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sounds like your having a bit of a hippy flashback.

• ... His fortunes changed in 1999. Red Hat and VA Linux, both leading purveyors of Linux-based software packages tailored for large enterprises, had granted him stock options with no strings attached, thank-yous from entrepreneurs who hoped to grow rich off his creation. When Red Hat went public that year, Torvalds was suddenly worth $1 million. On the day VA Linux (now VA Software) went public, Torvalds was worth roughly $20 million, though by the time he could sell his shares, they were valued at only a fraction of that. ... [Wired Magazine, Gary Livlin, 11.11, Leader of the Free World]

It's for real. I normally don't go for these things but...Free ipods (click here to get yours)

I work at a major university. I have been trying forever to get my boss to purchase all our machines with linux on them (he kept claiming that HP required us to buy them with windowsm which was true a while back). We went to Novell brainshare and saw SUSe 9.0 in action and linux has come a long way. SUSE 9.1 "looks even better (more eye candy at least)
It wasn't ready for my laptop about a year and a half ago but maybe now it is.

It's for real. I normally don't go for these things but...Free ipods (click here to get yours) .

1. Stealing the network: How to Own a Continent

It's for real. I normally don't go for these things but...Free ipods (click here to get yours) .

It's for real. I normally don't go for these things but...Free ipods (click here to get yours) .

this is my ultimate one, It is pretty much an IPOD made into a phone/pda/camera/toiletpaper :) If anyone has seen this one tell me about it and I will buy it.

It's for real. I normally don't go for these things but...Free ipods (click here to get yours) .

It's for real. I normally don't go for these things but...Free ipods (click here to get yours) .

It's for real. I normally don't go for these things but...Free ipods (click here to get yours) .

Have you read about all the new bugs that are being found in SP2. There are compaints about how the SP2 security panel can be spoofed. This allows a person to trick people into thinking their firewall and virus scan are all on and working normally. Microsoft's response... (paraphrased quote) "We are busy with other more important bugs at the time, don't bother us with these tivialities."


It's for real. I normally don't go for these things but...Free ipods are too much to pass up (click here to get yours) .

AFAIK Bush is against embryonic stem cell research. "Normal" adult stem cell therapy is available for Americans and used widely and very successfully, e. g. to replace the immune cells of cancer patients whose immune system was totally destroyed by chemotherapy. Since bone marrow stem cells are adult stem cells, I guess this technology will be available to Americans if it proves useful and safe (even if, god forbid, Bush gets reelected).

Not as retarded as those criminals at this company who bribed competitors janitors to steal documents. Oh. But is retarded the right word - that company's doing well. Sad that sometimes these techniques do pay.

They'll probably ignore it until there's a PC version.

Or, even until there is a version.

Although I bet the problem here is the quality of XM versus FM (signal that is, not material). You know... cause it's hard not to tell the difference between that track on a CD and the 14.4 kbps MP3 mono version you snagged from Limeware last night.

Unless they intend to go after all of us with tape recorders after they run out of Permission2Pilfer users. Hey, I bet there's more users there than even of Windows.... oops, shouldn't have tipped them off...

Actually, considering how many people still use and defend Apple's failures (G4 Cube, Newton), one could argue that Apple doesn't usually design a crappy product, but sometimes overestimates the demand for it at the price point they use.

For example:
Censor this =)

Free iPods. There's a Wired article about it here [wired.com]. Check it out.

This is somewhat relevant as its about an mp3 player... Free iPods. An actually legit pyramid scheme. There's a Wired article about it here. Check it out.

Yeah. This Wired article talks about it.

Speaking of diamonds... Hopefully soon, they'll be cheap. There was a Wired article that was coverd on /. a while back (not sure when) about creating diamonds by microwaving natural gas to make diamond in layers. It looked quite promising. Anybody know if anything else has happened with this research?

A combination with these monitor simulating goggles would be the perfect solution to solve this problem.

The ultimate application of this technology?

Spying on Birds.

Wired News ran this article on it. Essentially it is legit, but it's not easy.

