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This is far from being surprising, given that canadian was sent to Syria by US authorities and tortured there for a year, thanks to the "Patriot" "act".

Telus's attempts at spam control remind me of the keystone cops. They hinder people who know what they're doing, and do *nothing* to stop spam.

Telus has had its netblocks (including the ones their mailservers are on) blacklisted many, many times - and their respons has been to simply ask for removal, without actually fixing the problem. When their mail servers got blacklisted by Spamcop, their response went something like "well, we're a large ISP, so you should remove the block."

here is an example of Telus stupidity in action. I've received the *exact same* response from them

They don't give out static IP addresses (even though they claim they do), instead forcing their customers to use DHCP for their mailservers (yes - even when the customers *PAY* for a static IP address) - and when the addresses change, the customers frequently find themselves in various blacklists.

If you think that Telus is responsible, you should do a google groups search for them in news.admin.net-abuse.email

That would be repetition.
Recursivity would be more like :

+1 Recursive
+1 Recursive
+1 Recursive
+1 Recursive

http://www.google.ca/search?hl=en&q=define%3Arecur sive&btnG=Google+Search&meta=

• Inside or outside the house? your post indicates outside; much harder.
• While your friend is at home or away for a period of time? If away, what is a reasonable time?
• You mention 'friend' so I will assume this is to be a harmless fun prank like the 'foiled' incident was. You want it funny and still have a friend in the end...right?
• Quality or Quantity? The foil was definitely quality for the length of time he had. Popcorn on the outside of the house would have to resort to quantity and therefore take shortcuts on the overall effect (more on that below).

Ok now the suggestions:

if you are bound on the popcorn here are a few shortcuts (I have used some of these in a previous 'incident'. If you are going for the exterior:

• Stay away from loose popcorn...weather can ruin yours and the neighborhoods day.
• Consider quantity over quality. If your doing this while your friend is inside you just need to make it appear to be covered in popcorn. Build prefab containers of popcorn that will be pressed up against every window and door. When he looks out he sees popcorn. Some of the popcorn could even be permanetly adhered to the container (perhaps the ones placed over the windows that don't open). Others you would want to place the 5 sided box against the opening (lets say a door) and then pour the popcorn in from the top (even then I would have a layer of popcorn attached to the inside of the box for looks. The boxes could be as deep or shallow as you want depending on how much effort you want to put in. I would suggest a minimum of 12 inches (30 cm) for good lookes and effect.
• Provide an emergency way out! Make the containers easy to bash through or even put a marked "red door" on the back.

If you are going for interior:

• The container idea still works for rooms. If the door swings out (into a hall) of a bedroom, attach a container (vapour barrior plastic and tuck tape to the frame works well) to the inside of the frame and fill it to the top from the inside of the bedroom. Exit via window and start on next room. For a better effect add a container on the window also that is hinged at the top so that it falls into place as you exit. Looks good from the outside also.
• Plastic vapour barrier works well to decrease the effective depth of large areas. Drape the plastic over furniture and tape it up to reduce the volume of rooms. Leave critical paths at their full depth. fill the rest with popcorn. Will still take a lot but less then the whole house at the same depth.
• You can even save a lot (quantity over quality again; quantity being: cover a lot of ground quickly) popcorn and time by using the container suggestions and plastic bag suggestion above for all doors and windows but on the inside. Think of the look on his face when he opens his front door and gets covered by an mound of popcorn. You will have to use the vapour barrier "bag" on the front door and make it about 6 feet deep to get enough of an avalanche effect without exposing the shortcut easily.

Ok that covers the popcorn. One other idea that came to me while reading the other comments... If your friend is going out of town for a few days (not to many as rain will ruin this one) convert his house into a gingerbread house. Prefab out of cardboard sides, doors, window frames, candy canes, candies, etc. You can get large pieced of cardboard from appliance shops for free usually. When your friend is out of town, attach your prefabricated panels to the outside of his house. Don't forget the eaves, etc. Just look a some good gingerbread house pictures for ideas. Attaching can be done with wire, stapels, clips that fit under vinyl siding (if the house has it), etc. Just don't get caught by rain or heavy wind.

