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It's the incredible edible, heavy-investment waffle double gainer! steevo.com writes: "Intel has decided to stay with Rambus. Say it ain't so! Details are at C-NET.
Time was when ... wilkinsm writes: "When I tuned my shortwave to 5 Mhz today, I learned that NIST (National Institute of Standards and Technology) is currently doing a open survey on the time and frequency user community. I encourage all of you unix admins that use the network time protocol to show your support and fill the online survey out."
Has the code been tossed out with the bathwater? nonAI writes: "The Israeli company, which promoted a competition against an AI, closed its gates, as reported by an Israeli economic magazine (sorry, babelfish doesn't help). That's the end for the Child Machine HAL."
Now imagine you know of a freewheeling, opinionated discussion board ... Wael Islam, a member and volunteer with IslamWay.com, writes with some words on the objections B'nai Brith Canada raised to postings on IslamWay's message boards.
"In IslamWay.com discussion board we've more than 4000 Member and at the time of the media attack there was more than 28,000 posts!! Bnai Brith didn't only take one of the posts, but even took a statement out of context to prove that IslamWay.com is a terrorist website! ...
... The discussion post was between two people who were fighting each others by words, one called the other one that you are a hypocrite, so the other one was very angry so he told him - I'm just giving the meaning- : Let's see who is the hypocrite, Come with me to Afghanistan and let's train ourselves there .. so the person meant that army exercises will be a way to prove who is the coward and who is the brave!"
The people who attacked IslamWay.com based on the Discussion Board post didn't clarify that it was mentioned in the discussion board, and they just said a post on IslamWay.com."
Of course, we could require that all public communications be approved in advance, licensed, and inoffensive.
Please resume watching your educational audio-visual materials. echoSpades writes: "I guess I wasn't the only one to be annoyed with Apple's DVD playback. Apple's website has a small text link to info about a class action suit against them: 'There is a proposed settlement of a class action lawsuit against Apple Computer, Inc. involving issues with DVD playback in earlier models of the Apple iMac DV, iMac DV SE and Power Mac G4 computers."
It is more exciting for the media. It gives scope to people who seek power.
>If Jihaad is indeed mentioned in the Quran, what are the circumstances surrounding it and what are the justifications.
Jihad is the personal religious struggle that one goes through (or ignores) in life. A sutra in the Q'uran says that religion should NOT be forced on people. A religious war is only permissible (by the Q'uran and religious law) in the case of pysical invasion that exterminates muslims.
>I understand that many Muslims are saying that Bin Laden has hijacked TRUE Islam but where did he get the ideas for Jihaad? Where did this all start?
I'm not sure where the idea originated but it was probably a heritage of the crusades where jihad was permissible because the crusaders were invading muslim lands and slaughtering muslims indiscrimately.
With respect to how THIS started, it started in Pakistan. Pakistan set up Islamic schools for Afghani refugees, which provided free food if you studied the Q'uran using their (Pakistan's) teachers originally. The then sent these people back to Afghanistan to 'liberate' it. These people became the Taliban and conquered the country (Afghanistan) fairly (relatively) peacefully (they went in waving white flags). The reason that such fundamentalism was accepted was that it seemed the only way to obtain peace and physical safety.
The problemis not the Afghanis, per se, it is the people who are using them.
Zero Sum (don't amount to much). [root@localhost]
I wonder if we couldn't file a suit against the DVD-CCA that region encoding and CSS encryption is false advertising, unfair competition, and that playback is unacceptable? That they're marketing DVDs that don't playback well in players purchased around the world?
As the Chief Scientist at Ai, I can confirm that the news is true. However, we're not closing our operations, we're freezing them. In the short-term future we would need investment to continue. This doesn't seem likely in the current climate, so it was decided to go into hibernation. We will still honour the Learning Machine Challenge, our website will still remain online, and our Open Lab will still operate.