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Maybe I didn't communicate that properly. You can cancel your AOL Account and keep your AOL email address.

• Account information
• Answer to your security question
• Phone number

1. Go to http://bill.aol.com/
2. Sign on with the primary screen name that you created when you registered your AOL account. Type the answer to your account security question and click "Continue."
3. Click "Cancel my billing" in the right panel under the "I want to" heading.
4. Click "How do I cancel my paid member account or convert it to a free member account" in the right panel, under "Frequently Asked Questions."
5. Follow the on-screen instructions to send the cancellation request. It can be done through an electronic cancellation request online, by fax or mail.

Tips & Warnings

• To cancel by phone, call (800) 827-6364, or send a fax to (703) 433-7283.
• Send a cancellation request form to:
  AOL Inc.
  PO Box 65100
  Sterling, VA 20165-8800

  Source: http://www.ehow.com/how_5955872_cancel-aol-dial_up-service.html

The correct result shows as 5th at bing, while 19th at google http://www.ehow.com/how_7232598_change-water-filter-frigidaire-refrigerators.html

And if I give them a magical LOLCat infections rates will go down by 10,000% and magic pixies will appear to rub their little footies and...wait a tick, that is a what you call it, oh yeah an anecdote and doesn't prove jack which is why I put a disclaimer at the front instead of trying to pass it off as proof like you do Petey, but you KNOW this, don't you?

poor wittle APK, also know as "Petey, the idiot HOPES file guy" As in you HOPES that one of the 300,000+ constantly changing array of websites that are infected doesn't happen to be the one you visit today? Or that you HOPES that nobody notices after repeatedly being asked you have FAILED to show even the tiniest shred of mathematical proof that your magical woobie can scale? That you HOPES nobody notices your only "proof" is anecdotes, often by your own sock puppets like Kingsjester?

Remember Petey I'm not the ponce making outrageous claims so it is up to you to show the math instead of wasting everyone's time waving your little shriveled winkie around by making claims with no mathematical proof and nothing but anecdotes as "evidence". After all those that the earth is only 6000 years old have a full boat of anecdotes to back up THEIR claims as well, but we still think they are just as batshit as you, now don't we?

The simple fact is this: no matter how many times trollie says "1+1 = 3" the math simply proves you wrong and THAT is why all you can do is throw insults. You have 190,000 to 340,000 infected websites at this very moment and that list will change by the thousands per minute as sites are cleaned, new sites are infected, new vulnerabilities found, etc. Now for your HOPES file to actually be a REAL protection and not just a woobie? It will have to dynamically scale and keep up with that ever changing list of infections. Now even if you had twenty fingers and subscribed to every security list on the planet your HOPES file will ALWAYS BE OUT OF DATE and behind the curve. Always. Don't like those numbers? Use the ones from Securina, Grisoft, Symantec, any reputable security site. YOU CHOOSE. I have shown mathematically you are full of shit, now lets see you math that proves me wrong PETEY.

Now if you have a mathematical proof that shows how a static .txt file dropped into system 32 can magically scale dynamically? Lets see it. Otherwise it is NOTHING more a magical LOLCat pic backed up by anecdotes. That is the nice thing about math, it doesn't lie or believe in anecdotes. So it is all on Petey and your magical HOPES woobie now. YOU made the extravagant claims, back them up with the math. If you can't? Well then you are full of shit, case closed. Notice how ALL YOU CAN DO is throw insults and trollbomb? Why is that? I'll tell you why, because math doesn't lie and you just can't show the math you just can't do it or you would have by now, but it would be like trying to mathematically prove you are not an idiot PETEY. It just can't be done.

So please, keep posting APK, I do so enjoy pointing out the total uber fail of your magical woobie so. I also personally consider it a public service to point people to solutions that actually work instead of relying on magical woobies and anecdotes. And of course bitch slapping your around is also quite fun!

Hi trollie! Sorry to rip off some classic Dan Akroyd but you know it is usually considered good form to at least make a sock puppet, posting AC to plug your own AC posts? Kinda sad. And for the 400th time Correlation != Causation. I can build an XP Sp2 machine with NO patches, NO AV, and change the desktop to a LOLCat. Now if I only use this machine to check my email and go to my bank I will NEVER get a bug, but I don't think it was my magical LOLCat protecting it, do you?

