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The best filter I have found so far is Filterset.G
First off, read the Instructions.
From the instructions:
The guiding principle behind this filterset is efficiency. Conservative domain blocking, careful use of Regular Expressions, and a strict stance against false positives help to avoid the problems faced by other filtersets, from overspecificity to overgeneralization.

The best filter I have found so far is Filterset.G
First off, read the Instructions.
From the instructions:
The guiding principle behind this filterset is efficiency. Conservative domain blocking, careful use of Regular Expressions, and a strict stance against false positives help to avoid the problems faced by other filtersets, from overspecificity to overgeneralization.

The only problem is that you are limited to the specified number of "zones"

Actually not true. You can add as many zones as you want by editing the windows registry. You can name them whatever you want too. Here's one link. To make the process easier you can download Microsoft's pwrtwks.exe which adds "add to trusted" "add to restricted" to the "tools" menu or security zone changer adds a toolbar button with the same pulldown options. To get rid of those annoying activeX disabled warnings just edit your windows/system/shdoclc.dll file with resource hacker by searching for the relevant message string (like "display properly"), deleting that line, and copying over the file in safe mode.

For Adblock users who are not using complicated filters, but rather just manually blocking everything, or using simple expressions, there is a nice site with constantly updated Adblock filters. Well, probably several, but this is one I know of. These block pretty much everything.

Normally, it's located here, however it seems as though he's used up his alloted bandwidth. You can get a Google cache of one of the latest filter lists though.

http://www.geocities.com/pierceive/adblock/ For clicking. Sorry.

On my Toshiba 4015 laptop, I don't run Windows 98 anymore, so the hdd stays quiet. I run my live cd distro, and the fan runs a lot less, and once I boot up, the cdrom drive only spins once in a while. I'm using it right now to post this, and the machine is totally quiet. Not so if running Windows 98. I do have 160 MB of ram installed, and use a swap file of 250 MB on /dev/hda1. Right now, after a lot of use, only 10% of the swap has been used. So, I'm saving wear and tear on this hdd, too.

Lately I've been hearing complaints by people using Firefox of some sites having pop-ups come up again. The biggest complaint coming from people that visit The Drudge Report. I too have seen them.

However, ever since I started using the Adblock extension, as well as keeping an updated list of definitons, I haven't had these problems lately.

Here in Boston we have a Nuclear Reactor that is almost in downtown Boston:MIT Reactor
Technically, it's in Cambridge where MIT's campus is, but it is in Greater Boston. Also, seems like some residents in Cambridge ate a little annoyed about it. I can't wait for the big MIT student's prank (or hack) where they fake a meltdown ...

Speaking of hacks my favourite is the police car on top of the dome at MIT, and the Harvard -Yale Game banner prank ...

I have been experimenting with wiggle-vision of late, and noticed that generally you can only emphasize one depth at a time. For example, if there is object A at 5 feet, object B at 10, and object C at 15, then generally you can more or less only emphasize the depth of one of the objects. If you emphasize B, then A and C will move too much between images to provide sufficient depth hints. If you wanted to show the depth of all 3, then one would have to make 3 images, each using the appropriate "shift" for each object or depth.

Still, wiggle-vision is a lot easier on the eyes and provides the instant gratification that the "old" way does not IMO.

Here is one of my Mars wiggle images

Windows is installed on the hard drive, a bad idea.
Linux can just run from a cd. Here's mine.
They want something else, just cook up a new version, and pass out CD's.

PC parts in a NES? What about NES Parts in a PC?

You appear to be suffering from expertitis snobosia.

So, as a ${professional} you are saying that I have an excessive preoccupation with people actually knowing what is happening? And that is snobbish? Hmm... Not sure if I am to be insulted or complimented. In reality, your little jab refers to a few things that provided me with some good reading. Thank you for that. What I found when googling were things like these (though I am obviously not an expert with the term you "layed down"), here, and . Unless I mistake your intent, you meant this "Another major barrier to creativity is "expertitis": the assumption of knowledge. If we think we know everything about a subject or a problem, we close ourselves off to new input and to new ideas". This has nothing to do with insisting on a minimum amount of knowledge before I am going to waste my time listening to you. If you can demonstrate that you grasp enough knowledge, then I will listen. On the other hand, most people who give opinions on subjects they are not well aquainted with tend to sound like ignorant trash. Many times they are called gossips (or worse).

Your implying that a person can only know all or know nothing on a particular subject.

I have no idea how you imagined that is what I meant when I typed "However, to have an opinion that means something (valid), one has to have a solid knowledge of the subject at hand." You might think that is an all or nothing approach, however it is not! Even with the example given, total knowledge is not needed to realize changing the thermostat fixes the problem.

