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What I want to know is how the system reacts when a hamster dies.

Kaboom!

sry.

It soonds luke some thong fram ogent Crabtree out of Allo allo.

Then, you obviously don't remember the Xerox Star

Other links to information via Google...

Cauzin Softstrip

Never came across this (though I dealt with kilometers of paper tape (slightly exaggerated)), but I recall that there was a similar system here in .de as late as the beginning of the ninetees. It was not particularly successful in the shadow of the emerging internet.

CC.

As with all new technology, we'll make sure to test it!

A better question,

They can walk like Humans, but can they walk like this?

I think it's sick how this kid can turn the blame and probably now even make a profit out of his non-related murder. I play GTA quite frequently too but I'm pretty sure I was raised well enough to not kill people.

Although, there was that one time I pulled someone's head and spine out after I spent too much time doing Sub-Zero's Fatality in Mortal Kombat I.

Man, people are rediculous!

GameFAQs has something similar to this already in place, you're not supposed to link directly to an FAQ, you have to instead link to the page with the FAQ listed on it. They claim to have link-blocking countermeasures in place to prevent exactly what I just did above from working (though I didn't find them to be effective when I tried them just now, you may disagree). Then there are infinite sites which disallow remote hotlinking to their images.

Anyway my point is that it's foolish to assume people will obey these terms and conditions, but it IS possible to enforce them manually. It would surely be entirely possible to set up some kind of referrer-looking-up script to make sure you jumped to that page from internally rather than externally.

This great practically self-taught Indian mathematician might have said differently.

Also, a brief look into the history of mathematics will reveal a decimal system in use in India around 2100BC, the development of theories of a solar-centric solar system, and pi around 500 AD, and tangible proof of the development of zero and negative numbers around 650-ish AD (the 7th century, and yes, this is a huge accomplishment nit-wit). Additonally, the term sine is derived from an Indian word, as trigonometry originated there, though you likely never made it through algebra.

The contributions made by the people of the Indian subcontinent are far from trivial. Sounds like someone also needs a history lesson.

In case someone manages to /. the torrents themselves, here is an alternate location.

I'm surprised noone has brought up The Woodside Literary Agency.

The Woodside Literary Agency spammed certain Usenet newsgroups looking for authors.

For a fee, they would represent an author to get his work published.

They apparently never met a manuscript they didn't like.

So some of the participants in one of the misc.writing newsgroup had a contest to see if anyone could get a manuscript rejected.

For example, see Even Hitler got the blues

wtf. the correct link is http://william_ormsbee.tripod.com/Pages/era_p1.htm l

Yay slashdot for fucking up a hrefs! (yay tripod for allowing illegal subdomains?)

This is news to me.

Start of Panama Canal Transfer problems. End of the transfer problems when the US finally fulfills its treaty obligation 22 years late. And since this is "news" to highschool history failures like you, the end of the US military occupation of Panama that went along with that transfer.

The people of Okinawa have protested several times since the end of the war, the largest such protest after a 12 year old girl was raped. The Japanese government usually ignores it, mostly because of American threats of economic ruin in the event that the bases have to "suddenly go away".

I'm so sorry that I didn't spend the time to look up more cites for you to ignore last time, and I know you ignored them because you ignored my next cite:

IN-TER-NA-TION-AL community tried sanctions to affect change. I would think you would approve?

Hell yeah, I approved. Shame that both Clinton and Bush apparently didn't, since their administrations knew about the violations and did nothing about it. You'd know that if you had read the link I gave you. Or hell, if you had read your newspaper instead of using it to wipe your ass.

The Iraqi that voted did not come out of polling places raging against America or the election process. (For now we'll ignore the fact that two major political parties boycotted the election because of their belief that the US could not run a fair election)

Just wait until the US slaps them with the bill. How pissed off will they be then when America siphons off what little money they have over a $100billion bill? Until then, as one of the people who paid for this big experiment at the cost of $12(at least, since the initial 72% turnout estimate has already slipped to 60%... nobody really knows how many people showed up, and of those how many were turned away due to typical American election oopsies like lack of ballots)billion per vote, I have the right to be upset about how my money was spent.

for the first time is exercising his freedom

wrong, wrong, wrong. Scroll down to the bottom, and note how this weekend was the first election in 50 years. Thats right, folks, Iraq used to have elections! They used to be a democracy!

is an aspiration with real meaning to a people who have suffered from decades of dictatorship.