The simple fact is this: no matter how many times trollie says "1+1 = 3" the math simply proves you wrong and THAT is why all you can do is throw insults. You have 190,000 to 340,000 infected websites at this very moment and that list will change by the thousands per minute as sites are cleaned, new sites are infected, new vulnerabilities found, etc. Now for his HOPES file to actually be a REAL protection and not just a woobie? It will have to dynamically scale and keep up with that ever changing list of infections. Now even if he had twenty fingers and subscribed to every security list on the planet his HOPES file will ALWAYS BE OUT OF DATE and behind the curve. Always.

Now if you have a mathematical proof that shows how a static .txt file dropped into system 32 can magically scale dynamically? Lets see it. Otherwise it is NOTHING more a magical LOLCat pic backed up by anecdotes. That is the nice thing about math, it doesn't lie or believe in anecdotes. And if there is ANYONE that should be LOLing it is me, for pointing out there are still morons that believe 16Mb HOPES files can do anything but block ads since ad servers are...what do you call it...oh yeah STATIC, just like your HOPES file, but really you are just kinda pathetic. You're like the idiot that just keeps hanging onto that three years out of date copy of Norton, because he is just so damned sure it still works, only the Norton guy is actually better protected than you are, since it did used to work in the past 5 years.

So please, keep posting APK, I do so enjoy pointing out the total uber fail of your magical woobie so. I also personally consider it a public service to point people to solutions that actually work instead of relying on magical woobies and anecdotes. And of course bitch slapping your around is also quite fun!

And this coming from poor wittle APK, also know as "Petey, the idiot HOPES file guy"? As in you HOPES that one of the 300,000+ constantly changing array of websites that are infected doesn't happen to be the one you visit today? Or that you HOPES that nobody notices after repeatedly being asked you have FAILED to show even the tiniest shred of mathematical proof that your magical woobie can scale? That you HOPES nobody notices your only "proof" is anecdotes, often by your own sock puppets like Kingsjester?

If there is ANYONE that should be LOLing it is me, for pointing out there are still morons that believe 16Mb HOPES files can do anything but block ads since ad servers are...what do you call it...oh yeah STATIC, just like your HOPES file, but really you are just kinda pathetic. You're like the idiot that just keeps hanging onto that three years out of date copy of Norton, because he is just so damned sure it still works, only the Norton guy is actually better protected than you are, since it did used to work in the past 5 years.

So please, keep posting APK, I do so enjoy pointing out the total uber fail of your magical woobie so. I also personally consider it a public service to point people to solutions that actually work instead of relying on magical woobies and anecdotes. And of course bitch slapping your around is also quite fun!

And this coming from poor wittle APK, also know as "the idiot HOPES file guy"? As in you HOPES that one of the 300,000+ constantly changing array of websites that are infected doesn't happen to be the one you visit today? Or that you HOPES that nobody notices after repeatedly being asked you have FAILED to show even the tiniest shred of mathematical proof that your magical woobie can scale? That you HOPES nobody notices your only "prrof" is anecdotes, often by your own sock puppets like Kingsjester?

If there is ANYONE that should be LOLing it is me, for pointing out there are still morons that believe 16Mb HOPES files can do anything but block ads since ad servers are...what do you call it...oh yeah STATIC, just like your HOPES file, but really you are just kinda pathetic. You're like the idiot that just keeps hanging onto that three years out of date copy of Norton, because he is just so damned sure it still works, only the Norton guy is actually better protected than you are, since it did used to work in the past 5 years.

So please, keep posting APK, I do so enjoy pointing out the total uber fail of your magical woobie so. I also personally consider it a public service to point people to solutions that actually work instead of relying on magical woobies and anecdotes. And of course bitch slapping your around is also quite fun!

And this coming from poor wittle APK, also know as "the idiot HOPES file guy"? As in you HOPES that one of the 300,000+ constantly changing array of websites that are infected doesn't happen to be the one you visit today? Or that you HOPES that nobody notices after repeatedly being asked you have repeatedly FAILED to show even the tiniest shred of mathematical proof that your magical woobie can scale? That you HOPES nobody notices your only "proof" is anecdotes, often by your own sock puppets like Kingsjester?

If there is ANYONE that should be LOLing it is me, for pointing out there are still morons that believe 16Mb HOPES files can do anything but block ads since ad servers are...what do you call it...oh yeah STATIC, just like your HOPES file, but really you are just kinda pathetic. You're like the idiot that just keeps hanging onto that three years out of date copy of Norton, because he is just so damned sure it still works, only the Norton guy is actually better protected than you are, since it did used to work in the past 5 years.

