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BeoR writes "Modding is extremely popular nowadays... with the exception of some, a lot of mods end up in disappointment. Some mods just don't look right... This article is aimed at making "Case Modding" easy... as well as letting you try out any kinds of mods on your case without even scratching it... Check it out"
smallstepforman sent in a link to the aquatank, featuring very real, and probably unhappy, fish! That said, you'd think a computer case would be a happy place for a lizard or snake that would like a little bit on warmth.
We also ran a sectional story which I thought would be interesting for the round-up: PC Cases with Side or Top Mounted Drive Bays?
And, finally, JoeD writes "For my sins, I was emailed the following link: The Pink Hello Kitty Laptop. I struggled to find the adjectives to adequately describe this case mod, but decided that words are inadequate for some things." I think this might be the first custom modded laptop that we've featured on slashdot. Hope the next one won't be as disturbing.
Date: Tue, 20 Feb 2001 23:10:51 -0500
From: "Eric S. Raymond" <esr@thyrsus.com>
To: lwn@lwn.net, editors@linuxtoday.com, malda@slashdot.org, editor@linux.com,
Subject: When times get hard
It hit the papers today that VA Linux Systems is going to have to cut 25% of its staff. The press release, as usual, was bland and neutral,
emphasizing our healthy revenue growth and our bright prospects -- the kind of corporate-speak everybody expects, and that VA has to
generate. It's part of the game.
It's no secret that I'm on VA's Board of Directors. I was at the board meeting where the five-odd people who have the responsibility to advise
Larry Augustin told him what he had to do. I was part of that decision, and it was not an easy one.
I'm not speaking for VA now (I basically never try to do that anyway; it's not my job). I'm speaking for myself. It was a weird, wrenching feeling
to wander around VA headquarters that afternoon, talking with good friends of mine, knowing in a few cases that they were likely to be canned through
no special fault of their own.
What VA is going through now is a sort of ritual bloodletting. The logic of the market is pitiless; when you don't make your numbers, the investors
want to be appeased by evidence that you're doing things to raise your profitability. That means making more dollars per employee, and the
fastest way to get there, the way investors effectively *demand* that you get there, is by laying off your least dollar-yielding employees.
Otherwise, you get what is politely called "loss of investor confidence". Companies go on life support when that happens -- they
can't get capital by selling shares, and that has ripple effects -- it tends to make potential customers bolt. When the customers bolt, the company runs out of money and die. Or it gets acquired, either by a large competitor or (worse) by a slice-n-dice artist who will sell off the assets and shitcan the company.
I went along with the 25% cuts because I understood the possible alternative: no company. And no employees. And no possibility that
my friends will ever be able to come back to work for a company they still love and care about.
I think VA's problems are solvable ones. The company got rocked by the popping of the dot.com bubble and the economic downturn we're in.
But we know what we have to do to deal with that. In order to avoid making what the SEC calls "forward-looking statements" I'm not going
to talk about our strategy or future prospects here; you can go ask VA's corporate-communications folks about that.
But the real reason I'm writing this little broadside is larger than VA; it's about the state of the open-source community, and the things
we need to keep in mind when times get hard.
VA, along with Red Hat, is one of the two bellwethers of the open-source business community. Some people are going to freak out
and think this setback is a harbinger of doom, that it means our community's game is over. Some people, especially at certain
monopolistic closed-source competitors I don't need to name, know better -- that troubles like VA's are pretty common in a market
downturn -- but they'll use it as ammunition in a FUD campaign anyhow. Expect to see Steve Ballmer and Jim Alchin quietly gloating at any
trade-press reporter they can collar. Brace for it.
And, as it says in large friendly letters on the back of the Hitchhiker's Guide, DON'T PANIC! What we're seeing now is entirely
normal. It's the long, dizzy boom time that has just ended, all smiles and champagne and venture capital sloshing around looking
for business plans, that has been exceptional. Business cycles happen, there are layoffs and retrenchments all over the economy --
and this, too, shall pass. Things will get better.
There is actually one good thing for us about economic slumps. During them, IT departments and software users in general feel pressure to cut costs. That makes low-cost and free software more attractive. Over the next few months you can expect to see a lot of submarine Linux deployments suddenly surfacing as managers realize that they'll look *good* on their quarterlies if they cut their licensing and service costs, and as the techies working for them get that message
and fess up to how many NT boxes they've been replacing by stealth.
So the downturn isn't all bad news for us, by any means. We just needto keep doing what we're doing, the best work we can. And when the
economy picks up again, we will have gained by it.
Back at IPO time I wrote an essay called "Surprised By Wealth" in which I tried to deal with how weird it felt to have a theoretical net
worth of $41 million. Am I upset that all that "wealth" is gone, at least until the stock bounces back? Well...yes and no. As a member
of VA's Board, it's my job to worry about our stock price, on behalf of all of our stockholders. So I care about that.
But personally? Nah. I wasn't in this for the bucks then, and I'm not now. Like most hackers, I do what I do for love and I thank the
gods that I can occasionally talk people into paying me money for it. Feels almost like taking advantage of them sometimes, doesn't it?
All the corporate stuff is not, after all, the point -- the point is to change the world, to do better software and give users more
choices. It's been a nice party, but some of us did get a little distracted by all that easy money flowing around. If the slump does
nothing else but take our eyes off those dollar signs and put them firmly back on the work, maybe it will have been the best thing for us
after all.
Murks Blot.
The aqua tank seems to be just out of reach. Those last two components are not widely available in this area for a reasonable price. :-(
I have been pwned because my
First laptop mod? Not by a long shot, and it's a Mac to boot.
If you are interested in such things, read on...
what should I do?
Ya'all get a hankerin for some Denny's eatins after readin that? heh
"Derp de derp."
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The following document is an instructional guide on assassination found among
the CIA's training files for "Operation PB Success" -- the agency's covert 1954
operation that overthrew the democratically elected government of Jacobo Arbenz
in Guatemala in June 1954. The CIA released it to the public on May 23, 1997, in
response to a Freedom of Information Act request.
