Ken Lay was arrested and is out on bail. See him in handcuffs here.
First the prosecutors went after Ben Glisan, Enron's treasurer. He's now Federal inmate #20293-179 at FDC Houston and is scheduled for release in 2008.
Once Glisan talked, the prosecutors went after Andrew Fastow, Enron's CFO, and his wife, who helped with those "offshore entities". She's now inmate #20290-179 at FDC Houston and is scheduled for release in 2005. Andrew Fastow has pled guilty and is "cooperating with prosecutors", which will affect the length of his sentence. So he gave up Ken Lay. Andrew Fastow will still do quite a few years in prison; the original indictment specified over a thousand years.
Lay, Skilling, and Causey go on trial together in March 2005. We'll probably have a few more inmate numbers after that.
Unless the vendor anticipated this situation in their EULA, they could be open to fraud charges for knowingly, willfully, and maliciously selling a product that cannot work.
The "release date" issue is strictly between the retailer and the manufacturer, who have a contractual relationship. The end user isn't a party to any "release date" restrictions and isn't bound by them.
The same applies to Hollywood, but there, most of the crafts are unionized, which keeps the hours under control.
Doing software for a film production is a pain. Either they're in development, and they don't have any money, or they're in production, and they don't have any time.
The whole point of the Itanium was that it contained lots of new, patented technology. That's why the Itanium is so wierd. It was intended to be Intel's way to kill off AMD and the other CPU competitors.
Didn't work. It's different architecture, but it's not better. It's worse.
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Yes, where are the pictures? All we have is endless blog blithering.
stores with a good parts selection are getting harder to find.
Everybody orders parts on the Internet now. Try DigiKey and Mouser. They ship really, really fast (order late in the day and it's here tomorrow morning) and they're seldom out of stock. Digi-Key even has the data sheets for almost everything they sell on line.
This technology has been around for years in the intelligence community. It was first used to determine whether a satellite had a camera.
You can buy a handheld SpyFinder. Here's a customer review with a discussion of how it works. It uses two lasers, one on the optical axis and one slightly off it, run alternately at a few Hz. Things that have focusing optics followed by a flat reflective surface (which includes most cameras) will blink. Ordinary shiny things will not.
There are law firms in California who handle such cases. Kingsley and Kingsley is one. A class action lawsuit by an employee who recently quit might be safest.
There's Freeamp, known as Zinf because Nullsoft complained. It's open source, it works fine, and it doesn't phone home, spew ads, or tamper with your system.
Once Winamp tanks completely, Zinf can use the Freeamp name again; you have to use a trademark to keep it alive.
Since they haven't disclosed who the other party to the contract is, there's no contract.
It would be great if they sued. They'd have to disclose their identity.
Won't work. Zombies will generate the stamps
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Spammers will just offload stamp generation work onto their zombies. 0wned PCs on cable modems will burn even more CPU time.
If you want a virus built to generate stamps on zombies, just go over to Spamforum.biz and advertise for one.
New ads over there this week include "PushMail Webmailer v1.0.2 ~ New, Fast WAP Webmailer for Sale (Gets by Filters)". There's even a banner ad for a firm that wants spammers: "3 different sites - Pharma - OEM - Cigarettes".
That's exactly right. This action was taken by ICANN because some registrars (notably Verisign/Network Solutions) were very uncooperative about transfers of domains out from their registry.
Note that this isn't about transferring a domain from one owner to another. It's about transferring a domain from one registrar to another while keeping the same owner. Transfers of ownership come under different rules.
They used to tell me
I was building a dream.
And so I followed the mob
When there was earth to plow
Or guns to bear
I was always there
Right on the job.
They used to tell me
I was building a dream
With peace and glory ahead.
Why should I be standing in line
Just waiting for bread?
Once I built a railroad
I made it run
Made it race against time.
Once I built a railroad
Now it's done
Brother, can you spare a dime?
Once I built a tower up to the sun
Brick and rivet and lime.
Once I built a tower,
Now it's done.
Brother, can you spare a dime?
I warned you.
