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Here's his personal website: http://members.aol.com/mbeve10258/EddieOlmos.html? mtbrand=AOL_US and here's another page about all this: http://members.aol.com/ejowebmistress/BSG.html?mtb rand=AOL_US

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Russia has one. At least six other nations maintain at least one true aircraft carrier. Including those dastardly evil french, whose Nuclear powered Charles De Gaulle holds 40+ aircraft. China has been supposedly working on a supercarrier for years, but nothing has been confirmed, though 'chinese interests' bought the Varyag the second of the ex. USSR's carriers. Supposedly to become an "entertainment complex." A list of other nations who have kept carriers or plan to can be found here

Now, as for having 13 aircraft carriers. Technically there's 15 (a list can be found here), with two (Ranger and Independance) in mothballs at Bremerton, Wash. 16 if you want to count the America, but she's due to be scrapped. Of those 15, Three; The Kitty Hawk, Constellation, and Enterprise, were all commision in 1961. Any one of those ships could stand to be retired. Granted the Kitty Hawk went through a major upgrade recently, a 40 year old ship is still a 40 year old ship. It's also one of two non-nuke carriers (the other being the Kennedy, next oldest in line) still in service.

Those six carriers will likely all be out of service by the time the George H.W. Bush hits the water. Independance and Ranger will probably be property of the Gillette and bic razor blade companys, Kitty Hawk and Constellation won't be far behind.

Given our Military policy (!= foreign policy) of being able to project force quickly, anywhere in the world, A fair number of carriers makes sense. Not to sound like a classic republican hawk, but We don't have to wait and see who will allow us use of airbases, we don't have to worry about what country will bitch and moan about airspace. What once took months now takes weeks.

Given that we've decided to play world cop and send in American forces to try and solve to world's problems, these fit in well with our military strategy. 15 is definatly overkill, but that number will decline. The new carriers will be cheaper than the old, making those carreiers prime tagets for scrapping.

I think our current leadership is hovering around 50% full of shit, but they have nothing to due with this carrier or the next.

Unless the Amazons are like most ants. Most of the ants are female. Only when it's time to spread the colony and create a new nest with a new queen will there be any males produced.

Even more bizarre are certain species of lizards, which are, in fact, all-female.

This is offtopic. My apologies.

Everyone has heard of the carcass of a giant octopussy that was found in Chile recently, but just WHAT THE FUCK is THIS!!

..or whatabout THIS???

You rant about aliens, but here's your fucking aliens I tell you! Pretty scary stuff I must say!

I live next to a major thoroughfare, and as soon as the start of the summer comes around, it's hell, as it's not uncommon to be assaulted 20-30 times a day by these drive-by tresspassers. These boomcar morons think they're bad-asses with their expensive toy stereos, but what they really need to do is grow the hell up and learn something about civility.

I am thankful that our local police department takes the issue seriously- after some initial prodding, they've pretty much eliminated the problem. The boomers here might be pissed because of repeated (and increasingly expensive) fines, but they ought to be thankful that they aren't faced with a law like they have in Michigan, where the equipment must actually confiscated and destroyed.

Those who are facing this problem might be interested in this Web Site. IT contains a lot of useful information about the problem, and interestingly, the boomers themselves.

I don't have it handy but I'm sure Asimov's book Caves of Steel has the same thing going on - ide travelators which get faster at the centre are the means used to get around the city. Reading that guys' page I see they were called 'strips'.

If you look at this cover which was used for the book you'll see the hero is standing on one! Heinlin appears to have got there first though (he wrote Roads in 1940, Asimov wrote Caves in 1953)

I guess this was the Asimov reference in the slashdot article, but no-one else seems to be mentioning it...
-Baz

I don't have it handy but I'm sure Asimov's book Caves of Steel has the same thing going on - ide travelators which get faster at the centre are the means used to get around the city. Reading that guys' page I see they were called 'strips'.

If you look at this cover which was used for the book you'll see the hero is standing on one! Heinlin appears to have got there first though (he wrote Roads in 1940, Asimov wrote Caves in 1953)

I guess this was the Asimov reference in the slashdot article, but no-one else seems to be mentioning it...
-Baz

Like here?

Try Ursula Le Guins' Earthsea series.