Assassination was indeed a part of the CIA's plans in Guatemala. According to an
internal CIA history, the agency drafted lists of Guatemalans "to eliminate
immediately in event of [a] successful anti-communist coup." Planning for
assassination included budgeting, training programs, creation of hit teams,
drafting of target lists of persons, and transfer of armaments. The CIA history
states that "until the day that Arbenz resigned in June 1954 the option of
assassination was still being considered."
According to the official history, the assassination plans were never
implemented. But names of the targeted individuals were deleted when the
documents were made public, making it impossible to verify that none of them
were killed during or in the aftermath of the coup.
In the 1970s, revelations about CIA assassination plots led to strict
prohibitions against U.S.-sponsored assassinations.
A STUDY OF ASSASSINATION
DEFINITION
Assassination is a term thought to be derived from "Hashish", a drug similar to
marijuana, said to have been used by Hasan-Dan-Sabah to induce motivation in his
followers, who were assigned to carry out political and other murders, usually
at the cost of their lives.
It is here used to describe the planned killing of a person who is not under the
legal jurisdiction of the killer, who is not physically in the hands of the
killer, who has been selected by a resistance organization for death, and who
has been selected by a resistance organization for death, and whose death
provides positive advantages to that organization.
EMPLOYMENT
Assassination is an extreme measure not normally used in clandestine operations.
It should be assumed that it will never be ordered or authorized by any U.S.
Headquarters, though the latter may in rare instances agree to its execution by
members of an associated foreign service. This reticence is partly due to the
necessity for committing communications to paper. No assassination instructions
should ever be written or recorded. Consequently, the decision to employ this
technique must nearly always be reached in the field, at the area where the act
will take place. Decision and instructions should be confined to an absolute
minimum of persons. Ideally, only one person will be involved. No report may be
made, but usually the act will be properly covered by normal news services,
whose output is available to all concerned.
JUSTIFICATION
Murder is not morally justifiable. Self-defense may be argued if the victim has
knowledge which may destroy the resistance organization if divulged.
Assassination of persons responsible for atrocities or reprisals may be regarded
as just punishment. Killing a political leader whose burgeoning career is a
clear and present danger to the cause of freedom may be held necessary.
But assassination can seldom be employed with a clear conscience. Persons who
are morally squeamish should not attempt it.
CLASSIFICATIONS
The techniques employed will vary according to whether the subject is unaware of
his danger, aware but unguarded, or guarded. They will also be affected by
whether or not the assassin is to be killed with the subject hereafter,
assassinations in which the subject is unaware will be termed "simple"; those
where the subject is aware but unguarded will be termed "chase"; those where the
victim is guarded will be termed "guarded."
If the assassin is to die with the subject, the act will be called "lost." If
the assassin is to escape, the adjective will be "safe." It should be noted that
no compromises should exist here. The assassin must not fall alive into enemy
hands.
A further type division is caused by the need to conceal the fact that the
subject was actually the victim of assassination, rather than an accident or
natural causes. If such concealment is desirable the operation will be called
"secret"; if concealment is immaterial, the act will be called "open"; while if
the assassination requires publicity to be effective it will be termed
"terroristic."
Following these definitions, the assassination of Julius Caesar was safe,
simple, and terroristic, while that of Huey Long was lost, guarded and open.
Obviously, successful secret assassinations are not recorded as assassination at
all. [illegible] of Thailand and Augustus Caesar may have been the victims of
safe, guarded and secret assassination. Chase assassinations usually involve
clandestine agents or members of criminal organizations.
THE ASSASSIN
In safe assassinations, the assassin needs the usual qualities of a clandestine
agent. He should be determined, courageous, intelligent, resourceful, and
physically active. If special equipment is to be used, such as firearms or
drugs, it is clear that he must have outstanding skill with such equipment.
Except in terroristic assassinations, it is desirable that the assassin be
transient in the area. He should have an absolute minimum of contact with the
rest of the organization and his instructions should be given orally by one
person only. His safe evacuation after the act is absolutely essential, but here
again contact should be as limited as possible. It is preferable that the person
issuing instructions also conduct any withdrawal or covering action which may be
necessary.
In lost assassination, the assassin must be a fanatic of some sort. Politics,
religion, and revenge are about the only feasible motives. Since a fanatic is
unstable psychologically, he must be handled with extreme care. He must not know
the identities of the other members of the organization, for although it is
intended that he die in the act, something may go wrong. While the assassin of
Trotsky has never revealed any significant information, it was unsound to depend
on this when the act was planned.
PLANNING
When the decision to assassinate has been reached, the tactics of the operation
must be planned, based upon an estimate of the situation similar to that used in
military operations. The preliminary estimate will reveal gaps in information
and possibly indicate a need for special equipment which must be procured or
constructed. When all necessary data has been collected, an effective tactical
plan can be prepared. All planning must be mental; no papers should ever contain
evidence of the operation.
In resistance situations, assassination may be used as a counter-reprisal. Since
this requires advertising to be effective, the resistance organization must be
in a position to warn high officials publicly that their lives will be the price
of reprisal action against innocent people. Such a threat is of no value unless
it can be carried out, so it may be necessary to plan the assassination of
various responsible officers of the oppressive regime and hold such plans in
readiness to be used only if provoked by excessive brutality. Such plans must be
modified frequently to meet changes in the tactical situation.
TECHNIQUES
The essential point of assassination is the death of the subject. A human being
may be killed in many ways but sureness is often overlooked by those who may be
emotionally unstrung by the seriousness of this act they intend to commit. The
specific technique employed will depend upon a large number of variables, but
should be constant in one point: Death must be absolutely certain. The attempt
on Hitler's life failed because the conspiracy did not give this matter proper
attention.
