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securitas writes "Sony, IBM and Butterfly.net will announce and demonstrate a new grid computing network for PS2 online gaming at the Game Developers Conference next week. The network is based on Linux and the Open Grid Services Architecture (OGSA) and is designed to support millions of players. This is believed to be the first major consumer application of grid technology. Read the details at the NY Times, CNET and the Washington Post."
yeah-yeah
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Believe with me, my saplings.
of the first encounter
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people, for the most part, automatically give fair value for value recieved. the small # of folks who avoid paying for things, does NOT affect legitimate commerce.
.controll, is to fuel the dying gangsterious last gasp efforts of the evile ill eagle kingdumb, & IT's phonIE payper bullshipping industry. we cannot afford to support such execrable (yesterdaze word).
the badtoll here is: how much more monIE can these greed/fear based stock markup frauds, extract from US, without returning anything?
it's write in the pairabulls. those who graft without adding value, shall see their 'fortunes' fade in the gnu millennium.
remember, people will almost AWAYS, automatically, PAY fair value for goods/services received. the only need for excessive
tell 'em robbIE.
payper liesense stock markup scams. it's just a game to those fauxking phukes.
x marx the blox.
Feds seizing domain names
Declan McCullagh, Staff Writer, CNET News.com
WASHINGTON--Federal police have adopted a novel crime-fighting tactic: seizing control of domain names for Web sites that allegedly violate the law.
Attorney General John Ashcroft said Monday that the domain names for several Web sites allegedly set up to sell illegal "drug paraphernalia" would be pointed at servers located at the Drug Enforcement Administration. A federal judge in Pittsburgh granted the U.S. Department of Justice permission to do so until a trial can take place, the government said.
Wednesday afternoon, the DOJ said it had taken over the iSoNews.com domain, whose owner pleaded guilty to felony copyright crimes under the controversial Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA). David Rocci, 22, pleaded guilty in December to using his site to sell "mod" chips that let Microsoft Xbox and Sony PlayStation owners modify their devices so they can use them to play illegally copied games, or "warez."
Rocci "attempted to profit by marketing circumvention devices to (the gaming) community knowing they would be used to play pirated games," Michael Chertoff, the assistant attorney general for the DOJ's criminal division, said in a statement. "He thought that there were no risks associated with his actions. He was wrong, and everyone engaged in the warez scene should take note."
best not to go online at all, with something like that.
Television's "Mister Rogers," the cultural icon and kindly neighbor to generations of American children, died Thursday at the age of 74.
Fred Rogers died at his home in Pittsburgh after a brief battle with stomach cancer, according to a spokeswoman for his production company. He is survived by his wife Joanne Rogers, their two sons and two grandsons, according to his Web site.
Marisa Lynch, who has worked for Family Communications Inc. for nearly 20 years, said she was in shock.
"We just learned about his illness in January," she said. "Luckily, he didn't suffer."
Staff members rushed into work around 2:20 a.m. after hearing that the venerable host of the long-running PBS show "Mister Rogers' Neighborhood" passed away, Lynch said.
"We're very loyal and dedicated," she said of the employees.
The Web site for Family Communications Inc., the non-profit company that produces the show, issued the following statement:
"We are very sorry to deliver the sad news that Fred Rogers died on February 27, 2003 after a brief battle with stomach cancer. We are grateful for the many people, young and old, who have cared about his work over the years and who continue to appreciate Mister Rogers' Neighborhood on PBS. We hope that you'll join us in celebrating his life by reflecting on his messages and taking them into your everyday lives."
According to the program's Web site, Fred McFeely Rogers was born in 1928 in Latrobe, Pennsylvania, 40 miles east of Pittsburgh.
Rogers began developing his ideas for children's programming in the 1950s. He is best known for "Mister Rogers' Neighborhood," which began in its early form in 1963 as a show on Canadian Broadcasting Corporation.
Rogers took the idea to the U.S. and in 1967, the first "Mister Rogers' Neighborhood" aired on Pittsburgh's WQED in 1967. A year later, PBS picked it up.
