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You are asking a very appropriate question! If you listen and read carefully to what Jeremy Allaire wrote not more than three months ago, you will realize that what is called here Internetworks is nothing but what Jeremy calls IP-TV. For him IP-TV "...is generally funded and supported by large telecom providers who have undertaken the mission of creating a competitive replacement produuct for digital cable and satellite services. IP-TV operator or carrier-led and controlled platform. There is a physical carrier that has physical pipes and infrastructure that it operates and controls. The consumer interacts directly with that operator/carrier. As such this is an end-to-end system on semi-closed network (infrastructure is all within the carrier environment, and cannot be normally accessed to the Internet as a whole. Further to this, the deployment infrastructure and devices to access it are all managed and operated by the IP-TV carrier). IP-TV will offer essentially the same product and programming offered by digital cable and satellite providers. Similar on-demand and pay per view products probably with some extra integration with voice, and different pricing..." Excatly the opposite of where Jeremy's new baby, Brightcove.com is presently headed. The Internet of Television is the new vision for Brightcove and you can read its unique profile by Jeremy Allaire here.

If you're just curious, you can see the a java implementation now. Apart from all the open source versions, each Sun JDK release comes with a file called src.jar that contains the entire source of the J2SE API classes. The source to the JVM, compiler, etc. are available to look at after agreeing to a click through license here: http://tinyurl.com/e4dho

Under TECK, constituents contact their local office and, with call-back or in-person authentication, vote for bills and/or proxy their votes for bills before congress or state legislatures. Their representative is elected on the Open Proxy Party's political platform which has one plank: Their representative will vote the way the constituents say via their open proxies.

TECK is the seed technology for what is to become the US third-party that succeeds in dramatically decentralizing, reducing and changing politics for the better:

The Open Proxy Party.

The Open Proxy Party's honesty is assured in the most obvious manner imaginable: everyone can see how everyone is voting at any point in time. The current votes and proxies are published on a web page generated by an open-source computer program. Currently this program consists of around 120 lines of Perl code (not counting preformatted text like this) to tally and present the proxies for the public.

Electoral corruption is an opportunity for Open Proxy candidates to win against incumbents. Electoral corruption has alienated the vast majority of the voters from the political process. With foreign labor displacing hundreds of thousands of middle aged technical workers in the United States, who have now redispersed to lower-cost-of-living districts, there is a pool of potential candidates who are more than capable of operating the TECK websites, more than motivated to clean up the electoral process and more than available to work for the modest salaries paid to representatives in State legislatures. Moreover, the majority of voters are more than ready for a reform of the political process.

Installation

Just for the heck of it you might have a campaign kick-off party and invite all the un/der-employed computer people you can find to join the fun of doing the TECK installation. An under-employed live band with pot-luck can't hurt either and will keep expenses down.

1. Set up a website for your future office. This website must be able to run Perl CGI scripts that require as much as a CPU second on a modern processor and 100M of RAM. This website will be used only for publishing the current votes and proxies -- not for data entry.
2. Copy the CGI script to the CGI directory of your website.
3. Obtain a dedicated computer system with an amount of RAM at least equal to 32M plus 1K for each voter in your district. This system will be used only for data-entry.
4. Copy the CGI script(s) to the CGI directory of your data-entry system.
5. Make the database writable for the data-entry system: To do so, in the CGI directory where it is installed, execute the shell command: 'touch proxy_writable'
6. The CGI directory must be writable by the web server because the database is automatically created and stored there.
7. Start entering votes and proxies for the attendees of the party, just to demonstrate how it works. (It is recommended that voter-ids be 10-digit phone numbers so they correspond to their call-back numbers.)

You may want to send your guests home with a campaign statement along the following lines:

"82% of the public opposed expansion of the H-1b visa

I really want to put a link to the Jason Killingsworth Hermione Countdown here, but the domain is gone.

Here is a link to it in the web archive. Their server seems to be having difficulty at the moment. It may not load properly.

Sure:
1 GB MP3 Player + FM Radio +USB 2.0 MD. M001 BLACK £51.99 +£15.99 p&p

VS:
a href=http://tinyurl.com/935xn>New APPLE IPOD SHUFFLE 512MB mini MP3 Player £53.00 +£15 p&p

Shall I continue?

