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I doubt I would be able to run this version of XP here, or afford it if I could buy a copy legally. My idea is to run as good an OS as one can on older hardware, and to run several on each box.
It can be a challenge to set each OS up, but gives me an idea of what can be expected.
Also not sure if installing this form of XP, (if it would) could foul up what I already have. I'm using a 500 MB MSDOS primary HDD, and a 2 GB Caviar secondary HDD (with SuSE). The MSDOS drive has a menu, and SuSE is selected from that using Loadlin. The MSDOS drive has the personal configs for both LiveCD Linux's.

I doubt I would be able to run this version of XP here, or afford it if I could buy a copy legally. My idea is to run as good an OS as one can on older hardware, and to run several on each box.
It can be a challenge to set each OS up, but gives me an idea of what can be expected.
Also not sure if installing this form of XP, (if it would) could foul up what I already have. I'm using a 500 MB MSDOS primary HDD, and a 2 GB Caviar secondary HDD (with SuSE). The MSDOS drive has a menu, and SuSE is selected from that using Loadlin. The MSDOS drive has the personal configs for both LiveCD Linux's.

VOIP is actually more physically secure then PSTN. You can't just hook a speaker up to a DSL line and hear the conversation on it. The problem is, your computer, and every router between you and your VOIP provider, is a general purpose device. Other people and services have access to it for all kinds of legitimate reasons; each of these provides places where people/programs can input data that can potentially directly effect your voice communications or get privilage escilation on the device and indirectly effect it. ANY security person knows to be wary of input! And think of all the ways of getting input to (and theoretically compromising) a PC. What we need is a dedicated physical console for VOIP (a small linksys network device running OpenBSD or Linux and asterix sounds good). The actual VOIP data should be sent through an SSH tunnel or some kind of VPN.

There was. http://www.angelfire.com/retro/minimetroland/ calls it 'Absolutely the greatest ever small hatchback built in the West Midlands to come out of the closing years of the second half of the 1970s'. An excellent summary. The editorial line of http://www.thesun.co.uk/ during the Falklands War was widely satirised as 'Kill an Argie and win a Mini Metro'.

The square steering wheel, though, was on that exemplar of the early 1970s British car industry, the Austin Allegro. A nice pic here http://www.74simon.co.uk/newallegro.html.

If you really want to be "informed" about star wars, visit that site.

*sigh*

Supershadow again... :-(

See also this.

The Great Green Arkleseizure Theory

"According to that most famous of sages, Douglas Adams, the Jartravartids believe that the entire Universe was, in fact, sneezed out of the nose of a being called the Great Green Arkleseizure. They live in perpetual fear of the time they call the Coming of the Great White Handkerchief..."

And everybody just loooooves waiting on Acrobat to load in order to view a freaking calendar or memo.

I suspect that if the wire is in a magnetic field it will lose it's superconductivity - thus it wouldn't work in an electric motor. If you're looking for a perpetual motion machine I understand Joseph Newman has one for sale.

TFA claims there are no constantly sunlit spots near the south pole, but remembering an article I saw a few years ago, I looked up Malapert Mountain, also in a space.com article. Same story..constantly lit, on a crater rim, and the inside of the crater is constantly dark, so it would be perfect for an optical telescope with a short cable run to the moon base at the crater rim. They even suspect strongly that there's water ice in the crater there. So, what gives? Is the previous article wrong or are the people in the current article suffering from amnesia/not-discovered-here? They seem to both be using data from Clementine. Here's another, more informative site on Malapert with lots of pretty pictures.

Clearly, sex is bad to Lucas. (Some might agree.)

Yes, I did make a mistake in my post with the the spelling of Brontosaurus but my point was the Brontosaurus did not exist. It was a mistake / hoax, call it what you will. So the species did not exist. Google for Brontosaurus Here and here explain thing rather well.

Yes.

New innovation in the gaming market?
Not really.

Nintendo has made cartages for thier handheld systems that utilize tilt sensors. I'm sure other companies have them as well.

If you want to be really critical, we've had tilt games forever. You know, those cheapy plastic maze games where you roll the little steel ball thur. That is all I've ever seen these sensors lend themseves to, just digital versions of these games. The killer app for this tech is still waiting to be found. I guess hard drive protection is pretty close.

Like I said it's a neat toy if nothing else. I'm just waiting for my laptop with a power glove :-).

