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Japanese Man Arrested For Virtual Theft
Kethinov writes "The Daily Yomiuri is reporting that a 21-year-old man was arrested for "illegally accessing an Internet game server to sell a virtual 'house' owned by a woman to another game participant for 50,000 yen, police said Thursday. According to the MPD, Ryusei Sakano of Itabashi Ward, Tokyo, posed as a female game player he met online while playing 'Ultima Online,' a popular Internet-based game. Sakano reportedly asked the game's system administrator to provide the female player's entry password on the pretext that she had lost her password to the game.""
Tom is a dumbass
first post...sorry couldn't resist...
pocketdemon
And here's a virtual f*** YOU!!!
first post hahahaha!!!
fp! i eat cats. lol. i need firsr post.
BOSTON, Massachusetts (AP) -- A group of U.S. soldiers, parents of soldiers and six U.S. House members filed a lawsuit in federal court Thursday seeking to stop the president from launching a war against Iraq without a declaration of war from Congress.
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The People's Investigation of 9/11
We declare a national emergency in uncovering what really happened on 9/11/2001 through an immediate call for an independent collaborative investigation worldwide. The U.S. government could help us but instead is doing everything it can to stop any investigations into 9/11.
The People's Investigation of 9/11 is an assemblage of international researchers and activists. Task-based functional groups work together on various projects, including research topics and volunteer efforts, in unison with other 9/11 evidence-finding efforts. Until a legitimate independent citizen's committee is funded and recognized by the U.S. government or a world political body or court, it is left up to the citizens of the world to investigate and share what they know with others.
What we know
"There was plenty of time to shoot down several of the planes, particularly the one we all knew was heading toward the Pentagon, which had enough time to fly 270 degrees around the Pentago and then hitting it where the least number of employees were working. Interviews with pilots in the air during the attacks indicate they were asked to land or simply verify the Pentagon was hit."
Scarificing Lives for a pretext
In his book, The Grand Chess Board, the former secretary of state laid out a plan detailing what the U.S. should do in order to establish and maintain global hegemony. He suggested that control over Central Asia was absolutely necessary. One of the major obstacles to the achievement of this plan, he noted, was the problem of securing domestic support for military presence and action abroad. In light of the horrific attacks on 9/11 his words carry additional significance.
"The attitude of the American public toward the external projection of American power has been much more ambivalent. The public supported America's engagement in World War II largely because of the shock effect of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor."
"Moreover, as America becomes an increasingly multi-cultural society, it may find it more difficult to fashion a consensus on foreign policy issues, except in the circumstance of a truly massive and widely perceived direct external threat."
"It is also a fact that America is too democratic at home to be autocratic abroad. This limits the use of America's power, especially its capacity for military intimidation. Never before has a populist democracy attained international supremacy. But the pursuit of power is not a goal that commands popular passion, except in conditions of a sudden threat or challenge to the public's sense of domestic well-being. The economic self-denial (that is, defense spending) and the human sacrifice (casualties, even among professional soldiers) required in the effort are uncongenial to democratic instincts. Democracy is inimical to imperial mobilization."
Zbigniew Brzezinski, former national security advisor, in "THE GRAND CHESSBOARD - American Primacy And It's Geostrategic Imperatives," Basic Books, 1997.
In a January 13, 2002 Washington Post op-ed piece, Henry Kissinger argued for a quick commencement to the proposed war against Iraq - while people still remember 9-11, he said.
A military operation against Iraq must begin with haste - "while the memory of the attack on the United States is still vivid and American-deployed forces are available to back up the diplomacy."
This is NOT a test. This is real, so wake up and SHOUT AT THE TOP OF YOUR LUNGS!!
Bush did it. 911 was an inside job.
http://www.copvcia.com/
http://www.lightscion.com/Sounds/g_b_ruppert.mp
http://energycrisis.org/de/lecture.html
Impeach Bush over 9/11
http://www.cooperativeresearch.org/Sept11/septemb
root 2 to the power of root 3:
alg: sqr(2) ^ sqr 3 = 8 keystrokes
RPN: 2 sqr 3 sqr ^ 4 keystrokes
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Since his accident, Sammy's courageous spirit and ever-growing talent have won him increasingly enthusiastic audiences. Let's hear it for Sammy Davis Jr. !
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it's quite funny - 12+ posts, and he this 'Anonymous Coward' guy doesn't have a clue. He hasn't even said what he's argueing against. I bring up some of his bullshit and he ignores it.
/2000) on stack) 4+ ^ (6^204 on stack)
Things the TI bot was wrong about
*Number of keystrokes needed (see his first reply)
*Laplace transformers are table lookups
*RPN has no benefits (see: half assed implementation)
There are others, but I can;t be stuffed getting them. for shits and giggles, here are some essays I wrote on the matter
-----For an example:
( (2+4)^(4+(2^5)/(2*10^3)) )/(4^ (4!))
