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The US post office gives reduced rates to groups that send mail in bulk. In effect this is no different.

If you don't know the difference between postal bulk mail and spam, you have not been studying either for very long. Postal bulk mail, at least in the United States, subsidizes first-class mail: although the rates are reduced, bulk mailers are required to pre-sort and bar-code their mail, which vastly reduces the cost to the Postal Service to handle it.

Spam, on the other hand, imposes additional costs on the email system and the recipient. A spammer may pay his own ISP (and sometimes not -- stolen credit cards are pretty damned common) but his actions don't subsidize the rest of the system that delivers his spam, namely the transit and the recipient's site. At most -- in the case of direct-to-MX spam in which there are no third party open relays or proxies involved -- the spammer is paying only half his costs, and forcing the other half on you. Usually, the spammer is also shoving his costs off on third parties, such as schoolchildren in South Korea.

ISPs report this consistently: spam runs up their costs. The largest email service under single management is America Online, which has also been the most frequent plaintiff against spammers. Yes, you read that right: AOL sues spammers. They also win, and they've been winning since 1996.

The Postal Service could not stay afloat solely on first-class and parcel-post mail: there just isn't enough of it. The email system would be doing much better and more reliably if it were not being clogged and slowly ruined by the theft called spam.

And then there's Filk .

PCMCIA TDR is here, but it's an AOL members page, not a real commercial site, so I'm suspicious that it's vapor. I'd expect a company that tooled up for a PCMCIA TDR to be able to afford a real site. It's also not a NIC.

It's the second link on googling
pcmcia time domain reflectometer -optical

http://members.aol.com/tdrcard/home.html

When I first started programming, I worked with a guy we all knew as RDH. He owned an audi, and at some point he started bringing the rom from his car in to work, and disassembling it. Then he tweaked it, burnt a new rom, and stuck it back in the car. This was five or six years ago.

I rode in his car a couple times. There were five or six big switches mounted on the passenger-side dashboard. I asked him once what they did, and all he said was "Don't touch those" (we were driving at the time).

Apparently he became relatively well-known in the Audi enthusiast community. A google search for RDH Audi turns up 656 hits. His initials are even listed in this page of Acronyms related to Audi.

I just weighed in my son's car last night, now it is "impounded" until the trial on Saturday.

I think most people know about graphite, etc. so it may not give an advantage (but of course is needed!). One thing you should do is hold the car on its side so the wheel is resting on the end of the axle/nail. Then spin the wheel. It should spin pretty freely. Then do the same with the car flipped so the wheel is resting on the body of the car. If it doesn't spin freely in both those situations, then smooth it out, more graphite, etc.

One thing I did was put a bit of paint on the body right where the wheel touched it, then sprinkled graphite on the paint when it was still wet. We'll see if that helps. Excuse me, I meant to say MY SON did that.

- adam

I think you are confusin pinecar derby with a 'soap box' derby. A pinecar derby is where you take a small block of wood, normaly pine, nail some wheels to it and race them down a straight slope track. Here are a few sites to get you started. Here is a google with more information.

• A mercury delay line driver and receiver from LEO 2
• A PSU from LEO 3
• Acorns, all working:
  • Atom with econet
  • BBC model A serial no 509, with documentation and software
  • BBC model B with econet
  • 6502 second processor for BBC
  • Electron
  • R140
  • R260, with documentation and software (power supply unit dead)
• Sinclairs, all working
  • 6 assorted early Sinclair calculators
  • ZX80
  • ZX81
  • QL, with documentation and software
  • ICL OPD - original designer's prototype, with documentation and software
  • Z88, with documentation and software
• Two Jupiter Aces, including one which was unfinished when the company went bankrupt (ir works, but has no case)
• Memotech keyboard for Jupiter Ace (manufacturer's prototype, nicely badged but doesn't and probably never did work, never went into production)
• Memotech MTX 512, working
• Newbrain AD, with documentation still in shrink-wrap, working
• Enterprise 64, working
• Oric 1, working
• Psion Organiser II
• Microwriter, working, with documentation
• Apricot PC, (charcoal, with 10MB hard disk!), working, with software and some documentation
• Dragon 32, working
• IBM badged Tadpole RS6000 laptop, hard disk is dodgy.

I've also got a late model 32k Commodore PET with dual disk drives, but as it isn't British made I don't think of it as part of my collection and will happily swap it for an interesting early British machine.

Yes, I know this is all pretty ggeky. But this is part of our history - in my opinion an important part of our history - and these machines are being thrown into dustbins all the time. Somebody needs to preserve them. So if anyon'e got a Nascom, or an Acorn Model 1 or Acorn Cambridge Workstation that they don't want, let me know.

I'm sure the Junk DNA in the human genome, if they have anything to do with the Secret Message of Pi, or the Intelligence In Pi, then I'm sure it's written in the English Alphabet because that's what our Alien(Raelian?) ancestors wrote in. Haven't you seen Star Wars or Futurama?

I, for one, don't like the results evidenced by my local Fred Meyers stores. Product-line consolidation/elimination has begun, presumably for cost reduction.

Example: These cheddar-heads no longer sell milk in cardboard cartons. Except for the small quart-sized ones, all milk is now sold in plastic containers. These are the translucent ones, which let UV light in, which damages the milk, which makes it taste "funny." I also dislike the way in which plastic containers' screw-on caps collect dried, cruddy "milk dust." Every time (after the first) you open that sucker, dried milk crumbs fall all over, and into the milk container. Blech!

I wrote to Kroger's customer service to complain about these containers. While they did send me a coupon for a free half gallon of [plastic-enshrouded] milk (which I happily used), this simply served to remind me how much I dislike these containers. The rest of the letter I received from Kroger essentially said: bugger off then, we don't want your kind!

As a result, I generally avoid Freddy's for groceries -- especially if I know I need milk.

