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Now his police state goons want to put chips in people's citizens' bodies to track them everywhere. http://home.comcast.net/~plutarch/911.html

It's here: http://home.comcast.net/~plutarch/malfy-b.html

Can you cite a source? I can't find anything on Comcast's terms of service, or on Google.

Nobody over there actually names things in German. That's just a myth.
I hear "Kugeltalstraße" is a really popular Chinese street name. Yep, sure looks like China to me.

9/11 was an inside job

http://home.comcast.net/~plutarch/911.html

Ah, if only those convenient Muslim bogeymen had been responsible. They were so eager, too. http://home.comcast.net/~plutarch/911.html

These are the same people who tell us that election rigging
never occurs, and that 9/11 was perpetrated by a handful of Muslim bogeymen.
http://home.comcast.net/~plutarch/911.html

Here: http://home.comcast.net/~plutarch/911.html

Let us at least be informed about it, rather than stick our heads in the sand.

http://home.comcast.net/~plutarch/911.html

A few months back, I went to a local model rocket launch. It was on a farm in a beautiful chunk of Oregon (See the background of this: http://home.comcast.net/~stefan_jones/hustler_pose .jpg). Dozens of geeks and their families were there, launching model rockets big and small into the sky.

More than a few of the kids present were squatting on the ground, or in car seats, blank expressions on their faces, banging away at portable game machines.

How pathetic.

Someday these kids will need to take special classes to learn how to walk on dirt.

I don't know why people obsess over corporate artists.
They suck anyway...

Check out the ukulele player on this page:

http://home.comcast.net/~plutarch/videos.html

But videos do...

http://home.comcast.net/~plutarch/videos.html

Such as these: http://home.comcast.net/~plutarch/videos.html

Or at least, this is increasingly the case and I'm not even talking about torrents.

http://home.comcast.net/~plutarch/videos.html

It's a shame their ads and the terms in the contract THEY wrote-up doesn't have any mention of this inconvenient little fact...

Strange but last time I looked there wasn't a guarantee of service in any ISP contract (except for those that pay for it - like companies who rely on thier uptime). Quite the opposite in fact.

Comcast has a limited libilaty clause in their TOS: THE COMCAST EQUIPMENT AND THE SERVICE ARE PROVIDED "AS IS" WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EITHER EXPRESS OR IMPLIED. NEITHER COMCAST NOR ITS AFFILIATES, SUPPLIERS, OR AGENTS WARRANT THAT ANY CONNECTION TO, TRANSMISSION OVER, OR RESULTS OF THE COMCAST EQUIPMENT OR THE SERVICE WILL MEET CUSTOMER'S REQUIREMENTS OR WILL PROVIDE UNINTERRUPTED USE OR WILL OPERATE AS REQUIRED, UNINTERUPTED, AT ANY MINIMUM SPEED, OR ERROR FREE. [read the tos here]

Seems to me that it's pretty clear that they state the service you're paying for is not necessarily what you will get. My bet is most ISP's have a clause very similar to this one. I don't see where your argument holds any weight whatsover. It seems pretty ignorant of what is actually offered and what they are obilgated to provide.

When your business model is a problem, you don't start violating your contracts to maintain that model.

Again, perhaps a reference of any major ISP violating their contract would be nice. Unless you can provide some I'm pretty sure you're full of hyperbole and whining about something you know nothing about.

It really is amazing that I never burned the house down as a kid. If your not squeemish check out the results of my little fire. Feel free to use me as a bad example for the kids, "see what happens when you do stupid shit arround fire".

E-firings are harsh. And yet, they do recycle my old batteries.... http://home.comcast.net/~plutarch/malfy.html

They're all bastards. Skype is much better, when you're able to use it. (Although at the end of 2006 their policies will change and will suck.) http://home.comcast.net/~plutarch/malfy.html

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Their mobile phone division is especially vile, in my experience. http://home.comcast.net/~plutarch/malfy.html

They're no angels. http://home.comcast.net/~plutarch/malfy.html

... wel a regular, 32Bit PC with regular 32bit Windows XP can only deal with 2Gb of RAM....

i like the part where you just pull facts out of your butt.

let's try including a source or two with our random assertions.

all XP's except for x64 support 4G of RAM; XP x64 supports 128G.

that's 2G of user space and 2G of kernel space.

both are your friend, and both can reside in physical RAM.

All right, it's only a short story... http://home.comcast.net/~plutarch/sex.html

The gods demand that you view what AOL has done wrong! Well, anyway it will be interesting. http://home.comcast.net/~plutarch/malfy.html

Not to paint them in the worst light, but aren't these big companies just a little like Darth Vader's Empire? http://home.comcast.net/~plutarch/malfy.html

I kind of feel like Microsoft is either dead, or its limbs are dying while its head remains talking. Meanwhile the little companies are nibbling at the carcass of what used to be its market share. But I could be wrong about that. After all, I am using Windows now. But then again, I am using little of Windows except the core OS: I use Firefox, Thunderbird, and Vim. The parts of Windows that I use could be handled by many other OSes.

Anyway, check out what MS has been up to (the short list) http://home.comcast.net/~plutarch/malfy.html

Google's main rival is quite the evil company... http://home.comcast.net/~plutarch/malfy.html

Mozilla could be programmed to send http requests that look like those of a Windows machine. It's just a matter of changing the HTTP request and certain Javascript constants.

Incidentally, 9/11 was perpetrated mostly by the US government: http://home.comcast.net/~plutarch/911.html

They just can't "do the right thing" to "The rest of us", it seems. http://home.comcast.net/~plutarch/malfy.html

Most people don't know it, but these big publishers are so in bed with one another, buying from them is like buying from OPEC. They've linked up and formed an informal cartel.

