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Face it -- The Game boy is a computer. Just because it's normally used to play cute games doesn't mean that it's not able to do anything else. Where's your hacker ethic? The 4Mz Z80-lookalike that runs it was one of the mainstays of hobby computing until the IBM PC overran the competition (remember CPM or the TRS-80? And with up to 2MB of ROM, it's got the program storage of a small hard disk of the era. (4K of RAM is a bit small, but quite livable -- equivalent to a VIC-20.).

With an external floppy (ooh! 1M of storage, I'd be in HEAVEN!) or some flash RAM, and a 1200 baud modem (no K there!), it'd make a quite respectable early-80s BBS. Your average home hobbyist would have been scandalized about using that MUCH processing power (mostly because of the hundreds of K of available storage) 'just' to run a sewing machine.
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At the risk of sounding silly:

I happen to get into an HTML/CGI/JS based chatroom (yes, there is IRC. Now, do you know any pagan channels out there? Visited by really knowledgeable people?). Some sites work with frames. And curiously, there is a full frame for a script that calls banners that refresh from time to time. So let's think this script suddenly calls a dead link in flycast or focalink (you'd be surprised of how often this happens), and it leaves your browser for a time long enough to compile Mozilla in a modest Celery 300.

Enough for the problem. Now, for the solution:

Have your browser show page source code (Hey, there's material for yet another patent: pages that won't show its source). Nota bene: you won't copy it. Just pay attention to the <FRAME SRC="foo" ...&gt statements. Then determine which one is the annoyance. Write down the names of the frames that you do care about. Now, open the editor of your choice and create a page like this:
<HTML&gt
<HEAD&gt
bla bla bla
<BODY&gt
<FRAMESET ...&gt
<FRAME SRC="bar" ...&gt
<FRAME SRC="baz" ...&gt
</FRAMESET&gt
</HEAD&gt

And there you are: an ad free page. And yes, I have a demonstration of how it works here

<FLAME&gt
Insert flames here
</FLAME&gt

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Aren't we going to terraform Mars or Venus?

Terraforming is a long-term project requiring technology significantly advanced over what we have today. Even terraforming advocates admit it would take a minimum of 200 years to modify Mars to the stage where even simple anaerobic microorganisms and algae can survive. [Ref: Terraforming: Engineering Planetary Environments, Martyn J. Fogg, SAE Press 1995.] Space habitats, on the other hand, can be built with today's technology, and would be homes in space which people initiating the program could move into within their lifetimes.

Interstellar travel may someday become possible, but we have no guarantee that Earth-like planets will be as plentiful in the Milky Way galaxy as they have been in Hollywood, CA.

What advantages would orbital settlements have over a colony built on another planet?

Access to 24-hour-a-day sunlight. This makes solar power a consistent, economical energy source. Photovoltaic panels can convert sunlight into electrical current, and solar mirrors can concentrate it for process heat in industrial operations (such as the smelting of ore). A space-based solar concentrator the size of a football field (which could still weigh less than a car) could provide process heat equivalent to the burning of 1 million barrels of oil over 30 years.

Sunlight also drives the life-support system of the habitat, so the day/night cycle can be set to whatever is convenient. Compare this to the moon, where there is 14 days of continuous daylight, and then a 14-day-long night. Here, some alternate energy source would probably have to be used half the time.

Access to zero gravity. This may have a number of industrial and entertainment possibilities. Structures (such as the above-mentioned solar mirrors) could be built many times larger and flimsier in space than on a planet.

Zero G would be a liability if there were no alternative to it. Astronauts experience loss of bone mass and muscle tone after prolonged exposure to weightlessness. But most of a space habitat would be under Earth-normal gravity, although there would be easy access to regions of reduced gravity and zero G (perhaps for personal flight). With planets, on the other hand, you have to take the gravity that's there, and it's often the wrong kind of gravity to keep us healthy. Lunarians or Martians would probably not be able to visit the Earth (nor accelerate at 1 G).

Long-term expansion of the land area available to the human race. Let's be optimistic and assume that Mars could be made totally Earth-like in the near-term. This would basically double the land area available to humanity, meaning problem solved...until the population doubles again. Right now, that is happening roughly every 40 years. By contrast, if we were to conservatively limit ourselves to using only the resources of the asteroid belt, we could build, in the form of space habitats, 3,000 times the livable surface area of the Earth. This makes space settlement a long-term solution.