Techniques may be considered as follows:
1. Manual.
It is possible to kill a man with the bare hands, but very few are skillful
enough to do it well. Even a highly trained Judo expert will hesitate to risk
killing by hand unless he has absolutely no alternative. However, the simplest
local tools are often much the most efficient means of assassination. A hammer,
axe, wrench, screw driver, fire poker, kitchen knife, lamp stand, or anything
hard, heavy and handy will suffice. A length of rope or wire or a belt will do
if the assassin is strong and agile. All such improvised weapons have the
important advantage of availability and apparent innocence. The obviously lethal
machine gun failed to kill Trotsky where an item of sporting goods succeeded.
In all safe cases where the assassin may be subject to search, either before or
after the act, specialized weapons should not be used. Even in the lost case,
the assassin may accidentally be searched before the act and should not carry an
incriminating device if any sort of lethal weapon can be improvised at or near
the site. If the assassin normally carries weapons because of the nature of his
job, it may still be desirable to improvise and implement at the scene to avoid
disclosure of his identity.
2. Accidents.
For secret assassination, either simple or chase, the contrived accident is the
most effective technique. When successfully executed, it causes little
excitement and is only casually investigated.
The most efficient accident, in simple assassination, is a fall of 75 feet or
more onto a hard surface. Elevator shafts, stair wells, unscreened windows and
bridges will serve. Bridge falls into water are not reliable. In simple cases a
private meeting with the subject may be arranged at a properly-cased location.
The act may be executed by sudden, vigorous [excised] of the ankles, tipping the
subject over the edge. If the assassin immediately sets up an outcry, playing
the "horrified witness", no alibi or surreptitious withdrawal is necessary. In
chase cases it will usually be necessary to stun or drug the subject before
dropping him. Care is required to insure that no wound or condition not
attributable to the fall is discernible after death.
Falls into the sea or swiftly flowing rivers may suffice if the subject cannot
swim. It will be more reliable if the assassin can arrange to attempt rescue, as
he can thus be sure of the subject's death and at the same time establish a
workable alibi.
If the subject's personal habits make it feasible, alcohol may be used [2 words
excised] to prepare him for a contrived accident of any kind.
Falls before trains or subway cars are usually effective, but require exact
timing and can seldom be free from unexpected observation.
Automobile accidents are a less satisfactory means of assassination. If the
subject is deliberately run down, very exact timing is necessary and
investigation is likely to be thorough. If the subject's car is tampered with,
reliability is very low. The subject may be stunned or drugged and then placed
in the car, but this is only reliable when the car can be run off a high cliff
or into deep water without observation.
Arson can cause accidental death if the subject is drugged and left in a burning
building. Reliability is not satisfactory unless the building is isolated and
highly combustible.
3. Drugs.
In all types of assassination except terroristic, drugs can be very effective.
If the assassin is trained as a doctor or nurse and the subject is under medical
care, this is an easy and rare method. An overdose of morphine administered as a
sedative will cause death without disturbance and is difficult to detect. The
size of the dose will depend upon whether the subject has been using narcotics
regularly. If not, two grains will suffice.
If the subject drinks heavily, morphine or a similar narcotic can be injected at
the passing out stage, and the cause of death will often be held to be acute
alcoholism.
Specific poisons, such as arsenic or strychine, are effective but their
possession or procurement is incriminating, and accurate dosage is
problematical. Poison was used unsuccessfully in the assassination of Rasputin
and Kolohan, though the latter case is more accurately described as a murder.
4. Edge Weapons
Any locally obtained edge device may be successfully employed. A certain minimum
of anatomical knowledge is needed for reliability.
Puncture wounds of the body cavity may not be reliable unless the heart is
reached. The heart is protected by the rib cage and is not always easy to
locate.
Abdominal wounds were once nearly always mortal, but modern medical treatment
has made this no longer true.
Absolute reliability is obtained by severing the spinal cord in the cervical
region. This can be done with the point of a knife or a light blow of an axe or
hatchet.
Another reliable method is the severing of both jugular and carotid blood
vessels on both sides of the windpipe.
If the subject has been rendered unconscious by other wounds or drugs, either of
the above methods can be used to insure death.
5. Blunt Weapons
As with edge weapons, blunt weapons require some anatomical knowledge for
effective use. Their main advantage is their universal availability. A hammer
may be picked up almost anywhere in the world. Baseball and [illegible] bats are
very widely distributed. Even a rock or a heavy stick will do, and nothing
resembling a weapon need be procured, carried or subsequently disposed of.
Blows should be directed to the temple, the area just below and behind the ear,
and the lower, rear portion of the skull. Of course, if the blow is very heavy,
any portion of the upper skull will do. The lower frontal portion of the head,
from the eyes to the throat, can withstand enormous blows without fatal
consequences.
6. Firearms
Firearms are often used in assassination, often very ineffectively. The assassin
usually has insufficient technical knowledge of the limitations of weapons, and
expects more range, accuracy and killing power than can be provided with
reliability. Since certainty of death is the major requirement, firearms should
be used which can provide destructive power at least 100% in excess of that
thought to be necessary, and ranges should be half that considered practical for
the weapon.
Firearms have other drawbacks. Their possession is often incriminating. They may
be difficult to obtain. They require a degree of experience from the user. They
are [illegible]. Their lethality is consistently over-rated.
However, there are many cases in which firearms are probably more efficient than
any other means. These cases usually involve distance between the assassin and
the subject, or comparative physical weakness of the assassin, as with a woman.
(a) The precision rifle. In guarded assassination, a good hunting or target
rifle should always be considered as a possibility. Absolute reliability can
nearly always be achieved at a distance of one hundred yards. In ideal
circumstances, the range may be extended to 250 yards. The rifle should be a
well made bolt or falling block action type, handling a powerful long-range
cartridge. The
available. Other excellent calibers are
Winchester,
type. These are preferable to ordinary military calibers, since ammunition
available for them is usually of the expanding bullet type, whereas most
ammunition for military rifles is full jacketed and hence not sufficiently
lethal. Military ammunition should not be altered by filing or drilling bullets,
as this will adversely affect accuracy.
