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Oh damn. I think I've just been 80s geek checked.

In the Booth

Grab the trailer here(Coral cache), or here (direct link, but extremely slow for me).

...right here.

PLUG: Ruby-DOOM

Direct link to the high-res version

Maybe a little OT, but interestingly, he also designed a bicycle. Or rather, people tought so for some time. It turned out it was faked by one of the restorers back in the 1970's or so. A drawing and a little more info.

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• Assassination Politics by Jim Bell
• The American Holocaust
• Anarchist's Cookbook
• Icky, unpatriotic, morbid beheading videos and such
• Bias to balance U.S. news bias
• Map of the White House
• Location of NYC water resevoirs
• Alex Jones loves progress!
• Economic terrorism #1 - buy nothing day
• Economic terrorism #2 - evil ad-skipping Tivo
• Economic terrorism #3 - running out of oil isn't a conspiracy theory.
• Economic terrorism #4 - the top 10 most fuel efficient cars of 2005 :)
• The widening wealth gap
• Paper trails make it much harder to steal elections
• Hamster dance!

If jackboot thug out there wants to arrest me for "implicitly supporting" the content of any of these links, feel free to abuse the PATRIOT ACT in order to force slashdot.org to reveal the IP address associated with this post, and in turn my ISP will reveal my name and home address associated with the DHCP lease (because I didn't bother to post through an anonymous proxy(s)). tinfoil_hat_mode off.

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In the meantime you can set up fusion prize awards to incentivize development of the technologies necessary to burn He3 if you find it is economic.

I never said batteries were unaffected by tempurature.

Direct quote:
EVERYTHING ON THE PLANET is affected by tempurature... That doesn't mean everything is affected just as seriously. I can't say what's at that link, but I can assure you, cold tempuratures have a much more serious effect on your engine than any decent batteries.

Your statement is just plain wrong. THE reason it is hard to start a car in the cold is the battery. Cold Cranking Amps are not listed on every car battery just for the hell of it. Temperature effects on your battery are THE dominating factor.

And the issue here is what makes it HARD TO START YOUR CAR.

No the issue is that an electric car won't be just hard to start, it will be hard to drive, period. Difficulty starting is a minor inconvenience compared to losing a large percentage of your range (and horsepower) just because it's cold out. If you need double the battery capacity to start your car in the winter months, it's not that big of a deal. Your standard car battery is already sized to account for that. If you need double the battery capacity to keep the same range during the winter months and your battery pack already weighs hundreds or even thousands of pounds, it's a HUGE problem.

This is the last troll of yours I'm going to even bother replying to.

You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.

The guard that deserted Lincoln was John Parker. He went out for a drink before Booth came in. See this for more.

The Holiday of Jew's Revenge, September 11th, was bloodied once again this year. Officials say Gay Nigger Association of America member Tar_Baby stole a Cessna jet from a nearby airfield and crashed it into Open Source Technology Group headquarters, completely demolishing the building, as well as crushing and incinerating everyone inside.

Audio logs recovered via the jet's black box portrayed a disturbing course of events onboard the plane. Passengers were heard screaming for their lives as the terrorist raped and killed the male members of the plane by what was thought to be rupturing their colons with a gigantic black dildo with nails punched out the sides, based on evidence collected at the scene.

Within minutes of the attack, GNAA officials telephoned major news networks claiming responsibility, and promised to continue their campaign of destruction as long as an Open Source movement still existed. This is believed to be the major tenet of the 'Gay Nigger Jihad', first mentioned months ago during GNAA's campaign against AOL.

This comes almost simultaneously after OSTG recently changed their name from the Open Source Development Network (OSDN), in attempt to distance itself from name long associated with failure, stupidity, zealotry, and Cowboyneal. It was also part of a last ditch effort to convince investors not to steal a Cessna and fly it into the headquarters themselves.