Location near the top of Earth's gravity well. We here on Earth are the "gravitationally disadvantaged". We are at the bottom of a pit 6,400 km (4,000 miles) deep. This is what makes space launches from the surface so difficult and expensive. Settlers near the top of the gravity well would be ideally situated for departures to points beyond.

Control of the environment. The weather and other aspects of the surroundings would be those of the inhabitants' choosing. Agriculture in space will benefit from weather control (fresh fruits and vegetables year-round!) and the absence of pests.

Disperse Life

Bertrand Russel wrote a great esay on the topic called In Praise of Idleness (you can get rid of that stupid GeoCities javascript by getting to it via fly.to/russell).

If that's the case, then why is he using a free website like Geocities for his stuff? Would paying ~$20 a month for webhosting really be that expensive for him? Seriously.

I'm Stas Busygin, the holder of the site where the paper was published. First of all, thanx to all for the attention. Please take a look at my publishing policy to avoid any misunderstanding. Besides, please use the mirror in the U.S. as my main server in Ukraine is overheated!

I'm Stas Busygin, the holder of the site where the paper was published. First of all, thanx to all for the attention. Please take a look at my publishing policy to avoid any misunderstanding. Besides, please use the mirror in the U.S. as my main server in Ukraine is overheated!

The sooner the ground-connection carriers like AT&T and Time/Warner/AOL/CNN/Netscape go insane with hubris based on their terrestrial dominance, the sooner wireless will take over -- and the sooner wireless takes over, the sooner the infosphere goes into orbit.

After watching UHF last night, I couldn't believe that Hostess left out the greatest Twinkie recipe of all -- the Twinkie wiener sandwich!

...are called pill bugs. The rainbow butterfly has a nice picture here. It seems that they are isopods, and they are also known as woodlice. It's rather confusing; I still ahven't figured it out. In any event, there's an extensive site all about woodlice, in various forms, here. A sample: "They have no waterproof waxy cuticle on their exoskeleton and are therefore more likely to suffer from desiccation compared with other arthropods such as insects which have a well developed waxy layer." (credit to the author) Now i'm all self-conscious about my waxy cuticle...

But I am confused. Are these "woodlice," which seem to be New Zealand beasts, the same as the pill bugs in my garden? Am I anywhere close to being on-topic?
-J

cya, Andrew...

One of the fundamental flaws of a patent system designed for the industrial age is that it assumes the payback time is relatively long and conmeasurate with the development time. Thus if you spend 10 years working on finding a new chemical treatment, then you would expect to gain the benefits for at least that amount of time. However, if you let any half-baked idea through that takes 5 minutes to implement (cough*one-click*cough) and claim exclusivity with the intention of hindering your competitors, this is effectively a form of
If these guys were really innovative, they would create a completely new industry sector like Adobe desktop publishing or SGI's 3D graphics instead of filing lawsuits and generally clogging up the system.

LL

Excuse me?

I think that they got a good chance.

China has to have learned from the US and the Russians. When we were trying this kind of stuff in the fifties and sixties, it was all theoretical. It had never been done before. It's all well-documented now.

China already has been making quite a bit of progress in the area of spaceflight, recently- See the articles about how they are preparing for
manned spaceflight. They are not as backwards as some people believe, technologically.

They already have a good variety of launchers, as shown here. They have more powerful and more accurate rockets than we did when we first started sending boosters to the moon. So why is this so unreasonable? Plus, its not like they're saying they are going to go next week. It's going to be a space program. They're going to go through all the research and design, the work, and then do it.

If they can keep up the pace that a lunar program would take, then why not? Plus, you have to admit, the propaganda value for the Chinese would be incredibly valuable... just as it was for America in the sixties.


What do I do, when it seems I relate to Judas more than You?

This is the scenario I predicted in my 1982 white paper on computer conferencing and its a nasty scenario indeed. Wars have been fought over less than what is implied by a company like AOL telling us what we can say in public.

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.

"This is easily the most amusingly horrible work of IF I've ever seen." - the first review

"This is easily the most amusingly horrible work of IF I've ever seen." - the first review

• The proposed moderation system encourages short Ideas which can be read quickly, ergo moderated quickly.
• It doesn't take into account the potency of three dollar crack although it works better assuming a low saturation levels.
• Trolls will still be trolls, but metatrolling is discouraged.
• Transition appears to be a matter of simple substitution.
• The Karma system clearly has its flaws but it does represent a accurate cross section reflecting the quality (or lack thereof) of the typical poster/troll/moderator.

