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The more people I meet from East Europe, the more I am convinced that the two worlds were much more similar than what we westerners were raised to believe.
People from former East Germany don't shun their origins as people from Nazi Germany would have (see 79qm DDR, which I am told is a quite precise account of the facts by East Germans). Some are even fond of the old eastern flag. A Czech girl told me that, visiting San Francisco, she was appalled by seeing American girls executing a Spartakiad. They were cheerleaders.

There were abuses of human rights on both fields, sometimes specular in type if not in magnitude; McCarthy in the US, stalinist purges in the USSR (Ok, McCarthy never got to that magnitude); invasion of Czechoslovakia and Hungary there, coups in Greece and Chile here; Vietnam for the US and Afghanistan for the USSR (Ok, the USSR was fighting the good fight and the US not, but their methods did not differ much, and civilians suffered most in both cases).

On the other hand, things went on pretty normally for average people on both sides. It was dangerous being against communism in the USSR as much as it was being a communist in the US, and the likelihood of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union to lose their elections was pretty much the same as the American Communist Party's to win them.

This is not to say "everybody's a human-right criminal, blast human rights, they were all good fellas".
It is to say that, instead of laughing at propaganda crap in other countries, you should think what propaganda they fed you as truth; that is the most dangerous, as nobody is out there telling you how ludicrous lies you are being exposed to. For instance some may be interested in what was going on in 1984.

One thing is watching Goebbels on the Discovery Channel with a Brit telling you what a jerk he was, another one is being a German, who had been on the brink of starvation before nazism, that has no other information channels than the nazi state's, that stands in a cheering crowd, and who, when Joseph asks, "Wolles Sie den totalen Krieg?", cannot help shouting "Ja!".

I'll never understand the British legal system after reading about Tony Martin

yes, i think microsoft sent two of those to Mars! "This planet is copyrighted by Microsoft (C)(R)(TM)1985-2003 inc. Ltd. By landing on "accept" you agree to the Terms And Conditions

He's probably cursing and swearing because this page is being displayed in the browser. (Look closer.)

yeah, Bush just thinks that there might be WMD on Mars.

A quick Google search found a page with quite a few of the documents from the packaging, including that damned card.

A quick Google search found a page with quite a few of the documents from the packaging, including that damned card.

My Commodore 64 was the best games machine I've ever owned, one game where the packaging really stood out (for better and worse) was "Dr. Who and the mines of terror."

This game was great, the packaging featured a picture of the TARDIS on the front with a image of the Doctors brain on the back, inside (along with the 'tape') were numerous documents that really added a lot to the game.

There was however one item that had gave no clue as to why it was included, a credit card sized piece of card in a protective sleeve with three symbols printed on it.

I played through much of the game (about 90% as it turns out) and didn't find a use for the card, as time went on I lost parts of the packaging (including the card).

When I finally went back to the game I found myself stuck at a door, the door required those three symbols from the card to be set correctly to get though, I was screwed. Not till I obtained an "Action Replay Cartridge" and turned "collision detection" off, was I able to get past that damned door. :)

Actually, the German courts told SCO to stick their head up their collective ass. This will just get the courts to push SCO's head further up it's ass, making SCO the first corporate Klein bottle.

Also, check out the Legos version.

I argue on my my website that I could shun proprietary software in order to encourage more people to produce free software. In other words I am using my customer "buying" pressure to favour the supplier who is providing me the best offer to improving that offer.

Totally for my own benefit, but economically providing the same effect

...will it help you make turns on city streets at 200mph?

I really wanted a motorcycle helmet HUD like this when I was a kid.

However, there have also been a number of people who claim I'm overstating the case and that it's not possible to build a real cruise missile without access to sophisticated gear, specialist tools and information not readily available outside the military.