Update: A few hours after the crash, the rescue team found what is believed to be the only survivor. CmdrTaco was found in a coma inside OSTG basement, still firmly gripping his tiny cock. In his other hand, he was holding a photo of a muscular black male, signed by "Gary Niger of GNAA". CmdrTaco was rushed to a hospital, and his condition remains critical.

About GNAA:
GNAA (GAY NIGGER ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA) is the first organization which gathers GAY NIGGERS from all over America and abroad for one common goal - being GAY NIGGERS.

Are you GAY ?
Are you a NIGGER ?
Are you a GAY NIGGER ?

If you answered "Yes" to all of the above questions, then GNAA (GAY NIGGER ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA) might be exactly what you've been looking for!
Join GNAA (GAY NIGGER ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA) today, and enjoy all the benefits of being a full-time GNAA member.
GNAA (GAY NIGGER ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA) is the fastest-growing GAY NIGGER community with THOUSANDS of members all over United States of America and the World! You, too, can be a part of GNAA if you join today!

Why not? It's quick and easy - only 3 simple steps!

• First, you have to obtain a copy of GAYNIGGERS FROM OUTER SPACE THE MOVIE and watch it. You can download the movie (~130mb) using BitTorrent.
• Second, you need to succeed in posting a GNAA First Post on slashdot.org, a popular "news for trolls" website.
• Third, you need to join the official GNAA irc channel #GNAA on irc.gnaa.us, and apply for membership.

Talk to one of the ops or any of the other members in the channel to sign up today! Upon submitting your application, you will be required to

An effect of O'Neill's proposal is the creation of space settlements which could house thousands of times the land area of the Earth from asteroidal materials alone. The creator of the space-settlement FAQ, Mike Combs, says in that FAQ to the question "Is space settlement a solution to the overpopulation problem?":

Probably not. No space transportation system we can imagine (although that might be a significant qualifier) could keep up with the number of babies being born.

An effect of O'Neill's proposal is the creation of space settlements which could house thousands of times the land area of the Earth from asteroidal materials alone. The creator of the space-settlement FAQ, Mike Combs, says in that FAQ to the question "Is space settlement a solution to the overpopulation problem?":

Probably not. No space transportation system we can imagine (although that might be a significant qualifier) could keep up with the number of babies being born.

An effect of O'Neill's proposal is the creation of space settlements which could house thousands of times the land area of the Earth from asteroidal materials alone. The creator of the space-settlement FAQ, Mike Combs, says in that FAQ to the question "Is space settlement a solution to the overpopulation problem?":

Probably not. No space transportation system we can imagine (although that might be a significant qualifier) could keep up with the number of babies being born.

The Holiday of Jew's Revenge, September 11th, was bloodied once again this year. Officials say Gay Nigger Association of America member Tar_Baby stole a Cessna jet from a nearby airfield and crashed it into Open Source Technology Group headquarters, completely demolishing the building, as well as crushing and incinerating everyone inside.

Audio logs recovered via the jet's black box portrayed a disturbing course of events onboard the plane. Passengers were heard screaming for their lives as the terrorist raped and killed the male members of the plane by what was thought to be rupturing their colons with a gigantic black dildo with nails punched out the sides, based on evidence collected at the scene.

Within minutes of the attack, GNAA officials telephoned major news networks claiming responsibility, and promised to continue their campaign of destruction as long as an Open Source movement still existed. This is believed to be the major tenet of the 'Gay Nigger Jihad', first mentioned months ago during GNAA's campaign against AOL.

This comes almost simultaneously after OSTG recently changed their name from the Open Source Development Network (OSDN), in attempt to distance itself from name long associated with failure, stupidity, zealotry, and Cowboyneal. It was also part of a last ditch effort to convince investors not to steal a Cessna and fly it into the headquarters themselves.

Update: A few hours after the crash, the rescue team found what is believed to be the only survivor. CmdrTaco was found in a coma inside OSTG basement, still firmly gripping his tiny cock. In his other hand, he was holding a photo of a muscular black male, signed by "Gary Niger of GNAA". CmdrTaco was rushed to a hospital, and his condition remains critical.

