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...but in many more instances it was equipment manufacturers (especially Motorola and Ericsson) who convinced local agencies to buy complicated and failure-prone trunked radio systems. These systems were often (though not always) solutions in search of problems, ...

• Steadicam Physics and Construction Hints
• Do-It-Yourself Stabilizer for the XL-1
• • Plus, as a bonus:
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In fact, here's a link.

• Websites Fighting the Nigerian Scam/419
• Nigerian Advance Fee Scam
• US Secret Service on 419
• Break The Chain
• 419 Coalition (as noted in the article)

• 419 Eater
• Scam Joke Page
• ScamOrama
• the spam letters
• spl's soapbox

Yeah, yeah, yeah, bad form replying to myself and all....

I finally did something I said I would.

GIMPed mockup and explanation of my idea.

--Ender

I thought that Salvage 1 already had a license to launch. Oh, SpaceShipOne.....oooppps.

You don't need a full blown MTA, try ssmtp. It takes your messages, contacts your ISP's SMTP server, and sends it on its merry way.
Here's a guide on how to set it up (ostentiably for cygwin, but its similar for linux).

Like there wouldn't be a /usr/sbin/sendmail interface for home users...

There are people out there who do not buy CDs because 44000 samples per second does not sound right to them, and thus they will only settle for analog media.

I hope Microsoft aren't taking inspiration from the British comedy show "The Fast Show"'s 'Channel 9' sketches.... :o)

For those of you who are wondering what I'm on about... see here, and here, and here, and here, and here....... Scorchio!

A chip adjusts the sensitivity of the wastegate (which is electronically adjustable, yes, it's apparently a solenoid), as well as controlling the fuel-air mixture. It also increases the rev limit, not that it matters since you'll never hit it (the shift point is in the late 5000s for the 1.8T). Here's some info from a Volvo turbo page...though the effect on VW/Audi cars is a bit more spectacular (due to heavily overengineered and underspeced engines...if only the steering and stabilization systems were so trustworthy!).

The overengineered specs for the 1.8T mean HUGE boosts in engine performance can be had relatively simply. Generally, a chip in a normally aspirated car means at most 10 hp. In a turbo, it can be fairly extreme...with the Audi V6 2.7 biturbo seeing a boost of 65+ hp without adding new turbos or exhausts! VW noticed this overengineering as well (if they didn't do it on purpose) -- notice with the 1.8T that the same engine that was stock 150 hp in 1997 is now stock at 170 hp. They say it's due to DBW, but I say it's due to a better boost program.

Either way, you'd be nuts to buy the crummy 2.8 V6, which actually puts out LESS power after a boost mod than the 1.8T. And it's heavier. And it's $1800 more expensive. But I guess you get more torque under 2k, meaning you don't sound like you're gunning it all the time.

The chip is particular to the engine, but this usually amounts to being particular to model as well, because though Volkswagen uses the same basic engine, the 1.8T, on 4 models, each has a different exhaust and intake system and thus has different allowances for safe boosting.

A quick primer in speed: your engine has three main systems: air intake, combustion, and exhaust. Your car can only be as fast as the weakest of these three. Chipping takes advantage of down-speccing that goes on with the intake and the engine to reduce warranty requests -- the exhaust, at least on modern german autos, is usually good enough for up to 230-250hp. Chipping is a much more effective AND cost effective means of gaining speed out of a stock automobile than slapping on a big exhaust system or a body kit. It's why my Passat has been known to smoke Integras and Mustangs (though, to be honest, that's more likely a combination of good reflexes and shitty driving on the Ford's part).

it often had a net benefit to the indentured party.

In theory, the person is only selling his or her labor. In practice, however, indentured servants were basically slaves and the courts enforced the laws that made it so. The treatment of the servant was harsh and often brutal. In fact, the Virginia Colony prescribed "bodily punishment for not heeding the commands of the master."

See, the problem with it "often" having a net benefit to the indentured party is that it can cause really bad "net losses." I'm sure that people who eat expired meat "often" have a net benefit, but that once-in-a-while will sure mess you up.

As a society, I don't think that there can be a reasonable argument for a "net benefit" given by indentured servitued once you reach a certain population/growth rate.

Actually, there is a method for hooking up scsi zip drive to a Commodore. Using this method you have unlimited hard drive space in 16 meg drive partitions.

Another project uses a special cable to allow you to access any PC as if it were a Commodore peripheral. This way you can use your hard drive & cdrom.

