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My AOL will work in Firefox, Safari and other browsers

It works, but the layout of http://startpage.aol.com/beta.adp is seriously b0rked in Safari. Text layout is the biggest problem - text overflowing the little graphical boundaries on the page, horrible vertical alignment, etc.

Here's a screen shot. Not pretty at all. Submitting it to Browsershots (screen shots of a site rendered in all major browsers) should be interesting.

From their Member Agreement http://legal.web.aol.com/aol/aolpol/memagree.html:

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Very simple.

The USA had developed two nuclear weapons, operating on different principles. They wanted to test them both.

Japan was already contacting the USA, looking for a way to surrender without loosing too much face. This form of contact was completely ignored.

Interesting link: http://members.aol.com/essays6/abomb.htm

Do not trust the USA what it has to say about its reasons to use any weapon in any of the many many circumstances where it did.

Ad Astra was originally a space settlement magazine when the L5 Society merged with the National Space Society on condition that the emphasis on space settlement remain its ultimate priority.

What is the difference between a space settlement and a terraformed planet, you might ask?

The fact that you need to ask is evidence that the foundation of the National Space Society was long ago abrogated for more "fashionable" pursuits, such as those promoted by hucksters like Zubrin.

One of the better answers to that question is in Mike Combs' Space Settlement FAQ

Since the Ad Astrans have had the unmitigated chutzpah to quote the originator of the space settlement idea without talking about actual space settlement -- pretending the idea simply doesn't exist, I'm going to provide an appropriate rebuttal: The entirety of Mr. Combs' FAQ.

What is space settlement?

Space settlement is the concept of colonizing space by using extraterrestrial resources to construct artificial, closed-ecology habitats in orbit.

What is a space habitat?

A space habitat would be a pressurized sphere, cylinder, or torus (donut shape), rotating on its axis so that centrifugal force serves as an artificial gravity. The interior is landscaped with soil, water, and vegetation. Sunlight would be gathered by mirrors and reflected into the interior of the habitat through windows. The goal is to create as Earth-like an environment as possible.

How is space settlement different from any of the other space colonization proposals?

Most thinking regarding human expansion into space has focused on the settling of the surfaces of other planets, sometimes after modifying their environments to make them more Earth-like (called terraforming). The space settlement concept maintains that planets are not the most ideal location for human colonies beyond the Earth.

Aren't we going to terraform Mars or Venus?

Terraforming is a long-term project requiring technology significantly advanced over what we have today. Even terraforming advocates admit it would take a minimum of 200 years to modify Mars to the stage where even simple anaerobic microorganisms and algae can survive. [Ref: Terraforming: Engineering Planetary Environments, Martyn J. Fogg, SAE Press 1995.] Space habitats, on the other hand, can be built with today's technology, and would be homes in space which people initiating the program could move into within their lifetimes.

Interstellar travel may someday become possible, but we have no guarantee that Earth-like planets will be as plentiful in the Milky Way galaxy as they have been in Hollywood, CA.

What advantages would orbital settlements have over a colony built on another planet?

1. Access to 24-hour-a-day sunlight. This makes solar power a consistent, economical energy source. Photovoltaic panels can convert sunlight into electrical current, and solar mirrors can concentrate it for process heat in industrial operations (such as the smelting of ore). A space-based solar concentrator the size of a football field (which could still weigh less than a car) could provide process heat equivalent to the burning of 1 million barrels of oil over 30 years.
   
   Sunlight also drives the life-support system of the habitat, so the day/night cycle can be set to whatever is convenient. Compare this to the moon, where there is 14 days of continuous daylight, and then a 14-day-long night. Here, some alternate energy source would probably have to be used half the time.
2. Access to zero gravity. Th

And how is DSBL supposed to know that the address is dynamic? There's no obvious way that doesn't involve manual detective work and a judgement call. DSBL has very specific rules that it follows. The goal is that only facts, not human judgement, factor in a listing, in order to avoid exactly the accusation that Paul Graham leveled at Spamhaus.

