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One big advantage was that they didn't need to have a billing operation at all. Abuse was prevented by severely limiting what you could do if you withheld caller line ID. And they hijacked all outgoing SMTP. They didn't "officially" support Linux, but informally they did.

It did seem to work well, and they were profitable within a year of starting up. Ultimately, their customers demanded "flat fee, toll-free numbers". Also freeserve got swallowed up by something that got swallowed up, and the people I knew who worked there said it no longer was fun to do so.

Following site has maps of GSM coverage in various countries

There have maps for some countries to compare:
USA
Tunisia
China
Vietnam

Fuck you cunt.
http://hal.trinhall.cam.ac.uk/~nrs27

Try making your cunt signature a link. I hate that shit. Fucking cunt.

Your site is fag gay.

Neil you are a fag.

Your PGP key isnt there because you cant get it to work with Outlook.

Your house looks like a pigsty shithole typical of fat people who get no sex.

Helen Butler looks like she has chunky brown vaginal discharges. You and your friends look like fags.

You have broken links, prick.

W3C validator found errors in your shit site.
Genrally you make me sick

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Fuck you cunt.
http://hal.trinhall.cam.ac.uk/~nrs27

Try making your cunt signature a link. I hate that shit. Fucking cunt.

Your site is fag gay.

Neil you are a fag.

Your PGP key isnt there because you cant get it to work with Outlook.

Your house looks like a pigsty shithole typical of fat people who get no sex.

Helen Butler looks like she has chunky brown vaginal discharges. You and your friends look like fags.

You have broken links, prick.

W3C validator found errors in your shit site.
Genrally you make me sick

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Civilization is not a one mans cause; it's the perspective of generations.

Slashdot Revenue Denial HOWTO version 0.02

Slashdot provides information. Information has value protected under intellectual property laws. Since Slashdot does not believe in intellectual property, as demonstrated by its support of an organisation which does not believe an author should have any rights on the products of his mind, its editors are implying that Slashdot itself has no value. As such, it should not claim compensation for its services.

So much for the philosophy. How can you fulfil Slashdot's own wishes? The basic aim is to stop views of Slashdot's advertisements, so its sponsors no longer perceive Slashdot as providing worthwhile exposure, and stop sponsoring it.

• If you are using Mozilla, simply right-click the advert at the top of the page, and select "Block images from this server". Do this whenever you see a new advert appear on a Slashdot browser window.
• Or you can add an entry to /etc/hosts under a Unix-based system or C:\WINNT\SYSTEM32\DRIVERS\ETC\HOSTS under an NT-based system:

  127.0.0.1 images.slashdot.org
  127.0.0.1 images2.slashdot.org
  127.0.0.1 ad.doubleclick.net
  127.0.0.1 ln.doubleclick.net
  127.0.0.1 m.doubleclick.net
  127.0.0.1 m2.doubleclick.net

• Looking for a ready-built revenue denial product? On Windows or Unix, you could try AdBuster, AdKiller or Internet Junkbuster. And WWWoffle is a comprehensive caching solution.

Please distribute this HOWTO widely and add to it if you have further useful advice.

Slashdot Revenue Denial HOWTO version 0.02

Slashdot provides information. Information has value protected under intellectual property laws. Since Slashdot does not believe in intellectual property, as demonstrated by its support of an organisation which does not believe an author should have any rights on the products of his mind, its editors are implying that Slashdot itself has no value. As such, it should not claim compensation for its services.

So much for the philosophy. How can you fulfil Slashdot's own wishes? The basic aim is to stop views of Slashdot's advertisements, so its sponsors no longer perceive Slashdot as providing worthwhile exposure, and stop sponsoring it.

• If you are using Mozilla, simply right-click the advert at the top of the page, and select "Block images from this server". Do this whenever you see a new advert appear on a Slashdot browser window.
• Or you can add an entry to /etc/hosts under a Unix-based system or C:\WINNT\SYSTEM32\DRIVERS\ETC\HOSTS under an NT-based system:

  127.0.0.1 images.slashdot.org
  127.0.0.1 images2.slashdot.org
  127.0.0.1 ad.doubleclick.net
  127.0.0.1 ln.doubleclick.net
  127.0.0.1 m.doubleclick.net
  127.0.0.1 m2.doubleclick.net

• Looking for a ready-built revenue denial product? On Windows or Unix, you could try AdBuster, AdKiller or Internet Junkbuster. And WWWoffle is a comprehensive caching solution.

