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It could happen. The way it would play out would be along these lines.
Ordinary email would be accepted by AOL, Earthlink, Verizon, Yahoo, etc Only up to a certain number per day per ip address that the mail is coming from and/or domain the mail is 'From: '.
Then, if you are going to exceed the limits you must pay for the priviledge. That is not too much different from what AOL is already doing, and if you want to check it out, "AOL Postmaster.info" see for yourself. In particular AOL already has what they call an "enhanced white list". It will be only a small step for them to add a super double enhanced white list that charges the sender for the right to violate their other guidelines.

As far as that goes, I recall a long time ago that AOL, Compuserve, GENIE all charged something like twenty-five cents (US) for each email you received after you exceeded something like 20 in one month.

It could happen. The way it would play out would be along these lines.
Ordinary email would be accepted by AOL, Earthlink, Verizon, Yahoo, etc Only up to a certain number per day per ip address that the mail is coming from and/or domain the mail is 'From: '.
Then, if you are going to exceed the limits you must pay for the priviledge. That is not too much different from what AOL is already doing, and if you want to check it out, "AOL Postmaster.info" see for yourself. In particular AOL already has what they call an "enhanced white list". It will be only a small step for them to add a super double enhanced white list that charges the sender for the right to violate their other guidelines.

As far as that goes, I recall a long time ago that AOL, Compuserve, GENIE all charged something like twenty-five cents (US) for each email you received after you exceeded something like 20 in one month.

Clearly, he's talking about Yooperman, not Superman!

"Whether you like the style or not, whether you agree with what he has done artistically this is an aside. The recording industry is dead, it's fucked, it's ruled by grey suited accountants and lawyers."

736-5000 = PEnnsylvania 6-5000 = Glenn Miller 1940's song about calling the Pennsylvaina hotel near Penn Station in NYC. The hotel number is still the same!

Mac Refugee, Paper MCSE, Linux Wanna-be

Sorry, get it here.

Pisco linked to an article (part 1 / part 2) that said:

His skepticism was well founded. Widespread damaging hailstorms raked regions of Austria, France, and Italy between 1902 and 1904. Vine growers protected by cannons were pounded mercilessly. By 1905, in a sudden turnaround, many disgusted vineyard owners had gotten rid of their hail cannons.

These absurd-looking devices fell into the dustbin of history, but not so for the tantalizing concept of weather modification. Cloud seeding and hail modification have preoccupied meteorologists in the years since then, but again, with largely unproven effects.

What's your secret to longevity? Are you a vampire?

Pisco linked to an article (part 1 / part 2) that said:

His skepticism was well founded. Widespread damaging hailstorms raked regions of Austria, France, and Italy between 1902 and 1904. Vine growers protected by cannons were pounded mercilessly. By 1905, in a sudden turnaround, many disgusted vineyard owners had gotten rid of their hail cannons.

These absurd-looking devices fell into the dustbin of history, but not so for the tantalizing concept of weather modification. Cloud seeding and hail modification have preoccupied meteorologists in the years since then, but again, with largely unproven effects.

What's your secret to longevity? Are you a vampire?

...Yes, but Guinness gives you Strength

No I think it's srich10195@aol.com . If not take care on the poor bastard with the same name.

Flatness measurements, often represented as fractions of the height of a lightwave, smaller fractions are better) for hand-figured mirrors from amateur telescope makers are about as reliable as performance gains claimed by enthusiastic overclockers. Large doses of salt required unless verified by a reputable third party.

As homebrew telescopes go, this one isn't terribly refined. It uses a unique optical arrangement, but not all that unique. Check out this folded refractor, or this set of 22-inch newtonian binoculars for some real jaw-droppers. (Also check out that last guy's all-metal 14-1/2" Alt-Az telescope... truly a beautiful instrument, even if it's a conventional design.)

There are a ton of exotic telescope designs out there being crafted by enthusiastic hobbyists, many of them on-par with deleriously expensive research-grade instruments. Most of them aren't made out of cheap plywood and bed rails. (I plan on building a 12" off-axis newtonian this summer.)