"To accustom to rest and repose through the charms of luxury a population scattered and barbarous and therefore inclined to war, Agricola gave private encouragement and public aid to the building of temples, courts of justice and dwelling-houses, praising the energetic, and reproving the indolent. Thus an honourable rivalry took the place of compulsion. He likewise provided a liberal education for the sons of the chiefs, and showed such a preference for the natural powers of the Britons over the industry of the Gauls that they who lately disdained the tongue of Rome now coveted its eloquence. Hence, too, a liking sprang up for our style of dress, and the "toga" became fashionable. Step by step they were led to things which dispose to vice, the lounge, the bath, the elegant banquet. All this in their ignorance they called civilisation, when it was but a part of their servitude."

I have driven VWs (almost) exclusively since I got my license, and one of the vehicles I had was an '85 Quantum. The VW Quantum was very similar to the Audis with the suspected uncontrolled acceleration. However, I never crashed through any garage doors because the problem does not exist.

In 1986 a young child was killed when struck by an Audi 5000 his mother was driving. She claimed her foot was firmly on the brake, yet the car lurched forward. 60 Minutes hired the mother for an interview and turned the news story into a sensational account of how all Audis were flawed and dangerous.

Other accounts of similar occurrences were given. In each circumstance the drivers claimed that despite fully and firmly depressing the brake pedal, the car was still able to accelerate. This situation is extremely unlikely, except in the event of a brake failure. If you drive an automatic car and you don't care about your transmission, try it: floor the accelerator with one foot on the brake and the car in drive. The engine will not overcome the stopping power of the brakes.

The tremendous amount of bad publicity nearly forced Audi to end US operations. Owners of Audi 5000's saw the resale value of their cars plummet. Sales did not recover until the mid-90's, a decade after the 60 Minutes episode was aired. Despite all of this, 60 Minutes was never held liable for the economic damage they inflicted with their yellow journalism.

Of course, I am a bit partial to VW/Audi (the same company in case you didn't know). Here's a 1989 Wall Street Journal article on the subject, mentioning how 60 Minutes modified their test vehicle to exhibit the symptoms of uncontrolled acceleration. A more complete explanation of the story can be found here.

If you're not concerned about the Invisible personnel and criminal life control surveillance system yet, you should be. I never knew half of this stuff.

Here.

- Z

What we really need is much better tools and hardware. One really geat beginning to that need just was released - Qplus Target Builder. This is the first decent open source embedded toolkit. Check it out - soon to be moving to sourceforge.

But then you also need some good hardware and its nearly impossible for the hobbyist to figure out what is decent and what is drek in all the offerings out there. Then you look at the prices and they are out of control. Has anyone found a good source of fanless embedded hardware that does not cost over $500 for a $100 piece of hw? Send me mail if you have.

And guess who owns the media?

I wonder...

Well, *all* vehicles sold in the US after the 1996 model year are federally mandated to have OBDII. It's true that few of the interfaces have tunable parameters, but the interface is there, and can be read from. Yes, manufacturer-proprietary interfaces for setting parameters are causing problems in the field of aftermarket OBDII software, but it certainly exists in many forms.

Plus, there are certainly other EMS's available for less than the $3000 range, such as the Haltech, Microtech, and even the Megasquirt, which, while not unencumbered, has at least source and schematics available. It's just not to be used commercially without authorization. While I'd welcome a Free EMS, it's probably better to add your skillset to the DIY-EFI group, as they're already working on this.

but i think we like AOL now.

How does this injure us? The injury to us is equally undisputed, Your Honor, and the injury occurs in two ways. It occurs at the front end. Every single one of these e-mails comes to a computer server called a front-end server in this example sitting in Reston, Virginia, and when they arrive in this volume all at once, they utterly degrade the system. They slow down what our members expect to be a nearly instantaneous transmission of electronic e-mail messages.

It's just as if they pulled up to a McDonald's and dumped three busloads of people there. That would have the effect of creating a log jam, and if you were just trying to get a meal at McDonald's, you couldn't get it, because you'd be behind 300 busloads of people. That degradation of the quality of service has been recognized by the Fourth Circuit in particular in the Multi-Channel TV case as a form of irreparable injury.

The second and perhaps most insidious form of the irreparable injury is the good will damage it does to our members. They don't want this stuff. They want us to block it. They complain to us at 100,000 on average complaints a day about spam, and they hold America Online accountable for not preventing it, and when we get the messages back, the vast majority of those messages are saying to us, you do something about this, America Online.

Now America Online has tried its level best technically and through pleading and we've threatened to stop this practice, but they have no interest in stopping this practice. They have no interest in the good will of our customers. They have an interest in selling cyber-pornography. So unless the Court enjoins this practice, there is no technical cure, and they are not ever willingly going to stop.

So we're injured in two ways. Our computer system is downgraded, and our customers are infuriated by this. They say, however, that their injury from an injunction would outweigh that injury to us. I say poppycock.

What they would have you believe if you were to enjoin this practice, Your Honor, is that you would put them out of business, but that's just a conclusion that has no factual support at all.

Bear in mind what they're doing. They're advertising. They're shifting the cost of advertising, receiving, sorting, and distributing their direct marketing to us by dumping it on us over our objection, but it's just their advertising.

As the court said in CompuServe, there is simply no reason that you can't advertise in a more legitimate way. Send it to people who want it. Pay to send it to people who want it. Post it on the Web browser. Buy a billboard or do what most businesses of this kind do: Buy an ad in the back of a dirty magazine. There are legitimate ways to advertise this business.

The problem is they have to pay for it. And what they want in this case is advertising for free. Well, what business doesn't? It's not even free, Your Honor. They want advertising that we pay for. It's as if someone beamed commercials to NBC and said, "Air these over your airwaves, please."

The economics, I think, that we learned from Mr. Tajalle yesterday fully support the conclusion that they would not be meaningfully injured at all by this injunction. These are his numbers, so I presume they're undisputed.

He told us that in the first nine months of 1997, they have gross revenues of over $2 million from this pornography business. He told us that they enjoy a profit rate of 15 to 20 percent on that $2 million, astronomical in any industry. He told us that their cost of advertising that they incur is between 2 and 3.5 percent of gross revenues. Can you imagine a direct marketing business that has an advertising budget that low?

But it's no mystery in this case. The cost of advertising isn't that low. America Online is paying it. All we're asking by way of this injunction is not that you put them out of business, but that the Court ask them to bear their cost of advertising their business. That is not only not an irreparable injury to them; that's no injury at all.

