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According to some recent rumor mongering, the Intel supply chain faltered, which is ironic (situational irony, as best I can tell) since that was the very reason they chose Intel.

According to a post in wiredblogs, and i cite: "Patrol bots will guard the streets at night, and even chase criminals, while horse-shaped combat bots will augment the country's fighting force. " Horse-shaped combat robots sounds like APC mounted with tank weaponry. They could also perhaps be manned via some type of connection.

"My source said there was some stuff, "some very, very cool stuff," that Jobs couldn't unveil because of "supply issues."

"They can't get enough Core Duo (chips)," said my source.

"CORPORATE BUYERS of notebooks from Dell and HP are fuming that people can buy Duo Core machines from Apple now, while they will have to wait for weeks for Yonah based notebooks."

the downloading of films and receiving game invites seems an awful lot like xbox live/marketplace.

Actually, this is all possible on PS2 online, but only in Japan:

http://bungiefan.tripod.com/psbbn_03-06.html

It then goes on to say the emotion engine had the power of a super computer which is exactly the same rubbish they're saying about the cell.

All modern CPUs have the "power of a super computer," it just depends which super computer you are referring to.

What would Neil say?

Is the answer to your question "Boomshanka"?

What? You don't catch the reference? I'll wager some /.ers out there do. We One Youngs are everywhere!

This just gets worse and worse. First, we're a lovely spiral galaxy, Queen of the Galaxies. Then we're an ugly bar-spiral, with a sombrero bulge. Then, just a few days ago, they reveal we're warped and distorted.

And now we're this?!?!? Jesus H. Christ, Yahweh, can't you do a better job than that?!?!?

That's completely silly. If a kindergartner decided to write an official sequel to LoTR would it add to the series? Probably not, it would in fact detract from the series since the average quality would decrease. In the extreme case, if "everything" were added to every series, they would in fact, all be exactly the same, since they would all contain everything. Therefore, by taking things out we define them as much as by what we put in. This idea is very old:

Tao Te Ching #11
A clay bowl is molded;
But the use of the bowl
Will depend on the part
Of the bowl that is void.
Cut out windows and doors
In the house as you build;
But the use of the house
Will depend on the space
In the walls that is void.
So advantage is had
From whatever is there;
But usefulness rises
From whatever is not.
[Translated by Raymond B. Blakney]

How right you are:

http://members.tripod.com/~Edison_1/id7.html

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KFG

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My apologies Shanen. My comment was not actually directed at you, although I did nothing to clarify that. I had a lengthy discussion with one of my more "conservative" relatives this weekend in which she had used the "I have nothing to hide and neither should you" approach while we were arguing the issue of domestic spying. So when I read your comment, even though I agreed with what you said, I just had to say something about the "nothing to hide" comment. I too am not sure that I am not on someone's list somewhere for my more liberal views. BTW, your link is broken. Let me fix that, since I wouldn't mind of others saw your site.

For those not in the know...

http://forcedtoshower.tripod.com/cgi-bin/DavidBowi esMember.html

"Of the 2,509 libraries Andrew Carnegie constructed throughout the English-speaking world..only five...he actually endowed... All other towns...were required to subsidize their library by an annual amount that, at least, equalled ten-percent of the cost of the library building, an arrangement soon dubbed The Carnegie Formula."

The formula encouraged community involvement in the library progran, but it also meant that the richest of cities would get the lion's share of the grants. Toronto's Carnegie Libraries

Fair enough. I've never actually had to use it, but I had read about it and understood it. According to a few quick sites I googled up, font embedding is reported to be supported fairly well. Here is an article on MSDN, another article about implementing it in Netscape 4.01 and IE. My understanding is that Firefox has further extended support for embedding fonts and you shouldn't have to use the work around mentioned in that last link anymore. I think the support is there, just not alot of people have realized its potential, very similar to XMLHttpRequest which was laying around for years before people started to notice that some really cool things can be done with it.
Regards,
Steve

"I seriously doubt you can point to any conclusive, scientific language studies on children that really, definitively, show what level of language development a child would develop on it's own, because such a study would be scandalously immoral and unethical."

No need, there is an example that occurred by accident.

http://kccesl.tripod.com/genie.html

"There are plenty of humans that aren't capable of learning grammar without instruction."

Not the point, and completely irrelevant. Grammar is beleived to be inherent in the human brain. The example of Genie, while isolated and unusual, corresponds to data that we have from brian studies of people with different types of aphasia.