They used to make a skidoo like this. The Elan used bogey-wheel suspension much that on tanks. They don't use this anymore. I guess using suspension that lets the whole track move as a single piece works a lot better on the nicely groomed trails everyone is using now.

Hmm... The website has some 76 episodes of Futurama. The two released DVDs have about 30. Do the rest even exist in some real sense? Is there any place to buy those?

About 10 years ago I though about a device that allows deaf people to "see" sound by looking at a spectragraph of sound waves. Researchers have learned how to read spoken words by studying spectragraphs, so I figure deaf people could also be trained. Now such software could probably be put on an off-the-shelf pocket computer instead of a custom device.

I didn't post this as AC, so I must not be trolling.

Purple-haired moonbabes run LINUX! And that's good enough for me.
props to the Ceren/BSD troll.

Like this one?

You just can't take *BSD seriously when its fronted by losers like these. Would you buy software from them? I don't think so! You BSD groupies need to find some sexy girls like her ! I mean just look at this girl ! Doesn't she excite you? I know this little hottie puts me in need of a cold shower! This guy looks like he is about to cream his pants standing next to such a fox . As you can see, no man can resist this sexy little minx . I mean are you telling me you wouldn't like to get your hands on this ass ?!

With sexy chicks like the lovely Lt. Gay Ellis you could have people queuing up to buy open source products. Could you really refuse to buy a copy of Linux if she told you to? Come on, you must admit she is better than an overweight deamon or a gay looking goat ! Don't you wish you could get one of these ? Personally I know I would give my right arm to get this close to such a divine beauty !

Join the campaign for more cute open source purple-haired moonbabes today!

You just can't take *BSD seriously when its fronted by losers like these. Would you buy software from them? I don't think so! You BSD groupies need to find some sexy girls like her ! I mean just look at this girl ! Doesn't she excite you? I know this little hottie puts me in need of a cold shower! This guy looks like he is about to cream his pants standing next to such a fox . As you can see, no man can resist this sexy little minx . I mean are you telling me you wouldn't like to get your hands on this ass ?!

With sexy chicks like the lovely Lt. Gay Ellis you could have people queuing up to buy open source products. Could you really refuse to buy a copy of Linux if she told you to? Come on, you must admit she is better than an overweight deamon or a gay looking goat ! Don't you wish you could get one of these ? Personally I know I would give my right arm to get this close to such a divine beauty !

Join the campaign for more cute open source purple-haired moonbabes today!

...you should see this episode of Futurama. Fry gets a tax rebate from dead Nixon and resolves to drink 100 cups of coffee....

And then something happens....

There are F-16s that have crashed in the lake. The military decided it was too expensive to recover them since they were destroyed anyway. So they let them sink in the mud (presumably they did). I imagine that there is other airplane junk in the lake too, being the flyover for a military base.

There are some interesting artifacts around the lake. Being a desert region seems to attract a number of artists that sees it as their canvas. It's where you see all the car commercials with the car zooming along in a vast desert expanse on white ground (the salt flats).

It's unfortunate, but we do not have an enviromentally conscious citzenry. All sorts of trash and junk. have been dumped out at the lake, just so they wouldn't have to pay a landfill fee or bother with it.

It's true that the lake does have an ecosystem, but not much of one, as it is very salty.

Also, the Salt Lake is not the swimmer's aquatic paradise. At one time it was considered to be. There was a large resort on the shore. Unfortunately it burned to the ground when some vagrants built a campfire on the wooden floor (smart, huh?).

The lake was so salty that you would indeed float like a cork. But because of a railway causeway across the lake, the south end (where everybody goes swimming) does not have enough salinity as the lake is fed by freshwater sources there.

The lake does not have any natural beaches, but rather mud flats for shoreline. Not like what you find at the ocean. There are some man made ones, and this is where you can go spend the day if you want.

But even if you do find a spot of sand to toss the blanket on, there are "brine flies", the other half of the lake's ecosystem. Imagine a hord of gnats that want to make you their business.

There is bacteria that thrive in this anaeoribic enviroment around the shoreline. The resulting byproduct of their efforts is hydrogen sulfide, or as we like to call it "lake stink". If the wind is just right, there is not a place in the valley that you can go to escape it. But that only happens occasionally, like before a rainstorm. I think the natives like myself have a fondness for it (since it only happens a couple times a year) as it reminds us that we live in a unique place. However, if you are down on the shore, there are days it is very bad.