You can deposit any amount into a bank account, though you may have to file a small amoutn of paperwork declaring where it came from if it's over $10,000

Or, to rephrase what you said, you cannot deposit more than $10,000 without filing the proper forms. In fact, any "irregular" transaction will be reported to the authorities.

You are free to keep $10,000 in a cookie jar all you want.

This is legal, unless your house is searched and the money discovered. Then it may be seized based on new interpretations of old laws, and new anti-terrorist laws like the USA Patriot Act.

You can carry any amount of negotiable item into most countries, though you have to decolare it if it's over a certain amount. In the US, it's $10,000

The US treasury disagrees with you. Fail to file acceptable reasons, and the penalties can be quite severe.

What do you mean, sick and twisted things? Something like this?
"my document" hangs when explored
all fords ever maked
rape step by step pics
A place to play dating tests for kids age 11 to find out if I'm boyfriend material.
GAY WOMEN SPANK ME AND ARE SHITTING JIZZ OUT OF THEIR CUNTS
pres.bush in picture with hitler
WOMEN NUDE THAT 18 YEAR OLDS CAN LOOK AT!
touch typping
spell for larger penis

Nope, never seen such a disgusting site, sorry. Not here at work, anyway.

Na, I think the calculation got messed up by using fuzzy numbers...Speaking of it, I feel a litte fuzzy myself...

I say let's subscribe postmaster@ebayupdates.com to a bunch of OPT-in mailing lists. Also, we can also let the credit card companies know that who ever lives at 1742 Bolton Village Lane, Niceville FL 32578 is open for receiving junkmail. We should also send qspam52@aol.com lots of junk email as well as subscribing it more junk email lists. Though, it would appear that it is just a spam email account someone used. Though we could, however, call 713-552-6332 at all odd times of the day just to bug the crap out of the person. Or better yet, let's just go down there and TP whoever lives at that address and put a bag of crap on their doorstep and light it on fire. :-)

I'm sure that the parent post may look insightful, but the moderators have been led astray. The poster doesn't know what he's talking about, or is a troll. Probably both.
Thank you for your comments Anonymous Coward. I have had professors and mathematicians at the University of Chicago and Notre Dame look at my mathematics before, and although I cannot claim to be a mathematician, they have certainly agreed that I know something about which I talk about.

If the value is N^N, then each additional user multiplies the value by (N+1) * ((N+1)/N)^N, which is about (N+1)*e for large N. If adding the millionth user makes a network a few million times more valuable than it was before, then you have a poor definition of value.

I'm not exactly sure when or where N^N was introducted to this line of discussion. I was refering to N! which, although related to N^{nth power}, actually increases faster than N^{nth). Perhaps I am wrong. The fact of the matter is that it increases quickly, and it accelerates as it increases.

Group theory and quantum theory are not relevant here. If the poster had enough of a mathematics background to understand either of those topics, though, then he would not have misunderstood N^N.

Well, Anonymous Coward, I would suggest reading some texts including Cisco's Internetworking Technologies Handbook and Donald Knuth's The Art of Computer Programming. While you are at it, you may want to check out some stuff on Quantum Graph Theory.

"Graph theory combinatorics" is not a term anyone working in graph theory or combinatorics would use, and if they did, they would not elevate this trivial problem by claiming that they are relevant anyway.

Except for the 56,000 people who are recorded by google as having used those three words together in a webpage. Oh, wait, here is a conference on it, and here is a plug-in for mathematica. Oh, wait, they teach classes and hold conferences and seminars on group theory and combinatorics. (Have you ever hear of adjectives?) And more over, these are the basic mathematics used to discuss world problems, such as poverty, hunger, disease, and war.

Linear dynamics is not relevant, and probably nobody thought it was.

Except for the person who said that the problem was exponential or logarithmic.

Eigenfunctions and eigenvalues are not relevant here.

It appears to me that you don't know how to use eigenfunctions and eigenvalues to calculate quantum graphs, or to solve real world problems in quantum computing, fiber optics, network routing, group addressing, domain name spacing, etc. etc. etc. I suppose that it never occured to you that quantum graph, or a network graph, such as is described by Reed's Law could be described by a matrix or an eigenvalue, did you?

Whatever you think "modular mathematics" is, it's not relevant either.

You know what. I'm just not going to be drawn into this argument.

Much of the rest of what the parent's poster said doesn't make any sense. I think it's clear that he's full of shit.

Excellent strategy! When confronted with something you don't understand, resort to the use of vulgarities! Full of shit I am! It's a biological phenomena which results from eating food. I'm also full of water, proteins, amino acids, calcium deposits, muscle masses, and nucleic acids. But I try to be polite, and I try not to curse.

Reed's law is indeed rubbish. Where would anyone get N^N anyway? Someone could be forgiven for thinking that every possible subset of users adds some minimum value to the network, and they'd get 2^N. That would be a dubious proposition of itself. But N^N is ridiculous

Agreed! N^N is rubbish! I don't know where you got that expression. If you observe my posting, nowhere did I use the expression 'N^N'. Perhaps you were attempting to raise 'N' by 'N+1' or something. I'm not sure. I was attempting to express a concept which is typically refered to with the notation 'N!' although in my haste, I did not compose that message with that particular expression. Anyhow, I agree that N^N is rediculous. Why did you bring it up?

Here's some info about a somone in power who's sexual orientation and passiveness may have allowed 9/11.
(cough-Tenet-cough)

The Europeans are attempting to send large payload into orbit without spending 1% of the US GNP in the process.

Remember that the Europeans are the ones who pioneered comercially affordable access to space. They suceeded brilliantly. Now they're trying to do even better. At the moment they're having problems with their new generation of rocket.

http://members.aol.com/cclinker/subatom.htm

Unfortunately, its text based, so you don't get to see the symbols and pictures and what not...but hey, its a bigger list!

This doesn't matter, what matters is whether or not you believe that people have a right to bear arms or not. If people have that right, taking it away would be wrong.