A simple google search answers this question. "Red Barchetta" was inspired by a SF story called "A Nice Morning Drive", and contains many SF trappings such as the "Motor Law", "alloy air-cars... two lanes wide" and hopping the "turbine freight".

steveha

bbb = ?

I don't remember it exactly (got it written down around here someplace...) but this is created from the first and middle names.

ddd = (month of birth - 1) * 31 + day of birth

I seem to recall that ddd is altered for females.

Add 600 if female.

Here's a GWBASIC tool I wrote that calculates Illinois Driver's license numbers. Be kind; remember it's GWBASIC and note the date :-)

There is no serialization in the number. Everything is calcualted from the name, gender, and birthdate of the individual. If I ever have twins, I plan to choose names that work out to the same driver's license number, just to see what happens (evil grin).

Arglebargle or fufurah?

Then they should be listed on rfc-ignorant. Their page says

* AOL's mail servers may reject connections from IP addresses which have no reverse-DNS (PTR record assigned).

So, not that they have to match, although I thought I'd read that elsewhere, but that they MAY reject if there is NO rDNS.

Second point

Sorry - slightly mis-worded. Link from the link on the original post.

Quote:

The second way to test your server is to telnet to the IP address in question on port 25 from a different Internet Service Provider and manually initiate an SMTP transaction. If you can send mail from yourself from the different ISP, your server is an open relay.

Then they should be listed on rfc-ignorant. Their page says

* AOL's mail servers may reject connections from IP addresses which have no reverse-DNS (PTR record assigned).

So, not that they have to match, although I thought I'd read that elsewhere, but that they MAY reject if there is NO rDNS.

Second point

Sorry - slightly mis-worded. Link from the link on the original post.

Quote:

The second way to test your server is to telnet to the IP address in question on port 25 from a different Internet Service Provider and manually initiate an SMTP transaction. If you can send mail from yourself from the different ISP, your server is an open relay.

Start saving those pennies.

I am, I am!

That looks essentially like the QBert I had for my old Atari... Was it released for the console but not for the arcade?

Well, it's actually quite complicated. Take a look at The History of Q*Bert according to Jeff Lee. It's a very intresting read and provides full and informative background. Also, I'm sure everyone would love refreshing mamories reading The Adventures of Q*bert by John Robinson on-line, together with original pictures drawn by the famous Al Moraski! Of course everyone remembers that the original version was indeed "a breakthrough in 2600 graphics" but did you know that there is a freeware Gameboy Color ROM available? Really, you can download it from here. In my opinion Paul Chinn's idea to port Q*bert to Gameboy was unquestionably insightful.

The article assumes you have read Jeff Lee's history of Q*Bert but doesn't include a link.

The RIAA shouldn't target me, the person breaking the copyright law! They should target the software which allows me to pirate without even trying.

Okay, then they should target The Apache Foundation for Apache, Microsoft for it's IIS product, AOL/TW for it's AOL Instant Messenger software, basically anybody that makes anything that uses TCP/IP and/or UDP to do file transfers. Which would be pretty much the entire software industry.

Those crooks that make software! Software should be illegal! People shouldn't use computers! We should only have special purpose devices dedicated to viewing content. General purpose computers make pirating too easy.

C'mon...you don't REALLY think that do you?

plate armor probably seemed impregnable in practical terms, until the longbow came along. Yeah, okay, a stinking peasant could hamstring a warhorse and beat the knight to death with a rock while he lay helpless on the ground, but these possibilities were probably ignored with the same superstitious enthusiasm that sysadmins ignore the rarer kinds of attacks on their systems.

OK, first up, the longbow predates the use of plate armor by quite a bit. And there were composite bows (horn/bone/wood/sinew laminates, don't confuse composite with compound aka pulley-type bows) in military use that were capable of penetrating plate long before the English/Welsh longbow became the terror of Crecy and Agincourt. The Parthian horse-archers used composite bows against the armies of the Greek city-states in ancient times!

Second, the knightly class certainly did not ignore the possibility of being brought down by the peasantry. Feudal European military castes preferred to capture their opponents alive whenever possible, because of the practice of ransoming captured enemies for enormous sums. The knighthood would claim that they only wanted to fight their equals for reasons of honor, but more practically they stood a better chance of surviving a defeat by a "gentle-man" than by a peasant levy armed with a hammer or spear (who would be unlikely to gain any significant fraction of a ransom). It's a classic risk/benefit analysis: don't start bar-fights with little guys, you have little to gain and much to lose!

