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Lovett also was the target of teasing. The classmates said he had been mocked for his bow-legged and stooped gait and his clothes.

My guess would be that over 75% of teenagers play or have played 'violent' video games at some point or another. I'm guessing but it feels more or less right. That's probably millions-- tens of millions-- of video game players in the US and across the developed world. Are they all potential killers? Of course not. To argue so would involve twisting statistics around in a 'war on drugs' fashion-- maintaining that marijuana is a 'gateway' drug, which simply isn't true. Very few users of marijuana go on to do harder drugs. But many that do harder drugs have smoked pot (and continue to do so), which is what alarmist conservative organizations, in a thorough betrayal of libertarian roots, emphasize in order to restrain civil liberties.

But there is simply not enough of a correlation to warrant limits on video games (a form of free speech IMHO anyway) even *if* in specific cases a causal argument *might* be made. The point is that you can't do sociology by anecdote only. By all rights, statistically, toasters are probably deadlier than video games anyway.

Given the utter lack of *any* systematic correlation between playing video games and engaging in violent, anti-social behaviour, perhaps we should look at other possible causes, Like the bullying and teasing which goes on in every schoolyard, every day, hmmm? I am convinced that the solace this kid found in video games was a result of being called a 'fag' constantly, of being beaten up for lacking social grace, for failure to heed the intricate, consumerist protocol of North American teenhood. Any 'obsession' with video games was a symptom and NOT the problem.

Bah, sheer sensationalism and a refusal to look at root causes-- of course this seems to be a recurrent theme these days.

Reminds me of that Onion article--Columbine Jocks Safely Resume Bullying. It's a sad indicator of the state of our civlization when we learn nothing from tragedy, but that's another topic entirely.

iopha

http://www.google.ca/search?q=cache:mkRx2aiBJC0J:w ww.cybersource.com.au/users/conz/linux_vs_sco_matr ix.html+SCO+linux+matrix+site:cybersource.com.au&h l=en&ie=UTF-8

(thats all one line)

Systematic provocation-provocation

If these kids are given no choice other then to "take it", you can expect these occurrences. It's systematic provocation with no civil solution. Whether undertaken by on behalf of the government, investigators, corporations, or peers it's almost a policy for few. There is genuine harm, and there are laws to address provocation, slander and incitement. The courts do recognize loss of income and pain and suffering.

In the movie 28 Days, a virus causes those infected with it to turn into killers. It turns out that there is an amoebic parasite called T. gondiithat actually manipulates the behavior of its intermediate host, the rat, to reach its ultimate target, the cat. Rats become infected with T. gondiii by eating infected beetles or worms. Once infected, the rats lose their fear of cats and become aggressive towards them and thereby becoming dinner for the cat. The parasite is then passed on to the cat where it reproduces in the cats brain but does not appear to change any of the cat's behaviours. After a time, the parasite leaves the cat via its feces where it is picked up by bettles and worms and the cycle starts again. The scary thing is that all mammals are susceptible to infection by T. Gondii, however for now it appears that the amoebas can reproduce only within members of the cat family.

So while there are infections like rabies that cause madness, it appears T. Gondii only affects the select behaviours in rats it needs in order continue as a species. There are societies where people eat cats and/or rats. I wonder how long it will be before T. Gondii evolves to affect humans?

You sir, are proof that just because you live in a place doesn't mean you know fuck-all about what is going on there. It's called due diligence, try it before you put your foot in your fucking mouth.

Conformity

Off topic shmoff topic. Quit being so rabid about it. As far as I see it, the issue is unfair competition and the environmental waste associated with a disposable society. Don't you think maybe we should be more concerned with toxins and landfill than the extra $20 it costs you to print a bunch of sh1t you found on the internet?

And it's not very hard. this search gave at least 10 pages of hits.

They still do make those keyboards, but they're not particularily cheap. Check out the Fujitsu 4725/4726 models. Heavy, clicky, and enjoyable. They have Windows keys, unfortunately, but it's almost impossible to get around that these days.