Hacker's Haven 7843

microsoft is already pushing it charging $400 for a product that you can get all the equivalent functionality from a free package. i'm talking about staroffice. if microsoft wants to see a mass exodus then they should charge $1000 for their os!

--
And Justice for None

For an article explaining the history of Luddism (albeit from a slightly biased point of view) check out this site

Basically, the idea of the omnibus legislative reform was this:

While NSF is one of the more obvious agencies that should have its own space program, just about any agency you can think of has some justification for engaging in some activity in space. Indeed, it makes more sense to move the Office of Commercial Space Transportation into it's own agency and disperse NASA's existing funding and programs to a wide variety of and Federal agencies for their own space activities than it does have a "space program" or even two "space programs".

Space isn't a program. It's a frontier.

Not only did we fail in this more ambitious legislative reform, we discovered that NASA was flagrantly violating our "successful" legislative reform, PL101-611 -- the Launch Services Purchase Act of 1990 (requiring NASA to procure launch services only from the private sector) -- and no one in either the executive branch nor in Congress cared enough to take effective disciplinary action against NASA when the NASA inspector general's office failed to do so. This despite the fact that the intent of PL101-611 was both executive policy, initiated under Reagan (carried on under Bush), and public law. Similar flagrant violation of law greeted the grassroots Launch Voucher Experimental Program when it was passed.

In retrospect, the basic problem has been that people believed political action was the way to affect change in the US government's monopoly on frontiers.

It isn't.

The problem is the US government.

The US government prevented Russia from offering their launch services at the most competative prices it could afford because the US government wanted to protect its pet "big 3" launch companies, McDonnell Douglas, General Dynamics and Martin Marrietta -- this at a time when the US government was decrying the potential abuse of underemployed Russian rocket technologists by "terrorist states" with money, and was trying to create make work programs for them to keep them employed under US funding.

This situation is now changing, which is a very healthy sign -- finally Russia may be able to make some hard cash by putting the US government and the EU in their respective places when it comes to orbital launch systems.

But if you, a nerd, really want to contribute to affecting change yourself, I have one thing to say to you:

Change the tools and you change the rules.

Thanks, ASFRecorder was a very good hint! It comes with C source code that runs under Win32 and various Unices. I found its homepage to be here.

Dunno about that. But more recently, Micros~1 had Avery Lee to remove ASF support from his nifty Virtual Dub software (GPL). His page used to have lots of interesting info about this case, but it seems to have been removed.

One more question: Do you know about an ASF reference manual online? Microsoft did something like that for AVI, but I can't seem to find it for ASF.

IIRC, the specs are described in a MS patent or something. Again IIRC, Avery Lee reverse engineered the ASF format just to find out later that the spec would have been available somewhere (not necessarily on the web).

Nope - never gonna feel truly safe until I got a big block of thermite tied to my hard drive and the dead-mans trigger in my left hand. :)

Win32 Napster Client.

U.S. Supreme Court Justice Harry A. Blackmun,
Farmer v. Brennan

This statement by a United States Supreme Court judge was made before prisons had become a primary breeding ground for AIDS, not to mention Hepatitis-C (which is at 40% of inmates in California prisons).

There is a false myth being promulgated by a woman named Carolyn Meinel, "the Happy Hacker" that young hackers are not subject to sexual exploitation in Federal prisons. Carolyn Meinel has been published as lead author for such establishment magazines as "Scientific American" concerning computer security, makes frequent use of the FBI's services and is rumored to have been in the pay of the FBI on more than one occasion.

The truth is, rape of young men in Federal prisons is not as frequent as it is in some of the worst state prisons, but is more directly targeted by US Government authorities themselves.

Assistant U.S. attorney Gordon Zubrod from Harrisburg, PA made the following public statement to 3 suspects who fled to Canada (this statement was captured for the public record during a Canadian Broadcasting Corporation interview):

"You're going to be the boyfriend of a very bad man if you wait out your extradition."

Here are a couple of letters written by young men to the late Steven Donaldson, the dead founder of Stop Prisoner Rape:

I was raped by an inmate that was assisted by an federal correctional officer [at FCI Memphis, Tennessee]. I have attempted to file a law suit in the matter, but with no money and without the legal knowledge to pursue a legal confrontation, I was simply forced to accept what happened to me as if it was the normal thing to do/or happen.

