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I think: "TIME CUBE"!

I prefer GameCube.

But GameCube still makes more sense.

Wow, that's amazing. How have I never seen that before?

I apologize; I have no mod points at the moment.

Time Cube starts to make a bit more sense when you realize that "four simultaneous 24-hour days" is just a long way of saying "four time zones". But GameCube still makes more sense.

YOU ARE EDUCATED STUPID!

No, PlayStation fans are educated stupid. Wii come from the GameCube. Animal Crossing is 24 simultaneous days in one.

Before there was Wii, there was NINTENDO'S PORTABLE SIMULTANEOUS 4-PLAYER GAME CUBE.

When I installed the Windows Vista Beta, there was a segment in the EULA expressly saying that you can't copy the fonts
Easy to figure out why...

Funny that the core web fonts have been discontinued by MS as well. Sadly, the font industry is riddled with companies stealing each other's fonts all the time.

A Reflexion Upon Contemporary Conservatism's Moral Relativism:
No Real Conservative would ever ground justifcations for their deeds in the acts, words, or thoughts of Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Yet this is precisely what they do when rationalising the theft of habeas corpus and due process rights from the "detainees" of the Bush Farce Upon Terror. This sans-a-spine tyranny, the reprehensible thievery of natural liberty, is an act more befitting trotskyites than conservatives.

I am astounded by your reference to a pope's preascendent pontification vituperating moral relativism, whose own youthful history could be construed as an exemplary case study of situationalism past. Do you have a url for this readily at hand? Don't provide it if your conception of the creative is connected to him though. It amuses, may be used in future heterodoxical musing, and I am a proficient searchengine tech user. Does the XVI signify fifteen prior Pope Benedicts?

I am not decidedly antipapist though; I question Luther and Calvin too.

From the Dreamtime:

"...shake off all the fears and servile prejudices, under which weak minds are servilely crouched. Fix reason firmly in her seat, and call to her tribunal every fact, every opinion. Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason, than that of blindfolded fear."

Thomas Jefferson;
letter to Peter Carr, August 10, 1787
The Writings of Thomas Jefferson
Memorial Edition (Lipscomb and Bergh, editors)
20 Vols., Washington, D.C., 1903-04.
Volume 6; pp 256-262

Over to the dilemma of the atheist:

"God is the solitude of men. There was only me:
I alone decided to commit Evil; alone,
I invented Good.
I am the one who cheated,
I am the one who performed miracles,
I am the one accusing myself today,
I alone can absolve myself;
me, the man."

--Jean-Paul Sartre
--The Devil and the Good Lord, act 10, scene 4

Also, is your given email pointer just a spam vacuum?

There is a fourth path: to live the Dreamtime.

To cleave to the self-evident; that all humans are politically equal, and endowed by that which they perceive as the creative with inalienable rights...

This walkabout declines to wax hyperbolic, believing it would be preaching to the choir, but liberty and justice (including due process of law) to all goes one hell of a long way down a proper path to peace, while depriving humans of the benefits of Trial by Jury, and transporting them beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offences, can only lead to violent reactions. Tis as true today as was true two hundred thirty years hence.

Ironic that the madman past and present are both Georges though. Incongruously, archaic Vegas casino worker slang defines a george as someone who tips exceedingly well.

btw, a wink and a nod for the passé handling of the Jeffers riff; a mite unexpected on \. Jeffers mentioned Carthage at least once in his work, but I felt the cite given was more appropriate. Also, since i suspect you've been to the site currently referenced as this user's, I offer many of its inner anchors, suitable for direct linking of citations, as well as a current project, nearing completion: Authorization of Force.

More like the GAME CUBE!!!

Choice quote: "Sony justifies all human evil."

The USA is dead, bitches! Long live the USSA!

http://commitoons.fateback.com/commitoons/comic.ht ml

Have you seen this parody?

Your smart mario has sunshine. God chips fights evil Gates reality.

Sony fandom is a lie, "PLAY CUBIC".

I think I can beat that, at least for persons of approximately my generation: Courtesy memepool, transformer porn.

http://www.tunelinux.com/ is defunct now :( but I'm sure there are some other sites you could find with google.

Here's the first one I found...

Does anybody else find it ironic that Sonic is now on the GameCube and GBA?