The reality is, when the situation comes up that people need to bear arms (the Jews in the Warsaw ghetto) almost no one will oppose them having them. The argument that people will usually make is "well, we aren't Jews in the Warsaw ghetto. If you think we are then you are insane, and trivializing the tragedy of the Holocaust." (Oh, and the new argument which is "Well, they ended up losing anyway," which is the argument that "people would never be able to resist the U. S. armed forces for long if the government turned into a dictatorship, so that's not a good argument.")

I think really it comes down to a matter of faith in the State. People who believe that various individual freedoms stand in the way of paradise on earth through central planning will always favor gun control. I mean, what was crime like under the totalitarians? I don't know what street crime was like, but the crimes committed by agents of the State dwarf the imagination in their enormity.

On the other hand, it is true. In many cases when people attempt to resist a modern mechanized army, they end up ground into the dust. Which is better, to willingly go to a relocation camp, or resist through force of arms? It's not an easy question. What would have happened if the Japanese-Americans who ended up imprisoned at Manzanar had resisted, en masse, the unjust imprisonment and theft of their property at the hands of the State? Would they have been massacred, or would the executive order have been rescinded?

I don't trust the State. I think its agents are corrupt. You can have my gun when you pry it from my cold, dead hands.

This site has a fine collection of abandoned stations on Boston's MBTA system.

I'm sure this hasn't been covered by people who want to make fun of AOL's CD spamming policies. In fact, I'm sure using a major search engine would fail to produce any results

No sooner do I write what I wrote, so I notice that of course there is a page dedicated to Boston, cited from the very helpful NYC reference. Should've figured! Other pages for othe cities abound. I only thought this was an obscure interest. :)

Isn't the net cool? For bringing us information like this that we really, really need? Well, beats watching sitcoms.

You could always just do it with Good ol' Calculus.

W e l l , I 'l l l e t y o u d e c i d e f o r y o u r s e l f .

W e l l , I 'l l l e t y o u d e c i d e f o r y o u r s e l f .

I know you don't want to hear this, but your ad is the equivalent of making a 3-foot orange steel rectange, painting a black border on it, putting the word "Detour" with and arrow, and placing that sign on the road 50 ft. in front of the entrance to your store.

Does the cancel button function? It doesn't appear to. Does the fake dialog do what it said it would? Nope. Are you selling something? Yes.

This all comes under misrepresentation, and, AFAIK, that's not legal, especially if you're trying to hawk your goods.

Just my 2 cents. I really don't care too much about these popups, or yours... they benefit my business (I get paid to remove all this spyware...)

baptizedinfire@aol.com
baptizedinfire@aol.com

Sorry, just needed to do that. -1 please.

Golomb rulers refer to a spacing technique that is used in a variety of areas such as astronomy (placement of antennas), xray sensing devices (placement of sensors), and myriad other fields such as data encryption.

>It's also a fossil fuel so it increases the amount of CO2 in the air.

As I recall, whenever you burn any substance containing hydrocarbon(s) (incl sugar, gasoline, biodiesal, etc.) you release CO2 into the atmosphere. For a lesson in the basic chemistry of burning hydrocarbon fuels, see this article.

I agree that low sulpher is a good thing though as that will help reduce environmental issues.

Note: Slashdot is currently having problems letting my ISP's registration requests go through, as well as some posts. (Is anyone else on Comcast using a router and firewalls having this problem?)

Half of the users above take into account their child hood computing experiences being the average or "norm." Ofcourse, anyone with the interlect of even a seven year old should be able to comprehend "everyone is different." Thirteen year old girls don't know the difference between Mac and Windows in some case, however, they do know how to chat, use the internet and check their E-mail. Is this incompetance? No, not by any means in my opinion. They're using the computer for the sole purpose of communication, or at a lower level to complete task(s). These task(s) vary and so do the skill levels required. To put a one size fits all logo on computing is crazy talk. Regarding three year olds, I'd begin computing with playing with a mouse and programming a custom application with the pictures of friends and relatives as a memory game which teaches "things represented on the screen are real, there's a picture of mommy and aunte wanda!" Once again, that is opinion.

Regarding my childhood: My parents bought me electronic toys... B I G mistake on their wallets part. I constantly threw them acrossed the room smashed them and crushed them... Why? At the age I was too young to manuever a screw driver I already wanted to know how they worked! At around 6-9 I was driving my mother insane with my little useless "inventions." When we finally got our first comptuter in 1997 I was hooked, and from here on is the timeline of no ordinary child, but what I imagine is far from "extraordinary" status.

1997:
* Mastered the Windows Operating System

1998:
* Trashed 2-5 computers (33mhz x 3, 25mhz x 1, 90mhz x1) to learn the internals of AT/ATX cases

* Learned HTML and started on Perl while creating and working at :: blushes :: fansites for The Legend of Zelda and Pokemon.

1999:

* Mastered HTML, Perl and Visual Basic
* First exposure to "unix" style socket programming

2000:

* Furthered knowledge of web design and such, second attempt at C++

* Loaded FreeBSD on a 233mhz built from scratch from donated parts

2001:

* Learned PHP and MySQL
* Began coding effecient and advanced code with high levels of understanding
* Bought "lots" of and or bulk computer hardware and either bundled or restored it, and made $2,000 on eBay in four months during school with startup money of just $70.
* Educated myself in the internals of Cannon and IBM Laptops

2002:

* I now know: HTML, Perl, Visual Basic, PHP, Java*, C*

* Slackware 8.1 + VMWare now serve as my main operating system

* I was a server administrator for three months on my own dedicated server I was renting from serverbeach.com$, which was cruely shutdown due to a billing error when Commerce Bank lost my account for the second time%.

* Not fluent in, I have either read books or putz around in the source but have not yet "wet my feet" or code any productive applications as of yet.

$ They shutdown my server when there was a billing error due to a lost account (see below). When it was straightened out, they blamed the crash on PLESK, so I said "I'd like a free change to ENSIM if this will insure the reliability of my server." They then installed Ensim and it crashed the first day, and they then directed me to a pay per incident Ensim service. For three months of payments in increments of $119 I lost $357 and was unable to continue my low cost hosting service or my eBay operations. As of now I am in school and broke with a Thinkpad who just needs $50 of parts and some TLC.