Note: I don't disagree with your point, but rather with the example you used to illustrate it. Defense in depth is better than Maginot lines, combined arms are better than reliance on a single weapon, and the history of conflict is an infinite loop of thesis/counter-thesis/synthesis.

...in the belly of a whale... "swimming with fishes" seems singularly apropos.

• One from OZ built into a Ford chassis
  
• An F/A 18 Hornet simulator made from wood, also in OZ
  
• A Boeing 767 in London that "flies" around the world
  
• A "multi-mission simulator" by an avionics engineer in the US
• An F-15 in Washington

At the end of the article, VeriSign claims in its court filings that if it loses this case and sets a precedent for others who have been defrauded out of their domains, it'll be "the end of the Internet".

This sounds like the logical fallacies of "Special Pleading" or "Appeals to Sympathy."

Verisign, in its apparent megalomania, seems to be confusing itself with the entire Internet, and like the sovereign of a nation, considers itself entitled to some kind of "sovereign immunity" where the rules that apply to others do not apply to it. Such special pleading (that it can't be punished without hurting society) is not convincing.

Furthermore, its appeals to sympathy ring about as hollow as:

"Please don't punish me for killing my parents, I'm already suffering enough as an orphan!"

or even:

"If you put me in jail, I won't be able to recover the money I've stolen!"

MOD PARENT UP Insightful!

Actually an "atlatl" is not technically a "spear-like device", but it is a device used to launch a light spear more accurately and powerfully than by hand. Kind of like a sling conceptually, but for a spear (dart) instead of a rock.

A good site about the atlatl.

And the History Channel has an EXCELLENT show called "Conquest" that did an episode that included the atlatl (I think it was "Stone Age Weapons").

• And is it any surprise he is an AOL user as well?
  
  Gee, I wonder how many emails from Commodore-wielding teenagers in Afghanistan that address gets....

Islamists call the people of Israel and all countries that support Israel (esp. the U.S.) 'Zionists', referring I'm sure to Mt. Zion...

To be precise, they are referring to Zionism, a racist ideology very popular in Israel.

Based on the rest of the comments throughout this entire topic, I can only conclude that the average /. reader slept through their history classes.

To wit: yes, the Egyptian censorship is about Zion (in the movie) and Zionism. The fact that most people missed this implies they don't know what Zionism is.

Zionism refers to a Jewish movement that arose in the late 19th century in response to growing anti-Semitism and sought to reestablish a Jewish homeland in Palestine.. To dismiss it as "a racist ideology very popular in Israel," as above, is to ignore the roots of the mideast conflict.

Put simply, Zionism was a movement based on the belief that as long as the Jews lived as ethnic minorities in other countries, they were going to be discriminated against ("discriminated" meaning "killed and robbed whenever public tension needed an outlet" - read up on the Pogroms sometime). The Dreyfus Affair convinced a reporter named Theodor Herzl that the only solution was for a Jewish homeland. He founded the Zionism movement, with the goal of creating a Jewish state. This movement slowly fought for progress over the next 50 years (see also the Balfour Declaration)

Fast-forward to 1948. After 6 million or so Jews were killed in the Holocaust, the survivors got serious about a homeland. With lots of leftover guns lying around from World War II, they founded Israel. In doing so, they resorted to terrorism, and displaced much of the non-Jewish palestinian population.

None of the neighboring countries wanted to absorb the Palestinians, and something like 6 wars have been fought since then. So, for the Egyptians, Zionism represents a massive local disruption which they've lost wars over.

So-called "Modern Zionism" is the "racist ideology" referred to above, which basically boils down to "Jewish Israel - love it or leave it." To focus on it and ignore over 100 years of history is short-sighted.

Sure, I can fire up an Apple II emulator and give those games to my kids today, but can blocky graphics and minimal sounds really sustain their interest in this day and age? And yet there's nothing equivalent to those games today... at least not that I know of.

GREENDA4@AOL.COM

Like "use metaphone instead of soundex?"

Granted, that probably wouldn't take us too much closer to success.

And her email address is an AOL account

Is anyone getting the idea that BSD could take a very long time to die?

