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You forgot to mention the Red Green Show, TV at it's finest.

I'm a man. But I can change. If I have to. I guess. Keep your stick on the ice.

Red Green standing by.

They even get a look at the prototype itself, which is currently held together with duct tape.

Red Green would be proud!

The most important show to watch is the Red Green Show owing to news about duct tape. http://www.redgreen.com/

To do this, duct tape a DB4 HDTV antenna mounted on a boom stick to the outside of your house so it aims at your PBS station and stay up late.

Well, I don't think we need to take responsibility for the body chemistry of the likes of
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrick_J._Kennedy
However, the sage wisdom of Red Green does come to mind.
"Spare the duct tape, spoil the job"
http://www.redgreen.com/index.cfm?app=cart&a=view_episodes&seasonID=10

they should at least find you handy

http://www.redgreen.com/

Your Orwellian society is defeated by a piece of tape.

It's a long observed phenomenon that even has a name: the Red-Green Alliance. (No, not that Red Green.) It was an easy alliance for the greens to fall into, because opposition to specific development and promotion of sustainability can very easily and quickly morphs into opposition to capitalism and promotion of socialist policy. Throw in an intense desire to modify the behavior of people by force, and an alliance is born.

Imagine what he could've done with stuff like duct tape, gasoline or a Chevy small block 350

He'd probably be more like this guy

Three Words: Red Green Show

Tune into it on PBS sometime and you'll find that there is still some good American humor left, despite what "Airplane" did to the rest of it. Unfortunately, the 'Brits probably won't get it.

I particularly love that part of Canada in the vicinity of Possum Lodge! They have tonnes of Red Green land. :-)

http://www.redgreen.com/

If Red Green taught you anything, it's that you need to take Duct Tape with you EVERYWHERE you go, especially if you'll be fixing things.

Wasn't that an episode of Red Green? Or am I confusing it with Mulroney economics?

"I've got a case that's got some duct tape mods. Will it get posted?"

Only on the Red Green website.

I've read the label. It is DUCT tape. Sure there may be a brand called Duck tape, but the type of tape is duct tape.

No, you're thinking of Red Green.

His name isn't Winston Rothschild, by any chance, is it?

Imagine, a small, non-descript server, wrappped in duct tape.

*Red Green Voice*
The Sysadmin's Secret Weapon - Duct Tape

Soko

What about Possum Lake? I wouldn't mind living there. Apparently old junker K-cars are quite cheap....

Funnier than the RED GREEN SHOW? Some PBS stations here in the USA air this Canadian TV show. I'd move to Canada just to become a member of Possum Lodge. ;-)

Make a redundant array of independant cars, or RAIC. Take 10 Kias, and weld them together.

Too late. The Red Green Show has beat you to it. However, they used duct tape instead of welding and it was Hyundais instead of Kias.

The goal was to make their own version of a Hummer. I think they actually removed the passenger door of one car and the driver's side door of the other so as to join the two passenger compartments together. (Season 7, episode 145 if you want to know...)

... but when I became a man, I put away childish things

Seriously, kid: you think you have problems now, wait until you have kids of your own. You won't have time for sleep, let alone games.

Heh, another wierd idea brought to you by Italy, the same country that brings me - through Telelatino, cable station extraordinaire - incomprehensible beauty contests where women in swimsuits in a not-particularly-warm room stand around on stage for hours on end.

Not that my home country of Canada's TV exports are any better... I mean, hey, I'm sure Italian people find the characters on the Red Green Show completely unfathomable.

Remeber the two key rules:
1) Jam it harder.
2) Use duct tape.
"If it's not broke, you're not trying."

And don't forget those biodiesel vehicles. How many miles to the next fast-food place with a deep frier?

Driving in the Yukon this summer in a 92 Suzuki Sidekick. I did 600K on a tank of gas (10 imp. gallon tank.) I put a bit campstove fuel in at the end to make it another 20K to a gas station. Gas is $1/L way up north, the gas stations are few and far (really far) between and sometimes not open on Sunday. (Go get dude, yeah, dude has the key to the pump, oh no dude's gone fishing, oh forget it.)

