"The DoD needs to develop focused technologies that support continued system operation in the presence of successful attacks, particularly addressing vulnerabilities and issues, which might arise in DoD's emerging network-centric warfare vision."
This'll definitely be the wave of the future, I can hear it now:
"Hello ladies and gentlemen and welcome to CounterStrike 2002: Judgement Day. I'm Al Micheals along with my lovely co-host Killcreek, who knows a thing or two about pointy weapons, err, I mean "pointing" weapons at people.
Tonight's matchup will be Iraq, headed by the "Multikill" master Saddam Hussein versus that tenacious Colt weilding mastermind George W. Bush, who currently leads the United States in terrorist headshots. It's gonna be a winner take all brawl of the century!"
I plan to begin an immediate hands on approach to discovering if this guys technique is valid and patentable...
* Inventor Edward Pechter of Valencia, Calif., for example, patented a "method of bra size determination by direct measurement of the breast." U.S. Patent No. 5,965,809; granted Oct. 12, 1999. In pertinent part, Pechter?s pectoral procedure gauges cup size "by directly measuring with the tape the circumference of each unclothed breast from the beginning of the breast mound at one side laterally to the parasternal area medially."
Mandrake has always struck me as an odd distro. I'm not really sure where to place the thing. Is it geared for home users (and another poster mentioned), servers, hobbyists or what? Out of curiousity, I installed 7.2 on a dual proc machine here a while ago, and while I was impressed with some of the features (native ReiserFS and HPT360 support), their whole setup seemed rather "cutesy" to me.
I'm not sure what better way to describe it, but I just didn't care for the way they setup certain items and the entire look and feel left me somewhat annoyed. I realize things like wallpapers and icons can be changed fairly easily, and I'm certainly not knocking having multiple distros, as I do enjoy having the latest and greatest kernel/software releases included with Mandrake, but I'm just not sure who I would recommend Mandrake to. Perhaps I'm just biased because I've been using a certain other version of Linux for so long.
IMO, I think that arcade games have lost some of their sheen in the past few years. Some of the games on the new consoles and the PC look every bit as beautiful as their arcade counterparts, and you simply can't beat the ability to play online with lots of your friends.
Even still, perhaps what's hard to replace is the social aspects of the arcade environment itself. I'll still play the odd arcade game or two if I'm in a bar with friends and it's lots of fun. So if Sony can combine the power of online games with the social aspects of the arcade I think they may have a powerful combination.
I didn't even read the article (don't think I want to), but this is either really good news or really bad news depending on how you view it. It's good in the sense that when Microsoft has to try to evoke some sense of American patriotism in order to promote and sell their products, that doesn't say very much for their product. At the same time, this kind of article gives great recognition to the Opensource movement.
Anyhow, I don't think I would want to be part of a society that negatively views a movement that promotes intelligence, helpfulness and open sharing and access to knowledge. If this movement really goes against "The American Way", I think I'll be catching to next flight out of town.
Unfortunately, peer to peer networks that have the ability to allow persons to trade copyrighted material without compensating the owner of the work should be banned...according to this article about the European Parliament.
From the article: "The re-identification process is highly complex and doesn't have a high yield: In a Census Bureau test, only 10 percent of survey participants could be re-identified.
Only 10 percent? Well, considering that the US has about 275 million citizens, I can sleep easier at night knowing that only 27 million of these can be re-identified.
Straight from the State of Utah's insurance fraud website: 118 cases opened for investigation, 61 cases- prosecution was initiated, and 4 Fugitives.
Even with 118 cases opened for investigation, that's still well under.01%. Granted this is just the official investigations by the State of Utah's Department of Insurance Fraud, I don't know if this includes the insurance companies internal investigations, but I couldn't locate any data on that. I will agree that there is some fraud that goes unchecked, but I'm just going by the "official" data I found. Everyone can speculate on how much fraud is really happening, but it's only speculation.
"Insurance fraud is a multi-billion dollar industry in the US alone."
While the Coalition against Insurance Fraud claims that 10% of all auto and home insurance claims are fraudulent ($79 billion per year they say), my quick review of the IRS data on the issue just doesn't seem to support that claim.
Considering the fact that in the State of Utah, there were an astounding 61 cases of insurance fraud in 1999 alone! WOW! 61 cases of fraud in one year coming from a state with 2,129,836 people. That's less than.01% of the population commiting insurance fraud.