"Thats not to say that apes use language or that they are of equivilent intelligence to humans - they clearly do not (at least not to the level we do), but we have no framework or usefull scale of measuring such things."

Please do not assume that because you are ignorant of such scales that they do not exist. As I have already demosntrated, you have much to learn on this subject, so perhaps you could ask questions instead of making incorrect declrations.

The second sentence from the original article posted on /. Started as: "Not to start another PHP vs. Java flame war..."

And now begins the second flame war started by said article.

Gentlemen and nerds, prepare your flamethrowers and ectopacks (respectively)...

Begin!

When will I see a constructive article comparing and contrasting the two and inviting a civil conversation and an acknowledgement that there are fans on both sides?

Come on, it's not like this is a religious argument or (possibly worse) a Star Wars vrs. Star Trek argument.

cool article
sounds like good news to us

thanks
dominic and donatus nwaogu
DDNPMF Nigeria
http://ddnpmfng.tripod.com/

Cool article
huh! is slashdot sort of an online news agent or what
We haven't yet got some thing that can be worth publishing here that is why we've got no article of our own here.

thanks
dominic and donatus nwaogu
DDNPMF Nigeria
http://ddnpmfng.tripod.com/

Anyone who has followed this thread this far, through Goatse and Tubgirl, well they deserve Lemonparty too.
Enjoy. (Or Not, snicker.)

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They can filter all the porn they want -- as soon as they can define it: http://www.spectacle.org/296/opt.html (Safe For Work)

(Or, even better, tell me why it's immoral.)

More seriously:

There are some fine lines between art and porn...stuff like: http://konzababy.tripod.com/photography.htm
(?Not?Safe?For?work?) Click the tiny image to enlarge. -- Is this art or porn? (I say art 100%)

Even closer still are things like http://www.domai.com (Not Safe For Work)

See this interview (Not Safe For Work) on domai.com for an interesting dialog about nudes/art/porn. -- Is Domai Porn? Difficult to say (I lean more toward yes, but I have reservations)

Any thoughts? What makes porn ... porn?

Clearly you're skipping the spanish language results. Don't look for it in english-- you'll only find references to that surf camp. By translating sentences found via google searching for "paredon -surf -surfing", you get a vague idea of what it means-- something like "struggle", "uprising", or "popular anti-government activity". It's possibly significant that Paredon is a place in the Mexican state of Chiapas. "El paredon" has a definite meaning in the latin american revolutionary subculture, but its meaning isn't clearly communicated anywhere in english. At any rate, I think the OP's point is probably that the latin american struggle against bad government is much larger than one semi-successful revolutionary some forty years gone.

And FWIW, Che was murdered by the Bolivian military. The CIA was quite pissed about that because they wanted to capture him alive (as if that would've turned out better!)

They're just idiots looking for any excuse to cause trouble. Like those idiots with Che Guevara shirts who have no idea of what a paredón is.

Could you take pictures of its panties afterwards?

Let's give you one little piece to chew on. It is called the Nasadiya Sukta (Rig Veda 10:129) (the philosophical musing about the beginning of everything). Do you want the Sanskrit or just the English translation?

Thanks - the english one is preferable. With a mere 5 years of Sanskrit training (followed by 25 years of infrequent usage), the english one saves me a fair amount of trips to the dictionary.

Do you want more detail? Or want to mull over it for a few days?

Been there. Done that. Mulled over it. I have no issue with the claim that the Vedas/Puranas/Upanishads can provide remarkable insights about spiritual/religious/philosophical matters and the unity of Nature. (And before you ask me for my credentials, I have to state my complete belief in the philosophical implications of "TAT TVAM ASI" - just so you know Who you are flamin' with. Yeah ;^)

But I do want more details. From the Rig Veda:

3.31 (20-22) Do these mean that Indra and his followers are off to do battle, and take away cows and other riches from the "dark ones"? Who are these "dark ones"?

And while we are on 3.31, doesn't all that father-daughter and brother-sister incest in 3.31.(1-2) bother you? Nah..can't be literal, can it? But even if it is all metaphorical - the religious act of a priest pouring ghee into the fire is likened to a father ejaculating inside his daughter...?? Tell me it aint so.

For the record -- I am not a Hindu Fundie. I am merely trying to provide an alternate (more plausible) perspective into a much "butchered" field of knowledge. Your friend CRCulver prbly read what he posted in his undergrad days in school. There is an entire field of Research and scholarship that is unfortunately based on some very biased and suspect scholarship from the 19th Century even today. The Aryan Invasion/Migration myths, the Aryan-Dravidian divide myth...etc.

