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Any studio that can come up with Jabberjaw or the Hillbilly Bears has to have a crap factory back there somewhere. For more strange H-B history, check this out. I found it after staying up all night and came upon some god-awful H-B crap that involved tricking robots into electrocuting themselves.

a poorer quality of animation, ...excuse me? The Mighty Hercules anyone? Spider Man?

Programming for a CPU with an eight-bit stack pointer?! Thanks, but give me the Motorola 6809 or the Hitachi 6309 any day. BTW, the Glenside Color Computer Club will be holding the Twelfth Annual "Last" Chicago CoCoFest on May 17th and 18th this year in Elgin, Illinois. There are SCSI cards, IDE cards, and RAM expansions for the CoCo, and more stuff is under development (see the Cloud-9 and other pages linked from the Glenside site for details).

As bad as the spam problem is, it's unlikely that you can get sufficient momentum in the community to displace one of the primal IP application protocols anytime soon. The solution, for better or worse, is probably going to be a combination of filtering technology, $$ legal judgements $$, and Ghu help us, legislation.

(Though anyone taking up a collection to hire the Narn Bat Squad for re-educating spammers please let me know...)

...this guy is going to be so upset.

"...when a "Creation Scientist" maintains that it is "possible" the Earth is only thousands of years old..."

...Likewise, a "Creation Scientist" as you put it, is merely using scientific methods to preach his view on where everything comes from every bit as much as the "Evolution Scientist" is using those same methods. And since there is no way to test either hypothesis through the scientific method, it's all still just conjecture, scientifically speaking.

Are you trying to claim that the Earth may ACTUALLY be only 6,000 some odd years old, as many Creationists like to? And that there are no scientific methods to prove otherwise?

So, Captain Crainium, are you trying to tell me that Carbon Dating is just a buncha horse puckey? So where did you get your baccalaureate of the sciences? Wassamatta U?

Here are some clickable links for the lazy among us:
2R2_640.zip
2R2_480.zip
2R2_320.zip

Here are some clickable links for the lazy among us:
2R2_640.zip
2R2_480.zip
2R2_320.zip

Here are some clickable links for the lazy among us:
2R2_640.zip
2R2_480.zip
2R2_320.zip

Oh, and here are the REAL links to the second episode (as I post this, the links in the article still point to the first episode).
Medium version (recommended for people with non-godly computers, the large version starts skipping frames)
Large version

Oh, and here are the REAL links to the second episode (as I post this, the links in the article still point to the first episode).
Medium version (recommended for people with non-godly computers, the large version starts skipping frames)
Large version

I think those links are wrong, I only tried the large one. Here's some new links -

Large 640x272 - 138 MB
Medium 480x204 - 87 MB
Small 320x136 - 31 MB

Or you can go here.

I think those links are wrong, I only tried the large one. Here's some new links -

Large 640x272 - 138 MB
Medium 480x204 - 87 MB
Small 320x136 - 31 MB

Or you can go here.

I think those links are wrong, I only tried the large one. Here's some new links -

Large 640x272 - 138 MB
Medium 480x204 - 87 MB
Small 320x136 - 31 MB

Or you can go here.

http://progressive1.stream.aol.com/wb/gl/wbonline/ progressive/thematrix/us/med/animatrixlgfinal_dl.m ov (640x272)
http://progressive1.stream.aol.com/wb/gl/wbonline/ progressive/thematrix/us/med/animatrixmedfinal_dl. mov (480x204)
http://progressive1.stream.aol.com/wb/gl/wbonline/ progressive/thematrix/us/med/animatrixsmfinal_dl.m ov (320x136)

http://progressive1.stream.aol.com/wb/gl/wbonline/ progressive/thematrix/us/med/animatrixlgfinal_dl.m ov (640x272)
http://progressive1.stream.aol.com/wb/gl/wbonline/ progressive/thematrix/us/med/animatrixmedfinal_dl. mov (480x204)
http://progressive1.stream.aol.com/wb/gl/wbonline/ progressive/thematrix/us/med/animatrixsmfinal_dl.m ov (320x136)

http://progressive1.stream.aol.com/wb/gl/wbonline/ progressive/thematrix/us/med/animatrixlgfinal_dl.m ov (640x272)
http://progressive1.stream.aol.com/wb/gl/wbonline/ progressive/thematrix/us/med/animatrixmedfinal_dl. mov (480x204)
http://progressive1.stream.aol.com/wb/gl/wbonline/ progressive/thematrix/us/med/animatrixsmfinal_dl.m ov (320x136)

a doctor is only qualified to treat a gunshot would if he fired the pistol.

