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Why is it that the further south you go into South America, the older the civilizations appear to be? Seems like they keep finding all kinds of ancient ruins there. Now what is the likelihood that people would wander from the north all the way down there before creating the civilizations they created? Could the Americas have been populated from Antarctica instead, before the polar shift? Prolly not, I guess there were no humans back then, but still...

Actually I wonder why this article says nothing about Monte Verde, the oldest known settlement in the Americas. It is located in the southern tip of Chile which makes it the southern most settlement site in the Americas and it dates to 12,500 BP (Before Present), so it was settled before the Clovis people were around. This dating also places the settlement before the opening of the Bering land bridge between Asia and America.

My alma mater is third in RIAA notices; after so many years of football dominance, it's nice to be in the top 5 of something again. Like Ohio University, the campus network at UNL makes it relatively easy to associate people with IPs.

(On a related note, the 100-person computer science/business honors program I was in was, at one time, using something in the area of 25% of the student housing network bandwidth; note that this particular network has about 5,000 users.)

My alma mater is third in RIAA notices; after so many years of football dominance, it's nice to be in the top 5 of something again. Like Ohio University, the campus network at UNL makes it relatively easy to associate people with IPs.

(On a related note, the 100-person computer science/business honors program I was in was, at one time, using something in the area of 25% of the student housing network bandwidth; note that this particular network has about 5,000 users.)

Sorry, Vista is not stable. And systems that aren't stable are often very insecure.

For example, look at this error message you get when installing Apache on Vista: http://cse.unl.edu/~mpeters/Site/lulz.html

IE7, which forms one of the cornerstones of Windows Vista, also suffers from some pretty serious problems. Here's a screenshot showing IE7 consuming 99% of some fellow's CPU time, in addition to over 1 GB of RAM: http://www.allsorthost.com/is_ie7_ment_to_kill_my_ cpu/

last I heard we don't have a water shortage here on earth

Well, we don't have a water shortage per se, just a shortage of fresh drinking water. But just take a look here you'll see there is a shortage of fresh water.

But I do remember DDT, Rachel Carson's Silent Spring, and thin eggshells. Bird populations have rebounded after removing DDT from the US market.

After many years of carefully controlled feeding experiments, Dr. M. L. Scott and associates of the Department of Poultry Science at Cornell University "found no tremors, no mortality, no thinning of eggshells and no interference with reproduction caused by levels of DDT which were as high as those reported to be present in most of the wild birds where 'catastrophic' decreases in shell quality and reproduction have been claimed."

In Ceylon (now Sri Lanka) DDT spraying had reduced malaria cases from 2.8 million in 1948 to 17 in 1963. After spraying was stopped in 1964, malaria cases began to rise again and reached 2.5 million in 1969. The same pattern was repeated in many other tropical-- and usually impoverished--regions of the world. In Zanzibar the prevalence of malaria among the populace dropped from 70 percent in 1958 to 5 percent in 1964. By 1984 it was back up to between 50 and 60 percent. The chief malaria expert for the U.S. Agency for International Development said that malaria would have been 98 percent eradicated had DDT continued to be used.

The resistance is another issue - it, like many other really nasty things, are caused by non-judicious usage by commercial entities. If DDT had been applied only to the walls of sleeping quarters all would have been well. Instead we had cotton farmers pouring the stuff on their crops like water - in much the same fashion that most (every?) cow is fed a regular diet of antibiotics even when they aren't sick.

And no, I'm not saying that pesticides will fix the problem of tropical diseases associated with global warming. Personally, I suspect that we'll see more deserts rather than mosquito habitat being created.

As for the coal bit, that was more in reference to another comment from earlier on (I don't think it was yours) about how all climate change is bad "period" and what seemed to be a complaint that our fairly temperate clime came at the expense of the woolies. Slashdot doesn't handle tongue in cheek very well, I'm afraid.

...that the academia world is starting to use OSS as a production software, rather than just a 'research protoype' software. Another good example is the stunning calendar system developed by University of Nebraska Lincoln. And yes, it is nicely packaged using the PEAR package channel.

Evolution of modern whales from land-dwelling ancestors has been pretty well documented, with fossils showing the loss of the hind limbs (I seem to recall that Sperm Whales still retain a small pelvic girdle) as well as the migration of the nostrils from the tip of the snout to the blowhole on top of the head.

If you are near one of the partner museums you might visit the Explore Evolution exhibition (Disclosure: My Significant Other is Education Director at one of the museums).

Evolution of modern whales from land-dwelling ancestors has been pretty well documented, with fossils showing the loss of the hind limbs (I seem to recall that Sperm Whales still retain a small pelvic girdle) as well as the migration of the nostrils from the tip of the snout to the blowhole on top of the head.