So please, keep posting APK, I do so enjoy pointing out the total uber fail of your magical woobie so. I also personally consider it a public service to point people to solutions that actually work instead of relying on magical woobies and anecdotes. And of course bitch slapping your around is also quite fun! Oh and taking a page from your book from now on ALL responses will be THIS post, with only additions being more links to your various trolls and the people making fun of them, so everyone knows who they are dealing with. Have a nice day and be sure you hug your magical woobie...err I mean HOPES file!

Letter of the law? I believe so.

However, in practice, though mail addressed to you may have your name on it, it's the address that's important. As long as you live at that address, you can open that mail.

Err, not exactly. Slashdot-lawyering is always fun to watch.

http://www.ehow.com/about_6293417_federal-mail-not-addressed-you_.html

In grotesque summary of a website's summary at the federal level "The statute is essentially about stealing mail from the Post Office.". In other words the feds pretty much don't care as long as there are no post office employees or post office property directly involved.

In the computer world that we live in, we all know and understand there is a desperate goal to re-legislate all our crimes with the words "on a computer" suffixed at great expense and publicity, etc. But in the real physical world, they mostly use general statutes which only tangentially happen to involve a piece of physical mail in this specific case.

So you might get charged with stealing, if you stole someones mail. Or identity theft if you do that, with someone elses mail. Or maybe some weird insider trading law, if thats what you do based on some stolen mail.

In other words the trial will be about them doing some naughtyness, and the stolen mail will be a piece of evidence. But there will be no charge of "opening the mail"

That being said, just as anyone can be civil sued for anything at any time by any one, the same applies to criminal court, although that doesn't mean it won't be thrown out with laughter by the judge, or involved as the start or end of a plea bargain, or tossed out on appeal by a sane judge.

Correlation != Causation. I can set up an XP Sp2 machine with NO patches, NO AV or antispy, and then change the background to a LOLCat. Then when I use the machine only on the LAN I will have NO viruses, but I don't really think I can claim my magic LOLCat picture done saved me, do you trollie?

Here is some more to rub your little nose in, but if you were actually capable of logic you could see why the entire HOSTS file concept is a fallacy.

Now do try to keep up: For the HOSTS file to provide a truly effective protection he will have to have ALL the websites that he crosses that can infect him, as well as any and all of the sites THOSE link to, all loaded into his magical HOSTS file. Now considering we are talking on average 100,000 to 200,000 websites PER day in a list that will literally change by the minute, with a site that was safe 20 minutes ago being dangerous now and vice versa, even if Trollie had four hand with 20 fingers on each and typed 36 hours a day he will STILL LOSE. It is simple mathematics and I really shouldn't have to give a fifth grade statistics lesson on why the odds simply aren't in his favor.

But as I said to you before Trollie, PLEASE, believe in your magical woobie. Toss ALL your AV and antispy, hell you don't even need a firewall thanks to your magical woobie. Please do so as both the repairmen and malware writers just looooove stupid people. It makes us lots of $$$. I only hope you don't end up part of a botnet running illegal activity, because those conversation with the men with crewcuts and guns really isn't pleasant from what I've been told.

And another fun fact, Woman A has posted an essay on her blog about using the legal system to extract revenge on men who have wronged a woman romantically.

If you had actually read the blog post you'd know that using the legal system isn't mentioned, neither is it about revenge on man for romantically wronging a woman, it's about revenge in general.
She didn't write the text herself either. It's a translation of this article to Swedish.

Claim 1:

...provide a tool bar within a web browser application window, the tool bar including a button, for activating a highlighting operation...

Yep, they're patenting a browser feature. Three slight variations (claims 1, 7, 12), but all browser features.

It appears they're patenting a browser button that will highlight the things you searched for, in any page. I don't use Google Toolbar, but it appears to be already implemented.

With no browser additions, the user has to search for something with Google, go to a page, then open find and search for the exact same terms to find where the relevant information is on the page. With this patented idea implemented, one only has to search for pages, go to one, then click a single button to go to the information on the page.

The summary is, as usual, misleading. To my knowledge, Windows itself has no such feature, nor any other program I've seen for that matter.

No, according to a eHow guide. They let you enter any text as your friend's name, and even ask you his/her email address: http://i.ehow.com/images/a05/l6/7p/add-tags-facebook-photos-1.5-800X800.jpg

yeah, and do doctors in those countries pay five and six digit sums per YEAR for malpractice insurance?

obstetricians in florida can expect to pay up to $200,000 a year in insurance premiums. admittedly, most doctors "only" pay $20k to $40k per year, the lucky guys.

lynch the lawyers.

http://www.ehow.com/about_5514154_average-cost-medical-malpractice-insurance.html

All I use PayPal for is eBay, and rarely transferring funds to friends. How many sellers accept these alternate methods of payment now? How to Use Google Checkout on eBay Auctions | eHow.com

Your assumption that he must be innocent because he is engaged in what you clearly consider a righteous PR war with the United States is sexist and shameful.

