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In Mr. Stallman's view, proprietary software is an unwarranted restriction on the freedom of information. The revision of the G.P.L., he said, is "part of something bigger - part of the long-term effort to liberate cyberspace." Software patents, he said, are "utterly insane."

For Microsoft's part, Steven A. Ballmer, its chief executive, has called the G.P.L. a "cancer."

Yet in his way, Mr. Stallman is also quite pragmatic. Proprietary software applications can run on Linux without restrictions, which is important for the survival of Linux as a viable alternative to commercial operating systems.

I have spent quite a bit of time on Glide Effortless, and have released a review on the day of its release 48 hours ago. I have received a 1.5 hrs live demo from them and have audio interviewed Donald Leka CEO of the company. As I have extensively written in my own article at http://tinyurl.com/e3g2z, this is really just an overly ambitious project, with, in my opinion, little solid foundation in terms of true seamless integration, true benefits for the final user, and more than anything with a failed understanding of how an online product must be marketed and sold today. Yes, I do acknowledge that their buzz campaign has been phenomenal, to the point that my trust and respect for both the New York Times and Slashdot, which has covered twice this story, has fastly decreased. With all the real good work out there, I really wonder what kind of friends and contacts this Transmedia corporation has to get all of this coverage for a tool that if you had to use today, would fall short on most any front.

So, Mr. Ford, how's it hangin'?

Cheers,

b&

From TFA:

The problem is that Intel seems to have changed sockets once more, meaning that Yonah is not backwards compatible with the original Pentium M socket.

Cool... no.

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on globeandmail.com - they call it "join the conversation".

Rego required though :D

Example: today's most commented on story -
http://tinyurl.com/dee93

I've written you a rather lengthy reply but have to leave out, take my son for a doctor's appointment. I'll post it here in entirety later. It was too long for one post so I have to break it up & am out of time. Til then you may want to view this page: http://tinyurl.com/awz9x where I've adapted an old idea for a new use. I appreciated your Comment & you will receive a complete answer to the issues you raised.

No, it's still twenty-six.

Just like when you register now: You check [x].com [x].net .... and you've got multiple TLDs covered with a single registration.


Is anyone keeping score as to how many stories Carl Fogle has posted?


The requirements for techncial jobs are becoming stiffer.

(Regardless of party) I remember seeing a mayor of one town|city who was notified his house was a pancake. He got a ride there, looked at it, then went back to work. He said his personal interests were secondary to the job he'd been hired to perform and he'd return to deal with his house & possessions when everyone else was taken care of.

I really don't care which party chooses to assign those qualities to their members, having someone like that taking care of their constituents is enough to make everyone wait in line to vote for hours if there's a single voting machine just to make sure they remain in office.

Aside from a few exceptions and having connections with people who have been elevated to the federal level, most party affiliations have little to do with one's abilities and outlook, let alone what kind of job they do until they get to at least the state level (Governor or State Legislature, regardless of which House).

What I do have concerns about is paying for people who live in Hurricane Alley and want someone [else] to pay to rebuild, pay to rebuild, pay to rebuild, pay to rebuild, pay to rebuild...pivot! pivot! pivot! (Friends) the news keeps referring to insurance companies or the Federal Gov't. Either way, it's everyone else paying. Individuals pay the insurance premiums which are used to cover other people and the Federal Gov't is funded by individuals paying taxes. I live in an area which is a reasonably large magnet for tornadoes. If my house is flattened more than once, I think I'm going to get the hint it's time to reexamine my living situation. The attitude of, "This is where I want to live and if it's interrupted for any reason, someone's going to pay to restore it so I'm happy." is a bit more than I can stomach and I don't know that the family-sized bottle of Pepto is going to alleviate that. I also live in an area where prior to purchasing a house, you are required to check to see if you live in a flood plane and you're made aware of where you stand financially (insurance-wise) as a result. I've got news for the people of the South: you live in a flood plane. If your insurance premiums were made to properly reflect this, kwitcherbitchin'. It's the price you pay for living in a warm place year 'round. I live in a place which has four seasons each year. And there's a price to be paid for that and I pay it.
Last night, the NBC National News said some of the larger insurance companies are dropping people who live in areas affected by certain types of weather - I believe they were referring to locations where make sure you've got hip waders handy four or five times each year. The only problem with that is the gov't is then expected to bail them out. Either way, someone else pays for their lifestyle.