SoupIsGood Food

Well, I guess the same objections would apply to Microsoft's IPO and they are still serving their customers with the same level of dedication as before the IPO!

It's not wise to put strong encryption capabilities in the hands of any Islamic nation.

Public-key encryption relies on mathematical methods called "algebra". Remember your mathematical history: who invented algebra? (Clue: "Algebra" starts with al, the Arabic word for "the", so it was probably an Arab.) His name was Abu Abd-Allah ibn Musa al'Khwarizmi. He was born near Baghdad. It stands to reason that because an Iraqi-born mathematician wrote a seminal work on algebra, Iraqis should have access to the fruits of his work.

this is quite a simple thing to do.

especially when dealing with idiots.

and guess what! it works in mozilla too!

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I wonder if Ireland will take me back...

They just might!

I can't believe this car didn't make the list. My 1989 had over 500 TSBs, including a design flaw which caused two major engine fires. Many of these cars also had the infamous faulty ignition cylinders. Then there's the infamous transmission. In 1991, the Ford Taurus with the 3.8L V-6 had the most complaints filed with the NHTSA than any other car. Even SHO owners were not immune to poorly designed suspensions and fuel systems, though that engine and transmission were quite reliable considering it's high performance level - but then it was made by Yamaha. Even as late as 2000, there were problems - one friend of mine had to have the entire main wiring harness replaced after a series of malfunctions revealed the car was one of thousands that were miswired.

I remember when Ford used to claim "Quality is Job #1". Good thing they dropped that slogan. I will never never never buy a Ford car, nor any of these jived-up yuppied trucks they sell. Give me a good ol' bare bones Chevy F-1/2/350 anyday.

AOL Whitelisting Guidelines

Jump through the hoops, because as the spam problem gets worse more and more large domains are going to implement whitelist procedures. SPF might mitigate that a bit, so instead of talking to all of the large ISPs and telling them what your e-mail servers are, you can just publish a SPF record.

Pointer #1: Don't do it at home.

It's already been pointed out that your film has excellent resolution and is worth keeping. But I'd disagree that it isn't "fragile", as someone else said. If something has to be stored very carefully in controlled temperature and humidity, that is fragile.

There are many reasons to do a film to tape transfer. It's hard to find projectors in 8 mm format, difficult to get them serviced if they break (as mine did -- no one could find the parts necessary), and they require a lot of care to make sure they don't damage your film. Also, with today's computers, it's much easier to edit your footage into a nice, watchable set of family memories rather than 200 reels of disorganized family history.

Here's what I'd suggest:

1. Stop getting them out and watching them every year. Dust and dirt in the film gate can scratch your film. If your plan is to transfer them, stop running them through a motorized feed.

2. Get a hand cranked editing station off eBay. Use it to go through your film and organize it for transfer. The transfer house will likely splice together reels and you should try to group them to maintain some timeline.

3. As someone else said, locate a good super-8 telecine shop. I plan on trying these guys in the near future. Send them one reel and see how they do. There are plenty of other places you can try; I happened to have that one bookmarked.

If you'd like to edit this stuff down, consider standard or mini-DV which you can then load into a NLE program. Choose the best quality format you can use, and dub from that if you want other copies. Don't have it dumped to mpeg2 on DVD; get some kind of master tape made in DV, Digibeta, BetaSP, whatever you can run. This may require you to do some research into how video formats compare to one another. I'm sure google can help.

You didn't say how many feet of film you're dealing with. Assuming your 200 odd reels are the 50' cassettes many consumer 8/s8 cameras used, you've got about 10,000 ft, roughly 14 hours or so. That's going to be $1000-$2000 to transfer. Based on a quick google search, transfers look to be $90-$185 per hour -- that's 680' of 8mm and 856' of Super 8mm.

Bottom line -- this isn't worth doing yourself. The quality won't be as good and if your equipment isn't professionally maintained you're likely to damage the film. My old equipment has already eaten some of my film -- don't risk your footage. Start now and maybe you can edit it all down to a nice family DVD by your Dad's birthday.

