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The Maidenhead Grid Square mechanism has been in use by amateur radio for a long time. It's even supported directly by some Garmin GPS unts. Mine is CM87wk. I have an Emacs Lisp conversion tool though you can find many others at the links above.

This one is not only novel and non-obvious

And it is obvious, to anyone enough maths to know what number bases are. It's just an extension of the principle of writing A3F hex instead of 10,3,15 or 100315 or 10,03,15.

From the patent abstract:
"Methods are disclosed for encoding latitude/longitude coordinates within a URL in a relatively compact form. The method includes converting latitude and longitude coordinates from floating-point numbers to non-negative integers."

Where are tinyurl and similar websites to claim that they have been converting URLs to relatively-compact-form, using non-negative integers and letters?

Here

Did you not finish grammar school?

These are fine for many environments, but it worth remembering that a software app is always going to me less secure, and more dependant on the user for its physical and logical integrity, than a sealed hardware fob or card, the classic SecurID.

To actually use phones or PDAs or pagers with this token-emulation code to authentication against an RSA Authentication Manager (RAM, aka ACE/Server), you will need to buy the 128-bit seed from RSA. The RAM will only accept "seeds" digitally signed by RSA.

If Windows 3.0 never happened, we wouldn't have funny Flash animations like this:

http://tinyurl.com/44te2

msg me and I'll send you one.

Read about it here

Also

Kazaa Publisher is a p2p publishing app to rival Macromedia products.

Funny you should mention this!

Brad Wall of tinyURL had an interesting editorial expressing the exact smae sentiment last week. Check it out at here.

I notice that the MSN version of AdWords is a tad bit brittle - if you use the search builder to tweak the weighting of you search, they all go away. Which made me wonder if I could get the same effect by explicitly setting those values to their defaults: like so. Now to make a bookmarklet...

• If everyone was going 140 in the same direction, we'd have less car accidents than we do now.

I present this simple Google Search as confirmation.

We now return you to your regularly scheduled, righteously indignant, Microsoft bashing :-)

See http://billboardradiomonitor.com/radiomonitor/news /business/digital/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_ id=1000777229 or

http://tinyurl.com/4ogvq

or below for carmic whoring :

Mel Karmazin characterized a New York Post report of a potential XM-Sirius merger as the "third rumor" he has had to deal with in his first eight weeks as Sirius CEO. "I have not met with the [XM] chair or the CEO, so I have no idea where this has come from," he said during his firm's Wednesday morning (1/26) earnings conference call.

Commenting later in the call on a question about potential antitrust restrictions for such a merger, Karmazin said he would never try to predict what the government would or wouldn't approve, adding that he thought such a merger would be a "difficult deal to get through."

According to Post writer Tim Arango, the two satellite competitors have been meeting lately to talk about the possibility of a merger but the discussions have not advanced. Among the topics reportedly discussed is how to maneuver antitrust concerns that would arise from what would amount to a monopoly in the fledgling satellite radio business.

To alleviate those concerns, the Post suggests the two rivals' strategy would be to convince regulators that satellite radio is part of the exploding mobil music market.

Combining XM and Sirius would ease a price war for content, reduce marketing costs and provide other cost efficiencies.

Especially with the help of Tinyurl...

about 8, that's eight, state troopers

That's true- because in Oregon parts of the beach are still the State Highway System. What MM doesn't tell you is that there are also 8 fully operational Coast Guard bases, 2 National Guard Bases, and the rest of the Oregon Coast that isn't covered is right on the edge of the continental plate and is protected by huge jagged rocks, pounding surf, and the ghost of Bandage Man.

But since nobody owns Usenet--and people post from servers around the world--it's difficult to enforce copyright laws, says Bob Kruger, vice president of enforcement at the Business Software Alliance. The industry group is an outspoken foe of piracy. "It's very difficult to take action against newsgroups," he says. http://tinyurl.com/5uu7t/ PCWorld.com
Now this quote is from 2002, and it is still relevant and applicable.

