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The ultimate dream car:
http://www.geocities.com/MotorCity/Garage/8837/pho tos.html

And the specs to go along with it:
http://www.geocities.com/Hollywood/Theater/7389/sp ecs.htm

I once thought of making fun of this nonsense by re-establishing the Roman Empire. I mean, Romulus Augustulus wasn't properly deposed, don't you know! Alas, somebody with no sense of humor beat me to it.

Let's get real. It doesn't matter how good your legal theories are (and most of them are pretty awful). Pseudo-entities like Sealand exist in a fantasy world. They can operate only because nobody can be bothered to disestablish them. The very nanonsecond they piss off an established authority, in come the cops and marines, and everybody's looking for a new job. As such, they are absolutely the worst place to put a data haven.

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Obviously some people think Norns are alive judging by the amount of hatemail AntiNorn got for his Norn Torture page. Personally I think it's hilarious.

The Volksempfänger. Yeah, I can see that award taking off :) You could call them the "Volkies", I guess!
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It reminded me of that song too -- so much that I hunted down a rendition of it on the net (geocities site).
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This isn't quite what you asked for, but I thought it was interesting. PilotCE, PalmOS Emulator for WinCE.

Don't be condescending. I've had my share of copyright nonsense and WON. Now, just read here , and see my offensive yet untouchable web site here. Really read it beyond the context. Read the snips of Supreme court opinion. Serving the PUBLIC interest is the purpose of copyright. Having files on one's disk is not copyright violation (see Sony vs. the Movie Pigs), and neither does being on a network, even if they are passively available for copying. Only if you put those files on a disk and give or sell that DISK to another do you violate copyright.

Do you have any backing for that claim?

Do you have backing that it is not? There has never been a case before the Supremes that has dealt with IP without corresponding physical representation of that IP. The corporate piggies are going to get a rude awakening when their lame software patents and excessive music/literature copyrights get dumped by the Supremes because their is no objective property to protect. If Napster goes all the way to the Supremes, they will win.

By the way... in spite of your nationalistic indoctrination, this isn't an issue of 'Commies vs. the good guys'. The commies are gone now, remember?

blessings,

Here again we see individuals going to extreme lengths to flee out from underneath an ever-expanding tangle of partisan legislation. The ironic part is that any one of us [in the States] could do it right here. We would need only bandwidth, server space, and sovereign citizenship. The last removes one from the jurisdiction of federal legislation altogether, by rejecting the dubious privileges of citizenship under the 14th Amendment and returning to the status of a Citizen of one's State and of the several States. The federal government was only given jurisdiction and scope within a specific limited bailiwick, primarily keeping interstate trade conflicts down and arbiting in cases where two states were involved in a dispute. To the extent that the federal government is involved in legislating on everything from gun ownership to abortion issues to pro-RIAA legislation, it's essentially out of bounds. In order to have the authority to effect legislation of this variety, a new category of citizenship was created under the 14th Amendment (which itself was rushed through into law and never lawfully ratified.) A new category of citizenship was created to be within the scope of the federal government's power (rather than the original class of citizenship, which grants the federal government all of its authority) and to this category of [second-class] citizenship, all legislation created by the federal government applies. It was originally an opt-in system, but due to gradual changes in paperwork and the introduction of new simple-sounding terms with rather treacherous legal definitions ("resident" is one of my favorite examples of this breed, with "driver" not far behind) it became the de facto standard. Rather like opt-in SPAM that quietly became opt-out, and now the details of just how to do that (or that you even can) have become buried in obscurity.

The point of this post is to pass the word around that one can opt out, and be subject to none of this asinine legislation, and that we're not sheep at the mercy of federal and corporate wolves. Anyone with a Napster server can remove themselves from the jurisdiction of the offending legislation and be done with it, keeping the Nap server functioning as-is without liability. I consider the whole thing to be a prop media issue, since the major media is too well-heeled to go anywhere near the sovereignty issue. Talk about a conflict of interest.

