this to the attention of the public," Col. Shaffer said.

Shaun Waterman, Colonel got permission to disclose pre-9/11 data", UPI/WashTimes, August 22, 2005

That's right citizens, move along...nothing to see here...Congressman Hoekstra is on it...

I'd like to put in a plug for Russel Hoban's Riddley Walker , while we're on the subjectof SF literary masterpieces. It's interesting that the literary establishment, which tends to scorn SF (not without reason - most of it really is rubbish), will still take to heart a 'serious' writer who strays into the genre. Even Nabokov wrote SF, but while detective stories can get reviewed in the heavyweight papers, SF is still routinely ignored.

Sorry; I must admit a little knowledge of (non-USA) geography is useful here. Add a little history for flavour.

There is the slight issue of natural gas & oil resources in the Caspian Sea, bordering on Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan and Azerbaijan. A pipeline through Afghanistan is the shortest route to get that oil to more civilized, democracy-loving nations.

Efforts to revive the trans-Afghanistan pipeline began soon after the U.S. incursion into that country. The pipeline from Turkmenistan to Pakistan was first discussed in the late-1990s, with a consortium led by Unocal pushing the project.

Hamed Karzai worked as a consultant for the huge US oil group Unocal, which had supported the Taleban movement and sought to construct a pipeline to transport oil and gas from the Islamic republics of Central Asia to Pakistan via Afghanistan. He is now president in Afghanistan.

Vice President Cheney was Chairman and Chief Executive of Dallas based Halliburton Corporation, the world's largest oil field services company with multi-billion dollar contracts with oil corporations including Chevron. Halliburton's global network of investments includes projects in politically volatile areas including the Caspian Sea region. Dick Cheney was instrumental in negotiating a Caspian Sea pipeline for Chevron. The Bush Administration declared war in Afghanistan, not necessarily to combat terrorism, but to make it possible for U.S. oil interests to construct gas and oil pipelines from the Caspian Sea through Afghanistan to Pakistani harbors on the Indian Ocean

From 1989 to 1992 National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice was on the board of directors of Chevron, and was its main expert on Kazakhstan.

Even Bush himself is rumoured to have some connections to oil... (though never very succesfully)

It's a brand new hole!


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I really like the idea behind this Sun's project (network.com? I'm sure it was not cheap to get that domain). It even makes me wanna install JBuilder or something by the way and program in Java again.


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Will they allow to use those 100Mb to store files to be linked and served from free hosted pages in other servers?


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That may very well be the most aweful, ugly minivan I've ever seen.

This story comes right after the release of Armagetron Advanced 0.2.8.0. They have rpm (x86), autopackage (x86), autopackage (x86_64), dmg (ppc-OSX), and Windows binary versions (and source code, of course). I easily installed the Autopackage on my Debian Sid (I wish more project released autopackages). Play it for a while, IMO it's the best lightcycle game around.

http://www.armagetronad.net/downloads.php

(BTW, an old /. post linked to this http://tinyurl.com/8g6pz picture from Kingdom Hearts 2 featuring a Tron character next to Donald Duck. Hey, Tron's Disney after all ;-) )

Andûr

* FAA.
* RTOS


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Here's the answer. http://tinyurl.com/nu4vx

First one to the patent office wins!

Or forget the book and just go into business spamming slashdot:

http://tinyurl.com/nw5df

I say thumbs up to the State of New Hampshire for refusing to go along with the Real ID Act of 2005. Unfortunately, NH is a small state that the Federal Gov't can easily ignore their citizens. If one of the heavily populated states such as California, New York, Texas decide not to go along and are defiant towards the Federal Gov't like NH, the house made from the deck of cards known as the Real ID Act will come tumbling down.

One of the most onerous provisions of the Real ID Act is requiring states to electronically link their driver databases. I don't know how extensive this will be. The worst case scenario is another state can add violations to a different state's driver's record. Best case would be states can access other states records on a "read only" basis. One of the biggest pitfalls are states with very strong privacy laws can be accessed from states with weak privacy laws. The strong privacy laws are no good ! The original language of the act required states to join an international compact known as the Driver License Agreement (DLA) which would not only other states can access your state's records but also foreign countries starting with Canada and Mexico. The foreign countries do not even have to comply with the Driver Privacy protection Act. If I was a stalker and I was interested in finding a certain person who went through all steps to protect themselves such as with unlisted phone numbers, I can go to Mexico, pay off a corrupt official (easy to find) to get the given information.

The author of the Real ID Act of 2005 was Francis James Sensenbrenner, Jr. of Wisconsin. An interesting item about him, he bullies people to get his way and does not take kindly to people who dare to disagree with him ! When it was time for people to testify against the PATRIOT Act, he got up, walked out of the hearing room, turned off the microphones. He acted like the Democrats. With his arrogance, he is not fit to be Congressman. Even though I am a Libertarian who usually votes Republican, I am having thoughts of giving money to his Democrat opponent.

This law was passed through the most underhanded ways. It was attached to a must pass appropriations bill. It would have never passed the Senate as a standalone bill. When the standalone bill was assigned to the Senate Judiciary Committee, it was not given a hearing. The Real ID Act was also included in the House provisions of the Intel Reform bill that was later removed and passed at the end of 2004 in the 108th Congress.

The best way to get rid of this law is to tell people and get them pissed off enough to where they raise hell with their Congressman and demand a repeal.

Also a heads up, the DLA provision that didn't make the Real ID Act, it is included in the immigration bill under the Scott Gardner Act. Contact your Congressman. Raise hell about this DLA in the immigration bill and raise hell about the Real ID Act and politely & diplomatically tell him how much it stinks !

Lastly, not many people remember back in 2001, the CEO of Oracle, Lawrence Ellison mentioned that it is time for a National ID card here in the US. At the time, there were more congressman with common sense that put a kibosh on this like Rep. Dick Armey, Rep. Bob Barr who no longer are members of Congress. This leaves a question, how much lobbying money did Larry Ellison put in to get this asinine law passed.

Mandrake was my distro of choice before seeing the Light and converting to Debian, and I remember that it was a great distribution... but somewhere they lost the path and starting falling to the ground: the LG drives fiasco, the name change, the bloat, the battle with Ubuntu for the easy-to-use-linux crown...

Maybe Gael has now the oportunity to create from zero a great new distribution without the inherents problems of Mandrake/Mandriva!

I sincerely hope so.


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Someone already did that, it's called Scientology.
http://tinyurl.com/z8xc2

Maybe almost everybody in the US who could be interested in having an access to the net does have it already, so is logic to think that the percentage of internet users in the US will rise with the time, but slower every year.


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I'd say it works http://tinyurl.com/mzcs8

Human nature tells us that an individual can't possibly make a decision against what he sees as his best interests

I guess some people never studied human nature.

Looks like a very cool home server, but it lacks a second network card, like the MacMini.


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Hosted on archive.org...

(Used tinyurl cause /. ate the link)