The British and other Europeans had the ulterior motives to create the field of Indology that they did. While it might be true that modern-day scholars might not have such ulterior motives, their beginning premise and foundation of their scholarship is flawed. As a result, very much contestable.

The Aryan Invasion/Migration, and the Aryan-Dravidian divide are not myths (and according to current data, neither are the African "Eve", nor the 2 (or 3?) migration waves out of Africa.) They are simply the theories that best fits the current data. Quite a few of the details are definitely contestable. But the overall framework is supported by data from many different and diverse fields such as Archeology, Linguistics, Genetics...

I have also not seen any data to suggest that the "Aryan migration-out-of-India" hypothesis is true. This is assuming that our standard of acceptance of any hypothesis requires corroborating physical evidence. If our acceptance of what is regarded as proof is a literal belief of a certain interpretation of the Vedic texts, then we are talking at cross-purposes.

And even if you do use the Rig Veda, there are fundamental problems. To quote Romila Thapar from one of her lectures "The Aryan Question Revisited",

The Rgveda then is a pre-urban Chalcolethic culture it does not speak of any urban centres. It certainly does not speak of any settlements which have the characteristics of Harappan cities. For example there is no reference to citadel areas and residential areas, there is no reference to massive brick platforms on the top of which monuments are built. There is no reference to drainage systems or to streets or to granaries or warehouses or to a public bath or to a sophisticated exchange system or weights and measures on a graduated scale which was known as and described. To me these are the essential characteristics or Harappan urbanization and all these character

I'd say that a large part of those who remain AC when posting comments on politically charged subjects are doing so because what they are posting is contrary to the editorial slant of slashdot. Basically any post that is not leftist in nature will be modded down either by editors with unlimited mod points or censorship-happy leftists.

This includes posts that are well said, have references, and have no troll factor whatsoever.

I see a consistant effort to stifle free thought through perversion of the mod system.

The fact that you claim to be very happy with the status quo whilst apparently being a hard left advocate kind of makes my point.

So, do you think I should be modded down (usually as overrated - even when no mod points have been applied) for this post?

I couldn't find a photo of a Roman road bridge that went over another road, but undoubtedly they existed. Here is a link to a photo of two Roman aqueducts, built to last thousands of years. One passes over a road and the other aqueduct.

Would you look carefully and tell me that you think a culture that could engineer these aqueducts didn't also engineer overpasses at will?

Roman aqueducts

Just curious, do you know whether the puppy in this pic is a real dog and if it is, what breed it is?

puppy.

Thanks!

taking about unlocking the secret of quatum computing, it maybe possible unlike how people think they aren't possible or difficult to achieve just as people say perpetual motion machines cant be achieved.

let's see what this web site below have to say about the true perpetual motion machines:

http://ddnpmfng.tripod.com/

Thanks,
Dominic and Donatus Nwaogu
DDNPMF Nigeria

JFK was killed the week he decided to reduce US forces in Vietnam. Johnson's first act was to reverse that decision. Johnson certainly had a lot of blood on his hands for creating that war. Nixon campaigned on a platform of ending the war, then acted to make it permanent. In fact he also kept the war going in 1972 specifically to campaign for reelection. If he hadn't got caught in Watergate, he'd have cut and run in his second term, and installed his successor as President in 1976, probably Bush, the head of the Republican Party. Which is exactly the same strategy Bush is using right now: prop up the catastrophic Iraqis long enough to win in 2004, cut and run in 2006 enough to install his successor in 2008. Too bad his office has committed so much treason that even Republicans are turning against him. I'm looking forward to the full Nixon treatment.

While not a HTPC, check out these add-ons for the mac mini: http://wiredblogs.tripod.com/cultofmac/index.blog? entry_id=1280301/. They add sound and a hard drive. Not a HTPC for a working geek, but it would be pretty spiffy in the dorm room. Those are the nicest looking add-ons I've ever seen for any computer system.

Ya, this is definitely a funny picture!

Ok! So I agree you can't trust everyone on the internet, but I have the log.
And I uploaded it to tripod, FEAR the page generator.

http://xbox360dolby0.tripod.com/

    AND, the xbox360 first batch is shipping with fcckuyps in the implementation as it is... if you choose 'mono' analog output, it mixes in the phase shifted surround channels and adds it all together!

A question for anyone with a new iMac G5 who has also bought a video from the music store. Do these videos integrate with Front Row at all?

