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Uh, then what's it for?

It's not a copy-restriction flag. It's this kind of flag.

I think you meant towing.

Well you're wrong. In fact, I think he's the first person I've ever seen use the phrase properly in a Slashdot post.

~Philly

I LOVE TO EAT MY WIFE'S SHIT (Score:5, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday September 23, @08:43PM (#7039414) About once a week I give my wife a rim job. From time to time, she's just taken a shit and hasn't wiped well before I do it. I've taken a liking to this and don't know if I should tell her. What do you think? Starting Score: 0 points Moderation 4 60% Insightful 40% Interesting Extra 'Karma Bonus' Modifier 1 (Edit) Total Score: 5 Re:I LOVE TO EAT MY WIFE'S SHIT (Score:3 Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday September 24, @03:04AM (#7041361) I concur. Eating your significant other's feces is very exciting and can bring you deep into a submissive state. You might want to introduce the subject of a FemDom relationship to your wife. I did this with my girlfriend and life has never been better. I've signed the slave contract with her and now she owns everything including me. Brown showers happen once a week and golden showers are nightly. There is nothing more satisfying than my girlfriend's sweet golden nectar in my mouth and on my face. For more info on the whole FemDom relationship angle of brown showers, visit this site and read some of the true stories and the Q and A section. Elise Sutton discusses the topic quite nicely and allows for lots of approaches. This is the way that the world is shaping up. Women are more in charge every passing year and their superiority over men will eventually be the mainstream way. I can't tell you how much more sexual pleasure I get from orgasm denial and cuckolding. My girlfriend hasn't had sex with me in two months, but she fucks her new lover every week. Sometimes I am present, and other times she locks me in my cage in the basement leaving only an intercom on so that I can hear her moan with pleasure as she gets fucked. I know a lot of this probably sounds odd to most folks here, but this really is an awesome way of life. Check it out and comment folks!

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I concur. Eating your significant other's feces is very exciting and can bring you deep into a submissive state. You might want to introduce the subject of a FemDom relationship to your wife. I did this with my girlfriend and life has never been better. I've signed the slave contract with her and now she owns everything including me. Brown showers happen once a week and golden showers are nightly. There is nothing more satisfying than my girlfriend's sweet golden nectar in my mouth and on my face. For more info on the whole FemDom relationship angle of brown showers, visit this site. Elise Sutton discusses the topic quite nicely and allows for lots of approaches. This is the way that the world is shaping up. Women are more in charge every passing year and their superiority over men will eventually be the mainstream way. I can't tell you how much more sexual pleasure I get from orgasm denial and cuckolding. My girlfriend hasn't had sex with me in two months, but she fucks her new lover every week. Sometimes I am present, and other times she locks me in my cage in the basement leaving only an intercom on so that I can hear her moan with pleasure as she gets fucked. I know a lot of this probably sounds odd to most folks here, but this really is an awesome way of life. Check it out and comment folks!

And the coolest thing is that these games were created by the users. They are not built into the game. Kind of like Frolf =)

Hopefully Worms3D keeps the same type of freedom, or better yet, embeds them into the game to prevent cows =)

Ah yes, I too have the fond memories of old Apple mice, although my first was on an Apple IIE it did also come with "mousepaint" which -- looking back -- couldn't have been much fun on my 13" television screen and Epson MX-80 dot matrix printer.

As for right now, both at work and at home, I use the Logitech Cordless Optical Trackman . It has neat "forward" and "back" buttons for web browsing that even work fine in Linux. But of course I've always been a bit of a trackball fan. Several case studies claim that trackballs may be slightly more ergonomic because of "hand fit" issues and "reduced arm movement." I wonder what everyone else thinks about the whole trackball vs. conventional issue?

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Following Wil's example, I've translated this letter back into its native tongue. It sheds a whole new light on who this "Darl" person really is. :-)

By Darl McBride
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When I was in third and fourth grade, I read a lot of stories from "The Three Investigators" Series.

One of the stories (I don't remember which) was about a haunted house. The secret behind this haunted house, was a huge pipe organ which had been tuned to subsonic frequencies, to apply this very effect (making people afraid, etc).

The first of these books was named "The Secret of Terror Castle". Perhaps that is the one I remember. It was published in 1964.

I seem to remember that it had "Presented by" Alfred Hitchcock on the bottom right of the cover - he wrote a preface or something and someone else wrote it....

The series was envisaged and written by Robert Arthur who presented the idea for endorsing by Alfred Hitchcock. After his death, further books were written by other authors, and after AH's death the character of Hector Sebastian was written in to fill the gap.

