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They could visit Uranus!

Yeah, Karma come to me.

An article about SGI and this project. Gives close view of the area.

here is a better one..
http://tinyurl.com/3kdu

come on.. gotta burn some of my karma here..

click here :)

Ahem. I should have used the Preview Button.

The required Microsoft patch is available for plain ol' download here:
http://tinyurl.com/h84v

Shameless self-promotion -
Blaster removal instructions in plain language (for your non-technical friends and family) can be found here.

Sandy

If you clicked, then oh my god, you just downloaded goatse.cx pr0n. You pr3vert.

I guess my point is that pranksters and other bad guys are always finding new ways of getting pr0n on your system. I've had spyware that downloaded it. I've had millions of popups from porn after going to what I thought was an innocent site. Viruses get porn on your system. Whitehouse.com gives you porn.

I agree with you to an extent, but you have to admit that even responsible people can get porn tracks on their system.

Actually, this is already being done. You can find out more information on how it's being done and what it's used for here. It's not in the United States yet, but it's possible to track weather patterns across western Europe with extreme precision. And so far, they can almost predict with certainly the weather for the next 24 hours with computer models that are newly developed to use this data. It's certainly worth a read.

I like beer

he didn't answer why can this man can do this

Excellent information, here is a list of the most notorious spammers.

Add this guy.

Do you game without using a mouse?

*ahem*

Do you browse the internet by tabbing though all your links?

*cough*

Do you invoke the powers of Jesus Christ to double-click icons for you?

Praise the Lord!

Well, you did ask....

Then hop across the country to New York and check out the best of the Barne's and Nobles, the one in downtown Manhattan. Not what you are thinking. This isn't just some big bookstore like every other big bookstore. This is the one that caters to the university students, and they have every textbook imaginable through the annexes. A very geeky way to spend your afternoon.

Then wander down to 13th and Broadway to see Forbidden Planet comics shop, or really any of these comic shops in New York to get your comic jones. While in New York, you might as well check out all the tourist things anyway, cuz you know you will. And when you do, being Aussie and all, you'll want to hit the bar scene at night. Lots of good bar-hopping in Manhattan in the East 70s on 2nd and 1st Avenues.

Computers, books, comics, beer -- what more could a geek ask for. Have fun, mate!

Never trust TinyURL.

That depends on who posts the tinurl link. In that particular case the link should be avoided. But there is for example nothing wrong with 6cr. I do however see no reason for using tinyurl for slashdot comments. Tinyurl is nice for usenet, but on slashdot you should rather use the final url.

There is a really cool Star Wars font site here.
They even have a bunch of non-english character sets and are under the GPL :)

Falcon Northwest has some awesome casemods that are much less expensive... :)

Here's a link to the project paypal account... please donate so that work can continue :)

here
(TinyURL'd for my convenience)

I will never jerk off less...Never

You should check out what Darl McButtpipe said in this interview. Makes you wonder if he'll ever work in the industry again.

Those of you into Brazilian music know how good this band is, but for those who don't know, here's a link to a sample of their amazing work. Truly one of my favorites.

There is a general flaw in your argument, in that we have only had any kind of technology on two objects in space: Our Moon and Mars. Granted, we have had probes pass by other planets, but still, they are still within our solar system, which only constitutes a microscopic fraction of the size of the universe. Now, I would say it is a very selfish argument to say that we have not, on the two extra-terrestrial objects we have been on, found life, that it does not exist anywhere in the Universe.

Wait a minute. The argument is not that life does not exist in the Universe because we haven't found it; It's that we don't have any evidence to say it does. We may have reasons to believe it possible, but the fact is, we haven't found any outside earth yet. So all the arguments that there must be life elsewhere because of the vastness of the Universe and so on boil down to extrapolating from one data point.

I happen to think it likely that there is life elsewhere, but the only really honest and supportable answer is "we don't know." Saying it has to be there is no better than saying it couldn't.

Can you truly say that The Moon and Mars are an accurate cross-section of the universe, and that if life doesn't exist there, it doesn't exist anywhere?

Honestly, I haven't heard anybody say this. Maybe a crank or two, but this is really a straw man. In fact, the kooks tend to fall on the "there must be life out there" side.

A former professor of mine co-authored a book called Rare Earth: Why Complex Life is Uncommon in the Universe. It argues that life may be widespread, but that complex life is probably very rare. But they don't claim to know this to be true. They just make a reasoned, logical argument for their case. Until we have a lot more data, though, we're back to saying we just don't know.

Mr. Chandler also have some interesting points about the case posted here. Interesting read.

If you think that's interesting, you wouldn't believe what this guy has to say. He makes some good points...

Perhaps this will help.

I discovered my love of music at a fairly young age. I don't know if my family was any more musical than any other typical family of non-musicians living in the Detroit area in the late 60s/early 70s, but many of my earliest memories are of songs we'd hear on the radio while on weekend trips, shopping excursions and camping outings. I have vague memories of being in love with songs like "Tears Of A Clown" and "Na Na Hey Hey Kiss Him Goodbye" and "Love Will Keep Us Together" and "Silly Love Songs", though at that early date (around 5-7 years old) I couldn't have told you who performed them or even have done much more than hum the chorus for you. I can remember the very first single I ever purchased, though. I liked a song by Joe Tex called I Gotcha, which research shows was a hit in 1972, which means I was about 5 years old, and that sounds about right. I can't remember whether Mom gave me money to buy it or whether she just asked me to pick out a 45 while we were at the store. In any even, I know for sure that it was the first non-"kids record" I ever owned myself. I have vague memories of playing my older sister's records, but nothing really specific from that early on.