No. Remember the Dreamcast let you play Mario games on Sega hardware before Sonic games were available for Nintendo platforms.

And if you really want to be confused:
Somari

After this, pacman 'hangs' because the one-byte-wide memory for holding board number gets incremented, hosing the next memory location holding other system variables.

Close but not quite. A one-byte variable doesn't magically become a two-byte variable just because it's incremented past 255. What happens is it wraps around to zero. Pac-man numbered its boards starting at one, so it wound up displaying unplayable gibberish on the screen instead of the missing board zero.

Here's a page with patterns and a screen shot of the "level zero" bug.

That won't get money into HUD's. What will get money into HUD's will be sex.

As soon as the VR vagina is invented as an accesory to the VR glasses, you're going to see guys lined up around the corner to spend an intimate moment with their favorite girl from DOA3

What about the KOSMOS Project?

True! New lines ARE neeeeeded! I've lost too many fish already.

Still, the greatest fishing lines today are more than 2.5 times stronger than the strongest nylon fishing lines, at the same diameter. A 0.30 mm diameter line of today break first at well over 20kg (some 43 pound [or whatever... I'm ISO-metric]). And, several of my friends have had their hooks straightened before their lines broke.

Fishermen are keen "benchmarkers", too :)

Even though I knew it was "Fellowship ...", for some reason, Fall of the Republic was the first title that came to mind.

Notice the stink of self-righteousness?
If there's one thing I can't stand, it's the holier-than-thou attitude.

some info I liberated from usenet:

" The Art of Deception by Kevin Mitnick - The Lost Chapter
This book about Social Engineering by famous/infamous hacker Kevin Mitnick appeared a while back. This first chapter was taken out of the book by the editor. It's freely available on the web here and it's a nice read. If you like it, you might consider to get the entire book."

Mitnick's Chapter One

If this is really Mitnick's first chapter (And the tone and information seem authentic) he sounds pretty self-righteous (and unrepentant) to me: "As I reflect back on my life for the last thirty years, I admit I made some extremely poor decisions, driven by my curiosity, the desire to learn about technology, and a good intellectual challenge."

He continues to promote himself, make excuses for himself, blame everyone else for his problems, and makes it sound as if the only crime is that he was caught and prosecuted.

His book "The Art of Deception" is terrific, an absolute must-read for anyone with any responsibility for security. This book is contributing more to computer security than Painter and the other pompous assholes who made careers out of screwing Mitnick have contributed in their entire lives.

It's a pretty repetitive book with little new or startling content for anyone who works in the security field. Given that Mitnick is an acknowledged and celebrated Social Engineer (liar), how credible are the various anecdotes and examples? The logic is circular - this great liar will explain to you how he can lie to fool people.

Which part are lies and which parts are true? Think about storytelling around the water cooler - it is pretty easy to embellish a fairly boring and innocuous story into a compelling anecdote. How much of what Mitnick's book contains is true, verifiable fact, and how much is the product of his own imagination?

But what the poater meant was that the media is in fact identical, it's just the packaging that's different

this, IMHO, is the most valuable information in Phrack 60:

Kevin Mitnick wrote a book, "The Art of Deception". The first chapter
has been deleted by the publisher at the last minute. It's available
on the internet:
http://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,56187,00. html
http://littlegreenguy.fateback.com/chapter1/Chapte r%201%20-%20Banned%20Edition.doc

[i linked this Phrack quote because Slash adds a space character to strings that wordwrap - can anyone tell me how to prevent this from happening?]

Hey didn't he make a million dollars off Kevin Mitnick? Doesn't that put him on my do not read list?

I'm glad to see a spammer get fined, but will a mere $2000 stop him/her?

Short of bringing back keel-hauling perhaps what we need is some help from those free email services? The majority of the spam I receive has forged headers and forged email addresses, usually bearing the domain of a free email service.

So you set these services up so you can register for free, but you need a real email address. When you register, the free email service sends you a password with a link you have to click to confirm and enter that password. The mail address and the HTTP_REFERRER address are all logged.

Couple these procedures with relays and/or email programs that won't handle free email domains, such as @hotmail unless they originate from a hotmail.com SMTP server. Of course, you also want to toss any message that uses a bogus domain name as well.

This wouldn't end all the spam, but it might slow it down a bit as it would preclude the abuses of free email accounts.