About GNAA:
GNAA (GAY NIGGER ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA) is the first organization which gathers GAY NIGGERS from all over America and abroad for one common goal - being GAY NIGGERS.

Are you GAY ?
Are you a NIGGER ?
Are you a GAY NIGGER ?

If you answered "Yes" to all of the above questions, then GNAA (GAY NIGGER ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA) might be exactly what you've been looking for!
Join GNAA (GAY NIGGER ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA) today, and enjoy all the benefits of being a full-time GNAA member.
GNAA (GAY NIGGER ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA) is the fastest-growing GAY NIGGER community with THOUSANDS of members all over United States of America and the World! You, too, can be a part of GNAA if you join today!

Why not? It's quick and easy - only 3 simple steps!

• First, you have to obtain a copy of GAYNIGGERS FROM OUTER SPACE THE MOVIE and watch it. You can download the movie (~130mb) using BitTorrent.
• Second, you need to succeed in posting a GNAA First Post on slashdot.org, a popular "news for trolls" website.
• Third, you need to join the official GNAA irc channel #GNAA on irc.gnaa.us, and apply for membership.

Talk to one of the ops or any of the other members in the channel to sign up today! Upon submitting your application, you will be required to

The Curitiba bus system seems extremely cost-effecient and successful. SkyWeb would likely be more expensive and needs to be deployed at a large scale to yield noticeable improvements.

The third reason: http://members.aol.com/kirbybird/poptarts.html strawberry pop tarts make good kindling. So kids, when you've been through a hurricane and you lose your lighter, wire your toaster to your gerbil-driven generator, then use the toaster to burn your strawberry pop-tarts for heat.

More on AOL for Broadband.

Trade secrets can be copyrighted. Authored works are copyrighted (author retains control over rights to copy) upon creation, and there is no requirement to publish the works.

You're probably thinking of patents, where publishing is required.

Here is a nice and concise description of patents, copyrights, and trade secrets.

I'm sorry, but first impressions count. The first game I clicked through on this site was Harvest, in which the author has posted a very poorly designed page, on AOL for chrissake, asking for $15 for his game. WTF? I can get good games like Homeworld out of EB's bins for $5-10 now, and this pretentious wank wants $15 for his drivel when he can't even build a proper webpage?

So no, I don't feel obligated to pander to this particular dying game genre. These games may indeed have stunning little stories, but they reek of fan-fictionism. Some fan-fiction might be good, but in all honesty the majority of it is trash. So allowing an inferred connection between these games and fan-fiction is not helpful.

I understand that they might not be able to pull professional graphics out their hat, but without an objective standard that literally says 'This is crap', this little community is likely to drive away folks, like myself, who'd take one look at the poorest offerings and move on. The adventure game market is on its last legs, and without honest evaluations of its games, it might as well put a gun to its head.

As per gossip TV, Tara Reid recently had a wardrobe malfunction that is _clearly_ of great import. However, no reasonable google image searches can prvide the information I demand!

I'm no expert on np-complete problems, and this is literally an off-the-cuff idea, so feel free to shoot it down or run with it:

Someone once proved that np-complete problems map to each other. That is, if you solve one, you've solved them all. this page linked in the main story suggests that Golumb Rulers are "like" np complete problems. If it is indeed np complete, then maybe an efficient-but-suboptimal solution to the Golomb Ruler problem will map to any other np-complete problem.

The same link mentions cyclic difference sets as a means of producing very efficient Golumb rulers, at least up to n=150.

If this technique maps to other problems, like the travelling-salesman problem, then "practical" albeit not-quite-optimal solutions can be found relatively easily. If you are a traveling salesman, do you really care if your 100-stop route has a small amount of waste, if finding a better solution might take 10 years of cpu time?