Fujitsu's 8xxx models are the cheap ones, do not mistake them for the 4xxx series, as they are nothing alike. The 4xxx models are still readily available, I've had no trouble finding them locally, and they're in plenty of places on the net (Google or Froogle for them).

Actually, a properly formatted search gets you 36,500 results for Monty Python and spam. :)

• Spam Museum
• The Official SPAM Home Page
• Spam Carving Contest
• Amazing and Fabulous Spam Site
• Uncle Mikey's House of Spam
• The Ultimate SPAM gift catalog
• Bob Bragner's "Hormhell" page
• Uncle Kevin's Spam page
• Spamland
• on and on...

Certainly. And of course there's always Google Groups

My comments were based on experience. I'm a software developer that has worked on several commercial applications over the years, for a variety of markets. What is your commentary based on?

Every piece of software has a life-cycle, and version releases are just levels of maturity until the project is no longer worth the time and effort to put into it.

Whether or not you practice good release management has nothing to do with this fact. Those goals you speak of are for releases so that you can keep a lid on creeping featurism and not introduce new regressions. There is rarely, if ever, a penultimate and overarching engineering plan for any significant software project. Most developers aren't even totally sure what the project will do, or who will use it. It is the implementers that often drive most of the development changes over time. Take a look at this slide. Note the "maintenance" bullet. That is where the majority of your time and money is spent on a software project over the whole of it's life.

Software development lifecycles and management practices are well known. You might want to check here and here as well. Note that these are CompSci theories. In the Real World, software development rarely works out so cleanly.

In summary:

• Software release management practices insist on version releases and sometimes redesign of fundamental aspects of the project. This is expected and useful.
• All projects have a life-cycle, and reach the end of their useful life (in terms of maintenance). At this point they are grandfathered.

The second item does not indicate anyone "sucks". It's a fact of software development. Some projects have a longer life, some very short. It all depends on what it does, and who is using it.

You have to actually *commit* a crime before you arrest people.

Conspiring to commit a crime is a crime as well. If you don't believe this, head down to your local donut shop with your friends and plot out plans for robbing an armoured car: About 15 minutes later you'll be in cuffs, though probably ignorantly claiming that you've done nothing (yet). Plenty of people get arrested before they've actually committed the crime.

As a sidenote, if you carry a weapon with the provable intent of committing a crime with it, you can be charged. If you have burglary tools, such as a screwdriver, and you're sneaking around someone's house at night, you can be charged.

Conspiracy to commit

Once again, your pomposity and ignorance belies you. You know absolutely nothing about America. You've linked to virulently anti-American and Anti-Semetic sites before, citing them as "credible, unbiased sources" and "another perspective to consider". You've chosen to respond to the testimony of LittleLebowskiUrbanA's coworkers against your claims that Muslims are subject to mandatory interrogations with labels of ignorance and obliviousness. I'm sure you'd love to believe so, but the testimony of LLUA's coworkers > contrived black-helicopter stories. Incidentally, are you aware of the significant drop in support for your PM in response to his increasingly anti-US stance? (Linked to the google cache of Clarinet for viewing convenience, as the story's now expired from their archives, meaning that you'd have to be a subscriber to view it)

Maybe my next PDA will look like the communicator in Earth Final Conflict (www.efc.com) ;)

Here is a pict of the communicator

-- Ben (mox@mox.ca)