"I'm an expert therefore I'm always right and your not therefore your always wrong."

There are plenty of so called experts selling all kinds of medical cures that are worthless and many times harmful if not fatal. You can always study, learn and become knowledgable in the subject matter and become an expert. Until then you are a snake oil salesman. Nothing more than an ignorant pontificant. There are plenty of those in this world. Many of them get elected because the people that vote for them think with next to no knowledge on subjects they too are exerts and do not bother learning anything more than their television will tell them to believe.

Experts can, should and do disagree with each other. Having the same set of knowledge does not mean they will agree on what it means. It merely means that each is equally qualified to submit a position, validate their reasoning for their position and argue comprehensibly for their backing that position. In fact, the more the experts disagree, the more work gets done fleshing out what is known about the subject material and what is correct or erroneous.

A solid knowledge in something is not perfect knowledge, nor all reaching, however, it does mean that a normal conversation between two experts in a field will not leave you searching for definitions and theories to understand the conversation they are having. I personally know noone who knows everything about any subject matter. I personally know many experts at different subject matters, and I can not keep up with them in their fields of expertise. I have no ability to hold a valid opinion in those areas of expertise as I do not know enough about the area to produce any meaningful opinion.

Maybe, if more people actually looked for real experts on things before taking what other people said (opinion) as sensible, we might have fewer wacked out issues in this country (US). But, as it is, knowledge seems to be accepted as a soundbite. String enough of those together, and people seem to start thinking they are experts. I know a bunch of real experts. If I know anything about their lines of expertise, it is because

> It has been around for a while... Yes-- a long, long time ...

There is really only one license needed to address all circumstances.

(and no, I'm not kidding)

Here's my functional Knoppix remaster screenshot. As you can see, I use Icewm (starts with that). KDE and Fluxbox are also available, and remastered to fit in with the additions I have made, Firefox, Opera, Emelfm, SciTE, and some mouse cursor themes, with a way to switch between them. That big double height toolbar in Icewm autohides, it's useful, but needs to autohide, if you know what I mean.

Here's my functional Knoppix remaster screenshot. As you can see, I use Icewm (starts with that). KDE and Fluxbox are also available, and remastered to fit in with the additions I have made, Firefox, Opera, Emelfm, SciTE, and some mouse cursor themes, with a way to switch between them. That big double height toolbar in Icewm autohides, it's useful, but needs to autohide, if you know what I mean.

"I read once of a form of punishment in ancient china"

It's always ancient china isn't it? somewhere oriental and mysterious, where they do things in foreigner-like ways that can justify the worst stories you can dream up.

here you go - it's a wooden square.

The complete FAQ for the beta, including almost all known issues, is located here.
The massive log files are flukes. They're usually full of a single repeating line. If that's the case, reinstall; the problem usually goes away.

Hey, thanks AC. That's a lot easier than combing through the MS newsgroups. It sounds from what other are saying here like the large error file may be the result of running on a machine with limited memory and perhaps because it also had limited HD space.

The complete FAQ for the beta, including almost all known issues, is located here.

The massive log files are flukes. They're usually full of a single repeating line. If that's the case, reinstall; the problem usually goes away.

Is this anything like Bistro Mathmatics?

See here
http://www.geocities.com/Area51/Shadowlands/9654/t esla/projecttesla.html

Nicola Tesla (the inventor of AC power) pioneered a wireless transmission method as well.

Cheers

GameFAQs has something similar to this already in place, you're not supposed to link directly to an FAQ, you have to instead link to the page with the FAQ listed on it. They claim to have link-blocking countermeasures in place to prevent exactly what I just did above from working (though I didn't find them to be effective when I tried them just now, you may disagree). Then there are infinite sites which disallow remote hotlinking to their images.

Anyway my point is that it's foolish to assume people will obey these terms and conditions, but it IS possible to enforce them manually. It would surely be entirely possible to set up some kind of referrer-looking-up script to make sure you jumped to that page from internally rather than externally.

Actually, I was involved with the initial U of IL prototype of the SAIT plasmascope back in 1975 (doing a 3D demo) during which transpants from the PLATO project to (then) SAI got small amounts of early stock before moving on to other jobs. I'm sure most of them haven't been notified and some of them have dropped off he radar completely.

Gay rights are not a core Democratic issue. But they SHOULD be. Democrats are having a hard time distinguishing themselves from Republicans.

In order to win, the Democrats need to co-opt some Republican issues.