Please distribute this HOWTO widely and add to it if you have further useful advice.

Slashdot Revenue Denial HOWTO version 0.02

Slashdot provides information. Information has value protected under intellectual property laws. Since Slashdot does not believe in intellectual property, as demonstrated by its support of an organisation which does not believe an author should have any rights on the products of his mind, its editors are implying that Slashdot itself has no value. As such, it should not claim compensation for its services.

So much for the philosophy. How can you fulfil Slashdot's own wishes? The basic aim is to stop views of Slashdot's advertisements, so its sponsors no longer perceive Slashdot as providing worthwhile exposure, and stop sponsoring it.

• If you are using Mozilla, simply right-click the advert at the top of the page, and select "Block images from this server". Do this whenever you see a new advert appear on a Slashdot browser window.
• Or you can add an entry to /etc/hosts under a Unix-based system or C:\WINNT\SYSTEM32\DRIVERS\ETC\HOSTS under an NT-based system:

  127.0.0.1 images.slashdot.org
  127.0.0.1 images2.slashdot.org
  127.0.0.1 ad.doubleclick.net
  127.0.0.1 ln.doubleclick.net
  127.0.0.1 m.doubleclick.net
  127.0.0.1 m2.doubleclick.net

• Looking for a ready-built revenue denial product? On Windows or Unix, you could try AdBuster, AdKiller or Internet Junkbuster. And WWWoffle is a comprehensive caching solution.

Please distribute this HOWTO widely and add to it if you have further useful advice.

Slashdot Revenue Denial HOWTO version 0.01

Slashdot provides information, which has value under intellectual property laws. Since Slashdot does not believe in intellectual property, as demonstrated by its support an organisation which does not believe an author should have any rights on the products of his mind, Slashdot is implying that it itself has no value. As such, it should not claim compensation for its services.

So much for the philosophy. How can you fulfil Slashdot's own wishes? The basic aim is to stop views of Slashdot's advertisements, so its sponsors no longer perceive Slashdot as providing worthwhile exposure, and stop sponsoring it.

• If you are using Mozilla, simply right-click the advert at the top of the page, and select "Block images from this server".
• Or you can add an entry to /etc/hosts under a Unix-based system or C:\WINNT\SYSTEM32\DRIVERS\ETC\HOSTS under an NT-based system:

  127.0.0.1 images.slashdot.org

• Looking for a ready-built revenue denial product? On Windows or Unix, you could try AdBuster, AdKiller or Internet Junkbuster. And WWWoffle is a comprehensive caching solution.

Please distribute this HOWTO widely and add to it if you have further useful advice.

Hmmm... apparently us Brits have the best dental health in Europe, y'know (well, yeah, I am a bit surprised too, given that it's not a completely free service these days). Not sure where the USA would fit, but it's hard to believe that below-average Joe can pony up for regular visits.

And don't start me on the mind-numbingly tedious Mike Myers - not worthy to lick the great Peter Wyngarde's boots... just see Peter in action.

people think that means that every vote is sacred (reminds me of a song from Life of Brian)

Actually, it was The Meaning of Life. If you're going to quote/paraphrase Monty Python, at least get the source right. :-)

You asked for it, you got it...

Pictures of Kittens!

I don't know why it is, but the moment American media gets hold of something, it turns it into bland, flavorless mush. Is it really so hard to come up with a half hour of entertaining television, devoid of filler?

Um, the Americans had this before the UK. Biohazard astounded the crowd by self-righting, a full two years before Rex's legendary backflip. Blendo tore opponents to shreds long before Hypnodisc came up with an inferior implementation of the flywheel weapon.

I think the main reason UK Robot Wars is so good as regards the action / bullshit ratio is that we have so _many_ robots to get through. There's simply no time for filler material. Anyone with a bit of mechanical ability can knock together a robot, and getting it down to London is hardly a transcontinental commute.

Personally, I just want to get hold of a video of Razer on Battlebots. Their website brags like mad about that.

They don't say which operating system(s) they're using. Could give new meaning to George Formby's When I'm cleaning windows.

RAF Leuchars is where many of NATO's night flying exercises are conducted. There's a Map of RAF (Royal Air Force) bases, weapons ranges and radar stations in Scotland available - it's full of em.

