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Note: This doesn't mean I agree with this crap. As a coder, I can certainly understand their wanting to write code more than document everything. Really, shouldn't CVS logs be as much "proof" you wrote it as you need? It's far more work to try to fake writing it by changing other's code, than it is to just do the work itself.

The HP one you picked looked ok, but feeder looks a little chitsy.

We have a panasonic at work, and use it to scan in design packages. it's something like the model KV-S7065C Don't be fooled by the 'low volume' tag - we routinely make 100 page pdf's out it (high volume = insurance office), even though it will take a few min. Thing works great. Highly reccomended. The panasonic comes with software that allows you to save all as a single file, break into xxx page long files (where you get to pick xxx), and many other features.
My favorite is that it makes it easy to create pdf's with changes in page size / resolution. Our packages are mostly design calcs (8.5x11, 300dpi) with a few drawings (11x17, 600dpi), and it works slick.

We used to send out ~5-10 fedex packages a week, but now we just scan and email. Saves so much money, time, and they can get packages right away.

A good way to keep down on the cost is to get a B&W scanner - you probably don't need color anyway, and it keeps the file size way down.

Do you think this will be Moore honest than his previous work?

Here you can read about evolutionary computing, where teams of mobile robots with neural networks playing the Capture the flag game.

tell me if this does anything. i'm trying to execute ls -l. It should at least launch the help viewer. It does for me and a couple of friends at work. This is bad. really really bad.

The security issue is not a browser issue, it is an operating system issue, more specifically, Mac OS X's protocol handler. Apparently, various protocols are registered to trigger various apps/functionality. Apple needs take long, hard look at each single one of them and plug potential security holes.

DAVE HYATT PLEASE HEAR ME

For one, a web browser's handling of the HTTP 302 response code should have thorough security built-in: NEVER, EVER execute a 302 response whose Location: field value is of a protocol that is different from the originating protocol, EXCEPT in a few cases: it should be ok for http to redirect to https, and vice-versa, maybe explore what should be done for http to ftp. http and https are the SAME protocol, but over a different TCP transport. This is why it still makes sense to allow redirection between the two. You should however be very very very weary of allowing any other sort of cross-protocol redirection.

Looking at the example link above, I've got a URL that belongs to the http:// protocol sending an HTTP 302 response (via tinyurl) to the web browser whose Location: header value belongs in the help:// protocol. This is bad. really really REALLY REALLY BAD. It further exasperates the importance of this security flaw.

APPLE, DAVE HYATT, I IMPLORE YOU, PLEASE FIX THIS ISSUE AT ONCE

My wish: a blessed +2 GDSM

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"Heavy Marijuana Use Doesn't Damage Brain"

Never heard James T. Kirk put an entry in the clog.

That's because they didn't include the sequences filmed after James T. Kirk ate refried Romulan beans. His clog entries can be found here.

The list of unused Channels out there is far more extensive than you would belive.
I only hope that this is well regulated.

Great post. Really.

As I said (or meant to), I don't doubt the PDF has lots of useful information, but since I can't read it, I can't really justify changing my opinions just yet. I will keep an eye out for more information on the subject, though. This was the first I had heard about this sort of thing, and I have to admit, you've piqued my curiosity.

The Venona project, practically unknown to most, says McCarthy was right on pretty much every item. I've read a bit on this and had my eyes opened. There is a good book a friend gave to me that covers McCarthy pretty good. She makes a damn good case (not the entire text, but the part about McCarthy is especially informative).

Slander

. . .methinks you put too much stock in the moderation system. I can see a point about the moderators being invisible (and mostly unaccountable) partisans steering the conversation, but I think in the long run, we're better off ignoring them (or maybe getting the Hell out of here, once and for all).

Yeah... I probably do put to much stock in the moderation system. I've been here (on slashdot) for longer than most. I remember when politics played only a minor role in the comments. Now, it seems politics find their way into damn near every story. I long for the days of vi vs. emacs, gnome vs. KDE, TrollTech debates, and bitching about the damn scroll wheel in X. I guess I'm just getting old (I'm probably older than most here too) and cranky?!?!

Have you considered the possibility you might be happier if you stopped coming here? I was just considering it earlier today. The signal-to-noise ratio is becoming vanishingly small, and I find myself getting into petty bickering matches with assholes who are probably laughing at me for caring about what they post. The only thing keeping me coming back these days is the neat geeky stuff they occasionally post, and the fact that I haven't found anywhere else that isn't just as bad (the devil you know, and all that).

