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Good thing the folks at CNET don't read any blogs or other newsy sites or even the AOL site itself, or they would have learned about this two weeks ago, when the service was activated. If they had done any of that, they might now feel foolish.

Good thing the folks at CNET don't read any blogs or other newsy sites or even the AOL site itself, or they would have learned about this two weeks ago, when the service was activated. If they had done any of that, they might now feel foolish.

From the summary: "AOL's e-mail service, long accessible only via AOL's proprietary, monolithic app." However, AOL's mail has been avilable form the web for a long time (albeit using a Java app, as I recall.) http://webmail.aol.com

Accessing the AOL Mail System using
IMAP & Authenticated SMTP
An Unofficial Guide

I did but I ran out of time.... 1099 hours wasn't enough to download the internet.

After an extensive search on Google, I found what the article was talking about.

Sounds similar to what the OP was talking about, although telling you you need ID doesn't sound like unreasonable force, exactly, unless your lawyer's a real fast talker...

Besides, I don't think there's ever been too much issue with "how fast" someone is going. The guys who do the work on this stuff know their stuff, and could probably take a five second look at the accident scene and recreate 95% of it. The other 5% are the specific details.

I think you've been watching too much CSI. In the real world, "experts" are a bit harder to come by.

When my wife was a teenager, she hit the brakes, ran off the road and got stuck. A cop pulled up, and gave her a ticket for speeding based on the skid marks. Problem was, those weren't her skid marks! Basically, she got screwed because a small-town cop with little or no training thought he knew what he was doing.

This is why I say the data should be easily retrieved by the car's owner, without going through the manufacturer. It would have been easy to prove (or disprove) her assertion with that sort of data. Without it, even if she'd gone to court, it would have been teenage girl vs. "expert" cop -- no contest.

Iomega did indeed make a Clik drive but the parent post is referring to the Iomega's infamous Click of Death problem.

No, he meant Click Of Death. However, you're half correct in that it is the sound of another failed Iomega product (as in, "dang it, there goes another one!").

The link above has a typo in it, here is the correct link.

Ok.

I would suggest you read this article, written just before the war from a southern perspective.

In his 1861 inaugural address, Abraham Lincoln said, Apprehension seems to exist among the people of the Southern States that by the accession of a Republican administration their property [is] to be endangered.... I have no purpose, directly or indirectly to interfere with the institution of slavery in the United States where it exists.... I believe I have no lawful right to do so, and I have no inclination to do so.

Poltergeist? Shouldn't that be Space Ghost?

A really odd way to commit suicide.

100 cups could very well do the trick (cause death), and if not, give you an entirely rotten day.

This excerpt is from here: http://members.aol.com/seanborg/mtdew/caffeine.htm #2

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The LD_50 of caffeine (that is the lethal dosage reported to kill 50% of the population) is estimated at 10 grams for oral administration. As it is usually the case, lethal dosage varies from individual to individual according to weight. Ingestion of 150mg/kg of caffeine seems to be the LD_50 for all people. That is, people weighting 50 kilos have an LD_50 of approx. 7.5 grams, people weighting 80 kilos have an LD_50 of about 12 grams.

In Mountain Dew the LD_50 is about 200 12 ounce cans or about 50 vivarins (200mg each).

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Keep in mind death could happen quicker because caffeine is in a bunch of other items you may have already eaten...

http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~udani/caffeine.html

http://www.dietsite.com/NutritionFacts/Caffeine%20 Content%20of%20Selected%20Foods.htm

On a side issue, if you are depressed, don't do it, ask for some help. I took about 16 vivarin in one day (200mg x 16 = 3.2g) when I was in high school (very depressed) and it was one of the worst days of my life, not the going up, as I had to keep popping them to stop from crashing, but the last half of the day I was screaming and pulling my hair and twitching and running all over the place. And considering this, a death this way would utterly suck.

http://members.aol.com/hcheaven/articles/cyan/cyan .3.html

It's been known for a while that Cyan used Hypercard.

If it wasn't for cartoons no one around here would have heard of him ...

(Courtesy of some guy.)