Quote from North East Scotland Air Danger Zones

Main users are Tornados from Lossie, making it the busiest weapons range in the UK. Other users include Jaguars, Harriers, American F-15 Eagles, MC-130 Hercules and when on detachment at Kinloss, Special Operations MH-53 helicopters.

It would be surprising if there wasn't a disproportionate number of Unidentified Flying Object sightings as the result. Black helicopters included.

RAF Leuchars is where many of NATO's night flying exercises are conducted. There's a Map of RAF (Royal Air Force) bases, weapons ranges and radar stations in Scotland available - it's full of em.

Quote from North East Scotland Air Danger Zones

Main users are Tornados from Lossie, making it the busiest weapons range in the UK. Other users include Jaguars, Harriers, American F-15 Eagles, MC-130 Hercules and when on detachment at Kinloss, Special Operations MH-53 helicopters.

It would be surprising if there wasn't a disproportionate number of Unidentified Flying Object sightings as the result. Black helicopters included.

RAF Leuchars is where many of NATO's night flying exercises are conducted. There's a Map of RAF (Royal Air Force) bases, weapons ranges and radar stations in Scotland available - it's full of em.

Quote from North East Scotland Air Danger Zones

Main users are Tornados from Lossie, making it the busiest weapons range in the UK. Other users include Jaguars, Harriers, American F-15 Eagles, MC-130 Hercules and when on detachment at Kinloss, Special Operations MH-53 helicopters.

It would be surprising if there wasn't a disproportionate number of Unidentified Flying Object sightings as the result. Black helicopters included.

We would probably compare it to megatons of TNT. The Tunguska event corresponded roughly to a 15-30 megaton explosion. By comparison, the largest thermonuclear device ever exploded in the atmosphere by the United States was the Castle Bravo test in 1954, at 15 megatons.

was here Google's Cache is still here.

No reason why you cant have it: just watch out for all those warring minatures

Gah, I just did the same thing, and pretty close to the time you sent it too.

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But I get extra geek-points for having to create the virtual DOS box to do it on, with VMWARE, DOS 6.2 and SMB network drivers from bootdisk.com and msbackup 6.2 from here. ;)
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If defense was the primary reason, RedHat would have started a printed technical disclosure bulletin. Another reason is to have more "assets" with fuzzy values. Pretty useful to stretch over the accounting books every quarter...

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OK, please enlighten me. Just what combination of `beliefs and historical acts' would make September 11 acceptable?

First of all you should decide on exactly what you want to do. Do you want to design and build your own computer, or are you happy to build a computer that other people have already designed? I started building other people's designs (the first computer I built was a Z-80 kit computer) and managed to teach myself enough to tackle designing and building a simple 8-bit computer. 8-bit computers are reasonably simple to design and build and there's quite a lot of resources on the net available.

I would suggest that you look at sites like 6502.org, www.coprolite.com, Mark-8, POD 6502 or Grant Searle's collection of sites build your own UK101, build your own ZX-80 and build your own Jupiter Ace...

These are all quite good sites, and you can study their designs to learn how they work.

Hope this helps!

First of all you should decide on exactly what you want to do. Do you want to design and build your own computer, or are you happy to build a computer that other people have already designed? I started building other people's designs (the first computer I built was a Z-80 kit computer) and managed to teach myself enough to tackle designing and building a simple 8-bit computer. 8-bit computers are reasonably simple to design and build and there's quite a lot of resources on the net available.

I would suggest that you look at sites like 6502.org, www.coprolite.com, Mark-8, POD 6502 or Grant Searle's collection of sites build your own UK101, build your own ZX-80 and build your own Jupiter Ace...

These are all quite good sites, and you can study their designs to learn how they work.

Hope this helps!

First of all you should decide on exactly what you want to do. Do you want to design and build your own computer, or are you happy to build a computer that other people have already designed? I started building other people's designs (the first computer I built was a Z-80 kit computer) and managed to teach myself enough to tackle designing and building a simple 8-bit computer. 8-bit computers are reasonably simple to design and build and there's quite a lot of resources on the net available.

I would suggest that you look at sites like 6502.org, www.coprolite.com, Mark-8, POD 6502 or Grant Searle's collection of sites build your own UK101, build your own ZX-80 and build your own Jupiter Ace...

These are all quite good sites, and you can study their designs to learn how they work.