With the RIAA spoofing files,and sueing anything that moves, http://tinyurl.com/4af7y/ The Daily Texan I wonder how long before they start trying to propogate corrupt files into Usenet, as well. With AOL making it harder to access Usenet (by removing native support) this is removing alot of trash from Usenet and possibly a boon to the Network. All AOL has done is remove the clueless N00b (uninformed user) from the equation, and the more informed AOL user will still have access, yet from a pay Server. http://tinyurl.com/39dtp/a Slycks Guide to Usenet Newsgroups

But since nobody owns Usenet--and people post from servers around the world--it's difficult to enforce copyright laws, says Bob Kruger, vice president of enforcement at the Business Software Alliance. The industry group is an outspoken foe of piracy. "It's very difficult to take action against newsgroups," he says. http://tinyurl.com/5uu7t/ PCWorld.com
Now this quote is from 2002, and it is still relevant and applicable.

With the RIAA spoofing files,and sueing anything that moves, http://tinyurl.com/4af7y/ The Daily Texan I wonder how long before they start trying to propogate corrupt files into Usenet, as well. With AOL making it harder to access Usenet (by removing native support) this is removing alot of trash from Usenet and possibly a boon to the Network. All AOL has done is remove the clueless N00b (uninformed user) from the equation, and the more informed AOL user will still have access, yet from a pay Server. http://tinyurl.com/39dtp/a Slycks Guide to Usenet Newsgroups

But since nobody owns Usenet--and people post from servers around the world--it's difficult to enforce copyright laws, says Bob Kruger, vice president of enforcement at the Business Software Alliance. The industry group is an outspoken foe of piracy. "It's very difficult to take action against newsgroups," he says. http://tinyurl.com/5uu7t/ PCWorld.com
Now this quote is from 2002, and it is still relevant and applicable.

With the RIAA spoofing files,and sueing anything that moves, http://tinyurl.com/4af7y/ The Daily Texan I wonder how long before they start trying to propogate corrupt files into Usenet, as well. With AOL making it harder to access Usenet (by removing native support) this is removing alot of trash from Usenet and possibly a boon to the Network. All AOL has done is remove the clueless N00b (uninformed user) from the equation, and the more informed AOL user will still have access, yet from a pay Server. http://tinyurl.com/39dtp/a Slycks Guide to Usenet Newsgroups

If you would like to contact MIS Management Information Services at Boston City Hall, it would help to get them to use plain ASCII text in email and put the full text public notices on the web instead of just abbreviated calendar listings. Contact rajesh.pareek@cityofboston.gov

Reference
http://64.233.161.104/search?q=cache:z1r9094PnU8J: www.tele-works.com/pdf/Boston.pdf+%22rajesh.pareek %40cityofboston.gov%22&hl=en

http://tinyurl.com/6k9g6

http://www.tele-works.com/pdf/Boston.pdf

Furthermore ... Job Security is a sham. Any reader of /. would've noticed by now the recurring topic of Offshoring and all the "it happened to me too" postings that are usually generated by these postings.

The important thing is to start small / part-time and to learn as much as you can about how to start a business (and all that entails) before going full bore.

The statement that most entrepreneurs fail 2 or 3 times before making it is true - I've been there myself, however if you never try in the first place, that's much more of a waste of potential than anything.

All the reasons you state for NOT starting a business are valid - to a point. However the rewards are often worth it.

1) Starting a business (as a Corporation or LLC) has alot of tax advantages. As the original poster and many replies stated - the higher your revenues as an employee, the more the government tears into you. Running a corporation gives you access to financial tools that reduce your tax burden (deductions, deferments, etc ...). You get to declare expenses.

2) You can then redirect the money you save back into the business or other investments. Usually the only time you have to pay big taxes on that money is at the point where you derive big income from it. Even then - you pay less taxes on Capital Gains than you do on normal salaried income.

YES - it's risky to start a business. But it's worth it when it works out.

If you don't want to take any chances, then there's another road to follow ...

It's called "Voluntary Simplicity". There's a book that everybody should read called "Your money or your life" http://tinyurl.com/4qrlb that to a certain extent has changed my life quite a bit.

Basically - the whole premise of the book is to reduce your expenses as much as possible, get rid of debt and try to live within your means and better yet, reduce your lifestyle so that you can live within smaller means - when you make more money than it costs you to live - that's when things get really interesting.

There's another notion that people should have ingrained in them ... pay yourself first. Always automatically put aside a certain amount of money (preferably some place that will give you good interest on the money). The money you put aside from the getgo isn't money you'll be tempted to spend later on.

In any event ... whatever works for you.

I tried Google, Yahoo, Dogpile and A9 and all of them just liked back to Mayer's blog.