The guy who called you a retard was a jerk, but ultimately he got one thing right: it's just not practical to send mail from a dynamic IP address. It's not just the geeks posting here who block mail from dynamic IPs. Lots of companies do, and so does AOL.

bzzt..AOL For Broadband

So a while ago, Magic Johnson came to give a talk at the Rochester Institute of Technology, my alma mater. He spoke about AIDS and life and generally interesting things.

Now, most of you probably remember that he appeared in an episode of the Super Mario Brothers Super Show. (He was living in their medicine cabinet IIRC).

Magic opened the floor up to questions, and I happened to get the first one. It went something like this:

Schezar: Magic, how did it feel to make an appearance on the Super Mario Brothers Super Show?
Magic: What? Oh my god... I forgot what kind of school this was...
Schezar: I have this picture of you standing in their medicine cabinet...
Magic: Come up here! I'm going to sign that for you.

So now I have this picture, signed by Magic himself, on my wall. Just gotta get the captain to sign it and I'll have quite an artifact of power ;^)

The 70cm downlink on AO-51 "Echo" is amazingly easy to recieve. I just picked up a used dual bander this weekend (my old UHF radios all stopped at 440 so they couldn't recieve the 435.300 downlink from AO-51) and made my first couple of sattelite contacts.

All I was using was a $170 used radio, a $12 whip on my truck for the 2m uplink (running 10 watts) and a mini yagi I built out of some left over house wire and a scrap of PCV crimped to some spare coax following this guys plans 70cm cheapie antenna

Total investment was less than $200 and I was able to copy the sat very well - here's a recording of one of last nights passes 5:50 6-13-2005 UTC recorded from Yuma AZ

But after today AO-51 will be going into S band downlink so unless you're setup for recieving 2.4Ghz FM you won't be able to hear anything until after field day on the 26th.

The LEO FM sats are amazingly easy to recieve. Before I got this radio I was listening to AO-51 with just my Alinco DJ-C5t and it's stock antenna. Amazingly even that was able to hear most of the pass if I help the radio just right.

Yeah, I think we are all still shocked by the tragic death of Frank Poole.

but this seemed really strange considering 98% of us never are in a position to where we interact with the outside world..

That's not the point. It really is distracting to watch a coworker reach for something and you see her butt-crack tatt.

...there is a port of a (Flash) bullshit generator. Too bad there hasn't been a port to LISP, or eMacs for that matter.

Hey fags, my named is Armands Leimanis. I am 15 and lives in Latvia. I am currentlee learns English. I also am tried to learn Russia i love Russia here is me singing Russian anthim. There is some picture of me on my web sight.

Props to GNAA.

I believe that's the practical half of your brain speaking.

My wife is very frugal and practical, which made the gift of the ring that much more special and romantic.

Perhaps you are the kind of person that either doesn't enjoy wearing fine jewelry, or it makes no emotional difference to you whether what you are wearing is real or fake, valuable, or cheap.

My (very) limited experience is that there is an emotional boost for women wearing jewelry that compliments them and highlights their attractiveness. There is a distinct difference, I've observed, in how a woman acts if she knows she's wearing exceptionally valuable jewelry compared to wearing pretty and attractive jewelry that is not costly.

Furthermore, gifted expensive jewelry can actually make some women more independant. I pay 2 months salary. Assuming the item keeps up with inflation, then she can sell it for perhaps 1 to 2 months worth of living expenses should she ever find the need to do so.

And lastly, there's always the Johnny Lingo effect.

-Adam

Assume the completed project does model a human brain, then according to the leading theory ("functionalism") then as it's a functional replica of a human brain, it has all the properties of a human brain - including consciousness.

The question "how would you tell?" is one that the functionalists get asked a lot!

The usual answer is that in the future we will know how to match functional (or in some variations, physical) states to conscious states. When this is done, we'll have a set of psycho-functional (or psycho-physical) laws, and will be able to say, with confidence, that if it's in state X it is having experience Y.