You don't need a *real* cruise missile, you just need a model aircraft. In fact, I've been thinking about getting one (not to build a missile, of course, but just to play with). There are even ones with gas turbines. Hell, do you really need a lot of explosives to terrorize someone/some group? You could even just load a model aircraft up with some colored gas, dump it over a group of people, and probably someone would get trampled to death in the rush to escape. I'm not a chemist, but I'm sure there's a heavier than air colored gas that's nonlethal that can be easily obtained. Even a model helicopter would be fine.

Have to second HeghmoH on Banks. Worth reading for the Ship names alone.
Great writer. Would love to see his stuff on the big screen.

Don't know if this was bad enough to make it to the USA, but the UK and Australia were lucky enough to see Metal Mickey on a regular basis during the early 80's.

Picture

I think the viewer comment here says it best.

"Quite simply, this show sucked the big one. Hard."

"As for Metal Mickey, it's the sort of show that, if you had a choice between being set on fire and watching the show, you'd ask for extra petrol. It's that bad."

(cue music)

Ready, Steady are you set?
For Metal Mickey,
He's the cutest robot yet, Metal Mickey.

He's a lot of fun, (fun)
He weighs a half a ton, (I weigh a half a ton)
He'll be your number one, (I'll be your number one)
But look out, look out!

Electronic Pile, (an electronic pile)
With a silicon smile, (with a silicon smile)
He's got a lot of style, (I've got a lot of style)
So look out, look out!

Ready, Steady, are you set?
For Metal Mickey, (boo-boo bee doo)
He's the cutest robot yet, Metal Mickey.

He's a lot of fun, (I'm alot of fun)
He weighs a half a ton, (I weigh a half a ton)
He'll be your number one, (I'll be your number one)
So look out, look out!

(guitar solo)

So look out, look out!

Ready, Steady are you set?
For Metal Mickey,
He's the cutest robot yet, Metal Mickey.

He's a lot of fun, (fun)
He weighs a half a ton, (I weigh a half a ton)
He'll be your number one, (I'll be your number one)
But look out, look out!

He's Metal Mickey!

Argh, wrong link:

WMD

Time for some caffeine...

Except that you can actually find mp3s on Google, try searching for Weapons Of Mass Destruction and click on 'i feel lucky' and you get kicked here. See! No wmd!

There's a config around to let people play with one hand only when playing wolfenstein enemy territory. The config was made by a guy called Iffy, he has an excellent help and how-to wolfenstein site at http://planetwolfenstein.com/4newbies/

I rest my case

My dad, a former aerospace electronics engineer, still spits fire at the mention of Goldring. It was something to do in the long, dark Scottish winter evenings.

Sometimes it is a real website.

Whether you want to just add a little capacity to your TiVo's drives or turn it into a full-blown home entertainment center hooked into your home LAN, Jeff Keegan has written a massive and all-encompassing book on this rewarding art." Read on for the rest of Jason's review.

So.. Buying a book, then following steps 1 through 10 is considered art nowadays? I guess putting a mod chip in an Xbox is art, too. How about installing a new hard drive in my PC? Does that count?

Save your money and go to a site like this one. Not very artsy but takes you through the steps.

Hacking is an art, following other people's steps, line for line, is not. It's the artistic equivilant of a paint by numbers.. :]

Sending this kind of work to countries that commit attrocities against their people are not countries that we should be praising.

Tom's HW article is drivel and FUD akin to Red Cross visits to German and Japanese prison camps during WWII.

Being that I've played a few MUD's over the years, I've found that nothing like a Linux/Unix shell account and (T)he k(I)cki(N) (T)ickin d(I)kumud clie(N)t (TinTin++)can beat the features and quickness for those wacky text base games. Although Zuggsoft's was a good client when I happened to use in on occasion (Back when Win 3.11 was still predominantly used on school computers), it just doesn't beat the speed of TinTin. On the other hand, I've heard that WinTin is a good Win32 client based on the TinTin code, though havn't used it myself, if it's anything like it's cousin, I'm sure it's a decent client (even if it is on a windoze platform). All in all, it depends on what kind of client you're looking for, something with lots of eye candy, use the windows ones, but for the pure speed and transparentness, use TinTin hands down.