>Uh. You are ignorant.

Uh. And your opinion isn't even worth enough to log in.

>Once luminance and chroma signals are squeezed together into a composite signal, they cannot be separated again. So I don't care how good your TV is, it can't do squat to make a composite signal look better than hammered shit.

Sorry, it isn't 1960 anymore. Modern comb filters do that, and do it well.

If you aren't ignorant, you might have at least mentioned that it's a digital source, so the signal was never combined to start with (my mistake).

But since you are, you didn't.

Why not learn something today? My God... it's an AOL link! (And even 3 years out of date, but still quite accurate).

Can I suggest also learning to use the login button?

>Composite video looks like shit. That's just how it is, and there's no way around it.

LOL. Obviously your TV is 30 odd years old. Can I perhaps suggest you take a look at how an HDTV deals with converting composite NTSC video? I think you'd be surprised. It isn't perfect, but then again, unless you have access to the master BetaCam tape, nothing you'll be dealing with is.

They are not trying to 'harpoon' an asteriod....they are going to an asteriod named 'Harpoon'...after that famous asteriod explorer, Harpoon Dimwitty.

Besides, everyone knows you don't harpoon asteriods. You either use gill nets or C-5 for concussion.

It's official...

Much in the way that AOL forced Nullsoft to pull their nascent "Gnutella" technology when it first came out, it appears AOL has once again forced Nullsoft to yank distribution of their "Waste" secure P2P-based file sharing and messaging software.

Slashdot.org announced the product this morning, and by afternoon it is officially gone from the Nullsoft site.

Fortunately, the Internet routes around censorship and the software is still available here (along with an interesting chat forum on the subject) and, undoubtedly, in other places around the net.

It's likely that the source and binaries for this much-needed freedom-inducing GPLed software will be making an appearance on a freesite at some point in the not-so-distant-future.

Yes folks, history, once again, repeats itself.
I guess it just shows to go you, that when it comes to kick-ass software Justin Frankel is still the man!

It's official...

Much in the way that AOL forced Nullsoft to pull their nascent "Gnutella" technology when it first came out, it appears AOL has once again forced Nullsoft to yank distribution of their "Waste" secure P2P-based file sharing and messaging software.

Slashdot.org announced the product this morning, and by afternoon it is officially gone from the Nullsoft site.

Fortunately, the Internet routes around censorship and the software is still available here (along with an interesting chat forum on the subject) and, undoubtedly, in other places around the net.

It's likely that the source and binaries for this much-needed freedom-inducing GPLed software will be making an appearance on a freesite at some point in the not-so-distant-future.

Yes folks, history, once again, repeats itself.
I guess it just shows to go you, that when it comes to kick-ass software Justin Frankel is still the man!

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You might be thinking of this...

Second Story Burglar Sues Homeowner

Danbury, CT - An admitted second story burglar is suing a homeowner. Michael Malone attempted to enter a three-story residence by climbing a tree to gain admittance through an open third floor window. Unfortunately for Malone, the tree limb broke and the 275 pound burglar crashed to the ground. When the homeowner heard the commotion, he went outside to investigate. In the dark, he spied a figure moving toward the rear of his five acre lot and fired one round from a .22 caliber revolver. When the homeowner attempted to locate the intruder, Malone hid in the brush then collapsed from a bullet wound to his buttocks. Malone's lawsuit alleges that he almost bled to death due to the homeowner's negligence in not notifying the police in a timely manner. The homeowner did not notify the police until one hour after the attempted break-in. Two hours after the incident, the police found Malone in a pool of blood.

I thought I had seen a story more along the lines you suggest, but I think I'm remembering the scene from Liar Liar. I googled for a bit and didn't find any "real" stories (snopes didn't have anything either).

I did find this -- Check this out:

New Twists on Occupiers Liability

Can a Burglar Sue a Homeowner for Injuries Sustained During a Break-in?
Anyone who trespasses on land to commit a criminal act is deemed to have willingly accepted all risks of injury while on the land. For example, if a burglar slips and falls down a dimly lit staircase while breaking and entering into your home, there is no liability imposed on the homeowner.
Even a criminal trespasser, however, has some rights. A homeowner will be liable for creating "a danger with intent to do harm" or for acting "with reckless disregard for the safety" of a trespasser. If you have seen the movie "Home Alone" then I am sure that you can think of several examples which would fall into this category. A trip wire attached to the trigger of a shotgun clearly creates danger intended to harm the trespasser. In British Columbia, the Occupiers Liability Act tries to differentiate between accidental injuries to trespassers and deliberate attempts to cause harm or injury to trespassers. Generally speaking, there will be no liability for the accidental injury to a trespasser but there will be liability for the deliberately caused injury.