Yes, they do. The "Video" segment of Front Row breaks your videos into "Music Videos", "TV Shows", "Video Podcasts", and "Movies" (which is a generic catch-all for any videos in your Movies folder in your Home directory as well as videos that you've imported into iTunes).

(FYI, it is possible to use Front Row on machines other than the new iMac...)

The hard link shell extension?

Everytime I've seen Live it looks like nothing more than a glorified chat room that acts as a gaming hub. The single sign-in for all games is a nice features but Sony and Nintendo will have something simiular. Past interviews with Nintendo have mentioned it, and you can be sure Sony is researching it.

Other than that Live is a pretty big let done when compared to what even the PS2's online mode in Japan can do. You can download movies, music, pictures, and short games/demos and watch, listen, view, or play them. I also already interfaces with Sony cameras for viewing pictures so nothing really big there.

You can see what the rest of the world missed here http://bungiefan.tripod.com/psbbn_03-06.html

>PS3's big plus over the xbox is Blu-ray (if it takes off). However, if the >telco and cable company's multi-billion dollar push for streaming high def >video over the web takes off, then hd-dvd and lu-ray will become obsolete >before they hit shelfs... only good for storage.

And how does this make a bad choice for the PS3 and a good choice for the 360? First off in the coming 1-2 years not every place will be able to stream this HD video off the web as some places in the US are unable to get broadband. Secondly that still doesn't make MS sticking with a 9GB disk when you are trying to load up with HD content a good idea. So the disks become only good for storage, you'll get a lot of it on that one disk. Gamecube games suffered from only being 1.5GB in some games where the video and audio had to be more highly compressed, will the 360 suffer this fate because as Allard said "the compression isn't there yet".

>I don't know who will win this round, but right now my money is on the xbox. >Sony is loosing allot more money then MS is on each console, and the console is >really that more powerful, at least according to the dozens of developers I've >talked to/ worked with. I personally haven't developed for either yet, but >anticipate I will sometime next year. The developers I talked too aren't in >love with the cell at all. Apparently you really can't use all the cores the >way you would expect.

I'm not trying to be a fan boy but I can't see Sony losing all the much more than MS. Sony as the manufacturing plants to make the parts themselves. As for talking to developers I spoke in person with a friend who is currently doing testing for Activision (I won't say his exact position because they are only a handful of them) but he's not a beta tester. His comments where than it doesn't look any better than a high-end PC. Look at the PC when the PC and Xbox came out. The graphics were far better than the consoles, sure now years later those old PCs can't keep up, but look at what the new ones can dish out compared to the consoles.

As for the cell being hard to program for? We heard the exact some complaint with the PS2. Boo fucking hoo. Take a wild guess which console had the most games released for it? That's right the PS2, developers will release on which ever console has the largest user base. And remember that the 1 year head start didn't help the dreamcast.

>I'm going to buy both consoles, but I'm really not the average user... it will >be interesting to see how sony handles xbox's initial success this year.

I'll hold my judgement on the 360's initial success until after the smoke clears from the holiday season. As for consoles, I'll probably pickup a PS3 after the first price drop or a nice bundled game with a good coupon, and a Revolution right awa

It's not an act -- the guy is actually loony. (Or at least, he has an extremely active imagination.) Here are some other famous outbursts by him.

One example: in 1988, he ran against Janet Reno for DA of Dade County:
Thompson's unique campaign message was that Reno was unfit for the job because, as a closeted lesbian with a drinking problem, she was great candidate for blackmail by the criminal element. Jack never explained why this remained a threat even after he exposed her "secret." Reno cruised at the polls.

"What I want, is a noise cancelling dome, so two people can go under it, talk, and have no one outside hear anything, that'd be cool."

More than 6,000 years ago, the refreshing qualities of beer were recognized and enjoyed, and ancient peoples have left records to indicate that they took the brewing of this thirst-quenching beverage very seriously. The Chinese, Inca, African, Babylonian, Assyrian, Egyptian, Hebrew and Saxon are just a few civilizations in which beer has been associated with family life, friendship, romance and celebrations. Through the years it has been immortalized in songs, stories, poems, and legends. Although the taste of beer has changed over the last few thousand years, the enjoyment has remained constant. Other than water and tea, beer is the most popular beverage on earth. When today's beer drinkers lift a frosty mug of their favorite brew, they can do so knowing that they are in good company, sharing a kinship with pharaohs, kings, queens, statesmen, literary giants and explorers.