"In the year 199X, a secret command, Saber Tiger, is engaged in a savage war with the Demon's Batallion. The Saber Tiger's youngest leader, "Bang", played a very large role in the fight to the admiration of his fellow commanders. After the completion of one campaign, Bang and his girlfriend, Mary, are enjoying a longawaited vacation at the beach. Suddenly, they recieve an urgent communication from head quarters. It reads 'EMERGENCY CODE NO. 2568623. The inventor of the Doomsday Bomb, Professor Plum, is being held by the enemy, atop Demon's Head Mountain, and it appears the the world is doomed unless Earth surrenders. If the bomb explodes, the Earth will be a dead planet. A mass attack on Demon Head is impossible for the enemy vows to detonate the bomb on sight. Our colleague, Joe, has failed to return from a reconnaisance mission. Bang, only you can rescue Professor plum and save the planet. Now, you've got to get to Demon's Head Mountain at once!'

In the ruins of Demon Head, there dwells a fearsome demon that has terrified generations of people. Bang, and Bang alone, must set out on a daredevil mission to these unknown lands and seek to rescue Plum and deactivate the Doomsday Bomb.

As Bang sets off on his perilous journey to destroy the Demon's Batallion, Mary must remain behind deeply concerned for his life."

Despite what I just said, the point of the game must be to rescue your girlfriend, or else why would she be on the cover... with the flying guy on the motorcycle and the shard of electric glass? Wait... Isn't the point to rescue the professor? Collect the seven coins from the seven swirly bad guy thingies? Why do you need so much money? What happened to the bomb? It's so confusing!

I don't have a degree in Obscure Japanese Mythological Symbology systems! Why is the mushroom with black dancers protecting the talisman of the sun? What did I do to offend the teeth with blue hair? Who the heck are these guys anyway? What's that thing doing? NGYAAAAA!

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. This may have a number of industrial and entertainment possibilities. Structures (such as the above-mentioned solar mirrors) could be built many times larger and flimsier in space than on a planet.
   
   Zero G would be a liability if there were no alternative to it. Astronauts experience loss of bone mass and muscle tone after prolonged exposure to weightlessness. But most of a space habitat would be under Earth-normal gravity, although there would be easy access to regions of reduced gravity and zero G (perhaps for personal flight). With planets, on the other hand, you have to take the gravity that's there, and it's often the wrong kind of gravity to keep us healthy. Lunarians or Martians would probably not be able to visit the Earth (nor accelerate at 1 G).
3. Location near the top of Earth's gravity well. We here on Earth are the "gravitationally disadvantaged". We are at the bottom of a pit 6,400 km (4,000 miles) deep. This is what makes space launches from the surface so difficult and expensive. Settlers near the top of the gravity well would be ideally situated for departures to points beyond.
4. Control of the environment. The weather and other aspects of the surroundings would be those of the inhabitants' choosing. Agriculture in space will benefit from weather control (fresh fruits and vegetables year-round!) and the absence of pests.
5. Mobile territories. Although the first generation of space habitats will doubtless reside in High Earth Orbit, there's no reason why space settlers couldn't attach engines to their habitats, and over the course of months or years gradually change their orbit to whatever solar system location they found preferable.
6. Long-term expansion of the land area available to the human race. Let's be optimistic and assume that Mars could be made totally Earth-like in the near-term. This would basically double the land area available to humanity, meaning problem solv

massmailing free AOL for Broadband CDs to every known address in the US.

AOL for broadband - It's faster! It's smarter! It's included!
On dial-up surf the web upto 5x times faster than a standard dial-up connection with AOL TopSpeed(TM) technology all through your existing phone jack at no additional charge!

That could work.

Ahem... Free!!! Tech rant: This is both an "if you live in..." and "Bikes!" and "The simple solution is sometimes the best". So here you go. Cities that have free bikes for you to get around on. Really. Copenhagen, Denmark Helsinki, Finland Denver, CO, USA and Portland, OR, USA The Country of Lithuania And others... Yes, they get stolen and stuff. Mixed results. A work in progress, you might say. Maybe one of you eggheads will figure out how to make it work better. ;-)

The G5 really is the fastest computer in the world. If you've used a 286 for the past ten years like I have, where GEM can barely run fast enough to appear responsive, then getting a G5 with dual processors and 10 gigs of RAM suddenly feels like going from an old bicycle to a Ferrari Testarossa. But that's just my take on it. Ooooooooh well.