% Commerce Bank allowed my father to be the custodian on a checking account which bared my name as well. When this account was sent to the FDIC after the checks, check book, and Visa were issued it was flagged, and shut down. Minors in the state of Pennsylvania may not have checking accounts, putting too much faith in the bank and not enough in our insincts of minors holding checking accounts I had to start over with a new account. This new account was then LOST with a balance of $220 for a server payment. This resulted in my server being shutdown, blah blah blah.

I hope this was entertaining, but to say the least if the kid has the will, and a way

[if I didn't make it obvious, I will come right out and say out and say I would be classified as 'lower-middle class" and by no means was given something for nothing by my parents]

it can be done. Starting from grandma's check for $50 dollars, and a savings account hooked up to a Paypal account and verification using Mommy's credit card ***with permision***. They could be doing business on eBay under the supervision / in conjunction with a parent or guardian.

With a library card or an internet connection a child can begin programming. With a $15 dollar obsolete computer you can teach your child about the inner workings and basics of components etc. It all can make more of a difference then you know, however Linux vrs Windows on a three year old? The only thing that may result in a child reaching for the Rubber Tux over the Rubber Ducks.

Take this for what it is, the above is a true story missing so many steps and details it is laughable. I left out the medical issues I had to overcome at a young age, for the sole reason for everyone's problem somebody else has one more severe.

Encourage your child and your self to stay strong and go for your goals in whatever you do!

PARENTS PLEASE REMEMBER THE FOCUS IS 1) SCHOOL, 2) COMPUTER AND THAT IF GRADES ARE MANTAINED NOT TO CLIP A CHILDS WINGS. THE INTERNET IS A DANGEROUS PLACE AND I ADMIT BEING EXPOSED TO THINGS WAY TO EARLY AND MUST STRESS AUTOMATED OR OLD FASHIONED SUPER VISION!!!

I spend 6-12 hours on the computer a day, they call me "screens", this was first punished, frowned upon and is now accepted that it is both a job, for my education and entertainment and an exceptable replacement for just about any device.

Thanks,
Jeff "Jephree" Mealo

P.S. If any other child programmers are out their drop me a line or hit me up on aim at Xx Jeph M xX. If anyone has comments, or questions be my guest.

P.S.S. Complaints or flames can be send to /dev/null.

I think you misspelled "*WHAM!* *WHAM!* *WHAM!* *WHAM!*". Hope this helps.

AOL doesn't require you to use them as your ISP. It's only $14.95 a month for the content sans ISP.

Dave Ahl himself is selling a ton of old Creative Computing books here.

Here is a direct link to the movie:

http://progressive.stream.aol.com/newline/gl/newli ne/lordoftherings/TheTwoTowers-tlr_fs.l.mov

This way you can save it to your hard disk (41MB) and not needlessly waste bandwidth (yours, your ISP's, or the host's) every time you want to see it. You can also share it with your friends that don't have broadband by cutting it to a CD. Enjoy.

Link

Direct Link 40MB - HERE

No, it was Tweak. Know your South Park.

Here's an episode description

I was told too late that one can go blind for doing that

Really? I was told the same thing about masturbating...

Then I found this

[This article attempts to document a vile, ungodly practice that runs rampant through the homosexual geek and hacker community, a practice known as Taco-snotting, or simply snotting. Taco-snotting is something that few geeks dare talk about in free or open conversation, but it is nonetheless a widely-practiced and dangerous form of homosexuality. If you or anyone you know has ever engaged in Taco-snotting, please get professional help before it is too late. ed.]

Why do I keep receiving emails from an individual calling himself CmdrTaco?

You have been receiving unsolicited mailings from a certain Robert CmdrTaco Malda, owner of the popular technology website slashdot.org. Actually, its not a very popular site in the common sense of the word; the site is rife with pimply, antisocial geeks and hackers, zit-faced nerds, communists, dirty GNU hippies, and other societal rejects and outcasts. Its also home to one of the worlds largest suspected pdophile rings, the infamous Slashdot crew.

Whenever Mr. Malda gets bored (and who wouldnt, running a site like Slashdot all day), he roams through the user database, penis in hand, looking for people who might enjoy engaging in homosexual activities with him. How he determines this is anyones guess; but if you have a homosexual-sounding nickname, or a nick with a letter of the English alphabet in it, youre a potential candidate.

This time, he found you. Lucky you.

Mr. Malda seems to be speaking in some sort of code. Do you know what it means?

CmdrTacos code language is relatively easy to decipher. This pervert prefers to speak in thinly-veiled sexual innuendo (yes, thats right: he wants you) to evade the watchful eye of Slashdots parent corporation, VA Software. Mr. Maldas Commander is, of course, his penis: a small, withered little thing that lives in his pants and only comes out in the presence of other male geeks or at the beck and call of Maldas own lubed-up right hand. His Taco bells are the shriveled testicles that droop beneath his Commander, and his Taco sauce is his thin, runny semen. It should be more than obvious to you now what he means if he asked you to ring his Taco bells or taste his gourmet Taco sauce.

I would also guess CmdrTaco asked you to engage in a practice known as Taco-snotting and, if he was in a particularly depraved mood at the time, a circle-snot.

Good Lord. And, yes, he did. What is Taco-snotting?

Taco-snotting is the term used by Robert Malda to refer to the depraved act of fellating another man (homo- or heterosexual; CmdrTaco is rumoured to prefer raping unwilling victims), then blowing the semen out his nose and back onto the face and body of his victim. Naturally, a long, bubbly stream of milky-white semen is left on CmdrTacos face, dribbling out of his nose and down his cheek: hence the term, Taco-snotting.

And if thats not bad enough

A circle-snot is a Taco-snotting circle-jerk, another practice common among the Slashdot crew. CmdrTaco, CowboiKneel, and Homos get together and snot each other with their gooey, sticky cum spooging their jizz-snot all over each others faces and pasty, white bodies, until theyre covered head to toe with their own and each others man juice. This vile, ungodly ritual can go on for hours. For the homosexual penetration that follows this lengthy foreplay, Roblowme is usually there to provide plenty of anal lubricant; he owns a limousine service and has ample supplies of motor oil and axle grease ready to go.

