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They use their personality as birth control.

Seriously, when you edit you have to forget that those shots are probably taken by your friends- you put aside all of it and look at the photos.

And when you look at image after image and see crap, either due to the idiot (in this case photographer) not focusing, not composing, or just plain missing the timing, you get irritated fast. Because seeing 200 shots with the ball too far back, or faces blocked, or a big fuzzy wuzzy can really piss you off, fast.

The hardest part about editing (to people learning to shoot) is to realize that your trashcan is never big enough. Don't delete or destroy, but keep them- the image might grow on you later.... and to not get offended if someone says the image is crap (even if you like it) because, it could very well be.

For instance:
http://home.rochester.rr.com/mrsheep/Ftp/bex_30a_f _r.jpg
http://home.rochester.rr.com/mrsheep/Ftp/washingto n_2000_2.jpg
and finally (football)
http://home.rochester.rr.com/mrsheep/Ftp/colletto. jpg

No one that judged the 1st image liked it, but I personally *love* the image more than the other two.

They use their personality as birth control.

Seriously, when you edit you have to forget that those shots are probably taken by your friends- you put aside all of it and look at the photos.

And when you look at image after image and see crap, either due to the idiot (in this case photographer) not focusing, not composing, or just plain missing the timing, you get irritated fast. Because seeing 200 shots with the ball too far back, or faces blocked, or a big fuzzy wuzzy can really piss you off, fast.

The hardest part about editing (to people learning to shoot) is to realize that your trashcan is never big enough. Don't delete or destroy, but keep them- the image might grow on you later.... and to not get offended if someone says the image is crap (even if you like it) because, it could very well be.

For instance:
http://home.rochester.rr.com/mrsheep/Ftp/bex_30a_f _r.jpg
http://home.rochester.rr.com/mrsheep/Ftp/washingto n_2000_2.jpg
and finally (football)
http://home.rochester.rr.com/mrsheep/Ftp/colletto. jpg

No one that judged the 1st image liked it, but I personally *love* the image more than the other two.

At one point he apparently sold a phony counterfeitting machine to some poor sap for $25,000 (in 1926 dollars!). After his arrest on unrelated charges, he used another of the machines to bribe his way out of jail -- and net $10,000 from the (rather thick) sherrif in the process.

It's all in the link up there.

What I WOULD suggest to the parties involved is to look into tieing into some naturalist activities. This way you can have a double edged story AND increase your possible audience at the same time.

What, you're wanting to get it on the FOX network now?

Oh, sorry, I thought you said naturist activities. My bad.

The shell helper that I am totally lost without is one that adds directory history to bash and ksh. You can find it here: _cd

# Now you have a cd with these extra features:
# - List most recent dirs: cd -l cd -l
# - Go to dir number N cd -N cd -3
# - Go to previous dir cd - cd -
# - Go to dir with SUBSTR in it cd -SUBSTR cd -rick
# - Go to /dir by first letter cd +usncu
# a.k.a. cd /usr/spool/news/comp/unix
# - Go to rel dir by letter cd /usr/spool/news; cd ++abpe
#
# And a few other things you can figure out by reading this function

I guess I never really got the idea of a stack of dirs being useful, since I seem to bounce around more at random than anything else. I prefer to have a cache of places I've recently been.

Bonus puzzle for slashdot readers: using the cd with history function, what directory is this command likely to take me to?

cd +usnabpe

Hell it could simply be used to store definitions of all the new words that Curious George jr makes up in his speeches.

The GNU "Free" Documentation License, despite the name, is not a Free license. See Nathaniel Nerode's "Why You Shouldn't Use the GNU FDL". The GPL, on the other hand, is a Free license. So be glad that the authors chose the GPL, and consider the omission of source a minor issue that is easily corrected. Please do not use this minor issue to advocate changing to a much worse license.

Get his original script here.

Ok, I should really stop playing this...

492.5

492.5 nosedive

Good job. My numbers seem to indicate the same: 593.5 148.6 and the nose-dive distance of: 491.8 Check out this altered version of the game: Penguin batting

Good job. My numbers seem to indicate the same: 593.5 148.6 and the nose-dive distance of: 491.8 Check out this altered version of the game: Penguin batting

Good job. My numbers seem to indicate the same: 593.5 148.6 and the nose-dive distance of: 491.8 Check out this altered version of the game: Penguin batting

593 148.6 I'm gonna see if I can top these. H

593 148.6 I'm gonna see if I can top these. H

Manufacturing in the US (save automotives) is all but dead as those get outsourced to other nations where labor is cheaper

Gimp now has the ability to dock all those windows to one. I am running gimp 1.3.23 and I have only one window (note, you need to press enter in the URL bar since my host does not allow outside linking of images). You can select any dialog and just add it to the tab area and click the tab and there you go.

SCO License available here

No, it'll say, ``low voltage! low voltage!''

(as an aside, why wasn't it named 883?)

No mudflaps, but I want to be the 1st to go 4-wheeling on Mars...tho I think the moon would be better for rock crawling...lower gravity, more interesting rock formations (at least so far as I've seen).