I stumbled across a funny rant on a webpage about how we should try to make this world less religiously offensive...
http://www.angelfire.com/ak2/sid/

Windows 3.11 for workgroups running TCP/IP and NCSA Mosaic. :-)
I note that one can still download NCSA Mosaic. I have a page here with the links, and just checked them, still ok.

It's not that bad. He's a character on "Oz". From that page (emphasis mine):

Tobias Beecher, the mild mannered inmate with no street skills. Formally a lawyer on the outside, Tobias Beecher was originally bunked with Simon Adebisi. After chatting with Verne Shillinger who seemed to be genuine in trying to help Beecher, he requested to be moved to Shillinger's bunk. Beecher wold soon realize he had been decieved by the leader of the Aryan Brotherhood. That night Shillinger burned a swatsika into Beecher's backside. Tobias befriended Ryan O'Reily, when O'Reily asked him to look over his case to see if there is any possibility for him to appeal his verdict. Beecher was exposed to heroin via O'Reily and subsequently became an addict. Beecher continued to be Shillinger's prag through most of the first season, but everything that Verne did to Beecher, or had Beecher do, along with the heroin in his system caused him to snap and break the plane of glass in Shillinger's room with a chair, thus injuring one of Shillinger's eyes. When Tobias was released from the hole and Shillinger from the hospital another confrontation took place in which Beecher deficated on Verne's face. Beecher's "Take No Sh*t" attitude continued through the remainder of the season.

Especially not if you're a Breatharian -- You could starve to death!

• Rural Australians for Refugees
• Refugees Australia
• Children Out Of Detention
• Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission
• SievX National Memorial Project
• We Are All Boat People
• Refugee Claimants Support Centre
• Australians for Just Refugee Programs
• Refugee Council of Australia
• Edmund Rice Centre
• Refugee Action Collective Australia
• Nauru Wire
• Amnesty International (Australia)
• Project Safe
• Australian Catholic Migrant & Refugee Office
• Jesuit Refugee Services
• Australian Catholic Social Justice Council
• Australian Human Rights Centre
• Asylum Support Service
• Centre for Refugee Research, University of NSW
• Coalition for Justice for Refugees
• Fair Go for Refugees
• Refugees Online Queensland
• Mercy Refugee Service

Then there are those who are working for refugees, but don't set up websites about it.

There are hosts of similar sites, set up by those working to do good (unlike our government) on the issues of Aborigines, invading other countries and being a good global citizen.

Australia is a diverse community, about which generalisations cannot be made. I agree Australia's image is tarnished, but I also point out that a lack of shine does not sit well with many Australians.

Were the PATRIOT Act abuse complaints that the DOJ Inspector General dismissed without investigation really so unbelievable? The Inspector General's report states:

Approximately three-quarters of the 1,748 complaints made allegations that did not warrant an investigation. For example, some of the complaints alleged that government agents were broadcasting signals that interfere with a person's thoughts or dreams or that prison officials had laced the prison food with hallucinogenic drugs.
-- Report to Congress on Implementation of Section 1001 of the USA PATRIOT Act
-- U.S. Department of Justice Office of the Inspector General
-- March 11, 2005, page 5
-- http://www.usdoj.gov/oig/special/0503/final.pdf

Judge for yourself:
A current US program of involuntary human experimentation
New Technologies Threaten Human Rights
Electromagnetics and the Mind
http://www.geocities.com/mrmistermicko
http://www.datafilter.com/mc
http://www.angelfire.com/or/mctrl

Were the PATRIOT Act abuse complaints that the DOJ Inspector General dismissed without investigation really so unbelievable? The Inspector General's report states:

Approximately three-quarters of the 1,748 complaints made allegations that did not warrant an investigation. For example, some of the complaints alleged that government agents were broadcasting signals that interfere with a person's thoughts or dreams or that prison officials had laced the prison food with hallucinogenic drugs.
-- Report to Congress on Implementation of Section 1001 of the USA PATRIOT Act
-- U.S. Department of Justice Office of the Inspector General
-- March 11, 2005, page 5
-- http://www.usdoj.gov/oig/special/0503/final.pdf

Judge for yourself:
A current US program of involuntary human experimentation
New Technologies Threaten Human Rights
Electromagnetics and the Mind
http://www.geocities.com/mrmistermicko
http://www.datafilter.com/mc
http://www.angelfire.com/or/mctrl

And if there's one thing that guy's taught us, it's that Australia is full of critters that will happily kill you if you just piss them off a little. It's probably much easier to kill yourself off there than it is here in the states (Although we also have our share of poisonous nasties.)