The argument that stands best against that idea is that no matter how well correlated X is with Y, just naming Y doesn't tell us "what it's like to be in state Y" for the system that is in state X. Like the prisoners' jokes ("53!", "hahah, that's a good 'un!") there seems to be a big GAP between the code and the experience.

Even supposing the brain-model to be conscious, how would we verify that red looks to it as red looks to us? What could we do, print out the hex code for the colour it's experiencing ("#FF0000"!)? Put the colour on a screen? But wait - our just looking at the screen tells us what it's like to be us looking at the screen, not what it's like to be the brain-model looking at it...

Positions which hold there must be more than a functional state involved in determining "what it's like" range from "physicalism" - the physical details determine the experience, through "physical-functionalism" - it's a mixture, with the functional relations accounting for behaviour and information processing, and the experiential details provided by the physical realisation - to what has been called "transcendentalism": neither functional nor physical models have the epistemelogical clout to get us any closer to determining the "what it's like". Thomas Nagel's paper What is it like to be a bat? is the classic statement of that position.

Suppose the case goes on being undecided, and we really can't tell. Then, as Hilary Puttnam has argued, perhaps we should play safe and regard the permanent switching-off (or erasure) of such a model as an act equivalent to murder, so long as the model is functionally like a human (it is able to hold a normal conversation).

There's a vast literature concerning the issue. See this bibliography by David Chalmers for a list of 1082 papers, just on the "what it's like" aspect, alone! That is part one of Chalmers' excellent and comprehensive bibliography of the philosophy of mind.

um, because your TV is what, 480x440 (another source), and your monitor is what, 1600x1200 or higher?

someone remind me why they need the equivalent of two GeForce 6800 Ultra cards to run 480x440 resolution?

Unless you're planning on spending big $$$$$ for a real 1080i HDTV then it's pretty stupid to compare a PC running at 1600x1200 to a TV at 480x440.

Also let's not forget the PS3 won't be released for another year, so by then those video cards will be half the price. Then you gotta wait for games to be released, while the PC video cards will run on everything out there.

AOL also open sourced the modified version of Midori/Mobile Linux it used on the Gateway appliance.

Hence, http://opensource.aol.com

old news. did you miss the article on AOL's chimp marketting scheme on boingboing last month? they found apes connected better to their target customers.

What the heck is running the other 30%?

A large, distributed flock of Apple IIs. There are still a lot of them out there, and Apple did say they would be "forever."

...and lest you think there's no such thing as distributed computing on Apple IIs, have a look at the AppleCrate. There are even a couple of MP3s (here and here) that were sampled from a multi-voice synthesizer running on the system, which is basically a stack of IIe motherboards tied together with minimal added logic.

What the heck is running the other 30%?

A large, distributed flock of Apple IIs. There are still a lot of them out there, and Apple did say they would be "forever."

...and lest you think there's no such thing as distributed computing on Apple IIs, have a look at the AppleCrate. There are even a couple of MP3s (here and here) that were sampled from a multi-voice synthesizer running on the system, which is basically a stack of IIe motherboards tied together with minimal added logic.

What the heck is running the other 30%?

A large, distributed flock of Apple IIs. There are still a lot of them out there, and Apple did say they would be "forever."

...and lest you think there's no such thing as distributed computing on Apple IIs, have a look at the AppleCrate. There are even a couple of MP3s (here and here) that were sampled from a multi-voice synthesizer running on the system, which is basically a stack of IIe motherboards tied together with minimal added logic.

AOL has offered a feedback loop for years.

Information on how to activate it is available at http://postmaster.info.aol.com/fbl/index.html.

MSN/Hotmail's offering is quite a bit different, and I'm not yet prepared to offer an opinion on which interface/mechanism is more useful.

Right now, we find the AOL feedback loop quite useful, as do many others.

More feedback loops for large mail providers are documented in this Spamhaus FAQ entry

AOL's SCOMP system (http://postmaster.aol.com/fbl/index.html) pioneered this methodology of encouraging responsibility. It was first and remains an invaluable asset to large (and small) ISPs.

I'm really happy that hotmail has started up and followed AOL's lead in this arena.