The rifle may be of the "bull gun" variety, with extra heavy barrel and set
triggers, but in any case should be capable of maximum precision. Ideally, the
weapon should be able to group in one inch at one hundred yards, but 2 1/2"
groups are adequate. The sight should be telescopic, not only for accuracy, but
because such a sight is much better in dim light or near darkness. As long as
the bare outline of the target is discernable, a telescope sight will work, even
if the rifle and shooter are in total darkness.
An expanding, hunting bullet of such calibers as described above will produce
extravagant laceration and shock at short or mid-range. If a man is struck just
once in the body cavity, his death is almost entirely certain.
Public figures or guarded officials may be killed with great reliability and
some safety if a firing point can be established prior to an official occasion.
The propaganda value of this system may be very high.
(b) The machine gun.
Machine guns may be used in most cases where the precision rifle is applicable.
Usually, this will require the subversion of a unit of an official guard at a
ceremony, though a skillful and determined team might conceivably dispose of a
loyal gun crew without commotion and take over the gun at the critical time.
The area fire capacity of the machine gun should not be used to search out a
concealed subject. This was tried with predictable lack of success on Trotsky.
The automatic feature of the machine gun should rather be used to increase
reliability by placing a 5 second burst on the subject. Even with full jacket
ammunition, this will be absolute lethal is the burst pattern is no larger than
a man. This can be accomplished at about 150 yards. In ideal circumstances, a
properly padded and targeted machine gun can do it at 850 yards. The major
difficulty is placing the first burst exactly on the target, as most machine
gunners are trained to spot their fire on target by observation of strike. This
will not do in assassination as the subject will not wait.
(c) The Submachine Gun.
This weapon, known as the "machine-pistol" by the Russians and Germans and
"machine-carbine" by the British, is occasionally useful in assassination.
Unlike the rifle and machine gun, this is a short range weapon and since it
fires pistol ammunition, much less powerful. To be reliable, it should deliver
at least 5 rounds into the subject's chest, though the
have a much larger margin of killing efficiency than the 9 mm European arms.
The assassination range of the sub-machine gun is point blank. While accurate
single rounds can be delivered by sub-machine gunners at 50 yards or more, this
is not certain enough for assassination. Under ordinary circumstances, the 5MG
should be used as a fully automatic weapon. In the hands of a capable gunner, a
high cyclic rate is a distinct advantage, as speed of execution is most
desirable, particularly in the case of multiple subjects.
The sub-machine gun is especially adapted to indoor work when more than one
subject is to be assassinated. An effective technique has been devised for the
use of a pair of sub-machine gunners, by which a room containing as many as a
dozen subjects can be "purifico" in about twenty seconds with little or no risk
to the gunners. It is illustrated below.
While the U.S. sub-machine guns fire the most lethal cartridges, the higher
cyclic rate of some foreign weapons enable the gunner to cover a target quicker
with acceptable pattern density. The Bergmann Model 1934 is particularly good in
this way. The Danish Madman? SMG has a moderately good cyclic rate and is
admirably compact and concealable. The Russian SHG's have a good cyclic rate,
but are handicapped by a small, light protective which requires more kits for
equivalent killing effect.
(d) The Shotgun.
A large bore shotgun is a most effective killing instrument as long as the range
is kept under ten yards. It should normally be used only on single targets as it
cannot sustain fire successfully. The barrel may be "sawed" off for convenience,
but this is not a significant factor in its killing performance. Its optimum
range is just out of reach of the subject. 00 buckshot is considered the best
shot size for a twelve gage gun, but anything from single balls to bird shot
will do if the range is right. The assassin should aim for the solar plexus as
the shot pattern is small at close range and can easily miss the head.
(e) The Pistol.
While the handgun is quite inefficient as a weapon of assassination, it is often
used, partly because it is readily available and can be concealed on the person,
and partly because its limitations are not widely appreciated. While many well
known assassinations have been carried out with pistols (Lincoln, Harding,
Ghandi), such attempts fail as often as they succeed, (Truman, Roosevelt,
Churchill).
If a pistol is used, it should be as powerful as possible and fired from just
beyond reach. The pistol and the shotgun are used in similar tactical
situations, except that the shotgun is much more lethal and the pistol is much
more easily concealed.
In the hands of an expert, a powerful pistol is quite deadly, but such experts
are rare and not usually available for assassination missions.
.45 Colt,
Magnum are all efficient calibers. Less powerful rounds can suffice but are less
reliable. Sub-power cartridges such as the
In all cases, the subject should be hit solidly at least three times for
complete reliability.
(f) Silent Firearms
The sound of the explosion of the proponent in a firearm can be effectively
silenced by appropriate attachments. However, the sound of the projective
passing through the air cannot, since this sound is generated outside the
weapon. In cases where the velocity of the bullet greatly exceeds that of sound,
the noise so generated is much louder than that of the explosion. Since all
powerful rifles have muzzle velocities of over 2000 feet per second, they cannot
be silenced.
Pistol bullets, on the other hand, usually travel slower than sound and the
sound of their flight is negligible. Therefore, pistols, submachine guns and any
sort of improvised carbine or rifle which will take a low velocity cartridge can
be silenced. The user should not forget that the sound of the operation of a
repeating action is considerable, and that the sound of bullet strike,
particularly in bone is quite loud.
Silent firearms are only occasionally useful to the assassin, though they have
been widely publicized in this connection. Because permissible velocity is low,
effective precision range is held to about 100 yards with rifle or carbine type
weapons, while with pistols, silent or otherwise, are most efficient just beyond
arms length. The silent feature attempts to provide a degree of safety to the
assassin, but mere possession of a silent firearm is likely to create enough
hazard to counter the advantage of its silence. The silent pistol combines the
disadvantages of any pistol with the added one of its obviously clandestine
purpose.
A telescopically sighted, closed-action carbine shooting a low velocity bullet
of great weight, and built for accuracy, could be very useful to an assassin in
certain situations. At the time of writing, no such weapon is known to exist.