If you are near one of the partner museums you might visit the Explore Evolution exhibition (Disclosure: My Significant Other is Education Director at one of the museums).

Evolution of modern whales from land-dwelling ancestors has been pretty well documented, with fossils showing the loss of the hind limbs (I seem to recall that Sperm Whales still retain a small pelvic girdle) as well as the migration of the nostrils from the tip of the snout to the blowhole on top of the head.

If you are near one of the partner museums you might visit the Explore Evolution exhibition (Disclosure: My Significant Other is Education Director at one of the museums).

That's only partially true with the governments/food deal. There are a lot of places with legitimate and many years running drought or near drought which has made food growing near impossible, and the people so poor they simply can't afford to buy any, or any aid delivered is very minimal and sometimes gets hijacked. It's an "all of the above" type problem, not just the political angle.

    We are lucky we are rich in the US generally speaking and can afford to import more, and have such a large nation that droughts or floods in one area still leave other areas able to produce food, but right now quite a few farmers are hurting pretty bad from the current drought,and some ranchers are having to sell their whole herds- no feed-no water-no hay- and some farmers are not getting much in the way of a grains or vegetables crop. Here

http://drought.unl.edu/dm/monitor.html

It's been pretty severe, I know it affected us somewhat here this summer, our hay crop dropped to around 1/5th of what it should be.

    Two years (sometimes just one totally borked year) back to back like that usually results in complete bankruptcy for them the way our economic system is set up now. The poor third world guys don't even come close to the infrastructure backup that we enjoy here, politics or not, it just doesn't exist.

Well I work for a public institution and I get 18 days off a year after 2 years of service plus I get the normal days off for MLK day, labor day, July 4th, memorial day, 2 days at thanksgiving and I get the entire week off between Christmas and new-years because the university shuts down. University of Nebraska For a total of 30 paid vacation days a year

I looked for articles discussing how predictions of meltdowns did NOT come to pass, but I couldn't find any.

until they make mandatory. The national 55 mph speed limit, ISP data retention, implants, soon the military again, this is your slippery slope, no? Of course the naysayers won't believe it until it becomes a vertical cliff. And even then they'll maintain that we're just paranoid. These are the blind mofos that have led us to where we are today. We've been riding this slope for so long, that we have forgotten what it feels like to stand on level ground. Quite the lemmings we are.

It's the end of the world as we know it and I feel fine.

>>We live in a nation where 45% of eligible voters believe the world is 6000 years old
>No, we live in a nation where people can make shit up and get modded insightful.

Who, exactly, are you referring to?

It was Gallup who ran the 2001 poll that had 45% of respondents agreeing God created human beings pretty much in their present form at one time within the last 10,000 years or so.

But Gallup did not get moderated insightful, so could you make explicit who is making things up and getting modded insightful?

According to a 2001 Gallup poll on the origins of humans, they estimate that 72% of Americans believe in some form of creationism (as defined above). They also estimate that about 45% of Americans concurred with the statement that "God created man pretty much in his present form at one time within the last 10,000 years."

Supporting link, link, and right from the horse's mouth link.

I disagree that most economists would view efficiency as something determined by a value judgement. Whether a market is efficient or not has to do with whether goods are allocated to those with the highest willingness to pay for them, and allowing price to function properly as a signal of the value a good or service has. In this way, resources will flow to where they will be most productive. I'm not sure where value judgments or any normative statements/analysis enter the picture.

Interesting link, dieoff.org. Where did you study economics?

Seriously, does everything Google does have to make the front page? That post contains zero new information that isn't here, here, or here.

Yes, fine, I admit it, everyone at Google is smarter, happier, richer, more statuesque, and throws better parties than The Rest of Us. We're not worthy. Now stop telling me about it.

If you happen to live in/work in/care about Nebraska, take a look at the CALMIT Map Server; it has detailed color maps of the entire state (make sure you select the 2003 Farm Service Agency image layer).

The CALMIT interface isn't all that great, but hey, nothing's perfect.

Anyone else verify this?

Straight from IMDB.
King Kong (1933)

Writing credits: Merian C. Cooper and Edgar Wallace

Not Peter Jackson! Give credit where credit is due.

Oddly enough, I just finished adding sIFR elements to our website today. Our situation is that the University paid for an "official" font that needs to be used for page headers, etc. This font cannot be distributed, so we were limited to using images for these areas of the page.

With sIFR, we can bundle the font in a flash object (I don't know the details, the University web guy bundled it up for me) and use it without distributing it. This means that we no longer have to use images. This is mostly useful because our department houses a number of projects, all of which will be moving to the official University look & feel, so we don't have to build header images for all of these projects.

We're still working out the kinks for the printing stylesheets, but otherwise, it works great! http://calmit.unl.edu

Subchapter S corporations (what I think he was referring to by saying "California-S": a California S corp) don't get double-taxed.

