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Could be blocked by them, though. TinyURL

1. Let the blocking site shoot themselves in the foot (in the end).
2. Link to the article on another site.
3. Link to an unblocked redirect like this one.
4. Tell visitors to copy/paste the link -- http://www.eetimes.com/sys/news/OEG20031203S0032 -- into the URL address bar, so the referer is blank.
5. Tell visitors to disable their browsers' referrer logging (F12 in Opera), or use a referrer rewriting proxy.
6. I think there's a way to do fake the referer with javascript links

I would like to add that it HAS to look like Uhura's ear piece, otherwise I'm not buying it.

Fortunately, at least one headset isn't ugly, garish and obvious.

I would like to add that it HAS to look like Uhura's ear piece, otherwise I'm not buying it.

Fortunately, at least one headset isn't ugly, garish and obvious.

I would like to add that it HAS to look like Uhura's ear piece, otherwise I'm not buying it.

Fortunately, at least one headset isn't ugly, garish and obvious.

I would like to add that it HAS to look like Uhura's ear piece, otherwise I'm not buying it.

Fortunately, at least one headset isn't ugly, garish and obvious.

According to one report, workers were desperately sealing the doors with duct tape...

I'm looking through the The Jumbo Duct Tape Book on Amazon right now, and don't see any section on using duct tape to seal off biohazard doors... maybe they are saving that for the second edition. Duct Tape: 101 Nuclear and Biochemical Warfare Uses!

Josh

OK, Maybe it was originally a trilogy:
Wizard of Earthsea
Tombs of Autan
The Farthest Shore

But in 2001 Leguin published Tehanu. The earthsea trilogy is now called the Earthsea Cycle. Of all of The Earthsea cycle books, Tehanu really showcases LeGuin's political and feminist slants. (This is a good thing I believe). Tombs of Autan had some and the other two books required a little more digging to get into her philosophy.

If you want to read some great LeGuin I would reccomend: Always coming home and The Dispossessed. Both of these books are very thought provoking and well worth the time to read. There was an edition of Always coming home publihsed with a cassette tape of the music and poetry that was created by the societies described in the book. Wonderul stuff.

"Grain grows best in shit" Ursula K LeGuin

(Tinyurl links got to amazon Please use fewer 'junk' characters.
)

OK, Maybe it was originally a trilogy:
Wizard of Earthsea
Tombs of Autan
The Farthest Shore

But in 2001 Leguin published Tehanu. The earthsea trilogy is now called the Earthsea Cycle. Of all of The Earthsea cycle books, Tehanu really showcases LeGuin's political and feminist slants. (This is a good thing I believe). Tombs of Autan had some and the other two books required a little more digging to get into her philosophy.

If you want to read some great LeGuin I would reccomend: Always coming home and The Dispossessed. Both of these books are very thought provoking and well worth the time to read. There was an edition of Always coming home publihsed with a cassette tape of the music and poetry that was created by the societies described in the book. Wonderul stuff.

"Grain grows best in shit" Ursula K LeGuin

(Tinyurl links got to amazon Please use fewer 'junk' characters.
)

OK, Maybe it was originally a trilogy:
Wizard of Earthsea
Tombs of Autan
The Farthest Shore

But in 2001 Leguin published Tehanu. The earthsea trilogy is now called the Earthsea Cycle. Of all of The Earthsea cycle books, Tehanu really showcases LeGuin's political and feminist slants. (This is a good thing I believe). Tombs of Autan had some and the other two books required a little more digging to get into her philosophy.

If you want to read some great LeGuin I would reccomend: Always coming home and The Dispossessed. Both of these books are very thought provoking and well worth the time to read. There was an edition of Always coming home publihsed with a cassette tape of the music and poetry that was created by the societies described in the book. Wonderul stuff.

"Grain grows best in shit" Ursula K LeGuin

(Tinyurl links got to amazon Please use fewer 'junk' characters.
)

George is correct...Eric and I wrote one version in 1989 at UCSC as a spoof of all the knee-jerk environmental activism, we printed up a slew of these flyers and spread them all over campus. (specifically, the Styrofoam reference is in response to the successful campus-wide student campaign to ban Styrofoam from our dorm cafeterias) Craig then edited it and massaged the text for HTML in around 1992 or so (the link george gives above) Obviously not the only time this idea has been thought of, but ours was an "independent invention" for us and our particular copy has been circulated as email spam, printed in Chemical Engineering News, Bulletin of Atomic Scientists, etc. (the latter two with our permission) and seems to have a life of it's own. Eric posted the original text here: to rec.humor.funny back in 1990

VoIP on mobile devices is not that new, is it? PocketPC based devices have been pulling this off for a while now. You can even get one with a built in laser! check out www.intermec.com

http://www.dnalounge.com/backstage/log/2000/07.htm l#20

http://tinyurl.com/2msyt

Welcome to the board.