The incident was also investigated by the Office of Internal Affairs. The officer was then fired and I was simply transfered.

It is hard for alot of rape victims to seek help from the prison law assistance without the other inmates becoming aware of the fact that a male has been raped. Once this information has been set out there, the rape victims become victims of another type. This could be the reason that many cases such as min[e] never even reaches a court of law, simply becasue we can not initiate this kind of legal process without the help of other inmates. There are some inmates that have been raped in prison that cant even read. Not to mention the mere shame that comes with having your manhood stripped away as concieved by other male prisoners, so it becomes something that is hidden in your past if you are transfered to an institution where it is not known.-Valgene Royal, San Pedro, California

From Royal's BP-10 administrative appeal: "On July 3, 1991 I was laying in my bed sleeping in disciplinary segregation, when I was awakened by my door being unlocked, at which time an inmate entered my room and appeared at my bedside. The officer that let the inmate into the room left and locked the door before I could identify him. The inmate forced himself on me and proceeded to rape me....Eventually an officer whom I was able to identify...let the inmate out of the room and locked the door back and they left together.

[Royal reported the rape and was moved to the prison hospital.] I remained in the hospital cell from July 3th until July 9th, 1991 without being allowed to shower or exercise....On a few occasions I was only fed once a day....A F.B.I. polygraph examiner verified my claim `via' polygraph examine." [Royal was kept in segregation involuntarily even after his disciplinary time expired and both the attacker and the officer involved had been transferred from the institution.]

And another:

In 1986, at the age of 20...I pleaded guilty to one count of bank fraud....On March 14, 1987, while sun-tanning on a hill away from [the federal prison camp at Lompoc, Calif.], [Tony] Armstrong and his two friends approached me. I was tackled and punched in my gut. I couldn't scream for help because I had the wind knocked out of me. I struggled and twisted, trying to get free, then I was hit and almost became unconscious. They raped me. After they were through, they said that, if I complained to the authorities, I would be killed. No matter where I went, they, or their gang members, would be able to kill me. Later, at dinner, Armstrong and his friends came over to my table and warned that they wanted to rape me again that night. I believed them because we lived in dorms and could move freely. The rape resulted in a large triangular piece of skin being torn off near the base of my tail bone. I still have a scar.

At 5:30 a.m., on March 15, 1987, I escaped by walking away from Camp. There were no fences around the camp.

Three months after I was raped [having been rearrested May 4 or 5 and incarcerated at VCI Terminal Island] I tested positive for HIV in a routine medical check up. This test was the first test among other routine ones in which I tested positive.

While at FCI Terminal Island, I wrote to...the Bureau of Prisons...My letter contained complaints about the amount of protection given to inmates from other inmates....[2 ½ weeks later] prison authroities asked if I had written the letter. I said that I did. The guard, Lieutenant Webb, at that point (and other times) mocked me and said that I should stop complaining and that I "should take it like a man." Other prison guards also made derogatory remarks. I was immediately placed in solitary confinement for over 100 days (January to April) "for my own protection."-Kevin Borkowski, California

Obscene are the arguments about whether any of the things the government does: treaties, taxes, etc., are "constitutional". Clearly it is well beyond the stage where the US Government gives your rat's ass to one of their civil sodomites whether or not anything they do is "constitutional" in the slightest. The only thing they care about is whether they can get away with what they want to do -- and, since their authority is based on criminal conduct at its very root, this has much more to do with who has the power than who has the law on their side.

The message the US Government is sending via its well-targetd prisoner rapes in Federal "corrections" institutions is clear:

Acquire power now.

Acquire power before they come and batter your door down and take you off to be gang raped by their alpha disease vectors "just to show you who's boss". You should be prepared to defend yourself from these murderous sexual sadists posing as "law" enforcement officers by whatever means necessary.

Since the US Government has taken to pitting ethnic groups against each other in prisons as a means of enhancing the degree of torment and control of prisoners, the primary means of defense, if you are black, Hispanic, Asian, Jewish or Italian, is to make sure you have friends who are connected with gangs of your ethnicity so that when you enter prison you can be protected from the other ethnic gangs. Be sure you have access to lots of money in the bank to provide insurance payments to your ethnicity's gang.