All your bridge are belong to us?

http://www.geocities.com/mainscreenturnon/

Sadly, much of this was a previously solved problem in the Control Data Corporation 6600 series of computer, which used a "scoreboard" to keep track of dynamically arising opportunities for parallelism among the CPU's functional units. This is generally the technology used in modern CPUs to infer parallelism from look-ahead in machine code instruction streams.

The fad in "dataflow" machines in the lat 70s and early 80s (arising largely from John Backus's 1977 Turing Award Lecture) was not entirely misguided. However, the failure to come up with a good way of describing I/O and other time-related operations was its downfall. I've been working on this stuff from the viewpoint of distributed programming environments as a high-priority background task ever since those days, and it gets into some of the most serious philosophical questions about the relationship between mathematics and reality that are intimatedly related to quantum theory and phenomenology. At some point, we have to ask ourselves: 'What is an object, how does it come to "be" in "time" and how can we best formalize these conceptions?'

I don't think these problems have to be solved entirely for asynchronous systems to work, but my point of departure in trying to come up with a programming language that could handle dataflow was hardware design langauges, and the way they generalize boolean algebra to represent feedback circuits which means "time" in an important sense. Unfortunately, the best guys in Bell Labs at that time who were working on high level hardware design languages were using quite ad hoc formalisms to represent such boolean feedback loops.

Sadly, much of this was a previously solved problem in the Control Data Corporation 6600 series of computer, which used a "scoreboard" to keep track of dynamically arising opportunities for parallelism among the CPU's functional units. This is generally the technology used in modern CPUs to infer parallelism from look-ahead in machine code instruction streams.

The fad in "dataflow" machines in the lat 70s and early 80s (arising largely from John Backus's 1977 Turing Award Lecture) was not entirely misguided. However, the failure to come up with a good way of describing I/O and other time-related operations was its downfall. I've been working on this stuff from the viewpoint of distributed programming environments as a high-priority background task ever since those days, and it gets into some of the most serious philosophical questions about the relationship between mathematics and reality that are intimatedly related to quantum theory and phenomenology. At some point, we have to ask ourselves: 'What is an object, how does it come to "be" in "time" and how can we best formalize these conceptions?'

I don't think these problems have to be solved entirely for asynchronous systems to work, but my point of departure in trying to come up with a programming language that could handle dataflow was hardware design langauges, and the way they generalize boolean algebra to represent feedback circuits which means "time" in an important sense. Unfortunately, the best guys in Bell Labs at that time who were working on high level hardware design languages were using quite ad hoc formalisms to represent such boolean feedback loops.

Proportional fonts rock for coding!
Sure, they take a little getting used to, but they make variable recognition heaps faster, and with good syntax styling+cut/paste, the whole typo issue just vanishes... Here's my editor here:
http://www.geocities.com/TimesSquare/Arcade/1783/Y ate.htm
(Looks best at 1600x1200)

-ShunScene

• Stan Viet's History of the Personal Computer

The first computer I programmed on was in highschool in 1977 on a Processor Technolgy SOL-20 ... a cool machine with a wopping 32KB of RAM and dual 8" floppy drives the likes of which I have seen noplace else ... really weird motorized eject & insertion that quite often jammed. I learned BASIC, FOCAL and 8080 assembler on that box.

My first home system was an Ohio Scientific C1P that I bought in 1978 with money from a part-time job instead of a Car like the rest of my friends. Leaned 6502 assembler and FORTH on that box, and programmed several games and a "word processor". I also wrote an AI program that was like ELIZA, but on steroids and actually learned words and phrases and understood grammer.

For information on the SOL-20 and an emulator check here, and for information on the C1P check here or here.

GOD I FEEL OLD!!!

- subsolar

at http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Peaks/7814/ . There seems to be a new c3270 curses-based version of x3270. I have never tried it, but x3270 works great, so hopefully c3270 is just as good.

Camera? That's easy too:

here ya go

The system integration and telemetry is what's going to suck.

I reccomend an electric glider as a platform. It can stay up all day, they're easy to fly (hell, i can do it), there's an existing technology base, and all you have to do is drive along the bike race path and fly the plane overhead, even without telemetry. The model airplane distance record was set in just such a fashion.