More 'teste

No they didn't and yes the phrase existed before the OSI was founded and it was not limited to software.

1992
1991
1990 Speaking about BSD's open source policy

It also has a large amount of use relating to the access of Intellegence information. The OSI simply used a common term relating to source code that is accessable, they did not coin the term and in no way have any way to justify any claims regarding ownership or oversight of it, it is simply a discriptive phrase.

No they didn't and yes the phrase existed before the OSI was founded and it was not limited to software.

1992
1991
1990 Speaking about BSD's open source policy

It also has a large amount of use relating to the access of Intellegence information. The OSI simply used a common term relating to source code that is accessable, they did not coin the term and in no way have any way to justify any claims regarding ownership or oversight of it, it is simply a discriptive phrase.

No they didn't and yes the phrase existed before the OSI was founded and it was not limited to software.

1992
1991
1990 Speaking about BSD's open source policy

It also has a large amount of use relating to the access of Intellegence information. The OSI simply used a common term relating to source code that is accessable, they did not coin the term and in no way have any way to justify any claims regarding ownership or oversight of it, it is simply a discriptive phrase.

I also took another bus home every night, and that bus stopped at Nortel. Man, one day I was talking a bit too loud to a friend about how much I hate that company (this was in 2001, just before the biiiig crash (caused by these fools in large part)), and there were several people giving me all these looks ranging from 'you're a lunatic' to 'shutup! we are the best!!!1111 lol!11'

I don't take the bus anymore, and I've never heard of Nortel again except for the many investigations of the RCMP into their creative accounting.

I would really like to know why people are so easily fooled and sucked in by the facades put up by companies like Nortel and Matrox. My personal theory is that low self-esteem and the need for a personal belief system on the level of a religion is what makes so many people enshrine work and school with some kind of mythical aura.

"Oooooohhhh, we're MATROX, only the FEW can work here. What's your GPA and what color are your lips boy!"

What happened to this Matrox? Where personal drive and creativity and motivation were rewarded, not Mommy's financing of your degree?

I've figured out how to put my Ford engine, stereo, and electrical system into my Porche!

You'd think every household in the southern US has a ford engine, stereo, and electrical system on their porch.

The Japanese software industry works like a factories. Not much innovation, mainly production. I'll give them credit for their quality though. They produce way less bugs than western or Indian programmers for that matter. Read Michael A. Cusumano's book Japan's Software Factories: A Challenge to U.S. Management. Google has more.

(I am referring to the Sponsorship Scandal)

Don't dis Avi! He (with multiple authors) wrote a paper on how to automate a Slashdot snail attack (As in Spam King Al Ralsky.)

When you consider that they now have a store locator tool (local.google) complete with built-in mapping tools, it makes that recent acquisition all the more interesting. Will we soon have directions mapped onto live satellite footage?

• 4 + 2= 6
• answer to life the universe and everything= 42
• answer to life the universe and everything * 17 in roman numerals= DCCXIV

• 4 + 2= 6
• answer to life the universe and everything= 42
• answer to life the universe and everything * 17 in roman numerals= DCCXIV

• 4 + 2= 6
• answer to life the universe and everything= 42
• answer to life the universe and everything * 17 in roman numerals= DCCXIV

• 4 + 2= 6
• answer to life the universe and everything= 42
• answer to life the universe and everything * 17 in roman numerals= DCCXIV

You may choose to offer, and to charge a fee for, warranty, support, indemnity or liability obligations to one or more recipients of Covered Software.

Yes, it is incompatible with Linux, but why did you choose to put up this section? This section isn't incompatible. HP, Novell and IBM all offer all of the above for Linux right now.

Usenet died not long after Canter and Siegel.