Who needs dictatorship when we can suffer from your ignorance (and that of others like you). Tell you what, save up a few pennies every day and go buy yourself a nice set of Encyclopedias. Get the ones with the big colorful pictures, they're easier to read.

Hang on - let me adjust my tinfoil hat a little - it's a giant death ray.

http://jkidd.tripod.com/b/94.html

Can we please finally start to admit that other primates (apes, and extinct primates, such as Neanderthal, homo erectus, etc) are/were a lot more like us than we care to admit?

Isn't it likely that Australian aborigines are part homo erectus (see here
and
here
and
here.

And that Europeans are probably part Neanderthal. And then you have homo florensis....

I wonder why we cannot admit that apes are a lot like us? Maybe because we eat them sometimes? Maybe it is similar to the rationalization people used in the past to justify slavery?

Can we please finally start to admit that other primates (apes, and extinct primates, such as Neanderthal, homo erectus, etc) are/were a lot more like us than we care to admit?

Isn't it likely that Australian aborigines are part homo erectus (see here
and
here
and
here.

And that Europeans are probably part Neanderthal. And then you have homo florensis....

I wonder why we cannot admit that apes are a lot like us? Maybe because we eat them sometimes? Maybe it is similar to the rationalization people used in the past to justify slavery?

Can we please finally start to admit that other primates (apes, and extinct primates, such as Neanderthal, homo erectus, etc) are/were a lot more like us than we care to admit?

Isn't it likely that Australian aborigines are part homo erectus (see here
and
here
and
here.

And that Europeans are probably part Neanderthal. And then you have homo florensis....

I wonder why we cannot admit that apes are a lot like us? Maybe because we eat them sometimes? Maybe it is similar to the rationalization people used in the past to justify slavery?

Tibet has been a part of China for hundreds, if not thousands of years. It's status only came into question in the last fifty, thanks to the involvement of the CIA, during the cold war.

This is utter nonsense. Tibet has been independent of China for most of its history. Imperial China claimed sovereignty over every state with which it had diplomatic relations, on the theory that the Emperor could only enter into the relationship of master to vassal, including Japan, Okinawa (an independant country until 1609), Korea, and Vietnam. China has long claimed sovereignty over Tibet, but Tibet was de facto an independent state and did not acknowledge Chinese sovereignty.

As a matter of international law, the critical fact is that in 1951, at the time of the Chinese invasion, Tibet was an independant state. It had a distinctive population occupying a well-defined territory under the effective control of its own government. The government of Tibet issued coins and currency and passports that were internationally recognized. It entered into diplomatic relations as a sovereign nation with other countries, including Nepal,Mongolia, Great Britain, and Ladakh. In fact, The Republic of China negotiated with Tibet as a sovereign nation at the Simla Conference in 1913-1914.

Tibet has been a part of China for hundreds, if not thousands of years. It's status only came into question in the last fifty, thanks to the involvement of the CIA, during the cold war.

This is utter nonsense. Tibet has been independent of China for most of its history. Imperial China claimed sovereignty over every state with which it had diplomatic relations, on the theory that the Emperor could only enter into the relationship of master to vassal, including Japan, Okinawa (an independant country until 1609), Korea, and Vietnam. China has long claimed sovereignty over Tibet, but Tibet was de facto an independent state and did not acknowledge Chinese sovereignty.

As a matter of international law, the critical fact is that in 1951, at the time of the Chinese invasion, Tibet was an independant state. It had a distinctive population occupying a well-defined territory under the effective control of its own government. The government of Tibet issued coins and currency and passports that were internationally recognized. It entered into diplomatic relations as a sovereign nation with other countries, including Nepal,Mongolia, Great Britain, and Ladakh. In fact, The Republic of China negotiated with Tibet as a sovereign nation at the Simla Conference in 1913-1914.

"To me is seems that this project will only work if it is managed as a coherent whole, like BSD or Squeak, and that means being open source with a strong leader. And now that I've gotten completely off-topic of your question I'll end my post :)"

A Coherent Interface has been available for quite some time. Unfortunately Good Enough won instead of it's nearest Competitor.

But to get back on topic, the weather service may have an obligation by its previous arrangement with commercial purveyors of this information, not to present the general public with anything other than the raw data that the taxpayers have paid for. But we are free to take that information and provide it in a usable format to the public free of charge and without advertising if we wish. If commercial weather information purveyors want exclusive access to it, then let them fund it instead of the taxpayers. It may well be that this is a type of scientific research that would be better served by the private sector.