• I hope the people for www.freeipods.com get busted too.

• We encourage users to post their referral link online, but will not tolerate users who mass-post on the internet. Report referral abuse here.

I should also note that they're legit, they do send out the iPods. A recent article in Wired spoke with them and they consider it highly important to send them out since otherwise their benefit to their advertisers would be worthless. Those advertisers pay Gratis a bounty for each signup they send their way. (Which is what allows Gratis to pay for the free iPods.)

And finally a disclaimer, I help run one conga line but I'm not affiliated with Gratis in any way. I'm just helping others get a free iPod since others helped me get one. :)

• I hope the people for www.freeipods.com get busted too.

• We encourage users to post their referral link online, but will not tolerate users who mass-post on the internet. Report referral abuse here.

I should also note that they're legit, they do send out the iPods. A recent article in Wired spoke with them and they consider it highly important to send them out since otherwise their benefit to their advertisers would be worthless. Those advertisers pay Gratis a bounty for each signup they send their way. (Which is what allows Gratis to pay for the free iPods.)

And finally a disclaimer, I help run one conga line but I'm not affiliated with Gratis in any way. I'm just helping others get a free iPod since others helped me get one. :)

The French court is now trying to force them to take it down on their other sites as well

The French court doesn't want Yahoo to "take down" anything.

The French court simply wants Yahoo to block French users from their auction sites, or at least
make a credible attempt at that. That's controversial enough, no need to make it look even worse.

Look here.

Thomas Miconi

Addendum: this is also the guy who claimed that "iBooks are girly".
Dvorak's strategy for fame is simple: Make outrageous and unsubstantiated claims, and watch everybody else write about it. He's a professional troll, and the less /. and others write about him, the better.

Word is indeed crap, but Dvorak isn't the person to write about it.

Don't forget extend your laws to other countries

Still, telegraphy, like many other forms of engineering, retained a certain barnyard, improvised quality until the Year of Our Lord 1858, when the terrifyingly high financial stakes and shockingly formidable technical challenges of the first transatlantic submarine cable brought certain long-simmering conflicts to a rolling boil, incarnated the old and new approaches in the persons of Dr. Wildman Whitehouse and Professor William Thomson, respectively, and brought the conflict between them into the highest possible relief in the form of an inquiry and a scandal that rocked the Victorian world. Thomson came out on top, with a new title and name - Lord Kelvin.

I was discussing this a while back with some Electric Vehicle wonks and there's a problem. Apparently direct use of alcohol (methanol or ethanol) on a fuel cell eventually "poisons" the membrane over time. It's okay for small electronics because it takes so long for the membrane to fail that it's still a viable option. But for big applications like cars that use so much fuel, it's not cost effective; the membrane fails too soon and is too expensive to replace. The Necar 5 which ran coast-to-coast used a reformer to convert methanol in order to obtain hydrogen.

Drat! You beat me too it.
However, here's their Official Website, and here's an interesting Wired article about Sealand.

• Librarians to the Rescue
• Copyright Crusaders Hit Schools
• Internet Publishing Can Pay Off
• It's Just the 'internet' Now? (story from here)
• Open-ILS.org | Library software by librarians for librarians

Already been done. Okay, not the camera, but the mic. From the story: "...turn the phone sitting in a victim's pocket or on a restaurant table top into a listening device to pick up private conversations in the phone's vicinity."

The nearest to an "official" link I could find on this is a WIRED editorial

The logic reminds me of the fantasy graduate students sometimes throw around. Grading is tough work and graduate teaching assistants (GTAs) get maybe $650/semester to grade papers for a course directed by a professor. When GTAs teach their own courses, the pay jumps to about $2,000. These GTAs often joke about hiring their less-employed peers as graders.

