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(X) Nice try, assh0le! I'm going to find out where you live and burn your house down!

1835 73rd Ave NE, Medina, WA 98039
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But we already have our "lifestyle" computers in my house:

iBooks

my wife is a Realtor and when she's at home, she walks around the house with a headset phone on and her iBook goes wherever she does.

Every room she "hangs out" in has an iBook AC adapter in case she wants to plug in and of course the house has wireless internet.

Today I came home to find her in the kitchen, talking on the phone and the iBook was on the kitchen counter. Was she cooking?
Yes.
Was she using the iBook for a recipe?
No.

She was on Mapquest looking up directions for someone and explaining how to drive there while she made the pasta.

But- if I installed a computer in the kitchen would she use it?
NO.

She will also plop down in front of the TV and watch her Garden Shows with the iBook in her lap and also do Yahoo Crossword puzzles or browse the MLS listings at the same time.

She likes to move around and use: Phone, Computer, TV all at the same time and all in whatever room she wants to be in.

This is her current "lifestyle" and the tech is configured to suit it. I don't think she would go for an "all in one" device that locks her into one place.

However- if your "lifestyle" is one that involves as little moving around as possible, I can see these things being popular.

Here's where you can find Little Mumbai.

You will be surprised to see this, this and this.

You will be surprised to see this, this and this.

You will be surprised to see this, this and this.

There are still a few in Memphis, which is where it all started.

Uhm, FYI - Bremerton, WA != Seattle
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Bremerton is home to the Puget Sound Naval Shipyard which often has several large ships at port for a few years for repairs and outfittings. Which is where they think the 'disturbance' might have come from.

Exchange Names, where words such as PENnsylvania and PEnnsylvania-6 stand for the number 736 were common from about 1900 to about the late 1950's. NYC's PEnnsylvania-6 = 736, and BUtterfield-8 = 288 were both made famous by songs, literature and movies.
It is hard to find on the web good information about these custom Exchange Names in each areacode, except for this website's database. In 1955, MaBell created a simplified list.

Mac Refugee, Paper MCSE, Linux Wannabe

Exchange Names, where words such as PENnsylvania and PEnnsylvania-6 stand for the number 736 were common from about 1900 to about the late 1950's. NYC's PEnnsylvania-6 = 736, and BUtterfield-8 = 288 were both made famous by songs, literature and movies.
It is hard to find on the web good information about these custom Exchange Names in each areacode, except for this website's database. In 1955, MaBell created a simplified list.

Mac Refugee, Paper MCSE, Linux Wannabe

Here's a map...

Here's a map to Darl's house. DOS his driveway.

I've located the main culprits responsible for the spread of this worm. Here's a map to their location.

I'd prefer my reward as a cashier's check. I wish you the best of luck locating the offending lines of code that led to this outbreak. I look forward to their publication.

Maybe Mikey will stop fucking with his employees if they start fucking with him:

MICHAEL DELL
3400 TORO CANYON RD
AUSTIN, TX 78716

A handy map

Third of all, if you ARE looking to move, nobody wants to hire you for fear of SCO suing them for some imagined infringment.

Fourth of all, the only company that MIGHT hire you as a bit slinger is Microsoft.

Maybe not. Just 15 minutes/12 miles away is Novell, they might actually be interested. Of course, a SCO employee might become a Novell employee before long anyway...

Also, train stations generally are placed more conveniently than airports which by necessity have to be out of town.

You mean here?

Half an hour, driving.

Actually, its Armonk, NY.

My house is the grayish thing that is across from the beginning of the east-west street in the middle of the photograph. As you can see, our backyard has lots of trees and to my northeast is a church. We also have above-ground phone lines, which is clearly visible. Please keep in mind that this is the technological abilities of Mapquest and that which the USGS has made publicly available; this is not a military satellite using secret technology. We also had full flyover rights with Iraq, so the pictures could be taken from several thousand feet away rather than from inner space.

Then the weapons inspectors asked for some help and we refused.

Then the war began and we had no idea where anything was.

The question: Did we for some reason stop using our surveillance when the war started (somehow this seems unlikely); did we never have satellite technology capable of monitoring Iraqi activities (Note: here's a satellite image of my neighborhood; or did the president lie to the entire world?

Another guy saw the BSOD, and then subsequent rebooting and attempts to fix the system being displayed on a "jumbotron" type display on the Las Vegas Strip

Not quite the scale of a Jumbotron, but there's an outfit in Dallas' (wannabe) "Little Asia" area that has a large LED display, visible from I-35E, that frequently seems a bit messed up. Finally, one day, I found out why. The top right corner of a Windows 95-style error message was displayed... just the top of the exclamation point triangle, plus enough of the other graphic elements to make its origin pretty certain.