There was such a monster 57 years ago, except it was called a Direct Dial radiotelephone, invented by Ramsey McDonald of Richmond, Indiana. Richmond Residents went wireless long before the rest of the country thanks to the Two-Way direct-dial mobile radiotelephone service. His first patent was granted in 1955.

To call from the radiotelephone, the user dialed 9 first and then the landline number. Callers to the radiotelephones dialed a specific number that included a digit designated for the individual radiotelephone. A bell or buzzer would signal the incoming call, as well as a call light. If the recipient was not in their vehicle to take the call, the call light remained on to indicate a missed call.

Should be called: CorporateCrapDaily

Captain Jacob Veldhuyzen van Zanten, impatient because the flight had been delayed for hours and thinking that they had permission to take off, applied full power. While the KLM had started its take-off run, the concerned PanAm crew repeated that they were "still taxiing down the runway". On hearing this, the flight engineer expressed his concern about the PanAm not being clear of the runway, but it was overruled by the captain. The flight engineer apparently hesitated to further challenge van Zanten, possibly because he was not only senior in rank but also one of the most able and experienced pilots of the company.

Final conclusion found that Jacob Van Zanten was solely responsible for the accident. The fundamental factors in the development of the accident were that van Zanten:

1) Took off without being cleared to do so.
2) Did not heed the ATC controller's instruction to stand by for take off.
3) Did not abandon take off when he knew the Pan Am aircraft was still taxiing.

Something rarely mentioned is that the Pan Am 747 involved wasnt just ANY 747, it was the Clipper Victory - the first commercially delivered 747.

...as outlined in the declaration.

The Constitution you mention includes the phrase and idea of General Welfare "We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common Defense, promote the General Welfare,..."

A detailed history and description can be found here: http://members.tripod.com/~american_almanac/welfar e.htm

I can't find a reference to it now, but I think (maybe 5 years ago) that /. had a posting about a new genetic process that Monsanto invented specifically to prevent reseeding.

As I understood it, they had a way to create a crop that you could grow from a seed, but that crop in return wouldn't bare any seeds itself. This of course was great for Monsanto and terrifying for farmers.

The closest I could find online http://members.tripod.com/c_rader0/gemod.htm mentions (search for reseed) that plants can be rasied with sterile male parts. Thank God I'm not a plant, that doesn't sound plesant.

A side impact of this will probably be a reevaluation of the so-called Digital Hub in the St Jame's Gate area of Dublin, where the Lab was located. Apart from a lot of wind, not much has actual been done (apart from, I'm presu,ming, generous grants to companies). The area itself is rather isolated; I know of one company that has relocated simply because they felt the area didn't give a great impression of businesses there; a friend of mine felt quite frightened walking to work there at any time, and she said that the frequent burnt-out cars beside the building didn't exactly impress customers. And it doesn't help that, mainly thanks to Eircom, Ireland's broadband infrastructure lags behind most other developed countries.

P.

On the other hand, I remember fondly being there (the regular non-MLE MeejaLab) when the early ideas for what became both social filtering and "dance dance revolution" (among a number of other things) were created.

gnet

"What is proof? It is the logical form showing the only correct answer based on given propositions."

Right. Based on given propositions. It's turtles all the way down.

I thought they meant something like this or like this when they said N-gauge.

whoo ha! finally.. i want a love-slave! can i grow one? ..hopefully they won't have the "human rights" that i do though! har har har!

Well, you can have one, according to Isaac Asimov.

The Clone Song
By: Isaac Asimov
Tune: Home On The Range

Oh, give me a clone
Of my own flesh and bone
With its Y chromosome changed to X.
And after it's grown,
Then my own little clone
Will be of the opposite sex.

chorus:
Clone, clone of my own,
With its Y chromosome changed to X.
And when I'm alone
With my own little clone
We will both think of nothing but sex.

Read the full song by Isaac Asimov.

whoo ha! finally.. i want a love-slave! can i grow one? ..hopefully they won't have the "human rights" that i do though! har har har!

Well, you can have one, according to Isaac Asimov.

The Clone Song
By: Isaac Asimov
Tune: Home On The Range

Oh, give me a clone
Of my own flesh and bone
With its Y chromosome changed to X.
And after it's grown,
Then my own little clone
Will be of the opposite sex.

chorus:
Clone, clone of my own,
With its Y chromosome changed to X.
And when I'm alone
With my own little clone
We will both think of nothing but sex.

Read the full song by Isaac Asimov.

But hey, let's not let facts get in the way of Apple fanboiness, huh?