7. Explosives.
Bombs and demolition charges of various sorts have been used frequently in
assassination. Such devices, in terroristic and open assassination, can provide
safety and overcome guard barriers, but it is curious that bombs have often been
the implement of lost assassinations.
The major factor which affects reliability is the use of explosives for
assassination. The charge must be very large and the detonation must be
controlled exactly as to time by the assassin who can observe the subject. A
small or moderate explosive charge is highly unreliable as a cause of death, and
time delay or booby-trap devices are extremely prone to kill the wrong man. In
addition to the moral aspects of indiscriminate killing, the death of casual
bystanders can often produce public reactions unfavorable to the cause for which
the assassination is carried out.
Bombs or grenades should never be thrown at a subject. While this will always
cause a commotion and may even result in the subject's death, it is sloppy,
unreliable, and bad propaganda. The charge must be too small and the assassin is
never sure of: (1) reaching his attack position, (2) placing the charge close
enough to the target and (3) firing the charge at the right time.
Placing the charge surreptitiously in advance permits a charge of proper size to
be employed, but requires accurate prediction of the subject's movements.
Ten pounds of high explosive should normally be regarded as a minimum, and this
is explosive of fragmentation material. The latter can consist of any hard,
[illegible] material as long as the fragments are large enough. Metal or rock
fragments should be walnut-size rather than pen-size. If solid plates are used,
to be ruptured by the explosion, cast iron, 1" thick, gives excellent
fragmentation. Military or commercial high explosives are practical for use in
assassination. Homemade or improvised explosives should be avoided. While
possibly powerful, they tend to be dangerous and unreliable. Anti-personnel
explosive missiles are excellent, provided the assassin has sufficient technical
knowledge to fuse them properly. 81 or 82 mm mortar shells, or the 120 mm mortar
shell, are particularly good. Anti-personnel shells for 85, 88, 90, 100 and 105
mm guns and howitzers are both large enough to be completely reliable and small
enough to be carried by one man.
The charge should be so placed that the subject is not ever six feet from it at
the moment of detonation.
A large, shaped charge with the [illegible] filled with iron fragments (such as
1" nuts and bolts) will fire a highly lethal shotgun-type [illegible] to 50
yards. This reaction has not been thoroughly tested, however, and an exact
replica of the proposed device should be fired in advance to determine exact
range, pattern-size, and penetration of fragments. Fragments should penetrate at
least 1" of seasoned pine or equivalent for minimum reliability.
Any firing device may be used which permits exact control by the assassin. An
ordinary commercial or military explorer is efficient, as long as it is rigged
for instantaneous action with no time fuse in the system.
The wise [illegible] electric target can serve as the triggering device and
provide exact timing from as far away as the assassin can reliably hit the
target. This will avid the disadvantages of stringing wire between the proposed
positions of the assassin and the subject, and also permit the assassin to fire
the charge from a variety of possible positions.
The radio switch can be used to fire a charge, though its reliability is
somewhat lower and its procurement may not be easy.
EXAMPLES
([illegible] may be presented brief outlines, with critical evaluations of the
following assassinations and attempts:
Marat
Hedrich
Lincoln
Hitler
Harding
Roose
Grand Duke Sergei
Truman
Pirhivie
Mussolini
Archduke Francis Ferdinand
Benes
Rasputin
Aung Sang
Madero
[illegible]
Kirov
Abdullah
Huey Long
Ghandi
Alexander of Yugoslavia
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CONFERENCE ROOM TECHNIQUE
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while looking at AguaTank, here is some complimentary porn to keep your attention!
It's not the OS it's the user that sucks. If it's user friendly, you get stupider people. - clinko
Hi, my name is 12StepTroll, and I am an alcoholic. What do I have to say tonight? Well, I think that what I mainly come here to do is admit that I have a problem. I don't think I am ready to talk about it yet. Maybe I'll just listen tonight and tell you a bit about myself next time.
It is now official - a Slashdot poll has confirmed: Slashdot is dying
/proc interface hack. Notice that the paper presents the exact same idea for isolating web browsers. This Systrace mechanism seems a bit more complete though. [ Reply to This | Parent ] security in BSD (Score:1) /sbin, /usr/sbin, etc.) and there's a jail [netbsd.ro] module as well which restricts processes, such as jailing ssh and running top in an ssh session will disallow you to see other processes other than your own - Both of which are kernel modules (LKM).
Yet another crippling bombshell hit the beleaguered Slashdot community when recently a poll on the site confirmed that up-to-date and factually-correct stories account for less than 40 percent of all submitted news stories, that the user-moderation system has fallen to pieces through the oppressive power of the editors, and that subscribers don't need to pay and can use such software as JunkBuster to filter out adverts. Coming on the heels of the latest MSNBC survey which plainly states that Slashdot has lost more readers, this news serves to reinforce what we've known all along. Slashdot is collapsing in complete disarray, as further exemplified by failing dead last [kuro5hin.com] in the recent Kuro5hin technology site popularity test.
You don't need to be a Kreskin [amdest.com] to predict Slashdot's future. The hand writing is on the wall: Slashdot faces a bleak future. In fact there won't be any future at all for it because Slashdot is dying. Things are looking very bad for the site. As many of us are already aware, Slashdot continues to lose readers. Red ink flows like a river of blood. The subscribers scheme is the most endangered of them all, having lost 62% of its paying readers.
Let's keep to the facts and look at the numbers.
Slashdot editor and homosexual-rights campaigner Rob Malda (CmdrTaco) states that there are 700 paying subscribers to Slashdot. How many normal readers are there? Let's see. The number of subscriber versus reader posts on Slashdot is roughly in ratio of 1 to 4. Therefore there are about 700*4 = 2800 normal casual readers. Anonymous Coward posts are about half of the volume of the typical posts. Therefore there are about 1400 readers who can't be bothered setting up an account. A recent article put the Trolls, who post sexual insults, foul ASCII art pictures and links to vile sites, at about 80 percent of the Slashdot readership. Therefore there are (700+8400+4200)*4 = 19600 trolling readers. This is consistent with the number of Troll posts.
