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THE CLUES:

Across
1. This band must've been desperate for publicity to give an interview to Slashdot!
5. Crapflooder impersonated well by Silicon Simian.
7. A special treat you earn for Bad Posting.
0A. Sean Kelly's ex-lover and former SlashNET IRCop.
0E. Ew! Between the eyes!
0F. This dog won't mess your carpet, shed fur all over the place, or do much else besides consume batteries.
11. Living proof that you get what you pay for.
12. The soundtrack for the World Wide Web.
14. Disney makes money to destroy free speech on the Internet every time you buy ____ on DVD.
15. Slashcode's overglorified killfile.
17. You were writing FOX about "The Tick" when you should've been writing your congressman about this bill.
18. A very Snotty troll.
1A. This young Afghan loves watching movies and JonKatz on his C64.
1D. The best text editor EVER!
1E. What you say!! If you say it one more time, I'll bludgeon you to death!
1F. These guys gave Linux mono.
25. These shiny discs feed money into a bloated media cartel and stifle fair use rights, but you buy them by the millions anyway.
28. Slashdot's top comment poster and story submitter.
2A. These networks "disrupt" artists' cash flows.
2B. Open Source codeword for amphetamines.
2D. RAM type optimized for Extended Data Output on old Pentiums.
2E. Hillary Rosen knows you're just itching to steal Charley Pride's __.
30. A hack to get a kernel designed only to boot off floppy disks to boot off a hard drive.
31. ___ BREAK HEAD WITH OPEN-SOURCE CD!!!
32. Marketers who resort to this tactic are worse than Hitler and should be tortured and killed.
33. This desktop environment kicks GNOME's ass!
35. Microsoft sold off this Unix, and it's gone downhill ever since.
38. An essential e-mail utility for child pornographers and terrorists.
3B. (0A Down)'s lucky number.
3C. It's not Unix, and it shows.
3D. Preface for 90% of Slashdot comments, and 100% of CmdrTaco's personal ads.
3F. Where non-free software goes on your file system.
41. You better mark all the comments as ____ in metamod unless you want to lose karma.
42. This international standards body, no matter what you may think, does NOT read Slashdot.
44. Head bitch of the RIAA.
46. A primitive chat program superseded by AOL Instant Messenger.
49. An online webzine which demonstrated that online subscriptions don't work to everybody except CmdrTaco.
4B. If you moderate in a way CmdrTaco doesn't like, you earn this special database flag.
4C. vi does a poor job of emulating this standard Unix text editor.
4D. To B or not __ _.
4E. You won't get much use out of this text-recognition technology if all you use your scanner for is scanning your ass.
50. The sound Michael's head makes when he's stuffing it up his rectum.
52. Unique index for a whole LIST of babble.
53. The world's best operating system!
54. Father of Methuselah, or old-school Slashdot troll.
55. You don't need to be a Kreskin to predict this operating system's future.
56. Most geeks sleep through this half of the day.
57. This open-source man was Natalie's first.
58. Carly's mission is to steer this company into the ground.
59. mimbleton's favorite subject prefix.
5A. Chewing this might help your babbling problem.
5C. Programming language named after Lord Byron's daughter.
5F. Dead drummer for CmdrTaco's favorite band, or ridiculous Liberal myth.
61. Every Slashdotter's dream is to get one of these.
62. The Firm that is spelling Armageddon for free speech on The Net.
64. These networks are the beginning of Disorganized Crime.
65. Shitty "bitch band" whose leader likes to bitch about the RIAA.
66. The only Adequacy editor with a real PhD.
67. I think 7 over 22 is both backwards AND wrong.
68. Mentioning this droid (and others) is what is keeping you from getting laid.
69. Two-letter country code for Oman.
6A. Giving a ____ Necklace involves "coming" on Heidi Wall's bosom.
6B. What people who can't afford Visual Studio use to search text files.
6C. This hacker tool is often used to replace "characters" in "strings".
6D. QueenTaco's maiden name.
6E. The best text editor EVER!
6F. The PDP-11 assembler that thinks it's a programming language.