If a police force refused to arrest a rapist/mugger (the song "Maxwell's silver hammer" runs through my brain at this point, followed by "Excitable Boy", both about the sort of psychopathy France turned their back on), and the army subsequently arrest said rapist, why should the police force then have any say in how the rapist is sentenced?

Here's an AOL page with some customer stats. With 35 million users, and 2 billion messages blocked that's 57 blocked emails per customer!!

"I thought "computer clubs" were in vogue until about ten or fifteen years ago."

How about trying a model railway club?

(ref: here)

LMK is HOT HOT HOT (I dig that seventies vibe).

Whatever she asks, you do.

That's just the way it is. SORRY SEGA (or whoever)!

LMK is HOT HOT HOT (I dig that seventies vibe).

Whatever she asks, you do.

That's just the way it is. SORRY SEGA (or whoever)!

LMK is HOT HOT HOT (I dig that seventies vibe).

Whatever she asks, you do.

That's just the way it is. SORRY SEGA (or whoever)!

Ever try to read the Silmarillion ? It's full of tons of different names and places and all kinds of stuff, and it can be tough to wade through it. But after playing Angband for a while, so many things were taken from the Silmarillion, when I finally read the book, the names had a familiarity to them as I try to connect them to what I saw in the game, and in the process, the very dry book becomes interesting. And when I played T.o.M.E., the geography of Middle Earth became much more interesting, because I had to navigate it myself in the game.

Another example: Robo Odyssey. This game was written back in 1984, and it teaches the player about logic gates and electronics design. I wish there were a more modern implementation of something similar (anyone out there know of anything similar?) that let you wire with logic gates to solve puzzles, but it really got me interested in doing logic design. I never did beat the game, and it had bugs, but the concept is great for teaching logic and electronic design.

I just downloaded the book from http://members.aol.com/Seb0013/uhh.pdf. acroread 4 on Linux (Debian testing) tells me that "there was an error opening this document (14)." acroread 5 says that "the file is damaged but is being repaired", and then keeps on "repairing" forever, using up all available CPU time. xpdf 1.00 reports

Error (0): PDF file is damaged - attempting to reconstruct xref table...
Error: Top-level pages object is wrong type (null)
Error: Couldn't read page catalog

Hi everybody

Here's a copy of that infamous book : http://members.aol.com/Seb0013/uhh.pdf

Sorry for the delay, it took time to remember i had some disk space on a site which has decent bandwidth and which i don't mind being slashdotted.

Unix is the future.

What, do you mean mefels@aol.com , which would of course be rendered as mefels@aol.com

What, do you mean mefels@aol.com , which would of course be rendered as mefels@aol.com

So, Mr. Spam organisation head. Remind me again, exactly which ip ranges can be confirmed as Spam that you wouldn't like me to block others from seeing?

Honestly, I won't take this list published and freely available in the court record and encourage the entire planet to use it in their personal block list. Really. Forwarding the entire contents to mefels@aol.com rather than deleting would be even worse, so I definitely won't be doing that one.

Apparently this is for real. A quick Google search turned up:
The Dumpster Lady
Dumpster Diving for Treasure
Dumpster Diving: Treasure and Trash
alt.dumpster

I like the first one better.

Well, we should protect his privacy, and not post his email then. Please don't post this link anywhere.
mefels@aol.com

Well, we should protect his privacy, and not post his email then. Please don't post this link anywhere.
mefels@aol.com

ftp://members.aol.com/matthewbrinegar/straw.gif

Try that instead. AOL's got the bandwidth.

sorry to reply to myself - just found a link to the image:

http://members.aol.com/matthewbrinegar/straw.gif

Uh, not a copy of the original image. I can see how AG would be unhappy about this -- she is big-breasted in a corset sitting on another girl with her ass sticking out and red marks from being hit with a whip (or whatever that is).

