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Also try Where Wizards Stay Up Late. Really thorough explanation of the early days of computer and the origins of ARPANet.

I guess Q3A Nethack might look something like this canine-themed picture.

I'd recommend Tasogare Anime, which you can find at 4503 34th St. The owner carries a nice selection of DVDs as well as imported magazines, action figures, art books, soundtracks, wallscrolls, calendars, and so forth, plus she'll special order anything you ask for -- in my experience, she can usually get domestically released stuff in about a week, stuff from Japan will take longer depending on how easy it is to acquire.

Also, as a personal plug -- I'm the president of the Texas Tech anime club, which meets every Wednesday and Saturday as long as college is in session. It's absolutely free and open to everybody, even if you're not a student!

There are other, simpler WEB variants as well.

Nuweb works with basically any language.

Noweb is a bit older and written in ICON.

The main advantage of these WEB variants is that they use LaTeX rather than TeX, and TeX is far too complicated. The disadvatage is that WEB and CWEB "know" about the language and can give more information about things like the variables and functions, where in a generic literate programming system, this is either not possible or must be done manually.

- Serge Wroclawski

I have found that if I simply read sitting up (don't lie down), but sit up, and either using a sheet of paper or a finger (a bookmark works too) just pacing yourself gets the job done fairly quickly.

If you are reading proprerly (good, soft light and upright postion w/ little or no distraction) it becomes fairly easy to comprehend and you get done alot faster than you would think.

Here's my theory on why it works...first off, alot of ppl have TV/Music, etc on while they are trying to read. It's a distraction...if you must have noise, try classical music (something instrumental, nothing with lyrics). The other thing is, your mind can really only comprehend so much at one time.

So, here's the secret to speed reading...

The big trick to speed reading has always been to overcome the mind's natural tencency to "say" every word you read and therefore "wander".

I have found that it's really pretty easy to do, but the truth is the complaints about comprehension are true and it's a fact that becomes apparent after you try it for a while. Many ppl say that comprehension improves with practice. This might be, but it will certainly take a while to learn the technique.

By simply focusing on your reading, you will tend to learn how your mind works and develop techniques on your own.

For a good material on the subject, and some more college study help...try the following:
Study Skills Links .

Eh, "we"? Who is "we"?

The problem, in the eyes of hackers and general Slashdot visitors

Why should we care about what criminals (i.e. "hackers") consider to be a "problem" (i.e. an impediment to their illegal activities)?

Why do you insist in speaking for the collective body of visitors to this site? Do you have mind-reading powers? Or do you just wish to usurp others' voices for your own ends?

The commercialization of the internet has given rise to free web page services that only give you 2MB of space and 300MB of bandwidth per month

Well, there's a lot that private individuals can do with that. So your objection is that it's not enough for heavy-duty warez trading?

cable modem services that will disconnect you if you run anything even remotely resembling a server

We already know why you want to run servers, right?

Anyway, did you stop to think that the people who pay for these cable modem services don't want an idiot on the same network as them creating a virtual traffic jam with his server? This is the exact online analogue to real estate zoning laws. People deserve to be protected from their neighbor setting up a big retail business right next to them, attracting tons of traffic and general degradation of life for the people who live there.

and a greater feeling among non-tech-heads that any site that isn't run by a multinational corporation that already owns fourteen newspapers and three TV stations "isn't trustworthy".

Yeah. They should trust tiny fly-by-night websites run by w4r3z d00dz in Slovakia, right?

The silencing of the average person for the sake of keeping internet speech under the control of multinational corporations because it is more profitable, however, is a bad thing.

Excuse me. I, contrary to what you seem to attribute to yourself, can't read minds. Would you explain to me which fruit (turd?) of your imagination you are talking about?

Computer programs are "essentially utilitarian" works. Computer Assocs. Int'l, Inc. v. Altai, Inc., 982 F.2d 693, 704 (2d Cir. 1992). Simply put, they are articles that accomplish tasks." Sega Enterprises, Ltd. v. Accolade, Inc., 977 F.2d 1510, 1524 (9th Cir. 1992). DeCSS -- the computer program "[a]t the bottom of this case" -- is no different. Brief for Defendants-Appellants ("Appellants' Br.") at 2. As the district court found, "DeCSS, like any other computer program, is a series of instructions that causes a computer to perform a particular sequence of tasks which, in the aggregate, decrypt CSS-protected files." Universal City Studios, 111 F. Supp. 2d at 328-29; see also Appellants' Br. at 2 ("DeCSS decrypts the data on a DVD and stores it."). This function is entirely nonexpressive, and thus does not warrant First Amendment protection.

Fine-- computer programs are simply "articles that accomplish tasks." They are not speech, says the government.

In order to be a candidate for copyright protection, however

In no case does copyright protection of an original work of authorship extend to any idea, procedure, process, system, method of operation, ... design, and three-dimensional works, while not protected by copyright, may be protected by a patent.

See http://www.acs.ttu.edu/documentation/laws/lpc5.htm l#205.

If a program is not free speech, and it's not copyrightable, then it seems the government is saying that the DCMA does NOT cover any kind of software, and that any copyright notice on (non-content) with regards to software is misapplied.

The DMCA doesn't cover patents (does it?) so I guess it's still legal to use DCSS-like programs for the purposes of copying/accessing any copy-protected software.

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Helium Vector Magnetometer (F)

Plasma Analyzer (P/L)

Charged Particle Instrument

Cosmic Ray Telescope

Geiger Tube Telescope

Trapped Radiation Detector (P/L)

Meteoroid Detector (ENC)(F)

Asteroid-Meteoroid Experiment (ENC)(F)

Ultraviolet Photometer

Imaging Photopolarimeter (ENC) (P/L)

Infrared Radiometer (F)
(this info comes from here, which also has info on it's brother pioneer 11, which died in Dec '95)