That reminds me...

It is true that of the 10 most poisonous arachnids on the planet, Australia has 9 of them. Actually, it would be more accurate to say that of the 9 most poisonous arachnids, Australia has all of them. However, there are curiously few snakes, possibly because the spiders have killed them all. But even the spiders won't go near the sea. -- Douglas Adams

We also have ants that can kill you with a single bite, the world's most poisonous snake, and the world's most poisonous creature, the box jellyfish.

With all the time spent looking out for deadly snakes, ants, spiders, and fish... the crocodiles really don't concern us all that much :-)

You know, I'm sure glad that there aren't any popups on the website of Cryptie, the world's hottest goth.

You know, I'm sure glad that there aren't any popups on the website of Cryptie, the world's hottest goth.

Former felons are deprived of the right to vote in many states in the U.S., but, to my knowledge, none of them are deprived of the obligation to pay taxes.

They are treated much like minors in that respect.

Or, perhaps like colonialists, or anyone that wasn't a white, male property owner older than 25.

U.S. correctional policy might be due for some examination of how effective and appropriate it is considering that the U.S. jails many times more of its citizens per capita than just about any other country in the world you could care to pick. It used to be the U.S. incarcerated less people per capita than South Africa and Russia, but I'm not sure this is true anymore. We're probably down with the countries like Myanmar that have recognized reputations for repression.

Finally, absolutely convincing proof that everyone needs a cross-cut shredder: Salvaged Photos

http://www.angelfire.com/80s/sixmhz/trashy.html

this guy is unbalanced...

Let it die already!

It's worse than that it's dead jim
dead jim
dead jim
it's worse than that it's dead jim
dead jim dead!

I really hate to throw more fuel on this "us-versus-you guys" debate, but....

You mean no one told you about how our economy is doing WAY better than yours!

This comment is totally bunk. But according to the numbers, the size, producing power, and sheer stability of the U.S. economy is several times that of Cananda (in fact as far as producing power, greater than all of Europe put together). Across all the provinces of Canada, the employment rate is solidly above 7.0, in BC actually up at 8.2. (that's compared to 5.2 in Dec 2004 for the U.S).

Your personal income tax rates are through the roof (up there with us in fact, which says something), and what do you have to show for it? It certainly isn't helping your failing socialized health-care system you guys love to brag about (it's deep in financial problems, and for what? The quality of care is significantly lower than here in the U.S: Here.)

And finally...

WTF does politics have to with economy

It's funny that we are the inept ones here... go take an economics course, throw in some poli-sci for good measure, and come back when it finally dawns on you that ALL these issues are intimately connected to politics.

And don't forget to look at your training video!

Venerating the flag, and the country over others, are both considered virtues by many of the USA. Not all US truths are held to be self evident by the remainder of humanity. Decades into the space age, isn't it time that people saw themselves as citizens of the world and loyal to their ideals first, with loyalty to country further down the list?

Short answer: No, that's hopelessly idealistic, and I'll try to show why below.

Longer answer: Which world should Americans be citizens of? The one in which billions of people are controlled by theocracies, or other authoritarian types of government? Or perhaps you're thinking of some kind of idealized version of Europe - should the E.U. be considered representative of the world? Or perhaps the international agreements of the United Nations should represent the world you're thinking of?

But none of these things represent the beliefs of the majority of Americans, otherwise there'd be some more overt variety of Euro-style socialism in the U.S., for example, and the U.S. would be a more willing participant in the U.N., and many other differences besides.

In short, the "world" you're referring to is very ill-defined, and considering oneself a "citizen" of it is an utterly empty proposition.

That's a good thing from my perspective, though, because I can use it to point out, by contrast, how citizenship in a well-defined nation with core principles enshrined in law is a very valuable thing. A citizen who values the protections and freedoms that his nation gives him might even want a symbol of it, such as a flag.

It is clear that in spite of protests to my post, the flag is venerated in and of itself in the USA.

I agree. But you may as well complain about people venerating statues of the Virgin Mary. That's human nature, and it's so ubiquitous that some religions have admonitions against idol worship. If people are instructed by their god not to worship idols, and they still do, what does that tell you? Concrete symbols are important to many, perhaps most people - it gives them a focus for abstract concepts that otherwise would be more difficult for them to encompass.