Unfortunately, most young "hackers" are Protestant heritage men who, as a result of that ethnicity, have an even bigger problem in prison:

With the encouragement of the prison system, young Protestant men (especially ones with light-hair color) are considered "prime chicken meat" by other ethnic gangs and the only gangs you can seek out for protection are those targeted by legislation as "terrorist hate groups" and receive correspondingly intense scrutiny, infiltration and even covert control by Federal authorities. Get anywhere near one of those groups and you are almost certainly going to run directly into an FBI operative as one of your first contacts within the group. Some of these under cover FBI operatives pad their reports out to make it look like they are doing some "good" for their civil sodomite paycheck. Furthermore, those Protestant ethnicity gangs are singled out in the prison system for suppression of their activities. In many prisons you can't even get a copy of the Poetic Eddas (a pre-Christian book of religious mythology from tribes that later became Protestant) because it is deemed "hate literature" by the government. Political asylum in other countries is a possibility, but once you have been labeled a "neoNazi" or "white supremacist" by any western country, you effectively lose your rights to political asylum anywhere in the West -- unlike those who are declared by the US Government to be members of gangs of ethnicities other than Protestant heritage.

PS: Setting up alternative monetary systems like DBarter can't hurt either. If they want to back their money with protection from the very threats they create, then it is high time to dispense with their monetary system.

U.S. Supreme Court Justice Harry A. Blackmun,
Farmer v. Brennan

This statement by a United States Supreme Court judge was made before prisons had become a primary breeding ground for AIDS, not to mention Hepatitis-C (which is at 40% of inmates in California prisons).

There is a false myth being promulgated by a woman named Carolyn Meinel, "the Happy Hacker" that young hackers are not subject to sexual exploitation in Federal prisons. Carolyn Meinel has been published as lead author for such establishment magazines as "Scientific American" concerning computer security, makes frequent use of the FBI's services and is rumored to have been in the pay of the FBI on more than one occasion.

The truth is, rape of young men in Federal prisons is not as frequent as it is in some of the worst state prisons, but is more directly targeted by US Government authorities themselves.

Assistant U.S. attorney Gordon Zubrod from Harrisburg, PA made the following public statement to 3 suspects who fled to Canada (this statement was captured for the public record during a Canadian Broadcasting Corporation interview):

"You're going to be the boyfriend of a very bad man if you wait out your extradition."

Here are a couple of letters written by young men to the late Steven Donaldson, the dead founder of Stop Prisoner Rape:

I was raped by an inmate that was assisted by an federal correctional officer [at FCI Memphis, Tennessee]. I have attempted to file a law suit in the matter, but with no money and without the legal knowledge to pursue a legal confrontation, I was simply forced to accept what happened to me as if it was the normal thing to do/or happen.

The incident was also investigated by the Office of Internal Affairs. The officer was then fired and I was simply transfered.

It is hard for alot of rape victims to seek help from the prison law assistance without the other inmates becoming aware of the fact that a male has been raped. Once this information has been set out there, the rape victims become victims of another type. This could be the reason that many cases such as min[e] never even reaches a court of law, simply becasue we can not initiate this kind of legal process without the help of other inmates. There are some inmates that have been raped in prison that cant even read. Not to mention the mere shame that comes with having your manhood stripped away as concieved by other male prisoners, so it becomes something that is hidden in your past if you are transfered to an institution where it is not known.-Valgene Royal, San Pedro, California

From Royal's BP-10 administrative appeal: "On July 3, 1991 I was laying in my bed sleeping in disciplinary segregation, when I was awakened by my door being unlocked, at which time an inmate entered my room and appeared at my bedside. The officer that let the inmate into the room left and locked the door before I could identify him. The inmate forced himself on me and proceeded to rape me....Eventually an officer whom I was able to identify...let the inmate out of the room and locked the door back and they left together.

[Royal reported the rape and was moved to the prison hospital.] I remained in the hospital cell from July 3th until July 9th, 1991 without being allowed to shower or exercise....On a few occasions I was only fed once a day....A F.B.I. polygraph examiner verified my claim `via' polygraph examine." [Royal was kept in segregation involuntarily even after his disciplinary time expired and both the attacker and the officer involved had been transferred from the institution.]

And another:

In 1986, at the age of 20...I pleaded guilty to one count of bank fraud....On March 14, 1987, while sun-tanning on a hill away from [the federal prison camp at Lompoc, Calif.], [Tony] Armstrong and his two friends approached me. I was tackled and punched in my gut. I couldn't scream for help because I had the wind knocked out of me. I struggled and twisted, trying to get free, then I was hit and almost became unconscious. They raped me. After they were through, they said that, if I complained to the authorities, I would be killed. No matter where I went, they, or their gang members, would be able to kill me. Later, at dinner, Armstrong and his friends came over to my table and warned that they wanted to rape me again that night. I believed them because we lived in dorms and could move freely. The rape resulted in a large triangular piece of skin being torn off near the base of my tail bone. I still have a scar.