Down
1. Taco thinks that a purchase of his publicly traded company's services is a ___.
2. The self-centered Windows 9x release after 98SE.
3. 3D Tamagotchi game designed by Peter Molyneux.
4. A crippled Photoshop wannabe.
5. Lock your penis bird in a cage to protect it from this text-outputting animal.
6. Russian Geeks in Space.
7. If your karma surpasses 25, you have this and a problem.
8. Luckily, michael was born too late to join THIS party.
9. If this Slashdot section's color scheme doesn't drive you away, Michael's snotty editorial remarks will.
0A. Suffering cerebral palsy didn't stop him from becoming Surprised by Wealth.
0B. The market leader in megahertz lies.
0C. Statement used to declare variables in Visual Basic.
0D. Media cartel dedicated to protecting Britney Spears from dirty hackers.
10. Once the greatest Karma Whore ever, now a suicidal loser seen only on (33 Down).
13. Game console that bankrupted its parent company because of hackers making free games for it.
16. The only Unix understandable by non-geeks.
18. (40 Down) likes his pages ____.
1C. Research? Linux? Software? Whatever!
20. The first step towards failure for Linux companies.
21. Every Slashdotter's duty (except those marked with (4B Across)).
22. Apple's stylish new IP theft device.
23. (43 Down)'s employer.
24. A flaky Open-Source knockoff of (38 Across).
26. ESR's birthday present to RMS.
27. This primitive operating system denies any service to its users.
29. Unique index for a particular piece of babble.
2C. A tasty breakfast treat -- down your pants!
2E. You hit this once you get 50 karma points.
2F. This marketing guy troll sure is dumb!
33. This site is decidedly not Slashdot.
34. An easy way to lose all your karma is to offer your account for sale on this popular auction site.
35. Unfortunately, this famous online Nazi's treatment of the Censorware Project wasn't just a game.
36. Two-letter country code for the 51st state.
37. A geek's computer is always __.
39. ____, Lover, Aesthete, Programmer. There is no contradiction.
3A. The XP makes it go faster!
3E. The world's worst operating system!
40. The only troll with a freaks list longer than JonKatz'.
41. The OS all the cool people use now that Linux isn't trendy anymore.
43. A top-flight IT consultant who somehow manages to find time in his busy schedule to post to Slashdot.
45. What comes after as(1) and before strip(1) in the C build process.
47. VA Software has the world's worst ___.
48. This Senate bill comes closer to passing every time you go to see Lord of the Rings again.
4A. Legalized child pornography.
4F. What the Greeks went to Delphi for, Geeks go to this state for.
51. The Hellmouth should've eaten you here.
53. This rocker's battle against file-sharing networks won't end until he can Kill 'Em All.
5A. This desktop environment kicks KDE's ass!
5B. This modest and self-effacing troll was one of the first on Slashdot.
5C. You'd have to think different to justify spending money on this company's overpriced products.
5D. A game console which thought it was a full-featured computer system.
5E. Cofounder of Chips 'n' Dips.
5F. It may not have the best sound quality, but at least it's better than Ogg Vorbis.
60. Preface for the 10% of Slashdot comments not prefaced with (3D Across).
64. Bye bye, miss USian ___, drove the Cruiser like some loser who starts posts with a *sigh* ...
65. A dynamically updated list of the biggest losers on Slashdot.
67. Standard programming language implemented by most high-end printers.
6F. This language's lack of bounds checking is responsible for 90% of software security holes out there.

fin

I was playing a game of Diablo2 via Windoze and I had to use the bathroom really bad. I was sore, I was holding myself for so long that my teeth were floating. After returning to my computer, gone for only 4 minutes of #1 and #2, I returned to A Blue Screen Of Death "System Error Reading drive E" and I found the CDROM drive to be ejected about 25% of the tray.

