"Not to incite flames, but this speaks volumes about the Bush administration."
The NYT article stated that these documents were edited before release by career lawyers at the DOJ and that Bush-appointed employees of DOJ made no changes at all.
Mr. Corallo said career lawyers who routinely decide how to censor material before public release made the recommendations about what to delete from the diversity report. He said their recommendations were sent to the office of the deputy attorney general, where it was reviewed by political appointees who made no further changes.
Take Athlon(TM)64 3200+ for example, the standard clock is 2000MHz. After adjusting it to the Minimal Power Management, as long as you PC stays under the low loading circumstance, the CPU clock will be located in 800MHz. As soon as there is a program starts running, the CPU clock will begin to add 200MHz each time according to the loading of data.
AMD Cool'n'Quiet! Technology allows the system to dynamically and automatically select the CPU speed, Voltage and Power combination that match the instantaneous user perfomance need. These changes can happen as often as 30 times per second.
There are different methods the motherboard can use to measure the die temperature. One is to place a thermal diode on the motherboard in the center of the socket beneath the CPU. Other motherboards report the temperature directly from the CPU's internal on-die thermal sensor.
Usually the report from the on-die sensor is 10-20C higher than the external sensor reports.
Harvard is a private university, Oxford is a government-funded university. In the U.S. government universities are funded by the individual states and tuition ranges from $1,500-4,000/yr, while many states such as Texas and Georgia waive the tuition fees for students who keep their grades above a certain level.
Oxford weighs funding changes "despite Oxford's proud history and its impressive architecture, it is losing its competitive footing to America's top-tier colleges and universities, such as Harvard and Yale."
"two taikonauts wondering whether to take down the American flag still found at the Sea of Tranquility"
The SoT flag was placed too close to the lunar module and according to Buzz Aldrin was blasted over on their departure. The other 5 flags were placed farther away from the LM and are almost certainly still upright though. Group Wants to Protect Apollo Site
announcements such as "]00l dude wants you all to know that they just managed to get a new model to compile for their upcoming uber-l337 killemall mod. Here's a screenshot of the new model with a plain grey skin. Kewl, eh? Oh, and they need coders and artists, so check 'em out!!!!!!"
"If Ballmer told me that my pants were on fire AND I smelled smoke AND I felt my ass getting warm I still would not believe him. " -- Unknown
With all of this attention to security can someone explain why there are still over 30 vulnerabilities in IE6, a piece of software that was released over two years ago?
I guess this gives nVidia time to release nv40 before the HL2 launch. Now their crappy DX9 inplementation in nv30+ will not matter. Seems like this has worked out perfectly for them
1) Starting around 9/11 of this year, someone other than me was accessing my email account. This has been determined by looking at traffic on our email server versus my travel schedule.
2) Shortly afterwards my machine started acting weird (right-clicking on executables would crash explorer). I was unable to find a virus or trojan on my machine, I reformatted my hard drive, and reinstalled.
3) For the next week, there appears to have been suspicious activity on my webmail account.
4) Around 9/19 someone made a copy of the HL-2 source tree.
5) At some point, keystroke recorders got installed on several machines at Valve. Our speculation is that these were done via a buffer overflow in Outlook's preview pane. This recorder is apparently a customized version of RemoteAnywhere created to infect Valve (at least it hasn't been seen anywhere else, and isn't detected by normal virus scanning tools).
6) Periodically for the last year we've been the subject of a variety of denial of service attacks targetted at our webservers and at Steam. We don't know if these are related or independent.
Well, this sucks.
What I'd appreciate is the assistance of the community in tracking this down. I have a special email address for people to send information to, helpvalve@valvesoftware.com. If you have information about the denial of service attacks or the infiltration of our network, please send the details. There are some pretty obvious places to start with the posts and records in IRC, so if you can point us in the right direction, that would be great.
We at Valve have always thought of ourselves as being part of a community, and I can't imagine a better group of people to help us take care of these problems than this community.
Submission: "Heres something you don't see everyday - The Southtyrol-game is an 11 metre, 2.6 tonne pinball "style" machine."
Mirrored Story: The game is one of the worlds largest hand carved pinball style game machines. (Candidate for the Guinness World Records). It weighs 2.6 tons,
So does it weigh
2.6tonne(SI); 2,600kg (5,730lbs)? or
2.6ton(US); 5,200lbs (2,360kg)? or
2.6ton(UK); 5,820lbs (2,640kg)? Maybe we can get this in units of stones or VW beetles?
"during the above period, scientists were able to perform research on the effects of jet contrails"
Why was this moderated 'interesting' and 'insightful'? Do you see any links to this supposed 'research'? Is there any reason to assume that this is not entirely fabricated?
"During their research, it was found that a single jet contrail could be tracked by satellite across the U.S"
Was this research conducted by Art Bell and Jeff Rense? Has it only been published to a geocities or indymedia site? Links??!!?
Slashdot Mirror
Free music?
"LAMP had purchased $30,000 is music in digital format"
The school paid for licenses for all of the music and then made it available in an analog format to its students.
Will we see a Schwarzenegger or Ventura cameo?
hint: both Governors were in the original Predator film.
