1 A 2 B 3 D 4 A 5 B 6 E 7 C 8 A 9 F 10 A 11 D 12 E 13 D 14 E 15 E 16 E 17 A 18 D 19 A 20 B 21 C 22 B 23 C 24 D 25 B 26 B 27 A 28 C 29 A 30 C 31 B 32 C Merry Christmas
All I want for christmas is my two front teeth. My two front teeth. See my two front teeth? All I want for christmas is my teeth! So I could wish you 'Merry Christmas!'
How are we sure this was done by script kiddies rather that some inside SCO people as a stunt to gain a little moral high ground (and at about this time, they desperately need some).
I love how the Mormon's rewrite their Bible every few decades too
You, sir, are an ignorant fool. There hasn't been any "rewrites" since Joseph Smith confronted the original printer about mispellings. The Book Of Mormon is the same as it was well before your grandparents were born.
Good thing they're a minority
Anyone who has a good idea about the very concept of numbers wouldn't say that at all.
In closing, either shut your mouth or say something intelligent.
You comapre that to the millions and millions of driver problems that happen every day to win32 users? You sir, are an idiot. Sure, gentoo has problems, but then carrying that over to say that "every single lunix distribution is a piece of shit" is unintelligent, ignorant, and makes you a mindless automiton for the corporate FUD controllers to manipuate easily. An A/C is just that, A COWARD.
I wish that I could list you as one of my frinds here on slashdot. The problem is, I do not know your real username. The parent post was eloquently put and deserving of much higher moderation. I salute you sir.
Thursday, December 4, 2003 Posted: 10:13 AM EST (1513 GMT)
SACRAMENTO, California (AP) -- Citing ethical concerns, state regulators Wednesday refused to allow sales of the first bio-engineered household pet, a zebra fish that glows fluorescent. GloFish are expected to go on sale everywhere else next month.
California is the only state with a ban on genetically engineered species, and the Fish and Game Commission said it would not exempt the zebra fish from the law even if escaped fish would not pose a threat to the state's waterways.
"For me it's a question of values, it's not a question of science," said commissioner Sam Schuchat. "I think selling genetically modified fish as pets is wrong."
The 3-1 vote came moments after commissioners approved the state's 14th license for research into genetically modified fish. But commissioners drew the line on permitting widespread sales of a biotech fish for pure visual pleasure.
The normally black-and-silver zebra fish were inserted with genes from sea anemones or jellyfish to turn them red or green, and glow under black or ultraviolet lights.
Federal agencies have decided they have no jurisdiction over a bio-engineered household pet that is not intended for consumption.
Given California's extensive review, proponents had looked to its approval to dampen any concerns from other states or consumers that the fish might be harmful to the environment or if consumed by wayward pets or children. 'An abuse of the power we have over life'
Opponents view the decision as precedent-setting as they lobby for regulation on the national level.
Yorktown Technologies of Texas, which has the license to market the fish, and the state of Florida, in which the fish are grown, argued before the commission that the altered fish tolerate cold less than natural zebra fish, and they could not survive in California waters.
Environmental and public interest groups and commercial fishermen argued that the fish have been found to survive outside their native waters.
California residents buy 25 million ornamental fish a year, an eighth of the 200 million sold across the nation, Yorktown President Alan Blake said. He estimated that Californians might have bought two million of the genetically altered fish each year.
California adopted its regulations for fear genetically modified farmed fish, such as salmon, could get loose and devastate the state's wild populations.
Commissioners balked Wednesday even after acknowledging Californians could readily buy the fish in any neighboring state and bring them home.
"Welcome to the future. Here we are, playing around with the genetic bases of life," Schumchat said. "At the end of the day, I just don't think it's right to produce a new organism just to be a pet.
"To me, this seems like an abuse of the power we have over life, and I'm not prepared to go there today."
Copyright 2003 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
I can because think of all of the millions of ME, 2k, XP home, XP pro, and soon to be longhorn machines that get hacked every day!