To complete this perverted orgy, fellow faggots Michael, Timothy, and Jamie will usually join in, dressed in tight leather mock-S.S. uniforms, jack boots, and leather gloves. The homosexual shenanigans that follow are nearly beyond description. The whole group begins to snot each others spunk and whip each others pudgy asses with riding crops and chains until their pale, white geek bodies are exhausted and soaked in stinking sweat from the hours of passionate, homosexual revelry.

Ewwwwww. So, can I stop receiving these emails?

Hopefully, but I wouldnt count on it.

To begin with, you most likely forgot to uncheck the Willing to Snot checkbox in your account preferences. CmdrTaco has probably already got the hots for your wad (do you have a homosexual-sounding nick?), and hes probably already been lurking outside your bathroom window for weeks with a camera, some tissues and lube, just waiting to pounce and declare you his new bitch. Theres no escaping a geek in heat (trust me), so its probably too late for you, but you can possibly rectify this situation. To remove yourself from CmdrTacos sights, log into your Slashdot account, go to your user page, click on Messages, and uncheck the box next to Willing to Snot. Maybe hell ignore you. Probably not.

I cant stop receiving these emails from CmdrTaco!?

If you indulge him in a Taco-snot or two, he might leave you alone. You might also want to look into mail filtering, restraining orders, or purchasing a heavy, blunt object capable of warding off rampaging homosexual geeks in heat. Trust me, when they charge oh, the humanity. If he gets you, and you let him Taco-snot all over you, you will most likely end up tied up in his basement to be used as his sex slave for the rest of your life (or until he accidentally drowns you in spunk in a circle-snot).

Have you ever been Taco-snotted?

Unfortunately, yes. I first met Mr. Malda at an Open Source Convention. He invited me back to his room for a game of Quake and some gourmet Tacos, but when I got there, the perverted geek jumped me and handcuffed me to his bed, stripping me. After taking his Commander out of his pants, Mr. Taco made me suck the withered thing six times, virtually nonstop. He then performed his vile Taco-snotting ritual on me three times over the next two hours, bringing me to orgasm after orgasm after sweaty, mind-numbing orgasm then he snotted my own thick, gooey jizz back onto my face out of his nostrils! He snotted me two more times, first into my mouth, then again on my exposed belly.

CmdrTaco invited several of his Open Source (or rather, Open Sauce man sauce) buddies over to continue their ungodly snotfest. European hacker and known berfaggot Linux Torvalds raped my ass with his monolithic kernel; his partner-in-crime Anal Cox used their network stack in a multitude of unspeakable ways on and in every orifice of my defenseless, tender, young body. Michael Sims was there in his leather Nazi uniform, caning my previously-virginal ass with a bamboo pole and ranting about all those Censorware freaks out to get him.

That is so disgusting! How did you finally escape?

After about 16 hours of countless unholy, homosexual atrocities perpetrated against my restrained body, they all finally went to sleep on top of me, sweat-soaked and exhausted. I was left there, completely covered in bubbly, translucent jizz-snot, chained to the bed, with half a dozen fat, pasty-white fags lying around and on top of me. Fortunately the spooge coating my flesh worked wonderfully as a lubricant I was able to squirm my way out of the handcuffs and slip out the back door (of the apartment, not their back doors). Im just glad I survived the awful ordeal. These sexually-repressed hackers had a lot of built-up spunk in their wads I couldve easily been drowned!

Thats horrible. Does Taco-snotting have anything to do with CmdrTacos special taco?

No, thats a different disgusting perversion CmdrTaco indulges himself in. Mr. Malda is usually not satisfied with merely snotting your own jizz back onto your face, he most often enjoys involving his own bodily fluids in his twisted games. WeatherTroll has spent some time trying to educate the Slashdot readership about this vile practice (emphasis added):

You may be wondering what CmdrTacos special taco is. You will be wishing that you hadnt been wondering after you finish reading this post. To make his special taco, CmdrTaco takes a taco shell and shits on it. He then adds lettuce, takes out his tiny withered dick (otherwise known as his Commander), puts his special taco sauce on it which means he jacks off on the taco, and adds a compound to make the person who eats the taco unconscious. Of course, the compound does not make the person unconscious until the taco is fully eaten. Thus CmdrTaco force-feeds the taco to the unsuspecting victim. After all, who would knowingly eat shit and CmdrTacos jizz?

After the victim is unconscious, he is held against his will and used for CmdrTacos nefarious homosexual purposes. This includes shoving taco shells up the victims ass, Taco-snotting, and getting Jon Katz involved. Trust me, you do not want Jon Katz anywhere near your unconscious body. Also, rumor has it CmdrTaco is looking for a new goatse.cx guy. Dont let it be you!

Different ungodly perversion, yet no less revolting. It should be clear to you now that Robert CmdrTaco Malda is a very, very sick individual, as are most of the Slashdot editors.

Does Jon Katz get involved in any of this? I thought he was a pdophile, not a homosexual.

Actually, Jon Katz is a homosexual pdophile. Hes also a coprophiliac, and, many suspect, a zoophile.

Mr. Katz is somewhat of a loner and doesnt involve himself in the circle-snots, but that doest mean hes any less of a freak than the rest of the Slashdot crew. Katz often engages in a game called juicy-douching with a harem of little-boy slaves that he has collected over the years: yet another vile practice which involves administering an enema to himself of the little boys urine (forced out of them with a pair of pincers), spooging the vile muck from his ass back into the enema bag, then dribbling and slathering the goo all over himself and the boys chained, naked bodies. If hes in the mood, he will sometimes skip refilling the enema bag from his distended anus and just squirt it from his ass onto the crying, terrified boys. Unwilling boys are further tortured with the pincers until they comply and allow Mr. Katz to juicy-douche them at will. A boy will usually last about two years before Mr. Katz either accidentally drowns them in diarrhea or kills them once they get too old, usually around 13 or 14.

Not content with being a pdophilic coprophile, Mr. Katz is also quite the zoophile. As if the sexual escapades with the helpless little boys arent enough, Jon usually enjoys his juicy-douches best when his penis is firmly planted in a female goats anus. He is also rumoured to get off on watching his little boys eat the goats small, bean-like turds, and he often kills his older boys by letting his goats trample them.