As far as the poor who are suffering, a lot of people have been presented with opportunities to live in other locations with a decent period (multiple months) of rent or mortgage amnesty to permit them to set their lives up with the donations of goods and permit them to find a job.

This may be apocryphal, but it's been said one guy was shown a trailer for temporary housing and when he asked where the tv was, he was told there wasn't one, so he refused the housing. That sounds a little too fishy to be true, but if it is [true], then someone (him) needs to wait in line for an attitude adjustment with a 2x4.


Required skills for job applicants are are getting stiffer

It's been in the works for over a decade now, with no deployment in sight.

When Michael Bay declines your project for reasons of artistic integrity

What's the problem with Michael Bay? Let me see.

# Armageddon (1998)
# Pearl Harbor (2001)
# Bad Boys II (2003)
# The Island (2005)

Oh, now I understand...
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http://www.newpath4.com/millenialdawnpowerandlight secure21.htm
& http://www.newpath4.com/enginewow.htm

even tackling the Weather Forecast for Washington D.C. : http://www.newpath4.com/WorldwideClimateEngineMsg. htm

the hits to my website increasing 1,000% from Great Britain/Ireland, 700% from Canadian movie studios, 500% from French brothels, 300% from China's sweatshop factories... in just 2 weeks since November 16 2005. OK, 11 days.

To make an efficient engine a certain amount of dieseling is healthy.

Instead of controlling an engine, purposely design it to Run Out of Control then figure ways to hold it back. Also, if transmissions/clutches or drive shafts was designed to slip when going downhill we wouldn't be in this mess now. A car or truck's weight should be doing Work from being acted on by gravity. As it is, the engine is being used to hold the vehicle back instead of

IDLING-DOWN WHILE DRIFTING DOWNHILL!

Even a hybrid would get better mileage with a drifting-&-brake regeneration system. My 2003 steam-air engine LN2000 combination solution accomplishes sonufusion (defined by Dr. Taleyarkhan of Purdue University in 2002). Links to his News announcements are on the enginewow page. Read what he said then compare it to what I did without his help. He said a desktop-sized power source was probable. Well, I made two engines to work like that. He called it a type of fusion. My engines don't combust any fuel so no by-product pollution, not even water. The reason no pollution is because there isn't any wasted energy!

The United States shells out $17,000,000,000,000.00 annually medicating, doctoring, hospitalizing, triaging & surgerying people poisoned to death by our own engines

*BY OUR OWN ENGINES*

so when we fix the engines we give ourselves

a $17,000,000,000,000.00 raise increase

gradually growing over the next 20+ years to total

$340,000,000,000,000.00.

Tell me we can't afford industrial retooling. Tell me 48,000,000 Americans can't have plenty health/dental care @reasonable cost. Changing the engines makes Americans healthier, naturally reducing the Cost of Medical & Hospital Care. We send $55,000,000,000.00 out of American's pockets each year to purchase crude oil (another $1,100,000,000,000.00). Why, wouldn't that mean a lowcost home for every American family? How much are we spending in Iraq? The climate is changing for the better if we let it

Sonofusion: http://tinyurl.com/exp99 &

http://www.newpath4.com/WorldwideClimateEngineMsg. htm .

Saved: $341,100,000,000,000.00 over
20 years, switching to the new engine designs.

Bush has more than a smartcar to be thinking about: http://tinyurl.com/exp99 / http://www.newpath4.com/enginewow.htm . Then there's the End of the World Engine: http://www.newpath4.com/millenialdawnpowerandlight secure21.htm . The first runs on water & air & the 2nd doesn't use any fuel at all. Looks like going to be a Jerry lee Lewis moment coming soon, a whole lot of shaking going on, is all I have to say about that. mailto:Good7Riddance7toAll7Creosote7Engines777@new path4.com for autoresponder.

Nazisnazzy. It's always the Simple $%&* that trips you up. http://tinyurl.com/apgku

If you're afraid of the unknown, maybe you should do a Google search on the subject!