• SCO says it's their code in the Linux Kernel
• They say it's IBM's fault.
• Not only that, but it's code written by IBM.
• SCO says they have the right to control release because it was once attached to an SYSV system
• They have also assured their (other) licensees that they stil own their code that they inserted into their versions of UNIX, it's just that SCO can stop them from distributing it.
• They say that the GNU license on the code is invalid because the GPL states that it can only be placed by the copyright owner
• But if IBM Still owns the code, and they're the ones who placed it, then the GPL is valid (It's just that SCO gets to sue IBM for releasing it withiout their say-so .. but subsequent users are still OK).
• SCO is still distributing Caldera Linux -- including kernel source.
• This means that they're distributing it under the GPL, with a GPL license on it and IBM (the owner of the code) has also explicitly released it... Seems like everybody in this loop has given their permission -- either explicit or implict.
• If their license is really this nasty (and they're ambushing customers with things like this), I expect that a lot of other businesses are going to abandon their Unix license as soon as they can.
• It's pretty unlikely that their long stretch claim to owing everything ever put into AIX is going to win.
• Some people now think that they're going to try and (essentially) blackmail people into paying them for any copies of Linux that didn't come direct from Caldera/SCO (even if it came indirectly from them).
• This whole mess places them in violation of the GPL and opens them up to some nasty copyright suits.
• Until this started, SCO looked like it was about to go bankrupt
• If this fails, not only will their old UNIX funding sources dry up, but nobody is going to want to buy Caldera, either. They could also end up with millions (billions) in legal bills.

If I knew when (not if) SCO's stock is going to tank, I'd issue a shell-sort order today.

Dave 'Kill a Cop' Cinege (aka Psychopath #3) --- Super Genius at Large The Oklahoma City Federal building bombing - Americas first response to government abuse http://www.psychosis.com/ **** FREE MIKE KEMP!! **** http://www.thnet.com/~deckard Libertarian Party 1-800-682-1776 http://www.lp.org/

Wow, she really does look like a lesbian!

Only kidding, any lesbian readers (hey, there has to be at least one on Slashdot, right?). My GF is practically a lesbian anyway (long story :P), so I know they can look very nice indeed.

Wow, "soveirgn citizen"? Has this guy never heard of the concept of a social contract (if you don't like the laws, you're free to leave, otherwise you gotta obey them)? No wonder he can't get a job, employers don't want to hire someone with a felony conviction which he probably does not disclose on job applications (despite the law that says you have to,) considering his insistence that it technically "didn't happen" (even though he was convicted.) This guy looks like a complete nutcase to me, though the fact that there are tons of postings about him on alt.activism.militia probably prove this beyond the shadow of a doubt anyway. He seems to me like someone who wants to give nothing yet get everything in return, and sorry bub, that ain't the way the world works. Well, I mean, he can always move to a cabin in the woods, but then he'd have to move out of his parents' house..

It is the same guy. He has been a nutcase for years. If I had realized that Dave 'kill a cop' Cinege was the force behind the Linux Router Project, I would have never used it. He was the first person I encountered on usenet that convinced me of two things:

1 - He is more than a little unstable.
2 - The internet can be a dangerous place.

Don't worry Dave, if you can't find work then someone, somewhere is holding a padded cell just for you.

It's the same guy. Look at the website advertised in the tag line of this message (https://www.psychosis.com/) then look at the contact email address on http://linuxrouter.org/ (dcinege _at_ psychosis.com).

Huh! he's right, and it doesn't seem like many folks were very happy with him.

Our CanIt anti-spam product has been doing it for quite a while.

4. Star in Playboy's "Women of the Internet" issue.

um, have you seen Ms. Rosen? I don't think you could pay playboy to print that...

mod me down as a troll if you wish...

BUT have you seen this Cow?!?!? she AINT photogenic

(not saying iam, but i know she aint!!!)

A little fat^H^H^H^H endomorphic to be an anchorwoman, don't you think?

"The natural transfer of genetic material from some phytopathogenic bacteria to plants has been established. For example, the symptoms of crown gall disease caused by Agrobacterium tumefaciens are due to the transfer and stable integration into the plant genome of phytohormone biosynthetic genes contained on a bacterial plasmid. The reverse process has yet to be demonstrated in a natural environment, however, numerous studies have attempted to establish its possibility."

- this site

This PDF gives a few examples, too. Not to mention Bacteria and Yeast.

Hereâ(TM)s a link : google hehe.

But seriously I canâ(TM)t see myself switching.

âoe... revitalizing MSN Search with its own algorithmic search technologyâ . Uh huh. Not quite the hand Iâ(TM)d choose to guide me through the dark unknown. Can we please see the algorithm?