On 2000-04-14, I wrote "Today begins the Second Great Depression". Was I wrong?
It's application 20040130815, "Information storage systems", by James Barnes. The basic idea is to go back to head-in-contact recording, like a floppy, rather than the flying heads used in hard drives. Diamond coating is supposed to keep the substrate from wearing out. A huge number of read/write heads is envisioned. ("Indeed a preferred embodiment of the invention has over 64 million heads in a rectangular array of 1024 long by approximately 64 thousand wide.")
These are being vibrated back and forth through small distances by piezoelectric actuators, eliminating the usual voice-coil positioner.
That article sounds like a Reader's Digest reject.
Mark Rosheim is a well-regarded designer of industrial robot arms. His "Robot Evolution", is a coffee-table book for mechanical engineers. He's strong on the practical issues academics ignore, like preventing gear-tooth breakage and cable damage in factory operations. Some of his designs are quite elegant. So he's qualified to do this. The article makes him sound like a nut.
As for automata, it wouldn't be at all surprising for DaVinci to have done entertainment automata. It was one of the few things you could sell in the court-patronage era of mechanics. Understand that in that era, science, art, and mechanism design were hobbies of the rich. This was because you can make beautiful little mechanisms out of brass with hand tools and time, but to make power machinery that does useful work, you need an industrial infrastructure. That didn't come until much later.
The best early automata are by Jaquet-Droz, and are in a museum in Neuchatel. They still work, being carefully maintained by Swiss watchmakers, and on the first Sunday of each month, they're demonstrated. The Writer writes, with pen and ink, and can be reprogrammed for different messages. The Draughtsman draws, again in pen and ink. The Musician plays the piano. They are all cam-programmmed, and date from the 1700s. Worth a trip if you're in Switzerland. The Writer is probably the best mechanical automaton ever made.
The music industry has a hard time accepting that they sell an elastic good - when prices go up, sales go down. That's really happened to concert tickets. $60 tickets for second-tier bands went unsold all summer. Several major tours were cancelled. Lollapalooza was cancelled due to slow ticket sales.
The endless reissue of "oldies" is self-limiting. By now, everybody who wants any Beatles/Stones/Doors CD presumably has it.
But the fundamental problem is much simpler. The outlets that sell audio CDs don't just sell music. They also sell movie DVDs, which provide more entertainment content at a lower price.
Audio CDs ought to sell for about $3.99 to $5.99. There's no excuse for audio CDs by mediocre bands costing more than DVDs of major, big-budget films.
It gets worse. See the Dataslide web site. The site consists of a press release from 2002, a contact form, a "mission statement", and a content-free "background and possible applications" page. The home page has a title of "Untitled Document".
They claim to have a patent application, but there is no "Dataslide" anywhere in issued US patents or pending applications. The only name on the site, "David Barnes", doesn't bring up anything relevant in patent searches, either.
Piezoelectric actuators for disk heads have been built. They're a fine-tuning device, to tweak the head position by tens of nanometers to keep it on track. They work, but the extra cost and complexity only yielded a 35% positioning improvement for Fujitsu. Seagate has also played around with this technology. It may be shipping in some drives already.
But it's only used for fine positioning; the coarse positioning is still a motor drive.
By now, it's just not OK to have an Evil Overlord who hasn't read the List.
Bond films got over that long ago. In Austin Powers, there are clear allusions to the List.
Action films got rid of those cliches years ago.
Villains today are smarter.
Syndrome violates rules 1, 6, 13, 17, 27, 58, 60, 70, 74, 84, and 96. And he's supposed to be intelligent.
It's routine in the mail order business to identify your best and worst customers. The ones you're losing money on don't get catalogs any more. The high-profit customers get extra catalogs and offers.
That's a weak article. Look whom he cites - Wired writers, most of them.
"World Cities" have been around for a long time, all the way back to the Roman Empire. Overcentralization was once a key part of the control system of kingdoms and empires.
Actually, finance is far less centralized than it used to be.
There was a time within living memory when most major US companies were headquartered in New York. That's no longer the case. The international financial system, for most of the twentieth century, revolved around London and New York. Today, there are major financial centers all over the world.