Who has seen a real-live Guru Meditation Error?

I have seen plenty of them.
Here's one for those who don't know it.

Definately more stylish than the atari bombs or the mac sorryface.

The first Quake IV shots released http://tinyurl.com/36pk2

Hurry before they get taken offline!

So his site is DEVOID of Content eh? That's an interesting observation. Conversely, my site is JAMMED with stuff... about 180 pages. Anyone, anyone? http://tinyurl.com/bevf9 . Just funning wit you. Have a great weekend everybody. Don't buy any used clusters. Woody

--Eric Boutilier

--Eric Boutilier

Report is reaching of a strange behavior by the American and Russian forces in the Earth's Artic regions. Completely unannounced, both the super powers are launching thousands of missiles from both land based and aircraft launched these missiles that are being directed out of the earth's atmosphere into the outer space regions of our planets atmosphere.

From various news services however there is being reported that Russia and the United States are conducting Missile Defense War games. The valid question is why was this separate military exercise not previously announced. Some UFO researchers believe that both the forces are jointly fighting something that they are not saying.

There are also reports that someone is manipulating the earth's weather systems in a massive scale. Are American and Russians jointly fighting them?

The cosmic bursts hitting the earth are also strange. The Solar flares in recent days have shown extreme abnormal behavior.

The increasing earthquakes, floods, droughts and landslides may have been caused by some artificial agents.

On the surface the American and Russians are saying these missile launches are mart of military exercises but why are they unannounced.

What triggered this massive launch of terrestrial missiles in thousands?

http://tinyurl.com/cpva2/

Why go through the expense of a satellite for stereo imaging when all it takes is a simple click of a mouse?

Hi My name is Greg. I work at Google, check out our new patented technologies to make your life better and easier.

Here's a picture of me:

http://tinyurl.com/7e98a

I'm hanging my head in shame...

--Indiana barely passes Daylight Saving Time into law
--The new dome & convention center will be [partially] paid for by charging the surrounding counties a 1% tax on all served, commercially prepared food. Some in the legislature have called this the "donut" plan. I prefer to call it, "Alice Taxing the Brady Bunch" in an editorial written before they decided this "innovative" plan. That tax has a sunset - thirty years! The current dome has a 1% tax on food in "Alice's square" right now with a long sunset and the money is being used for unknown purposes. This means Alice will be taxining food an extra 1% on local food.
--And finally, we allow these goobers to file spurious lawsuits.

There are three forthcoming technologies that you should watch that will improve this situation:

TNC - Trusted Network Connect from the Trusted Computing Group (a standards group)

NAC - Network Admission Control from Cisco

NAP - Network Access Protection from Microsoft (which supports TNC)

The basic methodology is to keep the good guys with unhealthy or potentially unhealthy systems locked behind a switch port until they get themselves healthy and/or protected.

How do they do that if they are cut off? Well, they aren't entirely cut off. Systems can get to update site(s) for antivirus, patches, etc.

It isn't quite ready for prime time, and unfortunately will require time for systems to turn over (some level of host support is typical). But once it is available, systems that support it should be healthy before they can receive network traffic from unhealthy legacy systems.

Check it out:
https://www.trustedcomputinggroup.org/home
http://tinyurl.com/5ae2j (microsoft.com)
http://tinyurl.com/78al2 (cisco.com)

There are three forthcoming technologies that you should watch that will improve this situation:

TNC - Trusted Network Connect from the Trusted Computing Group (a standards group)

NAC - Network Admission Control from Cisco

NAP - Network Access Protection from Microsoft (which supports TNC)

The basic methodology is to keep the good guys with unhealthy or potentially unhealthy systems locked behind a switch port until they get themselves healthy and/or protected.

How do they do that if they are cut off? Well, they aren't entirely cut off. Systems can get to update site(s) for antivirus, patches, etc.

It isn't quite ready for prime time, and unfortunately will require time for systems to turn over (some level of host support is typical). But once it is available, systems that support it should be healthy before they can receive network traffic from unhealthy legacy systems.

Check it out:
https://www.trustedcomputinggroup.org/home
http://tinyurl.com/5ae2j (microsoft.com)
http://tinyurl.com/78al2 (cisco.com)

Your brain flags "almost human" things as grotesque and something to be avoided. It's why many people are afraid of clowns and wax figures. They look almost human, but still look wrong.