Due to the troubles of Andover.net, abysmal hit counts and so on, Slashdot went out of business and was taken over by OSDN who run another troubled site. Now OSDN is also dead, its corpse turned over to yet another charnel house.
All major surveys show that Slashdot has steadily declined in readership. It is very sick and its long term survival prospects are very dim. If Slashdot is to survive at all it will be among geeky hobbyist dabblers. Slashdot continues to decay. Nothing short of a miracle could save it at this point in time. For all practical purposes, Slashdot is dead.
So why now? Why did Slashdot fail? Once you get over the myriad of incompatible personalities, particularly among the editors who have repeatedly failed to check for serious inaccuracies in their stories (see the FreeBSD 4.5 "release" as a shocking example), it's clear that subscribers will continue to decrease. Using software such as JunkBuster, readers can eliminate adverts without having to pay any money. These two significant factors, along with the corrupted "moderation" scheme (where editors have infinite power over the regular moderators), only confirm yet further that Slashdot's glory days are coming to an end.
Fact: Slashdot is dying
[ Reply to This | Parent ] been done... (Score:1)
by ghassanm on Friday May 31, @02:04PM (#3618488)
(User #130547 Info) This isn't a really novel project as it has allready been done by David Wagner and Tal Garfinkel. I highly recommend people read the Janus paper located at the bottom of this page [berkeley.edu]. They did something very similar although it uses some funny Solaris
by spunkykuma on Friday May 31, @02:31PM (#3618690)
(User #574480 Info) I like that idea, though I see would be a more useful thing in Linux or FreeBSD than in OpenBSD. For those of you that use NetBSD, there's an exec denier [netbsd.ro] (restircts specified users from executing things in
As for binary-only software in Linux, I don't believe the number of binary only applications will increase very much more other than commercial or restricted licensed apps.
Does that Hello Kitty laptop seem familiar? No, it's not because it's the same one your useing to view Slashdot right now (you sick twisted...), it's because It's Beginning to Look Alot Like Quickies! That's right it's a repost! Keep your eyes peeled, you may never see this again (*sure*)
Comment forecast: Bits of genius surrounded by a sea of mediocrity.
Let's see, the site you linked to seems to be dated this year (2002), while the PHKL is referenced in a posted e-mail dated.. what class?... that's right, 1998. It's good to know you know your math so well.
Comment forecast: Bits of genius surrounded by a sea of mediocrity.
He DOES realize that US Postal Service mailboxes (yes, that includes aluminum house mailboxes you buy at the Home Depot) are actually property of the US Postal Service. Yep, even though you physically own it. That's why it's a bad idea to go around putting Dran-O bombs in unsuspecting neighbors' mailboxes. Oh did I say that? =)
That would be hard :).
Ant(Dude) @ Quality Foraged Links (AQFL.net) & The Ant Farm (antfarm.ma.cx / antfarm.home.dhs.org).
Did anyone notice that the Pink Hello Kitty Laptop is a NON-WORKING mod... Not only is it a DOA laptop before the ambitious girls got started, but the "mouse" is a yo-yo attached with a plastic-bead necklace to the computer...
:(
I don't see how this counts as a "case-mod"... Maybe "doorstop-mod", but that's about it...
P.S. Yes, I realize that my comment on such things is proof that I was bored enough to actually read through the better part of the PHKL page...
Loren Osborn
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"Since I forgot to take more pictures of the construction process, here is a pair of hotties in thongs to even things out."
ROFL!
Tom's Hardware is currently running a feature entitled How To Select The Right Case For Your Computer which takes modding potential into consideration, even suggesting the Directron/Super Flower - 201S as a sort of "pre-modded" option for those of us too busy playing games or just too plain lazy to put in the necessary work ourselves.
I don't thinks it's nice of Slashdot to link to pages with PORNOGRAPHY without warning us!
it hurts when I poo now.
"someone should make a hot air balloon that is shaped like a giant vagina". --Bill Clinton
What, are people too hung up on the soft-pr0n ch1xs in th0ngs to read the rest of the auqatank page?
BTW, the "neon tetra" he talks about is the breed of fish, not some kind of four-way processor mod.
You cannot apply a technological solution to a sociological problem. (Edwards' Law)
Not necessary -- my PC case is already at the karma cap. (What can I say? It posts a lot when I'm not home.) But hey, thanks for keeping it in mind.
Your typos bring great dishonor upon this place.
I'm not sure about that. Unless you're using the water as a coolant system and just happen to have fish which tolerate a wide range of temperatures, it doesn't seem that different from having a fish tank next to the computer. Although i admit it's an accomplishment to get them to match, i'd rather see some integration or something. Like a computer case/hamster cage. You could set it up with onscreen readouts of hamster wheel speed and tell people it actually effected your processor speed. And it'd be a great excuse: sorry, i didn't get your message last night. Furball was sleeping and i didn't want to wake her up just to check my email...
ok, maybe not.
Well, I heard this suggestion a while ago on slashdot but (for fairly obvious reasons) I have yet to see/hear of it again:
Why not make a case mod in which all of the components sat in deionized water? The theory behind this is that deionized H2O doesn't conduct; therefore, it wouldn't conduct and thus submersing all of the components in your case would work. Has anyone done any investigating into whether this is practical? Has anyone already done it?
If it works, this is is definitely the holy grail of case-modding.
... Some of us really like to read about nifty hardware presentation hacks like case mods, lego cases, acrylic and cast iron cases, liquid-helium cooled processors, teddybears with routers embedded, etc... and so forth. Why not create a new topic area for material like this *separate* from the regular hardware area so those of us who are interested can see the stories more often and those of us who aren't can filter that area.... like most of us do with Jon Katz...
The next Slashdot story will be ready soon, but subscribers can beat the rush and slashdot the links early!
i'd rather see some integration or something. Like a computer case/hamster cage.
Not a hamster, but close enough.
Girls in thongs don't qualify as porn in my estimation.
Find something to do with your time, aside from whining about non-problems.
...Book PC.