Yes I have. Quite often. But, like you, I haven't really found a place like slashdot used to be. Arstechnica is very good, but much slower. Kuro5hin used to be an interesting geek place, but they long ago went the way slashdot is going.

Thanks for not attacking me personally. I was expecting you to. Apparently, you're not a child. ;-)

I work in the Arkin group, and Leor is a friend of mine.

Here is the reference and the PDF of the actual article that the research featured in the Wired report is based off of:

PDF: http://tinyurl.com/yu5ur

Leor S. Weinberger, David V. Schaffer, Adam P. Arkin. "Theoretical Design of a Gene Therapy To Prevent AIDS but Not Human Immunodeficiency Virus Type 1 Infection". 2003. Journal of Virology. 77(18). 10028-10036.

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~taltman

C'mon. tinyurl.com has made this possible for a long time.

Tim

China has a very checkered history of human rights abuses.

Look at what's happened in the middle east.

You can look at what's happened in the middle-east here.

The hypocrisy of it all is simply amazing.

Yay! Donkey Kong!

http://tinyurl.com/3xjg7

Someone had to do it.

27. Upgraded to properly format reports for triple digit bug counts. Closes crash and formatting bugs for Front Page, GeoCities, homepage.aol.com, MSN, and other notoriously malformed site formats.

TinyURL.com

bit of a moot point with services like tinyurl

There's an excellent review about what they offer that they believe makes it worth the money here

Mirror available here

I would recommend this site as an authoritive source that links to the site of each of the anti-virus and anti-spyware utils. They also provide md5s for most of the downloads. Check it out here.

Can you honestly tell me you haven't seen or heard of this man every bit as often as Richard M Stalin or Linux Torvalds? We are greater in death.

Can you honestly tell me you haven't seen or heard of this man every bit as often as Richard M Stalin or Linux Torvalds? We are greater in death.

doh

I wasn't sure if I would be able to handle gentoo, having heard that it was only for elite h@x0r d00ds, but I thought I'd give it a try.

I followed the installation document very carefully -- it is very long, 20 something pages or so, as I recall -- and I messed it up once because I skipped something, but I got it installed, and got X and KDE configured the same day, and never looked back. That was about a year and a half ago, and my first try was on a dual-boot laptop. When I followed the instructions carefully, it worked great, and it works as well now as it did the day I installed it, and requires very little maintenance.

When some trouble did come up -- as is inevitable with any distro, but far less with gentoo than with redshit -- the gentoo forums were unbelievable. Certainly the most warmest, most helpful community I've been part. Just give it a try, and you'll see that the people are incredibly knowledgeable and very friendly, which really is not that common in my experience.

uh huh...

See Rhodes. (pic)

If you think this push of technology is even the least bit fishy, go pick up a copy of _High Tech Heretic_, by Cliff Stoll (the Cuckoo's Egg guy). I scooped up a copy a week ago and he has beautifully pontificated all my feelings about technology in education.

A reviewer on Amazon wonderfly offers, "Why are we supposed to wire every classroom? Whose best interests are served by programs that offer "computer literacy?" Can we really meet people online? Stoll asks the reader to check assumptions and suspend judgments, while we determine what's really best for our children and our culture."

Highly recommended ...

1. Laptops are to powerhungry
2. Not child safe (what if it falls) ( you need some gameboy like build device )
3. Expensive
4. Overpowered for this situation.

The best thing to do would to build a custom ebook reader. That wouldn't be to hard I think. Just take an el-cheapo (older model) PDA (its engine) and but a bigger LCD screen on and maybe a bit more vram.

For instance:
1. To save development costs on the hardware and OS and tools we will use the: Palm IIIc Handheld. Which has 256 colours and costs $79. Mind you this price is also including all the extra's like warrenty, batteries, small LCD and Synchronizing HotSync cradle and battery recharger (120 VAC, 60 HZ), Metal stylus, Palm Desktop organizer software, Handbook , Lithium ion rechargeable battery (internal) ,DB-25 adapter,Protective flip lid .
So without all of that we will pay Palm $60 for the hardware and OS.

2. Just slap on a slow (not watching video or playing games) and cheap LCD of 800x600 that costs about $60 (in mass quantities). Example here

3. Bluetooth module $5

4. Casing $10

A total price of $60 + $60 + $5 + $10 = $135 for hardware and OS. Now add some $$$ for development costs and accessories and profit and the price will be about $209,95.

Optional: Touchscreen, newer hardware, faster wireless networking etc.