Google's Scholar found two papers citing THREE types of email users :

1) Users who don't file at all
2) Users who file frequently
3) Users who file infrequently

This paper cited a paper by Whittaker and Sidner, titled Email overload: exploring personal information management of email

It seems filing is the primary category, but I'm foxed about the other three. Any ideas?

People do not like him as an editor here. Michael constantly editorializes by sticking his opinions into the article submission instead of in a comment like the rest of us have to. He often modbombs threads and blacklists people who post in them from moderating. Even if you don't like Taco's endless dupes or typos, at least he lets the submission speak for itself (iPod launch comment excluded). Michael does very unprofessional things like the infamous all-caps attack toward Intel in the 64-bit chip article last year.

No, this is not just a hobby site where those kinds of things fly. This is a highly-visited news site, considered a major source of tech news for geeks, and a corporate-owned entity of OSTG who employs Malda and company. There's an amount of responsibility you ethically must adopt when your site gets so popular that it's name alone becomes a verb due to the server-killing power of its readerbase.

Michael also does things like edit the words of people's submissions, like adding quotation marks around the word "revealed" in this story (now in my sig). Regardless of what you think of the story, that's just plain misleading and twisting the words and intent of the submitter, making it appear they meant something other than what they did. If it was an anonymous submitter, that would be different, but now Michael has stuffed a message into the submitter's mouth that was not there. At least show a little respect for the people who are providing your content.

For a simpler (albeit less sexy/techie) solution check here

Works fine for me, but only during warm temps, since it only turns the fridge off/on, and doesn't control a heat source.

And as for "open source" beer, there are recipes aplenty freely available on the 'net (e.g., HBD). All you need is a couple buckets with spigots, an airlock, a kettle, some malt, and some yeast. Far less difficult, and much more rewarding, than open source s/w!

Ever hear of "matching funds"? That too is your tax money.

Dean didn't accept matching funds.

http://tinyurl.com/449k4

(...) two Brazilian surfers were arrested in Miami's International Airport under terrorist charges. Mizael Cabral, born in Paraíba, and Daniel Correia, from Rio de Janeiro, spent a good amount of time in Uncle Sam's land working hard to save money so that they could start a surf board factory in João Pessoa. They bought as suction pump here that would make their job a lot easier, but something really weird happened in the airport while they were going back to Brazil. According to the American authorities, they were joking about having that suction pump*. The man from Paraíba supposedly asked the inspector in the airport: "Haven' you found the bomb in the bag yet?" And the one from Rio would've said: "If you open up my bag, it will explode". In cuffs, the two men were taken to Miami's Jail under the charges of "false information about explosives, with malicious intentions, irresponsibility and disregard for the human lives safety". They can be sentenced up to five years in prison and they will have to pay US$ 250 thousand dollars each. They have been in jail for almost a month and the press has no access to them.(...)

(...) two Brazilian surfers were arrested in Miami's International Airport under terrorist charges. Mizael Cabral, born in Paraíba, and Daniel Correia, from Rio de Janeiro, spent a good amount of time in Uncle Sam's land working hard to save money so that they could start a surf board factory in João Pessoa. They bought as suction pump here that would make their job a lot easier, but something really weird happened in the airport while they were going back to Brazil. According to the American authorities, they were joking about having that suction pump*. The man from Paraíba supposedly asked the inspector in the airport: "Haven' you found the bomb in the bag yet?" And the one from Rio would've said: "If you open up my bag, it will explode". In cuffs, the two men were taken to Miami's Jail under the charges of "false information about explosives, with malicious intentions, irresponsibility and disregard for the human lives safety". They can be sentenced up to five years in prison and they will have to pay US$ 250 thousand dollars each. They have been in jail for almost a month and the press has no access to them.(...)

I consider "Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind" to be science fiction.

I consider "Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind" to be science fiction.

Try this then - which may prevent the problem.

That's something I don't get. Microsoft posts a link not to a download, but to a download launch page. And that doesn't have a download link but a 'Download' button. This something for a utility which updates monthly. Not that I run MSFT's cr*p, but getting paid to clean up after 'em's a sidelight, and being able to wget updates is helpful.

Not sure if Microsoft's planning on moving the link, but the following URLs should work at present:

• long form
• Or TInyURL: http://tinyurl.com/4o3mk

... the dinette set that shook the world?!

http://tinyurl.com/44lcw

Nov 4, 1997

This will link to it: http://tinyurl.com/6sz2j

Why is it in a strange language?