And your grasp of what people in power are willing to do to keep their position is astonishingly naive. It is impossible they could have offered this girl a million bucks simply because she is a woman? Or threatened her family? You don't think stuff like that happens?

Here, read this.

These are the kinds of people this guy is up against. You think tracking down some girl he spent time with and leaning on her is an impossibility? Really??

The woman making the allegation (and I stress woman because she is not under age), should be taken seriously until the investigation has been completed.

Then why did the prosecution decline the offer of cooperation while he was in country, and suddenly pursue it through interpol after he had left? I invite you to explain that.

Why would this woman willingly put herself at the center of an international maelstrom, knowing that every bit of her personal life would be put under the microscope if nothing happened?

Some people like attention, even bad attention. Again, you naivete is showing. Some people have motives you cannot understand. Because they are nuts. For example, why do some women marry inmates? Explain that one to me.

The only thing sexist and shameful is everyone leaping to the conclusion that this guy clearly must be up to something because some woman hinted that he might be. Especially when there are plenty of oddball circumstances that clearly indicate an effort to marginalize the guy.

It is simply a Swedish translation of this. Be pleased to note that it doesn't say anything about using "rape accusations to destroy man". Also curious how a Swedish social democrat can be regarded as right wing?

She didn't even write it: http://www.ehow.com/how_2296915_get-legal-revenge.html

200F surface temperature on Mars? Try 70F on a really hot day:

http://quest.nasa.gov/aero/planetary/mars.html
http://www.ehow.com/about_4610050_what-mars-highest-temperature.html
http://www.universetoday.com/35664/temperature-of-the-planets/

This page claims 90F but that is speculation, and is still way shy of 200F:

http://www.astronomy.com/en/sitecore/content/Home/News-Observing/Astronomy%20Kids/2008/03/Mars.aspx

I believe this should answer your questions: http://www.ehow.com/list_6773348_braille-signage-requirements.html

    Nice idea, but it would seem that you are wrong. There are a plethora of tools available to recover the password if the original device is available to you. Otherwise, you can still wipe it, and have a perfectly good functioning card.

In no case have you ever seen "C#" written as "see sharp".

"In no case..."??

Of course I have. Thousands of times. Did you even look to see if what you are writing is true? Look at pretty much any musical discussion anywhere on the internet...

http://www.list-of-chords.com/

http://musiced.about.com/od/lessonsandtips/qt/minosclaes.htm

http://www.guitar-chords.org.uk/chords-key-b-flat-minor.html

http://www.ehow.com/how_5496374_play-adopted-cyclopedia-music-theory.html

http://www.8notes.com/guitar_chord_chart/ax.asp

Seriously, there is a _huge_ difference in symbolism.

And yet musicians the world over have accepted it as a suitable convenient ascii substitute for sharps to the point that # and b are accepted conventions when discussing music on the web.

Intentions only take you so far when you make an epic screw-up.

The only epic screw up here is insisting that it be called C-pound.

Not to sound cruel, but at 87 years old she was expected to die any day any minute.

False.

In 2006 the life expectancy of an 87 year old female was 5.78 years. Actuarial Life Table

The issue in a case like this is financial responsibilty. Fundamentally, it shouldn't matter whether it is your four year old kid who puts a woman in the hospital or your three year old German Shepherd.

You were the one who thought they were ready to be let loose on the sidewalks.

The average cost of an assisted living facility is $38,000 a year. The nursing home bed starts at about $72,000 a year and rises dramatically with the level of care required. The Average Cost of a Private Nursing Home Bed

Hexane is derived from petroleum. It is a colorless, volatile liquid with a mild, gasoline-like odor.

It's used in Electrical contact cleaner, and Computer monitor screen cleaners.

Hexane is the dominate extraction solvent for oil seeds throughout the world, including soybean and other high volume oils used for human and animal consumption. 95% of the world's corn oil is produced from corn germ obtained by wet-milling.
The corn germ is dried, then shipped to hexane extraction facilities to obtain the oil.

Basically corn oil and high fructose corn syrup are contaminated with the stuff in small amounts.

http://www.ehow.com/how-does_5118098_corn-oil-processing.html

You may consider them morons but they didn't have the benefit of your knowledge.