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It also includes a picture of the tiny pores on the surface of a cactus leaf, called stomata. . .

Unless the cactus looks like this, then they're called stigmata

(And no, that's no goatse link and I didn't draw it myself -- found it by googling for images of "cactus cross". Once again the unholy alliance of Google and freakish AOLers is there to support an awful pun.)

The big thing here is, you have to stop worrying about the student and users rights.

The big thing here is, you have to stop worrying about users' rights. Some users are terrorists, some are Communists, some are dissidents, some are Revanchists, some are Homosexuals, some are Jews.

These people are Enemies of State, and their activities must be tracked -- minutely tracked -- so that we can learn what other Anti-Social Counter-Revolutionaries these traitors to the Motherland are collaborating with.

Then we can remove all these Dissident Intellectual Cosmopolitan Terrorists to the Gulag, or KZ Dachau, or to Guantanamo -- or Manzanar -- because it has happened here.

I'm sure there were some honorable men working at I.G. Farben who never dreamed that Zyklon-B would be used as anything other than an insecticide.

And the grandparent poster I'm sure never built his network tools to suppress political dissent or to accumulate evidence of users' sexual proclivities. Bit I'll bet these uses have occurred to Admiral Poindexter.

(Clumsy Soviet-era insults taken from here.)

> "I only send them UP
> It's not my business where they com down..."
> -- Herr Doktor W.. Von Braun

Not a quote from the Werner Von Braun, but a quote from a song by Tom Lehrer: Von Braun, an ex-Nazi then employed by NASA. There is a story going around that Von Braun's widow sued Lehrer over this song, leading to his giving up satirical songwriting. This is probably an urban legend, but I'm not sure.

I think Davies has come up with a good idea, but it needs one thing - property rights. A development regime which provides some form of property rights will become increasingly necessary as space develops

Land property rights are different that plain, ordinary property rights.

Why is it that people think that you can't have capitalism without land property rights? Why do otherwise educated people from the west seem to fixate on this Medieval Idea of land ownership? Is it just because it is old and widespread in the west? Well, so is syphilis, but I don't think that makes syphilis a good thing.

The argument that it's the most efficient way to allocate scarce or valuable resources is bunk. Ever had to drive around an American city founded by a 'land run'? The number of ex-squatter 's houses that force otherwise useful through roads to dead-end is amazing (as well as other interesting geopolitical features.) Several slums exist in these cities where people refused to sell or improve the large tracts of land they got from the government at pennies on the dollar. These people forestalled development often just because they liked owning an (unused) farm.

With the exception of the freeloader and the tragedy of the commons, shared resources have many less problems than the 'stay off my land' model. (Including limiting NIMBY.) Look at the difference in progress in Open Source programming and the Intellectual-Property bound proprietary software.

I argue that space is much like the mental space or algorithms, programs and computer science/math theory. It is not like 'airable land' on the surface of the earth. The size of space is huge - and NONE of it is airable. The use of 'land' is ambiguous: your 'land claim' on a patch of surface on an asteroid is debatable if the whole asteroid is to be chewed up and used for raw materials to build something (like whole towns that are submerged under artificial damns that power serveral other towns and a small city or two and provide a conrolled body of water.) There is an inherent violation of use for natural resources in space, there's a reason NASA sterilizes spacecraft. And high cost of getting there, although it is cheap to move around once there. If you don't like IP patents like one-click or the DNS patent, I think you should object just as strongly to some one saying that they own the moon anymore than anyone else.

I'm no communist, but you can have capitalism without depending on property ownership! If the government must blow money to support and guard your property with troops and lawyers, they'll never be able to pay for important things for other people. Let the government 'own it' and everybody else use it just like any other public utility. It's just abstracting the ownsership problem back a level to force people to deal with affecting their neighboors with their so-called 'private' activities (you try living near people who plant weeds to which you and several other neighbors are dangerously allergic.)

Sirius Cybernetics == Microsoft? That would have been some foresight

You're right, Mr. Adams would indeed have to have had lots of foresight to see how Big and how Ugly Micro$soft would become.

