"At EFF we respect your privacy and the last thing we'd want to do is create a treasure trove of information about you that could itself be subpoenaed by the RIAA or anyone else. As with all access to the EFF website, IP addresses are not logged and in addition to that we are not logging any of the searches to our database."
As an indication of the place Hope occupied in American public life, one of the first people to pay tribute was President Bush, with whose grandfather, Prescott, Hope used to play golf. "Today America lost a great citizen ... We mourn the passing of Bob Hope. (He) made us laugh and he lifted our spirits. (He) served our nation when he went to battlefields to entertain thousands of troops from different generations. We extend our praye
Our intended customer is someone who uses Mozilla Firebird (or another stand alone browser) as their primary browser and wants a mail client based on mozilla that "plays nice" with the browser.
hoocht
In addition, by focusing solely on stand alone mail, we believe we can make some dents in the overall footprint and performance of the mail client.
If bin Laden was killed, Black continued, the world would demand proof. ³You¹d need some DNA,² he said. ³There¹s a good way to do it. Take a machete, and whack off his head, and you¹ll get a bucketful of DNA, so you can see it and test it. It beats lugging the whole body back!²
Bitter disputes between the defence department and the state department continue to affect the situation. Even though Bremer has the formal authority within Iraq, it seems like each and every decision must go back to Washington, and we are the victims of indecision.
Open Source operating systems tend to treat hardware as an anonymous provider of compute cycles per dollar.
hoocht
Too often software "goes offline" in a way that is difficult to recover once the engineers who are responsible for it go on to other projects or leave the company.
hoocht
Often projects within large companies develop software without knowing that similar software already exists within the company.
the fine print: "Any rule or custom pertaining to the display of the flag of the United States of America, set forth herein, may be altered, modified, or repealed, or additional rules with respect thereto may be prescribed, by the Commander in Chief of the Armed Forces of the United States, whenever he deems it to be appropriate or desirable; and any such alteration or additional rule shall be set forth in a proclamation."
"Volunteers from eastern european and other countries with low per capita income or other people who have serious problems with the entrance fee, please contact angel-of-mercy@camp.ccc.de to explain your situation. We will listen and help."
"The rebels accuse the Government of selling arms to the Muslim separatist Moro Islamic Liberation Front; claim the Government was behind fatal bombings in the southern city of Davao in March and April; and accuse Dr Arroyo of planning to declare martial law next month by using bombings as a pretext to stay in power after her term ends next year."
hooch
in other news, "Australia was to deploy four more navy craft to the Solomon Islands to support the growing intervention force," authorities said
As for speculation on the Bush administration's next target in its "war on terror", Palast predicted that Bush's next war will not be Iran or Syria, but Venezuela or Nigeria - for reasons of oil and geopolitics.
On Oct. 6, 2002, the three sisters cut a chain-link fence and sneaked onto a Minuteman III missile silo in northeastern Colorado, where they drew crosses with their blood on the silo lid and whacked railroad tracks with hammers.
hooch
Military riflemen arrived an hour after an alarm went off, training automatic weapons on the nuns, who were singing and praying. A military Humvee crashed through the fence when the nuns didn't obey an officer's orders, which they said they couldn't hear.
The iHP-100 is currently shipping only in Japan, for ¥49,800 ($419), but MP3Players.co.uk is offering the device on pre-order for £329.95 and expects to ship in a week or so.
pixelboy
The iHP-100 also offers digital optical audio input and output ports, and you can hook up any source to digitise sound directly to the player's hard drive. There's a built-in microphone too. The iRiver also contains an FM stereo radio receiver.
pixelboy
iRiver claims user get 16 hours of playback from the built-in rechargeable battery; the latest iPods only manage eight hours
narcissistic Western thinkers mistake technological development as moral progress in human civilization. Many barbaric notions, racism being the most obvious, appear under the label of modernity, rationalized by a barbaric doctrine of pseudo-science. The West takes advantage of the overwhelming power it has derived from its barbaric values to set itself up as a superior civilization.
nardo
The West views its technical prowess as a predatory license for intolerance of the values and traditions of other advanced cultures.
hooch
"Gunpowder was invented around the 4th century in China by Taoist alchemist Ko Hong while seeking an elixir for immortality. It is the height of Taoist irony that the search for an elixir for immortality only yields a substance that ends life abruptly."
Almost one in three Germans below the age of 30 believes the U.S. government may have sponsored the September 11, 2001, attacks on New York and Washington
hooch
'MOST HISTORIANS HAVE CONCLUDED THAT THE FIRE WAS SET BY THE NAZIS THEMSELVES'
.. the contractor whose people were the first on the WTC collapse scene to cart away the rubble that remains is the same contractor who demolished and hauled away the shell of the bombed Oklahoma City Murrah building.