I recently read up on them after reading them when I was younger, some excellent fan sites are here, here and here.

Gareth

I seem to remember that it had "Presented by" Alfred Hitchcock on the bottom right of the cover - he wrote a preface or something and someone else wrote it....

The series was envisaged and written by Robert Arthur who presented the idea for endorsing by Alfred Hitchcock. After his death, further books were written by other authors, and after AH's death the character of Hector Sebastian was written in to fill the gap.

I recently read up on them after reading them when I was younger, some excellent fan sites are here, here and here.

Gareth

If, by sacrificing the entire HF radio spectrum, we could actually wire every home in the USA for economical broadband Internet access, I honestly wouldn't oppose it.

While this might be sensible if all that was affected was amateur radio hobbyists I might agree too. But since HF is still an important backup and emergency communications infrastructure I do not agree with such an idea. Sure it has lots of downsides compared to other high-tech solutions. But those high tech solutions are expensive and require extensive infrastructure to be work. But you start cutting trans-atlantic or trans-pacific cables, how quickly and how well can satellite communications scale to handle the increase traffic load? Space weather affect satellite communications, or did you forget about
Galaxy IV malfunction as well as countless other satellite problems (e.g. AO-40).

I will say that I don't believe that power-line distribution makes sense for broadband Internet.

I think you are right, this will be more important than HF users (especially amateur radio operators) complaints. I doubt there is little to no advantage of BPL over other broadband methods, such as various DSL technologies (such as G.lite), cable modems, and DSS like DirectPC.

1. Dean is not anti-war, he's just anti-"pre-emptive", sexed-up war.

2. I don't think Bush would get 500 electorals against anyone right now. Economy? Middling. Unemployment? Yikes. Bad news from Iraq & Afghanistan? More yikes. Pissed off soldiers (who's pay Bush is cutting)? Very bad.

Bush is very much in danger of losing the big Middle, unless we have another crisis, which is the only thing that keeps his approval ratings up.

Well, for one thing, it'll actually be "Digital".

My mom, despite a reasonably technical background, bought a Kodak PLUSDigital camera -- which sounded to her like a "disposable digital" camera. In reality, it was simply a standard, film-based camera with CD-ROM processing included in the price. Of course, the price was several buck$ higher than she would have paid for a regular disposable camera.

I don't think she's gotten around to developing the pix yet, so I don't know how well the concept worked.

Meanwhile, Ritz' idea sounds like a winner:

* I can get rid of the obvious "oops" pix, even without the LCD.

* I'll be able to afford $10 bucks a pop a lot easier than $200, for the small number of pix I take.

* Developing onto both CD and 4x6 hard-copy is better than I could do with a $200 camera, anyway.

* By the time I get serious about taking digital pictures, someone on Slashdot will have hacked together an interface. If they can hack Furby, a "simple" digital camera can't be that tough.

By the way, guys... when you hack the interface, don't forget the IR mods!

On the one hand, there's a faction trying to eliminate the penny in the US because it's nearly worthless (nothing costs <$0.05 anymore). On the other hand, people are trying to figure out how to charge micropayments on the net. Aren't these opposite approaches to the same problem?

It seems to me that when a commodity gets cheap enough, people are willing to pay a flat fee for nearly unlimited usage. The most obvious example is phone service. Do you think people will ever really want to spend their money in tiny increments? I don't.

This station wagon has a significantly reduced ping latency. Routes are still a problem, though....

Soko

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A similar finding occured in Florida in the late 17 century. Back then (like today), people could not decide if it was a whale or an octopus. You can take a look at some pics here

Discontinuous. The square wave is a good example of a function that can't be made by adding sinusoids. The Fourier series will add to a function with about 9% overshoot in infinitely thin, yet zero-energy spikes. An interactive demo of this "ringing" effect can be found here (set a to zero). More background is here.

Fourier's theorem actually states that almost any periodic function can be expressed as a sum of sinusoids.

yo.

Well... At least some people with nerdy-looking watches [alanwatch.homestead.com] are getting sex...

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I considered moderating this as overrated, but thought it would be better to explain why I thought so.

Being able to have two carriers worth of data can provide a geometric increase in capacity; ...

The post makes it sound like it can double almost any existing signal, when in fact QAM (or other techniques combining amplitude with either phase or frequency such as OFDM) has existed in most modulation methods for a long time. Its a rare exception where data is being modulated strictly through AM or FM.

... it would only have to use one frequency for both left and right channels unlike our current analogue sterophonic FM that uses 2 channels).