What about the forgotten windows?

Or the other one. (Apple II Version)

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I work for a major university that was blacklisted about a month and a half ago. People were marking messages sent by the university as spam. The messages weren't even sent to their AOL address, but their university address, where the user then forwarded all messages to their AOL account. I called the AOL postmasters at the number found here: http://postmaster.aol.com/contact/index.html and they told me they couldn't do anything immediately, but once the current complaints timed out, we would be added to their whitelist. It does seem to be a way to perform a DoS attack, because the guy I spoke to said that if they get enough spam reports for a specific domain, it is automatically blocked for a certain number of hours.

I thought it was funny... No non aussie would get it, not even sure if all aussies would.

It's a song... bah... just read the links.
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Hm, that could be... and the fact that they've cancelled Sam and Max as well (and not for quality) does make it look a little suspicious. Still, it wouldn't be the first time an adventure game was cancelled for quality reasons part way through development (Warcraft Adventures comes to mind).

Everyone go here: http://www.markmaughan.com/.
The email listed is taxxbiz@aol.com
Lets show him some /. gratitude!

And the winner -- for the 10th consecutive year -- is... Clifford Stoll!

Come on up Cliffy, and give us another spaz^H^H^H^Hspeech!

AOL answers this question, and others like it. More helpful than you were expecting, no? In answer to your question, the servers are for bounced messages. Block them, and the worst false positive you'll get is a legitimate bounce.

AOL answers this question, and others like it. More helpful than you were expecting, no? In answer to your question, the servers are for bounced messages. Block them, and the worst false positive you'll get is a legitimate bounce.

What? 'Old' Europe, as populated by cheese eating surrender monkeys[audio], and headed by an Italian? hardly seems credible, does it Mr Rumsfeld?

frequent exposure to this virus can not only cause your computer harm, but your eyesight and mental capacities as well

Someone posted a much longer list a few months ago, but off the top of my head:
AOL Instant Messenger
Yahoo Messenger
VMware Workstation
various Solaris tools

I totally agree. Of course, it shouldn't be unexpected. This is what happens when Large Corporations get involved with OSS projects. Lets face it, they're out to make money. When they see a possible revenue source is in jeopardy, they will bare their claws no matter what the idealogical costs are.

I suppose you did read the Bible and/or Nostradamus

Did you read the Qur-an? That is, before you came to the conclusion that they're all cut from the same cloth (or paper)...

Some links, that can help you or anyone interested

Qur-an, Islam and Science Qur'an and Sceintific Knowledge

What I really want are holosuites. Why? Ummm, well, erm, so I can do Sherlock Holmes mysteries like Picard, yeah that's it. Certainly nothing else.

Riptide Fan Page

From the site:

Welcome aboard the Riptide, home of the world-famous Riptide Detective Agency. Meet, from left to right, Murray Bozinsky, computer expert, inventer of the Roboz, Nick Ryder, pilot of the Screaming Mimi, an old Sikorsky helicopter with a big smile on its 'face', and Cody Allen, owner of the Riptide.

Sadly, this seems to be one of the few (or only?) Riptide fan sites around - most people don't even remember this series (it only lasted a few seasons, IIRC)...

I went to Olympia Sports Camp in Huntsville for three summers for basketball.. was a ton of fun, I snuck a carton of cigarettes in each year, meeting many people, getting caught once (they got returned that night) and learning from b-ball players from Duke, North Carolina, and various NBA teams.

The best part, though, was that my friends and I would make sure to schedule our week the same week as the cheerleading camp that was our age group.. a lot of those girls smoked ;)

From one AC: Huntsville is nearly 300 Kms away from Toronto, I'd hardly consider that a 'suburb.' Scarborough is a suburb.

From another AC, Photo of Huntsville

Into the few-megahertz range, twisted pair wire works remarkably well. This is the stuff we're all familiar with as phone lines and cat-5. The number of twists per unit of length determines how resistant it is to interference, hence cat-5 is much more tightly twisted than cat-3. Each pair in a multipair cable is twisted a slightly different amount, to prevent inductive coupling and crosstalk between pairs.