Maybe version 4 should be skipped entirely by software developers.

A Japanese word for "four" is shi, which sounds like the word for "death". Japanese fear of four seems to parallel American fear of thirteen, where American casinos often do not offer any gambling on the unpopular thirteenth floor of a building.

If we can manage to have more ISPs grow a backbone, maybe we can once and for all eliminate the witch hunt that the RIAA and MPAA are going on. This is simply uncalled for, and has spurned a response by an anonymous source. http://noriaa1.tripod.com/ There is explicit language used in this, but it makes a good point.

Like this fellow?

Learn how to hyperlink, you cocksmoker!

Read about the origins of Corporate propaganda and PR

Take the Red Pill to "Escape the Matrix" of neoliberal propaganda!

A book from Stuart Ewen about the origins of corporate propaganda

This one is a little bit "out there"

More about Escaping the Matrix of neoliberal propaganda

More about propaganda and how our society was molded by money around the idea of corporate and govt propaganda

How they do fight back against the forces of money in Denmark

A short history of the struggle between the rich and the rest of us

Apparently, the tool referenced in this Slashdot article is not recommended for use because it can corrupt the results.

Of course we (New Yorkers) could just take an elevator up a few flights, unless this thing is expected to knock down skyscrapers. That would give the "domino theory" a whole new meaning. Not that we haven't come close before.

As I posted in "The Smaller Screen", in the earlier Slashdot discussion:

What exactly is this "Hollywood" that Matthew Yi claims is smaller than the $10B "Game Industry" in TFA? Maybe it doesn't include the $14B US ($32B global) record industry: a business run out of LA, mostly, and NYC, even if it's 80% owned in Tokyo/Sony, Berlin/BMG and Paris/Vivendi-Universal. Is it just movies (not TV, either)? The actual scale of "filmed entertainment" revenue (not including music videos, part of the "recorded music" industry) was $75.3B globally, before the predicted 7.5% growth rate for 2004 (ie. $81B). Porn movies and website subscriptions alone have a global revenue of $8-10B. Maybe video games are bigger than Hollywood the same way that John Lennon was bigger than Jesus.

FWIW, my numbers have a stronger citation basis than Grumpy's, comparing the more-relevant global scale, and actually show "Hollywood" to really dwarf the game industry. I'm not complaining about being underappreciated, because my post is mod'ed a "5, Informative", whatever that's worth (not much, as it garnered 0 replies). But I wonder what a guy's gotta do to get his counterpoint delivered on the Slashdot front page? Is it just a matter of publishing in another web page, to which Slashdot can point as a 'blog - chumming the Web with Slashbait, as it were? Or is there really a "higher mod" level than the apparent maximum "5", within which one's fabulous post can be promoted to a story of its own? How do I get my story pitched beyond this little screen discussion syndication, and get it starring in its own story, on the homepage big screen?

What exactly is this "Hollywood" that Matthew Yi claims is smaller than the $10B "Game Industry" in TFA? Maybe it doesn't include the $14B US ($32B global) record industry: a business run out of LA, mostly, and NYC, even if it's 80% owned in Tokyo/Sony, Berlin/BMG and Paris/Vivendi-Universal. Is it just movies (not TV, either)? The actual scale of "filmed entertainment" revenue (not including music videos, part of the "recorded music" industry) was $75.3B globally, before the predicted 7.5% growth rate for 2004 (ie. $81B). Porn movies and website subscriptions alone have a global revenue of $8-10B. Maybe video games are bigger than Hollywood the same way that John Lennon was bigger than Jesus.

Revolutionary history: January 1984 launched the revolution, and the results are sitting right there in front of you. Whatever hardware and operating system you choose to use, "Every computer today is basically a Macintosh, a very different type of computer from those that preceded it," according to Steve Wozniak, co-founder of Apple Computer, in his foreword to Revolution in the Valley by Andy Hertzfeld ($25).

That's not so much revolutionary history as revisionist history. It would be more accurate to say "every computer today is basically a Xerox Star" which got its start in 1976. Today, Macs owe more to Unix workstations than they do to the original Mac.

Several other posts have mentioned Le Guin's other great works, beside the Earthsea series -- the Dispossessed, the Left Hand of Darkness, the Lathe of Heaven -- but the story that most clearly defines her literary motivation is The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas.

Le Guin is fascinated by the concept of Utopia. In the Dispossessed, she conjectures "If anarchism / communism could work, what would it look like?". The Lathe of Heaven explicitly deals with the theme of Utopia, and how one person's utopia is another's hell.