But is it a parody? Does it really harm AG? Do they have a legal leg to stand on in demanding that it be taken down? Does it really matter if you are a big company with a bunch of lawyers and the other guys just run a website with the two of them and don't have time/money to defend themselves?

Jeez... it took all of a minute searching through the forum (linked in the story) to find it. And it turned out to be an AOhelLer who managed to post it correctly, rather than an IMG SRC= tag back to the original.

Let's start with the fact that if you don't give the government a significant portion of your hard-earned money, you go to jail.

You can go to jail engaging in unpopular activities in the privacy of your own home, like smoking pot or (in some states), having gay sex.

Anybody with enough money and pull can buy a law that will eventually violate your rights.

Any questions?

As for how I'd change it? I'd rather eradicate it. Read this page, even though it's posted on an AOL server.

"Revolution is not an AOL keyword"

Yes it is!

Prop planes were hardly the only aircraft that tossed bombs to deploy them. The F-105 Thunderchief, nicknamed the "Thud", was designed to be a fighter/BOMBER delivering nuclear payloads. I was an air force grunt that worked on them in the Viet Nam era and watched a training video showing the aircraft in the strategic (nuclear) mission. It had a fire control computer that was known as the "toss bomb computer" and calculated climb angle, release point, etc. The idea was the same, run in low to the ground at mach 1.2 (the aircraft had a very low radar cross section from the front) and do a half loop and release the bomb in the arc and keep going to roll out back the way you came. Cross your fingers and hold on to your ass. Here is a picture of the delivery.

over-the-shoulder

but if the FireBird SQL Project had a product, with all the international use, why havent i (or any of the guys i happen to work with) heard of this product?? After that immature posting that the article mentioned, i would not change my name, we all know AOL is just as powerful as Microsoft so why dont they just go and kick some open source ass..

• African Edventure
• Reaching Beyond Borders
• Africa Overland Network
• How Stuff Works
• Kids' Democracy Project
• On the trail of Emporer Norton
• Emporer Norton's Archives
• The Why Files

AOL isn't just some ISP though. AOL Time Warner is a corporate leviathan, and according to AOL, the AOL legal department has over 60 lawyers worldwide, presumably plus anything they can pull in from the parent company.

Spammers.. be afraid. Be very afraid. :)

I can't say I'm as unhappy with Scientific American these days as you folks. I've read it for 15 years and am still pleased with it. Sheesh, it's not like they're running stories on Alien Autoposy investigators who smoke PCPs to understand perpetual motion machines, like Omni.

However, it does give one pause.. a de-evolved future has often been pictured as one in which people were blatantly more sensationalistic and less wise. What if, instead, the flashiness and beautiful presentation of information in the future made everyone imagine they were smarter and wiser than people of the past even as the population slips gradually into ignorance? Sadly, this seems all too plausible.

Of course, it all depends on who you consider in your evaluation. Victorian intellectuals were very, very sharp, but also a very, very small part of the world's population. Today the overall percentage of the population that are well educated and thoughtful is much higher. Perhaps because there are more people in this category, it appears that intellectual standards have slipped.

However you count it up, a fact that seems to be generally ignored is that the vast majority of humans, perhaps also a sizable chunk of people in developed nations, are pretty much unaware of pretty much everything. So maybe the rising tide of sensationalism is a symptom more of the movement of more and more people into intellectualism, rather than a sign of the decline of intellectualism.. or perhaps in the short run this is all the same thing.. man.. reality.. it's so damn complicated!

To echo another poster, James Burke's Connections series in the magazine was very cool, if short lived. Here is a link to a directory of them..

Oh. I thought we were talking about spam in the real world. Spam isn't truthful. Forged headers, fake return addresses, hijacked servers, fake opt-out instructions, claims that "This mail is not sent unsolicited. You opted in via a third party" and similar nonsense, while selling GetABiggerDick, MMF, HomeMortgageRefinancing, CheapTonerCartriges and BootlegSoftware. Spammers have no history of being truthful.