As it turns out, Douglas Adams did have that much foresight; see his anti-MS rants here, here, here, and... oh, shit, just Google for "Douglas Adams + Miscrosoft" and you'll see :-)

(Disclaimer: I love everything about Douglas Adams, and work for a company famous for opposing Microsoft.)

AOL = $24.95 + a ton of free spam and shitty software.
Mom @ pop = $9.95, no crappy software required.

Correction: AOL Unlimited Monthly is $23.90. JPriest, please get your numbers straight before you rant.
Besides, not everyone pays that much. Some people pay only five bucks a month for AOL.

... and he is not happy.

hmm, i did a google images search for robot war dog and this is the only photo i found.

Did anyone else see THIS?

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Interesting how the Martian clock gives the Mars date like so: MSD 46218.763 This looks very similar to ye olde Star Trek stardates.

...the "Mars Sol Date" (MSD) defined by AM2000. This represents a sequential count of Mars solar days elapsed since 1873 December 29 at approximately Greenwich noon

As far as I know, Google is still the exclusive search partner for a little company called AOL.

Are companies still paying for that shit? I can't imagine them getting anything approaching a good return on investment for popup ads these days.

It's all about the marketing. Earthlink and AOL (or several other unnamed ISPs) advertise their mad pop up blocking features in their newest products on TV. Typical computer user sees the commericals and thinks "damn, I hate pop ups, I can never stop them. They are annoying. I'll get Earthlink/AOL and beat those nasty pop up advertisers once and for all! Where's my credit card?"

The fact that you can download a free browser like Mozilla or Opera that will install and run on your Windows system doesn't matter to typical computer user. If it's free, who supports it? If I'm paying for it, it's probably good software. They wouldn't make those clever ads with the "Six Million Dollar Man" music if it wasn't good software, would they?

You don't actually have to make a better product, you just have to convince enough people that your product is better. Then call it "Optimized" or something like that. Sounds good, but what does it do for you?

Do you have a reverse DNS entry?

http://postmaster.info.aol.com/info/rdns.html

AOL silently ignores mail from an SMTP connection that doesn't have the reverse DNS set up.

As other people have mentioned bouncing undeliverable mail is what mail systems are meant to do. But in this day and age where every second mail has a forged sender address, sending NDRs to the sender address is somewhat anti-social. The best solution is to reject undeliverable mail in the first place and not send NDRs at all.

It seems that AOL is aware of the problems they cause by bouncing mail to forged sender addresses and are changing their system so that it will no longer be a two stage proxy which accepts all mail and then sends NDRs for undeliverable addresses. They will simply reject mail to bogus AOL addresses during the SMTP greeting.

But based on the hundreds of bounces to forged addresses I receive from systems which are trying to send spam to AOL and which AOL has blacklisted I don't think this is going to slow down the bounces! :-( At least I can reject *ALL* traffic from these f-ing misconfigured/abused systems.

AOL says they'll stop sending you bounces if you don't want them, have you tried phoning them?

Here is how to fix that in postfix.

In main.cf:
Under smtpd_sender_restrictions add a line that looks like this:
check_client_access regexp:/etc/postfix/client_access

Make a file client_access:
/^omr-(d|m|r).*\.mx\.aol\.com$/ 554 Rejected due to bounce storm

And your head stops hurting. Been there, done that. - Love postfix.
Take a look at the snapshot rev, and the reject_unverified_sender option too. Great stuff.

PS:A OL gives you what you need to help the bounce problem on this handy page http://postmaster.info.aol.com/info/servers.html

-- +1 for low user id, -1 for posting good comment.

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Supposedly, this also works with Wish You Were Here and Blade Runner.

I believe the solution may be:

"...device for translation of spoken languages in real-time communication. It operates by scanning brain-wave frequencies and using the results to create a basis for translation". A la the portable universal translator." More here.

Personally I'd prefer my own Ensign Hoshi.

I couldn't believe I read this, so I did a Google on DDT and eggshell and came up with the research group that did a study on DDT and eggshells!