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I've played city of heroes for about 6 - 7 months now, gotten a character to level 43 of 50, another to 18 and a few more low level alternate characters.
From the time I joined, in each and every issue they have been reducing the power of the Heroes. Issue 5 was perhaps the largest single reduction in power in a game beside SWG. Defense for heroes were reduced by as much as 60% in some cases.Issue 5 altered the playstyle of the entire game, and we as players were told that

1) It was better for us
2) It was how the game was always meant to be played by the development team
3) There would be no more power changes after Issue 5, they were happy with the way things were.

Then came Issue 6.
Previously you could slot 6 enhancements in a power, and boost your power by near 200%. So you could get say 200% more damage, enabling you to tackle higher level opponents in the case of stronger character classes,or enable you to survive in a group facing +2 level opponents in the case of weaker character classes. The system was altered in Issue 6 so that you could not use more than 3 enhancements of the same type in a power. So the boost was cut from 200% to 95%. Understand, this affected EVERY single power in the game. If your 6 slotted heal was healing for 3000 before, your 3 slotted heal now heals for 1950 now. THe monsters have stayed the same, or in some cases made more difficult.

Now recall the points above, the final statement issued by develoers/CSR was that There would be no more power changes After Issue 5. Issue 6 introduced this "Enhancement Diversification" which had the final result of reducing all powers, again.

The words from the developers were that they had this working since May 2005, and were just waiting on the right time to introduce it, that Issue 5 had been totally balanced with this change in mind.

And this was the way the game was meant to be played.

Questions by an incredulous player population as to why it took over a year and a half after its release for the game to be changed to 'how it was meant to be played' have not been answered by the CSRs.Of course it also means that those game journalists that gave the game stunning reviews were actually not playing the game 'The way it was meant to be played'.

There was an outcry over Issue 5 (Though most were able to adapt and enjoy it) and now Issue 6. There have been long threads on the official message forums, some of which have never gotten a developer response. You would expect, if you believe the spin from this interview with the NCSoft CSR, that we the paying customers would get a response,even if someone responds with a Negative, "We hear what you're saying, but we are not going to change anything at this time because..." for threads that have been running for months with over 6000 views and hundreds of responses, and several PMs to the message board CSR,especially since the subscriber base and board population of CoH is nothing close to the larger MMORPGs. Less people to deal with, should enable quicker responses and a closer community. Each Archetype for CoH has only just gotten a dedicated CSR point of contact, and some are more active than others in responding to player questions and queries.

I'm opinionated and quite vocal (what? you couldn't tell ? ;-) )when I feel passionately about my hobby, and I must say that I really got into CoH (Truly it has no competition in the Superhero Genre) even going so far as to write up an extensive guide for other players (with graphs, a true geek moment ack *_* http://tinyurl.com/bzb7m) .So I participated in a lot of these threads.I was going to post a link to the Issue 5 thread as an example, but I see it has been deleted so here's another example:

Another issue is that City of Heroes hides the numbers behind the game. The game uses words like Moderate, Slow,Long to describe powers. However people have accurately checked the numbers using 3rd party stats gathering soft

http://tinyurl.com/72rs5 I think it's good, and the extension is necessary, but the standard should be well-designed.

I don't know why, but it makes me happy that a few bands are embracing the MP3 concept. First band I heard of doing this was Wizohttp://www.wizo.de/. You can get their "Stick-EP" here: http://tinyurl.com/az6el. I think I heard another band did this before them, but I can't remember who it was.

Nobody else reads HT and thinks of Hyper Threading?

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There are better games around. http://tinyurl.com/7hfl9

You really should check voipbuster, wich allow free calls to land lines in these countries: Austria, Denmark, Finland, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Norway, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland and United States.

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Push comes to shove soon. I just released my last engine to the Internet: http://www.newpath4.com/millenialdawnpowerandlight secure21.htm . We will soon see which wins out, "Free Energy" or sockXXXholder profits er stockholder profits. I announced my engine from February to October 2005, told everyone what I had was going to change the World. I hope they listened. I encouraged that new laws be written to protect stockholders from the impact of a new technology. I tried to keep from hurting anyone. Now da cat's outta da bag and I guess no matter how hard I tried to protect them they'll soon be screaming bloody murder. Well, it was a toss up; stockholders of old technologies vs new babies being genetically damaged from hydrocarbon/lead/etc permeation. The world was able to ignore my previous engine: http://www.newpath4.com/enginewow.htm but I doubt it will ignore a waterwheel that sets up its own matter stream & can go ANYWHERE. http://tinyurl.com/7aaca .