For a serious paper on the subject, see Rank Size Distribution of International Financial Centers.
Going against this trend is the centralization of power in the Washington DC area. For most of American history, there were few major businesses headquartered in the Washington area. That started to change some time during the Reagan administration, and now the Washington area is a major business hub, focusing on businesses which are defined by their relationship to federal regulation or spending.
That article has too much Rubin mouthing off and not enough about voting. Only a few paragraphs in that article actually talk about what happened at the November 2 election. He mentions seal issues, but doesn't tell whether they're numbered or signed.
He says "some of the smart cards did not work very well", but doesn't say more about the problems.
He mentions driving the smart cards with the totals to the Board of Elections office, but says nothing about what physical controls were applied then. As an election judge, this guy is a dud.
This is too important an issue to become a vehicle for self-promotion.
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First the prosecutors went after Ben Glisan, Enron's treasurer. He's now Federal inmate #20293-179 at FDC Houston and is scheduled for release in 2008.
Once Glisan talked, the prosecutors went after Andrew Fastow, Enron's CFO, and his wife, who helped with those "offshore entities". She's now inmate #20290-179 at FDC Houston and is scheduled for release in 2005. Andrew Fastow has pled guilty and is "cooperating with prosecutors", which will affect the length of his sentence. So he gave up Ken Lay. Andrew Fastow will still do quite a few years in prison; the original indictment specified over a thousand years.
Lay, Skilling, and Causey go on trial together in March 2005. We'll probably have a few more inmate numbers after that.
The "release date" issue is strictly between the retailer and the manufacturer, who have a contractual relationship. The end user isn't a party to any "release date" restrictions and isn't bound by them.
Live by the EULA, die by the EULA.
Doing software for a film production is a pain. Either they're in development, and they don't have any money, or they're in production, and they don't have any time.
Didn't work. It's different architecture, but it's not better. It's worse.
Yes, where are the pictures? All we have is endless blog blithering.
They don't need a coherent light source, just a bright one. They're probably using big IR LEDs, like they do in their cheezy low-end camera detector.
Everybody orders parts on the Internet now. Try DigiKey and Mouser. They ship really, really fast (order late in the day and it's here tomorrow morning) and they're seldom out of stock. Digi-Key even has the data sheets for almost everything they sell on line.
You can buy a handheld SpyFinder. Here's a customer review with a discussion of how it works. It uses two lasers, one on the optical axis and one slightly off it, run alternately at a few Hz. Things that have focusing optics followed by a flat reflective surface (which includes most cameras) will blink. Ordinary shiny things will not.
There are law firms in California who handle such cases. Kingsley and Kingsley is one. A class action lawsuit by an employee who recently quit might be safest.
Once Winamp tanks completely, Zinf can use the Freeamp name again; you have to use a trademark to keep it alive.
It would be great if they sued. They'd have to disclose their identity.
If you want a virus built to generate stamps on zombies, just go over to Spamforum.biz and advertise for one. New ads over there this week include "PushMail Webmailer v1.0.2 ~ New, Fast WAP Webmailer for Sale (Gets by Filters)". There's even a banner ad for a firm that wants spammers: "3 different sites - Pharma - OEM - Cigarettes".
You're not allowed to back up your hard drive any more. Read your EULAs.
Note that this isn't about transferring a domain from one owner to another. It's about transferring a domain from one registrar to another while keeping the same owner. Transfers of ownership come under different rules.
I was building a dream.
And so I followed the mob
When there was earth to plow
Or guns to bear
I was always there
Right on the job.
They used to tell me
I was building a dream
With peace and glory ahead.
Why should I be standing in line
Just waiting for bread?
Once I built a railroad
I made it run
Made it race against time.
Once I built a railroad
Now it's done
Brother, can you spare a dime?
Once I built a tower up to the sun
Brick and rivet and lime.
Once I built a tower,
Now it's done.
Brother, can you spare a dime?
I warned you. On 2000-04-14, I wrote "Today begins the Second Great Depression". Was I wrong?