I designed a very low-cost and effective solution that I teach in several times a week.

1. Put up a whiteboard at one end of the conference room. This will double as your screen for the LCD projector. There will be some glare, but I like being able to write on top of what's being projected. A pull-down screen mounted on the wall above the whiteboard is an option if the glare is a problem.
2. Make sure the projector is at least 1800 ANSI Lumens (the more, the better) and that it comes with a good wireless mouse. Any decent projector comes with a remote control that doubles as a wireless mouse by connecting the projector to a computer's USB port. I like Philips' projector models because they come with trackballs on the wireless remote/mouse pointer, which are far superior to joystick-type pointers that most remotes come with.
3. Get two or more free AIM accounts. One for your conference room and the rest for people at the other end (to save them the bother of having to sign up at meeting time). Install the AIM software at each remote location, or (even better) use Macs with iChat AV (AIM compatible).
   • Go here to register for the AIM accounts.
   • Go here to download the AIM software or just use iChat AV if you have Mac OS X 10.4 or later (recommended).
4. Get a couple of webcams with omnidirectional microphones (Logitech makes decent stuff). If the webcam and/or computer mic sound is crap (it probably will be unsuitable for a conference room), then buy a separate, PA-quality mics and plug them into the sound cards.

After seeing some of the business decisions Palm has made in the last couple years, I say they pick an icon like Prince did in the 90's.

But enough about Moore, what about Gaiman?

I'm wondering if this isn't kathaksung, a rather prolific woowoo who's been making the rounds of message boards all over the web for several years now. Based on his extensive paranoid rantings about the FBI trying to irradiate him via just about everything in his house, a foil-wrapped domicile would be exactly what I'd expect of him.

Actually, they are pushing AOL for broadband. But the thing is, why pay an aditional $14.95 when you already have to pay about $30 a month just for the cable modem service.

They were great in the mid to late 90's when the only way to get on-line was through a modem. Hell even i used them up until about 3 years ago when cable became avaliable in my area. But the reality is that the company is on its way out, its just a matter of when.

yeah heres another link to a story like that, but this time reversed

ac above is right your girlfriend is lying

http://members.aol.com/poetrynet/month/archive/mcf ee/cuban.html

See here:
http://members.aol.com/adamkb/aol/mailfaq/imap/
Although I can't seem to get it to work. I don't think IMAP/SMTP support is (yet) enabled. Let me know if/when you succeed, please

According to the FAQ, AIM Mail does not support IMAP.

Hmmm. Not in the United States: http://www.aol.com/broadband/

"AOL Over [existing] Broadband." I think such a product is profoundly pointless. Heck, I get "unlimited" dial-up internet access with Juno for half the price of this "AOL Over [existing] Broadband." Why on earth would anyone pay for this?

Sorry, I just wanted to rant.

Seriously. I mean, at least try the product first.

The AOL spam filters have gotten quite good over the past couple years, better than Yahoo/Hotmail and way better than that of your typical cable operator. The web interface is really nice (Mailblocks). There's free IMAP access. And if you use AIM, there's good integration between AIM and AIM Mail. Clearly I'm biased, but I think it's a great product.

If you have an AIM account, you can try it out at http://mail.aol.com/ . If not, you can create an AIM account at https://my.screenname.aol.com/_cqr/registration/in itRegistration.psp.

Some more info at my blog: http://journals.aol.com/juberti/runningman

Seriously. I mean, at least try the product first.

The AOL spam filters have gotten quite good over the past couple years, better than Yahoo/Hotmail and way better than that of your typical cable operator. The web interface is really nice (Mailblocks). There's free IMAP access. And if you use AIM, there's good integration between AIM and AIM Mail. Clearly I'm biased, but I think it's a great product.

If you have an AIM account, you can try it out at http://mail.aol.com/ . If not, you can create an AIM account at https://my.screenname.aol.com/_cqr/registration/in itRegistration.psp.

Some more info at my blog: http://journals.aol.com/juberti/runningman

Seriously. I mean, at least try the product first.