Omelas is more than a story: it's a thought experiment. What is most disturbing and haunting about it is how the utopian society of Omelas only becomes real and believable once Le Guin reveals the dark, horrible bargain that the denizens of Omelas made to have their perfect world. To paraphrase Mr. Smith in the Matrix, it's as if humans need suffering and evil in order to believe in existence.

On topic, Earthsea is fascinating because she attempts to weave a mythology as different from the Tolkien motif as she could get. Tehanu, written 25 years after the original trilogy, is Le Guin's revisiting of Earthsea, after she embraced feminism.

Le Guin is also notable in that she views science fiction with an anthropologist's eye, not a technologist. She is interested in the sociological impact of science and technology. Nevertheless, her stories are well grounded in scientific principles.

No faster-than-light warp drives or hyperspace; her characters have to make do with near lightspeed. And because of relativity, even though it takes a spacefarer one night to go to another star system, 100 years pass by on her homeworld. In the 1960's, Le Guin also invented the concept of the ansible, which was inspired by the principle of quantum entanglement (she called it the "Principle of Simultaneity" because the term "quantum entanglement" hadn't been coined yet).

Now this spyware issue, the banning ceremonial swords and toy guns, crime rates rising, and the security camera epidemic. How much freedom are the citizens of these countries willing to give up?

"The critical question is, How good and different are [the cold fusion researchers'] new results?" says Allen Bard, a chemist at the University of Texas at Austin. "If they are saying, 'We are now able to reproduce our results,' that's not good enough. But if they are saying, 'We are getting 10 times as much heat out now, and we understand things,' that would be interesting. I don't see anything wrong with giving these people a new hearing." In ERAB's cold fusion review in 1989, he adds, "there were phenomena described to us where you could not offer alternative, more reasonable explanations. You could not explain it away like UFOs."

Isn't this basically a smoking gun? New fundamentl physics is often revealed by results that differ by as little as one part in a million from preditictions of current theory, or one part in whatever. If there is any discrepancy, whatsoever, within the statistical and systematic errors, that is enough. Your old theory is incorrect. This is completely bonkers. He is saying that consistent excess heat production is not enough, unless it is bigger than before.

Personally I suspsect the writer of this article, Toni Feder, intentionally tricked Dr. Bard into revealing this on the record. That last bit -- about phenomena that you can't just "explain away" -- seems as though Dr. Bard thinks he is speaking to a member of the group that is sympatico to repressing cold fusion research, doesn't it?

There is known to have been disputes between editorial staff and management at Physics Today over the coverage given to less mainstream areas of research. The following exerpt from a letter to the American Institute of Physics, which publishes Physics Today, protests the treatment suffered by a past editor, Jeff Scmidt:

Indeed, we understand that you were displeased with Jeff's workplace activism and had tried to silence him through a number of very repressive measures short of dismissal.

As you know, Jeff worked with other Physics Today staff members to ... increase staff participation in decision-making, broaden the narrow range of viewpoints allowed in the magazine ...

By the way, Jeff Schmidt is the author of Disciplined Minds [disciplined-minds.com], and I think this book includes more coverage of this editorial dispute at Physics Today.

Back to the question of how anomalous the results have to be, we move from the comments of scientists to the behavior of the reporters, in this case Gary Taubes, with What If Cold Fusion Is Real?, Wired, November 1998:

Meanwhile, electrochemist John Bockris announced that one of his graduate students at Texas A&M, Nigel Packham, had collaborated on a successful cold fusion experiment. Packham had even detected small amounts of tritium, a radioactive by-product virtually guaranteeing that fusion had taken place.

A science writer named Gary Taubes, who has written two books and several articles investigating allegations of fraudulent activity in science, went to Texas A&M on a fact-finding mission.

"We thought Taubes was genuine at first," Bockris told me recently, speaking in a clipped, precise British accent that he acquired before he moved to the U

Plastic Ninjas, Fake Nurses, and other Chindonya Stories

Perhaps I'm just jaded, but I don't think the Japanese gadgets are so great. It took me several days to get used to the bizarre new toilets after they remodeled the rest rooms at my office... Actually, I blame the French for that specific problem.

Ala peanut butter sandwiches....

PTC lost a LOT of their political clout after WWE kicked their ass in court a couple years ago. Other targets should repond the same way.

After an extensive search of the PTC website I couldn't find this apology. It was missing from thier press release section of the website. I did however, find a copy elsewhere.