Not only can it not find Saddam, but it can't locate the Weapons of Mass Destruction homepage. It just returns a 404 error. You'd think with VeriSign's nifty new service, you would be redirected magically to the right page, but noooooo...

404 WMD NOT FOUND

(yeah this is old, but still funny)

I'm starting to feel badly for Thom, he's really not that ugly and yet he's been mentioned many times in this thread as an ugly musician that gets mtv play. He's not a pretty-boy by any means, but certainly not ugly.

Coffee and tea don't come from plastic bottles or otherwise premixed, of course. They definitely don't come in syrup form.

I'm always a bit surprised that slashdot geeks seem to be big brand name junk food consumers. I would have thought that people who don't believe in accepting software or hardware prepackaged, this-is-the-way-you-get-it-and-you-don't-need-to-k now-how-it's-made, would also be into hacking food. In fact to me the foundation of all hacking starts in the kitchen. Also the best sex, but that's a different matter. Well no it isn't actually but anyway.

This isn't intended as a personal slight. But Nestle is evil. You can do better.

Thanks for the pointer Mr AC. Here's a link to the semi-official BBC Restoration Team who do all the cleanup work for the Doctor Who DVD and recent VHS releases.

As is clear from this article* on the site, in the 1960s film was used for location and model inserts, but not, generally, for studio recordings, which went straight to 2" VT. The VT was generally 'telerecorded' onto 25fps film for overseas sale by BBC Enterprises, but only after the first sale had been agreed, so for example since noone bought 'The Daleks' Masterplan', no telerecording was made.

Meanwhile, tapes remained the property of the Engineering Department and were routinely wiped a few years after broadcast, until 1978 when the BBC's Film and Videotape Library was founded. By then, Ian Levine's initial audit showed that 47 1960's episodes were still held as telerecordings, but only one complete story, the first, 'An Unearthly Child' (4 eps). And after 1972 BBC Enterprises, once orders for B&W stuff had dried up, had started clearing shelf space, not helped by the fact that Film Recording Clerk Pamela Nash believed that the rights had in any case expired.

Over the same period, a lot of the VT stock was also recycled, and due to the BBC's splendidly bureaucratic records, we know for example that the 2" tape that once held 'Enemy of the World' ep 3 is still in the archive, and exactly where it's shelved. Unfortunately it now contains a 1970's edition of Blue Peter.

So basically, almost the entire output of 1960's Doctor Who existed at the BBC on both tape and film, and by 1978, many episodes had been lost on both tape and film. Most of the 1960's Who that we have now comes from the surviving 25fps film copies from BBCE, and looks jerky. Hence the RT's rather wonderful VidFire process to put back the missing 50% of the timeslices.

I know far far more about Doctor Who than is good for my mental health...

TomV

*the domain's different because it's a deep link into a frameset - can be navigated from the RT homepage via 'Articles and Information', then 'BBC Archive Holdings' in the left frame

Thanks for the pointer Mr AC. Here's a link to the semi-official BBC Restoration Team who do all the cleanup work for the Doctor Who DVD and recent VHS releases.

As is clear from this article* on the site, in the 1960s film was used for location and model inserts, but not, generally, for studio recordings, which went straight to 2" VT. The VT was generally 'telerecorded' onto 25fps film for overseas sale by BBC Enterprises, but only after the first sale had been agreed, so for example since noone bought 'The Daleks' Masterplan', no telerecording was made.

Meanwhile, tapes remained the property of the Engineering Department and were routinely wiped a few years after broadcast, until 1978 when the BBC's Film and Videotape Library was founded. By then, Ian Levine's initial audit showed that 47 1960's episodes were still held as telerecordings, but only one complete story, the first, 'An Unearthly Child' (4 eps). And after 1972 BBC Enterprises, once orders for B&W stuff had dried up, had started clearing shelf space, not helped by the fact that Film Recording Clerk Pamela Nash believed that the rights had in any case expired.