In an unsecured wireless connection with the default "MSHOME" (85-86% of these are), I can be able to print porn on the person's printer, initiate a small scale DoS attack, get kiddie porn, and sniff out all personal information, without doing much more than clicking a couple of buttons in XP's wireless adapter options.
Think of this: silent millions against the responsible few. Where's the majority of insecurity? Not where you say it is. Get a life you stupid troll.
SAN MATEO, Calif. -- As the towers of the World Trade Center crumbled on that September day two years ago, the plume of debris they spewed claimed a victim that, although not human, was nonetheless irreplaceable to those who loved it: the mighty pipe organ in Trinity Episcopal Church at Broadway and Wall Street. Dust and detritus from the collapse rendered the church's 80-year-old Aeolian-Skinner organ unusable. But that lesser tragedy opened the door to a unique story -- of musical skill, love of an instrument, insight into signal processing and innovation in electronic systems design -- that this year has brought about a resurrection of sorts. Today a new mighty organ plays at Trinity -- not a pipe organ, but perhaps the most innovative electronic instrument ever to fill a sacred space.
For Douglas Marshall and David Ogletree, principals of the Marshall & Ogletree LLC organ company in Needham Heights, Mass.), the loss at Trinity Church would transform what had been a hobby, perhaps an obsession, into a product development. It would be a unique chance to prove that the contrarian ideas they had formed over the course of a decade were correct, and that conventional wisdom about sampled-data electronic instruments was at best incomplete.
Vanished gloryThe story began long before terrorists boarded airplanes that late-summer morning in 2001. Marshall and Ogletree, who grew up 15 years apart in Westwood, Mass., and who both went on to careers as concert organists, in the early 1990s formed a company to represent major organ builders to the church market.
Along the way the two developed a love of the great Aeolian-Skinner pipe organs that are arguably the finest organs ever built in North America. With the Aeolian-Skinner Organ Co. gone, Marshall and Ogletree speculated about how the sounds -- and, more important, the playing experience -- of such instruments could be preserved.
They hit upon a project to record samples of existing instruments around the United States and experiment with them. "We had hoped that we could build some sort of addition to an electronic organ that would convey the real sound of these instruments," Ogletree explained.
The theory of sampling musical instruments is relatively straightforward. Depending on its physics, an instrument has an attack, a steady-state and a release, each of which has a different tonal signature. This complexity can be reduced substantially by a few approximations -- for instance, using the steady-state tone and simply modifying it with attack and release envelopes, perhaps throwing in some transients known to occur at the opening and closing of the "voice."
In this sort of approach, it's only necessary to get a good recording of a moment of the instrument's steady-state voice, and the rest is signal processing.
But Marshall and Ogletree ran into a problem: That approach didn't end up sounding like the real thing. "In 1997 or so, we were doing experiments with the digital sampling software that was just coming on the market," Ogletree said. "They were just starting to stream high-fidelity recording onto hard disks, and we were playing with it. We began to realize that the length of the recording made far more difference than we had believed."
It had been assumed, Ogletree explained, that the sonic content of an organ voice matched what most people reported hearing. There is an initial, transient period of a second or so, after which the human ear can identify a particular note and stop, and then the voice remains constant until the release.
But the data Marshall and Ogletree were collecting contradicted that. "The tone actually become steady a very long time after it seems to have settled," Ogletree said. "Recorded samples of the attack have to be as long as 15 to 20 seconds to capture the actual voice, because there are things going on during that entire period -- it's not a
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Merry Christmas
All I want for christmas is my two front teeth. My two front teeth. See my two front teeth? All I want for christmas is my teeth! So I could wish you 'Merry Christmas!'
nothing to see here, let's all go back to whining about sco's little publicity stunt today
How are we sure this was done by script kiddies rather that some inside SCO people as a stunt to gain a little moral high ground (and at about this time, they desperately need some).