The signal sent down a twisted pair is bipolar and "balanced", so that the two wires are carrying mirror opposite signals. There's an excellent explanation of this. T-1 signals ride twisted pair for several kilofeet between repeaters. The N-carrier system (low rate analog multiplex) also used twisted pair, but I don't know how far it would go between terminals.

Above a few megahertz, twisted pair gets unacceptably lossy and noisy. Higher speed signals are carried on coaxial cable, which we all know and love for its role in television wiring. The characteristic impedance of coax is determined by the ratio of the center conductor diameter and the distance to the inner surface of the outer conductor. Very early coaxial lines were made by suspending thin rods inside sections of copper pipe, by means of cardboard disc insulators. Soon a method of manufacturing flexible cable was developed, and has remained largely unchanged.

Signals carried on coax are "unbalanced", where the outer conductor is grounded and the inner conductor carries an AC wave. The need for the ground reference means that coax runs between buildings can become part of a ground loop, and cause all sorts of electrical problems. T-3 circuits use coax, but only for very short runs. (A T-3 that leaves a building does so as a DS-3 carried on fiber.) The L-carrier system, which multiplexed several N-carrier signals together, used thick coaxial lines for long-haul runs across the countryside.

As you approach the gigahertz range, coax also becomes too lossy, and hollow waveguide becomes the obvious choice. Waveguide can be rectangular, ovoid, or circular in cross-section, which effects the polarization of the signals carried in it. The inner dimensions influence loss and frequency range. Personally I'm not familiar with the buried waveguide system, but the TD and TH microwave systems used waveguide to connect the antennae with the terminal equipment.

Huntsville? Aw man, I was born there. Can't get far enough away from some places.

Here's where it is, and here's what it looks like. Vigil on. You'll fit right in.

>Fact: The stretch of the 401 between Windsor and Chatham was known as "Death Alley" just a few short years ago. The entire length of the 401 is currently in the process of being upgraded over the next few years, largely as a result of "Death Alley".

Fact: That section of highway was developed in 1930, before it was Highway 401. Also fact: Few cars could reach 100 km/h in that era.

I'm talking about the most used part of the 401, the MacDonald-Cartier Freeway part, not the ancient Highway 98 stretch. That part clearly needs fixing, but is detritus from old years, not part of the new (and safe at high speeds) 401.

>Based on this fact, I find your assertion that this road was designed for speeds over 140 km/h to be quite unlikely to say the least.

Then, perhaps you aren't a road designer? I'm not either, but for a road designer to create a road safe at only 87% of the intended speed limit is definitely illegal, and to create a road not safe at 121% of the intended speed limit is clearly negligent.

>Furthermore, with the way a lot of people drive these days, more enforcement is sorely needed. If budgets don't allow for more policing, then photo radar suits me fine.

So, it's okay to have a driver driving poorly for over 2 weeks without them even knowing they are, and, more importantly, to only assess a monetary fine and no record, points, endorsements, or loss of license no matter how poorly they are driving (even if they are doing 320 km/h)? Because that's how photoradar works. It won't assess points, and it is unlikely insurance will even find out about a ticket. In other words, if you are monied, it's a license to speed, since the cops won't be patrolling, and there's a maximum speed the cameras can be used to catch, also.

>Don't like it? Don't speed.

Did you know that speeding is one of the very least likely ways to cause severe property damage and injury? You can check it out in the Ontario safety report.

The most dangerous, IMHO, action a driver can do is improper lane changes. Having spoken with members of the trucking industry (nice having a shop on a popular trucking route! :-) I can tell you that is the singlemost dangerous thing they encounter on the roads, apart from danger number 2: People who enter a 100 km/h highway at 80 km/h. You'll also find Young Drivers and many other safe driving organizations agree: A small amount of speeding is only a tiny factor in poor driving.

Lastly, the police encourage people on the 401 to do faster than the speed limit. They have ticketed people doing 100 km/h on that highway before, and have explained in the October wheels of the Toronto Star that they'll be doing it again if you are caught doing under 110 km/h in the fast lane.

Overall, it is far more dangerous to lane change without acceleration (cutting people off) and extremely dangerous to slow an entire highway down due to nerves.