The AOL spam filters have gotten quite good over the past couple years, better than Yahoo/Hotmail and way better than that of your typical cable operator. The web interface is really nice (Mailblocks). There's free IMAP access. And if you use AIM, there's good integration between AIM and AIM Mail. Clearly I'm biased, but I think it's a great product.

If you have an AIM account, you can try it out at http://mail.aol.com/ . If not, you can create an AIM account at https://my.screenname.aol.com/_cqr/registration/in itRegistration.psp.

Some more info at my blog: http://journals.aol.com/juberti/runningman

Try this:
http://aim.aol.com/aimnew/Aim/register.adp?promo=1 06723&pageset=Aim&client=no

You might have to do a little searching, like http://aim.aol.com/aimnew/Aim/register.adp?promo=7 3010&pageset=Aim&client=no">clicking the link marked "Register."

AOL started offering free blogs service for non members (http://pc.channel.aol.com/aimblogs [aol.com]) and starting from tomorrow (May 11 2005) is offering 2 gb email for non members (http://www.aim.com/aim_mail.adp [aim.com]). Seems like this healthy competetion is a boon for the end users. from the website - features offered include Here's a summary of the features you will enjoy with AIM Mail: Industry-leading Spam and Anti-virus protection: Users of AIM Mail can rely on AIM to help keep their mail box free of junk mail and harmful viruses. 2 GB of mail storage: Users of AIM Mail can access their storage from any web-enabled computer. AIM Mail also comes with a search feature that makes it easy for users to find messages in their Inbox, Sent Mail, or Stored Mail. IMAP access: Users can get their AIM Mail through their favorite email application including MS Outlook, Mozilla Thunderbird, Mac and Eudora. Single Log-on: Users will only have to login once to use both AIM and AIM Mail. Once logged into AIM, they can check, read and send mail without having to login in again. They can also launch the e-mail service from the AIM Buddy List or the Mail panel in the AIM Today welcome screen. Integration of AIM Presence: The Running Man icon appears in the e-mail headers if a sender or cc-ed recipient is logged in to AOL or AIM. This allows users to see when friends and colleagues are online and enables them to easily respond via e-mail or IM. Unsend Message: Users can cancel and unsend a message after it's been sent to another AOL or AIM Mail user if the message has not been read. Users can also check the status of a message sent to an AOL or AIM user and confirm if and when the message has been read. Plus, many other features, including: Enhanced spell-checking, auto-addressing, rich-text formatting, message signatures and more!

Well other players are also catching up. AOL started offering free blogs service for non members (http://pc.channel.aol.com/aimblogs [aol.com]) and starting from tomorrow is offering 2 gb email for non members (http://www.aim.com/aim_mail.adp [aim.com]). Seems like this healthy competetion is a boon for the end users.

AOL is catching up with google. AOL started offering free blogs service for non members (http://pc.channel.aol.com/aimblogs [aol.com]) and starting from tomorrow is offering 2 gb email for non members (http://www.aim.com/aim_mail.adp [aim.com]). Seems like this healthy competetion is a boon for the end users.

AOL started offering free blogs service for non members (http://pc.channel.aol.com/aimblogs) and starting from tomorrow is offering 2 gb email for non members (http://www.aim.com/aim_mail.adp). Seems like this healthy competetion is a boon for the end users.

When you have a crime to investigate, and you have no suspects, where do you start? Obviously you begin by looking at the person or persons who have the most to gain by perpetrating the crime.

This is why we must consider: who had something to gain from the disasterous crimes of September 11th? Obviously not Osama Bin Laden, who would net no financial windfall from the destruction of the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. Although he has loudly applauded the "terrorist" acts of September 11th and even tacitly taken credit for them, there is no reason to believe that he is anything more than a bandwagon jumper. Being blamed for the destruction of the World Trade Center has done more for his image than any amount of militant Islamic rhetoric.

But if not Bin Laden, then who?

It so happens that on December 11th, "coincidentally" 2 months after the tragedy, Credit Suisse First Boston quietly agreed to pay out US$100 million in order to settle an 18 month old investigation into its handling of certain high-profile technology IPOs (Initial Public Offerings). One of the most controversial amongst these being the IPO of VA Linux Systems, Inc. (LNUX) .