Well said ! Let me add that sometimes apparent wastes of time and resources (like this otherwise nice duracell hack which btw should make duracell marketing have an orgasm, what about sending some tech toy to that guy Duracell ?) can lead to unexpected discoveries.

For instance Joseph Prisley back in 1772 was "playing" with a candle and jar and noticed that the candle didn't burn anymore after a while if you covered it with a jar (big deal, we say today..but back then it was). Then he placed a plant (dunno why he tought about putting a plant in there) in the jar , later a mouse and a plant and a candle in the jar and discovered that WITH the plant the mouse lived and the candle burned.

Photosynthesis was under his very eyes , he tought that some gas was in there with particular properties (oxygen, but he didn't know).

Later Lavosier _repeated_ his experiment and named the gas oxygen.

All of this because some guy back in 1772 was playing with jars, mouses and plants and he probably looked like a crazy fool to the bystanders.

... to keep our French friend's bandwidth down...
http://home.cfl.rr.com/fnords/duracell_cpumon/
I hope my ISP doesn't kill me... ;)

It does have an open port. The client connects, and gets 16 bytes (sizeof(md5 hash)) as a salt. It then hashes this using HMAC-MD5 with a secret password, and sends the result (16 bytes) back. Fixed-length data all the way, essentially zero chance of buffer overruns. Essentially impossible to crack, except for dictionary attacks. So low-resource it runs fine on my Mac SE/30 webserver.

I call it Ostiary (mirror here) and I think it's damn secure.

There'll be a Linux Gazette article about it this month (Feb) when it comes out.

...in fact,it's just like a video game. Fuck the greedy-ass evil bastards at the Pentagon.

Funny... this is more or less my situation, although I've advanced a little further. I hold an MD and have always loved computers and programming. I decided to enter the field, but instead of studying for a CS degree I decided to get a MS in Health Informatics.
Please don't listen to the SlashTrolls. This can be a very interesting field, and the majority of the people working in it are Computer Scientists. I have discovered that my medical background made me very valuable and useful. Clinical experience is VERY welcome.
I've also become a member of The American Medical Informatics Association and am currently a part of the Open Source Working Group, pushing for the embracement of Open Source in all things Medical.
If you want to ask some questions, please feel free to email me.

"Rolls" has a different meaning to anyone who does much offroading. I was picturing this

Technically, a Ponzi scheme is any scheme where you promise a bunch of people a huge return on an investment, and use later investors' money to pay off earlier investors.

Ponzi schemes aren't always pyramidal, though the two techniques often overlap. Ponzi schemes may or may not involve an actual product, but are most definitely illegal.

If I recall, it is possible for a MLM to have a product and still be classified as an illegal pyramid scheme. However, I don't remember the criteria.

http://home.gt.rr.com/linuxzealot88/riaaswat.jpg

Yes, they're breaking the law now, but that might change. The railroads have their own police departments. How long until the RIAA persuades their politicians to grant them police powers?

Here's a few: Norfolk Southern Police Department
American Federation of Railroad Police

Manufacturing has not doubled. In twenty years it has added about 60%. That's not even 2.5% per year. Inflation over the same period was 3.1% per year. Besides, the concern is that as a function of per capita GNP, which is obviously a function of popluation, is changing and not in an upward direction. You've failed to site direct references to authoritative sources, so here's mine: http://www.bea.gov/bea/dn2/gpoc.htm

You will notice that we have dropped from total manufacturing being about 18% of GNP to 14% of GNP between 1987 and 2001. You will also notice that we have added roughly 30 million in population. In terms of electronics manufacturing, we've lost nearly 30% in that sector just between 1994 and 2001 (.020% of GNP to .014% of GNP). "Soaring" my ass.

Sorry about omitting my source for wage data. It is the Bureau of Labor Services National Compensation Survey July, 2002

Realize what is happening: production is MOVING not dramatically INCREASING.

Now, considering the amount of production moving to China and India, which represent a third of the world population, and that the United States represents 10% of the global economy, one can assume that for every $1000 increase in GDP per capita in China and India, it will cost the United States $868 in GDP per capita.

The minimum wage of $3.80 in 1983 would require $5.70 today, but that wage is now only $5.15, which is a loss of 11% in standard of living, or about $1100/year. Since this is generally the wage we pay our manufacturing line workers, do you think these things are unrelated?

You must be smoking some good shit

I thought the misassociation of a famous confidence trickster's words to PT Barnum was common knowledge... I mean this was stated in the A&E biography by numerous historians, as well as in the History Channel recanning of the same interviews.

However, just because PT didn't say it, doesn't mean it wasn't true. But really, we're the suckers in the end... Since we've all got to pay higher rates now.

For people looking for more information about the GFDL:

Draft Debian Position on GFDL
Why you shouldn't use the GFDL
Official GFDL Text

Hopefully my local RoadRunner's NOC can handle this. I know they just laid a new buttload of fiber, we'll see if we can get them to light it up. *crosses fingers*

http://home.twcny.rr.com/scooper2/winamp50_full.ex e

I'm a vegetarian, but last time I was down in Austin, my buddy Sam has this bright idea to order lunch from Hilbert's. It's a fuckin' buger joint. The bastard kept reassuring me that it would be ok, but they totally fucked up my order. I hate sam now....

