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I was expecting someone to post something like this.
Mandrake the distro was indeed based on Mandrake the character. Their earlier logo was a penguin dressed as a magician

...can be found here.

Argh, fucked up the link. It should be http://geocities.com/francis_uy/politics_old.html# dwi

-F.

So, true. If people were swayed by facts, things like Haldane's Dilemna and irreducible complexity wouldn't be swept under the rug.

Haldane's Dilemma and irreducable complexity aren't so much swept under the rug as they are put back on the toy shelf next to geocentrism and the flat earth.

I think he was talking about Kearal.

You can find more details :
here and here

manoj

What I don't understand is why people here think that "protecting capitalism" is a good thing.

If capitalism is such an efficient economic formation, why does it require such protectionist policies (such as employed by US)?

This situation is not unique to the software industry. US representatives actively protect IP rights of large multinational pharmaceutical companies, which is, without a doubt, a major factor in AIDS pandemic in Africa. Another industry that will not make without the help of US politicians is biotech.

US, WTO and World Bank have been pushing similiar policies for many years and US policy on WSIS is just their logical continuation.

Here are about the only ones I could find. He's not as funny as Scotty.
Tasha: They make love at the drop of a hat.
Geordi: Any hat. --Justice
Data: Sensors show nothing out there. Absolutely nothing.
Geordi: Sure is a damned ugly nothing! --Where Silence has Lease
"Like the rat said, keep the cheese, I just want out of the trap." --Where Silence Has Lease
"I never lie when I've got sand in my shoes." --The Enemy
After saving a Romulan: "Welcome to Galordon Core, where no good deed goes unpunished." --The Enemy
"At first I thought the catwalk was spinning. As it turns out, it was me." --Cause and Effect
"Is there a runaway cadet in here?" --Journey's End
"We seem to have more than one mystery here." --Emergence
http://tvsothertenpercent.tripod.com/startrek/geor di.html
http://www.geocities.com/Area51/Nebula/9038/tngquo tes.html
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If the state would pay for T1s for the schools, I guarantee you plenty of teachers (and administrators) would find good uses for them

Like child pornography!

</tounge-in-cheek>

Don't get me wrong, I'm all for installing internet service in schools - but you know sometimes you have to stop and think about what they really need it for, and what it will actually be used for, and if what you're paying for is what you need.

Do you really need 5 computers in every classroom, from Kindergarten to Grade 12 (On top of multiple, dedicated 20 or 30 machine labs PLUS library and office stations)? Do they all need internet access?
=Smidge=

WHAT DID YOU DOWNLOAD ON THE INTERNET LAST YEAR because it has ALL BEEN RECORDED.

"TWO PICTURES MEANS GUILTY"

You had a safe, comfortable middle-class life? No, you thought you had, but you didn't. You are a CRIMINAL, you are GUILTY and you can be EXECUTED.

You are just another statistic criminal. Do you want YOU and your PARTNER and KIDS to be DRAGGED from your home and SHOT IN THE STREET?

Is your anus insured for AIDS RAPE?

Does your life insurance cover FORCED PRISON SEX and AIDS DEATH ? Check the policy - maybe not. Does "your" life-insurance carry a clause in the contract about perverts, convicts and enemies of society JUST LIKE YOU? Why should they insure "PERVERT REJECTS" like you?

Society hates you.

What are your family going to do when you are jailed for 50 years with no parole? Do you reckon your spouse will hang around for 1 year let alone 50 years before they get lonely and find another partner to love them?

You can be JAILED and RAPED.

A great big muscle-bound GAY RAPIST will tie you to the PRISON BARS and RAPE YOUR ASS with his AIDS AND WART-INFESTED PENIS .

You will be forced to SUCK AIDS INFECTED DICKS . Do you want that?

SOCIETY SUCKS and you had better get used to it because this is what you can expect when YOUR COMPUTER is EXAMINED FOR EVIDENCE by the "government".

You will soon learn how "LAWFUL" AND "CORRECT" your government is when you are being raped and the prison guards are looking the other way - or WATCHING or JOINING IN.

DO YOU WANT TO BE RAPED? WELL, DO YOU?

Your "government" wants you to be RAPED IN THE ASS and you had better wise up before they get YOUR ass, because they can recover what you downloaded LAST YEAR and use it to kidnap you and rape you.

Don't be a sheep!

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Kings Island, Kings Dominion, etc. have had Hanna Barbera areas since their inception. I suspect Kings Island will change, as has Kings Dominion. For example, most of the HB themed rides at KD are now Nickelodeon rides. Yogi's Cave is gone. No Smurf train.

Okay, a couple of links to 'Kings' parks' history.

The parks were owned by Taft Broadcasting. Went into agreement with HB. bought by Paramount, who has been putting in new, more familiar, better money-making, and wholly owned brands.