1 km = 0.621 miles
1.609 Kilometrs (km) = 1 mile

1 L = 0.264 US gal
US gallons(US gal) = 3.785 Litres

1 imp gal = 0.833 US gal
Imperial gallons(Imp gal) 1.201 = US gallons

CDN $1 = 75 US cents

<rant> i remember your duelly elected president George w Bush (who I nhumbly support in his war for, I mean against, no wait you are either for or against, wait, no, we are against terrorism and for the war which somehow equates to peace, something like that, I'll have to switch on those informative us tv news channels to get it straight again with those live action hero figures and cards and such, ooh and oh so cool techy-military stuff) announced that the big 3 car companies would have the fuel efficiency technology available in about 4 years. Translation: we won't be havin us any US-made fuel efficient cars while Bush is president.

God bless him for killing all those terrorists (and breaking a few eggs) so we can have cheap gas for our gas guzzling SUVs. </rant> Blame Canada

Criminys. Somebody better tell Red Green (aka Steve Smith) about this. Assuming he makes another movie like 'Duct Tape Forever,', this would be a good addition to it.

Remember... Quando Omni Flunkus Moritati! ;-)

I thought Red Green had already invented it

That red internal paint and green exterior remind me of that show from Canada, "The Red Green Show".

Now yer talkin' about a REAL MAN'S way of buildin' it.

Red Green would be proud.

Lorne Green. Who is Loren Green?

Descending together into the river Styx, Spock and Kirk fight off their hideous attackers and save their injured friend, with Kirk carrying McCoy on his shoulders as they flee."

Wow! Sounds just like a Ranger Gord cartoon! (you have to watch Red Green to understand the reference)

Descending together into the river Styx, Spock and Kirk fight off their hideous attackers and save their injured friend, with Kirk carrying McCoy on his shoulders as they flee."

Wow! Sounds just like a Ranger Gord cartoon! (you have to watch Red Green to understand the reference)

He watches the Red-Green Show!

No wonder he practically pieced this thing together with Duct Tape!

What next? A Linux based Lawn-mower made out of an ol washing machine?

And I thought I was the only one that gets too tired to stay up late enough to watch Red Green.

No one saw a connection to Red Green here?

Oh well.

Hmmm. Throw in some duct tape and that's and ideal project for the Red Green Show.

Don't you mean Red Green?

Red Green likes building stuff out of duct tape. This is right up his alley.

imprison the populace in a Green/Red New-Communist state

Hal Duston
hald@sound.net

If a friend gets a copy of the AOL modem software as an unsolisited bulk mail distribution, that friend has a perfectly valid reason to hand that same software to somebody else so they can install it on another computer.

The point of this is NOT about copyright, because the software being used by the "hacker" community is licensed under the GPL. They have a license to distribute the software if they care to. Indeed copyright law freely permits people who have a license to distribute software to make as many copies as that license allows (which is unlimited with GPL). Digital Convergence has produced a product, and as long as you don't manufacture new identical copies of the hardware, then I can't see how you are in any way violating copyright.

The DCMA, on the other hand, has a very questionable principle that still has to be tested for constitutional validity that the mere act of reverse engineering something to see how it works is illegal. This is entirely the same principle that the deCSS software is going through the courts right now, and if the MPAA, DVD-CCA, and the DVD Fourm are allowed to set a precident, then products like the :CueCat are going to be crammed down people's throats.

For a lighter side of reverse engineering, look at The Red Green Show, which usually includes a segment on how Red Green (the name of the fictional host) hacks at a car or other household appliance (with a chain saw/hack saw/tin snips, ect.) to make a useful product out of it. The show has been on PBS for a number of years, but it appears as though CBS has picked it up for the fall (or for the folks in Canada, I think it is being broadcast by CBC.... I know that it is a Canadian import). It is too bad that the news media doesn't have this view of hackers instead of the 16 year old wannabe that breaks into the Pentagon computers and starts a nuclear war.

While the economy in Canada is not as good as the US, Canadian's seem to have a more wholesome society.

Absolutely! I mean, look at Red Green.

I nominate a kick in the crotch as being funnier than Tom Green also.

For a truly funny Green, check out Red Green. Been on the telly for about 3 years now.