Alg - 35 keystrokes plus lots of chances to screw up with brackets
vs (e = enter)
2e4+ (6 on stack) 2e5^(6, 2^5 on stack) 2E3e/ (6, ((2^5)
4e4!^ (6^204, 4, 4! on stack) ^ (6^204, 4^4! on stack) / (answer on stack)
22 keys used. I found that no harder to do then algerbraic - and I bet if you had to do that bu hand use use a similair process. It looks cryptic as hell written down like this, but I bet if you spent 15 mins playing with the HP emulator
Common RPN misconceptions
I already know algerbraic. Why should I bother learning a new system?
Because RPN has many advantages. It's quicker, requires less keystrokes and you no longer have to match brackets
But RPN is a pain in the neck!
No. Most RPN users agree that RPN is easier then algerbraic. For instance:
2* (4 + 7) =
is:
4 Enter 7 + 2 *
What's going on here? you are using a stack. Typing 4 then enter puts 4 on the stack. typing 7 + adds 7 to the stack. 2 * multiplies the result by 2. Not only is it easy, but you have saved 2 keystrokes already. now, let's take the square root of the answer:
ALG: sqr ans = 3 keystrokes
RPN: sqr 1 keystroke
Easy!
So, RPN is faster? Why?
Well, 2 reasons. Firstly it takes less keystrokes. Secondly, you no longer have to match brackets. This saves a lot of time
Why would I bother? RPN is as dead as *BSD
No, There Is A New Hope (TM)! HP is reviving their calculator line! Check out comp.sys.hp48 for details or check out this Press Release
hang on, if I make a typo I lose my work!
No. You have an 'undo' key
But I can't see my working!
yes you can. The HP4x series of calculators show full symbolic working
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It is official; HP confirms: Algerbraic is dying
One more crippling bombshell hit the already beleaguered Algerbraic community when HP confirmed that Algerbraic calculator usage has dropped yet again, now down to less than a fraction of 1 percent of all professionals. Coming on the heels of a recent hpcalc.org survey which plainly states that algerbraic notation has lost more market share, this news serves to reinforce what we've known all along. Algerbraic is collapsing in complete disarray, as fittingly exemplified by failing dead last in the recent HPcalc.org speed trials.
You don't need to be a Kreskin to predict alberbraic's future. The hand writing is on the wall: Algerbraic faces a bleak future. In fact there won't be any future at all for algerbraic because it is dying. Things are looking very bad for algerbraic. As many of us are already aware, it continues to lose market share. Red ink flows like a river of blood.
TI's algerbraic calculator development team is the most endangered of them all, having lost 93% of its core engineers. The sudden and unpleasant departures of long time algerbraic's developers Casio and Sharp only serve to underscore the point more clearly. There can no longer be any doubt: Algerbraic is dying.
Let's keep to the facts and look at the numbers.
RPN supporter Jean-Yves Avenard states that there are 70000 propfessional users of calculators. How many users of algerbraic are there? Let's see. The number of RPN versus algerbraic posts on comp.sys.hp48 is roughly in ratio of 500 to 1. Therefore there are about 70000/500 = 14 algerbraic users. Sharp DAL (Direct Algerbraic logic) posts on Usenet are about half of the volume of plain algerbraic posts. Therefore there are about 7 users of DAL. A recent article put DAL at about 50 percent of the algerbraic market. This is consistent with the number of DAL Usenet posts.
Due to the troubles of mismatched brackers, excessive keystrokes and so on, algerbraic went out of favor with TI and was taken over by Casio who sell another troubled calculator. Now Casio is also dead, its corpse turned over to cheap chinese calculator manufactures.
All major surveys show that alg has steadily declined in market share. Algerbraic is very sick and its long term survival prospects are very dim. If Algerbraic is to survive at all it will be among vintage calcululator collectors. Algerbraic continues to decay. Nothing short of a miracle could save it at this point in time. For all practical purposes, Algerbraic is dead.
Fact: Algerbraic is dying
2.Be the moderator for Slashdot for a week ;-)
Good thing you posted that anonymously otherwise he'd have taken all your karma away for suggesting it
4.Work as Tech Support Executive and answer (l)users for a month
That might be the worst punishment, then again it might not. That depends on what he has to do. If he's forced to actually be helpful and solve the problems its punishment, otoh if he's allowed to be BOFH then it's a reward
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well that is my $0.02
It said "windows 98 or better" so I installed Linux
Offtopic posts are the only reason I read Slashdot anyway. I mean... who gives a shit about the Columbia crew... but the jokes were cool.