I think the outfit is called "EasyComm", but that name doesn't show up at that location at Superpages.com. They sell phones and security systems. Yeah, I'm *sure* to buy a security system from someone who 1) isn't listed in the phone book and 2) can't configure their own hardware.

Okay, yes, I fully admit that it's cool to map the internet in one day. Regardless...I think I hear about some internet every other day.

There's John Quarterman who's been doing it for years, and then the CAIDA visualization tools, and Cybergeography and the Internet weather report and damn maps and more maps.

Note to everyone: please stop mapping the internet.

Note to Hollywood: The audiences sitting in the theateres to watch your drivel are your meal ticket not the enemy.

My gut instinct is to agree with you wholeheartedly. On the other hand...

My (just now) teenage daughter had a friend over a couple of months ago, and the friend brought some of her DVD collection. This collection included Freaky Friday, Jason vs. Freddy, and other movies that were still at the box office! They were in cheap plastic cases with Photoshopped covers, and had no "extras" -- you put it in the player, and the movie starts. Such as it was... it was obvious from the sound and picture that someone made the DVD from a camera on a tripod in a theater, or something.

So we know that:

* On one hand, someone was able to set up a tripod and tape the film without getting chased out by some theater owner. That's the pirate that the film industry should be going after, and they already *know* they're on the wrong side.

* On the other hand, there's education that needs to be done on the consumer side. I had to explain to my daughter and her friend why the movie we were watching was of such poor quality, that it was illegal (for good reason), and that we would *not* be buying our own copies of these flicks.

By the way, the girl (or more accurately, her mom) got these gems at a flea market in the no-mans-land between Dallas and Grand Prairie. You can go there if you like (here's a map), but I strongly recommend you brush up on your Espanol first. And you might want to get some moves from Jackie Chan, too... it's a tough audience.

You can report map corrections here and driving directions problems here.

You can report map corrections here and driving directions problems here.

look it up-- the first time anyone figured out "hey, ANFO blows up!" a transport SHIP full of ammonium nitrate bags had become contaminated by fuel oil.

I did look it up, and here are some of the basics:

* The initial explosion, on April 16, 1947, involved a French-owned ship full of ammonium nitrate explosive left over from the war. It was to be recycled into fertilizer. They knew it was explosive, but there were none of our modern regulations on handling it.

* The ship caught fire early in the morning, but the cargo didn't explode until 9:12am. It took with it most of Texas City's firefighters and firefighting equipment, destroying the the entire dock area as well as 1000 homes and businesses.

* Also at the dock was *another* ship full of ammonium nitrate. Inevitably, it caught fire as well. When it exploded 16 hours later, there were no firemen left to combat the blaze.

* At least 600 died, with fewer than 400 identified. Many of the dockworkers were undocumented, untraceable migrant workers.

Sources:

The Handbook of Texas Online has the facts & figures.

The Houston Chronicle's special report on the 50th anniversary, with pictures and personal stories.

MapQuest map to help you find your bearings.

Silly Howard J Strauss of 205 87 Prospect Avenue Princeton, NJ. I wonder how many calls you will receive tomorrow on your phone number of 609-258-6045. Your silly antics and sophomoric analogy will surely enrage many who have dedicated their time to that which they love. I wonder how many email's you will receive at your address of howard@Princeton.EDU I wonder how many will visit the school website running apache in search for more words of wisdom coming from someone of your power.

It's too bad actually that you feel this way. The free software community could use the expertise that you must bring to the table at Princeton. Take for example your web programming skillz and your ability to use the export feature of Microsoft Power Point to create a stunning web presentation. You will be receiving an email from me shortly asking where to sign up for your "Putting Your Stuff on the Web" Seminar, I am sure it will be well worth whatever fee you charge. I only wish I were on campus at Princeton to take one of your "Lunch and Learn" seminars, like this one on creating your very own PDF forms! Last, but certainly not least, I am amazed by your grasp of web friendly concepts such as FORMS, I will bookmark this page and reference it often!

Love,
Another who lives in a glass house.

Since right now, I'm now living north of Aurora?

This is what you want, now have a really good look at that campass : MapQuest

While I realize that your knowledge about your neighbours is on a par with that of a autistic goat, one hopes that you are at least aware that Montreal is not a part of the good old USA, and indeed is a part of a foreign country: Canada.

Understanding that Americans, unlike the rest of the world, belive that their laws should have extra-territorial applicability, I can see how you might want to apply Patroit or DMCA to the actions of Canadian citizens in Canada.

That being said, and with the knowledge that Canadians are notoriously polite and friendly people, I can only say "I'm Sorry".

Sincerely,
A humble Canadian peon

There are two towns in Michigan named Podunk.