-fren

sqrt(7.03)=2.65 miles x 2.65 miles

That's still quite large. As a comparison a farm is typically in the neighborhood of 500 acres or so, some are in the 1000+ acre size. (see http://www.unl.edu/nac/conservation/atlas/Map_Html /Demographics/National/Average_Farm_Size_2003/Aver age_Farm_Size_2003.htm)

Indeed, just so everyone is aware, the PSP already has a straight forward (mini) USB interface (having bought an import model without any cables, I use a regular USB cable to mount it's Memory Stick on my PowerBook, for example).

So, this guy has plugged a USB keyboard, into a device with a USB interface. It still has no software support, but err, it fit's physically. Whoohoo!

This sort of thing really bites when you read all the great stories that never get accepted (though people posting them in comments, and though having interesting articles rejected in the past, only to see them get posted coming from someone else several days later, but with a brain dead write-up).

So, anyone got anything that might actually be interesting to share?

I saw this today, which I think is pretty cool:
http://www.hprcc.unl.edu/nebraska/june2004hastings -mammatus.html

Your first points sound logical, but the third one... bass playing (instruments in general) just makes you vulnerable to different repetitive injuries. (I know, I'be been playing bass for the last twelve years or so and have had some scares from my wrists...)

Check it out.

(judging from these links, one should warm up before typing!)

You can indeed find people who claim glass isn't solid. They're outnumbered though.

Glasses are amorphous solids. There is a fundamental structural divide between amorphous solids (including glasses) and crystalline solids. Structurally, glasses are similar to liquids, but that doesn't mean they are liquid.

http://dwb.unl.edu/Teacher/NSF/C01/C01Links/www.ua lberta.ca/~bderksen/florin.html

traceroute results for: www.elitetorrents.org

1 rtr129-93-1 (129.93.1.253) 1.188 ms 0.987 ms 1.021 ms
2 nh-c1-ge2-3 (129.93.3.21) 1.04 ms 1.269 ms 1.306 ms
3 wsec6c1 (129.93.4.237) 1.138 ms 1.031 ms 0.991 ms
4 unl-b2-ge2-0 (129.93.5.9) 1.072 ms 1.015 ms 1.009 ms
5 ks-2-a10-34.r.greatplains.net (164.113.234.134) 6.25 ms 5.991 ms 5.857 ms
6 164.113.238.149 (164.113.238.149) 6.236 ms 6.26 ms 6.021 ms
7 ks-2-abilene-ks.r.greatplains.net (164.113.238.193) 6.244 ms 6.139 ms 6.147 ms
8 dnvrng-kscyng.abilene.ucaid.edu (198.32.8.13) 19.624 ms 16.8 ms 25.592 ms
9 snvang-dnvrng.abilene.ucaid.edu (198.32.8.1) 41.925 ms 42.392 ms 41.965 ms
10 losang-snvang.abilene.ucaid.edu (198.32.8.94) 49.233 ms 49.033 ms 49.442 ms
11 hpr-lax-gsr1--abilene-LA-10ge.cenic.net (137.164.25.2) 49.51 ms 49.193 ms 50.6 ms
12 sdg-hpr1--lax-hpr1-10ge.-l3.cenic.net (137.164.25.5) 52.707 ms 53.57 ms 52.723 ms
13 hpr-sdsc-sdsc2--sdg-hpr-ge.cenic.net (137.164.27.54) 53.102 ms 52.966 ms 52.942 ms
14 medusa.sdsc.edu (132.249.30.10) 52.804 ms 53.187 ms 52.894 ms
15 www.dhs.gov (192.31.21.68) 52.887 ms 53.052 ms 53.007 ms

(using http://ping.unl.edu/ )

Interestingly, www.dhs.gov is hosted by Akami's server network, however, that IP only hosts the takedown page.

Hi,

Unfortuanately, the satellite image isn't of a high enough resolution to see it in google maps. If anyone from Google is reading this, please upload high resolution pictures of a place called Vegerville, Alberta, Canada so you can have a true and authentic Easter Egg in Google maps.
Giant Easter Egg
Another pic
more info

wrong. Chimpanzees hunt.

For the record, the idea that glass flows is an urban
legend

• http://entomology.unl.edu/images/blowflies/blowfly mags1.jpg
• http://www.uky.edu/Agriculture/PAT/recs/crop/scrnm gt.jpg
• http://www.sids.org.uk/fsid/maggot.jpg
• https://id294.securedata.net/ultimateamerican/Merc hant2/graphics/tshirts/maggot_big.jpg
• http://www.yamagiku.co.jp/pathology/image/201/5.jp g

You've never heard of this?