They fed DDT to a control group of ducks and compared to an untreated group of ducks otherwise fed and raised identically, and found eggshell thinning on DDT fed ducks. They were thus armed with a biological model of the DDT-eggshell relationship and went out to look at Peregrine falcon eggs and saw the same relationship: And that the more DDT were found in the egg, the thinner the eggshell.

And it's well known, if you do more research/search that DDT is an artificial environmental estrogen, in that it mimics and interferes with estrogen in humans; and very likely as an estrogen like compound in most animals. Why is this important?

Estrogen and estrogen replacement therapy is used in humans to treat osteoperosis, or bone loss. It's not difficult to understand why then DDT would thin eggshells.

Article on Patuxent, and article on the DDT research at Patuxent.

The amusing thing is that you reference Silent Spring, which is a book that references Patuxent's relevant research into DDT, eggshells, and Peregrine falcons.

Learning Katakana is useful, as you can pronounce and hopefully recognise foreign (well, English) words in otherwise unintelligible documents. Especially good for computer stuff, but also works in Ramen bars.
Merii Kurisumasu everyone

AOL News is doing a follow-up article

Click Here to see it

To all Rush listeners:

Ha ha.

To Limbaugh:

It is tough when you have to suffer the debilitating effects of your drug abuse: a vast left-wing conspiracy

with the attitudes of the day, you can make the case that had the blizzard of 1888 not happened, new york city to this day might resemble a rat's nest of wires like shanghai is now

Highly doubtful. It's not as if New York hasn't experienced several strong storms before, and those are just within the past 30 years. If New York hadn't cleaned up its act in 1888, it was going to happen anyway very shortly thereafter, purely out of necessity.

Interesting story, except for the questionable leap in logic there at the end.

with the attitudes of the day, you can make the case that had the blizzard of 1888 not happened, new york city to this day might resemble a rat's nest of wires like shanghai is now

Highly doubtful. It's not as if New York hasn't experienced several strong storms before, and those are just within the past 30 years. If New York hadn't cleaned up its act in 1888, it was going to happen anyway very shortly thereafter, purely out of necessity.

Interesting story, except for the questionable leap in logic there at the end.

with the attitudes of the day, you can make the case that had the blizzard of 1888 not happened, new york city to this day might resemble a rat's nest of wires like shanghai is now

Highly doubtful. It's not as if New York hasn't experienced several strong storms before, and those are just within the past 30 years. If New York hadn't cleaned up its act in 1888, it was going to happen anyway very shortly thereafter, purely out of necessity.

Interesting story, except for the questionable leap in logic there at the end.

Yes, but Urban Dictionary is shit, because it's written by children trying to be 'cool' and 'hard' and 'street' by saying rude words and ebonics. Cuntish nigger-wannabees, the lot of them.

Another Urban Dictionary misnomer is the definition of "shit-blistering", which to be quite frank is pathetic. The TRUE definition of shit blistering can be found in this excellent journal.

Anyway, I'm listening to the new Thor album and it's making my cock glisten, so I'm off to masturbate violently.

Too bad a generation of pioneer-heritage Americans had to be lost before releasing that culture to pursue space as a place.

ha ha!

the period is related to gravity... and gravity changes depending where you are. Of course, you could specify a standard gravity, but then that's in meters per second per second... oh well, I guess just picking a long fixed distance that's impossible to measure starts to make sense.

AOL News is doing a follow-up article

Click Here to see it

It seems that FEMA only uses a limited set of frequencies. Why not install notch filters at select access points and design the broadband to only use the remaining bandwidth (either in frequency space or via notch-resistant error correction protocols in the physical layer). The same could be done for ham radio users -- bandpass filtering outside the traditional X-meter bands used by SW radio operators.

Broadband use of powerlines does not have to create a broadband noise source.

Anyone planning on a cross-country murderous rampage? Allow me to add this stop. Notice that it's just a few minutes off the Route 190 exit of Interstate 10. It even looks like there's a convenient pit nearby to dispose of the body.