The company was able to come up with a detailed plan for removing the debris within eleven days of the collapse of the Twin Towers, suggesting that Controlled Demolition Inc. had detailed knowledge of the Twin Towers and the entire WTC complex prior to September 11th.
hooch
Why was the evidence, the metal parts of the collapsed towers, not kept to be analyzed? Why was the metal hauled away, with the aid of reputed underworld truckers, and then sold overseas to those nations pledging absolute secrecy of the contents? Certain flag officers contend their treasonous Commander-in-Chief, supervised by Daddy, ordered this to be done.
Attorneys for the Republican Party are warning TV stations not to air a new commercial by the Democratic National Committee that charges President Bush misled the country in the lead-up to the invasion of Iraq.
"Shoddy haphazard compilation with little to recommend it, March 19, 2003 - It doesn't do record collectors any service, either. PLUS, many of the images are of poor quality sleeves, with bad ring wear, bent corners, writing, rips, etc. There's no excuse for not finding better condition copies of most of the very common items in this book. Obviously no one knowledgeable about records was consulted for this book. Expect it on the discount shelve
hooch
"Shoddy haphazard compilation with little to recommend it, March 19, 2003"
hooch
"It doesn't do record collectors any service, either. PLUS, many of the images are of poor quality sleeves, with bad ring wear, bent corners, writing, rips, etc. There's no excuse for not finding better condition copies of most of the very common items in this book. Obviously no one knowledgeable about records was consulted for this book. Expect it on the discount shelves and remaindered quite soon."
Some staff at the Australian Tax Office privately refer to the ATO as the ATM because of the ease of making electronic claims - 90 per cent are paid within 14 days.
An Indenture Act signed in 1989 freed WMC from the 'burden' of State and Federal legislation. It contained a confidentiality clause prohibiting the release of environmental and health reports unless agreed to by WMC and the government.
Schauberger viewed water as a living entity, the 'Blood of Mother-Earth', which is born in the womb of the forest.
hooch
Our mechanistic, materialistic and extremely superficial way of looking at things, however, prevents us from considering water to be anything other than inorganic, i.e. supposedly without life but, while apparently having no life itself, can nevertheless miraculously create life in all its forms.
hooch
Were we to drink pure H2O constantly, it would quickly leach out all our store of minerals and trace elements, debilitating and ultimately killing us.
hooch
.. water is able to combine with more substances than any other molecule and, flowing as water, sap and blood, is the creator of the myriad life-forms on this planet.
hooch
How then could it ever be construed as life-less in accordance with the chemist's clinical view of water, defined as the inorganic substance H2O ?
hooch
As the fundamental basis of all life, water is itself a living entity and should be treated as such.
"Slowly, evidence has been accumulating from various sources which, when brought together, confirms my belief that the truly progressive view in this area recognises harmful potential in pornography comparable to TV violence."
In the BBC programme Wildlife on One: Dolphins - Deep Thinkers?, one of Lou Herman's dolphins, Akeakamai, watches David Attenborough on an underwater tv screen. No one could predict how she would react, but as soon as David appeared on the screen, she responded correctly to his sign language, and even had a go at imitating him.
The basic fact is that almost all aid (and help) given to the Pacific states since independence by all donor countries ended in consumption or the pockets of those in power. Very little of the aid actually ended up in productive sectors of the economy to create a solid base for survival.
nardo
Whether highly paid consultants are part of the problem or the solution is irrelevant; the general population is, generally speaking, worse off since independence.
also of note: "Using Prayer To Microevolve Latent Antibiotic Resistance In Bacteria"
ephidrina
"Dear Lord, please allow the bacteria in Group A to unlock the antibiotic-resistant genes that You saw fit to give them at the time of Creation. Amen."
Despite his denials, ask anyone with a semi-functioning Gaydar and they will tell you Thorpies as camp as yr 11 outward bound. Not that there's anything wrong with that.
Last year, the Vladivostok News in Russia reported that scientists believed they could resurrect extinct animals - such as the mammoth and the woolly rhinoceros - to create a prehistoric safari park in northern Siberia.
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The central Japanese city hosting the Expo 2005 world exposition plans to excavate an entire frozen mammoth and display it at the fair, organisers have said.
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"Frozen bodies start to rot the moment they come out of ice" - Takeshi Matsuda, mammoth expert
"Paris - The head of Interpol called on Wednesday for a global crackdown on software and music piracy, saying the illicit proceeds help finance al-Qaida, Hezbollah and other terrorist networks.
hooch
"The international police agency's secretary-general, Ronald K Noble, urged governments and law enforcement agencies to treat such crimes as a priority, saying in a statement, 'it is becoming the preferred method of funding for a number of terrorist groups'."