Look at the most successful Democrat president of the past generation. Bill Clinton co-opted a few Republican issues. Even though he didn't do it, he ran with a promise of a "middle class tax cut" in 1992. After he pushed the "don't ask don't tell" policy for the military in 1993, rescinded the "global gag rule" for abortion and passed the Brady Act (Nee Brady Bill)+ a gun ban in 1994 the Democrats got creamed in Congressional elections. He had to RUN back to the center, so for the 1996 election, he signed the Welfare Reform bill.

They could make gay rights into the Civil Rights struggle of the new generation that it will inevitably be and call themselves the champions of it.

If they do that, they risk losing a large portion of their Black supporters. No black person wants to see Rosie O'Donnell likened to Martin Luther King.

The Republicans are VERY vulnerable on this front, and the Democrats could make a lot of headway pushing at it.

If the Democrats are not very careful, they risk a backlash. It happened last year. When the MA Supreme Court mandated "Gay Marriage" in that state, 11 other states proposes amendments to their constitutions that really turned out the conservative base. "Gay Rights" is as much to blame for President Bush's win as anything else.

LK

Back in the 1970's we had Kung-Fu grip! [TM]

Click here if you dare

Uh Oh, I guess you caught me. Here's my Beta. (until I make more changes, etc.)
Excuse me while I go burn a copy...

Misha Borovsky (AP) Moscow, Soviet Russia - Niggersoft chairman and CEO jesuitx today announced the private beta test of the first operating system suited towards the needs of today's gay niggers, GNAA/Hard. The OS is intended to grow at a faster rate of development and use, and be based on famous Marxist Richard Stallman's OS, GNU/Hurd.

"Hard represents so much in the OS world", said GNAA President and Niggersoft Board-member timecop." Our private beta now loads the system BIOS, then displays "Hello World" in rainbow colors. Our codebase at this point is now roughly 500% more mature than GNU/Hurd."

When asked why he felt a microkernel was the best choice for the future of the OS, GNAA ohsix simply stated, "no u r". It is the belief of this journalist that ohsix was trying to point out the major flaws of pure monolithic kernel structure, as seen in Operating Systems like Linux, which are known for poor security and an utter lack of intuitive use or overall quality.

GNAA member JacksonBrown told reporters, "Hard is going to be the best OS available by Q2 2014. Unfortunately, we are not planning a public beta until Summer of 2010, as our purely microkernel based structure will require around 30 Gibibytes of RAM to run the base servers and daemons. However, if Moore's law continues to apply, any Alienware based system will do."

It is rumored that Hard received it's name due to the similarity to GNU/Hurd, and to represent the rigidity of the massive niggers' cocks that are developing the OS.

About GNU

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About GNAA:
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Are you GAY ?
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• First, you have to obtain a copy of GAYNIGGERS FROM OUTER SPACE THE MOVIE and watch it. You can download the movie (~130mb) using BitTorrent.
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Talk to one of the ops or any of the other members in the channel to sign up today! Upon submitting your application, you will be required to submit links to your successful First Post, and you will be tested on your knowledge of GAYNIGGERS FROM OUTER SPACE.

If you are having trouble locating #GNAA, the official GAY NIGGER ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA irc channel, you might be on a wrong irc

Never much cared for Enterprise, but if anyone wants to bring back the Andy Griffith Show for another season, I'd surely watch that...

Silly, Andy Griffith has already been back to outer space

Enterprise may not be all that great, but rest assured they'll replace it with something worse and redundant

Like "Love Boat The Next Generation"?

I run OpenOffice.org on a livecd Knoppix remaster.
On one machine I have with a GB of ram, it would seem to run all day. Can't understand why everybody still sticks with hard drive installs. Can get in there and mess that up, but on a livecd, just start over. I'm just one of many, I'm sure, that are working on my own to create a useful (for me, anyway) knoppix remaster. Bound to be something in that, expecially for cities needing an inexpensive alternative to Windows XP.

The guy who wrote the museumofhoaxes page seems to think that the hoaxer is this this guy. If he spent 5 minutes reading the guy's web material, he'd realize that he's quite sincere, though not very bright.

Also, note that the OBJECTIVE web site was originally hosted by a Christian hosting company. Not a logical place to host a spoof!

Finally, notice how OBJECTIVE is distributing this banner demanding that the Landover site be shut down. I can't believe a spoofer would come up with the slogan "He didn't give His life to be mocked!", no matter how mock-serious he was trying to be.