Hope my post is acceptable:

http://tinyurl.com/8bo77

Regenerative braking uses no friction. It doesn't matter the weight of the vehicle except for braking distance. Say it with me, "no friction equals no wear". Brake pads only get used at < 8mph (for a Prius), or in emergency braking.

Where do you support that hybrid weighs more than another vehicle in the same class, because a Prius sure weighs less than the similarly sized Camry and Accord.

Load-sharing with a lighter-engine with less mass to accelerate sure sounds like a win-win to me.

... the SQL Server product that's still riddled with security holes so enormous that you could ram a telegraph pole through?

Seriously guys, what is the use of allowing a script to submit two separate SQL statements in one batch?

I think the guy who wrote this page: http://www.newpath4.com/enginewow.htm , which is a car engine that uses a sound wave implosion/explosion (sonofusion where the heated steam molecules implode AND the cold droplets of compressed air explodes -into the implosion vacuum- slamming the pistons) inside a closed engine cylinder, is the most likely candidate for the one who will come forth with anti-gravity. In fact, I believe he has. But, since it looks a lot like perpetual motion, attempting to obtain a Patent would be a waste of money. Which is GREAT since I oops I mean he doesn't have any. http://tinyurl.com/7aaca .

> Why not find the names of the individual programmers who coded these
> rootkits, and make sure they're unable to ever get a job ever again?

Here is the patent application for the F4I DRM rootkit:
http://tinyurl.com/9vt5v

The patent was filed by:
Miles, Anthony; (Banbury, GB)

You succeeded in making me feel very small. http://tinyurl.com/7aaca . I feel like I'm in my own dimension. http://tinyurl.com/eyf8b . Perhaps with some extra effort, I could EVOLVE. http://tinyurl.com/cyqph . Maybe I should join everyone else, start praying someone (else) comes up with an honest-to-goodness MANHATTAN PROJECT 2005. http://www.newpath4.com/01manhattanproject20056789 fromnewpath410302005.htm .

You succeeded in making me feel very small. http://tinyurl.com/7aaca . I feel like I'm in my own dimension. http://tinyurl.com/eyf8b . Perhaps with some extra effort, I could EVOLVE. http://tinyurl.com/cyqph . Maybe I should join everyone else, start praying someone (else) comes up with an honest-to-goodness MANHATTAN PROJECT 2005. http://www.newpath4.com/01manhattanproject20056789 fromnewpath410302005.htm .

You succeeded in making me feel very small. http://tinyurl.com/7aaca . I feel like I'm in my own dimension. http://tinyurl.com/eyf8b . Perhaps with some extra effort, I could EVOLVE. http://tinyurl.com/cyqph . Maybe I should join everyone else, start praying someone (else) comes up with an honest-to-goodness MANHATTAN PROJECT 2005. http://www.newpath4.com/01manhattanproject20056789 fromnewpath410302005.htm .

Tiny url now has a preview feature so that you get a shot at seeing the final link before visiting. http://tinyurl.com/preview.php

Try here:

http://tinyurl.com/cl4qa/

The standard site about AJAX is here.

Not much more needs to be said about this "new" crap-technology.

HTTP-standard? Compatibility? Fuck, I'm a clueless webwhore, I don't need your to understand how it works, I just write purrrdy Javascript that is all new and cool and such!

Another tidbit of information .....

I believe this is the patent application for the rootkit DRM:
http://tinyurl.com/9vt5v

Have a look at the "Supervisory Program" in section [0047]

Prefbar (configure settings in Web browsers), FilterSet.G for Adblock (and Plus) [more ad strings to block and always updated by the author -- can send in requests), and TinyURL Creator (duh, make tiny urls. I use these in Mozilla suite, not Firefox.

besides many already mentioned, like adblock (with filterset.g updater), copy plain text, user agent switcher, etc..

http://bookmarkshome.mozdev.org/
creates a nice start page with your bookmarks (and live bookmarks)

https://addons.mozilla.org/extensions/moreinfo.php ?id=82
cookie culler (better cookie management)

https://addons.mozilla.org/extensions/moreinfo.php ?id=253
magpie (media leecher)

https://addons.mozilla.org/extensions/moreinfo.php ?id=827
dnsstuff.com toolbar (easy access to network tools)

and not an extension, but very handy..
http://tinyurl.com/ bookmarklet

Just because they have a patent doesn't mean they are going to use it. Nobody at Sony would be stupid enough to implement this on the PS3.