Geez, that looks mighty dangerous, not to mention the fact that I'd be out $1500.00 when it gets stolen from my locker. I think I'll just stick to my current mode of transportation.
Well this will certainly affect the advertising budgets of gaming magazines, but I question how well advertising works for games in general. The vast majority of games I buy, I purchase for the following reasons: 1) Good review from gaming websites 2)I played the demo and liked it or 3)I played it at my friends house and want to join in for some multiplayer action.
I don't think I've ever bought a game just because it had some hot babe or something in an ad I saw for it. Games are like movies, they sell by word of mouth.
Well, I wouldn't want to have this job. Even with the few sites I admin, this would be a major pain to make some of the necessary adjustments, seeing as how lots of stuff is simply hardcoded. You could do some Perl magic to make some things easier like: find/home/directory/ "*.html" | xargs perl -p -i -e 's/sometext/replaced_with_this/g' (I think that works, my scripting skills are a quite rusty).
Anyhow, I know one of the things they require is placing "ALT" tags for images. This would be a major undertaking for any medium to large website that didn't place ALT tags initially, at least to place relevant ALT tags on IMG's. Maybe you could follow the "letter of the law" by just putting the same ALT tag on all images on the site?
Multimedia creation software is definitely one area where Linux is still lacking. I haven't used it yet, but OFX looks like it's off to a nice start. My other suggestions for desperately needed GPL'd software would be a Premiere clone and a full featured multitrack sound editor a la Cool Edit Pro.
If you're interested in some other 3D software for Linux (some GPL, some not), there's 3dom, 3dpm, Behemot, G3D, Giram, 3delight, AC3D, and of course Blender as mentioned above.
I really can't say too many bad things about Nvidia. They constantly pump out new drivers in order to satisfy feature hungry consumers. They go so far as to offer drivers for not only Windows, but Linux, BeOS and even OS/2. At this rate though, maybe one day soon, I'll have to worry about doing driver updates on my game console in order to get that extra fps.
Emails about the whole ordeal.
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I've taken the liberty of compiling the emails that were sent to me from the President of Internet Express (one of the companies who was reselling Covad service). Click to read all of the emails from the month of December.
If you're interesting in seeing what your representatives have been doing to counteract SPAM, you can view US Federal laws, US State Laws, as well as European Union laws. It's a great resource.
Someone needs to apply these ideas to the fishing industry in order to prevent the huge number of unnecesary human deaths that happen on a daily basis throughout the world. Take for example some older stats from the United Kingdom alone:
"In 1995-96 there were 77 fatal injuries per 100,000 fishermen, making it the most dangerous occupation by a significant margin (the next closest was mining and quarrying at 23.2 per 100,000)".
You can read more about the huge safety problem in the fishing industry here.
Maybe all the geeks here at Slashdot could chip in and buy it, to ensure that it remains free of the corporate controlled bureaucracy. I'm in for $5.00.
Heck with it, why don't we just start our own Internet company. With the sheer brain power, engineering genius and geekiness of the average Slashdot reader behind the company, we'd be unstoppable. If I were a partner in the company I'd be much more willing to offer up more than just the $5.00 I mentioned above, in fact, I've got about 110 acres of land I'd be willing to donate to the project. 110 acres of pure, opensource geeky goodness. Wow, it'd be a geek paradise.
Of course, if we were to fill 110 acres of property up with geeks, the neighbors (and the garbage collectors) might have a problem with the staggering volume of Mountain Dew cans that we generate. It'd be a mountain of Mountain Dew cans...then again, maybe we could use this to our advantage, and we could open up a year round snowboard park to help pay those ungodly electricity bills.
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This'll definitely be the wave of the future, I can hear it now:
"Hello ladies and gentlemen and welcome to CounterStrike 2002: Judgement Day. I'm Al Micheals along with my lovely co-host Killcreek, who knows a thing or two about pointy weapons, err, I mean "pointing" weapons at people.
Tonight's matchup will be Iraq, headed by the "Multikill" master Saddam Hussein versus that tenacious Colt weilding mastermind George W. Bush, who currently leads the United States in terrorist headshots. It's gonna be a winner take all brawl of the century!"
