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I mean this one.

He would be an excellent Doctor!!!

Let's keep the offtopic nitpicking going. North and South America are two different continents on two different plates.

while the exterior was often granite (now since removed) the basic, infill material was a lower quality limestone. i was going to leave the aspects of limestone as a exercise for the reader, but... second paragraph, third sentence.

This is why lots of spys used to use one-time-pads.

Believe it or not, there are still quite a few espionage-related radio transmissions - numbers stations - in use today, particularly by Israel (Mossad), the UK (MI6), Cuba, and others. The transmissions consist of lists of numbers being read aloud (the process is usually automated today rather than read by an actual person), and it is assumed that the lists are messages encoded through the use of one-time pads. While the stations still exist and still transmit, their schedules aren't nearly as regular as they were during the Cold War, and many of the messages are short and of the same length, most likely indicating that nothing's going on.

See also http://www.simonmason.karoo.net/page30.html, which has recordings of such transmissions near the bottom of the rather poorly organized page.

Use one-time pads.

I think the military definition of portable is if two people can move it.

Glad I could inform. :) A good link to the history of the American War of Independence can be found here.

Just out of curiosity, do you have any good links to history or information on the UK monarchy? I'm very curious about the effect, influence or public opinion of the Monarchy since the Glorious Revolution. I think a lot of Americans wonder (as I do), why have a Monarchy? And it would be interesting to learn more about it.

I think it's mostly a matter of tradition; most of the countries in northern Europe are still monarchies, and amongst the republics, both Germany and Finland were forced by the Allies to abolish their monarchies after the First World War.

In the UK, specifically, I think the experience with a republic after the English Civil War was important. The Commonwealth (as the republic was called) degenerated into the Protectorate, which was something of a military dictatorship under Oliver Cromwell, and which itself collapsed into chaos after his death (leading to the restoration of the monarchy). I'm not sure of any links about the monarchy specifically, but Wikipedia has a pretty good set of articles on the Civil War, Commonwealth, Protectorate, etc.

One reason many (including me) favour a monarchy is that it helps to keep the politicians in their place. Where as republican/presidential systems like the French and American tend to bestow all sorts of trappings of power and grandeur on political leaders, monarchies reserve these for monarchs (who have no power). This leaves a prime minister, for example, as more of 'first amongst equals' in Parliament. (A common complaint about Tony Blair is that he tries to be 'presidential', inflating the importance of his role.)

It's been argued by some that constitutional monarchies tend to be less susceptible to despotic rulers than republics, since it's difficult to establish a personality cult when there's already an hereditary head of state in the monarch.

An example of the above view is Germany in the 1930s, when Chancellor Hitler was able to take advantage of the death of President von Hindenburg to combine the roles of president and chancellor, making himself Führer. This would not have been possible if Germany had been presided over by a constitutional monarch, with a predefined succession, instead of an elected president.

That table looks like something from a pizza parlor circa 1985.

Lot of other stuff on this:
http://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,58193,00. html

and this one which is funny..

Cheers

The tool is among the operating system enhancements the Redmond, Wash., company is developing as part of its Security Center initiative to rebuff viruses, worms, trojans and crackers.

I thought Microsoft had already announced their plan for dealing with crackers.

The worst I ever used (probably the worst there ever was) was the Sinclair ZX81's plastic membrane. You know, from back when 16 kilobytes was called a memory expansion module and dinosaurs walked the earth.

As indicated here (It's the first paragraph)

It was about time Europe get itself a special effects industry capable of faking lunar missions. The USA perfected this technology in the late sixties and look how profitable the American movie industry is now.

Ah, a collection of "purest green", where upon they can craft it into a most enviable brooch which they may wear and we will all be amazed by its glory... ... ... ... or not.

CNN on NZ Sailor, Peter Blake (who was shot by pirates last year!)

I maintain that the first useful computer was this baby!

Even my Osbourne One only weighs twenty-four pounds.

Hemp paper is of exceptional quality and a tonne of hemp will make much more paper then a tonne of dead trees.

Here are some numbers stations links.