It's a Bonsai Kitten
-- SIGFPE
Hypercooled
...that these are the same people who can make a bong out of anything?
"OK, get me a broomstick, some PVC pipe and a cantaloupe."
The only tool you've got against psychosis is experience.
On that mailbox mod, the position of the Panaflo (looks like 80mm) fan is absolutely horrible. He has the fan stuck up against the side of the box, with a screen to the outside only covering maybe a 1/4 to a 1/3 of the fan area. Number 1, you are getting absolutely horrible air flow from that (especially with the heat coming off of the cathode in there) and number 2, you are stressing the fan by forcing it to blow air on (or suck air from) a directly connected flat surface. With the amount of work he was putting into getting the metal and making brackets already, he should have just cut up a duct for the fan, and placed it at least a couple inches away from the screen. The duct would increase air flow dramatically, would be fairly easy to build, and would look much better under the cathode than a bunch of empty space.
Dear Idiot, 1)How many times have you fail math this is the most sorriest attempt of estimating i have ever seen. 2)I cannot inderstanding how you can fall to the trap of a poll made my MSNBC hens the name M$! 3) screw you.go read suckdot
Having done quite a few Mods myself I find myself craving to do more. But is it realy worth it? Most of the time you either draw power away from the components that you need or compromise the soundness of the case itself. Ever taken your mod one step too far only to realize that you just fried your hard-drive... or even worse under powered your processor with all of those cool lights and fans? Just wondering if people truly think it is worth the trouble to do those outrageous mods.
The problem with it is that 99% of the time slashdot is ok to check out while at your anal-retentive workplace, but then you splash up even soft crap like that and you can get fired. And yes Slashdot is appropriate to be surfing in a tech shop, but per HR thongs aren't.
Either the fish are dead, or those girls in the thongs need to take a bath.
"We shall party like the Greeks of old! You know the ones I mean." - HedonismBot
What do you think?
Aw.. I just payed the hundred and something bucks for the aluminum case. That's trendy enough for me. I've got more profitable ways to spend my time... like making low rated Slashdot posts to feel like I'm "in the circle."
Later.
Who mediates your information?
case mods. Otherwise i'd have it glowing blue.
Pi
I had the same feeling after moderating the Post of Death (tm)...
You've moved your bathroom to your computer, or vice versa.
You've overclocked everything with a transistor; you're watercooling them.
Now, you have a use for all that warm water; it makes a comfortable wash that keeps you hygienic, and prevents you from getting a rash from sitting in front of your computer, on your toilet, for 72 hours at a stretch.
The Art of Design is all about taking harmonious advantage of the resources already available to you. It is all about turning your tower into a bidet.
The good and new comes from no quarter where it is looked for, and is always something different from what is expected.
Sheet metal does rock, but aluminum flashing won't rust and is easier to work. A big roll of the stuff that will last for years. It's easier to work than steel and much lighter. The drawback is that flashing is thin and not as strong as available heavy steel sheet. You can overcome this by bending a few edges and mounting stiffening pieces. I love my aluminum sheet roll almost as much as I love duct tape.
Mixing steel and aluminum is a bad idea. Their electronegativities are far appart so your steel will rust quickly. Yeah, yeah, yeah, it can be done and there are places for it.
DMCA, Hollings, Palladium. What might have sounded like paranoia is now common sense.
You have reached the end of the Internet. Go back... now.
A waste of an already dead laptop? Hardly. Not my taste, but hysterical nonetheless.
7 November 2006: The day Americans realized corruption and incompetence weren't addressing 11 September 2001
the house of the owner of the aqua tank burnt down as the amd melted the glass, causing the fish to short circuit the comp;)
shameless plug to get everyone to look at my case...i cleID=7
Bjorn3D.com is having a case mod contest which ends at midnight tonight. theres only a few cases but its worth a look and its a great site for gaming hardware buffs.
mine is malus apperatus, feel free to email me at laugh@danger.org with any comments
http://www.bjorn3d.com/_preview.php?art
Hi, I'm a case modder myself, and I've compiled a huge list of over 300 case mod articles that has been properly categorised. Check it out HERE. Hope you guys find it useful :) ... My own case mod is over here.
I'm pretty surprised chrisd didn't post this:? t=137&postdays=0&postorder=&start=0
1 . PG 2 . PG 3 . PG
http://www.pheatonforums.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php
And the final pictures here:
http://www.planetcasemod.com/NeXT/Final/angleshot
http://www.planetcasemod.com/NeXT/Final/angleshot
http://www.planetcasemod.com/NeXT/Final/angleshot
This is quite possibly the most impressive case mod I have ever seen.
You can buy one of those displays at B.G. Micro, in case you're wondering.
go back to the bible thumping, and leave the real world to us, dip shits and morons like this guy are why birth control exsist...
so all you girls out there, remember he wont look at you if you get nekked, and he wont touch you until you are married to his sorry ass...(as if that would ever happen)
karma, hah...
But I'd still prefer to have this case:
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http://www.techtv.com/screensavers/supergeek/st
Just what range of UV is that LED cranking out?
There are apparently a host of different types of UV LEDs. From the LED Museum, here's a quote about one particularly nasty one:
"This is one LED that you should NEVER, EVER look at directly with your eyes. This is because the invisible ultraviolet radiation is harmful to them, and can cause corneal fogging that mimics cataracts; and can cause even more severe damage to your eye's lens with only slightly prolonged exposure.
Thankfully here, the LED's UV emission is all long-wave, and not the even nastier medium and shortwave kind. If you need to view this LED directly for any reason (studying it, curious, etc.), obtain a UV filter and place it between your eyes and the LED's window before you try feeding this LED any power."
I don't exactly understand why slashdot of all places--with a database of stories with URLs that one would think could be easily scanned for repitition before posting--continuously repeats itself. but having said that..
/.'s repetition as well. So could we all, as posters, just stop doing this? And could we all, as moderators, stop encouraging it? Because the people who know it's a repeat ALREADY KNOW. And the people who don't know, DON'T CARE. So it really doesn't benefit anyone. Taking shots at the slashdot editors is so passe. It's pretty obvious they don't care about the occasional repeat, so why should I?
