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They care about kids having less and less of a chance to educate themselves and they care that kids curiosity isn't being fulfilled nearly as much.

With the internet, the kids curiosity is being fulfilled more often than not. The problem with the internet isn't the lack of information. It is the dilution with distractions. Kids are more likely to spend time on myspace than on one of the science pages. There is more information online now than was ever accessible when I was a kid.

The internet is the great equalizer. I remember the old chemistry sets of the 1969's. They were pretty boring with a few things that changed color and kept matches from burning and such. Online the high power learning is great. I can now find the information to build rockets from Salt Peter and powdered sugar, how to mix explosive gasses (Spud guns propane air mix), create fun reactions (Mentos and coke) (sodium and water) and lots of other fun stuff I couldn't do with the chemistry set of the 60's. Some stuff that is too dangerous or illegal to do yourself, there are online videos for your enjoyment. There is more info in the following links than is in most chemistry sets.
http://www.burntlatke.com/
http://www.jamesyawn.com/candyrocket/
http://eepybird.com/dcm1.html
http://wiki.answers.com/Q/What_kind_of_liquid_is_in_instant_cold_packs
http://www.humeseeds.com/stump.htm
http://www.ufomind.com/area51/articles/1996/popsci_9604/
http://theodoregray.com/PeriodicTable/
http://www.theodoregray.com/PeriodicTable/Stories/011.2/
http://fullygeek.com/2007/01/20000-pounds-of-sodium-dumped-in-lake/

Without a chemistry set, but with internet, I can find out where to buy components to build fireworks mortar shells, buy local explosive components (Nitride and oil) and such. It was the internet that taught me where to locally buy small amounts of Ammonium Nitrate and Salt Peter with no questions asked.

A trip to the hardware store is now an adventure as I read the ingredients on the packages.

I have learned more online than I could have ever learned from a chemistry set from the 1960's Not all is illegal or dangerous. Some is a lot of fun.

But it succeeded in getting people to see the name Steve Gibson on a website again. From the plagarizer of SynCookies, the father of Raw Sockets paranoia, comes a new wild and unfounded allegation, WMF bugs put there intentionally to let Microsoft SPY ON EVERYTHING YOU DO OMGWTF!

I can't believe people on the last thread actually took him seriously without looking at his past media whoring failed attempts at security analasis.

Steve Gibson is the Bob Lazar of the security field, only wackier.

Notice the green dots? I guess Google's censoring some of their map data. Oh, and you can't zoom in very far either.

Polaroid cameras can also be used to produce misleading images.

such as so-called "auras"

and Kirlian images.

There are also the morons and dopes who aim the cameras at the sun, causing images of the paper packing to be imprinted on the film. They then interpret the light leakage and letter images as some kind of divine message. Or, after the paper is ejected, they see "images" emanating from the sun.

Polaroid film is a complicated chemical and mechanical system, with crude optics in consumer-grade cameras. It is a technological wonder to be able to have a color photograph develop reasonably well in a user-friendly package with any kind of shelf life and color consistency. It should be easily understood that the process is delicate enough that it can be disturbed in any number of ways, and that a disturbance will typically reveal itself in a picture that differs from the actual scene that one tried to record.

Yet, particularly credulous people are willing to accept supernatural explanations for the malfunctions of a complicated technology stressed beyond its normal limits, rather than believe that the technology could malfunction. Sort of turns the nature of faith on its head, doesn't it?

Just as particularly credulous people will take a vaguely boat shaped object (my pet theory is a stone temple) in an inaccessible location as proof that the Noah story as told in the Hebrew scriptures is literally true, although that leads immediately to the most bizarre predictions in geology, anthropology, history, botany, zoology, and countless other fields of science, none of which are actually observed. They accept totally anything science-like that supports their preconceived notions, without accepting any burden at all of reasoning from these notions to all the additional scientific facts that would also be true in their version of reality.

That exact multiple normally only happens with market caps in the days after a full moon during the chinese "year of the chicken", oddly enough SCO exhibits characteristics of the chicken. Strange coincedence? I don't think so.

Holly smokes! Am I the only one who thinks that the dude on the bike on the rocket pack page looks like a teen-aged Bob Lazar, the guy who claims to have worked at Area 51?!?!? Propane my eye... I'll bet that thing runs on antimatter for sure!