It's pretty easy to "prove" that something on the web is bogus. You pick at little inconsistencies, and you ignore the contrary evidence. I've been accused of being a non-existant person more than once. The last time was on Slashdot, where I had a story accepted gushing about a new TV show I was enthusiastic about. Several people "proved" that I was a pseudo-person invented just to plug the show. Never mind that already had a couple thousand Slashdot posts in my history!

you forgot this other comparison: Ope nsource database comparison

If you cook a hamburger without McDicks approval, here's what's gonna happen to you:

NSFW

With beastie logo: yum .

Without beastie logo: ick.

Don't take away the beastie...

-c

Yeah... That's pretty much what it was like for the astronaut inbetween takes. (You do believe this guy, don't you?)

Bah. Star Wars isn't fit to lick Forbidden Planet's boots. While SW does have an Oedipal conflict to give it a little weight, it's basically a cowbow flick in space.

FP, on the other had, also has its Freudian elements (that's "id" not "ID"), but its story follows Shakespeare's "The Tempest", and raises significant questions about how technology amplifies human capabilities and our ability to survive weilding that kind of power.

Seriously, with inflation, $200 in 1980 is $484 (2003 dollars) today. Look it up yourself.

And for the record, the C64 was $429 when it came out in 1982 ($930.69 2003 dollars).

The Apple ][ was $1298 in 1977. ($4009 in 2003 dollars.)

The IBM PC was $3000 in 1981. ( $6389.32 in 2003 dollars.)

I was there. Computers were REALLY expensive. You used to collect soup labels to get discounts. Schools held bake sales for computers. They were NOT cheap.

If you have a Sony Ericsson phone, try bluemote (http://www.geocities.com/saravkrish/progs/bluemot e/). If you set it up right, you can have a popup in your computer when you get a call.

Contrast eBay with Google, whose customer service has always been exemplary. Whenever I have an AdSense question, I just shoot them an email. I get back an automated response saying they've gotten my email and then later -- a couple of days at most -- I get back a response from a human. If I'm not satisfied I just mail back to the person who sent my response... haven't had any problems I couldn't deal with that way. That's the way it should be.

ebay is one of the biggest companies that does NOT spend even a reasonable percentage on customer service, let alone fraud. All those "expenses"=stockholder profits.

ebay was never known for their customer service. They foist all those duties on their free "discussion forum seller volunteers" so again, their expenses are 0 to nil. ebay couldn't care less about good customer service unless it makes them $$$. the only reason ebay's saying anything about it is because lots of the sellers complain that there's no 1-800 number for their problems and meanwhile, their fees are getting raised every year and they're getting double, triple, quadruple billed "accidentally" by ebay. what do i think of what ebay says? it's a load of BS. once the public relation steam clears, they'll make semi-valid excuses that "too many people are taking advantage and calling for no good reason and they can't handle the calls" and THEREFORE, they'll go back to their old deliberately negligent ways of "we're just a venue. if you have problems, just email us and we'll send you back an automated message."

When I first read this, what came to mind was an old 1970's made for TV movie about a junkyard owner who goes to the moon to salvage the stuff left behind. The rocket was made out of junkyard parts (I think the command capsule was a cement mixer bucket).
http://www.geocities.com/CapeCanaveral/Launchpad/9 782/salmoon.html
http://www.cylon.org/tv/Salvage/s1-02.html

...about the release of predictions and the scientific community.

What you don't realise, that people in 1975 had different computers and no doubt different understandings, and different measuring techniques, and fewer floaty things orbiting our planet.

Sometimes you can cry wolf 2^32 times, and just before the overflow the worlf actually shows up and sinks one of your newly aquired MMORPG islands.

Part of the repeated crying of climate change is because industry, and politics, wanted it to go away.

This looks like open source literature...

The old story was THE VERGER by W. Somerset Maugham

klicken Sie hier

http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Olympus/7695/VERGE R.HTM

It was that show from the 70's, where they made a space ship in a junk yard and flew to the moon. Let me refresh your memory. Dang it was beautiful.

It has come to my attention that the entire Linux community is a hotbed of so called 'alternative sexuality,' which includes anything from hedonistic orgies to homosexuality to pedophilia.

What better way of demonstrating this than by looking at the hidden messages contained within the names of some of Linux's most outspoken advocates:

• Linus Torvalds [microsoft.com] is an anagram of slit anus or VD 'L,' clearly referring to himself by the first initial.
• Richard M. Stallman [geocities.com], spokespervert for the Gaysex's Not Unusual 'movement' is an anagram of mans cram thrill ad.
• Alan Cox [microsoft.com] is barely an anagram of anal cox which is just so filthy and unchristian it unnerves me.

I'm sure that Eric S. Raymond, composer of the satanic homosexual [goatse.cx] propaganda diatribe The Cathedral and the Bizarre, is probably an anagram of something queer, but we don't need to look that far as we know he's always shoving a gun up some poor little boy's rectum. Update: Eric S. Raymond is actually an anagram for secondary rim and cord in my arse. It just goes to show you that he is indeed queer.

