Freedom of the Press around the world, ranked by country
...the full table
Wednesday, October 23, 2002
Tuesday, October 22, 2002
"The initiation of the freely voluntary act appears to begin in the brain unconsciously, well before the person consciously knows he wants to act"
(Thanks to Mike)
(Thanks to Mike)
Monday, October 21, 2002
Saturday, October 19, 2002
Wednesday, October 16, 2002
Sunday, October 13, 2002
False - "Programming language with two main goals: confusing everyone with an obfuscated syntax, and designing as powerful a language as possible with a tiny implementation: this compiler executable is only 1024 bytes, written in pure 68000 assembler."
Ashcroft's guidelines for limiting the Freedom of Information Act
Military is not even bothering to be subtle when fiming antiwar protestors
Military is not even bothering to be subtle when fiming antiwar protestors
Friday, October 11, 2002
Scientific Applications on Linux
Ploticus
xldlas can do data summaries, OLS regression, ANOVA, line plots, scatter plots, and histograms.
R is a language and environment for statistical computing and graphics
Ploticus
xldlas can do data summaries, OLS regression, ANOVA, line plots, scatter plots, and histograms.
R is a language and environment for statistical computing and graphics
Wednesday, October 09, 2002
Fenris is a set of tools that include a high-level tracer, library fingerprinter, debugger, and a data exploration interface
Design and learn access controls in networks, systems and applications with Access Road
Memphis can be used for the definition of abstract syntax trees and the implementation of tree walkers.
Use Cqual to add type qualifiers to C
...and Mpatrol to diagnose run-time errors that are caused by the wrong use of dynamically allocated memory
Design and learn access controls in networks, systems and applications with Access Road
Memphis can be used for the definition of abstract syntax trees and the implementation of tree walkers.
Use Cqual to add type qualifiers to C
...and Mpatrol to diagnose run-time errors that are caused by the wrong use of dynamically allocated memory
Tuesday, October 08, 2002
"The Paste-Code Service on Profett.Com is meant for users of IRC (or similar) where pasting large amounts of text (e.g. source code snippets) is a universal 'no-no' since it disrupts discussions"
Friday, October 04, 2002
Thursday, October 03, 2002
"My attempts to have Americans enter into discussions about double standards [in regards to the US stance on nuclear weapons] have been an abject failure - even with highly educated and engaged people,"
Mr Butler said. "I sometimes felt I was speaking to them in Martian, so deep is their inability to understand."
"I confess, too, that I flinch when I hear American, British and French fulminations against weapons of mass destruction, ignoring the fact that they are the proud owners of massive quantities of those weapons, unapologetically insisting that they are essential for their national security, and will remain so."
"I confess, too, that I flinch when I hear American, British and French fulminations against weapons of mass destruction, ignoring the fact that they are the proud owners of massive quantities of those weapons, unapologetically insisting that they are essential for their national security, and will remain so."
"Inspectors" will really be invaders
"In a leaked proposal for a UN resolution drafted by the US with help from British officials, the Bush administration is seeking to transform the inspections process into a coercive operation."
"In a leaked proposal for a UN resolution drafted by the US with help from British officials, the Bush administration is seeking to transform the inspections process into a coercive operation."
Wednesday, October 02, 2002
Browse through source code with CScope
Cross-reference it with cxref
GNU Global source code tagging system
Exuberant Ctags
ID Utils makes searching through source easier
(From GCC Hacker)
Cross-reference it with cxref
GNU Global source code tagging system
Exuberant Ctags
ID Utils makes searching through source easier
(From GCC Hacker)
Monday, September 30, 2002
Sunday, September 29, 2002
Saturday, September 28, 2002
Thursday, September 26, 2002
"A new analysis has found that in the majority of trials conducted by drug companies in recent decades, sugar pills have done as well as -- or better than -- antidepressants"
Tuesday, September 24, 2002
Monday, September 23, 2002
"Even more serious concerns have been raised by the discovery of secret biodefense projects that push against the limits of international prohibitions. It was recently revealed that an Army laboratory in Utah has been secretly making weaponized anthrax for some years. Another secret project involved the construction of bomblets designed for dispersion of biological agents, although the Biological Weapons Convention explicitly prohibits developing, producing or possessing "means of delivery designed to use such agents or toxins for hostile purposes." Such projects have raised suspicions abroad that the U.S. continues to develop biological weapons"
Sunday, September 22, 2002
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Saturday, September 21, 2002
"True courage is often nothing other than the expression of a metaphysical conviction, so to speak, of our own superfluousness." --Arthur Schnitzler
Question: "What were the circumstances that led the U.N. weapons inspectors to leave Iraq in December 1998? The Bush administration and the media often repeat that Saddam "kicked out" the weapons inspectors, and that's why we face the necessity of war today."
Answer: "Nothing could be further from the truth. The Iraqis did not kick the inspectors out in December 1998. The Americans ordered the inspectors out, and then bombed Iraq using intelligence information gathered by the inspectors to target Saddam Hussein and his security apparatus."
From an interview with the chief weapons inspector from 91-98
Answer: "Nothing could be further from the truth. The Iraqis did not kick the inspectors out in December 1998. The Americans ordered the inspectors out, and then bombed Iraq using intelligence information gathered by the inspectors to target Saddam Hussein and his security apparatus."
From an interview with the chief weapons inspector from 91-98
"Right-wing governments may sap some people's will to live and result in more suicides, conclude studies in Britain and Australia. The researchers speculate that losers are more likely to kill themselves in the individualistic, "winner-takes-all" societies favoured by right wing governments, because they are left to fend for themselves. Wide disparities in wealth also sharpen any sense of hopelessness, the researchers argue..."
Wednesday, September 18, 2002
"De Certeau sees ordinary people as developing 'tactics' (an 'art of the weak') that he contrasts with the 'strategies' of the dominant élite, tactics for carrying out 'raids' on the dominant culture... Tactics are the response of the powerless. De Certeau sees ordinary people as 'poachers', pinching the meanings they need from the cultural commodities which are offered to them."
Saturday, September 14, 2002
Friday, September 13, 2002
Piss Christ - Andres Serrano
"Mr. [Alfonse] D'AMATO [of New York]. . . . Mr. President, several weeks ago, I began to receive a number of letters, phone calls, and postcards from constituents throughout the Senate concerning art work by Andres Serrano. They express a feeling of shock, of outrage, and anger... They said, "How dare you spend our taxpayers' money on this trash." They all objected to taxpayers' money being used for a piece of so-called art work which, to be quite candid, I am somewhat reluctant to utter its title. This so-called piece of art is a deplorable, despicable display of vulgarity. The art work in question is a photograph of the crucifix submerged in the artist's urine."
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