Um. And you're discounting Iraqi civilian casualties because...? You mean "600 Americans dead...along with untold thousands of civilians".

This is all true, but it is necessary to abstract reality so that the average American (those who only think of themselves) can understand it. Yes, the body count is now over 700 Americans (not including those who killed themselves) and about 10,000 Iraqis (most, if not all, civilian). Many Americans would think, "gee, that's too bad," upon hearing of the dead civilians. Some would probably think it's their own fault. Almost none would value an Iraqi life as much as an American's.

-Imawarpresident

More than 600 dead, thousands maimed or wounded. All over a lie. Now that's funny!

You can change one of the TiVo remote buttons to do 30-second skip with a short key sequence. This only needs to be done when the TiVo is rebooted, i.e. extremely seldom.

You can opt out of the aggregate data collection by calling TiVo. TiVo hackers have examined data from the TiVo's phone calls home before and after the opt-out procedure and confirmed that once you opt out, the data is indeed no longer sent.

And if a small, animated image drives you into a rage, you need help. There's a support group for that sort of thing.

~Philly

For those who are interested, Game Developer magazine has an article (link bypasses registration) on the good, bad, and ugly of the porting process for Viewtiful Joe. Great information on the differences between the GameCube and PS2 architectures and how they got around some sticky issues.

Read all about it!

read all about it!

Rotating ojbects definitely /can/ affect time and space, as proven by this amazing example.

Here's a mirror of what I managed to save before the server died. Hope that helps.

Did you know that virii is not correct?

http://tinyurl.com/298pt

http://dictionary.reference.com/help/faq/language/ v/virus.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plural_of_virus

From the parent post: "Vote NOT Bush"

What! A vote for Bush is a vote for violence. I thought gamers loooved violence.

Invading Iraq is just a rich person's video game. Except you pay for your games. They are different. You pay for theirs, too.

And, of course, they kill real people.

I completely agree. As to the finances, read my earlier posting. Granted, there are lots of fuzzy numbers in the calculations but I don't think it's a coincidence things come awfully close to working out.

And should any of the RIAA oligopoly members teeter on the brink of disaster, one of the others will purchase it to keep "things in the family". And the various financial|news journals will cite piracy as the primary cause.

And before you think the suits will read between the lines, think about what Michael Eisner (Disney Chairman) thought when he heard about things such as rip & burn and other media issues which the business world needed to examine & deal|cope with. His first reaction? "Why do we have to deal (as in cooperate) with 'ripoff'?" as in rip=ripoff (that is *not* UL|FOAF). Although the ivory tower is a reference to the separation of educational faculty from reality, Mr. Eisner has shown another type of tower in the business world.

True enough, but the largest retailer in the world says you don't have to.

If that URL didn't work for you (my cut & paste didn't), try a shortened version of the same Boston Globe article using TinyURL.

If that URL didn't work for you (my cut & paste didn't), try a shortened version of the same Boston Globe article using TinyURL.

The town I grew up in had a stoplight that changed when cars approaching it exceeded the 25-mph speed limit.

Incidentally, the city is Alexandria, Virginia and the street is King Street between Janney's Lane and Upland Place. See map here.

y

Here are two similar, less expensive ones (I used tinyurl.com, it links to ebay).

Don't forget -- konnyaku will now be used for those little rubber feet on the bottom stereo equipment.

The almighty /. effect in action! Werd up Malda.

There's a mirror here

BitKeeper confirms, Linux is developed by idiots!

The book The Eudaemonic Pie is about the roulette team,
and the book The Predictors covers Prediction Company's exploits.

The book The Eudaemonic Pie is about the roulette team,
and the book The Predictors covers Prediction Company's exploits.

Like swinging on a swing?

1. "The Internet is powered by open source."
2. "The Internet is the carrier for open source."
3. "The Internet is also the platform through which open source is developed."
4. "It's simply going to be more secure than proprietary software."
5. "Open source benefits from anti-American sentiments."
6. "Incentives around open source include the respect of one's peers."
7. "Open source means standing on the shoulders of giants."
8. "Servers have always been expensive and proprietary, but Linux runs on Intel."
9. "Embedded devices are making greater use of open source."
10. "There are an increasing number of companies developing software that aren't software companies."
11. "Companies are increasingly supporting Linux."
12. "It's free."

What Marc left out is ---
13. "I'm using it to offshore firstworld jobs to the third world, and I'm damned proud of it" Mar. 22, 2004 Toronto Star Article

Andreessen is not a friend to techies, He's our Benedict Arnold