And never underestimate the piper cub offense

good luck.

Look... If the government is going to play favorites in an arena as crucial as space technology development, then why don't they just take full responsibility for meeting specific objectives, and if they fail in those objectives -- poof -- terminate the government program in total and let the private sector have at it for a decade without any footsies with the guvvies; and no excuses?

The only thing worse than people wanting government technology development is people who want some government technology development.

You can overclock more then just CPU's..
I had a Yamaha 200t (2x6 CDR), with a few modifications and a reflash of the bios, its now a Yamaha 400t (4x6 CDR).
It has been working fine at 4x for at least 500 CD burns. About a 100 on my Intel P133 overclocked to a P150 (75x2, CPU multiplier is clocklocked at 2) and the rest on my K6-2/400 overclocked to a K6-2/450 (110x4)
You can "overclock" many other CDR's also.
My theory is if its free, go for it..
I consider it fine tuning, just as you fine tune your proxy settings, your DB's, network settings, upgrade your kernel for better support, etc.. How is this any different then moving a CPU multiplier setting up an extra .5x, raising the bus freq up 5Mhz, or adjusting any other parameters in your system bios? If it takes you 10 minutes and you get a performance increase why not do it?
Overclocking is very well documented. You will find far more web pages that describe CPU overclocking then you'll find on "fine tuning" something like Samba.

I am assuming that just like their foam gun and wheel shooting equipment that this thing will also come out looking bad. According to the article they are going to shoot this thing from up to 750 meters? From that distance the energy is going to be distributed over the entire body of the victim... err target. That means it will damage eye's, the skin around your ears, and if you are a card carrying member of the Y-chromosone club your going to get your testes roasted.

Think about that last one for a minute there, boys.

The more I listen to this stuff the more skeptical I become. This whole project seems more like an excuse to just dump money on a few companies and academics.

For more info check out this and this and maybe this.

Some native compilers for Linux should be here.

I was interested in this concept about 5 years ago, and I constructed the following message as an example of how a language can construct itself by application of logic alone. It attempts to distance itself from any common experiences by using pattern to establish the "alphabet" of common experiences from which the language can be constructed. Please reply if you can translate it, no one ever has yet to my knowledge.

http://www.geocities.com/zcyl1/ra1_puz.txt

http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Lakes/7156/ laser.htm

With a couple laser pointers and a few bucks worth of parts, you too can build your own RS232 Laser Transceiver for your home laser network.

Over a decade ago I proposed the National Science Trust that would be a trust fund that paid out only for information delivered, from whatever source and by whatever lawful means. In other words, new information flowing in causes new cash to flow out.

I'm no longer one to advocate political action about anything, but The National Science Trust idea can easily be adapted to private philanthropy as well.

Over a decade ago I proposed the National Science Trust that would be a trust fund that paid out only for information delivered, from whatever source and by whatever lawful means. In other words, new information flowing in causes new cash to flow out.

I'm no longer one to advocate political action about anything, but The National Science Trust idea can easily be adapted to private philanthropy as well.

Over a decade ago I proposed the National Science Trust that would be a trust fund that paid out only for information delivered, from whatever source and by whatever lawful means. In other words, new information flowing in causes new cash to flow out.

I'm no longer one to advocate political action about anything, but The National Science Trust idea can easily be adapted to private philanthropy as well.

check the screenshots.

The governmental system of taxing the creation of capital so that the possessors of capital may have less competition for their lofty positions in society and more money for their puppet politicians to spend as they are told.

"Marxism" on the other hand would have run something like:

Capitalism in which the puppet politicians, on behalf of the creators of capital, kill their owners, take their capital and try to occupy their lofty positions in society, only then to find it necessary to kill the creators of capital in order to conceal the fact that the politicans needed someone to pull their strings all along.