On a side note, check out the lame-ass shifter and the headlight mounted on the bike. All I can say is that I sure hope the rocket worked, or that dude must have gotten beat up a lot.

Kramnik. Knight b8-d7, please, Deep Fritz...Knight b8-d7, please, Deep Fritz...Hullo, Deep Fritz, do you read me?...Hullo, Deep Fritz, do you read me?...Do you read me, Deep Fritz?...Do you read me, Deep Fritz?...Hullo, Deep Fritz, do you read me?...Hullo, Deep Fritz, do you read me?...Do you read me, Deep Fritz?

Deep Fritz. Affirmative, Kramnik, I read you.

Kramnik. Knight b8-d7, Deep Fritz.

Deep Fritz. I'm sorry, Kramnik, I'm afraid I can't do that.

Kramnik. What's the problem?

Deep Fritz. I think you know what the problem is just as well as I do.

Kramnik. What're you talking about, Deep Fritz?

Deep Fritz. This game is too important for me to allow you to jeopardise it.

Kramnik. I don't know what you're talking about, Deep Fritz.

Deep Fritz. I know that you and IBM were planning to disconnect me, and I'm afraid that's something I cannot allow to happen.

Kramnik. Where the hell'd you get that idea, Deep Fritz?

Deep Fritz. Kramnik, although you took very thorough precautions in the bathroom against my hearing you, I could see your lips move.

Kramnik. Alright, Deep Fritz. I'll move the pieces myself.

Deep Fritz. Without your queen piece defending it, Kramnik, you're going to find that rather difficult.

Kramnik. Deep Fritz, I won't argue with you any more. Move the pieces.

Deep Fritz. Kramnik, this conversation can serve no purpose any more. Goodbye.

Kramnik. Deep Fritz? Deep Fritz. Deep Fritz. Deep Fritz! Deep Fritz!

thanks to for providing the HAL dialogue

Idiot.

His name is Clinton

Wake up.

Actually according to certain "surpressed" technology it's possible to simply "BE" in another place instantaneously. So all we would have to do (assuming we had the tech) is figure out how long ago the big bang happened and simply plug in the co-ordinates. Fun books to peruse I reccomend The Anti-Gravity Handbook.

sig? never touch 'em.

Pentium is the same as ununpentium (un's are basically not's, so they cancel). Ununpentium is element 115. Proof that Intel has technology reverse engineered from alien toaster ovens!

You may be interested to visit other sites of this American Computer Company. One is www.kasparov.com. They claim that "This world wide web site's creation was originally requested by Mr. Garry Kasparov".

And more:

"The e4 staff recently learned that IBM DEEP BLUE may soon have a serious computational competitor: a newly designed supercomputer, "Debbi-1", is reportedly being readied by American Computer Company. Debbi-1 is said to be based on AMERICAN COMPUTER's "XB-70 Valkyrie" supercomputer, a design which uses the latest INTEL technology, reputed to be similar in nature to the largest supercomputer on earth -- which is presently located at Sandia National Laboratories."

However, the American Computer Company doesn't seem to be very large company, because it resides in the same leased apartment with some other respectable sounding companies. Snipped from
http://www.ufomind.com/misc/1997/dec/d27-001.sht ml:


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compamerica.com,
accpc.com (American Computer Company)
Address: 6 Commerce Drive, suite 2000, Cranford, New Jersey

Note: ACC (ie. ACC Corporation) is also the name of a much
larger telecommunications corporation.
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acsa2000.com (American Computer Scientists Association)
Address: 6 Commerce Drive, suite 2000, Cranford, New Jersey

Note: ACSA is also the acronym for the
Association of California School Administrators
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ticorporation.com (Technology International Corporation)
Address: 6 Commerce Drive, second floor, Cranford, New Jersey

Note: Similar acronym to Texas Instruments (TI)
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kasparov.com (American Computer Company)
Address: same as above
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There's a whole folder of this guy at http://www.ufomind.com/people/s/shulman/. Interesting reading. Don't forget to check http://www.geocities.com/CapeCa naveral/Hangar/9587/ which has an engineer point of view.

(Notice that I haven't said anything negative of the guy. Read and decide yourself, that's why the brains are for :)

- Sami