Today, as in the past, beer has no cultural boundaries. Its long tradition of providing enjoyable refreshment to consumers continues.

http://www.fs-driver.org/
http://uranus.it.swin.edu.au/~jn/linux/ext2ifs.htm
http://ext2fsd.sourceforge.net/
http://freesourcecodes.tripod.com/ext2.htm
http://p-nand-q.com/e/reiserfs.html
http://www.wolfsheep.com/map/#RFSGUI
http://www.it.fht-esslingen.de/~zimmerma/software/ ltools.html

The above links were all gathered from http://uranus.it.swin.edu.au/~jn/linux/ext2ifs.htm I've not tried any of them, but this one looks the most polished. YMMV, knock yourself out, etc.

How do criminals think they'll get away with something like this? I just don't get it really. Even if you successfully set up the botnet and the company decides they do want to pay you off, how do they think they're going to remain anonymous, collect the money, and fade into oblivion (or fade into bolivian if you're Mike Tyson). Perhaps I just don't have the cunning mind of a criminal but the logic really escapes me.

...there has also been some Panthers with stripes...
...and Tigers without stripes...
yes, I know... the tiger is off topic... sorry.

Googling 'ipod nano screen scratch' yields 521,000 results.

Read this Mr. Google...

the great thing about having an uncommon name like Ms Strzalkowski quoted in the article, is that a quick Google search for Strzalkowski and Microsoft reveals a certain Tomek Strzalkowski who appears to be friendly with the Beast. I wonder if they know each other?

Dude, you totally forgot Out of This World!

Well here's news for you- political correctness (America's recompense to Europe for the "gift" of Marxism) has run amok everywhere except the U.S., but especially in Canada. Canada, the country which after the U.S. Supreme Court struck down an Indianapolis anti-porn ordinance hatched in an unholy alliance between Christian conservatives and radical feminists Andrea Dworkin & Catherine MacKinnon, adopted it wholesale (for the best of feminist reasons, of course), and then proceeded to use it to ban gay, lesbian, and S&M books imported from the U.S. Candada, where being nice and orderly and quiet is more important than being free:

Although the 1982 Charter of Rights and Freedoms put free speech and a free press into the bedrock of Canadian law, neither the public nor Canada's courts views these rights as absolutely as Americans have come to view the First Amendment. The Canadian Supreme Court has ruled in a series of cases that the government may limit free speech in the name of other worthwhile goals, such as ending discrimination, ensuring social harmony or promoting equality of the sexes.

"In Canada," said Ron Cohen, chairman of the Canadian Broadcast Standards Council, "we respect free speech but we don't worship it.

Washington Post, Steven Perlstein, December 12, 1999

Ontario is considering a report which recommends that it allow sharia religious arbitration for issues such as divorce and child custody... Approval would make Ontario the only Western jurisdiction to adopt a form of sharia arbitration.
BBC

Sweden, which this year tried to put a Pentecostal pastor in jail for anti-gay (i.e. traditional Christain) views.

Canada, of course, where the most extreme form of political correctness is now law (is that country run by Vietnam-era draft dodgers and their descendants)?:

Advertisers in Canada also must adhere to a strict set of guidelines adopted voluntarily by the industry, but no less effective than the government regulations. Under their dicta, a national restaurant chain was recently forced to pull a television spot showing a helpless dad trying to prepare dinner for the kids (he eventually gives up and takes them out for burgers and fries). A hearing officer ruled that the commercial "reinforced negative stereotypes" about men that "cannot be excused by an attempt to engage in humor."

Washington Post, Steven Perlstein, December 12, 1999

Sadly even Britain is now about to pass a religious villification law. Even Slashdot referred to it though of course almost no-one here got the larger gist of the story.

Please remember my post when Slashdot again runs the yearly report from "Project Censored" about "under-reported" storied or the latest yearly index from Reporters San Frontiers which puts the US at 22 because reporters can be subpoenaed by courts (jailing anyone for "hate speech" doesn't matter when it comes to freedom of speech in neo-feudal Europe, I guess).

Since you mentioned OpenBSD...

Having a Linux kernel hacker discuss security is like having Rich Kotite discuss football strategy.

You, sir, will surely mean blogcast.

Stealth Geeks get laid... there's probably a few who read /.

Dwight Yorke [footballer] and Katie Price aka Jordan [page 3/glamour model] have a child born blind. OK, so they both look like they've been beaten with the ugly stick and Jordan has had a tonne of plastic surgery, but still an athlete and a model having a child with a birth defect.