I wonder if anyone from SCO reads slashdot...
Everyone, tomorrow at 6:31 pm EST ping the hell out of SCO. I am dead fucking serious.
You, sir, are an ignorant fool. There hasn't been any "rewrites" since Joseph Smith confronted the original printer about mispellings. The Book Of Mormon is the same as it was well before your grandparents were born.
Good thing they're a minority
Anyone who has a good idea about the very concept of numbers wouldn't say that at all.
In closing, either shut your mouth or say something intelligent.
how is the parent funny? that's ignorance at its worst. mods need to put the parent where it belongs, with all of the other trolls.
Ok, nothing to see here, go back to whining about sco fud.
need I say more?
Dumb Moderator Cracking Cunts?
You comapre that to the millions and millions of driver problems that happen every day to win32 users? You sir, are an idiot. Sure, gentoo has problems, but then carrying that over to say that "every single lunix distribution is a piece of shit" is unintelligent, ignorant, and makes you a mindless automiton for the corporate FUD controllers to manipuate easily. An A/C is just that, A COWARD.
Mr. Anonymous Coward,
j ects/tre
I wish that I could list you as one of my frinds here on slashdot. The problem is, I do not know your real username. The parent post was eloquently put and deserving of much higher moderation. I salute you sir.
Respectfully
Webre
http://sourceforge.net/pro
You sir are trash spreading more trash about trashy theories. It's time for someone to throw you away.
they should get rid of trash like goatse before they take over ICANN
are you still there?
didn't think so
your
(if you can be critical, so can I)
ok people, nothing to see here, go back to ranting about SCO...
smarter empolyees bailed out LONG AGO
well, at least we can slashdot sco.com when he writes these things
California blocks sales of 'Glofish' pets
Thursday, December 4, 2003 Posted: 10:13 AM EST (1513 GMT)
SACRAMENTO, California (AP) -- Citing ethical concerns, state regulators Wednesday refused to allow sales of the first bio-engineered household pet, a zebra fish that glows fluorescent. GloFish are expected to go on sale everywhere else next month.
California is the only state with a ban on genetically engineered species, and the Fish and Game Commission said it would not exempt the zebra fish from the law even if escaped fish would not pose a threat to the state's waterways.
"For me it's a question of values, it's not a question of science," said commissioner Sam Schuchat. "I think selling genetically modified fish as pets is wrong."
The 3-1 vote came moments after commissioners approved the state's 14th license for research into genetically modified fish. But commissioners drew the line on permitting widespread sales of a biotech fish for pure visual pleasure.
The normally black-and-silver zebra fish were inserted with genes from sea anemones or jellyfish to turn them red or green, and glow under black or ultraviolet lights.
Federal agencies have decided they have no jurisdiction over a bio-engineered household pet that is not intended for consumption.
Given California's extensive review, proponents had looked to its approval to dampen any concerns from other states or consumers that the fish might be harmful to the environment or if consumed by wayward pets or children.
'An abuse of the power we have over life'
Opponents view the decision as precedent-setting as they lobby for regulation on the national level.
Yorktown Technologies of Texas, which has the license to market the fish, and the state of Florida, in which the fish are grown, argued before the commission that the altered fish tolerate cold less than natural zebra fish, and they could not survive in California waters.
Environmental and public interest groups and commercial fishermen argued that the fish have been found to survive outside their native waters.
California residents buy 25 million ornamental fish a year, an eighth of the 200 million sold across the nation, Yorktown President Alan Blake said. He estimated that Californians might have bought two million of the genetically altered fish each year.
California adopted its regulations for fear genetically modified farmed fish, such as salmon, could get loose and devastate the state's wild populations.
Commissioners balked Wednesday even after acknowledging Californians could readily buy the fish in any neighboring state and bring them home.
"Welcome to the future. Here we are, playing around with the genetic bases of life," Schumchat said. "At the end of the day, I just don't think it's right to produce a new organism just to be a pet.
