Slashback: Carpal, Displays, Asylum

Slashback tonight with another word on eInk's color displays for portable computing, a temporarily happy ending for Keith Henson; a cool online-movie update, and a slight return to the subject of carpal tunnel syndrome.

But strenuous exercise might not be the answer ... Amigan writes: " Foxnews.com is reporting another story, based on a study done by the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, MN that significantly cuts in to the number of people claiming to be Carpal Tunnel suffers."

Of course, neither this nor the Canadian study mentioned shortly ago say that people don't suffer from true carpal tunnel afflictions -- only that it may be a widely mis-diagnosed condition.

Please drop quarters into your bedside cable modem kzinti writes: "Over two years ago CmdrTaco posted a story about a video clip archive and an animated short called 'Tripping the Rift' by Chris Moeller of 'King of the Hill.' TTR is a bawdy parody of popular science fiction like Star Trek and Star Wars, and is one of the funniest things you'll ever see. Alas, the clip available in 1999 from the archive (which has since shut down) was small and of poor quality. I recently decided to see if I could find a better quality copy on the net somewhere and struck gold at, wouldn't you know it, trippingtherift.com. Not only does this site have a newly posted, high-quality MPEG edition of TTR, but it also has a couple of DivX versions and links to Quicktime and other versions of TTR. The best news is that a second episode of TTR has been produced and should be available for download 'shortly.' Trip Now!"

Lookin' clever. Regarding Chris DiBona's walk through the recent Society for Information Display expo, SID Attendee writes: "Your SID correspondent missed one of the coolest demos, from eInk. These displays use charged particles with black & white pigments on opposing ends to form a pure reflective display. The contrast and resolution was great, easily like a newspaper. They consume zero power when the display is static, and can be made incredibly thin (less than 1mm). This could be the thing that makes ebooks/webpads for real. Color is on the horizon (they had a very crude color demo at the show).

PS - I wasn't that impressed with the OLEDs - many of the LCD displays outperformed them, and seem to have fewer lifespan issues."

Thanks for the first-hand report.

6 points for Canada! iamklerck writes: "Apparently the Scientology critic who was to go on trial for interfering with a religion has been granted "refugee" status in Canada. I wish him luck, as I'm sure we all do. Perhaps some day he'll be able to return to the U.S. without having his rights violated."

Comments

Re:Not wishing him too much luck...

[Gorobei]

I think the guy should have been let off with a stern lecture, but I can't say I wish him a ton of luck. My sympathies are with people trying to make the world a better place; not with the ones who are looking to see how close to the edge of legality they can come with their death threats. And I can't help wondering whether Canada might not have had room for one more individual who is facing genuine danger for his private beliefs instead of a Usenet troll skipping out on a misdemeanor charge.

KH's death threat was a "Tom Cruise Missile" joke, and the phrase "Destroy them utterly." "Destroy them utterly" was a direct quote from L Ron Hubbard, referring to dealing with enemies of his cult. KH has spent the last several years of his life trying to make the world a better place by exposing a vicious, money-grubbing cult.

No, I'm not a Scientologist. I've never met one and couldn't care less about them either way.

Maybe you should care - the COS is as famous as Cantor and Seigel for making the net a worse place. They started with an attempted rmgroup to silence their critics. It looks as if they then escalated to cancels of critic's posts, then auto-generated spam floods, cross-posts to Nazi hate groups, and now seem to be trying child porn floods of alt.religion.scientology (probably to later claim it is a haven for pedophiles.) Fear those that try to drown the free exchange of ideas.

I think we have our answer!!!

[krystal_blade]

hmmmm.... Maybe Slashdot needs to relocate to Canada so we don't have to worry about posts getting yanked.

The fact that Henson has "won" isn't really true YET. Just remember, that just because he's in Canada, it doesn't mean he's untouchable. So, for as long as it takes for this CULT to implode, he'll have to abide by the following rules...

1. NO Personality tests. Period.
2. No Pets. Scientologists like to release the "Thetans" in Pets. By killing them.
3. He won't be able to visit used bookstores, as Scientologists will undoubtedly recognize him from LRH's next book (from the grave) "The Enemy".
4. He'll have to deal with getting picketed.
5. He'll have to explain to his neighbors that NO, He's not a pedophile, and a rapist, and involved with the Occult. (anymore)

However, he should be able to Drive, buy bathing products, eat normally, AND live in a *gasp* house. All ideas that a normal scientologist loses when one of those videos SUCKS the INTELLIGENCE right out of em...

I think I killed a xenu once... I threw his familiar out the window, and he couldn't survive the system shock. That was a LONG time ago though.

ciao`... krystal_blade

Re:I think we have our answer!!!

[krystal_blade]

Actually, I don't code. I solder. Check it out.

And it's not FUD.

See, FUD is used when you speak an "untruth" about something or someone. Or, you want a desired result that is somehow beneficial to you. Or, when you are worried that the truth about yourself may be harmful. This isn't "untruth". This isn't "made up". This is actually a fairly delicate way of stating that:

Scientology uses tactics such as stalking, hiring investigators to dig up dirt on you, harrassment (picketing), disruption of your daily routine, physical assault, threats, lies, spreading rumors about you (such as a letter to your neighbors stating your a pedophile, convicted rapist, etc.) threatened litigation, and yes, even the assault and battery of your animal companion to the point of death. They even cover up deaths to avoid court prosecution.

www.videorotten.com, or www.xenu.net

This is not FUD. These are all documented statements made by people who, for one reason or another, were labeled as "enemies" of Scientology, and either spoke out about it, or threatened to.

These people had their lives ruined, lost loved ones, were alienated from their families, and all kinds of other nifty, nasty things.

LRH (L. Ron Hubbard for the uninitiated) has been quoted by his peers on COUNTLESS occasions that
"the best way to make money was to start a religion".
And "If they are enemies, do not stop until they are destroyed utterly."
and "Litigation does not have to succeed, it only has to harrass to be effective."

And countless other footbazooka quotes that can be read at

www.xenu.net

Check it out. Take a bit of time.

You'll see that Scientology has left a paper trail every bit as damning as the "Halloween Documents" presented on the internet by Microsoft. It's NOT FUD. It's a statement of fact.

These people aren't nice.
They aren't your friends.
They don't warrant defense.
The only thing they deserve is to be pitied, and ignored.

krystal_blade

Correction re: Keith Henson

[phr1]

Keith hasn't gotten refugee status in Canada yet. He's been let out of jail, and his application for refugee status has been accepted. That means Canada's immigration authorities accepted some papers from Keith's lawyers and said they'd think about it. What happens next is a bunch of investigation, hearings, etc. that can take up to two years, though Keith hopes to make things go faster than that.

This is as good an immediate outcome as could be hoped for. Some alternatives were that he could have been kept in jail longer, or booted back across the border to the US. For more info and updates, see here.

OLEDs

[agdv]

I wasn't that impressed with the OLEDs - many of the LCD displays outperformed them, and seem to have fewer lifespan issues
Of course Organic LEDs have short lifespans. There's only how long an array of fireflies will live...