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Does the FBSD crowd really want to do that to themselves?

http://www.xs4all.nl/~marcone/bsdversuslinux.html

look at the photovore and invert it's seeking circuit. (and add a battery)

Posters of the deamon mascott. Large format. Is there any place to buy them?

What makes the Tickle Salon special is that the tickling brush acts as a sensor as well: it can learn your body contours and use those to apply various strokes in whatever manner you find pleasurable. In other words, the software driving the Tickle Salon actually knows what it's tickling.

Notably, the Tickle Salon was conceived as an art project, and builds on a long line of other work by the artistic duo notnot. Most of it touches on themes of growth and emergence. It's really exciting to see the Tickle Salon draw so much attention from outside the art world.

I presume this could be converted into a teledildonic device by adding human control to the machine.

That would basically obliterate the concept. The whole point of the Tickle Salon is to get the human out of the loop -- or, if you prefer, to put some organic sense into machinery.

I agree a government/evilcorp controlled authority for controlling access to the internet is a very, very bad idea for al the reasons you discribed. However, I do think it's a good idea for an ISP to block you off the net (or rather filter your traffic) if they detect spam being send or a worm being spread from your machine.

My ISP has done this to me after some windows box in my network got compromised. They restored access after I send them some Spybot logs showing the malicious software had been removed.

Although such an experience can be quite annoying, I think it's a good thing they take such measures. I've seen freshly installed machines being compromised within 10 seconds after plugging in the network cable, just because there are so many infected machines hammering you on the network of some ISPs. It's quite difficult to download a PFW on such a connection before being infected. Not everyone has another way of connecting to the internet available. Those people are forced to buy some shrinkwrapped shit like Norton Internet Security.

Finally, we can write "we apologise for the inconvenience" in ten-mile-tall flaming letters!

For the confused...

I'm sure they could probably use it somehow ...

Fuck yeah!

I always say that those NY LUG guys are the only mascots BSD will ever need. Why did I say BSD and not Linux? Here's why.

..and last but not least, we have the cutest mascot as well - undisputedly.

I think this website sums it up rather nicely:

http://www.xs4all.nl/~marcone/bsdversuslinux.html

I found this guys web site over 2 years ago:

wonder.I.am

Why do people bother with this kind of silliness? Really. We've all witnessed the IOCCC and various other golf-like activities for decades now, so why are we shocked that the definition of a "line of code" is different in this hobbiest sport than it is in the pointy-haired-project-planner world of the LOC?

In code-minimization (golf) and code obfuscation passtimes, a line of code is almost always defined as any source code which is considered valid by the interpreter or compiler, and fits on a standard 80-column green-screen or vt100/ANSI-emulation.

Machine language, the bytecode form of assembly language that microprocessors interpret, doesn't really have "lines" either. The point isn't that MoleSter is 6 lines as much as it is 466 bytes, and programming golf rules state that a lower score in bytes is better.

There is one more description at Exit Mundi: FLUSHH!

Oh, great site, this one is my favorite bit of -- pseudo-science.

There are virtually thousands of ways human life on earth can disappear. A mega-tsunami and an asteroid are only two, and not even the most worrying at that.

We should be thinking about global warming instead.

Don't forget the remarkable exploits of the Polish Air Force. Although logistically absorbed into the RAF after the fall of Poland, the Polish Air Force was an independent, Polish trained and financed entity. In fact it was the fourth largest air force in the war. During the Battle of Britain, the Polish Air force accounted for 18% of German air-to-air losses and produced 40 aces.

Amazingly, the Polish air forces, unlike the rest of the Polish Army, even mounted a reasonably effective defense during the German invasion. Flying 158 woefully obsolete PZL P.7 and PZL P.11 fighters they managed to destroy between 100 and 200 German aircraft.

Incidentally, the highest scoring US ace of the European theatre was a Polish-American who served in the Polish Air Force. Francis Gabreski volunteered for the RAF's 315-th (Polish) Fighter Squadron "Deblinski." Later he founded an exchange program between the Air Corps and the Polish Air Force and flew for the US. He ended the war with a total of 30 kills. In Korea he added 6.5 more.

http://www.xs4all.nl/~marcone/bsdversuslinux.html

I think not, especially with a mascot like this!

http://www.xs4all.nl/~marcone/bsdversuslinux.html/

Electric Chocobo starts with a bit of Shadowy Men feel. Building a unified concert theme might be tricky.

Electric Chocobo starts with a bit of Shadowy Men feel. Building a unified concert theme might be tricky.

Unfortunately the original author has stopped working on the project, but another user is picking up the development.