The last original "Mister Rogers' Neighborhood" aired in 2001, making it PBS's longest-running program ever.
The slow-paced show offered an alternate universe to most of today's quick-edit cartoon children's programming. But on the eve of his final show, Rogers told CNN's Jeff Greenfield he looks at it as more than entertainment; it's a chance to reach young people and give them a foundation for a good life.
"I believe that those of us who are the producers and purveyors of television -- or video games or newspapers or any mass media -- I believe that we are the servants of this nation," Rogers said.
That's why he got into television in the first place.
"I got into television because I hated it so," he said. "And I thought there was some way of using this fabulous instrument to be of nurture to those who would watch and listen."
Up until the end, the show was taped at WQED, and until the end it started with Rogers donning a cardigan sweater and comfortable shoes as he enters his home in the Neighborhood of Make-Believe.
Through the years, Rogers featured artists ranging from cellist Yo-Yo Ma to bodybuilder-actor Lou Ferrigno. He dealt with the death of pets and divorce, while teaching children to love themselves and others. His recurring characters included Mr. McFeely and Lady Elaine Fairchilde.
"Mister Rogers' Neighborhood" won loads of recognition, including four Emmys and a lifetime achievement award. A cardigan sweater belonging to Rogers hangs in the Smithsonian.
Those sweaters became Rogers' identifying characteristic. He credited his mom for the fashion statement that says, more than anything else, "Won't you be my neighbor?"
"My mother made a sweater a month for as many years as I knew her," Rogers said. "And every Christmas she would give this extended family of ours a sweater.
"She would say, 'What kind do you all want next year?' " said Rogers. "She said, 'I know what kind you want, Freddy. You want the one with the zipper up the front.' "
An ordained Presbyterian minister, Rogers' command of innocence won him thousands of young fans.
"I do think that young children can spot a phony a mile away," he says.
And it also made him the butt of parody by adults like comedian Eddie Murphy, who played his own version of Mister Rogers on "Saturday Night Live."
President Bush in 2002: "Fred Rogers has proven that television can soothe the soul and nurture the spirit and teach the very young."
Rogers knew for a fact that Murphy meant no harm with his humor. In fact, they met once.
"He just put his arms around me and said, 'The real Mister Rogers,' " he said.
On the last show, Rogers entered his home and donned his red zip-up sweater and traded his loafers for a pair of comfy blue sneakers.
The finale ended a weeklong tribute to art, with Rogers leafing through a stack of drawings kids made of the Neighborhood Trolley "to see how different people draw the same thing."
Rogers said he hoped kids who watch it will take it with them as they grow into adults.
"We all long to be lovable and capable of loving," he said. "And whatever we can do through the Neighborhood or anything else to reflect that and to encourage people to be in touch with that, then I think that's our ministry."
In 2002, President George W. Bush presented Rogers with the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation's highest civilian honor, recognizing his contribution to the well-being of children and a career in public television that demonstrated the importance of kindness, compassion and learning.
On January 1, 2003, in his last public appearance, Rogers served as a Grand Marshal of the Tournament of Roses Parade, and tossed the coin for the Rose Bowl Game.
Why did you purchase it if there was no supporting software? Christ, I have enough trouble affording the peripherals I need...
Slightly off topic, but i'm pretty sure henry rollins said the quote in your sig before chuck P. wrote fight club.
Does anyone know how such a grid could be heated up and poored down one's pants?
I'd like to grid fuck michael in the ass!
http://biz.yahoo.com/rb/030227/telecom_lucent_1.ht ml
lookout bullow. everybodIE knows bs only floats for a while, & when it sinks... whereas frauduleNT bookeeping/theft hangs around longer & longer. like an anvil, or a big red mark next to your moniker.
Why is Mr. McFeeley the family spokesman?
Are we sure it wasn't AIDS?
More than 1.1 billion pigs are killed worldwide each year. For no reason.
Pork is an unhealthy food source. Most people who eat pork also have access to other, non-meat foods.
Pigs are some of the most intelligent beings on our planet. Why do we kill them by the billions? Just to enjoy the transient pleasure of tasting their flesh?