THE AMYGDALA AND PARASITIC CASTRATION

A key structure in human fertility, particularly male fertility, is the amygdala, which dramatically reduces in size upon castration. According to Malsbury and McKay, the amygdala shrinkage can be about 25% within 8 weeks of castration. (Malsbury, C.W. and K. McKay. Neurotrophic effects of testosterone on the medial nucleus of the amygdala in adult male rats. J. Neuroendocrinology, 1994, 6:57-69.) Although reduction in size is not the only way this brain-structure may be reprogrammed to effect parasitic castration, it is a possible observable. Furthermore, since large changes in human migration patterns have occurred in living memory, there should be plenty of intact amygdala specimens that can be correlated with their genotype as well as changes in the environmental genotypes that may impose extended phenotypic parasitic castration.

During the period of greatest environmental influx of more dominant genes into the environments traditionally reserved for more recessive males in the United States, autism rates have increased four-fold, from 1 in 2000 before 1970 to 1 in 500 in 2000. Furthermore, although reporting is always problematic, the increases are most apparent in peripheral geographic regions associated with more recessive traits that have experienced some of the greatest rates of change in geneflow as measured by dominant:recessive ratio -- regions such as the Pacific Northwest.

Furthermore, as reported in The Geek Syndrome:

In the past decade, there has been a significant surge in the number of kids diagnosed with autism throughout California... Through the '90s, cases tripled in California. "Anyone who says this is due to better diagnostics has his head in the sand."

California is not alone. Rates of both classic autism and Asperger's syndrome are going up all over the world, which is certainly cause for alarm and for the urgent mobilization of research. Autism was once considered a very rare disorder, occurring in one out of every 10,000 births. Now it's understood to be much more common - perhaps 20 times more. But according to local authorities, the picture in California is particularly bleak in Santa Clara County.

What genetic change has occurred in Santa Clara more than in California, in California more than in the rest of the world, and in the rest of the world over the last decade, more than other times in history ?

Immigration and high degrees of integration among populations that have undergone very little coevolution.

Furthermore, according to Dr. Jeff Bradstreet a little-mentioned fact is that over 90% of autistics are blood type A. If true, that would be better than twice the expected frequency for American "whites" and so close to 100% that the probability of it being due to chance is disappearingly small. Add to that the fact that the only type A blood common among "whites" is called ABO*A2, and that this blood type is centered in northern Scandinavia, according to the gene map on page 3 of the world gene maps in "The History and Geography of Human Genes" (unabridged

Actually, all of November is in autumn, at least on the northern hemisphere. But in the original article, they also say, it will be released in autumn 2005 (of course only, if they do not decide to postpone it, because it would coincide with the release of Duke Nukem Forever).

Well you have to take LDS first, than it might work...

Maybe someone should write a find the mythical WMD game.

Adapt this Simcity-style web activity display to SMTP: Spam would arrive in mobile homes, marked for the source spamhaus if possible. The giant foot that crushes them could be marked for the blocklist that got them, etc. The higher the load on mail servers, the more run-down their building would be. Clogged Internet connections would be streets with potholes...

While charging for the product has made some people rich, I think some people have proved by now that you can get by without charging. If all software was free, IMHO the technology would still bounce along just fine, and probably in a more rational, beneficial, decentralized direction.

Well.. There was that one guy who raised his son to speak Klingon as a first language, with English being supplemental. The kid hated it.

Perhaps he would have better luck if he were real. See: http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/6.12/cringely.h tml

Wired 12.03: The Complete Guide to Googlemania!
... The Complete Guide to Googlemania! (continued). 4 Scenarios for the Future of Google Sometimes a liquidity event changes everything. By Tom McNichol. ...