They didn't hesitate with the DRM crud they foisted . . .. .

Here is the First4Internet patent application for Sonys DRM:
http://tinyurl.com/ce4qh

Section [0047] talks about their rootkit^h^h^h^h^h^h^h . .. I mean
"supervisory program" . .. .

An oldies but still goodies ;-)

http://tinyurl.com/9umok

Duke rulez :P

Click this link

This is your programming background, but you know everything Bill and company don't?

That's almost as sad as this http://tinyurl.com/bqm2c (nothing bad)

http://tinyurl.com/9v43q (babelfish already entered) screenshot article in jpg het gaat over de fotos geloof ik..

"In this house we obey the laws of thermodynamics!"

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Indeed, this is correct. Read more about it here.

Here is an opinion on possible cause of Novell's decision:

http://tinyurl.com/bslfu

The Ethics of Data Brokers

The submitter poses an interesting question, but forgot to include a link where the answer can be found. Here it is.

That's why the latest encryption software includes hidden encrypted containers INSIDE encrypted containers that cannot be distinguished from random sectors - it simply appears as unallocated drive space inside the container. Because space inside an ecrypted container is never "zero'ed-out", and still contains random characters, there's no way of discovering the container (it's not necessarily contigious sectors/blocks).

When said operative starts working you over, you hold out as long as you can, then give them the password to the encrypted outer container so they can get inside and see some "moderately incriminating" evidence but hopefully nothing they'll kill or imprison you permanently for. But there's no way they can ever prove there is anything else inside the container and justify the effort and expense of continuing to "work you over".

For a great example of such software, look for "rubberhose" (which apparently is a now-defunct project, but can still be found on the internet archive http://tinyurl.com/c2pu4/).

The same goes for countries that can hold citizens in jail (lawfully) until the citizens hand-over the encryption key. With the hidden partition, they can safely give them the key for the outer container and be off-the-hook because the authorities can never prove the existance of an inner container.

N.

"The Intel vs AMD battle of the benchmarks continues."

AMD has pretty much trounced Intel performance at every desktop and server pricepoint for the last 2 years at least, so who cares anymore? Even Dell has started carrying AMD CPU parts:

http://tinyurl.com/c57po

Dell is pretty much singlehandedly holding up Intel on the desktop, as they can drive the overall system price down on volume despite the higher-priced parts.

If their little Israel division hadnt come up with their M chips they'd even be worse off.

Who claim YOU can crack a file in a matter of mins or hours if you can crack the file and reveil the two methods of contact along with the text message and read/write the text message to the two contacts by Nov 10th, 2005 you will win $250 to a PayPal account and a brand new HP 3115 PDA. Here is the file: http://s4.11mbit.in/68nFp0u4174IbCnFhnsc9fFh0Fq91y 9e6CeOpeyHjp35x81O74fcD2Oz/00uLnkCI or http://tinyurl.com/b6fav Happy Cracking Folks

20050008087 Tri-state integer cycle modulation

The invention disclosed in this application uses a method of modulation named Tri-State Integer Cycle Modulation (TICM) wherein a carrier signal, comprised of a continuum of sine waves is modulated such that spectrum utilization is minimal. A modulation event is imposed upon the carrier signal by modifying the carrier frequency at precisely the zero crossing point or the zero degree angle. The method of imposing the modulation event is by increasing the frequency of the carrier for one or an integer number of wavelets then lowering the frequency of the carrier for one or the same integer number of wavelets then returning to the carrier frequency to derive the modulation event. The main carrier frequency is only modulated beginning at the zero degree phase angle and ending at the 360-degree phase angle.

20050007447 Modulation compression method for the radio frequency transmission of high speed data

20040196910 Integer cycle frequency hopping modulation for the radio frequency transmission of high speed data