Old site
New site

Line up the three images in order and tab through them. THe time between each image is very short. Therefore the "line" was in for an extreemly short period of time. To me, the line looks like what you would see had a string or hair passed in front of the lens as it were capturing that frame. The glint on the end could simply be something on teh end of it. First thing that comes to mind would be a spider

"the spiders can fly by wire, called "ballooning". The spider raises her abdomen and releases a thread in the breeze that grows longer and longer until the upward lift is sufficient and the spider is lifted."

perhaps not THAT particular spider.. thats just the first google link that demonstrates my point.

so, sorry... there really is nothing to see here. Move along. No looking into the light thingy necessary.

Should you choose a Palm Pilot, I have set up a small web page on getting and reading free ebooks on your Palm.

Here is the Chapter heading picture.

"Only real webmasters get subpoenaed by the FBI. If you haven't been subpoenaed lately, take a good hard look at your website...it has become meanlingless."

More like, my website-hosts are hemorrhaging information, and there's no way to find out, nor to delete logs more frequently.

Now if only an XS4ALL website website didn't cost 9 times as much as the current solution [PHP+MySQL], we might be gettting somewhere...

Remember in any case that the computer doesn't need to be flawless to be useful, as long as it's safer than most human drivers. Also, there's a huge sliding scale from an entirely human operated car to an entirely computer driven one.

For the foreseeable future, a more likely approach is more computer assistance, like enforcing speed limits, emergency intervention (like breaking if there is something too close in front, or stopping/reducing dangerous human reflexes like the way many human drivers get spooked into hitting the brakes hard when their grip is slipping on icy roads), automatic course correction in certain circumstances (like if you're weering over into a different lane and the car doesn't detect any attempts at correcting the course manually).

Attacking the problem piece by piece is much more likely to be accepted and useful than waiting until you can replace a driver completely. It's also much easier to make safe since you can focus on testing the small changes incrementally much more thoroughly.

Of course my Old Dutch doesn't go further than "Hebban olla vogalan nestas higonan". ;-)

Personally, I've ejoyed the following lately:

• PSK-31 -- a cheap soundcard-based text-to-text mode that uses only 31Hz of bandwidth and goes around the world on 5 watts
• XML for Ham Radio -- I've started a consortium to develop XML standards for ham radio, starting with an extensible logging format, and working with everyone from QRZ and eQSL.cc on the server side to xlog for Linux and Ham Radio Deluxe for Windows and others.
• RPSK -- a TCP/IP based protocol for remote operation of a PSK station with a Java applet client and a hiptop client. (The antenna is not hooked up right now so don't expect the applet to work.)
• HFPack -- portable and picnic table operation with HF radio; I talked to Estonia with an Elecraft KX1 and about 4.5 Watts
• An RSS feed for APRS -- working with APRSWorld I developed an APRS to RSS converter to help HFPackers let people know where and when they are operating, so people can listen for them.
• Kit building -- I have built an Elecraft K2, one of the most sensitive ham transceivers in the world, their KX1 (one of the smallest and most featureful), a Small Wonder Labs PSK-20 specific to PSK on 14.070 MHz, and a variety of American QRP Club and Four-State QRP Club kits. For more power, I built an 50 Watt HF Amplifier in a group project and am working on a 100W one.
• CW -- I learned Morse Code at 5 so it was easy to pick back up after a couple (ok, a few) decades of disuse, and it's been a blast as well.

Check it out and take a look at my Ham Web Log for more stuff.

This page has a number of public domain schemes that might work. Some are fault more fault tolerant than others, but many of them should work.

Serious use of these schemes would require some kind of "Rosetta Stone" document or sculpture to make breaking the codes easy. If the archivist was to act carefully, I bet it would be possible for great-hoevermanygenerations-grandkid to break the bar code scheme, just by knowing a that the pattern is a rational symbology and by having enough repetition, of course. Automating the process would of course take some Perl scripting genius, or whatever they will be using.

Quality paper can last a really really long time.

Maybe Druantia could also work on Kim Stanley Robinson's terraformed Mars (ie. Blue Mars).

Radio Free Linux! It's a great one for mental asylums and the like.

I'm not so sure about the bleeding-edge hardware problem you mention. I'm typing this on a Sony Vaio X505, which was supported perfectly out-of-the-box by Fedora Core 2 with recent updates. (With the exception of the wireless card, which needed one kernel-module RPM from a third-party repository.) With things such as laptop mode and SonyPI, for which the equivalent (to my knowledge) doesn't exist on Windows, Linux gives me a *clearly better* user experience with this particular laptop.