Godlike killing spree's: The Linux Pimp
* Inventor Edward Pechter of Valencia, Calif., for example, patented a "method of bra size determination by direct measurement of the breast." U.S. Patent No. 5,965,809; granted Oct. 12, 1999. In pertinent part, Pechter?s pectoral procedure gauges cup size "by directly measuring with the tape the circumference of each unclothed breast from the beginning of the breast mound at one side laterally to the parasternal area medially."
Measuring success one cup at a time. The Linux Pimp
I'm not sure what better way to describe it, but I just didn't care for the way they setup certain items and the entire look and feel left me somewhat annoyed. I realize things like wallpapers and icons can be changed fairly easily, and I'm certainly not knocking having multiple distros, as I do enjoy having the latest and greatest kernel/software releases included with Mandrake, but I'm just not sure who I would recommend Mandrake to. Perhaps I'm just biased because I've been using a certain other version of Linux for so long.
Compiling kernels the old fashioned way. The Linux Pimp
Even still, perhaps what's hard to replace is the social aspects of the arcade environment itself. I'll still play the odd arcade game or two if I'm in a bar with friends and it's lots of fun. So if Sony can combine the power of online games with the social aspects of the arcade I think they may have a powerful combination.
Tux Racer experts. The Linux Pimp
Anyhow, I don't think I would want to be part of a society that negatively views a movement that promotes intelligence, helpfulness and open sharing and access to knowledge. If this movement really goes against "The American Way", I think I'll be catching to next flight out of town.
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It'd also be pretty novel to shoot a rocket up my bum, but that doesn't make it a good idea.
Only 10 percent? Well, considering that the US has about 275 million citizens, I can sleep easier at night knowing that only 27 million of these can be re-identified.
Identifies well with others. The Linux Pimp
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Even with 118 cases opened for investigation, that's still well under .01%. Granted this is just the official investigations by the State of Utah's Department of Insurance Fraud, I don't know if this includes the insurance companies internal investigations, but I couldn't locate any data on that. I will agree that there is some fraud that goes unchecked, but I'm just going by the "official" data I found. Everyone can speculate on how much fraud is really happening, but it's only speculation.
While the Coalition against Insurance Fraud claims that 10% of all auto and home insurance claims are fraudulent ($79 billion per year they say), my quick review of the IRS data on the issue just doesn't seem to support that claim.
Considering the fact that in the State of Utah, there were an astounding 61 cases of insurance fraud in 1999 alone! WOW! 61 cases of fraud in one year coming from a state with 2,129,836 people. That's less than .01% of the population commiting insurance fraud.
Fraudulent zodiacs. The Linux Pimp
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I don't think I've ever bought a game just because it had some hot babe or something in an ad I saw for it. Games are like movies, they sell by word of mouth.
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Anyhow, I know one of the things they require is placing "ALT" tags for images. This would be a major undertaking for any medium to large website that didn't place ALT tags initially, at least to place relevant ALT tags on IMG's. Maybe you could follow the "letter of the law" by just putting the same ALT tag on all images on the site?
We love ALT tags. The Linux Pimp
If you're interested in some other 3D software for Linux (some GPL, some not), there's 3dom, 3dpm, Behemot, G3D, Giram, 3delight, AC3D, and of course Blender as mentioned above.
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"In 1995-96 there were 77 fatal injuries per 100,000 fishermen, making it the most dangerous occupation by a significant margin (the next closest was mining and quarrying at 23.2 per 100,000)".
You can read more about the huge safety problem in the fishing industry here.
Heck with it, why don't we just start our own Internet company. With the sheer brain power, engineering genius and geekiness of the average Slashdot reader behind the company, we'd be unstoppable. If I were a partner in the company I'd be much more willing to offer up more than just the $5.00 I mentioned above, in fact, I've got about 110 acres of land I'd be willing to donate to the project. 110 acres of pure, opensource geeky goodness. Wow, it'd be a geek paradise.
Of course, if we were to fill 110 acres of property up with geeks, the neighbors (and the garbage collectors) might have a problem with the staggering volume of Mountain Dew cans that we generate. It'd be a mountain of Mountain Dew cans...then again, maybe we could use this to our advantage, and we could open up a year round snowboard park to help pay those ungodly electricity bills.
Oddly enough, I'm only half joking.
When I first read the headline, I actually thought it said French Hookers Break SDMI.