VA Linux Systems, Inc., now known as VA Software, is widely derided as a poster child of the dot-com bust, though inexplicably still in business. At the time of the IPO, VA Linux (Software) shares opened trading at nearly 10 times their $30 offer price, closing the first day of trading at $239.25. This meteoric rise made many early investors rich, strangely on account of a company which purports to sell a hobbyist operating system which can be obtained for free on the Internet. "The VA Linux initial public offering is a prime example of market manipulation in an IPO by investment banks, their customers and the issuing firm," said Steven Schulman, a partner in the law firm Milberg Weiss Bershad Hynes & Lerach, which specializes in filing shareholder suits.

"Because certain favored customers of the investment banks agreed to buy shares in a new issue at inflated prices in the aftermarket (in return for getting an allocation of the shares at the initial offering price) the share prices to which the IPO eventually soared were actually driven by artificial market forces," continues Schulman.

But what does the VA Software (Linux) IPO have to do with the attacks on September 11th, and what has that to do with the Credit Suisse settlement? Well, considering that VA Linux (Software) got CSFB into trouble in the first place, it stands to reason that the VA Linux (Software) Board of Directors were complicit in the stock fraud from beginning to end. As the investigation progressed against CSFB, the unscrupulous VA Software/Linux executives, their pockets bulging with filthy lucre plundered from trusting, hard-working investors, must have realized that their days in the country club were numbered if the SEC discovered their wrongdoings.

The SEC, or Securities Exchange Commission, is a federal regulatory agency, and cannot be bribed. Therefore, with a possible stint in federal prison looming large, Larry Augustin and the rest of the crooks, including outspoken gun violence advocate Eric S. Raymond, decided to undertake more active means to halt the investigation.

The Plan

It so happened that all the evidence in the CSFB/

Try maps.yahoo.com

Click on the map to get it to move or rezoom. Nothing happens.

Of course, one could assert that Yahoo should change their web site to be more FireFox compatible (in the same way AOL has a webmaster page telling us how to be create websites that are more AOL compatible).
http://webmaster.aol.com/

If I cared enough about it, I could probably read through the javascript and isolate the problem and create a workaround or fiddle with some undocumented options in the Firefox configuration, but the mass market isn't going to ever do that.

So while I mainly use firefox, I've switched to maps.google.com (and modified my website's map links for the same reason)

requiring 3 - 5% or better tolerance is not acceptable. We had to hand-match Apple ][ drives back in '77 to ensure that the two drives could exchange data.

These were drives that took 200ms (yes, that's .2 seconds) per revolution. They had a trim-pot for speed adjustment and you had to put several turns on it to get the drive far enough out of spec to misread disks.
Hundreds of Disk II drives have passed through my possession, and I've never had to match their speeds to that level unless I was dealing specifically with a bitchy, temperamental nibble-count protected disk - and those were somewhat rare. Standard 16-sector format Apple II disks were phenomenally tolerant of speed variation. I respectfully submit that your memory likely exceeds your experience in this case.

As to "100%" reliable... it is possible to "accidentally" record a data pattern that duplicates the synchronization header. Just about the only system that this was possible on was the Apple ][.

The sector header (and there was one for EVERY sector, not one per track) consisted of 3-byte prologue (D5 AA 96) that used unique byte values that were not possible to generate using the standard 5&3 encoding scheme, followed by the track, sector and volume number 4&4 encoded into 6 bytes, followed by a checksum byte 4&4 encoded into two bytes, followed by a two-byte epilogue (DE AA) also using unique values not possible from the standard 5&3 encoding. If the checksum didn't validate those volume, track and sector values, the header was considered no good and ignored.

Yes, it is possible to "accidentally" record a pattern that would duplicate such a header. It's also possible (and probably just as likely) to throw a Scrabble set in the air and get Shakespeare. :)

However, saving the expense of (1) a proper floppy controller, (2) a proper video generator, (3) delegating everything to the 6502, did make the machine remarkably affordable.