At a certain level or intelligence or education, it becomes possible to replace brightly colored objects with apparently simple words, like "god" or "nation", but both words and objects in this case are simply abstractions, symbols which represent some concept which is not concrete - there's no object you can point to and say there, that's a nation, or that's a god.

The foundation of human intelligence is abstraction, the ability to use symbols to represent concepts and objects. Worrying about the fact that a flag is made of cloth is as meaningful as worrying about whether alphabetic characters are composed of ink or, in this communication, merely of a seemingly transitory arrangement of electrons. A flag represents a nation in the same way as the words "The United States of America" do. When people venerate the United States of America, are they venerating a string of characters, or the concept for which those characters stand? I'd better stop now, before we have to start getting into Frege's "Sense and Reference", which is actually quite relevant here.

Anyway, a person would have to be spectacularly stupid not to work out that a flag is a symbol for a group and its ideals

OK, but then why do you write that the pledge "needs to be reworded" because of involving "loyalty to cloth among other things"? I've attempted to explain the meaning of the pledge, but you're simply refusing to accept that, instead sticking to your literal interpretation related in part to a flag as a piece of cloth, as opposed to a symbol.

Ultimately, communication can only occur between people who want to communicate. If you refuse to understand the inte

Having written some simple games myself, I have found it very helpful to just get something very simple working first. Then I add things step by step. I have seen too many projects get bogged down in simply creating large amounts of artwork and no coding ever happens.

As a poor example of this method, I have written a pac man game tutorial. It is one the web at http://www.angelfire.com/games4/anirak/tutorial/da y0/.

I start with just being able to draw something on the screen and work up to an overly complex AI, but I added things one at a time rather than trying to do it all at once.

Finally, I agree that 3d games are a bad choice for a first time project like this. 3d is exponentially harder to do right. Start with something that wouldn't look out of place in an arcade in 1982.

Got a cite for that?

I'm not necessarily disputing anything you're claiming; however, neither is it at all clear that what you've said is actually true. In particular...

> There were no limits to the power we could project.

I think you're underestimating the remaining power of the other industrialized nations at the end of WWII. Even by D-Day, Britain had enough military might remaining to take responsibility for as much of the assault as the USA.

If you look at this link, for example, you'll see that while the USA was well-supplied with equipment, it was severely undermanned for dreams of world conquest. At the end of the war, there were about 1100 divisions available to the countries most involved, of which less than 10% were American. Moreover, this link suggests that the USA didn't enjoy such a dominant position in equipment after all; for example, the USSR was producing more tanks than the US by the end of the war.

Given the numbers and logistics involved, your assertion of the manifest ability of the USA to "roll over" the rest of the world seems...optimistic.

Insurance companies have incentive to make it more efficient. Lower Costs = Higher Margins and that they can charge less so more people can buy health care from them so they get more money.

As for the welfare department problems?
http://da.co.la.ca.us/wf/conv.htm
http://www.caltax.org/Fraud.htm
http://www.angelfire.com/wa2/WRAP/WelfareFraud.htm l
http://www.svcn.com/archives/saratoganews/02.09.00 /indoor-gym-0006.html
http://da.co.la.ca.us/mr/120904a.htm

Medicare/Medicaid has similar fraud problems. You can look those up yourself. Try "Medicare and Fraud" or "Medicade and Fraud"

Given the money spent on welfare I could employ over 1.6 Million people at $30K/year and cut the unemployment rate significantly. As is, we are paying them to not work and stay unemployed.

As for including the Entire H&HS budget? It's cause Medicare/Medicaid is in there (and makes up most of it) and it is what we have been talking about here. And I notice that the amount spent on Medicare/caid is still greater than the DoD budget.

The 'revolutionary' aspect of Revolution is also hinted at - "if you think too hard you'll never guess what it is."

I know what it is: the return of the Power Pad! Without it, you can't Dance Dance on the Revolution.

Though if someone owns, say 1-800-382-5633,

The International Independent Practitioners' Association owns that number.

Waiting for the challenge to bring job security. :-)

Or this one It's called the World's Worst Website for a reason.

Well, by reading TFA, one finds out that his reasoning is:

I wrote TinyP2P to illustrate the difficulty of regulating peer-to-peer applications. Peer-to-peer apps can be very simple, and any moderately skilled programmer can write one, so attempts to ban their creation would be fruitless.