In any case, the little down is making the most of it. There isn't much else in the down. The only industry when I was there was a Pepsi bottling plant. That shut down and was converted later into an aluminum camper manufacturing plant. The only other thing in the town center is the firehall where they have linedancing on Friday nights. The firehall has a giant acorn shaped UFO replica on the top now. ;-)

For US-based addresses it's either MapQuest or Yahoo maps. I think they are very simular.

For Dutch maps (where I live), I use locatienet or Andes. The first one being slightly better.

There are way too many options nowadays. See Oddens for a collection of links, including to historic maps (not useful if you just want to find an address, only for the curious of heart).

if I type in an address in Los Angeles, Mapquest actually takes me to a page asking me whether I want California, Texas, or Puerto Rico. Is there a Wilshire Blvd in Puerto Rico?

• Disneyland
• Cape Canaveral and
• even places that don't officially exist

Seeing as how you are starting in Bloomington, IN your problem is simple: you must be an IU student. Therefore maps and map reading are very tough subjects. May I suggest you follow these driving directions to Purdue and all problems will be solved

MapQuest has the aereal photos feature. 'nuff said.

"The flag sucks."

http://www.mapquest.com

Ritzville!!?!!

He might as well run for mayor of Moses Lake!

At least it appears on a map!

"Dime Bar" is manufactured by Kraft foods, a company which has its origins in the USA in 1765. Advertised heavily on UK television with american accents.

Ah, one of those "let's market something as foriegn, even if it's not, really." Rather like Chop Suey, American invention, everyone thinks it's an oriental import. Here in the States (Or, at least, Colorado, California, Missouri, Massachusetts, and Texas (which is all the places in the States I've spent enough time in to justify a candy related purchase), there is no "Dime" bar. Dollars to donuts (or "Pounds to Pudding" if you like) it actually IS some confection that is made in the States, it's just marketed under a different name where you are.

The metric system was invented before I was born; I don't absorb shillings and hapennies through temporal osmosis.

Didn't say you did. In all fairness, I chose the wrong word. I meant to say "decimal," not "metric."

I think it was John Adams who got fed up with the... confusing system of English currency and fought tooth and nail with the other Founding Fathers to use the decimal system instead of whatever the heck it was England used. England didn't adopt a similar system until later.

I just don't understand why USians can't put numbers, e.g. 1, 5, 10, 25 on their coins (as digits, not in the unofficial but widely used local language) to explain their denominations.

The same reason Brits use "rubber" for eraser, the Japanese use "about" for casual, and Austrailians use "mate" for friend/casual aquantance/lover/etc. It's a cultural thing. We in the US grew up with the coins as they are, and can often tell you what change we have just by the feel of the coin itself. (Small with rough edges is ten cents, large with smooth edges is five cents, small with smooth edges is one cent, etc.)

"Dime Bar" is manufactured by Kraft foods, a company which has its origins in the USA in 1765. Advertised heavily on UK television with american accents.

Ah, one of those "let's market something as foriegn, even if it's not, really." Rather like Chop Suey, American invention, everyone thinks it's an oriental import. Here in the States (Or, at least, Colorado, California, Missouri, Massachusetts, and Texas (which is all the places in the States I've spent enough time in to justify a candy related purchase), there is no "Dime" bar. Dollars to donuts (or "Pounds to Pudding" if you like) it actually IS some confection that is made in the States, it's just marketed under a different name where you are.

The metric system was invented before I was born; I don't absorb shillings and hapennies through temporal osmosis.

Didn't say you did. In all fairness, I chose the wrong word. I meant to say "decimal," not "metric."

I think it was John Adams who got fed up with the... confusing system of English currency and fought tooth and nail with the other Founding Fathers to use the decimal system instead of whatever the heck it was England used. England didn't adopt a similar system until later.

I just don't understand why USians can't put numbers, e.g. 1, 5, 10, 25 on their coins (as digits, not in the unofficial but widely used local language) to explain their denominations.

The same reason Brits use "rubber" for eraser, the Japanese use "about" for casual, and Austrailians use "mate" for friend/casual aquantance/lover/etc. It's a cultural thing. We in the US grew up with the coins as they are, and can often tell you what change we have just by the feel of the coin itself. (Small with rough edges is ten cents, large with smooth edges is five cents, small with smooth edges is one cent, etc.)

"Dime Bar" is manufactured by Kraft foods, a company which has its origins in the USA in 1765. Advertised heavily on UK television with american accents.

Ah, one of those "let's market something as foriegn, even if it's not, really." Rather like Chop Suey, American invention, everyone thinks it's an oriental import. Here in the States (Or, at least, Colorado, California, Missouri, Massachusetts, and Texas (which is all the places in the States I've spent enough time in to justify a candy related purchase), there is no "Dime" bar. Dollars to donuts (or "Pounds to Pudding" if you like) it actually IS some confection that is made in the States, it's just marketed under a different name where you are.