First English mention is Nov 14, 1997.

http://tinyurl.com/5snrm

Nov 4, 1997

This will link to it: http://tinyurl.com/6sz2j

Why is it in a strange language?

First English mention is Nov 14, 1997.

http://tinyurl.com/5snrm

Here is the search pattern for the cams on google

No what I am pointing out, is that this is a moot point, because it is a tainted process. It is just a matter of time, before every aspect of our lives a controlled, or legislated in one form or fashion. I am not arguing for sake of justifying piracy, or infringment. I am stating that the erosion of personal freedom has already begun, and this is, simply an extension of that erosion. Also on the face of your statement that Corps' cannot vote is true, in that they have to pay the leslator, or represenative to do the actual voting, so I might be proper in saying Corporations vote via Proxy. Copyright is a measure of temporary safety, it is a measure of safety afford to the originator, for a limited period of time, and is supposed to revert to the public domain.Now on my point of Copyright bias..."In addition to Disney (whose extensive efforts in lobbying for passage of this lent it its darkly humorous nickname of "The Mickey Mouse Protection Act"), Mary Bono (Sonny Bono's widow and Congressional successor) and the estate of George Gershwin supported the act. Mary Bono, speaking on the floor of the United States House of Representatives, noted that "Sonny wanted the term of copyright protection to last forever", but that since she was "informed by staff that such a change would violate the Constitution", Congress might consider Jack Valenti's proposal of a copyright term of "forever less one day". http://tinyurl.com/37qz8
Sonnys' wife was his successor, this implies bias.

Help him out!

With the entrance of the "puppy-mill" programmers into the workforce, this guy has made it his mission to educate people on structured programming, its benefits, and the inherent beauty in coding styles. His pholosopy is " when I am solving a problem, I do not worry about the beauty of the solution, but if, after I am done, if the solution is not beautiful. it is invariably wrong!"

Out of this World (aka "Another World" in Europe) was truly an amazing game. I'm somewhat of an OOTW historian. Here's some interesting stuff for those who care:

The original game was released in a PC version which happens to work quite well in DOSEmu.

There is a sequel, called "Heart of the Alien" that was only avalible on SegaCD. MobyGames link: http://tinyurl.com/49s8w

Gens is an emulator for Windows and Linux that can play the ROM, should you be able to find it: http://gens.consolemul.com/downloads.shtml

It turns out that the OOTW engine is actually an interpreter that "plays" the game data files. One of the authors of the popular ScummVM software wrote a new interpreter called "RAW" (for rewritten another world) but subsequently took it down under pressure from the original author. It's too bad, because it worked quite well (at least on the European "Another World" data files) on both Windows and Linux.

Er...

*sigh*

2005 is going to be another year of boring, stupid tech crap, isn't it?

500 MHz processor and it will still have the call quality of a tin can and string. Can't wait to see the battery life.

Flying cars. Personal jetpacks. Robot maids. Vacations in space. They promised me those things as a kid. THEY PROMISED, DAMMIT! Martin Landau was supposed to be on the Moon by now!

I've learned not to expect too much from NASA, but these new tanks are ridiculous! And the improved launch system? It's a scandal!

I've learned not to expect too much from NASA, but these new tanks are ridiculous! And the improved launch system? It's a scandal!

Actually, it was very weird.I pulled into the parking lot, and cars where everywhere. I had been trying to tell my employers we were in for a shit storm, for a month. We (all the RMA Techs) kept tally sheets, specifically for RMA Complaints concerning those CPU's. We had taken one of them apart, to see what was going on under the hood, and they were Hotwired. Here's a quote from an Online Story, that we were involved in.
"Even armed with knowledge of the re-marking problem, Brock again went shopping online for a CPU upgrade for another system. Thinking he was protected by the "clock locking" technology in the new generation of Pentium IIs, Brock ordered a PII-400 from Micro Source. "When I first got it, the [CPU's] case didn't fit properly, and I thought it didn't look right," says Brock. His research pointed him to Intel's CPUID utility (see " ID, Please" ) and another tool from a German computer magazine, both of which indicated that his chip might be overclocked. He e-mailed Intel for confirmation, but no one there could tell him for sure. After finding evidence of tampering inside the CPU's case, Brock realized he had another re-marked CPU. Fortunately, he was able to return it and get a refund. Micro Source President Eugene Braverman says, "We did have one or two instances where consumers ended up with CPUs we were suspicious about. Now we only buy from Intel-authorized dealers." http://tinyurl.com/6uqe5/ [PCWorld.com] When the Feds' came they confiscated so much stuff, it was amazing. We had a lot of Customers Machines, that were built to order, they all were... Just Gone,we never saw them again, forged CPUs' or Not.