My first "real" album purchase didn't happen until years later: Parliament's Mothership Connection. Even after I bought my first albums, though, for years my musical purchases overwhelmingly came in the form of 45 RPM, 7-inch singles. American singles of the time were very distinctive looking. Unlike European singles, which replicated the small center holes of 12-inch albums, U.S. singles sported a large center hole. This meant that you usually needed some sort of adapter to play them on a standard turntable. The little plastic adapters were somewhat fragile and impractical, but they sure are a wonderfully iconic element of a bygone age, aren't they?

The prevalence of singles among my early purchases was largely practical. I got a small allowance, which if I remember started out at 25 cents a week, then escalated through 50 cents a week, a dollar a week, and finally $5 a week by the time I entered middle school. When I first started buying singles regularly, they went for about 99 cents to $1.25 apiece. That got you a (usually edited) single mix and a b-side, some of which were purest filler and some of which were fascinating. It would probably seem alien to a music buyer younger than, oh 25 or so, but up until the mid 1980s or so record stores would stock hundreds or even thousands of 7-inch singles, with the top sellers proudly displayed on the walls. Singles were a huge part of the music business, and a lot of record stores devoted just as much space to singles as they did to albums.

My music buying took off in earnest when I turned 12 and got my first paper route. I discovered many artists via 45s during this period, many of which I would come to love and by many many albums by in subsequent years. Some early 45's I bought were by Kraftwerk, XTC, the Police, the B-52s, Devo, Gary Numan, and Yellow Magic Orchestra. I mention this not to try to buld up any cred points, but to point out that the easy, cheap availability of music by these artists made it possible for me to try new things musically without a lot of risk. Albums were a formidable $5-$7 apiece, and $7 bought a lot of M&Ms and Hot Wheels. A kid with a paper route just didn't have a lot of dosh to blow on any full-length album that wasn't a sure thing. For a while, the record industry was fine with this. They'd made a mint on bands like the Beach Boys in the 1960s, who were practically hit single machines, releasing multimillion selling single after single, which would eventually get compiled onto albums almost as an afterthought. Of course, as bands like the Beatles (and eventually the Beach Boys themselves) gained more artistic control they began to deliver albums that stood as coherent statements, but for a long

you fucking dumbass

NYT story

FP?

Tinyurl to bypass lame login procedure

You're welcome!

This shortcut http://tinyurl.com/eh1n can be used to find http://forums.com.com/group/zd.News.Talkback/zdnn/ tb.tpt/@thread@193986@F@1@D-,D@ALL/@article@193994 ?EXP=ALL&VWM=hr&ROS=1&PAGETP=2100&NODEID=1104&SHOS T=zdnet.com.com

Review at warcry.com, loser who submitted story at warcry.com.

Does anyone notice a pattern of total jack off losers from warcry.com?

What next?

RedHat 10 Reviewed

Bruha writes "MY FIREND IS TEH FUNNY!!! HE WROT TEH RIVEW!!!!! IS TEH FUNNYYYYYYYYYYYYY!!!! BETTAR THEN NEWEAR ON TEH INTARWEB! CUM C!!!" Posted by CmdrTaco: Yep, sorry, it's a dupe.

In the setup program, under "Input Connections", you can configure a command to run whenever the channel needs to be changed on an input which does not have a tuner.

Thus, you can simply (for relatively hairy values of simply) hook up an IR transmitter and send channel change commands to your cable box.

Any EE student who arrives at the Toot without having worn-out one of these or something similar is already a couple of years behind his peers.

Of course, if Radio Shyster can't keep the farking things in stock, what hope is there for humanity?

Click this link, and see SCO squirm!

Neuros sucks. This is much better.

You're wrong. They have less resources.

That's not funny. This is funny.

I disagree. This site is much better: http://tinyurl.com/cx5f

Here's another review: http://tinyurl.com/cx5f

We Await Silent Tristero's Empire

Looks like it's running a little slowly...

here is a mirror.

posting ac (don't want to be labeled a karma whore :)

It's right here.

Intuit should be made to feel pain, and I mean deep hurting

So if a friend of yours has done something wrong to you, but then stopped, do you continue to punish them until "they feel pain.. ..deep hurting"?

Or do you say "ok, you've stopped, I'm glad you understand, now lets move on and make things more positive."?

Intuit ought to be rewarded for moving past DRM. This will encourage other companies to do the same. Sure, don't use their software while they are using DRM. But once they drop it, its time to go back with open arms and welcome them back. Be happy that they've seen the light.

For more on this line of thinking read "Don't shoot the dog".

It'll blow your mind and get you much further than continual punishment.

AmigaOS , WinTel, and More Screenshots, all thanks to The Internet Archive

AmigaOS , WinTel, and More Screenshots, all thanks to The Internet Archive

AmigaOS , WinTel, and More Screenshots, all thanks to The Internet Archive

Ironic, isn't it, how quickly we forget about the First Amendment when it's somebody else's speech being protected instead of our own?

Does freedom of speach imply the right to lie about the contents of your message?

It has been discussed earlier here but the discussion was rather inconclusive.

Bow to the swine!

You know you want it.

These guys have analyzed the packets being sent back and forth and have determined Apple is tracking everyone who uses the site to an insane degree.

The analysis is good. Not bad for a couple of college guys.