At 5:30 a.m., on March 15, 1987, I escaped by walking away from Camp. There were no fences around the camp.

Three months after I was raped [having been rearrested May 4 or 5 and incarcerated at VCI Terminal Island] I tested positive for HIV in a routine medical check up. This test was the first test among other routine ones in which I tested positive.

While at FCI Terminal Island, I wrote to...the Bureau of Prisons...My letter contained complaints about the amount of protection given to inmates from other inmates....[2 ½ weeks later] prison authroities asked if I had written the letter. I said that I did. The guard, Lieutenant Webb, at that point (and other times) mocked me and said that I should stop complaining and that I "should take it like a man." Other prison guards also made derogatory remarks. I was immediately placed in solitary confinement for over 100 days (January to April) "for my own protection."-Kevin Borkowski, California

Obscene are the arguments about whether any of the things the government does: treaties, taxes, etc., are "constitutional". Clearly it is well beyond the stage where the US Government gives your rat's ass to one of their civil sodomites whether or not anything they do is "constitutional" in the slightest. The only thing they care about is whether they can get away with what they want to do -- and, since their authority is based on criminal conduct at its very root, this has much more to do with who has the power than who has the law on their side.

The message the US Government is sending via its well-targetd prisoner rapes in Federal "corrections" institutions is clear:

Acquire power now.

Acquire power before they come and batter your door down and take you off to be gang raped by their alpha disease vectors "just to show you who's boss". You should be prepared to defend yourself from these murderous sexual sadists posing as "law" enforcement officers by whatever means necessary.

Since the US Government has taken to pitting ethnic groups against each other in prisons as a means of enhancing the degree of torment and control of prisoners, the primary means of defense, if you are black, Hispanic, Asian, Jewish or Italian, is to make sure you have friends who are connected with gangs of your ethnicity so that when you enter prison you can be protected from the other ethnic gangs. Be sure you have access to lots of money in the bank to provide insurance payments to your ethnicity's gang.

Unfortunately, most young "hackers" are Protestant heritage men who, as a result of that ethnicity, have an even bigger problem in prison:

With the encouragement of the prison system, young Protestant men (especially ones with light-hair color) are considered "prime chicken meat" by other ethnic gangs and the only gangs you can seek out for protection are those targeted by legislation as "terrorist hate groups" and receive correspondingly intense scrutiny, infiltration and even covert control by Federal authorities. Get anywhere near one of those groups and you are almost certainly going to run directly into an FBI operative as one of your first contacts within the group. Some of these under cover FBI operatives pad their reports out to make it look like they are doing some "good" for their civil sodomite paycheck. Furthermore, those Protestant ethnicity gangs are singled out in the prison system for suppression of their activities. In many prisons you can't even get a copy of the Poetic Eddas (a pre-Christian book of religious mythology from tribes that later became Protestant) because it is deemed "hate literature" by the government. Political asylum in other countries is a possibility, but once you have been labeled a "neoNazi" or "white supremacist" by any western country, you effectively lose your rights to political asylum anywhere in the West -- unlike those who are declared by the US Government to be members of gangs of ethnicities other than Protestant heritage.

PS: Setting up alternative monetary systems like DBarter can't hurt either. If they want to back their money with protection from the very threats they create, then it is high time to dispense with their monetary system.

Can you name two issues? One? I can. http://www.geocities.com/WPL510 Go learn.

Anyone remember Parsec for the TI-99? Must... find... emulator...
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The guy who wrote the article is talking out of his ass. Like Colonel Klink from Hogan's Hero, he "knowz abzolutely nuttzing."

It is unforgivable that you are not aware it is Sergeant Schultz, not Colonel Klink, who knows "abzolutely nuttzing."

To keep in tone with a few of the other more rabid comments I've read under this article, I shall now assert, (don't take it personally, I don't really mean any of it, it just seems to be de rigueur here)(what's with you Mac guys anyway? you don't see Linux people getting all fanatical like that over little technical details) that this lapse proves you have no right to post anymore anywhere, to speak publicly, to procreate with those idiot's genes of yours, even to breathe the valuable air any more, etc., etc.