Stereo FM doesn't use two separate frequencies. They modulate R+L as mono on the on the baseband. Then they modulate R-L above that. Then the modulate the baseband carrier using standard FM. A mono receiver works as normal, since it just cuts off the IF frequencies above a certain threshold. However, a stereo receiver regenerates the stereo separation by recovering those additional higher frequencies. Here's an explanation with graphics.

Sandra Keller aka Sultaana Sultana Freeman

Not Sara Freeman, sorry, it is: Sandra Keller, who married Mark Freeman, aka: Abdul-Maalik Freeman, now she is Sultaana Freeman, aka, Sultaana Kaiana Myke Freeman.

Like all cults, Islam greets members. She used to be Christian. She was photographed for a mug-shot for abusing foster children. Islam makes people beat children. Anyways, her mug shot.

See the cycle of abuse and cultism... Looks like the kids would have been better off raised Christian so they didn't have to suffer abuse in their formative years.

Murder supporter, death monger, killer of God's Creation, Agent of Satan, False Prophet, Hubris laden psychotic cultist bastard. We will find you and catch you in the act of wrong doing and then make your familiar with law, order and the mores of productive, progressive society.

The Point would be Talk Radio. It's huge. In fact it's bigger than huge.

This guy already has people paying him for the privelege of listening to his show "24/7." He maintains a 2-week archive.

It's not about the music (is there anyone left who listens to radio for the music?), it's about the gab. This guy's already got one of these radio Tivo's, and has been promoting it's use on his website in his campaign against this guy. And everybody seems to take their cues from this guy, who now has his own nationwide radioshow too. I know as well that NPR audio archives are likewise very popular.

It's all huge, mostly absurd, and now available on-demand. Short term, it make take some money out of the pockets of the outfits that charged for access to their audio archives, but long-term it's gotta be a good thing for a genre that's just getting bigger (and more influential, rightly or wrongly) on a daily basis.

This is proof of what I always suspected: they are trading prisoners of war and civilians for alien technology. There was talk of this stuff since they found some of it in the Roswell space craft!

Oh well then, I guess the American revolution was started by "extremeists" as well considering 20% percent of the colonists actively opposed independence, and probably an equal number were passively loyal, and a further 30% couldn't have cared less.

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- CreationLTD

Dispite what some people say, prayer should be used.

Find out more here.

Phoenix probably did not officially announce the connection between their spiffy BIOS and the similarly-named Mozilla project. To do so would have announced their project before it was more than vaporware. Sometimes companies slip up and make *ethical* business decisions...

To understand what happened and why, look at the two related events: the lawsuit and the BIOS release. Add some logical speculation, observation, and assumption: Phoenix Technologies wanted to name their brower the Phoenix Browser (speculation). Phoenix Technologies did not (AFAIK) sue the Project Phoenix, the capital of Arizona, Phoenix Contact, or any immortal flaming birds(observation). Phoenix Technologies is staffed by humans(assumption). Humans tend to be jealous and illogical(observation).

Stir until mixed. Bake until done. Remove conclusion from head. Mine looks like this: Phoenix Technologies planned to release a browser under the name 'Phoenix Browser', but someone beat them to the name. Rather than pick a different name, they convinced themselves that they had more right to the name than the other guy. Then, they send hordes of marauding Vikings to pillage and plunder. Or something like that.

Was there a connection? Probably. Will they admit it? Probably not. Am I done ranting? Reply hazy; try again.

Saint Brieux Saskatchewan Canada, has only 500 people and manufacturing facilities including:
metal forging of ag parts at my work and rotational plastic molding and at my neighbours employer "Bourgault is adding almost one acre of manufacturing area. This expansion will provide room for a Tanaka heavy plate laser that can cut up to 1¼" plate steel with unbelievable precision. The laser will be the first of it's kind in Canada. The expansion, along with new welding robots and other CNC equipment implemented earlier in 2002, will allow Bourgault to increase total manufacturing output." Other cool stuff within 60 miles
Doepkers
and Schulte Sales and more lakes and golf.

Camping and a lake in town with fishing and a 9 hole golf grass green course. Free Tours, camping fishing and golf. Bring your tent, and book your vacation well in advance because our centenial is next summer!

Side note: A "bulky" V8 isn't any longer than a 4 cylinder, just a little wider. Think about it...

As proof, consider the V8 swaps that have been done into small cars such as the Fiero or even the Chevette. (My first car was an '80 Chevette...a bigger engine would've kicked ass. :-) )

Egad, this woman does like this book. No fewer than 13 reviews: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13 (repeated here and here), 14?.

My first thought was the Denise M. Clark was a shill, but if she is, she's incompetant. By using the same name over and over, it becomes easy to track her down. My next thought was that she was a UFO nut trying to spread the word. Possible, but she has reviewed many other books.