Now this, I can agree with 110%. As a bonus, it also made the machine remarkably FLEXIBLE as well. There was very little - if anything - that the hardware prevented you from doing. The Apple II was a true "hacker's" machine, in the spirit of the original meaning of the word.

Just not remarkably dependable.

For unusual values of dependable, maybe. :) I have dozens of Apple //e's, Super Serial Cards, Disk II drives & controllers, all of which are 20+ years old and all of which are still as functional as the day they were built. How many other systems from that era are anything but dumpster fodder right now?

PS. U an looking for an Apple ][ DOS 3.3 boot disk. Email me if you can make me a copy.

I use ProDOS for the most part, especially since I only have a IIgs set up active at the moment. Not to mention DOS 3.3 support for hard drives is dismal at best. I'd have to dig for a bit to get you a DOS 3.3 disk. However, I do know people that could readily provide you one, and I'd be happy to get you set up.
Also, consider dropping by comp.sys.apple2 if talk of these older machines (and what they're still being actively used for today, like this incredibly cool project) is appealing to you.

Damn those inbred internet hicks... Damn them to hell.

Decent inexpensive conversion between 720p and 1080i can be done, without downrezzing to SDTV by ending up with just 540 lines of vertical resolution.

The secret is to process the even 1080i fields differently from the odd 1080i fields, choosing different lines to blend or interpolate or double or drop. Sophisticated de-interlacing of 1080i to 1080p first will help but is not necessary.

If the processing does not de-interlace the 1080i first and also treats the odd and even fields the (exact) same way, the resolution will be cut to 540 lines vertically.

More:
http://members.aol.com/ajaynejr/hdconv.htm

When you have a crime to investigate, and you have no suspects, where do you start? Obviously you begin by looking at the person or persons who have the most to gain by perpetrating the crime.

This is why we must consider: who had something to gain from the disasterous crimes of September 11th? Obviously not Osama Bin Laden, who would net no financial windfall from the destruction of the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. Although he has loudly applauded the "terrorist" acts of September 11th and even tacitly taken credit for them, there is no reason to believe that he is anything more than a bandwagon jumper. Being blamed for the destruction of the World Trade Center has done more for his image than any amount of militant Islamic rhetoric.

But if not Bin Laden, then who?

It so happens that on December 11th, "coincidentally" 2 months after the tragedy, Credit Suisse First Boston quietly agreed to pay out US$100 million in order to settle an 18 month old investigation into its handling of certain high-profile technology IPOs (Initial Public Offerings). One of the most controversial amongst these being the IPO of VA Linux Systems, Inc. (LNUX) .

VA Linux Systems, Inc., now known as VA Software, is widely derided as a poster child of the dot-com bust, though inexplicably still in business. At the time of the IPO, VA Linux (Software) shares opened trading at nearly 10 times their $30 offer price, closing the first day of trading at $239.25. This meteoric rise made many early investors rich, strangely on account of a company which purports to sell a hobbyist operating system which can be obtained for free on the Internet. "The VA Linux initial public offering is a prime example of market manipulation in an IPO by investment banks, their customers and the issuing firm," said Steven Schulman, a partner in the law firm Milberg Weiss Bershad Hynes & Lerach, which specializes in filing shareholder suits.

"Because certain favored customers of the investment banks agreed to buy shares in a new issue at inflated prices in the aftermarket (in return for getting an allocation of the shares at the initial offering price) the share prices to which the IPO eventually soared were actually driven by artificial market forces," continues Schulman.

But what does the VA Software (Linux) IPO have to do with the attacks on September 11th, and what has that to do with the Credit Suisse settlement? Well, considering that VA Linux (Software) got CSFB into trouble in the first place, it stands to reason that the VA Linux (Software) Board of Directors were complicit in the stock fraud from beginning to end. As the investigation progressed against CSFB, the unscrupulous VA Software/Linux executives, their pockets bulging with filthy lucre plundered from trusting, hard-working investors, must have realized that their days in the country club were numbered if the SEC discovered their wrongdoings.