Over the same period, a lot of the VT stock was also recycled, and due to the BBC's splendidly bureaucratic records, we know for example that the 2" tape that once held 'Enemy of the World' ep 3 is still in the archive, and exactly where it's shelved. Unfortunately it now contains a 1970's edition of Blue Peter.

So basically, almost the entire output of 1960's Doctor Who existed at the BBC on both tape and film, and by 1978, many episodes had been lost on both tape and film. Most of the 1960's Who that we have now comes from the surviving 25fps film copies from BBCE, and looks jerky. Hence the RT's rather wonderful VidFire process to put back the missing 50% of the timeslices.

I know far far more about Doctor Who than is good for my mental health...

TomV

*the domain's different because it's a deep link into a frameset - can be navigated from the RT homepage via 'Articles and Information', then 'BBC Archive Holdings' in the left frame

He's Korean and he DEFINITELY looks evil. He's got frickin diamonds in his face!

So I can appreciate Korean == evil too.

Or, even better, there's this wonderful perl script I wrote to do it all automaticly. It needs to be running on a *nix system with wget, and perl ninjas will all complain that the code looks like shit, but it does the job.

here

Weapons of Mass destruction

This about covers it all. National security and Microsoft. Wrapped up in one...
Have fun with this
-B

Error

Here's a cute 404

google search for weapons of mass destruction

;-)

I wonder what iraq will be like after all of the businesses move in. If estonia can do it, why can't Iraq?
At the same time, watch out for those WMDs!! :-P

For those who are lazy...click here...amusing.

http://www.lies.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/mirror/freecr aft_1.18.tar.gz

at this link. Check his mathematical lego sculptures. It was covered in a slashdot article too.

You have an option if you want a handheld console system that can play homebrew/small studio content, the little handheld from Korea, the GP32. There has been some great homebrew development for that, like a Doom port. Unlike Nintendo, the GP32's manufacturer encourages homebrew content.

Unfortunately, the current console system works too well for most console manufacturers to abandon it, especially when the courts will back them up. I sincerely doubt that the unavailability of the backup cart will mean that Nintendo will lose sales. If Nintendo hadn't gone after the backup carts, what's to stop their licensees from thinking, "Why am I buying a license? Why don't I just produce the cartridges myself and keep all the profits rather than splitting them with Nintendo?"

I would love for things to be different, and for the console market to be more like the PC/PDA market. The only way that would happen is for something like the GP32 to become popular, but that doesn't seem likely at the moment. For console makers it's not just about protecting copyrighted content, it is also about protecting license revenue.

A quick google search shows that Waste is still available here, for what it's worth.

http://www.dhorrocks2003.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/

http://slackerbitch.free.fr/waste/

The whole "unauthorized" release thing is interesting, though. I'd say that they have to prove that it wasn't an official release as it certainly looked like one. But what if somebody infiltrates Microsoft and puts sections of the Windows source on the web site under the GPL?

Well, I had to jump through a hoop or two to get to the message (linking there gave me a 404, searching found it) - but, in the end it looks like there is a WASTE page here.

And if you go to this link you can see all the information about installing it, details on how it works, etc.

while perusing the winamp forums, I found a mirror:

waste installer
waste source

while perusing the winamp forums, I found a mirror:

waste installer
waste source

Tim Powers novels Last Call, Expiration Date, and Earthquake Weather. These simply rock. They are set in the modern era, except ghosts and various forms of magic are the reality. It is a fresh take on mysticism of all sorts and definitely worth reading twice.

Oooh... show me some sexy ladies like these:

hottie

You know what I love best about belly shirts? A big fat belly sticking out underneath it.

a) those bitches are fat.
b) she obviously kisses like a horse.
b) goth is out.
c) no, really, goth was out 4 years ago
d) Anthrax isn't fucking goth.

In summation, you are a nerd, and so are all of your nerd friends. Your SQL doesn't make sense, nor is it funny.

Step into the 21st century. Give me your address and I'll send you some glowsticks and blow pops. Half of your friends dress like raver kiddies anyways.