If you look at the VIN number of your car, it still has plenty of information in it. Lets pick on a relativity recent Chevrolet for instance. The information can tell you where it was made, what options was installed from the factory, what motor came with it, what year is was produced and so on. Unlike a serial number in a database, on material items it's important to carry some of this information in order to track down problems with a specific portion of the assembly or whatever. In the situation with a tank, if the main guns jam on a regular basis, it might be that the boring tool for the breach is undersized slightly so correcting it would require a recall and retrofit of all tanks produced in that plant with that bore tool.

The benefits of knowing is way more important then someone possibly finding information out, especially if the information is obfuscated in some way with a code. Unfortunately, this changes when there is a war and the equipment is used in that effort. If that code was ever broken, then you can learn a plethora of information like if it's a new plant making a certain part or the entire tank, if it's a plant that has a large production capability (making it a prime target for industrial bombing), and so on. And just like the information buried within a VIN number, most people aren't aware of how to decode it making it appear as some random number sequence. It's really a lot like communicating war plans in code, you don't think it's compromised until you realize someone is acting on the information within the code.

And yes, since the serial numbers were for long term tracking, it's not like a database at all where a random number can be used more then once as long as the sessions aren't still active. It needs to be a unique number dedicated to the piece of equipment and regardless of how you randomize it or attempt to obfuscate and information, a pattern will ultimately develop that can be somewhat useful to an opponent. You have to remember, this is before computers and humans needed to be able to track the assets by hand, often from far, far away.

uh, office word has language specific grammar checking and spell checking.

interactive spreadsheets are not new either. Ever heard of google docs? ever heard of open office? One might wonder. In fact, in google docs (with google applications) you can do exactly the same with OLAP and AD authentication while never leaving the corporate intranet. Also you're talking about sharepoint, and not office, which is not the same product at all.

So Trivial? yes. Open your eyes? I hope so.

Something, somewhere, is wrong...

1.) If you're ordering a THOUSAND machines from Dell, widdling that price down should be easy enough. Get a quote from Dell. Get a quote from HP. Go back and forth between them (ideally with the same sales reps), and before lunchtime, one of them will have shaved at least $200 per unit off the sticker price.

2.) Stick with an OEM for that kind of volume. What you're paying for (or at least what you SHOULD be paying for) is a 3 year, kitchen sink, no questions asked warranty. We've got them on the Dell machines at work. I had a question about a server that was two years out of warranty, and I got an English speaking support rep. I had a power supply die on an in-warranty desktop, and a new power supply was on my desk the next morning. If I wanted a Dell tech to swap the part out, all I had to do was say so.

2b.) If you build yourself, you're stuck supporting everything, and dealing with the finger pointing crap. If there's a mobo issue, you're going to be on the phone dealing with Asus trying to convince them that it's not the RAM, the processor, the GPU, or the SATA drives, and in order to make the argument, you'll be stuck swapping all those components out to prove it. If you go with an OEM, it's Dell/HP's headache to isolate the issue and replace the faulty part.

3.) like has been said before, about the only thing that can make your job a bit easier on yourself is to do some sort of disk imaging. You'd be retarded to install Windows manually unit by unit. The only problem with that plan is that you'll need identical hardware each time. Acronis' Universal Hardware Restore is supposed to deal with that on paper, but I haven't had success with it. If you can purpose one of those machines to be a server and throw Server 2008/R2 on it, you can use Windows Deployment Services on it, but even that requires a certain degree of planning. In any case, procuring identical hardware in two years will be near impossible shy of eBay, but with an OEM that's a given.

4.) It's also prudent to order a few extra spares and keep them on the shelf. Either image them before they go out, or use them to swap out bad parts to get the users' machine back into production before you call for warranty service.

5.) If the computers end up with capacitor issues or overheating problems, it's obviously not good. The difference is that if Dell or Toshiba built them, it's your fault and you get to keep your job. If you build them, even though 95% of Slashdot would agree that it's not your fault that the motherboards shipped with bad capacitors, don't even TRY to explain that to your boss - just post your resume up to Monster.com.

Building machines in the office works well on a smaller scale. If you had a 5 member team of engineers doing the AutoCAD thing in their own section, then yeah build those - you'd spend plenty less building over getting Precision units and could build them all out in less than a week. Don't kid yourself into believing that assembling hardware day in, day out, for months at a time, is a good idea. You'll spend enough time designing an image and building out the software stack (corporate Windows licensing and Windows Deployment Services come in VERY handy for this), but your best bet is to whittle the OEMs down to a more reasonable price, pay for the kitchen sink warranty, and give yourself as few headaches as possible. Even if it takes you two days to get the best possible price from an OEM, there's no conceivable way that you'd come out behind.