"To me, this seems like an abuse of the power we have over life, and I'm not prepared to go there today."
Copyright 2003 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
You do, you just can't see them :)
I can because think of all of the millions of ME, 2k, XP home, XP pro, and soon to be longhorn machines that get hacked every day! In an unsecured wireless connection with the default "MSHOME" (85-86% of these are), I can be able to print porn on the person's printer, initiate a small scale DoS attack, get kiddie porn, and sniff out all personal information, without doing much more than clicking a couple of buttons in XP's wireless adapter options. Think of this: silent millions against the responsible few. Where's the majority of insecurity? Not where you say it is. Get a life you stupid troll.
PC-enabled tones rise from ruins of 9/11
By Ron Wilson
EE Times
December 3, 2003 (4:30 p.m. ET)
SAN MATEO, Calif. -- As the towers of the World Trade Center crumbled on that September day two years ago, the plume of debris they spewed claimed a victim that, although not human, was nonetheless irreplaceable to those who loved it: the mighty pipe organ in Trinity Episcopal Church at Broadway and Wall Street. Dust and detritus from the collapse rendered the church's 80-year-old Aeolian-Skinner organ unusable.
But that lesser tragedy opened the door to a unique story -- of musical skill, love of an instrument, insight into signal processing and innovation in electronic systems design -- that this year has brought about a resurrection of sorts. Today a new mighty organ plays at Trinity -- not a pipe organ, but perhaps the most innovative electronic instrument ever to fill a sacred space.
For Douglas Marshall and David Ogletree, principals of the Marshall & Ogletree LLC organ company in Needham Heights, Mass.), the loss at Trinity Church would transform what had been a hobby, perhaps an obsession, into a product development. It would be a unique chance to prove that the contrarian ideas they had formed over the course of a decade were correct, and that conventional wisdom about sampled-data electronic instruments was at best incomplete.
Vanished gloryThe story began long before terrorists boarded airplanes that late-summer morning in 2001. Marshall and Ogletree, who grew up 15 years apart in Westwood, Mass., and who both went on to careers as concert organists, in the early 1990s formed a company to represent major organ builders to the church market.
Along the way the two developed a love of the great Aeolian-Skinner pipe organs that are arguably the finest organs ever built in North America. With the Aeolian-Skinner Organ Co. gone, Marshall and Ogletree speculated about how the sounds -- and, more important, the playing experience -- of such instruments could be preserved.
They hit upon a project to record samples of existing instruments around the United States and experiment with them. "We had hoped that we could build some sort of addition to an electronic organ that would convey the real sound of these instruments," Ogletree explained.
The theory of sampling musical instruments is relatively straightforward. Depending on its physics, an instrument has an attack, a steady-state and a release, each of which has a different tonal signature. This complexity can be reduced substantially by a few approximations -- for instance, using the steady-state tone and simply modifying it with attack and release envelopes, perhaps throwing in some transients known to occur at the opening and closing of the "voice."
In this sort of approach, it's only necessary to get a good recording of a moment of the instrument's steady-state voice, and the rest is signal processing.
But Marshall and Ogletree ran into a problem: That approach didn't end up sounding like the real thing. "In 1997 or so, we were doing experiments with the digital sampling software that was just coming on the market," Ogletree said. "They were just starting to stream high-fidelity recording onto hard disks, and we were playing with it. We began to realize that the length of the recording made far more difference than we had believed."
It had been assumed, Ogletree explained, that the sonic content of an organ voice matched what most people reported hearing. There is an initial, transient period of a second or so, after which the human ear can identify a particular note and stop, and then the voice remains constant until the release.
But the data Marshall and Ogletree were collecting contradicted that. "The tone actually become steady a very long time after it seems to have settled," Ogletree said. "Recorded samples of the attack have to be as long as 15 to 20 seconds to capture the actual voice, because there are things going on during that entire period -- it's not a
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