After years of drought, the lake is at a low point right now. However in the mid-eighties, it was at the highest point ever. An interesting engineering feat (or more likely boondoggle) was the installation of massive pumps that are capable of pumping the lake in order to lower the level.

There are a number of mineral companies that remove salt, rare metals (magnesium), and other minerals from the lake.

However, until recently (last 15-20 years), there was not that much concern for the lake ecology. The thing that people did/do not realize is that like other resources, it is finite.

There was a time that nobody harvested brine shrimp eggs. Now there are a number of companies that have to be regulated so they do not remove the entire next generation of brine shrimp from the lake. Indications are that decades of removing minerals from the lake have depleted the salt flats. So much so, that the world famous Bonneville Speedway does not have enough rock hard salt to break speed records on anymore.

My favorite thing about the lake? Without a doubt it is Pink Floyd, an escapee from a local aviary. He's more predictable than the swallows at Capistrano. Every year he makes

And I can't remember when I installed it on my N-Gage, thought I know an event that happened just after when I used it, so I can look it up... Yeah, would have been early Jan. I think I installed it not long after the first version of the Ogg Vorbis player.

It's piracy. Piracy also covers "The unauthorized use or reproduction of copyrighted or patented material" (ref: dictionary.com). I checked 3-4 modern dictionaries and all had a similar definition listed. Use of the term in reference to unauthorised copying apparently dates back to 1701, so it's hardly a recent innovation. Link to site discussing etymology of the word "pirate".

It's as if I were to say "this writing instrument on my desk is not a pen. A pen is something you keep submarines in." Two definitions, both valid. That writing instrument *is* a pen, and unauthorised duplication of copyright material *is* piracy.

What it *isn't* is stealing. The definition of stealing (or theft) does not cover copyright violation.

(If you want a word with some real ambiguity, look up the word "set". :-) )

"If it makes a mistake, it's because I screwed it up. Not because it doesn't like me"

If your going to rip off The Mentors The Conscience of a Hacker please give him credit.

Definitely didn't belong to Moore. He's here in Maryland, and his front men got a bigger cut than he did (example: on each $29 bottle of "herbal viagra", Moore paid $18 commission to the spammer)

CigarBox a piece of wood, a couple if eye bolts, and three guitar strings.

Checkout Shane Speal's CigarBox Guitar Group
CigarBox Guitar Site

Alright, thier little "virtual property" patent is bullshit.... Here's why....

Accroding to A Geocities History, Geocities was founded back in July of 1995. It was, and still is, essentially a "virtual property" area of the Internet, which I'm assuming is the bases of their claims. Even the Wayback machine has a cronicle of the community through its archives. Just a quick Google search brought this up.

Maybe our dear USPTO should also use Google to search for prior art? It's not quite as limited as their own database and search meathods.

Phsstpok the Pak does some impromptu terraforming in Protector (built Kobold and tricked attacking Protectors into hitting another planet) but the ultimate has to be ringworlds (of Larry Niven fame) and (Freeman) Dyson spheres. There's also the black obelisks in 2010, Terry Pratchett's Spindle Kings and their human successors, and MiB's worlds-within-worlds idea to consider. And heaps else that I missed. Brontomek! The Magratheans (and, after their fashion, Vogons) from THHGTTG. Ad infinitum.

...how this guy feels right now! :)

The media has forgotten, or has chosen not to comment on the fact, that this is exactly how Joseph McCarthy started the witch-hunts in the 50's.

The Democrats don't have a sterling record, but it isn't as uniformly black as the Republican's, lately. If you value freedom of people (as opposed to freedom of corporations), the Democratic party is still your best bet.

• Fry: It was an accident ma'am.
  
  Femputer: That does not fempute. Femputer will return after deciding your punishment.

Anyone know if Spumco is dead???

With animators/directors like Genndy Tartakovsky, why isn't John Kricfalusi making a comeback? Looks like cartoon network would be a good home for him. Anyone know???

All the info I Googled re. Spumco comes up with crap that's years old! Is this all that's left? :-(~

And here's what one sounds like.

How about that for the Mozilla STARTUP SOUND!

It's not like our government is trying to prevent the EU from taking action against Microsoft.

Oh wait.

OK. Well it's not like our government would ever force a country to accept narcotics or anything.

Oh wait.

Damn. If we were another country we'd hate our guts too.

What about the forgotten windows?