I think their production costs run about $1.6M an episode. Or I could be making that number up. Regardless, you could do an entire season of Reading Rainbow for half that. And last I heard, they were hurting for funds. About a year ago, LeVar Burton (see, that's how I'm staying almost on topic) was out stumping for funds. You too could help. Frankly, the best thing for the Star Trek franchise at this point would be a good 5-10 year hiatus. That and the resurection of Gene Roddenberry.

From this LINK And others like it on google:

Advantages of the S Corporation:

• Creation of the corporate shield that, in the absence of personal guarantees, limits the liability of stockholders to their capital investment in the corporation and the usefulness for estate planning purposes of the corporate form of business organization are frequently cited advantages of forming an S corporation. Other advantages include:
• The independent life of the corporation makes possible its continuation, and the relatively undisturbed continued operation of the business regardless of incapacity or death of one or more stockholders.
• Fractional ownership shares are easily accommodated in the initial offering of stock.
• The purchase, sale, and gifting of stock make it possible to have changes in ownership without disturbing the corporation's ability to conduct business.
• The requirement that the corporation's finances and records be separate from the finances and records of stockholders reduces the risk of unrecognized equity liquidations.
• With only a few exceptions, under the Subchapter S election for taxation as a partnership the S corporation pays no income taxes and corporation income or loss is passed through direct to the stockholders.
• To the extent the corporate shield is maintained and other investments and savings of the stockholders are not at risk, the personal life of stockholders is simplified.
• The annual meetings of stockholders and consultations with legal counsel can provide stimulus for improved communication within the stockholder group (often a family group) and can provide more comprehensive guidance for management.
• Depending on the corporation's business record and the policies and practices of prospective lenders, access to credit and the ability to secure needed resources may be improved.
• Earnings representing "return on investment" (interest, rental payments, etc.) are not subject to self-employment tax as long as stockholder-employees receive adequate compensation for labor and management of the business.

Please...do a little more research yourself...this was one of the main reasons I went this way..to keep more of my own money...and other's I know that do this...mainly for the same reason.

I frankly believe that SS will go broke if not attended to. I do NOT want to pay more taxes into this broken system. I pay plenty right now....till I can go totally indie...I pay about 35% in taxes at least from income taxes only....then sales tax on everything else...

I'm for helping the infirmed and elderly actually...but, don't believe in one red cent to those that are able bodied and can work. There is no right to a good life...I should not have to pay for someone to loaf around. A tv and other luxuries are not rights.

If SS was set up as a trust fund....not the ponzi scheme it is now...and protected, I think it would cost way less...and would be guarenteed beneficial to help with the infirmed and aged that cannot work...but, other than that...I think you reap what you sow...and life it tough, but, I don't really have an obligation to be forced to pay for your mistakes. I'd happily give on my own as charity, but, I don't like my money being forceably taken to support some bad luck or ignorance...

The overclocked iMac

Or this?

"works", as long as you take the time to get them talking to each other.

Since it is not observable, nor repeatable, we cannot postulate and test those postulates about origins.

This is what his server looks like...

Arg! Because of one little "l" at the end! Sheesh, even copy and paste isn't safe anymore!

Let's try it again, shall we?

But isn't glass a liquid, too?

Let us pray that it isn't filled with Nitric Acid, and comes back on a collission course, Copper reacts quite nicely with acids. "(NO is colorless. It goes on to react in air with oxygen to form brown NO2.)" -> http://dwb.unl.edu/Chemistry/MicroScale/MScale04.h tml/

From another page on Microsoft's piracy pages:

"Beware of Spam emails offering software prices that are too good to be true. There is a high risk that these software titles are counterfeit or infringing."

I guess I better turn in my University:

OFFICE X (for MAC OS X only) $8.49
OFFICE 2002 (XP) PROFESSIONAL $9.99
OFFICE 2003 PROFESSIONAL $9.99
WINDOWS XP PROF. UPGRADE $4.99

In the text summary, I was picturing something like this in robotic form, and with this sort of weather. But sadly, I find that the robot was manufactured by an American, rather than a Japanese team, and the weather was an American definition of a blizzard, rather than a Canadian one. :(

This was in the Daily Nebraskan and other college newspapers today.

Know any of them?

University of Nebraska-Lincoln's PrairieFire is a lot more open to public viewing. When they initially opened up, there was even an open house and tours given of the facility. The location was only about 3-4 blocks from campus. They even let a student-run engineering publication write a story about it and get up right next to it and everything. I know it wasn't super awesome or anything, but it was impressive for Nebraska.

University of Nebraska-Lincoln's PrairieFire is a lot more open to public viewing. When they initially opened up, there was even an open house and tours given of the facility. The location was only about 3-4 blocks from campus. They even let a student-run engineering publication write a story about it and get up right next to it and everything. I know it wasn't super awesome or anything, but it was impressive for Nebraska.