There is no real mystery to "capital" -- being simply accumulation of the fruits of labor and enterprise. The only mystery is why warriors, the protectors of such accumumulations, have never realized that they are actually in the insurance business, ignore the politicians, find the best police, soldiers and actuaries and go into business for themselves with something like Warriors Insurance where the wealthy pay insurance premiums for the protection their property rights enjoy from the military and police -- and are indemnified when the military and police fail in their protective duties.

I can't believe you haven't mentioned the two best comics on the web: Spacemoose (I wish Adam Thrasher would update it) and classic Needle & Thread

There's still some work it needs for complete Linux support as you can read here but it's a lot less than developing your own framework.

ZooLib requires very little in the way of system graphics support so it wouldn't be too hard to port it to the framebuffer if you prefer doing that to running your game under X.

Because ZooLib uses the MIT License (also known as the X11 License) it is appropriate for use in both proprietary and Free Software programs.

If ZooLib doesn't suit your needs, have a look at the GUI Toolkit, Framework page.

Mike

Unfortunately the Linux kernel still does not comply with the principles of good kernel design highlighted in Tannenbaum's "Operating Systems Design And Implentation": the clean (and I do emphasize that that is important) implementation of a scheduler, memory managment aspects, IPC, device drivers etc.

You and Tanenbaum seem to share the belief that the architecture of the OS is the highest priority. Linus seems to focus instead on practicality and performance, although he does value architectural simplicity and elegance very highly too.

perhaps a CVS system instead of randomly throwing out tarballs....and a proper built-in kernel debugger. (Linus himself apparently dissaproves of things like this)

but in matters such as this perhaps it's time he was overruled, in order to take the kernel onto the next level

The Mr. Dataplay Commercial:
(A geek at his computer blows a whistle, bringing
Mr. Dataplay to life off of his box. He calls to him.)
Mr. Sparkle: I'm disrespectful to unprotected music!
Can you see I am serious?
(Mr. Dataplay hovers over the geek's CD's, releasing
sparkles over them. The discs disappear. Mr. Dataplay
floats to the living room, where he bounces over
a baby's xylophone. He then appears underwater,
where three women are dancing.)
Mr. Dataplay: Get out of my way, all of you! This is no
place for music pirates! Join me or die. Can you do any less?
(The women stop dancing.)
Two of the women: What a brave corporate logo! I
accept the challenge of "Mr. Dataplay."
Woman: Awsoma power!
(Mr. Dataplay blows magic dust over the girls as a graphic
of a drumming monkey toy hovers in the upper left of
the screen. The dust turns the girls into blue Sumos.)
(The scene changes to a reporter interviewing a two-
headed cow.)
Reporter: Any plans for the summer?
(Mr. Dataplay appears and shatters the cow. It's
disembodied eyes blink at him. The scene changes to
Mr. Dataplay coming at us from an orange background.)
Mr. Dataplay: For lucky best music, use Mr. Dataplay!

There are virtual machines for almost every platform. Some of them (esp. Kaffe) are free _and_ very portable.

Not that I've ever heard of. Working for a defence contractor, I've personally sold the United States Navy, Marines and Coast Guard several systems which had loads of TI parts in them. In fact, I often spec TI parts where possible, because their stuff is tough as nails.

I think it would be rather tough to do that, anyway: open up *anything* that doesn't have highly integrated chipsets, and you'll probably see an array of SN74xx chips, all with the little TI logo on them.

TI also makes ICs for a lot of other companies, too. I understand they fab for AMD, among others.

As for the cast aluminum accessory cards, take a look at this. Almost halfway down, you'll find a picture of an open "PEB". From left to right, the cards appear to be the "firehose" flex cable interface card and the 32k RAM expansion card (both in cast aluminum cases), a few empty slots, and then what appears to be a CorComp (aftermarket) RS-232 card and an unknown aftermarket diskette controller card. (You'll note that the aftermarket realized that TI was into overbuilding things.)

That's their *home* computer stuff. Cast aluminum cards. You should see their industrial electronics.

If I've made the world a better place, it isn't because I, for a time, chose a political route to do so. What my successes in politics have shown me is that it is time for Mr. Smith to go home and work around the system with technical innovation, rather than within it through political action.