Of course, no domestic law could prevent foreign spam no matter how draconian

On that, we agree. And the proposed law which started this discussion isn't designed to prevent spam, but to legalize it. However, we've been talking about the first amendment implications. You claim that spam is free speech, and laws against it would be thrown out due to the first amendment. I've called "Bullshit".

As for advertisements being free speech, I'm mindful of what the Supreme Court said in Central Hudson (447 US 557): The First Amendment ... protects commercial speech from unwarranted governmental regulation. ... [W]e have rejected the "highly paternalistic" view that government has complete power to suppress or regulate commercial speech.

Central Hudson is related to a complete ban on an industry, keeping them from advertising in any way, via any media. It's a completely different thing.

You can find the ruling at http://caselaw.lp.findlaw.com/scripts/getcase.pl?c ourt=us&vol=447&invol=557

It starts by saying : A regulation of appellee New York Public Service Commission which completely bans an electric utility from advertising to promote the use of electricity violates the First and Fourteenth Amendments.

Your claim that a complete ban on advertising (using any media) by electrical companies is comparable to a cost shifted situations such as spam doesn't give me much hope in your chances of being successful in law. However, I do realize that lawyers are willing to twist the truth into very convoluted shapes, so perhaps you'll do well.

You have a case regarding the bulk nature of spam being objectionable -- cite it! I want to read it. I like to think I know about the First Amendment, having studied it quite a lot here in law school, and having discussed spam _specifically_ for days, but perhaps I'm missing something that you can point out. I don't mind being corrected, but I encourage you to put up or shut up.

Ah, the old "I'm right, because I'm a lawyer" ploy. Sorry, but I'm not buying. I'm no lawyer, but I've studied the issue for a lot more than a few days, and there are plenty of court rulings on my side. You've yet to produce one that supports your argument, with Central Hudson being your only attempt.

As to put up or shut up, I've posted quotes from specific rulings before, and you've ignored them. But I'll try again, even though I know that you'll probably ignore them again.

You'll find a well thought out discussion, with plenty of court rulings, on the subject of spam and free speech at http://www.utdallas.edu/~pauls/spam_law.html. I'll hit some highlights, and this is fairly long anyway, but I'm not going to attempt to duplicate everything on that page - you can read it there, if you actually care. I'm not convinced that you do.

Various excerpts shown below.

AOL v. Cyberpromo
http://legal.web.aol.com/decisions/dljunk/cyberord erf.html
Cyber Promotions, Inc. does not have a right under the First Amendment to the United States Constitution or under the Constitutions of Pennsylvania and Virginia to send unsolicited e-mail advertisements over the Internet to memb

Check it yourself. 81.108.149.163, here: http://postmaster.info.aol.com/duls.html

So AOL's being inconsistent in stating why they're blocking, and in showing you why they've blocked it.

Check here.

...a certain online service implemented filters in its user registration process. People with last names like Petit or Snodgrass, and people who lived in cities with names like Scunthorpe or Middlesex, were prohibited from signing up for the service! The filters are implemented elsewhere too, one of AOL's remote employees couldn't enter his last name, Kuntz, into his online profile. Way to lose revenue.

Just to sap AOL for all its worth... make sure to pick up the Animatrix if you haven't already.

For whatever reason I missed the 3rd episode of the Animatrix being announced on /. (I'm sure it was); the download link is here.

What, haven't heard? (Too many blue pills?) It's an animated series done by several famous film directors. It's good too. Check it:
1st Episode: The Second Renaissance - Part 1
2nd Episode: Program
3rd Episode: Detective Story

Get all the details at theanimatrix.com.

Just to sap AOL for all its worth... make sure to pick up the Animatrix if you haven't already.

For whatever reason I missed the 3rd episode of the Animatrix being announced on /. (I'm sure it was); the download link is here.

What, haven't heard? (Too many blue pills?) It's an animated series done by several famous film directors. It's good too. Check it:
1st Episode: The Second Renaissance - Part 1
2nd Episode: Program
3rd Episode: Detective Story

Get all the details at theanimatrix.com.