Likewise, if there are other "not quite optimal" solutions to np-complete problems for n>150, perhaps these solutions can be applied to the Golumb ruler problem, to generate "good enough" rulers of longer lengths.

Of course, if the Golumb ruler problem doesn't map to the other problems, then "nevermind."

There certainly would be such a Golomb ruler, but most likely it wouldn't be optimal. I wonder if any optimal rulers with more than 4 marks are "complete". They give an example for a 4 mark OGR which is "complete" (0-1-4-6). This is all speculation on my part, IANAM. For all I know, all OGR's contain a "complete" representation.

golomb20

Seriously. This is the type of thing you expect to see at cs.foo.edu/~golomb20

Hey, I guess even mathematicians use aol. Well, ONE does, and maybe 19 other golombs before him.

gears are for wussies

You can download the install from here

http://channelevents.aol.com/movies/broadband/star wars/videovault.adp

Click on "Episode III Trailer" in the upper left and then enter your AOL username and password.

"JustOgg 1.0.1 is a ogg vorbis decoder for PPC macs." JustOgg 1.0.1

AOL has a long history of suits against spammers. See this list of litigation they've filed.

Pity they often place themselves on the wrong side of legislative battles, though. They were a driving force behind the CAN-SPAM Act, which guarantees the right to send unsolicited, commercial, bulk email.

For many months now, I've published SPF records for all domains under my management. And every day, we get AOL trying to bounce messages allegedly from non-existant addresses within those domains... If AOL were really using SPF to reject spoofed mail as it arrives at their gateways as they've said they were going to, they'd have never accepted the spoofed messages, and I'd knock about 3% off my server load...

Actually, the Supreme court did legalize abortion. In Roe v Wade (1973) the court determined that individual state abortion statutes violated Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment (right to privacy). Here is the ruling.

Notice line 3: "State criminal abortion laws, like those involved here, that except from criminality only a life- saving procedure on the mother's behalf without regard to the stage of her pregnancy and other interests involved violate the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment, which protects against state action the right to privacy, including a woman's qualified right to terminate her pregnancy. Though the State cannot override that right, it has legitimate interests in protecting both the pregnant woman's health and the potentiality of human life, each of which interests grows and reaches a "compelling" point at various stages of the woman's approach to term."

Police murdered Vicki Snelgrove

RIP Vicki Snelgrove 1982-2004 Shot and killed by untrained, trigger-happy police with permission from the commissioner>> EXPLAIN THIS ONE O'TOOL.

"He turned around and immediately fired his gun leveled at head level," Anderson said. "He fired two rounds in extremely quick succession, and the girl immediately dropped. All her friends were around her. They were screaming. And people got very angry at that point."

The officers carrying the less-lethal weapons were under the command of Deputy Superintendent Robert E. O'Toole Jr., who did not return a call seeking comment. O'Toole, who is unrelated to the police commissioner, heads the department's tactical operations.

"And 99 percent of those kids in Kenmore Square [Wednesday] night were innocent bystanders who just wanted to have a good time," the police commissioner said. "That 1 percent of thugs caused the problem that forced us to take the less-lethal measures, and obviously this horrible tragedy resulted."

You're all TOOLS

"Far Side" cartoonist Gary Larson had a bug named after him when one of his fans discovered it. It is a species of louse called

Here's a link, with pic, of the bug in question: Strigiphilus garylarsoni
And, because the first link is on an AOL user's page: Google cache of Link

Could John Burroughs really be Elvis Presley?

Most apes are curious creatures , the ones which are more intelligent are more cautious observers than curious imitators.

A strange creature that walks on two feet, carries a metal paddle that kills , and kills adult elephants is a creature to be afraid of (oh, I'm talking about the average african explorer).

Truthfully speaking , any sufficently intelligent species which closely observes humans in actions have everything to be afraid of them . Lions are comparitively innocous compared to a human . Even tigers turn tail and run from humans looking at them (or relatively good facsimilies of a face).