If I've made the world a better place, it isn't because I, for a time, chose a political route to do so. What my successes in politics have shown me is that it is time for Mr. Smith to go home and work around the system with technical innovation, rather than within it through political action.

Since the laws against duels passed during the 19th century made an individual's appeal of last resort words, rather than the non-verbal fair contest of the cultures ancestral to Common Law, it is incumbant on those who confiscated the monopoly on force to recognize that they are transforming words from, primarily, a mode of communication into, primarily, a means of manipulation. That is the nature of appeals of last resort.

I don't think you solve the problem with feudalism by extending its errors to confiscating the power of words as well as weapons from the commons, with or without a parliament (including the Icelandic Althing circa 1000AD). The solution I have proposed is closer to a pre-feudal system of insurance enhanced up by actuarial technologies that clarify the economic relationship between protector and protected. It might even be called "warrior insurance" as distinct from the gangster "insurance" of feudalism and its parliamentary spawn.

Honestly, get your facts straight...

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Honestly, get your facts right...

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In response to your comments, there is a bit about how Prescott Bush made the family fortune. For example, there is this:

Interesting details on the financing of Hitler and dealings with the Nazi regime are in the book George Bush, The Unauthorized Biography (1992) by Webster Griffin Tarpey and Anton Chaikin. Published by the Executive Intelligence Review, P. O. Box 17390, Washington, DC 20041-0390. ISBN # 0-943235-05-7. 659 pages. Price $20.00.

Quoted without omissions from pages 33 and 34: "On March 19, 1934, Prescott Bush (father to George Snr) - then director of the German Steel Trust's Union Banking Corporation -initiated an alert to the absent Averell Harriman about a problem which had developed in the Flick partnership.

In that context, some folks can't get out of the thinking of like Father, like son.

That being said, there were a large number of companies that tried to play boths sides for profit. The most recent news story on this had to do with IBM, but there are plenty of others that would like to string up some of the Rockerfellers for treason, etc. (for example)

Mind you I am generally not a conspiracy theorist. but these guys keep coming up with so many little details that it is hard to track every thing down. And of course, if certain folks were that bad, then they would be busy all of the time, doing things.

I am starting to think that fascism wears the face of a bean counter, and is generally otherwise apolitical (ie, not democratic or republican)

I am sure that you can bring up the infamous dead friends of Clinton list, now rather incredibly long.

As I said, the main point here not being about Bush or Clinton, but the over all trend of things keeps turning on the little red warning lights in the back of the skull

But I don't see what the problem here really is at the top end: just generate your pages from a database and stick the content into a template for the browser/platform in question. What's the big deal?

I know of a good system to do this: the Everything engine (which powers the world's largest online encyclopedia). But what about people whose content is hosted on Freeservers, GeoCities, and XOOM, hosts whose security policies do not permit server-side dynamic page generation?

The question at hand is this: How do we mold the early videotex environment so that noise is suppressed without limiting the free flow of information between customers?

The first obstacle is, of course, legal. As the knights of U.S. feudalism, corporate lawyers have a penchant for finding ways of stomping out innovation and diversity in any way possible. In the case of videotex, the attempt is to keep feudal control of information by making videotex system ownership imply liability for information transmitted over it. For example, if a libelous communication takes place, corporate lawyers for the plaintiff will bring suit against the carrier rather than the individual responsible for the communication. The rationalizations for this clearly unreasonable and contrived position are quite numerous. Without a common carrier status, the carrier will be treading on virgin ground legally and thus be unprotected by precedent. Indeed, the stakes are high enough that the competitor could easily afford to fabricate an event ideal for the purposes of such a suit. This means the first legal precedent could be in favor of holding the carrier responsible for the communications transmitted over its network, thus forcing (or giving an excuse for) the carrier to inspect, edit and censor all communications except, perhaps, simple person-to-person or "electronic mail". This, in turn, would put editorial control right back in the hands of the feudalists. Potential carriers' own lawyers are already hard at work worrying everyone about such a suit. They would like to win the battle against diversity before it begins. This is unlikely because videotex is still driven by technology and therefore by pioneers.