Must be a great temptation to put a little english on a search. No thanks, I prefer my searches unspun. Well, not spun towards that big black hole over there anyways.

Last thing: Gurry said there are no "immediate plans" to change MSN's relationship with Inktomi

My interpretation of âoeno immediate plansâ is âoethis is a medium or long term planâ.

This is a great idea that someone should have come up with a long time ago. I also like how the author took into consideration the security conserns of such a cutter.

It might look like the browser war is over on M$ platforms, but the server war is not. Microsoft's only advantage in selling servers is the number of M$ browsers out there.

This makes absolutely no sense whatsoever. What advantage, whatsoever, do IE clients have in selling IIS server boxes? About the only thing that IE does that makes it a better client, or vice versa, in concert with IIS is challenge/response, yet if Microsoft was so focused on utilizing that advantage, wouldn't they have publicized the technology? Mozilla Firebird just added challenge/response, and I believe it's the first. You can imagine whatever altered reality you want, but the reality is that in a lot of showdowns, Microsoft technology simply comes out on top. Whether it's a shop going with SQL Server 2000, or IIS 6 with .NET, or Exchange server, if you delude yourself that Microsoft only wins because they have a browser lead then you really need to reassess your take on the world.

Adding the Mac share to the free software share, web sites may soon see IE use dip below 90%.

Indeed, just look at how the IE share is dropping. Oh, right, it isn't. Add that to the fact that Microsoft hasn't noticably updated their browser in some 3 years.

Your whole argument makes absolutely no sense in any case: If Microsoft was so dependent upon their browser lock-in, then wouldn't they put all their forces behind making the best damn browser in the Mac market, instead of just saying "Bah, go make your own. It really doesn't matter to us"? Of course your standard reply will naturally be that they just can't stand the heat, having only been the company that turned ship and dominated the browser market, both technologically and marketwise, virtually overnight. It is that sort of fictitious reality that makes so many misunderstand Microsoft.

I recall a discussion at lkml about the licensing issues with bitkeeper. Someone said that the future versions of your FS will have some version control built-in, and thus be a sort-of competitor to Larry McVoy's bitkeeper. Larry's comment was that if that happens, then you have to buy bk in order to use it.

You suggested that indeed version control is going to be in. Can you say more about these plans now, and the eventual conflict with bitkeeper.

Thanks.

I recall a discussion at lkml about the licensing issues with bitkeeper. Someone said that the future versions of your FS will have some version control built-in, and thus be a sort-of competitor to Larry McVoy's bitkeeper. Larry's comment was that if that happens, then you have to buy bk in order to use it.

You suggested that indeed version control is going to be in. Can you say more about these plans now, and the eventual conflict with bitkeeper.

Thanks.

...since you drink the diet stuff, the Aspartame might. If you want sweet, use the real stuff, not the chemical crap!

Amazing how much health info came up with that simple search -- the whole first page of the search were links to health warnings!

Ok, go on then:
Explain to us all why the scientology links were removed from Google.

You mean the Xenu.net links? That would be because the "Church" of Scientology has billions of dollars bankrolled and acted the part of the 800lb gorilla, tangling Google up in court for having them. Google, however, wised up and replaced all removed links after discovering that {GASP!} the Scientologists had "no right" (to quote myself) to have their link removed. You'll note that when you search for scientology, our friend Operation Clambake shows up, right there at the top of the listings (#2 position as of right now).

For details, you can read this article and lo and behold, we find out that the much questioned, right infringing, more-than-likely illegal (certainly un-constitutional) DMCA is at fault for the mix-up.

So, my dear anonymous friend, why don't you explain Scientology for us?

It looks like SearchKing used to spam. Are you sure you want to try that here? (Of course, this is trusting a DejaGoogle search... :^)

No sweat: 4294967279 * 4294967291

Everybody knows, that the best tool for factoring numbers is google:

http://www.google.ca/search?q=18446743979220271189

Well, apparently both, according to the same page you linked.

The Oracle dev position is for corporate financials, whereas the MySQL is for Technical Web Applications, whatever that means (maybe data mining).