Diablo2 defaults to playing tracks of Music on the Diablo2 PlayDisc. The CDROM music that Diablo2 uses is simply sampled from the CDROM drive and mixed at the Soundcard via a 4 pin CDROM drive cable. Perhaps if I had disabled Diablo2's Music, in the Options menu, this would not have happened.

I had to cold-shutdown the computer, remove the cdrom drive, open the cdrom drive, and basically shake all the shattered peices of the Diablo2 Playdisc from the drive. To this day, I still blame Blizzard and Microsoft. I haven't figured why the CDROM drive will not close, but I kept it in hopes I can figure out why it will not. I also kept the peices of my Diablo2 Playdisc, re-assembled them as a puzzle, took a picture, and made the picture available to Blizzard in hopes they will send me a replacement at a small service charge for me. I don't think they will, and I bought my box of Diablo2 at a swapmeet for $10 (yes new).

Here is a picture of my destroyed "Diablo2 Playdisc" CDROM.

Does anyone think it's safe to keep a CDROM drive in service, 'cause it blew my Diablo2 Playdisc to chunks, should I get a new CDROM drive, or should I be hung for not using Transgaming's WineX ?

From what posts I've read in this article, there is much to blame on the CDROMs being old and unable to withstand the higher centrifugal forces caused by today's CDROM drives. That brings me to a question of my own. I just heard that Transgaming's WineX has maken strides to correct the CDROM copy-protection issues present on many games, including Diablo2, and many games are now playable in Transgaming WineX because of this new compliance. That doesn't solve the issue of old CDROMs or outright defectived CDROMs from self destructing in a CDROM drive.

MY QUESTION: Has anyone tried modifying a Linux CDROM driver to limit a CDROM drive's RPM rating and not by limiting the data read bandwidth?

IMPLICATIONS: It would be verry nice if there was a proc filesystem entry or a configuration file in /etc that users or administrators may limit the performance of a CDROM drive or possibly detect a CDROM's media age and determine whether it may be operated at 1500 RPM, 3000 RPM, or 4500 RPM, or something more hardware equal to 150KB/s (rated 1X), 1300/KB/s (rated 8x), or (rated 52X)?

Get some pussy, and then you'll earn our respect. Stay away from ManTwat you dirty GNU/Linux hippie.

Yeah, the last thing we need is someone blending a computer into this.

Fuckknuckles. I forgot the link.

On the other hand, you do have wooden cases

This guy made his own

I recall a company that specialized in wooden cases for everything from computers to PDAs. Some looked pretty good.

here is a slash story from a few years back

Whenever I print something at work, I print it out twice with double spacing. Then I throw away the version that looks worse. Most of the time the look exactly the same, but I discard the second copy anyway.

That way we can pave the Earth much sooner than planned.

Screenshot mirrored here if it gets 'dotted.

I thought it was olive trees

Ancient Sumerians used pictographic writings on tablets. A archaeologist discovered one of these tablets which showed a drawing of our solar system. The thing about it, was, it showed the sun at the center of the universe and also a distant planet that looks like Pluto. Pluto wasn't discovered until around the 1930's, and there were debates on whether the Earth was at the center of the solar system/universe rather than the Sun well after the Sumerian civilization was gone. Sumerians describe Gods coming down to Earth which they called the Annunaki from a planet called Nibiru. The Annunaki created man using Genetic Engineering at a place called E'Den.

Ancient Astronaunts

From Google

If you live in the SE US... The Immaculate Fix
The Skullies
Elohsa
Middleground
Showbread

If you live in the SE US... The Immaculate Fix
The Skullies
Elohsa
Middleground
Showbread

How about a do-it-yourself scanning tunnelling microscope? Or does that not qualify for some reason I don't understand?

Ah... the good ole VIC-20. I wish I still had mine. Unfortunately it had a dying power supply and my little sister somehow managed to remove it from its shelf in the basement and destroy it.