Are you getting hard writing this?

Why, yes. :) Join me in a WIPO-snot?

No, thanks. Im already CmdrTacos boi toi.

[This article attempts to document a vile, ungodly practice that runs rampant through the homosexual geek and hacker community, a practice known as Taco-snotting, or simply snotting. Taco-snotting is something that few geeks dare talk about in free or open conversation, but it is nonetheless a widely-practiced and dangerous form of homosexuality. If you or anyone you know has ever engaged in Taco-snotting, please get professional help before it is too late. ed.]

Why do I keep receiving emails from an individual calling himself CmdrTaco?

You have been receiving unsolicited mailings from a certain Robert CmdrTaco Malda, owner of the popular technology website slashdot.org. Actually, its not a very popular site in the common sense of the word; the site is rife with pimply, antisocial geeks and hackers, zit-faced nerds, communists, dirty GNU hippies, and other societal rejects and outcasts. Its also home to one of the worlds largest suspected pdophile rings, the infamous Slashdot crew.

Whenever Mr. Malda gets bored (and who wouldnt, running a site like Slashdot all day), he roams through the user database, penis in hand, looking for people who might enjoy engaging in homosexual activities with him. How he determines this is anyones guess; but if you have a homosexual-sounding nickname, or a nick with a letter of the English alphabet in it, youre a potential candidate.

This time, he found you. Lucky you.

Mr. Malda seems to be speaking in some sort of code. Do you know what it means?

CmdrTacos code language is relatively easy to decipher. This pervert prefers to speak in thinly-veiled sexual innuendo (yes, thats right: he wants you) to evade the watchful eye of Slashdots parent corporation, VA Software. Mr. Maldas Commander is, of course, his penis: a small, withered little thing that lives in his pants and only comes out in the presence of other male geeks or at the beck and call of Maldas own lubed-up right hand. His Taco bells are the shriveled testicles that droop beneath his Commander, and his Taco sauce is his thin, runny semen. It should be more than obvious to you now what he means if he asked you to ring his Taco bells or taste his gourmet Taco sauce.

I would also guess CmdrTaco asked you to engage in a practice known as Taco-snotting and, if he was in a particularly depraved mood at the time, a circle-snot.

Good Lord. And, yes, he did. What is Taco-snotting?

Taco-snotting is the term used by Robert Malda to refer to the depraved act of fellating another man (homo- or heterosexual; CmdrTaco is rumoured to prefer raping unwilling victims), then blowing the semen out his nose and back onto the face and body of his victim. Naturally, a long, bubbly stream of milky-white semen is left on CmdrTacos face, dribbling out of his nose and down his cheek: hence the term, Taco-snotting.

And if thats not bad enough

A circle-snot is a Taco-snotting circle-jerk, another practice common among the Slashdot crew. CmdrTaco, CowboiKneel, and Homos get together and snot each other with their gooey, sticky cum spooging their jizz-snot all over each others faces and pasty, white bodies, until theyre covered head to toe with their own and each others man juice. This vile, ungodly ritual can go on for hours. For the homosexual penetration that follows this lengthy foreplay, Roblowme is usually there to provide plenty of anal lubricant; he owns a limousine service and has ample supplies of motor oil and axle grease ready to go.

To complete this perverted orgy, fellow faggots Michael, Timothy, and Jamie will usually join in, dressed in tight leather mock-S.S. uniforms, jack boots, and leather gloves. The homosexual shenanigans that follow are nearly beyond description. The whole group begins to snot each others spunk and whip each others pudgy asses with riding crops and chains until their pale, white geek bodies are exhausted and soaked in stinking sweat from the hours of passionate, homosexual revelry.

Ewwwwww. So, can I stop receiving these emails?

Hopefully, but I wouldnt count on it.

To begin with, you most likely forgot to uncheck the Willing to Snot checkbox in your account preferences. CmdrTaco has probably already got the hots for your wad (do you have a homosexual-sounding nick?), and hes probably already been lurking outside your bathroom window for weeks with a camera, some tissues and lube, just waiting to pounce and declare you his new bitch. Theres no escaping a geek in heat (trust me), so its probably too late for you, but you can possibly rectify this situation. To remove yourself from CmdrTacos sights, log into your Slashdot account, go to your user page, click on Messages, and uncheck the box next to Willing to Snot. Maybe hell ignore you. Probably not.

I cant stop receiving these emails from CmdrTaco!?

If you indulge him in a Taco-snot or two, he might leave you alone. You might also want to look into mail filtering, restraining orders, or purchasing a heavy, blunt object capable of warding off rampaging homosexual geeks in heat. Trust me, when they charge oh, the humanity. If he gets you, and you let him Taco-snot all over you, you will most likely end up tied up in his basement to be used as his sex slave for the rest of your life (or until he accidentally drowns you in spunk in a circle-snot).

Have you ever been Taco-snotted?

Unfortunately, yes. I first met Mr. Malda at an Open Source Convention. He invited me back to his room for a game of Quake and some gourmet Tacos, but when I got there, the perverted geek jumped me and handcuffed me to his bed, stripping me. After taking his Commander out of his pants, Mr. Taco made me suck the withered thing six times, virtually nonstop. He then performed his vile Taco-snotting ritual on me three times over the next two hours, bringing me to orgasm after orgasm after sweaty, mind-numbing orgasm then he snotted my own thick, gooey jizz back onto my face out of his nostrils! He snotted me two more times, first into my mouth, then again on my exposed belly.

CmdrTaco invited several of his Open Source (or rather, Open Sauce man sauce) buddies over to continue their ungodly snotfest. European hacker and known berfaggot Linux Torvalds raped my ass with his monolithic kernel; his partner-in-crime Anal Cox used their network stack in a multitude of unspeakable ways on and in every orifice of my defenseless, tender, young body. Michael Sims was there in his leather Nazi uniform, caning my previously-virginal ass with a bamboo pole and ranting about all those Censorware freaks out to get him.

That is so disgusting! How did you finally escape?