Internet users who allow others to copy songs from their hard drives could face prison time under legislation introduced by two Democratic lawmakers on Wednesday.
"The art to it is not getting picked up for it, and that's the biggest buzz at the end of the day because you could stick all my shit in Tate Modern and have an opening with Tony Blair and Kate Moss on roller blades handing out vol-au-vents and it wouldn't be as exciting as it is when you go out and you paint something big where you shouldn't do."
"Underground screenings of Ken Park are spreading across Sydney as copies of the banned film are downloaded from the Internet and shown to large audiences who are drawn to secret locations by text message and email."
Mitch Kapor, the new Chairman of the Mozilla Foundation, is making a personal contribution of $300,000, and Red Hat and Sun Microsystems are among the companies planning to continue their contributions to the Mozilla project.
On average, the US military police are escorting 180 trucks a day into Baghdad and 150 trucks a day to Mosul. Steady fuel product supplies have been disrupted by looting and sabotage. Meanwhile, the US Coalition Provisional Authority met with the Iraqi Oil Ministry in Mosul Tuesday to discuss how to improve the tracking of fuel data by switching from a manual data entry system to a computerized one.
Among participants were Northrop Grumman, flying both the Fire Scout and the Hunter; Boeing, with its ScanEagle; DRS, the Sentry HP; Schiebel, the Camcopter; and Yamaha, the RMAX.
nardo
Other companies showed off their latest, including Aurora Flight Sciences with the GolenEye-50; Innocon, the Mini Falcon; and MMIST, the SnowGoose.
US Justice department refuses to produce Ramzi Binalshibh - the self-described planner of the Sept. 11 attacks - in the case against Zacarias Moussaoui
The escape was particularly embarrassing for President Gloria Macapagal- Arroyo because the news came as John Howard, Australian prime minister, was in Manila for anti-terror co-operation talks.
Between 1945 and 1948 alone, under the direction of the U.S. military, the Sygman Rhee regime and the South Korean military murdered over 300,000 people suspected of being Communists or Socialists ? even though many of the victims had valiantly fought the Japanese during WWII.
hooch
.. by the end of America's genocidal assault nearly 3 million civilian people in North Korea had died horribly, either directly from American bombing and massacres or from war-related causes such as starvation and disease.
"I picked up a cheap massager from the local 100 yen shot and let it loose on my clitoris. The vibration sent ripples through my inner thighs. It's pretty hard to beat the feeling from an electronic toothbrush, too," she says.
It is understood Woolworths, Coles Myer and German group Aldi have all approached Kemeny's in the past year and while no formal offer has been made, industry sources said brothers Gabriel and Andrew Kemeny are interested in selling.
"..the enthusiastic crowd of some 20,000 applauded its approval at the sight of the bustling ship that intends to carry up to 6,000 sailors and more than 80 aircraft for more than 20 years without refueling its nuclear reactors."
The International Standard Book Number is issued by one company in the U.S, -- R.R. Bowker. Essentially, if you don't have this number, you'll be unable to enter your book into the marketplace.
``Currently supported formats include general format flatfiles (CSV, Fixed Length, Tab or Pipe "delimited", etc.), specific formats (passwd files, web logs, etc.), a variety of other kinds of formats (XML, Mp3, HTML tables)´´
Think of a city where every single street light is a node in a mesh, and thus where the cloud of the internet sits on the street like the fog in San Francisco. For almost nothing, cities could provide IP light, as cities provide street lights. Neutral, end-to-end, fast, and cheap." --lawrence lessig
``The last time Moscow callers saw the encryption alert on their cellphones was during the Dubrovka theater crisis in October´´
hooch
``Mobile phone providers shut down their encryption systems in St. Petersburg for security reasons during the city's 300th anniversary celebrations attended by world leaders early last month.´´
``You need a dish, some power, not too much. You put up a test pattern ... and do a sweep and find the transponder on the satellite you want to jam. It could even be smaller than the standard 6-meter dish. It could be a small dish with a lot of power.´´
hooch
``The jamming appears to be linked to the anniversary of the [Iranian] student uprisings´´
"...as a measure of the refuelling contribution, I understand that during the deployment the amount of fuel transferred would be enough for an FA-18 Hornet to fly to the moon and back again. And perhaps that is some measurement of the ongoing character of this deployment and its importance." --PM
"In 2001, Dmitry Sklyarov described vulnerabilities in Adobe Acrobat and Adobe Acrobat Reader while giving a talk at Defcon 9. As has been previously mentioned, Dmitry was arrested the day after this talk. He and his company Elcomsoft were charged with violating the DMCA. Now Elcomsoft have announced that Adobe, two years later, has still not patched these bugs."