*sigh* I remember the days where I could catch up on 50 newsgroups in under an hour, reading most of the threads too.

If I need information now, I hit google.

The Canadian google groups still has the old interface: http://groups.google.ca

Yay Canada is good for something after all! =P

agreed. 100%. these people have obviously not seen the hypothetical-documentary THREADS

They are uniquely beautiful plants, they live a long time, require little maintenance. They are also quite adaptable when it comes to amount of sunlight.

Of course, if you have some room and really want a conversation starter, grab yourself a "Laurier" (not sure of the english name). Its quite an impressive plant. Mine is 6 feet tall and lives with about 3 hours of direct sunlight+rest of the day in shade.

As a rule of thumb, avoid any plant which requires constant or high humidity, since the windows will most likely trigger variations (sunlight/aircurrent/heating) when you are not there (weekend/vacations). However, anything with a big, unexposed pot will be able to fare better ,even when the plant is in exposed conditions.

Pick your link (Umm, except that one about the Genesis flood...)

So what do you have against Paul Horn, (708) 482-0623, 6700 S Brainard Ave, Countryside?

Apparently the Shuffle may not be immediately compatible with linux tools already available. Gnupod apparently has trouble copying music to the shuffle.

According to the author of foo_pod for FooBar2000, there's the usual iTunesDB database, but also a new one, called iTunesSD. They haven't been able to completely reverse-engineer this one yet. It turns out it isn't sufficient to simply write to the iTunesDB database -- songs won't play.

Searches on Google show nothing about the iTunesSD database.

The best high school convocation speech I know of was given by Guy Kawasaki at Palo Alto High School in 1995 (no I wasn't there). I dig it out occasionally to read it. http://www.google.ca/search?hl=en&q=%22guy+kawasak i%22+palo+alto+high+school/

BACKGROUND:
Inspired by http://www.finnie.org/terabyte/, a few months ago I started a thread to discuss the idea of building my own 1.5TB storage array using software RAID50 to hold video files.

The main hitch keeping me from going ahead was that I had trouble finding eight 250GB drives at the price I wanted. Clearly, I wasn't thinking big enough; just before Christmas, I lucked out and bought nine Seagate *400GB* drives at $230 each (plus a $30 rebate on the first one) from CompUSA. I now have 3.6TB of raw storage sitting in a shipping carton in my apartment. Even with RAID 5 and keeping a drive as a spare, I'll have 400GB*8-400GB=2.8TB of space.

PURPOSE:
Video files (episodes of TV shows I already watch and enjoy, plus rips of TV shows on DVD sets I own). I'd like to build a MythTV system too, but the storage array comes first. No games.

PRIORITIES, in order:
* Stability. I'm very much in favor of build-right-and-leave-it-be as opposed to constant hardware tinkering.
* Minize heat/noise. I have a studio apartment.
* Price. I've already spent a fortune on the drives; I don't want to spend more on the rest than I need to.
* Performance. Not that I'm against a fast machine, but I know that a storage server doesn't need the latest-and-greatest in terms of horsepower.

PARTS:
Advice is always appreciated. All prices are from ZipZoomFly.com unless otherwise specified.