David? Is that you?

I know this is your picture. Don't deny it, yabastard.

Well, I dunno. Check out the forum here and ask the developers.

..how about some still pics from The Passion of The Christ?

See 'em here.

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EU backs tighter rules on piracy

A similar US law has led to lawsuits against pop-swappers
The European Parliament has passed an anti-piracy law, covering everything from handbags to music downloads.
Under the law, counterfeiters could face civil penalties, but proposals for criminal sanctions were dropped.

Before the vote, critics said the law was flawed as it applied the same penalties to both professional counterfeiters and consumers.

But a late amendment limited them to organised counterfeiters and not people downloading music at home.

Property price

The final vote on the EU Intellectual Property Rights Enforcement Directive took place in the European Parliament on 9 March. The directive was passed by 330 votes to 151.

The law was drawn up to target professional pirates, criminals and counterfeiters who make copies of goods such as football shirts or CDs.

During the debates, the directive was widened to cover any infringement of intellectual property.

The directive allows companies to raid homes, seize property and ask courts to freeze bank accounts to protect trademarks or intellectual property they believe are being abused or stolen.

Civil liberty and lobby groups feared that the music industry will also use the law to mount raids on the homes of people who swap songs via file-sharing systems such as Kazaa.

The Enforcement directive was compared to the controversial US Digital Millennium Copyright Act by Andreas Dietl, director of EU Affairs for the European Digital Rights (EDRi) lobby group.

The Recording Industry Association of America has used the DMCA to bring lawsuits against file-swappers in the US and EDRi fears the same could now happen in European countries.

The European law was shepherded through the European Parliament by MEP Janelly Fourtou, wife of Jean-Rene Fourtou who is boss of media giant Vivendi Universal.

But late amendments added to the law limited who intellectual property owners could take action against and what penalties they could apply.

One amendment said action should not be taken against consumers who download music "in good faith" for their own use.

Proposals to jail counterfeiters were also dropped from the act.

Lobbyists fear that the law could threaten press freedom in countries, such as Spain, which include confidential information in definitions of intellectual property.

In November, the EU copyright directive came into force in the UK which put many things people are used to doing with music, such as copying tracks to an MP3 player, fell into a legal grey area.

EU ministers are expected to sign off on the new rules against counterfeiting by the end of the week.

Member states would then have 18 months to implement their own versions of the directive.

One File Swapper Lawsuit At A Time

from the slowly,-slowly... dept.
A judge looking at the latest complaint from internet providers about the RIAA's "John Doe" lawsuits that grouped hundreds of potential offenders into a single lawsuit has decided that isn't very fair. Instead, he's pointing out that the RIAA should file each lawsuit individually and present evidence that each John Doe violated copyright laws in a separate lawsuit. Perhaps as a gesture of goodwill, he's approved the first such subpoena after evidence was presented on one single file sharer. As you might imagine, this is likely to slow down (and increase the expense) of the RIAA's legal attack on people accused of illegal file sharing.

One File Swapper Lawsuit At A Time

from the slowly,-slowly... dept.
A judge looking at the latest complaint from internet providers about the RIAA's "John Doe" lawsuits that grouped hundreds of potential offenders into a single lawsuit has decided that isn't very fair. Instead, he's pointing out that the RIAA should file each lawsuit individually and present evidence that each John Doe violated copyright laws in a separate lawsuit. Perhaps as a gesture of goodwill, he's approved the first such subpoena after evidence was presented on one single file sharer. As you might imagine, this is likely to slow down (and increase the expense) of the RIAA's legal attack on people accused of illegal file sharing.

Mirror available via here.

For searching the 'deep web' here. I dunno, I can't see how this will ever be useful for people to search with.

..available here.

Download it Here!

The store tracking sensors that this guy is talking about aren't even rfid, and only have a fleeting resemblence, all they can tell is the presence of a tag moving through them.