Indeed; witness the gallery of children who are scared of Santa.

USPTO does not have any listings for the word "Tiger", registered under the name of these freaks: http://tinyurl.com/clpmw - all they have is "Tiger Direct", that's all. No "Tiger". That means they can go and pound sand. I hope Apple will sue them back.

I hope it doesn't ruin the chances of me finding excellent deals on old and obscure games.

At an EB somewhere in Kansas City, MO, I managed to get Homeworld, O.R.B. (http://tinyurl.com/a2u6w), Starlancer, and Mindrover for $20 total. None of them were used copies.

http://tinyurl.com/7k7b3 (work safe link)

Woa! Doom 3 for the SNES!

Air France, Japan Airlines (in both cases bucket-and-spade vacation flights to holiday destinations)

http://tinyurl.com/89ur6

Jobs did well for himself!

Amazing spectacles like these?

http://tinyurl.com/9r62k/

That is a link to the 10.4 initial setup video...

That's possible now. http://tinyurl.com/8weqg . In Space, people could have as many children as they want for a very long time SO LONG AS they can produce enough new spacecraft for them to exit the nest.. Turning our homes into hyperbaric health chambers has been on my websites almost 2 years: http://www.newpath4.com/AAINDEX/paget6.htm . Such a home provides isolation from external gaseous hazards (pollution, terrorist attack). But this new system for hibernation (http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/04/ 22/0228226) presents an added twist. People can go under one gas for sleep, come back to pure oxygen for super-life when they're awake! Heck, just Dial the home (or spacecraft) for what you want... You could hibernate with your teddy bear too or in your favorite position. We could even Name This System the Dial-A-Life System.

This affects a lot of consumers. I wonder what the involvement of each individual retailer was?
Well, here's what Dell did. My guess is that most just paid up, or took Dell's route and closed certain models and re-released. It looks like Apple actually raised the price of a few models to compensate.

A good deal of them actually just side-stepped the companies altogether after some time. A few million is pocket change to a company like Hynix with a market cap of 5.8 billion. They'll just release a few hundred thousand new shares or so. Doesn't look like their stock price has been affected at all. Up 4.99% today.

This affects a lot of consumers. I wonder what the involvement of each individual retailer was?
Well, here's what Dell did. My guess is that most just paid up, or took Dell's route and closed certain models and re-released. It looks like Apple actually raised the price of a few models to compensate.

A good deal of them actually just side-stepped the companies altogether after some time. A few million is pocket change to a company like Hynix with a market cap of 5.8 billion. They'll just release a few hundred thousand new shares or so. Doesn't look like their stock price has been affected at all. Up 4.99% today.

It was like RAM was a commodity. I was buying RAM on huge price drops on Pricewatch and selling a few sticks a couple months later when the price ran back up on Ebay. It was great. I wasn't aware that it was just a Korean issue though, I thought some Hong Kong and Taiwan companies were involved.

Following links have more info:
http://tinyurl.com/8umy3
http://tinyurl.com/b4k7m

It was like RAM was a commodity. I was buying RAM on huge price drops on Pricewatch and selling a few sticks a couple months later when the price ran back up on Ebay. It was great. I wasn't aware that it was just a Korean issue though, I thought some Hong Kong and Taiwan companies were involved.

Following links have more info:
http://tinyurl.com/8umy3
http://tinyurl.com/b4k7m

For those of you thinking about buying the book, you'll save substantially if you buy from overstock.com as opposed to B&N. That's including tax (if applicable) and shipping. Even Amazon is way cheaper than B&N. Somewhat offtopic, but use PriceGrabber for comparison shopping.

For those of you thinking about buying the book, you'll save substantially if you buy from overstock.com as opposed to B&N. That's including tax (if applicable) and shipping. Even Amazon is way cheaper than B&N. Somewhat offtopic, but use PriceGrabber for comparison shopping.

For those of you thinking about buying the book, you'll save substantially if you buy from overstock.com as opposed to B&N. That's including tax (if applicable) and shipping. Even Amazon is way cheaper than B&N. Somewhat offtopic, but use PriceGrabber for comparison shopping.

http://tinyurl.com/9oong

Being not a Catholic, but rather a former classics major, perhaps it is not for me to say, but the standard interpretation I'm familiar with is: "You are Peter, and on this bedrock(foundation) I will build my church", wherein the pun is that Peter is both Petros and the rock.