So, without the support of the police, driving associations, and history on your side, *WHY* do you feel that speeding on the 401 is a bad idea? It seems that you are the only person in Canada with that feeling. 85% of drivers on the 401 drive at over 110 km/h, and that's the entire 401, not just "Death Alley".

Basically, when even the police disagree with you, you're probably going to be found wrong (and ticketed).

Americans are so good at shooting thier own side they had to invent the term friendly fire

Cute, but the JW church has frequently proclamed the (coming) end of the world even without that. 1975 was the last predicted end. (The founding of Microsoft? Aiiieee!)

I know this is slightly OT, but you wanna see an eyesore? I ran into this page last night. I think its safe to say no one thought HTML could do this.

While I agree that the ARRL has a vested interest in this debate, I think it is fair to say that they know a thing or two about interference (see this link for instance). Not only has this been shown to interfere, think of the interference to BPL. Allowing this to go forward will force something to give.

This isn't just a local problem either. Have a look at this report from the ECC (they are a European agency) [NOTE: Sorry, it is in MS Word format]. They clearly believe that interference potential in the frequency range up to 30 MHz "are such that the risk of interference to radio services cannot be limited to a national or regional scale" (see the section entitled "General Conclusions of the report). This is a 112 page report, and while I freely admit I have not read all of it, they clearly say that this won't be a local problem, so just leaving the city isn't going to help. They go on to say that complete interference level restrictions won't work since so many devices currently give off interference in these ranges, but that the BPL (Called PLT in this report) will give "much higher" level of interference.

Several people in this tread have argued that amateur radio is a "dinosaur" or lived passed its usefulness. Many have already pointed out the problems with this. In many parts of the country, HF radio is the only reliable form of communication. In emergency situations HAM radio has proved itself many times over. Have a look here for instance. FEMA have defended the need for amateur radio on numerous occasions.

There is more at stake here than HAM. Have a look at this chart. Of particular interest are the chunks that are noted as "Radio Astronomy". Have a look at this report. Of note here is that the radio astronomy bands have issues with interference already. Solar and molecular cloud observations fall in these wavelengths. Do we really want to add to the pollution of the electromagnetic spectrum? The BPL system will also be subject to interference. This seems like a lose-lose situation to me.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1075317/p osts

(Scroll down to post 47.) The original link was at:

http://members.aol.com/registered/private/freep/ke rryfonda.jpg

though it's gone now. "Registered" admits elsewhere on the board to creating the photo.

Imagine Sim City 5, starring Rudolph Giuliani!

Why not? Former NYC mayor Ed Koch helped promote Sim City 3000 five and a half years ago.

No, B. F. Skinner was the one who got invited out for a pleasant Spring sunday afternoon by Tom Lehrer.

But NM does really have a high incidence of DWI. Partly because distances are enormous and there are no alternatives to driving: no bus service, no taxis, pretty much no public transportation of any kind. Partly because population density is fairly low: this results in a low probability of any given drunk-driving session resulting in a crash, so stupid people think "hey, I've driven drunk before and had no problems, I'll just keep doing it". A large part of the problem is that penalties are nearly nonexistent. A mild slap on the wrist.

The current legislature has just passed a measure increasing penalties: you might get 2-3 years for your seventh conviction. Whoa, that will sure get the drunks off the road! Oh, incidentally, the rules aren't always too well enforced.

As it happens, Tommy Heath is a software engineer who still releases albums on the side. His most recent album, "tommy.rtf" is pretty clearly named from his other work.

From this page, or here.

Problem is, it takes even more skill to find a decently set-up and clean Addams Family pinball machine these days than it does to play it. In other words, finding a good pinball joing is damn near impossible.

> Anybody know of a pinball museum with accessible games to play?

Google for a pinball collector named Tim Arnold. He has semiregular "fun nights" in Las Vegas that'll give you a chance to play some of the machines in his astounding collection.

Tim has also set up a nonprofit to found and fund an open-to-the-public pinball museum that would be a welcome addition to Vegas.

If you're in the Bay Area, be sure to attend the annual CA Extreme classic coin-op convention in San Jose, and Pin-A-Go-Go (link to one of many 2002 show reviews) in Dixon, near Sacramento.