They also have another position with MySQL experience mentioned on the same page.

Well, apparently both, according to the same page you linked.

The Oracle dev position is for corporate financials, whereas the MySQL is for Technical Web Applications, whatever that means (maybe data mining).

They also have another position with MySQL experience mentioned on the same page.

I can't find any contrete info.

At least not on the internet.

Nein for google.

One EXTREMELY LAME hit from deja. Surprisingly, the sig is identical.

Until you show some credentials (as in a link to nintendo's site, with a page with AT LEAST your name on it), you don't exist.

In fact, it appears your department doesn't exist.

Heck, where's your thesis, at least?

I find it neat, though, that you went from being Head of New Technology Research at SEGA straight to being Head of New Technology Research at Nintendo. More amazing, though, is that both companies have exactly the same departments!

More interesting:

<sgupta@research.sega.jp>:
Sorry, I couldn't find any host named research.sega.jp. (#5.1.2)

Look, provide me a page at nintendo.co.jp with your name on it, and everything will be sorted out.

Otherwise, this is:

Bill Gates,
Microsoft Founder
Redmond

Signing off.

At least not on the internet.

Nein for google.

One EXTREMELY LAME hit from deja. Surprisingly, the sig is identical.

Until you show some credentials (as in a link to nintendo's site, with a page with AT LEAST your name on it), you don't exist.

In fact, it appears your department doesn't exist.

Heck, where's your thesis, at least?

I find it neat, though, that you went from being Head of New Technology Research at SEGA straight to being Head of New Technology Research at Nintendo. More amazing, though, is that both companies have exactly the same departments!

More interesting:

<sgupta@research.sega.jp>:
Sorry, I couldn't find any host named research.sega.jp. (#5.1.2)

Look, provide me a page at nintendo.co.jp with your name on it, and everything will be sorted out.

Otherwise, this is:

Bill Gates,
Microsoft Founder
Redmond

Signing off.

At least not on the internet.

Nein for google.

One EXTREMELY LAME hit from deja. Surprisingly, the sig is identical.

Until you show some credentials (as in a link to nintendo's site, with a page with AT LEAST your name on it), you don't exist.

In fact, it appears your department doesn't exist.

Heck, where's your thesis, at least?

I find it neat, though, that you went from being Head of New Technology Research at SEGA straight to being Head of New Technology Research at Nintendo. More amazing, though, is that both companies have exactly the same departments!

More interesting:

<sgupta@research.sega.jp>:
Sorry, I couldn't find any host named research.sega.jp. (#5.1.2)

Look, provide me a page at nintendo.co.jp with your name on it, and everything will be sorted out.

Otherwise, this is:

Bill Gates,
Microsoft Founder
Redmond

Signing off.

Check out this story for a better idea of the numbers.

I'm collecting prior-art for this.
If anyone has anything they think is relevant, please email a copy to prior-art@spamwolf.com

The relevant stuff (what I consider relevant) is being posted at http://www.spamwolf.com/patents/

The best candidate so far (IMO) is this post to news.admin.net-abuse.usenet on 1996-11-17.
I'd really like something prior to 1996-08-26 though.

I'm looking for anything prior to 1997-08-26 that;

compares the sender's address to a list of accepted senders; (friends list)
-and-
sends a challenge if the sender's address is not contained in the list
-and-
the challenge is designed to be answered by a person and not a machine.

-- this is not a .sig

>Cars with ABS brakes, by definition, do not leave skid marks.

The definition of ABS is ani-lock braking system, not anti ? skid-system.

They still leave marks. Here's an offcial opinion (main site seems down right now, sorry).

Also handy in that link: Calculating speed from skid marks.

An absolutely priceless article title. One of many that can be found on the iLoo here.

... since you seem to want to talk about illegal Bowel Disruptors.

Vortex.

1:45 ride time. Not high, not especially fast...but it's a hell of a lot of fun.

Dude, whatever happened to your SMELL-O-VISION research?

If we had it set up with Slashdot, it would make it easier to smell the bullshit.