The question then becomes: How do we best protect against such "legal" tactics? The answer seems to be an early emphasis on secure identification of the source of communications so that there can be no question as to the individual responsible. This would preempt an attempt to hold the carrier liable. Anonymous communications, like Delphi conferencing, could even be supported as long as some individual would be willing to attach his/her name to the communication before distributing it. This would be similar, legally, to a "letters to the editor" column where a writer remains anonymous. Another measure could be to require that only individuals of legal age be allowed to author publishable communications. Yet another measure could be to require anyone who wishes to write and publish information on the network to put in writing, in an agreement separate from the standard customer agreement, that they are liable for any and all communications originating under their name on the network. This would preempt the "stolen password" excuse for holding the carrier liable.

Beyond the secure identification of communication sources, there is the necessity of editorial services. Not everyone is going to want to filter through everything published by everyone on the network. An infrastructure of editorial staffs is that filter. In exchange for their service the editorial staff gets to promote their view of the world and, if they are in enough demand, charge money for access to their list of approved articles. On a videotex network, there is little capital involved in establishing an editorial staff. All that is required is a terminal and a file on the network which may have an intrinsic cost as low as $5/month if it represents a publication with "only" around 100 articles. The rest is up to the customers. If they like a publication, they will read it. If they don't they won't. A customer could ask to see all articles approved by staffs A or B inclusive, or only those articles approved by both A and B, etc. This sort of customer selection could involve as many editorial staffs as desired in any logical combination. An editorial staff could review other editorial staffs as well as individual articles, forming hierarchies to handle the mass of articles that would be submitted every day. This sort of editorial mechanism would not only provide a very efficient way of filtering out poor and questionable communications without inhibiting diversity, it would add a layer of liability for publications that would further insulate carriers from liability and therefore from a monopoly over communications.

In general, anything that acts to filter out bad information and that is not under control of the carrier, acts to prevent the carrier from monopolizing the evolution of ideas on the network.

Speaking of the moon, I thought I'd revive a legendary /. troll classic from the immortal streetlawyer, Have fun!

The "Moon": A Ridiculous Liberal Myth

It amazes me that so many allegedly "educated" people have fallen so quickly and so hard for a fraudulent fabrication of such laughable proportions. The very idea that a gigantic ball of rock happens to orbit our planet, showing itself in neat, four-week cycles -- with the same side facing us all the time -- is ludicrous. Furthermore, it is an insult to common sense and a damnable affront to intellectual honesty and integrity. That people actually believe it is evidence that the liberals have wrested the last vestiges of control of our public school system from decent, God-fearing Americans (as if any further evidence was needed! Daddy's Roommate? God Almighty!)

Documentaries such as Enemy of the State have accurately portrayed the elaborate, byzantine network of surveillance satellites that the liberals have sent into space to spy on law-abiding Americans. Equipped with technology developed by Handgun Control, Inc., these satellites have the ability to detect firearms from hundreds of kilometers up. That's right, neighbors .. the next time you're out in the backyard exercising your Second Amendment rights, the liberals will see it! These satellites are sensitive enough to tell the difference between a Colt .45 and a .38 Special! And when they detect you with a firearm, their computers cross-reference the address to figure out your name, and then an enormous database housed at Berkeley is updated with information about you.

Of course, this all works fine during the day, but what about at night? Even the liberals can't control the rotation of the Earth to prevent nightfall from setting in (only Joshua was able to ask for that particular favor!) That's where the "moon" comes in. Powered by nuclear reactors, the "moon" is nothing more than an enormous balloon, emitting trillions of candlepower of gun-revealing light. Piloted by key members of the liberal community, the "moon" is strategically moved across the country, pointing out those who dare to make use of their God-given rights at night!