GooOS, the Google Operating System (kottke.org)
GooOS, the Google Operating System. He argues that Google is building a huge computer with a custom operating system that everyone on earth can have an account on. His last few paragraphs are so much more perceptive than anything that's been written about Google

Personalized Results: Exploring The Future Of Google ... Personalized Results: Exploring The Future Of Google.
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MacMinute: The future of Google and Web searching?
* WWDC 2004: Discover how to put Mac OS X to work for you at WWDC! *. The future of Google and Web searching? March 31, 2004 - 07 ... www.macminute.com/2004/03/31/google - 29k -

The 'felon list' is handled by the state. Since both Google and personal memory appear to not work on your end (or just in case you don't get it):

http://www.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/07/01/florida. elections/

http://www.sptimes.com/2004/07/11/State/Florida_sc raps_felon_.shtml

http://www.wired.com/news/evote/0,2645,64182,00.ht ml

have a look here

I've had that idea myself, but I've read nothing but horror stories about people that have actually tried it... e.g., the winners of this year's Wi-Fi Shootout at Defcon:

"We were going to war-drive around Cincinnati and find unencrypted wireless access points," Corrado said. "We knocked on people's doors and asked if (they) wanted us to encrypt them, and they just got all freaked out. So we were searching for other things to do with the equipment we had just purchased."

From this story at Wired News...

For a company that puts so much emphasis on portable devices, Apple certainly has a lot of problems with batteries.

And you didn't even link the most dramatic case, that of actual exploding batteries. And no, this isn't some Nokia-like third party battery situation, these were the real Apple-supplied batteries (though that article does go out of the way to point out they were "Sony-made").

Apple's got some real quality control issues, despite their reputation. They seem to have at least one or two recalls per year for various reasons ranging from defective batteries to defective power supplies to defective screens, as well as other problems that are common complaints but that they do nothing about (such as the iPod battery service life issue). The recall I noted above was actually a safety issue, and I would guess the overheating batteries in the G4 PB's might be a safety issue as well.

I'd still buy an Apple for other reasons, but quality control is not one of them, public perception notwithstanding. They're certainly no better than any other manufacturer and may actually be somewhat worse (IBM, for example, has had fewer recalls over the same period).

Now, I want to know, is this Longhorn rock a symptom of this? And if so, is Microsoft giving money to OSDN, or have they gone straight to NASA to participate in "the growing trend of inserting ads more directly into online content"

It's funny... laugh... Please...?

However, I have sympathy for places like Fark that are trying to figure out how to cover costs, and pay a few salaries. According to the logic of many threads here and elsewhere:

1) they should not sell subscriptions

2) they should not require a logon

3) nobody clicks banner ads anyway

So what's a good guy with a good site to do? (Hint: donations and t-shirts isn't the answer)

With an already profitable business, and lots of extra money in its pocket, can we expect Google to start a buyout spree? Some targets might include Vivisimo with their clustering technology, Girafa for visualizing search, or even some of the better Web APIs applications like Google Alert or the GoogleBrowser, as this Wired story suggests.

I think what we can take from this is that people are becoming "immunized" to ordinary advertisements...they just aren't clicking. So advertisers have to turn to other methods to try to pull in those dollars. One thing you can say for the ad-words thing is that at least it's not intrusive. Who normally runs their mouse over text in a news article anyway? And at least when reading a printed media article you're expecting to be advertised to, unlike with the DejaNews ad-words flap of a few years back.

Something I found interesting in the same vein was another Wired story the other day, about FreeiPods.com--an advertising site where, if you complete a trial offer from one of an assortment of merchants and get five other people to complete one too, they send you an advertiser-paid-for iPod (or $250 iTMS gift certificate). I've searched the web for stories about these people and everything I find suggests they're legitimate.

The whole thing seems to me to suggest that the advertisers participating in that program are finally starting to get the idea that if they want to advertise to us, they need to make it worth our while.

(Full disclosure: okay, so the FreeiPods link is a referral link for me. I was going to compare and contrast its advertising model anyway, and given that I was going to mention it anyway, it would be dumb not to include the referral link instead of just a plain-vanilla one, given that they both pull up the website just the same and I might as well benefit from the traffic as not. So don't accuse me of trying to sneak something by you.)

Some info about the various types of bionic eyes currently being built can be found on Wired.

Brain implant anyone?

The BBC do seem to be at an advantage, being publicly funded (via the license fee) they can push things that other media companies probably would not want to spend the cash on - this is one example, and the move towards file-sharing the content, see wired.com.