* Case: Antec SX1040BII, $92. I almost went with an Antec PlusView1000AMG ($72), but decided that a) the SX1040BII's 430W power supply might be enough for my purposes and b) if it isn't, a quality Antec supply for $20 that I can use someplace else is hard to pass up.
* Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-7N400 Pro2 Rev 2, $98. I'm building a system with *massive* amounts of PCI traffic, and I'm hoping a Nvidia-chipset board will prove more stable than the hordes of Via-based models out there.
* CPU: AMD Mobile Athlon XP 2400+, $89 at Newegg. The 2200+ is $10 cheaper but they're both rated at 35W. If there's a sub-35W processor that supports a 266-MHz FSB I'd like to hear about it.
* CPU heat sink: I'm lost here. I've had a good experience with a Thermalright SLK-800 I installed three years ago, but current Thermalright heat sinks all seem to specify Athlon 2500+ and up. What gives?
* CPU fan: A leftover Vantec 80mm fan. Loud but effective.
* Memory: One 512MB DDR PC3200 DIMM. $80 at Crucial. My leftover 256MB PC133 168-pin DIMMs aren't going to work with the motherboard, right?
* Power supply: Thermaltake PurePower 560W, $102. In case the Antec 430W supply mentioned above proves insufficient.
* Drives: Eight Seagate Barracuda 7200.8 400GB ATA drives plus one cold spare, $230 each at CompUSA without rebate; currently $230 each after $70 rebate. Lite-On DVD+-RW drive, $60-100. Leftover Maxtor 13GB ATA drive for booting.
* ATA controller: Two Highpoint RocketRAID 454, $87 each at Newegg. Unlike Ryan Finnie I am *not* planning on doing hardware RAID features; rather, I'm simply looking for high-quality ATA controller cards. If anyone can recommend high-quality non-RAID controller cards with four channels (or more) on each, I'd like to hear about it. For that matter, if four two-channel ATA controller cards are doable with my motherboard setup, I'd like to hear about that too.

So, what do y'all think?

Google has SafeSearch enabled by default for images, so you would have to explicitly turn it off in order to see adult images.

Not always. Searching for my wife's name with SafeSearch on, I get a NSFW image in the 3rd row. A scary one at that, too.

Obviously, that link may or may not be NSFW...

should move immediately for the case to be dismissed as a frivolous lawsuit.

Details on Jay's web site and Usenet discussions like this one

Here's a guess.

I doubt titan has gold, otherwise the Annunaki would have gone there on their way to earth. duhhhh!!!!

-- No one is immune. Microsoft Corp. Chairman Bill Gates discovered spyware on his personal machine not long ago.
-- yeah we know, it's called internet explorer

Dude, you gotta think BIGGER!

Sharemail fell into vaporware hell not long after that post; Email these days isn't very good for sending text messages, never mind binary attachments, what with all the spam ruining it.

RSS ended up being the ideal medium for this, instead of email. It uses DNS rather than crypto for authenticating sources, but that's usually good enough.

Signed torrent files can get pretty large for large payloads, as well, making them not only easy to block, but many email services would block them if they were too large anyway - already.

These days, I'm thinking we need a decentralized replacement for the original distributed search protocol - DNS.

It's nice to make a googlewhack, though!

--l2oto Decker

That's the one that by default, sends spam bounces to forged email addresses?

Whippersnappers! In my day we only had Godwin's Rule, and we liked it!

You're a geek. Learn how to post a clickable link! Click Here for a view of the grill...

1. Nasa.gov says "According to the big bang, the universe was created sometime between 10 billion and 20 billion years ago from a cosmic explosion that hurled matter and in all directions.".
2. Some guys at U Mich (GeoSci students?) say "About 15 billion years ago a tremendous explosion started the expansion of the universe."
3. Cambridge Cosmology says "About ten billion years ago, the Universe began in a gigantic explosion"

That's the first three results. How about Dictionary.com? "big bang [n.] The cosmic explosion that marked the origin of the universe according to the big bang theory."

So if I'm wrong in referring to it, in general and metaphorical terms (like the name "big bang" itself), as an "explosion", at least I stand in good company. So now that I've spent all this time defending my use of a single word, I can actually get to the relevant parts of your post (I don't mean anything personal by that, I promise ;)

I already admitted the error of attempting to tie an accelerating universe to problems with the Big Bang, I don't know why you wrote so much more about it, but thanks anyway, interesting stuff. I do find the accelerating universe a fascinating tangential subject. (If your response contains something along the lines of "the fact you think acceleration and the big bang are tangential to each other shows your complete ignorance, etc etc" I will stop reading)

'The mathematics of the Big Bang model are easier to work with when the vacuum energy density is zero: the equations are simpler, and various things are easier to calculate . . .and physicists will always consider the simplest case first.'