Here's how they do it: http://home.comcast.net/~plutarch/interlocking.htm l

Students: Tell your professors to use your favorite Wikibook!

Or I hope so, anyway. Here are some good ones. http://home.comcast.net/~plutarch/videos.html

Reviving broadcast television after the advent
of Internet video!

http://home.comcast.net/~plutarch/videos.html

Clearly, calling a person a "hero" only encourages
Republicans to steal elections, or worse, to
kill innocent civilians with explosives, as they
did here:

http://home.comcast.net/~plutarch/911.html

Many people don't know it, but there is a
system of "youth hostels" around the world
that charge a pittance for any overnight stay.

http://home.comcast.net/~plutarch/hostels-uk.html

The percentage of Jews in the media is far, far beyond what probability would predict. But what about the news in particular? http://home.comcast.net/~plutarch/jews.html

Look at how much Exxon pays to put out propaganda...

http://home.comcast.net/~plutarch/exxon.html

And here is a directory of biofuel producers...

http://home.comcast.net/~plutarch/biodiesel.html

Look at how much Exxon pays to put out propaganda...

http://home.comcast.net/~plutarch/exxon.html

And here is a directory of biofuel producers...

http://home.comcast.net/~plutarch/biodiesel.html

The USA is going to hell in a handbasket are you're worrying about displays.
http://home.comcast.net/~plutarch/911.html

The USA is going to hell in a handbasket are you're worrying about displays.
http://home.comcast.net/~plutarch/911.html

Wow this is just amazing...
http://home.comcast.net/~plutarch/911.html

Its a shame that people see slackware as dated. Slackware's stability, and flexibility, makes most other distroes look like another windows. Slackware is a stable base on top of wich you can put whatever you want. Slackware isn't an enterprise solution, but you can easily build an enterprise solution on top of it. Its basically ready to go as a simple webserver though. Slackware is like a blank canvas, just gnu, linux, and a few basic utilities. Gentoo is probably the closest linux to it, but gentoo's portage and weird init scripts are very particular to gentoo. And rebuilding my OS when I want to upgrade isn't very appealing. Slackware's package management, and configuration scripts, are so basic and unobtrusive that they never break or get broken by any modifications you may need to make. I can see why this is annoying to some. Most people would rather spend time using their OS than adding to it or maintaining it. I can see why ubuntu and fedora tend to be the OS of choice for desktop users, but I fail to see their advantage to power-users and server admins. If you're a control freak, and don't have enough time to do LFS, slackware is a great starting point. For what its worth, here is a shot of my laptop running slackware: http://home.comcast.net/~diabolix/shot.png

You should try constructing haikus from search terms.

That site assumes that anti-Israeli sentiment is inherently bias. That's like saying that a broadcast from 1936 Germany would be biased if it showed a reporter's concern about the way things were going.

It's actually very hard to get a BBC reporter to admit that things are as bad as they actually are out there; they see far more than they can tell because they know that the truth would be spun as SO anti-Israel that there would be no point, in fact it would be counter productive, to say it. So they hint broadly. But at the end of the day they know first hand that the Israeli security forces are barbaric and will happily shot to kill reporters, ambulance drivers, UN observers, children, old people etc.

And that's not bias, it's just what many people don't want to hear.

BBC is usually pretty even handed. But not, for some reason, when it comes to Israel related news. http://home.comcast.net/~jat.action/BBC_bias.htm It's surprisingly blatant, especially coming from commentators and reporters on BBC International.

Oh, and tin foil doesn't work, You have to go with LeadHat if you REALLY want security.

Here's a mugshot of the evidence.

That is NOT a mugshot of the evidence. That is the orginal "super-fuggin'-ugly" style Nintendo DS. This story is about the Nintendo DS Lite which looks more like this.

Here is a comparison for those that have trouble telling the difference between the two models.

Last year I got a copy of the old Triteal CDE for Linux from someone on Amazon, for a measly $5. It was designed for Red Hat 4.2, but it works in FC4 with the old libc5 package installed. Click here to see what it looks like on my machine. The only thing I couldn't get working was dtksh, which segfaults. Everything else works. It is pretty cool to see all that stuff in Linux. I would definitely like to see the current CDE open-sourced.

When will they start up 7bone with its 1024 bit addressing?

When you can cram enough memory into routers to handle the tables.

(Note that some of the tables are not what you'd expect, but are from algorithm hacks to speed up searching to achieve adequate instruction/packet ratios.)

For 1024 bits, absent algorithmic breakthroughs, you'd need so much that storing one bit per quantum on all the particles in the router wouldn't be adequate. You'd have to go to chipped or even nudged quanta (though you probably wouldn't need to go all the way to pizzication.) B-) See Hal Draper's MS Fnd in a Lbry if you don't know what I'm talking about.)

"In an effort to help reduce the amount of spam reaching Comcast.net email addresses, Comcast has implemented a new policy that will block email sent from an email server that has no rDNS entry."

http://forums.comcast.net/comcastsupport/board/mes sage?board.id=2&message.id=79035

Since they did this spam getting through to my home account has dropped by at least 90%, as has mail ending up in the "screened mail" folder for my comcast email address.

The airlines don't even want to install secure cockpit doors. They would probably be even less interested in putting the necessary work into secure wireless. They would more likely adopt the tactic used by the cell phone companies* and try to pass a law banning the possession of bluetooth cannons** or other emp device.

*scanner law

**sounds cooler than rifle