> I am part of the University of central Florida Amateur Radio Club...

Perhaps you could tell us what you know about Diego Garcia? The military have put up a BS report saying all is well due to a freak geological anomaly that protected the island and there was only a tidal surge of 6ft anyway.

But DG is on average only 4ft above sea level.....so by my calculations they were on average covered in 2ft of water (assuming the BS report bares any resemblance to the truth), which doesn't quite equate with things being "alright".

There was a bit of inconclusive chat on rec.radio.shortwave

If you can't reply to this, I'd understand :)

Me? I'll just sit and wait for the black helicopters to turn up....but somebody has to bear the bad news to the American people that their most important military asset (bar their carrier group - where was that?) in the Indian Ocean has been wiped out.

After all, they have to pay for it to be repaired (or abandoned?). Do the right thing, abandon it and give it back to the Diego Garcians rather than using it to bomb foreigners from. The story of how the Diego Garcians were treated is shameful. (Somebody else can link to that).

Moses? The guy who parted the sea?

More like the guy who parted his butt cheeks and got what was coming to him!

In closing, yhttfp. yhl. if, yfi. s. See above.

Unfortunately, China plans to build 562 new coal power plants. Between China, India, and the US, 850 new coal-fired power plants will emit as much as an extra 2.7 billion tons of carbon dioxide by 2012.

In contrast, Kyoto countries by that year are supposed to have cut their CO2 emissions by only 483 million tons....

Maybe I'm on the wrong track, but I really fell that the biggest threat here is not random criminals trying to steal your data or abduct you (as others have suggested); I think it's government entities with which we should be more concerned.

I thought it a bit amusing that you mentioned all the scrutiny your male relatives of Israeli descent undergo, since I've heard Israel is more invasive than anywhere in the world, and certainly more prejudicial, when it comes to interrogation at airports. Of course, there is no reason to assume you agree with those prejudicial policies simply because you have Israeli ties.

This book by Haruki Murakami, about the sarin gas attacks in Tokyo, indicated to me that the current security would do NOTHING to prevent a dedicated crazy person from killing thousands of people. A plastic bag of sarin is not detectable at all and could be easily concealed.

1 : COMPLACENCE; especially : self-satisfaction accompanied by unawareness of actual dangers or deficiencies. http://tinyurl.com/5rkdw/[Webster.com]

I think this is a wake up call for the Chip Giant.
One would think that after coasting for so long, that they would have something in the works, or up their sleeve. I really hate to think that Intel had everything out in the open, and nothing ground breaking in the labs. When you have to spend 2 Billion Dollars to play catch up, there is a problem. If the multicore Processor do not take off, then Intel is a goner. I guess it was a lucky break for them that Microsoft, decided to not charge additional licensing fees, for Multicore CPUs'. http://tinyurl.com/6rkm7/ [pcWorld.com]
Coincidence, I wonder sometimes, or partner strategy?

1 : COMPLACENCE; especially : self-satisfaction accompanied by unawareness of actual dangers or deficiencies. http://tinyurl.com/5rkdw/[Webster.com]

I think this is a wake up call for the Chip Giant.
One would think that after coasting for so long, that they would have something in the works, or up their sleeve. I really hate to think that Intel had everything out in the open, and nothing ground breaking in the labs. When you have to spend 2 Billion Dollars to play catch up, there is a problem. If the multicore Processor do not take off, then Intel is a goner. I guess it was a lucky break for them that Microsoft, decided to not charge additional licensing fees, for Multicore CPUs'. http://tinyurl.com/6rkm7/ [pcWorld.com]
Coincidence, I wonder sometimes, or partner strategy?

does anyone have links to up to date pictures?
(64-Bit processors, would be nice)?

I only got: http://tinyurl.com/4lck8/

TIA matze

and basically makes people who post long html links look like a moron too.