I think it's an urban legend. I don't think you can be sued unless you do something like set up a booby-trap or shoot him or something.

This is pretty cool, but AOL had already introduced a device years ago called the AOL Mobile Communicator.

The device costs $99.95 and the service is $29.95 a month, which is in addition to the monthly AOL membership fee. The service is only available to AOL members.

This one also did AOL E-mail so I guess its fair to say it wasn't an "IM Only" device- but its major selling point IMO was that it did AIM before you could get AIM on cellphones. I think you can still buy it from them!

Maybe the creators of Avril or N'Sync can help you out and come up with something catchy for the people to hum.

I really can't wait till the various "commons" that our society houses collapse on themselves. The IP commons is one of the ones that I think will be first to go....unless the corporate bank accounts and lawyers can somehow manage to delay it ad infinitum. Another contender for First Commons to Collapse is the entertainment industry....lets see if you can figure out why.

Well, then here's a handy link just for you.

Send it to me. flyairone1@aol.com

Here's a link to an enthusiasts page, and here's the MIT researcher Dr Linda Griffith-Cima who's spearheading the research. more on her at the MIT website. Finally here's the largely ignored /. article

let's not forget about Mr. Felstein's AOL address in the admin contact listing either - mefels@aol.com

Spamming the following addresses:
mark@EMarketersAmerica.org
Felstein@bellsouth.net
mefels@aol.com
would be really naughty. Don't do it. Just in case, I'll spam-proof them:
mark@EMarketersAmerica.NOSPAM.org
Felstein@bellsouth.NOSPAM.net
mefels@aol.NOSPAM.com
Now people know you shouldn't spam them...

Do you mean mfels@aol.com

Actually, according to the whois for emarketersamerica.org (registered through register.com), his email address is mefels@aol.com. I encourage everyone to forward all your spam to Mr. Felstein with the header "You are receiving this because you opted in to receive penis enlargement and viagra offers by connecting to the Internet. This is NOT spam."

I can understand this for a startup company, as long as the company quickly moves to start covering the costs of its labor. But in the case of a wealthy organization, this means that the wealthy organization just *chooses* not to give economic justice. More for me, nothing for you.

I have been seeing this more and more, and it is part of what ails America. It comes from the move to give more to the investors, and comes from the blinds that are provided by corporate coverage, in which the investors can't see the plight of their workers.

But let me point out the results of economic injustice: if there is economic injustice, then the victim's investments remain unpaid, and in that case, it does not pay for the victim to invest!

In the case of inventors who can't afford to patent and defend their inventions, because the patent system only benefits wealthy corporations, the proper response is to not devote effort to inventing.

In the case where your compensation is not based upon justice, it does not pay to invest in an education that will make you a more valuable employee.

In the case where businesses are taxed to death, so that other businesses can recieve lucrative government contracts, it does not pay to start a business and help the economy: it pays to work your own garden instead.

In the case where individuals are taxed to death, to pay for more tax collectors, the farmer's strategy doesn't pay -- only the highway robber's strategy pays. If you want to see what this is like, look at Congo/Zaire.

If you think it is getting bad, and the problem is the government, then tell the government. If you don't think they'll listen, then it's better to leave, and find a better place.

Here's How.

If you think it is getting bad, and the problem is the people (yeah, they're all good people, they just, well, you can depend on them to do really evil things), then it's doubly important to find a better group of people.

Here's a hint.

If worst comes to worst, duck, cover the ones you love as well as possible, stay out of the way of wars as much as possible, and try to live with as much justice and charity as possible.

But the bible is absolutely right: when we choose to withhold a man's wages, we commit violence. When we choose economic theft as a regular diet, we commit murder. And we recreate our world to become a horror. Our spiritual failings definitely bring physical problems and death.

Just my two cents. That's all.