Brian Connors has written a programming language based on the Klingon language.
The var'aq page.

Of the two stories, Yale is the closest one comes to an elite institution that facilitated the natural inclinations of one of its students to do something great. That Yale, early 20th century Yale, was not the Yale of today by any stretch of the imagination. But the guys from the bread basket just kept at it time after time over decades.

Of the two stories, Yale is the closest one comes to an elite institution that facilitated the natural inclinations of one of its students to do something great. That Yale, early 20th century Yale, was not the Yale of today by any stretch of the imagination. But the guys from the bread basket just kept at it time after time over decades.

Salford et al. document serious neuronal damage in rat brains following exposure to microwave radiation from a cell phone, at levels comparable to what people would experience during normal use. Damage to nerve cells was observed in several places within the brain, including the cortex, hippocampus and basal ganglia. It was associated with evidence of leakage of proteins through the blood-brain barrier. The authors express concern that "after some decades of (often) daily use, a whole generation of [cell phone] users may suffer negative effects, perhaps as early as middle age."

The above excerpt from here

-FL

An interesting thing along the same vein for readers of Battle Angel Alita (aka Gunnm) "The Physics of Tiphares" http://www.geocities.com/Tokyo/Fuji/7539/phys.html

Turns out the comic book writers put more thought into it that you would have first thought!

Although I dont know if I could still believe that superman could fly around the world and turn time backwards...

Nerdy kid:I'm looking for a Batman for my Batmobile.
Lee:Who about a nice "Thing" action figure?
Nerdy kid:Uhh no,I need a Batman!
(Lee smashes a thing figure into the Batmobile so it's legs are sticking out the floor)
Nerdy kid:You broke my Batmobile!
Lee:Broke,or made better!

Do I need to point out Bombay is called Mumbai? Sort of a Instanbul/Constantinople thing.

See this page for information.

We didn't have computers in our time. We had Meccano and we liked it.

Ahh, there is nothing better for a boy than sitting alone in his room, tool in hand, tightening his little nuts!

(with apologies to Ben Elton)

They certainly aren't idiots themselves, but they are digging in a wrong direction.

Try not to perceive it as a flamebait, but the whole point of many branches of Western applied science is to allow idiots to stay idiots and not change themselves.

For example, eat Viagra each time before sex instead of learning Daoist or Tantric techniques and getting a rock-solid erection. Or eat Prozac instead of using psychology in order to get out of depression by eliminating its root causes.

Another example - medicines that allow someone who have never exercised and ate crap at McDonalds to live till their retirement age.

Thus, the entire civilization becomes one of degenerates (or, even better word, CONSUMERS. I consider this word an insult) on prescription drugs because there is only a certain small percentage of people who will do something that is not required for survival. Then longer I look at this world, then more I get disappointed in the effectiveness of a certain socialized institutions. This makes me wish the world be more succeptible towards libertarian ideas that are based on self-responsibility for your being.

And now the right direction ;-).

Everything said above brings us to one word that describes the place that is the key: Psyche.

Psyche is the part of us that manages the levels of hormones, chemicals et al, and in most cases it is the level where the problems should be attacked.

Here is the explanation why geeks don't get women. This is a "physical"/"lustful" side of love.

(when reading it, think of Kramer versus George Costanza as the example of high/low rank, and of Klingons versus Vulcans as the example of high/low primativeness)

There is another one - "spiritual"/"psychological" that can be understood upon reading "Games people play" by Eric Bern.

As one can understand, all of this "chemical crap" that we eat in a form of medicine and supplements is just a way of bypassing the psyche and emulating its work. Smarter readers will understand that modern Western medicine often heroically fights with the shit that our own subconscious brought us into (think of a very typical situation with people who nobody needs, and who get sick in order to get attention of their relatives, professionals from medical institutions or good samaritans. Also read this ). And the general population pays through the socialized healthcare. And everyone is happy since everything is a good business for certain groups whithin the society. At the same time majority is swayed by the false ideals of humanism et al.

Sorry for being that vicious and arrogant, but I'm really tired of idiots with bright eyes cheering yet another expensive achievement of the pharmacology that allows somebody to do even less real work for themselves gobbling pills instead.

And, finally, here is the way to change your bad luck and become what you can become: link

One does not need to become religious, but the "correctional" part of mysticism might help one to get both the body and mind healthy and live much more fulfilled life that will sure have some love in it ;-).

I (mark_dot on /.) read Walter M. Miller Jr.'s The Darfsteller last year in "The Hugo Winners, Volume 1." A brilliant story about actors displaced by robots, who themselves are coordinated by a powerful central AI (machine). This real life story reminds me very strongly of The Darfsteller. I strongly recommend Miller's 50-page short story if you find this real life story intriguing. :)

You're not hearing about ad agencies doing mass migrations to Linux, replacing Photoshop with the Gimp and Quark with... with... um, well, you're not hearing about it.