Hate to intrude on your conversation but as was reported on /. here you can run Steam (Counter Strike 1.6) under linux! And Half-Life (Counter Strike 1.5) runs fine too! :)

Kleedrac

Hate to intrude on your conversation but as was reported on /. here you can run Steam (Counter Strike 1.6) under linux! And Half-Life (Counter Strike 1.5) runs fine too! :)

Kleedrac

Unfortunately these popup killers also kill a lot of legitimate applications, for example web-based chat systems or anything created with the tinyurl popup creation utility

The process appears to be something like the following:

Install device-mapper patch into 2.4 kernel. Devmapper isn't part of the 2.4, but is part of 2.6. Not sure if any distros include the patch in their 2.4 releases (Red Hat doesn't)
Install LVM2 into existing system (LVM1 and LVM2 commands can co-exist)
Boot 2.4 kernel w/device mapper and LVM2

*hand waving*

http://linux.msede.com/lvm_mlist/archive/2003/12 /0 111.html
(AKA http://tinyurl.com/2jj3h)

Install 2.6 kernel w/device mapper and LVM2
In this case, you're only running LVM2 commands and device mapper. You still have to convert the LVM1 metadata on disk to LVM2 *hand waving*

LVM2 uses an 'lvm' command that has the operation you want to perform as an argument. This 'lvm vgcreate' instead of 'vgcreate'. AFAIK, the remainder of the arguments are the same as before.

http://tinyurl.com/2oyo9
is a bit more convenient. (Yes, I know, redundant...)

Today, we, the John Romero Appreciation Society would like to call a day of celebration for John Romero, a great man of our times. Possessed of both visionary vision and a mind like a steel trap, John has consistently redefined the ideas of what constitutes a good game, with such masterpieces as Commander Keen and Daikatana. Like many great men, such as Derek Smart and the guy who commissioned Big Rigs, John is underappreciated by many.

We'd like to change this. He bought us such delights as Doom and that delivery boy game. He made greasy skin, weight problems and unwashed hair socially acceptable. He showed us that if you're rich, it doesn't matter if your wife is an illegal immigrant half your age. Please, before you criticise him, remember this-he fucked a Playboy model and you didn't.

> And if FreeBSD can compile the c library, the c compiler,
> kernel, xfree86, qt, kde, python, perl, and many other
> packages in 2 hours on a p2-300 w/160MB RAM and a slow hard
> drive, then I would be amazed.


3 hrs! C compiler, C libs, kernel, perl, openssh, openssl, nntpd and everything in /bin, /sbin and some games (bind and sendmail if you want them). Other stuff too which I can't remember. Everything in the base system which you can browse in cvs.

So you're right, we're not strictly comparing like with like - especially since I've got 192MB RAM and a Samsung 32GB IDE HD so my machine will obviously leave yours for dead ;) To be fair too I've got a Celeron (one of the good ones) with a L1 cache addressed at the full clock speed of the chip.

Apologies for the broken links. Try reading about the makeworld process here.

For upgrading userland stuff, most FreeBSDers use portupgrade which makes things pretty easy and painless.

Anyway, give FreeBSD a try one day. It would be interesting to compare it with Gentoo and see which bits of each system are better. I think you'll find the performance a lot better which is important when you're on low end hardware and building all your stuff from source.

My initial impression has been favorable, though you're right on in your assessment that tablets are still in their infancy. Microsoft's handwriting recognition is excellent, definitely the best I've seen. They also have some limited support for gesture and shape recognition, though they don't appear to be using them for much at the moment.

As far as I can tell, there is not yet a "killer app" for the tablet pc platform. The only thing that comes close is OneNote, which is pretty damned cool, but not really worth the extra money, imo. The tablet platform still has quite a few warts, the biggest being the lack of decent integration with existing apps. MS's solution to ink input for legacy apps is a rather clunky keyboard/writing area applet that sits above the task bar and transmits your handwriting as text to selected text input controls after a short delay. I suspect that this will get better and better with future revisions of the tablet pc operating system services.

As for the hardware, the Toshiba is a nice machine. It's fast, being Centrino based, though not as fast as some of the other Pentium M machines out there because they've pushed it as far in the battery life conservation direction as possible. Mine gets about 4 - 5 hours under normal conditions. The display is good, and I like the high resolution (1400 x 1050). The graphics accelerator is middle of the road for current laptops. Overall performance is decent, though noticably slower than my Thinkpad T40p.

That said, I do have a few gripes with this particular model. It's much larger than you might expect, especially given that it has a curiously cramped keyboard. It's very thick, and fairly heavy for a tablet. I vastly prefer the form factor of my T40. It is, however, leaps and bounds above the 1st gen HP/Compaq tablet we have, which was based on a suck-ass tranmeta processor and just felt cheesy as hell. Apparently the newer ones are much better.

As for competitors, we have one of the Motion Computing slates, which definitely wins in terms of sex appeal. It's thin, good industrial design, and very appealing. I haven't had a chance to play with it, though, and I think I would sorely miss the keyboard in short order.