Update the Second: It is also documented that Evil Sicko Gaymond is responsible for a nauseating piece of code called Fetchmail [microsoft.com], which is obviously sinister sodomite slang for 'Felch Male' -- a disgusting practise. For those not in the know, 'felching' is the act performed by two perverts wherein one sucks their own post-coital ejaculate out of the other's rectum. In fact, it appears that the dirty Linux faggots set out to undermine the good Republican institution of e-mail, turning it into 'e-male.'

As far as Richard 'Master' Stallman goes, that filthy fudge-packer was actually quoted [salon.com] on leftist commie propaganda site Salon.com as saying the following: 'I've been resistant to the pressure to conform in any circumstance,' he says. 'It's about being able to question conventional wisdom,' he asserts. 'I believe in love, but not monogamy,' he says plainly.

And this isn't a made up troll bullshit either! He actually stated this tripe, which makes it obvious that he is trying to politely say that he's a flaming homo [comp-u-geek.net] slut [rotten.com]!

Speaking about 'flaming,' who better to point out as a filthy chutney ferret than Slashdot's very own self-confessed pederast Jon Katz. Although an obvious deviant anagram cannot be found from his name, he has already confessed, nay boasted of the homosexual [goatse.cx] perversion of corrupting the innocence of young children [slashdot.org]. To quote from the article linked:

'I've got a rare kidney disease,' I told her. 'I have to go to the bathroom a lot. You can come with me if you want, but it takes a while. Is that okay with you? Do you want a note from my doctor?'

Is this why you were touching your penis [rotten.com] in the cinema, Jon? And letting the other boys touch it too?

We should also point out that Jon Katz refers to himself as 'Slashdot's resident Gasbag.' Is there any more doubt? For those fortunate few who aren't aware of the list of homosexual [goatse.cx] terminology found inside the Linux 'Sauce Code,' a 'Gasbag' is a pervert who gains sexu

I remembered watching this series back in the 70's: Salvage 1

...for guidance on the sly like this group did.

But Netcraft confirms it, mail.fbi.gov is dead!

So are Paul McCartney, God, and BSD(Yay Slashdot!).

Well, when I run a SuSE 9.2 live cd, without firefox, I just plug in my usb stick that has firefox on it, and run it from that. Also have a nice home page on the stick and set firefox's home page to that, and I'm good to go.
To save myself the trouble of having to plug in the usb stick, etc. (when I'm in a hurry) I just put my Knoppix remaster in the drive and boot that instead. I put both Firefox and Opera in the remaster, and a few other things, so I have just what I want.
On a cable modem, I'm up and running without a hassle.
All is not roses, however, as only SuSE detects the sound card in this box. (I have other boxes that Knoppix picks up the sound card on, so it's just Dell's choice of a sound card, probably recommended by Microsoft, to go with the preinstalled XP.) Just a fluke that the sound card wouldn't get picked up by Knoppix, I'm sure. Can't blame Microsoft.

Lots of cultures have some sort of fermented fish. For example, the ancient Romans had garum, and the Vietnamese have a modern version called nuc-nam.

I don't see how they're any different from personal websites, which have been around for a while. I would think that you would be bound by the agreement with which the website or blog is hosted. For example, if the webpage exists on Geocities, you are bound by their Terms of Service, which among other things states:

7. CONTENT SUBMITTED TO YAHOO GEOCITIES
Yahoo does not claim ownership of the Content you place on your Yahoo GeoCities Site. By submitting Content to Yahoo for inclusion on your Yahoo GeoCities Site, you grant Yahoo the world-wide, royalty-free, and non-exclusive license to reproduce, modify, adapt and publish the Content solely for the purpose of displaying, distributing and promoting your Yahoo GeoCities Site on Yahoo's Internet properties.

But that's just Yahoo's TOS, which would obviously differ from company to company.

Blogs work (or atleast work) the same way, with you being bound by the TOS of blogspot or blogger, or any other service.

The main difference I see between personal websites and blogs, is that a majority of blogs seem to be hosted on popular websites offering blogging services like blogspot, blogger, etc. On the other hand, a significant percent of personal websites seem to be hosted on personal machines/servers.

If a blog (or webpage) is hosted on your employer or school's server, then it is bound by their TOS, like it should be.

I really don't see any major difference between the two...nobody's stopping people from putting up their own machines to host their blog. They should be fine as long as they operate independently of their employer/school or any webhosting service. Otherwise tough luck.