It's application 20040130815, "Information storage systems", by James Barnes. The basic idea is to go back to head-in-contact recording, like a floppy, rather than the flying heads used in hard drives. Diamond coating is supposed to keep the substrate from wearing out. A huge number of read/write heads is envisioned. ("Indeed a preferred embodiment of the invention has over 64 million heads in a rectangular array of 1024 long by approximately 64 thousand wide.") These are being vibrated back and forth through small distances by piezoelectric actuators, eliminating the usual voice-coil positioner.
Fabricating that will be a neat trick.
Mark Rosheim is a well-regarded designer of industrial robot arms. His "Robot Evolution", is a coffee-table book for mechanical engineers. He's strong on the practical issues academics ignore, like preventing gear-tooth breakage and cable damage in factory operations. Some of his designs are quite elegant. So he's qualified to do this. The article makes him sound like a nut.
As for automata, it wouldn't be at all surprising for DaVinci to have done entertainment automata. It was one of the few things you could sell in the court-patronage era of mechanics. Understand that in that era, science, art, and mechanism design were hobbies of the rich. This was because you can make beautiful little mechanisms out of brass with hand tools and time, but to make power machinery that does useful work, you need an industrial infrastructure. That didn't come until much later.
The best early automata are by Jaquet-Droz, and are in a museum in Neuchatel. They still work, being carefully maintained by Swiss watchmakers, and on the first Sunday of each month, they're demonstrated. The Writer writes, with pen and ink, and can be reprogrammed for different messages. The Draughtsman draws, again in pen and ink. The Musician plays the piano. They are all cam-programmmed, and date from the 1700s. Worth a trip if you're in Switzerland. The Writer is probably the best mechanical automaton ever made.
The music industry has a hard time accepting that they sell an elastic good - when prices go up, sales go down. That's really happened to concert tickets. $60 tickets for second-tier bands went unsold all summer. Several major tours were cancelled. Lollapalooza was cancelled due to slow ticket sales.
The endless reissue of "oldies" is self-limiting. By now, everybody who wants any Beatles/Stones/Doors CD presumably has it.
But the fundamental problem is much simpler. The outlets that sell audio CDs don't just sell music. They also sell movie DVDs, which provide more entertainment content at a lower price. Audio CDs ought to sell for about $3.99 to $5.99. There's no excuse for audio CDs by mediocre bands costing more than DVDs of major, big-budget films.
They claim to have a patent application, but there is no "Dataslide" anywhere in issued US patents or pending applications. The only name on the site, "David Barnes", doesn't bring up anything relevant in patent searches, either.
Piezoelectric actuators for disk heads have been built. They're a fine-tuning device, to tweak the head position by tens of nanometers to keep it on track. They work, but the extra cost and complexity only yielded a 35% positioning improvement for Fujitsu. Seagate has also played around with this technology. It may be shipping in some drives already. But it's only used for fine positioning; the coarse positioning is still a motor drive.
Syndrome violates rules 1, 6, 13, 17, 27, 58, 60, 70, 74, 84, and 96. And he's supposed to be intelligent.
Return too much, and watch the catalogs go away.
"World Cities" have been around for a long time, all the way back to the Roman Empire. Overcentralization was once a key part of the control system of kingdoms and empires.
Actually, finance is far less centralized than it used to be. There was a time within living memory when most major US companies were headquartered in New York. That's no longer the case. The international financial system, for most of the twentieth century, revolved around London and New York. Today, there are major financial centers all over the world. For a serious paper on the subject, see Rank Size Distribution of International Financial Centers.
Going against this trend is the centralization of power in the Washington DC area. For most of American history, there were few major businesses headquartered in the Washington area. That started to change some time during the Reagan administration, and now the Washington area is a major business hub, focusing on businesses which are defined by their relationship to federal regulation or spending.
This is too important an issue to become a vehicle for self-promotion.
Because these AUVs are underwater and hard to detect and evade. They're a cross between a torpedo and a drift mine.
This is an old idea, first expressed in the 1942 story, "The Wabbler", by Murray Leinster.
We have a problem coming up.