Now, I want to say I am not arguing the veracity of Peter's account, just the interpretation. It may be accurate, or it may be just another case like the Donation of Constantine

Perhaps if I had chosen Classical Greek over Latin as my core language I would now be in possesion of a highly lucrative Bachelor of Classics degree. ;)

-Tut
http://www.health-hack.com/

http://tinyurl.com/45q26 Multiple attack missiles, radio-connected, one goes off the rest lose the link and go off as well. Asteroids don't have to get a direct hit. The military paid me $10 billion for it. Okay, all of it's true except that last sentence.

I'm pulling this .torrent (the QT version) faster than any other I've ever downloaded. I'll keep it open for seeding... I've posted the .torrent file at http://tinyurl.com/7oz2d/

I bet that the American Association of Motor Vehicle Administrators (AAMVA) would propose something like this considering it is composed of driver's license officials and law enforcement executives and National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHSTA). NHTSA was particularly upset when the national speed limit of 65/55 mph was repealed almost 10 years ago.

An interesting item is I went to the Dayton Hamfest last year, there was one vendor selling a Car Chip that recorded details on your driving. I talked with the salesman and he even mentioned one company (he would not name) mandated this in private vehicles of their employees. If you didn't like it, you don't work for the company.

With the coming Driver License Agreement as sponsored by the AAMVA and the mandate for states to join it if the Real ID Act of 2005 passes combined with this technology, it would be very difficult to retain your driver's license or maintain reasonable insurance premiums especially if you travel alot by car like I do. Even a "law abiding" driver will get nailed here and there !

I will be doing a lot of traveling this Summer such as traveling from Colorado to California and to Indiana. In Indiana, the speed limits is pretty well 55 mph except for rural interstates. The 4 lane divided highways are 55 mph and I usually do 70 to 75 mph. Currently, Colorado takes no adverse action such as points for minor out of state offenses. Here in America, since our public transportation is non-existent, the motor vehicle is the only way to get around unlike Japan or Europe. Unfortunately, it is not practical since places of employment is spread around unlike many years ago where your job was located downtown in a given district.

How's this one:
http://tinyurl.com/8q8g6

It isn't just the atmosphere in the way of telescopes. The heavy pollution molecules displace oxygen in the lower altitudes where many of us live. These molecules swirling around in the wind are distorting the telescope imaging. As an aside, thank goodness for us humans. Our lungs act as a giant collective pollution filter so our car engines run smoothly! http://tinyurl.com/5c4ll and http://www.newpath4.com/theanswer.html .

If the Shuttle breaks just let it drop into the ocean and FORGET ABOUT IT. It's outdated now anyway: http://tinyurl.com/4sgnk .

in action.

To be decided in the Senate and the House/Senate Conference Committee is the Real ID Act of 2005 sponsored by F. James Sensenbrenner. This will be a backdoor defacto National ID through your driver's license. Included is a linked database known as the Driver License Agreement as sponsored by the American Association of Motor Vehicle Administrators. States will be required to sign it in order for given state driver's license to accepted when dealing with the Federal Gov't such as boarding an airplane or train.

Included in the Driver License Agreement is sharing information not only within the US but with Canada and Mexico (pg 4, item 11 in PDF Document). Required in the database is identity theft type of information such as your Social Security number. Also the Driver License Agreement as a side "benefit" requires your state to punish you with points for a traffic offense anywhere within North America. So a speeding ticket from a vacation in Cancun, Mexico or Montreal, Quebec, Canada will tarnish your home state driving record and as an insult to injury, your insurance goes up !

There is not much time left to defeat this legislation. It is attached to HR1268 - Emergency Appropriations for Iraq, Tsunami Relief. The Senate has removed it but the House will insist on the Real ID Act of 2005 in conference committee and we need to let our Senator's know that we are against this. Information to Contact Congress web link.

If I take a Maxtor 300GB portable usb drive, plugs it into my pc, loads up with movies, and ships of to a friend? Huge capcity, overnight, or in a few days at least. And besides, ??AA has no real chance of uncovering such transfers.