You forgot making the ringtone available first: The iPhone is this user friendly.

Frankly, I find it astonishing that people can pretend Apple "just works", when in reality you have to go through this kind of nonsense for even the simplest of tasks.

Agreed that it makes no sense to have fast coal, except to fit in where all the other trains are fast. (The capacity of a railway is determined by how close together you can safely run trains. You can run more if they all have similar average speeds.)

I never rode a train in the USA, so the only times I saw them was at crossings, or where the road was near the railway, while on a road trip with my dad. They always seemed to go slow, maybe it was too near the Rocky mountains?

Apparently distances as short as 20 miles can make sense for rail freight in the UK, but that would be in an urban area where the alternative is slow congested roads, or twisty narrow roads in remote parts of Scotland. Presumably the start and end places both have rail connections.

Here says the speed limit for freight trains in the USA is 60mph. *shrug*

Anyway, my point was more that you can fill a high speed passenger train with hundreds of people paying hundreds of dollars each, but you might struggle to attract sufficient express freight at those prices. High speed rail needs special, very expensive tracks. European normal-speed (up to ~120mph) rail doesn't need special tracks, and might be good enough for most freight. Six more hours won't hurt your fresh fruit or your meat, but high value high priority stuff will be difficult to tempt away from air.

It is pretty common actually:
http://www.ehow.com/list_6149456_gold-edible-wedding-cake-decorations.html
http://www.google.com/images?q=cake+gold+leaf
http://www.stockfood.co.za/results.asp?txtkeys=Gold%20leaf&lstformats=01

You do know they make it mostly easy to remove 90% of what you just complained about. http://www.ehow.com/how_2042739_remove-emblems-from-cars.html

[Myth Busted]

Regarding the Holocaust: Got a source? Last I heard, Hitler himself had dark brown hair. I haven't heard that bit about persecuting hair color since I was in grade school. Thanks for the memories.

Regarding the health reform bill: Got a source? Everything I'm seeing shows no clear consensus, at which point it falls to the legislature to decide on their own. Even that was pretty evenly split.

Regarding arrest: In the event that you get arrested and it does screw up your lifestyle significantly, you have the right to sue for wrongful arrest. Mistakes happen, and you have the ability to try to get things fixed. That would be a great time to point out that, hypothetically, the police used only a GPS device, rather than an audio recorder, to show your association. Show that the arrest wasn't justified, and you can get it almost erased from history. Of course, the easiest route is to simply talk to your boss and try to get the job back after the facts have come out.

Regarding attorneys: Who did you think presents the evidence to a judge? It's the attorney general and the other assistant attorneys, and those with other titles depending on the state.

On the same line of thought, you could make a death mask, or a couple of them.

It's not as creepy as the name might suggest and doesn't require the subject to actually be dead.

It was a project we did in one of my art classes in high school. My mom collects masks, so I gave mine to her and it hangs on her wall with many other more exotic masks.

The process is fairly simple and quickly described in this article. In my art class, we took it a step further and used the plaster mask as a negative and later filled it with pottery clay, baked it, glazed and baked it again. I glazed mine black, but I'm sure that a ghostly white might be appropriate for the situation.

Making the mask negative (mold) is something that can happen in less than an hour. With a little more work you can probably make one that is re-usable out of other materials, but the plaster style negative is good for making only one ceramic mask. I'd suggest one per child, maybe more.

I'm sure that if the goal was described to someone at your local pottery shop, the appropriate materials would be suggested.

It's not that pink is an "undesirable" color, it's just that it's pink. Even car thieves know better than to piss off a Mary Kay rep. Mary Kay is one mean bitch!

Or Google could just make it easier for me to blacklist entire sites from appearing on google search.

Currently you have to tinker around with Google's custom search[1], and it's kinda klunky when there are hundreds of linkspam sites.

The "whack-a-mole" needs to be easier.

Yes I even tried a few firewall plugins but they didn't work so well. Maybe things have improved since.

[1] http://www.ehow.com/how_6752589_create-blacklist-google-search-results_.html

People seem to like colour pictures a lot, personally I've always found that b/w pictures done properly will win every time.

While I like B&W I prefer to shoot colour. Colour film can always be printed, after development, in B&W but printing B&W film in colour will not add the colour.

The only thing that I like about digital photography is that you have the picture instantly. With say doing your own b/w pictures, there's something special about seeing it develop in your own lab and getting the balances right.