Hope this helps!

We in Europe and also the USA make life hard for them by keeping their food and their textiles out of our markets. So they have to turn to other work, such as making trainers for Nike. The real villains are the Protectionists, who wage economic warfare against the poor of the world with trade barriers.

Am I a shill for Nike? Read my declaration of interest

Some Other Info for Scroungers

even use an interestingly shaped chamber (can't remember the name, dammit!) to turn a stream of pressurized air into two streams -- one very chilled and one very hot -- using nothing more than the shape of the cylinder.

a study at the University of Buffalo claims that music sharing may cut down on superstars and promote new music

Now P2P, CD burners and general disillusionment with megacorporations (ala Microsoft) has kill -4'ed this system. They are clamouring to the old way of functioning, despite the fact they have just been TERM'ed. With the rejection of the CDBTTTPATDDBDPTT the record industry has lost their last hope. They're just going to have to live with way less than 50% of their historic turnover within time, or switch to the only truly copy-protected music which is live performances and new music (artist improvisation) eg. Madonna in a skimpy wimpy tenee wenee litt-le bikini.

Heh. This reminded me of the old Timex/Sinclair's of the 80's.

There was no video controller chip.

The Z80 had to generate all the video addresses. It would run what it thought was a program full of NOPs while the generated addresses were used as an index to a character ROM.

Some technical information is at http://www.howell1964.freeserve.co.uk/ZX81/ZX_Tech . tm

And somewhere out there is a far nastier variant on a teergrube that can keep a typical smtp session up for hours with only a few kilobits/minute, using tricks like setting TCP windows very small, NAKing lots of packets so TCP retransmits them, etc. (It basically works by saying "No, SMTP/TCP/IP isn't a set of protocol drivers in my Linux kernel, it's a definition of a set of messages and there's no reason I should user a bunch of well-tuned efficient reliable kernel routines when I can send raw IP packets myself designed for maximal ugliness."

• Spamido is an automated tool for collecting spammers' addresses so they can be fed back to other spammers.
  
• Wpoison and Sugarplum are spidertraps that generate lots of fake addresses for a long time.
  

'Civilised' is spelt perfectly correctly. It's only you 'uncivilized' Americans who spell it wrong.

-ize is better than -ise. The suffix -ize comes from Greek -zein (except for these few exceptions); -ise is a French (ribbit) corruption.

The reason that public performance is restricted with regard to copyright materials is because it is a way of leveraging royalties. "You can only perform this in public if you pay us a squigillion dollars!"
What the copyright holders seem to forget though, is that public performance is free advertising.
That's why record labels bribe radio stations for airplay.
That's also why I release my own music using the Open Audio License, since I want as many people to hear it.
If someone came to me and told me about this great new band they'd heard, but under copyright law they couldn't let me hear the band, but would have to buy my own copy I would be unlikely to buy their album, and would probably never hear them. I'd be a lot more likely to buy the album if I heard it first.
It's the music with the most hype, and the most public performance that sells. Why won't these idiots let that through their thick skulls?

Here for when the site inevitably goes down :-)

I've put BC2000 up for download here. Also the D5D plugin to allow Xine to play encoded DVDs with Linux.

I'm glad to find that I was not the only person to find lines running out of his browser window. I also looked at the source, which I found to be slightly more readable; it did not force me to scroll sideways. By the time I had used Lynx to degunk the page, I had lost confidence that it was worth reading.

I discuss window width on my website. Try the buttons that change the number of columns and tell me what you think.

apparently Jeff Minter's XBox died after a day or so.

How could they do this to the Yak? (Of course, with his fetish for all things bovine, he refers to it as an Xb-ox :)

No, it doesn't. Your source on that claim is probably Dixie Lee Ray's book _Trashing the Planet_, or Rush Limbaugh's frequent quoting of it, or somebody else's quoting (or mis-quoting) of Rush. Dixie Lee Ray unfortunately got a few of her facts and calculations wrong, and the resulting misinformation has been bouncing around the net ever since. For a correction, um, try this FAQ. Here's the relevant snippet:

" Is the recent warming caused by volcanic activity?

Volcanoes have a dual effect on climate. In the short term, they exert a net *cooling* effect due to their emissions of sulphur dioxide. The cooling effect depends on the composition of the volcanic emissions (particularly sulphur content) and on the location of the volcanoes (high latitude volcanoes tend to have a greater effect. The cooling effect of some of the most important recent volcanoes is provided by Volcano World.