My new theory is that she's desperately trying for fame through the unlikely technique of publishing reviews on as many sites as possible. (Check out her web page, "The on-line home of author/reviewer Denise M. Clark". Either that, or she's a space alien here to prepare us for use as slaves and food for her hideous grey masters. If it's the former, she's wasting our time. If it's the latter, I suppose that would could as news for nerds.

Other than that, knowing any amount of data about us could only be used to make generalizations about us

Or, it could be used against you when you started voicing the wrong opinions or hanging with the wrong people. Or more likely if you somehow became an annoyance to the wrong person. (The kinda guy that IN SOVIET RUSSIA would have good party connections)

Whatever. Read some Solzhenitsyn. He tells it so much better. Besides, it's a really good book.

This is how wonderful science is to animals.

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No, Junk Mail. The Music Industry has some experience with that, too. Getting a link to this beauty (Warning - OUCH!!!) in your e-mail inbox would be considered SPAM.

Soko

P.S. - Please pardon the SPAM in the link denegrating the SPAMmers. SPAMSPAMSPAMSPAMSPAMSPAM...

Here's the low latency patch for that, by the way. Might bring down the ping times. ;-)

Soko

So you think it's just coincidence, or lack of foresight or something, that LucasFilm is notorious for releasing not one, not two, not three, but *four or more* versions of each film to the home video market? The initial ones being downright crippled, then gradually getting better?

How about the fact that they had to scale back the number of merchandising tie-ins for AotC because there was so much press about how TPM was basically a 2 hour vehicle for cross-promotions of toys, ties, and KFC

His lifestyle, which you point out, actually argues my point: when people are greedy, they often *don't* have mansions, yachts, harems, etc, because it isn't about enjoying wealth, but rather accumulating it.

George Lucas definitely had some potential, but speaking in present tense, he's about as much of an "artist" as Brittney Spears -- he may be in complete technical control of movies, but he is absolutely a slave to public opinion when it comes to what to make, because he's greedy and the primary interest is in maximizing revenue, not producing quality movies. Sometimes it works in our favor (everyone hates Jar-Jar, we get less Jar-Jar), sometimes it works against us (must include a cheesy romance to capture the female demographic). That's par for the course in Hollywood, I know, but my point is that he's no exception... and that, with customer-abusive attitudes in video release and merchandising, he is actually one of the worst.

Cheers
-b

Actually, she was quite a cutie in her first Playboy photo shoot. No silicone. Miss Feb, 1990.

Check her out here. (Nope, not nude.)

Greetings, Brothers. Allow me to introduce myself. My name is Emmanuel Goldstien, and I, like yourselves, am I competent and relinquished programmer. However, my friends, it was not until a year ago until I realised that there was more to life than punching ASCII characters into the text editor of your choice. I had discovered Jesus. Now, let me provide a little background information about myself. I was once a devout Satanist and Communist. . I personally hated Our Lord more than anything on earth. My love for Big Brother used to exceed that of my own mother! In a nutshell, I was a God-hating Homosexualist Socialist Propagandist, valuing nothing but the satisfaction of the State and my own Sinful ways. Then, I was struck by a light. At the time, I didn't know what hit me -- all I knew was that I suddenly had found profound meaning in life. And from that moment on, I decided to devote myself to our Lord Jesus Christ. Now, I encourage you (that is if you want to go to heaven) to, right now, get up out of your chair, rip out your computer, throw it off of a cliff, and proclaim, "I love The Lord!". You will undoubtedly feel like a new person, and you will have no use for the mindless entering of text into godless machines. Thank you for you consideration, and God Bless.

I don't know why it is, but the moment American media gets hold of something, it turns it into bland, flavorless mush. Is it really so hard to come up with a half hour of entertaining television, devoid of filler?

Um, the Americans had this before the UK. Biohazard astounded the crowd by self-righting, a full two years before Rex's legendary backflip. Blendo tore opponents to shreds long before Hypnodisc came up with an inferior implementation of the flywheel weapon.

I think the main reason UK Robot Wars is so good as regards the action / bullshit ratio is that we have so _many_ robots to get through. There's simply no time for filler material. Anyone with a bit of mechanical ability can knock together a robot, and getting it down to London is hardly a transcontinental commute.

Personally, I just want to get hold of a video of Razer on Battlebots. Their website brags like mad about that.

" I'm sure they're out there, but I don't personally know anyone who codes much client-side Java anymore"

Hey!

:)

Windows-only, but that's what we're talking about here. Write once, run anywhere my ass.