The NYT article stated that these documents were edited before release by career lawyers at the DOJ and that Bush-appointed employees of DOJ made no changes at all.
http://www.msi.com.tw/html/e_service/techexpress/
There are different methods the motherboard can use to measure the die temperature. One is to place a thermal diode on the motherboard in the center of the socket beneath the CPU. Other motherboards report the temperature directly from the CPU's internal on-die thermal sensor.
r 7a-r/sensor_small.jpg
Usually the report from the on-die sensor is 10-20C higher than the external sensor reports.
Here is what the in-socket thermal diodes look like: http://www.overclockers.com.au/techstuff/r_abit_k
Australian police have tracked about 1.5 million dollars.
"Hopefully this means my inbox will be seeing less of these e-mails."
After reading that figure the number of people entering this racket has probably increased.
Chaintech ZNF3-150, FIC K8-800T, and MSI K8T
Chaintech ZNF3-150 = nVidia nForce3
FIC K8-800T and MSI K8T = VIA K8T800
People started noting this a week ago:
9.2 FRIED my CDROM drives
"$20,067.90 for people that are from other states or countries."
I thought illegal immigrants received in-state tuition?
Why is this modded funny? That is exactly the methodology I use for most purchases.
Perhaps it is just Georgia then.
Georgia Tech is $1,808/semester while UGA is $1,709/semester, both are free if you keep a 3.0 GPA. But we do have a lottery to help subsidize that.
Harvard is a private university, Oxford is a government-funded university. In the U.S. government universities are funded by the individual states and tuition ranges from $1,500-4,000/yr, while many states such as Texas and Georgia waive the tuition fees for students who keep their grades above a certain level.
Oxford weighs funding changes
"despite Oxford's proud history and its impressive architecture, it is losing its competitive footing to America's top-tier colleges and universities, such as Harvard and Yale."
Gumbel seems to be following the well-worn path of fallen journalists blazed so spectacularly by Geraldo Rivera... kind of sad, really.
Does that mean Gumbel will be hosting the unveiling of Frankie Yale's secret vault?
http://www.anandtech.com/printarticle.html?i=1799
10k-SCSI vs 10k-SATA vs 7.2k-SATA vs 7.2k-PATA.
The median height for American white males is 69"(5'9") while 72"(6'0") is the 75th percentile. (NHANES III 1988-94)
Recent Presidents' heights:
G.W.Bush: 6' 0"
Clinton: 6' 2-1/2"
G.H.Bush: 6' 2"
Reagan : 6' 1"
Carter: 5' 9-1/2"
Ford: 6' 0"
Nixon: 6' 0"
Johnson: 6' 3"
Kennedy: 6' 0"
8 of the last 9 above the 75th percentile not even accounting for lower heights in the past.
"And /. calls this a trouncing?"
No, they stole that headline from the inq:
http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=12130
"and... velcro ... trace their way back to the Space Race of the 1960s."
Velcro was patented in 1955.
The Invention of VELCRO (R) - George de Mestral
"two taikonauts wondering whether to take down the American flag still found at the Sea of Tranquility"
The SoT flag was placed too close to the lunar module and according to Buzz Aldrin was blasted over on their departure. The other 5 flags were placed farther away from the LM and are almost certainly still upright though.
Group Wants to Protect Apollo Site
This guy also predicted one year ago that Macs would today be running on x86 hardware: http://www.gigaweb.com/Content/Media/AdHoc/Desktop Trends.pdf
Ballmer: "we are 100% focused on building products and technologies that are safe and secure"
-- January 2002
Ballmer: "security is tattooed on our brains
-- April 2003
Nash: "Computer security is without question the number one priority for the company"
-- October 2003
"If Ballmer told me that my pants were on fire AND I smelled smoke AND I felt my ass getting warm I still would not believe him. "
-- Unknown
With all of this attention to security can someone explain why there are still over 30 vulnerabilities in IE6, a piece of software that was released over two years ago?
>>Puts on tinfoil hat<<
I guess this gives nVidia time to release nv40 before the HL2 launch. Now their crappy DX9 inplementation in nv30+ will not matter. Seems like this has worked out perfectly for them
>>Removes tinfoil hat<<
"was there info that ATI gave out the Doom 3 alpha?"
_ alpha_leaked_by_ati.html
http://www.evem.org.au/evem/archives/games/doom_3
Apparently they are just really sloppy, ATI sent id a laptop with the Unreal Warfare engine it 3 months before they let this Doome3 build get out.
"Heres something you don't see everyday - The Southtyrol-game is an 11 metre, 2.6 tonne pinball "style" machine."
Mirrored Story:
The game is one of the worlds largest hand carved pinball style game machines. (Candidate for the Guinness World Records).
It weighs 2.6 tons,
So does it weigh
2.6tonne(SI); 2,600kg (5,730lbs)? or
2.6ton(US); 5,200lbs (2,360kg)? or
2.6ton(UK); 5,820lbs (2,640kg)?
Maybe we can get this in units of stones or VW beetles?
Why was this moderated 'interesting' and 'insightful'? Do you see any links to this supposed 'research'? Is there any reason to assume that this is not entirely fabricated?
Was this research conducted by Art Bell and Jeff Rense? Has it only been published to a geocities or indymedia site? Links??!!?