To summarize, I think my advice would definitely be NOT to buy a tablet right now . For the extra money, you can get an absolutely kick ass notebook that really blows the tablet away in terms of overall capabilities. I like my tablet, but I like my T40 even more. It's much friendlier to use, and I find myself wishing that I were typing when I take notes on the tablet.

If you just have to have the tablet because of the cool factor, make sure you have an opportunity to play with both types (slate and convertible) before you take the plunge. Buying a convertible is a concession to practicality. When you stop using the tablet features after the first month, at least you still have a decent laptop to use. With the slate, you're pretty screwed unless you use the docking station all the time.

- adam

My initial impression has been favorable, though you're right on in your assessment that tablets are still in their infancy. Microsoft's handwriting recognition is excellent, definitely the best I've seen. They also have some limited support for gesture and shape recognition, though they don't appear to be using them for much at the moment.

As far as I can tell, there is not yet a "killer app" for the tablet pc platform. The only thing that comes close is OneNote, which is pretty damned cool, but not really worth the extra money, imo. The tablet platform still has quite a few warts, the biggest being the lack of decent integration with existing apps. MS's solution to ink input for legacy apps is a rather clunky keyboard/writing area applet that sits above the task bar and transmits your handwriting as text to selected text input controls after a short delay. I suspect that this will get better and better with future revisions of the tablet pc operating system services.

As for the hardware, the Toshiba is a nice machine. It's fast, being Centrino based, though not as fast as some of the other Pentium M machines out there because they've pushed it as far in the battery life conservation direction as possible. Mine gets about 4 - 5 hours under normal conditions. The display is good, and I like the high resolution (1400 x 1050). The graphics accelerator is middle of the road for current laptops. Overall performance is decent, though noticably slower than my Thinkpad T40p.

That said, I do have a few gripes with this particular model. It's much larger than you might expect, especially given that it has a curiously cramped keyboard. It's very thick, and fairly heavy for a tablet. I vastly prefer the form factor of my T40. It is, however, leaps and bounds above the 1st gen HP/Compaq tablet we have, which was based on a suck-ass tranmeta processor and just felt cheesy as hell. Apparently the newer ones are much better.

As for competitors, we have one of the Motion Computing slates, which definitely wins in terms of sex appeal. It's thin, good industrial design, and very appealing. I haven't had a chance to play with it, though, and I think I would sorely miss the keyboard in short order.

To summarize, I think my advice would definitely be NOT to buy a tablet right now . For the extra money, you can get an absolutely kick ass notebook that really blows the tablet away in terms of overall capabilities. I like my tablet, but I like my T40 even more. It's much friendlier to use, and I find myself wishing that I were typing when I take notes on the tablet.

If you just have to have the tablet because of the cool factor, make sure you have an opportunity to play with both types (slate and convertible) before you take the plunge. Buying a convertible is a concession to practicality. When you stop using the tablet features after the first month, at least you still have a decent laptop to use. With the slate, you're pretty screwed unless you use the docking station all the time.

- adam

non-con=Non-Commissioned Officer, if IIRC

Actually, that's noncom Noncoms Guide, more commonly refered to as NCO.

POW! BUFF! THUD!

These are also Trojans, posted for the benefit of some members of the Slashdot community who might never have seen one before.

Windows 2000 RING 0 SOURCE CODE Mirror here FAST DOWNLOAD MIRROR

Here's another link to download: here

Hmm but I'm not convinced that they're really fully behind this!

I was rather disappointed to discover that there are no hot teen sex links in your journal. Please fix, thanks.

Here are some starting points:

http://tinyurl.com/22g66
http://tinyurl.com/2de8r

I was rather disappointed to discover that there are no hot teen sex links in your journal. Please fix, thanks.

Here are some starting points:

http://tinyurl.com/22g66
http://tinyurl.com/2de8r

If you think this shit is funny, see what Dell has to say about SCO.

This link certified GoatseFree(TM).

This one does. And if you'd like a nicer choice of options, try here (froogle).

This one does. And if you'd like a nicer choice of options, try here (froogle).

Large scale human rights VIOLATIONS.

For example, that means that if the US currently has a population growth of 1% (from births only) the amount of resources this birth rate consumes is equivalent to a birth rate of 33% in the third world!

There is no third world nation that has such a birth rate so the real issue is the developed nations drain on world resources rather than the population growth of third world nations.

And today, at Gamestop, you can get free 2-day shipping on it (and all PC and PS2 preorders) using coupon code 2DPRPS2PC

Download this...

http://tinyurl.com/3arpf

Actually the US has quite ... ummm ... stringent rules about crypto. For more information I'd suggest reading this article posted by the OpenBSD team. The OpenBSD team is from Canada thusly why they've done so much research on the issue.