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Original publication: http://www.yomiuri.co.jp/dy/national/20051005TDY01 003.htm They should definitely try social engineering techniques too. There was article [http://www.pacifict.com/Story/%5D written by a former Apple catractor that details how he worked on the graphing calculator app for a year without being an employee. Where I work, you just have to mention an employee's name and someone will assume that you work there. Of course I do work at Starbucks, but whatever [not really, I'm mean really not really].

The US only contributes 2.53% more to the UN the Japan.

Look

They also haven't fully paid thier dues since Bush came into Office. ~5 years or so.

Look

The UN coudl survive just fine without the US Jerason.

Your "military might makes right" attitude is why the rets of the worlds hates us. (the us)

In Japan, the male population declined slightly last year, and the overall population is predicted to peak in 2006. The birth rate of 1.29 kids per couple is a pretty major factor. (And I sure wouldn't want to be that .29 of a kid...)

I am one of the people on slashdot who actually plays the game. It is quite a simple game, black and white stones, placed on intersections. Although quite simple, it is hard to master.

The Daily Yomiuri - A Japanese Daily Newspaper that includes a go collumn, has frequent discussions about pro matches, contains joseki, and best of all contains an archive of previous go collumns that teaches go to beginners. I greatly enjoy reading this site, but of late have not had the time.

GoBase.org, who could forget this essential site (actually I almost did) not only for beginners but for experienced players, contains many, many problems, classic games, wonderfull resource.

The American Go Association - Contains many resources for those who are interested in learning about playing go.

The Korean Baduk Association might be most helpfull for you, however I do not know how much help they can be to english speeking people.

IGS (Internet Go Server), synonymous with online and go, will provide you with many resources about go, and even have an online client that you can play people throughout the world.

KGS is another online go server, apparently it has lectures every week.

The Interactive Way To Go is a link my brother just gave me, it contains some go problems, hope it helps.

Well, I hope to see you on igs soon. Please enjoy the resources that I dug up from you from my personal link folder, they will be invaluable in your progress in learning go.

"If this thing looks "cool" to you, I'd hate to see what wasn't cool...."

This isn't cool.

Or is it just because he made it difficult for them to crack the network he`d created that they wanted even more to "crack him", as an example?

That's the major theory currently doing the rounds in the media, but it's also been reported that when he released Winny, he gave as his reason for developing it "to demonstrate why current copyright laws are wrong and help to change them". While I think he has a valid point about copyright [uh oh, are they going to come after me now?], openly showing disrespect for the law isn't calculated to put you in law enforcement's good graces.

It also seems [Japanese] he's telling police that he "created Winny to foster copyright violations and destroy content companies who are bent only on legal action and don't try to find new business models to protect their copyrights". Take that as you will . . .

I've lived in Japan since 1999, in the technology community (such as it is...), and I have never heard of this site until now, never even heard it referenced on TV or in print.

Either you're lying, or you're so focused on maintaining your little bubble of American-ness that you might as well not be in Japan at all. 2ch is all over the place, and was even mentioned in national newspapers multiple times recently.

Thanks for playing, better luck next time.

I've lived in Japan since 1999, in the technology community (such as it is...), and I have never heard of this site until now, never even heard it referenced on TV or in print.

Either you're lying, or you're so focused on maintaining your little bubble of American-ness that you might as well not be in Japan at all. 2ch is all over the place, and was even mentioned in national newspapers multiple times recently.

Thanks for playing, better luck next time.

I've lived in Japan since 1999, in the technology community (such as it is...), and I have never heard of this site until now, never even heard it referenced on TV or in print.

Either you're lying, or you're so focused on maintaining your little bubble of American-ness that you might as well not be in Japan at all. 2ch is all over the place, and was even mentioned in national newspapers multiple times recently.

Thanks for playing, better luck next time.

No, I'm not bitter about this coming up after having decided to move to Japan. sigh...

(Well, to be fair, Japan's copyright law does have a clause allowing personal copies, which is recognized as valid by pretty much everybody, and which even the local press is mentioning in their articles on this, like this one. But they also have a DMCA-like clause that pretty much negates its effect for encrypted stuff.)

(thanks to pxlinuonline.com for the link)

e-japan

During a meeting with the e-Japan task force within the Liberal Democratic Party, Gates said open-source systems would be difficult to use for commercial purposes as their code is freely available. He urged government leaders to consider using software that required licensing fees for the sake of promoting growth in the software industry.