I still remember playing Adventure on it and having to use the 8k memory upgrade cart to play Quest from the tape drive (and you could go make and begin eating lunch while it loaded). It had a pretty good port of Gorf as well.

My introduction to the idea of programming ( I was a little kid when my father brought home a VIC) was on that beasty.

Almost as frustrating as losing the VIC was losing my Atari 2600. Not sure where that one went. Got lost in a move I think.

The transition from the wildly different and incompatible machines of the 80's to the fairly cross compatible machines of today is an interesting one. I'm curious as to what paths those of us growing up with personal computers in the 80's took to get to where we are today.

As hazily as I can remember it (which means dates could be fairly massively off) mine was:

1983 Commodore VIC-20

198? Atari VCS CX2600 (yeah not a PC but still a big part of my interest in computers in general)

1987 Xerox CP/M ( just like this beasty, we even had the 8 inch floppy drives and a daisy wheel printer that was so energetic that it shook the whole bloody house when it printed at its blazing page every few minutes rate)

1990 Zeos 386SX/16Mhz Notebook w/2MB RAM and a 20MB HDD

1993 486DX2/50Mhz Desktop w/4MB RAM, 212MB HDD and an Advanced Gravis Ultrasound. This system was still using the ironclad daisy wheel printer. Later upgraded to 12MB RAM and a CD-ROM was finally acquired in 1994 in order to play Wing Commander 3. The graphics card was upgraded to a Stealth 64 Video Card to play Descent in 1995. Lost the system to a power supply that decided to go live to the case and fry everything late 1995. This machine was also what I did my first 3D Studio work on. Nothing like waiting 5 minutes per window for the wireframe mesh to draw in. :)

1995 Zeos Pentium 90Mhz Tower w/16MB RAM, 500MB HDD and the Gravis salvaged from the 486. Stealth 64 PCI graphics card.

1997 Cannibalized the P90 to make a P150 w/32MB RAM, 800MB of HDD's, Advanced Gravis Ultrasound Pro. This system would be the first one to get a 3D Accelerator card, the original Diamond Monster Voodoo 3D and would end up at 48MB of RAM as well.

2001 Athlon 1.2Ghz w/512MB RAM, 30GB HDD, Geforce 3 AGP Reference Card - Primary Display, Geforce 2 MX PCI secondary display, SB Live!, 8X SCSI CD-R (leftover part), DVD-ROM, etc.

Of course the most odd thing about all these machines is with the exception of the old Atari console, every one of these systems has had a version of Adventure on it at one point in time.

Keep building these solutions!

Palo Alto Freenet

The open source community should focus on things that MS neglects.

http://www.b.150m.com/

For eeproms only a well presented one is here

For flash and eeproms Willem has the original hardware design with source available - dos is only a port away?

With that is the later version of the above Willem program with windows software available as freeware.
The board (double sided) for this is available fromWillem, contact him through his site or via the forum
There is a single sided version available, it's just rather cramped. The site is spread over several ISP's so you'll need to follow a few links to get a good grasp of whats there.

Finally a Linux one can be found through the Diskless HowTo. This won't do flash but has the linux software available as well as the design . It's the closest to open hardware that you'll find. While it may not have layout diagrams or photos, it's been around for a while so maybe someones enhanced it?

I'll admit two of those may be the simple ones you refer too , but the third - Willem or geocities will do flash, it has dos source available and does work. I've used it for flash as well as eeproms.
It'd be nice to see a linux port of it, save booting the dedicated 486 ;-)

I dont remember the show, i recognize
firestar as an X-man. (abeit a minor,
off and on. She was the weird flying
chick in spandex that was on fire all
the time. right?

see if this is what you were thinking.

http://www.geocities.com/bastetmajik/A-M/firesta r. html?
I also recall a time when the Xmen tried
to recruit spidey, thinking he was a
mutant.

ok i'm a geek. bye.

