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No, gun ownership is not an inalienable right. Per DC v Heller it is eminently restricted, as current laws indicate. What you endorse is wholeheartedly against current legal precedent. And you're full of shit: 497,646 incidents occurred in which the intruder was seen and reportedly scared away by the firearm. http://www.http//slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=3394401&cid=42645225#ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/9591354 You do not know what you're talking about when it comes to guns. That much is painfully obvious.

Why does anyone need nuclear power? Solar salt thermal plants can do baseload electricity already. There's a proposal to convert Australia to 100% solar thermal/0 carbon emissions in a 10 year time frame and it only costs $400 Billion. That completely eliminates our greenhouse gas issues. http://www.http//beyondzeroemissions.org Nuclear/Oil/Gas really are dead end Technologies. We should be conserving nuclear resources for long-haul space travel instead of burning our only real means off this rock.

Uydunet | Kablonet | Kablo TV ve Teledünya için bavuru yapabileceiniz ehirler malesef snrldr. u an için Erzincan ilinde altyap çalmalar tamamlanm olup baz bölgelerinde hizmet kullanlabilir duruma gelmitir. Türkiye genelinde bavuru yapabileceiniz ehir listesi aada ki gibidir;

Adana, Ankara, Antalya, Balkesir, Bursa, Denizli, Edirne, Eskiehir, Erzincan, Erzurum, Gaziantep, stanbul, zmir, Kayseri, Kocaeli, Konya, Manisa, Mersin, Samsun, Tekirda, Yalova, Zonguldak illerinden bavuru yapabilir ve hizmetleri skntsz bir ekilde kullanabilirsiniz. Kocaeli ve stanbulun baz bölgelerinde Uydunet hizmeti kullanlamyor. Kablo TV ve Teledünya hizmetlerini ebekenin olduu bütün bölgelerde rahatlkla kullanabilirsiniz.
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Sounds like a job for http://innocentive.com .

Ignorance is bliss huh? You should be called the pinnacle of 'Ignorance is Bliss', Mr. Pot-Kettle-Black. Police officers die in the line of duty either accidently or intentionally. Like has been said already, it's not at all small news when one is killed on duty in the US. Last year one was murdered in my local state and the state flag was lowered to half-mast in memory of the slain officer.

More proper research would show that officers intentionally killed while on duty is not an 'everyday event', the grandparent was correct in this matter, there were IN FACT 42 law enforcement officers feloniously killed in 1999. Here you'll see the FBI's statistics of officers feloniously killed, for the years 1993-2002. For those 10 years, there were 636 total, not including 72 from the events of 9/11. The yearly low is 42, high is 80. Along with the 56 feloniously killed in 2002, there were 77 killed in duty-related accidents, so yes, it is over 100 for that year and likely also for each year as your source said. But that includes deaths accidental, not killed by an assailant with such intent. It can be a dangerous occupation after all, but you knew that. For UK stats, Google didn't reveal anything comparative. Perhaps one way to compare is to divide these kinds of stats by 5 and you get UK results since the UK has 1/5 of the population of the US.

So say that again, a law enforcement officer dies on duty and it's an everyday event, and it's minor news when it happens in the US? Please. It's rare just like it is in the UK.

You're a Brit, yes it's ironic that an Englishman said, "There are lies, damned lies and statistics".

Try OpenACS. While there are many web publishing and collaboration toolkits out there, OpenACS comes closest to supporting this kind of thing already. It would be very easy to do exactly what you're describing. Go to the Q&A bboard on the OpenACS site, and post your question there. I'm sure you'll get several good ideas.

The popups are annoying, but they can easily be blocked by installing Zonealarm, or any other good firewall.

...however if Linux was a little easier to use they wouldn't be necessary. I know it's getting more user friendly, especially with stuff like Red Hat, but it's still got a long way to go.

All of my OS X friends love Final Cut Pro. I can't argue with them at all, since in my brief exposure to that product, it is a blast to use. However, if you have a PC, I highly recommend you try Vegas from Sonic Foundry.

Vegas and Reason from Propellerheads are the only reason I boot Windows at all (yes I know Reason is available on Macs), but they are also my favorite reason I have to turn on a computer in the first place.

According to The UN Population People, Europe has a population of 727,304,000. This is compared to the 270-280 million in the US. So, Europe practically triples the US in size. However, I think that if there were more European net users than US net users, then there would be FAR more hits on varius websites from Europeans than Americans. *shrug* I wonder if this NUA place is counting people that are behind firewalls in business networks and whatnot.

Small Times has a decent article today on use of the Teragrid for cancer research, including mapping cellular structures. All pretty spiffy.

Have you ever heard of DOT Force? You'll want to read all about it as it was discussed at the G7 summit in July 2000 at the Kyushu-Okinawa Summit and was also discussed at the G8 summit in Genoa Italy. Check out DOT Force which basically states:

"Over several months, through a rich and unprecedented mix of plenary meetings, informal consultations, meetings with stakeholders, and electronic outreach to broader audiences across the world, the DOT Force has examined in depth the challenge of bridging the digital divide and harnessing the power of information and communications technologies (ICT) and global networks to assure opportunity, empowerment and inclusion for all. The DOT Force has analyzed the underlying causes of the digital divide, the poverty-reducing and empowering potential of new technologies, and the complex mix of strategies, policies, investments, and actions required to create digital opportunities for all while addressing key development imperatives."