Or the other one. (Apple II Version)

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I live in Canada, and I do that.. In the winter, the computer sucks air from outside, in the summer, from the A/C. Check out these bad pictures of my simple setup (and take down the page at the same time):

Pictures

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18 He that believeth on him is not condemned: but he that believeth not is condemned already, because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God. And this is the condemnation, that light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil. For every one that doeth evil hateth the light, neither cometh to the light, lest his deeds should be reproved. But he that doeth truth cometh to the light, that his deeds may be made manifest, that they are wrought in God. After these things came Jesus and his disciples into the land of Judaea; and there he tarried with them, and baptized. And John also was baptizing in Aenon near to Salim, because there was much water there: and they came, and were baptized. For John was not yet cast into prison. Then there arose a question between some of John's disciples and the Jews about purifying. And they came unto John, and said unto him, Rabbi, he that was with thee b

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1 There was a man of the Pharisees, named Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews: The same came to Jesus by night, and said unto him, Rabbi, we know that thou art a teacher come from God: for no man can do these miracles that thou doest, except God be with him. Jesus answered and said unto him, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God. Nicodemus saith unto him, How can a man be born when he is old? can he enter the second time into his mother's womb, and be born? Jesus answered, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born of water and of the Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God. That which is born of the flesh is flesh; and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit. Marvel not that I said unto thee, Ye must be born again. The wind bloweth where it listeth, and thou hearest the sound thereof, but canst not tell whence it cometh, and whither it goeth: so is every one that is born of the Spirit. Nicodemus answered and said unto him, How can these things be? Jesus answered and said unto him, Art thou a master of Israel, and knowest not these things? Verily, verily, I say unto thee, We speak that we do know, and testify that we have seen; and ye receive not our witness. If I have told you earthly things, and ye believe not, how shall ye believe, if I tell you of heavenly Things? And no man hath ascended up to heaven, but he that came down from heaven, even the Son of man which is in heaven. And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of man be lifted up: That whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have eternal life. For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved.
18 He that believeth on him is not condemned: but he that believeth not is condemned already, beca

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1 There was a man of the Pharisees, named Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews: The same came to Jesus by night, and said unto him, Rabbi, we know that thou art a teacher come from God: for no man can do these miracles that thou doest, except God be with him. Jesus answered and said unto him, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God. Nicodemus saith unto him, How can a man be born when he is old? can he enter the second time into his mother's womb, and be born? Jesus answered, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born of water and of the Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God. That which is born of the flesh is flesh; and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit. Marvel not that I said unto thee, Ye must be born again. The wind bloweth where it listeth, and thou hearest the sound thereof, but canst not tell whence it cometh, and whither it goeth: so is every one that is born of the Spirit. Nicodemus answered and said unto him, How can these things be? Jesus answered and said unto him, Art thou a master of Israel, and knowest not these things? Verily, verily, I say unto thee, We speak that we do know, and testify that we have seen; and ye receive not our witness. If I have told you earthly things, and ye believe not, how shall ye believe, if I tell you of heavenly Things? And no man hath ascended up to heaven, but he that came down from heaven, even the Son of man which is in heaven. And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of man be lifted up: That whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have eternal life. For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved.
18 He that believeth on him is not condemned: but he that believeth not is condemned already, beca

First, you have to obtain a copy of THE
LIVING WORD OF GOD and read it.

Second, you need to succeed spreading the gospel, perhaps through a
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1 There was a man of the Pharisees, named Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews: The same came to Jesus by night, and said unto him, Rabbi, we know that thou art a teacher come from God: for no man can do these miracles that thou doest, except God be with him. Jesus answered and said unto him, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God. Nicodemus saith unto him, How can a man be born when he is old? can he enter the second time into his mother's womb, and be born? Jesus answered, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born of water and of the Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God. That which is born of the flesh is flesh; and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit. Marvel not that I said unto thee, Ye must be born again. The wind bloweth where it listeth, and thou hearest the sound thereof, but canst not tell whence it cometh, and whither it goeth: so is every one that is born of the Spirit. Nicodemus answered and said unto him, How can these things be? Jesus answered and said unto him, Art thou a master of Israel, and knowest not these things? Verily, verily, I say unto thee, We speak that we do know, and testify that we have seen; and ye receive not our witness. If I have told you earthly things, and ye believe not, how shall ye believe, if I tell you of heavenly Things? And no man hath ascended up to heaven, but he that came down from heaven, even the Son of man which is in heaven. And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of man be lifted up: That whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have eternal life. For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved.
18 He that believeth on him is not condemned: but he that believeth not is condemned already, because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of Go