Could it maybe be that Spiderman was part of the trio himself?

yes

I'm surprised they're from an English-speaking country.

I've always found computer games much more addicting than drugs

http://www.geocities.com/individualistanarchist/

use encryption dummy

http://www.b.150m.com/

Here's a list of non-existent e-mail addresses for those damn spam bots. GO GET EM BOYS!

Please don't /. it :) Don't go here

I think all the Nostradamus sooth-sayers are slacking off, I'm pretty sure the current world events (including this) were all described.

Pi Spiral Theory Illustration

"I am a goat fucker!" -Richard Stallman, 1994
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.

Oh and what a fabulous product it must be! I mean, from the slender figure of your father you can just tell that it burns off the pounds!!

There are some reports here, here, and here. A general thing from the military is here. I don't have time to find a more radical critique, as I'm in the middle of class.

My opinion though is that the executives are lying concering what they knew, it just isn't feasable that top corporate executives wouldn't at least gets a little wink wink from their secretaries or whoever. They may not have encouraged it, but they certainly acquised. The U.S. military has a long tradition, at least since the perpetual wars we've been fighting since Vietnam (read your history books, we've been in constant war since WWII), of actively manipulating the domestic press to suit its own purposes. In addition to active maniplation, they lie constantly in press briefings. Whether they have a good reason to do this, I have no idea, but they're certainly not acting like the Constitution decrees.

Check out this cellular automaton which I made which makes some cool graphics:

www.geocities.com/enriqueeder/trip.html

Each pixel is a cell in the automaton. Each cell has 3 quantities each of which has a value between 0 and 255. The quantities correspond to the amount of red, green and blue in the color of the cell.

The color of each cell in the next frame of the simulation depends on its current color and the color of its neighbors in the current frame. The rule is that each quantity (red, green and blue) has an enemy or inhibitor quantity. For example green is by default the enemy of red, so the more green a cell's neighbors have in the current frame, the less red that cell will have in the next frame. Red is also the enemy of blue, and blue is the enemy of green. So each quantity has an enemy.

The simulation is seeded with a randomly colored cell by clicking on the black screen. To run the simulation, click the Go button. To stop it, click the Stop button. To advance just one frame click the Step button.

If you click the Design button, a window will pop up where you can modify the parameters of the calculation. The Neighbors amount determines how much the amount of the enemy quantity in a cell's neighbors affects that cell in the next frame. The Self amount determines how much the cell stays true to its current color. The Enemy amount affects how much one quantity is affected by its enemy quantity. The Direction button flips the quantities' enemies.

The unexpected result is trippy swirling patterns as red chases green, green chases blue and blue chases red.

We refuse to be COWED

So the content industry should ruminate on this. Find some udder solution. Maybe tipping. Or a place where the grass is greener. And especially no bullshit.

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...is a probe that lands on the planet, drills a hole, and then dangles a hula popper.
that will prove if there is life on europa.
have it bag up what they catch and blast off the surface again!

+ It rarely loses data

Linux rules

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Governments defend legally defined rights. Why, then, aren't those in posession of said rights paying for the cost of protecting them? If I have title to an asset, that title is worthless to me without enforcement of the entitlement to the asset. Why should some kid who is trying to get a family together be potentially subject to the draft at the same time that he is paying taxes on everything from income to capital gains to groceries to pay for enforcement of my title with his money as well as his blood?

There are alternatives. Just before the time I worked on the toll road archive system, I was politically active and my last ditch attempt to address via political reform the core problems I saw was a proposed net asset tax reform based on risk-adjusted net present value calculation (arguably the most fundamental business calculation of all). Since then I've become very disenchanted with politics as a viable route to reform and come to a more radical proposal I have called warrior's insurance where governments and international mutual defense treaties are replaced by reinsurance networks that indemnify in the event of loss of asset value due to force or fraud. The insurance premiums would usually be paid in scrip issued by the insurance companies, thereby displacing fiat currencies. The insurance companies could adjust their premiums to account for risky behavior by their clients (like building huge fixed assets in placed like NYC for people who go around the world tormenting Muslims). Global markets trading varieties of scrip would naturally turn into a reinsurance network supporting emergency action by groups of warrior insurers.