Anyway, my point is: Laptops have notorously been a problem with Linux in the past, but it seems to have gotten much better during the past year or two. And the other major area where people tend to want bleeding-edge hardware, namely 3d graphics, now sees the two major vendors putting out quality Linux drivers. Linus suggests in the interview that things are moving slowly, but in my experience as an end user things have gotten rapidly much better lately, especially on topics such as hardware support. And with developments such as HAL, that rapid improvement is set to continue.

http://www.xs4all.nl/~stgvisie/VISIE/du-afghanista n2.html

After we move on to robots, we don't have to put any more of our own at risk of DU. Just send the robot platoon to mow them dogs down with DU. WAHOO!

Looks like 50 million people are going to be left enjoying living with Uranium dust in their back yards for the next 4.5 Billion years to come: Living with DU contaminated earth.

Not to mention the millions of Agent Orange victims. As most americans don't have the guts or patriotism to see or look at what they collectively are responsible for having done to others on this planet, I decided to put these links here.

Anyway, this details how technology horribly fails at providing any cleanup to the real innocent civilian victims, who are mostly children: http://www.xs4all.nl/~stgvisie/ud_main.html the cost in human lives is going to be absolutely astronomical. The dead count on Iraqi side is around 1.5 million now, according to United Nations figures.

Check out the pictures. Those wishing to simply Kill'em All, might want to put them on your walls, as that is exactly what America may be doing there. - There is no way to clean that place up anymore.

Yeah, eerie isn't it? This is CIA bag of tricks crap being used on the US public.

Well, remember that they tried to actually set up a government department dedicated to doing just this?
There was outrage, and so it "went away". Things like that don't go away.

Yep, they're my ISP too, and I only have good words about them. Connectivity is great, service is excellent. They even have a special unix helpdesk. They have a lot of experimental stuff customers can play with (like Google Beta stuff): IPv6, a secure jabber server with transports to all other networks and a lot of other stuff.

Go XS4ALL!

And Bits of freedom is an organization sponsored by X54A11.
Everybody is happy here.

One of the founders of Xs4All and the founder of HackTic is Rop Gonggrijp (now famous on slashdot for lending his car out in the terrible car accident a few week back). Xs4all is also the ISP that refused to take down Karin Spaink's website with Scientology papers on it, and went to court over it (which they won). They have a pretty extensive privacy statement for their users, and I do believe they abide that. All in all, this is one of the few ISP's left where the extra euros you spend actually amount to significant value.

One of the founders of Xs4All and the founder of HackTic is Rop Gonggrijp (now famous on slashdot for lending his car out in the terrible car accident a few week back). Xs4all is also the ISP that refused to take down Karin Spaink's website with Scientology papers on it, and went to court over it (which they won). They have a pretty extensive privacy statement for their users, and I do believe they abide that. All in all, this is one of the few ISP's left where the extra euros you spend actually amount to significant value.

I'm not surprised at all at XS4ALL's behavior. This is the same ISP that went to court to defend one of their customer's rights to host the Fishman Affidavit (a collection of high-level Scientologist documents).

I'm glad that there are companies out there who are willing to stand up for their users when they are right, going so far as to take the heat in court. XS4ALL won the case, too, and the Fishman Affidavit is still hosted there for all to see.

BTW, here's a mirror of the site in question:
http://www.xs4all.nl/~oracle/nuremberg/aborts.html

I'm this case, the threat to providers listed seems pretty clear. It's far from being a simple recitation of their personal info.

Cheers,
Greg

Is it just me or do all the pages refresh every time you do anything? I've been doing some internal applications in DHTML lately and have learned the amount of stuff DHTML can do (even if you avoid some of the more browser specific stuff). There's little reason to refresh the page for every event.

If you want to see what DHTML can *really* do. Look no further than DHTML Lemmings. It's an entirely self-contained application that can run on your local hard drive without the support of a server. The current level is cookied so that you don't have to start over when you close your browser. All parameter handling is done by parsing the URL with Javascript. In other words, there is ZERO need for a server.

Less need for a server translates to less strain on the server. Less strain on the server means that your applications will perform faster for both the client and your company.

Note that I did not design this circuit so I can't take the credits for it. See the schematic. Instructions included.

Have fun!

I'm confused, are you attempting to refine your security to the application level or looking to integrate your applications with a centralised security model?. These are separate and distinct requirements!

For free authentication look to LDAP or RADIUS.

Here we go laides! A working download link.

I'd say "Wow! They've discovered Jarre"

Whoops! Sorry! I found a mirror here, but you might want to download the page and applet to your hard drive so that it doesn't happen again.

There are several websites that offer free ebooks, and that allow people to review them.

Of the authors I got to know through Project Gutenberg, Stephen Leacock and Theodor Storm stick out in my mind the most. Oh, and Hendrik Conscience turned out to be less boring than I thought after proofing the first of his books to go through DP (but so far he's only available in Dutch).