Replacing Quark with Scribus. But, ya, it's not going to happen. Windows really is a bigger player than many people realize. MS is taking over a significant portion of the market. And, for the most part, outside of America, MS controls the print industry. It's a point that's been beat to death already -- when the cost of an illegal copy of software is zero, free doesn't mean much.

Silly picture link for the weekend

Look here for links.

...visit this site.

HE-MAN was the most corrupt of all, just look at that outfit, yikes!.

here (get it while it's hot!)

From the PC/GEOS History page:

America Online client Released in late 1990. Also referred to as PCAO, to distinguish it from the Windows-based client, WAOL. Version 1.0 was the very first client software for AOL. This was a minimal installation of PC/GEOS. PCAO was updated quite frequently, with versions 1.2, 1.3, 1.5 released across 1991 and 1992. Version 1.5a was released in late 1993, and was followed in 1994 by version 1.6. Surprisingly, this occured after the release of the 2.0 client for Geos 2.0 (see below). PCAO required a Tymnet or Sprint connection. AOL stopped supporting Tymnet around 1995, and abandoned Sprint recently, so PCAO is now officially unsupported completely.

Isn't true, there hasn't been any "surplus". When Clinton got out we we're in DEBT and we still are, just worse.

You asked for it ;-)

Here's a link for you. It is not that far off topic: it is a Goat social organization.

The Internet? Is that the place where people go to download porn? --- Home

There is an unused Lunokhod rover here in the states. Here is a color picture I took a few years ago. The rover is/was at the Kansas Cosmosphere. The Cosmosphere is a wonderful place, and well worth making a road trip.

The top of the rover popped open lengthwise to reveal the solar panels. The long nose looking thing on the front was the antenna. There are rumors that these rovers did sample returns even. Havn't seen any proof though.

I am not a space lawyer (nor do I intend to play one on Slashdot), but you've now got me thinking about Harry Broderick and the rest of the crew at Jettison Salvage. Maybe The Vulture could do future servicing missions? :-)

Once upon a time, a junkman had a dream...

Where cute incompetent teens try and rescue a multi million dollar space tellescope. Starting with 24 teens, the rigors of Network Space Training whittle it down to a crew of two, who use a decommissioned shuttle to retrieve the Hubble.

Note: Orbital Sex Scenes a must for ratings week!

You are so wrong about that. What Bill Gates (or at least Microsoft) did was to give computing to the masses. The PC revolution was completely Microsoft driven. They made stuff simple.

Sorry, but I doubt you can back it up with any real historical knowledge. Microsoft entered the PC revolution because IBM was seeking contact with Gary Kildall of the CP/M fame. IBM wanted to run CP/M on their computers and asked Bill Gates to arrange a meeting of the IBM representatives with Kildall. Instead, Gates offered them his own deal.

History of the PC would look quite similar without Bill Gates. We would have CP/M-86 instead of MS-DOS and GEM Desktop instead of MS Windows. There would be no actualy difference for anybodys Grandma.

This is offtopic, but, I like your sig. At first glance, it looks like kind of a stupid question to ask, since the answer would "obviously" be "of course he could, he could do anything". But then one realizes if he could create something that limited what he could do, then he has limits... and if he can't, then he has limits. So any in case, there are limits to omnipotence.

What's fun, though, is there's a name for problem - the Omnipotence Paradox. And it's not just a silly logic problem - it can apply to real life things, too. See here for an interesting example. What I'm wondering is... were you thinking of any of this when you thought up your sig?

Will that Goat Fucker Stallman still be barred from the MIT campus? You know, since he was caught fucking a goat in the MIT computer lab back in the 80s.

Will that Goat Fucker Stallman still be barred from the MIT campus? You know, since he was caught fucking a goat in the MIT computer lab back in the 80s.

Obligatory link for those people who don't watch Futurama.

I bet this guy must have learned everything he knows from one of those books. I know who I'm not hiring for my next web design project...

However, despite those examples, there is also Counter-proof Those going to show how useless the internet is as an information resource

1. Book series
2. Wire mesh manufacturer
3. Movie with Clint Eastwood
4. Atari game
5. Web design company specializing in horses
6. A game controller
7. A safety technology company
8. An all-girl hard rockin' poppin' pounding band from Tacoma, Washingto
9. A model airplane
10. A slashdot user who posted twice in 1999

The good things about the name:

1. It doesn't sound like another similar product (eg Lindows)
2. It doesn't have the name of the OS it was originally designed to run on in it. (eg WinZip)
3. It doesn't have the name of the programming language used to create it in it (eg JavaInvaders)
4. It is unlikely to cause confusion with another software product (except maybe the video game), unlike Firebird.
5. It doesn't use a famous trademark (at least they didn't name it Nike)

I've said this in the past, and I will say it again. If you are naming your open source software, make it something unique. Why would you want to compete for search terms with all these other people, products, corporations, and organizations. If your product has merit, then people will recognize the name that you give it and you will get brand loyalty. There is no need show your similarity to other products or your system requirements in your name.