Yes, I know this probably sounds paranoid and preposterous, but consider this. Despite what the revisionist historians tell you, there is no mention of the "moon" anywhere in literature or historical documents -- anywhere -- before 1950. That is when it was initially launched. When President Josef Kennedy, at the State of the Union address, proclaimed "We choose to go to the moon", he may as well have said "We choose to go to the weather balloon." The subsequent faking of a "moon" landing on national TV was the first step in a long history of the erosion of our constitutional rights by leftists in this country. No longer can we hide from our government when the sun goes down.

I bought from NikeID, and my ID is of course, Linux. Lots of pictures and a review are here

national socialist german worker's party, translated. how's that for irony.

They're just like socialists today.

The Nazis gave everyone radios (Volksempfangers, "the Radio of the People", made of cardboard and bakelite, with little swastikas on them), promised everyone a job, a car (Volkswagen ("the Car of the People") Beetle), and a basic standard of living.

When they discovered that the huge tax burden imposed by this still couldn't pull Germany out of the depression, anger could be directed quite easily towards the Jews, the gays, the gypsies, etc.

Socialism is evil, and never works.

Blame Canada, indeed.

Happy Valentines Day!

Republicans decide to make the net safe for children by appointing an 'Internet Czar' (see To Renew America by Newt Gingrich) and decide that people can, in fact, be liable for "criminal" speech on the Internet. Congress accepts this comprimise to total Federal control of the Internet.

Democrats, in order to appeal to their large amount of ethnic minority voters, pushes Congress for Federal 'hate crime' legislation. Now, it is a crime to think, or feel, hate. Orwell called these "thought-crimes". Republicans in congress who do not want to get "Ashcrofted" when they are appointed to their future cabinet position, make sure to go on record as voting for this legislation.

These are not scenarios... these are agendas.

So now, when some nutcase posts on slashdot that he's going to kill a bunch of /blacks/whites/women/frogs/FBI Agents, Commander Taco and friends get to go to Federal Prison for running a "Hate Speech Forum" when the Ministry of Love comes down on them.

Maybe 5 years is too far into the future. These proposals are in the works now. Welcome to the fold.

Vote Libertarian

Yeah, uh, no. The absolute best text compression algorithm today (RK) achieves 1.42 bits per character. For some REAL STATS (!), see The Archive Comparison Test. Considering the amount of work that has gone into text compression in the past few years (going from 2.0 to 1.42!) and knowing the theory myself, I find it ludicrous that someone unknown in the compression scene would come up with such an algorithm, which by the sounds of the simple description would likely already be covered by many patents. It's definitely overstated, and likely far inferior to the current state-of-the-art in compression.

One way to implement such things would be to write a replacement for xterm and define a new terminal type. Just as xterm has escape codes to set the foreground and background colors, the new terminal could have additional escape codes to create or update certain display widgets

It's not about racial groups, it's about animal abuse...human cruelty.

A number of years ago, Toronto really became a laughingstock when baseball player Dave Winfield, after accidentally killing a (which, by the way, is vermin - it's basically a rat with wings), was instantly arrested by the police and busted for cruelty to animals.

Excerpt from this website http://www.stanford.edu/~greggjp/EEEEEE/Notes00/Ma y00Notes1.html

If I remember right, Winfield was actually arrested, though the charges were dropped. Something about Billy Martin refuting the very idea that Winfield could've hit the bird on purpose, given that he hadn't hit a cutoff man all year. (In case you don't know what I'm talking about, Winfield was booed for years in Toronto after killing a seagull -- the national bird of Canada -- with a thrown baseball.)

Those people really have their priorities totally screwed-up as a society.

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An old calculator, the Friden EC-130 used sound traveling down a wire as memory. You can read about it at http://www.geocities.com/oldcalculators/friden130. html.

It is a wonderfully convoluted machine.

a quick search revealed the following:

http://www.pintus.de/ilu/solo9300.html#x11
http://www.geocities.com/psilon001/Solo9300.htm

that second link basically says, that he told the installer that he was using a 17" monitor capable of 1280x1024. I don't see why that wouldn't work.. you could probably tell it to use whatever sync rates it wants... I remember having to do something like that on my laptop when 1024x768 was new.

-andy