``You are certainly entitled to your own views, sentiments, etc. But I should think that posting your blog for the whole universe to read DEMANDS that you have an ability to communicate well in the language you choose to do so. Your English is only a tad better than your logic.''
"It's going right up to Iraq's oil fields," says the retired Air Force colonel from his home in Palm Bay. "Maybe I'm full of s---. Maybe all they're doing is building a highway to put in McDonald's and sell hamburgers. But why go that way? I think we're in bed with Kuwait. I think we're pumping oil out of Iraq to pay for this war."
``Rate Observer used to describe the greenback as "the Coca-Cola of international monetary brands", its dominance unchallenged. Today, he says, "it's still the Coca-Cola, but there's a Pepsi now where there was none - that's the euro - and the yen is Fanta".''
Codenamed Project George, the multi-pronged strategy will revive Telstra's emphasis on the Big Pond brand and broadband content, as it strives for a greater share of the booming $1 billion-plus internet access market
[ An airplane is shown at the scene of a crash with a car Sunday July 6, 2003 following an anti-drug operation in San Esteban, 160 kilometers east of Tegucigalpa, Honduras. The plane crashed into the car used by police to block the road and prevent the plane from escaping after pilots unloaded drugs into several cars. Police arrested Honduran Congressman Armando Avila Panchame following a long chase with cars that fled from the scene. (AP Ph
An Afghan woman in a burqa walks past a caricature poster of Arnold Schwarzenegger in Kabul July 3, 2003. Unlikely as it may sound, the Afghan capital is becoming a muscle-man's Mecca, with gyms sprouting across the city and featuring posters of scantily clad, oily-skinned strongmen. (Ahmad Masood/Reuters)
"They kind of had that Matrix thing going on," Anthony Tesman, 16, of Oaklyn said of the suspects.
hooch
"They would wear black glasses and slick their hair back."
hooch
Oaklyn police chief Ferrari said each was armed with a high powered rifle or shotgun, and that they had handguns with more than 2,000 rounds of ammunition.
where PR(A) is the PageRank of page A; PR(T1) is the PageRank of page T1; C(T1) is the number of outgoing links from page T1 - and d is a damping factor 0<d<1, usually set here to .85
hooch
The PageRank of a webpage is therefore calculated as a sum of the PageRanks of all pages linking to it (its incoming links), divided by the number of links on each of those pages (its outgoing links).
Free-X was threatening to release this exploit if Microsoft did not relent and release a signed "loader" which would enable the running of Linux on the console.
hooch
A Dreamcast-style boot loader exploit could have massive consequences for the Xbox software market
apparently made its way into the hands of Bin Laden
hoocht
``Osama bin Laden once boasted that his youth "knew the wrinkles of the world's financial markets like the back of their hands and that his money would never be frozen."''
Mr Hwang said that that the North Korean regime - which he described as "a ring of crime opposing democracy and infringing on human rights" - must be disarmed.
nardo
However, Mr Hwang noted that a conventional military assault on North Korea would be "almost impossible".
nardo
"The North has piled up on weapons of mass destruction and turned the whole country into a fortress," he said.
[Australian] Unions will remove Coca-Cola vending machines from their premises and encourage NSW employers to do the same in retribution for the assassination of eight union leaders at the company's plants in Columbia.
On the northern headland of Bondi you'll see a chimney in the middle of the golf course. On the other side of the chimney there is a rocky platform with a whale carved into it.
ICANN seized .au policy, but gives up on the rest of the world
hooch
The concept that a US-based company, answerable to the US government, would be able to dictate exactly what every country in the world did with their Internet domains was ludicrous, but it didn't stop ICANN from using everything it had to force them to comply.
hooch
ICANN, faced with outright refusal by countries to be controlled, initially argued that its policy diktats could be bypassed if the country's own public laws demanded it. Then it conceded that religious or cultural differences could justify not follows diktats too - but that it would have to give its permission each and every time. Eventually it realised the stupidity of its position and conceded sovereignty to, well, the sovereign nations.
hooch
Australia signed up after the domain was redelegated to a new organisation filled by the old boys network. It has been handed several top jobs in ICANN as thanks. Burundi signed up at the same time as a redelegation of the domain. So did Hong Kong. God only knows what Japan and Malawi thought they were doing though.
hooch
All [ICANN] needs to do now is find a way to give everyday Internet users an impotent vote on how it is run, and we have the creation of the Internet Government.