After about 16 hours of countless unholy, homosexual atrocities perpetrated against my restrained body, they all finally went to sleep on top of me, sweat-soaked and exhausted. I was left there, completely covered in bubbly, translucent jizz-snot, chained to the bed, with half a dozen fat, pasty-white fags lying around and on top of me. Fortunately the spooge coating my flesh worked wonderfully as a lubricant I was able to squirm my way out of the handcuffs and slip out the back door (of the apartment, not their back doors). Im just glad I survived the awful ordeal. These sexually-repressed hackers had a lot of built-up spunk in their wads I couldve easily been drowned!

Thats horrible. Does Taco-snotting have anything to do with CmdrTacos special taco?

No, thats a different disgusting perversion CmdrTaco indulges himself in. Mr. Malda is usually not satisfied with merely snotting your own jizz back onto your face, he most often enjoys involving his own bodily fluids in his twisted games. WeatherTroll has spent some time trying to educate the Slashdot readership about this vile practice (emphasis added):

You may be wondering what CmdrTacos special taco is. You will be wishing that you hadnt been wondering after you finish reading this post. To make his special taco, CmdrTaco takes a taco shell and shits on it. He then adds lettuce, takes out his tiny withered dick (otherwise known as his Commander), puts his special taco sauce on it which means he jacks off on the taco, and adds a compound to make the person who eats the taco unconscious. Of course, the compound does not make the person unconscious until the taco is fully eaten. Thus CmdrTaco force-feeds the taco to the unsuspecting victim. After all, who would knowingly eat shit and CmdrTacos jizz?

After the victim is unconscious, he is held against his will and used for CmdrTacos nefarious homosexual purposes. This includes shoving taco shells up the victims ass, Taco-snotting, and getting Jon Katz involved. Trust me, you do not want Jon Katz anywhere near your unconscious body. Also, rumor has it CmdrTaco is looking for a new goatse.cx guy. Dont let it be you!

Different ungodly perversion, yet no less revolting. It should be clear to you now that Robert CmdrTaco Malda is a very, very sick individual, as are most of the Slashdot editors.

Does Jon Katz get involved in any of this? I thought he was a pdophile, not a homosexual.

Actually, Jon Katz is a homosexual pdophile. Hes also a coprophiliac, and, many suspect, a zoophile.

Mr. Katz is somewhat of a loner and doesnt involve himself in the circle-snots, but that doest mean hes any less of a freak than the rest of the Slashdot crew. Katz often engages in a game called juicy-douching with a harem of little-boy slaves that he has collected over the years: yet another vile practice which involves administering an enema to himself of the little boys urine (forced out of them with a pair of pincers), spooging the vile muck from his ass back into the enema bag, then dribbling and slathering the goo all over himself and the boys chained, naked bodies. If hes in the mood, he will sometimes skip refilling the enema bag from his distended anus and just squirt it from his ass onto the crying, terrified boys. Unwilling boys are further tortured with the pincers until they comply and allow Mr. Katz to juicy-douche them at will. A boy will usually last about two years before Mr. Katz either accidentally drowns them in diarrhea or kills them once they get too old, usually around 13 or 14.

Not content with being a pdophilic coprophile, Mr. Katz is also quite the zoophile. As if the sexual escapades with the helpless little boys arent enough, Jon usually enjoys his juicy-douches best when his penis is firmly planted in a female goats anus. He is also rumoured to get off on watching his little boys eat the goats small, bean-like turds, and he often kills his older boys by letting his goats trample them.

Are you getting hard writing this?

Why, yes. :) Join me in a WIPO-snot?

No, thanks. Im already CmdrTacos boi toi.

And check out the idiot posters...

Amazing what is considered "insightful" these days. This knuckle-dragger seems like he is barely able to understand how fire works, much less a keyboard.

'millitary' is correctly spelled 'military'.
'thats' should actually be written as "that's".
He also needs to learn what the [SHIFT] button is for.

Others have already reiterated the definition of terrorism. I would just like to point out that the United States Military is hardly a bastion of nobility. For such things as exposing american citizens to nuclear fallout or toxic gases, I really don't get to worked up about hacking until bullets are flying.
So go wave your stupiÈâáag. You are proof that ignorance is bliss...

Since the actual site pointed to by the article has succumb to the infamous Slashdot effect and that means a lot of picture-hungry /.ers, I decided against hosting my pictures through my cable modem. I put them up on my old AOL account so you can pound AOL's servers to death instead. ;) If they don't load the first time, just keep hitting reload... AOL can take it.

Here's the result of a few seconds of running around with my digital camera... A virtual tour of the network at my house.

mypc.jpg This is the PC in my bedroom. P3 850, 256MB RAM, RADEON 8500LE, 40GB Maxtor. I'm upgrading it to an Athlon XP 2000 pretty soon.

bro1.jpg This is one of my brother's PCs. P3 750, 256MB RAM, Geforce4Ti, 40GB Maxtor.

bro2.jpg This is my brother's other PC. Duron 1GHz, 128MB RAM, Radeon 7200, 20GB Maxtor.

guest.jpg Guest room PC (What guest room is complete without a PC?!). K6-2 500MHz, 96MB RAM, Radeon 7000, 8GB HD.

office.jpg Office room PC. P4 1.6GHz, 256MB RAM, Radeon 7000, 80GB Maxtor.

hidden.jpg Hidden office room server. (Used as a Win2k Terminal Server) Celeron 850MHz, 512MB RAM, onboard SiS video (no monitor anyway!), 40GB Maxtor.

tv.jpg Entertainment center PC. Used for watching DivX movies. Yes, that is a progressive scan bigscreen HDTV. 42" of Slashdot, baby. Athlon 1GHz, 256MB RAM, Radeon 7000 Dual Display Edition, 8GB HD.

server.jpg Linux (Slackware!) NAT/Fileserver box. 200MHz PPro, 64MB RAM, generic ISA VGA card, 80GB Maxtor, 40GB Maxtor, 20GB Western Digital drives. In case you're wondering, yes, they're pretty much full.

wirebox.jpg Do not touch any of these wires! ;) With the cover removed from the IBM home director panel, you can see the UPS, the cable modem, the 8 port 100Mbps switch, the 4 way satelite switch (behind the cable modem), the video distribution amplifier and the phone line splitter.