Crack is produced by dissolving powdered cocaine in a mixture of water and ammonia or sodium bicarbonate (baking soda). The mixture is boiled until a solid substance forms. The solid is removed from the liquid, dried, and then broken into the chunks (rocks) that are sold as crack cocaine.

Ingredients:
1-2 grams coke
4 tablespoons baking soda
Some bottled water
Take a cookie sheet and sprinkle a light covering of coke on the bottom. No more than 1 - 1/2 tablespoons. Now, take 1 tablespoons or so of Baking Soda, and sprinkle it on top. Add 2 teaspoons of water evenly. Cook at 300 deg. for 15 min. Sprinkle Pot if you want to really do it up on top. Add rest of coke evenly, and 2 more tablespoons of baking soda evenly. Bake at 300 for 25-30 min. Let sit OVERNIGHT. Put in freezer 15- 20 minutes, or until hard. Crack off small peices and enjoy!

Pump up the volume

In fact, the intro to programming class would always have a Karel the Robot contest to see who could come up with the most interesting Karel program. You should have seen the beepers fly.

Then there is that awesome Kabala game. Never seen anything like it since. We had two of them over the years, and all that survived was the black eye-sphere that was turned into a bomb prop in a movie.

Just wanted to say that your post was great apart from the above question which is somewhat unfortunate.

If you expect to start feeling your brain age, what are the likely consequences of such an expectation?

feel brain age -> believe getting old -> start acting old -> start bad posture -> start bad health

Here's another:

feel brain age -> notice normal brain underperformance -> expect brain to underperform -> brain underperforms

Technically speaking, the question is both an embedded hypnotic command and a presuppositional pattern.

You insensitive clod. You should have posted the images as well. The ones at the top of the article are too slow.

No problem, mirrored it to a free Angelfire page here.

It's just as well. The internet sucks anyway. Go outside and lay touch football or something.

No thank you, I'm a heterosexual.

LK

I'd like to see football with fireballs and sleeping spells

Oh oh! And played underwater!

Oh, wait

In case anyone else is having problems with Yahoo! http://www.angelfire.com/creep/catcf/

There have been lots of reports in the last 5 months about the control of digital systems through direct brainwave interpretation--email, video games, prosthetics, etc. The Air Force and Duke U. have had monkeys flying flight simulators by thought for 1-2 yrs now. Their work has been the result of interpretation of understood wave patterns for arm and hand movement, and not requiring the "training" the UW subjects needed for playing pong. The target system would mimic a mechanical response the subject is already familiar i.e. arm hand movement.

But this success so far has only been acheived intrusively, by putting a hole in the subject's head and directly accessing the brain to capture EM activity. The real problem now is interpretting the brainactivity through the skull, scalp and hair. With the many amputies coming back from war, a great deal of effort is being made to develop these type of systems for control of prosthetic limbs in hope of improving quality of life for these soldiers...but to do it without putting more holes in their heads. The goal is to have such a system functioning within the next year or two.
http://www.angelfire.com/az3/newzone/mku.html
http://www.actlab.utexas.edu/~magsig/pinecone.htm
http://www.mindfully.org/Technology/2003/Brain-Imp lant-Read10nov03.htm

I saw this article in The Mysterious Future, so I googled up this brief page with Choctaw examples.

Personally, I'd like to see some of that grammar come into common usage. At least, on Slashdot.

I wonderd if they have the skeleton of that little person they used in that automagic chess "machine?"

All my media (MP3s of CDs I own before you ask) is at 320kbps, and I'd like to keep it that way.
---- Please, don't keep it that way. Use MPC

They prepare lists of animals that are in danger of extinction, and they report that "Today, more species than ever are in danger of extinction" but they aren't able to effectively conclude if this is due to accelerating environmental factors or because we discover species at a record pace and of course not all of them will be in a healthy state. And they further don't say if the accelerating environmental factors are within our control or not.

Thanks to Star Trek, every geek and his sidekick thinks that humans are 1) responsible and 2) have the fix within our power. Which means usually we geeks are 0 for 2 in our assessment.

Not to mention that biodiversity is not an intrinsic good. Should the candiru be protected? Malaria-bearing mosquitos? Of course not.

Of course, all this NASA sharing would be worth it if we could use it to get a credit against our dues with those interesting folks at the United Nations, but somehow I don't think they'd go for it. They'd rather have cash since it spends better Riveria villas than scientific data does.