Well, realistically. What about VPN? Having hard encryption easily obtainable, it should be trivial to share files with friends. If a key is signed by a large enough number of friends, trust it. Otherwise, discard. If a p2p net included strong cryptographi, and trust levels and/or ratings to users, it would be far more difficult for ??AA to eavesdrop those connections. At very least, they'd have to build up a trust, which would probably mean sharing...

Yeah, uh, did you know that we currently actually produce 4 times as many calories of food a year that it would actually take to feed everybody on Earth? We have more than enough to fix everything here, the problem is with distribution. the problem is corrupt warlords that keep their people in poverty and hunger to have power over them.

How true! The problems with, what causes, hunger and people starving are distribution, warlords, and armed conflicts. A few years ago a news article described how while people were staving in a state in India a warehouse full of food rotted because it wasn't being distributed. Then there's what's been happening in Zimbabwe the last few years, Zimbabwe used to be a breadbasket of Africa and produced more than enough to feed everyone with plenty left for export. Now people are starving to death, even with food aid being sent there. When current President Robert Mugabe forced white farmers off their land, and gave much of it to his friends and cronies, he distroyed the farms and the food grown on them. Here's an excerpt from The Zimbabwe Independent:"

"The first focus should be upon the dismal failure of the land reform programme. Few can deny that, for the greater part of the 20th century, Zimbabwe had appalling, racially discriminatory land policies, and that reform was needed. But if there had been a deliberate attempt to destroy agriculture -- the foundation of the economy -- the government could not have done so more effectively than it did with its unjust and ill-conceived programme of land acquisition and redistribution.

That programme displaced over 4 000 successful farmers, 300 000 farm workers and more than a million of their dependants. It reduced Zimbabwe from self-sufficiency in food to a nation of under-nourished. It lowered agricultural production by almost two-thirds. The government attributed the collapse of agriculture to drought. But the government, the populace and the world know otherwise."

The whole article can be found here, Another chance for economic revival or tinyurl. Here's another article, this one from allAfrica.com, Nigeria: Zimbabwean Farmers Move On to New Pastures North of the Equator.

Our robots will survive us and carry on our traditions. They'll rip each other's cpu's out if given half a chance. Besides, eventually they'll hehehehe figure out how to make more of us. Can't hardly figure out WHY. Maybe because it's "out there". U-know. The forbidden fruit and all. Hhmmm. Forbidden fruit? http://tinyurl.com/5c4ll...

The producers of capitalism have also brought you such wonderful things as George W. Bush.

I guess you're right: People are just not going to "get more intelligent" anytime soon.

Is wasn't Capitalism, as in Adam Smyth's "On Wealth of Nations" or tinyurl that brought Bush along. More like the Corporate Aristocracy Thomas Jefferson and Alexis de Tocqueville warned people about that is responsible.

"I hope we shall crush in its birth the aristocracy of moneyed corporations, which dare already to challenge our government to a trial of strength and bid defiance to the laws of our country."
Thomas Jefferson, 1814

It is just a fact of life. After a while a person's ideas and tastes stop evolving and we tend to get stuck at a particular year and age. Only a small fraction of people can evolve and find something new everyday. Unfortunately I'm not one of them.

The key words being "small fraction". I am 40 something and while I love the old classic rock and roll I listen and like a variety of music. For instance I love Igor Stravinski's Classical music "The Firebird Suite", Josephine Baker or tinyurl, and the Blues of Billy Holiday. Actually two of the new artists I listen to now, Norah Jones and Neko Case both remind me of Billy Holiday. And some of Neko Case's music reminds me of Patsy Cline who I also love. I admit I don't listen to "Pop" but I listen to and like a lot of the Jazz coming out, I can't say about country though I like the Dixie Chicks.

Check out what spammers will resort to if this passes:

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Hey! Check out this cool website!
http://tinyurl.com/6jxzk
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Please don't use a rechargeable battery in a smoke detector. They can run out of power in an unexpectedly short period of time, possibly so abruptly that you don't get the typical warning beeps. A 5 second Google search will confirm this.

Here's a link to one fire department that confirms this.

Fixed links:

First
Second

For some reason I can't make the first one work, so I substituted a tinyurl link. Slashdot changes the # to %23 which doesn't seem to work.