I would have to say that this was personally first problem with Hilbert's, but it was such a large problem that I will never order food from them again.

I told you THIS was coming a long time ago!

Mirrored here:

http://home.twcny.rr.com/scooper2/teracrack.pdf

The multitracker spec has already been implemented in many of the better bittorrent clients.

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these games are entirely legal, they were developed without using the official development kits (esp without pirated devkits). there are no lockouts for homebrew carts on any gameboy system (as far as I know). there should be no problem with making your own carts and selling them. I know of a few trackers that ppl sell on the net for making gb music... homemade carts and everything... no legal probs.

some homebrew games eventually get published... esp for gameboy systems. Genetic Fantasia's PD version of Yar's Revenge (an updated clone/remake of the 2600 classic) was later revamped and got published by Telegames. Maybe Genetic Fantasia = Digital Eclipse? not sure...

Check this guy's story out:
"In the spring of 2000 I released a freeware Gameboy Color ROM, that was an identical clone of the old Q*bert arcade game. You can read the story behind its creation and obtain the game below. Shortly after I put the ROM on my website something amazing happened...someone in the Gameboy developer community came across my version of the game and passed it on to Majesco Sales. Majesco had the rights to do the Gameboy Color version of Q*bert, and they contacted me to see if I'd be interested in enhancing what I'd done and making it a commercial product."

And the guy who cloned Ultima 3 by reverse engineering the original talked a bit with the original company. But they said it wasn't commercially viable =(

All of those instances DID violate copyright tho, so they're not good examples. BUT, they didn't get into legal trouble.

Drymouth ALMOST got published... clone of Picross... no legal probs there.

I'm sure the list could go on.

RoadRunner in Central New York lost connectivity then, affecting me for about a day.

Where I live, bank branches are asking for thumbprints from non-account holders wanting to cash checks.

This, despite:

1. The check was written on that bank.
2. The person can produce a driver's license to verify that they are the payee.

Heavy-handed tactics like this have really driven people to want to use cash more and more.

The fun side of money tracing is wheresgeorge.com

But imagine if ATM machines used OCR to record the serial numbers of bills dispensed to people and if banks were required to inventory serial numbers of incoming currency, too.

Credit card and debit card transactions have already reduced the proportion of anonymous financial transactions. The technology exists to reduce financial anonymity a lot further.

It's their crack legal team which does it for me...

Actually, Chi is quite simply the first letter of the Greek (the new testament was written in Greek, remember?) spelling of Christ, and it just happens to look like an X.

Jesus on the other hand just with an Iota (Greek didn't have a J equivalent).

Here's what that actually looks like.

My wife put together a picture of SCO's crack legal team (by which, I of course mean "legal team on crack"), which pretty much explains their entire strategy. Feel free to share! ;-)

It's good to see that the UCB is still in business, even after their show got cancelled. It makes me wonder if this project is somehow related to their Bucket of Truth project.

It's running Win95, though. Scary!

Via the use of a special GPL'ed digital video analizer and through
M.O. comparative analysis, it has been determined that
Darl McBride and Billy Mays are one and the same.

They are both so extremely obnoxious and both make such outlandish claims and
look very much alike that they could only be the same person.

On the other hand, there are other approaches just as destructive.

I run an outbound SMTP server for my own personal use, in part because my ISP's SMTP server sucks.

At times, it could take 30 or more minutes to relay an email to myself.

One of the problems with this is that apparently I got listed on some kind of dial-up user block list, and my mother's ISP blocks those users from sending to its users.

The downside is that my mother's ISP also blocks my ISP's SMTP server.

Isn't that useful.

On the other hand, there are other approaches just as destructive.

I run an outbound SMTP server for my own personal use, in part because my ISP's SMTP server sucks.

At times, it could take 30 or more minutes to relay an email to myself.

One of the problems with this is that apparently I got listed on some kind of dial-up user block list, and my mother's ISP blocks those users from sending to its users.

The downside is that my mother's ISP also blocks my ISP's SMTP server.

Isn't that useful.

eLibrary is Windows Freeware, a Project Gutenberg "client" with built-in FTP, search engine, reader and HTML export.

http://www.bondedsender.com/

Essentially a whitelist of senders, rather than a blacklist. There's been lots of whitelist talk, but I don't think anyone's taking it seriously because it would be difficult to get everyone to fall into line with this concept. Imagine how much mail your clients -wouldn't- get if it was to be implemented. But now, it's gotten to the point where the community HAS to do something, I mean really now. So I propose admins that are reading this hop onboard and sign up to see what they have to offer.

What I'd like to see is a community run list, like a polar-opposite RBL, that would do an open relay test, a reverse IP test, and would be open to human scrutiny. We could give ourselves 365 days to get the word out and implement it, that should be a good amount of time.

Hmm, gotta break out the pen..