Have a nice day!

Yours WDK - WKiernan@concentric.net

Actually he didn't, the story submitter did. And this page shows what appears to be the new box the Casio came in.

awesome hardcover by frank miller! about the spartans and stuff.... great colors by lynne varley too!

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Hopefully this should be slightly faster than the original site. I've only mirrored the relevant content and fixed the links; if the text is garbled, hit STOP once the images load.

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Your friendly neighborhood mIRC scripter.

Mame has been ported to the PocketPC. Check it out.

-Vercingetorix

Check this out for all your the Comic Book Guy references.

Point taken. CBG would be proud of you.

http://www.geocities.com/simesgreen/gllife/

the proctologist gave me some cream to clear them up...

This is not goatse.cx

Uhm. I asume you mean corporate web sites have more content, cleaner designs, ect. It might be true, to some extent, but did you stop and ask yourself why?

Maybe they have the resources (read money) to hire people to build those.

While the "free" and uncolonised may have good ideas, they have to work to "earn their lives" (anyone else than me sees something wrong with the way that sounds?) and do that in their free time.

My point is that we're all stuck in a capitalistic system and some are advantaged and others held back by it. But you can't judge people's capabilities based on their production in such unequal system.

Anarchy is the answer.
Must read
An Anarchy FAQ

http://www.geocities.com/cgo hier/re-imaging_brief.html

gas == danger to kids (big market for rc cars)

gas == more expensive than recharging battery

gas == more upkeep than battery powered engine

Here is one FAQ that seems to skirt around the issue(obviously for electric though):

1. FAQ for R/C electric off-road racing

I figure it can be abbreviated "MOSX" and hence pronounced "Mosix", to highlight its unix heritage.

Mosix would also be a good name for a jewish version of Jesux, I suppose.

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i'm sure this has been discussed before but i'm more than willing to pay for the service that tivo provides. if it were only downloading a tv guide sure it would be a waste of money, but it's more than that! it's an up-to-date tv schedule selected geographically! remember, not everyone has the same channels on their cable systems. when times change (i.e. showing at a special time) tivo knows. i love the suggestion thing. i come home and see suggestions that i might otherwise would not have ever seen. all in all it's a great service and i love it.

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Aaarrggghh!! I'm really tired of hearing this one. It wouldn't bug me so much, except that the folks who repeat this are slandering a candidate for President, by repeating the false claim that he said he "invented" the internet. For details see: Gore in Context.

.. got to Creative's site instead and help out with the DXR2 drivers.

> The only good thing about jscript is that you can always view source. can't say the same with java ;-(

It is interesting that you should ask this... I am a CS undergrad and for the last few years have heard almost every prof talk about smalltalk when discussion OOP languages or design. No-one has ever said anything bad about it and they all seemed to have used it at one time or another. Having said that, I have also not been required to learn (or even become familiar with) Smalltalk. I have used a few languages (both required and not) but have never had a reason to learn this one beyond having a passing interest in it.

It's one of those things I would like to do if I had the time... I kind of wish someone would assign a programming problem to be done with it so I would HAVE to learn it but I feel the same way about a lot of languages.

My question for Smalltalk is "what have you done lately"? :) No doubt a lot. I am always suprised by the way in which languages are being used... They seem to find niche environments (perhaps because the people using them are comforatable and skilled with the language and it does what they need---why change if this is the case?). Unfortunately, the fact is that unless a programming language is going to be used in the workplace or "for school" most people have very little motivation to learn it (with an exception being made for that Klingon one, of course).

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XGNOME vs. KDE: the game!

Optical backbones belong in space anyway.

Fiber to the curb? Who needs it?

case closed.

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Wasn't the Lotus v. Borland case reversed on appeal? See also Tetris Under Fire.
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The UN might actually pull off the construction of this, because it is a pretty straight forward repeating task -- something bureaucracies can generally pull off. But the real agenda is a bit more sinister. Like NASA, they're trying to buy their way, with about $1 billion investment, into the hearts of people like you so they can get taxes out of you and give your money out to their friends, and, as I've said before, central authorities are not your friends!

Furthermore, they are trying to become an earth shielding entity a bit prematurely. This really can wait a few decades until after agriculture has moved out of natural ecosystems, the infosphere has moved into Earth orbit followed by ecosystems moving into Earth orbit as part of humanity's ultimate drive to disperse life.