AOL sticks with IE in a deal with the devil! AOL is evil.

AOL buys Nullsoft. Definitely good!

AOL axes Gnutella, Justin leaves for greener pastures. AOL, clearly evil.

AOL uses wxWindows in AOL Communicator. AOL is obviously good!

AOL releases a branded version of IE. AOL, definitely evil.

Look, AOL is a big fucking company. They are going to do lots of good and evil things, because there are lots of people making decisions at different levels of the company. Do they have a coherent browser strategy? Not really. Have they tromped on the corpse of Netscape? Definitely.

There's finally a good browser based on Gecko (Firefox) and they've basically abandoned the Netscape browser. But AOL is just dealing with the reality of who their user base is and what they expect (the trailing edge of the Internet revolution, if you will - these people think IE is great, and will think a better IE is even better). And for all I know there may still be deals in place keeping them working with MS on the browser front - for a long time they were locked into that deal to get pre-installed AOL with Windows. Also, I wouldn't be shocked to see an AOL-branded or Netscape-branded version of Firefox come down the pipe 4 or 5 months from now too (post 1.0, of course).

As for the rest of us, let's just enjoy the cool shit that AOL occasionally produces, and continue to ignore the rest of the crap that will invariably come out of them.

Here's a couple links below about the mid-90s Fantastic Four series. I recall watching them on FOX, back to back with Iron Man. IMHO, the early/mid-90s Marvel animated series (X-Men, Spiderman, Iron Man, Fantastic Four) were the best that Marvel has pushed out so far, at least in my lifetime.

http://hometown.aol.com/drg4/ffx.html?f=fs

http://www.tvtome.com/FantasticFour/

Oh, please. Why are you so completely certain of this? It could easily have been Venus. Please state your reasons for believing that this is not possible. For a start ... don't you think Venus is rather large, and when projected against the sky, disk-shaped in profile? Venus could also easily have been seen by multiple witnesses. Hundreds of witnesses mean nothing when they are all ignorant about astronomy.

And who would pay for all the marketing of the music?

Your right! It would be so tragic if radio stations simply played the music that attacted the most listeners, rather than taking payola under the table.

When a band gets an album cover on the front page of iTunes, do you think that's because it's good? No, it's because the record company paid for "placement"

Good point. It would be so tragic if iTunes were actually to put the best music on their front page, to attract more sales.

just like they do with the big posters in the windows of Tower Records. That stuff doesn't happen for free.

True, true. The music industry would clearly collapse if Tower Records were to try to earn the trust of their customers and to attract more sales, by, you know, trying to figure out what music people will like best and making good music reccomendations on their own posters.

And if we if we peer into the depths of depravity, people might even find music information in the internet, or even (shudder) from their friends! A disaster of biblical proportions!

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If you have decided to take the plunge by getting a cat of your own, you'll eventually find yourself bored with it. Here's an interesting activity you might want to try to pass the time with you and your kitty.

Fine and pretty and nice as they are (and i mean no disrespect to the authors) those are simple sites.(not large scale corp sites) and yes i know of fastcompany.com.

AOL, Wired, ESPN not large enough?

The opinions of people like Mr. Larry J. Schutter of the Turtle Party and Darren Karr of Party-X are every bit as valid as those of Badnarik and Cobb. Likewise, they all share the same chance of winning said office. What makes Badnarik and Cobb more deserving of a debate than any of the other "Dark Horse" candidates?

This page argues (most of the way down) that a series of prizes, for a grand total of $5.6 billion in prize money, could bring the cost of access to space to $10,000 a person. $5.6 billion sounds like a lot, but over a few decades it's something that could be affordable by an agency like NASA. Hopefully, Bigelow's prize is the first such step.

