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Was it ahead of its time or vice versa? BreadMan writes "After limping along for years, the New Internet Computer (NIC) company finally went under. Founded by Larry Ellison, NIC sold a diskless workstation running Linux targeted at home users that wanted internet access. From the spec sheet it looks like this would be fun as a hacking platform if you can get one on the cheap."
Way to GNU! xarium writes "Seems that in response to pressure from the FSF OpenTV has released the source code to all of its compilers. You can download the full package here (~18meg)."
Because a hard drive should not be a rhythm section.
Dynamoo writes "As previously noted in Slashdot, Fujitsu MPG3xx series hard drives have been failing in huge numbers. The U.S. law firm, Shepherd Finkelman Miller & Shah is currently conducting a class action against Fujitsu and HP for knowingly distributing faulty drives. According the this article in The Register, Gateway has now been lined up as a defendant.
The fault appears to impact MPG3102AT, MPG3204AT, MPG3307AT and MPG3409AT units manufactured in early 2001. If you have one of these, then it has probably failed already, if not you should replace it asap. If you're a customer of HP/Compaq you can visit the HP Hard Disk Drive Replacement Program site.
We had about 40 of these things fitted to Compaq DeskPro EXDs, and I can assure you the failure rate is pushing 100%."
In the public domain, no one knows you're a dog.
smiff writes "United Press International reports on Dastar v. Twentieth Century Fox. Reversing lower court rulings, the Supreme Court unanimously ruled that Dastar did not violate the origin-of-work provision of the Lanham act. Dastar had taken public domain video, made some modifications, and sold it as its own product. Twentieth Century Fox sued claiming they should have been given credit for the video. According to Antonin Scalia, Dastar would have violated the Lanham Act if it had simply repacked the material and sold it as its own. But since Dastar made some minor changes, the Lanham Act doesn't apply.
While Dastar has been cleared under the Lanham Act, the Supreme Court sent the case back for a rehearing. The Fox video entered the public domain in 1977, but the book it was based on is still protected by copyright."
... or get off the pot. Brazilian Joe writes "The LinuxTag folks, as you may know, are responsible for a restraining order against SCO's claims in Germany. As a result, SCO has shut down its Germany web site. Story here."
fp!! spiff!
The "A Matter of Size" sub-board (#93, Only on Harbor Bytes, 410-235-8402) is
pleased to present this two-part series on ball methods. We wish to take this
opportunity to thank the following guys of size for their help in researching,
writing, editing, arguing, reviewing and processing: Tener Yobone, DoctaX, Neal
Carr, Inchez and Bottleneck Bert. Your comments are, as always, appreciated.
Over the last few years, our regular correspondents have fielded at least one
or two questions per week on ball enlargement or more appropriately; ball sac
stretching. This form of genital re-dimensioning is of keen interest and is
probably the easiest of all methods to apply. There are many different ways
to safely enlarge or stretch this male region and Part I here will examine some
of the most frequently practiced techniques. Hopefully, you will find some
of this information useful.
OUR BALLS, OUR SELVES
Take a minute to repeat the following sentence: "That guy really has balls".
Depending on how you accented the statement, you probably placed your emphasis
on "guy" instead of "really has". Semantics aside, there are balls and then
there are BALLS. Take your pants and underwear off and examine what you have
down there. Like most other men, you probably see two hanging orbs in a
wrinkled pouch, with one ball hanging higher than the other. Depending on the
temperature, they are either swinging or are hugging around the shaft-base of
your cock. Now, put your nuts in the palm of your hand, feels good huh?
Slowly manipulate the ball sac and try to gently feel what lays in your grasp.
Without becoming aroused (heck, it's ok), look at your manpouch objectively
and become acquainted (or re-acquainted) with one of the most visible aspects
of your sexual attractiveness.
Balls have always held a certain mystique about them. In older civilizations,
a male's nuts were sacred and were objects of (at certain times and in certain
cultures) religious, social, cultural and magical power. Today, this legacy
in Western civilization has been suppressed. Active cock and ball worship is
still practiced by a determined few, but it is socially discouraged because of
the inability of many to handle their own biological urges and psychological
mores. Unshackle your belts and liberate your cock and balls!!!
WHAT WE KNOW (OR SHOULD KNOW) BY NOW
You already know that your balls are sensitive to touch, pressure, temperature
and suntans, so let's understand what we have hanging between our thighs.
Our sex system is partly visible and partly hidden inside our bodies. You
don't need a degree in rocket science to see your cock and balls. Your nuts,
are formally called the "testes" and they lay within your nutsack also
formally called the "scrotum". The two testes (normally) are your male
reproductive glands. They hang in your scrotum, are kind of oval and are
about, on the average, 1 3/4" long and 1 inch wide. Each ball has its own
independent sac and your left nut probably hangs lower in its sac than the
right one. The size of the testes is genetically determined and except for
extraordinary occurrences (disease, surgery, infection, etc.) can not be
enlarged to any great degree.
Your testes produce the male hormone, testosterone (hot nuts!) and also make
sperm cells. The balls float in the scrotum to some degree and from each one
a number of small tubes is attached (the epididymides) around the outside of
each ball. One major tube attached to each ball is the vas deferens (the
chord). These tubes carry your sperm cells to the prostate gland where the
sperm is mixed with seminal fluid. This combined fluid is your cum (squirt).
Use your touch to locate your balls and delfty handle one of your testes. Can
you feel or make out the epididymides and the vas deferens? Do you notice the
different tactile sensitivities around the ball? Now you know why a dedicated
ball sucker can drive you i
Yeah, does anybody really care to see a slashdot article early!? What a joke!
Meh.
shut the fuck up about sco.
seriously.
If you mod me down the terrorists will have won