With a digital camera it's even easier to convert colour to B&W, just save as that. What you can do digitally versus film though is hand paint B&W photos, well you can paint B&W film prints too but it's not the same.

Falcon

> And wrong on the second part as well - you cannot escape a *legal* judgment by declaring bankruptcy. This isn't a debt. It's a court ordered judgment for violating a civil law.

You are dead wrong about this: http://www.ehow.com/facts_5689609_can-bankruptcy-after-court-judgment_.html

Relevant snippet: The general rule is that bankruptcy discharges all judgments. However, bankruptcy does not discharge judgments for family support obligations, government-imposed fines or penalties, or taxes.

---linuxrocks123

Ah... I see.

Oh, wait, I dont - because even the section that YOU pointed out says YOU are wrong and I am correct (see bolded). Perhaps you should read THIS section, which goes into more detail (ie: the actual LAW regarding it):

11 USC 523 Exceptions to Discharge...

(a)(19)(B)(iii) any court or administrative order for any damages, fine, penalty, citation, restitutionary payment, disgorgement payment, attorney fee, cost, or other payment owed by the debtor.

> And wrong on the second part as well - you cannot escape a *legal* judgment by declaring bankruptcy. This isn't a debt. It's a court ordered judgment for violating a civil law.

You are dead wrong about this: http://www.ehow.com/facts_5689609_can-bankruptcy-after-court-judgment_.html

Relevant snippet:
The general rule is that bankruptcy discharges all judgments. However, bankruptcy does not discharge judgments for family support obligations, government-imposed fines or penalties, or taxes.

---linuxrocks123

And unicorns know sign language. How about you back some of those claims up with some citations? Like the lack of free 911 services in the US? You are taking that claim way out of context: cell phones that *don't* have paid service can call 911 for free (citation needed? http://www.ehow.com/how_2169002_free-cell-phone-service.html). That little 911 surcharge is to support these free phones and the e911 service. Do you think the rest of the world just magically has emergency phone services for free (tax money falls from the sky)? Or do you mean the US government itself just doesn't issue out free 911 phones? Are they giving out free iPhones in Europe now?

The transmission line is an antenna that absorbs the magnetic energy, but after it is absorbed it causes a power surge on the lines that makes some common types of transformers explode.

My post was intended to convey the fact that your computer will be damaged by a much smaller energy spike than one that would destroy a transformer. Therefore, the shorter wires near a computer may be able to absorb enough energy to damage the computer even though they are not kilometers long.

It's probably about time to mention the fact that the expansion Machine Access Code is in wide use, even if it is not the expansion you like.

Examples;

• UCSF ITFS: Wireless Networking and Security Standards: Legacy host based authorization systems utilizing the machine address code (MAC) may continue to be used until June 30th 2010
• Bluetooth essentials for programmers: 1.2.1: "Identical to the Machine Access Code (MAC) address for Ethernet"
• Source: Computer Crime Research Center, for another user's Ethernet address (known as a MAC or Machine Address Code)
• Book of the Dead, Patricia Daniels Cornwell; "Sandman's IP doesn't correspond to any MAC at the port. That's the Machine Address Code. Whatever computer the Sandman is using to send his e-mails, it doesn't seem to be one at the port,"
• Symantec.com, "When a host wants to join an IP Multicast group, it sends an Internet Group Multicast Protocol (IGMP) join message specifying its Machine Address Code (MAC) address and "
• Valparaiso University, Finding Windows System information, " 5. The Ethernet Address will be listed as the Physical Address. Machine Address Code (MAC)"
• PostgreSQL: A comprehensive guide, Korry Douglas, Susan Douglas; pg 106; "The acronym MAC stands for one of the following: Machine Address Code, Media Access Control, or Macaroni and Cheese"
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• Temple University, "Please note that you must first register the machine address code (MAC) of your laptop with Computer and Media Services before you can take advantage of this service. "
• Pharmacology Information Technology, "To register your computer, you'll need to know your computer's Machine Address Code (MAC) address, basically the serial number of your ethernet port."
• Chaminade Univeristy, "Examples of information which we receive, and may store, include (although are not necessarily limited to) the Internet protocol (IP) address used to communicate with us; the Machine Address Code (MAC) number of your computer"
• eHow: How to Find the Machine Address Code on a PowerMac

I think a quote from one of my favorite movies sums up the current attitude quite well "You sharpen the human appetite to the point where it can split atoms with its desire; you build egos the size of cathedrals; fiber-optically connect the world to every eager impulse; grease even the dullest dreams with these dollar-green, gold-plated fantasies, until every human becomes an aspiring emperor, becomes his own God... and where can you go from there? "

Why didn't we have "lifestyles of the rich and famous" and "MTV Cribs" style shows in the 50s and 60s? Why didn't we have radio shows in the 20s-40s that described in every detail how Joe Rich wipes his ass with $100 bills, and goes to bed with a dozen women? Because values have changed and the wholesale worship of greed was actually looked down upon then.