Said insurance premiums and their risk-adjustment are the way guys who own lots titles that need enforcement can pay younger guys who put their lives on the line to protect those entitlements -- and pay them something that might be remotely called fair compensation -- all without resorting to rhetoric about how "we're all one big happy clan around here". Of course, the warrior insurers themselves may be very clanish, but that's their business. Clans -- real clans -- do have a place in the foundation of such a reinsurance network. Clans are, after all, highly territorial.

If you want to give nightmares to guys like Katz and Soros, rate this comment a 5.

Governments defend legally defined rights. Why, then, aren't those in posession of said rights paying for the cost of protecting them? If I have title to an asset, that title is worthless to me without enforcement of the entitlement to the asset. Why should some kid who is trying to get a family together be potentially subject to the draft at the same time that he is paying taxes on everything from income to capital gains to groceries to pay for enforcement of my title with his money as well as his blood?

There are alternatives. Just before the time I worked on the toll road archive system, I was politically active and my last ditch attempt to address via political reform the core problems I saw was a proposed net asset tax reform based on risk-adjusted net present value calculation (arguably the most fundamental business calculation of all). Since then I've become very disenchanted with politics as a viable route to reform and come to a more radical proposal I have called warrior's insurance where governments and international mutual defense treaties are replaced by reinsurance networks that indemnify in the event of loss of asset value due to force or fraud. The insurance premiums would usually be paid in scrip issued by the insurance companies, thereby displacing fiat currencies. The insurance companies could adjust their premiums to account for risky behavior by their clients (like building huge fixed assets in placed like NYC for people who go around the world tormenting Muslims). Global markets trading varieties of scrip would naturally turn into a reinsurance network supporting emergency action by groups of warrior insurers.

Said insurance premiums and their risk-adjustment are the way guys who own lots titles that need enforcement can pay younger guys who put their lives on the line to protect those entitlements -- and pay them something that might be remotely called fair compensation -- all without resorting to rhetoric about how "we're all one big happy clan around here". Of course, the warrior insurers themselves may be very clanish, but that's their business. Clans -- real clans -- do have a place in the foundation of such a reinsurance network. Clans are, after all, highly territorial.

If you want to give nightmares to guys like Katz and Soros, rate this comment a 5.

Governments defend legally defined rights. Why, then, aren't those in posession of said rights paying for the cost of protecting them? If I have title to an asset, that title is worthless to me without enforcement of the entitlement to the asset. Why should some kid who is trying to get a family together be potentially subject to the draft at the same time that he is paying taxes on everything from income to capital gains to groceries to pay for enforcement of my title with his money as well as his blood?

There are alternatives. Just before the time I worked on the toll road archive system, I was politically active and my last ditch attempt to address via political reform the core problems I saw was a proposed net asset tax reform based on risk-adjusted net present value calculation (arguably the most fundamental business calculation of all). Since then I've become very disenchanted with politics as a viable route to reform and come to a more radical proposal I have called warrior's insurance where governments and international mutual defense treaties are replaced by reinsurance networks that indemnify in the event of loss of asset value due to force or fraud. The insurance premiums would usually be paid in scrip issued by the insurance companies, thereby displacing fiat currencies. The insurance companies could adjust their premiums to account for risky behavior by their clients (like building huge fixed assets in placed like NYC for people who go around the world tormenting Muslims). Global markets trading varieties of scrip would naturally turn into a reinsurance network supporting emergency action by groups of warrior insurers.