Yes, and I believe that eliminating the "ZPE" components because they complicated the equations has done enormous harm to our understanding of physics. (Similar to what happened to Maxwell's original equations when Heaviside butchered them)

I can tell you are a strong adherent to good experimental data (as am I)... a book I cannot recommend strongly enough to you is "The Field" by Lynne McTaggart. (Think I mentioned this in an ancestor post) It is chock full of recent experimental results concerning quantum physics and consciousness, from good solid double-blind placebo controlled studies. I am not given to superlatives, but this book will blow your

Yes they do. I am a canadian and when I goto http://www.google.com. It takes me to http://www.google.ca.

I never notice it. The web is the web no matter what "google" you search from. (Unless of course you set it to search in that country.

The Canadians have it for now.

The basic drive of the human is to reproduce, and since fags can't reproduce, they compensate by fucking even more and harder. It's just too bad there isn't a lightbulb over their heads and a caption that goes :"Gee, maybe if I grew up a little and talked to women, maybe I wouldn't need to nail this teenage boy's penis to a 2x4 to get sexually aroused?"

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I have clicked some of them, and indded some provide pictures of various random places, like shopping center, bureau, or parking lot. But I've noticed that some of them are asking for a password, or simply refuse to connect. Does it mean that admins had fast response to this issue? :)

And btw - slashdotting thousands of cameras around the world is really funny. Karma prize for a person that finds the most interesting places!

...You can walk over to the adult section and pick up some books there, too. Seriously: Ender's Game might be a fun escapist read for kids, but it's not even good as far as science fiction is concerned. And personally, I'd instead encourage kids to read Mein Kampf.

Date: 13 Jan 87 12:52:00 PST (Tuesday)
From: Schuster.Pasa@Xerox.COM
Subject: use of America for the USA

Yes be creative and pass the funnies along but please give credit where credit is due.

> the ... equivalent of chucking rocks over the freeway as a dumb prank

http://www.google.ca/search?q=rock+overpass+death

Fuck you and your dumb pranks.

Personally I think people should be sentenced for their actions, not for their actions combined with their good luck in not killing someone. The guy who drives home drunk and the guy who drives home drunk and runs someone over - what did they do differently? Nothing. But if the first guy is caught he gets his license taken away, if the second guy gets caught he gets 2 years in jail.

I think both of them should get 2 years in jail.

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Bungie had plans for simultaneous release of Halo on Windows and OS X to be followed soon by a Linux release. That all changed when Bungie was bought out.

Well, as usual, Microsoft demonstrates its magical ability to turn gold into feces. Buzz is, Halo 2 is a a big disappointment. Of course there's no need to trust just one opinion

The ring avoided detection in part by visiting stores at the busiest times, Portland Police Detective Don Hardin said.
Hardin, who declined to name the other chains at the companies' request, said other arrests could come as soon as next week.

The Canadian one, at least, is a fast online credit-card donation. You can print out your tax receipt right away. (hey, before midnight gets it in for this tax year, right?)

Or, there are plenty of other organizations that would be happy to receive a donation.

After all the horror stories of the slashdot effect ( google, wikepedia ), the slashdot has taken a turn around! I have never heard of a flash mob doing anything that is clearly good, but running some good projects like the Human Proteome Folding Project ( FAQs).

Fortunately, I'm not in that league yet, although I've noted a dramatic increase in the last few months. I'm more in the 300 a week category, but at the rate things are going...Thunderbird is doing a pretty good job nailing spam for me. It's catching around 80% currently, and I haven't had a false positive yet.

One thing you might want to consider for posting email addresses on your site is to encode it with javascript. It's not guaranteed (if a browser can decode it, a harvester can), but it significantly raises the bar. The one downside is that anyone with javascript disabled won't be able to get your address. That's getting more rare.

Here's a link to a handy encoder - just cut and paste the resulting javascript into your web page.

More information on the technique via this handy Google link.