Volcanoes do also emit CO2, and massive eruptions in the past have emitted enough CO2 to cause climate change. However, in the recent climatic record, volcanic emissions have been much lower. Gerlach (1991) estimated a total global release of 3-4 x 10E12 mol/yr from volcanoes. Man-made (anthropogenic) CO2 emissions overwhelm this estimate by at least 150 times. Analyses of temperature changes over the past 1000 years also show that the rise in temperature this century can't be explained by solar or volcanic activity."

That probably was Chaos2

UNITED NATIONS, Feb. 26 -- The United States today proposed a "global and comprehensive ban" on human cloning and all experimentation involving human embryos. The announcement marked an expansion in the Bush administration's campaign to restrict the uses of human embryos for scientific and medical purposes.

"Human cloning is an enormously troubling development in biotechnology," U.S. delegate Carolyn L. Willson said at a meeting of the U.N.'s Committee on an International Convention Against the Reproductive Cloning of Human Beings

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Sigh. Welcome back to the dark ages.

Cloning embryos is a far cry from reproductive cloning of human beings -- but I guess it doesn't matter to the rabid "pro-life" nuts who believe that a cluster of few cells is already a human being.

But hey, let's not forget that every sperm is sacred, too.

Herbivore has an advantage over PGP-like systems isn that it is intended to be effort-free in normal use.

That's no moon, it's a space station!

In the US, you may have free local calls to your ISP. In the UK, unless you're on AOL, don't expect to do that and be able to connect even 1 out of 5 times that you dial up.

I live in the UK and have to disagree with you on this point my ISP (Freeserve) provides unmetered access for a fixed monthly fee of £12.99 a month, which considering how much it would cost if I payed for the amount of time I spent online is very cheap. I use the service every day and have been doing so for some time and have NEVER not been able to dial up. Plus my ISP does not force me to use some unstable, insecure and overpiced OS that I don't want but leaves me to select my OS of choice (at the moment Debian GNU/Linux). So perhaps you should consider switching :)

I think these are $2 at the local Goodwill

Check these patents:

Silly patents

Really silly patents

Really Very silly patent

Plain absurd patent

Even law firms admit many patents are silly

Are you getting bored of all this silliness yet?

I can go on

And on

And on. Even in Spanish

Incidentlly, I have just made my own patent application:
Method of recieving Karma Points from www.slashdot.org utilising process of relying entirely on external sources and/or hyperlinks - "Karma Whoring".

Nasa knows about 47 1km asteroids in near-earth orbits, any of which could make bickering about the RIAA rather short-lived. Their website claims that the best reason to study NEO's, as we don't have an active defense, is to "allow us to store food and supplies and to evacuate regions near ground zero." This is not the sort of confidence that inspires politicians to open their wallet, nor should it.

India and Pakistan are on the brink of bringing the world into a nuclear holocost. Our supplies of oil are depleting while our energy usage goes up. Ebola has broken out in another african village, and Aids rates worldwide are up to 1 in 100 with some areas reaching 1 in 3. Until such a time as there is something realistic we can do about near earth asteroids, that money is better focused on more pressing forms of armageddon.

Now, is that a separated-at-birth thing or what?

But at least he's grown the beard back. Most certainly required for Alan Cox-style shenanigans.

Without a creator deity (let's call him God), you can't explain eternal life. Oops, I forgot, you probably don't believe in that either.

No, I don't, but the questions are quite orthagonal. Creator god(ess)(es/s) still wouldn't explain the continuity of psychology after bodily death, because we still have to explain the existance of the creator.

Saying "X was created by Y" leads to the question "So what created Y?" If your answer is "Y is eternal", why not skip the middleman and asusme that X is eternal in the first place?

And if there is no God and no eternal life, why worry about morals? There would be no right and no wrong? The biggest dog eats the most, might make right, etc.

I don't worry about morals at all. Consult any Zen master or Taoist sage for further enlightenment.

I just try to act compassionately, simply because it suits me to do so - not out of any fear of "eternal damnation" or "the wrath of god(ess)(es/s)", but because my experience is that it leads to less suffering. Metaphysics has nothing to do with it; speculations about some process whereby the fiction "I" call "my self" might continue after this body dies, don't help me figure out how to live this life at all.