The metric system was invented before I was born; I don't absorb shillings and hapennies through temporal osmosis.

Didn't say you did. In all fairness, I chose the wrong word. I meant to say "decimal," not "metric."

I think it was John Adams who got fed up with the... confusing system of English currency and fought tooth and nail with the other Founding Fathers to use the decimal system instead of whatever the heck it was England used. England didn't adopt a similar system until later.

I just don't understand why USians can't put numbers, e.g. 1, 5, 10, 25 on their coins (as digits, not in the unofficial but widely used local language) to explain their denominations.

The same reason Brits use "rubber" for eraser, the Japanese use "about" for casual, and Austrailians use "mate" for friend/casual aquantance/lover/etc. It's a cultural thing. We in the US grew up with the coins as they are, and can often tell you what change we have just by the feel of the coin itself. (Small with rough edges is ten cents, large with smooth edges is five cents, small with smooth edges is one cent, etc.)

"Dime Bar" is manufactured by Kraft foods, a company which has its origins in the USA in 1765. Advertised heavily on UK television with american accents.

Ah, one of those "let's market something as foriegn, even if it's not, really." Rather like Chop Suey, American invention, everyone thinks it's an oriental import. Here in the States (Or, at least, Colorado, California, Missouri, Massachusetts, and Texas (which is all the places in the States I've spent enough time in to justify a candy related purchase), there is no "Dime" bar. Dollars to donuts (or "Pounds to Pudding" if you like) it actually IS some confection that is made in the States, it's just marketed under a different name where you are.

The metric system was invented before I was born; I don't absorb shillings and hapennies through temporal osmosis.

Didn't say you did. In all fairness, I chose the wrong word. I meant to say "decimal," not "metric."

I think it was John Adams who got fed up with the... confusing system of English currency and fought tooth and nail with the other Founding Fathers to use the decimal system instead of whatever the heck it was England used. England didn't adopt a similar system until later.

I just don't understand why USians can't put numbers, e.g. 1, 5, 10, 25 on their coins (as digits, not in the unofficial but widely used local language) to explain their denominations.

The same reason Brits use "rubber" for eraser, the Japanese use "about" for casual, and Austrailians use "mate" for friend/casual aquantance/lover/etc. It's a cultural thing. We in the US grew up with the coins as they are, and can often tell you what change we have just by the feel of the coin itself. (Small with rough edges is ten cents, large with smooth edges is five cents, small with smooth edges is one cent, etc.)

"Dime Bar" is manufactured by Kraft foods, a company which has its origins in the USA in 1765. Advertised heavily on UK television with american accents.

Ah, one of those "let's market something as foriegn, even if it's not, really." Rather like Chop Suey, American invention, everyone thinks it's an oriental import. Here in the States (Or, at least, Colorado, California, Missouri, Massachusetts, and Texas (which is all the places in the States I've spent enough time in to justify a candy related purchase), there is no "Dime" bar. Dollars to donuts (or "Pounds to Pudding" if you like) it actually IS some confection that is made in the States, it's just marketed under a different name where you are.

The metric system was invented before I was born; I don't absorb shillings and hapennies through temporal osmosis.

Didn't say you did. In all fairness, I chose the wrong word. I meant to say "decimal," not "metric."

I think it was John Adams who got fed up with the... confusing system of English currency and fought tooth and nail with the other Founding Fathers to use the decimal system instead of whatever the heck it was England used. England didn't adopt a similar system until later.

I just don't understand why USians can't put numbers, e.g. 1, 5, 10, 25 on their coins (as digits, not in the unofficial but widely used local language) to explain their denominations.

The same reason Brits use "rubber" for eraser, the Japanese use "about" for casual, and Austrailians use "mate" for friend/casual aquantance/lover/etc. It's a cultural thing. We in the US grew up with the coins as they are, and can often tell you what change we have just by the feel of the coin itself. (Small with rough edges is ten cents, large with smooth edges is five cents, small with smooth edges is one cent, etc.)

Krispy Kreme is in Canada now but that will only serve to make the already plump Canadian chicks fatter. The only thing I'll grant Canada is universal health care but based on things I've heard, this only really works for minor procedures. Anything beyond a broken bone and they ship people down here to get looked after.

I live right next door to them. Its the Fashion Mall in Keystone At The Crossing.

Dak

Thomas Rocca, (770) 429-1956, 3840 Jiles Rd NW, Kennesaw, GA 30144 Yahoo! Maps MapQuest Thanks Google!

It's just the rural and residential streets it sucks at...

My wife and I are going to Novosibirsk in Siberia to adopt a child in a few weeks. I went to Mapquest to see where our hotel is in the city and to familarize myself with different parts of town. You can see what I got in the link, just try to zoom in a bit. :-) Can't expect them to know everything everywhere I guess.