My great grandma talked about how there would be hobo signs everywhere saying things like "this house is good for a meal" and even though her husband was off working for WPA she never had to cut wood or fix the fences because hobos would do it without being asked simply because they wanted to "earn their meal". There wasn't any worry about thievery or attack because the other hobos would "take care of the problem" right quick. Can you even picture such a thing today, with the animalistic behavior we have now?

Whether you want to sugar coat it, or say it is due to better tests, I call bullshit. We have changed, and not for the better. We have gone from "help your brother and your neighbor" to "fuck you, I'm getting mine" in the space of just a few generations. And before any bible thumpers say it was religion, my grandma was an atheistic socialist. They all, no matter what belief, had a "we're all in this together" attitude that simply doesn't exist now. People weren't helping each other because of fear of a sky bully, they were doing it because they were simply good folks. We just don't have that anymore, sad but true. And if this turns into another depression the rich better be hiding in armed encampments, because shitloads of guns plus a "fuck you, I'm getting mine" attitude is a bad combo.

I wrote an EHow article on this very subject. http://www.ehow.com/how_5909709_contribute-open-source-project.html

Essentially
1. Use it
2. Get involved in the community
3. Bug tracking
4. Document
5. Code

Only if you have the unlimited plan. Otherwise, after you run out of the number of texts specified in your plan, the carrier charges the end user 0.20 USD to send each message and 0.20 USD to receive each message.

I have a Tracfone, it only costs me $.03 per test message. Also, don't forget this: http://www.ehow.com/how_4448927_send-email-cell-phone.html. My wife & I use this trick fairly often to make it even more affordable.

At what point are you declaring the GP a thief? From whom is he stealing that $100 bill? Point him out, we'll return the money. Hold up a $100 bill in a bar and ask "did anyone drop this", and your odds are probably about even that you'll get a number of folks claiming it. What kind of proof of ownership are you going to ask for?

You also seem under the impression that the police would lift a finger to return the money to the rightful owner. You're talking about an effectively anonymous object. The cost to the police to care for that item, and to identify the rightful owner are almost certain to be less than the value of the item ($100). (Quick quiz: You earn $20 an hour. How much does your employer earn for one hour of your time? Think of police officers as employees of the "police department" company, and you begin to get an idea of how worthwhile to the police department the care and feeding that altruistic act is.)

But I can't really fault you, it's the fault of the analogy. Replace "a $100 bill" with "a wallet with a $100 bill", and you've got an item that CAN be reasonably identified.

The police department intransigence may or may not be an actual issue; I'm as liable to pulling "this will happens" out of my butt as the next person. However, this essay may be of some service.

Sorry - for that usage, it's "cue". As in one person signalling or cueing to another person to play the sound. Not as in putting the sound effect in a queue to be played next.

You know, reading this story completely made my morning a lot happier. In America, the idea that cats are treated horribly in China (if not eaten, as well) is almost a meme, despite the fact that cats are generally loved and treated quite well elsewhere in China's neighborhood (Taiwan, Japan, etc). Reading about Chinese public outrage over a cat's horrific death is absolutely heartwarming.

Fun fact: the Chinese character for 'cat' is written as the radical for 'animal' (literally, 'beast with claws') next to the phonetic for "sounds like mao1" (basically, "Meow" after you inflect it) -- http://www.ehow.com/video_4403804_write-cat-chinese-symbols.html

This should help:

http://www.ehow.com/how_2212548_drive-uphill-manual-transmission.html

On mild inclines, there usually is no need to engage the e-brake, primarily because you do not roll back significantly, but there are still ways to avoid it.

Another terrible way to avoid rolling back is to not fully depress your clutch, but if your e-brake is shot, it works. (I used it for a couple of weeks before I was getting my e-brake fixed and my clutch replaced - I wouldn't advise it it too many other situations)

If you can get the government to make consumption of your product mandatory, then you're set for life. This is just like the single company in the US that manufactured catalytic converters lobbying congress not to mandate emissions standards, but to mandate that all cars be equipped with a catalytic converter -- regardless of their emissions. They've been mandatory since 1975 despite the fact that they reduce horse power and fuel economy