The SEC, or Securities Exchange Commission, is a federal regulatory agency, and cannot be bribed. Therefore, with a possible stint in federal prison looming large, Larry Augustin and the rest of the crooks, including outspoken gun violence advocate Eric S. Raymond, decided to undertake more active means to halt the investigation.

The Plan

It so happened that all the evidence in the CSFB/

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You must not value your time much. First off, I run a high volume mailing list/newsgroup/webforum that has been in operation since 1996. AOL is continually a problem, but nothing like recenetly

As of two weeks ago, all AOL and Compuserve subscribers were removed and the mailing list shut down to those domains.

1) They are not 'easy' to work with. My emails to 'postmaster' went unanswered despite their website saying it was a valid method.

2) Their 'feedback' loops, once you sign up, forwards to you the email that one of their users reported as SPAM. (never mind this is an opt-in w/ confirmation list). AOL strips the 'To' address so you do not know who to contact. It makes the feedback look useless for a mailing list. I have to spend a day or two configuring VERP to figure out who it was.

3) My entire domain got blocked because one AOL user hit 'Report this email as SPAM' a dozen times. It took 3 calls and 3 hours on the phone to resolve.

4) They do offer a 'whitelist'. However to sign up for the whitelist you must agree to their guidelines. http://postmaster.aol.com/tools/whitelist_guides.h tml
What BS is this? They want me to guarantee that my mailing list meets the AOL T&C?

'Any e-mail sent to AOL members must conform to AOL's Community Guidelines http://legal.web.aol.com/aol/aolpol/comguide.html'

5) The whitelist states that every email should have a physical address and contact phone number for unsubscribing. More BS.
'All subscription based e-mail must have valid, non-electronic, contact information for the sending organization in the text of each e-mail including phone number and a physical mailing address.'

They are currently content filtering emails too. Any member of my mailing list two posts a message containing a link to 'angelfire' or 'hotfire' domains are bounced. Entire digets are bounced because a users signature contains their angelfire homepage. I tried to modify the mailing list so that 'http://' was stripped, but AOL still rejected it. Some emails that only contained 'alturl.com' (kinda like tinyurl.com) are bounced.

You must not value your time much. First off, I run a high volume mailing list/newsgroup/webforum that has been in operation since 1996. AOL is continually a problem, but nothing like recenetly

As of two weeks ago, all AOL and Compuserve subscribers were removed and the mailing list shut down to those domains.

1) They are not 'easy' to work with. My emails to 'postmaster' went unanswered despite their website saying it was a valid method.

2) Their 'feedback' loops, once you sign up, forwards to you the email that one of their users reported as SPAM. (never mind this is an opt-in w/ confirmation list). AOL strips the 'To' address so you do not know who to contact. It makes the feedback look useless for a mailing list. I have to spend a day or two configuring VERP to figure out who it was.

3) My entire domain got blocked because one AOL user hit 'Report this email as SPAM' a dozen times. It took 3 calls and 3 hours on the phone to resolve.

4) They do offer a 'whitelist'. However to sign up for the whitelist you must agree to their guidelines. http://postmaster.aol.com/tools/whitelist_guides.h tml
What BS is this? They want me to guarantee that my mailing list meets the AOL T&C?

'Any e-mail sent to AOL members must conform to AOL's Community Guidelines http://legal.web.aol.com/aol/aolpol/comguide.html'

5) The whitelist states that every email should have a physical address and contact phone number for unsubscribing. More BS.
'All subscription based e-mail must have valid, non-electronic, contact information for the sending organization in the text of each e-mail including phone number and a physical mailing address.'

They are currently content filtering emails too. Any member of my mailing list two posts a message containing a link to 'angelfire' or 'hotfire' domains are bounced. Entire digets are bounced because a users signature contains their angelfire homepage. I tried to modify the mailing list so that 'http://' was stripped, but AOL still rejected it. Some emails that only contained 'alturl.com' (kinda like tinyurl.com) are bounced.