I've seen just about enough posts about
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I can understand painting, LED's, custom fronts, etc. but cutting "windows" in one's case is just plain stupid. Why would you purposely expose yourself to so much unnecessary radiation? (not to mention any electronic equipment nearby., which could interfere in either direction.) We're not talking about miniscule radiation of debatable health effects (like cell phones, etc.) The microwave-range radiation from a modern PC without metal case shielding is rather substantial. That's why the FCC requires shielded design. For example, what happens when CPU's reach the 2.4GHz. region? All of a sudden, your "cool" case is going to interfere with your wireless LAN and cordless phone. What's the point?
Thong/bikini models aren't my taste (by a long shot), but I would hardly find them outright offensive. Indeed, most common decency laws state that pornography and indecency are based completely on the morals and judgement of the community. Given the goatse.cx that has typically proliferated here, I think one would be hard pressed to argue that an "average" /. reader would be offended by images of women in small bathing suits.
Even if I don't have to agree with the site author's taste in pictures -- swimsuit or otherwise -- which he chooses to put on his site, I most certainly do have to agree with his right to put those pictures there.
People get worked up (no pun intended) over the strangest things...
-B
Ash and Hickory, straight-grained and true, make excellent bludgeons, dandy for the cudgeling of vegetarians.
But mostly just sick.
Flamebait? That was modded as flamebaite?
Dumbass moderator, he was responding to an offtopic tRoLL.
Sheesh...
Anyhow... Hey, nice well thought out reply, and I agree about the cheesecake, juvenile, but easy to scroll past.
The man apparently needs some professional help, as he is totally out of touch with today's society.
Wouldn't that be great?
With no fan on the CPU, and all those pretty bubbles coming off of the heat sink.
Totally cool.
Until the fish took a crap, and the water started conducting, and it all fried...
Shouldn't it be "Hot-Rodding for nerds of bosth sexes"?
Kinda late but I haven't seen any security mods until I saw this mod!
Take-off every
When I put together a new computer for myself, I have a tendency to replace the 12-volt case fan(s) with 120-volt fans. Such are widely available, and are the same size (except thicker), so they fit the mounting holes. The perceived advantage is the reduced load on the 12V regulator in the power supply, so that maybe it will run a bit cooler and last a bit longer. The mod has to be done carefully, of course. I might recommend Radio Shack Cat. No. 274-222 (2-conductor male/female Molded Nylon Connector Pair) as a means of bringing 120V from inside the PSU to inside the main computer case, so that the power is available for the 120V fan(s). Yes, this means the fans will run all the time, unless you have either provided an additional switch to the PSU, or tapped the switched 120V line inside the PSU.
If my daughter sees the hello kitty laptop I won't hear the end of it untill I make one for her too.
especially since the hello kitty thing has already been seen here.
-- john
I did painted my computer in a dbz theme featuring Vegeta. I know the debate is out about as to the mod requirement of a working computer, but I don't know if painting qualifies as a mod job?
And the first time, you PHKL gawkers created 30 MB of traffic in 20 days, and my provider thre me off. Now I am on a metered provider, and you people are probably going to cost me a fortune.
chrisd could have just fucking asked first, and given me a chance to say no. It's not like my email isn't at the bottom of the page
You know, looking at what you guys all write about the laptop and about me, I have to say you people are kind of mean. No, really. The recipient was very happy with it, and it was fun to do.
I would like it noted that I never submitted this a case mod, and have never claimed anything about it. And if my Halloween costume makes your lunch come back up, get help for your gastrointestinal disorder.
Meanwhile, my latest mod did indeed work when I delivered it to the offices that requested it. It may be in the pages of the next issue of Popular Science.
Thanks for that post man, got some very nice stuff inside.
Om, nomnomnom...
You going to die of something, wether it be old age, cancer, or your own stupidity, something will get you in the end. Anyway, you shouldn't sit infront of your monitor either, the radiation that the sucker puts off will surpise you, also don't stand infront of running microwaves, ahh don't sleep with electric blankets on, don't live close to a transformer sub station...blah blah blah, but if you didn't know they do make plexi-glass with radio-sheilding in it, similar to the "purple glaze" windsheilds on cars that block out alot of the sun.
Om, nomnomnom...
So lets pray to the gods that they dont make a Powerpuff Girls branded laptop...
I mean, Hello Kitty is huge in Japan, but has a small (yet loyal) fan base everywhere else... But it would send shivers down my spine to see a Barbie laptop, or a Teletubbies IMac...
(shudder...)
No sig for the moment.
I'm building an audio raid solution and need power for the drives. The drives require 12V for the motor and 5V for the i/o stuff.
While digging around in an electronic salvage shop, I found a dozen Lamba Model# UNZ2DIJ power supplies that have never been used. This particular model is discontinued but you can still purchase it for $1,400.00 USD. The salvage shop wants $100.00 USD.
The PSs have modules for 12V 17A and 5V 100A and a third module that can be replaced with another 12V 17A module to meet the amperage requirements for the first version of my array. Of course there's also "+" and "-" remote sense pins to account for power flucuations due to wiring resistence.
I am not a power expert and would appreciate any feedback on why this power supply isn't suited to my requirements. Obviously I don't want to toast an array. According to the manual, these units are big in medical testing installations.
As a side note concerning cases; I talked to a guy that does large server installations. When they do an install all the old gear is replaced including the cases. I got one six foot tall Digital server rack case for free. He's got three more of these and 38 six foot cases with smoked glass front doors in another warehouse. He said, "we can't get rid of junk." I imagine shipping costs would be prohibitive.
This is one of the many reasons humans should not be at the top of the food chain.
Elijah Chancey www.elijahsadventure.com nomadic IT consultant, bicycling across america "all that you touch / and all
use a scavenged microwave oven door.. if that wont filter out microwaves, well, we're in big trouble..