Those who are just interested in learning japanese check out jwpce (text editor for typing japanese), Kanji gold (flash card program), Pera Pera Penguin(PDF files covering different japanese phrases)

I know a lot of people have brought this up the issue of the HK bootleg. Yes, it is cheaper, yes, it does not support the original authors, but this is one case where you should go with the HK version (I know, I bought the R2 and got burned).

this and this

There is a *SEVERE* color problem with the R2 release. Yes, the Japanese NTSC and usa NTSC standards are slightly different in their white point, but this has nothing to do with that. They red has been cranked all the way up, so much that the white walls in the entrance to the park look like they are made of adobe, and what should be puffy white clouds look like they are stained with blood. Unfortunately, since they already pressed many millions of these DVD's, they decided to call this a Feature in the official press release (look around for it if you really want to read it). I hope that this color error doesn't make its ways to the US shores. If Buena Vista wouldn't take responsibility for their mistake (and it was certainly one, even Miyazaki has commented on it), I see no reason to give them my money. It is such a shame too, the DVD's are some of the best authored I have ever seen. I hope the R1 release is worthy of my money.

IMPORTANT NOTE: The HK bootleg I am referring to is not the one that is just a copy of the R2 dvd, which is the one out there now. Obviously that one will have the same color problem.

You know, three years ago when the U.S. was economically prosperous and business was booming, we could afford to attack our best corporate performers with regulation. But right now, our economy sucks. People are being laid off all over the place.

Now is not the time to stifle the natural monopolies.

Looks like I goofed. As can be seen by reading the English version of the article that someone posted here, the article truly is talking about partly human cell aggregates. However, the Ananova piece still constitutes bad reporting since "Ministers hope the move will lead to transplant organs being produced in specially-bred animals." clearly makes it seem like the guidelines are approving of the creation of chimeric animals which they are not.

Here is the English version of the same newspaper article.

From the article:
The hope is that human organs could be grown in other species and later transplanted into humans.

However, some said the decision opens the door to the risk of creating mixed-species organs, or possibly even creatures.

The article is about the publication of guidelines on research into human cloning. While allowing the cloning of aggregate embryos, the Wednesday announcement bars all other embryo cloning, citing insufficient debate about the ramifications of such cloning.

The research hasn't even begun yet. Maybe its possible to grow aggregate embryos, maybe its not. Maybe it will result in mixed-species, maybe not.

Yomiuri Shimbun has an excellent English edition, which has an English version of the article in the Science section.

yen-dollar updated exchange rate can be found here.
The true hacker does the math himself :)

The original, short article on the Yomiuri Times seems to be here, although it's in Japanese.

The extra info that wasn't reported on the Yahoo! reads:
"One of the problems reported was that due to irregularities in the chip, basic software programs (eg, OS) could not be reinstalled"

Laf. That *could* be a slight problem if you plan on running Windoze...

Japan is safer than most places, but keep in mind that nationally, it is a master of appearing better off than it is.

Just yesterday, there was news of a man who "accidentally" burned 6 women alive while robbing a jewelry store.
Although there are many more disturbing things like the Aum Shinrikyo (sp?) sarin attack, the recently caught boy who beat his mother to death with an aluminum baseball bat, the disturbing increase in poisoned food cases, etc...
A 15 year old boy was accused of peeping through windows at a neighboring family's 16 year old daughter. Angered by the accusation, he killed 3 of the 6 family members.
A 70 year old man was taking out garbage one morning when a 19 year old boy ran up and started bludgeoning him with a hammer. When the man's wife ran out to help, she too was attacked.
A 17 year old boy in Osaka hijacked a bus, stabbed 3 people, and made demands for a bullet-proof vest, a handgun, cash, and to be driven to Tokyo. Police negotiated with him until riot police stormed the bus and captured him the next morning.
In Aichi prefecture, a 17 year old boy stabbed an elderly woman 40 times because he wanted to know what it was like to murder someone.

Most of these stories (I think all except Aum Shinrikyo) are from May 2000 to present. I've also heard there are problems with people getting beaten and robbed in Osaka lately. Japan appears to be all under control, (don't get me wrong, I'd love to spend some time there,) but there is a lot of underlying crime that is quickly forgotten and swept under the rug. It's not as neat and tidy as it seems from here.

(Also, a story I thought was interesting but didn't really fit: Yakuza stormed a Right-wing political office, armed with knives. Their attempt failed because the people at the office had guns. (illegal in Japan.))

...on the front page of this morning's Daily Yomiuri (an English Daily) is the headline "Ibaraki hit by major N-accident", and in today's weekly Washington Poston supplement of the paper on page 10 is a half-page advertisment by the Nuclear Energy Institute with the slogan "Healthy Air to Healthy Patient -- Nuclear makes it happen."