Ok. I've fixed it for you:

Google Goes with Christopher Lowell

Yes I have no life. (i animated the gif, but since i don't know what the F i'm doing, it seems to work sometimes....sometimes not)

Well, it's not often as profitable to write a book on the downside of a hot trend

I have noticed this also. I could not find much on criticism about OOP when everybody and their dog kept talking about it as if it was the greatest thing since structured programming. So I eventually started my own website on the topic. It is now the most popular OO criticism site on the web (brag brag). I wish there was money in it so that I could spend the time to reorganize it, clean it up, hire proof-readers, etc. But it is what it is.

My point is that one is more likely to find criticism of a new technology or technique on the web rather than in books.

Midi. On the web. I understand your enthusiasm more then I sympathize with your analogy. Have you been to a Geocities site with midi on it recently? ;-)

Somethings are just better left alone.

No, you must be thinking of the LOGOsaurus.

Fourteen years of Physics didn't tell me - although I only got a BS. (No, it didn't take me that long, I studied on my own before college...)

Now I study my mind using Buddhist meditation methods (as opposed as from a Psychology book).

These were my favorite links I found:

the Gandavyuha and Kadampa view

As Edward A. Murphy, jr. said it:

"If there are two or more ways to do something, and one of those ways can result in a catastrophe, then someone will do it."

Nothing like seeing a faithful replication of the impetus for Murphy's observation...

www,badsamaritan.com and flame flamers. see.

A bit of MIT/LCS lore here.

RMS used to live on the 7th floor of LCS. That's where he used to have his office before he resigned in protest over the commercialization of something or another. But they let him keep his office, and he lives there, because he refuses to have an apartment. (Given the rent rates in Cambridge, the assholeness of most landlords, I don't blame him. Rather than live in my office, I chose to move to Texas, and the change in rent rates and lack of state income tax resulted in an immediate %25 pay raise. RMS doesn't have that option because we have the death penalty for people like him down here.)

Anyway, RMS has or had a number or geek chick groupies. I wouldn't call any of the ones I've seen "hot", really -- well except for this one little psycho jewish undergrad from NYC. He would sleep with them on the sofa in his office. That's why he got kicked out off floor 7, and down to the 3 floor, is that the cleaning staff complained about pulling used condoms out from behind the sofas. No joke. You can use this information for trolling if you wish, but it's all true.

RMS has a phobia of water that prevents him from showering. This is part of this post I know from first hand experience, because I myself have observed him taking a sponge bath in the 3d floor mens room in LCS. Apparently once he had a girlfriend who he was totally in love with, and she convinced him to take one shower a week. It was a traumatic experience for him each time.

RMS also has a phobia of spider plants. When RMS starts bothering a grad student and going to his office and talking to him constantly and getting him to spend all his time writing free software, the grad student will complain to someone on the floor, and they'll let them in on the secrete -- get a spider plant in your office. The next time RMS drops by, his eyes will bulge a little and he'll say " Umm. . . I wanted to talk to you about hacking some elisp code . . . why don't you stop by my office sometime ?" and make a hasty exit.

One of his more nasty habits is picking huge flakes of dandruff out of his hair while talking to you. At least he doesn't eat them, like some people I know.

Now, I know everyone loves to make fun of RMS, and I'm feeding that a bit here, so I'd just like to say that I think he really is a genius, on the order of Socrates (another filthy slob who couldn't keep a normal living arrangement, and lived in a barrel) or Ghandi or Ezekiel. Everything he has ever said to me, while sounding naive and idealistic and stupid at the time, turned out to later be correct.

The only thing I fear in his philosophy is his interest in reducing population growth. Everyone else I know of who was obsessed with that "problem" turned out to have facist or totolitarian tendencies, and I think that the problem will solve itself as more and more of the world moves into a middle class type existence.

But on everything else, bitter experiences have taught me he is right. I will not use any non-GPLd or lGPLd software, and I look forward to being able to buy only "open" hardware. I would like to see software patents completely eliminated, and with the development of digitial communication, I see no reason why shouldn't simply repeal all of Title 17 and do away with all copyrights. They just aren't needed. I expect to spend much of my life being paid to write software, and I just don't see copyrights has helping me in anyway.

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