Said insurance premiums and their risk-adjustment are the way guys who own lots titles that need enforcement can pay younger guys who put their lives on the line to protect those entitlements -- and pay them something that might be remotely called fair compensation -- all without resorting to rhetoric about how "we're all one big happy clan around here". Of course, the warrior insurers themselves may be very clanish, but that's their business. Clans -- real clans -- do have a place in the foundation of such a reinsurance network. Clans are, after all, highly territorial.

If you want to give nightmares to guys like Katz and Soros, rate this comment a 5.

Didja follow the link? didn't think so, these tapes seem to work fine in my trusty old BMC 220.

While it is true that Sony makes a plethora of products that begin with Beta, I was still referring to Betamax.

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Civic HB burning a Viper

heres the video the dude above was talking about

Am I the only one who remembers back when you could be the "proud commander of your own POLARIS SUB -- the most powerful weapon in the world!" for only $6.98 ??

"As proposed, the submarine would constitute the single largest private undersea vehicle ever built, and arguably, the most significant personal transportation device of the 20th century."

WTF? What about the car?

Besides, the submarine is sooo
18th century.

If you go here you can find the assembly code readouts for most GM cars. These are really well documented, and this is how I tune my Firebird.

Modern GM cars come with what is called a memcal. This plugs into the ECM, and it contains the PROM, some filter networks for the knock sensor, and some basic circuitry to run in 'limp home mode' if the PROM fails.

There are people retrofitting these systems to every possible configuration, the most popular is the Buick Grand National/SyTy/Turbo Sunbird ECM because it supports boost conditions, or the 90-92 Firebird ECM because they are so easy to find.

There is even an open source tuner program for Firebirds and Camaros to watch the ALDL datastream and see everything that is going on inside your engine.

It's a real hacker culture, and I enjoy reading all the discussions that go on.

The ALTNET / b3d client does seem to install itself without asking you, but it sits quietly in the "installed programs" list, and can be uninstalled in 3 clicks (which I performed yesterday after reading Brilliant's plans for ALTNET).

Umm . . . . not exactly.
There are more then a few entries that sit in your registry even after an uninstall. Not to mention all the .dll and so on that sit in the b3d directory that do not get removed during an uninstall.

The b3d projector is actually set to reinstall itself if you visit their website using kazaa. So a simple uninstall doesn't do dick.

In order to really, truly get rid of b3d and all its assorted crap, you have to remove all of this:
c:\Windows\BDE (the whole folder)

c:\Windows\Temp\Brilliant (another folder which may or may not be there)

c:\Windows\SYSTEM\bdedata2.dll

c:\Windows\SYSTEM\bdedownloader.dll

c:\Windows\SYSTEM\bdefdi.dll

c:\Windows\SYSTEM\bdeinsta2.dll

c:\Windows\SYSTEM\bdeinstall.exe

c:\Windows\SYSTEM\bdesecureinstall.cab

c:\Windows\SYSTEM\bdesecureinstall.exe

c:\Windows\SYSTEM\bdeverify.dll

c:\Windows\SYSTEM\bdeverify.exe

you also need to pull this out of the registry:

HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.b3ds

HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\b3ds_auto_file

HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\BDESmartInstaller.BDESmartInst al ler

HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\BDESmartInstaller.BDESmartInst al ler.1

HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{67925165-C4B6-11D2-B9C6 -0 000E84F59A6}

HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\TypeLib\{82FC7881-AACC-11D2-B9 C6 -0000E842E40A}

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Brilliant Digital Entertainment

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Zupdate

you also need to remove the b3dupdate value in

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Cu rr entVersion\Run

This damn thing has its tentacles all over the place. To get more info on removing b3d and other kaaza realted crap, go here

soup is good food

A warning rather than an expiration might be a better idea

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Don't make fun of me, I realy did say it first.

I agree with the parent post!

(any movie that uses the whole of "Inna Godda Davida" in it must be cool!
Always remember Philip Taylor Kramer died for your sins!
"O.J.Simpson is innocent,they did it. ")

And you even have more of this? I can't believe that people like you exist.

I'll have the last laugh on slashdot

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