I think you would agree with me that when governments and corporations get together and hold (behind doors) meetings about the Internet and its control that we had better put our seatbelts on because we're in for a rough ride. I for one will do everything in my limited power to expose this sham - too bad ./ rejected my submission today regarding these important events. I'm sure the entire ./ community would be interested to know the future of our beloved Internet is at stake. *sigh*

From what I understand about ports (im not a BSDer) is that the port 'application' will retrieve a maintained list of makefiles/configure scripts from a central repository - and duplicate that organized collection onto your BSD box. This collection of makefiles is 'refreshed' each time 'live' when you update your ports collection. This way you have all the 'latest' build procedures for every app who cares to register itself (for your particular BSD & version). When you want to install an application - you execute this makefile (which builds your app and resolves deps (by building those)) it does this by FTPing the necessary sources from the appropriate location.

What I understand apt-get to do is 'intuitively' reading the deps portion of a debian package and dloading binaries from the registered 'sources' list (what is that file called..?) and installing them for you. It is an 'automagical' frontend to retrieving and installing debian pkgs.

I think this apt vs rpm argument is a little off base - again im not intimately aware of any package system, this is just what ive gleaned about them over time - is that rpm isnt comparable to 'apt' at all. RPM is a package standard - with its own format and features - but 'apt' is an application to retrieve packages (debian ones). What is necessary is a 'apt' application to retrieve 'rpm' packages. My understanding is not deep enough to argue the ad/dis vantages of either package format... I would suggest neither is the author of the article.

Our Brazilian friends at Connectiva are working on an APT 'port to RPM'.
Slashdot has a discussion about this the apt-rpm project here

What i have described above may be all completely wrong - but this is how I understand it. Please correct me if this is so.

I know that you included the second 'o' in "Microsoft" in your search, so I won't dispute that. However, you seem to have forgotten Windows (20,700,000) versus GNU/Linux (411,000).

http://www.riaa.com/MD-US-7.cfm

comes this gem:

"Then come marketing and promotion costs -- perhaps the most expensive part of the music business today. They include increasingly expensive video clips, public relations, tour support, marketing campaigns, and promotion to get the songs played on the radio. For example, when you hear a song played on the radio -- that didn't just happen!"

... am I wrong, or shouldn't it "just happen". I mean, marketing is one thing, but this sounds too much like "look how much we pay Radio stations to push the music we want to sell".

No sir, I don't like it.

'Oh, nothing'll topple MP3 - it's got too much mindshare!' 'I don't see the point - wasn't MPEG open?"

A good, free CODEC really IS vital for free/open online multimedia. Remember that the uses for compressed/streaming audio go beyond Shoutcast stations or packing a million songs on your harddrive. Vorbis will end up in free versions of online music collaboration software, I'm sure, as well as conferencing, telephony perhaps ... places where it's really important to minimize bandwidth usage without the inconvenience or licensing fees for proprietary CODECs/APIs.

Look at something like Rocket Network's online studios. Sounds cool, huh? But who would pay for the technology license to develop and deploy a free (in both senses) Rocket Network server? Nobody, I'm guessing. You can get a 'free' online studio now - as in beer - but what if you wanted to make that your business? Lotsa money, no control of the technology.

For these systems to develop in the free/open software community, we need control of all segments of the technology. Think of this in terms of GIF vs. PNG, with a lower practical barrier since the entire world of online mutlimedia is still emerging and CODECs are inherently pluggable in multimedia apps.

Or maybe my head's up my butt.

People seem to be kind of confused about what GNUstep is and implies, I'll try to clarify:

GNUstep is: an implementation of the OpenStep API. The OpenStep API makes it quite easy to develop programs for it, as the developer doesn't have to worry about the little things, and spend their time innovating and writing great code . It's cross-platform (between Windows w/ the YellowBox, anything running GNUstep, Mac OS X/Cocoa). It's a dream to develop with, and the Objective-C language, to me, is much nicer to use than C++ (although I think there's wrappers for Java, and perhaps C/C++).

GNUstep will: Allow for easy ports to platforms running GNUstep from source written under OpenStep, Rhapsody, or Mac OS X (using Cocoa/YellowBox). This encourages cross-platform development, and hopefully will help bring many apps to Mac OS X/Cocoa, as well as Linux/FreeBSD/etc.

GNUstep is not: a window manager or a desktop environment. Desktop environments can (and quite easily) built with GNUstep. In fact, someone is working on a NeXT-like file manager right now, which is working and developed under OpenStep, and easily recompiled on a FreeBSD box using GNUstep.



For more information, see the GNUstep website or the unofficial GNUstep website, both of which have plenty of information on the OpenStep spec, and where GNUstep is going.

In short-- definately check it out!

Aaron

MM5: http://www.mmm.ucar.edu/mm5/mm 5-home.html
This is the primary research model used in the met. community and is generally used for short range prediction (out to ~48 hours). Fairly easy to work with though getting all of your data set up can be a bit of a hassle.

ARPS: http://www.caps.ou.edu:80/ARPS/
The ARPS model is being worked on by the Center for Analysis and Prediction of Storms (CAPS) at the Univ. of Oklahoma. The goal of CAPS is to provide short term predictions of hazardous weather. Everything but the kitchen sink in the code. Not the fastest code out there for sure.

WRF: http://wrf.fsl.noaa.gov/
The Weather Research and Forecasting (WRF) model is the next generation community model that is currently being developed. This model will be used both for research as well as operational forecasting. This is the successor to MM5. The NWS will begin to run this model operationally at some point once development gets far enough along.

-mike