This reminds me of the German antipersonnel sonic cannon developed during WWII.

Apparently, this one required a targetted infantryman to remain in place for more than half a minute, but the idea is probably similar.

The main thing I'm thinking is that you need to be able to send lots of people at once. What's the crew capabilities on the Seawolf? I didn't check.

(I'm quoting this fact file.)

The Seawolf has a crew complement of 12 officers and 121 enlisted personnel for a total of 133 crew members. She's certainly no slouch. :-)

I suppose if we're just talking about a passenger shuttle craft, it doesn't have to be as big as all that in order to carry lots of people. The reason the shuttle has to carry so much 'dead weight' is because it has to support the crew for awhile when it gets up there, but if it could just go straight to orbit and dump its payload of passengers, it can probably be a bit smaller and still carry plenty of people.

Actually, a large portion of the shuttle's weight is allocated to its cargo. I've been in one of the shuttle mock ups and they have MASSIVE cargo bays (about the size of a school bus). According to one source they can carry up to 8,605 kg (18,970 pounds) of mass to the space station when the bay is pressurized. Assuming an average weight of 200 lbs. per person, plus another 3 tons for a special passenger module for the cargo bay, you could carry about 64 people per flight. Throw in a little extra weight for various incidentals and you could probably arrive at a reasonable figure of 50 passengers per flight.

The Seawolf is actually pretty small compared to a deep-space vehicle, I think, because of that one small thing. Sure, you could stick some ion drive units on there powered by the nuclear plant, but how fast would it go, then? How long would it take to accelerate? That's the real question. :)

Small? At 353x35x40 feet, she'd be plenty large for a space born vehicle. In comparison, a two bedroom camper with kitchen and toliet is 40 feet long and about the width of a conversion van. Since a peaceful space vehicle wouldn't need so many crew (no battlestations), it would be as good as a luxury liner.

As for thrust, the Prometheus for the JIMO mission thrusts about 1 newton per second (one kilogram of acceleration per second) on a 10 megawatt reactor. According to the navy's specs the PWR/S6W reactor on the Seawolf can put out 220 megawatts of power. Assuming a linear increase in power, that would give our fictional Spacewolf a thrust of 22 Newtons.

Of course, I doubt that the military would be happy with 22 newtons of thrust. They'd probably want a more powerful fission drive. Options include NERVA, GCNR (Gas Core Nuclear), Nuclear Salt Water, and Orion drives. All of those have a very high thrust in exchange for a lower Isp than Ion drives. However, their Isp is still significantly higher than today's chemical rockets, and yet they can produce comperable thrust.

I'm curious enough about this that I'd be interested in seeing a breakdown of how much each component and system of the Seawolf-class sub weighs. I don't want anything classified, of course, but if someone can give this information I'd really be interested in seeing it.

I seriously doubt you'd get anywhere near those specs. However, if you strip out the weapons, the ballast tanks, the screws, the reactor rotors, the sonar and reduce the crew, you'll probably be able to save yourself a good fraction of the weight. Space versions of some of the above would have to be installed in orbit, but you're probably still saving yourself a bundle.

Of course, all of this is just facts and figures. None of this means that launching a Seawolf into orbit is a good idea, bu

Hey guys, I am using this model of visual attention distributed at http://iLab.usc.edu for a class paper. The program is designed to objectively simulate how your brain decides what will attract your eyes. Here is the result at http://www.geocities.com/nerd1876/janet.jpg -- not quite the first thing you would look at (the program checked first several other bright and flashing objects, shown by the yellow circles), but was still found very quickly by the software. Couldn't help staring at it, my brain did not give me a choice!

But you'll be able to eat at the best restaurant in the universe:
Nick Tahou's!!

Here's the kiddies website: http://www.geocities.com/spth666/main.htm

The GR also has a direct relationship with biological systems, especially relating to growth.

Apart from the breeding of Fibonacci's Rabbits there are nice examples of Phyllotaxis and Sunflower Seed Patterns which exhibit the Golden Ratio.

I agree that the artistic "debunking" is over enthusiastic. For example, the Dutch painter Piet Mondrian was a deliberate user of the Golden Ratio.

this is my 3.2 desktop:

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Read Yggdrasil's "The Domestic End Game" for an analysis of how you have been dispossessed -- but no one more so than the boomers

It's just The Farnsworth Parabox problem. Nothing to worry about.