KERRY: I was in the Capitol. We'd just had a meeting -- we'd just come into a leadership meeting in Tom Daschle's office, looking out at the Capitol. And as I came in, Barbara Boxer and Harry Reid were standing there, and we watched the second plane come in to the building. And we shortly thereafter sat down at the table and then we just realized nobody could think, and then boom, right behind us, we saw the cloud of explosion at the Pentagon. And then word came from the White House, they were evacuating, and we were to evacuate, and so we immediately began the evacuation.

If you go back to the timeline of the events of that morning, you will realize that about thirty-six minutes elapsed between the time the second plane hit the World Trade Center, at 9:02:54am, and the third plane hit the Pentagon, at 9:38am. During this time, Kerry and others (like the rest of the country) sat in a daze, realizing that "nobody could think." As Grassroots.org points out in its E-mail, "For 40 minutes, Sen. John Kerry, a sitting member of the Senate Intelligence Committee, sat in a room with Senate Leader Tom Daschle."

It's actually worse for Kerry than you imply. Consider the following: "And then word came from the White House, they were evacuating, and we were to evacuate, and so we immediately began the evacuation."

So, their reaction was stunned inaction for 40 minutes, then they received instructions FROM THE WHITE HOUSE and they reacted.

Hm...so their reaction was to sit in their butts and wait for Bush to figure out what to do? Not exactly inspiring, is it?

"Had I been reading to children and had my top aide whispered in my ear, 'America is under attack,' I would have told those kids very politely and nicely that the president of the United States had something that he needed to attend to -- and I would have attended to it," Kerry told the Unity conference of minority journalists in response to a question about what he would done.

Anybody remember this Onion article?

http://members.aol.com/marinrobt/Gates_CE_Disaster .htm /Not my website

Space is pretty big, as you correctly point out, and pretty much none of what we've seen of it so far makes for a good destination for any settlers. I posted a link to this elsewhere in this thread, so I apologize for repeating myself, but orbital colonies offer one such destination... we just have to build them. The technology to do so isn't anything that we don't already have. You might want to consider reading Gerrard O'Neill's The High Frontier. It's a solution that has some issues - mainly, the startup cost of his particular vision is enormous - but a more staged approach starting a lot smaller seems quite possible, once the cost of access to space gets down to something people can afford.

Life in space would be hard for a few years, but it could be a lot better with time.

"19. What is the "Springfield Effect"?

The Springfield Effect is the name given to the phenomenon by which every place named Springfield is hard-linked in hyperspace to every other place of this name. In other words, there is only one place named Springfield, but it is "linked" to various locations in the world."

Sadly, creationist FAQs aren't quite so amusing. (Well, okay, there's this one.)

you and your community can either work to educate/debunk those 'disruptive users', one troll at a time

You can't reason with trolls. They feed off of *any* attention you give them. Words are fuel to them, no matter what the words say.

You can't appeal to their emotions. Often this is becuase they only see you as a digital abstraction, like an NPC in a game. They do not see a person on the other side.

The only way to deal with trolls is to limit your reaction to reminding others not to respond to trolls.

When you stop responding to them, they will go away. This is a lot easier said than done. The problem is getting *everyone else* to stop responding to them as well. Trolls are great social engineers at manipulating people into responding, and it can be a daunting task to convince everyone to just ignore them.

It's kind of like that Simpsons episode where all the giant anthropomorphic advertisments started destroying the town, and the only way to make them stop was "just don't look".

-1, Buy an ad (Score:0)
by Anonymous Coward on Friday September 17, @05:35AM (#10275052)
No text. Lalalalala.

If you have to ask how much something is, you probably cannot afford it.

Actually, the commonly-believed story that there was mass panic was really a newspaper-fueled fantasy. The number of people who actually were scared enough to go ape-shit was quite small. You can read more about the overhyped-hysteria here -- go down halfway on the page until you get to "Book Excerpts, by Prof. David L. Miller".

By the way, the rest of that page has a lot of interesting material on the War of the Worlds broadcast, if you are interested.

GMD